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METAMORPHOSIS ISSUE 64

BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

Asian Hospital’s Asian Cancer Institute – Breast Center celebrates Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a series of lay webinar and talk were prepared for everyone this October 2021.

On their first webinar titled “The Breast Defense”, ACI – Breast Center Radiation Oncologist Dr. Leizl Valerio talked about “Screening for Breast Cancer”, Breast Surgeon Dr. Anthony Dofitas discussed “Surgery for Breast Cancer”, Breast Surgeon Dr. Marlon Marquina talked about “Breast Reconstruction”, Medical Oncologist Dr. Joanne Arcillas shared her knowledge on “Chemotherapy, Hormone Therapy, and Targeted Therapy for Breast Cancer”, and Radiation Oncologist Dr. Jon Arcillas, discussed “Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer” last October 1, 2021.

The next lay webinar titled “Beauty and the Myths” will be on October 16, Saturday at 2:00 to 4:00 PM via Zoom and Expert Talks on Breast Cancer by Dr. Aldine Basa on October 29, Friday at 12:00 NN via AHMC’s Facebook LIVE.

ACI’s Breast Center is offering a FREE consultation for those who will avail of the Mammogram and Breast Ultrasound Package and do not have an attending physician from October 1 to 31, 2021.

For inquiries, you may contact Asian Cancer Institute’s Breast Center at (02) 8-771-9000 locals 5706 or 8420. ƒ

LIGHT A CANDLE FOR KIDS WITH CANCER

As we celebrated International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Asian Hospital’s Asian Cancer Institute in cooperation with the Cancer Warriors Foundation, Inc. invited everyone to participate in the lighting of candle and by saying a prayer for kids with cancer last September 29.

For cancer care services, contact Asian Cancer Institute at (02) 8771-9000 local 8105. ƒ

DR. DJ GABRIEL ON MEN’S HEALTH

Men play a vital role in the family, they are recognized as the head, protector, and provider for the family. Some men are proud and arrogant and do not like the idea of being defeated or be embarrassed in front of people. But when it comes to their health, men refuses to seek a doctor and they defer to their wives.

Asian Hospital’s Department of Occupational and Family Medicine consultant Dr. Dennis James Gabriel talks about the importance of Annual Check-up on a featured article titled “Men’s Health” on the Philippines Graphic.

The Philippines Graphic article may be viewed anytime at Asian Hospital’s Facebook page – facebook.com/AsianHospitalPH. ƒ

EXPERTS TALK ON PCOS

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a common metabolic and endocrine disorder among women of reproductive age. This life-long condition may also lead to problems with the ability to get pregnant. Women with PCOS are more likely to develop certain serious health problems such as Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Stroke, Endometrial Hyperplasia and Cancer. However, if PCOS is diagnosed early, managed appropriately, and if the woman has a good diet and lifestyle intervention, it will decrease the risk of developing life-threatening illnesses.

Asian Hospital’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Dr. Judith Galang-Perez answered common questions about PCOS on AHMC’s Experts Talk last September 30.

Missed the episode? Expert Talks may be viewed anytime at Asian Hospital’s Youtube account – youtube.com/ahmcofficial. ƒ

AHMC’s VIRTUAL SIMPLY MATERNAL SERIES

Asian Hospital’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, and Maternal and Child Unit invites everyone to the fifth FREE Lay Webinar Series for expectant moms and dads titled, “Simply Maternal”, on October 9, Saturday, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM.

To register and for inquiries, please send an email to [email protected], or contact the Genesis Center at (02) 8-771-9000 locals 8391 and 5791. ƒ

CONQUERING TADs WITH DR. LUC ARZEL

Asian Hospital’s Department of Dental Medicine in collaboration with DDM Infinity Enterprise, Dentos, and Genius System invites all dentists to its webinar titled, “Conquering TADs with Dr. Luc Arzel: An In-depth Lecture and Hands-on Workshop on Orthodontic Mini-Implants”, on November 5, Friday, 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

To register and for inquiries, please contact Dr. Patty Sumagpao at (0917) 717 4134, or send email at [email protected]. ƒ

ENHANCING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE: THE ASIAN HOSPITAL WAY

Sharon Hernandez, Mark Louie Napoles, & Lhord Edrhel Damiles

Since the Covid-19 pandemic started, hospitals have been unable to serve the needs of many of its patients primarily because these patients do not want to go to the hospital because of the fear of getting the virus. These trying times posed many challenges to Asian Hospital and Medical Center (AHMC). How will they be able to serve the needs of non-Covid-19 patients? The management came up with different ways to serve the needs of the community by continuing to raise the bar, creating different programs to continue to give excellent and compassionate healthcare services

to their community.

AHMC came up with four new channels to address patients’ needs in the comforts of their homes as well giving them the assurance that they are receiving the best medical care possible. These four are the

eConsults, Online Appointment System, Family Connect, and Covid HomeCare. Each has a specific purpose to address and all are geared towards the promise and satisfaction of the patient and their family.

Bringing medical experts to the world

“I can talk to my doctors, who are specialists in their fields, at the comfort of my home.”

eConsults is an online platform where patients can communicate and consult their health concerns with AHMC doctors in the comforts of their homes. It is a teleconsultation platform that keeps both the doctors and patients safe during these trying times. Patients who have used the platform have positive feedback from the experience because they can connect with their doctors simply and digitally. “I don’t

worry about finding a parking space or risk going out of the house.” This is what a regular eConsults user has to say.

Doctors also find it convenient and easy to use because they are fully supported by the Asian Hospital triage team for a smooth process.

Patients need not delay consulting with their doctors to get the best treatment for their medical needs. They can visit Asian Hospital’s website and schedule an appointment with any of the accredited specialists anytime. They just need to look for the eConsults service, and Asian Hospital will do the rest.

No appearance booking

“Booking for multiple procedures is made easy. I also just go to the hospital to take the tests. I can pre-pay the procedures before I go to my scheduled appointment. It is so convenient!”

Online Appointment System, a userfriendly platform developed by Asian Hospital, is where patients can book their outpatient procedures prior to visiting the hospital. It assures them of a scheduled appointment that eliminates waiting time. Patients can conveniently book and pay for single or multiple procedures. Patients only have good things to say about their experience with the platform for it has

made their lives easier when it comes to availing various diagnostic tests. “I can book laboratory tests and other diagnostic tests in one day. It saves me various trips to the hospital. Their outpatient navigation team will help you get the most convenient schedule for you!”

Patients may book their outpatient diagnostic appointments by visiting Asian Hospital’s website and look for the Online Appointment System page. Their outpatient navigation team will be on standby

to assist you should you need to book for multiple tests.

Connecting families

“What you are doing helps alleviate the pain of separation for our mother, giving us hope for better days”

Family Connect is a virtual communications service that bridges the gap between critical care patients and their families in this most uncertain of times. Asian Hospital recognizes that healing is faster when patients are closest to their loved ones. With this service, Asian Hospital provides the patients and their

loved ones the opportunity to connect with each other. They can participate in the virtual family conferences with the patient’s doctors to discuss the clinical care for the patient.

“It assures us that my mother is in good hands and is recovering well.”

Asian Hospital stands by their promise of compassionate care even in these difficult times.

Healing at the comforts of their own home

“I was scared when I learned I have Covid-19, but I was cared for at home by the Home Care team at home. I am assured that I will be monitored by a doctor and nurse.”

Due to the uncertain surges of Covid-19 cases as well as the inaccessibility of healthcare facilities to accommodate those who seek Covid-19 care, AHMC offers its patients the option of receiving the

best possible attention at home through its “COVID Home Care” services.

The Home Care Covid Program is a remote service of AHMC for asymptomatic and mild Covid patients. A team of competent medical staff is designated to manage the recovery of the patient from the virus. The patient is enrolled in the 14-day Covid Care Program where the medical services needed by the patient is packaged at a very reasonable amount. Aside from the medical consultations, the patient is assured that should they need supplies and medicines for their treatment, the Home Care team will readily coordinate this with Asian Hospital Pharmacy.

“I even have a standby oxygen tank should I need it. They help us go through the recovery faster.”

Other services included in the Covid Care Program, as well as Post Covid Care Program are in Asian Hospital’s website. They are ready to take care of patients even at home.

These channels are just some of the innovative services that Asian Hospital brings to its patients. It continues to listen to the needs of its community and drives to bring these services closer to the homes

of our patients; for their safety and continued wellbeing.

Talk to us on how Asian Hospital can further help you with your medical needs. Visit Asian Hospital’s website at www.asianhospital.com.

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Judy K. Brown’s book, “Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story,” details the conspiracy of silence surrounding the biggest alleged pedophile and sex trafficking mogul of our time, Jeffrey Epstein, and his network of rich and powerful people, which includes Bill Gates

Corruption is rampant throughout our public health agencies and medical organizations. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. and the Medicine & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in the U.K.

The Gates Foundation also owns shares in Pfizer and BioNTech, raising questions about corruption in the FDA and IHMA, both of which appear to have given Pfizer’s COVID shot preferential treatment despite overwhelming safety concerns and questionable effectiveness

The Gates Foundation is also a primary funder of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which was responsible for the grossly inaccurate modeling that led to several governors ordering COVID patients to be sent into nursing homes

Gates is now calling on the western world to sacrifice itself in order to stave off climate change. But the climate change crisis, like the COVID pandemic, is a red herring, used to justify the implementation of the Great Reset

In the video above, Russell Brand discusses Judy K. Brown's book, "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story," which details the conspiracy of silence surrounding the biggest alleged pedophile and sex trafficking mogul of our time, Jeffrey Epstein.

The media's refusal to dig into the Epstein story, Brand says, suggests the media are part of a corrupted establishment that protects the rich and powerful, no matter what. One rich and powerful person who enjoys the legacy media's protection is Bill Gates.

Gates and Epstein

Brand cites an article in The Daily Beast,1 claiming Gates had dozens of meetings with Epstein between 2011 and 2014 alone, typically at Epstein's Manhattan home. When news of Gates' relationship with Epstein emerged in 2019, Melinda Gates reportedly contacted a divorce attorney.

According to The Daily Beast, Gates "encouraged Epstein to rehabilitate his image in the media." If true, this suggests Gates may indeed have been closer to Epstein than he's been letting on. An anonymous source who claims to have been present at several of the meetings has said the two were "very close."

The Daily Beast also claims that "people familiar with the matter said Gates found freedom in Epstein's lair, where he met a rotating cast of bold-faced names and discussed worldly issues between rounds of jokes and gossip — a 'men's club' atmosphere that irritated Melinda."

Speaking with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, Gates dismisses his relationship with the notorious sex trafficker of minors as nothing more than a naïve attempt to secure funding for his public health efforts.

Seeing how the extent of Epstein's interest in public health seems to have been an obsession with the idea of creating his own race of super humans by having sex slaves give birth to his babies,2 this excuse seems flimsy at best. Epstein also donated money to the Worldwide Transhumanist Association.3

Gates is now trying to wiggle out from beneath Epstein's dark shadow, calling their meetings "a mistake." Brand may be right, however, when he says that the story of Gates' relationship with Epstein really highlights the importance of retaining our autonomy, and to not blindly follow people who claim superiority over us.

Gates is as flawed as anyone else, and perhaps more so, as wealth and power breed corruption, and allow people to pursue interests that would not or could not be pursued unless you have the money and influence to ensure secrecy.

Gates Funds UK and US Public Health Organizations

If we've learned anything over the past year and a half, it's that corruption is rampant throughout our public health agencies and medical organizations. As reported by Armstrong Economics, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds — and therefore has significant influence over — public health agencies in both the United States and the U.K.:4

"The [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] has given full approval to Gates's vaccines because it has been under tremendous political pressure to do so. Even CNBC reported that 'Federal health officials had been under mounting pressure from the scientific community and advocacy groups to fully approve Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine …'

Meanwhile, in London, an investigation has revealed that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are the primary funders of the UK's Medicine & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency just as they are [of] the FDA in the United States.

The SEC has done absolutely NOTHING about insider information since Gates is also a MAJOR shareholder in Pfizer / BioNTech mRNA. There are reliable medical organizations opposing these vaccines despite the approval by two regulatory agencies that are taking money from Gates which only introduces conflicts of interest and potential corruption …

The FDA has NEVER approved a completely new type of medicine in less than one year, which raises serious questions about corruption. The average time it takes to get approval from the FDA is 12 years!"

The London investigation they're referring to was published in The Daily Expose August 20, 2021.5 The MHRA, the British version of the U.S. FDA, actually receives most of its funding from the Gates Foundation, the investigation found.

June 4, 2021, the MHRA extended its emergency use authorization of the Pfizer jab to children between the ages of 12 and 15, despite known risks of heart inflammation. The Daily Expose writes:6

"At the time, the Chief Executive of the MHRA, Dr. June Raine said the MHRA had 'carefully reviewed clinical trial data in children aged 12 to 15 years and have concluded that the Pfizer vaccine is safe and effective in this age group and that the benefits outweigh any risk.'

We are left wondering if Dr. June Raine and the MHRA have even read the results of the extremely short and small study.7 If they have then they would have seen that 86% of children in the study suffered an adverse reaction ranging from mild to extremely serious.8

Just 1,127 children took part of the trial, however only 1,097 children completed the trial, with 30 of them not participating after being given the first dose of the Pfizer jab. The results do not state why the 30 children did not go on to complete the trial … Can we really trust the MHRA to remain impartial when its primary funder is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who also own shares in Pfizer and BioNTech? We don't think so."

Gates Is Heavily Invested in Drug Companies

The Gates Foundation also owns "major shares" in both Pfizer and BioNTech, which jointly developed a COVID shot that August 23, 2021, was granted full approval9 for use in people 16 years of age and older by the FDA.

The Gates Foundation started shifting its investments into pharmaceuticals in 2002. That year, Gates invested $205 million into nine large drug companies, including Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson. "The decision to take stakes in individual firms appears to be a shift in strategy, and for the first time aligns the charity's interests with those of the drugs firms," The Guardian reported at the time.10

According to The Motley Fool,11 Gates initially invested in Pfizer "with the stated intention of 'expand[ing] access to the pharmaceutical company's all-in-one injectable contraceptive." Once the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, Gates predicted early on that Pfizer would be the first to get emergency use approval.

The Gates Foundation didn't pick up BioNTech shares until September 2019, just three months before the COVID pandemic emerged, when it bought $55 million worth of shares.

Gates-Funded Forecasting Led to Nursing Home 'Death Warrants'

The Gates Foundation has also shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), which was responsible for the ill-fatedly inaccurate modeling that led to several governors issuing "nursing home death warrants." The Strategic Culture Foundation writes:12

"New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is finally facing the heat for his botched and criminally negligent coronavirus response policies, yet no one seems to be asking why Cuomo and select governors made the fateful decisions that led to the excess deaths …

In March and early April, politicians were informed by the modeling 'experts' at Gates-funded IHME that their hospitals were about to be completely overrun by coronavirus patients.

Modelers from IHME claimed this massive surge would cause hospitals to run out of lifesaving equipment in a matter of days, not weeks or months. Time was of the essence, and now was the time for rapid decision making, the modelers claimed. On two separate April 1 and April 2 press conferences, Cuomo made clear that his policy decisions were based off of the IHME model."

In one of those press conferences, Cuomo thanked the Gates Foundation "for the national service that they've done." The Pennsylvania Health Department also used IHME models to navigate its response. Even federal bureaucrats like Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, both of whom have personal ties to Gates as well, leaned on the IHME forecasts to justify lockdowns, business closures and curfews.

In the end, the IHME models didn't pan out. They weren't even close. "For example, IHME used a 3+% death rate when the real number 'from' COVID-19 is only around 0.1%," Strategic Culture Foundation writes, adding:13

"The buck does indeed stop with the elected leaders who made the fateful decisions to send sick COVID patients into nursing homes, lock down their states, and mask up their citizens in perpetuity, but that's only half of the story.

The bad data they used almost exclusively came from the Gates network, which has trafficked in pseudoscience and has demonstrated complete incompetence and reckless forecasting since the beginning of last year."

Not surprisingly, Gates has stayed mum on the gross failures of the IHME. As noted by the Strategic Culture Foundation,14 he has "seamlessly washed his hands of COVID mania and has moved on to demanding that the western world sacrifice itself in the name of the latest 'crisis' that is climate change."

COVID-19 — A Launch Pad for the Great Reset

Of course, Gates' "green" plans will also grow his own wealth, just like the COVID pandemic has done. Indeed, the so-called "climate change crisis" is nothing but another tool to implement the Great Reset, which will forever alter the face of society and commerce, shifting virtually all wealth and ownership to a few technocrats at the top, leaving regular people with no wealth or freedom to speak of.

Considering Gates' position within the technocratic elite, it's no surprise his fingerprints can be found on all the necessary chess pieces of this global chess game. As you may recall, the Gates Foundation co-sponsored the pandemic preparedness simulation for a "novel coronavirus," known as Event 201, in October 2019 along with the World Economic Forum and Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

The event eerily predicted what would happen just 10 weeks later, when COVID-19 appeared. Both the Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum are also partnered15 with the United Nations which, while keeping a relatively low profile, appears to be at the heart of the globalist takeover agenda.

Beyond pandemic preparedness and response, the justification for the implementation of the Great Reset agenda in its totality will be climate change.

The World Economic Forum, while a private organization, works as the social and economic branch of the U.N. and is a key driving force behind modern technocracy and the Great Reset agenda. Its founder and chairman, Klaus Schwab, publicly declared the need for a global "reset" to restore order in June 2020.16

Technocratic rule, which is what the Great Reset will bring about, hinges on the use of technology — in particular artificial intelligence, digital surveillance and Big Data collection (which is what 5G is for) — and the digitization of industry, banking and government, which in turn allows for the automation of social engineering and social rule (although that part is never expressly stated).

Beyond pandemic preparedness and response, the justification for the implementation of the Great Reset agenda in its totality will be climate change. The Great Reset, sometimes referred to as the "build back better" plan, specifically calls for all nations to implement "green" regulations and "sustainable development goals"17,18 as part of the post-COVID recovery effort.

But the end goal is far from what the typical person envisions when they hear these plans. The end goal is to turn us into serfs without rights to privacy, private ownership or anything else. In short, the pandemic is being used to destroy the local economies around the world, which will then allow the World Economic Forum to come in and "rescue" debt-ridden countries. The price for this salvation is your liberty.

The Great Reset

The Great Reset is not some wild conspiracy theory but a publicly released agenda that is moving forward, whether we like it or not.

Many world leaders have spoken about it in an official capacity, and in June 2020, Zia Khan, senior vice president of innovation at the Rockefeller Foundation penned the article19 "Rebuilding Toward the Great Reset: Crisis, COVID-19, and the Sustainable Development Goals," reviewing the "social crisis" necessitating the world's acceptance of a new world order.

The article was co-written with John McArthur, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, which is one of several technocratic think-tanks. Keeping in mind what I've just said about what the Great Reset is really all about, and the justifications used to implement the theft of wealth and freedom, read how they posit these changes as being in your best interest:

"Upheaval can yield new understanding and opportunity. Outdated or unjust norms can succumb to society's pressing need for better approaches. For example, the need for massive and urgent government intervention has drawn fresh attention to social safety nets and the possibility of dramatic policy enhancements.

Tragic consequences of racial discrimination have catapulted awareness of systemic problems and triggered prospects for much-needed social reforms. Rapid environmental improvements linked to economic shutdown have rekindled consciousness of the profound interconnections between ecosystems, economies, and societies …

Rather than passively allowing norms to evolve through inertia or randomness, we can all pursue actions for Response and, soon enough, Recovery in a manner that improve the odds of a Reset toward better long-term outcomes.

Fortunately, we already have a strong starting point for what the world's economic, social, and environmental outcomes should be. Five years ago, in 2015, all 193 UN member states agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a common set of priorities to be achieved in all countries by 2030."

I believe the only way to stop it is through our collective responses to the various pieces and parts of the plan that are being rolled out. They want you to believe that none of the things being introduced have anything to do with each other but, in fact, they are all pieces of the same puzzle.

It would be a tragic mistake to trust Gates or any of the other players that are being brought before us as saviors of the day. They're all wolves in sheep's clothing. The Great Reset is at our doorstep, and your freedom, and that of future generations, hinges on you fighting to keep it.20

Our best bet right now is to involve ourselves in local governance, be it your child's school board or local government, and engaging in peaceful civil disobedience.

Gates may be presented as an all-knowing genius whose mission it is to keep us healthy and safe, but his activities are inconsistent with and fail to match his carefully manufactured persona. Again and again, Gates has wielded influence in matters where lies have been told and public health and human rights have been decimated for profit.

from Bill Gates and the Vaccine Heist , Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola , September 01, 2021

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What is Zoom and what you do not know about it

software program, led to a $1 billion valuation in 2017, making it a "unicorn" company.[6] The enterprise first became worthwhile in 2019.[7][4] In 2019, the business enterprise finished a preliminary public providing.[8] The enterprise joined the NASDAQ-a hundred inventory index on April 30, 2020.[9] with protection and privateness problems.[11][12][13] In April 2020, the Wall avenue magazine determined that "the hottest video-chat app proper now is Zoom, but with recognition comes abuse, as well as extended scrutiny."[1Zoom turned into based via Eric Yuan, a former corporate vice president for Cisco Webex. He left Cisco in April 2011 with forty engineers to start a new enterprise,[5] originally named Saasbee, Inc.[15] The corporation had trouble locating investors due to the fact many humans notion the videotelephony marketplace turned into already saturated.[15] In June 2011, the enterprise raised $3 million of seed money from WebEx founder Subrah Iyar, former Cisco SVP and general suggest Dan Scheinman, and challenge capitalists Matt very well, a brand of TSVC, and invoice Tai.[15] In might also 2012, the company changed its call to Zoom.[15] In September 2012, Zoom released a beta model that might host conferences with up to fifteen video individuals.[16] In November 2012, the organization signed Stanford university as its first purchaser.[15] In January 2013, the employer raised a $6 million collection A round from Qualcomm Ventures, Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang, WebEx founder Subrah Iyar, and former Cisco SVP and widespread counsel Dan Scheinman. moreover, Zoom launched model 1.zero of the program with an increase inside the number of individuals in keeping with the conference to twenty-five.[17] through the give up of its first month, Zoom had four hundred,000 customers and by may additionally 2013 it had 1 million customers.[18][19]

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Logitech, Vaddio,, and InFocus. In September 2013, the organization raised $6.five million in a chain B spherical from FB, Waze, and existing traders. At that point, it had three million users.[18] by means of June 2014, IPO and onward On April 18, 2019, the company have become a public organization through preliminary public supplying. After pricing at US$36 in keeping with share, the share fee elevated over seventy-two % on the first day of trading.[40][41][8] The organization become valued at US$sixteen billion via the give up of its first day of trading.[8] previous to the IPO, Dropbox invested $five million in Zoom.[42] all through the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom noticed the main increase in usage for far-flung paintings, distance training,[43], and online social family members.[3] lots of educational establishments switched to on-line classes the use of Zoom.[44][10] The employer supplied its offerings to k–12 colleges free of price in many nations.[45][46] via February 2020, Zoom had received 2.22 million users in 2020 — more customers than it collected inside the entirety of 2019.[47] On sooner or later in March 2020, the Zoom app turned into downloaded 2.13 million times.[42][48] each day common customers rose from about 10 million in December 2019 to about 200 million in March 2020,[49] with three hundred million every day meeting members by using the quit of April 2020.[50][51] This led to a widespread boom within the corporation's inventory charge in early 2020, despite a well-known stock marketplace downturn;[52] it went from underneath $70 in line with share in January 2020 to $150 in step with proportion by means of the quit of March, giving the employer a market value of $42 billion.[42] services and products Zoom is compatible with home windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux. The use of the platform is free for video conferences of as much as one hundred members right away, with a forty-minute time restriction if there are greater than two participants. For longer or larger conferences with greater features, paid subscriptions are available, costing $15–20 according to month. capabilities geared closer to enterprise meetings, which include Zoom Rooms, are to be had for $50–a hundred according to month.[53][54][14] Zoom has several degrees: simple, pro, business, and business enterprise.[55] contributors do not ought to download the app if they are the use of Google Chrome or Firefox; they are able to click on a link and be part of the browser. Zoom is not like-minded with Safari for Macs.[14] Zoom is referred to for its easy interface and value, specifically for non-tech human beings.[54][56] features consist of one-on-one conferences, group video meetings, screen sharing, plugins, browser extensions, and the capability to report meetings and have them routinely transcribed.[57] On some computer systems and working systems, customers are able to pick a virtual heritage, which may be downloaded from special sites, to apply as a backdrop in the back of themselves.[14]Zoom had 10 million customers.[25] On February four, 2015, the employer obtained US$30 million in collection C investment from traders along with Emergence Capital, Horizons Ventures (Li Ka-Shing), Qualcomm Ventures, Jerry Yang, and Patrick quickly-Shiong.[26] At that time, Zoom had forty million users, with sixty-five,000 groups subscribed and a total of one billion assembly mins because it changed into established.[27] In 2015 and 2016, the enterprise integrated its software with Slack, Salesforce, and Skype for commercial enterprise.[28][29][30] With version 2.five in October 2015, Zoom increased the variety of members consistent with the conference to 50[31] and later to 1,000 for business clients.[32][33] In November 2015, former president of RingCentral David Berman changed into named president of the employer, and Peter Gassner, the founder, and CEO of Veeva structures joined Zoom's board of directors.[34] The organization raised US$one hundred million in series D funding from Sequoia Capital in January 2017 at a US$1 billion valuation, making it a so-known as unicorn.[35] In April 2017, Zoom released a scalable telehealth product permitting doctors to host far-flung consultations with patients.[36][37] In may additionally, Zoom introduced integration with Polycom's conferencing structures, permitting capabilities inclusive of multiple display conference in which it announced a partnership with Meta to integrate Zoom with augmented truth, integration with Slack and place of job by FB, and primary steps closer to a synthetic intelligence speech recognition program.[39] personnel In January 2020, Zoom had over 2,500 personnel, most of the people of whom are primarily based in the united states.[58][59] The business enterprise ranked second area in Glassdoor's 2019 "exceptional places to work" survey.[60][61] grievance Zoom has been criticized for "protection lapses and bad layout picks" that have led to heightened scrutiny of its software.[62][13] lots of Zoom's troubles "surround planned capabilities designed to reduce friction in meetings", which Citizen Lab found to "also, by means of design, reduce privacy or safety".[59][63] In April 2020, CEO Yuan apologized for the safety problems, claiming that a number of the troubles had been an end result of Zoom having been designed for "large establishments with full and privacy concerns. It includes passwords via default, progressed encryption, and a new security icon for meetings.[69] In March 2020, new york nation lawyer fashionable Letitia James released an inquiry into Zoom's privateness and protection practices.[70] As of April 2020, many agencies, schools, and government entities restriction or limit the usage of Zoom on their networks, which include Google[71], Siemens[72], the Australian Defence force, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Indian Ministry of domestic Affairs, SpaceX, and the ny town department of training.[73][74] privateness beings collaborating in their calls in step with the FBI, while Zoom is used for distance schooling, students’ non-public information which includes IP addresses, internet surfing history, educational development, and biometrics can be at risk throughout using comparable online mastering offerings.[10] There will also be issues with unauthorized surveillance of students and feasible violations of students’ rights below the family academic Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).[78] in step with the company the video services are FERPA-compliant, and it collects and shops user records best for tech support.[78] In March 2020, a Motherboard article determined that the organization's iOS app turned into sending device analytics data to FB on startup, regardless of whether or not a FB account became being used with the service, and without disclosing it to the person.[79] Zoom replied that it currently been made privy to the difficulty, and that it had patched the app to remove the SDK. The corporation stated that the SDK became only accumulating facts at the consumer's tool specifications (including model names and operating machine versions) if you want to optimize its service, and became now not gathering private information.[14][80][81] within the equal month, Zoom becomes sued via a consumer in U.S. Federal courtroom for illegally and secretly disclosing non-public information to 1/3 events which includes Facebook.[82] In April 2020, a Zoom records-mining characteristic was found that automatically sent person names and email addresses to LinkedIn, allowing a few contributors to surreptitiously get right of entry to LinkedIn profile facts about other customers.[83] The groups disabled their integration.[84] safety in addition facts: Zoombombing In November 2018, a protection vulnerability become discovered that allowed a far-flung unauthenticated attacker to spoof UDP messages that allowed the attacker to dispose of attendees from conferences, spoof messages from customers, or hijack shared monitors.[85][86] The employer released fixes shortly after the vulnerability become observed.[87] In July 2019, security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh disclosed a 0-day vulnerability permitting any internet site to pressure a macOS person to sign up for a Zoom name, with their video digicam activated, without the consumer's permission.[88] further, tries to uninstall the Zoom purchaser on macOS could set off the software program to re-deploy routinely inside the historical past, the use of a hidden internet server that turned into the installation on the machine for the duration of the primary installation and remained lively even after trying to eliminate the client. After receiving public complaints, Zoom removed the vulnerability and the hidden web server, allowing the whole uninstallation.[89] issued a repair in April 2020.[94] within the identical month, "Zoombombing", when an undesirable participant joins a meeting to reason disruption, prompted a warning from the Federal Bureau of research.[95][96][97][98] Motherboard stated that there had been two Zoom 0-days for macOS and home windows respectively, selling for $500,000, on April 15, 2020.[99] In reaction to the multitude of safety and privateness issues discovered, Zoom began a complete protection plan, which included consulting with Luta safety, path of Bits, former Facebook CSO Alex Stamos, former global Lead of privateness generation at Google Lea Kissner, BishopFox, the NCC group, and Johns Hopkins cryptographer Matthew D. green. [100] Encryption practices Zoom encrypts its public statistics streams, using TLS 1.2 with AES-256 (superior Encryption general) to protect signaling, and AES-128 to defend streaming media.[101] protection researchers and newshounds have criticized the corporation for its lack of transparency and negative encryption practices. Zoom, to begin with, claimed to use "stop-to-quit encryption" in its advertising and marketing materials,[102] but later clarified it supposed "from Zoom end factor to Zoom give up point" (meaning successfully among Zoom servers and Zoom customers), which The Intercept described as misleading and "cheating".[103] Alex Stamos, a Zoom advisor who was formerly protection chief at FB, referred to that a lack of cease-to-quit encryption is commonplace in such merchandise, as it's also actual of Google Hangouts, Microsoft groups, and Cisco Webex.[104] the ciphertext.[105] at some point of take a look at calls between individuals in Canada and u.s. the important thing changed into provisioned from servers positioned in mainland China wherein they're challenged to the China net security regulation.[59] On may also 7, 2020, Zoom introduced that it had received Keybase, as a part of an effort to bolster its safety practices moving ahead.[106]

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Atara Biotherapeutics Reports Early Findings of Potential Efficacy from Phase 1 Study of ATA188 in Patients with Progressive Multiple Sclerosis at ECTRIMS 2019

Enrollment in the fourth and final planned Phase 1 dose escalation cohort completed ATA188 targets Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-infected B cells, believed to play a role in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosisConference call and webcast today at 3:30 p.m. CEST / 9:30 a.m. EDTSOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 13, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRA), a leading off-the-shelf, allogeneic T-cell immunotherapy company developing novel treatments for patients with cancer, autoimmune and viral diseases, today announced the presentation of initial efficacy data as well as updated safety results from its ongoing Phase 1 study of ATA188 for the treatment of progressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). The data are featured in a late-breaking poster presentation at the 35th Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS), held in Stockholm, Sweden, September 11-13, 2019.ATA188 is an off-the-shelf, allogeneic T-cell immunotherapy that targets Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-infected B cells believed to play a role in the pathogenesis of MS.“I am encouraged by the well tolerated safety profile as well as early findings of potential efficacy in the ongoing ATA188 Phase 1 study,” said Professor Amit Bar-Or, MD, FRCP, FAAN, FANA, Chief of MS Division, Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. “The outcome classification using multiple clinically recognized MS scales is an innovative approach, and I look forward to advancing the study alongside my colleagues for progressive MS patients who have limited treatment options and where continual clinical decline is expected.”The reported initial data as of July 29, 2019 are from a Phase 1, multicenter, open-label, dose-escalation study evaluating the safety and efficacy of ATA188 in patients with progressive forms of MS. In this study, patients were treated across four dose cohorts (5 x 106, 1 x 107, 2 x 107 and 4 x 107 cells), with 6 patients per cohort.Clinical outcome classificationClinical outcomes of ATA188 were assessed at baseline and approximately 3, 6, and 12 months follow up from initial dose using recognized scales for MS symptoms, function and disability including: Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), Fatigue Severity Score, MS Impact Scale-29 (physical), Timed 25-Foot Walk (T25FW), 9-Hole Peg Test, 12-Item MS Walking Scale (MSWS-12) and Visual Acuity (VA).An outcome classification was developed to categorize clinical response by the following clinical criteria:Clinical Improvement: Clinically significant improvement or greater on 2 or more of the above MS scales compared to baseline sustained over 2 or more consecutive timepointsPartial Clinical Improvement: Clinically significant improvement or greater on 2 or more of the above MS scales compared to baseline at 1 or more timepointStable: Does not fulfill criteria for decline or improvementClinical Decline: Clinically significant decline in 2 or more scales compared to baseline at 1 or more timepoint; clinical decline takes precedence over improvementSafety Safety results showed that across the 4 planned dose cohorts, ATA188 was well tolerated in patients with progressive forms of MS with no evidence of cytokine release syndrome, graft versus host disease or dose-limiting toxicities.Initial efficacyAt approximately 6 months from initial dose, 4 of 6 patients in cohort 1 demonstrated clinical decline which was maintained at 12 months.In cohort 2, an outcome classification of clinical improvement or partial clinical improvement was observed in all 6 patients at 6 months. No patients showed an outcome classification of stable or clinical decline.“The safety and efficacy results presented from our ongoing ATA188 Phase 1 study highlight the potential for an off-the-shelf, allogeneic T-cell immunotherapy targeting Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-infected B cells in patients with progressive forms of MS,” said AJ Joshi, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Atara Biotherapeutics. “Our recent completion of enrollment in the fourth and final dose escalation cohort moves us closer to identifying the dose to initiate a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 1b part of this study. We are committed to advancing ATA188 for MS patients and look forward to presenting additional efficacy and safety results from this study in 2020, including from cohorts 3 and 4.”Atara will host a live conference call and webcast on Friday, September 13, at 3:30 p.m. CEST / 9:30 a.m. EDT to discuss these results, featuring Dr. Lawrence Steinman, professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Pediatrics, and Genetics at Stanford University and former Chair of the Stanford University Interdepartmental Program in Immunology.For more information about the ATA188 Phase 1 study, please visit ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03283826).Details of the ECTRIMS 2019 presentationAtara conference call and webcast information Analysts and investors can participate in the conference call by dialing (888) 540-6216 for domestic callers and (734) 385-2715 for international callers, using the conference ID 3275835. A live audio webcast can be accessed by visiting the Investor Events and Presentations section of atarabio.com. An archived replay will be available on the Company’s website for approximately 30 days following the live webcast.About Multiple Sclerosis Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological autoimmune disease that affects more than two million people around the world. Relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) is the most common form of MS and is characterized by episodes of new or worsening signs or symptoms (relapses) followed by periods of recovery. Progressive MS (PMS) is a severe form of the disease for which there are few therapeutic options. There are two categories of PMS, both of which are characterized by persistent progression and worsening of MS symptoms and physical disability over time. Primary Progressive MS (PPMS) occurs when continuous progressive disease is present at diagnosis and has been reported to occur in approximately 15% of newly diagnosed cases of MS. Secondary Progressive MS (SPMS) initially begins as RRMS and develops into a progressive form. Treatment history indicates that approximately 80% of people with RRMS will eventually develop SPMS. There is substantial unmet medical need for new and effective therapies for patients with PPMS and SPMS. Most treatment options that work well in reducing flares in RRMS have not been shown to be effective in slowing or reversing disability in PMS. Scientific and clinical findings support a biologic connection between Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and MS.About off-the-shelf, allogeneic ATA188 and autologous ATA190 ATA188 and ATA190 are T-cell immunotherapies targeting Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-infected B cells believed to play a role in the pathogenesis of MS. Both candidates selectively target latent EBV antigens presented by B cells; however, ATA188 is off-the-shelf and allogeneic, whereas ATA190 is autologous. ATA188 and ATA190 utilize T-cell immunotherapy technology pioneered by Professor Rajiv Khanna at QIMR Berghofer. Atara is advancing an ongoing Phase 1 ATA188 study in patients with progressive MS across clinical sites in the U.S. and Australia and plans to initiate a randomized ATA190 study in progressive MS patients.About Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc. Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc. (@Atarabio) is a leading off-the-shelf, allogeneic T-cell immunotherapy company developing novel treatments for patients with cancer, autoimmune and viral diseases. Atara’s technology platform leverages research collaborations with leading academic institutions with the Company’s scientific, clinical, regulatory and manufacturing expertise. Atara’s pipeline includes tab-cel® (tabelecleucel), which is in Phase 3 development for patients with Epstein-Barr Virus-associated post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (EBV+ PTLD) as well as in earlier stage development for other EBV-associated hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, including nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC); T-cell immunotherapies targeting EBV antigens believed to be important for the potential treatment of multiple sclerosis; and next-generation chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) immunotherapies. The company was founded in 2012 and is co-located in South San Francisco and Southern California. Our Southern California hub is anchored by the state-of-the-art Atara T-cell Operations and Manufacturing (ATOM) facility in Thousand Oaks, California. For additional information about the company, please visit atarabio.com.Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains or may imply “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. For example, forward-looking statements include statements regarding: the results from Atara’s ongoing ATA188 Phase 1 clinical study; the continuation of this study and identification of a recommended Phase 2 dose; the initiation of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled portion of this study; and beliefs about the connection of EBV-infected B cells to MS. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including those discussed in Atara Biotherapeutics’ filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including in the “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” sections of the Company’s most recently filed periodic reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and subsequent filings and in the documents incorporated by reference therein. Except as otherwise required by law, Atara Biotherapeutics disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances or otherwise.Editor’s note: Bar-Or is a paid consultant for Atara Biotherapeutics.INVESTOR & MEDIA CONTACT:John Craighead, Ph.D. Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications Atara Biotherapeutics 650-410-3012 [email protected]

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Ham Radio Updates

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Propagation de K7RA

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Southgate ARC – Spotless days continue this week, with consecutive days without sunspots now at 16 days, according to spaceweather.com as of August 22

Radio hams team-up with the military

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Southgate ARC – What happens when hams team up with the military in a communications exercise that envisions a major earthquake?

New French CEPT paper still wants 144-146 MHz for Aeronautical

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Southgate ARC – The French administration has renewed its attack on the Amateur Radio 144-146 MHz band ahead of a key CEPT ECC CPG meeting in Ankara, August 26-30

Ham radio station active at Chaos Communication Camp

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Southgate ARC – The Chaos Communication Camp is taking place August 21-25. The Cardiff University Amateur Radio Society are attending the event and the Chaoswelle station is active on HF, VHF, UHF and the Es’hail-2 /QO-100 geostationary satellite

Ham radio kept communication alive at Kavalappara

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Southgate ARC – The Malabar Amateur Radio Society set up stations at Collectorate and landslip-hit areas following the recent flooding in Kerala

Foundations of Amateur Radio

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Southgate ARC – The hobby of amateur radio has been around for a long time. It was here before I was born and it will be here after I become a silent key. The same is true for you. While there is a recurring discussion about the death of the hobby, the reality is that our community changes continually. People come and go all the time

EURAO Newsletter September 2019

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Southgate ARC – EURAO Newsletter comes out quarterly, either in pdf format or as a website. Spread the word!

The Latest Episode of ARRL Audio News is Available

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ARRL -Listen to the new episode of ARRL Audio News on your iOS or Android podcast app, or online at http://www.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/. Audio News is also retransmitted on a number of FM repeaters. Click here and then scroll down to see the list.

Reminder: World Wide Digi DX Contest Debuts on August 31

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The K7RA Solar Update

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ARRL -Spotless days continue this week, with consecutive days without sunspots now at 16 days, according to spaceweather.com as of August 22.

Average daily solar flux for all practical purposes was unchanged, from 67.4 last week to 67.5 this week. Average daily planetary A index went slightly lower from 6.3 to 4.4.

Predicted solar flux looks the same as it has been for months now, at 67 on August 23 to…

The Space Weather Woman

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Southgate ARC – Promise of a Solar Storm and Satellite Environment Check-In – The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW

The Italian Job (loss)

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Southgate ARC – If you always wanted to broadcast on 2GO’s old frequency (801 kHz AM), it might be up for grabs right now

Special commemorative callsign EI100YXQ

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Southgate ARC – This is a special call to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the first East to West voice transmission across the Atlantic from Ballybunion to Louisberg, Cape Breton, NS

SAQ receives 438 listener reports

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Southgate ARC – Alexanderson Alternator station SAQ says it received 438 listener reports — ‘an incredible amount’ — for its June 30 Alexanderson Day transmissions from Sweden including 8 ‘super’ DX reports, five from the USA and three from Canada

NASA TV to air US cargo ship departure from space station

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Southgate ARC – Filled with almost 2,700 pounds of valuable scientific experiments and other cargo, a SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft is set to leave the International Space Station Tuesday, Aug. 27. NASA Television and the agency’s website will broadcast its departure live beginning at 10:15 a.m. EDT

DX News from the ARRL

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Southgate ARC – The American Radio Relay League’s round-up of the forthcoming week’s DX activity on the amateur radio bands

So Now What? Podcast

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ARRL -“Contesting,” with ARRL Contest Program Manager, Paul Bourque, N1SFE, will be the focus of the new (August 22) episode of the So Now What? podcast for Amateur Radio newcomers.

If you’re a newly licensed Amateur Radio operator, chances are you have lots of questions. This biweekly podcast has answers! So Now What? offers insights from those who’ve been just where you are now. New episodes will be…

Efforts Continue to Enhance ARES Program, Add Resources

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ARRL -The ARRL Board of Directors, committees, and Headquarters administrative staff are continuing efforts to enhance the venerable Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®) program. A major ARES Plan has been adopted, providing new direction going forward. In addition, a standardized training plan has been adopted and a new ARES Emergency Communicator Individual Task Book approved and published.

At it…

ARRL-TAPR Digital Communications Conference Presentations Announced

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YOTA Summer Camp Bulgaria 2019 – Looking back

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Southgate ARC – IARU Region 1 has published a report on the Youngsters On The Air (YOTA) summer camp held in Bulgaria from August 11-17

Radio Club makes international connections from Loop Head

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Southgate ARC – The Clare Herald newspaper reports on the amateur radio activation of the Loop Head Lighthouse as part of International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend (ILLW) during August 17-18

Cincinnati Radio’s Mike Martini to Emcee National VOA Museum of Broadcasting’s Sept. 21 Fundraiser

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Southgate ARC – Cincinnati radio and TV broadcast historian Mike Martini will emcee the Saturday, Sept. 21 fundraiser for the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in West Chester

FCC issues $39,000 + Forfeiture Order against man from North Carolina

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Southgate ARC – The WIA report the FCC has issued a $39,000 + Forfeiture Order against a man from North Carolina, for intentional misuse of a local public safety radio communications network, in violation of the Communications Act

ALARA contest August 24/25

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Southgate ARC – The Australian Ladies Amateur Radio Association (ALARA) contest is on this weekend

IOTA news from the DARC

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Southgate ARC – Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

Tony’s 10m Band Report

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Southgate ARC – No huge activity on Ten Metres this past week. I worked plenty of European stations on FT8 but nothing special. Best of the rest TM230RF (France special), II8FTDM (Italy special), OH0UDG (Aland Is), OJ0O (Market reef) and AN7AL (Spain special)

Reminder: The Hiram Percy Maxim Birthday Celebration Begins on August 31

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Inter-American Proposal Removes 47 – 47.2 GHz from Bands under Study for 5G Services

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ARRL -The 34th meeting of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) Permanent Consultative Committee II (PCC.II) concluded a week of meetings on August 16 in Ottawa, Canada, in advance of World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19). The meetings were aimed at reaching regional consensus on WRC-19 agenda items. Attendees at PCC.II included ARRL Technical Relations Specialist Jon Siverli…

WWV Centennial Committee prepares for trial run of WW0WWV special event

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Southgate ARC – The WWV Centennial Committee reports that it will conduct a trial run of special event station WW0WWV over the August 24/25 weekend

United States Special Event

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Southgate ARC – Members of the Lake County Amateur Radio Association (LCARA, N8BC) will activate special event station W4G for the 103rd anniversary celebration of the National Park Service in conjunction with the James A. Garfield Presidential Home in Mentor, OH

United States POW-MIA Special Event

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Southgate ARC – Look for special event station K4MIA/8 to be active between September 13-22nd. Activity is to honor and support our Veterans

The ‘Amateur’ tech that could penetrate the Kashmir blackout

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Southgate ARC – The Wire reports shortwave radio transmission presents an effective way to communicate when conventional networks are down

India: Ham radio operators help reunite family

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Southgate ARC – On August 16, a few policemen arrived at the house of Vadamalai Raman in village Purandarai located in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu with photographs of a patient who has been staying at the Bangaon Subdivisional Hospital in West Bengal for over two years

Greenland operation

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Southgate ARC – Operators Thomas/OZ1AA, Bo/OZ1DJJ, Dave/OZ5DM, Mikkel/OZ7AKT, Alex/OZ7AM and possibly others will be active as OX7A from Kangerlussuaq during the CQWW DX SSB Contest (October 26-27th). Operation class TBD

AMSAT Space Symposium call for papers

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Southgate ARC – AMSAT has issued a call for papers for the 50th Anniversary AMSAT Annual Meeting and Space Symposium to be held on the weekend of October 18 – 20 at The Hilton Arlington, 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia

Airborne radio may hinder 144 MHz ham radio

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Southgate ARC – Sweden’s national amateur radio society, the SSA, has written again to their regulator, the PTS, pointing out the interference the Aeronautical Mobile Service would cause to amateur radio

Radio Amateurs in India Support Rescue and Relief Operations in Wake of Flooding

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ARRL -Radio amateurs in at least three western Indian states along the Arabian Sea coast are pitching in to support communication for rescue and relief operations following heavy rainfall and flooding. In Kerala, Shyam Kumar, VU2JLE, told The Hindu newspaper that he and 15 other radio amateurs belonging to the Wayanad Hams (WHAMS) group have been closely monitoring to help the government speed rescue…

Candidates for ARRL Directors and Vice Directors Announced

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ARRL -Two races for the office of ARRL Director and one contest for Vice Director are set for this fall. In the Southeastern Division, incumbent Director Greg Sarratt, W4OZK, faces a challenge from Mickey Baker, N4MB. A three-way race is set for the office of Southeastern Division Vice Director, with incumbent Joseph Tiritilli, N4ZUW, facing James Schilling, KG4JSZ, and Jeff Stahl, K4BH.

In the West G…

Somalia Operation Set for September

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Alexanderson Alternator Station SAQ Hails “Incredible” Number of Listener Reports

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W/VE Island QSO Party

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Southgate ARC – The 2019 W/VE Island QSO Party is this coming weekend

Three starts using 3.5 GHz for 5G

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Southgate ARC – The telecommunications and internet service provider Hutchison 3G UK Limited has started using its 5G spectrum at 3580-3680 MHz in a very limited number of areas

Photo tour of the Huntsville Hamfest

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Southgate ARC – The Huntsville Hamfest was an amazing event – I understand the attendance on Saturday may have broken a few records

NASA TV coverage of uncrewed Soyuz mission to Space Station

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Southgate ARC – An uncrewed Russian Soyuz spacecraft is set to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Aug. 21 on a test flight to validate the spacecraft’s compatibility with a revamped Soyuz booster rocket. The booster will be used to transport crews to the International Space Station beginning in spring 2020

Highlights of CITEL WRC Preparatory Meeting: August 12 to 16 in Ottawa

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Southgate ARC – CITEL, the telecommunications committee of the Organization of American States, concluded a week of meetings on Friday, August 16 at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa

WWV Centennial Committee Prepares for Trial Run of WW0WWV Special Event

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Department of Defense Message Prompts Listeners to Take WWV/WWVH Survey

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ARRL -Through Saturday, August 24, WWV and WWVH will transmit a US Department of Defense (DOD) message in conjunction with the COMEX 19-3 interoperability exercise in Tennessee. The broadcast also urges listeners to complete a survey on WWV/WWVH listenership and listening habits. The messages are broadcast on WWV at 10 minutes past the hour and on WWVH at 50 minutes past the hour. WWV and WWVH transm…

ARRL Contest and DXCC Rules Now Prohibit Automated Contacts

5 days ago

ARRL -Following the direction of the ARRL Board of Directors, ARRL has incorporated changes to the rules for all ARRL-sponsored contests and DXCC, prohibiting automated contacts. These changes also apply to the Worked All States (including Triple Play and 5-Band WAS), VHF/UHF Century Club, and Fred Fish, W5FF, Memorial awards. The changes are effective immediately.

A resolution at the July ARRL Board …

WIA Contest Champion

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Southgate ARC – G’day, this is Peter VK2PR with the WIA Contest Champion results for 2018. The WIA Contest Champion is awarded annually for the best combined effort in WIA Sponsored Contests

Ideas sought for the next FUNcube satellite

5 days ago

Southgate ARC – In November the FUNcube-1 CubeSat will have been in orbit for 6 years and the FUNcube team are now soliciting suggestions for the next satellite

ICQPodcast – Long Island CW Club

5 days ago

Southgate ARC – In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Leslie Butterfield G0CIB, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, Matthew Nassau M0NJX, Dan Romanchik KB6NU, Ruth Willet KM4LAO and Ed Durrant DD5LP to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is Long Island CW Club

DXCC Country/Entity Report

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Southgate ARC – According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 11th/August, through Sunday, 18th/August there were 203 countries active

Cuba DX Group celebration

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Southgate ARC – The Cuba DX Group will be celebrating its 39th anniversary with special activity on September 1st

Bisho Hammies provide communication

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Southgate ARC – Sunday 11 August in South Africa saw the latest running of the King Williams Town Adventure Race. This challenges participants to a series of fun activities including mountain biking, walking, running, kloofing and puzzle solving

Amateur Radio Is There When All Else Fails

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Southgate ARC – Jefferson Public Radio (JPR) reports on the vital role played by radio amateurs when disaster strikes

Altrincham Wireless Society 2QV

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Southgate ARC – In the second of his mini documentary series Lewis M3HHY covers the history of the Altrincham Wireless Society 2QV

IOTA news from OPDX

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Southgate ARC – Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin

Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP

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Southgate ARC – Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to remain at low levels

VRT withdraws slur against radio amateurs

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – Belgium’s Flemish broadcaster VRT falsely said radio amateurs were likely responsible for the transmission of fictional traffic information to vehicle dashboard screens

SARL RF Noise Workshop

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – The SARL RF Noise Workshop will be held at the National Amateur Radio Centre on Saturday 28 September. This workshop is presented in partnership with AMSAT SA

SARL HF Digital Contest this afternoon

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – The second contest in the SARL HF Contest series is the Digital Contest taking place from 14:00 to 17:00 UTC this afternoon (Sunday) with RTTY and PSK activity on 80, 40 and 20 meters

QSO Today – John Nowacki – W3NA

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Southgate ARC – John Nowacki, W3NA, was a teenager in the early sixties when he won a contest to name a popular amateur radio line of antennas that are still sold today

Pirates On US Navy Satellites – UHF SatCom

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Southgate ARC – Here we take a look at how to listen to the Brazillian Pirates on UHF SatCom

FCC dismisses ARRL, AMSAT requests in Small Satellite proceeding

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – An FCC Report and Order released August 2 in the so-called ‘small satellite’ rulemaking proceeding, IB Docket 18-86, failed to address concerns expressed by ARRL and AMSAT

BBC increases Kashmir service on shortwave

6 days ago

Southgate ARC – The BBC World Service has stepped up shortwave broadcasts to Jammu and Kashmir during the media shutdown in the region

ICQ Podcast Episode 301 – Long Island CW Club

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ICQ Podcast -In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Leslie Butterfield G0CIB, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, Matthew Nassau M0NJX, Dan Romanchik KB6NU, Ruth Willet KM4LAO and Ed Durrant DD5LP to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is Long Island CW Club.

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The Internet’s Impact on International Radio

Australia: WIA board comment

AMSAT member wins Alabama Outstanding Youth Ham Award

First UK 288 GHz CW Contact

FT8 Digital Mode Club 2nd Anniversary

BARTG GB60ATG Special Event

146MHz band Gets Extra Year

Propagation de K7RA

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Southgate ARC – No sunspots were visible over the recent reporting week, Thursday through Wednesday, August 8 through 14

WIA Director highlights ham radio spectrum threats

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Southgate ARC – WIA Director Aidan VK4APM highlights the threats the Amateur Radio and Amateur Satellite Services face from commercial interests keen to grab our spectrum

Radio amateur adventure weekend of Western Slavs

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Southgate ARC – We are happy to announce an additional YOTA Sub-regional event for 2019. The camp is mostly meant to get to know each other

Threat to Amateur Radio 23cm band

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Southgate ARC – A joint paper to be submitted to the CEPT CPG meeting in Ankara by France, Lithuania, Malta, Slovenia and The Netherlands attacks the continued use by Radio Amateurs of our 1240-1300 MHz band

QO-100 geostationary satellite talk at Hamfest 2019

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Southgate ARC – Paul Marsh M0EYT gave a presentation titled ‘All you need to know to get going on Es’hail-2 / QO-100 geostationary satellite’ at Hamfest 2019 in Dorset on Sunday, August 11

VK6WIA NewsWest

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Southgate ARC – NewsWest for Sunday 18th August 2019, is the New Amateurs Edition where we give our attention to new Amateurs, and those seeking to join the hobby. In the regular New Hams segment Bob talks about wire antennas for beginners

France: National societies send joint statement to regulator

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Southgate ARC – France’s national Amateur Radio societies AMSAT-F, DR @ F, URC and REF have written to ANFR’s International Affairs Department regarding the 50, 144, 1240 MHz and 5 and 47 GHz Amateur Radio bands

Foundations of Amateur Radio

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Southgate ARC – What’s in a Watt? – We need more power. I’m giving her all she’s got, Captain! She cannae take anymore. I’m sure your Scottish ancestors are rolling in their graves right now, but in our community of radio amateurs we have a tendency to advocate the use of more power. More power fixes all problems and hides all sins

144 and 1240 MHz threats: IARU submits papers

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Southgate ARC – The IARU has submitted two papers to the CEPT ECC Conference Preparatory Group (CPG) meeting which takes place in Ankara, Turkey on August 26-30, 2019

FCC Dismisses ARRL, AMSAT Requests in Small Satellite Proceeding

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ARRL -An FCC Report and Order (R&O) released August 2 in the so-called “small satellite” rulemaking proceeding, IB Docket 18-86, failed to address concerns expressed by ARRL and AMSAT. Both organizations filed comments on the FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the proceeding last year, seeking changes in the FCCs interpretations and procedures affecting satellites operating on Amateur Satell…

The K7RA Solar Update

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ARRL -No sunspots were visible over the recent reporting week, Thursday through Wednesday, August 8 through 14.

According to Spaceweather.com, 67% of the days so far in 2019 have been spotless, and for all of 2018 it was 61%. In the previous solar minimum in 2008 and 2009 the spotless days ran 73% and 71%, respectively.

Solar flux has been minimal and unremarkable, with average daily solar flux changin…

2 Meter Sharing Proposal is on CEPT Conference Preparatory Group Agenda

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The Space Weather Woman

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Southgate ARC – A Coronal Hole Blows, A Perseid Shower, and Mars – The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW

World’s first FT8 contact on 122 GHz

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Southgate ARC – Roland Lang, VK4FB, and Stefan Durtschi, VK4CSD, completed what is being claimed as the world’s first FT8 contact on 122 GHz

The spectacular end of Longijang-2 moon mission

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Southgate ARC – The last commands to Longijang-2 Moon Orbiting Satellite were sent from the from OM Reinhard, DK5LA, during a thunderstorm with lightning strikes nearby his antennas before the satellite crashed on to the moon surface!!

RSGB-Workshop email reflector

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Southgate ARC – A new email group has been created for supporting, discussing and developing technical content based around RadCom and related published articles

Radio hams combine hobby with serving the community

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Southgate ARC – KOMU TV carried a news item about the public service role of radio amateurs in Jefferson City

INDEXA Newsletter

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Southgate ARC – The Summer 2019 Issue of the INDEXA Newsletter is now available to download

Amazon Forest operation

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Southgate ARC – Daniel ‘JD’, IK2SGL, and his XYL have moved to a location in the Amazon Forest, Peru. They are international volunteers in a world-wide education program which contacst and helps the indigenous people of the region: the Awajun people

DX News from the ARRL

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Southgate ARC – The American Radio Relay League’s round-up of the forthcoming week’s DX activity on the amateur radio bands

FCC Staff Recommends Designating 988 as National Suicide, Mental Health Crisis Hotline

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ARRL -The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau and its Office of Economics and Analytics have sent a report to Congress that recommends that the Commission considers designating 988 as a three-digit emergency code for a nationwide suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline. The report, mandated by the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act of 2018, finds that such a three-digit number “would …

Chinese Satellite Profiles Earth’s RF Spectrum as Seen from Lunar Orbit

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ARRL -The Chinese DSLWP-B (LO-94) satellite that had been in lunar orbit provided a profile of Earth’s HF spectrum as seen from the moon. The microsatellite subsequently was crashed into the moon’s surface after having completed its mission. DSLWP stands for “Discovering the Sky at Longest Wavelengths Pathfinder.” Among other things, DSLWP-B was designed to test low-frequency radio astronomy and spac…

Questions Raised About Current Process for Awarding the E.T. Krenkel Medal

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Australian Radio Amateur Reports First FT8 Contact on 122 GHz

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Ulrich L. Rohde, N1UL, Named as Honorary Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers

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ARRL -The Governing Council of India’s Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) has conferred its Honorary Fellowship on noted researcher Ulrich Rohde, N1UL. The IETE is a prominent professional society in the field of electronics, telecommunication computer science/engineering, broadcasting, information technology, and related areas.

The Honorary Fellowship is accorded to an …

22nd International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend Set for August 17 – 18

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ARRL -Amateur Radio operations at some 400 lighthouses and lightships will commence on August 17 as the 22nd International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend (ILLW) activity gets under way. Germany and the US lead the field in registered operations.

New this year is the US Virgin Islands’ Buck Island Lighthouse, built by the Danish government shortly Denmark sold the islands to the US in 1917, and they beca…

The Doctor Will See You Now!

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VK Remembrance Day Contest

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Southgate ARC – Book your diary’s for Saturday 0300z August 17 to 0300z August 18th for the VK Remembrance Day Contest

Parks on the Air

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Southgate ARC – Parks on the Air – now in England – This scheme started out from an ARRL event to activate all the National Parks in the USA, during a year. So many Radio Amateurs became involved that following the year there was a high level of interest in working from National Parks. As a result Parks on the Air was born

NASA TV to air US spacewalk, briefing on space station docking port install

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Southgate ARC – Experts from NASA will preview an upcoming spacewalk with two American astronauts outside the International Space Station to complete the outfitting of docking ports during a briefing at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 16, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston

Ham radio at Exmouth’s Coastwatch station

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Southgate ARC – The Exmouth Journal reports radio amateurs will be transmitting to the world from Exmouth’s coastwatch station later this month

GX5TO Special Event Station

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Southgate ARC – GX5TO Special Event Station on air on Sunday 22 September 2019 from 10.30Z from Kelham Island Industrial Museum, Sheffield, to help celebrate 100 years of the founding of the Sheffield and District Wireless Society

CEPT ECC Vacancies

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Southgate ARC – Ofcom’s Chris Woolford, CEPT Electronic Communications Committee Chair, reports the CEPT ECC is looking for a new Chair of the Working Group Conference Preparatory Group (WG CPG)

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The new ways of healthy living

JAPAN DISPOSING MICROWAVE OVENS for health safety IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR OUR HEALTH The Japanese government decided to dispose of all microwave ovens in the country before the end of this year. All citizens and organizations that do not fulfill the requirement are threatened with prison sentences ranging from 5 to 15 years, depending on the severity of the crime. The reason for the ban on microwaves in the Land of the Rising Sun was research by scientists from the University of Hiroshima, who found out that radioactive waves caused more harm to the health of citizens over the 20 years of use of the microwave oven than the nuclear bombing of American aircraft in September 1945. According to the findings of experts, food, heated in a microwave oven, has unfavourable vibrations, in disharmony with the universal rhythms. All the largest manufacturers of microwave ovens in Japan have already closed factory workshops where products were manufactured. In 2021, the termination of the production of microwave ovens will be announced in South Korea, China plans to abandon this type of technology in 2023 [19:14, 26.3.2019] Khan Khanbala Dts: A conference on cancer prevention was held at the Kashira Cancer Center. Here are some recommendations made at the end of it: Say no!": 1. Refined oil 2. Milk of animal origin (not homemade) 3. Food cubes (seasoning "Broth" ;-) 4. Soda (32 pieces of sugar per liter!) 5. Sugar refined sugar 6. Microwave 7. Do not do a mammogram before birth except for an echogram (apparently, ultrasound is implied). 8. Too tight underwear (bra!) 9. No alcohol 10. Thawed food 11. Do not drink water from the refrigerator in plastic bottles. 12. Contraceptive pills (women change hormonal system and provoke cancer) 13. Deodorants. Especially used after shaving are dangerous. 14. Sugar in any form (cancer cells mainly feed on sugar). 15. Cancer patients, excluding sugar from their diet, see that the disease is gone and can live for a long time: sugar = mortal enemy. 16. A glass of beer is processed in the body for 5 hours, at which time organs and systems operate at idle speed. Say yes!": 1. Vegetables 2. Honey in moderation instead of sugar 3. Vegetable proteins (beans instead of meat) 4. Two glasses of water on an empty stomach before brushing your teeth - room temperature water has the same temperature as our body upon waking. 5. Warm food (not hot) 6. No. 1 anti-cancer juice: aloe vera + ginger + parsley + celery + promalin (middle of pineapple), mix and drink on an empty stomach. 7. Anticancer juice No. 2: soursop / guanabana (seedless) + promalin (middle of pineapple) 8. Eat raw or boiled carrots or squeeze juice every day. On a note: The Association of American Doctors found answers to the cause of cancer: 1. Do not drink tea from plastic cups (cups). 2. Do not eat anything hot from a paper or plastic bag (for example, fried potatoes). 3. Do not microwave food in plastic dishes. We remind: When plastic is exposed to heat, chemical compounds are released that can cause 52 types of cancer. This message is better than 100 unnecessary SMS ... Avoid drinking Coca-Cola on pineapple or after eating pineapple as dessert. Do not mix pineapple juice with coca. This mixture is deadly! People die from this, and they mistakenly believe that they were poisoned .... They were victims of their ignorance of this fatal cocktail! Answer calls by holding the phone to your left ear Do not drink medicines with cold water. Do not eat heavy food after 17.00 Drink more water in the morning, less in the evening Do not take a horizontal position immediately after a meal and use of drugs When the battery of your phone is almost dead, do not pick up the phone, as this radiation is 1000 times stronger. than with a charged battery. Pass it on to the people you love. Do it, because kindness costs us nothing ...

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CDC has requested comments for the feasibility of a mesothelioma registry

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has announced the opening of a docket to obtain information on the feasibility of a registry designed to track mesothelioma cases in the United States, as well as recommendations on enrollment, data collection, confidentiality, and registry maintenance. The purpose of such a registry would be to collect information that could be used to develop and improve standards of care and to identify gaps in mesothelioma prevention and treatment.

Comments may be submitted electronically, through the Federal eRulemaking

Portal: http://www.regulations.gov, or by sending a hard copy to the NIOSH Docket Office, Robert A. Taft Laboratories, MS-C34, 1090 Tusculum Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45226. All written submissions received must include the agency name (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS) and docket number (CDC-2019-0029; NIOSH-327) for this action. All relevant comments, including any personal information provided, will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov. Comments must be received by July 8, 2019. Comment now.

The fiscal year 2019 appropriations act charged NIOSH with initiating a feasibility study for a National Mesothelioma Registry. Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019, HR 6157 (enacted). See also Department of Defense for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2019, and for Other Purposes, House of Representatives Conference Report No. 115-952 (2018). The conference report accompanies HR 6157 and explicitly directs NIOSH to “initiate a feasibility study for a patient registry, which would include developing case finding methodology to determine incidence and prevalence, demographics, and risk factors.”

Mesothelioma is a rare cancer of the body's lining tissue, most commonly the lining of the chest and lungs (pleura) and the lining of the abdomen (peritoneum). The most common risk factor for mesothelioma is prior asbestos exposure. Mesothelioma treatments are limited and survival is generally poor. NIOSH is the Federal agency that develops new knowledge in the field of occupational safety and health and transfers that knowledge into practice. NIOSH has a strong interest in preventing mesothelioma and helping people with the disease, since the most common known cause is exposure to asbestos, a dangerous occupational hazard for many workers.

Cancer is a reportable disease in every state. Data about new cases of mesothelioma are reported to state or local cancer registries, annually submitted to CDC or the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and then compiled by CDC in the U.S. Cancer Statistics database. U.S. Cancer Statistics: the Official Federal Cancer Statistics. https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/uscs/index.htm.

However, existing cancer registries collect only limited information about potential risk factors and issues occurring over time, such as treatment complications. In addition to the limitations on the scope of existing surveillance systems, it may take 6 months or more from the time of diagnosis until mesothelioma cases are initially reported to a cancer registry, and then another 1-2 years to be reported in U.S. Cancer Statistics.

Because about half of those diagnosed with mesothelioma die within 1 year, to be of benefit to registrants, a registry would need to develop a case-finding methodology to enroll registrants as soon as possible after diagnosis to allow timely access to contemporary state-of-the-art therapy and clinical trials. It has been reported that many mesothelioma patients do not receive this level of care. Waller DA [2018], The Management of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma in the USA 2004-13—A Decade of Lost Opportunity? J Thorac Dis 10(Suppl 9):S1044-S1046.

Ideally, the case-finding methodology would be national in scope and identify most people diagnosed with mesothelioma, thus allowing researchers to use this current data to determine incidence and prevalence, demographics, and risk factors, as required by the 2019 appropriations act.

A National Mesothelioma Registry could address the limitations of existing registries by reducing case reporting delays, collecting detailed information regarding risk and prognostic factors, and by engaging with researchers to better enable them to identify gaps in the current understanding of mesothelioma prevention and treatment and improve the standard of care for current and future patients.

In order to study the feasibility of establishing a National Mesothelioma Registry, NIOSH requests information from the public on the potential usefulness of a registry and potential approaches to establishing and operating it. Accordingly, NIOSH seeks input and advice from all interested parties in response to the following questions:

1. Would a registry be an effective tool in improving mesothelioma patient care? If yes, please describe how a registry could be used to improve current care.

2. Would a registry be an effective tool in facilitating clinical mesothelioma research? If yes, please describe how a registry could be used to facilitate clinical mesothelioma research.

3. Would a registry be an effective tool in facilitating basic or epidemiological mesothelioma research? If yes, please describe how a registry could be used to facilitate basic or epidemiological research.

4. What are the best potential approaches to recruiting and enrolling mesothelioma patients in a registry as soon as possible after diagnosis? What barriers can be anticipated? How can these barriers be overcome?

5. What information should be collected by a mesothelioma registry? How would that information be useful for improving patient care or facilitating clinical, basic, or epidemiological research?

6. What services should a registry provide to mesothelioma patients, clinicians, researchers, and other interested stakeholders?

7. Who should have access to information gathered by a mesothelioma registry?

8. How could a mesothelioma registry protect the confidentiality of information about registry participants yet still be used for patient care and research? Please describe how personally identifiable information should be protected.

9. Are there particular types of organizations that would be best suited to host or manage a National Mesothelioma Registry? If so, please explain the advantages and disadvantages of the recommended types of organizations.

10. What types of resources would be needed to establish and maintain or participate in a National Mesothelioma Registry, including for clinical sites that diagnose patients, cancer registries and state public health departments, a central data center, and potentially other participants involved in recruiting and enrolling patients, gathering and storing information, providing various services, and following patients over time?

11. Is there other information that NIOSH should consider in assessing the potential usefulness, feasibility, and potential approaches to establishing and operating a National Mesothelioma Registry? If yes, please describe.

Federal Register Number: 2019-06784 See also: Asbestos Cement Factories Pose High Risk Mesothelioma WHO Urges Worldwide Asbestos Ban: Mesothelioma Rates Surge Workers' Compensation: Genetic Pre-Disposition to Mesothelioma New staging of mesothelioma tumors may predict outcome How asbestos exposure leads to mesothelioma Lung-sparing surgery for patients with advanced mesothelioma results in prolonged survival, new study shows An Increase Predicted of Reported Mesothelioma Cases Trump Administration May Bring a Surge in Occupational Disease Claims ........ Jon L. Gelman of Wayne NJ is the author of NJ Workers’ Compensation Law (West-Thomson-Reuters) and co-author of the national treatise, Modern Workers’ Compensation Law (West-Thomson-Reuters). For over 4 decades the Law Offices of Jon L Gelman 1.973.696.7900 [email protected] has been representing injured workers and their families who have suffered occupational accidents and illnesses.

CDC has requested comments for the feasibility of a mesothelioma registry published first on http://workers-compensation.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

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greenlifestylemarket · 7 years ago

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State Vaccine Legislation in America 2015 to 2017: What the Media, Medical Trade and Pharma Don’t Want You to Know

(Dr. Mercola by the NVIC Advocacy Team) State vaccine laws and the legal right to vaccine exemptions are hot topics in America. Between 2015 and 2017, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a nonprofit charity, closely monitored state legislation and analyzed and issued positions on 454 vaccine-related bills through the NVIC Advocacy Portal (NVICAP).

The NVICAP is a free online vaccine choice advocacy network launched by NVIC in 2010 to protect and expand the legal right to exercise informed consent to vaccination in the U.S. NVIC’s mission since 1982 has been to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and to secure and defend informed consent protections in vaccine policies and laws, including protecting flexible medical, religious and conscientious belief vaccine exemptions.

In 2015, the NVICAP team responded to more vaccine-related bills than were filed in any previous year: 160 bills across 41 states. This record was shattered two years later in 2017 when NVIC tracked and published information on an all-time record of 184 proposed vaccine bills filed in 42 state legislatures.

Mainstream media continues to cite the passage of two 2015 bills, California SB277, which eliminated the personal belief and religious vaccine exemption, and Vermont H98, which removed only the philosophical exemption, as evidence that public support for vaccine exemptions is waning.1 This is a myth easily refuted by looking at the real evidence.

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Related: Doctors Against Vaccines – Hear From Those Who Have Done the Research

Bias and Misdirection by Mainstream Media

Over the last three years it has been easy to find biased articles and newspaper OpEds in favor of “no exceptions” forced vaccination laws. Articles featuring individuals advocating for the removal of vaccine exemptions and opposing the expansion of exemptions are portrayed in a positive light.2,3 There is also a distinct trend to portray individuals who oppose bills that eliminate vaccine exemptions and support bills expanding exemptions in a negative light.4,5

However, this clear media bias fails to tell the truth about what really occurred in state legislatures around the country since 2015, when only two states removed personal belief vaccine exemptions. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which has adopted and actively promoted through their state chapters the extreme position to “eliminate nonmedical exemptions for school entry,” acknowledges the backlash caused by pushing bills that propose to strip public health laws of vaccine exemptions.6

At a debate held at the AAP’s annual conference in September 2017, there was discussion about the fact that the position of outright elimination of personal belief exemptions may “embolden” parents.7 A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association admits there is uncertainty about the effectiveness of policies to remove a parent’s ability to obtain a religious or conscientious belief exemption so a child can attend day care or be educated in a public or private school.8

Neither of these medical trade associations accurately depicts the extent to which passage of the two bills eliminating exemptions in California and Vermont have inspired grassroots vaccine informed consent advocates in every state to become even more active and effective.

The medical trade and Pharma lobby, as well as public health officials promoting heavy-handed implementation of the federally recommended childhood vaccine schedule, do not want to acknowledge there is a strong growing backlash against inflexible implementation of vaccine laws.

Related: How To Detoxify and Heal From Vaccinations – For Adults and Children

Follow the Money

While it is rare to find registered lobbyists for vaccine manufacturers directly testifying in favor of a bill eliminating vaccine exemptions, Pharma’s fingerprints are all over lobbying efforts to influence the outcome of proposed vaccine bills severely restricting or removing vaccine choices.

There are a number of vocal advocacy organizations promoting forced vaccination which receive financial contributions and support from pharmaceutical corporations that make big profits from mandatory vaccination laws requiring all children to get federally recommended vaccines.

The Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) childhood vaccine schedule of 69 doses of 16 vaccines alone is worth billions of dollars to drug companies marketing vaccines. Every vaccine that a state mandates guarantees vaccine manufacturers liability-free profits under the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2011 that effectively eliminated all product liability for vaccine injuries and deaths caused by government licensed vaccines recommended for children.9,10,11

Every Child By Two (ECBT) identifies multiple vaccine manufacturers among sources of funding, including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer and Sanofi Pasteur.12 A nonprofit organization, ECBT actively lobbies in state legislatures and in Congress to promote mandatory vaccination and the elimination of vaccine exemptions, as well to secure increased funding for the CDC and other government agencies developing, licensing, making policy for and promoting universal use of federally recommended vaccines.13

Who Are Behind the Removal of Personal Belief Exemptions?

An ECBT board member, who is executive director of the California Immunization Action Coalition, was instrumental in lobbying efforts in the California legislature to pass the bill (SB277) that removed California’s personal belief vaccine exemption in 2015.14,15

The California Immunization Coalition is a network member of the nonprofit Immunization Action Coalition (IAC), which is funded by Astra Zeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur and the CDC.16,17 Among members of IAC’s Advisory Board are vaccine developers and current or former CDC officials and mandatory vaccination proponents, including developers of Merck’s rubella and rotavirus vaccines, Dr. Stanley Plotkin and Dr. Paul Offit.18,19,20,21

Related: The MMR Vaccine – A Comprehensive Overview of the Potential Dangers and Effectiveness

Voices for Vaccines, which has lobbied in Colorado, Virginia and other state legislatures for the removal of vaccine exemptions, is an administrative program of the Atlanta-based nonprofit Task Force for Global Health (TFGH), which was founded in 1984 by a former director of the CDC to raise childhood vaccination rates globally.22

Among TFGH funders are Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and the CDC, the World Health Organization and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.23 Scientific Advisory Board members of Voices for Vaccines include the founder and director of the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC), Plotkin, Offit and a former CDC director of immunization. 24

The Immunization Partnership (TIP) is a Texas-based coalition dedicated to eradicating diseases through the universal use of vaccines facilitated by electronic vaccine tracking registries and implementation of mandatory vaccination laws.

TIP is funded in part by Merck, GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer and counts as one of its biggest accomplishments that it “screened more than 50,000 immunization records and recalled more than 14,000 patients back into clinics to get up-to-date on their vaccines through the Immunization Champions project.”25

Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine developer and well-known forced vaccination proponent, serves as a director for TIP.26,27,28 During the 2017 legislative session in Texas, TIP representatives directly gave testimony and lobbied for bills that would make it harder for families to decline vaccines or choose to vaccinate their children using a schedule that differs from the CDC’s recommended schedule.29,30

Contrary to what the corporate and government dominated media are reporting and would like the public to believe, many enlightened state legislators are listening to concerned constituents. They are supporting parental rights and the ethical principle of informed consent, which are protected in vaccine laws that contain flexible medical and personal belief exemptions.

What has largely been ignored or misrepresented by the media, medical trade and Pharma during the 2015 to 2017 timeframe is a growing public awareness about vaccine risks and failures and the increasing number of well-informed Americans who are advocating for vaccine freedom of choice because they understand the need to protect informed consent rights by securing and protecting vaccine exemptions in public health laws.

The Truth by Numbers

NVICAP TRACKED 2015 2016 2017 TREND NVICAP OPPOSE 117 (73.0 percent) 71 (67.0 percent) 116 (63.0 percent) Decreasing BAD BILLS PASSED 22/117 (18.8 percent) 8/71 (11.2 percent) 7/116 (6.0 percent) Decreasing NVICAP SUPPORT 19 (11.8 percent) 18 (17.0 percent) 45 (24.0 percent) Increasing NVICAP WATCH 24 (15.0 percent) 17 (16.0 percent) 23 (12.5 percent) Neutral TOTAL BILLS 160 106 184 Increasing STATES AFFECTED 41 33 42 Increasing

In 2014, the NVIC Advocacy Portal tracked 91 bills across 28 states. Over the course of the 2015 to 2017 legislative sessions, the number of vaccine-related bills for which NVIC issued position statements and the number of states affected by bills proposing to restrict or eliminate vaccine freedom of choice dramatically increased.

However, the numbers also clearly show that as the grassroots vaccine safety and informed consent movement grows, a lower percentage of bad bills require opposition because a higher percentage of good bills are being filed by legislators that deserve support.

Most importantly, the numbers and percentages of bills passing that negatively affect vaccine exemptions and threaten informed consent rights are significantly decreasing because more legislators are resisting aggressive lobbying efforts by medical trade and Pharma to make the vaccination system more oppressive than it already is in the U.S.

In a nutshell, slowly but surely as a result of years of hard work, grassroots vaccine education and informed consent advocacy in the U.S. are achieving tangible results.

To keep this trend moving in the right direction, everyone needs to get involved and continue to educate and personally communicate with his or her own legislators. The best way to get real time accurate information about what actions you can take to help protect vaccine informed consent rights in your state is to register as a user of the free online NVIC Advocacy Portal.

The Real Story: Few Bad Vaccine Bills Passed

What happened in 2015:

In 2015, there was a significant increase in state legislative action to add more vaccine mandates and attack the legal right to make voluntary vaccine decisions. Bills were introduced to:

Eliminate or severely restrict vaccine exemptions

Add and expand vaccine mandates for both children and adults in the school or workplace settings

Expand police powers related to vaccination during government-declared public health emergencies

Expand intrusive electronic vaccine tracking and medical records data sharing without consent to more easily enforce use of government recommended vaccines

Publish and publicly post detailed information about vaccine exemptions and vaccination rates in much smaller geographical boundaries like individual schools

In some states, legislation was passed allowing pharmacists to administer more vaccines. Spurred on by reports of a measles outbreak in Disneyland, much of the media attention focused the loss of the personal belief and religious exemptions in California and the loss of the philosophical exemption in Vermont, and there was no acknowledgement of the strong pushback by citizens that thwarted multiple attacks on vaccine exemptions and informed consent rights in many other states.

During the 2015 legislative cycle, the following states derailed legislative attempts to outright eliminate the conscientious/philosophical vaccine exemptions: Maine, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington.

Additionally, the following states came out on top of attacks on freedom of conscience and religion that would have eliminated or severely restricted the religious exemption: Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont.

Bills to mandate vaccines for child care employees passed in California in 2015. However, bills to require vaccination of health care workers in Connecticut, Missouri and New Jersey and to require vaccination of school employees in Texas all failed.

Taking a closer look at the bills NVIC opposed that did pass, there was one Illinois bill in 2015 that weakened vaccine freedom of choice. Illinois SB 1410 added the requirement for parents to complete state approved vaccine education and secure a physician’s signature prior to filing a religious exemption for children to attend school.

Oregon passed SB 895A, which required schools to publicly post vaccine exemption rates. New vaccine mandates became law in Illinois for children attending day care, as did new vaccine mandates for school children in Indiana, Louisiana and Montana.

It was clear that 2015 marked a turning point, both for pharmaceutical and medical trade lobbyists pushing for more oppressive vaccine laws and for citizens who support informed consent and the legal right to flexible medical, religious and conscientious belief vaccine exemptions.

What happened in 2016:

There was a sharp decline in 2016 in the total number of vaccine-related bills filed in state legislatures compared to the previous year: from 160 bills filed in 2015 down to 106 bills filed in 2016, but, again, this was still more bills than were filed in 2014. It is very significant that in 2016, NO bills were passed by state legislatures that restricted or eliminated vaccine exemptions.

The NVIC Advocacy team helped families and enlightened health care professionals defeat bills proposing to restrict or eliminate vaccine exemptions that were filed in Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Virginia. Bills in three states tried to completely remove the religious exemption, and bills in four states tried to eliminate the personal, philosophical or conscientious belief exemption.

In Virginia, where NVIC has been headquartered since 1982, a bill was proposed to gut the medical exemption by confining it to CDC vaccine contraindications only and to eliminate the religious vaccine exemption for all school aged children, including home schooled children.

This assault on freedom of conscience and religion was met with strong opposition from hundreds of parents, grandparents, health care professionals and allied health freedom groups, who responded to NVIC’s call to action and attended Joint Commission on Health Care public hearings with their children and flooded the legislature with emails, phone calls and personal visits to legislators’ offices.

NVIC prepared a 90-page referenced report defending the religious and medical vaccine exemptions and NVIC’s co-founder and president gave an oral presentation in the legislature defending freedom of religion and conscience, which was defined in the Virginia Constitution and Bill of Rights by authors of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.31,32 The bill did not pass out of committee.

This nationwide rejection by state legislatures of lobbying attempts to take away more vaccine exemptions was a strong and definitive response by citizens and legislators to the attack on and loss of personal belief vaccine exemptions in two states in the 2015 legislative session.

In 2016, only eight vaccine bills passed out of the 71 bills that NVIC actively opposed on the NVIC Advocacy Portal. Colorado SB 146 proposed to allow minor children to receive vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases, such as hepatitis B and HPV vaccines, without their parents’ knowledge or consent.

Through well-organized grassroots action using the Advocacy Portal network and NVIC talking points, this offensive provision was stripped from the bill before final passage, pushing it into a “win” category for supporters of parental rights and informed consent. Of the seven remaining bills that NVIC opposed but went on to pass in 2016, three added meningococcal vaccine requirements in Delaware, Iowa and South Dakota.

The remaining four bills were not as threatening: HB 313 in Virginia expanded categories of medical workers who could give vaccines; S 1294 in Idaho lowered the age of children who can be vaccinated by pharmacists; SB 512 in New Hampshire expanded vaccine tracking of flu shots for health care workers, and SB 5143 in Washington state added mandated vaccine education for expectant parents before birth of a child.

In 2016, people around the country contacted NVIC and expressed concern that they did not want to see what happened in California happen in their state too, and committed to actively educating their legislators.

Many became users of the NVIC Advocacy Portal to learn more about becoming an effective vaccine choice advocate and how to network with legislators and community leaders. The excellent numbers coming out of the 2016 legislative session show just how committed and effective they were. NVIC supported 18 bills in 2016 including:

Massachusetts S 317 to add a personal belief vaccine exemption

Michigan HB 5126 to remove restrictions placed on vaccine exemptions by the Department of Health through rule making authority

New Hampshire HB 1463 to offer protection for employees against being forced to get an annual flu shot as a condition of employment

Ohio HB 170 to prohibit an employer from taking punitive action against an employee who chooses not to get an annual flu shot

While these positive bills did not pass, opportunities to educate legislators about vaccines and informed consent rights gained momentum, with some of these bills being carried through to 2017.

What happened in 2017:

2017 was a record-breaking year on many fronts starting with NVIC’s Advocacy Portal team tracking an unprecedented 184 vaccine-related bills across 42 states. The great news coming out of 2017 was that there was very little progress made by forced vaccination lobbyists during this year’s legislative session. Of the 116 bills that NVIC opposed, only 16 bills passed and, out of those 16, only seven had elements that were targeted for strong opposition.

Indiana took the hardest hit with a total of three unwanted vaccine bills passing: HB 1069 mandated meningococcal vaccinations for college students; HB 1540 allowed for quarantine and isolation of children with personal belief vaccine exemptions during a declared public health emergency involving disease outbreaks, and SB 51 added new vaccines that pharmacists can administer under standing orders and expanded medical records data sharing with the state’s electronic vaccine tracking registry.

Arkansas also passed a bill (SB 301) to expand medical records data sharing with the state’s electronic vaccine tracking registry. Tennessee passed the only other bill (SB 393) affecting vaccine mandates, which required college boards and the state Department of Health to adopt rules concerning vaccine requirements that effectively delegated the authority to add new vaccine mandates for college students to the health department.

The only state to pass a bill (HB 308) restricting existing vaccine exemption rights was Utah, which added the requirement that parents either complete a vaccine education module to obtain a vaccine exemption form online or attend an in-office consultation at the local health department if an exemption form for a child to attend school is picked up at a health department office.

The original statute only required the local health department to make the exemption form available to parents on request, but some parents reported that there were local health departments making that process too difficult for parents. Adding any additional codified restrictions to obtaining a vaccine exemption is a position that NVIC has consistently opposed.

In Washington State, a bill (HB 1641) was passed that significantly undermined parental informed consent rights by authorizing school nurses to give consent for vaccines to be administered to children whose families were homeless.

Of the remaining nine bills that NVIC opposed but were passed in 2017, none of them affected vaccine exemptions. In Alabama (HB 381), Georgia (HB 198), Nebraska (HB 1481) and Tennessee (HB 388 and SB 598), laws were passed to require vaccine promotion and marketing by schools or health care providers.

Hawaii (SB 514), Kansas (HB 2030) and Montana (HB 177) authorized pharmacists to give vaccines or expand the types of vaccines and ages of children pharmacists could vaccinate.

On the positive side, New Hampshire scored a huge win with the passage of a bill (HB 362) that prohibits school vaccine requirements for diseases that are not transmitted from person to person in a public setting, basically gutting hepatitis B vaccine requirements and putting a road block in the way of any future rule to mandate HPV vaccine or other vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases.

Parental rights in Texas were affirmed when a bill (HB 7) was passed protecting families from having their children vaccinated by Child Protective Services (CPS) without parents’ informed consent. Of the 184 bills that the NVIC Advocacy Portal team tracked in 2017, 23 were in Texas.

Among the Texas bills NVIC opposed, there were three bills proposing to use tax dollars to promote vaccination; one bill removing parental consent by allowing minor children to consent to HPV vaccination; four bills mandating public vaccine exemption disclosure resulting in shaming of schools with high vaccine exemption rates; two bills removing the right to opt-in informed consent for personal medical information to be entered into the vaccine tracking system; two bills to restrict vaccine exemptions; and one bill to eliminate conscientious and religious exemptions.

All of these bills trampling on parental and informed consent rights FAILED, thanks to the work of NVIC’s volunteer state directors, supporters and allied groups in Texas.

2017 Bill Analysis by Category

Because of the record number of vaccine bills filed in 2017, it is useful to look at trends across the states. The four main areas that NVIC focuses on when tracking proposed bills are: (1) vaccine exemptions and informed consent rights; (2) new vaccine mandates; (3) electronic vaccine tracking and reporting registries and (4) vaccines in general.

The breakout and analysis of bills in these different categories is interesting and can serve as a guide to those who want to become active in educating their legislators and community about protecting vaccine informed consent rights in 2018.

Exemptions and Informed Consent (81 related bills)

The majority of vaccine bills filed in state legislatures in 2017 affected vaccine exemptions and informed consent rights: 81 related bills. NVIC opposed 42 of these bills and supported 39 bills. Some of the position statements NVIC posted on the Advocacy Portal were listed as bills to “WATCH” because our analysis indicated they were unlikely to move forward; however, NVIC stated opposition to all of the bills in the “watch” category that negatively affected vaccine exemptions and informed consent rights.

This year, 2017, was a big year for vaccine choice advocates: ALL lobbying attempts to eliminate vaccine exemptions failed in every state where bills were proposed to do that. Bills were filed in Arkansas (HB 1043), Iowa (H 261), New York (A 1810), Pennsylvania (SB 217) and Rhode Island (H 5681) to eliminate vaccine exemptions.

Texas (HB120) attempted to remove the words “conscientious” and “religious” from vaccine exemption language in state law and refer to exemptions only in medical terms (i.e., “nonmedical”). The Arkansas bill was withdrawn by the sponsor and the rest of the bills failed to move forward. This is very good news.

On the other side, there were 17 bills filed in Hawaii, Iowa, Mississippi (4), New Jersey, New York (3), Rhode Island (3), Tennessee and West Virginia (3) that NVIC supported because they proposed to expand vaccine exemptions. Unfortunately, none of those bills passed but their introduction provided an excellent opportunity for citizens to educate legislators about vaccine science, policy and law and informed consent rights.

Of the 15 bills filed in Connecticut (2), Iowa, Minnesota (2), New Jersey, New York, Ohio (3), Oklahoma, Texas (2) and Utah (2) that attempted to restrict vaccine exemptions, only one bill in Utah passed (HB 308). Utah parents now must obtain a vaccine exemption form after completing an online educational module or having in an “inperson consultation” with a health official or other designated person at a local health department office, where parents can be charged up to $25 to do that.

In Mississippi and Texas, there were proposed bills to expand the types of medical workers who could sign a medical vaccine exemption, but they did not pass.

Many more bills in 2017 were filed that tried to mandate the public disclosure of vaccine exemption rates for individual schools. This type of law serves to publicly shame schools with higher student vaccine exemption rates and creates a climate of fear and stigmatization of children attending school with vaccine exemptions.

There were bills attempting to do this filed in Arizona, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Texas (4) and Virginia. NVIC opposed every one of these bills and we are happy to say NONE of them passed.

This was the second session in a row that a legislator in Texas was unsuccessful in passing this type of legislation and users of the NVIC Advocacy Portal fought hard to stop it from passing. There was a lot of media attention generated by pro-forced vaccination groups in advance of the 2017 legislative session in Texas to try to sway public opinion and persuade the legislature to pass coercive vaccine bills, but those efforts failed.

There were six bills filed in the states of Minnesota (4), New York and Texas that attempted to remove vaccine informed consent rights from parents and delegate them to the minor children themselves. Fortunately, NONE of these bills passed. However, Washington State did pass a bill (HB 1641) that allows school nurses to give consent to vaccinating children whose families are homeless.

Being “homeless” does not mean children don’t have parents who care for them and are legally responsible for their welfare. School nurses should not be given the power to vaccinate children for whom they are not legal guardians. NVIC is urging families in Washington State to contact legislators to repeal this law, which sets a bad precedent and threatens parental informed consent rights.

A new category of legislation that emerged in 2017: Six bills were filed in Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, Oregon and Washington that highlighted the urgent need to rein in overzealous government agencies where officials are appropriating authority they do not have by ignoring current statutes and adding erroneous restrictions and forms to vaccine exemptions.

Although none of the six bills passed that would have expressly limited state agency actions where government officials are overstepping their authority, the efforts still yielded wins in two states: Colorado and Oregon. In Colorado, a bill (SB 250) proposed to clarify that parents can submit a signed letter requesting a religious or philosophical exemption to vaccination for children to attend school and parents are not required to fill out a state health department form.

This bill was filed because the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) and schools were telling parents they must use the CDPHE forms, even though Colorado State Law 25-4-903(2)(b) has been in force since 1978 allowing parents or legal guardians to submit to schools a signed statement requesting a vaccine exemption on behalf of a minor child.

While the bill did not pass, the parents’ right to submit a vaccine exemption statement to the school was publicly affirmed in a joint letter signed by the departments of health and education.33

Oregon SB 687 proposed to clarify that the definition of parental child abuse does not include delaying or declining vaccination for a child. While the bill did not pass, the Oregon Department of Human Services issued a memo, which states that not vaccinating a child by itself does not constitute medical neglect. It is likely there will be more clarification bills filed in the future as more families and legislators grow frustrated with state agencies that don’t follow the law.34

Texas made strides in 2017 in creating legislation to protect parents, whose children have not received all federally recommended and state mandated vaccines, from overreach by Child Protective Services (CPS) and the courts. Already armed with protective language passed in a 2003 bill, which amended the government code with “Prohibition on Punitive Action for Failure to Immunize,” the passage of Texas HB 7 in 2017 took this protection to an even higher level.

HB 7 provided for a sweeping revamping of the CPS system and was amended to include protective language for parents filing a conscientious/religious vaccine exemption for their children. Sections 10 and 11 of the bill prohibit a court from ordering the termination of parental rights, and sections 17 and 18 prohibit the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from taking possession of a child based on a parent “declining immunization for a child for reasons of conscience including a religious belief.”

Threatening language also was removed from Texas HB 1549 that targeted innocent parents, who CPS officials believe are “at risk” of committing child abuse or neglect at some point in the future.

The original bill contained no qualification that families would have to already be under investigation for child abuse or neglect to be labeled “at risk” of becoming child abusers. Rather, the bill would have allowed CPS officials to visit the home of any family they believed displayed “risk factors” and CPS could schedule monthly visits to that family’s home.

Under the bill’s original language, a “risk factor” could be anything that CPS believed would make a child susceptible to abuse or neglect. NVIC sent an action alert to oppose the bill. We are grateful to all the organizations that worked together in Texas to remove offensive language from the bill that could have led to labeling parents who do not vaccinate their children as potential child abusers.

Seventeen bills in Hawaii, Iowa, Mississippi (4), New Jersey, New York (3), Rhode Island (3), Tennessee, and West Virginia (3) were filed to expand vaccine exemptions and bills filed in Minnesota, Oklahoma (4), Oregon (3), Texas (2) and Washington State proposed to expand vaccine informed consent rights. Two bills in Mississippi and Texas were filed to expand which type of medical workers can sign medical exemptions, plus Texas had a bill to prohibit doctors from refusing to provide medical care to patients for declining vaccinations.

While none of these proactive bills passed, they advanced education efforts in the legislature about vaccine exemption and informed consent issues affecting families, which ultimately helped stop some of the bad vaccine-related bills from passing.

Vaccine Mandates (35 bills)

Twenty-five bills were filed across 11 states to add new vaccine mandates, including in Connecticut (2), Illinois, Indiana (3), Kansas, Kentucky, Maine (2), Missouri, New Jersey (5), New York (5), Tennessee (2) and Virginia (2). The majority of these bills attempted to require influenza, meningococcal or HPV vaccines for either health care workers or children attending school.

NVIC opposed all of these bills and the only two that passed were Indiana HB 1069, which mandated meningococcal vaccinations for college students, and Tennessee SB 393, which required college boards and the Department of Health to adopt vaccine requirement rules.

No elementary or secondary school mandates were passed by any state legislature. However, there has been an increasing trend for legislatures to allow public health officials in state health departments to add school vaccine mandates by using the administrative rule making process that bypasses the legislative process, which effectively reduces active public participation and scrutiny of these policies.

NVIC tracked four bills that proposed to protect employees from vaccine mandates as a condition of employment: one in Mississippi, one in Ohio and two in Oregon. While the bills in Mississippi and Oregon died, in Ohio a bill (HB 193), which provides protections for employees who refuse an annual flu shot, is still moving. The bill passed out of the Economic Development, Commerce and Labor Committee and, as long as it is alive, Ohio residents should continue to monitor and urge legislators to support this bill.

There were five proactive bills filed in Mississippi, New Hampshire (2), New Jersey and Rhode Island to restrict vaccine mandates. Four of the five bills restricted hepatitis B vaccine mandates. The only one of these bills to pass was in New Hampshire (HB 362), where there is now a prohibition on school vaccine mandates for diseases that are not transferred from person to person in a public setting.

This bill went into effect on August 15, 2017. That victory came after dedicated education efforts in the legislature by NVIC’s volunteer New Hampshire state advocacy director and Advocacy Portal users in the state.

Vaccine Tracking and Reporting (28 bills)

The largest group of bills under the category of vaccine tracking and reporting were 17 bills in 12 states that proposed to expand electronic vaccine tracking systems: Arkansas, California, Connecticut (3), Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York (2), Ohio and Utah. The only two bills that passed were Arkansas SB 301 and Indiana SB 51.

The next largest category was vaccine tracking bills that were filed in Montana, Oregon, Texas (2) and Utah to remove opt-in informed consent to vaccine records tracking so the vaccination status of individuals can be tracked without their knowledge or consent by state health officials. Fortunately, none of these bills passed.

Maryland HB 1481 proposed to not only require all primary health care providers to push federally recommended vaccines for adolescents, such as hepatitis B and HPV vaccines, it would have required the documentation of parental refusal of vaccinations in the child’s permanent medical record. Fortunately, this bill stalled and failed to move out of committee.

A good bill in Massachusetts (H 1179) proposed to give individuals a way to avoid automatic inclusion in the state’s electronic vaccine tracking system without consent, but the bill did not pass. A bill in Vermont (H 247), which requires the state health department file vaccine adverse reaction reports to the General Assembly, is still active for the upcoming 2018 session. If you live in Vermont, you can encourage your legislators to support H 247.

Vaccine Promotion (47 bills)

Vaccine advertising, promotion and marketing should not be funded by taxpayers and, yet, there were bills filed in 10 states, including Alabama, Florida (3), Georgia, Illinois (2), Louisiana (2), Maryland, Nebraska, Oregon, Tennessee (2) and Texas (3) to require the promotion of vaccine use by schools, medical facilities and places of employment.

Schools should not be legally compelled to promote vaccinations. Yet, bills in Alabama (HB 381), Georgia (HB 198) and Tennessee (HB 388 and SB 598) all passed and require schools to provide information on influenza and flu shots to children and their parents. A bill in Nebraska (LB 267), which also passed, requires nursing facilities to offer employees and residents influenza vaccines.

There were bills filed in 11 states proposing to authorize pharmacists to administer more vaccines, including in California, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland (2), Maine (2), Montana, New York (3) South Dakota and Texas. Four of these bills passed and some of the bills broaden the ages of individuals who can be given vaccines, while others broaden the types of vaccines that can be given.

Hawaii (SB 514) passed a bill allowing pharmacists to administer HPV and other vaccines to children that became effective July 3, 2017. Indiana (SB 51) added new vaccines that pharmacists can administer under standing orders, effective July 1, 2017. Kansas (HB 2030) now allows pharmacists to administer a vaccine to children as young as 12 years old and this went into effect on July 1, 2017.

Finally, Montana passed HB 177, which allows pharmacists to give pneumococcal vaccines to everyone and this law went into effect March 1, 2017. California passed a bill (AB 443) that allows optometrists to give vaccines, effective Oct. 7, 2017.

There were nine bills in six states proposing to expand vaccine and public health programs, including in Florida (3), Georgia, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Washington (2), and two of these bills passed. While two bills in Florida to promote vaccination of pregnant women died, there is a new bill (HB 41) that has already been pre-filed for the 2018 legislative session. This bill makes influenza and tetanus vaccines (most tetanus containing shots also contain diphtheria and pertussis vaccines) part of pregnancy wellness programs.

NVIC will continue to oppose this bill and encourage Florida residents to contact their legislators and share with them the results of a new study signaling an association between influenza vaccine and miscarriage.35 There were also three bills, all filed in Missouri, which proposed to limit certain ingredients in vaccines, but none of them passed.

Government Agencies Abusing the Rule Making Process to Circumvent Legislators

As citizens in many states have become more effective informed consent advocates and are successfully blocking coercive vaccine legislation, officials in government agencies are increasingly attempting to use and stretch the administrative rule making process, which avoids legislation, to try to get away with putting restrictions on or adding more requirements to the vaccine exemption process.

Citizens have little recourse when administrative rules are adopted by government agencies that increase restrictions or add extra requirements not set forth in law because, unlike elected legislators, voters cannot hold unelected government employees accountable at the polls. In the 2015 to 2017 time frame, NVIC issued action alerts to oppose proposed administrative rules in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Vermont that affect vaccine exemptions and, in New Hampshire, we urged opposition to a vaccine tracking system proposed rule.

A local health department in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, tried to mandate HPV vaccines for school children, which is yet another example of government overreach that was fortunately stopped. These administrative rules issued by government officials all had one thing in common: They went beyond the authority given to government employees in the state laws they were supposed to responsibly implement.

For example, the Illinois Department of Public Health adopted administrative rules that went into effect on February 27, 2017 related to the passage of SB 1410 by the legislature in 2015. SB 1410 required the signature of a medical professional that verified the parent was given vaccine education, as well as required new religious vaccine exemption forms to be filled out by parents of children entering kindergarten, sixth and ninth grades.

The final rule that was adopted by the health department went beyond the scope of what was authorized in the bill, requiring ALL children in day care, nursery schools, pre-K, special education and entering other grades to file new religious exemption forms. The health department rule also failed to implement a section of the bill clarifying that state designated medical workers giving vaccines may write a medical exemption for a child without restrictions.

In 2017, NVIC issued an alert in Kentucky opposing a proposed rule by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to restrict vaccine exemptions by requiring the use of a state issued form that would require additional parent education and a notary signature.

An increasing number of public health officials working in state health departments are growing bolder by taking action outside the scope of the laws for which they write rules. It is very important to hold public health officials accountable with legislators who control their funding, and call them out for going beyond their authority when it comes to promoting and enforcing vaccination.

Parents should be very cautious about signing government forms that contain statements about diseases and vaccines that they do not agree with, especially if coercion is involved, which is called “compelled speech” and is unconstitutional. Make sure that the forms you sign are legally required and do not include additional information requests or attestations that are not required in state or federal law.

Informed consent advocates in every state, who want to expand or protect vaccine exemptions, should actively monitor proposed rulemaking notices published in their state by health agencies and respond with written or oral public comment, as allowed, as well as contact legislators and express concerns.

Taking action will help stop government officials from abusing rule making authority for the purpose of coercing individuals into using all federally recommended and state-mandated vaccines rather than respecting informed consent rights. Links are posted to state proposed rulemaking on each state vaccine law page at NVIC.org to assist the public in providing oversight on and holding government agencies accountable for legally administrating the rule making process.

What Can You Do?

NVIC expects many more vaccine-related bills to be filed in the states in 2018, so please become a registered user of the NVIC Advocacy Portal and check in often to learn about ways to educate legislators when vaccine bills moving in your state, and encourage all of your friends and family to do the same.

Clearly your efforts are making a much more significant difference than the media and those pushing “no exceptions” forced vaccination policies and laws are willing to admit, and your participation is vital to protecting informed consent and vaccine choices in America.

Also, if you see inaccurate information in the media, take the time to respond by a making a comment online. You can also email the journalist or media outlet and provide accurate, well referenced vaccine information, which you can find on the “Ask 8 Vaccine Information Kiosk” on NVIC.org.

NVIC’s updated 2017 illustrated and fully referenced Guide to Reforming Vaccine Policy and Law is a good vaccine education tool for legislators and friends and family, too. NOTE: Every bill discussed in this report is linked on the NVIC Advocacy Portal.

Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Defend Vaccine Exemptions

With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines, it’s critical to protect your right to make independent health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination. It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in state public health and employment laws. The best way to do this is to get personally involved with your state legislators and educating the leaders in your community.

THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY.

National vaccine policy recommendations are made at the federal level but vaccine laws are made at the state level. It is at the state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights can have the greatest impact.

It is critical for EVERYONE to get involved now in standing up for the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices in America because those choices are being threatened by lobbyists representing drug companies, medical trade associations, and public health officials, who are trying to persuade legislators to strip all vaccine exemptions from public health laws.

Signing up for NVIC’s free Advocacy Portal at www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate, easy access to your own state legislators on your smart phone or computer so you can make your voice heard. You will be kept up-to-date on the latest state bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and get practical, useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your own community.

Also, when national vaccine issues come up, you will have the up-to-date information and call to action items you need at your fingertips. So please, as your first step, sign up for the NVIC Advocacy Portal.

Share Your Story With the Media and People You Know

If you or a family member has suffered a serious vaccine reaction, injury, or death, please talk about it. If we don’t share information and experiences with one another, everybody feels alone and afraid to speak up. Write a letter to the editor if you have a different perspective on a vaccine story that appears in your local newspaper. Make a call in to a radio talk show that is only presenting one side of the vaccine story.

I must be frank with you; you have to be brave because you might be strongly criticized for daring to talk about the “other side” of the vaccine story. Be prepared for it and have the courage to not back down. Only by sharing our perspective and what we know to be true about vaccination, will the public conversation about vaccination open up so people are not afraid to talk about it.

We cannot allow the drug companies and medical trade associations funded by drug companies or public health officials promoting forced use of a growing list of vaccines to dominate the conversation about vaccination.

The vaccine injured cannot be swept under the carpet and treated like nothing more than “statistically acceptable collateral damage” of national one-size-fits-all mandatory vaccination policies that put way too many people at risk for injury and death. We shouldn’t be treating people like guinea pigs instead of human beings.

Internet Resources Where You Can Learn More

I encourage you to visit the website of the non-profit charity, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), at www.NVIC.org:

NVIC Memorial for Vaccine Victims: View descriptions and photos of children and adults, who have suffered vaccine reactions, injuries, and deaths. If you or your child experiences an adverse vaccine event, please consider posting and sharing your story here.

If You Vaccinate, Ask 8 Questions: Learn how to recognize vaccine reaction symptoms and prevent vaccine injuries.

Vaccine Freedom Wall: View or post descriptions of harassment and sanctions by doctors, employers, and school and health officials for making independent vaccine choices.

Vaccine Failure Wall: View or post descriptions about vaccines that have failed to work and protect the vaccinated from disease.

Connect With Your Doctor or Find a New One That Will Listen and Care

If your pediatrician or doctor refuses to provide medical care to you or your child unless you agree to get vaccines you don’t want, I strongly encourage you to have the courage to find another doctor. Harassment, intimidation, and refusal of medical care is becoming the modus operandi of the medical establishment in an effort to stop the change in attitude of many parents about vaccinations after they become truly educated about health and vaccination. However, there is hope.

At least 15 percent of young doctors recently polled admit that they’re starting to adopt a more individualized approach to vaccinations in direct response to the vaccine safety concerns of parents.

It is good news that there is a growing number of smart young doctors, who prefer to work as partners with parents in making personalized vaccine decisions for children, including delaying vaccinations or giving children fewer vaccines on the same day or continuing to provide medical care for those families, who decline use of one or more vaccines.

So take the time to locate a doctor, who treats you with compassion and respect, and is willing to work with you to do what is right for your child.

#Flu vaccine #Vaccine Legislation

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TRUMP TO VISIT U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS + Schools expected to be back in session on Oct. 9

PRESIDENT TRUMP TO VISIT U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS

Schools expected to be back in session in St. Thomas/St. John

on Monday, October 9

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS – President of the United States Donald J. Trump will visit the U.S. Virgin Islands, Governor Kenneth E. Mapp confirmed at his daily media briefing on Wednesday.

Governor Mapp indicated that while full details of the visit are unavailable at the moment, the White House, the advance team along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Government of the Virgin Islands were working out the logistics surrounding the President’s arrival.

At a meeting with senior officials on Hurricane Maria on Wednesday, the President stressed that his top priorities are life-saving and life-sustaining efforts in the affected areas. He emphasized the need to remain steadfast in supporting the ongoing response and recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and made it clear that there is no such thing as over-responding, and that he expects all elements of the Federal Government to plan for long-term support to the Governors of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

He praised the leadership provided by the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, and Governors Ricardo Rosselló of Puerto Rico and Governor Mapp before, during, and after the impact of the recent storms; and extended his thoughts and prayers to those affected, thanking all the first responders who are dedicating their time and efforts to their fellow Americans.

“We will continue to work to make sure the President has a good, warm Virgin Islands welcome and that he is able to see all of the issues that are affecting the people of the Territory with respect to Hurricane(s) Irma and Maria,” Governor Mapp remarked.

President Trump recently amended the U.S. Virgin Islands Disaster Declaration to authorize an increase in federal funding for debris removal and emergency protective measures in the Territory. He increased cost sharing to 100 percent Federal cost share for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance, for 180 days from the start of the incident period.

Meanwhile, Governor Mapp announced school is expected to be back in session in the St. Thomas/St. John district on Monday, October 9.

Commissioner of Education Dr. Sharon McCollum, who joined Governor Mapp along with other officials at Wednesday’s news conference, reported that Addelita Cancryn Junior High School and Emanuel Benjamin Oliver Elementary School on St. Thomas have been condemned due to damages from the hurricanes. With the children’s safety and continued learning being priorities, split sessions in the morning and afternoon will be offered at functioning schools to accommodate all students in the St. Thomas/St. John district. Grade 12 students across the Territory will be given priority as the Department does not want their senior year to be significantly impacted. To that end, there will be a meeting for all senior students in the St. Thomas/St. John district on Friday, September 29, at 11 a.m. at the Charlotte Amalie Auditorium. A similar meeting is expected to be held for seniors on St. Croix.

“We may be speaking soon about school resumption for St. Croix,” Governor Mapp said. “We continue to make assessments … but I want parents and students in St. Croix to know that we haven’t forgotten you,” Governor Mapp said.

The Department of Education will be relaxing the uniform requirement, Commissioner McCollum said, to accommodate students who don’t have uniforms. Those who have them, however, should wear them, she said. All Department of Education personnel across the Territory should report to work within one hour of the lifting of the curfew on Thursday, September 28.

As the hurricane recovery process continues, all adjusters traveling to the Territory to assess insurance claims will be vetted by the Government and issued official IDs stamped by the Lieutenant Governor’s Office. Governor Mapp implored residents to exercise caution when interacting with anyone who asks to inspect their property.

“Folks who know how to prey upon people will use the opportunity to do that,” Governor Mapp cautioned. He advised residents to ask for the adjuster’s credentials and government ID and take a photo of both the person and his/her identification. “If they say, ‘Well I left it (government ID) at the office’ or ‘I don’t have it with me’, you bid them adieu. Rely on your common sense and your intellect,” the Governor added.

The Governor offered assurances that there is a sufficient supply of fuel in the Territory. Currently there are nearly 21 million barrels of fuel in the U.S. Virgin Islands, including four million barrels of diesel fuel. Individuals needing fuel are asked to be patient and understand that there may be delays in fuel delivery due to the increased demand at this time. The Governor added that the Government of the Virgin Islands has no authority under the law to instruct fuel retailers which customers to service.

Governor Mapp announced that all postal maintenance employees on St. Croix must report to the Kingshill Post Office on Thursday, September 28.

The curfew remains in effect across the Territory. On St. Croix, it is from 6 p.m. to 11 a.m.; and on St. John, St. Thomas and Water Island, from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m.

Anyone experiencing psychological distress as a result of the hurricanes can call the Disaster Distress Helpline at 1-800-985-5990 (press 2 for Spanish). The helpline provides free, confidential and multilingual counseling and crisis support. The helpline can also be reached via SMS by texting talkwithus (for English) or hablanos (for Spanish) to 1-212-461-4635.

Residents can register for disaster assistance by calling 1-800-621-3362 or visiting www.disasterassistance.gov.

The official website to donate to the U.S. Virgin Islands recovery effort is usvirecovery.org.

#Donald J. Trump #school #us virgin islands

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Upcoming Health and Medicine Conferences in 2017

If you are engaged in the profession of clinical medicine and health care, or earlier were a part of any medical field at some point in your career then it is of great benefit to attend Medical and Health Care conferences. If you participate in this type of conference then it can help in your near future for any advancement that can help you out to make the most of your experience in this medical field. If you haven’t be a part of any medical event or attended one in your life so far, you may have encountered many questions, or wonder which event might help you in that case and how to take the initiative? What types of medical conferences actually take place and so on? Well, to all your doubts here is a good option for you. We have jotted and listed down below. Check out which field is convenient and serves you with your search criteria.

Benefits: Among one of the significant benefits of medical conferences area vast opportunity in networking. It is a place where you not only get to know the latest perspective and creations in the field of medical science by different expert speakers, but you also have a great advantage to meet with them in a one-to-one basis and have interactions.

For any physician it is vital to keep themselves updated with the latest trends in medical field and in their branch of speciality. These conferences open door on such platforms. Medicine is developing everyday and thus conference provides ways where you can keep up with the latest happenings and new studies on medical stuff.

List of Upcoming Medical Conferences:

· Aug 31st-1st September - 5th International Conference on Medical Informatics & Tele Medicine, 2017: The venue of this conference is at Czech Republic, Prague. The theme of this medical conference will be the intersection of both technology and health care for improving the life of the patients. Renowned expert speakers are going to be a part of this conference.

· Sept 7-9. 2017 - World Congress on Patient Safety & Health Care: This conference is going to take place London, UK in the hotel of Radisson Blue Edwardian Heathrow. The conference will be throwing light on the consolidating knowledge to improve quality care & patient safety. Speech by different expert speakers is going to be on malpractices in health care and medicine and how to act against it for betterment of the patients.

· Sept 7-8 - 2nd International Conference on Environmental Health & Global Climate Change, 2017: It will be held in France, Paris. Key speech of this conference will be on to spread responsibilities and awareness regarding global changes in the climate of health care. Eminent speakers will be a part of this conference speaking on environmental medical stuff and how they modulate the rate of ageing.

· 21st July - FASEB SRC: Glucose Transport- Gateway to Metabolic Systems Biology, 2017: The Conference will take place at Colorado, Snowmass Village, United States. Key speech on this conference will be on the neuroendocrine of liver metabolism, metabolism, and metabolism of skeletal muscle in disease and health. It will focus on areas about the challenges that biological and pharmaceutical industries go through. Topics on this conference will e on nutrition, physiology, metabolomics, and endocrinology.

· 27th- 29th July - 3rd International Conference on Public Health, 2017: The conference will be in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. The main discussions will be on the areas of public health, medicine, health, medical science, psychology, Environmental Health, Family Planning, and Mental Health. It will be a three days conference and the theme will be “Strengthening of The Public Health Infrastructure towards Healthy Communities”.

· Sept 11-12, 2017 - 3rd International Conference on Wound Care, Tissue Repair & Regenerative Medicine: This conference will be held in Texas, Dallas, USA. It will be on the latest techniques of wound healing for the cure and the betterment of the wounded patients. Discounts on registration are available here. Renowned speakers will be a part of this conference.

· Sept 18-19. 2017 - 4th International Conference on Bio Medical and Health informatics: The 4th International Conference on Bio Medical & Health Informatics will be held USA, Philadelphia. This event is on improving the outcomes of patients’ health through “NEXTGEN” health innovations. Meet with the experts and inspiring speakers on this conference. It is an initiative step taken for taken for HIT or “Health Initiative Technology’’ for improving health care.

· Sept 25-26: 2nd World Congress on Medical Sociology and Community Health: Georgia, Atlanta, USA, will be the place for this event. Theme of this conference will be to improve community healthcare delivery systems and healthcare by integrating social science approaches and medical together. Key speech will be on HIV Risk among MSM, different aspects of new health occupations, etc.

· Oct 5-6, 2017 - 3rd International Conference on Sports Medicine & Fitness: The conference will take in Barcelona, Spain. The main motto of this conference is to enhance ones health with sports and fitness. It will be organized by one of the leading organizers in the sphere of conferences.

· Oct 9-11, Champalimaud Research Symposium, 2017: Physiology – From Development to Disease: This will be held in Portugal, Lisbon. The conference will have talks and meetings on modern physiology in ageing, development, immunity, and cancer, etc. researches with the disease oriented research. A team of 14 speakers will be invited to have medical conversations and discussions.

These are the few upcoming health and medicine conferences. Go through them to know the date and venue and also on what area the conferences will be focusing. Get the most of such conferences by attending them.

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ian-t-sebas · 8 years ago

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Border Control - How Much Do They Know?

September 11, 2001 made us realize the continuation of an existing treachery among men, unspoken, but relentless threats to our daily lives and that every single human being on this planet, could be a suspect of deception at any given time, especially when crossing borders.

As a result, Countries all around the world heightened their border securities by enhancing the numbers of security personnel and applied new methods to secure infrastructures; such implementations are without contest, bear logic and give travelers and worldwide citizens a sense of safety.

Before 9/11, people traveled from one country to another, legally and illegally, and Border Patrols were most vigilant for fraudulent documents; passports and visas were the main two documents which underwent intense scrutiny, separating genuine from counterfeit.

Back then, legal and illegal migration held one main purpose, especially to the west; people were trying to cross borders for a better opportunity of life, mainly employment.

After 9/11, illegal migration began to wear a face, suspected of terrorism and only terrorism; thus, security methods went into a frenzy. Security immediately went to being a psychologically studied subject, avoidance results were being certified by so-called professors of security studies and trainings intensified in creating qualified trainers for security officers.

Aided by new technologies, national passports routinely changed without citizens being notified beforehand, some became machine readable, some adapted to a chipped, navigational system and some with computerized authentications embedded within their pages; the sophistication of travel documents has surpassed its imaginable plateau and one would think that borders are now fairly safe and that fake travel documents are 99% detectable instantaneously.

I am a non-European, who has been legally residing in Europe, consistently, for the past nine years. I currently reside in Switzerland, holding an “Ausweis B EU/EFTA (Aufenthaltsbewilligung)”.

An Ausweis B EU/EFTA (Aufenthaltsbewilligung), in Europe, is the equivalent of the infamous Green Card in the United States of America and the immigration rules surrounding the Ausweis B EU/EFTA (Aufenthaltsbewilligung) are similar to the rules of the Green Card in the USA.

An Ausweis B EU/EFTA (Aufenthaltsbewilligung) allows the holder to legally reside and work in Switzerland and or the state where it was issued and by extension, this documents allows the holder to freely and legally move within all Countries under EU (European Union) and EFTA (European Free Trade Association).

Unlike the green card, this document is a simple two-page booklet, with a photograph on one side and official immigration information on the other side; this document is of paper-like material bearing the holder’s signature, an official stamp from the immigration authority and is encased in a plastic folder. Like the green card, this document is expected to be embedded, if not in all border security databases of the world, at least in all European Border Control systems.

However; this does not seem to be the case, which was proven by my most recent travel.

Despite the increase numbers of security personnel, including immigration officers and airport police, knowledge varied to recognize my Ausweis B EU/EFTA (Aufenthaltsbewilligung).

I recently travelled to Mexico from Zurich via Frankfurt and while entering Germany on my outbound route, the immigration officer at the passport control desk, recognized and approved my document with five seconds and I went on my way.

Exiting Mexico to return home, I encountered a delay, which told me an entire story about the Mexican Immigration System. The Mexicans have become quite complacent with the foreigners, who visit their land and their database has adapted to these foreigners, which are mostly US Nationals, Canadians, British and other national from the Americas.

Any diversion in this flow will creates an immediate confusion; thus, mine did.

Considering that my encountered passport control officer, in Mexico, appeared to be no older than twenty-two years old, I was patient even though I was wondering about her training. After not recognizing my document which accompanied my passport, she conferred her lack of knowledge with her supervisor, who was apparently the same age as her and also did not have the slightest clue to the authenticity of my travel document.

After running around for a while, a verification was somehow made, an apology for the delay was given to me and I was on my way; I was not annoyed, strangely, maybe because I was way too early for my flight or the fact that I narrowed it down to a complacent, Mexican system.

After flying for ten hours, I landed back in Frankfurt and could not wait to catch my connecting flight to Zurich, but my anticipation of a smooth transition hit a bump, when the immigration officer in Frankfurt, Germany, did not recognized my Ausweis B EU/EFTA (Aufenthaltsbewilligung).

After taking it from its case and having difficulty putting it back, he seriously asked “Is it broken?”

As much as I wanted to laugh, I was shocked by his ignorance of the document, but immediately I realized that he had something in common with the two in Mexico; he was just as young.

After a few minutes and with the help from his colleagues, the authenticity of my document was again realized and with another apology for the delay, I was home-bound.

“Outward from Zurich via Frankfurt, the officer I encountered appeared to be older than all three officers whom I encountered on my return journey and this clearly showed that the younger they were, the less they knew.”

The most recent recession has clearly buckled the knees of the world’s economy, resulting in the shortage of cash flow, forcing us to be fiscally creative by doing more with less and although that might be appreciated when applied to some sectors, the sector of border security should not be cheapened; such corner-cutting poses a transparent and deep threat to our livelihood.

Border security officers should be and must be fully trained and possess the ability to recognize a genuine travel document when it is presented, despite its country of origin.

“An acknowledged exercise of expertise, in any profession, offers a silent sense of security equally to a lack of knowledge which concedes insecurity to its clients.” – Ian T. Sebàs

#immigration #passport #airport #mexico #frankfurt #police #passport control #green card #europe #europeanunion #efta #illegal immigrants #visa

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sherristockman · 8 years ago

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Monsanto’s Roundup Must Carry Cancer Warning Label, Judge Decrees Dr. Mercola By Dr. Mercola In March, 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), reclassified glyphosate as a "probable carcinogen" (Class 2A).1,2 The decision was based on "limited evidence" showing the weed killer can cause non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and lung cancer in humans, along with "convincing evidence" linking it to cancer in animals. The IARC is considered the global gold standard for carcinogenicity studies, so its determination was of considerable importance. It's also one of the five research agencies from which the OEHHA — the California agency of environmental hazards — gets its reports to declare carcinogens under Prop 65. Monsanto has vigorously pursued a retraction of the IARC's damning report,3 to prevent California from pursuing a cancer warning on Roundup and other, newer weed killers in the pipeline, designed for use on the company's latest genetically engineered (GE) crops. Monsanto Forced to Put Cancer Warning on Roundup Their efforts have so far failed, and Fresno County Superior Court Judge Kristi Kapetan recently struck another nail in the company's coffin, striking down Monsanto's attempt to overturn California's 2015 ruling to require Prop 65 warnings on glyphosate.4,5,6 While Kapetan has yet to issue a formal decision on the matter, Monsanto says it will challenge the ruling, if upheld. As reported by LA Progressive:7 "California would be the first state to order this level of labeling if this decision by the California Carcinogen Identification Committee is sustained by further court action. Monsanto previously sued the nation's foremost agricultural producing state by filing court motions to the effect that California's carcinogen committee … had illegally based their decision for mandatorily requiring the warnings on "erroneous" findings by an international health organization … Trenton Norris, Monsanto's lawyer, argued in court Friday that the labels would result in irreparable and immediate negative fiscal effect for Monsanto, because millions of consumers [would] stop buying Roundup because of the labels." Roundup isn't the only weed killer that would have to bear the Prop 65 warning label. Glyphosate is also found in OrthoGroundclear, KleenUp, Aquamaster, Sharpshooter, StartUp ,Touchdown, Total Traxion, Vector and Vantage Plus Max II and others. Cancer Warning Likely Boon to Cancer Patients Suing Monsanto A Prop 65 cancer warning on Roundup would likely benefit those suing Monsanto claiming the weed killer caused or contributed to their or a loved one's cancer. There are currently at least three dozen such cases pending. As noted by LA Progressive:8 "Jack McCall was an avocado and apple farmer with only 20 acres and he carried around a backpack with Roundup for 30 years, and then died of cancer in 2015. His widow, Terri, strongly believes that any kind of warning about carcinogenicity would have prevented his entirely avoidable death. 'I just don't think my husband would have taken that risk if he had known,' she stated." Following the court hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer, gave a press conference, saying:9 "This [Prop 65] listing is not going to put [Monsanto] out of business. It's just going to warn people before they use their product that this product might cause cancer, and you better limit your use to protect yourself and to protect your families. It's called a precautionary principle. Who wouldn't want to know that? Why does this company not want these farm workers to know that this chemical may endanger them and may endanger their families? Why did [Monsanto] hire these great lawyers to come here to shut California up and to stop California from protecting these people?" Advisory Panel Questions EPA's Decision on Glyphosate Part of Monsanto's defense of glyphosate hinges on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision that the chemical is "not likely to be carcinogenic" to humans, issued on September 12, 2016.10 However, following strong criticism, the agency convened a scientific advisory panel to re-analyze the scientific evidence and evaluate the strength of the EPA's decision. Subsequently, a four-day-long panel meeting was held in December, 2016. As reported by Carey Gillam, a journalist and research director for the non-profit consumer rights group, U.S. Right to Know (US RTK):11 "[W]hile the EPA may have hoped for resounding support from the scientific advisory panel (SAP) it assembled, from the outset of the meetings … concerns were raised by some of the experts about the quality of the EPA's analysis. Some scientists were concerned that the EPA was violating its own guidelines in discounting data from various studies that show positive associations between glyphosate and cancer. Several of the SAP members questioned why the EPA excluded some data that showed statistical significance, and wrote off some of the positive findings to mere chance … The EPA looked at both published studies as well as unpublished studies conducted by industry players like Monsanto … The IARC review focused on published, peer-reviewed research." Industry Group Meddled With Scientific Panel Picks In addition to the scientific review, pointed questions were also raised about the chemical industry's influence over regulators. As a general rule, peer-reviewed, published research, especially by independent scientists, tend to carry more merit than unpublished industry research. In this case, CropLife America, which represents Monsanto and other agribusinesses, actually demanded the EPA remove nationally recognized epidemiologist Peter Infante, Ph.D., from the scientific advisory panel, claiming he was incapable of impartiality because he would give more weight to independent research than industry studies. The EPA complied, booting Infante off the panel. He still made an appearance at the meeting though, and in his testimony, Infante urged the advisory panel not to ignore "impressive evidence" linking glyphosate to non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Beware of the Latest Front Group Promoting Chemical Industry's Agenda CropLife America certainly isn't the only industry group fighting for Monsanto's right to poison the unaware. In January, a group called Campaign for Accuracy in Public Health Research12 (CAPHR) was formed, but contrary to its stated mission, this industry front group is pushing an agenda that has absolutely nothing to do with promoting "credible, unbiased and transparent science as the basis of public policy decisions." The group was formed by the American Chemistry Council, whose members include Monsanto, and as noted by Gillam with US RTK, CAPHR's "express purpose is to discredit the IARC,"13 which notably consists of independent scientists from around the world. More to the point, CAPHR clearly states it "will seek reform" of the IARC Monographs Program, which evaluates and determines the carcinogenicity of chemicals. "Monsanto and friends have been harassing IARC … through a series of demands, threats and legal maneuvers, including lobbying the U.S. House of Representatives to cut funding for IARC," Gillam writes. "The new campaign takes the assault further. On the group's new twitter account … CAPHR has posted a string of insults against IARC scientists, accusing the experts from prestigious institutions around the world of "making sensational claims," drawing conclusions "that can't be trusted" and using "questionable methodologies." If CAPHR is to be believed, the public, lawmakers and regulators should not trust the epidemiology experts, toxicologists and other scientists who made up the IARC working group, which was led by an award-winning cancer expert from the National Cancer Institute. No, they should look for unbiased information about the safety of the industry's billion-dollar baby from the industry itself. The chemical industry campaigners insist that the people making money off chemical sales are more trustworthy than scientists who have made a career studying causes of cancer. The rationale for the campaign is clear: It's not about protecting public health, it's about protecting corporate profits." Why Monsanto Fights to Avoid Skull and Crossbones Label Needless to say, Monsanto and other chemical technology companies stand to lose a whole lot more than commercial weed killer sales should Kapetan uphold her ruling to allow California to proceed with a cancer warning on glyphosate products, and that's why the corporate spin machine is in overdrive. A range of new genetically engineered (GE) plants have been made to withstand a combination of glyphosate and other chemicals such as 2,4-D or dicamba. If glyphosate products must carry a cancer warning, all that food becomes suspect as well, since the chemical cannot be washed off. Hypothetically, California could even require food made with GE ingredients to carry a Prop 65 warning. It's unlikely it would go that far, but even if it didn't, people might put two-and-two together in their own minds. The problem is they would have to establish a safe level for an endocrine disruptor, which cannot be done, since there is no safe level. So, if and how this situation ends up being addressed will be interesting to see. It might also scare off farmers, making them reconsider the benefits of growing GE crops if they have to use a carcinogenic weed killer. Worse, it would provide added ammunition for nations already considering more stringent measures against glyphosate-based products. European Commission leaders met in March, 2016, to vote on whether to renew a 15-year license for glyphosate, which was set to expire in June that year. The decision was tabled amid mounting opposition, as more than 180,000 Europeans signed a petition calling for glyphosate to be banned outright. Ultimately, more than 2 million signatures were collected against relicensing the chemical. In June, however, the European Commission granted an 18-month extension to glyphosate while they continue the review. A ruling is expected by the end of 2017. In the meantime, new restrictions were announced, including a ban on a co-formulant (tallowamine), increased scrutiny of pre-harvest uses of glyphosate and efforts to minimize its use in public parks and playgrounds. Unlike in the U.S., where glyphosate use is largely unrestricted, "seven EU states have extensive glyphosate prohibitions in place, two have restrictions and four countries have impending or potential bans," The Guardian reported.14 Monsanto Front Group Takes Flight on Twitter With Alternative Facts CAPHR wasted no time when it came to launching its "alternative facts" campaign. The day it was launched, the organization took to Twitter with a #glyphosateisvital campaign, proclaiming the weed killer is essential to "maintain the production of safe, affordable food." Anyone even remotely familiar with regenerative farming knows that simply isn't true. Ample amounts of food can be grown without glyphosate or any other chemicals for that matter, and that's no idle talk or theory. Regenerative farmers around the world have repeatedly proven they can meet and in many cases outperform conventional methods. Still, that doesn't sway proponents of chemical agriculture. On the contrary, the chemical ag industry seems hell-bent on destroying the field of science altogether by insisting the only science worth paying attention to is that which companies produce for their own products. "Embedded in the industry's truth-twisting tactics is the characterization of anyone who gives credence to scientific research showing problems with glyphosate, or the GMOs that go with it, as "anti-science." It's an effort to reverse reality and detract from the fact that it is industry backers, not industry critics, who deplore the findings of independent, peer-reviewed scientific research," Gillam writes.15 'The pesticide industry recognizes it's on the defensive,' said environmental lawyer Charlie Tebbutt. 'It's doing everything it can to transform reality.' As the post-truth Trump team looks set to dismantle environmental regulations and the protections they bring to the public, it's likely the chemical industry will only continue to elevate alternative facts. We all will need to work harder than ever to see through the spin."

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