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of an opportunistic nature...An article in The Guardian is bordering on the ridiculously Anthropomorphic… Gus counters with the concept that nature does not send messages. Some of nature's "elements" react to change in opportunistic manner or in other way such as extinction, with no "message" intended. We interpret what we observe after having dished our rubbish, in order to make sense of our senselessness and carelessness. -------------------------- Nature is sending us a message with the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis, according to the UN's environment chief, Inger Andersen. Andersen said humanity was placing too many pressures on the natural world with damaging consequences, and warned that failing to take care of the planet meant not taking care of ourselves. Leading scientists also said the Covid-19 outbreak was a "clear warning shot", given that far more deadly diseases existed in wildlife, and that today's civilisation was "playing with fire". They said it was almost always human behaviour that caused diseases to spill over into humans. To prevent further outbreaks, the experts said, both global heating and the destruction of the natural world for farming, mining and housing have to end, as both drive wildlife into contact with people. They also urged authorities to put an end to live animal markets – which they called an "ideal mixing bowl" for disease – and the illegal global animal trade. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/coronavirus-nature-is-send... ------------------- Gus: No message intended by nature, unless you read the fiction book by Robyn Williams, 2007, a true story waiting to happen. This excellent work, published 2001, deals with animals consciously revolting against humans — and using all kind of tricks, within their capabilities, to achieve their aim. The book tells of many anecdotes of animals, from monkeys and cattle to ants, decidedly distracting humans into changing their generally nefarious purpose… By the end of the book, as the captain of a whaling ship is about to capture a humpback, a flock of albatrosses "attacks" the ship and with all his visual and navigation instruments now useless, the captain abandons the chase… The whaling boat is decommissioned and refitted as a cruise ship. Her former captain becomes an ornithologist… Great sense of satire, here... Lovely. It's happening. Nature is like fame. it's often opportunistic. It finds a niche (in a very complex molecular adaptation to change) and fills it but unlike human delusive behaviour (we believe in godot, don't we?), in nature, distances are mostly respected. The new zoos tend to account for this habitat necessity, within limits of our "generosity" towards the animals. Nature is ad hoc. Humans have develop the great art of stylistic delusions, in which we mistake our existence as godly manipulations of stuff. Presently the Great Barrier reef is experiencing a major partial bleaching. The third one in five years. This isn't nature committing suicide to annoy our tourism industry which is now kaput for other reasons. No. We should scientifically recognise that human activity has changed the environmental factors beyond the reef's survival. But our own pride in our worth — and may I add some stupid pseudo-scientists who are contrary polemicists for "no reason" — that we measure in cash is holding back our understanding. Politically, we're dumb. Psychologically we're deficient. Our only defence is often hubris and deceit. These have been our salvation in our checkered evolution. The truth hurts. Thus we pin our troubles on others mistakes, as well as blame "nature"… China has put an end to live animal markets. We laughed (or marvelled) at the Chinese building a massive hospital in under a week and placing a city of 11 million people under quarantine. Some of our "journos" (shit-opinionators) like Tim Blair, blasted the Chinese for not telling us straight away what was happening — especially when "one of the doctors was trying to warn the world, but the authorities shut him up.".… Several things to consider: the official line — still believed in the West — is that the virus jumped from pangolins to bats then to humans. By January, most of the western scientists knew something like SARS, possibly worse, was coming... We laughed, then we blamed the Chinese. Was the "doctor" trying to tell the rest of the world that a virus had escaped from the Wuhan biolab or that it had managed to jump two nature strips to go across the road? It would take more than three weeks of analysis to determine that the virus originated in pangolins — unless someone knew about this a-priori (some people did — see following article). So the Chinese were not so cagey as we think, but they had to know "for sure" what was was happening, where the virus "had come from", that the virus was dangerous, while planning an efficient defence system. Our reaction was woeful. We closed the barn doors after the horse had bolted. Now we're in "isolation" which is more like "desolation". We fought over toilet paper rolls and no matter how Mr Leonisky can make cartoons about this, it shows the extend of our very tragic unfunny dumbness... Imagine: no flowing water in rivers = fish kills… Environmental factors variations, some natural, some human induced. What proportion? We need to investigate without fear nor favour... So, this article in The Guardian could be seen as designed to make us forget the MANY biolabs where dangerous pathogens are being manufactured for warfare as offensive weapons — and defensive weapons by developing antigens. Even if most of the biolabs are not designed for warfare, they deal with very nasty viruses and microbes. We are told by this Guardian article that 75 per cent of all emerging infectious diseases come from wildlife... Hum? This statistic is a bit too neat. The reality is that 86 per cent or 43 percent would be as valid. We don't really know, apart from a few cases such as the swine fever and the bird flu. What about the rest? Many are human diseases that evolve as we evolve, in our general behaviours. A lift packed with people is like a petri dish for the flu, in the flu season. A plane with one sick person can result in half the passengers carrying the germs. Some people will resist the infection better than others. We know the drill. We need to isolate, but how many people with the flu have gone to work in an office, because they can't afford being sick? How many people died from the flow on from this? The social distancing rule is the only way to deal with contagion. But for how long? Now, the trick of governments is to also throw cash like burley to fish in a pond or corn grains to chooks in a yard. It's the bum rush. Some will get a lot, others will get none. We know. By and large, infections by pathogens can develop quickly when the normal distance between individuals of species is reduced by artificial means such as farming. Same for humans. There are spacial limits and social limit at which we start feeling uncomfortable. Place a family of 15 persons in a small room with no exit, and traumas are likely to happen, Physically and psychologically, very quickly… Purpose will become absent. We need space to be active. We need activity to be alive. Nature is the same. This is why we should, our government should anyway, have banned intensive herding such as chicken, pigs and other animals that need space. Some animals will naturally stay in flocks, but they usually keep their individual distances, and the flocks have a natural extend in relation to the availability of food, such as grass. We are part of nature. Nature is a protein soup in small packets, with sugars and fats added. "There are too many pressures at the same time on our natural systems and something has to give," she added. "We are intimately interconnected with nature, whether we like it or not. If we don't take care of nature, we can't take care of ourselves. And as we hurtle towards a population of 10 billion people on this planet, we need to go into this future armed with nature as our strongest ally." The first part of the argument is valid. The second premise in regard to population and "arming ourselves with nature" is the major problem of warfare biolabs and GMOs. Hurtling towards a population of 10 billion people is crazy. Trimming population the natural way is one of our solutions. Music, maestro. GL.
the view from the professor...AAAS Member Sabra Klein is angry at the missed opportunities that have brought the world to this moment—when everything has been crippled by the novel coronavirus. "We should have stayed the course and developed a vaccine," she says, her voice trailing off. "We didn't. We shelved it." She believes scientists could have done more when severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) appeared in China in 2002 or been more responsive on the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) that was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and later spread to the United States. If the scientific community had used the 2002 and 2012 coronaviruses as a test to develop a vaccine, we might not be where we are today. Klein, a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH), researches the differences between the male and female immune systems divorced from what she calls the 'human condition' or gender differences around the world that result in women not having equal access to health care and treatment. Her research in sex differences and infectious disease has implications for both men and women. For example, the interplay of a person's hormones and how it affects the influenza virus (known as the flu), and more recently, why it appears men are more susceptible to Covid-19 infections than women. Klein became an infectious disease expert later in her academic life, transitioning from her background in neuroscience to microbiology and immunology. "I enjoyed neuroscience, but I found myself much more interested in the connections to the immune systems," she says. "For my post-doctoral training, I wanted to start to work in infectious diseases so that is when I began this transition." Today, her research concerns infectious disease from Covid-19, to Zika infections, to HIV. Key findings in her studies indicate that females typically mount more robust immune responses than males, no matter the virus. "If you take immune cells from HIV positive men and if you take cells from HIV positive women and you put them on a plate and you expose them to an HIV antigen," she says, "immune cells from women are going to be much more reactive, they are going to generate a much more robust and viral response." Still, over a decade ago, Klein was derogatorily referred to as an 'Immuno-Feminist,' by alpha males in the blogsphere. She was accused of applying feminist ideas to biology by people who had disagreed with her findings that showed women had a more robust immune system than men. One of the things that surprised her most during her research, and her critics too, was that the X chromosome in women was encoded with so many genes that controlled immune functions. There were also biological differences between males and females that helped in the functioning of immune systems through a process called hormone signaling. Estrogen, the hormone found in women, Klein argues, is responsible for altering the signaling inside of an immune cell. The hormone coaxes the cell to either start or halt making protein in an inflammatory response or when repairing body tissue. "The benefit of women sometimes having an overactive immune response is that when it comes to things like an infection, we often fight it better," she says. "We know that the mortality rate in China (for Covid-19) is significantly greater for men than for women," she says. "We really don't know why nobody is studying how the virus replicates or the immunity that is induced but we know that more men are ending up in intensive care units." A growing number of papers coming out of China are now disaggregating and comparing data between men and women, a development that Klein has taken note of. "It has been very refreshing so far and it tells me that people are starting to believe that this is something that requires consideration." Klein is trying to get ahead of the curve by raising money to study the differences between the older men and women in Baltimore and how they will respond to the virus. "When the vaccine is available, we can study the vaccine induced immunity and compare it between men and women," she says. Klein thinks that the Covid-19 virus could have been avoided if there had been more surveillance of animal populations. "We have known for so long that so many emerging viruses come from bats." But, she concedes that it is costly to monitor animals for emerging threats, pointing out that many governments do not have the appetite to keep spending money on things that do not have an immediate benefit for the people. "You do not find anything and then you have to keep justifying spending money for which year after year you find nothing," she notes of the difficulties. The novel coronavirus that is currently responsible for thousands of deaths is very closely related to the one that was sequenced from bats in the mid 2000's. Klein suggests that to halt future outbreaks, sufficient funds should be pumped into drug discoveries and vaccines now. There were some drugs that worked in the past; based on the same platform as the standard seasonal flu vaccine. "They might not have worked great but there was some efficacy," she says. Klein calls out what she sees as a lack of concern for scientists that need to do their work, even during the coronavirus epidemic. She says she has had her work disrupted like so many other scientists by what she calls the "aggressive process" of shutting down operations including research facilities—something that she calls "historic for an institution like this." She is worried that scientists have been ordered not to start new research. "It is stressful for all of us and you don't know when we resume normal operations," she says. Link only available to AAAS members.
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This is a rush transcript and may contain errors. It will be updated. Marc Stiener: I'm Marc Steiner, great to have you all with us on this day. The COVID-19 pandemic has much of the world gripped in fear, entire countries are on lockdown. People are fearful, and rightfully so, of being in contact with each other. For us here, empty shelves in supermarkets, no cars on the highways, empty streets, give you that eerily post apocalyptic feel. Donald Trump labeling this as the Chinese virus and urging us to go back to normalcy, seems unattached to reality. It's not the Chinese flu, it's not the other, it's us. More accurately, it's our destruction of natural habitats and a climate crisis that is unleashing these viruses among us. COVID-19 was being blamed on the poor, peaceful pangolin. But this poor anteater that looks like an Armadillo, may be part of the reason the virus spread in China, but it's our industrial development that's destroying his habitat that brought them into contact with us. And then some thought it would be a good idea to eat these things. It's not bats or pangolins, but what our human expansion has done to unleash viruses from Ebola to COVID-19. From the destruction of wild habitats to melting off permafrost and arctic shelves, viruses we've never known existed may be coming our way. And we're joined by Dr. Sonia Shah. She wrote the book Pandemic: Tracking Contagious from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Her newest book is The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move, that comes out in June. And her latest article published in the nation is Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Corona Virus? Think again. And it's being wildly read. So welcome Sonia Shah, good to have you with us. Sonia Shah: Nice to be here. Marc Stiener: Help us think again, so the connection between habitat loss and climate crisis can get lost in this conversation. And when we try to figure out how to avoid these things now and in the future, talk a bit about that connection. Sonia Shah: This latest coronavirus is just the last in a series. Well, it won't be the last, but it's just the latest in a series of newly emerged pathogens. So over the past like 50, 60 years or so, we've had over 300 of these pathogens kind of newly emerge, or re-emerge into places where they'd never been seen before. So, that includes Ebola in West Africa in 2014, it had never been seen in that part of the continent before. It includes Zika in the Americas were it had never been seen before. We have new kinds of tick borne illnesses, new kinds of mosquito borne illnesses, new kinds of antibiotic resistant bacterial pathogens. And the list goes on and on, including of course this latest coronavirus. And about 60% of these new pathogens come from the same place. And that is the bodies of animals. About 70% of them come from the bodies of wild animals. So, what I tried to do in my work is look at how does a microbe that is generally harmless in its native habitat, in its natural habitat, turn into a pandemic causing pathogens. What are the changes that have to happen for that process to occur? And what I found is that in a lot of cases it's because humans are invading wildlife habitat. So when we cut down the trees where bats roost… If bats are roosting in some far off jungle, we cut down those trees, well they don't just go away. They come and fly into our gardens, and backyards, and farms instead. So in all these ways when we destroy wildlife habitat, we force wildlife to come into closer contact to where we live, into little fragments of habitat that we have left for them and that eases all kinds of new kinds of contact between animals and humans. It increases hunting, trading, uneven casual contact. For example, if you touched a piece of fruit that had some bat saliva on it you could get Ebola virus on your hands, and you put that your hand in your mouth and that's it. The microbe that lives in the animals bodies has come into the human body, and that's how the Ebola outbreak of 2014 actually started. And we will probably eventually be able to trace back this current pandemic to some kind of single quote unquote spill over event like that. But the root of it is microbes in animals coming into human bodies because we're destroying their habitat and bringing them closer into contact with ours. Marc Stiener: A couple of things here I've got to explore. What you mentioned a moment ago, I mean we're talking about viruses, everything from Ebola to HIV, to Lyme disease in this country are all kind of erupting for the similar reason. And when you look at some of the new science coming out about the potential viruses being unleashed by the melting of permafrost in the Arctic ice shelves. When you add that to the habitat issue we, unfortunately and frighteningly, could just be seeing the beginning of what could erupt over the next decades. Do think that's alarmist? Do you think that's real? Sonia Shah: I don't know that the melting permafrost is sort of the biggest driver of this, I think invading wildlife habit is a bigger driver because you also have to think about which microbes in animals bodies can easily adapt to human bodies. And so that's usually microbes that live in other mammals, and it's usually ones that are more similar to us. So, we get a lot of pathogens from pigs for example, we'll get fewer from reptiles, right? So, the source matters because each microbe has to kind of adapt. So this is a long process, this doesn't happen instantly. What happens is there's repeated contact between humans and the animal reservoir of these microbes. And those repeated contacts allow the microbe to slowly adapt to the human body, right? Because in the beginning it's an animal microbe, it's not going to make you sick necessarily, or your immune system's going to get rid of it. The pathogen has to adapt. So there has to be repeated contact over time. So we've seen these wet markets have existed, for example, which is a source of the SARS pathogen that came out in 2002, 2003, and may be the origins of the current Corona virus. Those wet markets existed for many, many years, but what happened over the past 20 or 30 years is they started to get bigger and bigger because the Chinese economy expanded and people were going farther and farther into wildlife habitat to invade, in places that are farther and farther away, bring animals from lots of different places closer together. So it's that slow process of expansion and the repeated contact between humans and wildlife that allows these microbes to adapt and become human pathogens. Marc Stiener: And a broader question here, if human expansion and capitalist development and all kinds of industrial development and development period are part of the causes that underlies these growth of viruses, then how do we think about what to do about that? I mean it's one thing to talk about how you fight COVID-19 at this moment, and I think that's one issue. The other issue is how do you prevent the COVID-19s of the future from erupting given the nature of human beings to expand? I mean you wrote in your article that even when you think of the neolithic period that was unleashed there, tuberculosis and measles that are still with us. So, how do we begin to talk as a society, as human beings, as a culture, how to change what we do in order not to have these explosions or is that even possible? Sonia Shah: It is possible. We're always going to have infectious diseases, right? I mean we live on a microbial planet and that's sort of part of the human condition. So we don't want to sanitize the planet of microbes or anything like that. So the trick is, do you have to have pandemics though? And I think from my research and reporting, the answer is absolutely not. Pandemics are manufactured by human activities. We'll have infectious disease outbreaks, but we don't have to have these massive pandemics that travel across the globe and result in what we're seeing today. And one step towards that is, of course, reducing our destruction of wildlife habitat so that microbes that live in animals bodies stay in their bodies. Reducing the impact of climate change will help too because, of course, we know that a lot of species are moving into new places to escape the effects of the climate crisis. And as they do that, they're moving into new kinds of contact with human populations also. So that provides other opportunities for these spillovers to happen. But we also can sort of actively surveil where these spillovers are happening and kind of contain them at their source. We don't know which microbe will cause the next pandemic, but we do know what the drivers are. We know that it's things like invasion of wildlife habitat, lots of flight connections, lots of slums, lots of factory farms. These are all drivers of pandemic causing pathogens. So since we know that we can Predict where it's most likely to happen. So scientists have actually come up with these global hotspot maps. There are places… It's a map and it just shows where are all the places in the world where it's most likely that a pandemic causing pathogen could emerge. And in those places we can do active surveillance, really look at all the microbes there. Don't wait for the outbreak to happen, don't wait for cases to emerge so people are already getting sick and the microbe's already spreading exponentially. But actually look for them sort of preventively, to do that kind of active surveillance. And that was actually a project that was going on for about 10 years until the Trump administration killed it last year. Marc Stiener: You're talking about Predict and the stuff that CDC was doing that the budget was canceled, that's what you're talking about. Sonia Shah: That's right. Marc Stiener: Talk a bit about that. Sonia Shah: So that was a program funded by USAID and it involved lots of different agencies and academic institutions around the world. And what they would do is they would go to these disease hotspots and try to actively surveil how microbes might be changing. So they would sample say, scat from animals or take blood from farmers or hunters. They had a variety of different ways to actually actively look for these microbes and then see how they might be changing. And they actually were able to find about 900, I think, over the course of that 10 year period. And so then you can say, "Okay, well this microbe looks like it's evolving to adapt to the human body in a way that could make it into a dangerous pathogen. Let's change our behaviors on this local level so that it doesn't have those opportunities anymore." Maybe it's changing hunting practices, or some trading practices, or something much more localized that you could alter through a small intervention as opposed to waiting until it starts erupting in epidemics and spreads around the world. And then thinking, "Oh, okay, now let's try to contain it." Marc Stiener: So without being accusatory here, just larger questions in close. If Predict had been funded fully, if we had full funding to be able to look ahead and see what potential pathogens may arise, could this have been avoided? Is that possible or is that too much conjecture? Sonia Shah: I mean it's possible. This is all probabilities, right? So say there's thousands of microbes out there that could become the next pandemic causing pathogen. If we could surveil and contain 80% of those, would our risk of pandemics go down? Yes, it would. Does it mean that this particular virus would not have emerged? Well, who knows? Marc Stiener: And as we conclude Sonia give us a little tip for the future about what we should be wrestling with as a society in terms of how to go forward. Sonia Shah: The first thing is we got to get this thing under control and what's happening now is commercial pressures and political pressures are altering our containment strategy, and what we're going to see is a bloodbath in our hospitals. So all of us need to chip in. And I think one of the things that's really striking about these outbreaks of novel kinds of diseases is that there is no drug, there is no vaccine, there is no easy biomedical product that we can all use to solve it, right? Because they come up too fast and by the time you get the vaccine or the drug you've already had this whole wave of epidemic. So what that means is that the only thing that really works is collective action and solidarity. And I think we're starting to see that in different parts of the world, and people are trying, and that's really going to be the solution out of this thing. Marc Stiener: Well Sonia Shah thank you for the work you do and the writing you do. It's really important and I look forward to seeing what else you produce, look forward to your book coming out in June. And I want to thank you so much for joining us here on the real news today. I appreciate you taking the time with us, I know you're very busy at this moment, so thank you so much. Sonia Shah: Thank you. Marc Stiener: And I'm Mark Steiner here for the Real News Network, thank you all for joining us. Let us know what you think. We'll be covering this pandemic intensely from all different quarters. So take care and take care of yourself. Read more: https://therealnews.com/stories/coronavirus-ebola-sars-virus-outbreaks-h... Read from top.
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Mr. Harrigan's Phone on Netflix is a horror flick based on the Stephen King novella of the same name. It focuses on a teenaged boy named Craig (Jaeden Martell) who befriends the titular billionaire. After Mr. Harrigan (Donald Sutherland) passes away, Craig discovers that he can communicate with his old friend from beyond the grave using a phone.
We are introduced to Craig in 2003. He has just lost his mom and lives with his dad in the small town of Harlow, Maine. A reclusive billionaire named Mr. Harrigan hires the boy to come to his house thrice a week and read to him for $5 an hour.
Five years pass and this arrangement continues. Craig becomes really good friends with the old man and they share tidbits about life. Craig starts high school and gets a brand new iPhone from his dad.
He also wins $3000 from a lottery and buys Mr. Harrigan a phone as well. Unfortunately, the old man soon passes away from heart disease and Craig puts his phone in the coffin before he is buried.
In a crazy twist of events, the boy discovers that Mr. Harrigan can hear him from beyond the grave when he calls his phone. This leads to further complications when people that Craig talks about on the phone start dying.
Jaeden Martell plays Craig quite well. Coming from projects like the two 'IT' films, he is no stranger to the horror genre and it shows in his performance. His voiceover throughout is impactful and so is his ever evolving character personality.
His transition from a protected teenager to an introspective college student dealing with trauma, bullying, hate and fear is commendable. He is shown to be perpetually miserable during the entire film which sometimes feels over the top. A light hearted side to him would have been a welcome addition.
Donald Sutherland is the perfect Mr. Harrigan. Despite portraying a fading and frail old man, he brings the perfect amount of mystery and vulnerability to the character.
Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Joe Tippett, Cyrus Arnold and other supporting cast members are worthy additions to the plot.
The chemistry between Martell and Sutherland is one of the stronger points of Mr. Harrigan's Phone. Their conversations are profound and most of them can be easily used as real-life lessons
The film also presents a beautiful coming-of-age tale about hardships of life and commentates on the change in the human race since the invention of the smart phone and the advancement of technology.
This makes it a very character driven film which isn't highly focused on the horror.
Speaking of horror, this film doesn't have any. Mr. Harrigan's Phone has subtle scary moments but never delivers as a Stephen King adaptation. The premise is interesting but doesn't leave an impact.
The film feels like a drama more than a horror flick. The characters have a lot to say about aspects of existence but that causes the plot to feel excessively preachy at times.
Also, the pacing is quite shaky. The film takes a long time to get going and even then, doesn't deliver a conclusion worthy of the genre. It almost confuses itself in terms of which genre it wants to belong to.
Mr. Harrigan's Phone will disappoint you if you expect a scary Stephen King adaptation. However, it is a unique twist on the genre which may float your boat if philosophical narratives are your thing.
Mr. Harrigan's Phone review: Barely any scares
Director: John Lee Hancock
Date Created: 2022-10-05 22:43
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The Raspberry Pi 3: Is it good enough?
The O'Reilly Hardware Podcast: The Raspberry Pi is starting to look disruptive.
The long-awaited Raspberry Pi 3 was released last week, so David Cranor and I present an episode of the Hardware Podcast on the contentious question of whether the Raspberry Pi is a Serious Computer for Serious People, or not.
The Raspberry Pi has its roots in the hobbyist community, and the Raspberry Pi Foundation is registered as an educational charity. Purists complain that the Raspberry Pi is not suitable for scaling because it's difficult to incorporate into custom designs, and there are all sorts of cheaper and more flexible options that you could use if you know what you're doing.
Nevertheless, the boards have started to exhibit some of the characteristics of a disruptive technology. Old-school embedded systems engineers might dismiss them, but they're opening up all sorts of applications for creative embedded computing that weren't accessible at all with conventional tools.
The Raspberry Pi is essentially scripting hardware: an inefficient tool for doing something at scale, but so easy to implement that, in many applications, the inefficiency doesn't matter. It wasn't so long ago that Python was dismissed as an unserious programming language, too.
Take a listen and let us know what you think.
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David Cranor: Dam construction, both modern and ancient, and this 3D video on dam construction.
Jon Bruner: Philips-head lookalikes in Wikipedia's "List of screw drives." Also: who's disassembling so many restroom stalls that tamper-resistant screws are necessary?


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Streamer releases 2-part episode this morning that includes animated segment, 'A Dream of a Thousand Cats,' directed by 'Undone's Hisko Hulsing and featuring the voice talent of David Tennant, James McAvoy, Sandra Oh, and Michael Sheen.
He's back! For all of us suffering from The Sandman withdrawal after binging the first 10 episodes in a single watching, we can stop scouring streamers for something to fill the void, because Netflix just dropped a two-part bonus 11th episode of the show, available as of 12:01 this morning.
Not only that, but the new episode includes an animated segment, "A Dream of a Thousand Cats," directed by Undone's Hisko Hulsing and produced by Submarine Studios. The surprise episode includes guest voice appearances - that will thrill both fantasy and sci-fi fanatics - by David Tennant (Dr. Who) as Don; James McAvoy (X-Men Apocolypse) as Golden-Haired Man; Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) as The Prophet; Michael Sheen (Prodigal Son) as Paul; and "The Sandman" author Neil Gaiman himself as Crow/Skill bird. Those of us diehard Gaiman fans are thrilled to see the Demon and Angel of Good Omens, Tennant and Sheen respectively, brought back together for this episode. And, if you've ever listened to the Audible audio production of "The Sandman", you'll remember McAvoy voiced Morpheus, Sheen Lucifer, and Tennant Loki.
As reported in Variety, according to Hulsing, "We endeavored to make the animated version of 'A Dream of a Thousand Cats' as mesmerizing and hypnotic as we could by utilizing the magic of real oil paintings on canvas. We combined the paintings with classically drawn 2D animation, based on realistic 3D animation of telepathic cats in order to create a trippy world that feels both grounded and dreamy at the same time. Untold Studios in London created the breathtaking 3D animation of the cats. The wonderful 2D animation, oil paintings and stylizing were all done at Submarine Studios in Amsterdam."
Check out AWN's interview with Hulsing about his exacting work on Undone, "Creating an Ambiguous Reality: How 'Undone' is Done."
Netflix's The Sandman is based on Gaiman's dark fantasy, 75-issue comic book series published by DC Comics that follows the journey of Morpheus, the King of Dreams.
The show's impressive VFX were produced by Chicken Bone FX, Framestore, Important Looking Pirates, ILM, One of Us, Resonance, Rodeo FX, Union VFX, and Untold Studios.


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BMW Group's plan for 25% of sales to be electrified in Europe by 2021
Enhancing EV production network, directly sourcing lithium and cobalt for battery cells
- Summary
- A million BMW electrified vehicles expected to be on the road by the end of 2021
- Autonomous driving technology: co-development with Daimler AG put on hold, Samsung's 5G TCU to be supplied
- Mobility services: BMW and Daimler AG set up joint ventures, car-sharing operations exit North America
- China: BBA increasing production capacity at Tiexi Plant, Spotlight Automotive to build MINI brand vehicles
- Unit sales decline by 12.5% to 1.64 million units in the period January-September 2020
- Revenues fall 7.1% and EBIT plunges 48.2% during the first nine months of 2020
- Sales Forecast by LMC Automotive: BMW's light vehicle sales expected to decline to 2.23 million units in 2020
The BMW Group is accelerating its electrification plan to achieve its corporate CO2 emission target set by the EU and continue its sustainable businesses. In addition, the Group is focusing on developing important technologies including autonomous driving systems, mobility services, and digital transformation.
In its electrification plan, the Group will launch at least 25 new electrified vehicles globally with at least 13 electric vehicles (EVs) and the rest consisting of plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) by 2023. In 2020, the MINI brand's first battery EV and the BMW iX3, the EV SUV equipped with the fifth-generation electric powertrain (eDrive), have been released. The BMW i4 EV coupe and the iX (renamed from the iNEXT) based on a new, scalable toolkit are expected to go on the market in 2021.
Regarding the autonomous driving field, the BMW Group and Daimler AG announced that they would put their joint development project temporarily on hold in June 2020. The two companies decided that the timing is not appropriate due to development expenses of a shared technology platform and current economic conditions. Samsung Electronics will supply the BMW iX with its 5G-capable telematics control unit that is essential for the autonomous driving system.
As for mobility services, the BMW Group and Daimler AG agreed in March 2018 to merge their business units and established five joint ventures for ride-hailing, parking and car-sharing services. The five joint ventures had 279 million interactions with 96 million customers during the period January-September 2020. However, Share Now car-sharing joint venture exited North America in February 2020 due to rising operating costs and a low number of users.
In China, the BMW Group's largest market, BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA), a joint venture with Brilliance China Automobile, is increasing its production capacity. BBA will double the production capacity at its Tiexi Plant in Shenyang to 800,000 units by adding a new plant on the site, and will extend the R&D Center. In addition, Spotlight Automotive Limited, a joint venture with Great Wall Motor, began building a new plant to produce the MINI EVs from 2023.
The BMW Group's global unit sales for the period January-September 2020 fell 12.5% year-over-year (y/y) to 1.64 million units. Vehicle sales showed a sign of recovery in the third quarter of 2020 after a significant plunge due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Group's revenues dropped 7.1% y/y to EUR 69.51 billion, while EBIT declined by 48.2% y/y to EUR 2.63 billion with the EBIT margin of 3.8%. According to the Group's outlook for 2020 presented in the quarterly statement to September 30, 2020, global deliveries for the full year of 2020 are expected to decrease significantly from the previous year. The Group continues to expect the EBIT margin to lie within a range of 0-3% which was originally forecasted in May 2020.
BMW iX3, the first model with fifth-generation eDrive (Beijing Motor Show 2020) | BMW iX to be launched at the end of 2021 (Photo: BMW) |
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The Book of Revelation Chapters 17 & 18.
Chapters seventeen and eighteen are connected in that they portray the judgment of God on a city called Babylon the Great. It is the seat of the world's influence for evil. Chapter seventeen describes her influence, while chapter eighteen prescribes her destruction. Simply put, the party is over.
I. The Hysteria of This Religious Harlot - vs.1-6 -
a. Details of their wickedness is not without notice: vs.1 ...I will show thee...
1. Her Affluence is noted - vs.1a ...the great whore that sitteth...
2. Her Influence Is noted - vs.1b ...upon many waters... Her influence is global.
b. Delights in the filth of hell - vs.2,3
c. Decked with the wealth of the world - vs.4,5
d. Drunk with the blood of saints - vs.6
II. The History of This Religious Harlot - vs.7,18
a. Her Roots - vs.8 ...of the bottomless pit...
b. Her Reign - vs.9,14
1. The Reach Of Her Reign - vs.9,13
2. The Breach In Her Reign - vs.14,18
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Book of Revelation Chapter 18 continued...
I. The Description of The City - vs.1,24
a. Hotbed of demons and false doctrine - vs.2
b. Capital of godless materialism - vs.3; 11-17
c. Filled with pride - vs.5,7
d. Center of drug activities and bloodshed - vs.8,20
II. The Destruction of The City - vs.8,20
a. The Course of it's destruction - vs.2 Cannot be reversed.
b. The Source of it's destruction - vs.8 The Lord
c. The Force of it's destruction - vs.16,18 Perhaps nuclear energy.
Note the reaction to her destruction:
1. Despair on earth - vs.19 - Note: No repentance... only regret.
2. Delight in heaven - vs.20,24
a. They Rejoice - vs.20
b. There Is A Voice - vs.21,23 ...a mighty angel...saying...
Note: A Voice of Violence - vs.21,22
Note: A Voice Silenced - vs.23 ...the voice...shall be heard no more... Referring To Babylon
3. Diary of Heaven Reviewed - vs.24
a. The Horror Recorded - 24a ...was found the blood of prophets and of saints...
b. The Honor Afforded - 24b ...were slain...
In the end, we see the Antichrist and the false prophet utterly destroyed. We see Jesus as the bright and morning star (Revelation 22:16), Christ will usher in the new age of the messianic kingdom. The deeds of Christ are observable and unforgettable ones.
Jesus is not theory, He is God's theology. Christ the Messiah is not fictional, He is factual. The Christ is coming again, not as a Lamb this time... but as the Lion, King of kings and Lord of lords. Amen
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The Asia Pacific bulk chemical packaging market leads the Bulk Chemical Packaging Market, and is expected to remain in the leading position throughout the forecast period. The Intermediate bulk containers (IBC) and drums are expected to experience the fastest growth in the forthcoming time, given its advantages of cost effectiveness and reusability. The global bulk chemical packaging market is also reflecting product customisation trends to suit the end-user requirements. Increased storage capacity, longer service life that allows large scale industrial customers to gauge the substantial long-term cost benefits, are some key considerations companies are making. Apart from dimensions, companies in the bulk chemical packaging market are also offering light weight and cost-competitive products compared to the more conventional steel drums. In addition to this, material enhancements to make bulk chemical packaging products corrosion and impact resistant are also being deployed.
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The Bulk Chemical Packaging analysis market has been assessed for the years 2023 to 2032.
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REGINA—June 7, 2022: In her 2022 Report – Volume 1, Chapter 6, Provincial Auditor Tara Clemett audited the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority's processes to regulate the production and sale of locally manufactured craft alcohol. She made five recommendations.
Consumers are increasingly purchasing craft alcohol products made in Saskatchewan with craft alcohol sales nearly doubling in 2020– 21 compared to 2017–18. Locally-manufactured craft alcohol products comprised 4.3% of the Authority's annual beverage alcohol sales in 2020–21. At November 30, 2021, the Authority had issued permits to 64 different craft alcohol producers in the province.
The Authority's quality assurance policy requires craft alcohol producers to submit certificates of analysis (lab test reports) verifying products are safe for consumption, but does not follow up with producers who are delinquent in submitting required reporting every two years. Authority staff maintain a listing of craft alcohol producers and due dates for updated certificates of analysis. We found over half of the craft alcohol product lines approved for sale on its tracking sheet (43 of 83 product lines) required updated certificates; craft alcohol producers had not submitted these by the deadline, and the Authority had not followed up. Some of these craft alcohol producers had not provided certificates of analysis to the Authority for more than nine months past the deadline.
The audit also found the Authority did not use a risk-based approach to inspect craft alcohol producers and high-risk manufacturing areas. The Authority completed 10 inspections and 24 pre-permit inspections in 12 months (compared to 64 craft alcohol producers in total) and had not inspected one producer in the past three years.
"Effective regulation of craft alcohol production reduces the risk of the public consuming unsafe alcohol or alcohol inconsistent with labelling," said Tara Clemett. "Receiving regular lab test reports and regularly inspecting high-risk areas specific to craft alcohol helps protect the public."
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In 2020–21, the Authority collected more than $2 million in production levies from craft alcohol producers, a substantial increase from around $360,000 in 2016–17. "By having ineffective processes to assess producer-prepared production and sales information, the Authority is at risk of receiving inaccurate production levies," said Tara Clemett. "As a growing industry, it's important for producers to comply with policies and submit accurate reports."
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When singer and actress Alicia Keys found out she was pregnant with her second son, she initially felt there was no way she could see the pregnancy through. But after wrestling with her decision, Keys realized that if she chose an abortion, she would deny her child the chance to make a difference in the world and impact the lives of other people.
"How could I take away the potential for this beautiful child, this light that could touch others in ways I couldn't dream of?" asked Keys in an excerpt from her new memoir, More Myself, that she shared with People magazine.
Alicia Keys Makes a Choice
Alicia Keys came to fame in 2001 when she released her first album, Songs in A Minor, which had the hit single, "Fallin'" on it. She has since had a successful career with 29 Grammy nominations and 15 wins. Keys married producer and rapper Swizz Beatz in 2010, the same year the couple had their first son together. When the singer found out in 2014 that she was four months along with their second child, she was in a hectic season of life. "This is the worst time ever," she told her doctor. "I'm working on my next album. My husband just got into Harvard Business School. And I've been drinking—a lot.' I left her office feeling so torn."
Modern culture celebrates a woman's "right" to choose an abortion, as actress Michelle Williams did in a recent award speech where she implied that abortion has enabled her to have a successful career. Said Williams, "I've tried my very best to make a life of my own making…I wouldn't have been able to do this without employing a women's right to choose. To choose when to have children, and with whom."
But as Keys wrestled with what to do, the words of a song she and her husband had written together encouraged her that she had the strength to handle having a baby, despite the timing. "While I was struggling over my choice," she said, "I went into the studio one evening and began listening to 'More Than We Know'…The lyrics are about how we're capable of so much more than we can ever imagine." Listening to the song moved the singer to tears. She said, "For me, the song was a powerful message that I should go on with the pregnancy."
Wrestling over her decision to choose life for her son has given Keys more insight into her own mother, who had to make a similar decision. Keys' mother, Teresa Augello, had a short relationship with Keys' father, during which Augello became pregnant. Augello ended up raising Keys as a single mother—but only after considering an abortion.
Augello's decision was even more challenging than her daughter's because Augello was raising her child on her own and had little money. Keys told NPR, "I grew up with not much and my mother had to work from paycheck to paycheck all the time." The fact that her mother went through a struggle that corresponded to hers was something Keys discovered through working on the memoir.
"She chose me, even through all the difficulties," the singer told People. "How would she ever know what I was brought here to do? In a way we are parallel, but I didn't even know that."


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Mosquito-borne viruses increasingly threaten human populations due to accelerating changes in climate, human and mosquito migration, and land use practices. Over the last three decades, the global distribution of dengue has rapidly expanded, causing detrimental health and economic problems in many areas of the world. To develop effective disease control measures and plan for future epidemics, there is an urgent need to map the current and future transmission potential of dengue across both endemic and emerging areas. Expanding and applying Index P, a previously developed mosquito-borne viral suitability measure, we map the global climate-driven transmission potential of dengue virus transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from 1981 to 2019. This database of dengue transmission suitability maps and an R package for Index P estimations are offered to the public health community as resources towards the identification of past, current and future transmission hotspots. These resources and the studies they facilitate can contribute to the planning of disease control and prevention strategies, especially in areas where surveillance is unreliable or non-existent.
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The meteorological data from 1981 to 2019 that were used to estimate the spatiotemporal maps of Index P are freely available from the Essential Climate Variables for assessment of climate variability from 1979 to present dataset published and maintained by Copernicus.eu (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/ecv-for-climate-change). Weekly notified dengue case data per municipality in Brazil for the years 2000 to 2014 were provided by the Brazilian Ministry of Health (https://www.gov.br/pt-br) and by the SINAN (Sistema de InformaÇão de Agravos de NotificaÇão - http://portalsinan.saude.gov.br/). The yearly population size per municipality in Brazil for the years 2001 to 2014 was sourced from IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (https://www.ibge.gov.br/en/home-eng.html). The complete dataset of spatiotemporal index P maps and a description of its contents are available from a figshare repository at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21502614.


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Call for Public Feedback on Kimball Jct. Traffic Solutions
PARK CITY, Utah. — The traffic that develops off I-80 exit 145 into Park City and feeds into the Kimball Junction commercial, residential and recreational cluster during rush hour causes accidents and miles-long backups year-round. The congested interchange is en route to being improved, but motorists shouldn't hold their breath for a quick fix. There are multiple steps to take at the city, county, and state levels before any construction begins.
Summit County, Park City, and the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) have extended the deadline to Feb. 12 for public input on this project, which aims not just to reduce traffic and improve safety but also address future growth in the area. More than 900 people have completed the public input survey so far, and UDOT officials said public feedback is critical to developing the best solution.
The survey details four alternatives for people to consider. According to UDOT, the survey takes ten minutes to complete, and responses will be factored into conversations had by county and city councils as they move forward in the process. So far, negative sentiment by members of the county council and environmentalists surround Alternative 2, which cuts through preserved open space near Kilby Road.
Alternative 4 looks like the most feasible financially, as it is comprised of a series of shorter-term solutions that can tie into a larger and costlier but more sustainable project like Alternative 3 in the future. (Alternative 3 involves building an underpass for SR 224 to run beneath the existing intersections of Olympic Pkwy. and Ute Blvd.)
An overview of each alternative:
Alternative 1
Traffic traveling I-80 into and out of Park City is not necessarily heading for Historic Park City's Main Street or its ski areas. UDOT research found that roughly 50 percent of the Kimball Junction area traffic is routed toward the Redstone shopping centers or other shopping plazas, including Tanger Outlets and Walmart. This alternative would provide direct access to Kimball Junction through a new concept for the interchange.
"It would convert the existing SR 224, what they call a 'single point urban interchange' into a 'tight diamond interchange with U-Turn movements'," said Courtney Samuel, senior communications manager for UDOT. "This is a common design seen in Salt Lake Valley where there's limited capacity at a ramp."
The goal? To move extra traffic off SR 224 and funnel it to new one-way frontage roads (see map) west of the Park City I-80 interchange, letting shoppers, residents, and recreationists avoid the Kimball cluster by exiting early. The East half of this proposed plan (see map) includes pedestrian tunnels under Ute Blvd. and the widening of the southbound and northbound lanes to Ute Blvd. and Olympic Parkway.
Alternative 2
This would allow public transit and high occupancy vehicles (HOV) with two or more passengers to bypass Kimball Jct. by exiting earlier near the Ecker Hill Park and Ride and onto Kilby Rd., the existing frontage road (see map below for reference).
According to Samuel, a UDOT traffic survey found that 20 percent of traffic comes from HOV and public bus transit during peak morning and afternoon travel hours. The goal of this alternative, he said, is to improve traffic and ease congestion in the Park City offramp area by re-routing vehicles alongside Kilby Rd. However, this would cut through conserved open space at the Hi-Ute Ranch. Utah Open Lands, the non-profit that secured 163 acres of this property as protected open space in 2005, opposes this alternative. Executive Director of Utah Open Lands Wendy Wright said cutting through a conservation easement and breaking up part of the Millennium Trail until it is rebuilt again as a tunnel or bridge is not worth exploring.
"UDOT needs to hear resoundingly: 'No, you've got to take this [alternative] off the table.' It has consequences for other open spaces," Wright said. "This is not the first open space they're going to look at. So we need to tell them now for all future open spaces and all open spaces that we've protected: 'Hands off.'"
UDOT is well aware of this option's unpopularity with the Summit County Council and organizations like Utah Open Lands. Samuel said UDOT recognizes how important public transit is to Park City's and Summit County's broader transportation plans, and knows that park and ride and public transportation options need to remain reliable and convenient; this alternative was one possibility to help the city and county stay true to that mission.
Alternative 3
According to Samuel, this option has garnered the most interest among council and the public so far. It involves depressing SR 224 – digging down underneath the existing Ute Blvd. and Olympic Pkwy. intersections that currently carry traffic from one side of shopping plazas (i.e. the road to the Olympic Park or Walmart) to another (i.e. the State Liquor Store, Smith's, and Home Goods). This road depression is not quite a tunnel, but more of an underpass beneath existing intersections. Samuel added that UDOT believes this option would be visually appealing because it goes under existing roads, not up and over.
Essentially, those exiting I-80 with the intention of going downtown to Park City's Main Street or ski areas would travel under the cross streets of Ute Blvd. and the Olympic Pkwy. Motorists exiting I-80 heading to Kimball Junction destinations would be funneled on each side of 224 through frontage roads (see map). This also lets travelers utilize the Park and Ride next to the Summit County Library and Transit Center, further decreasing traffic congestion.
Alternative 4
This is a sort of stop-gap solution, or as Samuel said, a "phased implementation of short term solutions," that could help ease congestion in the area and be incorporated into a more complex (and costlier) long-term solution in the future. It's comprised of smaller projects (see map and illustration) such as pedestrian tunnels, expanding I-80 off-ramps and widening intersections to Olympic Parkway and Ute Blvd. and is projected to be less expensive, especially if UDOT, Summit County, and Park City can agree upon what they can build and fund together.
Next steps
After the state, county and city review the public's input, one of these alternatives will be explored further in the form of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
"UDOT follows the environmental process to select the preferred alternative, which will not be reached as part of this study but in a future environmental study," Samuel said.
Funding needs to be secured to even get to conduct an EIS, which helps identify to key decision-makers what the impact of these projects would be on the environment and discloses any harm to the natural area that may take place should a project move forward.


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STATE COLLEGE, Penn — According to AccuWeather Global Weather Center, a climate pattern well-known for bringing precipitation to the northern tier of the country may tip the scales on which areas get a white Christmas or just a handful of flurries – if that – this year.
To forecast what kind of weather the different regions of the U.S. will have a month out from the big day, AccuWeather's team of long-range forecasters, led by Senior Meteorologist Paul Pastelok, looked to key patterns that could favor snow in time for the holidays this winter.
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With the La Niña phase in place, areas across the Northwest, upper Plains and interior Northeast will have a higher probability than average of having a white Christmas.
"We're actually kind of in that normal zone for [the Northeast] just in case we get one of these sneaky, late-December systems coming in there," Pastelok said. "But I do feel like the probability of a white Christmas in Boston, New York, D.C. and Baltimore is slightly lower" this year.
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Sisters priest has work to do in India
Last updated 7/26/2022 at Noon
Fr. Sibi Poulose, priest at St. Edward the Martyr Catholic Church in Sisters, told The Nugget, "I don't usually talk about myself."
The good Father much prefers to talk about the work his "Boss" has given him to do. For a man of only 41 years, he has accomplished much for God, and, in another 18 months, he will be returning to northern India to continue the work by establishing a behavioral health mission dedicated to offering housing, support, and services for residents dealing with addiction and mental health issues.
Fr. Sibi has made sure he is ready when a situation to be of help to others presents itself. After graduating from high school at age 16 in the far southern tip of India, he left home with 17 other boys and a priest to travel by train 2,500 miles north to a seminary mission in the lower Himalayan region of India. Prior to that trip, he had never been more than 20 miles from home.
The challenges are many where few are Christians, making priests and nuns targets for beatings, imprisonment, and even death. They don't speak Fr. Sibi's first language, Malayalam. He now speaks three languages: Malayalam, Hindi, and English. July and August are the monsoon season and in 2013 a violent cloudburst killed 60,000 people.
After one year at the seminary, only nine of the original young men who traveled north with Sibi were still there. He is one of five who were eventually ordained as priests after 12 years. Three of them are in India, one is in Rome working on his doctorate in canon law, and Fr. Sibi is in Sisters.
He came to the U.S. for five years, arriving in Bend July 7, 2018, and spent his first four months as an associate priest at St. Francis parish. He came to Bend because of some connections between bishops. He came to Sisters as the parish priest at the end of 2018.
Fr. Sibi explained that, because there is a shortage of priests in the U.S., priests from other countries are encouraged to come to the States. He has been a priest for 13 years, although he freely admits that in his younger years he "was not priest material." He was into sports and dancing, thinking he would become an engineer.
Prior to leaving India, Sibi attended college for four years in New Delhi, a northern city of 35 million people, where he received a degree in clinical psychology. While in Sisters, he has been working on an online doctorate degree in behavioral health administration so when he returns to India, he will be prepared to establish the mission, serving addicts and mental health clients in addition to serving in the other missions there. He was originally a part of Premdham – House of Love.
The mission began with just a small group of children and has grown to currently care for 95 people who are severely enough impacted by mental retardation, cerebral palsy, and other afflictions that they are not trainable for employment but can assist in ways around the mission. There are 70 who are bed-ridden and are helped by the others. Altogether there are about 200 boys.
"They make their own world," Fr. Sibi explained.
Most who come to the mission have no one to look after them, some having become orphans when left in bus stations. Many of the health conditions with which they live are due to no maternal prenatal care, malnutrition, contaminated water, and genetic abnormalities.
The priests and nuns are responsible for four missionary centers serving orphans, the destitute, and differently abled. There are schools and medical dispensaries run by 160 nuns, and 75 priests are responsible for religious education and evangelization.
The overall responsibilities of all the missions are evangelism, education, social development, pastoral care, health care, and care for the destitute. Nuns travel to remote villages, where they teach personal hygiene and cleanliness. The children in those villages don't go to school, as they tend the animals during the day. The nuns hold informal education sessions in the evening.
Three of the missions are located on the northern plains. Premdham Ashram Najibabad, established in 2009, has about 200 underprivileged boys who have been abandoned and rejected. Ashadeep – Lamp of Hope – was established in 2008. Palana Bhavan houses about 110 girls.
Located up in the mountains at 10,000 feet is Maria Ashram, Mother Mary, home to 25-30 girls who are accustomed to living in the high altitude. Fr. Sibi mentioned one young girl who had no arms but was able to carry a handled bucket with her teeth. Many of the girls are blind and/or mentally retarded. The nuns keep them safe and teach them knitting and stitchery.
Electricity used to be available in the missions for only several hours every 24, sometimes in the middle of the night. That is when they would be able to pump their water. Power is more readily available now and they do have access to the Internet, but electricity may only be available for 15-16 hours a day or night.
Fr. Sibi explained that addiction is a big problem in India, and it impacts entire family units. The Indian social system is organized around the family and marriages are arranged. If a family has a son who is an addict/alcoholic, his sister won't be able to get married, because no boy's family wants that association.
Cheap alcohol is readily available and the poppies from Afghanistan are close by. There are few, if any, recovery programs available to the general public. Having seen the price extracted by addiction, Fr. Sibi is committed to establishing an addiction/mental health facility when he returns to India.
"What provides meaning for me is my being useful to people in need," Fr. Sibi said, as he explained why his work is meaningful. "I give what I can. It is all his (God's) work. I just bloom where I'm planted."
When talking about his life and plans to return to India, he says, "I can't take root anywhere," so he can go where he is called. "I do what I've been asked."
Fr. Sibi grew up in a large Catholic parish in southern India and served as an altar boy in his church because he could read and speak well. A young man from his town named Peter had gone to a seminary mission in the north and came home to be ordained. Sibi was in the 10th grade and was impressed with Fr. Peter. Nine months after returning to the north, word was received that Peter was killed. There were rumors that he had been beaten, imprisoned, and killed. After that, and the death of a good friend, Sibi felt called to the priesthood and to serve in northern India.
"Sisters is the best place I've ever lived. I like the calm and quiet and the people are so friendly," Fr. Sibi said of his temporary home. He comes from a city of 50,000 with a two-square-mile parish. The area is 100 percent Catholic, with 2,000 residents coming to mass in the church at the center of town. There were 1,200 children in the Christian education program when Sibi was in the seventh and eighth grades.
The population of India is 1.4 billion. Hindus make up 80 percent of the population with 1.1 billion. Muslims account for 13 percent or 213 million. Christians represent 3 percent, including 20 million Catholics who are 1.6 percent of the population.
When asked what the people of Sisters could do to be of assistance to the northern missionaries in India, Fr. Sibi replied, "Pray for improving conditions. And be grateful for what we have."
He said everything is run by volunteers in his missions and immediate needs are often unexpectedly met. He told the story of having nothing to serve for breakfast, but someone said, "Boil water." Not long after, a volunteer showed up with rice and lentils and the water was all ready to cook breakfast.
Fr. Sibi has enjoyed his time in Sisters, exploring the area and visiting addiction and mental health facilities. But, he admits, "I need to be there [India] more, where I am needed."


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