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Jack Schulze is drawing Phil Gyford...
Cerveny has visited the Planet of the Apes...
Canada geese and Coot form an inverted triangle for Paul Hammond's camera...
Dan Hill uses a boule to print a map on the sand (cf Liset Castillo makes architectural forms from sand)...
Phil Gyford: a forbidding sky behind the Barbican...
Brian Boyer's averaged Safeway shelves are beautiful, and something like Tom Phillips's terminal greys. Hinting at a description of the average saving on all the products.
Four old favourites: Phil's grass, Timo's ice, Neb's reflections and clusters, BrianBoyer's DSCN1203.
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And Elsewhere...
Drawings with a mind of their own.
Seemingly related: Eric Deis's Beauty and Chaos, in which many users and many cursors can draw at once, resulting in Twombly-esque drawings (and, unsurprisingly, the repeated or over-drawn mark as a common strategy against those that would attempt - inevitably - to scribble out your own marks).
Curiously Incongruous photos of London.
Ed Ruscha Gallery @ the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art.
I like drawing... on rubbish bags (cf also Gavin Turk's bags, Tim Noble and Sue Webster's piles of rubbish, Michael Landy's breakdown, and these notes on rubbish).
Basquiat was all about drawing and colour and speed and brevity.
Robert Longo's atomic-apocalyptic The Sickness of Reason (2003), installation shots, reviewed 2004.
Princeton: art of science photos. These ants are fantastic.
Rare drawings given to the nation in lieu of tax.
Vincent Pécoil on art after Warhol (Art Monthly, 2002) and Hans Haacke interviewed by Patricia Bickers (Art Monthly, 2001).
Sketchup, an architectural CAD tool for beginners (though Jack prefers the Illustrator CAD tools plugin)
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"Adjnabistan" is the name of the anti-nationality I invented with a friend while traveling through the Middle East in the late 1970s. Derived from the Arabic adjnabi (meaning foreigner, stranger, or other), this land of impossible origin proved useful, especially in Iran, where, as an American, one needed to avoid treacherous political discussions. [...] To illustrate the most extreme version of the schism between ideas and means, Ashkin imagined Adjnabistan as a community at the far end of exclusion, i.e., as a squatter/refugee/concentration camp built from used or abandoned shipping containers, situated in a fringe wasteland.
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Visiting South Korean President Moon Jae In has said his country and China should broaden their economic partnership in eight areas, including e-commerce, new technologies, and start-ups, as he sought to mend frayed ties between the two nations.
Speaking to South Korean and Chinese business executives at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse yesterday, Mr Moon stressed the need to expand bilateral trade and investment beyond traditional manufacturing-based industries, to include services and new industries such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles.
He also pushed for negotiations to expand the China-Korea free trade deal inked in 2015, so as to maximise benefits for both countries. "If the past 25 years allowed us to build a path for friendship and cooperation, the next 25 years is time for us to sail towards co-prosperity. Our two countries share the same destiny and will prosper together," he said.
Mr Moon is on a four-day visit at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Korean leader is accompanied by the largest-ever business delegation of more than 260 people.
Mr Moon's visit is meant to mend frayed ties, particularly in economic exchanges, which have stalled in the past 11/2 years because of China's displeasure over South Korea's deployment of an advanced missile defence system.
The US' Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (Thaad) anti-missile system was agreed on by South Korea and the US in July last year as a defence against the North Korean nuclear threat.
If the past 25 years allowed us to build a path for friendship and cooperation, the next 25 years is time for us to sail towards co-prosperity. Our two countries share the same destiny and will prosper together.
SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT MOON JAE IN, on China and South Korea.
However, the Chinese are vehemently opposed to the deployment of Thaad, which began in May this year, viewing it as a threat to China's security as it can track the Chinese military's movements.
Beijing took economic measures to pressure Seoul to stop the deployment, banning group tours of its citizens to South Korea and cracking down on South Korean firms operating in China.
In the first sign of a thaw in ties, the two sides put out similar statements on Oct 31 saying they had agreed to put the dispute behind them and to improve relations.
This was made possible through Seoul's reported agreement to conditions known as the "three Nos" - no deployment of additional Thaad batteries, no joining of a US-led missile defence network and no trilateral security alliance with the US and Japan.
Last month, the Chinese partially resumed group tours to South Korea. Mr Moon, in an interview with China Central Television in Seoul on Monday, said he hoped the two countries "can get over the injuries caused by the Thaad issue and jointly step into a new era".
He is likely to find it hard going.
Chinese commentators said the "three Nos" were only an interim solution to the issue, while South Koreans criticised their government for conceding to the Chinese.
Seoul should know that Beijing's stance on the withdrawal of Thaad will not change, Chinese analyst Lu Chao told the Global Times.
He warned that bilateral ties would not change fundamentally until the Thaad issue was resolved, even though Mr Moon's visit would enhance mutual trust.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a daily briefing on Tuesday that he hoped the Thaad issue could be dealt with "properly", adding that the two countries could get ties back to normal by "respecting each other's core interests".
Mr Moon will meet Mr Xi today. It will be the two leaders' third meeting since Mr Moon came to power in May.
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Chinese analyst Zhao Minghao, writing in the Global Times, said this indicated that South Korea would make no concessions to Japan on historical issues.
•Additional reporting by Chang May Choon in Seoul


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A STUDENT from Pontypridd is helping to put the town on the map by reaching the grand final of Miss Earth.
Emma Franklin, 24, who looks set to dazzle in this summer's extravaganza and has received backing from Rhondda Cynon Taf Council, who have agreed to sponsor her in her quest to become Wales' representative.
Miss Earth, now in its 11th year, is an international televised beauty and award ceremony; unique as it promotes environmental awareness and encourages a healthy lifestyle.
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Low-Cal Chicken Salad
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#54 closed enhancement (fixed)
Uploading complete "OSM" format files via the API
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Would be good to be able to upload (via the API) a complete 0.2 OSM format XML file, with both nodes and segments. e.g.
<osm version="0.2"> <node lat='xxx' lon='xxx' tags=/> <node....> <node...> <segment from="xxx" to="yyy" tags=""/> <segment....> </osm>
The only problem with this, of course, would be that the "from" and "to" values for the segments would be unknown if the nodes are new. Could we maybe implement a system where if node and segment IDs were negative numbers, e.g.
<node lat='xxx' lon='yyy' tags= uid='-1'>
<segment from='-1' to='-2' tags=/>
then OSM would just allocate the next available ID to them?
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comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by
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comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by
I dislike the idea of reinterpreting the meaning of "id" as "id, but if it is negative, it is an id with the boolean flag that the object is new".
I think this is hacky. Better express it as it should be expressed: one attribute for the id another for the fact that the object is new.
As example:
<node uid="1" action="new" lat=... lon=... />
Here, the id is self generated from the application. The application must not assume that this id is still valid after sending the data, since it will be changed by the server as soon as the data arrived. The server response to the request by transferring back all sent objects with correct id's replaced.
The id specified together with action="new" must be unique among the file transfered but may be doubled to any object not transfered in this session. If action="new" is ommited, the uid attribute must be unique among the whole database (this means: must be obtained from the server in an earlier request).
This way, we can also sent deleting requests in the same scheme: action="delete"
Summary: My suggestion is to add an attribute "action" to each object sent by this (and only this) summary request.
action defaults to "change", so if it is ommited, the object is changed to the given value. If action is "new", the object is created as new in the database (if not any merging rule like "equal lon/lat" applies, in which case the action is interpreted as "changing the merged object"). If action is "delete", the object is deleted (if it was in database. If not, nothing happens).
comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by
Ok. I no longer have a problem with negative ids. ;-) My sugestion is flawed, please do not implement this!
In fact, JOSM already implemented this system for it save files. Negative ids are "new and thus unknown" :-)
comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by
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|new → closed
Implemented (effectively) in the 0.6 API via the changeset upload mechanism.


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You are on a team of crime scene investigators. Your team was instructed to collect the physical evidence at a crime scene. Arriving at the crime scene your team observes the following:
- Shell casings
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Saudi Arabian women have staged a rare protest against restrictive clothing laws – which state that women must completely cover up in public – by posting pictures on social media of themselves wearing the traditional abaya inside out. An abaya is customarily black and covers the entire body, leaving only the head, feet and hands visible. The protesters have used the hashtag '#InsideOutAbaya' to show their frustration against the strict rules that dictate the way they have to appear in public.
Strict female dress codes have been around for decades in Saudi Arabia, meaning that they have to wear clothing such as the abaya and the niqab in public for modesty reasons. Despite this, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman claimed earlier this year that there are no obligations for women to wear abayas, and that "the decision is entirely left for women to decide what type of decent and respectful attire she chooses to wear". This comment appears to follow on from other liberal steps the Prince has recently taken, including allowing Saudi women to learn to drive and attend sporting events
Despite the government's pushes for a more relaxed representation of Saudi Arabia to the rest of the world, women in Saudi Arabia are claiming that they have not seen a change in the way clothing rules are enforced, despite Prince Mohammad bin Salman's statement. This has prompted a number of activists to begin wearing the abaya inside out as a protest against the authorities. Online activists have announced that this is a silent protest against the authorities, and that they will continue to wear their abayas inside out until they achieve freedom over their dress code in public.
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Even though the current prince does take a more liberal approach to social policy compared to his strict conservative predecessors, there is still a long way to go until equality is achieved in Saudi Arabia. There are still numerous things that Saudi women are unable to do without permission from a male guardian, including basic activities such as setting up a bank account, travelling abroad and getting married. As a result of this, the guardianship system has made Saudi Arabia one of the most gender-unequal countries in the world. Over the past few years, there has been a significant rise in Saudi female activists, matched by a crackdown on women's rights activists across the country. With activists continuously arrested for campaigning against the socially conservative laws, it is undoubtedly still a fearful time for women in Saudi Arabia.


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Instead of ICYMI, or In Case You Missed It, we're going to switch things up a little bit today. We're going to do ICYMH, or In Case You Miss Him. We're going to give your our Meet a Prospect from last year for Jake Cave with it updated for the 2015 season… just in case you miss him. Cave was taken second overall by the Cincinnati Reds in the Rule 5 Draft and will try to stick on their 25 man roster all season long or be offered back to New York for $25K. It's bittersweet since I want Cave back in the organization but I also want to see him get his shot, so stay tuned to see how it all works out.
Jake Cave was taken by the New York Yankees in the 6th round of the 2011 MLB First Year Players Draft out of Kecoughtan High School in Hampton, VA. Jake would ultimately sign with the Yankees for a $825K signing bonus which was the second highest bonus given out by the Yankees that season and more than their first round pick Dante Bichette Jr. Cave pitched from the left side all through High School but the Yankees announced that they drafted him as an outfielder on draft day, something that caught a lot of people off guard. Cave brings a frame that is a little on the smaller side at 6' 180 lbs and is listed as a 1B/OF/LHP so the versatility is there. Cave has only played outfield though for the Yankees so I wouldn't expect to see him anywhere else in the Major Leagues.
Jake attended Hampton Christian Academy his first two years of High School and impressed in his sophomore year with a 10-0 record and a 1.23 ERA with 109 K's in 61 IP. After transferring to Kecoughtan High School he hit .621 with 4 HRs and 16 RBIs with 38 runs scored while being voted an Aflac All American before being drafted by the Yankees. Jake has only appeared in two at bats in the Yankees system before a knee injury derailed his career. He is deemed to finally be healthy now and is looked to make major strides in the 2013 season.
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Webinar: Clinical Essentials and Outcomes Measures for Elevated Vacuum (GP4)
Webinar: Clinical Essentials and Outcomes Measures for Elevated Vacuum (GP4)
Event Details
October 22, 2019 - 1:00 pm
In an effort to provide direction for clinicians considering the use of elevated vacuum sockets, this presentation covers the results of recent studies on the physiological effects of this technology on the residual limb and biomechanical effects on prosthetic suspension. The product of ongoing research from a VA Initiative Project designed to improve socket function and comfort, this data will provide guidance for clinicians with respect to initial assessments, potential outcome measures, justification, and prolonged use of vacuum technology for a suitable candidate.
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Dear donors,
I would like to share a story of a girl who has truly faced the problems of family disputes, though she did a wonderful job to continue her studies.
"Have no fear of perfection, you will never reach it."
- Salvador Dali
Rekha (name changed) is studying in 12th standard, her father is working as daily wages labor in field. But he has bad habit of drinking alcohol, and due to this bad habit he always waste all his income in drinking. Rekha's mother was a house wife, but her husband was not giving money to family and that is why she started working to run the family. Rekha has three sisters and one younger brother. All the sisters are studying in school, Rekha is the eldest one. So she has the major responsibilities of the family.
Due to Rekha's father's bad habit, quarreled happened every day for small things in family. After all the years Rekha's mother survived with her husband but in the recent years Rekha's father started misbehaving with her wife. So her mother took her son and gone to her maternal home. After this incident all the responsibilities of family came on Rekha.
While interacting with Rekha we came to know that she has to start working from the early morning to cook food and other household work to reach school on time. She prepare afternoon lunch in the morning for her father, and all the sister eat mid-day-meal in the school. No breakfast in the morning, they only eats some evening extra food. She also has to wash all the family members' clothes everyday as well as the burden of other household work. But she has never lose her hope, or never thought to quit her studies.
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Sovereign Debt default would likely set off a chain reaction that would ultimately lead to a financial crisis.
By: Lynette Zang
The IMF calls it a "Perverse Feedback Loop" between sovereign risk and financial risk. To postpone the inevitable, governments and central bankers are relying on "Bailouts."
A "bailout" in these cases, is giving tax payer funds to an entity when they can't service the debt they already have, so they don't default. There are "austerity measures" required for this. This means that taxes go up, wages go down and services go down. In addition, they may be required to sell off (privatize) income producing government assets. These measures would make repaying the loans even harder but at least the current payment has been met today.
Global banks are interconnected. So if sovereign bonds default, the impact is likely to be felt in every part of the world by every citizen in one way or another. In addition, they are highly leveraged by credit default swaps, those pesky derivatives. And since many of those transactions are invisible, no one really knows what the full impact is likely to be, but we do know that the impact is likely to be worse than the financial crisis that began in 2008.
The European Central Bank has been using quantitative easing, money printing, to buy excess bonds from these high risk countries. Some think this has turned the ECB into a "Bad Bank." Their solvency is in doubt should these countries default. Since the ECB is the lender of last resort to the European banks, this could put banking liquidity into question. In addition, the European banks themselves have exposure to sovereign bonds they hold.
Money Markets are mutual funds that look to maintain principal with a little bit more interest than one could get on a traditional savings account. In order accomplish this, the fund managers must find short term debt instruments that pay enough to cover their fees as well. With interest rates at artificially low levels, many fund managers have gone to Europe to get those increased interest payments. So when that peripheral sovereign debt defaults, it is probable that money market funds here in the US would "Break the Buck", in other words, drop below $1. This would likely cause a flight out of money market funds.
For all of the above reasons and more, governments around the world support a "bailout" with the taxpayers footing the bill, transferring taxpayer wealth the banks way, both through increased taxation and inflation. Of course they prefer these issues remain invisible because if you started to pay attention, you might loose confidence and it is the job of those in power to maintain that confidence at all costs. You might even convert those pieces of paper into physical gold!
We all live busy lives, so we don't pay attention. Ignorance does not make you immune, it just leaves you vulnerable. If governments are worried about a perverse feedback loop between sovereign debt risk and financial risk, and are therefore building their gold reserves, shouldn't you too? Historically, the best way to protect yourself is with physical gold and silver that you have possession of. It protects your purchasing power and you control it. I can't control what governments and central bankers do, but I can sleep well at night no matter what they do, because I've been building my portfolio since 2002. Get that position built and you can sleep well too in spite if sovereign debt.


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Forrest Edward Horton was born in Douglas, Wyoming on Jan 26, 1937, where him, his sisters and brothers, Edith, Norma, Lucille, Alva and Glen were raised by a single mother, Georgianna Christina Hiser Horton. After graduating from Douglas High, he enlisted in the Navy. He relocated back to Wyoming, now in Casper. He met and married Marilynn O'Clair on February 14, 1980 and helped raise her kids, 2 daughters, Melissa Shumaker and her husband Ernie, Nicole Thompson her husband Wade and 2 sons, Matthew Schluning with his wife Megan, and Levi Shumaker, Kids, Jeff Robertson, Amanda Whitlock and her husband, Harlan, her daughter, Kimber Whitlock, Briley and Patrick Mills, and Son, Clint Robertson and his wife Kelly Kadlick and children, Cammy, Dayna, Shelby and Emily. As well as many foster and neighbor kids.
He worked a variety of jobs, most recent approximately 20 years for RC Cab as a driver. He passed on October 7, 2019 at Shepherd of the Valley after a short battle with cancer, he was 82.
He was the last of his immediate family and was deeply loved and will be greatly missed by all.
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A visitation for family and friends will be held on Monday, October 14, 2019 from 4:00pm until 6:00pm at Newcomer Casper Chapel. A funeral service will be held at 1:00pm, Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 1:00pm at Douglas Congregational United Church of Christ, with interment and military honors to follow at Douglas Park Cemetery.
Donald R. Ordes, age 89, of Casper, passed away October 8, 2019 surrounded by his family. Don was born December 18, 1929 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Vincent and Josephine (Militello) Ordes. He was enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1947 and served valiantly during the Korean War. He was honorably discharged in 1952. He was employed as a supervisor at Kaiser Aluminum in Louisiana for 30 years before retiring in 1982. Shortly after retirement, he relocated to Casper, Wyoming. Don was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus. He was also a board member of NOWCAP. He was an avid hunter, weight lifter, and a former arm wrestling champion.
He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Hazel Ordes, sons Thomas, Wayne and Conrad Ordes, 4 grandchildren, Mindy, Kelly, Ashley, and Nicole, 2 great-grandchildren, James and Sophia.
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Labour are desperate to win in Mt Albert and the TV One poll hs thrown them. They are now faced with an uphill battle to motivate the troops this week after a poll that suggested that they didn't have to do any more to win. That leaves the prospect of a lower turnout than expected because some supporters may well not bother because they think that David Shearer will win hands down. If that coincides with appalling weather and Green voters switching back to Greens because they think Shearer is safe then it could be all on for the weekend.
Meanwhile Labour's spending continues unabated. Not only have they promised over $3 billion of taxpayers money for a tunnel that they can't afford nor deliver, they have also spent up large on the campaign directly.
I have taken the liberty of estimating conservatively how much has been spent by Labour of their own money but more importantly how much of taxpayers money they have spent to ensure victory in Mt Albert.
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Labour has literally thrown their caucus at this campaign. Even Russell Brown has inadvertantly shopped out of town Labour MP's canvassing the electorate.
They knocked on doors too. The weekend before last, I came out my front door to find Labour MPs Grant Robertson and Maryan Street visiting every house in my street. That's old-fashioned campaigning of the kind that is possible in an electorate race, where you actually stand a chance of making direct contact with a significant proportion of voters
It is very difficult to see quite what was so important for an MP from Wellington Central and a List MP from Nelson had yo do in Mt Albert that they also had time to go door knocking.
Not only that we know for sure that Darren Hughes from Otaki, Trevor Mallard from Wainuiomata and Taupo, Annette King from Wellington, Parekura Horomia from Gisborneand other out of town Labour MP's have traipsed the streets in support of David Shearer the candidate from Amman, Jordan.
Even most of the Young Labour tossers who were campaigning on Sunday outside the National Party function were from Wellington.
Labour quite simply is spending huge amounts to ensure they win. David Shearer had better come in more than 5000 in front of Melissa Lee or else it may well be seen as a moral loss let alone a financial loss. I wonder if they will fight as hard for Horomia's seat when he chucks it in shortly.
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Each manic or depressive stage may last from just a few minutes to several days at a time. Living with depression or someone showing different stages, makes it difficult to identify right away.
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The religious affairs training 2018 for local officers in Yen Bai province's Yen Van district was organized from November 8-9.
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Last month, ISW Director of Tradecraft and Innovation, Colonel (Ret.) Ketti Davison, traveled to Iraq with a team of experts organized by the UNHCR. She got a first-hand look at some of the security and humanitarian conditions on the ground in IDP and refugee camps and met with government officials during her trip to central and northern Iraq. On this episode of ISW Overwatch, Ketti shares her key takeaways from this trip and discusses the broader political dynamics that are currently shaking Iraq, a country that remains vital to U.S. national security interests.
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Bob's 2019 Spring Gobbler
April 30, 2020
My son, Bob, is a better hunter than I am. This has become increasingly evident during the spring when he has managed to kill gobblers almost every spring for the past 10 years without having much time to scout ahead of the season or to hunt during the season.
Last year was no different. In fact, he killed a big gobbler on the season's first day.
I had scouted a lot of different places prior to the season and had located a gobbler that hung out on a ridge that is one of Bob's favorite places to hunt for spring gobblers.
In addition, the gobbler had hollered loud and proud there the day prior to the opening day. "I know that's where you'll want to hunt," I had told him.
"I'll be there by 4:30," he told me.
"I'm not coming till 5:10," I replied. "It doesn't get light till 5:40."
We sat on a log till after 5:40. I didn't think we would be able to hear a gobble even if the tom was sounding off. The wind was howling like a banshee, and I have never had much luck hunting turkeys on windy days. The wind didn't bother this gobbler: He hollered from off to our left as the morning lightened.
"We need to get closer," Bob said. "We need to get around the multiflora rose bushes so that we can see him if I can call him up over the rise of ground above him."
I followed Bob over some downed logs and around some rose bushes. At one point I tossed my backpack out ahead of me when trying to scale a log. Thump. Bob gave me "the look."
When we got to where Bob wanted to be, he told me to get up against a big tree, while he worked forward another 50 yards to set up. I thought he was going to get too close to the bird; but when I saw Bob sit down, the gobbler hollered again.
Bob's in business, I thought.
The wind prevented me from hearing Bob's calling; and when the turkey flew down, he continued to gobble. I could tell he was working away from Bob, so I got out two of my callers, thinking I might be able to help call the gobbler back to Bob.
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Near and dear to the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation is their sacred site of Split Rock or Tahetaway, which means The Gate that Opens. It is considered a power point for gaining wisdom and understanding. Ancestors would meet there and powwow out their decisions.
This ancient rock formation is central to a series of giant turtle formations, which line up and are just off summer sunrise solstice. The stones had been shaped, modified and put into position. There are two astronomical alignments still functioning. According to anthropologist David Johnson from Poughkeepsie this site qualifies for a national historic preservation.
Relatives from the Andes have implored the Ramapough to reactivate this portal for the healing of the people and Mother Earth. In keeping with their indigenous traditions, on June 20, 2020, a sunrise ceremony was held at Split Rock with Unity Earth to begin reactivating this sacred site. Unity Earth is traveling around the globe, engaging with Indigenous nations and peoples for the healing of human kind and Mother Earth.
Our goal is to support the reactivation of this sacred site. Plans are for a large ceremonial tipi to be erected at the site for hosting ceremonies. This will allow relatives from the global community to visit and offer prayers and blessings. The cost of the tipi is $3,000.00.
At this year's UUA General Assembly, an Action of Immediate Witness, "400 Years of White Supremacist Colonialism" addresses the white colonial settler history and effects on Indigenous nations and people's. Excerpt:
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that we, the delegates of the 2020 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association, call upon the Unitarian Universalist Association and its member congregations to:
Continue to gather in solidarity with the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Standing Rock nation, and all Indigenous peoples struggling to preserve their lands, waters, peoples, sacred sites, and sovereignty.
Continue to push for release of Indigenous Water Protectors from prisons, end public policies that criminalize resistance to extractive colonialism, and adopt a vision of prison abolition.
Work nationally, statewide, and locally on public policy that is decolonizing – such as establishing Indigenous Peoples Day, including Indigenous peoples' histories in public education curricula, and eliminating racist monuments, flags, and mascots.
Work to stop and reverse ecological harm in genuine collaboration with and taking leadership from communities most consistently and harshly impacted by extractive exploitation of land, water, air, and all beings.
Research, identify, and acknowledge the Indigenous peoples historically and/or currently connected with the land occupied by congregations, and find ways to act in solidarity with or even partner with those Indigenous peoples.
Examine practices relative to Indigenous people's histories, cultures, spiritual traditions, and rights must be respected. Unitarians and Universalists seek to be more inclusive and accountable.
This is a new project in support of the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation, honoring their culture and traditions, working towards saving their sacred site. As Unitarian Universalists, we are called to work with communities marginalized by our society. Our call to justice, particularly in 2020 with the anniversary of the Mayflower landing, asks of us to support Indigenous Nations which have suffered great harm from the time of first contact through to today. Our Anti- Racism work must go further than our own congregations to support the call of Native Nations as they protect their sacred sites and work to renew Mother Earth. This is our present work in the UUA, and my ministry serves to support this; our Associations progressive stance is aligned with creating a world community.
We are also aligned with efforts to heal the environment due to the climate crisis. This goal and the spiritual practices of the Ramapough Lenape are intrinsic to the goal of healing Mother Earth for seven generations into the future. We are grateful to the Unitarian Universalist Association for providing this platform for us to fund raise.
For more information on the Ramapough Lenape, view #612, On Demand video from 2020 General Assembly. Also view American Native or Mann v. Ford, both on Amazon Prime. Anushiik! (Thank You!)
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Gay For Good (G4G) is the nation's leading LGBTQ volunteer service organization, mobilizing thousands of volunteers annually, to enhance LGBTQ visibility, cultivate understanding and build positive relationships between diverse groups of people, while helping the environment, animals and people in need. Gay For Good volunteers have logged thousands of hours with our sixteeen chapters throughout the USA and are steadily growing to become leaders in social impact.
Since 2018, the all-volunteer Gay For Good board has hired the organization's first full-time employee, added five new board members, and grown the organization by adding six new chapters. Each summer the board meets for a retreat. This year, with COVID-19 travel restrictions, we are forgoing our in-person retreat. Instead we will dedicate time to further our own understanding of non-profit leadership with the assistance of a governance coach. We are in final stages of selecting from three very strong proposals, and this Faithify campaign will fund that training plus ongoing follow up.
So why does this matter? Why is this important?
While our nation is often celebrated as a cultural melting pot, made up of citizens from a variety of backgrounds, races, sexual orientations and beliefs, those differences can also be its greatest challenge to overcome. Many neighborhoods are formed by people of a shared familiarity: cultural identity, religious alignment, economic status or political viewpoints. These neighborhoods exist both geographically and virtually (online), where many people primarily interact with only those who share similar history and beliefs. Fear of those who are different is exacerbated by these divisions, leading to isolated groups of people living in proximity to each other geographically but miles apart in their understanding of their neighbors. Those who perceive themselves to be an "other" within these silos can feel isolated and may struggle to find a sense of belonging in their own backyard.
Gay For Good brings people together. Through interaction and shared goals, people of different backgrounds can foster new relationships with each other and discover through their shared experiences that they have more in common than they knew.
As an incredible byproduct of our work, our volunteers have found community within our community. Often, volunteers lack family support and turn to the LGBTQ community to fill the void left by family rejection. Some face increased challenges connecting with like minds where marketing and traditional business models favor more lucrative social interactions like night clubs and parties. Gay For Good offers an alternative way for people to connect and our members have forged family-tight bonds.
What are the connections between Gay For Good and Unitarian Universalism?
When our board recently revised our non-discrimination policy, we used the policy on the UUA website as a guide to be sure that we created a policy that was as inclusive as possible. Our Boston chapter has a long-standing partnership with Arlington Street Church, which has given grants as part of their support of community programs and also provided space for our volunteer projects. Our current national board chair, Art Nava, has been a member of Arlington Street Church since 2004 and also serves as a lay leader at the regional and associational level. His leadership has been shaped by his Unitarian Universalism, and he brings his experience from UU settings to his work with our organization.
Photos: Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie and members of the Arlington Street Church worship team help build wagons at an annual Gay For Good project in Boston that has provided over 600 wagons to partner organization Toys4Joys.
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Champaign County COVID-19 Relief
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Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Champaign County as a result of the outbreak of COVID-19. The Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Church of Urbana-Champaign has created a Faithify crowdfunding campaign to help ease the suffering and uncertainties of families in our community experiencing hardship.
We have selected three organizations whose outreach to families in our community are both reliable and effective. They are
- CU Better Together
- CU FAIR's Pandemic Response Fund
- Channing Murray's Bucket Brigade
Funds during this campaign will be shared equally among these organizations. Our goal is to collect at least $10,000 in this initial round of fundraising. We will continue to offer this as rolling 30 day campaigns to meet the ongoing needs of these organizations.
Many of us have, or will be receiving checks from the government as part of the recent relief package passed by Congress. Would you be willing to donate some – or potentially all – of those funds to our campaign?
Even if you aren't receiving a stimulus check, but are looking for the best way to help those in our community who are in need, this campaign will target the funds where they are needed. In Illinois the peak of the virus impact is going to be mid-May to mid-Jun so now is a critical time to act.
Thank you in advance for your generosity.
Social Action Committee
Unitarian Church of Urbana-Champaign
CU-Better Together
CU-Better Together is a combined effort of several organizations to support families with school-aged children who are suffering from food insecurity during the pandemic. This project is designed to work within the food distribution structure set up by the Champaign and Urbana School Districts. It utilizes the large spaces available at the Stone Creek Church and the Vineyard Church for organizing food. Large initial donations came from United Way, the Community Foundation, the Stephens Family YMCA, and the C-U Schools Foundation. Several local churches and other organizations are supporting this project.
CU FAIR Pandemic Response Fund
Thousands of undocumented immigrants in our community do not qualify for unemployment benefits, and they are among those who need our help. Champaign Urbana Friends and Allies of Immigrants and Refugees (CU FAIR) has established a Pandemic Response Fund. They are working with local organizations such as the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District, the PTA Council of Champaign, and the Immigration Justice Task Force of the Unitarian Church of Urbana-Champaign to provide food and other support to our immigrant and refugee families.
Your funds will be used to purchase and deliver groceries and hygiene and health supplies, free of charge. Information about COVID-19 and how to access healthcare resources that has been translated into Spanish, French and English will be inserted into grocery bags, and emergency cash assistance is provided to those most in need.
Channing Murray Bucket Brigade
Channing-Murray has been preparing a #bucketbrigade of essential grocery deliveries for extremely low-income families in Urbana who are recommended by staff at the Champaign Township Office and the Cunningham Township Supervisor's Office. These buckets have beans, rice, cereal, soup, eggs, and often some prepared meals. Each and every item is sanitized, then delivered to the doorsteps of the families served.
Channing-Murray has been C-U's home for social justice programming over many years, and now there is no better time to put our values into action! Your contributions will be considered a part of a local movement, to provide aid, to be courageous, and to choose a spirit of generosity over scarcity.
Risking in Community
Uncertainty can feel really horrible. Uncertainty can feel invigorating. It depends on what is at risk, how grounded we feel in the moment, and what we have to lose.
Immigrant Detainees Face Horrendous COVID-19 Conditions
Most detainees are incarcerated for only the civil offense of lacking documentation. No one should risk serious sickness and possibly death because they do not have the right documents, but this is the reality detainees are facing as Covid19 positive cases and deaths rapidly increase within New Jersey's jails and detention center.
UUFaithActionNJ has joined with our long-time advocacy partners to demand the release of immigrant detainees from these inhumane conditions. While we take this fight to ICE, detainees are desperate and alone. Your UU generosity can make a difference. A donation today will directly benefit a detainee in need.
In collaboration with our partner, First Friends of NJ and NY, who has ongoing support programs for immigration detainees, we are collecting donations to provide material support for both detainees who remain incarcerated as well as aid for those who are being released from detention. All donations collected go to:
- Purchase inmates' personal products available in the facilities' commissaries,
- Pay for added time on detainees' phone cards so they can maintain contact with families, friends and attorneys,
- Pay for Uber rides for those released from detention, and
- Pay for additional Covid19 protection supplies (masks, gloves, hand sanitizers, etc.) for released detainees.
Our New Jersey detained neighbors need your support NOW! Your financial support furthers our first, second, and sixth UU Principals:
- Recognize the inherent worth and dignity of every person,
- Strive for justice, equity, and compassion in human relations, and
- Strive for a world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all.
While our UUFANJ funding goal on faithify.org is $1,000. Please, help us BLOW past this goal to foster immediate improvements for as many detainees as possible facing these horrendous life-threatening circumstances.
Social Differencing, No Child Goes Hungry Making a Difference during COVID-19
According to NPR, as of April 23, 26 Million Americans have lost their jobs due to the novel coronavirus. Also, nearly 35 million children who rely on school-based nutrition and financial assistance lost access to vital services when COVID-19 forced states to shut school doors. As a result, millions of American families are being forced to choose between heating their homes and putting food on their table, and critical financial and health aid resources are being rapidly depleted.
No Child Goes Hungry is committed to filling the gaps for food-insecure families across the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic by partnering with local non-profits to launch innovative programs that ensure that families are getting enough nutritious food and that no child goes to bed hungry.
Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), we have received over 17 requests for funding of community-based hunger advocacy initiatives. Many of the applications represent new partnerships with innovative, passionate, and persistent community leaders looking to make a difference in society and fill the hunger gap caused by COVID-19.
So far during the pandemic, NCGH has already funded several grant requests, totaling $8,500 which include such initiatives as:
- The addition of a Little Free Pantry on the grounds of All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, DC.
- Both food for the immediate need and funds for the startup of a new community garden with The Good News Community Kitchen in Occoquan, VA.
- Funds to the Bull Run Unitarian Universalists to build a Little Free Pantry.
- Partnering with Food for Neighbors located in Reston, VA, to help them as they supplement breakfasts and lunches to school children in need.
- Funded a Little Free Pantry in Tylertown, Mississippi, which will be placed on the property of Velma Jeans Chicken and Waffle House.
- Partnered with So What Else to provide both funds for food for its Little Free Pantry in Rockville, MD, and also to help provide bags of food for kids in the inner city of Baltimore, MD.
- Sent funding to the Children's Learning Center in Jackson, WY, which is using their van to drop off bags of food for their kids in need. So many of their parents are out of work.
- Supplied a grant to help My Why in Cincinnati, OH, as they raise funds for a van to drive much needed donated fruit and vegetables to their inner-city families.
While these partnerships are creating an impact in communities in need and helping us make a social difference, we aren't nearly ready to stop. With more requests being received monthly, we need your help raising more funds to share with non-profit organizations across the nation that are ready to roll up their sleeves and ideate and execute grassroots solutions to the exacerbated issue of hunger caused by COVID-19.
Please know that any donation in any amount makes a significant impact. The average cost to feed a child a school lunch is only $3.41. Our commitment is to end childhood hunger one child, one meal at a time, and our pledge to our donors is to use every dollar raised in this campaign to fund our community grants.
Please, help us make a difference during COVID-19.
Let's feed some kids!
Volunteers cancel, Guatemala town struggles
Named after the Brazilian environmental activist, Chico Mendes, who lost his life protecting the rainforests, the Chico Mendes Reforestation Project was started in 1998, when the loss of forests and its consequences were evident to those living in Pachaj, Guatemala. This community is located near Quetzaltenango, in the Northwest Highlands of Guatemala. Jorge Armando Lopez Pocol, a respected forester, and his family established a nursery and organizes the village as well as international volunteers to plant seeds, grow seedlings, and protect trees. The average number of trees planted each year in the last five years is 15,000. Currently, Jorge Armando has 40,000 trees ready to be planted.
One of Jorge Armando's main goals is to plant the pinabete tree on the mountainside near his community. The pinabete is the one tree where the rare Quetzal, national bird of Guatemala, will nest. Planting the pinabete thwarts mining companies from destroying the mountainsides and will ensure good water quality for the village.
See the Chico Mendes website: https://www.chicomendesguatemala.org
Because of the pandemic, nine volunteer groups scheduled to plant trees in Guatemala for The Chico Mendes Reforestation Project have canceled. This is devastating for a community that is living on the edge. The Project depends on volunteer groups to transfer seedlings and to plant young trees, which in turn helps support the reforesting of the mountainsides. In addition, income for the community is generated when volunteers pay to stay with families and take Spanish language classes. Without this income, the families and Spanish teachers will lack funds to feed their families.
From the three service-learning trips, many in our congregation have ties to the Chico Mendes Reforestation Project and have been supportive in past fundraisers. Our UU accreditation as a Green Sanctuary congregation was due in part from this partnership. In addition, we are knowledgeable about other groups who have traveled or were planning to travel there this spring and summer. We are also well connected to various environmental groups and will communicate the needs of this project to them.
The funds raised will go for seeds, fertilizer, tools, supplies, and staff salaries to maintain the young trees and protect the forests. Families who provide homestays and Spanish teachers will be compensated.
Contributions and support now will ensure the continuation and survival of the Chico Mendes Reforestation project. The welfare of these community members and the protection of fragile ecosystems in the Guatemala Highlands also depend on contributions to weather the current crisis caused by the pandemic. In the future groups will again take trips and plant trees with the villagers of Pachaj, hosted by Jorge Armando.
"When I was in Guatemala, I observed the Chico Mendes group grow healthy seedlings and plant trees where they had been cut down. Reforestation is an important job for humanity in terms of climate change." -Dr. John Hartman, Plant Pathologist Emeritus, University of Kentucky
"The Chico Mendes Reforestation Project not only provides clean air and water for the local people, but it also sends the message that sustainability is possible if everyone contributes. By donating to this cause, you will be improving the local people's quality of life and showing the world how vital sustainability is for our well being". -Justine Reschly, High School senior
"What most impressed me about the Chico Mendes Reforestation Project in Guatemala was the engagement and investment in youth. They didn't just work on reforestation, but they educated, hired, and mentored youth to participate in their work. They understand the importance of youth education and involvement to bring change in future generations. " -Meredith Gall, parent and participant
"The Chico Mendes Reforestation Project is as much a community and social justice effort as it is an environmental justice organization. Planting trees and protecting the environment is intimately related to protecting and providing for the local community. The connection with the local community both supports Chico Mendes and also provides a community stake in both the project and their environment. Our family's connection with the community was good for us, them and, I firmly believe, the wider world." -Dan Gall, parent and participant
Faithify Campaigns and COVID-19
In March, we created new policies to help our Faithify community weather the uncertainties of fundraising when everything is changing so quickly.
Roundtable Revival Mentoring Program for Persons Who are Reentering the Community
Persons returning to the community face significant barriers rebuilding their lives after experiencing contact with the criminal justice system (Coates, 2015). Examples include those citizens on probation or parole or those returning to the community after a period of incarceration in jail or prison. These challenges are being magnified by the COVID-19 epidemic.
Currently in Eau Claire County, WI, we do not have a comprehensive reentry program that can serve those being released from jail or prison, so even a brief jail stay could result in the loss of housing, employment, family disruption, health care coverage, or transportation. Recent estimates suggest that each year 15-20 women return to the Eau Claire area after release from prison. In 2017, the Eau Claire County Jail released 4,916 people. Roundtable Revival has a goal of providing resources and programming to support reintegration into the community and reduce recidivism.
We will ultimately offer a variety of reentry programs, including the Mentoring Program, Reentry Peer Support, a First Stop program for people being released from jail, and an alcohol-free tavern as a place where people can gather in the evening to socialize, relax, and have fun. Roundtable Revival utilizes a foundation of Certified Peer Support Specialists. Training for the Peer Support Specialist is provided by the State of Wisconsin and their hours are billable through Medical Assistance. These specialists have the advantage of having personal experience with the criminal justice system and have been trained in understanding the available community resources. Ultimately, we hope that any added programs will contribute to the goal of empowering returning citizens and enhancing their overall physical and mental health. We want to offer them the opportunity for an equal place at our roundtable.
Objectives: For the Mentoring Program, we plan to draw upon the power of a mentoring relationship to empower persons as they seek to negotiate the challenges of obtaining housing, employment, substance use and alcohol misuse treatment, healthcare, mental health treatment, and other needed resources. Funds raised will be used for start-up and initial operational expenses. The outcomes will consist of a tracking success across the areas of individual need and an evaluation of the mentoring program by the mentors and mentees.
Mentoring Program Design: The program will be modeled after similar successful programs, best practices, and evidence-based models. Area churches and congregations, the Synagogue and the Mosque as well as the general community will be approached for support by providing weekly meals, Life Skills presenters, and Mentors. The program will meet weekly at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Eau Claire for three hours with each session consisting of socializing and sharing a meal, group support and life story sharing, an educational presentation on life skills, and individual mentoring. Mentors will be trained prior to each cycle and will be asked to attend group mentor meetings periodically during the cycle. The initial focus will be providing a safe space for adult females who volunteer and are accepted into the program. If there is enough interest, a second site will serve adult men. We envision conducting mentoring program cycles in the fall and spring. A graduation ceremony will be held at the conclusion of each cycle.
All mentors will be asked to complete an initial six-hour workshop training. Group meetings of Mentors will occur prior to the weekly meetings every third week of the program duration. Mentors will be given a manual with a mentor job description and training materials.
Expected outcomes: Our mission is: To cultivate inclusive, accepting, and empowering spaces WITH people who face barriers due to a conviction history: Facilitating full reintegration into our community. We plan to link individuals with community resources for housing, employment, substance use and alcohol misuse treatment, mental health treatment, and other needed resources. An overall goal of Roundtable Revival is to foster a more responsive and collaborative system for the employment, housing, mental health, healthcare, and substance use and alcohol misuse treatment needs of returning citizens. In addition, we will instill a sense of community and belonging among individuals who are returning citizens.
How the project will be sustained: The Eau Claire County Department of Human Services operates two programs that will be a source of collaboration and support, The Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) and Community Support Program (CSP). We have also established a beginning relationship with the Eau Claire County Jail, the State of Wisconsin, Department of Corrections, Probation and Parole and The Transition Center (day treatment center) in Eau Claire. Roundtable Revival is incorporated as a State of Wisconsin, certified nonprofit social service agency or 501(c)3.
Unitarian Universalist Songleaders Convergence 2020
UPDATE May 1 : DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, THIS CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN CLOSED. ANY PLEDGES MADE WILL NOT BE PROCESSED. THANK YOU.
UPDATE 4/29: It is with heavy hearts that we must share with you that the Association for Unitarian Universalist Music Ministries Annual Conference in Ann Arbor has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first time in 38 years that we will not gather together to share our riches of talent and friendship. Read the full statement here.
We're excited to bring the Songleaders Convergence back to the Association for Unitarian Universalist Music Ministries Conference to share skills, best practices, wisdom, and of course, songs! The Convergence offers days of learning and networking to nurture a deeper culture of community singing in our congregations and wider community.
We're asking our wider UU community to help us with a match grant. A match grant means that if we meet our $6,000 goal, the UU Funding program will match it with ANOTHER $6,000! This means if you give $20, you're actually contributing $40!
We're inviting songleaders from across our Faith and all those who love community singing to converge for what promises to be a transformative gathering of resonance, harmony, and rhythm. The Convergence scholarship opportunities are aimed at making it possible for new leaders and participants of color who may not otherwise have the chance to participate to be with us in a community of growth and welcome.
Money raised will provide scholarships for leaders and participants of color and for first time attendees to the AUUMM Conference.
What can attendees expect?
- Confident & invitational songleading
- Songleading for worship and in the streets
- Deepening cultural context, story, worship, and preaching through songleading
- Harmony singing, vocal technique, circle songs, and more!
Who's invited?
- Ministers and seminarians
- Religious Educators
- Choir members and singers
- Musicians both professional and recreational
- Anyone leading or wanting to lead songs in worship, around the dinner table, at the board meeting, or in the streets
- You!
The Wisconsin Unitarian Universalist State Action Network
The Wisconsin Unitarian Universalist State Action Network aims to build a statewide advocacy network employing the power of the collective voices of Unitarian Universalists in Wisconsin. We uphold the worth and dignity of every person while acting to further justice, equity, and compassion. Through a website and social media the Wisconsin Unitarian Universalist State Action Network hopes to provide portals for Wisconsin UU congregations to share what they are doing and see what other UU congregations are doing to advance justice, equity and compassion, through the website and social media to provide in depth information about the issue critical to the citizens of Wisconsin, and to provide a forum for individuals to express their actions and need for justice, equity and compassion.


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A friend of mine has "quit smoking" five or six times now, but then one of her New Jersey relatives comes to visit and she takes it back up again. I now feel well within my rights to judge because we're grown ass adults; it's not cute anymore. Furthermore, she's a scientist—she knows better.
Part of the problem may be that she's always tried using the e-cigarette to quit, and e-cigarettes have a pitiful success rate of just 7%. None of the current smoking cessation options on the market—patches, gum, e-cigs—offer fantastic results. So it makes sense that a wearables company would pop up to address this very problem
Chrono Therapeutics, a startup that was founded to tackle disease and addiction management, has created the SmartStop wearable smoking cessation product. The company announced Thursday that it has raised a $32 million Series A round led by Canaan Partners and 5AM Ventures, with participation from Fountain Healthcare Partners, the Mayo Clinic, and GE Ventures.
Wende Hutton of Canaan Partners and Jim Young of 5AM Ventures are both joining Chrono Therapeutics' board of directors.
The company's flagship product, SmartStop, is a transdermal drug delivery system and behavioral support program for smokers. In other words, it's a device you wear on your body to deliver doses of nicotine at specific times.
Currently, there are 45 million smokers in the U.S., and 70% say they want to quit. Every year, 23 million smokers attempt to quit.
Currently, the patch delivers a low dose of nicotine throughout the day, and the e-cigarette and nicotine gum deliver low, sporadic doses of nicotine that don't match the amount a smoker craves.
SmartStop is designed to deliver high doses of nicotine that match the user's craving pattern. It's not so much a learning device as it is a wearable that preemptively delivers doses of nicotine before the craving hits. CEO Alan Levy tells me that the user simply programs SmartStop so that it knows when the user is waking up, and then it delivers a dose of nicotine an hour in advance (since cravings tend to be strongest in the morning after going 7-8 hours without a cigarette). It then delivers another dose at lunchtime, which tends to be the same number of hours after wakeup for most people, and another dose in the evening at dinnertime.
Mealtimes are important since the user's metabolism revs up, which increases nicotine metabolism.
"Clinical studies have shown that the 'three peak' profile is several times more effective than other therapies," said Levy.
SmartStop also comes with an on-demand delivery option to account for changes in a user's routine, such as a high stress or social situation.
"Subsequent generations will allow the smoker to program the system for their individual needs and habits," said Levy. "The first product has the advantage of being incredibly easy to use and will cover the cravings of the vast majority of smokers."
Chrono expects to have FDA approval within the next three years, and the cost to the consumer will be between $400 and $500 for a 10-week course of therapy.
"Over the past 20 years, I have had the privilege of backing Alan Levy as CEO in the founding of three life sciences companies," said Wende Hutton, in a statement. "Alan brings an exceptional track record of success in drug/device combination therapies to Chrono."
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