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First time all honorees are breast reconstruction patients
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - For the first time, all five recipients of the annual Patients of Courage: Triumph Over Adversity awards are breast reconstruction patients. These patients from across the country will receive their awards from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and Mentor Worldwide LLC. In celebration of the first annual Breast Reconstruction Awareness (BRA) Day USA, this year's awards recognize breast cancer patients who have undergone breast reconstruction and use their experiences to help other women facing breast cancer and mastectomy. The awards will be presented during Plastic Surgery The Meeting, ASPS' annual scientific conference, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans on October 26.
"Our Patients of Courage are an annual reminder of the strength of the human spirit," said ASPS President Malcolm Z. Roth, MD. "The group of women honored this year represent the tenacity of women everywhere who battle breast cancer, survive it, then go on to help and inspire their mothers, sisters, and strangers to beat it too."
The Patients of Courage: Triumph Over Adversity awards recognize inspirational reconstructive plastic surgery patients who use their experiences, strength and determination to help others in need and give back to their communities through charitable work.
"This year's award recipients have demonstrated amazing resilience in the face of adversity. That resilience and willingness to share their stories provides inspiration to the thousands of women and men who face similar challenges every day," said David Wilson, Worldwide President, Mentor Worldwide LLC. "Mentor has a long history of supporting breast cancer patients as they navigate the decision-making process following a cancer diagnosis. We feel privileged to be able to contribute to their healing process and provide options to fully restore their authentic beauty."
Continuing in the spirit of giving, The Plastic Surgery Foundation, with the support of Mentor, is donating $5,000 to five non-profit organizations to be named by each of the Patients of Courage.
The 2012 Patients of Courage honorees are:
Danielle Beverly of Buford, Georgia
There is no good time to get cancer, but there are some times that are particularly bad. Danielle Beverly was just 3 weeks away from giving birth to her first baby when she learned she had breast cancer-for the third time. Well, Beverly survived to be a great mom and, as the wife of a former NFL player, she's leveraging her position to help other women fighting breast cancer. The Eric R. Beverly Family Foundation takes care of the economic and social needs of families of uninsured or underinsured breast cancer patients. Their foundation assists with treatment-related costs like co-pays, prescriptions, transportation and childcare.
Gina Maisano of Oyster Bay, New York
With a poor prognosis, New Yorker Gina Maisano was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer just three days before 9/11. She actually saw one of the planes fly over her head. In the days that followed, Maisano watched what happened to the Twin Towers and said, "Those people never had a chance to fight, but I do."
The devastation of her diagnosis turned to determination. She authored The No Surrender Battlefield Guide to Fighting and Surviving Breast Cancer. This book, accompanied by her new online support forum and comprehensive website, provide answers to questions that newly diagnosed women might have. Maisano formed a non-profit known as The No Surrender Breast Cancer Foundation, which now runs the online resource NoSurrenderBreastCancerHelp.org. More recently, she wrote her second book: Intimacy After Breast Cancer; Dealing with Your Body, Your Relationships and Sex. In it, she takes a close look at sexuality and intimacy as breast cancer survivors shift their focus from battling for their lives to preparing for their future.
Dora Arias of Mountainside, New Jersey
Overwhelmed with fear and consumed by darkness, Dora Arias fought breast cancer at age 39. It was a battle hard won, but in the fight she developed a passion to help other women with breast cancer. In particular, women who didn't have the same support she did. Fluent in both Spanish and English, Dora launched the non-profit Curémonos, which means healing together. Now in its third year, the organization reaches out to medically underserved women who experience more difficulty due to financial instability, language barriers and cultural differences. Arias was also named one of the Models of Courage for Ford's Warriors in Pink Program.
Beth Borden-Goodman of Decatur, Georgia
"I'm not afraid of cancer. Cancer should be afraid of me." Beth Borden-Goodman has an alter ego -The Premiere Pink Diva - a joyful, confident conqueror who inspires the same. Beth is the former president of the Atlanta chapter of The Sisters Network, an African American breast cancer support organization. Her creative fundraising efforts, such as Pretty in Pink Breast Cancer Makeovers have garnered publicity for breast cancer awareness through local and national print and television media.
Kim Sport of New Orleans, Louisiana
Imagine being told you have breast cancer not once, not twice, but three times. It happened to Kim Sport, but she decided to fight. This petite but very tough lawyer from Louisiana resurrected an often overlooked law on the books that can benefit all breast reconstruction patients in the state of Louisiana and founded the charity aptly named Breastoration. It's a philanthropic partnership to assist and educate women contemplating surgical options following a diagnosis of breast cancer. A program of the Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans, Breastoration provides educational resources to empower women nationwide at risk for, or diagnosed with, breast cancer.
About ASPS
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is the largest organization of board-certified plastic surgeons in the world. Representing more than 11,000 physician members worldwide, the society is recognized as a leading authority and information source on cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery. ASPS comprises more than 92 percent of all board-certified plastic surgeons in the United States. Founded in 1931, the society represents physicians certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
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Anthropologists and legal historians have long identified certain tribal cultures—warrior, nomadic—with a specific set of honor codes whose violation brings debilitating shame. The individual who fails to take revenge on the killer of a clansman brings shame upon himself (makes him a woman) and weakens his clan, inviting more open aggression. In World War II, the United States sought the help of anthropologists like Ruth Benedict to explain the play of honor and shame in driving Japanese military behavior, resulting in both intelligence victories in the Pacific Theater and her book The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Taking her lead, the great classicist E.R. Dodds analyzed the millennium-long shift in Greek culture from a "shame" culture to a "guilt" culture in his Greeks and the Irrational, where he contrasted a world in which fame and reputation, rather than conscience and fear of divine retribution, drive men to act.
But even before literary critic Edward Saïd heaped scorn on "honor-shame" analysis in Orientalism (1978), anthropologists had backed off an approach that seemed to make inherently invidious comparisons between primitive cultures and a morally superior West. The reception of Saïd's work strengthened this cultural relativism: Concerns for honor and shame drive everyone, and the simplistic antinomy "shame-guilt cultures" must be ultimately "racist." It became, well, shameful in academic circles to mention honor/shame and especially in the context of comparisons between the Arab world and the West. Even in intelligence services, whose job is to think like the enemy, refusing to resort to honor/shame dynamics became standard procedure.
Any generous person should have a healthy discomfort with "othering," drawing sharp lines between two peoples. We muddy the boundaries to be minimally polite: Honor-killings, for example, are thus seen as a form of domestic violence, which is also pervasive in the West. And indeed, honor/shame concerns are universal: Only saints and sociopaths don't care what others think, and no group coheres without an honor code.
But even if these practices exist everywhere, we should still be able to acknowledge that in some cultures the dominant voices openly promote honor/shame values and in a way that militates against liberal society and progress. Arab political culture, to take one example—despite some liberal voices, despite noble dissidents—tends to favor ascendancy through aggression, the politics of the "strong horse," and the application of "Hama rules"—which all combine to produce a Middle East caught between prison and anarchy, between Sisi's Egypt and al-Assad's Syria. Our inability, however well-meaning, to discuss the role of honor-shame dynamics in the making of this political culture poses a dilemma: By keeping silent, we not only operate in denial, but we may actually strengthen these brutal values and weaken the very ones we treasure.
Few conflicts offer a better place to explore these matters than the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In order to understand the role of hard zero-sum, honor-shame concerns in the attitude of Arabs toward Israel, one must first understand the role of the Jew in the Muslim Arab honor-group. For the 13 centuries before Zionism, Jews had been subject to a political status in Muslim lands specifically designed around issues of honor (to Muslims) and shame (to Jews). Jews were dhimmi, "protected" from Muslim violence by their acceptance of daily public degradation and legal inferiority. Noted Chateaubriand in the 19th century: "Special target of all [Muslim and Christian] contempt, the Jews lower their heads without complaint; they suffer all insults without demanding justice; they let themselves be crushed by blows. … Penetrate the dwellings of these people, you will find them in frightful poverty."
For more than a millennium, Arab and Muslim honor resided, among other places, in their domination and humiliation of their dhimmi—and when the occasional reformer equalized their legal status, he struck a heavy blow to Muslim honor. Noted a British envoy on the impact of Muhammad Ali's reforms: "The Mussulmans … deeply deplore the loss of that sort of superiority which they all & individually exercised over & against the other sects. … A Mussulman … believes and maintains that a Christian—& still more a Jew—is an inferior being to himself."
To say that to the honor-driven Arab and Muslim political player, in the 20th century as in the 10th century, the very prospect of an autonomous Jewish political entity is a blasphemy against Islam, and an insult to Arab virility, is not to say that every period of Muslim rule involved deliberate humiliation of dhimmi. Nor is it to say that all Arabsthink like this. On the contrary, this kind of testosterone-fueled, authoritarian discourse imposes its interpretation of "honor" on the entire community, often violently. Thus, while some Arabs in 1948 Palestine may have viewed the prospect of Jewish sovereignty as a valuable opportunity, the Arab leadership and "street" agreed that for the sake of Arab honor Israel must be destroyed and that those who disagreed were traitors to the Arab cause.
Worse: The threat to Arab honor did not come from a worthy foe, like the Western Christians, but by from Jews, traditionally the most passive, abject, cowardly of the populations over which Muslims ruled. As the Athenians explained to the Melians in the 5th century B.C.E.:
One is not so much frightened of being conquered by a power which rules over others, as Sparta does, as of what would happen if a ruling power is attacked and defeated by its own subjects.
So, the prospect of an independent state of should-be dhimmis struck Arab leaders as more than humiliating. It endangered all Islam. Thus Rahman Azzam Pasha, the head of the newly formed Arab League, spoke for his "honor group" when he threatened that "if the Zionists dare establish a state, the massacres we would unleash would dwarf anything which Genghis Khan and Hitler perpetrated." As the Armenians had discovered a generation earlier, the mere suspicion of rebellion could engender massacres.
The loss in 1948, therefore, constituted the most catastrophic possible outcome for this honor-group: Seven Arab armies, representing the honor of hundreds of thousands of Arabs (and Muslims), were defeated by less than a million Jews, the surviving remnant of the most devastating and efficient genocide in history. To fall to people so low on the scale that it is dishonorable even to fight them—nothing could be more devastating. And this humiliating event occurred on center stage of the new postwar global community, before whom the Arab league representatives had openly bragged about their upcoming slaughters. In the history of a global public, never has any single and so huge a group suffered so much dishonor and shame in the eyes of so great an audience.
So, alongside the nakba (catastrophe) that struck hundreds of thousands of the Arab inhabitants of the former British Mandate Palestine, we find yet another, much greater psychological catastrophe that struck the entire Arab world and especially its leaders: a humiliation so immense that Arab political culture and discourse could not absorb it. Initially, the refugees used the term nakba to reproach the Arab leaders who started and lost the war that so hurt them. In a culture less obsessed by honor and more open to self-criticism, this might have led to the replacement of political elites with leaders more inclined to move ahead with positive-sum games of the global politics of the United Nations and the Marshall Plan. But when appearances matter above all, any public criticism shames the nation, the people, and the leaders.
Instead, in a state of intense humiliation and impotence on the world stage, the Arab leadership chose denial—the Jews did not, could not, have not won. The war was not—could never—be over until victory. If the refugees from this Zionist aggression disappeared, absorbed by their brethren in the lands to which they fled, this would acknowledge the intolerable: that Israel had won. And so, driven by rage and denial, the Arab honor group redoubled the catastrophe of its own refugees: They made them suffer in camps, frozen in time at the moment of the humiliation, waiting and fighting to reverse that Zionist victory that could not be acknowledged. The continued suffering of these sacrificial victims on the altar of Arab pride called out to the Arab world for vengeance against the Jews. In the meantime, wherever Muslims held power, they drove their Jews out as a preliminary act of revenge.
The Arab leadership's interpretation of honor had them responding to the loss of their own hard zero-sum game—we're going to massacre them—by adopting a negative-sum strategy. Damaging the Israeli "other" became paramount, no matter how much that effort might hurt Arabs, especially Palestinians. "No recognition, no negotiations, no peace." No Israel. Sooner leave millions of Muslims under Jewish rule than negotiate a solution. Sooner die than live humiliated. Sooner commit suicide to kill Jews than make peace with them.
Yet somehow, however obvious these observations are, their implications rarely get discussed in policy circles. Current peace plans assume that both sides will make the necessary concessions for peace, that compromise can lead to an acceptable win-win for both sides. As one baffled BBC announcer exclaimed, "Good grief, this is so simple it could be resolved with an email"; or as Jeremy Ben-Ami puts it, "It would take sixty seconds to lay out the basic solution." But it's only simple if you assume that Arabs no longer feel it's a hard zero-sum game, that any win for Israel is an unacceptable loss of honor for them, that their "honor group" no longer considers negotiation a sign of weakness, compromise, shameful, and any peace with Israel, any Israeli "win" no matter how small an insult to Islam. During and (more remarkably) after Oslo, it became a matter of faith among both policy makers and pundits that the old era of Arab irredentism was gone. As one NPR commentator noted (during the intifada!), "Any Palestinian with a three-digit IQ knows that Israel is here to stay."
The condescension of this remark is matched only by its inaccuracy. Not only does it consider the entire leadership of Hamas morons, but it ignores how deeply the psychological trauma of Israel affects the Arab world. Hamas' Khaled Mash'al, by no means a two-digit-IQ-er, spoke thus at the height of the intifada:
Tomorrow, our nation [Islam not Palestine] will sit on the throne of the world. … Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing. Apologize today [you infidels], before remorse will do you no good. Our nation is moving forwards, and it is in your interest to respect a victorious nation. … Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day.
Even among the most Westernized Arabs, the wound of Israel's existence cuts deep, as does the instinct to accuse Israel for Arab failures. Ahmed Sheikh, editor in chief of Al Jazeera, blames Israel for the lack of democracy in the Arab world:
The day when Israel was founded created the basis for our problems. … It's because we always lose to Israel. It gnaws at the people in the Middle East that such a small country as Israel, with only about 7 million inhabitants, can defeat the Arab nation with its 350 million. That hurts our collective ego. The Palestinian problem is in the genes of every Arab. The West's problem is that it does not understand this.
Sheikh's conclusion is not that ending the fight with Israel might lead to democracy, but rather that once the West lets the Arabs win against Israel, then they'll build democracies.
As transparently inaccurate an understanding of the Arab world's problems with democracy as this appeal might be, it has many Western takers, eager to preserve their "rational choice models." Many post-Orientalists, in the tradition of Edward Saïd, have predicted the outbreak of democracy any decade now, from the 1990s to the "Arab Spring." Thus, while Yasser Arafat's "no" at Camp David shocked Bill Clinton, Dennis Ross, and a public fed on the idea of a win-win peace process, those familiar with the values of Arafat's primary honor-group predicted that rejection. If "that which has been taken by force must be regained by force," then nothing Arafat "got" in negotiations could possibly wash away the shame of a cowardly stroke of the pen that legitimized Dar al Harb in the midst of Dar al Islam. As a result, while Bill Clinton and Ehud Barak (and, reportedly, some younger Palestinian negotiators) mourned, Arafat returned to the Middle East a hero.
None of this mattered to experts like Robert Malley and Robert Wright, who explained why a reasonable Arafat had to say no. Of course, to make Arafat rational meant blaming the Israelis for the failure of negotiations and for the subsequent explosion of violence against them. When Cherie Blair expressed her understanding for the despair of suicide bombers, she projected her liberal world view on people who actually aspire to the highest honor their society can offer: martyrdom in the war to kill the Jews. Israelis themselves offer ample support for this reversal of responsibility. Unable to tell the difference between strategy and tactics, they criticize "both sides" for playing zero-sum games, even though only their side considers that a reproach.
The policy implications here are grave. The "rational" model assumes that the '67 borders ('49 armistice lines) are the key and that an Israeli withdrawal will satisfy rational Palestinian demands, resolving the conflict. Attention to honor-shame culture, however, suggests that such a retreat would trigger greater aggression in the drive for true Palestinian honor, which means "all of Palestine, from the river to the sea." Recently, military historian Andrew Bacevich, expressing the logic of win-win conflict resolution, wrote that only by leveling the playing field between Israelis and Palestinians, by weakening the too-dominant Israelis, could negotiations really work. By ignoring "strong-horse" Arab political culture and its deep grievance with the "Zionist entity," he never even raises the possibility that parity would produce more conflict, indeed, behavior akin to Syria's civil war, rather than the Scandinavian model of civility he invokes. Israelis, even the peace camp, instinctively know this and resist those kinds of concessions; outsiders and the dogmatically self-accusatory view that resistance as the cause of the problem.
For Israelis, the stakes of these abstruse debates over the meaning and importance of honor-shame culture could not be higher. Israelis' future depends on their ability to understand why their neighbors hate them and what can and won't work in trying to deal with their hostility. It would constitute criminal negligence to ignore these issues.
But the problem goes far beyond Israel and her neighbors. As anyone paying attention knows, the Salafi-Jihadis, who have "hijacked" Islam the world over, embody this self-same honor-shame mentality in its harshest form: the existential drama of humiliate or be humiliated, rule or be ruled, exterminate or be exterminated. Dar al Islam must conquer dar al Harb; independent infidels (harbis) must be spectacularly brought low, their women raped; Islam must dominate the world … or vanish. The language of Shia and Sunni Jihadis alike reverberates with the sounds of honor, plunder, dominion, shame, humiliation, misogyny, rage, vengeance, conspiracy, and paranoid fear of implosion.
It's not that our policy makers—and here I speak of not only Israel but the democratic West—don't take account of honor-shame dynamics. They just don't take it seriously. For them, what they regard as childish, superficial concerns can be palliated with polite words and gestures, and then these good people will behave like rational choice actors, and we can all move forward in familiar, sensible ways. So, when the Pope Benedict's remark about an "inherently violent Islam" set off riots of protest throughout the Muslim world, the onus was on the pope to apologize for provoking them. Only thus could one spare Muslims global derision for randomly killing—killing to protest being called violent.
But culture is not a superficial question of manners. In the Middle East, honor is identity. Appeasement and concessions are signs of weakness: When practiced by one's own leaders, they produce riots of protest, by one's enemy, renewed aggression. Benjamin Netanyahu stops most settlement activity for nine months. Barack Obama goes to Saudi Arabia for a reciprocal concession he can announce in Cairo. King Abdullah throws a fit and the Palestinians make more demands. And too few wonder whether basic logic of the negotiations—land for peace—has any purchase on the cultural realities of this corner of the globe. If only Israel would be more reasonable …
When we indulge Arab (and jihadi Muslims') concerns for honor by backing off anything that they claim offends them, we think that our generosity and restraint will somehow move extremists to more rational behavior. Instead, we end up muzzling ourselves and thereby participating in, honoring, and confirming their most belligerent attitudes toward the "other." They get to lead with their glass chin, while we, thinking we work for peace, end up confirming and weaponizing the Arab world's most toxic weaknesses—their insecurity, their embrace of all-or-nothing conflicts, their addiction to revenge, their paranoid scapegoating, their shame-driven hatred. And there is nothing generous, rational, or progressive about that.
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Richard Landes, a historian living in Jerusalem, is chair of SPME's Council of Scholars. He is the author of Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience and is currently writing They're so Smart cause We're so Stupid: A Medievalist Guide to the 21st Century. He blogs at the Augean Stables. His Twitter feed is @richard_landes.
Richard Landes, a historian living in Jerusalem, is chair of SPME's Council of Scholars and a Senior Fellow at ISGAP. He is the author of Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience and Can "The Whole World" Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism and Global Jihad. He's at Richard-Landes.com and on X @richard_landes.


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Chris received the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television News Directors' Association (RTNDA) for his reporting from the Pentagon during the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001.
Chris formerly hosted his own program on the The American Life television network, and nowadays makes frequent appearances on various cable news networks including the Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC.
In his time with WMAL, Chris helped raise significant amounts of money for charities like the Fisher House Foundation.
Representing the third generation of his family that has been "on-the-air" in radio and television, Chris brings a unique world-view, and largely conservative/libertarian values to his role as talk show host on KCMO Talk Radio.
Marching in lock-step with no politician, Chris says his political party is "Practi-crat", "…because of my distinctly practical political leanings."


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With the highly contagious delta variant surging ferociously, Americans are once again grappling with pandemic anxiety.
The surge has prompted a flurry of new mask mandates, vaccine mandates and other steps to try to get the coronavirus back under control.
While delta can sometimes infect vaccinated people, infections, hospitalizations and deaths are rising fastest in parts of the U.S. with the most unvaccinated people. Hot spots, however, are burning everywhere from Massachusetts to California.
"While we desperately want to be done with this pandemic, COVID-19 is clearly not done with us, and so our battle must last a little longer," the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said at a recent White House COVID-19 briefing.
But if you're already vaccinated, how worried should you be? What new precautions are called for? Here's what to know about the fast-spreading variant and how to stay safe and protect others.
How much more contagious is the delta variant, really?
Very. As NPR has reported, the delta variant appears to be around twice as transmissible as the original SARS-CoV-2 strains.
One recent preprint study from China found that people infected with delta have, on average, about 1,000 times more copies of the virus in their respiratory tracts than those infected with the original strain and are infectious earlier in the course of their illness.
No matter how you look at it, delta seems to spread faster, explains Dr. Helen Chu, associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington.
"You can look at it through modeling, you can look at it through population-level data and you can look at it simply by putting the virus into the cell and looking at how quickly it infects the next cell," she says. "In all of those measures, it has looked like it's more transmissible."
If I'm vaccinated, can I get sick with delta?
Yes, but don't panic. While the COVID-19 vaccines are somewhat less protective against delta, they are still highly effective at preventing people from getting severely ill and dying.
During a recent White House briefing, Dr. Anthony Fauci noted that data from the United Kingdom shows the vaccines are 88% effective at preventing people from developing symptoms.
Vaccinated people are eight times less likely to get sick and 25 times less likely to end up in the hospital compared with unvaccinated people, Fauci said.
For context, the CDC has documented 6,587 cases of fully vaccinated people who were hospitalized or died from COVID-19 among the more than 163 million people who have been fully vaccinated in the United States.
That works out to far less than 0.01%.
"The bottom line of what we are saying is that: Get vaccinated," Fauci said. "The COVID vaccines give strong protection against the delta variant, and it protects you, your family and your community."
Though the CDC only tracks breakthrough infections that lead to hospitalization or death, some states are keeping track of every case. According to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation, among states that track the data, the rate of breakthrough cases among fully vaccinated people ranged from 0.01% in Connecticut to 0.29% in Alaska.
What about long COVID-19?
While the risk of getting sick if you're vaccinated is very low, if you do get a symptomatic case, it's likely still possible to end up with long-haul COVID-19 symptoms, according to virologist Angela Rasmussen, who works with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. She notes the data is still quite limited though.
"Even if you don't end up in the hospital, there's certainly a possibility that you could end up with long COVID," she says. "So the safest thing to do is to avoid being infected altogether."
In fact, a recent study from Israel suggested that even people who experience "mild" breakthrough infections may be at risk for symptoms that linger.
The study found that about 1 in 5 people who got infected even though they were vaccinated — 19% — experienced symptoms found in long COVID-19 patients that lasted at least six weeks, including headaches, body aches, fatigue and loss of taste and smell. The study, however, was very small, with only seven patients out of about 1,500 study participants experiencing lingering health problems.
Should I go back to wearing a mask in public?
Yes, and many experts advise that you up your mask game to wear the best-fitting mask you can.
In late July, the CDC issued new guidelines stating that even fully vaccinated people should start masking again indoors if they live in an area where the virus is circulating widely. (Check this map with data from the CDC to see if you need to mask up where you live.)
The CDC's new recommendation was based on an investigation of an outbreak that occurred in Provincetown, Mass., around the July Fourth holiday. Researchers discovered that fully vaccinated people who caught the virus could carry as much virus as unvaccinated people, which means they could spread the virus to other people. The findings are consistent with those of other outbreak investigations, the CDC's Walensky said.
The CDC also updated its guidance to recommend that everyone wear masks in schools, regardless of whether they are vaccinated.
"I understand this is all frustrating news, and I share this frustration," Walensky said. "We continue to learn each day from emerging science and use this evidence to update our recommendations."
Before the CDC changed its guidance, many health experts were already calling for vaccinated people to resume masking indoors. Many said they'd never stopped masking.
Bill Miller, a physician and epidemiologist at Ohio State University, says he wears a mask in public places even though he's fully vaccinated. "I know that I am extremely unlikely to get seriously ill. But I also know that if I am exposed, I may become infected and pass it on to others," he says.
Do I need a booster shot?
At this point, no. So far the federal government doesn't recommend booster shots to enhance immunity, though it is actively studying the question.
"The CDC and the FDA are working very hard to get as much data as they possibly can to adequately address that question," Fauci told NPR's Here & Now recently. Federal health officials and vaccine-makers continue to follow participants enrolled in the initial clinical trials for the vaccines to see how well immunity holds up with current vaccinations.
So far, experts say it's encouraging. "The level of antibodies seem to be holding up pretty well, so we have to watch and see what happens over the course of the coming months," Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told NPR in an interview.
Eventually, as immunity wanes, a booster could be recommended for certain groups, including elderly people. There's also research underway to test a mix-and-match approach to booster shots. Researchers are giving study participants who were originally vaccinated with any of the three authorized vaccines a booster shot of the Moderna vaccine.
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients said that the administration is ready for the possibility of boosters "if and when the science shows they are needed."
However, some other countries have either already started or announced plans to soon start giving very vulnerable or older people boosters.
What about kids? Can kids get infected and spread delta?
Yes. Although children tend to have milder cases of the coronavirus, they are certainly susceptible to infection. Children remain the least protected age group, since none of the vaccines is authorized for children under age 12.
It's possible that children who get infected with the delta variant might have more symptoms than they would if they were infected with an earlier version of the virus. With a more transmissible variant, "when someone gets sick, they tend to have more virus, and they tend to have more symptoms," Chu explains.
That being said, Chu says, typically "children are not that symptomatic from COVID." Her best guess? She thinks delta "probably will not lead to significant numbers of children getting hospitalized."
But there's still a reason to keep your kids masked up in public, and that's the risk that they could spread the virus to more vulnerable people, says Rasmussen. "Even if it doesn't impact them, it could impact other vulnerable people in their household, such as people who may not have had a robust response to the vaccine, people who are immunocompromised."
Is it safe to fly, especially with my unvaccinated kids? Any other travel precautions to be aware of?
Infectious disease experts say to use extra caution when traveling. "We are now dealing with a different virus, and we are living in this highly contagious virus' playground," Ravina Kullar, an infectious diseases specialist and epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, told NPR via email.
Airplanes themselves are generally deemed low risk, given that the air filtration is typically excellent and passengers wear masks. But getting to the airport and waiting around in it could be risky, especially for unvaccinated kids. With that in mind, Kullar says she would hold off on flying with young kids "until delta plateaus" and plan a road trip instead.
Other experts said short flights may be OK. But if you do fly, make sure you and your kids wear well-fitted masks, ideally N95s or KN95s, or double-mask. And keep masks on the entire time you're in the airport and plane.
Whether you plan to fly or drive, take a look at the level of coronavirus spread in the area you're traveling to, advises Helen Boucher, an infectious disease physician at Tufts Medical Center. She advises canceling plans to travel to places with high or "substantial" spread according to the CDC. (Check NPR's map here.)
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's School of Medicine, agrees strongly: "One should be very wary of taking a child too young to be vaccinated from a low-incidence state to a high-incidence state like Florida," she told NPR. "Glad I don't have to make those hard choices for my family."
If you fly, there's "no need to quarantine after flying unless a person has symptoms," Dr. Tina Tan, an infectious disease specialist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, told NPR via email. But do avoid busy, crowded vacation spots, she warns. Other agree: Beach parties, bars and crowded concerts, even outdoors ones, could pose a risk during the delta surge.
Should I turn down invitations to weddings and other large gatherings?
Many public health experts say it's safe to attend if you're vaccinated, but keep the variant in mind, especially if you're somewhere with rising cases.
Ohio State's Miller says he encourages mask-wearing for an indoor wedding or event "because you're bringing people together from different social networks, creating a great opportunity for an outbreak."
One case study serves as a reminder that the risk is not zero: Six vaccinated people got COVID-19 after attending a wedding near Houston that was held in a large outdoor tent. All the infected people got symptoms, one was hospitalized and another person — who had received India's Covaxin vaccine — died, according to a preprint case study.
As scary as that sounds, "there could be rare events like these where people are in an enclosed tent and very close to each other. But the vast majority — the vast, vast majority — of viral transmission is happening indoors," says Chu.
Does delta cause different COVID-19 symptoms?
Maybe. Some doctors and public health departments have reported that people infected with delta have different symptoms from the original classic signs of COVID-19: cough, fever and loss of taste or smell. Now, some of the more common symptoms appear to be runny nose, sore throat and headache, according to the ZOE COVID Symptom Study, an ongoing app-based research project based in the United Kingdom.
But Chu warns that it's hard to know what's behind that apparent change, "because the population that it's infecting is not the same population that was infected in the prior waves," says Chu. The people getting sick now tend to be much younger, she says.
Since COVID-19 might present differently in younger people, any changes in symptoms could have less to do with the new variant and more to do with the people who are contracting it. "I don't know that you can disentangle that," Chu says.
"This is already a disease that produces a pretty broad range of different clinical presentations in people," adds Rasmussen. She'd like to see better data before concluding the symptoms are, in fact, different.
Do I need those bleach wipes again?
No extra surface cleaning is necessary. Even though it's more transmissible, delta still transmits the same way the original SARS-CoV-2 virus does. "This type of virus, which is an RNA virus that is enveloped, tends to transmit [through] respiratory transmission," Chu says.
That's backed up by "some extremely detailed contact tracing" done in the recent preprint from China, says Rasmussen. The researchers "determined that these cases were transmitted primarily through what they called indirect contact, which is most likely inhalation of infectious aerosols [while] breathing shared air, or through direct physical contact," she says.
That means the primary way the virus spreads remains being indoors with someone who is infected and breathing in their droplets or aerosols. With delta, the difference is that the infected person will make many more copies of the virus, faster, which makes it easier to spread.
But in a way, "that's good news," Rasmussen says. "It means that the mitigation measures that we have put in place previously will still work against the delta variant — it's not being transmitted by some other route."
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If you didn't hear, WRMC is taking the varsity radio game up a notch this month with some friendly March Madness competition. On Monday we released the 32 entries for the first round complete with a sampler playlist of highlighted singles from each 2015 album in the pool. Below you'll find a list of the first round face-offs. So what'll it be….Drake… Read More
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Business Weekly, a production of BBC World Service, had an informative feature on Toby Sheta, a Zimbabwean mobile phone trader, who provided insights into the courage and tenacity required of entrepreneurs under Mugabe's brutal dictatorship (you can download the original Business Daily story in MP3 format here).
During the worst times of the Mugabe regime, Sheta would illegally buy and sell fuel coupons, a profitable enterprise because of the chaos of governmental interference in international trade and domestic fuel markets. Sheta says in the context of survival the "black market actually became the formal market," the place where products were available. "For us the black market was the real market."
Sheta says that what he gained as an entrepreneur in the emergency economy translate into more normalized economic conditions: "The skills that were learned and some of the principles that we're using apply in any situation." Sheta says, "Zimbabweans overall have gone through a school, a very informal school that was first upon us, in some ways in a positive way for us, to actually think and work for ourselves, work with our hands and see where we can see opportunity."
Risk is a constant feature of enterprise, and Sheta testifies to the survival of the human spirit of innovation: "What I've learned is, even as I think of Haiti right now, as long as you're human, and you've got your two feet, your two hands and your brain is still functioning, you'll survive."
"As you go into the problems you also go in terms of our creativity and learn how to survive," he says.
As put by dairy farmer Brad Morgan, featured in Acton's The Call of the Entrepreneur, "You put your butt in the corner, you'd be surprised what you can achieve."
In terms of Zimbabwe's future, Sheta points to stabilization in 2010 and beyond, in part because of the dollarization of the economy, and he concludes that Zimbabweans have "graduated to another level" from the emergency school of economics under Mugabe, looking forward to "see opportunities where in the past we wouldn't have seen those opportunities."


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Women love Will Downing. And men love the women who love Will Downing. In his two decade recording career, the Brooklyn native has carved for himself a solid career as one of the leading purveyors of unapologetic, unabashed romantic music. And while this has not translated to crossover success – or even to broad urban radio success – it has gained for Downing a solid musical legacy and a rabidly loyal following of, well…women.
Downing had his first national exposure as a popular backing vocalist in the 80s before signing with Island Records. He recorded two modestly successful albums and had a minor hit with a cover of "A Love Supreme" before releasing his breakout 1991 album A Dream Fulfilled. It was a marvelous disc that showed Downing not only possessed a fine baritone voice but that he was also was an excellent song stylist, deftly handling such diverse songs as War's "The World Is A Ghetto" and Paul Davis's "I Go Crazy" and providing a stunning, definitive version of Angela Bofill's "I Try." Both the "I Try" single and the album hit the Urban top 25, and critical acclaim for the disc abounded.
A Dream Fulfilled began a period where Downing found his musical identity and was the first of a string of successful albums that focused on smooth, romantic music, mostly ballads. Sometimes unfairly lumped with his friend Luther Vandross, Downing was actually creating his own brand of love music that was less urban and much jazzier. And though Downing's songs were also more sensual than Vandross's, he shared Luther's sensibilities, singing to women on a truly romantic level that clearly went beyond the physical.
In the 90s and early 00s, Downing recorded frequently on multiple record labels. He became a regular at the top of the contemporary jazz charts and released a number of solid albums (perhaps the best of which was his album of duets with saxophonist Gerald Albright, Pleasures of the Night) with only one miscue (All the Man You Need, his lone album on Motown and an ill-advised attempt at an "urban" sound).
In early 2007, Will contracted a rare muscular disease, Polymyositis, which sidelined him for most of the year. It was a devastating attack, forcing Downing into a wheelchair for most of the year, and causing him to lose nearly 100 pounds. Despite the setback, he was determined to complete his debut album for Peak Records, After Tonight, for which he had recorded four songs prior to his illness. During the Spring of 2007, Will worked from his home putting down vocals despite severe weakness and fatigue. He would say it was "the hardest thing I've ever done," occasionally moving from chair to bed to complete a vocal piece. But out of this situation came another five wonderful songs, including the album's gem, "God Is So Amazing," a simple, melodic testimony of faith during difficult times. After Tonight became another fine addition to Downing's growing discography, and "God Is So Amazing" stood as one of the year's best songs.
In 2009, fully recovered, Downing began work on Classique, a new album of originals and three cover songs, with producer Rex Rideout at the helm. The disc was released in June 2009 to positive reviews. And in 2010, he issued one of his most ambitious projects, an "audio novel" called Lust, Love and Lies, that detailed a relationship going through various stages, with spoken interludes between a very strong batch of songs. It was released to enthusiastic reviews.
Looking back over the last two decades, Will Downing has established himself as one of the most consistent, soulful singers of his era and arguably, with the unfortunate death of Luther Vandross, as today's leading provider of romantic, soulful music.


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Nearly 900 participate in Encuentro 2018
Nearly 900 volunteers from the U.S. and Canada are traveling to Guatemala and Costa Rica throughout June and July for Encuentro Missions 2018.
Encuentro is a bi-annual event that offers opportunities for youth and families to serve in missions. During the last 50 years, Encuentro has led trips with the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the Bahamas, and Peru. More than 250,000 students have participated, and as a result more than two million children and adults have heard the gospel.
This is the first time Encuentro will be in Guatemala and Costa Rica. The trip is broken up into two separate sessions, from 30 June to 7 July and from 7 to 14 July, with a total of 500 volunteers serving in Costa Rica and 350 serving in Guatemala.
Local churches are working with the teams in both countries to offer Vacation Bible Schools, sports camps, and other fun activities to the communities. They also have planned construction projects, church planting initiatives, and even medical service projects.
The Guatemala team will serve at the Center for Christian Conventions in Guatemala City, while the Costa Rica teams will work in and around the city of San José with their home base at the Nazarene Seminary of the Americas (SENDAS).
"We have united under the same goal, prayer, preparation, and execution of projects," said Gabriela Bustos, the Encuentro event coordinator. "The only goal is to be the hands and feet of Christ; to reach the hearts of those who need his love. We feel very blessed to have this beautiful event in our country so that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be magnified."


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Intel Teases Baytrail Performance with Atom Z3770 Cinebench Score
by Anand Lal Shimpi on September 4, 2013 12:49 PM EST- Posted in
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Intel's lone ranger and Principal Engineer, Francois Piednoël, published one of the first semi-official Baytrail benchmarks on his Twitter feed earlier today. The score is for the unannounced Atom Z3770, a quad-core Silvermont based (4C/4T) Baytrail implementation running at a nominal frequency of 1.47GHz (with I assume a > 2GHz max turbo). Francois was careful to only run the multithreaded Cinebench 11.5 test, tossing out a score of 1.47.
To put this score in perspective we need to dig into some of our own reviews. AMD's A4-5000, a quad-core Kabini based SoC running at 1.5GHz, manages a score of 1.5 in the same test. This is also roughly 86% of the performance of a dual-core Sandy Bridge based Pentium processor running at 2.2GHz. Compared to a dual-core Atom Z2760 (Clovertrail) the Atom Z3770 delivers nearly 3x the performance. Finally, this Baytrail SKU delivers similar performance to a mid-2GHz mobile Penryn based Core 2 Duo. Let that sink in for a moment - this tablet SoC delivers better multithreaded FP performance than a 2010 Macbook Air. The quad-core Silvermont vs. dual-core Penryn comparisons are a little unfair as there tends to be no replacement for extra cores in these thread heavy benchmarks. If Intel is able to equal a Core 2 Duo's single threaded performance however...
Single threaded performance typically scales down quite linearly in Cinebench, but that's assuming that single core turbo frequencies aren't insane. Regardless it's probably safe to assume a single threaded Cinebench 11.5 score somewhere north of a 1.5GHz Jaguar. We are also only looking at FP performance here, which is less important for most consumer uses than integer based workloads.
It's interesting to note that the test system (likely a tablet) seems to be running a 32-bit version of Windows. As there are no connected standby enabled versions of 64-bit Windows, that's likely why we're seeing the 32-bit version used here.
Obviously the big unknown here is power consumption. As Baytrail is destined for tablets, I'd expect lower average power than pretty much all of our comparison targets in the graph above. The big question I have is whether or not this is finally performance that is good enough. Although Clovertrail could run legacy Windows applications, it wasn't fast enough to actually run heavy legacy apps well. Paired with a decent IO subsystem (something I'm doubtful most OEMs will deploy), I feel like Baytrail could be on the cusp of delivering performance that's good enough. Part of the problem here is that we're only looking at multithreaded performance, which obviously looks pretty reasonable on a quad-core part. How well Intel is able to deliver good single threaded performance will really determine whether or not Baytrail makes for a great platform.
With IDF 2013 next week I'm guessing we'll see a lot more of Baytrail's performance soon enough.
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Lonyo - Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - link
So based on that, it's potentially 73% faster than the old Atom clock for clock, assuming perfect scaling.
.25 points per GHz per core compared to .1444 points per GHz for Saltwell. -
beginner99 - Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - link
What I consider important is that this is a FP test and Silvermont improves more on integer side so it's safe to say it will beat the same A4 in integer loads (eg. the stuff that is actually relevant on tablets). -
karasaj - Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - link
Isn't saltwell .26 per core? While Baytrail would be .375 per core? .52/2 (saltwell only has 2 cores) vs ~1.5 / 4 (baytrail has four)? -
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - link
Keep in mind that Clovertrail is 2 cores/4 threads, so per core utilization is higher than a standard 2 core/2 thread part. -
karasaj - Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - link
/oh i forgot about that. Somewhere in between then? -
Khato - Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - link
Quick check for single threaded Cinebench 11.5 scores for the Z2760 yields 0.18. So normalizing for frequency (assuming that the Z3770 is actually running at 2.4 GHz) would have Baytrail roughly 53% faster. -
Gondalf - Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - link
Z3770 is not running at 2.4Ghz four cores active here. Likely this 3W soc has only a very little factory fixed turbo with four cores up, so your calculation has not common sense. No, actually you can not calculate the single thread performance.
Moreover remember that A4-5000 is 15W TDP so is not competitive at all in tablets, the only feasible Amd soc is clocked at 1Ghz dual core only. This is the reason Kabini actually is very weak in mobile. -
silverblue - Thursday, September 5, 2013 - link
Again, TDP rears its ugly head. The A4-5000 may be rated at 15W TDP but that doesn't mean it uses it, especially not in every day scenarios.
Consider the following link:
Assume that the A4-5000 idles at under 1W (I've heard it's actually 0.77W). This means that the chip uses 8W more in Prime95, for a total of 9W. An extra 6W is consumed if FurMark is thrown into the mix as that large GPU fires up. You would indeed get your 15W usage there... but certainly not when you're running a CineBench test?
Also, consider this:
Sure, Kabini will use more power, but not drastically so, and it always depends on the usage scenario anyway. Considering the large GPU, higher process node and lack of a dual channel memory controller, Kabini will do quite well in terms of power but is still leaving a little potential performance on the table. In any case, I imagine its GPU will run rings around Bay Trail's. -
Gondalf - Thursday, September 5, 2013 - link
Same is valid for Intel Soc, Baytrail T 3W TDP is with GPU on die up and running, so very likely under cpu stress the four cpus consume less than 2W at 1.47 Ghz. In my country 9W is MORE than FOUR times 2W.
It is a fact that this 3W soc can sport the same throughput of a 15W Kabini.
No, you can not try to defend Kabini, he is not born for mobile but for a console instead. Not a chance, in fact nobody use it waiting for Baytrail, this really counts.
We'll see next year with the Soc refresh, maybe will be better still i have some doubts because the process is the same and the arc too. -
mrdude - Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - link
I'm pretty sure that beating an A4 in integer workloads isn't all that relevant on tablets... :P
The more pertinent questions here are what's the price, tdp, performance, and what are the design wins? It's safe to assume we'll see a variety of Win8 x86 devices, but, again, we're talking about what's relevant on tablets :D


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"We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet"
By President Spencer W. Kimball then, President of the Council of the Twelve Apostles General Conference – October, 1973
Beloved brethren and sisters and friends: Long will this solemn assembly remain in our memories. Long will we tingle from the impressive address of President Lee, following the voting. I think almost if one had a heart of stone, it would melt with the demonstration of this morning to see all the various groups raise their hands in unison to support the leaders of the Church, and it touched my heart deeply.
Another act in the greatest drama is being played. No theatrical stage has ever produced such acts of such engrossing interest and importance as have been the scenes of the history of the Church in these last days. The stage has changed from New York to Ohio to Missouri to Illinois to Utah. The conditions have altered and the people who have taken the parts are different people. Today another great leader is sustained. What a privilege for us who are here to be a part of such an important event! In this change in leadership of the Church, it is important that the quorums of the priesthood and the assembly of the Saints have an opportunity to express their gratitude, pledge their support and confidence, and reaffirm their covenants.
The calling of President Harold B. Lee follows the same pattern as that of the other Presidents back for many, many years. He holds all the same keys, has the same authority, represents the same church except that it has grown much larger.
When the Church was organized in 1830 it was composed of six people. So the Prophet Joseph Smith presided at first over a very small group, but it grew to many thousands by the time of his martyrdom.
When Brigham Young became President, there were approximately 40,000 members. In 1877 the new President, John Taylor, presided over about 145,000. Wilford Woodruff in 1887 had about 192,000 under him. When Lorenzo Snow became President in 1898, there were about 253,000 members, and then Joseph F. Smith had over a quarter of a million. President Heber J. Grant had nearly half a million; George Albert Smith one million, and when David O. McKay became President in 1951, there were over 1,100,000 members.
When Joseph Fielding Smith took over the reins, there were 2,800,000, and as President Harold B. Lee becomes the President, there are about 3,200,000 and growing very rapidly.
It is reassuring to know that President Lee was not elected through committees and conventions with all their conflicts, criticisms, and by the vote of men, but was called of God and then sustained by the people.
The Church has had three different Presidents in three years. A Deseret News editorial writer wrote this:
"In many organizations such rapid turnover at the top could readily bring on confusing shifts of direction and with them a feeling of hesitancy and uncertainty.
"By contrast, the feeling within the church during this historic period has been one of stability and clear purpose, of constancy amidst change." (Deseret News, July 8, 1972, p. A–6.)
The pattern divine allows for no errors, no conflicts, no ambitions, no ulterior motives. The Lord has reserved for himself the calling of his leaders over his church. It is a study of great interest and importance.
President Harold B. Lee became the President of the Church on July 7, 1972, but was ordained an apostle April 10, 1941, and was undoubtedly foreordained to these responsibilities in the far, far-away past as were his predecessors. The Prophet Joseph Smith made this statement over a century ago:
"Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was." (Joseph Fielding Smith, comp., Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 1940 ed., p. 365.)
One of the early apostles spoke of Joseph Smith:
"That authority was not conferred upon him when he first saw angels and had some of the gifts … it required the laying on of the hands of someone who had the authority of the Holy Priesthood."
In due time he received that authority under the hands of those who last held the keys upon the earth. He continues:
"When Jesus … took His three disciples into the mount, He was transfigured before them, and Moses and Elias administered unto them, and at that time Peter was ordained to hold the keys of that dispensation. He held the keys in conjunction with his brethren, James and John.
"They came in modern times and unitedly laid their hands upon the heads of Joseph [Smith] and Oliver [Cowdery] and ordained them to the authority that they themselves held, that of the Apostleship." (George Q. Cannon, in Gospel Truth [Zion's Book Store, 1957], vol. 1, pp. 253–54.)
Significant to us is the fact that there has never been one minute since April 6, 1830, 142 years ago, that the Church has been without divine leadership. No deceased President has ever taken the keys and authorities into the spirit world away from the Church on the earth.
The second that the spirit left the body of President Joseph Fielding Smith on July 2, President Harold B. Lee in that same second as president of the twelve apostles rightfully assumed command and was the true and recognized leader, having been foreordained as said by Joseph Smith.
President George Q. Cannon speaks of the foreordination:
"It is a remarkable fact that Joseph Smith had gifts before he was ordained. He was a Seer, for he translated before he was ordained; he was a Prophet, for he predicted a great many things before he was ordained … ; he was a Revelator, for God gave unto him revelations before the Church was organized. He, therefore, was a Prophet, Seer and Revelator before he was ordained in the flesh." (Gospel Truth, p. 253.)
The Quorum of the Twelve on July 7, 1972, held all these gifts. And President Harold B. Lee has held them and the keys and the fullness of the priesthood since April 10, 1941, reaffirmed by the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on July 7 of this year.
Full provision has been made by our Lord for changes. Today there are fourteen apostles holding the keys in suspension, the twelve and the two counselors to the President, to be brought into use if and when circumstances allow, all ordained to leadership in their turn as they move forward in seniority.
There have been some eighty apostles so endowed since Joseph Smith, though only eleven have occupied the place of the President of the Church, death having intervened; and since the death of his servants is in the power and control of the Lord, he permits to come to the first place only the one who is destined to take that leadership. Death and life become the controlling factors. Each new apostle in turn is chosen by the Lord and revealed to the then living prophet who ordains him.
The matter of seniority is basic in the first quorums of the Church. All the apostles understand this perfectly, and all well-trained members of the Church are conversant with this perfect succession program.
Joseph Smith bestowed upon the twelve apostles all the keys and authority and power that he himself possessed and that he had received from the Lord. He gave unto them every endowment, every washing and anointing, and administered unto them the sealing ordinances.
Today we have the opportunity as did the children of Israel to covenant again and to sustain a new prophet. The Lord said to Joshua, and it applies likewise to President Lee: "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses," the Lord says, "so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." (Josh. 1:5.)
"And the people … said … we will serve the Lord.
"The Lord God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
"So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day." (Josh. 24:21, 24–25.)
Let this then be our covenant today. An early leader said: "I look at our President—I always did watch the captain of the ship with peculiar interest, when on the ocean surrounded by icebergs or when in the midst of great storms. … I watched his eye and his demeanor, and I fancied … that I could form a good idea of our peril by watching him. I have been in storms when everybody on board excepting the Elders expected to go down. …" (Gospel Truth, p. 271.)
Now it is our privilege to sustain President Lee.
An important rule was given to us by the Prophet Joseph with which you are probably familiar: "I will give you one of the Keys of the mysteries of the Kingdom. It is an eternal principle, that has existed with God from all eternity. That man who rises up to condemn others, finding fault with the Church, saying that they are out of the way, while he himself is righteous, then know assuredly, that that man is on the high road to apostasy; and if he does not repent, will apostatize, as God lives." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 156–57.)
President Cannon warned again: "If any of you have indulged in the spirit of murmuring and fault-finding and have allowed your tongues to give utterance to thoughts and words that were wrong and not in accordance with the spirit of the Gospel, … you ought to repent of it with all your hearts and get down into the depths of humility and implore Him for the forgiveness of that sin—for it is a most deadly sin.
"The men who hold the Priesthood are but mortal men: they are fallible men. … [No one knows that better than they themselves.] No human being that ever trod this earth was free from sin, excepting the Son of God. …"
This is true concerning all of the brethren, I am sure.
"Nevertheless, God has chosen these men. He has singled them out, … but He has selected them, and He has placed upon them the authority of the Holy Priesthood, and they have become His representatives in the earth. He places them as shepherds over the flock of Christ, and as watchmen upon the walls of Zion. And He holds them to a strict accountability … for the authority which He has given to them, and in the day of the Lord Jesus they will have to stand and be judged for the manner in which they have exercised this authority. If they have exercised it wrongfully and against the interests of His work and the salvation of His people, woe unto them in the day of the Lord Jesus! He will judge them. …" (Gospel Truth, p. 276.)
This same early apostle tells us that the Lord gives the authority to judge and condemn only to the regularly constituted councils of the Church and not to man generally; "and those who lift their voices … against the authority of the Holy Priesthood … will go down to hell, unless they repent." (Ibid.)
It was President Wilford Woodruff who, in his closing years, made this statement: "I ask my Heavenly Father to pour out his spirit upon me, as his servant, that in my advanced age, and during the few days I have to spend here in the flesh, I may be led by his inspiration. I say to Israel, the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this Church to lead you astray. It is not in the program. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to attempt that the Lord would remove me out of my place, and so he will any other man who attempts to lead the children of men astray from his oracles of God and from their duty. …" (The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff [Bookcraft, 1969], pp. 212–13.)
This should give us deep assurance.
One other leader wrote: "Men do not obtain place in this Church because they seek for it. If it were known that a man was ambitious to hold a certain office in the Church, that fact itself would lead to his defeat because his desire would not be granted unto him. This is the case with the officers of this Church. … [They] are responsible to God. God chose and nominated [them], and it is for him to straighten [them] out if [they] do wrong." (George Q. Cannon, in Deseret Weekly, May 21, 1898, p. 708.)
May the Lord bless our new President and his counselors and fully sustain them. May we the people uphold his hands and totally sustain President Harold B. Lee, whom I know to be the Lord's prophet on this earth. I bear testimony that God, whose voice was heard on the Jordan River, among the Nephites, in the grove in New York, is our Heavenly Father; and the one to whom he alluded when he said, "This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased," is our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the head of the Church. I bear testimony too that President Lee is a prophet of God, and if we will follow him, we will make great headway in the kingdom. I bear this testimony to you in all fervor and sincerity and in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.


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Building off TechCrunch's coverage of the recent 500 Startups demo day, we're back today to talk about some favorites from three more accelerator classes. This time we're digging into Techstars' latest three accelerator classes.
What follows are four favorites from the Techstars' Boston, Chicago and "workforce development" programs. As a team we tuned into the accelerator live pitches and dug into recordings when we needed to.
As always, these are just our favorites, but don't just take our word for it. Dig into the pitches yourself, as there's never a bad time to check out some super-early-stage startups.
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- What: A platform that wants to make life insurance flexible and personalized.
Why we like it: The insurtech wave, from auto insurance to home insurance, has underscored the need for more consumer-friendly plans. Life insurance still feels like an untapped part of the equation, and Everyday Life wants to use technology to make the process cheaper and simpler.
The founding team says that there's solid interest in life insurance amid the coronavirus pandemic, which amounts to a $20 billion market opportunity.