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Stay Away from Dr. Lorraine Day
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Lorraine Jeanette Day, M.D., would like you to believe that she has discovered the answer to cancer. She would also like you to believe that her experience as a patient has qualified her to give advice about cancer. She warns people not to trust the medical profession. Her Web site states that "the entire foundation of conventional medicine is based on ERROR." [1] Her videotapes state that standard cancer treatment has never cured anyone and that nobody should undergo chemotherapy and radiation for any cancer [2]. She claims that (a) all cancers are essentially the same; (b) the basic cause is weakness of the immune system; and (c) her diet-centered program cures people by strengthening their immune system [2]. She states that, "All diseases are caused by a combination of three factors: malnutrition, dehydration, and stress." [3] She tells people that, "Drugs never cure disease; they only change the form and location of the disease." [4] She claims that "sugar is as addictive as cocaine" and paralyzes the immune system for four hours" after eating it [4]. She claims that "osteoporosis is not caused by lack of calcium" and that "the more milk you drink, the more osteoporotic you become." [4] She spouts long lists of health problems that she claims are caused by commonly used foods and drugs [4]. She also advises against vaccination [5] and the use of standard treatment for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder [6]. She speaks eloquently and from the heart, but her tapes contain hundreds of factual errors and far-fetched claims. In my opinion, her advice is untrustworthy and is particularly dangerous to people with cancer. She is also a rabid antisemite.
Background History
Dr. Day graduated from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine in 1969 and then trained in orthopedic surgery at two San Francisco hospitals. Her Web site states that she subsequently became an associate professor and vice chairman of the department of orthopedics at the UCSF medical school and chief of orthopedic surgery at San Francisco General Hospital. During the mid-1980s, she received considerable media attention related to the risk of acquiring AIDS through exposure to the blood of AIDS patients during trauma surgery. Her book AIDS: What the Government Isn't Telling You, states that in 1989 she resigned from her jobs because she thought the risk of getting AIDS was too high [7].
Day says that she noticed a small breast lump in 1992 but did not seek medical care until about a year later [2]. A pathology report posted to her Web site states that October 26, 1993, she underwent an "excisional biopsy" in which a 1.7 centimeter tumor was removed and found to contain an infiltrating ductal adenocarcinoma that extended to the margins of the biopsy specimen [8]. A medical report dated November 2, 1993 indicates that she was advised to have more of her chest area and the lymph nodes under her armpit removed and then undergo radiation treatment [9]. The doctor's note indicates that Day wanted only the wider chest surgery. Day's "Cancer Doesn't Scare Me Anymore" video [2] indicates that a few days later she had a second operation to remove the cancerous margins, but the extent of this surgery and the pathology report are not posted on her Web site. Then, according to the tape, she began eating a strict vegetarian diet, eliminated all refined sugar and processed foods, and drank large amounts of vegetable juice.
All went well, she says, until nine months later when her tumor returned, this time the size of a marble. Realizing that "diet was not enough," she turned to "alternative methods . . . one after the other"—a total of 40 of them—trying each one long enough to see whether it worked. (She does not say how she could tell whether a method worked or how long it would take to decide.) Then, she says:
Suddenly my tumor grew from the size of a marble to the size of a large grapefruit. And it did this in just over a period of just over three weeks. . . . It was the size of a softball. By this time the cancer had spread to the lymph nodes under my arm and at the base of my neck and I knew I was in big trouble. At first, surprisingly, the tumor wasn't very painful, but over time the pain became more and more intense until even but even the strongest narcotic pain medicine would not touch it. . . . .
Now I became so sick I had to close my office. As things got worse, I became essentially bedridden and the pain continued to increase. The tumor was so heavy that when I got up even to go to the bathroom I had to support the weight of the tumor with my hand. My body was in total collapse. I had symptoms of numerous other diseases besides cancer. Not only did I have this huge painful tumor on my chest that I had to look at every day, but I had developed a tremor in my right hand that was a specific symptom of Parkinson's. . . . In addition, I had symptoms of multiple sclerosis on the left side of my body, my leg became numb from my knee down, I lost some control of my left leg, and my left arm felt like someone was always grabbing it. The tips of my fingers and toes became numb and cold, a disorder known as Reynaud's syndrome.
I developed what appeared to be allergies to all foods except three. Whenever I would eat any others, I would collapse and have to be on oxygen. And I was overwhelmed with depression and anxiety to the point that that my heart felt like it was going to jump right out of my chest. I was a mess.
For over a year I continued to get worse, all the time becoming more anxious and more discouraged. But I kept going forward. I kept studying and trying one thing after another and I kept studying the Bible and praying, asking the Lord to show me how to get well. But nothing worked. My cancer kept getting worse. Because my pain was becoming intolerable, I found one surgeon who was willing to remove a portion of the tumor just for pain relief without forcing me to have mastectomy or chemotherapy. And all the rest of the tumor was left in place, including the lymph nodes. Then they sent me home to die.
I became so sick that I was essentially bedridden for six months. As my cancer progressed, I became unable to eat and then unable to take fluids. At one point I was not expected to live through the night. My husband who saw my life rapidly ebbing away as my breathing became more and more labored said to me, "I've got to take you to the emergency room. You're dying." And I knew I was. As a trauma surgeon caring for victims of massive injuries, I've seen a lot of people die.
I know what death looks like. And I was dying. But I refused to go. I knew that if I went to the hospital they would give me drugs. I knew that I had so little life left in me that the drugs would kill me. I also knew that God says in his word that he forgives all our sins and heals all our diseases. God says, "I am the Lord who heals you."
My husband and I had been praying together three times a day every day since I'd been ill. I had claimed the healing promises in the Bible, while at the same time following everything I knew how to do, including eating the original diet God gave in the Garden of Eden: fruits, grains and vegetables in their most natural form. I decided I had to continue to trust God. I wanted to stay under his protection and depend on Him rather than depend on human medical knowledge which is nothing more than drugs. . . .
Because I'd been unable to eat for three weeks, nor take in fluid for three days, I was rapidly becoming very dehydrated. I knew I could not continue for long without water. Then the Lord impressed on my mind something I had heard was done in medicine 60 or 70 years ago before the introduction of intravenous fluids. Dehydrated patients could be rehydrated through the colon by water dripped in slowly by enema. The colon can absorb water and even nutrition in the form of wheat grass juice, carrot juice, or green leafy vegetable juice. That's the way I stayed alive for the next few days until I could drink. At that point of death, I had decided to trust God with my life and He showed me what to do.
Then over the next few weeks and months I started to understand the rest of the 10-step plan. Sometimes the information would come to me through the mail anonymously. Sometimes I would become impressed to study in a certain area. And information that I had previously read now became clear in the way it applied to my situation. Of course, all the time I continued to pray and asked the Lord to show me the way to get well.
Finally, the entire plan became clear. From the time I started on the whole 10-step plan with 100% commitment, it was just eight months until all my cancer was gone. It went away slowly, one day at a time. Then it took an additional ten months for me to regain my strength. So in 18 months I was totally well and cancer-free. I'll soon be 64 years old and I am healthier than when I was 30. I have lots of energy and I don't have an ache or a pain anywhere [2].
Unanswered Questions
One way to judge whether a story is accurate is to see whether it is internally consistent. Day's story is not. She states that her cancer grew from marble to grapefruit size in about three weeks—and her video shows a mass in the front of her chest. (It might be interesting to know why she videotaped it.) Then, she says, she proceeded to do 40 "alternative" treatments, one after the other, until she could tell whether each one worked. How long did it take to try these out? What happened to the tumor size during this period? She said the tumor became painful and was so heavy that she had to support it with her hand when she walked. The allegedly tumorous area in the video does not appear large enough to fit this description. Did the tumor continue to grow at an extremely rapid rate? If it enlarged and she intended to document what happened, why doesn't she show subsequent videotapes? Did she actually have a tumor recurrence, or was the swelling she displays in her video merely a large benign cyst (walled-off collection of fluid) or swelling due to inflammation?
Day says that when the tumor recurred, the cancer had spread to the lymph nodes under her arm and in her neck. Yet she describes no further medical care at that time. How could she know whether she her lymph nodes were cancerous without obtaining a biopsy? If she had a lymph-node biopsy, why hasn't she posted a pathology report showing that she had cancerous nodes?
Day says that as her condition worsened, she developed Parkinson's disease; multiple sclerosis; Reynaud's syndrome; allergies to all but three foods; and severe anxiety and depression. How likely do you think it is to develop four significant unrelated illnesses in a short period of time? Do you think it is possible to be allergic to all but three foods? (I don't, because many foods never cause allergic reactions.) Do you think it is likely that eating other foods could produce an allergy so severe that the person would collapse and require oxygen? I don't. Anaphylatic shock is a severe allergic condition in which the person has great difficulty breathing. But the appropriate treatment would be adrenalin, not oxygen. It could also be asked why she happened to keep oxygen handy and why, if it were critical, she didn't die the first time she had one of her "allergic" reactions. Is it possible that her "allergic" symptoms were merely anxiety attacks that included rapid breathing (hyperventilation)? She states that she became bedridden for months and implies that this was the result of her cancer. It seems to me that severe depression and possibly malnutrition were more likely to be responsible.
She then says that over a year she "continued to get worse" and the pain got so unbearable that she had further surgery. I assume she means worse than when she had the serious ailments described above. Is that possible? She does not describe the surgery in detail and does not provide documentation of what happened. Why doesn't she post her pathology report for this third operation? What about her pain management? Why did she delay surgery that she thought could relieve her pain? She says at the beginning that her pain was so unbearable that "even the strongest narcotic couldn't help." She says elsewhere that she did not want medical care because doctors rely on drugs and drugs cause cancer. Yet she apparently took "the strongest narcotics" and did not explore other pain-relief measures such as injections that might deaden the nerves that deliver the pain. She expresses antagonism about cancer surgery that she regards as mutilating. Yet she delayed seeking a minor operation that would not only relieve her pain but would also improve the appearance of her chest. Her willingness to suffer for years rather than seek timely medical care strikes me as extraordinarily poor judgment.
Day states that after slowly recovering from what she describes as near death, she apparently decided that she had found the answer to cancer and began marketing her insights to the world. She apparently believes that her single experience entitles her to declare that virtually everyone who does what she recommends will be helped. And she apparently believes that it is appropriate to tell people that medical treatment has never succeeded in curing cancer. These claims are absurd, but people who are frightened, possibly desperate, and uncertain what to do might decide to follow her advice instead of getting proven care. Day acknowledges these feelings, states that she has been there herself, and offers an alternative to chemotherapy, radiation, and "mutilating surgery." This message can be very powerful because when people feel "understood," they are prone to believe what they are told.
As far as I can tell, Day stopped seeing patients in 1989 and never returned to practice. She still holds a California medical license but her primary activity is the sale of books, tapes, and dietary supplements. Her educational materials were published by Rockford Press, which she appears to operate from her home.
Day's Response to "Vicious Rumors"
Day notes on her Web site that "vicious rumors have been circulating" and that letters have been sent to "people in leadership positions" warning them not to have her speak to their groups. In response to this, she distributed several pages from her medical records and posted part of this information on her Web site. These documents (which I have seen) and what she did with them raise still further questions.
Day's videotaped account [2] states that she developed a Parkinson's disease tremor in her right hand and weakness of her left arm and leg between her second and third chest operations, which would be some time in 1994. However, there is good reason to believe that this was not the first time she had these symptoms. The clinical note of November 4, 1993 was actually longer than the half-page report Day has posted to her site. The original report was at least two pages long and stated at the bottom that it was a "History and Physical." The section below what Day posted reads:
In other words, the doctor reported that Day told him that her left-sided weakness, tremor, and probable diagnosis of Parkinson's disease occurred 3 or 4 years before the episode she described in her "Cancer Doesn't Scare Me Any More" videotape. A line at the bottom of the page states "History and physical continued," which means that there was a physical examination that Day has chosen not to post. (I do not have the page or pages that followed.) She also cut off the bottom of the pathology report of the specimen obtained at her second surgery. According to Day:
My Scripps Memorial Hospital Biopsy Report, on November 4, 1993 showing -"Microscopic Residual tumor at previous bx (biopsy) site." with a Diagnosis of: INFILTRATING DUCTAL CARCINOMA. (Pathologist, P. Price) This biopsy also showed that the surgeon at Scripps Memorial Hospital was also not able to remove all of the cancer. Cancerous tissue was still present at the margins, even after the surgery [10].
To back this claim, Day has posted a page with two images [11]. The upper image shows the top 3 inches of the "Surgical Pathology Report." The body of the pathology report is not included. The omitted portion (which I have seen) describes three specimens: (A) a large specimen of "left breast tissue," which is said to have no residual cancer; (B) a small specimen of "pectoral fascia tissue," which is said to have microscopic cancer present; and (C) a small sample of "most medial breast tissue," which is not interpreted on the page. It appears to me that there is at least one other page to this report and that the report cannot be fully interpreted without seeing the pathologist's conclusions.
The lower image is a full-page copy of her "Breast Staging Worksheet," dated November 5, which contains the handwritten words "Microscopic residual tumor at previous biopsy site" at the top. I don't know whether these words refer to the situation before or after her November 4th operation. Moreover, the studies were done on frozen sections, which probably means that a final and more definitive report exists but was not distributed by Day. Unlike the first biopsy report, the records she distributed do not state that tumor extended to the margins of the specimens. Thus, as far as I can tell, her response to the "vicious rumors" does not actually demonstrate that tumor remained after the second procedure. It would not surprise me if the final pathology reports showed clear margins, which would mean that the cancer might have been fully removed.
So far, Dr. Day has turned down three requests to provide the "missing" records. On April 15, 2002, the Director of Health Ministries for the Seventh-day Adventist Church sent a letter asking Dr. Day for copies of the final pathology report from Day's second operation and complete records of her third operation [12]. On May 28, Day replied that she had already released everything that was needed to prove that she had had cancer, that he had no right to ask for further information, and that there was no "incompleteness" in her records [13]. The issue, of course, is not whether she had cancer but whether it was cured by the surgery she had. Early in June, she refused a similar request made by telephone by a newspaper reporter in Arizona. On June 8, I sent my own request, to which she replied:
Could you please tell me on what authority you are asking for information. Just because you have the funds to pay the monthly web site hosting fee for your own Web site does not give you authority to ask for anything from anyone. Who appointed you as the guardian of America's health? [14]
Basic Facts
The idea that diet can cure cancer by "strengthening the immune system" is a fairy tale. Although diet is a factor in whether cancer develops, there is no scientific evidence or logical reason to believe that dietary strategies can cure cancer. The idea that a "natural diet" can do so is absurd. In recent years, medical scientists have proven that cancer results when the genes that control cell growth mutate. Genes govern and control all basic physical traits, including eye color, hair color, skin color, and even tendencies toward some diseases, such as diabetes. Day's claims are the equivalent of saying that eating raw vegetables can change blond hair to brunette [15].
Even if Day is correct that her methods are the answer to cancer, how can she be certain? Has she ever done a study to see whether people who follow her advice appear to benefit? Does she make any effort to gather follow-up information? Does she know—or care—what happens to cancer patients who abandon standard medical treatment after viewing her videotapes?
I know of one case in which a 68-year-old man with cancer in his throat and behind his nose canceled scheduled treatment with radiation after seeing one of Day's videotapes. At that time, the doctors thought this treatment had 70% chance of curing him. Without treatment, however, the cancer gradually spread to the surrounding tissues. Over a two-year period, the cancer became extremely painful and ate a hole through the roof of his mouth that makes it difficult for him to eat without the food going out his nose. Radiation and chemotherapy therapy made the cancer disappear from his nose and throat, but it has recurred at the base of his brain. Chemotherapy may still prolong his survival, but his trust in Day's story reduced the quality of his life and appears to have shortened it by several years.
Another case I know about involves a 39-year-old woman who suddenly discovered that she had a malignant melanoma that had metastasized to her brain. The doctors thought that without treatment she might live for a few months and that with chemotherapy, she might live for up to a year. Some people in this situation decide that they want to live as long as possible, whereas others decide that it would not be worth suffering with chemotherapy for such a short extension. After listening to Day's tapes, this woman became terrified about chemotherapy and decided that Day's methods would cure her. She lived for about two more months, during which she stopped eating nearly everything she enjoyed and ate mostly raw vegetables and fruits. Before she got sick, eating had been one of her favorite activities. But during her final weeks, she felt miserable because she craved her usual foods, but she would not eat them and wound up "basically starving herself" and losing 40 pounds. I advise people who are terminally ill to spend their remaining time as pleasantly and productively as possible. The patient's older sister, who shared this story with me, believes that Day's advice greatly reduced the patient's quality of life.
Dietary Supplement Hype
In addition to selling tapes, Day sells vegetable powders and other dietary supplements. For many years, the main one was Barley Green, a product marketed by YH-International, a multilevel (MLM) company for which she is a distributor. Day's Web site advises taking the product "to help rebuild and maintain a healthy immune system." [16] According to Day:
Barleygreen is a green powder made from the dried juice of the young green barley leaf which contains the widest variety of important nutrients in the plant kingdom. . . . Green barley leaves contain a multitude of enzymes necessary for digestion, more than a dozen vitamins, 17 minerals, 18 amino acids and chlorophyll. Barleygreen is a whole food concentrate. It is as close to its natural state as possible thereby supplying the nutrients in their natural proportions [17].
During the late 1980s, Barley Green was distributed by another MLM company whose distributor kit featured a videotape claiming that the American food supply is lacking in nutrients and filled with toxins. The videotape also alleged that vegetables are "void of nutrients " and that preservatives, artificial flavors, dyes, emulsifiers, artificial sweeteners, and other "unnatural chemicals may rob the body of energy and vitality. "Fortunately, the tape said, a Japanese researcher named Yoshihide Hagiwara had "produced a cell food to balance the lacking American diet." One segment of the videotape stated that Barley Green contained "16 organic vitamins, 11 major minerals, 18 amino acids, 12 trace minerals, and enzymes" and had "captured the life essence." However, another segment of the tape stated that barley leaf contained "25 kinds of vitamins, including B15, K, and P." (Actually, there are only 13 vitamins for humans, and B15 and P are not among them.) Barley Green was also claimed to "fight pollutants in the body" and to contain "live enzymes," including many that are found in white blood cells. The fact that these enzymes would be destroyed during digestion and therefore would fail to enter the body of Barley Green users was not mentioned; nor was the fact that the amounts of most nutrients in Barley Green were insignificant.
In 1988, the FDA ordered the company to stop claiming that Barley Green would make people more energetic and was effective against cancer, arthritis, high blood pressure, obesity, depression, and many other health problems. The FDA also told the company to stop making false statements about the quality of the American food supply [18]. In 1989, the FDA seized quantities of several AIM products because their labeling or promotional material exaggerated the dietary value of the products. The case was settled by a consent decree ordering destruction of one product and the offending labeling for the others [20]. However, many distributors continued to make false claims, including claims that Barley Green is effective against cancer.
In November 2004, Day terminated her association with the original MLM company, which, by that time, was no longer selling Barley Green. Although she does not directly state that Barley Green is a cancer remedy, the statements on her Web site are still misleading. I do not believe there is any scientific evidence that Barley Green or any similar product can help rebuild and maintain a healthy immune system. In addition, it does not contain "a multitude of enzymes necessary for digestion."
In 2007, the FDA ordered Day to stop advertising that BetaBeet helps prevent cardiovascular disease [19].
Alternative Explanations?
Are there other possible explanations for what happened to Dr. Day? The simplest possibility is that her cancer was not aggressive and was entirely removed by surgery, and that the rest of her problems were emotional. She withdrew from ordinary living for several years, during which time she spent many months in bed and was fearful, depressed, and in pain. Withdrawal is a symptom of major depression. She also exhibits grandiosity ("I know more than other doctors"), messianic feelings ("I can cure the world"), and unrealistic fears (all drugs are so dangerous that it pays to risk one's life to avoid them). She indicates that her methods developed through a combination of study, religious faith, revelation, and anonymous letters sent through the mail.
Day appears to be absolutely certain that she is correct and—in effect—knows more than the vast majority of cancer specialists. This degree of certainty is not unusual among claimants to miraculous cures for serious diseases. These people often think clearly about most things but have a circumscribed set of beliefs that are not modifiable by contrary evidence. They may also go through a mental struggle that ends when their misbeliefs "crystallize" and stop interfering with day-to-day functioning. Psychiatrists refer to this phenomenon as a paranoid crystallization. That is my educated guess about what happened to Dr. Day.
Day's 10-tape audio series, "Conquering Confusion about your medical treatment," illustrates the expansive nature of her thinking. Throughout these tapes, she describes a conspiracy for world domination—with roots going back over 200 years—whose elements include the AIDS virus (created to reduce world population from 6 billion to 500 million); fluoridation; vaccination; pornography; gun control; food irradiation; chemotherapy; radiation treatments; bank centralization; junk food; the medical profession; television programming; computer games (used to program children); subliminal television messages; rock music (a basic "beat" was created to make young people "susceptible to drugs and sex"); the CIA; government-controlled food-management organizations; "the Illuminati" (who began working toward a new world order in 1776); the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Cancer Society; laser and DVD technology; television boxes (that can be used to spy on people) the Communist Manifesto (promoted by the U.S. Government); the news media (behind every story there is a plan controlled from a central source); rewriting of school textbooks; cover-up of the real killers of President John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Princess Diana, and Martin Luther King; "diabolic plans for your health care"; melting of the polar ice cap; and plans by National Aeronautic and Space Agency (NASA) to use rocket power to relocate the Earth further way from the Sun. To guard against these many alleged dangers, she advises everyone to stop watching commercial television (because after only a few minutes, watchers lose the ability to think rationally and resist the "lies" that permeate our society). She also states that cancer patients cannot get well if they work or watch television and that getting medical care and taking medication are a betrayal of God [3]. Do you think these are sane ideas?
Promotion through Infomercials
In 2004, ITV Direct began broadcasting a 30-minute television infomercial to sell Day's "Cancer Doesn't Scare Me Anymore" videotape. During the broadcast, company president Donald Barrett "interviews" Day who states that standard medical treatment for cancer never cures people and that Day's 10-step plan offers a better opportunity for recovery. Infomercial Watch has posted a detailed analysis of the infomercial transcript [20]. In December 2004, the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus concluded that the infomercial was misleading [21].
Anti-Semitic Involvement
In September 2003, Day testified at a hearing concerning Ernst Zündel, a hate propagandist whom Canada was trying to deport to Germany. Various sources indicate that Zündel had for many years funded neo-Nazi groups and published anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denial tracts such as the 1977 book The Hitler We Loved and Why. [22-24]. ADL has described Zündel as "one of the largest distributors of Nazi and neo-Nazi propaganda and memorabilia in the world." [25] At the time of Day's involvement, Zündel was detained in Toronto pending a Canadian Federal Court review of the government's declaration that he was a threat to national security, an order that would trigger removal to his native Germany, which had issued an arrest warrant for him [26]. Zündel's wife claimed that he had used herbs to cure himself of "inoperable, terminal cancer" many years previously but had had a recurrence because detention authorities would not permit him to continue taking them. Her Web site (Zündelsite) listed Day among the signers of a petition to government officials which asserted that, "Mr. Zundel is an honest, outspoken man, and he does not deserve to be sent to Germany to face FIVE YEARS in prison merely because he has openly questioned the accuracy and veracity of what many claim to have been an historical occurence." Day testified that Zundel had cancer and high blood pressure and needed to be released from the detention center so that he could follow a non-drug treatment [28]. A week later, on the Jeff Rense Program, Day stated that she had been a friend of Zundel's wife for 13 years (many years before she married Zündel) and that the Canadian authorities "plan to kill him by neglect and keeping him under pressure."
Day's effort to help Zündel did not benefit him. In February 2005, Canadian Federal Court Justice Pierre Blais ruled that Zündel could reasonably be described as a threat to Canada's security. In a scathing 63-page decision, Justice Blais described Zündel as a hypocrite who cultivated a pacifist public image while guiding, aiding, and supporting neo-Nazi groups around the world, including some that "propagate violent messages of hate" and work to accomplish "the destruction of governments and multicultural societies." A few weeks later, he was deported to Germany, where he was charged inciting racial hatred and defaming the memory of the dead. In 2007, he was convicted of 14 counts and sentenced to five years in prison, the maximum allowed under German law for those offenses. His obituary in the New York Times noted that he was released in 2010 and died August 5, 2017 at the age of 78 [29].
Day maintains an antisemitic Web site of her own that is filled with misinformation and hateful statements [30].
Vicious Lies about Me
Day claims that after her second operation, her breast cancer recurred, doctors did a "de-bulking" operation and sent her home to die, but she cured herself with "natural methods." She has never responded in an honest way to my skepticism. If her story is true, she should be able to produce medical records to document her assertion that"grapefruit-sized mass" was cancerous . Instead, however, she states that her medical records are "private." I find it interesting that she displayed her bare breast in videos but says her surgical pathology report is too personal.
Day has not been happy with my criticism. But instead of responding to a single word I have written, she has chosen instead to try to smear my reputation by posting a "Response to Stephen Barrett" page that links to 18 articles that contain false or misleading information about me. Most of these articles were written by Tim Bolen, a "publicist" who earns his living by helping "alternative" practitioners faced with regulatory action, criminal prosecution, or other matters that threaten their financial well-being and/or license to practice. Bolen's typical "help" consists of libeling regulators, consultants, and others who oppose what his clients do. Since 1999, he has been posting false and defamatory statements about me to his Web sites and distributing them to others who do the samel [30].
One of the 18 links states that I am "de-licensed," which implies that I had my medical license taken away for wrongdoing. The simple fact is that I have never been subjected to discipline and merely retired from psychiatric practice in 1993 in order to have more time to write. I maintained an "active-retired" Pennsylvania license from 2006 through 2018, but neither Bolen nor Day has the slightest in interest in writing accurately about me. Another of Day's links goes to an unidentified article from a chiropractic newspaper which stated that I was sued for "racketeering." That lawsuit, which was filed in response to my libel suit against Bolen, was groundless and was dismissed in 2002.
In 2011, Day added a lengthy analysis in which she (a) misrepresented what I have written in this article, (b) accuses me of illegally obtaining some of her medical records, and (c) claimed (falsely) that a judge rebuked me for "false claims of being a psychiatrist" and refused to allow me to be an expert witness [31].
The Bottom Line
I do not know Day personally and have made no formal evaluation of her mental state. But based on what she has published and her refusal to make crucial medical records public, I do not believe she cured her cancer with diet or prayer. I strongly advise against following her advice.
For Further Information
- Analysis of Lorraine Day Infomercial (2004)
- Responses to Our Criticism of Dr. Day
- NAD Concludes That Lorraine Day Infomercial Is Misleading
- FDA Warning letter to Dr. Day (2007)
- Day L. Drugs NEVER Cure Disease! They only cover up the symptoms. Dr. Day Web site, accessed March 24, 2002.
- Day L. Cancer Doesn't Scare Me Anymore (videotape). Thousand Palms, CA: Rockford Press, 2000.
- Day L. Conquering Confusion about your medical treatment. (10-tape audio series). Thousand Palms, CA: Rockford Press, 2001.
- Day L. Diseases Just Don't Happen (videotape). Thousand Palms, CA: Rockford Press,1998.
- Day L. Vaccinations. Dr. Day Web site, accessed March 21, 2002.
- Day L. Attention Deficit Disorder. Dr. Day Web site, accessed March 21, 2002.
- Day L. AIDS: What the Government Isn't Telling You. Palm Desert, Calif.: Rockford Press, 1991.
- Akin MR. Tissue examination, Oct 27, 1993.
- Eastman AB. Clinical note, Nov 4, 1993.
- Day L. You have cancer. You're going to die! doctors told me. . . Dr. Day Web site, accessed April 3, 2002.
- Day L. Scripps Memorial Hospital—Biopsy-proven carcinoma, Nov 5, 1993. Dr. Day Web site, accessed April 3, 2002.
- Williams D. Letter to Lorraine Day, M.D., April 15, 2002.
- Day L. Reply to DeWitt Williams, EdD, MPH, CHES, May 28, 2002.
- Day L. Letter to Stephen Barrett, MD, June 18, 2002.
- Green S. Alternative Medicine: Fact or Fraud? Presentation at Los Alamos National Laboratories, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 6, 2001.
- Day L. BarleyGreen by AIM: A whole food to help rebuild and maintain a healthy immune system.
- Lowell RL. Regulatory letter to Dennis J. Itamin, Glen M. Tanner, and Ronald R. Wright. July 11, 1988.
- Summaries of court actions: Food/economic and labeling violations. FDA Consumer, 24(8):37, 1990.
- Frankos VH. Warning letter to Lorraine Day, M.D., May 9, 2007.
- Barrett S. Analysis of Lorraine Day infomercial. Infomercial Watch, Aug 3, 2004.
- Barrett S. NAD concludes that Lorraine Day infomercial is misleading. Infomercial Watch, Dec 13, 2004.
- Ernst Zundel ADL Web site, updated February 2005..
- Index on Ernst Zundel. Focal Point Publications Web site, accessed April 22, 2005.
- Holovcaust denial: Erst Zündel/Ingrid Rimland. ADL Web site, accessed, Sept 28, 2003.
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Known as the "King of the Delta Blues," Robert Johnson was born May 8, 1911, in Hazelhurst, Mississippi. His legendary recordings of such blues standards as "Cross Road Blues" and "Sweet Home Chicago" have had an astounding influence on blues singers and rock musicians for generations. His amazing talent and mysterious death in 1938 sparked an old blues folk tale that he sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for his ability to play the guitar.
Having students write their own blues lyrics is a great way to teach rhythm, rhyme, and word choice. The most common form of the blues is referred to as the "12-bar blues" because of the twelve measures that are typical of the style. Share a blues song with your students before they begin to write, and distribute copies of the lyrics to a song with this structure. You may want to play a clip from Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues."
After looking at the lyrics, ask students to identify the structure used. They should be able to see that the lyrics of a 12-bar blues song often follow an AAB pattern. "A" refers to the first and second four-bar verses, and "B" is the third four-bar verse. In a 12-bar blues song, the first and second lines are repeated, and the third line is a response to them-often with a twist.
Next, brainstorm a list of subjects with your students about things that might give them "the blues." Then, have students choose a topic and try to write a blues song that follows the pattern they identified. Invite adventurous students to perform their songs!
- The Robert Johnson Notebooks
This thorough University of Virginia resource features a biography, song lyrics, and critical analyses of Johnson's work.
- PBS: The Blues
This site anchors a multi-media celebration that raises awareness of the blues and its contribution to American culture and music worldwide.
- Robert Johnson Blues Foundation
The Robert Johnson Blues Foundation is dedicated to preserving the music and memory of Robert Johnson through the provision of art education, competitions and scholarships.
- Trail of the Hellhound: Delta Blues in the Lower Mississippi Valley
This National Park Service site includes an overview of two styles of blues and extensive biographies of thirty bluesmen and blueswomen who created a rich legacy of American music that forms the foundation of today's popular music.
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Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.
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Put That on the List: Collaboratively Writing a Catalog Poem
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Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
Students will whistle while they work on this lesson, creating a photomontage movie of their interpretation of a favorite song's lyrics that will end everyone's day on a high note.
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The Connection Between Poetry and Music
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When Microsoft added UAC (User Account Control), the promise was that it will make Windows more secure. Pardon me if I come across as a cynic, but all it seems to be capable of doing is annoying users. Yes, Windows 7 makes UAC a lot more bearable, but it's still annoying. On top of that, it doesn't actually do a lot to prevent malware attacks or malicious program execution. To make things even worse, a new flaw has been uncovered that can be used to completely bypass UAC in Windows Vista and 7.
The developers of popular security software Pervx spotted a new 0-day vulnerability being discussed in a Chinese forum. According to them, "This is a serious flaw because it resides in win32k.sys, the kernel mode part of the Windows subsystem. It is a privilege escalation exploit which allows even limited user accounts to execute arbitrary code in kernel mode."
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I have been very active on the Chronicle website and Facebook debating the merits of new gun restrictions.
While thinking about this topic, a thought occurred that I have never seen debated on any forum. Our Founding Fathers were very intelligent men. Arguably, the best the era had to offer.
We have venerated them almost to the point of godhood for their efforts in establishing the form of government we enjoy to this day.
But, alas, they were only men, intelligent and selfless, but also flawed and fallible. What if, for the sake of argument, they got it wrong? After all, these were, by and large, the same men who drafted the Articles of Confederation, a document that was so flawed it lasted mere years and caused a failed rebellion.
How can we assume that a group of flawed, fallible men could create anything that, itself, was anything but flawed and fallible? And if it is flawed, don't we owe it to ourselves and our descendents to fix the flaws? What are the flaws and how do we fix them? Is the current system of amending the Constitution sufficient to fix the flaws? Could it be improved? Are we fooling ourselves that the current Constitution is all we need, and not in need of replacing after 230 years?
This letter is meant only as "food for thought." Respectful, reasonable and logical debate is encouraged.
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• I'm known for traditional design, but I studied architecture in the early 1960s in New York at the Pratt Institute, where it was all about modernism and the Bauhaus. When I graduated, I applied for a Fontainebleau scholarship—a three-month course of study at the palace in France. After meeting with the judging committee, one of them approached me and said, "Here's my card—call me when you get back." He turned out to be Edward J. Wormley, the great modernist furniture designer. I worked for him for three years when I got back from Europe.
• I first met Albert Hadley at a picnic. He hired me to work at Parish-Hadley, and I was suddenly thrown into traditional. Over the years, that's what most clients have asked me for, but I have occasionally done modern projects. I find myself heading more and more in that direction.
Time of Change
• I've designed many Georgian houses, but I don't think we'll be building them 50 years from now. Classical architecture is wonderful, but I'm guessing we'll move away from it. Younger generations want something quieter, less noticeable, simpler.
• We've already seen such change from the way I grew up. People are now constantly in motion. Technology lets us be everywhere at once. I worked on an apartment for the chairman of Sony. His engineers told me that in the future we will walk into a space and have it become what we need or desire. It will intuitively satisfy us, emotionally and intellectually. I think it's exciting.
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• Vitruvius wrote that the basics of architecture are "commodity, firmness, and delight." Thousands of years later, I believe that this still holds true. To me, the idea of commodity means that a home should reflect the people who live there and how they want to use it. Firmness is architecture that is well built and detailed. Delight is charm. Think of a room with Chinese wallpaper, or Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, which is the perfect synthesis of indoors and outdoors. No one has ever surpassed Fallingwater. That's delight.
• I believe in having one large room in a home. Yes, you need a little office and a bedroom, but all those rooms ad infinitum? I find those houses so boring. You don't use most of the rooms. I much prefer a single, large room; I'll put a table in the center for focus, and then have several seating groups.
• Every room needs a fireplace and a view.
• Red is my favorite color, but I use it as an accent. I prefer a quieter background—stone, cream, greige, gray. It's calming.
• I don't believe in curtains anymore. I like an edited simplicity. The simpler things are, the less I feel the need to change them.
• Wanderlust: I have it. I've been to Tibet, Bhutan, China, Australia, South Africa, and India. I bring a lot of things back. I used a group of textiles I found in my travels as inspiration for a new line of outdoor fabrics for Lee Jofa. But the most important thing is the frisson of learning about another place.
• There won't be any design rules in the future. They don't even exist anymore today. The goal is to choose—emotively and functionally—what you need. To find what delights you. I no longer think it has to have a cabriole leg on it. Who needs gilding?
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Seeking any family members of Jane SHAW's siblings
My maternal Granny Jane SHAW: father William SHAW 1812-1885 born Tipperary & Mary Jordan 1820-1885. Both died at Harrow. I believe Jane had 7 siblings, William, James, Mary Ann, Margaret, Ellen, Bridget Amelia & Catherine. Hopefully any descendants of these may have photos of Jane's childhood etc,also maybe newspaper clippings etc.
Jane married Henry Wiliam Burns. Then having been widowed with 3 young children, married John Francis Pretlove.
My father Gordon Henry urns was from her 1st marriage.
Do any PRETLOVE ( John ) family members have photos of Granny Jane, & her 3 children from marriage to Henry William Buns ?
My father Gordon Henry BURNS was only a baby when his mother was widowed. Other siblings were Mary Burns(Wilks)& Henry William Burns. I have never seen a photo of Granny Jane & only me her once as a small child. Likewise I have never seen any childhood photos of my Dad Gordon.
Photo was taken at Aunty Mary's 80th birthday a Benayeo. It shows Mary, Gordon, Lilian & the Pretlove brothers, Harry, Perc. & George.
I would appreciate so much if any photos are still around.
Birthplace of Josephine Alphonse SHAW.
I only know she was born in 1903 in ? Victoria. Her parents John Francis SHAW & Ellen GALLAGHER were married in the RC church in Hamilton, Victoria & at a later stage lived in Mount Gambier. I'm interested to know where in Victoria & if perhaps the family moved elsewhere before moving to Mount Gambier. She was later the 1st wife of my father Gordon Henry BURNS, born in Edenhope, Victoria. They were married in 04/02/1920 & lived in Mount Gambier until she passed away in St Vincent's hospital, Melbourne, Victoria.
Any small missing detail appreciated as it fills in significant part of my father's life too.
Looking for information about my grandparents WILLIAM HENRY BURNS and JANE SHAW
My father GORDON HENRY BURNS was born in Edenhope Victoria. I'm interested to know of newspapers in the 1800s from the Edenhope, Harrow district, or any other source of information of the life of those times.I know many old newspapers have been "digitalized" but have no idea what they were called.
Sorry folks ! Seeking details for siblings of my GRANDFATHER Henry William Burns
His father Henry William Burns was born in Boston Lincolnshire in 1832 arrived in SA about 1850.
He married Helen Bell May (born in ? Scoland ) at Hynam 13 January then selected land around Edenhope.My grandfather Henry Wiliam 1857-1888 was the first of 10 children. I have only 8 listed.
I am very keen to know more about them, also any information about life in those times, i.e from 1850s.
seeking family details of siblings of my greatgrandfather Henry William Burns 1857-188 m. Jane Shaw.
My great grandfather Karl Ockar Schiefer was born in Crimmitschau Sachsen Germany 29 September 1881. He died in Kleinhessen, Sachsen Germany on 15 March 1921. How can I find more descendants. 1.
On 29 July He married Wilhemine Leithold born 29 September 1853 in Tonehausen. She died on 4 January 1916. Thes details were in trace made about 30 years ago and I seem unable to get any further in the present. What is the best way to discover these ones from Germany, or maybe later descendants who migrated to other lands.
Can someone fill in details and background for my grandfather Henry William Burns born Edenhope Victoria 1857?Where di his parents come from?
William Shaw & Mary Jordan: Burns family history
Like to find information about my great-grandparents William Shaw born 1779 Tipperary Ireland & Mary Jordan born19/03/1820 Wexford Ireland. They married Geelong Victoria 1841 I believe. Possibly William was a seaman ? Anyway would be great to know something of their early years in Ireland & wherever they landed & lived on arrival in Australia. Both died in 1885 & are buried in Harrow Victoria.


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Fuel has historically been the single largest expense at most airlines. Now, with fuel costs declining, employee labor has become the greatest expense for airlines. Declining fuel prices in the past two years drove carriers to record profits—a development very few predicted.
With unexpected capital available, airlines returned profits to owners, signed new labor agreements with big pay hikes, and made significant investment in new planes and products—from upgrading premium offerings to returning amenities previously eliminated. The question remains, how long will this last? More importantly, how well positioned are airlines to absorb costs if fuel prices return to previous levels?DOWNLOAD IMPACT OF CHANGING FUEL PRICES ON THE US AVIATION INDUSTRY [PDF]
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There is a risk that fuel prices rebound and airlines find themselves in financial strain. Higher prices could put pressure on recently signed labor contracts, and force airlines to think more about replacing aging planes with more fuel-efficient aircraft.
During the last cycle, airlines resorted to aggressive restructurings—and even faced bankruptcy. While the industry has changed, the underlying economics of operating an airline have not. Fuel and labor cost cannot be ignored. As evidenced by airlines getting burned by hedging contracts, fuel cannot be managed by the same degree as less opaque factors, such as labor. Taking proactive steps to position the airline for scenarios where higher fuel prices return will be fundamental to long-term prosperity.


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There are many arguments for candles: Lanterns, tealight holders or candleholders.
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Editor's Comment: The authors of this study selected a group of 114 patients who met the CDC "Fukuda" case definition and then determined how many of them met the International Consensus (ICC) criteria. The subset that met the ICC criteria were more functionally impaired, and also had higher psychiatric comorbitities.The authors concluded that "based on the present analyses, the ME-ICC criteria appear to select a more functionally impaired and symptomatic group of individuals, with regards to both mental and physical health." While the ICC group had a higher rate of psychiatric diagnoses, it should be kept in mind that any patient presenting with a wide variety of medically unexplained symptoms will automatically receive a psychiatric diagnosis of somatization disorder. Rather than call into question the validity of the ICC, this study may simply point to a fundamental flaw in the nature of psychiatric diagnoses.
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This article contrasts the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis International Consensus Criteria (ME-ICC; Carruthers et al., 2011) with the Fukuda et al. (1994) CFS criteria. Findings indicated that the ME-ICC case definition criteria identified a subset of patients with more functional impairments and physical, mental and cognitive problems than the larger group of patients meeting the Fukuda et al. (1994) criteria. The sample of patients meeting ME-ICC criteria also had significantly greater rates of psychiatric comorbidity. These findings suggest that utilizing the MEICC may identify a more homogenous group of individuals with more severe symptomatology and functional impairment. Implications of the high rates of psychiatric comorbidity found in the ME-ICC sample are discussed.
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At least three members of a high school football team in Steubenville, Ohio, received word they would not be prosecuted just days before testifying against teammates accused of raping a 16-year-old girl, according to documents obtained by Reuters.
In letters from Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's office addressed to each student's lawyer, the state committed to not prosecuting Evan Westlake, Anthony Craig and Mark Cole, three witnesses for the prosecution.
But DeWine said on Thursday his office had made no deal with any of the witnesses involved in the case.
"We have offered nothing, made no promises to any witness in this case. ... No deals have been cut with anybody," DeWine told WTOV television in comments confirmed by his spokesman.
The case has unsettled Steubenville, a city of 19,000 near the Pennsylvania border where football has a powerful influence.
Community leaders have criticized authorities, voicing suspicion they have avoided charging more players who could have been involved in order to protect the school's beloved football program.
Days after the letters were sent, all three players testified at a pre-trial hearing against teammates Ma'lik Richmond and Trenton Mays, both 16, who were charged with raping a classmate at a party attended by many teammates last August. Richmond and Mays were set to be tried as juveniles in February.
Although evidence in the criminal case showed each player "may not have conducted himself in a responsible or appropriate manner, his behavior did not rise to the level of any criminal conduct," all three letters say. "Therefore, we will not prosecute your client for his actions on August 11-12, 2012."
Walter Madison, an attorney who represents one of the students charged with rape, verified the letters' authenticity, but declined to comment further.
The letters can protect the players from criminal charges, said John Burkoff, a criminal law professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
"If the government says that it won't prosecute you and then changes its mind, you can argue that it can't go back on that," he said. "It's constitutional estoppel (an impediment)."
The letter to Westlake, dated Sept. 28, was signed by Ohio Associate Attorney General Marianne Hemmeter. The other two letters were signed by Ohio Associate Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Brumby and dated Oct. 9, three days before the trio testified against their teammates. Brumby and Hemmeter conducted the questioning at that hearing.
Attorney General spokesman Dan Tierney said the state decided the students would go uncharged only for the crime of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material.
"We would stand by the attorney general's previous comments," he told Reuters on Thursday.
The case shot to national prominence last week when the online activist group Anonymous made public a picture of the purported rape victim being carried by her wrists and ankles by two young men. Anonymous also released a video that showed several other young men joking about an assault.
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The crew will install and replace 1,010 feet of sidewalk on both sides of Rock Street from College Avenue to Mill Avenue. This reconstruction project will also entail new curb and gutter installation on both sides, drainage improvements, and an asphalt overlay on Rock Street.
Why is it important?
The sidewalks and street on this section of Rock Street are deteriorating and in need of repair.
What is the current status?
This project is complete.
How is this project being funded?
Funding for this project comes from the Street Fund. The Street Fund is financed through two sources:
1) Turn-back revenue from the State of Arkansas. The State collects motor fuel taxes, which are returned to the City on a per-capita basis.
2) Turn-back monies received from the County Road Millage Tax. The City receives 80% of the road millage levied by the Quorum Court on real and personal property located within the city.
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Crank it up: Could a car start like a lawnmower?
Dear Tom and Ray:
OK, I know this is a pretty ridiculous question, but I've done a little research and can't find anything written on the subject. I was wondering if it's possible to implement a sort of pull-start system (like a lawnmower has) on my truck. The reason I would want this is for a situation such as a dead battery with no one to give me a jump-start. I just figured that it would be nice to have a system like this for occasional use. Now, I know I can just buy a portable jump-starter and keep that in my truck, but is a modification such as this possible? I appreciate your time and help.— Harvey
RAY: Sure. On almost every car, there's a big, fat nut on the crankshaft pulley that bolts to the front of the crankshaft. That's the pulley with the serpentine belt running around it. If you were to turn that nut, you'd be turning the crankshaft and thereby "cranking the car."
TOM: In fact, on old cars like the Model T Fords, that's exactly what people did. They went to the front of the car, fit a wrench on that nut and "cranked it" until the engine started.
RAY: But it's not so easy with modern cars. First of all, you don't have easy access to it. Most modern engines are mounted transversely (aka installed sideways). So you'd have to smash a hole in one of your front fenders to get at the crankshaft pulley with a crank handle.
TOM: And even on a truck with a longitudinally mounted engine, like yours, you'd still have to blast a hole through the radiator.
RAY: But more importantly, it's not easy to crank a modern engine. By comparison, Model T engines were tiny. You simply wouldn't be strong enough to turn over a modern, high-compression engine by hand— even with the mechanical advantage of a pull starter or a wrench.
TOM: Think about it: Even a tiny lawnmower engine takes some effort to pull-start, and lawnmowers typically have 0.15-liter engines, as compared with the 2.0- to 3.0-liter engines found in typical cars. Or 4.0-, 5.0- and 6.0-liter engines in trucks! RAY: So, a pull start is out of the question. But if you still want to pursue this idea, I guess you could employ some sort of separate electric motor to help you turn the crankshaft. Actually, we have those, Harvey. They're called starter motors! Your car already has one.
TOM: I suppose you could buy yourself a powerful electric drill instead— something that delivers, say, 5 horsepower (the starter motor, for comparison, delivers 8-10 hp). But that drill will cost you about $4,000. And don't forget the cost to replace the radiator you had to pop a hole in.
RAY: So as you suggested, Harvey, this is a harebrained idea. You're much better off with one of those portable "jump packs" that you can use to jump your battery. The most powerful one you can get (which is what you should look for, in terms of the amps it produces) will cost you less than $200. That's the way to go.
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I just want to know if the truck in a straight drive .
Maybe somebody can show harvey how to drift/push start it .
Pull start= Really ?
Some WWII aircraft (the Grumman Hellcat for one) and planes made between WWI and WWII had an arrangement where the pilot could insert a blank shotgun shell in the panel in the cockpit, pull a trigger or drop a hammer, and the ensuing explosion produced enough force to turn the engine over. That would be interesting, to start every trip with a bang.


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Let $\Phi$ denote a root system and let $\mathfrak P$ denote the associated Kostant partition function. Thus $\mathfrak P(\lambda)$ is the number of ways of writing $\lambda$ as a sum of elements of $\Phi^+$. For example, if $\Phi=A_3$ then the longest root $\alpha_0$ can be written as $\alpha_0=(\alpha_1+\alpha_2+\alpha_3)$, $(\alpha_1)+(\alpha_2)+(\alpha_3)$, $(\alpha_1+\alpha_2)+\alpha_3$ or $\alpha_1 + (\alpha_2+\alpha_3)$. Thus $\mathfrak P(\alpha_0)=4$. There is a recursion $$\mathfrak P(\mu)=-\sum_{1\neq w\in W} (-1)^{l(w)}\mathfrak P(\mu+w(\rho)-\rho)$$ due to Kostant.
I can't find very many general results on $\mathfrak P$.
One knows that $\mathfrak P((p-1)\rho)$ is the dimension of the $0$ weight space of the Steinberg module (see Jantzen, RAGS, II.10.12). I conjecture that one also has $\mathfrak P(r\rho)$ is the dimension of the $0$ weight space in $L_{\mathbb C}(r\rho)$, where $L_{\mathbb C}(r\rho)$ is the irreducible representation of high weight $r\rho$ for a complex Lie algebra with root system $\Phi$ (which may be zero if $r$ is odd). A reference even for this basic statement would be good!
[RE-EDIT: This paragraph, including the conjecture, is completely wrong. See Chuck Hague's and Jim Humphreys' remarks below. Of course one must have $\dim H^0(\lambda)_0\leq \mathfrak P(\lambda)$ for all $\lambda$, so this gives a lower bound.]
I'd also like some data on asymptotics. I have used the Maple `Coxeter/Weyl' package to compute $\mathfrak P(2\rho)$ for $A_n$ up to $n=5$. The numbers are $1,3,15,219,7834\dots$ and correspond to sequence A007081 on the OEIS.
[EDIT: These calculated values are in fact the dimensions of the $0$ weight space of $H^0(2\rho)$. Since the conjecture that $\mathfrak P(2\rho)=\dim H^0(2\rho)_0$ is incorrect these do not coincide with the values of $\mathfrak P(2\rho)$ as claimed.]
I guess $\mathfrak P(2\rho) < n^n$. [EDIT: This looks very optimistic---suspect it's wrong for $n=4$.] Any ideas? What about $\mathfrak P (2r\rho)<(nr)^{nr}$ or something better? [EDIT: Similarly.] Lower bounds?


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|Pub: Bethesda Softworks
|Release: May 10, 2011
|Players: 1-8
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
by James Trujillo
Splash Damage is widely known for their efforts in the Quake and Doom franchises, but Brink is looking to make them stand out in a brand-new light. Although it's their first original IP, its roots are firmly planted in some of their previous work. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars will be the most noticeable influence, but they've grown far beyond what they achieved in 2007. We recently got to sit down with the game to see exactly what they'll be bringing to the table in 2011.
The first thing we saw was just how seamlessly they combined their campaign and multiplayer components. Persistent customizable characters will carry throughout three different modes: Campaign, Free Play, and Challenges. All of which will feature cooperative play; although Campaign and Free Play modes will also support up to sixteen-player competitive multiplayer. However, if you wish to play the game alone it's only a matter of changing a single menu option.
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During our first mission, we chose the Operative class and began our primary goal to escort a maintenance-bot into enemy territory. With a quick leap, we were over a few railings and into the fight in an instant; not missing a beat to shoot some targets along the way. Luckily there are no locked animations during these movements, so you can still maintain a free range of motion when aiming at enemies. After the area was clear, we started on a secondary objective that required us to obtain a briefcase off in a separate location. A few moments later we found an alternate route accessible only to our appropriate class, in which hacking a doorway panel lead us to our secondary goal.
Honestly, much of the gameplay felt like Team Fortress 2 with a parkour facelift. That's not a bad thing, but if you're not a fan of team-based multiplayer games, then you might find yourself wanting something more. Fortunately, there is a campaign to go along with it, but the depth that any plot would contain remains to be seen. Brink's release on May 17th isn't too far off, so if a solid multiplayer experience is your cup of tea, then do yourself a favor and get this on your radar.
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The community of the Ambaladara municipality in the Mananjary District had clearly expressed its opposition to the resumption of the illegal gold mining operations by a Chinese company during the September 20, 2016 demonstration, which ended up with the suspension of these activities by the Head of Region. In spite of this opposition, we have just been informed that this Company resumed its gold mining operations since December 25, 2016.
In its Communiqué dated October 10, 2016, the RSCDA-IO/CRAAD-OI had already asked the tricky question of the authorities' position in respect of this gold mining project, which continues causing high risks linked to the probable use of mercury by the Chinese operators, who still did not get the required operating and environmental licences. According to the information provided by members of the Ambaladara community and local civil society, the authorities at both district and region levels seem determined not to intervene.
The Health regional authorities also take the stand to keep silent and remain inactive, although they know quite well that the riverside communities are at high risk of being affected by the disastrous effects of pollution by mercury, which is a neurotoxin product very damaging for the development and functioning of the human brain and central nervous system, particularly for pregnant women and young children. Moreover, mercury can also be disseminated over long distances in the atmosphere and cause a global contamination of ecosystems, fish, birds and mammals, all along the food chain.
This situation clearly reveals that the Chinese operators and their local allies benefit from a great deal of impunity, in spite of the popular protest movements. The situation is even more worrisome in the present context characterised by strong social tensions linked to the campaign of repression waged by the security forces following the acts of popular justice that recently happened in the Mananjary district.
Considering these continued violations of the law and fundamental human rights of the riverside communities, the undersigned organisations call on all parties to learn from the recent experience with some Chinese gold operation projects, as well as from the increase in the number of the acts of popular justice, in order to put an end to the impunity enjoyed by some minorities facing the injustice towards communities which are victims of coercion.
The RSCDA-IO/CRAAD-OI and TANY Collective remind authorities at all levels of their responsibility for protecting, respecting, and realising fundamental human rights. They also remind them that Madagascar has ratified the international conventions on environment protection as well as the Minamata convention on mercury that aims at eliminating its use in gold mining. They urge the authorities to listen to the voice of concerned communities and to ensure their free, informed and preliminary consent, before any investment project can take place on their territory.
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