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8. Monster Mines and Pipelines
Frankenphemes of Tar Sands Technology in Canadian Popular Culture
The company is welding together old pipelines and new ones, reversing the flow on some and pumping up the volume on others, building their very own Frankenstein pipeline down to the Gulf coast. (LaFontaine 2012)
Weather forecasters are predicting that Hurricane Sandy could merge with another weather system as it moves, bringing a "Frankenstorm" to parts of Eastern Canada and the U.S. in time for Halloween. (CBC 2012)
Friday marks the fourth day of an intense firestorm in Canada's boreal forest that has engulfed large parts of Fort McMurray, Alberta—a frontier town that serves as the base for the province's oil sands region. . . . "The beast is still up. It's surrounding the city," said fire chief Darby Allen. . . . Fire is a natural part of the boreal ecosystem, but what's happening in Fort McMurray isn't natural. . . . We've reached an era where all weather events bear at least a slight human fingerprint, which, as Elizabeth Kolbert points out in the New Yorker, means "we've all contributed to the latest inferno." (Holthaus 2016)
Cultural representations of the Alberta tar sands industry demonstrate the pivotal role that Canadian adaptations of Frankenstein have played in constructing and popularizing a globalized discourse of technology. This chapter contextualizes the popular cultural tradition of Canadian adaptations of Frankenstein in relation to Canada's resource extraction-based industries, and hence to globalization. Moreover, in finding an abundance of cultural representations of oil in Canada alone, this chapter answers and tempers Imre Szeman's (2011) claim that "our fiction of energy surplus appears to be so completely shielded from view as to be hardly named in our literary fictions at all." He sees energy infrastructure and especially oil as a "dearth . . . in contemporary fiction," pointing to works like Upton Sinclair's Oil! (1927) as exceptions to this rule. Szeman focuses on "literary fictions" and gives only a nod to science fiction, a genre that is central to cultural images of oil. For Szeman, Avatar (2009) illustrates science fiction's fantastic, clean energy futures, a curious misreading of the film that seems to miss its tar sands allegory, as I will discuss.
Today, the Alberta tar sands industry, located northeast of McLuhan's hometown Edmonton, represents a significant and symptomatic site of technology as a Frankenstein trope: it is the world's biggest industrial project and capital's most hubristic gamble with climate change catastrophe (Berman 2013). In 2016, the region where this industry is located suffered a catastrophic, long-running wildfire dubbed "the Beast" by firefighters and described by Naomi Klein (evoking the Frankensteinian rhetoric of galvanism) as the result of "El Niño supercharged with climate change" (2016). An extraction business of enormous scale and unprecedented destructiveness (Patchett 2012), the tar sands literalize David McNally's observation that "the idea that something monstrous is at work in the operations of global capitalism is never far from the surface today" (2011, 9). Accordingly, technologically reductive articulations of Frankensteins have emerged to represent the tar sands—and the climate change that the oil business is now known to accelerate. Cultural representations of the Alberta tar sands demonstrate the pivotal role that Canadian adaptations of Frankenstein have played in constructing and circulating the globalized discourse of technology.
Here we should first recall that allusion, adaptation, and other modes of cultural appropriation can as readily serve strategies of interpretive closure (Baldick 1987, 5) as those of openness and ambiguity. Frankenstein references often function as sensational rhetoric designed to thwart serious, reasoned discussion. The figure of Frankenstein stalks contemporary journalism and commentary on oil and the tar sands, among critics and supporters. A 2009 US advertising campaign by the environmental advocacy group Forest Ethics warned about "the dirtiest oil on earth" and described "the Tar Sands" as "a Frankenstein of local and global environmental hazards" (quoted in Craven 2009). In 2012, the National Wildlife Federation described Enbridge's proposed pipeline expansion in a flurry of Frankenstein images: "If Keystone XL is the 'zombie pipeline' that won't die, it's pretty clear the Enbridge expansion is the 'Frankenstein' of tar sands. The patchwork, 2,600 mile pipeline is right out of a mad scientist's dream" (LaFontaine 2012). Conversely, the oil lobby Energy Tomorrow also invoked Frankenstein to refute criticisms of diluted bitumen, or "dilbit," the tar sands' product: "Dilbit isn't some Frankenstein-like product and lots of care goes into shipping it" (Green 2012). References like these are more rhetorical moves than aesthetic ones, although the availability of Frankenstein to both sides of this debate refracts a bit of the ambivalence of the story and its near-ubiquitous invocation with reference to public questions concerning technology.
Across different media and genres, Canadian cultural texts exhibit a range of reductive and ambiguous uses for Frankenstein's story of technological backfire to represent oil business, energy crisis, and climate crisis. Take McLuhan, for instance: his work does not address energy as extensively as media, but references to energy industries furnish contextual bookends for the first and last chapters of Understanding Media (1964). That study devotes a chapter to the car, figured according to the same Frankenstein allusion that titled his first book: that chapter is called "Motorcar: The Mechanical Bride" ([1964] 2003, 291). For McLuhan, the car is a cyborg technology, described in terms as Frankensteinian as those with which he describes new media generally: "It was the electric spark that enabled the gasoline engine to take over from the steam engine. The crossing of electricity, the biological form, with the mechanical form was never to release a greater force" (296). As an "extension of man"—that is, as a medium—the car "turns the rider into a superman" (297); the car is not only a medium but also a weapon, a "misguided missile" (300) whose destructive power is its drastic environmental impact and social transformation: "cars have become the real population of our cities, with a resulting loss of human scale" (293).
In 1973 (at the onset of the first postwar energy crisis), Christopher Dewdney's first book, A Paleozoic Geology of London, Ontario, includes a prose poem called "Sol du Soleil" ("Soil of the sun"), consisting of two paragraphs: the first defamiliarizes the point of view of a car driver; the second figures the fossil fuel industry in monstrous, geological terms. The second paragraph speculates how the "continued use of fossil fuels" will "slowly replace the present composition of the atmosphere with the chemical composition of the atmosphere some 200 million years ago. . . . This atmosphere will become capable of generating the life-forms essential to this ancient form" (1973, 5).
The poem posits fossil fuel use as ironic technological backlash: the human use of fuels made from the fossils of ancient life forms is changing the climate to make the earth once again hospitable to those life forms. In this concise speculation on energy futures, the unintended end and radical externality of oil is the return of the compressed. The ironic sense of cyclical time in the context of fossil fuels expressed in Dewdney's poem has been more recently expressed in an Internet meme that started circulating around 2013; the meme image varies (some versions show stock "meme" characters like Philosoraptor), and the source is unknown (because of the anonymous and viral character of memes), but the text reads: "If oil is made from decomposed dinosaurs, and plastic is made from oil, are plastic dinosaurs made from real dinosaurs?" (Kim 2013). The question has since been taken up online, in discussion forums and web comics, to assess if there's any scientific truth to it, although the main interest in the meme is its implied questioning of consumerism in an oil-based economy and its accompanying hint—which recurs elsewhere in popular cultural representations of oil—that this economy symbolically depends as much on archaic, fossilized ideas and ideologies as it materially depends on fossil fuels.
Another suggestive period text that represents the oil business and extraction technology in Frankensteinian terms is Richard Rohmer's early-1970s trilogy of novels that imagine a Canada threatened with US annexation for its Arctic oil and gas reserves. The first of these, Ultimatum ([1973] 2003), also includes a subplot concerning First Nations protests over territorial and resource rights—and a controversial pipeline, no less, giving it an uncanny timeliness and even prescience concerning today's "Frankenstein pipelines" and growing interest in Arctic fuel sources. Rohmer's novel takes the energy crisis quite seriously: the story envisions a near-future oil boomtown in Resolute Bay. Interestingly, much of the plot action takes place over the phone, as the US president and the Canadian prime minister engage in extensive and exhausting negotiations to resolve the crisis and stave off a US invasion of Canada. This may seem odd for a techno-thriller (and, well, less than thrilling) but it belongs to a distinctly Canadian and McLuhanesque tradition of integrating media, their effects, and their environments into not only the setting but also the action of a story (as discussed in chapter 5, concerning Cronenberg's films). In an early scene in Ultimatum, as the US president arrives in Resolute Bay to tour its undersea drilling operation, the narrator supplies some backstory that is also foreshadowing: "It was right about here that the first big gas discovery was made in January '70. It came up under such enormous pressure that it blew. . . . No one had the know-how or the technology then to cope with high-pressure finds like that" (118). Ironically, then, the operation that the president inspects subsequently ruptures and blows. Although the Arctic's fossil fuels have turned Resolute Bay into a boomtown, the "know-how and technology" for extracting and distributing them remain sketchy at best, subject to backfire as well as sabotage, all while the threat of neoimperial war hangs on the phone wire between the state leaders' offices.
The period's popular music also addressed the energy crisis. Neil Young's 1974 song "Vampire Blues" invokes the vampire (a figure with close historical ties to Frankenstein, as discussed in chapter 2) to depict the oil business: "I'm a vampire, babe / Suckin' blood from the Earth . . . Sell you twenty barrels' worth."
More recently, Young has become a prominent, outspoken critic of the tar sands; his Honour the Treaties concert tour of 2014 was a legal fundraiser for the Fort Chipewyan reserve, the First Nations community that has been most gravely afflicted by tar sands pollution. Young's tour and his controversial statements polarized and galvanized Canadians.
Turning to more contemporary work, the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has drawn public and critical attention to the tar sands. His photographs of "manufactured landscapes" play with scale and perspective, for instance by using elevated or aerial vantage points to suggest the enormity of infrastructural technologies, their social effects, and their drastic consequences and externalities. Images of industrial enormity, of "the rise of the machine" have, since Marx, included a tradition of Frankensteinian references (Baldick 1987), and Burtynsky has played on and extended this tradition in his revealing photographic work. An exemplary photo is Alberta Oil Sands #6 (fig. 7).
On the horizon, we see only "darkness and distance" (Shelley [1818] 2012, 221). In the middle distance, an oil sands refinery sprawls, like Archibald Lampman's nightmarish "city at the end of things." From the middle distance to the foreground stretch two flat, rectangular areas that disrupt the industrial realism of the composition; they are fields of unnatural yellow and rust hues, like lakes of fire in hell. These areas—which are sulphur collection beds—convey Burtynsky's signature ability to turn documentary into defamiliarization, confronting us with a shocking kind of realism that verges on the surreal, in a way that might prompt us to wonder whether the images have been digitally enhanced. OIL, a book produced to accompany an exhibit of Burtynsky's photographs, itself features explicitly Frankensteinian language, in curator Paul Roth's description of Burtynsky's work, in which, he argues, we see "no industrial Golem, no homicidal Frankenstein. Rather, we see the ordering force of man, and the chilling, corrosive, penultimate threat that lies at the black heart of our rationalism" (Burtynsky et al. 2011, 169). Roth's reference to Frankenstein, intended to disavow its relevance, still conjures its association with technology, and it is suggestively worded as well: that "we see" no Frankenstein may not so much deny the monstrous horror of Burtynsky's images as instead implicate us, the viewers, in the environmental horror show documented in Burtynsky's photographs. That is, we may understand ourselves as Frankensteins or, at least, as accomplices to Big Oil's Frankensteinian work—like Walton aboard the icebound ship, who first hears the stricken scientist's story but ultimately assumes an active role in it.
Returning to popular music, the Albertan singer-songwriter Corb Lund approaches the petroculture of his home state from a libertarian perspective. The grim, apocalyptic song "Gettin' Down on the Mountain," from Lund's 2012 album Cabin Fever, begins with an odd arrangement of juxtaposed acoustic plucking and growling electric bass, over which Lund opens the lyrics with this ominous refrain: "When the oil stops, everything stops." What follows is like a lyrical three-minute version of Cormac McCarthy's desolate, postapocalyptic novel The Road (2006): images of gridlock, supply shortages, and starvation, punctuated by pointed, pedagogical questions to the listener about survival skills. "Can you break the horse, can you dig the well?" (Lund 2012). In the chorus, the song's persona shares his own plan: "Don't wanna be around when the shit goes down / I'm going to ground on the mountain" (2012). The song is a musical version of the "peak oil" thesis whose proponents are characterized by the bunkered, embattled survivalism conveyed here in passages like "Brother can you pass the ammo?" The song emphasizes its premise in the precariousness of the oil-based economy; both the first and the last verses start with the same line: "When the oil stops, everything stops." The lyrics' present-tense and interrogative wording make the imagined scene less an extrapolation than a foregone conclusion: the future present. In the backfire of this single technology—the unanticipated unsustainability of fossil fuel dependence—Lund reads the ripping of "the social fabric": peak oil is a man-made monster in its overinvested valuation, as everything that keeps men from acting like monsters to one another.
Figure 7 "Darkness and distance": Edward Burtynsky, Alberta Oil Sands #6 (2011). Burtynsky's signature aerial vantage point and wide scope crucially document extraction technologies otherwise hidden from public view. Photo copyright © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto.
In the tone with which it represents the oil business, this song contrasts sharply with "The Roughest Neck Around," from Lund's 2002 album Five Dollar Bill. "Roughest Neck" is an upbeat ode to the oil patch worker. The "roughest neck" is larger than life, a superhuman Everyman characterized by hard work, technical expertise, and devotion to family and society; "he brings power to the people." And yet he is figured in grotesque, almost monstrous terms. "He's got a "real long reach," with "the power in his hands to pull the dragons from the ground." He is the oil industry's globalized product as much as its producer: "He's been all around the world," and he's got both "power in his heart" and "dragons in his chest" (2002). Musically, too, the swinging roadhouse blues of "Roughest Neck" contrast with the halting, plodding rhythm of "Gettin' Down." These two songs about oil production contrast each other in tone, but not in overall ethos; both appeal, albeit in different ways, to more right-wing discourses of individual responsibility and self-making. Thus, their Frankensteinian images complement each other: the former figures the oil worker as monstrous superman, the latter posits peak oil as a global threat, and the shadow of Frankensteinian technological backfire looms over both.
Several recent plays by Alberta theatre companies—plays like Good Fences (2012) and Extraction (2013)—have turned to the tar sands for dramatic subject matter (Nestruck 2012). One allusive and suggestive production is Catalyst Theatre's Frankenstein (Christenson 2006), which premiered in 2006 at the Keyano Theatre in Fort McMurray—the northern Alberta town adjacent to the tar sands operation. Catalyst Theatre's Frankenstein is an extensive, acknowledged adaptation on Hutcheon's (2006) model, and it uses many of the key points of Shelley's original plot: the Frankenstein family servant Justine is tried for the murder of the boy William; Frankenstein destroys the "bride" he promises the creature, who then murders his betrothed; in the middle of the story, the creature confronts Frankenstein on a glacier and tells its "origin story"; Frankenstein is accused of murdering his friend Henry Clerval. Catalyst's stage version also makes significant changes: Justine is young Victor's science tutor and mentor; Walton's frame narrative is replaced by a loose chorus of narrators who introduce, interrupt, and look on the main action; Frankenstein completes and animates the "bride" before destroying it; and the play ends with Frankenstein incarcerated in an institution for the mentally ill, where the creature visits him in the final scene.
The script dialogue and narration are largely structured by rhyming, song-like lines, and the costumes and props are highly stylized according to a stark Expressionist aesthetic: all the costumes and props are paper, paper-surfaced, or papier-mâché and mostly all white, with only a very few accents of colour, which tend instead to be produced by lighting effects and makeup. The rhyming script and musical numbers, together with the striking, monochromatic visual effects, lend the play a surreal period atmosphere. The abundance of paper, its use to create an Expressionist visual vocabulary reminiscent of silent film, and its presence in a stage play all make for a self-reflexive commentary on dramatic form and established media like writing and live performance, at a time when reminders for audiences to turn off mobile devices have become as routine as the inevitable disruptions said devices cause. In its script and its staging, Catalyst's Frankenstein mounts a self-consciously theatrical, pointedly low-tech production.
The script's opening is particularly noteworthy for relating the play to its site of production in Fort McMurray and thus to the tar sands with which the town is popularly identified. The introduction sets the scene for the story it unfolds against a backdrop of "strange signs" seen in "strange times" that could be either Shelley's period or the present:
These are strange days we live in.
Strange days to be alive!
Who knows where we're heading?
Or how long we may survive?
For five hundred days a poisonous haze
Has spread across the sky.
Perhaps it's a sign of the sickening times:
Grim and foreboding—sent from on high.
Something's gone terribly wrong in this world,
Something beyond repair. . . .
Another strange, malignant plague
Annihilates ten thousand men.
Another record-breaking storm
Claims a hundred thousand more. (Christenson 2006, 1)
The suggestion of "strange days" precedes a litany of unusual—and globalized—phenomena and crises. The "poisonous haze" alludes to the "Year without a Summer," 1816, which saw temperatures fall across Europe as a result of an Indonesian volcanic eruption; this was the unseasonable summer that Shelley spent with her circle of friends in Switzerland, when they made their famous agreement to write ghost stories, Shelley's being Frankenstein. But "poisonous haze" also alludes to the pollution produced by the tar sands operations, visible in the vicinities of Fort McMurray and Edmonton, and a subject of perennial news coverage and scientific study (like Parajulee and Wania 2014). Similarly, the "plague" could refer either to the significant cholera outbreaks of Shelley's time (which inspired her 1826 novel The Last Man), or to any number of global disease outbreaks today, such as the 2014 Ebola scare. But among these "signs," the "record-breaking storm" seems decidedly more about the present than about the past. The term "record-breaking" is a construction of modern usage, and the image of a monster storm—a "Frankenstorm," as Hurricane Sandy got called (CBC News 2012) or "the Beast" of the Fort McMurray fire—is an emphatically contemporary image, and one increasingly understood in close relation to the climate change caused by widespread fossil fuel use.
The relevance of Catalyst's Frankenstein to the tar sands, especially in its relation to Fort McMurray and its apocalyptic script, has not been lost on those involved in staging the play. Dov Mickelson, an actor who plays several roles in the play (including Frankenstein's father and younger brother), has said of the play that
certainly it has present day implications. We first performed this show in Fort McMurray (in –40 February!) and what is going on there with the oil sands and the environment had an eerie resonance. It made me wonder if it was the same for the author 200 years earlier and the onslaught of the industrial revolution as a backdrop to what was going on. (quoted in Cross 2010)
The play's apocalyptic sense of foreboding and looming catastrophe gets put in a significantly—and symptomatically—global context, in the above-quoted opening lines: "Something's gone terribly wrong in this world" (2006). From these first lines forward, the play consistently connects the local to the global, the personal tragedy of Frankenstein to the broader catastrophes of the world, often through the invocation of a collective "we"; in this way, Frankenstein's "first irreversible blunder" is universalized, the cause of a global "terrible mess" (65) that encompasses "us" in its querying of responsibility and complicity: "How did we come to this point? . . . The time will come to face our fears . . . We close our eyes, we cover our ears, / We know the end is drawing near" (65–66). If there were ever a global, technological, and ecological crisis in which "we" are implicated as a collective, it is certainly that of the capitalist world-system's structural dependence on oil.
The last but not least example to be analyzed in detail here is the 2009 blockbuster film Avatar, directed by Canadian expatriate James Cameron, whose most successful films—for instance, The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), and Titanic (1997)—have all been dramas of Frankensteinian technological backfire. One of the most successful Hollywood movies to date, Avatar is also a powerful representation of the tar sands, and this representation has been mobilized for activism, against the "Avatar sands" (Sierra Club et al, 2010), by NGOs, Indigenous groups, and Cameron himself (Mirrlees 2013, 7). Among the many appropriations and critiques of Avatar, an overlooked narrative aspect is that its plot is a Frankensteinian story of technological backfire. The uncanny "native alien" body that the disabled soldier Sully learns to occupy is a lab-grown body. As a host for Sully's projected consciousness, the avatar enacts a doubled role, making Sully his own doppelgänger. The avatar body is also gigantic and blue—as were most nineteenth-century stage performances of Frankenstein's monster. The scene in which Sully first "wakes up" in his avatar body echoes the typical "creation scene" in Frankenstein films, as the creature awakens to cause a ruckus in the lab and breaks its restraints. Avatar's plot becomes one of technological backfire, as the transformed Sully rebels against his masters, abandoning his mission to join the oppressed Na'vi in resisting the military-industrial colonists. The success of the Na'vi's resistance forces the decolonization of the planet Pandora. While this is a Hollywood happy ending, it is also a dramatization of the SF "Frankenstein barrier": here, the Na'vi cut off Earth's staple fuel source; this contingency effectively forecloses on the planet's future.
What especially enabled the adoption of Avatar for activism against the "Avatar sands" are the early establishing shots that show the colonists' mining operation on Pandora. The resemblance of these shots to the tar sands is openly acknowledged by Avatar's art director, Alberta-born Todd Cherniawsky, who is quoted in the documentary The Tipping Point (Thompson and Radford 2011): "What was going on in Alberta," he says, "was hugely informative in building and designing this environment." The first view of the Pandora mine appears through the landing spacecraft's windshield as the copilot says "the mine is in sight"—a subtle script emphasis on making visible an extraction industry characterized as "uniquely occluded" (Pendakis and Wilson 2012, 5). The next shot (fig. 8) shows the fuller vista of the mine in the middle distance and the refinery in the background; this shot strongly resembles Burtynsky's distinctive aerial-angle, panoramic photographs of the Alberta tar sands operations.
The camera then pans and cuts to a shot that details the operation: loaded dump trucks and soldiers traversing a narrow access road, behind which a massive bucket-wheel excavator sends up dust as it chews into the earth (fig. 9).
Significantly, in this close shot the bucket-wheel appears so gigantic that it exceeds the frame, as does the gigantic dump truck in a subsequent shot where the protagonist stops as the truck drives past, revealing a number of arrows that have been shot into its tires. The script for this scene invokes the discourse of technology explicitly: "The neolithic weapons are jarring amid all the advanced technology" (Cameron 2009, 8). The bucket-wheel image itself is suggestively critical: the bucket-wheel excavator was discontinued in the 1990s (Gismondi and Davidson 2012), so it appears here as an obsolete icon of extraction machinery, as if to signal the unsustainability and ultimate failure of the Pandora mine and to suggest the combined obsolescence and rapacity—the living death—of fossil fuel technology in general.
Across a range of different media and genres, then, Canadian representations of the tar sands invoke Frankenstein to depict and question this industry's scale, danger, and obsolescence; in the process, they demonstrate how Canadian culture and industry have both popularized the general discourse of technology as human-made global monstrosity and promoted public awareness of the causal relation between fossil fuel use and climate change. Taken as a group, these texts also provide a grotesque critical vocabulary of images for Canada's tradition of technological nationalism—which the oil business restructures as a transnationalism—and for its postcoloniality: if Canada is sometimes positioned as a "dutiful daughter" of Empire or a victim of the cultural imperialism of US popular culture, texts like those analyzed here articulate and dramatize how the resource extraction industry anchored in the tar sands has made Canada a neoimperial economic leader in its own right, with all the predictable failures of democratic integrity and environmental stewardship that such leadership tends to confer (Shrivastava and Stefanick 2015). Taken together, these texts tell a story—which itself may trade in the oversimplifying interpretive closure of "technological reduction" that has fuelled Frankenstein's global popularity—in which the tar sands are the mad scientist, and climate change its monster.
Figure 8 Avatar (2009), at runtime 00:03:59: "The mine is in sight." Author's rendering of the original shot. (This and the next artistic rendering of scenes from Avatar are used because such renderings constitute fair dealing for purposes of criticism, while the licensing cost to reprint the film still-frames of these scenes would exceed $1000 USD. To see the film still-frames, just search the Internet for "Avatar unobtainium mine.")
Figure 9 The bucket-wheel excavator, from Avatar, at runtime 00:04:07. Author's rendering of the original shot.
And in a further Frankensteinian irony, the climate change exported by Canada's tar sands has accelerated a polar melting that now brings Big Oil to the Arctic for exploration and extraction (Al Jazeera 2012; Chazan 2008). Recent Frankenstein scholarship reflects this trend: "Arctic exploration was in the news at the time Mary Shelley was working on her novel, much in the same way that the circumpolar region is in the news in our own time due to global warming. It is probably for this very reason that most of the articles on Mary Shelley's Arctic have been published within the last ten years as we become conscious of and concerned with Arctic issues once again" (Bachinger 2010, 162). Like Mary Shelley's novel, Big Oil's own Frankenstein story of technological backfire is destined to press north, towards greater hubris and atrocity; and it will all too likely end, as well, in self-destructive conflagration.


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Few would dispute that boys and girls are wired differently and consequently develop both physically and emotionally at different speeds, have different learning styles, as well as diverse motivations. Building confidence and self-esteem are key factors to attaining success in a child's education. It is not hard, therefore, to comprehend why children in single sex schools thrive, since they are studying in an environment which recognises these differences and is consequently tailor-made in terms of educational setting and atmosphere.
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College of DuPage Faculty Member Works to Create National Martial Arts Team
Silat is a general, general term. In Malay
world it means Martial Art, so if I say Island Silat – Island Martial Art.
Most people want to know specifically what style, so Silat alone has 150 known style.
At COD is called Seni gayong Silat. I brought the art and then started with
one student and then it grows and it's still growing.
We created the course in 2005 and it has been running since then. This is the
first College that ever offer Silat that I know of. We are also in the process to
put Silat sport in Olympic game. When I was in Colorado during the national
competition, I was leading the team. We went to Colorado Springs Olympic
Training Center. We had a meeting over there, trying to push Silat sport in
Olympic. We may not be able to do it next year in in Tokyo, in August, I think,
but maybe the following event we might be able to make sports Silat as Olympic
Game. At the national level they're doing very well, they are all within one
and three. I think it's because they spend a lot of time training and I thank
College of DuPage for giving us the additional training time here at
at the school. Being able to participate and represent the country itself, it's,
exciting. This is why I encourage even new students come over and join
this course or this Silat because we are the pioneers.
I invite more people to come over and think about this, you represent Illinois,
and then you represent United States. Having my students represent Illinois
and USA – I'm very proud. And again I thank you College of DuPage for
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Spate of catalytic converter thefts, including one in Haverhill, prompt police call for vigilance
Police are urging vigilance and appealing for information after a number of thefts of catalytic converters from vehicles in Suffolk recently including the Haverhill, Ipswich, Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds areas.
At some point overnight on Wednesday, January 8 the catalytic converter was stolen from a Toyota Yaris while it was parked outside an address in Pipers Close, Haverhill. Crime reference: 37/1603/20
Catalytic converters were also stolen from vehicles in three locations in Ipswich during the evening of Monday, January 20 and from car in Springfield Avenue, Bury St Edmunds on January 17.
In Newmarket, catalytic converters were stolen from a Lexus in Exning Road on January 7 and a Honda Jazz in Freshfields between January 7 and 8.
Anyone with any information about these incidents or who saw anything suspicious at the time should call Suffolk police on 101, quoting the relevant crime reference number or go its website: http://www.suffolk.police.uk/contact-us/existing-report-update.
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The 7th Annual Great American Barbeque and Beer Festival returns to Chandler, AZ on Saturday, March 19, 2016! This Chandler BBQ Festival is one to certainly not miss if you're a major BBQ lover.
This is Arizona's largest BBQ event and features live entertainment, an all-ages kid zone, motorcycle show and naturally, plenty of BBQ provided by over 60 of Arizona's best BBQ restaurants and competitve BBQ teams. 20,000 – that's the number of pounds of mouth-watering ribs, pulled pork, brisket and chicken that will be served up, paired with plenty of beer from local Arizona craft breweries.
For 2016, the downtown Chandler BBQ festival is hosting Granger Smith as the headlining band, with several other supporting acts.
I've attended this festival for the past 2 out of 3 years (was out of town that one year) and I can honestly say this is the best BBQ festival Arizona has to offer up. It draws notable pitmasters from all around the state, the lines aren't horrible because the event is frankly so large, you can always find a slow vendor looking to talk about their BBQ and give you a few samples. The ticket price is the same as what a typical movie would cost you, so it's certainly worth the trip out there to check it out.
Just pray it isn't hitting over 100 degrees in March.
Chandler BBQ Festival Quick Facts:
Event website: www.chandlerbbq.com and their Facebook Page
Tickets: $10 at your local Valley Bashas, $12 presale online, $15 at the gate, $125 VIP
When: March 19, 2016, noon – 10 PM, rain or shine, re-entry allowed
Location: 3 South Arizona Ave., Chandler, AZ 85225
Plan on going? Head over to RealAZBBQ.com's Facebook page and leave me a message on the wall on what BBQ vendor you're going to visit first.


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Thank you Raymond, i have always had a faith and a belief, however, over the past 2 years or so i have questioned that faith, as very selfishly I have felt abandoned and ignored by god, however I can feel my faith becoming stronger again, and when I have these feelings of abandonment I always think of something that Chosen has said that was very wise, and that is that god allows us free will, and while he doesn't want us to be unhappy or for marriages to end, he has no will or power to prevent anyone from doing what they choose to do, he could neither stop my wife from leaving nor bring her back in to my life and our marriage, and when I think of this it helps me to come back down to Earth and realise that it's not my fault and I did nothing wrong, and neither could I of prevented what happened, it's a very good realisation grounding tool.
That's very true Ralph. We sometimes think that God can make someone do something because we pray it. That is really manipulation and doesn't work. I believe we can pray for others for good for them but they still have freewill to receive or reject it. We can pray for ourselves also for God to help us and He will even though it is not always instant.
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XXXTentacion jinxed his own death
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– P.O.D: Broward County, Florida
XXXtentacion, real name was Jahseh Onfroy was gunned down in an robbery in Broward County, Florida, police and civilians stated on who were on scene.
Witnesses stated he was leaving a motorsports store shortly before 4pm when he was approached by two men in a dark SUV who then opened fire and killed rapper xxxtentacion.
Directly after the shooting happened and the dark SUV fleeing bystanders quickly rush over to check the pulse of X and felt there was no pulse, as soon as they realized they quickly called for police.
Videos can be foundhere.
Last words before death
"If worse thing comes to worst, and I f***ing die or some s*** and I'm not able to see out my dreams, I at least want to know that the kids perceived my message and were able to make something of themselves and able to take my message and use it and turn it into something positive and to at least have a good life"
"If I'm going to die or ever be a sacrifice, I want to make sure that my life made at least five million kids happy or they found some sort of answers or resolutions in my life regardless of the negativity around my name, regardless of the bad things people say to me,"
More can be heard on this speech here.
His last words striked a lot of curiosity in his fans minds, some wonder if this was somethings knew was coming.
XXXtentacion who was viewed as one of South Florida's most powerful artist/speakers in hip-hop.
XXX also stated in another interview that suicide was a great way to go out, he then carries on to say he felt that way because it shows you cared for yourself and not for the care of others.


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One female patient was taken to hosptial with a shoulder injury.
Dorset Police were called at 3:43pm today after a car was overturned on the A3066 in Melplash, by the Half Moon Pub.
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During his twenty-eight years as principal and teacher at our school, Mr. Edgar has developed an appreciation for the glorious uniqueness of each student and a passionate desire to give them the very best possible experience in Christian education. "I am thankful for the opportunities we have here each day to impart a sense of… (read more)
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Disney has just announced that they will be adding a wicked twist to their Disney After Hours event this summer. From June 6 – August 8, Disney Villains will take over the upcharge event at Magic Kingdom.
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- Spot Maleficent the Dragon – Maleficent the Dragon, with her Steampunk style and signature wicked grin, will be let loose for the first time at night – breathing fire as she creeps through the park as a one-of-a-kind experience for party guests.
- Villanous Enhancements: Discover surprising, villain-inspired additions at Pirates of the Caribbean and Space Mountain.
- Wickedly Good Food & Beverage -A variety of special food & beverage offerings will also be available for purchase, including tasty desserts, drinks and dishes inspired by The Queen, Cruella de Vil, Maleficent, Hades, Dr. Facilier and even Emperor Zurg.
- Event Merchandise – Event attendees can also purchase new logo merchandise, as well as items from a curated collection of the best Disney Villains merchandise available.
- One Notorious Item to Note: Ever driven to stand out in their unpredictable and audacious fashion, while the Villains will be entertaining guests in the new stage show, they will not be participating in character greetings during the event.
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- Thursday, June 6, 2019
- Thursday, June 13, 2019
- Thursday, June 20, 2019
- Thursday, June 27, 2019
- Monday, July 1, 2019
- Thursday, July 11, 2019
- Thursday, July 18, 2019
- Thursday, July 25, 2019
- Thursday, August 1, 2019
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Whole Wheat Hot Crossed Buns
Like so many seasonal or holiday baked goods hot crossed buns can be prepared any time of the year. It's not like the bakery gremlins are going to jump out from behind the wheat barrel and confiscate "unseasonal" baking. But, all the same, there is something to be said about allowing traditions and the flow of the seasons to prompt us to mix up our culinary repertoire.
Let Easter (or now) serve as the reason to mix up your baking by preparing a batch of hot crossed buns. If you can make buns you can make hot crossed buns – the only difference is the addition of a few spices to our standard whole wheat yeast bread recipe along with a cup of raisins added just before the dough is kneaded for the second time. When the buns have cooled they get a tiny bit of icing. That's it. Simple, easy, fast and a delicious difference. Make a batch and the bakery gremlins who make these disappear will end up being your family members.
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These buns are no more difficult to prepare than your regular whole wheat buns, which is to say that they are downright simple. Yet, the cinnamon and nutmeg and the touch of sweetness from the raisins and icing combine with the taste of fresh whole wheat flour really set these apart.
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup oil or melted butter
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 tbsp white vinager
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp salt
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp bread machine yeast
- 4 cups freshly ground whole wheat flour
- 1 cup rasins
- 1 egg for egg wash on the buns
- 1 cup icing sugar
- milk for icing - add to achieve a firm icing consistency
- vanilla for icing - to taste
- Mix liquid ingredients, beating the eggs and pour into the bread maker pan (paddles already in place)
- Add whole wheat flour to the bread machine pan
- Add spices, salt sugar and yeast on top of the flour - distributing evenly over the surface
- Put the pan in your bread machine and select the dough cycle. As the ingredients are mixed keep an eye on the consistency and be prepared to add small additional quantities of water to get a very moist (but not runny) dough - whole wheat flour takes longer to absorb the water. Close the lid and walk away
- Add the raisins just before the second knead. Or if your bread machine dough cycle simply takes you through to the point of the second kneed add the raisins at the end of the cycle and put the machine on a second dough cycle allowing the machine to thoroughly incorporate the raisins in before turning it off.
- Cut the dough into nine even buns and place them on a floured tray, pan or other suitable baking surface. Cover with a tea towel until doubled in bulk (30 to 40 minutes)
- Preheat the oven to 375F
- Beat the one remaining egg and add a bit of water (1 tbsp) to get an egg wash. Brush this mix on the tops of the buns once they have doubled and just before putting in the oven
- Bake for between 20 and 30 minutes
- When cooled mark the tops of the buns with a cross of firm icing.


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Now that you've got a comprehensive review of the ten best CBD oil for pain and anxiety available on the market today, let's understand how they work. Globally, people use cannabidiol to manage and relieve pain and anxiety. Research indicate that high quality and pure CBD oil assists in managing pain. CBD interacts with our body's endocannabinoid system (ECS) naturally and positively.
Pain is an unpleasant sensation in your body that may range from mild to severe. Pain may feel differently depending on its causes. It may ache, burn, prick, or tingle. It may be dull, sharp, throbbing, or pulsating. Or it may feel completely different depending on its circumstances, its causes, your pain perception, and your pain tolerance level. Your pain may be localized affecting only one smaller or larger area your body or a deeper pain that spreads to several areas of your body or even become an all over pain.
Even though most manufacturers claim that CBD does not have any side effects, research says otherwise. Sure, most people can tolerate the impact of CBD just fine, but a small portion of the population have been noted to experience not-so-adverse side effects. According to Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, the most common results are tiredness, change in weight, diarrhea, fatigue.
Is CBD Legal? Marijuana-derived CBD products are illegal on the federal level, but are legal under some state laws. Hemp-derived CBD products (with less than 0.3 percent THC) are legal on the federal level, but are still illegal under some state laws. Check your state's laws and those of anywhere you travel. Keep in mind that nonprescription CBD products are not FDA-approved, and may be inaccurately labeled.
Along those same lines, most over-the-counter medications have side effects. At this point, the side effects from CBD have been very minimal and very minor. There have been some complaints of tiredness, upset stomach and a few cases of diarrhea. Outside of those few side effects most people have stated they have encountered minor side effects or none at all.
For those with little understanding of where CBD comes from, how it can affect the body or even what "CBD" stands for, CBDfx has it all covered through the convenient "Knowledge Hub" section on its website. Meanwhile, anyone searching for further answers may just find what they're looking for on the company's blog, which investigates, among other subjects, CBD oil's impact on the ageing process and whether or not the cannabidiol can assist with anxiety. In all, then, CBDfx helps fully equip potential customers with the information they need before they make a purchase. And if they do decide to buy from this provider, they have plenty of choice, too, as its range of products takes in not only CBD oil tinctures, capsules and gummy bears but also a lemon-flavored "Chill Shot" drink – which, the company claims, is "one of the tastiest and most satisfying ways to dose yourself with CBD."
People are turning to CBD oil to treat their pain more and more. Whether acute to chronic, pain can be located in different areas of the body and may be experienced at different intensities. This wide range of pain complaints among individual may call for different types of treatment that are more comprehensive than just swallowing a general prescription pill. The good news is that CBD can be applied topically or consumed orally. Furthermore, CBD can be taken sublingually, smoked, eaten, or even vaporized, depending on the product. In this way, CBD can treat pain very specifically rather than generally, because let's face it, one size does not fit all.
However, if it was sourced from actual marijuana (i.e. cannabis that contains more than 2% THC by volume), then it is technically illegal. Most of the best CBD oils for pain that you find in dispensaries in states like Colorado, California, and Washington (as well as other states where weed is legal) will have been extracted from marijuana plants — not industrial hemp plants. Unfortunately, this means that these products are not allowed to be sold online and shipped across state lines to "non-legal" states.
A natural plant extract, CBD (or cannabidiol) has made a huge stir in the health scene over the last decade. It's not hard to find plentiful anecdotal evidence of its benefits — people are using CBD for pain relief, mood regulation, cancer prevention, even seizure reduction. But if you're in pain, you're probably looking for more than anecdotal evidence. We get it — and we're here to help.
Even though most manufacturers claim that CBD does not have any side effects, research says otherwise. Sure, most people can tolerate the impact of CBD just fine, but a small portion of the population have been noted to experience not-so-adverse side effects. According to Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, the most common results are tiredness, change in weight, diarrhea, fatigue.
A lot of people can actually benefit from CBD such as people in the corporate world, athletes, individuals suffering from sleeping disorders, stress, depression, anxiety, and panic attacks, and those who are looking for a product that can help them improve their health and general wellness. For this reason, entering the field of CBD oil wholesaling may be one of the best opportunities for anyone who has an eye for good business.
There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that athletes use marijuana as a way to relieve stress and regain their effects. Ryan Vandrey, a professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School, is studying the use of Cannabis and cannabinoids in the treatment of health problems. The problem, he explained, is that the CBD has entered the market without any research that supports the drugs regulated by the FDA.
What makes this model much more attractive is that you can target specific people who are interested in what you have to offer with content that sticks on the internet forever. People are out there searching, and you can position your products inf ront of them. You don't have to worry about building their business or meeting with them and all that chaos.
Available in different forms like capsule/lotion etc., its application is effortless. Naturally obtained CBD Oil can help provide relief from various other health problems as well. This oil works effectively by suppressing the T cells found in the body, responsible for reactions to pain. The oil is famous for its anti-inflammatory and pain alleviating properties.
Unlike NSAIDs, many doctors believe that acetaminophen does not increase your risk of stomach or heart issues. They are often recommended to those whose stomach cannot tolerate NSAIDs well. However, acetaminophen is far from ideal for your body. The long-term use and overuse of acetaminophen have been linked to liver problems and acute liver failure.
Hemptation Infused Goods scores points for innovation thanks to its unusual CBD oil-infused honey, which is harvested from hives in Vermont and, according to the company, has a "slightly spicy bite." That said, customers who prefer not to get their CBD hit on toast may instead opt for one of Hemptation's similarly novel bath bombs, designed to either invigorate or help unwind when the user settles in for a soak. More traditional types might be relieved to hear, however, that the company also offers sublingual CBD oils in dropper bottles, 99-percent pure slabs of CBD isolate and wax – the latter made from a whole extract of the hemp plant. Furthermore, Hemptation arguably takes customer service to the next level by offering in-person consultations about CBD, available to those living in Massachusetts or Vermont for a $60 fee. Anyone further afield, meanwhile, can take advantage of a similar but more inexpensive service by either telephone or live chat online.
Newcomers to CBD oil should leave Hemplucid's website better informed than they were before visiting. That's because the company offers a helpful and thorough guide to recommended dosages, depending on need; it also provides a handy breakdown of the methods by which users can consume CBD oil and explanations of the contents of Hemplucid's products. And for those unsure as to whether CBD oil use is all above board, Hemplucid's "due diligence" section ought to put minds at rest, since it relays exactly how the brand's goods "exist within the language of the law" – with relevant court judgments included. Anyone subsequently convinced to consider trying the company's wares for themselves can, moreover, choose from its extensive range. This includes lotions, softgels, gummies, a vape additive – and a water-soluble, full-spectrum oil that is able to easily be added to drinks.
On the outside to many I appear perfectly healthy which is probably why someone asked what's wrong with you that you feel the need for this product? My go made me say nothing really, but in reality let me tell you this. Almost 5 years ago I was in a horrific automobile accident that most say should have taken my life. The doctors said the only reason I survived aside from a miracle was the fact that my bodybuilding lifestyle had me in top physical shape. I was able to recover from an incident in which most would have perished. I was in a coma intubated for the first week. Hospitalized a month overall. They had to remove my spleen and all of my ribs were broken which punctured a lung. Had a broken tailbone too. That really hurt for a long time. Needless to say, I still have plenty of aches and pains. I just try not to complain and be grateful for all that I have.
There's still a lot of unknown territory, but early evidence for CBD's efficacy is more than enough to justify further large-scale clinical studies — some of which are already in the works. These studies also point to the variety of effective ways to take CBD. This is an important point to keep in mind if you find yourself shopping for CBD products and wondering if the best CBD for pain is a topical, a tincture, or a vape product.
On their site, you may find anything you need, including CBD oil capsules, CBD oil tinctures, CBD oil body butter, and CBD oil rollers infused with essential oil for a variety of pain and health concerns. With such variety, I am certain you will find what you are looking for to find pain relief through CBD oil. If you use the coupon code DrJockers you can get 10% discount on your purchases.
Along the same lines a person who is anxious on a regular basis can throw their cortisol levels out of whack. A person with cortisol levels too high or too low end up with unpleasant symptoms. One of those symptoms can be increase in weight, which most of us try to avoid. CBD oils or supplements can help regulate a person's cortisol levels so that they peak when they are supposed to and lower at appropriate times.
CBD is a natural supplement that works with the body to regulate its own natural chemicals. CBD has also shown that it can be very effective in helping a person deal with anxiety. Anxiety is the number one reason people are unable to get to sleep. The initial studies show that some people run very well to using CBD to help lower their anxiety. Further, it shows once that anxiety has been brought down the people involved in the study were then more able to sleep soundly and for longer periods of time.
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If you are a person who is serious about their fitness and/or bodybuilding you are always looking for new ways to make the most of your workouts. Part of why people stretch before and after the workout is keep themselves from being sore the next day. People also adjust their diets and supplement with vitamins or protein drinks. CBD oil is the next big thing in fitness and bodybuilding.
CBD Wholesaling is an exciting business venture because it is a growing industry that has huge potential for growth and development. The CBD companies that had grown and become extremely successful over the years are proof that CBD products are making waves in the market, and they continue to thrive as more and more people discover their health benefits.
As a Woocommerce CBD Oil Distributor, you'll setup an online website store and place all of your CBD oil products inside it. Note that you have to find out if your terms and conditions of your state if it's legal to sell CBD oil products and especially within Woocommerce. Failure to do so can result in closure of your store. I recommend looking back at the top 10 steps to starting your CBD oil Business video up above.
The sharp joint pain caused by the condition is known to stiff the body and restrict the patient's movement, but it is advised that a person should continually exercise to as it helps with improving the situation. Exercising regularly for some time is known to reduce the pain and inflammation caused due to rheumatoid arthritis. Talk to a doctor about the severity of the condition and then seek the advice of a professional therapist to adopt a type of exercise routine fit for the condition of the patient. Take advice from a physiologist and do not strain the body too much and practice the natural remedy that can be followed at home.
"We were shocked. The most we were hoping for was some advice…we weren't even sure that we would manage to get any investors," explained Danson. "It didn't feel real. The fact that all these successful, business-minded people wanted to be apart of what we were doing and willing to invest their own money, it was very emotional!" explained Dr. Franklin.
Vaporizers – Many state-licensed cannabis dispensaries offer high CBD strains of cannabis flower. This allows for reduced risk of paranoia while allowing for a high medicinal dose of CBD. Vaporizers are used to heat up the flower and remove the properties or compounds of the plant that you are looking for without combustion or smoking. Vaporizers use convection much like a convection oven.
In order to determine which companies were included on this best cbd oil list and how they were ranked, each prominent provider on the market (Note: we pulled our list of brands from other established and credible CBD rankings like: this one and this one.) was allocated six individual Rank Scores based on their performance in the following metrics:
Although CBD oil has been legalized in most states, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is subject to a very different set of restrictions. Like the CBD, THC is the cannabinoid that can be extracted from the cannabis plant. Although many petroleum products based on the CBD sell themselves as insulators and THC-free, the absence of federal regulations on these products means you can be deceived.
The author of a Harvard-led systematic review of 28 studies examining the efficacy of exo-cannabinoids (cannabinoids formed outside of the body, i.e. from the plant or synthetically made) to treat pain and other medical issues concluded, "the use of marijuana for chronic pain, neuropathic pain, and spasticity due to multiple sclerosis is supported by high-quality evidence."
It comes as a significant natural supplement in the market today. House of Healing Hemp Oil gets made of 83.3mg of top-notch hemp oil supplement. You may not like the natural plant-like taste; don't worry. Hemp Oil for Pain Anxiety Relief comes with a tasty tropical flavor. It contains six fatty acids and 3 Omega acids, making the benefits associated enormous. It is perfect in reducing inflammation.
But scientists have found that CBD doesn't bind well with endocannabinoid receptors. Instead, CBD influences the system indirectly. This creates many benefits, which is why you'll hear of CBD as a treatment for so many different medical conditions. And, unlike THC, it won't make you high. When it comes to pain, we know that CBD has multiple functions. First, it influences neurotransmitters and receptors. One receptor known to be involved with pain and inflammation is called TRPV1 — also known as a vanilloid receptor. CBD binds to the TRPV1 receptor, influencing the way you perceive pain. CBD can also affect the production of neurotransmitters like serotonin and glutamate, which are related to pain sensation.


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The Herman Trend Alert
October 16, 2019
Discovering New Drugs with AI
What if we could develop and test a new drug in just days? Clearly, that shift would revolutionize drug development and production and reduce Pharma costs from billions to thousands. Recently, an AI Pharma start-up Insilico Medicine developed a potential new drug in only 46 days! Artificial intelligence technologies hold the promise for speeding up the process of drug discovery and development and making it more cost-effective---saving billions of dollars and years of time---not to mention the possible side effects suffered by the test subjects. We have highlighted three of the many companies operating in this burgeoning space.
Technology to the Rescue Happily, there are many technologies and companies dedicated to changing the status quo. They have discovered several ways to apply technology to shorten the drug-testing process, including using online platforms to find participants and using human organs-on-chips or in silico trials. All of these technologies are speeding up the process, saving thousands of dollars and the suffering of patients.
Antidote: mining clinical trials Based in the US and the UK, Antidote facilitates medical researchers in clinical trials finding the patients they need more quickly. It seems like a Tinder for clinical researchers and patients. Antidote combines proprietary technologies, data, and well-established business models to transform the way patients and researchers find each other.
Atomwise: already demonstrating tangible results This well-known company in the drug-discovery industry helps Pharma reduce the costs of medicine development by using supercomputers to forecast which potential medicines will work. The company has a "deep convolutional neural network," AtomNet, capable of screening more than 100 million compounds each day. In 2015, Atomwise found two candidate drugs which may significantly reduce Ebola infectivity in less than one day!
Turbine.AI: concentrating on cancer drugs This AI solution designs personalized treatments for any cancer type or patient faster than any traditional healthcare service. This brilliant technology models cell biology on the molecular level and identifies the best drug to target a specific tumor. Moreover, by performing millions of simulated experiments each day, it identifies complex biomarkers and designs combination therapies.
Only the beginning These three companies represent a fraction of those pursuing this worthwhile research. We are only starting to see the wide-ranging medical breakthroughs and solutions that the application of AI in seeking and testing new allopathic medications can offer. This field promises to save lots of money for Pharma, save many lives and much suffering, and make a lot of money for those smart enough to invest in these technologies.
Special thanks to The Medical Futurist for their coverage of this important field.
Read this Herman Trend Alert on the web: http://www.hermangroup.com/alert/archive 10-16-2019.html.


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Tax Litigation and Tax Controversy
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Tax Litigation and Tax Controversy
Tax litigation and tax controversy describes the practice of resolving a tax dispute with a taxing authority. Controversies can involve businesses, individuals, trusts, or estates. Tax controversies are typically separated into civil tax defense and criminal tax defense.
About Tax Litigation
For most taxpayers and businesses, the primary goal after receiving notice of a tax issue with the IRS or NCDOR is to resolve it as quickly as possible. However, some individuals may wish to initiate tax litigation. Tax litigation involves suing the IRS with the help of an experienced tax litigation lawyer.
A tax controversy is typically initiated by a taxpayer who claims a refund or contests a tax deficiency. Federal tax controversies may involve discussions with the IRS, appeals to and discussions with the Appeals Office, and, as a last resort, litigation in a United States court. A similar process applies for state and local tax controversies.
After receiving notice of a deficiency from the IRS that you want to dispute, you'll want to gather your tax records and financial information. Once you've done this, you'll want to find an experienced tax litigation lawyer to avoid the potential loss of your right to petition for relief from a tax court.
When Is Litigating a Tax Controversy Appropriate?
Litigation becomes necessary in two cases: when you go through an audit and the IRS relies on the wrong facts or the wrong law and reaches a wrong legal conclusion that leads to additional tax liability, or when you initiate a claim for a refund. As such, initiating a lawsuit against the IRS is appropriate when additional leverage is needed.
What Types of Tax Controversies Can be Litigated?
Not every tax controversy can be litigated. The most common types of issues litigated are deficiency actions and refund actions:
- A deficiency action is a lawsuit filed in the U.S. Tax Court to contest a tax deficiency sent to you by the IRS. For a taxpayer to bring a deficiency suit, he or she must have already received a letter from the IRS. There are strict deadlines after receiving IRS correspondence, so you should contact someone immediately.
- A refund action is a lawsuit in which the taxpayer asserts that he or she has overpaid his or her taxes and is seeking a refund.
Dysart Willis Can Help — Contact Us Today
Litigating a tax action is a process full of technicalities and pitfalls. Working with an experienced tax controversy or tax litigation attorney can help you take a strategic approach to the litigation. Before deciding on a strategy, consult with a knowledgeable tax litigation lawyer to ensure that you're not forfeiting important legal rights by oversight. Contact Dysart Willis today if you need help with a tax controversy or litigation issue.


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Salam alaykum, how do I refuse to tell which country I'm from when people ask me without lying? I say ardhullah or biladullah but some people are quite adamant that I tell them. I don't like to tell where I'm from since it mostly leads to many questions, Qeela wa Qaal and honestly doesn't concern people.
All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.
You do not have to answer everyone who asks you about your country, and there is no harm on you in not answering his question, unless mentioning your country will preserve people's rights, then in this case you are obliged to mention it.
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The January 18 zodiac people are influenced by the Capricorn-Aquarius Cusp. This cusp empowers you to be systematic, meticulous, and.
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- Characteristics of Capricorn-Aquarius Cusps You Never Knew About
- Capricorn Sex
- January 18 astrological sign
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This connection seems to suggest knowledge and loving sense. Saturn is one of the seven classical planets that are visible to the naked eye.
Characteristics of Capricorn-Aquarius Cusps You Never Knew About
This also shows a focus on fun. Element: Earth. This is an element that brings conformation and a sense of rational in the lives of those born on January Earth associated to the other three elements models or heats up. Lucky day: Saturday. This is a day ruled by Saturn, therefore symbolizes pure force and energy and identifies best with the Capricorn natives who are broad minded. People born on January 18 benefit from being driven, down to earth and disciplined. Just like a true Capricorn, they are romantic and dependable.
They love to discover the concepts behind art and philosophy. They dislike being deceived or having to postpone their plans.
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Those born under this sign enjoy situations where they can work with well defined tasks and stick to a plan already made. Positive traits: These natives are helpful and honest and often win the dignity consideration of those like them because of their tempered behavior. They are honorable, captivating but also skill and try to have the basic awareness of anything that they work on or even discuss about. They enjoy finding out about and in general knowing a lot of things but at times they might feel stuck because they put too much detail into their work.
Negative traits: Reticent and circumspect, these natives tend to lose precious time dealing with their weaknesses and their reluctance to transformation. They are skeptical by nature and pessimistic by choice. While others see the benefits of a situation, they are rapid to underline the speculations and effects.
They can be quite dictatorial and supervising when they feel that those close to them are drifting apart from their ideals.
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Lovers born on January 18 are reliable and romantic. They are attracted to energetic people who can be as dependable as they are. When they decide to commit they do it for a lifetime. They are attracted to intelligent and trustworthy persons whom can offer the same degree of reliability as them. You can conquer the heart of Capricorn by being an honest and supportive partner.
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Usually a joyful character, they sometimes find it hard to express their emotions and this can make them appear quite difficult and hard to understand. They need time to develop a real connection. For them, relationships and settling will probably be a complex matter but once they decide to have their own family they will turn out to be very protective and patient. They are most compatible with those born on 3th, 5th, 6th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 21th, 23th, 24th and 31st.
January 18 Zodiac people are very attracted to the other earth signs: Taurus and Virgo as they tend to share the same vision of life. In life, Capricorn is constantly seeking for an attractive and sensible partner and the most suitable to offer them this is the native from Cancer. Capricorn is thought to be least compatible with Sagittarius.
As for the rest of compatibilities between the other star signs and Capricorn, you know what they say, stars predispose but people dispose. Brown symbolizes conventional, natural and reservation. This zodiac color should be used in objects that surround the natives. People who have brown as sign color are down to earth, honest and conventional.
However they adapt with difficulty so they need to know exactly what to expect and this is why they tend to control everything around and push things their way no matter what. The native in Capricorn prefers brown as he sure knows how to respect rules and stay inside the reliable safety zone. The birthstone for Capricorns born with the January 18 is the mesmerizing Garnet. Garnet presents a precious stone that reflects reliability and awareness.
This zodiac birthstone is advised to be used in pendants and earrings. This birthstone is thought to bring awareness and truthfulness to all Capricorns and also to help them when they commit to a certain cause. Africa, Sri Lanka and India are places where Garnets can be found. This gemstone comes in red, black and green shades.
Another gemstone considered influential for Capricorn natives is Sapphire. It suggests dependability and honesty.
January 18 astrological sign
This plant is known to symbolize warmth and romance. This zodiac flower should be used in decorative items in the places these natives spend time. Carnation relates to the power and passion emanated by an ambitious individual. This flower can be enjoyed during summer time. Silver is one of those metals that denote mystery and sensibility. The zodiac metal could be used in accessories and jewelry items. This precious metal reveals the natives tendency towards introspection and pondering on the deeper questions of life.
Silver is also thought to bring great humor and liveliness to the person wearing it. Those born on January 18 can be described as trustworthy and resourceful but they are also witty individuals with a great sense of humor. Regarding their love and family life, they are drawn to success and to making everything the right way and tend to instill this in the family values as well. Their financial attitude can be summed as responsible but often too traditional to permit them to win more. Their health is quite good but since Capricorn is thought to rule bones, knees and joints, they are inclined towards suffering from injuries of these areas.
What do you believe is the gift people belonging to January 18 were given by mother nature?
Answer this poll and see how many people think like you:. Find here the free weekly astrology predictions as per your horoscope and zodiac signs for this week. These will help you know future and take control Some unexpected turn of events may leave you upset As Capricorn, you can expect an earning opportunit The financial prospects for Capricorns are very br Get ready as the world will be your oyster, as per The Spanish singer, who has also dabbled in writing and acting, but rode the crest of fame as a singer, particularly with his hit number Livin' la Vida Loca, does not have too many stars in his favor in the forthcoming year, says Ganesha after analyzing his horoscope.
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The most prominent qualities of the Goats, as they are called, are that they are ambitious, conservative, determined, practical and helpful. They make good team leaders and organisers, because of their single-minded focus on their work, sense of responsibility and sincerity. They are perceived by people around them to be workaholics, unemotional and detached. Sometimes their negative qualities — suspicious, resentful, inhibited, pessimistic and stubborn — are seen clearly, but deep inside the Goat is a humble heart.


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John Paxson repeating Bulls history with roster turnover in rebuild
CHICAGO - Thirteen months have passed since the Bulls plunged into full-rebuild mode by trading Jimmy Butler to the Timberwolves.
That transaction netted them the Zach LaVine, Kris Dunn, the draft rights to Lauri Markkanen and the near certainty they'd be bad in 2017-18. Indeed, the ensuing 27-55 campaign netted them the seventh pick in the draft and, ultimately, Wendell Carter Jr.
The Nikola Mirotic trade to the Pelicans gave the Bulls a second first-round pick, which became Chandler Hutchison. Ample salary-cap space in


text: themodelcitizen 5 Posted February 13 Assuming we get to 12 with Fraser Valley, SK, Quebec, and A.N. Other Ontario team (Mississauga or K-W), I could see geography used for scheduling but maintaining the single table. You play everybody else twice (22 games), the remaining 5 teams in your "conference" once further each, and one more game against your local rival. Yes, you'd only be playing teams on the other side of the Great Lakes twice overall, and your local rivals 4 times. Those rivalries like Pacific vs Fraser Valley (Juan de Fuca Plate redux?) save on travel and can be hyped up twice each half-season. 1 ted reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


text: ErratumFunding and Institutional Review Board/Ethics Approval Statements: ErratumOTA International: December 2019 - Volume 2 - Issue 4 - p e063 doi: 10.1097/OI9.0000000000000063 Open Metrics Please note that the 5 OTA International articles listed below have been updated from their initial publication date to include explicit statements regarding funding and/or institutional review board/ethics approval in the December 2019 issue.References 1. Grewal IS, Giotakis N, Narayan B, Nayagam S. Bifocal treatment for peri-articular femoral nonunions: A retrospective case series review. OTA International. 2019;2:e023; doi: 10.1097/OI9.0000000000000023. Published April 20, 2019. 2. Kheterpal S, Busse JW, Baxter P, et al. Daily versus weekly evidence reports for orthopaedic surgeons in India: A mixed-methods study. OTA International. 2019;2:e029; doi: 10.1097/OI9.0000000000000029. Published April 23, 2019. 3. Mo AZ, Miller PE, Troy MJ, et al. The AOSpine thoracolumbar spine injury classification system: A comparative study with the thoracolumbar injury classification system and severity score in children. OTA International. 2019;2:e036; doi: 10.1097/OI9.0000000000000036. Published May 14, 2019. 4. Lu K, Barron JO, Israel H, Cannada LK. Sleep disturbances in orthopaedic trauma patients. OTA International. 2019;2:e040; doi: 10.1097/OI9.0000000000000040. Published July 22, 2019. 5. Lawrenz JM, Marshall DC, Patterson BM. The utility of the angled blade plate in hip fracture nonunion treatment: A report of three cases and review of the literature. OTA International. 2019;2:e041; doi: 10.1097/OI9.0000000000000041. Published August 13, 2019. Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association.View full article text


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Yugen collaborates with local illustrators to capture and visualize the Yugen essence. Their creations conceptualize how they interpret this Ancient Japanese concept. It's their personal homage to the beauty of the natural world and the limitless creativity of the mind to capture the subtle details of life.
In this ongoing series, we ask every illustrator the same questions, who are they, what is the story behind the design, and what holds the future. Let's dive deep into their minds and join them in their imaginary world of wonders.
Who is Charles Degeyter?
Charles Degeyter is a Belgian illustrator with a focus on popular culture artwork making both personal work and illustrations for some of the world's leading rock bands. For Yugen he illustrated the Mango Turmeric flavor.
Charles has been drawing his entire life and always had a strong appreciation for fine arts. By means of distraction from his studies industrial design he went to a lot of concerts and got in contact with some venues that asked him to make concert posters because of his unique style.
What is the story behind the design?
The black panther holds a special meaning for Charles. It is a very powerful animal and yet it is extremely graceful. It has that perfect balance between light and darkness. Most people don't know this but black panthers are actually a melanistic color variant of some Panthera species. This means they are very rare, and both this rarity and its extraordinary color adds up to its mystique, making it the perfect subject for a Yugen label.
What does the future hold?
Charles is now in the midst of starting Vitriol, a publishing company that will focus on creating artwork and collectibles for alternative movies. In his personal work he is digging deeper into the evolution of toys and the thin line and battle between the real and the fake. In the next years he would like to do gallery shows on a regular basis showcasing his personal creations.