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|Brunei Update| November 12, 2018
Authors: Kim Yaeger, Artha Sirait and Bryan Yeoh
CPTPP Ratification Update; Brunei's Position
On October 31, Australia became the sixth country to ratify the Comprehensive and Progressive Partnership for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), alongside Singapore, Canada, Japan, Mexico and Canada. With the ratification by six members, the treaty will enter into force on December 30. The CPTPP was designed as the successor to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after the United States withdrew in January 2017. Brunei continued its participation in negotiations even after the withdrawal of the United States.
CPTPP will eliminate virtually all tariffs and other barriers to goods trading and increase efficiency of shipment clearing by Customs. The first round of tariff cuts will be on December 30 followed by a second round on January 1, 2019. Brunei has yet to ratify CPTPP and has not made its ratification timeline public. A possible reason for Brunei's hesitation is their concerns over its rights to develop its coal reserves. While the issue was addressed in the negotiations, ongoing internal domestic discussions could delay ratification. Brunei's excitement could also be lessened with the new deal as growth projections are not as high. The Peterson Institute for International Economics estimates that Brunei's GDP will grow by over two percent under CPTPP compared to six percent under TPP. While Brunei is expected to gain US$1 billion over the next five to ten years according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, it may be carefully considering its option to maximize their growth potential. Vietnam is expected to ratify soon with Chile and Peru following suit.
In addition to the CPTPP, there is an ongoing Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiation - both are considered as possible pathways towards a larger deal that could encompass much of the Asia-Pacific region. CPTPP and RCEP differ in objectives and scope, most notably RCEP involves 16 countries including 10 ASEAN countries, Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea. If concluded, RCEP will become the world's largest trading bloc covering a third of the world's GDP of approximately USD49.5 trillion and accounting for 3.4 billion people. The consolidation of trade rules and reduction in tariffs under RCEP could allow Brunei to increase its trade with Asia's biggest economies and allow greater integration of manufacturing value-chains among RCEP members.
Brunei Rises in the World Bank's 2019 Ease of Doing Business Ranking
The World Bank's 2019 Ease of Doing Business report ranks Brunei as the 55th country out of 190 countries. Brunei scored 72.03 percent in the report and improved one spot from number 56 in 2018. Brunei's ranking among ASEAN countries puts it behind Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.
The 2019 report identified three main factors for Brunei's improvement. The first factor was improved access to credit information by starting to provide consumer and commercial credit scores to banks and financial institutions. Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam's (AMBD) introduced a credit scoring system that allowed banks to evaluate lending more efficiently. As a result, Brunei was ranked first for ease of getting credit with full scores across strength of legal rights and depth of credit information. Brunei's credit registry also has coverage of 75.2 percent of adult residents compared to 16.9 percent for the East Asia and Pacific region.
In addition, Brunei reduced bureaucratic inefficiencies in the business registration process and thereby making it easier for individuals to start new businesses. Brunei also made reforms to its process for businesses to obtain electricity. Brunei simplified its process to only five procedures with an estimated 35 days wait time. Although Brunei's score improved, its rankings saw a slight drop as other countries have made larger relative gains in this area. Brunei will need to further intensify its reform efforts in the coming year if it wishes to position itself above its neighboring competitors.
Brunei's Ease of Doing Business Secretariat stated in a press statement that the Brunei government would strive to improve its business ecosystem as it looks to diversify its economy. Brunei's progress in achieving reforms to create a business-friendly environment aligns with goals and strategies outlined in the Brunei Vision 2035. Brunei's policy changes to reduce bureaucratic inefficiencies, improve information sharing and reduce lag time will improve its outlook to investors and encourage development of local small and medium sized enterprises which are central strategies to achieving its goals. Brunei's focus on improving its business environment has yielded results with continuous improvement in its ease of doing business rankings over the last five years from 105th to 55th. Brunei's regulatory reforms present an attractive offer for foreign investment as it seeks to continue diversifying its economy to reduce dependence on the energy sector.
|Regional Affairs
PM Lee affirms Singapore-Brunei ties The Straits Times 1st Nov 2018
Brunei 55th in ease of doing business: World Bank Biz Brunei 4th Nov 2018
BIBD second strongest bank in Southeast Asia | Borneo Bulletin Online Borneo Bulletin Online 3rd Nov 2018
Meet enhances regional cooperation to fight corruption | Borneo Bulletin Online Borneo Bulletin Online 3rd Nov 2018
HM: Engage private sector to serve the public more efficiently The Scoop 31st Oct 2018
Brunei continues to improve maritime situation nationally Borneo Bulletin Online 22nd Oct 2018
Malaysia-Brunei Military Ties in Focus with Joint Exercise The Diplomat 29th Oct 2018
Brunei concludes joint navy exercise with Australia - Xinhua | English.news.cn Xinhua 24th Oct 2018
Brunei on track with sustainable development | Borneo Bulletin Online Borneo Bulletin Online 11th Nov 2018
Encouraging increase in Brunei's GDP | Borneo Bulletin Online Borneo Bulletin Online 9th Nov 2018
Brunei economy to pick up in 2019 | Borneo Bulletin Online Borneo Bulletin Online 9th Nov 2018
Brunei's total trade in July 2018 increased by 49.4 per cent Borneo Bulletin Online 31st Oct 2018
Brunei's CPI sees 0.3 pct year-on-year rise in August - Xinhua | English.news.cn Xinhua 31st Oct 2018
Brunei's unevenly distributed income The ASEAN Post 29th Oct 2018
Brunei's growth momentum to strengthen over medium term: IMF Borneo Bulletin Online 16th Oct 2018
Rise in domestic investment into oil and gas sector powers Brunei's growth Borneo Bulletin Online 5th Nov 2018
Brunei takes centre stage at ASEAN Energy Award Borneo Bulletin 1st Nov 2018
Student saves money to install solar panels at SMARTER Brunei Borneo Bulletin 23rd Oct 2018
Brunei Darussalam's growth momentum expected to continue in 2018: IMF Devdis Course 13th Oct 2018
BruPay launches: No transaction or registration fees Biz Brunei 8th Nov 2018
Brunei's Islamic capital market showing positive growth | Borneo Bulletin Online Borneo Bulletin Online 23rd Oct 2018
'Made in Brunei' food to tickle Panzhou taste buds Borneo Bulletin Online 3rd Nov 2018
New paddy variety hoped to boost rice output The Scoop 29th Oct 2018
Brunei to boost rice production with Myanmar help | Borneo Bulletin Online Borneo Bulletin Online 14th Oct 2018
Programme promotes mental health awareness in workplaces Borneo Bulletin 3rd Nov 2018
WHO declares Brunei Darussalam free of rubella | Borneo Bulletin Online Borneo Bulletin Online 2nd Nov 2018
Drug abuse among leading causes of family breakdown in country Borneo Post 29th Oct 2018
Brunei's mental health stigma: Don't call us 'orang gila' The Scoop 27th Oct 2018
Obesity rates in Brunei highest in region Borneo Bulletin Online 17th Oct 2018
Integrating IT for better public service Borneo Bulletin Online 8th Nov 2018
BruPay – Making life easier for shoppers, merchants Borneo Bulletin Online 8th Nov 2018
Sultan calls for wise use of technology Borneo Bulletin Online 6th Nov 2018
BAG Networks rebrands as Dynamik Technologies Biz Brunei 31st Oct 2018
BIBD ALAF Digital Hub unveiled Borneo Bulletin Online 31st Oct 2018
Brunei's flag carrier to fly to new Beijing airport in 2019 The Scoop 5th Nov 2018
Tourist arrivals from Brunei expected to increase BorneoPost Online 29th Oct 2018
RB launches non-stop service to London; announces Kuching route The Scoop 28th Oct 2018
Cebu Pacific partners with Brunei travel agency | Borneo Bulletin Online The Scoop 27th Oct 2018
WTM 2018: South-east Asia bouncing back TTG 5th Nov 2018


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The All Progressives Congress on Sunday announced a 68-member committee list that will handle the party's National Convention.
The list released by the party's national secretariat in Abuja on Sunday, indicates that the Governor of Jigawa State, Abubakar Badaru, will chair the committee, while the Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, will be his deputy.
Senator Ben Uwajomogu was named as member/Secretary.
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The Governors are Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Kashim Shettima (Borno), Aminu Masari (Katsina), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Ibrahim Gaidam (Yobe) and Ahmed El-Rufai (Kaduna).
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On a cloudy, cold and rainy day, Barrett & Co and Friar Commercial partnered up to take part in this year's Sandford Springs Charity Golfing Event in aid of Children in Need.
Emma Docking of Barrett & Co Solicitors and Fryer Commercial's own Simon Fryer, paired up to take part in the annual Children In Need Charity Event hosted by Sandford Springs, Kingsclere on the 9th November 2018.
Going into the day, we were sceptical of what the weather might bring (as we were forecasted rain for the entire week) and at times play was difficult. Towards the end of the 18 holes, we were able to hold our own and points accrued in a spectacular shotgun start event, with each pair playing against another pair and with scores based on the better ball.
The day involved at least 30 people, whose skill set ranged from beginner to professional, joining a very enthusiastic Sandford Springs staff who were decorated in Pudsey and Children in Need related attire to show their support.
Starting the day off right with coffee, tea and bacon rolls, all teams headed to their designated hole before the 9:30 start time. After five hours of play and 18 holes later, we all headed into the beautiful Sandford Springs clubhouse for a few relaxing pints and a hot roast – which was more than welcome after playing in the cold and rain. The day ended with awards and more importantly, the tallying of all monies raised on the day which would then go to Children in Need. This totalled just over £1,500.00, for which Sandford Springs were grateful.
Despite our inconsistent play and below par weather, we didn't let that dampen our spirits, which took us to the start of the weekend.
Barrett & Co also helped to raise money for Children in Need by having a bake sale and 'dress down Friday.'
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Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild is a historical fiction book by Kristiana Gregory. It is the twenty-second book in Dear America series. The book was published in June 2001 by Scholastic.
- "Seeds of Hope is dedicated to my editor, Ann Reit, in celebration of our many books together and a golden friendship. Thanks, Ann."
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Apparently we are camped on what used to be a grove of little pine trees. They were chopped down, leaving stumps of various heights, some tall enough to use as a table, others low enough for stools. This is where we were sitting when a great commotion broke out, an hour after sunrise. "Gold!" someone yelled above the noise of the river. "Mile north of Old Dry Crik!" Suddenly the noise of picks and shovels stopped. Before our eyes a swarm of men hurried out of camp to where their horses were grazing. They mounted, then disappeared into the woods. Others packed tools and bedrolls onto their mules; some just started walking. I was amazed at the power of that one world, gold."
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Kristiana Gregory (born 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is a children's author. Her debut novel, Jenny of the Tetons won the Golden Kite Award for Fiction. Gregory has written five books in Dear America, three in The Royal Diaries, and three in My America.
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By Jim Tyson
"Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?" (Henry Sweet)
The French never care what they do, actually,
as long as they pronounce it properly.
What's my problem?
What is one to say? A friend of the English language expresses eloquently albeit with occasionally wild diction his concern that it's going to hell in a handcart because of Americanization. (Note to our French friends, we capitalize differently). Well, it's rather like those gifts one gets at Christmas: one appreciates the sentiment but the generosity is undermined by absolute lack of use. You see, not a single example offered is demonstrably a case of Americanization and if it were, one would be forced to ask "So what?" British people just don't suffer linguistic anxieties like this. Our patriotism not to mention our blaggardly jingoism simply isn't focussed on fears of being swamped by American culture.
[ ]people would lose some – or a lot – of their individual character, of their identity. And the Americans aren't rushing to adopt British English. The traffic is overwhelmingly one-way.
Well, Xavier, the Americans that is those North Americans who are Anglophone rather than Francophone or Hispanophone hardly have to rush to adopt British English. They bought the whole language, lock, stock and barrel from us several centuries ago. If now the ex-colonies influence the English of the old mother country, we shan't worry simply because we've already won the language war: the United States is an Anglophone country.
Let's look at Xavier's first examples:
1) First, three monsters that are now so firmly settled that they're probably impossible to get rid of:
Now the objection, one assumes, is to the use of these words as sentence adverbials. I can't think of any other objection. But what evidence is there that this usage objectionable or not is an example of Americanization? Certainly, Burchfield's Fowler's Modern English Usage points out that not only is this locution found in the work of some of our best writers but that it is firmly established by the 17th century when only a few straggling pioneers were speaking English in North America. How can it plausibly be an Americanisation then?
Xavier moves on to words which he feels have squeezed out British English terms for not good reason. His examples are very good:
movie (what was wrong with "film"?)
Truck (is "lorry" on the way out?)
Now, I'm happy for the sake of argument to accept nolo contendere movie and truck and guy as loans from American English. But the complaint is worth investigating. What is wrong with these loans? After all, this is a pervasive fact about language. Like most languages (the exceptions being truly exceptional), English borrows promiscuously. What interests me and needs explaining, if Xavier's hypothesis is to make headway, is why this is nonetheless relatively rare. Why borrow movie but retain trousers? Why borrow truck but not elevator? Why borrow guy but not mac oh no wait, it was the French who ended up with mec for guy! Sorry, wrong Americanized culture I was thinking of
Finding loans from US to British English isn't evidence of any overwhelming Americanization of British English after all, I could probably find plenty of loans from Hindi if I tried and not a few from Australian English. Alone and unsupported by other evidence, they don't demonstrate anything. After all, the plural of anecdote isn't data.
On then to the Superfluous Additions. Well superfluous they may be (rather, as I always think, the à is superfluous in boîte à outils we manage perfectly well with just toolbox) but are they Americanizations?
meet with ("Yesterday, Tony Blair met with president Bush")
visit with ("come and visit with us one day")
OK. This one could be Americanization if Ruskin (1850), George Eliot (1872) and Frank Norris (1903) are supposed to have got it from American usage.
consult with ("we will be consulting with our allies")
Not a chance. This usage consult with is far from an Americanism. It's attested in English since at least 1618.
join with ("he joined with his friend")
Attested since at least 1548. Sorry.
Well. I'm afraid that one out of four is below par. The case, I submit, is far from proven for this little lot.
What of the foot and a half long words? Are these transmitted to perfidious Albion from America? Let us see.
at this moment in time : 6 syllables when one ( "now" ) would suffice.
in excess of: ("win prizes totalling in excess of 7 thousand pounds!"
"I owed in excess of £ 25,000" (what's wrong with "more than"?).
Well, maybe Xavier is on to something here. This nasty little phrase is first attested in 1860 (that I can find) and by John Tyndall. I always knew scientists couldn't write and isn't science itself just more damnable American modernism?
On to the ominous "Verbs that become transitive, when they shouldn't be":
to protest a decision
Transitive uses of protest including this one date back at least until the 16th century.
to appeal a sentence
Good lord man! Do you mean it? This usage is so ancient and venerable that your calling it into question might well provoke apoplexy at the inns of court! Anyway, Caxton, again, has this in 1481. Of course, the date 1492 isn't set in stone. Maybe Xavier knows something about the "discovery" of America that the poor English don't?
to debate someone ("the president debated his opponent in the race to the White house")
One that I must chalk up to Xavier again! This could be an Americanism since I can't think of any obviously antique examples and Google only throws up very recent ones.
I don't want to flog a dead horse but I'll take the other examples briefly.
Verbs that lose their transitive status:
"I'm hurting"
There are attested intransitive uses of hurt since at least 1225. I wonder hear whether it's not just that this particular locution "I'm hurting" has the odour not only of American English but of therapy speak and thus causes the bile to rise. I confess, I don't like this one either but I know that it's just plain prejudice on my part. There's nothing to compel the conclusion that this is an Americanism.
to access ("he was unable to access his own front door")
Entirely modern and I am willing to bet money that its first use was in America. I have no proof alas.
to impact ("how will the decision impact people's lives?")
As far as I can tell this is modern. There are early verbal uses of impact but not with this sense. This doesn't reek of Americanism to me but I can find no evidence either way.
to scapegoat
Another modern use of an old noun. The references I can find are equally divided between American and British examples. Case not proven.
Only attested late 20th century but I can't find any evidence of its origin. I do wonder though what the alternative would be?
societal (what's wrong with "social"?)
Nineteenth century and the first uses I can find are American! We have at last, I think, an undisputed Americanism! It is an ugly word – as most agree – but there are reasons to think it serves a purpose. Social means just being the result of happening in a social setting. Societal, as far as I can see, means the result of taking place in one particular society (that is to say one organised in just this way) rather than in some other. So, maybe we need a neologism here but not this ugly and plausibly American one?
Nope. This is attested since the 14th century and couldn't possibly be an Americanism.
I shan't deal with the suspicion of further insidious American influence and the horror of moving stress patterns in British English: it's all too awful to contemplate.
What do we have at the end of the day? Just a list of examples most of which upon examination are not plausibly Americanisms. They were presented by Xavier as exemplars of linguistic imperialism without any evidence but it only took a moment with a few good reference books to sort most of them out. But why did the question arise in the first place? I submit that a shadow is falling across Europe: the shadow of anti-Americanism. I'm as much a left-leaning, pinko, commie, liberal as the next man but I have observed over the last few years how America has come to be scapegoated sorry, I mean blamed for all the ills that we Europeans perceive around us. Now, some of those ills undoubtedly originate in America more specifically in the United States – but do they all? Am I alone in thinking that as we Europeans lose our cultural confidence, those of a right wing persuasion seem inclined to look with alarm at the Muslim world and Africa while those of us who still in our hearts are singing that l'internationale sera le genre humain are apt to look west for our anti-heroes?
Until we have some evidence the fear of Americanisation remains just one fear among many and while many people might find the examples that Xavier put forward ugly and reprehensible, I think we can show for most of them that America just isn't to blame.


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The ID division provides an inpatient consultation service and an ambulatory clinic. The clinical team includes 18 faculty members and two advanced practice providers. We have special clinical programs in pediatric HIV and pediatric transplant infectious diseases.
The Pediatric HIV program at Seattle Children's Hospital is the only program in the state caring for this unique population. We take care of HIV-infected children and adolescents from all over the state of Washington as well as from eastern Idaho. We also provide consultation to providers in Alaska caring for HIV-infected children. We collaborate with the Maternal Infant Care Center at UWMC in caring for HIV-exposed but uninfected infants. We have been a part of the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials network (previously known as the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group) funded by the NIH since 1989.
The Pediatric Infectious Disease section works on transplant-related disease prevention and treatment in collaboration with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and pediatric transplant services at Seattle Children's Hospital. Joint efforts in establishing guidelines, protocols, and individualized antibiotic plans are developed and reviewed with multiple services and divisions, including Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Immunology, Solid Organ Transplant services (Cardiology, Nephrology, Liver, and Surgery services), and Pharmacy, as well as Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Control. A guidebook for approaches to the prevention and treatment of infections in this high-risk population has been developed with the cooperation of these services and made available to the ID service and all health care providers participating in the care of these patients, and Pediatric Transplant ID is involved with patient care, discussions, lectures, and patient care conferences among the transplant services are ongoing.
Fellowship Program
First formed in 1979, the University of Washington's Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellowship training program has had a consistent record of success in training leaders focused on basic or translational research pertaining to diseases that affect children, and has graduated a number of fellows who subsequently took on academic leadership positions at their institution such as Division Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases or Department Chair of Pediatrics. Approximately 85% of our graduates have remained in academic medicine or worked with governmental institutions including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the National Institutes of Health.
Our three-year program trains approximately 2 fellows per year in clinical pediatric infectious diseases and basic or translational research, with the goal of helping fellows launch academic research careers. Our fellows can select research mentorship from among the many outstanding researchers across the University of Washington, including in the Departments of Internal Medicine, Global Health, or Immunology. Further details on the program can be found here.
Marta Bull, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute.
Persistence of HIV in mucosal sites may provide a significant reservoir for HIV, even in patients undergoing ART therapy, and might act as a barrier to a cure. Dr. Bull has been studying factors that promote persistence and replenishment of the reservoir, including defining the immunological environment within mucosal sites, assessing viral dynamics and shedding, and the likely contribution of other chronic or persistent viruses to the maintenance of reservoirs. Much of Dr. Bull's work has focused on HIV in the female genital tract, where she is focused on defining immune T cell populations and understanding the factors that affect viral RNA shedding and reservoir maintenance.
Co-infection with other chronic viruses, particularly herpesviruses including HSV-1, HSV-2, CMV and EBV, is very common in HIV-infected individuals. Dr. Bull is investigating the role of these infections in HIV reservoir persistence to investigate the hypothesis that the immune response to these co-infecting viruses results in CD4+ T cell proliferation and a subsequent increase in reservoir size. She is studying the relationship between subclinical herpes shedding and HIV DNA concentration, cytokine production and HIV envelop diversity to gain a better understanding of the role of these coinfections in promoting HIV persistence.
Dr. Bull's research evaluates the role of CD4+ T regulatory cells in HIV, and is interested in the role of this population of cells in the context of vaccines. She is interested in studying whether antigen given to people can shift their CD4 T cell profile toward a more immunosuppressive state, which would potentially make a vaccine less effective. Given Dr. Bull's expertise in mucosal tissues and the immunologic environment in mucosal sites, she would be interested in industry collaborations focused on gaining a better understanding of the impact of and interplay between systemic vaccines and mucosal sites.
Claudia Crowell, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital, Infectious Diseases QAPI Program Director.
Dr. Crowell's primary research interests are management of pediatric HIV, and prevention and treatment of complications of HIV and its treatment. She is co-investigator of the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) unit at Seattle Children's Research Institute. Dr. Crowell is also a member of the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. She is currently involved in several international and domestic studies examining the neurodevelopmental outcomes of HIV-infected and HIV-exposed uninfected children and studying potential interventions to improve long-term neurodevelopment in these children. Dr. Crowell also serves as a consultant to the Seattle Children's Hospital Clinical Effectiveness program, assisting with the development and implementation of clinical pathways of care for patients at Seattle Children's Hospital. She is co-director of the Clinical Effectiveness Research & Writing Team, which aims to publish quality improvement work related to clinical pathways. Dr. Crowell leads the division's quality improvement program. Specific projects include increasing compliance with antibiotic toxicity monitoring for inpatients and improving inpatient-to-outpatient transfer of care for patients receiving outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy. Dr. Crowell collaborates with Drs. John-Stewart, Benki-Nugent, Melvin and Vora.
Dr. Duarte's research applies methods from decision analysis, health economics, and infectious disease modeling to optimize the treatment and prevention of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, he is focused on evaluating the cost-effectiveness of various diagnostic and treatment strategies aimed at addressing the challenges posed by HIV drug resistance in Kenya.
Dr. Englund's research interests include the study of the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of viral respiratory diseases in children, pregnant women, and immunocompromised hosts. She studies new viral vaccines and novel methods of antiviral therapy for respiratory viruses including influenza, adenovirus, parainfluenza viruses, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Dr. Englund has a longstanding interest in maternal immunization and is a coinvestigator of maternal immunization studies with influenza virus vaccines in Nepal sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in collaboration with colleagues at Johns Hopkins and Cincinnati Children's Hospital As a Clinical Associate at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, she is actively involved in transplant-related protocols with Drs. Michael Boeckh and Alpana Waghmare in studies of the prevention, treatment and outcome of respiratory viral diseases in transplant recipients of all ages.
Dr. Englund's research group at Seattle Children's Hospital is part of the New Vaccine Surveillance Network of the Centers for Disease Control (2010 ongoing through 2021), participating in respiratory and gastrointestinal viral surveillance in collaboration with Dr. Eileen Klein, Pediatric Emergency Department. This group assesses vaccine effectiveness of rotavirus and influenza virus vaccines in population-based studies of healthy and sick children and is involved in epidemiological studies of other viruses including RSV, rhinovirus, EVD-68, and norovirus. Dr. Englund and her research team are actively involved in studies of new respiratory vaccines and antivirals including vaccines for the prevention of RSV in infants, children, and pregnant women, and antivirals in healthy and immunocompromised children. Her group is also studying new methods to diagnose and characterize viral respiratory diseases in collaboration with investigators including Jane Kuypers, PhD, Dept. of Lab Medicine, University of Washington (UW), Tim Rose, PhD, Dept. of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Paul Yager, PhD, Dept. of Bioengineering, UW.
Dr. Englund is a frequent speaker at national and international meetings, and active in national and international organizations including AAP, the CDC-sponsored Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRPBAC), and the maternal immunization safety group at World Health Organization. She is past president of PIDS, past member of the WHO Influenza working group, and a current member of the Board of Directors and Influenza Working Group of the Infectious Disease Society of America. She received the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society's Distinguished Physician Award in 2015.
A full listing of her publications can be found here
Lisa M. Frenkel, MD
Professor, Pediatrics and Laboratory Medicine, Adjunct Professor, Global Health and Medicine
The Frenkel laboratory's focuses on four primary areas of research: First, we are working to understand the mechanisms that despite effective antiretroviral therapy that allow HIV infection to persist, and second, elucidate whether HIV proviruses actively modulate CD4 physiology to directly lead to higher rates of cancers (specifically, human papilloma associated cervical cancers). Third, we conduct "translational studies" in adults and children to understand the establishment and dynamics of HIV-drug-resistant reservoirs. Fourth, in collaboration with bioengineers we are working to develop a rapid, affordable point mutation assay for detection of HIV-drug-resistance that should prove useful in both low- and high-resource communities.
A full listing of my journal publications can be found here.
Rafael E. Hernandez, MD, PhD
Acting Instructor Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's
Dr. Rafael Hernandez's research focuses on understanding the pathogenesis of mycobacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and related bacteria. In particular, he seeks to understand how mycobacteria interact with cells of the immune system to promote their own survival and in particular how this interaction induces drug tolerance in mycobacteria, making them more resistant to killing by antibiotics. One focus of his research is focused on understanding the role bacterial efflux pumps play in these processes. To conduct this research Dr. Hernandez employs a combination of bacterial genetics with mammalian cell culture and zebrafish animals models. By better understanding these mechanisms we will be able to devise more effective and shorter treatments for tuberculosis. Recent work has also focused on applying new insights from studies on MTB to developing better treatments for nontuberculosis mycobacteria (NTM) which can be especially problematic in patients with cystic fibrosis or other underlying medical conditions. Dr. Hernandez works closely with Dr. Sherman at the Center for Infectious Diseases Research. Dr. Hernandez also serves as the director of the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Isolate Core at Seattle Children's Hospital, which distributes bacterial isolates from CF patients to researchers nationally and internationally to facilitate CF research.
Heather Jaspan, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Global Health.
The Jaspan lab focusses on prevention of HIV infections in infants and adolescents, including the study of immune correlates of protection and vaccine responses in children. Since pediatric HIV is primarily acquired across mucosal surfaces such as the gut and the genital tract, Dr. Jaspan has projects on mucosal immunity and its interaction with the microbiome at these surfaces. Further projects study factors influencing vaccine immunity in infants born to HIV-infected mothers, since these infants would be targets for an HIV vaccine. These include studies on the relationship between the gut microbiome and vaccine responses, and the effect of potential suppressor or regulatory cells. She also has three ongoing studies assessing the effects of hormonal contraceptives and intravaginal practices on mucosal immunity and microbiota. Her clinical site is in Cape Town, South Africa, where there is high HIV prevalence, yet strong research infrastructure, and where she has many outstanding collaborators.
Matthew "Boots" Kronman, MD, MSCE
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's; Program Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellowship training program; Associate Medical Director of Infection Prevention, Seattle Children's Hospital.
Dr. Kronman's primary research interest is antimicrobial stewardship, using the tools of pharmacoepidemiology to understand current patterns of antimicrobial use, identify the unintended consequences of antimicrobial overuse, and ultimately find ways to improve the overall quality of antimicrobial prescribing for various conditions. His clinical time is split between inpatient Infectious Diseases consultations and the outpatient Infectious Diseases Clinic. He works closely with Dr. Frenkel, the Research Director and Training Grant Principle Investigator, to coordinate all aspects of research training for our fellows. Within the Division, he collaborates with Drs. Zerr and Weissman on projects related to resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections in children. Outside the Division, he collaborates with researchers at the University of Washington (Drs. Rita Mangione-Smith and Tamara Simon) and at other institutions on projects related to antimicrobial stewardship in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Jairam Lingappa, MD, PhD
Associate Director, International Clinical Research Center (ICRC); Professor of Global Health and Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics.
Dr. Lingappa has been a faculty member at the University of Washington since 2004 and is currently a Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Medicine and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pediatrics. He received his B.A. in Physics from Swarthmore College, Ph.D. in Biophysics at Harvard University and M.D. at the University of California. He completed residency training in Pediatrics and a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington. From 1998 to 2003, he served as an officer with the US Public Health Epidemic Intelligence Service and subsequently as a medical epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Lingappa's research is primarily focused on studies in African heterosexual HIV-1 discordant couples: stable couples with one partner HIV-1 infected and the other HIV-1 uninfected. Over the last decade, he has focused on conducting translational research studies to understand the sexual transmission and pathogenesis of HIV-1 infection and to identify host biological correlates for outcomes from exposure to HIV-1. In this context he collaborates with US domestic and international researchers to integrate genomics, proteomics and microbiome laboratory studies with state-of-the-art statistical analyses to identify host factors that could be targeted for public health HIV-1 prevention interventions. Most recently his collaborative studies have succeeded in identifying variants in the host gene, CD101, as carrying significant risk of HIV-1 infection. He is currently funded with through grants from the US National Institutes of Health, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Ann Melvin, MD
Clinical Director, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's
Dr. Melvin is director of the Pediatric HIV program at SCH. Her research interests are in the antiretroviral management of HIV disease in children and prevention and management of complications of HIV treatment. Dr. Melvin is principle investigator of the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials unit at the Seattle Children's Research Institute, sponsored by the NIH. She is a vice-chair of the DHHS Panel on Antiretroviral Therapy and Medical Management of HIV-Infected Children: Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Pediatric HIV Infection. She is also the Faculty lead for the research recruitment service for the Institute for Translational Health Sciences of the University of Washington. She collaborates with Drs. Frenkel, Crowell and Vora.
Nicole M. Poole, MD, MPH
Acting Instructor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Washington School of Medicine
Dr. Poole joined faculty in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in 2017. She earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin and then attended the University of Texas at Houston for medical school. Dr. Poole also earned a Masters of Public Health with a focus on Global Health Organizations at the University of Texas School of Public Health. She completed pediatric residency at the University of Chicago, and completed pediatric infectious disease fellowship training at the University of Washington.
Dr. Poole's research area of interest is antimicrobial stewardship in ambulatory settings. Dr. Poole uses epidemiologic and quality improvement research methods to describe antibiotic prescribing patterns, identify targets for improvement, and study interventions to improve the quality of antibiotic use in children. She collaborates with Drs. Zerr, Kronman, and Weissman. Dr. Poole's clinical time is spent on inpatient Infectious Disease consultations and the outpatient Infectious Disease clinic.
Lakshmi Rajagopal, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Adjunct Associate Professor of Microbiology and Global Health, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Dr. Rajagopal's research interest is to understand bacterial disease pathogenesis and pregnancy associated infections that lead to adverse birth outcomes. The human pathogens that she and her lab study include bacterial organisms that infect humans such as Group B Streptococcus (GBS) and more recently, how viruses such as the ZIKA virus causes fetal injury during pregnancy.
While bacteria such as GBS are commensal organisms, these bacteria can become disease-causing pathogens. GBS are commonly found in the recto-vaginal tract of healthy women but infections can lead to preterm births, stillbirths or severe disease in human newborns. GBS can also infect adults that include the elderly, immunocompromised and diabetic individuals. Studies from the Rajagopal's laboratory determined the hemolytic toxin found in GBS was not a protein, as previously believed, but a different cell structure known as a lipid (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23712433). The finding may prevent the development of a vaccine for GBS, because the molecular structure of lipids prevents the toxin from being inactivated by antibodies — the traditional way that vaccines neutralize toxins made of protein molecules. More recently, the group has shown that the GBS hemolytic toxin destroys neutrophils and evades neutrophil extracellular traps in the placenta leading to fetal injury and preterm labor (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27819066). Additional studies to understand how GBS causes disease during pregnancy and in neonates are in progress.
Studies from the Rajagopal laboratory also showed that ZIKA virus infections cause fetal injury using pregnant animal model systems (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27618651). Further studies to develop therapeutic models to prevent viral infections during pregnancy are in progress.
A complete list of the Rajagopal lab publications can be found here.
Timothy Rose, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Institute of Public Health Genetics, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Departments of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, Epidemiology, and Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute.
Dr. Rose's research is focused on herpesviruses implicated in cellular transformation and tumor induction, and in the study of host and viral proteins that mediate these effects. In particular, Dr. Rose studies the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus/human herpesvirus 8 (KSHV/HHV8) and homologs in non-human primates and their transmission and pathogenic role in AIDS-related malignancies, such as Kaposi's sarcoma. His current research projects include the identification and characterization of cellular receptors mediating KSHV infection; cell-cell transmission of KSHV infections; the comparative analysis of KSHV and its simian homologs and their role in tumor induction associated with HIV-induced immunosuppression; the characterization of latency and the activating switch to herpesvirus replication; and the development of diagnostic tests for known and emerging viruses of global health importance.
Sherilyn Smith, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Co-director Pediatric Clerkship, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's.
Professor of Pediatrics, Co-director Pediatric Clerkship, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's. Dr. Smith's interests are in medical education, teaching and curriculum development. She is currently the Co–Director of the Medical Student Education Programs for the Department of Pediatrics. Her primary responsibilities are curriculum development, coordination of medical student teaching & faculty development, career advising and mentoring for University of Washington medical students. Her research focuses on innovations in medical education. She cares for patients with infectious diseases in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
Kevin Urdahl, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for Infectious Disease Research Affiliate Associate Professor of Immunology and Global Health, University of Washington; Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington/Seattle Children's Hospital
Dr. Urdahl's research is focused on understanding immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection to inform the rational design of an effective vaccine. Working in the mouse model of tuberculosis (TB), his laboratory has recently discovered several barriers that restrict T cell-mediated immunity to Mtb in the lung. These include the inhibition of effector T cell priming by regulatory T cells, the failure of terminally differentiated IFN-?-producing T cells to migrate to the site of infection in the lung, and the functional exhaustion T cells that reside within the lung. Having discovered these barriers, our work now focuses on closing the gaps that limit the translation of this knowledge into an effective TB vaccine. We are working to improve the mouse TB model to better reflect human TB and to exploit this model to gain mechanistic insights and identify correlates of protective immunity. Key findings will be then be tested in the context of human TB.
Surabhi (Sara) Vora, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital.
Dr. Vora's primary research area of interest is infections in immunocompromised hosts, especially viral and fungal infections in patients with immune deficiency and those who have undergone hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. She is an investigator for the International Pediatric Fungal Network as well as the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Transplant Network. Her clinical interests include transplant infectious disease, HIV, travel medicine and tuberculosis. In addition, she serves as a consultant to the Seattle Children's Hospital Clinical Effectiveness (CE) Program, assisting with the development and implementation of standardized clinical pathways of care for inpatients at Seattle Children's Hospital. She is Co-Director of the CE program's Research and Writing Team which works to disseminate learnings from clinical pathways to quality improvement literature.
Alpana Waghmare, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital
Research Associate, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Dr. Waghmare's research is focused on respiratory viral infections in immunocompromised adults and children. She is interested in the factors that influence disease progression, with the intent to identify diagnostic, prevention, and treatment strategies. Currently she is focused on the impact of human rhinovirus, the most common virus detected from respiratory specimens in hematopoietic cell transplant recipients. She is working to identify clinical, viral, and host factors that may serve as biomarkers for disease severity. Viral factors she is evaluating include viral load in blood or respiratory secretions, strain type, and shedding duration. Host factors are being evaluated through host cytokine responses and whole blood gene expression profiles. These determinants of disease will serve as biomarkers for risk stratification and can be used diagnostically to predict poor outcome, thus defining patients who warrant aggressive treatment strategies. Additionally, these studies will provide important insight into biologic pathways during infection and define possible targets for intervention. Dr. Waghmare is also involved in clinical trials for novel antivirals for treatment of respiratory viral infections in immunocompromised hosts. Dr. Waghmare works closely with Drs. Janet Englund and Michael Boeckh
Thor Wagner, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital
Dr. Wagner's research is focused on pediatric HIV, which accounts for 10% of all HIV deaths. One of the primary interests of his lab is understanding chronic HIV infection during antiretroviral therapy. Specifically, why doesn't antiretroviral therapy eradicate HIV infection? Is there ongoing viral replication? Is there proliferation of cells with viable proviral HIV? Can we identify the remaining infected cells? This research compliments Dr. Wagner's other primary research interest, which is engineering new treatment strategies more likely to cure HIV. Currently Dr. Wagner is developing anti-HIV chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, which are also resistant to HIV, as a potential strategy to cure HIV. The lab is currently optimizing this approach in vitro and testing CAR T cell sin small and large animal models.
Scott Weissman, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine; Medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Seattle Children's Hospital.
Since 2000, we have witnessed the worldwide emergence of Gram-negative 'superbugs' such as E. coli ST131 and Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 which not only encode multiple virulence factors associated with extraintestinal disease, but also Class A enzymes that hydrolyze third-generation cephalosporins and carbapenem antibiotics (CTX-M-15 and KPC, respectively). Dr. Weissman's lab developed and used PCR- and sequence-based molecular typing techniques to characterize clinical isolate collections gathered through active and passive surveillance by NIH-funded multicenter studies at freestanding children's hospitals, the NICHD Neonatal Research Network, and by local and state Departments of Health in California, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington. Specifically, his lab developed molecular techniques to characterize the complex spread of plasmid-borne, extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) and carbapenemase enzymes among Enterobacteriaceae. These molecular studies have shed light on the regional dynamics of antibiotic resistance, a complex mix of autochthonous ("indigenous") and imported pathogens that circulate through healthy and vulnerable populations alike, both in community and healthcare settings, and will inform the development of "One Health" surveillance systems that may provide for inference of molecular dynamics from pooled clinical microbiology data. Dr. Weissman currently focuses on leveraging clinical microbiology data to inform antimicrobial stewardship interventions.
Danielle Zerr, MD, MPH
Division Chief and Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Washington School of Medicine; Affiliate Investigator, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Medical Director of Infection Prevention, Seattle Children's Hospital.
Dr. Zerr's research has focused on two main areas: (1) Defining the epidemiology of viral pathogens in healthy children and immunocompromised hosts and (2) describing the epidemiology and defining effective prevention strategies for healthcare-associated infections. Dr. Zerr's research has contributed to defining the natural history of primary infection with human herpesvirus 6B (HHV-6B), a virus that infects most people by age 3 years. Her work has also helped define the epidemiology and disease associations of HHV-6B reactivation following transplantation. Dr. Zerr currently leads a trial through Children's Oncology Group to determine whether bathing with chlorhexidine gluconate reduces central line-associated bloodstream infections in children with cancer. Secondary aims include determining whether use of CHG 1) reduces acquisition of multi-drug resistant organisms and 2) results in increases in CHG MICs and/or resistance to commonly-used antibiotics in cutaneous bacteria. She collaborates with Drs. Boeckh, Englund, and Weissman.
The overall goal of our training programs is to train individuals for careers in academic pediatrics who will be skilled investigators and clinical subspecialists. Clinical training is intensive during the first year; our institutions have large patient bases, providing a rich clinical exposure over the six-twelve months of intensive clinical training. Subsequent years are devoted primarily to investigation, with clinics at sufficient frequency to develop a longitudinal perspective on patient management and to maintain clinical skills.
For more information, please visit the Pediatrics Infectious Disease Fellowship webpage


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embrace your priesthood
Through baptism, each one of us has a share in the priesthood of Christ--that is, the sacrifice of self in ways that make real and visible God's dream of justice and peace and love for all creation. This "common priesthood" is lived out by lay people in ways that both nourish and are nourished by the ordained priests who take vows to serve, form and lead us in our faith.
One of the unique ways that lay people can exercise our priesthood is by praying the Liturgy of the Word. The Liturgy of the Word is typically overlooked as a valuable tradition of prayer in the Catholic Church. We are profoundly blessed with the sacred Mass--the font of our faith lives. But because the Mass is so essential, it has been esteemed to the exclusion of the Liturgy of the Word.
Yet, the Liturgy of the Word offers its own life-giving encounter with God. Through scripture and ritual, the Liturgy of the Word helps us create space in our cluttered hearts to consciously receive that which is given by the One who gives. God desires authentic companionship with us--a real relationship where we do not simply offer adoration, but rather one where we share frankly with God about all we are experiencing, and openly ask for that which we need to fully participate in the life that has been given us.
While the Liturgy of the Eucharist is reserved to ordained priests, the Liturgy of the Word can be led by any baptized Catholic. Our baptism empowers us to exercise our priestly ministry by gathering those around us for meaningful prayer about things that matter. And, as lay people, we have the freedom to pray the Liturgy of the Word anywhere and at any time. We do not need to wait for the priest to lead us.
If you find yourself struggling to navigate life's circumstances, pray the Liturgy of the Word. Gather friends and family and join with the Spirit in offering yourself to God. Share with God all that you grieve and fear, all that you hope and dream. God desires to hear you, to comfort you, and to offer the salvation God has repeatedly promised and faithfully delivered throughout the ages.


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So I've been really trying to eat on the lighter side and cooking with only fresh ingredients in an effort to eat clean. But I have to be honest, preparing some sort of lean protein and a random veggie just sounds…well, boring. My husband and I are both big foodies and love to take our palettes on an adventure. Not saying that all funky food is bad for you but what I am saying is that eating healthy takes a lot of thought and effort and you have to be careful with what you choose to consume.
After speaking with a couple of coworker girlfriends – I found a way to slightly reinvent the wheel. I was inspired by one of their suggestions which was doing a mashed cauliflower as a starch replacement. This is something I had seen on Pinterest before but had never heard of anyone actually trying it and let me just tell you, she raved about how good it was. As mentioned, I'm super valiant when it comes to food so I figured, why not give it a go?
I decided to accompany the cauliflower mash with fish as the main attraction. My husband and I both love seafood and knowing how good it is for you just makes it that much more satisfying. I had envisioned making a mango-avocado salsa to add on top of the fish so I wanted to find a tasty white fish. I went to the grocery store looking for something that was on special. To my surprise, I saw some beautiful swordfish filets that were relatively inexpensive. I love swordfish and it is not often that I come across it. I picked up the rest of my ingredients and managed to escape the store for around $30.
To make a long story short, dinner turned out just lovely and although Sean was a little skeptical about the cauliflower mash (he loves his potatoes), he was extremely impressed with how it turned out and tasted. Check out the recipe below – I would highly recommend it! Keep in mind, this delicious salsa mixture I created would be fantastic on chicken as well for those of you who don't do fish. I baked the fish in the oven so you could do the same with the chicken although it would need a bit longer which will vary on the part of the chicken you decide to make.
For the Fish:
I picked up two swordfish filets but you can use any white fish
For the Mango-Avocado Salsa:
2 medium-sized mangos
3 small-medium avocados
1/2 of a medium-large red onion
1/3 cup of fresh, chopped cilantro (you can add more if you like)
salt + pepper to taste
For the Cauliflower Mash:
1 medium head of cauliflower cut into florets
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/2 cup Greek yogurt
3/4 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of pepper
1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives or green onion (garnish)
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Heat a dutch oven on the stove with a water depth of 1/4 inch.
- Prep the cauliflower head and chop into florets.
- Put the florets into the dutch oven and cook covered for 7-10 minutes over medium-high heat.
- While the oven is heating up and the cauliflower florets are cooking, prep all of the ingredients for the mango-avocado salsa. Chop everything up and combine it all in a medium bowl. You want everything to be mixed together so that it is all distributed evenly but not mashed (as we all know – avocado is very soft and delicate). Once this is complete, go ahead and cover the bowl and put it in the fridge to stay cold.
- Lightly spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Once the oven is heated, lightly salt and pepper the fish (on both sides) and then put them on the baking sheet. Stick the baking sheet in the oven and let the fish cook for 15 minutes.
- Once the 15 minutes is up, take out the fish and turn them over. Cook for an additional 10 minutes.
- While the fish is baking, drain the water from the cauliflower florets and put them in a food processor along with the Greek yogurt, salt and pepper for about 1 minute or until smooth. You may need to stop the food processor to scrape the sides as needed.
- Place the blended cauliflower into a bowl and stir in the Parmesan cheese. Put this to the side.
- Once the fish has cooked for the additional 10 minutes, take it out of the oven to cool.
- Put the bowl of cauliflower mash in the microwave to head up for about 1 1/2 minutes on high (stirring about halfway through).
- Arrange fish on on a plate, spoon the mango-avocado salsa on top of it. Add a lime wedge to the plate for some extra flavor. Add the cauliflower mash and garnish with the chives or green onion (if desired). Serve immediately.
This is a very simple dinner that is both delicious and healthy! You could even take the cauliflower mash a step further and make some brown butter on the stove to pour over it – it's something I'm definitely going to be trying next time! If you've never given cauliflower mash a try before, I would highly recommend doing so (even if you are a little scared to step out of your comfort zone). Enjoy!


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- Witness:The Sacrality of Secular Writing
Either by dint of folly, fear of boredom, or both, I now teach my introduction to religion course around the HBO series The Leftovers (2014-2017), which is adapted from Tom Perrotta's novel (2011) of the same title. It's not hard to find religious themes in a series centered on those leftover from the mysterious disappearance of 2% of the world's population. Amidst a flurry of storylines, the show poses the central question of how we react to the incalcualable and irrational—in this case, what do we do when tens of millions of people disappear from the earth without warning and in no detectable pattern? In wrenching and introspective ways, the series explores how and why some of us turn to religious explanations to make sense of the senseless and some of us don't.
Watching the series makes it easy to introduce classic terms from religious studies into the course. Words like axis mundi, hierophany, and myth practically roll off the tongue after students watch an episode from the second season in which a town that experienced no "departures" during the event is treated as an unscathed sacred space. Without knowing their names, the class intuits components from classic theorists of religion like Eliade, Durkheim and Marx. My predominantly secular students hone in on how the irreducible and unknown leads humans to tell stories, repeat rituals, and brandish symbols in order to rationalize the irrational.
Despite its pedagogical usefulness, The Leftovers is most significant for its vision of what it means to be a secular person. When I teach an upper-division course on secularity and disenchantment, I am always struck by my students' association of the secular with the mechanical, the rational, the calculable, and the controlled. It is as if Max Weber and Richard Dawkins have been filtered into their theoretical water supply, unconsciously shaping their understanding of a seeming immovable religious-secular binary.
The Leftovers tells a different, and more accurate, story about how we should approach the secular philosophically. After the Departure, various characters turn to nihilistic communities. The uncertainty and unpredictability of the future, rendered in the wake of a once-unimaginable event, leads others down a religious path. But not all of them. Some resist the explanatory power and storehouse of hope proffered by various religious cosmologies and instead live as witnesses to the irreducible and mysterious without recourse to myths of destiny, promises of resolution, or messages of eternity to help them cope.
They are witnesses, but not believers.
During my first meeting with the French philosopher Jean-Luc Marion, taken during a yearlong residency at L'institut catholique de Paris as a PhD student, I nervously asked him about the potential resonances between his account of saturation and Georges Bataille's rendering of excess. For Bataille, I explained, the absence of God is itself saturating—it leaves le moi passive, transformed, and most of all a witness to an excess it can never master. In Bataille's estimation, to stare into the abyss where God was meant to be is to live "without a narcotic," with no expectation of resolution. Unsurprisingly, Marion resisted the comparison. Bataille doesn't have a good name among French Catholic intellectuals, and it made sense that Marion—perhaps the most famous Catholic intellectual in the world—didn't want to be associated with a man known more for his erotic fiction than anything else. But there was more to it than worries about Bataille's proclivity for visiting Montmartre brothels. According to Marion, Bataille's experience of excess, whether through contemplating the death of God, erotic adventure, or sacrifice (Bataille had a penchant for secret societies and rituals) is like someone who climbs up to a diving platform on a beautiful summer day, basks in the warmth and pleasure of the warm air, takes a deep breath and plunges headlong into the water. Despite climbing to the summit, Marion explained, they always come down. There is no way to sustain the ecstasy.
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1 Day Excursion To Ouzoud
This Morocco Travel package belongs to the people who love to spend their maximum time playing with water. This place is located near the village of tanaghmeilt in the province of Azilal and considered as the highest waterfall in Morocco. Ouzoud Falls, by its name you can simply imagine how much fun you are going to have in this place. We will pick you from your hotel in the early morning so that you can experience the real beauty of the place. As early morning time is best suited to explore the natural environment.
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All sorts of shenanigans this week surrounding the RFU's disciplinary action against Saracens' Director of Rugby, Brendan Venter, who appears to have been handed a 14-week ban for eating a biscuit during the disciplinary procedure.
The RFU's 11-page statement referred to Venter's "arrogant behaviour" during the hearing which apparently included "eating a biscuit".
"You don't go into the Old Bailey eating a biscuit. You show a degree of respect to the process in the court," said
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Meanwhile Sarries hooker Schalk Brits received a reprimand as to his future behaviour after being observed sucking a sherbet lemon.
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Singing Soul Gallery featured Artists
About Brenda Harthill PrintsBorn in London, England, Brenda Hartill emigrated to New Zealand with her parents in the late 1950's, and was educated there, graduating FA honours at the Elam School of Fine Art Auckland. She returned to London in the late 1960's to study at the Central School of Art and Design, specialising in Theatrical Design. She then worked as a freelance designer in UK theatre, including the West End, and the National Theatre. In the early eighties, she turned towards printmaking and has successfully published her own prints since. She is a member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, the Rye Society of Artists, and Pure Arts Group. Please contact the gallery for available work by this artist
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Current Artists
Amanda Averillo
As an artist and Tutor I have experimented with most forms of Printmaking and now find myself working mainly with the Mono printing technique. It is a painterly method whereby the image is made on acetate sheets and printed in layers onto dampened paper. This enables me to express myself by scraping, drawing and dropping solvents into the ink while it is wet on the slippery plastic, helping me to create images with light and atmosphere. Therefore each print is unique as once printed there is little or no ink left on the acetate sheet. As a keen photographer I often go out and 'look' for an image or pick a time when the light is inspiring at the seashore or in the countryside. Other times things just happen that make wonderful images and if I'm lucky enough to have my camera to hand then I click the shutter. The photograph is just the starting point though and I don't follow it literally, preferring to loosen things up with mark making and colour and always aiming to capture the 'light'. Please contact the gallery for available work by this artist
Shyama Ruffell
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Janet Allen
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