Ford Mustang Mach-E Looks Massive And Bulky Next To Tesla Model 3 – InsideEVs

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For the first time ever (we believe), a Ford Mustang Mach-E has been spotted charging right next to a Tesla Model 3. This image shows just how much larger the Ford really is.

Of course, the Mustang Mach-E is considered an SUV, whereas the Model 3 is a midsize sedan, but the size differences seen here are much bigger than we expected.

Now, we should point out that the Mach-E is a bit more forward in the frame in this image, so that leads to some issues with direct size comparisons, but it's still very easy to see that the Mach-E's front end is massive compared to the Model 3. In particular, the height of the hood is much higher than on the Model 3.

An InsideEVs tipster by the name of Fred Smith captured these two EVs charging. However, no additional information was provided, so we're not sure of the location.

UPDATE: Another tipster has confirmed the location as beingDearborn,Michigan in a parking structure right next to Ford's Engineering Laboratory. It seems Ford is benchmarking the Model 3.

Aside from the sheer size of the front end of the Mach-E, it's easy to see that it's also quite a bit taller than the Model 3. That's expected though since the Mach-E is a crossover.

Below are the basic measurements for both the Mach-E and the Model Y:

From the numbers, it's quite clear that the biggest difference is height, with the Mach-E being some 6 inches taller than the Model 3. The Mach-E is also about 1 inch wider and 1-inch longer than the Model 3.

We've included an image of the Mach-E next to a Tesla Model Y below so you can once again see that comparison.

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The Divergent Fortunes of Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx – The Dispatch

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As the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the United States this spring, no two Americans jumped more quickly from relative obscurity to national fame than did Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx. As the science-side face of the White Houses COVID response team, the two public health experts helped reassure countless Americans terrified of what the future might hold that the national strategy was being overseen by capable minds. In recent weeks, however, their fortunes have diverged sharply.

A onetime fixture of the White Houses daily coronavirus briefings, Faucis public appearances as a mouthpiece of the administration are much diminished. The White House has moved to limit his media appearances, and when he does speak publicly these days, its usually with the air of a disinterested subject-matter expert rather than one with the authority of the federal government behind him: He has reportedly not briefed the president since early June.

In recent weeks, this chilly treatment has morphed increasingly into open hostility. President Trump has repeatedly called Fauci out over both his past and present assessments of the virus, even as he insists their relationship remains strong. Last week, he publicly disputed Faucis claim that the nation was still knee-deep in the virus, then took an extra potshot: Dr. Fauci said dont wear masks and now he says wear them. And he said numerous things. Dont close off China. We would have been in much worse shape. He told Sean Hannity that Fauci is a nice man, but hes made a lot of mistakes. He has retweeted posts associating Fauci with the Democrats and suggesting that public health authorities have been lying about the virus.

Others at the White House got in on the action over the weekend. One administration official released what amounted to an oppo file on Fauci to the Washington Post, saying that several White House officials are concerned about the number of times Dr. Fauci has been wrong on things with an attached list of comments Fauci made in the early days of the pandemic. And top White House aide Dan Scavino posted a comic from alt-right cartoonist Ben Garrison on Facebook that disparagingly depicted Dr. Faucet leaking and pouring cold water on Americas economy.

Nobody whos paid attention to the way President Trump runs his administration could be surprised by any of this. Fauci, a longtime public official who had accumulated rock-solid bipartisan bona fides before entering Trumps orbit, is exactly the sort of person the president relishes taking down a peg. Further, plenty of prominent voices in pro-Trump media took an early dislike to the doctor and spent the last few months darkly suggesting the president could not trust him. Its a measure of the unusual gravity of the pandemic that the falling-out took as long as it did.

One explanation of the rift is straightforward: Trump, weary of fighting the virus, has simply decided to push forward with a triumphant narrative of getting back to business, and is sidelining Debbie Downers like Fauci as a result. But now consider Dr. Birx, who also has not shied away from bad COVID news. Last Friday, she struck a similar tone to Fauci in cautioning Americans not to get too cheerful about current death rates remaining low: We have not seen this result in increased mortality, but that is expected as the disease continues to spread in some of our large metro areas.

Yet as the Wall Street Journal reported last week, Birx remains as influential as ever within the White House, and is currently playing a central role in crafting the administrations response to the resurgence of the virus in Florida, Texas, Arizona, California and other states.

If Fauci and Birx are striking the same unflinching tone about the virus, why has one incurred Trumps displeasure while the other maintains his favor? The answer seems to have less to do with the presidents specific coronavirus strategy than with his general managerial philosophy.

Over the course of the Trump presidency, its been continually remarked that the president is a terrible boss, at least as these things are generally accounted. He pits his staffers against each other, fostering an institutional environment of chaos. He scapegoats and berates them for failures publicly and privately. He says explosive and outrageous things, lets them go to bat in his defense, then hangs them out to dry by changing his own position or explanation without warning.

Yet theres a method to all this madness. Trump, as Politicos Tim Alberta put it in his 2019 book American Carnage, is someone who values professional utility over personal relationships in the people he deals with, someone who shows regret for nothing he says or does, and someone who prizes loyalty above every other characteristic. The nonstop humiliations to which the president subjects his underlings is a way to reaffirm that most important characteristic.

Here, it seems, is where Trump ultimately found Fauci unacceptable. The doctor might have gone out of his way to insist to the public that he and the president were working harmoniously. He might even have implored the press to focus on the fight against the virus rather than becoming preoccupied with intra-White House politics during a time of crisis. But he never took pains to prove himself Trumps man. Just the opposite: He never bothered to hide his feelings about the challenges presented by Trumps ignorance and impetuousness.

Birx has plainly made the opposite calculus: If occasionally swallowing her pride to behave like a comms staffer is the price of remaining relevant in her work, its a price she is willing to pay. She has praised the president effusively when given the opportunity, and made a press secretary-worthy effort to bat away questions from reporters that could embarrass him. It bothers me that this is still in the news cycle, she said in April when asked about Trumps off-the-cuff comments about using sunlight or disinfectants to kill the virus inside the body. Because I think were missing the bigger pieces of what we need to be doing as an American people to continue to protect one another.

This strategy too comes with a cost: In saying what she needs to say to remain relevant at the White House, Birx risks losing her credibility with much of the rest of the country. Its also a tightrope that doesnt get any easier to walk the longer you practice. Plenty of other well-meaning and well-respected people have made the attempt and succeeded for a while, but eventually most either give up and leavethink Jim Mattis, for instanceor devolve fully into say-anything flacks, like Larry Kudlow. Only time will determine which path proves the wiser.

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Photo: Display of Grants Caribou at the AMNH, by Ehblake / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

John West has been documenting the failures of a wonderful institution in New York, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), to properly confront its own past association with evolutionary racism. (Most recently, seehereandhere.) This is even as the museum plots to cancel President Teddy Roosevelt whose great equestrian statue stands outside on Central Park West.

Dr. West sought comment, in vain, from the AMNH about a bust of racist and eugenicist past museum president Henry Fairfield Obsorn and about a collection of skulls that included pieces gathered from German concentration camps in southwest Africa, plunder from a horrific experiment in applied Darwinism. (SeeDarwin, Africa, and Genocide: The Horror of Scientific Racism.) When West was producing the documentaryHuman Zoos, the museum similarly evaded questions about its historical involvement in advancing the pseudoscience of eugenics.

Now my friend John Zmirak points out in a tweet that the museum has yetanotherquestionable gem on display at least indirectly honoring another hair-raising racist,Madison Grant(1865-1937). Grant was a naturalist, author of the 1916 workThe Passing of the Great Race, a proponent of racial hygiene and Nordic theory. Today hes a hero of the Alt-Right. For more on him, seeHuman Zoos:

Well, Grant is the namesake of a caribou species, Grants Caribou,Rangifer tarandus granti. You can see them, prominently labeled in a display at the museum, pictured above. Should these caribou be canceled, too?

No, I dont think so. Where does it all end?Zmirak comments, Cancel NOTHING, tear down NOTHING. This generation is drunk. Take away its car keys. John Westearlier noted one statue of a Darwinian racistthat probably does deserve to come down, that of Democratic Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina, albeit in a lawful manner. No statue has an automatic right to eternally adorn a public space.

More generally, its time for a rational discussion of the ideas behind some lamentable streams in U.S. history. Discussing the Confederacy and its legacy is important. But just asallblack lives matter, not justsome, so tooallof our history matters, not justsome.

White nationalists today arent shy about acknowledging the roots of their own ideas in evolutionary thinking. In 2013, Alt-Right leader Richard Spencer wrote a new Foreword for a republished edition of Madison GrantsThe Conquest ofContinent,noting that Darwinism offers a compelling and rational justification for Whites to act on behalf of their ancestors and progeny and feel a shared sense of destiny with their extended kin group. Guess who wrote the original Foreword?Henry Fairfield Obsorn.

Kanye West wasnot wrong this week in acknowledgingthe ugliness behind the founding of Planned Parenthood, whose founder,Margaret Sanger, extolled planned human breeding and did not hesitate to address a KKK rally. Some in the black community have objected to public statuary honoring her. I can understand why, as much as I think now is the time to err on the side of preserving the past.

Crucially, though, there needs to be some frankness on the part of Darwinian scientists and, yes, abortion advocates about the shadow of their own past. The role of science, including evolutionary science, in justifying racism and eugenics is a subject that needs to be opened up wide, not decorously ignored any longer.

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Maine GOP Primary Is Becoming a Proxy Fight Over War, Saudi Arabia – The Intercept

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As an anti-war Republican wages an aggressive and well-funded campaign in the July 14 primary for Maines 2nd Congressional District, a mysterious dark-money super PAC has spent $345,000 in the last three weeks attacking him.

The Cook Political Report rates the district as one of just 15 Democratic-held toss-up seats in the nation. As the Republican Party faces a raucous and often acrimonious debate between Rep. Thomas Massie and Sen. Rand Paul on one end and former national security adviser John Bolton, Sen. Tom Cotton, and Rep. Liz Cheney on the other, the race in Maine provides an up-close look at the divisions inside the party and the financial backing of each side.

On one end of the race is Paul-endorsed former state Sen. Eric Brakey, who is, like Paul, a libertarian who is highly skeptical of U.S. militarism and has been an outspoken critic of Saudi Arabia. When it comes to foreign policy, I want us to be realistic, Brakey told the Washington Examiner in 2017. I think that its crazy that we have our troops in 177 different countries, that were in Afghanistan 16 years later, when the youngest soldiers currently going in there were two years old when we went in there in the first place.

On the other end is former state Rep. Dale Crafts, who said during a debate with Brakey in February that the U.S. economy would absolutely collapse tomorrow if the U.S. reduced its presence in 800 military bases scattered around the globe, saying, China and Russia would overtake the world. Al-Qaeda and ISIS would go rampant and Israel would be wiped off the face of the earth.

Craftss campaign is teamed up with Eaton River Strategies, owned by a registered foreign agent of the government of Saudi Arabia.

Also in the mix is Adrienne Bennett, a former spokesperson for Maine Gov.Paul LePage, who isnt running on any particular set of foreign policies. A poll released Wednesday shows a tight race, though Maines instant runoff voting makes prognostication difficult. Crafts is currently polling in first place at 37 percent, Bennett in second at 25 percent, and Brakey third at 19 percent. Its troubling that a registered foreign agent being paid by Saudi Arabia is working to defeat a candidate that is critical of Saudi Arabia, said Ben Freeman, a researcher at the Center for International Policy.

Crafts, the establishment candidate, has received many more endorsements from his former Republican colleagues in the Maine legislature than Brakey.

Incumbent Rep. Jared Golden won the seat in 2018 from two-term Republican Bruce Poliquin. The district provided Donald Trump his only electoral vote in New England in 2016, under the semi-unique system that Maine shares with Nebraska that allows the state to split its electoral votes by congressional district. Though less brash than Crafts, Golden has closely hued to the mainstream foreign policy agenda, voting last week with a majority of Democrats and Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee for the Cheney-Crow amendment aimed at continuing the war in Afghanistan.

Brakey began his career in politics by running Ron Pauls 2012 presidential campaign in Maine. As a member of the Republican platform committee in 2016, Brakey sought to add language to the platform that would guarantee the declassification of the famous 28 pages of the 9/11 Commission report, an effort fiercely fought by Saudi Arabia and its lobbyists in Washington. Brakey also sought to have language included in the platform that would have unequivocally condemned U.S. intervention in Libya. After serving two terms in the Maine Senate and then being the Republican nominee against Angus King in 2018, Brakey announced his campaign in September.

Three weeks later, Crafts announced his candidacy with the support of LePage, a close ally of Trump. Crafts spent four terms in the Maine House of Representatives and owns a small chain of self-storage locations. His donors are mainly Maine business owners but donors from the most recent fundraising quarter have not been disclosed yet.

The super PAC spending against Brakey, the American Policy Fund, incorporated recently, and as a result does not have to disclose its donors until after the election. So far, it has spent over $340,000 against Brakey, hitting him on past opposition to Trump while tying him to the Squad of four progressive congresswomen. The super PACs treasurer, Cabell Hobbs, has close ties to the Republican establishment. He was the treasurer for Boltons super PAC, which attracted controversy for allegedly illegal collaboration with Cambridge Analytica in the 2014 North Carolina Senate race, as well as for several other Republican super PACs. He currently serves as treasurer for the Republican State Leadership Committee. A spokesperson for Bolton said Trumps former national security adviser is not involved with the PAC. The American Policy Fund did not respond to a request for comment.

Another super PAC, the Club for Growth Action, has endorsed Brakey, and the group and its affiliates have spent over $800,000 supporting the candidate. The largest donors to Club for Growth Action are Richard Uihlein of the Uline shipping company and Jeff Yass of the Susquehanna International Group; the largest donor to the Protect Freedom PAC, also spending in support of Brakey, is also Yass. The Club for Growth typically adopts a militant libertarian posture in Republican primaries. Since the election of Rand Paul, the group has grown more comfortable with heterodox foreign policy views, after spending heavily to defeat anti-war moderate Wayne Gilchrest, a Maryland Republican, in his primary in 2008.

Eaton River Strategies, which is working with the Crafts campaign, is a firm owned by Kathie Summers-Grice, a George W. Bush Department of Labor official. Summers-Grice is a registered foreign agent for Saudi Arabia, and receives $10,000 per month as a subcontractor for the Saudi government. Summers-Grices firm has received over $33,000 from the Crafts campaign for consulting and direct mail services. The Federal Election Commission prohibits foreign nationals and governments from making contributions in U.S. elections, so Saudi Arabia cant actually pay for Grices work to defeat Brakey, said Freeman. But, at the very least, $10,000 per month gives Grice ample reason to want to defeat someone critical of the folks writing her those checks.

Summers-Grice told The Intercept that that while her company is working with the Crafts campaign, she has no involvement and doesnt even live in the 2nd district. The Crafts campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

This is a clear alignment between the Saudi lobbying complex and a politicians campaign that is supportive of and defending American militarism abroad, said Eli Clifton, the research director of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Militarism which has certainly been beneficial to Saudi Arabia, but not beneficial to taxpayers or the economy outside of the military industrial complex.

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Tuesday, 14 July 2020, 3:02 pmOpinion: Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement

The rich become that way because they work hard toprovide the everyday things that our nation needs. So runsthe story that underpins the economic system we live under.Its something that is so taken for granted, it often goesuncommented upon. It seems as natural and obvious as sun insummer or chocolate fish tasting like chocolate rather thanfish. Other times you will see the corporate media activelypropagating this idea somewhere in the business section ofyour paper. By the way, thats the bit you often skip overto get to the crossword at the back, in case you werentsure what that was. Overall, it feels like theres notmuch to be said about it, right? Wrong.

TheNational Business Review (https://www.nbr.co.nz/ )isone of the key information organs of those who runcapitalism here. Its worth reading now and then. It tellsyou what our masters think is important. The NBR publishesan annual list of the local richest individuals. At presentthe top person on that list is Graeme Hart, with a fortuneof approximately $10 billion. However, the news of themoment is that he may be eclipsed by somebody called PeterThiel. If you know who he is, thats great, but chancesare most of us dont. Stop and think about that for asecond. Here is nearly the richest individual on theseislands and you probably dont know his name, what exactlyhe does or what he looks like.

So who isThiel? He was born in Germany but mostly grew up in theUnited States and was living in California when he firstcame to attention here. Thats because it was discoveredin 2017 that he had been granted fast-tracked New Zealandcitizenship in 2011 despite only having spent 12 days here!(https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11883554).The reason was not that he had escaped a war torn countryand desperately needed asylum, but simply he had put lots ofmoney into some businesses here.

There aresome aspects of his investment history that (if you wantedto be very generous), you could argue have been relativelybenign and possibly even useful, such as PayPal. In othercases he got in on the ground floor of things and did wellfor himself, such as an early stake in Facebook. On theother hand, there are some downright dodgy aspects to how heaccumulated his wealth.

In 2004 Thielco-founded an outfit called Palantir. This is a softwarecompany that could best be described as handmaidens to thetotalitarian surveillance society. Thats because theywork closely with an alphabet soup of nice organisationslike the CIA, NSA, ICE and the FBI to mine huge amounts ofonline data from electronic surveillance. As for aconnection to local spies, according to media sources here,the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) and GovernmentCommunications Security Bureau (GCSB) will neither confirmor deny if they are clients of Palantir. However, they havean office in Wellington and the GCSB have advertised forstaff that know Palantirs software. Thats about asclose to a smoking gun as you can get! Other research hasexposed that the NZ Defence Force has spent millions ofdollars with Palantir (Daily Post 9/7/20).At this point itsnot exactly clear how much of Palantir Thiel owns but partof the reason he may overtake Hart as the richest personhere is that there is talk of listing the company on thestock exchange.

Thiel was also an earlyfinancial backer of Clearview AI. This is a company involvedin facial recognition technology. It can match faces tobillions of images scraped from the internet. Clearview AIhas been controversial since its inception due to its linksto neo-Nazis, data leaks, lawsuits, questions about itsaccuracy, bans and strong opposition from variousorganisations. The American Civil Liberties Union forexample labelled its technology a dangerous and untestedsurveillance product. Interest locally comes from thefact that the police here contacted the company andconducted an unauthorised trial of the technology earlierthis year (https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/416483/police-trialled-facial-recognition-tech-without-clearance).

Apartfrom his delightful business involvements, Thiel has alsotaken an active interest in the formal political arena. Hehas long been a supporter of the Republican Party in the USAand contributed financially to a range of conservative andright-wing activists and politicians from Ann Coulter, RonPaul, Ted Cruz and Trump. What he has done in this regard inAotearoa is not known.

So that's thesoon-to-be richest person here.

What doesThiels biography tell us about how things really are?Firstly, in 2020 you dont actually have to make tangible,useful stuff that exists in the real world like tables orbread, in order to be mega-rich. Secondly, despiterhetorical claims to be interested in social freedomand the economic free-market, business and governmentoften work together to control those who actually do producereal stuff, that is, the vast majority of us. Surveillancetechnology is only the latest in a long line of tools usedto keep us under the thumb of the rich and powerful.Thirdly, the behaviour of our rulers gives the lie to theirown myths. They want us to believe that being born or livinglong-term in a particular geographical space separates thosepeople from others elsewhere. Theres a nation called NewZealand, we are kiwis and they arent. Itsa useful way to divide and rule. Clearly however, if you canspend less than a fortnight in that place and magically beincluded among the nation on the basis of having lotsof money, it shows the whole thing to be the nonsense thatit is.

It could be argued that Thiel is justone guy, that not everyone among the ruling class likes himand that he has provided money that has helped providepeople with jobs. Well, obviously he is an individual andyes sometimes there is contestation and squabbling amongdiffering factions among our rulers. The undisputable truthis however, that if the economic and political system had afundamental problem with an individual like him, hewouldnt be in the position he is in. As for the money hehas, this has come from the collective efforts of otherpeople, since no single person could literally do everythinghim/herself. The jobs this money has in turn created areeither not really conducive to social freedom or in the fewcases that they are, could be arrived at without theintervention of a billionaire autocrat.

Weread about the amazing feats of the rich and powerful andare encouraged to accept them. Their existence is seen asnatural and beneficial. Thiels story shows we dontneed to buy into this and shouldnt, whether you likechocolate fish ornot.

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Ron Ricketts, Minnesota Orchestra trombonist who played with top bands in the 1960s, dies at 87 – Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Ron Ricketts didnt stop surprising his family.

We just learned, said daughter Miriam Queensen, that back in 1956, he played the baritone horn on a Miles Davis record.

Ricketts, who was the second trombonist for the Minnesota Orchestra for 37 years, also entertained his daughter with the story of how he got started playing the trombone.

He said when he was 10, Queensen recalled, a music teacher came up to him and asked, Hey, kid, want to play the trombone? He answered, Sure what is it?

Queensen said her father admitted that he initially had some issues with the instrument.

He said he had a little difficulty assembling it. He said always put the slide in backwards.

Ricketts quickly mastered the trombone and also became skilled on the bass trombone and the baritone horn.

Ricketts, of Minneapolis, died from heart failure June 28 at a hospice in Edina. He was 87.

Former Minnesota Orchestra member Dave Kamminga said Ricketts had talent. He owned the trombone. He was the perfect combination of a fine musician and a gentleman.

Ricketts was born to Raymond Ricketts and Annie Meismer on Dec. 31, 1932, in Detroit. During his high school years, he attended a summer program at the Interlochen Arts Academy. He attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia for one year before earning his bachelors and masters degrees from the Manhattan School of Music.

Before joining the Minnesota Orchestra in 1959, he played in the Asbury Park Band, the Dallas Symphony and the North Carolina Symphony.

He could have played with anybody, said Kamminga. The Asbury Park Band included the best musicians in the New York City area.

Ricketts also taught at the University of Minnesota School of Music.

I took lessons with him when I was an undergrad. He was a wonderful player and a very warm and caring teacher, said U associate professor Dean Sorenson.

Ricketts retired from the Minnesota Orchestra in 1996.

He had to retire early, said his daughter. He had suffered hearing loss and he had tinnitus.

Kamminga said it came on suddenly. He was still playing well, but the hearing loss made it difficult for him, he said.

In retirement, Ricketts stayed physically active as a bird watcher and nature lover, walking and bicycling.

He went on long walks around the [Minneapolis] lakes, his daughter said. At the age of 78 he went on a bicycle tour of Zion Park in Utah.

He also was an avid reader.

He had a lifelong curiosity, said Queensen, and a lifelong interest in reading.

That was one common interest that drew Kamminga and Ricketts together.

He was one of the first people I met when I joined the orchestra, Kamminga said. We became friends. We had both grown up in Michigan, so we had that in common, and we shared an interest in reading. Up to the end, he was sending me articles to read.

In addition to his daughter, who lives in Minneapolis, Ricketts is survived by sons Raymond of Philadelphia and Philip of Minneapolis; daughters Sue-Anne Solem of Chapel Hill, N.C., and Linda Thompson of Santa Cruz, Calif.; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; and brother Roger of St. Paul.

His wife, Shirley, died in 2006 at the age of 80. They were married for 51 years.

A virtual service will be held at a later date.

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Editors note: Monday is the 35th anniversary of the Live Aid benefit concert. The Tribs Paul Guggenheimer was there. Here, he shares his first-person remembrance of the historic event in Philadelphia.

In the days leading up to the Live Aid benefit concert in Philadelphia and London on Saturday, July 13, 1985, young people like me were being told that this was our generations Woodstock.

Looking back, Live Aid certainly was a lot of things. It was no Woodstock.

There were similarities. A lot of big name bands showed up and rocked out, and there was a shared feeling that a great thing was being done for less fortunate people in the world.

But this was no back-to-nature communal weekend in a rural field with peace and love vibes and lots of drugs.

Live Aid was designed to raise money to fight famine in Ethiopia, where hundreds of thousands of people were starving to death. The effort to raise money for famine relief had begun over a half-year earlier when event organizer Bob Geldof arranged to have colleagues record a song called Do They Know Its Christmas?

When it was all said and done, Live Aid raised $127 million and inspired future benefit concerts such as Farm Aid to help family farmers and Live Earth to fight climate change.

Live Aid was a one day/night stand with a distinctly corporate feel in the middle of a big city. There were few hippies and, from where I was sitting halfway up the midfield stands to the right of the stage even fewer drugs being shared.

I imagine more than a few Pittsburghers made the trek across the state to experience it. But by 1985, I had already left Pittsburgh for Boston to attend college. I had a part-time job at a radio station that billed itself as HitRadio 103, WHTT and had added We Are the World Live Aids anthem, released in March of that year to its playlist.

Slow start on a sweltering day

I was somehow able to wangle a couple of Live Aid tickets that at least two big-name disc jockeys had apparently turned down.

The tickets were handed to me the day before the concert. I immediately called my freshman year roommate, Ron, the one friend I knew would drop everything to drive down the coast to Philadelphia that night. We left shortly after 5 p.m. in Friday afternoon rush hour and by midnight had made it to the Philly suburbs, where we slept in a friends living room.

After a short nights sleep, Ron and I were bound and determined to get to John F. Kennedy Stadium by the 9 a.m. start of the concert. But we ended up parking so far from the stadium that we had to settle for listening to opening act Joan Baez sing Amazing Grace from just outside the gates.

Once inside, we were giddy with anticipation. Rumors swirled that Bruce Springsteen was going to swoop into Philadelphia for a surprise appearance. Meanwhile, we were hearing that on the London side of the show at Wembley Stadium, there would be a Beatles reunion with Julian Lennon standing in for his late father, John. Young Julian had just released his spectacular debut album, Valotte.

The excitement receded quickly, though, as the morning and afternoon wore on and the temperature began to soar into the upper 90s. With the exception of The Hooters playing on their hometown turf and the Four Tops, who sang a snappy version of Bernadette, the early end of the Philly lineup was uninspiring.

Some of the acts, including Billy Ocean, Black Sabbath, Tom Petty, Run DMC, Rick Springfield and REO Speedwagon, made us want to run for the shade, which along with cold beverages was in short supply.

JFK Stadium was an ancient horseshoe-shaped edifice that was seven years away from being demolished. The mens rooms were like something out of a Gothic prison. It was a nearly 100,000-seat football stadium that had been the longtime home of the annual Army-Navy game. As for concerts, it had hosted everyone from Barbra Streisand to the Grateful Dead.

But on this sweltering day, JFK felt like an outdoor frying pan that was woefully inadequate for hosting an event of Live Aids magnitude. Long lines of dehydrated kids were cueing up to pay $4 for a warm Coke. Much-needed bottles of water werent available until later in the day.

I cant remember what I paid for water, but by that time I would have traded gold bars for it.

And then came CSN, Clapton, Led Zeppelin, et al.

The suffering didnt seem worth it until Crosby, Stills & Nash took the stage, opening with the song Southern Cross.

The band that stole the show in the afternoon was Simple Minds. Their big hit Dont You (Forget About Me) from the soundtrack of the hit film The Breakfast Club was all over the radio that year. But led by singer Jim Kerr, these Scottish rockers proved to be much more than one-hit wonders. Their closing song, Promised You a Miracle, brought down the house.

The other highlight of the afternoon was when Madonna, despite the 95-degree temperature, announced Im not taking s- off today! in the middle of a nationwide telecast, a reference to the recent release of early nude photos of her in Playboy and Penthouse magazines.

As the afternoon began to make its way toward twilight and a slight breeze picked up, so did the music. Suddenly it was a parade of classic rock acts.

Eric Clapton showed up looking cool in a crisp, white shirt that made his red guitar strap stand out. He produced an amazing sound on songs like White Room and Layla.

Clapton was followed by Phil Collins, who performed that day in London and later in Philadelphia, traveling by helicopter to Heathrow Airport, then by Concorde supersonic jet to New York, and by another helicopter to JFK Stadium.

After performing his own set, Collins sat in on drums with the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, who were performing for the first time since the death of drummer John Bonham in 1980. Hearing them play Stairway to Heaven with a soon-to-be-setting sun as a backdrop was a surreal, dreamlike moment.

Apparently for lead singer Robert Plant, however, it was more like a nightmare. Unbeknownst to us, the performance was criticized, namely for Plants hoarse voice and Jimmy Pages allegedly out-of-tune guitar. If that was the case, we never noticed it. Maybe Ron and I were suffering from heat stroke.

There were more acts to come, including an encore of Crosby, Stills & Nash, this time with Neil Young, a Mick Jagger and Tina Turner duet set and a Bob Dylan, Ron Wood and Keith Richards collaboration.

As far as we were concerned, though, nothing could top what we had just seen, with the possible exception of Jagger tearing off Turners leather mini-skirt, leaving her to finish Its Only Rock n Roll (But I Like It) in a leotard and stockings.

To this day, were not sure whether they planned it.

We kept waiting for Springsteen, but the Boss never showed. The Philadelphia show ended with a nine-minute version of We Are the World. Meanwhile, in London, The Beatles reunion was only a rumor. Paul McCartney was the only one of them who performed.

Eventful ride home

Ron and I left JFK Stadium some 14 hours after we arrived, dazed and dying to get into an air conditioned hotel room. Unfortunately, we werent able to find one and ended up grabbing a few hours of difficult sleep at a roadside rest stop.

The next morning we grabbed a greasy breakfast and hit the road for the return trip to Boston. We started out with Ron driving and me foolishly sleeping across the back seat with my head resting on the drivers side door.

I ended up being frightened out of my sleep by a frantically honking car horn. Ron had fallen asleep at the wheel; our car crossed into the far left lane and brushed against the side of another automobile. Fortunately, the damage to the vehicles was minimal. More importantly, we survived and were in one piece.

We kept ourselves awake the rest of the way by reliving what 35 years later can certainly be called a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Paul Guggenheimer is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Paul at 724-226-7706 or pguggenheimer@triblive.com.

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Hole-In-One:Bill (Pops) Pomplunrecorded his 10th hole-in-one June 17 on Foxfires Red Fox Course.Bill used his 8-iron to cover the 136 yards to the green. Witnesses to this special event were his playing partners Jeff King, Glen Phillips and Bob Fowler.Congratulations greeted Bill from all in the Foxfire group.

Kelley Fiala, a member at Pinehurst, recorded her first hole-in-one June 24. Kelley used her Callaway Heaven Wood to cover the 124 yards to the 12th hole of course No. 9.It was the Signature Ladies Golf Association play day and witnessing this special shot were her playing partners Diane Tate, Roe Lyons and Franny Stewart.

Paul Conover, a member at Pinehurst,carded his first hole-in-one July 3 on the fifth hole of course No. 5. Paul used his 6-iron to cover the 141 yards to the green.Paul is 73 years old and he was playing with his usual Friday group of Ed Renner, Bill Noggle and Jack Pritchard.

Found Golf Balls:John Misiaszekreports that $450 was donated to Monarch of North Carolina this month.Thanks goes to all the golfers who gave the found balls to John to send to the refurbisher.The proceeds from the sale of the balls is then donated to Monarch.So far this year $950 has been raised for Monarch.

Monarch is committed to supporting, educating and empowering people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, mental illness and substance use disorders to choose and achieve what is important to them.

Keep finding those lost balls; every refurbished ball adds to the continuation of this great program.

Go ahead go ball hawking clean out your garage and golf bag and call John at (910) 245-6595 his team will gladly pick them up.

Foxfire: The Ladies Golfresults for July 8 on the Grey Fox Course in a criers individual game. Each players net score on every hole was recorded, then the three worst holes were subtracted.

Results: Rita Ward, 55. 2; Kim Spaulding, 58; Flo LaShomb and Ginny Siedler tied at 59; Connie Hochstetler, Sonja Nelson, Debbie Ramos, Judy Rankin, Pam Reyes, MJ Sheldon, Barb Smart all tied at 60.

Colin Dutton, the current Foxfire Club Champion and a member of the Foxfire Mens Golf Association, played in the NC Junior Boys event at Maple Chase Course in Winston-Salem June 23-26.

His score of 68 on Tuesday earned him co-medalist in a field of 142.The top 64 went to match play where he won his first two matches (34 holes in one day) and advanced to the round of 16.Colin lost in the round of 16. However it was a great showing for a 16-year-old. Colin plans to play a full schedule in the coming months. Foxfire members are immensely proud of Colin.

The Foxfire Play DayJuly 1 was a four-person team game called bookends, with the best two net scores of the team on holes one and nine and 10 and 18.

Results: Leslie Frusco, Sue Batchelder, Barb Price, Mary Schlehofer, 32; Rita Ward, Barb Smart, Kim Spaulding, Lucille Cardelle, 33.

Pinehurst: The Scramblersplayed June 22 in a two best balls of the foursome.

Results: Dick Haefele, Joe Kasko, Bill Noggle, Len Romanker, 115 (MOC);Rick Eschman, Don Bonner, Mike Stevens, Bob Nielsen, 115 (MOC); Peter Blick, Dave Kinney, Jim Brown, Tim Dwyer, 116 (MOC); Jim Haynes, Jerry Raugh, L. Mongoluzzo, Sam Constantini, 116 (MOC).

Dan Bryan won closest to the pin.

The Scramblersplayed June 29in a two best balls on par-4 holes, one on par-3 holes and three on par-5 holes. Competition was on course No. 1.

Results: Jim Hayes, Dale Perdue, Gene Keegan, Dick Moore, 102; Jeff Hilton, Paul Conover, Richard Lawson, Bob Nielsen, 194 (MOC); Wayne Ricks, Bob Mosbrook, Mike Stevens, John Tomel, 104 (MOC); Dick Haefele, Don Bonner, Joe Sernak, Peter White, 105; Jack Pritchard, Jerry Raugh, Dana Dahlgren, Skip Kendrick, 107.

Terry Davidson won closest to the pin.

The Scramblersplayed July 6 in a two best ball format on course No. 3.

Results: Rick Eschman, Dave Kinney, Gene Keegan, Dick Moore, 115; Larry Cox, Don Bonner, Jack Laflin, Skip Kinnick, 120; Jack Pritchard, Paul Brennan, John Bitting, Peter White, 123; Paul Conover, Gary Gee, John Taylor, Pat Haggerty, 125.

Jerry Raugh won closest to the pin.

The Mens Golf Associationplayed July 7 on course No. 4 in a standard game.

Overall results: Daniel Delgarn, Stephen Errickson, John Zimmerman, Rick Page, 131; Ken Krell, Rick Gagliardo, Bill Clark, Linn Shorb; Mike Heishman, Peter Scully, Robert Dauenhauer, Paul Benfield, 134.

Front-nine results: Mike Mauney, Lee Pisarski, Mike Caswell, Dave Kaylor, 64; Thomas Embrey, Ron Milam, Gene Horvath, Mark Janasek, 66; Dale Siemer, Kurtiss Cross, Terry Lane, Jim Truemper, 67.

Back-nine results: John Gunnison, Brian Fiala, Terry Davidson, William Andrews, 66; Noel Wren, Robert Friedrichs, Gerald Ayers, Bob Edens, 68; Peter White, Jim Mikus, Bill Womble, Jim Powell, 71.

The Mens Golf Associationplayed a four-ball two-man teams on course No. 1.

Flight 1 results: Robert Hilsby and Lonnie Wright, 63; Ron Hasbrouck and Joel Sweet, 65; Larry Cox and William Case, 66 (MOC); Murray Stern and Vince Gamble, 66 (MOC); Larry Cracraft and Richard Reinthaler, 67 (MOC).

Flight 2 results: Rick Eschman and John Bitting, 63; Woody Hough and Paul Huston, 63; Jack Powitchko and Ed Duffy, 65; Duane Tanner and John Gerney, 66 (MOC); Paul Conover and Mike Griffith, 66 (MOC).

Flight 3 results: Peter Gross and Peter Durning, 63; Mark Bernel and Paul Hoban, 64; John Reeves and Jack Farrell, 65; Ronald Cordeau and Kevin Bogan, 66; Joe Sernak and Buddy Mannix, 76.

The Silver Foilsplayed June 30 on course No. 3. For scoring purposes one par 3 on the front and back were thrown out.

Results: Sandy Smith, Jean Jordan, Janie White, Joyce McWane, 47; Joanne Valdes, Kay Monteith, Pat Anderson, Judy Gais, 50; Tracy Nater, Mary Scott Arnold, Sally Hargrove, Sigrid Gross, 51 (MOC).

The Silver Foilsplayed July 7 in a one best ball on par 4s, two on par 3s and 5s. Competition was on course No. 1.

Results: Sally Hargrove, Margo Rawlings, Mary Woodford, Flossie Parks, 90; Debbie Sizer, Jean Jordan, Debbie Hockman, Lorrie Allie, 93 (MOC); Barbara Lewis, Janie White, Ro Kachel, 93 (MOC).

Cherie Giudice carded an eagle on hole two, plus two birdies. Congratulations.

The Womens Golf Associationplayed July 2 on course No. 3 in a theme park competition (one best ball on red and yellow flags, two on white flags and one best ball on even holes and two on odd holes).

Results: Laura Stamm, Queeney Tang, Pilar Page, 89; June Eichele, Nell Neal, Tucky Hobbs, Barbara Derr, 90; Gloria Sectish, Bonnie Hanley, Janie Lynch, 91; Diana Staley, Marie Schneider, Bonnie Dingman, Ann Thomasson,92; Tricia Williamson, Darlind Davis, Tee Noggle, Franny Stewart, 93.

The Signature Ladies Golf Associationplayed July 2 in an ABCD, one best ball format.

Results: Sally Means, Sharon Wilson, Lisa Case, Patty Moore, 64 (MOC); Ellen Hamilton, Barbara Derr, Queeney Tang, Jean Jordan, 64 (MOC); Donna Tanner, Jane Wilkinson, Darcy Myers, June Eichele, 67.

The Signature Ladies Golf Associationplayed July 3 in an ABCD teams game, with yellow tees, two best balls used for scoring.

Results: Rita Weeks, Barbara Derr, Darcy Myers, Janice Kuklok, 128; Lisa Bomkamp, Trish Christina, Ro Kachel, 137; Tricia Williamson, Jean Coble, Queeney Tang, Gretchen Nelms, 140.

The Chippersplayed July 6 in an individual competition with only par 4s counting for the score.

Results: Christine Carter, tied at 27 MOC for all, with Anne Derosa, Judy Davis, Mary Bernel, Tina Arno and Anne Hauser.

The Mens Golf Associationplayed June 30 in a progression on course No. 5.

Overall results: Wayne Ricks, Dan Bryant, William Noggle, Ed Guidice, 130 (MOC); Rick Gagliardo, Bill Clark, Linn Shorb, Bill Lawson, 130 (MOC); Ron Sundstrom, don Marchetti, Lee Pisarski, Mike Mauney, 130.

Front-nine results: Peter White, Jim Mikus, Bill Womble, John McPhaul, 64 (MOC); Philip Aruscavage, Kurtis Cross, Dale Siemer, Terry Lane, 64 (MOC); Mark Bernel, Sam Poole, Paul Hoban, 64 (MOC).

Back-nine results: Garrett Walsh, David Kinney, Rick Ensele, Joseph Kasko, 64; Dutch Briel, Jim Lucey, Sterling Stetson, Gary Petersen, 67 (MOC); Frank Trask, Peter Scully, Robert Dauenhauer, Paul Benfield, 67 (MOC).

The Mens Golf Associationplayed July 1 in a progression on course No. 6.

Overall results: Ron Hasbrouck, Joel Sweet, Joe Carter, Mark Softy, 133; Mark Janasek, William Andrews, Woody Hough, Gregory Cross, 135; Richard Haefele, Robert Fazio, jr.; Dennis Hyland, 137.

Front-nine results: John Gunnison, Terry Davidson, Brian Fiala, Jim Powell, 64; Barry Lyons, John McNeill, Peter Gross, 65; Pat Lynch, rob Verzera, John Arnold, Jerry Weston, 66.

Back-nine results: Kirk Lynch, Robert Tilton, Mike Griffith, Richard Lawson, 68; Alex Porter, Clive Becker-Jones, Don Torppa, Jack Wood, 70 (MOC); Michael Tencza, Skip Kendrick, Frank Hopper, Michael Jumper, 70.

The Chippersplayed June 24 on Pinehurst No. 5.The game was low net individual scores.

Results: Martha Irvin, 33; Judy Davis, 34; Josie Maniskas, 36 (MOC); Kathy Spangler, 36 (MOC); April OConnor, 36 (MOC); Francine Smarrelli, 36 (MOC).

The Signature LGAplayed June 24 in an ABCD, two best balls on par 4s and one best ball on par 3s and 5s.

Results: Tricia Williamson, Peggy Poole, Pat Blank, Jean Jordan, 98 (MOC); Diane Tate, Roe Lyons, Franny Stewart, Kelley Fiala, 98; Sally Means, Cathy Pierce, Jane Lee, Betty Lynch, 98 (MOC).

The Signature LGAplayed June 26 in a Stableford game.

Results: flight 1 Rita Weeks, 39 pts, Diane Tate, 37 pts; flight 2 Lauren Leeker, 32 pts, Jane Wilkinson, 32 pts; flight 3 Sigrid Gross, 36 pts, Franny Stewart, 35 pts.

The Birdies played June 29 and the game was two best balls on par 3s and one best ball on all others.

Results: first Margit Elo, Joyce McWane, Carol Showalter, Linda Newman, 74 (MOC); second Rita Weeks, Gloria Sectish, Catherine Renner, Estelle Menke, 74 (MOC); third Pilar Page, Lynn Dawson, Mary Sweet, June Eichele, 74 (MOC); fourth Donna Tanner, Blind Draw, Silvia Bisbe, Aurele Timken, 76.

Donna Tanner won closest to the pin honors.

Midland: The Midland Ladiesplayed a leaderboard game and the winners were:Char Lloyd -4; Deb Presser, tied at -3, with Tracy Thomas, Paula Hill, Sara Conti;Pat Gannaway ,tied at -2, with Peggy Jones, Susan Ray;Linda Parke and Pat McMahon tied at -1.

The Mens Golf Associationplayed July 1 in an individual net competition.

9-holers results: flight 1 David Owens, 36, Jim Braunscheidel, 37; flight 2 Richard Lawrenson, tied at 37, with Henry Fuhrmann.

18-holers results: flight 1 Chris Pearson, 72, John Burns, 74; flight 2 David St. Clair, 63, Emmett Callow, 74.

Jim Braunscheidel won closest to the pin for 9-holers and John Burns on for the 18-holers on the front nine and Mitchell Sharpe on the back nine.

The Mens Golf associationplayed June 24 in a Stableford game with the following winners:Chris Pearson, Art Gula, Ted Meyer, Emmett Callow, 128 pts; Bob Klicpera, Tim Smith, Chad Bucklleyu, blind draw, 126 pts.

Chad Buckley won closest to the pin for the 18-holers and Jim Braunscheidel for the 9-holers.

The Midland Skinnersplayed June 27 and Steve Presser a skin on the first hole and John Burns on the eighth.

Paul Cottam won low net at 29 and Henry Castro and Steve Presser tied at 32.Chuck Gallagher won closest to the pin on the sixth hole and Mitch Sharp on the seventh.

Knollwood:The Rainmakersplayed July 6 in a low gross, low net and low putts game.

Results: flight 1 Peggy Jones, 40 gross, Beth Owens, 41 net, Penny Higgins, 10 putts; flight 2 gross Linda Parke, 47, net - Carole Huber, 48, putts Doris Stone, 11; flight 3 gross Paula Hill, 50, net Susan Rodgers, 53, putts Joan Mangrum, 13.

The Rainmakersresults for June 29 in a captains choice game are Penny Higgins, Judy Smith and Tracy Thomas, tied at 36, with Beth Owens, Linda Piechota, Paula Hill and Joan Mangrum.

Longleaf:The 18-Hole Ladiesplayed a one best ball of the threesome contest on par-4 holes only.

Results: first Ruthie Borrell, Ravelle Whitener, Roberta Williams, -7; second Lynn Dunn, Sandi Fischer, Suzanne Schenkel, -6; third Nancy Cherosnick, Mary Olech, Suzanne Schenkel (BD), tied at -5, with Ellen Leslie, Diane Steele, Darlene Luppino.

The 9-Holersplayed a Stableford competition and the winners were: Kay Curlee, 26; Ann Doster, 23; Emilie Simeon, 22.

American Singles:The Pinehurst Chapterplayed July 4at Seven Lakes Golf Course in a red, white and blue tournament.The format was two best balls and anyone wearing red, white or blue got a traveling mulligan.

Results: first Kathy Schlagel, Phyllis Kenny, Dan Gaynor and Robert Doerr, tied at 20 under par, with Tanya Young, Martez Norris, Debbie Tyler and Tom Hilton; third Susan Thomee, Cheryl Lancaster, Jim Legg, Martin Marcus, tied at 17 under par, with Lois Smart, Mike Roche and Mike Young; fifth Patty Booze, Margaret Young and Tom Carrier, 14 under par; sixth Joy Hertel, Donna DeCesare, Bob Flesca and Mike Campbell, 12 under par; seventh Kathy Slotter, Carole Skau, Ed DeWitt and Ron Smith at 11 under par.

Susan Thomee and Marcus Martin won closest to the pin honors.

The Pinehurst Chapterplayed June 28 at the Legacy Golf Course.The competition was foursome with two best balls, three best balls and one best ball repeating over 18 holes.

Results: first Susan Thomee, Martez Norris, Jim Legg, Tom Carrier, 30 under par; second Phyllis Kenny, Joy Hertel, Butch Lundgren, Marcus Martin, 25 under par; third Bobbi Amato, Renee Miller, Mike Young, Dan Gaynor, 21 under par; fourth Kim Schiffers, Margaret Young, Ira Schugar, Robert Doerr, 19 under par.

The Pinehurst Chapterplayed June 30 in a nine-and-tailgate at the CC of Whispering Pines on the River Course.The format was individual competition utilizing the Peoria Handicap System.

Results: Earl Quam, 32; Pat Koubek, 34; Mike Roche, 36; Mike Young 37; Nancy Vaitkevicius, 39.

Pat Koubek won closest to the pin for women and Mike Roche for the men.

Beacon Ridge: The 18-Holersplayed July 7 for their monthly Beacon Cup Round.

Sarah Abbott won the cup with net 72. Mary Ellen Buckley carded net 73 and Nancy Cunningham net 74.

Barb Cardwon the Beaconette Cup, a monthly competition, with a net score of 33.Pat Price was second with 33 (MOC). Nita Hartless carded net 35 and Barbara Brazer recorded net 34.

The Mens Golf Associationplayed their club and gold championships June 26-27.

Tim Pittmanis the 2020 club champion, winning in a sudden death playoff having tied Joel Martin at 173.Tim sank a 10-foot putt to win.Joe Easley was third with 178.

Mike Karnishwon the gold championship with a 166.Joe Mannuci and Randy Lambert tied for second with 183.

Net results: flight 1 Joel Martin, 145, Randy Lambert, 157, Joe Easley, Marty Price and Ron Dunning each had 160; flight 2 Joe Mannuci, 147, Stu Chase, 152, Max Picinich, 154, Vince Price, 158.

The 18-Hole Ladiesplayed June 30 in a criers tournament, throwing out three worst holes.

Results: Mary Ellen Buckley, 50; Clara Karnish, 54; Mary Snead, 59; Barbara Card, 60; Lindy DiBella, 64; Nancy Cunningham, 65.

The Mens Golf Associationplayed July 1 where the two low net golfers qualify for a handicap tournament on October 21. Qualifiers were Daryl Emerson at 71 and Bill Baker at 72.

Results: flight 1 Joel Martin, 73, Dick van Horne, 74; Tom Rudziensky, 75; flight 2 Joe Mannuci, 71, Stu Chase, 72, Jan Pollnow, 73.

Closest to the pin winners were Bill Baker and Dick van Horne.

Seven Lakes: The Womens Golf Associationplayed July 7 in a team game called flags. The color of the flags determined how many net scores were counted for the team score.

Red flags = the best net score of the foursome; yellow flags = two best net scores of the foursome; white flags = the best three net scores of the foursome.

The winners were Becky Parr, Philippa Davidson, Kathy Goodman, Karen Williamson, 132.

The Womens Golf Associationplayed an individual game June 30 called animals.The object was to keep the animals away by having the lowest animal points.Players recorded points each time one of the following things occurred: gorilla = each out of bounds shots; snake = 3 or more putts; camel each sand shot taken; frog = each time your ball goes into a penalty area; skunk each time you whiff.

Results: Susan Clark and Becky Parr tied at one animal point each.Charlotte Kennedy and Joyce Charles tied at two animal points each.

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Monday, July 13th, 2020

Freda Green

Freda Green, age 82, of Celina, Ohio, passed away on July 12, 2020 at 12:40 pm at the Gardens in Celina. She was born on July 6, 1938 to the late Fred & Nellie (Myers) Cain in Celina, Ohio. On May 13, 1961 she married Robert Green who preceded her in death on December 12, 2009.

Freda is survived by her three children: Jeanette (Henry) Johnson of Geneva, Indiana, Ron (Cindy) Green of Celina, Ohio, and Karen Hierholzer of Coldwater, Michigan; her nine grandchildren: Keith & Luke Johnson, Joe, Josh, Jessica, Brad & Jake Green, and John & Bob Hierholzer; eleven great grandchildren a sister-in-law, Emma Cain of Panama City, Florida, and many nieces & nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents and a brother Bill Cain.

Freda was a graduate of Celina High School and went on to work many years of service in retail, primarily at Barrs in Celina. Freda adored her family and most important to her was spending time with them. Freda was very involved in Bible Studies and truly enjoyed spending time with her Bible Study Group.

Private burial will be held by family.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to Mercer County Veterans Services at 200 W. Livingston St. Celina, OH 45822.

Cisco Funeral Homes are honored to care for Freda and her family. To pay your respects and to leave online condolences and memories, visit http://www.ciscofuneralhome.com or visit the Cisco Funeral Homes Facebook page.

Funeral services have been entrusted to Cisco Funeral Homes in Celina & St. Marys.

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Here is a listing of youth and recreational sports results reported to LNP on July 13.

To report scores, email sports@lnpnews.com.

GAMES PLAYED JULY 13

14U

Section One

Penn Manor Comets 6, Lampeter-Strasburg White Sox 5

Manheim Lions 8, Elizabethtown Black 7

Hempfield Black 11, Garden Spot Spartans 7

Section Two

Mount Joy Blue 11,Lampeter-Strasburg Black 1

Elizabethtown Navy 5,Manheim Township Thunder 1

Donegal Indians 7, Elizabethtown Black 1

Lititz VFW 14,Lampeter-Strasburg Blue 1

Solanco Black 16, Cedar Crest 4

Section Three

Penn Manor Blue 11, Mountville Orioles 8

12U

Section One

Lampeter-StrasburgCardinals 11, Hempfield 7

Penn Manor 4, Manheim VFW 3

Logan Zinn notched the game-winning hit.

Donegal Indians 12, Solanco Gold 3

Section Two

Lancaster Rec 19, Cocalico Blue 3

Mountville Phillies 9,Manheim Township Lightning 8

Section Three

Manheim TownshipChargers 13, Penn Manor White 9

Mount Joy 11, Manheim VFW 9

Donegal Black 16, Solanco Grey 8

Hempfield 7, Mountville Tigers 5

10U

Section One

Manheim Township Streaks 17, Manheim VFW 5

Section Two

Mountville Nationals 7, Lancaster SALSA 6

Garden Spot Spartans 13, Penn Manor White 5

Manheim VFW 15, Mount Joy 1

GAMES PLAYED JULY 13

PEQUEA VALLEY-PARADISECHURCH LEAGUE

Weavertown 27, Calvary Monument 2

Leacock Presbyterian 14, Trinity 9

LANCO SENIOR MODIFIED

AO Sports Med. 16, GE Richards 7

Good Food, Inc. 17, Strasburg 2

LANCOLANCASTER TOYOTA OPEN PAIRINGS

At Overlook Golf Course

Friday, July 17

7:30 a.m. Chris Fairbanks, Jim Haus, Mark Naimoli

7:42 a.m. Trey Kuntz, Michael Turner, Scott Lumbatis

7:54 a.m. Zachary Ichter, Nathaniel Martin, Shane Glackin

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8:06 a.m. Richard Riva, Garbriel Bertini, Jon Ressler

8:18 a.m. Jordan Hagel, Will Quinn, Jeffrey Wintersteen

8:30 a.m. Andrew Fink, John Kitsock, Jason Lichty

8:42 a.m. Chris Fieger, Marc Oliveri, Thomas Michaels

8:54 a.m. Fredrick Taggart, David Denlinger, Rocky Bare

9:06 a.m. Matt Goudie, Jarred Texter, Logan Hess

9:18 a.m. Steve Brenner, Brian Groff, Derek McCarty

9:30 a.m. Matt Harnish, Jonathan Glick, Brady Frampton

9:42 a.m. Ron Weaver, Mason Wills, Michael DiSante

9:54 a.m. Hamilton McNaughton, Seth Johnston, Dan Marz

10:06 a.m. Chris North, Austin Lauver, Greg Osborne

10:18 a.m. Rob Campbell, Brock Fassnacht, Daniel Fieger

10:30 a.m. Jason Przystup, Shaun Fedor, John Barry

10:42 a.m. Marlin Detweiler, Corey Wenger, Bucky Kenneff

10:54 a.m. Paul Martin, Jim Mastromatteo, John Hughes

11:06 a.m. Mathias Wanner, Matthew Berkenstock, Joe Klazas

11:18 a.m. Frank Dano, Matt Kreider, Robby Gilbert

11:30 a.m. Darl Yoder, Keith Rodgers, Marty Sowa

11:42 a.m. Ian Albright, Eric Spence, Nathan Hertzog

11:54 a.m. Craig Kliewer, Terry Hertzog, Zachary Drescher

12:06 p.m. Kyle Harvey, Greg Monk, Benjamin Smith

12:18 p.m. Tyler Wassell, Connor Sheehan, Corey Gast

LANCASTER COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF TOUR

GEORGE CRUDDEN MEMORIAL PAIRINGS

At Four Seasons Golf Club

Thursday, July 16

9:30 a.m. Logan Wagner, Connor Strine, Garrett Engle, Trevor Snyder (Boys Gold)

9:40 a.m. Ben Wilson, Colton Yenser, Brock Smith, Jonathan Glick (Boys Gold)

9:50 a.m. Jack Novis, Derek McGlaughlin, Jared Foltz, Alex Williams (Boys Gold)

10 a.m. Simon Domencic, Sean Cliff, Ben Feeman, Dante Billoni, Dante (Boys Gold)

10:10 a.m. Bobby Nicholson, Trey Rios, Matthew Wilson, Evan Jozwiak (Boys Gold)

10:20 a.m. Tanner Fackler, Jeet Patel, Tyson Mitchell, Reagan Flynn (Boys Gold)

10:30 a.m. Tyler Swartz, Brant Bomberger, Brady Wiggins, Jacob Geiter (Boys Gold)

10:40 a.m. Elle Overly, Keegan Dings, Kayla Maletto, Hannah Barrett (Girls Gold)

10:50 a.m. Tristan Groff, Jillian Fidler, Taylor Hicks, Greta Plechner (Girls Gold)

11 a.m. Sebastian Elias, Jesse Shue, Joseph Sembrot, Mark Gates (Boys Silver)

11:10 a.m. Nicholas Stramara, Jamesson Radwanski, Joseph McGinty, Ian Stefanchik (Boys Silver)

11:20 a.m. Hayden Hampshire, Austin Bortz, Isaiah Hansen, Zachary Lessley (Boys Silver)

11:30 a.m. Carter Winters, Gavin Badger, Brad Hoffman, Aiden Doyle (Boys Silver)

11:40 a.m. Drew Wilson, Alexandre Truong, Brody Mellinger, K. Holt Albertson (Boys Silver)

11:50 a.m. Ian Kennett, Lachlan Keith, Vivek Patel (Boys Silver)

Noon Gavin Bereschak, Dylan Ackerman, Jack Klazas, Kyle Ebersol (Boys Silver)

12:10 p.m. Logan Barr, Christopher Hager, Caiden Frazier, Nicholas Edelman (Boys Silver)

12:20 p.m. Martin Liu-Pahl, Kiran George, Justin Kemper, Ethan Rader (Boys Silver)

12:30 p.m. Landon Reylek, Nathan Williams (Boys Silver); Braedan Stringer, Christopher Everly (Boys Bronze)

12:40 p.m. Piper G. Smith, Mary Emma Guldi, Claire Hill (Girls Silver)

12:50 p.m. Kennedy Dings, Maggie Eckroat, Madeleine Kemmick (Girls Silver)

1 p.m. Savannah Miller, Lucy van Harskamp, Jilian Kloc (Girls Silver)

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Florissant man celebrates 95th birthday and a life of service with family and friends – STLtoday.com

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After the war, Hoffman worked at Joy Manufacturing for 25 years and then Ford Motor Co. for the same amount of time.

Hoffman has five children, 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. One daughter, Terri Regnier, said her father was the fun dad. He coached her and her siblings sports teams and loved taking the kids and their friends to the Melvin Price Locks and Dam in Alton.

He would bring his boat and wed all pile in and water ski, Regnier said. He probably taught between 20 and 30 kids how to water ski. He could get four kids up at one time.

Pattie Jelen, another daughter, has fond memories of chopping down Christmas trees with him, piling on him with her brothers and sisters, and learning to read by sitting in his lap while he read the newspaper.

Even now, he loves being around children. Regnier teaches at St. Marks Mini School in Florissant, and Hoffman or Papa Charlie, as the kids call him visits three times a week. He said he fixes their toys, plays games with them, and helps out in the classroom.

Hoffman self-published a book in 2014 called My Life as a U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II. It recounts his experiences during the war, as well as some of his early life. He is working on a new book with the information he left out of his first one about the war, as well as stories from after his service.

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The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of 2020 put an end to a decade of global economic recovery. Governments have stepped in to help stabilize things; in the United States alone, the monetary and fiscal stimulus stands at more than $6 trillion and counting. But we entered the COVID-19 crisis with global debt over 322 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)thats 40 percent, or $87 trillion, higher than at the onset of the 2008 financial crisisand well need to return to sustainable spending eventually.

Meanwhile, the full extent of the pandemics tragic human impact isnt yet known, but we can already see dramatic implications, particularly for low-income communities. In the social sector, the public eye is mostly on the nonprofits that support emergency health response and offer services to the many populations that fall through the cracks of standard public servicesincluding elderly people and minorities; people experiencing poverty, unemployment, or homelessness; and asylum-seekers.

Amid these economic, human, and institutional pressures, the need for philanthropy has increased, but its plain to see the crisis is shaking the sector. From March to May 2020, US nonprofits cut 1.6 million jobsthats 13 percent of all nonprofit jobs in America. Funders are trying to ease the blow; the Ford Foundations call to action during the pandemic, for example, exemplifies the type of grantor commitment every philanthropic foundation should aspire to, and foundations like the ones I serve have worked quickly to establish a dialogue with grantees on current and future needs, relaxed restrictions on current grants, reduced reporting burdens, and designed a dedicated COVID-19 initiative to make targeted new grants. But not all nonprofits have this kind of support. Whats more, established fundraising channels such as events arent currently viable, and donors are harder to mobilizeand will continue to be until the economy recovers. By managing their liquidity, cutting costsand non-core programs, appealing to important donors, and accessing lines of credit, many nonprofits will succeed in leaning against the wind. But the unfortunate fact is that many others wont.

When the dust settles, the social sector will need to take strategic steps to restore its capacity and strength, and to effectively contribute to a post-COVID-19 social contract.

When the sector eventually turns its attention to rebuilding, an important part of the way forward will be revisiting how to create systems change. When foundations review how COVID-19 has affected grantees operating models, as well as their ability to deliver impact, liquidity, and solvency, it will become clearer than ever that viewing social change from a single-organization perspective is insufficient. To create change will require that foundations fund a set of organizations that act on different levers, including direct service, research into new solutions, capacity building, and advocacy. Indeed, starting now, funders and nonprofits need to begin thinking about what a vibrant, post-COVID-19 civil society could look like; which actions are conducive to (re)building it; and how to finance its different elements, including research and development, capital investment in nonprofit upgrading, and operating support. The role of civil society and science in forging the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate offers an example from which to learn.

The sector will also need to revisit its legitimacy. Already before the pandemic, big philanthropywhich Stanford professor Rob Reich has defined as an exercise of power by the wealthy that is unaccountable, non-transparent, donor-directed, perpetual, and tax-subsidizedwas beginning to come under pressure. Indeed, voices that accuse philanthropy of being secretive, undemocratic, and often unable to show its value are multiplying. While these voices are finding less of an audience during the pandemic, they are sure to come back with a vengeance once the emergency need for stimulus gives way to concern for balancing budgets. At some point, philanthropy will need to more clearly demonstrate its value to society, show greater inclusivity and transparency, and prove that its using scarce resources effectively. Emerging narratives questioning the value of philanthropy will be compounded by major economic-institutional collapse, but there are multiple paths forward. One leads to a philanthropic sector diminished by the crisis, and one to a sector with the necessary legitimacy, resources, and freedom needed to drive social change.

Before devising ambitious plans for how to build a better philanthropic sector, its worth taking stock of the factors that influence it and identifying strategic opportunities to enhance its dynamism. A useful concept here is philanthropic vitality, or what makes the sector efficient, impact-focused, and trustworthy. Gauging the philanthropic sector in any given region by its vitality can help us identify whats working and whats not, and then create a strategy for achieving vitality.

My colleagues and I defined the sectors core vitality dimensions in a recent pilot study as including adequate financial capital, a robust regulatory context and accountability practices, talent and human capital development, and high levels of public trust. We believe good collaboration practices, as well as a well-developed network of intermediaries that connects funders with nonprofits and provides professional services, also enhance vitality.

Based on this, the pilot study set out to assess the vitality of the philanthropic sector in Switzerlands Lake Geneva regionhome to more than 2,500 public utility foundations, and 450 international organizations and NGOs. The regions philanthropic sector showed strong vitality in its core dimensions, including a robust regulatory context and significant financial capital. In addition, foundations in the region benefitted from high levels of public trust, ahead of government, business, and the media.

But while there was a healthy intermediary sector, we found that public utility foundations need to make more progress on factors such as human capital development and diversity, accountability practices and transparency, and local collaboration to increase their value to society. To systematically improve these conditions and, thus, the sectors ability to drive change, we recommended that the sector establish a coalition of funders interested in promoting the regions philanthropic vitality, and align local and regional government best practices and procedures.

As explained above, when the emergency stage of COVID-19 has passed, the sector will face massive additional social need, depleted government coffers, a reduction in total donations, and additional uncertainty in financial markets. It will also likely face greater need for systems-level work, and renewed scrutiny over its legitimacy and effectiveness. However, the rebuilding phase also offers four opportunities thatif approached holistically and strategicallycan enhance the vitality of philanthropy and civil society. These opportunities include rethinking fiscal incentives, improving transparency, investing in technology, and taking collaboration to the next level.

First, the sector needs to draw in more philanthropic capital through well-targeted fiscal incentives and tax exemptions of philanthropic foundations. This will motivate institutions to invest in social impact. Some philanthropic foundations may even choose to pay taxes in exchange for greater freedom to select who they invest in and how (via grants or for-profit investments). In cases where a foundation already co-finances projects with the public sector, providing direct support to government is another motivation.

As one example, Genevas largest foundationthe Fondation Hans Wilsdorf, whose primary asset is ownership of the luxury watch brand Rolexrecently shared its philanthropic footprint for the first time publicly. It pays out 250 million Swiss francs per year (approximately $260 million), exclusively dedicated to public interest projects in the Canton of Geneva. The foundation also announced that as of fiscal year 2020, it would give up its charitable tax exemption and pay an estimated additional 30 million Swiss francs ($31 million) per year in taxes. (Rolex already pays company taxes.)

Second, the sector needs to improve transparency about what works. Using data to ground decision making has become foundational to strategy and operations in most industries. The social sector similarly needs easily available, high-quality, machine-readable data so that it can quantify issues and understand what drives outcomesat reasonable cost.

For example, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, an international consortium of nearly 800 institutions, runs the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project with 3,000 teacher volunteers and independent research teams. It builds and tests effective teaching methods to help teachers develop their practice and thereby improve student success. Though some consider a methodology that assesses teacher effectiveness through the lens of student test scores too narrow, the consortium nevertheless believes test scores codetermine students life prospects. Systematically identifyingand sharinghow teaching can improve them across a variety of subjects offers a way forward. Offering free access to published findings and reports, as well as researcher access to data sets, democratizes insight and enables testing alternative research assumptions.

Third, the sector needs to invest in technology. COVID-19 is accelerating the transformation of nonprofits into digital knowledge organizations that collect and process valuable information about projects, funding, and partners. Nonprofits need to promote data gathering on social issues and projects, as well as be ready to use the data and handle it according to cybersecurity and privacy requirements.

A 2016 survey of nonprofits in Los Angeles, California, found that 95 percent of the organizations were aware that technology was important to their work and future. Notwithstanding, 60 percent did not have the staff in place to support their technology needs. Moreover, 54 percent believed their staff were not trained well enough to use technology effectively in their day-to-day work. The big five tech companiesAlphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoftalready run pro-bono programs to help nonprofits integrate digital technology and data-driven decision-making. Funders have the opportunity to use their money and influence to secure in-kind and pro bono support (including product license donations, platform development, and staff training) for nonprofits, enabling them to digitize and automate business processes, use digital platforms, and leverage data and analytics in new ways that enhance their efficiency and social impact.

Finally, the sector needs to approach collaboration with a new level of ambition. Take the issues of habitat loss, wildlife trade, clean air, agriculture, sustainable food systems, and climate change. In thinking of them altogether, it becomes clear that health and the environment are interdependent, and that we need to tackle all of them at the same time. Collaboration pools knowledge and resources in an otherwise fragmented philanthropic landscape, enabling greater impact. And again here, its important to develop strong, explicit incentives to working together.

For example, few programs that address violence against women in the Global South have formed partnerships to transfer the most effective intervention models. To help stimulate the spread of high-impact approaches and adapt them to new local contexts, the Womanity Foundation created an award to encourage collaboration between an innovation partner (a nonprofit that has developed a successful program) with a scale-up partner (a nonprofit that contextualizes, adapts, and rolls out the approach in a new location). By providing funding, capacity building, and access to networks, the award provides an incentive to replicate proven intervention models in new geographies. The partners of the awards most recent edition, My Safetipin in India and Soul City Institute for Social Justice in South Africa are working on making a free application that provides geospatial data and information to make public spaces safer, more accessible, and more relevant to women in South Africa.

Although the sector is still responding to the emergency, it behooves us all to start preparing to rebuild. Here are eight things funders can do now to lay the groundwork for future philanthropic vitality.

There will be no one-size-fits-all solution, but collectively, philanthropy will be judged not only on the contribution it makes now to solving the COVID-19 crisis, but also on how it rebuilds itself after the emergency and whether it can ultimately create systemic change. By measuring and optimizing the conditions that contribute to philanthropic vitality and by taking advantage of the opportunities that lie ahead, forward-thinking funders and nonprofit leaders can meaningfully improve the sectors ability to drive change.

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The Oral Law -Talmud & Mishna – Jewish Virtual Library

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The Oral Law is a legal commentary on the Torah, explaining how its commandments are to be carried out. Common sense suggests that some sort of oral tradition was always needed to accompany the Written Law, because the Torah alone, even with its 613 commandments, is an insufficient guide to Jewish life. For example, the fourth of the Ten Commandments, ordains, "Remember the Sabbath day to make it holy" (Exodus 20:8). From the Sabbath's inclusion in the Ten Commandments, it is clear that the Torah regards it as an important holiday. Yet when one looks for the specific biblical laws regulating how to observe the day, one finds only injunctions against lighting a fire, going away from one's dwelling, cutting down a tree, plowing and harvesting. Would merely refraining from these few activities fulfill the biblical command to make the Sabbath holy? Indeed, the Sabbath rituals that are most commonly associated with holiness-lighting of candles, reciting the kiddush, and the reading of the weekly Torah portion are found not in the Torah, but in the Oral Law.

Without an oral tradition, some of the Torah's laws would be incomprehensible. In the Shema's first paragraph, the Bible instructs: "And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart. And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes." "Bind them for a sign upon your hand," the last verse instructs. Bind what? The Torah doesn't say. "And they shall be for frontlets between your eyes." What are frontlets? The Hebrew word for frontlets, totafot is used three times in the Torah always in this context (Exodus 13:16; Deuteronomy 6:8, 11:18) and is as obscure as is the English. Only in the Oral Law do we learn that what a Jewish male should bind upon his hand and between his eyes are tefillin (phylacteries).

Finally, an Oral Law was needed to mitigate certain categorical Torah laws that would have caused grave problems if carried out literally. The Written Law, for example, demands an "eye for an eye" (Exodus 21:24). Did this imply that if one person accidentally blinded another, he should be blinded in return? That seems to be the Torah's wish. But the Oral Law explains that the verse must be understood as requiring monetary compensation: the value of an eye is what must be paid.

The Jewish community of Palestine suffered horrendous losses during the Great Revolt and the Bar-Kokhba rebellion. Well over a million Jews were killed in the two ill-fated uprisings, and the leading yeshivot, along with thousands of their rabbinical scholars and students, were devastated.

This decline in the number of knowledgeable Jews seems to have been a decisive factor in Rabbi Judah the Prince's decision around the year 200 C.E. to record in writing the Oral Law. For centuries, Judaism's leading rabbis had resisted writing down the Oral Law. Teaching the law orally, the rabbis knew, compelled students to maintain close relationships with teachers, and they considered teachers, not books, to be the best conveyors of the Jewish tradition. But with the deaths of so many teachers in the failed revolts, Rabbi Judah apparently feared that the Oral Law would be forgotten unless it were written down.

In the Mishna, the name for the sixty-three tractates in which Rabbi Judah set down the Oral Law, Jewish law is systematically codified, unlike in the Torah. For example, if a person wanted to find every law in the Torah about the Sabbath, he would have to locate scattered references in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers. Indeed, in order to know everything the Torah said on a given subject, one either had to read through all of it or know its contents by heart. Rabbi Judah avoided this problem by arranging the Mishna topically. All laws pertaining to the Sabbath were put into one tractate called Shabbat (Hebrew for "Sabbath"). The laws contained in Shabbat's twenty-four chapters are far more extensive than those contained in the Torah, for the Mishna summarizes the Oral Law's extensive Sabbath legislation. The tractate Shabbat is part of a larger "order" called Mo'ed (Hebrew for "holiday"), which is one of six orders that comprise the Mishna. Some of the other tractates in Mo'ed specify the Oral Laws of Passover (Pesachim); Purim (Megillah); Rosh haShana; Yom Kippur (Yoma); and Sukkot.

The first of the six orders is called Zera'im (Seeds), and deals with the agricultural rules of ancient Palestine, particularly with the details of the produce that were to be presented as offerings at the Temple in Jerusalem. The most famous tractate in Zera'im, however, Brakhot (Blessings) has little to do with agriculture. It records laws concerning different blessings and when they are to be recited.

Another order, called Nezikin (Damages), contains ten tractates summarizing Jewish civil and criminal law.

Another order, Nashim (Women), deals with issues between the sexes, including both laws of marriage, Kiddushin, and of divorce, Gittin.

A fifth order, Kodashim, outlines the laws of sacrifices and ritual slaughter. The sixth order, Taharot, contains the laws of purity and impurity.

Although parts of the Mishna read as dry legal recitations, Rabbi Judah frequently enlivened the text by presenting minority views, which it was also hoped might serve to guide scholars in later generations (Mishna Eduyot 1:6). In one famous instance, the legal code turned almost poetic, as Rabbi Judah cited the lengthy warning the rabbinic judges delivered to witnesses testifying in capital cases:

"How are witnesses inspired with awe in capital cases?" the Mishna begins. "They are brought in and admonished as follows: In case you may want to offer testimony that is only conjecture or hearsay or secondhand evidence, even from a person you consider trustworthy; or in the event you do not know that we shall test you by cross-examination and inquiry, then know that capital cases are not like monetary cases. In monetary cases, a man can make monetary restitution and be forgiven, but in capital cases both the blood of the man put to death and the blood of his [potential] descendants are on the witness's head until the end of time. For thus we find in the case of Cain, who killed his brother, that it is written: 'The bloods of your brother cry unto Me' (Genesis 4:10) that is, his blood and the blood of his potential descendants.... Therefore was the first man, Adam, created alone, to teach us that whoever destroys a single life, the Bible considers it as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a single life, the Bible considers it as if he saved an entire world. Furthermore, only one man, Adam, was created for the sake of peace among men, so that no one should say to his fellow, 'My father was greater than yours.... Also, man [was created singly] to show the greatness of the Holy One, Blessed be He, for if a man strikes many coins from one mold, they all resemble one another, but the King of Kings, the Holy One, Blessed be He, made each man in the image of Adam, and yet not one of them resembles his fellow. Therefore every single person is obligated to say, 'The world was created for my sake"' (Mishna Sanhedrin 4:5). (One commentary notes, "How grave the responsibility, therefore, of corrupting myself by giving false evidence, and thus bringing [upon myself the moral guilt of [murdering] a whole world.")

One of the Mishna's sixtythree tractates contains no laws at all. It is called Pirkei Avot (usually translated as Ethics of the Fathers), and it is the "Bartlett's" of the rabbis, in which their most famous sayings and proverbs are recorded.

During the centuries following Rabbi Judah's editing of the Mishna, it was studied exhaustively by generation after generation of rabbis. Eventually, some of these rabbis wrote down their discussions and commentaries on the Mishna's laws in a series of books known as the Talmud. The rabbis of Palestine edited their discussions of the Mishna about the year 400: Their work became known as the Palestinian Talmud (in Hebrew, Talmud Yerushalmi, which literally means "Jerusalem Talmud").

More than a century later, some of the leading Babylonian rabbis compiled another editing of the discussions on the Mishna. By then, these deliberations had been going on some three hundred years. The Babylon edition was far more extensive than its Palestinian counterpart, so that the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli) became the most authoritative compilation of the Oral Law. When people speak of studying "the Talmud," they almost invariably mean the Bavli rather than the Yerushalmi.

The Talmud's discussions are recorded in a consistent format. A law from the Mishna is cited, which is followed by rabbinic deliberations on its meaning. The Mishna and the rabbinic discussions (known as the Gemara) comprise the Talmud, although in Jewish life the terms Gemara and Talmud usually are used interchangeably.

The rabbis whose views are cited in the Mishna are known as Tanna'im (Aramaic for "teachers"), while the rabbis quoted in the Gemara are known as Amora'im ("explainers" or "interpreters"). Because the Tanna'im lived earlier than the Amora'im, and thus were in closer proximity to Moses and the revelation at Sinai, their teachings are considered more authoritative than those of the Amora'im. For the same reason, Jewish tradition generally regards the teachings of the Amora'im, insofar as they are expounding the Oral Law, as more authoritative than contemporary rabbinic teachings.

In addition to extensive legal discussions (in Hebrew, halakha), the rabbis incorporated into the Talmud guidance on ethical matters, medical advice, historical information, and folklore, which together are known as aggadata.

As a rule, the Gemara's text starts with a close reading of the Mishna. For example, Mishna Bava Mezia 7:1 teaches the following: "If a man hired laborers and ordered them to work early in the morning and late at night, he cannot compel them to work early and late if it is not the custom to do so in that place." On this, the Gemara (Bava Mezia 83a) comments: "Is it not obvious [that an employer cannot demand that they change from the local custom]? The case in question is where the employer gave them a higher wage than was normal. In that case, it might be argued that he could then say to them, 'The reason I gave you a higher wage than is normal is so that you will work early in the morning and late at night.' So the law tells us that the laborers can reply: 'The reason that you gave us a higher wage than is normal is for better work [not longer hours].'"

Among religious Jews, talmudic scholars are regarded with the same awe and respect with which secular society regards Nobel laureates. Yet throughout Jewish history, study of the Mishna and Talmud was hardly restricted to an intellectual elite. An old book saved from the millions burned by the Nazis, and now housed at the YIVO library in New York, bears the stamp THE SOCIETY OF WOODCHOPPERS FOR THE STUDY OF MISHNA IN BERDITCHEV. That the men who chopped wood in Berditchev, an arduous job that required no literacy, met regularly to study Jewish law demonstrates the ongoing pervasiveness of study of the Oral Law in the Jewish community.

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Affiliate licensing: Time to face up to a regulated reality – iGaming Business

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Following yesterday's piece explaining why affiliates in Great Britain should not be subject to a licensing regime, BonusFinder's Fintan Costello sets out why a regulatory framework would benefit the sector. Read the argument against here.

There is no hiding from the fact that we are seeing a new wave of regulation across the globe with numerous jurisdictions looking to regulate online gambling, including large parts of the US and Latin America, and Europes largest economy Germany.

At the same time, established markets such as Great Britain and Sweden are in the process of updating existing legislation and fast-tracking further restrictions on the industry.

Many areas of the industry have already adjusted to this approach with operators and suppliers bolstering compliance teams ahead of, or in response to, tougher licensing, advertising restrictions and stricter player protection measures, or when forced to, even tackle multi-million pound fines.

However, one sector that has not had to invest in compliance or licensing (except for publicly traded entities), is affiliates. In general terms, we have largely had a free rein since the first bedroom pioneers realised traffic could be monetised, no matter where in the world that came from.

Two decades later and the momentum has firmly shifted from dot.com to dot.country, combined with a push for increased standards and an emphasis on player safety and responsible gaming, drastically changing the landscape and ensuring that almost every licensed facet of the industry is liable and responsible for its actions.

We have, until recently, not faced any such obligations, however with more countries such as the US opting to licence affiliates and others, such as the UK now floating the idea, there is a growing consensus that this is an inevitable path for the sector .

The devil will naturally be in the detail, but in principle, the advantages are clear and large swathes of our community are in favour. We can vouch for this first-hand having been through the US licensing process in five states, successfully securing them all.

We also recently joined Responsible Affiliates in Gambling (RAiG) whose aim is to foster wider initiatives in the GB affiliate sector to promote social responsibility and create a safer gambling environment for consumers.

This messaging is vital and fully aligned with the drive for change being seen across many of the worlds most important regulated markets. You only have to read the detail of the recent APPG and House of Lords reports to see that several measures will soon be in place to ensure players are further protected.

Taking responsibilityMany of us have already been voluntarily self-regulating. But to standardise and further professionalise our sector, many affiliates, ourselves included, feel that the right, and arguably the only way to achieve this, is for minimum requirements to be set out and implemented by a form of licensing or registration process.

Some will be concerned that licensing will bring further upfront costs and longer-term investment or require onerous amounts of time-consuming paperwork and additional resources. However, as RAiG suggests, this approach is designed to simply supplement an already extensive range of regulations. Moreover, such a system need not be expensive nor burdensome. You only have to look to the GB Gambling Commissions direct licensing of third-party suppliers, the provision of approved lists of Alternative Dispute Resolution providers and software testing houses to see the successes this has had.

The more registered, vetted, and licensed businesses within a market, be they brands, content aggregators or casino comparison sites, the more transparent, visible, and safer the jurisdiction for authorities and players. Combine this with common sense regulation and you have a proven model.

And for those that fear bureaucracy, anyone who has signed up for an affiliate programme in the UK will know this is very much like applying for a licence with information required on the company, its ultimate beneficiary or UBO, and marketing channels among other details.

If affiliates are licensed, we are both responsible and liable for our actions, but equally firmly in control of our own destiny with certifiable proof that our products and services are fully compliant the best of the best.

The positive knock-on effects are also evident. We are responsible, trusted suppliers, recommended by our peers. We generate increased regulated revenues and are accepted further into mainstream business as weve seen other affiliate groups do in the last few years, while our standards and reputation as a community continues to improve and grow in line with other licensed gaming stakeholders.

The positive impact of licensing doesnt end there with the burden on operator partners also considerably lowering.Today, operator compliance teams are in overdrive. If they arent busy shutting down the affiliate channel, they are micromanaging all the content published on their sites and dictating extensive requirements (which often conflict with other operators).

Partnering with a licensed affiliate would eliminate any of these scenarios, ensuring they work with trusted sources who are held to every T and every C within an affiliate licence and regulatory regime.

Level playing fieldThese are early days in discussions on affiliate licensing, but we strongly feel the time is right. Our area of the industry has operated independently for too long, without consistent standards and regulatory oversight, and it is vital we are as accountable, responsible, and as valued as our partners.

Clive Hawkswood, chairman of RAiG, rightly says, the aim must be to work with all stakeholders to ensure that any provisions (around licensing) are proportionate and, most important of all, effective in improving safeguards for consumers.

By licensing and using one voice under associations such as RAiG, and by sharing insights, experiences and data across all elements and areas of expertise, we can alter the course of our future. For the better. This change in mindset wont be easy for some, but we are convinced that those who dont adjust, who are resistant to change, or who continue to operate in the shadows of black markets will rapidly fade from view.

Fintan Costello is Managing Director of BonusFinder.com. Founded in 2019 with asimple goal to allow people to Play with more at their favourite casino orsportsbook BonusFinder.com has created simple to use tools to allow players of all levels to find theperfect bonus that suits their playing style.BonusFinder operates in multiple European markets and holds affiliate licences in five US states.

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EveryMatrix gains Associate Member status in the European Lotteries Association – CalvinAyre.com

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Thursday, June 9th, 2020, Malta

EveryMatrix is pleased to join the European Lotteries Association by securing the status of Associate Member. As an established B2B technology provider within iGaming, EveryMatrix will take its place among other esteemed lottery suppliers in the space.

Built on three core values responsibility, sustainability, and integrity, the European Lotteries Associations mission is to protect consumers in the fast-paced lottery sector. EveryMatrix adheres to the highest standards of integrity, responsible gaming, and is perfectly aligned with the Associations purpose.

Ebbe Groes, Group CEO of EveryMatrix, comments: We are happy to receive our Associate Member status in the European Lotteries Association. This is a recognition of EveryMatrix as a reliable partner in the lottery space and we are glad to be in a such good company. The Associations responsible gambling policies and best practices should be the standard for any company in the iGaming space.

Catering to over 120 clients in multiple regulated jurisdictions, EveryMatrixs mission is to help operators deliver outstanding player experiences in regulated markets. The company is currently offering its services to several lotteries across the European space.

Since 2008, EveryMatrix built its reputation as a trustable provider with a complete and high-performing suite of iGaming solutions.

Learn more about the http://www.european-lotteries.org

About EveryMatrix

EveryMatrix delivers a modular and API driven product suite for casino, sports betting, payments and affiliate/agent management. The companys B2B iGaming solutions are designed to help clients unleash bold ideas and deliver outstanding player experiences in regulated markets.

To offer the services required by operators, the EveryMatrix products work together as an entire platform or independently. They can be easily integrated with existing platforms to accommodate different types of clients from bookmakers to lotteries and from existing large operations to newcomers.

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Does TB vaccine protect from coronavirus? Heres what experts say – Business Today

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A tuberculosis vaccine may help reduce the risk of death from novel coronavirus, according to two peer-reviewed studies released last week. According to the authors of the study, developing countries, where TB vaccine was given on higher rates, have lower-than-expected COVID-19 death rates.

One of the studies led by Indian researchers from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) stated that the quality of protection from COVID-19 dependent upon the TB vaccine strain, the Hindustan Times reported. The widely-used TB vaccine-Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) has six major strains Pasteur, Danish, Glaxo 1077 (derived from the Danish strain), Tokyo, Russia, and Moreau.

Gobardhan Das, chairperson, Centre for Molecular Medicine at JNU said that BCG has offered some degree of protection against COVID-19, but all the countries (that give BCG vaccines to their children) did not do equally well. Das added that BCG Mix, BCG Pastuer, and BCG Tokyo do better compared to others, such as BCG Russia and BCG Danish. In India, BCG Mix vaccine is used.

The peer-reviewed study was published in Cell Death and Disease.

In India, BCG vaccination of children started in 1949. In 2019, at least 97 per cent of the 2.6 crore children received the TB vaccine. The vaccine in children prevents a simple TB from turning into a systemic and affecting the brain and other organs. However, it doesn't offer protection from adult pulmonary TB, which has led to several countries discontinuing its use. Das said that BCG also had protective effects against leprosy, buruli ulcer, bladder cancer, type-1 diabetes and several other diseases.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) in April said that there was no evidence that BCG protected people against coronavirus.

According to the daily, many clinicians and epidemiologists were also unconvinced about the findings. Dr Krishnan Chhugh, director of pediatrics at Fortis Memorial Research Institute said that it was highly unlikely that the protection would last till adulthood. "The vaccine just prevents simple TB from becoming systemic and affecting the brain and other organs," says Chugh.

Also, epidemiologists are wary that most countries with high BCG vaccination rates, like India and Brazil, are not testing enough. Prof Madhukar Pai, Director, McGill University, Montreal, said that it was dangerous to make conclusions in such a dynamic situation. Pai tweeted, "We simply cannot act on these correlations and must wait for randomised trials on BCG and COVID-19".

Also read: Over 90 doctors on COVID-19 duty lost their lives so far, says IMA

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Muscle and serum myostatin expression in type 1 diabetes. – Physician’s Weekly

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Type 1 diabetes (T1D) has been reported to negatively affect the health of skeletal muscle, though the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Myostatin, a myokine whose increased expression is associated with muscle-wasting diseases, has not been reported in humans with T1D but has been demonstrated to be elevated in preclinical diabetes models. Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine if there is an elevated expression of myostatin in the serum and skeletal muscle of persons with T1D compared to controls. Secondarily, we aimed to explore relationships between myostatin expression and clinically important metrics (e.g., HbA , strength, lean mass) in women and men with (N=31)/without T1D (N=24) between 18 and 72years old. Body composition, baseline strength, blood sample and vastus lateralis muscle biopsy were evaluated. Serum, but not muscle, myostatin expression was significantly elevated in those with T1D versus controls, and to a greater degree in T1D women than T1D men. Serum myostatin levels were not significantly associated with HbA nor disease duration. A significant correlation between serum myostatin expression and maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) and body fat mass was demonstrated in control subjects, but these correlations did not reach significance in those with T1D (MVC: R= 0.64 controls vs. R= 0.37 T1D; Body fat: R=-0.52 controls/R=-0.02 T1D). Collectively, serum myostatin was correlated with lean mass (R= 0.45), and while this trend was noted in both groups separately, neither reached statistical significance (R= 0.47 controls/R= 0.33 T1D). Overall, while those with T1D exhibited elevated serum myostatin levels (particularly females) myostatin expression was not correlated with clinically relevant metrics despite some of these relationships existing in controls (e.g., lean/fat mass). Future studies will be needed to fully understand the mechanisms underlying increased myostatin in T1D, with relationships to insulin dosing being particularly important to elucidate. 2020 The Authors. Physiological Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society.

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Italian Institute Revokes Appointment of Cancer Researcher – The Scientist

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The Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine in Padua, Italy, has revoked its nomination of cancer researcher Pier Paolo Pandolfi as scientific director following allegations of sexual harassment and scientific misconduct against him.

Pandolfi, who admits one instance of harassment but denies any research wrongdoing, was nominated as the scientific director for the Veneto Institute (VIMM) on May 20. The move prompted protests by members of the institutions scientific advisory board, who subsequently resigned en masse when the nomination was confirmed on June 25, with members saying they had not been properly consulted, Nature reports.

There should have been more investigation before making the appointment, board member Aaron Ciechanover, a biochemist and Nobel Prize winner based at Technion Israel Institute of Technology, tells Nature.

The sexual harassment allegations that Pandolfi admits to concern a Harvard postdoc, who tells Nature that Pandolfi organized too many one-to-one meetings where he talked about his feelings for me and that he frequently sent her personal emails. It was embarrassing, horrible and I was not able to work, says the postdoc, whom Nature has kept anonymous, adding that she was transferred to a different research group in early 2019.

Pandolfi left Harvard in December last year, following an investigation into this behavior. He denied in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on June 27 that this was the reason for his departure. In the interview, Pandolfi acknowledged that he had behaved inappropriately toward the postdoc, but said that the incident was isolated and that he was sorry.

The other allegations concern problems with images in papers published by Pandolfi. Enrico Bucci, a science-integrity expert in Samone, Italy, found problems in 13 papers that list Pandolfi as a coauthor, Naturereports.

In a statement announcing the revocation of its nomination on June 30, the institute stated that it had not been informed of the incidents at Harvard University, Corriere della Serareports in a subsequent article. The statement added that VIMM would be looking for a new scientific director as soon as possible.

In May, Pandolfi had taken on a part-time position on the faculty of the Desert Research Institute in Nevada. According to Nature, he resigned from that position on June 30 following VIMMs decision.

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Kainomyx Announces the Launch of Its Programs Focused on Malaria and Other Parasitic Diseases – BioSpace

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kainomyx, Inc., founded in September 2019 and financed with $7.5 Million in May 2020, today announced launch of its programs to address malaria and other parasitic diseases. Leveraging their expertise in the biotech world and cytoskeletal biology, Kainomyx was founded by five current and former Stanford scientists who are experts in the biology, biochemistry and biophysics of the cytoskeletal proteins of cells - James Spudich, PhD, Annamma Spudich, PhD, Darshan Trivedi, PhD, Suman Nag, PhD and Kathleen Ruppel, MD, PhD. Together, they share a conviction that there is a critical need for new therapeutic innovations for treating malaria, leishmaniasis, and other parasitic diseases. Existing efforts to develop therapeutic agents for treatment of malaria and other parasitic diseases often start with screening for small molecule inhibitors of invasion of the parasites into their host cells. While an important approach, the likelihood of success in drug development correlates well with the understanding of the mechanism of action of the target, said James Spudich, President and CEO of the new company and former Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine (and recipient of the Lasker Award for his work on Molecular Motors). Our approach is to develop small molecule therapeutics against target proteins that we have studied for decades and meet six essential characteristics they are vital components of parasite function, mechanistically well understood, essential at multiple stages of the parasite life cycle, highly druggable, less likely to be subject to resistance, and can be targeted with high specificity.

About Parasite Diseases

Parasitic infections cause devastating health and economic consequences world-wide and remain some of the most significant public health challenges globally. Until recently, parasitic diseases were considered to be confined to non-western nations. However, world-wide travel and on-going alterations in climatic conditions have made boundaries more porous, and diseases once restricted to specific areas are becoming global.

There is an urgent need for novel therapies to treat parasitic diseases. The mechanisms of action of current therapeutics for malaria, for example, are generally not well understood, and resistance is now developing against Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT), the current primary therapy for malaria. Thus, novel targets for malaria drug development are in great need.

Kainomyx Focus

Kainomyx is focusing on targeting the cytoskeletal proteins of parasites to develop small molecule therapeutics targeted at malaria and other parasitic diseases. The cytoskeleton, a term coined by Spudich and his colleagues in 1976 from their work on mammalian cells, is a multicomponent system of molecular motors, tracks along which they move, and associated proteins involved in their dynamic organization within cells. The cytoskeleton is essential for multiple pivotal cell functions and is the structural organizational framework for all cells. Over the last fifty years, Spudich and his team, first at the University of California, San Francisco, and then at Stanford University, have focused their efforts on understanding the molecular details of the functions of the cytoskeleton of a variety of cell types.

In addition to his years of experience in academia, Spudich co-founded Cytokinetics, Inc. in 1998 and MyoKardia, Inc. in 2012. Cytokinetics is focused to the discovery and development of novel mechanism modulators of cytoskeletal biology with focus to muscle biology and pharmacology.MyoKardia is focused to the discovery and development of new treatments for genetic diseases of the heart.

At Kainomyx, Spudich and his colleagues are leveraging their academic and biotech expertise to treat one of the most devastating diseases of all time, malaria, which kills more than 450,000 people every year, and the majority of deaths are children under the age of 10. The challenge is to develop novel therapeutic approaches to treat malaria but also to develop sensitive, accurate, easy to execute diagnostic tests to identify asymptomatic carriers who contribute to the transmission of malaria parasites. Kainomyx is pursuing the necessary targets to achieve these goals.

Cytokinetics Helps Jumpstart Kainomyxs Research Programs

Cytokinetics is facilitating Kainomyxs programs on treatment of malaria and other parasitic diseases by assigning and transferring to Kainomyx all of Cytokinetics rights, title and interest in and to several existing compounds that act as modulators of the parasite cytoskeletal system. Kainomyx will also be incubating at Cytokinetics, the first company devoted to developing small molecule therapeutics targeting the molecular motor-based machinery of cells. Spudich said, I am pleased to be once again working in close proximity to my colleagues at Cytokinetics, a company I co-founded in 1998 and where I worked for the first year of Cytokinetics research program while on leave of absence from Stanford University.

Financing of Kainomyx

Initial funding for Kainomyx of $7.5M came in May of this year. William J. Rutter, PhD, the primary investor, was co-Founder of the early biotech company Chiron and multiple additional companies. Rutter is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Synergenics, LLC, which controls a consortium of companies with different but complementary approaches to diagnosis, prevention and treatment on a worldwide basis. Rutter, commenting on Kainomyx, said, There is a dire need for new developments for successfully treating malaria and a series of other parasitic diseases, which have plagued humans for centuries. I am very impressed with Kainomyxs strategies to have a major impact in this area. Current drugs have been only partially successful and have not eliminated the spread of the disease. Several of the large pharma companies have had programs for these diseases, but to my knowledge, only occasionally have yielded any success. More recently, several small biotech startups have focused on these diseases with varying strategies, but none have been successful. In contrast, Kainomyx has a strategic approach which can be focused on several diseases in this area by targeting mechanistically well-understood cytoskeletal elements that are crucial for vitality of these organisms. Jim Spudich and colleagues have been the leaders in elucidating the fundamental mechanisms by which these cytoskeletal elements work. There is no better team to lead this innovative new strategy, which provides an unusual investment opportunity to make an impact on human life.

Additional funding was provided by Open Philanthropy and James and Annamma Spudich.

Board of Directors, Kainomyx

Kainomyxs Board of Directors is Chaired by Dr. William J. Rutter. He is joined by Dirk Thye, MD, serial entrepreneur who has led multiple small and medium sized companies in successful product development and is currently Executive Chairman at Geom Therapeutics. The third Board member is Amit L. Mehta, PhD, a Life Science Research Foundation Fellow at Bell Labs and Stanford University in his early career, later an Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company, followed by Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, and is currently Managing Director at J.P. Morgan.

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KainoymxAnnamma Spudich, PhDCo-Founder(650) 223-4954

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US death toll starts to rise again, reversing three-month fall – Telegraph.co.uk

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In terms of recorded cases, the United States has become the worst-affected country, with more than 3.1 million diagnosed Covid 19 cases and at least 133,291 deaths since the crisis beganin January.

The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) predicts the nations coronavirus death toll will rise to between 140,000 to 160,000 deaths by August.

The trend will likely continue unless social distancing can be effectively reinstituted across the south and mid-west of the country.

As predicted, a month from the case surge started, we are moving to a higher death rate in the US, Dr Eric Topol, a Professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, tweeted.

I think the shift to younger patients and better treatments will lead to a flatter slope compared with April. But thwarting the surge could have prevented this altogether.

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