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Why was American "shock jock" Michael Savage excluded from Britain on the orders of our beloved Home Secretary Jacqui Smith? The whole affair is genuinely puzzling. For one thing, Savage - real name, Weiner - hasn't visited Britain in twenty years, and has expressed no intention of doing so in the future. He is said to have "extreme" views on subjects such as immigrants, Islam and liberals. And he has claimed - offensively, no doubt - that many children diagnosed with autism are just badly-behaved. He is a provocateur, no doubt. But he's scarcely alone in that. It might be that the government wanted some token non-Muslim right-wingers to balance out the Islamic "hate-preachers"; but they could have found a lot worse than Savage.
According to Smith, his presence in the country would be "actually likely to cause inter-community tension or even violence". But she offered no evidence for this. And in fact there is none. There is abundant evidence to the contrary. He has been broadcasting and writing in his Michael Savage persona for fifteen years, during which time he has never advocated violence, nor (so far as anyone can tell) caused any. He broadcasts from San Francisco, a famously liberal city home to a large gay community: if his words provoked no riots there, why might they here? It is not even as though he had announced a series of tour dates, provoking an organised campaign like that which forced the government to ban Hizbollah spokesman Ibrahim Moussawi in March. If Savage has been excluded, why not any of the myriad other professional confrontationalists in the world of shock-jockery and right-wing punditry. Why not Rush Limbaugh? Why not Ann Coulter? Virtually no-one in Britain had heard of Michael Savage before yesterday. It makes no sense.
Savage himself suggested that someone might have sent the British government a copy of his latest book Psychological Nudity. Unlikely. Clearly, though, someone brought Savage to the Home Office's attention. One interesting fact is that Savage is currently suing the Homeland Security Secretary and Attorney General over a recent FBI report into "Rightwing extremism". Although Savage was not named as an extremist in the document, his writ alleges that the report violates the civil liberties of veterans and targets Americans for their political beliefs, smearing conservatives as potential terrorists. His ally, lawyer Richard Thompson of the Thomas More Law Center, claims that the Obama administration "has declared war on American patriots and our Constitution" - although, as it happens, the report was commissioned when George W Bush was in the White House. Is it too conspiracy-minded to wonder if someone in the US government took revenge on Savage by confidentially denouncing him to the British government?
Whatever explanation there may be, the incident has - predictably - handed Savage a priceless opportunity to raise his profile on this side of the Atlantic. He took to the airwaves to denounce the home secretary as "a lunatic" and "a witch". He ridiculed Britain. "My first thought was, damn, there goes the summer trip where I planned to have my dental work done", he said. Perhaps he's seen a photo of Jacqui Smith. He urged his listeners - up to 8 million, allegedly - to boycott British goods ("if they still make anything") and to cancel their holidays. If even a small proportion take up his advice, the Home Office's stunt - which may have been intended to distract attention from the manifold troubles of Gordon Brown's government - will have proved extremely costly. He is threatening to sue, alleging - not unconvincingly - that being placed on a list of undesirables alongside terrorist sympathisers, murderers and a leading member of the Ku Klux Klan is not only defamatory but could endanger his personal safety.
Most of all, Savage gets to pose as a free-speech martyr - as Wilders did before him but, since he wasn't planning to come to Britain, at no cost to himself. Bill Bowman, who wrote a book about the broadcaster entitled Savage Lies, describes Smith as "an idiot". The reputation of Britain as a country that values free speech is tarnished once again. The government confirms its reputation for self-righteous bossiness and petty political correctness. All in all, then a typical Jacqui Smith own goal. Though if she is dismissed in a few weeks' time I've no doubt another equally authoritarian robot will appear in her place. New Labour has a limitless supply of them.
Listening to Smith give her incoherent explanation of the ban, so expressive of the contempt often found among allegedly liberal left-wingers for people whose views with which they disagree, I was reminded of a film from the mid Nineties, The Last Supper. In it, a group of trendy liberal grad students - among them Cameron Diaz - begin murdering assorted pro-lifers and Religious Rightists, having managed to convince themselves that the world would be better off without them. Nemesis comes in the form of shock jock Norman Arbuthnot, played by Ron Perlman, who proves surprisingly charming and convincing - furthermore, his right-wingery turns out to be an act. After a fraught discussion, they decide to spare him - only to find that he has turned the tables by poisoning the wine.
Arbuthnot's most convincing argument is that provocateurs such as himself provide a much-needed safety valve, and that allowing the extremes of both right and left to have their say ultimately produces a balanced and harmonious society. Extreme views are only dangerous when they go unchallenged. As he puts it: the extremists "make most of the noise, but the centrists do all the work".
You have some harmful people on the extreme left and the extreme right. But I suggest that the more extreme those opposites get the more moderate this society becomes. Because when you average out all those extremes then you come up with a society that's anchored in the middle, and that's what we all want, isn't it? A society where all of us can live. All races, all religions, all views, living together, forging ahead as one.
Arbuthnot's cyncicism is rather compelling:
I can't be responsible for every nutcase who thinks I mean something when I mean something else. Look, I admit to sometimes throwing in some pretty outrageous arguments to support my positions. But, man, it's the ratings, you know. Besides, the average citizen knows what I'm doing. Dissent. Being the voice of dissent.
So I was intrigued to read Michael Tomasky casting doubt on Savage's own sincerity:
Savage in particular is an interesting case, if you want to put it that way, because there is some suspicion that he doesn't mean a word of what he says. Whereas Limbaugh and Hannity at least come by their crypto-Francoism honestly, Savage used to write – under his real name, Michael Weiner – books on herbal medicine and homeopathy. I mean really. How many quasi-fascist homeopaths are there?
A San Franciscan, he actually used to hang out with Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. You read that right. But tempus kept fugiting along, and eventually, he says, he grew disgusted with the whole bay area-leftie scene. Having spent a little time in Berkeley, I will confess to you that this strikes me as plausible. But the guy who currently fulminates on the radio is so insanely over the top that he either must have been a little unhinged in the first place, or it's mostly an act.
Either way, he's no danger to British national security. Especially since he wasn't coming here anyway - although, if he succeeds in his legal action, he may decide it's worth risking our bad teeth and (he also alleges, quite falsely) terrible restaurants after all. After all, thanks to Jacqui, he now has a whole new set of fans here.
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Savage Ban
Posted by Heresiarch at 6:52 pm
8 comments:
- asquith said...
Well, it's not as if Savage and his fellow Republicans are being listened to by anyone in America- looks as if our brethren across the Atlantic are finally sick of his ilk.
[excuse the snark- I would be quite a solid Democrat were I to live in America- but as you can see I am libertarian on these matters]
That said- I agree that it's absurd to place prohibitions on his activity. Anyone who is willing to give him a platform should have the right to do so & he should be listened to, same as Geert Wilders & the rest of them.
Yes- I believe that the majority of people will stay in line without state coercion & the powers of the state should only be used on criminals as the rest of us don't need such nannying & that.
There will be few willing to agree with Savage- or the BNP, who have been victims of this kind of illiberal ban- & that is why New Labour repress them, because few will care. But it will soon extend to us, including those trendy pseuds who would celebrate at restrictions placed on Hannity, Wilders, Nick Griffin etc without considering the issue for 5 seconds.
The whole point of freedom of speech is that it applies to people whose views we don't share.
The whole point of supporting civil liberties is "If THEY are repressed then I could be next- I don't believe the government selflessly keeps me safe from THEM & will never use its powers against me- accordingly I do not want them to have unlimited power".
- 6 May 2009 at 20:47
- septicisle said...
Another I suspect isn't wholly sincere is Ann Coulter - that whole invade their countries and convert them to Christianity thing - can't possibly have been serious.
- 6 May 2009 at 21:02
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
"How many quasi-fascist homeopaths are there?" is a great question. The nutters at the Soil Association who promote Organic Voodoo are from good fascist stock and the likes of Leila Dean who call themselves 'Greens' are recognisably fascist in many ways.
So yes, I see no contradiction between being a fascist and being a gullible homeopath or religious type. Franco and Hitler were good religious lads after all.
- 6 May 2009 at 22:25
- Edwin Moore said...
It is a puzzling one - never heard of him and don't want to know more, but it seems odd that a largely unreconstructed segregationist like Trent Lott (the inventor of 'Tartan Day' and the late Strom Thurmond's chief fan) should be welcome and minor loonies not.
As for homeopaths and fascism, well I'm m married to a homeopath and I haven't noticed any arm-waving in the house!
- 7 May 2009 at 07:57
- Richard T said...
I looked for Mark Steyn to be included for his grotesque and wicked attitude to British culture as exemplified in his offensive remarks on the Carry On series. Now there's a source of public unrest.
- 7 May 2009 at 10:29
It all seems very odd to me. As others have pointed out, few people had even heard of him until Jacqui Smith gave him 'the oxygen of publicity' by banning him. Do we have a civil service department compiling a list of potential undesirables?
I don't think it's very helpful to tag any organisation such as the Greens as fascist- surely those of a fascist bent are virtually everywhere?
But I'm very interested in your comment, Woolly, about the nutters at the Soil Association promoting Organic Voodoo- please enlarge?
- 7 May 2009 at 10:36
- The Heresiarch said...
Richard T, I can imagine Steyn appearing on such a list, though perhaps not for that reason...
Dan Pearce: if we had civil servants compiling such a list, it would presumably have far more than 22 names on it. No-one would pretend that these are the only 22 undesirables in the world, or even the most undesirable 22 who could be found. That's what's most peculiar about Savage's inclusion: by no stretch of the imagination is he more offensive, or more destabilising to society, than a whole bunch of other right-wing commentators, such as Mark Steyn. Previous bans have come as a result of high-profile campaigns - against Geert Wilders, against Moussawi, and others - against individuals planning a visit. Savage was not planning a visit.
Even more strangely, until this previously classified list was published, no-one, not even Savage himself, knew that he was on the list. Assuming he hadn't visited Britain, he might have gone to his grave being none the wiser. So what was the point of secretly adding his name to a very small and select list of particularly dangerous individuals? It makes no sense.
Was he denounced by a US official annoyed by his legal action against the DHS? What other explanation is there?
- 7 May 2009 at 11:08
- dan said...
Well of course. The list would be enormous. Undesirables would only be named when deemed politically expedient. How long will it be before we see actual deportation of undesirables?
Perhaps I'm being paranoid...
- 7 May 2009 at 14:40


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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Saturday Night At The Liberal Curmudgeon: Talking Heads' "Once In A Lifetime"
Talking Heads perform "Once In A Lifetime" in Jonathan Demme's "Stop Making Sense" (1984), one of the greatest rock concert films. The lyrics, which include, "You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful house. You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful wife," express the alienation with a funky backbeat that is the hallmark of this outstanding New Wave band and David Byrne's songs. The sense of strangeness is heightened by Byrne's agitated motions and oversized suit.
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Labels: David Byrne, Jonathan Demme, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads
3 comments:
- Jon R, editor of the Oracle said...
A very Happy New Year to you, too, Jeff.
Thanks for your wishes on my blog and I am with you - we will keep fighting the bastards.
- December 31, 2011 at 3:47 PM
- Michael The Molar Maven said...
I agree. 'Stop Making Sense' might be the greatest of concert movies in that there was no ancillary story as there was in 'Gimme Shelter' and 'The Last Waltz'. 'Rust Never Sleeps' comes close, however. Leave it to The Liberal Curmudgeon to remind us. BTW, watching 'Life During Wartime' is exhausting; Chris Frantz's consitent drumming is incredible; and Byrne's large suit is performance comedy at its best.
- January 22, 2012 at 6:29 AM
- Jeff Tone said...
If it's exhausting to watch, think about how exhausting the entire concert must have been for the band!
- January 22, 2012 at 2:29 PM
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Assessment of endogenous insulin secretion in insulin treated diabetes predicts postprandial glucose and treatment response to prandial insulin
In patients with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes endogenous insulin secretion falls with time which changes treatment requirements, however direct measurement of endogenous insulin secretion is rarely performed. We aimed to assess the impact of endogenous insulin secretion on postprandial glucose increase and the effectiveness of prandial exogenous insulin.
We assessed endogenous insulin secretion in 102 participants with insulin treated diabetes (58 Type 1) following a standardised mixed meal without exogenous insulin. We tested the relationship between endogenous insulin secretion and post meal hyperglycaemia. In 80 participants treated with fast acting breakfast insulin we repeated the mixed meal with participants' usual insulin given and assessed the impact of endogenous insulin secretion on response to exogenous prandial insulin.
Post meal glucose increment (90 minute - fasting) was inversely correlated with endogenous insulin secretion (90 minute C-peptide) (Spearman's r = −0.70, p < 0.001). Similar doses of exogenous prandial insulin lowered glucose increment more when patients had less endogenous insulin; by 6.4(4.2-11.1) verses 1.2(0.03-2.88) mmol/L (p < 0.001) for patients in the lowest verses highest tertiles of endogenous insulin.
In insulin treated patients the measurement of endogenous insulin secretion may help predict the degree of postprandial hyperglycaemia and the likely response to prandial insulin.
Guidelines for treatment in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes differ greatly predominantly reflecting differences in endogenous insulin secretion
It is possible to measure endogenous insulin secretion in clinical practice using C-peptide, which is secreted in equimolar amounts to insulin
One area where underlying insulin secretion is likely to affect treatment requirements is requirement for prandial exogenous insulin. Intensive insulin regimens with prandial rapid or short acting insulin are clearly appropriate in Type 1 diabetes outside the honeymoon period where there is absolute insulin deficiency
We hypothesised that in insulin treated diabetes, patients with higher endogenous insulin secretion will have a lower rise in glucose after meals and will respond less to prandial insulin. We aimed to assess this in a mixed population of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes with a wide spectrum of insulin secretion.
To assess the relationship between endogenous insulin secretion as measured by 90 minute post mixed meal serum C-peptide and:
1. Post-prandial glucose increment (90 minute – fasting glucose) in a standardised mixed meal test without concurrent exogenous prandial insulin
2. Treatment response to exogenous prandial insulin as assessed by change in mixed meal glucose increment when exogenous prandial insulin is given
Study participants
We recruited 102 adults with insulin treated diabetes, HbA1c <86 mmol/mol (10%) and without renal impairment (eGFR > 60mls/min/1.73 m2) from existing research databases and clinical secondary care, as described previously
Mixed meal tests
All patients underwent a standardised morning mixed meal test (MMT) without morning insulin. In a subgroup of 80 patients treated with prandial breakfast insulin (rapid analogue 61 (4 via insulin pump), rapid analogue/basal mixed 9, human prandial soluble 2, human soluble/basal mixed 8) a further morning MMT was performed with participants' normal morning insulin dose given. Mixed meal tests were conducted in random order using a randomization list generated in StatsDirect 4 (StatsDirect Ltd, UK), between 48 h and 2 weeks apart. In addition all participants collected a home urine sample 2 hours after their largest meal for urine C-peptide creatinine ratio (UCPCR) as described previously
Mixed meal test without insulin (MMT)
This was performed according to a standard protocol as reported previously
Mixed meal test with insulin (MMT + I)
Performed as per mixed meal protocol above except participants took their usual morning insulin dose before ingestion of the mixed meal. Participants were asked not to correct for hyperglycaemia. Investigators advised a reduced insulin dose in 9 participants where home breakfast was judged to contain substantially more carbohydrate than the mixed meal. Those carbohydrate counting (including insulin pump users) used their normal breakfast insulin to carbohydrate ratio. Normal basal insulin was continued in all participants. Oral hypoglycaemic medications were withheld until completion of the MMT on the morning of both tests.
Sample analysis
All samples were analysed in the Biochemistry department at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK. We undertook C-peptide analysis using the routine automated Roche diagnostics (Manheim, Germany) E170 immuno-analyser.
Statistical analysis
Data were not normally distributed therefore non parametric tests were used. We assessed the relationship between 90 minute serum C-peptide (SCP) in MMT and both glucose increment (90 minute glucose minus fasting glucose) in MMT and decrease in glucose increment with concurrent insulin (increment in MMT minus increment in MMT + I). We used Spearman's rank correlation coefficient to assess correlations. Linear regression analysis was used to assess the magnitude of these relationships and to adjust for potential confounders. Residuals were checked to ensure model assumptions were met, given the data were not normally distributed.
In the participants who completed MMT + I data were split into tertiles of endogenous insulin secretion defined by 90 minute serum C-peptide. We assessed statistical trends in mixed meal test results and participant characteristics across tertiles of endogenous insulin secretion using the Jonckheere test or (for proportions) Chi-squared for trend.
Patients who have less endogenous insulin secretion have a higher glucose increase after a mixed meal
The glucose increment in a mixed meal, defined as the increase in glucose from fasting to 90 minutes post meal (90 minute – fasting glucose) was negatively correlated with 90 minute serum C-peptide (SCP) (Spearman's r = −0.70, p < 0.001, Figure
Figure 1
Relationship between MMT stimulated C-peptide (nmol/L) and glucose increment (90 minute glucose – fasting glucose, mmol/L) in MMT without concurrent insulin.
Relationship between MMT stimulated C-peptide (nmol/L) and glucose increment (90 minute glucose – fasting glucose, mmol/L) in MMT without concurrent insulin. r = Spearmans ro correlation coefficient.
Patients with less endogenous insulin secretion have greater response to exogenous prandial insulin
To assess the impact of prandial exogenous insulin we measured the reduction in glucose increment after a mixed meal when prandial exogenous insulin was given (glucose increment in MMT minus glucose increment in MMT + I). The reduction in glucose increment with administration of prandial exogenous insulin was also negatively correlated with SCP (r = −0.61, p < 0.001, n = 80, Figure
Figure 2
a: Scatterplot showing the relationship between MMT stimulated C-peptide (nmol/L) and reduction in glucose increment with administration of prandial exogenous insulin b: Boxplot showing reduction in MMT glucose increment with the addition of prandial exogenous insulin by 90 minute post MMT C-peptide tertile.
a: Scatterplot showing the relationship between MMT stimulated C-peptide (nmol/L) and reduction in glucose increment with administration of prandial exogenous insulin.b: Boxplot showing reduction in MMT glucose increment with the addition of prandial exogenous insulin by 90 minute post MMT C-peptide tertile. Horizontal line represents median, box interquartile range, 'whiskers' represent spread of remaining values. p for trend <0.001.
To further assess this relationship we subdivided our participants by tertiles of endogenous insulin secretion. Characteristics of participants in each tertile are shown in Table
These associations remain in those with the same type of diabetes and similar insulin treatment
Our results were not simply due to differences in diabetes subtype or prandial exogenous insulin type. In those treated with rapid analogue prandial insulin (basal bolus/pump regimen only - analogue mixed insulin excluded, n = 61) the correlation between 90 minute C-peptide and reduction in glucose increase with prandial exogenous insulin (r = −0.56, p < 0.001) and the relationship across tertiles of endogenous insulin secretion (Table
Fasting serum C-peptide and home post-prandial UCPCR can be used as the assessment of endogenous insulin secretion
When insulin secretion was assessed by other measurements similar relationships were seen.
When assessed by the measurement of fasting C-peptide correlation with postprandial glucose increase was −0.69 (p < 0.001) and correlation with reduction in glucose increment with exogenous prandial insulin −0.59 (p < 0.001). The values of fasting C-peptide defining tertiles of endogenous insulin secretion were <0.02, 0.02-0.28 and >0.28 nmol/L. The associated fall in glucose increment with prandial insulin was [median (IQR)] 6.9 mmol/L (4.2-11.5) tertile 1, 3.6 (2.3-7.3) tertile 2 and 1.4 (0.4-3.3) tertile 3 (p < 0.001).
When assessed by the measurement of UCPCR correlation with postprandial glucose increase was −0.59 (p < 0.001) and correlation with reduction in glucose increment with exogenous prandial insulin −0.51 (p < 0.001). The values of home evening meal UCPCR defining tertiles of endogenous insulin secretion were <0.03, 0.03-0.73 and >0.73 nmol/mmol. The associated fall in glucose increment with prandial insulin was [median (IQR)] 6.4 mmol/L (4.1-9.4) tertile 1, 4.0 (1.3-7.9) tertile 2 and 2.0 (0.5-3.3) tertile 3 (p < 0.001).
We have shown that patients with less endogenous insulin secretion have greater post meal hyperglycaemia and greater response to prandial exogenous insulin.
In our study of insulin treated patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes postprandial hyperglycaemia is inversely related to endogenous insulin secretion. This is consistent with previous research in non insulin treated Type 2 diabetes has shown that those with low insulin secretion have higher glucose increment after oral glucose tolerance test and higher glycaemic variability
To our knowledge this is the first study to examine the relationship between endogenous insulin secretion and the impact of prandial exogenous insulin administration. We showed that the glucose response to exogenous prandial insulin was greatest in those with the lowest endogenous insulin secretion. In those with the highest endogenous insulin secretion concurrent prandial exogenous insulin had little effect on glucose response despite similar insulin doses and glycaemic control. A probable explanation is that those with high endogenous insulin secretion are exposed to their own endogenous prandial insulin therefore exogenous prandial insulin may be only a small proportion of their total prandial insulin exposure. This is in contrast to those with little endogenous insulin secretion where exogenous insulin makes up their entire prandial insulin exposure. In addition the similar exogenous insulin doses and glycaemic control across tertiles of endogenous insulin secretion mean insulin resistance is likely to be higher in those with preserved insulin secretion.
Our findings have potential practical implications for the management of diabetes. Patients with Type 2 diabetes progressively lose their beta-cell function over time leading to increased treatment requirements
Limitations of our study include that we have recruited participants with a mixture of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and that differences seen may reflect differences in insulin secretion between the two diabetes subtypes. However the relationships seen, although weaker, remains when analysing our results by type of diabetes suggesting the relationship between insulin secretion and glucose response is not due to differences between diabetes subtypes alone. It is possible that results could have been influenced by differences in participant's oral hypoglycaemic agents. While diabetes treatments were withheld on the morning of mixed meal tests, residual levels of treatment taken the previous day could potentially still affect both glucose and C-peptide. However this is unlikely to systematically differ between mixed meal tests (which were conducted in random order) and a longer period without medication might have made results less applicable to clinical practice.
A further potential limitation is that our marker of insulin secretion (90 minute post MMT C-peptide) and measure of post meal glucose increase (glucose increase from 0 to 90 minutes in the MMT) were measured within the same test. Our findings are strengthened by the demonstration of similar results when using fasting C-peptide and UCPCR (measured on a separate occasion) as markers of insulin secretion. The MMT, while well established and likely more reproducible than a conventional meal, may not be a normal physiological stimulus. The more rapid absorption of a liquid meal could lead to an earlier and greater glucose peak than a non liquid meal with the same carbohydrate content. In addition a standardised meal may not reflect a person's normal intake. The liquid meal given is likely to have higher carbohydrate content than many participants normal breakfast (the carbohydrate content of our mixed meal was 57 g in those >60 kg, equivalent to 3–4 pieces of toast).
While we have shown a clear relationship between insulin secretion and effectiveness of fast acting (prandial) exogenous insulin during a mixed meal test further studies are needed to assess whether C-peptide could be a clinically useful measure to assist choice of insulin regimen. It may be that direct measurement of insulin secretion may assist clinical decisions on optimal insulin treatment. While a formal mixed meal test is unlikely to be an option in mainstream clinical practice the association was preserved using fasting C-peptide and post home meal UCPCR which may be more applicable to clinical practice
Endogenous insulin secretion is predictive of postprandial hyperglycaemia and response to prandial exogenous insulin. The measurement of endogenous insulin secretion may be a helpful guide to insulin therapy.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
AGJ, REJB, BAK,TJM and ATH participated in study design, AGJ, REJB, BAK and SVH collected data, AGJ, REJB & BMS performed data analysis, all authors participated in drafting or revising the manuscript and approved the final manuscript.
This project was supported by the Peninsula NIHR Clinical Research Facility and the Peninsula Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (PenCLAHRC). ATH,
BAK and BMS are supported by the Peninsula NIHR Clinical Research Facility. NIHR have supported AGJ, SVH and PB through academic clinical fellowships and AGJ through a doctoral research fellowship. ATH is an NIHR senior investigator. REJB is supported by a Diabetes UK clinical training fellowship. This article presents independent research commissioned by the National Institute for
Health Research (NIHR). The views given in this paper do not necessarily represent those of NIHR, the NHS or the Department of Health. We thank all the study volunteers.
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- After saying on Wednesday that he believes there should be punishment for women who undergo abortions if the procedure was outlawed, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walked back the comment hours later.
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By Jonathan Allen
There's nothing that can deliver political unanimity like a story that combines God, the U.S. flag, an Eagle Scout and his veteran grandfather.
With little fanfare and no dissent, the Senate passed legislation (S 2198) by voice vote Tuesday night that would direct the Architect of the Capitol to allow the word "God" to be included in certificates accompanying flags flown over the Capitol at a lawmaker's request.
The measure is aimed at ensuring that there will be no repeat of the surprise that awaited teenager Andrew LaRochelle when the message accompanying a flag he had flown over the Capitol for his grandfather omitted the word God.
LaRochelle had intended to honor his grandfather's love of "God, country and family."
The controversy was resolved more than two weeks ago when acting Architect of the Capitol Stephen T. Ayers decided to rewrite a 2003 prohibition banning political and religious messages from flag certificates, and LaRochelle has since picked up an amended certificate.
But Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina persisted.
"This is a First Amendment victory for all people of faith. This bill will ensure that no future Architect can reverse this freedom of speech and mark a permanent end to this ridiculous censorship," DeMint spokesman Wesley Denton said.
The DeMint bill is a companion measure to one introduced in the House (HR 3779) by Republican Michael R. Turner of Ohio.
It was not immediately clear whether the House would take up either measure. But Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., indicated that she favored the position held by DeMint and Turner about a week before the DeMint bill was introduced Oct. 18.
"I don't think that the Architect's office should be in the role of censoring what members want to say," Pelosi said.
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Walt Disney On Course For Another Blockbuster Year
- Walt Disney's films that the company has released so far this year are doing very well
- This is being driven by strong domestic demand for good movies
- The better-than-expected success of Disney's films could provide an unexpected boost to the company's growth and lift its shares even further.
It appears that all the talk about Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) having a subdued 2015 ostensibly because of difficult comps it set up for itself after a stellar 2014 might be unfounded after all. Disney's entertainment segment did very well in 2014 after growing 22%, the fastest growth by any of the company's segments. But, it appears that the company might pull off yet another year of stellar growth, if current indications are anything to go by. Walt Disney recently broke its own record when it managed to hit the $1billion mark in domestic box office revenue in just 174 days, besting its previous 188 days record to the mark.
Meanwhile, Disney shares are up 23% YTD, but could still have significant near-term upside potential.
Disney's Blockbuster Movies
The success of Disney's Entertainment division is being driven by films such as Avengers: Age of Ultron, which has grossed $452.2 million; Cinderella ($200.3 million); Inside Out ($185 million) among other films. Disney is scheduled to release 13 major films this year, five of which have been tipped to become blockbusters. Disney's domestic grosses have so far clocked $1.08 billion, a healthy 37% growth compared to last year, which could give the entire company's top line an unexpected boost.
But, it appears as if the movie magic is not confined to just Disneyland alone. Many other domestic movie-makers have been having a banner year so far. Comcast's (NASDAQ:CMCSA) Universal Pictures leads the pack with $1.38 billion in domestic grosses so far courtesy of the runaway success of Jurassic World ($500 million); Furious ($351 million); Pitch Perfect 2 ($181 million) and Fifty Shades of Grey ($166 million). Comcast's domestic box office revenue is up an astounding 137% Y/Y. Warner Bros is not far behind and has seen its domestic grosses rise 16.7% YTD to $1.02 billion, thanks mainly to the roaring success by American Sniper ($348.8 million).
Comcast has so far released nine films while Walt Disney and Warner Bros have released seven and 13 pictures, respectively. This in effect means that Walt Disney's pictures claim the prize for the best average gross per film YTD ($154.29 million vs. $153.3 million for Comcast). Walt Disney has for a long time played second fiddle to Comcast when it comes to getting the best returns for the dollars it sinks into its pictures. We do not have the production budgets for all the movies released by the two companies so far so we cannot make a definitive conclusion that Disney has finally overtaken Comcast in the operational efficiency department, but this is something that cannot be ruled out. Many movie goers still avidly remember how badly Walt Disney's Lone Ranger flopped when it hit movie theaters around the same time as Comcast's Despicable Me 2 back in 2013. The two films had long been slated by industry pundits to become mega hits. Walt Disney had pinned a lot of hopes on the Lone Ranger and bet the farm by sinking $220 million into the film but never broke even. In contrast, Comcast sunk in just $76 million into Despicable Me 2 but got a return of almost 400%. Many investors became disgruntled with Walt Disney's blockbuster strategy where it routinely sinks huge sums into a few bets each year. But the company's long-term record in the movie-making industry suggests that this strategy is not a dud after all.
Good Times Ahead for Disney
But, the best part is that Walt Disney still has six more films slated for release during the year. Walt Disney has significantly ramped up its movie production rate in recent years, and this seems to be working in its favor. The company had lined up 13 films for 2015 compared to just six movies in 2013 and nine in 2014.
Perhaps one of the reasons why Walt Disney's films are doing so well can be chalked up past trends. Historical trends suggest that Disney is superb at creating great sequel potential from movies with well-known story lines and characters, but often struggles with unproven commodities. Many of the movies the company has scheduled for release this year fall into the former category, which increases their chances of success. Then there is the case of a rising tide lifting all boats. It appears as if Americans are enjoying going out for movies more than they did before.
I expect the better-than-expected success of Walt Disney's movies to provide a 1.5%-2.5% boost to the company's expected top line growth. Surprise top line or earnings beats by strong margins usually have considerable upside potential. Investors should continue holding Walt Disney stock.


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Makayla Epps Named to Nancy Lieberman Award Watch List
LEXINGTON, Ky. – University of Kentucky sophomore point guard Makayla Epps has been recognized as one of the nation's top point guards as she has been named to the 2015 Nancy Lieberman Award, it was announced by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday afternoon.
Now in its 15th year, the award recognizes the top point guard in women's NCAA Division I college basketball. Candidates exhibit the floor leadership, play-making and ball-handling skills of Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame became the host of the Nancy Lieberman Award last season after the Rotary Club of Detroit managed it for several years.
Epps, who became the starting point guard after a season-ending injury to junior Janee Thompson (Chicago) on Jan. 11, has been stellar for the Wildcats in her new role. In five games as the floor general, she is averaging a team-high 17.4 points to go along with 5.4 rebounds and 3.2 assists, while shooting .429 percent from the field (30-of-70) and .778 from the free-throw line (21-of-27). She has scored in double digits in all five games, including two with 20-plus points.
Overall, Epps (Lebanon, Ky.) ranks second on the team and eighth in the Southeastern Conference in scoring, averaging 13.8 points per game. She also is fourth overall and second in the league in assist/turnover ratio at 1.7 and 12th in assists per game (3.0).
The Selection Committee for the Nancy Lieberman Award is composed of top women's college basketball personnel including media members, head coaches, sports information directors and Hall of Famers. The list will be narrowed down to fifteen and then a final five by mid-March. The Lieberman Award winner will be announced during the WBCA Award Show in Tampa, Florida at the Women's Final Four.
The No. 11/12 Wildcats (17-5, 6-3 SEC) will travel to Nashville, Tenn., to take on Vanderbilt (13-10, 4-6 SEC) Sunday, Feb. 8 at 1 p.m. ET in Memorial Gym. The game will be televised live on the SEC Network with Paul Sunderland and Nell Fortner calling the action.
2015 Nancy Lieberman Award Watch List
Niya Johnson, Baylor University
Brittany Boyd, University of California
Caitlin Ingle, Drake University
April Robinson, Duquesne University
Damika Martinez, Iona College
Samantha Logic, University of Iowa
Nikki Moody, Iowa State University
Angela Mickens, James Madison University
Makayla Epps
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Lexie Brown, University of Maryland
Almesha Jones, Morehead State
Rachel Therlot, University of Nebraska
Ashley Deary, Northwestern University
say Allen, University of Notre Dame
Ameryst Alston, Ohio State University
Kelsey Mitchell, Ohio State University
Sydney Wiese, Oregon State University
Brianna Kiesel, University of Pittsburgh
Blake Dietrick, Princeton University
Brittany Crain, University of California, Riverside
Syessense Davis, Rutgers University
Fantasia Hilliard, Sacramento State University
Ke-Keidre Simmons, Seton Hall University
Natasha Cloud, Saint Joseph's University
Amber Orrange, Stanford University
Jordan Jones, Texas A&M University
Moriah Jefferson, University of Connecticut
Jasmine Nwajel, Wagner College
Kelsey Plum, University of Washington
Tia Presley, Washington State University
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Connecticut Q&A: John H. Filer; 'WE ARE NOT A SELFISH SOCIETY'
By KATHLEEN TELTSCH
Published: July 19, 1987
JOHN H. FILER, the former chief executive of the Aetna Life and Casualty Company, headed a commission 13 years ago that made a ground-breaking inquiry into philanthropy called ''Giving in America,'' and later studied a streamlining of Connecticut's government. Mr. Filer, 62 years old, has retired from Aetna and returned to private law practice, but philanthropy and government issues remain his concerns. He is the chairman of the Independent Sector, the nation's largest philanthropic coalition. Sitting in his office in a Hartford skyscraper, Mr. Filer reflected recently on the relationship among private business, government and the nation's 350,000 nonprofit organizations. Following are some excerpts from the conversation:
Q. We are told charitable giving by companies appears to be leveling off, that a new crop of younger business leaders gives a lower priority to issues of community involvement and also that the wave of mergers and acquisitions has a negative impact on giving. How do you see the situation?
A. I think several things are probably true. One, mergers, acquisitions and takeovers have reduced the number of significant companies because of consolidation. Two, these changes often move companies from locations where they have been established and they lose their dedication to these old communities. And three, the whole thrust of takeovers, combined with some soft business in basic industries, has caused senior managers to become more focused on the bottom-line, on the short-term profit.
There are a whole lot of pressures to reduce overhead costs, cut the ranks of white-collar managers and become more productive and efficient. When you do all this, you must take a hard look at everything, including contribution budgets.
A number of people have said that they do sense a lessened commitment in the incoming group of senior managers, but I just don't know if that is true. It may be they are simply reacting to all these pressures on them. But I suspect there is some truth in that. It is worrysome.
Q. This city is the insurance capital of the world and companies here have a tradition about involvement in the community's well being. This goes back to the 60's, when major cities were shaken by race rioting. One outcome was the companies formed the first trade association to deal with issues they regarded as a social responsibility. Would you speak to that?
A. At Aetna we created an urban affairs department, it was narrowly focused but then expanded gradually to become a corporate public involvement department. Early on, it supported neighborhood organizations, groups trying to put money into rehabilitation of the cities. The insurance industry had a $2 billion program for investment in the inner cities. Then, over time, the industry focused on structural unemployment as a major area of effort, meaning it focused on the urban and rural poor, the under-educated the undertrained, those ill-equipped to find and hold a job, very largely minority members.
The insurance companies are really critically dependent on the general state of society. We do our business in the urban centers. We invest a great deal of money there. We are dependent on a work force that is drawn significantly from urban centers. And also the health and life expectancy of people is a matter of self-interest to the insurance business.
And so I have always felt the insurance companies have an unusually large stake in the success of the urban centers. If the public education system does not work, where are we going to get our employees? I was talking last year to the head of Aetna's personnel department and I asked if he was able to get qualified entry-level people for jobs off the street. He said ''No,'' so I said, ''What you have to do then is steal them or make them.''
What we're trying to do, along with others, then is to make employees. We are trying to improve the basic public school system with funding and encouraging company employees to act as mentors. To hold jobs people have to be taught not only the keyboard skills, but also some mathematics and then basics about employment, like coming to work on time.
Q. As chairman of the Independent Sector you are involved in their new campaign to persuade Americans to give 5 percent of income and five hours weekly of volunteer time to charities. The goal is by 1991 to double the total of giving by individuals, which was $71.7 billion last year. How is that drive coming along?
A. We call this campaign ''Give Five'' and we describe as ''fivers'' those who participate. I think this campaign and its success in the next few years is extra important. I worry when I see things like an op-ed piece in a magazine or a column in a newspaper commenting on the loss of ethics in our society, asking what is happening to morals, honesty, integrity, all that good stuff.
It seems to be that we have some people seriously questioning whether we still have a sense of ethics and moral standards. My point is you pick up a newspaper and read about insider trading on Wall Street, or an article with a headline saying ''Can Harvard Buy Ethics?'' If young people see all this and wonder if our society has lost its ethical standards, we have real problems, and they are not just problems about whether we have a healthy nonprofit sector. We have problems about whether our society is healthy.


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AAA welcomes Australian investment in Timberland
AAA has reported that a high profile institutional investor in Australia has invested heavily in forest land.
QIC's Alternative Beta Fund has invested heavily with US based forestry timberland firm Molpus Woodlands Group. The investment involves the fund buying up some 42,000 acres of forests that will be grown sustainably and harvested at a profit some time in the future.
The investment is part of the QIC Alternative Beta Fund's goal to invest a much as $233 million in alternative asset classes including timber, commodities, infrastructure and insurance-led securities.
AAA supports alternative investment of all kinds – but particularly ethical investments and forestry investment specifically. Its analysis partner, Anthony Johnson, said: "We are always happy to learn of major institutional investors putting their cash into alternatives, and particularly into forestry and timberland."
Timberland has become an increasingly popular investment choice in recent years as it is far less volatile than equities and has regularly outperformed stocks and shares. It is also seen as a less risky asset class at a time when traditional investments have proven extremely volatile.
QIC's head of Alternative Investments, James Dick, said, Timber has added significant value to our client portfolios in the past and we believe that it will continue to do so in the future.
"Timberland is an important asset class for QIC, as we like the low volatility, low correlations to equities and built-in inflation hedging characteristics that these investments provide. Timber has added significant value to our client portfolios in the past and we believe that it will continue to do so in the future."
AAA supports a large number of timber investment funds and direct investment firms. Investors who want a tangible investment for their money often, like QIC, opt to buy up sections of plantation land or forests. Firms like Greenwood Management run plantations in which individuals can invest.
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AnaLuisa Carrillo-Tapia thanked the Killeen City Council following its 5-2 vote to strike down a resolution prohibiting the city from providing refuge to immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border illegally.
Councilman Jonathan Okray drafted the resolution and presented it to the council during its Aug. 12 workshop meeting. The proposed document mandated the city to "refuse requests or directives by federal agencies to permit or establish any facility for the purpose of processing, housing or detaining any illegal aliens."
Councilmen Jose Segarra, Juan Rivera, Wayne Gilmore, Terry Clark and Mayor Pro Tem Elizabeth Blackstone agreed to strike down the proposed resolution. Okray and Councilman Steve Harris voted in favor of moving forward with putting it on a council agenda for a formal vote.
"I believe the five who voted against represented the community well," Carrillo-Tapia said. "We want (the council) to hear our heart, that's what community is about. You need to know what I want and what I need. If you don't know that, then you can't represent me."
According to a report released this month by the Department of Homeland Security, fewer unaccompanied immigrant children are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
About 5,500 unaccompanied children were arrested in July, nearly half the number in May and June and the fewest since February.
According to the report, arrests of parents with children also dropped by more than half in July, to about 7,400.
Because of the drop, the federal government shuttered temporary shelters that were rapidly opened to handle the surge.
Killeen city spokeswoman Hilary Shine said the city has not received any requests for aid in housing undocumented immigrants.
Carrillo-Tapia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizen Council No. 4297, was joined at the meeting by several others who also thanked the council following its decision.
"These are children that need to be taken care of no matter where they come from," she said. "If they are running from danger, who are we to say no? Who are we to say, 'I'm not going to help you?' We all move together or we don't move at all."


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Speak Up: Does Anti-Hot-Dog Commercial Go Too Far?
A new commercial has been released by The Cancer Project that many folks are claiming goes too far. Take a look . . .
OK, so what do you think? Does this ad dramatize the risks associated with kids eating a hot dog every now and then, or is it an eye opener to improve foods in schools and get the government to stop providing processed meats to our kids? Speak up and share your thoughts below.