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In this episode, we're reflecting on the key entrepreneurial learnings across our 100 founder interviews. To be honest, when I first started The Startup Story, I had no intention of it becoming a full-time venture. I simply wanted to fill a personal void created by a previous employer. However, it is now two years and 100 episodes later and I am all in.
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In this episode, we're reflecting on the key entrepreneurial learnings across our 100 founder interviews. To be honest, when I first started The Startup Story, I had no intention of it becoming a full-time venture. I simply wanted to fill a personal void created by a previous employer. However, it is now two years and 100 episodes later and I am all in.
Soon after I decided to be intentional about making The Startup Story my full-time endeavor, COVID hit. When this happened, everything got flipped on its head. I've had to lean into the learnings from the entrepreneurs I've interviewed over the past two years. I know these learnings have impacted all of you, as well. Tune into this episode to hear and reflect on these key truths that have sustained many of us through 2020.
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Hello everyone. I'm James McKinney, creator and host of The Startup Story, and this is our 100th episode.
Every wildfire began with a spark. Every superhero has an origin story. And every single startup has a moment that they point to as their beginning. And every founder has a purpose that drove them in the midst of all obstacles. THAT is The Startup Story.
James McKinney: Welcome to a special episode of The Startup Story podcast as we reflect on some key entrepreneurial learnings across our 100 founder interviews. You know, it's a bit surreal to say that out loud because two years ago around this time I had just fully committed to creating a podcast. Now here we are, two years from finally deciding I was going to start this journey, to celebrating our 100th episode. You know when I launched The Startup Story podcast I had absolutely zero intention on it becoming my fulltime venture. I mean to be fully honest, I only started The Startup Story to fill a personal void created by a previous employer that I had.
See in 2017 and now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever told this story before in any episode, so this is the first time you're hearing how The Startup Story kind of came to be. But in 2017 I joined a software development company to oversee their sales efforts. This was actually the same software development company that built my mobile app called Simple Deal. My experience of trying to build a business around a mobile app is a whole other podcast episode so we're not going to get into it here, but just know that I could never gain any traction with the app so I shut it down at the end of 2018. And during this whole time while I was working with the software development firm and trying to build out my app business, I started networking with other entrepreneurs. My intent in doing so was actually two fold. First, to surround myself with people just like me and second, to generate some leads for those needing technical assistance.
Now, I don't know if you knew this or not but not all technical founders are actually technical. So being that my 9 to 5 job was to sell custom software development, I thought being around a demographic that might need technical assistance would be a great lead source. Well one of my mainstays when it came to the entrepreneurial community was the organization called Startup Grind. Startup Grind has hundreds if not a few thousand I guess chapters across the globe that meet at varying intervals and under varying formats. The premise is to bring entrepreneurs together to help each other. I loved it so much that I ended up starting a chapter in the Santa Clarita Valley, which is just north of Los Angeles for those that are unaware of the area. And again, my intent with starting that chapter was twofold. Again, to surround myself with people who thought like me and were driven like me, and two to help position the software development firm that I was selling for as the place to go to for technical development in the area.
Well, our first Startup Grind event was incredible. We hosted Matthew Arevalo, cofounder of Loot Crate, and over 100 entrepreneurs gathered to hear how Matthew helped to grow Loot Crate to $100 million in just three years. The energy was electric and the community of entrepreneurs was remarkable. That event really helped to build momentum for the chapter and our brand. Well, each month we would host an event with a featured founder and each month we would have a turnout of at least 80 plus entrepreneurs, and then it all had to come to an end. Now remember, one of the reasons for hosting these events was to generate leads for the software development firm.
Well after six meetings and zero dollars in revenue generated the president thought it wasn't working so we needed to stop our involvement with Startup Grind. Now obviously, I disagreed but I wasn't the decision maker. I was an employee at the time. And I saw these events much like I see many things in my life as a long-term play. I'm a relational person at my core and for me I saw these events being something that I would take eight to ten months before we would actually see a project come out of it, especially since I was trying to sell customer software development that costs around $100,000 or more. I wasn't trying to sell a $5,000 website. Now just for all of you listeners that are sales oriented people out there, 12 months after our very first event I closed two projects totaling about $600,000 in revenue from relationships developed during my time leading Startup Grind. Like I said, I believe in the long game. I'm not a fan of short-term thinking.
At any rate, to make a long story short I had to stop leading the Startup Grind chapter and it was actually our very last event where the seeds of The Startup Story began to stir. In my last event there were three different people, all of which did not know each other, came up to me and asked me if I had a podcast because they would listen to it. See, at these events I would interview founders just like I do for The Startup Story, and it was those conversations that people resonated with and kept coming back for. Yet, I had zero idea what it took to execute a podcast. I was great at connecting with successful founders and unpacking their journey in a way that delivered real value to those in attendance. [05:00] I was incredibly passionate about that, but I had zero idea about what was entailed to launch a podcast. So the idea of a podcast just sat as an idea for a few months.
Then I realized that I had this deep seeded internal need to keep connecting with successful entrepreneurs to understand their journey, especially because I had just decided to shut down my fourth attempt at a startup. After failing that fourth time, I had a hard time believing that my failures were about my personal abilities and not simply a gap in understanding and execution. I had to understand why some entrepreneurs were succeeding and why I wasn't and I realized that other people were probably just like me. It was there that The Startup Story was birthed, and on January 15th of 2019 we released our first three episodes and it has been a wild ride ever since. But like I said earlier, I never had a vision for this being anything but a side project that met a personal need I had to meet successful founders and to understand their entrepreneurial journey and why they were winning.
It wasn't until six months after our launch that a UK listener messaged me on The Startup Story Instagram page to let me know the show was, I think at the time somewhere around like the top 25 in the entrepreneur category. And that message blew my mind because I wasn't tracking any metrics other than downloads. Again, I did not create The Startup Story for any reason other than to share the learnings that I was desiring to learn for myself from massively successful people. Well, that success metric gave me a reason to start thinking about what The Startup Story could become if I was actually intentional about it. So in October of last year I went all in on The Startup Story and it became my fulltime endeavor. We jumped into 2020 with excitement and ambition, like I'm sure all of you did. In fact, we had been planning a large scale in person event at the global headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys. We were bringing in three exceptional founders to speak to us as well as inviting 1,500 entrepreneurs to attend. It was really going to be a big deal. I mean we were about to sign a six figure deal for a title sponsor contract for two live events that were supposed to take place this year. Well, that was until COVID hit and changed everything for everyone.
Well within 30 days we lost all in show advertisers and of course live event sponsors. I know that narrative is not unique to me, but as I know you can relate it sure did feel like a personal struggle. Since April of this year I've had to lean in on all the tremendous learnings that I've been fortunate enough to obtain from my 100 founder interviews. I know those learnings have also impacted you as well because I hear from many of you about a key learning or perspective shift that has taken place because of a founder interview that you heard. So as we celebrate this incredible 100 episode milestone, I thought I would share with you the key truths that I have relied on throughout 2020.
That first truth that I've relied on is that the worst possible thing you can do in the midst of challenge or disruption is to stand still. In fact, our very first episode with Jason McCann, founder of Varidesk now rebranded as Vari, shared his mantra if you will to keep rowing until the wind catches his sail. The truth of the matter is that quitting is the only way we lose. As the world was falling apart this past year, I never stopped believing that The Startup Story was a platform that entrepreneurs everywhere needed. I just needed to figure out ways to generate revenue to weather this COVID storm. From April to today my audience has tripled. Why would I call it quits just because I cannot see a path to revenue given the temporary state we all found ourselves in? and again, I know I was not the only one in this place but it sure felt isolated and personal. And that's why you've heard me say time and time again that I believe any brand that is able to scratch and claw their way out of 2020 and into 2021 is going to be set up for a tremendous opportunity. If your business is still alive, even if it's on life support, think about all the lessons you've learned about your business that only something crazy like COVID could have revealed. As hard as it may be to acknowledge, COVID did have an upside. It revealed a vulnerability in our businesses that we would never have seen otherwise.
Jason McCann's story is not the only one that reveals this truth. Jamie Schmidt talks about this truth as she built Schmidt's Naturals to a point where she sold it for over $100 million to Unilever. Kelsey Carroll speaks to this truth in last week's episode as she talks about losing her live event business and pivoting to create Stand Up Stations. As long as we keep moving forward then we will make progress. We just have to make sure that we're always making some amount of progress.
Before we continue on with our 100 episode celebration I want to remind you about our Grindology Subscription Service and our $12,000 giveaway. Like I mentioned, even in a crazy year like 2020 you have to keep making progress. Well, for us progress meant that we had to keep delivering you the fuel needed to help in your entrepreneurial journey. [10:00] And that is why we launched Grindology.com. as a Grindology member you will receive a custom curated entrepreneurial resource kit every single quarter. Within every Grindology box you will receive two 12 oz. bags of our uniquely roasted coffees specifically crafted to help fuel your hustle as well as a limited edition mug and the current issue of Grindology Magazine that is chock full of tactics and strategies provided directly by founders and brands that have proven those tactics to produce results. This is not a magazine full of journalistic content. It's a tactical manual for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs.
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The second truth that I clung to throughout this year is that entrepreneurship is supposed to be hard. There are so many easier ways to make a living. We choose this. We opted to forgo a stable 9 to 5 job that provides a paycheck and health insurance to try and create something ourselves. we willingly stepped onto this path knowing it was not the easiest option out there. In fact, if we're really honest it is the unknown challenges that drew us to this journey. Everyone has a book full of dreams and ideas, but only the few are willing to put it out there to try and execute on one of those ideas. If it was easy it wouldn't be rewarding. I'm reminded of that scene with Jack Nicholson in the movie A Few Good Men where he just unloads on Tom Cruise's character. In fact, it's probably one of the most popular monologues in cinematic history. You know the scene. In that scene he states, "You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone of a life spent defending something, you use them as a punchline." Man, I can go on and on. That quote, that monologue, that scene with Jack Nicholson is so good. But that same passion and drive that he speaks to in that segment, it's a bit true for the entrepreneurial journey as well.
Despite how hard it is, we need to pursue this idea and concept. We can't imagine not dealing with the challenges we face. With that truth in mind, there is no good that comes from wallowing in our frustration and disappointment. COVID didn't just happen to me or you. It happened to the entire planet, so yes while we might not have signed up to navigate a business in the midst of a pandemic, we did sign up knowing that there were unforeseen forces that we had to solve for and provide a solution around. Larry Namer, the founder of E! Entertainment Television, speaks to this when he talks about needing $60 million to start a television network, but only receiving $2 million. Did he just throw his hands up and say, "I'm out, I didn't get what I needed"? No, he took that $2 million, scratched and clawed his way to building a network that would eventually sell for $3 billion. His journey has trial after trial because that is what he signed up for when he left his high-rise executive office to start his own business.
The same truth is echoed from my conversation with Christina Stembel, founder of Farm Girl Flowers. She continues to grow her business regardless of the obstacles thrown at her and venture capital still won't invest in her business because the team doesn't quite, I'm having air quotes here, "the investable look." She didn't sign up to build a business to deal with discrimination within the investment community, but she also didn't stop building her business because of it. No, she solved around it and continues to move forward. Like I said, reminding myself that entrepreneurship is supposed to be hard helped me quite a bit this year because it reminded me that this journey is about solving problems, period.
Lastly the third truth that I grasped onto is that entrepreneurship actually more closely resembles a journey than it does a title or role. See every single founder that I've interviewed has reached the success that they have because of many previous chapters in their life. Throughout our 100 episodes you've heard me refer to the breadcrumbs of life, and if you're a person who likes hiking or anything outdoors then you probably actually pictured dropping breadcrumbs along a path. But if you're a designer or a developer then you might picture the navigation type of breadcrumb. Either way, they show us how we got to where we are right now. Sure, the analogy also lends itself to the interpretation of the fact that they also show us how to get back to where we were, [15:00] but that's not my point of reference because I'm always about what's ahead and the breadcrumbs of life show us that every single chapter, whether it's a successful one or one of hardship and failure, every single one contributes to where we are today. We learn from every single chapter and we take that learning into our next chapter. There truly is nothing wasted along the entrepreneurial journey, and this is even true for 2020.
I'm excited about what the next 100 episodes of The Startup Story have for us because I'm part of this journey with you. I'm not a journalist who is simply taking notes with my founder guests to write a great article. No, I'm ingesting the learnings just like you are so that my current chapter might be a bit more successful than my previous ones. And I thank you. I am so appreciative of you for being part of The Startup Story community and for subscribing to the show wherever it is that you listen to podcasts. I do not ever take for granted the hours and hours you've invested into the show, and I am forever grateful to you for that.
With that in mind, there are still so many people that are unaware of The Startup Story. I'm talking about millions and millions of entrepreneurs who need to hear these remarkable stories to help their entrepreneurial journey. The Startup Story exists to provide insight, guidance, and inspiration to help entrepreneurs everywhere to either one, begin their entrepreneurial journey with a real perspective of what it takes, or two to give them the quick hit of perspective and inspiration to keep going. Either way, I hope you will consider sharing The Startup Story with your immediate network. You never know who needs to hear these stories. And I say it in every episode because I believe it with my very being, entrepreneurs support other entrepreneurs and I am so very thankful of your support of my entrepreneurial journey.
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MINDFUL DETOX RETREAT: 24HR Digital Detox & Juice Cleanse
MINDFUL DETOX RETREAT - 24HR Digital Detox & Juice Cleanse
THURSDAY 17th – FRIDAY 18th FEBRUARY, 2022
PAUSE . . . BREATHE . . . and FEEL. Sense deep into your own body, and even deeper into the patterns of thought and emotion that govern your experiences. The process of detoxification brings us closer to understanding our own personal neuroses. As we bring ourselves closer to the edge of discomfort, without the means that we often turn to as distractions, we begin to develop a heightened sense of awareness through intensified sensations, emotions and thoughts. Pausing can take the form of stepping away from your daily life, putting aside your digital distractions and even allowing your digestive system to rest and reset. On this 24-hour digital detox and juice cleanse, we offer an intimate group setting as a support system, to guide you through the process with knowledge, and to ensure that you get the most benefit out of this experience.
The retreat takes a holistic approach in building your understanding of the detoxification process so that the lessons you learn over this 24-hour period become education for life rather than a singular experience. While many people may choose a juice cleanse or any other type of cleanse from a weight loss or diet perspective, our approach is that of building total health through the body and mind in a way that is less goal oriented and more about the process. Gentle yoga sessions, breathing, introspection, journaling and discussion are essential components to ensuring that you connect with the complete experience. The vehicles through which we learn are the digital detox and juice cleanse, but this opens us to the opportunity for emotional cleansing; identification and cleansing of our vices; identification, deconstruction and reconstruction of our habits and patterns; and much more. The end result is greater clarity, and perhaps feeling lighter not just through the digestive system, but through a letting go of the excesses in our lives that do not serve us.
Whether its your first time detoxing or your 10th time, the process is consistently challenging. Taking yourself out of your day to day environment with an intimate group of people who are also going through the same process allows you to immerse entirely in the experience. You will not only receive the support and guidance of the instructor, but you are given the opportunity to explore, share, and discuss with other like-minded individuals. At the same time, the tranquil rooms of Villa Samadhi will serve as your meditation cells where much of your contemplations will take place. The quiet surroundings of the private grounds at Villa Samadhi offer stillness for deeper soul-finding. Retreat to recharge and reset.
Your juice cleanse is provided by EGA. You will begin the juice cleanse the evening before the retreat begins. Your first juice and two triphala pill are to be picked up the day before the retreat from an EGA location of your choice. Consume a healthy dinner at a reasonable time. Please do not consume any alcohol the day before the juice cleanse. At 10:00pm, prior to going to bed, you will take the two Triphala lax pills. Your first juice will be consumed at 7:30am on the morning of the retreat, prior to departing for Villa Samadhi. During the day, you will receive FIVE more juices to consume. Your cleanse ends on the morning of day 2 where you will break your fast with a light, healthy, vegetarian breakfast to ease your way back into consuming solid food.
EARLY BIRD (Early bird price has been extended to January 22nd) – Single occupancy S$750 per pax; Double occupancy: S$550 per pax
REGULAR PRICE (Starting Sunday January 23rd): Single Occupancy S$799 per pax; Double occupancy $599 per pax
*We only recommend double occupancy if you are attending the retreat with a partner. Otherwise, we recommend that participants stay alone overnight as this is very much part of the mindful detox process). Note that all rooms at Villa Samadhi are outfitted with ONE KING BED ONLY.
*One night accommodation in Crib Room at Villa Samadhi (upgrades to another room type may be available at an additional charge and according to availability. Check Villa Samadhi's website to see the list of all types of rooms at the property).
*500ml x 6 bottles of cleansing juices provided by EGA Wellness; one immunobooster shot; 4 Triphala lax pills
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*Breakfast on the second day of the retreat
*10% discount voucher for a future purchase of an EGA juice cleanse
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5pm – 7pm Your first juice and two Triphala lax pills will be delivered to your home. We recommend having a light of fruit and vegetables between 5pm -7pm.
10pm Before going to bed, take the two Triphala lax pills.
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Cancellation policy: full refund up to January 13; 50% refund between January 14th and February 2nd; no refunds after February 2nd. In the event that government Covid restrictions prevent us from running the retreat on the scheduled date, you will have the opportunity to postpone your attendance to a future date or to a full refund.
Julie MoksimCo-owner & Yoga InstructorI'm Singaporean by birth, global citizen by lifestyle, having lived in Indonesia, Egypt and India as a child and young adult, and later in the United States, Laos and Myanmar. My spark for yoga began while I was living in Boston in 2003, but my calling to teach grew much later out of the joy that I developed as a teacher's assistant at the studio that I attended regularly. After completing a teacher training in Bali with Rachel Hull, Anna Smallwood, Emil Wendel, James Newman and Dr. Sujatha Kekada in 2011, I moved to Laos and started a yoga cooperative called Luang Prabang Yoga. Both the yoga cooperative and the immersive retreat programs that I lead under Laos Yoga Retreats have in some ways, put Laos on the map as a destination for yoga. I also co-owned a yoga studio in Myanmar between 2017 and 2019. My partnership with Kathy and Urban Yogis has grown out of a collective purpose to share knowledge and bridge the gap between people of different cultures, languages and belief systems. I trust that when a group of people come together from all walks of life, the opportunity for learning is boundless. Yoga has been an essential platform for these gatherings and for experiences that create more open-minded humans. Today, the biggest influence in my practice and teachings is Edward Clark of Tripsichore Yoga. He reinforces the importance of authenticity in how we express ourselves in movement. Ultimately, this translates to authenticity in life. I'd like to say to people out there, don't be afraid to find out who you are, and when you find that person, don't be afraid to be the person that you are! Thank you for taking the time to read this and to browse our website and offerings.
Kathy GabrielCo-owner & Instructor / TherapistKathy Gabriel is a Yoga teacher, Craniosacral Therapist & Bodyworker licensed under Pacific Association of Craniosacral Therapists (PACT). Although yoga and complementary health was always in her family, she only picked up yoga as teenager during a period of spiritual seeking. She initially sought out Buddhism and meditation out in order to process her grief. Through the years, her understanding of health and wellness began to expand and it was through a holistic practice, she learned how to found solace, ease and balance to move through the different seasons of life. She is deeply passionate about sharing this practice with others, helping them navigate their own journey through the belief that all that one ever needs lies within.

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Partying 'till the wee hours of the morning inside a private residence in London last weekend, Kate Moss still managed to look chic for the paparazzi who were waiting outside for her! Despite looking a bit tipsy, Kate walked out of the building looking every inch a fashionista in her black and shimmering ensemble.
Kate Moss leaving a private residence in London, England on May 26, 2013
Dressed in her usual all-black ensemble, the 39-year-old model radiated a fashion statement with her outfit by wearing something glittery for the night! We are so used to seeing Kate in black outfits, so her shimmering jacket is like a breath of fresh air for us. Agree? Her messy do is a sign that the model did enjoy the night with her friends and colleagues. What are your thoughts, ladies?
Kate Moss is one busy model these days as she was recently spotted jetting off to China for an art show. Aside from that, Kate's fans can look forward to seeing the English model grace the cover of British Vogue this June! Are you going to buy a copy of the magazine anytime soon?
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Digital Product Management is looking for a Senior Business Analysts , to join our Insurance Product team. This role will contribute to a team which is working to evolve our insurance trading systems. The position has a broad scope of responsibility and requires interpretation of user feedback, an understanding of multiple complex systems and information to make subjective decisions that have substantial risk and/or legal, regulatory or financial implications.
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--- Supports multiple highly complex business processes and serve as a functional leader.
--- Be the Voice of the Client: Provide a deep understanding of the end-user, client experience, and product capabilities to the product team when defining and delivering user value and firm outcomes.
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--- Understanding of enterprise systems and impacts of change.
--- Mentors less experienced members of the team.What Experience You Need:
--- Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience designing and implementing functional systems and data or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
--- Previous experience with Agile and/or Product Management concepts (such as user story writing, Agile events, and backlog refinement)
--- Expert troubleshooting skills to investigate, resolve and escalate problems. Identifies need for technical assistance to help in problem resolution.
--- Ability to establish and maintain relationships with associates, general partners, and executives; possess expert interpersonal and negotiation skills.
--- Ability to lead other associates without authority.
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Global warming is predicted to increase water scarcity in many drylands worldwide. In Central Asia, one of the most intensively irrigated dryland agricultural regions, climate change is likely to exacerbate the regional water supply–demand gaps, particularly in downstream areas. The withdrawal of degraded, highly salinized croplands from irrigated farming in favor of tree plantations that effectively utilize saline groundwater may contribute to irrigation water saving, which can generate valuable ecosystem services and provide rural income opportunities. To facilitate the spatial planning of afforestation in the lower Amudarya region, we developed a hydrological algorithm to map the spatio-temporal pattern of water supply–demand. The resulting map, based on seven-year continuous data of cropping pattern and corresponding irrigation dynamics, rainfall, and evapotranspiration at 250 m resolution, revealed the overly irrigated areas from which excess water can be redistributed to water-stressed areas. Furthermore, combining this information with spatial data on marginally productive croplands and with water requirement of tree plantations showed that 67% of these croplands are characterized by water availability sufficient for the introduction of salt-tolerant tree species. The algorithm developed is of potential use for defining the feasibility of introducing alternative (tree) crops with known growth and water use characteristics.
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Hamburg duo Digitalism are returning to the label where it all begun, that's right the duo are returning to Kitsune with a new EP 'Lift' which has been made alongside a load of collaborators.
"We've hardly ever done any collaborations before; at the beginning we even didn't get other people to remix our songs. That's changed over the years, however, and we've opened up and wanted to see how we can mix our creative genes with other people's approaches and ideas," said the duo.
The new three-track EP is going to be out September 30, and features collaborations with Steve Duda, Mike Diamond of Blood Diamonds, and The M Machine.
And that bring us neatly onto the duos new remix, which is for The M Machine's 'Moon Song' – which you can stream below.
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Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals both the teams were banned after Indian Premier League 2015 season. Both the teams returned after two years, one won the league and other finished fourth on the points table. Both these teams have a rivalry right from the final of the first ever Indian Premier League. Rajasthan Royals went on to win the league but after that match, Chennai Super Kings have won 12 out of 16 matches against Rajasthan Royals. Chennai Super Kings have a dominant record against most of the teams in the Indian Premier League.
Death bowling is a concern for Chennai Super Kings. After Dwayne Bravo's injury, this issue has come up in most of the matches. Bravo is a stand out player and he can deliver Yorkers right at the perfect time. This skill of his is unfortunately not present among any of the other Chennai Super King's bowler. Chennai Super Kings have a good spin attack and that can come handy on a pitch like Sawai Mann Singh where this game will be played.
Another area of concern is the form of both Shane Watson and Ambati Rayadu. Watson played for Rajasthan Royals for 8 years and he knows this ground more than anyone else. With du Plessis being in a good touch Chennai Super Kings would be wanting Watson to give them a fiery start that can be capitalized by the middle and lower order batsmen. Rayudu has been out of form right from the start of the league. For a player of his caliber, only one game is enough to come back in form. Chennai Super Kings would want that one game to be today's game.
Rajasthan Royals have a lot of concerns and that is the reason why they are placed at the 7th position of the points table. Their only win has come up against Royal Challengers Bangalore, a team which is giving away two points to every team as a freebie.
Apart from Jos Buttler no other batsman has shown signs of positive batting for Rajasthan Royals. Steven Smith did score a fifty in one game but that was too slow for a t-20 game. Ajinkya Rahane has opened up the innings for Rajasthan Royals but never gave them a start that can result into a high score. Rahul Tripathi who is a genuine opener is batting in the middle order and that is one issue which is coming up in every game.
Their bowling is also of below average and that is some serious issue. You can't win a cricket match with such poor bowling skills.
Chennai Super Kings will look to extend their lead on the points table and with the form in which Rajasthan Royals is right now suggests that Chennai Super Kings will have another win over them.
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The rise in the numbers of individuals who choose not to get their children vaccinated—some for a justifiable reason, but most for some religious/philophical/political one—is most concerning. I have heard that some people are planning to refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccination in 12-18 months, or whenever it winds its way through the fairly-complex creation/testing/approval process! I just can't fathom that. Elderly people dying in nursing homes; children getting a gnarly "Kawasaki-like syndrome" as a side effect of the virus; first responders and front-line workers putting their lives on the line, and on and on. It's maddening, actually. I think it is a crystal-clear case-in-point of three phenomena a) misinformation/disinformation/ignorance; b) tribalism and political polarization; and c) hyper-individualism/extreme libertarianism. This blog will feature approximately 60 quotes about vaccines, vaccine refusal, and public health that I have collected so far (in alphabetical order).
It's definitely very hard to have faith in the regulatory agencies in our government, but I think to suggest that the CDC, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — just to name a few — are all in a massive conspiracy to underplay the dangers of vaccines is a bewildering leap. ~ Amanda Peet
Committed anti-vaxxers sometimes display a sort of religious zealotry that makes attempts at dialogue deeply frustrating. But there is no reason to dismiss the concerns of parents and caregivers who worry about autism, the effects of vaccines and the interventions of the medical profession. Putting pressure on people, shaming them or forcing them to do something that they are scared of is never a good idea. Most people are reasonable: give them the data and they are only too pleased that their child has access to life-saving vaccinations. ~ Ann Robinson
There is a core of people who no matter what you say, they will not believe you. They are convinced that vaccines are dangerous or they feel they don't want to take the risk of their child, even though there's two reasons to give vaccine: one is to protect your child, the other is a duty that you have to society to keep society protected. ~ Anthony Fauci
We seem to continue to expect intelligence and knowledge to predict rational behavior, as if rationality was some kind of byproduct of intelligence. Even skeptics can often be caught suggesting that if we just give people the right facts, they'll change their minds about vaccines, E.S.P., and global warming. But that is not how people work. ~ Barbara Drescher
In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen. ~ Benjamin Franklin
I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing. ~ Bill Gates
The anti-vaccine community, at large, believes that vaccines are a tool of government control that make big pharmaceutical companies rich and have side effects that can cause lasting damage. Sarah, a Texas mom who asked that her last name be omitted over fears her family will be targeted by people who support vaccines, said she's more scared that she'll be forced to vaccinate her two-year-old daughter than she is of the virus itself. 'For a vast majority of the population, this is a few days of a high fever and a week of a lingering cough,' she said. 'Once you give up rights to your body, the government owns you.' ~ Brittney Martin
At the beginning of the 20th century, worldwide life expectancy was less than 40 years of age. Today the world average stands at around 70. The single biggest reason for this miraculous leap in longevity has been our ability to cure diseases. Vaccines, antibiotics and advances in medical technology have changed the game. We are still in an arms race against many diseases, but we stand at a unique period in human history where it's possible to imagine a day when we have conquered disease. ~ Bryan Nelson
Regular readers of [website www.sciencebasedmedicine.org] hardly need to be reminded how pervasive and dangerous the modern-day anti-vaccine movement has become. Indeed, it is a frequently discussed theme of this blog, given that the anti-vaccine movement is such a major force among the forces that deny the efficacy of scientific medicine and seek either to replace it with unscientific or pseudoscientific 'alternatives' or to 'integrate' pseudoscience into science-based medicine. Indeed, anti-vaccine sentiment infuses large swaths of what we refer to as 'complementary and alternative medicine' (CAM), be it chiropractic, homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, or a wide variety of other modalities and systems. ~ David Gorski
Mandatory vaccination, which is what we have in the U.S., is far more effective. Mandatory, in contrast to compulsory vaccination, requires vaccination as a precondition for using certain public services, specifically the public schools. The message is that you don't have to vaccinate you kids if you really don't want to. No one from the government is going to come around and fine you or force you to vaccinate them, as what happened in England in the middle and latter parts of the 19th century. However, if you don't vaccinate there's a price to pay. If you don't vaccinate, your kids can't go to public school because they would then have the potential to bring disease there and serve as the nidus for epidemics. Since that policy was instituted, vaccination rates in the U.S. has skyrocketed. ~ David Gorski
In the final chapter, Dr. Offit correctly identifies the problem as a lack of trust between parents and health officials, pointing out that it's easy to come up with conspiracy theories about, for example, pharmaceutical companies because they are to most people faceless institutions with profits as their primary motive. To try to combat this impression, he introduces us to scientists from Merck who work on vaccines, their dedication, and their passion. That's good. What's not so good is that Dr. Offit fails to acknowledge adequately that there is good reason why many people distrust pharmaceutical companies. We've written about some of those very reasons myself, including pharma ghostwriting, seeding trials, and conflicts of interest. Let's just put it this way: I like Paul Offit, and I wanted to like this book, but even to me this argument fell flat because it more or less dismissed the contention that not all distrust of pharmaceutical companies is unreasonable or overblown. Far better is his pointing out that parents whose children have been injured or killed by vaccine-preventable diseases represent an underutilized resource for countering the misinformation of the anti-vaccine movement. ~ David Gorski
Nearly 60,000 Americans died of COVID-19 in April, and that was when physical distancing measures were largely in place across the country.By comparison, researchers estimate that the Great Recession that began in December 2007 led to 4,740 additional suicides in the U.S. over the ensuing three years. Even if you include deaths from other causes that might be tied to a bad economy, 'I don't think there is a great data-driven argument that any recession is likely to cause the same amount of death as we are currently seeing from COVID-19,' said Dr. David Eisenman, director of UCLA's Center for Public Health and Disasters. ~ Deborah Netburn
'Because of confinement, there is an appearance that we can manage this,' Lydia Bourouiba, Ph.D., said. But if those measures were suddenly lifted with nothing to replace them, we would overwhelm the healthcare system and doctors would start having to choose who lives and who dies, she said. 'That's the ethical question people in our society need to be thinking about,' Bourouiba added. So, what will it take to ease the stay-at-home measures with minimal risk to society? Public health experts agree on the essentials: the capacity to rapidly test people who may be infected, isolate those who test positive, and track and quarantine their close contacts. ~ Deborah Netburn
We have huge inequities between rich and poor, black and white, and entire swaths of the country without insurance and access to doctors. If we allow this disease to run through the population, it will no doubt take the poor and the most marginalized people in the society. ~ David Eisenman
Never has a vaccine been so eagerly anticipated. Scientists are racing to produce a coronavirus inoculation on an unprecedented timescale, and some political leaders have warned that the restrictions on our lives may not be completely lifted until one is available. That's something of a challenge to the anti-vaccine movement, many of whose members are strongly opposed to mandatory vaccines. But the virus has also done something more startling. It has made some anti-vaxxers change their minds. ~ Emma Reynolds
Imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community. ~ Eula Biss
What an astonishing species we are. We acquire knowledge at a rate and in a volume unrivaled by any other. Then we throw it away. We have an awareness of the future and can project into it, so that our efforts today ward off trouble tomorrow. But we squander these abilities and hurtle toward disaster. On Monday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that there had been 704 cases of measles recorded in the United States this year, the highest number since the disease was thought to have been wiped out here almost two decades ago. Measles went away because humans outsmarted it: with vaccines. Measles is back because some humans are putting creed before prudence, myth before science, ill-supported opinion before demonstrable fact. ~ Frank Bruni
…anti-vaxxers run the political gamut. They're on the left, their professed concern for social welfare proven hollow by the risk that their unvaccinated children pose to newborns and others who haven't yet been — or can't be — vaccinated. They're on the right, among people who see the government and its edicts as oppressive forces. Paranoia has no partisan affiliation. ~ Frank Bruni
…the anti-vaccine crowd (or anti-vaxxers) aren't trafficking in anything as concrete, mundane and quaint as facts. They're not really engaged in a debate about medicine. They're immersed in a world of conspiracies, in the dark shadows where no data can be trusted, nothing is what it seems and those who buy the party line are pitiable sheep. ~ Frank Bruni
How many studies do you have to throw at the vaccine hysterics before they quit? How much of a scientific consensus, how many unimpeachable experts and how exquisitely rational an argument must you present? ~ Frank Bruni
Since Covid-19, I've seen firsthand what these diseases can do when they're not being fought with vaccines. ~ Haley Searcey
[This coronavirus pandemic] is an important time to reflect on the value of vaccines. If we had had a vaccine for this, we wouldn't be locked up in a room, the economies wouldn't be crumbling, we would have been a whole different world. The question I would ask is, do we have to wait for something to be this bad? ~ Heidi Larson
I predict that the next major outbreak—whether of a highly fatal strain of influenza or something else—will not be due to a lack of preventive technologies. Instead, emotional contagion, digitally enabled, could erode trust in vaccines so much as to render them moot. Social media should be recognized as a global public-health threat." ~ Heidi Larson
Is there any meaningful difference between Donald Trump evangelists who are at war with climate and evolutionary scientists, and anti-vax identity folks who are at war with epidemiology and immunology scientists? They are all anti-science tribalists, although at opposite ends of the political spectrum. ~ Howard Winet
I definitely see the positive effect in anti-vaxxers that previously would not have considered vaccination. It's way harder to be in a state of denial when it comes to the objective truth of the dangers of these infectious diseases when you're experiencing a pandemic [like the coronavirus]. ~ Isaac Lindenberger
Research suggests that the reason informed people fall into conspiracy-theory mind-sets often has less to do with a lack of information than with social and emotional alignment. Facts are necessary, but not at all sufficient. Websites and YouTube videos where a federal employee in a suit states various statistics are unlikely to be effective against targeted disinformation campaigns that only need to plant the seed of doubt in the mind of people already skeptical of the medical establishment. The work of global inoculation requires first rebuilding a social contract, which means meeting people on the platforms where they now get their information, in the ways they now consume it.
There have been anti-vaccination movements at least since 1796, when Edward Jenner invented the smallpox vaccine. But many experts say that the current one can be traced to 1982, when NBC aired a documentary, "DPT: Vaccine Roulette," that took up a controversy percolating in England: a purported tie between the vaccine for pertussis — a potentially fatal disease that can cause lung problems — and seizures in young children. Doctors sharply criticized the show as dangerously inaccurate. But fear spread. Anti-vaccination groups formed. Many companies stopped making vaccines, which were considered loss-leaders and not worth the corporate headache. ~ Jan Hoffman
Though the situation may seem improbable to some, anti-vaccine sentiment has been building for decades, a byproduct of an internet humming with rumor and misinformation; the backlash against Big Pharma; an infatuation with celebrities that gives special credence to the anti-immunization statements from actors like Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey and Alicia Silverstone, the rapper Kevin Gates and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And now, the Trump administration's anti-science rhetoric. 'Science has become just another voice in the room,' said Dr. Paul A. Offit, an infectious disease expert at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. 'It has lost its platform. Now, you simply declare your own truth.' ~ Jan Hoffman
The constituents who make up the so-called vaccine resistant come from disparate groups, and include anti-government libertarians, apostles of the all-natural and parents who believe that doctors should not dictate medical decisions about children. Labeling resisters with one dismissive stereotype would be wrongheaded. 'To just say that these parents are ignorant or selfish is an easy trope,' said Jennifer Reich, a sociologist at the University of Colorado Denver, who studies vaccine-resistant families. ~ Jan Hoffman
The growth of vaccine doubt in America coincides with several competing forces and attitudes. Since the early 2000s, as the number of required childhood vaccines was increasing, a generation of parents was becoming hypervigilant about their children and, through social media, patting each other on the backs for doing so. In their view, parents who permitted vaccination were gullible toadies of status quo medicine. ~ Jan Hoffman
For highly contagious diseases like measles, the vaccine rate to achieve herd immunity—the term that describes the optimum rate for protecting an entire population—is typically thought to be 95 percent. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the vaccination rate for the measles, mumps and rubella (M.M.R.) injection in kindergartners in the 2017-2018 school year had slipped nationally to 94.3 percent, the third year in a row it dropped. Seven states reported rates for the M.M.R. vaccine that were far lower for kindergartners, including Kansas at 89.1 percent; New Hampshire, 92.4 percent; the District of Columbia, 81.3 percent. (The highest is West Virginia at 98.4 percent.) ~ Jan Hoffman
America is a sick society as evidenced by our huge number of guns for protection from neighbors and due to a fear of tyranny; more deaths have been produced right here with guns in the last forty years (1.7m)(mostly suicides and interpersonal violence) than in every war since 1776 (1.4m). Look at our veterans. Money in politics. Violence on tv. Football players giving themselves concussions for our entertainment. Wall St behavior. Trump. Sanders getting cheated. Vaccines as public enemy #1. Factory farming. Opoid addiction. It's very dark here. ~ Jason Merchey
Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing. ~ Jeffrey Kluger
Captains of industry will have to commit acts of genuine altruism, because not all of the innovations needed to build a modern public health system will be clearly lucrative. If you're making a fortune out of cornering the market on ventilators, for example, designing a cheaper, easier-to-make version of your product might sound like bad business. Likewise, developing vaccines and antibiotics may seem like a risky investment compared with the prospect of another million-dollar cancer drug. But when the next pandemic threat arrives, millions of lives — not to mention the entire global economy — may depend on exactly these things. ~ Jeneen Interlandi
There is no disagreement that vaccine refusal is the cause of outbreaks. More than 70 percent of measles cases this year were in people who had received no vaccines, and in all, 88 percent of cases were associated with under-immunized, close-knit communities. Yet parents' decisions have effects that can reach far beyond these networks and neighborhoods. ~ Jennifer Reich
The larger and more interesting group [of vaccine refusers] to discuss is the significant portion of American parents who say they believe in vaccines but just don't want them for their children—or don't want all the vaccines that experts insist are safest and most efficacious. As much as 20 to 25 percent of American parents fall into this latter group, and they arguably pose the greatest threat to herd immunity. They are also the most likely to be persuaded as long as we don't call them ignorant and selfish. ~ Jennifer Reich
Parents who refuse vaccines are most likely to be white and college-educated, and to have a higher-than-average family income. I believe their decisions are less about how informed they are and more about the culture of what I term individualist parenting — one that insists parents are personally responsible for their own children, but not other children. Individualist parenting has encouraged mothers to trust their own judgment more than that of experts and believe they can manage their way out of disease risk, even as their choices present risk to others. ~ Jennifer Reich
We know that parents who refuse vaccines tend to cluster and that living near a high number of other unvaccinated people significantly increases risk of infection. After all, most people are more likely to trust those who are like them. It is therefore not surprising that many of the outbreaks we are seeing are in tightly woven ethnic and religious communities with shared values and practices. ~ Jennifer Reich
Measles can kill about one or two of every 1,000 people infected at any age but is most dangerous to infants and adults. The mothers I studied would often weigh each of these facts to decide if and how it would benefit their own children to get vaccinated. They would not consider that those too young, too old, or too immune-compromised to be vaccinated might benefit most from the herd immunity caused by mass vaccination. ~ Jennifer Reich
When thinking about her son's struggles, Katie, like many mothers, made clear that she feels alone. Feeling unsupported by schools, health care providers, insurance companies, and her extended family, Katie insists she alone must take responsibility for her child and become his advocate. Like high-quality education, safe drinking water, food inspection, or any number of resources children need to thrive, infectious diseases cannot be controlled with individual hard work, and thus cannot remain a private concern. In the end, we must find ways to protect each other's children and support everyone's family. ~ Jennifer Reich
In the summer of 2014, I was in one particular anti-vaxxer Facebook group, and there was a debate going on about vaccines, and I started to notice that every time someone disagreed with them, the core members got belligerent, going straight to personal attacks. I also noticed that every single point they brought up had this immense conspiracy to go along with it. By that point, I'd started to think, 'Do I really believe in all these conspiracies? Am I really that afraid or can I go back and look at the evidence again?' By then, my daughter was 8 months old, and I just got over the fear I had as a first-time mom. I realized that my daughter was going to be OK. ~ Kelley Watson Snyder
The most reliable way to understand reality is science and the scientific method. Used wisely you may have a shot at minimizing morbidity and mortality. Deny or ignore it and reality don't care. Reality will get us all. ~ Mark Crislip
the reality is that vaccine-preventable illness are still there and the barriers to prevent their return are surprisingly fragile. It doesn't take much thinning of herd immunity to allow vaccine-preventable illnesses to come storming back. We are always skating close to the edge of infectious outbreaks and not aware of the danger. But reality don't care if we think vaccines do not work or cause autism or that we give too many too soon. Stop vaccinations and it is not if but when we will see the infections return. We think we are safe from vaccine-preventable illness. We are not. ~ Mark Crislip
Take the pandemic now; if they come out with a vaccine and you have 15% of people saying, 'I don't want to take it, I don't believe in it, it's going to cause harm', you're never going to get up to the level of herd immunity to really shut off the process. ~ Mark Jarrett
Americans who don't want to vaccinate are increasingly getting their way: A June study found that, over the past decade, the number of philosophical vaccine exemptions rose in two-thirds of the states that allow them. What drives these wrongheaded decisions is fear — fear that vaccines are somehow dangerous, even though research shows the opposite. And these choices have consequences. ~ Melinda Wenner Moyer
As with many late-night hosts, Jon Stewart has shut down anti-vaxxers on air. 'They're not rednecks. They're not ignorant. They practice a mindful stupidity,' he said in 2015 of 'science-denying, affluent California liberals' who don't believe in vaccination. 'There's no red America. There's no blue America. There's just a needlessly sick America.
The World Health Organization has ranked vaccine hesitancy — the growing resistance to widely available lifesaving vaccines — as one of the top 10 health threats in the world for 2019. That news will not come as a surprise in New York City, where the worst measles outbreak in decades is now underway. Nor in California or Minnesota, where similar outbreaks unfolded in 2014 and 2017, respectively. Nor in Texas, where some 60,000 children remain wholly unvaccinated thanks in part to an aggressive anti-vaccine lobby. ~ New York Times Editorial Board
An effective pro-vaccine campaign needs to remind us: Vaccines prevent two million to three million deaths globally each year. In developing countries, people line up for hours to get these shots. It's also O.K. to get out of the gray zone. Scientists, especially, are uncomfortable with black-and-white statements, because science is all about nuance. But, in the case of vaccines, there are some hard truths that deserve to be trumpeted. Vaccines are not toxic, and they do not cause autism. Full stop. ~ New York Times Editorial Board
Is it your inalienable right, as a US citizen or as a citizen of any country, to either to allow yourself or your child to be infected with a disease that's potentially fatal, and it's transmissive? I think the answer to that question is no. ~ Paul Offit
People can claim what they want, but the proof is in the pudding, and this is the pudding. – Paul Offit
When you look at babies that have received aluminum-containing vaccines, you can't even tell the level has gone up. ~ Paul Offit
I think we are at a tipping point, i think people need to realize that a choice not to get a vaccine is not a risk-free choice. It's a choice to take a greater risk, and unfortunately right now, we are experiencing that greater risk. ~ Paul Offit
…far from being unwilling to study whether parents' concerns about mercury were real, public health officials and academic investigators had performed many studies to determine whether mercury in vaccines caused autism or other problems. It didn't. And those studies cost tens of millions of dollars to perform. ~ Paul Offit
Public health/preventative healthcare interventions also can have very positive ROIs. From 52 studies that looked at the ROI of preventative health programs (covering a variety of program types, including vaccines, home blood pressure monitoring, smoking cessation, etc.), on average the programs created $14 of benefit for every $1 of cost. ~ Ray Dalio
The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history. ~Seth Berkley
In this scary, uncertain time, I can imagine that thinking about something as routine as childhood vaccinations may not feel like a priority. Just remember: What we're going through right now with lockdowns, quarantines, and a lack of uncertainty, this is all due to just ONE novel disease in our community without herd immunity. Our lives have been changed, our kids aren't going to school or having their normal play dates. And this is from just one disease where the community doesn't have herd immunity. How much more awful and isolating would this experience be if COVID-19 been as contagious as measles? ~ Shannon Keever
To my dismay, of those I asked who had contracted influenza, most hadn't received their influenza vaccine. People either don't see it as a priority, or they have fears based on the massive amount of misinformation available online. For years I worked in pediatric hospitals and one sound I'll never forget is an infant struggling to breathe with respiratory illnesses such as influenza and whooping cough. My heart would break for the babies as well as the parents because nothing is worse than watching your child suffer. I always worried for the children we had to transfer to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), knowing they may suffer long-term effects to their little lungs. ~ Shannon Keever
Critical thinking is a skill that can be learned and that can be reinforced by habit. The scientific approach to critical thinking is empirical; it is a way of testing our beliefs systematically against the real world. Once we develop our critical thinking skills and begin to examine our beliefs systematically, it can be very empowering. It is, in fact, a defense mechanism against all the machinations that are trying to deceive us—whether for ideological, political, or marketing reasons. Critical thinking also liberates us from being weighed down by the many false beliefs (and perhaps mutually-incompatible beliefs) we tend to hold because of our psychological makeup.
Individual studies can be preliminary and flawed, or they can be rigorous and methodologically sound, but either way, it's still a single study. Very few studies are so large, rigorous, and unambiguous in outcome that they can stand alone and be considered definitive. One always has to put individual studies into the context of the overall research and published literature of a field.
The World Health Organization recently declared that "vaccine hesitancy," as they called it, was one of the top 10 threats to global health. That's right: it was up there with air pollution, climate change, influenza, Ebola, and other threats. For the WHO, "vaccine hesitancy" is a polite phrase designed to engage the public and highlight how serious the problem is, without angering those who are guilty of it. I'm not going to be quite so polite here: "vaccine hesitant" means anti-vax. The anti-vax movement, which aggressively spreads fear and misinformation about vaccines, has become a major, worldwide threat. It also resembles a cult…. ~ Steven Salzburg
It's ironic that when the world is faced with a true health emergency, such as the Ebola virus or the Wuhan coronavirus, the first thing that public health experts start to work on is a new vaccine. That's because vaccines provide our best protection against infections. We now have effective vaccines for 16 diseases that used to harm and even kill children in large numbers around the world. We've eliminated smallpox worldwide, and we've nearly eliminated polio, thanks to vaccines. Their very effectiveness is what has allowed the anti-vax message to take hold: many people are no longer frightened of dying from infectious diseases. ~ Steven Salzburg
…[w]hen parents of unvaccinated children attempted to allow their children to return to a school recently struck by a measles outbreak, the judge blocked their entry. He's not the only one. In Italy, a new law went into effect this month that barred unvaccinated children under six from school and fined parents of children older than six for not vaccinating their kids. This is not, as some critics would suggest, government overreach. It is common sense, and these proposed measures resemble the many laws on the books that protect the public interest, even when they proscribe individual conduct. For example, driver's license requirements, prohibitions on smoking on airplanes, restrictions on falsely yelling fire in a crowded theater—these widely accepted examples put the public interest ahead of private interests. Legislation on vaccines operates in the same spirit. ~ Suraj Patel
We're in the midst of a public health crisis spurred by parents who won't vaccinate their kids. Diseases such as mumps and measles, once on the brink of being eradicated because of vaccination, are making a comeback. Public health experts are struggling with how to reach parents who are vaccine skeptics, and a recent study shows it may be impossible to change their minds via some of the communication methods used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We need antidotes to the current wave of anti-vaccination celebrity craziness. ~ Susan Rohwer
Ethan Lindenberger's mother is a prime case. Her information about vaccines came from "anti-vaxx" groups on Facebook. As her son put it, "She thought vaccines were a conspiracy by the government to kill children." She is not alone. On Facebook and elsewhere online, hives of misinformation and pseudoscience push the view that vaccines are dangerous—that they lead to autism, that they are a government plot, or that they cause the diseases they are supposed to prevent. ~ Suraj Patel
This world of mom was new, but so was being around so many women with such strong opinions. Before Momdom, the extent of my interaction with actual humans came from male-dominated molecular medical laboratories. And because of my years in vaccine research, the brunt of a major mom group issue fell into my lap: to vaccinate or not to vaccinate. At the time, I could explain why you didn't need to worry about thimerosal in your children's vaccines, but I had only rarely interacted with this enormous debate going on in the real world. My mom friends, as well as all parents, needed good information. That's when my blog, The Vaccine Mom, was born. ~ Taryn Chapman
It goes without saying that the internet can be an incredible resource for many things. However, it can also be a huge tangle of misinformation. The information is triggering and believable, and thus can solidify a parent's stance on vaccines. So I get it. But here's the deal—from my perspective as a scientist: not vaccinating your child is more dangerous to him and to your community than the very rare chance that he could have a reaction to a vaccine. An unvaccinated child is a sitting duck because these vaccine-preventable diseases have not been wiped off this planet. The reason you haven't seen many in your lifetime is because of the progress of science and technology—the creation of vaccines. ~ Taryn Chapman
Many of the ideas propagated by anti-vaccine activists are squarely rooted in a distrust for authority. In a conversation about the anti-science movement with CBSN Originals, Asheley Landrum, an assistant professor of science communication at Texas Tech University, says suspicion of authoritative figures or groups is a common thread running through many anti-science conspiracy theories. "We see similar types of science denial propagate through the internet on social media, where communities of individuals will either share information that they believe demonstrates the corrupt nature of authorities in a variety of different science topics from vaccination to climate change to evolution to genetically modified organisms," Landrum explained. "All of these different issues have that in common, where people want to reject the findings that science has delivered by doubting the credibility of those who have discovered that." ~ Taylor Mooney
The World Health Organization reports that there are at least 70 vaccines in development around the world right now, three of which have begun human trials. If all goes well, researchers and public health officials hope to have a vaccine available by the second half of 2021. But those who promote anti-vaccine views aren't waiting. They're out there now on social media, cultivating conspiracy theories and planting seeds of doubt that could limit a future vaccine's success. ~ Taylor Mooney
For several years, journalists covering the climate change issue saw it as a controversy requiring equal air time for both the climate change scientists and the handful of scientists—most of them funded by oil companies—who felt the climate was not warming. This approach prolonged—and continues to prolong—a period of doubt about climate change. The result of the media's approach to this issue is that while more than 98% of climate scientists are in agreement that our planet is warming, people in the United States are split on the issue. The result is that we've been hindered in addressing pressing issues related to combating climate change and are seeing the very real effects the lag in action caused by this manufactured uncertainty is having. Vaccines are remarkably similar case, in that the scientific consensus on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines is perhaps even more overwhelming. ~ VoicesForVaccines.org
Focusing on the social controversy of vaccines is tantalizing, but it does not present the public with an accurate understanding of vaccines. Reporting on science is different from reporting on politics, because in science, the facts are reproducible and verifiable. Underplaying the science to emphasize the social controversy can mislead parents about vaccines, leading to decisions that are not based on correct facts and accurate risk-assessment. When it comes to vaccines, the costs of such misrepresentations can be high. ~ VoicesforVaccines.org
Fear is powerful. It's so powerful that sometimes even the effort of trying to ease it can be upsetting to the person controlled by it. This can be especially true when the topic is vaccines. Perhaps you've experienced this yourself and now hesitate to even bring up the topic of vaccines. Maybe you've "agreed to disagree" on vaccines, even though doing so creates a fear of your own—that your children and the children you love will be affected by a vaccine-preventable disease. ~ VoicesForVaccines.org
Science is not decided in the court of public opinion, and journalists need to be on guard about falling prey to false balance in order to report accurately about the facts involving vaccines. ~ VoicesForVaccines.org
'Why are parents not vaccinating their kids? What the hell is wrong with people?' As a father of two young children, I've had outbursts like this on more than one occasion as I sit in my Play-Doh- and Lego-littered family room, reading the latest news about measles and other preventable viruses making a global comeback. This week, Senator Rand Paul, who has previously fueled the dangerous myth that vaccines cause harm by saying in 2016 that it's 'wrong to say there are no risks to vaccines,' spoke out against government-mandated vaccines at a Senate Health Committee hearing, saying, 'I believe that the benefits of vaccines greatly outweigh the risks, but I still do not favor giving up on liberty for a false sense of security.' ~ Wajahat Ali
With a measles outbreak affecting over 200 people this year and a recent study proving yet again that there is no reason to believe that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, known as M.M.R., causes autism, it's infuriating to know that parents still resist vaccinating their children. But I know people whom I think of as otherwise intelligent and well intentioned who aren't convinced that vaccines are safe. In the face of their dangerous choices, I've been thinking seriously about what I can do to get through to them. ~ Wajahat Ali
All of this has influenced friends of mine from the Bay Area and Virginia, otherwise highly informed individuals who pride themselves on sniffing out fake news, to remain skeptical about vaccines. [My physician wife] Sarah described their mind-set and those of the patients she sees: 'The parents don't trust big pharma. They don't trust scientific studies, and they think evidence is always changing. They don't understand how vaccines work. Some will be like 'I don't want to overload my kid's immune system with too many shots at once.' This global 'doubt' explains why measles reached a 20-year high in Europe in the first six months of 2018. ~ Wajahat Ali
I've begun to agree with [my physician wife] Sarah, who believes education, personal relationships and counter-narratives are the long-term keys to success and rebuilding trust in health professionals and experts. Her mantra: 'Don't vilify, bully or mock the parents, but try to empathize and teach, and then empower them.' She encourages doctors to actually listen to their patients' unfounded fears before jumping in with the kind of harsh critiques or judgment that can backfire and solidify their false beliefs. Instead, she suggests doctors acknowledge their concerns and build trust over time, while also providing correct information, facts and relatable personal stories. ~ Wajahat Ali
Epidemics, Anne Applebaum recently pointed out in The Atlantic, 'have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.' [The coronavirus] has caught us in a moment of profound weakness. Faith in science, government, media, and all our institutions has badly eroded, and we are deeply divided politically and culturally, viewing each other as enemy tribes, not countrymen. The coronavirus cares nothing for these distinctions; it is a reminder that our separateness is an illusion. We Americans, and all humanity, are at war with a common foe. We can only defeat it together. ~ William Falk
I immunize for my daughter Alana. Alana died on February 3rd, 2005 of complications from the flu. ~ Zachary Yaksich


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Weekend road closures for Tallinn Marathon 2019
Tallinn Marathon takes place this weekend and many roads in the city will be temporarily closed on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
On Friday evening there will be a 5km run, on Saturday a 10km run, and then Tallinn Marathon takes place on Sunday.
Below you can find out which roads will be closed and when, as well as route maps of the marathon course. Traffic restrictions start on Friday evening.
Roads will be re-opened for traffic after the events are finished and traffic control equipment has been cleared away.
ERR News has also written about public transport disruptions during Tallinn Marathon, which can be read here.
Friday, September 6
Traffic will be temporarily suspended on below street:
Kaarli Puiestee from 6:55 p.m. to 7:05 p.m.
Toompea Street and Falgi Tee from 7.00 p.m. to 7:10 p.m.
Toompuiestee from 7:00 p.m. to 7:20 p.m.
Pedestrian crossing on Nunne Street next to Balti Jaam (Baltic Train Station) from 7:05 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Cycle and pedestrian tracks on the Tornide Välja square from 7:05 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Suurtüki Street, Laboratooriumi Street, Lai Street, Vaimu Street, Pikk Street, Rannamäe Tee, Väike-Rannavärav Street, and Uus Street from 7:05 p.m. to 7:35 p.m.
Olevimäe Street, Mündi Street, Town Hall Square (Raekoja plats), Kullasepa Street, and Harju Street from 7:15 p.m. to 7:50 p.m.
Saturday, September 7
Kaarli Puiestee (outbound traffic from the City Center (Kesklinn) from 4:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Pärnu Maantee (from Viru väljak to Vabaduse väljak / Estonia Puiestee intersection) from 4:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Mere Puiestee and Rannamäe Tee from 4:45 p.m. to 7:10 p.m.
Suurtüki Street from 4:55 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Kopli Street (Põhja Puiestee up to Tööstuse Street) from 4:55 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
Tööstuse Street (Kopli Street up to Kalaranna Street) from 5:10 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Kalaranna Street, Lennusadama Street, and Vesilennuki Street from 5:10 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Kalasadama Street and Kursi Street from 5:15 p.m. to 7:10 p.m.
Põhja Puiestee from 4:55 p.m. to 7:10 p.m.
Viru Street, Vana Turg Street, Kuninga Street, and Harju Street from 4:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, September 8
Traffic on the marathon track in the city districts of Kalamaja, Põhja-Tallinn, and City Center (Kesklinn) may occur from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The Harbor can be accessed via Uus-Sadama Street and Ahtri Street. More detailed arrangements depend on construction work on Reidi Tee.
As related to placement and clearing away of road traffic control equipment, traffic interferences may occur near the marathon track from 12:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.
Roads affected are:
Pärnu Maantee (from Viru väljak to Estonia Puiestee) from 8:45 a.m. to 9:10 a.m. and from 10:00 a.m. to 10:25 a.m.
Mere Puiestee and Rannamäe Tee from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Suurtüki Street (from Põhja Puiesteest to Toompuiestee) from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Põhja Puiestee (from Mere Puiestee to Soo Street) from 8:50 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.
Põhja Puiestee (from Soo Street to Kopli Street) from 9:10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Kursi Street and Kalasadama Street from 8:50 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Kalaranna Street, Vesilennuki Street, and Lennusadama Street from 8:50 a.m. to 9:35 a.m.
Tööstuse Street (from Soo Street to Kalaranna Street) from 9:05 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.
Soo Street from 8:50 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.
Kopli Street (from Maleva Street to Põhja Puiestee) from 9:10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Kopli Street (from Sõle Street to the final stop for trams) from 10:25 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Ristiku Street (from Kopli Street to Kolde Puiestee) from 9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Kolde Puiestee, incl. Kolde Puiestee / Sõle Street intersection from 9:25 a.m. to 11:55 a.m.
Pedestrain tracks at Stroomi Beach from 10:00 a.m. to 2:20 p.m.
Lahepea Street and Soodi Street from 9:35 a.m. to 11:10 a.m.
Outbound and inbound lanes on Paldiski Maantee (from the U-turn on Lahepea Street to Ojaveere Street), except public transport from 9:35 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. Detour for outbound and inbound lanes via Mustamäe Tee - Tammsaare Tee - Ehitajate Tee.
Mustjõe Street (from Paldiski Maantee to Kõrgepinge Street) and the cycle and pedestrian track on Kõrgepinge Street from 9:35 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Cycle and pedestrian track on the side of Tallinn Zoo on Ehitajate Tee from 9:40 a.m. to 11:40 a.m.
Cycle and pedestrian tracks of Paldiski Maantee from the gates of Tallinn Zoo to Ehitajate Tee and in the pedestrian tunnel at Haabersti traffic junction from 9:50 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
Rannamõisa Tee cycle and pedestrian tracks from 9:55 a.m. to 12:40 p.m.
Vana-Rannamõisa Tee cycle and pedestrian tracks from 10:00 a.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Õismäe Bog (Õismäe raba) fitness trail from 10:10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.;
Vabaõhumuuseumi Tee cycle and pedestrian track from 10:15 a.m. to 1:20 p.m.
Seaside cycle and pedestrian track from the Open Air Museum to Stroomi Beach from 9:40 a.m. to 1:40 a.m.
Pelguranna Street from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Kopliranna Street from 10:20 a.m.to 1:40 p.m.
Ankru Street from 10:20 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Sepa Street and Maleva Street from 10:25 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
More information about road closures and Tallinn Marathon can be found here.
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