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2,200-year-old Chinese text may be oldest surviving anatomical atlas – Live Science

A series of 2,200-year-old Chinese texts, written on silk and found buried in ancient tombs, contain the oldest surviving anatomical atlas, scientists say.

The texts were discovered in the 1970s within tombs at the site of Mawangdui in south-central China. The tombs belonged to Marquis Dai, his wife Lady Dai and their son. The texts are challenging to understand, and they use the term "meridian" to refer to parts of the human body. In a paper recently published Sept. 1 in the journal The Anatomical Record, a research team led by Vivien Shaw, an anatomy lecturer at Bangor University in Wales in the United Kingdom, argues that these texts "are the oldest surviving anatomical atlas in the world."

Additionally the texts "both predate and inform the later acupuncture texts, which have been the foundation for acupuncture practice in the subsequent two millennia," the researchers wrote in the study. The find "challenges the widespread belief that there is no scientific foundation for the 'anatomy of acupuncture,' by showing that the earliest physicians writing about acupuncture were in fact writing about the physical body," they added.

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The texts, which are written in Chinese characters, are difficult to understand. "The skills necessary to interpret them are diverse, requiring the researcher firstly to read the original Chinese, and secondly to perform the anatomical investigations that allow a re-viewing of the structures that the texts refer to," the researchers wrote in the paper.

But if the texts are read carefully, it can be seen that the "meridians" refer to parts of the human body. For example, the text says (in translation) that one meridian starts "in the center of the palm, goes along the forearm between the two bones following straight along the tendons, travels below the sinew into the bicep, to the armpit, and connects with the heart." The researchers contend that this description of a "meridian" actually refers to the path of the ulnar artery, the main blood vessel of the forearm.

Another example from the ancient text describes a "meridian" in the foot that "starts at the big toe and runs along the medial surface of the leg and thigh. Connects at the ankle, knee, and thigh. It travels along the adductors of the thigh, and covers the abdomen." This "meridian" actually describes the "pathway of the long saphenous vein," the conduit that carries blood from the legs back to the heart, the researchers wrote.

The team concludes that the texts "represent the earliest surviving anatomical atlas, designed to provide a concise description of the human body for students and practitioners of medicine in ancient China."

Although the human body and ancestral remains were considered sacred in ancient China, the remains of law breakers were not always given this honor. The researchers believe that ancient Chinese medical researchers dissected the corpses of prisoners to help them understand human anatomy. For instance, the Han Shu (Book of Han), a tome that covers the history of the Han Dynasty, records the dissection of the criminal Wang Sun-Qing in A.D. 16, the researchers noted in the study.

Until now, the oldest known anatomical atlas of the human body was thought to be from Greece, done by ancient Greek physicians such as Herophilus (335280 B.C.) and Erasistratus (304-c.250 B.C.) however most of their texts have been lost and are known only from what other ancient writers wrote about them. As a result, the Chinese texts are the earliest surviving anatomical atlas, the researchers said.

Related: Photos: Tiny looms Found in Chinese tomb

Vivienne Lo, a senior lecturer and convenor of University College Londons China Centre for Health and Humanity who is not affiliated with the research, said that she is hesitant to use the word "atlas" to describe these texts, and thinks that "map" or "chart" is a more appropriate term. Lo said that the term "atlas" was a term that was used more during the 17th and 18th centuries and doesn't seem appropriate to apply to a 2,200 year-old text. Lo also noted that some of the finds discussed in the paper such as the fact that prisoners were dissected to provide anatomical information have been published by other researchers before.

TJ Hinrichs, a history professor at Cornell University who has conducted research into ancient Chinese medicine but is not affiliated with this research, also did not think that "anatomical atlas" was an appropriate term to describe these texts. Live Science has reached out to other experts not affiliated with the research, however most were not able to reply at time of publication.

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Dr. Kevin Sadati Combines His Fine Arts Experience With Anatomy To Become One Of The Most Highly Regarded Plastic Surgeons – Yahoo Finance

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / September 8, 2020 / Trained in the fine arts, Dr. Kevin Sadati combines artistic aesthetic with surgical understanding of the human anatomy to become one of the most highly specialized plastic surgeons working today. His practice is named, "The Gallery of Cosmetic Surgery & Aesthetic Lounge," as a testament to his love of art and his vision for his practice. Clients from around the globe travel to see Dr. Sadati for his surgical expertise and the harmonious, natural-looking results he creates for each patient.

Aside from his ability to create natural, and beautiful results, Dr. Sadati makes sure that his practice is incredibly patient-centric. He holds consultations for each patient, in which formulates a custom plan for their needs.

His skill and experience is furthered by his nationally recognized facelift technique called, "Triple-C Plication." This breakthrough muscle tightening method is used for lower face and neck rejuvenation, and was published in the American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Journal.

To get where he is today, Dr. Sadati needed to be motivated to branch out and start his own practice. He began his surgical career in Newport Beach around 2005, working in a space he says never quite felt like his own. The culture was incredibly corporate, and Dr. Sadati found that patients weren't getting the care and attention they deserved. So, he began his own practice, first beginning conservatively, while always keeping the bigger dream in his mind.

"As my business and vision began to grow, I hired more employees which gave me the ability to provide a holistic approach to the care I could provide. Ultimately, I decided to build a one-of-a-kind luxury medical practice that I always imagined for my clients. I knew instinctively what this place should be," Dr. Sadati says.

The business itself brings along many challenges. Most recently, Dr. Sadati has focused on keeping patients safe in light of the pandemic. With extensive testing and risk-elimination, Dr. Sadati is able to keep everyone healthy.

"We believe our patients deserve the very best, so we designed a surgical facility that is truly state-of-the-art, equipped with technologically advanced devices and instruments imported from Germany, known for their leading edge and precise surgical manufacturing. Our facility is accredited by AAAHC to provide the highest standard of patient care and safety," says Dr. Sadati.

His patients trust his skill and honesty, leading Dr. Sadati to be voted "Best Plastic Surgeon in Orange County," by Locale Magazine Readers. His colleagues have voted him as the "Best Overall Facial Rejuvenation," and "Best Aesthetic Doctor," at the Aesthetic Show. He has appeared on "The Doctors" TV show by NBC for his outstanding nasal surgical procedures and has taken the nation by storm with his facial rejuvenation techniques.

While there is no shortage of experienced surgeons in Orange County, Dr. Sadati has been picked out by the many, being voted "Best Cosmetic Surgeon" for the 6th year in a row by Orange County Register and recently OC Weekly.

Moving forward, Dr. Sadati always has the next big thing in mind.

"We are looking to continually expand our practice to offer a more comprehensive experience every day. We are looking to bring on more incredible surgeons to offer an even wider variety of specialties. Furthermore, our luxury medical spa is offering the best in non-surgical treatments from botox and fillers to microneedling, lasers, facials, coolsculpting and more. It is our goal to continue offering state of the art equipment to help our clients to continue looking the way they feel," Dr. Sadati explains.

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Anatomy of the covers: The story of the Throughlines cover illustrations – San Francisco Chronicle

For the covers of The Chronicles Throughline limited series, we commissioned artist Chaowat Pong Lertsachanant to create a series of eight panels depicting the future of San Francisco that would connect to form one large panoramic image.

Lertsachanant had to navigate difficult thematic content alongside format challenges. Having a large canvas meant more details to get right in an illustration depicting a city to its own citizens. Each panel was also extremely vertical, inverting the film-like shape that is typical in Lertsachanants animation work. And then each piece had to stand on its own while weaving into the larger final illustration.

Now that all eight pieces have been published, we asked Lertsachanant for his artist commentary on each panel and how he depicted a futuristic San Francisco, altered by the pandemic and protests, moving forward better.

Week 1: The City

I lived in the Tenderloin before. I tried to recall how I felt about the Tenderloin and how it could be better, how it could be more tidy and more clean and still keep the look of the buildings in that area. It was also the area that I thought should have the solar panel towers from the micro-hood concept, since it seems like the area is slightly cheaper than other parts of San Francisco, so its easier to invest in.

In the street, its quite tricky because it has to connect to the panel next to it while still telling a story. So I thought it should be on the corner that connects streets together, so I can get away with it heading into the next panel and a building doesnt get in the way of the viewer.

Week 2: Closing the Gap

I was thinking about protesting in the future. Nowadays people have to be down on the street. Thats hard to control. I wanted to think about controllable vehicles that could project holograms of all the protesters, so that they wouldnt have to actually go out, and the way it would make people notice is by voice or sound. It was a fictional vision of what a protest could be.

And of course I used blue cause its a color scheme you often see in futuristic movies.

Week 3: The Future of the Arts

This was really challenging in terms of perspective and having to connect with the last panel. Davies Symphony Hall is quite a wide building, and I had to adjust into a vertical ratio. Theres no way. My solution was to put it in the front and just fake the perspective. I used the scale of people to give it a sense of size and make it contrast from the middle musician.

I was thinking about the color of the panel. Since I already used blue, I put pink and purple. This color scheme actually comes from the Blade Runner movie. I fused that idea into this panel a little bit.

Week 4: The Social Scene

Since its the Castro, I wanted to bring up the LGBTQ topic in this panel. Thats why I put the male couple in the front.

One of the things I looked at in the future was hand sanitizer being a normal thing that people use. Its on the dining table even. They use it before they eat. Or, on that date, its the new normal. Like, oh, I cant touch their hand until I use it first.

Week 5: The Tech Sector

I think I like this one the most since the composition features the Salesforce Tower. Its really tall, so it was the easiest one to compose since I could compose something in a vertical view.

Its the first time I actually had to paint a glass building and represent the Financial District. It was the easiest one and also the most challenging because, once I got into details, I had people in the front and details on the building. I had to figure out a way to push the buildings away so it didnt feel too dense for viewers.

Week 6: Rewriting the Rules

I wanted to free up the viewer a little bit, so I put the camera farther out after having very tight compositions in the previous illustrations. This one I just tried to have the feeling of the space in Civic Center.

When I walked there, the feeling of the space the air, the space between me and City Hall it made me feel like its a gigantic place and yet a space that I was still able to walk through.

It also has futurist elements that come from other panels. Thats why I have the skywalk bridge at the top. It connects it to the previous panel. I was worried it might be too big, but in the overall panorama, it wasnt as bad as I thought.

Week 7: How We Move

Since the suggestion was people feeling more hope and feeling more lively, I put a little story in there about a couple who may not have seen each other that much. I wanted it to say that now you can meet the people you love.

I chose Pacific Avenue. I sketch there all the time, and I walk and jog there. Theres a great view, and it just felt right to give a hopeful feeling of the city.

Its fictional. Its visually just my feelings that I mashed into that space that could work in a vertical ratio. I was really concerned about the perspective. I really worried people would find out that you dont see cable cars and the Golden Gate Bridge in the same place, and that you wouldnt see the bridge from Pacific ever like this.

This is actually the view from California and Mason, but in reality its a framing of the Bay Bridge. This city is like a composition by itself, and I tried to translate it into this picture. Its a VisDev (visual development) artist skill: We mess things up and make it look possible.

Week 8: The Community

I had the same worry as the previous panel. I mixed things up, and hopefully viewers wouldnt catch it or be mad about it not being true. Like the last one, I made the space feel more free with a lot of air between viewers and the scene. Thats why I used a lot of cool colors with just a touch of warm to make it like a normal sunny day, which is related to the happy ending of this series. It is just another normal day in which people can live their lives.

And on the screens in the outdoor classrooms, its like the pandemic is a memory already, that it happened in the past.

Alex K. Fong is the designer of the Throughline. Email: Alex.Fong@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @alexkfong

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Anatomy of a Goal: Crews Gyasi Zardes caps off dream week with brace – Massive Report

Welcome back to the Anatomy of a Goal, where each week we dissect one goal (or near goal) from Columbus Crew SCs previous match.

For match 10 of the 2020 MLS Season, we take a look at Gyasi Zardes 71st minute goal against FC Cincinnati that gave the Crew a 3-0 lead as part of yet another Hell is Real Derby win.

Heres a look at the goal from Columbuss striker.

The Black & Gold entered the third Hell is Real Derby of 2020 on the back end of a hard-fought win against the now second place Philadelphia Union. In the previous match against Cincinnati the Crew struggled to breakdown Jaap Stams defensive system, leading to a disappointing draw against the southern rivals.

Zardes was a surprising snub from Sundays starting lineup with Fanendo Adi stepping into the starting 11 for the first time this season. Columbus fans shouldnt expect to see Adi getting time over Zardes as any sort of sign favor because the forward had a busy week that might have necessitated a a substitute appearance, as he turned 29 and celebrated the birth of his fourth child very near to Sundays match.

The Black & Golds third goal in this match shows how the Crew used short passes and fluid movement to break down an otherwise stingy FC Cincinnati defense.

Lets start our review with the ball at the feet of captain Jonathan Mensah. Mensah picks up the ball following a Luis Diaz-won free kick on the FC Cincy side of the field. The Columbus captain plays a quick pass over to Josh Williams as Artur drops into the area for support.

Williams carries the ball until he meets Cincinnati pressure and then quickly slides a pass over to left back Milton Valenzuela.

Valenzuela slides the ball forward and then quickly plays the ball up the field to Darlington Nagbe.

Nagbe receives the ball in between the two FC Cincinnati defensive blocks. The midfielders positioning forces right center back Mathieu Deplagne to break his lines, leaving Pedro Santos open on the sideline.

Nagbe quickly plays the ball out to Santos.

Deplagne recovers onto Santos, who then drops the ball right back to Nagbe.

Nagbe and Santos continue their passing work, with Nagbe pushing the ball right back to Santos.

Santos spots some space ahead of Nagbe and plays a pass in front of the midfielder.

Nagbe runs onto the pass and immediately drops the ball back to Santos.

This back-and-forth between Santos and Nagbe has drawn multiple Cincinnati defenders toward the Black & Gold attackers. As FC Cincinnati attempts to box in these two, the team loses its defensive shape and opens up various other lanes of attack for the Crew.

Santos receives Nagbes drop while the American cuts back toward the midfield line.

Santos performs a tidy bit of on-the-ball work as Joseph-Claude Gyau attempts to take possession of the ball. The Portuguese midfielder uses his left foot to take the ball behind his right, and flicks a pass right over to Nagbe.

Nagbe picks up the clever flick and immediately has three options. He can play a drop-back pass to Williams, a diagonal pass back to Artur or carry the ball toward the middle of the field.

Additionally, notice that seven FC Cincy defenders are packed into this small section of the field. That leaves only three Cincinnati defenders to cover the five Columbus players spread throughout the rest of the field.

Nagbe opts to drop the ball back to Williams, resetting the attacking move.

Williams settles the ball and quickly plays a pass forward to Artur.

Artur turns and resets the ball to Mensah.

The Black & Gold have given FC Cincinnati time to reorganize but have also spread out the defense by dropping the ball back. Now, the Crew captain can play a diagonal pass to Williams, hit a pass right back to Artur or carry the ball away from Jurgen Locadias pressure.

Mensah turns and plays the ball over to Williams.

Williams picks up the ball at as the FCC defense collapses toward the center back. Six Cincinnati defenders are present in the area around the midfield circle, leaving Artur open right in the middle of the field and Valenzuela open on the sideline.

Williams fires a pass up to Valenzuela as Deplagne heads toward the left back.

Valenzuela turns toward Deplagne and has three options. He can play a quick pass forward to Santos, attempt to beat Deplagne off the dribble or a diagonal pass to Nagbe.

The Argentine left back quickly passes forward to Santos and then makes a run up the sideline.

Santos recognizes Valenzuelas move and hits a pass into the path of his left back, who will easily outpace Deplagne to the ball.

Valenzuela runs toward the ball with a full seven FC Cincy defenders on the wrong side of the play.

By drawing Cincinnati toward the midfield with quick passing, Columbus has used a single pass to break through the FC Cincinnati lines.

Valenzuela spots Nagbe and quickly slides the ball over to the midfielder.

Nagbe lets the FC Cincy pressure find him and has four quick options. He can play a through pass to Zardes, a long diagonal pass to a wide-open Luis Diaz, carry the ball forward or a long square pass to Afful.

Nagbe spots Diaz and hits a pass right to the winger. Notice Andrew Gutmans positioning. He is deployed as the Cincinnati left back but is, at best, in the very middle of the field. This FC Cincinnati overload leaves yards of open space for both Diaz and Afful.

Diaz meets the ball and can play a few different ways. He ahas a through pass to a potentially offside Zardes, he can attempt to beat Gutman off the dribble, shoot the ball or turn the ball back toward Afful.

Diaz decides to have a shot, and launches the ball toward Przemyslaw Tytons goal.

Unfortunately, the ball is deflected up into the air, but right toward Afful.

Afful spots the ball and heads an excellent pass into the path of Zardes.

Zardes lets the ball take one bounce and hits a shot at Tyton on the half-volley.

Tyton gets lucky to have his face get in the way of Zardes shot because the ball travels right through his arms.

Deplagne attempts to chest down Tytons save but isnt able to prevent the ball from bouncing too far forward.

Zardes spots the errant chested ball and tees up a second shot.

Somehow, Zardes is able to get a clean shot on the ball, sending it past Tyton . . .

. . . into the back of the net!

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Anatomy of Deceit: Team Trump Deploys Doctors with Dubious Qualifications to Push Fake Cure for Covid-19 – The Washington Spectator

On July 27, a dozen physicians posed in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., dressed in white lab coats with Americas Frontline Doctors stitched over the pocket. The groups chief spokesperson was Dr. Simone Gold, an emergency physician from Los Angeles. They were introduced by Jenny Beth Martin, the founding CEO of Tea Party Patriots, as participants in the White Coat Summit. The doctors made spirited arguments for the use of hydroxychloroquine as a cure for Covid-19 and against wearing masks and imposing lockdownsall running counter to the recommendations of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[1]

Although the event was billed as a press conference, few journalists attended. A video posted by a bystander showed only a handful of attendees, most of them dressed in tourists shorts and T-shirts. But the event was livestreamed by Breitbart News and quickly went (so to speak) viral.

There was a rapid backlash. Much of the media attention focused on Dr. Stella Immanuel, one of Golds cohort. Following the press conference, the Daily Beast posted a video of Immanuel, who is also a Pentecostal preacher, delivering a sermon claiming that various female ailments were caused by sexual visitations from demons.

Immanuel has since disappeared from the Americas Frontline Doctors online roster, but the group has continued to get traction. On August 10, Pat Robertsons show on the Christian Broadcasting Network carried an interview with Simone Gold and an endorsement of her hydroxychloroquine cure. On August 21, Alex Joness NewsWars carried an interview with another member of Americas Frontline Doctors, Mark McDonald. McDonalda child psychiatristmaintained, If all Americans had access to hydroxychloroquine, the pandemic would essentially end in about 30 days.

Science has shown otherwise. Despite early hopes last spring, there is mounting evidence that hydroxychloroquine is a problematicand even dangeroustreatment for Covid-19. One expert with firsthand knowledge is Nick Sawyer, an academic emergency physician in Sacramento, Calif. In July he wrote an article for Lifeline, the publication of the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, describing his harrowing two weeks of service in the Covid wards of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. Sawyer was part of a team of California doctors dispatched by Governor Gavin Newsome to offer emergency assistance at the epicenter of the epidemic, at the height of the New York City outbreak.

Sawyer is now dealing with the spike in cases in California, this time with the benefit of four months of additional Covid research. The science on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating Covid-19 is settledmultiple high-quality studies have shown that it shows no benefit, he notes. Far more concerning, Sawyer says, is its potential harm: Hydroxychloroquine can cause unstable cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death. Over recent months, the Food and Drug Administration, the American Medical Association, and other organizations have issued warnings that the drug should be withdrawn as a Covid-19 treatment. Its irresponsible for Americas Frontline Doctors to continue to push this medication on the unwitting American population, Sawyer states.

Why, then, would Golds band of physicians continue its campaign to pitch the treatment to the public? Simone Gold has repeatedly described her group as a grassroots organization acting in the service of its patients.[2] In fact, it has been a highly orchestrated effort, months in the making, assembled by conservative Washington insiders in direct consultation with the White House, with the goal of reopening the economy in time to benefit Trumps reelection prospectsregardless of the toll in human lives.

The first public mention of the initiative may have been a Washington Post story on April 13, as the virus raged across New York City and Covid-19 deaths passed the 20,000 mark.[3] The Post reported the creation of a new conservative coalition pushing for the White House and GOP lawmakers to push back against health professionals who have urged more caution. The leadership was listed as Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation, Adam Brandon of FreedomWorks, and Lisa Nelson of the American Legislative Exchange Council. A fourth individual, Jenny Beth Martin, is the founding director of the Tea Party Patriots. She would play a key role in organizing the events to come, including the doctors Washington summit in July.

Brandon, Nelson, and Martin are all prominent members of a secretive organization called the Council for National Policy, a shadowy coalition that coordinates initiatives among conservative megadonors, political operatives, and media owners, many of them Christian fundamentalists (see Holding Democracy Hostage).

The Post story quoted an interview with Richard Viguerie, a co-founder of the CNP, on the mission of the initiative: The sooner we get the economy going and back up, the better its going to be for conservatives and Republicans in this election year....Conservatives feel the government has overreacted, and its got to end.[4]

The new coalition, called Save Our Country, officially debuted on April 27, as U.S. Covid deaths approached 55,000.[5] Headed by economist Art Laffer, its maiden press release featured quotes from Brandon, Nelson, and Martin. The long-term consequences of a prolonged societal shutdown outweigh the damage done by the virus itself, Martin stated. We must immediately reopen the economy.[6] Earlier that week, The New York Times reported that the Save Our Country coalitions members were mobilizing their networks for state-level rallies, filing lawsuits, and commissioning polls, all to counter the lockdowns: Nonprofit groups including FreedomWorks and Tea Party Patriots have used their social media accounts and text and email lists to spread the word about protests across the country.[7]

But the state-level protests turned out to be of limited utility, and the group began to look for new avenues. In April, CNP Action, the lobbying arm of the CNP, began a series of weekly conference calls to discuss Covid strategy. On May 11as U.S. Covid deaths reached 74,270[8]one of the calls was intercepted and published by the Center for Media and Democracy and the Associated Press.

Among the participants were CNP President William Walton, CNP member Nancy Schulze,[9] and Mercedes Schlapp, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign. Schulze, the wife of former nine-term Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Dick Schulze, opened the call with a warning that two-thirds of the American people were wary of reopening the economy. But, she added, Doctors are seen by the American peoplethey have a 92 percent trust rate with the American people according to polling....There is a coalition of doctors, doctors coalition, who are extremely pro-Trump, that have been preparing and coming together for the war ahead in the campaign on health care, and these doctors could be activated for this conversation now for reopening.

The one thing the left does give credence to, in that they tend to be motivated by a secular worldview, the one thing that they do appreciate and listen to is science, and we have doctors that have the facts, that lived this themselves, that are in the trenches, that are saying its time to reopen, Schulze continued. Ive been working with them for three years. Theres a coalition of doctors ... including the most respected doctors in this country, that are ready to speak if somebody will just call on them.

Walton told her, We need to not just make the economic argument, we need to make the health argument, and we need doctors to make that argument, not us. And so that would be great if you, if we could tee that up.

Schulze said shed be happy to put him in touch with any and all of these doctors, and I have submitted 27 of these doctors names to the campaign for the doctors coalition that theyre in the process of building.

Mercedes Schlapp asked Schulze if she had spoken with Hannah Castillo, director of coalitions for the Trump campaign. I know theyve been working on building that coalition. I know theyre going through the vetting process right now. As long as you have the names, that would be helpful....Those are the type of guys we want to get out on TV and radio to help push out the message.

Schulze replied, Ive been working with Hannah for over six weeks now, so they already have been vetted. But they need to be put on the screen.[10]

Dr. Simone Gold, a 54-year-old emergency physician from Los Angeles, was ready for her close-up. On April 22, Gold had tweeted a stand-up of herself wearing a white Emergency Dept. coat, in front of Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai hospital emergency room, suggesting that concerns over the virus were inflated. She pointed out that the hospital parking lots are empty, the emergency department volume is down, the patient census is down, and thats really in most of the areas Ive been to.[11]

On May 7, she brought a more explicit anti-lockdown message to a program on the Whiskey Politics show on Salem Radio, part of the massive Salem Media conglomerate owned by two leading members of the Council for National Policy.[12] It was headlined DR. SIMONE GOLD GOES PUBLIC! What the Government WONT Tell Us About COVID-19.

Its not at all clear that overall, that social distancing is going to make a huge impact, Gold said.[13] Were all acting like as though theres a huge medical crisis. Theres a medical issue, we should handle it responsibly, but whats going on in our country now is a terrible legal crisis. Our constitutional rights are being trampled on right and left.[14] Gold later added, Theres always viruses...but Im not sure that its front-page news.[15]

The Guardian reported that over the same period, the Save Our Country coalition spent $50,000 on videos on social media platforms targeting independents and Republicans with the message that Covid-19 mostly hits the elderly to minimize risks for others.[16]

On May 19as U.S. Covid deaths reached 84,640[17]the CNPs doctors coalition (billed as A Doctor A Day) made its debut with an open letter to Donald Trump signed by 500+ doctors (a number that was later revised to over 800). In medical terms, the shutdown was a mass casualty incident, it stated. It is impossible to overstate the short, medium, and long-term harm to peoples health with a continued shutdown. The lead signatory was Dr. Simone Gold.

On June 16with U.S. Covid deaths approaching 110,000[18] and the U.S. economy in freefallthe Save Our Country coalition published an open letter to President Trump and Leader McConnell, urging that the multi-trillions of dollars of federal government debt spending in the wake of the Coronavirus come to a stop.[19]Twelve of the 20 signatories (among them Brandon, Nelson, and Martin) were members of the CNP, including CNP President William Walton and Executive Director Bob McEwen.

The push to reopen the schools became a full-court press. On July 7, Trump assembled a White House meeting on the subject. Jenny Beth Martin spoke as both the CEO of Tea Party Patriots and as a mom.

Mr. President, you were right, and I hope you will trust your instincts, she told Trump. America is not meant to be shut down.And we have to reopen schools this fall. Ive been in touch with almost a thousand doctors from around the country.I helped Dr. Simone Gold spearhead a letter to you signed by 800 physicians and surgeons who talked about the side effects of the lockdowns.Ive done a second letter with over 150 doctors, 240 nurses, 330 educators, 70 national groups, and thousands of parents and concerned Americans who want to see schools reopened.

A video of Martins statement appeared, billed as Mom Gives Unexpected Speech Directly to Trump without naming her or her affiliation. It was posted on various social media platforms, including Glenn Becks YouTube channel, The Blaze (where it clocked over 400,000 views as of August 4).[20]

Dr. Simone Gold was now preparing to join Jenny Beth Martin on center stage. On July 22, Gold warmed up for her appearance on The Charlie Kirk Show, with over 157,000 YouTube subscribers. Kirk, a member of the Council for National Policy, heads a group called Turning Point USA, which recruits right-wing campus activists. (Donald Trump addressed its Youth Action Summit last December, and Donald Trump Jr. is quoted on its website stating, Im convinced that the work by Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk will win back the future of America.)[21]

The introduction for Kirks show summed up the case Gold and her colleagues would make over the coming weeks: Charlie is joined in studio by board-certified emergency physician Dr. Simon [sic] Gold, who says nearly everything weve been told about the Chinese Coronavirus is a lie. She and Charlie take a deep dive into the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine and why the U.S. government is barring physicians from prescribing the drugendangering potentially 100,000 lives, at least. Charlie also takes on Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, asking if Dr. Gold challenges the effectiveness of wearing masks. Dr. Gold makes a stunning and factual assertion about the death rates and who exactly is to blame for what she believes is one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated against the American people. [22]

Golds stunning assertion was the often-repeated claim that doctors were falsifying death certificates, speculating without foundation that they were inflating Covid-19 cases by 20 to 30 percent.[23] Gold also asserted, Masks are really foolish, they dont do anything....Theres zero scientific justification for the mask.[24]

Jenny Beth Martin emphasized a social media campaign from the start. Her Tea Party Patriots website posted the program of the White Coat Summit, offering the participating doctors a two-hour session devoted to expanding their social media reach: YouTube and other social media vastly exceed television news as the information source for most Americans. Interviews and Q/A with social media personalities with large followers is the best way to talk to Americans. Doctors who want to answer questions from these modern journalists will have the opportunity.

By the time Jenny Beth Martin hosted Golds White Coat Summit on July 27, U.S. Covid-19 deaths had skyrocketed to over 136,000.[25] The physicians presentation carried a lethal stew of misinformation. Dr. Bob Hamilton, a pediatrician from Santa Monica, assured viewers, Children are not passing [the virus] on to their parents or their teachers. (A few days later, the CDC released a report on a massive transmission event in June at a Georgia summer camp, with a median age of 12.[26])

Dr. Richard Ursoan ophthalmologistpraised hydroxychloroquine as a cure for the virus, but it was not clear that Urso had ever had any significant experience treating Covid-19 patients. Another speaker was Dr. Daniel Erickson, a Bakersfield physician who co-owns an urgent care facility. In April he had been censured by the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine for his reckless and untested musings opposing stay-at-home orders and promoting the conspiracy theory about doctors misattributing deaths to Covid-19.[27]

The social media strategy paid off. Gold and her colleagues video, livestreamed on Breitbart News, reportedly reached 185,000 concurrent users.[28] The New York Times Kevin Roose reported that over its six hours on Facebook, it was the second-most-engaged post on the platform, with 14 million views.[29] (The audiences for network news broadcasts, by comparison, range from 9 to 12 million.) A few hours after the presentation, President Trump tweeted the video to his 84.5 million followers. Donald Trump Jr. told his 5.3 million Twitter followers, This video is a much [sic] watch!!! So different from the narrative everyone is running with.[30] Trump redoubled his support at his press conference the following day, stating I think theyre very respected doctors.[31]

But major social media platforms reacted with relative speed. Facebook took the groups video down a few hours after it was posted, and Twitter and YouTube followed suit, all three on the grounds that the video violated their Covid-19 misinformation policies.[32] Twitter took the unusual step of suspending Trump Jr.s account for 12 hours.

Gold had built the original Americas Frontline Doctors website on a SquareSpace platform, but SquareSpace took it down. Gold rebuilt the website (omitting Stella Immanuel of demon sperm renown) and started raising money through PayPal and fundly.com. The doctors program also remained on the Tea Party Patriots site.

There was an additional reaction to the doctors frontline Covid credentials. MedPageToday, a peer-reviewed medical news site, was unable to find evidence that any of Americas Frontline Doctors in Washington had served in frontline emergency rooms during the Covid epidemic.[33] Simone Gold came under additional scrutiny. Her initial Whiskey Politics introduction described her as a frontline doctor in an inner-city emergency room that treated 150 patients a day, but neither her LinkedIn profile nor other available sources listed the emergency room in question. Her personal website (taken down amid the controversy but archived) described her as a Concierge Immediate Needs Physician working in C-Suite Medicine.[34]

On July 29, Cedars-Sinai, the backdrop for Golds Twitter video, issued a disavowal stating, Simone Gold, MD, has not worked with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center or any of its offices or affiliatessince 2015. For three weeks in late 2015, Dr. Gold was employedona per diem basis by Cedars-Sinai Medical Network, a component of Cedars-Sinai. She worked during this brief time in a network urgent careclinic.Dr. Gold is not authorized to represent or speak about any information on behalf of Cedars-Sinai.

The sharecare.com Find a Doctor site stated that Dr. Simone Gold, MD, is a[n] emergency medicine specialist in Los Angeles, CA. and is affiliated with Centinela Hospital Medical Center. But on July 31, Centinela Hospital posted a statement reading: Simone Gold, MD, is not credentialed as part of the Centinela Medical Staff, as she resigned her position here a number of years ago. Dr. Gold was never employed here as we dont employ our physicians.[35]

Also troubling was American Frontline Doctors repeated suggestion that patients should demand hydroxychloroquine from their doctors for Covid-19. The medication has been an important treatment for lupus and other autoimmune diseases, but the publicity around its application to Covid has created an ongoing shortage with devastating consequences.

Much of the mainstream coverage of Americas Frontline Doctors was devoted to Stella Immanuels demon sperm sermon, but alternative platforms were another story.

Simone Gold was reaching a vast new public and was now celebrated as a victim. On July 30, Fox Newss Tucker Carlson interviewed her on his nightly program. The crawl stated, Doctor Censored by Big Tech Has Now Lost Her Job (though that job was never specified)echoing Trumps executive order on Big Tech censorship released the previous day.[36] (Carlsons show is currently the highest-rated program on cable television, with an audience of over 4.3 million.[37])

Glenn Becks multi-platform media operation, The Blaze, covered the story on his radio program and posted the Tucker Carlson video on its website on July 31, with a companion piece repeating her case for hydroxychloroquine.[38] A similar report was posted the same day on CNS News, founded by Council for National Policy Executive Committee member L. Brent Bozell III.[39] (MediaPost recently named CNS News as the countrys fastest-growing conservative website, with more than 8.3 million unique visitors in June and over 1,000 percent gain in year-over-year unique visitors.[40]) Pat Robertsons CBN.com averages over four million unique visitors each month. Add these to Alex Joness August 21 coverageas well as legions of subsidiary platformsand you have a deadly misinformation campaign thats reaching tens of millions of voters, most of them off the radar of the national news media.

Emergency physician Nick Sawyer is disturbed by the implications for medical practitioners. The Americas Frontline Doctors campaign, he says, violates two of the primary principles of medical ethics. Medical ethics has four major principles: beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice. As hydroxychloroquine offers no clinical benefit and may be harmful, it violates the first two tenets. Further, their statements place actual frontline physicians treating patients with Covid-19 in conflict with patients right to autonomy.

Patients have the right to make decisions regarding their medical care, but as more and more patients are askingif not outright demandingthat physicians prescribe hydroxychloroquine to them, it places these physicians in a position where they are faced with an ethical dilemma. We respect patients right to autonomy, but we are not willing to allow them to demand a treatment that is not helpful and may be harmful. In sum, Americas Frontline Doctors are introducing additional havoc into the already complex Covid-19 pandemic.

As of the publication deadlinefor this article, neitherJenny Beth Martin or Simone Gold had respondedto requests for comment.

The day after Golds Washington presentation, U.S. Covid-19 deaths stood at 140,309; they swelled to 147,653 only a week later.[41] Less than a month later, on August 21, Donald Trump addressed the Council for National Policy at the Ritz-Carlton in Pentagon City, his last major address before the Republican convention. In his opening remarks, he thanked several figures from the CNP, including Jenny Beth Martin, for your tremendous leadership of the CNP. Youve done a fantastic job.

As of that Friday, over 174,000 Americans had died of Covid-19. That number continues to climb.[42]

Anne Nelson is the author of Shadow Network: Money, Media, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right. She is the recipient of the Livingston Award for journalism and a Guggenheim Fellowship for historical research.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/jul/28/fact-checking-video-doctors-talking-about-coronavi/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKmPKmZw-Wk&feature=youtu.be

[3] https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/how-value-based-care-can-save-your

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKmPKmZw-Wk&feature=youtu.be

[5] https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/coronavirus-case-numbers-united-states-april-30-update

[6] https://www.freedomworks.org/content/conservative-groups-launch-save-our-country-coalition

[7] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/politics/coronavirus-protests-trump.html

[8] https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/coronavirus-case-numbers-united-states-may-11-update

[9] https://www.greatamericanspeakers.com/speakers/nancy-schulze

[10] https://soundcloud.com/alexkotch/center-for-national-policy-call-doctors-clip-51120

Coalition of Pro-Trump Doctors Will Defend the President’s COVID-19 Blunders

[11] https://twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1253147796481302531

[12] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxDHS9ck4k8

[13] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxDHS9ck4k8 5:55

[14] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxDHS9ck4k8 12:50

[15] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0VRtY9oTs 23:30

[16] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/01/save-our-country-coalition-states-reopen

[17] https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/coronavirus-case-numbers-united-states-may-19-update

[18] https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/coronavirus-case-numbers-united-states-june-16-update

[19] https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/free-market-coalition-says-stop-the-spending/

[20] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuWxEfR5Za8

[21] https://www.tpusa.com/donaldtrumpjr

[22] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwbICfJ6ePs&t=654s

[23] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwbICfJ6ePs&t=654s 12:00

[24] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwbICfJ6ePs&t=654s 17:00

[25] https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/coronavirus-case-numbers-in-the-united-states-july-27-update

[26] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6931e1.htm?s_cid=mm6931e1_x#T1_down

[27] https://www.acep.org/corona/Covid-19-alert/Covid-19-articles/acep-aaem-joint-statement-on-physician-misinformation/

Dubious coronavirus claims by California doctors condemned by health experts

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/twitter-removes-tweet-highlighted-trump-falsely-claiming-Covid-cure-n1235075

[28] https://americasfrontlinedoctorsummit.com/

[29] https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1287906751069581318

[30] https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/28/twitter-donald-trump-jr-frontline-doctors-viral-video-misinformation/

[31] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-briefing-july-28-2020/

[32] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/technology/virus-video-trump.html, https://nypost.com/2020/07/28/fauci-i-have-not-been-misleading-the-american-public/

[33] https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/Covid19/87797

[34] https://web.archive.org/web/20191225102747/http://www.drsimonegold.com/home.html

[35] https://www.centinelamed.com/News/2020/July/STATEMENT-RE-SIMONE-GOLD-MD.aspx

[36] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-implementation-president-trumps-executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/

[37] https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2020/06/30/tucker-carlson-has-highest-rated-program-in-cable-news-history/#4839a1d86195

[38] https://www.theblaze.com/news/hydroxychloroquine-touting-doctor-fired?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200731Trending-HCQDocFired&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News

[39] https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/doctor-banned-social-media-touting-hydroxychloroquine-hires-sandmanns-lawyer

[40] https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/354137/cns-news-is-now-fastest-growing-conservative-news.html

[41]https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/coronavirus-case-numbers-in-the-united-states-july-28-update

https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/proposed-physician-fee-schedule-calls-for-more-than-10-decrease

[42] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103688/coronavirus-Covid19-deaths-us-by-state/

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Will ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 17 Include the 4 Episodes That Weren’t Filmed? – TV Insider

Like other shows, plans have had to change and not just when it comes to a premiere date forGrey's Anatomy's 17th season.

"We are not working to protect stories we had [planned] for the end of Season 16," showrunner Krista Vernoff revealed toTVLine. "That said, you will get to see some of the immediate moments from where we left off." In fact, some of what we'll see was filmed prior to the shutdown, she added, and "we found a way to build it into our premiere."

Season 16 ended four episodes early (after production shut down in March due to the coronavirus pandemic), and the new season is set to pick up about a month and a half into the pandemic, according to Giacomo Gianniotti (who plays Dr. Andrew DeLuca). As the ABC medical drama incorporates real life into its fictional world, it won't forget about the loose endsafter "Put on a Happy Face."

(ABC/Kelsey McNeal)

That means that while the hospital's staff will be "navigating Covid," which Vernoff described as "a whole new world" for everyone, we'll likely see those scenes she mentioned in the premiere as part of the flashbacks Gianniotti had teased we could see.

Grey's Anatomy could begin filming Season 17 as early as this week. While ABC had included it in its initial fall schedule, it was not part of its premiere dates announcement in August. (Instead, game showsCelebrity Family Feud andPress Your Luckare in the time slots forStation 19 andGrey's.)"With our scripted series ramping up production, we look forward to announcing more premiere dates very soon," Karey Burke, president, ABC Entertainment, said at the time. We should know more soon, hopefully.

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The Anatomy of Alvin Kamara – Sports Illustrated

New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara returned to the Saints this offseason better than ever. The three-time Pro Bowler dedicated himself to nurturing and healing the knee and ankle injuries that suppressed his production in 2019. The Saints and Kamara are amid contract negotiations to extend him in a Saints uniform for several more years. We take a look at the physical and spiritual anatomy of Alvin Kamara and why he is a dynamic and important player for the New Orleans Saints.KAMARA IN 2019

Kamara admitted what many speculated:

Jacksonville week, I tore my knee, basically, Kamara said. That was something I was dealing with the entire season. (I) Had to miss some time, which I dont like to do."

Alvin knew he was not 100% last season, but he fought through the remaining games. His physical decline was evident as his explosive nature just was not present on the field last year. Kamaraadmitted his injury led to an unapproachable demeanor on the field.

Body language, obviously not being able to move my leg. Sometimes my body language was terrible and I know it, Kamara said. Its one thing for fans to say it, but its another when my teammates, my teammates, thats all Im really concerned about. They knew what I was going through and its like, OK, I know youre hurting, but come on. So Im like, I have to snap back.

On Twitter, Kamara admitted he played on one leg last season of only 75%. As a competitor, Kamara decided he would take the field and even play through an injury to help his team and teammates. SNN's Kyle T. Mosley provided a snapshot of AKs stats for 2019 despite his injury:

Even in the wake of his torn MCL injury against Jacksonville in Week 6, Kamaras production makes these stats even more impressive. 2019, he amassed 1,330 yards and 6 TDs for the Saints. Kamaras first three seasons are historic. He became the first NFL player to have over 2,000 (2,408) rushing and 2,000 (2,068) receiving yards, and 3 Pro-Bowl appearances. In 45 games, Kamara saw the end-zone 38 times, 7 rushing, 10 receiving, and 1 kickoff return. He missed 2 games after his leg injury.

The injury did not require surgery, but plenty of rehabilitation.

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New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara is always striving to improve, which has made him a beloved staple in New Orleans and on the team. Hes had a stellar start to his NFL career with the Saints. Kamara and former Saints running back Mark Ingram enlisted the services ofDr. Sharif "Dr. Reef" Tabbah of Athletix Rehab & Recovery to help them with strength and conditioning.

When you are a unique athlete like Alvin Kamara, you must be creative in training and rehabilitation. His recovery and rehab were designed to strengthen balance and muscle, build up endurance, and improve speed. Kyle Mosley and Bob Rose spoke with Kamaras trainer, Dr. Reef, in May on The Bayou Blitz broadcast. Tabbah's goal was to help Kamara increase his core stability.

Tabbahs goal was to help him increase his core stability while taking defensive players hits on the field. Dr. Reef said there are different joints that have to withstand multi-direction forces that might be unpredictable. Can you imagine creating stability from the trunk up, to stay stable on top because youre using a lot of that core stabilization." (Bayou Blitz Podcast)

Kamaras offseason work with Dr. Reef continues to be a hot topic of conversation for many. Their videos feature many unique challenges, where Kamara must catch batons while balancing on a medicine ball. He must also haul a pair of kettlebells tied to a barbell taking staggering steps the length of a basketball court.

This workout aimed to strengthen his core muscles, which are the foundation of the running backs ability to maintain balance through contact, hits, and tackling. The shifting served as lateral stressors to his body, causing his muscle to put in extra effort to keep steady.

These unique and unusual techniques seem to replace the norm for Kamara as the coronavirus pandemic continues to plaque the NFL and other professional leagues around the nation.

Sean Payton was one of the first NFL coaches to use the Joker position - a multidimensional back who can line up on any part of the field and create mismatches in the opponent's defense. Reggie Bush and Darren Sproles were highly effective in this role. After Kamara displayed his athleticism at the NFL combine, the Saints had a private workout with Kamara. He impressed Payton with his route-running and receiving abilities during the workout. Payton coveted Kamara, and the team landed him in the 3rd round of the 2017 NFL Draft.

Kamara has since proven to be the ideal fit for New Orleans as a hybrid player with the size, speed, strength, and endless versatility. Alvin can be a running back, slot receiver, pass blocker, run blocker, and decoy in just one offensive series. Defensive coordinators are aware of the threat Alvin Kamara poses each time he in on the playing field.

Kamara points out that the Saints allow me to be me. His look, style, personality, and vibe all embody the spirit of New Orleans. The Saints and AK fans now wear gold teeth grilles to the Mercedes Benz Superdome, fake dreadlocks, and bull nose rings in their nose. Kamara says his ability to be organic and authentic in the city of New Orleans is critical in his success. The energy is right, the perfect fit of franchise, city, and player.

The anatomy of Alvin Kamara is not about his physique; but his talent, energy, passion, and fit for this franchise. He is an outstanding player and an essential figure for the New Orleans Saints' success today and in seasons to come.

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Inspiring and instructional: The Anatomy of MasterClass – Observatory of Educational Innovation

Serena Williams teaches tennis, Stephen Curry the right technique for getting a basketball through the net, Gordon Ramsey instructs cooking, Jodie Foster explains directing, Neil Gaiman, storytelling, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, scientific thinking. These are not just people who are leaders in their field. They are people whom we have admired for a long time. We have consistently consumed their content for years, in some cases, decades. We have an emotional connection with them that derives from the personal significance that we have attached to the ideal we have of these celebrities.

A large audience has followed Jodie Foster's career since her role in "The Silence of the Lambs," perhaps even before. Some people have chosen a career in science thanks to the outreach work of Neil deGrasse Tyson. Others became ardent fans of tennis or basketball after following the athletic trajectories of Serena Williams and Stephen Curry.

The objective of a MasterClass ad is not to sell the idea of learning a discipline or area of theoretical study; it is to bring you close to your heroes and convince you that they will share the secret of what makes them geniuses. However, is the promise fulfilled?

The MasterClass website offers an annual membership for USD 180 that allows access to all the courses in its catalog, nearly four times the price of Domestika's annual plan without a discount. What is the added value of paying this sum instead of just subscribing to a less expensive, similar platform?

First of all, the production values are surprisingly high for an instructional video or tutorial. All the elements, the technical part, the photography, the narrative, the lighting, the shooting angles, all the aspects of production are very well presented. The visual experience when accessing any of these courses is undoubtedly outstanding. It will make the same impression as seeing any of these instructors exercise the disciplines for which we admire them.

The reading materials are complete and useful supplements to the video lessons and provide a more in-depth perspective on what underlies the skills and trajectories of the instructors. The video lessons are presented in brief and agile formats so as not to overwhelm viewers and to be comfortable for audiences at different levels of mastery in diverse disciplines.

On the other hand, the platform does not provide direct access to experts who are instructing us. While the videos do have a question and answer section that can be helpful to clarify a couple of specific questions, they do not provide followup on learning any of the items that instructors teach.

There are also no efficient ways to create a community of apprentices who remain in communication and grow together. The essential elements for continuing education include the social aspects, feedback, and interactions with people who are learning the same thing. The contents of the MasterClass site are presented more as a unilateral experience, in which we only receive the experiences and knowledge of the instructors.

If we approach the courses as vignettes of entertainment, simple instruction, and inspiration, then these sessions work perfectly. As spectators, we may be glued to the screen watching Gordon Ramsey do wonders on a cutting board or Steve Martin explaining how he built a comedy career without considering himself funny in the first place. These are the components of a fascinating story, not necessarily a practical lesson, but isn't that what the MasterClass ad was selling us in the first place? In a situation of prolonged isolation, do we always need to be exposed to effective learning? There are more practical courses offered, perhaps less entertaining, with concrete lessons and efficient tracking tools. Whether a product like MasterClass works or not will depend entirely on what the learner or viewer is seeking.

If what you want is a specific program that helps you master an area of study or discipline, a MasterClass may not be the best option for you. However, if you want to have a one-on-one experience with an expert whom you admire and want to know more about how he or she exercises their crafts, then acquiring a course of this profile might serve this purpose perfectly.

Have you taken a MasterClass or any other course on a platform that advertises courses taught by experts who have become famous in their disciplines? Tell us how you felt about the experience in the comments.

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Anatomy of the People’s Manifesto: Out of box solutions to Ghana’s problem – GhanaWeb

Opinions of Tuesday, 8 September 2020

Columnist: Michael Sumaila Nlasia

The Peoples Manifest

Yesterday marked the launch of the much-awaited Peoples Manifesto of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The leadership of the Party, the Manifesto Committee and all those who worked behind the scenes to bring to manifestation this extraordinary development policy, by way of the manifesto, deserve our congratulations and commendations.

The current disappointment of Ghanaians in the New Patriotic Party government: with the countless scoundrel of scandals such as Agyapa Royalty and PDS, the failure and collapse of businesses, the massive loss of jobs, the rapid depreciation of the cedi against the major foreign currencies and the crackdown of our national security presented the need to articulate a very comprehensive program to the Ghanaian electorates on how these problems will be solved.

This task caused the Party to set up the Manifesto Committee. The terms of reference of the Committee was structured on a bottom-up approach.

In other words, many of our Party supporters and sympathisers in the constituencies and branches and diverse sources of opinions of the Ghanaian population have some very interesting ideas to many of the issues coming out. They helped by harnessing their knowledge into furnishing the manifesto.

After all, a manifesto must speak to the aspirations of the people, and who better than the rank and file to articulate their ideas to the issues at hand? This is essential because when you go out to talk to the farmers, the fisher folks, nurses, doctors and all and sundry directly, you learn a lot.

And the suggestions they made were found tuned into the manifesto for the electorates to advance our center-left social democratic principle.More so, it shows the humility and the renewal of the leadership of the NDC.

The furore of Gabby Otchere Darko and the NPP that NDC lacks ideas or is not a better alternative has been rendered obsolete and superfluous; as it has rather sensed shivers to their spine knowing very well that the consultation led to clearer and a better understanding of the problems on the ground which the NPP does not want to appreciate as it is what has brought about this winning manifesto.

It is good that the NDC has shown that it is not an alternative by the mere fact that it is in opposition, but has demonstrated it has what it takes to manage and lead this country. It is rare to have a manifesto that reflects the will of the people.

That is why the NPP with its right-wing orientation latches heavily on center-left wing policies and uses semantics as social intervention programmes. But this only shows its bankruptcy in ideas, because it is infamous for its belief in unbridled capitalism and state capturing.

An example in the manifesto is the Youth Development Ministry to be established by the NDC.

This is a dream come true for the teeming Ghanaian youth who, for some reasons or the other, are having their talents frozen by populist ideas which have no potential for growth. A special honour goes to the youth leaders of the Party for spearheading such a remarkable social intervention policy.

The freak of power that made NPP win the 2016 general election has brought unto them contradictions demonstrating in the monumental failure of this government.

Overall this manifesto represents the felt needs of the people and the direction they ought to take for a better future. We must fully accept it to bring to birth a new and a prosperous Ghana.

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Grey’s Anatomy showrunner says axed scenes will feature in Season 17 – Metro.co.uk

Greys Anatomy Season 17 is in production and were all pretty about it (Picture: Michael Desmond/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images)

**Warning: This article contains spoilers for Greys Anatomy. Read at your own risk.**

Greys Anatomy has slowly begun production on season 17 after last season was cut short due to the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic.

And while fans had resigned themselves to the fact the final episodes wouldnt make it on the air as the show moves forward with a time jump, it turns out some of the previously filmed material will still make it into the new episodes after all.

Showrunner Kristva Vernoff explained to TVLine: In even the best of times, a television writers primary job is to know how to pivot.

We are not working to protect stories we had [planned] for the end of Season 16. That said, youwillget to see some of the immediate moments from where we left off.

She explained why she chose to incorporate some of the scenes from the unfinished episodes as she added: There was great material that we had already shot but did not get a chance to air [so] we found a way to build it into our premiere.

We already know the show is going to focus heavily on the effect Covid-19 had on frontline workers, but theres still going to be a whole lot of love as Ellen Pompeo revealed her favourite new couple in the upcoming season.

Can tell us something about todays table read? a fan tweeted the Meredith Grey actress testing their luck.

Ellen hit them back, writing: Yes I have a new favourite couple not sure what youll call them But they are adorable you guys can have fun guessing who!!

One fan quickly figured out the 50-year-olds clue, and wrote: Maggie and boyfriend?

Ding ding ding! the mum-of-three replied before adding: You guys You have no idea how adorable they are.

Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary) started making waves with Dr Winston Ndugu (Richard Hill) at the end of season 16 after meeting each other in a conference.

And by the looks of things, theyre about to fall hopelessly in love!

Greys Anatomy airs on ABC and is available to stream on Prime Video.

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