Pope avoids ruffling Cuban regime by steering clear of dissidents
Mexico visit ignites protests concerning allegations of sexual abuse by late priest
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Cuban President Raúl Castro receives Pope Benedict XVI on Monday.ETTORE FERRARI (EFE)
Pope Benedict XVI completed his first trip to Mexico and Cuba on Wednesday with a large Mass held in Havana's Revolution Square and a scheduled private meeting with former President Fidel Castro.
During his three-day visit to the communist island, the pope didn't talk publicly about human rights issues, as many had wanted him to do. But the pontiff did make some calls for the government to help usher in change that could help the Cuban people.
In his newspaper column "Reflections," published Wednesday, Fidel Castro said that he would meet with the 84-year-old pontiff before he returns to Rome. "With pleasure, I will greet His Excellency Benedict XVI as I did with John Paul II," wrote the 85-year-old.
The pope also came in for criticism for not meeting any Cuban dissidents, including members of the Ladies in White human rights group. He did urge Cubans to build a "renewed and open society," and asked the Communist government to give the Catholic Church more freedom to help people in the time of change.
But he chose his words carefully, avoiding open criticism of the government. "I carry in my heart the just aspirations and legitimate desires of all Cubans, wherever they may be," he said, including the "sufferings" of prisoners and their families.
His predecessor, Pope John Paul, did not meet with dissidents during his 1998 visit, but he did speak openly about human rights.
Aimeé Garcés, a Ladies in White member, told Reuters that she feared that the authorities had prevented some of the members of her group from actively protesting during the pope's visit. During Benedict XVI's first open air Mass in Santiago, a man shouting "down with communism" was taken away by security.
In Mexico, the pontiff's prior three-day visit was also marred by controversy. The day after he arrived, two former members of the Catholic lay organization Legion of Christ protested the pope's presence because they said the Vatican had eluded its responsibility to prosecute its group's late founder, Father Marcial Maciel, who sexually abused hundreds of seminarians. "Not only did the Vatican know \[about Maciel's abuse\] but it tolerated and protected Maciel," said Bernard Barranco, a researcher who is preparing a case against the Church.
Among the documents he presented was a 1999 letter that Joseph Ratzinger, the current Pope Benedict XVI, sent to former Legion member Alberto Athié who asked for an inquiry into Maciel's abuses. Maciel died in 2008. "Unfortunately, we cannot open a case against Marcial Maciel because he is a person much beloved by Pope Juan Paul II, and he has also done so much good for the Church. I am sorry, but it is not possible," Ratzinger wrote.
The current pope had been in charge of the Church's doctrine of faith congregation. In Mexico, the pope said that he was "saddened" by the wave of murders and suffering caused by the crackdown on drug traffickers.
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Chris Whitty squirms as anger erupts over children's Covid vaccine plan: 'Embarrassing'
CHRIS WHITTY admitted vaccinations for 12-15-year-olds is not a "silver bullet" in a plan labelled as "embarrassing" by Isabel Oakeshott.
By Bill McLoughlin
14:20, Mon, Sep 13, 2021 | UPDATED: 17:43, Mon, Sep 13, 2021
UK chief medical officers confirm vaccination for 12 to 15-year-olds
During the press conference, professor Whitty insisted the decision was not to make vaccinations for the age group mandatory and is instead advice. He stressed it is up to the ministers in each of the four nations as to how they will respond to the advice from the four Chief Medical Officers (CMOs). In response, Ms Oakeshott claimed professor Whitty seemed nervous as he outlined the advice.
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She said: "This is phenomenally embarrassing for Chris Whitty, who looks and sound as uncomfortable as he should.
"Gulp gulp gulp. The more he tries to defend it, the more nervous he sounds.
"It is not the job of doctors to recommend medical interventions for educational purposes. wow."
Julia Hartley-Brewer also hit out at professor Whitty over the decision.
Chris Whitty will lead a press conference at 4pm today (Image: Sky news )
Chris Whitty during the press conference today (Image: Sky News )
She said: "The irony of the CMOs, who advised the UK governments to close schools to millions of pupils without ANY consideration of the damage that would do, now saying kids need to be jabbed because it's so terrible for their education and mental health when schools are closed."
Professor Whitty was also questioned over the delay between the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation's announcement earlier this month and today's press conference.
In a separate question from ITV's Emily Morgan, the CMO was also asked on how they could convince parents to vaccinate their children as the apparent benefits are marginal.
In response, professor Whitty asked his colleague, Dr Gregor Smith, CMO for Scotland to answer.
Dr Smith insisted the benefit of being vaccinated remains regardless of how small it is.
He also said they would work with various royal colleges on how to communicate the need to being vaccinated.
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Chris Whitty insisted there is a fine balance (Image: GETTY)
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He was asked by Sky News' Ashish Joshi: "Do you, Professor Whitty, regret the way this has been communicated?"
Professor Whitty said the main regret would getting the decision wrong.
He said: "What we would really regret, and I want to be clear about this, is getting the decision wrong.
"This is a really complex process involving several different stages and, at the end of it, the medical profession as a whole feels comfortable that we've considered all the various angles, the public health profession as a whole does, and therefore we can communicate that to children and families."
"This situation is a more difficult one. It is appropriate, therefore, that people have taken longer to get to this, and that we have weighed all the different options up to get this right."
He again stressed doctors were not saying children must be vaccinated.
Instead, they will outline the benefits of being vaccinated and said there are no current plans for those under the age of 12 to be vaccinated.
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Professor Whitty stressed the decision to offer vaccinations had been made based on the balance between the risk and benefits.
Speaking from Downing Street, professor Whitty said the impact of the pandemic had made it incredibly difficult for children and their education.
He added this was most apparent in areas of deprivation.
While this remains as an offer and not mandatory, professor Whitty was clear the four chief medical officers for the UK thought vaccinations for the age group could reduce the negative impacts of interrupted education.
Professor Whitty said: "We do not think this is a silver bullet."
The four chief medical officers of the UK had been considering the benefits of vaccinations for teenagers after they were asked to make a decision by Health Secretary Sajid Javid.
Chris Whitty stressed that vaccinations for the age group was an offer (Image: Sky News )
Earlier this month, the JCVI, who usually advises on jabs strategy, said the benefits and risks were too finely balanced to make a decision.
They said "the margin of benefit is considered too small" to support giving injections to teenagers and passed on the decision.
There has been concern among some members of the public that it would be wrong to give vaccines to children, who are usually less hard hit by the virus, if there is no clear benefit.
The chief medical officer, and his counterparts in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, have advised 12-15-year-olds be given a single dose of the vaccine, with the possibility of a second injection next spring.
Chris Whitty was questioned how the advice would be taken by adults (Image: GETTY)
Professor Whitty was joined by Dr Gregor Smith, Dr Frank Atherton and Dr Michael McBride for today's press conference.
Deputy chief medical officer for England, Dr June Raine of the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and Professor Wei Shen Lim of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation will also be in attendance.
Clinical evidence shows that a single dose of Pfizer cuts the risk of catching the Delta variant of COVID-19 by 55 percent.
In their advice to the Government, the UK's chief medical officers said they were recommending vaccines on "public health grounds" and that it is "likely vaccination will help reduce transmission of Covid-19 in schools".
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They added: "Covid-19 is a disease which can be very effectively transmitted by mass spreading events, especially with Delta variant.
"Having a significant proportion of pupils vaccinated is likely to reduce the probability of such events which are likely to cause local outbreaks in, or associated with, schools.
"They will also reduce the chance an individual child gets COVID-19.
"This means vaccination is likely to reduce (but not eliminate) education disruption."
Chris Whitty will say the decision was made after considering the impact of lost education (Image: PA)
Ministers have already been preparing for the scientists to approve jabs for 12-15-year-olds with rollout likely to begin in a matter of days.
It is thought schools could be used as the quickest way to ensure all those eligible are offered a jab.
While jabs have now been recommended by the scientists, ministers still need to sign off on the plans.
The Prime Minister is expected to confirm the decision when he holds a press conference of his own tomorrow.
Additional reporting by Dan Falvey.
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Back in March I blogged on the 5 new mandatory licence conditions attached to every Premises Licence and Club Premises Certificate. To remind you the first 3 came into force on 6 April 2010, and the remainder come into force this Friday 1 October 2010. All apply even if not endorsed on the paper document.
The first 3 were the the ban on irresponsible promotions, the ban on the so-called "dentists' chair" supply of alcohol, and the requirement to have free tap water available to customers.
So the final 2 coming into force on Friday are:
1. that the Premises Licence holder or Club Premises Certificate holder must ensure that an age verification policy applies to the premises covering the supply of alcohol. The policy must require that individuals who appear to the "responsible person" to be under 18(or any older age specified in the policy) produce on request indentification bearing their photograph, date of birth, and a holographic mark. A "responsible person" means the Premises Licence holder, the DPS, or anyone authorised by them to sell alcohol. For a club with a Club Premises Certificate it is the person on the premises with the capacity to supply or prevent the supply of alcohol.
2. the requirement that small measures are available, namely 1/2 pints for beer or cider, 25ml or 35ml for gin, rum, vodka or whisky, and 125ml for still wine, and that customere are made aware of the availability of these measures. Again the responsibility falls on the "responsible person", described above.
It is vital that everyone with a Premises Licence of Club Premises Certificate takes urgent action to make sure that they comply with these conditions by 1 October. Failure to do so will mean an offence punishable by a fine of up to £20,000 and /or 6 months imprisonment. And this could be followed with a Review of your licence.
You will need to have a written policy complying with the age verification condition and any additional requirement e.g "Challenge 25" already a condition on the Premises Licence or Club Premises Certificate. And you will have to have appropriate small measures for the alcohol and appropriate signage and menus. This could be a huge cost for all restaurants and anyone else who may need to reprint all of their wine and drinks menus.
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Soldiers Demolish Tubas Mosque
Palestinian News Agency, Ma'an, reported on Thursday that Israeli bulldozers leveled a mosque in the neighborhood of Yazra in the eastern part of the central West Bank city of Tubas. The army claimed that the mosque was built without a construction permit.Ahmad As'ad, a Palestinian official, stated that soldiers invaded an area regarded by the army as a military training field, and they declared it a closed military zone before demolishing the only mosque which. The mosque was built in 1967 and the residents have attached two extra rooms to it .
As'ad added that the residents have official papers that prove the licensed construction of the mosque in 1967, and that the two rooms were added due to the increasing number of residents who attend this mosque.
Also, the troops tried to push the residents out of the area by imposing tight measures and strict military orders.
The neighborhood of Yazra is located in the eastern part of Tubas, with a population of nearly 200 people. All heavily depend on agriculture and livestock as the main source of livelihood.
Tubas is a small Palestinian city in the northeastern West Bank, located only 21 kilometers (13 mi) northeast of Nablus, a few kilometers west of the Jordan River.
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Texas Court Adds to Fiduciary Rule Debate Among Retirement Providers
A Texas district court judge has rejected industry arguments that the DOL exceeded its authority in crafting the forthcoming fiduciary rule—what this spells for the regulation's future under the Trump administration is unclear.
By John Manganaro
In a lengthy decision penned by U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Lynn of the Northern District of Texas, little deference is shown to retirement industry providers' arguments that the Department of Labor (DOL) fiduciary rule was improperly established, or that it will harm the adviser-provider-client relationship.
The decision represents a major setback for one of the first legal challenges to have been filed against the rule, put forth by a small group of national financial and business trade organizations including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Financial Services Institute, Financial Services Roundtable, Insured Retirement Institute, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, and others. Their self-stated objective was to "challenge the improper Department of Labor's fiduciary rule for brokers and registered investment advisers serving Americans with individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and 401(k) plans."
Their complaint argued that the rule will "hinder many of our member firms' ability to continue providing the level of holistic financial advice and suitable investment options their clients are accustomed to." Plaintiffs cited a series of by-now familiar potential "unintended consequences of the ambitious rulemaking," stressing in particular that advisers servicing small-business plans "will be left with no choice but to limit or stop servicing those retirement plans … significantly reducing the retirement savings options available to their millions of employees."
The trade groups asserted claims under the Administrative Procedure Act and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, challenging the rule itself and the related "prohibited transaction exemptions" (PTEs) promulgated by DOL. Plaintiffs charged that DOL vastly overstepped its authority and is creating impermissible burdens and liabilities for the advisory and brokerage industries, "undermining the interests of retirement savers." They suggested such work as redefining the role of investment advisers, as well as the grounds on which they can be dragged into 401(k) and individual retirement account (IRA) litigation, if it has to be done, should be undertaken by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
With the more-or-less outright failure of these arguments, ERISA attorneys and industry commentators are left even less certain than before—if that is even possible—as to what will come next with the rulemaking, set to start taking effect in just eight weeks or so. Ostensibly the White House has the authority to review and consider revising the rulemaking, demonstrated by the President's most recent memorandum-order directing the DOL to do just that. But it is far from clear whether the effort to pull the teeth out of the rulemaking can be completed by the first deadlines in April, or even before the more strenuous compliance deadlines that will run by later in 2017 and 2018.
As one attorney told PLANADVISER recently, "this leaves firms in the uncomfortable position of not knowing with 100% accuracy whether the fiduciary rule will be delayed or not."
NEXT: From the text of the suit
Interesting to note, many of the areas the DOL is directed to review in the Trump administration memorandum are directly confronted in the text of the Texas judge's decision—and the conclusions drawn therein don't exactly bode well for opponents of the rulemaking. The 81-page document patently rejects many arguments put forth by retirement and investment industry trade groups to the effect that the fiduciary rule was crafted and implemented outside the normal authority of the agency, for example, and it strongly denies the likelihood that simply strengthening consumer protections will lead to millions of Americans being shut out of the advice market.
At one point in the wide-reaching decision, the judge observes that Congress never ratified the fiduciary standard currently applied under ERISA, and so there can be little weight given to plaintiffs' argument that because Congress has repeatedly amended ERISA since 1975, without ever amending the five-part test that underlies the current fiduciary standard, that test has de facto been incorporated into ERISA by way of ratification.
"Generally, congressional inaction deserves little weight in the interpretive process … and lacks persuasive significance because several equally tenable inferences may be drawn from such inaction," the court finds. "At the same time, if Congress frequently amended or reenacted the relevant provisions without change … Congress at least understood the interpretation as statutorily permissible … There is a stark difference between Congress acquiescing to a permissible interpretation and Congress affirmatively deciding that an interpretation is the only permissible one … If plaintiffs' argument were correct, the DOL could never revisit the five-part test because it has been, in effect, enshrined into the statute. To the contrary, courts have consistently required express congressional approval of an administrative interpretation if it is to be viewed as statutorily mandated."
Various arguments are applied along these lines to suggest the rulemaking and its prohibited transaction exemptions fit squarely within the DOL's authority. Much of that discussion centers on extensive analysis of precedence established in the well-known case ERISA industry lawsuit from 1984, Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
With all this in mind, ERISA attorneys continue to speculate that the DOL's newly ordered review will in fact determine that the fiduciary rule is inconsistent with Trump Administration policy, and so it may eventually issue for notice and comment a proposed rule rescinding or revising the DOL fiduciary rule and the best-interest contract exemption. How this could unfold before April 10, while the Trump administration has yet to see its Labor Secretary confirmed, is becoming increasingly hard to see. And it may further be noted, with this latest decision in the Texas lawsuit, it will not necessarily be easy to prove the rule is inherently flawed or that it even in fact runs against what the populist Trump Administration hopes to accomplish.
NEXT: Plaintiff reaction comes quickly
Plaintiffs in the failed lawsuit wrote to PLANADVISER to say they are disappointed with the ruling—but they are far from backing down from the fight.
"We continue to believe that the Department of Labor exceeded its authority, and we will pursue all of our available options to see that this rule is rescinded," the trade groups suggest. "While we have long supported a best interest standard, this is a misguided rule that will harm retirement savers and financial services firms that provide needed assistance and options to their clients, including modest savers and small business employees. The President's recent directive to the department, reflecting well-founded, ongoing and significant concerns about the rule, is a welcome development."
Other involved parties also shared some interesting perspective, including the American Council of Life Insurers Executive Vice President and General Counsel Gary Hughes.
"We are disappointed with the decision from the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, on our joint legal challenge with the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors to the U.S. Department of Labor's fiduciary regulation," he writes. "ACLI and NAIFA continue to believe that the regulation is arbitrary and capricious, contrary to law and violates the First Amendment. We support responsible and balanced regulations that protect the interests of retirement consumers. But the regulation is neither reasonable nor balanced. It will harm the very people it is meant to help."
Hughes urges the Trump administration "to act immediately to delay this misguided regulation," suggesting a delay will provide time for the administration to "conduct a thoughtful review and to work with ACLI, NAIFA and other stakeholders toward public policies that help Americans achieve their financial and retirement security goals."
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Scientists edit gene for blood disease in human embryos
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
Published 3:30 PM EDT, Fri September 29, 2017
Emmanuelle Charpentier explains CRISPR Cas9 gene editing (2016)
A complex gene-editing technique was used to correct a mutation in embryos
One expert describes the technique as "chemical surgery"
In the future, it might be possible to prevent inherited illnesses by making a change to a single faulty gene. That was recently demonstrated in a new study.
For the first time, scientists used a controversial gene-editing technique called base editing to correct a gene mutation in human embryos linked to the hereditary blood disorder beta thalassemia, according to the study published in the journal Protein & Cell in September.
A change to a single base pair in your genetic code, known as a point mutation, can cause beta thalassemia.
The scientists noted that the efficiency of repairing mutations in the study was only about 20% – so they were not 100% successful in effectively editing all of the embryos all of the time. Yet the study findings and the base editing technique are now gaining international attention.
The base editor technique is similar to the powerful gene-editing tool called CRISPR, but there is a major difference.
Base editing uses some of the components of CRISPR, but directly makes changes to a targeted site in DNA without cutting the DNA, said David Liu, core institute member of the Broad Institute and professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University, who was not involved in the study.
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When a cut is made in genomic DNA using the traditional CRISPR approach – for instance, to disrupt a mutation – the primary response of a cell is to repair the cut and, in the process, disrupt the DNA at the cut site, Liu said.
"But many human genetic diseases are caused by single point mutations that need to be precisely corrected, rather than disrupted, in order to treat or study the corresponding disease," Liu said. That's where base editing comes in.
"Base editing, in contrast, does not make a double-stranded cut in the target DNA. Instead, base editors directly perform 'chemical surgery' on the target DNA base to convert one base pair to a different base pair, that is, to make a point mutation," said Liu, whose research group at Harvard developed base editing.
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"It's important to note that compared to traditional nuclease-mediated genome editing methods such as the use of CRISPR-Cas9, base editing is a complementary – not necessarily better – approach, and each approach has its strengths and preferred applications," he said.
About two-thirds of known human genetic variants associated with diseases are point mutations, so base editing has the potential to correct or reproduce such mutations for research purposes, Liu said.
'The future is here'
In 2015, some of the same scientists in China were the first to reveal attempts to modify genes in human embryos using CRISPR. Three separate studies were published in scientific journals describing Chinese experiments involving gene editing in human embryos.
Last month, a separate team of researchers described how gene editing corrected a gene mutation linked to inherited heart conditions in human embryos. They published their work in the journal Nature.
'Embryo microinjection' shows an embryo being injected with the CRISPR/Cas9 components
Courtesy Dr. Kathy Niakan/Nature
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"For many years, we have been saying that direct gene editing in embryos is some way in to the future. Now the future is here and there is much to consider," said Darren Griffin, professor of genetics at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, in a written statement released by the Science Media Centre.
"The paper itself represents a significant technical advance because, rather than using the classic CRISPR-Cas9 technology previously reported, the current 'base editor' technology is an adaptation that chemically alters the DNA bases themselves," Griffin said about the new study, of which he was not involved.
The four chemical bases, or building blocks, of DNA are adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and thymine (T). Those bases pair up with each other, A with T and C with G, to form units called base pairs.
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Beta thalassemia can be due to mutations that convert A to G in a particular location in the HBB gene, the scientists noted in the study, in which they used base editing to try to convert G back to A.
"While this is undoubtedly a highly significant advance, it is important not to get carried away about its widespread utility if put into clinical practice," Griffin said.
"An embryo would still need to be diagnosed as abnormal (if there were other embryos in the cohort that were normal they would presumably be used instead), then the base editor applied, then re-diagnosed to make sure that it had worked," he said. "In the meantime, the ethical implications of gene manipulation in embryos need a thorough examination where safety is of paramount concern."
The new study involved base editing experiments in cells from beta-thalassemia patients and human embryos. Cloned human embryos were generated in a lab using a technique called nuclear transfer. A total of about 20 embryos were harvested.
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"It's interesting work that shows that base editing can directly correct a pathogenic beta-thalassemia mutation in the promoter of the beta-thalassemia gene in cells from beta-thalassemia patients, and in cloned human embryos," Liu said.
Beta thalassemia is a fairly common blood disorder worldwide, occurring most frequently in people from Mediterranean countries, North Africa, the Middle East, India, Central Asia and Southeast Asia.
Without treatment, patients with the more severe type, known as beta thalassemia major, usually die before age 5, the scientists wrote in the study.
"Our data highlight the tremendous potential of correcting homozygous disease and compound heterozygous mutations by base editing in human somatic cells and embryos," the scientists wrote. "Although we did not achieve 100% repair in human embryos, we and other groups have reported 100% base editing in mouse embryos."
The scientists noted that the base editing wasn't uniform across all cells in the embryos, resulting in mosaic embryos. They also noted in the study that more research is needed to improve the safety of this base editing approach, especially before base editing is ready to use in humans.
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"The efficiency of editing was quite low, and the embryo was mosaic as it developed, meaning that only some cells had the hoped-for base change. Both of these inefficiencies have to be overcome for the approach to be useful," said Dana Carroll, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah, who was not involved in the study but has used CRISPR in his own research.
"As far as I know, this is the first published study that uses base editing in human embryos, but the embryos are very unusual," he said, referring to how they were made in a lab. "It seems unlikely that the response to the base editor, and other cellular events, are an accurate reflection of what would happen in a natural embryo."
Yet Liu pointed out that the same scientists who conducted the new study previously reported efficient base editing in human embryos that were referred to as zygotes, "making me assume they were human embryos from in vitro fertilization that ended up with two sperms in one egg," he said. "So they already established that base editing can function efficiently in human embryos derived from fertilized eggs."
A request for comment from some of the scientists was unsuccessful.
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All in all, the scientists noted in the new study that technical, ethic, and societal issues still need to be investigated and discussed thoroughly before base editing could be considered for clinical application.
Meanwhile, Liu said that his own research group has generated additional base editors that could expand the capabilities of the gene-editing technique.
"We will be reporting these developments in due course," he said. "We are hopeful that base editing might advance the study and treatment of genetic diseases, and our laboratory is working hard towards this goal."


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Casshern Sins 9-12: Hold Your Colour
December 21, 2008 by omisyth
Leave your mark on the world.
It seems like the creators of this show really want us to feel pathos for every character that Casshern comes across as he seems mostly to meet people who are dying/broken/in need of saving. That's by no means a bad thing but I wish they would lighten up on the drama a bit; it's a stupid thing to say about this sh0w which seems primarily based around the destruction and ruin of the world but would it be too much to ask to have a minor character that isn't in any of the aforementioned states? It's also slightly repetitive and it seems like a cheap tactic to use to evoke pity in the viewers, wasn't part of this show the fact that hope still remained despite the bleakness of the entire situation? Showing us an adorably simple robot who's death sentence was pretty much guaranteed when she started making flower crowns and talking to an inanimate object is just cheating.
Therer was some relevance to the main storyline with Nico being a.. caretaker of Luna (I have no idea what else she'd be of use for) and the mention of "Dio's Army"; I don't remember learning about any of that in the previous episodes so maybe I just missed something, but I'm assuming this is an army meant solely for the purpose of killing Casshern. Let's not forget the fact Luna might still be alive, which would be welcome news as it seems the creators have completely abandoned their tactic of revealing the events behind Luna's murder little by little and have resorted to simply showing the same damn 3 seconds of footage over and over again.
Oh yes, and the whole "cold robot's/any-other-being's heart melted by the kindness of a young girl" part was just cheesy.
Leda and Dio show up and get some much deserved developement. What intrigues me is their motivations and goals for their actions. Leda is like the the devilish whisperer in Dio's ear, entrancing him with ambitious visions of becoming, well, King of the Pirates robots, but I don't really understand what her own stake is in all this. There's no doubt that her interests, though at the moment they coincide with Dio's, lay far from the interests of the robot race as a whole.
Dio himself is shown to be less of the calm, calculated person he seemed in episode 6 and more of an obsessive madman. His obsession with Casshern seems to stem from Casshern's attaining of supposed "immortality" so it could simply be jealousy, and though I'd rather think Dio's more complex than that, the way Leda influences and at times even puppets (I think that's a word) him leads me to believe that Dio's simply determined to conquer Casshern and the world.
As for other aspects of the episode, the fight scenes were amazing and just the standard that I've come to expect from the series. Dune himself with his praying mantis-like swords was kind of uninteresting due to the fact all he did was fight, remain, well, imprisoned by the past and then leave. There's no doubt in my mind he'll be making a return, though, and perhaps then we'll get a bit more information on what his relationship with Luna and that mysterious red-haired woman was like. Noticeably, it seems like rather than be emo and try to die in any way possible, Casshern's actually trying to FIX his mistakes. That's a huge improvement, in my book.
By the by, it's interesting to note they finally changed the tidbit of information we get at the start of each episode after weeks of repetition. Now it's become about blood and vampires. Also, all these generic robot grunts/thugs are starting to annoy me, their only reasons for existing are trash-talking then becoming cannon fodder.
Meh, I left right in the middle of this episode to fix curtains for an hour so I forgot half of what had happened and what was going on, so my attention wasn't really grabbed unti l there was an explosion and even then there was nothing that particularly stood out. Basically the same thing the series ahs been touting for ages (must eat Casshern, shouldn't eat Casshern because cannibalism is bad) only with humans and a lone wolf called Jin thrown into the mix. I use the term "lone wolf" aptly to describe Jin as he even has a leather coat with fur/fluff around the collar. There was even a track at the end that kid of evokes images of the lone cowboy traveller and the wanderer's open road which, though it suited the situation, just seemed kind of corny.
It's kind of annoying that absolutely npthing happened to add to the overall plot, or even the world the series is set in, in this episode. In fact, just replace Jin with Dio and you'd have the end of episode 6. A fillerish episode but nonetheless a solid one, and it was interesting to see Jin somehow stand toe-to-toe with Casshern. There was also something intiguing brought up, that Friender and Jin hadn't been ruined since they had string conviction. Perhaps it's the mindset of the robots that causes them to be susceptible to ruin: whereas all other robots are simply struglling for survival, Jin and Friender seem to have a purpose for living that they are dedicated to and something in them won't let them be ruined as of yet.
The best part of the episode, though, was the fact they used Terminator music somewhere half way through. Watch both videos and I dare you to deny that there are unmistakable similarities between them.
Casshern – From 1:50
Terminator 2 – From 3:20
See, now if you're going to try an create a meaningful and heartfelt episode in a show, this is how it should be done. Introduce a new character, new perspective and a new message and then make it emotional and, most importantly, unique. Some of the best moments in the show is when it tries to convey something to the viewer, and this time I thought that the dialogue, the presentation, hell, just about everything was spot on. I admit that I love the battles in Casshern, but it's episodes like this that keep me watching the series.
The city itself had an exquisite combination of the traditional dirty dreary cities we've seen so far and Margo's colour; the colour of silver, of hope and an urge to live life to the fullest. The contrast of Margo's and the other robots approach to life was interesting too, though I think I'd be more on Margo's side since he didn't wish to destroy any sort of hope that was surfacing in the city.
The main message was that nobody wishes to be forgotten. Just as the kings left behind the colours of their own era, so should we all leave behind mementos of our own existence. Not a revolutionary theme, to be sure, but presented in such a way that really touched me. So much that I didn't mind that what initially seemed like a girl was a trap.
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Seahawks trade 2020 7th-round pick to Patriots for tight end Jacob Hollister
Home 2019 April Seahawks trade 2020 7th-round pick to Patriots for tight end Jacob Hollister
Instead of drafting a tight end to add some depth to that position, the Seahawks just waited a few days, making a trade Monday with New England to acquire tight end Jacob Hollister in exchange for a conditional seventh-round pick in 2020.
The trade was officially announced via the NFL's daily transactions wire.
Hollister entered the league in 2017 as an undrafted free agent and has generally served as the team's No. 3 tight end since then behind Rob Gronkowski and Dwayne Allen, when healthy — Hollister was limited to eight games last year due to injury and did not play in New England's Super Bowl win over the Rams.
He has played in 23 games for the Patriots the last two seasons with two starts, making eight receptions for 94 yards, on the field for 89 snaps on offense in 2017 and 56 last season and also a regular on special teams, with 188 and 97 snaps the last two seasons, respectively.
The Patriots have since added a few tight ends, including free agent Austin Seferian-Jenkins, a former UW star, to help make up for Gronkowski's retirement, making Hollister expendable.
The Seahawks appear to have two seventh-round picks for next season — their own and one expected to come as compensation for losses in free agency — so they had some future draft capital to give.
Seattle also traded a sixth-round 2020 pick during the draft to add a seventh-rounder and take receiver John Ursua of Hawaii.
But despite the two deals Seattle still has 10 draft picks expected to come in 2020 either via trades, their own picks and comp picks — one first, two in the second, two in the third, two in the fourth, a fifth, a sixth and a seventh.
Hollister is listed at 6-4, 245 and played at Wyoming.
He joins a tight end corps that also includes holdovers Will Dissly, Ed Dickson, Nick Vannett and Tyrone Swoopes, with the team also reported as having signed Justin Johnson as an undrafted free agent.
Seattle coach Pete Carroll said on Saturday that "the tight end position is pretty solid" and said Dissly is "making great progress. Really everybody is excited that he's going to be OK by the time we open up."
Dissly's injury and that Vannett is entering the final year of his contract and Dickson's deal puts him in some danger of being a cap casualty had led some to think the Seahawks might take a tight end in the 2019 draft. They didn't then, but now add a player who is just 25 and who they likely will consider as a de facto member of this draft class.
A Pro Football Focus scouting report of Hollister, who is a native of Bend, Ore., prior to the 2017 draft concluded: "Hollister could prove to be one of this years steals of the draft. While he does have a number of concerns regarding his ability as a run-blocker, he's got legitimate skills as a receiving option capable of hurting a defense at all three levels of the field regularly. He's a fluid route-runner who is capable of creating late separation and is strong at the catch point. If Hollister is able to add some strength while maintaining his athleticism we could be looking at future star."
According to ESPN, Patriots coach Bill Bilichick said of Hollister last season: "He has a lot of football in front of him. He didn't have a lot of experience — had some — but has gained a lot and will gain a lot more. I think he's got a great future. He works hard, he's a tough kid, he plays hard, practices hard and has become much better at his fundamentals and techniques at his position."
According to PFF, of the 153 offensive snaps they charted Hollister as playing with the Patriots, 74 were as a run blocker.
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Romeo (disambiguation)
Romeo (2012 film)
Miami station (Amtrak)
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Romeo is the male protagonist in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo may also refer to:
Romeo, Colorado, a statutory town
Romeo, Florida, an unincorporated community
Romeo, Michigan, a village
Romeo, Tennessee
Romeo (lunar crater), a lunar crater near Ibn Firnas
Romeo (crater on Oberon), a crater on Oberon
Romeo (MC) (born 1980), English rapper
Romeo Records, a record label
Romeo (EP), an 2009 EP by Shinee
"Romeo" (Dino song)
"Romeo" (Ketil Stokkan song)
"Romeo" (Petula Clark song)
"Romeo" (Wipers song)
"Romeo" (Basement Jaxx song)
"Romeo", a song by Donna Summer from I'm a Rainbow
"Romeo", a song by Dolly Parton from Slow Dancing with the Moon
"Romeo", a song by Hande Yene, from Nasıl Delirdim?
"Romeo", a song by Mr Big
Romeo, a South Korean boy band
Romeo (1976 film), a 1976 Malayalam film directed by SS Nair
Romeo (1990 film), a Dutch drama film by Rita Horst
Romeo (2011 film), a Bengali film
Romeo (2012 film), a Kannada-language film
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Romeo is a 2012 Kannada romantic comedy film written and directed by P.C. Shekhar, starring Ganesh and Bhavana in the lead roles. Naveen and Ramesh Kumar are the producers of this romantic love story film.Arjun Janya composed the music and Vaidhi handled the camera work. The film released across Karnataka state on 6 July 2014.
Ganesh (Ganesh) comes to the world by peeing on his father Kashinath's (Rangayana Raghu) face. Despite being mischievous, he manages to reach the graduation level but with poor English speaking skills. However, he gets a job in a bank where he meets Shruti (Bhavana) and Sadhu Kokila.
As expected, their love blossoms after witnessing a series of comic scenes. Ganesh, a slum dweller and street smart, impresses her by telling a pack of lies where he went on to claim that he is born with a silver spoon and he is the son of crorepati but living an ordinary life to learn the basic lessons of life. The couple ties the knot in a hush-hush manner when her father played by Avinash opposes their marriage and fixes a secret marriage with a rich man. However, soon Shruti realises that she was lied and cheated, she leaves Ganesh and applies for divorce. Though Ganesh is not ready to divorce her under circumstance he requests for divorce in court after 6 months of court fight. After divorce he realised the importance of life, love of his parents he suddenly rises in life like a phoenix. He works hard, earns some money, changes his home. After a year of divorce he meets Shruti again and he wants to get her back. As she was in training period of one week in Ganesh's friend's office, she is on her way back to the US, where she was residing since the divorce. Ganesh came to know this and fakes an accident, which lures Shruti to return from airport to hospital to see Ganesh. Then she comes to know the plan of Kashinath who was trying for patch up of Ganesh and Shruti . Film ends with the reunion of these two.
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Miami is a train station in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on the border of Miami and Hialeah. It serves Amtrak, the national passenger rail service of the United States, and is the southern end of the Silver Meteor and Silver Star trains. It is scheduled to be replaced by Miami Central Station in summer 2016.
The Miami station was built on the site of the former Seaboard Air Line Railroad southern coach yards, to which Amtrak moved in 1977 when it abandoned the original Seaboard station at 2210 NW 7th Avenue in Allapattah, two miles north of downtown. Constructed in 1978, the building is one of many built under Amtrak's Standard Stations Program, an attempt to create a unified brand and identity for the company's passenger facilities in its early years. It is considered a Type 300A station, meaning it was designed to accommodate at least 300 passengers at the busiest hour of the day. Within the Amtrak system, it is similar to the station in Minneapolis-St. Paul, also built in 1978.
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The Miami soil series is the state soil of Indiana.
The less sloping Miami soils are used mainly for corn, soybeans, or winter wheat. The steeper areas are used as pasture, hayland, or woodland. Significant area has been converted to residential and commercial uses. There are 794,994 acres (3,217 km2) of Miami soils mapped in Indiana.
Miami soils formed in calcareous, loamy till on the Wisconsin Till Plains. The native vegetation is hardwood forest. Miami soils are fertile and have a moderate available water capacity. Indiana is nationally ranked for agricultural production because of the highly productive Miami soils along with other prime farmland soils in the State.
The Miami series consists of moderately well drained soils formed in as much as 18 inches (46 cm) of loess or silty material and in the underlying loamy till on till plains. They are very deep soils that are moderately deep to dense till. Permeability is moderate or moderately slow in the solum, and slow or very slow in the underlying dense till. Slope ranges from 0 to 60%. Mean annual precipitation is 40 inches (1000 mm), and mean annual temperature is 52 °F (11 °C).
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Miami is a lost 1924 American silent society melodrama film directed by Alan Crosland and distributed by W. W. Hodkinson. The film stars Betty Compson and Hedda Hopper.
Betty Compson - Joan Bruce
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Hedda Hopper - Mary Tate
J. Barney Sherry - David Forbes
Lucy Fox - Veronica Forbes
Benjamin F. Finney, Jr. - Grant North
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Town Council briefs
Tue, 01/18/2022 - 7:45am
Where's the road?
The Cormorant Cove Association finally found itself in front of the Town Council last week, after two and a half years of effort. The association had a survey done several years ago and discovered that the town-owned Champlin's Road, which leads to the Coast Guard station, actually runs through Cormorant Cove Association property. Apparently, the road was supposed to more closely follow the utility poles and easement, but over time the dirt road has meandered off course.
The association asked the council to consider signing an agreement which would indemnify the association from liability for anything that happens on the town road located on association property. The association's feeling was that asking the town to relocate the road back into the easement would disturb the natural habitat, so instead the association is seeking relief from legal liability for the road.
Council Member Keith Stover called it an "elegant solution," saying that the tide coming in and roads moving were just part of "living on an island."
Council Member Martha Ball called it an "unusual solution," with the council agreeing to have the legal team look at its agreement.
Organizing the DPW
The Department of Public Works is still in a "fluid state," according to Town Manager Maryanne Crawford. She reported to the Town Council on January 4 that she is still working on organizing the DPW to be in compliance with the recent amendments to the Town Charter. The position of Director of Public Works was separated from the Town Manager position, with Matt Moynihan given the role of director. Additionally, Tom Risom has been appointed Facilities Director, and Jenn Brady has been appointed Zoning Official. The roles of Building Official and Building Inspector are currently being contracted out to 4Leaf, a mainland company that provides these services for municipalities. A building inspector is sent out by 4Leaf on Mondays and a building official is sent out on Wednesdays. Crawford informed the
council that many of the building reports and plans have been moved online, so much of this work can be done remotely.
Crawford said the town may need to hire a "foreman or maintenance person" who can make general repairs to town properties. From the audience, Kristin Baumann said the original idea in the charter was that the facilities director was going to be the person who "would wear the tool belt," and questioned why the town needed to hire another person.
Both Stover and Second Warden Sven Risom voiced their concern that the idea of separating the Director of Public Works job from the Town Manager job was to create two distinct jobs, and that filling the DPW job with Police Chief Matt Moynihan is not exactly what the charter commission had in mind. As Risom said, "it's hard to wear two hats."
Chris Warfel spoke from the audience and requested information on the annual costs of contracting the building official and building inspector services through 4Leaf as opposed to hiring employees. Crawford said she would get the numbers together, but mentioned that the salaries for employees would be in line with the union contract, and the contractors through 4Leaf do not receive benefits. There were no applicants for either job when the town advertised them last year.
Hawker's and Peddler's Zoning change
The Town Council is holding a public hearing on February 7 for a proposed amendment to the Zoning Ordinance which will define and add hawking and peddling, and mobile food establishments as permitted uses in the Residential A Zone, but only at locations open to the public and established by the Town Council. Crawford told the council at its January 4 meeting that there was a conflict between the wording in the licensing ordinance and the zoning ordinance. The application by Julia Gasner to set up a vendor cart at the North Light parking lot has brought this conflict to light, as it was unclear if previous vendors in that location had been operating illegally or were "grandfathered-in" to operate in a residential zone. Town Solicitor Kathy Merolla joined via Zoom and said the amendment to the ordinance would clear up the inconsistencies, and would allow certain areas of public property to be used for mobile food establishments, and hawking and peddling.
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Lap steel guitar
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A lap steel guitar from the 1950s
String instrument
Plucked string instrument
The lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar which is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position on the performer's lap or otherwise supported. The performer changes pitch by pressing a metal or glass bar against the strings as opposed to a traditional guitar where the performer's fingertips press the strings against frets. The bar placed against the strings is called a "steel" or "tone bar".
There are three types of lap steel guitars:
Acoustic lap steel guitar: The body resembles a traditional Spanish guitar. These were originally called "Hawaiian guitars", after the "slack-key" playing technique was popularized there in the late 1800s. These instruments are specifically designed to be played horizontally; i.e., the strings are higher off the fingerboard than a traditional guitar. Traditional guitars can be modified to play this way by using a "nut extender", a device to raise the strings.
National or Dobro-type guitars, which typically have reinforced square necks and feature a large aluminum cone, called a "resonator", to increase volume.[1]
Electric lap steel guitars: These guitars are designed to be played horizontally and feature an electric pickup so they do not require any resonant chamber. Guitars in this category may differ markedly in external appearance and include instruments made from a rectangular solid block of wood. In addition to the lap-played model, a closely related version called a "console steel" guitar often featured more than one neck which made it too heavy to be played on the performer's lap. It is supported on legs (but does not include the pedals or knee levers of the pedal steel guitar). Electric lap steels typically have six, eight or up to ten strings.
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6 Notable players
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Freddie Roulette holding console or double-neck steel guitar.
A lap steel guitar's strings are raised at both the nut and bridge ends of the fingerboard, typically to about half an inch. The strings are too high to contact the surface of the neck, so frets, if present, are only for reference and are often replaced by markers. Some lap steel guitars can be converted between lap and fretted playing, or are modified versions of conventional guitars—the only difference is usually string height. Round-necked resonator guitars set up for steel playing fall into this category.
Instruments designed exclusively as lap steel guitars typically have modified necks that make fretted playing impossible. The hollow neck acoustic lap steel, developed by Chris Knutsen and popularized by Weissenborn, extends the body cavity behind the neck all the way to the head. The square-necked resonator guitar has a strengthened square profile neck, allowing heavier string gauges and/or higher tunings that would normally be considered impossible (or certainly ill-advised) on a conventional guitar. The electric lap steel guitar typically incorporates the entire neck into the solid body of the guitar, again providing extra strength to allow a greater variety of string gauges and tunings.
Console steel guitars, typically with more than six strings and/or multiple necks, are rarely played in lap steel fashion (without their legs), but are often referred to as lap steel guitars by many makers and authorities. See table steel guitar.
Playing[edit]
Kaki King performing on lap steel guitar.
The lap steel guitar is typically placed on the player's lap, or on a stool in front of the seated player. When playing with stand-up musicians, such as in a bluegrass band, it has become an alternative for the player to also play standing up; supporting the guitar with a guitar strap around the neck, with the guitar suspended horizontally, resting against the stomach area; providing stage mobility, such as for mic accessibility for singing. Unlike a conventional guitar, the strings are not pressed to a fret when sounding a note; rather, the player holds a metal slide called steel (or tone bar) in the left hand, which is moved along the strings to change the instrument's pitch while the right hand plucks or picks the strings. This method of playing greatly restricts the number of chords available, so lap steel music often features melodies, a restricted set of harmonies (such as in blues), or another single part.
David Gilmour playing lap steel guitar - 26 January 1977
The steel guitar, when played in Hawaiian, country, bluegrass, or western swing styles, is almost always plucked using a plastic thumbpick affixed to the right hand's thumb, and metal or plastic "fingerpicks" fitted to the first, second, third, or even all four fingers of the right hand. This allows the player greater control when picking sets of notes on non-adjacent strings. Some Blues players, especially those who use a round-neck resonator guitar played upright, conventional-guitar-style, with a bottleneck or hollow metal slide on one left-hand finger, forgo the fingerpicks and thumbpicks, and use their bare fingers and thumb instead. On the other hand, a minority of Blues players, and many Rock players, use a conventional flatpick. Tut Taylor is one of the few Dobro players that use a flatpick.
Ben Keith playing lap steel guitar and pedal steel guitar
It is widely reported that the lap steel guitar was invented by a man named Joseph Kekuku in 1885.[2][3][4] It is said that, at the age of 7, Kekuku was walking along a railroad track and picked up a metal bolt, slid the metal along the strings of his guitar and was intrigued by the sound. He taught himself to play using this method with the back of a knife blade. Various other people have also been credited with the innovation.[5] The instrument became a major fad in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. The instrument became especially popular in Hawaii, as musicians played in tent-rep shows.[6]
It was electrified in the early 1930s, and in 1932 the first production electric guitar was introduced, the aluminum Ro-Pat-In (later Rickenbacker) A-22 "Frying Pan" lap steel. This made the so-called "Hawaiian" guitar the first electric stringed instrument (just a few years before Les Paul and Charlie Christian modified their instruments and after the theremin was patented in 1928). The earliest documented performance with an electrically amplified guitar was in 1932, by Gage Brewer. The Wichita, Kansas-based musician had an electric Hawaiian A-25 (frypan, lap-steel) and a standard electric Spanish from George Beauchamp of Los Angeles, California. Brewer publicized his new instruments in an article in the Wichita Beacon of October 2, 1932 and through performances that month. The first electric instrument on a commercial recording was made and played in 1935 by Bob Dunn, a musician in Houston, Texas who played in the Western swing band Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies. Dunn owned a music store that bore his name in the Houston area.
The lap steel, dobro and pedal steel guitar are associated most closely with Hawaiian music, country music and bluegrass, though some players have used them in rock music, jazz, blues, and other musical genres. The round neck, metal-bodied resonator guitar is used almost exclusively by blues, rock, or blues-rock musicians.
Tunings[edit]
Harmon Davis playing steel guitar
The Lap steel guitar is not tuned in standard guitar tuning (E–A–D–G–B–E, low to high). Rather, it is usually tuned to an open chord, often an extended chord like a 6th, 7th, or 9th. (All tunings are shown low-to-high; that is, thickest string to thinnest, or sixth string to first string).
The earliest Hawaiian lap steel tuning was open A low bass, E–A–E–A–C♯–E.
Blues and Rock players tend to favor one of two tuning families: open G/open A, or open D/open E.
Open G is tuned D–G–D–G–B–D; open A raises each of those notes a whole tone (2 frets) to E–A–E–A–C♯–E. During the 1920s and 1930s, much of the sheet music written for lap steel utilized open A tuning as the de facto standard tuning for the instrument. Other tunings such as E7 (B–D–E–G♯–B–E), C♯m (B–D–E–G♯–C♯–E), and many other tunings were developed.
Open D is tuned D–A–D–F♯–A–D, and open E is a whole tone higher: E–B–E–G♯–B–E. Joe Perry of Aerosmith uses open E on his electric lap steel. David Lindley is another player who uses transposed variations of these tunings.
Bluegrass and Country Dobro players using a square-neck instrument tend to favor an altered G tuning, often called "high-G", where the sixth string is tuned up to G instead of down to D, and the fifth string is also tuned up, to B: G–B–D–G–B–D. They also sometimes raise it up to "high-A": A–C♯–E–A–C♯–E. These are examples of tunings possible on a lap steel that could cause serious damage if attempted on a round-neck resonator or standard guitar.
Henry Kaleialoha Allen in his book[7] uses a modified C6 tuning, with a B♭ in the bass: B♭–E–G–A–C–E. Jerry Byrd has a C6 variant with C♯ in the bass: C♯–E–G–A–C–E.
Dobro players also generally use a set of strings with different gauges than those used on standard electric or acoustic guitars to help them to project more sound and to achieve their higher tunings.
Many western swing lap steel players, and some old-time country lap steel players, use a C6 tuning. There is no "standard" C6 tuning; one popular one is C–E–G–A–C–E. This tuning is a good one for learning Don Helms' lap steel melodies from old Hank Williams records, although Helms used a lap steel with legs (a "console steel"), with two necks having eight strings each; Helms actually used an E13 tuning, which adds the 7th (D) and the 13th (C♯) to the E tuning, making it B–D–E–G♯–B–C♯–E–G♯, low to high. An extended C6/Fmaj7 is used by western swing pedal steel guitarists on their ten-string pedal steels. This tuning, C–F–A–C–E–G–A–C–E–G, is difficult to achieve on the six-string steel but a subset thereof is achieved as previously mentioned. A6 is a commonly used alternate for C6 and was used by greats such as Billy Hew Len, Leon McAuliffe, and Herb Remington.
The E7 tuning is used by many players, especially those who begin learning with the Mel Bay Steel Guitar Method instructional books. The E7 tuning in those books is spelled either B–D–E–G♯–B–E or with the 6th string lowered to the tonic E: E–D–E–G♯–B–E. Note the similarity of this second tuning to the open E tuning above: the only difference is the fifth string, which is lowered from the tonic E to the 7th note in the key of E, which is D.
There are many other tunings used by players. Pedal steel guitarists switching over to lap steel often bring over a modified version of the ten-string E9 tuning that is the standard for country pedal steel; pedal steels, and a few non-pedal "console steels" actually have multiple necks, each in a different tuning, and very often on a pedal steel the 2 main necks will be in E9 and C6 tunings. As noted under the C6 tuning, an A6 tuning is also used.
See the links below for a list of additional tunings.
Manufacturers[edit]
Asher Guitars & Lap Steels
Bennett Steel Guitars
Breedlove Guitar Company
Dobro (a registered trademark of Gibson Guitar Corporation)
Ellis Guitars
Electromuse
Framus, Germany
Gibson (also under Kalamazoo, Mastertone, and Recording King brands)
Höfner
Jupiter Creek, Australia
National String Instrument Corporation
Peavey Electronics (makers of the Peavey Powerslide)
Valco (under brands such as Supro, Dwight, and National)
Weissenborn (also under Gold Tone)
Notable players[edit]
Eddie Alkire
Dan Auerbach
Toy Caldwell
Mike Auldridge
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Junior Brown
Bob Brozman[8]
Jerry Byrd
Buddy Cage
Larry Campbell
Glenn Ross Campbell
Cindy Cashdollar
Nels Cline
AJ Ghent
Jerry Douglas
Buddy Emmons[9]
Santo & Johnny
Sunil Ganguly
Ken Greer
Don Helms
Daniel Ho
Sol Hoʻopiʻi
Steve Howe [10]
Rob Ickes
Alain Johannes
John Paul Jones
Brij Bhushan Kabra
Ben Keith
Steve Kimock
Sneaky Pete Kleinow
Jeff Lang
Daniel Lanois
Julius Lamperez
Megan Lovell
Mike Mogis
King Ben Nawahi
Ángel Parra
Al Perkins
Herb Pedersen
Robert Randolph
Red Rhodes
Sonny Rhodes
Jack Rose
Gerald Ross
Freddie Roulette
Andy Sannella
Travis Stever
Troy Van Leeuwen
Clarence White
Oscar "Buddy" Woods
Rusty Young
Watermelon Slim
Chitra veena
Lap slide guitar
Lap steel ukulele
Pedal steel guitar
Table steel guitar
Vichitra veena
^ Phillips, Stacy (2016). The Art of Hawaiian Steel Guitar. Pacific, MO: Mel Bay. p. 4. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
^ "Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association". HSGA. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
^ "Masterfully Hand Crafting Guitars in California Since 1982 – Asher Guitars & Lap Steels Store". Asherguitars.com. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
^ "Lap steel guitars". Weissenborn.es. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
^ "Brad's Page of Steel". Well.com. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
^ Bill C. Malone. Country Music, U.S.A.: Second Revised Edition. Books.google.com. p. 127. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
^ How to Ply the Hawaiian Steel Guitar (Mutual Publishing, 2008, ISBN 1-56647-864-2)
^ "Bob Brozman". Discogs.com. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
^ "Buddy Emmons". Discogs.com. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
^ "Ask YES - Friday 21st June 2013 - Steve Howe - Yesworld". Yesworld.com. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
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Eritrea leader visits Ethiopia on Saturday
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Afwerki's visit will add momentum to the joint march for peace and cooperation, Eritrea says
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki is visiting Ethiopia on Saturday, the latest step in an unprecedented diplomatic thaw between the former archrivals that is ending one of Africa's longest-running conflicts.
Eritrea's information minister, Yemane Gebremeskel, confirmed the visit on Twitter, saying it will "add momentum to the joint march for peace and cooperation." The 72-year-old Isaias last visited Ethiopia in 1996.
The visit by the leader of one of the world's most reclusive countries comes after Ethiopia's new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmad made a historic trip to Eritrea last weekend for hugs, laughter and talks with Isaias, setting off the restoration of diplomatic ties after two decades.
Some jubilant Ethiopians compared it to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Now phone lines are restored and scheduled Ethiopian Airlines flights to Eritrea begin next week.
Abiy's chief of staff, Fitsum Arega, confirmed the Eritrean president's three-day state visit, saying on Twitter: "We welcome him warmly!"
The thaw began when the 42-year-old Abiy, who took office in April, announced Ethiopia would fully accept a peace deal that ended a two-year border war that killed tens of thousands and separated families.
The decision, which hands disputed border areas to Eritrea, was the boldest move yet in a wave of reforms in Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous country, after years of anti-government protests.
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ARTIST NAME: Summer
SONG TITLE: You Are Good
ALBUM TITLE: Love Letters
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Summer Pearson is an award-winning independent recording artist from Maryland.
Summer's album "Love Letters" debuted in the Top 50 of the Billboard Gospel Charts, and the lead single "Promised (Never Alone)" penetrated radio across the U.S., Canada, and England.
Summer has won several awards as a singer-songwriter, including the 2018 ACHI Magazine Songstress of the Year, 2018 Winner of the National Cherry Blossom Festival's Sing Into Spring Competition, and 2018 S&M Gospel Indie Music Female Contemporary Vocalist of the Year.
Summer has been blessed to perform for many prestigious events, including the annual Caring Awards, "Thanks Obama" event at Arena Stage on President Obama's last night in the office, the H Street Festival, and the National Cherry Blossom Parade.
Summer has also released several recording projects with other artists, including a Christmas single in 2018 by "Tanya Summer Alache," and projects with Stellar Award nominated gospel group – Charles Butler and Trinity, Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) Exalting Him Finalists (with the trio "Power"), and Emory University's Gospel Choir, to name a few.
She has sung background vocals, and/or opened up for numerous accomplished artists, including Pastor Hezekiah Walker, Tamela Mann, and finalists from America's Got Talent – Sons of Serendip.
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She also practiced law for several years with the federal government.
Summer considers her role as mom to her two amazing sons to be her most important work.
Tell us how you develop your sound and style to make it different from other musicians.
I listen to a variety of music – recorded and live, and allow elements of the music I like to come through in my own style. I believe it's important to not put myself in a box and to always aim to experiment and grow.
Tell us your opinion on the way new artists are coming up and the frequent release of songs.
It is exciting to see so many people emerge as artists who feel free to explore their own creativity and share their experiences/beliefs/art through music.
The frequent release of songs and the ever increasing number of new artists make it harder to become noticed and make real traction when pursuing a music career.
It also means that some amazing music will be buried, and potentially will not be heard by many, because the market is so saturated.
Still, I think competition challenges us to be more creative and persistent in making quality music and getting it to our audiences.
State your experience as a musician.
I started singing as a soloist in the church at a very young age and never stopped.
Music is an incredible gift to me because it enables me to communicate deep feelings and questions that I have not always been comfortable expressing in everyday conversation.
Over the years I have played in large and small venues for diverse audiences, and the greatest takeaway for me is always the person who felt so connected to me through my music (and my story) that they found a breakthrough they had been hoping for.
Good music has the power to heal and deliver, and I take that very seriously.
Tell us your opinion on streaming and digital download of songs.
Streaming and digital downloads are so convenient and instantly gratifying, so musicians have to get used to it as a way of life.
From a financial perspective, it makes it harder to earn a living from making music, but from the perspective of making our music widely available, it is a tremendous asset that I believe artists should exploit as much as possible.
Tell us your goals and plans.
I plan to keep performing and making music that feeds my soul. I am working on a new body of music and developing tour plans. My goal is to expand my audience and share hope through music.
Tell us five current artists that are your favourite.
Jonathan McReynolds
Mercy Me
Tell us your best song up to date and share the link.
I believe my best song up to date is "Promised (Never Alone)"; the song takes us on a journey through despair and doubts to the truth that God keeps his promise to never leave nor forsake us. The freedom and peace in that promise is life-changing.
Tell us your dream and hope for the future.
My dream and hope for the future are to continue to be a woman of integrity, faith, and laughter and that I make music that inspires others to do the same.
I'm also a mom to two amazing sons, and my dreams and hopes are so wrapped up in giving them the best life possible, and the tools to become amazing men of God!
Tell us what has changed in the music industry.
So much has changed – music does not sell the way it once did, and record label budgets for artists have diminished. Music is available for streaming and/or download in so many places that we have a ton of music at our fingertips. There is truly something for everyone available now, and much of it is available for free on the Internet.
Tell us your opinion on television/radio stations playing the same songs from established artists and giving little chances to independent artists.
I think this is an area where we need to see more diversity in what is played and who gets opportunities. I was shocked to learn how limited the radio and TV opportunities are for talented independent artists.
It can be discouraging as you wonder if you will ever be able to break through a system that works against you.
However, I believe audiences want more variety; local audiences want to hear their local artists on the radio, and so many indie artists are making music worthy of worldwide distribution. Something has to change.
Tell us the challenges independent artists are facing and how to tackle it.
One of the challenges for independent artists was just mentioned – breaking through to TV and radio. Indie artists have to continue to try to push through the barriers and utilize other means to let our music be heard, e.g., internet radio, local shows, social media.
Another challenge that independent artists often face is a lack of resources (financial and manpower). We cannot keep up with signed artists who have a machine behind them, and will often exhaust ourselves and our limited resources trying to keep up.
I think it's important for independent artists to be strategic in how we spend our limited funds, and to recruit a team of people that may not have deep experience in the music business, but who will work hard and smart to learn the business and propel the artist forward.
Tell us your opinion on using social media to promote music online.
It is necessary to promote music on social media, and because it's free, we should never neglect to do so.
Tell us about your music career.
Most of my time is spent performing for various public and private events – corporate events, parades, worship services, weddings, etc. I also am available for studio session work and vocal coaching. No matter the size of the venue or the paycheck attached to a performance, I believe in giving each audience my all.
Tell us what still motivates you to go on with your music career.
I continue to pursue a music career because I am called to do so. I am living my divine purpose.
Tell us about you as a person.
People describe me as the "sunshine." I believe that life is too short to be miserable, so I choose joy every day. I can be incredibly focused, but am also as silly as they come. I love to laugh! And I LOVE people! Performing for me is all about connecting with people, and leaving them better off than they were before I hit the stage.
Elaborate on the story behind the song.
I wrote "You Are Good" when I needed to believe that God is good because at that time my life did not feel good. I was facing divorce and losing our family home/community after just having made the decision to pursue music ministry full-time (which meant a significant loss of income from my prior work as an attorney).
It was a very tough time, but I had a faith that was immovable. I needed to remember that this was NOT the first time in my life when life was hard, and despite the pain I'd experienced before, God had been there for me, and brought me through it whole and with a testimony.
Thus the lyrics: "You are good, you always have been. No matter what comes or goes, you are good." I needed the strength to refuse to be defeated, so I remembered that God had called me to sing for Him, and I couldn't let the pain swallow the passion or the calling.
Tell us the process involved in making this song.
I sat down at the piano and began to sing. I can barely play the piano but found the chords to support the very simple, profound lyrics that my spirit was singing.
God did the rest when I sang "You Are Good" for a very talented producer "Vincent V.Rich Richardson."
I feared the song might be too simple to record, but I remember him saying "sometimes, simple is better."
Vincent helped me bring the song to life, and eventually, Cordaro Rodriguez of the Sons of Serendip from America's Got Talent added the string arrangement that elevated the song from beautiful to a masterpiece.
State your artist's name and elaborate on it.
SUMMER – it's the name my parents chose for me, and I believe my name embodies the essence of who I am, so I decided to only use my first name as an artist. I am bright, colourful, joyful, passionate, and warm like the Summer. 🙂
State the title of the song and the meaning.
You Are Good – Meaning – God is good. He never changes, therefore His goodness never changes. He was good, is good, and always will be good.
Difficult circumstances do not mean God's goodness is waning; we just have to believe His promise in Romans 8:28 that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose. Keep fighting. Keep lifting your voice. Keep going. Don't give up. God's goodness is forever.
State the title of the album and the reason for choosing the title.
Love Letters – I chose this title for the album because the songs were expressions of my heart to God during a difficult personal season involving divorce, loss, and frustration.
I wrote these songs to God, not knowing that they would become an album to help others connect with the depths of God in the context of our imperfect lives. These songs are my love letters to God who has loved me perfectly all of my life.