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“The most serious allegation came from Jane – not her real name, although her identity is known to the M&G – who alleged that Isaacs made a lot of untoward remarks to me and sent me sexually suggestive texts, asking what I was wearing and if I could touch myself. She was working on a project in the activism sphere at the time. This behavior culminated in Isaacs attempting to force himself on her, she claimed, “After dinner one night, he took me to a historical stone house on the top of Kalk Bay where he started to kiss me forcefully and tried to take my pants off. He is not a big guy but I still had to fight him off. He did persist for a bit, then was offended because I rejected him,” she said.

metal     Something that conducts electricity well, tends to be shiny (reflective) and malleable (meaning it can be reshaped with heat and not too much force or pressure). 

I ended up speaking to 4 women, who all told stories that were so similar, I mean, and that is the thing that I also wanted to raise, is that some people have come forward and been very brave, but those tropes are similar to everyone. They often started online, sexual encounters, the stories I heard then were never of non- consensual situations, although I’ve heard stories since now that are, and the stories all happened when the relationship soured, and obviously the context of it but [inaudible] and it was a relationship that had to be kept secret and I want to be really clear about that, no one is suggesting you cant have a (inaudible) ever in any context, but the specifics of these situations is they had to be kept secret because the boss was cheating. And normally if you are having a relationship with someone in an organisation with a power difference, one of the ways to protect people is that you are open and honest, on the record, in a way that allows people to be protected both from unfair punishment, but also from unfair rewards. And in these situations women never had that, and actually in the end they were always threatened, they always had a situation where they were told that … to themselves, if they spoke about this they would never work again in the Western Cape NGO sector, and also had they had stories told about them, repeated tropes where “oh that woman is crazy, that woman is malicious, that woman is someone we cannot trust”. And there are only so many times you can hear women being described as crazy, or malicious, or not to be trusted. No one seemed to have a clear story of why, before you start asking questions.

“But what if you’re wrong, Bob?” I say to him. “What if he really is the guy, and he’s lied to you? Don’t you feel as if you’ve been duped, that he’s manipulated you and our legal system?”

One of the major side effects of chemotherapy is a sharp drop in white blood cells, which leaves patients vulnerable to dangerous infections. MIT researchers have now developed a portable device that could be used to monitor patients’ white blood cell levels at home, without taking blood samples.

The use of cash has declined dramatically in some Nordic countries, where it’s estimated that as few as one in five payments are made in cash, according to the report.

The Fluobeam 800 Clinic Imaging Device (Fluoptics) is used to assist in the imaging of parathyroid glands and can help surgeons locate parathyroid tissue visually during surgery. Parathyroid tissue emits a fluorescent glow when exposed to the device’s light source, avoiding the need for a contrast agent. The device was previously cleared as an imaging system used to capture and view fluorescent images for the visual assessment of blood flow as an adjunctive method for the evaluation of tissue perfusion. The FDA reviewed five peer-reviewed published studies, including one that compared the rate of postoperative hypocalcemia (PH), which occurs when healthy parathyroid tissue is inadvertently removed. In 93 patients who had surgery using the Fluobeam device, 5% experienced fluctuating PH following surgery compared with 21% of the 153 patients who had surgery without the device.

When you rest determines how many calories your body will burn, new data show. That’s because a biological clock set the body’s daily cycle of calorie-burning.

In his new book, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, Yale University philosophy professor Jason Stanley identifies 10 characteristics that define fascist political movements. For example: “Fascism always promises to return us to a mythic past.” Similarly, fascist politicians use propaganda, for example, about anti-corruption campaigns, even when they are transparently corrupt. Another aspect is anti-intellectualism, for the “enemy of fascism is equality,” and the target of such anti-intellectual campaigns are places of learning, like universities. How can the educated elite know anything about anything, the fascist believes. Only the mythical “common man” can know what is right; note the emphasis on “man”, which includes no women, or racial and sexual minorities. The similarities do not end there. Unlike liberal democracies, based on freedom and equality, fascist regimes posit the dominant group’s interests as the ultimate, unquestionable truth. The dominant group is also always the victim of the situation. They rely on conspiracy theories to justify calls to power. And most tellingly, fascist politicians promise a law and order regime designed not to seek out offenders, but to criminalise outliers, who are usually ethnic, religious or sexual minorities. Professor Stanley has the U.S. in mind, but surely there is some resonance closer home.

Adorable gift of nature beyond words called Lapacho locally a native tree in the South of Latin America. This name believed to be of Gaurani origin, meaning fragrant, a tribe of Paraguay bloom with flowers of various hues and colours like. It’s blossoms have a mild sweet honey smell, Elsewhere it is called jacaranda the word was described in A supplement to Chambers’s Cyclopædia, 1st ed., (1753) as “a name given by some authors to the tree the wood of which is the log-wood, used in dyeing and in medicine”.

He may even curse her, abuse her, tell her that the marriage is over, and that she shouldn’t expect any money from him. As long as he doesn’t say the three illegal words for divorce in Urdu, he will be protected from serving any jail time.

chlorine     A chemical element with the scientific symbol Cl. It is sometimes used to kill germs in water. Compounds that contain chlorine are called chlorides.