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Interview with Forgotten Tomb
Forgotten Tomb have just unleashed their tenth studio album "Nihilistic Estrangement" and it opens a new chapter of the band and possibly a new trilogy. Musically speaking there are references to all of the band's eras but it sounds very refreshing and extremely personal… it's 100% Forgotten Tomb. The lyrics and concepts on this album are extremely misanthropic. The album's cover artwork is a painting, specifically drawn for this release by artist Paolo Girardi. Metal Imperium talked to vocalist and guitarist Ferdinando "Herr Morbid" Marchisio regarding the release of the new album in this time of pandemic and their expectations about the near future. Read on…
M.I. - First off, congratulations on the new album "Nihilistic estrangement"!
The album title was chosen before the world was affected by the corona virus but it seems to fit in perfectly with the current situation, wouldn't you agree?
Thanx. Yeah, the album kinda dropped at the right moment, even if the original meaning of the title (and title-track) has more to do with a personal mental estrangement from the outside world and from modern times, than a physical estrangement. Still, often the two things go hand in hand, so speaking for myself I'd say the whole lockdown thing only exacerbated my usual estrangement. Strangely enough, the album also features a track titled "RBMK" where the lyrics invoke some sort of global disaster that terminates mankind, which sounds a lot like a sinister coincidence considering what happened with the whole Covid-19 pandemia shortly afterwards.
M.I. - According to the press release, "Nihilistic estrangement" captures the essence of Forgotten Tomb. What is your essence anyway?
If you mean as a person, it's a very difficult question which I'm afraid I'm unable to reply to. In regards to the band, we didn't write that, the label did, so it's also a difficult question but I'd probably say the essence of FT is something related to melancholy, negativity, misanthropy and nihilism. It's related to a dark and pessimistic vision of life and social relations. Musically speaking, it's the embodiment of all these things and the constant research for new ways of expressing those feelings in music.
M.I. - This is the band's tenth studio album. Does producing an album get easier as times goes by?
Not really, cause we always try to make something different with every album so, over the years, we worked with different producers, even from abroad, tried different studios and techniques, etc. This time in particular I decided to produce the album myself and our bass-player Alex mixed it, so we couldn't fuck up! It was hard work, with grueling 15 hours sessions and stuff like that, but it was worth it.
M.I. - These days, albums are super produced and that's one of the reasons you used some vintage analog techniques for "Nihilistic Estrangement". In terms of sound, what are the main differences between this album and the previous one? The album was mastered by Jack Control at Enormous Door Studios (Darkthrone, Aura Noir, Martyrdod), produced by vocalist and guitarist Ferdinando "Herr Morbid" Marchisio, and mixed by bassist Alessandro "Algol" Comerio. How long was the process? How easy/complicated was it?
We worked with some renowned producers over the last years but we wanted something different this time, since as you said all productions these days seem to sound the same, especially drum-wise; everything is over-produced, all guitars sound like if they used digital plugins and such, and it's incredibly boring. Those albums won't stand the test of time, and I wanted something that had its own personality instead. So, you gotta look at what the greats of hard rock and heavy metal did in the past, when every band had its own peculiar sound and you can still listen to those classics 'cause they sound timeless. I decided to produce the album myself and I personally chose microphones for all instruments, using the same 60s/70s vintage equipment used by AC/DC (and other bands of that era) on the three albums between '78-'80, as well as playing on some vintage instruments and amps from the early 80s. We also tracked everything on analog tapes. I wanted the performances of the musicians to stand out and the overall sound to be more faithful to our live-shows, every band should have its own sound on a record as opposed to the trend of today where pretty much all albums and bands seem to sound the same. We then mixed with our bass-player Alex and did the mastering at Enormous Door in Texas cause they also got analog equipment and Jack Control worked with bands who were striving for a similar approach such as Darkthrone or Poison Idea. The overall result sounds warmer and slightly unpolished than today's records, but it's got balls and character, it stands out compared to the generic productions which are popular lately. We'll go this route in the future too, with some slight adjustments. "Nihilistic Estrangement" recording, mixing and mastering process took around 10-15 days in total, divided in one main session and some other days here and there since we used two studios + the one for the mastering.
M.I. - Your discography has always been divided by trilogies and it's kind of your trademark. So, supposedly, the 10th album also marks the start of a new trilogy. What's it about this time around? How will it enfold?
Yes, all our albums are divided by trilogies, it started out as a casualty but now it became some sort of tradition. Every trilogy features some sort of similar sound between the albums, even if we like to always make each album different; but if you compare "Songs To Leave", "Springtime Depression" and "Love's Burial Ground" they all have things in common and they're all considered depressive black metal classics, "Negative Megalomania", "Vol 5" and "Under Saturn Retrograde" marked a different era of the band, with the introduction of some clean vocals and more progressive structures and unusual elements, while "…And Don't Deliver Us From Evil", "Hurt Yourself and The Ones You Love" and "We Owe You Nothing" shared the increased heaviness of the sound and and sludgier elements. "Nihilistic Estrangement" opens the 4th trilogy so I guess the next two will follow in its footsteps, at least in the general approach, but with FT you can always expect some surprises especially since I'm the first who never knows where the next album will lead me. I let the inspiration guide me through songwriting and it depends a lot on what is going on in my life at that particular moment. I also like to find a niche that is relatively unexplored musically, so I usually try to shake things up a little and try to sound somewhat fresh and different from the other bands, I like to retain our trademark sound but at the same time to be hard to be pigeonholed. I am happy when somebody says that we don't sound like any other band cause we sound like FT. It's really difficult these days to come up with something entirely innovative but there's still space for mixing things up and making a sound of your own.
M.I. - The primary lyrical themes of Forgotten Tomb have been centered on depression, isolation, estrangement and nihilism. Quite fitting for these awkward times the world is living in, right? What keeps inspiring you in these themes?
I always took inspiration from my own life and experiences and from things I see happening around me, to people I know or from the world in general. I never really went into fantasy-related territories with FT, it's a very reality-based band, usually with a very urban approach to the themes developed throughout the albums. For a reason or the other my life has never been particularly happy, I went through a lot of personal shit, crossed paths with death quite a few times (mostly due to car accidents, but also general self-destruction) and suffered physically from a number of issues with my health, so let's say I never really had much positive things to look forward to during my existence and when I did, they didn't last long. I always faced all my struggles as a man, but even if I kept soldiering on all these things left scars, physical and mental, and parts of myself died over the years. So my lyrics at times try to convey some of this suffering and at the same time they're very hateful cause I don't like humanity at all. There's always something inspiring to write about cause life sucks 90% of the time and people suck the whole time. So it's not that as a band we feel forced to follow a script to fit our image or such, simply usually there's nothing positive to write about and when I live a relatively uneventful or peaceful moment in life I just don't write lyrics for FT.
M.I. - The record ends on a high note, as "RBMK" brings it all to a big, brutal, Black Metal finish. What does RBMK stand for?
It means "Reaktor Bolšoj Moščnosti Kanalnyj" and it was the reactor who exploded and caused the Chernobyl disaster. The lyrics were written during a moment of extreme frustration and they basically invoke a global disaster which wipes away the human race. I chose the name of the reactor to imply a nuclear disaster but it could have been anything really, even Covid-19 or something else. It's more about the concept itself rather than the type of disaster or plague. Musically speaking, it's one of the most Black Metal sounding songs we ever did, I wanted to do something apocalyptic and relentless a-la "Transilvanian Hunger" and I put weird arpeggios and dissonances over the whole song to create a feeling of disorientation. If you listen to it at high volume, towards the end you'll feel like your head is spinning, like if you're drunk or stoned, cause the relentless speed and the circular arpeggios really drive you sick. So it's basically a traditional Black Metal song, a throwback to the atmosphere the genre had in the mid-90s (which I lived throughout) but with some sort of hypnotic, haze-inducing quality due to the arrangements I put over it. We decided to put it in the end of the album cause it sounds quite different from the rest of the material and it works well as a closing song, since it comes unexpected while retaining an eerie feeling.
M.I. - The tracklist includes nods to the band's whole back-catalogue. Why have you decided to do it? To do something special with the 10th album? As a kind of celebration?
It wasn't really intentional and we don't care much about anniversaries. I went through some sort of writer's block between "We Owe You Nothing" and "Nihilistic Estrangement" but now that I got over it I feel very inspired, like if we started out fresh as a band with this latest album. I basically realized I was over-complicating my songwriting in latest years so I stripped things down a bit and just focused on writing good songs like the old rock bands used to do. This mindset benefited me greatly and I basically made peace with my own creative process. It's important for me to always be original while staying true to our trademark sound but I feel sometimes in the recent past I was even too concerned with being labeled in a certain way; this time I decided to shut the world outside, be it fans expectations or band members expectations, and I just let the songs flow out of my hands onto the guitar, without thinking too much about it. I wrote and demoed the bulk of the songs in two weeks or so and the guys of my band then listened to it and said it was the best stuff I wrote in years, then I knew I had been doing the right thing. We did three rehearsals and went straight into the recording studio. I wrote lyrics along the way. I think the album includes elements from all of our previous records and maybe it has a bit more of a black metal feeling than the last album we did, but at the same time it's got some really weird stuff like southern, hard rock and blues influences, which have been part of our sound at least since "Negative Megalomania" but they're more evident here, especially because of the stripped down production. You've got slide guitars and blues licks, but you also got twin guitars solos or delay effects which hark back to the 80s dark-wave, like on the title track. There's also a fast, hypnotic black metal song which sounds very old-school. It's a varied album, considering it's got just six songs, but at the same time I think it sounds very cohesive. I like to call it "black rock" cause it ain't 100% black metal but it ain't black'n'roll either. It's "black rock", or "blues black", I don't know if it makes any sense but it's certainly different from what's going on these days in metal.
M.I. - The artwork comes from a recurring dream you had. Care to tell us more about it?
The idea for the cover comes from a recurring dream that I had; the painting has to be seen from a point of view perspective, since in my dream I was walking on a trail surrounded by these gigantic waterfalls, with water slowly rising beneath my feet while at the horizon I could see this wild, hostile land devoid of any human civilization. So I provided a draft to the artist Paolo Girardi and I explained him my dream and he came up with the painting, which is amazing. We wanted an artwork in the vein of the records of the early 90s, those albums that you would buy just based on the incredible covers; the artworks of Dan Seagrave, Kristian Wahlin or Andreas Marschall. We have a great artist in Italy such as Paolo, which is also getting well-deserved international recognition these days, so there was no need to ask others. He gets the job done very fast and he's a easy going, no-nonsense guy, so we got along well.
M.I. - How strange will it be releasing an album and not being able to do its promotion properly? In your opinion, will it affect sales? How has it affected Forgotten Tomb so far?
For the moment it didn't affect sales, it's actually selling better than the previous album. Having a lockdown was somehow beneficial cause most people weren't distracted by hanging out, working and such, so they listened to music the whole time and they had time to focus on the record. Also, I suppose when you're home bored and you can't go out you don't spend much money, so if you listen to something you like maybe you feel like ordering the physical copy right away as a gratification. I also bought a lot of records during these times. Of course not being able to promote the album with live-shows and tours, which were already in the works, will probably affect the staying power of the record in the long run, especially considering nowadays you get new releases coming out the whole time. Hopefully when we're allowed to play live again people will still be curious to hear the material live, since it's never been played so potentially will still be fresh. We'll see what happens.
M.I. - Being a nihilist yourself, have these days made you change your mind somehow? Do you trust or do you hate humanity even more now? Have you ever wished for something like this to happen to humanity? Do you believe mankind is the one to blame for what is happening? Is Nature finally taking its vengeance?
I always preached my dislike for human kind both in lyrics and interviews so I'd be lying now if I said that I care. Of course I care about my family, bandmates, close friends and pets, but that's always been my way of thinking even before this plague, so it's nothing new. The way the world was going in the last 20 years was downhill and self-destructive anyway, so one way or the other I suppose humanity had to pay the price sooner or later. As they say, Karma is a bitch, isn't it? Also, the whole development of the virus worldwide prompted some unexpectedly retarded reactions from some groups of people that once more made me wish for immediate human extinction. Human stupidity is really beyond any limit. I try to avoid watching TV and reading stuff on the social networks cause they just piss me off.
M.I. - What can fans expect of Forgotten Tomb in the near future? A tour? Have you rescheduled the tours you had planned?
We were rescheduling our european tour for October but it's unlikely that it will happen at this point. We were also due to finally tour the fuckin' USA but it also got postponed so hopefully sometime in 2021. I suppose we'll play somewhere in the end of 2020 if it's possible, but I expect 2021 to be the time when we'll finally tour again properly. It really sucks being unable to play live since we are basically a live-band and that's our main source of income as a band. Also, the new album is doing really good and touring to support it would have been really cool and successful too I think. I really miss the stage.
M.I. - Have you been working on new material in these days of quarantine? Is the second album of this trilogy already in the making? What can you tell us about it?
I already started writing some stuff, but I'm in a really early stage. This new album was written in a very short amount of time and recorded straight away; I like to work under pressure cause I often come up with some urgency in the sound and some good ideas, but at the same time it's really stressful and with this new album it was a little too much. So next time I want to be ready for the studio with quite some advance so I don't have to go crazy to finish everything when the studio-time gets booked.
M.I. - The band is considered to be one of the true originators of the "Depressive Black Metal" sub-genre. How does it feel to be considered such an influence for a genre? How does it feel being a kind of "idol" to some people?
I think it's good that many people recognize us among the first ones to define a whole subgenre, it's an important accomplishment that I think we deserve fully. Nobody was really playing this stuff when I recorded the first album "Songs To Leave", and even compared to some of our peers who were mainly black metal-oriented we had a huge dose of doom and dark-wave that was uncommon; also the whole urban imagery and the themes we explored in the lyrics were really uncommon back then. For younger people approaching "DSBM" today we are probably one of many, but it's important to remember that back then things were different; I took a lot of shit from black metal purists. The acronym "DSBM" didn't even exist in the early 2000s, so it's funny to think that now is somehow a fashionable style to play. This said, the stuff I created on the first three albums became soon a trend around 2005 so I started searching for different ways to evolve the style and the rest is history. I don't like what people call "DSBM" today and I think it can't be compared to the early FT albums in any way for a number of reasons. It wasn't supposed to be a subgenre in the first place, it was just a handful of bands with some things in common and I wish it stayed like that. I have no interest in being an "idol" or whatever, I appreciate being respected for what I've created though; since we didn't became a mainstream band and there was a generational turnover, I think a lot of younger people still don't know that some of the bands they now listen to were heavily influenced by FT. Like it or not, without FT things would have been very different by now and maybe we wouldn't talk about a "DSBM" scene.
M.I. - The band's been in the scene for over 20 years now… What have you learnt so far? Did you ever imagine it would turn out this way?
I actually hoped things would turn out way better than they did after 20 years but hey, I've got to live with that I guess haha. What I learned is to trust no one and to follow my own way, even if unfortunately being uncompromising won't make you famous most of the time. I also learned the hard work never really stops. There's still people who don't know who we are. Also, the so-called "scene" changed a lot in 20 years and I don't like how things are today. Too many useless bands, too many keyboard warriors, too many SJW (social justice warriors), too many hipsters who have nothing to do with metal, too much hype for copycat bands who invented nothing, too much hype for image and lack of culture in music. I think metal today is pretty much crap, talent and originality unfortunately are not the most important things as they should be, but you've got to live with it. I certainly did some mistakes too, "live and learn" as they say. For younger bands it's easier these days in a way, cause with the internet you've got a lot more information and you can learn things that back in the days you had to figure out by yourself.
M.I. - Is there anything else you'd like to add? All the best for Forgotten Tomb and the upcoming album! Stay safe!
Thanx for the interview. You can buy our latest album pretty much everywhere. We also have a Bandcamp page where you can support the band directly:
https://officialforgottentomb.bandcamp.com
We hope to see all the fans at our live-shows as soon as possible. Cheers!
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Crime Data Comparison Essay
845 words - 4 pages
Crime Data Comparison
University of Phoenix
GA11BCJ01
CJA 314: Criminology
The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is a voluntary program that provides nationwide crime statistics based off information provided by law enforcement agencies across the country. The UCR collects data on a number of different crimes to include burglary, murder, and terrorism offenses. The UCR bases its findings solely from those individuals who have been arrested by law enforcement agencies and not statistics that may have been collected from court room proceedings, or decisions made by prosecutors. Analyzing the occurrence of the offense of murder in Birmingham, Alabama and Anchorage, ...view middle of the document...
With the large number of murder offenses reported in Birmingham it appears this type of crime is a problem for law enforcement agencies on duty in that state. Crime statistics suggest Birmingham holds the number five position compared to other states in terms of the number of murders committed in a city with a population of more than 100,000 people. On the other hand, Anchorage holds the position as one of the cities possessing the least amount of annual slayings with a population of more than 100,000 people ("Alabama Live Llc", 2011).
Differences in Murder Crime Rates
No single factor can explain the differences in the murder rates of the two metropolitan areas; rather a combination of factors may help in explaining the disparities between the two areas. Factors to include the cost of living, unemployment rates, and the amount of murder crimes reported to the UCR can help provide an understanding of the differences. Metropolitan communities with inadequate housing communities or a lack thereof resulting in poverty and homelessness may increase crime rates as people are likely to participate in illegal activities hence committing crimes as a means of survival. Higher costs of living to include expensive housing accommodations may also increase the likelihood of individuals committing crimes. Birmingham possesses a low cost of living, however possesses a low job-rate growth because of the economy's current status thus may be a cause of the increase in murder crimes committed each year ("Alabama Live Llc", 2011).
The UCR is a voluntary program thus may be another...
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Q: Bounding an Integral with M-L Formula I am stuck trying to understand Lemma 5.20 from Newman Bak's Complex Analysis.
5.20 Lemma
Let s denote a root of the equation $z=g(z)$, for some analytic function g such that $g'(s)=0$. Suppose that $z_0$ belongs to a disk of the form $D(s; r)$ throughout which $|g''(z)|\le M$ and let $z_1=g(z_0)$. Then $|z_1-s|\le \frac{1}{2} M|z_0-s|^2$
Proof
We begin by noting that $z_1-s=g(z_0)-g(s)$=$\int_{s}^{z_0} g'(z)dz$. But for any value of z on the line segment $[s,z_0]$, we can write:
$$|g'(z)|=|g'(z)-g'(s)|=|\int_s^z g''(z)dz|\le M|z-s|$$
Let $\Delta z=\frac{(z_0-s)}{n}$ and write
$$\int_s^{z_0}g'(z)dz=\int_s^{s+\Delta z} g'+\int_{s+\Delta z}^{s+2\Delta z}g' +...+\int_{z_0-\Delta z}^{z_0} g'$$
Then applying the M-L formula to each of the integrals above and using estimates for g'(z), show that $\int_s^{z_0} g'(z) dz$ is bounded by
$$\sum_{k=1}^n Mk(\Delta z)^2=M\frac{n(n+1)}{2}\frac{|z_0-s|^2}{n^2}$$
and the lemma follows by letting $n\to\infty$.       $\square$
It is the last part that I don't understand. How do we bound $\int_s^{z_0} g'(z) dz$ by this sum?

A: I'm not sure why we want to do all that. Take $s=0$ just for simplicity. We then have $g$ analytic in $D(0,r)$ with $g(0)=0=g'(0)$ and $|g''|\le M$ in this disc. Let $z \in D(0,r).$ Then, using standard line-segment contours, we get
$$g(z)-g(0) = \int_{[0,z]}g'(w)\,dw = \int_0^1zg'(tz)\,dt$$ $$ = \int_0^1z(g'(tz)-g'(0))\,dt = \int_0^1z\int_0^1(tz)g''(u(tz))\,du\,dt.$$
Now crash through with absolute values and use the estimate on $|g''|.$ We get
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Hospital bed usage, positivity rate remain steady in Palm Beach County
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GETTING ANY BETTER EITHER. LET'S START WITH TE NUMBER OF HOSPITAL BEDS BEING USED IN THE COUNTY WHICH REMAINED STEADY AT JUST UNDER 75 PERCENT BOTH FOR REGULAR BEDS. AND ICU BEDS HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY, THAT'S OKAY, BUT ANY HIGHER COULD BE A PROBLEM. WE DON'T WANT TO GET TO THAT POINT. WE DON'T WANT TO JUST KEEP STARING AT IT AND WATCHING IT GO UP. NEED TO MAKE IT. COME DOWN AND DR. ALONZO SAYS THE WAY TO DO THAT IS SIMPLE WEAR A MASK PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING. I WANT STABILITY IN OUR CONDUCT AND I WANT STABILITY AND OUR NUMBERS AND THE COMMUNITY WANTS THAT AS WELL. IT'S THE SAME FORMULA FOR REDUCING THE POSITIVITY RATE OF COVID TEST IN THE COUNTY. IT WAS AT FOUR POINT NINE PERCENT WHEN THE COUNTY REOPENED ITS NOW AT 12% WHICH ALONSO SAYS IS TOO HIGH TO DO CONTACT TRACING AT THESE RATES WERE NOT GETTING TO THE CONTACTS OF THE CONTEXT FAST ENOUGH. ALONZO SAYS, NEED THAT RATE BACK DOWN AROUND 5% SHE ALSO PUBLICLY COMMENTED FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT THIS WHEN SHE'S TOLD TO KEEP HER MOUTH SHUT AND NOT HELP US THAT'S PROBLEMATIC FOR ME. AND I THINK THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW THAT THE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD CHAIRMAN SAYS ALONSO WAS TOLD BY THE STATE TO NOT PROVIDE AN OPINION TO THE BOARD AS TO WHETHER SCHOOLS SHOULD OPEN SAYING SHE'D BEEN QUOTE POLITICALLY SILENCED BY TALLAHASSEE ALONZO DENIES IT I'VE NEVER BEEN SILENCED IN MY LIFE. IT'S JUST NOT IN MY MY NATURE AND SPEAKING OF OPENING. USING THIS YEAR AND OFFICIALS ARE WORKING ON A PLAN TO OPEN SHELTERS FOR THE FIRST TIME DURING A PANDEMIC PROMISING. NOBODY WILL BE TURNED AWAY. WE HAVE YET TO EVER FILL UP THE OUR SHELTERS TO OUR MAXIMUM CAPACITY. THAT MEANS SPACE FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING GLOVE
Officials in Palm Beach County said the pandemic there does not appear to be getting any worse.They also said it doesn't appear to be getting any better.At a news conference on Friday, county officials outlined the latest statistics for the county.Hospital bed usage in the county has remained steady at just under 75%, both for regular beds and beds in the ICU.Health officials said that's a safe number, but it can't get much higher than that."We don't want to get to that point," said the county's director of health, Dr. Alina Alonso. "We don't want to just keep staring at it, watching it go up. We need to make it come down."Alonso said the formula for doing that is pretty simple: wear a mask and practice social distancing."I want stability in our conduct," said County Mayor Dave Kerner. "And I want stability in our numbers. And the community wants that, as well."Officials said the same formula can be used to reduce the positivity rate of COVID tests in the county.That rate was at 4.9% when the county reopened.It's now risen to about 12%.Alonso said that's too high to do successful contact tracing."At these rates, we're not getting to the contacts fast enough," she said.Alonso also on Friday commented for the first time about accusations made against her by a school board member.School board chairman Frank Barbieri said during a meeting that Alonso had stopped working with the board when it came to deciding if schools should reopen.He said she'd been "politically silenced" by state leaders in Tallahassee."When she's told to keep her mouth shut and not help us, that's problematic for me," Barbieri said at the time. "And I think the public should know that."Alonso denied that accusation."I've never been silenced in my life," she said with a smile. "It's just not in my nature."Also at the news conference on Friday, leaders talked about opening hurricane season and the challenges of opening shelters during a pandemic.They promised nobody would be turned away."We have yet to ever fill up our shelters to our maximum capacity," said Bill Johnson, director of emergency management for the county.Johnson said there will be plenty of space for social distancing.He also said gloves, masks, and hand sanitizer would be provided.Staff will take the temperature of everybody who goes to a shelter, and isolation areas will be created for those who may be sick.
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. —
Officials in Palm Beach County said the pandemic there does not appear to be getting any worse.
They also said it doesn't appear to be getting any better.
At a news conference on Friday, county officials outlined the latest statistics for the county.
Hospital bed usage in the county has remained steady at just under 75%, both for regular beds and beds in the ICU.
Health officials said that's a safe number, but it can't get much higher than that.
"We don't want to get to that point," said the county's director of health, Dr. Alina Alonso. "We don't want to just keep staring at it, watching it go up. We need to make it come down."
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"At these rates, we're not getting to the contacts fast enough," she said.
Alonso also on Friday commented for the first time about accusations made against her by a school board member.
School board chairman Frank Barbieri said during a meeting that Alonso had stopped working with the board when it came to deciding if schools should reopen.
He said she'd been "politically silenced" by state leaders in Tallahassee.
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Hello everybody, today I'm going to show you how to make simple circuit water detector. The circuit is very easy to build and use minimal component and works very well.
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Volunteers needed for Christmas Eve Big Feast
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"You got to have yams, for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and Easter. And if you don't have it then, you shouldn't have it at all," said volunteer Stewart Johnson.
Johnson is a special education teacher the rest of the year. But during Christmas, he volunteers for the big feast.
"I'm an educator in Third Ward, so you see the need every day," Johnson said.
Preparations go on all night long, and though this is run by volunteers, they could certainly use more.
"We're believing that people will hear this plea and come and help us we need turkeys, hams, and cash donations as well," said Leroy Woodard, CityWide Club Exec. Director.
The CityWide Club puts on the feast every year. At the event, toys are given away to children, and job placement services are available for adults. Around 2,000 volunteers have already signed up, but they're still about 1,000 people short.
"They're the last man or woman standing, they are the only ones going on Christmas eve, when so many of us are with our families," said Congreswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.
So the hours are long and the food preparations may seem unending, but the payoff of happy faces and full bellies is just hours away.
"We are down this year. Many people, I guess, are facing the downturn of the economy and so a lot of groups that typically were able to help us in the past just simply don't have the resources to do so," said Stephanie Lewis with the CityWide Club. "We are here all day at the George R. Brown accepting donations. We also need volunteers. So you can go online at CityWideclub.com and sign-up to volunteer."


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2019 Ovations Performing Arts Series Begins Sunday
By Mark Truppner	 Published Jan 11, 2019 06:00 am
The Calaveras Arts Council is celebrating over 30 years of presenting the Ovations Performing Arts Series, with this year's series starting on Sunday.
Kathy Mazzaferro, the Executive Director for the Calaveras County Arts Council, was Friday's KVML "Newsmaker of the Day".
The entire Ovations Performing Arts Series takes place at the Dr. Elliot A. Smart Performance Arts Center, which is also the Bret Harte High School Theater, in Angels Camp.
Here is the 2019 lineup:
JAKE GILL
3p.m. – 5p.m.
Singer/songwriter Jake Gill's music is quickly touching the hearts of Americans everywhere. Classic-country lovers and rock fans alike will enjoy Jake's modern country and red dirt style.
Jake and his band bring a raw energy and charisma to his original brand of country music.
THE T SISTERS
Sunday, February 17 2019
3p.m. – 5 p.m.
The T Sisters are a group of three women with soaring sibling harmonies, sassy stage presence, and inventive songwriting. These three sisters embody a fresh and soulful take on folk/Americana.
Distinguished by close harmonies, catchy melodies and potent lyricism, the T Sisters' sound represents a continuum of music: from roots to pop influences, moments of stunning a cappella to swells of groovy indie folk. The sisters' contemporary yet classic sound invites a range of likenesses, with classic harmonies akin to the Pointer Sisters and the Everly Brothers and modern kinship with family bands like the Avett Brothers and First Aid Kit.
In the last few years, they've been honored to support such acts as Amos Lee, The Wood Brothers, Todd Rundgren, Elephant Revival, The California Honeydrops, and more. Notable performances include Merlefest, Kate Wolf Music Festival, High Sierra Music Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Sisters Folk Festival, Strawberry Music Festival, Americana Music Association Festival, Music City Roots, and Garrison Keillor's 'A Prairie Home Companion.'
TOM RIGNEY AND FLAMBEAU
3p.m. – 5 p.m.
There is no question that Rigney is one of the premier blues and roots music violinists in the world, and continues to be a prolific composer of powerfully compelling music for the violin, music whose influences come from an extremely wide range of musical styles within the broad boundaries of American Roots Music.
Tom Rigney steps out as the focal point of Flambeau, with a strong Cajun/zydeco influence as well as irresistible dance grooves that have been his specialty for twenty years. But there is also a deepening of the emotional range of his music and a concentration on creating moving and memorable melodies in a wide range of styles–he has literally become a "singer" on the violin.
The music bursts with the energy of the bayou one minute, turns passionate with a gypsy tune the next; it can raise the roof with a Celtic reel and then touch the heart with a beautiful waltz; it can drive deep into the heart of the Blues or evoke echoes of Eastern Europe or the coast of Spain.
As a composer, as a violinist, as a band leader, Tom Rigney is a true American original.
GOLDEN BOUGH: TRAVELIN' TUNES-THE BEST OF AMERICAN FOLK
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
For nearly four decades of touring and recording, Golden Bough has brought a refreshing approach to the traditional Celtic music of Ireland, Scotland, and the Celtic regions of Europe, as well as from North America. In new show, Travelin' Tunes – the Best of American Folk, Golden Bough takes its music in a different direction, singing and playing the folk music of America that has endured throughout the generations.
Spanning the continent with song, Golden Bough links traditional folk melodies with more recent favorites of the American Folk Revival in the 50's and 60s. From riding the Railroads to leaving on that Jet plane, Golden Bough brings you the songs America loves. You'll be singing and humming along!
The internationally acclaimed trio performs lively tunes and beautiful ballads on an array of acoustic instruments, including Celtic harp, guitar, octave-mandolin, accordion, violin, pennywhistle, and bodhran. Blending voices in pristine three-part harmony, Margie Butler, Paul Espinoza, and Kathy Sierra capture the essence and joy of traditional folk music. Golden Bough tours nationally and internationally; when not on tour, all three musicians have active teaching careers. The trio has recorded more than thirty CDs, including the recent releases Popular American Folk Songs and Celtic Festival, as well as Songs of the Irish Immigrants, Celtic Love Songs, When Winter Comes with Celtic Christmas/Holiday melodies, and Down by the Greenwood with many Golden Bough originals. Golden Bough music may be found on itunes, CDbaby.com, and on Goldenboughmusic.com.
Tickets are $25 Adult and $10 Youth (under 18). Order tickets online at http://www.calaverasarts.org/ to choose your seats until 10 AM the day of the show or by phone at 209-754-1774 or at the box office after 2 PM on the day of the show. No phone orders can be processed after 6 PM the Thursday before the show.
The "Newsmaker of the Day" is heard every weekday morning at 6:45, 7:45 and 8:45 on AM 1450 and FM 102.7 KVML.
Written by Mark Truppner.


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A: В библиотеке vk_api, немного по-другому вызывают метод messages.send:
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Вы забыли путь сообщения (chat_id или peer_id) и random_id.
Подробнее: https://dev.vk.com/method/messages.send
Весь код:
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This study will determine whether use of an in-home test kit results in decreased dust mite allergen levels in homes of children who are sensitive or allergic to dust mites. Dust mite allergens come from dust mites - microscopic spider-like animals that feed on house dust. Dust mites are common anywhere there is dust, such as in carpeting and beds. Some people are allergic to dust mite allergens and may develop asthma from living near them.
People who live in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina who have a child between 5 and 15 years old with a dust mite allergy or sensitivity may be eligible for this study. Participants must plan to remain in the same house for at least 12 months from the start of the study. At least half the floor of the child's room must be carpeted.
Participants are given materials on how to reduce dust mite allergens in their home. Study staff visit participants' homes three times over a 12-month period to ask questions about the home, home cleaning habits, and participants' experiences with home test kits (see below) for measuring dust mite allergen. At each visit, staff collect dust samples from the child's bedroom, the parents' bedroom, and the living room. The dust samples are analyzed in the laboratory for dust mite allergens and the results are given to the participants at the end of the study.
Participants are also given four home test kits for measuring dust mite allergen in the home. At the first home visit, staff instruct the participants on how to use the kits and answer any questions they may have. The kits are mailed at certain times during the study for the participants to use to measure allergen and send the results to the study investigators in a pre-paid addressed envelope.
A control group is given educational materials but no test kits.
Sensitization to dust mite allergens is a major risk factor for the development and exacerbation of asthma. Asthmatics and others with dust mite allergies often implement strategies to avoid dust mite exposure, but lack objective evidence that their efforts are successful in reducing dust mite populations. Recently developed in-home test kits have introduced the capability to monitor the effectiveness of allergen reduction strategies by providing an affordable, simple way to measure dust mite allergens on a regular basis. The primary objective of this study is to determine if use of an in-home test kit result in decreased dust mite allergen levels in homes of children sensitive or allergic to dust mites. A secondary objective is to determine if use of an in-home test kit result in attitudinal and/or behavioral changes related to implementing and maintaining dust mite reduction strategies.
This study is a randomized controlled intervention trial designed to test the efficacy of an in-home test kit in influencing behaviors to reduce dust mite allergen levels. Households will be recruited through flyers and screened for eligibility through a recruitment call line. Study participants will be randomly assigned to a treatment or control group. The treatment group will receive educational materials and an in-home test kit at set intervals, while the control group will receive educational materials alone.
Vacuumed dust samples will be collected and delivered to the NIEHS laboratory for ELISA-based measurements of the dust mite allergens Der f 2 and Der p 2. A questionnaire will be used to collect information on home characteristics and on dust mite reduction attitudes and behaviors. The Precaution Adoption Process Model (PAPM) will be used to assess changes in attitudes and behaviors. Data will be collected at baseline, 6-months, and 12-months.
The primary statistical analysis will measure the change in allergen concentrations from baseline to month 12. This change will be compared between the two study arms using a generalized linear model to test the null hypothesis of no difference between groups. In secondary analyses, data from each sampling location will be analyzed separately and changes from 0-to-6 and 6-to-12 months will be compared between the treatment and control groups. Data from the questionnaire and baseline home visits will be analyzed for each group to determine PAPM stages and transitions. The results from this study will be used by NIEHS to plan future primary and secondary asthma prevention trials.
Households assigned to use the in-home test kit.
The primary objective of this randomized intervention trial is to determine if the use of an inhome test kit, as an adjunct to education, results in greater reductions in dust mite allergen levels than the use of educational materials alone.
Plan to remain in the same house for at least 12 months.
Child in household aged 5 to 15 with allergy or sensitivity to dust mites (self-reported by parent or guardian, and a doctor's diagnosis of dust mite allergy or sensitivity is not required, i.e., if the parent or guardian believes or suspects that the child is allergic or sensitive to dust mites, that is sufficient).
Child sleeps in own bed at least 3 nights a week.
Child's room has carpeting on at least 50% of the floor.
Parents do not currently have dust mite protective mattress covers on the bed.
At least one of the two bedroom surfaces must have Group 2 dust mite allergen levels of greater than or equal to 2 microliter/g with the ELISA test AND greater than or equal to 2 microliter/g on at least one of the two Mite-T-Fast tests for inclusion.
Does not meet inclusion criteria.
Weiss KB, Sullivan SD. The health economics of asthma and rhinitis. I. Assessing the economic impact. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2001 Jan;107(1):3-8. Review.
Gergen PJ, Turkeltaub PC. The association of individual allergen reactivity with respiratory disease in a national sample: data from the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1976-80 (NHANES II). J Allergy Clin Immunol. 1992 Oct;90(4 Pt 1):579-88.
Platts-Mills TA, Vervloet D, Thomas WR, Aalberse RC, Chapman MD. Indoor allergens and asthma: report of the Third International Workshop. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 1997 Dec;100(6 Pt 1):S2-24. Review.
Winn AK, Salo PM, Klein C, Sever ML, Harris SF, Johndrow D, Crockett PW, Cohn RD, Zeldin DC. Efficacy of an in-home test kit in reducing dust mite allergen levels: results of a randomized controlled pilot study. J Asthma. 2016;53(2):133-8. doi: 10.3109/02770903.2015.1072721. Epub 2015 Aug 24.


Funeral service for Kohji Tani, 70, Denver-born Sansei and a resident of North Hollywood who passed away peacefully on April 22, will be held on Sunday, April 30th, 6 p.m. at the San Fernando Valley Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, 9450 Remick Ave., Arleta, CA. Casual attire requested.
He is survived by his wife, Amy; children, Jason (Akiko), Jeff (Kari), Jennifer and Julia Tani; grandchildren, Kent, Kasey and Kiley Tani; sisters, Judy (Irwin) Wong and June Tani; and many nieces, nephews and other relatives.


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High school out of special measures after two years
Bethany Whymark
bethany.whymark@archant.co.uk
@EDPBethany
Wayland Academy in Watton, part of the Norfolk Academies Trust, has been taken out of special measures after its most recent Ofsted inspection. Picture: TEN Group
A "steady and sustained journey of improvement" has helped a Norfolk high school pull itself out of special measures.
Glen Allott, principal at Wayland Academy in Watton. Picture: Henry George
Wayland Academy was judged to be inadequate by Ofsted in July 2017 - a two-grade drop from its previous "good" rating - with worries about pupil safety and the effectiveness of leadership.
But following five monitoring visits from the education watchdog the school has had its ranking raised to "requires improvement" - with pupils' development, behaviour and welfare judged to be good.
Inspectors said school leaders had taken significant strides in improving behaviour, with fewer incidents of misbehaviour recorded this year, and attendance, which is now above the national average.
Sustained efforts to raise achievement, particularly for GCSE students, were said to be working and inspectors felt pupils were making better progress than they have in the past - but they said the quality of teaching had not improved fast enough to raise achievement fully across the school.
Pupils told inspectors they recognised the changes made at the school and now feel the school is "a safe, stimulating and enjoyable place to be".
Inspectors said there was still work to do to even out inconsistencies in teacher and engage disadvantaged pupils in learning.
Principal Glen Allott said the school would continue to push for improvements with "renewed vigour" after the inspection's positive feedback.
"This report recognises the real improvements we have made through a concerted focus on key areas - attendance is now above the national average, students feel happy and safe and consistently have a positive attitude to learning, and our strategies to strengthen teaching and learning are leading to better outcomes," he said.
"This report confirms that our strategies to improve teaching and learning are on track to bring about further improvements. We recognise that we have further to go in our improvement journey, making sure that the same high standards are applied consistently across all areas of the curriculum."
The school is part of the Norfolk Academies Trust, run by the Transforming Education in Norfolk (TEN) group, and has around 560 pupils.


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Here's one I stumbled on in my travels, the quarterly magazine 'Comets and Criminals'.
The short of it is that we at Comets and Criminals want fantastic stories of no more than 5,000 words in the Science Fiction, Adventure, Historical, and Western genres. We also accept Crime and Mystery fiction, with an upper word limit of 10,000 words.
We want amazing poetry in these genres, too, though we're willing to look at more mainstream poetry also.
C&C is always hunting for art to front each quarterly issue.


John Oliver is well known for his series Last Week Tonight where he delivers news in a humorous but honest manner. Oliver covers world news like Brexit and the French election as well as United States news like the Trump Presidency and vaccines. His most recent episode focused on Mike Pence.
While a majority of the clip focuses on Pence's LGBT discrimination laws, Oliver brings humor to the episode when he talks about Pence's pet rabbit: Marlon Bundo. Pence had a children's book published "Marlon Bundo's A Day In the Life of the Vice President" and because of Pence's strong homophobic views, Oliver created his own parody of the book with a major twist. In Oliver's version "A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo," Marlon Bundo is gay and falls in love with another boy rabbit.
In addition to this, proceeds from Oliver's book go towards the Trevor Project which supports LGBT youth and AIDS United Charity. Currently Oliver's version is rapidly outselling Pence's original version.


Volkswagen recently revealed a new strategy to overcome its dieselgate woes: discontinue sales of diesel cars in the U.S and start production of battery electric vehicles in North America in 2021.
The diesel news was first reported by European business daily Handelsblat, and was followed by a VW press release stating that the German automaker would shift its focus to EVs, including a production facility in North America.
Volkswagen hasn't offered diesels in the U.S. for more than a year now, and it looks like they may never come back.
This follows comments at November (2016)'s Los Angeles auto show by Hinrich Woebcken, CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, when he told reporters he did not believe diesel would ever "come back in the same magnitude as we've seen it up to now" in the U.S. market.
"Emissions standards in following years are getting tougher and tougher," Woebcken said. "Why don't you put the money and investments … to comply with these standards, why don't you put the money on the spot where the future is?" he asked, speaking of VW's new focus on electric vehicles.
Volkswagen plans to bet big on electric vehicles as part of a multi-stage program to turn around declining sales.
The Volkswagen Group said in the press release that by 2025 it plans to sell a million electric vehicles worldwide each year.
As part of its plan to boost its electric sales in the U.S., VW's "Electrify America" strategy includes expanding EV production to North America by 2021.
This includes "considerable investments in electric infrastructure" in North America and "local production" of electric vehicles there starting in 2021, Volkswagen brand chief Herbert Diess said in the press statement.
Ed. Footnote: Since this article was written, VW has moved to settle its lawsuit over its 3.0L diesel engines and has announced a "fix" for some of the 2.0L engines in the earlier lawsuit. Privately, Volkswagen officials have also conceded that the "come back in the same magnitude" statement clearly left room for the return of the fuel efficient diesel in models where they make the most sense, such as large SUVs and sedans.


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Celebrity Big Brother's Chloe Goodman on not pressing charges for groping incident: 'I didn't want to crucify Jeremy Jackson'
Katie BaillieMonday 19 Jan 2015 11:59 am
Chloe explains why she didn't press charges (Picture: ITV)
Celebrity Big Brother's Chloe Goodman has spoken out about why she hasn't taken the groping incident any further.
The nation was left shocked when the model was assaulted while on the reality show by fellow CBB housemate Jeremy Jackson, and he was subsequently removed from the house. The police were called in two days later after viewers complained, but Chloe decided to drop the matter.
The ex-CBB housemate has since been evicted from the house, and appeared on This Morning to explain why she dropped the charges.
'I'd heard Jeremy was prefusely sorry, he'd realised he'd made a mistake. I'm aware he's got a lot of problems,' she told presenters Phil and Christine.
'It was very difficult because I was in a position where they didn't catch it on camera so he could have turned around and said I was lying about the whole thing. That was in the back of my mind as well and did upset me. But as soon as he came out he'd admitted to what he'd done.'
The model explained that knowing the court process is lengthy and drawn out aided in her decision into not pressing charges.
'The reason I didn't press charges is because for me I know how court goes, it's a very long process, you don't move on, you don't put it behind you, you relive the day until the case is done. And I didn't want to re-crucify Jeremy when he knew he'd done wrong.'
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Chloe also gave her account of the moments in the house directly after Jeremy Jackson opened her robe, exposing her breast.
'It was just a shock, and it brought back terrible memories I thought I'd put to sleep.
'It was a place I was live on TV, I never thought I'd be vulnerable so quick, day two I think it was. That was something I found hard to deal with.'
The former housemate also admitted that immediately after the assault she was taken to the diary room where she spent hours speaking to producers without her mic on.
MORE: 'I was absolutely terrified': Celebrity Big Brother star Chloe Goodman reveals how Jeremy Jackson assault brought back traumatic memories of teenage attack
Jeremy Jackson. Celebrity Big Brother 2015 (Picture: Channel 5)
The model also explained that the memories the assault brought back were of an attack which took place by a photographer when she was a glamour model at the age of 18.
MORE: Celebrity Big Brother's Alicia Douvall claims Dwight Yorke and Dane Bowers both cheated on her with Katie Price
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Tributes pour in for CBB star and racing pundit John McCririck as he dies aged 79