My brother received his LVAD on 02/02/2015. We went through the same search. The vest he received in hospital was uncomfortable for him. At one of his therapy sessions we found the answer. I replicated an idea a fellow patient's wife devised for him. We use mans tank tops which I modify. Turn shirt hem up 7 inches, right sides together sew pockets for batteries, one on each side under arm, and pocket for controller. Tank tops can be purchased for about $5. We live in Florida and these are cool and comfortable. He wears a shirt over his tank top when he goes away from home, or sometimes just his tank top with no over shirt. I would be happy to help anyone with instructions on to make one. I made my brother 30 of them when he first had his LVAD so they can be changed daily. I do not use the old fashioned tank top ribbed style t-shirts because they are not sturdy enough for my brother. Please let me know at work4cat@yahoo.com if I can help anyone with instructions on how to sew shirt.
I can sew a little and would love to get instructions on how to do this. Sounds like it is something I can do but just not clever enough to figure it out, Thank you,.
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I have Heartware. I use a two-gun, belly band holster. I wear it backwards around my chest. One battery in each pocket. The computer is velroed. I don't even know I'm wearing it except when the batteries beep to be changed. They're widely available on the web starting at about $7.00. I also get a great night's sleep.
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Peru: Moderate Rightist Party Leader Raul Haya De La Torre Receives Enthusiastic Welcome After Constituent Assembly Election. 1978
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With military-ruled Peru in the midst of its worst-ever economic crisis, the country's first elections in 15 years have returned Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, leader of the moderate right-wing American Popular of Revolutionary Alliance, to his former position strength.
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In the elections the left showed unexpected strength and six left-wing parties won 30 per cent of the vote. During the election period the government deported 14 left-wing candidates to Argentina and a dozen were held without charges by the security police, who have accused them of subversion. Retired General Leonidas Rodriguez Figuer???a, who heads the leading left-wing party, was arrested after he voted on election day. Members of the new cabinet are expected to come mainly from Torre's party and from the Popular Christian party, when all the election results are officially confirmed.
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Background: With military-ruled Peru in the midst of its worst-ever economic crisis, the country's first elections in 15 years have returned Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, leader of the moderate right-wing American Popular of Revolutionary Alliance, to his former position strength. In 1963 APRA and another party called Accion Popular held 70 per cent of the vote. Now, from an electorate of about five million, APRA has captured 36 per cent of the ballot.
SYNOPSIS: Members of Torre's party were worried that sympathizers might not vote for him because of his age -- he is 83. But crowds in Lima turned out to celebrate the emergence of APRA as the strongest single party. The right have now gained a clear majority of the 100 seats in Peru's Constituent Assembly.
The assembly is due to meet on 28 July to start the year-long job of writing a new constitution aimed at democratic rule. It will replace a charter dating back to 1933. Torre's party had threatened to withdraw from the elections because the government had refused to change the rules. Torre will be joined in the assembly by the Popular Christian Party, another right-wing group who won 27 per cent of the vote. The task ahead is to prepare Peru for a return to civilian rule, followed by general and presidential elections in 1980.
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Lebanon: Rightist Leaders Join Christians For Rally Commemorating Martyrs' Day
In Beirut recent clashes between Syrian troops of the Arab Defence Force (ADF) and Christian right-wing militia have raised fears of another serious outbreak of fighting in the Lebanese capital.
France: Youthful Rightist Demonstrators Provoke Police Chase During Breshnev Visit.
Despite the presence in and around Paris of more than ten thousand police and security men....
Lebanon: Rightist Soldiers Pound Palestinian Camp Tel Al-Zaatar With Rockets And Shells.
After a three-week siege, the strategic Palestinian camp Tel Al-Zaatar is soon expected to fall.?
Lebanon: Plo Spokesman Warns Of 'Iron Hand' Retaliation Against Further Israeli-Rightist Advances.
As an uneasy calm prevails in Southern Lebanon, with both sides observing Israel's unilaterally declared cease fire, there's been a tough warning from the PLO against any further action by Israeli-backed Rightists.
Lebanon And Israel: Lebanese Government Troops Head South As Rightist Casualties Cross "Good Fence" Into Israel.
The commander of the right-wing Christian forces in South Lebanon, Major Saad Haddad, has declared the region an independent "Free Lebanon".
Laos: Pathet Lao Forces Enter Savannakhet, The Last Key Stronghold Of The Laotian Rightists.
Communist Pathet Lao forces on Tuesday (20 May) entered the Mekong River town of Savannakhet - the last key stronghold of the Laotian rightists.
West Germany: More Violence As Rightist Adolf Von Thadden Addresses Election Rally.
IN WEST GERMANY TODAY POLICE CLASHED WITH YOUNG LEFT-WING DEMONSTRATORS FOR THE THIRD DAY RUNNING AT AN ELECTION RALLY ADDRESSED BY HERR ADOLF VON THADDEN, LEADER OF THE EXTREME RIGHT-WING NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Japan: Aftermath Kamikaze-Style Aircrash On Ultra-Rightist On Ultra-Rightist Yoshio Kodama's House.
A single-engined aircraft, piloted by a little-known Japanese film actor, crashed into the house of ultra-rightist Yoshio Kodama on Tuesday (23 March) in a Kamikaze-style suicide attack.

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Own balcony is equipped with table and 4 chairs.
A lovely apartment in a quiet area with both locals and tourists, only 4 minutes from the harbour the nerve centre for the town. Apartment is stylish, well equipped and clean. Ok so the balcony doesn't have a sea view, but what you see are the beautiful mountains and interesting local life. Well done to this couple of young entrepreneurs.
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Apartment is really nice and very modern. Very close to the city centre and have all facilities. Ana is a great host who welcomed us warmly. Highly recommend her place.
Beautifully maintained property, modern and comfortable. Away from the noise of the seafront, but still within the nearer proximity.
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NBA & NCAAM Scores & Recap of NBA Trades on Deadline Day: 2/22 - 1st Edt'n - Vol. 323
We're children of the most-high God, understand and believe his word; we never have to beg or plead, for our father will supply all of our needs! Good morning and welcome to your Spiritual Sports Segment on Rhema Gospel Radio…better than when you heard it, the last time you heard it! I'm C.E.E.J.A.Y…..Let's Get It Started!
Tony Parker outplayed Chris Paul
in the Spurs drubbing of the Clippers
After a day of lackluster trades in the National Basketball Association, which I will run down in a few, but there were only two games that showcased on TNT as the defending champions Miami Heat molliwoped the Chicago Bulls 86-67 for their ninth straight victory as LeBron James had a monster game of 26 points, 12 boards and 7 assists and the San Antonio Spurs in the 2nd game not only manhandled the LA Clippers, but they beat them like they stole the Alamo, ohhhh weeee, 116-90 as Tony Parker continues to make his case for MVP honors with 31 points.
Justin Cobb nailed the
go ahead jumper to
UPSET Oregon
Men's College Basketball only had two ranked games as well as Cal UPSET #23 Oregon 48-46 as Justin Cobb not only led all scorers with 14 points, but he also nailed a long range jumper with .7 seconds left in the game that shook up the Oregon and the with settled in the 6th spot in the AP Poll, they laid down the hammer on Virginia Tech 88-56 with 22 points from Seth Curry.
As the trade deadline expired on Thursday at 3pm EST, here are the players that are on the move:
• Orlando Magic traded veteran shooting guard J.J. Redick, along with center Gustavo Ayon and reserve point guard Ish Smith to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for guards Doron Lamb and Beno Udrih and forward Tobias Harris
• The Orlando Magic also acquired forward Hakim Warrick and cash considerations from the Charlotte Bobcats in exchange for forward Josh McRoberts, but they intend to waive Warrick.
• The Boston Celtics acquired third-year guard Jordan Crawford from the Washington Wizards for guard Leandro Barbosa and center Jason Collins
• The Oklahoma City Thunder acquired Ronnie Brewer from the New York Knicks for a 2014 second-round pick and cash considerations and the Thunder also sent point guard Eric Maynor to the Portland Trail Blazers for a $2.2 million trade exception
• The Phoenix Suns have traded backup point guard Sebastian Telfair to the Toronto Raptors for center Hamed Haddadi and a second-round pick
• The Sacramento Kings sent the #5 overall pick in Thomas Robinson to the Houston Rockets along with Francisco Garcia and Tyler Honeycutt in exchange for Patrick Patterson, Cole Aldrich and Toney Douglas and the Kings received $1 million in the transaction.
• The Houston Rockets also dealt forward Marcus Morris to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for a second-round draft pick in June
• Lastly, although not trade, the New York Knicks signed veteran Kenyon Martin to a 10 day contract
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Alyssa Thomas is congratulated
by her head coach for a
season high 30 points
The Lovely Ladies in Women's College Basketball had six ranked games on the hard-court last night as 8th ranked Maryland powered past Boston College 86-61 as Alyssa Thomas was ballin' with a season high of 30 points while pulling down 11 rebounds, 10th ranked Texas A&M simply befuddled Ole Miss 82-53 as Kelsey Bone showed up and she showed out with a big time double-double of 24 points and 17 glass grabbing career high rebounds, 11th ranked Tennessee clawed up the Lady Tigers of Auburn 81-63 with 24 points from Meighan Simmons, while 13th ranked Georgia literally spanked Arkansas 66-34, ouch as the Lady Bulldogs sets the school record for fewest points allowed in a SEC game, 14th ranked Drayton barely escaped St. Bonaventure 67-63 with a double-double from Ally Mallott and 24th ranked Nebraska did a number on Michigan 57-39 with 14 points and 12 rebounds from Jordan Hooper.
The Bruins celebrate after getting
the win over the Lighting
The National Hockey League had a bunch of games on the frozen court as the Minnesota Wild ran over the Edmonton Oilers 3-1, the Buffalo Sabres were defeated by the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1, the Florida Panthers demolished the Philadelphia Flyers 5-2, the New Jersey Devils got past the Washington Capitals 3-2, the Winnipeg Jets beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3, while overtime was needed as the New York Islanders outlast the Montreal Canadiens 4-3, the New York Rangers required a shoot-out but lost to the Ottawa Senators 3-2, the Boston Bruins skated past the Tampa Lighting 4-2, the Columbus Blue Jackets defeated the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 and the Vancouver Canucks surpassed the Dallas Stars 4-3.
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Ellen Cassedy, photo by J. Tkatch
Ellen Cassedy is the translator of On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash. She also has written the book We Are Here, and translated Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories, by Blume Lempel. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Huffington Post and Ha'aretz.
Q: How did you come to translate these stories by the Yiddish-language writer Yenta Mash?
A: Years ago, when my mother died, I decided to study Yiddish as a memorial to her. My mother was Jewish (unlike my father – which is where the name Cassedy comes from), and she would sprinkle a Yiddish word here and there into her conversation, like a spice.
Yiddish was the language that my Jewish forebears spoke in kitchens, marketplaces, and meeting halls on both sides of the Atlantic. connecting myself to Yiddish became a way to honor their lives. For me, Yiddish is a holy tongue, and my work as a translator feels like sacred work.
I tackled the work of Yenta Mash as a translation fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, based in Amherst, Massachusetts – a wonderful organization.
What drew me to Mash was the sheer quality of her work. She was a down-to-earth and often witty observer of a changing world, and a master chronicler of exile.
I compare her to other voices of assimilation and resilience – Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake), André Aciman (Out of Egypt), and Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Refugees). Her work is keenly relevant today, as displaced people seek refuge across the globe.
Q: How was Yenta Mash viewed during her lifetime, and what do you see as her legacy today?
A: Mash (1922-2013) came out of "nowhere" – a tiny town in the region once known as Bessarabia (today Moldova, east of Romania). She didn't start writing until she was in her 50s, in Israel.
Once she started, her words came pouring out, and she won immediate acclaim. She published four volumes of short stories, appeared in Yiddish journals throughout the world, and received several literary awards. She died just five years ago, in 2013. So she's basically a contemporary writer.
This translation makes Mash's work available to English-language readers for the very first time.
It's exciting to me to bring her and other previously unknown women writers into the light of day. As we gain access to more and more of these buried treasures, I believe Yiddish literature will take its rightful place in the world, as what has been called "a major literature in a minor language."
Mash is a rare source of information about little-known corners of history – especially Jewish history, and especially Jewish women's history. She's also a rich font of wisdom about the experience of migration and immigration – really, about the human condition.
Q: How did you choose the order in which to present the stories, and did you see certain themes running through them?
A: Yenta Mash drew on her own life of multiple uprootings as she told the stories of people who are forever on the move. Her stories trace an arc across continents, across multiple upheavals and regime changes, and across the phases of a woman's life from girlhood to old age.
For this collection, I selected stories that reflect all the parts of that arc, and I put them in chronological order. We begin with a story that takes place in Mash's girlhood, in a vibrant Jewish town like the one in "Fiddler on the Roof."
We then travel by train and by barge, with Mash and other women prisoners, into the land of Soviet labor camps, into the land called the taiga, with its frozen steppes, snowy forests, and surging rivers.
When the Siberian exile ends, we see how the Jewish community rebuilds itself in the postwar Soviet sphere. And finally, we join refugees from Eastern Europe who struggle to find their place in Israel. We see the challenges of assimilation, and the awkwardness of a land where young people instruct their elders, instead of the other way around.
Even in the most harrowing settings, Mash is somehow inspiring. Young and old, her characters are solid, sturdy people with a sense of humor. They're survivors, people who land on their feet. We see relationships forged, inner strength called upon, and a ceaseless wrestling with God.
Q: How was the book's title (also the title of one of the stories) selected, and what does it signify for you?
A: Mash's characters are always arriving from somewhere or departing to somewhere, embarking or disembarking – always "on the landing."
A: Only a fraction of all that was written in Yiddish over the past century and a half has been translated. So I'm always on the lookout for gems of Yiddish literature that need to be rendered into English.
I'm also writing a memoir about "raises and roses" – how women office workers began demanding rights and respect in the early 1970s. There may well be some lessons for our times….
--Interview with Deborah Kalb. Here's a previous Q&A with Ellen Cassedy.


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Home > Around the Regions > Following in the wake of the Vikings in a Hylas 63
Following in the wake of the Vikings in a Hylas 63
-Story of a 132-day sailing expedition on board a comfortable Hylas 63 yacht
– Island route from Florida to Valencia via Greenland, Iceland and the Faroes
– Just a few custom features added to ready the boat for the Far North
– Cruising legendary Prince Christian Sound with its dozens of calving glaciers
– Exploring the wild Faroes and traversing the famous Caledonian Canal
A determined Hylas 63 owner has demonstrated just how straightforward it is to island hop across the far north of the Atlantic Ocean. With just a few cold-water improvements made to his yacht Shaima, Alberto Duhau and an ever-changing crew took 132 days to cruise from Florida to Valencia, by way of Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland and the Faroes.
Duhau conceived of the expedition as a homage to the Viking navigators, and he was determined to do it in a comfortable non-expedition boat. "In studying the Viking explorations, I found that it was all about sailing in fast ships and in short hops, during favourable weather windows in the height of summer," said Duhau. "If the Vikings did it ten centuries ago, why couldn't we do it in greater safety and comfort today?"
Built by Hylas yard Queen Long Marine in Taiwan, Shaima was already a supremely comfortable 8-berth bluewater yacht, with sleek lines from the incomparable Germán Frers. Her hull was a hi-tech sandwich construction using alternating layers of Twaron and glassfibre for stiffness and strength in collision, and she had been customised for offshore work. But key cold-water improvements included building a rigid cockpit enclosure with heating, installing a heat exchanger in the watermaker intake, reinforcing the davit bases for a 15ft tender and beefing up the rudder bearings. She was also equipped with 120m of anchor chain and long shorelines.
Once the boat was expedition-ready, Duhau drew up a detailed passage plan whose key feature was cruising southwest Greenland, particularly the 57-mile long Prince Christian Sound. This narrow fjord separates the mainland from numerous islands to the south, while glaciers calve into its deep waters from the north. In places, it is no more than 500m wide.
With impressive tankage for 2,450lt of fuel and 1,450lt of water, and several fridges well stocked with fresh food, Shaima took the US east coast in one long hop. Then she put in at several spots along the coasts of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, revelling in the sight of humpback and pilot whales. "The small coastal villages of this part of Canada start to have the flavour of Scandinavian towns that dot the landscape for the rest of the trip," noted Duhau.
They waited three days on Newfoundland for a weather window before making the 700-mile jump to Greenland's second 'city' Qaqortoq. With 15-20 knot winds from the south and west, it was a good broad reach most of the way, although there were plenty of bergie bits and ice sightings to keep the crew busy. "Sometimes we could scout for icebergs from the warmth of our cockpit enclosure, but often we had to stand watch unprotected from the side deck," said Duhau. "Our one-piece survival suits and our Arctic boots were essential." The warmth and comfort of the boat's luxurious interior made a welcome respite from the cold and fog.
Some 90 per cent of Greenland lies under the ice cap, with only a strip of exposed land around the coast. In anchorage after anchorage, the crew explored to their hearts' content, taking in iceberg climbing, sea kayaking and bountiful fishing for Arctic char. Care was needed through Prince Christian Sound, where high granite cliffs on either side are punctuated by 12 calving glaciers. Nonetheless, this was a highlight of the trip.
It was a much simpler crossing to Iceland across 660 miles of mostly ice-free sea. The passage took just four days, and the island is much better supplied with marinas and tourist facilities. Duhau had planned to cruise the wilder north-about route, but changed plans in order to make up lost time. "Reykjavik is welcoming, culturally vibrant and fun," he said. "We spent 10 days there and never ran out of things to do."
The cruise down to the Faroe Islands felt like downhill by comparison, although the islands themselves are beautiful, empty and wild. One can explore by sea readily enough, but it is quicker to do so by land, because the main islands are connected by tunnels.
Shaima made a fast passage to Inverness, where she picked up the Caledonian Canal to traverse Scotland. Duhau enthused about "climbing up and down dozens of sea locks, sailing across the legendary loch Ness and reaching lovely Oban on the third day." Tobermory and Islay came next, where the crew visited no fewer than six distilleries, reaping the inevitable reward the next morning. Highlights after that were Belfast, Dublin and then the Spanish rias, where the tempo began to rise as they hopped south and into the Mediterranean.
Looking back on his adventure, Duhau noted that they had not spent more than six days in a row at sea – a far cry from the two to three weeks required for the direct route. "The route up North is just so isolated, so pristine, it touches your heart. You do not need an expedition boat to do this, just a seaworthy ocean vessel and a competent crew," he added. "Island hopping across the Atlantic is a very feasible project."
Hylas director Peggy Huang saluted the achievements of Alberto and his crew. "We are thrilled to see the Hylas 63 Shaima put to such a good test in the far north, but it comes as no surprise. We work with one of the world's best naval architects and use cutting edge technology to ensure that all our boats are hugely capable offshore cruisers. They are nimble performers, or course, but above all they are safe to handle and extremely comfortable to live aboard. Our unmatched ability to customise the boats from the off makes us unique in the 46-70ft yacht segment."


On this page you will find some pictures of our current and past members who we have known.
This is Alan Garside our current Chairman.
This is Danny Jones (Me), I am the Club Secretary and Webmaster.
This is Alex King, he is a commitee member.
This is Adrian Hall, He currently lives in Spain but still visits when he is over on holiday.
This is Harry Dennis, He was our first chairman and over the years held various roles such as Vice Chairman and Treasurer. Harry was not able to attend very often in later life due to poor health and being a carer to his wife. Sadly Harry passed away 13th Febuary 2014 aged 77.
This is Mark Harrison, Mark was involved around the years 1998-2000 same time when me and Alex King first got involved but like young lads of 13-16 we soon discovered other interests. We still keep in contact but due to work commitments he isnt able to attend. He is seen here during one evening when he visited the club around 2012, he has also helped me out in the past at short notice on an open evening in 2010.


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PlayRaven joins the Angry Birds flock. The acquisition strengthens Rovio's expansion into mobile strategy games.
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package com.wso2telco.dep.mediator.impl.ussd;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.axis2.addressing.EndpointReference;
import org.apache.synapse.MessageContext;
import org.apache.synapse.core.axis2.Axis2MessageContext;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import com.wso2telco.dep.mediator.OperatorEndpoint;
import com.wso2telco.dep.mediator.internal.Type;
import com.wso2telco.dep.mediator.internal.UID;
import com.wso2telco.dep.mediator.service.USSDService;
import com.wso2telco.dep.operatorservice.model.OperatorSubscriptionDTO;

public class StopMOUSSDSubscriptionHandler implements USSDHandler  {

    private USSDExecutor executor;
    private USSDService dbService;

    public StopMOUSSDSubscriptionHandler(USSDExecutor ussdExecutor) {

        this.executor = ussdExecutor;
        dbService = new USSDService();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean validate(String httpMethod, String requestPath, JSONObject jsonBody, MessageContext context) throws Exception {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean handle(MessageContext context) throws Exception {
        if (executor.getHttpMethod().equalsIgnoreCase("DELETE")) {
            return deleteSubscriptions(context);
        }
        return false;

    }
    private boolean deleteSubscriptions(MessageContext context) throws Exception {
        UID.getUniqueID(Type.DELRETSUB.getCode(), context, executor.getApplicationid());

        String requestPath = executor.getSubResourcePath();
        String subid = requestPath.substring(requestPath.lastIndexOf("/") + 1);

        Integer operatorid = Integer.parseInt(subid.replaceFirst("sub", ""));
        List<OperatorSubscriptionDTO> domainsubs = (dbService.moUssdSubscriptionQuery(Integer.valueOf(operatorid)));

        String resStr = "";

        if(!domainsubs.isEmpty() && domainsubs != null){
            for (OperatorSubscriptionDTO subs : domainsubs) {
                 executor.makeDeleteRequest(new OperatorEndpoint(new EndpointReference(subs.getDomain()), subs
                        .getOperator()), subs.getDomain(), null, true, context, false);
            }
            new USSDService().moUssdSubscriptionDelete(Integer.valueOf(operatorid));
        }

        ((Axis2MessageContext) context).getAxis2MessageContext().setProperty("HTTP_SC", 204);
        executor.removeHeaders(context);

        return true;
    }
}

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The year 2020 threw at the world a bedlam of novel COVID-19 virus, threatening all that was taken for granted –mobility, safety, and a normal life itself. This, in turn, posed the most formidable economic challenge to India and to the world in a century. Bereft of a cure or a vaccine, public health policy became central to tackling this all-pervasive crisis. The imperative of flattening the disease curve was entwined with the livelihood cost of an imminent recession, whichemanatedfrom the restrictions ineconomic activities from the lockdownrequired to contain the pandemic. This inherent trade-off led to the policy dilemma of "lives versus livelihoods".
Governments and central banks across the world deployed a range of policy tools to support their economies such as lowering key policy rates, quantitative easing measures, loan guarantees, cash transfers and fiscal stimulus measures. India recognised the disruptive impact of the pandemic and charted its own unique path amidst dismal projections by several international institutions of the spread in the country given its huge population, high population density and an overburdened health infrastructure.
As shown in Chapter 1 of Volume 1, the intense lockdown implemented at the start of the pandemic
– when India had only a 100 confirmed cases – characterized India's unique response in several ways. First, the policy response was driven by the findings from both epidemiological and economic research. Specifically, faced with enormous uncertainty about the potential spread of the pandemic, the policy implemented the Nobel-prize winning research in Hansen and Sargent (2001) that recommends a policy focussed on minimising losses in a worst case scenario. Faced with an unprecedented pandemic, loss of scores of human lives captured this worst case scenario. Moreover, epidemiological research highlighted the importance of an initial, stringent lockdown especially in a country where high population density posed difficulties with respect to social distancing. Therefore, India's policy humane response that focused on saving human lives, recognised that the short-term pain of an initial, stringent lockdown would lead to long- term gains both in the lives saved and in the pace of the economic recovery. The scores of lives that have been saved and the V-shaped economic recovery that is being witnessed – due to the causal impact of the initial lockdown – bear testimony to India's boldness in taking short-term pain for long-term gain.
Second, India recognised that the pandemic impacts both supply and demand in the economy. The slew of reforms – again unique amidst all major economies – were implemented to ensure that the supply-side disruptions, which were inevitable during the lockdown, are minimised in the medium to long-run. The demand side policy reflected the understanding that aggregate
demand, especially that for non-essential items, reflects precautionary motives to save, which inevitably remains high when overall uncertainty is high. Therefore, during the initial months of the pandemic when uncertainty was high and lockdowns imposed economic restrictions, India did not waste precious fiscal resources in trying to pump up discretionary consumption. Instead, the policy focused on ensuring that all essentials were taken care of, which included direct benefit transfers to the vulnerable sections and the world's largest food subsidy programme targeting 80.96 crore beneficiaries. Government of India also launched Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme to provide much needed relief to stressed sectors by helping entities sustain employment and meet liabilities.
During the unlock phase, when uncertainty declined and the precautionary motive to save subsided, on the one hand, and economic mobility increased, on the other hand, India has ramped up its fiscal spending. A favorable monetary policy ensured abundant liquidity and immediate relief to debtors via temporary moratoria, while unclogging monetary policy transmission. India's demand-side policy, thus, underscores the idea that pressing on the accelerator while the brakes are clamped only wastes scarce fuel.
India has been able to avoid the second wave while ably managing to fl the epidemiological curve, with its caseload peaking in mid-September. As shown in Chapter 1 of Volume I, the initial stringent lockdown was critical to saving lives and the V-shaped economic recovery. The continuous drop in daily cases and fatalities bespeak India's escape from a Sisyphus fate of back- and-forth policy responses, enabling continual unlocking of the economy. As anticipated, while the lockdown resulted in a 23.9 per cent contraction in GDP in Q1, the recovery has been a V-shaped one as seen in the 7.5 per cent decline in Q2 and the recovery across all key economic indicators. Starting July, a resilient V-shaped recovery is underway, as demonstrated by the recovery in GDP growth in Q2 after the sharp decline in Q1, a sustained resurgence in high frequency indicators such as power demand, E-way bills, GST collection, steel consumption, etc. The reignited inter and intra state movement and record-high monthly GST collections have marked the unlocking of industrial and commercial activity. A sharp rise in commercial paper issuances, easing yields, and sturdy credit growth to MSMEs portend revamped credit fl for enterprises to survive and grow. Imports contracted more sharply than exports, with Forex reserves rising to cover 18 months of imports. Infl mainly driven by food prices, remained above 6 per cent for much of the year; the softening in December suggests easing of supply-side constraints.
India's GDP is estimated to contract by 7.7 per cent in FY2020-21, composed of a sharp 15.7 per cent decline in first half and a modest 0.1 per cent fall in the second half. Sector-wise, agriculture has remained the silver lining while contact-based services, manufacturing, construction were hit hardest, and have been recovering steadily. Government consumption and net exports have cushioned the growth from diving further down.
The V-shaped economic recovery is supported by the initiation of a mega vaccination drive with hopes of a robust recovery in the services sector. Together, prospects for robust growth in consumption and investment have been rekindled with the estimated real GDP growth for FY 2021-22 at 11 per cent. India's mature policy response to this "once-in-a-century" crisis thus provides important lessons for democracies to avoid myopic policymaking and demonstrates the significant benefits of focusing on long-term gains.
1.1 The year 2020 witnessed unrivalled turmoil with the novel COVID-19 virus and the resultant pandemic emerging as the biggest threat to economic growth in a century. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a 'Public Health Emergency of International Concern' (PHEIC) on 30th January, 2020 and advised that all countries should be prepared for containment, including active surveillance, early detection, isolation and case management,
contact tracing, and prevention of onward spread. The exponential rise in the number of daily cases compelled the WHO to title this outbreak a pandemic on 11th March, 2020 – within a period of three months of its emergence. The contagion is still spreading with over 10 crore confirmed cases around the globe and over 2 lakh deaths. The ensuing shock has been extremely unconventional in terms of its size and uncertainty, with its impact dependent on unpredictable factors like intensity of lockdowns, extent of supply chain and financial market disruptions alongside societal response to the associated public health measures. The pandemic has been unique in its wide-ranging effects on almost every section of the economy and the society.
SPREAD OF THE PANDEMIC
Global Spread
1.2 Since its first outbreak in Wuhan, China, COVID-19 has infected all continents, including Antarctica (in December, 2020), and more than 220 countries. The health shock, though global, has transmitted through different trajectories across countries in terms of total infections, mortalities, and recoveries. In the initial stages of the pandemic, the Advanced Economies (AE) of North American and West European region were disproportionately impacted with more than 70 per cent of the total cases and total deaths (Figure 1). The pandemic quickly intensified in number of Emerging Market and Developing Economies (EMDEs) such as Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia and Turkey– that now constitute around 50 per cent of total cases and total deaths. In recent months, amidst a repeat wave, AEs—particularly the United States and several Euro area countries—have accounted for an increasing share of cases; in EMDEs, outbreaks in the Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe and Central Asia regions have continued to grow. It is evident that AEs have been affected harder by the pandemic.
1.3 The spread of the pandemic has been in waves as is evident in Figure 2. AEs were experiencing their third waves, both in terms of cases and deaths, at the end of the year while EMDEs (excluding China and India) were facing their second waves. China experienced the first wave of cases in February, 2020 after which it has been able to control the spread. India experienced its first wave till September, 2020 after which it has been able to effectively manage the spread – avoiding the second wave as on date.
1.4 AEs witnessed higher confi cases and deaths on per capita basis too as compared to EMDEs (Figure 3). The third wave in AEs has proven to be more lethal with fatalities exceeding by 5.3 times compared to the second wave and surpassing the level during the fi wave in December itself.
Figure 3: Per Capita COVID-19 Caseload across Countries
Source: Survey Calculations using data from WHO Note: Data is as on 31st December, 2020
SPREAD OF PANDEMIC IN INDIA
India imposed a stringent nation-wide lockdown during the initial phase of the pandemic in March-April, 2020, followed by gradual unlocking and phasing out of the containment measures. India crossed its peak in mid-September with 11.12 lakh active cases on 17th September, 2020 and 97,860 daily new cases on 16th September, 2020 (Figure 4 (a)). Subsequently, new cases have moved down to less than 16,000 cases per day in January, 2021 despite the festive season and onset of the winter season. The confi cases in India have touched more than 1.06 crore, representing around 11 per cent of the world's total case load. India's share in new cases load globally has drastically come down from 31 per cent in September, 2020 to 4 per cent in December, 2020. The pace of spread has been controlled with doubling time of cases rising from 12 days in May, 2020 to 249 days in December, 2020 (Figure 4 (b)).
The initial spread of pandemic was limited primarily to western and northern zones of the country, which contributed 42 and 22 per cent respectively (Figure 5 (a)). On the other hand, a sharp rise in share of Southern zone was witnessed since July, 2020 with the zone adding more than one-third of the new cases per month on an average. The eastern and central regions each constituted 10 per cent of the total cases respectively during the year. All zones, barring northern region, experienced a single wave of infection till December (Figure 5 (b)). The festive season during October and November led to a second wave of infections in the northern region. In per capita terms, the southern zone had a maximum caseload at 1226 cases per lakh followed by western zone at 1124 cases per lakh; the eastern region had the lowest caseload at 342 cases per lakh as on 31st December, 2020 (Figure 5 (c)).
Note: Data is as on 31st December, 2020; the Zones are defined as per the Zonal Councils
The total death toll in India, as on 31st December, 2020, was 1.48 lakh with more than 50 per cent of the fatalities occurring in western and southern zones of the country. Throughout the pandemic, Maharashtra has been the worst affected state having highest incidence of deaths in India (Figure 6 (a)). All zones, except the northern zone, experienced a single wave in terms of deaths (Figure 6 (b)). The northern region witnessed three death waves, with the third wave proving to be the most lethal as deaths exceeded 1.7 times more than what it was during the fi wave. In per capita terms, the western zone has been the worst performer with 27 deaths per lakh, followed by northern region at 13 deaths per lakh (Figure 6 (c)). Deaths per capita have been lower in the eastern and north-eastern zones at 6 and 4 deaths per lakh respectively.
The Zones are defined as per the Zonal Councils
RAMPING uP TESTING
1.8 As the first step towards timely identification, prompt isolation & treatment, testing was identified as an effective strategy to limit the spread of infection. Acharacteristic of the pandemic, which aggravated its virulence, was its probable transmission by asymptomatic people. Large- scale testing was, therefore, imperative for quick identification of cases, immediate isolation to prevent spread and timely treatment. It also helped in effective contact tracing and timely isolation of prospective cases. Testing policy has been continuously evolving since the beginning of the pandemic with countries rapidly gearing up the testing capacity to curb the pace of spread (Figure 7).
Note: "Open public testing" is aggressive testing; "Testing if symptoms" refers to testing anyone who shows COVID-19 symptoms; "Limited testing" is when an individual is showing symptoms and meets a laid down criterion like medical worker, overseas travel etc. "No policy" refers to having no testing policy in place.
An analysis of tests per lakh and total cases per lakh shows that countries such as United Kingdom, Argentina, Germany, Colombia, Switzerland, Poland and Peru need to perform more tests as cases per lakh are on the higher side relative to tests conducted (Figure 8). US is an outlier as it has both high tests per lakh and high caseload per lakh as on 31st December, 2020. India lies below the global average of cases, despite being the second worst affected country in the world.
Figure 8: Total Tests vs Confirmed Cases per Lakh
Note: Data is as on 31st December 2020
India rapidly ramped up its capacity to rapidly scale-up tests. In January 2020, India had only one laboratory testing for COVID-19, at the National Institute of Virology, Pune. Today
there are more than 2300 laboratories across the country, performing molecular tests for its diagnosis – an unparalleled achievement in the history of the Indian health system. India has shown tremendous progress in conduct of daily tests with a dedicated emphasis on expansion of testing infrastructure (Figure 9). Keeping the focus on "Test, Track and Treat", India has tested nearly 18.5 crore cumulative COVID-19 samples with cumulative test positivity rate at 5.6 per cent, as on 31st December, 2020.
The unprecedented pace of transmission and lethality of COVID-19 triggered a global health crisis that has led to an enormous human toll of over 10 crore confi cases and over 21 lakh fatalities. Given the unavailability of a potent cure and a preventive vaccine, it was imperative that the spread be contained by implementing various public health measures. However, this presented crucial policy dilemmas before governments across the globe.
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Santorum To Obama: Fight Gay Marriage Instead Of Global Warming 'For The Survival Of Our Country'
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum argued over the weekend that President Barack Obama should redirect the energy that he has been putting into fighting climate change into promoting heterosexual marriages "for the survival of our county."
By David — June 28, 2015
In an interview on Sunday, Santorum told the hosts of Fox & Friends that the U.S. Congress should pass laws to require Supreme Court justices to face elections and to force them to "take all appeals" because of their ruling that effectively legalized marriage for same-sex couples.
"The better solution if you're going to put effort into try to control the judiciary is by doing things that limits their jurisdiction or requires, for example, the Supreme Court to take all appeals," he explained.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson wondered what Santorum would do to stop the institution of marriage from "collapsing" after Friday's Supreme Court ruling.
"The most important power that a president has -- and obviously I'm running for president -- the most important power the president has is the power of the bully pulpit," Santorum opined. "Can you imagine if instead of if the president spent all his time talking about global warming, if he talked about the importance of marriage and fathers and mothers taking responsibility for raising this children in healthy homes?"
"And actually promoting marriage," he continued. "And actually have programs that support the idea of marriage and togetherness in order to raise children."
"That, to me, is the most important thing we can do as a society, is begin to lift up marriage as an institution that's important for the survival of our country because too many children are falling through the cracks."
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Amar'e Stoudemire to return to Israel - if no NBA team wants him
Former NBA all-star plans to return to Israeli basketball, unless he is picked up by NBA team.
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Former NBA All-Star Amar'e Stoudemire will return to the Israeli Hapoel Jerusalem basketball team, if he does not secure a position in the NBA.
The team made the announcement Sunday, saying that the all-star's return was conditioned on him not finding a spot on an NBA team.
Stoudemire played for the New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns among other teams in a 16-year NBA career.
Stoudemire previously played for the team for a year, and left in September 2017, citing a desire to return to the NBA. Israeli media reported at the time that he had a rocky relationship with the Hapoel Jerusalem coach and his son was barred from playing on a local team because he is not an Israeli citizen.
Stoudemire is a partial owner of Hapoel, which he had to suspend in order to play.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. (FOX 47) – A young woman from Rochester was among the final tourists to see Notre Dame Cathedral as it was on the inside– before flames devoured parts of the historic landmark.
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Her mother shared photos and videos that Bigler captured before and after the flames erupted.
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Her studies brought her to Paris this week.
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She described the day to her family as "heartbreaking."
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Courts • Janeen Lundberg is sentenced to up to five years in prison for causing death of 6-year-old girl.
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Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Janeen Lundberg watches a security camera video of the accident during her preliminary hearin Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Janeen Lundberg watches a security camera video of the accident during her preliminary hearin Six-year-old Ambrosia Amalathithada-Ramseyer died a day after being hit by a car on Wednesday at the intersection of 1500 South an Six-year-old Åmbrosia Amalathithada-Ramseyer died a day after being hit by a car at the intersection of 1500 South and State Stre
Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Janeen Lundberg watches a security camera video of the accident during her preliminary hearing in Judge Elizabeth Hruby-Mills' courtroom at the Matheson Courthouse, Friday, November 30, 2012. Lundberg is charged with automobile homicide, for allegedly driving under the influence of sedatives when she hit and killed 6-year-old Ambrosia Amalathithada-Ramseyer, who was walking with her mother in a crosswalk on State Street in Salt Lake City. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Janeen Lundberg watches a security camera video of the accident during her preliminary hearing in Judge Elizabeth Hruby-Mills' courtroom at the Matheson Courthouse, Friday, November 30, 2012. Lundberg is charged with automobile homicide, for allegedly driving under the influence of sedatives when she hit and killed 6-year-old Ambrosia Amalathithada-Ramseyer, who was walking with her mother in a crosswalk on State Street in Salt Lake City. Six-year-old Ambrosia Amalathithada-Ramseyer died a day after being hit by a car on Wednesday at the intersection of 1500 South and State Street in March 2012. Courtesy: Ramseyer Family and the Amalathithada family Six-year-old Åmbrosia Amalathithada-Ramseyer died a day after being hit by a car at the intersection of 1500 South and State Street on March 14, 2012. Courtesy: Ramseyer Family and the Amalathithada family
By Marissa Lang The Salt Lake Tribune
· December 17, 2013 6:28 am
This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
The moment before Natalie Amalathithada's life changed forever, the young mother had one thing on her mind: sweets.
Her 6-year-old daughter, Ambrosia Amalathithada-Ramseyer, had received top grades that day on a book report at school.
She was so proud, she offered the girl a reward: "Anything she wanted," the mother said.
And so they walked together, hand in hand, across State Street to find Ambrosia's prize.
But their adventure — and Ambrosia's life — was cut short as Janeen Lundberg's car careened into the mother and daughter.
The child died. The mother suffered broken legs, a broken pelvis, a skull fracture and brain injury.
On Monday, Lundberg was sentenced to up to five years in prison for driving under the influence of prescription medications when she killed the little girl.
The sentence — shy of the maximum zero to 10 year term Lundberg faced — was a too short for Natalie Amalathithada, who asked 3rd District Judge Robin Reese to sentence the woman to six years, seven months and three days behind bars.
"That's the exact age my daughter was when Janeen Lundberg took her life," Amalathithada said. "She should have the same amount of her life taken away, so she can sit there and think about what she's done for every day my daughter was alive."
As she spoke, her body shook with sobs. She took an uneven breath before looking up at Lundberg, who stood just feet away.
"You ruined my life," the mother said, "in so many ways."
Amalathithada presented a poster board to the court bearing photos of her daughter. Pink ribbons and colorful cardboard frames surrounded images of the child.
"I just want people to remember her," she said later, outside the courtroom. "I want them to know my daughter mattered, that she was here."
Lundberg's fate now rests with the Board of Pardons, who will determine exactly how much time she spends in prison.
Her attorney, John Walsh, said the length of her incarceration is irrelevant, as nothing the court could impose will punish her as much as she has already punished herself. He argued that probation was enough of a sentence.
"The defendant faces a lifetime of painful days and sleepless nights," Walsh said. "She has a lifetime to reflect on the fact that she ended the life of precious Ambrosia."
Lundberg, 47, pleaded guilty in September to a reduced third-degree felony count of negligent homicide and driving under the influence of drugs, also a third-degree felony.
According to charging documents, Lundberg was driving under the influence of sedatives about 4 p.m. on March 14, 2012, when she swerved to pass a car in a left-turn lane on State Street near Kensington Avenue (1522 South). She didn't see the mother and daughter in the crosswalk until it was too late.
Police said Lundberg was traveling between 32 and 38 mph at the time of the fatal accident, and made no attempt to brake.
A blood test revealed Lundberg had several different prescription medications in her system on the day of the accident.
According to court documents, Lundberg was taking Alprazolam, Butalbital, Methocarbamol, Cymbalta and Neurontin. All have sedative effects. Two types of medication the woman had taken were for a history of seizures, her attorney has said.
Lundberg told authorities she stopped at a 7-Eleven prior to the crash and bought coffee, Diet Pepsi and No-Doze because she was worried about staying safe on the road, according to testimony.
Knowing this, and deciding to take the wheel anyway, amounted to recklessness, said prosecutor Sandi Johnson.
"A motor vehicle is a dangerous weapon and we should all be more cautious," Johnson said. "Any time you abuse medications or take illegal drugs and operate a motor vehicle, you're a danger to the community."
Lundberg was initially charged with second-degree felony automobile homicide, for which Lundberg could have been sent to prison for up to 15 years. But in exchange for her pleas, prosecutors dropped two additional misdemeanor counts and lessened the charges.
Lundberg has been in custody since the March 2012 crash.
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New! DCI Virtual Tour, SoM Facts & Figures, Med Student Resources
By: Julie Poucher Harbin, Senior Writer, DCI
The School of Medicine (SoM) Office of Communications, in close collaboration with colleagues across Duke Health, including the GME Office, DUH Office of Communications, and DUHS Marketing & Communications has just made available a new comprehensive virtual tour of Duke Health, some new med student/fellow/resident recruitment resources, and an updated online publication of Duke SoM facts & figures.
Tour Duke Health: Watch & Listen
Embark On an Interactive and Immersive Virtual Tour (below) that takes you through Duke Health's medical, research and educational facilities, starting at Duke Medicine Circle, through main campus, over to Research Drive, and wrapping up at Duke's community hospitals and clinics.
*Click the links below to go directly to these individual tour stops
Duke Cancer Center (Duke Cancer Institute) services including imaging, mammography, radiation oncology, pharmacy, and patient resources
Duke University Hospital, with 957-acute care beds, 51 operating rooms, and a soon-to-be-opened 11-story Duke Central Tower (Summer 2021)
Duke Medicine Pavilion, a major critical care and surgical expansion of Duke University Hospital, housing 160 critical care rooms, 16 ORs, and an imaging suite
Duke Health community hospitals and health facilities, including Duke Regional Hospital, which houses Duke Cancer Center North Durham, Duke Raleigh Hospital, which houses Duke Cancer Center Raleigh, and community partners including the Durham VA Medical Center and the Lincoln Community Health Center.
Duke Childrens and Children's Health Center
Duke Clinic
Duke Eye Center
*Click the links below to visit these individual tour stops
Duke University biomedical research facilities
Duke University School of Medicine Health Professions Education, including the Trent Semans Center for Health Education
NEW! Student Recruitment Webpages
Health Professions Student Recruitment: "You're Why the Future Holds Promise"
This is for potential students (including MD, DPT, PA, master's programs, and other health professions programs) and provides information about living in Durham, the Duke campus, and Duke University School of Medicine priorities.
Graduate Medical Education: "You're Why We're the Future of Health Care"
This is for potential residents and fellows and provides information about living in Durham, the Duke campus, and Duke Health priorities.
NEW! Duke University School of Medicine Facts & Figures
2020 School of Medicine Facts & Figures – Previously available as a printed brochure or a PDF, 2020 School of Medicine Facts & Figures has moved online with content reflecting what makes the School of Medicine a top institution for medical education, clinical care, and biomedical research.


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Sprint is buying another set of wireless cable TV operations, accelerating its drive to create a broadband link directly to homes. The company has acquired the wireless assets of the Canadian Videotron group for $180 million, giving it wireless spectrum in Tampa Bay, Florida, as well as San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, and other West Coast cities. Sprint also bought out Transworld Telecommunications, which owned a smaller stake in the Videotron assets. Sprint plans to use the operations for high-speed Internet and local telephone service.


When you decide to buy a Panini press, typically you only have one thing on your mind – those gooey, warm, toasted pressed sandwiches known as Panini's. Usually, you buy a Panini press for that sole purpose, but a good kitchen tool is a multi-tool. Something you can use for more than one type of food. Thankfully, even if you don't think of it, most Panini press creators do and create their product in such a way so that you can use it for more than just sandwiches.
However, while your impressive Panini press can make quite the impression on your sandwiches, what are other things you can do with it?
It is not a far leap from pressed sandwiches to quesadilla. In fact, if you have mastered your Taco Bell quesadilla copycat recipe, it may be the very first thing you do with your Panini press. Like the Panini, there are hundreds of different ways to enjoy quesadilla with recipes ranging from super healthy to decadent junk food. However, unlike making a quesadilla in a skillet or trying to blunder through it with an oven, there is no better way to get those nice grill marks than with a Panini press.
If you haven't sampled the simple pleasure that is grilled peaches, then we're sad to say that you haven't fully lived yet. While weaker fruit like pears or cherries may be best drowned in a flavorful drink, juicy and more robust fruit like peaches, pineapple, and even strawberries are sturdy enough to stand up to a little heat. Since they are primarily packed with natural sugar, they caramelize and your get a fascinating new flavor. However, doing it on the grill only gets that good even caramelization on one side, so why not make it perfect in your Panini maker?
Everyone knows how easy it is to cook awesome bacon on a Panini press, but that is far from the only breakfast treat you can cook on there. It is actually easier to cook great hash browns in a Panini press then in the oven or on the skillet. You want them nice and crispy, and a Panini press is a way to do that evenly.
Panini's are great, but if it hasn't happened already, there may come a day when you decide you want to treat your body a little better. However, even if that lofty New Year's resolution doesn't work out, you can still get a lot of use out of your Panini press during that time. You can use it on a number of healthy options, but vegetables and tofu work out the best.
Tofu, for example, absorbs more flavor the more water that is pressed out of it, so not only can you do that by toasting it, but you can press the moisture out just by sitting it in there and leaving the machine off. As for vegetables, you get those excellent char marks for flavor, and vegetables that are cooked without all the nutrients being boiled out of them.
This is one of those foods that you think wouldn't work in a Panini press, but totally does. You just have to make sure not to overfill it or you will have omelet oozing out the sides. Just beat some eggs, mix in your fixings, pour, and press. Be sure to properly grease the plates before, though.
Don't fancy going outside in the snow to enjoy one of your favorite summer grill foods? With a Panini press, meat, fruit, and vegetable-laden kababs can be an any season food when you press them. However, you still have to soak the skewers (if you are using the wooden ones) because most Panini presses that don't have temperature control get pretty hot.
If you can toast a sandwich and cook an omelet on your Panini maker, then naturally you can make French toast, a food that is something close to a combination of a two. However, the fact that you can make easy French toast on your Panini press opens up a whole new world of opportunities. From French toast made of any bread you can dream of to the lucrative French toast sandwich, the culinary future of your Panini maker is in your hands.
Before you get all kinds of crazy ideas, not all cookie recipes will work in a Panini maker. Some cookies need to rise as they bake and putting them in a Panini Press means that they will come out as crumbs. Cookies like chocolate chip work alright, but they don't look the best. The best cookie recipe is a simple waffle cone batter or a sugar cookie. The waffle cone bakes up perfectly and sugar cookies get nice and toasty. They taste good, too, providing you don't like the fluffy kind of sugar cookies. Really if you are making pressed cookies, typically you have another idea for them in mind like filling them with ice cream or some kind of delicious frosting.
The general rule of thumb for weird things to do with a Panini press is if you can put it on a skillet or a grill, you can press it. Crab cakes fall into that category. Typically you cook them up on a skillet, but if you don't press too hard, a Panini press works just as well. If anything, it makes them nice and compact while still just the right amount of fluffy.
So many homemade pizza recipes require you to cook the crust at the same time you are heating up all the other ingredients, and that is fine if you want soggy pizza crust. In order to get nice crisp crust throughout, it needs to be cooked before hand, but keeping it flat in the baking process is a real task. You know what takes all the challenge out of it? Cooking your dough in the Panini press. (An idea we got from this awesome blog!) Not only do you get nice crisp, flat, awesome-tasting pizza crust, but the ridges hold sauce and ingredients so they don't go all over the place.


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Food prices driven up by global warming, study shows
Scientists warn that farming practices must be adapted to a warmer world and rises in global population
Food prices have risen 20%, say scientists, as warmer temperatures cause dehydration and prevent pollination in crop plants. Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images
Damian Carrington
@dpcarrington
Thu 5 May 2011 14.00 EDT
Global warming has already harmed the world's food production and has driven up food prices by as much as 20% over recent decades, new research has revealed.
The drop in the productivity of crop plants around the world was not caused by changes in rainfall but was because higher temperatures can cause dehydration, prevent pollination and lead to slowed photosynthesis.
Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, Washington DC, said the findings indicate a turning point: "Agriculture as it exists today evolved over 11,000 years of reasonably stable climate, but that climate system is no more." Adaptation is difficult because our knowledge of the future is not strong enough to drive new investments, he said, "so we just keep going, hoping for the best."
The scientists say their work shows how crucial it is to find ways to adapt farming to a warmer world, to ensure that rises in global population are matched by rising food production. "It is vital," said Wolfram Schlenker, at Columbia University in New York and one of the research team. "If we continue to have the same seed varieties and temperatures continue to rise, then food prices will rise further. [Addressing] that is the big question."
The new research joins a small number of studies in which the fingerprint of climate change has been separated from natural variations in weather and other factors, demonstrating that the effects of warming have already been felt in the world. Scientists have shown that the chance of the severe heatwave that killed thousands in Europe in 2003 was made twice as likely by global warming, while other work showed that the floods that caused £3.5bn of damage in England in 2000 were made two to three times more likely.
Food prices have reached new record highs this year, and have been implicated as a trigger for unrest in the Middle East and Africa. A rising appetite for meat is a critical factor, said Wolfram. "We actually have enough calories to feed the world quite comfortably, the problem is meat is really inefficient," as many kilogrammes of grain are needed to produce one kilogramme of meat, he said. "As countries get richer and have a preference for meat, which is more expensive, they price people in poorer countries out of the market."
"The research provides evidence of big shifts in wheat and maize production," commented Prof Tim Wheeler at the Walker Institute for Climate System Research, Reading University, UK, who added it had involved "heroic" statistical analysis. But he said that, while long-term climate change impacts were another pressure on food prices, short-term price spikes were linked to extreme weather events, such as the Russian heatwaves and wildfires in 2010.
The study, published in the journal Science, examined how rising temperatures affected the annual crop yields of all major producer nations between 1980 and 2008. Computer models were used to show how much grain would have been harvested in the absence of warming. Overall, yields have been rising over the last decades and the models took this into account. The scientists found that global wheat production was 33m tonnes (5.5%) lower than it would have been without warming and maize production was 23m tonnes (3.8%) lower. Specific countries fared worse than the average, with Russia losing 15% of its potential wheat crop, and Brazil, Mexico and Italy suffering above average losses. Some countries experienced lower production of rice and soybeans, although these drops were offset by gains in other countries.
The losses drove up food prices by as much as 18.9%, the team calculated, although the rise could be as low as 6.4% if the increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere strongly boosts plant growth and yields - a factor that is not well understood by scientists.
Global food prices have risen by about 200% in recent years, says Schlenker. Other causes of the rise are the increased demand for meat and the diversion of food into biofuels. Nonetheless, the researchers conclude that the negative impact on crops overall is "likely to be incurring large economic and health costs".
The US, which has the world's largest share of overall production, stood out in the analysis because it appears to have lost no production to climate change as yet. Schlenker said this was because the rise in temperature there was very small compared to other parts of the world. This was perhaps due simply to luck with the weather, or the cooling influence of aerosol particles, such as soot, that blocks warming.
"US farmers are having a good time in the sense that their yields have not been impacted much and prices have been pretty high, so for them it has been pretty profitable," he said. "But most climate models predict that eventually the US will warm."
Adapting farming to climate change could involved moving to cooler areas as existing areas warm, said Schlenker, but often soils are poorer in the new locations. He highlighted the potential of biotechnology - genetic engineering - to develop new crop varieties that are more resistant to heat, but said the potential remains unproven. "What happens over the next 20 years depends on how optimistic you are about finding those extra ways of adapting."
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Professor Sally Hines is announced as a speaker at the renowned Ilkley Literature Festival
School of Sociology and Social Policy news Wednesday 15 August 2018
The Ilkley Literature Festival has announced its stellar line-up for this year's event, which runs from 28 September until 14 October and comprises 240 events across 15 venues.
The University is Higher Education Partner for the festival, as well as principal partner for the Words in the City spoken word festival that took part in Leeds for the first time last May.
Professor Sally Hines, Professor of Sociology and Gender Identities, will be speaking on the topic of "Can Gender Equality Change the World?" Alongside Italian women's rights expert Paola Diana, Professor Hines will throw open some of the crucial questions around gender and equality.
They'll be asking: do we need more women at the top of politics and economics? Are traditional binary male and female gender roles still relevant in an increasingly fluid and flexible world? How is it that countries where women have achieved political and social rights seem indifferent to nations where women's status is in question?
Professor Frank Finlay, Director of the University's Cultural Institute, said: "Our collaboration is a wonderful way to give our students and staff exciting opportunities to interact with large and diverse audiences, to engage with the wider world of ideas and to share new knowledge."
Rachel Feldberg, Festival Director, saidː "The carefully curated line-up for 2018 includes some of the biggest names in literature as well as some of the most well-respected experts in history, poetry, non-fiction and science. This year, we're lucky to have leading voices and specialists in their subject to contribute to our strands."
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Caprecon has set June 30, 2018, to adopt two public school children in Nigeria through a partnership with Child Development and Concern Foundation (CDCF). This was announced on May 18, 2018, by Caprecon Founder, Dollin Holt. He stated that a partnership platform called Caprecon-CDCF for Child Education would be created to allow Caprecon actively sponsor children through CDCF's ADOPT A SCHOOL CHILD Programme.
In his words "It is a milestone for Caprecon as we share the same belief that every child deserves to be in school.
Since inception, Caprecon has been actively involved in sponsoring the education of children, including the provision of scholarships, uniforms, books, desks and other educational materials to underfunded schools in Africa.
The purpose of this partnership is to create more opportunities for public school children in Nigeria to have increased access to textbooks, notebooks, stationaries and better quality of education.
CDCF is a Nigerian based non-profit founded by Alhaji Iskil Yussuf. It is committed to supporting poor children in public primary and secondary schools to acquire quality education through the ADOPT A SCHOOL CHILD Programme.
The Adopt a School Child programme allows individuals and organizations to sponsor the education of intelligent less privileged children in Nigeria. The sponsorship is limited to catering strictly for the educational needs of the child.
Dollin Holt, further stated that Caprecon is working tirelessly to ensure children get better access to quality education and a better future.
He added that the long-term plan is to build as many schools as possible, especially in rural places, where local populations are deprived of education.
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