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Bio – Clarissa Jones-Winter
Ms. Jones-Winter was promoted to the role of Associate Dean for Faculty, Staff, and Trainee Relations in January 2021. She joined Mount Sinai's Department of Labor Relations as Director in 2014, and was recruited to ISMMS as the Director of Employee Relations in 2016 to address the needs and concerns in the academic arm. Ms. Jones-Winter has exhibited an impressive talent for understanding the roles and concerns of both faculty and staff, and is also an expert at conducting investigations and resolving conflicts. Ms. Jones-Winter is a valued advisor and collaborator to our administrative leaders—including deans, department chairs, institute directors and department administrators—as well as to faculty and staff on HR and employee relation matters across the School and Health System. She will continue to perform all of these functions as an Associate Dean.
Ms. Jones-Winter's professional history prior to Sinai includes working as a law firm associate in New York and Berlin, Germany, and service as an Associate Director at the New York State Nurses Association. Ms. Jones-Winter earned double Bachelor of Arts degrees in Anthropology and Political Science from Howard University. She also holds a Master's in Public Policy and International Affairs from the University of Minnesota, and received her Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University.


Parliament ratified Friday an agreement between the governments of Bulgaria and Russia on cooperation in the building of a pipeline for the transit of natural gas via Bulgaria called South Stream. The agreement was ratified in a 140-47 vote with two abstentions.
The agreement was signed during the January 18 visit here of the then Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Bulgaria's interests are fully defended because the company that will develop and operate the pipeline on its territory will be with 50 per cent participating interest of Bulgaria and 50 per cent participating interest of Russia.
According to the opposition forces in Parliament, the ratification of the agreement runs counter to the European view on how energy monopolies should be overcome. Also, the opposition argues that the economic benefit of the agreement has not been proven.
South Stream is a Russian-Italian project for a gas pipeline to transport Russian natural gas to Italy. The 900 kilometre long offshore section of South Stream is to start from the Beregovaya compressor station at Russia's Black Sea coast, and to run to Bulgaria's Varna. An Italian project map shows that from there the pipeline branches to the Southwest through Greece and the Ionian Sea to southern Italy, and to the Northwest through Romania, Hungary, Slovenia and Austria to northern Italy. The maximum depth of the offshore section will be 2,000 m.
South Stream is not one pipeline but a system of new pipelines planned to carry 30 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe annually. It will transport not only Russian, but also Central Asian and Kazakh gas. The project worth is estimated at some 10,000 million euro.
South Stream does not call off the project for expansion of the Blue Stream pipeline (a major trans-Black Sea gas pipeline that carries natural gas from Russia to Turkey) to Central Europe via a Turkey-Bulgaria-Serbia-Croatia-Hungary pipeline. Nor does it call off the Nord Stream project connecting Russia and Germany through Finland and the Baltic Sea.


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High Court rejects judical review of One Barnet outsourcing programme by disabled pensioner
By Tim Lamden
Published: 11:39 AM April 29, 2013 Updated: 1:35 PM October 14, 2020
Maria Nash challenged One Barnet in the High Court. Picture: Polly Hancock. - Credit: Archant
A disabled pensioner has lost her High Court battle with Barnet Council to topple its controversial £320million outsourcing plans.
Today, judge Lord Justice Underhill rejected New Barnet resident Maria Nash's claim for a judicial review of the One Barnet outsourcing scheme, insisting the court action was launched too late.
Ms Nash, 68, called for a judicial review of the plans to outsource a swathe of council services to two private companies on the grounds that the council failed to consult residents and did not meet equality obligations.
But in a ruling delivered this morning, Mr Justice Underhill explained that in light of the fact judicial review claim forms must be submitted "not later than three months after the grounds to make the claim first arose", Ms Nash's application for a judicial review "should be refused".
Last month, lawyers instructed by Ms Nash went head-to-head with the council's legal team in the Royal Courts of Justice during a three-day hearing between March 19 and 21.
Solicitor Gerald Shamash, representing Ms Nash, said her legal team would be appealing Mr Justice Underhill's decision.
He added: "As far as I'm concerned we should be challenging the question of delay in the Court of Appeal.
"The council have agreed not to sign any of the One Barnet contracts until the appeal is finally decided in relation to both contracts.
"The London Borough of Barnet failed to consult the people of Barnet on this massive contract and I think it's wrong."
Barnet Council leader, Cllr Richard Cornelius, said: "Lord Justice Underhill could not have been clearer in ruling the application for judicial review as out of time and in accepting that the council had met equalities criteria.
"I hope the applicant and her lawyers will carefully consider the wise words of the judge before embarking upon an appeal and incurring even more costs that will have to be met from public funds."
For more on today's High Court judgement, see Thursday's Ham&High.

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A still from Downfall: The Case Against Boeing by Rory Kennedy, an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Netflix.
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing Review – Crashes After Liftoff
by Jason Gorber
Reviews/Sundance
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
(USA, 89 min.)
Dir. Rory Kennedy
Programme: Premieres (World Premiere)
Back in 2018, when a newly commissioned Boeing plane flying under the designation Lion Air Flight 610 was destroyed on impact in the Java sea killing all aboard, all signs pointed to everywhere but the manufacturer. For decades, the culture of Boeing was one where safety came first. (The quote "If it's not Boeing, I'm not going" is cited.) It was almost unheard of for such a new model to have any issue that would cause catastrophic failure. It must have been the pilot, or the maintenance teams, or the discount Indonesian airliner that had a record of issues in the past.
For weeks, the story bubbled in the press, as any air disaster nowadays is, thankfully, an extremely rare occurrence. While tens of thousands die every year on roads in cars, the nature of air travel still sparks a unique kind of fascination and fear for some especially when things go wrong. You can get into a fender bender without any major consequences, but when things go wrong while travelling hundreds of knots per hour, they go very, very wrong.
Five months later, another Boeing plane, the same 737 Max model, experienced another catastrophic crash soon after takeoff. Instead of smashing into water, the Ethiopian Air Flight 302 slammed into the ground like a bomb, cratering the land and literally digging itself down into the soil. It was clear there was something wrong with these planes beyond training lapses or pilot error. After further delay from an extremely reticent FAA, the entire line of aircraft was finally grounded by the Trump administration.
Filmmaker Rory Kennedy sets out to contextualise both the lead-up to these crashes and the changing culture of Boeing over the last few years. She employs a wide range of talking-head interviews from ex-employees and journalists, pilots (including the famous Sully "We may end up in the Hudson" Sullenberger), and family members of the victims. Overall, the film gives an overview of the situation that covers the major beats of the story, and focusses its ire on how the merger with military contractor McDonnell Douglas back in 1997 resulted in a significant shift in Boeing's operational culture that may well have contributed to these crashes.
Kennedy uses animated CGI recreations for the Lion Air and Egyptian flight crashes that are obviously faked, in order to avoid any audience misunderstanding that this was real cockpit footage of the plane going down. With flight data and other information, one gets a reasonably concise understanding of what took place and when, as well as the larger concerns that are raised by these incidents.
Unfortunately, as a film, it's extremely frustrating, both stylistically and journalistically. While the facts are complex, some sweeping generalizations mask some of the more nuanced aspects of the storyline. The whole MCAS debacle, and the use of software to make up for a fundamental aspect of the flight's airworthiness, has opened up numerous lines of inquiry, especially regarding the declaration of flightworthiness by the FAA and the initial decision to avoid letting pilots know about such a system. The push for cheaper and more fuel-efficient planes need not be seen as nefarious in order to have these unintended consequences. The way the film wishes to find a more simplistic mode of reasoning (i.e., that it's all Boeing's avarice that's to blame) misses a far more insidious narrative regarding the air industry as a whole.
For those viewers who simply never read the news reports at the time, the doc may feel somewhat revelatory, but in general, it has even less detail than the Wikipedia pages on the flight disasters. It's an economy class airplane meal version of a story worthy of fine dining, conveniently packaged for easy consumption but neither fulfilling or particularly tasteful.
Downfall also completely fails what I call the "Frontline rule," where a documentary purporting to be done as a cinematic work (playing in a film festival, for one) can't live up to the made-for-public broadcast version of the same story. One need only look at this program to see how the storyline can be covered in a much more interesting and compelling way, eschewing the unnecessary flourishes and manipulations and instead speaking to the truth of the story.
Kennedy's film is frankly boring and poorly made, with sweeping comments left unchallenged, and a general sense of both panic and blame. It's thesis about the merger is also hardly revelatory – one need only look at articles from soon after the crash that spell it all out. Even the recreations where we see the Wall Street Journal's reporter making calls (from a personal phone?) feels like watching bad acting, almost as plastic as those CGI recreations.
An important narrative marred by sloppy and disjointed filmmaking, the downfall of Downfall lays strictly on its dreariness mixed with polemic as a cinematic work. Lacking subtlety or nuance, it serves little more than to scare people about the situation that clearly they were ignoring up to this point. Netflix will have plenty of people who will watch this doc and learn this stuff for the first time, which is an indictment as much about a general lack of media literacy on such matters but also how few tend to go beyond the headlines that affect people on the other side of the world.
Already social media is awash with people making calls to boycott ever flying on any Boeing plane, as if somehow that would bring back the lives of those lost or somehow reward those that are fighting to make the airways safer. It's a strange, kneejerk reaction made from a programme that's meant to generate such consternation, and for a particular audience that craves advocacy docs like this this that are simple enough to have something targeted to get mad at they'll find enjoyment.
Instead, I found a relatively vulgar take on the situation, missing the opportunity to use both the nature of the investigation and the very real expertise and experiences of those interviewed to craft a though provoking, deeper probe of the situation. Instead, Downfall flies too close to the surface, no small irony for a show about crashing soon after take-off.
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and screens on Netflix later this year.
Rory Kennedy
2023 Sundance Film Festival Report on Docs
King Coal Review: There's Poetry in Soot
Jason Gorber
Jason Gorber is a film journalist and member of the Toronto Film Critics Association. He is the Managing Editor/Chief Critic at ThatShelf.com and a regular contributor for POV Magazine, RogerEbert.com and CBC Radio. His has written for Slashfilm, Esquire, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Screen Anarchy, HighDefDigest, Birth.Movies.Death, IndieWire and more. He has appeared on CTV NewsChannel, CP24, and many other broadcasters. He has been a jury member at the Reykjavik International Film Festival, Calgary Underground Film Festival, RiverRun Film Festival, TIFF Canada's Top 10, Reel Asian and Fantasia's New Flesh Award. Jason has been a Tomatometer-approved critic for over 20 years.
King Coal Review: There's Poetry in Soot
Fantastic Machine Review: Film History, from Lumière to Cats
5 Seasons of Revolution Review: The Macabre Naïveté of Youth
Thom Zimny and Oren Moverman Get Real with Willie Nelson
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Doc Highlights at 2022 ReFrame Film Festival
Lucy & Desi Review: Boring the Ricardos
Documentary highlights at the Available Light Film Festival include Eternal Spring, Part of the Pack, Voices
Pamela Anderson attends the Canadian premiere of Netflix's Pamela, A Love Story with director/producer Ryan White,
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Now streaming from the NFB, Wintopia is a documentary portrait of late filmmaker Peter Wintonick by
Docs at the 2023 Kingston Canadian Film Festival include The Colour of Ink, To Kill a


Take a fascinating journey up the Missouri River and across the Rocky Mountains with the Lewis and Clark expedition guided by an extraordinary 17-year-old Native American woman named Sacajawea. Discover how her incredible courage and backwoods know-how helped a friendly troupe of early American explorers survive in the wilderness and reach their destination: the Pacific Ocean. This rich and moving true story captures the essence of the new frontier.
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Richard Welpton
Strategic Lead for Data Services Infrastructure
The Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Data Services Infrastructure includes investments that acquire, archive, curate, and support researchers with accessing data, including the UK Data Service, Consumer Data Research Centre, Urban and Big Data Centre, business and local government, and the Census Longitudinal Study Centres, as well as CLOSER and a small number of other centres.
Richard's career to date has focused on supporting researchers and analysts accessing data, particularly confidential sources in secure environments. In 2007, Richard joined the Office for National Statistics' Virtual Microdata Laboratory (now Secure Research Service). Since then, Richard has been involved in setting up and managing a number of data infrastructure projects in the UK and Europe, including at the UK Data Service and Cancer Research UK. Prior to joining ESRC, Richard supported The Health Foundation with accessing patient data for research. Richard chaired the Safe Data Access Professionals network from 2017 to 2020, and sits on a number of external advisory committees. He also leads a Research Data Alliance project on Data Stewardship.
Richard has written a number of articles about data access and data privacy (including how to ensure research findings do not breach patient data confidentiality).
Richard's background is in economics, for which he holds an MSc from the University of Nottingham.
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Team Rubicon CEO Jake Wood on aiding with the recovery efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Harvey and how the disaster response organization got its start.
Since Hurricane Maria swept through Puerto Rico nearly one year ago, recovery efforts on the Caribbean island have been mostly stunted, leaving tens of thousands in limbo as they wait for shelter, water and power.
Enter Team Rubicon, an international, and mostly privately funded, group created in 2010 by Jake Wood, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
In the 11 months since back-to-back hurricanes ravaged Puerto Rico, Wood's organization has set aside $5 million to rebuild roofs. So far, they've completed about 250.
Team Rubicon, which doubles as an assimilation process for veterans, uses data and software tools to identify the most vulnerable communities and tries to direct their funds and efforts to the people or neighborhoods that most need it.
But in Puerto Rico, Woods said, it was clear from the beginning to the 250 men and women already on the ground that conditions were "much worse" than initially reported. The group stayed behind to help, expanding what began as a short-term aid project into a longer-term mission.
More than 1.5 million customers lost power because of the storms, and reportedly just got it back on Wednesday, more than 300 days after the hurricanes hit. Many cited the lack of electricity as a huge reason for the surge of deaths in the hurricane's aftermath. Although initially reported to be 64, the government of Puerto Rico recently said it's close to 1,427.
Now, Team Rubicon is beginning to explore additional expansion projects and considering federal government funding options. The group raises about $30 to $35 million a year, most of which comes from private philanthropies. Less than one-tenth of a percent of the money comes from government sources.


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Art, nice sounds and pleasant smells. All expressions that you seldom associate with a multi-storey car park. And yet – with the "Car Park of the Senses" at the Hbf Centrum am Hühnerposten, DB BahnPark GmbH wants to fill the cold concrete with warmth and life and appeal to all of the senses. DESIGNA is present with a modern car park management system (automatic pay stations, entrances and exits).
The car drivers are received at the entrance with several chandeliers and a painting of the historic Hamburg main station. A fresh, natural fragrance blows through the four parking levels, specially developed with hints of black pepper, rosemary, lemon grass and cedarwood. For the ears there are tones, accordion music and noises which reflect the Hamburg location in terms of sound.
On the way to the car in the stairwell, the visitors experience other cultural features. Poems and art prints of Hamburg locations and history, and coloured stucco ornaments invite you spend time/stop, reflect and perhaps also smile.
In 1951 DESIGNA became Germany's first producer and supplier of parking meters. DESIGNA's history of innovation continued. At the end of the seventies, the Kiel-based enterprise was able to to introduce its first fully automatic parking system. The company's programme has now been further developed to encompass fully comprehensive solutions, from the design and planning phase right through to the installation and service of fully automatic parking systems. The experience DESIGNA has acquired over the last 50 years continues to benefit customers at every stage of the project.


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Sebastian Fixson
The Innovation Navigator: Transforming Your Organization in the Era of Digital Design and Collaborative Culture
By Tucker J. Marion and Sebastian K. Fixson
Now Available in book stores and on Amazon
Innovation is a top strategic priority for firms across all industries. In The Innovation Navigator, Tucker J. Marion and Sebastian K. Fixson explore four innovation archetypes or modes – "specialist," "venture," "community," and "network" – which feature prominently in the expanding innovation landscape.
Specialists employ technologies to achieve entirely new solutions and superior product performance. New corporate ventures lower the barriers for employees to self-select into entrepreneurial projects, while reducing the constraints of bureaucracy. The community brings new sources of knowledge by expanding past the firm's boundaries, dramatically increasing the number of participants. The network creates partnerships and ecosystems that create innovations that could not be developed by individual companies alone.
The Innovation Navigator guides the reader in exploring and exploiting these different modes of innovation. Individual chapters provide key insights into the inherent opportunities and challenges from a number of vantage points: from the impact on organizational resources to the role of incentives. The book also provides a framework for how firms can leverage dynamic mode shifts and multimode strategies. Firms across the industrial spectrum are profiled, from new additive manufacturing companies such as Formlabs, community-based solution providers like Forth, to traditional firms exploring new modes like GE Appliances and their FirstBuild initiative. The Innovation Navigator will assist executives in building the capabilities for peak performance in this new innovation landscape.
Praise for The Innovation Navigator:
"Innovation is often an ill-posed need that organizations struggle to translate into tractable goals. The Innovation Navigator provides an approachable foundation for an innovation framework with practical guidelines for customizing and putting the process into action. While Marion and Fixson provide ample examples in the digital design and manufacturing arena to elucidate their methodology, the framework is equally applicable to software development with its synergistic ecosystems for apps, cloud services, and platforms."
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"With The Innovation Navigator Marion and Fixson provide a rigorous but highly practical framework to structure the wide area of corporate innovation. Their analysis and guidance helps us to make (and give) sense of and apply the many current practices and approaches in the field."
Frank T. Piller, Vice Dean for Strategy of the School of Business & Economics, RWTH Aachen University
"To call innovation a noun is like calling the Roman Colosseum a stadium. It's way more than that. Innovation is a mindset. Innovation starts with empathy for the struggle humans are facing and then becoming a champion to make it better. Great innovators are trained warriors in the arena, shoulder to shoulder, fighting the good fight, relentlessly navigating life's complexities with you, for you, never giving up until you, not them, emerge the victor. The Innovation Navigator is a playbook for innovators everywhere to up our game!"
Robin Glasco, Chief Innovation Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts


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Health Coronavirus - meeting people
This advice applies to Scotland
There are five protection levels for different parts of Scotland – also called tiers.
The protection levels are 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4.
The rules you have to follow about meeting people depend on the protection level in your local council area. You can check the level where you live using the Scottish government protection level checker.
The police have powers to enforce these rules, including by breaking up large gatherings or fining people.
Some types of gathering are allowed, for example helping someone to move house, providing care, working or volunteering.
The rules in other parts of the UK might be different. You should follow the rules for the part of the UK you're in.
Meeting people from other households
All of mainland Scotland, Arran, Bute and Skye are in level 4. By law, you must stay at home except for essential purposes. Find out more about what you can and can't do in the Scottish government's stay at home guidance.
The following areas are in level 3:
the Western Isles
the Highland islands - except Skye, which is in level 4
the outer Argyll islands.
Find out more about what you can and can't do in the Scottish government's level 3 guidance.
If your area is at level 0
You can meet in groups of:
up to eight people from three households indoors
up to 15 people from five households outdoors.
You can go inside other people's homes, and other people can go inside your home.
Find out more about what you can do, like going to restaurants and playing sport, in the Scottish government's level 0 guidance.
It's against the law for more than six people, or people from more than two households, to meet socially in an indoor public place like a restaurant, pub or café.
It's against the law for more than eight people, or people from more than three households, to meet socially outdoors.
By law, you must not go inside other people's homes, and other people must not go inside your home.
There are some exceptions. You can still visit inside someone's home if:
your two households form an extended household, sometimes called a 'social bubble'
you're providing informal childcare, for example looking after your grandchildren
you're a tradesperson who needs to carry out work.
Find out more about what you can do, like going to restaurants and playing sport in the Scottish government's level 1 guidance.
It's against the law for more than six people, or people from more than two households, to meet socially. This applies both outdoors, in a private garden or a park, and in indoor public places like restaurants, pubs or cafés.
By law, you must stay at home except for essential purposes.
It's against the law for more than two people, or people from more than two households, to meet socially. This applies outdoors in a private garden or a park.
You must not go inside other people's homes, and other people must not go inside your home.
you're a tradesperson who needs to carry out essential work.
Find out more about what you can and can't do in the Scottish government's stay at home guidance.
The Scottish government also advises that:
you limit the number of households you meet in a day
you avoid sharing a car with people from another household. If you need to share a car, you can check the advice on car sharing from Transport Scotland
different households stay two metres apart, whether you're meeting outside or in an indoor public space. Couples who don't live together don't have to stay two metres apart from each other.
Some places, like cafés and bars, might be a one-metre zone. There will be signs up to tell you if you're in a one-metre area. This means you should stay at least one metre apart from people who aren't in your household, even if you're socialising with them. There should be other measures in place to keep you safe, like hand sanitiser stations.
Some of the rules for meeting others are different for children and young people.
Children under 12
The rules for children under 12 apply at every protection level.
Children under 12 don't count towards the number of people in a gathering. But they do count towards the number of households.
Children under 12 don't have to stay two metres away from other people.
If you're 12 to 17
In an indoor public space, you should follow the rules on meeting people for the level you're in.
In levels 0 and 1, you can meet outdoors in groups of up to eight people from any number of households.
In levels 2 and 3, you can meet outdoors in groups of up to six people from any number of households.
In level 4, you can meet outdoors with one person from another household.
You should stay two metres away from people who aren't in your household.
Check the Young Scot website for information for young people.
If you're on the shielding list
You can follow the same rules for meeting people as others in your local council area.
You can find information about shielding in different protection levels in the shielding guidance on mygov.scot.
Travelling to meet others
Mainland Scotland, Arran, Bute and Skye are in level 4. Other parts of Scotland are in level 3. You can check your local area's level using the Scottish government protection level checker.
It's against the law to travel into or out of a level 3 or 4 area, except if you have a reasonable excuse - like work, caring for someone or fleeing domestic abuse. This includes travel from one level 3 area to another level 3 area, or from one level 4 area to another level 4 area.
The police can stop you to check why you're travelling.
There are rules about travel between Scotland and other parts of the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Find out more about the rules and reasons you can travel on the Scottish government website.
Forming an extended household
Your household can choose to join one other household and form an 'extended household'. This might also be called a 'social bubble' or 'support bubble'.
You can treat people in your extended household as part of your household, and you count as one household. For example, you can:
meet inside each other's homes
stay overnight, have meals together and take care of each other's children
be less than two metres apart
travel to meet them, even if you live in different parts of Scotland or the UK. Think carefully if this is the best thing to do, the government says you should stay local. Check Transport Scotland's advice on safe travel.
Scottish government guidance says that only some people should form an extended household. You can form an extended household if you're:
living alone
the only adult living with children aged under 18 - for example, a single parent
in a couple who don't live together.
You can only be in one extended household.
If you decide to stop being an extended household, you should wait at least 14 days before forming a new extended household.
If you have coronavirus symptoms, you should book a test and all members of the extended household should self-isolate if they've had contact with you. Check NHS inform's guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection.
If you share childcare between different houses
If you live in a different home from your child's other parent, you can continue to share childcare. The government has said children under 18 can move between their parents' homes. This includes if you live in different protection levels in Scotland or another part of the UK.
It's important to think about your child's health, how they feel about moving between households and whether there are vulnerable members of either household.
If there's a court order or formal agreement in place, you should try to stick to those arrangements. If you decide it's best to change the agreement, you can do this. Write down any change you agree, for example in a note, email or text.
If you have an informal arrangement, you should discuss what to do with your child's other parent.
It might not be safe to maintain in-person contact if one household has symptoms and all the members of the household need to self-isolate. You could use phone or video call instead.
Read more about coronavirus and shared parenting on Parent Club.
Sharing childcare and forming an extended household
If you're a single parent and you don't live with other adults, you can form an extended household with one other household.
You and your child's other parent can each form an extended household separately. Your child can be part of both extended households as long as they're under 18.
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Obama Reflects On 'Darkest Day Of My Presidency' Nearly 10 Years After Sandy Hook
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Former President Barack Obama said he still considers the deadly school shooting that took the lives of 20 children and six adults in 2012 the "darkest day of my presidency" as the 10th anniversary of the shooting approaches.
"I consider Dec. 14, 2012, the single darkest day of my presidency," Obama said Tuesday night at the Sandy Hook Promise "10-Year Remembrance" benefit in New York City. "Like so many other people, I felt not just sorrow, but I felt angry, fury in a world that could allow such a thing."
Sandy Hook Promise, started by several families who lost loved ones in the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting, is a non-profit that aims to protect children from gun violence while teaching empathy in classrooms.
During his speech at the benefit, Obama praised Sandy Hook Promise for preventing possible acts of gun violence.
Barack Obama at the Sandy Hook Promise Benefit held at The Ziegfeld Ballroom on Dec. 6, 2022 in New York City.
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"You've made meaning where there was none," Obama said. "Back when we were together in 2012, I said that Newtown would be remembered for the way that you looked out for each other, the way that you cared for one another and the way that you loved one another."
While gun violence continues to run rampant in the U.S., there have been glimmers of positive change in the last 10 years. Sandy Hook families won $73 million in a lawsuit settlement this year against Remington Arms, which made the Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle used by the gunman during the massacre. It was the first time a gun manufacturer had been held liable for a shooting.
"Whether it is in a church or a synagogue, in a grocery store or on a college campus or in a home or on a city street … I still feel anger. And I hope you do too."
– Former President Barack Obama
And the National Rifle Association (NRA), which saw its membership surge at the start of 2013 following the Sandy Hook shooting, has seen its leadership and political power crumble under the weight of mismanagement and greed over the last few years.
Then there's Alex Jones, the conspiracy host of "Infowars," who used his platform to mock the parents of dead children for years, falsely claiming they were actors and that their loved ones never died. This year he was finally held accountable for the torrent of abuse he leveled on the Sandy Hook families when he was ordered to pay more than $1 billion for his dangerous lies.
Earlier this year, 19 students and two teachers were killed in Uvalde, Texas, in a shooting sickeningly similar to that of Newtown. The following month, President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan gun safety bill into law that enhances background checks, addresses mental health care, and places curbs on buying guns.
Obama attempted a similar push for gun violence prevention in 2016 with a bill that would have enhanced background checks. He spoke through tears the day he implored Congress to act.
"Somehow, we become numb to it, and we start thinking, 'This is normal,'" Obama said.
Instead, the former president was roundly mocked by conservatives for his emotional plea. The bill ultimately failed, thanks in part to pressure from the NRA and a handful of Democrats who voted against the bill to cater to gun-loving voters in their states.
Obama wipes away tears as he talks about needless shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary school during a press briefing in the East Room of the White House Jan. 5, 2016 in Washington, D.C.
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In his speech Tuesday, Obama said the work to curb gun violence isn't done.
"In 2022, there has not been a single week — not one — without a mass shooting somewhere in America," he said. "We pretend that the best we can do for the families of Sandy Hook, Parkland and Virginia Tech and so many other communities is to tinker around the edges and then offer rote recitations of our thoughts and our prayers when violence explodes once again."
Obama admits he still gets angry when he hears about the latest senseless shooting.
"Whether it is in a church or a synagogue, in a grocery store or on a college campus or in a home or on a city street … I still feel anger," he said. "And I hope you do too."
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An event celebrating the militant group's secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, reportedly had 7,000 RSVPs before it was deleted.
Facebook has allegedly deleted an event page dedicated to celebrating a Hezbollah leader's birthday, according to various Middle Eastern media reports.
More than 7,000 users signed up to attend an event celebrating the 52nd birthday of Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of the Lebanese-based militant group, and many users wrote on the event's wall. However, Facebook reportedly deleted the page just hours after it was created.
The page was created by Nasrallah's "young fans" who were glorifying the leader, reports Israeli news site Ynet News. Messages on the event's wall ranged from praising him to wishing him longevity.
Facebook has been continually active in eliminating Hezbollah-dedicated pages. In August, the social networking website shuttered a page for the group's television station, Al Manar.
It's Facebook policy that hate speech and material that "incites violence" is not permitted on the site. Nasrallah has expressed many anti-Israeli sentiments in the past, including calling for Israel's destruction. The social network has said it considers Hezbollah a terrorist group based on its inclusion on the U.S. State Department's List of Foreign Terror Organizations.
Facebook has not yet returned our emails for comment regarding the event page being deleted.


The Freedom Front Plus had asked Gordhan to discuss a possible settlement of the class action by the pensioners' following the Constitutional Court judgment last month.
The Freedom Front Plus said it was encouraged by Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan's response to its question about the plight of thousands of Transnet pensioners.
The approximately 40'000 pensioners achieved a victory at the Constitutional Court last month when the court granted a go-ahead for their claim to recover billions owed to them.
The pensioners instituted a class action against the Transport Pension Fund' the Transnet Second Defined Benefit Fund and Transnet.
Their claim was based on a promise made to them in 1989 that they would receive the same pension benefits under a commercial entity' Transnet' as they did under the state entity that employed them until then' the South African Transport Services (SATS) and its two pension funds.
The pension funds kept the promise until 2002' when the funds failed to grant any pension increases beyond the minimum of 2% per year.
The pensioners had calculated that the debt owed to the two pension funds stood at R80bn by March 2013.
Speaking during the budget vote of the department on Tuesday' Gordhan said Transnet appeared willing to settle' but added that the matter was still with the courts.
"But I think what's blocking the two sides from getting together is possibly an extravagant evaluation of what pensioners are entitled to as opposed to what might really be the case.
"If all of us can encourage a realistic amount in this particular case' we are quite willing to bring parties together and see how we can deal with this particular story'" Gordhan said.
The FF Plus said it considered the minister's statements to be positive and a step in the right direction.
"The party hopes that a fair settlement will be reached soon for the sake of the approximately 40'000 pensioners who have suffered years of poverty and misery due to the fact that the money in their pension fund was looted'" FF Plus chairman and parliamentary spokesman on transport Anton Alberts said.


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Lawson on Clear Mission for Drivers' Championship
Liam Lawson is clearly on a mission to secure the 2022 FIA Formula 2 Drivers' Championship.
From fifth on the grid, to first, the New Zealander stood on the top step after navigating through today's chaotic Sprint Race in Jeddah.
Lawson has set out his stall already, taking second and third on the podium in the first two races in Bahrain.
The race today was no easy feat. With two full Safety Cars and a Virtual Safety Car, the Carlin driver remained patient as the race unfolded in front of him, then when the time came, he pounced:
"Pretty much the whole race was about keeping brake and tyre temp under those Safety Cars, with the crashes that were happening. There were some quite slow Safety Car laps, and in these cars it's really hard to keep temperatures. We were able to do that. But when we did have the green flags the car was really really fast."
Lawson was uncertain where he'd finish with being on a different tyre compound to race leader, Jake Hughes. But after the second Safety Car, he realised the win was perhaps a possibility:
"I thought Jake was going to be in a great position because we didn't have many racing laps. I was able to stay with him in the first couple of laps, and stay within the DRS, and make the pass."
Not knowing which compound was best, every team and driver took a gamble today:
"It definitely wasn't clear cut that the medium tyres were the way to go, judging by what happened last year and today. With very few racing laps the softs could have easily worked. And to be honest under that last [Virtual] Safety Car we didn't have many laps, just seven or eight laps left in the race.
"We'd only done one or two laps pushing at that point, and I thought the softs were the clear choice, but it definitely wasn't clear until they dropped off a little bit more."
Lawson's confident after his P1 today. Tomorrow he starts the Feature Race in P6:
"It's promising. We need to take this result into tomorrow. Make a few tweaks to the car and grab another good score of points."
The Kiwi is now leading the Drivers' Championship:
"It's always nice to be in front but it's so early it's completely irrelevant at the moment, we just take it race by race.
"It's definitely a good result today, and this weekend with the chaos that goes on in these races, it's really about surviving, and that was the target today.
"That's the goal for tomorrow, to just survive, and hopefully be in another good position."
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This film adaptation of a popular video game has probably been forgotten by many but it's legacy certainly lives on in Cambodia where it is mentioned day in-day out by the thousands of tourists who descend on main location Ta Prohm to see it's fascinating tree roots which have swallowed up parts of the temple complex.
The action in Cambodia starts on 40 minutes as Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) is on a mission to retrieve half of the triangular MacGuffin. Before Ta Prohm though, there are a couple of other temples playing cameo roles. Having called in a favour from the Special Forces, she is parachuted down (in her Land Rover no less!) and waves goodbye to the plane which helped her from the Central Sanctuary at Phnom Bakheng.
This temple, located 400 metres south of Angkor Thom, is an incredibly popular place for tourists to photograph Angkor Wat at sunrise and sunset and is where Lara begins her journey. She gets to work straight away and. looking through her special binoculars, she sees Manfred Powell (Iain Glen) and Alex West (Daniel Craig) getting up to mischief at the East Gate of Angkor Thom.
To get to this place involves a 20 minute hike up a hill although elephants are sometime on hand to do the hard work for you. At a cost of course!
Moments later she prepares her ammunition and shoots off in her Land Rover from in front of the sacred Bayon temple (below) which is the centrepiece of the fortified city of Angkor Thom. Bayon is famed for its enigmatic faces donning the many towers within its three levels.
The most famous temple though is of course the aforementioned Ta Prohm which first appears on 42 minutes. This spectacular temple has been swallowed up by the jungle over time and the roots are growing out of the ruins. Lara parks her vehicle at the eastern entry which has seen a lot of restoration work between my two visits in 2007 and 2015.
A mysterious girl appears and disappears a few times as Croft enters the complex and soon she comes across the huge tree below which is entwined with the ruins.
Croft wanders around the eerie place for a bit before she finally catches up with the young little girl who points her in the right direction.
She heads towards the doorway seen below where, having picked a jasmine flower, she falls through the ground…..ending up in Pinewood Studios! Alongside the screenshot is a photo I took on New Years Day 2007 as the place has changed a bit since then and is now more restrictive with the area roped off from the public who can only view it from a boardwalk.
World Heritage site Angkor Wat appears on the hour mark and appears to be looming over a lake bursting with waterlilies and boating villagers. There are mixed reports on this one with some saying this elaborate floating village was constructed on the northern pond. Others refute that and say it was just a set with CGI used to add the worlds largest religious building into the background.
Whilst there are a couple of pools at Angkor Wat, there is no activity on them whatsoever. Croft comes ashore asking a monk in Khmer language where she can make an international call.
You can read 'Cambodia 2015 Pt VI: Kampot' here
Click here to see the London filming locations of 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' (2001)
Click here to see the Hong Kong filming locations of 'Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life' (2003)
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Q: Google Maps Geolocation API limited at 100 requests even with billing enabled? Did Google changed recently "his terms" about the Google Maps APIs ??
My APIs were working fine and I had billing enabled even if I never was billed cause I never reached the free 2 500 requests / day allowed.
Now it seems that we are limited to 100 requests / day + 1 request/second/user... and I believe my app is not working fine anymore because of this (unless the API keys could have changed with Google's changes?!?).
Is there anyone who also has billing enabled and still is limited to 100 requests per day?
Or anyone knows how to get rid of this limits?
Thanks in advance for your help!!

A: I don't think so.

This is exactly what the Google Developer Console told me three minutes ago.

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Valensa International-Contract Biotics Increase Biomass Production Units At San Diego, California, Production Center
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Valensa International said its algae producer Contract Biotics started construction on an additional six acres of algae production units at the company's San Diego County, California, operations center.
"Slated to come on-line in the fall of this year, the expansion will more than triple Contract Biotics' current biomass production and thus play a crucial role in helping Valensa meet the market demand for its line of formulated, condition-specific Astaxanthin-based products," Company officials reported.
Contract Biotics is a U.S. based wholesale producer of a wide variety of high quality algae biomass. The company said its California "facility is unique because it employs a hybrid greenhouse technology to protect the production ponds from outside contamination unlike other producers who employ "open" ponds. The use of U.S.-sourced biomass combined with its Florida-based organic certified extraction facilities makes Valensa the only "Made in America" Astaxanthin supplier on the market today."
Dr. Rudi E. Moerck, Valensa President/CEO said, "The market supply of Astaxanthin continues to lag behind demand, in part due to the worldwide success of Valensa's patented joint health products containing this potent carotenoid. Contract Biotics has proven itself as an algae biomass producer, and we are extremely pleased that Valensa was able to help support them by making a direct investment in the company. This investment will allow Contract Biotics achieve the growth to help Valensa fuel its strategic initiatives."
"The interest we have received in funding our most recent expansion round was substantial, and it was a very positive validation of our overall approach and success as a producer. We anticipate that this will be the first of many additions to our production capabilities," Contract Biotics CEO Ken Reynolds said.
"Contract Biotics is already in a great position to become one of the best new Astaxanthin biomass producers in the world," said Dr. Moerck. "As a strategic partner and a key investor in their new facility, we look forward to working closely with the company to increase efficiency and streamline processes with the goal of their becoming an industry leader in terms of output volume and lower production costs," he added.