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A red itchy rash on the inner side of my leg near the groin area for over 1 month. it decreases when i take anti more A red itchy rash on the inner side of my leg near the groin area for over 1 month. it decreases when i take anti biotics. i want a permanent solution?
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Comment > The PB Debate: Should Rachel be with Angus?
Recent weeks have seen 16-year-old Rachel Kinski develop a relationship with older man Angus Henderson. After initially lying about her age, she was shocked to realise that he was her new substitute teacher. The relationship didn't end there, however, with Rachel pursuing Angus until he finally gave in and they slept together. Now, with their secret blown wide open and all of Erinsborough gossiping, we ask whether this should be the end for Rachel and Angus...
Yes by Steve
Angus and Rachel never intended to break the law. When they first met and became involved with each other, Angus wasn't aware of her real age, whilst she had no idea that he was her new teacher. It was only through an unfortunate coincidence – and Rachel's bending of the truth – that they ended up spending that fateful evening together, which led to so many problems.
Although Rachel and Angus have the right to be together – she is over 16, after all – there is no doubt that he would have to leave his teaching position at Erinsborough High if they were going to make a long-term go of things. Otherwise, the likelihood that Angus would be spending several years in prison would certainly put an end to the relationship before it had properly begun. Maybe Angus should have cut all ties when he found out Rachel's real age and saw her sitting at a desk in his class, but sometimes feelings can't be switched on and off that easily.
Nobody can deny that the relationship would have some big hurdles to overcome – a big age difference and Rachel being a 16-year-old schoolgirl to name just two – but there's also a strong connection there, a connection which brought two people together against the odds and kept pulling them back to each other when they knew it was wrong.
It would be easy to say Rachel should just grow up and get over it. But to say Rachel has had a difficult few years would be an understatement. Losing both her parents, watching her stepmother go through a serious illness, seeing her first boyfriend die - it's more than enough for anyone to deal with. Angus might not have come into Rachel's life in the best circumstances, but now that he's there, shouldn't she be allowed a shot at happiness?
No by Ryan
When Rachel Kinski lied to her date Angus Henderson about her age, she was only doing what millions of teenage girls have done before her (and what millions more will do after her). Yes, it was wrong, but not malicious, and certainly not illegal. But when Rachel went to school and found Angus was her new teacher, everything changed – or at least it should have.
Neither Rachel nor Angus had any idea of the other's situation when they started seeing each other. However, it took them a matter of days to find out, and as soon as they did, that should have been the end of it. If this had happened several months into their relationship, their actions might be more understandable; but after one date, surely it shouldn't have been that difficult to simply put it behind them as an embarrassing mistake?
In this respect, Angus deserves more blame than Rachel. As mature as she thinks she is, she's still a starry-eyed 16 year-old deep down, and it's hard to blame her for thinking she's in love. Angus on the other hand is an adult, and an adult in a position of responsibility and trust. It doesn't matter that he didn't know Rachel was a student; he does now, and even if he has no qualms about the morality of his actions, he should at least have the sense to know that if they get caught, it's the end for his career.
If Angus was really that desperate to be with Rachel, he had the ideal opportunity to ease the path when his temporary contract at Erinsborough High came to an end. But instead of looking for work elsewhere, he accepted a full-time position there. Angus clearly wants to have his cake and eat it, or to put it crudely, pee on his own doorstep. And it doesn't take long for that sort of behaviour to catch up with you.
Neighbours viewers with long memories may recall Brad Willis getting a new girlfriend, Ally Slater, who looked suspiciously familiar to his mate, teacher Wayne Duncan. When Wayne asked Brad to help out with a school sports team, it suddenly became clear where Wayne knew Ally from – his Year 10 class. Did Brad go on seeing her, despite knowing she was only 14? No, of course he didn't; he ditched her straight away. And if a himbo like Brad can work it out, for a teacher, it should be child's play.

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"Untitled" (Double Portrait) 1991
© The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Félix González-Torres (November 26, 1957 – January 9, 1996) was a Cuban-born American visual artist. González-Torres's openly gay sexual orientation is often seen as influential in his work as an artist. González-Torres was known for his minimal installations and sculptures in which he used materials such as strings of lightbulbs, clocks, stacks of paper, or packaged hard candies. In 1987, he joined Group Material, a New York-based group of artists whose intention was to work collaboratively, adhering to principles of cultural activism and community education. González-Torres's 1992 piece "Untitled" (Portrait of Marcel Brient) sold for $4.6 million at Phillips de Pury & Company in 2010, a record for the artist at auction.
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Midtown's Miracle on Ice
Our long, dark winter is over. So is the Bank of America Winter Village, which shut down in March, with construction crews dismantling the skating rink and the assortment of food, drink, and retail stalls in Bryant Park. In the context of New York's massive losses over the past year—31,853 people dead from Covid-19, 626,800 jobs still gone—the success of a modest place to skate, eat, and shop may seem negligible. But the Bryant Park skating rink was the one good thing going in empty midtown this past season—and a valuable reminder of the benefits of urban density.
With only 10 percent of office workers back at their desks, subway ridership down 70 percent, and tourism limited to a few regional curiosity-seekers, midtown Manhattan, normally the core of the tristate region, with nearly 4 million people coming and going every day, has been a ghost town for a year.
The ghostliness feeds on itself. Why would you go in to work when the coffee shops and restaurants that serve office workers are closed? Why open up your restaurant when the office workers are gone? Hundreds of thousands of jobs—mostly working-class and middle-class service jobs—depend on solving this chicken-and-egg problem.
Rockefeller Center, midtown's competing skating rink, fell into this trap, running a perfunctory season that closed up just after New Year's, leaving two and a half long months of winter left. This is not to criticize Rockefeller Center, which is carefully maintaining its flowerbed plantings, and which had to deal with retail looting last summer. It's just to point out that we can't take our well-run urban spaces for granted.
The managers of the Bryant Park Corporation (BPC), the nonprofit that manages the public park under contract with the city, could have surrendered in similar fashion. The obvious—and seemingly prudent—thing to do this past winter would have been to skip the Winter Village. Why embark on a major seasonal construction project and the hiring of seasonal employees when the risks are so great—the risk that, after all that investment, the city, amid a surge of Covid cases, could shut the rink down? The risk that dozens of skaters sweating together could create a mass-spreading event? And the risk that nobody shows up?
But "given the enormous worsening of street disorder in midtown Manhattan this past spring and summer, we felt we had no choice but to make the risky decision to go forward with Winter Village to protect the Bryant Park environment," said BPC president Dan Biederman. "When Dan said he was going ahead with the rink," says Phil Columbo, who runs the nearby Bryant Park Hotel and is on the board of the BPC, "some people just looked at him, like . . . "
But the BPC has taken risks before. The organization took over the park three decades ago when it was mostly a haven for small-time drug dealers and users—a nuisance, at best, to the business district—and rebuilt it into a key attraction and amenity for workers and tourists. Before Covid, the park's problem was that it was often too crowded.
Rather than retreat in the face of the unknown this winter, the park's managers adapted. When the rink opened just before Halloween, skaters changed their shoes outside—on benches, one per family, well more than six feet apart—instead of in an indoor locker room. To minimize contact with workers, skaters were strongly discouraged, via a high fee, from bringing any belongings to check in; instead, they were given or sold a $5 reusable drawstring bag, depending on whether they rented skates or not, to carry their shoes on their back.
Friendly but firm workers strictly enforced mask requirements. There was no indulgent behavior, at the cost of making other visitors uncomfortable: if you were a child old enough to skate, you were old enough to keep a mask on your face. Children proved perfectly capable of making this simple annoyance–reward calculation themselves, without parental cajoling.
By running Winter Village this year, Bryant Park became the only real reason to come to midtown. It was the city's only free skating rink, provided you had your own skates and didn't mind skating at off-peak hours.
The rink proved urban density's enduring appeal at a time when many are questioning its future value. You can't ice-skate from home. (Well, most people can't.) And no sponsor is going to run a professional-quality rink without the financial support that density can provide: Bank of America, for example, would not likely pay to brand the project without midtown's visibility. In providing pop-up performances some afternoons by aspiring Olympians and professional dancers from the Ice Theatre of New York—who even knew there was such a thing?—the rink also gave parkgoers the only live performances they've seen in a year.
Skating is also a social activity. New York can be a lonely place, particularly for young people who live alone in this strange environment. Coming to the rink gave them the only spontaneous social activity that they had had in a year: a dance student with no dance classes to take; a property manager who said he hit upon the idea of bringing his long-disused hockey skates to work to get out of his deserted office at lunchtime; a young man who said on an especially cold day that his choice was either to come out and skate or to stay at home "and be harassed by my cats"; new college students, with no in-person college to attend, but proudly wearing their school sweatshirts.
The social component is particularly important for children, who have had no school or organized sports during the pandemic. Since most small children can learn to skate far faster than their parents can, skating gives them a measure of freedom they don't get from staring at screens all day. Kids can race around by themselves or in small groups while their chaperones take a break. Some kids came to the rink once or twice, on rental skates, as a parental diversion from the pandemic year. Others came nearly every day, so excited to skate that they already had their skates on when they arrived, and they progressed from being barely able to stand up to doing fancy tricks. Even Mayor Bill de Blasio grasped the importance of the skating outlet for kids: he reversed his planned closure of the Trump-run Wollman Rink in Central Park this spring after a public outcry.
In retrospect, the season proved so successful that it seems the only obvious thing to do had been to go ahead. In December 2020, 53,889 skaters came to Bryant Park, compared with 108,224 the previous December. In February, the figure was 32,314 skaters, compared with 42,241 the year before. Maintaining half to three-quarters of a season's customers—nearly all of them, this year, from the tristate area—is a huge accomplishment at a time when midtown office buildings could not cajole their tenants back and tourists stayed away. Bryant Park realized this success, and once again proved itself flexible: it extended its original early-March closing date to the end of the month.
The rink generally runs a $5 million annual surplus, with the proceeds going back into the park. This year, it will earn much less—$2 million. The money is less important, though, than the fact that the rink demonstrated to tens of thousands of skaters and hundreds of thousands of chaperones and spectators that somebody cared about them. And you can bet that the thousands of small children for whom the rink was their only taste of unbridled glee this winter will never forget this aspect of midtown.


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Is Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds And Gal Gadot's 'Red Notice' Getting A Sequel? Director Rawson Thurber Drops Hint
'Red Notice' director confirms sequel talks with Netflix.
By Gaurav Sonavane November 29, 2021
One of Netflix's most ambitious projects, 'Red Notice' has not only shattered several records since its release but has also gone on to become the most-watched movie in the history of the giant online streaming platform. Lead actor Dwayne Johnson took to social media to share the news that the Rawson Thurber directorial has become Netflix's biggest movie ever within two weeks of its release. The wrestler-turned-actor is joined by Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot, who have also delivered impressive performances in the globetrotting adventure drama.
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Apart from surpassing Sandra Bullock's 'Bird Box' and officially becoming Netflix's most-watched movie, Thurber's 'Red Notice' has also managed to strike a chord with the audience, who have been eagerly rooting for a sequel. And during a recent interaction with Collider, the ace filmmaker did confirm that he has been in talks with the streaming platform but he even revealed that he hasn't started working on the script yet. "I'm not working on the script for a sequel. I've certainly been noodling with what I would do for a follow-up and not to tell-tale out of school, but yeah Netflix, we've been having those conversations," Thurber said.
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Talking about working with talented actors like Johnson, Gadot and Reynolds, Thurber told Empire, "I feel very, very fortunate. It's a little bit like directorial cheating, having all three of them together in the same frame. Chemistry is just not a function of writing or even directing – it's a function of casting." The filmmaker, who has also penned the script of the movie, expressed his gratitude to all his fans with a social media post. He wrote, "I mean, I have no words for this. Unreal. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone around the world, who has embraced the joy, fun, thrills and hijinks we hoped to bring to your homes with RED NOTICE. Grateful. Humbled."
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Despite mixed reviews, the camaraderie between the lead actors left the audience impressed, who have been pretty vocal on social media rooting for a sequel. And it looks like Thurber's recent comments on the next instalment of 'Red Notice' is sure to leave many fans excited.
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Hi I'm Ruth and I'm a lifestyle blogger at Craft with Cartwright, I also work as a high school DT teacher, teaching food and textiles. I have a wonderful husband and two boys aged 9 and 5.
I live in beautiful rural Herefordshire in the West Midlands. I love it here and couldn't think of living anywhere else.
Because we are in the countryside, there are always so many walks to go on. I love it as it gets the boys out of the house, we all get some exercise. Plus it's free!
I'd rather not live anywhere else, but if I had to choose I would probably pick Germany. I loved it when I went on exchange at high school and it's very similar to here in many ways.
5.) Did you grow up close to where you live now?
I grew up about twenty miles from where I live now. My favourite memories are walking myself home from primary school at lunchtime for lunch, through our tiny village. Everyone used to comment on my singing as I passed. It just wouldn't happen these days.
We are hoping to do a road trip across America next summer. Hubby and I did it when I was twenty-one and we had a blast. I would love to re-live it with the boys now they are old enough to cope with the long haul flight.
Having someone there when you wake in the morning. Life can be so lonely otherwise.
Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions Ruth, it sounds lovely where you live and like you are very settled. A road trip across America sound amazing, I would love to do something like that when my children are older as I bet it is such an adventure.
Don't forget to check out last weeks post featuring The Life Of Spicers if you missed it.
If you would like to take part in Other Bloggers Family Lives then please send me an email at newcastlefamilylife@gmail.com as I am always looking for bloggers to take part.


CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) -South Carolina's Superintendent of Education named a Lowcountry teacher as one of the five finalist for teacher of the year award in a surprise visit.
The state's education superintendent Molly Spearman surprised second grade elementary school teacher, Stephanie Haecherl as one of the five finalists selected for the state's Teacher of the Year award.
Haecherl also received national recognition when she became one of 22 teachers on the Scholastic Book Clubs teacher advisory board.
As one of five finalists, Haecherl will receive $10,000 and go on to the next stage of competition which involves an in-person interview with a team of expert judges. The South Carolina Teacher of the Year Gala will be held on May 8th in Columbia where the overall winner will be announced.


elements is learning the vocabulary of the language of art.
created by the edge of things. They are perceived when three dimensional shapes curve back into space.
a discontinuous line that is completed by the viewer due to the context of the piece.
the creation of the illusion of roundness or the third dimension through the use of light and shadow.
a series of lines that run in a different direction and cross one another.
• Shapes are formed when intersecting or connected lines enclose space.
patches of color and texture.
resemble organism found in nature and thus have a natural appearance.
• Are said to have a form like a biological entity.
• From the Greek word morphē.
are ambiguous. "we tend to perceive things in context"
associations that resonate within a culture.
Shape is a powerful visual element, and the representation of shape is a powerful design tool.
electromagnetic energy that we can see.
difference between shades of gray.
value contrast makes them easy to see.
light and dark within a composition.
The gradual shifting from light to dark through a successive gradation of tones across a curved surface.
the mixing of other colored light.
created from the overlap or mixing of 2 primary colors.
created by mixing pigments or primary and secondary colors.
hues that lie next to each other on the color wheel.
across from one another on the color wheel.
the hue of an object as created by the colors its surface reflects under normal lighting condition.
our perceptions of color, which can vary with lighting conditions.
• We link mood with color.
-Derived from the Latin word for "weaving"
through the sense of touch.
a thick buildup of paint on the surface of the canvas.
- is tactile, texture you can touch. Example: impasto, which is the most common type of texture used in painting.
of painting, that means to trick the eye.
texture chosen or created by the artist to subvert or undermine our ideas about the objects they depict.
• Objects exist in three-dimensional space.
The line where the line of sight stops and on which the artist often places the vanishing point.
When parallel lines in a picture come together at 2 different points on the horizon line.
• Also called aerial perspective.
- Kinetic Art - art that moves.
Some works try to imply that motion or time has occurred.
implies that the motion is happening right now.
blurring the contours of a figure.
• Blurring outlines to create the illusion of motion.
manipulation of color, shape, and line.


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Paula Rose, center, co-curator of the YWAs:
"Squa-Plaits" by Shenequa A. Brooks, features synthetic hair woven with cotton. It is featured in YWAs:
"YWAs: Young Woman Artists" is on view through Aug. 24 at Wonder Fair Gallery, 803 1/2 Massachusetts St. Wonder Fair is open from noon to 6 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays.
When curators of a new show at Wonder Fair Gallery started counting how many female artists were represented in regional galleries compared with males, they discovered disparities.
The gender gap at Wonder Fair, owner Meredith Moore admits, was pretty much equally as wide.
"YWAs: Young Woman Artists," on view through Aug. 24 at Wonder Fair, 803 1/2 Massachusetts St., features artwork by 16 women accompanied by figures from these gallery surveys. Moore hopes the show will not only highlight talented artists but also spark conversation about why disparities exist.
"The goal is not to call out galleries and institutions — even ourselves — for perpetuating gender imbalance," she said. "Rather, through 'YWAs' we hope to bring its benign neglect to the forefront of discussions about our art community."
Moore co-curated "YWAs" with art historian Paula Rose, a fellow Kansas University graduate who teaches "Women in Art" at the Kansas City Art Institute.
The two found that men were, on average, twice as likely to have been exhibited in galleries public or private, large or small. A few numbers, according to Moore and Rose:
• Of works on view recently in the contemporary and modern wing at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., 70 percent were by men.
• Of 30 professional artists featured in solo or small group shows at the Lawrence Arts Center since last year, 73 percent were male.
• Of 33 artists on the roster at Haw/Contemporary, one of Kansas City's premier contemporary galleries, 67 percent were male.
• Of artists represented in solo or small group shows at Wonder Fair since 2012, 64 percent were male. Of those, in exhibits with male curators, female artists' work was only shown alongside that of a boyfriend, former boyfriend or husband.
Especially in a world people assume is progressive, that kind of under-representation was surprising, Moore said.
Moore plunged into the topic after painter Jaime Rovenstine, formerly of Lawrence, requested a solo show at Wonder Fair. Moore realized Rovenstine (who has a painting in "YWAs") was the first woman to even ask, although several men had.
Moore began to wonder why this was the case and whether Wonder Fair was alone.
She doubts curators purposely exclude women, but there's no "Title IX" for art, either. At Wonder Fair, Moore said, exhibiting women alongside their husbands, for example, is sometimes just more convenient.
Historically, many female visual artists worked under pseudonyms or were discouraged from making art as a career, Rose said.
It's hard to pinpoint why a gender gap persists despite feminist movements of the past century, especially since women outnumber men in art schools — 62 percent of Kansas City Art Institute students are women, Rose said.
Maybe women struggle more with work-life balance, lack confidence to market themselves, or have been pigeonholed by long-held assumptions. Maybe they need more successful female mentors in the art world.
"When you have those heroes it helps you move forward and represent yourself," Rose said.
For "YWAs," Rose and Moore selected work by established female artists and promising freshmen, with the idea of helping them connect.
They also chose mediums from a large-scale nude painting ("Girl Sitting with Cat," by Rachel Doris Gregor) to performance art ("Drifter," by Danielle Peters, video of a performance in which a kaleidoscope projection is viewed through Peters' thigh-gap).
Textiles are far from the functional objects women were relegated to producing in centuries past.
In one, Anna Youngyeun's "MetaRoll," a screen-printed strip of wispy white fabric cascades from a rusty metal toilet paper holder into a pile on the floor. Another, "Squa-Plaits" by Shenequa A. Brooks, features synthetic hair — wildly braided and looped — woven into an otherwise traditional cotton textile.
Haw/Contemporary owner Bill Haw said that while the artists he represents are two-thirds men, those featured in solo shows since he opened the gallery last year are 50-50.
Haw said male artists have told him they think it's great he's working with so many women, so they must find it unusual. In truth, he said, it's coincidental.
"I don't even think about it, whether it's a man or a woman," he said. "I think about whether it's art I want to show."
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Q: Drop partial duplicates in Pandas based on which has least information I am new to Pandas, and wondering if I can use it for something specific. I want to drop rows of a dataframe which have a partial duplicate entry in a certain column.
For example, if there are two rows, and one row has "Verrucomicrobia;phylum;" in a given column, and the second row has "Verrucomicrobia;phylum;Opitutae;class;" in that column, I want to drop the first row.
I want to from this:
                                        0   1
0                 Verrucomicrobia;phylum;  10
1  Verrucomicrobia;phylum;Opitutae;class;   5

to this:
                                        0  1
0  Verrucomicrobia;phylum;Opitutae;class;  5

But there is no unique string that I am looking for- I am just looking to get rid of the row with partial duplicate but less information. The above is one example.
Also, there might be three rows, and I want to get rid of the two with least information.
In that case, I want to go from this:
                                                   0   1
0                            Verrucomicrobia;phylum;  10
1             Verrucomicrobia;phylum;Opitutae;class;   5
2  Verrucomicrobia;phylum;Opitutae;class;Puniceic...   3

to this:
                                                   0  1
0  Verrucomicrobia;phylum;Opitutae;class;Puniceic...  3

A: # Generate some sample data
df = pd.DataFrame({
    0: [';'.join([str(randint(0, 100)) for _ in range(randint(1, 5))]) for __ in range(100000)]
})

print(df)

                   0
0              71;39
1           72;75;92
2              45;74
3         55;94;95;3
4      27;93;4;33;52
...              ...
9995              64
9996  36;71;36;69;74
9997           53;30
9998            8;35
9999  47;63;68;99;18

[10000 rows x 1 columns]

With progress bar
import itertools as it
from tqdm.autonotebook import tqdm  # for jupyter notebook, else just "from tqdm import tqdm"

# Turn your semi-colon seperated strings into lists
df[0] = df[0].str.split(';')

# You have trailing semi-colons, so we remove empty strings from the column
df[0] = df[0].apply(lambda lst: [item for item in lst if not item == ''])

# We make a list of values (lists) we want to drop
to_drop = []

# Get the total number of comparisons, for the progress bar
n = (len(df) * (len(df)-1)) // 2

# Comparing all lists with all other lists, we append them to to_drop if
# they contain any of the same elements
for a, b in tqdm(it.combinations(df[0], 2), total=n):
    if not set(a).isdisjoint(b):
        to_drop.append(b)

# Drop duplicates, like list(set(lst)) but for list of lists
to_drop = list(k for k,_ in it.groupby(to_drop))

# Filter
res = df[df[0].apply(lambda lst: lst not in to_drop)]
print(res)

Without progress bar:
import itertools as it

# Turn your semi-colon seperated strings into lists
df[0] = df[0].str.split(';')

# You have trailing semi-colons, so we remove empty strings from the column
df[0] = df[0].apply(lambda lst: [item for item in lst if not item == ''])

# We make a list of values (lists) we want to drop
to_drop = []

# Comparing all lists with all other lists, we append them to to_drop if
# they contain any of the same elements
for a, b in it.combinations(df[0], 2):
    if not set(a).isdisjoint(b):
        to_drop.append(b)

# Drop duplicates, like list(set(lst)) but for list of lists
to_drop = list(k for k,_ in it.groupby(to_drop))

# Filter
res = df[df[0].apply(lambda lst: lst not in to_drop)]

Output
                       0
0               [71, 39]
1           [72, 75, 92]
2               [45, 74]
3        [55, 94, 95, 3]
4    [27, 93, 4, 33, 52]
5   [49, 91, 28, 28, 20]
6               [31, 69]
8       [51, 59, 41, 17]
10          [79, 19, 62]
21      [89, 48, 56, 34]
52             [100, 50]
85              [77, 97]

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The F40 was designed to celebrate 40 years of Ferrari, and it just happens to be the final car to be approved by Enzo Ferrari himself before his death, one of the main reasons why it is still hugely desirable today. The F40 is the definitive supercar and has a formidable reputation alongside the 250 GTO as possibly the best road Ferrari built to date. With the F40, Pininfarina produced an era defining creation, one that even today is instantly recognisable by old and young enthusiasts alike.
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The Ferrari F40 is a mid-engined, rear-wheel drive sports car built from 1987 to 1992, with the LM and GTE race car versions continuing production until 1994 and 1996 respectively. As the successor to the Ferrari 288 GTO, it was designed to celebrate Ferrari's 40th anniversary and was the last Ferrari automobile personally approved by Enzo Ferrari. At the time it was Ferrari's fastest, most powerful, and most expensive car for sale
As early as 1984, the Maranello factory had begun development of an evolution model of the 288 GTO intended to compete against the Porsche 959 in FIA Group B. However, when the FIA brought an end to the Group B category for the 1986 season, Enzo Ferrari was left with five 288 GTO Evoluzione development cars, and no series to enter them into competition. Enzo's desire to leave a legacy in his final supercar allowed the Evoluzione program to be further developed to produce a car exclusively for road use. In response to the quite simple, but very expensive car with relatively little out of the ordinary being called a "cynical money-making exercise" aimed at speculators, a figure from the Ferrari marketing department was quoted as saying "We wanted it to be very fast, sporting in the extreme and Spartan," "Customers had been saying our cars were becoming too plush and comfortable." "The F40 is for the most enthusiastic of our owners who want nothing but sheer performance. It isn't a laboratory for the future, as the 959 is. It is not Star Wars. And it wasn't created because Porsche built the 959. It would have happened anyway."
The F40 body was designed by Leonardo Fioravanti and Pietro Camardella of studio Pininfarina, under the guidance of Nicola Materazzi, the engineer who designed engine, gearbox and other mechanical parts of the car and had previously designed the bodywork of the 288 GTO Evoluzione, from which the F40 takes many styling cues from.
Drivetrain and suspension
Power came from an enlarged, 2,936 cc (2.9 L) version of the 288 GTO's IHI twin turbocharged V8 engine producing a peak power output of 471 hp (478 PS; 351 kW) as stated by the manufacturer. Gearing, torque curves and actual power output differed among the cars. The F40 did without a catalytic converter until 1990 when US regulations made them a requirement for emissions control reasons. The flanking exhaust pipes guide exhaust gases from each bank of cylinders while the central pipe guides gases released from the wastegate of the turbochargers.
The suspension setup was similar to the GTO's double wishbone setup, though many parts were upgraded and settings were changed; the unusually low ground clearance prompted Ferrari to include the ability to raise the vehicle's ground clearance when necessary for later cars.
The body was an entirely new design by Pininfarina featuring panels made of Kevlar, carbon fiber, and aluminum for strength and low weight, and intense aerodynamic testing employed. Weight was further minimized through the use of a plastic windshield and windows. The cars did have moderate air conditioning, but had no sound system, door handles, glove box, leather trim, carpets, or door panels. The first 50 cars produced had sliding Lexan windows, while later cars were fitted with wind down windows.
Cooling was important as the forced induction engine generated a great deal of heat. In consequence, the car was somewhat like an open-wheel racing car with a body. It had a partial undertray to smooth airflow beneath the radiator, front section, and the cabin, and a second one with diffusers behind the engine, but the engine bay was not sealed. It had a drag coefficient of 0.34.
The F40's light curb weight of 1,369 kg (3,018 lb) and high power output of 478 PS (352 kW; 471 hp) at 7000 rpm gave the vehicle tremendous performance potential. The first independent measurements put 0-100 km/h (62 mph) in 4.7 seconds and a top speed of 321 km/h (199 mph) onto the French Sport Auto September 1988 cover.
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Turkey's military on Wednesday confirmed to have fired back shells at a Syrian weaponry position close to its border in retaliation for a Syrian rocket which must have landed close to its military unit, blowing up the military's house and wounding seven of their people.
This recent retaliation by turkey has drawn an equal attention as to whether Turkey could be supporting ISIS and the retaliation was just but a foul play or whether it was ready to fight forces from ISIS strongholds.
Turkish government has been severally criticized in the ongoing war against the Islamic State since it has not shown much support in the battle, despite the fact it shares borders with Syria.
Instead, Turkey has severally made headlines or allowing militants in and out of the country through its shared border with Syria, including teenagers and women who are later on used as brides, martyrs, and spys for the militants.
Most of the fighters who have managed to join ISIS crossed the Turkeys border into Syria.
In March 2014, when ISIS was defeated at Kobane, the Turkish government was once again accused of helping the surviving ISIS victims cross over to Jarablus town.
The ongoing liberation of Kobane from the Daesh (Arabic name for ISIS) by the YPG forces (Kurdish) has faced more challenges than it should have since the Turkish government has failed to support forces fighting ISIS.
Earlier this month, when the YPG forces managed to push out ISIS out of Sexler town, the extremists found their way into Jarablus after the Turkish government closed down on Karkamis Dam in turkey, causing the water levels of the dam to drop thus ISIS could find their way into Jarablus.
The valves of the dam were later re-opened once the Islamic militia group crossed over preventing the YPG forces from crossing the river. This was not coincidental, as echoed by YPG commander, Şivan Faraşin.
The defeat of ISIS in Kobane has now brought back life into the town. However, questions are still being raised as to whether the fighters will begin trickling back into the town with time., as long as Syria shares border with Turkey.
Turkey has also been seen to help foreign teenagers from the West cross over to Syria with an aim of joining ISIS. Some of the teenagers have been deported back to their homes while some have disappeared in Syria to date.


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Aisle Say On The Square: Ache Bourne
The centerpiece—more appropriately, centre-piece—of 59E59's annual Brits Off-Broadway festival is the mainstage importation of two plays, running in repertory, by a mainstay contributor: the redoubtable Alan Ayckbourn, who also directed; both plays featuring the same cast but one.
The first of the two, a very new work (2015), may seem like something of a departure, to those who only know his comedies; for while Hero's Welcome indeed explores the themes of suburban angst that count for the majority of his work, it takes a somewhat more serious tack. It's about the effect upon a community when a nationally hailed military hero (Richard Stacey), who rescued a building full of children in a war torn outpost, returns to his home town, with his young bride (Evelyn Hoskins, appearing only in this play), to settle down and start a business—amongst a number of people for whom the consequences of his having left in the first place are unfinished business (Elizabeth Boag, Charlotte Harwood, Russel Dixon and Stephen Billington). The play is always poised on the edge of soap opera, and in fact, if the tone were any heavier, it would be out and out melodrama; but because Ayckbourn favors wry irony over histrionics, the story proceeds with a deceptive low-keyness.
The second play, really a series of tenuously, consecutively connected comic playlets, comes under the umbrella title Confusions. This is a much older work, having debuted in the UK in 1974. There has been no updating, in many ways it's rooted to its period, and each of its component parts seem mild; Aycknourn lite, not only of length, but of substance. Such as the one about a disciplinarian new mother, who can turn the misbehaving neighbor couple into contrite children just by refusing to give in to their tantrums and withholding what they want until they cooperate; or the one about the local political rally gone wrong, due to private things said over a misbehaving mic, thought to be off, that inconveniently goes live. And etcetera. As a diversion, Confusions is certainly nobody's disgrace; it's handled with aplomb and expertise. But it's hardly Mr. Ayckbourn's finest hour.
If you want both the silly and sober sides of Ayckbourn, the pair of plays, and the fun of seeing the cast's versatility navigating both, make for a decent and worthwhile contrast. If, however, you want simply the best Ayckbourn experience of the two for your buck, it's Hero's Welcome by a mile.
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David Spencer is an award-winning composer-lyricist, lyricist-librettist, author and musical theatre teacher. He has written music and lyrics for the Richard Rodgers Development Award-winning musical The Fabulist, which also contributed to his winning a Kleban lyrics award and several Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation grants. He is also lyricist-librettist for two musicals with composer Alan Menken: Weird Romance (WPA 1992, York 2004) and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which had its sold out, extended world premiere in Montreal in Summer 2015; cast album release soon. He made his professional debut in 1984 with the English Adaptation of La Bohéme at the Public Theatre; and he has since written music and lyrics for Theatreworks/USA's all-new, award-winning Young Audience versions of The Phantom of the Opera (1996) and Les Misérables (1999) (book and direction for both by Rob Barron). Currently he is writing book, music and lyrics for a musical based on the iconic Russian novel The Golden Calf. Spencer's published books are the Alien Nation novel Passing Fancy (Pocket, 1994), The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide (Heinemann, 2005, a regularly reprinted industry standard) and the script of Weird Romance (Samuel French, 1993). He is on faculty and teaches at the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and has taught at HB Studio, the Workshop Studio Theater and Goldsmith's College in London. His primary professional affiliations are BMI, The Dramatists Guild and The International Association of Media Tie-in Writers.
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I feel that maybe the reason the weeks are feeling long to me right now is because they're all running into each other. there is no break T-T hopefully I'll get one soon.
are you getting some good rest tho? I do hope you are. I know you like to keep busy but remember that the body needs you to shut it down to heal and the older you get the more it needs you to try to get some sleep so it can. especially if you don't sleep much. it backs up waiting to be done. So do your best okay.
Okay i should go to sleep now. Another busy day tomorrow too.
Please sleep well tonight too!
How are you? did you have a good day today? I hope you ate well and found many reasons to be happy today.
although we miss you a lot i take comfort in the fact that soon will be chuusday. I'm looking forward to hearing your voice again on that day.
Sadly I've had a long day on which i tried to squeeze time for myself I so it's late and i must go to sleep really soon. But i didn't want to sleep until i wrote in here first.
I'm sorry that once again my tired self has missed posting here. i owe you so many posts now haha. But I have been very tired recently. And sore lol. I've been working so hard lately so I'm sure you understand and forgive me for your blog not having a new message for you every day.
tonight I'm just patiently waiting to get paid so i can go get some coffee lmao. it's been a few days and i just need the coffee for my poor head lol. I've been very patient for this day.
Anyway, i should let you go now and get some sleep so i can wake up and get my coffee.
Today i just did a lot of work. but it was so much cooler today than out has been recently so it was best for me to do it all today. it could be a lot hotter for a while again and i don't want to work in the heat again. so today was perfect.
Although the last time i worked like this was almost 2 weeks ago and i sprained my wrist working then. Sadly i haven't been able to rest it because of work so it still hurts and it's even worse today.
This time while working I sprained my ankle. So it hurts too. not as much as my wrist thankfully but I'm not sure i can give it time to rest either. it's hard when you're the only person who can do the job. it's tiring lately lol.
I can't keep my eyes open much longer so i must sleep. I'll talk to you later then my hero.
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What must be done to use solar and wind in power-to-methanol
According to a research team from Oxford University, solar and wind may be applied in power-to-methanol projects only if the methanol industry will switch from conventional chemical processes, that require a constant energy supply, to more flexible processes that need demand-side management.
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A methanol plant powered by geothermal energy.
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The application of renewable energy power generation technologies in power-to-methanol projects will become viable only if the chemical industry will make processes for methanol production more flexible, thus adapting them to the intermittent and variable nature of wind and solar power. This is the main conclusion of a study conducted by scientists of the University of Oxford, in which the authors explained that the methanol industry is currently dominated by conventional chemical processes that require a constant, rigid power supply that can only be ensured by conventional energy sources.
By contrast, adopting more flexible chemical processes would allow power-to-methanol plant operators to adjust their demand to the variable pattern of renewable energy while incorporating demand-side management to balance power generation and end-use load. "To date, the limitation in renewable chemical production is largely addressed by expensive energy storage, particularly in the form of compressed hydrogen (H2) to level renewable power output," the U.K. scientists explained, adding that this solution is expensive and has, still, several technical issues.
For their case study, the researchers considered a methanol plant that acquires CO2 by carbon capture from a point source and H2 from electrolysis, with a methanol synthesis loop centered on a catalytic reactor and a distillation-based step for product purification. Two different analyses for full electrification of the facility were made, with PV and wind power generation, respectively, with the option of having a conventional back-up power source in both cases. " In this system, the variability of renewable energy supply is tackled by a combination of an H2-based energy storage system and process flexibility enabled by the storage of process materials and energy," the academics specified.
The system was sized for the production of 400,000 tonnes of methanol per year for two different locations – Norderney, which is an island off the North Sea coast of Germany and has significant wind potential; and Kramer Junction, which is located in the Mojave Desert, in California, and has very high solar radiation levels. It was designed in a way that, when the renewable power is in surplus, excess hydrogen produced via electrolysis and raw methanol generated via synthetic reactor can be produced and stored in two different storage subsystems. "When the power deficit is too large, the stored H2 can additionally be fed to the fuel cells to sustain a minimum level of operation of the methanol plant," the group explained, adding that back-up power is only a failsafe measure to ensure sustainable production and the CO2 storage subsystem handles load mismatch between carbon capture and methanol synthesis. Furthermore, a heat storage unit facilitates the integration between methanol synthesis and carbon capture.
The viability of this solution, according to the scientists, is heavily dependent on the dispatchable energy price and the degree of process flexibility. The potential benefits of flexible methanol production, they went on to say, are possible when a 100% renewable power supply is ensured, with most of the savings coming from the removal of the H2-based energy storage system or from very cheap renewable energy, as in the case of Kramer Junction, in which the high costs of H2 storage are offset by the use of PV. "The optimization result confirms that the process flexibility would lead to reduced curtailment, which represents improved utilization of renewable energy," the authors of the study stated. "Note, however, that the flexible operation for the most economical scenario in both locations incurs a higher renewable generation cost despite the reduction of the overall cost."
They further explained that the estimated levelized cost of methanol (LCOMeOH) for the Kramer Junction case without flexibility is around 17% higher than that of the system in Norderney, and this is due to the surplus solar power needed to handle the high variability of solar. When flexibility in the chemical processes is introduced, however, solar has the potential to reduce the project's LCOMeOH by 34%, while for the wind-powered project, this percentage stands at 22%. "By introducing process flexibility, the excess generation is greatly circumvented," the Oxford team stated.
The decisive factors in the application of this model are the costs of the core flexible chemical process units and the storage cost for intermediate products in the chemical processes. Furthermore, it requires the over-sizing of the flexible process units. "In a sense, process flexibility is a competing design to process integration; its implementation requires an analysis on a case-by-case basis," the academics affirmed. "Nevertheless, if the range of cost reduction (20-35%) brought by implementing process flexibility as demonstrated in this work can be attained, its potential gains would most likely exceed the opportunity-cost of energy integration for many chemical processes."
The findings of the research were described in the paper Power-to-methanol: The role of process flexibility in the integration of variable renewable energy into chemical production, published in Energy Conversion and Management.
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a strange sight in san francisco's golden gate park. you see these horses, a couple dozen of them. they are free running around at their will. the question this morning, how did they get out of their pen? thanks for joining us, i'm reggie aqui. kristen is on assignment. for a while, it was an exciting morning in the park. amy hollyfield is live for us in san francisco. >> reporter: hi, reggie. here they are, enjoying a mid morning snack. they are safe and sound after quite an adventure. here they are on the loose.
checking out golden gate park on their own, 23 horses run loose for at least two hours. the parks department said a wrangl wrangler discovered they were out at 5:00 this morning and they got them all corralled and back home around 7:00. they don't know why they were able to get out. i asked if it was an accident, an accidental gate left open or someone intentionally let them out. they will only say it is under investigation. no one was hurt and the horses are fine. one of the daily visitors got a giggle out of the fact that they made a run for it. >> i'm surprised that they would have left the paddock, and all of their food. but then again, their horses. i'm nor concerned of criminals running around than horses running around. this is san francisco and this is golden gate park. there has been people killed in the park. they could just come over and have all of the apples.
>> reporter: jeff and 1-year-old everett feed the horses apples every day and we are relieved to see they are back and safe. they are here on a trial basis as rec and parks offers the possibility of offering horseback rides to the public. they got here in april and scheduled to be here until the end of the month and it is $60 for an hour long ride if you are interested. no word on how their jail break this morning will impact their stay here. live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> glad to see they're doing all right. amy, thank you. traffic is moving again along interstate 680 in fremont after a deadly crash this morning. sky 7 was over the scene around 8:20 this morning on 680 northbound before the mission boulevard exit. the chp said the driver of that honda swerved on to the shoulder, slamming into the back of that big rig that was parked there. the honda driver died at the scene and he is a san jose man. no name has been released.
of sexual assaulting members of his congregation. he was arrested on thursday after several people came forward with similar stories of sexual abuse. his church is el senor [ inaudible ]. he led his congregation for the last 12 years and police believe the assaults took place inside of the church and there are more victims. when you hear what happened to a little boy at a berkeley park, it is just about impossible not to be horrified. police arrested a woman who they say put methamphetamine into the boy's mouth. she is a total strange tore him and we expect she'll be in court later today. matt keller joins us live from oakland. >> reporter: the suspect has yet to make her first court appearance, coming this afternoon or tomorrow. the d.a. does have the case, they are reviewing it to see which charges to bring against her.
here is a photo of the suspect, police arrested her for attempted murder. she is 36-year-old sidena thomas after the suspect put something in the 2-year-olds mouth on a structure on monday afternoon and police arrested thomas and while driving to the booking station she admitted to giving meth to the loyal boy. people's park regulars say they know the suspect. >> she's not a good person. she steals people's stuff and runs around talking to herself and she's crazy. >> reporter: police say she does have a record. the boy was rushed to the hospital where doctors found meth in his system. police say he is recovering. and the d.a. is expected to see this suspect in court this afternoon or possibly tomorrow. live in oakland, matt keller, abc 7 news. >> thank you. and we have breaking news in oakland right now.
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That 30% high was more of a fluke it looks like.
Probably not very much. However, I have been noticing lately that on demographic lists, the two are separated.
The bigger difference exists between African American Evangelicals and white Evangelicals. White Evangelicals almost unanimously lean conservative, where as black Evangelicals lean towards the Democratic party.
I think separating them this way is silly.
It is, and there is truth in the bolded, but it's not that black-and-white, no pun intended.
A'right, I'm lying, the pun was intended.
Religious black people I have known and loved tend to be conservative when it comes to things like gay marriage, because they are generally Bible literalists, but in that same literalist vein, they see social services and sharing of resources as being the ways of the first Christians per that same Bible, and they would not be wrong.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what cognitive dissonance looks like.
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced by a person who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values. This discomfort is triggered by a situation in which a person's belief clashes with new evidence perceived by the person. When confronted with facts that contradict beliefs, ideals, and values, people will find a way to resolve the contradiction to reduce their discomfort.
There was a cute article (wish I'd saved the link) that was entitled "A Bible quiz You Cannot Pass" and it gave 30 questions or so that were multiple choice and no matter how you answered it you were sure to make the wrong choice because all the answers were in contradiction with each other. In the end you couldn't get a score high than 0. Which of course demonstrated how hopelessly contradictory the Bible is. And the Christians keep insisting the Bible is the PERFECT word of God--direct from God's own mouth, if that isn't the laugh of the century! But they sincerely believe it is and all the contradictory evidence in the world will never convince them otherwise. I know there is a pathological condition at work there but I'm not sure which one it is.
I hear things like "I don't allow church to destroy my faith" and I can see how that resonates with people. My conservative protestant church takes political and social positions that have little to do with religion or elemental Christian teaching. I still count myself as a church member but find some of these positions to be unworthy of a religious body and damaging or toxic to a feeling of membership -- and driving people away from organized Christian denominations. My church is far from the worst offender and I can still support the things they do well while ignoring other things. Some friends are less tolerant (or more principled in their minds) and have left the church. In this instance it has nothing to do with atheism or agnosticism but a parting of ways on church political or social pronouncements...not faith. It is more Dissenting Christianity than Liberal Christianity.
Do you have evidence that it was a fluke?
Just look at it. It was clearly a one year period where Catholics identified as Evangelicals for whatever reason. I mentioned that in an earlier post also. Maybe they were upset with the abuse in the church, like Sinead O'Connor brought light to.
But then those Catholics went back to RC the next year. Why would that NOT be a fluke? Are you serious?
You'll believe any fantastic bible story without question, but you question data.
And there's nothing wrong with questioning data...but there is something wrong with not having any ammunition when you do it.
What have I questioned about the data? I only refuted the statement that implied that evangelicals were at a 30% high at one time, presumably for a significant amount of time. That's just not true as I've explained and as anyone can see when presented with the data. It was misleading to say that.


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I've been to The Idea Room before and loved it. I'm off to check out Not So Idle Hands!
One of my friends made those same things. So, so cute.
Loving those labels!!! I want to have a Halloween party next year!
These sound like fun! Thanks for sharing the links.


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CIBFM's first event, which is a forum on "Artificial Intelligence – Opportunities for all", is slated for October 24, which will be facilitated by its members.
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Charities call on government to change housing regulations as only 16% of wheelchair users live in accessible homes
Sarah Sarsby 13th July 2020 Charities call on government to change housing regulations as only 16% of wheelchair users live in accessible homes2020-07-13T09:53:41+00:00 AT Sector News, Housing news, Research & reports
Two leading charities, the Centre for Ageing Better and Habinteg, are calling on the UK Government to focus on the quality of housing in England, as new figures show that elderly and disabled people face inequalities when it comes to adequately heated and accessible homes.
The call comes following new data from the English Housing Survey for 2018-2019, an annual survey commissioned by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). It collects information about people's housing circumstances and the condition and energy efficiency of housing in England.
According to the latest survey, poor-quality housing is still common in England, with 4.3 million households (17 percent) living in a home that doesn't meet basic standards of decency. Households headed by someone 65 and over are more likely to be living in non-decent homes (19 percent) than younger age groups, the survey adds.
The figures also show slow progress on improving the accessibility of housing. Over the past decade, the number of households with at least one adaptation for a person with a disability has increased by just one percent, from nine percent to 10 percent.
Kerry Thompson, a wheelchair user and Habinteg tenant from Milton Keynes, said: "Living in an accessible home myself, I know first-hand how vital they are for a disabled person like me.
"Accessible and adapted homes help alleviate pressures on health and social care services and budgets. They enable greater independence at home and speed up hospital discharges. This is crucial at a time when our NHS and Social Care provision is already under enormous strain. I hope this new data urges the government to launch a new consultation into accessible housing standards."
In addition, the statistics indicate that less than one in 10 homes in England have all four accessibility features that make them visitable by wheelchair users. The data also showed that only 16 percent of wheelchair users live in an accessible home, with just 57 percent of wheelchair users are living in adapted homes altogether.
Commenting on the figures, Habinteg CEO Sheron Carter said: "Whilst it's encouraging to see the proportion of homes with basic accessibility features increasing to 9% from 5% in 2005, it's clear that the total proportion of homes which are accessible is still woefully inadequate.
"That's why the government must change the regulation to ensure all new homes being built are accessible for older and disabled people."
As well as homes being non-decent for over-60s or inaccessible to wheelchair users, the English Housing Survey also highlighted that nearly one in ten over-60s living alone struggle to afford to heat their homes, prompting calls for the UK Government's 'Green New Deal' to focus on improving the quality of housing.
The new figures show that older households had, on average, higher energy costs than younger households, leaving 8.5 percent of households headed by someone aged 60, and 9.9 percent of single person households aged 60 and over, finding it difficult to meet their heating costs.
Additionally, the data outlined Black (22.5 percent) and Asian (21.5 percent) households were twice as likely to find it difficult to meet their heating costs compared to White (10.3 percent) households.
The 'mini budget' announcement made by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak last week detailed a 'green homes grant' which would, from September, see homeowners be able to apply for vouchers to cover the costs of improving their properties with measures such as better insulation, up to a limit of £5,000.
For low income households, the amount could stretch to the entire cost, up to a maximum of £10,000. This is part of a £3 billion green recovery scheme designed to lead Britain out of the coronavirus crisis.
Now, the Centre for Ageing Better is calling on the government to take the opportunity to address other hazards in homes while tackling energy efficiency, such as repairs and adaptations.
Holly Holder, Senior Evidence Manage at the Centre for Ageing Better, said: "These new figures show that while real progress has been made in recent years, there are still too many older people living in cold or poor-quality homes.
"We know that cold homes can cause or worsen many conditions, from asthma to arthritis. The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted just how crucial it is to tackle the preventable causes of health conditions, and improving the quality of our homes must be part of that project.
"While the 'green home grant' is a good start, the government must go further and enable adaptations and repairs in its plans for improving the energy efficiency of homes – as these are just as important to making a home safe and habitable."
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