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The Zanzibar archipelago is home to stunning coral reefs and a diversity of marine life. Pods of spinner and bottle-nose dolphins roam the coast and sometimes put on an acrobatic display for passing boats. Stingrays and mantra rays glide in silent grace through the water, giant grouper drift by and whale sharks and barracuda are regular features.
The warm clear water of the Indian Ocean invites its visitors to dive, swim, snorkel and sail, enjoying life both above and under the sea. There are a number of marine parks and conservation areas across the islands, turtle sanctuaries and dive sites for visitors to enjoy. It's easy to lose track of time as you become entranced by this magical underwater world.
Menai Bay Conservation Area became a protected area in 1995, stretching over 467 square kilometres, off the south west coast of Unguja. The area, is managed under the facilitation of the WWF, by the local community. After local fishermen saw their livelihood threatened by practices such as dynamite fishing and poor conservation management, they decided to take action to protect the area. The bay itself is beautiful, with gorgeous coral reefs and mangrove forests. A dizzying array of tropical fish fills the reef, glowing in neon colours in the clear turquoise water. Sea turtles feed on sponges before gliding away like spaceships.
Chumbe Island has been described as "one of the most spectacular coral gardens to be found anywhere in the world". The island is a privately run nature reserve but for many, the pristine coral reef is the main attraction. The marine wildlife have become accustomed to visitors, so you may have batfish follow you as you snorkel past, curious lobsters waving their feelers and blue spotted stingrays scurrying by under a thin veil of sand.
Mnemba Island Marine Conservation Area is a picturesque atoll just off the north east of Unguja. Perfect powder white beaches circle the island with turquoise water lapping at the shore. A diving favourite, Mnemba's circular reef is ideal for both beginner and experienced divers, with dolphins, turtles and reef sharks found in the area.
Pemba's Misali Island became a conservation area in 1996 and is the perfect spot for drift diving. Dynamite fishing and El Nino have damaged the coral, but the reef remains home to over 350 different species of fish. Conservation is managed under a partnership between local fishermen, the Zanzibari government and the Misali Island Conservation Area, supported by CARE International. Sea turtles lay their eggs on the island's beaches and the island is largely untouched by tourism.
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Information about the Freesia Group and the events it organises for the Cancer Charities we support.
We are Freesia Events and part of the Freesia Group. We run regular events to raise money for our supported Cancer Charities here in Spain.
The Freesia Group is a totally legally registered, Salou based, non-profit organisation, founded in 2002/3, raising money for cancer charities here in Spain. All the profits from the activities and events we organise goes directly to the three cancer charities we support – the AECC in Tarragona, CNIO in Madrid and AFANOC in Tarragona.
The Freesia group is run by a local team of VOLUNTEERS, giving their own valuable time and energy for this very worthy cause. Freesia volunteers organise all the events, put up posters, collect the money, control the sellers, man the food, drink and the Freesia stalls at our organised events.
This is a small social charity event and NOT a market. All the money collected and donated goes directly to our supported cancer charities here in Spain and the ambiance of the event should be based on this.


Uco was an Indigenous chief of the Huarpes Millcayac people who lived in the valley centuries ago. Around 1941-1493, the Incas incorporated the Valley to their vast empire, the Tawantinsuyu – translated as the empire of "the four parts". The Valley would become part of the Collasuyu. In 1608, the Jesuits settled in Mendoza and in 1658 founded a rural property in the Uco Valley, the San José estancia. This gave birth to the town and what would later become the Atamisque estancia.
This property, which originally possessed 19,000 ha, was divided at the end of the 20th century. The estancia passed through several owners, until a French man acquired it: John Du Monceau. He had fallen in love with the place and had decided to settle down there with his wife, Chantal, whose grandfather had been a winemaker in the French region of Beaujolais. This prompted her to support the idea of building a winery in the property. Thus « Bodega Atamisque » was born, inspired by the name the land once possessed.
The first harvest was proudly achieved in March 2007.


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In May 2012, things suddenly clicked for Marvel Studios. Disparate superhero films — some exciting, others tepid — suddenly found a larger purpose for existence, a larger cause to fight for. The Marvel Cinematic Universe began falling into place like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle assembled by a player with a much larger vision than just an eye on the next summer blockbuster.
Joss Whedon's The Avengers had just landed, and it changed a lot of things for the superhero genre, while also laying the foundation for a cult franchise - the MCU - that's now 18 films strong, and counting.
Around the same time in 2012, a young black American filmmaker was in the process of making a film based on the 2009 Bay Area shooting of Oscar Grant, an innocent 22-year-old black man killed by white cops in the US. The film - Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station - released the following year, eventually going on to become Michael B Jordan's breakout role as Grant, while introducing us to a new voice on the American indie film scene.
What Marvel Studios has consistently done with regard to their choices of directors is that despite producing a string of films belonging to the same larger universe, directors seem to be encouraged to find their voice and craft within the framework of their own film and the universe at large.
Thus, Peyton Reed brought his trademark humour from films such as Yes Man into Ant-Man; James Gunn went from writing the animated Scooby Doo films and directing quirky cross-genre comedies such as Slither (2006) and Super (2010) to giving us a sardonic Rocket Raccoon and other madcap characters in the underdog favourite Guardians of the Galaxy; and Shane Black direct Iron Man 3 (2013), his only directorial effort before that being the eccentric Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in 2005, which also starred Robert Downey Jr.
Yet, Ryan Coogler stands apart even while sharing a place among the pantheon of exciting Marvel directors.
After Fruitvale Station received critical acclaim, Coogler went on to direct Creed in 2015, the acclaimed spin-off and sequel based on the son of the only notable black character in the Rocky Films, Apollo Creed. Apart from giving Michael B Jordan another opportunity to shine (which the young actor seized with both arms), it was a move towards more representation and inclusiveness, and more original stories about black lives in mainstream Hollywood.
It took two films for Ryan Coogler's intent and strength as a director to be clear - here was a young filmmaker who wanted to tell stories about the issues of identity, belonging and loss faced by people who looked like him, an entire race of people oppressed by our deeply flawed systems of existence.
It was why there could have been no other choice to helm the first Black Panther film than Ryan Coogler. The latest MCU release is a sprawling, bold, ambitious and mature work dealing with the issue of race, specifically black lives, at a scale the world has never seen before. It brings forth the vision of an Africa unsullied by colonial oppression, and what such an Africa would stand for in the context of the world. It is the quintessential anti-racism blockbuster, without ever being anti-white.
At this time, in this post-Trump, post-Brexit world, films by and about minorities cutting across all lines of division assume more significance than ever before, and voices like those of Ryan Coogler and Ava DuVernay (director of the upcoming A Wrinkle in Time, who was also considered for Black Panther at one point) are what will truly capture the stories of the people impacted in practice by an 'ism'.
For all its entertaining boisterousness and bluster, the MCU often existed in a bubble far removed from what the world is truly like. Sure, it isn't the job of a superhero film to be political; yet the sheer scale of these films, the kind of employment they generate and the kind of humongous box office returns they garner across the world, mean that the MCU contains the potential to create icons such as Black Panther (or the upcoming Captain Marvel, being essayed by Brie Larson), who can change the way the oppressed see themselves.
Joss Whedon shed light on the path Marvel was to tread upon many years ago, but in a world markedly different from the one the Avengers first announced their arrival in, Ryan Coogler's Black Panther is going to remain an unshakeable milestone.


Just a mile east of I 75 off of Immokalee, The Quarry is one of Naples' newest upscale resort communities. Amidst 830 acres of pristine native preserves and centered around a vast 230 acre lake, The Quarry offers all of the ambiance and recreational pastimes of both a grand lakeside resort and world class country club.
Along the curving cul-de-sacs and jutting peninsulas, you will find luxury carriage homes, charming coach homes and spacious single family homes, many with spectacular lake and golf course views. In fact, many of the residences have their own personal docks. The single family homes range from 1,654 to 4,992 square feet with two bedrooms plus a den up to five bedrooms plus a den and a two to four car garage. The condos range from 1,654 to 2,743 square feet with two bedrooms plus a den up to four bedrooms plus a den and a two car garage.
The Lake Lodge is clad in limestone with open beamed ceilings, and is the essence of a bygone era. It overlooks a sandy beach where you can dock your boat, rent a cabana, spend the day at the large lagoon pool with outdoor Tiki Bar, swim laps at the lap pool or take advantage of the separate state of the art health club and spa with men's and women's locker rooms. There are five lighted tennis courts, 2 bocce courts and a pickle ball court for the latest rage in outside exercise. And if this is not enough, the Quarry's boat dock will accommodate such lake activities as fishing, sailing and power boating. The Lake Lodge Grill is casual and a great place for lunch, happy hour and weekend dinners. Your only decision will be whether to dine inside or out. For all Quarry residents it is the perfect place to spend a day!
Not to be outdone, the Golf Lodge is equally impressive with its own use of natural wood and stone. Inside you will find luxurious locker rooms, spacious billiard and card rooms, a well-equipped pro shop, a relaxing bar and grill and a handsome formal dining room. Outside, the terrace runs the length of the lodge and provides panoramic views of the eighteenth hole. Playing to a par of 72 at 7,316 yards from the back tees, the Hurdzan-Fry championship course is a challenge for golfers of all levels. Weaving its way through the lakes and preserves, the course features a variety of holes and large sloping greens. Many of the fairways border the lakes, making the course scenic while requiring accuracy off the tee. With complete practice facilities, The Quarry is everything that a golfer could want.
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Four out of 10 urban Indians are at a risk of cardiovascular disorders (CVD). The study by SaffolaLife has indicated that Bangaloreans face a higher risk of CVD than people in other Indian cities.
While 44.8% of the population of urban India is at a risk of developing CVD, nearly 54% of Bangaloreans are at risk.
So is that the price of being the IT capital of the country? Experts say Bangalore is more prone to cardiovascular diseases as young people in the city faceexcessive work–related stress.
Dr CN Manjunath, director, Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology said, "Statistics reveal that 25% of the patients whom we treat are below 40 years of age. 10% fall in the 25–30 years category."
Offering an explanation for why the city's youth are prone to heart ailments, Manjunath said, "The workforce in the city has a large number of people incorporate jobs and software services, and many of these people are burnt out in the process ofachieving too many targets. They suffer a lack of rest and recreation, and this could make for a predisposition to heart ailments."
There are other causes too. Diabetes, which could also be caused by stress, is a condition that could lead to cardiac complications.
"At least 5% of diabetics develop cardiac complications. Also, the present day food habits, and the increased use of pesticides and chemicals in agriculture could trigger cardiac problems," Manjunath said.
South India also faces a genetic disadvantage, points out Dr Gopi A, interventional cardiologist, Fortis Hospital. "It may be purely coincidental that Bangaloreans run the highest risk for CVD. South Indians, in general, run a higher risk of developing coronary diseases than north Indians, as they are genetically predisposed to CVD," he said.
The SaffolaLife Study 2010 also noted some differences in the proneness to heart ailments between men and women. While men between 30 and 39 years of age risk developing CVD, the indicators start appearing from the age of 26 years.
For women, the indicators start appearing around 35 years of age, and the risk is highest for women between 50 and 59 years of age. The study revealed that one in 30 women below 40 years is at risk of CVD. For women aged 40 and above, though, one in five is at risk.
"Hypertriglyceridemia is common among diabetics and people who have a high carbohydrate diet. South Indians, with their high intake of rice, have a greater proneness to diabetes than north Indians. Perhaps this could explain the higher risk of CVD among Bangaloreans," said Dr SS Ramesh, consultant cardiologist, VIVUS Life.
The SaffolaLife Study, a comprehensive study on lipid profiles, was conducted across different cities with over 60,000 respondents. The survey was conducted in 2010.
While urban populations had high levels of routinely assessed markers such as LDL 24.3%, triglycerides were also high at 28.7%.
Four out of 10 men are at risk with unfavourable total cholesterol to HDL ratio.
Among women, one in four is at risk. Men have higher risk factors than women, although post–menopausal women need special attention as they constitute a distinct sub–group of high risk.
Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad have a high proportion of people with a poor triglyceride profile, while Kolkata has a relatively good lipid profile as compared to other metros.


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June 2, 2016 By Tom Smith
Will Customer Journeys be the End of the Marketing Campaign?
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Wherever you sat and listened at Salesforce World Tour London 2016, one thing rapidly became clear. There's an extraordinary shake-up going on, and it's the customer that's at the epicentre.
As organisations figure out how to meet the needs of increasingly demanding, mobile, connected customers, it's Marketing that's feeling the strongest tremors.
And one of the first casualties could be the trusty seasonal marketing campaign.
The mismatch between expectation and execution
Speaking at the Marketing Cloud Session 'Customer Experience is the New Marketing', Salesforce Regional VP Erinn Leahey summed up the force of expectation that's driving this change:
"Every single one of your customers, these days, expects to be known and understood as a unique individual, at every single touchpoint […] every interaction."
And that's a million miles from old-style, seasonal marketing execution.
Marketing execution – until pretty recently
The seasonal campaign is the cornerstone of many successful marketing operations.
It might go something like this. You run a campaign to promote a new product or offer. The most promising leads would be passed to Sales to close, and then come into contact with Service further down the line. Somewhere along the way, they'd hopefully turn into loyal brand advocates.
The problem with this approach today is two-fold. Firstly, such seasonal campaigns are often triggered by internal needs – 'we've got a new product to tell people about', or 'we've got stock we need to sell fast' – not those of customers and prospects.
Second, it's all too easy for each customer interaction – and department – to be disconnected from the others. The upshot? Customers receive disjointed messages and are asked for the same details every time they get in touch.
Marketing execution – today and tomorrow
Giving customers what they want – the chance to feel like individuals, engaged in a consistent relationship with your organisation – means looking at their customer journey from prospect to advocate as a whole, and tailoring each interaction accordingly.
That means delivering communications, ads and offers based on who they are, and what they need at that particular time.
It also means connecting departments. After all, customers don't think in terms of marketing, sales and service interactions. They think in terms of talking to your organisation, and getting the result they want.
In an ideal world, those broad, seasonal campaigns of yesterday would be fully consigned to the past – giving way to the creation of unique personalised journeys, for every individual.
And that's exactly what today's most visionary marketers are striving towards – with the help of tools built for the purpose.
Capital One – building better customer journeys
In that same Salesforce World Tour session, Russell Howe, VP Solutions Engineering, gave a powerful practical example. He showed how Capital One has been taking advantage of Marketing Cloud's integration with Facebook, to create smarter, more personalised customer journeys.
Capital One is one of only two banks in the US top ten to have been established in the last hundred years, and it's a readiness to seize the opportunities of the latest tech that's helped it to thrive.
Howe explained how Capital One is using Advertising Studio within Marketing Cloud to find new prospects – searching Facebook's data for, for example, people who match the profile of its existing small business customers.
The bank has also used Marketing Cloud to create personalised journeys that adapt to each prospect's actions, and learn their preferences. For example:
When a prospect doesn't respond to marketing emails, they may be shown a series of Facebook ads instead
When that prospect responds to the ad, and buys the product, the instruction to show them the ads will be cancelled – saving the customer the frustration of being followed by ads for something they've already purchased
Even better, that new customer automatically becomes another data point for the 'lookalike' tool to draw on – helping the bank find even more great prospects.
Marketers, it's time to lead!
The Age of the Customer is transforming every corner of the modern business, but it's marketers – as brand creators and curators – that are the natural leaders of the change.
To learn more about how we're helping marketers lead the way, check out this video of the Salesforce World Tour session.
You'll learn about our latest enhancements to Marketing Cloud – including the analytics it takes to effectively manage and optimise thousands of personalised customer journeys. You'll also hear Cian Weeresinghe, CMO of Secret Escapes, discuss the challenges of efficient email marketing at serious scale. (We're talking 3.6 billion emails in the last year alone.)
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New generations of marketing experts are crucial to develop the theories and tools that shape the future of our field. The EMAC/Sheth Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Competition recognizes and encourages this emerging talent. This distinguished award will be presented in 2018 for the second time.
Three finalists will be honored with cash prizes and the opportunity to present their work at the EMAC 47th Annual Conference in Glasgow, UK.
Doctoral students who have completed or will complete their degrees in 2017 are welcome to apply.
Selection committee's decision is final, and entrants have no legal recourse.
The selection committee will be comprised of the EMAC VP Publications (Chair), EMAC VP Global Relations, EMAC VP Corporate Relationships. In case a committee member has a conflict of interest with a submission, s/he will not be involved in evaluating that submission, or will be replaced by a Senior Editor of IJRM.
The selection committee chair and the VP Corporate Relationships will select two external reviewers for each submission, unless they judge the summary to be inappropriate or of insufficient quality. Based on the outside reviews and a subsequent evaluation by the entire selection committee, three finalists will be selected to present their summaries to the committee at the EMAC 47th Annual Conference in Glasgow, UK. The committee will then select the first, second and third place winners, and their names will be announced at the conference.
In order to be considered for the awards, the three finalists must present their research at the EMAC 47th Annual Conference in Glasgow, UK. They will be honored with a certificate a cash prize (1st place: EUR 5,000; 2nd place: EUR 3,000; 3rd place: EUR 1,000).
A single, coherent summary derived from your dissertation, following IJRM style (no more than 30 pages, including all figures, tables, and references).
An abstract as a separate document (no more than 2 pages).
An optional technical appendix, if desired, explaining your methodology (no more than 20 pages).
If relevant, a table of the papers of your dissertation with the names of the coauthors and, if already published, names of the journal(s) in which published (no more than 1 page).
The total length of your submission (not including the abstract & table of papers) should not exceed 50 pages. Shorter submissions are welcome.
To consider your submission, we must receive all application materials by January 15, 2018 15:00 CET Time.


That's the name of a new study just released by the American Bar Association regarding the experience of women of color in law firms with 25 or more lawyers.
What did the study find? One of the study co-chairs, Paulette Brown said: "I thought the numbers would not be good. I didn't know they'd be so startling."
Nearly two thirds of those women -- 62 percent -- said that they had been excluded from formal and informal networking opportunities, compared with 4 percent of white men.
Almost half of women of color -- 49 percent -- reported being subjected to demeaning comments or other types of harassment at their firms.
The examples of such harassment that respondents described in written comments and follow-up focus groups would make even the most vocal critic of political correctness cringe.
One Native American lawyer, for instance, recalled being asked where her tomahawk was and whether she would mind being called Pocahontas. A Korean associate recounted that her firm's managing partner introduced her to a Korean client with the words, "She eats kimchi just like you." Soon after, the managing partner left a message on her voicemail in which he tried to sound like an Asian speaker. Another Asian-American woman reported hearing herself described as "a dragon lady" at her firm, while an African-American associate said that she was labeled "an angry black woman."
To [study co-chair Arin] Reeves, the sheer number of minority women reporting those kinds of comments was a major surprise.
"We've sort of been in this mode where [law firms] think they've left this kind of harassment in the past," says Reeves. Unfortunately, she adds, the study shows that firms still have a lot of basic work to do to make women of color feel welcome -- such as making sure they're in compliance with anti-harassment laws.
Reeves may have been surprised but I'm not.
There is open hostility and rising fear out there regarding the rate of change in America .. change that has pushed women into the majority among undergraduates in college ... change that is moving America consistently in the direction of greater population diversity and a reversal of the definition of "majority" and "minority" in some states (California, Texas) and many urban areas (Washington, DC) ... change that is moving America toward greater tolerance, and, ultimately, acceptance of sexual minorities.
This fear and hostility often reveals itself in the treatment of those perceived as less powerful ... women of color, gays and lesbians, immigrants, geeks in schools controlled by jocks, etc.
These folks are like the canaries in the coal mine. Evidence of continued intolerance toward the less powerful (the least of us), especially where such intolerance is accepted or rationalized (whether by faith, homeland security or otherwise), is a powerful suggestion that all is not well in our democracy.
We who fail to see the signs, those who refuse to speak out against intolerance/injustice where ever it appears, may yet reap a bitter harvest, as those who have power act to keep it and we who remained silent end up like the women in The Hand Maid's Tale consigned to certain roles by the will and force of "the majority."
Looking at the CNN exit polls, it seems quite clear that the Marshall/Newman amendment hit Allen coming and going.
Early polling indicated that African American voters were not significantly more likely to vote yes on the marriage amendment than white voters. And this was born out by CNN's exit polls which showed white voters at 58-42 and black voters at 56-44.
On the other hand, CNN exit polls also indicate that black voters made up 16% of the electorate in this election. If that holds true, it means black voters made up a higher percentage of the electorate than in any other statewide election except Wilder's gubernatorial victory(17%).
Since black voters are more reliably Democratic in partisan contests (of which the amendment was not one), the push by va4marriage to turn out more pro-amendment voters, including those from African American constituencies, certainly did backfire on Allen.
The effort caused more black voters to turn out than otherwise would have been the case, and when they did turn out to vote yes on the amendment, they voted for Webb.
That this was an important aspect in Webb's victory seems clear where, as here, turnout in many high Democratic performance precincts was, on the whole, lower than in high Republican performance precincts.
Put this together with the fact that The Commonwealth Coalition's GOTV campaign was focused on turning out anti-amendment voters in swing districts (35 to 65% Dem performance) and anti-amendment voters were, on the whole, two to three times more likely to vote for Webb than Allen regardless of party.
Thus, it is fair to say that the ballot question turned out voters both for and against the amendment who were less likely to vote for Allen than for Webb.
In George Allen's TV commercials he talks about his "more than 10 years" of public service to Virginia.
And, John Warner says Allen "has stood with me side-by-side for 22 years and no one ever challenged our record."
Is there some part of Allen's record that he isn't proud of?
Does Allen think we can't count?
It's been almost a month since I posted here. Been busy over at Blogging the Amendment ... no time for flights of fancy or frivolity. Not even time for serious reflection.
But, tonight the well-documented reports of active voter suppression throughout Virginia has me wondering ... where is the blistering law and order commentary that I've come to expect from Commonwealth Conservative and the rest of the folks in the Old Dominion Blog Alliance?
Do you all not care about the rule of law? Is it okay in your eyes for cynical purveyors in the political consulting world to instigate, invent or implement the kinds of activities reported today (telephone calls telling someone they are registered in NY and it will be criminal for them to vote in VA; fliers telling folks to skip the election)? Where is the outrage and gnashing of teeth about election fraud that usually accompanies the justification for voter ID requirements? Where is the concern for the integrity of the process that one hears routinely when anyone suggests same day registration or even no-excuse absentee voting?
Would you all in the Old Dominion Blog Alliance rather win an election by dirty tricks and outright criminal behavior than lose honorably and honestly?
Time to speak up and speak out against this kind of behavior.
If you don't, we'll have to assume that you think that it's okay to do this kind of thing as long as you win.


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What are buying signals for your info products? Have you learned what you are likely to see or hear so that you know the time is right?
The price is too high. Do you have a less expensive model or version?
Do you have some references I could contact?
Will you accept payments on the total purchase price?
Do you have a warranty or refund policy?
Knowing the buying signals for your own info products and knowing that it will take some patience to deal with the apprehension and hesitation they represent is an important part of closing sales in person and online.


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Even the Coldest of Winters Cannot Freeze the Desire for Town and Village Greens
Anyone can apply to register land as a town and village green under the Commons Act 2006, where a significant number of the inhabitants of any locality, or of any neighbourhood within a locality, have indulged as of right in lawful sports and pastimes on the land for a period of at least 20 years.
If land is registered as a town and village green, it usually means that the land cannot be developed and that it is a criminal offence to cause any damage to the green, or to undertake any act which interrupts its use or enjoyment as a place for exercise and recreation. This has a major impact on the commercial value of the land, causing significant difficulties for landlords and developers.
Various cases in 2016 have shown that the scope of the legislation can be quite wide reaching as:
Tracks over land may trigger a right of registration as a town and village green, instead of the acquisition of a right of way, and walking or jogging on a defined track may constitute participation in a lawful sport or pastime.
Land may be registrable even if it is only used by people in the immediate vicinity. There is no need for users to be spread throughout a locality.
A locality or neighbourhood need not be legally defined (or be in existence) for 20 years, as long as the use by inhabitants has lasted for the requisite period of 20 years.
Even if land has a statutorily defined purpose it may not be protected from registration if it is still possible for the statutory function to be exercised in tandem with use of the land as a town and village green.
Moving forward to the summer of 2018 and a Court of Appeal ruling caused further anxiety for landowners by limiting the number of cases where owners of land held for a statutory purpose may be able to rely on the statutory incompatibility test to prevent registration of their land as a town or village green. The test consists of three central elements, satisfaction of which weighs in favour of incompatibility:
There must be specific statutory purposes or provisions relating to the land.
Parliament must have conferred on the landowner the powers to use the land for those specific statutory purposes, which are incompatible with the land's use as a town or village green.
Registration as a town or village green must clearly impede, restrict or prevent the exercise of the statutory powers or duties relating to the land.
It was argued in the cases in question that, as the land involved was subject to statutory rights or duties (educational and medical in nature, respectively), registration of the land as a town or village green was incompatible with the land's statutory purpose. The court, however, decided that these elements were not satisfied and the test of incompatibility was not met, meaning that the land in question could be registered.
Just in time for Christmas the land owners were granted permission to appeal by the Supreme Court. We are therefore waiting to see what this year will hold.
Other updates last year included the conclusion that the registration of land as a town or village green would not criminalise the landowner's continued use of that land for commercial activities, nor render it a public nuisance because the landowner has the legal right to continue using its land as before (provided that the use is not incompatible with recreational use).
Following case law in 2017 which indicated that the positioning and content of signs to prevent land being used "as of right" was important (signage needing to detail clearly the prohibited activities and the area of the prohibition), a 2018 case brought some comfort for landowners when it was held that the use of the land had not been "as of right" because of the erection of signs which had been seen by a significant number of local inhabitants, even on a 22-acre site when only three signs were erected. It is therefore important to consider the positioning and content of signage, as it can be a useful tool to protect land from registration.
As always, developers and purchasers should continue to be aware of the potential risks and take extra care when considering potential sites. If you have any concerns about the registration of land as a town and village green, please contact the team at BakerLaw.
This article is not a definitive statement of the law. It is designed as a free update on the law at the time of publishing. It is not a substitute for legal advice on specific facts and circumstances. BakerLaw LLP and/or the writer accepts no liability or responsibility for reliance on this article and recommends that you seek independent legal advice on your specific circumstances prior to taking any steps.
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The clamour for Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin to lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC) into the 2020 election keeps getting louder and louder, as some gurus of the party in the Ashanti Region join in the call.
Alhaji Ibrahim Ali, alias Dan Baba, a leading member of the party in the Asawase Constituency and Mustapha Mohammed Tahiru Ayariga, Vice Chairman of the NDC in Asawase, on Friday, joined the school of thought that Bagbin was the best choice for 2020.
The leaders who were speaking to the GNA recently at the sidelines of a party campaign programme said it was the turn of the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament to lead the party to victory.
Alhaji Ali said beyond corruption, he also dismissed the prominence argument saying that Mr Bagbin's track record at the Ministry of Health was more than a good starting point for the NDC to use to project him as Flagbearer.
"For instance, it is a well-known fact that many of the Health infrastructure during President Mahama's time are the brainchildren of Mr Bagbin. He initiated the upgrade of the Ridge Hospital into a fully-fledged regional hospital. It was under his tenure as Minister of Health that all the major hospitals, KorleBu, Komfo Anokye and Tamale Teaching Hospitals were equipped with ultra-modern equipment including; digital X rays, MRI, CT Scan, Ultra sound machines among other things, it was under his tenure that many nursing training schools in the country were established," Dan Baba said.
He said all Mr Bagbin's signatures in the Health sector resonated with those who knew and that if he was voted as Flagbearer for 2020, the NDC would blow the minds of Ghanaians with most of the Mills/Mahama government's achievements in Health.
Apart from this, he said Mr Bagbin's fierce reputation as an incorruptible MP was well known. "When former Deputy Finance Minister, Moses Asaga, declared him as the best Parliamentarian ever, it was because of Bagbin's incorruptibility," Dan Baba said.
"When you campaign as a politician and become President and then turn round to say that the reward of those who campaigned for you should be withheld because if you give them that reward you are playing politics, then you are not being fair. Like Mr Bagbin said, you forget that it is politics that took you there in the first place," Mustapha Mohammed Ayariga, Vice Chairman of Asawase NDC said.
According to him, it was that incorruptibility that would convince most of the party's executives to trust in his campaign message which promised to make party executives central to all policies he would formulate as party leaders and President.
Mr Bagbin recently promised to depart from the former leadership style in which the party's executives and its rank and file were ignored and promised to make the party executives key part of his administration if he wins and becomes President.
Faith in this promise is what informed Mustapha Mohammed Tahiru Ayariga, the NDC's Asawase Constituency Vice Chairman, to throw his support behind Bagbin.
"Recently, when Kumbungu MP, Ras Mubarak, married in Kumasi Nima and Mr Bagbin graced it, a mini rally developed suddenly forcing him to address it. It was at this mini rally that me and many executives were convinced that he deserves our push. His policy to reward the contribution of party executives is very welcome," he said.
According to Mr Ayariga, it was this conviction that compelled many executives to wear Bagbin's T shirts during former President Mahama's recent Unity Walk in Kumasi.


There's something about an ottoman that I just can't get away from… I've made a bunch. Some more successful than others. Well this mamma jamma started as they often do: at the flea market.
The first 2 steps were a cinch. (That's not to say I didn't mess them up, but logistically speaking… it should be easy.) I traced the copper pot and cut one circle about a centimeter smaller than the circumference. Then, I traced another circle bigger than the circumference.
Dorky math sidenote: Do you remember how to find the center of a circle? It's mad easy… draw 3 or 4 lines across the arc of the circle somewhere. Find the midpoint of these lines and draw a perpendicular line from there. (Basically make a bunch of "T"s around your circle.) These should all intersect at the same point and boom… center, baby.
I used a little wood glue and then a few screws to secure my small circle onto my large circle. I went over it pretty well with a sander to smooth down all the cut edges. At this point I should mentioned that I wield a jigsaw like Lindsay Lohan drives a porsche. I have the best of intentions but I can never trace the perfect line. Any tips are welcome.
Here's where I went a little Dora the Explorer. You may recall I mentioned this was an outdoor ottoman. And you may also have noticed that I'm working with wood. I know myself well enough to know that I will NEVER remember to bring this thing out of the rain so it will, therefore, be getting wet a lot. I ALSO know that regardless of how 'outdoorsy' this foam is, the wood seat of this ottoman will be touching wet foam a lot. And that's bad. I played around with other materials, but ultimately wood was the cheapest and easiest which is where the roofing tar comes in.
Granted this might be a bit of overkill, but I was intrigued. I'm sure a few layers of good ol' oil paint might have done the sealing trick, but this seemed like it was meant for heavy duty weather and might be a little sturdier than paint. Which it definitely is, but man it's messy. So be prepared. The other little factoid about tar is that it never truly dries. Or at least it WILL dry in 10-15 years and that's when you know it's time to fix your roof. BUT… it definitely gets to a point within 48 hours where you won't get any tar on you if you touch it. It will always be slightly tacky and if left in super heat, it will soften up again… but it's meant to stay 'flexible'. Yeah… in hindsight I might not use it again, but… it worked for this project. And now you know more than you ever cared to about roofing tar.
I cut my outdoor foam to align with the circular board and gave myself an extra centimeter. Then I simply wrapped and stapled to upholster. I stapled the fabric right up against the edge of the smaller circle. My mistake for this project was making the circle topper too big the first time so the finished piece looked like a mushroom. Fail. I trimmed it down and reupholstered… SO much better!
This will live out on our eclectic patio and will provide perfect extra seating and/ or an additional little side table. The top just rests on the copper pot so it can come off to store ice and drinks or other miscellany. Or, I suppose, a garden hose.
Update: This ottoman has held up GREAT, but the fabric started to look a little tired after 2 years… I recently shared our patio in the new house and made a video to show you how easy it is to PAINT upholstery. Yep… Paint. See the new patio HERE and see the video for the painted upholstery HERE. The copper beauty got a navy makeover!
"I wield a jigsaw like Lndsay Lohan drives a Porsche…" Hilarious! At least you won't have to do community service! Fun post.
HAHA! Not this time. 🙂 I might wear an orange jumpsuit though….
I mean, I'm in love with that. Partly because I love you, mostly because I love copper. Seriously. This is the shiz.
Hey Charlotte! You are hilarious. I enjoyed reading your post so much. Great idea to turn the base into a side table. I love the copper too.
Hands down, my favorite posts are the ones where an object is looked at in a completely new way.
You have certainly done that here. Just gorgeous.
This is really cute, so creative and the kids are adorable!


Not long after Galway had secured the Connacht title, Kevin Walsh appeared on RTÉ to give a post-match interview to Clare McNamara. The Galway manager holds natural aversion to singling players out from the collective. But he knew that he would be fielding a question about the performance of Shane Walsh.
"Well everyone helped out," he began before accepting that what everyone had witnessed over the afternoon in Hyde Park was a virtuoso hour.
That brief interview perfectly captured the balancing act in which Galway have been engaged all year. Given half a chance, everyone is happy to praise the individual attacking talent, from Damien Comer's undiluted power game to the nonchalant artistry with which Ian Burke unlocks defences.
They have blistering speed in players like Seán Kelly and Eamonn Brannigan; a veteran, Seán Armstrong providing an understated brand of leadership; and highly-rated young stars like Michael Daly. who may yet have a big impact on this championship.
Walsh, though, has always been regarded as once-in-a-generation special. But for all the individual flair, Galway's emergence as a top-four contender was predicated on an absolute commitment to the team ethos.
One of the advantages of the defensive system which Galway unveiled over the course of the league was that it fosters the sense of a co-operative: everybody working their socks off; everyone clear about their role and every player supporting the other.
Go back to opening day of the league: a dank Sunday in Tuam stadium and the world not paying all that much attention to Galway's first top-flight match since 2011. They held Tyrone to 0-3 in the first half partly because of the elements (and errant shooting by the Ulster champions) but also because of a work-rate that would become the trait of their programme.
Even though the day was utterly damp and the pitch heavy, the conditions weren't enough to prevent Shane Walsh from gliding across the surface and, in the 54th minute, landing one of those sumptuous, long-ranges points on the run which he makes seem effortless.
Nobody who watched Galway regularly was that surprised: in most games, Walsh has a habit of landing a sporadic score of breathtaking technical excellence.
After starring in Galway's All-Ireland under-21 win in 2013, he was ushered through to the senior ranks the following summer by Alan Mulholland and ended up with both a senior All Star and young footballer of the year nomination. He was on free-taking duties that summer but nonetheless, his returns were prolific with 0-7 in the Connacht final loss to Mayo, 0-5 against Tipperary and the same against Kerry in an All-Ireland quarter-final defeat. One score against Tipp, when he stunned a long, dropping ball with his right foot, gathered possession with his back to goal and then hooked a left-footed score served as a handy compilation of his instinct and ease on the ball.
His next season was rendered inconsequential, in many ways, after he was involved in a fatal car accident on his way home from a challenge game. In the summer of 2016, in an interview with John Harrington, he reflected on the difficulties of recovering from that traumatic experience and the importance of the Galway squad when he paid a visit to the dressingroom before the 2015 Connacht final.
"They're such a joy to have with me and it just showed that they've been with me through the bad as well as the good times. It nearly brought a tear to my eye going back into the dressingroom afterwards last year before the Mayo game.
He was back in Croke Park for the 3-12 to 0-11 fourth-round qualifier defeat to Donegal that ended Galway's summer that year. Since then, Galway have been a work in progress under Kevin Walsh's management.
Finding a role for Shane Walsh's range of skills has been one of the tasks. It's not that simple as Walsh is many things: an exceptional ball carrier with frightening speed, a long stride and terrific balance; a good playmaker, a free-taker and a footballer capable of kicking a brilliant score from nothing. But for all that you rarely saw the kind of scores habitually posted by bracket fillers like Conor McManus or Paul Geaney.
In Galway's Croke Park championship knock-out games over the past three years, Walsh has fired 0-1 against Donegal, 0-4 from frees against Tipperary and 0-1 from a free against Kerry last summer. That's partly because he has been one of the most closely guarded Galway players and partly because Walsh himself has never seemed that greedy for scores: he is a team-player trapped in an individualist body.
But 0-8 against Roscommon was the kind of sustained individual display that they have been waiting for in Galway. The manager's reticence in gilding it was understandable but in any case, there was no need. He had been sensational throughout an awkward afternoon.
In the RTÉ studio, the panellists debated as to whether Galway needed to abandon the system that had made them such a difficult prospect in the league and just return to straight up man-to-man football. Colm Cooper listened keenly to all of this before pointing out that in the years past, Galway had, as he diplomatically put it, been "conceding a lot". Correcting that was paramount for Galway if they were to achieve anything this year. The emphasis has been on giving nothing away easily: once in possession and on the move, Galway trust themselves.
The contradiction is that the more straitened system may be giving the cavalier Walsh the best opportunity to thrive: the potential to attack at pace is what his game is based on.
After the league, anyone preparing for Galway figured that if you could stop Damien Comer, you went a large way to stopping their attack. It isn't that simple but Roscommon went a long way to thwarting the target man in the final and there were moments when Galway were in desperate need of someone to step into the void.
Again and again, Walsh provided the inspiration. Sunday brings him full circle: back to face Kerry in an All-Ireland quarter-final with five years of senior experience behind him. The good news for Galway football is that after that startling arrival, Shane Walsh may just be settling in.


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"""Implementation of :class:`FractionField` class. """

from sympy.polys.domains.field import Field
from sympy.polys.domains.compositedomain import CompositeDomain
from sympy.polys.domains.characteristiczero import CharacteristicZero

from sympy.polys.polyclasses import DMF
from sympy.polys.polyerrors import GeneratorsNeeded, GeneratorsError
from sympy.polys.polyutils import dict_from_basic, basic_from_dict, _dict_reorder

class FractionField(Field, CharacteristicZero, CompositeDomain):
    """A class for representing rational function fields. """

    dtype        = DMF
    is_Frac      = True

    has_assoc_Ring         = True
    has_assoc_Field        = True

    def __init__(self, dom, *gens):
        if not gens:
            raise GeneratorsNeeded("generators not specified")

        lev = len(gens) - 1

        self.zero = self.dtype.zero(lev, dom)
        self.one  = self.dtype.one(lev, dom)

        self.dom  = dom
        self.gens = gens

    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.dom) + '(' + ','.join(map(str, self.gens)) + ')'

    def __hash__(self):
        return hash((self.__class__.__name__, self.dtype, self.dom, self.gens))

    def __call__(self, a):
        """Construct an element of `self` domain from `a`. """
        return DMF(a, self.dom, len(self.gens)-1)

    def __eq__(self, other):
        """Returns `True` if two domains are equivalent. """
        return self.dtype == other.dtype and self.dom == other.dom and self.gens == other.gens

    def __ne__(self, other):
        """Returns `False` if two domains are equivalent. """
        return not self.__eq__(other)

    def to_sympy(self, a):
        """Convert `a` to a SymPy object. """
        return (basic_from_dict(a.numer().to_sympy_dict(), *self.gens) /
                basic_from_dict(a.denom().to_sympy_dict(), *self.gens))

    def from_sympy(self, a):
        """Convert SymPy's expression to `dtype`. """
        p, q = a.as_numer_denom()

        num, _ = dict_from_basic(p, gens=self.gens)
        den, _ = dict_from_basic(q, gens=self.gens)

        for k, v in num.iteritems():
            num[k] = self.dom.from_sympy(v)

        for k, v in den.iteritems():
            den[k] = self.dom.from_sympy(v)

        return self((num, den)).cancel()

    def from_ZZ_python(K1, a, K0):
        """Convert a Python `int` object to `dtype`. """
        return K1(K1.dom.convert(a, K0))

    def from_QQ_python(K1, a, K0):
        """Convert a Python `Fraction` object to `dtype`. """
        return K1(K1.dom.convert(a, K0))

    def from_ZZ_sympy(K1, a, K0):
        """Convert a SymPy `Integer` object to `dtype`. """
        return K1(K1.dom.convert(a, K0))

    def from_QQ_sympy(K1, a, K0):
        """Convert a SymPy `Rational` object to `dtype`. """
        return K1(K1.dom.convert(a, K0))

    def from_ZZ_gmpy(K1, a, K0):
        """Convert a GMPY `mpz` object to `dtype`. """
        return K1(K1.dom.convert(a, K0))

    def from_QQ_gmpy(K1, a, K0):
        """Convert a GMPY `mpq` object to `dtype`. """
        return K1(K1.dom.convert(a, K0))

    def from_RR_sympy(K1, a, K0):
        """Convert a SymPy `Float` object to `dtype`. """
        return K1(K1.dom.convert(a, K0))

    def from_RR_mpmath(K1, a, K0):
        """Convert a mpmath `mpf` object to `dtype`. """
        return K1(K1.dom.convert(a, K0))

    def from_PolynomialRing(K1, a, K0):
        """Convert a `DMF` object to `dtype`. """
        if K1.gens == K0.gens:
            if K1.dom == K0.dom:
                return K1(a.rep)
            else:
                return K1(a.convert(K1.dom).rep)
        else:
            monoms, coeffs = _dict_reorder(a.to_dict(), K0.gens, K1.gens)

            if K1.dom != K0.dom:
                coeffs = [ K1.dom.convert(c, K0.dom) for c in coeffs ]

            return K1(dict(zip(monoms, coeffs)))

    def from_FractionField(K1, a, K0):
        """
        Convert a fraction field element to another fraction field.

        **Examples**

        >>> from sympy.polys.polyclasses import DMF
        >>> from sympy.polys.domains import ZZ, QQ
        >>> from sympy.abc import x

        >>> f = DMF(([ZZ(1), ZZ(2)], [ZZ(1), ZZ(1)]), ZZ)

        >>> QQx = QQ.frac_field(x)
        >>> ZZx = ZZ.frac_field(x)

        >>> QQx.from_FractionField(f, ZZx)
        DMF(([1/1, 2/1], [1/1, 1/1]), QQ)

        """
        if K1.gens == K0.gens:
            if K1.dom == K0.dom:
                return a
            else:
                return K1((a.numer().convert(K1.dom).rep,
                           a.denom().convert(K1.dom).rep))
        elif set(K0.gens).issubset(K1.gens):
            nmonoms, ncoeffs = _dict_reorder(a.numer().to_dict(), K0.gens, K1.gens)
            dmonoms, dcoeffs = _dict_reorder(a.denom().to_dict(), K0.gens, K1.gens)

            if K1.dom != K0.dom:
                ncoeffs = [ K1.dom.convert(c, K0.dom) for c in ncoeffs ]
                dcoeffs = [ K1.dom.convert(c, K0.dom) for c in dcoeffs ]

            return K1((dict(zip(nmonoms, ncoeffs)), dict(zip(dmonoms, dcoeffs))))

    def get_ring(self):
        """Returns a ring associated with `self`. """
        from sympy.polys.domains import PolynomialRing
        return PolynomialRing(self.dom, *self.gens)

    def poly_ring(self, *gens):
        """Returns a polynomial ring, i.e. `K[X]`. """
        raise NotImplementedError('nested domains not allowed')

    def frac_field(self, *gens):
        """Returns a fraction field, i.e. `K(X)`. """
        raise NotImplementedError('nested domains not allowed')

    def is_positive(self, a):
        """Returns True if `a` is positive. """
        return self.dom.is_positive(a.numer().LC())

    def is_negative(self, a):
        """Returns True if `a` is negative. """
        return self.dom.is_negative(a.numer().LC())

    def is_nonpositive(self, a):
        """Returns True if `a` is non-positive. """
        return self.dom.is_nonpositive(a.numer().LC())

    def is_nonnegative(self, a):
        """Returns True if `a` is non-negative. """
        return self.dom.is_nonnegative(a.numer().LC())

    def numer(self, a):
        """Returns numerator of `a`. """
        return a.numer()

    def denom(self, a):
        """Returns denominator of `a`. """
        return a.denom()

    def factorial(self, a):
        """Returns factorial of `a`. """
        return self.dtype(self.dom.factorial(a))

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Fort Drum soldier wins $5M in NY lottery ticket scratch-off game
Updated: May. 10, 2017, 2:59 p.m. |
Published: May. 10, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
Hank Domin | hdomin@syracuse.com
lottery winner fort drum
Jesse Vonderhorst, a Fort Drum soldier, won $5 million on a New York lottery scratch-off ticket.
(Provided photo)
A Fort Drum soldier won $5 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket he bought at a gas station in Watertown.
Jesse Vonderhorst, 36, of Vancouver, Wash., scratched off a $25 New York Lottery Wild Bonanza Multiplier ticket and was "in shock" when he realized he won $5 million.
"I went straight home and showed my wife," Vonderhorst said in a press release. "She asked me where I got the fake ticket."
Vonderhorst, an active member of the Army, bought the ticket at Sunoco on Factory Street in Watertown.
"I like to play the higher-priced tickets," Vonderhorst said. "I had played enough of the $30 tickets. The $25 ticket had recently had a local winner, so I chose the Wild Bonanza Multiplier. I hadn't played it in a while, so I took a chance."
He will receive the prize in a lump-sum payment of $3,309,000 after taxes.
"The first time I played the wild ticket I won $50 and thought that was cool," Vonderhorst said. "This is unreal!"
Vonderhorst plans to use his winnings to help his three daughters and plan a family vacation.
"I'm thinking about taking them to Disney," he said.
The ticket was purchased at an Upstate NY Stewart's Shop.


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Q: World is returning undefined I'm getting a pixel array from an image and i store it into map[].
Then it will test what the color in hex code is and then return the specified number for sprite.
So 0 for grass and 1 for sidewalk right now.
The first part works fine but when I get into draw() the world[] var returns undefined, but in createWorld in the for statements it returns 0 or 1.
This is what I have:
function createWorld() {
    for (var y = 0; y < worldHeight; y++) {
        for (var x = 0; x < worldWidth; x++) {
            if (map[pl] == '#8aff00') {
                world[x] = [];
                world[x][y] = 0;
                /*alert(x + ', ' + y + ', ' +'green' + ', '
                  + map[pl] + ', ' + world[x] + ',' + world[x][y]);*/
            }
            if (map[pl] == '#000000') {
                world[x] = [];
                world[x][y] = 1;
                /*alert(x + ', ' + y + ', ' +'black' + ', '
                 + map[pl] + ', ' + world[x][y]);*/
            }

            pl += 4;
        }
    }
    draw();
}

function draw() {

    if (!spritesheetLoaded) return;

    ctx.fillStyle = '#000000';
    ctx.fillRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);

    for (var y = 0; y < worldHeight; y++) {
        for (var x = 0; x < worldWidth; x++) {
            switch (world[x][y]) {
                case 1:
                    ctx.drawImage(spritesheet,
                    sidewalk.srcX * tileWidth, sidewalk.srcY * tileHeight,
                    tileWidth, tileHeight, x * tileWidth, y * tileHeight,
                    tileWidth, tileHeight);
                    break;
                default:
                    ctx.drawImage(spritesheet,
                    grass.srcX * tileWidth, grass.srcY * tileHeight,
                    tileWidth, tileHeight, x * tileWidth, y * tileHeight,
                    tileWidth, tileHeight);
                    break;
            }
        }
    }
}

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According to studies dogs get bored with the same old toys. To keep your dog interested in his toys only give him access to a few at a time. My dogs only has access to a couple toys at a time – when we swap them out their enthusiasm for her older "new" toys is high. Keep them interesting by playing a simple game of fetch or tug, interaction will always make a toy much more desirable.


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COVID-19 (current)
Member Advisories
AzHHA Member Advisory- COVID-19: April 10
HHS distributes $30 billion in relief to hospitals
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today its plans for distributing the first $30 billion of the $100 billion Provider Relief Fund created by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The allocation of funds will be based on each hospital's share of 2019 Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) reimbursements.
While detailed information about the administration's plan for the remaining $70 billion is not yet available, HHS noted it is working to develop targeted distributions that will focus on:
providers in areas particularly impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak,
rural providers,
providers who deliver services with lower shares of Medicare reimbursement or who predominantly serve the Medicaid population, and
providers requesting reimbursement for the treatment of uninsured Americans.
AzHHA estimates Arizona hospitals will receive only $220 million of the $30 billion*, in part because of Arizona's high Medicare Advantage penetration, reimbursements from which are excluded from the allocation methodology. The funding is a great, first step but there is much more financial relief needed for Arizona hospitals. AzHHA member hospitals report revenues are down 30-40% due to the cancellation of elective procedures and a reduction in emergency department visits. On a statewide basis that would equate to a revenue reduction of $430 million to $575 million per month.
AzHHA is advocating at the state and federal levels for other funding sources to be made available to Arizona's hospitals as soon as possible, including a portion of the state's forthcoming $1.55 billion distribution pursuant to the CARES Act's Coronavirus Relief Fund. Additionally, CMS is actively considering AHCCCS's waiver request seeking retention payments for all providers including hospitals.
Last, we urge all hospitals to consider applying for Medicare accelerated payments. As of yesterday, April 9, CMS had delivered more than $51 billion in payments to healthcare providers under this program created by the CARES Act. A provider is eligible for Medicare accelerated payments so long as it (1) has billed Medicare for claims within 180 days immediately prior to the date of signature on the provider's request form; (2) is not in bankruptcy; (3) is not under active medical review or program integrity investigation; and (4) does not have any outstanding delinquent Medicare overpayments. Please see this CMS Fact Sheet and for any additional questions, you can email CMS at covid-19@cms.hhs.gov.
* HHS is allocating funds based on 2019 reimbursements. AzHHA calculations are based on available 2017 and 2018 Medicare Cost Report data.
CMS releases additional blanket waivers
Building on its sweeping array of blanket 1135 waivers released last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last night a new set of waivers for Medicare providers. Generally, these changes are aimed at supporting providers' abilities to address the increasing volume of patients affected by COVID-19 through new workforce flexibilities.
The full list of waiver flexibilities enacted to date – including those specified below – is located here. New waivers include:
Physicians in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) can now treat patients virtually. CMS has waived the requirement that a physician must be physically present to provide medical direction and supervision for CAH patients. Physicians now only have to be available by radio, telephone, or online communication for "consultation, assistance with medical emergencies, or patient referral."
The rule of Nurse Practitioners (NP) and Physician Assistants (PA) are expanded in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). CMS is now allowing physicians to delegate tasks to NPs, PA, and clinical nurse specialists in situations where federal regulation would otherwise specify the physician must perform the task personally. CMS specifies that any delegated task must still be under the supervision of the physician.
The rule of Occupational Therapists (OTs) is expanded in Home Health Agencies. CMS is now allowing OTs to perform initial and comprehensive assessments for all patients. CMS specifies this is regardless of whether occupational therapy is the service that establishes eligibility for the patient to receive home health care.
In-service training requirements are relaxed for hospice nurses. CMS has waived the requirement that hospices must provide 12 hours of in-service training during a 12-month period for each hospice aide.
ADHS releases new enhanced surveillance toolkit for EMResource
In response to Gov. Ducey's Executive Order expanding data that hospitals must report to EMResource, the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) published an updated toolkit. As a reminder, hospitals should be updating EMResource daily by 12 p.m. For any questions or assistance, please email HEOCLogistics@azdhs.gov.
RFP released for the operation of St. Luke's
ADHS released a request for proposals for management of the shuttered St. Luke's Medical Center as an alternative care site for COVID-19 patients. Dr. Cara Christ, ADHS Director, joined AzHHA members on a call today to provide more detail on this RFP. While ADHS has proposed using the site to treat high acuity patients, Dr. Christ stated the department is open to a mixed-use operation. Responses are due at 3:30 p.m. on April 15 with a pre-offer conference and tour of the facility on April 13 at 9 a.m.
Guidance for certifying COVID-19 deaths
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics has released a guidance document on how to certify deaths due to COVID-19. This document provides guidance to death certifiers on proper cause-of-death certification for cases where confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infection resulted in death. In addition, the CDC is hosting a conference call on April 16 to review the guidance.
Arizona Surge Line
AzHHA convened a call today with Arizona hospital Chief Medical Officers, Chief Nursing Officers and Information Technology professionals to discuss a new resource to help in the transfer of COVID-19 patients during an emergency hospital or healthcare facility surge. ADHS' Medical Director for Public Health Preparedness, Dr. Lisa Villarroel provided details on the Arizona Surge Line explaining how it was created to optimize Arizona's patient management through the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Villarroel says this new tool is expected to "go live" by the end of next week.
The Arizona Surge Line is a 24/7 toll-free call line that acts as a "doorway" for clinicians to other facility transfer centers and independent clinical consultants. This is a free service to hospital providers and systems. It will be facilitated by the Arizona Department of Health Services, protocolized by the input from hospital facilities and systems in Arizona. For this emergency, it will be used for COVID patients only.
Read more about the Surge Line plan and principles of structure here.
AHCCCS updates
The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System posted its latest update outlining waivers and provider guidance. View the update and sign up for future notices here.


Participants mix and mingle for a unique opportunity to learn about different communities and cultures. They also learn about themselves, their values, as well as having fun. This leads participants to gain insight and knowledge in life skills. Based on their conference experience, many graduates change their career objectives or educational plans. Held in upstate New York. (RYLA) – provides future leaders a unique opportunity to gain insight and knowledge on the following Life Skills: Leadership Basics, Business Ethics, Communication, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Personal Strengths evaluation and Community Citizenship.
This program immerses the student in what makes history important for today and how it is kept alive. This year participants, working in small teams, will help assess youth justice through the ages by analyzing an important case and present findings to the group. Information will be gathered and prepared for your proposal by meeting with and interacting with professionals who are also challenged with this very same issue. Held in Kingston.
A program for those interested in exploring a potential career in the exciting world of High Technology. The program assists participants in making more informed career decisions. The program involves many local, prominent businesses and industries who have agreed to guide the students with 'hands-on' learning opportunities, not only in the world of computers, but also in other disciplines using Hi-Tech applications to push the envelope in their respective fields. Held in Ottawa.
Field biology and environmental science with the scientists of the St. Lawrence Institute of Environmental Sciences. Participants engage in hands-on environmental science activities such as fish identification and measurement, lab work, plant and invertebrate study, a visit to Laflèche bat-caves and daily conversation with the technicians and scientists who work at the Institute. Held in Cornwall.
A unique opportunity for a selected group of young Canadians to come together and gain a better understanding of our country. Through meetings with political leaders, senior officials and others, they learn a great deal about the workings of our democratic institutions. Participants learn to appreciate the diversity of Canada and the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship. Held in Ottawa.


We have been smooth sailing with EF6 Code First migration, but recently had few issues to dealt with migrating existing db tables.
Basically we have the below requirements.
All new tables we create use Code First migration. We want to avoid migration any existing db tables. Also we still want the EF mappings to configure for the existing tables, and have those entities in DbContext so we can work with those tables.
We want to use the automatic migration. – this seems to be working well within the team environment.
We want the migration to work only in our Dev Env, i.e not in QA, UAT, or Prod Envs.
Below are couple of related SO questions..
The problem is that the EF migration does not appear to be seamlessly working with existing table structure.
When we run the automatic migration for the very first time, we want the existing table structure to be unchanged. But we also want the EF to be aware of the existing tables so we can perform operations on those tables. It seems like we can only have one way or the other but not both.
DBContext has the standard operations including the model binding.
Since we starting from the scratch let's enable the migration.
The above command would create a new Migration Configuration with AutomaticMigration set to True.
We have not created any tables yet! So let's run the migration command.
We get the below error..
There is already an object named 'OldTable' in the database.
As you know there is our existing table in the db.
The script that EF creates had a CreateTable("dbo.OldTable"), the migration throws the above error.
How can we tell the EF migration to ignore my OldTable??? Honestly don't know the answer for this. This why the below work around may help you.
First create a specific migration.
This will create a migration script within the Migration folder. The script has 2 create table functions. One for the NewTable, one for the OldTable.
If we were to run this migration (as above) we would get exactly the same error. So let's modify the above migration script, for example by removing the CreateTable("dbo.NewTable",()… DropTable("dbo.OldTable"); We leave the scripts for creation of new Tables as it is.
Now if you check the database, the NewTable has been created and the existing table has not been changed.
It is very likely that someone else in your team has a different model changes to your model changes. If that's the case, you also want to make sure that you don't commit your initial migration script. You can treat it as your private migration script. This also assumes that you have non-shared database for development.
You team would also have to follow the same process. You can add this migration file to the exclusion list of the source control so the file won't get committed to the repository.
Now you can make changes to the model as you would normally do and running the automatic migration would apply those changes accordingly.
It will never attempt to create your existing table as the automatic migration is now based on the modified FirstMigration. Subsequent migrations would use the last successful migration.
Changing an entity which already mapped to an existing table would also make changes to the existing table.
If you use Ignore() method i.e ( Ignore(x => x.Name)) on the existing entity, it will also exclude that property from the existing table.
If you Ignore() method on the entire existing table during model binding i.e modelBuilder.Ignore(); it will just remove your exiting table. If this happens, simply remove the .Ignore and run the migration.