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The Secret Hotels of Florence & Venice
6/4/2005 — By Reid Bramblett
One thing I will never change is our one-star status," declares Roberto Zammattio, owner of Venice's Al Guerrato Hotel. "I prefer to take in a few euros less but still give a bit more to guests; that way everyone is happy." Such is the attitude that makes a Little Wonder Hotel-a personal touch, comfortable beds, and a price tag of less than $90 per room. What follows are my selections of the top ten budget hotels in Florence and Venice. Breakfast is included in the price unless otherwise indicated. The rates quoted here are based on 1=$1. To call Italy from the United States, dial 011-39 before the numbers listed below.
Florence Pensione Maria Luisa de' Medici Via del Corso 1, 055-280-048 (reservations by telephone only). Doubles ($62-$67) without bath, ($80) with bath. No credit cards. Picture the narrow hall of an antiques shop: a neoclassical sculpture of a child propped on a chair, tattered baroque canvases by Sustermans and Van Dyck cluttering the walls, a chipped della Robbian terra-cotta resting on a table in sunlight. Now imagine cavernous bedrooms opening off this hall, each filled with a quirky mix of antique armoires and 1950s and '60s designer tables and lamps of the sort usually seen in museums of modern art. The eclectic collector, Dr. Angelo Sordi, now convalesces in a back room, but each morning his partner, Evelyn Morris-born in Wales but a Florentine for decades-serves you a home-cooked breakfast in your room. Throw open your shutters and watch the pedestrian parade along the ancient, narrow street below. That's the picture of the best pensione in Florence, a place where I've taken everyone from my parents to my Boy Scout troop. Not all the rooms are that huge, or enjoy as rich a mix of designer furnishings, and only two have private bathrooms, but it's bang in the geographic center of town, and you just can't beat the atmosphere.
Hotel Abaco Via dei Banchi 1, 055-238-1919, fax 055-282-289, abaco-hotel.it. Doubles ($63) without bath, ($95) with bath. Bruno, a gregarious transplanted Calabrian, has in a few short years made this one of Florence's best little budget hotels. Each room is named after a local painter and is decorated with ornately framed reproductions of his works, as well as richly colored walls, draperies, and bed-hangings, high wood ceilings, ornate mirrors, and buckets of antique charm. This tiny hotel is conveniently located at an acute intersection with the main road from the train station to the Duomo (double-paned windows keep out most of the noise). Bruno's putting in air-conditioning, which will cost an additional ($8) if you want to use it. Though he accepts credit cards, he far prefers cash (it helps keep those rates so low).
Albergo Serena Via Fiume 20, 055-213-643, fax 055-280-447, thserena@dada.it. Doubles ($85). Breakfast ($5). The Bigazzi family's pensione around the corner from the train station is ever-so-slightly shabby, but it does retain some of the opulence from when this was a private apartment-leaded glass doors in the hall, stuccoed decorations on the ceiling, patterned stone-tile floors. The furnishings, however, are your average, well-worn modular jobs with baths squeezed into the corners. Still, the rooms are large enough, clean enough, and you get a lot of amenities for your money: TV, private bathrooms, even air-conditioning in some (the four rooms without A/C enjoy a small discount).
Albergo Firenze Piazza Donati 4, 055-214-203, fax 055-212-370. Doubles ($83). No credit cards. This budget standby has none of the charm of its neighbor Maria Luisa de' Medici (mentioned earlier) but shares the enviable location in the very heart of Florence, on a tiny and quiet piazza just off Via del Corso. It still suffers from the institutional style and feel of its days as a student crash pad-a few study-abroad programs still use it for housing-but the beds are firm, and it's kept tolerably clean. The clientele is a comfortable mix of students and frugal families, guests who tend to congregate at the little breakfast-room tables, grabbing Cokes out of the fridge as they plan the day's sightseeing.
Locanda Orchidea Borgo degli Albizi 11, tel/fax 055-248-0346, hotelorchidea@yahoo.it. Doubles ($57) without bath. No credit cards. No breakfast. The thirteenth-century palazzo in which Dante's wife Gemma Donati was born now hosts Maria Rosa Cook's little pensione of high ceilings, new tile floors, beaten-up functional furnishings, and extra-firm beds. It is ultraclean and has a cheerful staff. Number 4, one of the family rooms that can sleep four for($110), opens onto a narrow, 30-foot-long balcony over a pretty little garden.
Albergo Azzi Via Faenza 56, tel/fax 055-213-806, hotel azzi@hotmail.com. Doubles ($46-$56) without bath, ($51-$62) with sink and shower, ($62-$67.30) with bath. Dorm bed ($17-$25). Breakfast ($2-$3). The Azzi is a self-styled locanda dei artisti, an "artists' place," where owners Sandro and Valentino are fond of breaking out guitars and serenading the guests on the little courtyard terrace. They also keep a collection of art books and gallery guides to lend to clients. The place has a laid-back atmosphere that's more beatnik than bohemian, and the rooms are an eclectic mix, the best (numbers 3 and 4) have ceiling frescoes and impressive French-style antiques. The owners have bought two of the other modest hotels in this building, so there are usually plenty of rooms available.
Albergo Mia Cara Via Faenza 58, 055-216-053, fax 055-230-2601. Doubles ($50) without bath, ($60) with bath. No credit cards. No breakfast. The rooms are almost depressingly basic, but the Noto family keeps them clean, the beds are comfy, and the prices absolutely fantastic. Most furnishings are simple and modular, though the nicer rooms have wrought-iron bedsteads. Only two or three rooms share each hall bath. Though the windows are double-paned, for utmost quiet book a room on the back overlooking the trees of a little courtyard. Travelers on even tighter budgets can check into the daughter's fun-loving Ostello Archi Rossi hostel downstairs for ($17-$20; the 1 a.m. curfew, though, has almost caught me on occasion in this city of four-hour dinners). There are plans to renovate the place, expanding both the hostel and the hotel-and perhaps upgrading the latter to three-star status-but the family is unsure when the work will start.
Albergo Merlini Via Faenza 56, 055-212-848, fax 055-283-939, hotelmerlini.it. Doubles ($45-$65) without bath, ($50-$79) with bath. Breakfast ($5.16). A kind Sicilian family runs this gem in a building stuffed with cheap hotels. It's on the top floor, so rooms 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8 peek over the rooftops to the domes of the cathedral and San Lorenzo beyond. The rooms are simply but comfortably furnished. Thanks to renovations in 2002, all the bathrooms are new. Satellite TV, telephone, and air-conditioning should be installed in 2003. There are plenty of quirky touches: ornately carved wooden beds and dressers in some rooms, wall safes hidden behind hinged paintings, and a minor miracle: mosquito screens (something I've found in only two other hotels among hundreds throughout Italy). Two walls of the pretty breakfast room were frescoed by art students in the 1960s, the other two are floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking greenery.
Hotel Sole Via del Sole 8, tel/fax 055-239-6094. Doubles ($77). No credit cards. No breakfast. Hardworking Anna Giuralarocca keeps the prices way down at her cozy, eight-room pensione by doing everything herself-cleaning the rooms each morning before rushing home to prepare lunch for her kids-so don't begrudge her the 1 a.m. curfew. The orthopedic beds come with country-style frames that go well with the simple but sturdy furnishings. The baths are brand new, and double-paned windows keep out the noise. The Sole's a block from the church of Santa Maria Novella in a neighborhood chockablock with inexpensive restaurants and chic boutiques. Signora Giuralarocca plans to install televisions by mid-2003 and may start accepting credit cards soon.
Instituto Gould Via dei Serragli 49, 055-212-576, fax 055-280-274, gould.reception@dada.it. Doubles ($44) without bath, ($47-$52) with bath. No breakfast. No credit cards. This Valdese guesthouse, in a quiet corner of the Oltrarno surrounded by antiques shops, is quite a bit starker than its lovely cousin in Venice, but here you have the comfort of knowing that all the proceeds go directly to running an institute that helps disadvantaged and abused children. (The Valdese is an order of missionaries and do-gooders; no proselytizing, just a few discreet pamphlets.) The functional rooms can be, well, a bit institutional but are well-sized and quiet. Those on the first floor have high wood ceilings courtesy of the palazzo's seventeenth-century origins. Some units are perfect for families, with two beds in a large main room and another two lofted above it, and several of these overlook the institute's courtyard gardens. Rooms on the courtyard go for the higher rate listed above; those on the street, the lower one.
Hotel Bernardi-Semenzato Calle della Coa 4366 (parallel to Strada Nova near Campo SS. Apostoli), Cannaregio, 041-522-7257, fax 041-522-2424, hotelbernardi@vergilio.it. Doubles ($45-$55) without bath, ($85-$90) with bath. This is the Little Wonder Hotel of Venice: It has friendly family management, lies just off the main drag between the train station and San Marco, and is flush with incredible four-star amenities and class at one-star prices so astoundingly low they have to post much higher official ones otherwise the other hotels complain. Not only do you get Murano chandeliers, hand-painted eighteenth-century Venetian-style furnishings, and rough-beamed ceilings, but also satellite TV, air-conditioning, and a minibar. The homey annex is even better, as several of the large rooms overlook the L-bend of a canal, and a few even sport 200-year-old iron chandeliers, massive fireplaces, and eighteenth-century ceiling frescoes. Plans to upgrade the annex's functional furnishings to canopied beds and repro-antiques are in the works.
Pensione Al Guerrato Calle Drio La Scimia 240A (off Ruga Speziali), San Polo, 041-522-7131, fax 041-528-5927, web.tiscali.it/pensioneguerrato. Doubles ($80-$93) without bath, ($100-$115) with bath. Roberto is so friendly that departing guests often hug and cheek-kiss him good-bye (though this may also have to do with the fact that he resembles a long-lost Baldwin brother). This 14-room pensione in a thirteenth-century palazzo near the Rialto Bridge is one of Venice's best for its welcoming atmosphere and sheer value. The good-size rooms with their patched-up chipped-stone flooring and historic Venice photos are spruced up with Murano lamps, scraps of frescoes in a few (best in number 3), and a stupendous melange of antique-yet-homey furnishings. "I stole everything I could from the houses of my grandmother and my aunties," Roberto says. Rooms overlooking the Rialto market to a sliver of Grand Canal and the Ca' d'Oro tend to be smaller and quite noisy during the early-morning market. The rates sometimes peak over our price ceiling-the lower ones are applied October to March and if you pay cash-but rarely will you find such an excellent marriage of price, class, and warmth at any Venice hotel.
Albergo Doni Calle del Vin 4656, Castello, tel/fax 041-522-4267. Doubles ($80) without bath, ($105) with bath. The Doni family has been welcoming guests to its 12-room hotel mere steps off the high-rent Riva degli Schiavoni since 1946, and though Niccol- and Tessa now run the place, Grandma Gina hangs around to keep an eye on everything. Creaky floorboards lead to the modestly sized rooms filled with a hodge-podge of furnishings and aging bedsprings. However, all is forgiven when you check into room 8 and see the Murano chandelier dangling from a ceiling gorgeously frescoed in 1850, or throw open your bottle-bottom windows in room 3 to see a canal cruising with gondolas (rooms 12, 20, and 21 share the view). Only three of the rooms have private bath; the others split three large, clean ones. The prices listed above apply to the high season (generally, Easter to mid-October, and the weeks of Carnevale and Christmas); at other times they may be lower.
Foresteria Valdese Calle Luga S. Maria Formosa 5170 (just over the bridge at the end of the street), Castello, 041-528-6797, fax 041-241-6238, chiesavaldese.org/venezia. Doubles ($54) without bath, ($70) with bath. The 40-foot hallways and frescoed rooms of the 1711 Palazzo Cavagnis host some of Venice's best cheap lodgings thanks to the Valdese order. I can't give you many specifics on the accommodations because as we go to press the guesthouse is undergoing a prolonged renovation that will open up more rooms as well as turn most of the small dorms into private rooms with bath. Just ask for a camera affrescata to get one of the coveted rooms with eighteenth- or nineteenth-century ceiling frescoes. Given its location at a confluence of waterways, almost all rooms overlook a small canal.
Hotel San Samuele Salizzada San Samuele 3358, San Marco, tel/fax 041-522-8045. Doubles ($62-$70) without bath, ($88-$100) with bath. No credit cards. The amicable, energetic owners Bruno, Piero, and Mimmo hold cleanliness in the highest regard, and their simple, ten-room pensione positively sparkles. The sloping, old pebble-stone floors support modern furnishings, efficient baths, and a profusion of flowers in the window boxes (many of the bright rooms have two windows-a luxury in Venice). Every year they renovate something; last year it was rooms 9 and 10 on the staircase, which are carpeted, nonsmoking, and overlook a small, ivy-clad courtyard.
Hotel Caneva Ramo dietro La Fava 5515, Castello, 041-522-8118, fax 041-520-8676, hotelcaneva.com. Doubles ($77) without bath, ($98) with bath (subtract $10 if you pay cash). Gino has run this basic one-star hotel since 1955, now helped by his son Massimo. Its location is fantastic-a three-minute stroll from Piazza San Marco-and 17 of 23 rooms overlook a canal to the palazzo where Casanova once lived. Many rooms are blessed with a strip of Gothic decor along the interior wall courtesy of the palazzo's fourteenth-century origins, and eight enjoy small balconies. Once you tear your gaze away from the gondolas cruising below, you'll notice the rooms themselves are fine, if nothing special: linoleum floors, unremarkable built-in units, and simple Venetian-glass light fixtures. The baths range from tiny modular shower jobs to aging tiled rooms with tubs. The breakfast room overlooks the choicest stretch of canal, opposite a Gothic palazzo.
Hotel Silva Ariel Calle della Masena 1391a (the street's marked merely "Parrocchia S. Marcuola"; it's off Rio Terra S. Leonardo), Cannaregio, tel/fax 041-720-326. Doubles ($50-$82) without bath, ($60-$105) with bath. This little family-run hotel is up a narrow side street just two blocks from the historic Jewish Ghetto and ten minutes from the station. The rooms are small but the effect is cozy, fitted with velvet headboards and modular '80s baths. Some have dark beams on plank ceilings, others let the sunlight pour in through walls of frosted glass. Marble tables fill the flower-bedecked covered patio where you can enjoy breakfast year-round.
Albergo Dalla Mora Salizzada San Pantalon 42 (just off the street), Santa Croce, 041-710-703, fax 041-723-006. Doubles ($67) without bath, ($72) with shower and sink, ($88) with bath. This unassuming hotel is tucked away in the little-touristed Santa Croce neighborhood, which is across the Grand Canal from the rail station, so it manages to be close by without feeling like a station neighborhood. Only six of the 16 rooms have a private bathroom-though four more have a shower and sink in the room (just no toilet). Half of the rooms overlook the wide, quiet Malcanton canal: four from the main blood-red house with its flower-fringed canal terrace, four from the annex across the alley. The rooms are basic but comfortably large for Venice. A few with foldout bunk beds are perfect for families.
Casa Gerotto Calderan Campo S. Geremia 283, Cannaregio, 041-715-562, fax 041-715-361, casagerottocalderan.com. Doubles ($52-$72) without bath,($71-$98) with bath. The Gerotto is your basic budget backpacker haven but not a dive or party house (they frown on drunkenness and don't let nonguests hang around). It's a ten-minute stroll from the station on a heavily trafficked square, so even the double-paned windows can't quite block out the pedestrian noise. However, those rooms on the front are the nicest in a varying lot, boasting eighteenth-century-style furnishings and, soon, air-conditioning (turning it on jacks up the price a bit, as does having a TV in your room). Others suffer from bland modular units, though those on the back courtyard do have the advantage of overlooking a leafy park one block away. They also offer shared-room "dorms" of only five beds each for ($21) per person.
Hotel Galleria Campo della Carita 878a (next to the Accademia Gallery), Dorsoduro, 041-523-2489, fax 041-520-4172, hotelgalleria.it. Doubles ($88-$93) without bath, ($104-$135) with bath. Yes, you can have a room right on the Grand Canal for under $90. But call early: There's only one. This place would be near the top of the list if only it had more rooms in our price bracket. Stefano and Luciano make you feel you're living as a doge while spending like a pauper. Everything is decorated in a rich, antique-Venetian style (patterned-silk walls, curvaceous eighteenth-century-style wood furnishings, ceiling stuccos in rooms 2 to 4), it's set right at the foot of the Accademia Bridge, and breakfast is served regally in your room. Actually, bathless little number 5 on the corner with its ($93) Grand Canal view is not nearly as requested by name as the larger, ($135) Grand Canal rooms with private bath: intimate number 8 with a raised sitting nook set into the arch of a canal-vista window, and number 10 with its frescoed ceiling.


The first song "Saugandh Mujhe Iss Mitti ki" from the film PM Narendra Modi will be launched tomorrow. The song is a tribute to the martyrs who have lost their lives for our motherland.
The song is inspired by one of the recent speeches of our Honorable PM Narendra Modi in which he mentioned that the lives of the soldiers who died in the Pulwama attack will not go wasted. He also mentioned that he will not let anyone pull down the name of our country no matter what the circumstances are.
The song is written by Prasoon Joshi who is well-known for many beautiful songs dedicated to the nation. Sung by Sukhwinder Singh and Shashi, music is composed by Shashi and Khushi.
Directed by Omung Kumar, 'PM Narendra Modi' the film will traverse the journey of Narendra Modi from his humble beginnings to becoming the Prime Minister of India.
Producer, Creative Director and story by Sandip Ssingh. Produced by Suresh Oberoi and Anand Pandit, the film is directed by biopic maestro Omung Kumar, will hit the theatres on 5th April 2019.


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Briefing for September 28-October 2, 2020 on COVID-19 and Low-Income Communities - Freedman Consulting, LLC
Briefing for September 28-October 2, 2020 on COVID-19 and Low-Income Communities
28 Sep Briefing for September 28-October 2, 2020 on COVID-19 and Low-Income Communities
Posted at 10:29h in Newsletters	by	Freedman
We are struck that one of the few certainties about the coronavirus outbreak is that low-income communities and workers in low-income, service sector occupations will be disproportionately impacted. Likely in devastating fashion.
One step in combatting this will be to share information about what is happening and what can be done. That's why we are offering this daily news service summarizing relevant stories, and a concise weekly summary alternative as well. You can see it below.
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Briefing for October 2, 2020
The chaos of repealing the Affordable Care Act during a pandemic: The Center for American Progress looks at the potential consequences if the ACA were to be struck down by the Supreme Court while the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Their top points:
People with preexisting conditions and disabilities, including COVID-19 survivors, would be vulnerable to discrimination by insurers.
ACA repeal would throw insurance markets into chaos as millions would lose coverage during a pandemic.
Struggling small businesses and the self-employed could be priced out of coverage.
Young people under the age of 26 could lose access to their parents' insurance during this period of mass unemployment.
Black, Native, and Latinx Americans who have been disproportionately harmed by COVID-19 would lose insurance in startling numbers.
Insurers could again discriminate against women.
For the tens of millions who would become uninsured, sending children to school becomes not only a health risk but a bankruptcy risk.
Drug costs for seniors would soar, and millions more would not be able to afford their prescriptions during a public health crisis.
Many hard-hit states would be further devastated by the elimination of Medicaid expansion.
Amid political attacks, benefit reductions and pandemic threats, immigrants keep the country fed: A Center for Public Integrity county-by-county analysis drives home how crucial Latino immigrants are to U.S. farm and food-processing industries nationwide. The analysis was drawn from Census Bureau survey data collected by IPUMS USA at the University of Minnesota. Focusing on 10 industries, Public Integrity found 1.87 million workers in front-line farm and food processing jobs, 790,000 of whom are immigrants. That's about 43%, a share that's two-and-a-half times the percent of immigrants in the total U.S. workforce. Nearly nine in 10 of the immigrant farm and food-processing workers are Latino. In some counties, the vast majority of thousands of workers are immigrants — 70%, 80%, even more than 90%. Nationwide, one-third of the 1.87 million are noncitizens.
No mask, no custody — COVID-19 is a new factor in family law: From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "Melanie Joseph wants to see her son, but a judge won't let her — for no reason except that she won't wear a mask. Joseph's 14-year-old son has asthma, a condition that could put him at risk of contracting COVID-19 during this pandemic, court filings show. Broward Circuit Judge Dale Cohen called the mother an 'anti-mask person' who had the 'audacity' to brag about it on Facebook. Conservatives take issue with the decision, but it illustrates how judges in family court now must consider the health risks of COVID-19 on top of juggling the interests of feuding ex-spouses, single parents and reluctant child-support payers."
Ten ways to make life better for the middle class: The Future of the Middle Class team at the Brookings Institution proposes ten policies, adapted from A New Contract with the Middle Class, by Richard Reeves and Isabel Sawhill, that, if implemented, would improve the quality of life for middle-class Americans across five key dimensions.
Eliminating income tax for most middle-class families
Scholarship for Service
Twenty days of guaranteed paid leave
Mid-career sabbaticals
No-cost family planning
A national tax on sugary drinks
Free therapy for all
Mandatory attendance at a naturalization ceremony
Citizens juries for policy issues
Social media reform
Equitable and just disaster preparation during a pandemic: The Center for American Progress calls on Congress to take the following steps to strengthen disaster response, particularly during hurricane season, while the pandemic continues:
Provide a second extension of the FEMA deadline for renewing flood insurance policies.
Provide funds to help states, cities, and communities prepare for and equitably rebuild after disasters.
Allocate $20 billion for Superfund site cleanup and $840 million to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund Emergency Response and Removal Program in future economic recovery and stimulus plans.
Allocate $100 million to the National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS) Environmental Career Worker Training Program (ECWTP) in future economic recovery and stimulus plans.
Create and capitalize a Healthy Communities and Resilient Infrastructure Fund (HCRIF) as part of a long-term economic recovery and stimulus plan.
Require federal agencies to safeguard federal investments in flood-prone areas.
The COVID-19 recession is the most unequal in modern U.S. history: Job losses from the pandemic have overwhelmingly affected low-wage, minority workers the most. Seven months into the recovery, Black women, Black men and mothers of school-age children are taking the longest time to regain their employment. White women, for example, have recovered 61% of the jobs they lost — the most of any demographic group — while Black women have recovered only 34%, according to Labor Department data through August. Workers with college degrees are 55% recovered, compared with less than 40% for workers with high school degrees.
How the cratering economy became a second public health crisis: After months of standoff, Washington is making a last-ditch effort to reach a bipartisan deal for another round of coronavirus aid. Regardless, recovery could take years, with the nation's most vulnerable enduring the worst of it. Their ranks will only continue to swell as the pandemic reshapes society, forcing more Americans out of their jobs and homes even as safety-net funding dries up. Kids in poor households have already lost their link to schooling and free meals amid closures. More and more families are relying on charity for food — even as donations decline and local services get cut. And millions of people who've lived paycheck to paycheck are facing a mountain of rental debt that will subsume their other needs. The numbers — beyond the 200,000 dead from the virus — dwarf any economic crisis since the Great Depression. More than 14 million households or as many as 34 million people may be unable to make rent as of mid-September, according to analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data, as the tab owed to landlords nationwide could soon top $17 billion. Nearly 30 million people are getting unemployment benefits. One of every six adults and at least 16% of children can't reliably get food.
Millions of Americans risk losing water and power as massive unpaid utility bills pile up: More than 179 million people may be at risk for shut-offs as many state protections end.
Trump requires food aid boxes to come with a letter from him: Last week, the Agriculture Department began mandating that millions of boxes of surplus food for needy families include a letter from President Donald Trump claiming credit for the program. The USDA's $4 billion Farmers to Families Food Box Program has distributed more than 100 million boxes to those in need since May, with the aim of redirecting meat, dairy and produce that might normally go to restaurants and other food-service businesses. But organizations handing out the aid complain the program is now being used to bolster Trump's image a month before a high-stakes election — and some even have refused to distribute them.
It's true — 1 in 1,000 Black Americans have died in the pandemic: Former Vice President Joe Biden cited a horrific statistic to make his case in Tuesday's debate against President Trump. The worst part is it's true.
Elderly and homeless — America's next housing crisis: Last year, after analyzing historical records of shelter admissions in three major American cities, a team of researchers led by Dennis P. Culhane, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the country's leading authorities on homelessness, published a sobering projection: In the next 10 years, the number of elderly people experiencing homelessness in the United States will nearly triple as a wave of baby boomers who have historically made up the largest share of the homeless population ages. And that was before a pandemic arrived to stretch what remains of the social safety net to the breaking point.
How to make sure city budgets ensure racial equity: As the pandemic continues to rage, the necessity of centering questions of race and equity in all aspects of budgeting has become apparent to many city leaders. But what does this mean for governments struggling to serve the same size population with smaller budgets and significantly smaller staffs? If it's true that budgets reflect the values of an organization, what can government agencies do to make meaningful steps toward racial equity? Bloomberg CityLab has seven suggestions:
Clearly define equity: Find a common language and define terminology that can be shared with the entire agency and within every department.
Drill down into the numbers to expose inequities: Detailed data can reveal issues that broader statistics miss, said Karla Bruce, chief equity officer for Fairfax County, Virginia.
Use data as evidence to hold officials accountable: Data is a valuable tool for convincing officials to take concrete steps. In Fairfax County, Bruce used data to focus on facts, rather than people's personal opinions.
Track and keep assessing the success of investments in equity.
Include the voices of diverse communities in budget discussions.
Take a high-level view of funds for greater equity.
Find creative ways to simplify delivering funds.
Lessons from the pandemic for public benefit programs: Allison Yates-Berg of ideas42 writes for Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity that pandemic-prompted waivers for the WIC program have offered behavior insights that administrators can use to improve the crucial nutrition program. Her three top takeaways:
Whenever possible, reduce or remove any ambiguity for participants: Enduring a pandemic, and accessing or administering public benefits and services in a pandemic, is new and confusing territory. Making processes simple to follow is even more important for remote or redesigned programs, which feel new to everyone.
Capture the (incredibly taxed) attention of participants at the right moments: The pandemic has sucked attention away from other important things in life. When you're thinking about homeschooling, how you'll pay rent, and finding your next job, you have a lot on your mind. For public benefit program participants, little attention remains for the numerous requirements of these programs.
Account for the (hidden) costs on staff: Consider the various types of costs your design may impose on staff, including temporal costs and cognitive effort. Build your designs into existing workflows and be cognizant of the number of things you're asking of staff. As much as possible, co-design, pilot, observe, and get feedback from staff.
Briefing for September 30, 2020
Evictions damage public health; The CDC intends to curb them — for now: The Centers for Disease Control is now citing stable housing as a vital tool to control the coronavirus, which has killed more than 200,000 Americans. Home is where people isolate themselves to avoid transmitting the virus or becoming infected. When local governments issue stay-at-home orders in the name of public health, they presume that residents have a home. For people who have the virus, home is often where they recover from COVID-19's fever, chills and dry cough — in lieu of, or after, a hospital stay. But the moratorium is not automatic. Renters have to submit a declaration form to their landlord, agreeing to a series of statements under threat of perjury, including "My housing provider may require payment in full for all payments not made prior to and during the temporary halt, and failure to pay may make me subject to eviction pursuant to state and local laws." Confusion surrounding the CDC's order means some tenants are still being ordered to leave their homes.
Five things that can help disabled people navigate the pandemic: Andrew Pulrang writes for Forbes: "The best, surest way for disabled and chronically ill people to make it through would be a more effective and adjustable national strategy to fight COVID-19. But in the absence of that, here are five things that could help disabled and chronically ill get through the next few months, or the next year if that's how long it takes:"
Understanding and patience from family, friends and neighbors
Flexibility in work
A two-track approach to congregate care
Financial support for service providers
Better, smarter management of the pandemic itself
Four ways to improve water access in Navajo Nation during the pandemic: In May, Navajo Nation had the highest per capita COVID-19 infection rate in the country. As of September 29, there were more than 10,300 reported cases of COVID-19 and 555 confirmed deaths from a population of roughly 175,000. Public health measures have been enacted, including reservation-wide daily curfews and weekend lockdowns, increased testing and screening locations, and a surge in grassroots efforts by tribal members. Lack of access to clean water may have exacerbated the spread of the coronavirus and has complicated efforts to curtail it. Amanda Gold and Jessica Shakesprere of the Urban Institute offer four ways to improve water access:
Expand simple solutions to meet urgent needs
Build local capacity
Increase funding for rural water and wastewater systems
Support coordination of federal resources
Pandemic underlines deep-rooted problems in Indian health service: Few hospital beds, lack of equipment, a shipment of body bags in response to a request for coronavirus tests: The agency providing health care to tribal communities struggled to meet the challenge.
Getting by without a car was always hard; Now it's a public health risk: During the COVID-19 pandemic, living without a car isn't just an inconvenience. It's a public health risk. The CDC is recommending that people drive alone as much as possible, but more than 10.5 million households in this country don't have a personal vehicle.
Is extended isolation killing older Americans in long-term care? Data on the mental health effects of the long lockdown at America's nursing homes and other long-term care facilities is scant. But experts, resident advocates, and those with loved ones on the inside say that lockdown is fueling a mental health crisis that's amplifying the devastating impacts of the pandemic on the long-term care industry, where more than 70,000 long-term residents and staff have already died from COVID, accounting for 4 in 10 pandemic deaths. They say that feelings of loneliness, abandonment, despair and fear among residents — and their toll on physical and neurological health — are only pushing the pandemic's death toll higher.
Trash is piling up — Sanitation workers are feeling the strain: From Chicago to New York City, Philadelphia, and New Orleans, U.S. disposal workers are facing a daunting burden: Municipal trash collection is a job more essential than most, and it comes with additional health risks for the people who do it. Since the pandemic arrived, many sanitation workers say they haven't been given the protective equipment and extra wages that they need to do the task safely. Several U.S. cities have seen coronavirus-related labor shortages and slowdowns, which are coming as municipal budgets are severely stressed. And as the pandemic drags on, the trash keeps piling up.
Food insecurity in the U.S. by the numbers: NPR lays out the basic statistics that show the depth of the food insecurity crisis as the pandemic continues:
Nearly one in four American households has experienced food insecurity this year
Millions more children are experiencing food insecurity
Black families are twice as likely as white families to experience food insecurity
19 million Americans live in food deserts
38 million people used SNAP in 2019
COVID-19 could double the number of people experiencing food insecurity internationally
Feeding the hungry during the pandemic: COVID-19 caused a huge increase in SNAP benefits enrollments, but the massive federal program is still lagging behind the demand. Volunteer food supply programs could help fill that gap.
New data shows communities of color had unequal access to coronavirus aid: The Brookings Institution reports: "Congress's major COVID-19 relief program for small businesses, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), has so far distributed 5 million loans across the country. That distribution, however, has not been equal. Newly released data offers a comprehensive snapshot of how access to PPP loans varied considerably based on neighborhood demographics, with small businesses in majority-white neighborhoods receiving PPP loans more quickly than small businesses in majority-Black and majority-Latino or Hispanic neighborhoods."
Neighborhoods at risk for COVID-19 see disproportionately high eviction rates: In a dozen large cities around the country, neighborhoods with elevated rates of medical conditions that put people at risk for serious illness from COVID-19 have seen disproportionately high rates of eviction filings over the last six months, according to a CNN analysis of data from The Eviction Lab, a Princeton University research institute. That means that thousands of people evicted over the last six months were living in areas with the highest health risks from the coronavirus.
America's missing kids — Thousands of students don't show up for distance learning: As parents nationwide tread through a wildly different education landscape this year, many kids are disappearing from the rosters of their public schools. Clark County (Nevada) schools are down about 10,000 students this year, a loss that will translate into a reduction of about $61 million from the state of Nevada, though the impact won't be felt right away. It's a similar story in many other large districts that started the year with all children learning virtually: Dallas; Austin, Texas; Los Angeles; Nashville, Tennessee; Miami; and Broward County schools in Florida all reported enrollment declines, missing large swaths of children in the youngest grades.
In internet dead zones, rural schools struggle with distance learning: As American schools across the country struggle with whether to reopen or stay virtual, many rural districts are worried their students will fall even further behind than their city peers. This pandemic has shone a glaring light on a lot of inequalities. The federal government estimates that more than a third of rural America has little or no internet. In numerous recent interviews, educators have told NPR they're concerned the rural-urban divide will only worsen if kids can't get online to learn.
COVID-19 vaccine trials aren't including enough older people: An op-ed by Dr. Sharon K. Inouye of the Harvard Medical School for Next Avenue makes the case that vaccine trials aren't including enough older Americans: "Imagine the end of the pandemic — with new cases and deaths trending down towards zero — a time we are all eagerly anticipating. Key to achieving this goal will be the development of effective treatments and vaccines. Yet, based on a research study my team and I have conducted, older adults, particularly those in their 70s and 80s, may be systematically excluded from the clinical trials necessary to develop and test them."
Don't let politics strangle coronavirus aid: Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute writes for Bloomberg Opinion that both parties should seriously consider the coronavirus aid package released by the House Problem Solvers Caucus earlier this month: "The Problem Solvers have pointed a way forward. To help struggling families, shorten the length of the downturn, and preserve the productive capacity of the economy, Congress should follow their lead."
Odds of coronavirus infection greatly increase with poverty, CDC says: Poverty can vastly increase a person's chances of contracting the coronavirus, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, which looked at income-based disparities in Utah, found that the risk of becoming ill with the disease in a low-income community could be three times greater than in a high-income one. "Extreme deprivation could compound transmission," the CDC concluded.
Economic fallout from pandemic continues to hit lowest-income Americans the hardest: A new Pew Research Center survey finds that, overall, one-in-four adults have had trouble paying their bills since the coronavirus outbreak started, a third have dipped into savings or retirement accounts to make ends meet, and about one-in-six have borrowed money from friends or family or gotten food from a food bank. As was the case earlier this year, these types of experiences continue to be more common among adults with lower incomes, those without a college degree and Black and Hispanic Americans.
Millions of Americans with low incomes could get left out of Trump's plan to send $200 drug discount cards to Medicare beneficiaries:
President Donald Trump vowed last week to send $200 drug discount cards to 33 million Medicare beneficiaries in a legally dubious gambit aimed at strengthening his political support among seniors. But that could exclude 13 million low-income Americans enrolled in the program who are receiving federal subsidies to better afford their prescription medications. Juliette Cubanski, deputy director of the Medicare policy program at the Kaiser Family Foundation, told Business Insider that the administration appeared to be focusing on providing cards to beneficiaries not already receiving government assistance. Around 13 million low-income Americans in Medicare are enrolled in a federal "Extra Help" program that helps them pay premiums and co-pays. Individuals are eligible for subsidies when their incomes are below 150% of the poverty line, or around $19,000, and own minimal assets.
Virus's unseen hot zone: the American farm: Across the country, fruit growers blocked testing of seasonal farmworkers and told those who caught the coronavirus to keep it quiet. County and state officials were largely unable to stop them.
Among people of color asked to join COVID-19 vaccine trials, worries about inequities run deep: From STAT: "That the communities hardest hit by Covid-19 have also been woefully underrepresented in clinical trials is no coincidence, and in racing to find 30,000 participants who could represent an even broader population, pharma companies have found themselves face to face with health care's deepest fault lines. Being Black, Latinx, Native American, or Pacific Islander, for instance, means you are more likely to go without health insurance than if you're white, and that makes a difference. If you want people to sign up as test subjects for experimental vaccines, it helps if they feel comfortable going to a hospital — and are able to take sick leave."
States must protect and expand in-person voting sites during the pandemic: From Hauwa Ahmed at the Center for American Progress: "The coronavirus pandemic poses a significant challenge for U.S. elections and public health, and elected officials must take steps to preserve Americans' access to the ballot box. To that end, it is critical that states provide voters with a wide range of safe opportunities to vote, particularly to vote early. While some voters may choose to vote by mail, others may want the option to vote in person—which can be made safer by expanding in-person voting options. Thus, states should avoid curtailing in-person options and must maintain—and in some cases, even expand—these voting locations."
Scientist fights for better data on coronavirus impact on Native Americans: Abigail Echo-Hawk can't even count how many times she's been called a troublemaker. It's happened at conferences, workshops, and even after she testified before Congress—all places where she has advocated for the full and ethical inclusion of American Indians and Alaska Natives in public health data. "I didn't used to know what to say," she says. "Now, my answer is, 'Is calling for justice making trouble?" As the director of the Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) and the chief research officer for the Seattle Indian Health Board, Echo-Hawk has been working for years with Indigenous people, mostly in cities, across the United States to collect data about their communities. The virus has taken a disproportionate toll on many Indigenous communities in the United States. But its full impact is unclear because of problems Echo-Hawk has long fought to correct, including racial misclassification and the exclusion of Indigenous co. "Abigail has highlighted the inadequacy of, the restricted access to, and the delays in receiving data" about how COVID-19 is affecting Indigenous people in the United States, says Spero Manson, director of the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health at the Colorado School of Public Health, who is Pembina Chippewa.
How America's schools got so sick: For students in low-income communities, the coronavirus crisis is layered on an existing public health crisis: deteriorated school buildings that are unhealthy places to learn.
Black-owned gay bars are dwindling – can they survive the pandemic? A global health crisis is not the only headwind that the few remaining Black-owned gay bars in the United States are facing. Long before anyone had heard of COVID-19, these LGBTQ social spaces were dwindling across the country.
Medicine for the Greater Good: One hospital's way of supporting its nearby communities of color: With support from Johns Hopkins Medicine, Medicine for the Greater Good now works with almost 100 community and faith groups in and around Baltimore. Over the past seven years, its helped more than 5,000 people throughout the city learn about how they can do more to maintain and improve their health.
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Tax Management Portfolio, Corporate Bankruptcy, No. 790-2nd, analyzes the tax issues that arise when a corporation files for bankruptcy, and does so in the chronological order in which those issues arise in a typical case.
After providing an overview of the tax practitioner's role in the corporate bankruptcy process, the portfolio discusses the tax calculus of the decision to file, the tax significance of first-day orders, and the protective steps that should be considered early in the case to preserve the debtor's tax attributes during and after bankruptcy. The portfolio then discusses the effect of the bankruptcy filing on tax compliance, the proper treatment of certain key items on the debtor's tax returns, requests for refunds by the debtor, tax audits of the debtor's pre-petition years, and the filing of tax claims against the debtor.
The portfolio next analyzes the tax consequences of the plan of reorganization to the debtor, its creditors, and current shareholders. The portfolio then discusses the role of the creditors in the reorganization process. Finally, the portfolio concludes by describing the contents of the plan of reorganization and the disclosure statement from a tax professional's point of view.
Carl M. Jenks, J. D. Harvard Law School (1980); Ph.D. Duke University (1979), M.A. Duke University (1973); B.A. Carleton College (1967).
Candace A. Ridgway, LL.M. Georgetown University Law Center (1995); J.D. Cornell Law School (1987); M.B.A. Arizona State University (1984); B.A. University of Connecticut (1974).
Edward A. Purnell, J. D. Harvard Law School (1990); B.A. Princeton University (1976).
Colleen E. Laduzinski, LL.M. New York University (2004); J.D. Tulane Law School (2000); M.B.A. A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University (2000); B.A. Boston University (1996).
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a. Who Is a Responsible Person?
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(2) When Is a Sales or Use Tax "Incurred" for Purposes of the Pre-Petition Classification?
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The first time she met her future husband was when he was visiting family here for the Christmas holidays in 1997.
They married in 1998 at St. Simons Island, Ga. The couple were then stationed at the Pentagon and lived in Arlington, Va. Two years later, they moved to Hawaii.
They now have three children ages 9, 7 and 5. Lt. Gen. Caldwell also has two children from a previous marriage, ages 22 and 25.
In addition to Rick Caldwell, the couple's family in Columbus includes Stephanie's father and stepmother, Dr. Ron Hudson and Gina Hudson; Stephanie's brother Jeff Hudson; and Lt. Gen. Caldwell's father and stepmother, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William B. Caldwell III and Elaine Flowers Caldwell of Midland; and another sibling, Fontaine Jenkins. Two other sisters, Dana Thor and Theresa Burton, live out of town.
The Caldwells have been stationed at Fort Leavenworth since July 2007.
"There's no typical day," Stephanie Caldwell said. "Because he's in a command position, we attend a lot of functions together. When he travels, my days slow down. Fort Leavenworth is really an educational center. A lot of majors in the Army come here for mid-career level educational courses.
Prior to the family's move to Kansas, Lt. Gen. Caldwell served as deputy chief of staff for Strategic Effects and spokesperson for the Multi-National Force-Iraq, and appeared regularly on national news channels for briefings on the war. Stephanie and their three youngest children stayed behind at Fort Benning, for his 13-month deployment.
Lt. Gen. Caldwell's decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal and the Bronze Star. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1976. In addition, he attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, as a Senior Service College Fellow.
Lt. Gen. Caldwell spent his early childhood at the U.S. Military Academy, when his father was stationed there.
The conference in Columbus will focus on servant leadership. It's an approach to guiding others that, as the name implies, puts employee needs ahead of the person in charge of a company or organization. Key to this approach: listening, empathy and development. In the modern era, a man named Robert Greenleaf published an essay in 1970, "The Servant as Leader," which later became a book.
The Pastoral Institute, a nonprofit counseling and education center, has a Servant Leadership division; and some of the major local companies espouse this teaching.
"Servant leadership is often thought of as soft leadership by some. The U.S. Army is redefining this reality," said the Rev. Ron King, Ph.D., director of the institute.
Stephanie Caldwell named her husband as her own model of servant leadership.
"I've learned more about leadership just by watching Bill and his colleagues — how they make decisions and sacrifices, and the lifestyle they lead," said Stephanie, who every now and then preaches in a United Methodist congregation around the Army post.


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Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) for Protein Mass Spectrometry Unit
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne
Job offer from November 29, 2022
The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) in Colgone is one of the world's premier sites committed to basic research and training in plant science. The institute has four science departments, three independent research groups and specialist support, totalling ~ 400 staff including externally funded positions.
The MPIPZ invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) for Protein Mass Spectrometry Unit.
The successful applicant will develop/establish advanced methods for plant proteomics and engage multiple collaborations primarily within the institute. The group is equipped with state-of-the-art high-resolution mass spectrometers, which are used for peptide identifications and large-scale proteomic approaches. We are seeking an enthusiastic person, who completes and advances our proteomics group. We expect prior knowledge of peptide identifications by mass spectrometry as well as experience in running and maintaining mass spectrometers.
Successful applicants should hold a PhD in Biology / Biochemistry / Chemistry. Proven experience with the operation of high-resolution mass spectrometers and analysis of MS data is a requirement. Computer skills, including the use of statistical and scripting languages, previous work on plant proteomics is beneficial but not a requirement. Fluent written and spoken communication in English is essential, and German would be advantageous.
Additionally, the successful applicant should be highly self-motivated and team oriented. Strong communication and organizational skills are expected.
Payment and benefits are according to German TVÖD for 2 years initially with the possibility for renewal.
The Max Planck Society is committed to employing more handicapped individuals and especially encourages them to apply. The Max Planck Society seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply.
Applicants are requested to send a full CV including a description of hands-on experience in LC-MS and MS data analysis, a complete list of publications, a description of their research experience, letter of motivation, and at least 2 names of referees as a single PDF file through the online system, by latest January 31, 2023. Applications do not meet the conditions will not be reviewed.


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Mary Elizabeth Moon
20 September 1860–1954 (Age 93)
The Life of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Moon was born on 20 September 1860, in Michigan, United States, her father, Luman Moon, was 43 and her mother, Harriet Catherine Southard, was 39. She married Herbert N. Hart on 23 December 1879, in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Hadley, Lapeer, Michigan, United States in 1880 and Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States for about 20 years. She died in 1954, in Michigan, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States.
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After the second state capitol had been destroyed, Michigan Governor Henry P. Baldwin initiated the passing of a bill that would cover the costs for a new building. The bill was adopted and raised over $1 million by a six year state income tax. Architect Elijah E. Myers' design named Tuebor, or I will defend, was selected and he was commissioned to design the new capitol building. The renaissance revival brick and sandstone building soared 267 feet from the ground and was dedicated on January 1, 1879.
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The Conspiracists Election – How the farthest fringes of politics are making a play for the centre
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"There are a bunch of situations where it is perfectly rational to believe in a theory about a conspiracy," says Dr M R.X. Dentith, a research fellow at Waikato University who studies conspiracy theories.
"The question is, at what point do we say what's going on here is irrational, and the conspiracies people are putting forward are unwarranted."
New Zealand has been a popular destination for conspiracy theorists. In 2009, US conspiracy theorist Richard Gage – a prominent figure among those who claim the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre were orchestrated by the US government – visited Wellington and spoke to a crowd of more than 600 people at Te Papa.
So many people turned up, the meeting had to be broadcast on screens into a spillover room. Gage later said it was the largest crowd he had drawn in his years of speeches on the topic.
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Methadone is a synthetic opiate drug commonly used for pain relief in cancer patients, and for weaning addicts off drugs; researchers at The Institute of Forensic Medicine in Ulm believe it appears capable of overcoming drug resistance and killing cancer.
Methadone overcomes chemotherapy and radiotherapy resistance?
Claudia Friesen, an oncologist and molecular biologist from Ulm University Hospital, has shown that the Methadone, sometimes called Dolophine, can help people who become resistant to normal orthodox therapies turn the orthodox therapies back on and even subsequently cure the cancer. In particular, Friesen has been reporting that Methadone helps people beat brain tumours like GBM.
Friesen is not alone in her views. Hans-Jörg Hilscher has been helping patients with palliative care in a nearby Hospice. He claims people on methadone clearly live longer.
Now Friesen has a grant from the German Cancer Aid fund to discover exactly how methadone works and to look at how other opioid stimulators could be effective by making existing drugs work better with Brain cancer.
Friesen is part of the team at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Hospital under Medical Director Erich Miltner. Her original findings were on leukaemia where she showed that some cancer cells have opiod receptors and these could be blocked and the cells killed by repurposed drugs such as methadone. Healthy cells remain unharmed. While methadone was found to perform to the same level as chemotherapy drugs and radiotherapy on non-resistant cancer cells, methadone was also found to kill cancer cells that had become resistant.
Methadone is a synthetic opioid. Normally, opioids are part of a broad range of compounds that can suppress pain receptors. The main use of Methadone is in chronic pain management. The Cochrane Institute concluded from research that there was not much difference in Methadone and Morphine for pain relief.
Friesen has also conducted an 80 person trial on the effectiveness of methadone with Temozolomide (TMZ). Under normal circumstances, the cancer develops a resistance to the drug within just a few months, if the drug works at all. Friesen showed that Methadone improved the cancer cell killing power in combination with Temozolomide and then, after the drug stopped working, resensitised the cancer cells again to the action of the drug.
The Ulm team are now looking at other opioids and which ones work best, and at what doses. Clinical trials would follow.
Chris Woollams, former Oxford University Biochemist and a founder of CANCERactive said, "This research is a parrallel extension of the work being done with cannabis and brain tumours and it is important. The only real weapon in the fight against GBM is Temozolomide, a 1986 approved drug, and that works in only 20% of patients, although you can make it work better with Berberine. This research is important, although work with Electrical Fields and virotherapy may by-pass it. I'm just not sure that a drug is the answer to a brain tumour. Methadone does seem a step forward though.
The real question though is 'Can Methadone help any drug work longer with any cancer? the research so far seems to show that's possible."
You should not use methadone if you have asthma or breathing problems, or if you have blockages in your stomach or intestines.


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Icelandic Earthquake Swarm Heads Towards Askja: What Could Happen?
Rocky PlanetBy Erik KlemettiAug 26, 2014 9:05 PM
The Askja caldera in Iceland, with Viti crater in the foreground. Note the people bathing in the hydrothermal waters in the crater.
Boaworm / Wikimedia Commons on August 1, 2010. The earthquake swarm (and likely didn't cause an eruption just yet) that started on August 16 on the edge of Vatnajökull in Iceland continues. The Icelandic Meteorological Office reports that hundreds of earthquakes are still occurring under Bárðarbunga along with the northeastern edge of Vatnajökull, under Dyngjujökull and 5 km out beyond the edge of the ice cap. Larger earthquakes are still occurring around the ring fault of Bárðarbunga, including a M5.7 at about 6 km depth beneath the volcano. Overall, it looks like the IMO models (based on the earthquake swarm and deformation data) for this intrusion of basalt now estimates about 0.35 cubic kilometers of basalt have entered the upper crust under the region experiencing this increased seismicity. Remember, when volcanic eruptions occur, very rarely does all the magma erupt. For Iceland, a study by Crisp (1984) estimated that 3-6x the volume of erupted material remains underground. So, looking at the modeled volume data, that might be 0.05-0.09 cubic kilometers of magma that might erupt from that volume of intruded basalt. That isn't a huge volume, but for comparison, the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption erupted ~0.18±0.05 cubic kilometers of magma (according to Gudmundsson and others, 2012). The IMO lays out what they think are the three most likely scenarios right now: (1) nothing happens - the intrusion peters out and the swarm stops; (2) the intrusion intersects the surface beyond the ice cap and an eruption dominated by lava flows occurs; (3) the intrusion intersects the surface under the ice cap and large glacial outburst floods (jökulhlaups) occur. They also mention what they think is an unlikely scenario: an eruption at the Bárðarbunga caldera. This is exactly how a volcanic mitigation probability tree works - you develop scenarios and assign a probability of each based on the monitoring data, prior activity or similar activity observed at other volcanoes. None of these scenarios are out of the question, but the available evidence does not preclude them. [caption id="attachment_1477121" align="aligncenter" width="660"]
The earthquake swarm on the northern edge of Vatnajokull. The earthquakes are color coded for days since the swarm started (August 16), with hot colors as the most recent earthquakes.
Icelandic Meteorological Office.[/caption] One interesting aspect of the current earthquake swarm is its northeasterly trend (see above) out from under Vatnajökull and towards another Icelandic volcano: Askja (which is still 15-20 km away). In 1875, Askja produced a VEI 5 caldera-forming eruption that was dominated by rhyolite ash and tephra - a high silica magma that isn't typically associated with Iceland. However, there are abundant examples of rhyolite volcanism in Iceland and people have even drilled into a rhyolite magma body in geothermal areas. That eruption released ~0.21 cubic kilometers of rhyolite (dense rock equivalent - that is, all the erupted material with the air removed). So, if we use the Icelandic intrusive-to-extrusive ratios, which might conservatively expect that around 1 cubic kilometer of rhyolite magma might still be under the Askja caldera. Now, this value is purely speculative because with rhyolite eruptions, sometimes you can evacuate much more of the magma stored due to the highly explosive nature of the eruptions, so we might have much less than a cubic kilometer of cooling and crystallizing rhyolite under Askja. However, there is likely some silica-rich crystal mush* sitting under the volcano. *What is a "crystal mush" anyway? Think of it as a mix of the minerals that have formed from cooling of magma (crystals) and any magma or fluids that remain (liquid). Mushes are likely ductile but behave like a solid, as in they are mainly network of crystals with liquid in-between, somewhat like a sponge. ****SPECULATION ALERT**** This is pure speculation on my part. So, what would happen if the intrusion continues to propagate northeasterly and intersects the magmatic system under Askja? Well, then we might have a scenario where rhyolite crystal mush is brought back to an eruptible state by new magma intruding - rejuvenation. This is something I study at Lassen Peak in California and Tarawera in New Zealand. Places where crystal mushes form can be rejuvenated by new intrusions and new eruptions can remobilize older crystals and magma. What could happen if the basalt in the intrusion intersects cooling rhyolite crystal mush? We need to look to other eruptions for examples. Scenario 1. The mixing of high basalt and cooling rhyolite adds to the explosivity of an eruption due to its higher silica and water content of the rhyolite. This is what likely happened during the second stage of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010 (see below). The first stage produced lava fountains and lava flows. However, when the intrusion intersected with a crystal mush under the main edifice of the volcano, the eruption became highly explosive. This was partly due to the interaction with the mush and partly due to the melting of ice on the volcano itself. The mush was the leftover crystals and cooling magma from the 1821-23 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull but the trigger for the 2010 eruption was the intrusion of new magma. The final erupted magma was a hybrid of the basalt and rhyolite - an intermediate silica magma called andesite.
Eyjafjallajokull erupting on April 17, 2010. The explosivity of this phase of the eruption was strongly assisted by interacting with a rhyolite crystal mush under the volcano.
NASA Earth Observatory. Scenario 2. The basalt punches through the rhyolite to erupt without (much) mixing. This is what happened during the 1886 eruption of Tarawera in New Zealand. Tarawera has a large rhyolite eruption less than 600 years prior to the 1886 eruption, but the basalt that erupted was so full of volatiles that it punched through the rhyolite mush (and overlying solidified lava) to form a basaltic plinian eruption. The basalt from that eruption do have chunks of partially molten rhyolite and crystals in the basalt are compositionally more like ones you might find in a rhyolite, but it appears that either there wasn't time to mix them into a hybrid magma or the volume of basalt was so high (maybe as much as 2-5 cubic kilometers intruded) that it overwhelmed any rhyolite added. Scenario 3. The basalt merely adds heat to the system, causing a rhyolite liquid to be formed that is extracted and erupted. This is what I think happened during the 1305 AD eruption at Tarawera and is what has been seen at places like the Devil's Hills and Rock Mesa in Oregon, where younger feldspar crystals and juxtaposed with older zircon. This suggests that rhyolite liquid is extracted from an old mush (bring the tiny zircon with it due to the high viscosity of the rhyolite), then new feldspar crystals grow before the rhyolite is erupted. Scenario 4. The basalt and rhyolite mush mingle to form a magma that is incompletely mixed. This is what we find in eruptions at the Lassen Volcanic Field in California (and a lot of continental arc volcanoes related to subduction). The basalt appears to have entered the crystal mush, added heat but then broke into blebs that are erupted in a liquid that is more silica-rich that the basalt that intruded. This might suggest a lower ratio of basalt to mush, where the basalt is the source of heat to tip the crystal mush from being uneruptible to eruptible. We see this mingling in the record of plutons -- cooled magma that is exposed at the surface -- so it might be common in areas where the amount of basalt intruded is lower than in Iceland. UPDATE 12:30 EDT: Alison Graettinger (University of Buffalo) mentions a fifth scenario where any basalt under Askja misses intersecting with rhyolite mush altogether. This would just produce basaltic lava flows as has been seen around Askja over the past few decades. I would speculate that of the three scenarios, the first 2 are far more likely in the unlikely situation that the current intrusion reaches Askja and happens to intersect with a rhyolite mush under that volcano. We know we have a large volume of basalt intruding right now, so it would need to intersect an large volume of rhyolite mush to produce a hybrid magma like we saw at Eyjafjallajökull. The third scenario could happen, but would likely need a smaller volume of basalt not to remobilize and mix. The fourth scenario seems to be much more common in continental arcs, while Iceland is a hotspot, where most rhyolite formed by the crystallization of basalt and remelting of the crust. Remember, the scenario where the intrusion intersects with Askja is highly unlikely, so getting too concerned about disastrous giant eruptions is premature to say the least. However, whenever the potential for hot basalt to meet cool rhyolite is there, you can see that we can change the playing field quite quickly.
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[District of Columbia, August 19, 2022] – The DC Bar Foundation is now receiving applications for its three annual grant programs – General Support, Access to Justice (ATJ), and Civil Legal Counsel Projects Program (CLCPP) Grants.
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At EA Play publisher Electronic Arts event reported that after the release of Star Wars Battlefront II shooter developers will constantly expand and change the game world in the thematic "Seasons" by releasing a variety of DLC. In this case the project does not receive a season ticket – all add-ons will be distributed for free, and gamers will have access to the legendary characters, planetary conflicts, elegant fighters and battle in space, which will be added to the game during her support.
The first such season opens in December, after the release of Battlefront II. He will focus on the upcoming movie "Star Wars. Episode VIII: The last Jedi »(Star Wars Episode VIII:. The Last Jedi). This season, there will be new characters – Finn and Captain Fazma, the new planet named Krait, space planet space map D'Kvar, new events, rewards and much more.
"While working on Star Wars Battlefront II, we first focused on player feedback. In the basic game, you will see much more game material than in the first part of the game – a new authentic single-player campaign, an epic online game, space battles, as well as single and joint play PvE in the console versions. This game covers a huge part of the universe of "Star Wars" – said Matt Webster (Matt Webster), executive producer of the project. – But no less important games support after its official release. Our support system embodies the desire to unite the players to inspire them to play together, so future seasons will regularly add a lot of gaming materials and events " .
Beta-testing multiplayer Battlefront II is scheduled for the autumn. To access it, it is sufficient for pre-order any of the editions of the game. The global release of the final version of the shooter will be held on November 17, 2017 on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Origin).
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The One Thing You Should Do Before Buying Anything on Cyber Monday
"This is one of the easiest ways that hackers can get into your device," one cybersecurity expert says.
By Allie Hogan
In a year when giant crowds and casually strolling store aisles is not a safe option, Cyber Monday is likely to be more popular than ever. But if you plan on searching around for good deals online after Thanksgiving, you need to take some precautions first. There is a known risk of getting hacked or taken advantage of on the internet all the time, but especially during a time that hackers know many people will be divulging details online. The one thing you should do to keep your information secure before shopping online is update your computer's software and browser. To learn more expert shopping tips, read on, and to see deals curated for your price point, check out The Single Best Cyber Monday Deal For Every Budget, According to Experts.
"You know that annoying message in the corner of your computer screen asking you to install the latest update? It's easy to press 'remind me later' and never update—but this is one of the easiest ways that hackers can get into your device and take advantage of the unpatched vulnerabilities," says cybersecurity expert Taz Khan.
Updating your browser is the simplest way to ensure you have a safer connection, which will make you less likely to get hacked, as the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirms. They suggest enabling automatic software updates because "running the latest version of software helps ensure the manufacturers are still supporting it and providing the latest patches for vulnerabilities."
Updating your browser and software is the first step in keeping your information secure on Cyber Monday. But read on for some more expert tips on how to avoid getting taken advantage of online, and for more advice on keeping your devices safe, check out If You Have This on Your Phone, Delete It Now, Experts Warn.
Make sure the URL is secure.
Distinguishing secure sites from unsecure sites is easier than you think. You will know that you're on a secure site if "the website has HTTPS as opposed to HTTP," says technology expert Burton Kelso. "The HTTPS means that the website is secure and should be safe from any hacking of information."
An even simpler indication that you're on a secure site? Look for the lock sign next to the URL. "If the website doesn't have a little lock sign at the top of the URL, then it's definitely not secure to purchase from," says Khan.
Sometimes even trustworthy sites don't have this, but you don't have to write them off right away. "If you're shopping from a small business that's family-owned and you notice their website isn't secure, send them an email or a direct message asking them to secure their site so that you can make a purchase," suggests Khan. By doing so, "you'll help the digital ecosystem!"
For added precaution, you can also run any URL through Google's Safe Browsing site, which will tell you the status of the site's safety.
Adjust your cookie settings.
Another simple trick for securing your internet browsing is reviewing your cookie settings. "Adjust your browser cookie settings and leave only the most essential ones enabled," note the online security experts at NordVPN. Blocking the majority of cookies is helpful because "third-party cookies or super cookies (some malicious) will track your online activity and display ads" (that's why you always see those shoes you window-shopped when you're reading an article online). Here's a helpful guide on how to disable your cookies.
Don't use public WiFi.
"Don't use public or free WiFi without using VPN on your devices," warns Harman Singh, the director of cybersecurity company Cyphere. A VPN is a private network that encrypts and transmits data, allowing you to surf sites privately and securely. (Here are some you can try for free.) If you need to use public or free WiFi, consider investing in a VPN.
Verify the seller.
Fake sellers could be anywhere, even on reputable sites like Amazon, so you should verify any merchant before you buy something from them. "Try to stick with mainstream online stores to cut down your risk of hacking," suggests Kelso.
If you want to buy from a new site, remember "a little research goes a long way if you're not sure who you're buying from," notes NordVPN. If the site is a scam, it may already be reported somewhere online. And for more on safe shopping, beware that You Could Get Banned From Amazon For Doing This Common Thing.
Don't shop through an email link.
Emails boasting great deals from our favorite stores are always a welcome addition to our inbox, but they could also be scammers in disguise. "Never click on the links you receive in emails as they could be phishing scams," says Sam Curry, chief security officer at Cybereason.
"One of the most popular scams run by hackers is a phishing email purporting to be from a retailer with a great holiday offer of 25 percent or 50 percent in total savings," says Curry. "Be suspicious and instead, cut-and-paste the promo codes in the emails and go directly to the retailer's websites for more information." And if you're looking to score big at one of the most popular retailers, know that This Is the Best Time of Month to Score Walmart Deals.
Use a credit card instead of a debit card.
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The CISA suggests using a credit card for online purchases rather than a debit card. "There are laws to limit your liability for fraudulent credit card charges, but you may not have the same level of protection for your debit cards," they explain. "Additionally, because a debit card draws money directly from your bank account, unauthorized charges could leave you with insufficient funds to pay other bills."
Don't sign in using a social media platform.
It can be so simple to sign in to a shopping site using your Facebook or Instagram account, but this leaves a lot of your information vulnerable. "Never, ever sign in through a social media app to browse a shopping site and especially to pay at one. Social media sites like Facebook are notorious for taking your data and selling it to the highest bidder," says CEO of Gadget Review Rex Freiberger. "They already have so much data just from users, and you're voluntarily sending so much more when you use their app to sign in to an eCommerce site." And for more useful tips delivered straight to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. (It's safe, we promise!)
Use strong passwords.
Creating strong passwords is essential to keeping all of your most confidential information safe online. Singh suggests making an extremely strong password and then adding modifiers to it for each account you make to ensure variety across sites. You can also use an online password manager site to securely keep track of all your passwords. And for more on keeping your log-in info in order, check out The Single Best Way to Store Your Passwords Safely Online.
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