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Coronavirus Live Updates: Tensions Grow Over Masks in the U.S.
California issues new rules for masks, which are now a political flash point.
Tensions over face masks are growing in the United States, even as several states are seeing surges in coronavirus cases. Mask orders have become a point of point of political contention, with some regarding them as an essential safety measure and others considering them an unacceptable infringement of personal liberty.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California on Thursday ordered people to wear face masks in most indoor — and some outdoor — public settings. President Trump has eschewed masks in public. This week Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona, which is also seeing record numbers of new daily cases, gave mayors the power to require wearing masks.
Mr. Newsom's guidance came as California reported more than 4,000 new cases on Wednesday, a new one-day record.
"Simply put, we are seeing too many people with faces uncovered, putting at risk the real progress we have made in fighting the disease," Mr. Newsom said.
In Tulsa, Okla., people were lining up early for Mr. Trump's rally on Saturday, the first since the start of the pandemic.
Officials at the BOK Center, the arena where the rally is scheduled to take place, have asked the campaign for a written health and safety plan detailing precautions it will take.
The White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said this week that attendees would be given face masks, but using them would be optional.
Businesses are also getting caught in the fray. American Airlines on Thursday barred a conservative activist who is an ardent supporter of Mr. Trump, one day after he was removed from a flight for refusing to wear a mask.
Separately, the chief executive of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Adam Aron, prompted a backlash on social media by saying that moviegoers would not be required to wear masks at the company's theaters when they reopen next month.
"We did not want to be drawn into a political controversy," Mr. Aron said in an interview published on Thursday by Variety magazine. "We thought it might be counterproductive if we forced mask wearing on those people who believe strongly that it is not necessary."
His comments drew swift criticism.
"How is public health 'political?'" one person wrote on Twitter.
The coronavirus kills by filling the lungs with fluid and robbing the body of oxygen, yet the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a federal health agency known as BARDA, notified companies and researchers this month that it was halting funding for new treatments for this severe form of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
The new policy highlights the Trump administration's staunch support for a potential vaccine as the way to return American society and the economy to normal. BARDA has pledged more than $2.2 billion in deals with five vaccine manufacturers for the coronavirus, compared with about $359 million toward potential Covid-19 treatments.
The decision to suspend investment in lung treatments blindsided academic researchers and executives at small biotech companies, who said they spent months pitching their proposals to BARDA. The change in policy was posted without fanfare on a government website on June 3, and was not announced in a statement.
Some clinicians and bioethicists contend that BARDA should continue supporting research into treatments for lung conditions, while other experts contend the new policy is a sensible use of limited federal dollars.
About 95 percent of the patients hospitalized for Covid-19 at Northwell Health in New York, a system of 23 hospitals at the epicenter of the region's epidemic this spring, have developed severe respiratory distress, said Dr. Mangala Narasimhan, the regional director of critical care medicine at Northwell.
"You're going to need other forms of treatments for a lot of those people, and I feel like that's where there's going to be a gaping hole," she said.
Key Data of the Day
Two months into reopening, South Carolina sees new daily cases rise to nearly 1,000.
South Carolina's state epidemiologist pleaded with residents to wear masks and practice social distancing as the state identified more than 990 new cases of the virus on Thursday. It was the sixth time in 10 days that the state broke its single-day case record.
"We understand that what we're continuing to ask of everyone is not easy and that many are tired of hearing the same warnings and of taking the same daily precautions," Dr. Linda Bell, the epidemiologist, said in a statement. "Every day that we don't all do our part, we are extending the duration of illnesses, missed work, hospitalizations and deaths in our state."
For much of the spring, between 100 and 250 new coronavirus cases were announced most days in South Carolina. It was a numbing, deadly plateau, but far less than what many other states endured.
A few weeks after South Carolina's economy began reopening on April 20, case numbers rose. There were more than 300 new cases on May 29, more than 500 on June 10, more than 800 on Sunday, and then nearly 1,000 on Thursday.
"By not following public health precautions, many are putting all at risk," Dr. Bell warned.
The spike in South Carolina comes amid growing outbreaks in much of the South and West. Officials in Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma all reported their highest daily case number yet on Thursday.
As in much of the Sun Belt, testing in South Carolina has increased, but that alone does not account for the spike. About 14 percent of people being tested for the virus in South Carolina are positive, up from about 5 percent a month ago. Far more acute care hospital beds in the state are occupied now than when the virus peaked nationally in April.
The outbreak is surging, with clusters on several continents.
The coronavirus caseload is surging globally, driven by outbreaks in Latin America, Africa, South Asia and the United States.
More than 140,000 cases were reported on Tuesday and another 166,000 on Wednesday, two of the three highest tallies since the outbreak began. Seventy-seven nations have seen a growth in new cases over the past two weeks, while only 43 have seen declines.
While Wednesday's total, the record high, was inflated by a backlog of more than 30,000 mishandled and unreported cases that Chile added to its tally, the rising daily numbers reflect the pandemic's stubborn grip on the world.
Brazil reported more than 32,000 new cases on Wednesday, the most in the world, and the United States was second, with more than 25,000. The leaders of both nations have been criticized for their handling of the outbreak.
On Thursday, California and Florida reported their highest daily totals of new cases yet. And Texas became the sixth state in the nation to surpass 100,000 cases, according to a New York Times database. Cases there have doubled over the past month.
The virus is also taking off in other parts of the world.
If the outbreak was defined early on by a series of shifting epicenters — including Wuhan, China; Iran; northern Italy; Spain; and New York — it is now defined by its wide and expanding scope. And more risks lie ahead as nations begin to reopen their economies.
In India, which initially placed all 1.3 billion of its citizens under a lockdown — then moved to reopen even with its strained public health system near the breaking point — officials reported a record number of new cases Wednesday. And the virus is now spreading rapidly in nearby Pakistan and Bangladesh as well.
It took Africa nearly 100 days to reach 100,000 cases, the World Health Organization noted, but only 19 days to double that tally. South Africa now averages a thousand more new cases each day than it did two weeks ago.
And some countries where caseloads had appeared to taper — including Israel, Sweden and Costa Rica — are now watching them rise again.
Italian scientists on Friday said they found traces of coronavirus in samples of sewage water collected in December, further suggesting that the coronavirus was already circulating in the country months before the outbreak at the end of February.
Researchers at the Italian National Institute of Health discovered the presence of the RNA of the virus in samples taken in the northern cities of Milan and Turin on Dec. 18, more than two months before the first case was diagnosed in Italy, on Feb 20. Traces were also found in samples collected in the city of Bologna, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) south of Milan, on Jan. 29.
"We showed that the virus was already circulating," said Lucia Bonadonna, the director of the Department of Environment and Health at the institute. "Probably in asymptomatic or little-symptomatic forms before we had our first local case."
While the new findings shift the virus's timeline earlier in Europe, they do not significantly change the chronology as it is presently understood. Chinese officials reported the outbreak in Wuhan on Dec. 31, but they later traced cases that had emerged as far back as early December.
Italian scientists and officials have long suspected that the virus had moved undetected in the northern region of Lombardy, an economic hub where there is frequent trade with China, at least weeks before the contagion came to light.
Similar evidence has recently emerged around the world, indicating that by the time the authorities were aware of an outbreak, the virus was already more widespread than initially believed.
In France, a sample taken from a patient on Dec. 27 tested positive for coronavirus last month. And in California, health officials discovered a coronavirus-linked death on Feb. 6, weeks before the earliest recorded case of community transmission in the United States. A recent study from the Milan Polyclinic Hospital found that one in 20 healthy adult blood donors in the area already had the virus' antibodies just days after the first Italian patient was diagnosed with the coronavirus.
For the study released on Friday, Italian researchers examined 64 samples of sewage water, of which 40 were taken between October and February. No trace of the virus was found in the 24 control samples taken between September 2018 and June 2019.
"Genetically, the virus we found is the one that epidemiologists have already identified," Ms. Bonadonna said, adding that their discovery better pinpointed the timing of the start of the Italian outbreak.
GLOBAL ROUNDUP
To control Beijing outbreak, China tries an approach marked by restraint.
As China tries to stifle the new outbreak in Beijing, it is applying something often alien to the instincts of the country's rulers: restraint.
Beijing's leaders are trying to stamp out the latest outbreak, now at 183 infections after 25 more were announced on Friday. But they are not placing the entire city, and its nascent economic revival, under heavy-handed restrictions.
The approach contrasts with China's earlier efforts to contain the virus in the central province of Hubei and its capital city, Wuhan, where the epidemic broke out late last year. For over two months, the city of 11 million was under a tight lockdown that required support from tens of thousands of doctors, party officials and security personnel. The lockdown helped control the outbreak but also stalled the economy.
If successful, the new approach being taken in Beijing could be a bellwether for how China may handle future outbreaks, which many experts say are almost certain.
"You cannot expect people to accept the pain for too long," said Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations who has closely followed China's response to the coronavirus pandemic. "Because then you have unemployment problems and even emotional stresses that could all have huge implications for social and political stability."
City officials say their cautious approach is bearing fruit: the number of new cases per day is already dropping. Officials in Beijing appear increasingly confident that they have caught the outbreak before it could spin out of control through untraceable infections.
In other news from around the world:
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan lifted a virus-related ban on domestic travel on Friday. Mr. Abe's government is also in discussions to ease international travel bans for passengers arriving from Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Vietnam.
Britain reduced its Covid-19 alert level to three from four on Friday. At Level 3, the virus is considered to remain "in general circulation." But the change paves the way for a gradual easing of social-distancing measures. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a five-level alert system in March, and Britain has remained at Level 4 for most of its lockdown period, with shops, restaurants and bars closed, but parks open. Level 4 indicates that transmission is considered to be "high or rising exponentially."
Spain has updated its death toll from the virus for the first time in almost two weeks. On Friday, the country's health ministry said 28,313 people had died, up from 27,136 on June 7. Officials said the intervening time had been used to ensure that all Covid-19 fatalities were properly recorded. Last month, the ministry prompted questions about how Spain was counting its dead when it abruptly reduced its tally by about 2,000, citing testing uncertainties.
South Korea reported 49 more cases on Friday, as a second wave of infections continued to spread in the Seoul metropolitan area.
Health insurance needs may push some of the most vulnerable Americans back to work quickly.
The employment-based health insurance system in the United States could become another liability in the country's fight to contain the coronavirus.
Consider Patti Hanks, 62, who recently had ovarian cancer treatment. With her immunity low, she was nervous about returning to her workplace, a store where she would be drawing up financing plans and taking cash payments from customers. The cancer makes her particularly susceptible to severe complications should she contract the virus.
But Ms. Hanks was even more worried about losing her health coverage if she didn't go back. Finding a job with health benefits that allowed her to work from home felt like a pipe dream in the midst of an economic downturn.
So despite her reservations, she returned to work. She wears a mask and makes sure customers sit a good distance away at an L-shaped desk.
Pre-existing conditions may motivate other workers like Ms. Hanks to return to work especially fast. Those people need coverage to treat the conditions that make them vulnerable in the first place. In the United States, 61 percent of working-age adults get health insurance through work.
"It is one of the many ways the U.S. health care system has made us so much more vulnerable to the effects of the pandemic than other countries," said Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation. "In other countries, you don't hear about people losing health insurance when they lose their jobs."
Economic lockdowns meant to contain the coronavirus pandemic have come with weird side effects, from aggressive rats to the dawn of pouch cocktails. Add this to the list: America's banks are running out of coins.
"What's happened is that with the partial closure of the economy, the flow of coins through the economy, it has gotten all — it's kind of stopped," Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, told lawmakers while testifying on Capitol Hill this week, noting that places where people exchange their quarters and pennies for cash and stores have closed, disrupting the normal flow.
"We've been aware of it, we're working with the Mint to increase supply, we're working with the reserve banks to get the supply to where it needs to be," he said.
Mr. Powell was responding to questions from Rep. John Rose, a Republican from Tennessee, who said a bank in his district had reported that the Fed had notified it that it would receive only a "small portion" of its weekly coinage order.
"His institution will likely run out of coins by Friday," Mr. Rose said, and, after some research, he found that many banks were having similar problems. "I know we don't want to wake up to headlines in the near future, such as: 'Banks out of money.'"
The Fed said in a June 15 notice that coin circulation has been disrupted by the pandemic, and the U.S. Mint's production of coins also decreased because of measures to protect employees. Bank coin orders have increased as states reopen, causing the coin inventory — which the Mint prints but the Fed manages — to dip below normal levels.
"It's something we've been working on," Mr. Powell said. "We believe it's just temporary."
For now, the Fed's regional banks are allocating pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters to banks "as a temporary measure," the Fed said in its notice, based on historical order volume and other factors.
For small towns in the West, canceled rodeos are more than just forgone sports events.
Stonyford, Calif., can feel like the middle of nowhere. But it could always count on a few crowded days every year during its annual rodeo, when the town's population swells into the thousands.
Not this year. There was no 77th Stonyford Rodeo.
Some rodeos, like Stonyford, with $18,000 in prize money, are relatively small affairs. Others are immense undertakings filled with concerts, carnivals and livestock shows — and $1 million or more in payouts.
The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, the governing body of about 700 annual rodeos, estimates that about half will not take place in 2020. Those still on the schedule are working with fingers crossed, some moving dates to buy more time.
"Covid-19 has impacted the entire country, every business you can think of," said George Taylor, chief executive of the association. "Our business is a representation of that, but also represents a loss of community — something that brings these small towns together."
Rodeos hold a unique spot in the American sports landscape. They are not a league, but a loose coalition of community events, usually run by nonprofit organizations and volunteers.
In late May, when Gov. Mark Gordon of Wyoming tearfully announced the cancellation of July's Cheyenne Frontier Days for the first time in the event's 124-year history, he was surrounded by representatives of other canceled Wyoming rodeos. They were socially distanced, wearing masks and cowboy hats.
Reporting was contributed by Keith Bradsher, John Branch, Emma Bubola, Chris Buckley, Nancy Coleman, Jenny Gross, Sarah Kliff, Raphael Minder, Elian Peltier, Motoko Rich, Jeanna Smialek, Kaly Soto, Katie Thomas and Neil Vigdor.


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(extended answer) 57.6% and 0.96. The internal reliability of the exam was therefore very good. The internal reliability of the exam was therefore very good. Section One: Multiple-choice Mean 17.51(/25) Max 25.00 Min 3.00... 20/04/2016 · Re: WACE New Mathematics Course... thoughts? Originally Posted by si2136 However, the proof aren't really emphasized enough, I bet you that out of a group of 30 students, you would be lucky to have 1 kid that's actually understanding the concept, than just working it out, which is why most people are poor in Problem Solving and real life applications.
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We also supply current semester exams as a simple question only booklets, so that schools can choose to use this style rather than the WACE style write-on question/answer booklets. Past papers, as question only booklets, and marking keys are supplied as pdf documents.
20/04/2016 · Re: WACE New Mathematics Course... thoughts? Originally Posted by si2136 However, the proof aren't really emphasized enough, I bet you that out of a group of 30 students, you would be lucky to have 1 kid that's actually understanding the concept, than just working it out, which is why most people are poor in Problem Solving and real life applications.


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Donna Bourne‑Tyson
Dean of Libraries
Inspiring with information
Donna Bourne Tyson joined Dalhousie in 2011. As university librarian and copyright officer, Donna serves on the deans' council and provides leadership for Dalhousie's network of five libraries. She comes to Dalhousie from a similar position at Mount Saint Vincent University.
Donna has provided strong leadership in the conception and implementation of several innovative additions to Dalhousie's library service offering. Embracing new technologies and guided by a user-focused philosophy, Donna has helped Dal's libraries meet the needs of students, faculty and staff.
Read Ms. Bourne-Tyson's full profile
Donna Bourne-Tyson took on the role of university librarian at Dalhousie in November of 2011 after serving in the same capacity at Mount Saint Vincent University. In her short time at Dal, she has already initiated an exciting transformation in the university's library system.
"There's an opportunity there to knit initiatives together and achieve economies of scale, while still honouring the uniqueness of each library and the distinct needs of different users," says Donna of Dal's five-library network.
Donna and her team have taken the opportunity to implement technological innovation, one element of which is the cultivation of the libraries website she describes as a "sixth branch."
Among the online services that have been added or upgraded in her time at Dal are live chats and tutorials, and the electronic reserve system.
"Libraries are changing, but they're not changing in a vacuum," she says. "We're changing because our users' needs are changing."
The electronic reserve system has been particularly useful for faculty members who use library and copyright services – Donna also serves as Dalhousie's copyright officer – to design course offerings. Faculty can submit a reading list to library services and work with staff to ensure copyright clearance for materials, which are then reserved for the library's physical collection and/or made available online in Blackboard or moodle.
For students who've been asked to do advance reading and come to class prepared to discuss the material, online access is essential. Donna's library services group further serves students' needs by going into classrooms and teaching information literacy skills.
"This suite of core competencies or twenty-first century fluencies helps people teach themselves new areas of knowledge as they need to change careers and for personal growth throughout their lives," Donna says.
Donna has also led Dal's library services team in meeting the needs of researchers, including the development of a research data management planning service.
"DalSpace is our institutional repository, run by the library. It contains all the e-theses for any Dal grad, and it also contains digital collections and faculty publications," Donna says. "We're now making it possible to deposit data sets as well, and working with researchers to write the data management plan to go into grant proposals."
Donna and her team continue to guide Dalhousie's libraries into new technological frontiers, among them the introduction of 3-D scanners and printers for student use. It's a first for an academic library in Canada, and evidence of Donna's desire to create a "technological playground or electronic petting zoo."
"A library should really be an inspiring space where serendipitous discovery takes place," she says. "Unexpected things should happen in libraries."
Donna's vision blends the traditional mission of the library with technological advancement and an emphasis on serving users. Her philosophy owes in part to an occasion when, as a student, she was kicked out of a library for eating.
"That stuck with me, and I've always tried to create welcoming spaces where users could do everything they needed to do, whether it be eat their lunch while doing research or collaborating with another student and talking a little louder than people used to," Donna says.
"What's notable to me about library services is how often we used to say no and how hard we try now to say yes."
Received her Master of Library and Information Science degree from Dalhousie
Was once kicked out of a library for eating lunch
Knows the words to all the songs in the Rocky Horror Picture Show

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There are several types of pension schemes which may be available to you. These include the basic state retirement pension, additional pension, occupational pension, stakeholder pension and personal pension.
This is a flat rate pension which is paid to everyone who has made enough National Insurance Contributions or has enough credits when they reach state retirement age. This is currently 60 for women and 65 for men. It will only be paid in full if you have paid, or have been credited with, contributions for the majority of your working life. If you've not made adequate contributions to be eligible for a full pension, you still maybe entitled to a partial pension to qualify in your own right or you may be able to get one based on a spouse's or civil partner's contributions.
This gives you a top-up to the basic state retirement provision based on your actual earnings. All employees must contribute towards an additional pension unless they make other alternative arrangements by contributing to an occupational or personal pension scheme which is contracted out of additional pension. From 2002, this was widened to include people who are carers or the long term disabled giving both of these groups the right to accrue an additional state pension even though they are not employees.
They were set up by employers to provide pensions and life assurance benefits for their employees, e.g. paying a tax free lump sum to the dependants of the employee should the employee die before reaching retirement age. There are two main occupational pension schemes - final salary, whereby the pension is a proportion of your salary at or close to your retirement date and is linked to the number of years you have worked for a specific employer and money purchase which is based on the total value on retirement of the money paid into the scheme and on how well the investment has performed.
An employee has the right to leave or join an occupational pension scheme but you should consider things carefully before leaving an occupational pension scheme as it will usually work out better financially than a personal pension scheme. It's also more difficult to return to the scheme later after you have left to take out a personal pension. If you do decide to leave or decline to join, you would then have to contribute towards an additional or personal pension scheme.
You can take out a personal pension whether you are employed, unemployed or self-employed providing you are aged between 18 and 75. If you are an employee who is a member of an occupational pension scheme, you may be able to take out an additional personal pension plan as well. From April 2006, you can save as much as you like into any amount of pension schemes. This is relevant to both occupational and personal schemes. There is no upper limit to the total amount of pension fund you can accrue although there are certain limits on the amount of tax relief you will get.
A pension during retirement which can start from any age between 50 and 75 (rising to 55 by 2010).
A personal pension scheme can be contracted out of additional pension. This means you do not pay contributions into additional pension and you won't receive a top up to your basic state pension unless you are entitled to an additional pension from another employer. If the pension scheme is contracted out of additional pension, HM Revenue & Customs will then make contributions into the scheme. If the pension is not contracted out of additional pension, you will continue to pay your contributions into additional pension and will be entitled to a top up of your basic state pension in addition to your personal pension.
This offers more flexibility than other personal pensions. For example, you can stop paying into the scheme without incurring any penalty charges and restart payments whenever you like. You may also be able to vary the timing and the amount of payments you make into the scheme.
An employer must offer their employees a stakeholder pension scheme if they have worked for them over 3 months unless the employer has under 5 employees or offers an occupational pension scheme which all their employees have access to after one year of beginning work or unless the employer can offer a personal pension scheme which is available to all employees aged over 18. The employer must contribute an amount of at least 3% of an employee's basic pay and the scheme can't have penalties for leaving it. The employer also has to deduct the employee's contributions from their pay if asked to do so.
It is a low cost pension scheme which must meet certain standards and criteria. As well as meeting the same conditions as other personal pensions, the pension provider cannot charge over 1% of the value of an individual's fund each year for administering the pension.
The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) and Financial Services Authority (FSA) offer professional advice on pension options.


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Q: Cannot use yii\base\Object as Object because 'Object' is a special class name yii2 advance I just bougth a stronger pc, installed composer and wanted to continue my project on it but when I use gii it give me this error.
How can I fix it ? Why am I getting it ? Thank you.

A: solved. since 2.0.13, the class name Object is invalid since PHP 7.2, use [[BaseObject]] instead. So in the vendor/yiisoft/yii2-gii/CodeFile.php just had to change Object to BaseObject.

A: solved. since 2.0.13, the class name Object is invalid in PHP 7.2,
//Replace
//class User extends \yii\base\Object implements \yii\web\IdentityInterface
class User extends \yii\base\BaseObject implements \yii\web\IdentityInterface
And Download the yii-basic-app-2.0.25 from https://www.yiiframework.com/download
after that copy the yiisoft folder from vendor and replace the yiisoft folder in your project in vendor folder
Now check your project will be working fine.
Its work for me hope it will work for you.

A: in my case i change file
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use yii\base\Object; to use yii\base\BaseObject;
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WATCH: Comedy Central Trolls Celebrity 'Get Out The Vote' Ads
"Should I vote?"
By Paul Bois
@paulbois39
It seems that every election year, mid-term or presidential, celebrities are making themselves look important with those "Get Out The Vote" ads where they encourage people to vote in the coming election, lecturing them about civic duty.
Typically, mockery of those celebrity ads has been from grassroots conservatives who are tired of being lectured to by Hollywood elites. Now Comedy Central has stepped in with a parody of their own — the "Should We Vote?" initiative.
The parody video employs the usual tropes seen in those "Get Out The Vote" ads; this time, it's regular Americans speaking in succession to finish each other's sentences over a series of cuts. Here, they all pontificate on whether or not they will be able to vote if celebrities like Tom Hanks or Alyssa Milano don't tell them what they should do.
"All Americans are asking themselves the same questions: How will I know if I should vote if celebrities don't tell me to?" the actors say in the video. "Does Emma Stone think I should vote? What about John Krasinski?"
"Many normal Americans like us don't know what we should do until celebrities tell us what to do," they continue. "Tom Holland, Tom Hardy, Thomas the Tank Engine: Should I vote?"
"It's about celebrities telling regular Americans that they have to vote. Many normal Americans like us don't know what we should do until celebrities tell us what to do. Some people are calling this the most important election of our lives, but they aren't famous."
The Comedy Central parody comes on the heels of celebrities like Jane Fonda and Amy Schumer hosting a "Get Out The Vote" telethon next Monday night. More from DW's Emily Zanotti:
The telethon, titled, of course, 'Telethon for America,' will be will be "streamed live starting at 9 p.m. ET on Monday on YouTube, Facebook Live and Comedy Central's website, organizers said in a statement," according to Yahoo.
But Schumer and Fonda won't be the only social media leftists to star in the torturous online display. Director Judd Apatow, who regularly tweets hysterical conspiracy theories about President Donald Trump, will join the pair of aging activists, as will noted political expert Chelsea Handler, as will someone named Olga Kay, who is touted as a "celebrity activist, but has a suspiciously limited IMDB profile that includes credits for playing a circus juggler on CSI:NY."
A tentative schedule for the telethon reveals that "more than 50" celebrities will put on skits, do monologues, and take part in "musical performances" designed to encourage young people to take time out of their busy lives of doing nothing to cast a ballot on Tuesday in key states.
Of course, the 2016 election produced some of the most patronizing celebrity ads to date, with the most notorious being the "Save the Day Vote" ad from director Joss Whedon, which starred the likes of Mark Rufffalo and Robert Downey Jr. Even The Guardian acknowledged the ad was useless.
"Tribal loyalties are pretty dug in," the outlet wrote at the time. "Trump supporters aren't going to be swayed by this video – indeed, they can only be nettled by the pageant of liberal-Hollywood aristocrats."
Has your favorite celebrity weighed in? #ShouldWeVote
Learn more: https://t.co/rR81ETtcoV pic.twitter.com/LtPlrPmEIx
— Comedy Central (@ComedyCentral) November 1, 2018
Read More: Hollywood Voting Rights


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Continuous Controls Monitoring Program – Review of City Overtime and Mileage Expenses
The Auditor General's Work Plan included the development of a system of continuous controls monitoring for selected City expenses. The objective of the Continuous Controls Monitoring Program is to provide periodic reports to management which assist in proactively monitoring financial transactions, detecting unusual expenses and identifying areas where internal controls could be strengthened.
The Continuous Controls Monitoring Program was initiated in 2011. Initial expenses selected for the application of continuous controls monitoring were employee overtime and mileage reimbursements.
Since the initiation of this project in 2011, there has been a consistent decrease in overtime and mileage expenses. Management indicates that City divisions are monitoring overtime and mileage reimbursements on an ongoing basis as part of its initiative to reduce operating budgets.
The following chart provides three years statistics for staff overtime and mileage payments:
Description December 31,
Total Overtime $38.8 million $41 million $45 million
Overtime Hours 907,500 984,400 1.08 million
Number of Staff with Overtime > 30% of Annual Pay 124 146 212
Staff Mileage $3.4 million $3.9 million $4.2 million
Total Kilometers paid 6.5 million 7.5 million 8 million
Number of Staff > 10,000 km of mileage in Annual Claims 17 37 53
There has been an overall reduction of $7 million in overtime and staff mileage payments since December 2010.
The Auditor General's Continuous Controls Monitoring Program was initiated with an intent to expand it to include other operational areas within the City including Agencies and Corporations. In July 2012, continuous controls monitoring was initiated at the Toronto Transit Commission. We anticipate that similar reductions in overtime will occur.
While it is not possible to accurately attribute these reduced costs to the Auditor General's continuous controls monitoring program, it is likely that such costs would not have occurred without the level of scrutiny by the Auditor General's Office.
Audit Committee Agenda Item – AU10.5


The 2010 article in Lancet is based on review of evidence from more than 900 studies and reports on the link between human rights abuses experienced by people who use drugs and vulnerability to HIV infection and access to services. Published work documents widespread abuses of human rights, which increase vulnerability to HIV infection and negatively affect delivery of HIV programmes. These abuses include denial of harm-reduction services, discriminatory access to antiretroviral therapy, abusive law enforcement practices, and coercion in the guise of treatment for drug dependence. Protection of the human rights of people who use drugs therefore is important not only because their rights must be respected, protected, and fulfilled, but also because it is an essential precondition to improving the health of people who use drugs. Rights-based responses to HIV and drug use have had good outcomes where they have been implemented, and they should be replicated in other countries.


It starts with the dreams.
They come flooding to me two nights before. Ghosts in my head. I'm all panic. In these nightmares, I'm at the race. Everyone is dressed up as historical actors. They are reenacting colonial times. They are colonial cyclocross bike racers. I don't have the proper clothes. I don't have the short pants and the tall hat. I've come without the right stuff.
It starts with the fear.
The night before and I'm hoping I break my leg. I'm hoping I drink bad milk. I'm hoping I start throwing up and can't stop until the race is over. Anything so I don't have to go.
It starts at three a.m.
With the clock on the side of my bed and how many more hours do I have before I go do this thing? I have four more hours of peace. Tuck me into these covers and let me exist in this quiet darkness.
It starts with seven a.m. and not finding my jersey.
My teammate said I should specifically wear the jersey and now I don't have it. I haven't worn it in so long. I'm not really part of the team. I never race. I'm so far behind. I'll be the worst one. I saw the list. I saw those names. I am not those names. I find the jersey. It's tucked behind the drawer when I take it out—hiding.
It starts with East Aurora.
And, getting to the race and not having any milk in my coffee and there being a damn car show near my favorite coffee shop where I want the coffee and why did I put this honey in this homemade coffee? This tastes terrible. Nothing like Chow Chocolat. I just want to be at Chow Chocolat and instagramming my coffee because that's about all the stress I can handle right now.
It starts with the practice lap.
It starts with that first dismount and I feel it. Me and my bike. I feel the smooth transition. I can't do the mount, yet, but I feel good about my dismount. It's easy and quick and I hop hop and I'm over the white boards and I stutter for a while but then I'm back on.
It starts with these turns.
These turns which are strategies in themselves, little puzzles that I decode: out in out and I'm around. It's a quick descent and then a fast left turn near some hay and I'm okay and I'm in the forest and my breath feels good.
It starts with the off camber turn and it's hard but not impossible and I can do this. I dismount and run up a bit and I'm back on and hey, okay. Hey, okay. This is alright.
Where I sit by a tree I talk to a fellow rider and it's calm and it's good and I hydrate and eat a goo and it's coffee flavored. The espresso flavor spreads in my mouth and if I'm eighty and eating this goo, I'll remember these years. I'll remember my bike. Memory tied to food as intricately woven as your aunt's homemade quilt. I'll remember the taste of espresso mixed with nerves.
So, I'm at the starting line and I'm laughing and I'm joking and my lungs are as calm as a baby pool in May and then there are the official words and the count down and the horn and we're off.
I'm in the back. I'm in the middle of two people and I ride through and my entire goal is to finish this race and to not come in last. That is my entire goal.
No. That's wrong. My entire goal is to find this self. I want to find this person who knows she can do this. I want to find this self that goes to a race on a Sunday morning and enjoys it. My goal is to work hard, but that's too abstract. My goal is to ride. My goal is to ride this race with this new self, always renewing myself, always becoming a better version of myself. A better me through bikes. A better me through self-inquiry.
I'm in this race and it's fun and it's hard and it's so hard. It's always hard and my throat is so dry. Dry as Utah's Badlands. And, I even take a hand up of some beer at one point, just to have something to slosh around in my mouth and then I'm so thankful for the pit who calls my name and hands me a water bottle which tastes like cool morning breezes off the Atlantic.
I'm turning and I'm turning and I'm turning and of course I get passed but it's okay. I transcend it. I'm here and I'm racing this and I'm not last.
And, then there's one more lap, I think and I ask another rider and she says, "Yes" and I go down the steep turn and I almost make it up, but I dismount.
And, so I finish the race, with a choking, "Am I done?" and the BBC men are so nice and "yes!" they yell and so it starts.
So, these moments start of me replaying the race in my head and this one moment where I am all alone in the Knox Farm field and I see the yellow course tape, flapping, just flapping in the wind and it almost sounds like its clapping for me.
If I listen just right, I can hear its applause.


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Goran Dragic, Meyers Leonard quickly agree on Heat returns
MIAMI (AP)Goran Dragic has repeatedly said that he wants to finish his career in Miami. Meyers Leonard ended last season wanting a second run with the Heat.
As such, their time as free agents didn't last long.
Dragic and Leonard have both decided to return to the reigning Eastern Conference champions, each telling The Associated Press on Friday evening that they have agreed to accept Miami's offer of two-year deals to remain with the Heat.
The second year is a team option on both contracts.
Dragic's deal, when signed, will be worth about $18 million for this season. Leonard agreed to a deal that will pay him around $9 million this season.
"Happy to be back," Dragic told AP. "That was my plan, to come back, but in this crazy business you never know."
With Dragic and Leonard back, and with Udonis Haslem announcing last week that he will return for an 18th season – he did that before the Heat could even talk to him, though it is clear that they'll want the Miami native and three-time champion back for as long as he wants to keep playing – Miami is well on its way to team president Pat Riley's and coach Erik Spoelstra's goal of bringing back last season's team as close to intact as possible.
The Heat won the East as a No. 5 seed last season, Jimmy Butler's first year in Miami and a year where the team's young core – All-Star Bam Adebayo, Duncan Robinson, Tyler Herro and Kendrick Nunn – all blossomed at once.
"I wanted nothing more than to come back to Miami. Literally nothing more," Leonard told AP. "I felt so damn blessed to feel at home right away and feel that way all year long. From top to bottom, Pat to Spo, Jimmy to Bam, Goran to UD and the rest of my teammates, something just felt so right. There's just no other way to put it."
Dragic will be entering his seventh season with the Heat and is coming off a year where he averaged 16.2 points while playing off the bench in the regular season. He became a starter again in the playoffs and tore his plantar fascia in Game 1 of the NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers, an injury that hurt Miami's chances.
The Heat surprised Dragic with billboards in his native Sloveniain recent days, with slogans such as "Your second family is always with you." That gesture, Dragic said, was deeply moving.
"I was in the car with my wife and her brother and they drove me past those billboards," Dragic said. "I didn't know. They told me nothing. They just said, `Look to the right.' And when I saw myself, saw what they said, it really touched my heart. This is my home. I want to stay here in Miami. I appreciate Pat Riley, Andy Elisburg, the whole organization and what they did for me."
Leonard averaged 6.1 points for the Heat this past season, starting for much of the regular season. He said he had no desire last year to try to put up big numbers in a contract year, deciding instead to simply focus on doing whatever it took for Miami to win games.
He hoped that would be enough for the Heat to want him back. It was.
"It feels good to be wanted, No. 1. But more to me, I am incredibly, incredibly thankful that the Heat appreciates Meyers Leonard as a total package," said Leonard, who intends to fly from his offseason base in Los Angeles back to Miami shortly. "The human being, the teammate, the player. Everything matters to them and that matters to me. I have found comfort in knowing exactly who I am as a person and as a player and I've shown enough people exactly what that is and I'm not changing for anybody."
Also Friday, the Heat said Gabe Vincent signed his two-way qualifying offer.


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AGEDI attended the webinar "Milan, the prospects of a European city in a state of emergency" hosted by Re Mind Filiera Immobiliare, in Milan on the 14th/02
AGEDI attended the webinar "Milan, the prospects of a European city in a state of emergency" hosted by Re Mind Filiera Immobiliare, in Milan on the 14th/02 with the City Councilors as well as leading entrepreneurs, managers and professionals from the private sector.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on many aspects of cities and territories as well as on people. Culture of Living, Housing and Neighborhood plan, Sustainability, Real Estate, Security and Culture: these are some of the key points to help Milan's restart.
Valeria Genesio, Chairman of Agedi Italia, in her speech underlined the depth of the concept of culture of living, a very beautiful thought and certainly not chosen randomly. We are all inhabitants of the Earth, then we are inhabitants of a city and, going even smaller, of a condominium. But the etymology of the verb "to inhabit" refers to a much broader meaning. "To inhabit" derives from the Latin HABITARE, frequentative of HABER to have, which in its proper sense means "to continue to have" or, more commonly, "to have a habit of a place, to inhabit it".
Living thus represents one of the fundamental relationships that living beings have with the world, and the world with them. From this point of view, Milan, with most of its non-Milanese inhabitants, is emblematic. Here, in Milan, we say that 'you do not born Milanese, you become one'. There is, in fact, a real 'Milanese' lifestyle that is the result of habits, connections, sayings and ways of being that are common to all who live in Milan. The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the life of the world's great metropolises, including Milan, with an immediate visual impact as these metropolises have suddenly emptied and become as if invisible. But if for Italo Calvino cities were invisible because they were imaginary, today cities are invisible because they are empty, emptied by the pandemic. The very essence of the 'city' has disappeared, human contact and the very concept of community have been lost. The pandemic has also brought back to life the traditional city-country relationship, with dynamics like those following the industrial revolution.
Even before the pandemic, inner-city housing in London and Paris had become the prerogative of short-term renters, taken out of the market of residents, with prices continuing to rise and part of the population pushed out of the urban fabric. Many Parisian and London residents had moved elsewhere, to more livable and economically affordable intermediate cities. Intermediate French cities, not only those of Grand Paris, have therefore received from Covid-19 the acceleration of a trend that was already underway, thanks to the possibilities also offered by smart working and physical distance. The rise in house prices in these more human-scale cities is a result of the pandemic, which is still growing today despite the decline in contagion. I think that the future of large cities, and of Milan in particular, will depend on their ability to put the human dimension back at the center, offering public services that make it possible to reconcile family and work, because the main reason why many people move to the Milanese capital is professional. It will also be important to understand how the property market in Milan, which has been growing steadily for years, will evolve, with the risk that, if it continues to increase, house prices will no longer be affordable and Milan will follow the same path as London and Paris, gradually losing its resident population. The problem today is precisely accessibility.
The trend of the real estate market will also be influenced by the increase in the cost of raw materials in construction recorded recently, which is likely to fall on the final cost of the houses, by the increase in inflation and interest rates. We can conclude with Italo Calvino in "The Invisible Cities", saying that: "The hell of the people is not something that will be; if there is one, it is the one that is already here, the hell that we inhabit every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways of not suffering from it. The first is easy for many: accepting hell and becoming part of it to the point of no longer seeing it. The second is risky and requires constant attention and learning: looking for and knowing how to recognize who and what, in amongst hell, is not hell, and making it last, and giving it space". It is true that today's cities sometimes look like hell, but the solution is not to leave or to suffer them, but to renew and rethink spaces, rethink life, rethink the city as a community.
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"'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse".
'The Night Before Christmas' is the perfect bedtime story to read before tucking your kids in on Christmas Eve. Why not tie in this family tradition with making these cute and traditional candy cane mice?
Step one. Print out the felt mice template, shown above.
Step two. Cut out the mouse's body, nose, ears and inner ears from felt, using the template as your guide. Don't forget to cut two slits in the body of the mouse (as shown).
Step three. Glue the nose and inner ears onto the appropriate part of the mouse. Sew on beads for eyes, or use googly eyes.
Step four. Insert the ears through the slits. The candy cane is inserted through the underside of the mouse, as shown in this picture. This will form your mouse's tail.
Felt candy cane mice are great as a kids' craft, a party favor or a stocking filler!
Thank you Brooke for letting me share a post with your readers. If you enjoyed this post I hope you will swing by A Typical English Home to say hi, and check out some of the other Christmas projects I have been working on.
Thank you, Angela for the darling project and template! I love having cute, quick, and easy crafts to do with my three boys at Christmastime. These candy can mice are exactly the kind of activity that they could do themselves and enjoy.
I've raved about my love for Angela's font round ups many times before. Just when I think she can't come up with any more amazing fonts, she does. Check out these Christmas fonts she's shared. I always like making my own gift tags, and these fonts will make that totally easy! There are so many amazing fonts to choose from, and the dingbats will add the perfect finishing touch. I can't wait to get started. Thanks again, Angela!
Thanks again for letting me guest post, Brooke!
Thanks for the darling mouse and template, Angela! I smile every time I see him!
I totally remember these from childhood....thanks so much for the easy template!!


No dunk this season will be as costly than the vicious hammer Kristaps Porzingis dropped on Giannis Antetokoumnpo on Tuesday night, for while Porzingis posterized The Greek Freak, the aftermath resulted in Porzingis tearing the ACL in his left knee, ending his season along with possibly sinking the title hopes of many a Fantasy Basketball owner.
Afterwards in the Milwaukee locker room, Antetokoumnpo immediately inquired about the health of Porzingis as he began his postgame presser. "First of all, is he OK?" Antetokoumnpo asked reporters. Informed that test results were forthcoming, he added "I hope he is OK because he is a close friend of mine." Shortly thereafter, the news spread after much of the assembled media had departed.
Porzingis had scored at least 30 Fantasy points in 14 of his last 15 games prior to Tuesday, including a 56.60 gem against the Hawks on Sunday. He was averaging 22.9 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.4 blocked shots per game, putting himself among the elite Fantasy players. He also shot 80 percent from the free throw line and was thriving as the focal point of the Knicks as his career-bests in both usage rate (29.2 percent) and Player Efficiency Rating (20.59) indicated.
As traumatic a loss Porzingis represents, his Fantasy owners shouldn't despair.
The best option available is Michael Beasley, who is already owned in 66 percent of CBSSports.com leagues and was the third-most viewed player behind Porzingis and Grizzlies guard Andrew Harrison on Tuesday night. Beasley scuffled in the wake of replacing Porzingis, shooting just 3-for-11 to finish with nine points, six rebounds and two assists. If you're a Porzingis owner, you'd better add communicating with Beasley's owner near the top of your to-do list on Wednesday. Despite his struggles on Tuesday, Beasley has put together a solid, if not spectacular season, delivering a 19.59 PER and a 27.6 percent usage rate that equals his career-best PER in 2015-16.
The biggest question surrounding Beasley is whether he can maintain his effectiveness while playing more minutes. He's averaging 19.5 minutes per night but should see that total increase to at least 25-27 minutes. If he's able to continue shooting nearly 52 percent from the field (OK, 51.6 percent to be precise), Beasley — who was the second overall pick of the draft 10 years ago — could see his 12.5 points per game inch more toward 16-18 points per night while throwing in 6-7 rebounds and a couple of assists.
He's been effective as a starter, averaging 20.3 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.1 assists in seven starts. You have to feel encouraged about Beasley's 30.2 usage rate when The Unicorn wasn't on the court with him. While that's a lofty number to expect Beasley to provide on a nightly basis, his numbers do suggest he's worth the cost regardless if he's on the waiver wires or if moving a player would do the trick.
This could also be a boon for swingman Tim Hardaway Jr., but his injury-prone nature reared itself on Tuesday when he underwent X-rays on his shin. The results were negative, but Hardaway (owned in 96 percent of CBSSports.com leagues) is struggling to the point where one could question whether he could hit water even if you dumped him in the Atlantic. He's shooting 25.4 percent from the field in his last five, including 16 percent from beyond the arc.
However, he does present some buy low potential if you're one who likes to gamble. Hardaway averaged 19.2 points per game in November and shot 40 percent from 3-point range in January, so there's reason to believe he can find his touch and run hot for an extended period. His True Shooting Percentage is at 53.2, off from last year's 56.8, yet Hardaway has seen both his rebounding percentages (7.1) and usage rates (22.7 percent) climb from last season, showing signs of becoming more than just a gunslinger.
I wouldn't put much stock in Lance Thomas, for while he will see an increase in minutes, his 6.32 PER is ranked 433rd out of the 499 players who have suited up in the 2017-18 campaign.
The waiver wire doesn't offer much hope. Mavericks forward Dwight Powell (10 percent ownership in CBSSports.com) has at least nine boards in three of his last five and did score 17 points against the Kings on Saturday, yet he can't be considered a reasonable option to replace Porzingis because of his inconsistent scoring. Pistons forward Stanley Johnson is at 48 percent ownership at CBSSports.com due to his recent scoring splurge yet is shooting just 36 percent from the field and comes nowhere near the blocked shots and rebounds Porzingis delivered.
The Knicks could also make a move before Thursday's trade deadline and while the potential for that is lessened by the loss of Porzingis, there is an outside chance New York can add someone who could be a Fantasy factor. Either way, replacing a Unicorn is a daunting task for both the Knicks and Fantasy owners.


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package clientauthorization

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"

	kapi "github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/pkg/api"
	kerrors "github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/pkg/api/errors"
	"github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/pkg/apiserver"
	"github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/pkg/labels"
	"github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/pkg/runtime"

	"github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/oauth/api"
	"github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/oauth/api/validation"
)

// REST implements the RESTStorage interface in terms of an Registry.
type REST struct {
	registry Registry
}

// NewStorage returns a new REST.
func NewREST(registry Registry) apiserver.RESTStorage {
	return &REST{registry}
}

// New returns a new ClientAuthorization for use with Create and Update.
func (s *REST) New() runtime.Object {
	return &api.ClientAuthorization{}
}

func (*REST) NewList() runtime.Object {
	return &api.ClientAuthorization{}
}

// Get retrieves an ClientAuthorization by id.
func (s *REST) Get(ctx kapi.Context, id string) (runtime.Object, error) {
	authorization, err := s.registry.GetClientAuthorization(id)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return authorization, nil
}

// List retrieves a list of ClientAuthorizations that match selector.
func (s *REST) List(ctx kapi.Context, label, fields labels.Selector) (runtime.Object, error) {
	return s.registry.ListClientAuthorizations(label, labels.Everything())
}

// Create registers the given ClientAuthorization.
func (s *REST) Create(ctx kapi.Context, obj runtime.Object) (<-chan apiserver.RESTResult, error) {
	authorization, ok := obj.(*api.ClientAuthorization)
	if !ok {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("not an authorization: %#v", obj)
	}

	if authorization.UserName == "" || authorization.ClientName == "" {
		return nil, errors.New("invalid authorization")
	}

	authorization.Name = s.registry.ClientAuthorizationName(authorization.UserName, authorization.ClientName)
	kapi.FillObjectMetaSystemFields(ctx, &authorization.ObjectMeta)

	if errs := validation.ValidateClientAuthorization(authorization); len(errs) > 0 {
		return nil, kerrors.NewInvalid("clientAuthorization", authorization.Name, errs)
	}

	return apiserver.MakeAsync(func() (runtime.Object, error) {
		if err := s.registry.CreateClientAuthorization(authorization); err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		return s.Get(ctx, authorization.Name)
	}), nil
}

// Update modifies an existing client authorization
func (s *REST) Update(ctx kapi.Context, obj runtime.Object) (<-chan apiserver.RESTResult, error) {
	authorization, ok := obj.(*api.ClientAuthorization)
	if !ok {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("not an authorization: %#v", obj)
	}

	if errs := validation.ValidateClientAuthorization(authorization); len(errs) > 0 {
		return nil, kerrors.NewInvalid("clientAuthorization", authorization.Name, errs)
	}

	oldauth, err := s.registry.GetClientAuthorization(authorization.Name)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	if errs := validation.ValidateClientAuthorizationUpdate(authorization, oldauth); len(errs) > 0 {
		return nil, kerrors.NewInvalid("clientAuthorization", authorization.Name, errs)
	}

	return apiserver.MakeAsync(func() (runtime.Object, error) {
		if err := s.registry.UpdateClientAuthorization(authorization); err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		return s.Get(ctx, authorization.Name)
	}), nil
}

// Delete asynchronously deletes an ClientAuthorization specified by its id.
func (s *REST) Delete(ctx kapi.Context, id string) (<-chan apiserver.RESTResult, error) {
	return apiserver.MakeAsync(func() (runtime.Object, error) {
		return &kapi.Status{Status: kapi.StatusSuccess}, s.registry.DeleteClientAuthorization(id)
	}), nil
}

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Did you know there's an entire week in celebration of farmers markets across the country? Instituted by the USDA, National Farmers Market Week is happening from August 2nd to August 8th and we are very, very excited! So excited that we plan to be at a number of the farmers markets across the beautiful state of AZ to celebrate the home-grown products with you (and maybe even give some away!).
Farmers markets bring communities together, connecting cities with farms and providing the shoppers with fresh, healthy food. Farmers markets provide you with the freshest produce and keep your hard earned money circulating in the local economy.
Say hi at the Local First Arizona booth at any of the following farmers markets and be entered into a raffle drawing to win a Local First AZ Localist tshirt. Shopping and eating locally sourced food is one of the easiest and most influential ways to support your state's economy! We would love to share that excitement with you!
If you can't make it this time, be sure to check out other local farmers market hours this summer: Summer Farmers Markets 2015.


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'Chance the Snapper' to live out his life at Florida alligator farm
16-year-old killed in Apopka crash
Video Posted Dec 18 2018 07:57AM EST
APOPKA, Fla. (FOX 35 WOFL) - A 16-year-old was killed in a crash in Apopka.
The incident happened when a car attempted to make a turn from Round Lke Road on to Kelly Park Road and was hit by the teen's motorcycle.
The crash is still under investigation.
Florida man caught with live alligator in cooler, deputies say
Posted Jul 18 2019 09:24AM EDT
Updated Jul 18 2019 09:28AM EDT
A Florida man was arrested after Charlotte County deputies said they found a live alligator in a cooler in the bed of his truck.
According to an arrest affidavit, deputies pulled over Christopher Lacy on Tuesday because of an obscured tag violation. There was also reportedly a man standing up in the back of the truck while it was moving.
When deputies got permission to search the truck, they looked inside a cooler and found a small alligator inside.
A Florida Panhandle inmate who attacked three officers in a "brutal, unprovoked attack" has been charged with attempted murder of a correctional officer and possession of contraband, state prison officials said Wednesday.
"This violence is completely unacceptable. Our officers come to work every day to protect Florida communities and serve courageously in this profession dedicated to public service," Department of Corrections Secretary Mark Inch said in a prepared statement.
Corrections officials said Tyrece Fleming, 41, attacked the officers at Apalachee Correctional Institution in Jackson County on Sunday, following a "verbal disagreement" with the prison guards. An investigation into the attack, conducted by the state agency's inspector general office, found that Fleming used a homemade knife, known as a "shank," to strike the officers with the "full intention of stabbing and killing staff members," according to an arrest affidavit released by the corrections department.
A jury is awarding $700 million to the parents of a Florida man who died after being beaten unconscious and then set on fire while still alive.
The jury reached its verdict Monday in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Aaron Doty, who was killed in June 2012 in Highlands County.
Collecting the award might be difficult. The verdict was against Jonathan Ray Rodriguez and Kenneth Edward Felipe, who were convicted of Doty's murder in 2015. Both are serving two life sentences each on kidnapping and murder convictions.
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PowerCell sign development contract for maritime zero emissions solution with Havyard Group.
PowerCell Sweden AB (publ) has signed a contract with Norwegian Havyard Group ASA regarding the development of the design and the technical specifications for a zero-emissions fuel cell system. The system may come to be installed on board a vessel that will service the shipping company Havila Kystruten's new route from Bergen to Kirkenes.
The one-year contract concerns the development of the design and the technical specifications for a zero emissions system fully classifiable and in conformity with IMO maritime safety requirements. The system solution that PowerCell and Havyard jointly will design, will be based on several marinized 200-kW fuel cell system modules connected in parallel with a total power of 3.2 megawatts.
The shipping company Havila Kystruten's vessels will operate in Norwegian waters where increasingly strict emissions regulations will be introduced in the coming years. Havila Kystruten has been honored with a contract of building four new ships which will be equipped with zero emission solutions. The first of the four ships will be taken in to operation in 2021.
"With this contract, PowerCell will be part of developing the design and the technical specifications for what will be the most powerful maritime fuel cell system in the history", Per Wassén, CEO of PowerCell said. "This will be a milestone for us as well as for the global efforts to reduce the emissions from commercial ships and the experience we gain from this project will benefit us greatly also within other segments, such as stationary power generation."
Strict regulations
The intense traffic in and out of the Norwegian fjords has resulted in a huge increase in local emissions and at times the emission levels have been reported to exceed those of major cities like London and Barcelona. Several of the Norwegian fjords have been recognized by United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization, UNESCO, as world heritage sites, a recognition they risk losing due to the high emission levels. To counter this, Norway has introduced increasingly strict emission regulations for ships operating in the fjords and by 2026 only ships with zero emission solutions will be allowed entrance.
"Fuel cells provide an optimal solution for this type of maritime applications and is perfect for use in combination with battery solutions", Per Wassén said. "These vessels have the space available for storage of hydrogen and can easily be refueled during one of their many stops. When entering the fjords, they can operate fully electric for a long time with no other emissions than water."
The international maritime organization, IMO, has decided to halve the emissions of Greenhouse Gases from commercial ships by 2050. Considering the long lifetime of ships, zero emission vessels may have to set sail as early as 2030.
Per Wassén
CEO, PowerCell Sweden AB (publ)
Phone: +46 (0) 31 720 36 20
Email: per.wassen@powercell.se
PowerCell Sweden AB (publ) develops and produces fuel cell stacks and systems for stationary and mobile applications with a world class energy density. The fuel cells are powered by hydrogen, pure or reformed, and produce electricity and heat with no emissions other than water. As the stacks and systems are compact, modular and scalable, they are easily adjusted to any customer need.
PowerCell was founded in 2008 as an industrial spinout from the Volvo Group. The share (PCELL) is since 2014 subject to trade at Nasdaq First North Growth Market, Stockholm. G&W Fondkommission is Certified Adviser, e-mail: ca@gwkapital.se, phone: +46 8 503 000 50.


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Most pre-teens have little preparation for the challenges of adolescence – particularly in matters of the heart. This compact 6-lesson program helps them, in very practical ways, understand and manage their first experiences with attractions, emotions and young love.Dating Smarts uses highly engaging activities to explore essential aspects of early relationships – attraction, infatuation, feelings, rejection. Kids learn the "how-to" skills of what to say and do, as well as ways to really get to know someone, and to build a relationship.
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (Annotated)
Laurence Sterne
Independently Published, 15.04.2021 - 174 Seiten
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. In 1765, Sterne travelled through France and Italy as far south as Naples, and after returning determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. The novel can be seen as an epilogue to the possibly unfinished work The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and also as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental Travels Through France and Italy. Sterne had met Smollett during his travels in Europe, and strongly objected to his spleen, acerbity and quarrelsomeness. He modeled the character of Smelfungus on him.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: By Mr. Yorick. In Two ...
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Titel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (Annotated)
Autor/in Laurence Sterne
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Government Lets Health Plans That Ripped Off Medicare Keep the Money January 30, 2023
In a surprise decision, U.S. officials yield to insurance industry demands — at least for now.
Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News
When Gun Violence Ends Young Lives, These Men Prepare the Graves January 30, 2023
Just outside St. Louis, a cemetery for children sits on a hill. A wooden, weather-worn sign welcomes mourners to "Baby Land." The gravediggers who made the special spot work quietly in the shadows.
Cara Anthony
A Baby Spent 36 Days in an In-Network NICU. Why Did the Hospital Next Door Send a Bill? January 30, 2023
A baby spent more than a month in a Chicago NICU. A big bill revealed she was treated by out-of-network doctors from the children's hospital next door. Her parents were charged despite a state law protecting patients from such out-of-network billing — and sent to collections when they didn't pay up.
Harris Meyer
Part II: The State of the Abortion Debate 50 Years After 'Roe' January 27, 2023
In Part II of this special two-part episode, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Sarah Varney of KHN join KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss how the abortion debate has evolved since the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in 2022, and what might be […]
FDA Experts Are Still Puzzled Over Who Should Get Which Covid Shots and When January 27, 2023
A single booster seems to prevent death and hospitalization in most people, but protection from the current vaccines wanes within months. FDA experts say they need to know more from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to decide the best long-term strategy.
California's Resolve Questioned After It Grants Medi-Cal Contract Concessions January 27, 2023
After the Department of Health Care Services canceled Medi-Cal contract awards under pressure from major insurers, some consumer advocates question the administration's willpower to improve care in the safety-net program.
Bernard J. Wolfson and Samantha Young
Did Your Health Plan Rip Off Medicare? January 27, 2023
KHN has released never-before-seen details of federal audits as the government weighs action against dozens of Medicare Advantage plans.
Montana Pharmacists May Get More Power to Prescribe January 27, 2023
Supporters of a proposed law say it would fill a health provider gap in rural areas, while doctors worry it will give pharmacists power outside the scope of their education.
Keely Larson
Part I: The State of the Abortion Debate 50 Years After 'Roe' January 26, 2023
In Part I of this special two-part episode, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Sarah Varney of KHN join KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss how the abortion debate has evolved since the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in 2022, and what might be […]
More Californians Are Dying at Home. Another Covid 'New Normal'? January 26, 2023
The proportion of Californians dying at home, rather than in a hospital or nursing home, accelerated during the pandemic, a trend that has outlasted the rigid lockdowns linked to the initial shift.
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Rapid Response Fund seeks partners for COVID-19 vaccine communications
COVID-19 vaccines are just around the corner for our community. But there is a fine line between availability and access.
That's why the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund has convened a COVID-19 Vaccine Communications Task Force—comprised of leaders from the faith-based community, health care, government, and community organizing groups as well as resident leaders—to drive the RRF's vaccine uptake strategy.
Now, the Task Force is seeking one or more firm(s) to assist in delivering a comprehensive COVID-19 vaccine communications and marketing plan that will catalyze vaccine uptake, especially among Black people, immigrants, and other people of color—populations historically skeptical of vaccination due to well-known injustices and personal experiences with mistreatment while navigating the healthcare system.
Please consider applying to partner with us on this urgent journey, or share with your colleagues who might.
The full Request for Proposals (RFP) can be accessed here (PDF).
CareSource Invests $5 Million into the Lead Safe Home Fund
CareSource, Ohio's largest managed care organization, has committed $5 million to the Lead Safe Home Fund (the Fund) to provide Cleveland families and property owners with the resources they need to make homes lead safe. This unprecedented investment by a managed care organization to make lead safe home repair loans brings the total pool of dollars in the Fund to more than $25 million.
"Lead poisoning is a public health crisis with a housing solution. When healthcare and community leaders like CareSource invest in projects like this, they underscore that safe housing improves health outcomes," said Mark McDermott, vice president and Ohio market leader, Enterprise Community Partners, and a member of the Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition Steering Committee. "Today's announcement is both a commitment to Cleveland's future as well as an invitation to public and private investors, from all sectors, to join us in this critical effort."
The full press release can be accessed here (PDF).
Preventing lead poisoning at the source
Case Western Reserve University researchers examine implications for lead-safe housing in Cleveland through lens of rental properties and their landlords
More than 103,000 rental units spread across Cleveland proper are potentially vulnerable to lead contamination because they were built before 1978 when lead paint was outlawed. According to a new study from Case Western Reserve University's Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, over one-third of these units are in poor condition and of very low market value. This can present the dual challenge of requiring potentially costly repairs in buildings where there is little equity to leverage financing, and results in potential risk of lead poisoning to children who may live in them.
Using a variety of public records—including assessed market value, sales, foreclosure and tax history, code violations, building permits and rental registry data—the researchers examined every rental property in the city from 2016-18 on factors related to the likelihood that the property could have lead-safety problems. Property owners were categorized according to whether they were companies or individuals, the number and types of properties they held and the property values and conditions represented in their portfolios.
"The issue is that the majority of families with young children in Cleveland rent homes in the private rental market," said Claudia Coulton, the study's co-author, a Distinguished University Professor and co-director of the poverty center. "Improving these properties—and working with these property owners— is a key element in moving toward a lead-safe Cleveland."
"The majority of the city's rental housing stock carries a significant risk of lead exposure to children because of age, deferred maintenance and low-market value, so understanding the rental landscape is crucial," said Rob Fischer, an associate professor at the Mandel School and study co-author.
The full press release can be accessed here (PDF)
Mt. Sinai Foundation Appoints New Program Officer
July 13, 2020 (Cleveland, OH)—The Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation has appointed Adam Nation to the position of program officer. Mr. Nation will begin his duties on August 3, 2020.
In January 2020, Mt. Sinai Directors approved an expanded strategic approach that looks beyond grantmaking to improve population health. Central to this expanded vision is a recognition that philanthropy can only go so far in driving health improvement and that cross-sector collaboration, public-private partnerships, and policy change—supported by greater human capital as well as financial capital—are pivotal to creating lasting impact. Program staff expansion is the realization of this enhanced vision.
Mr. Nation holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from The Ohio State University. He has over a decade of experience in coalition building, communications, government affairs, and public policy. Among his varied professional experiences, Nation managed the government relations portfolio of a major medical center in Columbus, OH, and helped launch a public-private partnership with the Chicago Department of Public Health aimed at primary prevention and early intervention of that city's most pressing health challenges.
Nation has served in multiple leadership positions in community-based cancer prevention, including with the Illinois Cancer Partnership and Illinois HPV Roundtable. He was a member of the team charged with implementing that state's comprehensive cancer control plan and led the creation of a nationally-recognized vaccination program in Chicago Public Schools. He also managed business operations for a Chicago-based federally qualified health center (FQHC), overseeing federal reporting, organizational evaluation, and agency-wide patient satisfaction initiatives. Most recently, Nation served as Communications Director for the Cleveland Department of Public Health, leading comprehensive internal and external communications, representing the department publicly, and facilitating the creation and dissemination of the joint Cleveland-Cuyahoga County community health needs assessment and improvement plan.
"We are fortunate to have Adam join our program staff," said Foundation President Mitchell Balk. "With his appointment, Mt. Sinai is doubling-down on its commitment to pursuing real systems change through convening, advocacy, and strategic grantmaking. Adam's expertise in both public health and health policy are symbolic of the Foundation's ongoing evolution from grantmaker to changemaker." Working with Mt. Sinai Vice President, Strategy, Daniel Cohn, and Program Officer Ali Foti, Nation will support the Foundation's strategic agenda related to primary prevention, population health, and public policy.
Mt. Sinai Announces 2020 Saltzman Award Recipients
Join us for Channel 3 News at 6 PM, June 23-24, as we salute Cleveland's Health Heroes and on June 25 when we present them with the 2020 Maurice Saltzman Award as part of the 6 PM news!
The 2020 Maurice Saltzman Award is presented to Cleveland's Health Heroes who put their lives on the line to care for COVID-19 patients and prevent further spread of the disease. Those honored include not only those working in hospitals, but also those in group homes and long-term care facilities. They include not only doctors, nurses and other caregivers, but sanitation, foodservice and transportation workers, home health workers, public health practitioners and all who have worked tirelessly to keep our communities safe in this time of global crisis.
2020 Maurice Saltzman Award Selection Committee
Enid B. Rosenberg, Chair
Tom Abelson, MD
Nathan A. Berger, MD
Beth Wain Brandon
Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD
J. David Heller
Jeffrey L. Ponsky, MD
Susan Ratner
Ronn Richard
Fred C. Rothstein, MD
Judge Dan A. Polster, Board Chair
Mitchell Balk, President
Study of 'downstream' effects of childhood lead poisoning reveals racial, economic disparities in adulthood
20-year study involving more than 10,000 children tracks consequences of lead exposure from birth through early adulthood
A new study from Case Western Reserve University, funded in part by the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation, shows that numerous negative issues associated with lead poisoning follow children well into adulthood—building on evidence linking elevated blood-lead levels with a host of harmful outcomes in education, behavior and health.
These so-called "downstream" consequences include increased involvement in the juvenile justice system, adult incarceration and homelessness, according to the study conducted by researchers at the university's Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
The findings stem from a research project that—using data over a 20-year period—tracked the life outcomes of more than 10,000 children in Cleveland with elevated blood-lead levels, compared to a control group of students who did not have elevated lead levels. By comparing these carefully matched groups, researchers were able to zero-in on the impact of lead poisoning on both people and public systems.
"The Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition believes that no child should ever be lead-poisoned," said Blaine Griffin, City of Cleveland Councilman and Coalition Steering Committee Member. "This research from Case Western Reserve University underscores the painful reality that lead poisoning not only affects a child's developing body and robs them of their potential but has a costly impact on our entire community. It doesn't matter where you live or work—whether you're a landlord, caregiver, elected official, or resident—we all have a responsibility to address lead poisoning together."
Mandel Foundation Approves $5 million to the Lead Safe Home Fund
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation has committed $5 million to the Lead Safe Home Fund, which will provide families and property owners resources to make homes lead safe. This, along with investments from the city of Cleveland, state of Ohio and philanthropic partners, brings the total pool of funds to more than $18 million, according to a news release
"As the COVID-19 pandemic forces us to shelter-in-place, we are reminded how important a safe and decent home is," stated Mitchell Balk, president of the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation and chair of the governance committee of Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition. "All children, no matter their backgrounds, should be afforded every opportunity to live up to their fullest potential. Lead poisoning is an issue of equity, and now is the time to invest in this most basic human need for children today and into the future."
Mt. Sinai, Partners, announce Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition
Click the video below to listen to Mitchell Balk's announcement at January 22, 2019, press conference in the rotunda of Cleveland City Hall.
Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition announces inaugural Steering Committee
During the Lead Safe Home Summit (June 21, 2019), Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation President Mitchell Balk announced the creation of the Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition Steering Committee.
"The appointment of Steering Committee members marks an important milestone for the Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition," said Balk, who also chairs the Coalition's Governance Committee. "This group brings to the table a remarkable depth and breadth of leadership, a diversity of lived experiences, and the critical perspectives necessary to address lead poisoning in our community."
Read the Press Release here (PDF)
Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation Appoints Program Officer
January 2, 2019 (Cleveland, Ohio) – Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation President Mitchell Balk announces the appointment of Cleveland native Ali Foti to the position of program officer. Ms. Foti will begin her duties on February 4, 2019.
Foti is a Hawken School alumna and University Hospitals/ Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital NICU graduate. She is currently completing a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is a summa cum laude graduate in Political Science of the University of Michigan.
Among her varied professional experiences, Foti created health equity trainings for cancer care providers as Health Education & Training Coordinator at the George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center. She also oversaw government relations to increase patient access to their health data as Health Information Technology Policy & Outreach Coordinator at the National Partnership for Women & Families. Also in Washington, DC, she served on the Health Equity and Accountability Act Community Working Group and the Consumer Work Group of the Federal Advisory Committee to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. More recently, Foti contributed to capacity-building trainings to support Boston non-profit organizations in planning health promotion programs through the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Center for Community-Based Research.
"Mt. Sinai is fortunate to have someone with Ali's skills, intellect and passion for improving the public's health join its program staff," said Foundation President Mitchell Balk. Working with Mt. Sinai Vice President, strategy, Daniel Cohn, Foti will support the Foundation's strategic agenda related to primary prevention, population health, and health policy.
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