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Colorado coronavirus skeptic gains new perspective after being hospitalized with it
4/04/2020 02:52:00 AM 326 hospitalizations as cases total more than 2, Denver's stay-at-home order will be extended to April 30 to slow coronavirus
You've probably heard someone say it at this point: the coronavirus is being blown out of proportion by the media, especially because more people die from the flu.
Clint Johnson of South Fork, Colorado was one of the many people who felt that way.
"I just didn't take it seriously. I just thought it was something media Denver News was coming up with to distract us from something," Johnson said.
However, Johnson's perspective changed when got the coronavirus himself.
He's now sharing his story with others hoping others don't make the same mistake he did.
"It's like the flu times 10. You don't want to do anything. You're just completely miserable. I've never been that sick before," said Johnson.
Johnson doesn't know where he contracted coronavirus. All he knows is that he came home from a weekend of 4-wheeling in Moab, Utah feeling a little under the weather.
"One night I went to eat some ice cream and it just tasted like ice. I was like, 'this is weird,'" Johnson said. "I pretty much blew it off. I was a skeptic saying, 'I just got a cold, there's nothing wrong.'"
Two days later, Johnson woke up and realized he didn't have an ordinary cold.
"I couldn't feel my hands and fingers," he said.
Johnson drove to the hospital in Del Norte and after a scan of his lungs he was flown by helicopter to Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo.
His symptoms grew worse, and included pounding headaches, extremely low blood pressure and a fever that wouldn't go away with medication. While he says he was able to breathe, he also felt some compression in his chest, like he was in a constant bear hug. However, the fever was the worst.
"I would wake up soaking wet. There was one whole day I slept on ice just to try and keep in manageable," he said.
On Johnson's second night at the hospital, the coronavirus patient next door passed away and doctors worried Clint's organs might start to shut down.
"They told me it was like baby shards of glass in all your air pockets," he explained.
Doctors began treating him with hydroxycloriquine and zithromax. For Clint, the drugs worked. Within two days, he began to improve.
"It did wonders in my case," he said.
After six days in the hospital, Clint is now back at his home Press Release Distribution Services In Denver in South Fork with a new perspective on the coronavirus.
He's now sharing his story hoping it might help save someone else's life.
"None of us were taking it seriously and if I would have done my part and stayed home, there's no telling who I could have prevented from getting it," he said.
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in action after hardware problem
It's alive! It's alive!
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Jan. 17, 2019 3:16 p.m. PT
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On Jan. 8, the Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's journeyman telescope Hubble went out of action. A hardware problem had caused the instrument to suspend operations.
The latest update from NASA is all good news though: Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 resumed science observations, snapping photos of the distant universe, just after midday, Jan. 17.
Wide Field Camera 3 was brought back to full operational status and completed its first science observations just after noon EST today.
For more info: https://t.co/ETEDYPwDtd
— Hubble (@NASAHubble) January 17, 2019
Investigating the error from Jan. 8, NASA concluded that voltage levels had jumped outside their safe values, causing the suspension of operations. Further evaluations noted that voltage levels were OK, but telemetry circuits -- which help NASA collect data from the Telescope -- "were not accurate". A router-like reset had those telemetry circuits brought back to operations.
Wide Field Camera 3 is just one of Hubble's suite of instruments and while NASA worked to get it back to collecting science images, Hubble's other instruments continued to operate as normal.
NASA says that Hubble should hang on beyond 2025, which would mean it has been investigating space for a solid 35 years. In that time, it has captured smiling faces in the cosmos and provided new ways to see dark matter. Recently, it took an unbelievable 1.6GB image of the Triangulum Galaxy you could basically fly through on your PC screen.
Operated by both NASA and the European Space Agency, the Hubble Space Telescope was on a 15-year mission when it launched on April 25, 1990. The Wide Field Camera 3 was a Hubble upgrade, installed in May 2009 during its last servicing mission, which planned to extend Hubble's mission to 20 years. It's now in its 29th year of life.
NASA's Hubble telescope delivers stunning new space pictures
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Join Advocate Health Care's York Chan, Ascension Health's Lois Sechrist and Jon Villani of Grumman Butkus as they share their proven strategies. Speakers will review specific strategies and common barriers to HVAC setbacks, LED lighting, and retrofitting sterilization equipment with water economizer features.
HVAC setbacks save approximately $2,000 to $3,200 per OR per year, and yet only 36.8 percent of Practice Greenhealth award winners had an HVAC setback program in place. Team up facilities, infection prevention and operating room leaders and join Ascension and Advocate Health Care in their energy and water conservation success.
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Understand why every hospital should have a transportation plan.
How a transportation plan can contribute to a healthier environment.
Understand how Seattle Children's sets transportation goals and measures progress with their transportation plan.
Paulo Nunes-Ueno is the director of transportation and sustainability for Seattle Children's, one of the nation's top pediatric hospitals and research institutes, and is Vice President of Puget Sound Bike Share. Seattle Children's is a leader in progressive transportation programs winning 6 Diamond Awards for outstanding commute programs and several Governor's Awards for excellence in Transportation Demand Management. Seattle Children's has also received the 2008 Governor's Award for Sustainable Practices, the 2010 Practice Green Health Partner for Change Award for its efforts at eliminating mercury, and reducing waste and pollution from its operations, and the 2011 Seattle Business Magazine Green Washington Award. Paulo holds a bachelor's degree from New York University and a Master's in Public Administration from the University of Washington.
Transportation is often overlooked when identifying pollution sources and opportunities for improved environmental performance in health care, yet cars contribute to smog, poor visibility and poor air quality, especially in congested areas. While one can't smell carbon monoxide, it is emitted from cars and impact people through reducing the amount of oxygen that is transferred to muscles and to the organs. Those at greatest risk are those with heart or respiratory disease. According to the EPA, in 2008, 27% of greenhouse gases came from transportation sources. Greenhouse gases are forecasted to increase dramatically for this sector.
Nestled by mountains, lakes and Puget Sound, Seattle's landscape intensifies a serious traffic congestion problem. The City of Seattle created an ordinance that requires large employers to reduce their drive-alone rate as one measure to alleviate the impact of transportation on the roads and the environment. Seattle Children's goal was to expand its campus in North East Seattle but reduce the rate of single occupancy vehicle use and avoid the need to construct 500 new parking stalls at an estimated cost of $20,000,000. The precious space that would be needed for the additional 500 parking places could be put to better use for clinical space. This, in combination with Seattle Children's commitment to the health of its workers and community, led to the development of a comprehensive transportation plan, developed in tandem with the facility's strategic plan, looking ahead twenty years, starting in 2013. Seattle Children's goal is to reduce single vehicle car use from its current rate of 40% to the rate of 30% by 2028 or the completion of its master plan. The transportation plan has already received notice and has garnered The Governor's Commute Smart Award, EPA's Commuter Choice Leadership Award, Commuter Challenge's Diamond Award; Zip car's 2010 Wheel of Change Award and is recognized as a model in healthy commuting strategies, safety and prevention. Seattle Children's has also won Practice Greenhealth's Partner for Change Award.
On October 7, the New Hampshire Hospital Association and the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) will host a free webinar exploring wood chip boiler systems as an alternative energy source. Wood chip systems can provide an excellent opportunity for small to medium sized facilities to improve energy efficiency at a reasonable cost. Learn how these systems work and how they may be a good fit for your hospital.
The New Hampshire Hospital Association is a supporting organization of the Healthier Hospitals Initiative and together with its hospitals has dedicated time and effort to improving sustainability. Over half of the hospitals in New Hampshire are enrolled in HHI with several taking on the Leaner Energy Challenge.
Barry Bernstein, Carl Bielenberg, and Marghie Seymour from Better World Energy, a company that works with hospitals and other commercial buildings to install wood chip boilers, will provide an overview of how these systems operate and discuss their potential benefits. You'll also hear about Androscoggin Valley Hospital's experience with their wood chip system.
Take away at least five cost saving energy conservation case studies from US facilities in a variety of climate zones and building types.
Kim Shinn is a professional engineer and a Principal with TLC Engineering for Architecture (www.tlc-engineers.com).
He is a certified Commissioning Authority and ASHRAE certified Building Energy Modeling Professional.
He is a LEED Accredited Professional and was elevated to LEED Fellow in 2011. Kim helped create the Green Guide for Health Care (GGHC) and LEED for Healthcare. Kim currently serves on ASHRAE's Standard Project Committee 209, "Energy Simulation Aided Design for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings".
Join Clark Reed, U.S. EPA's National Program Manager for Health Care, to get an understanding of how EPA's ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool can help provide a foundation for your energy management program. Since you can't manage what you don't measure, Portfolio Manager provides an online tool to track energy and water consumption, as well as greenhouse gas emissions, but that's not all. Hospitals can set energy reduction baselines and targets in Portfolio Manager, and integrate the key performance metrics into a strategic management plan. Portfolio Manager also makes it easy to produce custom reports and share data. And maybe you'll be able to join the top 25% of energy-efficient buildings nationwide and apply for ENERGY STAR certification.
Clark Reed serves as a National Program Manager for ENERGY STAR at the US Environmental Protection Agency where he works with commercial building partners to identify energy opportunities, promote energy efficiency best practices, and recognize top performing buildings. He managed EPA's efforts to establish a national energy performance rating scale for hospitals, medical offices, and most recently, senior living communities.
Mr. Reed has over sixteen years' of experience writing and speaking on energy issues for the EPA. He earned a BA in Economics from the University of Washington and his MA in Environmental Policy from Tufts University.
This three-part webinar series, led by quality improvement experts, is designed to frame environmental stewardship and the Leaner Energy Challenge in particular as a quality imperative for the quality community.
The final call in the series will review the assignment and review daily, hourly and 15 minute data – the benefits and applications. We will discuss how to connect quality team with Facilities Team for maximum engagement.
Blair Sadler, IHI Senior Fellow and Senior Advisor, Healthcare Without Harm.
This session will review the assignment – Using a Quality Improvement perspective including Data, Tests, Standard Work, Predictions and a Case Study from Wisconsin. Our technical topic will include how to model energy use, starting with monthly energy use.
Please have these two handouts available for your participation in Thursday's HHI Leaner Energy/Quality Webinar.
Audience: Quality Improvement Specialists: Improvement Advisors, Black Belts and Lean Specialists who have familiarity with run charts, individuals control charts and regression.
Blair Sadler, IHI Senior Fellow and Senior Advisor, Health Care Without Harm.
Webinar : Health Systems, Climate Friendly Investments, and Climate Change. What comes next?
While the health sector has made important strives in reducing it's energy usage, are health systems and hospitals doing enough to address climate change, the biggest health threat of the 21st Century?
By itself, energy reduction is not enough. By looking at climate friendly investment strategies, hospitals have a unique opportunity to take major strives toward reducing carbon emissions.
This webinar will explore the potential for the health sector to take steps for creating fossil free portfolios and expanding clean tech investments.
Discuss the relationship of energy consumption, emissions, and climate change.
Discuss and identify steps the health sector can take for creating fossil free portfolios.
Discuss and identify actions the health sector can take to expand it clean tech investments.
Laura Anderko, PhD RN, Robert and Kathleen Scanlon Endowed Chair in Values Based Health Care, School of Nursing & Health Studies, Georgetown University.
Laura Anderko PhD RN holds the Robert and Kathleen Scanlon Endowed Chair in Values Based Health Care at Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies. She is a scholar and educator in the fields of epidemiology, public health and environmental health. A Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow, Dr. Anderko earned her Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of Illinois, an MS from Northern Illinois University, and a BSN from University of Illinois.
Thomas has been a leader in the field of socially-responsible investing since starting at Dean Witter in 1983. In 1987, he founded Progressive Asset Management (PAM), a firm dedicated to socially responsible investing. At PAM, Van Dyck created the firm's shareholder advocacy program. Joining Piper Jaffray in 1997, he developed an investment management consulting team, now called the SRI Wealth Management Group, which moved to RBC Wealth Management in 2006. Van Dyck has authored numerous articles and studies on the economics of socially responsible investing. He has been actively involved in cleantech investing and was instrumental in developing Piper Jaffray'sCleantech Ventures private equity fund of funds strategy. Throughout his career, he has worked to encourage major pension funds like CalPERS and CalSTRS to consider issues such as divestment from South Africa and environmental investment strategies.
Van Dyck is the founder of As You Sow*, a shareholder advocacy foundation, and is active with environmental groups, including Rainforest Action Network, Baykeeper, Bioneers and Earth Rights International. He is most proud, however, of his role of active parent to his two children. Van Dyck graduated from Duke University in 1980 with a B.A. in Political Science. He is a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) and is Series 7 and Series 66 licensed.
Learn how to enroll in Energy Star for Health Care or how to give HHI viewing rites to an existing account so that your facility can participate in the Leaner Energy Challenge. It's that simple! There is no other data submission for this challenge. If you are using Energy Star for Health Care, you are good to go.
Ascension Health achieved 5.6 percent energy use reduction and $10.1 million in cost reduction from 2008-2011 across 30 million square feet in 75 hospitals in 21 states and Washington D.C. Needing a new goal, Ascension Health joined the Department of Energy Better Buildings Challenge and committed to 20 percent energy reduction by 2020. We will present the strategies to achieve the ambitious energy reduction goal and review the funding methods used to pay for energy efficiency projects and the selection and implementation process used for the Preferred Energy Consulting Firm engagement.
Learn how Ascension Health became a founding partner of the Department of Energy Better Buildings Challenge and set a big goal to reduce energy use across the entire system 20% by 2020.
Understand how Ascension Health's Environmental Stewardship Program began, reduced energy use 7.1 percent and demonstrated $18.8 million in cost avoidance from June 2008 to June 2012.
Take home a list of low cost, no cost, "low hanging fruit" energy conservation methods in use at Ascension Health.
After completing the webinar, participants will understand the Ascension Health Facility Infrastructure Pool, which is a dedicated fund used for infrastructure projects with a focus on energy efficiency (chillers, boilers, building automation systems, backup generators, etc.).


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Turkish Elections: A Win That Cannot Be Stolen
Turkey's June 24 elections and the likely runoff will be determined by the opposition's ability to stop Erdogan's rigging attempts.
By Aykan Erdemir, June 23, 2018
Credit: thomas koch Shutterstock.com
Erdogan is taking Turkey into the most flawed elections since the country held its first free and fair vote in 1950. With his snap elections move, the Turkish president hoped to catch the opposition off guard.
Turkey's opposition parties have shown remarkable resilience and resourcefulness in pushing back against Erdogan's attempt to ambush them with snap elections.
The Turkish government is likely to rig the elections once again. Yet regardless of the outcome, the unity of opposition parties across the political spectrum represents a major gain for Erdogan's opponents.
The opposition's ability to join forces and reverse polarization indicates Turkey finally seems to have discovered a return path to deliberative democracy and pluralism.
Turkey will go to the polls Sunday to elect both its president and the members of its 600-seat parliament.
Confronted by a looming economic crisis as well as pressure from his allies on the far right, incumbent strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose to call early elections 17 months ahead of schedule.
Polls indicate that opposition parties have a real shot at winning a parliamentary majority and forcing Erdogan into a runoff election for the presidency on July 8. The Turkish government is likely to rig the elections once again, yet regardless of the outcome, the unity of opposition parties across the political spectrum represents a major gain for Erdogan's opponents.
Erdogan is taking Turkey into the most flawed elections since the country held its first free and fair vote in 1950. With his snap elections move, the Turkish president hoped to catch the opposition off guard and even to disqualify one of the leading center-right contenders for the presidency, but this gambit failed.
Controlling the media
Erdogan controls over 90% of Turkish media outlets, and the uneven playing field provides opposition candidates little or no air time. Over the course of the campaign period, human rights observers reported 125 attacks against opposition parties, in which 90 members sustained injuries.
Undoubtedly, Erdogan will attempt to rig the ballots as he did in the 2014 local elections, November 2015 parliamentary elections and the 2017 constitutional referendum.
Turkey's opposition parties have shown remarkable resilience and resourcefulness in pushing back against Erdogan's attempt to ambush them with snap elections. They have built a four-party Nation Alliance, which includes the entire political spectrum from the left to right and the secular to religious.
The pro-secular Republican People's Party (CHP) not only arranged for 15 of its lawmakers to join the center-right Good Party (IYI) to thwart Erdogan's attempts to disqualify the party from running, but also called on its members to help other presidential candidates reach the 100,000 signatures required to be on the ballot.
The biggest success of the opposition parties has been their extraordinary ability to reverse Turkey's trend of polarization that Erdogan nurtured as his key strategy to keep his seat. Since bringing his party to power in 2002, Erdogan has refused to appear in any public debates with opposition leaders, deliberately undermining political dialogue and deliberation.
Reversing the trend
Opposition leaders, however, have succeeded in reversing this trend by holding regular and cordial meetings with one another and calling for the release of Selahattin Demirtas, the jailed presidential candidate of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
On May 9, CHP's presidential candidate Muharrem Ince even visited Demirtas in prison. On Wednesday, the incarcerated contender thanked opposition candidates in an op-ed he penned for The New York Times by saying, "With the exception of President Erdogan, all of my fellow candidates have declared that I should be freed."
The results of Turkey's June 24 elections and the likely runoff on July 8 will be determined by the opposition's ability to stop Erdogan's rigging attempts. Despite the opposition's best precautions, the Turkish strongman may yet again steal a razor-thin majority that gives him the parliament and the presidency.
The Turkish opposition's ability, after a decade-and-a-half, to join forces and reverse polarization, however, is a win that cannot be stolen. Turkey finally seems to have discovered a return path, albeit long and arduous, to deliberative democracy and pluralism.
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About Aykan Erdemir
Aykan Erdemir is the senior director of the Turkey Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former member of the Turkish Parliament.
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I've got a lot of problems. I've got really bad social anxiety. I am confused about what career path to go down and have been for a long time. I've got marital issues, mostly due to me being a self-centered jerk. I struggle with lust and irritability. There aren't many people in my life that I am actively serving. My mind is so far from God and his kingdom half the day, and I don't even know how I should think half the day. I'm confused about many things, and there are many things about God and his kingdom that I just don't know or understand. I'm in therapy for a lot of these issues, and I plan on being in therapy to get help with these things for a long time.
That's just a small list of the millions of sins and issues I have. I used to think that I shouldn't let people know about these sins and struggles. I thought that I would make Christ look bad if I let people know what I was going through. I wanted Christianity to be attractive to people. I didn't want them to look at me and say, "Well, if that's what a Christian is like. Then I don't want to be one. That guy has some serious issues," and if someone did say that, they'd be exactly right. I do.
I'm starting to realize though that letting all of our weaknesses, sins, and struggles be known actually magnifies the beauty of the gospel–the fact that we are loved, saved, and forgiven even in the midst of having so many problems and sins. For God so loved the world that he died for messed up sinners and failures and screw ups like us. That makes him look so great and beautiful. That gives all glory to God and all boasting in the cross where he died for us.
Therefore, we don't have to hide our sins from other people because this same sin causes us to point people to the cross. It allows us to say, "I'm so thankful for what Jesus has done for us." It causes us to point to the cross and say, "Look, that is our only hope. Look at Jesus and what he has done for us." It allows us to glory in the cross alone. It allows us to sing praises about Jesus, letting others know that he is our only hope.
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All eyes will be on what the Cleveland Browns do with their two top-four picks in the 2018 NFL Draft, with the sportsbooks offering up betting lines for Thursday night.
The Cleveland Browns were the worst team in the NFL last season with a record of 0-16 SU and 4-12 ATS. That disastrous season landed the Browns the top pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, while some good luck in the form of the Houston Texans collapse last season gave Cleveland the fourth overall pick as well.
USC quarterback Sam Darnold is the betting favorite on the 2018 NFL Draft odds to be the first overall pick on Thursday night at -240 at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
The conventional wisdom around this year's draft seems to be that the Browns will select a quarterback with the first overall pick and then take defensive end Bradley Chubb with the fourth overall pick. Darnold is the favorite to be selected while other options at quarterback for the Browns include Josh Allen (+160 to be first overall), Baker Mayfield (+1000), and Josh Rosen (+1800).
Saquon Barkley appears to be a can't-miss running back prospect and is going off at +550 to be the first overall pick. If the Browns can't decide on which quarterback they like the best or don't have a strong preference between them, they might be wise to take Barkley at No. 1 and then will still have options at quarterback with the No. 4 pick.
With the Browns expected to go with a quarterback, the New York Giants will have a hard time passing on a potential franchise running back like Barkley with their second overall pick. Barkley is the favorite to be the No. 2 pick at +190 followed by Chubb (+275), Darnold (+275), Allen (+350) and Rosen (+400).
The New York Jets traded up to the No. 3 spot and almost certainly have a quarterback in mind. Josh Rosen is a slight favorite at +140 on the 2018 NFL Draft props to be the third overall pick over Baker Mayfield at +160, with Darnold (+400), Allen (+500) and Barkley (+550) trailing right behind.
Positional totals for the first round are set as follows: "quarterbacks selected" at 5.5 (Over +155, Under -220), "running backs selected" at 1.5 (Over -220, Under +155) and "wide receivers selected" at 2.5 (Over +110, Under -150).
Wide receivers Calvin Ridley and DJ Moore are both likely first round picks while Courtland Sutton or James Washington could also sneak into the first round.
Who's on your team's practice squad this year?


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Volunteer vaccinators are told they will not be interviewed for roles until January 31
Thousands of volunteers have offered to join crusade to vaccinate population
Doctor who worked in NHS for 50 years heard nothing after calling and emailing
One volunteer vaccinator says her first available interview is January 31
By Sam Greenhill Chief Reporter For The Daily Mail
Volunteers wanting to join the NHS vaccine army are being told they will not even be interviewed for the role until January 31.
Thousands have answered the call to join the mammoth - and urgent - crusade to vaccinate the population.
But some of those who applied have been left baffled by the lack of response.
Londoner Charlotte Hindle said: 'I have applied to be a volunteer vaccinator but the first available interview is January 31. There are not enough staff to process.
Volunteers wanting to join the NHS vaccine army are being told they will not even be interviewed for the role until January 31. A woman is pictured above being vaccinated
'Hence myself, and I am sure thousands of others, will sit on our hands for more than a month when we might have been helping deliver the vaccine.'
Dr Michael Paul, of Barnoldswick, Lancashire, who worked in the NHS for 50 years and applied to rejoin to help, said: 'After numerous emails and telephone calls - nothing. I filled in the form and contacted my local GP practice. Guess what? Nothing.'
Another applicant told the Mail: 'I wanted to enrol in the scheme to help with the vaccine rollout, but there have been nothing but problems since I signed up.
Thousands have answered the call to join the mammoth - and urgent - crusade to vaccinate the population. But some of those who applied have been left baffled by the lack of response
'There is no phone number to reach the office and it takes them days to reply to my emails. Basic IT problems have gone unresolved. Given that they hope to recruit 30,000 volunteers, it's a worrying start.'
Dr Jess Potter, a consultant in respiratory and general medicine, said: 'Should we not be taking over football stadiums to deliver it, getting support from civil society?'
An NHS spokesman said: 'It is categorically untrue that there are any delays in Covid vaccination caused by accrediting volunteers or returners.
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'We are delighted that former members of NHS staff have applied to become vaccinators and actually tens of thousands of people have already completed their online training.
'These are being processed as quickly as possible and vaccinators will be deployed as and when they are required.'


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LA County reports 1,054 coronavirus cases;…
LA County reports 1,054 coronavirus cases; hospitalizations fall again
The county has now logged 1,519,781 cases of COVID-19 and 27,010 fatalities since the pandemic began.
Carina Umana, an RN with Carbon Health, vaccinates an 11-year-old foster child with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at Five Acres in Altadena on Thursday, November 18, 2021. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Los Angeles County reported 1,054 new cases of COVID-19 and 11 additional deaths associated with the virus on Sunday, Nov. 21.
The numbers likely reflect delays in weekend reporting, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The county has now logged 1,519,781 cases of COVID-19 and 27,010 fatalities since the pandemic began.
The number of coronavirus patients in county hospitals declined to 569, down from 573 on Saturday. Of those patients, 152 were in intensive care, up from 149 on Friday, according to state figures.
The rolling average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus was 0.9% as of Friday.
Health officials locally and nationally continue to fear a spike in cases with the upcoming winter holidays, and with colder weather leading to more indoor gatherings.
On Thursday, county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer noted that the county appears to have avoided any spike in cases following Halloween, attributing that success to higher numbers of vaccinated residents and other precautions.
But she said case numbers are rising in many Western states and in Europe, providing an early warning of what could lie ahead if people become lax about virus prevention.
On Friday, Ferrer urged residents to receive booster doses of vaccine.
"While the vaccines continue to provide significant protection against the virus, data now shows that the effectiveness of the vaccine declines enough over time that it is important to get an additional dose to have better protection against the virus," she said. "With booster doses currently available to anyone who received their second dose of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines at least six months ago, or received a Johnson & Johnson vaccine at least two months ago, it is important that healthcare workers and those they care for take advantage of easy access to these additional doses.
"With 4.8 million residents eligible for boosters, our hope is that many more individuals will be coming in for this additional dose before the Thanksgiving holiday."
Ferrer said Thursday that current figures show unvaccinated people are nine times more likely than vaccinated people to get infected, and 67 times more likely to be hospitalized.
Ferrer said 82% of county residents aged 12 and over have received at least one dose of COVID vaccine, and 73% are fully vaccinated. Of the county's overall population of 10.3 million people, 71% have received at least one dose, and 63% are fully vaccinated.
She said the number of people who received a first dose of vaccine during the past week jumped sharply, due primarily to the expansion of vaccine availability to include children aged 5-11.
Black residents continue to have the lowest vaccination rates, at 54%, followed by Latina/o residents at 59%, whites at 72% and Asians at 80%.
Of the roughly 5.99 million residents who were fully vaccinated as of Nov. 16, 75,249 have subsequently tested positive for the virus, for a rate of 1.26%, Ferrer said. Of the vaccinated population, 2,528 have been hospitalized, for a rate of 0.042%, and 422 have died, a rate of 0.007%.


Hearing Joey Alexander play makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck; you don't expect such musicianship, maturity and command of the instrument from a child.
In February, the Twin Cities Jazz Festival announced five headliners for this year's event, which takes over downtown St. Paul Thursday-Saturday, June 23-25: trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis on Thursday, guitarist Russell Malone and pianist Ellis Marsalis on Friday, and on Saturday, singer/guitarist John Pizzarelli and the danceable Michael Franti and his band Spearhead.
A true prodigy whose skill and understanding of the music belie his tender years, Alexander performed at the 2016 Grammys as a two-time nominee and received a standing ovation. His first album, "My Favorite Things," debuted at #2 on the Billboard jazz chart. His guest performance at a Jazz at Lincoln Center gala at age 10 won raves. Wynton Marsalis has called him "my hero." Herbie Hancock is a fan.
So congratulations to the Twin Cities Jazz Festival. What a coup. Alexander should bring serious crowds to Mears Park, and even if some people come to see a young celebrity, someone who's been on "Ellen" and "60 Minutes" and the "Today Show," they'll still hear the real thing.
Saturday, July 2: Our own Phil Hey Quartet, led by the esteemed drummer we know and love. (The Twin Cities Jazz Fest and the Iowa City Jazz Fest are swapping musicians, which is a good thing.) • Marquis Hill Blacktet, led by trumpeter Hill, winner of the 2014 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. This group was a big hit at last year's TCJF. • Vijay Iyer Trio. We recently saw pianist and composer Iyer at the Walker with Rez Abbasi's Invocation. He's a restless, protean force in jazz, a MacArthur fellow and Harvard music professor who's currently in residence at the new Met Breuer, playing concerts in the lobby gallery. His longstanding, highly acclaimed trio includes Marcus Gilmore on drums and Stephen Crump on bass. • Poncho Sanchez and His Latin Jazz Band. The great conguero always starts a party.
Sunday, July 3: Edmar Castaneda Trio. A Colombian-born, New York-based jazz musician who plays … the harp. What's that like? Oh. Well. Wow. • Miguel Zenón Quartet. A MacArthur fellow and multiple Grammy nominee, San Juan-born saxophonist Zenón is flavoring jazz with the music of Puerto Rico. He was last in Minneapolis with the JazzMN Orchestra in 2014; he'll return in early April to play the Dakota with the SFJAZZ Collective. (Here's more about that.) • David Berkman Sextet. Jeremy Walker brought the excellent New York-based pianist Berkman here in January to perform at Orchestra Hall's Jazz in the Target Atrium series. In Iowa City, he'll perform with Gerald Cleaver on drums and Vicente Archer on bass, plus a trio of horn players.
What a diverse and exciting lineup. If you need another reason to go, the Iowa City Jazz Festival always ends with fireworks over the river. FMI and complete schedule.
Last week we saw and heard musicians from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra play the luminously beautiful Schubert String Quintet at Icehouse. It was like having Ruggero Allifranchini, Kyu-Young Kim, Maiya Papach, Julie Albers and Jonathan Cohen (the SPCO's newest artistic partner) give a concert in your living room, except there were servers bringing drinks and food. It took a few moments to get used to SPCO musicians in jeans and sneakers, but once we dealt with that everything else was easy. The Ordway Concert Hall is the ideal place to hear the SPCO, but this was a rare and special opportunity.
Tonight (Thursday, March 24) at Ridgedale Library: Club Book Presents Lyndsay Faye. Her latest, "Jane Steele," is a retelling of Jane Eyre. Which in other hands could go very badly, but this is Edgar-nominated Faye, author of "The Gods of Gotham" (one of the top 10 crime novels of 2012) and "Dust and Shadow," the novel that pitted Sherlock Holmes against Jack the Ripper. 7 p.m. Free.
Tonight at Vieux Carré: Cory Healey's Beautiful Sunshine Band CD Release. This is the second CD release in a week for Shifting Paradigm Records, the Minneapolis-based collective label with several more new recordings in the pipeline. Independence, Iowa-born composer and drummer Healey has performed with Kenny Wheeler, Dr. Lonnie Smith, John Abercrombie and other jazz stars; moving to Minneapolis in 2013, he soon started working with busy (and interesting) area artists. His band includes Erik Fratzke on bass, Jake Baldwin on trumpet, Brandon Wozniak on tenor sax and Zacc Harris on guitar; reflecting his many and varied interests, his music is shaped by bebop, ambient music, free jazz and doom metal. It's personal and full of surprises. 9 p.m. $10 cover, cash only at the door.
Friday at the Weinstein Gallery: Opening reception for "Gordon Parks: Invisible Man and Segregation Story." The second exhibition of Parks' work at the Weinstein includes two series of photographs Parks created for Life Magazine in the 1950s: the first for an essay promoting Ralph Ellison's newly released novel "Invisible Man" and the second documenting life in the Jim Crow South through the experience of a multi-generational family. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. If you've never been to an opening reception at the intimate, influential gallery on West 46th St. in Minneapolis, this would be a good start. The exhibition closes May 14.
Opens Friday at the Park Square: "Love Person." We've heard the saying "love is blind," but what if love is deaf? What if it speaks Sanskrit or teaches poetry or sends an email to the wrong person by mistake? In Aditi Kapil's new play, told in ASL, Sanskrit and English, four people struggle to communicate in ways they can all understand. Adult language, sexual references and adult situations. With Elizabeth Efteland, Erin Anderson Gardner, Imram Sheikh and Canae Weiss; directed by Kapil. 7:30 p.m. on the proscenium stage. FMI and tickets ($40/$60). Ends April 10. Here's a trailer.


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Happy Me-Made-June! If you don't know what I'm talking about, read this post and please try to keep up in future. (Some people...) In the run up to June I was a little nervous about taking part in the challenge - would I have enough to wear without it becoming stressful? But I can already say it's been great. While I've enjoyed following other bloggers taking part in previous months, being part of the challenge - the community, if you will - myself is so much more fun.
Running around Washington in 35 degrees heat, a meeting at the National Gallery of Art, and slumping on the sofa stuffing my face with takeaway pizza.
Definitely. I really love the bold print and the bright colour. What kinds of tops would you wear it with?
Doing some work on my laptop in a coffee shop, and dinner with friends.
A lot. I love the print on the fabric and it's really comfortable to wear, loose fitting, in a snuggly fabric.
On an amazing four hour tour of the Library of Congress's film archive in Virginia. Yes, I am a geek.
I wear the t-shirt quite a lot. Stripey tops are my default clothing choice, and this is the only one I have in green stripes. I don't wear the necklace that often as the green and pink fabric is hard to match, but it works well with this top.
If the top can be worn more often - yes! And I'll try to wear the necklace more as I do like it.


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The lair of Xaphan of the Pyre is at Caledor, near the Wrath's Resolve keep, at 53.5k 27.9k. To open this lair, 6 candles must be lighted up.
Approaching this lair will trigger an Achievements unlock.
Six candles must be interacted with to be lighted up in various locations around the world to open this lair. These candles look like a skull with a candle above, always on an altar.
And deep within the Marshes where Madness reigns (Marshes of Madness 14.3k 46.5k west end of scum pond in lake).
Interacting with the book after you've lighted up all the candles, opens up the door to Xaphan of the Pyre. At this point the book disappears and respawns after about 12 hours. The door to Xaphan will remain open for a few minutes and will close up again after that, so you should open the door only once your full group is ready to fight Xaphan.
Note that only one person needs to have found all the candles, since everyone can enter the lair for the fight after the door has been opened. However, one person in your group must have touched all the candles (i.e. you cannot split your group and send one person to each candle). Also note that if Xaphan is not engaged before the doors close he will disappear.
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Alumni Western invites you and a guest to attend a Joint Canadian university alumni Reception Ramadhan Suhoor. Organized by UAE alumni representatives of the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo and Western University, the event will provide an opportunity for Canadian University alumni and guests to connect with fellow alumni and friends.
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with next to no options or error messages to work with.
is better than giving the user ways hunt down a problem.
to fix it or work around it.
Take me and my present situation as an example of an average user.
I'm sure it's my fault for doing some little thing wrong somewhere.
Failed to connect to cluster manager.
Hint: Magma plugins are not in the right spot.
"Magma: Checking plugins in /root/cluster/build/usr/lib/magma"
resort -- make distclean, configure, make, make install.  Try again.
features that would be _really_ helpful.
'HEAD', have you migrated them to the other branches?


The trucking industry got off to much slower start in South Texas, as elsewhere, than automobiles simply because neither the roads nor the technology needed to move heavy loads safely and efficiently were developed as quickly. The introduction in 1919 of heavy duty low pressure balloon tires by both Goodyear and Dunlop, and solid steel wheels, were tremendous boosts for the industry. Heavy duty trucks in the south were given wider 60 inch wheel tracks instead of the regular 56 inches in the rest of the country. This continued until almost 1930. Trucks, both light and heavy duty, play a vital role in our lives. Everything we use has spent some time, at some point in its product cycle, on the back of a truck. Although it may seem that heavy duty trucks are ubiquitous, in the year 2000 there were more motorcycles registered in Texas, 187,000, than trucks, only 155,000. This compares with 7.6 million cars and 5.8 million light trucks, which include a huge number of personal use pick-ups and sport utility vehicles.
Early truck convoy in La Pryor, Texas.
The earliest motorized trucks were crude affairs, most often fitted with solid tires. Until tire technology caught up with the ever increasing vehicle weights and speeds, car and truck drivers were obliged to fix tires all too frequently, far more often than they filled up with gasoline. With schedules to keep, trucks had to use solid tires, at least in the rear. The drivers had to put up with a lot of discomfort, steering their heavily laden, unwieldy vehicles over unpaved roads both in town and on the highways. Finding men willing to put up with the discomfort was a huge problem. The beer industry was the largest early user of heavy duty trucks as early as 1917.
The conditions of roads until the 1920s were also a major problem. Largely unpaved, they restricted the use of trucks for the haulage of freight to urban areas or to and from railroad depots. Trucks were instrumental in building better roads, often hauling material directly from railroad cars. Most early roads between towns followed the railroads which already had established rights of way and were built along the flattest terrain in the area. Early drivers often laid out their routes. There were no road signs so following the tracks was the best way to avoid getting lost.
One of the best selling early very heavy duty vehicles in America had strong ties to San Antonio. Established in 1911, the Wichita Falls Motor Company was the most successful vehicle manufacturers of the thirty or so Texan independents. They designed and built tough, dependable vehicles for any number of purposes, such as off road logging, oil tankers, buses, specialized road construction vehicles and fire trucks. Their rugged construction also made them popular with the military.
In 1912 a Colorado company ordered 150 Wichita trucks, the largest truck order ever placed up to that time in the entire country. At the same time, San Antonio businessman Frank Winerick, who owned the Woodward Carriage Company, needed to find a new business, as the writing was on the wall for horse drawn vehicles. In May 1912 he became the largest investor in the Wichita Falls Car Company and a company director. He tried hard to relocate the company to San Antonio, even taking a delegation from the Chamber of Commerce, but production stayed in Wichita Falls.
America was by 1914 the largest industrial nation in the world with 36% of all output, more than Great Britain, France, Germany and Russia, the main combatants in the Great War, combined. Wichita trucks were in great demand. 3,600 were delivered to the French army and another 400 to the Russians. Following the war, Wichita's export drive accelerated. It adopted the slogan, "The sun never sets on a Wichita." The company's products could be found in eighty-six different countries. As a special order, it rapidly replaced the wooden wheels of one vehicle being used to transport the harem of an African potentate with custom made steel wheels because the originals had been consumed by ants overnight.
The company failed in 1932 during the depths of the Great Depression, due to declining sales and encroachment from vast organizations such as General Motors, which moved into industrial vehicles as the demand for automobiles fell sharply. Some folks blame weight restrictions introduced in Texas in 1931, as the Wichita were primarily in the very heavy truck business. If they had held on just a little longer, the Federal Government could have come to the rescue. Under the New Deal, over one hundred thousand trucks were acquired to facilitate the many construction projects across the nation.
Of the more than ten thousand Wichita trucks built, including several buses acquired by the San Antonio Uvalde & Gulf Railroad, only three or four examples remain. One is an articulated tractor purchased by the Seguin fire department to pull a ladder wagon, replacing a team of horses. Having been all but abandoned, the entire ensemble was acquired by a Wichita Falls resident and restored. It now takes pride of place in parades in the north Texas city.
Ford Model T truck loaded with produce near Crystal City, Texas.
Model T truck and tractor near Crystal City, Texas.
By 1920, 25% of all trucks in Texas were owned by farmers who used them to bring their produce to market plus bring back supplies of all kinds. Almost 50% of all trucks were based on the Ford Model T, which could be purchased as a chassis and engine combination and then adapted by local companies for any number of purposes. In 1917, Ford introduced the TT, or T Truck, the only significantly different version of the Model T produced by the company during its nineteen year production run. It had a lengthened and strengthened chassis and a lower ratio rear end to enable the standard 20 horse power, four cylinder engine to move heavy loads. This came at the sacrifice of speed, which was reduced to a maximum of only 18 MPH.
The post office used TTs for delivering mail. Others were built as depot hacks by local hotels to ferry their customers and their luggage to their establishments from railroad stations. In 1924, as sales of regular Model Ts began to slide, Ford began producing the iconic C cab TT as a way to increase revenues from truck sales. One of these, with a simple wooden bed, can be found at the Texas Transportation Museum. It was donated by the Rice family from Marfa, Texas, following decades of hard ranch work. Over the years its engine was substantially "upgraded" with the substitution of a Ford Model A carburetor, a 1950s generator and even a water pump, indicating that the vehicle, which has a home made tow bar as well, was used for serious work in West Texas. Most of these additions eventually failed and the vehicle has been returned to its original configuration.
There were, of course, plenty of heavy duty trucks built by other manufacturers in our area. One of the first car dealers in San Antonio, the Citizens Auto Company, located at 222 Travis, purchased a 1921 REO Speedwagon. It is not known exactly how it was originally configured but when what was left of the vehicle was acquired by Ralph Wilhelms of Castroville in the 1970s, he found evidence that its last function was as a depot hack. Maybe Citizens used it as a courtesy vehicle. Ralph, a master carpenter, rebuilt it to continue to fulfill this function and the vehicle has been entered into any number of events, including the 2007 King William parade.
Responding to a cacophony of complaints about poor service, lack of insurance and even outright theft of cargo by unscrupulous operators, the state begun to regulate the trucking industry in the early 1920s. In 1927 the Motor Transport Division was created within the Texas Railroad Commission. The oil industry regulation department was created within the TRC as well because it was the state's only developed agency. In 1928 the Texas Bus Owners Association and the Texas Truck Owners Association were formed to influence state regulations. For several years both organizations had the same leader, Joe Carrington, until the needs of both industries diverged.
San Antonio was in the forefront of these developments. The San Antonio Transportation Association was formed in 1921. It is the second oldest transportation trade group in the country, second only to New York. Still going today, it provides an opportunity for transportation professionals in the trucking, railroad, bus and air industries plus the military, to get together and discuss common issues involved in keeping Texas freight moving.
While the 1927 bus regulations had been largely welcomed by bus companies, the 1931 trucking regulations caused an outcry that still reverberates today. There was little complaint about the need for all trucking companies to be licensed, bonded and insured. The major point of contention was that Texas imposed the toughest weight limits in the nation. Trucks serving more than one railroad depot could not carry more than 7,000 pounds. The state's position was logical if unpopular. The road network was primitive at best, with substandard roads and bridges. Road engineers had to come up with the most cost effective way to establish a good road system for the majority of road users. Of the 206,000 trucks registered within the state in 1931, only 5,500, less than one half of one per cent, were rated to carry over 7,000 lbs. Building thousands of bridges to accommodate such a tiny fraction of road users was not practical. Such vehicles, many still fitted with solid tires, also caused a disproportionate amount of damage, especially to the still small number of very expensively paved roads.
The regulations were challenged all the way to the US Supreme Court. While the state won its case, there was a great deal of bitterness towards the Railroad Commission, which was accused of being in the pocket of the railroad industry, ignoring the fact that the TRC had been formed to control the railroads when they had an absolute monopoly in Texas.
The number of state weight inspectors rose from just eighteen in 1927 to fifty in 1929 and one hundred twenty in 1931. There were numerous confrontations between truckers hauling winter fruits and vegetables from the fertile South Texas Valley which was served by just one road. Following a blockade busting run of fifty trucks one year, state troopers amassed in great force. They stopped every truck, most of which were over loaded. Stuck on the side of the road, without refrigeration, the sensitive crops were ruined. The weight restrictions would not be lifted until after the Second World War.
There were many more restrictions. There were rules regarding which cities each company could serve, how much they could charge and which roads their trucks could use. A specific license had to be acquired for each route. Deviating from the approved road to take a short cut would mean a hefty fine. The state paid people to report any violations, as did insurance companies. Trucks were obliged to carry large identifying numbers on the side to make the task easier. Trucking companies were treated as if they were railroads, with fixed routes and state oversight of all rates and fees. Before a trucking company could raise its prices it had to apply to the state for permission. The tide of bureaucratic red tape would not recede until the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
The freight haulage trade was initially dominated by small companies, often one person, one vehicle operations. Most small towns had at least one trucking business. In Marion, between Seguin and San Antonio, it was Lynn Hensley. His operation consisted of two medium duty Chevrolet bobtails, a truck with a longer bed supported by two rear wheels on a single axle. Mr. Hensley provided free rides to students attending schools in San Antonio such as Jay Huebinger, who attended Central Catholic in the early 1940s.
John Gilbert's self made truck in the 1920. Note solid rear wheels and lack of windshield. It's staggering that the mighty SMT Truck Lines, based in San Antonio, grew from this one rugged individual in Cotulla during the Great Depression.
In Cotulla, half way between San Antonio and Laredo, it was Roy Gilbert. His father, John, a dairy farmer, had built his own rough looking truck from old parts in the early 1920s. Trucks did not last long in those days and it was not uncommon for people to combine good parts from worn out vehicles to construct a replacement. John used the truck to haul his own produce to San Antonio. Friends and neighbors would ask him to take things to and from the city and he found he was making just as much money hauling goods as he was farming. His son, Roy, decided to get into the business full time. In 1930 he acquired a second hand truck, a serous commitment in the Great Depression, and formed Gilbert Truck Lines.
Gilbert Truck Lines secured a license to serve San Antonio from Cotulla. During the early depression a twenty year old by the name of Lyndon Baines Johnson, whose father was a Texas state bus inspector, came to the town to teach at the segregated school for Hispanics. Yet to achieve his university degree, he could not afford a car. He often took a lift into San Antonio in the cab of Roy's truck. A lifetime friendship between the two young men, both of whom shared a driving ambition, was formed, one that would see both leave Cotulla far behind.
By 1939 Gilbert Truck Lines had 40 employees and a small fleet of trucks. The development of better tires and multiple wheeled axles made the job of moving freight along Highway 83 a lot more comfortable. In 1940 the company acquired a license to serve Laredo. This provided a significant income boost and their headquarters were moved to the border city. In Uvalde, a slightly larger company called Southwestern Motor Transport Lines had been created in 1930 with a license to run between San Antonio and Del Rio. In 1950 Mr. Gilbert bought the operation and put the name on his own trucking company.
It was around this time that Southwestern Motor Transport, like many others in Texas, became embroiled in a serious conflict with the truck drivers union. By this time LBJ had risen to the position of leader of the US Senate. When hearings were held to find a solution to the problems plaguing the trucking industry both he and Mr. Gilbert, old friends from their days in Cotulla, found themselves sharing space in the grand surroundings of the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. Their paths would cross again regarding the financing of the proposed interstate highway system. The initial plan proposed by the Eisenhower administration, seeking to avoid deepening the national debt when paying for the new roads, involved soaking the trucking industry via a hefty tax on heavy duty tires. LBJ never forgot a friend and simply blocked the proposal, almost without discussion.
Early Ford Model A semi-articulated SMT truck. The legend reads, "Sure! Half the road is yours.
With its headquarters relocated to San Antonio, Southwestern Motor Transport, with its distinctive yellow trucks and red winged logo, is one of the last privately owned trucking companies in Texas. Now lead by Roy Gilbert Junior, the company operates a vast freight network, with huge warehouses and yards in several states. It has around 650 employees, 350 company owned trucks, plus independent contractors, and 2,700 trailers operating in every state east of IH 35, from New England to Florida. The other Texas independent company is also located in San Antonio. Basse Truck Lines has around 40 trucks, 150 trailers and 70 employees.
It may come as a surprise but the railroads were very heavy users of trucks. In fact for about thirty years after World War Two the largest trucking company in the USA was owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The company introduced many innovations such as piggy backing trailers over the rails to cut costs, long before the introduction of the now ubiquitous forty foot container designed to be easily moved from ship to truck or train. For cost reasons it was also easier to ship LCL – less than car load – freight by truck than by railroad. And long before UPS or FedEx, there was the Railway Express Agency, whose distinctive green vans roamed the nation for almost sixty years, delivering parcels and picking up luggage on behalf of travelers, back when they might be obliged to spend days on end on a train to get to their destination.
The HEB grocery chain, based in San Antonio, is one of the best run regional grocery chain in the nation. Its sophisticated inventory control systems are capable of controlling costs to the fraction of a penny. This allowed it to beat out less well run national companies like Kroger and Albertsons. One of the keys to the company's formidable reputation is its vast trucking operation which enjoys an enviable reputation within the industry. Roy Gilbert of SMT Truck Lines, no slouch himself at running a vast fleet of vehicles, has nothing but the highest praise for HEB's trucking operations. HEB pays its drivers top dollar but its expectations are extremely high. You rarely if ever hear of bad HEB truck drivers. As a result HEB stores receive deliveries right on time. This efficiency is a significant reason why HEB is able to maintain a price advantage over other retailers.
Maintaining San Antonio's history of forward thinking, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff and banker Tom Frost helped to create the Free Trade Alliance in 1994, around the same time that that NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, went into effect. The FTA seeks to promote cross border trade, fully aware that San Antonio is in pole position to benefit from increased trade between the USA and Mexico. While it true that more Mexican companies have signed up for the pilot program of one hundred trucking companies on each side on the border allowed to haul freight into the other country, the US firms have actually made more trips. The program expressly forbids the pick and delivery of freight within the other nation, but the trucks may pick up freight intended for delivery back to their own side. With the problem of far too few over the road drivers in the USA, a situation that stretches back to the beginning of the industry, the arrangement does offer one solution, even though it has to be said that NAFTA as a whole is far from popular with many people on both sides of the border.


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Q: Circles disappear on mobile, when map is zoomed When I zoom the map on PC the circles render well, and are fully functional. However, when I attempt to view the map on mobile (iOS) the circles render well initally, but if I zoom or pan the screen, they eventually disappear (after several interactions). Some circles do not render at all. Furthermore, the tooltip does not appear on touch. Is there something I am missing? While searching for a solution I could not find anything that would explain this behaviour.
Thanks in advance for any tips or solutions. Code is on codepen - http://codepen.io/kvyb/pen/VPqWNR?editors=0010
HTML

<link href='https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v2.1.9/mapbox.css' rel='stylesheet' />

CSS
div.tooltip {
    position: absolute;
    text-align: center;
    width: 60px;
    height: 28px;
    padding: 2px;
    font: 12px sans-serif;
    background: lightsteelblue;
    border: 0px;
    border-radius: 8px;
    pointer-events: none;
}

JS
// Map details
// Define the div for the tooltip
var div = d3.select("body").append("div")
    .attr("class", "tooltip")
    .style("opacity", 0);

L.mapbox.accessToken = 'pk.eyJ1Ijoic3RlbmluamEiLCJhIjoiSjg5eTMtcyJ9.g_O2emQF6X9RV69ibEsaIw';
var map = L.mapbox.map('map', 'mapbox.streets').setView([53.4072, -2.9821], 14);

// Sample Data
var data = [
    {"coords": [53.3942, -2.9785]},
    {"coords": [53.4082, -2.9837]},
    {"coords": [54.4082, -2.9837]},
];

// Loop through data and create d.LatLng
data.forEach(function(d) {
    d.LatLng = new L.LatLng(d.coords[0], d.coords[1]);
  //blue rings around circles:
   map.addLayer(L.circle([d.coords[0], d.coords[1]], 0));

});

// Append <svg> to #map
var svg = d3.select(map.getPanes().overlayPane).append("svg")
    .attr("class", "leaflet-zoom-animated")
    .attr("width", window.innerWidth)
    .attr("height", window.innerHeight);

// Append <g> to <svg>
var g = svg.append("g").attr("class", "leaflet-zoom-hide");

// Append <circle> to <g>
var circles = g.selectAll("circle")
    .data(data)
    .enter()
  .append("circle")
    .style("fill", "rgba(255, 255, 255, .7)")
.on("mouseover", function(d) {
            d3.select(this).style("cursor", "default")
            div.transition()
                .duration(200)
                .style("opacity", .9);
            div .html("formatTime(d.date) ++ d.close")
                .style("left", (d3.event.pageX) + "px")
                .style("top", (d3.event.pageY - 28) + "px");
            })
.on("touchstart",function(d) {
            d3.select(this).style("cursor", "default")
            div.transition()
                .duration(200)
                .style("opacity", .9);
            div .html("formatTime(d.date) ++ d.close")
                .style("left", (d3.event.pageX) + "px")
                .style("top", (d3.event.pageY - 28) + "px");
            })
    .on("touchend", function(d) {
                div.transition()
                .duration(500)
                .style("opacity", 0);
        })
        .on("mouseout", function(d) {
                div.transition()
                .duration(500)
                .style("opacity", 0);
        });

function update() {
    translateSVG()
    circles.style("stroke", "gray")
    circles.attr("cx", function(d) { return map.latLngToLayerPoint(d.LatLng).x; })
    circles.attr("cy", function(d) { return map.latLngToLayerPoint(d.LatLng).y; })
    circles.attr("r", "30")
}

// Adjust the circles when the map is moved
function translateSVG() {
    var viewBoxLeft = document.querySelector("svg.leaflet-zoom-animated").viewBox.animVal.x;
    var viewBoxTop = document.querySelector("svg.leaflet-zoom-animated").viewBox.animVal.y;
    // Reszing width and height incase of window resize
    svg.attr("width", window.innerWidth)
    svg.attr("height", window.innerHeight)
      // Adding the ViewBox attribute to our SVG to contain it
    svg.attr("viewBox", function() {
      return "" + viewBoxLeft + " " + viewBoxTop + " " + window.innerWidth + " " + window.innerHeight;
    });
    // Adding the style attribute to our SVG to transkate it
    svg.attr("style", function() {
      return "transform: translate3d(" + viewBoxLeft + "px, " + viewBoxTop + "px, 0px);";
    });
}

// Re-draw on reset, this keeps the markers where they should be on reset/zoom
map.on("moveend", update);
update();

A: I think your svg's are dissapearing because of css of these elements is by default set to overflow: hidden. You can try to set overflow to overlay in your js code for svg.attr:
function translateSVG() {
...
 svg.attr("style", function() {
      return "overflow: overlay;" +
             "transform: translate3d(" + viewBoxLeft + "px, " + viewBoxTop + "px, 0px);";
 });
}

About the app's behaviour on mobile devices, did you remember to set the meta for it?
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />

Another thing worth to debug is that if your map  on mobile device even responses on clicks. In example, create function with simple alert to check if your taps on map are fireing your alert function.
I didn't have this problem, but I read that in this situation it may be helpful to add the following attribute to the div containing your map:
data-tap-disabled="true"

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