What is a Medical Administrative Assistant?
Employment of medical administrative assistants is projected to grow 21 percent from 2014 to 2024, much faster than the average for all occupations. Employment of medical administrative assistants will depend on growth of the healthcare industry. The number of individuals who have access to health insurance is expected to continue to increase because of federal health insurance reform. In addition, aging baby boomers will demand more medical services as they become eligible for Social Security and Medicare. As a result of these effects, medical administrative assistants will be needed to handle administrative tasks related to billing and insurance processing.
This program consists of classes offered onsite at Three Rivers Community College and online. Courses can be completed in one year. At the completion of this program, students can sit for the National Healthcare Association's Certified Medical Administrative Assistant exam (CMAA) at an additional cost payable to the NHA.
A Certified Medical Administrative Assistant (CMAA) is a recognized professional certification from the National Healthcare Association (NHA). Although not required by the government, this certification can help job candidates demonstrate their professional skills to prospective employers.
Please note that this program consists of classes offered onsite at Three Rivers Community College and online. Program can be completed in one year.
In this course, you'll gain the foundation you need to get started right away using Windows 10, the completely new operating system from Microsoft, which offers a more robust, more powerful, and completely unique computing experience.
It will begin with the basics of finding your way around the operating system. You'll get to know the expanded Start menu, desktop, and system settings, then on to customizing the features of this operating system and personalize your desktop so you can make your computer truly your own. Next you'll learn how File Explorer can help you manage your files, and learn to create basic text documents using WordPad. From finding files and folders, to organizing and editing photos, to managing files on external drives, you'll learn everything you need to know about getting the most from this operating system. And since security is important, you'll also learn how to protect your files, as well as how to protect and update Windows 10. You'll even see how to use the new Microsoft Edge browser to access the Internet.
This course will help you learn touch-typing or improve your existing typing skills. You'll use the Keyboarding Pro 5 program, a typing tutorial designed for personal computers, to learn how to touch-type—that is, to type text you read from a printed page or a computer screen without looking at your keyboard.
Using Keyboarding Pro's built-in word processor, you'll learn how to create, edit, and save word processing documents. As you improve your typing speed and accuracy, you'll use the word processor's timed writing feature to continually hone your skills. You'll even learn posture tips to minimize fatigue and help prevent carpal tunnel syndrome. With the skills you master here, you'll become faster and more confident at the keyboard. By the end of the course, you'll know how to touch-type the alphabetic, numeric, and symbol keys; create, save, and edit word processing documents; and successfully take a timed writing test during a job interview.
Students will learn how to interact with patients, coworkers and supervisors. This course will also cover professional etiquette, attire and manners, filing and office procedures. No Prerequisite.
Length of Course: 45 hrs.
*SNAP-eligible recipients – Please note this is not an enrichment program. The outcome of this training is employment. Please note that employment may directly impact your disability benefits.
Medical language translates into communication used by all levels of staff working in or around a clinical environment. It is very logical and organized according to body systems, anatomy, physiology and disease processes. A course in medical terminology is essential for students who will be involved in any science-related career. In this 90-hour class students will be introduced to the systems of the body and terminology related to each system, along with anatomy. Common medical abbreviations of texts, diseases and procedures will be introduced. Students will learn about the structure of medical words, including prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, and how to decipher medical words.
Complete the requested information. When asked for a Student ID number, please notate "non-credit" and the type of test you are taking (for example, CNA). You will receive a confirmation text or email of this scheduled appointment.
Note: Please arrive on time for your scheduled appointment (Room A117). There is no food or drink allowed in the Testing Center. There is no use of cell phones, headphones, notes, etc., during testing. Students must present a picture ID in order to enter the Testing Center for their appointment.
Length of Course: 90 hrs.
Master the basics of the word processor PC Magazine ranked as one of the "strongest and most intelligent programs ever written." In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to add, move through, and edit text; move words from one part of your document to another; work on two or more documents simultaneously; change the size or appearance of text; change margins and tab settings; automatically center, right align, justify, and indent text; run the integrated grammar and spelling checker; use the thesaurus; and save, retrieve, copy, organize, and print your documents. By the time you're done with the step-by-step lessons and hands-on activities in this course, you'll be able to use Word confidently at home or on the job.
This course will help you master Microsoft Excel 2016. Even "non-techie" beginners will find it easy to learn Excel in this fun, step-by-step online course.
These lessons will teach you dozens of shortcuts and tricks for setting up fully formatted worksheets quickly and efficiently. You'll also learn the secrets behind writing powerful mathematical formulas and discover how to use the function wizard to quickly and automatically calculate statistics, loan payments, future value, and more. In addition, you'll get tips on sorting and analyzing data, designing custom charts and graphs, creating three-dimensional workbooks, building links between files, endowing your worksheets with decision-making capabilities, and automating frequently-repeated tasks with macros and buttons. This informative course covers Quick Analysis, Flash Fill, and powerful charting capabilities available in Excel 2016.
This is not a tutorial, but an in-depth class where you'll get training, help, and personal support from an experienced instructor as you're learning Excel basics step-by-step.
This course will cover basic operations, percentages, basic accounting/posting of payment and how to figure out patient financial responsibility (deductibles, copays, and coinsurances). No prerequisites.
Cost: $250, textbook at an additional expense.
Students will learn basic Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding conventions, organization of the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Level II codes, and steps for assigning CPT and HCPCS Level II codes. This course also simplifies ICD-10 diagnosis to ensure the most accurate billing and optimal reimbursement for outpatient medical services. Books are not included.
Cost: $450, textbook at an additional expense.
Students will learn how to use the full-featured and current SimChart for the Medical Office. This course offers medical office training using current, realistic medical office cases while building transferable computerized medical billing and scheduling skills. Students who complete this course will learn the appropriate terminology and skills to use any patient billing software program with minimal additional training. As students' progress through, SimChart they learn to gather patient information, schedule appointments and enter transactions. The practical, systematic approach is based on real-world medical office activities. This course will be held in a computer lab. Please make sure you are able to log into the computers on campus with your banner id and password. Please contact the IT Department at (860) 215-9049 to arrange to activate your account or if you have difficulties logging on prior to your first class. This class meets for 45 hours. Prerequisite: Basic computer skills. Book is not included.
In-house Math & English Comprehension Test – Prior to submitting your registration you must successfully complete our in-house Math and English Comprehension test. The in-house testing arrangements must be made prior to submitting your registration and payment. Waiver for the testing will be considered for those who provide proof of prior college-level courses.
The Medical Administrative Assistant program is WIOA and SNAP eligible.
SNAP-eligible recipients – Please note this is not an enrichment program. The outcome of this training is employment. Please note that employment may directly impact your disability benefits.


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In 1973, Katherine Verdery moved to Romania, the only country in the Eastern European bloc that welcomed Western scholars. She studied social inequality, ethnic relations and nationalism. After the fall of Communism she returned and looked at the transformation of socialist societies. Her most recent book, My life as a spy: Investigations into a secret police file was published in 2018, and it documents how the Romanian political police kept her under surveillance.
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When the Syrians took to the streets in 2011 after the Tunisian, Egyptian, and Libyan uprisings, surprisingly for the outsider, the Kurds did not immediately join in. There were some protests here and there, but nothing was politically coordinated. There was also no outreach to the rest of the Syrians protesting in Daraa, Homs or Idlib.
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The outcome of the latest round of Euro-elections (May 2019) was instrumental in the reconfiguration of the European leadership. For the first time in 40 years the European People's Party (EPP) and the group of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) did not win enough seats to form a comfortable majority. The new political circumstances made the election of the Spitzenkandidat impossible.
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MEP Clotilde Armand, Renew Group: "Europe cannot be strong if the East is left behind"
Q:How will Renew Europe integrate Eastern European interests with the Macronian view of a multi-speed Europe?
A:The Renew Group does not support a multi-speed Europe, and President Macron knows it. I personally raised this issue in the group, and all the candidates for the group leadership stated that they supported a united Europe, and that they would work on the East-West economic convergence.
What does a multi-speed Europe mean, in any case? There are several fields where groups of European states started close cooperation initiatives. It's not always the same states, but we cannot deny that along with the France-Germany axis we also have a nucleus of states that want to advance faster in European integration.
Romania should be a country with great ambition at the EU level; our decision-makers should militate to join accessible integration fields in this variable format, in order to avoid a closed and inaccessible EU politics club.
We need to clearly convey the message that on principle we cannot accept a multi-speed Europe at the economic level, and in this sense, all advanced cooperation needs to remain open.
The main effort needs to focus on reducing economic gaps. Europe cannot be strong if the East is left behind.
If we could explain the situation better and more often to the French, they would vote for a fair allocation of resources, and the chances of success would be greater. I do trust their capacity to understand what it means to be part of a greater European family. When you're in charge, you can't choose to defend interests of small groups, not to mention national interests. I'm convinced that these limits can be pushed.
My conclusion: We need to send a simpler message to the French – the only way for Europe is East-West economic convergence, and we need to cooperate on that.
Q:Beyond the deal on Laura Codruța Kövesi's appointment as head of the EU Public Prosecutor's Office and Mr. Ciolos as head of the RE, what else can the Eastern European member-states hope for in terms of being part of the decision-making process in Brussels?
A:For the first time we have a Romanian presiding over a European political group, and an important group for the current configuration of the European parliament. It's not a small thing. It is true that most ruling parties from Eastern countries (including Romania's Social Democrats) are not very well perceived by Western partners and were pushed out from the negotiations for the important positions. The fact that the Eastern states make up 20 percent of the EU's demographics should, however, be represented in the decision-making fora.
We can't forget that the Eastern states also have 40 percent of the votes in the EU Council and the European Council (although they only comprise 10 percent of the economy).
Eastern Europeans states, however, do not speak with the same voice. There are two speeds, just as they say about the EU. The Visegrad Group does not feel any solidarity with the states that joined the EU later – Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania. If such solidarity existed, the East would systematically be better represented. I think it would be a mutual advantage to build our position together.
Having Donald Tusk as head of the EU Council in the former mandate was definitely a positive development for the whole of Europe. We should work to ensure that an Eastern country gets other important positions in the EU apparatus. As the economy grows, I expect things will get better by themselves. Pragmatically speaking, the Poles have already had a top position in the past mandate, and none of the other Eastern states represent more than 1 percent of the EU economy. Dacian Ciolos, and, we hope, Laura Codruța Kövesi will represent a great achievement for Romania.
Q:If we look at the choices for appointments to the leading positions in Brussels, besides Mr. Ciolos' election as head of Renew Europe, CEE has been largely bypassed, and that might translate to increasing Euroscepticism, political frictions and a developmental gap between West and East. How would you as MEPs from the 'East' tackle this problem?
A: It is not the absence of high-ranking positions for the Polish and Hungarian representatives that would lead to an increase in Euroscepticism, but rather the arrogant treatment from the side of the Western countries. It's true that rule of law is under threat from populist parties, and this is a big problem. But we have to avoid punishing or systematically marginalising nations because we don't agree with the policies of their governments. This is how the risk of stronger anti-European sentiments increases. For now, Euroscepticism is in its incipient phase.
My conclusion is that we need to resist the temptation to lecture people, to look down on them or treat them aggressively because they voted for governments we do not like. On the contrary, we need to show that Europe understands their concerns, and that Europe simply cannot be built without their contribution.
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3. Gustav Gressel, Acting Director, Wider Europe Programme European Council on Foreign Relations: "We are in the very early stages of a long-term ideological battle. The anti-Western revolt has solidified."
4. Jana Puglierin, Head of the Alfred von Oppenheim Centre for European Policy Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations: "The whole German political model is called into question."
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In mid-February thousands of opposition supporters clashed with police in an anti-government rally against Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's cabinet, demanding its resignation and early elections. Although Albania is set to start its accession negotiations with the European Union, Rama's rule has backtracked in terms of democracy and the fight against corruption and organised crime.
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Q: Parameter Selection in SSRS I have two tables:
Table1:
portfolio_num AssetCode Ltv
112             111       0.12
113             222       0.11
114             333       0.13
911             111       0.12
912             222       0.11
913             333       0.13

And another table
Table 2:
P_First P_Second
112       112
112       911
113       113
113       912
114       114
114       913

I want that when the user will click on the "portfolio_num" in my report , for example "112" he will get this output in a second report:
portfolio_num AssetCode Ltv
112             111       0.12
911             111       0.12

Now I build a procedure like this:
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[Give_DetailsForLoan]
@PortfolioID INT
AS
BEGIN

Select *
from dbo.Table1 where portfolio_num
in(
select P_Second from dbo.Table2
where  P_First = @PortfolioID
)

END

This is the procedure I pasted to the shared data set.
When I run the proceure on sql server management studio:
exec [dbo].[Give_DetailsForLoan] 112

I do get what I want :
portfolio_num AssetCode Ltv
112             111       0.12
911             111       0.12
However, I the SSRS I only get
portfolio_num AssetCode Ltv
112             111       0.12

When clicking on the portfolio num in the first report.
I think the problem is by setting the correct filter.
Any suggestion why the ssrs give me diffrent results?
Thank's!

A: Your stored procedure is wrong
Assume you input parameter value 112, your inner query will be executed like
select P_Second from dbo.Table2 where  P_First = 112

Which will give you a result set
112
911

Now the remaining query will be like
Select * from dbo.Table1 where portfolio_num in (112, 911)

So you get only one row.
To get the result you need, you need to do a join, something like:
select *
from table_1 t1 join table_2 t2 on t1.portfolio_num = t2.p_First
where t2.p_First = @portfolioID

Hope it helps

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Little Italy Residents Fight To Save Historic District
Filed Under:Historic District, John Fratta, Landlords, Little Italy, Marla Diamond, Mulberry Street, Restaurant Closed, SPQR
New York, UNITED STATES: TO GO WITH AFP STORY FILES - The Empire State Building is viewed from Mulberry Street in New York City's Little Italy. The steel frame, stone cladding, subdued Art Deco design effectively employing setbacks to emphasize the tower, has 102 floors and stands 1,252 feet(382m) tall, 1,472ft (447m) to tip of antenna. Built in just 16 months, the Empire state Building was completed in 1931 and for several decades was the world's tallest skysaper. The world famous skyscraper will celebrate its 75th birthday on 01 May 2006. AFP PHOTO/Timothy A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)Little Italy's Mulberry Street (credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Longtime Little Italy residents and business owners have complained of being squeezed out by greedy landlords, but one man is appealing for help to save the historic district.
As WCBS 880's Marla Diamond reported, the New York City landmark district, centered on Mulberry Street between Spring and Canal streets, is struggling to survive.
"We are very concerned that we could possibly lose this community," said John Fratta.
Fratta was born and raised in Little Italy, and is trying to save it from encroachment.
"The landlords are just strangling the businesses in that area," Fratta said. "They're looking to double and triple the rents."
Fratta, a Community Board 1 member, appealed to State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) after the closure this week of Ristorante SPQR, 133 Mulberry St. The restaurant had been open for more than three decades.
"We're appealing to all the elected officials to get on board and help us find a way to work with these landlords and get them to realize, you know, that what they're doing is destroying a community," Fratta said.
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While many U.S. states have issued guidance to address the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, told CNN last week that the governors who have not issued statewide stay-at-home orders "really should" take action to slow the spread of the virus.
President Donald Trump, on the other hand, has largely advocated for each state to take its own approach, but Fauci's message could indicate the inevitability of a federal stay-at-home order as the public health crisis evolves.
Should federal guidance come into play, what would this mean for cannabis businesses operating in a federally illegal industry?
First and foremost is the question of whether the federal government can legally issue a stay-at-home order in the first place.
"I think there's still a question [of] if the federal government has the authority to issue a shutdown order," Karen O'Keefe, director of state policies for The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) and the MPP Foundation, tells Cannabis Business Times. "I saw that there are some general classifications of what constitutes an essential service and what does not for the federal government, and at least one state that was relying on that used those definitions to include medical cannabis as something that could stay open because pharmaceutical and medical facilities can stay open. … Certainly, my hope and expectation would be … a general mandate to keep open businesses that provide medications, and then that would include medical cannabis."
If the federal government is indeed authorized to issue stay-at-home guidance, the consensus among industry stakeholders seems to be that any federal order should leave flexibility for states to continue deeming certain businesses essential, as they see fit. This would mean that the cannabis industry should be safe in jurisdictions that already carved out exceptions for their cannabis businesses in the name of patient access.
Chris Lindsey, MPP's director of government relations, says that while it is unlikely that the federal government would significantly increase requirements for states that have stay-at-home measures already in place, it could instruct states that have not yet adopted orders to do so, and would most likely defer to those states' priorities as much as possible.
Harris Bricken attorney Hilary Bricken agrees.
"I think the federal stay-at-home would only address the basics and would leave it open as to whether or not these are essential businesses, and they would probably leave it up to the states," she tells Cannabis Business Times. "If a fed order came down that said, 'You must shutter if you're a federally illegal business,' that would be a different story. But even then, I think states would be in the same position that they are in now in that this is a state's rights issue. There are lots of constituents that rely on this as medicine, so we're going to remain open and basically continue the cycle of the federal-state conflict that's already in place."
Lindsey echoes this sentiment.
"States have been ignoring federal guidance on marijuana policy for some time, so even if the fed tells states to shut cannabis businesses down, it's not clear it would make much difference," he says.
In states that have failed to carve out exceptions for the cannabis industry in their stay-at-home orders, many cities and counties have deemed cannabis businesses essential within their jurisdictions, and Bricken says these designations would also likely stand in the event of a federal order.
"I think the federal government has to be very careful here because states have determined what is best … for their communities and their states," Rachel Gillette, chair of Greenspoon Marder's Cannabis Law Practice, tells Cannabis Business Times. "It's not like every state is the same, so I think it would be unwise to have a federal order that goes into the minutia of detail to … determine what is essential versus not, where there might be certain states that have special needs, circumstances or situations, like legalized cannabis, for example."
The Consequences of a Shutdown
A federal shutdown of the cannabis industry—if actually put into practice—would undoubtedly have a dramatic impact on businesses, their employees and the customers they serve, particularly those in the medical market.
"There are hundreds of thousands of people working in the cannabis industry, and if you shut down their businesses, they're most likely without jobs," Brian Vicente, partner and founding member of Vicente Sederberg, tells Cannabis Business Times. "They have to apply for unemployment. And your supply chain, particularly for medical marijuana patients but also for all cannabis consumers, would be disrupted because if you can't tend to your plants, they die. That could be real public health emergency for patients in and of itself."
Federal guidance that shutters cannabis businesses could also cause a public panic like the recent situation in Colorado, Gillette adds. While Gov. Jared Polis deemed the industry essential in his stay-at-home order, the mayor of Denver unveiled a different plan, calling for the city's adult-use cannabis dispensaries and liquor stores to shut down.
"Everybody dropped everything they were doing and ran out to the liquor store and the marijuana store, and it created this chaos because everybody freaked out, thinking they weren't going to be able to get their marijuana or their booze for a number of weeks," Gillette says. "The city of Denver ended up, within hours, amending that order, basically deeming liquor stores and recreational marijuana stores essential, similarly to the statewide order that the governor had issued."
Closing cannabis retailers could also force consumers back to the illicit market, Gillette adds, which would create a separate set of public health issues.
"Obviously, people are buying marijuana, people are selling marijuana, and we want to make sure it's being tested and we aren't going back to [supporting] the black market environment and that there's still safe product that is available," she says. "I think we've made so much progress in at least having the federal government take a hands-off approach from a federal enforcement perspective that I would hate to take so many steps back and go back to supporting illegal operators instead."
The other issue at play, Gillette says, is the fact that cannabis businesses cannot qualify for the federal COVID-19 economic relief programs that are being rolled out.
"They're being denied the relief that other small businesses are being allowed, and so not only are you shutting them down, but you're also saying, 'You don't get any of the benefits that every other business does that has been shut down,'" she says. "That's just extra mean."
The Federal-State Dichotomy
For Vicente, the federal-state tension has never been more apparent in the cannabis industry than it is now.
"We have this federal-state dichotomy where you have states—many states—that have declared marijuana as an essential business, same as grocery stores or gas stations," he says. "Then, you have the federal government, where of course marijuana is federally illegal, but then they've passed very generous stimulus packages with trillions of dollars and they've specifically outlawed cannabis businesses or even businesses that service cannabis businesses from qualifying for that bailout money. The federal government has not been good to this industry historically."
"I think we could see an explosion of new marijuana markets in six months or a year as bankrupt governments around our country look for new sources of revenue." – Brian Vicente, Partner & Founding Member, Vicente Sederberg
Vicente Sederberg is part of a larger lobbying effort to get cannabis businesses deemed essential at the federal level during the COVID-19 crisis, and while advocates have not been successful to date, Vicente is hopeful that their efforts might at least get ancillary businesses included in subsequent stimulus packages.
READ MORE: Prioritizing Medical Cannabis Access in Times of Crisis: Q&A With Brian Vicente
In addition, Vicente says there have been discussions at the state level regarding certain states launching stimulus programs, which would be supported either through federal money or states' rainy-day funds.
"I would certainly imagine that money that's doled out by states would treat cannabis businesses the same as other state-level businesses, but all of that is perspective," he says. "The current state of affairs is we don't qualify. Though we're essential in certain states, at the federal level, we're still treated as second-class businesses."
While the federal landscape remains uncertain, Gillette says that cannabis business owners can reach out to the governors in their states, as well as their congresspeople, to push for the cannabis industry to be deemed essential during this crisis.
MPP has signed an open letter alongside other industry organizations to urge the governors of various states to declare cannabis businesses essential, both in the medical and adult-use markets.
"We have two versions of the open letter," O'Keefe says. "One was to medical cannabis states only, and one was to both medical cannabis and adult-use states. It had a number of recommendations for regulators. The first, foremost, was to ensure that the businesses are considered essential and remain open, so that would be relevant to the federal government, too. The other ones were more about easing access and ensuring continued safe access in times of social distancing, so that was things like allowing telemedicine for recommendations for medical cannabis and allowing home delivery if states didn't already do so."
O'Keefe is encouraged by the fact that no state has shut down its medical cannabis program during its COVID-19 response, although she is disappointed that Massachusetts has discontinued adult-use sales.
"Other than that, all of the states with shutdown orders have ordered the businesses to remain open, and a lot of them have taken additional steps, such as allowing delivery, allowing curbside pickup, allowing telemedicine and easing hiring practices," she says. "In many of those states, we'd worked to pass the laws. We were in touch with regulators and state lawmakers from past years and have big networks of supporters in each of the states that we can mobilize to call on continued access for patients."
A Business in Flux
Businesses should be following any emergency guidance at the state level during this time to ensure employee and customer safety, and to simply be a responsible business during this crisis.
"The feedback that we've gotten from not only federal representatives, but also state and local representatives, is that a lot of the concern about cannabis businesses comes from the idea that there are going to be big lines [at dispensaries], and there's a public health hazard associated with that," Vicente says. "We work with hundreds of dispensaries, and we've been working with them to develop best practices around sanitation, line spacing, online ordering and curbside delivery. I think that the idea is that if these businesses can continue to be good actors, they won't be in the crosshairs of the federal government."
While most cannabis businesses are already accustomed to everchanging regulations, Joseph Bedwick, co-chair of Cozen O'Connor's Cannabis Industry Team, tells Cannabis Business Times that flexibility is key as states respond to the COVID-19 crisis.
For example, dispensaries must be able to quickly adapt their business models to support curbside pickup and delivery as states increasingly allow retailers to provide these services to their customers to maintain social distancing.
"A theme in the cannabis industry since its inception, really, is you have to be able to evolve," Bedwick says. "You have to be able to adjust to changing situations, changing regulations and a federal landscape that is at odds with the majority of states' laws. Now, add to all of that this once-in-a-century crisis that we are currently experiencing, … and it just creates even greater uncertainty. The cannabis companies that will thrive are likely the the ones that will be able to review, digest and comply with the new regulations as quickly as possible."
Looking ahead, Bedwick is hopeful that broader policy reform awaits the cannabis industry on the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I think you'll see a desire to push through some of the regulations and legislation that have been put on hold now," he says. "Everything's kind of stalled, [but] I think you will see some recognition [of the industry] and hopefully a change in policy on the other side."
Given the budget constraints many states are facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many state and local regulators have expressed a dire need for tax revenue, which Vicente says could also work in the cannabis industry's favor.
"I think we could see an explosion of new marijuana markets in six months or a year as bankrupt governments around our country look for new sources of revenue," he says.
Gillette is also optimistic about the cannabis industry's resilience during this uncertain time. "My hope is that we're going to get through this and we're going to eventually be reopened for business, and that we can continue to have a robust business environment in my state, but hopefully many other states."
Senior Editors Brian MacIver and Patrick Williams contributed to this report.
Published at Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:51:00 +0000
Senate Coalition Urges SBA to Extend Economic Assistance to Cannabis Industry
Federal Stay-at-Home Order? What Cannabis Businesses Need to Know


New research from, TheHouseShop.com, has revealed that landlords could be charged up to 50% more for an emergency repair call out over the Christmas period, compared to the rest of the year.
TheHouseShop.com carried out research, to get estimated costs for emergency callouts in the two weeks over Christmas and New Year. Recent data shows that landlords requiring services such as window repair, tree surgery, boiler engineers, and plumbers, could see a price increase of between 20% – 50% for emergency repairs over Christmas.


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Q: Testing Datatstore service and getting null from a property filter query I'm writing a test for a filter of user by email on appengine datastore, here is the code:
class TestUser(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
    # First, create an instance of the Testbed class.
    self.testbed = testbed.Testbed()
    # Then activate the testbed, which prepares the service stubs for use.
    self.testbed.activate()
    # Create a consistency policy that will simulate the High Replication consistency model.
    self.policy = datastore_stub_util.PseudoRandomHRConsistencyPolicy(probability=0)
    # Initialize the datastore stub with this policy.
    self.testbed.init_datastore_v3_stub(consistency_policy=self.policy)
    self.testbed.init_memcache_stub()

def tearDown(self):
    self.testbed.deactivate()

def testQueryByEmail(self):
    user = User(name='jon', last_name='doe', email='jdoe@some.com', password='pass')
    user.put()

    fetched = User.query().filter(User.email == user.email).get()

    self.assertEqual(user.email,fetched.email)

And I'm getting fetched = None so the test fails.
If I query by id fetched = User.get_by_id(key.id()) it gets the User. Maybe it is related to indexes? What do you think?

A: You've set probability=0 on the PseudoRandomHRConsistencyPolicy, which means your writes will never be visible to queries. You probably want to set it to 1 unless you're specifically testing behaviour under eventual-consistency. (I've never felt the need to do that, but ymmv.)

A: According to the docs,

Indexes for simple queries, such as queries over a single property, are created automatically. Indexes for complex queries must be defined in a configuration file named index.yaml.

Follow the link for an example.


We have also had five registered teams, and, in that time, a lot of similar questions. Today, I will take a stab at the answers.
1. What is it about (in a nutshell)?
Sure, we test all day, but often under pressure. We often try the same thing we did last time. We don't feel the freedom to experiment, or may not own the process. A test competition takes all those worries away, and allows us to try new things and learn - while flexing our test muscles, maybe even creating a credential we can talk about in public.
2. Why do we (as testers) / I (the individual tester) need it?
You don't need the test competition. If you don't enter, your life will go along just fine. What we have created here is an opportunity. By working in teams, you'll get to know your teammates and how they think. You may come up with cool test ideas. You'll have the freedom to experiment with something you've never done before without the pain of a buggy project if something goes wrong. By having a compressed timetable, when the competition is over, you can step back, examine what you did, and how it worked.
This brings the idea of deliberate practice to software testing, something we often talk about but don't do nearly enough.
A week before the competition, all registered teams will receive invitations to the bug tracking tool, to explore it, along with details about our performance test tool, AppLoader. They will also receive a google calendar invite with details on our kickoff meeting, the 19th of April at 10:00AM Eastern time.
We will also probably have a chat room setup for you to ask the judges questions during the day. The only tools you should need for this are Skype and a Browser.
The functional competition runs for three hours. At the end of three hours, you will have filed some bugs (we hope) and will turn in a written test report.
The second portion of the competition is the performance test, which will happen over the weekend. Each team will reserve a three-hour block of time on a test server to run load tests (we will provide a load testing tool), and turn in a test report when they are complete. Teams can reserve time on a first-come, first-served basis.
4. Can I use it to enhance my CV / impress my boss?
We hope that is not your primary goal, but if it is on of your goals, well, yes. The test competition is an objective evaluation of your skills from an external party. If you even compete, at all, that speaks of how much you care about testing. To win in a category would say even more.
5. How do I participate; where can I apply?
Email Matt@xndev.com to register your team, along with your team name, players name, company (if a company team), and skype accounts/emails. Teams must register by March 10th. You will not need a skype account until early April, so if you don't have one now, don't worry.
6. Do I need a team?
It is possible to test on your own. Then again, it is also possible to not register at all, just go to the blog at the right time and play along. For the best value and best learning experience, we request competitors create teams of at least two people.
7. What is a valid team size?
In an earlier post Matt wrote teams of 2 to 5, but if you really want a larger team, we will allow up to seven.
8. How do we communicate?
That's up to you. If your team is in the same room, you can just talk to each other or draw on a whiteboard. For geographically dispersed teams, we recommend Google Hangout.
9. What tools will be used?
You can use whatever tools you would like. Your functional test and load test reports should come back in MS Word Format, and we expect to use Telerik TeamPulse for bug tracking.
For performance, we will provide you with copies of Apploader and support that tool.
10. Can I use my own special tool?
11. How is the scoring done; what is it based on?
Judges will grade each team on the importance of the bugs they find, the quality of the bug reports, the quality of the test report, the accuracy of the test report for each category. It is possible to earn bonus points by finding performance or load weaknesses and pointing the customer to improve in those areas.
12. When will the results be given?
We will announce the scores the following week by a blog post and email.
13. Are there team prizes or only individual winnings?
All of the prizes are team prizes. It is tempting for us to give an individual prize, but how do we know that the person who filed the bug found it, or even decided what to write? We can only grade the team effort.
14. What are the prizes by the way?
You'll have to play to find out, but you'll like them. Really.
15. I am new to some of these tools; is there a way to have support during the competition?
We'll try to organize a skype group chat prior to the competition so you can test that. Our event kickoff tool should run in a browser. We'll get every team member a TeamPulse account and login before the event, and if you are using AppLoader, we'll get you support before and during the event. If you want training, this is a free way to learn a performance test tool, with a company that is motivated to see you be successful.
Whew. That's a lot of tools. That says something about the work to set up distributed software projects. See that? I'm learning, and we haven't even started yet!
16. Is there a way to communicate with helpers, judges or others before or during the competition?
You can leave your questions in a comment or email Matt@xndev.com. We'll get to them as soon as we can.
17. Will (bug) reports be visible to all?
Not initially. Each team will have three hours to find bugs and create a report. After the competition, everyone will get read access to all the databases, so you can see how the other teams think. Each team will have the option of sharing reports or keeping them private.
20. Are there any rules in testing the software chosen?
We call this problem in software testing "the mission problem". Sometimes, especially early on in projects, the mission is pure bug-stomping -- "find all the bugs you can as fast as possible." Sometimes it is to focus on a specific risk, or to make an assessment. You'll come to the kickoff meeting at 10:00 to discover that mission, then spend the next two and a half hours executing it.
21. What is this 'test report' you speak of?
We've set up a simulation with a customer. The customer isn't going to dig into every little bug report, but he would like a summary of the status, a list of the critical bugs, some understanding of what that means. If he has time, the customer might also be interested in the test strategy you chose -- and why you chose it. That is where a test report comes in.


We are about to deploy some RACHEL Plus servers in schools in Mexico with Internet access. The sponsor of the deployments is asking if its possible to remotely access the servers, in order to check stats, upload information, make some changes, etc.
Can this be done? And if so, could you share some instructions on how to do it?


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Shanghai Noon
Shanghai Dawn
Shanghai Noon Sequel in Works With Napoleon Dynamite Director Jared Hess
Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson in talks to return.
By Alex Osborn
Updated: 2 May 2017 5:53 pm
A sequel to Shanghai Noon is moving forward at MGM, and Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess is attached to direct.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, this third entry in the beloved action-comedy series is titled Shanghai Dawn and may once again star both Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, as the pair are currently in talks to reprise their roles as Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon, respectively.
Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson in Shanghai Noon
While Shanghai Dawn plot details are being kept under wraps for the time being, THR says Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights writers Miles Millar and Alfred Gough crafted the story, and Theodore Riley and Aaron Buchsbaum penned the script.
Have you seen Shanghai Noon?
Millar and Gough are on board as executive producers. Spyglass Entertainment is producing as well.
In addition to his directorial work on Napoleon Dynamite, Hess also helmed the upcoming comedy Masterminds—starring Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis and Kristen Wiig—which opens in theaters September 30.
Alex Osborn is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter and subscribe to his video content on YouTube.
Princess Pei Pei (Lucy Liu) is spirited out of China and brought to America, where she is held for ransom. Desperate for the return of his daughter, the Chinese Emperor dispatches an interpreter & Imperial Guardsmen to America. Their orders are to find the princess & return her safely to China. Their purpose is singular ¿ they will do anything necessary to accomplish this task. The Chinese effort to rescue Pei Pei goes straight to hell when their train is robbed by a gang of lackluster thugs, led by the not-too-bright (but generally amiable) Roy O¿Bannon (Owen Wilson) ¿ a gunslinger of dubious talent, and a marginal pick-up artist. During the robbery, Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) is separated from his fellow Guardsmen, and forced to continue his quest for the Princess alone. Until he becomes inextricably entwined with Roy¿
MPAA: PG-13
Theater, DVD
Comedy, Action, Adventure


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FBI indicts mysterious Iranians in alleged election fraud case
Just The News During the dizzying days after the November 2020 election, the Homeland Security cyber-security chief was fired by a frustrated President Donald Trump, then went on national TV to insist the election was fully secure.
"There was no indication or evidence that there was any sort of hacking or compromise of election systems on, before or after November 3," ex-Cyber-Security and Infrastructure Agency Chief Chris Krebs declared on "60 Minutes."
On Thursday, nearly a year later, federal prosecutors in New York unsealed a dramatic indictment that conflicts with that clean bill of health.
The indictment stated that two Iranian hackers successfully hacked into a state computer election system, stole voter registration data and used it to carry out a cyber-intimidation campaign that targeted GOP members of Congress, Trump campaign officials and Democratic voters in the November 2020 election.
What magic has to happen for the FBI to investigate election law violations?
The alleged hackers, who are not in custody and likely never will be, and are alleged to be Iranian government agents, are said to be pro-Trump. Because Iran really, really wanted a Trump second term?
You may remember when Mueller charged mysterious Russians in Russia with "hacking" (by which he meant buying ads on Facebook and running fake Twitter identities) to deflect attention from the fact that Clinton was conspiring with actual Russians to frame Trump for conspiring with Russians?
In my opinion, the only thing that makes this newsworthy is that it does suggest some elements of the Dem alliance are getting nervous about Durham. Probably the Clintons, who are now out of government and exposed.
The FBI will not touch legitimate election fraud no matter how long a pole you give them.
Categories Fair Elections
Whistleblower has video of officials destroying election records
Newsmax A whistleblower is offering up information said to be related to data suppression, involving "missing ballots" in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, from the 2020 election.
The information comes after a right-to-know request was filed in May, sources familiar with the lawsuit said. The sources spoke to Newsmax on the condition of anonymity.
Delaware County was the last county in the state to fully report its ballots for the 2020 election, and several races were in the scope of being flipped by a few thousand votes.
The lawsuit suggests an election machine shredded thousands of absentee and mail-in ballots, with the data corroborating it deliberately erased in the lead up to the right-to-know filing.
Several videos were released as part of the effort to corroborate the claims.
The lawsuit is here.
Wisconsin election board failed to enforce election law
Conservative Review Explosive revelations in the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau's report on the 2020 presidential election confirm what many in the key swing state have long suspected: Those tasked with administering the election willfully ignored and openly violated state law.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC), the governmental body tasked with administering elections in Wisconsin, is comprised of six appointed commissioners, three from each political party, and a staff that reports to them. Critically, if the commissioners deadlock on an issue before them, no official action is taken and local authorities are left to interpret the recommendations of WEC's staff.
As a result, the overwhelming majority of WEC's decisions during the 2020 election cycle were essentially made by unelected, unappointed, and obviously left-leaning bureaucrats. Both they and the commissioners who oversee them were downright derelict in their duty to fairly and impartially supervise an election run by city and county clerks and poll workers who were not properly trained and did not receive accurate, lawful guidance.
What amazes me is that this took so long to come out. Shouldn't it have been known during the election? Or perhaps it was, and the Republicans in office failed to raise appropriate red flags?
Either way, we know it now, and there need to be prosecutions.
COVID must not become a way to enable election fraud going forward.
Categories Coronavirus
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Colorado election data reviewed and evidence of fraud found
Gateway Pundit The Mesa County, Colorado data was recently reviewed by database and systems analyst Jeffrey O'Donnell. Numerous issues were uncovered.
The accurate final vote for Mesa County cannot be determined based on the review.
Persons unknown altered data from the election and at least 5,500 ballots were processed differently than the other ballots in the county making them ineligible.
For some unknown reason, new adjudication and tabulation databases were created for most of the ballots processed in the county. The 5,500 ballots were not included in this activity.
In the new databases, adjudicated cases decreased in half, from nearly 10% to near 5%. There was no explanation from the county for this significant decrease.
There is no way of confirming that the new database included the exact same results from the original database.
Log files were purged almost daily which is illegal since election files must be maintained for 22 months after the election.
There is evidence the election machines can connect to the server and evidence SQL was accessible to make material changes to the data in the files.
There is evidence the systems have not been backed up for years, which puts all the voting machines at risk.
This report shows that the results in the county could not and cannot be relied on. This is why the corrupt Soros backed Secretary of State in Colorado wanted them kept secret across the state. She knew they were corrupted.
This information was the subject of a recent FBI raid. The raid confirms to me that the election fraud in Colorado is real and the FBI is playing defense to cover it up.
Categories Fair Elections Vote Fraud
Wisconsin election integrity update
UncoverDC Wednesday's informational hearing before the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections, which is headed by Chair Representative Janel Brandtjen and Vice-Chair Representative Joe Sanfelippo, allowed for testimony and questions about election integrity investigations at the county and state level.
The hearing featured testimony from former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, the man named Special Counsel for an investigation into potential election crimes in the state. Gableman's investigation has subpoenas out to WEC, Mayors, and officials in the Wisconsin cities that received the most' Zuckerbucks,' seeking all records related to grants by groups like Zuckerberg funded Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR).
Dehumanizing the unvaccinated
Behind The Black At the MacArthur Medical Center in Irving, Texas a white man was denied COVID monoclonal antibody treatments for the single reason that he happened to be white.
We know this is true because the individual, Harrison Hill Smith, posted a video of his experience
We know where this ends. The only question is how we can stop it before we get there.
Bannon indicted for refusing to appear despite executive privilege claim
Just The News Former White House advisor Steve Bannon was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday following his refusal to comply with a subpoena by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Bannon's indictment, just days after the House Committee announced further subpoenas of Trump officials.
"Since my first day in office, I have promised Justice Department employees that together we would show the American people by word and deed that the department adheres to the rule of law, follows the facts and the law and pursues equal justice under the law," Garland said in a statement obtained by Just the News. "Today's charges reflect the department's steadfast commitment to these principles."
To Merrick Garland, equal justice under the law means Republicans get indicted and Democrats don't.
Categories Police Abuse 1st Amendment
School boards spying on parents
Conservative Treehouse The Scottsdale Unified School District in Arizona was scrambling after a group of moms discovered that Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg was keeping secret surveillance files, a dossier of sorts, on parents and students the school board head viewed as a risk to the interests of the district.
In essence what the parents discovered was evidence their own school system was keeping creepy opposition files on the parents of students in the school district.
Parents gathered today to demand the removal of the Governing Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg, and the destruction of the Google Drive files filled with personal information, documents, and photos of about 47 people, including children.
Disgusting, and a perfect inversion of the power relationship that is supposed to exist.
Categories Police Abuse 1st Amendment Education
Doctor suspended for talking about effective COVID treatments
Gateway Pundit Houston Methodist health officials began investigating and suspended a Texas doctor last week for spreading "dangerous misinformation" about Covid-19 and promoting the efficacy of ivermectin, prompting the physician to resign from the hospital on Monday.
Houston Methodist launched an investigation into Bowden on Friday and suspended the ear, nose and throat doctor for defying health authorities and exercising free speech.
The hospital excoriated Bowden for "using her social media accounts to express her personal opinions about the COVID-19 vaccine and treatments," NBC News reports. The suspension barred the physician from admitting or treating patients at the hospital.
If you want people to believe you, stop censoring and penalizing those who disagree.
FDA wants to hold on to vax data for 50 years
Daily Caller The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested Monday for the courts to give them until 2076 to review and fully release the documents pertaining to the approval of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
We'll all be dead by then.
What are they so desperate to hide?
Thu Nov 25 23:53:45 CST 2021 by TriggerFinger. Comments [Tweet]
DOJ Treating parents as terrorists and lying about it
Conservative Treehouse Despite the obvious instructions to the FBI, Attorney General Merrick Garland previously gave testimony before congress denying that parents who attended school board meetings were being targeted by an FBI Counterterrorism task force. However, today the House Judiciary Committee has received a 'whistleblower complaint' showing the FBI is indeed using the Counterterrorism Division as the tool to target parents. [Document Source]
The day before AG Merrick Garland testified to congress, the FBI instructed all national heads of the Counterterrorism Division to begin using internal tags to create a notification list containing the names of parents they considered to be domestic extremists.
More background here.
Otherizing the unvaccinated
American Thinker In America, a medical ethicist says it's fine for primary care practitioners to refuse to treat unvaccinated people. In France, older people who don't get their boosters will be denied access to amenities. And in Austria, unvaccinated people will be confined to house arrest. For a disease with a minimal mortality rate for healthy people under 60, the race to otherize them continues unabated.
Germany will be confining the unvaccinated to their homes, if the people stand for it.
Wed Nov 24 23:25:43 CST 2021 by TriggerFinger. Comments [Tweet]
Feds building gun registration list from failed gun stores?
Free Beacon The Biden administration in just the past year alone stockpiled the records of more than 54 million U.S. gun owners and is poised to drastically alter gun regulations to ensure that information on Americans who own firearms ultimately ends up in the federal government's hands, according to internal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The ATF in fiscal year 2021 processed 54.7 million out-of-business records, according to an internal ATF document obtained by the Gun Owners of America, a firearms advocacy group, and provided exclusively to the Free Beacon. When a licensed gun store goes out of business, its private records detailing gun transactions become ATF property and are stored at a federal site in West Virginia. This practice allows the federal government to stockpile scores of gun records and has drawn outrage from gun advocacy groups that say the government is using this information to create a national database of gun owners—which has long been prohibited under U.S. law.
This is, at minimum, a convenient side effect of bankrupting many small businesses.
Another embassy stormed
PJMedia Isn't great that America is back and the adults are back in charge? America is back, all right: all the way back to 1979, the last time we had a president so weak that enemies of the United States stormed one of our embassies and took hostages. On Thursday, the Yemeni media outlet Al-Masdar Online reported that Houthi jihadis in Yemen, which are backed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, stormed our embassy in Sana'a, seizing "large quantities of equipment and materials." Just days before that, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), they "kidnapped three Yemeni nationals affiliated with the U.S. Embassy." Biden's team promised America would be back, but didn't say anything about Jimmy Carter coming around again as well.
This seems to be a pattern under Democrat presidents.
Tue Nov 23 23:52:41 CST 2021 by TriggerFinger. Comments [Tweet]
Gore announces totalitarian surveillance state to track your carbon emissions
"In the interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Gore declared that technology created by the so-called Climate TRACE coalition will monitor greenhouse gas emissions and root out the culprits." Climate TRACE claims it will trace the pollution back to its source and then monitor the source. "We get data consistently from 300 existing satellites, more than 11,000 ground-based, air-based, sea-based sensors, multiple internet data streams and using artificial intelligence," Gore explained...
"All that information is combined, visible light, infrared, all of the other information that is brought in, and we can now accurately determine where the greenhouse gas emissions are coming from."
"And next year we'll have it down to the level of every single power plant, refinery, every large ship, every plane, every waste dump, and we'll have the identities of the people who are responsible for each of those greenhouse gas emission streams."
That sounds like a totalitarian surveillance state to me.
An "unintentionally" enhanced Wuhan bat coronavirus
Just The News A taxpayer-funded nonprofit is contradicting the National Institutes of Health on when it notified the agency that China's Wuhan Institute of Virology unintentionally enhanced a bat coronavirus, raising the possibility that top public health officials made false statements to Congress.
EcoHealth Alliance spokesperson Robert Kessler shared a screenshot from its account on the NIH eRA Commons website for grantees, showing it submitted its "year four" report April 13, 2018.
Kessler also provided Just the News with a video recording of EcoHealth searching its NIH account for the bat research grant application's serial number and principal investigator, Peter Daszak, the president and public face of EcoHealth. (Only the account owner can do this, Kessler said.)
"unintentionally" my ass.
They are going to draw these relevations out as long as they can to ensure no one ever faces any consequences.
More FOIA on Seth Rich
Gateway Pundit Attorney Ty Clevenger received another batch of documents from the FBI. This time the FBI provided an index of records from the FBI, and #19 is particularly interesting:
"FD-302 documenting the interview of a third party regarding the homicide of Seth Rich, dated March 26, 2018."
Ty's request was for records from the FBI regarding the Russian collusion investigation. He says this is the first time the FBI has admitted that it investigated the Seth Rich murder as part of the Russian collusion investigation. We knew that the FBI took custody of his computers and interviewed witnesses, but this is an admission that the murder was under investigation by the Russian collusion team.
Let me be the first to say that the FBI's FOIA response team did not kill themselves.
Categories Police Abuse Spygate
Regeneron antibody treatment produces long lasting immunity
Reuters Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc (REGN.O) said on Monday a single dose of its antibody cocktail reduced the risk of contracting COVID-19 by 81.6% in a late-stage trial, in the two to eight months period following the drug's administration.
The antibody therapy, REGEN-COV, is currently authorized in the United States to treat people with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 and for prevention of infection in those exposed to infected individuals, and others at high risk of exposure in settings such as nursing homes or prisons
Credible and effective treatments should render any vaccine mandates null and void.
Class action lawsuit to stop fed employee vaccine mandate
Just The News Federal employees with natural immunity from COVID-19 infection filed a class-action lawsuit Friday against the members of President Biden's task force that enforces his COVID vaccine mandate for government workers, intending to stop it before a deadline this month.
Just The News "You know, we didn't have vaccines that block transmission. We got vaccines that help you with your health, but they only slightly reduced transmission," he said during a Policy Exchange discussion published on Nov. 5. "We need a new way of doing the vaccines. We didn't get much in the way of therapeutics."
The vaccines don't work. We do have therapeutics that work, they just aren't being allowed. We need to stop the insane push for vaccinations.
What exactly is the "fair share"?
Campus Reform As Democrat demands to "tax the rich" grow, Campus Reform's Addison Smith went to the University of Houston to see if students felt that the wealthy in America pay their fair share, or if they should have their taxes raised even more.
Students overwhelmingly supported raising taxes for the rich, but when Smith asked them who "the rich" was, they were unsure.
People who speak very loudly about taxing the rich often change their tune when they learn how much "the rich" actually pay.
What to do with Biden's illegal aliens
Conservative Treehouse Joe Biden has been sending covert flights of illegal alien border crossers into Florida in the late night hours. Governor DeSantis is now looking at punitive damages or state level punishment against the private sector contractors who are facilitating the transport. Additionally, DeSantis noted one potential solution would be for Florida state law enforcement to put the illegal aliens onto chartered buses and sending them to Joe Biden's home state of Delaware.
I have only one quibble; they should be sent to DC, where they can't vote for anyone who can govern the rest of us.
Negative reactions to vaccine boosters
Gateway Pundit After numerous staff members of Saginaw County Community Schools received an experimental COVID booster shot over the weekend, they had negative reactions and were too sick to return to work, forcing the township's elementary, middle and high schools to close in the district on Monday.
"A large number of our staff had a negative reaction to the COVID booster shot given at a voluntary clinic over the weekend," Saginaw Township Community Schools announced on the homepage of its website and Facebook page on Monday. "There is a substitute teacher/staff shortage throughout the state, further complicating the availability to cover those absences."
Completely safe and effective. Sure.
Literal communists bankrupting America
Conservative Treehouse An example today is so demonstrative of that point, it's almost a parody. Joe Biden's nominee for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a branch of the Treasury Department that polices some 1,125 banks, is a communist ideologue named Saule Omarova. She is directly from communist central casting and literally from Kazakhstan in the former Soviet Union. Ms. Omarova graduated from Moscow State University in 1991, and Joe Biden nominated her for the OCC job in September.
Today, Ms. Omarova is caught on tape saying it is the intent of the Biden administration to use the treasury department to bankrupt oil, coal and natural gas companies. This is what happens often with avowed ideologues; they are so focused on their mission to destroy the U.S., they often just say the stuff out loud.
Emphasis mine.
Danchenko indictment also a media critique
NYPost A prominent press critic has warned mainstream media outlets they face a "steep journalistic challenge" to back up their initial reporting on the Steele dossier in the wake of the latest indictment secured by special counsel John Durham.
Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote Monday that last week's indictment of Igor Danchenko, a key source for former British spy Christopher Steele's report, is "bad news" for several media outlets — including Wemple's own employer.
The media don't care because they can memory hole the criticism for their viewers. But that only works while they still have viewers.
Categories Spygate
CA Gov disappears for weeks due to alleged booster reaction
Conservative Treehouse California governor Gavin Newsom had an adverse reaction to getting the Covid booster and a flu shot within days of each other, leaving him with muscle weakness and fatigue, claim sources in the family's inner circle.
The governor was last seen in public on October 27, after receiving a COVID-19 booster shot in Oakland. He had gotten a flu shot on October 22.
Newsom finally appeared in a photo attending Ivy Getty's star-studded wedding this past weekend after disappearing from the public eye for nearly two weeks.
But it's completely safe and effective, right?


9) I prefer Keurig coffee - I can't keep up with hipster coffee.
8) I have more markers than clothes.
7) I love unique paper clips.
6) My graffiti name is "C money" given to me by other graffiti artists (lol).
5) Skincare is my hobby.
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L'isolotto Maggi è un'isola fluviale posta lungo il corso del fiume Po, situata nei pressi della città di Piacenza, al confine tra i comuni di Piacenza, capoluogo dell'omonima provincia, e San Rocco al Porto, in provincia di Lodi.

Geografia fisica
L'isolotto è situato nei pressi della città di Piacenza, immediatamente a valle della foce del fiume Trebbia nel Po. La sua genesi è dovuta a forme di depositi sedimentari dovute all'azione delle acque dei fiumi Po e Trebbia. L'isola è unita alla sponda lombarda da un modesto rilievo composto da materiale ghiaioso che tende ad affiorare durante i periodi di magra, mentre nei momenti di morbida viene parzialmente allagato dal retroflusso dell'acqua.

La flora e la fauna dell'isolotto sono quelle tipiche delle aree golenali padane. L'azzeramento di ogni attività antropica sull'isolotto ha favorito la progressiva colonizzazione da parte delle piante di alto fusto, originariamente non presenti, ai danni degli arbusti. Allo stesso tempo l'abbandono dell'isolotto ha permesso il mantenimento di un habitat ideale per alcune specie di uccelli e mammiferi sempre meno diffuse nella zona padana come il coniglio selvatico.

Origini del nome
Il nome Maggi deriva dal cognome dell'avvocato Giovanni Battista Maggi, il quale aveva acquisito la proprietà dell'isola e di ampie porzioni di terreno golenale comprese tra la base del 2º Reggimento genio pontieri e il ponte stradale della via Emilia.

Storia
L'isola si formò nei primi anni del XX secolo dopo che nei decenni precedenti il corso del fiume Po nei pressi della città di Piacenza aveva subito diverse trasformazioni.

Nel 1921 venne fondata a Piacenza, su impulso del conte Alessandro Calciati, una colonia elioterapica per favorire la crescita e lo sviluppo dei bambini gracili, all'epoca presenti in gran numero a causa delle difficili condizioni economiche. La sede della colonia venne posta sulla sponda piacentina del fiume, in un edificio, chiamato chalet, che aveva ospitato in precedenza la sede della società canottieri Vittorino da Feltre; nonostante la sede si trovasse sulla terraferma, gran parte delle attività della colonia venivano svolte sull'isolotto, che veniva collegato alla sponda piacentina tramite un servizio di traghetti.

Parallelamente, l'isolotto, all'epoca quasi completamente spoglio dalla vegetazione, divenne anche un sito balneare, frequentato da persone provenienti da entrambe le sponde. Sulle sue sponde venne allestito un vero e proprio stabilimento balneare completo di cabine e di chioschi per la distribuzione di gelati e granite. Durante questo periodo l'accesso all'isolotto era garantito da un servizio di traghetti, attivo nei fine settimana dalle 10 alle 18 e operato con barche normalmente dedicata al trasporto di ghiaia e sabbia lungo il fiume riadattate con la posa di panchette per i passeggeri, mentre durante la settimana era comunque possibile accedervi tramite uno scalone in legno che collegava l'isolotto al ponte automobilistico della via Emilia. Entrambi i metodi che permettevano l'accesso all'isolotto erano soggetti al pagamento di un pedaggio 10 centesimi di lira. Nel periodi di maggiore affluenza le presenze giornaliere sulle sponde dell'isolotto arrivavano a toccare le 10/ unità.

Nello stesso periodo, l'isolotto veniva utilizzato, specialmente durante la stagione invernale, anche a scopo estrattivo, con attività  che si occupavano della raccolta di sabbia e ghiaia, le quali venivano, poi, portate sulla sponda piacentina per mezzo di barche e chiatte.

A partire dagli anni '60, a seguito del progressivo aumento dell'inquinamento delle acque del Po, e, parallelamente, delle migliorate condizioni economiche, che permisero di programmare le proprie vacanze presso i centri del turismo marittimo, le frequentazioni dell'isolotto a scopo balneare diminuirono fino ad azzerarsi completamente.

A seguito del crollo del ponte automobilistico della via Emilia, avvenuto nell'aprile 2009, l'isolotto venne collegato alla terraferma con la realizzazione di un ponte provvisorio diviso in due tronconi, uno sul lato piacentino, lungo , e uno sul lato lodigiano, lungo  uniti tra loro da una strada asfaltata posta sull'isolotto e lunga circa . L'infrastruttura venne aperta al traffico il 14 novembre 2009 e fu chiusa, per poi venire smantellata, nel dicembre 2010 a seguito dell'apertura del nuovo ponte automobilistico, nonostante le proposte di preservare il collegamento dell'isolotto con almeno una delle due sponde. Precedentemente alla costruzione del ponte provvisorio e successivamente alla sua dismissione, l'isolotto è stato occasionalmente unito alla sponda piacentina tramite ponti di barche pedonali realizzati dal 2º Reggimento genio pontieri.

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 Isola Serafini

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San Rocco al Porto
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Geografia della provincia di Piacenza
Geografia della provincia di Lodi

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For many challenges, students have to collaborate with an external party. In the exam classes it is even mandatory. Hanneke noticed that this helps to improve the students' social skills: "I heard that some students who used to be very timid are now more comfortable with approaching people." The contact with external parties also helps to further motivate students. They do real assignments for real clients: an advisory report, research or a product for an existing company that has a use for it. In other words: a concrete goal and real feedback.
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As music producers working from our laptops on music, inevitably we reach a point where our laptops are just not getting it done. The great thing about contemporary music production is it can happen on virtually any laptop. That said, depending on what's being recorded and the size of what the processor needs to handle, there's a lot of problems one can run into. Losing audio and/or having sessions crash and close down on you are the worst of it.
The unfortunate nature of laptop manufacturing and sales is that few are marketed specifically for music production. That leaves many producers to essentially having to guess what fits them best. There are some who might agree that going for a more expensive model is recommended however it's not a rule that the more expensive, the higher the quality. In fact, more high-performance laptops tend to be geared towards graphics processing rather than audio processing. If you're looking to run music production software, it could take some searching before arriving at the right laptop for what you need it to be able to do.
Regarding any laptop for music production, we can recommend doing your best to buy a laptop that's going to be used strictly for music production. To be fast and efficient, you need to maintain an environment where that's achievable. Having a dedicated laptop for music production accomplishes this. Do keep in mind that you can still get by with a multi-purpose laptop for recording and mixing music. It just may take a little more time to bounce tracks and latency might be more of an issue. Be sure to give some thought to whether having a dedicated processor is at all possible for how you want to work it.
The second thing we want to mention is that, for some producers including those who have pirated software, they prefer to load it all into the same laptop as you never know when you might need it. Though this might seem like a smart idea, it could slow your laptop down. Give some serious thought to what music production software you absolutely need and what you probably don't. If it is going to serve a purpose in your art, don't hesitate to install it. If it's not going to be used at least once within the next six months, it's best to exclude it from your install. That way, things will be kept strong, fast, and efficient.
The best place to get advice on what laptop is best to buy for musicians is to shop reviews online. Why we say this is because in-store, salespersons always tend to focus on features like video editing production. Buying laptops for music production is not as popular as it is for graphic designers, video editors, and others who use it to create other forms of media. Audio is a special beast though, requiring a unique mix of drivers and power management to accommodate music production.
Some of the more basic features that musicians, recording engineers, mixers, and music producers look for include a good size of RAM. Anything around sixteen gigabytes should be good for that. Next, is a good hard drive of approximately 1 TB in size or larger. For some, a secondary external hard drive might make the most sense. There are some drives sized at 1 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB, and even 4 TB. External drives are great for moving sessions over that are taking up too much space on your main drive. That said, internal drives are the ideal for placing samples and your DAW.
Some of the things to avoid are any laptop designed specially for mobile or low power usage. These sort of laptops are known to be more aggressive with throttling which could result in a dropout.
When searching laptops know that their internal audio component is relatively average, as it pertains to music production. If you want to get serious about using any computer for music production, the best way to capture audio is going to be through an external audio interface. Buying a separate external audio interface will give you more power than any laptop can and it's far more value for your dollar than spending on a more expensive laptop.
As we stated, though finding the right laptop for music production is important, so much of music production takes place outside of the laptop. There are a lot of variables that can make or break any laptop, cheap or expensive. Find a good quality external audio interface that interacts well with a high quality digital audio workstation (DAW) and that works on an updated, contemporary operating system (OS). For all the concerns music producers may have regarding things like latency, in some cases, it just takes buying the laptop, and giving it a try using what you have. In many cases, the exact specifications of laptops from companies like HP, Dell, and others don't vary too much. There are some differences between a Windows operating system and a Mac so that might be something to investigate. All in all though, the music production specifications are not very different, especially at low to mid-range price points.
About laptop specifications for audio and music, there are some areas to focus on depending on what kind of music you intend to produce. For example, recording live instruments and moments where you'll be converting real world audio to digital formats, RAM and hard drive capacity will be highest priority. If it's more electronic music or hip hop without live instrumentation, CPU is more important. In the case that you're using a lot of VSTs, plugins, and similar audio production software, CPU will also be important.
Now, even in buying a good quality laptop for music production, there are still no guarantees that you won't run into an issue here and there. Since the 1990s, on computers far less powerful than what we have today, music production has been ongoing. All music producers have their preferences regarding which laptop is best. To this point, many still recommend buying a high-end gaming laptop. Especially if you're a producer who is going to dabble in some video work, this might be something to consider. To others, the laptop has no consequence on their work. For them, it's all about getting a good USB audio interface.
There are so many advantages to having a good quality laptop for recording and music production. To have the ability to record and mix from anywhere in the world is quite a freedom to have. When inspiration strikes, with a laptop, you're able to jump in the car and travel to a remote location to get some recording done. While mixing, should you decide you need a change of scenery, grabbing the laptop and hitting up a local coffeehouse is an easy decision to make. For most of us, we don't have all the money in the world to spend on a music-dedicated laptop and so sometimes we have to compromise on a little bit of what we want. There's nothing wrong with that. Eventually, in four or five years, chances are you will want or need another laptop to get your music production done anyway.
For many music producers, they spend years finding the right laptop, switching between different brands like we tend to do with DAWs. It can take time to find a combination you like so have an open mind and if you have the luxury to try some different models, definitely go for it. Too many of us make the mistake of jumping towards the most expensive model, eventually coming to realize that we overspent or that it still produces the same problems a far less expensive model would have. So be sure to do some research, ask friends, read reviews online, and make sure that in addition to the laptop, you have everything else you need.
If you're looking for a specific laptop recommendation, there are a few examples we can point to. These include the MacBook Pro Retina 2015, the Razer Blade Stealth 13.3", the Dell XPS 15, the HP Pavilion Power 15, the Dell Inspiron 15, the HP Spectre x360, and the Asus GL503. There are dozens of other models that would make the list as well.
To spotlight a few of these standout choices, let's start with the MacBook Pro Retina 2015. To be clear, almost any MacBook Pro manufactured post-2012 can be held up as a great computer for music production. The MacBook Pro Retina 2015 is arguably the best in the world. No matter what one thinks of the PC v. Mac debate, MacBooks have consistently ranked high from the perspective of music production. They come with fast drives, RAM, battery life, and heavy CPU power. The advantages of the Retina model is that it boasts more ports than more recent models – something which is essential for some types of music production. After all, if you're using MIDI controllers and audio interfaces, they got to come in through these ports. The biggest drawback evidently with something like the MacBook Pro is that it is more expensive than other models.
The Razer Blade Stealth 13.3" is an internet favourite and a very high quality laptop, not only for music production but for other purposes as well. The Razer Blade Stealth comes complete with a quad core processor, 16 GB of RAM, and more. The touchscreen display many producers find particularly useful to help with tweaking audio plugins and programming automation. The Razer Blade Stealth model is promoted primarily for gaming and its specifications match that. That said, for music production, it performs equally impressive. Some of the cons are that it is expensive, does not respond well to upgrades, and there are perhaps cheaper alternatives that would perform equally well for less advanced production.
Dell XPS has been around for over a decade and the model number fifteen is one of the company's most ideal for music production. Featuring a strong and premium build, the borderless display is aesthetically pleasing and the slim profile makes it easy to carry. Physically, it looks gorgeous. In performance, it more than justifies its price. The i7 processor has been advertised as 'future-proof', the RAM is upgradeable to 32 GB, and there's no shortage of ports. Despite the many advantages, there is no option for multiple storage options which might not make it attractive to some. There are also several different Dell XPS 15 models so depending on whether one goes with the basic or more advanced options, it determines what comes with it. If you're willing to spend somewhere around $1,000 or slightly above on a laptop for music production, the Dell XPS 15 is a good quality brand and product.
The last laptop design we want to bring up for music production work is the HP Pavilion Power 15. The Intel Core processor comes with enough power for larger arrangements and recordings, however it only comes with 4 GB of RAM which may need an upgrade. Among the bigger advantages of the HP Pavilion Power 15 is that it has dual storage options. That means you can put programs on your SDD internal drive while dumping all the plugins and VSTs on your HDD. For music producers that are looking to do music production along with some other activities on their computer, this is a great multi-purpose laptop. For beginner to intermediate producers, the HP Pavilion Power 15 has massive storage possibilities, multiple ports, and a batter life of up to 14 hours.
For music production, remember, it's not about the tools you have – it's about what you do with them. Even if you can't afford a new laptop or the laptop you want, the world's greatest music producers have got by on much less. As artists, we need to make the most out of what we got. At the end of the day, it's about producing the best product. As helpful as the right laptop for music production can be, almost any contemporary laptop is capable of producing some amazing music.


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