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COVID Pandemic Shortened U.S. Life Expectancy by More Than a Year
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly shortened life expectancy in the United States, especially among Black people and Hispanics, a new study says.
With more than 336,000 COVID-19 deaths nationwide last year, researchers decided to examine the pandemic's impact on life expectancy.
The projection: Due to pandemic deaths, life expectancy at birth for Americans will shrink by 1.13 years...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Infections: Misc. Race Safety &, Public Health
Smoking Plus Vaping Just as Deadly as Smoking on Its Own: Study
Smokers who swap some traditional cigarettes for the electronic kind may not be doing anything to protect their arteries, a new study hints.
People who smoke sometimes use "e-cigarettes" in a bid to get a nicotine fix without inhaling tobacco. But little is known about the effects of e-cigarettes on the risk of heart disease -- the top killer of smokers.
That's because heart disease...
Amy Norton
Death &, Dying: Misc. Smoking Cessation Tobacco &, Kids Tobacco: Cigarette Smoking
Police Use of Neck Restraint Never Medically Appropriate, Neurologists Say
Despite training that teaches police officers to use neck restraints, there is no medical justification for the tactic, three neurologists write in JAMA Neurology.
The killing of George Floyd, who died in May 2020 after an arresting police officer pressed a knee to his neck for more than eight minutes, helped spark a nationwide conversation about racial injustice.
While Fl...
Brain Death &, Dying: Misc. Heart / Stroke-Related: Stroke Injuries Legal Neurology Safety &, Public Health: Misc. Seizures
COVID Patient Survival Falls When Local Area Has Higher Caseload: Study
"Flattening the curve" could be key to reducing deaths among people hospitalized with COVID-19, a new study of U.S. hospitals suggests.
Researchers found that COVID-19 patients' survival odds depended not only on their age and overall health. It also depended on the hospital and the surrounding community.
At hospitals in counties where the infection was spreading quickly, death rate...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Hospitals
U.S. Life Expectancy Rose in 2019, But 2020 Will Reverse That Trend
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, life expectancy in the United States rose in 2019 for the second year in a row, according to two new federal government reports.
But don't expect that good news to be repeated in 2020.
The impact of COVID-19 and other ills are projected to boost the death rate by 15% to exceed 3 million deaths for the first time in U.S. history, according to t...
Death &, Dying: Misc.
First 10 Days After Hospital Discharge Especially Risky for COVID Survivors
Being discharged from the hospital following a serious bout of COVID-19 is far from a clean bill of health, new research warns, and the risk of rehospitalization or death peaks early.
In the study, more than one-quarter of such patients ended up back in the hospital or died in the weeks after discharge. The researchers tracked almost 2,200 U.S. veterans discharged at 132 VA hospitals thi...
Alan Mozes
Death &, Dying: Misc. Hospitals Survival
COVID-19 Is Far More Lethal, Damaging Than Flu, Data Shows
COVID-19 is far more harmful and deadly than the seasonal flu, new studies confirm.
Researchers analyzed U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs data on more than 3,600 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 between Feb. 1 and June 17 of this year, and more than 12,600 hospitalized with the flu between Jan. 1, 2017 and Dec. 31, 2019. The average age of patients in both groups was 69.
The d...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Flu Hospitals
329 Americans Are Injured by Guns Every Day: Study
Firearm injury is a major health crisis in the United States and new research sheds more light on how many of those who are injured survive and the circumstances of their shootings.
For the study, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University analyzed nationwide data from death certificates and emergency room visits.
Between 2009 and 2017, the United States...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Emergencies / First Aid Injuries Safety &, Public Health Safety &, Public Health: Misc. Suicide
Sudden Death More Common Than Thought in Very Young With Epilepsy
Sudden, epilepsy-related death is more common than thought in infants and children, a new study suggests.
It also found that Black and multiracial youngsters are at higher risk for what's known as sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP).
It occurs in otherwise healthy people with epilepsy, most often when they're asleep or resting.
Researchers analyzed data on 1,769 infant...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Epilepsy Kids' Ailments Kids: Misc.
CDC Director Warns of Dire Winter Ahead for COVID Hospitalizations, Deaths
The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Wednesday that the coming winter months might be the darkest period yet in the coronavirus pandemic.
"I actually believe they're going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation," CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told the Chamber of Commerce Foundation on Wednesday morning, adding that ...
Ernie Mundell and Robin Foster
Should Cancer Survivors Be Prioritized for COVID Vaccine?
Cancer survivors have higher odds of dying from seasonal flu, suggesting they may also be at increased risk from COVID-19 and may need to be among the first in line for vaccination against both diseases.
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine analyzed medical data from more than 630,000 people in the United Kingdom between 1990 and 2014, including more than 10...
Cancer: Leukemia Cancer: Lymphoma Cancer: Misc. Death &, Dying: Misc. Flu Hospitals Safety &, Public Health Vaccines
U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Top a Quarter Million
The United States crossed a grim threshold on Wednesday: More than 250,000 Americans have now died from COVID-19.
With coronavirus cases on the rise in all but one state, that number is only going up.
Without a national plan of attack, mayors, school board and governors have been issuing new social distancing restrictions and mask mandates as they try to slow the relentless spread o...
American women are far more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than women in other wealthy countries -- and a national shortage of maternity care providers bodes ill for the future.
It found what the r...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Pregnancy Pregnancy: Risks
Losing a Sibling a Common Tragedy in Poorer Nations, Study Finds
The loss of a sibling is all too common among young women in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new study.
The researchers found that roughly one-third of young women in those countries have experienced the death of a brother or sister by age 25. In several African nations, the rate is as high as 50%.
"There's extensive social science research on family dynamics and ch...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Grief Psychology / Mental Health: Misc.
"There's extensive social science research on family dyn...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Economic Status Psychology / Mental Health: Misc. Women's Problems: Misc. Adolescents / Teens Family
Kidney Trouble Greatly Raises Odds for Fatal COVID-19
COVID-19 patients who have kidney disease or whose kidneys are damaged by the virus have a much higher risk of dying from the illness, a new study suggests.
Researchers who studied 372 patients admitted to four intensive care units (ICUs) in the United Kingdom found that even those who had less severe kidney disease to start, as well as patients whose kidney disease was caused by the...
Cara Roberts Murez
Death &, Dying: Misc. Kidney Problems: Misc. Viruses
In Medieval Times, Plagues 'Sped Up' With Each New Outbreak
Medieval plague outbreaks in England picked up frightening speed in the 17th century, Canadian researchers report.
Their analysis of historical documents covering 300 years showed that outbreaks of the plague doubled every 11 days in London during the 1600s, compared to every 43 days in the 14th century.
"It is an astounding difference in how fast plague epidemics grew," sai...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Genetics History of Medicine Infections: Misc.
Women at Higher Risk When Heart Attack Strikes the Young
Younger women who suffer a heart attack are more likely than men to die in the decade after surgery, a new study finds.
It included more than 400 women and nearly 1,700 men, average age 45, who had a first heart attack between 2000 and 2016.
During an average follow-up of more than 11 years, there were no statistically significant differences between men and women for deaths...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Heart / Stroke-Related: Heart Attack Women's Problems: Misc.
COVID-19 Taking Huge Toll in Excess U.S. Deaths
A pair of new studies assert that the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a disaster, causing more deaths than thought and prolonging Americans' suffering more than any other country.
The United States experienced a 20% increase over expected deaths between March and August 2020, with more than 225,500 people needlessly dying, said the lead researcher on the first stud...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Infections: Misc. Safety &, Public Health Viruses
Overdose Deaths From Cocaine Rising Dramatically
While opioids were grabbing the headlines, cocaine overdose deaths in the United States have marched upward, nearly tripling over five years, a new government report shows.
After a period of stability, cocaine-induced deaths rose by about 27% per year, on average, from 2013 through 2018, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
"While mu...
Steven Reinberg
Death &, Dying: Misc. Drug Abuse Drugs: Illicit Cocaine
Do Minority Kids Face More Danger During Surgeries?
Black children are more than twice as likely as white kids to die from surgical complications, and minority children are about half as likely to even have surgery as white children, two new studies show.
In one study, researchers found that of nearly 277,000 children who had inpatient surgery between 2012 and 2017, 10,425 suffered a complication that required follow-up surgery and 209...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Kids' Ailments Kids: Misc. Race Surgery: Misc. Health Care Access / Disparities
Alcohol-Linked Deaths Rise Sharply in Rural America
In rural America, drinking has become particularly deadly for many, a new government report shows.
Deaths related to alcohol use in those regions rose 43% between 2006 and 2018, health officials reported.
Over that time, the rate of deaths went from 11 per 100,000 people to 15 per 100,000. Also, the rate of deaths among women more than doubled, according to researchers ...
Alcohol Abuse Death &, Dying: Misc. Economic Status Health Costs Health Care Access / Disparities
Mental Health Issues Double the Odds of Dying With COVID-19, Study Finds
People suffering from a psychiatric disorder could be more than twice as likely to die if they become infected with COVID-19, a new study suggests.
Folks diagnosed with any type of psychiatric problem -- anxiety or depression, dementia, psychosis -- were up to 2.3 times more likely to die in the hospital from COVID-19, researchers found.
"Those who had COVID who had a prior ...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Immune Disorders Mental Illness / Retardation Psychology / Mental Health: Misc. Viruses Inflammation
Women Get Worse Care for Heart Attack
Young women who suffer a particularly deadly condition after a heart attack are 11% more likely to die from it than men, a new study finds.
Not only that, women aged 18 to 55 are less likely to receive the tests and aggressive treatment that men routinely receive, and are more likely to die in the hospital, the researchers added.
"It's very difficult to understand exac...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Heart / Stroke-Related: Coronary-Artery Disease Heart / Stroke-Related: Heart Attack Heart / Stroke-Related: Misc. Therapy &, Procedures: Misc. Women's Problems: Misc.
COVID-19 Patients Rarely Survive Cardiac Arrest: Study
Folks whose hearts stop due to a severe case of COVID-19 are very unlikely to leave the hospital alive, a new study shows.
Out of 54 patients at a Michigan hospital who suffered cardiac arrest while battling COVID-19, none survived their illness even though 29 were resuscitated by cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the researchers reported.
"I don't think we can say cardia...
Even If Hips, Legs Slim Down, Belly Fat Remains a Health Danger
Gaining weight around your mid-section may be the makings of much more than a wardrobe crisis: It may also signal the start of a serious health crisis.
So warns a team of Canadian and Iranian researchers who conducted an extensive review of 72 studies involving more than 2.5 million patients from all over the globe.
"We found that excess fat in the abdomen -- called central...
Anatomy / Biology Death &, Dying: Misc. Fat, Body Obesity Weight Loss
Death From COVID-19 Very Rare for Americans 21 and Under: Report
Only a tiny fraction of children and young adults who have contracted COVID-19 have died from their infection, a new government report shows.
Just 121 people younger than 21 have died from COVID-19 through the end of July, out of nearly 392,000 confirmed or probable cases, said researchers led by Dr. Danae Bixler from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Death &, Dying: Misc. Kids' Ailments Kids: Misc.
'Flattening the Curve' Saves More Lives Than Thought
Failure to "flatten the coronavirus curve" in the United States could lead to even more deaths than previously believed, a new study claims.
The researchers concluded that every six additional intensive care unit (ICU) beds or seven additional non-ICU beds filled by COVID-19 patients leads to one additional COVID-19 death over the following week.
"A spike in hospitalization ...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Hospitals Infections: Misc. Viruses
Even 'Social Smokers' Up Their Odds of Death From Lung Disease
Even light smokers are much more likely to die of lung disease or lung cancer than nonsmokers, a new study warns.
"Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, but it's easy to assume that if you only smoke a little, the risks won't be too high," said study co-leader Pallavi Balte, of Columbia University Irving Medical Center, in New York City.
The new study shows how wrong ...
Cancer: Lung Cancer: Misc. Death &, Dying: Misc. Smoking Cessation Tobacco: Cigarette Smoking Tobacco: Misc.
What Is More Deadly in the U.S.: Hot Weather or Cold?
Extreme weather days have been on the rise worldwide since the advent of global warming. But a new U.S. study finds that cold weather is responsible for most temperature-related deaths in Illinois.
Researchers analyzed data on heat- and cold-related injuries that required a hospital visit in the state between 2011 and 2018. They identified around 24,000 cases each related to the cold ...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Safety &, Public Health Weather
Hearing Persists at End of Life, Brain Waves of Hospice Patients Show
Even if they appear unresponsive, dying people may still be able to hear.
That's the takeaway from a Canadian analysis of hospice patients in Vancouver.
Researchers compared electroencephalography (EEG) data -- a measure of electrical activity in the brain -- collected when patients were conscious and when they became unresponsive at the end of life. Those patients were comp...
Brain Death &, Dying: Misc. Hearing Disorders: Misc. Hearing Loss
Climate Change Could Bring Heat 'Health Crisis' to U.S. Cities
Some of the leading hotspots in the United States are on track to become even more sweltering in the coming decades -- thanks to a combination of greenhouse gas emissions, urban development and population growth.
In a new study, researchers estimate that over the course of this century, the biggest relative increases in extreme heat will hit cities in the Sunbelt -- including Atlanta;...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Environment Heat- / Sunstroke Weather
Taking a daily low-dose aspirin may speed the progression of cancer in the elderly, a new clinical trial shows.
Daily aspirin doubled the risk that a person 70 or older would die from a stage 3 cancer, and increased the death risk associated with stage 4 cancers by nearly a third, according to data from more than 19,000 older people in the United States and Australia.
Aspirin Cancer: Misc. Death &, Dying: Misc. Seniors
Blood Test Might Spot Most Dangerous COVID-19 Cases
A simple blood test may predict which COVID-19 patients are likely to get worse and die, a new study suggests.
"When we first started treating COVID-19 patients, we watched them get better or get worse, but we didn't know why," said researcher Dr. Juan Reyes. He's an assistant professor of medicine at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, in Washington, D.C.
Death &, Dying: Misc. Hospitals Viruses Inflammation Screening
For a Longer Life, Any Exercise Is Good Exercise: Study
Want to live longer? Take the stairs, stretch or toss a volleyball around, a new study suggests.
Those activities were among several tied to lower rates of early death in an Arizona State University study of nearly 27,000 U.S. adults between 18 and 84 years of age.
Researchers wondered which of the more socially oriented exercises -- such as team sports -- contribute to lon...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Exercise: Aerobics Or Calisthenics Exercise: Baseball Or Softball Exercise: Cycling Exercise: Football Exercise: Misc. Exercise: Volleyball Exercise: Yoga Fitness: Misc.
From the 1960s to the 2010s, the United States experienced a major reduction in heart disease-related deaths among younger adults -- often called premature cardiac death.
But that decline has slowed significantly since 2010, and the risk of premature cardiovascular death may depend on where you live, according to a study published July 29 in the Journal of the American Heart Associ...
Serena McNiff
Age Death &, Dying: Misc. Diabetes: Misc. Heart / Stroke-Related: Stroke Heart / Stroke-Related: Heart Attack Heart / Stroke-Related: Misc. Obesity
Wildfire Pollution Puts Kidney Patients at Risk
Air pollution caused by forest fires can be deadly for people with kidney failure, a new study suggests.
The tiny particles of air pollutants -- called fine particulate matter -- from wildfires can trigger inflammation in the lungs and further affect the delicate health of people with kidney failure, the researchers said.
Using data from the U.S. Renal Data System (a regis...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Environment Cancer: Kidney Kidney Problems: Misc. Pollution, Water
Alcohol and Arrhythmia a Deadly Mix
Alcohol abuse is associated with an increased the risk of death in people with abnormal heart rhythms, a new study warns.
Researchers reviewed deaths among almost 115,000 patients aged 15-54 hospitalized for abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia) between 2010 and 2014.
Nearly 10% of the patients were also diagnosed with alcohol abuse, defined as drinking that causes problems...
Alcohol Abuse Alcohol: Misc. Death &, Dying: Misc.
Loss of a Twin Linked to Risk for Mental Illness
The death of a twin, especially earlier in life, leaves the surviving twin at risk for psychiatric problems, a new study finds.
"Losing a co-twin by death may be a particularly devastating life stressor with considerable health implications for surviving twins, yet there have been few studies on this type of bereavement," said lead author Dr. Huan Song. She is a senior researcher at ...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Mental Illness / Retardation Psychology / Mental Health: Misc. Family Grief Survival
Do COVID-19 Patients Really Have to Die Alone?
Hospitals have put in place strict no-visitation rules meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but these precautions have led to another heart-wrenching dilemma.
People are dying alone, gasping their last breath without any family or friends there to provide comfort.
Now, some experts are arguing this shouldn't be the case, and that hospitals need to come up with plans that...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Hospitals Family
AHA News: More People Are Dying During the Pandemic – and Not Just From COVID-19
More people in the United States are dying during the COVID-19 pandemic, but not just because of the coronavirus. One reason, experts say, is people with other ailments may not be seeking help.
That conclusion is emerging from new research showing deaths are increasing from causes such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes – while emergency room visits for those conditions are dow...
Black Patients Fare Worse After Angioplasty
Even after undergoing the artery-clearing procedure angioplasty, Black patients with heart disease are more likely than whites to suffer a heart attack or die within the next several years.
That's the conclusion of a new analysis of 10 clinical trials: On balance, both Black and Hispanic patients fared worse after angioplasty, versus white patients. And that was particularly true for ...
Angioplasty Death &, Dying: Misc. Heart / Stroke-Related: Coronary-Artery Disease Heart / Stroke-Related: Misc. Race Health Care Access / Disparities
COVID-19 Death Risk Twice as High in New York City as Some Countries
New York City's COVID-19 death rate was more than double that of some countries, and the city's oldest people had the highest risk of death, researchers report.
They used a computer model to analyze over 191,000 lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases along with more than 20,000 confirmed and probable COVID-19 deaths in New York City from March 1 to May 16.
During that time, the city's...
Age Death &, Dying: Misc. Safety &, Public Health Safety &, Public Health: Misc. Viruses Seniors
Numbers of Non-COVID-19 Deaths Up During Pandemic
Nearly one-third of excess deaths in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States were linked to causes other than COVID-19, but that doesn't mean that the virus didn't play a role in those deaths, a new study claims.
The researchers found there were just over 87,000 excess deaths in the United States between March 1 and April 25. Excess deaths are those above the...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Diabetes: Misc. Heart / Stroke-Related: Stroke Heart / Stroke-Related: Misc. Viruses
What Behaviors Will Shorten Your Life?
Smoking, drinking too much and divorce are among the social and behavioral factors most strongly linked to dying early, a new study says.
Researchers analyzed data from more than 13,600 U.S. adults between 1992 and 2008, and examined 57 social and behavioral factors among those who died between 2008 and 2014.
The 10 factors most closely linked with dying were: being a curren...
Alcohol: Misc. Death &, Dying: Misc. Divorce Economic Status Marriage Psychology / Mental Health: Misc. Safety &, Public Health Tobacco: Misc.
Heat Kills More Americans Than Previously Thought
Heat is an underestimated killer in the United States, a new study suggests.
According to researchers, death records indicate that heat kills as many as 600 hundred Americans each year, but moderate heat may actually be killing more than 5,000 annually. And the social distancing restrictions of COVID-19 might make staying cool harder this summer.
Most of the deaths were from...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Heat- / Sunstroke
People Die When Hospital Bed Shortages Force Patients Out
When patients are pushed out of the hospital after hip surgery to make room for others, the odds of dying increase, according to a recent study from Norway.
When beds are in short supply, patients are forced out, researchers say. Fridays, the day before holidays and times when hospitals are overbooked are prime times for patients to be discharged, they report.
"Patients wh...
Artificial Hips Death &, Dying: Misc. Hospitals Safety &, Public Health Safety &, Public Health: Misc. Surgery: Misc.
COVID-19 Tied to Raised Risk of Post-Op Death: Study
People infected with COVID-19 who need surgery have much higher odds of dying soon afterward, a new study finds.
Infected patients who had surgery died at rates nearly equal to those of the sickest COVID-19 patients in intensive care units, the researchers found.
For the study, the investigators looked at data on more than 1,100 surgical patients with COVID-19 at 235 hospi...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Infections: Misc. Surgery: Misc. Viruses
Walking or Biking to Work Might Save Your Life
Walking or biking to work may lower your risk of getting sick or dying early, British researchers report.
"As large numbers of people begin to return to work as the COVID-19 lockdown eases, it is a good time for everyone to rethink their transport choices," said lead researcher Richard Patterson, from the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge. Scientists from Imperial C...
Death &, Dying: Misc. Exercise: Cycling Exercise: Walking
High Blood Pressure Might Raise COVID-19 Death Risk
Among patients in China with COVID-19, researchers found that those with high blood pressure had twice the risk of death from the coronavirus compared with patients who didn't have high blood pressure.
And patients with high blood pressure who were not taking drugs to control it were at even higher risk, the findings showed. However, the study only found an association and could not ...
Blood Pressure Death &, Dying: Misc. Heart / Stroke-Related: High Blood Pressure Viruses


Good Wednesday morning everyone! This is my card for the SCS sc#193. I used several Stampin' Up! markers to color in the daisy image. The image is by TAC. I used some scrapbook paper by Fancy Pants Designs. Thanks for taking a look!
We were stationed in Stuttgart for 5 years - I loved it over there. I bet you're lookin' forward to the Weinachtsmarkt coming up!?
We're in Korea now, and I hear the Christmas festivals are fun here too... I can't wait!
Very nicely done! TFS it with is Felica!


LONDON — With investor confidence draining away and the value of the euro plunging, Europe struggled anew Wednesday to come up with a united game plan to keep its currency union intact and its economies from collapsing.
Competing visions embraced by the continent's political heavyweights, France and Germany, clashed at an informal summit of European Union leaders with little chance of reconciliation even as fears grew that Greece could be forced out of the Eurozone and into a chaotic default.
While Paris is pushing for Eurozone countries to share some debt and promote growth through stimulus measures, Berlin is holding fast to its prescription of tough public-spending cuts and every nation for itself when it comes to borrowing money.
Early Thursday, EU President Herman Van Rompuy emerged after more than five hours of negotiations with no concrete measures for tackling Europe's economic crisis, but said that the discussions had been "focused and frank."
"Tonight's meeting was about putting pressure, focusing minds and clearing the air," Van Rompuy said, adding that tangible measures would be hashed out at a formal EU summit late next month.
He stressed that the EU would look at balancing the need for growth with the need for fiscal retrenchment. Pitting one against the other is "a false debate," Van Rompuy said. "They are two sides of the same coin."
Still, the summit of European Union leaders in Brussels showed the extent to which France and Germany are becoming two separate poles in terms of how to resolve the region's financial and economic crisis. The widening gap, sparked by the election of French President Francois Hollande, is in marked contrast to the relatively united front forged between Hollande's predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Although investors have welcomed Hollande's emphasis on fostering economic growth, the lack of a coordinated European response to the ongoing debt crisis and concern over Greece's future hammered stock markets Wednesday and caused the euro to drop to a two-year low against the dollar.
Hollande vowed Wednesday to push for the introduction of "eurobonds," or debt collectively backed by all 17 nations that share the euro currency.
The idea of eurobonds has increasingly become a totem for countries such as France, Italy and Spain — the Eurozone's second-, third- and fourth-largest economies, respectively — which see them as a way to calm investors and tamp down the crisis.
But Germany, the Netherlands and other more fiscally rigorous countries reject the idea because they would almost certainly be forced to pay higher rates to borrow money through the collective bonds than they do now as individual nations.
"We see nothing in eurobonds. It doesn't foster growth, it will raise our interest rates and it is not the solution to the problem," said Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who resigned in April but remained in a caretaker role.
Even if opposing countries were to relent, setting up eurobonds would probably take months, time that the Eurozone may not have to keep the currency union together.
"Nobody was asking for an immediate introduction" of eurobonds, Van Rompuy told reporters after the meeting. "This will take time; it is an end of the process. We have to consider what the legal implications of all this are."
Still, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, whose country some fear may be next in line for a bailout, appealed to his fellow leaders to produce a solution to help ease borrowing costs for Spain and other ailing European countries.
Casting into sharp relief the difficulties that nations such as his face with their climbing interest rates, Germany easily sold about $6 billion in government bonds at virtually zero interest Wednesday, meaning that buyers were willing to receive no return on their investments just to keep their money in a perceived haven.
"Europe has to come up with an answer. It is a must, because we cannot go on like this for a long time, with large differences when it comes to financing ourselves," Rajoy said in Paris.
In a sign of Europe's changed political order, it was Rajoy who met with Hollande in advance of the summit in Brussels, not Merkel. That's a significant departure from the past, when the German leader and Sarkozy would stake out a common approach before the summit, which often reduced EU meetings to little more than rubber-stamp sessions.
The fissures opening up in Europe compounded the uncertainty gripping investors.
So did the political brinkmanship over Greece's future in the Eurozone.
Fears that the Mediterranean nation could be forced out of the currency club and into a chaotic default have risen since an inconclusive election this month, which saw the rise of an anti-austerity party dedicated to repudiating Greece's international bailout agreements.
Germany's central bank said Wednesday that the negative impact of a Greek exit from the Eurozone would be "considerable but manageable," offering a pointed riposte to statements by some Greek politicians that Europe wouldn't dare eject Athens from the currency union for fear of the consequences.
There were also unconfirmed reports that Eurozone officials have told member governments to start preparing contingency plans for a Greek exit.
For his part, Hollande reaffirmed the official line of most Eurozone countries that they prefer for Greece to remain part of the club.
But he disappointed some Greeks by calling on Athens to honor its bailout obligations. Anti-austerity politicians in Greece had counted on Hollande as a powerful new ally in their fight against the punishing cutbacks that their country has imposed in exchange for emergency loans.
"France wants Greece to stay in the Eurozone, and the Greeks must respect their commitments," Hollande said. "At the same time, the Eurozone must show it supports Greece."


Blogs about, or by members of, the Department for International Trade.
Crawford Falconer, Second Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Trade, introduces the new International Trade Profession, which he will lead.
There are cracks in the glass ceiling – how do we break it?
On International Women's Day, Antonia Romeo looks at progress on equality for women and the drive for greater diversity and inclusion in her own department.
In her first Civil Service leaders blog, Antonia Romeo reflects on her first six months as Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Trade (DIT).
Jeremy Heywood sets out how the Civil Service is gearing up for the challenge of supporting the Government in managing the UK's exit from the European Union.
Jeremy Heywood describes how the Civil Service has set about creating two new government departments, one of which is responsible for a completely new policy area.


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Peter Max rose to fame at a pop artist and poster artist associated with the mass media image of the 1960's psychedelic art movement.
Max took his influences from the underground psychedelic concert posters and album art of the time, and the graphically simplified echoes of that art pioneered by Heinz Edelmann and Milton Glaser, and refined them into a cheerful, less threatening version that became wildly popular.
Max applied his version of the style to a line of very successful silkscreen posters posters and moved it into advertising design, clothing, and various kinds of marketing and product design, even to busses, large scale murals and the painted fuselage of one of Continental Airline's Boeing 777's.
His work became synonymous with 60's "psychedelic art", though to my mind he was less of an innovator than people like Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, Wes Wilson and Anton Kelly. Fame wins out, however, and Max's psychedelic lite version became a pop culture icon while the originators faded into obscurity. (I'll do my best to introduce you to them in future posts.) Heinz Edelmann carried his style into the design for the influential animated feature Yellow Submarine, which is often wrongly attributed to Max.
The path of influences is difficult to sort out, however, and you can see the influence of Max and his progenitors and contemporaries on modern retro-60's style, European comics artists like Moebius and Bati, and album cover art through the intervening years.
If my tone makes you think I don't appreciate Peter Max, I'm remiss, because I actually do like him when he's at his art-deco kaleidoscopic best, I just lament the obscurity of other artists who pioneered this style.
Max himself moved his style into a kind of neo-expressionism, often mixed with the pop psychedelia of his poster art. He expanded his working methods into a number of media and remains active today, creating posters, magazine covers, limited edition prints and gallery paintings.
His work is full of the vibrantly intense color relationships associated with psychedelic and op art, in which high-value, high-saturation colors are frequently juxtaposed with their compliments, causing an increased intensity and optical "vibration" from the way the brain processes color.
His web site has a small selection of his 60's work. The gallery is the "Shop" (which tells you something), look in the "Vintage Poster" section. There are also interesting works in the contemporary "Posters", particularly under "Misc." I can't give you direct links because the site is in frames.
A collection of his work, The Art of Peter Max, was published in 2002.
There is an exhibition called Peter Max and the Summer of Love at the de Young museum in San Francisco from now till October 28, 2007, supposedly in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the "Summer of Love" in 1967.
I'm not exactly sure what Peter Max actually has to do with the "Summer of Love", except that they both marked the explosion of the 60's counterculture into mainstream culture, which was, of course, its death knell. The establishment brownshoes who got so uptight at the rise of the "dirty hippies" who wanted to subvert the authoritarian consumerist conformity they desperately wanted to maintain just didn't have enough faith in American Popular Culture, which, like a cosmic game of Katamari Damacy, can absorb anything.
[Exhibition listing via Art Knowledge News, photo of Peter Max mural on Atlantic City boardwalk (image top, enlargement here) from Flickr set by iirraa, I've taken the liberty of cropping it and adjusting levels. Note the size of the passer-by on the boardwalk.]
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Monday, September 10, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Thanks for this article. I've always liked Max's work and never could understand why it was sneered at in some circles while Warhol's soup cans and Lichtenstein's comic books were considered "fine art". I remain convinced that commercial success is synonymous with not being taken seriously in some sectors of the art world. Anyway, Peter Max manages to capture a cheerful and yet thoughtful aesthetic in his work. Looking forward to the future articles on those "pioneers" of this style.
Dan van Benthuysen says:
I beg to differ. I find his art numbingly formulaic — and not from formulas he did much to create, synthesize or refine.
I think (as I did 40 years ago) it's as hard to admire Peter Max's minute amount of talent and skill spread so amazingly thin as it is equally difficult to ignore his prodigious, relentless self-promotion and marketing.
That, at least, one has to respect.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 8:29 am
The Madonna of pop art, eh, Daniel?
I agree that much of is is formulaic, and he really cranked it out to make money,and stopped at nothing to find news ways to sell it; but in some of his better pieces he managed to distill that Edleman/Griffin op art psychedelic buzz, and some kind of art deco design sense that they often didn't have, into a blended whole that worked. Not often, but enough to please the designer, artist, cartoonist (and countercultural freakazoid) in me. But I do very much prefer the more original progenetors of that style that I mentioned in the article. Max was the Monkees to their Beatles, but even the Monkees had talent (at least one of them.)
Ok, so I was a Monkees fan too. I guess reading the book about Max (The Art of Peter Max, you mentioned) took him up a notch in my estimation. As you said, Charley, there is something about the blended whole of his work that pleases me and a few pieces of his early work–the ones with the monks–have a sophisticated simplicity that I find especially appealing.
Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 12:14 am
where is the original universal harmony by peter max and what was the date it was made
Friday, July 31, 2009 at 12:10 am
Give me Stanley, Victor, Rick, Wes, and Anton any day. Short lived, high impact, purpose serving, influential, very creative, influenced as well, way out there dudes. Even though they didn't invent the art nouveau style they sure arranged it in a unique manner. It was a one of a kind time in history. So creative. Would have loved to have been a part of that art and music scene! Or a fly on the wall in their studios. Sigh.
Peter Max did lift the spirit too. That's never a bad thing. Betty

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Nikolay Trusov (en  ; ), né le  à Léningrad, est un coureur cycliste russe.

Biographie

Champion du monde et d'Europe junior de plusieurs disciplines de la piste, Nikolay Trusov commence sa carrière professionnelle en 2004 avec l'équipe Lokomotiv. Il suit l'encadrement de cette équipe sous sa nouvelle appellation Tinkoff Restaurants et remporte sept victoires en 2006.

Le contrat le liant à Tinkoff-Saxo est prolongé en août 2015.

Palmarès sur route

Par années
 2002
  et  de la Vuelta al Besaya
  de la Vuelta al Besaya
 2005
 Clásica Internacional Txuma
 2006
  du Tour de Lleida
 Prologue, , ,  et  des Cinq anneaux de Moscou
  du Cinturón a Mallorca (contre-la-montre)
 2007
  du Tour de Grande-Bretagne
  de l'Eindhoven Team Time Trial (contre-la-montre par équipes)
 2008
  du Ster Elektrotoer
 2009
  du Tour de Catalogne
 Duo normand (avec Artem Ovechkin)
 2015
  du Championnat des Flandres
 2016
  du Tour de Croatie (contre-la-montre par équipes)

Résultats sur les grands tours

Tour de France
1 participation
 2009 :

Tour d'Italie
2 participations
 2007 :
 2008 :

Tour d'Espagne
1 participation
 2008 : non-partant ()

Classements mondiaux

Légende : nc = non classé

Palmarès sur piste

Championnats du monde juniors
 2003
  Champion du monde de l'américaine juniors (avec Mikhail Ignatiev)
  Champion du monde de poursuite par équipe juniors (avec Mikhail Ignatiev, Kirill Demura et Anton Mindlin)

Coupe du monde
 2004-2005
  de l'américaine à Los Angeles
 2005-2006
  de la poursuite par équipes à Los Angeles (avec Sergei Klimov, Ivan Rovny et Alexander Serov)
  de l'américaine à Moscou (avec Mikhail Ignatiev)
  de l'américaine à Manchester
  de la poursuite par équipes à Moscou
  de l'américaine à Los Angeles
 2006-2007
  de la poursuite par équipes à Sydney (avec Ivan Rovny, Alexander Serov et Mikhail Ignatiev)
  de l'américaine à Sydney (avec Mikhail Ignatiev)
  de la poursuite par équipes à Moscou
  de la poursuite par équipes à Manchester
  de l'américaine à Manchester

Championnats d'Europe
 Juniors et Espoirs
 Büttgen 2002
  Championnat d'Europe de poursuite individuelle juniors
  Médaillé de bronze de la poursuite par équipes juniors
 Moscou 2003
  Champion d'Europe de poursuite par équipes juniors (avec Mikhail Ignatiev, Vladimir Isaichev et Anton Mindlin)
  Médaillé de bronze du scratch juniors
 Athènes 2006
  Médaillé d'argent de l'américaine espoirs
  Médaillé de bronze de la poursuite individuelle espoirs
 Cottbus 2007
  Médaillé d'argent de la poursuite par équipes espoirs
  Médaillé de bronze de la course aux points espoirs

 Élites
 2007
  Médaillé d'argent de l'américaine

Notes et références

Liens externes

Coureur cycliste russe
Coureur cycliste sur piste
Coureur cycliste aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2008
Naissance en juillet 1985
Naissance à Léningrad

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Yes, I have tried everything.
ok so i tried most things though. I also rooted around on the 'net and found nothing.
Make sure you have "Tekkit" selected on the launcher's main screen.
Did you try filling water balloons with jello and doing a handstand?
Oh man, I filled them with pee, is that what I did wrong?
well, actually, I fill my water balloons with WATER.
and tekkit is selected, i made sure of that.
Pro tip: The mistake you're making is an incredibly obvious one.
let the thread die now.


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Retail ·Coca-Cola
The Coca Cola-Funded Anti-Obesity Group is Disbanding
BYMichal Addady
December 1, 2015, 7:43 PM UTC
A customer shops near bottles of Coca-Cola Co. soft drinks at a supermarket in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Coca-Cola said last week it will raise North American drink prices 3 percent to 4 percent in the second half of 2011. Photographer: Ramin Talaie/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Photo by Ramin Talaie/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Global Energy Balance Network, a non-profit dedicated to fighting obesity, has officially disbanded following revelations about Coca Cola's contributions to the organization.
The organization announced the news by writing a statement on the homepage of its website that reads: "Effective immediately, GEBN is discontinuing operations due to resource limitations." The rest of the website has been taken down in full.
The Associated Press had reported that it obtained emails that detail Coca Cola's involvement with GEBN, including choosing a leader and content for its website. Coca Cola CEO Muhtar Kent said in a statement that there had not been a "sufficient level of transparency" regarding the relationship between the beverage retailer and the non-profit. The company has ceased its work with GEBN.
Dr. James Hill, the group's president and a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, wrote in an email to the AP that GEBN wanted to continue its work. Just one week later, it was announced that it wouldn't.
Hill reportedly had a business relationship with Coca Cola prior to GEBN's inception. The Associated Press reports that since 2010 he has received $550,000 from the company for research, speaking engagements, and other work.
Coca Cola did not comment on the organization's decision to halt its efforts, and Dr. Hill could not immediately be reached.


Today's world can be tough on couples. Long hours, long commutes, rising costs of childcare and healthcare–perhaps it's no wonder divorce rates are so high. But if you make it to these big anniversaries, chances are, you've found something really special–and someone who brings you joy every day, no matter how hectic it gets. Bring a little extra joy to the special occasions you share with these classic anniversary gifts.
Diamonds are the traditional gift for couples celebrating their first decade together. It's customary to go with more classic, timeless styles for this occasion.
Fashion jewelry is the official 11th anniversary gift. Basically, "fashion jewelry" describes pieces in trendier cuts and styles. Just because it's a little edgier doesn't mean it should be poorly made, or made from cheap materials–much of today's fashion jewelry is much more high quality than the costume jewelry of old, and certainly more appropriate for an anniversary gift.
Pearls time! Whether it's the classic strand or something a bit more modern, give the gift that is always elegant.
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In early February Björn moved to the island of Fårö on the east coast of Sweden together with his girlfriend Yrsa and their rabbit Humle. They rent a house there by the ocean and the idea was to "be creative".
Björn had already finished most of the recordings for his upcoming album BURMA, but after finalizing BURMA on Fårö he decided that wasn't enough. He had started writing songs in a high speed and decided to make an mp3-album out of it.
It's a solo experience of what happened in a small room facing east during a few weeks in march and april this year. The title is borrowed from a line in a Sonya Hartnett book, and we do hope you like it. Together with the 13 songs comes a package of illustrations, a photo diary, lyrics and note book excerpts. Enjoy!
Click to get a taste of the album!


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Rantz: Seattle takes parking, threatens to tow during coronavirus stay-at-home order
Apr 13, 2020, 9:48 PM | Updated: Apr 14, 2020, 8:22 am
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BY JASON RANTZ
The Jason Rantz Show, 3pm-6pm on KTTH
Without any direct notice to residents, Seattle Department of Transportation confiscated street parking during the coronavirus stay-at-home order.
While the cause is worthwhile, the execution is an embarrassing reminder both of how little the city cares for drivers and how important details often escape them.
To ensure area hospitals or clinics have access to parking, SDOT began placing signs on residential streets reserving spots for hospital staff, under threat of tow. Only, SDOT didn't tell anyone they were doing this, needlessly causing panic. And one nonprofit they're serving already appears to have a parking lot.
Coronavirus stay-at-home towing
In South Lake Union, SDOT took over both sides of a street near Mercer to accommodate nearby Mary's Place Family Diversion Center (this is a great organization and you should consider a donation). A handful of nearby residents parked on the street found a number of traffic barricades with notices reading "No parking".
SDOT attached a "notice of parking change" flyer saying the spots are now "hospital staff parking only." Park in the spot? You will be towed.
The threat of towing is bizarre. Residents are told to stay in their homes unless it's absolutely essential to leave. If you didn't leave your home on April 8, when the signs were posted, you faced towing. But there was no way for you to know that particular street would be confiscated for hospital parking (especially since there's not a hospital on that block).
No notice
Did SDOT spend an extra 47 seconds to leave flyers with the lobby staff at the nearby apartments most likely impacted by the parking confiscation? I was told by one apartment complex staffer that they didn't get any notice.
While the parking program was generally announced via SDOT's widely-unread blog on March 26 (which mostly copy/pasted a mayoral press release), SDOT didn't put up any flyers warning of the coming changes. That would have shown some semblance of consideration to drivers. SDOT can't do that. They have a reputation to uphold.
Were any cars towed? It's unclear (though unlikely since there doesn't appear to be any enforcement of the rules). The Joint Information Center (JIC) ignored my direct question on towing, but did note that you can park elsewhere without being subject to paid parking signs outside of permit parking zones, a position they dragged their feet before announcing.
Rantz: I'm embarrassed by Seattle Department of Transportation
The reserved spots are always empty. Seriously, always
It's unclear if the city even told Mary's Place that the spots are for them.
Mary's Place isn't a hospital, but a JIC supervisor told me the confiscated spots were "to support about a dozen healthcare workers" providing a "daily health assessment" at the location.
The street can accommodate about a dozen or so cars but, with two exceptions, the spots are always empty. Literally, every single reserved spot is empty at all times, day and night.
It seems hard to imagine Mary's Place would ever need all 12 spots on the street. Only two cars have been parked in spots on the street since last Wednesday. They likely belong to residents of one of the five nearby apartment complexes. They're likely abiding by the stay-at-home order. I hope the drivers don't get towed.
The only other cars on the block over the last several days: The KTTH station vehicle I temporarily parked there to take a picture and a moving truck for new renters that parked in a loading zone for a couple hours.
Perhaps the spots aren't used because there's a parking lot attached to Mary's Place — also with some empty spots.
Botched a good idea
I like the idea of reserving spots for health care workers, even though in this particular case they're stretching the intent of the program pretty dramatically. Not to mention, there are almost always open spots on this block or the surrounding ones. And, of course, the only time the city cares about drivers is during a pandemic. Outside of the coronavirus crisis, I guess Mayor Jenny Durkan and SDOT don't really care about your struggles to find a parking spot in this city.
Still, it's a worthy, well-intentioned plan and I'm glad they did it. It's just too bad SDOT was so utterly incompetent with their execution.
If SDOT cared one iota about drivers, they'd take even the most basic of efforts to let them know their plans on the block. They spent time putting up the traffic barricades. They couldn't spend an extra couple minutes putting up flyers or giving some notice to nearby apartment staff? It would literally be the least they could do to get the word out.
Instead, they put up the barricades during the coronavirus stay-at-home order and left, giving a resident a near panic-attack when they thought they might have been ticketed for parking in a suddenly-confiscated spot. And clearly SDOT put no thought into the consequences of taking up an entire block's worth of spots from a densely populated part of South Lake Union.
Thoughtful thoughtlessness
The city obviously didn't realize there are usually open spots in this area. And unless the attached parking lot to Mary's Place is a shared lot, the city doesn't appear to know the building has access to parking. If they did, they wouldn't have confiscated an entire block. You don't reserve spots, when spots are always open or not in demand, even during a coronavirus stay-at-home order.
So the city thought healthcare workers doing a daily check-up at Mary's Place might have a hard time finding parking. Fair enough. That means they should also know about 12 drivers will then struggle to find parking near their apartment, now that they've been pushed out of their spots.
The city offered no recommendations on where to park. I called the number on the flyer and the friendly customer service representative said SDOT didn't give them any details. So they've displaced 12 drivers for healthcare workers who don't even use the spots, certainly not consistently, and definitely not at once.
Same ole, same ole
I'm obviously not surprised. SDOT has little regard for drivers, even during a coronavirus stay-at-home order.
Their traffic engineer normally spends his days posting tweets about sidewalk design while traffic gets worse. And many of the employees responsible for ensuring traffic isn't too congested don't own cars, so they don't really understand what it's like to drive in Seattle. It's a big reason why traffic is so horrific.
But every once and a while I keep hoping they'll just do the basics in at least telling us about their plans. And during a pandemic, I don't know how many people wanted to deal with the stress, however ephemeral, of wondering if they'll find a parking ticket on their windshield, having just lost hours at work due to the coronavirus.
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Q: How to construct a SparseMat from vectors OpenCV? As in Matlab, I can initialize a sparse matrix from 3 vectors like

Sparse = sparse(X,Y,Value,m,n);

Where X and Y are the indexes in the matrix, m and n are the required dimensions of the sparse mat.
Is there anything like this in OpenCV?

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A trucker was lost in snow-covered woods in Oregon for four days when the wrong address was plugged into the GPS. He managed to survive and walk back to more populated areas when his truck got stuck on small roads.
The roads started paved but narrowed ahead. Jacob Cartwright, the driver, was hauling potato chips in a tractor-trailer from Portland, northwestern Oregon, to Nyssa along the Idaho border, slated to cover about 400 miles. He was working with wrong information, plugging the wrong address into the system, which prompted the GPS system to direct him through Pendleton, along a US Forest Service road.
His family and the local authorities searched for him tirelessly, until he just reappeared.
A worrying story with a happy ending.
But as from anything, we learn and evolve from this. Jacob learned to doublecheck and verify every address he puts in the system. But, if not him, then someone else. This problem is bound to repeat as human errors are quite difficult to avoid.
There is a better way. Even though it may seem like an attempt to leverage a solution, it isn't so. There is 'genuinely' a better way, and it has been implemented across many of the large transport companies across the world.
Track the movement and activities of all your drivers in real-time from a single dashboard. Little Trees Transportation, Jacob's employers, could track him as he moved with the potato chips. The tracking system also supports driver behavior analysis. If someone, not Jacob but any other driver, was speeding, unnecessarily detained, or taken a different route than the one planned, the company would get instant alerts.
could have recorded his current location (where he was detained) so that the authorities could just reach there quickly (the company would have also received detention alerts showing that Jacob was stuck).
There's another side to the story. Our machine learning algorithms identify flawed or inconsistent addresses and fix them before planning routes for them. This means that Little Trees Transportation or Jacob wouldn't have to deal with wrong addresses in the first place.
In the world of connected movement, technology can bridge such gaps and make a safer world for Jacob and other drivers like him. Companies can benefit from greater visibility and risk-control. All in all, this is the way now, not just ahead.


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By Sam EggintonFebruary 2, 2018Fashion News, Style
Very 80's and 90's.
The London-based skate label, Palace, have just dropped some official imagery to their upcoming Spring 2018 offerings and it screams 80's and 90's all over. The images which were taken by the globally renowned photographer, Juergen Teller, were shot in junkyard-like surroundings and often include plates for props – playing off the German word 'teller' meaning plate. As for the clothing, they were consistently vibrant and a fuse of 90's sportswear and more traditional garments such as cardigans that were most prevalent in the 70's and 80's. Take a look at the images below and stay tuned for all the latest news regarding Palace as the year progresses.
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Wisconsin Elections Commission Releases Presidential Election Recount Cost Estimate of $3.5 million
Wisconsin's 72 County Clerks expect to hire thousands of temporary workers to assist the county boards of canvassers in recounting the ballots.
By Wisconsin Elections Commission	- Nov 28th, 2016 04:39 pm
Jill Stein. Photo courtesy of Jill Stein for President.
MADISON, WI – The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission has given a recount cost estimate of nearly $3.5 million to the campaigns of Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent candidate Rocky Roque De La Fuente.
For the recount to go forward, one or both of the candidates will have to pay $3,499,689 to the Commission by 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, said Commission Administrator Michael Haas. Both recount petitioners have been advised of the cost estimate.
At a meeting earlier today, the Commission directed staff to assess the full estimated recount fee to both petitioning candidates unless the candidates each submit payment for one-half of the total estimated cost.
"County Clerks have done their best to estimate the actual costs of conducting a large recount in a relatively short time," said Haas. "The estimates may vary widely as some clerks may not have been able to precisely identify their estimated costs in the short time available to them. If the estimate turns out to be too high, the campaign will receive a refund. If the estimate is too low, they will have to pay the additional cost."
Wisconsin's 72 County Clerks expect to hire thousands of temporary workers to assist the county boards of canvassers in recounting the ballots. They also expect to be working extra hours and weekends to finish the recount by 8 p.m. Monday, December 12, the deadline established by the Commission today. The Commission will certify results by 3 p.m. Tuesday, December 13.
A spreadsheet containing each county's estimate is attached to this news release.
Video from Wisconsin Eye's coverage of today's Commission meeting and news conference is available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gamu_45FV8w. During the meeting and Q&A session, many questions about recount costs were addressed.
The Commission's role in a recount is to order the recount, to provide legal guidance to the counties during the recount, and to certify the results. If the candidates disagree with the results of the recount, the law gives them the right to appeal in circuit court within five business days after the recount is completed. The circuit court is where issues are resolved that may be discovered during the recount but are not resolved to the satisfaction of the candidates.
Wisconsin's Recount Manual and comprehensive information about past recounts, including the last statewide recount in the 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, are available here: http://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/recount.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission is responsible for administration and enforcement of election laws in Wisconsin. The Commission is made up of six Commissioners – four appointed directly by the State Senate Majority Leader, Speaker of the Assembly and the Minority Leaders in the State Senate and Assembly. The remaining two Commissioners are by the Governor with confirmation by the State Senate from lists of former municipal and county clerks submitted by the legislative leadership in each party.
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11 thoughts on "Wisconsin Elections Commission Releases Presidential Election Recount Cost Estimate of $3.5 million"
Happyjack27 says:
Estimates on things like this are invariably high.
Not only "better safe than sorry", but to account for the unanticipated.
Having said that? I suspect this is ballpark.
That's over a dollar per vote. Even if the temporary workers are making $12/hour, is it really plausible to suggest that someone can't properly examine more than 12 votes in one hour?
Interesting that Columbia County, with a population of 56,000, estimates a cost of $126,000. Meanwhile Dane County has 9 times the population and can hand count their votes for just 2.5 times the cost.
Maybe Columbia should just send their ballots over to Dane.
Judging by the two prices listed when there's the option of optical scan or hand count, the actual manual labor of hand counting is only about 1/3rd of the total cost. Presumably the other 2+ million dollars is "overhead".
Jefferson County (42,324 votes): $131,500.00 estimate.
LaCrosse County (62,785 votes): $ 12,000.00 estimate.
Looks to me like the Jefferson County Clerk doesn't want this recount to happen. Big surprise that it's an overwhelmingly Republican county.
Lafayette county is charging 15 cents per person (total population).
Oneida is charging 5 dollars per person.
At about 0.5 votes per person, that comes out to 30 cents per ballot counted in Lafayette, and $10 per ballot counted in Oneida.
Menominee county, with a population of 4,573 people, is charging $200. That's 4 cents per person, or about 8 cents per ballot.
Where every other county to give Menominee their ballots, and have them count them, the total cost would be $252,380.
Milwaukee's official vote tally is 247,836 votes.
They are estimating $537,734.14.
That's $2.16 per vote.
The tabulation method is listed as "optical scan".
If a single person scanned at the relatively slow pace of 1 ballot every 10 seconds, they'd be scanning 600 ballots an hour.
After a full 40 hour work week, they'd have scanned 24,000 ballots, and presumably made $51,976.39 – a rather respectable year's salary.
It would take them about 10 and a half weeks to scan every ballot.
What does this tell us? Are these counties trying to pad their budgets with a hostage scenario? Or are they trying to avoid a recount?
I suppose it could be both.
Presumably Onieda County is buying their entire population a round of drinks – regardless of whether they're of legal drinking age or not.


In the duality theme for their joint show, Oluwole Omofemi and Samuel Tete-Katchan have a summary of the crucial spot of art in the vast world of aesthetics While Omofemi, a Nigerian emphasises on human forms to explain dynamics of period and trend in cultural values, Tete-Katchan, a Togolese, implores geometric to expose his own world full of cubism. Through the funnel of this duality, the artists distill their art exhibition titled Fair and Square, currently showing at Alexis Gallery, Victoria Island, Lagos.
As naturalism, in recent decades, has been swept away by the fast speed of technological advancement, Omofemi's palette sympathises with the vanishing natural black woman. He captures women of African descents, specifically youths within bracket age of 20-30. His focus, among several other natural contents, is the curly hair in afro form.And what a timely theme at the period that natural hair style is now becoming popular among women of African descents. If Omofemi wasn't aware of this development, he got inspiration for the theme during his visit to a salon. "I met a salon owner last year who said: 'people are now keeping natural hair'".
And when the idea of a joint exhibition came, he brought in the naturalism subject as what would be "the 'Fair' aspect of the show".
Backside angle view of a woman in front of the mirror titled 'Reflection' radiates multiple statements in both cultural and social values. From her anatomy to the single tight dress and, of course, the natural hair style, the young woman comes alive under the artist's articulation of colours. More importantly, the 'man in the mirror', which has no gender meaning also applies to this natural beauty rendered by Omofemi's palette. "The woman looking at the mirror is to also use the mirror to see herself as a reflection" of the society, the artist explains.
Apart from the natural hair subject, Omofemi says "as an artist, I urge women to be modest in the way they dress". In this context, Omofemi's definition of modesty in female fashion is very subjective; an open chest-back female dress may not be exactly modest. He calls the paintings of ladies in natural hair 'Afro Series,' a set of work the artist says are reminiscence of the Black movement of the mid 20th century era.
Based in Ibadan, a city of about 150 kilometres from the Lagos art hub of Victoria Island, Omofemi has been a painter "since 15 years". But, he discloses that the curator at Alexis Galleries, Patsy Chidiac, "has been a source of inspiration to me", of recent. "Though she was tough on me, but what she used to say then, I am benefiting now".If an artists says, "When you see my world, they have geometric", he sounds familiar. Quite a number if artist claim such attributes. But in Tete-Katchan's painting, there is a spiritual flavour. In fact, priesthood is part of his artistic journey.
Mostly in cubism rendition, Tete-Katchan's paintings try as much as possible to lift the portrait figures off the canvas, despite the constrains in flow of colour shades with the choice of forms. And when the artist does a famous theme like 'The Last Supper' – made famous by Leornado da vinci – the depth takes his own style.
The core of Tete-Katchan's focus is the "geometric" beauty of the world. "There is nothing ugly in the whole world of colours like mosaic", he argues. "Everything that we are in creation is like a square." Beyond the perspective of an artist with cubism brush strokes, Tete-Katchan proclaims spirituality. "I was in the process of being a priest", Tete-Katchan recalls part of spirituality that reflects in his art. "I had some dreams, which I shared with my guide".
Whatever those dreams would later mean to the artist, his art also has allegiance to the African American theological space of the 1960s. "Most of my inspiration come from Marthin Luther King". And to keep the world as beautiful as his paintings say, the artist starts from home, so suggests a painting of his daughters in the garden. Titled after his children 'Anne-marie and Marie-Michelle,' the work represents the artist's belief in the sanctity of family bond. "The family is where everything starts", he notes. "If you want to destroy the world, start from the family".
Based in Accra, Ghana, Tete-Katchan is not exactly new to the Nigerian art space. "I was in Nigeria in 2007 for exhibition at Alliance Francais". He believes that "Nigeria has produced many great artists, including El Anatsui".
In corporate sponsors and supports, Alexis Galleries has sustained nearly the same brands.For Fair and Square, tJr sponsors include by Pepsi, Delta Airline, Amarula, Nederburg, Cobranet Internet Service Provider, Cool FM, Wazobia FM/TV, Cool FM/TV, Chocolate Royal, The Avenue Suites, Art Café and The Homestores Limited.Chidiac, whose space is arguably the most active on the Lagos art exhibition circuit in recent years says Fair and Square "is one of the most exciting shows we have this year". The strength of the exhibition, the curator explains, is "the combination of the artists as no two works of each artists are similar".


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About Clark Kidder
Mr. Kidder speaking on the Orphan Trains at the Wisconsin Museum of History in 2014. Photo by Kimberly Blanchette.
A viewer of Clark Kidder's orphan train presentation on Wisconsin Public Television made this comment:
"We want to thank you for the moving presentation on the Orphan Train aired tonight! Once again you have brought viewers an extra fine program! Please pass along our great appreciation to Clark Kidder for his research and his preservation of this history of his grandmother's courage and perseverance – it beats all fiction! We grew to love Mr. Kidder's grandmother through his love and also to be thankful for people like Reverend Clarke who gave so much of himself to these children! With appreciation to WPT and to Clark Kidder!" – Ann and Eric
Watch Mr. Kidder's Presentation on the Orphan Trains at the Wisconsin History museum here
Member of the Association of Professional Genealogists
Clark Kidder resides in southern Wisconsin. Mr. Kidder is considered to be one of the leading authorities on America's orphan train movement. After discovering his paternal grandmother, Emily (Reese) Kidder, was placed on an orphan train by the New York Children's Aid Society and sent to the Midwest in 1906, he began researching the subject and his grandmother's life. He has since authored two books related to the orphan trains, has co-written and co-produced an Emmy-winning documentary West by Orphan Train (based on his book Emily's Story, which chronicles the life of his Grandmother), has written an award-winning article on the subject for the Wisconsin Magazine of History, and has spoken to libraries, historical and genealogical societies, and various other organizations on the subject for nearly twenty years. While researching his grandmother's life story he discovered two of his grandmother's brothers were placed in the New York Juvenile Asylum. During the last two years Mr. Kidder has done extensive research in the records of the Asylum – making him uniquely qualified to conduct research for those who may also have a relative that was once placed in the New York Juvenile Asylum.
He is a freelance writer for International publications, and has authored several books, including Orphan Trains and Their Precious Cargo (1st Ed. Heritage Books, Inc., 2001; 2nd Ed. Createspace, 2017); A Genealogy of the Wood Family (Family Tree Publishers, 2003, and Higginson Book Company, 2007); A Genealogy of the Butts/Butz Family (Higginson Book Company, 2007), Emily's Story: The Brave Journey of an Orphan Train Rider (Bookmasters, 2007), and A History of the Rural Schools of Rock County, Wisconsin (Createspace, 2014; 6 vols.); Names of Children in the Records of the New York Juvenile Asylum (1853-1923) (Createspace, 2018); The New York Juvenile Asylum: An Index to Its Federal and State Census Records (Createspace, 2018); and A History of the New York Juvenile Asylum and Its Orphan Trains – in six volumes, (KDP, 2021); Marilyn Monroe UnCovers (Quon Editions, 1993); Marilyn Monroe Collectibles: A Comprehensive Guide To The Memorabilia Of An American Legend (Avon Books, 1999); Marilyn Monroe-Cover to Cover, 1st and 2nd edition (Krause Publications, Inc., 2003, 2011); and Marilyn Monroe Memorabilia: Putting a Price on the Priceless Performer (Krause Publications, Inc., 2001). His magazine articles have appeared in History Magazine, the Wisconsin Magazine of History (Winter 2003-4), Family Tree Magazine, National Genealogical Magazine (NGS), Jan-March 2019; Fancy Fowl (England), Avicultura (Holland), and Poultry Press.
Kidder has been interviewed by numerous reporters for articles in such newspapers as the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. His television appearances include MSNBC, PAX, WGN, Wisconsin Public Television, and on Iowa and Illinois Public Television. He has been interviewed on numerous radio shows around the nation, including Wisconsin Public Radio and Iowa Public Radio. Kidder was host of his own television show called Book Talk on JATV, in Janesville, Wisconsin. In addition, he has provided consultation and photographs for documentaries and television shows produced by CBS, and October Films in London, England.
Kidder was the recipient of the 38th Annual Hesseltine Award for his article titled West by Orphan Train, which appeared in the Winter 2003-2004 issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History.
Kidder has co-written and co-produced a film based on his book Emily's Story: The Brave Journey of an Orphan Train Rider. It was released in 2014 and is titled West by Orphan Train. The film won two national awards in 2015 – a Leadership in History Award from the American Association for State and Local History, and a Clarion Award. On October 3, 2015 it won a Midwest Regional Emmy Award. Here's a link to the film's song, Little Birds, written and performed for the documentary by the incredibly talented folk singer, Chad Elliott.
The New York Times writes about his paternal grandmother, Emily, and mentions his book about her life, i.e. Emily's Story: The Brave Journey of an Orphan Train Rider. Emily's Story is available on Amazon.com.
Mr. Kidder received the Charles Loring Brace Award at the June 4, 2016 in Concordia, Kansas during the annual celebration at the National Orphan Train Complex. He was also Keynote Speaker at the event:
DVD Cover of the documentary "West by Orphan Train" (2014).
Tickets sold out to the West by Orphan Train premiere at the DeWitt Opera House Theater in DeWitt, Iowa on October 27, 2014.
Clark Kidder (with Director Colleen Bradford Krantz to his left) pose on the set at Iowa Public Television as the station was pledging West by Orphan Train. The photo is of Mr. Kidder's grandparents, Earl and Emily Kidder. The film was centered around Emily's life story.
Clark Kidder and Colleen Bradford Krantz accept the Best of Iowa Award for West by Orphan Train at the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival in Dubuque, Iowa in 2015.
Mr. Kidder poses with the Audience Choice Award that West by Orphan Train won at the Beloit International Film Festival in Beloit, Wisconsin in 2015.
William Best Hesseltine Award – presented to Clark Kidder for his article "West by Orphan Train," which appeared in the Winter 2003/2004 issued of the Wisconsin Magazine of History. It was voted favorite article of the year by the magazine's subscribers.
Mr. Kidder's article titled "America's Orphan Trains" is featured in the August/September 2015 issue of History Magazine.
The Charles Loring Brace Award – presented to Clark Kidder in 2016.
Mr. Kidder accepting the the Charles Loring Brace (with hugs and kisses) at the National Orphan Train Complex in 2016.
Mr. Kidder was interviewed by Christine Zak Edwards on Consider This for IPTV just prior to the broadcast of his documentary film, West by Orphan Train, in May 2021. He was joined by his cousin, Jim Kidder.
Mr. Kidder received this Special Recognition Award from the National Orphan Train Complex in June, 2021.
Make a donation to Mr. Kidder to help him continue his work on documenting America's Orphan Train Movement and indexing old records.


How Do You Look After Your Trail Shoes?
When it got to the morning of the race and I was putting my kit on, I went to change my shoes and oh my gosh was it was struggle to get my feet into my trail shoes! Stiff with mud and a tonne of small stones still jammed inside I realised maybe I hadn't done the best I could to take care of them. Doh.
…and all the advice seemed to be pretty similar so I'm putting it all here so I don't have to dig out my Facebook posts next time I need the advice and for anyone other poor sod who Googles "how to clean my trail shoes" or "getting mud off trainers". We've all been there.
Is The Washing Machine Worth The Risk?
To Remove The Mud, Or Not?
Apparently, when mud dries on shoes, it can damage them. Your best bet therefore, is to rinse them outside and try to get as much of the mud off as you can – someone even suggested using the jet wash at the car wash! Then they're in much more reasonable shape to hand wash in hot soapy water in the shower.
And as someone rightly pointed out, remember, they're only gonna get muddy again anyway!
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Oxford Chamber Music Composition Competition - winners announced!
d'Overbroeck's is delighted to announce that our judges Jonnny Greenwood, Jeremy Arden and Priya Mitchell met at the end of last week and, after much deliberation, have chosen joint winners for this, the first ever d'Overbroeck's/OCMF Chamber Music Composition Competition.
All of the compositions that we heard had a huge amount to commend them, and we would like to thank all those who entered the competition for sharing them with us and for giving us many hours of happy listening!
Congratulations go to Thomas Simpson (Magdalen College School) and to Tingshuo Yang (Eton College) on gaining first prize, and to our runners-up, Thomas Jansson (d'Overbroeck's), Christopher Brain (Winchester College) and Daniel Sandell (Harrow School).
In the end, it was too difficult to choose between Thomas Simpson's Do Not Go Gently and Tingshuo Yang's Violin Sonata.
Tingshuo Yang's sonata showed impressive technical accomplishment with a remarkable consistency of style throughout. It was powerful, dramatic and complex, and was an imaginative response to the brief, incorporating and communicating themes of brotherhood, isolation and nature.
Thomas Simpson's composition was emotionally direct and convincing and communicated the composer's intentions with great clarity- an emotional lightning rod for the themes set out in the brief.
Both of the winning pieces will be recorded (with Festival Director and competition judge Priya Mitchell, violin) and the recordings will be shared on the OCMF and d'Overbroeck's websites.
D'Overbroeck's provides an ideal environment for musical education and runs and A-Level music programme.
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The Caldwells used their home to promote the most controversial social reforms of their day, abolishing slavery throughout the nation .
Josiah and Lucy Caldwell bought this house on Elm Street in 1822. They had no children. In 1836, they took their three-year-old niece Margaret Ann into their home and later adopted her.
Many middle-class and prosperous Protestants like the Caldwells were influenced by a religious revivalism and a new ideal that stressed the moral power of home and family. For a few, these ideas inspired a radical mission. They believed that ordinary families who joined together could change the world. The Caldwells' house in Ipswich became part of an international struggle to end slavery.
For Lucy, Josiah, and Margaret Caldwell-and for many middle-class and prosperous people in the mid- l 800s-a parlor like this was the center of the family's religious and social life. Its warm stove, comfortable furnishings, lamps, and abundance of goods provided an idealized setting for a home life that nurtured "good morals and steady habits."
The Caldwells' parlor was also a center for antislavery activity in the community. Here Lucy held meetings of the Ipswich Female Anti-Slavery Society, one of the many groups organized in the 1830s to work for the immediate abolition of slavery.
What social issue was important to the Caldwells?
Lucy Caldwell would have discusses abolition with her family or with her friends when the Ipswich Female Anti-Slavery Society met in this parlor.
Items decorating the Caldwell parlor would have conveyed the family's beliefs through religious imagery, moral messages, or other uplifting advice. The parlor table was a place for the family to sit together to converse or read from the Bible or popular periodicals. Lucy might have discussed the abolitionist literature with her family, or with her friends when the Ipswich Female Anti-Slavery Society met here.


Last year, the Whitewater Arts Alliance hosted, and Everett Long and I conducted, a photography workshop called "Photography Beyond the Snapshot". It was very well received and we were asked to hold another workshop this year.
The workshop has kept its name because we thought it was kind of catchy but we have revamped the content to emphasize some of the areas that we were not able to cover in depth last year due to limited time. So, for those who attended last year's event and are wondering if this will be the same stuff, the answer is it will be fresh and mostly different.
We encourage people to show their work. A great opportunity to do so is right around the corner the 8th Annual Fran Achen Photography Show.
Many people feel trepidation when thinking about showing their work to others, that's perfectly natural. Once you start showing your work, though, you begin to think less about your reluctance and more about what you can show the next time. Artistic self-confidence follows.
Does my image have enough resolution (pixels) to make a suitable print?
Does the aspect ratio (width to height ratio) lend itself to the method of framing I would like?
How you will get them produced.
Basic framing and installing wire hangers generated great interest at last year's workshop so I produced an instructional video that demonstrates the entire process. The video can be found here. Since the video is pretty complete and may be paused, rewound, and replayed as often as desired (and is free), we will not be repeating this demonstration at the workshop, except to answer any questions.
We'll discuss specific types of outdoor photography, both to generate some creative ideas as well as to talk about specific challenges involved with each.
We will be answering questions throughout the workshop as they arise but will also have a segment oriented toward answering any questions that have been submitted in advance as well as any that arise during the presentation. Please send me any questions you may have via the contact form here.
The Whitewater Arts Alliance is offering a FREE workshop "Photography: Beyond the Snapshot" which will be presented Saturday May 20 from 10am to 12pm at the Cultural Arts Center in Whitewater.
Presenters Everett Long and Jeff McDonald are award winning Whitewater-based photographers. This beginning to intermediate level workshop will cover some photographic basics as well as give brief introductions to several specialized/advanced techniques. It will include question and answer and discussion segments.
The event is free and open to the public, all are welcome to attend.
Please RSVP if you would like to attend so that we know how many chairs to arrange.
PS: We listened…several attendees of last year's workshop expressed that the presenters were difficult to hear at times. The generosity of several sponsors has made it possible for the Arts Alliance to upgrade its sound system by adding two presenter microphones. There should be no problems hearing this year's presentation!