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New Zealand COVID-19 Briefing Transcript April 22
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director of Health Ashley Bloomfield held a New Zealand coronavirus press briefing on April 22. Full transcript is here.
Prime Minister Ardern: (00:00)
[foreign language 00:00:15] Welcome to day 28 of level four. I'll hand over to Dr. Bloomfield for his update, and then we'll run through a few pieces of government news before we take questions. Dr. Bloomfield.
Dr. Bloomfield: (00:25)
Thank you, Prime Minister. [foreign language 00:00:13]. Today, New Zealand's total number of new cases has increased by six. These are all confirmed cases. Three are associated with overseas travel. These were people who came back who were repatriated from the Greg Mortimer cruise ship, and the other three are related to existing clusters. The new combined total of confirmed and probable cases in New Zealand is therefore 1,451.
Sadly today, I am reporting the death of a woman in her eighties, who was one of the residents of Rosewood Aged Residential Care Facility, who had been transferred to Burwood Hospital. The woman had underlying health conditions. As I've previously outlined due to the vulnerabilities of people in this group, some have not been tested for COVID-19, and instead have been managed as probable cases, and the woman who has just passed was one of those cases.
Every person we lose to COVID-19 is a tragedy, and with family and friends left without their loved one, and my thoughts and those of others, I'm sure, are with this woman's family today and in coming days.
There are now 1,036 people who have reported as recovered from COVID-19. Today, in hospital we have 11 people. Two of these are in intensive care, one in Middlemore, and one in Dunedin Hospital. They are both reported as being in a stable condition. We still have the 16 significant clusters, and five more COVID-19 cases have been linked to clusters. Some of those were cases that were under investigation, and have now been associated with clusters.
I am pleased to report our labs yesterday processed a record number of tests for a single day. That was 5,289 tests. It brings the total number to 94,797, and we have in stock today testing for over 87,000 tests. Around hospital visits, and there's a lot of interest in this, which I can understand, particularly as we move from alert level four to alert level three. Clearly the restrictions on visiting people in hospital do create hardships for both family and those in hospitals. We are working on the visitor policy and how it will look under alert level three, and just to acknowledge, while this may seem a relatively simple thing on the face of it, along with all the work we're doing with district health boards, it's how we do as much care and deliver as much care as possible to people under alert level three while keeping patients, staff, and visitors safe. So that work is ongoing and I will update you on it as soon as it has finished.
There is wider testing across a range of communities today with a particular focus on ensuring we've reach Maori and Pacific communities. In Northland, there is increasing testing in conjunction with Maori health providers, and they will be providing mobile testing facilities going out into smaller communities. This provides those with an opportunity to be tested, those who are there, as well as general health and wellbeing checks and flu vaccinations. So clinics will be available this week in the Far North, Kaitaia, Hokianga, Kaikohe, Kawakawa, Moerewa, Kaipara, and Kaeo. There's also a drive-through clinic in both Kerikeri and Whangarei.
Taranaki DHB is continuing communities testing of people with symptoms and encouraging anyone with symptoms to get tested. They're working with their Maori health provider network to help set up and deliver a range of outreach options to take testing closer to home, and in conjunction with Ngaruahine, Ngati Ruanui, and Tui Ora Maori health providers, there will be community-based outreach clinics in both North and South Taranaki.
This week around the country there will be a testing of selective groups, including health workers and essential workers as part of our community-based testing just, again, as part of our surveillance to ensure that we are not missing any undetected cases of COVID-19 out there. Just finally, on testing, the CBACs, community-based assessment centers, are for people who are symptomatic, either referred by Healthline or a general practitioner, or if someone does have symptoms. They are not there to test people who are asymptomatic, and you do not need a test if you're asymptomatic before going back to work next week.
Finally, just a sort of a more prosaic meter, I've extended the existing section 70 notices before they expire at midnight tonight. These are available on our website. There is one change I'd like to talk about, which will assist businesses. The new section 70(1)(m) order, recall the existing one required non-essential workplaces to be closed. As indicated by the prime minister, businesses will be able to work ahead of our move to alert level three carefully over coming days to prepare the workplaces, and the amended order allows for this.
And finally, if you need health care for any reason, ring Healthline or visit or ring your GP. Do not put off seeking health care, and do not wait to moving to alert level three. Thank you, prime minister.
Thank you, Dr. Bloomfield. I just want to pick up on Dr. Bloomfield's reference to the fact that there were three cases today amongst our confirmed cases who were connected to overseas travel. This is just an opportunity for me to highlight, again, that regardless of moving to alert level three, New Zealanders who are retuning home will continue to be quarantined and isolated in government facilities at alert level three. That will continue on. We have given no endpoint to that part of our response to COVID. It is an intrinsic part of our response, and it is not changing because we are moving alert levels.
To give you an update on numbers, we currently have 2,403 people in government-provided facilities, essentially hotels. The number in quarantine, so those who we are tasting or who have symptoms, is 97 with the remainder being in isolation. But again, in those hotels. I wanted to make that clear in case there was any confusion amongst the public over whether that would change. It will not.
In terms of government news more broadly, you will have heard and seen that we are preparing, as Dr. Bloomfield pointed out, to transition New Zealand to alert level three next week. Level three information has been shared, and many of you have been here for that process, and it's continuing to be updated and communicated as there was some smaller pieces of work that we needed further advice on. Schools and businesses are preparing as we speak for that move from next Tuesday as well. Safety, of course, remains paramount, and I know that's top of mind for employers and workplaces as they make the necessary preparations to have their teams who cannot work from home reenter the workforce.
On the larger end of the scale, New Zealand's largest infrastructure project, the Auckland City Rail Link, will be back to work post-lockdown to help support jobs in the construction sector. 200 workers will resume construction works on Tuesday at CRL sites, at Britomart, Lower Queen Street, Albert Street, Aotea, Karangahape Road, Mount Eden, and on the Southern Line at Otahuhu, and this will ramp up to pre-pandemic workforce, which was 400 over the week that then follows.
We've worked really hard to cushion the blow from COVID-19 with initiatives like the wage subsidy and advance payments to transport contractors, but getting transport infrastructure projects back underway safely is part of our transition out of level four. Of course, measures appropriate for level three are being put in place, including restricting access to sites, having workers maintain physical distancing, and providing protective clothing where that is necessary. Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency projects and non-essential State highway maintenance will also be able to resume under level three as well, but with strict health and safety protocols. NZTA is working with contractors on specific COVID-19 plans for each project to keep workers and the public safe.
In the meantime, as you'll hear me continually repeat, New Zealand is still at elite level four, and while I know there will be things we're all looking forward to under alert level three, we must not risk the gains that we have made, or that many New Zealanders have made sacrifices for over the last four weeks. Police have told me that while 99.9% of us are respecting the measures put in place, there are still some who are choosing to flout the rules and I have the numbers on that for you. As at 6:00 PM yesterday there had been 4,128 breaches of the CDM and Health Acts, 433 prosecutions, 3,580 official warnings, 115 youth referrals. More than 5,600 reassurance patrols at essential businesses and crime prevention patrols and neighborhoods and business districts have been carried out in just the past two days. Each and every one of these people involved in breaches, risks undoing the work of others. So again, I say please do not travel unnecessarily or gather. Police will be conducting checkpoints, and they will be enforcing the rules, and they do that to keep all of us safe.
Finally, you may recall that on Monday I mentioned that some workplaces, as they prepare for the return into workplaces that they need to return to, will be using these next few days to prepare. That includes premises being cleaned in preparation as well. So today my thanks and appreciation goes to our cleaners, and not before time. I've had many letters during our lockdown outlining their essential work during alert level four, such as from another essential business, a meat processor, crediting their cleaners as a core part of their success in continuing to move products around the country for New Zealanders. From our courts who say their cleaning staff are the first line of defense in keeping our courts safe, often working extra shifts at all times of the day and night. And even Rose, a cleaner at Otahuhu police station, who currently works 13 hour days. These are our essential workers, and I hope we continue to recognize them as that long after this pandemic has passed. Thank you for keeping us safe. Now we're ready for your questions.
This morning at the COVID committee from representatives right across the health sector, there's widespread concern about financial viability. Do you need to urgently financially help the likes of GPs, pharmacies, and dentists?
What I'd point out for the likes of pharmacies, the likes of GP support, has been provided to them. In fact, $45 million to date has gone into general practice to support them during the COVID response. That's for everything from supporting the virtual consult.
…from supporting the virtual consults that they've been doing for additional cost as a part of testing and also they have been eligible for the wage subsidy. So we have recognized the costs they faced and we have worked hard to try and support them as well.
Flu vaccine rollout was also described as a debacle by the New Zealand Medical Association. If the flu vaccine rollout was so poorly orchestrated, how can we ensure that.
I disagree with them on that.
How can we ensure that the same doesn't happen with a rollout of covid 19 vaccine should one be developed.
So firstly, I would disagree with that premise. The flu vaccine and flu vaccination started earlier than we usually would. For good reason, we wanted to be prepared and we have more flu vaccine then we would usually offer as well. So I disagree with your assessment of the flu vaccine.
We know and we want to protect New Zealanders and that's why we moved early in order to do that and it's not finished, we should add. It will be a rolling campaign.
How can you disagree with it though, Prime Minister when thousands of people have been turned away from receiving the flu vaccine?
Again, the point that I'm making here is that the flu vaccination program started earlier than it usually would and we prioritized, if I could finish, and we prioritize those who are at the greatest risk. Older New Zealanders, pregnant New Zealanders, and groups that usually would be just waiting with every other New Zealander to be vaccinated and so we moved early, we got more vaccine, and we continue with the flu vaccination program as we continue to have more vaccine coming into the country. You'll recognize that in a pandemic more people are coming forward all at once when we started that program early.
The Medical Association, and this is also for Dr. Bloomfield, they're asking that the Ministry of Health be in charge of distributing a covid 19 vaccine rather than a distribution company to avoid any issues like have been seen with the flu vaccine. Is that something that's being considered?
So just to pick up on the flu vaccine. Again, the flu vaccine is unique in New Zealand in that is available both to publicly funded people who are eligible and also through the private sector and it has been so for a long time. This year, Pharmac had moved to secure an extra 400,000 doses of flu vaccine before covid 19 was even known about. We then moved to advance the flu vaccination program so that we could make sure that our most vulnerable /new Zealanders could be vaccinated first and in fact over 50% of over 65s have already been vaccinated, even under a lockdown situation. So I think that's fantastic progress. We also, as a ministry, essentially stepped in on the usual distribution of the vaccine to be able to take national control of it because in normal circumstances it's just distributed out to whoever has put an order in and we wanted to make sure that the distribution was managed from the center so that it would go out equally across the country.
Yes, there has been restrictions on the order size that practices can put into 60 vaccines at a time, but they can put in more than one order and that is so we could make sure that it could be right across the country rather than sitting in one part of the country. You can rest assured that we are already working actively on not just what we might do to distribute a covid 19 vaccine, but to make sure that New Zealand has access to it is right across the research, and ordering and purchasing and regulatory aspects of any vaccine once it's available.
Will you be stepping in ahead of time with regards to that vaccine, given that that is what you had to do given the lack of distribution with the flu vaccine?
So the distribution was there, but because of the extraordinary circumstances we did step in to really put a control over that. Recalling it, a lot of that vaccine had been pre- ordered by private providers. We've actually stepped in to stop that or to delay that until further down the track so that our most vulnerable people could be vaccinated. Yes. What I can confirm is we will be managing all aspects of covid 19 vaccine from the center.
I'll come to in the front and then I'll come back to you Toby. Yeah?
So now this guy just told the committee that if we had reached the gold standard of contact tracing could come out of the report now, is the failure for us to meet that standard earlier, is that causing unnecessary economic hardship?
No. No, that was not the basis of the decision. And equally, whilst David Skegg has made that statement, you'll have seen others like Sean Hindi encouraged New Zealand to stay in for two weeks longer in order to lock in the benefits of being at level four. So as we've said, and as we said on Monday, this was about striking that balance between making sure that we banked those gains, that we were less likely to return to level four, but equally that we could start transitioning our economy towards getting more people into the workplace. And we expect an extra 400,000 people will be doing that next week.
At committee tonight, the representatives of frontline workers, so by disagreeing with their statements are you saying that their concerns aren't valid?
No, not at all. You characterized the rollout of the flu vaccine in a way that I simply disagreed with. That is not in any way at [crosstalk 00:05:25].
…Medical association did.
You gave a quote that I disagreed with. That does not mean that I in any way trivialize or dismiss the views of our health workforce. In fact, much of what we have done has been informed by what we've seen, heard and know of what's happening on the ground. That's been an incredibly important part of our covid response and I continually get feedback both about where we need to do more, go further, but also what people are pleased we've done as well.
Are you considering declaring air crew to isolate. That's still considered a weakness in our border control and there has been speculation about air crew being link to that Bluff wedding cluster.
Yeah, and I'll let Dr. Bloomfield speak to that specific example around the index case in the Bluff wedding. But more generally, when it comes to air crew, of course you can imagine how difficult it would be to implement a regime where every time someone went for and fulfilled a shift at work, they then had to stay home for two weeks. But what we do need to make sure is that we have protocols in place that protect that workforce and the people around them. What I want to do as we get to a position of continuing to see smaller and smaller numbers coming in and as we see those flight numbers drop, just reassess again that all of the protocols we've got alongside health around our air crew are appropriate but to date, they have had exemptions because of the expectations of protections in place for them while they are working.
So just a quick additional comment. I had quite detailed email last night from my border team who are working very closely in New Zealand, their chief medical officer, because they are reviewing all those protocols and what has been happening with air crew in particular, the three international destinations are still flying to, which is Western seaboard of the US, Shanghai, and Hong Kong and there are different arrangements at each and they're doing a risk assessment to look at what else they can do to help protect their crew and of course to make sure that there's no breach in the border when those people come back into New Zealand. So there'll be updated advice and even increased scrutiny of the procedures in place to help make sure we are not importing any cases through that avenue.
Yeah, I'll come to you Jenna, and then I'll come to you, Ben.
Is it acceptable that hospital staff are telling us they're being bullied or threatened with dismissal if they speak out about lack of PPE or other covid issues?
No, that is absolutely not acceptable. In fact, you I hope will have heard that any time there's been an issue raised about PPE, we've really worked hard to investigate the particular circumstances around that. That is tended to often be in frontline community health care because those are areas where we've relied on or DHBs have a role in distributing to those frontline workers and we've been wanting to ensure that that has been happening and meeting our expectations. So we rely on that feedback and I would certainly be very upset to hear that anyone didn't feel they could speak openly about those issues.
[crosstalk 00:20:25] from across the sector including pharmacists, doctors, and disability workers have reiterated their concerns about PPE access, are you comfortable that everything is working really well? And if not, what are you going to do about it?
Again, and that's where I would simply ask, please provide those examples. As we've said, we do want those frontline community health workers to have access to appropriate PPE and it's a matter for us of knowing where that hasn't happened. As soon as we know that, then we reach out to ensure that distribution happens. But again, just general statements make it a little bit difficult for us to unlock what's happened in those circumstances, but we do not have an issue with the stock of PPE. We continue to try and meet any needs that we're hearing on the ground and that's why we rely on those examples being raised. Yeah. Sorry. Do you know that you finished your sentence?
Yeah. There have been specific examples, though [inaudible 00:21:21].
Yeah, and every time they are raised we follow up. I remember last week you raised with us the issue of one of the aged care facilities. Minister Clark contacted the DHB chair after that to work through what had happened on the ground. As soon as those are raised, we do follow up and so please keep giving us those examples. It's the only way we can flush them out.
[crosstalk 00:09:39].
…with dismissal?
And I'm again saying that that is completely unacceptable and if I were to find where that was happening, there will be follow up on that. That is not okay. We have a health system where people should feel free to speak freely about concerns they have. That is how we meet the needs of our health line, our frontline workers and it is just not acceptable ever to threaten their employment over that. Oh sorry, Ben. I did promise you the next question. Forgive me.
It's not related to covid, but Canada has suffered its worst one day shooting on the weekend and it's obviously affect [inaudible 00:22:15] as well. Can I ask you if you've reached out to your friend Justin Trudeau and spoken to him or if you haven't, what you would say or what you had said?
Yeah, and I know that would have been the thoughts of many New Zealanders that that is one of the worst mass shootings that they've experienced and so you cited, I sent a message on behalf of New Zealanders to Prime Minister Trudeau just to pass on our condolences and just to ask if there was anything that we could do as a nation, that we would, because we know how important those offers are. They were made to us when we had a horrific experience here.
Prime Minister, in regards to there been 35 Air New Zealand flight attendants who have tested positive for covid. I gather there's some exemption there around flight attendants in terms of the quarantine. Is there going to be any changes so that give them a number that have been had tested positive?
Yeah. I'll let Dr. Bloomfield come back to this again, but what I'll just highlight is there is obviously no exemption for anyone who is symptomatic or who tests positively. You are absolutely obliged to isolate if you are positive for covid 19 or if you are symptomatic. So any suggestion that someone who is ill or unwell is treated any differently, that is certainly not the case. When it comes to broader quarantine requirements for people who have gone overseas, I'll let Dr. Bloomfield just reiterate the comments he made earlier.
Yes, so the circumstances of the 35 Air New Zealand staff are different and of course many of those date from pre the lockdown period. But just to reiterate, we are reviewing and looking very closely at the more recent cases and what the current risk is for those staff, particularly when they are on the down…
Particularly when they are on their downtime in one of those three destinations that Air New Zealand is flying to, and what the arrangements are there on the ground, and what else could be done to ensure that they are kept safe there and also that there is appropriate protection for them and for passengers during the flights. Then what needs to happen when they do come onshore.
I imagine you can think of the difficulty, of course, is that this is these individual stewards' line of work, that if every time they work a shift, they're required to then isolate, that becomes very difficult both for the airline and for them. Some of them question why aren't they then required that whenever they're not working to be only able to be at home. Again, there are issues attached with that as well. That means that for many, many months we could have stewards who wouldn't be able to ever leave their home. So, there are issues that we have to work through here, but we're very, very aware of the fact that generally the border is a vulnerability that we have to make sure we have really watertight arrangements around but that we're also looking after the wellbeing of those workers. [crosstalk 00:25:07] And pilots I should as well.
Female Reporter: (25:08)
[crosstalk \00:25:09] We've seen calls from the US, Australia and Britain for an international inquiry into the origins of the outbreak in Wuhan. What's New Zealand's position on that?
Yeah, I've actually seen those reports. I'm not sure that I would call them necessarily anything as formal as an inquiry. I think when asked, there have been politicians around the world who have said, "Look, in the aftermath of this, we do need to look at what happened and whether or not there are areas where we could, as a global community, improve our response." I think that's common sense. Of course we want to make sure we learn from what has been a global pandemic that has shaken the globe in a way that none other has for many decades. We need to learn from it, and I think, of course, New Zealand would be very, very open to making sure that if there is something like this in the future, we have the best response as a globe that we possibly could.
[crosstalk 00:26:02] Would the government consider putting a cap on how much Uber Eats could charge its restaurants? It's around 30% to 35% at the moment.
Yeah, which as I understand has, of course, been Uber's business model before and continues to be their model. What I would just encourage consumers or New Zealanders who may be looking forward next week to accessing takeaway food is just to look at your favorite local eatery. I do encourage you to support local businesses and just see whether or not they offer delivery directly themselves. That will often be then at a lesser cost to them as a business. Just see whether or not they've got contactless options as well. That's probably the best way that we can see those businesses not incurring the costs of being perhaps under a surcharge that is quite hefty.
[crosstalk 00:26:56] Prime minister, just on work safety. Given the regulator of workplace safety, what role is WorkSafe going to be playing in terms of moving to level three in businesses? Are they going to be the regulator of their activity or does it still fall to the health sector?
Yeah. You'll recall there is a role there to play. In fact, the labour inspector has been playing a considerable role all the way through our COVID response, making sure in particular that employees are having their legal requirements met. Going forward, NB has been working through a framework that enables really a form of self-accreditation, just businesses to access information they need to be able to provide a plan within their own work site to keep their workforce safe. Then it'll be a matter of us then checking in on those work sites. As you can imagine, there will be a large number opening, 400,000 going back to work. So, it won't be possible to be present everywhere. This is a high-trust model.
[crosstalk 00:27:58] In terms of a second wave, what's being done to protect the smaller communities where there's not access to healthcare and testing to ensure the outbreak doesn't come from there?
Doctor Bloomfield.
So, perhaps with referring back to the comments I made about testing in my opening remarks that actually in particular in some of those remote communities, in [inaudible 00:28:17], Taranaki, Northland, for example, there are very deliberate efforts being put in place this week to get mobile testing out to those remote communities working with the local Iwi and Máori providers. This is something that I know all the district health boards are doing around the country at the moment. So, yes, we do want to get out into the more remote parts of the areas just to make sure there are no undetected cases out there.
There are two mystery cases [crosstalk 00:28:43].
Yep. Just come to the front. I'll come back to you, Toby.
Male Reporter: (28:47)
In the Epidemic Response Committee, some opposition MPs, Gerry Brownlee, David Seymour, Simon Bridges among them, they raised concerns about predominantly Iwi lead checkpoints. They say people are being intimidated. They're calling them illegal checkpoints. However, Iwi say that this is all about looking after communities, looking after their people, particularly Kaumātua. Where do you sit on this? Are you okay with those checkpoints?
Yeah, I was actually talking with the police leadership just this morning around some of those checkpoints. The feedback I've had is that they've been working really closely on the ground to make sure that where communities have established their own response that they've been keeping themselves safe, they've been keeping others safe, and they've being operating within the law. So, for me, that's actually been the important thing that police have been aware, they've been working with those communities. They know that the intention here is just to look after one another. So, long as it's been done in a way that is not inhibiting what should be free movement and that people are being kept safe, then we can work with some of those responses in our communities.
So, you are okay with them … You're okay with them-
I haven't had … No one would tolerate reports of bullying or abuse, but I haven't brought … had been brought to me. In fact, I know the intent has been to look after communities. So, as long as they're really just not overstepping their mark there, this is way to find a way through.
[crosstalk 00:30:11] over a question about regional testing too. Doctor Bloomfield, two mystery cases come from the West Coast. Has there been community testing over there? If not, why not?
I'm not quite sure what the two mystery cases are. Are they recent cases? I haven't had any cases there.
It's on behalf of a colleague in the DHB that we had to ask you rather go through the DHB.
I'm not familiar with any in recent times.
No. No cases from West Coast. We did have, actually you'll recall, the first death we had was on the West Coast. It's still not entirely clear where that case came from, but there have been no cases on the West Coast for some weeks now.
Is there community testing on the West Coast?
I don't know exactly, but every DHB, actually we sent a message out to them all yesterday to talk about the testing for this week. That includes some community testing that focused on groups, for example, healthcare workers and other essential workers, because those are the people who might've been exposed to people coming into their settings. So, that's where the focus will be. We're expecting plans back from every DHB today. So, we will have a look, and I'll be able to confirm. You may well see [crosstalk 00:31:17].
We'll come back to you on some of that. In fact, we can give you a bit of an outline of some of that community testing that's going on. [crosstalk 00:31:23] I expect there'll be an announcement on that tomorrow. One of the things that will be happening later on today is that Minister Sage will be talking directly to Fish and Game, because many of you may be familiar with the fact that for duck shooting, that's something that is [inaudible 00:31:41] and has already been [inaudible 00:31:42]. So, she'll be talking to them around what it is we can do to make sure that as many people as possible can participate in the season at the appropriate time. So, that's something that's happening with evening, and I expect announcements tomorrow.
[crosstalk 00:31:58] Given the impact on small businesses, medium sized businesses and workers of the extension of the lockdown, is it acceptable that the small business minister and the employment minister fronted the committee yesterday and didn't have any analysis data, numbers, anything in terms of what Cabinet had actually considered the impact would be of extending the lockdown?
Well, of course we had a range of scenarios that were already provided by Treasury around the extension of lockdown or long periods at level four in particular and at level three. You can understand how it would be quite difficult to get into granular analysis around some of the size of those SMEs who are within the small group who continue to be unable to operate at full strength. So, there's a number of variables that would make that hard.
What we do know though is that from the wage subsidy that we've put out, almost three quarters of that wage subsidy has gone to SMEs. So, we were very aware when we came into designing the packages that SMEs were going to be some of the most affected groups by New Zealand's response generally. That's why the wage subsidy was designed to meet their needs. It was why, of course, and hopefully there's been a deferral of ACC invoicing because of some of those cross SMEs will be facing the loan underwrite scheme, and of course the work we did on commercial leases has all been with SMEs in mind because New Zealand is predominantly a country of small and medium size enterprises. So, it's driven much of our decision making.
Just to start from there. In terms of both Deborah Russell and Willie Jackson's comments respectfully, do you agree with them? In the case of Deborah Russell, she talked about the fact that small businesses should be able to survive something like what has happened economically with this lockdown and Willie Jackson saying that nobody will have any great loss in terms of the lockdown and that it's fine and everyone will be fine for another week.
I disagree with those comments and the minister of finance did as he appeared at the time as well.
[crosstalk 00:33:55] What level would the COVID alert level have to be at for the election to go on as planned? Could it occur under a level two or even level three?
The Electoral Commission has been doing some contingency planning just for a COVID environment in New Zealand more generally. I think without, again giving an official ruling on this, I think you can see that an alert level two, it is a more permissive environment. It is a level where you can have slightly more congregation in the public than you can at the other alert levels. What I would point out is that we have some time to run. It won't be until June until we're in a position where the electoral finance regulations, that period starts kicking in. So, we do have time to assess that we'll be at the right alert level in order for an election to be held safely. [crosstalk 00:34:46]
The principal of Morrinsville College, your-
Mister Inger.
Yeah, has accused the government of boarding the past child-minding responsibilities onto the sick around them and kind of having people deal with them. What did you make of those comments when you saw them?
I can't help but wonder if Mister Inger is reflecting that I would have been one of those children returning to school with my father being a police officer and my mother working at the school. So, perhaps he had me in mind when he was making that judgment call. Obviously I disagree.
[crosstalk 00:35:15] directly also called out onto the Ministry's comments. He said the Marist cluster experience showed that actually kids could infect adults. What did you make of that?
So, it wasn't a child that introduced the infection into the school in the first place. Yes, there's no doubt that children can affect adults, but it seems to be very uncommon as the evidence from around the world. Of course, I guess the first thing, principle here is the work we have put in as a country over the last four weeks has put us in a position where not only have we got a very small number of cases but we are increasingly confident that there is not undetected COVID-19 out in our communities. That is the most important protection for not just children, teachers, and their families but for all New Zealanders.
[crosstalk 00:35:59] Just to keep in mind for education more generally …
The other thing I think, generally, just to keep in mind for education more generally, in fact we are preparing as a nation to transition, and so at level three, we have 400,000 workers going back into the workplace, and we have some children and young people who may be reentering schools. And actually regardless of the differing impacts that COVID-19 may or may not have on different communities, we need a plan for the health, wellbeing and safety of all of those Kiwis, whether they're children in schools, teachers in schools or transport workers. We need to be able to do that safely for all of them, and that's been top of our mind for all of our planning.
Speaker 10: (36:37)
[crosstalk 00:00:38]… still asking for additional funding along the lines of what's been given to pharmacies just to help with the added cost of working in the time of COVID. We understand that there are some discussions ongoing. What's holding them up? How are those discussions going.
All we've needed to do is make sure of course that for the COVID related response that we are meeting COVID related costs and so sometimes it takes a little bit to work through, but I'll leave that to our health minister.
[crosstalk 00:37:06] Will there be extra money though?
Again, leaving that to the health minister. He's having to work across the health sector to identify where there had been COVID specific related costs. I know it's been difficult for our midwives and they've been scaling up some of their response to some of the vulnerable families that they work with where often their work goes well beyond just midwifery, and so I recognize that, but that's something that our health minister's working through.
[crosstalk 00:37:31] [Dr. Blainfield 00:01:33], we're now experiencing very low numbers… [crosstalk 00:37:36] Yeah. Now I've lost my question.
Very low numbers.
We're now experiencing a very low number of new cases every day. When do you anticipate that that number will drop right down to zero or one? Is there any modeling that's been done, particularly with level three in mind?
Well, what we have got down to is not just a small number, but knowing where those cases are coming from and that second point is probably the more important. So our aim is of course to stop any ongoing infection from existing cases and in existing clusters, but recalling that some of those cases, most of the cases we are now confirming as cases, actually were infected a week or more ago, and some of them actually before we entered the lockdown period, in the case of a few of the more recent confirmed cases.
The critical thing here is this is the situation we wanted to be in, and the situation we want to stay in, where we identify quickly where any cases are emerging and we're able to get in there really quickly and do the contact tracing and isolation.
[crosstalk 00:38:43] is unknown?
Sorry, could you just repeat-
[crosstalk 00:38:45] Do you have an update on the recent number of cases where the source of infection is unknown?
We're down to two, essentially since the start of April, and we're continuing to investigate those. They're not recent onset ones, but there are two we just haven't able to pinpoint exactly where the infection may have come from.
[crosstalk 00:39:02] quite a bit of testing is going around the periphery of those individuals.
[crosstalk 00:39:06] your association is wanting to taste all new incoming residents and also those on the front lines, given their vulnerability in the aged care sector. And they're also saying that those three inquiries that are under way will put pressure on their services and increase risk of infection. Could you just respond to those two please?
Sure. In the case of the first point, actually aged residential care workers is one of the groups identified and now messaged to the HBs yesterday that they should do some surveillance testing on just to check because that is a group that could be at a higher risk. On the issue of what happens to people, residents going into or going back into aged residential care facilities, just to be clear, anyone with symptoms is tested, anyone who is positive does not go into the facility until they are cleared. Even if they are tested and are negative and all other admissions are isolated for 14 days and treated as if they were COVID-19 positive. So there's a really, and we agree on this, there's a very clear process which we agree on to help prevent any further and fiction from residents coming into any of our aged residential care facilities. We are absolutely focused on that.
On the second point, I think you mentioned three inquiries. I'm aware of the ombudsman's inquiry and I've also asked my team to do a review. I'm not aware of a third, and certainly in the case of our one, when I first mooted the idea, I floated that with the Aged Care Association to look for their support in us doing that and we're going to be very careful in going about that, that it doesn't add extra burden to those facilities where our teams go, and we will aim to do as much of it as possible remotely.
Prime minister, do you think that the national party in Simon bridges are guilty of politicizing the COVID classes?
You'll forgive me for being utterly focused on the government's response to COVID-19 and that means that I have paid no attention to any of the [inaudible 00:41:08] of the commentary that may have been coming from within the national party itself.
This kind of increased vitriol on social media. We've seen one post today that's actually there are death threats against you and I know that you've said that's an unfortunate reality of your role. Is there a responsibility on Facebook perhaps to immediately take down those types of threats and are you also concerned about that kind of increased level of vitriol?
Well, to be honest, as I've said that's something that does come with the job and I have not allowed myself to be distracted by anything through this period, including statements made on social media.
[crosstalk 00:41:45] The medical association says there's about $22 million of funding [inaudible 00:41:48] for GPs that's being held up at cabinet. Is there a delay? Or when can they expect that money?
No, I don't consider there's been a delay. There has already been support and that support has totaled $45 million, and that doesn't include the excess GPs head to the wage subsidy as well. We've worked very hard to recognize the costs that frontline practices have incurred through COVID-19, but at the same time also recognize they will have had a drop in revenue, and many businesses have experienced that too.
Jo and then I'll come over to Jackson and then we'll wrap up.
Jo: (42:25)
Just in terms of the breaches, prosecutions and things [crosstalk 00:42:29] that you mentioned earlier, you mentioned youth referrals. Do you have any idea of what the sort of breakdown is? Are youth a large chunk of the ones that are kind of behaving badly? Or is it all people?
No, I certainly don't believe so, of course, because that number hasn't grown to a huge degree and so I haven't got a breakdown of the number from within the 115 further than the fact that that's just been the total number of youth referrals.
So it's more the older age group, there's more adults who are behaving badly.
Yeah, I would say based on that figure because in total we've had 4,128 breaches and of those 115 youth referrals. Keeping in mind that within those breaches that includes warnings as well.
[crosstalk 00:43:16] on that 22 million for GPs, who gave them the impression that they were getting that second payment? How did they get that impression?
Again, I'm simply giving you the decisions that are being made by cabinet and by ministers.
Did the ministry give them false hope?
Again, I don't think $45 million is false hope. I think it's support and much needed support.
We're getting a second payment of $22 million.
And again, I can't get into any conversations beyond those head by cabinet and decisions made by cabinet, but I do not think $45 million is an insignificant sum when we think about the support we are trying to provide across all of New Zealand, including businesses across all of New Zealand.
[crosstalk 00:43:57] next week. Are you expecting [inaudible 00:44:00] ministers involved in the COVID response to return here to Wellington, and have you had any discussions with the deputy prime minister about whether he'll be traveling given his age?
I have had some conversations with ministers around what we'll be doing at Alert Level 3 and you'll remember the time period, that small time period we had before we scaled up the response. We were conducting cabinet meetings partially in person and partially with some distance so we could maintain social distancing. So I do expect we will have a few more ministers who will be available here, and that will include the health minister. He will be basing himself out of Wellington for Alert Level 3, and I am expecting that the deputy prime minister is likely to do the same also.
All right, last questions. [inaudible 00:44:45].
[crosstalk 00:44:44] just an update, on the number of different people throughout the entire [inaudible 00:44:49] that have been hospitalized? I think a few days ago it was 69 different people had been hospitalized. Anyone…
79 is the total. So it's actually a really low, low proportion compared with what a number of other countries have found where their outbreaks have got out of control. And I think just to reflect on one of the things that seems clear is that our testing, because it has been at high rates, we have identified all our COVID-19 cases out there. If you look at countries with higher hospitalization and death rates, it's very clear that their total number of cases is actually less than what is almost certainly out there. So our hospitalization rate around sort of 5% instead of the 15% that was the original figure that came out of Wuhan, and our mortality rate at around 1% is lower than other countries are seeing.
And a median age of hospitalization of 59. Okay. All right. Thank you everyone.


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"Targeting Tuners": If You're Not Singing Along With Scott Walker, You're Under Arrest
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is an exceptionally ambitious career politician who loves the sound of cheering crowds in the presidential primary states where he hopes to be a 2016 contender.
But he does not care for the sound of dissent.
In fact, dissident voices bother the conservative Republican governor so much that he has ordered state police forces to begin arresting Wisconsinites—from 85-year-olds to young moms with kids—who dare to join a long-established noontime "Solidarity Sing Along" at the state capitol in Madison. In this summer of protest, crowds have gathered at state capitols nationwide—from women's rights activists in Austin to "Stand Your Ground" foes in Tallahassee to voting rights champions in Raleigh. There have been mass arrests, especially during the "Moral Monday" protests in North Carolina.
But Walker has distinguished himself by targeting tunes.
The singing, which traces its roots to the mass protests against Walker's anti-labor initiatives of February and March 2011, has been a steady presence in the capitol for two years. But, this summer, the governor's cracking down. So far, seventy-nine Wisconsinites have been arrested and ticketed, and dozens more are likely to face charges for singing songs like "Which Side Are You On?" and "On Wisconsin" without following a new set of permitting rules developed by the governor to limit the right to assemble.
It is hard to understand why the governor is so perturbed.
He's not often in a position to hear what's going on in the capitol.
Unless, of course, the voices of the singers are loud enough to carry to states like Alabama.
The governor, who makes little secret of his 2016 presidential enthusiasm, is spending this summer traveling to states that are likely to play a role in naming the Republican nominee who will pick up where Mitt Romney left off. He's already been to Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Nevada, New York, Tennessee and Texas. And he'll be back in many of those state this fall to hawk his upcoming book, Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge (Sentinel/Penguin), which he's written with Marc Thiessen, who previously served as chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush. The conservative Washington Examiner says that "according to those familiar with it, might as well come with a 'Walker for America' bumper sticker."
But before he distributes the bumper stickers, Walker is spending his off-year summer vacation on the partisan dinner circuit.
When seventeen singers were arrested Friday at the state capitol, Walker was in Denver keynoting the fourth annual Western Conservative Summit.
Soon he'll be off to Alabama for the annual Republican Party summer dinner.
He's already been to the first primary state of New Hampshire and the first caucus state of Iowa.
Walker's certainly seems to be running.
But he's not getting much traction.
Against prospective Republican contenders, according to a new TheRun2016 poll, Walker finished eighth with 2.1 percent support among possible Iowa Republican Caucus participants.
There are a lot of explanations for why Governor Walker, despite a very high national profile, attracts so little support. But some of the burden the governor carries undoubtedly has to do with his image as a "divide and conquer" politician who is determined to crack down on teachers, public employees, conservationists, local officials and anyone else who isn't using his songbook—even going so far as to have grandmothers, veterans, teachers and mothers with children arrested for carrying a tune in the capitol—but who is not very good when it comes to managing his state, maintaining great schools, building a strong infrastructure or creating a climate that encourages job creation.
By: John Nichols, The Nation, July 29, 2013
July 31, 2013 - Posted by	raemd95 | Scott Walker	| Conservatives, Moral Monday's, Republicans, Solidarity Sing Along, Stand Your Ground Laws, Voting Rights, Western Conservative Summit, Wisconsin, Women's Rights

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GEAR TEST - The Nord Stage 3 Versus Nord Stage 2
A pro's guide to making the switch
Andy Burton
I've been a Nord artist since 2012, when I got my first Nord Stage 2 HA88 for a world tour with Rufus Wainwright. My second Stage 2, an HA76, came into my life the following year when I was asked to join John Mayer's band. I used them both as part of my rig for John's Born and Raised and Paradise Valley world tours of 2013 and 2014.
Now I own three of them - one each for home, stage and studio. I can program wherever I happen to be, and use Nord Sound Manager to transfer programs freely between the three of them, as well as rented backline units all over the globe. Currently, I use one NS2 in my touring rig with Steve Van Zandt (Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul) and two in my rig with Cyndi Lauper.
Why do I love the Stage 2?
It is great-sounding, incredibly versatile, quick and intuitive to use and of rock-solid build quality. The quickness largely comes from its being so knobby. The front panel may, at first glance, bear some resemblance to an airplane cockpit, but those knobs really connect you physically to the sound-shaping experience. Once you're familiar with the layout and signal path, it becomes like a part of your body.
One thing that John Mayer, Cyndi Lauper, Little Steven and Rufus Wainwright all have in common is this: When they want a sound, they want it exactly the way they hear it in their head, and they want it immediately!
With the NS2 I can dial up just about any sound in an instant and begin tweaking it in real time literally as they are making up their minds about it. No getting lost in multi-page menus. Need slapback delay on that piano sound? One knob turn and a button press and it's there. Add a string layer to that pad? I can have it for you in five seconds. Too digital-sounding? I can make it Mellotron strings just by turning a knob a few clicks. Now it sounds a little boxy? I can sweep the mids and boost the highs on the EQ section and "un-box-ify" it before you even finish the next sentence.
So all of those qualities make the Stage 2 a great piece of gear. So what about the new Stage 3?
It's got even more knob, plus two OLED screens! What new capabilities does it bring to the table that will help me do my job even better? Here are five:
1. The Synth Section
All the sections have been given an upgrade. The piano section has 2GB of sample memory, twice the memory of the NS2EX. The organ section features Nord's latest tone wheel-organ model (derived from their flagship C2D organ, and a marked improvement over the model found in the NS2) and adds 2 pipe organ textures. But it's the synth section that shows the biggest advance.
Mind you, the NS2's onboard synth was quite powerful, able to produce rich-sounding virtual analog, digital FM synthesis, wavetable synthesis and sample playback, with plenty of modulation routings and innovative sound-shaping tools on offer. But the NS3's synth engine, derived from the Nord Lead A1, is a whole another story.
For starters, it's got its own dedicated OLED screen. It has a dual-oscillator configuration which can produce analog-style waveforms, additive waveforms, "Super-Waves" (a large number of oscillators combined), "F-Waves" (formants), and samples from the newly upgraded Nord Sample Library. You can produce anything the NS2 does and more, although each synth retains its own character. You also get nice additions like a Moog-style "ladder" 24dB/octave filter and more.
But back to that dedicated OLED. You can use it to navigate through different oscillator configurations, sample libraries, etc., really quickly.
Once you grasp the method of navigating this new, highly intuitive interface, you can dial in an even wider range of sounds than the NS2, just as quickly.
And the main OLED can also be utilized to scroll through the Synth Preset List, pre-sorted by category. Super quick.
2. The Organize function and Song Mode
The NS2 allows you to organize programs into sound categories, like Pianos, Organs, Pads, Leads, etc. To find, say, the perfect pad for a particular song, you can start by scrolling through all programs in the Pad category. But on the NS2's smallish single LCD display, you can only look at the program you have up at the moment. By contrast, on the Stage 3's nice big main OLED display, you can simultaneously see neighboring programs immediately before and after the current one in its category - four programs at a time. This can help tremendously in situations when seconds count. Which they do, on the gig, the recording session, the soundcheck or the rehearsal. And the NS3 allows you to organize your programs easily by moving them around directly from the front panel, which on the NS2 you could only do using a USB-connected computer running Nord Sound Manager.
The NS3's new Song Mode, accessed with a single button press, allows you to group any five programs together as a "Song" without having to move them from their regular memory locations. You move back and forth between Songs using the left and right arrow keys or the Program knob, and you select the 5 grouped programs ("Parts") within the Song using the Program / Song Parts buttons. When you call up a new Song the NS3 automatically selects Part 1 (the program you've set to show up when Program button 1 is lit). Song List mode is accessed by holding Shift while turning the Program knob. This allows you to see five Songs at a time. Once in Song List mode, you can scroll rapidly through the Songs to find the one you're interested in, then hit Shift / Exit to enter the Song you selected. Once you grasp the methodology, this becomes incredibly intuitive. You can program whole set lists without ever having to memorize things like "Which page of which bank did I use to store that pan flute patch, which opens the song which has just been moved from the middle to the top of the set?". All eyes will be on you as you calmly scroll over to "Zamfir Boogie" in your Song List, select it, and pan-flute away! And if "Zamfir Boogie" goes over so well with the crowd that it becomes your band's permanent set-opener, you can move it to the top of the Song List for the next gig, right from the front panel. Super convenient.
3. More Morph-able parameters
The Morph feature on the NS2 is a wonderful way to quickly and intuitively establish enhanced realtime control over the sound you're working with. In seconds you can assign the mod wheel, expression pedal or aftertouch to a multitude of parameters, to whatever degree you want, in any polarity you want, even multiple parameters simultaneously. But on the NS3 you gain the ability to Morph a whole lot more: things like reverb wet/dry mix, delay feedback, LFO control over the filter in the Synth section, or even rotary speed. You can assign Morphing to any combination of these parameters in the time it takes to say "I want to set the delay feedback to be controlled by aftertouch." It makes the previously-impossible possible, and makes it seem to others as though you're doing the impossible. Job security, baby!
4. Seamless transitions
The ability to switch seamlessly between programs has now come to the Nord Stage family. With Cyndi Lauper, I often have a lot of synth parts to cover - enough for two or three keyboard players at times. I frequently face the challenge of switching between sounds without interruption. An example is on "Time After Time", in which I switch from a square-wave-based pad in the verse to a synth-brass pad in the pre-chorus. On the record it's completely seamless, so there can be no gap between them. This is one instance where I really need two NS2's on stage with Cyndi, each with a sustain pedal and an expression pedal. I do a little bit of fancy footwork so I can work around that little gap of silence that comes when you switch programs on an NS2.
Thanks to the seamless transition feature on the NS3, I can now do that transition on one keyboard. I can just hold the last chord of the verse with the sustain pedal, hit program-up, and let the sustain go as I start playing the pre-chorus. Look, Ma, no gaps! Now if someone could retro-fit that feature onto a Hammond B-3, I'd really be in business!
5. Better use of splits, layers and onboard effects
With four keyboard zones now available as opposed to the NS2's three, I can incorporate external sounds into my Nord soundscape in more sophisticated ways using the Extern section. And amongst the internal sounds, crossfading between split points eliminates a lot of awkwardness that can come from momentarily straying over into the next zone.
As for the allocation of effects: on the NS2, you can have one instance of reverb, compression and rotary (Leslie) effect. Reverb and compression can only be applied across the board, on everything coming out of Outputs 1 & 2. The rotary effect can only be applied to the organ, piano or synth section of BOTH panels. For example, if you had rotary applied to the organ section in Panel A, it had to also be applied to the organ section in Panel B, or not at all. With the NS3 you still only have one instance of the rotary effect, but it can be applied to different sections in each panel.
The NS3 greatly improves the situation by allowing you one instance of reverb and compression per panel as opposed to one instance on everything, so you can have a synth swimming in hall reverb alongside an electric piano with room reverb - or perfectly dry. Interestingly, the reverb is placed before the rotary effect in the virtual signal chain, so you can now accurately emulate a Hammond organ with a built-in reverb pan - you can get that reverb to swirl. (Now I can replicate the intro of the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" without an external Leslie pedal.)
Lastly, as I touched on in Example 3, you can use Morphing on a lot more effect parameters (which are themselves significantly extended on the NS3). In addition to the Rate and Amount of all the effects in the Effect 1 section and the Amount of all those in Effect 2, you can now morph the Tempo, Feedback and Wet/Dry in the Delay section, the Mid-Frequency Sweep and Drive in the Amp Sim / EQ section, Wet/Dry on the reverb, and Speed on the rotary effect.
With the Stage 3, I have a lot more sonic "tricks" in my arsenal, and I can access them all just as quickly - or even more quickly, due to the improved ability to organize sounds from the front panel. For any particular sound I need right away, I can use the new organizational capabilities of the NS3 to quickly find a sound that's close, then, just as quickly, fine-tune it, do any needed splits / layers, add any needed effects and realtime expression through morphing, in a blink of an eye. It's a major improvement across the board. Way to go Nord!
For more information on the Nord Stage 2 and Stage 3, visit http://www.nordkeyboards.com
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Laura. 20th Century Fox 1944.
I'm not sure if I've been aware of this movie before it came up in recommendations or not. I seem to be vaguely aware of "Laura" as a title, but I may just be thinking of the song (which I know because Spike Jones exploded it), that turns out to be the theme from the movie with lyrics added.
Vincent Price appears to have a small role, judging by his billing, but he's the biggest name I can see. The only other name I even recognize on the shortlist is Clifton Webb.
Det. McPherson is assigned to investigate the murder of Laura Hunt, shot dead at her door in the night. In his investigation, he encounters her two chief suitors, sharp-tongued columnist Waldo Lydecker and dispossessed (broke) heir Shelby Carpenter, though hardly any man she befriended could escape falling in love with her. Lydecker tells McPherson about how over the course of his friendship with Laura, he had to pare away several male companions he didn't find suitable for her, but though his distaste for Carpenter is quite apparent, Laura was going to marry Carpenter not many days later. In pursuit of clues, McPherson questions Laura's friends and associates, reads her letters and writings, and spends hours in her apartment, and finds that he too is falling under the spell of this dead woman.
All through the movie I was trying to place Carpenter, but I was coming up with references that were much too late to match up. Then I found out that was Vincent Price. No doubt so young he hadn't yet gotten into his niche. He's playing a believable romantic interest here, if not a sympathetic one. Not that anybody is sympathetic in this story.
Laura herself makes a compelling introduction, but as the story goes on, I was disappointed to see her get less spectacular as it gets closer to the murder, until at the present day she's not really as enchanting as the men in her life say at all. Perhaps that comes from how much Lydecker has molded her in his image, only she's not much like him either, thankfully. Waldo Lydecker is a man I can't see anyone having any patience for in general, let alone how possessive he is toward her.
The dialogue is often particularly sharp, even among films of the era. Nobody is really sparring exactly, but there are cutting remarks flying all over the place. Lydecker's lines in particular are savagely clever, as one might expect of a highly regarded writer, though none of the humanity alleged of his work shows in his personality.
I was hoping to see a story about a woman of such a magnetic personality that she had to be written as a full, round character the audience can't help but be taken with, but that characterization really didn't last much more than one scene. I did get a well-portrayed odious man with a Pygmalion complex (if that's a psychological thing), and Vincent Price not being Vincent Price. I'm not sure it would have stood out as much without the acclaim of the theme tune though. It's not one to be forgotten, but it's not really much of a classic.
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Potter Steven James Will on the alchemy of ceramics
Words Kinna Mosley
Photographs Sam Walton
Driven by a compulsion to make, Steven James Will justifies his work by making it as 'local and personal as possible.' It would be hard to find anything more real and local than the very earth he dredges out of rivers with his bare hands, while wild swimming with his dog Otto…
Will spends his days playing with this foraged mud, experimenting, forming, shaping. Through what seems like alchemy, he combines this earth with bonfire ash to create unique and natural smoke-fired glazes for his porcelain homewares. Each item comes with a local map, marking where he found the clay. This strong sense of place gives each piece an authenticity, a story, a life of its own.
'It's more tactile than visual'
For Will, the process is all about using raw materials from nature and the experience of making something with his hands. It is his way of making sense of the world, he says: he wants his work to be touched, felt, used, lived with, even smelled if possible. The thought of it being stuck in a glass box makes him shudder. He aims to integrate his creations into people's daily lives to make their day just that little bit better if possible. One trick he employs is making thin porcelain bases for mugs. 'This enables the sun to shine through and illuminate your morning cuppa once you reach the end of it', he explains with delight. He incorporates the same technique into his lampshades, making the top of the shade thinner to allow more light to shine through.
Although also producing wth stoneware teapots, Will currently works mainly with porcelain. It wasn't until someone put a ball of porcelain in his hands that he fully connected with the technique of throwing: 'It's like throwing with cream cheese,' he says with a grin.
The sensory experience of 'doing' certainly takes precedence over aesthetic pontification. 'It's more tactile than visual,' he explains. But there's know denying Will's work stands out aesthetically too, with authentic beauty in its realness.
While many potters use reduction firing, Will simply has a modern electric kiln which he experiments with. He has a collection of different pots of ash used in the glazes. One is the remains of a burnt boat from Orford, full of nails and brass bits that he's hoping will give interesting effects. Another is from a house clearance bonfire. Many more come from willow bonfires burnt on nature reserves across the Norfolk Fens: he also has photo sketchbooks documenting where he has collected his ash or clay from. Each piece he creates will be brilliantly unique and unrepeatable, due to his experimental and playful approach.
After a relatively academic childhood and a BSC in Botany, Will set up an organic micro-box scheme which he ran for around eight years, growing vegetables and cut flowers for 30 customers. During quiet winter months, he used his veg-packing shed as a studio where he pursued a love of pottery. (He'd first discovered this interest in the tactile nature of clay as a child while playing in rivers, he says.) Around 10 years ago, he submitted work for his first exhibition in Bridport, called 6X4. After a positive response, he realised the possibility of taking pottery more seriously and signed up for a two year Art Foundation course in Brighton. Although there was no pottery taught in the first year, Will cleverly mirrored each module at home in clay as a way of experimenting and expanding his learning. For example, he would try out slip decoration from life drawings, or projected onto pots and wove coils of clay into bowls during a module in weaving.
During his second year in Brighton, Will specialised in ceramics and created a project around items he found while walking. Being in urban Brighton, this meant he would mainly come across litter. Through his alchemical processes, he transformed this rubbish into neat and beautiful ceramics. For example, a Morrison's trifle pot, found on a walk, would become the mould for a series of bowls.
After Brighton, he moved to Norfolk, near his family, and signed up for the part-time City Lit Ceramics Diploma in London – a course he found to be fully immersive, pushing him to develop ideas and skills. After graduating, Steven was part of the collective gallery Klay, a pop-up shop in Camden. Although originally intended to run just for a month, the Klay gallery was so successful that it continued for nine months. Steven moved to Suffolk and found his current studio a year ago when a space became available next to one of his former ceramic teachers, Annie Turner – delighted with his new-found home among the sticks and estuaries of the rural Suffolk coast…
Steven is part of the Suffolk Open Studios and currently exhibits at the Rowe and Williams gallery, Yoxford.
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	"github.com/orktes/orlang/analyser"
	jscodegen "github.com/orktes/orlang/codegen/js"
	"github.com/orktes/orlang/parser"
	"github.com/orktes/orlang/types"
)

func configureAnalyzer(analsr *analyser.Analyser) {
	analsr.AddExternalFunc("print", &types.SignatureType{
		ArgumentNames: []string{"str"},
		ArgumentTypes: []types.Type{&types.InterfaceType{
			Name: "buildin(stringer)",
			Functions: []struct {
				Name string
				Type *types.SignatureType
			}{
				{
					Name: "toString",
					Type: &types.SignatureType{
						ArgumentNames: []string{},
						ArgumentTypes: []types.Type{},
						ReturnType:    types.StringType,
						Extern:        true,
					},
				},
			},
		}},
		ReturnType: types.VoidType,
		Extern:     true,
	})
}

func main() {

	js.Module.Get("exports").Set("Lint", func(input string) []linter.LintIssue {
		errors, err := linter.Lint(strings.NewReader(input), configureAnalyzer)
		if err != nil {
			panic(err)
		}

		return errors
	})

	js.Module.Get("exports").Set("AutoComplete", func(input string, line int, column int) (items []map[string]interface{}) {
		scanner := scanner.NewScanner(strings.NewReader(input))
		pars := parser.NewParser(analyser.NewAutoCompleteScanner(scanner, []ast.Position{ast.Position{Line: line, Column: column}}))

		file, err := pars.Parse()
		if err != nil {
			panic(err)
		}

		var result []analyser.AutoCompleteInfo
		alys, err := analyser.New(file)
		if err != nil {
			panic(err)
		}

		configureAnalyzer(alys)

		alys.AutoCompleteInfoCallback = func(res []analyser.AutoCompleteInfo) {
			result = res
		}

		alys.Analyse()

	itemLoop:
		for _, item := range result {
			switch item.Label {
			case "+", "-", "*", "/":
				continue itemLoop
			}

			insertText := item.Label
			switch t := item.Type.(type) {
			case *types.SignatureType:
				args := make([]string, len(t.ArgumentNames))
				for i, arg := range t.ArgumentNames {
					args[i] = fmt.Sprintf("%s: ${%d:%s}", arg, i+1, arg)
				}
				insertText = fmt.Sprintf("%s(%s)", insertText, strings.Join(args, ", "))
			case *types.StructType:
				if item.Kind == "Class" {
					args := make([]string, len(t.Variables))
					for i, v := range t.Variables {
						args[i] = fmt.Sprintf("%s: ${%d:%s}", v.Name, i+1, v.Name)
					}
					insertText = fmt.Sprintf("%s{%s}", insertText, strings.Join(args, ", "))
				}
			}

			items = append(items, map[string]interface{}{
				"label":         item.Label,
				"insertText":    insertText,
				"kind":          item.Kind,
				"documentation": item.Type.GetName(),
				"detail":        item.Type.GetName(),
				"type":          fmt.Sprintf("%T", item.Type),
			})
		}

		for macroName, _ := range file.Macros {
			items = append(items, map[string]interface{}{
				"label":         macroName + "!",
				"insertText":    macroName + "!",
				"kind":          "Reference",
				"documentation": "macro " + macroName,
				"detail":        "macro " + macroName,
				"type":          "macro",
			})
		}

		return
	})

	js.Module.Get("exports").Set("Tokenize", func(input string) []scanner.Token {
		scan := scanner.NewScanner(strings.NewReader(input))

		tokens := []scanner.Token{}
		for {
			token := scan.Scan()
			tokens = append(tokens, token)
			if token.Type == scanner.TokenTypeEOF {
				break
			}
		}

		return tokens
	})

	js.Module.Get("exports").Set("Compile", func(input string) string {
		file, err := parser.Parse(strings.NewReader(input))
		if err != nil {
			panic(err)
		}

		analyser, err := analyser.New(file)
		if err != nil {
			panic(err)
		}

		configureAnalyzer(analyser)

		var analyErr error
		analyser.Error = func(node ast.Node, msg string, fatal bool) {
			if fatal {
				errStr := fmt.Sprintf(
					"%d:%d %s",
					node.StartPos().Line+1,
					node.StartPos().Column+1,
					msg,
				)
				analyErr = errors.New(errStr)
			}
		}

		info, err := analyser.Analyse()
		if err != nil {
			panic(err)
		}

		if analyErr != nil {
			panic(err)
		}

		code := jscodegen.New(info).Generate(file)

		return string(code)
	})
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


You have to collect at least 200 diamonds and avoid walls for 120 seconds.
It's my first Ludum dare, i hope you will like the game. Thanks for trying it.
My best score is 263 / 200 diamonds. Looks like some ending condition are missing. The depth changing is a bit harsh : when you go down at the bottom of the screen, the witch to other screen make you go really fast and kind of lose control (not sure if I'm really clear here).
Otherwise, nice game :) !
@okolobr You have to survive 120 sec. I understand, i don't take the time to make the camera smoother in transitions. I'm happy you like it.
Very nice! I had a lot of fun. Not sure why sometimes the location of the character jumps up or down? And also, I reached over 200 Diamonds but the game went on, so what is the goal?
@zifandef If you survive 120 sec and have 200 diamonds you may have the "good" game over. I'm glad you like it.
i like it. my best score is 616!
I only got to 183 but still had the/a happy ending.
Thanks, everyone. I'm really happy you appreciate it.
@SuperIzzo It's not a fish it's a ... well ok it's a fish. You did't got the happy ending (the girl is sad). Try to go deeper to get more diamond.
@thephantom Yeah i have some struggle to balance game, it's always too easy or too hard.
has that "just one more go!" feel to it. Good work!
Wish the camera would be smoother, but this works pretty well.
The mouse works really well for this game. Cool idea. I enjoyed it!
The "drawed" graphics are really fun!
I love the game over screen!
fun simple game... the animation when damange is high is nice.
A quick fun romp into diamond infested red stuff. Highly enjoyable.
Intro story is well told (I didn't quite get the last bit, was one guy smoking a joint?), game itself is fun, nice job!
Thanks everyone for feedbacks, i appreciate it a lot.
Really felt the screenshake, nice job.
Haha, that was great, loved the little cut-scene at the beginning. The mechanics themselves were actually also surprisinlgy good. I really liked the risk-taking part of it when going downwards in order to get more diamonds.
Moral of the story: weed solves everything?
@ZeppelinCaptain I prefer : "Diamond solves nothing" :).
@arrogant.gamer yeah sorry for that, you need to install SFML 2.1. If you want to give a try this tutorial seem pretty simple and should work : http://sfmlcoder.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/building-sfml-2-0-with-make-for-gcc/ . It will compile and work when you have it for sure (I do it on Linux).
... Are the characters in some kind of blackface? I don't know if that's your intention or not, but, um... it kind of looks that way.
Is he giving a joint the girl at the ending? Made me laugh, good work!


Third-party antennas may reduce RF cell size but provide location accuracy.
Additional monitor-mode APs may be necessary to obtain desired location accuracy.
Wi-Fi RF channel selection is critical when using DAS if multiple wireless services are supported in the same antenna group.
Multiple connections are required into a common DAS for 802.11n support.
Linear DAS deployment can reduce your location accuracy.
Individual AP primary, secondary, and tertiary controllers have been configured. The Cisco WLC v7.0 global backup primary and backup secondary have also been configured. The primary controller has failed. Which statement correctly describes AP failover?
Global backup primary and backup secondary will be used before individual AP secondary and tertiary.
Individual AP-configured secondary and tertiary will be used before global-configured backup primary and backup secondary.
Global backup primary, then AP secondary, then global backup secondary, and then AP tertiary will be used.
Only AP secondary and tertiary are used.
Only global primary and secondary are used.
What is the optimal distance between APs for location services?
What is the primary purpose of a configuration audit report in Cisco WCS v7.0?
A network engineer needs to bridge a wired IP surveillance camera in the parking lot through a Mesh AP. What mode would the AP the camera is connected to be operating in?
An engineer is maintaining a wireless network with a large amount of RFID tags and notices the WLCs are reporting very high memory utilization. What value should the RFID timeout value be changed to from its default value to alleviate the memory utilization issues?
Which location-tracking solution is most easily implemented with 802.11 Wi-Fi APs and clients?


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A family holiday – How do you take the stress out of it?
By Leah McLennan – Monday 7 October, 2013
A family holiday. It should be a dream. A week in the south of France with the whole family. Then why are we all rowing with each other, sulking and in need of help?
There are some lucky families who sail through family holidays without a word uttered in anger, but for the rest of us, arguments on holiday are commonplace. With the biggest family holiday break on the horizon the stress is already building in some households. But it doesn't have to be like this, says Wendy Buckley, who is the owner of Travel with Kidz, a company that has specialised in family travel for more than 16 years.
Buckley says by following a few simple rules, parents can increase their chances of having a happy and stress-free holiday. "The number one rule for a successful family holiday is to sit around the table and include children in decision making," she says. "That way each person has a turn at saying what they're interested in."
This discussion ideally should take place six to 12 months out from the holiday (okay, if you're planning to go away at Christmas your family might need to take the crash course, starting now) and can involve children as young as five, Buckley suggests. "Ask the children if they want to go to a hot or cold environment, for instance."
Once a destination is decided upon, then activities should be discussed. "When we were in New York I wanted to go to Tiffany's, my husband wanted to go to the Guggenheim, my daughter wanted to play squash and my son wanted to go on the Staten Island ferry," she says. A way to cater for everyone's needs is to alternate between an "adult day" and a "child day".
It's also important for children to contribute financially to the holiday, Buckley says. "We made an agreement that if the kids were going to come they'd have to contribute financially. My son got a part-time job delivering newspapers and when my daughter wanted a new Barbie doll and dress, she sacrificed the purchases and the money went towards the holiday instead.
"If kids are involved in the decision making and have financially contributed they will be very appreciative from the moment they leave home."
Keeping everybody busy and minimising options, such as where to eat, is also important. "You need structure – even on holiday – and kids generally need to be kept busy," Buckley says.
For families with older children, such as 12 years and up, she suggests activity-based holidays such as an organised bike ride in Vietnam or a safari trip in South Africa or Kenya. For multi-generational families she suggests a cruise, a Club Med resort-style holiday or hiring a house and self-catering.
"If you are travelling with a grandparent then you need to establish firstly how active they are and if they want to cook or not. Many people in their old age don't want to eat out every night and that is where Club Meds are popular. Cruises are also great and so is hiring a house."
Overall, a family holiday should be a team effort, Buckley says. "Everyone has to be involved in deciding where to go, what activities to do and how to pay for it."
Find lots more ideas for family holidays online.
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USTA Home > News Home > Sun Stakes finals highlight busy week of Grand Circuit racing
Sun Stakes finals highlight busy week of Grand Circuit racing
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 - by Paul Ramlow, publicity director, the Grand Circuit
This Week: Ben Franklin Pace, Earl Beal Jr. Memorial, Max C. Hempt Memorial and James M. Lynch Memorial finals, The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Cleveland Trotting Classic, Northfield Park, Northfield, Ohio; Tompkins-Geers, Tioga Downs, Nichols, N.Y.; and Landmark Stakes, Historic Track, Goshen, N.Y.
Schedule of events: The Grand Circuit spotlight will once again be on The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono this Saturday night (June 30) as the track will host four lucrative Sun Stakes finals in the $500,000 Ben Franklin for older pacers, the $500,000 Earl Beal Jr. Memorial for 3-year-old trotters, the $500,000 Max C. Hempt Memorial for 3-year-old male pacers and the $300,000 James M. Lynch Memorial for 3-year-old filly pacers.
Also on Saturday, Northfield Park will host the $175,000 Cleveland Trotting Classic for older trotters.
On Friday (June 29), Tioga Downs will host three divisions in the $75,200 Tompkins-Geers for 3-year-old male pacers and three divisions in the $70,500 Tompkins-Geers for 3-year-old filly pacers.
Also on Friday, Historic Track will card eight Landmark Stakes for 2- and 3-year-olds of both sexes and gaits. Purses range from $6,125 to $14,350 for the Landmark Stakes.
Complete entries for the races can be found by clicking on this link.
Last time: Manchego, McWicked, and Lather Up were impressive in victories in the Sun Stakes eliminations Saturday (June 23) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.
Curtis Salonick photo
Manchego nipped Crystal Fashion in a Beal Trot elimination.
Manchego kept her career record perfect after 15 starts, but in taking on the boys in her $25,000 Beal Trot elimination she was extended further than she had ever been before, holding off a game Crystal Fashion by a nose while equaling her career best of 1:52.4. Yannick Gingras kept the filly in mid-pack until traffic settled late on the first turn, then got her in gear before the :26.4 quarter, brushed to the lead, and got relatively soft middle fractions of :56 and 1:24.4.
But through the stretch Crystal Fashion, who had ducked inside from second-over an eighth of a mile out, gained steadily, with Gingras chasing after the super filly late to maintain the victory in only her third race of the year.
Jimmy Takter trains the winning daughter of Muscle Hill, who now has earnings of $929,688 for the ownership of Black Horse Racing, John Fielding and Herb Liverman.
McWicked made winning look easy despite a first-over journey, winning handily for driver Brian Sears in 1:48.3.
Mach It So set the early pace of :26 and :54.2, then had to contend with the winner. McWicked took the lead shortly after the 1:21.2 three-quarters, then finished out in :27.1, by 2-3/4 lengths ahead of Rockin Ron, who split horses late to just get second over longshot Mac's Jackpot, who nipped Mach It So for advancement to next week's championship.
Casie Coleman conditions the veteran son of McArdle, who now is at $2,396,362 in career earnings, for S S G Stables.
They saved the best for last on Sun Stakes Saturday elimination night, as the I'm Gorgeous colt Lather Up made the lead past the quarter, then came home in :53.1 in hand late for driver Montrell Teague to freeze the timer in 1:49 in his $25,000 Hempt elimination.
After the :26.2 opener put down by Nutcracker Sweet, Lather Up, three-wide just past the eighth pole, raced up to grab command, got a huge breather with a :55.4 half, and then asserted his divisional dominance with the brilliant last half, winning by 2-1/4 lengths over Nutcracker Sweet, with Wes Delight edging Done Well to move on to the final.
But someone will have to go a big mile in the final to defeat Lather Up, trained by Clyde Francis and moving his bankroll to $544,765 for owners Gary and Barbara Iles, who saw their pride and joy remain undefeated in seven seasonal starts.
Complete recaps of the weekend races, including the other Pocono stakes eliminations, are available at the Grand Circuit website.
Grand Circuit Standings: In 2018, the Grand Circuit leaders in three categories (driver, trainer and owner) will once again be tracked on a points system (20-10-5 for the top three finishers in divisions/finals and 10-5-2 for the top three finishers in eliminations/legs). Winbak Farms is the sponsor for the 2018 Grand Circuit awards.
Here are the leaders following the past weekend.
Drivers: 1. Tim Tetrick – 392; 2. Yannick Gingras – 291; 3. Jordan Stratton – 154; 4. Jason Bartlett – 139; 5. David Miller – 130.5.
Trainers: 1. Ron Burke – 315; 2. Jim King Jr. – 151; 3. Jimmy Takter – 129; 4. Peter Tritton – 122; 5. Rene Allard – 80.
Owners: 1. Vonknoblauch Stable - 107; 2t. Burke Racing Stable – 74.8; 2t. Weaver Bruscemi – 74.8; 4. Richard Poillucci – 66; 5. Jo Ann Looney-King – 60.
Looking ahead: Grand Circuit action will be taking place next week at Meadowlands Racetrack, Hoosier Park and Yonkers Raceway. The Meadowlands will host the Graduate Series finals for 4-year-old pacers and trotters, Meadowlands Pace eliminations for 3-year-olds, a Reynolds division for 3-year-old filly trotters, and the first leg of the Kindergarten Series for 2-year-old colt and filly pacers. Hoosier Park will card the Nadia Lobell for 3-year-old filly pacers and Yonkers features Lawrence Sheppard eliminations for 2-year-old pacers.
Lather Up, Manchego shine at Pocono (Saturday, June 23, 2018)
On Saturday evening (June 23) eliminations were contested at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono for the $500,000 Ben Franklin Pace, the $500,000 Earl Beal Memorial, the Max C. Hempt Memorial Pace and the $300,000 James M. Lynch Memorial Pace. Also included on the star-studded card was a leg of the Great Northeast Open Series which was captured by Bettor's Edge in the sharp 1:48.2; the swiftest North American mile this season.
Sun Stakes Saturday races drawn at Pocono (Monday, June 25, 2018)
Divisional bragging rights, not to mention loads of cash, will be on the line this Saturday night (June 30) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, as the northeastern Pennsylvania track hosts the $2,120,000 Sun Stakes Saturday. The $300,000 James Lynch Pace final for sophomore fillies leads off the four consecutive finales in race nine; following in this order are the other three finals, all worth $500,000: the Max C. Hempt Pace final for 3-year-old male pacers; the Ben Franklin Pace final for free-for-allers; and the Earl Beal Trot, an open event for 3-year-olds.
Takter feels Manchego has 'another gear' heading into Beal (Tuesday, June 26, 2018)
Jimmy Takter is ready to take off Manchego's training wheels. In this case, the wheels are shoes. Manchego, undefeated in 15 career races, will attempt to become the first female winner of the Earl Beal Jr. Memorial on Saturday at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono when she faces eight male rivals in the $500,000 event for 3-year-old trotters. Last week, she captured her elimination by a nose in 1:52.4, equaling her lifetime best time and besting a field that included 2017 male divisional champs from the U.S. and Canada plus the Breeders Crown winner.
Pocono set for big day on Saturday (Tuesday, June 26, 2018)
On Saturday (June 30) the very best of the best trotters and pacers in North America will descend upon the Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono for Sun Stakes Saturday, when the stars shine so bright.
Owner is "Hungry" for Hempt Memorial score (Wednesday, June 27, 2018)
Owner Brad Grant hopes the best is yet to come from O'Brien Award-winner Stay Hungry, who will be among eight horses trying to hand Lather Up his first loss of the year in Saturday's $500,000 Max C. Hempt Memorial for 3-year-old male pacers at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.
In-form All Bets Off leads Burke trio into Ben Franklin (Thursday, June 28, 2018)
After suffering through early-season issues, All Bets Off appears to be back on his game. The 7-year-old stallion, who is within striking range of $3 million in career purses, leads three horses from the stable of trainer Ron Burke into Saturday's $500,000 Ben Franklin Pace for older male pacers at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. All Bets Off is the 3-1 second choice on the morning line behind 5-2 favorite McWicked.
Charles Arthur trotting to fun and victory with Heidi High


The Autistic Art Foundation holds regular drawing sessions in residential homes for young people living with autism. The Autistic Art Artistic Program has been running since 2010, until this time it has achieved some incredible results. During the activities supported by the foundation, they have discovered numerous talented artists with autism, and took on the task of nurturing their talent. The Autistic Art design brand was built on the artistic sessions, in this way they could open a channel to show how colorful the mindset of autism.
The Autistic Art silk scarf collection featured in the 2014 Design Yearbook, and was represented at the 2014 Hungarian Design Awards of the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts. In addition to this in 2014 the Autistic Art and the Kele for Autistic Art projects was nominated in the 44 most creative initiatives of the Highlights of Hungary competition. The results: Autistic Art received 5th and Kele for Autistic Art got 10th positions by the public votes.
The Autistic Art Foundation uses the proceeds from the sales of Autistic Art products to support 11 residential homes for people living with autism in Hungary. The most exciting drawings will be auctioned off, and the income is going to be forwarded to cover the residential homes operating and maintenance costs, and to make the operation of the Autistic Art Artistic Program constant.
The Autistic Art brand brings together art, design and charity in a unique way. When you buy these products you are also serving a good case by supporting young people with autism and helping to improve their quality of life.


Andrea Roversi (b. 1983) is a freelance photographer based in Rome, Italy. After studying Photojournalism at Scuola Romana di Fotografia in Rome, he received a special mention at the 2013 Fotografia Festival of Rome for his first body of work, Once Upon a Time, depicting life of old brothers in rural Italy. His project Dauðalogn, on rural life in Iceland, was presented at Slideluck Naples and Slideluck Tokyo 2016 and was published by Pagina99 and Io Donna and D di Repubblica. He is currently collaborating with photographic agency Parallelozero.
After being hit hard by the global economic crisis in 2008, Iceland has been the protagonist of a miraculous recovery. The island has chosen to take a step back (or forward?) returning to the land and betting on a green and sustainable economy based on natural resources. Dauðalogn is a journey through a country of sharp contrasts, but also the Bildungsroman of a child, Andry, becoming an adult in an open dialogue with the regions extreme nature.
Islanda, Agosto 2013. Le pecore rientrano nelle stalle dopo aver passato tutta l'estate libere al pascolo.


Mae and Floyd as newlyweds!
Floyd and Mae as grandparents!
On this date the 13th of July in 1947, our paternal grandparents Floyd Brazier Adams and Ida Mae Burris filed for their marriage license* in Drumright, Creek County, Oklahoma. They had seven children together which included our dad Floyd Dee.