Being told you are pretty is something girls have listened too for a long time, even from a young age.
Back in the 1950's is was thought that the most important thing a girl could aspire to was to be "pretty". That way she could snare the best husband and be set for life.
These days girls are still told they are "pretty". I think it has just become the "go to" phrase when it comes to describing young girls and giving them a compliment.
However this trend is starting to change with feminist groups and mothers of girls banding together to encourage other descriptive words to be used to describe our girls.. and rightly so..They are so much more than just "pretty".
But what do our girls think it means to be pretty? Is it something they should aspire to? Or should they be looking at the bigger picture?
Is being pretty just about how we look, or should it be about something more?
I think the one of words we should use to describe our girls should be "beautiful"… not pretty.
The word "beautiful encompasses so much more than just a physical appearance.
To be "beautiful" means so many more things.
To me it means the following and this is why I want my daughter to be beautiful.
Yes, it can mean a beautiful face and body, but that's not the most important thing, besides what others find attractive is different for everyone.
A beautiful soul, not too many people are blessed with these, these girls are truly the special ones.
A beautiful person, not physically, but a person who puts others first, thinks of the feelings of others, is kind and loving.
Beauty is found in confidence and being self assured, knowing what you want and making your own decisions.
Beauty is having acceptance and being happy with your own body. Knowing that you are beautiful in your own skin, no matter what society tells you is the norm and how you are supposed to look.
Beauty is having the ability to be yourself and not feel the need to pretend to be anything other than the best "you" you can be.
Beauty is accepting the differences between all peoples and seeing everyone for the uniquely fascinating people that they are. Everyone is different and that's what makes the human race so interesting, people who accept this are indeed beautiful.
Beauty is expanding your mind to listen to the opinions of others. Having acceptance of varying points of view. Reading, learning and expanding your knowledge is to truly have a beautiful mind.
Beauty is to be grateful for everything you have in life and to not let your jealousy of others influence your relationships with those who are more fortunate.
If they can aspire to have all these qualities, then they truly will be "beautiful" girls and that is so more attractive and special than just being merely "pretty"…..
Do you tell your girls they are beautiful?
What other qualities do you think are far more important for girls these days than just being "pretty"?
What do you think it means to be "beautiful"?
I love this – I remember being told things like "oh you're new at the school, all the boys will want to talk to you" and I gave the adult a strange look because a) I was in primary school and didn't get it and b) I knew I was more interesting than just a new person.
Not the girls? Yep, why does the older generation think like this? Something I don't understand either… we have a lot more to offer than just a pretty face.
We all slip up and say things without thinking how they will be interpreted.
It's a great word isn't it Sonia. I really don't like the word "pretty" when describing girls, it just seems so inadequate.
My daughter is 14 months old and she has Down Syndrome. I tell she is beautiful all the time and of course I mean it because pure love is beauty. When I was pregnant I knew she was a girl but did not know she had Down Syndrome. I would often think about how she was going to look and now I am more concerned about how healthy and happy she is. I like the quote Audrey Hepburn "happy girls are the prettiest girls" . I love your list of what beauty means to you, if only the whole world thought that way.
I want my girls to be beautiful and am very conscious of using words and descriptions that are more than just pretty. Great post!
Such a lovely post! It is so true – children should be described as beautiful – they portray beauty in so many ways!
Very true Kelly, inside beauty does show on the outside.
I tell my girls they're beautiful inside and out. There is a lot of pressure for girls to look pretty. I really need to read more about how to tackle the issue as they get older.
Such a beautiful post. I really enjoyed reading your description of beauty especially what you said about having a beautiful soul-that will stick with me.
Girls can encompass so much more than just "pretty" and we need to start telling them!
Thank you for such a timely article, I have just welcomed a baby girl to my family. In addition to the deeper meaning of beautiful I want her to grow to be known as confident, self assured, fun loving and humorous. I want her to be able to state her opinion and her feelings as confidently as each other and to be self assured enough to know each are equally valid no matter what someone else says. In fact I want those same things for my little boy too.
I think we should ask children what they love and what they pride themselves on and look for ways to acknowledge those things in them.
Totally agree Andii, and congratulations !!!
I don't like the word pretty and much prefer beautiful. I tell my tornadoes they are beautiful all the time. I'm very cautious about the language I use around girls – I found myself by default complimenting them on and asking about their hair, clothes and other super-girly things. I think we are all programmed to just do this. I'm now trying to ask different questions like "what are you reading at the moment?", "what's your favourite thing to draw?" rather than focus on superficial things and throw-away comments.
That's a lovely way to communicate with them Tash. Sometimes I slip up too. I suppose humans are very visual creatures and it's easy to focus on what is right in front of us.
Yes! Beautiful is an all encompassing word. I often tell my daughter when she goes to bed that she is beautiful, smart, wonderful, fantastic, amazing (and any other words I can think of) and best of all my daughter'. The more we can frame the idea of beauty away from their bodies and how they look – the better for their self esteem, confidence and experience as a teenager. Thanks for sharing.
Self esteem is such an important issue for a teenager, they constantly compare themselves against each other. They need to see the beauty within themselves first.
Yes, yes, yes, I couldn't agree with this more. I call my daughter beautiful all the time, meaning her soul, her big heart, her kindness,. We should all aspire to beauty and comment on one's character rather than focusing on looks.
Great post! I once read something about how to talk to young girls, and instead of commenting on their hair/dress/pretty face, you should try asking about their favourite book/toy/hobby/character etc. This really stuck with me, because I admit I often go straight for the "aren't you pretty?".
I want my daughter to be beautiful too! I love that your definition of beautiful is so all encompassing and includes being confident and self assured, and having a beautiful mind!
I think the beautiful person and the beautiful mind are the most important and often I do we hear makes say the most attractive thing about a girl in self confidence!
This is such a perfect post as beautiful is the right word we want our girls to be. It is like their is not hierarchy (unlike the pretty girls) with this word.. it puts everyone on the same level.
This is a really beautiful post. I agree beauty is so much more than skin deep. Lots of great food for thought here. Glad to have discovered your blog today on FYBF.


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In my Foreign Affairs article out this week, I argue that we need to do a lot more thinking about the implications of the genetics revolution. It seems crazy to me that we are on the verge of taking active…
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The Case Against "Nature" (and for regulated GMOs)
I love nature as much as the next guy.
I would swap in a moment the beautiful view of the Chrysler building from my New York City office for the span of the Rockies from the top of Colorado's Independence Pass. I'd happily trade the Disney-like perfection of an American red delicious apple for a misshapen but stronger-tasting French pear.
But would I rather gather food in the forest than have it planted in farms and delivered to the grocery store? Would I rather fight cancer with meditation and prayer than chemotherapy? Would I condemn my friend's Chihuahua as a genetically manipulated monstrosity of a wolf?
The truth of the matter is that much of what we call "natural" is the product of our own manipulation over time, and that nature, on its own, doesn't seem to give a rat's tail (or other part pf the rat's anatomy) about us. I wish it did.
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Our Genetic Future is Coming… Faster Than We Think
Our species is on the cusp of a revolution that will change every aspect of our lives but we're hardly talking about it.
After three and a half billion years of evolution, two hundred and fifty thousand years of them as the ass-kicking bipedal hominins we call homo sapiens, we are on the verge of taking control of our evolutionary process unlike never before. This revolution will take hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years to play out but it has already begun.
We'll Know Xi Jinping is Serious About Cracking Down on Corruption Wen… Jamie Metzl Jamie Metzl August 21, 2014 August 21, 2014
We'll Know Xi Jinping is Serious About Cracking Down on Corruption Wen…
In my CNN.com blog post, I argue that if Xi Jinping's top down approach is not matched by a bottom-up empowerment of the people being most harmed by China's corruption pandemic it will have little chance of success. When Chinese media reports critically on the vast wealth accrued by the families of former Chongqing leader Bo Xilai, Zhou Yongkang, and others, it's easy to remember the Bloomberg and New York Times reports on the millions of dollars held by Xi's and former Premier Wen Jiabao's families. And no one believes that China's government leaders, among the wealthiest in the world, are getting rich from their salaries alone.
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China Missing an Historic Opportunity with Tibet
I'm just back from spending four days in the Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India visiting my Tibetan friends exiled there.
As is well known, the Chinese army marched into Tibet in October 1949 and routed the Tibetan army a year later. In 1951 China and a Tibetan delegation signed the "seventeen point agreement" codifying the new status of Tibet as a national regional autonomy within the People's Republic of China. As conditions worsened, a Tibetan national uprising broke out in 1959, which was crushed by the Chinese, resulting in an estimated eighty-seven thousand Tibetan deaths
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Russia and China Dragging the World Back to the 19th Century
My Project Syndicate column released today argues that Russia and China are dragging the world back to 19th century norms through their actions in Ukraine and the South and East China Seas. We know that 19th century nationalisms and political thinking led ultimately to two world wars and global destruction, so why we we want to bring back such a failed model? Only if we had absolutely no other options
Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom to Conquer Ageing (but…) Jamie Metzl Jamie Metzl March 5, 2014 March 5, 2014
Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom to Conquer Ageing (but…)
Genomics pioneer Craig Venter's announcement that he is creating a company to try to conquer human ageing is great news.
His theory that the human gut biome holds the key to the aging process is only a hypothesis, but there's no harm done by testing it by sequencing 40,000 genomes in a year.
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Our Conversation of Genetic Modification must be Evidence-Based
Marcy Darnovsky's call to arms against "radical biological procedures," namely mitochondrial transfer from the eggs of a woman with healthy mitochondria to replace the diseased mitochondria of an aspiring mother, in her New York Times editorial today [linked here] goes too far.
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NY Times story on PGD only the tip of the iceberg!
Gina Kolata's important article in today's New York Times (linked here) on the ethical questions surrounding preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and embryo selection only touches the very tip of the genetic iceberg.

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India will resist China's economic imperialism
Hindustan Times - 27 July 2020
By Gopal Krishna Agarwal
Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi, at a recent India-United States (US) business summit, invited global investors to invest in India. He told them that India offered a combination of "openness, opportunities and options"; pointed out that India had undertaken deep structural reforms, improved domestic manufacturing and was committed to diversified international trade; and spoke of merging domestic production and consumption with global supply chains.
PM Modi has never shied away from taking tough decisions. The privatisation of the Indian Railways, public sector disinvestments, reducing corporate tax and opening up coal mining to the private sector are measures which may have been unpopular in certain quarters, but are necessary for the long-term health of our economy, particularly in strengthening our manufacturing base.
To achieve the goal of a politically and economically strong India, the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan is a 360-degree initiative to make India an economic superpower. The focus is on five pillars of development: Economy, infrastructure, technology, demography and demand. Our targets are the factors of production. These are land, labour, legislation and liquidity, improving their efficiency and reducing the cost to make our industries globally competitive. This is not restricted to the manufacturing, but targeted at direct benefit transfers to the needy. This has also resulted in demand creation in the economy and helping the vulnerable, particularly farmers, migrant workers and daily wagers.
The campaign for self-reliance has little to do with disengagement with China alone. We discerned the designs of Chinese economic imperialism early on. Our delinking from China began much early than many would like to believe. It began with PM opting out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The Chinese leadership tried hard to pressure India to join RCEP or face isolation in the grouping's 16 countries. But the PM stood firm. In 2010, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government signed Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with 10 Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) countries, the benefits of which were reaped by China as well. Reduced custom duties from these countries were creating an inverted duty structure in our domestic manufacturing sector, destroying local industries and converting manufacturers into traders.
Therefore, in the Union Budget in 2019, the government increased import duties on over 56 items spread across eight classifications. Items such as toys saw an increase of 60% from 20% earlier. All these efforts were to protect domestic industries from the onslaught of dumping and competition. Without first strengthening domestic manufacturing by providing a level-playing field, and reducing costs and increasing the efficiency of factors of production, we cannot open the floodgates for imports.
The Chinese leadership had almost managed to get the UPA government to accept RCEP. There are reports to suggest this. India's signing of FTAs with Asean countries, without strengthening India's domestic industries before opening them to regional and global competition, shows that the country's interests were compromised. One important question must be asked. Why did India, which was a global leader in the pharma sector, gradually concede Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) production to China? The UPA must answer this.
As of now, with the coronavirus pandemic, the world has realised the risks of over-dependence on supply chains from one nation. We rose to the occasion by identifying this as a risk diversion strategy for global manufacturing companies. It provided India an opportunity to deal domestically with the challenges thrown up by the coronavirus. Further, the Chinese aggression at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) at the Galwan Valley forced the government to immediately impose trade curbs and ban 59 apps from China. This is being hailed as a timely move, though certain economists and industrialists have sounded a note of caution on its long-term impact. But their logic seems based on the line propagated by the Chinese media and China's government officials.
Fortunately, what we import from China is mostly in areas in which India has the domestic technology to leverage for import substitution. Most of these items do not come under the essential consumption requirements category and are generally non-merit goods. Except in pharma, which China dominates through the supply chain of APIs, it has not been able to penetrate strategic sectors.
India's manufacturers need to seize this golden opportunity in sectors such as toys, electrical equipment, electronics, minerals, chemicals, iron and steel, plastics, furniture, sports goods, musical instruments, fertilisers and apps. Earlier, the ministry of commerce and industry had identified 12 such sectors; these now constitute 20 sectors. And 371 items have been identified for increasing import duties including non-tariff barriers on some of them.
If you look into the comparative advantage theory domestically, we have to focus on areas such as agriculture, particularly food processing, textiles, affordable housing, health care and education, and increase their contribution to India's Gross Domestic Product. These sectors can generate large-scale employment and are looking up. This will be our path to recovery.
China India RCEP


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Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend
Tottenham's players out to do talking at Etihad, Dan James in the spotlight and Arsenal's chance to make amends
Antonio Conte returns to the Etihad, a stadium that helped announce him to English football. Chelsea's 3-1 defeat of Manchester City in December 2016 came midway through the 13-match winning run that seized control of that title race. Like Conte, Pep Guardiola was in his first Premier League season, and his team had no answer to Chelsea's vigour and power. More than five years on and Guardiola is master of all he surveys, part of the furniture, commanding a bespoke, multifunctional squad. Conte has gained a reputation for blowing up and blowing out when all is not to his satisfaction. His Sky Italia interview this week was explicit in its opinion of Tottenham's January transfer window. Conte taking on Guardiola in a battle between two of the game's finest coaches should be an enticing prospect, but the Italian does not appear to believe his squad is capable of making it a contest. JB
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Q: How to cancel a async task that starts a process in C#? Currently my code runs a checkout from svn and redirections the stdout and stderr to a textbox using two tasks as seen below. I want to be able to cancel the task immediately when a user clicks the StopButton and be able to cancel the download. I understand that if I changed my cmd.exe command to say something such as "Pause", which continues to run until a user clicks something, I can cancel this command with the StopButton. I am very new to C# and trying to understand why I can cancel that command and not the svn download.
Is this a way I should be implementing my code or should I try a different method?
Thanks so much for the help! I truly appreciate it!
   public Form2()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

    }

    private TaskCompletionSource<bool> _cancelTask;

    private async Task RunProcess()
    {
        Process process = new Process
        {
            StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
            {
                FileName = "cmd.exe",
                Arguments = "svn download"
                UseShellExecute = false,
                RedirectStandardOutput = true,
                RedirectStandardError = true,
                CreateNoWindow = false,
            }
        };

        Console.Write(URL);
        process.Start();

        Task readerTasks = Task.WhenAll(
            ConsumeReader(process.StandardError),
            ConsumeReader(process.StandardOutput));

        Task completedTask = await Task.WhenAny(readerTasks, _cancelTask.Task);

        if(completedTask == _cancelTask.Task)
        {
            process.Kill();
            await readerTasks;
            throw new TaskCanceledException(_cancelTask.Task);
        }
    }

    private async Task ConsumeReader(TextReader reader)
    {
        char[] text = new char[512];
        int cch;

        while ((cch = await reader.ReadAsync(text, 0, text.Length)) > 0)
        {
            textBox2.AppendText(new string(text, 0, cch));
        }
    }

    private async void Submit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

        Submit.Enabled = false;
        StopButton.Enabled = true;
        _cancelTask = new TaskCompletionSource<bool>();

        try
        {
            await RunProcess(cts.Token);
        }
        catch (OperationCanceledException)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("The operation was cancelled");
        }
        finally
        {
            _cancelTask = null;
            Submit.Enabled = true;
            StopButton.Enabled = false;
        }
    }

    private void StopButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        _cancelTask.SetCanceled();
    }

A: I found a solution, not sure if this is the best, but you can start another process to start the command line command taskkill to kill all of the .exe's that are running. I now kill the cmd.exe (parent) and the svn.exe (child) that was called from the cmd.exe!
This is only useful if you know the .exes that are started from the parent if there were many more children created it would be best to find a different solution to recursively go and find the children processes.
    if(completedTask == _cancelTask.Task)
    {
        //process.Kill(); This would only kill the CMD.exe
        Process exit = new Process
            {
                StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
                {
                    FileName = "cmd.exe",
                    //Arguments = "/K Pause",
                    Arguments = "/C taskkill /f /im svn.exe & taskkill /f /im cmd.exe",
                    UseShellExecute = false,
                    RedirectStandardOutput = true,
                    RedirectStandardError = true,
                    CreateNoWindow = false,
                }
            };
            exit.Start();
        await readerTasks;
        throw new TaskCanceledException(_cancelTask.Task);
    }

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Army chief questions AIUDF's rise on Muslim support, triggers row
There is a party called AIUDF. If you look at it, they have grown in a faster time-frame than the BJP grew over the years." Army Chief said.
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New Delhi, February 22, 2018 (TMC Desk) Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat has triggered a major row with his remarks that the AIUDF party has been growing faster than the BJP in Assam allegedly on the support of the Muslim population as Pakistan and China pushed Bangladeshi migrants into the northeast to destabilise India.
AIUDF chief and MP Badruddin Ajmal took strong objection to the "shocking" statement and AIMIM Lok Sabha member Asaduddin Owaisi criticised the General, accusing him of interfering in political matters beyond his constitutional mandate.
The Army, however, defended its chief, saying there was nothing political or religious in Rawat's comments made during a seminar on the northeast at DRDO Bhavan.
"There is nothing political or religious in the talk. The Army Chief just mentioned amalgamation and development in the seminar," the Army said.
The Army chief said Pakistan, with support from China, was pushing illegal migrants from Bangladesh into India though he didn't name the two countries but made his references obvious by calling them India's "western neighbour" and "northern neighbour".
"They will always try and ensure that this area is taken over, playing the proxy dimension of warfare where they do not have to confront a stronger nation through conventional operations. This proxy game is being well played by our western neighbour and supported also by the northern neighbour.
"We will continue to see some migration happening. The solution lies in identifying the problem and holistically looking at it."
Rawat said the government was looking at the northeast with the right perspective now to make sure that the population dynamics of this region could no longer be changed, referring to the state government's move of coming out with a national register of citizens to find out who have been living illegally in the state.
"There is a party called AIUDF. If you look at it, they have grown in a faster time-frame than the BJP grew over the years.
"When we talk of Jana Sangh with two Members of Parliament and where they have reached, the AIUDF is moving at a faster pace in the state of Assam. Finally, what will be the state of Assam, we will have to take a call."
The AIUDF, which has three Lok Sabha MPs and 13 MLAs in the Assam assembly, strongly objected to the remarks, asking why the heavens were falling over the electoral success of a "secular, democratic" party.
In its maiden electoral battle, the AIUDF won 10 seats in the 2006 Assam Assembly polls. The number went up to 18 in 2011.
AIUDF chief Ajmal said he respected the Army and its chief for the sacrifices the force makes in the service of the nation.
"But the Army chief has a misunderstanding that needs to be cleared. Whatever he has said is in violation of his constitutional mandate. I see nothing but politics in his statement," Ajmal said.
Earlier, in a series of tweets he slammed the General for for making a "shocking", "political statement".
"Why is it a concern for the Army Chief that a political party, based on democratic and secular values, is rising faster than the BJP? Alternative parties like the AIUDF, the AAP have grown because of the misgovernance of big parties," Ajmal said.
Ajmal said he planned to meet President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue for an inquiry into the remarks that implied that the AIUDF's rise was on account of Muslim migration encouraged by Pakistan and China.
Owaisi reminded the General that the Army will always work under an elected civilian leadership in India.
"If illegal migrants are entering from Bangladesh what is the Modi government doing? The internal security is dealt by IB, police not military. We have seen the draconian consequences in our neighbouring countries when Army got involved in domestic politics," Owaisi tweeted.
If illegal migrants are entering from Bangladesh what is the Modi govt doing who will ask BSF ,and Internal Security is dealt by IB ,police not military,we have seen the draconian consequences in our Neighbouring countries when Army got involved in Domestic Politics
— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) February 22, 2018
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The Dollar sees a recovery at the end of the week along with a risk-on tilt on equities on the back of key indicators' releases from the US and China. The stronger than expected GDP data printed yesterday while a reading of China's manufacturing activity also beat expectations overnight. The Euro, the Pound and the Yen came under pressure while Gold further losses. At the same time, global equities are seen ending the week on a positive note boosted by the positive data from the US and China.
It was the surprisingly strong US Gross Domestic Product figures that prompted the recovery in the Dollar yesterday when the report came in at 2.6% annualized growth compared to expectations for a 2.2% reading. The question then becomes: will this rally last? We believe that this will largely depend on the way the US inflation figures will come in later today. Earlier in the week, we said that the US-related reports due to be released until the end of the week were expected to come in on the softer side. However, the GDP figures have caught Dollar bears off guard and it now comes down to inflation to either kill or extend the recovery.
Analysts are expecting a lower reading for the PCE Deflator report, one of of prices' pressure while the Core PCE report may come in a bit higher on a monthly basis. As such, in the short term hinges on how these a softer inflation reading will validate the Fed's intention to remain patient for a prolonged period of time in regards to interest rate policy while another surprisingly strong reading will send the greenback further to the upside. Dollar/Yen rallied to 111.80 on the back of the positive news from the US GDP release, extending the U-turn that kicked off on Wednesday. Will this be extended? Again, it depends on how the PCE data prints. If it does, then the next area of focus comes around the 112.20-30 level, otherwise a retreat towards 111.20 should be the next step.
The Euro retreated below 1.14 once again coming under pressure from the surging Dollar. Does this mean that the break above this key psychological and technical level was false? Again, the answer will depend on fresh incoming data from the Eurozone. The release of the Manufacturing PMIs from Italy, France, Germany and the Eurozone in total and the Eurozone inflation figures will dictate the price action for the Single currency. Expectations are calling for a bearish set of PMI inflation may tick higher this month. However, it seems that investors are taking a cautious approach in terms of the Euro for the time being so we wouldn't expect fresh highs today - unless EZ inflation skyrockets and US inflation tanks, which seems unlikely.
Gold saw a correction for yet another day yesterday as the rise in the Dollar put prices under pressure. The ascending trendline that kept Gold supported over the past 3 months has now been penetrated which begs the question whether the rally is over. This will largely depend on whether the $1,305 support holds or not. Should the Dollar see further gains today, this level will be tested and if it holds then a bounce towards $1,320 is likely. On the flip side, in case of a break to the downside, $1,296 will be the next area of interest. Oil steams ahead breaking above $57 once more and we should be close to hitting our $58 target, but also be wary in case prices stall around $57.50 again.
Equities were mixed yesterday with Europe in the green while the US markets ended the day below water. Nevertheless, futures on both sides of the Atlantic are pointing higher this morning on the back of the positive news in regards to the Chinese manufacturing figures. Risk aversion seems to be taking a for now so we should be in for a bullish ending to the week.


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Il General Atomics Avenger (inizialmente denominato Predator C) è un aeromobile a pilotaggio remoto sperimentale sviluppato dall'azienda statunitense General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. per le United States Armed Forces nel primo decennio del XXI secolo.

Il primo volo del velivolo è avvenuto il 4 aprile 2009.

A differenza delle precedenti versioni del modello, MQ-1 Predator e MQ-9 Reaper dotate di gruppo motoelica in configurazione spingente, Avenger è spinto da un motore a reazione e il progetto include caratteristiche stealth tra cui un sistema di stoccaggio dell'armamento interno e una conformazione a S dello scarico dei gas esausti, in modo da ridurre la segnatura infrarossa e la sezione radar equivalente per essere difficilmente individuato dai radar.

L'Avenger è in grado di utilizzare lo stesso armamento dell'MQ-9, è dotato del radar ad apertura sintetica Lynx e della versione avanzata dell'electro-optical targeting system (EOTS), chiamata Advanced Low-observable Embedded Reconnaissance Targeting (ALERT) già in uso nell'F-35 Lightning II.

L'Avenger utilizza le stesse infrastrutture di terra delle precedenti versioni MQ-1 e MQ-9, come la stessa stazione di controllo a terra e le esistenti reti di comunicazione.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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Chick-fil-A will return to the Union on Wednesday, Feb. 1. In addition to old favorites like Chick-fil-A Nuggets and Waffle Potato Fries, the expanded menu includes breakfast items, which are a new offering for the Union. For opening day, hours will be 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Beginning Thursday, the restaurant will be open 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, giving students and staff ample opportunity to stop by before class or work. Hours and additional information can be found here. The Union is pleased to have Chick-fil-A bring their freshly prepared products back to Kansas State University.


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Walking in the Aztech Sun
OrionsRequiem
Seattle Metroplex
Threat Level: Semi-Prime
ShadowHaven
Informer Aztechnology
Delphi Azzie Blood Mage
Jaguar Guards
This was an initiation run for Delphi
3 "I knew the gentleman was trouble as soon as he walked in"
4 Plain Speaking and Clear Understanding
5 Too Slick for your own Good
9.1 Delphi
In which Delphi is pulled into the rescue of one of her worst enemies
After the events of Of the Goddess of Love Delphi has not had a chance to be contacted by The Pantheon, but has been aware that Pythia, the erstwhile leader of the group was captured by Aztechnology and is being used by her captors as a powerful seer.
"I knew the gentleman was trouble as soon as he walked in"
Spending some time relaxing after making more money than she had ever seen in her life, Delphi is spending her day in her office when there is a knock at her door. After checking through the cameras, she sees a dapper dryad man on the other side, holding a cane with a sun emblazoned on the handle. Recognizing this figure as Apollo, one of the members of the Pantheon and Pythia's husband, Delphi lets him in and he gives her a very expensive bottle of whiskey as a gift for taking his meeting.
The PI asks what the man wants, and Apollo explains that he knows where Pythia is, which is to say, the 100th floor of the Aztechnology Pyramid, also known as the sun chamber, and that the megacorporation is planning to sacrifice Pythia in order to create a Great Form Spirit with her powers of divination. Obviously wanting to prevent this for many reasons, Apollo asks Delphi for her assistance, and promises that he will repay her with an introduction to his talismonger and pay for a weapon focus, much like his own cane. Delphi asks if there's any time restriction, and Apollo mentions that there is a day special to the Azlanders approaching. The "Day of the Sun", where rituals can be performs to become a "Chosen of the Sun" and channel a sun god's power. Apollo says that will be the day that Pythia is sacrificed, and that there is a woman coming in from Aztlan to perform the ritual, a channeling expert and blood mage.
After looking to Oracle for guidance, Delphi agrees to assist Apollo with the rescue, and the man leaves. Leaving the run-down PI to figure out what favors to call in so as to not die.
Plain Speaking and Clear Understanding
Before being able to consider exactly what it is that she's signed up for, Delphi is greeted by Shifu, the Bandit Familiar of Hanako Shinoda. Shifu brings with him a bowl of Ramen and a commlink on which Hanako calls the detective. She tells Delphi that she had a "feeling" that the runner was about to do something foolish, and offers her assistance. Offering to send a squad of Shiawase HTR support for her assault on the pyramid. Delphi understands that this will result in several dozen, if not hundreds, dead and that it will justify Pythia position even more. Telling the corporate seer to slot an angry bear, she hangs up and destroys the link, throwing Shifu out of her office.
Delphi decides that she needs more assistance, but has a plan for getting into the pyramid. Knowing that the leylines have been converging underneath the pyramid, she plans to use Corf in order to sneak in underneath the pyramid and make her way up. Pulling on some favors that she's used, she contacts Spear, the club owner and former shadowrunner that she freed from a blood Gaes, Informer, Kathryn "Aphrodite" Riviera and Artemis, another member of The Pantheon that has been living with Informer ever since the assault on their fortress. Deciding to meet at Lucky's Garage, where she first found the tunnel where the leylines were being subverted, the group come together and don disguises and Ares Industrial suits, pretending to be maintenance with codes that Aphrodite has from her time working in Aztechnology. The group meet with Corf and make their way to the reactor room beneath the pyramid.
Too Slick for your own Good
The group begin to ascend the pyramid. Relying chiefly on Delphi and Apollo's facing ability to convince the security that they are meant to be there, and even takes some time to listen to some complaints and fix a vending machine. Eventually meeting up with the Foreman of the pyramid and convincing him that they are meant to go to the 80th floor, he grants them access with a card and lets them up.
From there, the group must contend with the Jaguar guards that are securing the upper levels, and through a convincing con job, Delphi is able to convince the guard that they are messengers sent to inform the visiting blood mage that there is something wrong. The group is escorted through the pyramid and to the 100th floor, the sun chamber, and see a ritual going forward. An incomplete Great Form Blood spirit is curled around Pythia, and Delphi gets Apollo to cast an illusion around the top of the chamber to make it look as though there is an eclipse, nearly knocking himself out with drain. The blood mage attempts to complete the ritual anyway, and Artemis and Spear leap in to try and stop them.
Delphi uses the opportunity to free Pythia from the spikes embedded in her hands and feet, and punches the dragon-like Blood spirit in the face, narrowly avoiding the return assault and directing the team to pin the blood mage leading the ritual to the wall. Feeling the hum of unstable mana as the ritual is disrupted, the group head for the roof. Sealing the heavy stone door behind them and listening to the sound of the magical explosion and surely ended the life of several Aztechnology mages and security guards. The group make their way to the roof and hold a helicopter pilot at gunpoint, Delphi, between her bleeding group and the crazed look in her eyes, intimidates the pilot to fly them away, and the group breaks up and goes their own way while Aphrodite destroys the evidence of their escape.
Returning to her office. Delphi discusses with Oracle about how this will affect Pythia, and receives a letter from Apollo thanking the detective for her work, and giving her an address for a talismonger who will make her a weapon focus.
IG6 Discount
Weapon Focus Rating 6 (Mortimer of London 'Belgrave' Sword Cane) - 11 RVP
15 Karma - 15 RVP
12 CDP - 5 RVP + 2 from default
Prime Data Haven Membership (The Nexus) - 7 RVP
Babylon's Metaplane Squad was "Magic Avengers" this is really more "Magic Alpha Flight"
Delphi, upon learning that Informer and Artemis are living together: "You sly dog! Do you even have the parts for that? Actually never mind, that's an awkward question"
Wow. Just... wow... frag I need a drink after that.
I literally cannot believe that I'm alive right now, much less Pythia and everyone else. Not that she'll be grateful or anything, but... yeah, it feels nice to have gotten her out of there. Nobody deserves to be sacrificed and turned into a blood spirit, even her. It was good that all those folks came out to help, I'm grateful for that. Couldn't have done it without them. Maybe there's something to all that 'power of friendship' drek that they're always talking about in the trids. I dunno. It was just good to get a win over Aztechnology after everything that they did leading up to this.
I think I need to do more reading on rituals though. This doesn't feel like the end of all this ley line drek. Maybe these access codes for the Nexus will help with that.
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"I had six remotes, two outside the launch pad safety perimeter and four inside," he said. "Unfortunately, the launch started a grass fire that toasted one of the cameras outside the perimeter."
Oddly enough, this camera was the one posted furthest from the launch pad, about 400 meters (a quarter of a mile) away. The four other cameras that were set up inside the perimeter were undamaged, as was the other remote camera. But before anyone starts thinking that this remote was the unfortunate one, the "toasty" camera, as Ingalls calls it, is likely to put on display at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.
In the meantime, Ingalls will be traveling to Kazakhstan to photograph the June 3rd landing of the International Space Station's Expedition 55 crew. He anticipates that that assignment, unlike this last one, will have no surprises!


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Nineteenth-century music
The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner
Author: Steven Vande Moortele, University of Toronto
Date Published: May 2019
In this book Steven Vande Moortele offers a comprehensive account of operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850. Discussing a broad range of works by German, French, and Italian composers, it is at once an investigation of the Romantic overture within the context of mid-nineteenth century musical culture and an analytical study that focuses on aspects of large-scale formal organization in the overture genre. While the book draws extensively upon the recent achievements of the 'new Formenlehre', it does not use the overture merely as a vehicle for a theory of romantic form, but rather takes an analytical approach that engages with individual works in their generic context.
The first comprehensive study of operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850
Contributes to theories on musical form in the first half of the nineteenth century, particularly the 'new Formenlehre', a dynamic growing subfield of modern music theory and analysis
Studies a varied musical repertoire, including both standard and lesser known works, taking a far broader view than traditional music theory
Winner, 2018 Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music Theory
'This book is an important contribution to scholarship in its field. It combines an enviable command of the relevant musical sources and of developing social settings for overtures in the nineteenth century, painting a very broad picture of influence across musical Europe throughout an extended time period that is convincingly drawn and firmly located in up-to-date scholarship that has been perused with rigour. Balanced with this is an eye for analytical minutiae and an ability to establish musical procedures carefully and accurately. That the author manages this balancing act in English prose that is actually enjoyable to read is a testimony to his powers of communication.' John Irving, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
contains: 23 tables 64 music examples
1. Making overtures
2. Form as formula
3. Potpourri overtures
4. Beginning before the beginning
5. Strong subordinate themes
6. Open-ended expositions
7. Recomposed recapitulations.
Steven Vande Moortele, University of Toronto
Steven Vande Moortele is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Toronto. His research interests include theories of musical form, the analysis of large-scale instrumental music from the late-eighteenth to the early-twentieth century, and the works of Richard Wagner and Arnold Schoenberg. He is the author of Two-Dimensional Sonata Form: Form and Cycle in Single-Movement Instrumental Works by Liszt, Strauss, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky (2009) and co-editor of Formal Functions in Perspective: Essays on Musical Form from Haydn to Adorno (with Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers and Nathan John Martin, 2015). From 2013 to 2016, he was also co-editor of the journal Music Theory and Analysis (MTA).
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review locates music within all aspects of culture in the long nineteenth century, covering…
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Last week, Jeanne noted: The birds were in full song—not just chirping, several brand new tiny, beautiful birds nests appeared and the following spring birds: goldfinches, ruby-crowned kinglets, an eastern phoebe, a purple martin, blue-grey gnatcatcher, a white breasted nuthatch. Bees buzzed around.
Birds: Canada geese (flocks of 40 to 100 birds), seagulls, sparrows, cormorant, great crested flycatcher, slate colored junco, downy woodpeckers, golden crowned kinglets, mockingbirds, catbird, blue jays, red-tailed hawks, robins, eastern phoebe, chickadees, scarlet tanager, wood thrush, goldfinches, brown thrashers, cardinals, grackles, black-throated blue warbler, yellow warbler, mallard ducks, common mergansers, northern shovelers, mourning dove, great blue heron, purple finches, house finches, raven, European starling, redwing blackbird, and cedar waxwing.
Jeanne says that she observed most of the winter birds in the swales and the hedge. The thistles and milkweed pods, as well as seeds that had fallen to the ground there, provided a lot of food. She also saw birds around the berry trees along both sides of Memorial Drive, clustered around the footbridge. These berries lasted through the first half of February. Most of the hawks I saw were in the tall trees beside the footbridge, as well.
Remember, our Annual Earth Day Cleanup is Saturday, April 30, 9-12 noon!
On Sunday last, the 8th of May, I saw what I think was a ruddy turnstone–plus two goldfinches! Spring at last.


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Voting starts today and closes Sunday January 28th at 12pm PST. The winners will be crowned with a one of a kind Golden Kitty trophy a week from today.


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HolidayDispatch
Refining The Edge On Her Sword
If you claim an extra 3 feet of your neighbor's property as yours, he has recourse through civil court. If he covets your backyard grill and murders you while he's stealing it, the wheels of justice take a different turn.
From fence-line squabbles to criminal acts, our system works. It is not without flaws. Our country's legal evolution has not always been easy to watch, but it belongs to us. We are responsible for its success and culpable for its mistakes.
For example, you are not really a land-grabber and your neighbor doesn't even like barbecue. Still, we should all take pause on May 1 and observe Law Day with sincere appreciation for our liberties and our boundaries.
Only a lawyer could come up with the idea to celebrate our judicial system. American Bar Association President, Charles Rhyne, proposed Law Day in 1957 and President Eisenhower put it on the calendar a year later.
Since then, the observance has fostered a variety of outreach programs and focused on important legal themes. Children learn through interactive activities, and private and public organizations participate with open forums encouraging community input.
This might all seem a little dry, but consider past topics: equal justice for all, the historic foundations of our freedoms and the democratic power of a single vote. We don't intentionally take our justice system for granted. It is there when we need it to settle disputes and it doles out punishment when required.
Does Lady Justice always stand blind to prejudice, circumstance or corruption? No, because she is only as perfect as her creators are. Each one of us is ultimately responsible for refining the edge on her sword. Every vote we cast fine-tunes the balance of her scales.
Our nation's democratic foundation stands on laws that we pass and judicial standards that we set. As one of the few truly free nations on earth, we have done a pretty good job. On Law Day, let us celebrate our progress without losing sight of how much better we can do.
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Home News BHU: STUDENTS DID NOT LEAVE PROTEST SITE EVEN AFTER ASSURANCE
BHU: STUDENTS DID NOT LEAVE PROTEST SITE EVEN AFTER ASSURANCE
Students sitting on dharna in front of BHU Vice Chancellor's residence have not got up from the dharna even after assurance on Sunday night. About twenty Antivasi are still stuck on the spot. Meanwhile, because of the dangers of COVID, the students also cleaned the protest site and got it sanitized. The students said that not the university administration but they have taken the initiative to get the students sanitized.
Meanwhile, students say that they have received a verbal order to vacate the hostel at 4 o'clock this evening, while BHU Deputy Chief Professor Prof. BC Capri says that only those students who came to the hostel to conduct no dues are being removed. There was also a meeting of OP Rai and other officials, in which the final decision is to be taken on opening the hostel on December 10. Students say that they will continue to protest in this manner till December 10 or until a decision is made in their favor.
Student Strike: Decision On Hostel Will Be Done By December 10
BHU students have intensified the agitation for the fourth day in front of the BHU Vice-Chancellor residence. Meanwhile, the students shouted slogans of University Administration Murdabad throughout the day. On Sunday night, students said that they had been given a verbal order to vacate the hostel. But the university administration says that the decision of the hostel committee will be conveyed to the status quo by December 10.
During this time, about a hundred students gathered and the situation did not deteriorate, even a team of police reached the spot. It's Vice-Chancellor Prof. Rakesh Bhatnagar decided not to open the hostel at a meeting with the Dean and Chief Proctor of the head faculty of the hostel committee. Discussed the challenges faced in commissioning hostels and other facilities during COVID-19. Students said that the Birla hostel has been ordered to be vacated by Monday, while a large number of disabled students are staying in the hostel. On this, Deputy Chief Professor Prof. BC Capri explained to the students that the students who had come from the house to make no dues were asked to vacate the hostels.
IIT BHU AND IIT GUWAHATI COLLABORATED FOR STUDY PROGRAM
At the same time, he told that if the students want, they can sit till December 10, that is, no pressure is being given to them. During this time, after the police force, the Chief Proctor Prof. OP Rai also reached the spot but the students were not ready to accept. At night, students of Birla, Moona Devi, and other hostels also gathered on the spot and started shouting slogans against BHU. However, after some time, the police force returned to the premises all night after talking about petrology.
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The Spurs have destroyed the Heat in both games in Miami, and are now an odds-on favorite to win the series this Sunday in San Antonio. In the process, Tim Duncan set new records for career playoff minutes (beating Kareem's total) and career playoff double-doubles (beating Magic's total). If I were LeBron, I'd ask to be traded to San Antonio.
The Spurs are doing just fine without LeBron.
And the Netherlands is killing Spain! With just a few minutes left in the game, Netherlands is ahead 5-1! Woo-hoot!
Of course, I'm also rooting for the U.S. But I also like to root for somebody who can win.
Mexico looked pretty strong against Cameroon, and I'll be watching a few of the games with people from Mexico, so I'd like to see them get out of group play.
Chile's looking pretty strong against Australia right now.
Kings win the Cup. They deserved it, definitely the best team in the playoffs this year and they had to beat all the other top teams to get there.
Shocking collapse by Spain against the Netherlands in the WC. Everyone was saying the latter were too old, but they didn't look it today. I wonder if Spain will be able to recover mentally from this debacle.
Oh how sweet it is! My beloved Kings hoist the Cup again! What a nerve wrecking series that was! The Rangers pushed them to the limit and beyond and the Kings pulled out a little miracle. I can't wait until Monday for the parade.
Dan B.'s rant in the Meanwhile thread about how all sports other than baseball are terrible got me thinking about other sports and what it means to be a sports fan. While I consider myself a sports fan, I don't really think of myself as a "sports fan," if you know what I mean. There are so many people where I live that eat, drink and breathe sports 24-7. I don't.
I think it's the difference between breadth and depth - I have a pretty broad interest in sports even though I'm not that nuts about any one in particular. However, even though I don't think of myself as a sports nut, compared to most people I probably seem like a raving lunatic, especially when I think about some of the more unusual sporting experiences I've had.
For instance, I once attended the NFL Draft. I followed Payne Stewart around the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland. I've been to a Japanese League baseball game. I sat courtside behind David Ferrer at a U.S. Open match. I watched the leaders of the Boston Marathon run through Kenmore Square. I was in the bleachers for a pitcher's 300th win. I've attended a World Cup soccer match. I saw future NASCAR drivers Ron Bouchard and Geoff Bodine battle it out on the modified circuit. I once tried to get into a Rugby World Cup match but had to settle for watching it on a giant screen with a crowd of drunk Welshmen in front of a castle. Hell, I was at the Bucky Dent game!
So what about you guys? Do you consider yourselves sports fans? What are some of the memorable sporting events you have attended?
That's a bit of an overstatement. They're mostly merely stupid &/or aren't sports to begin with.
More evidence against golf being worthy of anything but scorn. Any activity in which someone could dress up like a right prat & not be laughed at is most definitely not a sport.
I watch a lot of sports on tv, but I've attended exactly two pro/college sporting events in my life. One was the final round if the 1980 Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic a golf tournament my dad took me to and the practice rounds of the 1996 Masters where I got to see Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods play together.
I have an extreme aversion to large crowds, traffic and alcohol, so I don't see my attendance at sporting events growing any time soon.
I'm a rare bird that spends a thousand dollars a year on comic books and golf. There's not a lot of crossover in fandom between the two hobbies.
I should find out from my fellow golfers how stupid they think comic books are.
You should collect golf themed comics!
Only pro sports events I've attended, other than probably a couple or three dozen minor league baseball games in Little Rock, Shreveport & here in Montgomery (plus one AAA game in Phoenix, a decade or so before the Diamondbacks came into being), are the first USFL game in Tempe back in '83 (Arizona Wranglers vs. the Los Angeles Express) &, after moving to Montgomery, four Atlanta Braves games.
I attended a few high school & college football games at my alma maters (not counting the basketball games I played in, or rather rode the bench beside, as a 7th-grader), but have been to only a handful of major-college games -- ASU vs. Stanford in football (we beat John Elway with a very Elwayesque fourth-quarter drive engingeered by our backup QB) &, in basketball, vs. UCLA & (in the NITs) TCU, & Auburn (only 30 minutes or so east of here) vs. Tulane, Ball State & Arkansas in football.
The Arkansas game was a thrill. Auburn was ranked No. 2 in the nation, IIRC, & we ... weren't. The Hogs, whom of course I'd followed since childhood but had never laid eyes on before, won something like 30-7, & I must say I felt sort of sheepish about enjoying everything & wearing my Arkansas baseball cap while seated in a stadum full of Auburn faithful.
England got beat 2-1 by Italy.
Thankfully, as Brit as I am, I didn't wager, thinking it would be a draw.
That Costa Rica-Uruguay game was amazing. Costa Rica won 3-1! Even though they were trailing 1-0 at the half, I knew they would win. They just had so many shots they were almost getting, but they couldn't get past the Uruguay defense, but it looked to me like Uruguay was getting tired in the Forteleza heat and humidity.
And Scott Harris: It sounds like you and I have a similar attitude to sports. I like any sport if I attend a live event. And when I was in England for a few months in 1984, I watched some sports (on TV) that I've seldom watched since, like cricket, just because I was curious about what was going on. And I spent HOURS one Sunday watching coverage of an event where a dude dressed like a country squire stands on a hill in the middle of an obstacle course and yells commands at a sheep dog who directs four sheep through the course. I was fascinated.
My favorite baseball movie: Either Eight Men Out or Pride of the Yankees.
Tell us more about your World Cup experience. And I'll be back in a minute with one of my favorite sports moments.


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What's next for unvaccinated, unemployed healthcare workers?
Mackenzie Bean and Erica Carbajal - Tuesday, October 19th, 2021 Print	| Email
A growing number of hospitals and health systems have mandated COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment, leaving questions about what's next for a trove of unvaccinated healthcare workers who've been terminated or resigned.
More than 2,500 hospitals and health systems in the U.S. had implemented mandatory vaccination policies for employees as of Sept. 27, according to the American Hospital Association.
Earlier in September, CMS announced it will require vaccinations for more than 17 million healthcare workers at Medicare- and Medicaid-certified hospitals and other facilities, further limiting employment options in the healthcare sector for those who've decided not to get the shots. The agency plans to issue its interim final rule regarding the mandate later this month.
Meanwhile, hospitals lost about 8,000 jobs in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, data on what proportion of those are related to noncompliance with vaccination mandates is not available.
While many healthcare organizations have reported high compliance to the vaccination mandates, some larger systems are still suspending or parting ways with hundreds of unvaccinated workers. At New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, 1,400 employees have departed for refusing to get vaccinated, and at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, 2,200 workers were placed on unpaid leave Oct. 4, with a Dec. 1 deadline to comply with the vaccination mandate and return to work.
Here are several potential next steps for healthcare's unvaccinated workforce:
Return to their employer
Many health systems are leaving the door open for terminated employees to reapply for their positions if they get vaccinated.
Northwell is seeing "more and more former employees changing their minds, getting vaccinated, and opting to return to work," Maxine Carrington, senior vice president and chief human resources officer at the system, told Becker's.
Ms. Carrington said she expects this trend to continue, especially as an increasing number of employers across industries also start requiring COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment.
Kaiser Permanente said the number of its employees on unpaid administrative leave is dropping as more team members opt to get vaccinated before the Dec. 1 deadline.
"This number is declining daily, and as employees respond they may return to work," a spokesperson told Becker's. "We hope none of our employees will choose to leave their jobs rather than be vaccinated, but we won't know with certainty until then."
File for unemployment
In most states, workers are eligible for unemployment benefits if they are laid off, quit a job for a "good cause" or are fired for a reason other than "misconduct," employment experts told CNBC. As failure to comply with an employer's vaccination mandate would likely be deemed misconduct, most healthcare workers who opt not to get vaccinated likely won't be eligible to collect unemployment benefits, they said. However, some states — such as Washington and New York — have said they may make exceptions based on various factors.
Enter a competitive job market
Unvaccinated healthcare workers who do not return to their health system will have to compete for available jobs among a small number of employers or relocate to states where vaccination isn't required, according to Ms. Carrington.
Under an order from President Joe Biden, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is drafting proposed rules that would require companies with more than 100 employees to require COVID-19 vaccinations or weekly testing. The standard would affect about 80 million workers nationwide, according to The New York Times. Once enacted, these rules could further limit job options for unvaccinated workers.
Some people who can afford not to work have turned to activism full time, fighting for healthcare workers' medical freedoms. One such individual is Karen Roses, a former patient care technician at Northwell 's Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, N.Y.
"I'm one of the lucky ones because I can afford to not have to work for a little bit. I'm not supporting a family or raising children at this point," she told Fox News.
The unprecedented demands that caring for COVID-19 patients has placed on the healthcare workforce has led to concerns that some workers may retire early, accelerating a labor shortage.
Even before vaccination mandates, more baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, were embracing early retirement. An analysis from Pew Research Center in November found 1.2 million more baby boomers retired compared to previous years.
Now, some unvaccinated healthcare workers may choose to do the same, though retiring early would likely be a last resort for many people since it reduces benefits.
In Washington, where a vaccination mandate required most state and healthcare workers to be vaccinated by Oct. 18, the majority of state employees were in compliance, local NBC News affiliate KING 5 reports.
A state employee who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing her job told the news outlet she's considered retiring early, but hasn't made a decision because of the effects it would have on her retirement benefits.


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Delaware River Bridge Closed Indefinitely
Truckers who plan to cross the Delaware River Bridge anytime soon will need to reroute. After discovering a significant crack in the bridge, New Jersey and Pennsylvania Turnpike officials have closed the bridge indefinitely until repairs have been made.
On Jan. 20, engineers found a complete fracture in a 14-inch steel truss on the Pennsylvania side of the bridge below the westbound right lane. Due to the fracture, the bridge was considered unsafe.
As of press time, officials have no way of knowing exactly how long the bridge will remain closed. However, the damage assessment is expected to take approximately two weeks. Only after the assessment can officials prepare a timeline for the long-term repair.
In the meantime, the following detours have been established:
Eastbound: Exit at Bensalem Interchange, No. 351 in Buck County. Follow U.S. Route 1 north to I-95 north to I-295 south to I-195 east. Take Exit 6 on I-195 and re-enter the New Jersey Turnpike.
Westbound: Detour at New Jersey Turnpike Interchange 7A to I-195 westbound to I-295 northbound, which becomes I-95 southbound; or from New Jersey Turnpike Interchange 5 to Mount Holly Road. Motorists traveling from northern New Jersey are advised to exit at Interchange 14 and use I-78 west.
Local roads under bridge: Radcliff Street, Palmer Avenue and Wood Avenue will also be closed. Drivers traveling east from Route 130 can use Interchange 6 to access the New Jersey Turnpike via the Pearl Harbor Memorial Extension. The westbound Pearl Harbor Memorial Extension will remain closed to all traffic; there will be no access to Interchange 6 from that direction.
Carrying more than 42,000 vehicles each day, the bridge closure is expected to cause significant delays and congestion in the area.
Bridge stabilization work was completed on Sunday, Jan. 22. Engineers will now build eight towers beneath the bridge to support the structure.
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