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How COVID-19 Is Shining a Light on Ableism
by Eleanor Bird
In Chronically Uncool – a Column by Ellie Bird, Columns.
Society doesn't make it easy for people with disabilities and health conditions, including in the workplace.
Historically, people with disabilities have struggled to hold down jobs. People with pulmonary hypertension (PH) rarely work full time, as it can be physically demanding, particularly when taking into account a lengthy commute.
It can be extremely frustrating for people with chronic illnesses who are mentally capable of providing good work, but limited physically. For many of us living with long-term conditions, being in an office five days a week was a massive barrier to the kind of career we wanted, and it made it hard to financially support ourselves.
Before the pandemic, a big part of the problem was a lack of remote work opportunities. Many companies weren't set up to support working remotely, which is something I encountered and struggled with in the past.
The issue extended beyond the workplace to the centers of higher education. In the past, students with disabilities often asked for lecture materials to be made available online. In many cases, those requests were turned down in favor of face-to-face interaction — which is fine for the able-bodied.
Enter COVID-19.
Today, people are working, learning, and teaching from home all over the world. While some have faced challenges (dodgy Wi-Fi, for example), there are countless examples of companies and university students actually thriving in this "new normal."
For the past few months, everyone at my company has been working from home, and it's working better than anyone expected. Access to communications applications such as Zoom and Slack has made me feel connected and in touch with my team. We're told that productivity is at an all-time high!
Companywide discussions also have occurred to talk about incorporating remote working into company protocols long-term. It isn't just my company doing this. Companies across the globe are reassessing how they work going forward. As it turns out, flexible remote working (and learning) work well for many people.
Of course, this is slightly infuriating as someone who has championed working remotely for a while. Many in the chronic illness community are rightly outraged that it took a global pandemic for this change to occur. But I am glad we are seeing a shift.
Hopefully, from this moment on we will see organizations and educational institutions be much more attuned to what they can offer disabled employees and students via remote content and online engagement. It feels like we're at a turning point in history.
There aren't many silver linings to COVID-19, but I'll take them when and where they come.
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Eleanor Bird
Ellie is 24 and lives just outside of London. She was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension in 2017 at age 22, having just graduated university with an English literature degree. Now she works in comms and PR for an online learning platform. When not dedicating spare time to raising awareness about PH, she's singing, reading books, and going for walks in the countryside (when not too breathless!). She also, in stereotypically English fashion, drinks a lot of tea — preferably with a slice of cake!
Tagged ableism, COVID-19, remote work, telecommute.
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A group of employees from Altria Group spent Friday, November 11, 2011 on a series of beautification and improvement projects outside of the Linda and Tony Bakker Career Center at Carolina Youth Development Center in North Charleston. The group of 30 employees from Altria Group Distribution Company came from all over South Carolina and coastal Georgia to give their time.
With project management and logistics support by Hands On Charleston, the group worked together to extend the rear patio of the Bakker Center, spread fresh pine straw and plant annuals along the building's perimeter, build new picnic tables and benches, erect a bird feeder and put down splash blocks beneath the building's gutters.
Since 2001, Altria Group has donated over $186,000 and its employees have given over 1,400 volunteer hours to various landscaping and maintenance projects at CYDC.


Here's a photo of one of Andrews' camps, taken at one of the cafes at the American Museum of Natural History. The tents are called "maikhan" or summer tents, which are lighter and even more portable than the better known felt gers.
at once. But we had promised more than we could fulfill, as events proved.
he decided to have a look about before he put his bare feet upon the ground.
crawled out from under a gasoline box near the head of his cot. Lovell was having rather a lively evening of it — but he was not alone.
ill and suffered great pain, but recovered in thirty-six hours.
vipers were about the size of our copperheads, or perhaps a little larger.
it would make him very ill.
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- [Bitcoin Core 0.10.0](https://bitcoin.org/en/download) or higher

Creating an IDEA project
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Type: ./gradlew cleanIdea idea

Open the generated project in IDEA. You should now be able to build the project, and to run the specs like you would run a JUnit test.

Adjust the value for btc.path in local.properties if necessary.

Running tests from the command line
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Type: ./gradlew cleanTest test

Open build/reports/tests/index.html to check the test results.

Adjust the value for btc.path in local.properties if necessary.

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Home » TIMag.com news » Awards » TI names 2015 'Champions of Tennis'
TI names 2015 'Champions of Tennis'
Mike Woody, the national tennis director for Genesis Health Clubs, has been named "Person of the Year" for 2015 by Tennis Industry magazine in the publication's January 2016 issue. Woody led off the magazine's 15th annual "Champions of Tennis Awards," which honors people, businesses and organizations dedicated to improving the sport and business of tennis.
Woody, who is based in Wichita, Kan., was the longtime tennis director at the Greater Midland Tennis Center in Midland, Mich., a position he left in July after 22 years. Mainly under Woody's guidance, in 2008 Midland was named the inaugural winner of the U.S. Tennis Association's "Best Tennis Town in the U.S."
"If you were to pick a pied-piper for tennis, Mike Woody would top the list," says Peter Francesconi, the editorial director for Tennis Industry, the world's largest tennis trade magazine (tennisindustrymag.com). "His enthusiasm and passion for tennis has helped to grow this sport not just in Midland, but throughout the country. He's a true supporter of the sport and of the tennis industry."
"Tennis changes people's lives in a lot of different ways," Woody says. "You hear people talking about the sport from many angles—its health and fitness, how social it is, how competitive it can be, how much fun it is. Whatever the angle they find appealing, that's what gets me pumped."
In addition to its Person of the Year, Tennis Industry also named winners in 21 other categories for its 2015 Champions of Tennis Awards (visit tennisindustrymag.com for more on these winners):
Tennis Industry Service Award: David LaSota, Patton, Pa.
Private Facility of the Year: Bonita Bay Tennis Center, Bonita Springs, Fla.
Stringer of the Year: Julian Li, Arcadia, Calif.
Builder/Contractor of the Year: Lower Bros. Co. Inc., Birmingham, Ala.
Tennis Sales Representative of the Year: Carrie Cimino, Los Angeles, Calif.
Pro/Specialty Retailer of the Year: Indianapolis Racquet Club, Indianapolis, Ind.
Tennis Advocate of the Year: Rex Maynard, Belton, S.C.
Community Tennis Association of the Year: Corpus Christi Tennis Association, Corpus Christi, Texas
Grassroots Tennis Champion of the Year: Tim Blenkiron, Las Vegas
National Junior Tennis & Learning (NJTL) Organization of the Year: Portland After School Tennis & Education, Portland, Ore.
Youth Tennis Provider of the Year: David Colby, Manchester, Mass.
Adult Tennis Provider of the Year: Sets in the City Southwest, Phoenix and other locations
Municipal Tennis Facility of the Year: Gates Tennis Center, Denver, Colo.
Junior Tennis Champion of the Year: Phil Parrish, Wayland, Mass.
Public Park of the Year: Peter Igo Park, Marshfield, Mass.
High School Coach of the Year: Danny Espinosa, Brownsville, Texas
Wheelchair Tennis Champion of the Year: Randy Ortwein, Magnolia, Texas
Youth Tennis Facility Developer of the Year: Zaino Tennis Courts Inc., Orange, Calif.
Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) Member of the Year: Mark Kovacs, Marietta, Ga.
U.S. Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) Member of the Year: Jorge Capestany, Holland, Mich.
U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) Section of the Year: USTA Florida
Tennis Industry has been covering the tennis business and the sport for 44 years. Available in both print and digital editions, TI is the official publication of the Tennis Industry Association, U.S. Racquet Stringers Association, and American Sports Builders Association. Visit tennisindustrymag.com.

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Q: GridView item position I have GridView:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
     xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="match_parent"
     android:id="@+id/frag_books_grid_view_layout"
     android:orientation="vertical">
        <GridView
            android:cacheColorHint="@color/bg_default"
            android:listSelector="@drawable/list_selector_background"
            android:id="@+id/frag_books_grid_view"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:columnWidth="120px"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:horizontalSpacing="15dp"
            android:scrollbars="none"
            android:stretchMode="columnWidth"
            />
</LinearLayout>

And single item (placed in cell of this grid):
<ListView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:cacheColorHint="@color/bg_default"
    android:scrollbars="none"
    android:listSelector="@drawable/list_selector_background"
    android:layout_gravity="center_vertical|left"
    android:gravity="center_vertical|left"
    android:padding="15dp"
    android:id="@+id/frag_book_list_view"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:verticalSpacing="5dp"/>

How it looks: http://i.imgur.com/rhZiu.png
Everything is fine with blue selection, but the contents of the cell is not centered inside of it.
This picture explains what I want: http://i.imgur.com/OumWu.png

A: Besides it's not recommended to have nested scrollable components, you have the dimensions of list view set to match_parent. So it's not possible to center, since it's already occupying all available space.
If you want to center, you first have make the listView smaller (setting fixed size). And then use gravity="center" on the container. You also can apply a uniform padding to the container, this will also make the listView look centered.

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I have periodically used your Contractor Referral service to find a trustworthy contractor for our little Strata. Recently I was searching for a roofing contractor to help with a problem with a torch down roof over top of a crawl space in our complex. This was an odd issue in that the unit is only 5 years old and has a small leak located somewhere in the centre of the roof right around the drain. When the original contractors were contacted they sent out two installers to assess the cause of the leak. The Installers told me the leak was the result of a defective drain/flashing and that the torch down in the surrounding area would need to be removed and the drain/flashing replaced. A short time later I received a call from the company receptionist who advised me that the company would not repair the problem as the drain/flashing was not warranted. She claimed that only the torch down membrane was warranted. She further added that the manager had made this decision and if I wanted them to fix the problem I would have to agree to pay for the service and material.
Needless to say I was stunned since the drain/flashing and the membrane make up in integral part of the roof.
In any event since I had lost all confidence in the trustworthiness of the original contractor "Best Quality Roofing" I thought better to find a reputable contractor to inspect the roof and advise as to the best course to follow and to provide an estimate of the repairs. Naturally as had been my practice in the past I searched your site for a suitable contractor. After reviewing your list and checking the contractors web site I settled on MAC Roofing. They seemed to specialize in torch down roofing.
I was pleasantly surprised when the owner, Todd McDonald, called me personally and agreed to come by to examine the problem. Todd came by yesterday and I explained the problem with the original contractor who would not provide any assistance unless I agreed to pay for the repairs. I also explained to Todd that from my reading of the roofing guarantee it specified 10 year labour guarantee and 20 year manufacture warranty. I was a bit concerned that when Todd realized that the problem appeared to be covered by a warranty he would suggest that go back and press the original contractor to take responsibility for the repairs and say that there was nothing that he could do and leave.
To my surprise Todd offered to assess the situation and we proceeded to expose the area that appeared to be the cause of the leak and then proceed to the crawl space to examine that area. Todd made several suggestions on how I could narrow down where the leak might be originating from. He had several thought on what might be causing the problem and suggested I focus on those and call him if I needed further help. He spent about 45 minutes with me. I proceeded to follow his suggestions and as I proceeded I called to Todd to provide feedback and to seek his further advice on what to do next. He showed amazing patience and provided helpful suggestions on what to do next. I called him three times and each time he answered the phone quickly and provided helpful guidance on what to do.
Todd did all of this while at the same time suggesting that at the end of the day when we have it figured out I should press the original contractor to honour the warranty. He also provided information on the manufacturers of both the drain/flashing and the torch down so I could contact them if needed.


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A Quarter of Cars on Road Produce Most of the Pollution
By monitoring traffic in downtown Toronto, scientists found that 25 percent of the cars they measured produced 95 percent of the total particulates.
Air pollution declared a leading cause of cancer
May 12, 2015, 5:12 PM UTC / Source: The Detroit Bureau
That beat-up junker in your neighbor's driveway is likely to produce more pollution during a long day's commute than some newer vehicles emit driving cross country.
A new study out of Canada has tried to quantify the pollution gap. By monitoring traffic in downtown Toronto, scientists found that 25 percent of the cars they measured produced 95 percent of the total particulates and 93 percent of the carbon monoxide.
The University of Toronto researchers made on-the-spot measurements of the exhaust from 100,000 vehicles driving past air sampling probes set up on one of Toronto's busiest roads. They confirmed that a relatively small number of older or badly tuned vehicles produced the vast majority of harmful emissions. A quarter of the vehicles they measured produced:
95 percent of black carbon, the particulates often linked to lung disease
93 percent of carbon monoxide; and
76 percent of benzene, toluene, and other volatile organic compounds known to be carcinogens.
The researchers also confirmed that automotive pollution is particularly severe near freeways and other high-traffic roads. But it also found that emissions spread farther than previously known. Those living or working as much as 900 feet downwind from a highway can be exposed to twice the pollution of those further away.
Prior studies had estimated that the worst pollution was generally contained within an area no more than 300 or so feet downwind.
More from The Detroit Bureau:
Victims' Fund Says Tally of GM Switch Deaths Hits 100
Porsche Fans Get Their Own Theme Park
Steady Rise in Gas Prices May Be Ending
-- Paul A. Eisenstein, The Detroit Bureau


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This wallmount gives your TV multiple new viewing angles and possibilities. Never again do you need to view your TV in just one position. Multibrackets delivers a high quality mechanical wall mount supporting 180 degrees viewing angling.
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The Seeds Of Disneyland...
Take a look at this amazing footage if you haven't seen it yet...
Most of you don't know about the big strike against the Disney Studios back in 1941. But if you love Disneyland, you should. Because that strike was a pivotal moment for Walt Disney. After it, he and the animators didn't have a cordial or friendly a relationship. Events would start to happen like World War II, which redirected his focus on not just sustaining his company, but his country. After the war he moved more and more into live-action as well as animation. And his thoughts turned to another project he had. Something that involved a theme park. He had once been just an animator, then a producer of animation. Walt moved in many different arenas, but that strike back then made him realize that there was more out there than animation and it also helped him take his other passions to another level.
History moves in leaps and small steps but where it goes isn't always clear until the passage of time makes it appear clear...
Hat Tip to Cartoon Brew.
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Labels: Animation, Disney 1941 Strike, Footage, History, Walt Disney
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Mouse @ Nerdvana...
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Separate But Equal...
20,000 Writers Under The Sea...
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Overseas Christmas...
Roadblocks...
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Creating Surrogates Awareness...
Predatorial Direction...
The STAR WARS Animated Series I Want To See...
Time's Timeless Timing...
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Q: Mathematica solving ODE I am trying to solve fourth order differential equation. But I am not getting desired result.
I have a function
v[x_] := Exp[r x] { P*Sin[r x] + Q *Cos [r x]} + Exp[-r x] {R * Sin[r x] + S * Cos[r x]}

what I want is value of constants P, Q, R, S in function v using some given condition
I tried using formula:
Solve[{v'[0] == 0, v'''[0] == (2 F r^4)/k, v''[L/2] == 0, v'''[L/2] == 0}, P,Q,R,S]

But I am getting an error
Options expected (instead of S) beyond position 4


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Giving Young Artists the Confidence to Explore
LeAnne Matlach
lmatlach@pafa.org
Nicole Parker (BFA '17) has always been confident in her technical ability to paint, but it took coming to PAFA to build up her confidence about talking about her work.
"Our professors tell us all the time that you should never feel nervous talking about your work to someone because you're the expert on your work," she said. "And nobody knows more work about your work then you do so you shouldn't be self-conscious talking to people about this thing."
Parker went into the 2017 Annual Student Exhibition a ball of nerves.
The Annual Student Exhibition (ASE) has been a tradition at PAFA for more than 100 years and is the culminating event in a student's journey at PAFA. Each spring 3rd and 4th year BFA and certificate program students, and MFA students have the opportunity to curate, install and sell their own works in the PAFA museum galleries.
"It's a great experience and it's amazing that students get to do that here because you get to exhibit in this real gallery and talk to all of these people and sell your work. I feel like it's a really great professional experience that's kind of unique to PAFA," Parker said. "I know other schools have student exhibitions but I feel like ours is different because its more public, it's more prominent."
PAFA students create more than 1,000 paintings, sculpture, works on paper and installations. It is one of the most celebrated student group shows in the country. More than 100,000 visitors will attend the ASE, and sales of student's works are expected to be nearly $300,000. Students retain the majority of the purchase price of works sold.
"I know the first ASE was intensely stressful for me. You go to the preview party and there are all of these fancy people, and everyone looks so beautiful," she said. "But I was very stressed out about it and every time I talked to someone I was shaking."
Nerves aside, Parker's ASE wall and travel scholarship application was strong enough that she was awarded the Richard C. Von Hess Memorial Scholarship and Travel Award. The prize meant she could study at PAFA for a 5th year after and travel abroad after completing her studies.
Parker said she didn't expect to receive the scholarship prize so she had finished up all of her BFA requirements in her fourth year. She is spending her fifth year in studio and working with PAFA's critics.
"It's a good opportunity to talk about your work with someone else and bounce ideas back and forth with someone more experienced than you in a casual setting," she said. "The first year I was in my private studio, I thought it would be very stressful but it's actually really helpful and pretty low-key."
Working with several critics at PAFA gives Parker different experiences and viewpoints. With critic Stuart Shils, Parker said he does most of the talking. She appreciates getting a lot of feedback from him at once.
Other critics, like Dean Clint Jukkala, challenge Parker.
"It's not even I disagree with everything he says but he has a little bit different outlook than I do and he brings things to the table that I might have considered previously," she said. "Clint challenges me to think about what I'm doing in a way that I'm not just stuck in my own head."
Parker also enjoys working with critic Michael Gallagher. She says they are very similar people and she appreciates how hard he works to understand all of his students.
All of the critic voices in Parker's head are contributing to not clouding her work.
"I think the general consensus is that critics always tell you is: Take all of this with a grain of salt and don't let this completely turnaround your practice but if it does then don't worry about that either."
As she prepares for her travel scholarship trip to Germany, the United Kingdom and Iceland, Parker said she is trying to appreciate the talks with her critics during her last semester at PAFA.
"I try to enjoy the conversation while it's happening and afterwards I do some digesting about what I actually want to keep from them," she said. "I kind of pick and choose and it's good to hear different viewpoints."
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João Bosco Tour Dates and Concerts | allgigs.co.uk
Brazilian Singers
Latin/ World
João Bosco is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist who mixes bossa-nova, Middle-East and African influences.
He released his debut album, "Disco De Bolso" in 1972, followed by: "João Bosco" (1973), "Caça à Raposa" (1975), "Galos De Briga" (1976), "Disco De Ouro" (1977), "Tiro De Misericórdia" (1977), "Linha De Passe" (1979), "Bandalhismo" (1980), "Essa É A Sua Vida" (1981), "Comissão De Frente" (1982), "João Bosco Ao Vivo" (1983), "Gagabirô" (1984), "Cabeça de Nego" (1986), "Ai Ai Ai De Mim" (1987), "Bosco" (1989), "Zona De Fronteira" (1991), "Acústico MTV" (1992), "Na Onda Que Balança" (1994), "Dá Licença Meu Senhor" (1995), "As Mil E Uma Aldeias" (1997), "Benguelê" (1998), "Na Esquina" (2000), "João Bosco Ao Vivo" (2001), "Malabaristas Do Sinal Vermelho" (2003), "Songbook 1/2/3" (2003), "Senhoras do Amazonas" (2010), "Não vou pro céu, mas já não vivo no chão" (2009), plus 2012's: "40 Anos Depois".
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Hell's Kitchen: Chef's Roulette: Meet The New Chefs
Reality fare in which renowned chef Gordon Ramsay tutors---and taunts---aspiring restaurateurs who are competing for the chance to launch their own eatery. Based on a British series of the same name.
Hell's Kitchen: Gordon Ramsay Brings A Little Vegas To The Kitchen
Hell's Kitchen: Shrimply Spectacular
Hell's Kitchen: Catch Up On All The Action
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Stephanie Anna Zantua (Filipinas, 28 de agosto de 1975), conocida como Steffiana de la Cruz, es una modelo filipino-estadounidense.

Conoció al actor Kevin James en una cita a ciegas a finales de 2001, yéndose a vivir con él a los tres meses. La pareja se casó el 19 de junio de 2004. Tienen cuatro hijos: Sienna-Marie (2005), Shea Joelle (2007), Kannon Valentine (2011), y Sistine Sabella (2015).

Cruz hizo algunas apariciones en el show King of Queens, en el cual su marido era el personaje principal.

Desde 1993 hasta 1999 mantuvo un romance y también vivió con el actor Chris Penn, interpretando pequeños papeles en algunas de las películas de este.

Estuvo implicada en un accidente automovilístico en el 2001, donde falleció la actriz vietnamita, Thuy Trang, y quedó cuadripléjica  Angela Rockwood.

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Opening of the Exhibition "Steve McCurry. Unguarded Moment"
On 29 September 2015, an exhibition opened in the General Staff of works by one of today's most distinguished photographers – Steve McCurry "Unguarded Moment", which is taking place as part of the Year of Photography in the Hermitage.
Ceremony in the St George Hall of the Winter Palace Visit to the State Hermitage by the Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta
On 28 September the State Hermitage was visited by Fra' Matthew Festing, the 79th Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta.
State Hermitage Delegation in Omsk
On 28 September 2015, a delegation from the State Hermitage arrived in Omsk to present a programme for the "Hermitage presence" in the Omsk Regional Vrubel Museum of Fine Arts in the period preceding the official opening of the Hermitage–Siberia Centre.
The State Hermitage at the ADIT-2015 conference
Between 21 and 26 September, the State Hermitage took part in the 19th international research and practice conference ADIT-2015 "Traditional Museum Functions in the Modern Information Society".
The Bizot Group in Berlin
On 25 and 26 September 2015, Berlin was the venue for the latest meeting of the Bizot Group, an informal club of the directors of some of the world's largest museums, named in honour of its founder, Irène Bizot.
Opening of the "Discover Your Europe at the Hermitage" Festival
On 26 September 2015, in the General Staff, the "Discover Your Europe at the Hermitage" festival opened, timed to celebrate the Year of Literature in Russia and the European Day of Languages (26 September).
Discover your Europe at the Hermitage!
On the European Day of Languages, 26th September, the "Discover Your Europe at the Hermitage" festival will take place. The festival is focused on European languages, literature, and art, and is made up of two parts: a culture fair and a treasure hunt.
Negotiations between Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage, with a Delegation of Orthodox Organizations from Jordan
On 24 September 2015, Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage and chairman of the St Petersburg branch of the Russian Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society, conducted negotiations with a delegation of Orthodox Christian organizations from Jordan headed by Ihsan Harmaneh, chairman
Press conference on the holding of the "Discover Your Europe at the Hermitage" festival
On 22 September a press conference was held in the Hermitage Theatre devoted to "Discover Your Europe at the Hermitage" festival that will be held on 26–27 September in the State Hermitage.
Irina Sokolova's book The Russian Passion for Dutch Painting of the Golden Age. The Collection of Pyotr Semenov and the Art Market in St Petersburg, 1860-1910 comes out in the Netherlands
A book by Irina Alexeyevna Sokolova, curator of Dutch painting in the Hermitage, entitled The Russian Passion for Dutch Painting of the Golden Age. The Collection of Pyotr Semenov and the Art Market in St Petersburg, 1860–1910 has been published in the Netherlands (Leiden; Boston: Bril, 2015. Oud Ho
Collaboration Agreement between the State Hermitage and OAO Gorodskoye agentstvo po televideniyu i radioveshchaniyu
On 21 September 2015 the Council Hall of the State Hermitage was the setting for the formal concluding of an agreement between the State Hermitage and OAO Gorodskoye agentstvo po televideniyu i radioveshchaniyu (the TV channel Saint Petersburg) that was signed by Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, Gener
Adel Adamova's book Persian Painting. The Arts of the Book and Portraiture published in London
The book Persian Painting. The Arts of the Book and Portraiture has been published in London (Thames & Hudson, 2015).
Opening of the exhibition "From Nicholas I to Nicholas II. Historicism in Russia" in the Hermitage–Vyborg Centre
On 18 September 2015 the State Hermitage's tenth exhibition in the Hermitage–Vyborg Exhibition Centre was formally inaugurated.
Collaboration Agreement between the State Hermitage and St Petersburg Orthodox Theological Academy
On 10 September 2015, in the Council Hall of the State Hermitage, an agreement was concluded between the Hermitage and the St Petersburg Orthodox Theological Academy.
Awards Ceremony for the Winners of the International Prize PROBA-IPRA GWA 2015
On 10 September 2015 the atrium of the General Staff building of the State Hermitage was the setting for the awards ceremony for the winners of the PROBA-IPRA GWA 2015 prize as part of the Baltic Weekend, one of Europe's largest international forums in the communications field.
The Hermitage Centre in Kaluga
On 7 September 2015, in Kaluga, Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage, and Anatoly Artamonov, Acting Governor of Kaluga Region, signed a Memorandum of Intent on the opening of a State Hermitage exhibition centre in Kaluga.
The Cultural and Historical University 2015
On 7 September 2015, the Hermitage Theatre hosted a press conference devoted to the start of the Cultural and Historical University 2015, an educational programme organized by the Government of St Petersburg, the Committee for External Relations of St Petersburg and the State Hermitage.
The New Rijksmuseum: a showing of Oeke Hoogendijk's film and a meeting with Pieter Roelofs, curator of 17th-century Dutch painting at the Rijksmuseum
On 6 September 2015, the Large Hall of the Hermitage lecture centre was the venue for a showing of Oeke Hoogendijk's film The New Rijksmuseum about the ten-year process of restoration and reconstruction of the famous museum in Amsterdam.
Press Conference at Interfax
On 4 September 2015, a press conference was held at the Interfax North-West news agency on the subject of "Museums without security: what should we be prepared for?"
Presentation of the Book "Mikhail Piotrovsky"
On 3 September 2015, the media centre of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper in Moscow was the venue for the presentation of the book "Mikhail Piotrovsky" produced by the "Molodaya Gvardiya" publishing house in the series "Lives of Famous People: The Biography Continues".


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Learn How You Learn
"I can't dance."
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Join award winning, multi-disciplinary theatre and film artist, Kathryn Van Meter, for LEARN HOW YOU LEARN: A no stakes, 4 week exploration of how you move. Kathryn is passionate about cultivating an Anti-Racist, embodied practice grounded in consent, joy and curiosity and is thrilled to be teaching offering this new class series as part of her continued exploration of what moves you?
Sessions will include:
Mindfulness practice
Somatic awareness techniques (how to drop into your body)
Tools for when stress and anxiety flares (how to stay in your body)
Warm up techniques
Dance terms and vocabulary
Slowing down to witness the wisdom of your brain and your body working in your favor
A short combination from a different choreographer each week so you can practice that week's skills in real time, on new movement, with no stakes.
Classes held at Aspire Kinetic Arts studio in Northgate. Classes are suggested at $25, but offering a Pay What You Will Discount! Your registration fees will go directly to support the choreographer you chose!
All classes are 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
June 6 with Richard Peacock
June 13 with UJ Mangune
June 20 with Sade Aset
June 27 with Charlie Johnson
Richard Peacock
UJ Mangune
Sade Aset
Conversation: Antiracism in Your Individual Practice
Antiracism in Your Individual Practice
The conversation of antiracism within our industry exists on both sides and is not just reserved for organizations. In this community-driven class come share space with Jay Woods to learn how independent artists* across disciplines can activate their personal artistic practice through the lens of antiracism. Jay will also guide us to understand how artists can feel equipped to be in conversation and action with organizations regarding antiracism. How can an individual's practice of antiracism become a tool for organizational accountability and growth? Join the conversation and learn with us!
*We encourage all independent artists to attend no matter your primary focus or discipline. Designers, technicians, stage manager, orchestra members, teaching artists, actors, dancers, writers, this is open to all who regularly engage with organizations.
Jay Woods: Miss Jay is a Seattle based artist-activist currently serving as the Co-Artistic Director of Sound Theatre and founder of Seattle Theatre Leaders. Jay has taught and directed internationally at institutions such as Village Theatre, ACT Theatre, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, bringing her Anti-Racism, community building, trauma informed practice in everything she does. Jay holds an MA in Directing from Edinburgh Napier University.
Let Yourself Bloom: Conversation
Thursday, June 3 at 7:30 pm
CONVERSATION: Kathy Hsieh will share from her years of experience in the grant and producing world how to do a true self evaluation of what your skills are so you can feel confident as you apply for opportunities. We'll discuss how to find joy through the process of applying and how to seize an application process as an opportunity to create a work plan that will benefit you whether you receive funding or not. It's all about your mindset. She'll also share insight about what to expect throughout and after the process. A joy-filled conversation to help you discern what might be the right path for you.
Kathy Hsieh
Kathy Hsieh is a founder and Co-Executive Producer for SIS Productions and is also an award-winning actor, writer and director whose honors include the National Association of Asian American Professionals in Seattle as their Artist of the Year, an International Examiner Community Voice Awardee in the Arts, and a Gregory Award for Sustained Achievement. Her scripts have been experienced in Vancouver, B.C.; Chicago; Minneapolis and Seattle. Artistic projects in the last year include Notes for My Daughter as part of Macha Theatre Works' 17 Minute Stories, 14/48 Projects' It's a Wonderful Life, Harlequin Productions' radio version of Snow in Midsummer, and Parley's Patch and Piper Save the Multiverse. She has also worked with SIS Productions, Pratidhwani, Pork Filled Productions, Raisins in a Glass of Milk, Sound Theatre, ReAct, Seattle Rep, Book-It, ACT, Intiman, Taproot, ArtsWest, Living Voices, Seattle Shakespeare's Wooden O and more.
Thursday, June 17 at 7:30pm
PRACTICAL: Representing yourself and your craft in ways that feel authentic and empowering on paper can be difficult. Sara Porkalob will lead us through this workshop that will use immersive storytelling exercises to mine individual experience, objectives, and tactics to develop personalized, specific language that you can use for grant writing, cover letters, artistic statements, and other such documents. Being aware of what you need to flourish and being ready to receive with open us to our full potential to thrive and grow.
Sara Porkalob (she/her) is a theatre maker, cultural worker, and creator of the DRAGON CYCLE. She's based in Seattle but soon will be working all over the nation. Awards and nominations include: 2020 nominee Seattle Mayor's Arts Award, Seattle Times "11 Movers and Shakers to Watch this Decade", 2019 nominee for Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities, Seattle Magazine's 2018's Most Influential People , and 2017 City Art's Futures List. She will be making her Broadway debut in 2021 playing Edward Rutledge in the official revival of the musical 1776.
DRAGON CYCLE is a trilogy of matrilineal musicals about her Filipino American gangster family; one play for each generation built around a central female protagonist. The first in the cycle, Dragon Lady, is the recipient of three 2018 Gregory Awards for: Outstanding Sound/Music Design, Outstanding Actress in a Musical, and Outstanding Musical Production. The second in the cycle, Dragon Mama, premiered at American Repertory Theatre (ART) and won Best Original Script and Best Solo Performance for the 2019 Elliot Norton Awards. ART has commissioned the third in the cycle, Dragon Baby; it will premiere on their stage in the near future.
Her areas of expertise can be divided into three categories: storytelling, creative consultancy, and relational culture building rooted in social justice application. Last year, she collaborated as a writer and consultant with the City of Seattle and their Creative Strategies Initiative (CSI), a new City effort that uses arts- and culture-based approaches to build racial equity in non-arts policy areas like the environment, housing, workforce and community development. Earlier this year Cafe Nordo produced her queer Victorian revenge thriller, The Angel in the House, and Artswest will produce her new play Alex & Alix, and she along with Justin Huertas and Kirsten De Lohr Helland are currently developing their new musical, The Lamplighter, in collaboration with The 5th Avenue Theatre. www.saraporkalob.com, @sporkalob.
SIS Productions is a production company that strives to create, develop and produce quality works that involve Asian American women, their themes, and Asian American issues. Founded in 2000, SIS began through the creation of Sex in Seattle, a 20-episode Asian American romantic comedy that ran for 12 years to popular and critical acclaim. SIS produces Northwest premieres of new Asian American plays, often introducing Seattle to playwrights like Lauren Yee, Michael Golamco and Julia Cho. We also partner with others to bring relevant work centering the voices of Asian Americans to the region. One of the first companies to do site-specific work locally through our Revealed theatrical walking tours of the International District, we partnered with The Hansberry Project, eSe Teatro and Pratidhwani, to create Represent! A Multicultural Playwrights' Festival to showcase new work by playwrights of color. SIS serves as a resource for connection, diverse casting, and racial and gender equity in theatre.
You can find out more about SIS Productions at https://www.sis-productions.org/
Your Health is Your Wealth: Conversation
Thursday, February 11 at 7:30 pm
Conversation: Join us for a conversation with Jay O'Leary Woods where we explore how we, as artists, can be our own best advocate. Jay will guide us as we consider how we can come back stronger by prioritizing wellness and positive self-esteem as we reenter artistic spaces after this prolonged pause.
Jay O'Leary Woods
Miss Jay is a Seattle based artist-activist currently serving as the Co-Artistic Director of Sound Theatre and founder of Seattle Theatre Leaders. Jay has taught and directed internationally, at institutions such as Village Theatre, ACT Theatre, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, bringing her Anti-Racism, community building, trauma informed practice in everything she does. Jay holds an MA in Directing from Edinburgh Napier University.
Your Health Is Your Wealth: Practical Lesson
Practical Lesson: Learning to take care of yourself as an artist is paramount. Sadiqua Iman, practitioner at Nile's Edge Healing Arts, will teach us some practical ways to find and maintain balance, explore mindfulness, and practice body awareness. Come prepared to move, breathe, and connect to your inner joy.
Sadiqua Iman
Sadiqua Iman performs as the character Namii and uses burlesque, storytelling, and dance to deconstruct issues of gender fluidity, relationships, and what it means to "strip down" outside of sexual connotations. She is Founder/Artistic Director of Earth Pearl Collective, a queer black womyns social justice non profit organization dedicated to healing communities through artistic collaborations. Sadiqua works as a freelance director, costume designer, teaching artist, and project manager in the Seattle area and around the country. She has directed an all woman of color cast of A Streetcar Named Desire to raise awareness of same sex domestic violence and created an interactive performances based on the disappearance of queer black leadership in social justice movements called We Be Dat. In 2018 she premiered an original boi-lesque ballet called Tail Feather that explored female bodied masculinity at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. Her most recent project was directing August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean at Chattanooga Theatre Centre in January 2020. Sadiqua Iman earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Arts Leadership at Seattle University. She was awarded the 2019 Arc Fellowship award by 4Culture and used the funds to open the new Afro-centered healing arts center Nile's Edge.
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A Reboot Collaboration: Conversation
Thursday, March 11 at 7:30 pm
Conversation: Join artists Josephine Kearns, Aaron M. Davis-Norman and Jasmine Joshua as they share how producers, directors, designers and artistic decision makers can best support artists throughout the theatre-making experience, from season selection all the way through running a show. They will share their experiences in these areas as it relates to the TGNC and BIPOC artists and the various intersectional identities that are too often missing from the room. Let's talk about what equity within the arts looks like, how we can amplify under used artists' joy and talents and the practical ways these artists are bridging the gap between two communities to create one collaborative community.
Josephine Kearns (she/her) (March 11)
Josephine is a gender consultant, dramaturg, and educator who specializes in queer, transgender, and intersex identities. She has worked in theatres across the US and Canada as a pioneer in the field of gender consulting, supporting every aspect of productions from script and casting to marketing and production. Her experience spans fifteen years in professional theatre, staff positions at multiple trans-supporting organizations, and over 150 gender inclusivity trainings for schools, hospitals, government institutions, and arts organizations.
Aaron M. Davis-Norman (March 11)
Aaron is an educator, artist/activist originally from Compton California and holds a BM in vocal performance from Cornish College of The Arts. Aaron has performed in many musical arenas from opera, to musical theatre, to gospel and has worked with incredible musicians across Europe and North America. As an educator Aaron has worked with students both young and young at heart. As an activist Aaron fights for equitable theatre education programs for youth and diverse representation on stage and production teams. Aaron can be found teaching at Village Theatre KidStage and Cornish College of The Arts.
Jasmine Joshua (they/them) (March 11)
Jasmine is a Seattle writer, producer, actor, director, and gender consultant. They are the Artistic Director of the award-winning Reboot Theatre Company whose mission is to test new interpretations of established works through nontraditional casting and design. Jasmine graduated magna cum laude from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in Creative Writing and a minor in Jewish Studies. They also studied with the Larry Moss Studio and the Groundlings. Before moving to Seattle, Jasmine was a theatrical publicist in the Bay Area, managing clients from LORT theatres and Broadway tours to opera, ballet, and a monster truck rally. Directing credits: Reboot Theatre; Cafe Nordo; assistant director at 5th Avenue Theatre; associate director at Village Theatre. On stage: Intiman, Book-it, Seattle Musical Theatre, among others. www.jasminejoshua.com
March Instructor Information
A Reboot Collaboration: Practical Lesson
Practical Lesson: Join us for a virtual voice-affirming lesson from Alexandra Plattos Sulack, Co-Founder of the Chicago based studio THE VOICE LAB.
The Voice Lab provides voice affirming services for transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals as well as music lessons for adults and kids in voice, piano, and guitar. Our teachers are educated, diversely trained pedagogues and performers. Not only is it our job to meet every question you have about the inner workings of the voice with a thoughtful and thorough explanation, but it is also our goal to hear you and understand what taking lessons means to you.
Alexandra Plattos Sulack (she/her) (March 25)
Alexandra is a performer, singer, and teacher/coach based in Chicago, and the Co-Founder of The Voice Lab, Inc. She believes that everyone has a voice worth sharing. Her work centers around meeting voice users where they are and co-creating a plan steeped in science-based pedagogy and play, so that their most authentic voice (singing or speaking) can emerge.
Structuring Your Practicing by Alexandra Platos Sulack
Money Mindfulness: Conversation
Thursday April 8 at 7:30 pm
Conversation: Does tackling financial planning, budgeting, and things like taxes stress you out and fill you with fear and anxiety? Join us for a conversation with Chandra Savage and Janell Johnson where we will discuss how to flip that mindset of scarcity to one driven by potential. We will talk about tactics that help us approach our finances one bite at a time and vocabulary that allows us access to the wide world of financial abundance. No matter where you are on your journey to financial wellness, we welcome you to join us.
Janell Johnson (she/her) (April 8)
Janell's fifteen-year career in philanthropy has led to a breadth of richly fulfilling experiences: community foundation management, grant administration, program design and development, endowment building, family legacy planning, social justice advocacy, public administration, and community organizing.
As a Certified Specialist in Planned Giving (CSPG) experienced in gift planning's financial and legal aspects, Janell stewards her expertise to open doors between philanthropists and the causes they care about. She has served in prominent fundraising roles at institutions such as the Arizona Community Foundation as Regional Director and Seattle Opera as Associate Development Director. She currently splits her time between managing Village Theatre's Endowment and legacy program as Associate Director of Development and as a Philanthropic Advisor for Phila Engaged Giving. She believes that charitable giving is food for the soul; it's not about the size of the gift but the size of the giver's heart and their desire to make a difference in others' lives that matters.
Janell has served on several boards and directs her time to causes that advance philanthropy and culture. She is Vice President of Inspire Washington, a statewide cultural advocacy coalition, and immediate Past President of the Washington Planned Giving Council, which serves to unite nonprofit professionals and legal and financial advisors to increase transformational philanthropy in the Pacific Northwest. She is also currently enrolled in The American College's Chartered Advisors in Philanthropy program.
She enjoys spending time with her two sons and a feisty little Bichon Frise named Katie.
Chandra Savage (April 8)
Chandra Savage is an entrepreneur and financial trainer at The Financial Gem based in New York City. She believes in the power of investing in yourself and creating a positive relationship with your finances. After years of mismanaging her own finances, Chandra began to pursue financial literacy and it changed the trajectory of her life. For the past three years, working as a Financial Coach, Chandra has helped people change their mindsets around money to put them on the path towards financial freedom. On her financial literacy journey Chandra has gained knowledge and developed a passion for empowering people to get in touch with their finances, no matter how scary it may be. Ms. Savage also has her Intermediate wine certification and is host of the weekly podcast, Mo WIne-Wine, Mishaps and More, available on Apple Podcast, Spotify and other platforms.
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Money Mindfulness: Practical Lesson
Thursday April 22 at 7:30pm
Practical Lesson: It's time to roll up our sleeves and take a Practical Lesson from Akeiva M. Ellis on how your business finances relate to your personal finances. Let's get to work and learn how to prep for our taxes throughout the year, start a budget, and gain knowledge and begin to take control. Akeiva is very interested in supporting the artistic experience – so please feel free to send questions in advance so she can better support your needs. It's a new world for artists and that includes financial well-being, let's discover a new level of agency and understanding together.
Akeiva M. Ellis MSFP, CPA/PFS, CFP®, ChSNC® (she/her) (April 22)
Akeiva is a financial planner and educator. She is a Financial Education Specialist at Ballentine Partners LLC, a wealth management firm based in the greater Boston area serving high net worth individuals and families. At Ballentine, Akeiva also serves as co-leader of the firm's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Taskforce. She is also the founder of The Bemused, a financial literacy brand catering to young adults.
Akeiva holds a master's degree in Financial Planning. She is one of the youngest Certified Public Accountants and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals in the nation and has a passion for helping young adults like herself build wealth.
To learn more about Akeiva check out youtube.com/bemused or follow her on IG @thebemused .
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Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance brings air show to Sweet Briar stage
Posted on January 23, 2017 January 23, 2017 by Jennifer McManamay
Frequent Flyer dancer Angela Delsanter will perform with the dance company at Sweet Briar College Feb. 2. Photo: heathergrayphotography
Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance will perform at Sweet Briar College on Thursday, Feb. 2. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. in Murchison Lane Auditorium at Babcock Fine Arts Center.
Frequent Flyers Productions is a nonprofit teaching and performance company founded 29 years ago by artistic director Nancy Smith. The group is a pioneer in aerial dance — a form of modern dance incorporating a suspended apparatus such as a metal hoop, piece of fabric or rope. The use of an apparatus gives the dancer another dimension to operate — the ability to move up and down, as well as side to side.
The tricky part is making it look easy, but that's what Frequent Flyers do, says Kat Buniak, at senior at Sweet Briar from Austin, Texas. Buniak took classes at the company's studio in Boulder, Colo., during the summer of 2015. She interned in the office to pay for them.
"The audience will be amazed at how effortless they make their performances look. They save the best tricks for last!" says Buniak, noting the company incorporates various apparatuses in its shows.
Laura Burgamy, shown performing a rope solo, will appear with Frequent Flyers at Sweet Briar College Feb. 2. Photo: Nancy Smith
Buniak took several classes at the Boulder studio and worked with the low-flying trapeze, silks and the lyra. She also participated in the company's international Aerial Dance Festival, a first-of-its-kind annual event that Frequent Flyers started in 1999.
Buniak has continued developing her skills on the lyra at Sweet Briar, incorporating the metal hoop into a number of performances.
"The hardest part was building up the strength," Buniak says. "I had to start from square one, just like everyone else. In the end, I found that I wanted to pursue the aerial arts. I fell in love with it.
"I love having the audience [members] on the edge of their seat, wanting more. I want the audience to fly away with me in a sense."
The Sweet Briar performance will include a "collection of pieces from Frequent Flyers' repertory," according to the program. "There is no overarching theme, rather an opportunity for the audience to experience the magic of aerial dance in all its depth and breadth."
The company of dancers and choreographers will be on campus Jan. 29-Feb. 2. They will teach four master classes using aerial apparatuses to intermediate and advanced modern dance students. Smith also will guest-teach a dance composition class on choreographing aerial dance, in addition to talking to students about her career as a performer and choreographer, teacher, and nonprofit founder and director.
Frequent Flyers Productions has performed all over the United States and twice for Cirque du Soleil in Montreal, Canada. For information about the company, go to www.frequentflyers.org.
Tickets for the Feb. 2 performance go on sale Monday, Jan. 23. Seating is general admission. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, $5 for students and free for members of the Sweet Briar community and children younger than 12. Reserve tickets at boxoffice@sbc.edu or (434) 381-6120. Visit frequentflyerssbc.bpt.me to purchase tickets in advance by credit card.
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Bookings for booster jabs to open for all 'no later than December 13'
Saturday, 4th December 2021, 11:04 am
Updated Saturday, 4th December 2021, 11:05 am
The NHS booking service for booster jabs should be updated by 13 December (Photo: Getty Images)
The rollout of Covid-19 booster jabs will be ramped up later this month, NHS England has confirmed.
Booster vaccines will be offered to all over 18s in England following updated guidance from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), in light of the new Omicron Covid variant.
The JCVI has said that all adults will become eligible for a top-up dose and will be able to get their jab three months after their second dose, instead of the previous six month wait.
The NHS booking service for booster jabs is yet to be updated, but NHS England has said it should be in place by 13 December.
What has NHS England said?
In a letter from the health service released on Friday (3 December), it was revealed that the booking system would be updated to reflect the reduced time between doses to three months "as soon as possible and no later than December 13".
It said the jabs would be delivered "in descending age groups", with priority to be given to older adults first, along with those who are in a Covid-19 at-risk group.
However, it is possible that the rollout could begin even earlier, as soon as the UK Health Security Agency updates its guidance.
GP surgeries have also now been given permission to defer routine health checks for those aged 75 and over to free up capacity to administer booster doses, and the Army and "clinical students" could be called on to help deliver the jabs.
While the pressure the health service is already facing was acknowledged, the letter stressed there was a "new national mission" after ministers set the challenge for the NHS to offer boosters to all adults in just 62 days.
Covid cases still increasing
Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that Covid-19 infections have increased in all four UK nations and remain close to record levels, but the rise in infections is not linked to the Omicron variant.
However, more Omicron cases have now been reported, with 75 more infections being detected in England, bringing the UK total to 134 so far.
Cases of the variant have been detected in England, Scotland and most recently in Wales, but has not yet been reported in Northern Ireland.
The latest infections are thought to be linked to community infection rather than travel.
Despite the rising numbers, Downing Street has ruled out making Covid-19 vaccines mandatory to protect against the variant.
Austria has decided to enforce such a policy and it is currently also being considered in Germany.
A spokesman for the Prime Minister told reporters: "We've set out our policy on this and we've said it's not something that we would look to introduce.
"You're aware of the changes we made in terms of social care settings and for NHS workers, given the importance of protecting the most vulnerable in our society.
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Q: mysqli not found in (php-fpm) docker container I'm running php:7-fpm in a docker container that is used by my nginx web server. Everything is working nicely except for when I'm trying to instantiate a mysqli connection in my PHP code. I receive the following error:
"NOTICE: PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Class 'Listener\mysqli' not found in index.php:104

Here's my Dockerfile for building the image, where I explicitly install the mysqli extension:
FROM php:7-fpm

RUN docker-php-ext-install mysqli

It appears to be installed given the phpinfo() output below. Do I need to configure or enable it somehow?

A: Your problem isn't that you're missing the mysqli extension.
If you're doing something like this:
namespace Listener;

class Foo
{
    public function bar() {
        $conn = new mysqli(...);
    }
}

Then PHP will interpret new mysqli() as new \Listener\mysqli() because you're currently in the \Listener namespace. To fix this, you can just explicitly anchor mysqli() to the root namespace:
$conn = new \mysqli(...);


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Moog Voyager
This was the rightful successor to the mother of all synthesizers, created by none other than the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer. Indeed, it was winter NAMM 2002, the year that Bob Moog renamed his Big Briar company Moog Music, having effectively bought back the rights to his own name. The company comeback with this long-awaited instrument was to take place on a 3 x 9m booth space in Hall A — right next to where I was exhibiting Neuron as the supposed synthesizer of the future. There I witnessed Bob Moog crouched on the floor, scraping the Voyager prototype's pitch wheel with a small pocket knife, contrasting completely with the myth that had shaped my entire life.
It did not feel right, and somehow the Voyager itself was somehow not right either, but I could correct that with my skills. So I struck a deal with the legend himself, promising to rework the Voyager's problematic panel in exchange for a production unit.
Ultimately, the synthesizer's general structure was already set in stone, so-to-speak, so I could only rework the product graphics and suggest slight positional corrections to create suitable space for labels and controller markings since selection and arrangement of the controls themselves had already been established in the design, which was to be expected. Even so, the choice of fonts and line widths did still offer potential for optimising improvement.
With the Voyager, Moog was able to pick up from where he had painfully left off years before — learning, on more than one occasion, the bittersweet lesson that technical ingenuity cannot always be equated with economic success. Saying that, the Voyager bears all the hallmarks of the classic instrument with which the Moog name will be forever associated — including, of course, its hinged panel. Technically, it arrived in a form that everyone had been wishing for since the introduction of the MIDI standard and programmability, even if the latter tempts the use of the instrument in an inappropriate way. With that in mind, the Voyager Old School was offered later, losing the upgradable operating system, LCD, menus, patch memories, MIDI, and even the (analogue) touch surface. Still, it was quite a complicated construction that did not match the uncompromising simplicity of the original Minimoog.


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Aged care is being put on the backburner in Australia
byMark Bowling
6 June 2016 - Updated on 1 April 2021
Time to care: "Too often in elections older Australians don't get the priority that they should.
Time to care: "Too often in elections older Australians don't get the priority that they should.
ALMA was told by her daughter it would be a "nice" place.
But when Alma entered the aged-care facility, there was an overpowering stench of urine combined with toilet cleaner.
Alma's room was tiny with no outlook, the curtains closed. It felt degrading.
She was collected and taken to a common lounge room where she sat all day with nothing to do, staring out at the birds, and watching the other residents with their mouths hanging open.
Many residents with dementia would not think to ask to be let out into the garden.
The garden was in the shade anyway. Alma looked defeated.
This is a grim account from inside one residential aged-care facility.
And yet the ageing experience and the troubles it brings rarely make the media headlines.
Even though most of the 2800 facilities – they used to be called nursing homes – across Australia may be clean and well run, industry projections suggest choice and quality are on the slide.
Unless there is a big injection of government funding, the number of places available will be outstripped by demand as our ageing population grows, seriously reducing the choice of nursing homes as well as the safety, comfort and quality of life which we expect.
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The figures are compelling.
More than 169,000 elderly people are in residential aged care.
About three-quarters (77 per cent) were aged 80 and over, and 57 per cent were aged 85 and over.
Over the next 10 years, the number of residents is projected to reach more than 250,000 and the highest area of growth will be among residents aged 95 or over.
One of the key health-care challenges is dementia, which is the major reason that people seek admittance to residential aged care.
It is estimated about half of aged-care residents suffer from dementia and the number of people who develop the condition will increase from 220,000 currently, to 730,000 by 2050.
As a result, the high-care proportion of residential aged care is going to need to increase dramatically to keep up with demand, requiring a skilled health workforce incorporating medical, nursing and allied health professionals, carers and assistants.
St Vincent's Care Services is one of the largest aged-care providers committed to building safe, home-like residences with 24-hour care.
It has a new state-of-the-art dementia-care residence opening in Southport in August, adding to its other six locations across south-east Queensland.
However, the size of the dementia problem requires a massive government action to provide for the future and, so far, the Federal Election has seen only a flicker of interest from politicians.
There were no significant dementia policy announcements in the recent 2016 budget.
What's more, unveiled in the budget were changes to the funding formula for aged-care providers – amounting to a cut of $1.2 billion.
The Government said the changes to the funding formula were in response to "continued higher-than-expected growth" in aged-care costs.
The Aged Care Guild, the peak body representing the major aged-care providers, is critical of the Government' s cut which is designed to curb skyrocketing costs for nursing home residents with complex needs.
Under changes revealed in the budget, the formula for deciding funding levels for patients with complex care needs will be changed, and the rate of indexation of payments for these patients will be halved.
In practice, this will reduce the availability of physiotherapy for residents in pain, and lower staffing levels which will increase waiting time for personal attention and mean less attention to residents who demonstrate confronting behaviour.
Besides the cuts for residents needing complex care, the guild's chief executive officer Cameron O'Reilly said this year's budget allocation would do little more than cover new places coming on-line.
"Our members are genuinely concerned the tightening in available care funding will impact their capacity to secure capital to invest in quality care and new beds for future residents," he said.
Mr O'Reilly said in this environment, members thought it was unlikely the industry would meet the projected demand for 76,000 new beds that the Aged Care Financing Authority said were needed by 2023-24.
"Governments can adjust the budget each year but the reality is they can neither reverse the need for the provision of more complex healthcare nor the increasing demand for residential care places," he said.
"That is why the latest $1.2 billion savings in the Federal Budget need to be properly reviewed and reconsidered by whichever side of politics is successful at the July election."
Shadow Minister for Ageing Shayne Neumann said Labor would commit to a major review of the way aged-care services were provided and paid for, but ruled out reversing the $1.2 billion cut.
Council on the Ageing Australia chief executive Ian Yates said both major parties needed to address the shortfall in residential places and home care services.
"Too often in elections older Australians don't get the priority that they should," Mr Yates said.
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A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.
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Your teeth and mouth are an extremely important part of your body. Dental care and treatment should be part of an overall personal health and well being programme.
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Explainer: Why Spain's government is rushing through changes to sedition and embezzlement laws
The move is set to benefit the leaders of the Catalan independence drive, but has raised the ire of the opposition
Simon Hunter
13 Dec, 2022 @ 18:45
AS THE end of the year approaches, and with regional and national elections planned for next year, there is currently a flurry of legislative activity in Spain's Congress of Deputies.
Among the controversial measures being taken by the administration is a plan to reduce prison sentences for the offences of sedition and misappropriation of funds, something that is likely to benefit leaders of the Catalan independence movement.
The Spanish government is led by the Socialist Party, in coalition with leftist Unidas Podemos. The administration of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez lacks a working majority in Congress, which means it must do deals with smaller parties to get things done.
The changes to the sedition and misappropriation of funds laws have been agreed by the government with the Catalan Republican Left (ERC).
Earlier this week the prime minister responded to the controversy that these measures have caused, particularly among the opposition, saying that they were 'risky' but there was 'no other choice'.
'We have to return confrontation and political debate to the area of politics and take it out of the courts,' he said at a party event in Barcelona on Sunday.
'I don't want you to return to the fateful and sad days of 2017,' he added, in reference to the illegal referendum in Catalonia and subsequent unilateral declaration of independence.
The changes that the government is pushing through will see the offence of sedition disappear, to be replaced by the crime of aggravated public disorder. This will see a change in jail terms from the current 10 to 15 years, down to three to five years. Anyone convicted of the new offence will be banned from public office for six to eight years rather than the current 10 to 15.
Meanwhile, the changes to the misappropriation of funds law will make the distinction between embezzlement of public money for personal gain, and when it is used for another purpose. This would affect the leaders of the 2017 independence drive, some of whom, such as former premier Carles Puigdemont – who fled Spain to avoid trial and is currently living in Belgium – are yet to face trial.
Carles Puigdemont. Cordon Press image
The planned changes would see the sentence for embezzlement for personal gain stay the same, two to 12 years of jail and a six to 20 year ban from public office, as well as two new offences: misappropriation of funds for 'private use' without personal gain (six months to three years of prison, and a ban from public office from one to four years), and another when the funds are used for something else (one to four years of jail, and two to six year bans from public office).
It is this last offence that would likely apply to the Catalan independence leaders, who used public funds to organise the illegal referendum in 2017.
A new referendum?
While the government is making concessions to the Catalan Republican Left, it has made clear that a referendum on the future of Catalonia is not on the table.
The PSOE spokesperson in Congress, Patxi Lopez, said that the party 'would not accept any independence referendum' in Catalonia, despite the ERC stating on Tuesday that it would double its efforts after the reforms to secure a vote.
López also pointed out that the offence of rebellion will also remain in Spain's Criminal Code and that Article 155 of the Constitution – which was used by the central government to take temporary control of the Catalonia region after the 2017 unilateral declaration of independence – can be used again should the regional administration once again challenge Madrid.
Lopez echoed the prime minister's words on Tuesday. 'The government takes risks, takes political decisions, but what it is doing works,' he said, in comments reported by Europa Press. 'Catalonia is no longer Spain's biggest problem, Spain is not breaking up […],' he added.
Opposition reaction
Far-right Vox has reacted to the changes being made by the government by calling for a new vote of no confidence against the prime minister. A previous vote it called failed.
For now, the leader of the main opposition Popular Party, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, has said that he will not oppose such a vote, but will not table one himself.
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Feijoo also promised that he would scrap as many as five laws introduced by the current government if he wins power at the next general election, due to take place in late 2023.
He slammed Sánchez as exercising power like a 'despot' and was behaving in a way that is 'unsuitable for a democracy'.
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O-I strongly supports new recycling education legislation
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Owens-Illinois, Inc., the world's largest producer of glass packaging, announced its support for new legislation aimed at educating and increasing recycling rates in the United States.
Senators Robert Portman (R-OH) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) have created the "Recycle Enhancements to Collection and Yield through Consumer Learning and Education (RECYCLE) Act of 2019."
"O-I is thrilled to see bi-partisan legislation that will have an important impact on reducing waste and increasing the availability of recyclable materials, like glass," said Randolph Burns, O-I's Global VP of Government Relations.
The RECYCLE Act, administered by the U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA), is an outreach grant program to inform and educate consumers on which items are accepted in their municipal recycling programs.
Glass packaging is 100 percent and endlessly recyclable. O-I is the largest user of recycled glass (cullet) and by using it in the manufacturing process to make new glass containers it reduces the amount of energy needed and decreases greenhouse gas emissions.
"We are a global company and can see that other countries are much further ahead than the U.S. in terms of recycling behavior. Europe has had tremendous success, so we know it's possible. To change consumer habits we must start with education. This legislation provides a needed jolt of energy to jump-start action and momentum," said Burns.
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By air or by land here is a list of ways to get to Arrifana
There are many low cost airlines that fly into both Faro (FAO) and Lisbon (LIS) Airport. Faro airport is 120 km from the Retreat and Lisbon is 245 km. Find a list below of how to get from both airports to the Retreat.
By Car from Faro Airport (FAO)
Around 120km, the drive takes about one hour and fifteen minutes. From the airport you need to follow the signs towards the A22 highway-heading west. Haven taken the A22, follow the signs to Portimao/Lagos and continue until the highway ends. At the roundabout follow the signs towards Aljezur (N120) for about 20km. Before you arrive in Aljezur you will take a left up the hill towards Vale Da Telha. At the top of the hill take a left towards Arrifana. You will go through a small town called Vales, after going through Vales veer left towards Praia da Arrifana for 2kms. Take a right at the entrance to Vale Da Telha, shown by the statue. Directly after, take the next right, we are the last house on the left hand side, number 64A.
Here are some useful Car Hire Links: www.europcar.pt or www.avis.com.pt
**We highly recommend hiring a car! We have plenty of parking available at the Retreat.
By Shuttle Transfer from Faro Airport
This transfer needs to be booked in advance and takes you to Lagos. The trip can take up to an hour and a half as it stops off down the coast. Prices for the transfer start at €18 for a one-way trip. Please state Lagos Train Station as your drop off point and, by prior arrangement, we can pick you up from there. However if you prefer, you can get a direct shuttle to the Retreat starting from €40.
Here are some useful links: http://www.resorthoppa.com or http://www.shuttledirect.com
By Train from Faro Airport to Lagos Train Station
The train takes an hour and a half to two hours. From the airport you need to take a taxi to Faro train station. The train fare from Faro to Lagos costs around €7 one-way. Again, we can pick you up from Lagos by prior arrangement.
Here is the link for the timetables & prices: http://www.cp.pt
By Private Transfer from Faro Airport to Arrifana Retreat
We do offer a direct, private pick up from outside of Departures. It takes one hour and fifteen minutes and brings you straight to the Retreat. It costs around €120. This needs to be booked directly with us one week prior to arrival.
By Bus from Lisbon (LIS)
Take the Rede Expressos going to Lagos and get off at Aljezur. This takes about 4 hours and costs around €20 one-way.
Here is the link for the timetables & prices.
Lagos is about a 30-minute drive from the Retreat and Aljezur is about 10 minutes.
There is a fee for all pick ups from Lagos and Aljezur
Please contact us directly to organize prices and times of pick-ups and drop-offs from Lagos or Aljezur.
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Heritage Moves To 8-1
The Eagles baseball team of Vidalia Heritage Academy continued their solid season as they picked up three more wins to move to 8-1 on the season. They played on Tuesday at home against Sherwood Christian and then were at Twiggs Academy for a double header on Thursday.
Vs. Sherwood
Sherwood took the early lead with two runs in the top of the first inning. VHA got a leadoff solo home run by Ledger Curl in the bottom of the frame to close it to 2-1. Sherwood added three runs in the top of the third inning, but a big bottom half for the Eagles saw them plate nine runs to take a 10-5 lead.
VHA added a run in the fourth, but three in the top of the fifth from Sherwood closed it to 11-8. Heritage answered with six runs in the bottom of the fifth and then one more in the sixth as they took the win 18-8 over Sherwood.
JT Cofield led the Eagles with an incredible 8 RBI's in the game with RJ Wells adding three more. Mason Beacham got the win on the mound as he went 4 2/3 innings with 6 strikeouts.
Vs. Twiggs Game 1 The Eagles had no problems with Twiggs in either game as they rolled to two big wins. VHA got the scoring started in the top of the first inning with one run. They added another in the second inning and then one in the third to lead 3-0.
It was a big top of the fifth inning for VHA that broke the game open as they scored six runs to lead 9-0. VHA held in the bottom of the inning to take the win by the run rule, 9-0.
Jacob Dean led VHA with 3 RBI's, with Curl and Ethan Sikes each adding 2. Greer Posey got the win on the mound for Heritage with 8 strikeouts.
In the second game Heritage was the home team and jumped out in front with four runs in the bottom of the first inning. Twiggs managed to pick up a run in the top of the second, but VHA plated four more runs in the bottom of the inning to take an 8-1 lead.
Heritage scored two more in the fourth and held on in the fifth for a run rule win, 10-1.
Dean and Sikes each had 2 RBI's in the game with Curl picking up 4 hits. Sikes was the winning pitcher with 9 strikeouts.
This week Heritage had a Region game against David Emanuel on Tuesday at home after presstime. They will be back in action on Friday in Stillmore as they again face off with DEA with the first pitch at 4:30 p.m.
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