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Q: How should an npm library put a file in the public folder? (I have a Vue/Vite application but I think this question is generic to any setup.)
In my app, I have some code that I want to generalize into a separate npm library package so it can be used in multiple apps. This requires placing a file in the public folder of the app but I'm not sure what the best practice way of doing that is.
(This file is a service worker, but I think that is irrelevant to the question - this would be the same for any file that needs to have a public URL.)
I'd like the use of this library to be as clean as possible. That is, I'd like to not tell the client to "copy this file into your public folder".
I think that copy step needs to happen somewhere, though, unless there is a way to tell Vite to add a file to what it packages.
The copy step could be when running npm install, I guess. It would be nice if that could also add a line to .gitignore, too, if needed. I think this is complicated because the actual location is different whether the app is Vue, Nuxt, or some other framework.
I don't think the copy step could be when import mylib from "mylib" because that happens after the app is already packaged.
So, I think my two options are:

*

*Tell Vite to put a particular file, unaltered, in the public folder.

*Run a post install script when npm install runs. (That would have to work whether the user is on Windows, mac, or linux.)

*Some other magic?
I don't know how to implement any of those, so a pointer to some documentation or a good term to search for would be appreciated, too.
Or is this just a fool's errand and I should tell the user to just copy the file to their public folder manually?

A: If you are using Vite, you can create an npm library with a Vite plugin in it. The documentation for Vite plugins is here, and the API that Vite's plugin API stems from is here. The code for a plugin to add to Vite's output and dev server would be
import { writeFile } from "fs";
import { resolve } from "path";

let url = "service-worker.js"
let fileContent = "file contents"
let outPath;

const myPlugin = () => ({
  name: "add-service-worker",
  configResolved(resolvedConfig) {
    outPath = resolve(resolvedConfig.root, resolvedConfig.build.outDir, url);
  },
  configureServer(server) {
    server.middlewares.use(`/${url}`, (req, res, next) => {
      res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "text/javascript" });
      res.write(fileContent);
      res.end();
    });
  },
  closeBundle() {
    writeFile(outPath, fileContent, { flag: "w" }, (error) => {
      if (error) {
        throw error;
      }

      console.log(`Generated file to ${outPath}`);
    });
  },
});

export default myPlugin;

The same could most likely be applied to a rollup or webpack plugin. However, the real easiest way would be to make this a library, and import it using
import service-worker from "service-worker"


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BAME frontline workers should also get priority for Covid-19 vaccine
Evidence shows that those of BAME origin are amongst those at highest risk of infection and death from COVID 19. People of BAME origin often work in low paid employment in jobs where it is not possible to work at home such as cleaners, carers and bus drivers. These are also jobs which put workers in close, protracted contact with the public. Doctors in Unite believe that when a safe vaccine against COVID 19 becomes available that those in such high risk roles should be prioritised to receive it and they should be recognised as front-line staff.
In the NHS, it is usual for low paid jobs to be contracted out to private corporations and these outsourced workers, for example in NHS domestic services and portering, do not get treated on a par with directly employed staff. While it has been shown that clinical staff in intensive care units have been well protected against Covid 19 with high quality risk assessment, PPE, air purification and more, other front line clinical workers, especially outsourced BAME workers, have had high mortality.
In addition, public facing workers of BAME origin often live in overcrowded, multi-generational households. Potential exposure to COVID 19 at work not only puts them at risk, but their extended families.
Doctors in Unite believes that these high risk, front-line workers should be among those at the front of the queue to receive a safe COVID 19 vaccine, and applauds the International Workers of Great Britain for their groundbreaking court victory over health-and-safety protection for workers in the gig economy.
See article here on IWGB's court victory here: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/union-hails-groundbreaking-court-victory-over-access-to-ppe-for-gig-economy-workers
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Mass testing in Liverpool – more questions than answers
Doctors in Unite sent the letter below to Professor Allyson Pollock and colleagues, in support of their letter to Liverpool MPs questioning the rationale for mass testing of the people of Liverpool. A link to their letter, and a BMJ blogpost by Dr Angela Raffle, Consultant in Public Health appears below our letter.
To: Allyson Pollock, Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University; Anthony J. Brooks, Professor of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Leicester University; Louisa Harding-Edgar, General Practitioner and Academic Fellow in General Practice, Glasgow University; Angela E. Raffle, Consultant in Public Health, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Bristol Medical School Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol; Stuart Hogarth, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.
CC: Dr Matt Ashton, Director of Public Health, Liverpool.
Dear Allyson, Prof Brooks, Dr Harding-Edgar, Dr Raffle and Dr Hogarth,
Doctors in Unite would like to support your letter expressing concerns about the mass testing for COVID 19 in Liverpool.
We are surprised that Dr Ashton, Director of Public Health for Liverpool is enthusiastic about the pilot and would be interested to hear his reasoning. If there is more detailed information which has led him to this conclusion, that we are not party to, we would be willing to reconsider our position in the light of any such evidence.
We believe that there is a place for testing of a sufficiently-sized random sample of individuals if it is to determine more accurately the prevalence of COVID 19 in society, in fact we called for this early on in the pandemic, it is in place nationally and could usefully be augmented to generate local results. However opening the testing to everybody detracts from the randomness of the sample, which becomes self-selected, and creates a significant issue of false negative test results which needs to be considered.
Mass testing with the aim of suppressing the virus, without adequate Test, Track, Trace, Isolate and Support is in our view unlikely to be successful. As you point out even a very small false positive rate will mean that people who are not infected will be told to self-isolate and there will be a larger number of these individuals and their families the more people who are tested. Without income protection many people are likely to decline to be involved.
We believe that the Westminster Government response to the COVID 19 pandemic has been appalling and that many lives have been unnecessarily lost. It is time for the Government to abandon their populist approach and to start to be led by the science.
Dr Jackie Applebee, Chair, Doctors in Unite
Letter to Liverpool MPs:
https://allysonpollock.com/?page_id=3345
BMJ blogpost by Dr Angela Raffle
Screening the healthy population for covid-19 is of unknown value, but is being introduced nationwide
Doctors in Unite support Independent SAGE's emergency 10-point plan to stop a national lockdown
We sent the following message today, 20 September 2020, to Independent SAGE:
"Doctors in Unite fully endorse Independent SAGE's emergency ten point plan to avoid a national lockdown. [The plan can be found here: https://www.independentsage.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Emergency-Plan-PUBLISHED.pdf ]
Experience from other countries such as Germany, South Korea and Japan has shown that if the correct measures are adopted the case rate of COVID 19 can be substantially reduced and unnecessary deaths prevented. Equally these proposals are not alien to the United Kingdom as virtually all of the recommendations are already policy in our devolved administrations.
However, despite governing one of the richest countries in the world, Boris Johnson and the Tory Party callously ignore what can be done and what needs to be done and instead throw billions of pounds at private sector providers such as Serco, Sitel and Deloitte whose national "test, trace, isolate and support" programme is demonstrably unfit for purpose, and is contributing to the current alarming rise in Covid-19 infection.
Doctors in Unite call on the Tory Government to take off their ideological blinkers and to listen to the experts and people on the front line, to give the NHS and Public Health the tools they need to crush the virus and to immediately adopt i-SAGE's emergency ten point plan"
We did suggest an amendment to point 2 of the plan which says there should be "no return to workplaces until they are certified Covid-safe". It is very difficult to make any indoor space completely Covid-safe and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has suffered swingeing cuts over the last decade to the point where it is unable to fulfil its statutory duties in the workplace. We suggest therefore that there should be no return to the workplace "until it has been fully risk-assessed", which will allow for trade union and worker involvement in ensuring that workplaces are as safe a possible.
Speech by Dr Jackie Applebee, Chair of Doctors in Unite to the BMA Annual Representative Meeting, 15 September 2020
Dr Applebee proposed the motion by TOWER HAMLETS DIVISION of the BMA: That this meeting, in response to COVID 19, demands that government:
i) ensure that workers are not under pressure to attend work either for financial or workforce reasons while they are unwell or self-isolating and at risk of inadvertently passing on the disease;
ii) provide the equivalent of day-one statutory sick pay to those on zero hours contracts;
iii) allow the NHS to requisition private health care facilities to accommodate effective COVID-19 treatment and quarantine provision if needed;
iv) ensure workers are paid in full while they are unwell or self-isolating.
With respect to point iii)
The COVID 19 pandemic has surely blown the myth that private is good and public is bad.
We have heard repeatedly today how the NHS has stepped up to the plate to deal with the crisis, though years of an unprecedented funding squeeze has led to the collateral damage that Chaand (Dr Chaand Nagpaul, Chair of the Council of BMA) referred to earlier of those whose other health needs could not be met due to the lack of slack in the system.
On the other hand outsourcing to the likes of Deloitte and Serco has led not to the world beating test trace isolate and support system trumpeted by Boris Johnson, but a wholesale fiasco where people are having to drive miles to get a COVID test and where, despite the billions spent, the global multinationals cannot do as well with contact tracing as the very poor relation that are local public health departments.
Private hospitals were handed hundreds of millions back in March to increase capacity to deal with COVID 19 but they were largely unused, gifting a nice windfall to their shareholders at a time when their usual work had all but dried up.
Now they are likely to commissioned to help with the backlog of NHS care. Don't get me wrong the backlog needs to be cleared, patients need their treatment, but the private sector should not be able to profit from this. They should be brought into the NHS family and their activity now should be offset against the money they were given in March. There must be value for public money spent.
The fact that the NHS had to shut down everything except dealing with COVID in March is a stark illustration of the chronic underfunding and that there has to be spare capacity inbuilt into the system to deal with crises. The extra money thrown at the system should have been thrown at the NHS not the private sector.
With respect to points i), ii) and iv):
If we are going to crush COVID, really get on top of it, we need people to be able to afford to stay at home and isolate if they are in contact with an index case. If there is enough money in the economy to subsidise eating out there is surely enough to guarantee that if someone is in quarantine that they are paid in full.
Many of the lowest paid, for example cleaners, refuse collectors and care workers, many of whom have looked after patients with COVID, often of precarious zero hours contracts, cannot work from home, and to make ends meet many of them have two jobs. They need to be reassured that they wont' lose out financially if they stay off work otherwise they will have no choice but to go in and the virus will continue to spread.
Covid is with us but Government could do so much more to minimise it's devastating impact.
The pandemic has surely underlined the huge value of publicly funded, publicly provided health service which is free at the point of delivery and the demonstrated the dedication of the staff who work within the NHS and Social Care.
As has been said today already, we have an opportunity to reshape the future, it's up to us whether we grasp the nettle.
Please support this motion in all it's parts.
The Motion was passed with overwhelming support from delegates
COVID-19 update 7 September 2020 – still stumbling along
A review of where the UK is in its response to the Covid-19 pandemic
1. Policy failure
Richard Horton, editor of the prestigious medical journal 'The Lancet', described the management of COVID-19 as the "greatest science policy failure for a generation" in his book on the pandemic. Currently the numbers of newly diagnosed patients are steeply rising with many wondering if the government has completely lost its grip. So – four months after Johnson showed his remarkable grasp of the scientific narrative by declaring: "If this virus were a physical assailant, an unexpected and invisible mugger (which I can tell you from personal experience it is), then this is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to the floor" – where do things stand?
2. Increasing number of positive test results
In July, the lowest number of daily new positive tests recorded was 574; by 6th September 2020, this had risen alarmingly to nearly 3000 on each of two successive days, showing a sudden increase of around 50% just as schools were reopening and more workers being coaxed back into workplaces. Over the preceding few weeks, European countries such as France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands had all seen a sharp rise in new cases, with 40% being in the younger age group. In the UK, the change in new diagnoses from predominantly elderly people to the young was even more apparent, with two thirds being in this demographic, including the steepest increase seen in 10 – 19 year olds accused of not observing social distancing.
3. Disillusionment
Meanwhile those with symptoms were often being told they will have to drive long distances, sometimes over a hundred miles, just to get a test. For many, this is simply not feasible, while for those who do make such a journey there is the risk of spreading infection further. At the same time statisticians have started to model the effects of NHS winter pressure combined with a second peak of coronavirus and predict that more than 100 acute hospital trusts will be operating at or above full capacity. A survey by the Doctors' Association UK found that over 1,000 doctors were planning to quit the NHS through disillusion with the government's management of the pandemic and frustration over pay. Recent national demonstrations calling for pay rises suggest many other NHS staff share these concerns and are prepared to take action.
4. Coronavirus endemic in some cities
A new public health report leaked to the press highlighted that COVID-19 was entrenched in some northern cities, and that case numbers had never really fallen to low levels during initial lockdown. This situation was strongly associated with deprivation, poor and overcrowded accommodation and ethnicity. New cases diagnosed per 100,000 population/week varied widely round the country at 98 in Bolton (topping the league), 37 in Manchester, 29 in Leeds, and only 3 in Southampton. The implication was that local lockdown measures were not likely to be any more effective in suppressing new infections and that there was an urgent need for a new strategy including better and locally tailored responses. These should include effective 'find, test, trace, isolate and support' (FTTIS) systems under the control of local authorities, many of which are in despair over their poor funding, and the hopeless performance of national 'test and trace'. Given over at huge cost to the private companies Serco and Sitel, these are still only successfully contacting 50% of contacts of known cases, a figure that, according to the official Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, should be at least 80%, with all these contacts then going into isolation.
5. Broader lessons
Other lessons to be learned relate to financial support for workers and isolation of those living in overcrowded housing. It is simply no good (i.e. it is ineffective as an infection control measure) to expect low paid workers often with little or no financial reserves to self isolate for two weeks with either no pay or derisory statutory sick pay – full pay must be given by employer or government. In addition, people in densely packed housing cannot effectively self isolate, and as in some other countries, need to be temporarily housed in suitable alternative accommodation. This might be reopened hotels, or the almost unused Nightingale hospitals for those with mild symptoms.
6. is london different
One question of interest is why figures have not jumped up in London where the number of new cases in different areas is between 6 and 18/100,000/week. Possible explanations are that London was initially hit very hard by COVID-19 and as a result people have remained more cautious. For example, many Londoners who are able to work from home have decided not to heed government advice to return to office buildings. Geographical disparities in numbers of cases probably also reflect the fact that in northern cities such as Bradford, Oldham, and Rochdale, there is a relatively higher proportion of the workforce in more public facing roles such as the National Health Service, taxi services, take away restaurants, etc. Antibody testing (carried out regularly on samples of the population) also indicates that something like 17.5% of Londoners have been infected compared with 5-7% in the rest of the country. Although this is far from 'herd immunity' (which would require about 70% of the population to have been infected) it may mean that rapid increases in numbers of infection is at least initially delayed.
7. Airborne spread
There is now considerable support for the idea that an infected person can spread the virus over long distances through the atmosphere, although at the early stage of the pandemic this notion was rejected (hence the 2 meter social distancing advocated as being safe). There is an increasing body of evidence confirming aerosol spread of virus, and this is well illustrated in food processing plants. Detailed investigation of the huge German meat factory outbreak showed spread of virus came from a single worker in the factory, with infection transmitted over 8 meters and more, and did not represent community acquired infection being brought in simultaneously by a large number of employees. The implication is that environmental conditions and effective ventilation are crucial to preventing spread of COVID-19, but unfortunately government guidelines as yet do not acknowledge this issue or provide appropriate guidance – a clear example of following far behind the science.
8. Treatments
Government strategy is reliant on the development of effective treatments and a vaccine; this in part explains the half-hearted approach to contact tracing. Lessons learned in the pandemic have reduced the numbers of patients that die once admitted to hospital, and this relates to use of oxygen delivery via a tube in the nose rather than one in the windpipe requiring the patient to be paralysed with drugs and breathing performed by a ventilator machine. Studies have also shown that giving a powerful anti-inflammatory steroid drug improves survival. As the number of patients has fallen considerably, less pressured staff also have more time to give better quality care. There is no basis for the suggestion that coronavirus has become less virulent; if it were to mutate, there is also the possibility it may become more rather than less harmful. The most likely explanation for rising case numbers overall with little change in hospital admissions and deaths is the fact that new cases are now predominantly in younger, fit people, who are much less likely to develop severe disease.
9. Vaccine
A vaccine is being presented as a 'silver bullet' that is just around the corner, however this is not the right message to give. There are estimated to be 170 research teams working on developing a vaccine, and nine products have reached large scale trials. To frame vaccine development as some kind of race increases the risk that a vaccine which is not very effective or has serious side effects will be rushed into use and public trust destroyed as a consequence. This would be hugely damaging and illustrates the importance of good public health messaging and the imperative of not compromising on safety through political pressure to deliver or the thirst for company profit. More important to bear in mind, there has never been an effective vaccine against a coronavirus just as there has never been an effective vaccine developed against HIV.
10. Fairy tales and reality checks
The Westminster government continues to choose to stumble on through the pandemic in the hope that a vaccine or effective treatment will arrive like a knight in shining armour, effect a rescue and bring us back to what was once normality. There is precious little reason to think that this is a sound strategy. Its cavalier approach to managing this unprecedented health emergency has included closing down Public Health England on spurious grounds – likened to taking the wings off a malfunctioning aeroplane in mid-flight in order to ensure a safe landing. Basic demands from the public must continue to be for an effective FTTIS system, nationally coordinated but locally delivered and aimed at complete disease suppression; much improved testing, including local testing units and rapid turn around of results; investment in NHS infrastructure and ending the obsession with inefficient and expensive private contracts; honesty and transparency to win public trust and unite the young and old in a common purpose. Sadly, a conservative government characterised by antagonism to public services and one that prioritises business interests over public health is unlikely to be either self critical and learn from experience or to implement positive changes such as those outlined above. The price for wearing such ideological blinkers will be more suffering and more economic damage as COVID-19 once again inevitably spreads like wildfire through our communities. Perhaps it is only a massively increased death toll that will make it change course.
THE ROLE OF AIRBORNE SPREAD IN FACTORY OUTBREAKS OF COVID-19
Workers and local communities are not to blame; responsibility lies with employers, regulatory agencies and government
It seems nearly every day there is another outbreak of Covid-19 in Britain's factories, in the food processing industry, in the garment industry and elsewhere. It is increasingly clear that working conditions in the factories are largely responsible for the outbreaks, in particular by means of airborne spread of Covid-19. In contrast spread between workers outside the factory and in local communities plays only a small part. The timing, circumstances and pattern of the outbreaks, points to them being typical "super-spreader events", caused by airborne spread of the virus within the same enclosed indoor space of the factory, from one or two infected individuals to large numbers of other workers. The actions of workers themselves play only a minor role in these outbreaks; the task before us is to urgently take measures to address the airborne route of spread, not only in factories but in all workplaces and schools, if we are to reduce outbreaks.
The spread of Covid-19 in indoor spaces is extremely difficult to prevent entirely. There is in reality no such thing as a "Covid-safe" workplace or school, unless transmission in the community is eliminated. The rate of community transmission will determine what happens in our workplaces and schools and a national "Zero Covid" strategy is therefore essential. We can make indoor spaces safer by hygiene measures, distancing, wearing masks and proper ventilation. We should be spending as much time talking about ventilation as we do the other measures. The Health and Safety Executive, the Food Standards Authority and other regulatory authorities have a crucial role in ensuring this is done properly; so far we have heard very little from them during the whole of the Covid-19 pandemic.
This briefing discusses airborne spread and the lessons we need to learn from super-spreading events which have occurred here and in other countries. This is all the more urgent as we head into autumn and winter when we all move indoors to a much greater extent.
Airborne spread of Covid-19
Greencore outbreak
Tönnies meat packing plant study
Preventive measures taken by Tönnies and lessons learned
Growing evidence and consensus around aerosol spread
Workers and local communities are being scapegoated for factory outbreaks caused by airborne spread
Epidemiological studies
A trade union programme
1. Airborne spread of covid-19
The British Medical Journal published a leading article on 22 August on airborne spread of Covid-19 [1], which summarises what is now very convincing evidence for aerosol transmission through the air. The article says that current official guidance, which says transmission occurs only through contact and droplet spread and that aerosols are produced only during so called "aerosol generating procedures" in hospitals, does not withstand scrutiny, and gets in the way of much needed measures to combat the virus. The authors state, "Heavy breathing, coughing, talking, and singing all generate aerosols……This has important practical implications for infection control, the prevention of outbreaks and superspreading events, and for the new social behaviours that are being implemented in an effort to control the pandemic."
The article states that airborne spread is now the plausible cause of super-spreader events, and it seems very likely that several outbreaks here in the UK, for example Greencore in Northampton, the garment factories in Leicester, meat and poultry packing plants in Wales and West Yorkshire and Coupar Angus in Scotland have been just such events. It is striking that according to press reports, in some of the outbreaks employers insist they have been fully implementing all recommended workplace safety measures. Greencore is a case in point: the company stated, "All of Greencore's sites have wide-ranging social-distancing measures, stringent hygiene procedures and regular temperature checking in place". Yet nearly 300 people working there were still infected.
2. Greencore outbreak
It is instructive to look at the Greencore outbreak in some detail, to ascertain how the virus spread. It is unlikely that a large number workers breached handwashing and distancing measures at the factory all within a few days, especially as management says they are so careful. It is also implausable that community transmission carried infection into the factory to such a large extent. This would mean a large number of discrete, small outbreaks in the community all at the same time, and very many more cases in the community outside the factory, which does not appear to have happened. In fact, the BBC reports [2] that "Testing data and analysis from the Joint Biosecurity Centre shows the spike is "almost solely down" to the outbreak at Moulton Park-based Greencore, which employs 2,100 people". The timing of the outbreak indicates instead a typical super-spreader event. The graphs below demonstrate this clearly; one is of the Greencore outbreak: there was a low and steady number of cases in the Northampton area until mid-August when there was an abrupt jump in cases – over 200 within 3 days; a typical super-spreader pattern. The second graph is of the super-spreading event in a call centre in Seoul in March 2020, and shows a similar pattern: 94 out of 216 employees working in an open plan office on the same floor became infected over a few days in this outbreak.
Seoul call centre outbreak early March 2020 Source: Park et al, Emerging Infectious Diseases CDC https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-1274-f1
We have appended below a press photograph of the Greencore factory floor: assuming this accurately portrays current working conditions, there are lots of people sharing the same, indoor space for many hours at a time each day. We have no information about the ventilation in the factory, but food processing plants are usually kept cool for hygiene reasons, and colder temperatures favour the survival of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The ventilation often also involves recirculation of colder air in such plants, at least in part, rather than complete air changes with fresh outside air. Even with several air changes per hour it seems that some live virus can still be present in the air indoors (see below). And the direction of ventilation and air flow within the space is also important; it may carry the virus from an infected worker towards others. This is thought to have happened in the well documented restaurant outbreak in Guangzhou. [13]
We do not know if the photograph reflects recent practise, but if so, the lack of mask wearing is striking. Greencore workers told the local press they were "terrified" of being required to work while they awaited test results for Covid-19, and were told it was up to them if they wanted to wear a face mask or not. [14]
3. Tönnies meat packing plant studyIt is helpful to look at a detailed study of a similar super-spreading event also in the food processing industry – at the Tönnies meat packing plant in Germany in June. [3 – not peer reviewed as yet]. The study analysed a range of possible factors involved in the outbreak, including the timing of infection events, spatial relationship between workers in the meat processing plant, climate and ventilation conditions, sharing of living quarters and transport, and performed full viral genome sequences (i.e. genetic fingerprinting) from virus recovered from PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases. The viral sequencing established that spread was from a single index case within the factory to other workers, and not from multiple entry points by different workers bringing infection into the plant. It also established that shared accommodation and transport did not play a material role in the outbreak. Over a 3 day period, 29 workers out of 147 who worked the same shift as the index case became infected before the index case was quarantined. 60% of workers within an 8m radius of the index case became infected. In addition, before the workers caught in the first outbreak were quarantined, they had had contact with others elsewhere in the factory, which led to a secondary outbreak leading to over 1500 workers becoming infected in the Tönnies factory overall. This led to a lockdown of a large area in the North Rhine-Westphalia region in western Germany.
3. Tönnies meat packing plant study
It is helpful to look at a detailed study of a similar super-spreading event also in the food processing industry – at the Tönnies meat packing plant in Germany in June. [3 – not peer reviewed as yet]. The study analysed a range of possible factors involved in the outbreak, including the timing of infection events, spatial relationship between workers in the meat processing plant, climate and ventilation conditions, sharing of living quarters and transport, and performed full viral genome sequences (i.e. genetic fingerprinting) from virus recovered from PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases. The viral sequencing established that spread was from a single index case within the factory to other workers, and not from multiple entry points by different workers bringing infection into the plant. It also established that shared accommodation and transport did not play a material role in the outbreak. Over a 3 day period, 29 workers out of 147 who worked the same shift as the index case became infected before the index case was quarantined. 60% of workers within an 8m radius of the index case became infected. In addition, before the workers caught in the first outbreak were quarantined, they had had contact with others elsewhere in the factory, which led to a secondary outbreak leading to over 1500 workers becoming infected in the Tönnies factory overall. This led to a lockdown of a large area in the North Rhine-Westphalia region in western Germany.
The diagrams below are reproduced from the study and show: A: the distance between the index case (B1) and spread to other workers; diagram B shows the relationship of distance to infection risk and diagram C shows that spread within the factory was the cause of the outbreak and not shared accommodation or car pools. A full description of these findings is in the paper at reference [3].
It is worth quoting from this study at length:
"Aerosols are believed to be particularly important in cases where a single source transmits the virus toa large number of individuals, so-called super spreading events. Whereas droplets typically travel no farther than 2 m, aerosols can stay in the air for prolonged periods of time and may deliver infectious viral particles substantially beyond 2m distances, especially in indoor settings with low fresh air exchange rates. Factors such as temperature, humidity and air circulation are thought to significantly influence stability and transport of droplets and aerosols and consequently transmission efficiency.
Meat processing plants have recently emerged as hotspots of SARS-CoV-2 around the world. This is thought to result not only from operational practices (e.g. close proximity of workers in the production line combined with physically demanding work that promotes heavy breathing), but also from sharing of housing and transportation that may facilitate viral transmission. The requirement to operate at low temperature in an environment with low air exchange rates is another factor that may promote spread of the virus among workers.
Transmission occurred in a confined area of (the) meat processing plant in which air is constantly recirculated and cooled to 10°C. ……. Analyzing housing and commuting parameters, along with spatial and climate conditions in the work area, this study provides evidence that transmission occurred over a radius of at least 8 meters around the index case…… Physical work and relatively low fresh air exchange rates together with continuous re-circulation of cooled air may have favoured the transmission of SARS-CoV-2…
The universal point of potential contact among all cases was work in the early shift of the beef processing plant. The shift comprises 147 individuals, most of whom work at fixed positions in a conveyor-belt processing line……
….. while some secondary infections may have occurred within apartments, bedrooms or carpools, our collective data strongly suggest that the majority of transmissions occurred within the beef processing facility, with (index) case B1 being at the root of the cluster.
Our findings indicate that a physical distance of 2 meters does not suffice to prevent transmission in environmental conditions such as those studied here; additional measures such as improved ventilation and airflow, installation of filtering devices or use of high-quality face masks are required to reduce the infection risk in these environments.
Our findings suggest that the facilities' environmental conditions, including low temperature, low air exchange rates, and constant air re-circularization, together with relatively close distance between workers and demanding physical work, created an unfavourable mix of factors promoting efficient aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 particles.
It is very likely that these or similar factors are also responsible for current worldwide ongoing outbreaks in other meat or fish processing facilities. The recurrent emergence of such outbreaks suggests that employees in meat or fish processing facilities need to be frequently and systematically screened to prevent future SARSCoV-2 outbreaks. Furthermore, immediate action needs to be taken to quarantine all workers in a radius around an infected individual that may significantly extend beyond 2m.
In contrast to work-related exposure, shared apartments, bedrooms, or carpools appear not to have played a major role in the initial outbreak described in this study. Nevertheless, later viral transmission within shared living quarters or work rides very well may have been a confounding factor in context of the second, larger outbreak occurring one month after the first outbreak. Our genotyping results are fully compatible with the hypothesis that this second outbreak was seeded by cases related to the initial cluster.
The significance of this study is imminent for the meat and fish processing industry but might well reach beyond these industries, and points to the importance of air quality/flow in confined spaces to prevent future superspreading events
Common operational conditions in industrial meat processing plants promote the risk of SARS-CoV-2 superspreading events. Additional measures such as improved ventilation, optimized airflow management, installation of filtering or ultraviolet light devices or the use of high-quality face masks are required to reduce the infection risk in these environments."
Community spread and spread among workers outside the factory have been pointed to as the cause of the Greencore outbreak. This seems to be mere supposition rather than any evidence-based assessment for such spread. The Tönnies study involved a similar group of workers, i.e. workers sharing accommodation and transport, and specifically looked at these issues and disproved them as the reason for the outbreak. There is a lack of awareness and therefore no consideration of the role of indoor aerosol spread driving factory outbreaks, which perhaps explains why the press, public and even health experts look for possible explanations outside the factory gates.
4. Preventive measures taken by Tönnies and lessons learned
The study reports that the company took the following measures after the outbreak:
Hygiene regulations and one-way traffic in hallways were reinforced.
An internal multi-lingual information campaign was started to raise awareness for all staff of prevention and self-detection of early COVID-19 symptoms.
Temperature checks were set up to check all employees entering the building.
Workers were made aware of the availability of testing and were motivated to report any events where they see themselves being at risk. Staff were tested based on self-reported symptoms, possible contacts to other infected persons, returning to work after more than 96 hours absence from work, or possible work place contact with infected colleagues.
Work place assessments were performed to see if it was possible to extend distances between workers.
Simple one-layer face masks were made compulsory.
Regulations to prohibit rotation between working places were imposed. (Shift workers were employed by an outsourcing company who had changed their workplaces according to demand by the employer.)
Measures in the canteen were imposed to reduce physical contact and to ensure that workers would spend their break times exclusively with workers from their own shift.
Implementation of the measures was audited within a month by unannounced inspections of the Occupational Health and Safety Experts of the competent authority.
There are a number of important lessons from this study:
Airborne spread is particularly important in super-spreader events;
Aerosols can carry virus much further than 2m indoors;
Temperature, humidity and air circulation (fresh air exchange rates) significantly affect stability and transport of droplets and aerosols and therefore transmission;
Close proximity of workers on the production line doing physically demanding work and therefore breathing heavily also facilitate transmission. (Other studies have pointed to rapid "line speeds" as an additional contributing factor);
Early quarantine of possible contacts is essential to limit spread;
Shared accommodation and transport did not play a significant role in this outbreak; the common factor was working together on the factory floor under these conditions;
Improved ventilation and airflow, installation of filtering devices, and use of face masks are required to reduce the infection risk in these environments, and in other workplaces which have enclosed indoor spaces.
Large secondary outbreaks can occur from an initial outbreak in a factory. Press reports indicated an increased number of cases in the surrounding community as well (but this may have been due to increased testing).
There is a need for surveillance testing in high risk environments like food processing plants, given the large number of super-spreading events which have occurred in them.
In addition to measures like hygiene, social distancing and temperature monitoring, multi-lingual information campaigns, compulsory face masks and rapid access to testing are important.
Inspection by regulatory authorities is important to ensure compliance.
While there have also been numerous outbreaks in the hospitality sector, especially linked to pubs, the workplace appears to have now become the frontline in the battle against Covid-19, both here and across the EU. [4] [5]
5. Growing evidence and consensus around aerosol spread
Aerosol scientists, mainly in the US but also in Australia and elsewhere, and here in the UK (e.g. Professor Catherine Noakes at the University of Leeds, who sits on SAGE), have been convinced for some time that aerosol spread is a major route of transmission. In July, 239 scientists wrote to the World Health Organisation (WHO) asking it to recognise airborne spread and amend its guidance. WHO did shift its previous rejection of the idea and said aerosol spread "cannot be ruled out". Since then there has been further evidence, including the successful culturing of live virus from the air up to 4.8m from infected patients in hospital rooms. (A surprising and concerning finding was that the rooms had fairly good ventilation rates as well as UV light air sterilisation, but live virus was still able to be cultured from the air.) [6]
Meanwhile official documents from SAGE have referred to aerosol transmission on a number of occasions, [7] [8] and some professional associations' guidelines now include advice on the risks of aerosol spread; for example, the Primary Care Respiratory Society says that routine assessments of patients by means of spirometry should be avoided due to the risk of droplet and aerosol spread. [9]
Aerosol spread is officially recognised in Germany and Japan and recently the French employment minister, Elisabeth Borne, stated that compulsory mask wearing from 31 August in France, "reflects a growing scientific consensus that the virus is transmitted not only in big drops projected when a person coughs or sneezes, but also in smaller ones suspended in the air breathed out by infected people that accumulates in enclosed spaces". [10]. Nicola Sturgeon spoke of the risk of aerosol spread in schools in Scotland on 24 August, stating her government was considering face coverings for secondary school students in communal areas. [11]
In the US a number of institutions are actively looking at ventilation requirements in indoor spaces, using CO2 monitors as a proxy measure for adequacy of ventilation, and the addition of portable air filters to make indoor spaces safer, including in schools and universities. A clear and practical article on this from the University of Colorado is at reference [12].
6. Workers and local communities are being scapegoated for factory outbreaks caused by airborne spread
We have seen in Leicester and other areas of the Midlands, accusations that outbreaks in factories have been due to workers and/or local communities failing to observe social distancing measures. There has been racist scapegoating of Asian communities, blaming them for local spikes in infection caused by factory outbreaks (in the Leicester garment factories for example), which very likely have involved airborne transmission. We have seen a social media post about the Greencore workers saying, "I don't feel bad for most of the staff. The Eastern Europeans never followed regulations like distancing and not mixing in large groups in lockdown in March onwards. They don't care." The role of airborne spread needs to be understood, and communicated to all concerned during these outbreaks. Ignorance of how Covid-19 spreads is leading to victim-blaming of people who become infected, when attention should be directed to employers, public health officials and government for solutions.
It is notable that in many of these large outbreaks, workers are poorly paid and are on insecure short-term contracts. Many receive only Statutory Sick Pay; as a result they have had to rely on food banks, and some have lost their homes as they could not afford to pay rent. All workers forced to take time off due to having Covid-19 or having been a close contact of an infected person should receive full pay while isolating. Not doing so is inhumane, and is obviously also self-defeating, as some workers will go to work like those who were made to do so at Greencore while awaiting test results, and thereby compromise efforts to curtail the outbreaks. The government's recent derisory offer of £13 per day for workers having to isolate is clearly wholly inadequate. It has been described as "a slap in the face" by a Council leader, and also only applies to areas with already high infection rates. This is clearly wrong, we want to prevent infection rates going up, not reacting when they have already become high. A proactive, preventive approach is needed.
7. Epidemiological studies
We believe it would be also be very helpful if detailed epidemiological studies, like the one done in the Tonnes meat packing plant, could be conducted in future outbreaks here in the UK, to better understand and learn from them. Hopefully some are being done but we have yet to see any of these.
8. A trade union programme
Employers must recognise airborne spread as a covid-19 risk and take action to assess and minimise risk.
Improved ventilation and airflow, installation of filtering devices, and use of face masks are required to reduce the infection risk in these environments, alongside other safety measures against Covid-19.
Trade union supervision and control of workplace safety.
Weekly surveillance testing on site of all workers, including management, in addition to easily accessible testing for anyone with symptoms or in contact with Covid-19.
All workers forced to take time off due to having Covid-19 or having been in contact with it should receive full pay while isolating. No-one should have to work while awaiting test results for symptomatic or contact testing.
9. Doctors in Unite
We are a national doctors' trade union within Unite the Union; our members include working and retired GPs and hospital doctors and dentists from a range of specialties, as well as public health doctors and non-medical public health specialists, from across the four nations of the UK. We are party to the BMA negotiating machinery by virtue of an agreement with the BMA dating from 1950 and are the only medical trade union recognised in local government. We have been involved throughout the pandemic, both in our day jobs, and also raising issues around PPE, "Covid-safe" workplaces and campaigning on the critically important requirement for locally based 'Find, Test, Trace, Isolate and Support' services run by the DPH in each borough.
We will also continue to lobby for a change to official guidance around transmission of Covid-19, although with the abrupt axing of PHE this may be difficult.
[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3206
[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-53860426
[3] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3654517.
[4] https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-clusters-and-outbreaks-occupational-settings-eueea-and-uk
[5] https://www.thelocal.fr/20200803/office-not-parties-biggest-source-of-coronavirus-contagion-in-france
[6] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167395v1
[7]https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/887618/EMG_Environmental_transmission-_02052020__1_.pdf;
[8]https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/894961/6.6731_CO_Review_of_two_metre_Social_Distancing_Guidance_FINAL_v3_WEB_240620.pdf
[9] https://www.pcrs-uk.org/sites/pcrs-uk.org/files/Diagnosis%20of%20asthma%20and%20COPD%20during%20Covid.pdf
[10] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/18/global-report-france-tightens-mask-rules-as-covid-cases-rise-europe
[11] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/24/seventeen-teachers-at-dundee-school-contract-covid-19
[12] https://theconversation.com/how-to-use-ventilation-and-air-filtration-to-prevent-the-spread-of-coronavirus-indoors-143732
[13] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0764_article#tnF1
[14] https://www.northantslive.news/news/northamptonshire-news/greencore-staff-lift-lid-fears-4443310?fbclid=IwAR3ZzlExqOP-JzOXanlJgmeQTr7zqmhomNfEtjdRm3bSCigTKRxfyioYxig
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Hawaii among states stepping up funding for Planned Parenthood clinics
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Planned Parenthood and First Hawaiian Bank marched down Ala Moana Boulevard in the 2019 Honolulu Pride Parade on Oct. 19. Several states have begun picking up the tab for family planning services at clinics run by Planned Parenthood, which last year quit a $260 million federal funding program over a Trump administration rule prohibiting clinics from referring women for abortions.
HARTFORD, Conn. >> Several states have begun picking up the tab for family planning services at clinics run by Planned Parenthood, which last year quit a $260 million federal funding program over a Trump administration rule prohibiting clinics from referring women for abortions.
States including New Jersey, Massachusetts and Hawaii already are providing new funding, and Democratic governors in Connecticut and Pennsylvania have proposed carving out money in state budgets to counter the effects of the national provider's fallout with the Republican presidential administration.
The proposals have stirred political debates over abortion at the state level, with some opponents claiming it's a government endorsement of abortion and an inappropriate use of taxpayer money.
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont earmarked $1.2 million for Planned Parenthood in his new budget proposal. The executive director of the Connecticut Catholic Conference, Christopher Healy, criticized it as a purely political act.
"Where is the pressing need here to do this?" Healy said, arguing Planned Parenthood does not need taxpayer money. "They have the ability to raise money."
Lamont said he wants to help cover an expected shortfall for Planned Parenthood to ensure women in Connecticut have access to all the health services they need. A spokesman for Lamont said the administration doesn't want the abortion debate to stymie access to things like contraception and cervical cancer screenings.
"Look, this is the law of the land. Here in a state like this, we believe that abortion rights are right, and we believe they ought to be affordable for folks who otherwise might not have that availability," Lamont said. "So I think it's the right thing to do."
Nationwide, about 4 million women across the U.S., many low-income and uninsured, were receiving services last year under the Title X federal program, including STD testing, various screenings, education and wellness exams. Planned Parenthood and some other providers decided to withdraw from the program rather than comply with what Planned Parenthood calls the Trump administration's "gag order," which bars clinics that participate in Title X from referring women for abortions. The move caused a money crunch for some clinics.
Since then, some of the rejected federal funds have been replenished by state or local funds in Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Vermont, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, California and New York. Hawaii's current fiscal year budget sets aside $750,000 to partly cover a $2 million loss in Title X grant money.
In Massachusetts, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed legislation authorizing up to $8 million. In California, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors last year voted to cover a $482,000 expected shortfall for six Planned Parenthood clinics serving 36,274 patients. And Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, Tom Wolf, has included a $3 million line item in his proposed 2020-21 budget to also help offset the funding loss for Planned Parenthood providers.
In Oregon, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's rule, a spokesman for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon said the agency has been "working closely with state officials to create critical backstops and protect access to care for all Oregonians who need it, regardless of federal action on Title X," and commended Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, for prioritizing funding for reproductive health services.
Abortion opponents have accused governors of providing the money to gain favor with an organization that often supports Democrats at election time.
In New Jersey, where Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy last month signed legislation that set aside $9.5 million in state money for family planning at Planned Parenthood, New Jersey Right to Life called it a disgraceful money grab.
"The taxpayers of NJ should not be forced to fund abortion —- and make no mistake —- that is what this bill will do," Marie Tasy, the group's executive director, said in a written statement.
Title X regulations prohibit funds from being used for abortions, with some narrow exceptions, and the money Lamont has proposed would fund Title X services and not on abortions, according to Connecticut's Department of Public Health.
Abortion opponents in Connecticut have argued for years that state funds should not be used for abortions or abortion referrals. The state's health insurance program paid for 6,995 abortions in 2018. A Department of Social Services spokesman said Connecticut is under a court order to pay for any abortion for a Medicaid-covered woman that she and her doctor have determined to be necessary.
The state money budgeted by Lamont would not go toward abortions, as it would fund only Title X services, according to state health officials. But opponents say that regardless of where it goes, the money for Planned Parenthood makes it appear the state is outwardly advocating for abortion.
"I'm disturbed by it, that it's now state policy to outwardly advocate it no, matter what," said Chris O'Brien, executive director of Connecticut Right to Life.
It's unclear how long the help from states will continue.
Jacqueline Ayers, vice president of government relations and public policy at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said it's "encouraging" that governors and state legislators are trying to fill the gap, but said the state-by-state efforts cannot replace the nearly 50-year-old Title X program.
"While we applaud leaders in the states for taking these temporary but critical steps, we must continue fighting for a nationwide solution," Ayers said. "Only Congress has the power to permanently stop this harmful rule, and people across the country are continuing to call on them to do so."
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An increasing number of youngsters are hooked on to homegrown desi web series that have captivated them with gripping, relatable and contemporary stories. Don't miss these Indian web series to beat the blues during the rains.
'It's all fun and games, until it's not.' 🙃 #Ready2Mingle is hitting screens very soon. First episode out this Saturday on 7.30 PM. Trailer link in Bio. Watch it if you haven't! 🤘🤘
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I watched the incumbent candidate sheriff, John Mina in an interview and thought that I would offer my opinion and analysis. His responses were quite telling of who he is. Believe me, he is not someone that you want to be sheriff.
This interview took place on August 13, 2020, on Radio Station 98.5, The Wire with Paul Allen Billings asking the questions.
During the interview John Mina said that he is the final arbiter on discipline and he doesn't need a citizen review board to tell him who to fire.
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Since that time, however, circumstances have changed dramatically. She has distanced herself from the work that has been done in the office over the past few years and as a result, is minimizing the hard work and diligent efforts made by so many of our team members. This is incredibly disappointing to me.
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Sol Kyung Gu And EXO's DO Confirmed To Star In New Film
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Veteran actor Sol Kyung Gu and EXO's D.O. will be acting alongside each other in a new movie!
The new film is titled "The Moon" (tentative title), it will be directed by Kim Yong Hwa, known for "Along With the Gods" series.
The movie's plot revolves around an abandoned man in space and another man in Earth who is desperately trying to rescue him.
Sol Kyung Gu will play the role of the man of Earth who goes on a rescue mission to save the man lost in space, and D.O. will play the isolated man in space.
Netizens are already hyped up to see the two actors' work alongside each other.
EXO's D.O. is to be discharged form te military in January 2021.
The movie "The Moon" is scheduled to begin filming in the first half of next year.
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You will need a kettlebell and an exercise ball to complete the moves. A kettlebell, used in the second and third moves, is an effective training tool for developing power through full-body functional movements. Choose one with a weight of somewhere between 16 and 20 kilograms (35 to 45 pounds); beginners should go with a lighter one, somewhere between five and 15 kilos (11 to 33 pounds). Kettlebell exercises generally involve a multi-joint approach that integrates several muscles at once through power-driven movements. Your kettlebell's weight should be heavy enough to require you to use explosive power to complete the required repetitions. An exercise ball, used in the fourth move, helps provide an additional challenge for your core and joint stability.
The four-exercise sequence should be completed with a focus on maintaining accurate form for each repetition and on taking minimal rest between each exercise. Minimizing your rest calls for a higher metabolic rate from your workout, which translates to a greater overall calorie burn both during and after, as your body recovers.
One of the mistakes some men make in their approach to fitness is thinking it will take a large chunk of time. But this entire routine should be completed in just 35 minutes, including a five-minute jogging warm-up and a five-minute cool-down stretch. This quick and efficient workout will leave you feeling pumped, energetic and ready for the day. Once you complete all four exercises in a row, go back to the beginning of the sequence for a second set of each. As your fitness level improves, you can aim to do three sets in the same amount of time.
A. Stand with feet together and arms by your sides. With your right foot, step forward into a low lunge so your right thigh is parallel to the floor and your left knee is bent and almost touching the floor.
B. Use both legs to powerfully leap up, and switch legs in the air so you land with your left thigh in front and parallel to the floor and your right knee bent behind you. Your arms should switch positions, too (as shown), to help maintain balance and momentum. This completes one repetition.
C. Continue to leap back and forth, switching leg and arm positions, for a total of 10 repetitions per side.
Tip: Keep your posture tall and abdominals tight. Ensure you absorb each landing on the mid-foot and heel of the front leg-the back leg is merely for balance.
A. With feet shoulder-width apart, and holding kettlebell between your knees with your left hand, lower body into a half squat.
B. Quickly stand up out of the squat (still keeping knees slightly bent); bend your left elbow and raise kettlebell up, flipping it so it rests against your outer arm. Hold the position for one second.
C. Quickly press up the kettlebell so that palm faces forward, elbow fully extends and your arm ends up in line with your ear. Hold this top position for one second.
D. Lower kettlebell back to original position and repeat. Complete 10 repetitions on left side, then switch to right side for another 10 reps.
Tip: The kettlebell should be heavy enough that it is challenging to press up, as in (C).
A. Lie on your back with legs pointing up toward ceiling and arms holding kettlebell above you and in line with your chest.
B. Keep core tight as you slowly move the kettlebell above your head and drop it slightly toward the floor (without placing it on the floor), while simultaneously lowering your legs about 12 to 18 inches from the floor.
C. Exhale; raise legs and kettlebell back to top position, then crunch further upward, pushing the kettlebell in the direction of your feet.
D. Reverse this movement, slowly lowering limbs again to start position, ready for the next repetition. Complete 10 reps.
Tip: To ensure proper form, move very slowly on the way down, keeping your core tight and your lower back against the floor.
A. Put yourself in a push-up position with hands directly under shoulders and shins on the exercise ball.
B. Perform a deep push-up and return to the straight-arm position.
C. With straight legs, immediately pull your feet toward you, rolling the exercise ball from your shins to your toes and tucking from your waist so that your hips are raised in a pike position.
D. Return to the starting position and immediately drop into another push-up. Complete 10 repetitions.
Tip: Keep your abdominals tight throughout the exercise and don't allow your hips to sag.
Brent Bishop has been featured on several fitness shows on TV, and is resident fitness expert on The Marilyn Denis Show.


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Chardonnay is the most widely planted white wine grape in California. When grown in a cool region, such as the Santa Cruz Mountains, Chardonnay grapes result in well-structured wines with great aging potential because the cooler climate enables the grapes to ripen slowly, maintaining acidity and lively flavors of green apple, minerality, and citrus.
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Memories Of My Illusions: Joxfield ProjeX 2017?
Well, of course there will be some new music, possibly some new release/s, if we get things together and if there is someone willing to release.
But, most of all, 2017 will bring us into some new territories, where we've never been before. More info on that later this year.


This month is a strange contrast between that forward-moving restlessness, nudging us through the snow-shoveled path towards a whole new year, and the quiet stillness that comes from cold weather and darker days. Even without the snowy landscape, the drop in temperatures in Tangier and general winter-y atmosphere have been making me sense this push and pull since the last week of November.
Dance, and The Creative Process.
While other interests fluctuate in my life, these two constants never fail to make me curious, inspired and deeply motivated. I could talk, write, and read about dance and creativity for hours on end, deepening my understanding and sharing my own knowledge on the subjects.
So, that is exactly what I intend to do. Talk, write and read, deepening my understanding and sharing it all. That has always been my overall focus in this space, but it is time to hone in on a more long-term vision.
Here is what all of this reflection comes down to: I have decided to move away from food blogging.
It has been a source of joy in my life for some time now, but lately, that joy and passion has been fading and morphing into other interests. I absolutely will still be blogging, but instead I'll concentrate much more deeply on writing about dance, artistic processes, and living a whole-hearted creative life.
A lot of you may be thinking that I do already write quite a bit about the latter topics, but whether you saw it or not, I had a tendency of thinking about myself as a food blogger first, with a focus on recipe development, food photography, and connecting with other people in the food world. Any sort of "strategy" (a term used very loosely for what I do here) when it came to sharing my work and social media also often revolved around platforms for food photographers and online foodies. For the past couple months, something about this began feeling a bit more disconnected.
I have been looking ahead, as I mentioned above, imagining where I may be in several years time, and while cooking and baking will always be a beloved hobby for me, I don't see a future for myself anywhere in the food industry. I just can't quite picture it and when it comes down to the honest truth, it's not what I want. I have all the admiration in the world for so many of the amazing women working and writing about food these days, but I realized that I have never said to myself "I want to be like that." That feeling of challenge and motivation, only sometimes edging on envy, kicks in when I see dancers and choreographers like Emma Portner and Jacob Jonas, sometimes even when I read the creative work of Elizabeth Gilbert, Brene Brown and Mary Oliver. I want to live, eat, drink and breathe dance and creativity and share that with the world around me and it is time to tunnel in deeper towards that goal.
This doesn't mean that I will never share anything about food ever again. On the contrary, I still see food and the kitchen as a highly creative realm and from time to time may share a recipe or an experiment in this space (there may be one next week). What I am doing is shifting away from self-identifying as a food blogger.
Those of you who are in my little email community have already heard most of this (and showed amazing support-thank you), but I wanted to share it more publicly because I always appreciate transparency about the processes and reflections that go on behind the scenes of anyone's online creative work. It is valuable to know that we have the power within ourselves to shift and transform our own identities, which always starts with being authentic to that inner voice. I haven't started to make any new year's resolutions yet (it is still a little early), but I have the feeling that following this intuition, plus the willingness to make big changes, are going to be large parts of my 2019.
In the meantime, I intend to keep stirring this inner pot of new ideas and inclinations and try not to worry too much about the outcome. After all, it is the holiday season and therefor I also want to spend full, present time with friends and family without too much stress about work and to-dos. Enjoying the calm before the leap- the giant leap into a new year.
To help keep me in a mood of sparkling, swirling, snow-touched inspiration, I complied some music to fit the atmosphere. The kind of music to listen to as you are walking through a snowfall, sipping tea or coffee with your feet snuggled under the same blanket as a loved one, or sitting indoors by a window, a notebook in your lap and a flurry of beautiful possibilities and ideas in your mind. Maybe it will inspire your own inner shift towards a new self-realization.
Here's to those blustery winds that blow around and inside of us, bringing bright changes in these dark days.


The 2016 presidential election may drive some of the biggest write-in campaigns you've ever seen. But most voters probably don't know how write-ins work. Here, we offer some explanations that you can lift to put on your website or send out in emails and other notices for your constituents.
You've seen those votes for Micky Mouse or Lizard People come through. In most elections, they'll give you a chuckle, and then you go on about your business. But we're guessing that in this election voters may be more attracted to the write-in line than ever before. Most voters don't know that in most states, write-in candidates have to be pre-qualified for their votes to be counted.
Put information front and center on your website about write-ins. Post information about write-ins on your Facebook page. Call your local media and give them information about what voters can do and expect around write-ins. Here are some suggestions about what to say and how to say it on your website.
Write-in votes are not allowed in <state name>. Choose from among the candidates on the ballot — or skip voting in that contest (the rest of your votes will still count).
Your vote will be added to a category called "other" that the board of elections will review and tally within 10 days of Election Day.
Print lists of qualified candidates (if there any) and have them available in polling places.
If write-ins are not allowed, post notices in polling places.
While the absolute number of voters interested in writing in their choice will likely still pale in comparison to other votes, these suggestions will almost certainly prevent confusion and frustration regarding such votes both on and after Election Day. Thanks to the team at the Center for Civic Design for sharing these tips – and good luck to the election officials for whom 2016 has been an interesting and challenging year indeed!
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