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"#HealthcareWorkersRock!" Song & Music Video Captures Spirit of Frontline Healthcare Workers Around the World Treating the Latest COVID-19 Surge [Video + Lyrics Included]
Posted on the 20 November 2020 by Loup Dargent @loup_dargent
"Healthcare Workers Rock!" Song & Music Video Captures Spirit of Frontline Healthcare Workers Around the World Treating the Latest COVID-19 Surge (screengrab)
As COVID-19 cases rise exponentially, entrepreneur, philanthropist, songwriter and executive producer Ken Freirich today released a remix and video for his song "Healthcare Workers Rock!".
The song was written as a rock anthem and the heartfelt lyrics have already struck a chord with frontline healthcare workers around the world fighting COVID-19 and putting their lives on the line every day to help others.
"The truth is healthcare workers are at their breaking point. The stress of the pandemic right now is unbearable. The music and lyrics of Healthcare Workers Rock! give us an emotional release that make every day more tolerable," said Joseph Varon, MD, Chief Medical Officer of United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, who has been on the frontlines of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. "I've literally witnessed our workers humming and singing the song to help lift their own spirit and the spirit of others. I had a nurse cry when she was asked to be in the video, because it reinforced what a difference she's making for so many. The song and the video are just what the doctor ordered, especially now as we enter what will possibly be the darkest days of the pandemic. We must now get this music therapy to every hospital around the world because it's a boost that will keep our healthcare workers going."
The driving force behind the song is Ken Freirich, a songwriter and drummer who lives by a daily mantra of "making the world a better place." He felt a calling to write and produce a song that could bring people together in a time of crisis. For the song remix, Freirich served as the executive producer and recruited P!nk Drummer Mark Schulman to play drums on the song, GRAMMY Award-winning Producer and Mixer Scott Jacoby to produce and remix the song and GRAMMY Award winner Emily Lazar to master the single.
In addition, Freirich's new record label, Better World Records, LLC is partnering with #FirstRespondersFirst, an initiative created by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Thrive Global, and the CAA Foundation to provide frontline healthcare workers with the physical and psychological support and resources they so desperately need as they serve on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.#FirstRespondersFirst provides essential supplies and protective equipment, accommodations, child care, food, and critical mental health support and resources to ensure that frontline workers are protected, well-supported and resilient.
Since the song's initial release last month, doctors, nurses, EMTs, former COVID-19 patients and loved ones have expressed how the song has become their anthem, helping capture their experiences and feelings, while creating a positive and uplifting movement to help counter one of the toughest years in recent history. The song is on repeat as people travel to and from work and has inspired some workers to create and share their own TikTok videos featuring the song.
"When Ken asked me to play on the track and be in the video, I grabbed my sticks, asked my daughter to be in the video and I jumped at the opportunity," said Mark Schulman, P!nk Drummer. "Healthcare workers are long overdue for an anthem, and the lyrics and video really capture all elements of today's healthcare experience. I'm looking forward to helping spread the message and the video so everyone can celebrate the heroism of these amazing people."
Freirich is an active philanthropist who loves the convergence of music and the opportunity to help others. "Healthcare Workers Rock!" is on Freirich's new record label, Better World Records, LLC, also home to his new band, Random Acts of Kindness. From his position as CEO of Health Monitor Network, the largest patient education/engagement company in the United States, known for its exam room digital posters, Freirich has a unique perspective on the plight of healthcare workers, while his passion for music provides a creative way to honor them.
"Working 'round the clock, strong and courageous, never gonna stop," part of the chorus belts out with lyrics that embody Freirich's vision for the song. He was inspired to write and produce the track after seeing medical professionals in desperate need of resources and watching colleagues' family members pass away from COVID-19. From his position as CEO of Health Monitor Network, Freirich understands the monumental change in the hospital setting since COVID-19 and wanted to reinforce how everyone supports our healthcare workers.
"I want to have the song played all over the world to give healthcare workers something to rally around as they continue to work through difficult days and nights and the reactions I've received so far have been incredibly moving," says Freirich. He notes how he's heard from the healthcare community how relatable the lyrics are and how they have uplifted them at a time when they need all the support they can get.  "The song's pre-chorus lyrics, 'This is what we do, day in and day out,' are for the selfless healthcare workers who are out there working and giving everything they've got to their patients. I wanted to deliver an anthem for them that was empowering and uplifting."
The Video:
The Lyrics:
©2020 Better World Records.
We are on the frontline
Putting ourselves in danger
Trying to save the lives
Of oh so many strangers
Don't look at them as numbers
That's not what you mean to us
We're brothers, sisters, mothers
Like family, it's all worth the fuss
Day in and day out
And we just wanna shout
Healthcare Workers Rock!
Working 'round the clock
Strong and courageous, never gonna stop
Won't give up, won't give in
Cause we have got to win
Never seen a thing like this
In my whole career
The battle's really tough
Feels like more than a year
Supplies are getting short
Still we try to make the best
'Cause we can never rest
It's time we all remember
The real heroes are at home
Our partners, daughters and sons
We miss each and every one
The world needs us now
So we are standing strong
Putting patients first
All day and all night long
We will make it through
One way or the other
Stay true to the cause
People can download the song on Apple Music, Spotify, iTunes and view the video at HealthcareWorkersRock.org. Freirich, CEO of Health Monitor Network, has been on a global crusade to help healthcare workers.
Every time the video is shared from the Random Acts of Kindness Facebook or Twitter pages with #HealthcareWorkersRock, a donation of $1 will be made to #FirstRespondersFirst (up to $100,000).
About Healthcare Workers Rock!:
"Healthcare Workers Rock!" was written by Freirich, songwriter and drummer, and is his newest music / philanthropic initiative. Freirich is an active philanthropist who loves the convergence of music and the opportunity to help others. He felt a calling to write and produce a song that could fulfill an unmet need; a tribute and anthem for all of the frontline healthcare workers around the world who put their lives on the line each and every day to help others.
For the past five years, he has been in a band called MedROCK, a 501c3 organization that "brings the world together through music and makes it a better place through philanthropy." The band put on a benefit concert in Turks and Caicos to help buy instruments for a local school's music education program and has partnered with and raised money for Teen Cancer America, founded by Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. Freirich also played a song on drums with The Who at a charity to benefit concert for Teen Cancer American and UCLA Health in Southern California last fall.
"Healthcare Workers Rock!" Song & Music Video Captures Spirit of Frontline Healthcare Workers Around the World Treating the Latest COVID-19 Surge (PRNewsfoto/Better World Records)
About Better World Records:
Better World Records LLC was started to release incredible music across numerous genres, while having a positive impact on the world. The company will use its artists and music to bring people together and will incorporate its strong philanthropic beliefs to projects and initiatives to do good. Random Acts of Kindness is the first band on the label and is a collection of musicians (Random Acts) pulled together with the goal of having a positive impact on the world through music.
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube | Spotify | Soundcloud
About #FirstRespondersFirst:
#FirstRespondersFirst, an initiative of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Thrive Global, and the CAA Foundation, takes a whole human approach to addressing the needs of our frontline workers in order to support their ability to serve on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. #FirstRespondersFirst's fundraising call to action helps provide essential supplies, protective equipment, accommodations, child care, food, and critical mental health support and resources to this demographically and socially diverse workforce, ranging from minimum-wage hourly workers in home-care settings to social workers, nurses, physicians, and beyond, through its implementing collaborators Americares, Bright Horizons, CORE Response, Direct Relief, Give An Hour, Global Health Corps, Hispanic Federation, IHG Hotels & Resorts, InnerHour, International Rescue Committee, Marriott International, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), National Black Nurses Association, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Omada Health, Osmosis, Pivot, The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, World Central Kitchen, and You Okay, Doc?. Powered by Thrive Global's behavior change platform, #FirstRespondersFirst also provides access to Harvard Chan School's evidence-based content, specifically tailored to this critical workforce, to help improve the physical and mental well-being of healthcare workers.
SOURCE: Better World Records
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The Palisociety's first lodging outside of LA aims for maximum comfort and coziness (with a dash of signature cheekiness) via varying shades of green and bespoke furnishings in its 96 guest rooms.
The boutique lodging takes up all four floors of the historic building that once housed the Colonnade Hotel (most recently it was home to the Gatewood Apartments and ground-level retail shops). After making the necessary seismic upgrades, Brosh (who leads Palisociety's concept creation, design direction, and development execution) and his team sought to infuse the property with both a warm and relaxing aesthetic and a moody and irreverent vibe, all while maintaining the structure's original bones. The Seattle office of architecture and design firm Gensler was the architect on the project and assisted the Palisociety team with incorporating structural elements such as skylights and exposed timber beams.
Throughout the lobby and guest rooms varying shades of mossy green, meant to represent the lushness found in the Pacific Northwest, accent the walls, ceilings, tilework—the color even makes an appearance in a leather banquette in the first-floor restaurant The Hart and The Hunter. "There is nothing remotely austere about the property," Brosh says. That rich palette plays off of striking black-and-white checkerboard floors in the lobby, anchored by a custom-made oak wood front desk, and in its adjacent lounge area, where 15-foot-high ceilings and a fireplace provide socializing space. In the guest rooms, the Palisociety crew designed each custom furniture piece, from the floral fabric headboards to desks crafted to mimic the look of a vintage leather travel trunk.
This article was updated since its original posting date to include the architect on the project.


One of the things that makes our guild so special, besides each and every one of you, is the number of national level speakers our guild makes available to our members. Our visitingteachers have distinguished themselves in their area of quilting. Many have won significant awards, have numerous publications, and are happy to be coming to our guild.
Take a class, take two, take them all! When you take a class, you are opening yourself up to learn and try new things, and to spend time with people that share your love of quilting. You will also be learning from some of the best quilters around the country right here in Connecticut at one of the lowest rates available. You just can't beat the price, the talent, or the experience.
*Some classes require a pattern or materials fee to be paid directly to the instructor. This will be listed on our website.
If you are interested in signing up for any of the workshops, you must contact one of the program chairmen. You can either give the program chairman your check at a guild meeting or send it to her in the mail once you have confirmed that there is space available in the workshop. Your reservation will be confirmed immediately if the check is given at a meeting, or via e-mail or phone if it is mailed. No spots will be held without payment. Guild members will be given first chance at workshop attendance before any workshop is open to non-members. All payments are non-refundable. No exceptions. You may find another member to take your place if you are unable to attend.
1. Visit our website 3 weeks in advance of the class at www.ctpiecemakers.org to print out your supply list and obtain all items on the supply list. For a few classes, some things must be ordered in advance and will not be available from the teacher at the guild meeting or workshop.
2. Please arrive at class about 30 minutes before it begins if at all possible. You will need time to set up your supplies, iron your fabrics, grab a cup of coffee/tea, or ask the instructor a question. This way the class can start on time with all participants ready to learn.
3. There are a few classes that are intermediate level or advanced beginner and up. If you are not sure you are at this level, please ask before signing up.
4. Make sure you know how to work your sewing machine. Know how to troubleshoot any problems with tension, threading, bobbin winding etc.
5. Remember, your attitude and words can positively or negatively affect others in the class. Choose kindness.
6. Along with your supplies, bring what you will need to make you comfortable sewing in the workshop environment. You may want to bring a cushion for your chair to raise your body to a more comfortable sewing position if using a sewing machine.
7. For full day classes you may want to bring a bag lunch or plan on running out to a deli for take-out sandwich. You will want to get the most out of your workshop experience and won't want to miss anything by trying to take lunch at a local restaurant.
During months with possible bad weather or snow storms, the guild follows the school closing schedule of the Trumbull School District.
If information is known enough in advance, a special notice will be also be placed on the Home Page of this website.
Welcome to the quilting world of the Connecticut Piecemakers Quilt Guild.


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.. _config_http_filters_local_rate_limit:

Local rate limit
================

* Local rate limiting :ref:`architecture overview <arch_overview_local_rate_limit>`
* This filter should be configured with the type URL ``type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.filters.http.local_ratelimit.v3.LocalRateLimit``.
* :ref:`v3 API reference <envoy_v3_api_msg_extensions.filters.http.local_ratelimit.v3.LocalRateLimit>`

The HTTP local rate limit filter applies a :ref:`token bucket
<envoy_v3_api_field_extensions.filters.http.local_ratelimit.v3.LocalRateLimit.token_bucket>` rate
limit when the request's route or virtual host has a per filter
:ref:`local rate limit configuration <envoy_v3_api_msg_extensions.filters.http.local_ratelimit.v3.LocalRateLimit>`.

If the local rate limit token bucket is checked, and there are no tokens available, a 429 response is returned
(the response is configurable). The local rate limit filter then sets the
:ref:`x-envoy-ratelimited<config_http_filters_router_x-envoy-ratelimited>` response header. :ref:`Additional response headers
<envoy_v3_api_field_extensions.filters.http.local_ratelimit.v3.LocalRateLimit.response_headers_to_add>` can be
configured to be returned.

:ref:`Request headers
<envoy_v3_api_field_extensions.filters.http.local_ratelimit.v3.LocalRateLimit.request_headers_to_add_when_not_enforced>` can be
configured to be added to forwarded requests to the upstream when the local rate limit filter is enabled but not enforced.

Depending on the value of the config :ref:`local_rate_limit_per_downstream_connection <envoy_v3_api_field_extensions.filters.http.local_ratelimit.v3.LocalRateLimit.local_rate_limit_per_downstream_connection>`,
the token bucket is either shared across all workers or on a per connection basis. This results in the local rate limits being applied either per Envoy process or per downstream connection.
By default the rate limits are applied per Envoy process.

Example configuration
---------------------

Example filter configuration for a globally set rate limiter (e.g.: all vhosts/routes share the same token bucket):

.. literalinclude:: _include/local-rate-limit-global-configuration.yaml
   :language: yaml
   :lines: 13-37
   :linenos:
   :lineno-start: 13
   :caption: :download:`local-rate-limit-global-configuration.yaml <_include/local-rate-limit-global-configuration.yaml>`

Example filter configuration for a globally disabled rate limiter but enabled for a specific route:

.. literalinclude:: _include/local-rate-limit-route-specific-configuration.yaml
   :language: yaml
   :lines: 13-17
   :linenos:
   :lineno-start: 13
   :caption: :download:`local-rate-limit-route-specific-configuration.yaml <_include/local-rate-limit-route-specific-configuration.yaml>`

The route specific configuration:

.. literalinclude:: _include/local-rate-limit-route-specific-configuration.yaml
   :language: yaml
   :lines: 21-53
   :linenos:
   :lineno-start: 21
   :caption: :download:`local-rate-limit-route-specific-configuration.yaml <_include/local-rate-limit-route-specific-configuration.yaml>`

Note that if this filter is configured as globally disabled and there are no virtual host or route level
token buckets, no rate limiting will be applied.

.. _config_http_filters_local_rate_limit_descriptors:

Using rate limit descriptors for local rate limiting
----------------------------------------------------

Rate limit descriptors can be used to override local per-route rate limiting.
A route's :ref:`rate limit action <envoy_v3_api_msg_config.route.v3.RateLimit>`
is used to match up a :ref:`local descriptor
<envoy_v3_api_msg_extensions.common.ratelimit.v3.LocalRateLimitDescriptor>` in
the filter config descriptor list. The local descriptor's token bucket
settings are then used to decide if the request should be rate limited or not
depending on whether the local descriptor's entries match the route's rate
limit actions descriptor entries. If there is no matching descriptor entries,
the default token bucket is used. All the matched local descriptors will be
sorterd by tokens per second and try to consume tokens in order, in most cases
if one of them is limited, the remaining descriptors will not consume their tokens.
However, in some cases, it may not work, for example, we have two descriptors
A and B, A is limited 3 requests per second, and B is limited 20 requests per 10 seconds.
Obviously B is stricter than A (token per second), as a result, if we send requests
above 3 in a second, the limited requests from A will also consume tokens of B.
Note that global tokens are not sorted, so we suggest they should be larger than other descriptors.

Example filter configuration using descriptors:

.. literalinclude:: _include/local-rate-limit-with-descriptors.yaml
   :language: yaml
   :lines: 21-81
   :linenos:
   :lineno-start: 21
   :caption: :download:`local-rate-limit-with-descriptors.yaml <_include/local-rate-limit-with-descriptors.yaml>`

In this example, requests are rate-limited for routes prefixed with "/foo" as follows.
If requests come from a downstream service cluster "foo" for "/foo/bar"
path, then 10 req/min are allowed. But if they come from a downstream service
cluster "foo" for "/foo/bar2" path, then 100 req/min are allowed. Otherwise,
1000 req/min are allowed.

Statistics
----------

The local rate limit filter outputs statistics in the *<stat_prefix>.http_local_rate_limit.* namespace.
429 responses -- or the configured status code -- are emitted to the normal cluster :ref:`dynamic HTTP statistics
<config_cluster_manager_cluster_stats_dynamic_http>`.

.. csv-table::
  :header: Name, Type, Description
  :widths: 1, 1, 2

  enabled, Counter, Total number of requests for which the rate limiter was consulted
  ok, Counter, Total under limit responses from the token bucket
  rate_limited, Counter, Total responses without an available token (but not necessarily enforced)
  enforced, Counter, Total number of requests for which rate limiting was applied (e.g.: 429 returned)

.. _config_http_filters_local_rate_limit_runtime:

Runtime
-------

The HTTP rate limit filter supports the following runtime fractional settings:

http_filter_enabled
  % of requests that will check the local rate limit decision, but not enforce, for a given *route_key* specified
  in the :ref:`local rate limit configuration <envoy_v3_api_msg_extensions.filters.http.local_ratelimit.v3.LocalRateLimit>`.
  Defaults to 0.

http_filter_enforcing
  % of requests that will enforce the local rate limit decision for a given *route_key* specified in the
  :ref:`local rate limit configuration <envoy_v3_api_msg_extensions.filters.http.local_ratelimit.v3.LocalRateLimit>`.
  Defaults to 0. This can be used to test what would happen before fully enforcing the outcome.

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Q: Programming a Discord bot in Python- Can't figure out how to set up reaction roles I'm working on setting up reaction roles with my bot, here's my code:
@client.event
async def on_raw_reaction_add(payload):
  message_id = payload.message_id
  if message_id == 789543211429265418:
    guild_id = payload.guild_id
    guild = discord.utils.find(lambda g : g.id == guild_id, client.guilds)

    if payload.emoji.name == 'red_circle':
      role = discord.utils.get(guild_roles, name='Red')
    elif payload.emoji.name == 'orange_circle':
      role = discord.utils.get(guild_roles, name='Orange')
    elif payload.emoji.name == 'yellow_circle':
      role = discord.utils.get(guild_roles, name='Yellow')

    if role is not None:
      member = discord.utils.find(lambda m : m.id == payload.user_id, guild.members)
      if member is not None:
        await member.add_roles(role)
        print("done")
      else:
        print("Member not found")

    else:
      print("Role not found")

Whenever a certain reaction is added, instead of giving a role it gives me an error:
File "main.py", line 203, in on_raw_reaction_add
    if role is not None:
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'role' referenced before assignment

Not sure how to fix this, any tips?

A: if payload.emoji.name == 'red_circle':
      role = discord.utils.get(guild_roles, name='Red')
elif payload.emoji.name == 'orange_circle':
      role = discord.utils.get(guild_roles, name='Orange')
elif payload.emoji.name == 'yellow_circle':
      role = discord.utils.get(guild_roles, name='Yellow')

this will only define role when these conditions are met. You should probably define it before doing this comparison, or have an else: to catch and define it.
role = None

or
else:
  role = None

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Il Sigma Olomouc ha conquistato il suo primo titolo.

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Fidelity Worldwide Investment has always believed it is in the best interests of its investors to be real specialists in the field of asset management. As the company is independent and privately owned, it has a substantial capital base established over several decades, enabling it to invest in long term strategies and developments.
The real estate business was founded in 2006 and launched its first funds for institutional investors in 2008, since when it has attracted a range of blue-chip clients from the UK, continental Europe and Asia. The experienced team of fund managers, analysts and operations professionals are based in five locations across Europe (London, Paris, Frankfurt, Munich and Luxembourg). The team has established strong performance track records and we are now building on this success by first growing our existing flagship funds, then further developing the business by launching new funds. As a long term investor, our ultimate goal is to be one of the major real estate fund managers in Europe.
The Real Estate Investment Directing team aims to commercialise Fidelity's real estate investment capabilities. The team is responsible for representing the real estate group to prospective and existing clients, reporting on portfolios, promoting thought leadership on real estate topics, creating new solutions to meet investor demands, and generating marketing material to support sales activity. The team encompasses a strong knowledge of real estate markets and Fidelity's portfolio strategies, combined with a capacity to communicate these through different formats.
Fund and market analysis: leading to the production of pitch books, marketing collateral and input for the RFP/RFI team. The role requires deep knowledge of the market, portfolio strategy and investment process for disciplines under their coverage. As part of this, the individual must have a good understanding of competitor offerings to identify commercial angles for products under coverage, ensuring these competitor edges are clearly defined and articulated.
Client reporting: the provision of data and production of regular and ad hoc written reports on the market environment, fund performance and strategy. The role will assist in on-going projects to help automate and improve client reporting and will assist in the timeliness and quality assurance of the output.
Communication with business channels: developing relationships with key channels, informing and educating them on real estate, developing new sales materials appropriate to their specific needs, disseminating necessary information to these channels via the real estate SharePoint site and the proper management of that site. The individual should have a proven ability to influence and impact sales and marketing campaigns.


Chilipepper CP6000 Hot Water Delivery Pumps save water and work with all tankless water heaters and traditional water tanks. By cutting into the hot and cold water lines right at a point-of-use sink, the Chilipepper CP 6000 pulls hot water through the hot water line and pushes cold water backwards through the cold water line until its thermostat senses hot water at the tap. No water is wasted!


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Museums in a smart city
Museums in a smart city – all tourist attractions in one application
September 2015, a Touring Exhibition Meeting in Istanbul. The meeting place of East and West was selected to host the conference of professionals from the entertainment and museum sector to foster exhibition exchange worldwide. This was the first time I have heard about izi.TRAVEL, a free storytelling platform for museums, cultural heritage sites and other organisations involved in tourism. Being a frequent traveller, I also became a frequent user of the izi.TRAVEL app. Free thematic GPS-navigated audio tours helped to explore new places in my own pace.
Alex Tourski, the founder and the think-tank behind izi.TRAVEL, has an ambitious goal to connect the world via stories, reaching the scale of Wikipedia. Three years later, I caught up with him to speak about how izi.TRAVEL can help museums in attracting more visitors and to engage with them in a meaningful way.
How will audio tours on izi.TRAVEL help museums to attract visitors?
The idea behind the platform is the integration of a large number of participants. A local network of audio tours might begin from one or two museums, joined by other touristic sites, universities, storytellers and companies from the public & private sector. As a result, there are linked stories about a city and its museums, parks, archaeological sites, combined in one application. All content providers help each other to promote, as the visitor gets all their stories in one app.
In this network, the tours can be promoted even further, and for free: when tours saturation reaches a certain level, mobile operators can sell their prepaid SIM cards to tourists with an audio tour; hotels can suggest audio tours of nearby attractions; the network of buses, trams, boats and other means of transport can offer hop-on-hop-off tours in the city with the app. In Moscow, for instance, there are already a lot of successful audio tours provided by a network of trams. Thus, in a tram, a tourist sees a poster with the QR-code to the application, downloads it and comes to a local museum. There is a clear synergy: museums can develop stories, but cannot promote well. Tourist businesses can promote but they need the stories to attract clients. Alex calls it the "concept of a storytelling smart city", in which all participants join forces in promotion of their tours.
By joining forces in a local network, the promotional power is huge. According to Alex, stand-alone museum apps rarely reach more than 1000 downloads (with some exceptions of very famous institutions), no matter if they have virtual & augmented reality or not. izi.TRAVEL has already over 3 million downloads. When Uber, Google Assistant, Siri, TESLA, Airbnb join the project – there could be several hundred million downloads.
The biggest advantage of creating an audio tour on izi.TRAVEL for a museum is the huge promotional power of the platform and its partners. The technology behind it is neither revolutionary nor very fancy, but the major force behind it is the network of participants.
How a museum can start its audio tour
In short, a museum manager has to go on the website of izi.TRAVEL, log in and publish an audio guide. If all audio files, photo, video and texts are already existing, it won't take longer than an hour. The detailed description guides through each step of the creation of an audio tour.
In the HELP section of izi.TRAVEL, there is also useful advice about how to set up a museum's WiFi for an audio guide use or how to guide visitors through a museum with photo navigation.
izi.TRAVEL also organises free-of-charge trainings on storytelling for museums, where participants learn about creating engaging audio tours. Alex is convinced there is no need to invest in new technology, as there are already many free platforms: Youtube for publishing videos, Tweeter for sharing short messages, Facebook for exchanging thoughts and izi.TRAVEL for spreading stories. Museums shall rather focus on writing stories and on the quality of their content.
Creating a professional content requires resources. This poses a certain challenge to museums. Normally, the funding can be provided by sponsors, governmental organisations, grants or other sources. But sometimes it is a personal investment of time & energy of museum staff. According to Alex, joint consortiums of city museums, tourist authorities and local universities have more chances to get funded than museums alone.
Which are the most successful audio tours for museums on izi.TRAVEL?
The most successful tours change all the time. All content providers can access online statistics, filtering the data. For instance, in the month of May, the most popular tour was 1968 – Returning to Latin Neighbourhood, and the most popular museum was The Pushkin State Art Museum.
izi.TRAVEL online statistics
To be successful, a tour has not just only to contain interesting and engaging stories, but the museum has also to effectively promote it. There are some necessary basics, like placing posters in the museum space, featuring download links on a museum website and sharing the information in social media. izi.TRAVEL provides a check-list on promotion, ensuring that content providers do not miss big and small steps. But nothing works better than the museum staff which was trained to use the izi.TRAVEL app: the cashiers, guards, volunteers love to engage visitors into the guided tours once they tried it themselves.
Museums can also extend their audio tours outside the museum walls by adding thematic stops in the city. Tretyakov Gallery, for example, has created a tour where visitors – while guided from one building to another – find out about the history of other old buildings on the way. These additional stops outside can help tourists to get in the museum.
10 years ago, Alex Tourski provided guidance to drivers in Russia (he introduced the first GPS-based navigation maps in Russia in 2006 for BMW, DC, TomTom and many other navi systems). Let's hope he is equally successful in guiding tourists to museums around the world…

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Q: How to deal with python virtualenv errors Hello everyone I am running ubuntu20.4 and have two versions of python on my os
when I try to create the virtual environment with Python3.9 -m venv venv or with python3.8 -m venv venv  which is the default version it gives me this error and creates the venv folder.

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*How can I use only one version of python on my os?

*Could you help me understand this error and why am I getting it?

Here is the error that i am getting: bin/python3.9', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 1.


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La Bretagne Classic Ouest-France 2021, ottantacinquesima edizione della corsa, valevole come ventisettesima prova dell'UCI World Tour 2021 categoria 1.UWT, si svolse il 29 agosto 2021 su un percorso di 250,5 km, con partenza e arrivo a Plouay, in Francia. La vittoria fu appannaggio del francese Benoît Cosnefroy, il quale completò il percorso in 5h59'56", alla media di 41,841 km/h, precedendo il connazionale Julian Alaphilippe e il danese Mikkel Frølich Honoré.

Sul traguardo di Plouay 100 ciclisti, su 164 partiti dalla medesima località, portarono a termine la competizione.

Squadre e corridori partecipanti

Ordine d'arrivo (Top 10)

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Q: Hover on div will affect wordpress widget on other div Url: http://revivo.outit.co.il/
Issue: I want when hover on the slider image (with the red sink), the title above it will display:none. The problem is that its two different plugins.
I tried:
.advps-slide:hover ~ .textwidget {
    display: none;
}

And another try:
.advps-slide:hover ~ .main-shaddow{
    display: none;
}

Also i tried JS:
$('.advps-slide').mouseover(function() {
   var $this = $(this);
   var id = $this.attr('rel');
   var $currentWidget = $('.' + id);
   $currentWidget.show().siblings('.main-shaddow').hide();
});
$('.main-shaddow').mouseleave(function() {
    $('.textwidget').hide();
});

But nothing.
The Html (at least the part with the widget and the slider:
On sidebar.php:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[advps-slideshow optset="4"]'); ?>

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('title-widget') ) :
?> <?php    endif;  ?>

On functions.php :
    register_sidebar( array(
    'name'          => __( 'Title-Main-Page', 'revivo_official2' ),
    'id'            => 'title-widget',
    'before_widget' => '',
    'after_widget'  => '',
    'before_title'  => '
',
    'after_title'   => '
',
) );

It's even possible?

A: Here's some jQuery, give it a try
$('.advps-slide').hover(function() {
    $('.widget-title').toggle();
});

if that don't work , try
$('.advps-slide').hover(function() {
    $('#title-widget .widget-title').toggle();
});

EDIT:
Also, with wordpress you probably have to do this instead.
jQuery('.advps-slide').hover(function() {
    jQuery('.widget-title').toggle();
});

Also , make sure this is somewhere inside your head tags. (it can be from the googleapis url, but other sites host the jquery file too, like jquery.com)


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How Suffering puts Belief under a Microscope - Utrujj
How Suffering puts Belief under a Microscope
What Suffering Reveals about Us and the Ummah
How Tribulations Reveal Quality
In surah Ahzab Allah Almighty said:
O you who have believed, remember the favour of Allah upon you when armies came to [attack] you and We sent upon them a wind and armies [of angels] you did not see. And ever is Allah, of what you do, Seeing.
[Remember] when they came at you from above you and from below you, and when eyes shifted [in fear], and hearts reached the throats and you assumed about Allah [various] assumptions.
There the believers were tested and shaken with a severe shaking.
And [remember] when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is disease said, 'Allah and His Messenger did not promise us except delusion' (33:9-12)
In these ayahs, we see the faith of believers rigorously tested and severely shaken. Allah Almighty is testing the quality of the believers, and the depth of their imaan.
The hypocrites (whose hearts were diseased) began saying 'Allah Almighty and His Messenger (peace be upon him) promise us nothing but delusion'. By contrast, believers when they met the coalition forces said, 'This is what Allah Almighty and His Messenger (peace be upon him) promised us, and Allah Almighty and His Messenger (peace be upon him) were telling the truth'. Their experience increased their imaan (faith) and submission. Amongst the believers there were many who fulfilled their covenant with Allah Almighty, some of them staying firm in their belief until the last minute, and some steadfastly awaiting their fate.
This surah is referring to a particular incident, the Battle of the Trench or ghazwat al ahzab, when the Muslims were besieged in Madinah for thirty days by a coalition of forces, but protected themselves by digging a trench to save themselves from attack. Why is this relevant to our situation?
The beauty of the Qur'an is that it is an everlasting miracle, a book of guidance for all time. There are similarities between the onslaught the Muslims faced then, and what we face today. There are forces surrounding believers attacking them from above them, from below them, right, left and centre. And at that time the coalition forces were around 10-12,000 outnumbering the believers in Madinah who were only 3,000. Yet Allah Almighty protected believers by sending winds against the enemy troops, and by sending the angels, protecting believers because of their faith and trust in Allah Almighty, their truthfulness, and their firmness.
Victory has never been about the size of the armies. At the first battle in Badr 300 believers faced 1,000, and at Ahzab 3,000 believers faced 10,000. The only battle where there were more believers than the enemy was at Hunayn where ironically the believers were almost defeated as they felt overconfident because of their numbers. They nearly suffered defeat because of this illness in the hearts that they were better than their opponent. No. It's never about the quantity; the factor that determines victory is the inner quality of the men. Although we are to prepare as much as possible for battle, and do not just sit back and wait for victory to descend, the outcome depends on the quality of imaan.
Another parallel between that battle and today is the presence of two camps, or in fact three: the believer's camp, the disbeliever's camp and the in-betweener's al munafiqoon (hypocrites') camp. And this is why Allah Almighty stated that they were 'shaken with a severe shaking' as tribulations made the quality of their belief evident, separating the true levels and stripping away veneers.
Trials and tribulations reveal quality. In today's world we see pretenders, who appear to support the oppressed ones, the truth, the deen and human rights. But when it comes to the test as happened in the seerah, it becomes evident who the real believers are and who are the pretenders.
And this is why Allah Almighty stated that the muminoon (believers) were truthful to their covenant to Allah Almighty. They fulfilled their promises and upheld the truth till their last breath. The most important point here is that they did not change their position, they did not change their skin, they did not change their colour, they did not change their support to the truth, they are supporting the truth when the heat was turned up.
Without this test it would not be easy to distinguish the true believer from the fake believer. These tests and tribulations in the ummah are therefore filtering the quality, not the quantity of the believers. The beautiful verse ends with 'minal mumimeena rijalu sadiqu' – Allah Almighty will reward the believers, the truthful ones for supporting the truth, and staying firm in faith.
Those who are pretending will fail the test. Fickle in their support for the oppressed, swinging to support the oppressors when it is expedient is hypocrisy (nifaq).
Choosing a side and sticking to it
True believers support the right cause through thick and thin. They support the oppressed, not the oppressors. They support the message of Allah Almighty and His Messenger (peace be upon him), unswayed by whims, desires and politics.
There is no such thing as siding with the enemy as a strategy to uphold the truth. You either support belief or you support disbelief. Being in-between is a state of hypocrisy, and this is not what Allah Almighty is pleased with.
Despite the bitterness of the tests which we are facing as an ummah, there are fruits. We can see the real believers, and supporters of the truth who do not change their support: 'Wa ma tabdalu tabdeela' And those who are self-interested.
On the Day of Judgement, as per the hadith of the hawd, the Prophet (peace be upon him) will be hand over cups from the hawd (cistern)to the believers to drink. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said:
'I will be at the cistern, waiting for those of you who will come to me. Some men will be prevented from reaching me, so I will say: 'O Lord, my ummah, my ummah!' but it will be said to me: 'You do not know what they did after you were gone; they kept turning on their heels.' (Ahmad)
The angels will take them away because they do not deserve to drink from the hawd, and the Prophet (peace be on him) will be ashamed of these people from his ummah because they changed their skin, changed their position, changed their support to the truth.
Let's promise to stay steadfast until the last day of our life and support the truth no matter what it takes. This is the covenant we made with Allah Almighty, and let's fulfil it to the best of our ability. The Prophet (peace be on him) made the du'a (ya muqalibal qaloobi thabit qalbi ala deenika) O Allah give us firmness in faith. Ameen
Khutbah delivered by Shaykh Haytham Tamim
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She was standing beneath the walls, and within the precincts of, Lifford gaol.
He is the child of the house, and my uncle and Mr. Lifford don't feel complete without him.
It is navigable for vessels of large burden to this place, and thence by lighters of fifty tons as far as Lifford.


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Teenage debutant Will Jenkins was among the scorers as South Shields progressed to the second round of the Durham Challenge Cup with a 2-0 win at Ryton and Crawcrook Albion on Wednesday.
The 17-year-old netted the Mariners' second goal after Lee Mason had given them the lead early in the second half.
Jenkins was one of three Academy talents who made their debut at Kingsley Park, with Sam Hodgson and Mathew Wade making their senior bows as substitutes.
They helped see Shields through to the second round of a competition they last won in 2017.
Full report to follow.
SOUTH SHIELDS: Coombe, Baxter (Wade 79), Charlton, Turnbull, Morse (Brown 56), Wokoma, Thurston, Briggs (c), Mason (Hodgson 56), Jenkins, Odelusi. Subs not used: Boney, Gilchrist.
Goals: Mason (51), Jenkins (63).
Attendance: 405.
WORDS: Daniel Prince. IMAGE: Kev Wilson.
South Shields' Durham Challenge Cup trip to Ryton and Crawcrook Albion will take place on Wednesday, October 23.
The first round tie at Kingsley Park will kick-off at 7.30pm and will see the clubs come up against each other for the first time since March 2016, when the Mariners won 4-0 at Ryton with goals from John Grey, Stephen Ramsey, Julio Arca and David Foley.
That victory helped Shields on their way to winning the Northern League Division Two title – the first of three consecutive league championships and promotions secured by the club.
Shields reached the final of the Durham Challenge Cup last season before losing 1-0 to Shildon at the Stadium of Light, and won it in 2017, beating Billingham Synthonia in the final.
Ryton manager Tony Fawcett told the Shields Gazette that he was pleased to be drawn against the Mariners.
He said: "It's a good draw for us and it will be good for the club.
"I think out of everyone in the cup, you want South Shields at home because they will bring the fans and they probably do that more than anyone else in the competition.
"The guys at our club work very hard and it's a bit of a reward for them – it's going to be a great night for our club."
South Shields struck three late goals to complete a 4-0 victory at Ryton and Crawcrook Albion on Saturday.
The Mariners held a 1-0 lead for much of the game following John Grey's 12th-minute opener, and had to wait until six minutes before the end for Stephen Ramsey to make the three points safe.
In stoppage time, a penalty from Julio Arca and header from David Foley added gloss to the scoreline as Shields went eight points clear at the top of Ebac Northern League Division Two.
Above are highlights from the game.
VIDEO: Daniel Prince. STILL IMAGE: Peter Talbot.


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News and politics, On this day, UK Government News
Labour Win as UKIP Challenge Tories
As local council election results are starting to come in across the country; the Conservatives must be wondering who look like 'clowns' – as UKIP have taken two county council local election seats from them following yesterdays voting – 2nd May 2013. The popularity of the independent party is probably due to voters concerns over the widening issue of Europe and possibly voters are now sympathetic to the scare mongering of it's Party Leader, Nigel Farage concerning the immigration controls for the free passage of Romanian and Bulgarian's within EU countries – in particular the UK in 2014.
Already a number of councils results are already coming in with many councils continuing to hold their Conservative seats.
A new Labour control of South Shields has been announced, following the call for a by-election after it's former MP, David Miliband (brother of Labour leader Ed Miliband) resigned on the 15th April. The new MP for South Shields is Emma Lewell-Buck.
The large swing to the independent parties who are calling for tougher immigration control in the UK, and the UK Independence Party (UKIP) who have won around 26 per cent of the vote and cost the Conservatives control of the two councils has also seen other parties worried by what they've perceived to be a win purely through misinforming the countries votes with Deputy leader of the Lib Dem's, Simon Hughes, urging UKIP's leader Nigel Farage to stop claiming 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians will arrive in Britain when travel restrictions are lifted shortly. The figure Mr Farage has stated is projected one but one calculated from statistics he felt were reliable.
So far at noon today most of the results have come through from the councils in the south of the UK; including Dorset, Hampshire, Essex, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, Bristol and Hertfordshire.
More election results are expected in the North and North West, where traditionally there is expected to be more Labour controls or holds.
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Fast-rising Manchester guitar-pop collective Larkins have released their brand new single 'TV Dream'.
The new song features bright synths, 80s-inspired guitars and a huge chorus showcasing their knack for intelligent songwriting and delicious pop hooks reminiscent of the likes of CHVRCHES, The 1975 and Pale Waves.
Since the release of their debut EP Don't Leave The Light On in 2016 Larkins have developed a fervent fanbase which has seen them sell out shows across the UK and Europe.
On the back of a 12-date tour last year, the band are hitting the road again this month and will play four headline dates across the UK, finishing with a huge defining hometown show at the 2000-capacity Albert Hall in Manchester on March 2nd.
Larkins are on a meteoric rise as one of the most exciting and in-demand new bands to emerge from Manchester in recent times. Currently working on their debut album, the four-piece release 'TV Dream' as a taste of the exciting things to expect from the collective throughout 2019.


Everyone loves a good treasure hunt, and in many ways, that's what playing slots is all about. Just ask the masterminds at Microgaming. The company has just announced the launch of a brand new game, Crystal Rift™. The 5 reel, 25-payline online slot was developed exclusively for the software specialists by Rabcat, the same team of developers that created Castle Builder II™.
Crystal Rift™ is a special kind of treasure hunt. The slot features high-end visuals and the game's mechanics engages player-involvement and extended playing sessions. The game makes for a million thrills a minute thanks to its special cascading reels, Bonus Falls and Wild Grids. It's obvious right from the start that this was an idea that was commissioned by the company that has been around right from the start. It's hard to even imaging the world of the online casino without mentioning Microgaming's name.
The developer is synonymous with creating world-class online gaming entertainment.
The slot has just gone live with all participating operators and is available for desktop as well as mobile systems. It's obvious that a great deal of consideration has gone into the basic design of the game, as the game-play is smooth and feels intuitive.
The player is presented with a modern-day treasure hunt meets luxury strike-it-lucky geology trip. Wins are guaranteed by precious crystals being unearthed from the a cavern and players all the while treated to some of the most luxurious visuals ever presented on an online platform.
This is obviously not just another slot.
Gerhard Seiler, Chief Executive Officer of independent developer Rabcat, spoke excitedly about the pride associated with being in the fortunate position of putting together the pieces of a content puzzle for a company the likes of Microgaming. Seiler said that the commission was that the game was to provide a unique player experience. He also said that he believed that had stepped up to the plate and had outperformed even their own wildest expectations.
So right now, all that remains is for us to do is to head on over to a participating online casino and enter the exclusive world of Crystal Rift™.


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McAdams assigned to Financial Services Committee
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Congressman Ben McAdams has been assigned to the House Financial Services Committee—one of four exclusive committees in the U.S. House of Representatives. The committee has jurisdiction over banking, insurance, housing, securities and exchanges, and other consumer finance areas.
"The financial industry employs more than 75,000 people in Utah, which makes it an important economic driver for our state. It also oversees housing, including federal support for affordable housing—a priority issue for me as Salt Lake County Mayor," said McAdams. "I'm excited to be in a prime position to help both the Utah economy and Utah consumers."
As Salt Lake County mayor, McAdams worked closely with Utah's banking community on private initiatives to reinvest in community housing, economic development projects, early childhood education, and homelessness, among others. While a Utah State Senator, McAdams prioritized consumer protection and sponsored legislation to strengthen penalties against those who commit fraud. He also partnered with the private financial sector and nonprofits on a program to assist small and medium-sized businesses to expand access to trade and global markets and offer better-paying jobs. Prior to his public service, McAdams worked as an attorney helping companies comply with securities regulations and taught Securities Regulations at University of Utah Law School.
The Economic Development Corporation of Utah notes that the state's financial industry has experienced employment growth of over 23 percent in the past five years. In addition to the influx of traditional financial services, Utah is seeing growth from emerging industries such as financial technology lenders from Silicon Valley. Utah is also home to the highest number of industrial banks in the nation, with 15 chartered industrial banks.


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Discrimination in the workplace violates your rights. Employment discrimination is illegal, whether it targets your race, gender, national origin, age, disability status, or another protected status. Workplace discrimination laws also protect you from wrongful termination, retaliation, or a hostile work environment.
New York City offers some of the strongest workplace discrimination protections in the country. Learn about the definition of workplace discrimination, protected classes, and New York discrimination laws on this page.
Contact New York discrimination lawyer Charles Joseph for a free consultation to protect your rights today. Charles Joseph brings over twenty years of experience with workplace discrimination cases. His firm has recovered more than $140 million for clients. Reach out today for a free, confidential consultation.
What are the Protected Classes?
New York Workplace Discrimination Laws
Discrimination and Hostile Work Environments
Workplace Discrimination and Retaliation
How to Prove Discrimination in the Workplace
Filing a Workplace Discrimination Lawsuit
Workplace discrimination is a serious offense. Discrimination at work can take place during the hiring process if a company refuses to hire a potential employee because they are a member of a protected class. It can also happen after being hired. Discrimination may keep an employee from getting a promotion or result in wrongful termination. Employees who complain about discrimination may also face illegal retaliation.
Everyone deserves a workplace free from discrimination. Federal, state, and local laws protect employees from discrimination at work, and an employment discrimination attorney can also help protect your rights.
Workplace discrimination means treating a job applicant or employee less favorably because of their race, gender, religion, age, disability status, or other protected characteristics. Discriminating against someone because they belong to a protected class violates the law.
Workplace discrimination laws also protect employees from hostile work environments. Offensive conduct or comments that attack a protected group violate employees' rights. Employers have a responsibility to provide an environment free from workplace harassment. Targeting protected groups in the workplace violates federal, state, and New York City laws. Employment discrimination lawyers can recover damages for victims of hostile work environments.
Workplace discrimination laws protect specific groups of people. Federal laws protect employees from discrimination based on their race, gender, religion, disability status, national origin, and age. New York State and New York City provide additional protections.
Read more about discrimination protections for these groups:
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Employment discrimination lawyers can recover damages for victims of discrimination in the workplace. Contact New York discrimination lawyer Charles Joseph for a free consultation to learn about your legal protections.
In New York, workplace discrimination laws provide broader protections than under federal law. For example, New York City law covers age discrimination against employees of any age. Federal law, by contrast, only covers employees who are 40 years old or older. New York City employees can sue for age discrimination if they did not receive a promotion because they looked "too young," for instance.
New York's workplace discrimination laws provide additional protections based on caregiver status, marital status, gender identity, and more. A New York discrimination lawyer can determine whether you have a case.
Employers cannot discriminate against employees based on their membership in a protected class. These laws also ban hostile work environments.
Supervisors or co-workers can create a hostile work environment by targeting a protected class through their actions or behaviors. This qualifies as a form of discrimination when it affects employees' ability to complete their work. Employers may be liable for hostile work environments if they do not stop the offensive conduct or if they reasonably should have known about the hostile environment.
Employees do not have to be a member of the targeted group to file a hostile work environment lawsuit. If discriminatory conduct makes it hard to do your job, you may have a claim. Reach out to New York discrimination lawyer Charles Joseph for a free consultation if you experience a hostile work environment.
Workplace discrimination laws also protect employees who speak up about discrimination. If you file a complaint about discriminatory conduct, participate in a workplace discrimination investigation, or testify in a discrimination suit, these laws offer protections. The law considers these protected activities.
Employers cannot retaliate against employees who engage in protected activities. For example, your employer cannot fire you for complaining about discrimination in the workplace. The company cannot demote you, cut your pay, or otherwise penalize you for participating in a discrimination lawsuit.
Workplace retaliation laws also protect employees who complain about sexual harassment or hostile work environments. Employment discrimination lawyers play an important role in protecting victims of retaliation. An employment discrimination attorney can help recover back pay, emotional distress damages, and more.
Millions of employees face discrimination in the workplace every year. Fortunately, laws and employment discrimination lawyers help protect victims of workplace discrimination.
If you experience discrimination in the workplace, keep detailed records. Keep emails, pictures, or statements about the offensive behavior. Write down the time and location of any workplace harassment, plus the names of all witnesses. Make any reports to your boss or human resources in writing, so that you have a copy. Also make notes about whatever actions your company takes in response to your complaint. Keep these records at home, not at work.
Once you know how to prove discrimination in the workplace, your employment discrimination attorney can help file a lawsuit.
During a workplace discrimination lawsuit, these documents help prove your case. An employment discrimination attorney can help you prove discrimination in the workplace and recover lost wages, damages to compensate for your emotional distress, and punitive damages.
Victims of workplace discrimination have rights. You can file a lawsuit against your employer, former employer, or potential employer. A New York employment lawyer can help you gather evidence, file a lawsuit, and protect your rights. Charles Joseph offers free, confidential consultations to discuss your discrimination case.
You can also learn more about how to file a discrimination claim in New York.


Children Join Us at ACMCC for Bring Your Child to Work Day.
On Thursday, August 25th, we held our first Bring Your Child to Work Day. We had several activities throughout the day for the children of ACMCC to interact with their parents and our residents. The whole community joined in on a Hot Dog cookout that unfortunately got moved inside due to the threat of rain. The sun came out long enough for the kids to be able to go outside play with some of our residents as well. The day ended in a cookie frosting party, and man can those kids eat frosting!
Thanks to everyone who made this day possible! We plan on making this a biannual event to encourage more intergenerational fun and relationship building between the residents, staff, and their c hildren.


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Q: Limit of functional fraction where the denominator goes to zero. $\lim_{x\to-3^+} \frac{x+2}{x+3}$
What can I do with a limit such as this. I can not factor, nor can I plug in the limit number. I tried to multiply the entire equation by $-1$, but that did not work. Any ideas?

A: Also you can trace in following way:
$$\lim_{x\to 3^+}\frac{x+2}{x+3}=\lim_{x\to 3^+}(1-\frac{1}{x+3})=1-\lim_{x\to 3^+}\frac{1}{x+3}=1-\lim_{t\to 0^+}\frac{1}{t}=-\infty$$

A: Observe that $x + 3 \to 0^{+}$, and $x + 2 \to -1$. Thus $\dfrac{x+2}{x+3} \to -\infty$


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Senate GOP in Connecticut wants to roll back sales tax rates in 2022
By Keith M. Phaneuf / CTMirror.org
Senate Minority Leader Kevin Kelly, R-Stratford
With state government finances on pace for another massive surplus, Senate Republicans called Tuesday for a temporary rollback of state sales tax rates.
The GOP minority proposed dropping the general rate from 6.35% to 5.99% and suspending the 1-percentage-point surcharge Connecticut has levied on restaurant food and other prepared meals since 2019.
Both changes would be effective on Feb. 15 and last through December. But Senate Minority Leader Kevin Kelly, R-Stratford, said his caucus would support long-term tax relief if revenue projections surge again later this year.
"The family budgets are getting crushed," Kelly said. "What we're hearing from families across Connecticut is that they need help, they need relief, that the economy for Connecticut is not performing for them."
The coronavirus pandemic and escalating inflation are eating away at a state that already lags the nation in employment and income growth, he said.
Chipping roughly 1/20th off of the general sales tax rate and suspending the restaurant surcharge for most of 2022 would save taxpayers roughly $315 million, according to caucus projections. It would cost the state about $132 million between February and this fiscal year's close on June 30 and another $183 million between July and December.
The sales tax is projected to generate more than $4.4 billion this fiscal year, second only to the state income tax, which is expected to yield nearly $10.4 billion.
Connecticut's 6.35% base sales tax rate ranks 12th-highest among all states and the District of Columbia, according to The Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based fiscal think-tank.
But many other states levy sales taxes at the local level as well, while Connecticut does not. Based on the combined state and local burden, Connecticut ranks among the states with lower tax burdens — 33rd nationally.
Under the Republican proposal, Connecticut would rank 25th in state rates and 41st in the combined state and local tax burdens — among the lowest rates in the country.
Sales tax relief would be more modest than an income tax cut but could be delivered right now, rather than next spring — or next year, Kelly said.
The Senate Republican plan also would allow Connecticut to continue shrinking the massive pension debt that has put tremendous pressure on taxpayers for years, he said.
Connecticut has nearly $41 billion in unfunded pension obligations stemming from more than seven decades of inadequate savings.
The General Assembly launched a bipartisan initiative to attack that problem in 2017, forcing the state to save a significant portion of state income tax receipts from capital gains and other investment earnings.
That initiative, coupled with a robust stock market, has led to a record-setting $3.1 billion emergency budget reserve and nearly $1.7 billion in supplemental payments into the pension funds — on top of the billions of dollars in required payments the state makes annually.
Comptroller Natalie Braswell projects the state will close the fiscal year in June with nearly $1.9 billion left over. Even if $315 million in sales tax relief is granted, Kelly noted, the state still would be poised for another round of massive debt reduction.
The GOP's tax-cutting proposal is the second plan to be released in a week — but the first one that involves the state forfeiting its own tax receipts.
Gov. Ned Lamont announced last week he would redirect — via executive order — $75 million in expiring federal COVID-19 relief into one-time state income tax refunds for Connecticut's working poor in late February.
This would provide, on average, about $377 for each of nearly 200,000 working households that earn less than $56,844 per year.
The Democratic governor also has said, though, that he is open to discussing proposals to cut state taxes when the 2022 General Assembly convenes in early February.
And with Lamont and the legislature facing a state election cycle in 2022, more tax-cutting proposals are expected in the coming months.
But Kelly said he's optimistic that his caucus' plan could draw strong, bipartisan support. Besides allowing Connecticut to shrink pension debt, a sales tax cut could provide an immediate benefit to nearly all residents.
"I think it's broad-based, and I think it's something that can be done very easily and quickly," he said. "The state needs to return some of that [budget] windfall to the people. This is a K-shaped recovery, and the people at the lower end aren't doing as well as the people at the top end."
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HomeAviation Safety / Air CrashesThat time a Soviet bomber crashed into the sea after buzzing a U.S. aircraft carrier
That time a Soviet bomber crashed into the sea after buzzing a U.S. aircraft carrier
April 14, 2016 David Cenciotti Aviation Safety / Air Crashes, Military History, Russia, Troubled Areas 5
Low pass with a deadly ending.
Low passages of Russian planes on U.S. Navy warships (and vice versa) are somehow frequent as the recent flybys of Russian Su-24 Fencer bombers on USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea prove.
Usually, such "shows of force" are uneventful, however, about 50 years ago, a close encounter at sea had a deadly ending.
On May 25, 1968 a Soviet Badger-F aircraft flew some very low flybys close to USN carrier USS Essex in the Norwegian sea.
After the last pass, the aircraft, piloted by Colonel Andrey Pliyev, stalled and crashed into the sea.
According to "Cold War Warriors" the footage was considered classified by the Soviets and never shown in Russia until 2008.
Two B-2 Spirit stealth bombers join three B-52s deployed to UK in a show of Global Reach
Russian Tu-22 bomber scares NATO air defenses flying at supersonic speed over the Baltic Sea for the first time
Sweden has released a photo of the mysterious foreign vessel in Stockholm's archipelago
Photos of 10 Russian warplanes intercepted by RAF Typhoons over the Baltic Sea….in one sortie!
Video provides behind the scenes look at the Russian Su-27 Flanker operations in the Baltic area
Russian warplanes used practice bombs with "To Berlin!" and "For Stalin" slogans during Baltic drills
Close encounters with Russian Su-27s as seen by a former RC-135 aircraft commander
Russian Air Force
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Here are some more shots of the Russian Su-24s buzzing a U.S. warship in the Baltic Sea
Cool video features U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons night operations at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan
Russian bombers now flying with air-to-air missiles for self-protection over Syria
December 2, 2015 Jacek Siminski Russia, Syria, Troubled Areas, War on ISIS 29
Following the downing of the Su-24 Fencer on Nov. 24, Russian attack planes fly with air-to-air missiles for self-protection. The Russian Air Force has decided to arm the Su-34 Fullback attack planes based at Latakia, […]
Exclusive: Close encounter with "Ivan", as seen from inside the Russian spyplane!
September 12, 2013 David Cenciotti Russia, Troubled Areas 8
Close encounters between Russian strategic bombers, spyplanes and Western fighter jets scrambled to intercept them have been quite frequent since the Cold War. Every month or so, a new image taken by one of those […]
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Russian Air Force Tu-22M Backfire Damaged In Runway Overrun Accident During Zapad 2017 Exercise In Western Russia
September 15, 2017 David Cenciotti Aviation Safety / Air Crashes, Russia, Troubled Areas 2
A Russian Air Force bomber skidded off the runway in western Russia. On Sept. 14, 2017, a Russian Air Force Tu-22М3 RF-94233 / 20 "RED" suffered an incident when it overran the runway at Shaykovka […]


John A. Becker is the former Director of Facilities for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs), Defense Health Headquarters, Falls Church, Virginia. He was responsible for planning, programming, funding, and constructing the Department of Defense's medical infrastructure valued at over $32 billion (B). He had responsibility for over $10B in current and future facility requirements and an annual facility support and capital budget of over $2B. He was also the Clinical BRAC Program Director for the Military Health System, responsible for over $3.7B in BRAC related construction in the National Capital Region and San Antonio, TX.
Mr. Becker has a broad base of expertise and experience in Corporate Medical Facilities Life Cycle Management within the Department of Defense, including health facility planning, long and short range strategic planning, facility requirements development, programming, construction, facility management, operations and maintenance, and budgeting. His education includes a Masters in Healthcare Administration, Baylor University, Waco, TX, and a Bachelor of Arts, University of Delaware, Biology (With Honors), Newark, DE. Prior to 2006, Mr. Becker served in a variety of key leadership positions during his 29 year career as an Army Medical Service Corps Officer. His past military facilities-related positions include Assistant Chief of Staff, Installations, Environment, and Facilities Management, U.S. Army MEDCOM, San Antonio, TX, and Deputy Commander, U.S. Army Health Facility Planning Agency, Office of the Surgeon General, Washington DC.
Past Department of Defense civilian positions include Chief, Requirements Development, Portfolio Planning and Management Division, Health Affairs/TRICARE Management Activity, Washington DC, and Regional Facility Director, Great Plains Regional Medical Command, San Antonio, TX. Past military assignments also include Deputy Commander for Administration, Ft. Eustis Community Hospital, VA; Commander, 236th Air Ambulance Company, 7th Corps, during Gulf War I; and the Commander, 21st Combat Support Hospital, Ft. Hood, TX. Certifications include Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives, and former Preceptor, U.S. Army-Baylor University Graduate Program in Healthcare Administration.


Pasadena Educational Foundation's PUSD school community gardens grow more than flowers, fruits, and vegetables… they grow young minds by providing amazing hands on learning opportunities. Mr. Michealsen's AP Human Geography classes at Pasadena High used the school garden to learn about agriculture and the agricultural revolution. Pasadena Unified School District's Master Gardener, Jill McArthur, helped with instruction on the lesson. PEF is proud to support school garden programs!
The Pasadena Educational Foundation is working with community partners to grow our school-community garden program that provides outdoor classroom space for students to learn about nutrition, healthy eating, science, and other subjects. PUSD's school-community gardens are managed by a full-time Master Gardener. Produce grown in the organic school-community gardens is being is being incorporated into school cafeteria offerings and being sold through local Pop-up Farms Stands. USDA named PUSD a model program for management, innovation, and impact in promoting healthier lifestyles. PUSD currently has 19 educational school-community gardens.


France midfielder Paul Pogba dedicated his side's World Cup 1-0 semi-final win over Belgium to the 12 Thai boys who were rescued from a flooded cave along with their coach on Tuesday.
"This victory goes to the heroes of the day, well done boys, you are so strong," Pogba wrote on his official Twitter account after Samuel Umtiti's headed goal put France in Sunday's World Cup final in Moscow, where they will play Croatia or England.
La Liga's president Javier Tebas said: "When the moment is right and everyone is ready I would like to invite the children and their coach to go to a Liga game.
"We would like to host them and share with them the happiness of football, hoping that this can go some way to helping them after everything they've been through in the last few weeks."
FIFA had invited the boys to Sunday's World Cup final although the world organising body said that due to medical reasons the boys would not be in a position to travel to the game, although they would invite them to an event in the future.


"Gunny, I've got the Boss on the horn," Sergeant Enrique Salazar's smooth, honey-sweet baritone cut across the chatter of the barracks. The Marines had been gearing up, ready to put boots to deck plates since just after comms went down, and the ship had given a sickening lurch. With his typical restraint, Horatio had refrained from jumping into action prematurely, assuming that Kassandra would find a way to get to them no matter what, and that deploying the Marines would possibly interfere with repairs, but even he, normally the paragon of patience, had been getting antsy.
The huge man hauled himself to his feet, nodding at Stacy Flannigan, indicating that she should join them. If Kassandra was going through Enrique, it meant that something big was going down, and she expected there to be several moving parts. Enrique's job was to act as a switchboard, making sure that all relevant information was dispensed to those who needed it, and only those who needed it, so that everyone wouldn't be subjected to a never-ending stream of comms chatter.
"Major, I've got the Gunny and Lance Corporal Flannigan here," Enrique said into his comms array.
"So discreetly get Raskin to send her folks in teams to watchdog critical systems?" He'd worked with her long enough to know exactly where her mind was going. When they first got on the ship, he and she had sat down and figured out which systems and areas were critical from a security and safety standpoint, and made sure every Marine knew how to get there in the least amount of time.
"He's not going to be happy, you know. You're the only Marine he tolerates…" The Captain had always treated Horatio with courtesy, but Horatio could always tell that the man though he was little more than a blunt instrument- all brawn and no brains, and like he was expecting Horatio to challenge him at any moment in some pointless masculine dominance display.
She had him there. His bubbly assistant/supply officer had a natural charm that turned most people into putty in her capable hands. Especially those with a persuasion towards the female.
"Hold your fire!" Kane ordered, his hand held out above, but not quite touching, the business end of Kass's rifle.
Kass wasn't sure where she was. She thought she'd been standing in Main Engineering, talking with someone… Eve? No, Bellecotte. That sounded right. But what had they been talking about?
The idea was distant, so distant that it nearly slipped away altogether as she began to process more information about her current surroundings. Only some deep-seated instinct sent her subconscious lunging after the thought as it drifted away, recognizing that somehow it was of great importance.
Meanwhile, her conscious mind began to take in the situation before here.
She was standing in a corridor. She wasn't sure where, but it looked like Deck 1. Alarm klaxons burred loudly around her, and through her sensor nets she could perceive the rhythmic flashing of red alert lights along the lighting fixtures that line the corridor. She thought she could smell smoke, and a hint of something else, a sickly-sweet smell that her experience in combat told her was almost certainly the stink of cooking flesh. It was seemed faint, but fresh, and she could imagine whatever unfortunate soul that was the source that stink was behind her somewhere, still burning.
Her rifle was raised, socked tightly against one shoulder, and her finger hovered dangerously close to the trigger. Ahead of her, just under two meters away, was… something. A shape, vaguely humanoid, but looking as if someone had come along and smeared away all its edges. There were no features she could make out; her sensor nets could make out no musculature, no blood vessels, no signs of circulation or respiration (**Eve...** she thought distantly, and again her subconscious mind lunged at this thought, **Hugs and moonbeams…**). Yet in spite of this, she had the definite sense that whatever it was she was seeing was alive. Alive, and watching her.
Next came a sensation that seemed both peculiar and strangely familiar. Kass felt her mouth open, though she was certain she had not opened it herself, and an instant later she heard a voice - *her* voice - coming out of it.
"But we're not the ones standing on *their* ship," Kass's voice said, and inside Kass found herself agreeing with the sentiment. Underneath all that, her subconscious mind continued to work frantically. What was this? Why did it seem so familiar? Why did she keep thinking about Main Engineering, about Harry Bellecotte, about hugs and moonbeams?
**You're not supposed to be here,** came a voice from deep inside her mind. The thought made no sense, so Kass pushed it aside. *Of course* she was supposed to be here. She was with the Captain, standing between him and an unknown entity, possibly one that meant to do them harm. Where else would she be?
**Not yet,** came that interior voice again, and this time Kass found she could not push it aside so easily.
The figure before them seemed to gesture. To Kass, it looked like it was holding something out… a weapon, perhaps?
"I said hold your fire," Kane said, not looking back at her but still managing to thread a streak of urgency into his voice. Kass felt herself frown, but she relaxed her trigger-finger.
The figure did not seem to notice. An instant later, it vanished, leaving no trace behind that it had ever been there at all. Kane and Kass both stood there, not sure of what to make of what they had seen. Then, the ship seemed to lurch violently underneath them. Kass and Kane both lost their footing, falling to the deck.
The wall paneling on their left side burst off the wall suddenly, narrowly missing them as they fell. It was accompanied by the high-pitched sound of tearing durasteel, as something Kass couldn't quite see seemed to burst forth from the very walls of the ship. It was big, big enough that it seemed almost the shear the entire corridor in two, as if someone had passed some kind of superheated knife neatly through the PHOENIX's bulkhead. Her sensor nets were going haywire, but she had the impression that whatever it was wasn't strictly visible to the human eye, that its edges would be blurred like the figure they had seen, that perhaps the only real indication that it was there at all was the horrific damage it left behind as it ripped its way through the ship.
She should have been panicking. She *was* panicking, she guessed, but only on top. Underneath, from that low place in her mind where those strange thoughts had bubbled up from only a few moments before, she felt calm and collected.
**Not yet,** came the thought again.
His words began to fade, as did the world around her. Just before everything dissolved into white, Kass remembered.
**Not yet,** she thought again, and then was gone.
[[What?]] Bellecotte's voice was a raised eyebrow.
[[Yes, Major?]] The Captain's voice had the tight clipped notes of someone with just about as much on his plate as he could manage.
"Had a vision," Kassandra said shortly. Beating around the bush was a surefire way to annoy him.
"Well, first things first, I think it may be better if you move everyone to the secondary bridge and clear Deck 1. Not sure what's gonna happen, nor when, but it smelled like a barbeque, an' not in a good way, if you get my drift. Second, we're gonna get smashed by an alien vessel, sometime after." Kassandra ticked her thoughts off on her fingers.
[[And?]] This time Kane sounded impatient.
[[Possibly.]] The Irishman no longer sounded impatient.


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Roseville DMV Field Office is Relocating
The Field Office on Harding Boulevard will close permanently
Sacramento - The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) announced that the Roseville field office located at 222 Harding Boulevard will close permanently on June 6, 2013, and will reopen at its new location at 7200 Galilee Road on June 24, 2013, at 8 a.m.
The new 16,306 square-foot office on Galilee Road is more spacious and will have 149 parking spaces. This facility will service approximately 500 customers per day with a staff of 23 employees.
The building design and site incorporate sustainable building materials including roof mounted solar panels, drought-tolerant landscaping, and water-efficient plumbing and irrigation systems.
Nearby Field Offices:
Rocklin, 5245 South Grove Street, 4 miles away
Carmichael, 5209 North Avenue, 11 miles away
Folsom, 323 East Bidwell, Suite A, 11 miles away
Auburn, 11722 Enterprise Drive, 16 miles away
Fast Facts - Roseville Field Office
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Iraq has placed education at the heart of its cooperation with UNESCO, and many efforts are currently deployed to support education in the country. Iraq is one of 35 countries participating in the Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE), a 10-year global strategy to achieve the goals of the United Nations Literacy Decade.
Regarding communication and information, UNESCO strongly supports Iraq in the development of a national media and communication policy that promotes freedom of expression, through a series of programmes to build the capacity of the media sector.
Three Iraqi sites are inscribed on the World Heritage List. The large fortified city of Hatra was added in 1985. The ancient city of Ashur, capital city of the Assyrian Empire on the banks of the Tigris River, inscribed in 2003, is on the List of World Heritage in Danger. The latest addition, Samarra Archaeological City, former Islamic capital with a 9th century mosque and spiral minaret, was inscribed in 2007 as both World Heritage and World Heritage in Danger. In view of recent conflicts in the country, the Organization is now focusing on safeguarding Iraq's cultural treasures.
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The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California, that partners with local reef communities around the world to protect coral reefs.
With 19% of the world's coral reefs already destroyed and another 35% at immediate risk or threatened due to human pressures, organizations like CORAL are addressing an urgent need.
They depend on the support of individual donors, foundations, and corporate and government grants to build grassroots conservation partnerships among local community members, government leaders, and marine recreation providers in coral reef destinations around the world.
Many of CORAL's employees are stationed in Hawaii and around the world in countries such as Indonesia, Fiji, Honduras, and Mexico.
CORAL promotes conservation through its Coral Reef Sustainable Destination (CRSD) approach, a holistic model that combines marine protected area (MPA) management and sustainable business operation for community benefit.


UNFCU Financial Advisors, a United Nations Federal Credit Union-owned company, has partnered with Clements International to offer the first International Term Life and Personal Accident Insurance program to meet the needs of its members in the field, many of whom work and live in humanitarian crisis and war-torn regions. These insurance policies provide competitively-priced, worldwide protection for UNFCU members in high-risk countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
As a UNFCU partner, Clements International is also offering discounted rates on international car insurance through UNFCU's Insurance Centre. Using www.clements.com, UNFCU members can obtain a quote and purchase a policy online.
To learn more about the partnership and the international coverage available through Clements and UNFCU Financial Advisors, please visit www.unfcu.org.


Volkswagen's XL1, presented in 2013, was the world's most economical production car featuring a diesel plug-in hybrid powertrain, with fuel consumption of only 0.9 l/100 km. The powertrain consisted of a two-cylinder TDI engine (35 kW / 48 PS) and an electric motor (20 kW / 27 PS), a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox (DSG) and a lithium-ion battery. The two-seater could be driven in full-electric mode with zero local emissions for a distance of up to 50 kilometers. The XL1 followed the design principles of a sports car: light weight (795 kg), perfect aerodynamics (Cw 0.189) and low centre of gravity (1,153 mm above ground).


The Hypnosis of Money: Bitcoin Triple Top About To Pop?
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This video is very different from what I normally do.
In it I talk about Bitcoin and cyber currencies or alt coins or crypto currencies that are set to revolutionize the financial world… It's all about TRANSFORMATION BABY!
What I normally do is work on transforming myself and my life as well as helping other people like YOU to do the same. So this is actually NORMAL for me.
You can't get very far into this transformation biz before you come up hard against everybody's limiting beliefs around money. Can we change them? Oh YES WE CAN! Those we can change. Boom!
But then after you change what you believe to be possible for you, you have to develop some skills that get you where you want to go faster, easier, better.
That's what I do. I figure stuff out that I need to learn. And the bottom line is that if you are living in this crazy, fast changing overwhelmingly complicated world, you need to learn this stuff too.
I learn better by teaching what I'm learning to you. And the last 6 months I've gone deep, deep, deep, into the rabbit hole of MONEY! And I'm ready to start sharing what I've learned so that you can not only survive but THRIVE financially. And you can watch me walk my tawk.
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New findings in Denmark point to super-high levels of THC when compared to 20 years ago.
While some long for the days of schwag, with its feel-good, mild highs, the weed of the today and presumably the future is going to make you higher than ever, according to the latest study on the matter by researchers in Denmark.
First, let's back up to the 1970s. Back then, the percentage of THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive constituent in marijuana that makes you feel high, was lower because the plants were grown outside, for the most part. Generally, there was very little science involved when compared to today's methods. Ask anyone around then, and you'll hear constantly how it was a different time. As such, the THC percentage, on average, was about 8 percent. Today, we'd call it the weak stuff. The weed your dad friend's dad smoked while listening to Steely Dan could be enjoyed in copious amounts.
In the 1990s, things started to change globally, as the growing process moved indoors and THC percentages creeped up into the teens. So-called "skunk farming" methods, to use the words of the Danish researchers, were applied. That basically means using more advanced methods — improving the amount of light, air, and moisture. In the 2000s, the methods became more advanced and THC levels kept going up. (This year, a study found the average THC levels in places like Colorado, where it's legal to smoke as long as you're of age, are at 18.7 percent. Some THC levels are as high as 30 percent.) In Europe, the legality and enforcement of those pot laws varies from country to country, but the Netherlands remains one of the few countries where it's sold at the retail level.
A participant smokes a marijuana joint while marching in the annual Hemp Parade (Hanfparade) on August 9, 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
Now, according to three forensic chemistry departments at the University of Southern Denmark, the University of Copenhagen, and Aarhus University, marijuana seized by police and tested boasts a THC rating of 28 percent. (This is to say nothing of THC oil or wax, which can have THC ratings of up to 85-90 percent.) The findings are published in the Danish Health and Medicines Authority's annual narcotics report released on November 18. This is more than three times of the amount of THC found in marijuana analyzed in the 1990s, to say nothing of the weed smoked in the 1970s.
Cannabis resin blocks seized by police and used in the analysis.
So what does it mean for users of marijuana that THC levels are being artificially raised? Scientists aren't clear on long-term health effects of more THC more often just yet — but you are going to be much, much higher for longer.
"Cannabis of such high quality can lead to a greater risk of harm and adverse side effects," Lindholst says. "This is in particular a problem for the large group of young people who smoke it several times a month. The attitude among some groups in society is that smoking a joint once in a while doesn't do any harm. With the new knowledge we should increasingly view cannabis as a more dangerous and more risky drug," says Lindholst.