LITTLE ROCK—The Arkansas legislature completed the 2019 regular session after finalizing a balanced budget of about $5.75 billion in general revenue for next fiscal year. That is about $124 million more than will be spent during the current year.
Much of the lost state revenue will be made up from sales taxes on Internet retail purchases. The act does not change sales tax rates, but clarifies that they will be collected equally from online retailers as they are collected from "bricks and mortar" stores.
The legislature enacted a long-term highway program. Act 146 will generate $59 million a year for the state and $12.6 million a year for both cities and counties to maintain and build roads and bridges.
The second component of the highway program will depend on Arkansas voters. The legislature referred to the 2020 ballot whether to make permanent the current temporary half-cent sales tax. Revenue from the half-cent is allocated for highways.
If voters approve, the half-cent will generate $293.7 million a year. Cities and counties will each receive $44 million, and the state Transportation Department will get the remaining $205 million each year.


The Black Bodies Project consists of a film, a book, and an interview series. The film, Black Bodies, has already been produced. It screened at the 2018 Capital City Black Film Festival (in Austin), the 2018 Lost River Film Festival (in San Marcos), the Alamo Drafthouse, and is scheduled to screen in January 2019 at the San Diego Black Film Festival, and will soon be screening at other venues in and around Austin, Texas.
Be part of this movement! Please donate today! The Black Bodies Project is timely. It's important. It's necessary to raise our collective consciousness as we tackle issues related to race, prejudice, and injustice.


Whether it is favourable or unfavourable, we will obey the LORD our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it will go well with us, for we will obey the LORD our God.
This was a hard time for the Israelites. The Babylonians had taken some of the Jews into captivity and the remnant that remained sought to enquire of the Lord. They were fearful and wanted to run from the Babylonians into Egypt, because one of the governors had been assassinated by Ishmael. But it was a time to take a risk and they were ready to obey the Lord no matter what He told them to do. Egypt looked like the safest place to run to but the Lord warned them against going to Egypt, because there was calamity ahead.
Sometimes the Lord tells us to do something that looks like a risk to us. Our opinion may seem better than what the Lord might have to say about the next step in our life. This is where we have to make a choice. It's not easy to be obedient in such circumstances. It's a matter of whom we will obey. Who is in control, us or the Lord?
When we know our God, we'll understand that He knows what's best and we can learn to trust His judgements and directions.
Taking risk demands courage and trust. Trust brings about the courage we need to be able to move in obedience to God's will in our lives. We can't fully obey if we can't fully trust!
Let's look at it this way. When babies are learning to take their first steps, mum is standing in front waiting for them to move towards her. Unless they are able to fully trust that mum won't let them fall, they are unlikely to move.
In the same way we need to trust in God and move into His will for our lives with child-like trust that He knows the way ahead, all the obstacles, and, most importantly, the joy that comes as the fruit of obedience to Him.
Prayer: Lord, I know that my life is in Your hands and I can trust You in all circumstances, though sometimes I find it difficult to trust. Please help me to trust and obey Your will. Amen.


Creating vigilance and a deterrent against crime on Wattons Lane for the local community of residents and businesses. Aiding the prevention of burglary, fly-tipping and open air sexual activity, from Matchams View Point properties to Week Farm.
Local outdoor activity business owner whose business has suffered from ongoing issues within the area. Aiming to aid residents reduce criminal and suspicious activity within the area and aid local police. I am to form a central point of contact for residents and build up a good intelligence picture of "known persons" and vehicles in the area.


Despite two consecutive years of wildfires and an increased awareness of the threat, Santa Cruz Mountains residents are not safeguarding their homes from fire as much as they have in the past.
Fewer people are passing home safety inspections this year than in the previous two years, state inspection reports show, meaning more households are letting fire-prone grass grow taller and failing to trim back hazardous brush.
The only good news is that summer has been cool and the threat of fire low — at least so far — which is also why, according to Sampson and others, many residents haven't gotten around to doing the clearance and vegetation removal they're required to do by law.
Fire officials warn, however, that vegetation dries out quickly and fall typically yields the greatest threat, which is why firefighters say recent inspection reports are cause for concern.
After visiting roughly 1,100 properties in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties, just a fraction of the total, firefighters report 30 percent were out of compliance with fire ordinances. The figure is typically around 25 percent, not too much lower but significant because officials thought it would drop after the recent fires.
Last year, the Lockhead Fire consumed nearly 8,000 acres north of Bonny Doon while the year before three fires burned more than 5,000 acres in Santa Cruz County, including nearly 100 homes.
This summer, firefighters made a second visit to homes that failed the initial inspection and 30 percent remained out of compliance. Firefighters typically make three visits to properties before taking disciplinary action, which can mean a citation. The third visit is still pending in most areas.
Homeowners in the rural areas, per state law, are required to maintain a "defensible space" around their home, meaning clearing most vegetation within 30 feet of the house and trimming back bushes and trees within 100 feet.
Fire officials say recent failure to do this, beyond the weather, might be influenced by households being unable to afford fire prevention or just not paying attention to it due to economic hardship. A slightly different inspection form is also being used, which provides inspectors less room for leniency and could also affect the rate of compliance.
Still, while overall compliance is down, other residents are taking fire season more seriously.
At least two new fire councils have formed in the past two years in Santa Cruz County, in which neighbors organize to reduce fire hazards, and residents in Bonny Doon, Swanton and other areas where fires have burned have been increasingly vigilant.
Nadia Hamey, who also has been active in Bonny Doon fire prevention, says she's seeing more cooperation among neighbors, but acknowledges not everyone is on board.
Statewide, fire officials say they've increased the number of safety inspections since California's back-to-back record-breaking fire years in 2007 and 2008. Results from this year's inspections have not been tallied yet.


When it comes to Internet marketing for plastic surgeons, a good website is one which contains a lot of content. That content can be about plastic surgery procedures, tips on choosing a plastic surgeon, information about planning for and recovering from surgery, and so on. Content is a very powerful thing. Helpful, informative content satisfies your visitors and establishes you as an expert in their eyes. When that content is also rich in keywords, it can provide you with high rankings in the search engines and bring a great deal more targeted traffic to your site.
When you have a site with a lot of content, it's important that your website also include a site map. A site map can help your visitors find the information that they're looking for. Further, site maps are an important element of search engine optimization as they also help the search engine spiders find and index all of your pages.
A site map is basically a navigational tool that shows visitors what information you have, how it's organized, and where it's located. It allows visitors to find the information they're looking for with the fewest clicks possible. The search engines loves site maps because they allow their robots, or spiders, to find and index every page and all of the information on your site.
Every page on your site should include a link to your site map. Ideally, this link should be part of your main navigation bar. Your site map should contain page URLs and links, as well as descriptive text for each page. You should also try to include targeted keywords within your descriptions.


The Shieling Forest was a gift to the State of New Hampshire by the late Mrs. Elizabeth Yates McGreal. Mrs. McGreal was a longtime resident of Peterborough and a nationally known writer whose concerns ranged from books, libraries and work for the blind, to forests and their proper use. In addition to her gift of 47 acres of land with buildings to the State of New Hampshire in 1980, Mrs. McGreal established a trust fund to help defray the costs of maintenance and operation of the Shieling Forest. This trust is managed by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
The Shieling Forest is operated by the Division of Forests and Lands of the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development, for the purpose of helping to stimulate public interest and knowledge on properly managing small private forests and related natural resources.
Forestry Learning Center - This building serves as the focal point for all activities at the Shieling Forest. There is a meeting room, library, and exhibit areas. This facility is available to groups and organizations for meetings with a conservation purpose. This building is handicap accessible.
McGreal House - This building was the year-round residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Y. McGreal until she moved to Concord in 1995. It has been carefully renovated and maintained to reflect its early New Hampshire Heritage.
For those who like to experience the outdoors firsthand, the Shieling Forest offers a self-guided forestry trail. This trail is used for walking, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing.
Click here for a map of Shieling Forest Map, including trails.
Whether you are interested in identifying animal tracks in the snow, learning which shrubs and trees to plant to attract more birds to your backyard, or just interested in becoming a better steward of your land, the Shieling Forest has something for you.
Throughout the year, Shieling Forest conducts seminars led by expert speakers; slide shows; historical programs; field trips; and hands-on demonstrations, where you can learn about any topic connected with forestry and natural resources. These sessions are informative, educational, and entertaining. They also provide a great opportunity to meet other people who share your interests.
Programs at the Shieling Forest are presented in cooperation with the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension, New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association, and the U.S. Forest Service - State and Private Forestry.
The Shieling Forest is located on Old Street Road, one-quarter mile south of Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
The Shieling Forest buildings are open during program events.
Trails are open daily from 7:00 AM to dusk.
For more information: Contact the Community Forestry and Stewardship Bureau - Urban Forestry Center at 45 Elwyn Road, Portsmouth, N.H. 03801-5701, telephone (603) 431-6774.


Hillary Clinton has chosen Tim Kaine as her running mate . Mr. Kaine is a senator and former governor from Virginia, a crucial swing state, with a reputation as a pragmatic consensus builder. But his credentials as a moderate might not energize the Democratic Party's base.
Experience: Mr. Kaine has represented Virginia in the United States Senate since 2013 and was the state's governor from 2006 to 2010. He previously served as the mayor of Richmond.
Roman Catholic and spent a year running a technical school founded by Jesuit missionaries in Honduras during a break from college.
Education: He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Harvard.
is a swing state, and his influence could be helpful there in a close election.
How he could hurt Clinton: More of a moderate, Mr. Kaine might not satisfy the Democratic Party's activist base. His support for trade deals could provide an opening for Donald J. Trump to attack.
Fun fact: Mr. Kaine is a skilled harmonica player.


Your contributions towards retirement funds are deductible for tax up to a limit of 27,5% of the greater of your taxable income or remuneration (to a maximum of R350,000 per year). This limit applies to the total contributions you make to any Pension, Provident or Retirement Annuity (RA) fund during the year. The tax deduction will always be limited to the actual contributions you made.
What taxpayers don't always know, is that if you contribute to a RA specifically, either on your own or via your employer, you need to report these details to SARS in the special section on the ITR12 for Retirement Annuities. Just to reiterate, you only need to do this for RA's and not for contributions to Pension or Provident funds (the details of which will be pulled into the ITR12 automatically via your IRP5).
In order to claim the tax break for RA contributions, you'll need to have proof of your contributions by way of a certificate called a RAF Contribution Certificate (IT3F), which should be issued by the financial institution.
If you contribute to a Medical Aid, you will receive a fixed monthly tax credit for each member on your policy. SARS calls this rebate the Medical Schemes Fees Tax Credit - it is a flat rate per month (i.e. it doesn't take your taxable income into consideration) and is a direct deduction off your tax liability. Note that the tax credit applies only to registered medical aid funds – medical insurance or GAP cover does not count.
Make sure that you have a tax certificate from your medical aid provider as support for this tax credit. They generally send these out on email before filing season opens.
If you have 'qualifying' medical expenses, which were not reimbursed by the medical aid, you should also include these in your tax return because you may qualify for an 'additional medical expenses tax credit'. Qualifying medical expenses includes all consultations with medical practitioners as well as doctor prescribed medication. SARS applies a complicated formula to work out whether you spent enough to qualify for an 'additional medical expenses tax credit'.
Remember to ensure you have proof for every single medical expense you paid for over and above your medical aid cover with invoices and / or detailed receipts.
You can also make use of our Medical Aid Tax Credits Calculator to check what your medical credit should be.
If you're a generous soul who likes to support a charity, you'll be pleased to know that any donations given to registered Public Benefit Organisations are tax deductible up to a maximum of 10% of your taxable income (any disallowed donation exceeding the threshold can be carried forward and deducted the following year subject to the same limit).
Note that SARS will only allow the deduction if the charity you're donating to has a PBO number and can issue you with a tax certificate for your donation (called a section 18A certificate).
The work environment is changing and these days many salaried employees make use of personal devices for work purposes (e.g laptops or cellphones). If you're using a device purchased and maintained in your personal capacity for work, you may be able to claim the depreciation on the device as a tax deduction.
This deduction is subject to a letter from your company stating that you have express permission to use the device for work purposes, and that they're not compensating you with an allowance for such.
Check out TaxTim's handy online Wear and Tear calculator to see the SARS approved rates.
You will need to work out the total square meterage of your home office in relation to the total square meterage of your house, and then convert this to a percentage. You must then apply this percentage to the home office expenditure in order to calculate the portion, which is deductible.
Home office expenses can be a tricky one to justify so read our blog for further details and also check here to see if and what you qualify to deduct.
If you fall into any of the above categories and you've racked up the km's on your vehicle due to travelling for business purposes, be sure to include your travel claim in your tax return. Remember that business travel for salaried employees doesn't include getting to the office from home and back every day, but would include for instance, travelling to a business meeting where you presented your products or services to a potential new customer.
To claim travel expenses as a tax deduction, you'll need to keep an accurate, detailed logbook of all business-related travel as well as expenses e.g. fuel, oil, service costs, licence and insurance. The kind of information SARS will want to see is your kilometre reading on the first day of the tax year (1 March), the closing kilometre reading on the last day of the tax year (end February) as well as the make, model, year and value of your vehicle and the number of kilometres used for business and personal use.
In the absence of a logbook, your claim will be refused by SARS.
Please make use of our Travel Deduction Calculator to see the amount of the travel deduction you can claim.
If you are a commission earner then SARS will allow you to deduct all of your commission related expenses against your commission income. Remember that to be classified as a commission earner, your commission income per source code 3606 must be more than 50% of your total remuneration per source code 3699.
Essentially the rule of thumb is that in order to claim, you'll have to have incurred expenses in direct relation to earning income. If you're purchasing a product at a wholesaler to on-sell to a client at a profit, your input costs are clear. It starts becoming a little 'grey' when you put in claims for lavish lunches and entertainment costs. Be warned that in these instances, SARS may flag your return for verification and you'll have to prove the legitimacy of each expense. Other examples of such claimable expenses may include telephone, stationery and employee costs.
Be sure to keep all your relevant invoices and receipts handy and include the amount under other deductions in your annual tax return.
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After sitting through Tuesday's Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on BP's recent pipeline failure up in Prudhoe Bay, I was left wondering if anything would ever change.
Sure, even the pro-drilling senators were up in (BP Execs) Bob Malone and Steve Marshall's faces about their company's inability to properly maintain the pipeline infrastructure to prevent corrosion–a feat accomplished while BP raked in billions in profits.
"We won't get the votes we had already on ANWR, not to mention moving ahead," — Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.).
"You have completely set back any hope we had to get that bill [drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] passed in the Congress of the United States, I hope you know that" — Sen. Jim Bunning, (R-Ky.).
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) even spent almost her entire opening statement pushing for more drilling in warmer areas such as her home state of Louisiana.
These senators seem to think that the Prudhoe Bay pipeline failure is an anomaly, and that the failure to act in a responsible manner is exclusive to BP. But oil spills are not exactly uncommon–about 1.7 million gallons are spilled into U.S. waters each year (this doesn't count onshore spills).
We know we can't rely on oil companies to put the environment at the top of their list of priorities. So why can't our legislators realize that the time has come to focus on new energy sources?


This white paper is intended for datacenter architects as well as a general audience that either has responsibilities around automation projects or is a stakeholder or customer for automation projects.
Complexity and scale adds cost both in terms of hardware to deploy, and man hours to maintain. Data management solutions that simplify the recreation of production environments are creating waves in the DevOps process. Advanced application management tools like Puppet and Chef have grown to be leaders in maintaining a consistent environment, but still lack the data component that drives a significant amount of cost. Rubrik's Cloud Data Management platform fills a gap in modern DevOps ecosystems that can drive down costs and improve overall speed of development.
We define Nearline DevOps as the ability to leverage an existing backup of production to provide capacity and capability to engage in testing and development, without having to duplicate your entire storage infrastructure and automate dozens of deployments. This white paper outlines methods for leveraging Rubrik and automation to reduce your DevOps hardware footprint and increase the speed at which production is recreated for testing.
Rubrik's Cloud Data Management platform can solve for the movement and recreation of both production data and applications. Deployed as a data protection solution, Rubrik acts as a storage platform for backing up the production environment. Scale-out architecture allows the data stored in Rubrik to be presented to the development compute environment in an actionable state. Because the data is an exact replica of production, protected within a minimal time frame, and made available nearly immediately, Dev/Test environments become meaningful representations of production.
Deploying replicas of production and then executing code that is in development is one example of how Nearline DevOps reduces risk to the production environment. Executing test code against an identical replica of production ensures that code is put through a real-world set of data. Documentation created from interacting with replicas of the production environment can be leveraged to correct bugs and account for unexpected variations (like improper field formatting) that are always present in production. The State of DevOps Report 2017 showed that mature DevOps environments have a 3x lower change rate failure as compared to more traditional patching approaches. An overview of a traditional DevOps environment is depicted below. Environments today are often challenged with Operating System mismatches that are time-consuming to build and expensive to maintain. Rubrik can solve for these challenges.
Rubrik is a single-software fabric that manages all application data in the cloud, at the edge, or on-premises for many use cases, including: backup, recovery, archival, analytics, development, and cloud. Cerebro, the "brains" of Rubrik, operates alongside Atlas (cloud-scale file system built from scratch), providing a global index and catalogue that can be accessed at high speeds. Rubrik is built as a scale-out cluster that removes single points of failure and scales linearly in both performance and capacity.
Web-Scale Architecture: Rubrik adopts the same web-scale technologies used by Google, Facebook, and Amazon, allowing users to easily handle rapidly increasing volumes of information with a linear architecture.
Nearline DevOps provides a method for companies who are starting their DevOps journey, as well as those who have a mature DevOps environment. Implementing a DevOps environment can be a challenging task for the most veteran IT shop. Leveraging a services partner for the design and build out of your Agile/DevOps environment can ensure you see the return on your investment as rapidly as possible. Unissant provides Agile/DevOps services to both Federal and Commercial clients and has partnered with Assured Data Protection to deliver the complete Nearline DevOps experience to your IT environment. Assured DP provides a managed Rubrik as a service platform, on top of which Unissant builds out automation, processes, and procedures to ensure you can meet the strict compliance requirements of your organization.
Andrew Eva has 20 years of experience in IT Services ranging from infrastructure to product design and implementation. He has spent a majority of those years with a deep focus in storage and backup technologies for organizations ranging from small business to Fortune 10 companies. Prior to joining Assured DP, Andrew served as the Sr. Product Manager at Verizon Enterprise solutions, overseeing all products relating to storage as a service products including Backup, Disaster Recovery, Object Storage, and cloud-based storage management. As a founding member of Assured, Andrew is responsible for the technical direction and strategy for both operations and long-term vision.
Unissant is a CMMI Level 3 Dev, ISO 9001:2015, and ISO 27001:2013 SDB company with offices in Reston, Virginia and San Antonio, Texas. In August 2015, Unissant was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the nation's fastest- growing private companies. Unissant is an innovative data analytics and software development consulting company that provides state-of-the-art enterprise data management & analytics solutions to commercial and government clients. Unissant understands its clients' business needs and technical challenges and provides targeted, cost-effective, reliable business intelligence solutions that help them stay focused on business and meet their business objectives. Using rigorous requirements gathering, best in class technical expertise and award- winning creative talent, Unissant has the best combination of skills to help its clients design and deploy successful business intelligence projects. Unissant's clients range from small-midsize enterprises to Fortune 1000 companies and large federal agencies, Unissant has developed strategic relationships with global partners to ensure that we provide world-class services.
Assured Data Protection specializes in data protection and disaster recovery services for large SME and enterprise organizations. Assured DP has built a fully managed service overlay around their core technology provider Rubrik. Rubrik-as-a-Service delivers an all-encompassing solution that enables their clients to focus on what really matters: their own production environment. With the increasing transition of workloads into the virtual space, traditional backup products are simply adapting to change rather than innovating and evolving. This presents solutions that struggle to keep up with advancements in technology, as they must modify the ageing code base from a physical tape based requirement to a virtual, disk or cloud based solution. The result is limited and slow innovation in the backup and recovery market. Rubrik are changing this trend by completely reinventing the way backup and disaster recovery is implemented and managed for businesses. The notion that any backup solution is sufficient to be compliant, that disaster recovery rarely works, and that its onerous and expensive to manage, is something that Assured DP tackle head on.
Assured DP's solutions are designed to meet compliance requirements, and can be installed and configured within 30-60 minutes. This is a cheaper and simpler solution to manage, with clean and intuitive HTML5 interfaces. There is no other product that can deliver this level of functionality and service at such a low cost.


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Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule
TV-14 | 11min | Comedy, Talk-Show | TV Series (2010–2017)
See Dr. Steve learn about restaurants, spend time with his family, conquer his fears, and more. Featuring guest appearances by Jan Skylar, Wayne Skylar, and David Liebe Hart.
Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, John C. Reilly
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Linda Barrelli joins the show as co-host, much to Steve's chagrin. The two head to an airfield to take a ride on a single-engine plane.
Dr. Steve dines on seafood and hides his wallet from a pirate. Carol Krabit reports on the weather.
Steve gets his hands dirty with diaper changing, awkward courtship of another doctor, and the birthing of his own half-brother.
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Title: Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule (2010–2017)
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007–2017)
Comedy | Music
Two comedians, average nobodies, and celebrity guest stars perform bizarre low-budget comedy sketches.
Stars: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Bob Odenkirk
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories (TV Series 2013)
Comedy | Horror
Tim and Eric's parody of horror anthology TV shows.
Stars: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Zach Galifianakis
Bagboy (TV Movie 2015)
Dr. Steve Brule directs himself in the title role of a rejected sitcom pilot about a Myer's Super Foods bagboy who must decide whether or not to report a shoplifter.
Directors: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim
Stars: John C. Reilly, Danny Allen, Robert Axelrod
Tim's Kitchen Tips (TV Series 2013)
Short | Comedy | Talk-Show
Tim Heidecker takes you into the kitchen & teaches you how to make a variety of meals with some help from Eric Wareheim in "Tim's Kitchen Tips".
Stars: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Angela Mike
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Chrimbus Special (TV Special 2010)
Comedy | Fantasy | Music
Tim and Eric perform in front of a "live" studio audience for their "Chrimbus" special all while advertising their dvd for the same broadcast.
Directors: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, and 1 more credit »
The Eric Andre Show (TV Series 2012)
Comedy | Talk-Show
Eric Andre tries to host a talk show in a bizarre environment, where he is sometimes the player of pranks and sometimes the victim.
Stars: Eric André, Hannibal Buress, Tom Ato
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)
Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course. In order to make the money back, they then attempt to revitalize a failing shopping mall.
Stars: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Robert Loggia
Decker (TV Series 2014)
CIA agent Jack Decker has to save the United States from terrorists due to an incompetent president.
Stars: Tim Heidecker, Joe Estevez, Gregg Turkington
On Cinema (TV Series 2012)
Tim Heidecker reviews the latest movies in theaters with a special guest.
Stars: Tim Heidecker, Gregg Turkington, Mark Proksch
Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004–2006)
Comedy | Animation
Hapless Tom Peters takes meetings with a bizarre and moronic mayor to share his ideas for bettering the town, always with disastrous results.
Stars: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Stephanie Courtney
The Trial (2017)
Comedy | Crime
Full coverage of The Trial of Tim Heidecker in which Tim Heidecker stood accused of 20 counts of 2nd degree felony murder against The Electric Sun 20.
Stars: Tim Heidecker, Gregg Turkington, Curtis Webster
Wonder Showzen (2005–2006)
Animation | Comedy
An all-cynical, all-evil absurdist variety show that parodies the classic educational PBS shows of the 1970s, made up of old cartoons and educational films, children, and puppets from one's worst nightmares.
Stars: Vernon Chatman, John Lee, Alyson Levy
John C. Reilly ... Dr. Steve Brule / ... 24 episodes, 2010-2016
Carol Kraft ... Carol Krabbit 10 episodes, 2010-2016
See Dr. Steve learn about restaurants, spend time with his family, conquer his fears, and more. Featuring guest appearances by Jan Skylar, Wayne Skylar, and David Liebe Hart. Written by boonose
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In the Tim & Eric universe, "Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule" airs at 4:30 am on Channel 5, followed by "Mass for Shut-Ins" at 5 am and, at 6 am, "Married News" (seasons 1 through 3) or "Morning News with Jan" (season 4 onward). See more »
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You either love it or hate it (or don't get it....)
23 September 2016 | by ry-31707 – See all my reviews
I've watched every episode from Season 1-4 and just about every one of them has made me literally laugh out loud. My coworkers and I frequently quote the show or speak in "Brule" talk at least daily. Today one of my colleges said he had "A burger, name of Cheese" for lunch (that would be a cheeseburger). Even my mom liked it. She liked Carol Krabbit's "Your fortune" the most. "You now belong to a demon family. Sorry!". There are definitely some disturbing and totally awkward parts of the show, but that only adds to the overall weirdness and humor. The ability to make a show that appears so poorly edited and produced probably takes a lot of work. From what I've read, they actually use a VHS player to insert some of the editing effects which make it appear cheaply made.
Overall a total win. But be advised, it may not be your kind of humor. If not, just move on. It's certainly not for everyone.

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If you have been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor crime in California, that conviction will be documented on your permanent criminal record. Even if the conviction occurred years ago, you may be required to disclose the arrest and conviction when filling out a job application or other documents. If a criminal record is hurting your search for a job or housing—contact my law firm about expunging these convictions and getting a fresh start.
As a lawyer, one of the most valuable services I provide to clients is in helping them to expunge previous criminal convictions from their public record. My firm represents people throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in these matters and also provides help with post-sentencing concerns such as sentence reduction hearings, early termination of probation hearings, and more.
While certain serious crimes may not be expunged, many individuals will have the right to clear or expunge their record as soon as one year after a conviction or after completing probation. In any event, if your previous convictions are eligible to be expunged be assured that I will do everything I can as your attorney to make certain you get the second chance you deserve.
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Q: TypeScript Generic method signature: Adding inline constraints, so that a value is both - in object keynames and a string How to alter the signature (inline) of sortArrayItemsByDate, so as to introduce the following additional constraints (cumulatively):

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*T should have a key named propName (a value is in object key-names)

*T[propName] should be a string (in the same time)

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 const sortArrayItemsByDate = <T>(items: T[], propName: string): T[] =>
    items.sort((a: T, b: T) => Date.parse(a[propName]) - Date.parse(b[propName]));

 interface StudentModel {
    name: string;
    birthday: string;
 }

  const s0: StudentModel = {
    name: "Peter",
    birthday: "2001-11-23",
  };

  const s1: StudentModel = {
     name: "John",
     birthday: "2003-11-30",
  };

  const students: StudentModel[] = [s0, s1];
  const studentsSorted = sortArrayItemsByDate(students, 'birthday');

A: Constrain T to extend Record<keyof T,string>
and make propName: keyof T
const sortArrayItemsByDate = <T extends Record<keyof T,string>>(items: T[], propName: keyof T): T[] =>
    items.sort((a: T, b: T) => Date.parse(a[propName]) - Date.parse(b[propName]));

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Новая Казачья (укр. Нова Козача) — железнодорожная платформа Южной железной дороги, находящаяся на окраине посёлка Казачья Лопань. Платформа имеет важное значение для дачных перевозок. Поезда дальнего следования, а также некоторые пригородные по платформе Новая Казачья не останавливаются.

Путевое развитие
Чётный и нечётный пути перегона Казачья Лопань-Слатино.

Сооружения
Здание вокзала с кассой, отреставрированное в 2006 г.

Поезда
Участок Харьков-Белгород обслуживается электропоездами ЭР2, ЭР2Р, ЭР2Т депо Харьков и ЭР2, ЭД4, ЭД4 м депо Белгород. В нечётном направлении поезда идут до станции Харьков-Пассажирский, в чётном — до станций Казачья Лопань, Наумовка, Белгород.

Остановочные пункты Южной железной дороги

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'I know nothing about WikiLeaks.' Donald Trump has no comment on Julian Assange arrest
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump, who declared "I love WikiLeaks" during the 2016 presidential campaign, refused Thursday to comment on the arrest of the website's founder Julian Assange in London.
"I know nothing about WikiLeaks," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "It's not my thing."
Trump said he didn't know anything about Assange's arrest and said what happens next is up to the attorney general.
"I know nothing really about it — it's not my deal in life," he said.
Trump repeatedly praised WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign for releasing documents stolen from the Democratic Party as part of a Russian effort to influence the election on Trump's behalf.
Authorities in London arrested Assange on Thursday after Ecuador's government expelled the WikiLeaks founder from its British embassy where he had been living for seven years.
The United Kingdom plans to extradite Assange to the United States, which on Thursday released an indictment accusing him of conspiring with ex-Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to publish classified documents on U.S. activity in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries.
In 2017, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was the CIA director at the time, called WikiLeaks a "hostile intelligence service."
Asked Thursday about Pompeo's comment, Trump replied: "I don't know much about it."
More:How Trump feels about WikiLeaks: A timeline
More:Julian Assange indictment: Read the grand jury indictment against the WikiLeaks founder
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The You're Enough® merchandise line is more than just merchandise. It is a worldwide movement that was started by Dawn Thompson. Who is Dawn? She is a Christian, single-mom, award-winning business owner, author, self-discovery coach and speaker. She has been in business for 25 years in the beauty industry, owning and operating Spa Bella Inc. in Wichita Falls, Texas. She has a nonprofit organization, Operation Spa Kids Adopt A Box. This organization provides haircuts, clothing, hygiene products, mentoring and other tools for children, teens and their family to get on the right path. Dawn is passionate about serving and helping others be the best version of themselves.
She started The You're Enough® Movement in 2012 to make a difference in the world. For most of her life she struggled with the feelings of being unworthy. At some point we have all felt inadequate in life. Dawn learned how to conquer those feelings. In her speeches, she gives you tools to do the same. With all that being said, Dawn has always had a knack for fashion, so she launched The You're Enough® merchandise line.
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Jagmeet Singh tallies up the price for NDP to support fall throne speech: Chris Hall | CBC Radio Loaded
Jagmeet Singh tallies up the price for NDP to support fall throne speech: Chris Hall
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh tells CBC Radio's The House that he's not looking to force an election this fall if the Liberal government follows through on commitments to help women and other marginalized groups affected by the COVID-19 lockdown.
NDP leader says child care, reform of EI top the list of his party's priorities
Chris Hall · Posted: Aug 22, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: August 22, 2020
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, shown in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill on June 17, says his party has a list of priorities for the government to address if it wants the NDP's support for the throne speech in September. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says he's not looking to force an election this fall if the Liberal government follows through on commitments to help women and other marginalized groups affected by the COVID-19 lockdown.
Topping the list is child care, Singh said in an interview airing Saturday on CBC's The House.
"Right now, the pressing need is that people are looking to September and their kids going back to school, or whether or not they can find child care, so that's going to be top of mind," he said.
CBC News: The House12:43Interview — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on his party's priorities
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh talks about what he needs to see from the Liberal government to guarantee his party's support in the fall, including changes to the CERB and movement on a national pharmacare and dental care plan. 12:43
The Liberals will need the support of either the Bloc Québécois or the NDP to survive a confidence vote after the government prorogued Parliament this week until Sept. 23. The abrupt curtailing of business came in the face of four parliamentary committee hearings into a multi-million-dollar, sole-sourced contract awarded to WE Charity to deliver a student volunteer program this summer that has now been abandoned.
The prime minister and former finance minister Bill Morneau, who resigned on Monday, both have close family ties to WE Charity.
Singh calls on federal government to provide $12B for child care
We're not broke and we will bring down the Liberals if principles are at stake: NDP
Justin Trudeau has said he plans to return with a speech from the throne setting out a new agenda to address problems laid bare during the pandemic lockdown.
"We need to reset the approach of this government to a recovery to build back better," the prime minister said on Tuesday.
The Conservatives and Bloc Québécois have indicated a willingness to vote against the speech in September because of the WE affair.
Singh, on the other hand, said his party is all ears. But child care isn't the only must-have item on the list. He said the New Democrats want more money for education, bigger investments in health care, and permanent changes to enhance Employment Insurance, starting with higher benefits for those people moving off the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, CERB.
Parliament prorogued until Sept. 23 as Trudeau government reels from WE Charity controversy
CERB is transitioning to EI. What does that mean?
CERB was crucial: Qualtrough
Under the Liberal plan released this week, most of the nearly 4.5 million Canadians still on CERB will see their $2,000 a month benefit cut to $1,600 a month on EI.
"We think a 20 per cent decrease in support to families is the wrong thing to do," Singh said in The House interview. "The $1,600 amount for families that are on the brink, who are just getting by, that drop in support will put them through some very serious pain."
What is a prorogation of Parliament?
Conservatives claim 'coverup' after Trudeau shuts down Parliament
More than eight million Canadians have received CERB since the program began. Since then, nearly half have returned to work or found new jobs.
Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough said those numbers show just how crucial CERB was to people during the lockdown.
"There was clearly a need out there that the EI system in March would not have been able to handle and wouldn't have included everybody because, of course, EI doesn't cover self-employed [workers], gig workers and doesn't give benefits for caregiving or ... self-isolation," she told The House in a separate interviewing airing Saturday.
CBC News: The House13:26Interview — Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough on what comes next for CERB
Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Carla Qualtrough discusses plans to move beyond the Canada Emergency Response Benefit — and is asked why the Liberal government chose to suspend all parliamentary business amid a pandemic. 13:26
"So we need to figure out how to transition these roughly four million [people] ... We wanted to get as many people back into the EI system because it's a decent system. You know, as much as we could look at improving it long-term, it's better than a hastily created emergency system that doesn't have the sophistication of years of thought put into it."
$10B to fund child care
The Liberal plan released this week includes changes to make it easier for people to qualify for EI by reducing the number of hours a person needs to have worked to receive benefits. And it creates three temporary one-year programs to extend EI benefits to the self-employed, people who need to stay home to self-isolate or who can't work because they must care for a child or other dependent.
Carla Qualtrough, Canada's employment minister, hinted that the throne speech will specifically address the needs of women put out of work by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
Qualtrough said there's more to come in the September speech from the throne to address the specific needs of women who lost their jobs in the pandemic.
She declined to indicate what those changes might entail, saying it would be career-limiting for her to "scoop the prime minister" ahead of September's throne speech.
"I can certainly say that we are looking at ways to directly support women who are working women … on the barriers to employment, and I think of child care in particular. Everybody I talk to, when I go down the road of how we improve EI, says, 'Wait, minister — before you do anything on Employment Insurance, you have to deal with child care.'"
Child-care cash to help with urgent COVID-19 needs in sector, Hussen says
Trudeau ducks question on why he didn't present new COVID-19 aid package before shutting down Parliament
What's behind the Bloc's election gambit
The NDP has already called for an immediate $2-billion injection into child care and early childhood education in response to COVID-19. But Singh said that's just a start.
"We think it needs to be at least 10 billion dollars to really bring in a universally accessible and affordable childcare for everyone."
But Singh wavered when asked, several times, whether he's prepared to defeat the government if these kinds of spending demands aren't met. He said "all options are on the table," and the NDP will look at "every option."
Does the party have enough money for a campaign just a year after the last one?
"Well, we won't let that get in the way of our fight for Canadian," Singh said. "So we want to make it really clear to the Liberal government that our goal isn't to grandstand or to posture for an election for no reason. Our goal is to get help to Canadians."
CBC Radio's The House: Aug. 22, 2020
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EP 003: Self-Advocacy Tips and Stigma Busting With Medical Herstory + Tori Ford
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It's a sad reality that women and gender-diverse people are more likely to be dismissed as overly emotional, dramatic, or untrustworthy in medical settings. This can have serious consequences like misdiagnosis, delays in care, dismissal of patients' concerns, and mistreatment. So how can we navigate a health system with such ingrained biases?
In today's episode of the Your Health Unlocked Podcast, Tori Ford, founder and executive director of Medical Herstory, speaks with us about her mission to improve medical education, promote patient advocacy, and eliminate stigma in order to advance gender health equity.
Common challenges women and gender-diverse people face when accessing health care
Practical tips to help advocate for yourself when navigating health, wellness, and medical care
How health practitioners can become more aware of the gender biases they hold to improve medical interactions with patients
How Medical Herstory is challenging the social processes in health care that label and stereotype women, genderqueer, BIPOC, and disabled people.
More about Tori:
Tori Ford is the founder of Medical Herstory, an award-winning, youth-led, international nonprofit working to eliminate sexism, shame, and stigma from health care through storytelling, medical education and patient advocacy. It is a global movement with over 100 volunteers across 7 different countries, working to advance health equity by creating a space where lived experiences can be shared.
Tori has a background in gender studies and is currently pursuing a PhD in Primary Healthcare at the University of Oxford, where she focuses on women's health research with an emphasis on gender health inequities.
Medical Herstory was born out of Tori's lived experiences of feeling dismissed by different healthcare providers. Tori is passionate about sharing issues that people are dealing with in medical settings to prevent unnecessary pain and suffering in silence.
Resources for Episode 003: Self-Advocacy Tips and Stigma Busting with Medical Herstory
Medical Herstory workshops on gender health experiences, patient-centered care and challenging shame and stigma found here:
https://medicalherstory.com/outreach/
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A vulva dermatologist refers to a medical practitioner who specializes in the care of skin disorders of the vulva.
Ableism refers to discrimination in favor of able-bodied people.
Transphobia refers to the negative attitudes, feelings or actions towards transgender people or transness in general.
Indigenous health refers to the physical, cultural, social, and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.
Non-binary identities refers to gender identities that are not solely male or female.
The primary purpose of this podcast is to educate and entertain. All views expressed by the persons featured on the Your Health Unlocked podcast are their own and do not reflect the opinions of the NWHN or its affiliates. Information provided in this podcast does not constitute medical advice. Consult your own provider for any medical issues that you may be experiencing.
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This Is Familiar, Because You Can't Win All The Time With Parents
by Viddsee in Good on October 8, 2015
Rano only visits home when he's inconvenienced with his life, says his mom. Tonight, after a series of misfortunes, he finds himself on the way home. Mum cautions him to be extra nice to his father, because, well he's his father.
Maybe he didn't want to go home because the arguments would be too familiar. Petty, and familiar. He tried to sneak past his dad, but dad called out in that same tone we all know – can someone help me with this piece of technology? In this case, how to save a document.
Rano tries his best to be unhelpful.
But that night, he remembered how his dad helped him be the man he wanted to be.
It wasn't just about saving a document, or about who was right. Family life wasn't just about winning.
Watch 'High-Five' by Andra Fembriarto (Indonesia) on Viddsee:
Just one more! Watch The Good Days, about a girl whose positivity brings her family closer, even when faced with illness.
Article by Viddsee in Good on October 8, 2015
Tags: adulthood, andra fembriarto, asela astrelia, elderly, family, father, father & son, forgetfulness, homecoming, indonesia, indonesian film, love, respect, son, success, values
Do Your Parents Embarrass You? Watch This Film.
Are elderly parents a burden to their children? An inconvenience?
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Q: Motivic measure Somebody  can give me some good references for start to read Motivic-measure, Now I`m studing the Grothendieck Ring, and is necesary undertand something of motivic theory for my case, so I need a good and quick reference for motivic measure.
Thanks.

A: The introductory article What is motivic measure? by Tom Hales is a good start.
The article of Cluckers and Loeser, Constructible motivic functions and motivic integration seems to be a standard introductory reference, though there are different approaches.


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SPIED: 2018 BMW M5 spotted on U.S. soil
Home » Models » BMW M5 » SPIED: 2018 BMW M5 spotted on U.S. soil
March 16, 2017 / 2 minutes read
BMW's next-generation M5 is going to be a very important car for the M brand. It will be the first all-wheel drive BMW M car (not SUV) in the brand's storied history. It will also use a traditional eight-speed automatic and not the typical DCT (dual-clutch transmission) that we're used to seeing in M cars. It will also be the first M car generation (again, not SUV), to not offer a manual gearbox. So with so many firsts, this next BMW M5 needs to be good or the Bavarians will have a riot on their hands.
This next-gen F90 BMW M5 was recently caught doing some highway testing in California. While this isn't all that unusual, unusual to see it on U.S. soil. Most of the times we've seen the new F90 M5 so far it's either been on some European roads or the famous Nurburgring in Germany. So it's cool to see it on this side of the Atlantic.
There are a few things we can tell about this F90 BMW M5 test car but not much as it's wrapped in heavy camouflage. We get a look at those wheels but they look like the wheels on the current F80-generation M3, so these could just be test wheels and not slated for production. We also see the traditional quad-exhaust pipes, so BMW won't be changing that design to something more angular like it did on the standard G30-generation 5 Series cars.
We're very excited about the next-gen M5 and we've heard great things about it from people inside BMW, although it's not as if they'd complain about it. We can only imagine its performance, though, as the new BMW M550i is already faster than the current F10-generation M5 and it's not even a fully-fledged M car.
Expect about 600 hp to come from a revised variant of the 4.4 liter twin-turbocharged V8 in the M550i and a 0-60 mph time in the low three-second range. It's reported that it will hit 60 mph in 3.6 seconds but I expect it could actually be faster than that, as BMW is always quite conservative with its performance figures.
Thanks to all-wheel drive traction, the new M5 will be able to put its power down a lot easier than the current M5 and will be safer to handle in inclement weather, often a complaint of modern M cars. Without the Audi RS6 in America, the BMW M5 and Mercedes-AMG E63 will be the only high-performance all-wheel drive luxury sedans in the US market.
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18 responses to "SPIED: 2018 BMW M5 spotted on U.S. soil"
Kaisuke971 says:
Starting to take shape nicely here. Is it just me or the car ditched the G30's air breather for the classic M Car side air intake ? I thought it'd have both.
Crux says:
I'm tearing up… Fangirling so much I'm hyperventilating.
iNoob says:
Look at the roof, same lines as the M4 and M6, i guess the M5 will receive a carbon fiber roof :)
https://betterparts.org/images/bmw-m6-01.jpg
Icebreakerr says:
that ass on the M6 oh my gawddddddddd
Hahn says:
Oh yes! series 6 coupe and gran coupe are in my humble opinion only true new BMWs in past years, real head turners (dont count icons such as m4). Everything else including g30 too conservative and playing safe audi like…
Dailybimmer says:
This will be the hottest car in it's segment.
cant wait :D
QuietStormX says:
I can do without All-Wheel Drive. I'd love a Stick in my M5 & M6 Coupe please.. I hate pedals or not, selecting "D". ;-(
M3 for you then!
Or keep the one you have now.
If you have one now?
Like I posted I and everyone has options of the M2, M3, M4, M5 and M6. I'm a M6 Coupe Guy. I'd get one's with a Manual please.
Black on black V10's are gorgeous beasts, even sedan.
Pawel says:
Guys, take a look on rear wheel break system. IT'S SO SMALL. I am not sure… is it a M5?!
Small? Take in to consideration that the rims are probably 20 inch, the discs are big, they are probably only using 2 brake pistons at the rear, that why it's smaller but they don't need more than that
Arild Vikse Jørgensen says:
The new M5 has been spotted in Oslo as well:
https://youtu.be/274xTqvphJ4
Horatiu B. says:
Thanks for sharing. Great video!
Nice ! I was not expecting 3 M5s at once lol, those seats are cool
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maxnix says:
Surely the plastic over the rear door windows is in violation of CA tint codes?
Richard Sherer says:
The Audi S8-Plus, while not as agile simply because it's larger, has over 600hp and AWD. It will remain a formidable competitor among the elite sedans.


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Molly Bode graduated from Galloway in 2005. She attended Dartmouth College and earned a bachelor's degree in Biology and Film. While there, she served as student body president. After Dartmouth, she attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated with honors earning a master's degree in Business and Public Health. While at UC Berkeley, she served as the co-lead for the Global Social Venture Competition and spent summers working with the World Bank and McKinsey and Company's health care division. Before graduate school, Molly worked in global health at The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science on projects in Haiti, Rwanda, and other countries. Molly is currently the Associate Chief of Cabinet Affairs in the Governor's Office in Massachusetts and works on policy development and strategic operations projects.
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Psychological impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak on healthcare workers in China
Yuhong Dai, Guangyuan Hu, Huihua Xiong, Hong Qiu, Xianglin Yuan
Yuhong Dai
1Tongji hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Guangyuan Hu
Huihua Xiong
Hong Qiu
For correspondence: yuanxianglin@hust.edu.cn tjqiuhong@163.com
Xianglin Yuan
2The Second Medical Clinical College, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Introduction Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), more than 3000 (including clinical diagnosis) healthcare workers (HCWs) have been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in China. This study is aimed to investigate the risk perception and immediate psychological state of HCWs in the early stage of the COVID-19 epidemic.
Methods This study utilized a cross-sectional survey designed on a convenient sample of 4357 HCWs in China. Its data were collected using anonymous structured questionnaires distributed through social software. 6 questions were set to evaluate the participants' risk perception of COVID-19, and a General Health Questionnaire was used to identify the participants' immediate psychological status. Descriptive statistics were used for data analysis. Risk perception and psychological status were compared by demographic characteristics and COVID-19 exposure experiences.
Result A total of 4,600 questionnaires were distributed, and 4,357 qualified ones (94.7%) were collected. The main concerns of HCWs are: infection of colleagues (72.5%), infection of family members (63.9%), protective measures (52.3%) and medical violence (48.5%). And 39.1% of the HCWs had psychological distress, especially working in Wuhan, participating in frontline treatments, having been isolated and having family members or colleagues infected.
Conclusions The finding indicating that, faced with the COVID-19 epidemic, HCWs, especially in Wuhan, were worried about the risks of infection and protective measures, resulting in psychological distress, so further actions should be taken.
Since December 2019, the outbreak of COVID-19 has developed in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, surrounding the epicenter of Huanan Seafood Market, a local wet market. In the following weeks, the epidemic had spread rapidly, with the number of suspected and confirmed cases steadily rising, resulting in a magnitude of distribution far exceeding that of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003. More than 60,000 HCWs are participating in handling and treating the COVID-19 patients in Wuhan. COVID-19 is characterized by its unambiguous capacity of person-to-person transmission1,2, which was not clearly recognized initially. As a consequence, the protection for HCWs was sub-optimal, and occupational exposures and infections were frequent.3
As the number of cases climbed up at a great speed, panics prevailed among the general population and the capacity of local fever clinics was soon overwhelmed. The speedily increasing number of COVID-19 cases prevented some confirmed or suspected patients from receiving timely treatment. As a result, tensions and anxieties were further fueled between patients and HCWs, with violence against the latter occurring. By February 3, a total of 20,438 confirmed cases, 23,214 suspected cases and 425 deaths had been reported in 31 province-level administrative regions in China.4 And familial clusters are also observed.2 Under such a medical and social background, HCWs are facing a multitude of challenges: an abrupt outbreak of epidemic, a steep-ascending workload, a substantial risk of occupational exposure and violence, a high risk of infection of themselves and their family members, and insufficient supply of protective materials. The psychological response of overloaded HCWs is of great importance with regard to the effect of the defense against the epidemic. We therefore investigated the general condition of HCWs in the early phases of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan as well as their perception of risks and psychological states.
The study was a cross-sectional survey, a convenience sample of 4,357 HCWs from Wuhan, other regions of Hubei province, and other provinces was gathered. Starting on February 3, 2020, the study lasted for eight days, during which, the number of confirmed and suspected cases was increasing rapidly. As the epidemic can be transmitted through droplets and contacts, in order to avoid interpersonal contacts, structured questionnaires were forwarded online to all HCWs through social software, and the respondents could decide whether to participate in the survey. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT04260308. Only a single response to the questionnaire was permitted for each person. The questionnaire consisted of four parts: basic demographic data, the occupational exposure experience, risk perception of COVID-19, and the General Health Questionnaire.
Basic demographic data, Exposure to COVID-19 and Risk perception
The information of basic demography was collected, such as age, gender, marital status and work experience. And the COVID-19 exposure experience was also recorded in the survey. 6 questions were designed to investigate the participants' perception of risk to COVID-19, which were assessed on a five-point Likert scale (1. strongly worried; 2. worried; 3. not sure; 4. not too worried; 5. not worried at all), with score points of 1 to 5 assigned, a lower score indicating a higher level of concern. The 6 questions are: 1. Are you worried about getting infected with COVID-19 yourself? 2. Are you worried about your family members getting infected with COVID-19 from you? 3.Are you worried about medical violence? 4. Are you worried about colleagues at the frontline (direct contact with the COVID-19 patients)? 5. Are you worried about inadequate protective measure? And 6. Are you worried about the current grassroots prevention and control strategy?
GHQ-12
General Health Questionnaire is a widely accepted mental health measurement, with high reliability and validity. It has been translated into many languages and used in many countries. Moreover, GHQ-12 showed a high positive rate in the evaluation of people's psychological state after the SARS epidemic 5,6 and Wenchuan earthquake7,8 in Chinese population. We adopted the scoring method of 0-0-1-1.9 During the study period, the workload of HCWs was huge. Take Wuhan as an example: on February 3, 2020, a total of 8,279 COVID-19 patients were admitted in 28 designated hospitals.10 In order not to increase the burden of HCWs, we chose only 12 questions to screen out the HCWs who may have psychological distress and need attention and intervention in a simple and convenient way.
The data were analyzed by using the Statistical Product and Service Solutions 22.0 (SPSS 22.0). We first analyzed the exposure experience to COVID-19, and then compared different region groups by means of chi-square tests. Independent t-test and ANOVA test were used to analyze the five-point Likert scale. Finally, variables significant at the level 0.05 were included in multivariate analysis to identify the independent prognostic factors of psychological distress.
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Our study was carried out on HCWs, PPI representatives worked with us to refine the research question. We have invited HCWs participated in this study to help us develop our dissemination strategy.
Demographic data and COVID-19 exposure experience
A total of 4,600 questionnaires were distributed, and 4,357 qualified ones (94.7%) were collected. Of the respondents, 1,026 (23.5%) were males and 3,331 (76.8%) females; and 1,419 (32.5%) doctors while 2,343 (53.8%) nurses. The mean age of the participants was 35 years old (standard deviation, SD:8.6, range: 20-81 years old). Demographic characteristics of the study's respondents are listed in Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of the study respondents
During the study period, 1,404 (32.2%) of the 4,357 HCWs were participating in the frontline treatment of COVID-19 patients. Among the 1,339 (30.7%) HCWs enrolled in Wuhan, 516 (38.5%) were participating in the frontline treatment, including 133 doctors (25.8%) and 326 nurses (63.2%). In this study, 40 HCWs were infected with COVID-19, 33 of whom were from Wuhan, 6 from other areas of Hubei province, and only one from other provinces. 89.9% of the respondents expressed their willingness to participated in the treatment. Compared with other regions, COVID-19 exposure was even more severe in Wuhan. COVID-19 exposure experiences differentiated by locations are depicted in Table 2.
Exposure experience of COVID-19, by locations
The main concerns of HCWs were: infection of colleagues (72.5%), infection of family members (63.9%), protective measures (52.3%) and medical violence (48.5%). Only 34.7% of HCWs expressed very worried about the risk of self-infection. About half of the respondents expressed confidence (46.3%) or high confidence (9.1%) in the current grassroots prevention and control strategy. The distribution of risk perception is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 Distribution of risk perception to COVID-19
However, 40% of frontline HCWs expressed very worried about getting infected, significantly higher than other three groups; and the score of Likert scales were much lower (F=49.55, p=0.000). We found that compared with other regions, all of the 6 questions had lower scores, showing significant statistical differences in Wuhan. And the HCWs in Wuhan had insufficient confidence in the current prevention and control strategy.
In different treatment division of labor, nurses were more worried about their own infection at work than doctors, technicians and support personnel (F = 33.262, p= 0.000).
Female respondents were more worried about infection and violence, and those who had children were more worried about family members' infection (F = 59.472, p= 0.000) and medical violence (F = 3.056, p= 0.080).
Psychological status
The scores of GHQ-12 for the general population were in a positive skew distribution, with a score range of 0-12 and a median of 2 (SD: 2.56). Taking the total score of 3 as the cut-off value, ≥ 3 points is considered a case that there may have psychological distress, which needs further confirmation and intervention. Of the 4,357 HCWs, 1,704 (39.1%) had psychological distress.
Through the analysis of the basic demography and COVID-19 exposure experience, the relevant factors affecting the mental health of the HCWs were confirmed. Through one-way ANOVA test, 8 demographic data (gender, age, location, occupation, work life, hospital level, marital status and fertility status) and 6 work exposure conditions (participating in the frontline treatment, having been isolated, getting infected, having family members infected, having colleagues infected, and volunteering for treatment) were all related to the psychological state. Through multiple factor regression analysis, it was found that women, working in Wuhan area and working in primary hospitals were poor prognostic factors. In terms of COVID-19 exposure history, poor prognostic factors include participating in frontline treatment, involuntarily participating in treatment work, having been isolated, and having family members or colleagues infected, while whether the respondents themselves have got infected or not was not an independent prognostic factor of psychological disorder. Risk factors for GHQ are depicted in Table 3.
Regression analysis of GHQ-12 score
Since mid-December 2019 when COVID-19 broke out in Wuhan, it has spread rapidly. Since January 23, 2020, the city blockade has been carried out in Wuhan, and traffic restrictions were enforced throughout China. People in Wuhan, even across China, live on the horizon of COVID-19. The pathogen of this disease has been identified as coronavirus, which has 86.9% nucleotide sequence homology with the bat SARS-like coronavirus genome.11 According to the official statistics, 44,745 cases had been diagnosed in China, and 398 in areas out of China, until the day this study ended, February 11, 2020. Its impressing ability of spreading contagion exceeds SARS in 2003.12
In the initial stage, this disease didn't arouse enough attention from administration departments, and the Chinese traditional Spring Festival accelerated the spread of epidemic across the whole nation, because the Spring Festival is the largest population migration annually. The arrival of the Spring Festival cut the medical protection industry's capacities, which further aggravated the phenomenon of insufficient protection. The rapidly uprising number of patients, and the public panics after it proved highly contagious, plus shortage of protective supplies and frequent occurrences of violent events in medical facilities 13, seemed to make medical burdens even heavier. 1,716 HCWs were infected and 6 staff died of this disease, according to the Chinese official announcement, which is thought to be incomplete statistics. We should pay more attention to HCWs' psychological tolerance, especially those fighting at the frontline of controlling the plaque.
In this study, we used GHQ-12 to identify the mental health of HCWs. The criterion for determining suspected mental health problems is defined as a score of ≥3 points. The survey results of Chinese residents by using the GHQ-12 questionnaire showed that the positive rate of residents with a GHQ-12 score of ≥3 points is about 12.8%-21.18%.14 Many studies have used this scale to evaluate scores of HCWs in different countries, showing a positive rate of 25% −32%.14-16 A survey of frontline HCWs in Hong Kong during the period of SARS through GHQ-12 questionnaire showed 57% having experienced psychological distress.17 In this study, 39.1% of respondents were with GHQ-12 score ≥3, it is suggested that the incidence of psychological abnormality was significantly higher than that in normal times.
A higher proportion of HCWs from Wuhan showed psychological abnormalities. As Wuhan is the epidemic focus of COVID-19, there are a huge number of patients, high rate of severe illness and high mortality. Due to the shortage of HCWs in Wuhan, they have to work with high workload for a long time. In addition, 10.2% of HCWs in Wuhan reported that their relatives were infected, while only 2.5% and 0.9% in other regions of Hubei and other provinces, respectively. And in Wuhan, the COVID-19 infecting rate among HCWs is much higher than other regions, reaching 20.2%. 58.3% respondents in Wuhan indicated their colleagues were infected, while only 18.4% and 3.7% in other regions of Hubei and other provinces, respectively. In Wuhan, 38.5% of the HCWs directly participated in the frontline treatment of the COVID-19 patients. And through multiple regression analysis, we found that psychological abnormality rate was much higher in the frontline HCWs. It is easy to understand that the frontline HCWs needed to contact COVID-19 patients directly and might be equipped with insufficient protective measures at any time, so they show more concerns for their own safety. Similarly, nurses had longer periods of contacts with patients; and in the infectious departments, because of no caregivers allowed in, nurses needed to take care of all the life of patients, thus more worried about getting infected. However, although the proportion of nurses with psychological disorder was higher than that of other professions, there was no significant difference. In primary hospitals, the lack of protective measures was more obvious, and primary HCWs lacked experience in treating critical illness, so there was a higher rate of psychological distress.
Before and during the period of COVID-19 epidemic, incidents of violence against HCWs occurred in some parts of the country, including in Wuhan. In answering the questions on risk perception, 56.8% of the health workers said they were very worried about the medical violence, while 43.7% and 48.3% in other regions of Hubei and other provinces, respectively. How to prevent the medical violence and protect the HCWs in the upfront line of defense against COVID-19 is another critical problem for Chinese health administration.
Our study showed that 10.1% of HCWs enrolled were not willing to participate in the COVID-19 treatment tasks, and the risk of abnormal mental state of these respondents was 2.3 times higher than that of voluntary ones. There was a higher risk of psychological abnormality among HCWs who had been or were being isolated or had family members or colleagues infected. Familial clusters of pneumonia associated with COVID-19 were also observed in and out of Wuhan.2 More than half of the respondents expressed concerns about their family and colleagues in risk perception questionnaire. Impressively high contagion rates, long incubation periods and numerous asymptomatic virus carriers18,19 may mainly contribute to the HCWs' concern over their family members, since doctors can't distinguish the COVID-19 infector in their common clinical work. Some communities even prohibited HCWs from entering the community after work, believing that they may be the potential source of infection, which further aggravated the remorse of HCWs and their concern for their families. As a result, most HCWs have to separate from their families, which further weakens the support from their families. Nevertheless, 89.9% of HCWs voluntarily participated in the frontline treatment of COVID-19.
Only 34.7% of HCWs expressed in the risk perception questionnaire they were very worried about the risk of self-infection. Interestingly, it seems that there is no significant difference in psychological state between respondents with or without self-infection, which is quite unexpected for us. Previous studies of SARS have shown that supports from colleagues, clear instructions and strict precautions helped HCWs cope better with SARS and that they were less likely to develop psychological abnormalities.20 A number of studies have suggested that when medical workers are overburdened, their feeling too much responsibility for work, facing the uncertainty of work and ambiguity of role, short of training, and lack of support from superiors and colleagues, are all important exogenous factors causing occupational stresses on medical workers.21 The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 resulted in a large number of patients in need of admission and treatment; other professional doctors were also engaged in infectious disease work; medical facilities were incomplete; materials were in short supply; management processes were out of order; and medical personnel were in great shortage due to colleagues' infection and quarantine--all of these cases aggravated the occupational tension. However, in the context of epidemic disease such as SARS and COVID-19, HCWs fell into a state of unstainable work that they could not give up, resulting in the moral heroism and altruism of the medical group 22, as well as the extreme sacrifice of the group, which led to the decline of HCWs' attention to themselves.
This study has several limitations. First, because of the disease outbreak, we were unable to conduct face-to-face interviews; second, the results are limited by the use of convenience sampling, which could not reflect the overall status of HCWs in China; and third, due to the time constraints, the scale we used is so simple that it can only provide a preliminary screening, further confirmation and intervention are needed.
In the early stage of COVID-19 epidemic, HCWs, especially in Wuhan, were worried about the risk of infection and protective measures, causing 39.1% of them to have developed psychological distress.
The prevention and control of epidemics should not rely on the sacrifice of a single group. In the subsequent fight against COVID-19 epidemic, adequate protective materials, enough rests, standard operations, protection training for non-infectious medical professionals and strengthening the family support for HCWs are urgent issues. Until this paper was submitted, the novel coronavirus has spread to 73 countries on all continents except Antarctic, European Union raised coronavirus risk level to high from moderate. HCWs in other countries may be confronted with similar difficulties as those in China, and we hoped that their demands and psychological state would be concerned early.
Individual participant data that underline the results reported in this article, after deidentification will be shared, the data are available form yuanxianglin@hust.edu.cn for individual participant data meta-analysis. And the study protocol is available.
Yuhong Dai is first author. Xianglin Yuan and Hong Qiu are joint corresponding authors. Xianglin Yuan and Hong Qiu designed the study. Yuhong Dai, Guangyuan Hu and Huihua Xiong collected the data. Yuhong Dai was involved in data processing. Yuhong Dai drafted the manuscript. Xianglin Yuan and Hong Qiu contributed to the interpretation of the results and critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content and approved the final version of the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript. Xianglin Yuan and Hong Qiu are the study guarantors.
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at http://www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare: no support from any organization for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organization that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years, no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.
The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT04260308.
Individual participant data that underline the results reported in this article, after deidentification will be shared, the data are available form yuanxianglin{at}hust.edu.cn for individual participant data meta-analysis. And the study protocol is available.
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A guy who makes Role-playing games has criticised a map of New Orleans for being "unrealistic" and it's gone viral
James L. Sutter, Co-creator of the Pathfinder and Starfinder RPGs, has been looking at the maps of New Orleans and finding them problematic.
Holy cow—if you like fantasy maps, spend some time looking at New Orleans. WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON WITH THIS CITY?! If this came in from a freelancer, there are half a dozen things that would raise my eyebrows. pic.twitter.com/ApqYYWlE8d
— James L. Sutter (@jameslsutter) March 19, 2018
Like, look at this river. All these different places it could enter the lake or the sea, but no, it goes ALL THE WAY to the very tip of the land to enter the water. Artificial? Maybe, but who would bother? Totally unrealistic. pic.twitter.com/9vxBvtEQRT
And let's take a look at this gem: A highway running between two GIGANTIC, FUCK-OFF LAKES NEAR THE OCEAN. A tiny strip of land barely wide enough for the road, and you're going to build HOUSES on it? No way. Nobody's that dumb. pic.twitter.com/hKsZPCqeeq
And then there's this thing. What even is this? A canal? More like your eraser tool slipped, and you didn't notice until it was time to color things and you were too lazy to go back and fix it. Sloppy. pic.twitter.com/34hcKv6mzd
And speaking of sloppy: Did you seriously just label this thing as a LAKE? It is ATTACHED TO THE FUCKING OCEAN, STEVE. THAT MAKES IT, BY DEFINITION, NOT A LAKE. pic.twitter.com/MdodcUrjje
And you like lakes? Then let's talk bridges. Building a bridge is HARD. Like, real hard. That's why we do it at the narrowest point. You wanna build one across the WIDEST POINT OF THE FUCKING LAKE, then you're putting that shit together by yourself, Steve. pic.twitter.com/3zAXiRG9K8
Okay, all the texture you've got going on in here? It looks rad, I'll give you that. But killing yourself like this in a map turnover is pointless, because no cartographer is going to bother recreating every little puddle. They're gonna slap on a swamp texture and cash the check. pic.twitter.com/yDg8hkOxYi
I'm sure there are many more things I could critique, but I don't want to be too harsh. It *is* a really interesting-looking design, but in the end, it's just not believable. (And don't give me your giant document on why it could be this way—we don't have space to print that.)
Anyway, big props to the South for convincing me that New Orleans was a real place—you really had me going there for a while. Please clean up your map and resubmit when it follows the rules of a real-world city.


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News: My Darling Christopher to be shared as part of HOME Manchester's Homemakers Festival
Created as part of a wider theatre project in association with RADA, the short film My Darling Christopher will be shared as part of HOME Manchester's Homemakers Festival. My Darling Christopher has been written, cast, shot and edited all during lockdown by Hot Coals Theatre, who create visual theatre accessible to both hearing and d/Deaf audiences in a shared experience.
My Darling Christopher is based on the true story of Clive, a young boy who lost his sight and hearing due to Meningitis complications. His father Christopher is serving in the Navy when he receives a heartfelt letter from his wife, Dorothy. At the outbreak of World War Two, Clive is 15 years old and attending Goring School, after evacuation from Margate School for the Deaf.
English, British Sign Language and Visual Vernacular weave together to tell the shocking story of a war plane crashing to the ground just metres from Clive's classroom. The piece will use a unique theatrical language that is highly visual and inclusive. This mixture of forms creates an intricate form of storytelling using forms in innovative ways.
Homemakers is a series of new commissions inviting artists to create new works at home, for an audience who are also at home. These fully funded commissions offer groundbreaking artists a chance to challenge the definition of "live performance".
Jo Sargeant and Clare-Louise English, Hot Coals Theatre commented: "This commission has offered us an exciting opportunity to work in a new medium and experiment with language, combining English, BSL and the visual storytelling language, Visual Vernacular, in a way we've not seen or done before. It gives us the unique chance to put the spotlight on a Deaf person's wartime experience and tell their story."
My Darling Christopher is an exploration as part of a larger project to create a full theatre production entitled A New Way of Life. This wider production exploring Clive's story has been put on hold due to lockdown measures. Hot Coals Theatre will also be releasing a documentary alongside My Darling Christopher exploring its creation process.
Hot Coals received Arts Council Emergency funding.
My Darling Christopher will be available online from Thursday 16 July.
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A journalist was among two persons killed when an SUV rammed into their bike in Bhojpur district on late Sunday night.
However, the family of the journalist have alleged that it was a case of murder and a former village head was behind it, police said on Monday.
Rajesh, brother of Naveen Nishchal, has alleged in the FIR that it was a case of murder and a former Panchayat Mukhiya Ahmed Ali alias Harsu and his son Dabloo were behind it, Avakash Kumar, Superintendent of Police, Bhojpur, said said.
Naveen, who worked for a Hindi daily, and his friend Vijay Singh were riding a motorcycle last night when they were crushed to death by the SUV near Nahsi village.
The irate villagers were able to intercepted the vehicle, but the occupants of the SUV fled from the scene. The mob later set the SUV on fire, Avakash Kumar, Superintendent of Police, Bhojpur, said.
The SUV belongs to Harsu.
It was alleged in the FIR that Harsu had been nursing a grouse against the reporter. While the father-son duo are absconding, efforts are being made to capture them, the SP said.
As per media reports, the house of the former head of the village was vandalised by the irate mob, however, police personnel have been deployed in the village to control the situation.