text:
COVID-19 Tracking & Prevention
Preventing COVID in Staff and People with Serious Mental Illness and Intellectual Disabilities/Developmental Disabilities in Congregate Care Settings
In the News: Helping to Lead the COVID-19 Response
COVID Symptom Tracker App and the COronavirus Pandemic Epidemiology (COPE) Consortium
Observational Data Collection for COVID Suspects/Cases
COVID-19 International Dermatology Registry
COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance
MGH Equity and Community Health COVID Response Team
COVID-19 and Health Equity, Community Engagement Research, and Advocacy
Radiology and COVID Disparities
COVID-19 Mental Health Disparities
Frontline Clinician Resilience Program
COVID and Home Based Care for Elderly and Seriously Ill Adults
Adverse and Allergic Drug Reactions related to COVID-19 Treatments
Breast Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment During COVID-19
Engaging Patients in Rescheduling Colonoscopies Delayed Due to COVID-19
COVID-19 and Acute Medical Care: Impact on Dementia Patients
Gastrointestinal Symptoms Predictive of COVID-19 Infection Risk and Severity
Highlights of Mongan Institute Faculty COVID-19 Research: Population and Healthcare Delivery Science and the Global Pandemic
COVID-19 Tracking and Prevention
Stephen Bartels, MD, MS
Director, Mongan Institute
Learn more about the study
Read the MGH Press Release
Stephen Bartels, MD, MS, is leading a research team to determine best practices to prevent COVID-19 for people with serious mental illness and developmental and intellectual disabilities in congregate living settings and for the staff who provide care. His team has been approved for a $4.9 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The study team will also work to develop approaches that address COVID-19 health disparities that may be associated with race, ethnicity, and degree of disability.
Dr. Bartels will oversee the study with co-principal investigator Dr. Brian Skotko, the Emma Campbell Endowed Chair on Down Syndrome and Director of the Down Syndrome Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Bruce Bird, CEO and President of Vinfen, will lead the community partnerships, involving approximately 400 group homes with 2,000 residents and 3,000 staff across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Six partnering behavioral health and developmental disability organizations will participate in the study (Vinfen, Bay Cove Human Services, Riverside Community Care, North Suffolk Mental Health Associates, Advocates, and Open Sky Community Services), in conjunction with the Massachusetts Departments of Mental Health and Developmental Services, Mass Advocates Standing Strong, The Arc of Massachusetts, the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Association of Mental Health, and the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress.
Rochelle Walensky, MD, MS
Rochelle Walensky, MD, MS, is part of the COVID-19 Advisory Board brought together by Massachusetts' Baker-Polito administration. The COVID-19 Advisory Board is a group of medical experts that will support the Response Command Center as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts continues to respond to COVID-19. Click here to read more about the MA COVID-19 Advisory Board.
Dr. Walensky is Chief of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing Infectious Disease physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.
In the media:
Half of Cases Are Young People (CNN)
Shutdowns and stay-at-home orders may be slowing spread of coronavirus, new data show (Boston Globe)
Big unknowns about virus complicate getting back to normal (AP News)
Which States Are Doing Enough Testing? This Benchmark Helps Settle the Debate (NPR)
A Team Effort to Fast Track New Testing Strategies for COVID-19 (Mass General Research Institute)
COVID-19: Snapshot from the Front Lines (Infectious Diseases Society of America Podcast)
Video: Las respuestas a sus preguntas sobre COVID-19 (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Watch Dr. Walensky answer questions about COVID-19:
Watch "Putting the Coronavirus Genie Back in the Bottle," an interview with Dr. Walensky (JAMA Network):
Andy Chan, MD, MPH
Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH, is leading a research project to identify risk factors for COVID-19 infection and to produce data on their clinical outcomes over the near- and long-term. With emergency funding from the UK National Health Service and the Wellcome Trust, he helped launch a mobile "COVID Symptom Tracker" app that was co-developed by King's College and Zoe Global Ltd. It was deployed in the UK on March 24, 2020, garnering over 1 million downloads in just 48 hours. The US version of the app was deployed shortly afterwards. Click here to learn more about the COVID Symptom Tracker and the COPE Consortium.
Dr. Chan is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at Mass General, and Director of Cancer Epidemiology at the MGH Cancer Center.
How Are You Feeling? Surveys Aim to Detect COVID-19 Hotspots Early (New York Times)
Why it can be so hard to tell if you have COVID-19 (Vox)
What the US can learn from other countries using phones to track Covid-19 (Vox Recode)
Big Brother Wants To Track Your Location And Health Data. And That's Not All Bad. (Kaiser Health News)
American Cancer Society Invites Study Participants to Help COVID-19 Tracking (American Cancer Society)
Rapid Data Is the Key to Reopening the Country: Here's How You Can Help (Newsweek)
'COVID Symptom Tracker': an interview with SU2C CEO, Sung Poblete (Oncology Central)
MGH, Harvard Among Partners Behind App To Track Coronavirus Symptoms (WBUR)
La nueva aplicación de investigación de los síntomas del COVID-19 está reclutando a millones de americanos, incluyendo a profesionales de la salud, pacientes de cáncer y sobrevivientes, para vencer la enfermedad (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Observational Data Collection for COVID-19 Suspects/Cases
Ingrid V. Bassett, MD, MPH
Virginia (Jeanne) Triant, MD, MPH
Ingrid Bassett, MD, MPH, James Meigs, MD, MPH, and Virginia (Jeanne) Triant, MD, MPH, are leading an effort to launch observational data collection for COVID-19 suspects/cases across all Partners HealthCare hospitals. This builds on expertise from multiple specialities and will utilize a combination of manual chart review and Epic data extraction. There will be a focus on special populations (e.g., pregnant women, pediatrics, people living with HIV). The team is also working with hospitals throughout Boston to harmonize data for a Boston-wide observational cohort study.
New and updated releases of the registry data are now available to the MGH community and can be accessed here.
Dr. Bassett is Co-Director of the Medical Practice Evaluation Center within the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an infectious disease physician at Mass General.
Dr. Meigs is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Mass General, and Co-Director of the MGH Clinical Research Program's Clinical Effectiveness Research Group.
Dr. Triant is an associate physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Mass General and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Esther Freeman, MD, PhD
Esther Freeman, MD, PhD, launched an international COVID-19 dermatology registry with the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD). Through the information collected through this registry, researchers discovered "COVID toes," a potential symptom of COVID-19. For developing this international registry that tracks the many ways COVID-19 manifests itself through the skin, Dr. Freeman was honored as a Patient Care Hero by the AAD.
Dr. Freeman is Director of Global Health Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Access the Registry
Zach Wallace, MD, MSc
Zachary Wallace, MD, MSc, is on the Steering Committee of the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance, which launched an IRB-approved physician-reported registry to collect cases of rheumatic disease patients infected with COVID-19. There is also a complementary patient-reported experience registry.
Dr. Wallace is a rheumatologist and researcher in the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology Clinical Epidemiology Program and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH
Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH
Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH, Vice President and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer at Mass General, is leading the MGH Equity and Community Health COVID Response Team with Joan Quinlan, MPA, Vice President of Community Health. Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH, Administrative Director of the Mongan Institute and Director of the Disparities Solutions Center, is also part of the MGH Equity and Community COVID Response Team.
The MGH Equity and Community Health COVID Response Team is working to assure that all we do to address COVID at MGH has equity and community health as our foundation. The team has workstreams focused on assuring that all communications to patients and employees are in multiple languages, that all clinical interactions have the capacity to meet the needs of diverse and multilingual populations, and that the critical social needs of our communities are addressed.
Click here to learn more about equity in the COVID-19 response. This website page has recommendations for addressing equity in the COVID-19 response, and a repository that has:
Multilingual resources to serve the needs of patients, providers, and employees who speak languages other than English
Resources to support clinicians working with people with disabilities
Community health resources
Articles & Publications:
3-part series on COVID-19 and equity on Harvard Health Blog
Part 1: Communities of color devastated by COVID-19: Shifting the narrative
Part 2: Promoting equity and community health in the COVID-19 pandemic
Part 3: Driving equity in health care: Lessons from COVID-19
When Coronavirus Care Gets Lost in Translation (The New York Times)
How COVID-19 Patients are Affected by Health and Other Disparities (NPR)
Minority Communities Are Being Hit Harder by the Coronavirus (WBUR)
La barrera del idioma se agrava en medio del brote de coronavirus para aquellas personas que no hablan inglés (El Planeta)
Julie Levison, MD, MPhil, MPH
Julie Levison, MD, MPhil, MPH, is Co-Director of the MGH Chelsea Community Research Program, where she and her colleagues developed a Clinical Research Advisory Board to review COVID-19 research protocols at MGH Chelsea HealthCare Center with attention to equity and cultural and linguistic appropriateness.
Dr. Levison is involved in a number of COVID-19 efforts. She is a member of the Diagnostics Working Group of the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness, an unprecedented, multi-institutional research collaboration that aims to stem the tide of COVID-19 and create a rapid-response system to address future health crises. Dr. Levison is serving on the COVID-19 sub-committee of the Massachusetts Ending the HIV Pandemic Steering Committee, as well as on the Advisory Board of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Research Committee.
Dr. Levison is also a Co-Investigator on a study led by PI Daphne Holt, MD, PhD, Resilience and Prevention Intervention for Health Care Workers.
Massachusetts General Hospital team calls on state in coronavirus battle (Boston Herald)
Impactivo, Day Health Strategies partner to support healthcare providers (News Is My Business)
Primary Care Transformation in a COVID-19 World (Harvard Center for Primary Care)
A covid-19 vaccine can ensure better outcomes for communities of color. Let's work to earn their trust. (The Washington Post)
Efren Flores, MD
Efren Flores, MD, is a member of a COVID-19 research team that focuses on projects at the intersection of imaging findings of COVID-19, health disparities in the pandemic related to social determinants of health, and clinical operations. A key finding has been that Black and Hispanic patients faced more severe COVID-19 and greater lung damage than white patients.
Dr. Flores currently serves as a board-certified staff radiologist in Thoracic and Emergency Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and is an Assistant Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School. Before this position, Dr. Flores graduated from the University of Puerto Rico Medical School and trained in radiology at MGH, a Harvard Medical School affiliate. Dr. Flores' research focuses on identifying social determinants of health impacting access to care among vulnerable patient populations to guide the implementation of novel health equity programs.
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Disease Severity on Admission Chest Radiographs among Patients Admitted with Confirmed COVID-19: A Retrospective Cohort Study (Radiology)
Hypoxaemia related to COVID-19: vascular and perfusion abnormalities on dual-energy CT (The Lancet)
Detection of Unsuspected Coronavirus Disease 2019 Cases by Computed Tomography and Retrospective Implementation of the Radiological Society of North America/Society of Thoracic Radiology/American College of Radiology Consensus Guidelines (Journal of Thoracic Imaging)
Pulmonary vascular manifestations of COVID-19 pneumonia (Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging)
Imaging volume trends and recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative analysis between a large urban academic hospital and its affiliated imaging centers (Academic Radiology)
Implementation of the Radiological Society of North America Expert Consensus Guidelines on Reporting Chest CT Findings Related to COVID-19: A Multireader Performance Study (Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging)
Operational challenges of a low-dose CT lung cancer screening program during the COVID-19 pandemic (Chest)
Health Equity in the era of COVID-19 (ACR Bulletin Podcast)
How respiratory illness clinics brought COVID-19 testing to underserved communities (MGH)
Chest X-Rays Show More Severe COVID-19 in Non-White Patients (RSNA News)
Minority Patients Face More Severe COVID-19 (Diagnostic Imaging)
Black and Hispanic coronavirus patients had lung damage that was 1.5 times worse than the infection's attacks on white Americans, X-rays reveal (Daily Mail)
Racial disparity in COVID-19 severity (HCP Live)
Racial/Ethnic disparities in severity of COVID-19 lung disease on admission X-Ray (MassGeneral Hospital Advances in Motion)
Chest x-rays show more severe COVID-19 in non-white patients (Science Daily)
The effect of COVID-19 in Hispanic and Afro-American minority patients (El Financiero Bloomberg)
Negros e hispanos con covid-19 presentan mayor daño pulmonar que las personas blancas (RT Actualidad)
COVID-19 Mental Health Disparities: Call for Research Participants
Margarita Alegria, PhD
As part of the COVID-19 response, the Disparities Research Unit staff at the Mongan Institute have adapted our STRONG MINDS program for adults 18 years or older who are fluent in English, Spanish, Mandarin, or Cantonese, with symptoms of depression, anxiety, or trauma to participate in this research study. We aim to help adults better handle stress, and lead happier and healthier lives by promoting mental health in these times of extreme uncertainty. We would like to see how COVID-19 is impacting your life and how STRONG MINDS can help you cope with the related stress.
Eligible participants who speak any of the study languages may receive at no cost 10 individual psychoeducation sessions and referral to services by a care manager. The sessions will introduce you to skills that may help you manage unhelpful thoughts, strategies to practice self-care and mindfulness, and ways to maintain a more positive outlook on life. If interested, please contact Dr. Larimar Fuentes in English or Spanish at 617-643-0514 or 617-755-0763, or Liao Zhang in English, Mandarin, or Cantonese at 617-417-4783.
Dr. Maggie Alegria is Chief of the Disparities Research Unit and a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
As Latinx communities buckle under the coronavirus pandemic, short-term solutions are possible (The Hill)
Language barriers can mean life or death in fight against coronavirus (The Hill)
Elyse Park, PhD, MPH
Karen Donelan, ScD, EdM
Elyse Park, PhD, MPH, is leading the Frontline Clinician Resilience Program, which helps Partners HealthCare employees develop resiliency skills to adapt to the additional burden COVID-19 has placed on the medical system and its constituents. This program offers one-hour sessions that are held twice weekly for 4 weeks via Zoom to help those providing direct care to patients with much-need stress management, self-care, and resiliency tools during the COVID-19 pandemic. Partners HealthCare physicians and nurses can register for the groups at the Benson-Henry Institute website by clicking here.
Karen Donelan, ScD, EdM, and Christine Vogeli, PhD, are partnering with Dr. Park on behalf of Partners Population Health to conduct a pre/post assessment.
Dr. Park is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Associate Director of Survivorship Research and Psychosocial Services for the Mass General Cancer Center Survivorship Program, Director of Behavioral Sciences at the MGH Tobacco Treatment & Research Center, and Director of Behavioral Research at the MGH Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine.
Dr. Donelan is a senior scientist at the Health Policy Research Center within the Mongan Institute at Mass General, Director of the Survey Research and Implementation Unit in the MGH Division of Clinical Research, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Vogeli is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of Evaluation and Research at Partners Population Health.
Christine Vogeli, PhD
COVID and Home-Based Care for Elderly and Seriously Ill Adults
Christine Ritchie, MD, MSPH
Christine Ritchie, MD, MSPH, is co-leading the Home-based Care Workgroup with Judy Flynn of Partners Home Health as part of Partners' Covid Continuum of Care response. This Partners-wide effort includes: 1) Adapting infection control guidelines for all home visits (including people who are immunocompromised, frail elderly, and other seriously ill adults); 2) Creating an inventory for all programs that involve visits at home to optimize coordination and workflows; 3) Developing frameworks for triaging all home visits; 4) Developing capacity strategies to accommodate outflow from hospitals; 5) Engaging an environmental scan of national guidelines and best practices; and 6) Optimizing Communication (clinician, patient), dissemination.
Dr. Ritchie is the Kenneth L. Minaker Chair in Geriatrics and Director of Research for the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a board-certified geriatrician and palliative care physician and conducts research focused on optimizing quality of life for those with chronic serious illness and multimorbidity. She co-leads the NINR-funded Palliative Care Research Cooperative and the national Home-based Primary Care and Palliative Care Consortium, which seeks to improve our understanding and care of the homebound population. Dr. Ritchie is the Director of the Center for Aging and Serious Illness Research at the MGH Mongan Institute.
Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, MSc, is collaborating with informaticians at Brigham and Women's Hospital to study adverse and allergic drug reactions related to COVID-19 treatments across Partners HealthCare hospitals.
Dr. Blumenthal is Co-Director of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology Clinical Epidemiology Program within the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Kim Blumenthal, MD, MSc
Led by Erica Warner, ScD, MPH, this study is being conducted in partnership with breast cancer organizations including Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research, SHARE, Survivingbreastcancer.org, Sisters Network Inc., the African American Breast Cancer Alliance, and through ResearchMatch.org. Individuals were eligible for this study if they:
Receive routine breast cancer screening; OR
Are undergoing diagnostic evaluation for breast cancer; OR
Have ever been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Participants are asked to complete a 10-15-minute REDCap survey which collects information on respondent demographics, breast cancer screening and diagnosis, the extent to which care has been changed, delayed, or cancelled because of COVID-19, personal protective practices, extent of worry about financial and health implications of COVID-19, and use of telemedicine. The surveys are available in English and Spanish and will be open through the end of June and are available here:
Spanish: https://is.gd/CANCERDESENO_COVID19
English: https://is.gd/BreastCancer_COVID19
Dr. Warner is an Assistant Professor in the Department Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Assistant Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital where she conducts epidemiological research on cancer in the Mongan Institute's Clinical Translational Epidemiology Unit.
Erica Warner, ScD, MPH
Engaging patients in decisions about rescheduling colonoscopies delayed due to COVID-19
Karen Sepucha, PhD
Leigh Simmons, MD
Principal Investigators: Karen Sepucha and Leigh Simmons
Co-Investigators (from MGH): Steve Atlas, Sanja Percac-Lima, James Richter
As the initial surge of patients with COVID-19 recedes, one pressing issue facing health care systems is how to manage the large and growing backlog of screening tests and elective procedures. To further complicate matters, public health officials warn that further waves of infection may occur over the next 12-18 months, and each may cause additional restrictions on capacity, increasing backlogs and delaying needed care even more. Managing demand with reduced capacity while planning for additional shutdowns represents a key new challenge for health care delivery systems during this crisis. Moreover, even if there is capacity, many patients may feel differently about the value of seeking healthcare, including cancer screening, until an effective treatment or vaccine for COVID-19 is found.
In this PCORI-funded study, investigators will examine the distribution of patients' preferences for rescheduling a screening or surveillance colonoscopy that was delayed or postponed due to COVID, and factors associated with those preferences. Then, we will study whether shared decision making tools and training will increase patients involvement in decisions, increase their intention to follow through with some type of colon cancer screening, and reduce decisional conflict. There are many challenges to resuming healthcare during this crisis, and this study will address important research questions about how to do this in a safe, equitable and patient-centered manner.
Dr. Sepucha is Director of the Health Decision Sciences Center and an associate professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Simmons is Medical Director of the Health Decision Sciences Center and an internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.
John Hsu, MD, MBA
John Hsu, MD, MBA, received an NIH supplement for a study that will address two aims:
To examine the impact of the COVID-19 demand shock on acute medical care received in the Emergency Department (ED) or hospital; and
To examine hospital responses to the demand shock and their impact on clinical event rates.
Dr. Hsu is Director of Clinical Economics and Policy Analysis Program at the Health Policy Research Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
David Drew, PhD
David Drew, PhD, and Long Nguyen, MD, MS, received the American Gastroenterological Association-Takeda COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Award from the AGA Research Foundation. Their research project will test their hypothesis that gut microbial communities mediate the relationship between GI symptoms and the varied clinical presentations and outcomes among patients with COVID-19.
Dr. Drew is Director of the Biobanking in the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit (CTEU) and the Division of Gastroenterology at MGH, Instructor in Investigation in the CTEU, and Instructor of Medicine at HMS.
Dr. Nguyen is an Assistant in Medicine and Gastroenterology at MGH and Instructor in Medicine at HMS.
Long Nguyen, MD, MS
The Mongan Institute
© 2020 The Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital All Rights Reserved


If you are looking for clean, contemporary styling that would also work in a traditional space, this Fresno mirror is the perfect choice. The wide urethane border is finished in silver leaf and features antiqued textures and black accents. The inner edge is further textured for a luxurious look. The mirror measures 40 inches by 50 inches and presents the perfect size for a bathroom vanity area. Since you can choose to mount this piece both vertically and horizontally, you have some control in how you use it on your wall. This would be a great addition to your bedroom wall as well.
Material: Urethane can be found in molded objects such as ornate moldings, car parts, and also can be found as a liquid wood sealer used on floors or anywhere else a tuff protective coating is required.


text:
scan-global
Scan Global opens Abu Dhabi office
Nordic-based Scan Global Logistics has opened an office in Abu Dhabi, its second in the UAE in less than a year. Located in the Abu Dhabi Airport Freezone, it is licensed as both a freezone and a mainland company for offshore and onshore requirements. It is close to Khalifa seaport and the international airport and operates 24 hours a day, giving fast customs clearance, even at night. [+]
Scan Global expands in Africa
Scan Global Logistics (SGL) has opened new offices in Cotonou, Benin, and Lomé, Togo. They will provide commercial air and ocean freight forwarding services and inland container haulage in the region, working with existing offices in Mali, Senegal, and the Ivory Coast. Earlier this month Copenhagen-based SGL acquired UK-based air ... [+]

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


When is the Ideal Time to Remodel Your Home?
As a homeowner, have you ever asked yourself what season or time of the year would be best to remodel your home?
You need to know that some home improvement projects are better adapted to a particular time of the year than others as well as for cost savings.
Spring is known as the traditional home renovation and building season. However, with rain, snow, and wind out of the picture, most homeowners considered summer times to be the perfect time to assess, renovate and upgrade their homes.
The ideal time of the year to upgrade your home depends on you so far you are ready to do it.
You do not have to wait till you can afford thousands of dollars when there are smaller projects that can be done now, which will save you time and money in the long run.
Consider which aspect of your home needs a serious attention and its renovation cost then decide whether to hire professionals or to use a DIY approach.
To determine the most suitable summer home improvement projects for your home, you should take factors like the efficiency, cost-effectiveness, the required amount of time and most especially the return on investment (ROI) into consideration.
However, we have gathered top 15 summer home improvement ideas that can transform your home to what you've always dreamed of.
Take advantage of these indoor and outdoor projects to make your home more enjoyable and presentable as you get together with your friends and family this summer.
In this warm summer weather, your air conditioning machine would probably be one of your most favorite home appliances.
However, they have to be in a proper working condition in order to serve you well this summer.
When it comes to regular home maintenance, air conditioners are often overlooked till they stopped functioning properly.
You don't have to wait till it breaks down before you make efforts to get it fixed. A little care and maintenance that you can do on your own can make it last longer and keep the professional repairers away.
Simply taking out and cleaning the filter as well as the fan of your air conditioner can help you to remain cool during this hot season.
Inspect your air conditioner regularly and ensure that its condensation hose is not clogged up.
Evacuate the water standing near where the condensation line drains to prevent the growth of mold and algae near your air conditioning unit.
This is very important as they can be injurious to your health if their spores are taken up and blown into your home.
Install a new air conditioner if the unit is old or the cost of repair is more than 50% of the cost of installing a new unit. The cost of repair or installing a new unit ranges between $500 – $4000.
Apart from the air conditioner, installing fans is a more reasonable way to keep cool this summer.
It is one of the cheapest DIY home maintenance projects that can efficiently increase the air movement within your home.
While the cost of installing and running an air conditioner can be high, installing the ceiling, whole house or other circulating fans is a good move to cut costs and take energy efficiency to another level.
The cost of installation runs for as low as $200 to as high as $1200 depending on some factors like your location, the type, color, decorative styles, and the quality of the fan you choose.
This is another top home improvement project, especially during the hot days of summer.
This approach is ideal for homes with old, broken or worn out windows. This will not only improve the resale value of your home but also improve its energy efficiency.
Energy efficient windows provide security while improving your home appearance. It will also protect you from heat and high humidity while saving you the cost of running your air conditioner.
The cost normally falls between $500 to $5000 depending on the numbers of windows being installed or repaired.
This is one of the cheapest indoor home maintenance projects you can handle easily by yourself or with a little help from your family.
This idea gives you the opportunity to retain or change the color of your home interior to the color of your choice while being creative with colors.
Repainting the entire part of your house can be costly and tedious. However, strategically touching up some parts of your home interior will save you time and money.
Simply covering up the dirty spots on your wall will do the job but the color has to match the existing one. The new appearance and feelings a new paint and wallpapers will create to spruce up your home cannot be overemphasized.
Painting the interior part of a home is best carried out during the summer days as it gives you the advantage of opening all your windows for proper ventilation and drying.
The cost of repainting depends on the cost of the paint and other needed materials plus the size of the room to be covered. The painting cost normally falls within $200 to $2500.
Kitchen remodeling is a very common summer home improvement project. Since it is much easier to cook and eat outside, summer times is the ideal period to vacate the use of your kitchen for a proper upgrade.
Remodeling your kitchen will not only enhance its efficiency, comfort, and design but also boost the ROI value of your home (60% – 120%).
You do not have to spend ten thousands of dollars before you can make a significant change to the looks and feels of your kitchen.
A small and inexpensive kitchen DIY revamp projects can effectively spruce up your kitchen and your house as a whole.
Take a good look at your kitchen; decide on the aspect that needs attention while taking your budget, taste and how you want your kitchen to look like into consideration.
This will assist you to select the most suitable and affordable ideas to adopt in order to transform your kitchen.
The cost of a full kitchen renovation can be as high as $70,000 and even more, depending on your kitchen size, the improvement projects you're embarking on and the location of your home.
Are you tired of your bathroom style and outdated design? Then this is the right time for a change.
Since your bathroom will probably be the most visited room this summer, remodeling your bathroom will be a great move to spruce up your home.
Upgrading the bathroom requires a large amount of money to complete. However, there are various bathroom remodeling projects you can embark on without breaking your bank.
Replacing your bathroom fixtures using a DIY approach is a great move to cutting your bathroom remodeling cost.
DIY projects such as painting the bathroom cabinets and walls, replacing or installing a new mirror, curtains, showerhead, and faucet as well as adding a new vanity top will enhance the efficiency of your bathroom.
The estimated cost of upgrading a bathroom falls between $7000 to $18000.
Rediscover your home this summer with this inexpensive outdoor home improvement project.
This quick, reliable and affordable home improvement project can help spiff up the dirtiest of homes by removing build up dirt, mud, algae, mildew and mold.
The most interesting part of the project is that you can pressure wash your home without a professional help.
Although it requires some level of experience, but adhering strictly to the given instructions will do the job. Care must also be taken to avoid the risk of electric shock.
You can save yourself the trouble of finding and purchasing a new pressure washer by simply renting the most suitable one from a local rental store. It normally cost about $50 – $100 per day to rent.
Using the pressure washer together with hand tools such as a stiff bristle brush or pressure washer brush on tough spots will get you the best result.
Gutter cleaning and repairs is an important home maintenance project which is often neglected.
Gutters serve the main purpose of protecting your foundation and siding by collecting water runoff from your roof and diverting them away.
Spring storms can fill your gutters with leaves, blocking the normal flow of water, hence the need to it tidy up.
Gutter cleaning and repairing are best done in summer when the weather is conducive enough. It is an inexpensive project that ensures a good drainage and prepares your house for the fall.
Check up your gutters regularly to spot cracks and leakages and get them repaired as soon as you can.
Old and rusty gutters should also be replaced. The cost of cleaning and repairs falls around $75 – $180.
Take advantage of this warm summer weather to touch up your home exterior. Applying a fresh coat of paint to your home exterior is a quick home improvement project you can carry out all by yourself.
This will not only increase the value of your home but will surprisingly spruce up your home appearance.
The cost of painting the exterior of a home falls within $1000 to $3000 and gives an average of 90% return on investment.
Apart from your air conditioner, your swimming pool is the aspect of your home that will be abundantly utilized this summer.
Your swimming pools should be properly cleaned and chemically treated to ensure your safety. While installing a swimming pool can be a good idea, it is costly and can only be done by professionals.
The cost of maintaining a swimming pool is cheap and can be an easy DIY project.
It can simply be carried out by brushing to remove algae, getting leaves out using the mesh skimmers and shocking the water with chemicals.
It costs around $30,000 to $75,000 to install an in-ground swimming pool but its maintenance and treatment cost can run between $25 to $500 per month.
This is another great summer home improvement project you can embark on to improve your outdoor living experience.
Maintaining your backyard and driveways are the home maintenance project you will be happy you did this summer.
Your backyard is a major part of your home that provides an outdoor living space to gather, barbecue, relax and enjoy the summer outdoor experiences.
Repair or add a new patio to spruce up your backyard. Pressure wash the areas for effective cleaning. Check your driveway and walkways for weeds and cracks and get them fixed as soon as you can.
Since you will be spending most of your summertime outside in your compound, it is essential to get rid of insects that may ruin your outdoor living experiences.
This project involves getting rid of those insect pests which may even be injurious to your health. You have to destroy those pests or they hamper your chance to relax and enjoy your summer outdoor experience.
Spraying of chemicals to kill mosquitoes and other harmful pests is a good move.
However, proper care should be taken while using this approach. The given instructions and guidelines on the use of pesticides must be followed.
Pest prevention can be an easy DIY project although you may require a professional help in selecting the most suitable pesticide for your home.
Spending time on your deck on a warm evening is one of the ways to enjoy the summer.
Deck maintenance can be an easy DIY project that is best carried out on summer days when the weather is just okay.
It involves checking to spot broken or loose boards, cleaning, and repairing the damaged parts or a complete deck replacement.
Decks can be cleaned with the help of a pressure washer. Check your deck and decide whether it needs to be repainted, repaired or replaced.
The cost of building a new deck depends on the size, location and whether you are hiring a professional or you are doing it yourself. On the average, it cost $6000 to install a new deck.
This top summer home improvement project can transform your home into a paradise you've always wanted it to be.
It is an affordable home improvement project that will create a good first impression on visitors and potential buyers.
It not only improves the value of your home but also improves the quality of life during the hot summer periods.
The lawn and the landscape flowers should be properly managed for them to retain their beautification properties for a long period of time.
In most cases, it requires a little amount of time and skills, with a few yard tools to get this done. Best result can be achieved and maintained by regular trimming, weed removal, and proper irrigation.
Soaker hose installation which runs for $15 to $20 is also an easy DIY method of ensuring a regular supply of water to your landscape plants.
The average cost of installing landscaping runs from $3000 to $3500.
This is an ideal summer home improvement project for homes with old, worn out or outdated fences that can be repaired easily.
You may consider going for replacement if your fence is too old or severely damaged. Fence and gates add numerous importance and value to a home.
Since their advantages are far more their drawbacks, adding gates and fences with help create a more marketable home.
The cost of repair and replacement depends on the type, the number of posts needed and the materials to be used but normally runs between $900 to $5500.
Weather advantages and disadvantages are often considered when it comes to remodeling a home. Successful real estate investors understand the essence of time in executing any home improvement project.
Most home improvement projects can be carried out at any period of the year when there are enough resources available to see it through.
The advantages and disadvantages of remodeling homes in summer are discussed below.
Summer provides the free time and the ideal weather condition to complete the home maintenance projects you have been laying aside with longer daylight hours to work.
With a lighter schedule and school vacation in the summer, it is much easier to get the helping hand of your family members on a DIY remodeling project.
During summer, any inconvenience is easier to manage. You can schedule the improvement of your home when your family would be away on vacation in order to ensure lesser amounts of disturbances.
Dust and disorder are the inevitable parts of home remodeling processes. In the summer months, you can open your doors and windows to let out the dust or take some of your properties out while you carry out the remodeling processes.
Since the summer weather is favorable, you will be able to work with your windows open with no fear of damages to your properties by rainfall.
Summertime also favors outdoor maintenance projects. It is easier to work, grill, and eat outside during this period compared to others where you may have to spend more to heat yourself.
You do not need to use a temporary source of heat to heat your home or your workers if you hired any.
Sweltering heat often caused by the hot summer weather is the major drawback to tackling home improvement projects in the summer months.
Heat is a silent killer and can cause headaches, heavy sweating, and exhaustion to the homeowner or hired workers.
This can slow down the rate of work and delay completion especially the outdoor DIY projects, if not properly managed.
Are you looking to enhance productivity and protect your home from heat and high humidity this summer? Make most of this ideal atmospheric condition by tackling your home improvement needs.
You do not have to force yourself into a home maintenance project you won't enjoy all in the name of adding value to your home.
Select the most suitable ideas for your home and focus on your taste and preferences while taking your budget into consideration.
Employing these summer home maintenance ideas will not only enhance your home appearance and productivity but will also make your home to be more energy-efficient.
Your home's longevity will also be increased while significantly reducing the amount of money you spend on utility bills.
I love these summer remodeling ideas. Especially the one you mentioned about remodeling the bathroom. Hope you can elaborate more on bathroom remodeling. Thanks!


Bio – Arting since '92.
Ranine Swaid is 25 years old, with roots in Beirut, Lebanon, Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Fremont, California. A lifelong lover of illustration & storytelling, Ranine believes in always encouraging creativity, expressiveness, and openness in others. She is currently based in Fremont in pursuit of her MA in art therapy. She wrote this bio in the 3rd person because it sounded way cooler that way.


Vacant since the '70s, the Briscoe Building exhibited two significant historical features that informed the interior design: the building shell and its contents. The shell is a three-storey Romanesque-detailed federation brick warehouse whose structure consists of substantially-sized timber columns, supporting beams, joists and an elaborate array of herringbone strutting. The contents consist of the original stair and hydraulic goods lift. These two historical features paved the way for a two-part design philosophy.
The shell adopted a 'don't touch' philosophy which brought about the Russian Dolls Detailing. A heritage shell surrounding freestanding pods and old volumes encapsulating new volumes; clean, simplistic detailing, respecting the historic environs in which they are placed.
Implementation of 'pods' with perimeter circulation retains a contemporary sense of openness, while democratising daylight was accomplished with common-wall office glazing. Each office embraces substantial integrated storage to increase efficiency and flexibility. The entire build is an exercise in minimalism, utilising the existing shell to its maximum potential. New build materials have been kept to a bare minimum, while new life has been successfully breathed into a 110 year old building.


text:
Q: What does a lower-case letter to the left of a term symbol, as in $\rm{a}\ ^7\rm{S}$, $\rm{z}\ ^7\rm{P^o}$, or $\rm{b}\ ^5\rm{D}$, mean? I'm a bit puzzled by this: the energy levels of neutral chromium (available by searching for Cr I in the NIST ASD levels database), the term symbols generally have the form
$$
x\ \ ^{2S+1}L,
$$
where $x$ is a lower-case letter, in upright roman font in NIST's notation. Some examples are

*

*$\mathrm{a}\ ^7\mathrm{S}$ with a $4d^5(^6\mathrm{S})4s$ configuration;

*$\mathrm{z}\ ^7\mathrm{P^o}$ with a $4d^5(^6\mathrm{S})4p$ configuration;

*$\mathrm{b}\ ^5\mathrm{D}$ with a $3d^5(^4\mathrm{D})4s$ configuration;

*$\mathrm{y}\ ^5\mathrm{P^o}$ with a $3d^4(^5\mathrm{D})4s4p (^3\mathrm{P^o})$ configuration;

*$\mathrm{c}\ ^3\mathrm{D}$ with a $3d^44s^2$ configuration;

*$\mathrm{e}\ ^7\mathrm{S}$ with a $3d^5(^6\mathrm{S})5s$ configuration.

What does the lower-case letter on the left signify?

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Double Room available in this shared house. All bills included.
Set in a rural location with open field views to the front, this re-decorated and re-carpeted semi-detached house is well worth a look!
This semi-detached house is situated close to town and has been re-decorated throughout.
A property well worth your attention! This modern end of terrace house has much to offer including off street parking and rear garden.
Available from 1st May, this semi-detached cottage is set in a rural location with open field views to the front. Register your interest now.
An ideal home for the young family! This 2 bedroom semi in the popular area of Walsoken is a must for your viewing list.
A unique 2 bedroom town centre property that has been recently renovated and boasts an open plan living space.
This 2/3 bedroom mid-terrace house is situated on the outskirts of town and must be one for your viewing list!
With views over the River Nene to the front this 2 bedroom character property with a modern stylish kitchen is well worth a viewing!
Situated on a popular development close to town and local amenities, this semi-detached family home is one not to miss!


Join us for 90-min of Jivamukti Yoga to raise your vibration and close the weekend on a beautiful note. Breathing, linking movement with breath, balancing & inverting, chanting, meditating, chilling... all of these in just one class - Yay!
Perk: you will be yoking for a good cause! Proceeds of the class will be donated to Sharanam Yoga Project - a nonprofit organisation co-created by Jivamukti teachers Charlotte & Ludovic, aiming to bring the healing benefits of yoga and meditation to minority, underserved, and traumatized populations around the world!Let us know if you are 90% confident I will see you there.
Namast'ay Sundays comes to Manhattan !


text:
Personal Identity at the Crossroads
Research project funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR 18-16622S)
Idem – Ipse Distinction Revisited (June 2018)
Phenomenology and Personal Identity (November 2018)
CFP – Phenomenology and Personal Identity
Conference Program "Phenomenology and Personal Identity"
The I that is We and the We that is I (May 2019)
Phenomenology and Personal Identity II (November 2019)
Abstracts – Personal Identity II
Conference Poster Phenomenology and Personal Identity II
Conference Program Phenomenology and Personal Identity II
Workshop: Normative Frameworks of Personal Identity (June 12, 2020)
Anna Martinovská: "Stávám se řečí." Smrt a návrat autora v perspektivě filosofie identity (prosinec 2020)
Jakub Čapek – Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Areas of specialization: twentieth-century German and French philosophy. He published a monograph on Merleau-Ponty (Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Myslet podle vnímání [Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Thinking According to Perception], Prague: Filosofia, 2012, 360 pp.), and a book-length contribution to the action theory (Action et situation: Le sens du possible entre phénoménologie et herméneutique. Hildesheim, Zurich, New York: Olms, 2010). Jakub Čapek translated several philosophical works from French and German into Czech.
Sophie Loidolt – Professor at the Philosophy Department of TU Darmstadt and member of the "Young Academy" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). PhD and Habilitation at the University of Vienna, research stays at the New School for Social Research (New York), the Husserl-Archives (KU Leuven), and the Center for Subjectivity Research (Copenhagen). She has published numerous articles in the field of phenomenology and is the author of three monographs, Anspruch und Rechtfertigung. Eine Theorie des rechtlichen Denkens im Anschluss an die Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls (2009), Einführung in die Rechtsphänomenologie. Eine historisch-systematische Darstellung" (2010), and, most recently, Phenomenology of Plurality. Hannah Arendt on Political Intersubjectivity, which was published with Routledge (2017).
Tereza Matějčková, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. She wrote her PhD. on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (2016). Laureate of Josef-Hlávka-Prize for young researchers (2012). She recently published a monograph Gibt es eine Welt in Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes? Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. Author of numerous articles on German Idealism (e.g. "Hegels Religion des absoluten Wissens?", in: Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 59/2, 2017, pp. 1-17; "Hegel and Arendt on a Key Term of Modernity: The Creativity and Destructiveness of Labor", in: Idealistic Studies, 46/1, (in print); "Führt das Wissen zu nichts? Nihilismus als äußerste Gestalt des Skeptizismus bei Jacobi, Fichte und Hegel", in: Krankheit des Zeitalters oder heilsame Provokation?, München: Fink, 2016, pp. 251–264). Translator of philosophical texts into Czech (e.g. by Hegel, Jaspers or Tugendhat).
Ondřej Švec, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. He is completing a book The Pragmatic Turn in Phenomenology and working as the co-editor of Jan Patočka's Complete Works at the Czech Academy of Sciences. His publications include various articles on lifeworld, historical conditions of objectivity in natural sciences, overcoming subjectivism in phenomenology and French historical epistemology. He is the author of a French monograph entitled La phénoménologie des émotions, Lille, Presses universitaires de Septentrion, 2013. Together with Jakub Čapek, he co-edited the volume Pragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology, Routledge, London – New York 2017.
Christian Sternad is Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Husserl Archives, Centre for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy at the KU Leuven, Belgium and the Executive Editor of the Open Commons of Phenomenology. He studied Philosophy and History at the University of Vienna and defended his PhD on "Death and Community" with "summa cum laude" in 2013. His research areas cover phenomenology and contemporary continental philosophy with a special emphasis on the French philosophical context. The core topic of his work is the phenomenological analysis of human mortality and the more methodological question of how death can be described adequately within the phenomenological framework. In his current research project, he is extending his former research towards a phenomenological account of aging.
Petr Prášek – PhD candidate, doctorat co-tutelle at Charles University in Prague (supervisor prof. Miroslav Petříček) and at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (supervisor prof. Renaud Barbaras). In his research, he deals with twentieth-century French philosophy and Phenomenology. He is the author of a book on Deleuze's philosophy, Člověk v šíleném dění světa: filosofie Gillesa Deleuze (Praha: Karolinum, 2018, in print), as well as the author of an article "Trois figures de la phénoménologie contemporaine" (Études Phénoménologiques-Phenomenological Studies, n. 3/2019, pp. 221-245, in print).
Anna Martinovská – MA student of philosophy and comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. Her main area of interest is literary theory in relation to philosophy. She is currently finalizing her theses titled Death and return of the author as a question of identity where she reexamines the discussions about the notion of the author from the perspectives of theory of identity by Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu.
© 2021 Personal Identity at the Crossroads


During the night, you're an hunter but during the day, you're a prey. Cat vampires are public enemy. Kill them all.
Our mission is to help dogs reach their full intellectual potential.
EXPAND FLAT TRACK // COFFEE. COMMUNITY. CARS.
Expanding our space to provide a community experience through educational classes, excellent coffee, and a shared love for our city.
Designed by a veterinarian, GPCats finally gives you peace and comfort while your cuddly friend is exploring the world.
A game-changing solution to ALL your litter problems: The Cat's Ask litterbox makes no garbage, is super clean, easy, and eco-friendly!
Keep your cat perch clean with the world's first washable, eco-friendly, reusable cover! Made in America.


While depression can be devastating to both men and women, there are differences in the way that the sexes respond to depression medications. A study carried out to look at these differences found that women who suffer from depression could have a better chance of obtaining relief from a frequently prescribed antidepressant known as citalopram.
Researchers initially looked at how citalopram helped depressed patients to find complete relief from their depression symptoms – known as remission. After analysing the data from nearly three thousand men and women, researchers found that women were 33 percent more likely to obtain remission than men. The participants had been suffering from depression for years and the average time span for a participant was twelve years of depression.
The interesting aspect of this result was that the women who took part in the study were assessed as being more severely depressed in comparison with the male participants. However, in terms of side-effects there weren't any differences between the men and the women. The actual time span for achieving remission didn't vary from men to women either nor did the amount of time the participants remained on the citalopram.
The research contrasts with older research and studies that have suggested there isn't any difference between men and women in terms of how they respond to different antidepressants. Still, given the variation in evidence on the issue, this new study is a much larger one and is thought to be credible. Researchers also controlled for other factors, which means that the study is considered an accurate one as well.
Researchers concluded that these differences between the sexes represent a biological mechanism at work. In turn, antidepressants exert an influence in different ways, depending on which gender takes the medications. Researchers aren't quite sure what this biological difference is but they hope that more research will investigate the differences in greater depth. In particular, it is suspected that there is a hormonal factor at work.
This new study highlights the importance of understanding and taking into account gender differences and how each gender responds to a drug. Physicians will need to be aware of these differences when prescribing drugs as well as when they monitor patients for their response and any improvement.
It is always a challenge to find the right treatment for each patient because people respond so differently to antidepressant therapy. What works wonderfully for one patient can wreck havoc with another – being ineffective or making that patient ultimately feel even worse. Finding out the many factors that influence how each patient might respond is a positive step in improving outcomes from antidepressant therapy.
If a person is not responding well to the drug, they may need to try a new one or a physician may need to recommend additional measures such as counselling therapy. The ultimate goal is to understand all of the factors – including gender – that can influence how effective antidepressant therapy is for treating depression.


text:
Pop Tarts (God)
By Una Ada, March 26, 2016
This post was written as a submission to an open call by @ruinedpicnic on twitter (now called @punishedpicnic) for music to sing.
Ruined Picnic and Friends by ruined picnic and friends
Every single morning I wake up in a state of peace.
As if part of the void, or an emptiness at least.
When not quite awake, life itself can be like a dream.
Like the pop tarts that are flavored like cookies and cream.
My god and your god are both just the same.
But you gave your god some other name.
Truth is, I can't really write music.
I don't fucking know how.
It's, like, really difficult.
I keep counting all the syllables in each line.
Rhyming en and em has got to be a crime.
But it actually makes this a lot easier.
Syllables don't matter if you sing wheezier.
I was trying to be super serious about this.
But nobody really cares if your lines don't rhyme.
Well, maybe some people do.
But I don't really care who.
Point is, I can't wait to die.
Heaven and hell are no different.
It's all about semantics.
And other –antics.
I wish I could play music.
But I actually cannot do that at all.
Back on point: if you're happy, maybe there's nothing.
And if you're sad, maybe there's nothing.
If death is a void then it would be both.
So heaven and hell are just how you label it.
Also god is random quantum oscillations.
Hear me out, in a musical manner.
God controls the universe in a way we can't understand.
Due to the uncertainty principle.
We can't 100% understand how quantum oscillations happen.
This post is tagged: collaboration music


text:
<Miocic wins by unanimous decision over DC at UFC 252
Grala to drive No. 3 at 2020 Daytona road course race>
Combat Sports, MMA
Cormier announces his retirement from MMA
Anthony Caruso IIIon August 16, 2020 /0 comments
Daniel Cormier has announced his retirement from mixed martial arts. He announced his retirement following his controversial loss to Stipe Miocic in the main event at UFC 252 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Cormier said that he wanted to fight for titles. And with no more title shots in the future, he said this was it for him.
Daniel Cormier and Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones fights during the UFC 182 (Getty Images)
"I'm not interested in fighting for anything but titles," Cormier said. "I don't imagine there will be a title in the future for me, so that'll be it for me. I've had a long run and I just fought my last fight. It was a pretty good fight."
Miocic defeated Cormier by unanimous decision. It was controversial because referee Marc Goddard missed an eye poke that Cormier said for the final two rounds caused him to see black.
The 41-year-old San Jose, California native fell to 22-3-1 in his MMA career with the loss. In his career, he has only lost to Miocic and Jon Jones.
Miocic took two of their three bouts in their trilogy. Jones defeated Cormier by unanimous decision at UFC 182.
With this being the end of the road for one of the best heavyweight competitors, Cormier leaves the sport with 10 knockouts in his career. He also won five fights by submission and another seven fights by decision.
His last win in his career came against Derrick Lewis at UFC 230 when he defeated Derrick Lewis by Submission (rear-naked choke) in the second-round on November 3, 2018.
Tagged: Anthony Caruso III MMA Sports The Capital Sports Report
Packers may sign Tramon Williams before 2021 NFC Championship game


text:
package com.linkedin.parseq.example.composite.classifier;

/**
 * @author Chris Pettitt
 */
public interface Classifier {
  Classification classify(long vieweeId);
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


I hope everyone who celebrates Easter had a nice holiday. Our dinner was a lovely success, and it was nice to have a big crowd around the table for a change. We're still trying to reinvent the holidays now that the kids are grown; I think just having a meal together with family and friends is a decent alternative.
Since the only person in my family with that name is not in love with me, I'm sure it's not mine. The card is in pristine condition, and probably a little older as it's made of nice, double-folded paper, not single-sheet card stock.
Bill was obviously a romantic. One of the reasons I love paper books is because they can serve as little time machines, and transport bits of ephemera like this from the past into your hands. Or you can tuck things inside them for your kids or future generations to find. I wonder if we'll ever find a way to do that with the electronic versions -- maybe someday we'll be able to add our own notes to e-books, and leave them for whoever inherits our e-readers or cloud accounts.
Have you found anything interesting lately in a used book? Let us know in comments.
One of the things I love most about used books are the notes written inside or the paper trail they leave as bookmarks. When they're really old books it's like being touched from the other side of the grave.


text:
Option Volume Heats Up on These 2 Battered Biotechs
INCY and VRTX hit new lows, sending option volume soaring
Kirra Fedyszyn
Biotech stocks are mostly lower today -- despite some notable exceptions -- keeping the Nasdaq Composite's (COMP) gains in check. Two drugmakers suffering heavy losses are Incyte Corporation (NASDAQ:INCY) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX) -- both on the short-sale restricted list, and both attracting notable options activity.
INCY is 13.4% lower at $64.92, on news that it has stopped a mid-stage study of its treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer. Since the announcement, the stock has received no fewer than six price-target cuts from analysts, and the shares earlier hit an annual low of $64.51.
Action in the options pits is exploding, with contracts changing hands at 19 times their typical intraday rate. Calls are the options of choice today, outnumbering puts 2-to-1, and accounting for eight of the 10 most active options. Interestingly, most of the action is attributable to some kind of spread in the December 2016 series, with 2,000 contracts traded at the December 75 and 100 calls, as well as the December 55 put.
Incyte Corporation (NASDAQ:INCY) has been falling hard for more than a month, losing 40.1% of its value in 2016. But 11 out of 12 analysts still call the security a "strong buy," and the consensus 12-month price target of $121.23 is nearly twice INCY's current price. If today's losses lead to downgrades or more price-target cuts, selling pressure could lead the shares to lower lows.
VRTX also found a new yearly low today, at $81.98, and was last seen down 5.4% at $87.50, as traders and analysts pan the company's quarterly earnings report and guidance. At least seven brokerages lowered their price targets on the stock, the lowest coming from Cowen and Company, at $95.
However, it looks like some options traders are expecting a short-term rebound. Calls are trading at twice the average intraday pace, with potential buy-to-open action at the February 95 call -- most active so far. By purchasing the calls to open, the buyers expect VRTX to claw atop $95 by the close on Friday, Feb. 19, when front-month options expire.
Today's preference for calls is highly unusual for VRTX. At the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX), the equity's 10-day put/call volume ratio of 7.36 indicates more than seven VRTX puts were bought to open for each call over the last two weeks. Moreover, this ratio is higher than 97% of all readings from the past year.
After spending most of 2015 trending higher, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX) turned sharply south in 2016, and has shed 30.4% so far this year. Just over half of analysts rate the stock a "buy" or better, so more negative notes could be ahead, potentially exacerbating selling pressure.
Sign up now for Schaeffer's Market Recap to get all the day's big stock movers, must-know technical levels, and top economic stories straight to your inbox.


21 April 2016, at 6:00a.m.
BRAZIL - There was a sharp growth in Brazilian pork exports in the first quarter of 2016, of over 80 per cent year on year, to 140,000 tonnes.
Trade with its traditional markets of Russia and Hong Kong moved up sharply, rising by around two thirds. Brazil's export diversification strategy, though, is now paying off as China has emerged as its third largest market in very quick time, as shipments were negligible a year before.
By March shipments had reached 6,400 tonnes, to account for 11 per cent of total Brazilian trade, and up from just 1,600 tonnes in January. This is given increased access to the Chinese market as more Brazilian plants obtain approval. Even shipments to Singapore and Angola were also well up in the first quarter.
Brazilian pork is very competitive with the average export price down by as much as 32 per cent in US dollar terms in the first quarter of 2016, compared with a year earlier. This represents a much larger price fall than for other major exporters, such as the EU and the United States, although their data is not so up to date.
This was helped by the marked fall in the value of the Brazilian currency, as in reals the average export price was only 8 per cent lower. The sharp increase in volume shipments meant that the value of exports in real increased by two thirds.
The increase in volume exports has helped to provide some support to Brazilian producers as production was higher year on year. Meanwhile, domestic demand has been reduced by the poor economic situation, with reduced consumer spending and intense heat in much of the country. Pig meat consumption in Brazil is more focussed on the winter months.


text:
Home » Beer »
Molson launches historic product line
The beer brand goes as far back as the 1700s in its recipe vault for its latest brew.
By Josh Kolm
Molson Coors has launched a new product line based around its centuries of experience to reach beer drinkers interested in new flavours.
John H.R. Molson & Bros. 1908 Historic Pale Ale is a 6.8% ABV strong ale brewed in Montreal and based on a real recipe pulled from the brewer's archives. Molson's brewmasters worked to keep the beer as loyal to the original recipe as possible, tracking down hops closer in flavour profile to the ones that would have been used in 1908 and using a strand of yeast derived from the same one John Molson first used in the 1700s.
The 1908 Historic Pale Ale is available in traditional 341 ml bottles as well as larger 625 ml formats and is the first in a planned "John Molson Archival Series" of limited-edition beers based on historic recipes to come out of the brewery's 200-plus year history.
"It's a time when people want genuine and authentic, and that's what we have," says Christine Jakovcic, VP of marketing at Molson Coors Canada. "We're pulling out real recipe books from 1908, and that's pretty cool. If you think about all the different choices people have in the [beer] market now, the types of things driving new interest are different flavour profiles from brands that can be unique and authentic."
The beer is being supported with print ads and sampling events. Rethink handled creative on the launch campaign, with MEC on the media buy and Citizen Relations handling PR.
"We feel we need to drive awareness because it's new, but we're doing it in a more traditional approach as opposed to a flashy, shiny one," Jakovcic says. "A big TV campaign wouldn't be authentic to the idea of a historic beer, so you'll see more of the kinds of ideas you'd see in 1908."
Citizen Relations, John H.R. Molson & Bros., MEC, molson, molson coors, Molson Coors Canada, rethink
Saving the whales with a killer collab
Sapporo takes a deeper look at Western influences
Cannabis edibles to be allowed for sale in December
Labatt launches in-house social agency


Tire warranties issue a full or partial payment for repair or replacement of damaged tires that happened as a result of road hazards. Tire warranties are effective for a certain period of time and some plans last for two to three years. Here are wheel and tire warranty myths you should learn.
While new tires come with a manufacturer warranty, an Audi tire and wheel protection plan does not come with road hazard warranty. The warranty provided by the manufacturer covers only workmanship defects. A new tire warranty does not cover damages from outside sources or from punctures. Most of the time, new tires are not defective. When an issue occurs, it's usually noticed when the tire is being balanced or you notice a noise or vibration when you drive. The policies at Wheel and Tire Care cost about the same as 1-2 tire replacements, but with no limit to the number of claims within the warranty time period. Your one time cost covers any number of tire replacements with no extra cost to you.
Paying for the Audi tire and wheel protection plan with Wheel and Tire Care means everything is covered. Unlike traditional warranties where there are pro-rated warranties that are simply based on wear and tear of your tire. Depending on the tread-depth, you may receive only 50 percent coverage and other times, you may only receive 10 percent coverage. We have full Audi tire and wheel protection, and you are 100% covered for any damage due to weather or road hazard.
After five years, your tires should be checked once per year. Tires are created to last between 50,000 to 60,000 miles. You shouldn't use the same set of tires for longer than 10 years.
If you would like to learn more about facts about tire warranty, give the professionals at Wheel and Tire Care a call.


Peter Andre has marked his first wedding anniversary to wife Emily MacDonagh by sharing a five-minute video from their big day.
Peter Andre has marked his first wedding anniversary by sharing a video of his big day.
The 'Behind Closed Doors' singer tied the knot with second wife Emily MacDonagh - who is pregnant with their second child, a sibling for their two-year-old daughter Amelia - at Mamhead House in Exeter, South West England, on July 11 2015 and celebrated a year of marriage by giving fans a glimpse of the special day.
In the video, the 43-year-old singer appeared emotional as Emily, 26, walked down the aisle, while other clips included the doctor getting fitted into her stunning wedding gown by her friends, the couple having their photographs taken, and Peter performing on stage before smashing plates on the floor in keeping with Greek tradition.
And Peter - who also has kids Junior, 11, and Princess, nine, with first wife Katie Price - has promised to share more footage with his fans.
Peter recently admitted he hadn't planned what to buy Emily for their anniversary, though he intended to do something ''special''.
And he also joked that he'll give her his autograph as a gift.


The Ministry of Health has confirmed three more cases of the H1N1 strain of influenza (Swine Flu), but says that there is currently no cause for alarm because the number of cases is still relatively low.
Director of Health Services Dr. Marvin Manzanero explained that the new cases came from the Belize district, bringing the total amount of confirmed cases from that district up to five.
Manzanero explained that the ministry compares the number of detected cases against the amount recorded in years prior to determine whether or not any sickness is becoming a rising public health concern.
"We do that on a monthly basis, in some areas on a daily basis but I think we are not seeing any spike," Manzanero said.
He noted that the total eight cases are only those that have been reported, and that the Ministry expects that there are more cases left to be discovered. The MOH is on a sustained campaign of prevention, encouraging members of the public to adhere to proper hand washing and covering of sneezes to keep the virus from spreading.
The ministry confirmed the first cases on July 27, which included two males who have recent travel history to Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, and a pregnant female who resides in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico.