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Johnson announces £1,000 for pubs in effort to win over rebels to his tiers plan
David Hughes and Patrick Daly, PA
1 December 2020, 12:29 pm ·5-min read
Boris Johnson promised £1,000 to pubs forced to remain closed under England's new coronavirus restrictions as he sought to ward off a damaging Tory revolt over the plans.
The new arrangements will come into force on Wednesday, putting 99% of England in the toughest Tier 2 and Tier 3 restrictions, with the Commons almost certain to back the plans despite a Conservative rebellion.
But Mr Johnson's announcement of a one-off payment for "wet" pubs which do not offer food was branded "derisory" by the trade at a time when landlords should be enjoying a festive boost to their takings.
And senior Tories lined up in the Commons to say they would not be supporting the measures replacing England's national lockdown.
Pubs in Tier 2 areas – covering 57% of England's population – can only serve alcohol with a "substantial meal" and are also covered by rules restricting households mixing indoors, severely harming trade.
In Tier 3, pubs and restaurants can only offer takeaway and delivery services.
Mr Johnson acknowledged that the hospitality sector had borne a "disproportionate" burden in the effort to reduce coronavirus rates as he announced the one-off December payment.
Kate Nicholls, chief executive of trade body UKHospitality, said: "A one-off payment of £1,000 for pubs forced to close does not even count as a token gesture."
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The Prime Minister acknowledged concerns about perceived "injustice" in the allocation of tiers as he faced a series of Tory complaints.
"There's no question people feel that they have been unfairly attracted, by proximity, into a higher tier than they deserve," he said.
"People also feel that the tiering is not working for them."
He indicated that the Government would look at a more focused approach when deciding arrangements in future – a key demand of Tories concerned that low infection rates in some areas were not being reflected in the restrictions being imposed.
"We will try to be as sensitive as possible to local efforts and to local achievements in bringing that pandemic under control," he added.
The tiers will be reviewed every fortnight and Mr Johnson has also promised MPs a fresh vote on whether to keep the entire system beyond February 2.
The Government is expected to comfortably win Tuesday's vote on the new rules after Labour said it would abstain.
But a rebellion on his own benches would be embarrassing for the Prime Minister, particularly if the numbers could have been enough to wipe out his majority.
Tory MPs were left unhappy that impact assessments of the tiered system published on Monday did not include a detailed breakdown of the effects of the measures on different parts of the economy.
That feeling was further compounded after a report in the Times suggested there is a Whitehall dashboard showing Covid-19's impact on almost 40 sectors of the economy, with a red rating – indicating significant job cuts and revenue losses – against dozens of them, including aerospace, the automotive industry, retail, hospitality and tourism, arts and sport.
The anger on the Tory benches was set out by prominent backbenchers.
Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the influential backbench 1922 Committee of Tories and an MP in Tier 3 Greater Manchester, said: "If Government is to take away fundamental liberties of the people whom we represent, they must demonstrate beyond question that they're acting in a way that is both proportionate and absolutely necessary.
"Today, I believe the Government has failed to make that compelling case."
Former Cabinet minister Damian Green, an MP in Tier 3 Kent, said the plans lacked public support, adding: "I've had the most angry emails over a weekend since the Dominic Cummings trip to Barnard Castle."
Andrea Leadsom, another ex-Cabinet minister, said: "I can't and won't inflict deliberate harm on my constituency unless I can see for myself that to do nothing would be worse."
Former Brexit secretary David Davis said a "policy of maximum protection for minimum damage" was needed and "this policy is not it".
News: "Stratford-on-Avon District Council to challenge Government's Tier decision" https://t.co/FXS7pC4eYa
— Stratford DC (@StratfordDC) December 1, 2020
Tory-led Stratford-on-Avon district council announced it was launching a legal challenge to the decision to place it in Tier 3.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the Prime Minister's strategy posed a "significant" health risk and it was "highly unlikely" to see restrictions eased in parts of the country before Christmas.
He accused Mr Johnson of "over-promising and under-delivering" by pursuing an approach of short-term decisions that then "bump into the harsh reality of the virus".
In other developments:
– Cabinet minister Michael Gove said a Scotch egg would count as a "substantial meal" in Tier 2, having previously suggested it was only a starter.
– Businessman Simon Dolan lost a Court of Appeal challenge against the Government over the Covid-19 lockdown rules.
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– Downing Street dismissed a suggestion by vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi that an "immunity passport" system could allow pubs and entertainment venues to bar people who had not received a coronavirus jab.
– A total of 2,697 deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending November 20 mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), but there were signs the increase was slowing.
James Murdoch says US media 'lies' unleashed 'insidious forces'. Son of Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch issues excoriating rebuke following storming of the Capitol
U.S. says Vietnam's currency actions 'unreasonable' but holds off on tariffs
President Donald Trump's administration said on Friday Vietnam's actions to push down the value of its currency are "unreasonable" and restrict U.S. commerce, but did not take immediate action to impose punitive tariffs. Releasing the results of its so-called Section 301 investigation into Vietnam's currency practices, the U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) office said it would continue to evaluate all available options to correct the situation.
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Fiat Chrysler and PSA sealed their long-awaited merger on Saturday to create Stellantis, the world's fourth-largest auto group with deep enough pockets to fund the shift to electric driving and take on bigger rivals Toyota and Volkswagen. It took over a year for the Italian-American and French automakers to finalise the $52 billion deal, during which the global economy was upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. "The merger between Peugeot S.A. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. that will lead the path to the creation of Stellantis N.V. became effective today," the two automakers said in a statement.
US Health secretary Azar warns Capitol riots have threatened Trump's legacy in resignation letter
'The attacks on the Capitol were an assault on our democracy'
Wall Street Was Busy Selling These 2 Stocks in 2020
Despite a global pandemic, the S&P 500 gained 16% in 2020 while the tech-heavy Nasdaq grew by nearly 44%. Amarin (NASDAQ: AMRN) and Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) (NYSE: CUK) were two stocks that dragged down returns for those who held them. Amarin is a $2.4 billion drugmaker focused on improving cardiovascular health.
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WASHINGTON (AP) � Sales of existing homes rose in July, surpassing expectations, as buyers snapped up deeply discounted properties in parts of the country hit hardest by the housing bust.
The National Association of Realtors reported Monday that sales rose 3.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5 million units, down from June�s downwardly revised rate of 4.85 million units. Sales had been expected to rise by only 1.6 percent, according to economists surveyed by Thomson/IFR.
Home sales were about 13 percent lower than a year ago and prices were down dramatically. The median price for a home sold in July dropped to $212,000, down by 7.1 percent from a year ago.
Despite the third monthly sales increase this year, the number of unsold single-family homes and condominiums rose to 4.67 million, the highest number since 1968, when the Realtors group started tracking the data.
That represented a 11.2-month supply at the July sales pace, matching the all-time high set in April.
Until the inventory level is reduced to more normal levels, analysts say, the housing slump is likely to persist. The inventory level is being driven higher by a massive wave of mortgage foreclosures.
Between 33 and 40 percent of sales activity is coming from foreclosures or other distressed properties, estimated Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the Realtors group.
While buyers are pouncing on lower prices � especially in places like California, Florida and Nevada � sales are sluggish in formerly stable states like Texas.
�People are responding to lower prices,� Yun said, but there is �too much uncertainty� about the housing market�s future to mark a definite bottom.
In Las Vegas, sales were up 96 percent in July, after prices fell more than 25 percent to a median of $220,000, according to The Associated Press-Re/Max Monthly Housing Report, which analyzed home sales recorded by all real estate agents in 55 cities, regardless of company affiliation.
Sales in Los Angeles jumped 31 percent after prices fell 35 percent over the past year to a median of $335,000, according to the AP-Re/Max report.
In Miami, sales were up 9 percent while prices dropped nearly 10 percent to a median of $280,000. One of those sellers last month was Jennifer Del Pino, who unloaded her 3,600 square-foot Miami home to a buyer from Germany for $490,000.
She cut her asking price by $60,000, but sold her house in about a month.
�It�s kind of a relief for me,� she said.
One key unknown for the U.S. housing market is the future ability of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to supply money for loans. The two government-sponsored companies have dramatically cut back the availability of mortgages as they cope with mounting losses from foreclosures.
President Bush last month signed sweeping housing legislation that aims to prevent foreclosures by allowing an estimated 400,000 homeowners to swap their mortgages for more affordable loans, but only if their lender agrees to take a loss on the initial loan.
Even with government help, nearly 2.8 million U.S. households will either face foreclosure, turn over their homes to their lender or sell the properties for less than their mortgage�s value by the end of next year, predicts Moody�s Economy.com.


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The Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival, through its consistently bold representation of diverse African cinema shares its sixth edition with a theme that is perhaps the most appropriate motifs for its native city; Lagos.
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Venue: The Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos.
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Tom Cruise Outruns Time in 'Mission Impossible: Fallout'
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Rating: 4.0/5.0
CHICAGO – By any reasonable account, Tom Cruise should be entering into a phase in the "Mission Impossible" series not unlike the latter James Bond films of Roger Moore… appearing in closeups and letting the stuntmen do the rest. However, Cruise continues to outrun the ravages of time, and his stunts only seem to get crazier in the sixth film, "Mission Impossible: Fallout."
'Deliver Us From Evil' Goes Straight for the Jugular
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CHICAGO – "Deliver Us from Evil" is director Scott Derrickson's second foray into possession horror. His first, the excellent "The Exorcism of Emily Rose," was taut, thoughtful and offered some truly unsettling demon scares…it still ranks as one of the most important and best of the new crop of possession/devil films it helped kick start into being with their box office numbers.
'Red Riding Trilogy' Simultaneously Captivates, Infuriates
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Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories About Faith and Politics
(co-edited with Todd Nicholas Fuist and Rhys H. Williams)
To many mainstream-media saturated Americans, the terms "progressive" and "religious" may not seem to go hand-in-hand. As religion is usually tied to conservatism, an important way in which religion and politics intersect is being overlooked. Religion and Progressive Activism focuses on this significant intersection, revealing that progressive religious activists are a driving force in American public life, involved in almost every political issue or area of public concern.
This volume brings together leading experts who dissect and analyze the inner worlds and public strategies of progressive religious activists from the local to the transnational level. It provides insight into documented trends, reviews overlooked case studies, and assesses the varied ways in which progressive religion forces us to deconstruct common political binaries such as right/left and progress/tradition.
In a coherent and accessible way, this book engages and rethinks long accepted theories of religion, of social movements, and of the role of faith in democratic politics and civic life. Moreover, by challenging common perceptions of religiously motivated activism, it offers a more grounded and nuanced understanding of religion and the American political landscape.
"Social scientists have invested a great deal of energy in trying to understand the religious right, but not nearly enough time and effort has been devoted to the crucial role, in our past and present, of the religious left. This book is thus an enormous contribution and a groundbreaking work. This timely volume shatters the myth of the religious right's monopoly on faith-based political activism. While acknowledging the difficulties confronted by religious liberals in organizing for social justice, the authors provide a wealth of new evidence-based insights about how to strengthen the progressive religious movement at a time when its witness is badly needed."
--E.J. Dionne, Jr., Author of Why the Right Went Wrong
"Much of our current understanding of religion and politics is based on studies of the activism of conservative, even extremist forms of religious practice. But historically that is not necessarily the most important connection. In the 19th Century progressive religious groups were instrumental to abolitionist and woman's suffrage movements. And in the current context religious groups have a leading role in many struggles for justice. Braunstein, Fuist, and Williams' volume brings together some leading scholars of religion to look at some of the most important cases and theorize what they mean for our understanding of religion and social activism."
--David Smilde, Charles A and Leo M Favrot Professor of Social Relations, Tulane Universit
Braunstein, Ruth. 2018. "Good Troublemakers." Series on "American Religion, Humility and Democracy." The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2017. Strategic storytelling by Nuns on the Bus. Pp.289-307 in Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories about Faith and Politics, Ruth Braunstein, Todd Nicholas Fuist and Rhys H. Williams, Eds. New York: NYU Press.
Yukich, Grace and Ruth Braunstein. 2014. Encounters at the religious edge: Variation in religious expression across interfaith advocacy and social movement spaces. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53(4): 791-807.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2012. Storytelling in liberal religious advocacy. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 51(1):110-127.


Important distinction. The surface reasons are more justification in my opinion. The root issues are looking at themselves and taking responsibility. Both sets of issues are worth talking about and working towards correcting if moving forward in the marriage. But I think its important to really hone in on the root issues. Thanks for sharing.


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1966 Dodge Charger 426 Hemi – Muscle Car of the Week
The early 1960s was a popular time in which automakers were exploring new ideas to bring to the industry. Ideas in the personal luxury and specialty car segments became a popular avenue to explore. Chrysler quickly jumped on this bandwagon by choosing their Dodge Division to enter in to the marketplace with a mid-size B-bodied sports car. This would be a fascinating model between the Ford Mustang and the Ford Thunderbird. This resulted in a Coronet-based Charger that was introduced mid-season of the 1966 model year.
Introduced in the middle of 1966, the Charger shared its chassis and front-end sheet-metal with the mid-sized Coronet. Although this model looked like the Coronet as well as AMC's Rambler Marlin, it was more expensive than both those cars. The base price of the Charger came in at $3,100 while the Rambler was priced at $2,850. The Charger became known by some as "a good-looking Marlin".
The Hemi was available as an option in the Charger however, it didn't start out with the performance/muscle car package. The Charger quickly became successful after being introduced as "The Leader of the Dodge Rebellion." The Charger's January 1966 debut lead to a half year model of a new street version of the 426 cubic inch Chrysler Hemi engine.
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Charger and NASCAR Dodge took the Charger to NASCAR in 1966 hoping the fastback would make their car a winner on the high-banks. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Due to the body generated lift the car was difficult to handle on the faster tracks. Those who drove it described it as "driving on ice". Of course, Dodge came up with a way to solve this problem. They installed a small lip spoiler on the trunk lid to improve traction at speeds over 150 mph. This then became a dealer-installed option for late-1966 and 1967, making Charger the first U.S. production vehicle to offer a spoiler. The 1966 Charger had several firsts for cars, with that being said, this car is sure to continue on as a collector.
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"Deadly Facts": How So-Called "Objectivity" Created a Culture of Conformity*
By Greg Guma
About a century ago the Western world entered an age of artificial substitutes, technical ingenuity, mechanical products, technological values, and accelerating motion. The watchword of that age was objectivity – a highly illusive standard for both leaders and the led. In particular, the notion of objectivity deeply affected the emerging mass communications industry, which before long was serving as one of the most powerful tools of global social management.
In the 19th century news had been an open ideological weapon; opinions splattered across most printed pages. But the modern media age brought with it a new "best practice" – objective reporting. Based on the contention that "rational people" could discover the truth if presented with enough unfettered facts, objectivity quickly became the largely unexamined goal of the professional press. In 1947, however, the Commission on Freedom of the Press concluded that it was no longer just a goal. It had become a fetish.
By the end of the 20th century the festishizing of apparent "facts" was viewed as a serious media problem, fed by both print and electronic media. As journalist Mark Harris put it, "Only hard data are useful to the press. Unable to negotiate meditation, the media turn it off. Reporters cannot believe things they cannot instantly absorb, jot down, add up and phone in."
In the words of TV's most famous FBI man, Jack Friday, like a good cop, a good reporter — or a rational leader — supposedly wanted "nothing but the facts." That many of the so-called "facts" turned out to be false, incomplete or inaccurate, and that objectivity itself was an impossible standard, seemed not to matter at the time.
Humanity was still turning outward then, toward the "objective," and upward toward increased "order," through scientific methods and expanding bureaucratic organizations. The dream of the new world, at first sounding much like Rousseau's vision of a naturalized community, gradually became a very different reality — centralized, regimented, and predictable. For a while, nevertheless, human relations and behavioural engineering were effective tools used by many leaders to turn people into more easily conditioned extroverts.
New materialist assumptions replaced the idea of a "rational soul" with a "tabula rasa" upon which society's managers hoped to write. The term "tabula rasa" was introduced by John Locke in 1672, just as a new English middle-class was disposing of the divine rights of kings. Rejecting Descartes' theory of innate knowledge, Locke traced it instead back to sense perception. We begin, he said, as blank slates, without general principles. After birth external stimuli imprint themselves upon the mind. Locke applied Newton's mechanistic view of the world to the theory of knowledge:
Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all character, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of knowledge and reason? To this I answer in one word, from experience; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Combined with dialectical materialism, Locke's hypothesis found wide support in the 20th century. The conditioned reflex –- training to respond to a given stimulus in a predetermined fashion –- was a shaping mechanism that, according to psychologist J.B. Watson, confirmed that the human being is "an assembled organic machine ready to run."
The tools of operant conditioning soon developed by B.F. Skinner rested upon a related assumption: that the "living organism" we call a human being functions faithfully in response to externally administered stimuli. This gradually conferred on our leaders, as the self-selected programmers for these living machines, the new status of cultural designers. There was a downside, however. The rest of humanity was consigned to a slavish extroversion that removed the individual search for truth and the highest good from view.
The other-directed person, as David Reisman described him in a seminal study, The Lonely Crowd, is the model for the salaried worker or bureaucrat in any metropolitan area, "torn between the illusion that life should be easy, if he could only find the ways of proper adjustment to the group, and the half buried feeling that it is not easy for him." Reisman documented how the shift away from agriculture and the growth of habits of scientific thought caused religious feelings to give way to rational, often individualistic attitudes.
The centralization and bureaucratization of society, in turn, increased awareness of and sensitivity to other people. The result was Fromm's "marketer," Mills' "fixer," Arnold Green's "middle class male child." Other-direction insured social conformity and, therefore, apparent comfort in one's peer group. Rational extroverts care very much what others think of them. Being liked is the chief area of concern:
What is common to all other-directed people is that their contemporaries are the source of direction for the individual – either those known to him or those with whom he is indirectly acquainted, through friends and through the mass media. This source is of course 'internalized' in the sense that dependence on it for guidance in life is implanted early. The goals toward which the other-directed person strives shift with that guidance: it is only the process of striving itself and the process of paying close attention to the signals from others that remain unaltered throughout life.
The other-directed person is also often a model rational manager, someone who believes that everyone is a customer, and all of them objects of either conciliation or manipulation. Jung described this kind of person as an extrovert psychological type of either the thinking or feeling rational variety. As leaders they are object-oriented and dedicated to "given facts" and the status quo, never expecting to find absolute factors in their own inner lives. Everything they know is outside themselves, their guide is external necessity.
Such a consciousness, said Jung, looks outward because that is where the essential and decisive determinant is found. No serious attempt to overreach "current facts" is made, since such facts are a source of almost inexhaustible fascination.
Conveniently, the moral standard of the modern leader coincides with the demands of society. Above all, such a person is adaptable. Yet adjustment to the "objective" situation, the demands of the immediate environment, isn't merely adaptation. The factual fetishism of rational managers also traps them in short-range planning and bans most considerations beyond the observable, anything that lies outside the immediate conditions of time and space. Instead, they do only what is expected.
In most modern societies, leaders and managers have become a new class, a covert cult of ascensionists. For these committed strivers, the highest person represents the utmost in power, authority, and sometimes intelligence. But as Lewis Mumford noted, those who look upward and outward, moving across vast distances at rapid speeds, often forget to look downward and inward. Both self and Earth are sacrificed in a quest for order and control, and the rejection of the inner self becomes the curse of our age.
The dominance of purely rational habits of thought in almost all areas of life has also given theories the veneer of absolute truth. Despite the limits of perception, we struggle for certainty about the small bits of knowledge we hold. Our spirit of logical inquiry is too often a journey to eradicate doubt and establish doctrine. Once a hypothesis has been verified, the next step is to corroborate, refine and disseminate it. In this way a variety of flawed and false theories can attain the status of law.
A significant example is the behaviorist hypothesis that the only elementary function of the central nervous system is reflex. To verify this, only experiments that registered responses to "change" were conducted. According to ethologist Konrad Lorenz, these experiments were executed in a way "that precluded their revealing that the central nervous system can do more than react passively to stimuli." He concluded that "the Skinnerian has no right to comment on innate behavior or on aggression, because he cuts it from consideration."
Nevertheless, that belief system has spread. Despite its blind spots, the Skinnerian view has made a deep impact, almost becoming an item of faith. The simplicity of the reflex doctrine, along with the apparent exactitude of related research, has led to considerable acclaim. InCivilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins, Lorenz noted:
Even religious believers could be converted to it, for if the child is born as a 'tabula rasa,' it is the duty of every believer to see to it that this child and, possibly, all other children, are brought up in what he believes to be the only true religion. Thus behavioristic dogma supports every doctrinaire in his conviction.
Behaviorism is basically the doctrine of human as mechanism restated as a democratic principle: all of us are created potentially equal — blank slates without instinct, and would be equal under the same external conditions. The threat to democratic order, therefore, is the "myth" of the inner being, which suggests the existence of differences in social need and response.
Most leaders generally accept such mechanistic ideas, moving their communities and organizations toward increased predictability. But in order for such so-called rationality to function as the central operational principle, people must be unresisting objects. The rulers of the modern world may disagree about ideology or economics, but they have apparently reached a consensus on at least one matter – that the conditioning of humanity is highly desirable. The social contract, in the U.S. and elsewhere, may have been initiated with the ideal of individualism, but it has been amended considerably over time, leaning progressively and dramatically toward order and uniformity.
Judging from the higher degree of extroversion in developed societies, and the popularity of analysis and superficial certainty, mass indoctrination has been remarkably effective. But classification without reflection upon whole systems can be dangerous; this approach is easily prey to reductionism. It smirks at attempts to increase knowledge without quantification or operational research. The filter of measurement becomes the only accepted standard.
To look at and work with human beings is this manner, however, one must accept a dehumanized view of consciousness. Along with that comes repression and self-censorship — of subjective experiences, impulses, instincts and other challenges to "reason."
Skinnerians proclaimed that the "autonomous" human was dead, replaced by conditioned and conditioning humanity. What they thought we needed was more objective, exacting research to push back the decimal places that measure the "real world." But humanity's half-buried instincts have not completely disappeared. This adjusted life, they still remind us, is not bringing us closer to the highest good, the "summum bonum," and may instead be moving us farther away.
Non-Conformity is Now "Opposition Defiant Disorder"*
NWO: Nonconformity and Freethinking Now Classified as Mental Illnesses*
Conformity and This Generation
Your Creativity and Non-conformity a Threat to the NWO*
Spirituality in the New World Order is a One World Religious Authority*
Brzezinski Decries 'Global Political Awakening' During CFR Speech*
How to Break out of a Spiritual Rut by Finding your Passion*
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Teams, Active Teams, Public Identity Teams,
Jeremy Whitley/Creator
Ro Stein/Creator
Freelancers (Earth-616)
Freelancers Compound, Brentwood, California
Crush, Cursed Cass, Hotness, Might, Panic
Roxxon, Hydra
Jeremy Whitley, Ro Stein
Champions Vol 2 #1.MU
The Freelancers were a group of superpowered security contractors hired by Roxxon to shut down the protesters at the Angeles National Forest that opposed the company's intention to build a pipeline that connected their West Coast headquarters to a new deep-water drilling platform off the coast.
As they prepared to escalate the rally and blame it on the activists, the Freelancers were confronted by the Champions. The Champions were distracted by the Freelancer's niceties, and were caught off guard when Cursed Cass set off an explosive. While most of the Freelancers confronted the Champions, Panic induced fear on the protesters and Hotness slipped away to cause a forest fire. Panic was knocked down by Viv, and Cursed Cass was knocked far away by Hulk.
The confrontation between the Freelancers and the Champions was abruptly interrupted when two monsters originating from the Leviathon Tide landed on the forest, knocking down Hotness in the process, and prompting both teams to work together to stop the creatures. Might and Crush proved essential to defeat a molten creature. The Freelancers remained behind while the Champions hurried to subdue a monster that had landed on the coast, which coincidentally destroyed the drilling platform the pipeline was going to be used for, potentially leaving the Freelancers without a paycheck.[1]
The Freelancers were later hired for other jobs, including disrupting a wage protest in Durham, North Carolina and displacing homeless people from a tent city in Los Angeles, California. The Freelancers invited two of the homeless people they displaced to their compound, and manipulated them into fighting each other, later using Panic's powers to have them tell the authorities that the Champions had assaulted them.[2]
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5 Appearances of Freelancers (Earth-616)
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Ah yes, the curative properties of radium.
America's third-biggest metropolis may possess a valuable radium mine. Its city fathers recently learned to their surprise that Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, contains the country's most radioactive spring, when Dr. J. Lloyd Bohn, Temple University physicist, tested the water that gushes from it. What interests him about the spring is not the curative powers sometimes claimed for such waters, but the possibility that a rich natural deposit of radium may be found near-by.
This article was written about a year after George Orwell introduced the world to Big Brother. Since closed circuit television cameras have become one of the most important and wide spread tools of "Big Brother" it seems a rather appropriate title for the article. The even mention the privacy aspect in comparison to the "much-debated wire-tapping".
YOU CAN use it for anything—absolutely anything. It will show you what's going on around corners, through walls, underwater, in the dark, at the bottom of an oil well—or inside the human stomach.
It's TV's little brother, a small and comparatively inexpensive wired television setup designed for industrial uses. Already three such devices are on the market. Diamond Power Specialty, a subsidiary of I.T.&T. has the Utiliscope; Remington Rand has developed its Vericon, and RCA the Vidicon. In one model the orthicon tube is the size and shape of a small flashlight, and its housing looks like a 16-mm. home movie camera.
I get the feeling this poor kid's father embarrassed him during his whole childhood. I can imagine the picture of him modeling his father's bullet-proof lederhosen.
Lead-Lined Suit specially designed to protect against radioactivity in an A-blast, was designed by Leo Pauwela of Los Angeles and is modeled here by his son. "If it doesn't land on us, we're safe," they say.
The atomic bomb, most feared weapon the world has ever known, may prove to be the savior of millions of human lives!
THE whole world knows and fears the atomic bomb.
Conferences are held about it. Editorials and articles are written about it. It is implanted in the minds of most of us as a symbol for destruction and doom, a terrifying force which unloosed can mean the end of us and the world we know. Yet there is a brighter side to the picture, a side which may eventually prove the atomic bomb to be a savior of mankind rather than a destroyer.
Radium – Boon or Menace?
Member, American Physical Society; Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
RECENTLY the press reported the case of a wealthy man who died from the direct use of radium, in a way that made it necessary for the authorities to step in and investigate the so-called "radium cures". The victim, Eben M. Byers, an iron manufacturer, died in a New York hospital from the effects of radium absorbed by drinking "radithor", a radioactive water manufactured by the Bailey Radium Laboratories, East Orange, New Jersey.
This is a really cute hack using model trains to transport radioactive materials throughout a hospital.
KIDS long ago became resigned to seeing Daddy play with their toy trains most of the time. Now some grown men have taken over a model railroad full time—and they are not just playing. The miniature electric train carries highly radioactive radon gas, used in cancer treatment and research, back and forth between a storage room and a laboratory, eliminating dangerous handling.
The model—a standard Lionel O-gauge locomotive copied from the Pennsylvania Railroad's GG-1—shuttles over a 21-ft. right of way, hauling its "hot" cargo in a lead-lined flatcar. It is the first part of a completely automatic system for transporting radon in the Cleveland Clinic. Eventually, reports Dr. Otto Glasser, medical physicist, the train will be equipped with an automatic dumping device to drop the radon capsule into a pneumatic tube. This will shoot the capsule directly to the hospital's surgery room. When this system is completed, technicians will hardly need come near the radon.
GEOLOGISTS and prospectors can make on-the-spot identifications of radioactive ore findings with the pocket-size uranium test kit offered by Menlo Research Laboratory, Dept. RA, Menlo Park, Calif. The kit, complete with packages of testing chemicals, a 2000° F. blow-torch, solid fire tablets, special wires for forming beads and tongs for holding beads while forming and examining, sells for about $5.00. From 25 to 30 bead tests can be made from one kit. The entire test, which consists of forming a chemical bead on a wire and fusing with crushed ore particles, then examining under ultraviolet light, is said to take less than 5 minutes. Uranium fluoresces a distinctive lemon-yellow color.
OUR long-awaited atomic-powered airplane – Convair's Model NX2 – is finally on the drawing boards, its components in various stages of construction and testing.
After 14 years' research and an investment of close to 1 billion dollars, the plane's reactor is under test and two different engine systems, both slated for early flight testing, are in advanced development.
Nuclear research piles give preview of methods that may be used to make tomorrow's electricity.
You—as a citizen—own a part of the 2-1/2 billion-dollar atomic-energy industry. Although your individual share is only one in 143,000,000, it is probably the most important single thing you own. It provides the most powerful weapon in our arsenal for war, promises cures for many diseases, and will eventually furnish cheaper electricity and transportation.
YOU'VE heard a lot about atomic energy. But you probably have a lot of questions because so few people have actually seen an atomic engine. Well, I have. I was one of a small group of reporters who saw two nuclear piles early this winter. While they were operating, I touched them, stood on top of one, saw it turned on and off, watched as "hot" radioactive materials were taken out of it. So maybe I can help you visualize the process and get rid of some of the mystery. Let's imagine you have just gotten a job running an "atom furnace." Sure I mean you! Some day such jobs will be as common as locomotive engineers. The engines of die future will be like the experimental piles I saw at the Argonne National Laboratory, which the University of Chicago runs for the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, used to transfer heat out of power piles, but what that material will be is still a question. That's one reason nobody has built a real power pile yet. A good heat-transfer fluid will probably be found among the metals that melt easily—bismuth might be a possibility.
Remember, EVERYONE should have a Geiger counter! No exceptions. If you don't build one now, you're going to feel mighty stupid when you're trying to evade the radioactive hot spots in post-apocalyptic America.
EVERYONE, prospector or not, should have a Geiger counter. Many wise householders are assembling survival kits of food, bandages, and water. By adding this handy, inexpensive radiation detector, you can provide your family with a means of detection of contaminated material in the event of atomic warfare. Simple as the counter may be, it will detect radiation as feeble as that given off by a watch dial—or it could make you rich by locating a uranium ore vein.


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Data from: Complementary plant nutrient-acquisition strategies promote growth of neighbour species
Teste, F. (Creator), Veneklaas, E. (Creator), Dixon, K. W. (Creator) & Lambers, H. (Creator), DRYAD, 10 Mar 2014
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.dc394, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.dc394
GSM2043603: villous_S6
Buckberry, S. (Creator) & Roberts, C. T. (Creator), Gene Expression Omnibus (NCBI), 31 Aug 2016
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSM2043603
Parkes observations for project P456 semester 2019APRS_38
Hobbs, G. (Contributor), Manchester, D. (Contributor), Sarkissian, J. (Contributor), Bailes, M. (Creator), Bhat, R. (Contributor), Keith, M. (Contributor), Coles, W. (Contributor), van Straten, W. (Contributor), Russell, C. (Contributor), Oslowski, S. (Contributor), Kerr, M. (Contributor), Dempsey, J. (Contributor), Shannon, R. (Contributor), Wang, J. (Creator), Levin, Y. (Contributor), Wen, L. (Contributor), Zhu, X. (Creator), Dai, S. (Contributor), Reardon, D. J. (Contributor), Spiewak, R. (Contributor), Zhang, L. (Creator) & Parthasarathy, A. (Contributor), CSIRO Publishing, 4 Apr 2019
DOI: 10.25919/5d1d6f6f48711, https://data.csiro.au/collections/#collection/CIcsiro:40487v1/DItrue and one more link, https://doi.org/10.25919%2F5d1d6f6f48711 (show fewer)
Parkes observations for project P456 semester 2018OCTS_35
Hobbs, G. (Creator), Manchester, D. (Creator), Sarkissian, J. (Creator), Bailes, M. (Creator), Bhat, R. (Creator), Keith, M. (Creator), Coles, W. (Creator), van Straten, W. (Creator), Toomey, L. (Creator), Russell, C. (Creator), Oslowski, S. (Creator), Kerr, M. (Creator), Dempsey, J. (Creator), Shannon, R. (Creator), Wang, J. (Creator), Levin, Y. (Creator), Wen, L. (Creator), Zhu, X. (Creator), Dai, S. (Creator), Reardon, D. J. (Creator), Spiewak, R. (Contributor), Zhang, L. (Creator) & Parthasarathy, A. (Creator), CSIRO Data Access Portal, 27 Mar 2019
DOI: 10.25919/5c9b8b0847132, https://doi.org/10.25919%2F5c9b8b0847132
Hobbs, G. (Contributor), Manchester, D. (Contributor), Sarkissian, J. (Contributor), Bailes, M. (Creator), Bhat, R. (Contributor), Keith, M. (Contributor), Coles, W. (Contributor), van Straten, W. (Contributor), Russell, C. (Contributor), Oslowski, S. (Contributor), Kerr, M. (Contributor), Dempsey, J. (Contributor), Shannon, R. (Contributor), Wang, J. (Creator), Levin, Y. (Contributor), Wen, L. (Creator), Zhu, X. (Creator), Dai, S. (Contributor), Reardon, D. J. (Contributor), Spiewak, R. (Contributor), Zhang, L. (Creator) & Parthasarathy, A. (Contributor), CSIRO Data Access Portal, 29 May 2019
DOI: 10.25919/5ced7b2a24b25, https://data.csiro.au/collections/#collection/CIcsiro:39938v1/DItrue
Data from: Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients
Laliberte, E. (Creator), Zemunik, G. (Creator) & Turner, B. L. (Creator), DRYAD, 29 Aug 2015
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ps320, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.ps320
Data from: The rise and fall of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity during ecosystem retrogression
Krüger, M. (Creator), Teste, F. (Creator), Laliberte, E. (Creator), Lambers, H. (Creator), Coghlan, M. (Creator), Zemunik, G. (Creator) & Bunce, M. (Creator), DRYAD, 28 Aug 2015
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.tq0ft, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.tq0ft
Male reproductive traits among natural populations of P. guentheri
Rudin-Bitterli, T. (Creator), Mitchell, N. (Creator) & Evans, J. (Contributor), DRYAD, 8 Sep 2020
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.bk3j9kd8d, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.bk3j9kd8d
Data from: Contrasting diversity and demographic signals in sympatric narrow range endemic shrubs of the southwest Western Australian semi-arid zone
Millar, M. (Creator), Byrne, M. (Creator), Coates, D. (Creator) & Roberts, D. (Creator), DRYAD, 15 Dec 2015
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5vv33, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.5vv33
Mean final auricle distance (AD) measurement (cm) for Synthetic W7984 parent, Opata M85 parent and 105 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) of Synthetic W7984×Opata M85 under both normal watering (control) and water stress during meiosis.
Onyemaobi, I. O. (Creator), Ayalew, H. (Creator), Liu, H. (Creator), Siddique, K. (Creator) & Yan, G. (Creator), Public Library of Science (PLoS), 8 Mar 2018
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194075.s004
Supplemental tables from: Antifibrogenic activities of CYP11A1-derived vitamin D3-hydroxyderivatives are dependent on RORγ
Janjetovic, Z. (Creator), Postlethwaite, A. P. (Creator), Kang, H. S. (Creator), Kim, T. K. (Creator), Tuckey, R. (Creator), Crossman, D. (Creator), Jetten, A. (Creator) & Alominski, A. (Creator), DRYAD, 18 Aug 2020
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.41ns1rnbp, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.41ns1rnbp
Data from: Sperm competition suppresses gene drive among experimentally evolving populations of house mice
Manser, A. (Creator), Lindholm, A. K. (Creator), Simmons, L. (Creator) & Firman, R. (Creator), DRYAD, 15 Jul 2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.p3r38, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.p3r38
Data from: Historical processes and contemporary ocean currents drive genetic structure in the seagrass Thalassia hemprichii in the Indo-Australian Archipelago
Hernawan, U. E. (Creator), Van Dijk, K. (Creator), Kendrick, G. (Creator), Feng, M. (Creator), Biffin, E. (Creator), Lavery, P. S. (Creator) & McMahon, K. (Creator), DRYAD, 19 Dec 2016
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.404rm, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.404rm
Data from: Genetic variation but weak genetic covariation between pre- and postcopulatory episodes of sexual selection in Drosophila melanogaster
Travers, L. M. (Creator), Garcia, P. (Creator) & Simmons, L. (Creator), DRYAD, 20 May 2016
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.fg7jv, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.fg7jv
Data from: Cognitive performance is linked to group size and affects fitness in Australian magpies
Ashton, B. (Creator), Ridley, M. (Creator), Edwards, E. K. (Creator) & Thornton, A. (Creator), DRYAD, 7 Feb 2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ph3h8, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.ph3h8
Fig 6. Source locations of particles transported to the Ningaloo shelf (initialized in PRZ1 zone in Fig 2b) for Scenario 2: Ocean Transport Pathways to a World Heritage Fringing Coral Reef: Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia
Xu, J. (Creator), Lowe, R. (Creator), Ivey, G. (Creator), Jones, N. (Creator) & Zhang, Z. (Creator), Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145822.g006
FLUXNET2015 AU-Ync Jaxa
Beringer, J. (Creator) & Walker, J. (Creator), FLUXNET, 2016
DOI: 10.18140/flx/1440208, https://fluxnet.org/data/fluxnet2015-dataset/
Data from : WALLABY early science - I. The NGC 7162 galaxy group
Reynolds, T. (Creator), Westmeier, T. (Creator), Staveley-Smith, L. (Creator), Elagali, A. (Creator), For, B. (Creator), Kleiner, D. (Creator), Koribalski, B. (Creator), Lee-Waddell, K. (Creator), Madrid, J. P. (Creator), Popping, A. (Creator), Rhee, J. (Creator), Whiting, M. F. (Creator), Wong, I. (Creator), Davies, L. (Creator), Driver, S. (Creator), Robotham, A. (Creator), Allison, J. R. (Creator), Bekiaris, G. (Creator), Collier, J. D. (Creator) & Heald, G. H. (Creator), SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Jan 2019
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2930, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.482.3591R/abstract and 5 more links, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2019MNRAS.482.3591R/NED, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2019MNRAS.482.3591R/MAST, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2019MNRAS.482.3591R/ESO, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2019MNRAS.482.3591R/SIMBAD, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2019MNRAS.482.3591R/IRSA (show fewer)
6WCK
Bond, C. (Creator), Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University, 15 Apr 2020
DOI: 10.2210/pdb6WCK/pdb
ASKAP Data Products for Project AS102 (ASKAP Pilot Survey for WALLABY): catalogues
Koribalski, B. (Creator), Kilborn, V. (Creator), Staveley-Smith, L. (Creator), Wong, I. (Creator), Whiting, M. (Creator), Serra, P. (Creator), Westmeier, T. (Creator), Popping, A. (Creator), Huynh, M. (Creator), Hotan, A. (Creator), Catinella, B. (Creator), Kleiner, D. (Creator), For, B. (Creator), Rhee, J. (Creator), Lee-Waddell, K. (Creator), Elagali, A. E. M. (Creator), Spekkens, K. (Creator), Murugeshan, C. (Creator), Reynolds, T. (Creator) & Bekiaris, G. (Creator), CSIRO Data Access Portal, 18 Feb 2020
DOI: 10.25919/q0f1-bt41, https://data.csiro.au/collections/collection/CIcsiro:43096v1/DItrue/PD1612966567679 and 3 more links, http://hdl.handle.net/102.100.100/319462?index=1, https://data.csiro.au/collections/collection/CIcsiro:43096v1/DItrue/PD1617160606922, https://data.csiro.au/collections/#collection/CIcsiro:43096v1/DItrue/PD1601953266765 (show fewer)
Data from: Climate change impacts on marine biodiversity, fisheries and society in the Arabian Gulf
Pauly, D. (Creator), Khalfallah, M. (Creator), Al-Abdulrazzak, D. (Creator), Teh, L. C. L. (Creator), Reygondeau, G. (Creator), Wabnitz, C. C. C. (Creator), Palomares, M. L. D. (Creator), Zeller, D. (Creator), Cheung, W. W. L. (Creator) & Lam, V. W. Y. (Creator), Scholars Portal Dataverse, 24 Jun 2021
DOI: 10.5683/sp2/9rf9ku, https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/citation?persistentId=doi:10.5683/SP2/9RF9KU
Tantabiddi Sediment Dynamics Experiment (Ninglaoo Reef): Hydrodynamic And Suspended Sediment Data
Pomeroy, A. (Creator), Zenodo, 29 Apr 2016
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.126670, http://www.mendeley.com/research/tantabiddi-sediment-dynamics-experiment-ninglaoo-reef-hydrodynamic-suspended-sediment-data
Data from: Female crickets assess relatedness during mate guarding and bias storage of sperm toward unrelated males
Tuni, C. (Creator), Beveridge, M. (Creator) & Simmons, L. (Creator), DRYAD, 9 Jan 2013
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.907p8, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.907p8
Seagrass Habitats Presence Absence VIC (ACEAS)
Canto, R. (Contributor), Udy, J. (Contributor), McMahon, K. (Contributor), Waycott, M. (Contributor), Kilminster, K. (Contributor), Kendrick, G. (Contributor), Roelfsema, C. (Contributor), Scanes, P. (Contributor) & West, G. (Contributor), Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), 1 Feb 2014
DOI: 10.4227/05/54f7cff4a9547, https://doi.org/10.4227%2F05%2F54f7cff4a9547
Data from: Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Defining passive galaxy samples and searching for the UV upturn
Phillipps, S. (Creator), Ali, S. S. (Creator), Bremer, M. N. (Creator), De Propris, R. (Creator), Sansom, A. E. (Creator), Cluver, M. E. (Creator), Alpaslan, M. (Creator), Brough, S. (Creator), Brown, M. J. I. (Creator), Davies, L. (Creator), Driver, S. (Creator), Grootes, M. W. (Creator), Holwerda, B. W. (Creator), Hopkins, A. M. (Creator), James, P. A. (Creator), Pimbblet, K. (Creator), Robotham, A. (Creator), Taylor, E. N. (Creator) & Wang, L. (Creator), SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Feb 2020
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.492.2128P/abstract and 2 more links, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2020MNRAS.492.2128P/SIMBAD, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2020MNRAS.492.2128P/MAST (show fewer)


If you have type 1 diabetes, you'll probably need insulin injections. Insulin must be injected, because if it were taken as a tablet, it would be broken down in your stomach ( like food) and would be unable to enter your bloodstream.
When you're first diagnosed, your diabetes care team will help you with your insulin injections, before showing you how and when to do it yourself. They'll also show you how to store your insulin and dispose of your needles properly.
Your GP or diabetes nurse may also teach one of your close friends or relatives how to inject the insulin properly.
Insulin pump therapy is an alternative to injecting insulin. An insulin pump is a small device that holds insulin and is about the size of a pack of playing cards.
The pump is attached to you by a long, thin piece of tubing, with a needle at the end, which is inserted under your skin. Most people insert the needle into their stomach, but you could also insert it into your hips, thighs, buttocks or arms.
The pump allows insulin to continuously flow into your bloodstream at a rate you can control. This means you no longer need to give yourself injections, although you'll need to monitor your blood glucose levels very closely to ensure you're receiving the right amount of insulin.
Insulin pump therapy can be used by adults, teenagers and children (with adult supervision) who have type 1 diabetes. However, it may not be suitable for everyone. Your diabetes care team may suggest pump therapy if you have frequent episodes of low blood glucose (hypoglycaemia) .
If you have type1 diabetes, your GP or diabetes care team will need to take a reading of your blood glucose level about every two to six months.
This will show how stable your glucose levels have been in the recent past and how well your treatment plan is working.
The HbA1c test is used to measure blood glucose levels over the previous two to three months.
HbA1c is a form of haemoglobin, the chemical that carries oxygen in red blood cells, which also has glucose attached to it.
A high HbA1c level means that your blood glucose level has been consistently high over recent weeks, and your diabetes treatment plan may need to be changed.
Your diabetes care team can help you set a target HbA1c level to aim for. This will usually be less than 59mmol/mol (7.5%). However, it can be as low as 48mmol/mol (6.5%) for some people.
It can be useful for detecting high blood sugar (hyperglycaemia) or low blood sugar (hypoglycaemia) .
If blood glucose monitoring is recommended, you should be trained in how to use a blood glucose meter and what you should do if the reading is too high or too low.
Blood glucose meters aren't currently available for free on the NHS but, in some cases, blood monitoring strips may be. Ask a member of your diabetes care team if you're unsure.
Regularly monitoring your blood glucose levels will ensure your blood glucose is as normal and stable as possible.
As your blood glucose level is likely to vary throughout the day, you may need to check it several times a day, depending on the treatment you're taking.
In home testing, blood glucose levels are usually measured by how many millimoles of glucose are in a litre of blood.
A millimole is a measurement used to define the concentration of glucose in your blood. The measurement is expressed as millimoles per litre, or mmol/l for short.
A normal blood glucose level is 4-6 mmol/l before meals (preprandial) and less than 10 mmol/l two hours after meals (postprandial), although this can vary from person to person.
Your diabetes care team can discuss your blood glucose level with you in more detail.
Hyperglycaemia can occur when your blood glucose levels become too high. It can happen for several reasons, such as eating too much, being unwell or not taking enough insulin.
If you develop hyperglycaemia, you may need to adjust your diet or your insulindose to keep your glucose levels normal. Your diabetes care team can advise you about the best way to do this.
If hyperglycaemia isn't treated, it can lead to a condition called diabetic ketoacidosis , where the body begins to break down fats for energy instead of glucose, resulting in a build-up of ketones (acids) in your blood.
Diabetic ketoacidosis is very serious and if not addressed quickly, it can lead to unconsciousness and eventually death.
You'll be given insulin directly into a vein (intravenously). You may also need other fluids given by a drip if you're dehydrated, including salt solution and potassium.
If you have type1 diabetes that's controlled using insulin or certain types of tablets, you may experience episodes of hypoglycaemia .
Hypoglycaemia is where your blood glucose levels become very low.
Mild hypoglycaemia (a "hypo") can make you feel shaky, weak and hungry, but it can usually be controlled by eating or drinking something sugary.
If you have a hypo, you should initially have a form of carbohydrate that will act quickly, such as a sugary drink or glucose tablets.
This should be followed by a longer-acting carbohydrate, such as a cereal bar, sandwich or piece of fruit.
In most cases, these measures will be enough to raise your blood glucose level to normal, although it may take a few hours.
If you develop severe hypoglycaemia, you may become drowsy and confused, and you may even lose consciousness.
If this occurs, you may need to have an injection of glucagon into your muscle or glucose into a vein. Glucagon is a hormone that quickly increases your blood glucose levels.
Your diabetes care team can advise you on how to avoid a hypo and what to do if you have one.
Diabetic kidney disease is identified by the presence of small amounts of a protein called albumin in your urine. It's often reversible if treated early enough.


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Pinypon mini-dolls get new life in animated telenovela
Spanish toyco Famosa has secured a deal with Madrid's Anima Kitchent, a new prodco incorporated by Mexico's Anima Estudios, to turn its popular mini-doll brand Pinypon into an animated TV series for girls ages six to eight.
Spanish toyco Famosa has secured a deal with Madrid's Anima Kitchent, a new prodco incorporated by Mexico's Anima Estudios, to turn its popular mini-doll brand Pinypon into an animated TV series for girls ages six to eight.
With production expected to begin this spring, PINY, Pinypon Institute of New York is a 52 x 11-minute fashion- and lifestyle-based series that will be part of a larger multiplatform Pinypon entertainment brand featuring animated shorts destined for mobile and online distribution.
The series, which follows a telenovela structure with full season story arcs, is set in an exclusive New York fashion and design school and follows the adventures of main character Michelle and her fashionista friends as they navigate their personal and educational lives at the institute.
Anima Kitchent and Famosa will present the series at next week's Kidscreen Summit in Miami.
Famosa's Pinypon mini-doll brand launched 30 years ago and its products are currently sold in more than 80 countries.
On top of launching Anima Kitchent, Ánima Estudios also handles international management and marketing for Vodka Capital brands including Jelly Jamm, Bugsted and Pirata & Capitano, has produced nine animated feature films (Top Cat: The Movie, The Legend of La Llorona) and the iconic Latin American toon El Chavo since 2006.
Anima Estudios, Anima Kitchent, Famosa, Kidscreen Summit, mini-dolls, Pinypon Institute of New York, Spain
Jeremy is the Features Editor of Kidscreen specializing in the content production, broadcasting and distribution aspects of the global children's entertainment industry. Contact Jeremy at jdickson@brunico.com.
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In the heart of the Parisian suburb in Cergy, StuGi team met the challenge of creating the peaks of Mont Blanc in an urban setting. The park was designed to create an extreme park of the peaks of the mountain along with a rope park.
Stainless steel pipes built specifically for the size of the facility, designed handholds and the color of the rocks painted in winter colors in white, and a black summer of basalt peaks, Created a challenging and spectacular park in the heart of the neighborhood.


I really enjoy the process of gardening. I attribute my appreciation for the art form to my mother who, ever since I can remember, had the most beautiful ornamental garden. To be quite honest my appreciation never went further than the role of the observer. When I was younger the process meant interacting with spiders and bees which were absolutely terrifying to me. Watering and pruning seemed exhausting and the world beneath the flowers seemed squalid and foreign. This all changed when I moved into my own apartment while I was in third year university. I started to deck my window sills with potted plants and slowly but surely my initial fears turned into unfolding mysteries. What were the plants names? Did they require sunlight? How many times a month should I water them? Today gardening is part of my lifestyle, one that I practice in my backyard garden. My mother used to spend hours outside and I was never able to relate to that passion until I started seeing the fruits of my own labour. Now I can't resist the temptation to slide my feet into gardening boots and conquer my vegetable quests. My motivation is compounded by the fact that Bryan (my boyfriend) also has a green thumb. In the past he has turned wastelands into thriving vegetable gardens and dreams of transforming abandoned lots around the city into agriculture havens. His eyes are always scanning barren landscapes and imagining ways to reinvent them. He is currently working on a city gardening project right now but I'll expand on that at a later date once he finishes it.
Last summer was the first time we collaborated on a vegetable patch. We did pretty well and managed to enjoy tomatoes, green beans, romaine lettuce and fresh herbs including basil, rosemary and mint. This year as soon as the temperatures started warming up we were ready to plant again. So far we have started to grow snowball cauliflower, purple calabash and roma tomatoes, yellow peppers and thai basil. Soon we'll be starting beets, buttercrunch and romaine lettuce, italian and purple basil and some edible flower varieties.
We went to Urban Harvest to buy our seeds which is one of our favourite places in the city to visit. Bryan and I accidentally stumbled upon it when bike riding around Roncesvalles. Tucked on Sorauren Avenue the store is very quaint and thriving with life. Hundreds of organic seed packets line the shelves and the diversity of the selection is amazing! You can also find wildflower seeds as well as organic soil fertilizers. The owner Collete is extremely knowledgeable and very helpful if you have any questions. While you're there I know you'll be tempted by the rye flour, maple syrup, balsamic vinegar, skin care products, fresh eggs, apples and bread that are offered as well. All of the products are right from Ontario!
If you really want to become inspired about growing your own garden then pick up City Farmer written by Lorraine Johnson. An expert in the field of city farming, Lorraine guides you through the process and importance of growing your own food. Don't have a backyard? She lists several ways to grow food in your condo, down alleys etc,. As long as you have space there are hundreds of ingenious ways to cultivate your own crops. Her book is full of vitality and so utterly inspiring. I bought my copy from Collete's shop so if you stop by I highly suggest you pick it up. I guarantee you won't regret it. I am so enthusiastic about this book that I have been telling everyone, I mean everyone I know about it. You will too. You'll see.


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Slim Chickens Opening Two Stores in Biloxi, Mississippi
Industry News | January 5, 2023
Slim Chickens announced two new restaurant openings in Biloxi, Mississippi. Multi-unit operating group, Southern Partners, is spearheading the opening.
The better-chicken brand has opened more than 200 locations across the United States and in the United Kingdom, and is known for its passionate group of followers in the markets in which it operates. With more than 1,100 locations in development, the brand's momentum continues to lead in its category.
"We're so grateful for the dedication of Southern Partners in satisfying our fans with the new locations in Mississippi. Now, the community in Biloxi will be able to savor our delicious chicken paired with a variety of house-made dipping sauces, whether it's to-go or dining in," says Jackie Lobdell, Vice President of Franchise Development at Slim Chickens. "It's an honor to have a team like Southern Partners, who are as passionate as we are about expanding Slim Chickens and further expanding the brand's growth into new communities. The Southern Partners team is a prime example of the type of operating groups we are looking for in our ongoing expansion efforts both nationwide and globally."
The brand prides itself on its cooked-to-order fresh food and strong devoted fanbase, also known as "Slimthusiasts." Slim Chickens has distinguished itself in the better-chicken segment by offering high-quality food and 17 house-made dipping sauces, allowing customers to enjoy a different flavor profile with each visit. Its menu is broader than many in the segment, offering chicken tenders, fresh salads, sandwiches, chicken and waffles, chicken wings and unique side items. Fans also resonate with the southern contemporary look and feel and open and inviting layout of Slim Chickens restaurants, which speak to the hospitality mindset that anchors the brand.
Slim Chickens' franchise opportunity differentiates itself with prime markets available for multi-unit development, a passionate leadership team and world-class franchisee support system. As Slim Chickens expands, it is awarding franchise opportunities to qualified, experienced and passionate multi-unit groups looking to add a dynamic segment to their portfolio.


W H Auden's 'The Shield of Achilles', written in 1952, is also the title poem of the collection in which it was published in 1955. The eponymous shield features in book 18 of the Homeric epic poem the Iliad, in a passage which has become famous as an example of ekphrasis: the 'extended and detailed literary description of any object, real or imaginary', according to the Oxford Classical Dictionary.
In book 16, the hero Achilles – the greatest of the Greek warriors – has allowed his companion Patroclus to go into a battle of the Trojan war wearing his armour; the god Apollo has stripped him of it, and the Trojan Hector killed him. On hearing this, Achilles vows revenge, regardless of warnings from his mother, Thetis, that he will die just after he gets it. New armour – including the shield – is made for Achilles by Hephaestos, blacksmith to the gods. Following the Homeric tradition of epithets, Auden describes him as the 'thin-lipped armorer'.
Like Hephaestos, Auden has created a complex, interlocking art object, with repeated motifs and references to the world outside of it. As is clearly visible on the page, the poem is divided into stanzaic form. The first three alternating stanzas of eight shorter lines each begin 'She looked over his shoulder'. They each describe Thetis examining the shield for the type of scenery which is described in the Iliad's version of the shield – an allegorical depiction of what seems like a well-ordered heaven and earth, replete with dancing, agriculture and justice. By the end of each stanza, however, she has again been disappointed. The alternating stanzas of seven longer lines – known as rhyme royal, and used by Auden in other poems such as 'Letter to Lord Byron' (1936) – show what looks more like an image of the violence and injustice of the world after the Second World War, and compare it with the heroism of Homeric combat.
The lines 'Barbed wire enclosed an arbitrary spot' and 'A million eyes, a million boots in line', fall some way short of the individual heroism of Homeric combat, and the 'three posts driven upright into the ground' recall Christ crucified with a thief either side of him, 'as ordinary folk looked on'. Yet whatever the differences from the original, or the changes in the nature of war or society, in the end, our Achilles will still 'not live long'.
John Sutherland describes the life of W H Auden and takes a look at three of his poems.
Develop understanding of W H Auden's innovative style of poetry, and reflect on the poetry's relevance today.


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Bugno aiming for third term as CPA President
By Cycling News 21 December 2017
Disc brakes, job losses and transition fund main issues to be addressed in 2018
Gianni Bugno representing the CPA (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
Former pro Gianni Bugno is going to seek a third term as president of the riders' association, the CPA, when elections come at the end of the 2018 season. The organization announced the news in a press release after its Steering Committee met in Milan this week.
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The Italian is hoping to continue to address the major topics that the CPA has worked on over the past several years, including the introduction of disc brakes, as well as addressing new topics such as the loss of jobs in pro cycling following the UCI's decision to reduce team sizes for Grand Tours and other major races that led to many teams reducing their rosters.
"I am convinced that it is important for the riders to work in continuity and it is important for me to lead some ongoing projects to completion, as David Lappartient also told me to do so," Bugno said. "All the members of this Steering Committee have expressed themselves in favor of this new mandate, and this touched me a lot and confirmed my choice."
The UCI has yet to fully endorse the use of disc brakes in road races, preferring to continue allowing their use on an experimental basis.
The CPA has lobbied against the phased introduction, arguing that a mix of braking systems could lead to crashes.
The organisation will continue to fight for safety, but will also push for riders to be allowed a choice in which braking system they use. In addition, the members of the CPA are convinced that the riders must first of all be able to choose the braking system they want to use.
Bugno has been travelling to several team camps to discuss the topic with some of the sport's top riders. "Even if we have to protect the weakest, to have a direct link with the big names of cycling is important for our movement, because their support will give more strength to our initiatives and – if necessary - fights," Bugno explained.
The CPA is also continuing to work on an automated system for riders to receive race prize money from organisers to ensure riders are paid their due awards in a transparent and efficient way.
"Since some time the CPA has been working on a new, centralised and automatic prize money management system," said a representative from the organization. "The aim of this system will be to guarantee that all the riders receive their prizes, to be in order with the fiscal law of each country, in a transparent, fast and automatic way.
"We want to make sure also that the riders will pay the smallest possible fee for this management. The PCC (Professional Cycling Council) allowed the CPA to be the center of this management system and soon a working commission made of a representative of each part of cycling (UCI, AIOCC, AIGCP) will work to finalise the budget needed for our system."
The organisation also discovered issues with its "Transition and Career Fund" - a benefit that gives riders a one-time payment of €12,500 upon retirement. The General Secretary David Chassot noted increased claims on the fund, which is supplied by a percentage (5%) of total prize purses from race organisers, but the funds "reserves have melted" because many organisers have failed to pay into it. The CPA has had to lend money to the fund.
Regarding the job losses, the CPA reiterated its objection to the team size reduction, and says it will study the races in 2018 to determine if smaller pelotons create a safer race environment and better competition.
Bugno is also looking to make improvements to the CPA's joint agreement with the teams' organisation (AIGCP), "in particular about the insurance coverage of the riders."


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FERC Testifies before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy, on Oversight of FERC: Ensuring Its Actions Benefit Consumers and the Environment, Part I: Chairman Neil Chatterjee and Commissioner Cheryl A. LaFleur
On June 12, the Chairman and Commissioners of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) testified before the Subcommittee on Energy Committee on Energy and Commerce on the oversight of FERC. The full hearing can be watched here. This is the testimony of Chairman Neil Chatterjee and Commissioner Cheryl A. LaFleur.
Chairman Chatterjee's Testimony
Chatterjee pointed out that there have been some major changes in the energy industry over the last decade, and that FERC has worked to "remain vigilant about these changes and respond to them in ways that enhance competition in electricity markets, support the resilience of the bulk-power system, and lower costs to consumers." He said one of the more recent changes was "the improvement in electric storage technologies." He highlighted some of FERC's work "regarding the participation of electric storage resources in wholesale electricity markets as an example of how FERC is responding to our evolving energy landscape."
"Traditionally, a variety of factors have created challenges to storage resources' participation in the wholesale electric markets," Chatterjee said. This led FERC to issue Order No. 841 in 2018, "to remove barriers to the participation of electric storage resources in the capacity, energy, and ancillary services markets operated by regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs)." He said that the result of this order should lead to "an increase in the deployment of storage resources, which should result in greater reliability and lower prices for customers by enhancing competition."
He explained that FERC has also been "evaluating barriers to the participation of distributed energy resource aggregations in the markets operated by RTOs and ISOs." In 2018 a technical conference held by FERC staff, they worked to "gather more information regarding the participation of distributed energy resource aggregations in wholesale electricity markets, as well as to discuss more broadly the potential effects of distributed energy resources on the bulk-power system."
Chatterjee also discussed the cyber and physical security issues affecting the energy infrastructure. "America's critical infrastructure is increasingly under attack by foreign adversaries. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation have issued multiple public reports describing cyber-intrusion campaigns by foreign government actors against our critical infrastructure, including the electric grid."
"Physical and cyber-attacks on our critical infrastructure systems have the potential to create significant, widespread, and potentially devastating effects" an attack could have. He explained that FERC has been working "to address cyber and physical security risks as consistent with section 215 of the Federal Power Act, which grants us the authority to approve and enforce mandatory Reliability Standards developed by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)."
Chatterjee said FERC issued two orders in 2018 to help improve security. "First, at our October 2018 Commission Meeting, we approved NERC's proposed Reliability Standards to address supply chain threats… Second, at our July 2018 Commission Meeting, we approved a final rule directing NERC to expand reporting requirements for critical systems. That final rule directed NERC to develop a standard that requires registered entities to report successful and attempted intrusions into critical systems to NERC's Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, as well as to DHS."
He said FERC's Office of Energy Infrastructure Security has been working "with partners in industry, states, and other federal agencies to address both cyber and physical security issues for critical energy infrastructure. These initiatives include, among other things, voluntary architecture assessments of interested entities, classified briefings for state and industry officials, and joint security programs with other government agencies and industry."
LaFleur's Testimony
LaFleur said that since the wholesale electric power markets were created 20 years ago, they have grown to the point that they now serve over two-thirds of the country. "These markets save customers money by driving the efficient dispatch of resources over a large footprint, facilitate the introduction of innovative technologies and greater customer-side participation in the power supply, and, depending on the underlying state regulatory construct, shift investment risk from electricity customers to company shareholders."
She said there are some challenges the markets face, but even with those concerns, "participation in organized markets continues to expand, with utilities and states in the West and Southeast exploring integration into existing organized markets or the creation of new regional markets."
She explained that recently " there has been significant debate over whether power markets are "real" markets. Frankly, this debate concerns me, as I have observed it often occurs in conjunction with arguments favoring intervention on behalf of particular types of resources, at the expense of economic efficiency and therefore customer benefits." LaFleur said that there needs to be regulation in every market to make sure it stays both fair and effective, but "the real-time nature of electricity, which requires the balancing of load and supply second by second, leads to a more complex market than many others, and requires more comprehensive regulation to ensure its proper function."
Resource selection, Lafleur says, is a big challenge for both FERC and the electric industry as a whole. She said this is a complex issue, " particularly in states that restructured their retail electricity supply, given the divided regulatory responsibilities among the states, the organized markets, and the Commission."
"In recent years … power markets generally have been roiled by low gas prices and by the build-out of renewables that have different cost, operating, and geographic characteristics than traditional fuel-based generation. These lower cost resources have significantly decreased wholesale power prices, to customers' benefit, but have also threatened the financial viability of certain traditional resources, particularly coal and nuclear plants." Several states responded to those changes by seeking "either to retain resources that are not thriving in the market, or to accelerate the resource change by supporting new resources that the market would not otherwise procure."
Another major issue that FERC is facing, according to Lafleur is: "once we have selected the resources we need for the future – whether by market forces, integrated resource planning, or some combination – how do we price and dispatch them?" There is evidence from all over the country that, in both "organized markets and bilateral market regions, indicates that a fundamental shift in how we procure and pay for energy is underway."
It was only recently that it stopped being "accepted without question that electric power was priced on volume, since a major component of cost was the commodity cost of the fuel burned to generate it. Baseload, intermediate, and peaking resources each played a well-understood role in helping to balance load." She said that the data from more recent years shows that "cost curves, which traditionally have identified baseload resources as the cheapest and peaking resources as the most expensive, now look differently in many areas. With persistently low natural gas prices, zero marginal cost renewable resources, and distributed energy resources changing the shape of load curves, the traditional cost structures that supported resources may no longer provide appropriate compensation."
"To help adapt to the new resource mix, regional market operators and others are considering new ways of paying for power, with a focus on services instead of volume. This change is visible in the energy and ancillary services markets, with services such as flexible ramping products, scarcity pricing, new forms of reserves, and a greater attention to essential reliability services. In addition, some regions have revised their capacity markets to better ensure resource performance."
FERC has been taking "steps to ensure that new resources, including storage, variable resources, demand response, and distributed energy resources, can compete to provide services that customers need."
Lafleur also addressed the use of gas energy: "The growth in domestic natural gas production and gas-fired electric generation has led to considerable buildout of the nation's gas pipeline network. I have called for reconsideration of how the Commission determines the need for pipelines to reflect market conditions and assess on a regional basis whether more infrastructure can be supported for these long-lived assets."
She says that she also thinks FERC "must do a better job of assessing and considering the climate impacts of gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects. Before determining whether a proposed pipeline project is in the public interest under the Natural Gas Act (NGA), the Commission must disclose and consider the project's environmental impacts under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)." However, when it comes to LNG projects, FERC "must find that the proposed LNG export facility is not inconsistent with the public interest under the Natural Gas Act, while the Department of Energy (DOE), not FERC, considers the public interest regarding the export of the gas itself."
"In May of 2018, the Commission elected to remove much of the greenhouse gas (GHG) quantification and consideration from orders going forward. I disagree with this decision and continue to advocate that the Commission undertake robust climate analysis; specifically, quantifying, considering and assessing the significance of the direct, indirect, and cumulative GHG emissions from proposed projects." Lafleur explained that she will conduct her "own GHG calculation and analysis to weigh against the pipeline benefits and set out my thinking in separate concurring statements."
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Energy Infrastructure Update for April 2019 Issued by FERC
FERC Testifies before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy, on Oversight of FERC: Ensuring Its Actions Benefit Consumers and the Environment, Part II: Commissioners Richard Glick and Bernard L. McNamee


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