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Kadaga flags off Busoga Consortium team to China
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has called on Ugandans living in the diaspora to promote development by attracting foreign investors into the country.
Kadaga said that this would lead to economic growth and improvement of the livelihoods of Ugandans.
"The success of such efforts contributes to a cohesive and economically empowered people where political actors, businesses and friends collectively contribute to development," Kadaga said.
Kadaga made the remarks while flagging off a 13-person delegation of the Busoga Consortium to attend the 18th edition of the World Shenyang Sister Cities Conference in China.
The Speaker, who is the patron of the Consortium, said the team led by Minister for Presidency Hon. Esther Mbayo, will sign a letter of intent to establish friendship city relationships between Jinja city and Shenyang city in China, among other memoranda of understanding.
"The delegation will sign an academic exchange agreement between Jinja School of Nursing and Midwifery and Shenyang Medical College… a Memorandum of Understanding between Busoga Consortium and Shenyang Construction University to promote scientific research," said Kadaga.
She added that the Consortium is working with Government to secure over 500 acres of land in Iganga as well as 380 acres of land in Jinja for setting up an industrial park.
"We have identified 450 acres of land in Kige, Kamuli district for possible development of an industrial park and the land is ready for investors, so please inform our Chinese friends," Kadaga told the delegation.
Mbayo said that at the World Shenyang Sister Cities Conference, they would promote Busoga's tourism and business potential and that of Uganda so as to attract more investments into the country.
"We shall venture into discussions in areas of the industrial park, tourism, culture and health; we seek your commendation as our patron," Mbayo told the Speaker.
The Busoga Consortium was initiated by Vice President, Edward Ssekandi in 2017 following an MoU signed by 10 District Local Government Chairpersons, intended to rally the people and friends of Busoga to unite and steer socio-economic development.
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Jan de Vos II, ook bekend als Johannes de Vos II (circa 1615-1693) was een kladschilder en kunstschilder in de Nederlandse stad Leiden.

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Jan de Vos II werd omstreeks 1615 geboren als zoon van Jan de Vos I en Jannetgen den Droghe. Jan de Vos III stamt uit het tweede huwelijk van hun vader met Marytge Jacquemijns. Jan de Vos II en III waren dus halfbroers. Jan de Vos II is zelf ook tweemaal getrouwd geweest: eerst met Aeltgen Adams Treurniet te Leiden op 1 september 1639 en daarna met Trijntje Cors van der Mij, ook te Leiden, op 15 januari 1683.

Gelijktijdig met zijn vader trad Jan de Vos II in 1648 toe tot het Sint Lucasgilde, beide in de hoedanigheid van kladschilder. Ter onderscheid werden ze aangeduid als de oude en de jonghe. Nadat zijn vader in 1663 en 1664 namens de kladschilders tot hoofdman van het gilde was gekozen, vervulde Jan de Vos II die functie in 1665 en 1666, waarna hij deken van de grote quast werd.

Tot 1670 ondertekende hij als Johannes de Vos de Jonghe; daarna als Johannes de Vos van Vossenburgh. Waarschijnlijk was zijn vader toen inmiddels overleden. Behalve zijn handtekening gebruikte hij ook vaak een afbeelding van een vosje als signatuur.

Toen Jan de Vos II voor de eerste keer trouwde woonde hij nog in bij zijn vader aan de Achtergracht. Daarna woonde hij met zijn gezin – hij kreeg in het eerste huwelijk ten minste vier kinderen – aan de Middelweg, tot hij in 1651 een huis kocht aan de Koppenhinksteeg. Uit de huwelijkse voorwaarden bij zijn tweede huwelijk blijkt dat Jan de Vos II zeer succesvol moet zijn geweest. Hij was op dat moment eigenaar van 19 huizen, een grafstede (familiegraf) en een speeltuin (Burgers die zomers de stank van de stad wilden ontvluchten kochten vaak een 'speeltuin' of 'lusthof' buiten de stad. De echte rijken lieten zelfs een buitenplaats bouwen) buiten de Zijlpoort. Ook bezat hij meer dan honderd schilderijen, waaronder elf portretten van zijn familie.

Trijntje Cors van der Mij overleed in januari 1691. Jan de Vos II in de week van 7 tot 14 november 1693.

Verwarring rond vier Leidse Schilders
In Leiden waren gedurende het tweede en derde kwart van de 17e eeuw ten minste vier schilders actief met de naam Jan of Johannes de Vos. Door Abraham Bredius (1855-1946) werd daarom in zijn werk Künstler-Inventare een onderscheid aangebracht tussen Jan de Vos I, II, III en IV. De eerste drie zijn afkomstig uit dezelfde kinderrijke familie, respectievelijk de vader en twee van zijn zoons, halfbroers, want van verschillende moeders. Kunstschilder Jan de Vos IV is van hen waarschijnlijk geen familie. Bredius zou volgens een latere studie van C. Willemijn Fock en R.E.O. Ekkart Johannes de Vos, Verwarring rond vier Leidse Schilders niet geheel foutloos zijn geweest in zijn onderscheid van en de toerekening van schilderwerken aan de verschillende schilders met de naam Jan de Vos. Belangrijkste verschil is de constatering dat Jan de Vos I nooit een kunstschilder is geweest, in tegenstelling tot zijn zoon Jan de Vos II, die zich juist ontwikkeld zou hebben van kladschilder  tot kunstschilder. Jan de Vos II zou onder meer de schilder van verschillende landschappen zijn geweest, waaronder het dus ten onrechte aan zijn vader toegeschreven Gezicht op Delft vanaf de Vliet vanuit het noorden. Jan de Vos IV zou zich op zijn beurt juist als portretschilder hebben onderscheiden.

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Niet alleen Gezicht op Delft vanaf de Vliet vanuit het noorden, maar ook enkele andere landschappen die zich bevinden in musea te Stockholm (met een zicht op de stad Keulen) en Düsseldorf (een duinlandschap) zouden ten onrechte niet aan Jan de Vos II maar aan zijn vader zijn toegeschreven.

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These talented and highly-motivated individuals are awarded the unique opportunity to spend two years working full-time for senior and top-ranking government officials. Fellows will be oriented in state government by spending the first six to nine months of the fellowship working with the Office of Customer Focused Government. The enterprise-wide initiatives that fellows will support are focused exclusively on identifying and producing measurable improvements in the state's operations.
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What is the purpose of the program?
The fellowship program's mission is to recruit exceptional leaders into the executive branch of state government in order to provide aspiring professionals with significant responsibilities and the opportunity to serve and learn with the state's top executive leaders. The fellowship will infuse state government with enthusiastic and talented recent graduates, committed to making Tennessee a better place to live, work, and raise a family.
The fellowship is focused on improving operational efficiency and effectiveness in state government. Please note, this is not a policy focused fellowship.
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I'm an undergraduate student, which transcripts do I need to submit?
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Letters should not exceed one single-spaced page.
If I am selected for the final round of interviews in Nashville, will my travel expenses be covered?
All travel expenses will be covered for applicants who are accepted to the final round of interviews. More specific details will be communicated to those who are accepted for final interviews.
What is the orientation process like?
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What is expected of a Governor's Fellow during the program?
Being a Governor's Fellow is a prestigious honor and a full-time commitment. As part of a distinguished group of future leaders, fellows are expected to work hard, fully engage in their work placement, and take advantage of the opportunities available to them as they serve at the top level of state government.
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Yes. However, a job offer is not guaranteed at the end of the two-year fellowship.
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The greatest thing we've lost
Vinay Prasad
One of the tragic declines in our culture is the loss of a sense of duty. I have no respect for people who don't have an internal sense of duty, or worse fail to abide by duty.
I had been seeing patients in person on the wards and in clinic at OHSU when the pandemic struck. I moved to UCSF ( the move was planned before the pandemic) and hammer called the California Medical License Board until they processed my application, and then resumed duties in person at the San Francisco General Hospital, where I continue to attend in clinic and on the wards… in person.
I'm more than happy to attend in person because that's what I signed up for when I became a doctor. Like all doctors, I signed up to attend in person for all viruses— no matter how lethal. During the days of 2020, the panic was real. But as a doctor I have a duty. Instead of retreating, I found a way to do extra shifts, which I continue to this day.
We used surgical masks in rooms that had stagnant air flow, but that was the recommendation of the time, and I never complained. No one said this job is without risk. You learn that the first time you place a central line or do any procedure on someone with a blood-borne illness. Risk is part of the job.
I understood very well that given my age, health, and the actual IFR that the risk was modest. But even if the IFR had been 10 times higher, you wouldn't find me sitting at home because I have a duty in life.
When the school closures hit in the fall of 2020, I use whatever pulpit I had to push on the issue as hard as possible. I knew very clearly it was a foolish decision. As someone who had trained in policy, analyzing that question was easy. But how to persuade others? People who seemed not to be using their brain?
I quickly brought on a steady stream of guest like Carycruz Bueno, Vlad Logan, Alasdair Munro and others to build the case that the harms of school closure far outweighed the benefits. There was professional backlash for this decision. But you don't cry about that. If you sign up to be a professor, and your goal is to improve the well-being of the world, you got to push on the issues that really matter.
In 2021, I turned my attention to the evidence for masking very young children. I read many papers in the topic, and ended up publishing a systematic review with my colleagues from Harvard and the University of Colorado. You don't have to spend much time before you realize the evidence is god-awful. There is literally no credible studies that making a two-year-old wear a cloth mask will help. It also runs counter to basic common sense, and the consensus of most experts pre-pandemic. Europeans and the WHO think it is misguided.
I'm trying not to use the word stupid to describe the people who hold the view that it helps. Instead, I will put it this way. I no longer respect any actual scientist who tells me that that it makes sense to make 2-year-olds wear a cloth mask in daycare except for the two hours they all nap together side by side. Anyone who believes that policy actually slows viral spread can be safely ignored.
But what can I do about bad policy? I thought about it, and slowly over the course of a year advanced a series of articles in places like Medpage today, and the Atlantic on this issue. I tweeted against the AAP when they said deranged things like there is no evidence that kids need to see faces.
This earned me great professional pushback, and headache. But you can't focus on that, you must focus on your duty. My duty, as a professor whose life is the arbitration of evidence, is to encourage people to use their rational, evidence-based medicine skills in pursuit of policy recommendations that benefit people. I can't be dissuaded if a bunch of people who aren't thinking clearly decide to engage in mob Twitter.
And there were many other issues along the way. I was quick to say J&J should be pulled off the market for VITT . Finally, people have gotten around to that position. A little bit late, and a lot of damage done. But that also didn't earn me friends.
I was one of the first to point out that myocarditis was a clear and concerning safety signal in adolescents. I continue to believe that Moderna should be prohibited by the US FDA for people under the age of 40. Recently, a private health system contacted me saying that they had made that decision internally.
Because I wrote so many op-eds on this issue, I was called anti-vaxxer by people who are not very smart, and just as irrational as anti-vaxxers but just in the anti-anti-vax direction. As a doctor who is personally supervised many vaccines in the post autologous stem cell transplant setting, I found this characterization bizarre. But, I couldn't focus on it because duty.
When the FDA rammed through boosting all people, against the advice of Marion Gruber and Philip Krause, the two FDA officials who resigned, I analyzed the data myself. I quickly came to the conclusion the data was lacking— just like Paul Offit did. And again I pushed on this issue, which also earned me great professional scorn & punishment. But mostly from people who couldn't understand the issues at stake.
When a medical "ethicist" said we shouldn't provide equal care for unvaccinated people, I objected. Views on vaccines interact in a complex way with socioeconomics and race, and denying care to someone for holding different views is a violation of the duty we have as physicians.
Paxlovid in vaccinated people: there is no credible evidence, we will see what the UK panoramic says. Yet, it makes no sense to spend $5 billion dollars without running the trial first. We published this recently. Now more catching on. But it wasn't popular initially. Didn't help my career.
Over the last two years I think I have taken volumes of abuse for well reasoned, soberly made, evidence-based medicine approaches to pandemic policy. Certainly paid some professional price. But that means nothing in the face of my duty as a doctor who sees patients in person at the county hospital, and a professor who has to analyze policy evidence for society.
Being outspoken about at schools is the single most important thing anyone could have done during the pandemic. Yet, it wasn't easy to do. I know many tenured full professors who lacked the courage to comment about the topic, because they worried about their own station or reputation, or job prospects. Some even study disparities for a living. Can you imagine the irony of sitting out the most important battle of your career. They didn't even have the guts to stand up for Emily Oster, while she took greater abuse than any of us.
Our ancestors used to know what that word means, but in the modern world it has falling out of favor. Instead his replaced with weakness and cowardice, narcissism and careerism.
So whenever I hear about people who had a duty to do something. Something important. And they just sat idly by, scared for their own safety, like useless fucking cowards, while bad things happened, especially to children, I have no respect for them, struggle to understand how they could do such a thing. No, I actually loathe such people, and I'm sickened by them.
We need more people who understand duty in this world and less people looking out for their own useless selves. If you don't have a sense of duty, don't talk to me. If you won't sacrifice anything—even everything— for something more important than yourself, I don't want to hear your voice or see your face. Our culture is missing a sense of duty, and the harms are incredible.
Some have asked: Yes, I am also talking about other recent events.
Dr. K
Vinay, Bravo. There are a fair number of us who have refused to go along with endless non-scientific blather foisted by our putative peers -- none worse than the AAP as you have pointed out. Damage to anyone is horrible in health care; damage to children is unforgivable.
I am not much of a retribution guy, but there needs to be an accounting. The greatest loss is that by this dereliction of duty, primarily evidenced as standing by doing nothing when it was clear that the entire public health establishment, and much of the medical establishment, was outright lying, is a loss of trust between physicians and patients that will not be repaired during my lifetime, irrespective of the few of us that have worked hard to never lose it.
I have told my patients since the beginning that children are at no risk -- DO NOT VACCINATE THEM. Masks do not work -- DO NOT WEAR THEM. Lockdowns do not work -- DO NOT FOLLOW THEM. Some have listened -- most have just been cowed into fear. But none will forget how they were lied to.
The repercussions are now starting to come clear. Parents who will no longer give their children ANY vaccines -- even those of substantial benefit. Malignancies that have become untreatable while people put off going to see doctors they no longer trusted. And, as you have noted many times, profound developmental and, I expect over time biologic compromises for the children.
Much of this is lost in the "work/life balance"/It's all about me culture that has suffused most everything, but most horribly health care. When I went to school, health care was a profession where your primary duty was to your patients. Everything else was secondary to that. That is the duty you describe and I still believe it.
It is a tragedy that so many no longer do. I have watched your feelings about these people grow stronger and stronger over the course of this disaster and I am in complete agreement. The question will be what do we do about this as a society and can medicine be saved? Lots depends on the answer. Thanks for helping us inch toward one.
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Im printing this one. Along with the Democracy piece....this is the next most important essay by you I have read and I have read them all. Thank you.
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Aphantasia May Make Dreaming, Remembering, And Imagining Harder
Picture the sun setting over the ocean. It's large above the horizon, spreading an orange-pink glow across the sky. Seagulls are flying overhead and your toes are in the sand.
Many people will have been able to picture the sunset clearly and vividly — almost like seeing the real thing. For others, the image would have been vague and fleeting, but still there.
If your mind was completely blank and you couldn't visualise anything at all, then you might be one of the 2-5 percent of people who have aphantasia, a condition that involves a lack of all mental visual imagery.
"Aphantasia challenges some of our most basic assumptions about the human mind. Most of us assume visual imagery is something everyone has, something fundamental to the way we see and move through the world. But what does having a 'blind mind' mean for the mental journeys we take every day when we imagine, remember, feel and dream?"
says Mr Alexei Dawes, Ph.D. Candidate in the UNSW School of Psychology.
Widespread Pattern Of Changes
Dawes was the lead author on a new aphantasia study[1] that surveyed over 250 people who self-identified as having aphantasia, making it one of the largest studies on aphantasia yet.
"We found that aphantasia isn't just associated with absent visual imagery, but also with a widespread pattern of changes to other important cognitive processes," he says. "People with aphantasia reported a reduced ability to remember the past, imagine the future, and even dream."
Study participants completed a series of questionnaires on topics like imagery strength and memory. The results were compared with responses from 400 people spread across two independent control groups.
For example, participants were asked to remember a scene from their life and rate the vividness using a five-point scale, with one indicating "No image at all, I only 'know' that I am recalling the memory," and five indicating "Perfectly clear and as vivid as normal vision."
"Our data revealed an extended cognitive 'fingerprint' of aphantasia characterised by changes to imagery, memory, and dreaming. We're only just starting to learn how radically different the internal worlds of those without imagery are,"
says Mr Dawes.
Subsets Of Aphantasia
While people with aphantasia wouldn't have been able to picture the image of the sunset mentioned above, many could have imagined the feeling of sand between their toes, or the sound of the seagulls and the waves crashing in.
However, 26 percent of aphantasic study participants reported a broader lack of multi-sensory imagery — including imagining sound, touch, motion, taste, smell and emotion.
"This is the first scientific data we have showing that potential subtypes of aphantasia exist,"
says Professor Joel Pearson, senior author on the paper and Director of UNSW Science's Future Minds Lab.
Interestingly, spatial imagery — the ability to imagine distance or locational relationship between things — was the only form of sensory imagery that had no significant changes across aphantasics and people who could visualise.
"The reported spatial abilities of aphantasics were on par with the control groups across many types of cognitive processes," says Mr Dawes. "This included when imagining new scenes, during spatial memory or navigation, and even when dreaming."
In action, spatial cognition could be playing Tetris and imagining how a certain shape would fit into the existing layout, or remembering how to navigate from A to B when driving.
Dreams And Memories
While visualising a sunset is a voluntary action, involuntary forms of cognition — like dreaming — were also found to occur less in people with aphantasia.
"Aphantasics reported dreaming less often, and the dreams they do report seem to be less vivid and lower in sensory detail," says Prof Pearson. "This suggests that any cognitive function involving a sensory visual component — be it voluntary or involuntary — is likely to be reduced in aphantasia."
Aphantasic individuals also experienced less vivid memories of their past and reported a significantly lower ability to remember past life events in general.
"Our work is the first to show that aphantasic individuals also show a reduced ability to remember the past and prospect into the future. This suggests that visual imagery might play a key role in memory processes,"
While up to one million Australians could have aphantasia, relatively little is known about it — to date, there have been less than 10 scientific studies on the condition.
More research is needed to deepen our understanding of aphantasia and how it impacts the daily lives of those who experience it.
"If you are one of the million Australians with aphantasia, what do you do when your yoga teacher asks you are asked to 'visualise a white light' during a meditation practice?" asks Mr Dawes. "How do you reminisce on your last birthday, or imagine yourself relaxing on a tropical beach while you're riding the train home? What's it like to dream at night without mental images, and how do you 'count' sheep before you fall asleep?"
The researchers note that while this study is exciting for its scope and comparatively large sample size, it is based on participants' self-reports, which are subjective by nature.
Next, they plan to build on the study by using measurements that can be tested objectively, like analysing and quantifying people's memories.
[1] Dawes, A.J., Keogh, R., Andrillon, T. et al. A cognitive profile of multi-sensory imagery, memory and dreaming in aphantasia. Sci Rep 10, 10022 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65705-7
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Through the project, JAXPORT will spend $1 million to support port-wide electrification through the development of a Port and Maritime Electrification Plan
The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Maritime Administration (MARAD) has awarded a $23.5 million Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) grant to JAXPORT's Exemplifying Potential to Reduce Emissions with Sustainable Solutions (EXPRESS) project. The JAXPORT EXPRESS project is a $47 million public-private partnership by JAXPORT and two of its port tenants, SSA Jacksonville and Crowley. This grant will support sustainability initiatives at the port's Blount Island and Talleyrand marine terminals.
EXPRESS is one of the first large-scale investments in zero- and near-zero-emission cargo-handling equipment technologies in Florida. The initiative will achieve greenhouse gas reductions, expand energy-efficient terminal infrastructure, increase JAXPORT's cargo throughput, and develop a plan to transition to lower emission port infrastructure and maritime operations.
As part of the EXPRESS project, $31.2 million will be spent purchasing new eco-friendly cargo handling equipment for the SSA Jacksonville Container Terminal (JCT) at Blount Island, including six hybrid-electric rubber-tired gantry (RTG) cranes, as well as nearly a dozen units of low- and zero-emission container top picks, forklifts, and related charging infrastructure. The initiative is supported by more than $370 million in ongoing investment by JAXPORT and SSA to modernize the SSA JCT, including a $20 million grant awarded by MARAD in 2019. SSA is also investing more than $40 million for the addition of three eco-friendly container cranes that will arrive at JAXPORT in February 2023.
Additionally, $14.6 million will be spent at Crowley's JAXPORT Talleyrand Terminal for the addition of nearly two dozen zero-emissions equipment for cargo handling, including specialty yard tractors and forklifts, as well as related charging stations for Crowley's supply chain services. The grant also supports the addition of 160 refrigerated cargo charging stations (reefer plugs) to sustainably meet current and future growth needs at the port without using diesel as fuel. These emissions reduction efforts build upon Crowley's investments increasing the efficiency and sustainability of the Puerto Rico trade by deploying Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) container ships, four forthcoming LNG-fueled ships for the U.S.-Central America trade, and a state-of-the-art LNG bunkering facility at the terminal.
Through the project, JAXPORT will spend $1 million to support port-wide electrification through the development of a Port and Maritime Electrification Plan - a plan for transitioning JAXPORT, the local maritime industry, and other similar ports towards lower emissions technologies. The project includes initiatives to develop and implement workforce development programs to establish the labor pool necessary to maintain and operate the equipment and support future widespread deployment of eco-friendly technologies.
Additional supporters of this funding include U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott.
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SEATTLE, Wash. – It is the final day of competition for the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games. Special Olympics Southern California athletes (Team SOSC) will take the stage on the track and in the pool before the closing ceremony will end the games at 7 p.m.
The day will begin with Sarah Kovacs and Robert Waters on the Husky Track with the 1,500-meter run at 8:30 and 8:45 a.m., respectively. Thanks to his qualifying run to start USA Games, Brett Laza will compete in the 100-meter dash high performance division final at 9:35 a.m.
The rest of the day belongs to the swimmers. A little after 10:00 a.m. from King County Aquatics Center the 50M backstroke will take place. Steven Espinoza, Nicholas Laguna, Ethan Tran, Kiana Yep, Nicolette Jones and Dawn Albritton will all compete in their respective divisions.
It will be a quick turnaround for Albritton and Jones, who will have to quickly get back into the pool for the 25-meter breaststroke final roughly 20 minutes after their backstroke final. Competition for Team SOSC will then end with Lisa Koskovich, Christina Principe, Steven Espinoza and Jonathan Pierce swimming the 4×100 freestyle relay.
Closing Ceremony will then take place at Lake Union Park at 7 p.m. Attendees will celebrate athlete successes and the culmination of the 2018 USA Games, while enjoying music by Seattle band Hey Marseilles, mobile food trucks, festive street performers and a short program.
Here is a look at what is on the slate for #TeamSOSC (schedule subject to change, for up-to-date information, visit SpecialOlympicsUSAGames.org) on July 5:
8:30 a.m.: TRACK: 1,500M Final (Husky Track)
Sarah Kovacs (Division: F03 – 8:30 am)
Robert Waters (M01 – 8:45 am)
9:00 a.m.: BASKETBALL: Awards Ceremony (All morning, if applicable, at Fan Zone)
9:00 a.m.: TENNIS: Heidi Sand (Team SOSC) vs. Brittany Tagliareni (UW Tennis Stadium Court 1)
9:35 a.m.: TRACK: Brett Laza in 100M HP Final (Husky Track)
10:00 a.m.: TRACK: Awards Ceremony (Throughout morning at Husky Track)
10:10 a.m.: SWIM: 50M Backstroke Final (King County Aquatics Center)
Steven Espinoza (M07 – 10:13 am)
Nicholas Laguna (M07 – 10:13 am)
Ethan Tran (M08 – 10:16 am)
Kiana Yep (F01 – 10:19 am)
Nicolette Jones (F02 – 10:22 am)
Dawn Albritton (F08 – 10:40 am)
10:40 a.m.: UNIFIED BASKETBALL: Team SOSC vs. Arizona/Wyoming (Bronze Medal Game at Harshman Center)
10:53 a.m.: SWIM: 25M Breaststroke Final (King County Aquatics Center)
Nicolette Jones(F03 – 10:53 am)
11:12 a.m.: SWIM: Team SOSC in 4x100M Freestyle Relay Final (King County Aquatics Center)
Lisa Koskovich, Christina Principe, Steven Espinoza & Jonathan Pierce
12:30 p.m.: SWIM: Awards Ceremony (Throughout day at King County Aquatics Ctr.)
7:00 p.m.: CLOSING CEREMONY, Presented by Amazon (Lake Union Park)
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Digital geologic map of the Butler Peak 7.5' quadrangle, San Bernardino County, California; 2000; OFR; 2000-145; Miller, Fred K.; Matti, Jonathan C.; Brown, Howard J.; digital preparation by Cossette, P. M.
Open-File Report 00-145, is a digital geologic map database of the Butler Peak 7.5' quadrangle that includes (1) ARC/INFO (Environmental Systems Research Institute) version 7.2.1 Patch 1 coverages, and associated tables, (2) a Portable Document Format (.pdf) file of the Description of Map Units, Correlation of Map Units chart, and an explanation of symbols used on the map, btlrpk_dcmu.pdf, (3) a Portable Document Format file of this Readme, btlrpk_rme.pdf (the Readme is also included as an ascii file in the data package), and (4) a PostScript plot file of the map, Correlation of Map Units, and Description of Map Units on a single sheet, btlrpk.ps. No paper map is included in the Open-File report, but the PostScript plot file (number 4 above) can be used to produce one. The PostScript plot file generates a map, peripheral text, and diagrams in the editorial format of USGS Geologic Investigation Series (I-series) maps.


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Rockets' Mike D'Antoni says James Ennis is 'close' to returning
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The Rockets will likely welcome forward James Ennis back to the lineup on Monday when the team hosts the Grizzlies. Ennis was hopeful that he would be able to return from his hamstring injury to face the Pelicans on Saturday, but it appears that coach Mike D'Antoni's staff will proceed with caution.
According to KRIV Fox 26's Mark Berman, D'Antoni explained that Ennis is still at least a game away from returning.
Mike D'Antoni says James Ennis not expected to play tomorrow night but he's close.
— Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) December 28, 2018
Ennis' last game occurred on Dec. 11 in a victory over the Trail Blazers. Prior to his injury, the 28-year-old forward was averaging eight points per game. Once Ennis returns, he will likely compete with Danuel House for a spot in the starting rotation.


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New Grant Could Help Fund Pond Monitoring
Cyanobacteria in Peters Pond, Sandwich in August of 2021.
HYANNIS – Local government officials celebrated a positive development for the region's public health efforts at the Barnstable County Commissioners meeting last week.
Barnstable County Deputy Director of Health and Environment Erika Woods said they are getting a Public Health Excellence Grant Program Award from the state.
Woods said the county will receive $300,000 annually from the grant, potentially through 2033, and spoke about what the funds will help accomplish.
"It gives us an opportunity to build on the existing infrastructure and work with local boards of health and respect their autonomy to expand and formalize services," she said.
Additionally, Woods explained each town would have a seat on the governance board to help direct efforts and promote cross-jurisdictional sharing between the different public health departments.
The grant will also give the county a chance to improve regional programs. One potential example Woods provided would be efforts to monitor cyanobacteria in ponds.
"It's hard because nobody has enough staffing to take that and run with it. This will give us the opportunity to have that person that takes that input from the towns and says, 'What do you need from us?'" Woods said.
Commissioner Mark Forest congratulated Woods and said the funds were a win for county public health, especially if the pond monitoring program comes together.
"That is just looming as an important public health problem that is screaming out for additional capacity in resources," Forest said.
Forest said the grant could be a vital component in supporting projects related to the region's water quality if officials can figure out a way to marry different resources, including potential American Rescue Plan Act money that could fund similar projects on the Cape.
Another program the grant could potentially fund would be related to the ongoing housing crisis.
"Housing is another regional program that I think would really benefit us. You're talking about housing, you're talking about people losing their places to live, and that's another huge issue that we have," Woods said.
According to the deputy director, the grant will allow the department to hire up to three staff members to focus on regional public health projects and to ensure Barnstable is addressing health equity issues that the pandemic has revealed.
By Brian Engles, CapeCod.com NewsCenter
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