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Hydroxychloroquine does not benefit adults hospitalized with COVID-19
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Washington, DC - A National Institutes of Health clinical trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has formally concluded that the drug provides no clinical benefit to hospitalized patients. Though found not to cause harm, early findings in June when the trial was stopped indicated that the drug was not improving outcomes in COVID-19 patients. Final data and analyses of the trial, which was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of NIH, will appear online November 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Association
(link is external).
The trial, called Outcomes Related to COVID-19 treated with Hydroxychloroquine among Inpatients with symptomatic Disease (ORCHID), began after lab studies and preliminary reports suggested that hydroxychloroquine — commonly used to treat malaria and rheumatic conditions like arthritis — might have promise in treating SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
The Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury (PETAL) Clinical Trials Network of NHLBI started the trial in April at 34 hospitals across the United States and enrolled 479 of the expected 510 patients. By June, preliminary evidence indicated hydroxychloroquine was unlikely to offer any benefit.
NIH officials said the careful design, implementation, and oversight of the study was key to its results, as well as the recommendation by a data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) to stop the trial early.
"Having a rigorously designed clinical trial that captured patient-centered, clinically meaningful outcomes was critical to reaching the unequivocal conclusions about the use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19. ORCHID shows that hydroxychloroquine does not improve clinical outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients," said James P. Kiley, Ph.D., director, Division of Lung Diseases at NHLBI. "We hope this clear result will help practitioners make informed treatment decisions and researchers continue their efforts pursuing other possible safe and effective treatments for patients suffering with this disease."
The ORCHID trial enrolled participants between April 2 and June 19 who were a median age of 57. They included 290 Hispanic and Black participants and 212 female participants. All participants received clinical care as indicated for their condition. Participants were randomly assigned to a treatment group and received 10 doses of either hydroxychloroquine or a placebo over five days. Researchers then assessed each patient's clinical status 14 days after being assigned to a treatment group. They used a seven-category scale ranging from one (death) to seven (discharged from the hospital and able to perform normal activities). Researchers also measured 12 additional outcomes, including death that occurred 28 days after the participants' assignment to a treatment group.
At day 14, those who received hydroxychloroquine and those who received a placebo had a similar health status, with most participants in both groups discharged from the hospital and able to perform a range of activities. The number of participants in both treatment groups who died at day 14 was also similar. At day 28, 25 of 241 patients in the hydroxychloroquine group and 25 of 236 patients in the placebo group had died.
"The finding that hydroxychloroquine is not effective for the treatment of COVID-19 was consistent across patient subgroups and for all evaluated outcomes, including clinical status, mortality, organ failures, duration of oxygen use, and hospital length of stay," said Wesley Self, M.D., M.P.H., emergency medicine physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and PETAL Clinical Trials Network investigator who led the ORCHID trial. He also noted that the finding was consistent with similar trials in the United Kingdom and Brazil.
"Our diverse teams of clinicians and research staff worked nimbly, under extremely difficult circumstances to accomplish what NIH and the PETAL Network do best: 'gold standard' studies of important questions for patients suffering from life-threatening conditions," said Samuel M. Brown, M.D., M.S., a critical care physician at Intermountain Healthcare and PETAL Network investigator who helped lead the trial. "While we hoped that hydroxychloroquine would help, even this is an important result as we work together to find effective treatments for COVID-19."
As of Nov. 2, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(link is external) has reported more than 9.1 million cases of COVID-19 and more than 230,000 deaths in the United States. Many other randomized clinical trials are currently evaluating the effectiveness and safety of other agents versus a placebo in the urgent race for effective therapies to treat COVID-19.
The ORCHID trial was funded by NIH/NHLBI grants 3 U01 HL123009-06S1, U01HL123009, U01HL122998, U01HL123018, U01HL123023, U01HL123008, U01HL123031, U01HL123004, U01HL123027, U01HL123010, U01HL123033, U01HL122989, U01HL123022, and U01HL123020. Additionally, the research was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Awards UL1TR001102 and UL1TR002541.


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This work of art was hand made by deaf students in Korofidua, Ghana as part of their vocational training program supported in part by Africa Heartwood Project. Display the ASL alphabet in color and style with this one-of-a-kind handcrafted wall hanging. Each image shows the hand shape for the American Sign Language alphabet, A to Z. Colors and exact sizes will vary.
Display the ASL alphabet in color and style with this one-of-a-kind handcrafted wall hanging. This work of art was hand made by deaf students in Korofidua, Ghana as part of their vocational training program supported in part by Africa Heartwood Project. Each image shows the hand shape for the American Sign Language alphabet, A to Z. Colors and exact sizes will vary.


I wanted to look inside a web page, so I saved the page in toto rather than just as text, so I had a document with the .html suffix and a folder of slices. Then tried to open the .html doicument in NWPro.
1) NWPro got halfway along its opening slider, then choked. I had to Force Quit.
2) TextEdit opened the file instantaneously with the text in plaCE, the background in place, but with the illustrations missing.
3) When I changed the suffix to .txt, NWPro opened the file as text so I could look at the HTML (and find the identifier I was looking for while marveling at my own ignorance of code). TextEdit also opened the file as text.
IN THE "OPEN" dialog, add a choice of format to override the file suffix if desired.
Here I go talking to myself again! First sign of madness?
I just tried looking at a web page again. This time I just saved the HTML page, not the whole page.
NWPro choked. TextEdit opened in a flash as a webpage.
Both opened as a page of HTML text when I changed the file suffix to .txt.
Yes, we really do need a choice of format when opening documents -- just as we do when we are saving.
A good idea, I'll file the request. Could you submit the problem HTML document via feedback? Thanks.


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Chowan collects win #22
Published 4:55 pm Saturday, March 28, 2009
By Thadd White
MURFREESBORO – Two plus four equals 22.
Well, not exactly. By two wins Thursday made it six straight for Chowan and pushed them to 22 wins on the 2009 campaign.
The double-headers sweep of Elizabeth City State helped the Hawks match last year's win mark with another 14 contests left on the calendar.
"It feels really good to have 22 wins and still have 14 games left," said freshman pitcher Allie Kolezynski, who tossed a two-hit gem for the Hawks in game two. "Our bats are hot, the defense is good and we know how to play with each other. Things are going well right now."
Kolezynski surrendered just two hits and struck out eight in claiming her 11th win in her debut season with the Hawks. She said the two hits were a mistake, something she can't afford.
"You can't miss at this level, I've learned that," she said, admitting the two hits were a sore subject. "Batters are definitely better. You better be on your toes and you better not miss."
Meanwhile, the Hawks jumped on Elizabeth City State early, scoring two runs in the first inning and adding three more in the second.
In the first frame, Brooke Owen led off with a base on balls and stole second. She went to third when Kolezynski reached on a fielder's choice and scored on a sacrifice fly by Tricia Gorman. Kolezynski scored when Melissa Woodrum singled to center to make it 2-0.
In the second inning, Megan Bass had a one-out double and scored on a single by Alex Allen. Allen's single was followed by base hits from Owen and Kolezynski. Gorman then reached on a fielder's choice that scored Allen. Kolezynski was plated by a single from Woodrum that made it 5-0.
In the top of the third, Kolezynski continued to cruise, striking out two and inducing a groundout to keep the base paths empty.
Chowan, however, was not quiet in the bottom of the third as they sent nine batters to the plate and scored five runs off four hits.
Mindy Byrd got things started with a free pass and then moved to second when Jenna Lassiter reached on an error. A bunt single by Bass loaded the bases with no one out.
Allen got aboard via fielder's choice that scored Byrd before Brenna Thomas reached on an error that allowed both Lassiter and Bass to score. Allen came home on a single by Gorman and Thomas scored on a sacrifice fly by Woodrum as the Hawks built a 10-0 advantage.
ECSU got their only mark in the fourth frame when Oasis Ellison doubled to end Kolezysnki's bid for a perfect game. She scored on a base hit moments later to make it 10-1.
Chowan wasn't done, scoring one more run in their final at-bat to ensure the game would end early.
Byrd walked, went to second on a groundout and scored on a single by Allen that made it 11-1.
Woodrum was a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate with four RBIs while Alex Allen had three hits and three RBIs. Bass was 2-for-3 with a pair of runs scored.
"We've been talking about taking the field with a little swagger," said second-year skipper Mandi Balduff. "I'm not talking about an arrogant swagger, but a confident one. I thought we did that today.
"We knew they were games we could win if we played the way we're capable of and we did," she added. "We're playing well as a team right now. We're getting on a roll at the right time."
The Hawks are now 22-14 for the season. They will be off until March 31 when they host UNC-Pembroke in a double-header.
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'Queen' Wadsworth and the Lady Warriors pound Pamlico
Warriors upset bid denied
Chowan football joins new conference


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Daniel Gisriel Rider, Jr. (23 July 23, 1938, Boston – 11 July 2008, Madison, Wisconsin) was a mathematician, specializing in harmonic analysis and Fourier analysis.

After spending his childhood in New England, Daniel Rider moved with his family to Santa Ana, California, where he graduated from secondary school. He received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University and in 1964 his PhD under Walter Rudin from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with thesis Gap Series, and Measures of Spheres. Rider was a C.L.E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then an assistant professor at Yale University. At the University of Wisconsin, Madison he was an associate professor of mathematics from 1968 to 1971 and then a full professor from 1971 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 2003. He was a Sloan fellow from 1969 to 1971. In 1970 he was an invited speaker at the ICM in Nice.

Selected publications
with Alessandro Figà-Talamanca:
A relation between a theorem of Bohr and Sidon sets. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 72 (1966) 558–561.
Central idempotents in group algebras. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 72 (1966) 1000–1002.
Translation-invariant Dirichlet algebras on compact groups. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1966) 977–983.
Functions which operate in the Fourier algebra of a compact group. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1971) 525–530.

Central idempotent measures on compact groups. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 186 (1973) 459–479.
Randomly continuous functions and Sidon sets. Duke Math. J. 42, no. 4 (1975): 759–764.

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1938 births
2008 deaths
People from Santa Ana, California
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Mathematical analysts
Stanford University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty

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Home News The Honor 8 brings affordable power to Three
The Honor 8 brings affordable power to Three
08 Sep 2016 by James Rogerson
The Honor 8 could be the best handset that no one's heard of, as it combines almost flagship specs with a significantly lower price tag and it's available now on Three.
Highlights of the Honor 8 include a premium design, with a glass back and metal frame, reminiscent of the far more expensive Samsung Galaxy S7.
And the Honor 8 doesn't just have flagship looks, as with an octa-core processor and 4GB of RAM it's got flagship power too.
The camera is also right up there with high-end shooters, thanks to dual 12MP lenses, much like the Huawei P9 or even the brand new iPhone 7 Plus. Around the front there's no shortage of quality either, with an 8MP snapper ready to take pin sharp selfies.
Add in a fingerprint scanner, a 5.2-inch 1080 x 1920 screen and a big 3000mAh battery – with support for fast charging – and the Honor 8 is a phone that can compete with big name, big spec alternatives.
But it doesn't have to, because the Honor 8 is surprisingly affordable too, starting at just £17 per month with no upfront cost on Three. For that you'll get 500MB of data, 300 minutes and unlimited texts on an Essential Plan, but of course there are plenty of other options too, right up to unlimited everything.
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The plasma membrane is a thin lipid bilayer (6 to 8 nanometers) that completely surrounds the cell and separates the inside from the outside. Its selectively permeable nature keeps ions, proteins, and other molecules within the cell and prevents them from diffusing into the extracellular environment, while other molecules may move through the membrane. Recall that the general structure of a cell membrane is a phospholipid bilayer composed of two layers of lipid molecules. In archaeal cell membranes, isoprene (phytanyl) chains linked to glycerol replace the fatty acids linked to glycerol in bacterial membranes. Some archaeal membranes are lipid monolayers instead of bilayers ( [link] ).
Archaeal phospholipids differ from those found in Bacteria and Eukarya in two ways. First, they have branched phytanyl sidechains instead of linear ones. Second, an ether bond instead of an ester bond connects the lipid to the glycerol.
The cytoplasm of prokaryotic cells has a high concentration of dissolved solutes. Therefore, the osmotic pressure within the cell is relatively high. The cell wall is a protective layer that surrounds some cells and gives them shape and rigidity. It is located outside the cell membrane and prevents osmotic lysis (bursting due to increasing volume). The chemical composition of the cell walls varies between archaea and bacteria, and also varies between bacterial species.
Bacterial cell walls contain peptidoglycan , composed of polysaccharide chains that are cross-linked by unusual peptides containing both L- and D-amino acids including D-glutamic acid and D-alanine. Proteins normally have only L-amino acids; as a consequence, many of our antibiotics work by mimicking D-amino acids and therefore have specific effects on bacterial cell wall development. There are more than 100 different forms of peptidoglycan. S-layer (surface layer) proteins are also present on the outside of cell walls of both archaea and bacteria.
Bacteria are divided into two major groups: Gram positive and Gram negative , based on their reaction to Gram staining. Note that all Gram-positive bacteria belong to one phylum; bacteria in the other phyla (Proteobacteria, Chlamydias, Spirochetes, Cyanobacteria, and others) are Gram-negative. The Gram staining method is named after its inventor, Danish scientist Hans Christian Gram (1853–1938). The different bacterial responses to the staining procedure are ultimately due to cell wall structure. Gram-positive organisms typically lack the outer membrane found in Gram-negative organisms ( [link] ). Up to 90 percent of the cell wall in Gram-positive bacteria is composed of peptidoglycan, and most of the rest is composed of acidic substances called teichoic acids . Teichoic acids may be covalently linked to lipids in the plasma membrane to form lipoteichoic acids. Lipoteichoic acids anchor the cell wall to the cell membrane. Gram-negative bacteria have a relatively thin cell wall composed of a few layers of peptidoglycan (only 10 percent of the total cell wall), surrounded by an outer envelope containing lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and lipoproteins. This outer envelope is sometimes referred to as a second lipid bilayer. The chemistry of this outer envelope is very different, however, from that of the typical lipid bilayer that forms plasma membranes.


One of nature's many inexpensive remedies is vinegar. I buy the organic unfiltered vinegar such as Braggs or Dynamic Health because they have the "mother." It contains many minerals and essential vitamins, I simply put a few drops in Cleo's water dish each day. To read more about the many benefits Fermented Apple Cider Vinegar follow this link. Caution: Do not use apple cider vinegar around the nose, mouth, or eye areas; it can result in a burning sensation. Too much apple cider is not healthy for dog. Limit to a little each day.
Cleo love to eat sticks, so when she ate a few two many and had loose stool, we gave her Pumpkin Puree. This works equally well for other digestive problems as well as constipation.


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Senators introduce act to tax investors who move abroad
The move is a punative measure against a Facebook co-founder who has renounced his U.S. citizenship to avoid paying taxes when the company goes public.
By Staff Writer | May 17, 2012 at 12:06 PM
Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Bob Casey, D-Pa., unveiled a comprehensive plan Thursday morning to respond to Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renouncing his U.S. citizenship. The lawmakers said that Saverin's move was a way to dodge paying taxes on profits he was expected to collect when the social-networking company goes public on Friday.
Saverin, a partial owner of Facebook, has lived in Singapore since 2009 and renounced his U.S. citizenship in September. The senators say the avoidance scheme could reportedly help him duck paying up to $67 million in taxes since Singapore, unlike the U.S., has no capital gains tax. "That amount could increase even further as Facebook's stock price rises," the Senators said.


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Home	Buses	Transit coalition issues call for comprehensive reforms for NYC's bus network
Transit coalition issues call for comprehensive reforms for NYC's bus network
written by Benjamin Kabak July 24, 2016
A new report urges a comprehensive reworking of the city's bus network.
In 2002, New York City Transit recorded some substantial bus ridership numbers as 762 million people paid to ride the bus. It's been all downhill since then, as only 650 million people used buses last year. Meanwhile, over the same period of time, New York City's subway ridership has grown from 1.413 billion rides to 1.762 billion last year, and the population of the city has grown by around five percent. When it comes to buses, something isn't working.
This isn't, of course, a new development. A few weeks ago, a NYC DOT report showed how slow travel speeds, among other issues, has led to less reliable and less popular bus service, and we've seen how some fairly minor enhancements to bus service — dedicated lanes and pre-board fare payment — can reduce travel times. Now, a coalition of transit advocates and New York City politicians are putting pressure on both the city and MTA to do something to improve bus service and prioritize the bus network.
In a report issued last week called "Turnaround: Fixing New York City's Buses" [pdf], the Transit Center, Riders Alliance, Straphangers Campaign and Tri-State Transportation Campaign have called for a redesigned bus network with service enhancements and best-in-class infrastructure including pre-board fare payment and dedicated street space. It's almost revolutionary for New York but standard practice the world over. Full-scale implementation should combat the causes that have depressed bus ridership over the past decade and a half, but it will take a multi-agency effort across city and state agencies to see through.
The decline in bus ridership over the past 14 years highlights the flaws in the city's approach to building a bus network.
Tabitha Decker, Transit Center's NYC Program Director, summed up the recommendations. "Many of New York's global peers, such as London and Seoul, have turned around bus systems that were in decline, even though these cities have large-scale urban rail too. They have done this by making bus travel fast, frequent, and reliable using tools like smart card based fare payment and the use of real time data to keep buses on schedule."
The recommendations are broken down into segments. First, the report urges redesigning the bus network for more frequent and efficient service. Today's bus network is a relic of New York City's old streetcars, and the routes are often twisting and turning paths that end at borough borders rather than a transit hubs or other popular destinations. The coalition wants to straighten out routes for faster travel times and, as the report states, "rightsize the distance between bus stops. New York is a global outlier in terms of how closely stops are spaced, and on many routes, stops are even closer together than our own standards dictate. Optimizing the number of stops will speed trips for riders."
The second section focuses on fare payment and boarding. Obviously, a tap-and-go system will significantly reduce boarding times if a pre-board fare payment system for all local buses is too costly. All-door boarding would reduce station dwell times as well. (The Riders Alliance recently issued a different report raising concerns with the MTA's next-generation fare payment plans that could have ramifications for buses as well.) Continued investment in low-floor buses should improve the boarding process as well, the report noted.
Next, the report urges the MTA to change the way it dispatches and controls buses that are en route to ensure buses arrive on schedule and avoid bus bunching. In addition to dispatching buses on time, the MTA should hold buses en route to improve service. This is a bit of a controversial recommendation as it could lead to delays for passengers during their travels, but the coalition feels a more proactive, headway-based control process should improve service for everyone.
Dedicated lanes and signal prioritization can help speed up the city's notorious slow buses.
Finally, in a recommendation that would overhaul the way buses interact with the streets, the report urges a massive expansion of dedicated lanes, a renewed focus on bus bulbs and boarding islands to "eliminate time spent weaving in and out of traffic," signal prioritization and queue-jump lanes for buses. These changes would require DOT and the MTA to collaborate and would likely require authorization from Albany as well. It's politically tricky but not impossible.
And yet, while an expansive coalition of New York City politics voiced their support for these bus turnarounds, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Grand Poobah of New York State politics, in comments to Politico New York, dismissed bus problems with a wave of his hand a complete lack of understanding. "If people in Manhattan are choosing to jump on the subway because the subway is faster, because there's traffic that a bus has to deal with — that's not an imprudent choice, right?" Cuomo said.
Cuomo, who thinks a USB charging port on a bus is some form of revolutionary improvement, doesn't seem to understand the role the bus network could play in New York City, and Ben Fried took it too him in a post on Streetsblog last week. Cuomo's Manhattan-centric view of travel speeds betrays his belief that traffic is a force of nature that cannot be addressed through rational policies and that buses mirror subways. As Fried writes, "The governor's theory about people ditching the bus for the train simply doesn't apply to the vast number of New Yorkers who ride these routes [that cover territory that the subway does not] and would benefit enormously from the recommendations in the Bus Turnaround report."
In response to the report, the MTA noted that it is in the process of implementing some of these upgrades and that the agency has undertaken certain studies regarding specific routes. But overall, the MTA, DOT and city and state officials need to engage in a concerted effort to reroute and redraw bus routes while improving the infrastructure upon which buses rely. If they don't, ridership will continue to decline, and buses will forever remain stuck with the stigma of being a second-class transportation option.
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Benjamin July 25, 2016 - 12:06 am
Agree with everything here but without one more thing I still will almost never use the bus(fyi – been here 5 years and I've been on an MTA bus twice). High accuracy GPS on every bus and an open API so someone can build a really good app around it that will tell me exactly where my bus is and give me a good idea of when it will get to me stop.
Jeff July 25, 2016 - 6:54 am
It's called Bustime. I've been using it for years now, and yes, there are a bunch of good third party apps with it as well.
Tower18 July 25, 2016 - 1:15 pm
For the most part, it's now integrated into Google Maps as well, so if you already use that, you don't need anything else.
However, I will say at least in my area, it does seem to fail the criteria of "GPS on every bus" as there are often inexplicable ~30 min gaps in indicated service, but buses come and buses go.
AMH July 25, 2016 - 4:42 pm
I remember that being an issue when DC rolled out Nextbus. Operators would forget to turn it on or log in. Not sure whether that's the issue here.
EN July 25, 2016 - 12:37 am
Um, they have this. Bustime is on every bus so you can see where they are. They have their own app and website. They have a developer API here http://bustime.mta.info/wiki/Developers/Index
bigbellymon4 July 25, 2016 - 2:23 am
I understand all the different aspects to improve bus service, but one thing they can do right now is start reducing the number of bus stops. Some stops are 2 street corners back to back, and no one is at one and plenty of people at another. And NYC'S watered down version of BRT needs to be expanded to more lines, and other lines need to be true BRT to have a greater efficiency.
Michael549 July 25, 2016 - 5:22 am
Let's agree that bus speeds in certain sections of Manhattan, and in some of the other boroughs are indeed a problem. Some even describe the problem as "being able to walk faster than the bus".
This may be true for some particular streets or situations – however there are plenty of places where it is impossible to catch the very same bus by walking to next bus stop. There are many places where the buses are NOT SLOW, even if the buses may not be frequent. Missing the bus means that you've MISSED THE DAMN BUS!!
Please do not let "planning by anecdote" become the rule.
There are many suggestions for "improving bus transit" from limiting or removing bus stops, making bus stop distances longer, eliminating bus routes, and more suggestions that I can list. Then there are folks who strongly support a particular set of problem solutions – crying for SBS everywhere, or only "pure BRT", etc.
The bus transit problems of NYC as a whole, and in its individual parts and places is simply too diverse to answer with simple suggestions, or by as I call it – "planning by anecdote."
The real important points that I want to make are:
a) Some suggestions and responses while surely appropriate for some places – just might not be appropriate for other places and in fact could make transit WORSE for local riders.
b) A "one-size solution" can in fact be no solution at all – making the problems worse for the many.
c) The planning process for improving bus transit has to – indeed must look closely at local conditions and situations. If one wants to call that "comprehensive planning" with a view toward understanding local issues, concerns and goals one wants to achieve then fine.
Do I have an answer for slow bus speeds along certain streets or sections of Manhattan?
No! I do not have ONE answer. I just would not start from a birds-eye view of Manhattan, and then start to make suggestions from only that viewpoint. Or for any other borough, neighborhood, or section of the city.
I'd tailor suggestions and improvements to the particular sections, areas or neighborhoods where real local improvements on the ground can be made. This is one of those times when there is more than one answer to a problem.
Jedman67 July 25, 2016 - 10:43 am
The obvious solution is to replace all the busses with more subways that we won't pay for.
-Uncle Andy
VLM July 25, 2016 - 12:53 pm
Based on your criticism here, I assume you haven't read Ben's post, the report he links to or any analysis of best-in-class bus networks. This is just another not-really-related word vomit comment from you. Who is planning by anecdote here?
I think this might actually be a copy/paste, because he has posted this screed about "planning by anecdote" on previous bus threads.
BrooklynBus July 27, 2016 - 10:13 am
Thank you for your very intelligent comment which is why VLM didn't like it. People love to look for supimplistic solutions and panaceas not realizing the complexity of the situation.
However, as reports go, this one is better than most. It is the only one I have ever seen other than stuff I wrote that names an outdated bus route structure as a reason why people shun buses. I have been harping on that for over forty years when routes were still outdated. The MTA's practice of new shuttle routes at 30 minute headways, splitting long routes and creating SBS does not address this problem of service gaps, indirect routes and unnecessary transfers. The only thing more important than routing is service reliability. Slow bus speeds are primarily a reason in Manhattan and lowering speed limits on arterials makes buses even slower.
Manuel July 25, 2016 - 10:52 am
More light rail less busses NJ did rigth we not so much
Larry Littlefield July 25, 2016 - 11:12 am
"In 2002, New York City Transit recorded some substantial bus ridership numbers as 762 million people paid to ride the bus. It's been all downhill since then."
Actually fewer people than that paid to ride the bus in 2002, and it has been all downhill since before then. The introduction of Metrocard free transfers pushed up bus ridership in the short run, but then the long-term decline re-started.
The bus has lost riders to the subway, to car services, to bicycles and now to Uber. And part of the change is generational.
A generation of city dwellers, especially women, got used to taking buses when the subways were dangerous and taxi drivers better paid. That generation passed on.
And while transit workers have become richer relative to most New Yorkers, mostly due to an increase in the cost of their retirement benefits, most for-hire car drivers have become poorer relative to other New Yorkers, as taxi-jobs were replaced by self employment, the government held down taxi fares more than transit fares, and native born drivers were replaced by immigrants.
Kyle B. July 25, 2016 - 11:50 am
This is as good a summation as I've seen.
It's a long-term decline that is generational, something that I've seen, yes, anecdotally, in riding the bus on the east side of Manhattan.
I also did some work years ago as a graduate student at NYCT and was unable to draw any correlation between demographics and declining bus ridership, at least at the neighborhood level, and thus just chalked it up to a cultural change as you've suggested above.
Larry Littlefield July 25, 2016 - 1:13 pm
It may also be partially geographical — more people with actual jobs in Manhattan living in places within walking distance from the subway. More retirees in houses that required a bus to the subway.
Then there were the express buses to politically influential neighborhoods that also had subways. That people were willing to pay more, and the government was willing to provide such a deep subsidy, says something.
Basically, I think they have to get bus speeds up to 10 mph — including tops, lights and traffic — for buses to be a choice mode. That would require many of the changes discussed here in recent posts, and perhaps in the report.
They'd still have the image issue. But if the service was good enough, they could work on that.
As long as they have a substantial disabled/elderly/retired ridership, however, the needs of that ridership will compete with other needs. On what had been the most popular transit discussion board before this one, I once posited that it might be better if people walked a little farther and rode a little faster, with bus stops spaced more widely. The response was immediate. "It is amazing how indifferent the able bodied are to those who have pain with every step."
Yeah you can see this generational/cultural change at work on the east/west buses through central Brooklyn. The B52, B25, and B26 all serve Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy, but their ridership is primarily older in age and in tenure in the neighborhood.
Of these, the B52 is the farthest from the A/C on Fulton as it runs through Bed-Stuy, but at it's farthest, it is only about a 15 minute walk from the A/C. In older times, if you lived nearer to Gates, you'd get off Downtown Brooklyn and get the bus home. Today, maybe you just stay on the subway. It's faster, and crime isn't the problem it once was. Why wait possibly 15 min for the bus, if not because it's safer?
I think if you break it down by route, people who take the bus as a necessary leg in their journey (ie. Utica Ave), these routes are not declining in ridership. But the routes set up duplicating or nearly paralleling subway service are probably declining steeply.
SEAN July 25, 2016 - 7:59 pm
To illustrate your point, lets look at a few bus routes.
The M104 & the Q60 literally run on top of a subway line while the Q23 runs n/ s connecting several subway lines & connecting several neighborhoods from Corona to Rego Park including Forest Hills.
wiseinfrastructure July 25, 2016 - 2:12 pm
The question is not how do we fix the buses – the question is how do we service each rider best?
For this attention should be paid to each line with individual solutions.
Some concepts that could be part of the solution for some lines:
*users should not have to stand exposed to the elements while waiting to transfer between buses or the subway and buses – build roofed structures that cover and enlarged area – not just tinny bus shelters that can fit 5-8 people.
*eliminate fare collection (no need for pre-boarding payment) on those runs where the transfer rate to the subway is 90+% – the users will pay at the subway
*create priority cues for the buses at certain constriction points, allowing the buses to bypass normal delays
*explore reversing the direction of certain streets to allow shorter bus runs
*have "sidewalk bus conductors" at the busiest locations at the busiest times of day with radio controlled metro-card swipers to allow rear door metro card only board on non-select buses
*have painted street/sidewalk markings to assist people in transfer between bus and subways or other buses =======Q44======Q44==== or +++Q10++++Q10+++
*explore having future buses have a left hand door to allow for left hand egress on to island platforms at busy locations allowing for express/local train type transfers
*such left had doors could actually allow desirable bus to bus transfers (just as subway transfers are way less painful than bus to bus transfers)
"Eliminate fare collection (no need for pre-boarding payment) on those runs where the transfer rate to the subway is 90+% – the users will pay at the subway."
The flaw in this plan is that the MTA would then lose the ability to tell if 90 percent are transferring to the subway.
Tap and go is the way to go.
-we have the data now from "pre conversion"
-count the people who get off the bus at the end of the subway station and walk down the subway steps (film it and count it later if needed)
Making the crosstown buses free should definitely be revisited. It would be so much cheaper than the line-by-line SBS treatment.
Spendmor Wastemor July 25, 2016 - 6:09 pm
Some of the crosstowns should be cancelled, because they're only modestly faster than walking. They could be replaced with a free or pre-paid limited stop bus making at most five stops crosstown in Manhattan. Manhattan is about 2.5 miles across; if you can walk at all, you can walk a max of 1/2 and an average of less than 1/4 mile.
If that's too much, you are eligible for Access-A-Ride, which is a pain but could be converted into a taxi allowance for trips within Manhattan.
Alon Levy July 25, 2016 - 7:57 pm
No. 800 meters is not the right spacing for city buses. The right spacing is 400-500 meters. Too much farther and the walking distance will eat the entire savings coming from faster speeds.
Think about it this way: a 2.4 km trip, with the current North American spacing of 200 meters, involves making 11 intermediate stops. Going up to 400 meters means killing 6 stops and adding an average of 200 meters of walking distance (100 at the origin and 100 at the destination), which is a good tradeoff. Going up to 800 meters means eliminating 3 more stops and adding another 400 meters of average walking distance – twice the cost, half the benefit.
Now, you may ask yourself why subways have sparser stops. This is because they're faster, so the time cost of each station stop is higher. People also typically use them for longer trips, and all else being equal, longer average trips correspond to longer optimal stop spacing (think why).
JJJJ July 25, 2016 - 3:41 pm
Some buses have routes that almost appear intentionally designed to reduce ridership, like doing four left turns in a half mile.
Im thinking things like this:
http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-...../B36-2.png
I mean seriously, WTF.
Thats a nationwide issue, not just NYC. In Boston, the Silver Line BRT route manages to stop at the same station twice in the same direction (world trade center). It would be funny if it weren't so idiotic.
Something something malice stupidity quote. In some cases it has to be intentional suppression of ridership.
From the MTA's perspective, those four lefts are ideal. For them, the ideal bus goes in circles several times per route, thus requiring more buses, more drivers, more line supervisors and more management per route, making the managers irresponsible for a larger organization and thus deserving of a raise. Routes of course must never be dropped, because the complainers are the majority and those paying are a minority.
Duke July 25, 2016 - 9:38 pm
The intent of this appears to be so that the bus can stop directly at the Sheepshead Bay subway station instead of half a block away as it would if it remained on Avenue Z.
But, yeah, that's the sort of thing that made sense in an era when the streets were unsafe and having to walk half a block from the subway station to the bus stop could be seen as dangerous. By today's standards the benefit of dropping people off right in front of the station entrance instead of 200 feet away from it is not worth that circuitous routing slowing the bus down.
Adirondacker12800 July 25, 2016 - 10:09 pm
How many people use the bus to get to the subway stop? Making them walk a block slows down their trip.
AMH July 29, 2016 - 11:08 am
I think the right question is, does the time saved by eliminating the turns outweigh the time spent walking a short distance?
BrooklynBus July 29, 2016 - 1:02 pm
MTA Staff Summary: Approximately 2270 weekday transfers from subway to B36. If we assume 2270 in the other direction, that is 4,540 per weekday. If we assume Saturday and Sunday would equal one weekday, that would be 4,540 X 6 or 27,000 a week or 1.4 million passengers a year.
I would think that number would justify buses directly serving the subway and not making riders walk an extra 370 feet twice a day during bad weather, especially when DOT provided no evidence to show buses were slowed down more than one minute or two. The goal is to make bus transportation convenient not more unnecessarily inconvenient by placing cabs in front of the station and asking bus riders to walk further.
Stephen Bauman July 25, 2016 - 9:09 pm
A physics professor at my college once remarked that if something cannot be measured quantitatively, it doesn't exist. What distressed me most about the "Turnaround" report was the utter lack of quantitative analysis, let alone verifiable data.
Here is some data I was able to obtain from publicly available sources that should shed some light on some of the cures being proposed.
On a typical weekday (20 Jun 2016), the MTA scheduled approximately 50,000 individual non-express bus trips. This derived from the static GTFS data that anyone can download from the MTA site. These included 43,683 local bus trips; 3417 ltd bus trips and 2803 SBS bus trips. The locals were scheduled to travel a total of 273,838 miles; the limiteds 27,212 miles and the SBS 21,640 miles. The locals were scheduled to make 1,764,570 stops; the limiteds 115,598 and the SBS buses 52,054. The scheduled run time for the locals was 33,520 hours; the limiteds 3511 hours and the SBS buses 2201 hours.
The derived parameters are: 8.1, 7.8 and 9.8 mph for the locals, limiteds and SBS, respectively. That's not a mistake, citywide the LTD buses are slower than than the locals. Another way of expressing the same metric is: 7.4, 7.7 and 6.1 minutes per mile for the local, limited and SBS buses respectively.
Another derived parameter is: 0.16, 0.24 and 0.44 miles between stops for the local, limited and SBS buses respectively.
A glance at the NTD shows in 2014 (latest data) that NYCT Bus logged 1,588,569,505 passenger miles and 762,582,618 unlinked passenger trips. The same figures for MTA Bus are: 349,659,733 and 125,581,237. The totals for both are: 1,938,229,238 passenger-miles and 888,163,855 unlinked passenger-trip.
The derived parameter is: 2.18 miles/trip.
Let's compare how long will it take the average passenger to make that 2.18 mile trip, via local, limited or SBS bus. Included will be walk to /from stop @ 3mph (20 min/mile) and bus travel time for 2.18 miles.
For the local the figure is: 0.16*20 + 2.18*7.4 = 19.3 min.
For the limited: 0.24*20 + 2.18*7.7 = 21.6 min.
For SBS: 0.44*20 + 2.18*6.1 = 22.1 min.
Does the mantra that we need faster buses making fewer stops seem realistic from the rider's perspective?
The flaw with this analysis is that it assumes the distance between people's destinations and the nearest bus stop is evenly distributed. In the real world, it isn't. For one thing, anyone who transfers from the bus to the subway is guaranteed to not have a longer walk at one end of their bus ride because the bus stop that's at the subway station isn't going to be one of the ones that is eliminated.
Likewise, some cross streets will generate more trips than others. M15 SBS for example deliberately stops at Houston, 14th, 23rd, etc. because people are more likely to be destined for somewhere on one of these major streets than somewhere on one of the lesser streets in between.
Stephen Bauman July 25, 2016 - 10:03 pm
That's an interesting hypothesis. Can you demonstrate its validity by citing verifiable data that support it?
The problem I alluded to in my first paragraph is that there is too much speculation and too few quantitative measurements that support them.
The existence of bus riders transferring to the subway is not speculation – it is a well known feature of the MetroCard. Alas, the turnstile data on MTA's website does not include any numbers on transfers, and I have not been able to locate any stats on bus-subway transfers elsewhere.
The effect of major versus minor cross streets may be even more difficult to quantify since the MTA does not (and has no way of) keeping track of where exactly people get on and off of buses.
Nonetheless, these are potentially significant variables that you have not accounted for in your analysis, which may well skew the results.
pete July 25, 2016 - 10:35 pm
Raise the speed limit to 30. Ever since BDB's Vision Zero, buses drive as slow as possible and stop at green lights and wait for them to turn red.
Sounds like bus drivers running ahead of schedule. Maybe schedules need to be updated.
Speed limits have almost nothing to do with average bus speed. Stop spacing, MetroCard queueing, light timing, double-parking, and many other factors are slowing down buses, which spend almost no time moving at or near 25mph.
Keith R.A. DeCandido July 25, 2016 - 11:50 pm
Gee, how nice to see that the governor is so concerned with people in Manhattan. Meanwhile the people in the other four boroughs are screwed, because the subways are designed to get people in and out of Manhattan only. If you want to travel within the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, you have to take a bus.
But, as usual, we don't count….
—KRAD
And very few buses travel between boroughs (e.g. Queens and Brooklyn), the only reason I can imagine being that routes haven't been updated in 100 years.
And that was the report's major finding and for that it deserves credit. It is the first report I have read to acknowledge something I have been complaining about for over 40 years now.
I said more about this report here:
http://www.qchron.com/opinion/.....6d755.html


It's Kombucha Time in La Jolla!
A shop in Bird Rock at 5652 La Jolla Blvd. is home to Anne's Kombucha where the organic, fermented probiotic tea is brewed and distributed by owner Anne Smith, a health-conscious entrepreneur whose bottled teas are sold in more than 2-dozen stores across the county.
"I started making Kombucha in my home five years ago with two test tubes and it grew to this," Smith said, with a wave of her hand.
Smith has studied health and nutrition for the past 30 years and holds more than a dozen certificates in topics such as botanical research and clinical herbology.
She said she first learned about Kombucha during a class on fermentation at Self-Heal School in Ocean Beach. The fermentation process creates a naturally carbonated probiotic beverage after sweet tea is mixed with a raw, live Symbiotic Culture of friendly Bacteria and Yeast known as a SCOBY.
Kombucha is believed to have originated in China during the Tsin Dynasty (2221 B.C.) when it was called the "Elixir of Immortality" for its health benefits, according to Smith.
Some of those benefits include an increase in metabolism and energy, detoxifying effects, immune system boosting, mood enhancement and cell regeneration.
Smith said she was fascinated by the bizarre tasting sweet-and-sour sparkly tea, and soon began drinking it daily. Her instructor told her she could make it at home inexpensively, compared to the $3-$4 price per serving of Kombucha at health food stores.
"Online I bought two little test tubes of organic cultures that are the starters," she said.
For the next three years she worked in her kitchen at home, fermenting, tasting, blending and refining her own recipes that included adding flower essences into the elixir.
She said the first step is to boil water and sugar, steep several tea bags, then let the mixture cool before adding the culture to the jar of tea and covering it with a muslin cloth.
After about seven days of growing in a dark, ventilated area, the "mother" SCOBY produces a "baby" SCOBY.
"This is the nursery phase," Smith said.
The two organisms can then be detached and moved to separate containers where they expand exponentially.
"I was fermenting, and every so often, I'd have to buy another 2-gallon container. It got to the point that I had 25 containers in my hallway," she said.
When her husband tired of the constant aroma of vinegar in the house, Smith said she decided it was time to find a shop.
About two-years ago Smith opened the shop in Bird Rock where she brews and bottles 1,500 to 2,000 bottles of Kombucha each month.
"Everything is done in the building — from the fermentation to the strain, to the blending, to the bottling, to the delivery. I self distribute and I stock the shelves," she said.
Smith has 250-gallons continuously fermenting on the shelves, and her shop can accommodate production of up to 10,000 bottles per month.
• Made in three flavors: cranberry lime, blue-green algae and ginger.
• The probiotic content in each 16-ounce bottle is 1 billion organisms of Lactobacillus.
• Anne's Kombucha Blue Green Algae has 40 calories per serving, 9 grams of carbohydrates and 7 grams of sugar, and the blue-green algae comes from Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon.
• Due to the natural fermentation, each batch of Anne's Kombucha has a trace amount of alcohol, but is tested to be a non-alcoholic beverage and conforms to the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control that requires a beverage to contain less than or equal to .5 percent by volume alcohol content to be considered a non-alcoholic drink.
• Kombucha is not recommended for lactating or pregnant women.
• Anne's Kombucha makes no formal claims about the benefits of Kombucha, and the Food and Drug Administration has not evaluated any of the wide-range of professional claims regarding Kombucha's health enhancing properties, according to Smith.


Hi Friends: Today's project is an altered cigar box that I decorated with Creative Paperclay embellishments made from some Prima IOD moulds. I plan to use this box to store my Paperclay pieces that are ready to be used on other products. It's my project for a Design Team application for Creative Paperclay - I love, love, love this product. (I hate to say that out loud - you know what they say about telling people about your birthday candle wishes!) You can find more information and inspiration at the Creative Paperclay Blog and join in some fun with the Creative Paperclay Facebook page, too.
One of the best things about having a father-in-law that smokes cigars is that I get to inherit all of the lovely wood cigar boxes once he's smoked all the cigars! Here are pictures of the finished project - I love the way it turned out. And, of course, it's blue and silver - love the colors!
Here's the top of the box - I love the keyhole and the large flourish that were made with Creative Paperclay, then colored with Inka Gold and Prima Metallique Wax.
Use Creative Paperclay with the Keyholes and Large Flourish IOD moulds to create beautiful elements to add to your project - simply work the Paperclay into a ball, flatten it, and press it into the moulds, remove the excess, then allow to dry. Remove the pieces from the moulds, then simply file or use your fingers to remove any excess pieces of material that you didn't quite get when you filled the mould. I made all of the keyholes and flourishes in the moulds at once so that I would have extra finished pieces for future projects - aren't they lovely?
Prep the entire cigar box with black gesso. Once dry, paint the box with Steel Blue Inka Gold. Glue Creative Paperclay keyholes and flourish, chipboard letters, and lace to the box, then cover with black gesso. Once dry, paint the pieces with the same Steel Blue Inka Gold, then enhance with the Old Silver Metallique wax. For the charms on the sides of the box, link them together with chain and trinket pins. Glue all of the jewelry pieces, charms, trinket pins, word bands, and other metal embellishments in place. Enhance the trinket pins and word bands with the Old Silver wax - this changes the color to match and lets the words shine through. Add seed beads and micro beads on/around the Creative Paperclay pieces on the top of the box.
Add micro beads around the letters and enhance the color with LSG Hydrangea Blue spray. Finish by enhancing the clasp and hinges with the Old Silver wax and adding some gems to the lace. Enjoy using the box to store the rest of your Creative Paperclay pieces.
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The hypervisor has become a rock-solid stable product used as a platform for virtual machines and therefore virtual desktops. But the #EUC stack in VMware's portfolio called #Horizon is creating new layers of components on top of the vSphere stack. So what is important to deliver a great EUC experience and directly increase the outcome of a company generating a lot of its profit out of desktop applications?
Horizon View projects rise and fall with the quality of the above mentioned criteria. Especially during transitions from classical desktops to virtual desktops every lack of those criteria will have a negative impact on the user's acceptance and therefore on the success of the VDI project.
Therefore we as VDI architects and consultants develop solutions based on approved methodologies (Use-cases, conceptual & logical design) and set them up in a production environment with concrete products and configurations (physical design & implementation). Check out the generic VDI operations model I created multiple years ago.
Log Insight is a great tool to increase the reliability and the availability of a system by pro-actively monitoring the log-files of our components. The important thing with operational support solution is not the features it has out-of-the box. The possibility to align such a solution to a specific customers' environment is where the real power is. Both characteristics can be served by vRealize Log Insight.
Why is it so important to analyze the log-files? Log-files are one way how the system components try to communicate with the administrators. We use them very often, but mostly when something already got happened. No one of us gets the time to proactively check the log files. Unfortunately many problems & messages can indicate an upcoming problem at an early stage. Log Insight can alert us in case of the following.
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vCenter VPXD error messages about database problems or long SQL execution statements.
Known issues of solution that are not fixed yet and the only workaround is a check of the log-file followed by a manual action.
vRealize Log Insight can be used for 25 OSI per vCenter without additional costs and it is very fast and easily installed. Download the Appliance, Deploy it with the common parameters. And voila. That's it.
agent based: Agents can be downloaded from within the vRLI administrator. The agent defines which log-files are sent-over (compressed / queued) and how the data is serialized. vRLI Agents are available for most common Operating systems.
So let's take an example Horizon environment for up to 500-1000 Desktops.
With such a setup you are able to deliver a rock-solid EUC experience using the included 25 OSI licenses. If you need more licenses, no problem at all: just purchase them.
From my practical experience so far I would always recommend to implement vRealize Log Insight and integrate it with vRealize Operations (more on that topic in another blog post).
The cost are relatively low, the benefit can be huge -> Go get it.


I hope you are having a good week so far. Happy International Women's Day to each and every one of you. The world has a long way to go still, but let us celebrate and encourage strong, independent women everywhere.
On Saturday the children and I spent an hour at the allotment, where we tentatively started clearing the wilderness. It's pretty amazing what you can do in an hour with just one pair of secateurs and a bit of determination! We can now see the space we are dealing with a little better, and in a few weeks my parents are coming to help move it on a bit further (thank you Mum and Dad!). My Sarah Raven dahlia bulbs have arrived, so I need to get those started off in some big pots. Exciting!
I took these snaps a couple of weeks ago, after I bought these amazing vinyl backdrops from the lovely Capture By Lucy, a brilliant blogger who now produces these gorgeous backdrops for bloggers, photographers, Instagrammers, crafters and all creative types! They are going to be perfect for taking with me on shoots and creating pretty flatlays here at home.
Norwich Fashion Week kicks off tomorrow, which I help on every year, and I'm so excited! I will try to post some behind the scenes snaps on my Instagram Stories, so pop over and take a look. I just need to choose my outfit…!


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It was a brutal storm, with straight-line winds exceeding 80 mph. The worst parts of Friday's storm raged during the school and work morning rush hour, but with the exception of fallen trees and the scattering of limbs by the thousands, Carthage survived relatively unscathed.
According to Sgt. Roy Eppard with the Carthage Police Department, there were no fatalities, injuries nor vehicular accidents in Carthage during the morning storm.
"There were a lot of trees down, some power lines down" and a few stop signs, he said.
Some parts of Carthage lost power, mostly on the western edge, which seemed to take the brunt of the storm's fury. Many calls into the police station were of downed trees onto houses, cars or fences. For example, one call from a Carthage resident, Eppard said, spoke of a lightning bolt that split a tree into two, dropping a sizeable limb on her vehicle's windshield.
A number of calls came from concerned residents about uprooted trees perhaps breaking underground gas lines. Electric crews were out surveying uprooted tree damages, and as of 10:43 a.m., he said there were no reports of gas leaks in town.
A few lights at key intersections were down, he said, including Central/Garrison and Oak/Garrison. The latter had been reduced to a four-way stop. Also, several businesses, mainly on the western part of town, were without power after the storm had passed.
When asked about tree damage, Tim Hill, Carthage Street Superintendent, summed it up with two words — "It's bad."
Usually during summer storms, he continued, "the damage is located in a certain area, but with this storm it was everywhere; widespread."
Dozens upon dozens of trees were ripped up from the ground due to the fierce straight-line winds that rammed into Jasper County from the west.
Trees blocked about five Carthage streets immediately after the storm had passed the city by — at Main and Paradise, at 14th and Garrison, and out on Poplar. Those have since been cleared, Hill said.
"We're concentrating on clearing the main throughways," he said. The 18 members of the city's road crews were split up into four crews as they responded to calls of downed trees, relayed to them by the Carthage Police Department.
All in all, he said, "It could've have been much worse," alluding to more structural damage around town or the possibility of a tornado hitting the city.
"The golf course," he said, "is in bad shape."
Kurt Neubert, superintendent of the Carthage Municipal Golf Course, said there were "about 30 trees" down, some of the trees "pretty huge."
In a way, he said, it was worse damage than the previous ice storm, because then, "we had branches down from thousands of trees; here, we have entire trees down.
"There's a lot more wood on the ground this time," Neubert said.
The golf course has been closed today, and Neubert and others are working frantically to remove as much of the tree damage as possible.
It should be open back to the public Saturday, mainly because the downed trees missed all the greens; some lying adjacent to them, and there's little interference to the actual playing fields; in areas, they'll be "cutting holes so golfers can play through."
According to the National Weather Service, there's a 20 percent chance of showers tonight before 1 a.m. with 8 mph winds. Saturday, there's a 20 percent chance of rain with temperatures hovering in the low 50s.
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The BMW Foundation helps people and organizations worldwide to work towards the common good and a society that is fit for the future.
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Who is your hero?
Stéphane Hessel.
About Jessica von Farkas
Jessica von Farkas has been with the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt since 2014, supporting people who throw themselves into tackling social challenges.
Her last name, von Farkas (Hungarian for "wolf"), she owes to her Hungarian grandfather, but this has been the extent of her connections to this country so far. Jessica was born in the United States, grew up in Germany, and her mother's family is from Mexico where she has spent her long summer vacations from an early age. Her second home opened Jessica's eyes and heart for a different, multi-faceted, and colorful culture. But she also got to know poverty in its various guises and met children for whom attending school was unfortunately no matter of course.
This strengthened her desire to change something. She only learned later that this "something" is called social inclusion, equality of opportunity, fighting discrimination and impunity, and many other things. But her desire persisted and guided her on her path.
So, despite the reservations of her family who thought there was no money in her career aspirations, she began to study political science and international law in Munich in 2007. After stints with a human rights organization in Costa Rica, the Federation of German Industries (BDI), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Washington, D.C., Jessica found her professional happiness at the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt.
While studying, Jessica worked for seven years in an office for IT forensics, which left her with an abiding fascination for digital developments at the intersection with basic democratic rights.
If Jessica is not eagerly exploring this interface or volunteering with the NGO Genocide Alert e.V., she loves travelling, scuba diving, good food, and lately has been getting hooked on the way too exciting Netflix productions.
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Why Should I Get My PhD in Healthcare Administration in Iowa?
Whether you're interested in improving access to healthcare, advocating for specific groups within healthcare legislation, or heading up a major medical facility, earning a PhD in health administration in Iowa could be the next step to achieving your goals.
Curious about what attending top DHA programs in Iowa can do for your future? Keep reading to find out more about what this degree entails.
Many states are still working out the bugs of the Affordable Care Act, including care gaps that have left thousands without insurance. As a result, Medicaid is becoming a more prevalent option in Iowa. Three of the largest healthcare companies in Iowa are taking over Medicaid, a cooperative agreement that allows most patients to keep their current doctors (Iowa Public Radio, 2016). These types of smooth transitions are set up and assisted by high-level executives and legislators.
Iowa is known for being home to many nationally recognized healthcare providers and employers. In 2016, the University of Iowa Health Group was ranked #7 in the top 10 health employers by Forbes (The Gazette, 2016).
Are There Online PhD Programs in Healthcare Administration in Iowa?
As you start thinking about where to get your PhD in health administration in Iowa, take some time to look into the admissions process. Particularly at highly ranked programs, you may need a very strong application to be considered for admission. Some schools accept students with Bachelor's degrees; others require a Master's degree in a healthcare field. If you only have a Bachelor's degree, plan on spending five to seven years in DHA programs in Iowa. If you have a Master's degree, three to five years may suffice. Online programs, which are fairly common in this area of study, may change your timeline.
When you start your education, you may have the chance to choose an area of concentration. Some options available in Iowa include Health Economics, Health Policy, and Health Management & Organization.
As you progress through your classroom courses, keep your dissertation in the back of your mind. Before you can begin working on your dissertation, you must choose a topic, select an advisor, and have your topic approved. Thinking about this early can streamline the process and save you time. The dissertation is the final step in your PhD. Once you have successfully defended it to a panel, you can get your degree.
What Kind of PhD in Health Administration Jobs Can I Find in Iowa?
Throughout Iowa, you may put your skills to work in a variety of ways. Major medical employers in Iowa include The Iowa Clinic, University of Iowa Medical Research, and Iowa Clinical Research Corporation. Depending on your area of specialty, you may work for research centers, medical institutions, universities, or legislative agencies.
Those who work as medical service managers in Iowa bring in an average income of $84,970 annually (BLS, 2016). Between 2012 and 2022, job openings may jump 20% (O*Net, 2016). For clinical research coordinators, job growth may reach 10% and the average salary is $64,030 annually (BLS, 2016).
The future of Iowa healthcare is not set in stone; it is determined by dedicated professionals like you. Find out how you can expand your education and reach out to top doctoral degree programs in health administration Iowa today.


This is a wonderful, mild flavored pasta we've adapted from Marcella Hazan. I know it sounds like an odd combination of ingredients, but you should definitely try it. It's unlike any pasta you have likely eaten before, and it is quite tasty. We will definitely make it again. Serve with the roasted broccoli below for a nice combination of flavors and a healthy meal.
Strip the cauliflower of all its leaves except for the tender inner ones. Rinse and cut in two.
Bring 4-5 quarts of water to boil, put in the cauliflower, and cook it till tender, about 25-30 minutes. Prod it with a fork to test for doneness. Remove from the water and set aside. When cooled, chop the cauliflower into pieces not bigger than a small nut.
Return the water to the stove, bring to boil, and add the pasta and cook until done.
While the pasta is cooking, put the oil and garlic in a medium saute pan, turn the heat to medium, and cook until the garlic becomes colored a light, golden brown. Then add the chopped anchovies and cook for a few minutes while stirring an mashing the anchovies against the sides of the pan with a wooden spoon until they are close to the consistency of a paste.
Add the cauliflower pieces and turn them until thoroughly coated with the oil, mashing some with the back of the spoon.
Toss the sauce with the cooked and drained pasta. Add the chopped parsley, toss, check and adjust seasoning, then serve immediately.
I wasn't sure I was going to like this, but I did. It was a very nice combination of flavors. If you are looking for an alternative to tomato or pesto based sauces, this is a really nice alternative.
It is a very interesting and rich mixture, I prepare and I can recommend it.


"My love for bikes and cars triggered the interest in modifying vehicles. I did not take it as a profession as I always wanted to be an interior designer.
The Indian Ministry of Defence (MOD) had floated an RFP for vehicles with three basic criteria – minimum payload capacity of 800 kgs; hard roofs and air conditioning. Developed indigenously. Tata Safari was put to test for a total trial duration of fifteen months on various terrains across the country.
Total domestic sales increased 25.9 per cent on a YoY basis to 1,33,934 units in the month of January 2017 compared with 1,06,383 units sold in the year-ago period.
Among all the segments, the car maker saw a steep growth of 90.9 percent in Utility vehicles. The carmaker sold as many as 18008 units which include Gypsy, Ertiga, S-cross and best-selling Vitara Brezza.
While sales in the utility vehicle category went up by 75.5 per cent to 9,708 units, volumes in passenger car space fell by 16.3 per cent to 72,551 units.
MSI said sales of its compact sedan Dzire Tour surged over three-fold during the month under review at 1,989 units as against 604 units in November 2013.


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"This creative woman collects beautiful one of a kind needleworks, antique textiles, tapestries and lace and turns them into the most exquisite cushions, chair seat covers, table runners, duvet covers and footstools. What to do with your wedding gown? Why not turn it into beautiful cushions to gaze upon and always remember your special day."
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MP3 Jeremy Saxon - Blue Weekend
Lyric-intensive Acoustic/electric Blues-flavored songs, in a wide spectrum of genres from Derek & Dominoes to Duke Ellington to Elliot Smith, but centering around Fats Domino and Tom Waits, maybe Randy Newman. Mostly voice/guitar/bass/drums; some horns,
Related styles: BLUES: Swamp Blues, ROCK: Americana
People who are interested in Tom Waits Randy Newman Fats Domino should consider this download.
I''m a songwriter who grew up in the San Francisco area. moved to Europe in 1995, and gigged with a small ensemble in in and around Prague, 180 shows a year for five years; we recorded this album during the last year, 1999-2000. We knew the songs well, and we knew what we wanted to do; plus the recording time over there was cheap as hell so we were able to spend TONS of time. Some of the songs (Firin It Up) are just ear-tickling on headphones. Some (Quite All Right, Yes She Is) are more straighforward arrangements.
We stretched out on this recording, adding Saxes and Organ where we thought it might work; in that respect it reminds me of the Beatle''s White Album, where the mood and genre of one song may be quite different to the one that follows it, from the stripped-down rockabilly that is our normal sound (Quite All Right, Cadillac, My Black Mama, etc.) to a cushy big-band jazz ballad (Solitude), a full-on Brit-Blues screamer (Its Own Sweet Time), an Elliot Smith-style intimate tragedy song (Clementine, inspired by and named after his own song), a folk-rock anthem waltz (It Was There), a bluesy, loungy LONG heartbreak lament (Failed Love), and a few different kinds of Just Plain Fun.
All in all, we sweated blood doing our best to get this as right as we could, and we are all VERY happy with how it came out. We''ll probably do it simpler in the future, so this one will stand alone in its stylings.
I wrote all of these songs, except: ''Solitude'' by Duke Ellington; ''She''s So Cool'', by Rusty Miller, who''s a friend of some friends of mine, I learned it from their recorded version; and ''My Black Mama'' which is an old Son House song with a couple of lyrics borrowed from Robert Johnson.
More questions? Take a listen, or email me at [email protected]://www.tradebit.com


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<< Lukas 22 >>
1THE festival of Unleavened Bread, known as Passover, was approaching,
2and the chief priests and the scribes were trying to devise some means of doing away with him; for they were afraid of the people.
3Then Satan entered into Judas, who was called Iscariot, one of the Twelve;
4and he went to the chief priests and temple guards to discuss ways of betraying Jesus to them.
5They were glad and undertook to pay him a sum of money.
6He agreed, and began to look for an opportunity to betray him to them without collecting a crowd.
7Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover lambs had to be slaughtered,
8and Jesus sent off Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover supper for us."
9"Where would you like us to make the preparations?" they asked.
10He replied, "As soon as you set foot in the city a man will meet you carrying a jar of water. Follow him into the house that he enters
11and give this message to the householder: 'The Teacher says, "Where is the room in which I am to eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
12He will show you a large room upstairs all set out: make the preparations there.'
13They went and found everything as he had said. So they prepared for Passover.
14When the hour came he took his place at table, and the apostles with him;
15and he said to them, "How I have longed to eat this Passover with you before my death!
16For I tell you, never again shall I eat it until the time when it finds its fulfilment in the kingdom of God."
17Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he said, "Take this and share it among yourselves;
18for I tell you, from this moment I shall not drink the fruit of the vine until the time when the kingdom of God comes."
19Then he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, and gave it to them with the words: "This is my body.
20[[EMPTY]]
21"Even now my betrayer is here, his hand with mine on the table.
22For the Son of Man is going his appointed way; but alas for that man by whom he is betrayed!"
23At that they began to ask among themselves which of them it could possibly be who was to do this.
24Then a dispute began as to which of them should be considered the greatest.
25But he said, "Among the Gentiles, kings lord it over their subjects; and those in authority are given the title Benefactor.
26Not so with you: on the contrary, the greatest among you must bear himself like the youngest, the one who rules like one who serves.
27For who is greater -- the one who sits at table or the servant who waits on him? Surely the one who sits at table. Yet I am among you like a servant.
28"You have stood firmly by me in my times of trial;
29and I now entrust to you the kingdom which my Father entrusted to me;
30in my kingdom you shall eat and drink at my table and sit on thrones as judges of the twelve tribes of Israel.
31"Simon, Simon, take heed: Satan has been given leave to sift all of you like wheat;
32but I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail; and when you are restored, give strength to your brothers."
33"Lord," he replied, "I am ready to go with you to prison and to death."
34Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow tonight until you have denied three times over that you know me."
35He said to them, "When I sent you out barefoot without purse or pack, were you ever short of anything?" "No," they answered.
36"It is different now," he said; "whoever has a purse had better take it with him, and his pack too; and if he has no sword, let him sell his cloak to buy one.
37For scripture says, 'And he was reckoned among transgressors,' and this, I tell you, must be fulfilled in me; indeed, all that is written of me is reaching its fulfilment."
38"Lord," they said, "we have two swords here." "Enough!" he replied.
39THEN he went out and made his way as usual to the mount of Olives, accompanied by the disciples.
40When he reached the place he said to them, "Pray that you may be spared the test."
41He himself withdrew from them about a stone's throw, knelt down, and began to pray:
42"Father, if it be your will, take this cup from me. Yet not my will but yours be done."
43And now there appeared to him an angel from heaven bringing him strength,
44and in anguish of spirit he prayed the more urgently; and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
45When he rose from prayer and came to the disciples he found them asleep, worn out by grief.
46"Why are you sleeping?" he said. "Rise and pray that you may be spared the test."
The trial and crucifixion of Jesus
47WHILE he was still speaking a crowd appeared with the man called Judas, one of the Twelve, at their head. He came up to Jesus to kiss him;
48but Jesus said, "Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"
49When his followers saw what was coming, they said, "Lord, shall we use our swords?"
50And one of them struck at the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear.
51But Jesus answered, "Stop! No more of that!" Then he touched the man's ear and healed him.
52Turning to the chief priests, the temple guards, and the elders, who had come to seize him, he said, "Do you take me for a robber, that you have come out with swords and cudgels?
53Day after day, I have been with you in the temple, and you did not raise a hand against me. But this is your hour -- when darkness reigns."
54Then they arrested him and led him away. They brought him to the high priest's house, and Peter followed at a distance.
55They lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat round it, and Peter sat among them.
56A serving-maid who saw him sitting in the firelight stared at him and said, "This man was with him too."
57But he denied it: "I do not know him," he said.
58A little later a man noticed him and said, "You also are one of them." But Peter said to him, "No, I am not."
59About an hour passed and someone else spoke more strongly still: "Of course he was with him. He must have been; he is a Galilean."
60But Peter said, "I do not know what you are talking about." At that moment, while he was still speaking, a cock crowed;
61and the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Peter remembered the Lord's words, "Tonight before the cock crows you will disown me three times."
62And he went outside, and wept bitterly.
63The men who were guarding Jesus mocked him. They beat him,
64they blindfolded him, and kept asking him, "If you are a prophet, tell us who hit you."
65And so they went on heaping insults upon him.
66AS SOON as it was day, the elders of the people, chief priests, and scribes assembled, and he was brought before their Council.
67"Tell us," they said, "are you the Messiah?" "If I tell you," he replied, "you will not believe me;
68and if I ask questions, you will not answer.
69But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of Almighty God."
70"You are the Son of God, then?" they all said, and he replied, "It is you who say I am."
71At that they said, "What further evidence do we need? We have heard this ourselves from his own lips."
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Tobacco processing has begun in the new preparation hall of Continental Tobacco Plc.'s tobacco factory in Sátoraljaújhely, which has a history of more than 130 years – the company's nearly HUF 10 billion investment has reached another milestone. It will now be possible to completely shut down the old production line and carry out the necessary machine replacements and building renovations. Full handover is scheduled for December 2022.
Continental Tobacco Plc. started the nearly HUF 10 billion investment at the beginning of 2021, which includes the construction of a three-storey plant hall with a total floor area of 1,800 square metres per floor, equipped with modern machinery and a total floor area of approximately 5,400 square metres. The installed tobacco preparation line will be located on the second level of the plant and will be equipped with an industrial robot and the latest Scada monitoring system to improve efficiency and product quality.
Speaking about the investment, Csaba Füzi, CEO of Continental Tobacco Plc., the owner of the tobacco factory in Sátoraljaújhely, said that the commissioning of the new preparation line is an extremely important milestone in the implementation of the project, which has been underway for more than a year. He added that as the wet-cut tobacco required by the tobacco expander plants cannot be stored, it was essential to start up the new production line to ensure a continuous supply.
As the final phase of the project, the company will shut down the existing tobacco preparation production line, which is still in operation and also produces conventional tobacco cuttings, at the beginning of September and will start the complete modernisation of the remaining elements. Once the works are completed, the entire production line is scheduled to be in test mode from mid-November. Until the official handover, scheduled for December, Continental will supply the wet tobacco cuttings needs of the tobacco expander plants and the traditional drying tobacco cuttings needs from two sources – the former from the new production line and the latter from the company's pre-production of 3 months' worth of traditional tobacco cuttings.
Following the complete handover, the factory's tobacco cut-to-size capacity will be increased by around 25 percent, and the new machines will enable significantly more modern tobacco production than before, further enhancing the competitiveness of the Continental Tobacco Group. The development will also help the company to create additional jobs in the region.


Now you have the opportunity to forge your own knife. Gränsfors Bruk has developed a "have-a-go" course in knife forging. This is the perfect course for people who want to try something very different, or a group of friends who have already done "everything".
In a group of maximum 8 people, your course leader will give you a step-by-step introduction to the methods and grips involved in hot forging with the help of examples and instructions. You will learn to light the forge and a little about the tools and materials that are used.
The course is aimed at giving you basic knowledge and practical experience of the different elements of knife forging. Besides basic knowledge of the forge and the tools that are used, you will be given the opportunity to forge different knives and knife blades of carbon steel. Step-by-step, you will learn about the various elements, from lighting the forge to shaping and working the hot steel. During the course, you will also learn how to grind, harden and temper the knife blades. You will also be able to try welding a laminated knife blade. No previous knowledge is required.


UBoC's academic partners at the University of Leeds, the Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere and Forest (LEAF) research centre, officially launched on the 24th November 2014 with an event held in the School of Earth and Environment.
The aim of LEAF is to bring together all the forest-related research being conducted across the University of Leeds. By linking researchers across faculties, LEAF will strengthen existing collaborations and encourage new inter-departmental partnerships, establishing the University of Leeds as a leading national centre in forest research.
Contrary to the widely held view, a recent study has demonstrated that old trees continue to sequester carbon at a greater rate than their younger counterparts.
An international team of scientists collated data on tree growth from 403 species across the world, including tropical, sub-tropical and temperate trees.
The team found that carbon accumulation does scale with size; the largest trees in the study were growing at a rate of over 600 kg per year! This happens because the increase in total leaf area, with increasing tree size, proves to be more important than the declining productivity of leaves as trees age.
Congratulations to our supporter Straight plc for being one of the first listed on the newly established Social Stock Exchange.
Not a good newsweek for international forestry…..
Join up – your climate needs you!


Light roasts are the perfect way to experience varietal flavors of coffee that lie hidden behind the roasted, smoky flavors of darker roasts. Generally, a shorter roasting time allows for more retention of the caffeine found in the coffee beans. Daily Chef's Breakfast Blend has a sweet aroma and a pronounced acidity to help you escape the norm. A medium body and smooth, pleasant flavor provide the perfect start to your day.