Apparently CNN's website had a poll yesterday to coincide with the launch of the LRO, which should be taking some neat pictures of the moon and doing an impact study to see what lies below the surface. One of the stated purposes of the mission is apparently to scout out potential sites for lunar colonies, which I'm sure is what inspired the CNN poll.
Incidentally, I have similarly expressed positions on maintaining a healthy fantasy life, methods for combating insomnia, and how best to handle fowl.
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October 2015 – upcoming London gigs – gamelan/dance fusion with My Tricksy Spirit, Wax Wings and Segara Madu; Nordic pop at Ja Ja Ja (Kill J, Loveless and Maasai); anarchistwood's Samhain/NYE party (with Rude Mechanicals, Jane Ruby and more)
More concerts for the end of October…
As the opening concert of the South East Asian Festival 2015, there's a performance at the Forge by My Tricksy Spirit, a new musical project which fuses the shimmering sounds of gendér wayang – Balinese gamelan instruments – with dub, electronic, ambient, trip-hop, and psychedelic rock. The Forge's writeup is below (tweaked a little by me).
My Tricksy Spirit (The Forge , 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town, London, NW1 7NL, UK, Monday 26th October 2015, ) – £10.00
Performed on the bronze-and-bamboo "gendér" metallophones which gives the music its name – and featuring intricate, interlocking melodies played with mallets and damped with the wrists – gendér wayang is a subset of Balinese gamelan music. Involving between two and four players (a small number for a gamelan ensemble) it is used in the island's Hindu rituals including life-cycle ceremonies, temple festivals, purification rituals and cremations (as well as in the sacred wayang kulit shadow-puppet dramas, based on ancient Indian epics).
The My Tricksy Spirit project was started by Nick Gray, who teaches south-east Asian music at the School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London, and who runs the gendér group that forms the basis of the band. Using Ableton Live, several synths and effects, guitar, bass and drums, the music is played through a mixing desk – much like dub – to create an intense psychedelic journey through sound.
Tonight's band features Nick Gray (violin and vocal), Paula Friar and Rachel Wilcox (gendérs) and four other musicians: Tomoya Forster of Pumarosa (bass guitar, effects, mixing desk), Julian Vickary of General Skank (synthesizer and effects), Charlie Cawood of Knifeworld (bass guitar, sitar, guitar) and Rob Shipster of Buttress Root Drumming (electronics, drums), who also produced My Tricksy Spirit's upcoming album.
Support comes from electronica/world-house act Wax Wings and from another of Nick Gray's SOAS gendér wayang ensembles, Segara Madu (who mostly play repertoire pieces from the Balinese village of Sukawati, as taught by the late I Wayan Loceng). More information and gig tickets are here, with the Facebook event page here.
Arguably, there's not been enough pop or R&B in here recently. Let's set that straight.
Kill J + Loveless + Maasai (Ja Ja Ja @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB, UK, Thursday 29th October 2015,) – £5.00/£7.00
Straight from the publicity:
Founded in 2009, Ja Ja Ja is the definitive Nordic website and club night celebrating the very best new music emerging from Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Denmark. Each month at London's The Lexington, Ja Ja Ja hand-picks the finest emerging talent from the Nordic countries, making sure that only the best music is filtered through to your ears.
KIll J (a.k.a. Julie Aagaard) has been turning heads the past two years with her signature blend of dark experimental pop. A devastating one-two-punch with debut singles Phoenix and Bullet set the blogosphere buzzing, also catching the keen eye of 'The Guardian', 'Indie ', 'Stereogum', 'Pigeons and Planes' and landing airplay on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 6music. Deliciously diverse, the sugary sweet Cold Stone revealed a more innocent and naive side of KIll J, whilst Propaganda burst forth as "a bombastic, fangs-bared snarl at sexism" ('Stereogum'). There's more to come too, with an EP promised this fall.
Prominent identities in their own right, Eirik Tillerli and Filip Kollsete teamed up late 2013 to form Norwegian beat crooners Loveless. Following back-to-back remixes, debut single How To Love You was instantly added to national radio. Clocking in excess of 500K streams last year, their music has picked up attention from blogs, magazines and DJs all over the world; also landing them on some of the biggest festivals in Norway, not to mention their own club night in Oslo, Klubb Loveless (where guests include Artful/Artful Dodger and NVOY). New single They Don't Know was recently hailed Record of the Week on BBC Radio 1xtra, serving the first taste of upcoming project 'Relationships'.
Maasai is a Stockholm-based duo consisting of Dominique Teymouri and Zackarias Ekelund. Together they create soulful sound landscapes with a cinematic touch and lyrical depths. The pair broke on to the scene with debut single Memories, pulling inspiration from varied and abstract constructs – places, people, surroundings and everywhere in between. Follow-up tracks The Healer and Forgive Me have since held a captive audience; also hinting to the fearless, fragile and all-the-while dreamy atmosphere inhabited by MAASAI's upcoming debut album – set for release later this year.
Resident DJs Project Fresh Socks are along for the ride in October; having also spun up a storm at Ja Ja Ja's first club night of the season last week at The Lexington with CHINAH (Denmark), The Fjords (Norway) and Axel Flovent (Iceland).
Up to date information for this particular Ja Ja Ja night is here and tickets are here.
Flapping-in-the-wind time… here's what looks like a very interesting gig, but the colourful cloud of information around it keeps changing shape. Here we go..
Subterfuge presents Samhain Special/Labiatory New Year's Eve Party with Rude Mechanicals + NiMBUL + Bad Suburban Nightmare + We Are A Communist + Jane Ruby + Milky Sugar (Subterfuge @ The Others, 6-8 Manor Road, Stoke Newington, London, N16 5SA, UK, Friday 30th October 2015, 7.00pm) – £3.00 to £6.00 and upwards
Run by arch, arty but heartful prank-rockers anarchistwood (whose own ingredients span post-punk cantatas, skeletal lo-fi garage pop, silly voices and quickfire sampler collages), this is the last Subterfuge club night of the year (hence the split between a Halloween/Samhain night and a New Year's Eve shindig) and promises a fabulous musical sprawl – a right old grab-bag of this and that, in the best way. anarchistwood themselves are playing, though at the moment it's unclear whether or not they're teaming up with dysfunctional Chatham polymath and Stuckist art brute Sexton Ming (as the anti-supergroup called Nimbul), or playing as themselves. I guess that whichever way it goes you could expect a roughly equal mix of distracted behaviour, political protest, self-absorbed memory jigsaws and détournements with echoes of Beefheart, Crass, The Raincoats and the high point of a Pride parade. But that's all it is – a guess.
Compared to Earth and Neil Young at their most dogged and noisy, Dan Hrekow – a.k.a Bad Suburban Nightmare – plays "impossibly slow and melancholic" grunge-drone instrumentals on a minimal setup of distorted guitar and pedals. In violent contrast, Rude Mechanicals play party music for paranoid schizophrenics, fronted by the peroxide-beehive rantings of Miss Roberts (who looks like a doubled-back-drag-queen version of Patsy Stone, and speak-sings like a collision between Dagmar Krause and Holly Penfield), Their songs are rattling hallucinatory-jam sandwiches about sinister neighbours, stand-up arguments and alien mice on the Tube, mixing jazz, punk and cabaret together in equal measures and played with both needle-sharp precision and full glamour oomph.
Of the rest, We Are A Communist provide "trashy guitar-laden sci-fi surf music, with stylophones to boot – a must for Man or Astroman? fans"; onetime Naked Ruby frontwoman (and current Deptford Beach Babes member) Jane Ruby turns up to sing her solo mixture of torch, garage rock'n'roll, flamenco and blues songs with twists of Spanish & Arabic flavours; and Milky Sugar performs "punk go go"… but that's where I run out of information.
I've no actual idea about the order in which everyone's going on, as the various info and flyers seem to contradict each other: either that or the whole event is morphing too fast for me to keep up with it. Presumably they're working to some functional anarchist or I Ching method to establish it, or you just turn up and see what happens. Perhaps that's what they're doing. Either/and/or DJ Sugarlump SS, DJ KG Lumphead and MC Sadogasm provide some extra noises, punkvertery & Kodek provide visuals, and they've got a proactive but generous door price policy – three quid if you're unwaged, four quid if you're a student with an NUS card, and six quid if you're neither but have shown enough commitment to arrive before 9pm. After that, they charge more. More information is here; keep track of developments as best you can on Facebook here; and there's the usual array of tasters below.
More shortly…
Tags: anarchistwood, Buttress Root Drumming, Charlie Cawood, Cornwall, Denmark, DJ KG Lumphead, Eirik Tillerli, Filip Kollsete, Fragments Trio, General Skank, intriguingly mixed bags, Ja Ja Ja (event), Jane Ruby, Julian Vickary, Julie Aagaard, Kill J, Knifeworld, Leeds (England), London (England), Loveless, Maasai, Metamorphic, Milky Sugar, Miss Roberts & Rude Mechanicals, My Tricksy Spirit, Nick Gray, NiMBUL, Norway, Nut Club, Paula Friar, Project Fresh Socks, Pumarosa, Rachel Wilcox, Rob Shipster, Segara Madu, Sexton Ming, Subterfuge (event), Sweden, Tokyo, Tomoya Forster, We are a Communist
Categories 2015, alternative pop, alternative rock, art rock, cabaret, cabaret rock, ceremonial music, chamber jazz, chamber music, chaos music, club music, cross-cultural music, crossover, dance music, dance pop, devotional music, DIY music, drone music, dub, electro-acoustic music, electro-pop, electronic, electronica, experimental music, experimental pop, experimental/avant-garde rock, free jazz, gamelan, garage rock, gendér wayang, heavy metal, house music, improvisation, instrumental music, jazz, loop music, noise, noise rock, plunderphonics, political music, pop, post-bop, post-hardcore, post-progressive rock, previews, process music, progressive metal, progressive rock, protest songs, psychedelic rock, punk jazz, punk rock, punk-blues, R&B, rock, sacred music, singer-songwriter, sound collage, space rock, surf rock, synth pop, world & indigenous music, worldbeat
← October/November 2015 – upcoming London gigs – intercontinental psych & noise with Baba Yaga (Bitchin' Bajas, Tomaga and Demian Castellanos, Acid Mothers Temple and Zeni Geva); and more LUME jazz with Tom Taylor/Rob Luft and Cath Roberts/Seth Bennett/Andrew Lisle
November 2015 – upcoming London gigs – Daylight Music & WIAIWYA's James Bond special; classical fusion saxtronica with Alistair Penman; tech metal at the Facemelter with Krysthla, Colours to Shame and Zephyr →

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School practices to promote social distancing in K-12 schools: review of influenza pandemic policies and practices
Lori Uscher-Pines1,
Heather L. Schwartz1,
Faruque Ahmed2,
Yenlik Zheteyeva2,
Erika Meza1,
Garrett Baker1 &
Amra Uzicanin2
BMC Public Health volume 18, Article number: 406 (2018) Cite this article
During an evolving influenza pandemic, community mitigation strategies, such as social distancing, can slow down virus transmission in schools and surrounding communities. To date, research on school practices to promote social distancing in primary and secondary schools has focused on prolonged school closure, with little attention paid to the identification and feasibility of other more sustainable interventions. To develop a list and typology of school practices that have been proposed and/or implemented in an influenza pandemic and to uncover any barriers identified, lessons learned from their use, and documented impacts.
We conducted a review of the peer-reviewed and grey literature on social distancing interventions in schools other than school closure. We also collected state government guidance documents directed to local education agencies or schools to assess state policies regarding social distancing. We collected standardized information from each document using an abstraction form and generated descriptive statistics on common plan elements.
The document review revealed limited literature on school practices to promote social distancing, as well as limited incorporation of school practices to promote social distancing into state government guidance documents. Among the 38 states that had guidance documents that met inclusion criteria, fewer than half (42%) mentioned a single school practice to promote social distancing, and none provided any substantive detail about the policies or practices needed to enact them. The most frequently identified school practices were cancelling or postponing after-school activities, canceling classes or activities with a high rate of mixing/contact that occur within the school day, and reducing mixing during transport.
Little information is available to schools to develop policies and procedures on social distancing. Additional research and guidance are needed to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of school practices to promote social distancing.
During communicable disease outbreaks such as pandemic influenza, social distancing interventions that increase the space between people and decrease the frequency of contacts can play an important role in emergency response [1, 2]. Influenza pandemics typically have multiple waves and can last for months [3, 4]. The most recent pandemic in the United States was the 2009–2010 H1N1influenza pandemic, which disproportionately impacted children and young adults [5, 6].
During an evolving influenza pandemic, community mitigation strategies, such as social distancing, can slow down virus transmission in schools and surrounding communities, helping to relieve pressure on over-burdened healthcare and public health systems and buy time for pandemic vaccine production and distribution [7]. Because schools are socially dense environments where students congregate for many hours of the day, schools can fuel community-wide disease transmission [8, 9]. It follows that school practices that promote social distancing could potentially protect large numbers of vulnerable children, as well as limit secondary transmission to adults within their households and communities.
Despite the potential impact of school practices on disease transmission, research on school practices to promote social distancing in primary and secondary schools has focused on prolonged school closure [10,11,12], with little attention paid to the identification and feasibility of other more sustainable interventions that are less costly for society. Although many states and grant programs require school districts and individual schools to plan for infectious disease outbreaks, such as pandemic influenza, there is a paucity of published research on the content of these planning documents. Thus, pandemic influenza guidance documents and plans produced by state governments are a potential source of information on school practices to promote social distancing, as well as practical and policy barriers to the adoption of those practices.
To fully characterize and identify gaps in the literature on school practices to promote social distancing in a communicable disease outbreak, we reviewed both peer-reviewed and grey literature on social distancing interventions in schools other than school closure. We also collected and catalogued state government planning documents to assess state policies regarding social distancing interventions. Our aims were to develop a list and typology of school practices that have been proposed and/or implemented, summarize any barriers identified and lessons learned from their use, and summarize documented impacts. Such a typology can be of use to state and local education agencies as they consider their options for emergency planning.
From September–October 2016, the lead author and research assistant independently conducted searches of 10 education, public health, and general library catalogue databases. Multiple databases (e.g., EBSCO Information Services, WorldCat, New York Academy of Medicine) cover both peer-reviewed and grey literature sources, including reports, newspaper, newsletter, and magazine articles. We restricted our search to articles published after 2000.
Within each database, either the lead author or research assistant first conducted a broad search using the search terms "school and (pandemic or influenza)." In instances where that search strategy yielded fewer than 1000 results, we reviewed all abstracts and did not run additional searches. In contrast, when more than 1000 results were returned, we conducted two additional, narrower searches. We first re-ran "school and (pandemic or influenza)," and required that these terms appear in the title and/or abstract. We then also ran the search terms "school AND (influenza or pandemic) AND (social distancing or practices or strategies or measures or interventions)." Table 1 shows the databases searched, final search terms, and results.
Table 1 Literature Search Strategy, 2000–2016
Both the lead author and research assistant reviewed the same set of approximately 2000 unique abstracts that were identified through these database searches, as well as the reference lists of relevant articles, selecting 46 articles for full text review. Abstracts were excluded if they were: (1) not related to K-12 school practices or policies to promote social distancing in an infectious disease outbreak; (2) focused on schools other than K-12 (e.g., university planning for pandemic influenza); (3) published in a language other than English; or (4) only focused on sustained school closure rather than other potential school practices. The majority of abstracts were excluded because they were not related to K-12 school practices or policies to promote social distancing in an infectious disease outbreak (e.g., abstract focused on routine hygiene practices in schools).
Of the 46 articles that were selected for full text review, 30 did not mention a single (non-school closure) strategy, leaving 16 for our review.
To obtain relevant information from each reviewed article in a standardized manner, we developed an abstraction form. The form included the following items: article abstract, study design, study location/population, school practices identified, barriers to implementation, impact of school practices, and notes/observation. A researcher or research assistant collected data on each article using that form.
State government planning document review
We first conducted Google searches to identify state-level documents from 50 states and the District of Columbia to support public school planning. We sought to identify one document per state that provided guidance to its local education agencies (LEA) or schools. We excluded general pandemic influenza preparedness plans that were not directed to local education agencies or schools. To locate these documents, we conducted online searches that had various combinations of the following terms: [name of state], school, education, pandemic influenza, infectious disease, communicable disease, emergency response, guidance, and plan. Our goal was to identify pandemic-specific documents, either stand-alone documents or chapters or annexes in a larger emergency plan. However, when we could not identify a document specific to pandemic influenza, we then searched for materials related to infectious disease or emergency planning more broadly. In instances where we identified more than one guidance document within a state that met inclusion criteria, we selected the document that was published most recently.
Each plan/planning document was reviewed by a researcher or research assistant, and the following information was extracted: state name, type of plan (pandemic, infectious disease, emergency plan), author of plan, year plan was written, whether hygiene practices were discussed, whether school closure was discussed, whether distance learning was discussed, whether school practices to promote social distancing were discussed (and if yes, what types), and any included details about barriers, facilitators, or considerations for social distancing. RAND's Institutional Review Board approved this study, determining that it did not involve human subjects and informed consent did not apply.
Of the 16 articles that met all inclusion criteria, 6 (38%) presented the results of agent-based simulation studies/modeling, and 5 (31%) presented the results of surveys regarding school practices during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. The other five articles were a combination of commentaries, magazine or newsletter articles, and miscellaneous research articles.
Included articles identified more than a dozen different types of school practices to promote social distancing, many of which were slight variations on one another. Table 2 shows these practices as they were initially presented.
Table 2 Articles Included in Literature Review, 2000–2016
For ease of interpretation, we created categories of practices and calculated how often they were mentioned across articles (Table 3). The practices identified most frequently included canceling or postponing after-school activities (n = 6, 38%), increasing space among students during in-person instruction (n = 5, 31%), and canceling classes or activities with a high rate of mixing/contact that occur within the school day (n = 5, 31%). While canceling or postponing activities was mentioned frequently, it is unclear whether the intent of this practice, as implemented during the 2009–2010 H1N1 pandemic, was to reduce contact among students or a logical response to high rates of absenteeism or community concern.
Table 3 Most Common Types of School Practices Discussed in Literature to Create Physical Distance Among Students Enrolled in Brick-and-Mortar Public Schools, 2000–2016
Distance learning was mentioned in 2 (13%) articles [13, 14]. Ash et al. explained that distance learning is supported by various technologies such as the Internet, telephone, radio, TV, text messaging via cellphones, e-mail, and podcasts [14]. Furthermore, during the H1N1 pandemic, there were examples of lessons being broadcast on public access television and studies using text messaging for study groups. However, because distance learning is used in combination with other practices such as school closure, partial school closure, or reduced schedule to achieve the social distancing of students enrolled in traditional bricks and mortar K-12 public schools, we do not list distance learning practices in Table 3.
Surveys of school responses to the H1N1 pandemic provided some data on how often schools implemented different practices. No single social distancing practice, aside from school closure, was widely used. The two most common practices were rearranging classrooms to increase the physical distance between students (implemented in 14% of schools across the state of Michigan in one study) and canceling or postponing various school activities (implemented by 5–16% of schools in one study, depending on the activity) [15]. No other practice was implemented by more than 10% of surveyed schools in any given study [16,17,18,19]. There were, however, widespread practices to limit disease spread that were not forms of social distancing. For example, schools routinely isolated ill students and promoted hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette during the H1N1 pandemic.
Very few of the articles (n = 2) we reviewed discussed barriers to implementing school practices to support social distancing. Ridenhour et al... mentioned the challenge of enforcing restrictions on the movement of students within a school (e.g., hall restriction, lunchroom restriction) [20], while Ash et al touched on the challenges of implementing distance learning in instances where students do not have access to broadband Internet or required hardware, such as laptops [14]. Additionally, young children and their families may not have the necessary technical skills to participate in online instruction, as opposed to the traditional delivery of instruction that occurs in-person.
All of the studies that used agent-based simulation models, and one epidemiologic study, reported that at least one school practice to promote social distancing could reduce contact among students and/or disease transmission (Table 4). Because articles focused on different practices, with the exception of class or grade closure, it is difficult to draw any conclusions about the likely effectiveness of different practices at this phase of research.
Table 4 Impact of School Practices on Influenza Transmission, 2000–2016
In our review of planning documents, we found that 38 of 51 (75%) states had published guidance for local education agencies or schools to support planning for pandemic influenza or communicable disease outbreaks in schools (Table 5). Among the guidance documents we identified, 42% (16 of 38) mentioned one or more school practices to promote social distancing. By contrast, almost all guidance documents (n = 36, 95%) discussed hand hygiene and/or sanitation, a large majority (n = 34, 89%) discussed school closure, and a little less than half (n = 16, 42%) discussed distance learning. As noted in Table 5, the plans and guidance were developed from 2002 to 2016. However, 23 (61%) were published on or after 2009, with 7 (18%) in 2009 alone. Pandemic planning was likely accelerated by the H1N1 pandemic that occurred from 2009 to 2010.
Table 5 State Government Plans that Include Guidance to Local Education Agencies or Schools on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
Among the 16 guidance documents that mentioned social distancing, the practices identified most frequently included canceling or postponing after-school activities (n = 11, 69%), canceling classes or activities with a high rate of mixing/contact that occur within the school day (n = 7, 44%), and reducing mixing during transport (n = 6, 38%) (Table 6). State-level guidance documents discussed all of the practices identified in the literature and also identified two unique practices not covered elsewhere: instituting homeroom stay (in which students remain in one classroom and teachers rotate in and out) (n = 1, 6%) and limiting visitors (n = 1, 6%).
Table 6 Most Common Types of School Practices Included in State-level Guidance Documents to Create Physical Distance Among Students Enrolled in Brick-and-Mortar Public Schools
In general, state government guidance documents devoted very little space to school practices to promote social distancing and typically included practices among lists of potential response options, without any details regarding barriers, facilitators, or considerations. Only one document discussed barriers or considerations regarding the implementation of school practices to promote social distancing. Connecticut's guidance document mentioned that any practice that reduces the number of instructional hours will require waivers of instruction requirements.
Our review revealed a very limited literature on school practices to promote social distancing other than school closure and limited incorporation of school practices to promote social distancing into state-level guidance documents. Fewer than half of all states with guidance documents mentioned a single school practice to promote social distancing, and none provided any substantive detail about the policies or practices needed to enact the listed school practice. This lack of detail is not surprising, given that school practices to promote social distancing have not been prominently featured in previous federal guidance to schools, and many state governments use federal guidance to inform their planning efforts [21].
Although we hypothesized that the evidence would be scant, we were surprised to see how few school practices were identified or described. For example, although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) mentions homeroom stay in some of its guidance materials [22], none of the articles, and only two state-level guidance documents we reviewed, mentioned this practice.
Our review of guidance documents identified certain practices that do not appear in the peer-reviewed and grey literature. For example, homeroom stay and visitor restrictions were mentioned in guidance, but did not appear in our peer-reviewed and grey literature review. Furthermore, guidance documents more frequently discussed reducing mixing during transport to and from school.
According to survey data, schools focused their efforts on hand hygiene, respiratory etiquette, and cleaning/disinfecting school buildings, but seldom implemented practices to promote social distancing as a response to the H1N1 pandemic. Nevertheless, published studies that used simulation modeling generally found that practices to promote social distancing could be effective (and less disruptive to society compared to school closure) in curbing disease transmission. However, it is unclear whether these theoretical benefits would be realized following implementation in real-world settings. At the present time, there are only a handful of studies that explore a variety of different practices under a range of different assumptions. As such, it is premature to draw any conclusions about the likely impact of these practices in schools during pandemics.
In the literature and documents we reviewed, school practices were not clearly defined and terms were used inconsistently. This was especially true for school closure. In certain cases, authors used this term to refer to sustained closures (which is out of scope for this review) of weeks or months; however, a one-day "snow day" or class or grade closure were also referred to as "school closure" in select circumstances. To address this issue, we developed a classification system for practices other than sustained school closure and included concrete examples of practices within each defined category. This system, fully characterized in Table 5, can be used going forward to: (1) provide a menu of options to schools selecting among social distancing measures and (2) ensure that educators and policy-makers are speaking a common language regarding school practices to promote social distancing.
Our study has several limitations. First, as described above, terms related to school practices are used inconsistently in the literature and, as such, our search strategy may have inadvertently excluded relevant articles (e.g., articles that refer to school dismissal or school closure but actually cover scenarios of partial closure). Second, we only reviewed publicly available guidance documents targeting local education agencies and/or schools that were posted on the Internet. It is possible that certain states have relevant guidance documents that are not posted and, as such, were not included in this review. It is also possible that, in general, pandemic influenza plans and guidance documents (excluded in this review) could have content relevant to school practices to promote social distancing. To test this possibility, we reviewed eight general pandemic influenza plans from states without school-specific guidance and did not find examples of school social distancing practices other than school closure [23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30]. Despite certain limitations, this is the first review of school practices, other than sustained school closure, and state government guidance on pandemic influenza that we are aware of.
Our findings suggest that little information is available to schools to develop policies and procedures on social distancing. School leaders and decision-makers can use the findings presented here to understand the range of potential school practices available to them and the evidence supporting their use. Additional research and guidance is needed to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of school practices to promote social distancing to inform federal, state, and local planning efforts going forward.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (HHSD2002013M53959B Task Order #200–2016-F-92345). The funder collaborated on all aspects of the research and manuscript preparation.
All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article, including links in the reference list.
The findings and conclusions in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Lori Uscher-Pines, Heather L. Schwartz, Erika Meza & Garrett Baker
Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA
Faruque Ahmed, Yenlik Zheteyeva & Amra Uzicanin
Lori Uscher-Pines
Heather L. Schwartz
Faruque Ahmed
Yenlik Zheteyeva
Erika Meza
Garrett Baker
Amra Uzicanin
LUP helped to design the study and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. FA, YZ, AU, and HS helped to design the study and supported interpretation of results. EM and GB supported data collection and analysis and wrote sections of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Lori Uscher-Pines.
RAND's Institutional Review Board determined that this study did not involve human subjects.
Uscher-Pines, L., Schwartz, H.L., Ahmed, F. et al. School practices to promote social distancing in K-12 schools: review of influenza pandemic policies and practices. BMC Public Health 18, 406 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5302-3
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Belmont, MA, and Irvine, CA — October 11, 2004 — Smart Software Inc., a provider of demand forecasting, planning and inventory optimization solutions, today announced that Epicor Software Corp., a provider of integrated enterprise software solutions for midmarket companies, recently sold Smart's flagship product, SmartForecasts Enterprise, to three companies in North America. The companies will integrate SmartForecasts with the Epicor Financials and Supply Chain Management (SCM) suites of the Epicor Enterprise solution for their demand planning processes.
The companies, Acorn Products, Arbonne International and Technuity Inc., said they will use the combined distribution and demand planning solution to improve demand management and provide inventory stocking level estimates.
Acorn Products of Lewiston, Maine, manufactures casual footwear and slippers and is best known as the original maker of slipper sox. With thousands of stock-keeping units (SKUs) and a seasonal business, Acorn's main objectives are to plan better for seasonality and optimize its manufacturing capacity.
"We needed to consolidate our information systems," said Melissa Farinas, director of information systems at Acorn Products. "Epicor Enterprise and SmartForecasts will provide us with a comprehensive platform and tools to manage our business better and continue to grow."
Technuity Inc. of Indianapolis, Indiana, designs, manufactures and markets a variety of power products including batteries, uninterruptible power supply products (UPS), and electrical surge protection devices, that are used for electronics applications.
Matt Coffman, Technuity's director of information technology noted that his company will be using the combined solution to estimate future demand and set appropriate inventory stocking level requirements.
Finally, Arbonne International of Irvine, Calif., is a multi-level marketing company with thousands of independent consultants that sells natural health, beauty, and nutrition products. Arbonne will be using the solutions to implement best practices for its demand forecasting and purchasing. According to Arbonne, the software will help it to institute more effective planning processes for understanding customer demand and purchasing its more than 300 products.
Epicor resells SmartForecasts and has developed an interface that integrates it with Epicor SCM.
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During World War II, after the Japanese had invaded China, this picturesque street was known as "Cannibal Alley". Due to the acute shortage of food and rations at the time, legend has it that a madman with a distinct taste for human flesh weaved through the shadows of the streets at night, hunting and killing overweight individuals for flesh.
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In old times, locals used to bury their ancestors in the mountains. Today, parents still threaten misbehaving children that they will be locked away in the tunnels, only for the dead to come and take them away.
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A man was out for a run one evening along his routine route, when an old woman greeted him, and asked if he had seen a hat. He said he had not, so she thanked him and the man continued his run.
After a short while, he came across the same old woman who stopped him again, and asked whether he had seen her shoes. At this point, he looked down, and discovered that she was not wearing any. He said he had not. She thanked him once more, and the man continued running. This time however, he felt strange.
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Posted by Lorraine Hopping Egan on June 18, 2012 at 4:33pm in Roll and Shuffle
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Gary invites us: "If you have an awesome, couldn't have made it without book, website, or blog post it here for others to enjoy! I want to pick up a few game design books and I'm sure that others will enjoy this as well. "
Permalink Reply by Lorraine Hopping Egan on June 18, 2012 at 4:47pm
Gary adds his links:
Awesome article on creating a game design company and the processes involved [this link received several enthusiastic seconds]
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/2428208#2428208
Blog: one of the minds behind Tasty Minstrel
http://michaelmindes.com/
Blog: This particular article was about self-balancing mechanics
http://www.crankcrankrevolution.com/2010/11/art-of-self-balancing-b...
Big list of links
http://beach.silcom.com/~tomjolly/design2.htm
My adds:
Rules of Play by Katie Salen
Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell (and the handy card deck)
Game Design Workshop by Tracey Fullerton
Game Inventor's Guidebook by Brian Tinsman (this one, unlike the above, is specific to board games and includes info about selling games–be sure it's the 2008 edition). Nerman comments: "It's basically a brief overview of the game invention from designing to publishing. There's a lot of inside information about the industry. He doesn't get into design principles very deeply; the book's really not about design. He also discusses the major publishers and talks about how various famous games got that way, which is fun."
MIT's Gambit has a huge collection of online videos about game design, http://gambit.mit.edu/ a few relate to board games
I'm waiting for a new edition of The Toy and Game Inventor's Handbook by Levy
I just read Chris Crawford's game design guide from the early 1980s, and found it fascinating. http://library.vancouver.wsu.edu/art-computer-game-design Many of the ideas and approaches still make sense, and the limitations and challenges are a good measure of how far this industry and the technology have come.
And here's Crawford's website with lots more: http://www.erasmatazz.com/
Great Courses DVD (24 lectures): Games People Play by Prof. Stevens. As a self-taught game designer, I found this overview of game theory to be invaluable–not too much math, a good introduction to the lingo, enough real-world examples to make it concrete. Though it doesn't relate to board games directly and is more pointed toward the biz community, it has sparked a number of game ideas (both serious games and fun games). I've also had a few "aha" moments–games I've played that I now understand much better.
More than 250 pages of history, info on board games and game design from Bruce Whitehall, industry veteran: http://thebiggamehunter.com/
Why Monopoly sucks, a nice piece on this topic by Scott Nicholson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATnXloqRfdA
And there's a Jesse Fuchs two-part video on this topic, with a lot of history: http://vimeo.com/23271705
Here's a nice piece about board game design for video game designers. http://gamasutra.com/blogs/GlenCooney/20120229/163172/Mage_Knight__...
I've heard J Schell speak a couple of times, and he's super impressive. You can check out some of the projects where he learned his stuff—the ETC at Carnegie Mellon (Drew Davidson teaches there). http://www.etc.cmu.edu/site/projects/ Drew also publishes "well-played" ebooks of game analysis (three of them available to date)—many of them free. (Lulu, I think.)
Nerman adds:
The book Whack On the Side of the Head by Roger von Oeche is pretty good. [There's also a sequel and a handy card deck—good for sparking ideas and getting unstuck.]
The Magic the Gathering website puts up one article on Magic design and one on development every week, and has been doing so for something like 10 years! I have learned so much from those articles. Unfortunately, most of them will be difficult to understand if you don't play the game.
Here's an article by one of the Magic: The Gathering big wigs. You'll understand it better if you play Magic, but I don't think it's entirely necessary.
http://wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/ld/184
It references flow and fiero, and the author says his two favourite books on game design are Reality is Broken and Jesse Schell's The Art of Game Design.
Liz adds:
I had a couple books throughout my senior thesis that approached game design and theory from unique perspectives, here are some examples:
Mary Flangan's Critical Play
Any book covering Fluxus Art games is pretty fascinating.
Going Cardboard: A Board Game Documentary is an indie, Kickstarted film that has just released: http://boardgamedoc.blogspot.com/2012/02/going-cardboard-has-launch... Has anyone seen it?
Tim Rodrigquez ("Ghost Pirates," "Feed the Birds") has a podcast: it's at http://www.dicefoodlodging.com and also available on iTunes. Dice, Food, Lodging.
Scott Nicholson has a video board game review show and blog: http://www.boardgameswithscott.com/ Board Games with Scott.
Any other podcasts or shows to recommend?
And, here's a board game camp in England: http://gamecamp.org.uk/ What fun!
To keep up on industry news and trends in the game and toy business, here's a helpful newsletter chock full of press releases and links: http://www.thebloomreport.com/frameset_report.html The Bloom Report.
Permalink Reply by Lorraine Hopping Egan on July 20, 2012 at 9:56am
Boardgames & Baking blog: http://boardgamesandbaking.blogspot.com/search/label/boardgame
Voyta really is a baker, too. The board game section is mainly game play reviews and reports on Kickstarter games—starting 2011.
Permalink Reply by Lorraine Hopping Egan on September 20, 2012 at 2:50pm
Double Exposure's forum has an active board game discussion: Board Game Forum
In related news, Metatopia (Nov 2-4 in 2012) is the game designer's gathering in Morristown NJ, where designers can playtest prototypes and get feedback from professionals.
Wil Wheaton hosts the Tabletop video show about board gamesm on YouTube.
Permalink Reply by Lorraine Hopping Egan on November 1, 2012 at 2:33pm
Legendary board game designer Reiner Knizia talks about how he made Whoosit? game (Ravensburger) at PRACTICE: GAME DESIGN IN DETAIL (2011) Video There are also other videos from this conference at this link. Nov 9-11, 2012 is the next one (I'm going).
Permalink Reply by Lorraine Hopping Egan on November 15, 2012 at 12:31pm
Board game review by "Josh" at this blog site.
Permalink Reply by Lorraine Hopping Egan on December 7, 2012 at 1:56pm
Clive Lovett has started a board game community on G+. It's open to all and you can join here.


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On The Rainbow Wave And Staying Hungry
If there's one thing the chain of events that's been unwinding since the midterm elections last Tuesday has shown people like myself - who had been hoping against probability and the polls that a blue wave might wash over both chambers of Congress - it's that now is no time for wallowing in visions of what might have been.
What is yet to be is far, far more important.
It was the day after the elections that I first heard the term Rainbow Wave. I heard it from my daughter Maria,
...who'd been a valiant campaigner during the midterms,
...and a phone bank captain,
...even my grand poochie Pinky Poo getting in on the action.
Maria's team worked for Harley Rouda, Democratic candidate for California's 48th Congressional district,
...who succeeded in defeating Republican 30-year incumbent Dana Rohrabacher.
(Now, it probably didn't help Dana Rohrabacher that he was enticed by Sasha Baron Cohen, playing the role of an Israeli Mossad agent,
...into making a video promoting arming toddlers).
Anyway, the day after the elections, when I was feeling a weence funky, taking more of a "half-empty" view of the Democratic Congressional victory, I talked to my daughter, who was feeling considerably more upbeat.
She explained to me that even though the Blue Wave hadn't been as sweeping as we'd hoped, more important was the rising up in this country of an electoral Rainbow Wave: Over 150 - a record number - candidates of color, LGBTQ candidates, Muslim, Native American and minority candidates won their midterm elections.
And this, said my daughter, was in the big picture an even greater cause for celebration than a total Blue Wave would have been.
In fact, said my daughter, it was maybe better for the Democrats that they didn't achieve a complete Congressional sweep because, as she put it, "This way we'll stay hungry."
I believe that what my daughter said is true.
Many of us are still still hungry. But these days it's doubtless better that way.


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Like this:
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These three pieces have made it into the June/July issue of Stampers Sampler, first time I've ever sent anything in, so I'm very chuffed to hear it!
Thank you to everyone who encouraged me to send in, and told me these pieces were good enough and stuff, and thanks Penny for that stamp on the bottom card, it's one of my very favourites!
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ok I will stop now…..here's my other contributions to the Design Team work I did for Stamp Addicts, the show is on tomorrow on Create and Craft, and remember you can watch online! lol plugging my own work….sad or what….lol anyway, it's on at 10am UK time, and the show is called Pirates and Princesses, I got some pirate stamps to work with, so here's what I did with them. And I LOVED making this lot!
You can see some of the other Design Team's work HERE and also a pic from the filming of the show!
This is my piece for Mixed Media Monday this week, where the theme is "transparencies" so I hope this counts, my transparancies are four pieces of memory glass soldered together with a little collage image in the middle on both sides. After 60 photos this is the best of the bunch, it was really hard to photograph. My soldering needs some practise but I am getting better!
The theme on TGIF this week is PIRATES!! How cool is that, and perfect timing too, as I've just finished some DT work for Stamp Addicts- I can't blog all of it, and don't want to bore you anyway, but this is a selection of my work for this project- the cards will all be seen on Create and Craft TV on Saturday 17th May, and you can watch online too!! 😉 I will blog the rest of it on the day….
All stamps are Judikins and Printworks.
This is what I've made for the theme of "stripes" on Wednesday Stamper this week. The stripey paper is Basic Grey and the stamps are from Printworks, Stampers Anonymous and Paperbag Studios.
This was a little box of playing cards I got in a cracker last Christmas and kept it for an occasion such as this……lol. The cards are 4cm high and the little box 5cm. And this is my entry for Mixed Media Monday this week.
April 27, 2008 - Comments Off on Happy Birthday to My Dad!
The theme on Nellie's "Make a Moo or Two" challenge blog this week is "girls" and I had this picture of….me…lol for once it's not Sophie (as I couldn't be doing with resizing pics etc and this one was done already…) so I layered some paper, gold mullberry paper and "angel hair" and made this little moo, added a piece of german scrap, edged with Krylon, bob's yer aunty- I feel it needs words or a word but I don't have anything suitable, so I may add that later as this is one for keeping for me.
Also wanted to blog this birthday hanging, I made it for Em a couple of weeks back, but I had lost the jpeg, so couldn't blog it. Just found it in amongst other pics, so here it is, Emma's birthday hanging.
The theme on this week's Wednesday Stamper is "insects" and I was just finishing off this Lippychick "flop book" for a design team assignment for Craftaway. So I decided it was a perfect entry, as there is stamping a plenty on it….lol Also pictures of my gorgeous daughter (ok I'm biased…) Sophie, and the image in the centre was a free download from Inka.
The Lippychick books are fab, and come prefolded, which is good if you're anything like me….lol all ready to decorate!!
Front, complete with bee and ladybirds and butterflies- sorry about the poor quality pic, I don't know where I've gone wrong here, but since the book is sent off I can't rectify it!
The underneath, love those glimmer mists!
And last, the back, complete with mica flakes.


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Q: Chrome extension: communication between background and content scripts I need to execute a content script from a background script with sending a couple of parameters from the background script to the content one. I explored a couple of help pages like this one ...
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/content_scripts#pi
... but still have no idea how to organize it. In a Firefox extension, I did the following:
background script excerpt:
browser.tabs.executeScript({
              file: "content/login.js"
            }).then(messageContent).catch(onError)
}

function messageContent() {

    var gettingActiveTab = browser.tabs.query({active: true, currentWindow: true});

    gettingActiveTab.then((tabs) => {
          browser.tabs.sendMessage(tabs[0].id, {loginUserName: loginUserName, loginPassword: loginPassword});
                    });
}

content script excerpt:
function justDoTheJob(request, sender, sendResponse) {

    var doc = window.content.document;

    doc.getElementById("loginUserName").value = request.loginUserName;
    doc.getElementById("loginPassword").value = request.loginPassword;

}

browser.runtime.onMessage.addListener(justDoTheJob);

But when I do something like that in Chrome, I get the following:
Error in response to tabs.query: TypeError: Cannot read property 'then' of undefined at Object.callback
So it looks like I am using a wrong syntax or even wrong structure at all. Could you please give me some clue on how to do it properly?
Thanks,
Racoon

A: As @qwOxxOm points out in comments, you need to use callbacks in Chrome, for example, instead of appending with then(), move the function inside then to the argument chain of the call itself. Otherwise it's used pretty much the same way:
chrome.tabs.executeScript({file: "content/login.js"}, myCallback);

function callback(result) {
  // handle result here
}

or like:
function messageContent() {
  chrome.tabs.query({active: true, currentWindow: true}, (tabs) => {
     // sendMessage here
  })
}

etc.
Error handling is a bit different as you would check lastError instead of using a callback for it.
You can also use the chrome namespace for Firefox (there are some differences between the two browsers/namespaces in some areas you need to take into consideration).


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