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by Ray Bradbury
"A Sound of Thunder" Summary
Ray Bradbury's short story "A Sound of Thunder" is about a group of men who use a commercial time traveling service to hunt dinosaurs.
An employee of Time Safari, Inc., explains the rules to the hunters. While in the past, they must only hunt animals already marked for death, as even the smallest change in the natural order could have drastic implications for the present.
One of the hunters panics when a T-Rex appears and accidentally trods on a butterfly.
Upon returning to the present, the men discover that the death of the butterfly has dramatically altered their world.
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The short story "A Sound of Thunder," by Ray Bradbury, opens when a man named Eckels enters the offices of Time Safari, Inc., a company that offers safaris that take hunters to any time in the past to hunt any animals they wish to shoot. Eckels presents a check for $10,000 to the clerk and asks if the company guarantees that hunters return alive from the past. The clerk replies that the company guarantees nothing but encounters with dinosaurs. Hunters must strictly obey their guides, shooting only what and when they are instructed to shoot. Any disobedience will result in a $10,000 fine plus possible government-imposed penalties.
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Eckels contemplates the nearby time machine and remarks that if Keith, the progressive candidate he favored in yesterday's presidential election, had lost the contest, Eckels might be in the office now, trying to go to some other time to escape the outcome. The clerk agrees that it would indeed have been awful if Deutscher, Keith's opponent, had been elected. The two men quickly return, however, to discussing the opportunity Eckels will have to shoot a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The clerk warns that if Eckels is attacked and eaten by a dinosaur, the company is not liable. Six safari guides died last year, along with twice as many hunters. The clerk wants Eckels to be sure that he really wants to make the trip.
Eckels indicates that he does, and so he is introduced to Mr. Travis, the experienced guide who will lead this safari. Travis and Eckels, carrying rifles, enter the time machine, which is already occupied by Travis's assistant, Lesperance, and two other hunters (Billings and Kramer). The machine kicks into operation and the nights, days, weeks, months, years, centuries, and millennia whiz by. Leaving A.D. 2055, the men soon arrive in the midst of a jungle that existed 60,002,055 years before.
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As they look out of the time machine, Travis points out a metal path into the jungle. Made of anti-gravity metal, it hovers half a foot above the ground. It was placed there by the company to prevent hunters from in any way having physical contact with the jungle. Travis emphatically instructs them that they are never to leave the path, for any reason. He insists that the men pay careful attention to this rule and never violate it. They are not to touch anything, and they are not to shoot at any animals unless Travis approves. When Eckels asks why, Travis elaborately explains that the company does not want to take any chances by changing anything at all about the future. Destroying even a flower, an insect, a mouse, or any other living thing could cause potentially massive unforeseen consequences in the future. This is especially the case since killing one living thing in the jungle would mean wiping out the potential offspring of that thing, and thus the offsprings' offspring, and so on and on and on for countless generations. The results of killing anything in the jungle are literally unpredictable, which is one reason that all the men are wearing oxygen helmets—so as not to introduce any latter-day bacteria into the primeval jungle. Killing just one animal might some day mean, for instance, that a future caveman might not survive by eating the distant offspring of that animal, and the non-survival of that caveman could conceivably change human history. In short: no one is to kill anything except an animal designated by the company.
The company, as it turns out, sends scouts back in time through the time machine to the precise location of the hunt, but they arrive before the hunt and observe which animals will accidentally die in any case on the day of the scheduled hunt. Those are the animals—the dinosaurs in particular—whom the hunters are allowed to shoot: the animals whose deaths would not change a thing. The scouts mark these animals by shooting them with red paint so that they can be easily identified. Then, the hunting party arrives, stations itself where the animal was scheduled to die by accident in any case, waits a few minutes for the animal to arrive at that spot, and then tries to kill the animal with guns. Yet shooting at dinosaurs is still a very dangerous business, and survival is not guaranteed.
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Right on schedule, a tyrannosaurus doomed to be killed by a falling tree branch within a minute, suddenly appears where the men have been hiding. Huge and ferocious, he also stinks from the stench of his recent meals. He makes a "sound of thunder." Monstrous, he is much larger and more terrifying than Eckels had ever imagined. Eckels begins to panic, especially when the T-Rex spots the men. Eckels wants to flee, but he is cautioned to move slowly back to the time machine if he is too afraid of the approaching dinosaur, which now dashes forward at lightning speed. With Eckels having fled, the remaining men fire their guns directly at the monster's head. Surprisingly, it suddenly drops to the ground, making an enormous noise. The men can hear the different parts of its body shutting down in death. The men are covered in the dead beast's blood. As they clean themselves, a massive tree branch falls on the dinosaur—the branch that would have fallen on and killed him anyway. His death has changed nothing about the future.
When the guides and the other two hunters return to the time machine, they see Eckels. Travis, angry at Eckels for nearly getting them all killed, screams at him and points to Eckles' feet. In his panic, Eckels had run off the metal path. If nothing else, this means that the company will be financially penalized. Eckels is stunned at Travis's anger and offers to pay ten times the cost of the trip to make up for his mistake. Instead, Travis orders him to go out onto the path alone and thrust his arms into the monster's mouth in order to retrieve the bullets, which should not be left behind in the past. A few minutes later, Eckels, with arms bloody up to his elbows, returns to the time machine, carrying bullets. Travis thinks Eckels has now learned a lesson: not to hunt a beast he fears.
As the time machine whizzes the men back into the future, Travis stares contemptuously at Eckels. When the men arrive back in 2055, everything looks the same—almost. Somehow, Eckels senses small differences, such as a strange faint smell in the air. The clerk looks the same, but also somehow different. The most noticeable difference is a sign hanging in the office, which now looks badly misspelled. Eckels is stunned and collapses into a chair. He cannot believe that merely stepping off the trail would have changed anything in the present. Even when he notices a dead butterfly on the bottom of his shoe, he cannot bring himself to accept the idea that its death could have changed anything. Turning to the clerk, he asks who won the presidential election of the day before. The clerk, who had earlier admired Keith and detested Deutscher, now feels exactly the opposite and praises the victory of Deutscher, whom he extols as an "iron man," a tough, strong leader.
Eckels moans and drops to his knees. He grabs the butterfly and wonders whether there is any way to take it back in time and restore it to life. He hears Travis raise his gun. The last thing Eckels hears is the thunderous sound of a bullet being fired.
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According to the FBI, Dr. Jennings Staley sent this "COVID-19 management program" to an undercover FBI agent. It contained hydroxychloroquine; generic versions of Xanax and Viagra; and azithromycin, an antibiotic that's often called a Z-Pak.
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Dr. Jennings Staley has been to war. He served on the front lines in Iraq as an Air Force physician, tending to the atrocities suffered by civilians and fighters alike.
So when COVID-19 arrived on U.S. soil, the internal medicine specialist-turned-med spa doctor once again wanted to be on the front lines — and armed with what many touted to be the best weapon available: hydroxychloroquine.
"He treated this as a war situation," explained his attorney, Patrick Griffin.
But in the eyes of federal investigators, Staley, 44, was less a war fighter than a swindler. Now, in what appears to be a first involving the controversial medication, he is being federally prosecuted on a charge of mail fraud, accused of hailing the malaria drug as a "miracle cure" and "magic bullet" to an undercover FBI agent posing as a prospective patient, according to federal court documents.
The San Diego prosecution comes as President Donald Trump publicly acknowledges that he's been taking the medication as a preventative measure, and after the federal government has stockpiled the drug for reasons that include emergency treatment of COVID-19.
The incongruities add to the controversy surrounding hydroxychloroquine. It has been met with mixed results in numerous medical studies and has come to represent the nation's deep political divide during the public health crisis.
Griffin, a San Diego trial attorney, has launched a defense that claims government hypocrisy, directly citing Trump's prime time promotion of the drug. He also questions why the Department of Justice is handling the case as a felony rather than a civil matter or dispute for a state regulatory board.
"Numerous other pharmacies and doctors were advertising the exact same products," Griffin said. "Dr. Staley did not need to push these medications; the President, his executive branch, and the most watched cable news channel in America were pushing them to tens of millions of people every day."
Federal authorities have pushed back, saying the prosecution falls squarely into their responsibility to protect consumers from scammers who exploit people's fear and anxiety during the pandemic. The case is just one amid a growing workload of coronavirus-related fraud investigations being handled by the FBI nationwide — from fake medical supplies to cyber schemes to fraudulent business loans to fake cures.
"This case alleges textbook fraud," U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer said in a statement Friday. "The indictment says the defendant made false claims about a 'magic bullet' drug that could cure a potentially deadly disease. He made the claims to someone he believed to be a potential customer, all while trying to sell him an expensive package of medicines and 'concierge' treatments.
"That straightforward fraud was confirmed when the defendant told investigating agents, as set out in the complaint, that he would never make such a claim because it wasn't supported by the science," Brewer continued. "Making false claims in order to deceive someone to part with their money is fraud, and that is what this case charges."
Griffin said he believes the facts will vindicate his client, who has pleaded not guilty. But the politics baked into the case — and into each of the jurors who would sit on a trial — also can't be ignored, he said.
"It's such a polarizing issue to get 12 people to come to a unanimous verdict," Griffin said in an interview.
He added: "The politics of this have poisoned the well, so to speak."
War wounds to beauty treatments
Staley grew up in Decatur, Ill., and joined the Air Force around 2005 after finishing medical school, according to an interview he gave his hometown newspaper, the Herald & Review.
After his military career, he moved to San Diego and opened up Skinny Beach Med Spa in Carmel Valley, with satellite offices in Del Mar and San Juan Capistrano. The spa's website offers "world-class beauty innovations" and treatments that "fight aging without surgery," including Botox, body sculpting, fat transfers, hyberbaric oxygen therapy and hormone therapy.
When hydroxychloroquine emerged as a possible treatment for COVID-19 early in the pandemic — drawing particular attention during White House news briefings — Staley's clinic began to receive offers of the drug for sale from pharmacies, according to Griffin.
"There was immense demand for this," Griffin said, especially in the month-long period between mid-March and mid-April. "That was the craziest time during the whole pandemic."
Staley wasn't alone. In the week of March 15, prescriptions for small amounts of hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine jumped by nearly 2,000 percent — to 45,858 fills — when compared to the same period a year earlier, according to an article published Thursday in research journal JAMA. The surge was "likely due to off-label prescriptions for COVID-19," concluded the researchers, physicians in Boston who worked with GoodRx on the data.
The research also found there was a subsequent reduction in longer-term prescription fills, indicating decreased availability for patients who regularly use the drug for its approved use of treating lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, besides its best-known treatment of malaria.
Pharmacists have reported doctors appearing to hoard the drugs to treat themselves or those close to them — reports that have prompted swift rebukes from regulatory agencies, including those that oversee California healthcare.
On March 28, the Food and Drug Administration noted that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine "are not FDA-approved for treatment of COVID-19." However, the agency said it was "reasonable to believe" that the drugs may be effective and approved emergency use of the drugs. There were restrictions, however: the drugs must be distributed from the Strategic National Stockpile to public health authorities and used during hospitalization when a clinical trial is not available or feasible.
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Among the offers was a family VIP package at just under $4,000, including 90 days of 24/7 access to Staley for home visits or telehealth consultations, personalized prescriptions of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for the whole family, anti-anxiety medications "to help you avoid panic if needed and help you sleep," and coronavirus testing, according to the federal complaint.
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On a separate website, covid19medkits.com, Staley was also offering for $495 to $595 just the hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin kits, which were touted as "showing great success on the frontlines against COVID-19."
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Staley told the news station that the reaction from the public had been intense. "I knew it would be a little bit controversial because there was the controversy around the fact that hydroxychloroquine wasn't approved until Sunday night, but I didn't think people would be so angry."
The FBI and FDA followed up with their own undercover investigation.
Because the special agent posed as a wealthy fund manager with a wife, three children and elderly father, Staley sold him the expensive family VIP package, Griffin said.
If someone in the household should get sick, Staley instructed that he would then "activate" the kit, providing dosage amounts and instructions. The sick person would take the medication, as well as the rest of the household to "prophylax" them, according to the complaint.
During the phone call with the undercover agent, Staley praised the drug for its efficacy against COVID-19.
"It's preventative and curative. It's hard to believe, it's almost too good to be true. But it's a remarkable clinical phenomenon," the doctor said, according to the complaint. Staley also stated, according to the document, "I've never seen anything like this in medicine, just so you know. Really, I can't think of anything. That, you've got a disease that literally disappears in hours."
Last tank out of China
Griffin said Staley's comments were the product of an agent professionally trained to extract incriminating statements from the subject of an investigation. He said the agent finessed the conversation by pretending to be fully on board with the treatment and asked Staley for advice on how to convince his wife.
The attorney said the recorded conversation was not indicative of the interactions Staley had with about 30 other patients to whom he prescribed treatment kits.
"There were around 30 COVID patients, not a single real patient was ever told these medications provided a 100% cure or was made any promises," Griffin said. "Every patient was given detailed instructions and information about the medications, including fact sheets taken directly from the FDA's website."
Only one other $4,000 kit was sold — to a multimillionaire — while the rest of the patients received the standard, lower-priced kits, Griffin said.
But in the conversation with the agent, Staley was recorded boasting about a booming business, including claims that he "got the last tank of hydroxychloroquine smuggled out of China on Sunday night." He said that the broker "tricked customs" by saying that it was "sweet potato extract," according to the complaint.
Griffin said a Chinese broker, not Staley, was in control of the hydroxychloroquine procurement and it was the broker who insisted on labeling the product as yam extract due to a temporary ban in China on exports to the U.S. The importation allegation is not part of the indictment issued last week by a grand jury.
"Every medication that Dr. Staley delivered to a patient was procured from a licensed U.S. pharmacy," Griffin said.
The agent got his treatment pack on April 9, including "azithromycin tablets in a box; generic Xanax and Viagra in bottles; hydroxychloroquine in small brown envelopes; and chloroquine in small, clear plastic bags."
Staley was arrested one week later.
Meanwhile, investigations related to COVID-19 are piling up at the Medical Board of California, the state's licensing agency which also handles administrative complaints against doctors from patients, caregivers and medical providers. So far there are 363 such complaints, although the exact nature of each was not immediately available, nor their outcomes.
"What the board expects out of physicians is that they are following the standard of care when treating their patients," said board spokesman Carlos Villatoro. "If there are reports of misleading consumers, then the board would definitely want to look into that."
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Current and Future Developments in Law
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This volume covers topics related to human rights issues and problems of people who are overwhelmed by hostile situations around them and are subsequently rendered vulnerable. The situations of ...
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This volume covers topics related to human rights issues and problems of people who are overwhelmed by hostile situations around them and are subsequently rendered vulnerable. The situations of vulnerability discussed in this book are related to suffering caused by the moral, family, social, economic or political conditions in which the people, and the groups they belong to, live. Readers are guided through a discussion about rights, as an instrument through which civil society and the 'Rule of Law' try to curb or even eliminate the suffering of these people. The aim of such efforts is to restore the situation of vulnerable people to a level of normality. Human Rights Issues and Vulnerable Groups presents a discussion of issues surrounding several kinds of vulnerable groups: minorities, children, gender groups, persons with disabilities, migrants, cultural groups, displaced persons, victims of terrorism, linguistic groups, poor people, people in prison and sexual minorities. The book is a detailed reference for graduates and scholars in law, political science, sociology and social psychology. The volume is also recommended for working professionals who operate with human rights groups and general readers (non-experts) who want to understand the discourse about human rights in a holistic (moral, legal, social, economic, and political) framework.
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Step into the Inca Empire.
From the heady heights of the mysterious Machu Picchu lying in the sacred valley, to the virgin Amazon rainforest, to the glimmering Lake Titicaca – Peru is a traveler's awe inspiring dream of extremes.
But Peru is much more than the sights, it's about the remote communities whose crops are still planted by hand, where the Campesinos still wear tire truck sandals, where the women work in petticoats and bowler hats, and llamas are as tame as pets.
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Venture out to Peru on an epic journey of adventure and community development across the Andes, Amazon and Lake Titicaca before the grande finale of reaching the breath taking Machu Picchu.
This is a journey which will not only take you to the bucket list highlights of Peru but will also introduce you to remote communities tucked away from the tourists eye who will welcome you in and will value your contribution to preserving their heritage.
Your journey will start high up in the Andes in the sun-drenched colonial Andean city of Arequipa, framed by 3 volcanoes, and filled with stunning baroque buildings that shine in the moonlight.
During the course of the next 10 weeks you will head off with our project leader to explore the best of the Andes (and Amazon), which of course includes the mighty Machu Picchu and deepest of Canyons in Colca. But, as exciting, you will be steered off the tourist trail to meet rural communities who are keen for your help with their village maintenance and for you to inspire the young to learn English. It's cultural immersion at its best.
Your journey will start in the sun-drenched colonial Andean city of Arequipa where you will spend the week learning some Spanish and exploring this pretty World Heritage Site, which due to it being built of sillar, a white volcanic stone, on sunny days the city literally shimmers.
English is not widely spoken across Peru so we have built in time for you to have Spanish lessons with a professional language tutor to help you get by.
The rest of your days will be spent exploring starting with The Plaza de Armas, the 17th-century neoclassical Basilica Cathedral, San Camilo Market, before tackling the white water down the Chili River.
Hostel in the city centre.
All meals will be at the hostel but you will have to prepare your own lunches and dinners, (ingredients will be provided).
After exploring Arequipa you'll head off to Colca where you'll be led on a 3-day/2-night hike deep into the canyon to explore its majestic beauty with a local guide.
At the end of the hike you will return to Arequipa to rest before traveling onto the town of Puno on the shores of Lake Titicaca.
You will stay along the route in basic hostels.
3 meals will be provided.
Next up is Lake Titicaca which straddles the border between Peru and Bolivia high in the Andean Mountains. It is one of South America's largest lakes and it is believed to be the birthplace of the Inca's. Steeped in history the shores are a visual feast of crumbling cathedrals, desolate altiplano and checkerboard fields backed by the high Andean peaks.
You'll live with the traditional Aymara community of Karina, found on a peninsula that juts out into the lake. Karina is still close to its indigenous roots but keen to establish and develop community tourism as an extra source of income to supplement their subsistence farming lifestyle.
While you are here you will work alongside local families on their smallholdings and teach English at the local school.
3 meals a day cooked by each host family.
Expect: naturally grown fruits and vegetables, corn and quinoa.
Your next destination will be to the edge of the El Manu National Park, in south eastern Peru - famed for possessing all the different Amazonian eco-systems found across South America. It's known for its rich biodiversity, notably hundreds of bird species, including macaws, which feed at the clay licks at sites such as Blanquillo.
In your free time you will have the chance to catch one of the boats which run along the Manu River, to weave your way past dense Amazonian jungle that is home to jaguars, black caimans and spider monkeys, so pack your guide books and binoculars.
You will live in a volunteer house in dormitory accommodation. There is no internet at the accommodation but you will be able to access the local town around 45 minutes away at the weekend.
Your home for the next two weeks will be at The "Reserva Tierra Linda" a conservation center found in the south-east jungle of Peru, at the entrance to the El Manu National Park.
The center is dedicated to Amazon conservation and keen to promote tight links with the local community to encourage them to respect and preserve this amazing resource.
Working in the plant nursery with reforestation.
Helping with the reserve vegetable gardens.
Building rubbish bins and rustic furniture.
Delivering environmental workshops to the local community schools.
Creating informal videos to record flora and fauna and promote the reserve.
Back in the Andes and starting in the stunning city of Cusco which fantastically fuses the ancient, with colonial conquest and modern day. Cusco is famed for being the gateway to the Sacred Valley - a valley of Andean countryside dotted with villages, high altitude hamlets and ruins linked by trail and railway tracks all converging into the continent's biggest draw of them all – Machu Picchu.
Your last 4 weeks will be spent exploring Cusco itself before embarking on a journey into the Sacred Valley.
Cusco was the capital of the Inca Empire, and is now known for its archaeological remains and Spanish colonial architecture.
You will have a few days here to explore this beautiful colonial city and have the chance to visit another incredible pre-Inca site at Sacsayhuaman where thousands of huge stones, some weighing hundreds of tons, have been intricately and painstakingly joined together to form a long series of terraces.
The "Tierra de los Yachaqs" project involves a group of small indigenous communities tucked away in the Sacred Valley. They live at about 3,500 to 4,500m above sea level, in the spectacular Andean landscapes and live largely by traditional agriculture and crafts production.
They are keen for you to help with their day to day farming, reforestation and with teaching English in the local school.
You will live with local host families, 2 volunteers per family.
3 meals a day from locally grown produce, cooked by your host family.
A bucket list moment to see Machu Picchu in all its glory. Machu Picchu was built in the 15th century above the Urubamba River valley. It's renowned for its dry-stone walls that fuse huge blocks without the use of mortar, buildings in line with astronomical alignments and stunning, I repeat stunning, panoramic views. Its exact former use still remains a mystery.
Now's your chance to visit the breathtaking and iconic Inca site of Machu Picchu and there are two ways to reach this highlight.
Catch the bus to Aguas Caliente and hike just two hours to see this beautiful site for the day.
Or travel by minibus to the start of the Salkantay Trail. The less touristy and more spectacular trek to Machu Picchu. You will trek for 4 days through the winding valleys and stunning scenery before ascending to the site of Machu Picchu in time for sunrise. You will have the day then to explore the site in all its glory before trekking back to Aguas Caliente for the night.
We have four departures to Peru throughout the year: January, April, July and September for either 6 or 10 weeks. The most popular is the all singing and dancing 10-week option where you can "do it all" but of course you can go for less time to accommodate your dates and budget. Just get in touch to chat through your options.
Food EXCEPT for some meals when traveling.
Bus and one day tour of Machu Picchu.
Please note: the Machu Picchu trek costs £510 and has been included into the cost when specified.
Private transfers to and from the airport if you do not arrive on the main team flight or at a similar time to co-ordinate.
Guaranteed. You will be part of a tight team of like minded volunteers, who will be on your journey across Peru from start to finish.
Such contrast as you travel, contribute and explore across the Andes, Lake Titicaca and the Amazon.
Through living and working beside indigenous communities you will experience real life and make extraordinary friendships.
A journey across Peru which includes trekking, exploring, contributing and reaching the heady heights of Machu Pichu.
Each phase will vary in terms of project hours, depending on the area and the particular project. Rural communities tend to start work very early and finish in early-afternoon, giving you time to explore in the afternoons.
On Saturdays, in the communities, there may be a special event organized such as a hike or celebration. Sundays you'll be free to explore or chill with the community. Your project leader will offer advice on where and what to do.
Yanapuma Foundation was created in August of 2006 as an Ecuadorian and UK registered NGO, working to bring about lasting change for the marginalized and indigenous people of Ecuador and Peru.
Through them our volunteers will work with traditional communities tucked away in the Andes, beside Lake Titicaca and in the Amazon - all different - all struggling in different ways. You will take part in a variety of grass root projects from construction to traditional agriculture to teaching - yes providing the resource for development but through cultural exchange you will help them learn to adapt to the demands of today.
We began our last stint of volunteer work this week! An hour outside of Cusco, nestled on the hillside across from Inca terraces and at the foothills of Inca ruins lies the community of Cuyo Chico (meaning Which Boy? not Witch Boy as I originally thought). We were expecting something small, similar to our experience in Karina, and we were proved wrong with a literal fanfare. When we stepped off the bus in front of the main hostel, we were greeted by people in traditional Peruvian clothing playing the flute, drums, and blasting away on a conch shell.
The women threw flower petals over our heads while the men took all our baggage from us and whisked us away upstairs, where we were also dressed in traditional skirts, jackets, shoulder wraps, and hats. They welcomed us to their community and we introduced ourselves (in Spanish and rather poorly) before we were taken to our rooms.
The rest of the week has been an extremely diverse and fun look into life in Cuyo Chico. We learned how to make clay for sculptures, we were making necklaces and bracelets with dried beads and charms and took corn kernels off the cob with our hands.
We don't have to work on weekends, so we hiked the 40 minutes down to Pisac to look around. The market is enormous and covers at least 4 square kilometers and has everything a tourist could want. Davina and India did the hike back to the top while the rest of us took the bus (we got back to the top at the same time. Let that sink in for a moment).
We came back to the market on Sunday because it wasn't pouring down rain and, to our amazement, the market had gotten even bigger in the sunshine. It really is a breathtaking experience.
The food has also been some of the most diverse we've had since the trip started. The families rotate cooking duty in the community, so we get a different family dish every night. We've eaten quinoa, corn, squash, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, eggs, beans, and algae spheres from a local lagoon (how cool is that?!). Each family prepares the ingredients in slightly different ways, so we have yet to eat the same dish twice.
All in all, we've all said at some point how we feel cared for and cared about. We are seriously looking forward to next week in Cuyo Chico!
This week on "nothing in Peru is close to anything else in Peru", we spent a grand total of 13 hours on buses. It was 7 hours from Puno to Cusco, where we got to spend a full day before hopping on another bus and driving another 6 hours out to THE AMAZON!
But let's start with Cusco, we spent the day exploring the Museum of Precolumbian Art and the accompanying Textile Shop, where Peruvian women weave tapestries and sell them to tourists (yes, I am absolutely going to buy one). It was then on to repack our bags for THE AMAZON (for future travellers: you are absolutely allowed to leave stuff at hostels in their luggage closet. We left all our winter coats and stuffed the extra space in our packs with cookies).
So now we're in the Amazon. Specifically, we're staying at a place called Tierra Linda in El Manu National Park. We're staying in an open-air house about 3km off the main road (it feels like 200km). The walls are nothing but screen, so all the natural light and smells and sounds of the river and jungle are with us all the time. We sleep in twin beds under bug nets. We wake up when the sun comes up, and we go to sleep pretty much when the sun goes down (like, we're up at 6:00 and in bed by 7:30). The food is also delicious: porridge and banana pancakes for breakfast; rice and squash curry for lunch; mashed potatoes and tomato/cucumber salad with vinaigrette for dinner.
Chores so far have included a wide range of activities. We went on a two hour hike through the jungle (India and Emma got machetes) and we had to hack through some of the brush that had fallen across the path (we also got to swing on a vine like Tarzan. It's harder than it looks; three of us fell off). We planted pineapples after the hike (they are REALLY pointy plants). After working, we had a bit of free time (siesta lasts from noon to 3:00pm) so we went swimming in a natural pool formed by the river and let little minnows nibble at our toes (no, they weren't piranha. We asked). We then spent the last two hours before dinner with machetes in hand acting like human weed-whackers. Fully covered in dirt, it was back in the river before dinner, which we eat by candlelight because electricity isn't exactly a thing (we charge our phones via solar panel and it's so cool).
My least favourite part of the day is at 9am, when we have to climb up a steep hill in order to get to work each day. Good training for Machina Picchu, I guess. Despite all the climbing, the view in the Sacred Valley is incredibly beautiful. From the house where we are staying, I can see Inca ruins, and we are surrounded by huge mountains that are so green and vibrant, they almost look fake; like a picture from Google Images.
There's definitely been a lot more work to do here than in Karina. Tierra de Los Yaquas is a community of about 15 different families, and we help a different one each day. We've done a lot of corn shucking and carrying things around. Friday, we carried large stacks of corn stalks on our backs to be used as feed for the animals. This was accompanied by a traditional call and response song as we walked. I don't think any of us really had the singing/yodelling chops, but we tried our best.
There has also been some down time to go to Pisac, the nearest town. There's a huge marketplace filled with stalls selling everything from souvenirs to jewellery to dye. We walked around, shopped, and bought a soccer ball for a game with the community the next night. It was quite an intense match up, one that we eventually lost.
We had two celebrations this week. Tuesday was Alex's birthday. We celebrated with cake for breakfast (hi mom). Then, we walked to a hotel in Pisac, the closest town, for a swim in the pool.
Thursday was a national holiday, Corpus Cristi day. Our hosts invited us to take part in building a traditional oven out of dried mud. Then, you light a fire until the inside of the oven gets very hot. Finally, you put the fire out, put potatoes inside, and collapse the entire thing so the potatoes cook inside the hot mud-pile. And then of course, as we have done so often on this trip, we ate potatoes.
This week has been a bit of a mish-mash. On Monday and Tuesday, we went on tours around Cusco. One to an Inca archaeological site and some salt mines, and the other to Rainbow Mountain. Then, we packed up and took the bus for about an hour to arrive at the Tierra de Los Yaques project.
Our last stop of the day was a salt mine, which was very cool, and can only really be described with pictures.
Tuesday morning was a ridiculously early start (4 am) to leave on the bus to Rainbow Mountain. I was still a bit groggy when we started the hike around ten. Going up was… rough. It was about a 2 hour hike, and even though it was nowhere near as steep as Colca, the much higher altitude made it a tough hike. Sadly, the view is not that impressive from the first base you come to when you reach the end of the trail, you have to commit to walking up a bunch of stairs to the very top to actually see the rainbow effect.
I enjoyed both tours, though hopefully I'll have time to do some sight-seeing in the City itself on the next few weekends we are there.
We got quite a welcome when we arrived to our final project. A conch was blown and flower petals were thrown on us, before we were dressed in traditional Peruvian outfits and introduced to our hosts for the next 2 weeks.
We have only done about 2 days of work so far, but it has been interesting. We helped make the clay that they use for handicrafts, fed an entire shed full of guinea pigs (rip, probably) and prepared the land for planting in September.
Will we become expert farmers by the end of this? Probably not. Stay tuned.
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The trek up the canyon was one of the biggest team building exercises I think we have done and we were all pretty chuffed by how quickly we did it in. Of course this was achieved by Richards amazing music choice and my speaker, which I remembered to charge up the night before. We even got a couple of thank you's from the other hikers for the music!! Overall such an experience and can't wait for the other amazing hikes and insane views I'm gonna experience. Will post again soon.
Back in Coporaque, we really enjoyed our last weekend break. We made our way to the nearest town, Chivay. Although we elected to take a 'short cut' through the fields, Peruvians who live this rurally don't really 'do' proper paths, and we ended up on a pretty difficult hike through cacti and scrubs. At Chivay we splashed 30 soles on huge pizzas and mango lassies: the best meal we've had so far I reckoned.
We also enjoyed a small party with some beers my surrogate Dad bought. Once again, they've been very kind to us, and attempted to learn some limited English as well. We've certainly been able to make our Spanish more natural and fluent.
This next week, Alejandro told us, we can regard as a 'holiday,' a break in between the two challenging volunteer projects either side. We left relatively early on Tuesday morning for Cabana Conde: a more touristy town deeper in the canyon.
Our hostel in Cabana Conde is very touristy. This is a nice break, actually. It's refreshing to hear English voices again. After a monster pizza dinner and breakfast we set off down the canyon on foot to Sangalle.
Sangalle ('Oasis' in Spanish,) is a collection of five hostels deep in the canyon surrounded by insane plant growth and fuelled by the river further below. It felt rather like a traditional resort: pools, terraces, everything. It was a rather lovely and unique place, with one's happiness tempered only by the knowledge that at some point, you have to hike back up.
After a restful full day, we met three lovely American guys called Moshe, Ari, and Elly. I decided to go trek up with them the following morning. The boys are both fitter and more competitive than me, so I figured this might be easier. We rose at 4.30am, and headed up the mountain, with the head-torches of other groups trailing us like lumbering glow worms. The view of the sunrise over the canyon was, needless to say, spectacular.
We have spent the last week in the rural community of Coporaque. Located deep in the Colca Canyon, it is a far cry from Arequipa. The trip to Coporaque was a four-hour bus ride across stunning landscapes, where scrubby plains give way to steep mountain roads. Once we arrived, we played football with some kids in what I'm convinced is the pitch with the most beautiful views in the world. We took it more seriously once the adults arrived, and England managed to thrash Peru 5-3. We're each living with local families: Alejandro and I with one, Robbie and Ben with another, and Katie and Izzie with the third.
For me, this is really important. Breakfasts force us to practice Spanish, and the families help coordinate our volunteering efforts in a town that isn't all that organised. It seems to maintain its own timezone, which I have dubbed 'Coporaque Mean Time' (CMT.) One where events happen a little later than they should, or on different days altogether. It's an important lesson for foreigners who are used to rather structured lives.
Our main volunteer project so far has been clearing the primary school's football pitch of debris, and filling in holes. It was very gratifying to come back the next day and see they were already using it, with brick goalposts!
We have also helped with Holy Week preparations. We've carried saints from the Church, shelled green beans for a feast, set up a cross on which to crucify a wooden Jesus, and had our feet washed by a catholic priest in gratitude.
To relax, we've done a walk that offered spectacular views over Coporaque (with lunch costing less than a pound each,) and visited the hot springs about three times. They're undoubtedly a highlight. Showers aren't great here, and it's a good opportunity to wash clothes.
We definitely feel part of the community here. Tourists came to watch and took photos of us as we helped set up a ceremony. Our families have been very welcoming, and we're looking forward to another week's volunteering.
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Fleas can cause significant distress and discomfort to an animal. In addition, fleas can spread throughout a home and irritate residents. Your veterinarian near Winston-Salem works with pet owners to prevent a flea problem and treat issues as necessary. A range of veterinary services, including flea prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, are available at your animal hospital near Winston-Salem. Understand more about flea prevention and treatment services at Forsyth Veterinary Hospital.
How Can Vet Near Winston-Salem Prevent Flea Infestations?
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Banger of the Week: Poorstacy – Choose Life
b.liebman August 6, 2020 Banger of the Week
It's been said for a while now that rap is the new punk, and that is becoming more and more clear as rappers are taking their punk influences into their music. While the emo rap genre is still going strong, a new crop of rappers are blasting out pure guitar-driven, high energy rock songs and busting down genres as they do it. Machine Gun Kelly had big success doing this last year with his single "I Think I'm Okay", and 24kGoldn took off this year with "City of Angels".
The latest rapper to prove his rock bonafides is Florida's Poorstacy, who teamed up with Travis Barker (a common link between the rap and punk worlds) for his new song "Choose Life" off his album The Breakfast Club. Blasting off with Barker's banging drums, the song kicks it into high gear immediately, with Poorstacy's Smiths-on-cocaine chorus and loud power chords. The track bounces like classic Iggy Pop, and could easily create a frenzy in the mosh pit.
Call it punk, call it rap – we'll just call it a banger. Hear it in our Banger of the Weeks Playlist!
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Q: Make description text slide up to 100% height of div I have an image block with an absolute positioned description sitting at the bottom. I want it when I hover over the description it slides up to the top in a transition and covers the whole image.
Here is my code just now.

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            test

.offers-carousel-inner-default {
  position:relative;
  line-height:1;
  width:500px;
  height:500px;
}
.offerDetails {
    position:absolute;
    padding:19px;
    background:rgba(255,255,255,0.95);
    left:0;
    right:0;
    text-align:center;
    bottom:0;
    transition:all 0.4s linear;
    top:initial;
    font-family:"nobel-regular";
}
.offerDetails:hover {
    top:0;
    display:flex;
    flex-wrap:wrap;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
}
.offerDetails:hover .content {
    display:block;
    order:2;
}
.offerDetails:hover .content-arrow {
    order:2;
    transform:rotate(180deg);
    margin-bottom:0;
    margin-top:20px;
}
.offerDetails h5 {
    font-size:20px;
    margin:0;
}
.offerDetails p {
    font-size:16px;
}
.offerDetails .content {
    display:none;
}
.offerDetails .content-arrow {
    margin-bottom:15px;
    text-align:center;
    width:100%;
    transition:all 0.4s linear;
}
.offerDetails .content-arrow img {
    max-width:34px;
}

would be nice to do something like "top:0" and it would slide to the top and back down on hover.
Here is the JS Fiddle

A: A possible solution would be to keep the element on the bottom of its container and animate the element's height so that it goes from a fixed height value to height: 100%:

.offers-carousel-inner-default {
  position: relative;
  line-height: 1;
  width: 500px;
  height: 500px;
}

.offerDetails {
  position: absolute;
  padding: 19px;
  background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95);
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  text-align: center;
  bottom: 0;
  transition: all 0.4s;
  top: initial;
  font-family: "nobel-regular";
  height: 20px;
}

.offerDetails:hover {
  height: 100%;
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  transition: all 0.4s;
}

.offerDetails:hover .content {
  display: block;
  order: 2;
}

.offerDetails:hover .content-arrow {
  order: 2;
  transform: rotate(180deg);
  margin-bottom: 0;
  margin-top: 20px;
}

.offerDetails h5 {
  font-size: 20px;
  margin: 0;
}

.offerDetails p {
  font-size: 16px;
}

.offerDetails .content {
  display: none;
}

.offerDetails .content-arrow {
  margin-bottom: 15px;
  text-align: center;
  width: 100%;
  transition: all 0.4s linear;
}

.offerDetails .content-arrow img {
  max-width: 34px;
}

        test

                test

      test with height: 20px

This won't work if you need to use height:auto; (because it doesn't work with transition-duration), though. In that case you can use min-height:

.offers-carousel-inner-default {
  position: relative;
  line-height: 1;
  width: 500px;
  height: 500px;
}

.offerDetails {
  position: absolute;
  padding: 19px;
  background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95);
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  text-align: center;
  bottom: 0;
  transition: all 0.4s;
  top: initial;
  font-family: "nobel-regular";
  height: auto;
  min-height: 20px;
}

.offerDetails:hover {
  min-height: 100%;
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  transition: all 0.4s;
}

.offerDetails:hover .content {
  display: block;
  order: 2;
}

.offerDetails:hover .content-arrow {
  order: 2;
  transform: rotate(180deg);
  margin-bottom: 0;
  margin-top: 20px;
}

.offerDetails h5 {
  font-size: 20px;
  margin: 0;
}

.offerDetails p {
  font-size: 16px;
}

.offerDetails .content {
  display: none;
}

.offerDetails .content-arrow {
  margin-bottom: 15px;
  text-align: center;
  width: 100%;
  transition: all 0.4s linear;
}

.offerDetails .content-arrow img {
  max-width: 34px;
}

        test

                test

      test with height:auto

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The Doctors share the tragic story of a mother who was co-sleeping with her 15-month-old child and awoke to find her worst nightmare: her baby was dead after having come in contact with her fentanyl pain patch.
ER physician Dr. Travis Stork explains these patches are designed based off of your size and weight so for a small child, the dose was fatal. The Doctors believe it's important to bring awareness around this. They advise parents to never apply patches in front of their children so that their kids don't mistake the patches as Band-Aids or make them seem appealing at all.
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Some of my friends had moved to Vancouver a year ago and I had always said we would go out and visit. I had already been to this part of Canada before, but my travelling companion had not. As we decided what to do and where to go, a plan started to form. We would visit Vancouver for a couple of days, then head over to Vancouver Island for the rest of the first week. Then we would catch a cheap flight over to Calgary, where we would meet up with another friend and then aim to drive back to Vancouver through the Rockies during the second week.
I had built up enough miles in the British Airways Executive Club (BA's frequent flyer programme) to get First class flights with BA to Vancouver. This was very exciting as looking at prices it seemed that the only sensible paid option would be one of the charter airlines, along with their horrible seat pitch in economy. Therefore there was very little thought required!! Best of all, I had just obtained a 2-for-1 voucher from American Express, which is part of their deal with BA for using the BA Amex card. So I used this for my friend and we booked two FIRST returns to Vancouver absolutely free (well airport taxes notwithstanding!). Not bad, eh?
Obviously we planned to stay with our friends in Vancouver, but we made the decision early on to book other places as we went along. This was mainly due to being out of season, so we were confident of getting some good bargains if we just turned up on the day. This proved to be the case and we stayed in some very comfortable budget locations in all the places we visited.


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Talking with singers: Massimo Cavalletti
Italian baritone Massimo Cavalletti has sung on virtually every major stage from New York to Dubai, yet his roots lie in the real heart of Italian opera. Like Giacomo Puccini, Cavalletti was born in Lucca, Italy, and the beginnings of his professional career were in Milan, in the Academy at La Scala.
This month, he returns to The Metropolitan Opera to sing in Franco Zeffirelli's iconic production of La bohème, opposite Kristine Opolais as Mimì, and Piotr Beczala as Rodolfo; Cavalletti has sung both Marcello and Schaunard at the Met, and this run of performances includes his 100th as Marcello.
Cavalletti gave us a thoughtful interview about his relationships with his teachers, his audiences, and his heritage.
What sort of history do you have with *La bohème* in your own career so far?
La bohème! It's basically been my life so far. I made my Teatro alla Scala debut as Schaunard in 2005 working with Maestro Franco Zeffirelli; being the youngest member in the cast, I was afraid I wouldn't be up to their level and I was very nervous. I remember I worked intensely with Marco Gandini to prepare my character before the Maestro's arrival, and I kept repeating my Act I entrance when Schaunard comes in the attic with money and food.
Then the day came when we actually rehearsed on stage at the presence of the Maestro. I was very anxious and jumpy; I saw him as soon as I opened the door, threw the coins on the table and started to sing. After a couple of phrases he stood up, interrupted the rehearsal, came towards me and said: "I was told that the Schaunard is a very young man, and that I should be indulgent with him because he is at his very first stage experience… well, I am telling you now: don't think about anything, just sing and let us enjoy this beautiful voice of yours!"
I remember I got so touched by this gesture and from that moment on it was a piece of cake. He autographed my score of Bohème that I still use; since then I have sung over 130 performances of the opera as Schaunard and Marcello. I have plenty of anecdotes about Bohème, but my first time at La Scala, working with a living legend of international theatre, is one memory which will always remain in my heart.
What was it like to study and begin your career in major historical opera centers like Milan and Lucca?
I am fortunate to have been born in the birthplace of great composers such as Puccini, Catalani, Boccherini. Lucca has always been a cradle of culture, music and art. I studied there for three years and then I found myself in a big city, Milan, which gave me the opportunity to perfect my training thanks to my admission to the Teatro alla Scala Academy, and to make my first experiences in what is undoubtedly the opera house par excellence.
I was lucky to have studied with outstanding teachers who passed on to me their experience and helped me to be a real artist. I'd like to mention above all Luciana Serra, with whom I studied at the Academy and who still teaches me to this day. Also, Leyla Gencer, who has a special place in my heart for her great passion and love for opera and dedication to young singers, to whom she gave all of herself like a mother. In my life I have met many other great teachers and singers, and I have always tried to capture some of their art. I have certainly had opportunities that perhaps other young singers were not given, but I made important decisions when I chose to be a Fest artist in Zurich, and gradually grew step by step in the study of my roles.
It is very fortunate to have been born and and able to study in Italy, where one inhales the history of opera. As an Italian I can thoroughly and consciously appreciate the growth process of operatic writing, the Italian language and tradition.
I am also happy to come from a family of farmers, from the land that has given and still gives me my cultural and historical roots as well as an attachment to the values of family, homeland and faith, which in many cases are at the foundation of opera itself.
What do you find is unique about Italian opera audiences?
Italian audiences have always been and still are the most critical and reactive in the world. When you sing in an Italian opera house, whether it is one of the most prestigious or a regional one, it's easy to stumble upon harsh critics that are deeply tied to the operatic tradition of that particular theatre. There still are numerous opera-goers who started to attend performances in the '50s, and this gives them the opportunity to make comparisons between opera how it is today and how it was yesterday. Those who crowd the "loggione" (gallery, or stalls) are usually cultured people who do not give their judgment as a gut reaction, but truly listen to the quality of the performance. There are however cases where they get carried away by their emotions during a performance that they don't consider up to their standards, but in 90% of cases they judge according to the tradition of that particular opera house.
Even the audiences of smaller regional houses and local musical associations always have a well-defined idea regarding singing, or how a specific opera should be sung, and they don't shy away from criticizing or simply abstaining from clapping. However, I would like to add that a success in Italy feels bigger than anywhere else because to pass unscathed or even better be applauded in Milan, Naples, Venice, Turin, Palermo, Florence or Rome is a sign of true unequivocal success.
Based on your own experience, how would you compare audiences in Europe versus in Asia?
Asian, and particularly Japanese audiences have a high respect for artists. They know everything about the singers performing in their theatres, follow them as it used to happen in Europe or America in the 1960s through the 1980s, know their voices and own complete collections of their performances. They love CDs and DVDs and show a lot of enthusiasm for live performances.
I've never heard any criticism or any booing in Japan. The Japanese always clap but reserve ovations only on those who they believe they are truly worthy of them, and they are thrilled when they attend performances of European or American guest artists.
China has beautiful theatres and great productions, but they have not yet fully formed an idea of what Western opera truly is. In any case there are a lot of opera-goers and big financiers and sponsors, which will certainly lead to a nationalization of opera.
I've not yet been to South Korea, but considering the vast flow of Korean singers and musicians I believe that opera and music must play a very important role in their lives.
The Middle East is experiencing the birth of opera. There are new opera houses in the countries of the Arabian peninsula, and I have sung in Muscat and Dubai. There, the audience knows opera very well, as they mostly come from Europe or America where they have learned to love opera, know when and where to applaud and have already formed their own taste and never openly criticize an artist.
When you sing in Asia the atmosphere is more relaxed and serene, and the audience makes one feel at ease behaving as if they were "the fourth wall" of the stage, so that the show breathes together with them and you can smell the excitement in the air.
What do you wish you knew about singing 10 years ago?
Thank you for asking this question. I can say that things have changed in ten years: changes that in the past took a whole generation to happen, now take ten years or less. Now social media and platforms as well as globalization have sped up everything to the extreme. Distances have been eliminated and at the same time have become impossible to fill.
Today, the tendency is to start from the top tier opera companies in major roles. If they don't work their way up the ladder through professional work in small houses or smaller roles, many young artists shoot to fame very quickly, only to find it hard to remain at the top.
Sometimes careers are over in the blink of an eye, and this happens because this "market" is always full of alternative options, constantly looking for the new "One". Excluding those artists who have reached maturity and fame and continue their career following the old time-honored rules, the market is always clamoring for a new name rather than the quality and experience of artists who have been working hard and built their careers over the years.
Why do you sing professionally?
I am fortunate to have been singing at a professional level for over ten years, and each and every day I work hard to improve my singing and keep up my professional reputation. Singing must have a well-grounded base of work and study. Superficiality is unacceptable: in order to sing opera at a high level, intense concentration - as well as devoting your life to your voice and work - is crucial.
When I was 15, or even 20, I would have never in my wildest dreams imagined I would have been in this fantastic profession and that I would be going around the world trying to touch people with my voice. But even since I discovered my voice, I've always tried to reach into people's hearts, and I think I am successful at it because I have a large following both in the opera houses and on the social platforms. They care for me and support me with their friendship.
So much has changed today: appearance and the ability to sell tickets become much more important and, without generalizations, are often favoured over the vocal quality of an artist. But I always strive to satisfy my own artistic needs, and to educate new generations to recognize what is "beautiful" in life, and to pursue the cultural interests which morally elevate mankind. I would never be able to be a classical singer without this message in my heart.
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Usually it is believed that sad lonely people are addicted of taking too much selfies. For that purpose the selfie-stick has bestowed the world with an invaluable tool for documenting every self-centered whim.
The new design prototype Selfie arm constructed out of lightweight fiberglass material, gives selfie fanatics the illusion of having friends.
The arm pretends to belong to a close buddy, family member or significant other. "Nobody wants to look alone while they mindlessly snap pictures of themselves," Justin Crowe's website says, a tad judgmentally.
The lonely people may get the feeling by this fake arm and will have their own fake perception of being with someone, but here rises a question. With whom they'll be sharing those photos if they have no one to be with?
Well for me this arm looks bit creepy.


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Даниловка () — село в Подоловском сельском совете, Барвенковский район, Харьковская область.

Код КОАТУУ — 6320485504. Население по переписи 2001 г. составляет 18 (12/6 м/ж) человек.

Географическое положение
Село Даниловка находится на левом берегу реки Сухой Торец, на противоположном берегу сёла Благодатное и Подоловка.

В 4-х км находится железнодорожная станция Языково.

История
 1812 — дата основания села.
 Ранее село входило в состав Даниловской волости Изюмского уезда и было родовым имением харьковской ветви дворян Данилевских, от которых получила название.

Экономика
 В селе есть молочно-товарная ферма.

Известные люди
 Данилевский Григорий Петрович — известный русский писатель, автор исторических романов, родился в 1829 г. в селе Даниловка.

Достопримечательности
 Ботанический заказник местного значения «Даниловский». Площадь 20,5 га. Размещен рядом с селом Даниловка. Хорошо сохранившиеся участки настоящих степей и засолённых сухих лугов с редкими для флоры Украины и Харьковщины видами и растительными группировками.

Ссылки
 Сайт Верховной рады Украины

Примечания

Населённые пункты Барвенковского района

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THE FRIENDS' ASSOCIATION OF THE BASQUE MUSEUM
The origins of the museum
The association and the museum
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The origins of the Basque and the history of Bayonne Museum
Outlined in 1897 during the Congress of the Bask traditions in Saint Jean de Luz , then drawn before WWI, the project of an ethnological and historical Museum was born in 1922 in Bayonne and opened in 1924. The collections were put then in a house dating from the 18th Century, which was called Dagourette House and which was bordered with 3 warehouses.
Dagourette House painted by Veyrin in 1924 The banks of the river Nive and the Museum in May 2007
The 'SAMB' clearly participates to the life of the Museum
It organizes entertainments
- For all kinds of audience, on the 1st Sunday of each month
- For children, except on school-time
- During national events ( European Patrimony Days)
- During local events ( Bayonne Feast, exhibitions)
The association contributes to the enrichment of the collections, either directly through gifts, or indirectly as a link between the Museum and donors.
It exchanges its publications with more than 80 organizations all over the world and gives to the Documentary Center of the Museum the publications it gets from them.It provides the translation into Basque of the review about the collections of the Museum.
The collaboration with the Museum has become stronger and stronger since its re-opening in 2001. We are careful as its needs either with the keepers or guardians.
Site of the Museum
The Museum is located in the district called' Petit Bayonne' (old town) in Dagourette House
37 quai des Corsaires
F 64100 BAYONNE
tel. 33 (0) 5 59 46 61 90
Send an email to SAMB


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First Britons receive Covid-19 vaccine, a landmark moment in the pandemic
By Ivana Kottasová and Emma Reynolds, CNN
Updated 2:21 PM EST, Tue December 8, 2020
William Shakespeare among first Britons to receive coronavirus vaccine
Cardiff, Wales CNN —
The United Kingdom has become the world's first nation to begin vaccinating its citizens with a fully vetted and authorized Covid-19 shot, a landmark moment in the coronavirus pandemic.
The first Briton to get the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine – 90-year-old Margaret Keenan – received the first of two doses at 6:31 a.m. local time on Tuesday at University Hospital in Coventry, less than a week after the UK became the first country to approve it.
Keenan, who turns 91 next week, said she felt "privileged" to be the first to get the shot.
"It's the best early birthday present I could wish for because it means I can finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the New Year after being on my own for most of the year," she said, according to a statement released by the UK's National Health Service (NHS).
A card that will be given to patients following their Covid-19 vaccination is displayed at Croydon University Hospital in south London on Saturday after the first batch of doses were delivered.
Gareth Fuller/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
Living in the UK? Share your thoughts on the Covid-19 vaccine rollout
Keenan told UK media the shot was "fine, I wasn't nervous at all," calling it "wonderful, really."
"This is for a good cause so I'm so pleased I had it done. This is a terrible, terrible disease so we do want rid of it," she added.
Keenan advised others eligible for the vaccine to take up the offer: "I would say go for it," she said. "If I can do it, well, so can you."
May Parsons, the nurse who administered the first jab, said she was honored to be involved in the program.
"The last few months have been tough for all of us working in the NHS, but now it feels like there is light at the end of the tunnel," said Parsons, who is originally from the Philippines and has worked in the NHS for 24 years.
William Shakespeare, 81, known to friends as Bill, was the second person to get a Covid-19 vaccine at the Coventry hospital on Tuesday. Shakespeare, a patient on the hospital's frailty ward, sat with his grandchildren's artwork nearby as he received the jab.
William Shakespere, 81, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, at University Hospital, Coventry, England on Tuesday.
Jacob King/AP
Nurse Joanna Sloan was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the vaccine, while George Dyer became one of the first people in London to get the shot at Croydon Health Services.
"Covid-19 is a terrible thing and I feel very lucky that I can now get this vaccine to keep the virus away," said Dyer, a former butcher and hospital volunteer. "It's like I'm about to be given a new lease of life, and I cannot wait to get back out there and make myself useful again."
Gill Rogers, whose husband died with the virus in residential care in April, was among the first to receive the vaccine in Sussex, in southeast England, on Tuesday.
The 86-year-old, who lives near Brighton, told the BBC it had been "quite hard" dealing with grief as well as isolation and that being given the shot meant she would not need to be so careful.
May Parsons, a nurse originally from the Philippines who has worked for the UK's National Health Service for 24 years, administered the first shot in Coventry.
"I'm a bit pleased," she said. "I shan't be so careful, no, I shan't be so worried, I will go in shops more and with luck I might get on to public transport."
"I wasn't doing much before, because while my husband was alive I was spending a lot of time going to the care home, so I've been pretty limited for a long time now," she said.
The logistical challenges of manufacturing and distributing tens of millions of vaccines mean the roll-out will be gradual, with the most vulnerable people and health care workers first in line.
A temperature controlled cold storage haulage truck leaves the Pfizer Inc. facility in Puurs, Belgium, on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. The quick approval of Pfizer Inc.s coronavirus vaccine in the U.K. isnt likely to accelerate the availability of the shot in Asia, as countries work to complete local safety tests and negotiate deals.
Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg/Getty Images
UK prepares to give first Covid-19 vaccinations as the world watches
Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, told UK media on Tuesday morning that the vaccine "will gradually make a huge, huge difference."
Visiting an NHS Covid-19 vaccination center in London, Johnson said: "It is important for people to understand that the virus is, alas, still rising in some parts of the country. It is rising for instance in London."
He said the UK had reduced the spread of coronavirus, thanks to measures including England's national lockdown in November.
"And so my message would be it's amazing to see the vaccine come out, it's amazing to see this tremendous shot in the arm for the entire nation, but we can't afford to relax now," the PM said.
"I would just say to all those who are scared, don't be … you see people take the vaccine this morning, in large numbers, people are going to be taking it in the next few days, and weeks and there is nothing to be nervous about."
Asked whether he was getting the vaccine himself, Johnson said: "I am not in the priority group … I've had it (the virus)."
The UK has ordered 40 million doses of the vaccine, but only 800,000 shots will be available as part of the first wave that began on Tuesday.
Because the vaccine requires two doses, administered at least three weeks apart, the UK will eventually have enough shots to vaccinate roughly a third of the country's population.
The country has also ordered 7 million doses of the Moderna vaccine, which could be approved for emergency use in the UK within the next few weeks.
There will be 50 vaccination hubs in hospitals across England and dozens more across Wales and Scotland. People over 80 and frontline healthcare workers who are at the highest risk of serious illness from Covid-19 will be the first to be vaccinated.
In England, the first wave of vaccinations will only be administered in hospitals. In Wales, all health boards today began administering the country's 40,000 doses – they hope to have given more than 6,000 jabs by the end of the week.
Keenan and the others will have to go back for the second dose in three or four weeks' time. According to government guidance, each vaccinated person will be given a credit card-sized vaccination document with details of their next appointment. Seven to 10 days after the second dose, they should be protected against the virus.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine offers 95% protection against Covid-19. According to the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), more than one in 10 recipients may suffer side effects including pain at the injection site, headache, muscle pain, chills, joint pain, and fever. A handful of other, less common, side effects are also listed.
It is still unclear how long the immunity provided by the vaccine lasts for, or whether those who have had it can still transmit coronavirus to other people.
Margaret Keenan, 90, said she felt "privileged" to be the first to get the shot.
Jacob King/Pool/Getty Images
More than half of British adults say they would trust a coronavirus vaccine that has been approved for use, according to a Savanta ComRes poll for CNN affiliate ITV News.
According to the poll of 2,090 British adults, which was conducted between November 20 and 22 – before the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was approved for use in the UK – 57% of those questioned said they would trust a vaccine after approval, compared to 16% who said they would not trust one.
Nearly half (47%) of British adults said they were comfortable with Covid vaccines being developed faster than normal. Almost a quarter (23%) said they were not.
A few hours of flu-like symptoms? 'Absolutely' worth it for this woman who was in a Covid-19 vaccine trial
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock called the beginning of the vaccination program a "big moment in scientific endeavor" on Tuesday, saying that the vaccine "can start to heal this disease right across the world, and protect people everywhere."
In an interview with Sky News on Tuesday morning, Hancock said there was still "an enormous amount of work to do," but that it may be possible to lift the UK's coronavirus restrictions in the spring if enough people have been vaccinated by then. He urged the public to "hold our nerve and stick together and follow the rules."
While the UK's immunization program started with a big bang on Tuesday, the vaccine remains off limits to the vast majority of people.
For now, it is available by invitation only for those age 80 and over, care homes staff and front line health and social care workers. Care home residents were also expected to be prioritized, but the government said last week that this won't happen immediately.
The NHS said in a statement on Tuesday that vaccine centers would be set up in venues including sporting venues and conference centers to treat large numbers of patients once further supplies of vaccine become available.
Hari Shukla, 87, from Tyne and Wear in England's north east, is due to be one of the first to be vaccinated at a hospital in Newcastle later on Tuesday. Ahead of the jab, he thanked the UK's National Health Service for its work throughout the pandemic, saying that its staff "have a heart of gold."
Keenan said she could finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the New Year after being on her own for most of the year.
"I'm so pleased we are hopefully coming towards the end of this pandemic and I am delighted to be doing my bit by having the vaccine, I feel it is my duty to do so and do whatever I can to help," Shukla said in a NHS statement.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine needs to be stored at around minus 70 degrees Celsius (minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit), which makes its distribution difficult. Moderna's vaccine, if approved, could be a more practical option for the care homes, as it can be kept at minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit).
The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to follow the UK's MHRA and authorize the emergency use for the Pfizer vaccine as soon as this week – its vaccine advisory committee is scheduled to meet on Thursday.
The European Medicines Agency will make its decision on the vaccine on December 29, according to the European Commission.
An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of vaccine recipient William Shakespeare. This has been corrected.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh, Sarah Dean, Sharon Braithwaite, Kara Fox, Emma Reynolds, Stephanie Halasz and Amy Cassidy contributed to this report.


We found 10 episodes of The Back of the Range Golf Podcast with the tag "college golf".
Austin Cook, PGA rookie and winner of the 2017 RSM Classic, joins us this week at The Back of the Range Golf Podcast! After an amazing career at the University of Arkansas, Austin rose up the ranks on the mini-tours, found great success at Monday Qualifiers, and won in only his 4th event as a full-time member of the PGA Tour. Great stories and candid opinions from one of the top-ranked rookies on Tour!