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Aftercare — Cincinnati Tattoo & Piercing Co.
- Remove bandage 2-4 hours after receiving your tattoo. Wash with mild soap and warm water. This is the only time you will wash your new tattoo.
- Make sure your hands are clean and apply a small amount of fragrance free hand lotion (such as Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion). This should be done a few times a day for the next week.
- After your bandage is removed make sure that any clothing that touches your new tattoo is soft and clean. Be careful that clothing does not rub against your new tattoo; belts, bras, socks, boots, etc.
- A light scab will appear in a few days. Picking, scratching, or trying to remove it will cause delayed healing, loss of color, and possible infection.
- Keep your new tattoo as dry as possible while healing. DO NOT let shower spray directly onto your new tattoo, DO NOT soak in bathtub, and DO NOT swim.
- Keep your new tattoo out of the sun and tanning beds until fully healed. A short exposure to the sun or tanning bed can result in a seriously burned, ruined and/or painful tattoo. After your tattoo is fully healed, use sunblock when outdoors.
- Depending on the nature of your work, it may be necessary to wear appropriate clothing to protect your tattoo while healing, particularly if you work around grease, dust, oil, etc.
- DO NOT re-bandage your new tattoo.
- DO NOT take advice from anyone other than your tattoo artist or a doctor on the care of your new tattoo.
A mild liquid antimicrobial/germicidal medicated soap such as Provon or Salin, and water. Inferior alternatives include products such as Almay Clearly Natural, Hypocare, NurtiBiotic or other mild fragrance and color free liquid antibacterial soap. These should possibly be diluted with distilled or bottled water, depending on product strength. Also, mild non-iodized (no iodine) sea salt soaks as described below.
Body piercings need to be cleaned once or twice daily, every day for the entire initial healing time. Most people clean morning and/or night, in the shower. Do not clean more often as this can irritate your piercing, and possibly delay your healing. For once-a-day cleanings, do it at the end of your day. Optimal frequency will depend on your skin sensitivity, activity level, and environmental factors.
Before cleanings wash hands thoroughly with liquid antibacterial soap and hot water. If you wish, you may wear disposable latex of vinyl gloves and/or also use a hand sanitizing gel. Never ever touch healing piercings with dirty hands. This is vital for avoiding infections.
Prepare the area for the cleansing by rinsing and soaking with warm water and be sure to remove any stubborn crust using a cotton swab and warm water. Never pick with fingernails! This step is important for your comfort.
Apply a small handful of cleaning solution to the area with your clean hands. Cleanse the area and the jewelry and gently rotate the jewelry back and fourth a few times to work the solution to the inside. (You do not need to rotate your jewelry during the first several cleanings).
Allow the solution to cleanse there for a minute. You may bathe normally, just don't purposely work anything other than the cleanser onto the inside of the piercing.
*Please try to be patient!* Each body is unique, and healing times can vary considerably. If your piercing is tender or secreting you should continue the care regimen, even if it is past the stated average healing time range.
Bleeding, bruising, discoloration and/or swelling is not uncommon. Any break in the skin, including a new piercing can bleed or bruise. These are not indications of any complication. Studies show non-steroidal anti-inflammatory products such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, etc.) can help minimize swelling.
Some tenderness or discomfort in the area of a new piercing is not unusual. You may feel stinging, burning, aching and other unpleasant sensations off and on for several days or longer. During healing there may be some itching.
Once healed your piercing may secrete a semi-solid white malodorous substance from the oil glands called sebum. This is not pus, but indicates a healing piercing.
Wash your hands prior to contact on or near the area of your healing piercing.
Leave the starter jewelry in during the entire minimum initial healing time!
If you like your piercing leave the jewelry in at all times. Even old, well healed piercings can shrink or close in minutes after having been there for years! This varies from person to person, and even if your ear lobe piercings stay open without jewelry your body piercings may not!
Wear clean, comfortable, breathable fabric clothing in the area of your body piercing.
In the event that the piercing drains a thick pus discharge instead of the normal liquid secretion, you may wish to see a physician for evaluation and possible antibiotic treatment. If you do have an infection, the jewelry should be left in the piercing to allow for drainage of pus. If the jewelry is removed, the holes can close up, resulting in an abscess. LEAVE YOUR JEWELRY IN!
Don't us alcohol, peroxide, Betadine or Hibiclens as they are overly strong and drying which can hinder healing.
Don't apply any ointment such as Bacitracin, Neosporin or any triple antibiotic ointment on your piercing. These prevent oxygen from reaching the wound and form a sticky residue which can cause complications. They are not designed for use on healing piercings.
Don't over clean. Cleaning more often than once or twice a day is NOT better. This can delay your healing and irritate your piercing.
Avoid oral contact, rough play, and contact with other's bodily fluids on or near your piercing during healing.
Don't use band-aids on a healing piercing. They limit air circulation and the adhesive can irritate the surrounding area.
Avoid submerging your piercing in water such as pools, lakes, jacuzzis, etc. unless you feel confident that the water is clean enough for you and an open wound (which is what your piercing is while it is healing). Most bodies of water harbor large amounts of bacteria. If there is sea life, motor oil, or children in the water it is not clean enough!
These guidelines are based on a combination of vast professional experience, common sense, research, and extensive clinical practice. This is not to be considered suitable for medical advice from a doctor.
An alcohol-free antimicrobial or antibacterial mouth rinse should be used according to package instructions. Two examples are Tech 2000 and Biotene. These may be available in the oral medications section of your local drugstores.
Also: Mild sea sale water rinses. Dissolve a pinch (1/4 teaspoon) non-iodized (iodine-free) sea salt to one cup (8 oz.) warm to hot distilled or bottled water. (Avoid hot water for the first few days). If you have high blood pressure or heart problems, you will need to eliminate the sea salt, and use only plain warm water rinses.
Rinse mouth for 30-60 seconds with solution after meals during the entire minimum initial healing time. Do not use more than 4-5 times daily and use it over intervals spaced throughout the entire day.
Rinse mouth briefly (10-15 seconds) with the mild sea salt mixture no more than twice a day. If you are cleaning too often, the top of your tongue will start to turn a white to yellowish color. Continue to clean your piercing, but reduce the number of times you are cleaning it per day.
Tenderness or discomfort in the area of a new piercing is not unusual. You may feel aching, pinching, tightness, or other unpleasant sensations of and on for several days or longer.
Don't be alarmed if you see a fairly liuid, yellowish secretion coming from the piercing. This is blood plasma, lymph, and dead cells which is perfectly normal. All healing piercings secrete, it just looks different inside the mouth as it doesn't have a chance to dry and form a crust as it does on ear of body piercings. This is not pus, but indicates a healing piercing.
Keep following the care procedures during the entire minimal initial healing time, even if the piercing seems healed sooner.
Try to sleep with your head propped up on pillows during the first few nights of healing: keeping your head above your heart will help to avoid much initial overnight swelling.
An over the counter, non-steroidal anti inflammatory such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, etc.) taken according to package instructions can reduce discomfort, and it can also help to diminish swelling the first few days.
Check twice daily with clean hands to be sure the threaded ends on you jewelry are tight. To clean hands, wash them carefully with liquid antibacterial soap. If your hands aren't freshly washed, dont touch yourself above the neck during the inital healing time.
Replace your toothbrush an be sure to keep it clean so that everything that goes into your mouth is hygienic while you are healing. A sensitive type of toothpaste may be less irritating to your mouth during healing than a usual stronger variety.
Try to go slowly when you eat and take small bites when you are getting used to your new jewelry. Cold foods and beverages feel great and can help diminish swelling. Drink plenty of liquids, especially bottled water.
Avoid chewing gum, tobacco, fingernails, pencils, sunglasses, etc. during healing. Don't share plates, cups, or eating utensils. Reducing smoking or quitting is highly advisable when healing an oral piercing. Smoking increases risks and can lenghen the healing time. Avoid undue stress and recreational drug usage.
Stay away from asprin, large amoutns of caffeine, and alcoholic beverages for the first several days. Alcoholic beverages include all beer, wine, and hard liquor. These can cause additional swelling, bleeding and discomfort. Refrain from eating spicy, salty, acidic, or hot temperature foods and beverages for a few days.
Do not play with the piercing for the initial healing time period beyond the necessary movement for speaking and eating. The mouth withstands a lot of trauma from normal speaking and eating. Try to avoid other disturbances such as excessive talking, actively playing with the jewelry, or clicking the jewelry against your teeth. Undue stress on the piercing can cause the formation of unsightly and uncomfortable scar tissue, migration and other complications.
Even after healing, excessive play with oral jewelry can result in permanent damage to teeth, gums, and oral structures. Metal is harder than the human body; be gentile.
Do not use Lysterine or other mouthwash that contains alcohol. It can irritate the area and dealy healing.
Tongue: Gently brush your tongue and jewelry when you are healing. Once healed brush tongue and jewelry thoroughly to keep plaque away.
Lip / Cheek: Be cautious about opening your mouth wide when you eat, as this can result in the back of the jewelry catching on your teeth. Take small bites and go slowly at first.
The outside of the piercing may become somewhat red or pink during healing and this is normal. Refer to the Aftercare Guidelines for Body and Facial Piercings above for instructions on how to care for the exterior surface of such a piercing.


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Some Thoughts on the Final Rapid Transit Consultations
Light Rail, News May 3, 2011 Michael Druker
Today the last phase of public consultations for Waterloo Region's Rapid Transit project begins, with one tonight in St. Jacobs. The other ones will be held this week and next at familiar locations – see the Region's site for details on times and venues. The materials being presented at the meeting are available online, as is an online comment sheet if you cannot make a meeting in person. On May 31 and June 1, Regional Council will hold public input meetings to hear delegations on Rapid Transit. In June Council is expected to vote on the final plan. One of the reasons the consultations have been so drawn out is to streamline the required Transit Project Assessment, which would start in October and take six months, but which could be delayed by new information.
Staff are presenting an only slightly-revised recommendation for the first phase of Rapid Transit to be light rail from Conestoga Mall to Fairview Mall. The staff recommendation at this stage includes figures on how the project would be funded — which includes the use of some of the future increases that had been allocated to the transit improvements in the Regional Transportation Master Plan. Right now that stands at 1.5% tax increases for seven years for the combination of the two, tempered with tax decreases elsewhere and the possibility of lowering the tax impact through development charges. Importantly, this recommendation includes concrete provisions for a second phase of light rail to Cambridge, with recommendations to begin a project assessment in 2014, to start buying necessary property, and to begin planning for a second GO Transit / light rail intermodal terminal in Galt.
The plan is solid, but could be better. Now is really the last chance to push for major improvements to the proposal. We have written before about some improvements we would like to see, including altering the routing in uptown Waterloo and changing mid-block stations to ones at major streets.
The short-term plan for Cambridge should include bus lanes on Hespeler Road (the first in Waterloo Region), which would be a symbolic step but also a practical one. Particularly if the commitment to extending LRT is a serious one, two lanes of Hespeler will become transit-only at some point. The roadway is wide, and it only makes sense to make the curb lanes bus-only lanes as soon as possible. With growth of traffic, the earlier it is done the less painful it will be. It would signify a commitment to transit along that corridor and would help change the perception of Hespeler Road. With any luck, the city of Cambridge would encourage street-facing development and make it that much easier to extend the line.
One issue that hasn't been brought up so far is crossings of the tracks. Where the proposed light rail route runs along King Street outside of the downtowns, motor vehicle traffic would not be allowed to cross except at signalized intersections. But there has not been any mention of islands or other infrastructure to allow pedestrians or cyclists to cross between those intersections, which can be far apart. It's important that LRT be built in a way that does not divide up the street into two poorly-connected halves, and in a way that makes the area an attractive place to walk — and hence attractive to build dense transit-oriented development.
Make sure to attend the public consultations and to make your thoughts known about Rapid Transit. Whether or not you have provided comments before, it's important that in this final stage you communicate your support and anything you feel can be done to improve the plan.
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Reporter's Notebook
The Most Transformative Cover Songs
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Readers recommend their favorites. Submit your own—especially if the cover goes across genres—via hello@theatlantic.com, and please include a short description of why you love it so much.
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Chris Bodenner
4:20 PM / May 25, 2016
Track of the Day: 'Rock Lobster' by Botch
Reader Jason adds a few hardcore covers to the series:
So I'm thinking this one may be a little too "much" for your average reader of The Atlantic (but who knows!), but any time someone brings up crazy cover songs, I have to give an honorable mention to a couple tracks from seminal mathcore/hardcore/whatever-the-hellcore band Botch.
I'm sure most people are at least passingly familiar with "Rock Lobster" by the B-52s, and "O Fortuna," from the opera Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. Botch gave them both their own special treatment, and I honestly think they both work extremely well as metal songs. "O Fortuna" especially lends itself well to the genre, and I would totally be down to see a full conversion of the opera done in this style (then again, I may just be nuts).
Botch's "O Fortune" is here, but their "Rock Lobster" feels like more of a genre-bender, so it's embedded above.
(Track of the Day archive here. Submit via hello@)
Track of the Day: 'Let Her Go' by Birdy
From Tim Baer in Oregon:
I'd like to submit Birdy's cover of Passenger's "Let Her Go." Passenger's song never really hit me; their flurry of analogies always seemed too cliche. However, Birdy delivers the lines with heartbreak on her lips; every word she utters her voices quakes; she seems on the verge of tears. The piano arrangement itself is okay, I guess, but there's something in her delivery that yearns for lost love. Put your headphones on and close your eyes. This version is totally superior to Passenger's hit in every conceivable way.
Couldn't agree more, which makes it baffling that the Passenger original has nearly a billion views on YouTube, more than I can recall for any video on the site ever. And it's not just me; the Wiki list for all-time most viewed videos puts Passenger's at #25. Help Birdy catch up.
Track of the Day: 'Baby One More Time' by Travis
Jonathan comes across our reader series:
You're doing cross-genre covers?! Be still my heart. Many favorites, but I'll narrow it to two entries in the grin-worthy category of "Brits with acoustic guitars covering Britney Spears":
2. Richard Thompson, "Oops, I Did It Again" [previously Tracked here]
1. Travis, "Baby One More Time" [embedded above]
Watch for Thompson's Renaissance-style deconstruction at 3:23, and Travis's ability to play the whole song completely straight. In interviews, the band professes a deep respect for what they call "the perfect pop song."
P.S. No, I'm really serious. That Travis song was revelatory.
Track of the Day: 'Hotel de Californie' by Cat Empire
Reader Ryan offers up a truly transformative pick for the cover series: Cat Empire's version of "Hotel California." As he describes it, "The Eagles sung in French by an Australian Latin jazz/ska band. Good times!"
Update from another reader named Ryan, in Denton, Texas:
Look, if you're going to talk about covers of "Hotel California," you may as well merge this discussion with your series of songs used in movies. The use of The Gypsy's Kings cover of "Hotel California" is absolutely essential in introducing the character of Jesus Quinta:
That creep can roll, man.
The Atlantic abides.
Track of the Day: 'The Wind' by Yusuf Islam
Reader Simeon serves up a great song for the cinema series (a song that's also on the superb Rushmore soundtrack, featured in an earlier note):
My nomination comes from Almost Famous, one of my favorite movies ever. While many may choose the use of "Tiny Dancer," I'll instead point to a little scene that's my favorite in the movie, set to Cat Stevens "The Wind":
You never know if it's happening in reality or inside William Miller's head, but it is perfectly representative of soul of a film, which is about people dreaming and not wanting to wake up. It is an imagining and depiction of the beautiful futility of holding on to a moment and its afterglow, the sustain after a guitar solo or, if you will, an empty auditorium.
Matt Vasilogambros
Track of the Day: 'America' by First Aid Kit
If a multinational company based in Belgium can rename its beer "America," then a Swedish folk group can cover an iconic song with the same name.
With news that Budweiser will change its label to say "America" up until Election Day, I was reminded of one of my favorite Simon & Garfunkel songs, one that inevitably makes it on every road trip playlist of mine. It's hard for me to fully harness Simon & Garfunkel covers—see, for example, this one of "The Sound of Silence" by heavy metal group Disturbed that is inexplicably heard on rock stations nationwide right now—but the First Aid Kit cover of "America" is a beautiful exception:
The sister duo, whose Old West feel might make you want to ride a horse through the desert at dusk, released the cover in 2014. Two years earlier, the duo performed the song in front of Paul Simon at the Polar Music Prize, and he rewarded them with a standing ovation. For their version of the song, the sisters dropped the saxophone and pipe organ of the original and paired their lofty vocals with an acoustic guitar, piano, and string orchestra—a gorgeous mix for the 1968 protest song (which, fittingly to Budweiser's framing for the election, was used in a Bernie Sanders campaign ad).
Indeed, at bars across the country this summer, Americans will be singing, "I've come to look for America."
Update from reader Jim, who begins, "Greetings (as my draft board put it to me)":
Holy shit, that version of "America" is gorgeous! I rarely like cover versions as well as originals, but First Aid Kit's cover was better than the original. Now for the follow-up: Have they recorded "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her?" I can't think of any group I've heard that could cover that more perfectly.
4:20 PM / May 9, 2016
Track of the Day: 'I Do Not Hook Up' by Gaslight Anthem
Reader Jenni Wiltz flags an acoustic rendition of a high-octane pop song:
I just discovered your cover collection today. It saved my workday from total PMS destruction, so thank you! Here's my nomination: Brian Fallon from Gaslight Anthem covering Kelly Clarkson's "I Do Not Hook Up" for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. The BBC program host is a little overwhelmed at the end—understandably so, once you pass the 2:53 mark.
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful collection of songs!
Track of the Day: 'This Corrosion' by Lambchop
Susan Green has a great entry for our cover series:
I'd like to nominate one of my personal favorites, Lambchop's cover of The Sisters of Mercy's "This Corrosion." The goth to alt country changeup certainly qualifies as transformative, and it's one of the covers I enjoy as much as the original.
Track of the Day: 'Stay Away' by Charles Bradley
Reader Jamie serves up an inspired cover of Nirvana by R&B singer Charles Bradley:
Bradley adds a funky, soulful layer to the grunge classic while somehow rivaling Cobain's rage. Chalk it up to a longer life of hard times. Anguish for boogieing.
4:20 PM / April 28, 2016
Track of the Day: 'Para Elisa' by Los Destellos
In response to yesterday's TotD on Beethoven's "Für Elise," reader Andrew deValpine points to an outstanding cover from the Peruvian chicha band Los Destellos:
Track of the Day: 'Nothing Compares 2 U' by Chris Stapleton
It's an icon of the MTV era: Sinéad O'Connor staring at the viewer, her shaved head piercing an otherwise black frame, as mournful synths crescendo and she wails that nothing compares to you:
But as many people discovered or rediscovered this weekend, the most iconic of O'Connor songs wasn't really hers; it was a cover of Prince's more MIDI-fied 1986 original. "Nothing Compares 2 U" was actually one of many Prince songs that weren't popularized by Prince. The Bangles, Stevie Nicks, TLC, and others also greatly benefited from his talents as a songwriter.
So it made sense this weekend that, as the country and bluegrass star Chris Stapleton looked for a way to honor the Artist, he'd choose "Nothing Compares." Before Stapleton was a star, he was a Nashville songwriter, scribbling hits for other artists up and down the charts. In Berkley, California, on Saturday night, he delivered a bluesy and soulful tribute performance of "Nothing Compares" with an orchestration not that far from the kind that Prince chose later in his life. It's a stirring, transformative cover—and very much worth a listen:
If you're interested in more on Stapleton, Spencer wrote about his runaway success at the Country Music Awards last fall.
Track of the Day: 'Just Like Heaven' by Si*Sé
A reader who goes by DWD flags a lovely Spanish-language cover of a Cure classic:
I've been enjoying the Track of the Day feature and would like to do my part by nominating a song for inclusion. A standout track from Tributo a The Cure: Por Qué No Puedo Ser Tú, a great album of Cure covers issued in 1999, this transformative version of "Just Like Heaven" ("Como El Cielo") is performed by the NYC band Si*Sé.
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Until last week, too many in the Republican Party thought they could preach the Constitution and wink at QAnon. They can't.
Eugene Goodman is an American hero. At a pivotal moment on January 6, the veteran United States Capitol Police officer single-handedly prevented untold bloodshed. Staring down an angry, advancing mob, he retreated up a marble staircase, calmly wielding his baton to delay his pursuers while calling out their position to his fellow officers. At the top of the steps, still alone and standing just a few yards from the chamber where senators and Vice President Mike Pence had been certifying the Electoral College's vote, Goodman strategically lured dozens of the mayhem-minded away from an unguarded door to the Senate floor.
The leader of that flank of the mob, later identified by the FBI as Douglas Jensen, wore a T-shirt emblazoned with a red-white-and-blue Q—the insignia of the delusional QAnon conspiracy theory. Its supporters believe that a righteous Donald Trump is leading them in a historic quest to expose the U.S. government's capture by a global network of cannibalistic pedophiles: not just "deep state" actors in the intelligence community, but Chief Justice John Roberts and a dozen-plus senators, including me. Now Trump's own vice president is supposedly in on it, too. According to the FBI, Jensen "wanted to have his T-shirt seen on video so that 'Q' could 'get the credit.'"
Shirley Li
So far, the Disney+ show is telling a story not about an epic struggle to save humanity, but about one woman's efforts to save herself from her grief.
This story contains mild spoilers for the first three episodes of WandaVision.
After 23 films, even a casual Marvel fan knows what it means to be an Avenger: fighting for those who can't, against any threat, be it corporate greed or the surveillance state or a purple alien. Yet, in the series WandaVision, which premiered yesterday on Disney+, one of these storied Avengers rejects her duty in the second episode. When a mysterious man in a beekeeper outfit clambers out of a sewer and gazes menacingly at Wanda (played by Elizabeth Olsen) and her husband, Vision (Paul Bettany), she doesn't raise her hands, flick her wrists, and wiggle her fingers to produce her signature red energy. "No," she says quietly, dismissing the threat. The scene then rewinds to the moments before she and Vision went outside. She changes their dialogue so that they stay indoors. Back to their regularly scheduled programming.
Saahil Desai
Why some people pretend they never had COVID-19
COVID-19 diagnoses start with a barrage of grueling decisions and paralyzing worries. Did I infect anyone else? Whom will I tell? Where can I isolate? Should I go to the hospital? Will I be okay?
Millions of Americans have fallen sick with this virus, and we've seen the full kaleidoscope of ways people react and cope with illness. Some have dutifully rung up contact tracers and locked themselves in total isolation. In March, after a 63-year-old man in Los Angeles broke out in coughing fits and couldn't get hold of a coronavirus test, he spent five days quarantining in his 2009 Mercedes. Other people have been an epidemiologist's worst nightmare. Someone in southern Oregon kept going to work after falling sick, super-spreading the virus and killing seven people. A groom in Texas reportedly tested positive one day and went on with his maskless wedding party the next. "Oh, no, no, no, don't freak out," a bridesmaid told the very freaked-out photographer. "He doesn't have symptoms. He's fine."
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David A. Graham
More than a week after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, video recordings, news reports, and federal charges are revealing a situation even more dire than it seemed at the time.
As terrifying as it was to watch the attempted coup unfold on January 6, the news that afternoon offered some cause for relief. Although the U.S. Capitol was overrun, few injuries were initially reported. At first, it appeared that only one woman died in the melee. No lawmakers were harmed. The Electoral College certification went forward, despite some delay.
Every day since, as more videos and reporting have emerged, it's become clear how dangerous the insurrection truly was. As my colleague Elaine Godfrey, who was in the crowd, wrote, "The violence could have been even worse. Some of the rioters clearly wanted it to be." This was more than a group of people swept up in the emotions of the moment. Within the mob were radicals plotting to kill or kidnap the vice president and members of Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The rioters came within moments of catching up to Vice President Mike Pence.
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Jeremy Howard
Cloth masks are better than nothing, but they were supposed to be a stopgap measure.
If you're like most Americans, there's a good chance you're going to wear a cloth mask today. Doing so makes sense. It remains the official recommendation in the United States, and it is something we've both advocated since the beginning of the pandemic. Both of us wrote articles as far back as March urging people to wear homemade cloth masks. We're also the authors (along with 17 other experts) of a paper titled "An Evidence Review of Face Masks Against COVID," which was just published in peer-reviewed form in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. But it's past time for better solutions to be available to the public.
We first released the paper as a preprint back in April, and it took nine months to go through peer review. We're happy that it's published but, to be honest, we're also deeply disappointed that it's still relevant. We'd hoped that by 2021 supply chains would have ramped up enough to ensure that everyone had better masks. Cloth masks, especially homemade ones, were supposed to be a stopgap measure. Why are so many of us still wearing them?
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Megan Garber
The president ended his term in office the way he began it: by invoking a perverse vision of manliness.
Donald Trump is a man, and he has gone to great lengths to prove it. He has tried, most recently, to steal back the presidential election he lost (democracy, which acknowledges the feelings of other people, is unfortunately feminine). And he has resorted to bullying in his effort to force others to join his war on the electorate. Here is how the president, The New York Times reported this week, tried to persuade his vice president to submit to his preferred reality: "You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy."
The ultimatum was, like so many aspects of Trumpism, simultaneously cartoonish and dangerous. It was also repetitive. "Grab 'em by the pussy," Trump had bragged of his treatment of women, in a recording made public just before the 2016 presidential election. The line rivals "Make America great again" as the defining motto of the Trump era. And "patriot or pussy," with its tragicomic essentialism, now puts that era in stark relief. Trump's invocations of pussy—the one a boast, the other a threat—make fitting bookends to a presidency shaped by malignant masculinity. With pussy it began; to pussy it has returned.
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James Hamblin
The virus is mutating as expected. We can still stop it.
In the final, darkest days of the deadliest year in U.S. history, the world received ominous news of a mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Scientists in the U.K. had identified a form of the virus that was spreading rapidly throughout the nation. Then, on January 4, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a lockdown that began almost immediately and will last until at least the middle of February. "It's been both frustrating and alarming to see the speed with which the new variant is spreading," he said in an address, noting that "our scientists have confirmed this new variant is between 50 and 70 percent more transmissible" than previous strains.
Those figures, based on an early estimate by British government scientists in late December, made for terrifying push alerts and headlines. Though this strain of the virus (officially called "B.1.1.7") quickly became known as "the U.K. variant," it has already been found in 45 countries, suggesting that the opportunity to contain it with travel restrictions has passed. On January 8, Australia locked down Brisbane, a city of 2.3 million people, after discovering a single case.
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Kellie Carter Jackson
The spectacle of Wednesday's tepid police response to riotous mobs shocked many. But the passivity is not some surprising anomaly—it is the status quo.
What Americans witnessed on their TV screens on Wednesday was not just an insurrection against American democracy—it was also an expression of white supremacy. As mobs of white Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building to ransack offices, terrorize lawmakers, and interrupt the certification of the presidential election, they were met with a notably weak show of force by the Capitol Police, who were responsible for quelling the insurrection. According to reports, more than 50 officers were injured, and footage of police being physically assaulted by rioters proliferated online. To many of these acts of violence, officers responded with immense restraint or full capitulation. In other cases, their unpreparedness had fatal consequences: One woman was killed by police, three other people died, and last night an officer succumbed to his injuries.
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Amanda Mull
Quarantine is turning you into a stiff, hunched-over, itchy, sore, headachy husk.
The first time my hips locked up, the reason was at least a little bit glamorous. It was 2018, and I was returning from vacation in Sicily, which was the fanciest thing I'd ever done by several orders of magnitude. As I went through the motions—and, perhaps more important, the lack of motion—of international flight, my gait began to stiffen, and my stride contracted to a fraction of its former self. My body, settling into its mid-30s, rebelled against the hours spent in airplane seats, the nights in unfamiliar beds, the constant, awkward physicality of travel.
The same thing happened a few more times over the next year and a half, always after long-haul flights. I began to think of it as "airplane hip," and the condition was annoying but temporary; I don't spend much time on planes, and a yoga move called "pigeon pose" would stretch my stiff waddle back into a walk in a day or two. Usually, the discomfort was worth it—a small musculoskeletal price to pay for the occasional privilege of seeing parts of the world still new to me.
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Mike Pence publicly defied the president once in four years, and for that solitary show of independence, his own political future could be all but finished.
The vice president's swift journey from acolyte to outcast was head-spinning. This is someone who would pause after mentioning Donald Trump's name during an address so that the audience had time to clap—and who would then stand silently at the lectern when it didn't. Editing Pence's speeches, aides would cut references to Trump when they didn't believe there was any reason to mention him. Reviewing the changes, Pence would take his Sharpie and add Trump's name back in, a former Trump-administration official told me.
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CinemaCon 2013 is officially in full swing with Paramount hosting the Off and Running presentation this evening. CinemaCon managing director Mitch Neuhauser kicked things off by introducing himself as Brad Pitt before running out on stage. After the big reveal earned a quick laugh, Neuhauser pointed out the Colosseum's nifty and truly impressive Dolby Atmos audio system, and then introduced the chairman of IMAX Entertainment, one of CinemaCon's sponsors.
After congratulating Paramount on its 100th year, he got down to business, announcing IMAX's five-picture deal with the studio. The arrangement involves Michael Bay's "Transformers 4" and Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" with three additional titles being unveiled in the coming months. Both Bay and Nolan will also be shooting select sequences using IMAX cameras. After showing off a reel including upcoming IMAX titles like "Oblivion," "Pacific Rim," "Iron Man 3," and more, it was on to another CinemaCon sponsor, the digital projection company, Christie.
Their VP of Entertainment Solutions stepped out on stage and reiterated that soon, all projection systems will go digital and that the company recently hit a major milestone with a screening of "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" marking the best brightness levels ever achieved. The company's representative was well aware of what the large majority of the audience was looking forward to so hurried things along, but the brief run-through of IMAX and Christie's achievements do make you think twice about how important companies like those are to your moviegoing experience. Then again, not to take them for granted, but I'm not going to lie; it was exciting when Christie finally handed the podium over to Paramount.
The studio's vice chairman Rob Moore took the stage and spoke a little about the exciting growing relationship between Paramount and IMAX, the recent success of "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" and "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," and then introduced a preview reel of Paramount's upcoming slate. After touching on a number of iconic old-timers, we got some very quick snippets of "Star Trek Into Darkness," "Pain & Gain," "World War Z," "Paranormal Activity 5," Martin Scorsese's "Wolf of Wall Street," Jason Reitman's "Labor Day," a totally black and white "Nebraska," a quick joke from Ron Burgundy for "Anchorman: The Legend Continues," a peek at "Jack Ryan," some epic landscape shots from "Noah," a tease of "Ninja Turtles," a preview of a CGI Sponge Bob SquarePants, a shot of Mark Wahlberg in "Transformers 4," a title card for "Interstellar," and finally, Dwayne Johnson's name right alongside "Hercules." The piece was particularly well cut and the soundtrack really did pound courtesy Dolby Atmos, making the sizzle reel an excellent, heart pumping segue into the main event – footage.
"Star Trek Into Darkness" scribe Damon Lindelof took the stage, having a laugh by dubbing himself, "the balder, less talented J.J. Abrams." Even in Abrams' absence, he also got to poke fun at Lindelof, too, by having Lindelof read a letter he wrote to the CinemaCon audience. Lindelof pointed out that he was firmly instructed not to look at this letter before the big night, and it's no wonder. When the letter wasn't humbly thanking the audience for being there, it was forcing Lindelof to announce plans to do a song and dance, and give Abrams full credit for "Lost." All kidding aside, Abrams revealed that he couldn't be there to unveil the footage because he was back in Los Angeles, knee deep in sound mixing work to have the film ready for its May 17th release.
From there Lindelof brought "Star Trek Into Darkness" stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Alice Eve, and John Cho on stage. Lindelof conducted an endearingly awkward Q&A, beginning by asking Pine how James T. Kirk changes from film one to two. Pine admitted that in the first film, Kirk assumed the chair a little early, but in "Into Darkness," he endures a significant amount of maturing courtesy of the pressure from Benedict Cumberbatch's villain, John Harrison. Quinto touched on the misnomer that Spock is devoid of emotion and pointed out that in this film, his personal journey involves the need to honor his feelings and be accountable to the people he loves.
Eve chimed in to talk about being the series newcomers. She admitted the first day on set was like the first day at school; in the beginning, everything was new and scary, but come wrap time, it was like she'd been there forever. Cho earned a laugh by admitting that he fell for a practical joke, having been told that the enormous laser on their scientific facility set was radioactive and believing it. Apparently the gag resulted in the need to jump up and down and be swathed in neutron cream, whatever that is. Then it was back to Pine who pointed out that while the second film is bigger and better than the first, it doesn't raise the bar with action at the expense of emotion. Before wrapping up, Lindelof brought up the touchy subject of 3D, pointing out that, originally, Abrams was against it, but after seeing some footage with the extra dimension, he converted. In the end, Lindelof himself is a big proponent of "Star Trek Into Darkness" in 3D, as he's seen the film in both 2D and 3D and calls the 3D version a far more immersive experience.
Finally it was time for the footage and we didn't just get a single scene, rather 18 minutes of "Star Trek Into Darkness." The two scenes we saw were both incredibly impressive displays of color, vibrant production design, curious characters, quite a few laughs, and deep space action. Read on for all the details, but be warned; scene spoilers lie ahead.
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Phasmid is the alter ego of a civil rights lawyer and dad from Birmingham, Alabama who was inspired to make this album by Kraftwerk's The Man Machine, old analog gear he bought in high school, and cartoons set in outer space. Its unusual birth aside, Her Friend the Blue Star is a beautiful little record, full of sweet (but not sugary) electro gurgles, strange textures, and toothsome glitch that reminds of a young Aphex Twin without all the angst. Sealing the deal is a second disc, where Bochum Welt, Tim Koch, Isan and B. Fleischmann perform detailed remix duties on Phasmid's lilting bedtime stories.


Every nonprofit strives to make a difference in the world and looks to its board to lead the way by planning for its future, safeguarding its fiscal health, and monitoring its programs to ensure mission impact.
To accomplish this important work in bimonthly or quarterly meetings is difficult, however. To manage their responsibilities, most boards create different groups within their membership to handle that load.
These groups can take on one of three forms depending on their purpose: Standing committees help manage ongoing board activities, task forces manage time-limited assignments, and advisory groups provide guidance and insight on particular issues.
Governance Committee: This committee builds a board that meets the organization's needs and supports good governance by engaging board members in ongoing education and formally assessing the board's performance.
Executive Committee: The executive committee typically performs policy work on behalf of the board and acts as liaison to the chief executive. Some executive committees coordinate strategic planning and conduct executive searches.
Finance Committee: The finance committee supports the board's responsibility for oversight of the organization's fiscal health. It recommends policies to the full board to safeguard the organization's assets, ensures the completeness and accuracy of its financial records, and oversees proper use of resources.
Audit Committee: This committee, or the combined finance and audit committee, selects an independent auditor and serves as a link between the auditor and the board. It ensures that the auditor has full access to financial and related records, reviews the auditor's report and submits it to the board, and arranges for the full board to meet with the auditor.
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The theory of general relativity passes yet another large-scale test. Andrew Masterson reports.
Albert Einstein, explaining the concept of universal freefall.
The fundamental principle at the base of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity – that all objects in freefall accelerate identically – has been verified on a stellar scale.
Einstein predicted that all objects behave identically when falling in an external gravitational field. For his theory to remain unchallenged it has long been thought critical to establish that the principle holds at all scales within the universe.
In particular, it was felt important to test whether the prediction plays out even in systems involving objects with strong "self-gravity" – that is, where the combined gravity of the constituents within an object, which thus hold it together, is extremely powerful. Neutron stars are examples of stellar objects with strong self-gravity.
Interestingly enough, despite their huge size, most objects in the universe – the majority of planets, stars and even galaxies, for instance – do not exert powerful enough self-gravity to able to be used as test subjects for the envelope-pushing extremes of Einstein's theory.
Calculations arising from NASA's MESSENGER mission to Mercury, which wound up in 2015, have been used to verify general relativity in relation to that planet's orbit around the sun. However, on cosmic scales, the self-gravity of the bodies involved was too weak to test the predictions at their upper limits.
Similarly, the weak gravitational pull of the Milky Way limited the precision of attempts to test the theory using measurements obtained from pulsar and white dwarf binary star systems.
Now, however, a team of astronomers led by Anne Archibald from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, has found a way around such limitations.
In a paper published in the journal Nature, she and her colleagues report results arising from the careful measurement of a triple star system, called PSR J0337+1715.
The system was discovered in 2014, and comprises a pulsar, or neutron star – a super-dense object with, thus, extremely strong self-gravity – and two white dwarf stars.
One of the white dwarfs is locked in a tight 1.6 day orbit around the pulsar. The pair then take 327 days to orbit the second white dwarf. The whole system completes its dual orbits in an area smaller than the space described by Earth's orbit around the sun.
Archibald and colleagues studied the system to detect how the gravitational pull of the outer white dwarf affected the orbits of the inner one and the pulsar. If Einstein's predictions were incorrect – that is, if they did not describe the behaviour of objects with very strong self-gravity – then the pulsar and the inner white dwarf should have behaved differently.
They didn't. The scientists found that the measurements for the accelerations of the two bodies had a "fractional difference" of just 2.6 millionths. The result, they write, establishes the universality of freefall to a measurement "almost a thousand [times] smaller than that obtained from other strong-field tests".


Watch this Fox News Video interview with artistic director Heather Hammond and some pretty amazing students, when Fox stopped by our Silks Class recently.
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today i dumped my "Gedächtnis-Training" cartridge for the "Prof. Weiss-Alles" console.
as expected it was completely the same as the already existing dump of "Memory Mania (Rev B)"...personally i don't think that a "REV B" exists of this game... my cartridge looks like a standard-cartridge...no stickers or "B"s anywhere on the cartridge or PCB.
as long as there's no real proof that another revision of this game exist, the words "REV B" should get removed from the MESS-Softwarelist...my opinion.
btw. shouldn't the games, as they are Multi-Language (German & English), also get the "German" Name included into the Software-List?


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package org.worldbank.armm.app.fragments;

import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.Spinner;

import org.worldbank.armm.app.R;
import org.worldbank.armm.app.adapters.BarangayArrayAdapter;
import org.worldbank.armm.app.adapters.MunicipalityArrayAdapter;
import org.worldbank.armm.app.adapters.ProvinceArrayAdapter;
import org.worldbank.armm.app.adapters.RegionArrayAdapter;
import org.worldbank.armm.app.models.Answer;
import org.worldbank.armm.app.models.Barangay;
import org.worldbank.armm.app.models.Municipality;
import org.worldbank.armm.app.models.Province;
import org.worldbank.armm.app.models.Question;
import org.worldbank.armm.app.models.Region;
import org.worldbank.armm.app.models.Submission;
import org.worldbank.armm.app.models.Survey;

import ca.dalezak.androidbase.annotations.Control;
import ca.dalezak.androidbase.annotations.Type;
import ca.dalezak.androidbase.utils.Log;
import ca.dalezak.androidbase.utils.Strings;
import ca.dalezak.androidbase.utils.Toast;

@Type(PsgcFragment.TYPE)
public class PsgcFragment extends WidgetFragment {
    public static final String TYPE = "psgc";

    @Control("spinner_regions")
    public Spinner spinnerRegions;

    @Control("spinner_provinces")
    public Spinner spinnerProvinces;

    @Control("spinner_municipalities")
    public Spinner spinnerMunicipalities;

    @Control("spinner_barangays")
    public Spinner spinnerBarangays;

    private RegionArrayAdapter regionArrayAdapter;
    private ProvinceArrayAdapter provinceArrayAdapter;
    private MunicipalityArrayAdapter municipalityArrayAdapter;
    private BarangayArrayAdapter barangayArrayAdapter;

    public PsgcFragment() {
        super(R.layout.fragment_psgc, R.menu.menu_psgc);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        if (item.getItemId() == R.id.menu_clear) {
            municipalityArrayAdapter.setProvince(null);
            barangayArrayAdapter.setMunicipality(null);
            spinnerProvinces.setSelection(0);
            spinnerMunicipalities.setSelection(0);
            spinnerBarangays.setSelection(0);
            return true;
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean load(Survey survey, Question question, Submission submission, Answer answer) {
        Log.i(this, "load %d %s %s", question.cid, question.name, answer.value);
        regionArrayAdapter = new RegionArrayAdapter(getActivity());
        provinceArrayAdapter = new ProvinceArrayAdapter(getActivity());
        municipalityArrayAdapter = new MunicipalityArrayAdapter(getActivity());
        barangayArrayAdapter = new BarangayArrayAdapter(getActivity());

        spinnerRegions.setOnItemSelectedListener(null);
        spinnerProvinces.setOnItemSelectedListener(null);
        spinnerMunicipalities.setOnItemSelectedListener(null);
        spinnerBarangays.setOnItemSelectedListener(null);

        Region region = Region.all().get(0);
        Province province = null;
        Municipality municipality = null;
        Barangay barangay = null;
        if (!Strings.isNullOrEmpty(answer.value)) {
            Integer psgc = Integer.parseInt(answer.value);
            province = Province.find(psgc);
            municipality = Municipality.find(psgc);
            barangay = Barangay.find(psgc);
            if (barangay != null) {
                municipality = barangay.municipality;
                province = municipality.province;
            }
            else if (municipality != null) {
                province = municipality.province;
            }
        }

        provinceArrayAdapter.setRegion(region);
        municipalityArrayAdapter.setProvince(province);
        barangayArrayAdapter.setMunicipality(municipality);

        spinnerRegions.setAdapter(regionArrayAdapter);
        spinnerProvinces.setAdapter(provinceArrayAdapter);
        spinnerMunicipalities.setAdapter(municipalityArrayAdapter);
        spinnerBarangays.setAdapter(barangayArrayAdapter);

        int position = provinceArrayAdapter.getPosition(province);
        spinnerProvinces.setSelection(position, false);
        Log.i(this, "Province %d %s", position, province);

        position = municipalityArrayAdapter.getPosition(municipality);
        spinnerMunicipalities.setSelection(position, false);
        Log.i(this, "Municipality %d %s", position, municipality);

        position = barangayArrayAdapter.getPosition(barangay);
        spinnerBarangays.setSelection(position, false);
        Log.i(this, "Barangay %d %s", position, barangay);

        spinnerRegions.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                Region region = regionArrayAdapter.getItem(position);
                provinceArrayAdapter.setRegion(region);
                Log.i(this, "onItemSelected Region %s", region);
            }
            @Override
            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
                provinceArrayAdapter.setRegion(null);
                Log.i(this, "onNothingSelected Region");
            }
        });
        spinnerProvinces.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                Province province = provinceArrayAdapter.getItem(position);
                municipalityArrayAdapter.setProvince(province);
                spinnerMunicipalities.setSelection(0, false);
                spinnerBarangays.setSelection(0, false);
                Log.i(this, "onItemSelected Province %s", province);
            }
            @Override
            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
                municipalityArrayAdapter.setProvince(null);
                Log.i(this, "onNothingSelected Province");
            }
        });
        spinnerMunicipalities.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                Municipality municipality = municipalityArrayAdapter.getItem(position);
                barangayArrayAdapter.setMunicipality(municipality);
                spinnerBarangays.setSelection(0, false);
                Log.i(this, "onItemSelected Municipality %s", municipality);
            }
            @Override
            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
                barangayArrayAdapter.setMunicipality(null);
                Log.i(this, "onNothingSelected Municipality");
            }
        });
        spinnerBarangays.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                Barangay barangay = barangayArrayAdapter.getItem(position);
                Log.i(this, "onItemSelected Barangay %s", barangay);
            }
            @Override
            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
                Log.i(this, "onNothingSelected Barangay");
            }
        });

        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean save(Survey survey, Question question, Submission submission, Answer answer) {
        Log.i(this, "save %d %s %s", question.cid, question.name, answer.value);
        if (spinnerBarangays.getSelectedItemPosition() > 0) {
            int position = spinnerBarangays.getSelectedItemPosition();
            Barangay barangay = barangayArrayAdapter.getItem(position);
            if (barangay != null) {
                answer.value = barangay.psgc.toString();
            }
        }
        else if (spinnerMunicipalities.getSelectedItemPosition() > 0) {
            int position = spinnerMunicipalities.getSelectedItemPosition();
            Municipality municipality = municipalityArrayAdapter.getItem(position);
            if (municipality != null) {
                answer.value = municipality.psgc.toString();
            }
        }
        else if (spinnerProvinces.getSelectedItemPosition() > 0) {
            int position = spinnerProvinces.getSelectedItemPosition();
            Province province = provinceArrayAdapter.getItem(position);
            if (province != null) {
                answer.value = province.psgc.toString();
            }
        }
        else if (spinnerRegions.getSelectedItemPosition() > -1) {
            int position = spinnerRegions.getSelectedItemPosition();
            Region region = regionArrayAdapter.getItem(position);
            if (region != null) {
                answer.value = region.psgc.toString();
            }
        }
        else {
            answer.value = null;
        }
        Log.i(this, "Answer %s", answer.value);
        answer.save();
        if (question.required && Strings.isNullOrEmpty(answer.value)) {
            Toast.showShort(getActivity(), R.string.psgc_required);
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }
}


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18th Oct, 19
Ridgeback13
By Ridgeback13
Slept a bit better and after breakfast we headed to Toronto Uni for our last visit. Low key but we covered a lot and could see why we do so much with them. Afterwards we did a round up chat and review.....it's been really good. My only regret is how hard its been to get a quiet time to talk to T alone about things at work....so asked to talk at the end and we managed a (very brief!) few words. Better than nothing but I'm clearly not the only one who's talked to him and he has a plan to tackle in November
Headed off to meet up with J...a cousin I've never met before. She's the daughter of the only son in my mum's family and they've lived in Toronto a long time. I last met him about 4 years ago when we were both visiting other family in California, but before that apparently I last saw him when I was 2!. Their family has had a lot of tragedy (J's brother died in a road accident as a teenager, her mother died some time ago and her eldest son had a very serious car accident 3 years ago and survived but has major brain damage). We chatted lots on the drive back to her house north of the city and then I had a lovely catch up with Uncle G. He reminds me so much of the men that his sisters married (or rather the ones who stayed together!) - calm, gentle, warm and quiet (probably the only way to cope with living with the firecrackers they all were/are!) whilst having very strong physical resemblance to all his sisters. J has an incredibly difficult life but seems to be doing a great job with her family despite it all and her younger son D was an absolute sweetie. So strange to meet someone for the first time and yet have so many of her traits and views feel so familiar.
We chatted on over dinner then she dropped me at the bus for the trip back to the city centre and I listened to a novel all the way.
Arrived at the new Airbnb but not as nice as last weekend - very much a commercial set up with a room in a house set up like a boarding house with shared bathroom. Clean but not my sort of thing at all. Still, just for sleeping in really so it will be fine


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«Сумка, повна сердець» () — український радянський художній фільм 1964 року режисера Анатолія Буковського, екранізація однойменної повісті в новелах Володимира Федорова.

Сюжет
Багато років розносить колгоспна листоноша Арина пошту односельчанам. Це село в одному кінці звуть «Чиста Криниця», в іншому «Чистий Колодязь». Живуть у ньому українці і росіяни. Розповіді Арини про людей цього села і своїх ровесниць складаються в повість, яка багато в чому нагадує їх улюблені пісні.

У ролях

 Лілія Дроздова —  Аріна Трохимівна, сільський листоноша
 Ольга Кусенко —  Ганна
 Софія Гіацинтова —  Анна Генріхівна Ементаль, вчителька, мати Луїзи Калашникової
 Олена Понсова —  Авдотья
 Валентина Владимирова —  Мотря
 Марія Кочур —  Катеринка
 Валентин Черняк —  Остап Лукаш, голова колгоспу
 Юрій Каюров —  Лешка Лиходеев, чоловік Марини
 Анатолій Вербицький
 Раїса Пироженко
 Наталія Наум —  Марина
 Михайло Пуговкін
 Ігор Пушкарьов
 Анатолій Соловйов
 Людмила Алфімова
 Ніна Антонова
 Сергій Калінін —  новий чоловік Авдотьи, епізод
 Олександр Толстих —  німецький офіцер в окулярах, за новорічним столом
 Людмила Татьянчук — Євгенія Леопольдівна, продавець

Творча група
 Сценарій та текст пісень: Володимира Федорова
 Режисер-постановник: Анатолій Буковський
 Оператор-постановник: Валентина Тишковець
 Художник-постановник: Анатолій Мамонтов
 Художник-декоратор: Микола Терещенко
 Композитор: Олександр Білаш
 Звукооператор: Ю. Горецький
 Режисер монтажу: І. Карпенко
 Художник по костюмах: Н. Браун
 Оператор: М. Сергієнко
 Комбіновані зйомки: оператор — Олександр Пастухов, художник — Віктор Демінський
 Редактор: Михайло Ткач
 Симфонічний оркестр Українського радіо, диригент — Веніамін Тольба
 Вокал: Людмила Зикіна
 Директор картини: Н. Вайнтроб

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 Сумка, полная сердец (1964)

Фільми СРСР 1964
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Фільми кіностудії імені Олександра Довженка
Фільми Анатолія Буковського
Фільми російською мовою
Екранізації радянських літературних творів
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Reliving Colin Braun's One NASCAR Win
Posted on February 23, 2018 by dgf2099
Hailing from the sleepy little town of Ovalo, Texas, Colin Braun started racing karts at age 6, and has raced all over the world, including France, Japan, Monaco, and Spain. In 2006, at 17, Braun became the youngest driver to race in a Daytona prototype in the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series. He would win two races that year, the 2006 Brumos Porsche 250 and the 2006 Porsche 250 Presented by Bradley Arant. The next year, while still racing in the Rolex Sports Car Series, he made his NASCAR debut.
Braun made his Xfinity and Truck Series debut in 2007, During his NASCAR career, he raced 31 races, had 1 top 5, 6 top 10's, and two poles. In his Truck Series career, he raced in 53 races, had 1 win, 12 top 5's, 23 top 10's, and 5 poles. From 2011-2013, he raced in the American Le Mans Series, having won 5 races in 22 start sand 19 podiums. In 2014, he started racing in the Weathertech SportsCar Championship, and in 41 races, had 8 wins, and 19 podiums. In 2009, at the 2009 Michigan 200, he won the race. One of his crew members wore this Conway Freight pit crew suit, and was awarded a victory lane hat. The suit shows a decent amount of use, with a number of stains. The collar is a standard collar, with CONWAY FREIGHT logos embroidered into them. The older style Simpson Warranty Tag is present, as well as a SIMPSON MTO 19 tag. The right chest features NASCAR CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES, FORD RACING, VALVOLNE, ROUSH FENWAY RACING, CITI, KRAFT MACARONI AND CHEESE DINNER, COCA-COLA, and GOODYEAR logos embroidered into it. The left chest features a CONWAY FREIGHT logo, and a large amount of blank space. The front torso features a large CONWAY FREIGHT logo embroidered in blue, on the white background. The shoulder epaulets features blue CONWAY FREIGHT logos, as well as SIMPSON logos embroidered into them. The right sleeve features embroidered MAC TOOLS, SHERWIN WILLIAMS AUTOMOTIVE FINISHES, NORTHERN TOOL + EQUIPMENT, and SUNOCO logos on the upper portion, and a CONWAY FREIGHT logo in television position. The left sleeve features NASCAR, FORD RACING, ZAXBY'S, and CITI logos embroidered, and a CONWAY FREIGHT logo in television position. The back of the jacket shows some staining. The back of the jacket features the Truck Series number 6. The back torso features a ROUSH-FENWAY.COM logo, the name THOMAS, and a CONWAY FREIGHT logo embroidered into it. The pants show a lot of staining. The right leg has CONWAY FREIGHT logos embroidered into them, as well as some decorative flames. There is some staining on the white material. The left leg has CONWAY FREIGHT logos embroidered into them, as well as some decorative flames. There is some staining on the white material. The back of the pants show some stains. The back of the waist features a tag indicating the pants are for B THOMAS, and a Simpson Warranty Label. The back of the pants has the SFI certification, and the belt has a custom rubber CONWAY FREIGHT logo added to it.
On Saturday June 13, 2009, Colin Braun entered the Michicagn 200 at Michigan International Speedway. He led 26 of 100 laps, and won the race, beating Kyle Busch, who led 62 laps. B Thomas, the crew member who wore this suit, was awarded this cap for the victory. The white mesh cap is in great condition, and is a standard crew cap, though WINNER'S CIRCLE MICHIGAN INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY 2009 has been embroidered into it. This suit is another example of the fact that no matter how great a driver is, without a crew, they are nothing. The crew is essential in helping the driver to win races and championships. The crew are in just as much danger as the driver, but they don't get all of the glory that they deserve. Crew members are the lifeblood of racing, and are just as important as the drivers.
Next week, the pit crew theme continues with another pit crew helmet.
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Do You Know Your Idaho History?
You might think you know your Idaho history, but how much do you really know when it comes to this amazing state? Take these 10 state trivia quiz questions and put your knowledge of Idaho to the test!
Idaho was admitted to the union on July 3 1890 as which state?
Which were the two most prominent Native American tribes in Idaho?
Nez Perce and Shoshone
Apache and Creek
Navajo and Sioux
Prior to 1846 Idaho, as part of the Oregon Country, was claimed by both the United States and which country?
Which natural resource discovered on the Clearwater River brought a large number of people to Idaho after 1860?
Which explorers put Idaho territory "on the map"?
Columbus and Bridger
Polo and Vespucci
Which famous route brought settlers to Idaho?
The Trail of Tears
During the Gold Rush of the 1800's which minority group comprised 1/4 of Idaho's total population?
Mexicans
Which famous performer attempted a nationally publicized stunt in Twin Falls Idaho, involving the Snake River?
Who founded Idaho's first permanent settlement, Franklin?
Irish explorers
Spanish explorers
Mormon explorers
Idaho became a major __________ state in the early 1900s.
In 1874, the first ___________ was built in Franklin, Idaho.
Which university was founded in 1901?
Idaho State University
University of Boise
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Can You Name These Midwestern States?
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In Louisiana, Clinton keeps up, governor falls
August 21, 2013 | Tom Jensen
Raleigh, N.C. – Hillary
Clinton remains neck and neck with many hypothetical GOP nominees in Louisiana. In a
match-up, Clinton beat Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and polled within a
point of Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, and Rand Paul. Clinton vs. Paul Ryan was 44-46 respectively.
Louisianans don't want their own governor on the presidential ballot. His
approval rating this weekend was 28-59. 72% said Jindal shouldn't run for
president, up from 66% in February. Among likely Republican primary voters, Rand
Paul was the favorite on a list of possible GOP presidential candidates with
18%. Jeb Bush was next with 17%.
"Bobby Jindal is now the most unpopular Republican Governor in the country,"
said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. "Voters aren't responding
well to the amount of time he's spent focused on efforts outside Louisiana."
63% of respondents do not support legalizing same-sex marriage, but 56%
support some sort of legal recognition – marriage or civil unions. 75% said
they support background checks for gun sales, up from 71% in May, which still
includes majorities of all parties.
The New Orleans Saints had higher approval than Louisiana State
University's head
football coach Les Miles – 40-20 favorability – and former coach Nick Saban –
37-29 favorability. The Saints' quarterback Drew Brees had an 81-6
favorability, down from 86% in February. Coach Sean Payton had a 65-8 approval
rating.
81% of the state likes Mother Theresa. That's slightly higher than Abraham
Lincoln's 78%. Jesus tops the list with 97% favorability. Republicans had a
higher favorability for Mother Theresa than Democrats or Independents did.
President Barack Obama's approval rating was 41-52. 26% of Democrats
disapprove. Among whites, his approval was 21-72. Respondents were evenly split
on who was most responsible for the poor Hurricane Katrina response: George W.
Bush or Obama, 28-29.
PPP surveyed 721 Louisiana voters, including an oversample of
274 usual Republican primary voters, between August 16-19, 2013. The margin of
error for the overall survey was +/- 3.7% and +/- 5.9% for the GOP portion. This
poll was not authorized or paid for by any campaign or political organization.
PPP's surveys are conducted through automated telephone interviews.
Topline results are below. Full results, including crosstabs, can be found here.
General Election Toplines
Q1 Do you approve or disapprove of President
Barack Obama's job performance?
Approve …………………………………………………. 41%
Disapprove……………………………………………… 52%
Not sure …………………………………………………. 7%
Q2 Do you approve or disapprove of Governor
Bobby Jindal's job performance?
Approve …………….. .28%
Disapprove…………. .59%
Not sure …………….. .13%
Q3 If the candidates for President next time were
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican
Bobby Jindal, who would you vote for?
Hillary Clinton………………………………………….. 47%
Bobby Jindal …………………………………………… 40%
Not sure …………………………………………………. 13%
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Jeb
Bush, who would you vote for?
Jeb Bush………………………………………………… 44%
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Chris
Christie, who would you vote for?
Chris Christie ………………………………………….. 41%
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rand
Paul, who would you vote for?
Rand Paul ………………………………………………. 45%
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Paul
Ryan, who would you vote for?
Paul Ryan ………………………………………………. 46%
Q8 Do you think Bobby Jindal should run for
President in 2016, or not?
He should run …………………………………………. 17%
He should not………………………………………….. 72%
Q9 Would you support or oppose requiring
background checks for all gun sales, including
gun shows and the Internet?
Support ………………………………………………….. 75%
Oppose ………………………………………………….. 16%
Q10 Do you think same-sex marriage should be
allowed in Louisiana, or not?
It should be allowed …………………………………. 28%
It should not ……………………………………………. 63%
Q11 Which of the following best describes your
opinion on gay marriage: gay couples should
be allowed to legally marry, or gay couples
should be allowed to form civil unions but not
legally marry, or there should be no legal
recognition of a gay couple's relationship?
Gay couples should be allowed to be legally
married……………………………………………………23%
Gay couples should be allowed to form civil
unions but not marry …………………………………33%
There should be no legal recognition of a gay
couple's relationship …………………………………40%
Q12 Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion
of Les Miles?
Favorable……………………………………………….. 40%
Unfavorable ……………………………………………. 20%
of Nick Saban?
of Sean Payton?
Unfavorable ……………………………………………. 8%
of Drew Brees?
of Roger Goodell?
of Mother Theresa?
of Abraham Lincoln?
of Jesus Christ?
of Duck Dynasty?
Q21 In the last presidential election, did you vote for
Barack Obama or Mitt Romney?
Barack Obama………………………………………… 39%
Mitt Romney……………………………………………. 55%
Someone else/Don't remember …………………. 5%
Q22 Would you describe yourself as very liberal,
somewhat liberal, moderate, somewhat
conservative, or very conservative?
Very liberal ……………………………………………… 9%
Somewhat liberal …………………………………….. 12%
Moderate………………………………………………… 27%
Somewhat conservative……………………………. 31%
Very conservative ……………………………………. 22%
Q23 If you are a woman, press 1. If a man, press 2.
Woman ………………………………………………….. 48%
Man……………………………………………………….. 52%
Q24 If you are a Democrat, press 1. If a Republican,
press 2. If you are an independent or identify
with another party, press 3.
Democrat ……………………………………………….. 45%
Republican……………………………………………… 36%
Independent/Other…………………………………… 18%
Q25 If you are white, press 1. If African-American,
press 2. If other, press 3.
White …………………………………………………….. 66%
African-American …………………………………….. 29%
Other……………………………………………………… 5%
Q26 If you are 18 to 45 years old, press 1. If 46 to
65, press 2. If you are older than 65, press 3.
18 to 45………………………………………………….. 37%
Older than 65………………………………………….. 22%
Republican Primary Toplines
Q1 Given the choices of Jeb Bush, Chris Christie,
Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Susana Martinez,
Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, and Rick
Santorum, who would you most like to see as
the GOP candidate for President in 2016?
Jeb Bush……………. .17%
Chris Christie ……… .10%
Ted Cruz ……………. . 8%
Bobby Jindal ………. .10%
Susana Martinez…. . 0%
Rand Paul ………….. .18%
Marco Rubio ………. . 8%
Paul Ryan ………….. .11%
Rick Santorum……. . 5%
Someone else/Not
sure…………………….13%
Q2 Who do you think was more responsible for the
poor response to Hurricane Katrina: George W.
Bush or Barack Obama?
George W. Bush ……………………………………… 28%
Q3 Would you describe yourself as very liberal,
Somewhat liberal …………………………………….. 5%
Q4 If you are a woman, press 1. If a man, press 2.
Q5 If you are 18 to 45 years old, press 1. If 46 to


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'By definition a temporary shock:' Canadian economy likely set for sharp rebound, despite current panic
by OLH Team
Due to the fast-paced nature of pandemics, an eventual containment would spur a hasty recovery as consumer spending lurches upward and businesses fill the gaps in their supply chains
Jesse Snyder, National Post
OTTAWA — The Canadian economy could be headed for a sharp rebound by the end of the year or even earlier, economists say, despite a recent crash in stock markets that have generated apocalyptic fears around the globe.
The rapid spread of COVID-19 triggered a catastrophic selloff in recent weeks that has, by some measures, cut even deeper than the 2008 financial crisis, including the worst oil price shock seen in decades.
Economists say it is highly uncertain when markets might return to normal. But due to the fast-paced nature of pandemics, an eventual containment would spur a hasty recovery as consumer spending lurches upward and businesses fill the gaps in their supply chains.
"The virus itself, and how it's evolving, is almost by definition a temporary shock that's going to be reversed," said Jean-François Perrault, chief economist at Scotiabank.
The comeback could begin as early as this summer, depending on whether governments can effectively contain the outbreak, economists say, while cautioning that a timeframe is especially hard to predict given the limited understanding of COVID-19.
Such a rebound would ease the significant political pressure now facing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is being called upon to act fast as virus worries become elevated. The Liberal government has for years aggressively sought to take credit for any positive economic indicators in Canada, and the recent downturn has severely restricted one of its key talking points as it prepares to table its 2020 budget.
Fiscal measures expected to be announced soon by Finance Minister Bill Morneau will also help lift the economy out of a potential short-term recession, economists say. Morneau has already announced $10-billion in credit to small businesses to make up for lost cash flows. A surprise interest rate cut by the Bank of Canada on Friday, down to 0.75 per cent, will also fuel plenty of low-cost debt spending that will quickly spread through the economy.
"Once we go back to normal, all that stimulus is going to lead to some pretty strong growth," Perrault said.
Still, economists caution Canada is likely headed for deep recession in the near term. And a failure to quickly contain the virus could add to the current turmoil, making it increasingly difficult for the global economy to limp back to health.
The Canadian economy is widely expected to grow at an average rate between 1.6 per cent and 1.8 per cent over the next five years. In the second quarter, by comparison, Bank of Montreal analysts see that number falling to a staggering negative six per cent. By the third quarter, they forecast that number to climb back to 4.5 per cent growth, or a roughly ten per cent swing.
"We could see some pretty extreme economic numbers in the coming months," said Doug Porter, chief economist at BMO.
Porter said market fears are entirely justified, given the sheer precipitousness of the recent market crash. But like others, he sees recent market panic subsiding within a relatively short period.
"It's almost like we've taken the 2008 situation and accelerated it to within a one-month timeframe," he said.
"But I do think there is some tendency, when there are so many waves of tough headlines in such a short period, to lose sight of what's just over top of the hill."
All that stimulus is going to lead to some pretty strong growth
Brian DePratto, director of economics at Toronto Dominion Bank, estimates that total fiscal spending measures by the federal government could be around one per cent of GDP, or roughly $24 billion. Such spending is likely to offer a significant bridge for small companies and taxpayers as they wait for the spread of the virus to slow.
"You've got a whole lot of juice waiting to bring things back up to speed," DePratto said.
However, that sharp return is not likely to be extended to the oil patch, where recoveries tend to take much longer to materialize. Canadian oil producers have been navigating low oil prices since 2014, which have been exacerbated by a lack of new pipeline capacity that has pummelled prices for Canadian crude.
"What we've learned in the past is the lingering impact on the Canadian oil sector, and investment there, could be quite long lived," he said. "We were not even really recovered from the last shock at the point where this one came."
New spending measures would add significant new sums to the federal deficit, which was already expected to come in at $26.6 billion this year, higher than an earlier estimate of $19.8 billion. But economists say Ottawa's net debt as a percentage of GDP, currently around 30 per cent, remains among the lowest in developed countries, and at low interest rates is of minimal risk to federal coffers.
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10 Positive Updates on the COVID-19 Outbreaks From Around the World
Ottawa's Olympians on Canadian Olympic decision: "It wasn't an easy one, but it was the right one"
OLH Team March 20, 2020
Ottawa Goes to Court After Talks with RTG Go Unresolved
OLH Team December 16, 2021
EBA Reopens Doors to Public
OLH Team November 1, 2021
NAC Winter Line-up
Ottawa Tennis Star Dabrowski Receives Grand Welcome Home
OLH Team October 1, 2021
Nearly $1.7M in Government Funding Going Toward ByWard Market Building Facelift
OLH Team July 21, 2021
National Gallery of Canada Reveals New, Indigenous-inspired Logo
OLH Team June 26, 2021