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I'm a clinical lab scientist, C19 is fake, WAKE UP AMERICA
January 9, 2021 by Derek Knauss
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I'm a clinical lab scientist
I have a PhD in virology and immunology. I'm a clinical lab scientist and have
tested 1500 "supposed" positive Covid 19 samples collected here in S.
California. When my lab team and I did the testing through Koch's postulates
and observation under a SEM (scanning electron microscope), we found NO Covid
in any of the 1500 samples.
What we found was that all of the 1500 samples were mostly Influenza A and some
were influenza B, but not a single case of Covid, and we did not use the B.S.
PCR test. We then sent the remainder of the samples to Stanford, Cornell, and a
few of the University of California labs and they found the same results as we
did, NO COVID. They found influenza A and B. All of us then spoke to the CDC
and asked for viable samples of COVID, which CDC said they could not provide as
they did not have any samples. We have now come to the firm conclusion through
all our research and lab work, that the COVID 19 was imaginary and fictitious.
The flu was called Covid and most of the 225,000 dead were dead through
co-morbidities such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, emphysema etc. and they
then got the flu which further weakened their immune system and they died. I
have yet to find a single viable sample of Covid 19 to work with. We at the 7
universities that did the lab tests on these 1500 samples are now suing the CDC
for Covid 19 fraud. the CDC has yet to send us a single viable, isolated and
purifed sample of Covid 19. If they can't or won't send us a viable sample, I
say there is no Covid 19, it is fictitious. The four research papers that do
describe the genomic extracts of the Covid 19 virus never were successful in
isolating and purifying the samples. All the four papers written on Covid 19
only describe small bits of RNA which were only 37 to 40 base pairs long which
is NOT A VIRUS. A viral genome is typically 30,000 to 40,000 base pairs.
With as bad as Covid is supposed to be all over the place, how come no one in
any lab world wide has ever isolated and purified this virus in its entirety?
That's because they've never really found the virus, all they've ever found was
small pieces of RNA which were never identified as the virus anyway.
So what we're dealing with is just another flu strain like every year, COVID 19
does not exist and is fictitious. I believe China and the globalists
orchestrated this COVID hoax (the flu disguised as a novel virus) to bring in
global tyranny and a worldwide police totalitarian surveillance state, and this
plot included massive election fraud to overthrow Trump.
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16 thoughts on "I'm a clinical lab scientist, C19 is fake, WAKE UP AMERICA"
I agree there is no Covid 19 virus just the normal flue that we always get and never closed the country down for despite there being a lot more deaths. This is a crime against humanity it has caused deaths from fear and anxiety many have committed suicide it has ruined the economy destroyed jobs and businesses. The government has gave the police powers and they are acting like thugs working for an now dissolved UK Corporation . Medical care has been denied to people. Slave masks have serious caused health issues. People have became cowed and acted like gullible sheep refusing to think things out for themselves – Like no one is falling down dead in the street or sick in the street. However, as the Pfizer vaccine is not a vaccine but a package of pathogens many will be dying and sick who were foolish enough to allow this to be put into their body. These problems are being kept form the public. What we have here is a fight between God and Satan good and evil truth and lies and the main stream media is complicit in keeping this lie going and has sided with evil. Despite the true facts being written up on all the official government websites and showing clearly that this is not a threat it is a cold/flue. The media is terrifying the public and the public is listening to those lies and their reward is imprisonment tyranny and oppression. 600+ MP's in UK parliament have been served for this Covid Hoax and you can see Boris Johnson and Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon's court case papers and charges if you log into The Common Court of Law Website. None of this is being reported – this is the cabal trying to keep control and using fear and tyranny to do it. Switch off the TV – then suddenly there is no evidence of a pandemic in reality BECAUSE YOU ARE BEING LIED TO!
Denise Abrams
just watched a documentary on the bill gates from micorsoft to vaccine.. says it all what a spindly friggin asshat. it's fake fake fake as can be.. he even admits he admits the vaccine has nothing to do with the disease.. its a frigging science project on humanity which is a war crime ps btw.
Donna Jackson
Just wanted to say how much I appreciated Joe's post and that I figured from about April that this thing is probably a hoax. Good to hear it from someone who works in Science in University near me. Thank you, Joe!
On Feb. 28,2020 I came down very sick. And I do mean sick. Incredible pain, could barely breath, 104 fever, no strength, food taste was gone, water tasted like it was poisioned or bad, I lost 19 lbs. in 3 days from severe sweating with fever. I used my asthma rescue inhaler constantly & I credit my CPAP machine to being able to breath through this crap. The respirators they were putting on people was the wrong thing to do. I even contacted the POTUS, the gubernor of the state I live in along with many different medical Drs. about the CPAP pulling me through this CRAP, but I am just some dumbass that don't know what the HELL I am talking about in their opinions. I had been at a Hospital 3 days before I got sick for a procedure. 6 days after I got sick I was finally able to get to my Dr. So that tells you how fast this flu can get you. It took about 4 months or more to get back to close to being normal. I still have breathing problems to this day from this by loosing 55% of my lung function & capacity according to my Pulmonologist.
Covid 19 is all BULLSHIT. It is a control thing over the people. I WILL NOT take the vaccine either. I heard a talk show radio personality out of Arizona (James Harris) & he said he had spoke with a Dr. about the vaccine. The Dr. said that the vaccine would make young women to not be able to have children. So if it is Covid 19 that is killing so many people & the vaccine will keep young people from having children then it is a population control thing. I have also read that the vaccine has trackers in it so the guberment can track everyone.
I think it is a flu that is killing people with underlying health problems. The vaccine will control the population of the younger people. And the trackers in the vaccine will keep the guberments of the world knowing every move that any does that takes it. It won't be long if you don't take the vaccine then you won't be able to work, buy, sell, trade or do anything. So that will be another way of controlling the population as most will not be able to survive in this manner. Todays people are not people like they were from the depression era on back. Those people knew how to survive without all the BS we have today.
1 more thing to think about. I know this is gross but it is true, think about what I am saying here. I heard 2 articles about mask.
1. If you can small a fart that goes through underwear, pants & a mask then do you think a mask is going to stop a virus that you can't see? NO !!!!!!!
2. Mask are also causing people to get bacterial pneumonia due to breathing their own moist air that gets trapped in the mask. This can kill you also you know
I provide service to many different customers at my job. Today I was making a joke about Covid with one customer, and the customer behind overheard us. Then, it was his turn in the check-out line. He told me that his uncle died from Covid at age 48. I told him I was sorry for his loss. He then later called the manager and in tears told her that I was being insensitive to his loss. There is also another co-worker who says her father died from Covid.
I've also heard the other side of the story from customers. In one case, a customer told me that he had been to multiple hospitals in the US, and that Covid is a scam. Another customer told me that her sister is a nurse and they were lying about the ICU being overrun with Covid patients.
Basically, I've had conflicting accounts regarding Covid. Using any search engine, there are a huge number of sites debunking in great detail the claim that Covid has not been isolated. Then there are people who say Covid is a scam. Then someone gets super pissed off because their uncle allegedly died from Covid. Now I'm pissed off. I don't know what the hell is really going on. I can't make heads or tails of it anymore. If I encourage rebellion against Covid restrictions, to many people I will be regarded as a fool who is encouraging people to get Covid and quite possibly die. If I encourage obedience to Covid restrictions, I will be regarded as a sheeple who encourages tyranny. No matter what stance I take, I will be wrong!
I'm just so done with this whole thing. Just please could there for once be some kind of agreement? Could we please just get this figured out? What the hell? Cobra stated Covid is real, yet prepareforchange puts up articles stating that it's never been isolated. Then I have to put up with a huge guilt trip being placed on me by a customer who says his uncle died from it? Are you kidding me? I'm about to seriously lose it here! This is beyond unfair!
Edward Morgan
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Jose Padron
I agree, right on, well said!!!
Derek Knauss
Starlight, please try to look at the situation from the broader viewpoint. Trust your intuition and gut. We try to provide all angles so that the awakening hits people where they need it, and we are all at our own place with it. The disinformation is abundant and so you have to use your own sense for what is right. As well, our many readers provide some very good insight and perspectives in their responses to articles. The virus exists. As to its lethality, it is obviously 100% because it is creating the massive fear in most of the earth's population, as planned. Step away from the herd.
Derek, I would step away from the heard if I didn't have to work at my job to pay the rent. I have to deal with people and no one agrees about anything. I'll just be as neutral as possible, as this is a very toxic situation. All I want to do is walk away and let everyone figure it out on their own. I'm not going to be in the middle of this freak show anymore.
*herd
That is how they get you. Remember the scientists and doctors have been silenced. A real pandemic doesn't need coverups. The test is fake. It is a lab tool. It was designed to magnify things in the lab. It cannot identify covid, because it was never isolated, so the lab takes anything and magnifies it, arbitrarily a little a lot. Serves no purpose. The inventor Mulis said it was to never be used for diagnosis. He despised traitor F***ci.
The ones that died of it died of something else. They died of typical diseases like cancer, heart attacks, car wrecks, suicide. Many died of the "treatments".for covid. Once a person has a "positive" test, hospitals were incentivized to place a healthy person on a Ventilator which killed them and Ramdesiver which killed them (diagnosis $13k, ventilator $39K, death $thousands more, as hospital given an additional 20 percent more, all for fraud and death).. Because we believed covid, without talking to scientists, we were sieged and going into Communism and world government, the Great Reset.
Covid is real – it's not the flu. I am a nurse and I work on a Covid unit. There are stark differences between Covid and the flu. Covid can get into any organ in the body. For many people, it does not ever get into their lungs. It causes these little micro clots in the body, something that flu doesn't do. The lung X-rays look different than typical pneumonia in Covid patients who get it in the lungs. For some people who get it badly in the lungs, they will have permanent scarring that will affect their life forever. We see people with heart or kidney issues from Covid that didn't have these issues before. Complete loss of smell and taste is a symptom that is unique to Covid, and does not occur in flu as well.
How deadly it is is another matter. It is true that most who die were already dying from other things. These patients die faster when they get Covid, and sometimes we're unsure whether they actually died from Covid or the other problems they had. In these cases, the cause of death will almost always say Covid. Numbers are definitely inflated in this regard.
Diabetics and people with heart disease tend to get much sicker than the rest of the population, even if they don't have co-morbidities and are fairly young such as 30's, 40's and 50's. We do see a small percentage of middle-aged people die that appeared to be healthy. Whether they have a condition beforehand that we/they didn't know about is unknown. It seems like we are seeing more of this as we move along. Very obese people are also at risk of dying.
I personally have had Covid and I did not get sick; I did lose smell and taste. It has mostly come back, but there's certain flavors I don't taste the same, mainly salt. It's been months now since I had it. My husband also got Covid and got very sick on day 10 for 3 days. He is diabetic and has high blood pressure. Flu does not make you sick between days 7-10 unless you get secondary pneumonia. This is a unique pattern of Covid- if you're going to get really sick, it will happen between day 7-10 of the infection.
The PCR tests are not a very reliable way to tell if someone has Covid disease, but they do pick up if you're shedding the virus. Some people's immune systems will have beaten the virus without it ever producing Covid disease. They will test positive if they've been in contact and are tested at the right moment.
Is Covid being used by governments to take away our freedoms? Well that is an obvious yes. Do most people make it through alive after getting Covid? The answer is yes, including the elderly (unless they had major health issues.) Nursing home patients usually are in poor health.
Trusting any Doctor is like leaving your roast on the table when you have a dog. I havn't seen a doctor in 21 years.
Terry stambuk
I so agree with you !!Dr made me sick 😞
I believe the same about C19 being a fictitious narrative, however I do Not believe "China" has it within its interest to push this fake pandemic. Follow the Hong Kong history of (not) so great 'Great Britain' & you will see who is the usual suspects.
Patrick Gaido
If this is the case then shouldn't local doctors know the difference between Influenza and Covid? Many of my local doctors are proclaiming people are infected with Covid and not influenza. How would they know the difference?


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The stability of small atoms and molecules: a quantum mechanical three-body study
King, Andrew (2016) The stability of small atoms and molecules: a quantum mechanical three-body study. Doctoral thesis (PhD), University of Sussex.
Three-body systems provide the perfect framework for studying the quantum mechanics of both atoms and molecules. These studies can probe the fundamentals of particle interactions that underpin stability, reactivity and structure.
This thesis contains a series of studies into the stability of ground state three-body systems. The focus of this thesis has been the high accuracy computation of three-body systems without recourse to either the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximationor approximation of the like-charged particle interaction, which for the case of atoms corresponds to the electron correlation.
Principally the effects of mass and charge on the stability of systems is predicted. The complex nature of coupled electronic interaction is studied to the purpose of pursuing accurate electron correlation that underpins modern computational chemistry.
The energies of three-body systems were calculated very accurately to typically mJ mol-1 accuracy or better whilst still producing reliable wavefunctions of which all other properties of the system could be calculated accurately. The energies of some of these systems are the lowest to date and all use the latest finite masses as published by CODATA. Computational codes were developed to achieve this accuracy using both numerical and computer algebra methods. These were designed to be efficient, extendable and, importantly, to calculate highly accurate energies, expectation values and wave functions.
The masses of any three particles in which there exists at least one bound state below the lowest continuum threshold were identified. The importance of symmetry breaking in a asymmetric system was made clear as the difference in the masses become larger.
A new method was developed to identify the lowest charge of a nucleus that can bind two electrons. This method is more effective then those previously available as it produces a variational upper bound to the true minimum charge in a single calculation. The method was employed to identify the minimum nuclear charge required for binding two electrons in atoms of various nuclear masses. Additionally the electronic structure of such systems was investigated by a judicious partitioning that separates the two electrons into an inner and outer component relative to the nucleus.
The electron correlation was calculated using the Löwdin definition and a highly accurate Hartree-Fock (HF) implementation specifically designed for the task. The effects this electron correlation has on various properties was quantified including the coulomb hole. A second coulomb hole was found which was previously thought to be an artefact but remains even with this highly accurate implementation.
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HMS P311: Sunken WW2 submarine to remain in sea off Sardinia as war memorial
By Ewan Palmer, Umberto Bacchi
Updated May 26, 2016 14:07 BST
The British Second World War submarine found off the coast of Sardinia, believed to be that of missing HMS P 311, looks certain never to be raised from the ocean despite containing the bodies of its 71 crew members inside. The wreckage of the long-lost T-class boat was discovered around 90m (295 ft) from the surface of the Mediterranean Sea by Italian diver Massimo Domenico Bondone.
The submarine had been missing for more than 73 years after it vanished between late December 1942 and January 1943 after setting off from Malta to take part in a military attack on Italian warships.
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The ship was presumed mined after it failed to return to Malta on 8 January. Paola Pegoraro of the Orso Diving Club, who helped prepare the dive, told the Associated Press the sub was identified by the two Chariot "human torpedoes" affixed to the outside.
Bordone told local Italian press when he found the wreckage, it was still in relatively good condition and not too damaged from the mine explosion believed to have sank it. He came to the conclusion that all crew members must have died as a result of suffocation and have remained inside the submarine ever since.
Despite this, both the British and Italian navy say they are no plans to attempt to raise the submarine from the ocean, and instead will keep the vessel in place as a memorial to those who died.
The Royal Navy said the WW2 submarine is just one of thousands which could still be in the ocean Massimo Domenico Bordone/Orso Diving Club
An Italian coastguard official with the Olbia port authority, which is responsible for the stretch of sea including the wreckage site, said the final decision on whether to recover the remains laid with the Royal Navy.
"It's their crew, so it is their right to decide," the official, who spoke to IBTimes UK on condition of anonymity as he was not allowed to speak to the press, said.
The central command in Rome was to discuss the matter with its British counterpart. Meanwhile the coastguard will place a temporary ban on all activities around the submarine to respect the memory of the deceased, the official said. Resting some 90m underwater the wreckage is reachable only by professional divers with technical equipment.
A photo of HMS P 311 before it sank Orso diving club
The Italian navy said that even if a salvage operation was to be launched it would be impossible to predetermine how long it would take. "There are too many variables like the high depth, the conditions of the seafloor, the weather and it's impossible to know what other issues may arise underwater," a Navy spokesman said.
The British Royal Navy also that attempting to retrieve the submarine at a depth of around 90m is both an expensive and potentially dangerous exercise. They added it isn't necessary to raise this submarine in particular as there are "potentially thousands of wreckages" from the Second World War still in the oceans, especially around the Mediterranean Sea.
A spokesperson added: "The submarine remains the property of Britain, so we ask that it is respected accordingly. We would never raise any vessel unless there were compelling historical or operational reasons to do so. We are examining our records to determine whether or not this is a Royal Navy submarine."
All 71 people on board HMS P 311 are thought to have been killed Orso Diving Club
The P 311 was led by Commander Richard Cayley, one of the most highly documented officers in the war. He was awarded the award of a Distinguished Service Order and two Bars in 1941. His daughter, 82-year-old Jennifer Barker, agreed the P 311 should remain where it is. She told the Hampshire Chronicle: "If it is intact it probably means all of the bodies are still inside. I just hope they leave her where she is and don't try to raise her. It's a war grave and should be respected as such."
P311 was the only unnamed T-class boat – she was due to have been named Tutankhamen, but was lost before she could be officially named.


Monserrat is the barrio situated directly south of San Nicolas and forms part of Buenos Aires' business district. It is a neighborhood steeped in local history and home to some of Argentina's most significant public buildings.
Monserrat is a barrio measuring only 2.2-sq-km and is squeezed between San Nicolas, Puerto Madero, San Telmo and Balvanera. Although only officially recognized as a barrio in 1972, the area in which Monserrat sits is one the oldest in the city and able to trace its roots back to colonial times. In fact, it was here on June 11th 1580 that Spanish conquistador Juan de Garay first arrived with settlers from Asuncion and Santa Fe. The first development in the barrio came with the construction of the Fort of Juan Baltazar of Austria in 1594 that would later become the government house.
At the beginning of the 17th century, Jesuits began to arrive in the area and when donated a plot of land they set about building the Iglesia de San Ignacio de Loyola. Sanctified in 1734, today the church is the oldest in existence in Buenos Aires. As the population began to grow, further religious orders arrived, the most notable of whom was the Catalan Brotherhood of the Virgin of Monserrat and it was its chapel that gave the barrio its name in 1769.
In 1810, Plaza de Mayo, the focal point of Monserrat, was the scene of a week-long revolution that triggered a war of independence against Spanish colonialism. Towards the end of the 1800s the barrio underwent vast remodeling including the building of Paseo Colon and Avenida de Mayo, two important thoroughfares. This period also saw the completion of the Casa Rosada followed by further development in the early 20th century.
Whilst always maintaining its political significance, during the 1950s Monserrat became a favored haunt of bohemians, artists and the tango community due to the cheap rents. Today, with its close proximity to San Telmo, it remains an appealing and culturally rich neighborhood that is constantly in the city limelight.
The best way to enjoy Monserrat would be to start in Plaza de Mayo, whose boundaries are lined with historical sights and architectural masterpieces. The most prominent building is Casa Rosada, the elegant, pink and dominating government house. Internationally famed since Eva Peron addressed the nation, amongst other events, guided tours give an insight into what goes on behind its doors. Whilst here, combine your tour with a visit to Museo del Bicentenario, which exhibits artifacts from Argentina's 200-year modern history.
At any given day Plaza de Mayo is a hive of activity and you will likely see groups of protestors camped out around the Piramide de Mayo marking the center of the square. From here you are within steps of iconic sights such as Cabildo (City Hall) and Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral. The latter is one of a host of religious houses in the area in addition to Iglesia de San Ignacio de Loyola, Basilica de San Francisco and Santo Domingo Convent.
From Plaza de Mayo, take a stroll along Avenida de Mayo, which is often compared to Madrid's La Gran Via for its architecture and overhanging trees. Just 1.5km in length, the boulevard crosses Avenida 9 de Julio before finishing at Plaza del Congresso. En route, you can stop off for lunch at Café Tortoni, cross the world's widest avenue and take a tour of Palacio Barolo, an eclectic palace and office block.
Back on the eastside of the barrio, be sure to check out Manzana de las Luces (Block of Enlightenment), a block of 18th century buildings including Buenos Aires National College, an elite secondary school. Check the agenda for workshops, exhibitions, film screening and theater productions.
There is no doubting that you'll be kept busy in Monserrat and fortunately the barrio possesses a wide selection of traditional cafés, contemporary restaurants and pubs waiting to recharge your batteries with food and drink.
Café Tortoni (Avenida de Mayo 825). Established in 1858, Tortoni is the oldest café in Argentina and don't be surprised if you have to queue to get in, even at 11am. You'll be paying over the odds for food and drink but go with a friend and share a sandwich whilst you lap up its grandeur. Today as much a tourist attraction as a café, in its heyday it was a favorite haunt of Argentine elitists and literati. At the back, past the sparkling marble floor, is a room dedicated to jazz and tango shows.
Plaza Asturias (Avenida de Mayo 1199). With endless bottles of wine lining the bar and countless legs of cured ham hanging above them, Plaza Asturias exudes Spanish influence. Enter through the large doors and take a seat at the wooden tables squeezed into this one-floor restaurant then take a pick of arguably the best comida española in the city. Paellas, octopus dishes and various homemade pastas are served up to challenge even the most discerning palates.
FuraiBo (Adolfo Alsina 429). If you found this restaurant in Palermo you probably wouldn't be surprised, but to find it in the heart of Monserrat is a delightful surprise. Set in one of the city's oldest houses, FuraiBo is a Japanese restaurant and tea garden resembling a Buddhist temple. Beneath the façade is an exquisite menu of sushi classics and ramen (noodles served in meat or fish-based broth) plus a long list of teas. Adding to the ambience is live ukulele and sitar music during the weekend.
Krakow (Venezuela 474). Owned by two Polish expats, since opening at the end of 2008, Krakow has made a name for itself among both locals and travelers for its European-styled mood, well-priced draught beers and extensive range of vodka. Drop by for an after-office happy hour pint but don't be surprised if you end up staying until closing. To soak up the drink, Krakow's menu offers tasty Polish-influenced fare at great prices.
La Trastienda (Balcarce 460). Just four blocks south of Plaza de Mayo, big name concerts do not get more intimate than at La Trastienda. Opened in 1993, the club hosts everything from rock and reggae to tango and folkloric concerts with past performers counting Charly Garcia, Jarvis Cocker, Maceo Parker and The Skatalites. Its capacity of only 700 means you can be within touching distance of music legends.
With its historical significance, range of watering holes and eateries, and a curious political-business-bohemian atmosphere, Monserrat showcases many of the things that make Buenos Aires such a fascinating city.
The only thing really missing is a park or large green area; however, with Parque Lezama lying about ten blocks south in San Telmo and the ecological reserve situated behind Puerto Madero, you are never too far from escaping the bustle of the city center.


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At the height of the Coronavirus pandemic, our hospital increased its intensive care capacity and treated more of the sickest children from across the Midlands, in support of other NHS Trusts in the region caring for COVID-19 patients. This meant worried parents travelling further from their homes in order to be with their children.
But rather than face arduous journeys to and from our hospital, Birmingham Children's Hospital used funds secured from NHS Charities Together, as well as generous contributions from the Eveson Charitable Trust and the Hobson Charity, to provide overnight accommodation in the nearby Stay City Apartments and Holiday Inn. One of the families to benefit from this generosity was the Isherwoods.
Becoming a parent is supposed to be the happiest time in your life, but for Andrew and Mia Isherwood those joyous first few weeks soon turned in to utter anguish. Their whole world was turned upside down and life in Nottingham uprooted, after their baby daughter Elena was discovered to have a life-threatening heart condition, and she was blue-lighted over 50 miles away to Birmingham Children's Hospital.
Elena was just seven weeks old when her parents first noticed she wasn't feeding properly. They were advised by their health visitor and GP to monitor her, but as the days and weeks went by, Elena continued to struggle. Eventually, they were advised to take her to A&E to have her checked over. However, little did Andrew and Mia know, that trip to A&E would be the start of weeks of heart-break and uncertainty.
When Elena was seen by the doctors, they noticed that she was shaking her head unusually. Suspecting she may have a heart murmur, an ECG was ordered which discovered she had an enlarged heart. Elena was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle that makes it harder for the heart to pump blood to the rest of the body. It was a completely unexpected blow for her parents. But to make matters worse, Elena's condition quickly deteriorated.
Her breathing became laboured and a decision was made for Elena to be sedated and go on a respirator, to try and stabilise her, but she continued to worsen. Andrew comments: "At one point, there were nine to ten people around her, trying to stabilise her. My wife and I had to step out of the room, not knowing if she'd make it. We were absolutely distraught – 12 hours ago we brought her in, as a precaution, for what we thought was a possible food allergy or digestive issue, and now we could lose her!"
Luckily, the team was able to stabilise Elena, but as an added complication, she would need to be transferred to Birmingham Children's Hospital. Elena was rushed to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at the hospital, where she continued to receive urgent care. Andrew and Mia followed shortly after the ambulance, with just a few belongings, and not knowing when they'd next be home. Luckily, the hospital was able to cover the cost of accommodation for the couple, thanks to emergency funds secured by Birmingham Children's Hospital Charity and specially earmarked to support the families of patients who have been transferred from further afield.
In Andrew and Mia's case, for the first 12 days, they were put up in the Holiday Inn just around the corner from the hospital. In these early stages, whilst Elena was so unwell, it was important for her parents to be close at hand. And this turned out to be the right decision, as on more than one occasion the couple received an emergency call to say Elena has taken a turn for the worse and they should immediately come back in. Andrew says, "We were just on tenterhooks any time we were away from Elena, not knowing when we might get a call. It was at least some comfort to know we were staying close by and could be back at the hospital in five minutes, if we needed to."
Doctors continued to provide around-the-clock care to Elena and over the days they saw little, positive improvements. Knowing that the family could be staying in Birmingham for a number of weeks, the couple were moved to the Stay City Apartments in Birmingham City Centre after Elena's conditioned stabilised. This provided them with a more comfortable home-like setting, where they could try and have some normality, like cooking themselves a meal, or washing their clothes.
As the next phase of Elena's care was home visits, where she spends a day at home with her parents, before returning to hospital, having this type of accommodation near to the hospital was all the more important. After six weeks, the trio spent their first night back together as a family at the Stay City Apartments.
Andrew said: "It felt so good to have Elena with us, but really scary too. It's been such a whirlwind experience, and Elena has had so many up and downs. It still feels like there are so many unknowns with her condition, and she'll have to be monitored closely over the next few months and years to see how her condition progresses. It will no doubt take us some time until we feel comfortable and relaxed with her away from the doctors, so in the short-term it was great to be close to the hospital."
One thing the family does know is how much of a difference having somewhere to stay has made to their experience. Andrew comments: "We were determined to stay together. That was the most important thing for us, so that we could support one another and having accommodation provided has allowed that. Knowing we would have somewhere to stay was like a huge weight had been lifted from us. It took the added stress and financial burden away from us, so that we could just concentrate on Elena getting better. For that, we'll always be grateful."
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Q: Question regarding vectors within a circle in an $x$- and $y$-plane. In an $x$ and $y$ coordinate plane, with respect to the points $A, B$, and $C$ on a circle of radius $1$, find the minimum value of $\vec {AB} \cdot \vec {AC}$
So far, taking $O$ as the origin I've gotten
$\vec {AB} \cdot \vec {AC} = (\vec {OB} - \vec {OA}) \cdot (\vec {OA} - \vec {OC}) $. Let's call this $1$. And then the answer book says that this is equal to
$1+ \vec {OB} \cdot \vec {OC} - (\vec {OB} + \vec {OC}) \cdot \vec {OA}$. Let's call this $2$.
Could you please explain how this jump from $1$ to $2$ is justified? I can't seem to figure it out. Thank you!

A: I think you did a small mistake.
$\vec{AC}=\vec{OC}-\vec{OA}$
When you open the dot product $$(\vec {OB}-\vec{OA}).(\vec{OC}-\vec{OA})$$
we get $$\vec{OB}.\vec{OC}+|\vec{OA}|^2-\vec{OB}.\vec{OA}-\vec{OA}.\vec{OC}$$
$$=1+\vec{OB}.\vec{OC}-(\vec{OB}+\vec{OC}).\vec{OA}$$
Since $\vec{OA}$ is radius vector, and its modulus is $1$

A: Fist of all your expression 1 is not correct. It should be:
$$\vec{AB}\cdot\vec{AC} = ( \vec{OB}-\vec{OA})\cdot(\vec{OC}-\vec{OA})$$
and you have only to expand the product:
$$ ( \vec{OB}-\vec{OA})\cdot(\vec{OC}-\vec{OA}) = \vec{OB}\cdot\vec{OC} - \vec{OB}\cdot\vec{OA} - \vec{OA}\cdot\vec{OC} + \vec{OA}\cdot\vec{OA}$$
and as:
$$\vec{OA}\cdot\vec{OA} = 1$$
you can get the expression 2

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(TibetanReview.net, Aug16, 2017) – Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, returned to Dharamshala on Aug 15 after being away for over a month and half period of hectic schedules of teachings and other engagements in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, New Delhi, and Mumbai beginning Jun 28. He cancelled with "profound apologies" what was to be his first ever visit to Botswana in southern Africa for Aug 15-20, citing exhaustion. However, he still faces a long list of teachings, other public events, and overseas visits beginning Aug 29.
From Aug 29 to Sep 1, the Dalai Lama will give religious teaching to an assorted group of devotees from several Asian countries, including Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in the Tsuglakhang, Dharamshala.
He later flies to the UK to give a public talk on 'Compassion in Action' at the Millennium Forum in Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on Sep 10.
The Dalai Lama next flies to Germany where he is scheduled to give a public talk on 'Global Ethics – Shared Values' in the Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, on Sep 13, with the event being organized by the city-based Tibet House. He will also participate in a daylong conference on 'Western Science and Buddhist Perspectives' in the same venue the following day.
The Dalai Lama's next schedule takes him to Italy where on Sep 16 he will give a public talk on peace in the Ancient Greek-Roman Theatre of Taormina, Sicily. This will be followed by a public talk on 'Compassionate Ethics and Interdependence' in the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele, Messina, also in Sicily, on Sep 17. The next day he will give a give a public talk on 'Joy Education' in Palermo, Sicily, with the venue being yet to be confirmed.
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The Tibetan leader next flies to the Latvian capital Riga where over Sep 23-24 he will give religious teachings in the Skonto Hall. Later on Sep 25 he will give a public talk on 'Harmony Without Boundaries' in the same venue.
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has completed a study to assess Americans' exposures to radioactive iodine-131 fallout from atmospheric nuclear bomb tests carried out at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) in the 1950s.
Depending on their age at the time of the tests, where they lived, and what foods they consumed, particularly milk, Americans were exposed to varying levels of I-131. Because of the radioactive decay of I-131, such exposures did not exceed two months following each test. Because I-131 accumulates in the thyroid gland, concerns have been raised that the fallout could cause thyroid cancer in people who were exposed to it as children.
In 1982, Congress passed legislation calling for the Department of Health and Human Services to develop methods to estimate I-131 exposure, to assess I-131 exposure levels across the country from the Nevada tests, and to assess risks for thyroid cancer from these exposures.
The fallout report fulfills the first two of these three requirements. The complete report includes estimates of average I-131 dose to the thyroid for representative persons in each county during 1951 to 1958, when the nuclear tests were carried out in Nevada. Estimates of thyroid doses have been made for persons by age, sex, and source and quantity of milk consumption. (For most people, the bulk of I-131 exposure came from drinking milk. Smaller amounts came from eating other dairy products, eggs, and leafy vegetables, and through inhalation.) Although the study was carried out with as much care as possible, a large degree of uncertainty is associated with these dose estimates, as they are based on a small number of radiation measurements made at that time and relied heavily on the use of mathematical models.
The average cumulative thyroid dose to the approximately 160 million people in the country was about 2 rads-less than the dose received from diagnostic thyroid scans in the 1950s. Persons living in heavy fallout areas, children, and persons who drank large quantities of milk received higher doses. In general, persons living in Western states to the north and east of the test site had the highest doses, averaging 5 to 16 rads. Children aged 3 months to 5 years averaged about 10 times the dose of adults, because in general they drank more milk than did adults and because their thyroids were smaller.
A summary of the fallout report will be published in September, and the complete report, including exposure estimates for each of the 3,071 counties in the 48 contiguous U.S. states, will be available later this year. The complete report is about 100,000 pages. Although the fallout report was not intended to fulfill the third requirement, the results will be linked with findings from relevant epidemiological studies, including some currently in progress, to estimate thyroid cancer risk.
The small number of studies on persons exposed to I-131 from NTS fallout have produced suggestive but not conclusive evidence that it is linked to cancer. The effects of radiation from other sources, such as medical X-rays, have been studied much more extensively. This larger body of data suggests that the fallout radiation doses received by the vast majority of U.S. children in the 1950s are unlikely to be an important cancer risk factor. However, the radiation doses among children who lived in areas with high fallout levels, and particularly those who drank a great deal of milk, or who drank milk from goats or family cows, may well have an increased risk of thyroid cancer, the level of which is highly uncertain.
In the 1960s, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a study of children living in parts of Utah and Nevada that had high fallout to determine whether thyroid disease was associated with fallout exposure. This early study found no evidence of harmful effects.
In 1993, researchers at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, published a report on thyroid disease among members of the same group who were still residing in the area. They found some evidence of an association between estimated dose and thyroid cancer, but this was not statistically significant. The level of uncertainty was high because the number of cancer cases involved was very small. Reflecting this uncertainty, the researchers estimated that between zero and six cases of the eight observed thyroid cancers might have been caused by the fallout.
To provide more accurate information on the risk of thyroid cancer from radioactive fallout, NCI investigators, in collaboration with other U.S. government agencies and international organizations, are working with the governments of and scientists in Belarus and Ukraine to study thyroid cancer among children in those countries who were exposed to fallout of various radioisotopes of iodine, mainly I-131, from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. This population had a wide range of exposures. The tens of thousands of children exposed to the fallout received radiation doses to the thyroid that ranged from comparatively little to those that are ten times higher than U.S. residents received from the Nevada tests. Because of the wide range of exposures and the larger numbers of persons exposed, information from the Chernobyl studies is expected to be relevant to the assessment of the impact of the U.S. exposures.
Researchers sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are studying the health effects of the radioactive iodine released from the Hanford, Wash., nuclear weapons plant from in the 1940s and 1950s. Results are expected next year.
The new fallout data from NCI could be used to correlate fallout levels with thyroid cancer rates in specific geographic areas; however, such studies will encounter difficulties. Thyroid cancer is a rare disease, particularly among children. The small number of cases in any one geographic area-particularly in sparsely populated areas-makes it difficult to determine with confidence whether rates are significantly elevated. And while some states have registries with historical data on all cancer cases in the state, most do not. In addition, many children in the 1950s were exposed to medical X-rays at levels known to increase risk for thyroid cancer, and it is difficult to disentangle these effects from those of fallout exposure occurring during the testing program.
In 1997, an estimated 16,100 Americans will be diagnosed with thyroid cancer and 1,230 will die from the disease. The incidence rate for women is more than twice as high as that for men. Thyroid cancer is highly curable: The 5-year survival rate is about 95 percent.
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Westside (Beaverton or Hillsboro) - board an eastbound train, exit at the Convention Center station, walk three and a half blocks east, look for a high-rise building to the south, proceed through the courtyard ending at the building.
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Your trusted whistleblowing hotline service provider
Typically, when an organization recognizes the need to avail stakeholders with a channel to report unethical activity, it will initially attempt to develop and manage the mechanism internally. Majority of companies will set up an internally managed email address and publicize it encouraging stakeholders to "anonymously" report unethical activities. The email inbox may be assigned for monitoring to the compliance, internal audit or human resources department. The decision to internally host a whistle blowing hotline may be pegged on a range of justifications such as cost management and the need to retain potentially sensitive information from outside leaks.
Documented experience abounds to show that the internal set up is deceptively effective. While it ticks the regulatory compliance box and creates an impression of an organization taking unethical issues seriously, an internally hosted whistle blowing hotline poses the following downsides;
1. It does not muster the confidence that where anonymity is required as a condition for blowing the whistle, this will be assured. A section of stakeholders especially employees will be uncomfortable reporting sensitive information to someone known to them and may therefore opt to ignore the issue. Even in an email communication, the tone and choice of words can possibly expose the identity of the writer based on their ordinary interaction in the organization. While most organizations have a policy prohibiting or condemning retaliation against whistle blowers, experience shows that such policies are more theoretical than they are practical. Consequently, an effective whistle blowing hotline is one that can be truly trusted to assure anonymity where this is demanded.
How an externally hosted whistle blowing hotline addresses this downside
Out of professional practice and contractual obligations to guarantee the anonymity of whistle blowers, the hotline service provider never divulges the original, raw information received including the identity of the whistle blower. Never. Once a whistle blower provides information, the hotline service provider prepares a professionally written report to the attention of the authorized recipients on condition that the recipients are also not implicated in the whistle blowing information.
2. When the responsibility of monitoring a whistle blowing hotline is assigned internally to a function that has other responsibilities, the essential element of hotline availability being 24 hours every day will certainly be adversely affected. Even when the responsibility is assigned to a security desk that is on-call round the clock, the handlers may not have the trust, expertise and independence to assure the required effectiveness. Monitoring a whistle blowing hotline calls for dedication to ensure that the information reported is conveyed to the authorized recipients as completely, meaningfully and quickly, as possible to either forestall an impending unethical activity or conclusively resolve one that has already occurred. Studies show that whistle blowers predominantly prefer telephone calls to report unethical activity but may also opt for other avenues. This means that an effective hotline supports multichannel reporting with the implication that dedicated resources are required to sustain the hotline's effectiveness.
A robust whistle blowing hotline is available 24 hours every day, supports the reporting preferences of whistle blowers and expeditiously conveys whistle blowing information to the authorized recipients. This is the value externally hosted whistle blowing hotlines extend. Additionally, external service providers are trained information agents who are able to detect prank calls, handle nervous or emotional whistle blowers, and extract as much factual information as possible to aid in investigations.
3. An internally managed whistle blowing hotline will normally leverage on the internal technology infrastructure of the organization. This may pose data security and confidentiality risks where the capture, storage and back up of whistle blowing information is part of the organization's wider information management strategy. As a consequence, the trust of the internally managed hotline may be heavily eroded and the hotline shunned by stakeholders.
An external whistle blowing service provider independently manages its own infrastructure to assure of data security and integrity.
As Read (2015) opines, overall, a trusted and reputable external provider will bring far more than just the whistle blower hotline to the overall compliance performance of an organization. A carefully selected hotline system will also—crucially—provide a key element of a comprehensive compliance tool-set, designed to effectively address the legislative and regulatory challenges that are in place and on their way. An external hotline service provider also saves the client organization from the encumbrance of setting up and maintaining the hotline infrastructure that typically supports multichannel reporting and real-time monitoring. From the insights gained through supporting other organizations, hotline service providers are centers of excellence on ethics and integrity and can support a client organization in sustaining an ethical culture so essential to its success.
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Let us begin by reviewing the results of a survey published in the 'HR Acuity's 2019 Employee Experience Survey'. One of the objectives of the survey was to understand the employee experience when rep
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In the 1960s, David Hurn worked in London photographing models and rising movie stars. This image was used on the original posters for From Russia with Love (1963), his second film in the James Bond series.
Format: Pigment Print
16 x 23 in: Edition of 30
Scottish actor Sean Connery in publicity shots for "From Russia with Love." England. 1963.
16 x 23 in (40 x 58.4 cm)
Size 16 x 23 in (40 x 58.4 cm) - $2,200.00
Collectively Magnum's archive of film imagery, the product of working on film sets capturing behind-the-scenes moments and photographing film directors, actors and actresses on and off camera, includes a large part of the history of cinema. The pictures included in this collection date primarily from the 50s and 60s, with the inclusion of a small selection from the 21st Century, and are a mix of vintage and contemporary prints.
Also from David Hurn
Magnum Collection Poster: Come See. Arizona, USA. 1979.
Magnum Collection Poster: Cactus Forest Road. Florence, Arizona. 1980.
Contact Sheet Print: The Beatles
Magnum Collection Poster: Salt River, Arizona. 1980.
Magnum Collection Poster: Cactus Nursery. Arizona, USA. 1997.
Magnum Collection Poster: Arizona, USA. 1980.
Tenby, South Wales. 1974.
Tariq Ali and Vanessa Redgrave during an anti-Vietnam War march in London. 1968.
Magnum Collection Poster: Mynydd Epynt. Wales. 1973.
Magnum Collection Poster: Anglesey, Wales. 2007.
Amateur photographer photographs starlets at the Cannes film Festival. France...
Sophia Loren. England. 1965.
Wild pony. Wales. 1974.
Ursula Andress. London, England. 1962.
The Beatles. London, England. 1964.
The Beatles in EMI (later Abbey Road) Studios. London, England. 1964.
Swedish actress Britt Ekland. 1966.
Sheep shelter from the rain. Mynydd Epynt, Wales. 1973.
The Beatles running on train platform. London, England. 1964.
Magnum Collection Poster: Shotton Steel Works. Wales. 1974.
Magnum Collection Poster: Rhondda Valley. Wales. 1995.
Magnum Collection Poster: Mount Snowdon. Wales. 1978.
Magnum Collection Poster: Castleton, Wales. 1987.
Lesbian love. Bayswater, London, England. 1969.
Isle of Wight Festival. England. 1969.
English actor Michael Caine. London, England. 1965.
Cactus Forest Road. Florence, Arizona, USA. 1980.
Arizona, USA. 1980.
Anti-Vietnam War riots in front of the American Embassy in London. 1968.
Jane Fonda, in publicity shots for "Barbarella" (1968). Rome, Italy. Septembe...
Man with Teddy Bear at bus stop. Cardiff, Wales. 1973.
All from David Hurn


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The indie-pop stylings of the Swedish wonderboys known as Pallers are brilliantly infectious, their latest release "Come Rain, Come Sunshine" is no exception. With an official July 26 release date, this single will be the first off their upcoming record The Sea of Memories via Labrador Records. "CR, CS" is a throwback track that doesn't rely too heavily on the pre-determined formula for such songs. Sure they have the 808 percussion and transient synth motifs, but the vocals are wondrously understated to allow all the eclectic elements of their production to shine through.
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Following its recovery from the Global Recession, Germany has often led the Eurozone in economic recovery indicators. This week, Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, improved its own estimate for the German economy for 2015 and beyond thanks to the nation's continuing record low unemployment and a stronger Euro.
The German central bank now predicts gross domestic product (GDP) to expand by 1.7 percent by the end of 2015, and 1.8 percent by the end of 2016. In December, the Bundesbank had predicted growth of just 1 percent for 2015 and 1.6 percent for 2016.
Germany has Europe's largest economy, so it was better able to weather the fallout of the Global Recession than many of its neighbors. This resilience is now being boosted by a rising rate of job creation both in Germany and around the whole of the Eurozone, as well as an overall strengthening of the economies of Germany's closest neighbors and trading partners. Stimulus provided by the European Central Bank can be credited with much of the improvement Europe has seen thus far, but lower oil prices have played a significant role in 2015, as well.
According to a report by Bloomberg, inflation may be the only downside of this juggernaut German economy. The pickup in consumption will probably fuel an increase in consumer prices. This led the Bundesbank to revise its inflation figures to 0.5 percent for 2015, 1.8 percent in 2016, and 2.2 percent by 2017.
Part of the reason for the revised GDP estimates stems from upticks in the industrial sector. Factory orders, a signal of future output, rose by 1.4 percent in April, according to the German Economy Ministry. Similarly, export orders jumped up by 6.8 percent for European buyers and 4.7 percent from the rest of the world. Of those orders, consumer goods rose by 4.5 percent and investment goods increased by 2.3 percent.
All of this additional output has led to further employment. German unemployment fell for the eighth month in a row in May, with unemployment at just 6.4 percent. That represents the lowest rate of unemployment Germany has experienced as a nation since the country reunified in 1990. At present, German companies need to fill as many as 250,000 open positions, 95,000 of which are in health care alone, according to the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry.


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Faro Cultural y Recreativo Iztacalco es un recinto cultural que se encuentra en Oriente 255 S/N, entre Sur 24 y Sur 28, Colonia Agrícola Oriental, en la Alcaldía Iztacalco.

Cuenta con 1.5 ha con biblioteca interactiva, foro artístico,  área infantil con tres módulos de juegos, gimnasio al aire libre, trotapista, cancha de cachibol, cancha de basquetbol, pista de patinaje, biblioteca, sala de Internet, sala de proyección de video, sala de lectura y un foro al aire libre techado con una lonaria muy moderna.

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Centros culturales de México del siglo XXI
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news_Russian Bank VTB 24 partners with leading authentication company VASCO Data Security
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Illinois and ZURICH, Switzerland – November 17, 2010 – VASCO Data Security International, Inc. (Nasdaq: VDSI; www.vasco.com), a leading software security company specializing in strong authentication products, today announced its collaboration with leading Russian bank VTB 24. VTB 24 will use VASCO's authentication solution IDENTIKEY Server to ensure the security of its banking channels.
VTB24 is one of the major players on the Russian banking services market. We are part of the international VTB Bank Group and focus on servicing of individuals, private businessmen and small businesses. The Bank's network includes 500 branches and additional offices in large Russian cities. We offer our customers basic bank products used in performing international financial transactions. The services rendered include the issuance of bank cards, mortgage and consumer lending, auto lending, remote account management systems, grace period credit cards, time deposits, lease of safe deposit boxes and money transfers. Part of these services are available to its customers 24/7 using modern telecommunication technologies.
VASCO solutions will ensure the security of VTB 24's various banking channels for both retail and corporate customers. The IDENTIKEY Server software provides the bank with a unified authentication system to which new applications can easily be added, and promotes simplification of administrative authentication procedures. IDENTIKEY is a universal and scalable authentication server with one-time password, digital signature and EMV CAP functionalities, designed to secure Internet banking applications, networks and web-based applications. IDENTIKEY provides a centralized user management and validates authentication requests from users trying to access banking applications.
"The introduction of strong authentication will allow us to protect our customers from hackers, "man in the middle" attacks and other kinds of online fraud", said Pavel Gurin, Senior Vice-President, Head of Banking Technologies Department at VTB 24. "Our goal is to provide retail customers with the benefits of strict authentication based on EMV-CAP, and the convenience of a single authentication device for all applications. Corporate clients' accounts are secured by using electronic signatures based on PKI."
"We are very happy to partner with leading Russian bank VTB 24," said Jan Valcke, President and COO of VASCO Data Security. "Our solution not only met all of the bank's technical and business requirements, but also provides the best balance on the authentication market between price and quality."
VTB24 is one of the major players on the Russian banking services market. We are part of the international VTB Bank Group and focus on servicing of individuals, private businessmen and small businesses. The Bank's staff adheres to the values and principles of international VTB Bank Group. One of the Group's major tasks is maintaining and perfecting the developed Russian financial system.
VASCO is a leading supplier of strong authentication and e-signature solutions and services specializing in Internet security applications and transactions. VASCO has positioned itself as a global software company for Internet security serving a customer base of over 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries, including more than 1,500 international financial institutions. VASCO's prime markets are the financial sector, enterprise security, e-commerce and e-government.
Statements made in this news release that relate to future plans, events or performances are forward-looking statements. Any statement containing words such as "believe," "anticipate," "plan," "expect," "intend," "mean," "potential" and similar words, is forward-looking, and these statements involve risks and uncertainties and are based on current expectations. Consequently, actual results could differ materially from the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements.
Reference is made to VASCO's public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for further information regarding VASCO and its operations.
This document may contain trademarks of VASCO Data Security International, Inc. and its subsidiaries, including VASCO, the VASCO "V" design, DIGIPASS, VACMAN, aXsGUARD and IDENTIKEY.
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Coronavirus pandemic complicates getting groceries with SNAP
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A sign alerting customers about SNAP food stamps benefits is displayed at a Brooklyn grocery store in December 2019.
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Not long after the shelter-in-place order went into effect in California last month, Melissa Santos and her wife established new rules: they'd eat breakfast, try to get by with snacks, suppress hunger with coffee, and then have dinner.
Santos is a student at the University of California, Berkeley. At 32, she's older than most of her undergraduate peers; she spent years taking care of a grandmother with Alzheimer's before considering her own education and career.
The shelter-in-place order means Santos is allowed to go out to grocery stores, but her obesity puts her in a high-risk category for COVID-19, and her doctor advised her to stay home.
Santos is one of the nearly 40 million Americans on SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program commonly known as food stamps, and that number is rising with the coronavirus-related layoffs. But few online grocery delivery services will accept SNAP payments.
So Santos has faced a stark choice: go out, risk getting severe COVID-19 or starve.
She goes out as little as possible and tries to stock up as much as possible on $194 a month. As students they already lived frugal lives, she explains, then breaks into tears.
"We're just having to make sure that we have enough for, you know, the next day," she says.
The fact that SNAP recipients can't get delivery has been a problem; after all, many have disabilities or restrictive medical conditions. In 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees SNAP, started a pilot program to enable online purchases. In a statement the USDA told NPR they approved all six states that wanted to join.
But Kristina Herrmann, director for underserved populations at Amazon, says it's much more more complicated than it should be.
There are a series of technology hurdles — from stores needing new systems online that differentiate between food and nonfood items to states needing new systems to handle new payment processors. They're not unsolvable problems, they just haven't been done; food stamp issues don't tend to be top-of-mind for most technologists.
Because of COVID-19, the USDA now says it'll fast-track any state that wants to join the pilot. Eleven more were just approved, including California. Many should be online with authorized retailers by some point in May. In those states, Walmart will accept SNAP for grocery pickup but not delivery (and did not respond to NPR's requests for explanation); Amazon and Amazon Fresh will accept SNAP for online grocery orders, but SNAP customers of Amazon's Whole Foods chain will still have to shop in person.
So, even where delivery is possible, options are limited, and for the majority of SNAP recipients, still not possible.
The elephant in the room is, of course, Instacart, the leader in U.S. grocery delivery. Their app lets customers buy from around 25,000 stores in 5,200 cities. But the government says that because Instacart is not a retailer itself, it can't join the program.
Eliza Kinsey, who researches public health at Columbia University, points out that this is about more than food security. If high-risk people have to go out to get groceries, "potentially getting exposure, the more pressure we're going to be putting on the whole health care system," she says. It could mean more severe COVID-19 cases. In other words: this isn't a problem that merely affects poor people or those with medical conditions. It's a big problem for everyone.
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