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Tennis Racquet Restringing
Get your tennis racquet restrung by a tennis professional. Our team has over 40 years experience restringing for Australia's best junior and senior players. LifeTime Tennis is Australia's leading academy and offers a range of off court services for players including quality and affordable restrings. 24 hour turn around our team will get your racquet strung quickly, professionally and for a great price.
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Ambiwerra Tennis Centre offers racquet stringing 6 days a week. Drop your racquet off at Ambiwerra Tennis Centre, Corinda between 2 - 8 p.m Monday - Friday or 8am - 5pm Saturday. If you would like to get your racquet restrung but have a question. (Opening hours may vary during school holidays & public holidays, please phone or email ahead to avoid disappointment)
Have a question on contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org or call 3716 0077 if you have any questions or wish to check on available times.
Benefits of getting a racquet strung by our team:
Great membership prices Experienced and Professional Stringing Wilson Baiardo machine ensures the best possible restring Great range of strings on hand - ask for advice! Loyalty points so you can earn points each time you get racquets strung to redeem on equipment or more restrings Drop your racquet into Ambiwerra Tennis Centre, Corinda Monday - Saturday.
Common questions our tennis pro's receive.
Choosing a tennis string can be really difficult for players, particularly beginners. There are hundreds of different choices of strings including colours, materials, brands and price. Our team can help you make your choice based on your playing experience, age, current racquet and budget.Here are a few things you should consider:
- What benefits can choosing the right string provide?
- What are the choices of materials
- How much will they cost
Strings can be a massive factor in the way your racquet feels and plays. Strings can give you more power, control, feel and spin. Strings can also have an impact on tennis elbow and other arm and shoulder injuries, so if you have any arm injuries talk to your tennis pro to make a suggestion.Power:
Power strings are best for players just learning the game who haven’t yet learned how to generate their own power, as well as for junior players whose muscles have not fully developed.
Power strings are typically made of either natural gut or nylon.
The strings we’d recommend in this category are Tecnifibre Triax, Head Synthetic Gut PPS and Babolat Xcel
Control strings are best for experienced players who can produce their own power and want to rely on their strings to help them control where the ball goes, making it easier to hit their spots. Control strings are typically made of polyester, and in some cases nylon. Some strings we’d recommend in this category are Head Rip Control, Tecnifibre Ice Code and Tecnifibre Triax
With strings this comes from the strings ability to lessen shock/vibration you feel in your arm at contact.
Comfort strings are best for senior players who are more prone to arm injuries such as tennis elbow, or for those that have experienced arm issues in the past.
Comfort strings are made of flexible materials such as natural gut or nylon. Some of the strings we’d recommend in this category are Wilson Sensation, Babolat Spiraltek and Head Sonic Pro.
Spin strings are best for competitive players looking to use spin to create a “heavy ball”, or a ball that bounces up high, making it difficult for opponents to attack.
Spin strings are made of polyester and commonly feature different shapes and textures designed to enhance spin. Some great choices are Babolat RPM Blast, Dunlop Black Widow and Tecnifibre Razor Code
Players that find themselves breaking a lot of strings might want to consider a more durable string.
Poly strings are made of tougher material than synthetic guts, this greatly increases the how long the strings will last.
Some great choices are Dunlop Explosive Red, Tecnifibre Black Code and Babolat RPM Hurricane
WHAT STRING MATERIAL ARE YOU USING?
Are you using nylon/gut string, polyester string, or a hybrid of half and half? In general, beginners should play with nylon strings (or natural gut if you don’t mind spending the money), intermediate players can start to blend with hybrids, and advanced players can take the court with a full bed of polyester.
When it comes to tension, the general rule is to string elastic materials like nylon or natural gut around 50-60lbs, which we’ll use as our base recommended tension. If using a stiffer string material like polyester, we’d recommend stringing looser to avoid arm injuries. Here are the tension ranges we’d aim for the first time you get your racket strung:
- Nylon/Gut: 50-60lbs (22.5-27kg)
- Hybrid: 46-56lbs (21-25.5kg) *Because polyester is a stiffer material, string 2lbs (1kg) looser than nylon
- Example: Poly at 51lbs (23kg), Nylon at 53lbs (24kg)
- Polyester: 44-54lbs (20-24.5kg)
WHAT BENEFIT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
Do you want your strings to provide more power or more control? Typically, beginner players with slower racket-head speeds want their strings to add more power to their shots while advanced players with faster racket-head speeds want their strings to provide more control over their shots. The higher your string tension, the more control you’ll have while the looser your string tension, the more power. Here are the above tension ranges again, but adjusted for power or control:Nylon/Gut: 50-60lbs (22.5-27kg)
- Power: 50-55lbs (22.5-25kg)
- Control: 56-60lbs (25.5-27kg)
- Power: 46-51lbs (21-23kg)
- Control: 52-56lbs (23.5-25.5kg)
- Power: 44-49lbs (20-22kg)
- Control: 50-54lbs (22.5-24.5kg)
ARE YOU A BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE OR ADVANCED PLAYER?
Your skill level on court is the final question that needs to be addressed in order to nail down your ideal string tensions. Here are those tension ranges again, narrowed down even further for each playing level.
Nylon/Gut: 50-60lbs (22.5-27kg)Power: 50-55lbs (22.5-25kg)
- Beginner: 54-55lbs (24.5-25kg)
- Intermediate: 52-53lbs (23.5-24kg)
- Advanced: 50-51lbs (22.5-23kg)
- Beginner: 59-60lbs (26.75-27.25kg)
- Intermediate: 57-58lbs (26-26.5kg)
- Advanced: 55-56lbs (25-25.5kg)
Hybrid: 46-56lbs (21-25.5kg)
*Because polyester is a stiffer material, string 2lbs (1kg) looser than nylonPower: 46-51lbs (21-23kg)
- Beginner: 50-51lbs (22.5-23kg)
- Intermediate: 48-49lbs (21.75-22kg)
- Advanced: 46-47lbs (21-21.5kg)
- Beginner: 55-56lbs (25-25.5kg)
- Intermediate: 53-54lbs (24-24.5kg)
- Advanced: 52lbs (23.5kg)
Polyester: 44-54lbs (20-24.5kg)Power: 44-49lbs (20-22kg)
- Beginner: 44-45lbs (20-20.5kg)
- Intermediate: 46-47lbs (21-21.5kg)
- Advanced: 48-49lbs (21.75-22kg)
- Beginner: 50lbs (22.5kg)
- Intermediate: 51-52lbs (23-23.5kg)
- Advanced: 53-54lbs (24-24.5kg)
The general advice is you should get your racquet restrung per year at least the same number of times you play per week.
For example, if you play three times a week, you should get your racquet restrung three times a year.
Over time, tennis strings will lose tension and elasticity which results in the feeling of dead strings. While the strings may look fine, the playability has been greatly reduced.Signs that you may need to replace your strings:
- Strings feel dead
- Loss of power
- Loss of control
- Fraying of strings - some gut and multifilament strings fray as they get close to breaking
- Notching strings - as strings wear into each other, this creates a notch on the main string bed, if you notice deep notches on your strings, it may be time for a restring as they are getting close to breaking
String gauges are an important aspect in choosing a string, the thinner the gauge the better it will feel however the less durable it will be. Its about finding the right balance for your needs. We suggest for most players arond the 1.25mm is a good starting point. If strings are breaking every few days then we would suggest 1.28 - 1.3mm
What are the choices of materials
Tennis strings come in three main categories
- Synthetic Gut | Multifiliament
- Natural Gut
In general Synthetic Gut will give players a good amount of power and be comforatable to play with, we recommend younger players, beginners and players with arm issues use this type of string.
Polester has a wide range of variations and quality. Generally it will give players more durability, control and spin. Polyester will be a little harder on players arms and suited more to intermediate to advanced players
Natural Gut gives players the most amount of comfort and also a great amount of feel. The most expensive strings and will oftern break quickly compared with other options - listed above.
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LifeTime Tennis stocks one of Australia's largest variety of strings including all the top brands. We offer advice on which string will suit your game. We also have an online pro shop with Brisbane's best tennis gear prices - go there now

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Currently digging into WebRTC DHT for Webtorrent
I'm going to read up on Webtorrent because I haven't spent a lot of time with the code.
I think keeping blob distribution in the browser is ideal, because we want to move ssb fully into the browser to eliminate our dependence on desktop and (hopefully) pub installs. AKA the holygrail of distributed awesomeness
The DHT is only needed in the web browser. You should be able to use standard BitTorrent DHTs in an electron client. However, I couldn't seem to get this working. Not sure why.
One idea I had was to include a DHT (bittorrent-dht) in every pub. Then rather than trying to connect to a global bittorrent bootstrapping node, the client just tries to connect to the DHT of all known pubs.
However if you are going to be adding a DHT to pubs, might as well just use trackers. These already work in web browsers too. This is the current version works. The reason I was trying to move away from this was so that any standard ssb pub could be used.
Was thinking about turning every peer into a tracker so that you didn't need to be connected to the internet, it could work locally. See https://github.com/LolaShare/LolaShare/issues/45 --- work was started on this in https://github.com/LolaShare/LolaShare/tree/integrated-trackers
Really what you need to decide is:
Does it matter that you have to run a Ferment specific pub?
There already will need to be some specific plugins installed to handle seeding, and we already want to scope the network. When it was just me working on this, I decided this was too much of a personal commitment. I wanted to leverage the existing infrastructure. But since this time around we're focusing on this being quite separate from patchwork and the rest of ssb, it's probably fine.
With this in place, the current infrastructure is actually pretty good to go. The following could be improved:
Oh, another nice advantage of rebuilding on top of patchwork is that you get comments for free!
Sorry, a bit rambly, but hopefully helpful!
Thanks for the information, this is making it a bit more clear.
I'm curious to what @Dominic thinks about leveraging existing infrastructure versus a separate network of pubs.
It might not be the worst idea to create a new network just for Lola. We could in theory merge them back in at a later date.


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The synthesis of Ir/γ-Al2O3 using the dendrimer metal nanocomposites (DMN) approach is reported. Fourth generation hydroxyl-terminated polyamidoamine dendrimer was complexed with Ir3+ in aqueous solution and the process monitored using ultraviolet−visible and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. No discernible reduction of Ir3+ to form zerovalent nanoparticles was observed after bubbling hydrogen or adding NaBH4 into the complex solution. Standard wet impregnation of the DMN precursors were used to prepare Ir/γ-Al2O3, which were compared with conventionally prepared samples. In situ transmission Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy during dendrimer thermal decomposition in different atmospheres and CO adsorption allowed for identification of catalyst activation treatments that expose the maximum metal surface area. The particle size distributions of these catalysts were investigated using high resolution transmission electron microscopy, revealing that all of the catalysts have small particle sizes (0.4−3 nm) with narrow distributions. An optimized oxidation/reduction treatment produced a DMN-derived supported catalyst with higher metallic dispersion. DMN-derived catalysts were tested for liquid-phase hydrogenation of benzonitrile, and show an increase in TOF with increasing dispersion. The selectivity toward dibenzylamine is affected by the catalyst preparation method, with the oxidation/reduction treatment resulting in lower selectivity.

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The Victorian Institute of Sport Assessment (VISA-) Hamstring (H) Questionnaire is a self-report clinical outcome measure used in patients with Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy (PHT). It consists of eight questions that measure the domains of pain, function in daily living, and sports activities (Cacchio et al. 2014).
Validity and Reliability
The VISA-H questionnaire has high psychometric properties, including validity, reliability, and responsiveness (Cacchio et al. 2014). The validity of the VISA-H questionnaire was established by Cacchio et al. (2013) through the use of a cross-sectional study design, which included 30 patients with PHT (20 non-surgical & 10 surgical) and 30 healthy controls. The same authors also established the reliability of the VISA-H questionnaire through the use of a test-retest design. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the VISA-H questionnaire was 0.84, indicating high internal consistency. Translations of the VISA-H questionnaire into Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French have shown to be consistent, reliable, and valid in clinical practice and research to assess the pain and disability of patients with PHT (De-la-Cruz-Torres et al. 2021, Lima et al. 2022, Locquet et al. 2019).
However, a recent systematic review evaluating the content and structural validity evidence of the VISA questionnaires showed very-low-quality evidence for their content and structural validity (Korakakis et al. 2021).
Scoring and Interpretation
- Questions 1-6 receive a VAS rating of 0 to 10. (10 is optimal health)
- The 4 categories on question 7 can be scored as 0, 4, 7, or 10.
- Question 8 is graded according to how long the patient can train in spite of their current level of pain.
The maximum score for an asymptomatic person is 100; theoretically, the smallest score is 0.
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Cacchio A, De Paulis F, Maffulli N. Development and validation of a new visa questionnaire (VISA-H) for patients with proximal hamstring tendinopathy. Br J Sports Med. 2014;48(6):448-452. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2012-091552
De-la-Cruz-Torres, B., Maffulli, N., & Hernández-Sánchez, S. (2021). Cross-cultural adaptation of the Victorian institute of sports assessment-Hamstrings (VISA-H) questionnaire for Spanish speaking athletes with proximal hamstring tendinopathy. Physical Therapy in Sport, 51, 50-57.
Lima POP, Lourenco BM, Valentim de Freitas L, Nazareno TS, Maffulli N, de Oliveira RR. The Brazilian version of the Victorian Institute of Sport Assessment – Hamstring (VISA-H) Questionnaire: Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and measurement properties. Musculoskelet Sci Pract. 2022;58:102516. doi:10.1016/j.msksp.2022.102516
Locquet, M., Bornheim, S., Colas, L., Van Beveren, J., Bruyère, O., Reginster, J. Y., & Kaux, J. F. (2019). Traduction en langue française, adaptation transculturelle et validation du questionnaire «Victorian Institute of Sport Assessment Scale for Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy»(VISA-H). Journal de Traumatologie du Sport, 36(4), 217-221.
Korakakis V, Kotsifaki A, Stefanakis M, Sotiralis Y, Whiteley R, Thorborg K. Evaluating lower limb tendinopathy with Victorian Institute of Sport Assessment (VISA) questionnaires: a systematic review shows very-low-quality evidence for their content and structural validity-part I. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2021;29(9):2749-2764. doi:10.1007/s00167-021-06598-5
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With speculation mounting that a new ballot access law will prevent full and fair elections in November, Democratic congressional candidate Don Wiviott is speaking out against it. Thursday, the Santa Fe homebuilder called on the entire field of Democratic candidates to join him in fighting for a more open political process this primary season.House Bill 1156, signed into law last year, limits the number of candidates political parties may place on their primary ballots. Under the new law, candidates must receive at least 20 percent of the delegates during pre-primary conventions in order to be placed on the ballot.Under prior law, candidates were able to obtain access to the ballot by submitting additional nominating petitions from registered voters.Wiviott expressed concern that the new 20-percent threshold may have unintended consequences for the Democratic Party this fall. In races like the 3rd Congressional District where multiple candidates have announced their intention to run, a 20-percent threshold may be impossible for anyone to meet.With so many candidates in the race, Wiviott said Democrats face the very real possibility that the delegate vote will be split so many ways that no candidate can receive 20 percent. Should that happen, the law has no provisions for review or appeal. Democrats would simply be left without a candidate on the primary and general election ballots in November, he said. “Without serious revisions in the law, we might see a scenario where Congressman Udall’s seat is simply handed to Republicans in November,” Wiviott said during a telephone interview Thursday. “We need a member of Congress who will fight for affordable health care and to end the war in Iraq, but under that scenario, New Mexico would lose its progressive voice in Washington.”He continued, “Instead of giving primary voters the opportunity to hear and select from the full chorus of voices in the Democratic party, it seeks to limit access to the ballot to a well-connected few ... We shouldn’t seek to restrict debate or cut some out of the process.” Wiviott calls the new provision a civil rights issue in which minorities, especially Native Americans, will find it tougher to get on the ballot throughout New Mexico under this new system. “That’s unacceptable,” he said. “New Mexico is about fostering diversity and this new ballot system will limit diversity and make it harder for some minorities to get on the ballot. That doesn’t reflect our values.”In meeting with the Democrats who will decide who gets on the ballot under this new system, Wiviott said he has been getting positive reactions and expects to get on the ballot if this lawsuit fails. “But I got involved in this race to promote certain ideals, such as diversity and civil rights,” he said. “I’m filing this lawsuit because this new voting system fails those ideals. I believe this is about fairness. It should be about inclusion, rather than exclusion.”Wiviott said he has filed suit in the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe to challenge HB 1156 and the restrictions it places on ballot access and on voter choice. “If there is one thing all Democratic candidates can agree on, it is that the Democratic primary should be open and fair,” Wiviott said. “Anyone who wants to participate should be able to compete.” Wiviott has retained an attorney to oversee the suit and said he is awaiting word from other candidates about whether or not they will join his effort.

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Friends don’t let friends investigate?
In public comments, Justice Department officials have stressed that a past lack of international cooperation was a major hurdle to pursuing many of the cases.
Despite years of questionable Russian activity in many places, “executing on U.S. requests for search warrants, and subpoenas, and interviews, and other legal process remained a tall order because there is a mismatch in our U.S. and foreign allies’ sanctions regimes,” Andrew Adams, the director of Task Force KleptoCapture, said at the conservative Hudson Institute in January. The exceptional multilateral cooperation now, he stressed, has greatly enhanced sanctions enforcement.
What’s not clear is whether prior to 2022 the Justice Department, or the White House for that matter, put enough pressure on other countries to cooperate. And in many Ukraine-related cases, such as that of some oligarchs, it’s not clear why the U.S. didn’t go ahead and indict people who weren’t in custody anyway, at least to send a signal.
Former U.S. officials — most of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because the topic involved sensitive legal issues and, in some cases, their previous employer — offered some theories:
It’s possible that U.S. intelligence agencies were watching the same target and asked the Justice Department not to act. The evidence collected may have involved methods that might not stand up in court, or prosecutors may have felt it wasn’t enough to indict. Prosecutors may have thought that, if they waited long enough, they could arrest someone should that person travel to a country cooperating with the United States. Some may not have wanted to indict on lesser charges even if they only had enough evidence for those. Plus, some prosecutors question the point of charging someone who is unlikely to ever land in U.S. custody — even if such name-and-shame cases can have symbolic value.
Several former officials said much of the department’s actions come down to a question of political will. But pursuing indictments also takes time, money and people — all finite resources. That latter point draws a lot of sympathy from former federal prosecutors.
“These cases take years. They take a lot of resources. A lot of these laws are complicated. They often involved classified information. And, at the end of the day, there may be no arrest. Are you going to take resources away from prosecuting violent crimes to do that?” asked Stephanie Siegmann, a former national security chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
The Justice Department has over the past decade pursued several non-Ukraine cases against Russians, especially those involving cybercrime and interference in America’s 2016 presidential race, some of which fell under Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s purview. With rare exceptions, POLITICO did not include such cases in the 14 it deemed at least partially relevant to the war from 2014 through February 2022. That said, the level of international cooperation on those cases may have been easier to come by, especially if crime syndicates are targeting multiple countries.
In the past, another country may have felt less inclined to help Washington go after a person for violating U.S. sanctions if that other country didn’t have a similar sanctions statute. That concept of “dual criminality” matters because having parallel laws in two countries makes it easier to obtain evidence and extradite people.
Now, better-aligned U.S., British, and other European sanctions regimes have reduced the dual criminality hurdle.
Still, some foreign officials dismiss U.S. attempts to blame a lack of overseas cooperation for a dearth of past Ukraine-related prosecutions.
“When the U.S. really concentrates on getting someone extradited or prosecuting someone, it has a great record of getting countries to cooperate. There’s no reason why any of these cases should have been different,” a European official told POLITICO, speaking on condition of anonymity because the topic was so sensitive.
The former senior department official said that even prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Justice Department was searching for ways to elevate the topic of sanctions evasion.
The official added, however, that one important ingredient for a successful sanctions campaign against Russia is to have cabinet members beyond the attorney general — especially the secretary of State — press foreign governments to cooperate with U.S. investigations. In other words, it needs to be a whole-of-government political priority.
Pressed for comment on its history of pushing other countries to cooperate on investigations, a State Department spokesperson sent a statement focused on its present activities. “We support Department of Justice legal attaché offices at U.S. missions around the world to ensure access to foreign law enforcement entities and judiciaries,” the spokesperson said, having been granted anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters.
Some former U.S. officials argue that the Treasury Department is the more important sanctions enforcer.
Treasury can levy fines on alleged violators; it also can impose new sanctions on people it believes are helping others evade sanctions, thus blocking their access to the U.S. financial system. Such efforts generally require meeting lower legal thresholds than criminal prosecutions.
Treasury has taken some such steps against suspected violators in the case of Russia and its war on Ukraine. But Treasury’s actions arguably lack the public impact of Justice Department moves, especially arrests and indictments, that can truly make wannabe culprits think twice.
“For every person who’s helping an oligarch evade sanctions who gets indicted, there’s a hundred more that are shaking in their shoes right now — it has a very powerful demonstration effect,” Browder said.

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States in the western U.S. are seeing a rise in coronavirus cases as younger people get hospitalized and vaccination rates decline.
In Oregon, adults in their 20s make up the largest-share of case, about 21 percent, causing the seven-day rolling average in hospitalization to spike by 37 percent.
What’s more, daily vaccinations have dropped by 54 percent over the course of just one week.
This has led Governor Kate Brown to announced that 15 counties in Oregon are moving in the ‘extreme risk’ for COVID-19 category, which imposes restrictions that include banning indoor restaurant dining.
Some of the Oregon’s biggest cities, including Portland, Salem, Bend and Eugene, are in the counties that will be in the most dire category, effective Friday.
Similarly, in Nevada, one-fifth of all COVID-19 infections are now in residents ages 20 to 29, as more patients are hospitalized.
In addition, average daily COVID-19 vaccinations have plummeted 25 percent in the last two weeks.
Oregon and Nevada are following trends seen across the U.S. as the seven-day rolling average of vaccinations dropped below three million for the first time in about one month.
‘Let me explain this graph to you in simple English. DANGER AHEAD,’ Dr Ali Mokdad, a professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, tweeted on Tuesday.
‘Wear a mask, watch your distance, wash you hands and get the vaccine.’
Fifteen counties in Oregon are moving in the ‘extreme risk’ for COVID-19 category as the average number of cases in the state have risen from about 590 per day to 800 per day
In Nevada, average infections have increased from 315 per day to 350 and COVID-19 hospitalizations have risen by 26% in two weeks
Experts say both states have seen the number of daily vaccinations dropping, mimicking trends across the U.S. as the average number falls below three million
‘If we don’t act now, doctors, nurses, hospitals, and other health care providers in Oregon will be stretched to their limits treating severe cases of COVID-19,’ Brown said in a statement.
‘Today’s announcement will save lives and help stop COVID-19 hospitalizations from spiking even higher. With new COVID-19 variants widespread in so many of our communities, it will take all of us working together to bring this back under control.’
For Oregon counties to move in to the extreme risk category, there have to be at least 300 people hospitalized in the state with COVID-19.
Additionally, there must be an increase of 15 percent or greater in the seven-day hospitalization average over the past week.
There are currently 328 Oregonians hospitalized with COVID-19 with the seven-day rolling average increasing by 37 percent.
The counties moving into the extreme risk category are: Baker, Clackamas, Columbia, Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lane, Linn, Marion, Multnomah, Polk and Wasco.
OREGON: Most people falling ill with COVID-19 in Oregon, about 21%, are between the ages of 20 and 29
OREGON: are currently 328 Oregonians hospitalized with COVID-19, with the seven-day rolling average increasing by 37% over two weeks (dark blue line)
OREGON: In Oregon, about 37,000 vaccine doses were administered last Tuesday compared to 16,900 this Tuesday, 54% drop
Extreme risk comes with bans of indoor dining at restaurants and severely cuts the capacity of the number of people that can be inside a gym.
Counties moving to the extreme risk category will remain at that level for a maximum of three weeks and can move to a lower risk category if their case rates improve.
The move comes, ironically, as the supply of vaccines is exceeding demand with about 37,000 doses administered last Tuesday compared to 16,900 this Tuesday – 54 percent drop
‘There are appointments available right now all across the state,’ Brown said.
For instance, the public health director for Umatilla County, which was moved Tuesday from the moderate to the high-risk category, told state officials it can send last week’s vaccine allocation somewhere else and will likely do so again this week.
‘Our demand level is dropping dramatically,’ Public Health Director Joe Fiumara told the East Oregonian newspaper.
The county has about 6,000 doses, and last week administered fewer than 500 doses as health department staff sat idly, waiting for people to come.
The level of vaccinations in the mostly rural county is far short of what health experts say is needed.
According to Oregon Health Authority data, only about 19,000 people have been fully or partially vaccinated in the county where 78,000 people live.
Meanwhile, in nearby Nevada, both coronavirus cases and deaths continue to rise.
On Tuesday, the state recorded 405 new infections and 11 fatalities, according to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), most from Clark County, which reported 295 of those cases.
Daily cases were well above the 14-day rolling average, which had fallen to 263, according to health officials.
NEVADA: One in every five coronavirus cases is Nevada is diagnosed in residents in their 20s
NEVADA: Hospitalizations over the last two weeks have rise by 26 percent, up from 260 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 to 330
NEVADA: The 14-day rolling average in the number of vaccine doses administered on a daily basis has dropped by more than 25% from a record-high of 25,331 on April 14 to 17,040 on Monday
In addition, new deaths were almost four times higher than the two-week average of just three deaths.
According to the state’s DHHS, the number of hospitalized patients in Nevada was up by six in the past day to the current total of 330 confirmed and suspected cases.
Hospitalizations over the last two weeks have rise by 26 percent, up from 260 patients diagnosed with COVID-19.
The state is facing the same vaccination troubles as Oregon, as health officials try to reverse a decline in immunization rates statewide.
The 14-day rolling average in the number of vaccine doses administered on a daily basis in Nevada has dropped at least 25 percent.
It reached a record-high of 25,331 on April 14 and has since fallen 17,040 on Monday, the latest day for which data is available.
It’s the lowest average rate of daily vaccinations since mid-March and marks the fifth-straight day the average has dropped below 20,000.
‘I think we expected to see this gradual decline of daily immunizations administered,’ Karissa Loper, chief of the state Bureau of Child, Family & Community Wellness, told the Associated Press.
‘We need to work further with our communities in Nevada to ensure equity and inclusion and broad distribution for the vaccine.’
Nevada was averaging fewer than 2,000 daily doses in early January but topped 10,000 for the first time on Jan. 29 and cleared the 20,000 marks on March 22.
Since then, it had been on a steady rise until the downward trend began April 15.
Health experts say it’s difficult to measure the extent to the 11-day pause on the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine impacted turnout for shots
But Southern Nevada Health District Board Chairman Scott Black acknowledged the rare but serious reaction to Johnson – about one in one million – likely played some role.
‘Understandably, that is concerning to some folks,’ he told reporters.
‘We’re also reaching a point in our campaign that the people who were eager to get the vaccine have done so.’
Black said now, officials are reaching out to groups that might be reluctant or hesitant, as well as those who are concerned about side effects and getting appointments.


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The Raiders are one of three schools from Region 8 to land in the rankings.
Palm Beach State College is ranked 15th while Chiola College is ranked 18th.
Two other Region 8 schools - St. Johns River State College and State College of Florida.
In the NJCAA Division I Softball Poll, third-ranked College of Central Florida leads the way form Region 8. Chipola is right behind the Patriots at No. 4.
In the middle of the poll, Miami Dade College checked in at No. 13 and Seminole State, No. 16.


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Uber abandons 285,000 square foot San Francisco office as staff insist on working from home as deserted city is overrun by homelessness and drugs
- Uber has abandoned one of its new 11-story headquarters buildings in San Francisco's Mission Bay which can fit 1,534 workers and has 73 parking spaces
- The fully furnished property has cost the ride-sharing firm $84 per square foot since it opened in 2019 - the firm has also spent $160M to build-out the space
- Tech giants across the Bay Area have been rapidly shedding office spaces as pandemic-era hybrid work models persist and recent mass layoffs
Uber has abandoned its 285,000 square foot San Francisco office as staff insist on working from home.
The 11-story Mission Bay property is one of four buildings owned by the ride-sharing giant and is fully furnished with space for 1,534 employees - although none have set foot inside the office space.
Since 2019, the company has been paying $84 per square foot and also splashed out close to $160 million to build out the space.
An Uber spokesperson confirmed the listing to CoStar News, adding that the company never occupied the property developed by Alexandria Real Estate Equities at 1725 Third St.
It comes as the city battles a spike in commercial real estate vacancies amid a scourge of homelessness and a rise in drug related deaths in the city.
Uber has abandoned one of its new 11-story headquarters buildings in San Francisco as an uncertain economic future and the rise of pandemic-era hybrid work models plague the city
Since 2019, the company has been paying $84 per square foot and also splashed out close to $160 million to build out the space
'We are in the early stages of seeking interest in subleasing one of our four buildings in Mission Bay,' the spokesperson said.
'As one of our buildings is currently unoccupied, this will not change our footprint in the city or impact space available for employees.
'We remain committed to our hybrid work approach, which emphasizes in-person collaboration, and continue to welcome employees to our Mission Bay campus.'
Uber implemented a flexible work policy in late 2022 requiring nonremote employees to be in an office on Tuesdays and Thursdays each week to 'maximize the benefits of in-person collaboration,' the company's Chief People Officer Nikki Krishnamurthy wrote on the company website.
'In addition, employees can work from anywhere for up to four weeks per year,' she continued.
'We also have flexibility for some employees to be fully remote, depending on their role and location.
'This enables us to hire and retain employees outside of our hub office locations.'
But they aren't the first in the Bay Area to be rapidly shedding office space as mass layoffs and hybrid work environments persist.
Uber implemented a flexible work policy in late 2022 requiring nonremote employees to be in an office on Tuesdays and Thursdays each week to 'maximize the benefits of in-person collaboration,' the company's Chief People Officer Nikki Krishnamurthy
San Francisco's reputation as a coastal gem has been left in tatters by worsening crime, drugs, and, homelessness rates, even as it remains home to tech billionaires
In March, Pinterest announced the closures of two offices, Meta slashed 435,000 square feet and Reddit removed half the space it occupies according to the outlet.
Google are expected to pay more than $500 million to shrink their office spaces.
San Francisco saw their vacancy rate in the first quarter of 2023 increase to 29.4 percent up from 27.6 percent the same time last year, according to CBRE's market report.
Available space has risen above 34 percent, including the growing amount of offices listed for sublease that are not yet vacant.
The amount of office space on the market for sublease is approaching 10million square foot, the report said.
Meanwhile, the deserted city is also coping with a staggering 41 percent surge in the number of drug-related deaths in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the same time last year - as fentanyl ravaged the city's homeless population.
The Californian coastal hub saw 200 people die due to overdoses between January and March, compared to 142 deaths in 2022, according to recent data from the city's medical examiner.
That amounts to one overdose death every 10 hours in a city that has seen its reputation as a coastal gem ravaged by worsening crime, drugs, and, homelessness rates, even as it remains home to tech billionaires.
Addicts openly smoke drugs on the sidewalk of the Tenderloin area of San Francisco, where overdose deaths have rocketed upwards in recent months
San Francisco saw a staggering 41 percent surge in the number of drug-related deaths in the first quarter of 2023
The overdose victims were disproportionately black and Latino men, and frequently based in the Tenderloin area, a gritty downtown neighborhood, where a drug treatment center was shuttered in December.
Those living on the streets were particularly hard hit — with the number of homeless people dying from drug overdoses doubling.
Fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid that's frequently trafficked from Mexico and can kill in even tiny quantities, was detected in 159 of the deaths.
The drug is 50-100 times stronger than morphine.
Narcan nasal spray can reverse opioid overdoses and save lives
It is cheap, packs down small, is relatively easy to smuggle into the US, and is mixed into pills that then claim the lives of users, who are often unaware they are taking something so powerful.
Methamphetamine and cocaine were also present, although to a lesser extent.
The sharp increase in deaths started in December and continued into a record-breaking January.
This followed the shuttering of the Tenderloin Center, where addicts were allowed to use drugs and where the overdose reversal treatment, Narcan, was available for those who had taken too much.
Dr Daniel Ciccarone, a professor of addiction medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, said it was a 'crying shame that a city as wealthy as San Francisco can't get its act together to deal with overdose deaths.'
'We're a politically divided city between the people who have a lot of money and want the streets swept and those who think a compassionate, science-based, health approach is appropriate,' Dr Ciccarone told The Guardian.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed last July replaced the city's soft-on-crime District Attorney Chesa Boudin with Brooke Jenkins, who vowed to get to grips with the city's worsening social problems.
Dr Daniel Ciccarone, a professor of addiction medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, says San Francisco 'can't get its act together to deal with overdose deaths'
This graphic shows the rise in positive urine tests for fentanyl of those receiving drug abuse treatment in different parts of the US. Millennium Health's data is based on some 4.5 million samples
A homeless woman smokes crack with two others in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco
Breed in December shuttered the Tenderloin Center, which assisted more than 400 people each day, after complaints from residents who said it drew in drug addicts to the run-down area.
Breed cited the center's low success rate – only getting less than 1 percent of attendees into drug treatment schemes.
Millennium Health, which processes drug tests nationwide, recently told DailyMail.com that it's researchers had detected a ninefold rise in fentanyl use in the western US between 2019 and 2022.
Fentanyl was originally developed in Belgium in the 1950s to aid cancer patients with their pain management.
Given its extreme potency it has become popular amongst recreational drug users.
Overdose deaths linked to synthetic opioids like fentanyl jumped from nearly 10,000 in 2015 to nearly 20,000 in 2016 - surpassing common opioid painkillers and heroin for the first time.
And drug overdoses killed more than 72,000 people in the US in 2017 – a record driven by fentanyl.
It is often added to heroin because it creates the same high as the drug, with the effects biologically identical. But it can be up to 50 times more potent than heroin, according to officials in the US.
In the US, fentanyl is classified as a schedule II drug - indicating it has some medical use but it has a strong potential to be abused and can create psychological and physical dependence.
Eric Dawson, the group's vice president, said the powerful opioid has now cast its deadly shadow across the whole country.
The biggest rises were seen along the Pacific coast and mountain regions, which respectively saw 900 percent and 875 percent increases in detections of the powerful synthetic opioid.
'It's very scary,' Dawson told DailyMail.com.
'Fentanyl has exploded out west, it's caught up with the rest of the country and the country is now blanketed in fentanyl.'
Scenes of fentanyl-addled mayhem are common on the streets of western cities like San Francisco and Portland, but the research showed how even towns and rural and mountain areas have been badly hit.
The US opioid crisis has been surging for decades, but intensified in the pandemic, when lockdowns and hospital closures left people particularly bored and vulnerable to addiction.
This latest phase of addiction involving fentanyl has been more deadly and difficult to control, due in large part to the potency of the drug.
Fentanyl is commonly mixed with drugs like heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, or pressed into pills that resemble other prescription opioids. On the street, it is known as everything from 'blues' to China Girl, and Goodfellas.
Tests by the Drug Enforcement Administration show that four in ten pills sold in the US have at least 2mg of fentanyl — the equivalent of about five grains of salt — a dose that is considered potentially lethal.
The agency warns that 'one pill can kill'.
The Facebook group Lost Voices of Fentanyl has tens of thousands of members who pay tribute to their loved ones who were claimed by the drug.
In Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and other big cities, the sight of homeless people collapsed on sidewalks, puffing fentanyl smoke and lurching from moments of slumber to bouts of violent shivering have become all too common.
The devastation has become so bad that fentanyl flows across the US-Mexico border have become a flashpoint between Democrats and Republicans.


OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California is in such an urgent race with another devastating wildfire season that officials began soliciting local project ideas even before they had money to pay for them. It faces such a threat of drought that the governor said Tuesday that he has executive orders drafted and ready to sign as needed.
In normal years, the worst of the fires don’t start until late summer or fall, leaving a window through about May to thin forests, clear buffer zones designed to slow the spread of fires near communities, and beef up the state’s seasonal fire crews.
Not this year, officials said.
A dry winter is already blending into a tinder-dry summer that has produced twice as many wildfires as this time last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom said.
That led legislative leaders to speed up what Newsom had proposed as a $1 billion infusion in fire mitigation projects during the fiscal year that starts in July. Newsom signed into law Tuesday a $536 million early action package, roughly $200 million more than he had sought to spend in the first half of this calendar year.
He signed it while awkwardly seated on the step of a firetruck for lack of a better prearranged location, and near a long boat ramp at one of the state’s major reservoirs that this year leads to nothing but grass and rocks where there should be abundant water.
Fire conditions have worsened so much in recent years that once rare fire tornadoes have become more common as megafires create their own weather. Last year’s record-setting wildfire season scorched more than 4% of the state while killing 33 people and destroying nearly 10,500 buildings.
“These are extremes the likes of which these men and women in uniform have never experienced,” Newsom said in Butte County, near where a massive fire burned last year, and not far from where another wind-driven fire nearly leveled the Sierra foothills town of Paradise more than two years ago.
Beth Bowersox, a dispatcher with the state’s firefighting agency, related Tuesday how she named the 2018 Camp Fire after a nearby landmark at the onset of what became California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire, killing 85 people.
“I took hundreds of 911 calls, some of them from friends and neighbors, some of whom passed (died),” she recalled in an emotional account describing the “innumerable losses.”
She herself had to evacuate her Paradise home, while her firefighter brother and one of his crew were injured by an exploding propane tank.
Amid such evolving conditions, lawmakers said they are now intent on starting to fight the causes of extreme wildfires, in addition to spending billions of dollars to fight fires once they ignite.
The new spending package will distribute about 86% of the money in the form of grants, so the state solicited project proposals from local governments and other organizations even before the budget appropriation, said Jessica Morse, deputy secretary for forest resources management with the California Natural Resources Agency.
It streamlined normal contracting requirements with the goal of getting grants out within weeks instead the usual months, she told Senate budget committee members Monday. And state firefighting agencies are hiring now while starting on projects designed to protect communities.
“This is incredibly urgent,” and the usually slow bureaucracy is working “to ensure that they are delivering at an incredibly fast pace,” she said. Most will go to what she called shovel-ready projects that can begin nearly as soon as funding is available.
The money is nearly seven times more than what had been in this year’s budget for wildfire mitigation, said Democratic Assemblyman Richard Bloom, who helped negotiate the package.
It is going to organizations and agencies “that are as we speak planning how to roll out these efforts in advance and as fire season is beginning,” he said Monday before attending Tuesday’s signing ceremony. “That’s never happened before, and it is extremely important given what we know about wildfire in this state.”
The state spent about $9 billion fighting last year’s record fires, Bloom said, but putting more money into prevention is intended to cut the number of blazes and their devastation.
That includes nearly $200 million to build fuel breaks near vulnerable communities and $283 million to manage forest. Another $25 million is intended to draw $75 million in federal matching money to help make homes less likely to burn.
Republican Assemblyman James Gallagher objected that $12 million in the funding package negotiated by Democratic leaders is going to a coastal land conservancy. Another $125 million is to fulfill a legislative requirement that went unmet last year.
“Far too many communities have been devastated because we’re not getting on top of the fuel reduction,” said Gallagher, who represents fire-prone rural areas, including Paradise.
He voted for the funding but said much more money should go to managing forests.
“The rest of it is lot of smoke and mirrors,” Gallagher quipped. “And let’s face it, we don’t need any more smoke in California.”
About the photo: Gov. Gavin Newsom talks with local and state fire officials while touring an area burned by last year’s Creek Fire near Shaver Lake in Fresno County, Calif., Thursday, April 8, 2021. California will authorize $536 million for wildfire mitigation and forest management projects before the worst of the fire season strikes later this year, Newsom and legislative leaders said. (Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee via AP)
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Arts Playlist: Delaware Art Museum studies CETA and the arts
The Delaware Art Museum is researching the impact of 1973 Federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) on artists and developing an exhibition highlighting work produced by CETA
And on this week’s edition of Arts Playlist, Delaware Art Museum curator of contemporary art Margaret Winslow chats with Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele about this project.
The Delaware Art Museum, City Lore, Inc. and Artists Alliance, Inc. recently recieved a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to launch their research into this 1970’s government program connection to the arts.
And Delaware Art Museum curator of contemporary art Margaret Winslow says they are excited to do dig into this topic.
“What that means is - we have the opportunity to pilot some programs and exhibitions. And then develop and nurture all of that research for a longer look at this important history," said Winslow. "What that means practically, is that this fall City Lore and Artists Alliance, Inc. in New York will present a pilot exhibition.”
CETA provided federal funds in the form of block grants for states to train workers during a period of high unemployment. States in turn distributed the funds to different cities, allowing the money to reach local initiatives.
Some cities, such as San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, used CETA funds to hire artists to create public art projects. From 1974 until its repeal by President Ronald Reagan in 1982, CETA led to the employment of ten thousand artists around the country.
In Delaware, CETA funding supported more than 50 artists and arts administrators who organized community performances, produced murals throughout Wilmington and photographed people and events in Delaware during 1976 Bicentennial celebrations.
Delaware Public Media' s arts coverage is made possible, in part, by support from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.


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Tarifa (Spanish pronunciation: [ta'?ifa]) is a Spanish municipality in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. Located at the southernmost end of the Iberian Peninsula, it is primarily known as one of the world's most popular destinations for windsports. Tarifa lies on the Costa de la Luz ("coast of light") and across the Strait of Gibraltar facing Morocco.
It was thought that Tarifa was once the site of the Roman settlement of Julia Transducta (also known as Julia Joza, or just Transducta). However, that settlement is now thought to have been where Algeciras now stands, while there is strong evidence that Casas de Porro, Valdevaqueros (Tarifa) was the site of the settlement of Mellaria. Tarifa was given its present name after the attack of Tarif ibn Malik in 710, a Berber military commander of Musa bin Nusayr. The village of Bolonia near Tarifa was also populated in Roman times (called Baelo Claudia). Roman ruins still exist near the village today.
After the Islamic conquest of southern Spain, the city was fortified starting from the 10th century. Later Tarifa was held by the taifa of Algeciras (1031) and by that of Seville (1057), and subsequently by the Almoravids. After the latter's fall, it lived a short period under another taifa of Algeciras (1231), until becoming part of the Kingdom of Granada. In 1292 it was conquered by Sancho IV of Castile, and two years later it resisted a siege by North African Islamic troops. The town resisted another siege in 1340 from Marinid, eventually leading to the Battle of Río Salado.
Despite its formidable defenses, Tarifa remained sparsedly populated for the rest of the middle ages. The destruction of Algeciras after the 1369 Nasrid conquest turned Tarifa into the sole power base for the Castilian navy in the Strait area, and the influence of the Admiralcy of Castile increased thereafter. Tarifa enjoyed a great deal of privileges confirmed by the Castilian monarchs, while being simultaneously threatened by Muslim raids that resulted into frequent killings and kidnappings.
Owing to its largely military function after 1292, military activity weighted heavily in the place's social structure in the early 15th century. The town was donated to Fadrique Enríquez, Admiral of Castile, in 1447. The seigneuralization was fiercely opposed by the inhabitants. Occupied by Gonzalo de Saavedra, Tarifa returned to the nominal status of realengo, while largely controlled by the former. The mid-century 15th-century saw the fostering of positive collaboration with the Portuguese across the strait.
After 1492, Tarifa lost part of its military value. Owing to its good pastures, husbandry played a notable role in the economy. It however lacked land dedicated to cereal crops. Already since the conquest and increasingly in the late middle ages, fishing activity provided riches to Tarifa, and an industry of the almadraba around tuna had developed in the early 16th century. In the early 16th century, the city became part of the seigneurial land of the Adelantado Mayor de Andalucía. Population increased in the 16th century, with around 3,500-4,000 inhabitants by 1587.
In the course of the Peninsular War, Tarifa was besieged by French troops on 20 December 1810, and again on 18 December 1811. In both of these cases the town was defended by British troops from Gibraltar as the Spanish and British were allies against the French. During the 1811-12 Siege of Tarifa there were 3,000 defending troops with 1,200 of those British, including Colonel Charles Holloway who as commanding Royal Engineer made improvements to Tarifa's defences.
On 19 December the town was attacked again by General Laval, who bombarded the town over Christmas to the point where surrender was demanded on 30 December. Both the British and Spanish commanders refused to comply and their defiance was rewarded by rain that started the next day. By 5 January the attacking force realised that their powder was wet and their guns were bogged down in mud, and retreated.
At exactly 36 degrees latitude, the Punta de Tarifa is the southernmost point of continental Europe. (The only parts of Europe farther south are islands - including the Greek island of Gavdos, which is the southernmost point of Europe.) The North African capitals of Algiers and Tunis actually lie farther north than Tarifa.
Tarifa features a Mediterranean climate with Oceanic influences, with warm summers and very mild winters. Rain is concentrated in winter, with the summers being largely dry. Because of its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, precipitation in the wet period is quite high; monthly averages exceed 80mm in the two wettest months, December and January. The influence of the ocean has the additional effect of creating a very small annual variation in temperature. Winters are warmer than inland Spain - and summers are cooler than most of the country - the average daily high in the hottest month, August, is only 24 °C, more than 10 °C cooler than the temperatures experienced further inland in the Guadalquivir valley, and also significantly cooler than those felt further east along the Mediterranean coast in places such as Málaga and Almería and even further west in Huelva and the Algarve coast of Portugal, as well as nearby Gibraltar and Tangier, which renders Tarifa to be an extreme microclimate.
|Climate data for Tarifa (1981-2010), extremes (1945-)|
|Record high °C (°F)||22.4
|Average high °C (°F)||15.2
|Daily mean °C (°F)||13.0
|Average low °C (°F)||10.8
|Record low °C (°F)||-3.3
|Average precipitation mm (inches)||70
|Average precipitation days||7||8||5||7||4||1||0||0||2||6||8||10||58|
|Average relative humidity (%)||77||79||78||77||78||79||80||81||81||81||79||78||79|
|Mean monthly sunshine hours||153||161||199||218||264||284||307||297||233||202||170||142||2,630|
|Source 1: Agencia Estatal de Meteorología|
|Source 2: Agencia Estatal de Meteorología|
Historical landmarks of the city include:
Tarifa is located within the Intercontinental Mediterranean Biosphere Reserve, a renowned place to watch migrating birds, in particular the storks which cross the Straits of Gibraltar in spring and autumn. Also whale and dolphin watching can be done as there are several species living on the 14 kilometre-wide Straits, for instance the common dolphin, Pilot whale, sperm whale and orca.
Tarifa is renowned for its African Film Festival, whose first edition took place in 2004.
Bus services run from the bus station on Calle Batalla de Salado. There are regular services between Tarifa and Algeciras, about 20 km to the northeast, and Seville about 200 km to the north. Direct buses also run to Málaga and Cádiz. In high summer a special kitesurfing bus runs along the A7 between Tarifa bus station and Camping Jardin de las Dunas, stopping at popular hotels and campsites along the route.
There is a taxi rank on the Avenida Andalucia. It is about 5 minutes walk from the bus station and is located just outside the Puerto de Jerez (the main entrance to the old town) at the junction of Avenida Andalucia and Calle Batalla de Salado.

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Poisoning from exposure to oxalic acid.
- Some bleaches
- Some anti-rust products
- Some metal cleaners
- Rhubarb leaves
Note: This list may not be all inclusive.
- Body as a whole o Pain in the mouth o Tremors o Convulsions o Collapse o Shock
- Pain in the throat
- Kidney damage
- Gastrointestinal o Abdominal pain o Vomiting
- Heart and blood vessels o Weak pulse o Low Blood pressure
Call Poison Control. DO NOT INDUCE Vomiting. Give milk or water immediately, preferably water.
Before Calling Emergency
Determine the following:
- The patient’s age, weight, and condition
- The name of the product (and ingredients and strengths, if known)
- The time it was swallowed
- The amount swallowed
Poison Control, or a local emergency number
The Poison Control or local emergency telephone representative will instruct you if it is necessary to take the patient to the hospital. See Poison Control centers for telephone numbers and addresses.
Take the container with you to the emergency room.
What to expect at the emergency room
Some or all of the following procedures may be performed:
- Support of the patient’s airway and breathing
- Administration of IV or oral antidote.
- Treatment of the symptoms.
The extent of injury is determined by the amount of acid ingested and the time to treatment. Severe ulceration of the mouth, GI tract, or airway may occur and can be rapidly fatal if not treated.
by Potos A. Aagen, M.D.
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ADDRESS: A1 Northbound, Wansford, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE8 6JJ
ONSITE FACILITIES: Ducati, ArcHaus
This iconic building on the A1 started life as one of the roadhouses of the ‘Knights on the Road’ chain in 1932. This company’s ambitious plans to have a Knight facility every 50 miles on main routes floundered a couple of years later, and the Wansford site became the New Mermaid Inn in 1936.
In the late 1970s, Forte, along with many other transport cafes and roadside inns, bought the New Mermaid Inn and replaced it with a Little Chef restaurant as part of their plans to expand the chain rapidly across the UK. In order to save money and time, Forte decided to house the new Little Chef inside of the original New Mermaid Inn building . After all, the building was still In decent shape so there was no need for a new building to be built.
Sadly, in 2007, Little Chefs parents, who by now were People's Restaurant Group, hit financial problems and the brand was taken by new owners, venture capitalists R Capital. Not all the sites transferred over and Wansford was one of the 41 to be closed in 2007.
Since the closure of the Little Chef, the building has become covered with graffiti. There were numerous plans in the past to redevelop the iconic building but they didn't get very far. Also, plans to make the building listed have also been scrapped because Little Chef changed the design of the windows.
Happily on 26th September 2014, the old Little Chef building was redeveloped by Harris McCormack Architects and the building currently serves as a branch of Ducati


Arizona online entertainment developer Quest Online LLC (QOL) announces the exclusive distribution agreement for its upcoming Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) title Alganon with IGN/Direct2Drive.
Players will be able to pre-order Alganon before the October 31, 2009 launch through Direct2Drive, and also through the Alganon website, giving access to the exclusive beta and bonus features which will not be available after launch.
Quest Online (QOL) has been working on Alganon for nearly four years now, and has been in private beta since July. “With less than a month until launch, things are as exciting as ever,” said David Allen, co-founder and President of QOL. “Teaming with the great folks at Direct2Drive will allow us to get Alganon in the hands of many hungry online gamers looking for a quality alternative to the existing MMOGs in the market.”
Those who pre-order Alganon will gain access to bonuses not available after launch, including study bonuses, mounts, character enhancement items, and family heirlooms.
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Who Has Green Beer Today Near Me
Saint Patrick’s Day is a day celebrated by people of Irish descent all around the world. This holiday is celebrated on March 17th, and is a day full of festivities, including parades, dancing, and of course, drinking. One of the most popular traditions on Saint Patrick’s Day is to drink green beer.
So, who has green beer today near me? If you’re looking to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with a cold pint of green beer, you’re in luck. A number of bars and pubs around the world will be offering green beer on Saint Patrick’s Day. In some cases, you may even be able to find green beer at convenience stores and grocery stores.
However, it’s important to note that not all bars and pubs will be serving green beer on Saint Patrick’s Day. So, if you’re looking to celebrate this holiday with a cold pint of green beer, it’s a good idea to call ahead and check availability.
If you’re unable to find green beer at a local bar or pub, you may be able to make your own. All you need is a few simple ingredients, including beer, food coloring, and sugar. Simply mix the food coloring and sugar into the beer, and you’ll have yourself a batch of green beer.
So, whether you’re looking to find a bar or pub that’s serving green beer, or you’re looking to make your own, there’s plenty of ways to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with a cold pint of green beer. Cheers!
Who serves green beer?
On St. Patrick’s Day, it’s customary to drink green beer. But who actually serves it?
There are a few different places that you can go to get green beer on St. Patrick’s Day. One place is your local bar or pub. Most bars will have green beer available on St. Patrick’s Day. However, the selection may be limited, so it’s best to call ahead and see if they will be serving it.
Another place to get green beer is at a St. Patrick’s Day party. If you’re hosting a St. Patrick’s Day party, you can easily make green beer by adding food coloring to your regular beer. Or, you can buy green beer from a liquor store.
Finally, some restaurants also serve green beer on St. Patrick’s Day. If you’re looking for a place to eat on St. Patrick’s Day, be sure to check and see if the restaurant you’re interested in serving green beer.
Are there any green beers?
Yes, there are green beers! And no, they’re not just any old beers that have been tinted green; they’re actually made with ingredients that give them their unique color.
One popular green beer is the traditional St. Patrick’s Day favorite: Guinness. The Irish stout is typically black, but it can also be made in a green version. For the St. Patrick’s Day festivities, some Guinness brewers will add a little food coloring to the batch to give it its signature green hue.
Another green beer that’s becoming more popular is Sam Adams’s latest seasonal release, Spring Ale. This beer is also brewed with green ingredients, including fresh lime peel and a special blend of spices.
Whether you’re a fan of Guinness or Sam Adams, or you’re looking for something a little different this St. Patrick’s Day, be sure to check out one of the many green beers out there!
What is the green beer called?
Green beer is a popular beverage during Saint Patrick’s Day celebrations. The beer is dyed green using food coloring, and it is often served with a slice of lime. There are many different theories about the origin of green beer, but the most likely explanation is that it was created as a way to disguise the taste of inferior beers.
What beer is in green cans?
What beer is in green cans?
There are a few varieties of beer that come in green cans, but the most popular is probably Heineken. Other options include Becks, Sol, and some local craft beers.
Heineken is a pale lager that is light and refreshing, making it a perfect choice for summertime drinking. It has a citrusy flavor and a slightly hoppy bitterness.
Becks is a German pilsner that is also light and refreshing, with a slightly sweet flavor and a crisp finish.
Sol is a Mexican lager that is slightly heavier and maltier than Heineken or Becks. It has a slightly spicy flavor and a smooth finish.
Craft beers that come in green cans vary widely in flavor, but tend to be more complex and flavorful than the big brands. Some popular options include Fat Tire, Sierra Nevada, and New Belgium.
So if you’re looking for a cold, refreshing beer to enjoy on a hot summer day, reach for a green can. You can’t go wrong with any of the options listed above.
Is it safe to drink green beer?
The answer to this question is a little complicated. The truth is, there is no one definitive answer. It depends on a variety of factors, including the specific brand of green beer and the individual’s own health history and sensitivities.
Generally speaking, however, green beer is not considered safe to drink. This is because green beer is made by adding food coloring to regular beer. The food coloring used to make green beer is often artificial and can contain harmful chemicals. These chemicals can have negative effects on the body, including potentially causing cancer.
Additionally, green beer is often high in alcohol content. This can lead to dangerous levels of intoxication, especially when consumed in large quantities. Drinking too much alcohol can have serious negative health consequences, including liver damage, heart problems, and even death.
For these reasons, it is generally not advised to drink green beer. There are safer and healthier alternatives available, such as drinking water or juice. If you do choose to drink green beer, however, be sure to do so in moderation and only if you are confident that it will not have adverse effects on your health.
Does green beer make you sick?
There is a long-standing rumor that green beer can make you sick. But is there any truth to it?
The answer is, unfortunately, yes. Drinking green beer can make you sick for a few different reasons. For one, green beer is often made with food coloring, which can cause stomach problems if you drink too much of it. Additionally, the beer itself can cause nausea and vomiting if you drink too much of it.
So if you’re looking to avoid a night of nausea and vomiting, it’s best to skip the green beer and stick to the regular stuff.
What is the best beer for St Patrick’s day?
There is no one “best” beer for St Patrick’s day, as different people have different preferences. However, some beers are certainly better suited to the holiday than others.
One option is a classic Irish stout, such as Guinness. This dark, rich beer is perfect for enjoying on a cold day, and it has a strong flavor that is perfect for celebrating St Patrick’s day. Another popular option is a microbrewed Irish ale, such as Murphy’s or Beamish. These beers are lighter and more refreshing than stouts, and they have a slightly fruity flavor that is perfect for the holiday.
If you’re looking for something a little different, you could try a green-colored beer. These beers are typically made with food coloring and some sort of herb or spice, such as mint or chamomile. They often have a sweet and refreshing flavor, and they are perfect for celebrating St Patrick’s day.
No matter what beer you choose, make sure to drink it responsibly and enjoy it with friends and family. Happy St Patrick’s day!

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