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A cockfighting operation being run by the family of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s brother, Hun San, in Kandal province has been ordered to shut down after reports that illegal bets were being placed on the fights, provincial governor Mao Phirun said on Sunday.
“I asked the Lvea Em district governor to shut down the cockfighting place because illegal gambling is not allowed to occur,” Mr. Phirun said, adding that he had also instructed Mr. San to close down the ring.
“I have told him already by telephone that he has no right to open the illegal gambling [operation], and he agreed with me that he will remove the cockfighting house,” the governor said.
However, reached earlier in the day, Mr. San said that Mr. Phirun in fact said authorities would provide protection for the gambling operation, which is illegal under Cambodian law.
“I telephoned the provincial governor this morning, but he told me that he will tell his local authorities to provide security for the gambling,” Mr. San said, explaining his family only opened it for leisure.
“My son-in-law started the cockfighting behind my house, and he just does it every Saturday and Sunday,” the premier’s brother said. “I wish to tell you that my family does not play cockfighting for business, my family builds canals for the people.”
Mr. San’s son-in-law, Thay Mab, said the operation had only been set up on Friday and that he was surprised by the prompt reaction from authorities.
“My father started the cockfighting for fun when he gets out of work every Saturday and Sunday,” he said. “My father wanted to come and play cockfighting because he is bored when he stays in Phnom Penh.”
“We did not ask permission from local authorities because we were just playing for fun, not for business,” he added. “But we will ask for permission if we are required to.”

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A new day-time parade set to officially debut Friday at Disneyland used familiar characters and a new twist to pay homage to Disney music.
On Thursday afternoon, park-goers got an unannounced preview of "Mickey's Soundsational Parade," a nine-float parade featuring Mickey Mouse, Peter Pan and accompanying dancers and musicians...
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A workers’ co-operative program is helping Surrey students create and start their own business while also building “longtime places that kids and mentors feel connected to one another.”
From a media company to popcorn, Solid State Industries is working with youth in Surrey to create workers’ co-operatives. More than a dozen Surrey students are learning about what it takes to start and operate a new business with a program offered in partnership with the Surrey School District.
Solid State, according to its website, builds workers’ co-operatives with newcomer youth in Surrey with the support of mentors, advisers and community partners to build “a solidarity economy hub and a network of worker-owned co-operative businesses.”
Syed Khawar, a Grade 12 student at Princess Margaret Secondary, is in charge of creative management with Mavins Media – the first co-op through Solid State. The opportunity to join Solid State and be a part of Mavins Media was kind of “funny,” Khawar said.
It was the start of the 2017/2018 school year and because of scheduling changes, Khawar said, he didn’t have any classes for a couple of days. He said he was approached by France Stanley, a safe schools liaison with Surrey Schools.
“One day I was just sitting alone and France approaches me because he thought I was skipping,” Khawar said with a laugh. “I just feel like if I did have any classes, I would have never gotten to meet him or know about this program.”
Stanley and Harp Baughan are two of the safe schools liaisons who work as mentors at Solid State. In their role as safe school liaisons, they said they’re able to connect students with the other mentors at Solid State to potentially work in the co-op.
“Our roles in the school system is we’re safe school liaisons… so we deal with kids all day, every day. We’re on the side where we’re there for their emotional needs and we know the home life needs that they need,” Baughan said. “There are kids that not every teacher or vice-principal would know because we’re the ones that wander the hallways, we’re the ones interacting with the kids and we can see that a kid that we see a lot sitting in the corner by themselves might be a good fit.”
Stanley said the mentors will usually meet up with the students, have a conversation and meal with them and ask the students to hang out at the co-op for a while to get a feel for it.
“Obviously, it’s not for everyone. Not everyone is comfortable in this kind of scenario of working together and being your own boss and collaborating with other students,” said Stanley, adding that while they try not to turn students down, sometimes they reach the capacity for the co-op and tell the students to come back down the road.
For Khawar, he said Solid State is a “good opportunity” that will allow for “more under-privileged youth or anyone really in the community, who wants to make the community better.”
He said his hope down the line is to get more youth involved by possibly giving them summer jobs and internships.
“That’s what kind of motivates me going forward,” Khawar said.
Matt Hern, one of the founders and mentors of Solid State, said that while the focus is on newcomer students, the program isn’t exclusively for newcomers. The program is also “entirely voluntary,” said Hern, adding that the students receive no credit for participating in Solid State.
When Hern and Isaac Oommen started researching what it would take to start Solid State, Hern said the two became “really interested” in Surrey and began figuring out ways to collaborate with “good existing” organizations and projects.
“In particular, we were interested in projects that are addressing community safety, youth violence, gangs, community issues because those appear to be the… issues of overwhelming interest to Surrey,” he said. “Virtually every metric, those kinds of issues come up at the top of election cycles, they come up as polling that people are most interested in, in Surrey.”
Hern said they were “particularly interested in thinking through responses to concerns about community safety and youth violence in ways that are constructive and preventative and think of young people not as problems to be solved or disciplined, but as people with all kinds of potentialities.”
“We found a whole lot of interest and excitement from a whole variety of places, and in particular the Surrey school board and the Surrey school district — who we partnered with in 2015 — and we launched our first cohort in September of 2017,” Hern said. He said it was through Solid State’s partnership with the district and the school board, that safe school liaisons have become involved with the program.
But coming to Solid State and working on the business isn’t the only thing the students do, Baughan said.
“We pretty much deal with all aspects of their lives; school (and) personal lives,” she said. “Our roles in the school system is we’re safe school liaisons… so we deal with kids all day, every day. We’re on the side where we’re there for their emotional needs and we know the home life needs that they need.”
And while a goal of Solid State is to expand the number of cohorts, Hern said it’s “not a driving need.”
“The real fundamental reason for doing it is something like the reason people like being part of a sports team, or like being part of a club,” he said. “It’s to draw a group of people together to regularly hang out, to work on a project together, to eat together, to develop a sense of collective belonging and identity together.
“Our main interest is to try to develop these little teams, these little cohorts, and build them into kind of longtime places that kids and mentors feel connected to one another.”
When Mavins Media – the first “cohort” – started, it included students in grades 10 and 11. Mavins Media, according to its website, offers a “full range of services” from graphic design to website construction to photos and video to building social media platforms.
In the first year of the business, Mavins Media has created several websites for non-profits and businesses.
Khawar said working with Mavins Media is about learning more skills and techniques for one project, and them implementing them with the next.
“At times it does feel a bit daunting because we’re doing so much, and it’s, like, can we manage all of it? But it’s nice with this group of guys.”
Hern, who is one of the mentors for Mavins Media, said the group started meeting twice a week in September of 2017 throughout the 2017/2018 school year.
“Then Solid State hired them full time last summer where we really launched the business,” Hern said. “We make all our decisions together, we share all the revenues equally and we have real clients and a real revenue stream. It’s not a gigantic enterprise because these guys are all in school.”
Next to launch is Queens of Pop, a popcorn business that Baughan is working on with a group of girls in grades 9 to 11. Baughan said when it came to deciding what kind of business the girls wanted to create, it started off with figuring out their interest – which leaned toward food.
“Eventually, we started experimenting on chocolates and popcorn.”
Lanaya Alexander, a Grade 10 student at Kwantlen Park, said joining Solid State and working with the Queens of Pop has helped her learn how to work better with other people, while also learning how abusiness is formed and what kind of work goes into it.
Asked how she would explain this workers’ co-op, Alexander said it’s a bunch of students “just experimenting” and “learning how to put together something from scratch.”
“Because barely any of know barely anything about business and now here were are hoping to make a popcorn business,” said Alexander who plans to go to university for a business program.
Hern said between five and 10 people are the “right size” for a co-op.
But, Hern said, the goal is to add new cohorts at a “reasonable pace.” Solid State has a new cohort that is “just operational” and another two launching in the next couple of months.
“(We) hope to follow the same sort of cycle, which is bring a group together in the beginning of a school year, work with them twice a week through the school year and then hopefully bring them together full time — or at least as many of them as possible full time — through the summer, and then launch a business and have that group stay together and develop that business as a collective project.”


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Single parent households may have been given a bad rap, at least as far as their effect on children’s happiness is concerned. New research from Great Britain found in that nation, children in single parent households are as happy as those in two-parent households.
Other factors do impact the happiness of minors, including relationships with siblings and peers and which part of Great Britain the children call home. Some factors, like the health of the children and parents, have surprisingly little effect.
The Research: Use of Large Data-sets
Dr. Sally McMannus and colleagues, funded by the Department of Health, examined three sets of data to determine levels of wellbeing across the lifespan: the Millennium Cohort Study, Understanding Society, and the Health Survey for England. Larger sample sizes protect against unreliable findings.
Researchers compared the answers of children on a variety of measures using a statistics to determine what did and did not correlate with children’s happiness.
Single Parent Study Findings: Family Structure
In a comparison of family types, two parent natural/adoptive, two-parent step-parent/natural, and single parent homes all had children with equal levels of happiness. This finding occurs after controlling for other factors such as socioeconomic status.
But children who were classified being in an “other” family type were markedly less happy. Dr. Sally McMannus explained in her interview with Decoded Science, “This small group is likely to be very heterogeneous.” The nature of these diverse family structures, where a parent is no longer involved, implies great loss or disruption such as parents having died, been incarcerated, or some other unusual and disruptive circumstance.
Families, Health, and Happiness
Counter-intuitively, neither the health of the parents nor the health of the child impacted happiness. Dr. McMannus explained that other factors might be at play, “It is also plausible that where parents do have a limiting condition they may be more likely not to be working, and therefore around more. Therefore drawbacks may be countered by the benefit this could have for some young children.”
Importance of Good Peer Relationships
Getting along with siblings and having multiple friends was associated with happiness – as was not being bullied. Dr. McMannus explained that in Great Britain, as in parts of the United States, such as Massachusetts, schools teach social skills. She notes, “‘Citizenship’ classes include a focus on this, our data suggests that anything that encourages respect for and engagement with others is a good objective in and of itself, as well as being likely to benefit the wellbeing of all!”
Irish Kids are Happiest
Human geography or cultural elements appear to play a role in children’s well-being. Irish children were found to be happier than their English, Welsh and Scottish counterparts. This same finding was repeated in analysis of adults. Dr. McMannus admits, “We can’s say for sure why it is.”
Recommendations for Happy Kids
Wellbeing not only feels good, “a high level of wellbeing a positive end in itself, it has also been found to predict living longer and living without disability,” according to the report’s authors. Learning how to grow happy children prevents not only misery, but save society money in lost work and in disability claims.
Based on the research, the most important finding, according to Dr. McMannus is that parents appear to be able to raise the happiness levels of their children by spending more time with them. As Dr. McMannus states, “Parents-Make time to have fun with your kids at the weekends, it really does matter.”
Spending time with children matters, no matter if the parent is a single parent, step-parent, natural, or adoptive parent.
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What makes Steinway Pianos Great
When it comes to buying a car and money is no object. You can’t go better than a Rolls Royce. Sure a Maybach or Bentley will come close, but nothing beats the handmade perfection of a Rolls. If you want a hand-tooled piano with good sounds, you’ll do no better than a Steinway Pianos.
The early history of Steinway and Sons pianos
The tradition of the company begins in the 1820s in Seesen, Germany, when Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, began making pianos in his kitchen. Hand and precision built
Steinweg labored hard for 15 years before starting a piano factory in Seesen in 1835.
Steinweg, who later anglicized the name to Steinway after he moved to the US, built a total of 482 pianos in Germany before emigrating to the United States in 1850.
His oldest son, C. F. Theodor Steinweg, then 25, chose to remain in German and build pianos and took over ownership of the German piano factory.
After moving to the U.S., Steinweg first built pianos in a small loft in New York City, and within 10 years, built a factory that employed 350 people, was larger than a city block, and was producing over 1500 pianos per year.
The company has applied for and received technical patents on 139 innovations to pianos, and coupled with its numerous awards in New York, Paris and London, lent long ways to the companies credence as one of the best piano makers on the planet.
The company later capitalized on these awards and inventions, by creating the second largest concert hall in New York City to showcase its pianos in a concert setting, followed by the cultivation of artists pianists exclusively using its pianos during concerts, and all the way to a “bank” of up to 250 of its best pianos being on ready
loan to high value and influential artists.
What makes these pianos so good?
As stated earlier, the company pretty much hand-builds every single piano, and it is not unusual for artisans, working in the company to put in 20, 30, and 40 years or more in its two factories, one in the U.S. in Queens, NY, which handles all North American Orders, and a factory in Hamburg Germany which handles all European and International orders.
Each piano, whether it be a Steinway A2 in Rosewood, a Steinway and Sons grand piano
in the Model S, Model M, Model A, Model B, Model C, Model D, or Model O, is precision work of art.
The wood alone, is stacked for a couple of years to reduce humidity, and then when it is close to building time, is sent to a “drying room” for around four weeks to reduce the humidity further.
Then, the wood is sent into a workshop, cut into thin layers, such as Mahogany or
rare wood strips such as Rosewood for the Steinway A2 in Rosewood, or exotic woods such as Walnut, Kewazinga Bubinga, and Macassar Ebony, interlaced with stronger wood such as maple, which is then clamped and glued into a model rim. Then the rim sits for over three months as the humidity dries out of the glue.
One the rim is dehumidified and in perfect shape, a spruce frame is installed to
hold the soundboard in place.
Altogether, nearly 55 percent of the mahogany and maple, and 80 percent of the spruce are rejected and recycled.
Once the soundboard is installed, a cast-iron frame is built around the rim, which supports roughly 20 tons of tension for the piano wires.
The piano wires, naturally, are hand-made by the factory by craftsmen who specialize in making piano wire.
All pianos basically work in the same way. When you press on a key on the keyboard, it triggers a mechanical reaction in which a hammer hits a key and causes a tone to occur.
Musical experts believe what distinguishes Steinway Grand Piano is the use lower-tension strings. This produces a gradual decay of sound after the wire has been struck, producing a warmer sound to the music. While almost all other piano companies produce pianos with higher tension piano wires, offering a grain of tinniness to their sound.
Of course, traditional “piano bangers” may be too tone-deaf to tell the difference, but trained performers playing a Steinway and Sons grand piano can tell. So can concert goers who forked over $100 or more for seats to a grand recital.
One consideration of course, is price. Just as you can expect to pay more for a Rolls Royce, buying a Steinway Grand Piano is not cheap. Which is one reason why there is such a huge market for used models.
These “previously used” models can be sometimes be purchased for a fraction of the price of a newer model, but here, there are some important caveats.
First, don’t buy a used concert piano without an expert by your side. The reason is of course, is that unless you are a piano expert, you can’t tell the real condition of a used piano. For one thing, has a non-comany expert already done their best to restore it, only they didn’t use company authorized parts? And what training did that piano restorer have with the company?
30, 40 or 50 years ago, but generally, that’s not true. A new piano will have much better keyboard action than an old one, and unless you are willing to spend big bucks on a piano restoration with a genuine expert, you may have bitten off more than you can chew.
And don’t let someone con you into telling you your piano is a great investment. When all is said and done, if you are a music lover, and hovering at the intermediate to expert level, these pianos will be a great investment in the quality of the music they produce, but you can probably find better places to invest your money if appreciation is what you have in mind.


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As part of the agreement, Chevron plans to fund construction of the sites, which are expected to be located at Chevron-branded retail locations across the state. The stations will initially fuel light-duty vehicles while retaining the flexibility to service heavy-duty vehicles over the long term. Iwatani will operate and maintain the hydrogen fueling sites and provide hydrogen supply and transportation logistics services. Chevron plans to supply a portion of the fueling sites with excess hydrogen production capacity at its Richmond Refinery and future hydrogen production from pilot projects in Northern California.
“Chevron believes that hydrogen has the potential to assist in lowering the carbon emissions of the transportation sector and other hard-to-decarbonize industries,” said Andy Walz, president of Americas Fuels & Lubricants for Chevron. “We are excited to work with Iwatani to advance the entire hydrogen transportation value chain from production to consumer purchase in order to help our customers lower their lifecycle transportation carbon intensities.”
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After a turbulent few months at Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer is hitting another bump: Moody’s Ratings has put two of Boeing’s ratings on review for downgrade.
The financial firm’s ratings division disclosed on Tuesday that it’s weighing a potential downgrade for Boeing’s Baa2 senior unsecured rating and Prime-2 short-term rating, primarily because of concerns that Boeing will be unable to deliver enough 737 aircraft to increase its cash flow and reduce its debt within a “reasonable timeframe.”
The Chicago-based aerospace firm has struggled to regain its footing after a difficult start to the year, beginning with the fateful blowout of a door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight in early January. Increased scrutiny of its safety practices by regulators and uncovered a litany of quality control concerns. And after months of misfortunes, Boeing CEO David Calhoun announced Monday that he’ll be stepping down from the company by the end of 2024, accompanied by several other senior leaders.
In a letter to staff Monday, Calhoun called the door plug incident a “watershed” moment for the company.
Moody’s noted that the “aftereffects of the door plug ejection” on the Alaska Airlines flight, “and investments in components and parts inventory” for Boeing’s 737 aircraft will result in $4.5 billion in negative cash flow during the first quarter. The ratings agency is projecting that the company will have just $1 billion in free cash flow for 2024.
The agency also cast doubt on whether the aerospace giant will reach delivery goals, noting that to achieve 400 deliveries this year, Boeing will have to average 36 deliveries over the next 10 months of 2024. It believes that it “will be difficult” for Boeing to achieve this delivery rate given the company’s current conditions.
Despite the turmoil, Calhoun remarked Monday that Boeing will continue to move forward with its potential acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems, which supplies the fuselage for its 737 Max 9 planes. Moody’s said it will weigh the possible benefits of the deal when making its ratings decision.
Moody’s announcement comes less than two weeks after Fitch Ratings downgraded its outlook on the airplane maker’s credit to “stable” from “positive.”
Boeing’s shares were down 2.3% on Tuesday afternoon, hovering at around $187 per share.


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19) For an egg that has cracked onto the floor, don’t clean it up straight away! Add a good dose of salt and leave it for 10 minutes. It will be much easier to clean!
20) Are you too full to finish off a delicious cake? Place slices of sliced pan on the cut edges before putting it in the fridge to keep it fresher and protect it for the next time
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The Annual FUMC Spring Golf Tournament was held on Monday May 20 at Pecan Valley Golf Course in Fort Worth. “We were blessed with good weather after a week of rain and had an excellent turnout with 11 teams participating,” says tournament organizer Wayne Maddox.
In all, 44 FUMCFW golfers participated in this tournament. “We had a great time of fellowship today at the First Church Golf Tournament! “ exclaims Rev. Chuck Graff. “And special thanks to Wayne Maddox — it was truly a great time for all.” Chuck has worked with Wayne Maddox, and before that Ed Petruska, to create and grow this beloved annual event to where it is today. Following Chuck’s retirement in July, Rev. Phyllis Barren will assume the role of staff liaison for this annual event.
First place honors went to the team of Michael Blanchard, Hunter Mixson, Joe Schlecte, Andrew Schlecte. Second Place went to the team of Rev. Lamar Smith, John Maddox, Mike Wood, and Evan Farris. Par 3 Closest to the Pin awards went to Mike Blanchard and Evan Farris.
“We were so honored to have Dr. Lamar Smith again participating following the recent celebration of his 92nd birthday,” Wayne continues. “We also were honored to have Rev. Chuck Graff participating just prior to his retirement in July. Both have been longtime supporters and participants in these tournaments. Hopefully both will continue to play in future events.”


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BEIJING – China hopes that Britain can stand by its position of not taking sides in the South China Sea and earnestly respect China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the Chinese government’s top diplomat told Britain’s foreign minister, Reuters reports.
Beijing expressed anger after a British Royal Navy warship sailed close to islands claimed by China in the South China Sea late last month, saying Britain was engaged in “provocation” and that it had lodged a strong complaint.
China also warned that ties were at risk after the naval operation.
China “hopes that Britain will truly implement its position of not taking sides in the South China Sea issue, earnestly respect China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and not do anything to disturb mutual trust between the two countries”, it cited Wang as saying.
China’s statement on Wang’s meeting with Hunt made no mention of Brexit or the free trade deal.


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Homeless rights advocates have won a lawsuit against the city after the authorities failed to enforce sufficient physical distancing in homeless shelters.
“Within the homeless shelters, we saw that the city wasn’t taking enough measures that it needed to create physical distancing,” said Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, a representative of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, one of the groups that filed a lawsuit.
On Oct. 15, the Ontario Superior Court ruled the City of Toronto did not abide by the settlement agreement and failed to meet its requirements, even though the city authorities claimed on June 15 they had reached the necessary distancing in homeless shelters. They were also accused of the lack of transparency in the actions to implement these measures.
“Our argument was that the city wasn’t transparent and accountable in what it was doing,” said Jessica Orkin, a lawyer from Goldblatt Partners LLP representing the applicants.
The advocates — Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Sanctuary Ministries of Toronto, Aboriginal Legal Services, Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario, Black Legal Action Centre, and HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario — formed a coalition to file a lawsuit against the city, claiming the officials breached the interim agreement they signed on May 15.
According to the agreement, the city had to ensure adequate space between shelter beds and cease the use of bunk beds to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Orkin also said the city’s records indicated there were too many people residing in shelters, which proves non-compliance with the agreement.
“When we investigated and got [the city’s] documentation, it was clear that they were aware of a number of sites that had not yet reached compliance.”
The city earlier denied these allegations, stating in the official letter they “take these issues very seriously” and make “every effort to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.”
The city also emphasized the challenges of achieving physical distancing, which considerably reduces shelters’ capacity. That means some residents have to relocate to another site with available space.
“Immediately imposing a mandatory standard requiring two metres of physical distancing between beds in all shelters was not workable given the space restrictions and number of residents that are served in Toronto shelters,” says in the letter.
Lower capacity enforces officials to relocate some individuals to hotel rooms or other locations, which, as the city explained, “an essential but complex task.”
Before relocating people, the city needs to assess each individual and decide if they are ready to move to another site.
After the assessment, new locations should be carefully checked for safety and the availability of necessary amenities for residents.
The city also has to secure contracts for cleaning, security, laundry services and food provisioning.
Orkin said the court and the coalition are aware of the challenges of relocating shelter residents to new sites. However, the city needs to be straightforward about its actions and standards applied to achieve this goal, Orkin said.
“We accept that there are challenges in creating new locations to house individuals experiencing homelessness,” Orkin said. “At the same time, the city needs to be transparent in the standards that it’s applying and how quickly it can move people and what it anticipates doing.”
“That’s the challenge we’ve had at every turn in this case: the city indicates what it intends to do, but it’s unclear about their standards and when it intends to or expects to meet compliance,” she said.
Shelter, Support and Housing Administration (SSHA) declined to comment on the lawsuit.
The controversy around physical distancing
There were disputes around physical distancing as the distances between shelter beds set by the city did not meet the agreement’s standards.
Based on the factum of the moving parties provided by CCLA, the target distance between shelter beds defined by SSHA would be two metres of “lateral” spacing and one metre of “longitudinal” spacing.
But if the demand for shelter beds increases in the upcoming months, SSHA will consider two metres of “lateral” spacing and 0.75 metres of “longitudinal” spacing.
Greg Cook, an outreach worker at Sanctuary Ministries, called such standards “odd interpretation” as they were made “without consulting with public health guidance.”
It meant the city could put more beds in a shelter space, he said.
Orkin said the coalition did not support this pattern, emphasizing the need to comply with two-metre distance.
“The city took the position that it was only between the side edges of the bed that it had to be two metres, and between the foot and the head of the bed could be [less],” she said. “We disagreed with that.”
Orkin also said the court disagreed with both parties’ positions and advised that the public health should carry out expertise on what distance is required.
“We hope it will lead to more people being moved out of the shelters because that is the general advice that all of us receive from public health: be with as few people as possible, to isolate and to reduce social circle through physical distancing,” she said.
“And that’s not possible in shelters — you don’t have control over your environment. But to the extent that we can reduce the density in shelters, we will reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, and reduce the risk of the burden of that disease across our city,” Orkin said.
Lack of distancing violates the homeless rights
In the Notice of Application to the Superior Court, the coalition highlighted that non-compliance with physical distancing infringes the rights of homeless individuals who seek accommodation in municipal shelters.
Moreover, the advocates called the City’s Shelter and Respite Standards “unconstitutional,” putting the lives of the vulnerable population at risk.
“In the context of COVID-19, the City’s scheme to provide shelter is endangering the life and safety of Toronto residents who access that shelter, in breach of s. 7 of the Charter, and constitutes discrimination on the grounds of age, race, national origin, citizenship and disability, in breach of s. 15 of the Charter,” the application says.
The coalition also compared the city’s efforts to ensure physical distancing in public places for the general population, which contradicts the measures it took in the homeless shelters.
Aviv said that many homeless individuals preferred to live in encampment sites due to fears over COVID-19.
“They were concerned about their own health, so they chose to camp out. That’s when we saw a growing number of encampments across the city without proper access to food and bathroom facilities,” she said.
She also referred to an ongoing housing crisis in Toronto that prevents people from getting “adequate and permanent” accommodation.
“At a time when you’re saying to people ‘if you want to be safe – stay at home,’ make it possible for people to do that,” Mendelsohn Aviv said.
Domenico Saxida, a resident of an encampment site at Alexandra Park, said one of the reasons why he prefers to live on the street is he can self-isolate in his encampment better than in a shelter.
In his nearly 25-foot site, he houses around seven tents that could fit up to six people. But because of social distancing, each tent accommodates only one person.
“We do more social distancing here than in shelters,” Saxida said. “I don’t want to go back to shelters because of COVID, and many people here don’t wanna go there.”
He also said that he and other encampment residents recently had gone through a COVID-19 assessment, and none of them had tested positive.
In Toronto shelters, 649 people have tested positive for COVD-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.
City’s support during COVID-19
Jake Aikenhead, director at The Salvation Army Gateway, said that adapting to the COVID-19 restrictions and rules went “very smoothly” for the shelter.
“The City of Toronto, the Shelter Support and Housing Administration specifically, have been really helpful to us. I don’t think it would have been possible for us to decrease the number of shelter residents as drastically as we have without their support,” Aikenhead said.
“With their help, we have been able to open up hotel programs at the Salvation Army, and that’s where a number of our previous residents have gone to create more space [in The Gateway].”
He also said the city’s administration has sent to the shelter “thousands and thousands” of surgical masks, which were very beneficial since the residents are now required to wear a face covering.
“We can provide each of them with a new mask every day, and we have enough to get through the end of December,” Aikenhead said.

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An in-plane light scattering setup that is capable of measuring large azimuthal scattering angles is presented. This type of measurement makes it easier to probe large k∥ at a fixed k⊥ value (k∥ and k⊥ are momentum transfer vectors parallel and perpendicular to the surface, respectively). Therefore the system allows us to explore small lateral scale and large vertical roughness (~λ, the wavelength of the probe beam) of a rough surface. In-plane intensity measurements from a rough backside Si wafer and a Cu thin-film surface are reported. The structure factor that is related to surface roughness parameters is obtained from the measured in-plane intensity profiles. Both scalar (Beckmann–Kirchhoff) and vector (Rayleigh–Rice) theories have been applied to interpret the experimental data. The roughness parameters obtained from the scattering measurements are compared with those measured by atomic-force microscopy.
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(050.1960) Diffraction and gratings : Diffraction theory
(240.5770) Optics at surfaces : Roughness
(290.5820) Scattering : Scattering measurements
(290.5880) Scattering : Scattering, rough surfaces
Tansel Karabacak, Yiping Zhao, Matthew Stowe, Bill Quayle, Gwo-Ching Wang, and Ton-Ming Lu, "Large-Angle In-Plane Light Scattering from Rough Surfaces," Appl. Opt. 39, 4658-4668 (2000)


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According to new research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers uncovered sets of proteins involved in glucose metabolism that are linked to Alzheimer’s disease biology. The findings, published in the journal Nature Medicine, could result in new treatment targets and fluid biomarkers.
For the study, researchers examined patterns of protein expressed in over 2,000 human brain and close to 400 cerebrospinal fluid samples belonging to individuals with and without the presence of neurodegeneration. The samples were gathered from various research centers in the U.S.
In their examination of the samples, researchers observed changes in proteins associated with glucose metabolism and an anti-inflammatory response in glial cells in the samples from both groups, with and without a neurodegenerative disease, like Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
“A protein network module linked to sugar metabolism emerged as one of the modules most significantly associated with AD pathology and cognitive impairment,” the study shows.
“This module was enriched in AD genetic risk factors and in microglia and astrocyte protein markers associated with an anti-inflammatory state, suggesting that the biological functions it represents serve a protective role in AD.”
The results showed an abnormal level of cerebrospinal fluid in the early stages of neurodegeneration in the proteins from the module. Proteins and biological processes identified in the brains of participants with neurodegeneration may be used as a source for new treatment targets and the development of fluid biomarkers.
“This is an example of how the collaborative, open science platform of AMP-AD is creating a pipeline of discovery for new approaches to diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease,” said Richard Hodes, Director of the NIH’s National Institute on Aging.
“This study exemplifies how research can be accelerated when multiple research groups share their biological samples and data resources.”

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Alexander Bogomazov, a Ukrainian Avant-Garde painter, theorist and teacher, is one of the most significant figures in the advent of Cubo-Futurism, a phenomenon unique to Russian and Ukrainian art in the early 1910s. A distinct response to European Avant-Garde trends, the movement’s origins were exemplified in literary circles by figures such as Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922), Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) and Alexey Kruchenykh (1886-1968), who were known for their opposition to conventional morality and aesthetic taste. Poet-futurists closely collaborated with Cubist artists from the Knave of Diamonds and Donkey's tail groups, publishing illustrated books of poems together. This close cooperation between literature and art played an important role in the formation of the Cubo-futurist aesthetic principles in painting.
For many artists, both Russian and European, Cubo-Futurism was a transitory period but for Alexander Bogomazov, it became his key doctrine. Bogomazov’s significant research and analysis of this 'new art' resulted in his 1914 treatise Zhivopis' i ee elementy [Painting and its elements]. Where Cubists tried to decompose the object, to translate its inner structure onto canvas, and thus demonstrate it to spectators as the only proper way of depiction, Futurists were fascinated by industrialisation and the dynamism of their epoch and as such concentrated on depicting an object’s motion. Under the influence of both trends, Cubo-Futurists were the first Avant-Gardists who rejected the conventional way of painting, and in doing so shocked an unprepared public. By offering a theoretical explanation of the artistic process, Bogomazov believed he could help critical spectators to reject these inert and traditional judgments: 'Painters are faced with a dilemma at this moment: either to move forward or turn back in fear of the New Art. Boundless joy and throes of creation are in store for those who are brave enough to advance, while melancholy, frustration and the tedium of repeating the known and blaming everything new await those who are not. It is about this New Art that I want to speak and to tell the reader, to the best of my abilities, what I see, feel and understand'. (A. Bogomazov, Zhivopis' i ee elementy [Painting and its elements], Kiev, 1996, p. 91).
Kiev, where Bogomazov spent most of his life, was to the artist what Rome was to the Italian Futurists. 1907 however, the year Bogomazov spent in Moscow, proved critical as it allowed him to become acquainted with the newest artistic trends and key-figures of the art world, providing the impetus for his progression to 'new art'. There, studying alongside other future Cubo-futurists such as Lyubov Popova (1889-1924), Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958) and Nadezhda Udaltsova (1886-1961), he closely collaborated with the noted Russian painter and theorist Konstantin Yuon (1875-1958), particularly on theatrical productions.
Bogomazov's Cubo-futurist artworks were first presented to the Kievan public at the Kol'tso [Ring] exhibition organised in early 1914 by himself and Alexandra Exter (1882-1949). Here the painter demonstrated that he was already aware of the Futurist idea of motion and Cubist principle of deformation, and managed to create his own formula of Cubo-futurism. By displaying his work alongside that of Alexandra Exter, Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964) and David Burliuk (1882-1967), Bogomazov confirmed his position as an important figure in Kievan art circles.
The present work Toys, appearing at auction for the first time, is a powerful example of Bogomazov’s belief that in order to strengthen an object’s dynamism and tension, an artist has to saturate a certain form with a certain colour. The level of the form’s tension will depend on the intensity of the tone chosen by the artist. Bogomazov believed that it is a coloured mass that makes a given form complete because colour reveals all of its pictorial values: ‘Colour is the expression of the mass contained in a form, its plastic completion.’ Furthermore, one of the most prevalent principles discernable in Bogomazov’s works from 1913 was the use of straight lines originating from one point. Although bow-shaped lines and oval forms would later become Bogomazov's main pictorial device, this works indicates this imminent transition.