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Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telemedicine by oncology physicians in Manitoba, Canada, has increased to limit the risk of exposure to the virus for both patients and health care providers. It is not clear how telemedicine impacts the information needs of patients or the experience of receiving cancer care.
Objective: The objective of this study is to describe how the use of telemedicine impacts the information needs and experience of patients with cancer and their informal caregivers (ie, family and friends) and identify directions for future research.
Methods: This review will include all studies addressing telemedicine in the cancer context including those using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. This scoping review will be conducted using the methodology described by the Joanna Briggs Institute. In collaboration with a librarian scientist specializing in health sciences, a comprehensive search will be undertaken to identify and retrieve relevant reports published in English from 1990 to the present. Databases searched will include MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, Scopus, Cochrane Library, and PsycINFO. Data will be extracted by two independent reviewers, synthesized, and reported in a summary table and in a narrative format describing what has been reported regarding the impact of telemedicine by physicians in oncology on the experience of patients and their informal caregivers and their receipt of information.
Results: The results from this scoping review are expected to be available by late spring 2021.
Conclusions: The results from this scoping review will be useful for informing practice as well as directing future research, both in the context of COVID-19 and beyond.
International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID): PRR1-10.2196/25501
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed how cancer care is delivered. In the Canadian province of Manitoba, most cancer care is delivered by a provincial, centralized agency, CancerCare Manitoba (CCMB). During the COVID-19 pandemic, CCMB implemented changes to mitigate the risk of contracting the virus for patients with cancer as well as health care providers. These changes have included routine screening for signs of infection prior to staff, patients, and informal caregivers entering facilities, limiting the number of informal caregivers that can accompany patients to appointments and procedures, and the routine use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by health care staff who provide in-person care to patients . Perhaps the most remarkable change in clinical practice has been the dramatic increase in the use of telemedicine by physicians.
Telemedicine and telehealth are closely related but distinct concepts [, ]. The American Academy of Family Practitioners (AAFP) provides clear definitions of these terms [ ]. The AAFP defines telehealth as the use of telecommunication strategies to deliver health care and health care–related services such as the education of health care professionals. Telemedicine is more narrowly defined and refers specifically to the delivery of medical care using telecommunications, suggesting that it is a distinct entity within the umbrella of telehealth. It should be noted that the distinction between the two terms is not recognized by all, as the terms telemedicine and telehealth have been used interchangeably by some authors [ ].
In Manitoba, a provincial telehealth service has been long-standing, which facilitates telemedicine services through physician-to-patient videoconferencing services. In the cancer setting, these services link specialists working in the urban cancer centers (ie, in the cities of Winnipeg and Brandon, Manitoba) with patients attending appointments in rural and remote centers throughout the province. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CCMB physicians rapidly adopted telemedicine solutions outside of the formal Telehealth service. Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and other consumer-level videoconferencing services, in addition to the increased use of telephone calls, have been used in lieu of clinic visits to keep patients, informal caregivers, and health care providers safe by limiting traffic in health centers and reducing the need for in-person clinic visits.
In cancer care, physicians are often required to share sensitive and complex information with patients and those supporting them. Information needs are among the most commonly cited unmet supportive care needs [, ], and it is not clear how receiving information, including that which is considered to be “bad news,” through telemedicine impacts the patient experience. With the rapid increase of telemedicine services during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the use of informal telemedicine services in Manitoba, it is necessary to better understand how telemedicine affects the experience of receiving information from physicians.
Telemedicine and telehealth have been explored outside of the cancer setting, with numerous intervention trials and systematic reviews both completed and underway . Additionally, guidelines exist to help guide best practice for the use of telemedicine [ ], such as those developed by the American Association of Telemedicine [ ]. However, in the unique setting of oncology, there appears to be a lack of empirical evidence to guide best practices. Prior to undertaking this review, the literature was searched to identify literature that would be helpful for guiding best practices. The search included several databases (JBI Evidence, Cochrane Systemic Reviews, and MEDLINE) and did identify numerous studies that have explored the experience of receiving cancer care through telemedicine, with two reviews identified that summarized the qualitative evidence regarding the experience of patients with cancer and informal caregivers accessing telemedicine [ , ]. However, no review could be identified that addressed specific activities or practices oncology physicians could employ to improve the experience of receiving care through telemedicine. Of note, a recent publication on delivering bad news using telemedicine in the oncology setting based on expert opinion guided by the SPIKES framework [ ] was identified, but it is noted that this framework was not specifically designed in the context of telemedicine.
Systematic, scoping, and mapping reviews are 3 different types of systematic literature review methods, each with distinct procedures and outputs. Systematic reviews are useful when a decision regarding changes to current practice is required . Scoping reviews, which may be a precursor to systematic reviews, help to identify the types of evidence available on a given topic, clarify concepts, examine how research has been conducted, and identify knowledge gaps [ , ]. Mapping reviews, on the other hand, do not answer specific questions about a topic, but identify what evidence exists regarding a certain topic [ , ]. As the literature relevant to the required objectives does not appear to have been previously summarized, a scoping review was selected as the best review strategy.
Based on how telemedicine has been adopted at CCMB during the COVID-19 pandemic, the relevant objectives for this review are the following: (1) to identify how telemedicine in the oncology setting has been studied in the literature, (2) to identify what specific clinician practices have either been demonstrated or suggested to be helpful in terms of improving the patient/friend/family experience, and (3) to identify future research directions to improve the integration of telemedicine with clinical oncology care.
This scoping review protocol is based on the methodology developed by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) [, ]. In keeping with their procedures, the following section will outline the specific review questions, study inclusion criteria, search strategy, and procedures for study selection, data extraction, and data presentation.
The primary question this review will seek to answer is the following:
Question 1.0: What studies have been conducted examining the relationship between clinicians’ use of telemedicine and the experience of patients with cancer and their informal caregivers?
The subquestions this review will seek to answer are the following:
Question 1.1: What clinician factors have been identified as impacting the experience of receiving care via telemedicine in the cancer context?
Question 1.2: What patient/informal caregiver factors have been identified as affecting the experience of receiving care via telemedicine in the cancer context?
Question 1.3: What types of communication strategies have been studied for delivering telemedicine in the cancer context?
Question 1.4: What technological factors (eg, apps, remote monitoring, asynchronous versus synchronous communication) have been demonstrated to impact the experience of receiving care via telemedicine for patients and their informal caregivers?
Question 1.5: What factors related to the type of information being shared have been demonstrated to impact the cancer experience of patients and their informal caregivers?
This review will include studies involving patients with cancer aged >18 years and their friends, family, and informal caregivers.
Any telemedicine use in the oncology context.
The studies included in this review will focus on the receipt of oncology physician care through telemedicine. This review will not focus on specific cultural, racial, or geographic characteristics.
Types of Sources
This scoping review will consider quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods study designs for inclusion. Additionally, systematic reviews and editorials will be considered for inclusion. Articles published in English will be included. Articles published from 1990 to the present will be included to reflect research conducted at the beginning of the contemporary era of telemedicine .
Studies focused primarily on the pediatric oncology context and non–peer reviewed publications will be excluded.
The search strategy will aim to locate peer-reviewed published primary studies, reviews, and editorials. An initial limited search of MEDLINE and CINAHL was undertaken to identify articles on the topic. The text words contained in the titles and abstracts of relevant articles, and the index terms used to describe the articles, were used to develop a full search strategy for MEDLINE, and translated for CINAHL (seefor the MEDLINE search). The search strategy, including all identified keywords and index terms, will be adapted for each included information source. The reference lists of articles selected for full-text review will be screened for additional papers.
Information sources will include electronic databases and study authors. Databases to be searched will include MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Scopus, and PsycINFO.
Following the search, all identified records will be collated and uploaded into EndNote X9 (Clarivate Analytics) and duplicates will be removed. Titles and abstracts will then be screened by two independent reviewers for assessment against the inclusion criteria for the review. Potentially relevant papers will be retrieved in full and their citation details will be imported into an Excel (Microsoft Corp) spreadsheet. The full text of selected citations will be assessed in detail against the inclusion criteria by two independent reviewers. Reasons for exclusion of full-text papers that do not meet the inclusion criteria will be recorded and reported in the scoping review. Any disagreements that arise between the reviewers at each stage of the selection process will be resolved through discussion or with a third reviewer. The results of the search will be reported in full in the final scoping review and presented in a PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews) flow diagram .
Data will be extracted from papers included in the scoping review by two independent reviewers using a data extraction tool developed by the reviewers. The data extracted will include specific details about studies exploring the experience of adult patients with cancer and their informal caregivers receiving telemedicine relevant to the main review question as well as the scoping review subquestions. The extraction tool has been developed based on recommendations and the example provided by JBI . A draft extraction tool is provided ( ). The draft data extraction tool will be modified and revised as necessary during the process of extracting data from each included paper. Modifications will be detailed in the full scoping review. Any disagreements that arise between the reviewers will be resolved through discussion or with a third reviewer. Authors of papers will be contacted to request missing or additional data, where required.
The extracted data will be presented in diagrammatic or tabular form in a manner that aligns with the objective of this scoping review. A narrative summary will accompany the tabulated and/or charted results and will describe how the results relate to the review’s objectives and questions.
Study activities related to the scoping review will begin in December 2020. Results will be available by late spring 2021.
The protocol for this scoping review has been developed as a pragmatic response to the challenges faced by patients, their informal caregivers, and clinicians in accessing/providing clinical care during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The need to socially distance and take additional precautions to prevent transmission of the COVID-19 virus has likely had significant effects on the experience of receiving and delivering  cancer care. How these changes have impacted the delivery and receipt of information provided by clinicians to patients and their informal caregivers is not yet fully understood.
A recent report by the lead author of this protocol (MT) identified key characteristics of high-quality information. These emerged from semistructured interviews with 60 patients with cancer and their friends and family . The interview data were analyzed using Classical Grounded Theory [ - ]. The key characteristics of high-quality information included accessibility, credibility, applicability, and framing. Accessibility was defined as the relative convenience and effort associated with receiving information about cancer. Credibility reflected how trustworthy/reliable the information was considered. Applicability referred to the degree with which the information received applied to the individual who received it. Framing was defined as how the information was presented, with particular focus on whether the information identified ways that the cancer situation could be optimized, either by clinicians or by the individuals receiving the information. Using the framework provided by this previous study [ ], both from a patient and informal caregiver perspective, receiving care through telemedicine may be more accessible than through traditional in-person encounters. However, some important information conveyed through in-person interactions maybe not be transmitted. For instance, nonverbal information may not be delivered or received, making it challenging to both provide and receive care in sensitive contexts. This scoping review will be useful in identifying the different factors that have been found to affect the delivery of information using telemedicine in the cancer context as well as what areas have yet to be explored. The results will be useful to both clinicians and researchers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
This review is being supported through a grant from the CancerCare Manitoba Foundation.
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|AAFP: American Academy of Family Practitioners|
|CCMB: CancerCare Manitoba|
|JBI: Joanna Briggs Institute|
|PPE: personal protective equipment|
|PRISMA-ScR: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews|
Edited by G Eysenbach; submitted 04.11.20; peer-reviewed by G Lucas, E Tashkandi; comments to author 17.11.20; revised version received 23.11.20; accepted 01.12.20; published 15.12.20Copyright
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Between social media and the plethora of news outlets reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic, many Americans aren’t sure what information to believe. New data from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that nearly 80% of Americans surveyed said they had heard of at least one of the falsehoods perpetuated by online misinformation and either believed it, or were unsure whether or not it was true.
“Most commonly, six in ten adults have heard that the government is exaggerating the number of Covid-19 deaths by counting deaths due to other factors such as coronavirus deaths and either believe this to be true (38%) or aren’t sure if it’s true or false (22%).”
“One-third of respondents believe or are unsure whether deaths due to the Covid-19 vaccine are being intentionally hidden by the government (35%), and about three in ten each believe or are unsure whether Covid-19 vaccines have been shown to cause infertility (31%) or whether Ivermectin is a safe and effective treatment for COVID-19 (28%),” the authors wrote.
The survey also found that “between a fifth and a quarter of the public believe or are unsure whether the vaccines can give you COVID-19 (25%), contain a microchip (24%), or can change your DNA (21%).”
Outlandish ideas such as vaccine microchips, trackers, or changes to DNA have been reported by “trusted” media outlets and have made a vast impact on many Americans in their choice to get vaccinated or not.
“People’s trusted news sources are correlated with their belief in COVID-19 misinformation. At least a third of those who trust information from CNN, MSNBC, network news, NPR, and local television news do not believe any of the eight false statements, while small shares (between 11% and 16%) believe or are unsure about at least four of the eight false statements.”
These results prove that traditional sources of media are helping people separate facts from falsehoods. However, Republicans have made it clear that sources such as CNN and NPR are not to be trusted.
The survey found that “nearly 4 in 10 of those who trust Fox News (36%) and One America News (37%), and nearly half (46%) of those who trust Newsmax, saying they believe or are unsure about at least half of the eight false statements.”
The researchers cautioned, however, that “whether this is because people are exposed to misinformation from those news sources, or whether the types of people who choose those news sources are the same ones who are pre-disposed to believe certain types of misinformation for other reasons, is beyond the scope of the analysis.”
Post reporter Aaron Blake followed up with Kaiser and concluded that the overall numbers “obscure just how ripe the right is for this kind of misinformation. That’s because, “in most cases, if you exclude Republicans who haven’t heard the claims and focus on just who is familiar with them, a majority of them actually believe the claims.”
David Leonhardt of The New York Times wrote “Covid vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing severe Covid, and almost 40 percent of Republican adults remain unvaccinated, compared with about 10 percent of Democratic adults. In the Kaiser research, unvaccinated adults were more likely than vaccinated adults to believe four or more of the eight false statements.”
Eric Mastrota is a Contributing Editor at The National Digest based in New York. A graduate of SUNY New Paltz, he reports on world news, culture, and lifestyle. You can reach him at email@example.com.

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1 gym franchisee intends to start a dozen new places, though a national series is promoting electronic memberships.
America’s fitness centers are reopening into a markedly changed gym as coronavirus pandemic limits elevator. Each company –and its customers–have to determine how to navigate fresh workout habits and contradictory demands around Covid-19 security protocols.
Some individuals will not exercise at a face covering; others may just frequent a gym using a mask mandate. Others bought pricey physical fitness machines for their houses and have spent taking virtual courses.
The gym chain, together with 150 U.S. places, now provides a $15 yearly digital membership, where people are able to work outside to streaming courses.
Gyms, from boutique studios into sprawling fitness facilities, have been one of the sectors hardest hit from the public-health catastrophe, as worries about individuals spreading the coronavirus during class workout directed to mandated shutdowns and manhood exoduses.
The pandemic’s cost was profound: Almost half the 3 million jobs at U.S. health clubs vanished this past year and over half of their industry’s earnings.
People who survived are catering to a client base today more used to exercising in the home and much better equipped to do so. As health spas faltered, industry boomed for businesses like Peloton Interactive Inc. and Nautilus Inc. offering streaming courses and exercise gear. Demand was high for Peloton exercise bicycles and treadmills that clients have waited months for deliveries.
“I understand there is chatter of,’We’re a stay-at-home inventory, and we return to normal and Peloton expires or anything,'” John Foley, Peloton co-founder and chief executive, told investors at February. “We clearly are taking another side of this. Each year from the U.S., there has been 5 million treadmills offered. So it is nothing like exercising in the home was a Covid thing. It has ever been something. It is only the goods are dopey and not linked.”
Fitness owners and business experts say the fitness landscape is probably permanently changed from the pandemic. After the Covid-19 hazard passes, they state, the work of fitness will become a mashup of bricks-and-mortar and online digital offerings, similar to the coronavirus-hastened growth of retail, office work and schooling.
“At-home will get part of the fitness ecosystem, it is likely to have a oversized platform,” said BMO analyst Simeon Siegel. “However, for the great majority of individuals, the fitness sector will still revolve round bricks-and-mortar.”
In the end of 2020, the business has dropped $20.4 billion in earnings, while roughly 6,400 clubs–17 percent of the overall –closed indefinitely.
A recent survey by consulting firm McKinsey & Co. found that 68 percent of people who began using an internet physical fitness program throughout the pandemic stated they intended to last for the long run.


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POTUS reportedly wants to stop giving Puerto Rico hurricane relief funds because he thinks the government is using it to pay off its debt
[Business Insider] President Donald Trump wants stop giving Puerto Rico federal funding for Hurricane Maria recovery, according to a report from Axios.
According to the report, White House officials told congressional leadership that Trump claimed without evidence that Puerto Rico's government is using the disaster relief money to pay off debt.
Trump can't take disaster funds back that he's already given to Puerto Rico or set aside by Congress, but he reportedly could refuse to sign any future spending bills, according to Axios.
The report comes after a Wall Street Journal article said Puerto Rico bond prices had soared "after the federal oversight board that runs the US territory's finances released a revised fiscal plan that raises expectations for disaster funding and economic growth."
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Amazon has heavily discounted several video games published by 2K Games. According to listing updates from the online retailer on Sept. 18, both “BioShock Infinite” and “Borderlands 2” saw significant reduction in price.
Amazon discounted “BioShock Infinite” by 39 percent on consoles in addition to 50 percent on the PC. As a result, customers can purchase the first-person shooter for $29.99 on all three platforms. The Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 version of “Borderlands 2” was also dropped by 53 percent to the sale price of $14.99. The PC iteration of the open-world cooperative role-playing game has also been discounted to $19.99. You can check out some screens from “Borderlands 2” in the slideshow near the top of this article and the deal links from Amazon below:
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With ten rounds to go in the Inferno Cup competition, not a single golfer has been mathematically eliminated from the prize money. Admittedly, for those hovering at or near the bottom of the list, they’ll have to get in and play in most if not all of the final rounds. It will also be helpful if they begin winning. Jim Stamatis still sits on top, but the gap is getting smaller and smaller. Jim Woods has gained fifty points this week and now sits in third place only thirty points behind Stamatis. Jim Gabriel has picked up forty points this week and has crawled into the five spot on the money list. Given the design of the Cup competition, it can only get tighter in the final five weeks.
With five out of the top eight Inferno Cup performers out of town Friday, a small field of two man teams fought it out in a modified Stableford match where the playing partners weren’t known until after the completion of the competition. Partners were determined in a completely random fashion. Jim Gabriel tookhis net 71 and paired up with Howard Jones who bagged four birdies on the day. They claimed first place one point ahead of the teams of Dan Hourihan and Jim Woods and Tom Swan and Tom Hansen. Hourihan and Woods won a scorecard playoff to claim second place honors.
Tom Swan took low gross honors with a 75. His net 65 was also good enough to win low net.
- Tom Swan – 75
- Gary Anzalone -77
- Mike Miller – 79
- Tom Swan – 65
- Howard Jones – 68
- Gary Anzalone, Pat Collins, Steve King and Jim Woods – 70
Skins money was distributed between Howard Jones, Mike Miller, Tom Swan, Gary Anzalone, Jim Woods and Jim Gabriel with Jones walking away with two skins.
Bruce Partridge turned in a fine round capturing the sixteenth position, i.e., last place, in both the gross and net divisions. His group apparently did a lot of “waiting” on the course. The group in front moved quickly (geologically speaking) so it’s difficult to understand the source of the problem. Perhaps we need to do something to stifle fast play.

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Tensions rose on the southern border of Lebanon after Hezbollah threatened to target Israel’s Mediterranean natural gas. Lebanon has an ongoing dispute with Israel over defining the gas-rich exclusive economic zone. Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also warned Tel Aviv that the group would retaliate against any Israeli strike on Lebanon by attacking Israel’s offshore platforms. The dispute started after the Lebanese government planned and signed contracts to start exploring offshore oil and gas fields known as Block 9. Israel contested the Lebanese step and insisted on setting the disputed border before Lebanon start exploring.
Addressing the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv University, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman threatened to wage a full-scale war against Lebanon if Hezbollah launched any attacks against Israel. Moreover, he said that Lebanon’s plans were “very, very challenging and provocative,” On the other hand, Israel started building a new wall along its border with Lebanon on Feb. 8th. No official reason was given regarding the Israeli action, but the last time Israel built a wall along the border in 2012, the purpose was to avoid friction. Lebanon’s Higher Defense Council gave orders to prevent Israel from building a border wall on disputed territory. Lebanon has focused its complaints on 13 points where the fence and Israeli Defense Forces outposts enter Lebanese territory north of the line drawn in 1949. Israel also has complaints about the precision with which the border was determined. David Satterfield, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, delivered a mediation attempt between Israel and Lebanon. Satterfield, has assured Lebanon that Israel is not seeking an escalation between the countries following a surge in hostile rhetoric. He added that there is no call for concern and no direction toward escalation.
Lebanon is getting ready for three international conferences scheduled for March and April 2018, seeking to rally international support for its security institutions and attract foreign investments to shore up the economy facing the burden of a sizeable refugee population. The first conference in Rome aims to receiving international support for Lebanon’s security agencies and further strengthening the Lebanese army’s capabilities. The “Cedar Conference” which will be held in Paris, aims at bolstering financial support for Lebanon. The government aims to receive financial support for its projects through soft loans from international funds and different financial institutions. The Brussels conference, which will be held on the 4th of April, bring together over 70 countries, international organizations and civil society to “reconfirm existing pledges and identify additional support to Syrians inside Syria and in the neighboring countries”.
The main challenge for these conferences are:
Saudi high-ranking envoy Nizar Al-Aloula finished a four-day visit to Beirut during which he met with top Lebanese officials. Aloula was accompanied by a delegation that includes former Saudi Embassy Charge d’Affaires Walid Al-Bukhari. During his visit to Lebanon, Aloula invited the Lebanese Prime Minister to visit the Kingdom. Hariri welcomed the invitation and quickly visited the Kingdom where he met with King Salman and the Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman. The Saudi envoy’s visit to Lebanon, followed by Hariri’s trip to Riyadh, included several political messages:
The deadline for submitting candidacy finished on March 7th with a record high number of candidates, and the deadline for the list formation is on March 27th. The final image of the alliances in the upcoming parliamentarian elections is not yet clear even though time is running out. It is clear that the new electoral law is making it difficult for the different political parties to have a clear vision of their alliances and of the expected results. However, few things can be noted:
LFP and FPM are so far running separately and alone in most districts with a Christian majority, allying only with independents who will accept to join their parliamentary blocs.
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A few days after this edition of the Congregationalist gets to you, we will once again host one of our most popular and cherished annual traditions – the Advent Festival. On the afternoon and early evening of Sunday, December 4, our kids will have the chance to participate in a number of arts and crafts activities, share dinner, and then sing carols and decorate the Christmas tree in Patton Auditorium.
It is always a special event for them. And that is as it should be, since Christmas is a time for children. But in our desire to make the season as joyful as we can for our kids, let’s never lose sight of the fact that Christmas isn’t just for them. It is for our entire spiritual congregation. Which is why the Advent Festival is also intended to be multi- generational, with many of our adults leading the arts and craft activities, and the dinner and caroling being shared with parents and other adults. This Advent and Christmas though, I ask us all to consider placing a special emphasis on one particular part of our adult population – the senior members of the FCC community.
While the main character in the Christmas story is a child, seniors play important, but often unrecognized roles in it as well. Joseph, for instance, is believed by many scholars to have been an elderly man by the standards of that time and place. The wise men are considered to have very possibly been seniors as well. And then there are Simeon and Anna, two figures critical to an important episode right after Jesus’ birth, who were both clearly in their later years.
So during this season for children, let’s also consider making time to call; visit; bring a gift or take a senior member — within or outside the FCC community — out to shop or for lunch. As seniors played a significant part in the Christmas story, they have played, and continue to play, an indispensable and irreplaceable role in the FCC story.
Advent and Christmas Blessings, Mark


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Dormaa-Ahenkro (B/A), June 1, GNA – Poultry farmers in the two Dormaa Districts of the Brong-Ahafo Region have appealed to the government and relevant stakeholders to assist them with the supply of maize at affordable prices to prevent their businesses from collapsing.
The poultry industry is a major source of employment for most of the people in the two districts.
Nana Asamoah Sebreku, Chairman of the Dormaa Poultry Farmers Association, an umbrella union of nearly 200 poultry farmers in the districts, revealed the industry’s precarious situation at a press briefing at Dormaa-Ahenkro on Wednesday.
He said the situation had triggered panic buying of the birds, which had also resulted in arbitrary increase in the price of maize in the area.
Nana Sebreku said most of the youth in the area had turned to cocoa farming following government continued interventions and subsidies for cocoa farmers and this had adversely affected maize production.
Nana Sebreku said the union had therefore sent an ‘SOS’ appeal to government to consider releasing its buffer stock maize for poultry farmers without further delay.
Failure to do this, he said, would result in the farms folding up and throwing tens of thousands in the industry chain out of employment, thereby worsening the country’s unemployment situation.
The 2006 National Best Poultry Farmer, Adama Musa, appealed to government to ignore middlemen and deal directly with the farmers’ associations to ensure stability of maize price.
He called on government to review downward taxes on imported yellow maize as its absence on the market had worsened the plight of poultry farmers.
The union called on the government to also consider introducing similar interventions in the cocoa industry in other sectors of agriculture.


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(BIVN) – The Chamber of Commerce Hawaiʻi held a “SOS Biz Rally” via online videoconference on Saturday, in order to raise awareness on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted local business in the islands.
“We appreciate the support of our county and state government’s efforts to stop the spread of COVID,” said Miles Yoshioka with the Hawaiʻi Island Chamber of Commerce, “but we need them to act quickly to provide relief to our businesses so that, really, they can stay in businesses.”
Yoshioka said many local businesses “are just a hair away from a complete shutdown, if not shut down already.”
“We all need to do our part to help our businesses stay in business,” Yoshioka said, “and keep our friends and neighbors employed by buying their products and their services.”
As of Sunday, officials reported no active cases of COVID-19 on Hawaiʻi island. However, there is growing spread of coronavirus on Oʻahu. The increase in Honolulu cases has forced officials to reconsider restrictions.
Debbie Ching-Maiava, the owner of Hilo’s iconic Ken’s House of Pancakes, as well as the nearby Ponds Restaurant, said during the video rally that Ken’s turns 50 years-old next year, “God willing.”
“We were the only 24-hour restaurant on the east side of Hawaiʻi,” Ching-Maiava said. “Now we’re only open from 6 in the morning to 9 at night. That’s a drastic change for us, and for the community. When COVID hit, we shut down for 3 months, and when we opened, it was a task to get workers back.”
“We went from 64 employees to 43 at Ken’s,” Ching-Maiava said, “and from 32 to 25 at Ponds. Our sales have dropped from 62% percent at Ken’s and 47% percent at Ponds.”
Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Wendy Laros said she would like to see Hawaiʻi state government help the unemployment
plus-up, and added they we just found out “that one of the line item vetoes that the Governor did on Thursday was to take away that extra hundred dollars – let alone the extra $600 – that’s $2,400 that people aren’t going to get each month, and that’s a lot.”
Laros also said she would like to see that the “U.S. Congress hurry up and get the next stimulus package passed. It takes time for the money to actually get into the businesses and to the community. That is extremely important right now.”
“I myself have been going out since June 5th,” said Unyong Nakata, the Operations Integrator and Enterprise Marketing Director for Y. Hata Co. “I’m careful, I’m not fearful,” she said.
“We need to get back to work, our kids need to go back to school, tourism needs to open back up,” Nakata said, “but we need to be careful, not fearful. I’m asking, I’m begging, I’m imploring all of us, and our leadership – local and state – to use real data. Stop having knee-jerk reactions. And if you don’t know, then let’s get together and talk about it, and bring the people who do know into the same room.”

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The majority of comedy in LA lives and breathes on the so-called Eastside. It was true far before the pandemic and is potentially even truer on this side of the pandemic. For years, the only dedicated comedy venues on LA’s widespread and oh-so-nice West Side were the Comedy & Magic Club and M.I.’s Westside Comedy Theater. The former was embedded deep enough in the Beach Cities that it’d be a trek even if you were coming from Santa Monica and the latter was very tucked away in an alley parallel to the famous 3rd Street Promenade.
Thankfully, to comedian/producer/educator Nicole Blaine and husband Mickey Blaine, The Crow will be the West Side and LA’s newest comedy venue (and that’s while the sheen on The Elysian and The Glendale Room are still very nice and bright). Blaine promises it for to be, “the intersection where art meets community through a comedy club and an educational space.” Shows and classes for the major disciplines in comedy will be available for all ages and Blaine’s extensive record in producing very fun live comedy around town (such as the mostly headliner and one first timer stand-up show, Virgin Sacrifice) as well as her very own stand-up special makes us pretty excited to see what she has planned (already there’s going to be a weekly open mic, a mic for female and non-binary comics, and a benefit for Children’s Hospital LA).
Oh, you should know that The Crow will be located at the long standing art complex known as Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, which is a wondrous place in of itself, but also boasts one of LA’s most scarce resources: FREE PARKING.
Look for The Crow to get up and running starting in June, which will be so nice when you’re looking for it to be ten degrees cooler on days where it’s 90 or higher).


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Bonifacio also missed time earlier this year with a sprained thumb, so he finishes the season with just 64 games after playing a career-high 152 games in 2011. He also regressed offensively, hitting .258 with a .645 OPS after batting .296 with a .753 OPS last year, although Bonifacio did steal 30 bases while being caught only three times.
In his absence Justin Ruggiano and Gorkys Hernandez are splitting time as the Marlins’ center fielder, and Ruggiano at least has emerged as a value player by hitting .326 with 13 homers and a .972 OPS in 75 games at age 30.
- Denard Span headed back to DL with hip inflammation, unlikely to return this season 0
- Report: Barry Bonds loses collusion case against MLB 20
- Jessica Mendoza to sit in for Curt Schilling on Sunday Night Baseball this week 66
- And That Happened: Wednesday’s scores and highlights 78
- MLB “actively studying” fan safety; Phillies plan to expand netting at Citizens Bank Park 28
- Marlins might move in and lower the fences at Marlins Park 26
- Astros beat the suddenly skidding Yankees, top last year’s win total 30
- Curt Schilling taken off of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball telecast this week 134
- Dan Patrick: When does ESPN cut ties with Curt Schilling? (201)
- Curt Schilling taken off of Little League World Series duty for making a really bad tweet (169)
- Curt Schilling taken off of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball telecast this week (134)
- Phillies announcer calls Mets fans “obnoxious” (122)
- Let’s all argue about team chemistry again (118)


Blacko shortlisted for BBC 1xtra Hotfor2023 campaign
Fast rising Ghanaian singer, Black Sherif has been honoured by BBC 1xtra as part of the artistes to be on the lookout via their prestigious Hotfor2023 campaign.
The Konongo native was chosen alongside several incredible artistes who are tipped to excel in 2023 and beyond according to the British black music powerhouse.
Some of the artistes who made the list include; the sensational British female group, Flo, Doechi, Cristale, Nemzz, Ayra Starr and Debbie.
Ghanaian singer and rapper @blacksherif_ has steadily been gaining traction both on the continent and abroad.
2023 promises to a strong year for this rising star ✨ #Hotfor2023 pic.twitter.com/LctNhHSJEh
— BBC Radio 1Xtra (@1Xtra) January 13, 2023
Black Sherif had an incredible run in 2022 and released his debut studio album ‘The Villain I Never Was’ which is still charting across various digital streaming platforms.
He successfully headlined his own shows both in the UK and Ghana and gave out a stellar performance on the 25th MOBO Awards grand stage at the OVO arena in Wembley, UK.


were flashing. Most people know that when the spanners are displayed, the car needs servicing.
But what if you've only just had it serviced? Has the garage just not reset the service counter properly? Maybe you
try to reset the service indicator yourself but no matter how many times you do it, the spanners don't stop flashing.
At this point you either ask on a forum or email me and ask WTF is going on.
However, what people rarely notice and forget to pass on in the information is that the number or
letter displayed in the gear indicator on the speedo is also flashing. The original video video sent
in by Zoe S has been replaced with a much better quality video by Arron M.
me, 1 of them is flashing. So, what are the actual symptoms and what are the problems with the car?
If you have the trip computer instead of the standard display, the spanner doesn't flash.
It just shows "consult workshop", shows the spanner icons and the gear display flashes.
Thanks to Mark B from Fudgesmart for the video.
Apart from a bunch of stuff flashing on the dash LCD, there are no other symptoms.


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“Wow ! What an amazing performance!” Fred Vail, First Beach Boys promoter/announcer for the Beach Boys live in Sacramento album in 1964.
“You guys brought back such fond memories of the old days I was in tears when I heard you sing.” Carol Wilson-Bloom, former wife of original Beach Boys’ drummer Dennis Wilson.
“Really good man ! A must see!” Jeffrey Foskett, current musical director for legendary producer, singer and songwriter, Brian Wilson.
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text: Forums The Gear Room Eyewear – Googles, sunglasses or both? Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)Author Posts December 13, 2017 at 8:55 am #814039 upNorth 7 PostsI typically carry both a pair of googles that I wear only when riding in addition to a pair of sunglasses that I wear while skinning/climbing. In an effort to minimize the gear I’m carrying, I was considering changing to a pair of sunglasses that are sufficient for both. What is everyone here doing in terms of eyewear when they go out for a tour? Suggestions for a good pair of sunglasses that are adaptable to different lightning conditions and protect your eyes enough to not get teary-eyed when charging a line? December 19, 2017 at 9:00 am #814363 osubg1 65 PostsI always bring both. I brought sunglasses only on a shorter tour. I still managed to cartwheel and almost lose them, filled them up with snow, etc. I like touring with sunglasses and then riding with my helmet and goggles. I just store the goggles in the bag, either in my helmet inside my bag or just in the lid of my backpack. They don’t weigh that much. I could probably lose more weight reducing a beer can or two : ) December 19, 2017 at 10:56 am #814368 Scooby2 623 PostsI like the smith ballistic series glasses with the light rose tint. Its a good light color for riding on the shady north sides and they are durable and can be had in the $50 dollar range.oh and an easy guide: if you are over 40 you ride with glasses unless it is snowing or over the knee, If you are under 30 you wear goggles as much as possible and throw snow in your face at every opportunity. 🙂 January 19, 2018 at 6:08 pm #815481 MarsB 8 PostsGoggles aren’t likely to break and cut your face if you take a real good digger. Keep your sunglasses for the uptrack.K2 Joydriver split 159 Spark R&D Surge K2 Backside skins Salomon Malamutes Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

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text: Before Beyonce went this whole prosthetic baby bump route she really should have put a call into Nicole Kidman about how to do it. One way is to make sure you are rarely caught in public and for goodness sake, do not under any circumstances give an interview where you have to bend over. If so, you get the kind of photos that Media Take Out managed to grab from an interview Beyonce did on Sunday night. They also have the complete video. Do you think Beyonce wants to be bigger than she is? Are they going the surrogate route? There is something going on and Beyonce needs to come clean. The other thing is she really needs to talk to Nicole about sizing. I think this is the one Beyonce went with for the MTV Video Music Awards which is nice for showing off, but after six weeks should be a little larger. Instead, Beyonce seems to favor smaller ones unless she is giving an interview or on a red carpet.

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Viral puzzle asks you to work out how many ducks are in this picture – but can you get it right?
TWIDDLING your thumbs in the office this morning? We’ve got just the thing to while away the hours.
A viral puzzle is challenging the web to work out how many ducks are in this image – and it’s not as easy as you might think.
Shared on Twitter by user Daniel Newman, at first glance the image appears to show just nine duck emojis.
However, look closer and you may be able to spot a few more mallards nestled in the image, but how many can you spot?
The puzzle has proven quite the challenge for fellow puzzlers who have been left baffled by the brainteaser.
“I gave up trying to count,” wrote one, while another added, “It’s making my eyes go funny!”
Still struggling to identify all the ducks? Scroll down for the reveal.
There are actually a total of 16 ducks, as Twitter user Kait Julia.
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She wrote: “It’s 16 lol. There’s the obvious 9 and then there’s some which have mini ones hidden on them and a couple which has a duck hiding behind it.”
Fancy another challenge? A fiendishly tricky autumn-themed brainteaser asks you to spot the hedgehog among the leaves – but can you find it?
And a tricky brainteaser challenges players to spot the mushroom without a pair – so can YOU find the odd one out?
Meanwhile, can you spot the lollipop hiding among ice cream cones?
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An interview before Olivia's Las Vegas concert dates at the Luxor. It has nice footage of the Grace and Gratitude photoshoot and Olivia and Amy Sky buying bracelets for the cover of the CD. Olivia talks about her recovery from cancer and what she will perform on stage. She jokes that she'd be lynched if she didn't perform the Grease songs.


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A Millwall brick is an improvised weapon made of a manipulated newspaper, used similarly to a shillelagh or a waddy. It was named for supporters of Millwall F.C., who had a well-earned reputation for football hooliganism. The Millwall brick was allegedly used as a stealth weapon at football matches in England during the 1960s and 1970s. The weapon's popularity appears to have been due to the wide availability of newspapers, the difficulty in restricting newspapers being brought into football grounds, and the ease of its construction.
In the late 1960s — in response to football hooliganism at matches in England — police began confiscating any objects that could be used as weapons. These items included steel combs, pens, beermats, horse brasses, Polo mints, shoelaces and boots. However, fans were still permitted to bring in newspapers. Larger broadsheet newspapers work best for a Millwall brick, and the police looked with suspicion at working class football fans who carried such newspapers. Because of their more innocent appearance, tabloid newspapers became the newspapers of choice for Millwall bricks. The book Spirit of '69: A Skinhead Bible describes the use of Millwall bricks by British football hooligans in the late 1960s: "Newspapers were rolled up tightly to form the so-called Millwall Brick and another trick was to make a knuckleduster out of pennies held in place by a wrapped around paper. You could hardly be pulled up for having a bit of loose change in your pocket and a Daily Mirror under your arm." The book Skinhead says, "The Millwall brick, for example, was a newspaper folded again and again and squashed together to form a cosh."
Millwall is a smaller area of land than an average parish, as it was part of Poplar until the 19th century when it became heavily industrialised, containing the workplaces and homes of a few thousand dockside and shipbuilding workers. Among its factories were the shipbuilding ironworks of William Fairbairn, much of which survives as today's Burrells Wharf. It was in this era also that Millwall F.C. was founded, in 1885, as Millwall Rovers. First nicknamed 'the Dockers' before becoming 'the Lions', the team moved south of the river to New Cross in 1910, however a set of amateur football pitches remain, adjoining Cubitt Town alongside the City Farm that was added in the 20th century.
In most lines of work your job application would discarded straight away if you listed “getting it” as a key skill ... A bluffer ... A fraud ... “A big thing for me is recruiting the Millwall mentality,” Neil Harris, Millwall’s manager, has said. “If you said to a Millwall fan, ‘What would you do if I picked you’, he’d say he’d run through a brick wall for you.

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Tickets for the four RENDEZVOUS IN CHICAGO screenings at the Gene Siskel Film Center next month are on sale NOW. I anticipate sell-out crowds (w/ the Friday and Saturday shows selling out first) and strongly advise buying advance tickets at the Siskel Center box office or online here. I will appear for audience discussion at all screenings, along with these special guests:
Fri, 2/8, 8pm – Intro: Conor Cornelius/Moderator: Tom Hush (WGN’s No Coast Cinema). Panelists: Actors Clare Cooney, Nina Ganet, David McNulty, Matt Sherbach
Sat, 2/9, 4:30pm – Moderator: Pamela Kammer Powell (FF2 Media). Panelists: Women of the Now (producer Layne Marie Williams, associate producer Jill Sandmire, colorist Grace Pisula and script supervisor Hannah Butler)
Mon, 2/11, 7:45pm – Moderator: Pat McDonald (Hollywood Chicago). Panelists: Actor Rashaad Hall, producer Layne Marie Williams, cinematographer Alex Halstead, editor Eric Marsh, production designer Haley McCormick. Note: On Monday only, the feature will be followed by McCormick’s short film DANCER (7 min)
Wed, 2/13, 7:45pm – Moderator: Matt Fagerholm (RogerEbert.com). Panelists: Actors Clare Cooney, Nina Ganet, Matt Sherbach, Shane Simmons
Please also RSVP to our delightful Facebook Event Page.
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Can’t wait! Congratulations!
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A checklist of beetles of South Dakota has been compiled from records from the following sources: the South Dakota State University Insect Collection, which consists of 325 Cornell drawers of Coleoptera; records in the senior author's personal collection, which consists of 84 Schmitt boxes of Coleoptera; and scattered literature citations. The checklist contains the scientific names for the beetle species; their common names, when given; localities in the state where the species had been collected, dates of collection, and ecological notes such as host plants, how collected, or habitat, when known. Sixty-nine families of beetles, including 695 genera and 1,955 species and subspecies, have been collected in South Dakota.
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Kirk, Vernon M. and Balsbaugh, Edward U. Jr., "A List of the Beetles of South Dakota" (1975). Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletins (1939-2011). 6.

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– How deadly Ebola has spread across the globe: Health officials try to trace 30,000 linked to death of US victim – as Nigerian film star sparks outrage by fleeing Africa first-class in an Ebola mask (Daily Mail, July 30, 2014):
- Hong Kong woman quarantined when she fell ill after returning from Kenya
- Expert claims panic over death of U.S. man in Nigeria is ‘justified’
- He warned the spread of Ebola could become a global pandemic
- Health campaigners petition U.S. drug authorities to fast-track potential cure
- Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond declares disease is ‘very serious threat’
- He will chair an emergency meeting on how to boost defences
- British airlines are also on ‘red alert’ for cases of the deadly virus
- Man with ‘feverish’ symptoms tested for deadly Ebola at Birmingham hospital
- He had travelled into Midlands from Benin, Nigeria via France when he fell ill
- Charing Cross Hospital staff also feared man had Ebola symptoms this week
- No cases have been confirmed in UK but 672 people have died in West Africa
- Warning issued to GPs, A&E departments and all NHS trusts across the UK
- Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and damage to the nervous system
Fears of a global Ebola pandemic are ‘justified’ an expert has said as Nigerian health officials try to trace 30,000 people at risk of contracting the deadly disease following the death of Patrick Sawyer.
The U.S. citizen boarded a flight in Liberia carrying the disease to Nigeria, potentially infecting ‘anyone on the same plane’.
It comes as Nigerian actor Jim Iyke sparked outrage, posting a picture of himself wearing an Ebola mask while sitting in a first class airport lounge as he fled Liberia.
The ‘Nollywood’ star posted a message on his Instagram page saying he had cut short a business trip to Monrovia in Liberia – where at least 600 people have already died from the disease.
The death toll for this, the worst outbreak recorded since the Ebola virus was discovered in 1976, stands at 672, while more than 1,200 people have been infected.


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The event was held in the beautiful Schmidts Tivoli Theatre. And I was lucky to have a wonderful audience, who did all the right things a speaker needs. Smile, laugh at my jokes and bring a warm energy within which I can tell my stories.
Over the last few years my talks have evolved into 'Six Reasons the Future Might Look More Like the Past Than the Present'. A mix of where my journey through science, technology, art and design has taken me throughout my life combined with adventures in the wilderness; hiking and camping. This has then blended with a search for personal meaning in life, exploring what makes me happy and finding a place I can thrive. Also considerations for the world we live in, how we blend sustainability with resilience and resourcefulness and then finally being flung into a pandemic and what that means to being human and surviving.
Everything that happens to me in my life, where I go, who I meet, what I do and especially the challenges, cause me to reflect on who I am and what makes me happy. Beyond that I'm curious about who humans are, how we function and what is really important to us.
In this talk, I consider that if we really could start to understand what makes us tick, then perhaps, instead of sleep walking into a dystopian future of our nightmares, perhaps we can build a future of our dreams. Our future isn't really about technology, it is more about humans and our environment.
These six reasons for a more human and natural future are my attempt to explore this. And it is this area I wish to continue exploring through what I write and talks I give.
My speaking approach is freestyle. I like the freedom that no script and slides gives me. I have a strong sense of message in my head that I want to convey, and this gives me the ability to tell any story that comes into my mind whilst on the stage, so long as the story carries and grows the message in the minds of the audience. I like to think of these talks as a conversation with the audience. They might not be speaking, but I feel their energy, see their smiles and hear the laughter or other noises.
The feedback I received left me feeling that whilst the content was thought provoking the vulnerable style of just freely speaking to an audience without script was greatly appreciated.

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