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The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the mental health of the global population. Even though the full-fledged effects of the pandemic in general and measures like quarantine, in particular, on our mental health have not been documented or studied in great detail, the implications are well-known and, frankly, disturbing. It is essential to discuss the feelings of emotional distress resulting from the transition to this isolating lifestyle. Inevitably, this has led to an ever-increasing number of people seeking help from mental health professionals. But as the pandemic rages on and lockdowns and quarantine restrictions continue to make in-person therapy not only challenging but also potentially dangerous, Cyber Therapy is on its way to becoming an invaluable resource.
Cyber therapy, also known as teletherapy or e-therapy, involves providing mental health care and services over the internet. It includes emails, video chats, messaging, or phone calls, with video calling being the most effective method (if a high-quality connection is possible). While this form of therapy has immense benefits, it does not come without its risks and perils, as most practitioners were made to shift to the virtual model to provide mental health care almost overnight.
It is provided by therapists who have received the same education and undergone the same training as therapists providing in-person therapy. Most online therapists providing treatment during the pandemic were former in-person providers. Thus, essentially there is no difference between the credentials of a conventional and an online therapist, only the method of communication differs. The client’s preference and the therapist’s technological capabilities decide the method used throughout the treatment, ranging from texts and phone calls, which make non-verbal cues and body language hard to interpret for therapists, to video chats that solve many of these problems.
Online Therapy Programs and Counselling services have various programs and customizable packages that can connect those seeking help and interventions with licensed and verified professionals through chats and in-built video counseling portals while also offering flexible schedules. There are specialized services for teenagers that provide counseling services for teens grappling with anxiety, depression, and high-stress levels. However, whether clients choose their therapist or counselor depends on the package and the program they select.
Cyber therapy also reduces the overhead costs for therapists, and they can provide more accessible and affordable treatment plans. Much of the stigma attached to therapy and other physical barriers are also eliminated as it can be accessed privately. Clients do not have to travel long distances if they are located in remote areas. Even minors dependent on guardians for transportation can benefit from it all while being in complete control of their privacy. Email and text-based support are essential for trans and queer people who find themselves trapped in unsupportive households, where their privacy is violated, and they do not have physical access to safe community spaces. Many platforms also offer crisis helplines that provide help and counseling during emergencies.
It has been proven that cyber-therapy is efficacious. Many conditions like Depression, Anxiety, Eating Disorders, and Obsessive-Compulsive disorder can be treated effectively through online counseling. A 2018 study titled ‘Computer therapy for anxiety and depression disorders is effective, acceptable and practical health care: An updated meta-analysis’ found that online CBT and face-to-face therapy are equally effective and offer high satisfaction and moderate adherence for Depression and Anxiety disorders. It has also been found that clients find it easier to open up during online therapy as they are in the comfort of their homes.
However, people experiencing severe distress due to serious disorders and illnesses, including Schizophrenia and Substance Addiction, may need more interventions than are possible through internet-based therapy and should not rely on it solely. Other subtle but important body language cues such as the restless legs or clasping hands tightly due to uneasiness are also lost in texts, emails, and the limited frame of a video calling platform.
Needless to say, internet-based therapy is not immune to the risks of security and privacy breaches. The professionals involved must have an adequate understanding of the software and applications they are using and should be especially aware of malware which puts the private medical data of clients at risk of exposure without their consent. Counseling can also bring about overwhelming emotions in clients. However, it is difficult to respond quickly and effectively to those at high risk of self-harm and suicide during online counseling as online counselors are distant from the client. Thus, risk assessments should be carried out, and a safety plan must be made and discussed with the client in advance. The counselor should note the client’s emergency contacts and be informed about the steps to be undertaken if there are concerns that the client presents a risk to others or themselves.
Finally, clients must always ensure that the professionals are licensed and that their privacy and confidentiality are guaranteed. Cyberspace is filled with unqualified individuals offering generalized and vague advice in the guise of ‘therapy’ and ‘self-care.’ They use ambiguous labels like ‘life coach’ or ‘healer and active listeners’ and even charge individuals. Anonymous online platforms are also responsible for the exploitation and breach of confidentiality of the clients. Be careful of quack therapists who are underqualified or do not have the qualifications required to practice a specific form of therapy (the terms ‘therapist’ and ‘psychotherapist’ are not legally protected and can be used by anyone regardless of their qualifications). Quack therapy does more harm than good as misguidance can trigger the severity of clinical disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety disorders.
Cyber Therapy is a beacon of hope amidst the raging pandemic. COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on the discipline of psychology and has fundamentally changed the notion of providing mental health care virtually, especially since it has a strong emotional dimension. Anyone seeking assistance can receive it at their convenience from professionals residing all around the world. Even if you do not have a clinically diagnosed mental disorder or illness, online therapy can be a way to get started. You could benefit from emotional support and find peace and fulfillment as you go through the strenuous phase of living through a pandemic. As the world feels increasingly isolated and the going gets tough, remember that you are not alone, and the doors of therapy are always open!
- Feijt, M., de Kort, Y., Bongers, I., Bierbooms, J., Westerink, J., & IJsselsteijn, W. (2020). Mental Health Care Goes Online: Practitioners’ Experiences of Providing Mental Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 23(12), 860–864. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2020.0370
- Riva G, Botella C, Castelnuovo G, Gaggioli A, Mantovani F, Molinari E. Cybertherapy in practice: the VEPSY updated project. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2004; 99:3-14.
- Situmorang, D. D. (2020). Online/Cyber counselling Services in the COVID-19 Outbreak: Are They Really New? Journal of Pastoral Care & counselling: Advancing Theory and Professional Practice through Scholarly and Reflective Publications, 74(3), 166–174. https://doi.org/10.1177/1542305020948170


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The face of computer and video gamers is changing; some are now becoming stronger, fitter, and healthier.
Gaming is the act of playing a computer game; exercise is an act of bodily movement. Put those two together and you have got exergaming, a new form of exercise set to revolutionise both.
“Exergaming has a beneficial physical outcome as it challenges you,” says Brett Young, Director of Exergaming Australia. “It is the fusion of highly engaging mechanics mixed with an activity.”
Nintendo Wii was the first of its kind. It was released in 2006, and has been labelled a domestic exergame. Following its release, was Sony’s Move, and Microsoft’s Kinetic.
Outside domestic exergaming is commercial exergaming, which continues to be an underground form of fitness in Australia. Commercial exergaming uses exercise equipment such as Machine Dance, a computer-controlled motion game where the players move their feet according to the directions indicated by the arrows on a screen, and Trixter, an inter-active exergaming bike.
Brett Young says, “In Australia about 12 per cent of our population go to a gym, but what about the other 88 per cent that don’t go?”
Evidently, with obesity a rising epidemic in Australia, traditional fitness is not working for all, and something new needs to be introduced to get people moving. Research published in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) in 2010, reported that the total cost of managing obesity in Australia is $21 billion a year.
According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, one in three adults are overweight or obese, which is more than 12 million people, and one in four children are overweight. And these figures are rising.
Professor Ralph Maddison, a researcher in physical activity at Auckland University, New Zealand, says, “Video gaming or exergaming should not replace traditional physical activity as it is not a way of reducing weight gain but in combination with traditional physical exercise, it is beneficial.
“Children will continue to play video games, and if those video games can be replaced with actives games then it will help children be more physical,” he says.
Professor Maddison says he has experienced some negativity from the public. “A lot of people think we are promoting video games and respond negatively, but we are not. We are promoting physical games.”
Brett Young’s exergaming gym has a machine dance system, with 12 floor pads. The music is fast and loud, the lights are dimmed. This type of exercise reinforces that exergaming is all about-having fun.
After the dance session, people are able to take a different exercise approach combining exergaming and contemporary fitness.
“We use gym sticks as resistance-based training, and we use power block, which is similar to a dumb bell. So usually people do one song, then they come off for one minute 40 seconds and we do pure resistance training, then they go back and do the next song.
“You are getting pure cardio training mixed with resistance training,” Brett says. “People absolutely love it, because it makes time fly.”
The exergaming gym welcomes adults and families, with gamers as young as three.
David Norman, Director of EYE Fitness-Innovative Commercial Fitness Equipment, says the reasons exergaming has been slower to take off in Australia than in the United Kingdom and America is due to “lack of funding, knowledge about it and the fitness industry not changing with technology”.
Brett Young agrees. “There is a lack of practical examples of exergaming, and although there are instances of it in different gyms and YMCAs across Australia, it is always pushed towards children, and it is usually in the corner somewhere.”
Exergaming allows people to be in competition with either themselves or other players. The iDANCE2 system consists of 25 levels. Beginning at level one, players progress to higher levels as they get better and fitter.
“The best exergames allow you to be self competitive, cross competitive and co-operative. As long as you have one of those mechanisms for different people, they will figure out what they want to do,” Brett says.

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Love Letter is one of the most popular games of recent memory. Just how popular is it? The game has several different brands including Adventure Time, Batman, Santa, and The Hobbit. The game is simple and quick to play, making it a crowd and family favorite. Recently, Alderac Entertainment Group took this popular game and gave it an upgrade in a very decadent way. Ladies and gentleman, I give you Love Letter: Premium Edition. Love Letter: Premium Edition is a game for 2-8 players (up from the previous 2-4), aged 10+. It takes approximately 20 minutes to play and retails for $30. As in all Love Letter games, you are attempting to deliver your love letter into the Princess' hand, while at the same time trying to keep your opponents' letters from making it to her.
1. Shuffle the game cards. In a 2-4 player game, you will use a designated 16. In 5-8 player to game, you will use the full 32 card deck.
2. Give each player a reference card and have them flip it to the appropriate side (2-4 or 5-8)
3. Shuffle the card to form a face-down draw deck. Remove the top card from the deck and set it aside without anyone seeing it.
4. Deal each player one card to form their hand.
I was first introduced to Love Letter last year. Amazon had the Santa version on sale for under $2. It seemed like a steal for a game, so I gave it a try. For $2, it was worth the price, but I wasn't a huge fan of the theme or Krampus for that matter. The game play however was solid. When I heard that a premium version was being released, I knew that I had to have this game in my collection. If I could use one word to describe Love Letter: Premium Edition, it would be decadent.
For starters, the box is a nice magnetic closing box with a red velvet like finish for a tray. The cards are big tarot-sized and they come with sleeves with the back of the sleeves designed to look like actual envelopes you would deliver to a princess. As for the affection tokens, those too got an upgrade. Goodbye little red cubes. Hello, red heart tokens. If you are any kind of fan of Love Letter, you need the premium version in your collection. If you play with a group of more than four players, you need this game in your collection. Who am I kidding? Everyone needs this game in their collection!
This game was provided to me for free by Alderac Entertainment Group in exchange for an honest review.

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Pictured: A gardener at Chartwell. (Photo credit: National Trust Images and Chris Lacey).
If vibrant floral colours, scented displays and relaxing green spaces are exactly what your group is after this summer, then look no further than this list of recommended Kent-based gardens.
Some of the National Trust’s head gardeners have picked out their top outdoor spaces to visit during the summer months, and the options include best places for blooms, colour bursts and technicolour borders.
Chartwell, near Westerham
From ponds to rose gardens and lakes to orchards, the garden at Sir Winston Churchill’s former family home is alive with colour in the summer months. Wander the top terrace of the kitchen garden to admire the pink and purple borders and enjoy majestic yellow displays of the golden rose avenue.
The head gardener loves: Chartwell’s collections of lilies, weigela, and technicolour sweat peas.
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, near Cranbrook
Pictured: The white garden in July at Sissinghurst Castle Garden. (Photo credit: National Trust Images and Marianne Majerus).
Vita Sackville-West, the poet and writer, began transforming Sissinghurst Castle in the 1930s with her diplomat husband, Harold Nicolson. Visitors today can enjoy architectural planning of the garden rooms and the colourful, abundant planting in the gardens, which is said to reflect the romance and intimacy of Vita’s poems and writings.
The head gardener loves: the new quince trees in the white garden and the wildflowers in the newly planted meadows.
Emmetts Garden, near Sevenoaks
Pictured: The lily pond in the rock garden in August at Emmetts Garden. (Photo credit: National Trust Images and Andrew Butler).
Emmetts Garden is an Edwardian estate that was owned by Frederic Lubbock, becoming both the plantsman's passion and a much-loved family home. The garden was laid out in the late 19th century, and contains many exotic and rare trees and shrubs from across the world.
The head gardener loves: the unusual wedding cake tree in the north garden.
Ightham Mote, near Sevenoaks
Pictured: Aubrieta flowering on the moat wall, in the garden at Ightham Mote. (Photo credit: National Trust Images and Andrew Butler).
Built nearly 700 years ago, Ightham Mote has seen many changes and been owned by Medieval knights, courtiers to Henry VIII and high society Victorians. The house is surrounded by peaceful gardens with an orchard, water features, lakes and woodland walks.
The head gardener loves: the café, where many fruit and vegetables grown on site are used in the produce sold to visitors.
Scotney Castle, Lamberhurst in Kent
Pictured: The walled garden in July at Scotney Castle. (Photo credit: National Trust Images and John Miller).
Scotney Castle boasts a country house, romantic garden and 14th century moated castle, all in a beautiful wooded estate stretching 770 acres. Garden highlights include a walled garden stocked with fruit trees and wild flower meadows.
The head gardener loves: the formal gardens around the estate, as well as the rhododendrons and azaleas that create a ‘fairy-tale feel’.
Group visiting National Trust gardens
Discounted entry rates, bespoke tours and familiarisation trips are available for groups at a number of National Trust properties.
GTOs can organise group trips by calling 0344-800 2329.
For further information visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk.

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Iconic UK pubs bankrupt
Rising costs and falling sales: The purchasing power crisis is hitting iconic British pubs hard, which last year saw the number of bankruptcies soar by 83% year on year in the sector, according to UK accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young.
“After a tough time during the pandemic, many pubs and bars are left with very little savings or ability to borrow more,” and for some, “the current economic downturn has been the latest push into insolvency,” the firm described in a statement Monday.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, government aid had kept many businesses on life support. But in 2022, 512 pubs filed for bankruptcy, up from 280 the year before, during a period when energy prices soared, straining business budgets, the statement said.
< p>At the same time, the cost of living crisis “has affected the habits of consumers, making them less likely to spend on” non-essentials “”, continues the firm, for which the strikes of railway workers for wages, which have multiplied in recent months in the country, have also turned customers away from city center pubs.
The number of pubs has been slowly declining across the country for several decades, but “recent shocks like the pandemic and the energy crisis have put (these establishments) under greater pressure than ever”, according to the sectoral federation, the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA).
Ahead of the presentation of the budget in Parliament on 15 next March, the organization called for its part on the government to “invest in pubs and brasseries now or lose them forever”, in particular via a more advantageous tax system.
“After almost three years extremely difficult due to confinements, a energy crisis, disruption of supply chains, strikes and a dramatic drop in consumer confidence,” the sector is at a crossroads, says the BBPA.


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COMELEC launched an e-rally page for national candidates.
COMELEC — The Commission on Elections has launched a platform that will provide free live streaming of e-rallies of national candidates for the 2022 elections.
The Campaign S.A.F.E. COMELEC e-Rally Channel on Facebook will provide e-rally airtime to all bona fide candidates for the positions of President, Vice President, Senator, and to each participating Party-List organization.
According to the poll body, it will release a schedule of e-rally timeslots for every elective position, which will be allocated as follows: presidential (10 minutes), vice-presidential (10 minutes), senatorial (3 minutes), party-list (3 minutes), and political parties (10 minutes).
The poll body said in a statement last January 13 that the live streaming of e-rallies will be conducted every night on the official social media channels of COMELEC starting February 8.
“Every night, there shall be three Presidential and three Vice-Presidential 10-minute slots, and ten Party List 3-minute slots,” the COMELEC said.
COMELEC Spokesperson James Jimenez said that the poll body will issue the pertinent guidelines on how the political candidates and party-list organizations can participate in the e-Rally channel.
Jimenez added that the said platform can help ensure that even those political candidates who have less in followers can still have more in exposure and views.
The poll body, meanwhile, conducted the 2nd trusted build for the consolidated canvassing system (CCS), vote counting machine (VCM), and software in relation to the May 2022 elections on Thursday, January 13.
Based on the report on Manila Bulletin, the “trusted build” was the process of assembling the overall program that will govern the entire automated election system using the reviewed components.
“In our CCS there are some issues to be resolved which involve source code so that is why we need to do another trusted build as well as in our VCMs,” COMELEC Commissioner Marlon Casquejo said at the Diamond Hotel in Pasay City as he explained the reason behind the second trusted build.


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Volkswagen has confirmed that it volition uncover a California camper mentation of the Multivan aboriginal this year.
Speaking astatine the company’s yearly property conference, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles CEO Carsten Intra announced plans to turn the California brand.
He said: “We privation to grow the scope astir the concern with our camper models and connection what radical truly similar successful our products - what we telephone the ‘California feeling’.
“It includes integer services for the California community, caller services to complement the acquisition of a conveyance and the presumption of a caller California conveyance based connected the Volkswagen Multivan. This is what we are readying for aboriginal this year.”
The Multivan California volition regenerate the existent Volkswagen California 6.1, which is based connected the outgoing Transporter van. The lone Transporter 6.1-based exemplary inactive connected merchantability successful the UK, it is priced from £60,398.
The Multivan signalled a displacement successful the brand’s commercialized conveyance line-up, doing distant with the Transporter’s underpinnings successful favour of the MQB platform, which underpins astir Volkswagen cars.
Volkswagen has yet to corroborate immoderate details of the Multivan California, but it whitethorn go the lone plug-in hybrid camper van connected sale. The rival Mercedes-Benz V-Class Marco Polo and Ford Transit Custom Nugget are disposable with diesel engines only.
As for the long-awaited Volkswagen ID Buzz California, Intra said this volition get successful 2025, pursuing the merchandise of a long-wheelbase exemplary aboriginal this year.
This LWB variant – slated to connection greater seating flexibility than the existent exemplary – volition besides beryllium sold successful the US. Volkswagen R&D brag Kai Gruenitz antecedently told Autocar that “it volition person 3 rows and 7 seats, and you tin propulsion them each retired of the back,” arsenic good arsenic rotating captain’s chairs.
He besides confirmed that a performance-focused ID Buzz GTX volition besides beryllium revealed aboriginal this year, offering 335bhp and a bespoke interior.


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This interesting film concerns a woman called Martha who has just left a weirdo hippy cult where she went by the name Marcy May and where she had to give the name Marlene when answering the phone. It begins with her leaving the cult's communal home out in the American countryside somewhere, then following her as she moves in with the sister she has not seen in years (and the sister's husband, who is increasingly annoyed by this fruitloop sister-in-law he has never previously met). Martha acts very strangely with her sister, clearly traumatised by her past; in flashback we see what was so traumatic about her life in the cult. As is the way of these kind of sinister cults, it boasts a charismatic leader (well played by John Hawkes, previously seen in Winder's Bone) who predates sexually on the group's women members, with Martha both being one of his victims and, later, complicit in facilitating his predation.
This is an impressive film, driven by strong performances not just by Katherine Olsen (in the demanding role of Martha) but by all the actors. It is technically well made and looks very appealing. And it uses music very well, both ominous incidental music and a charming yet worrying piece sung by the cult-leader to Martha.
But the film does have problems. For one thing, Martha seemed a bit more affected by her time in the cult than would seem to me realistic. It is established that she went into it as an adult and has only spent two years there, but in that two years she seems to have completely forgotten the kind of normal socialisation that we go through in the course of our upbringing. I know cults, particularly fictional cults, are great at the brainwashing, but this seemed a bit extreme. I also found the ending a bit abrupt – so abrupt that I was not sure if I had blinked and missed something really important.
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Lawmakers are Fighting to Keep “Idaho” Away from Turkey
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Hey, Turkey, hands off Idaho's good name. That's the message sent by the House Thursday, where representatives voted unanimously to condemn a Turkish agricultural company's bid to trademark the word "IDAHO" for labeling products including sugarbeet seeds. The measure, which has already cleared the Senate, urges the Turkish Patent Institute to reject Beta Agriculture and Trade Co. bid.
The Idaho Potato Commission already has a trademark on "Idaho" — and hired a Turkish lawyer to keep the central Anatolian.company from intruding on Idaho turf. Rep. Ken Andrus of Lava Hot Springs said it's alarming to many Idaho residents that somebody in another country would try to pilfer the state's good name for commercial exploitation. According to its website, Beta's products include not only sugarbeet seed, but watermelons, beans and barley.


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1 ROBOTS TARGET TORY NON-VOTERS There’s evidence that some robocalls were made to voters who had identified as non-Conservative. This suggests a link between Conservative party voter databases and calls that may have been part of a campaign to suppress voting. There needs to be a a full public investigation into this, even (tossing a bone to Brian Mouland here) if it exonerates the Conservatives. This is too important to not clear up.
2 JETS, WAR, MEDIA AND CLOONEY The Canadian Forces multi-billion dollar F-35 purchase remains in doubt, the U.S. soldier who murdered 16 villagers in Afghanistan apparently saw his friend’s leg blown off the day before, oh look, there has been a three-billion dollar media purchase, and George Clooney has been arrested — and NOT for being “too damn handsome, either.
3 WAIT AND SEE Regina police aren’t looking for an adult services bylaw like the one Saskatoon is bringing in. Yet.
4 SHADOWY CONSERVATIVE OVERLORDS SCHEMING FOR SANTORUM? Politico has an interesting-looking zillion-word feature on the U.S. Council for National Policy, which might be looking at backing Rick Santorum. I think Romney’s a guaranteed loser in next year’s presidential election so the U.S. rich, white right might as well back the psycho religious fanatic who at least has a shred of (crazystyle) integrity, I suppose.
5 A HELPING HAND Over in Manitober, the University of Winnipeg is launching a provincially-funded program to pay the tuition of some students who grew up in foster homes. The move’s getting blasted as a publicity stunt and maybe there’s an element of that, but still, it’s great to read a headline about an institution attempting something constructive in our dull era of “we must cut everything back”.
6 WIN AT ALL COSTS Rick “pray for rain”, “oops” Perry’s jihad against Planned Parenthood results in Texas losing $35 million in federal cash for breast examinations, contraceptives and other women’s health procedures. In other War On Women news, I missed this earlier this week — I yam teh sick! — but Ariziona is looking at an unlikely-to-get-passed bill that would let employers fire women for taking birth control pills. Because, seriously, that’s a threat to liberty:
Yesterday, a Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed Republican Debbie Lesko’s HB2625 by a vote of 6-2, which would allow an employer to request proof that a woman using insurance to buy birth control was being prescribed the birth control for reasons other than not wanting to get pregnant. It’s all about freedom, she said, echoing everyone who thinks there’s nothing ironic about claiming that a country that’s “free” allows people’s bosses to dictate what medical care is available to them through insurance. First amendment. The constitution. Rights of religious people to practice the treasured tenets of their faiths, the tenets that dictate that religious people get to tell everyone who is not of faith how they’re supposed to live, and the freedom to have that faith enforced by law. Freedom®.
Further, Lesko states, with a straight face, that this bill is necessary because “we live in America; we don’t live in the Soviet Union.”
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- Humans are about 60% water, about 10 gallons.
- Oxygen is red, hydrogen is white.
- Two hydrogens attached to one oxygen, H2O.
- Molecules bounce around frantically in liquid water
but are still in frozen water.
- Water holds together because the hydrogen of one
water molecule is attracted to the oxygen of another water.
Cannabis Active Ingredient, Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
- The active ingredient in marijuana, Tetrahydrocannabinol,
pronounce with stress on the "nab".
- Carbons, two oxygens and hydrogen, 3 rings.
Protein - Cannabinoid Receptor
- THC sticks to a protein on the surface of brain cells
called the cannabinoid receptor.
- The protein is partly inside and partly outside the cell.
THC binds on the outside and sends a signal inside.
- Changes the signaling of brain cells.
- DNA is the instructions for building all living things.
- The alphabet is four different chemicals.
- Color bases with "nuc ndbcolor #0".
HIV Reverse Transcriptase with Nevirapine inhibitor
- RT is blue and green.
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- HIV copies its own genome into DNA using this molecule and puts
it into your chromosomes.
- Inhibitors of this HIV molecule are part of standard HIV medication.
- Run script hiv_rt.cmd to move nevirapine to binding site.
White Blood Cell in Motion
- Play stereo movie using Bino.
- White blood cells move out of blood and crawl through tissue to
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The European Union will publish results of stress tests on Europe’s embattled banking sector on Friday, hoping that the results will convince jittery markets that the global financial system can withstand further shocks.
AP - Ninety European banks get their test results back Friday, as regulators seek to increase transparency and convince the markets that the global financial system can withstand big shocks like a possible Greek debt default.
The publication of stress tests by the European Banking Authority is supposed to reduce the uncertainty hobbling banking activities by showing which banks hold how much in bonds issued by Greece and other shaky eurozone governments.
While officials are downplaying the possibility of a Greek default, the exercise aims to publicly identify weak banks so national regulators can push them to strengthen their finances.
That in turn could help them absorb losses and limit the blow to the overall European economy if Greece or another country eventually can’t pay back all its bond debt.
Banks are a key part of Europe’s debt crisis because they hold billions in bonds from financially troubled governments. A default or other losses on those bonds could hurt banks and choke off credit to businesses, creating a credit crunch that that after the 2008 collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers.
Estimates of the number of European banks that might fail run as high as 15, compared to only seven that flunked last year. The 2010 stress tests were widely regarded as a failure after Irish banks that passed had to be bailed out by the government by the billions only weeks later.
This time, banking regulators have been trying to walk the fine line between being tough enough to be believable and not rattling nervous markets with more bad news.
Banks must show they can maintain adequate resources to absorb unexpected losses even during an adverse scenario in which growth falls 4 percentage points short of European Union estimates in 2011 and 2012. That comes out to a fall in gross domestic product for the 17-member eurozone of 0.5 and 0.2 percent.
The gloom-and-doom scenario also includes a fall in real estate, stocks and the U.S. dollar.
One key new measure will be detailed information on how much each bank holds of shaky government bonds from Greece, Portugal and Ireland by country, amount and bond.
The big question is whether governments and banks act on the results by taking painful steps such as raising capital. Asking private investors for more money can dilute shareholdings, and therefore can weigh on stock prices; banks that can’t get new capital from markets may have to turn to governments.
“What we would hope is that governments come forward with clear plans to aid failing banks, or banks that are nearly failing, and so far we haven’t heard much about that,” said Marie Diron, senior economic advisor for Ernst & Young.
She said estimates that around 15 banks could flunk sounded right. “Most of these would be in Spain, Greece and the countries under highest pressure, but some, I would think, as well in some of the core eurozone countries and that is where governments are least ready to tackle the issue.”
For the weaker banks, the test could force governments to decide to recapitalize them, either by pushing them to ask shareholders for more money or by using taxpayer funds.
That would include banks now being kept alive by emergency credit from the European Central Bank according to the IMF, many of the banks in Greece, Ireland and Portugal as well as some Spanish savings banks.
Healthier banks would reduce the chances of a mushrooming disaster if Greece defaults.
Really, the necessary condition for that is that governments go ahead and deal with banks that are shown to be failing this test or are nearly failing this test,” said Diron. “The publication alone is not enough.”
To pass, banks must show they can maintain a reserve cushion of high-quality capital - dubbed Core Tier 1 capital of at least 5 percent of their loans and bond and securities holdings.
The current test includes far more data than last year’s some 3,000 pieces of information, as opposed to 149, but has raised questions about its toughness because its worst-case scenario did not explicitly include a Greek debt default.
Results were to cover 91 banks, but on Wednesday Helaba, a German bank, said it had been told by the EBA that its results would not be released since they included a form of capital not approved by the EBA.
Helaba said it and its owners, which include the German state of Hesse, had taken steps to convert the state’s stake, known as a silent participation, to a form that met the EBA’s requirements.
It was told, however, there wasn’t time to review it to make sure the change complied.
The EBA didn’t respond to requests for comment on the Helaba issue. Helaba said if the silent participations a form of non-voting stake were allowed it would have passed with a 6.8 percent core Tier 1 ratio.
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Running feet and shouts pounded through his sleep. He sat up, only half awake. His bunk-mates were pulling on clothes, calling to each other urgently. Some were running outside, only half dressed. Lamps were being hastily lit.
"Wha...what's going on?"
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He stepped out of the bunkhouse into a scene of wild confusion. People were running everywhere, shouting. Torches and lanterns bobbed and waved in the darkness. Most of the men carried weapons of some sort, mostly makeshift: scythes, pitchforks, flails. Here and there were swords and knives. Several of the men wore some sort of leather breastplate and a sort of chain mail that covered their heads and necks. Those must be the household troops, Jaan-Mikael realized. Others carried quivers and bows. English longbows, for God's sake. Jaan-Mikael felt as if he were in the middle of a movie. Many seemed to be milling around in confusion.
"The south wall!" Lord Cabot's voice carried over the din. His bulk was easy to pick out, even the in flickering light and the running forms. "The south wall, lads!"
Like a flock of starlings in flight, the crowd wheeled and turned. Jaan-Mikael was jostled from several directions and swept along. He stumbled after them. Two men ran by, trundling what looked to be a small catapult. What was he supposed to do? Throw rocks? What the hell had he gotten himself into?
The south wall was packed two or three deep with shouting, gesticulating figures. Torches had been jammed between the stones. Cabot was already there. "Let the archers through, damn your eyes! Let the archers through!"
Jaan-Mikael looked around, trying to make some sense out of what appeared to be near chaos. Raven was suddenly beside him. She carried some sort of leather strap in one hand and a roll of bandages in the other.
"Goblins?" he asked. He had to shout to make himself heard.
She nodded and put her mouth close to his ear. "They raid us once or twice a year. For food, mostly. But it's queer." She appeared puzzled.
"Usually they don't come until fall, until the harvest is in and the flocks gathered."
Jaan-Mikael heard bowstrings hum, almost lost in the cries of those at the wall. Someone, running by, hit him in the shoulder, swinging him halfway around.
"God o' mercy! There's thousands of them!"
Now he could hear other shouts: guttural noises, more like barks.
"To yer left, Geoff! Watch out!"
Tym stumbled by, waving a hoe and cursing.
Someone-or something-yelped and snarled. Others yelled in answer. Smoke stung his eyes.
Jaan-Mikael turned to Raven. "What am I supposed to do?" But she was no longer there.
There was a great roar from the wall and the defenders fell back a bit, pressed by the weight of numbers from the other side. Several fell and didn't rise again. There were cries of pain. A torch was knocked loose and fell to the ground, still burning. Jaan-Mikael felt utterly helpless.
Somebody shoved him from behind. "For the love o' God, man, get up there! Here, use this." A sword was thrust into his hand.
"What?" Jaan-Mikael spun, but the man was already gone, running to the wall. "I don't know how to use this!"
But he did.


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The Advance Progress Cards are a new series of national and regional infographic reports on access and uptake of sexual health and related services by gay, bisexual, queer, and other men who have sex with men (cis and trans), and Two-Spirit people (GBT2Q) across Canada.
The Progress Card for Vancouver is now available to download below. We thank our data collection partner in the city Health Initiative for Men.
You can also click here to download city-specific cards for other eight Canadian cities (Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Winnipeg).
We encourage governments, public health practitioners, non-governmental organizations, community groups, researchers and others to use the Advance Progress Cards to inform the future direction of HIV and STBBI policy, programming and research to positively affect the health and well-being of GBT2Q people.

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They take anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months. One took a year and a half. If you're thinking, that is a long time, you're right. Even by artist standards.
- Foraging and sourcing: Since my main art material isn't one I can buy at a store, finding unique materials takes time. But it also makes each piece more unique.
- Individualized prep-work: A part of my practice is preparing the organic material. And each one had different needs for drying, stabilizing, and finishing. Some pieces require special equipment and outside resources. For my art, it's all about the nature being featured. I won't skip a stunning piece of nature that on the surface seems too hard to prepare. On the other side of that is discovery and that fuels me and this art.
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I mostly price by square footage with my experience and years of developing my art factored into. It's a pioneering style of art, which means it will only get better as I continue to hone my craft and push the limits. Buying originals is like having rookie cards, they are always valuable to collect when you connect with a piece.
There are a few factors I use to establish pricing:
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- The rarity of the natural material. Part of my practice is foraging. It can take years to find similar pieces, if ever. This creates a beautiful mix of uniqueness and awe.
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I get asked this question by both new and repeat collectors. Video tours are great for this! Plus, they're fun.
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I work to give updates as I have them, but please don't hesitate to reach out if you'd like a status update! I am as excited as you are to have the work in your space.
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Thanks to the novel coronavirus, America’s largest law firms have been forced to undertake severe cost-cutting measures. From salary cuts, to furloughs, to layoffs, these firms are doing everything they can to make sure they can survive the economic upheaval that’s been caused by the COVID-19 outbreak that’s swept across the country.
But law firms aren’t the only law-related organizations that are suffering.
It’s a whole new world out there for colleges and universities whose student bodies have migrated to online learning environments due to social distancing measures, and those with associated law schools are really feeling the financial pinch.
Today, we have news on the first law school to implement pay cuts and furloughs for faculty and staff due to the coronavirus.
Per the Arizona Daily Star, the University of Arizona — including the James E. Rogers College of Law — is expecting to face “extreme” economic consequences. The school is currently projected to lose as much as $250 million. Here’s the school’s plan:
Employees making at least $200,000 have to take a 20% pay cut, while those making between $150,001 and $199,999 have to take a 17% pay cut.
Those making between $75,001 and $150,000 will be required to take 39 furlough days, or 1.5 days per pay period, equivalent to a 15% salary cut; those making between $44,500 and $75,000 are required to take 26 furlough days, or one day per period, equivalent to a 10% cut; and those making $44,449 and under must take 13 furlough days, or a half-day per pay period, equivalent to a 5% cut.
Dean Marc Miller says he hasn’t heard of anything like this happening at other law schools. Arizona Law’s cuts are expected to begin May 11 and run through June 2021.
If your firm or organization is slashing salaries, closing its doors, or reducing the ranks of its lawyers or staff, whether through open layoffs, stealth layoffs, or voluntary buyouts, please don’t hesitate to let us know. Our vast network of tipsters is part of what makes Above the Law thrive. You can email us or text us (646-820-8477).
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University of Arizona sets furloughs, pay cuts lasting months amid pandemic [Arizona Daily Star]
Pay cuts and furloughs are on the horizon at Arizona law school [ABA Journal]
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.
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As I walked up the easy incline toward the Turtle Effigy in southern Saskatchewan, overhead I heard familiar prairie music – the piercing screech of Red-Tailed Hawk. The bird had followed me from Wild Man Butte, half an hour away, or so it seemed, and would meet me again at the Herschel Petroglyphs, hundreds of miles away. As I prayed amid the stones on that serene hilltop, Red-Tailed Hawk hunted up and down the surrounding ravines.
I have encountered this beautiful creature at sacred sites all over the prairies. The call of Red-Tailed Hawk punctuates the vast loneliness of wide-open spaces with its desperate, even crazy edge, a shrill urgency meant to frighten small timorous critters from the safety of grass nests to become hawk breakfasts. Hear it.
To the south of Turtle Effigy, the plains roll away toward Big Muddy Lake, usually a shallow, white-rimmed affair. In a bluff down the hill, an uneven nest of sticks built near the swaying top of a huge cottonwood indicates the home of Red-Tailed Hawk. Nests like these abound from Alaska to Panama. A successful bird, Red-Tailed Hawk is the most abundant hawk in North America and the largest, the female a third bigger than the male. The bird’s size caused ancient inhabitants to call it Red Eagle.
Red-Tailed Hawk, of the genus buteo (pronounced ‘beauty-o’), comes in a striking array of colour combinations. The consistent feature is the rufous-coloured tail, redder on top, pinkish underneath.
I have watched Red-Tailed Hawk’s skillful hunting and heard the melancholy cries at buffalo pounds, turtle effigies, burial mounds, snake pits and petroglyphs all across the southern prairies. If it is hunting in a valley, I may never see the bird but only hear its cries. Their numbers make them ubiquitous out here. Extremely rare in cities, they prefer lonesome expansive grasslands or rich marshes.
A special encounter with sacred Red-Tailed Hawk occurred in an unlikely place. A few days before my double-bypass heart surgery in June 2002, with my prayer circle and spirit friends in place, I was taking a walk down our elm-shaded streets when I heard the distinctive sharp cry of Red-Tailed Hawk! In the middle of the city! It was clear and recognizable in the midday din.
The sound of the hawk immediately transported me back to the sacred sites I’ve come to know over the years. I recalled the helpful local spirits at these places and realized, since I have a familiarity with them, they would be an important part of my healing.
I don’t know what made the sound of Red-Tailed Hawk in the middle of the city – I didn’t see the bird, only heard its cry. Whatever it was, it reminded me of the places and the powers I have encountered, how they manifested in my life on the verge of surgery and how they could play a role in my healing afterwards.
Thank you for reminding me Red-Tailed Hawk.


Last Monday Clr. Harold Kim posted to a local facebook group regarding issues residents have had with sidewalk plowing this season:
Interesting because both the Town of Aurora and the mayor haven’t acknowledged any issues residents have been having through their social channels over the past 2 months. In fact if you go back 2 more days the Mayor was even praising staff for the dedication and hard work of clearing sidewalks:
Strange given the fact that staff don’t clear sidewalks and this is a contracted service, confirmed by this 2020 Certificate of Substantial Performance issued by the town.
Leaving aside the fact that we have 2 members of council providing conflicting statements about the town’s service levels, Clr. Kim has provided no context, nor any proof to his statement that the town “will be bringing sidewalk plowing in-house next winter”.
So let’s break this down.
1.) Is there or isn’t there an issue with sidewalk winter maintenance service levels contracted out by the town?
Kim’s post only speaks to the fact that lawns may be damaged. I fail to see how changing this between an in-house or contracted service will improve this. The town has delivered sidewalk plowing in house previously and the same damage has occurred. If Kim is claiming that the damage has increased using a contractor vs in house then where are the KPIs that are measured, reported and trended to support such accusations?
Given that Kim was supportive of the recently added sidewalk on Kitmat Cres. whose benefits listed were that it would “provide a safe walkway for pedestrians, especially children:
What does he have to say when photos have popped up on the same facebook group he posted to claiming that the sidewalk was not being plowed in a timely fashion.
It should be easy to determine not only if but when that sidewalk is plowed by simply checking the Town’s Where’s my Plow app, yet when you do the sidewalk doesn’t reflect any status, why?
2.) Is the town considering bringing sidewalk plowing in-house or not?
If we go back to Match of 2015 we can review “Additional Information on Budget Decision Unit #2.4
Sidewalk Snow Removal Services”. On page 3 we see a rationalization for switching between inhouse and contracted sidewalk plowing:
How much sidewalk does the town have to clear in 2021? Does Kim even know?
In the 2020 Operating budget there is graph predicting a total of both road and sidewalks but no individual breakdown:
Also on page 19-4 listed under 2019 accomplishments is “Review of winter control plans to identify a long-term strategy to deliver roads and sidewalk maintenance for the winter season.”
So what is this strategy?
If Kim is definitively stating that the Town of Aurora is bringing sidewalk plowing in house he must have read it. So why not share the link with residents?
Perhaps he was too deep in thought he simply forgot.
Ironically a month ago Kim posted to the same facebook group about another “deep in thought” moment where he failed to notice a snow plow before it covered him:
If the stress of his job on council is taxing on his self awareness and potentially putting his personal safety in jeopardy than this may be the motivation behind announcing his intention to fail upwards into a federal Conservative nomination.
Apparently Kim admits he has made a factually bankrupt statement due to “disappointment” and “frustration”:
I mean why bother checking facts before making a public statement to constituents?
I also see no retraction or clarification of the statement in the channels he made his initial statements to either. Allowing frustration and disappointment to drive your responses are excellent qualities one looks for in a Member of Parliament. Great work!


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Valle recalls spending two summer vacations watching trains in the Eel River Canyon in California.
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TO THIS DAY, I don't know what possessed my father to decide that we would spend his two-week summer vacation in a dingy rented housekeeping cabin in the little town of Dos Rios, Calif. In fact, we did it twice, in the summer of 1952 and again the following year. I do know that it had an indelible impact on me.
When we first went to Dos Rios, I was a train-crazy kid, but by the end of the second vacation, I was a true railfan. That is, I had discovered there was more to running a railroad than just a bunch of engineers racing their locomotives down the tracks.
My first inkling of the adventure to come occurred as we drove past the Northwestern Pacific roundhouse at Willits. There, in stalls and on the garden tracks, sat about a dozen grimy steamers. The NWP had sent most of its own freight locomotives to the boneyard by that time, so virtually all the motive power stationed at Willits was leased Southern Pacific Harriman-type Consolidations. There seemed to be enough of the 2-8-0's on hand to promise some good train-- watching, if we could only get back to Willits.
Presently we left the highway and struck out on a gravel road that ran along the Eel River I was overjoyed to see that the track was also following the river, albeit on the other bank. Finally, about 25 miles north of Willits, we crossed a gleaming silver highway bridge and arrived at Dos Rios, which at that time had a large water tank, a depot with a manual block-order board, a passing track, a house track, and a spur siding. The town itself consisted of the housekeeping cabins, a small cafe, and some miscellaneous buildings straggling up the steep gravel road. To my mother it seemed like a dump, but to my dad and me it was a suburb of paradise. First and foremost, there was the railroad, which fascinated us both. Next, well below the right-of-way, the Eel River flowed, its green water looking cool and inviting in the wilting summer heat. There was a gray sand beach just under the bridge, and dramatic rock formations and high hills on the opposite bank.
I assumed that a few trains a day would pass with long, frustrating intervals, but I was wrong. It was the peak of the postwar economic boom, and the demand for lumber and building materials was strong. We hadn't even finished unpacking when a northbound freight clanked into town. The engineer spotted his locomotive under the water tank, and the fireman began to fill the Vanderbilt tender. I ran down to the track as fast as I could and arrived just in time to see the fireman overfill the tender. Water cascaded down the curved flanks of the tender like a miniature Niagara. What a thrill for a 9-year-old!
Soon that train whistled off, but 10 minutes later another pulled up to the tank and the ritual was re-enacted. The Vanderbilt tender, cylindrical in section, fills slowly at first, but very rapidly as the water gets near the top. Very few of the young extra-board firemen who drew Eel River Canyon runs knew how to draw a full tank without spilling a lot of it on the ground. I thought it was the greatest show going, but my dad wasn't so enthusiastic. He informed me that the roadbed was soft in these parts due to the proximity of the river, and that tender spillage didn't help matters. The soft roadbed also precluded the NWP from running any really big power on that line, which meant lots of relatively short trains running behind smaller engines.
THE TRAINS came through in a steady procession. Empty boxcars and flats went north and came back south loaded with lumber. There were even open-top boxcars full of sawdust in the consists. Every train had its grime-streaked SP 2-8-0 on the head end and a dark red NWP caboose bringing up the rear. Many trains stopped to pick up orders and take water, and I began to learn the whistle signals for backing up, going ahead, and calling in the flagman.
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AFTER A WHILE, my favorite train became the evening peddler freight. I remember one time I ran down to the tank to watch the fireman take water. Just as I got there, the engine crew decided to sand the flues. Before I knew it, the ancient C-Class Consol was belching out black smoke like Mount Vesuvius. With the blower roaring and the sky beginning to darken overhead, I was seized by panic and indecision. Should I run for it or shouldn't I? I did run a little, but soon stopped to watch. Sure enough, the smoke eventually abated and the old kettle whistled off toward Willits, none the worse for wear.
Another time I was watching the local switch cars when the engineer noticed me.
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