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NRL’s plan opens door for reserve graders
The NRL will introduce a radical change to its eligibility rules in 2021 in a return to the halcyon days of rugby league.
The Townsville Bulletin can reveal the NRL has rushed through a rule change to allow clubs to dip into their feeder club stocks midway through the season as injuries begin to hit.
Players outside of the a club's top-30 roster can be called up from their Queensland Cup or NSW Cup teams from Round 11.
An NRL spokesman confirmed the rule change but added that the players must be signed to club's on a training deal to take the field.
Cowboys head of football Micheal Luck has heralded the rule change suggesting it revisited the traditional pathways from the grassroots to the NRL.
The pathway has not been in place since the disbandment of the national under-20s competition in 2015.
It will also act as an incentive for reserve grade players, with the opportunity of exposure on the national stage on the line.
Luck, who earned his NRL stripes by toiling in the Queensland Cup with the NQ Young Guns, said the initiative opened the door for a lot of players who had been lost to the system.
"I think it was always a bit puzzling why guys that were part of the pathways system were essentially roadblocked when they got to a certain point," he said.
"It is great, it means guys that are having a year out of the box, performing at a high level, have an opportunity to step up. There is a genuine avenue for those guys to be playing first grade.
"For us, a club with three feeder clubs, all of that is exciting. We have got guys who can compete week to week, if they are going well enough they could be in our side."
Luck said he believed the return of the reserve grade pathway did not cancel out the development squad system, with young players still needing time training in an NRL set-up at the start of their careers.
The Cowboys have already aligned their feeder clubs with their structures and play calls to make it easier for allocated players from the top squad when they return to the Queensland Cup. Those systems could give the other players in their three feeder clubs - Townsville Blackhawks, Northern Pride and Mackay Cutters - a leg up in their quest for NRL opportunities.
Blackhawks coach Aaron Payne has backed his players to take heed of the opportunity and work even harder in the 2021 season.
"It will give all the second tier blokes a real spring in their step, knowing they are a chance of progressing up the tree," Payne said.
"I am sure (the Cowboys) will be interested in how not just the Blackhawks are going, but how Cairns and Mackay are going as well. They will have access to all of those players to keep a close eye on the players.
Payne also suggested the rule change could apply the blowtorch to underperforming players in the Cowboys squad, with players outside of their squad hungry to come up and take their spot.
The rule change will hinge on the NRL remaining outside of a COVID-19 bubble which it has been for all of the pre-season.
It also comes after ARL Commission chairman Peter V'landys declared his desire to return to hosting three games on game day including reserve grade and under-21 competitions. It is part of the chairman's plan to return the code to its fans.
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Coronavirus: Florida shatters record with 8,942 new cases, Duval County has 447
Florida recorded nearly 9,000 additional cases of COVID-19, shattering its previous single-day high by more than 3,000, while Duval County added a county record 447 cases in Friday’s daily report on the coronavirus pandemic.
The Florida Department of Health recorded 122,960 total cases of COVID-19 in the state, an increase of 8,942 compared to Thursday’s report. That surpasses the former single-day high — the 5,508 cases added in Wednesday’s daily report — by more than 3,000.
Duval County’s positive test count jumped by 447 to a new total of 4,171. Those were among 595 new cases in Northeast Florida: St. Johns County added 83 new cases, Clay County added 38, Putnam County added 14, Nassau County added 10 cases and Baker County added three.
Once again, despite the spike in new cases, the health department did not report a comparable increase in deaths. The state listed 39 new deaths of residents, raising the toll in Florida residents to 3,366.
Among the deaths was an 88-year-old man in Clay County, the 34th listed death from COVID-19 in the county. The Northeast Florida death toll now stands at 116.
Lee County also recorded the death of a 16-year-old girl, the youngest patient in Florida to die thus far.
The rise in cases was accompanied by a rise in testing — the state recorded 71,433 tests processed at laboratories across the state on Thursday. However, despite more testing, the positive test rate for Thursday’s lab results rose statewide to 14.74 percent.
Duval County’s positive test rate for tests processed Thursday increased to 14.1 percent, the highest figure for the county since the state began publishing county-by-county reports in April.
Tests processed Thursday showed increased positive rates in Baker County, to 6.7 percent; in Nassau County, to 5.9 percent; in Putnam County, to 6.8 percent; and in St. Johns County, now at 10.8 percent.
Clay County’s positive rate, however, decreased to 4.5 percent in lab tests recorded Thursday.
The state also, for the first time, added a separate category for deaths of Florida non-residents, which now number 98.
Florida reported 212 additional hospitalizations compared to Thursday’s report. Still unknown is the number of current, active COVID-19 hospitalizations, a figure not reported by the state.
The absence of current hospitalization numbers and the addition of non-resident deaths are among several adjustments in state numbers, which have not always been consistent. Cumulative totals for several counties, including Clay County last week, have at times declined without any explanation.
Deaths: 3,366 in residents, 98 in non-residents
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St. Johns: 682
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St. Johns: 7
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Ascena Retail Group Inc. overcame continuing weakness in its Justice and Lane Bryant brands with tight inventory and expense controls and ended the first quarter with increases in profits and gross margins.
In the three months ended Oct. 25, the Mahwah, N.J.-based specialty store operator’s net income increased 1.7 percent to $53.5 million from $52.6 million. Earnings per share were 32 cents in both periods, but adjusted EPS for the most recent quarter was 28 cents, 2 cents better than the analysts’ consensus estimate.
Adjustments include an 8-cent benefit related to the retirement of Michael Rayden, who will step down as president and chief executive officer of the Justice & Brothers divisions in January. He will be entitled to $37 million in previously accured deferred compensation which became fully deductible in the just completed quarter.
Sales slipped 0.2 percent to $1.19 billion from $1.2 billion in the year-ago quarter, with comparable sales down 2 percent, including a 4 percent decline in same-store sales and a 16 percent increase in e-commerce.
By division, sales at Justice were down 4.2 percent to $357 million, and down 7 percent on a comp basis, while Lane Bryant revenues dropped 0.8 percent to $245.7 million. Maurices was up 4 percent to $251.9 million, Dress Barn up 0.9 pecent to $259.6 million and Catherines up 3.8 percent to $80 million. Comps were flat at Lane Bryant, Maurices and Dress Barn and up 4 percent at Catherines.
Gross margin advanced to 58.2 percent of sales from 57.9 percent in the year-ago quarter, as strength at Maurices, Dress Barn and Catherines offset declines at Lane Bryant and Justice.
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Inventories declined slightly more than sales, pulling back 1.2 percent to $626 million, in part because of port-related delays.
On a late afternoon conference call with analysts, David Jaffe, president and ceo of the firm, said that the flat comps at Lane Bryant, Maurices and Dress Barn came “despite negative mid-single-digit traffic trends.” He said the sales climate has “improved modestly from the prior quarter’s performance, but the first quarter remained challenging.”
Summarizing the performance of various fashion trends, Jaffe said soft pants, leggings, jeggings, skirts and dresses performed well, with size-5 offerings adding more than $6 million in new business.
“Our biggest challenge came from the casual top assortment, particularly wovens and sweaters,” he said.
Jaffe noted a move away from some previous promotions but said the company wouldn’t hesitate to prime the promotional pump if needed to achieve season-end inventory goals.
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“Depending on conditions, this may require a return to the promotional cadence from last year,” he said.
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As we approach the end of Hispanic Heritage Month, I reflect fondly on my family’s journey to North Carolina. When we arrived in Raleigh in the early 1970s, my parents (dad from Cuba and mother from Argentina) held close to their Latin traditions, and our young family had already lived in Brazil and Central America. You can imagine the curiosity of seeing our family of four speaking Spanish when we took our first walk through then-new Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh so many years ago.
We truly had a unique profile in our community. According to the 1970 Census, there were only 970 persons of Spanish language in Wake County at the time. Even though it was not the most diverse state to move to at the time, my family was very attracted to the quality of life here in North Carolina, which included having access to excellent healthcare.
Fast forward 50 years, and the state of North Carolina has seen tremendous growth in its Hispanic community, with 116,000 Hispanics residing in Wake County according to the 2020 Census. Our community has not only grown here in the Triangle but has also established a presence in rural counties across the state. Unfortunately, many of North Carolina’s rural communities don’t have the same access to health care and economic mobility that Raleigh has offered my family and others. Furthermore, many within the Hispanic community who reside here in the Triangle experience barriers to care despite being in an area with so many established health care providers.
While about 30% of Hispanics in North Carolina remain uninsured due to cost, language and other barriers, I am hopeful that more and more individuals will gain access to the care and essentials they need to thrive. I feel especially encouraged about the unique position Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is in to support these underserved communities. Our very purpose is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians, with a relentless pursuit of making health care better for all. We’ve got a long road ahead, but we’re well on our way.
As a longstanding citizen of this great state, I am proud of the rich culture and other contributions that the Hispanic community – along with other immigrant communities – brings to North Carolina. As Chief Legal Officer at Blue Cross NC, I am proud to play a role in supporting Blue Cross NC’s mission of better health care for all.
This year we launched Healthy Blue, our Medicaid managed care plan that provides thousands of North Carolinians access to a network of more than 48,000 health providers and to services that positively impact social drivers of health.
Blue Cross NC also invests in nonprofit organizations that are working daily in Hispanic communities to provide food, financial assistance, health screenings and more. As part of our health equity strategy, we will be announcing a number of initiatives that will serve historically underserved populations, including the Hispanic community, starting with a $2M RFP for evidence-based strategies that improve maternal and infant health outcomes.
As a longstanding citizen of this great state, I am proud of the rich culture and other contributions that the Hispanic community – along with other immigrant communities – brings to North Carolina. As Chief Legal Officer at Blue Cross NC, I am proud to play a role in supporting Blue Cross NC’s mission of better health care for all. We have an amazing opportunity in front of us.
From the day I arrived here with my family when I only spoke a jumbled mix of Spanish, Portuguese and English, I have always felt supported. Blue Cross NC’s warm, people-oriented culture that celebrates and pursues diversity, equity and inclusion within our company and for our members and communities continues to make me and others feel just as supported.
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With the 2021 city election approaching, The World-Herald sought to set the stage for the issues facing the City of Omaha into the future.
Omaha has been through an incredible period of growth going back to construction of the city’s arena and convention center.
While Omaha has grown a lot, it also has changed significantly — and in many ways faces a different world now.
The newspaper sought out perspectives from a broad collection of civic voices — people who are involved, connected and leaders in the community, and who offered an array of viewpoints and backgrounds.
With some sources, we asked about specific topics, such as suburban growth and redevelopment in Omaha or the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s landmark Project NExT. We also sought answers to this question: What priorities do you see for Omaha's future?
The World-Herald asked incumbent Mayor Jean Stothert and challenger RJ Neary to weigh in several key issues ahead of Omaha's May 11 general election. Here's Stothert and Neary in their own words on the key issues facing Omaha.


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S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) component Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL) will unveil its latest earnings on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Oracle develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and services software designed to help its customers manage and grow their businesses.
Oracle Corp. Earnings Preview Cheat Sheet
Wall St. Earnings Expectations: The average analyst estimate is for net income of 54 cents per share, a rise of 5.9% from the company’s actual earnings for the year-ago quarter. During the past three months, the average estimate has moved down from 57 cents. Between one and three months ago, the average estimate moved down. It has been unchanged at 54 cents during the last month. For the year, analysts are projecting profit of $2.25 per share, a rise of 5.6% from last year.
Past Earnings Performance: Last quarter, the company missed estimates by 2 cents, coming in at net income of 53 cents per share versus a mean estimate of profit of 55 cents per share. In the first quarter, the company beat estimates by one cent.
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Wall St. Revenue Expectations: On average, analysts predict $9.03 billion in revenue this quarter, a rise of 2.5% from the year-ago quarter. Analysts are forecasting total revenue of $37.42 billion for the year, a rise of 4.4% from last year’s revenue of $35.85 billion.
Analyst Ratings: Analysts are optimistic about this stock, with 23 analysts rating it as a buy, one rating it as a sell and 12 rating it as a hold.
A Look Back: In the second quarter, profit rose 17.2% to $2.19 billion (43 cents a share) from $1.87 billion (37 cents a share) the year earlier, but fell short analyst expectations. Revenue rose 2.4% to $8.79 billion from $8.58 billion.
The company has seen net income rise in three consecutive quarters. Net income rose 36.1% in the first quarter and 35.8% in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year.
Revenue has increased in each of the past four quarters. Revenue rose 11.6% in the first quarter from the year earlier, climbed 13.4% in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year from the year-ago quarter and 36.9% in the third quarter of the last fiscal year.
Stock Price Performance: Between January 17, 2012 and March 16, 2012, the stock price had risen $2.08 (7.5%), from $27.66 to $29.74. The stock price saw one of its best stretches over the last year between April 18, 2011 and May 2, 2011, when shares rose for 10 straight days, increasing 8.1% (+$2.72) over that span. It saw one of its worst periods between November 15, 2011 and November 25, 2011 when shares fell for eight straight days, dropping 12.8% (-$4.21) over that span.
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An ambitious project to bring Louth Canal ‘back to life’ has been spearheaded by Victoria Atkins MP, who hopes to see the waterway opened up between Louth, Tetney Lock, and even the Humber estuary - providing a major boost for local tourism.
Ms Atkins held a ‘very productive’ meeting with local politicians and representatives from the Louth Navigation Trust, the Inland Waterways Association, and the Canal & River Trust on Friday (June 1) to discuss the various options for the future of the Canal.
The proposals could one day give boats the chance to enter the canal from the North Sea, and sail all the way inland towards Louth’s riverhead.
Ms Atkins said: “We’ve brought all the experts into a room to see what we can do to make the canal work for Louth again, and work for the surrounding areas.
“We’ve agreed that we’re going to set up a steering group to start achieving some small steps which will help bring the canal back to life.
“We know that this is a long term project - it’s going to take decades and it’s going to cost a great deal of money.
It’s a brilliant amenity that the town doesn’t fully utilise, but one day hopefully we will - it’s going to change!Louth Navigation Trust chairman, Roger Subden
“What we’d love to do is to open it up from the top of the Canal in Tetney, and all the way down to Louth.
“It would also be great if we could open up the entry point at the sea, and open it up to boats. But there’s a great big gas pipe in our way at the moment.
“So the first step is to see if we can tackle that, and - working with the companies involved - find a way of moving that gas pipe so that boats can navigate up and down. That’s the first thing the steering group will start working on.”
The steering group is aiming to form within the next few months, with further announcements expected later this year.
Ms Atkins added that the multi-user path project, spearheaded by the District Council, would also help attract more visitors to the area.
East Lindsey District Council leader, Councillor Craig Leyland, confirmed that ELDC’s recent purchase of the Navigation Warehouse will tie in with these ambitious plans.
Ms Atkins and Coun Leyland praised the hard work and dedication of the volunteers at the Louth Navigation Trust, with Ms Atkins saying that the Canal project will benefit from their ‘enthusiasm and expertise’ as it progresses.
Louth Navigation Trust chairman, Roger Subden, said: “Louth has a hidden gem here. It’s a facility that we don’t make as much use of as we could do.
“The Trust was originally formed to protect the historical element of the Canal that was still here, and now it’s about getting it up to its full potential.
“It’s a brilliant amenity that the town doesn’t fully utilise, but one day hopefully we will - it’s going to change!”


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Ille mi par esse deo videtur,
ille, si fas est, superare divos,
qui sedens adversus identidem te
spectat et audit
dulce ridentem, misero quod omnis
eripit sensus mihi: nam simul te,
Lesbia, aspexi, nihil est super mi
vocis in ore,
lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus
flamma demanat, sonitu suopte
tintinant aures, gemina teguntur
Otium, Catulle, tibi molestum est:
otio exsultas nimiumque gestis:
otium et reges prius et beatas
Catullus 51: Noir
Lesbia, smoking hot in shifting satin,
a red Schiaparelli number, cut-to-kill,
spaghetti strap artfully loose on one bare
white arm. Her hooks tonight are in
millionaire Crassus. He’s slavering,
luckiest grifter in Little Italy, Straight Flush,
Full House, Jack in the Hole. Rufus,
I tell the barman, hit me with another.
Lesbia. She was Clodia back then.
The shock when she walked through
my door. Like the sizzle that twitched
Antonius. I wired him up to the factory mains.
He went pasty, his legs shook, sawdust-mouthed,
he fizzed inside, talked, and blacked out.
Catullus, I tell myself, here’s the angle:
trouble comes when there’s time to burn.
Time on your hands, Christ, you’re an animal.
Flagrant time. It’s what got Philoctetes
the Greek wasted. It did for Babylon.
by Ian McLachlan
News from the Centre: next Thursday sees the first event in our poetry reading series at our exciting new venue, Society Café in Oxford city centre. The first reading pairs two distinct voices in contemporary poetry: Kirsten Irving (also one of the editors of Sidekick Books) and Caroline Smith (whose poem ‘Teenager’ we featured back in January). Buy your tickets here and join us from 7-9pm. For future events in our reading series, including details of our reading on 9 November with Siobhán Campbell and Kate Clanchy, visit our website.
After the recent announcement of the winners of our International Poetry Competition, judged by Helen Mort, we would be delighted to see you at our awards event on Friday 24 November, which will feature readings from the winning and shortlisted poets and from Helen Mort herself. If you’d like to attend, please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org
‘Catullus 51: Noir’ is copyright © Ian McLachlan, 2017. It is reprinted from Bad Kid Catullus (Sidekick Books, 2017) by permission of Sidekick Books.
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Ian McLachlan was the Republic’s favourite tragedian. Due to an unfortunate incident involving Pompey’s son-in-law and the Cloaca Maxima, Ian now lives in remote Britain where he is a student of Stoicism and an assiduous writer of curse tablets. You can follow him on Twitter.
Gaius Valerius Catullus was Ancient Rome’s most notorious scandal-monger, filthsmith and lovelorn wretch. In this interactive handbook, Bad Kid Catullus, his famously sexy, savage, tender and scurrilous poems have been transformed and mutated in myriad ways: compressed, expanded, bricolaged, Catullus in six pulp genres, Catullus as playlist – even a Catullus karma sutra. And then there are pages for you, the reader, to fill in, in your own obscene fashion. You’ll never look at a sparrow the same way again.
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Cadogan Hall, Sloane Square, London
January 19th 2017, 7.30pm
After delivering an explosive unconducted performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Academy in 2015/16, Music Director and violinist Joshua Bell returns to play and direct the orchestra in another iconic masterpiece, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor. Two of Beethoven’s most popular works sit either side: the Egmont Overture powerfully captures the heroic tale of the 16th century Dutch Count Egmont’s resistance against the Inquisition, and Symphony No 6, ‘Pastoral’, paints pictures of nature in all its glory, from bubbling brooks and sun-drenched meadows to raging storms.
A pre-concert talk will take place from 6:30pm in the Caversham Room.

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By James F. Blanchard, Han Kang, Faran Emmanuel, Sushena Reza Paul,
South Asia's HIV epidemic is extremely heterogeneous. for that reason, trained, prioritized, and powerful responses necessitate an knowing of the epidemic variety among and inside of international locations. additional unfold of HIV in South Asia is preventable. the longer term dimension of South Asia's epidemic depends on an efficient two-pronged procedure: to begin with, at the scope and effectiveness of HIV prevention courses for intercourse employees and their consumers, injecting drug clients and their sexual companions, and males having intercourse with males and their different sexual companions; and secondly, at the effectiveness of efforts to deal with the underlying socio-economic determinants of the epidemic, and to lessen stigma and discrimination in the direction of humans accomplishing excessive threat behaviors, usually marginalized in society, in addition to humans dwelling with HIV and AIDS. This evaluation was once undertaken to supply a foundation for rigorous, evidence-informed HIV coverage and programming in South Asia.
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The opposite trend occurred in Maharashtra, where a slightly greater proportion of rural females (42 percent) than rural males (38 percent) reported using condoms with nonregular partners. Injecting Drug Users Drug use patterns vary greatly across the South Asia Region. Sri Lanka is estimated to have 40,000 to 50,000 drug users (Pattern of Drug Abuse 2003). One cross-sectional study highlights that among individuals arrested for drug-related offenses, about 75 percent of males and 100 percent of females preferred heroin, and nearly 60 percent of males and over 95 percent of females had used drugs for at least six years (Pattern of Drug Abuse 2003).
In contrast, HIV prevalence rates among MSM in Goa, Mumbai, and Tamil Nadu have ranged from 2 percent to over 50 percent in samples at different times. Those extreme fluctuations may be due to a combination of HIV Prevalence and Spread • 33 small sample sizes and different sampling methodologies from year to year. Much more data are needed to understand the extent to which the HIV epidemic has reached the MSM community in general in Goa, Mumbai, and Tamil Nadu. Injecting Drug Users The efficiency of HIV transmission through injecting drug use behaviors and networks can accelerate the growth of HIV epidemics among IDUs.
No data regarding HIV prevalence in the general population are available from Nepal, which vitiates a confident interpretation of the country’s HIV epidemic. In Pakistan, HIV prevalence in the general population remains close to zero (as approximated using professional blood donors, though notwithstanding the potential upward bias of estimates based on this group). In Bangladesh, recent studies among samples of rural men and women living in the Matlab region and among a “general” population of women attending a health care clinic in Dhaka have not found any HIV cases (NASP 2005).

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I shoot a lot at 200 yards. I can hit 2.5" targets consistently after a windage shot.
1" targets at 150 yards. The 2.5" target is a kill zone on a rabbit. The 1" is a squirrel.
I once hit a soda can at 350 after a windage shot.That was the only time I have shot at that distance.
I just set up a 400 yard range so I don't have a lot of experience at that distance yet. I do know it is 64 minutes of drop. I took a few shots off hand in high wind and came pretty close to a milk jug.One shot missed by about 6 inches.A bench will make all tha difference. I don't think the milk jug will be that difficult to hit in good conditions.
I shoot a customized Ruger 1022T with Eley HVHP ammo and a Shepherd scope which has hold over marks to 500 yards.
Sorry guys I've been extremly busy lately and havent been able to get on a computer.No the RUGER isnt stock it.I put a Houge stock,Butler creek barrel and new trigger unit on it.I normaly use either Elay or agille ammo.
I agree with Boyd though use the big guns to learn to shoot long,the 22s are really just for fun.
Big Hunter, I think you stole my gun!! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] I too have a Marlin (bolt action in an 06'with Bushnel scope) Too funny... I dont know about ammo, I load my own. With mine, I can hit a golfball at 200 yards. Come to think of it, I havent shot commercial rounds for 2 years. May have to try a box just for kicks!
SEALSNIPER, I see that you shoot using a Tasco Tactical. I am currently looking into one and would appreciate your opinion.
What yardage is the drop of a 22lr equal to a 308 175gr Gold Medal match at 1000 yards. Also at what yardages do the 408 Cheytac or 50 BMG (Lost River Ballistics bullets) match the drop of the aforementioned 308?
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From shooting small bore silhouette and also plinking at long range with a 22LR, I would suggest trying subsonic match ammo. I use Eley Standard/Target. Any of the match brands including Eley, Federal, Lapua, RWS can work. Each company carries so many different versions that it would be impossible to say what will work in your rifle.
Just like handloading, different types and brands must be tried to find the "load" that shoots in your rifle. It doesn't have to be the most expensive, just consistent which the Wal mart specials aren't. Expect to get 5rds into an inch or so at 100yds with the right ammo. Inconsistent ammo will show up as flyers usually as much lower shots.
I have successfully used rifles made by Bruno/CZ and the Norinco clones. Anschutz (or CIL copies), Kimbers, and rebarreled 10/22 will also work. Many have had success with domestic bolt guns from the 50's and 60's as well (Mossberg 144, and Remington 500 series). You need a decent trigger and a lot of time testing ammo.
Scopes with lots of adjustment or shimmed bases will be needed as well.
Once you get a combo that works at 100yds, you will be amazed at how far you can shoot. The limiting factor is elevation and your ability to see the impact. Friend shot at a target at over 600yds and came real close to connecting. The shots were spotted and elevation added till the target was almost hit. Impact was close enough to make it leave in a hurry. Zero wind that day.
PS I own two Tasco Tactical Sniper scopes. The 10X has pretty decent optics and works very well. The 20X has pretty lousy optics but works equally as well. I have heard that the 16X also has good optics. For the money, there isn't a scope on the market with the amount of adjustment. The closest you will get is the Leupold 16X long range, night Force, or European scopes at much more money.
We do a lot of .22 rimfire shooting here because most of the farms we shot gophers at are too small for big centrefires.
Rifles are usually heavy barreled target versions like Anschutz etc.
Gophers are about 2.5" wide and 6-9" tall. I have made hits out to 200 yds and a whole lot of hits to about 150 yds. Last week I made a laser ranged hit at 170yds. Gophers are difficult targets because they are always moving.
For optics we use the 3-9x40 Tasco Worldclass with MIL Dot reticle. Because we shoot in a target rich environment it would be too slow to click up for each shot and the turret would probably wear out after a few months of this sort of abuse. So we use the MIL Dots for holdovers. From a 50yd zero 5 mils holdover can take you out to about 200 yds or so. To go any further you will need to click up.


The first in a series of unreleased, improvised, experimental and otherwise obscure sides that we've recorded over the years. This is a song Larry & Tyler recorded one night in the deep holiday freeze of 2009. It features our old band mate Tony from Fingers & Toes on keys and vocals. enjoy this shit people!
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2-methoxyestradiol (2ME2) is an endogenous estradiol metabolite that has antiproliferative, antiangiogenic and antitumor activity with low levels of toxicity that is orally active. Several promising analogues of 2ME2 have been identified in recent years. 2-methoxyestradiol-bis-sulphamate (2-MeOE2bisMATE), a bis-sulphamoylated derivative of 2ME2 is an anti-proliferative agent and is more potent than 2ME2. However, several questions remain regarding the action mechanism of 2-MeOE2bisMATE. The aim of this preclinical in vitro study was to investigate the influence 2-MeOE2bisMATE on the cell growth, morphology and cell death in a breast cancer (MCF-7) and a non-tumorigenic epithelial breast cell line (MCF-12A). Differential effects of 2-MeOE2bisMATE on MCF-7 and MCF-12A cell lines were investigated by means of dose- (0.2-1micromolar) and time-dependent studies (24 hours, 48 hours and 72 hours) using spectrophotometry (crystal violet staining), fluorescent microscopy (Hoechst 33342, propidium iodide and acridine orange) and light microscopy (haematoxylin and eosin staining). Preliminary studies indicate that 2-MeOE2bisMATE decreased cell numbers to 75% in MCF-7 cells in contrast to 93% in MCF-12A cells after 24 hours of exposure. Exposure of 48 hours resulted in 47% growth reduction in MCF-7 cells and 81% in MCF-12A cells; while 72 hour exposure resulted in 41% growth reduction in MCF-7 and 78% in MCF-12A respectively. Light microscopy revealed apoptotic characteristics including a metaphase block. Fluorescent microscopy revealed hypercondensed chromatin, apoptotic bodies and autophagy characteristics (increased lysosomal staining). MCF-7 cells were also more susceptible to 2-MeOE2bisMATE than MCF-12A cells. Future studies will include analysis of cell cycle progression and apoptosis identification (Annexin V) by means of flow cytometry. Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscope will be conducted for confirmation of the above-mentioned results already obtained of the in vitro effects on morphology after exposure to 2-MeOE2bisMATE. The knowledge obtained from this study will contribute to the in vitro studies regarding the action mechanism of 2-MeOE2bisMATE. The latter shows therapeutic potential, however the effects on tumorigenic and non-tumorigenic cell lines remain unclear and warrant further investigation.
This poster was presented at the University of Pretoria, Health Sciences Faculty Day, 20 August 2008, Pretoria, South Africa. This poster was also presented at the following conferences in South Africa: South African Academy: Biological Sciences, 2-3 October 2008, Pretoria; CANSA Cancer Research in Action, 20-22 August 2008, Johannesburg; Physiological Society of Southern Africa (PSSA), 16-19 September 2008, Pretoria.

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Learn about the reconstruction scheduled for Main Avenue in Fargo between the Red River and South University Drive over the next two years. Plans for the first year of improvements will be shared as well as how you and your customers can stay updated on access changes.
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Here at LibertyID, we like to remind our readers, clients, and community that the current cybersecurity climate dictates that a data breach will almost certainly affect every organization out there at some point. It’s no longer a matter of if but when this will happen. Believing that your business is somehow immune from this ongoing threat can set the stage for digital disaster.
With that ever-ominous public service announcement in mind, data breach planning is an indispensable tool for businesses of every size across all industries. Lasting success can be secured or squandered on this preparation alone. Even more, new data privacy regulations result in the need for ongoing compliance that many owners and insiders remain unaware of.
Importance of Data Privacy
Data is not so quietly becoming one of the most valuable global commodities. Personal information gets most of the attention relating to cybersecurity issues, and rightfully so, but there are various other elements involved in data privacy. Too often, privacy issues and concerns are only discussed after a security issue or data breach has occurred. This can create a problematic portrayal of how a business is addressing privacy concerns in consumers’ eyes.
Taking a forward-focused approach to data privacy can flip the script and demonstrate active attempts by your organization to stay ahead of the curve. A cybersecurity plan is essential to protect a business’s best interests, but the benefits extend beyond office walls. Informing customers, clients, and even employees of what steps are being made to address data security can increase trust and show that efforts exist with their ongoing wellbeing in mind.
This approach doesn’t need to be complex – transparency with how personal data is being managed and what steps are in place in the event of a breach can be all that is needed to boost consumer confidence.
The Rise of Regulations
Two significant data privacy regulation policies have been established in recent years, setting a precedent for how all businesses handle cybersecurity policies and data breach incidents now and in the near future.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is the first data privacy law to hit the books in the US. It went into effect at the beginning of 2020 to give consumers increased control and awareness of how businesses gather and use personal information (PII). Key aspects of the CCPA include granting to consumers the right to opt-out of the sale of PII, the right to know how a business collects and uses PII, and the right to delete PII that has been collected.
These rights are exclusive to California residents. However, the rules apply to any for-profit business that does business in California with an annual gross revenue of over $25 million or earns 50% or more of its annual income from selling the PII of California residents, among a few other parameters.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) established by the EU in 2018 sets a series of rules intended to protect the processing of personal data while establishing rules concerning the free movement of this data. This was the first major data privacy regulation to be put into action anywhere in the world, and the GDPR aims to increase consumer awareness of how their data is used, managed, and gathered.
The regulations established by the GDPR pertain to all countries and citizens of the European Union. This extends to any business that collects data on citizens of the EU, meaning that any company that provides a service or sells goods to people in Europe falls under the scope of the GDPR’s legal jurisdiction.
The US doesn’t currently have widespread data privacy regulations on a federal level that are as encompassing as the GDPR. However, there is an increasing number of laws in place that deal with specific types of data, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). Increased public demand for data rights seems likely to push lawmakers to establish more extensive regulations that bundle many of the issues brought to light by the rules and acts above.
Compliance is Critical
The benefits of increased data privacy regulation are apparent for the general public. They also represent progress for personal cybersecurity concerns. Businesses need to understand the scope of these regulations to ensure that they remain in compliance to support consumer demands while also limiting the chance for legal and financial ramifications.
The CCPA establishes a harsh penalty of $7,500 for intentional violations of the act for each customer involved in a data privacy issue. It doesn’t take an accounting team to see how quickly these fines can add up if an incident involves thousands or millions of consumers, the size of which is often seen with larger data breach incidents. Penalties of up to $2,500 per customer are possible for unintentional violations, and consumers can also file private lawsuits for actual damages between $100 and $750.
Penalties established by the GDPR dictate that companies can be fined up to €20 million or four percent of global turnover (i.e., revenue) for the previous financial year, whichever is higher. Amazon made headlines earlier in the summer when a record $877 million was imposed because of how the company dealt with cookie tracking issues. Google was fined $56.6 million for a murky privacy notice and the Marriott hotel chain was hit with a $23.8 million fine because of a data breach.
Every business must establish protocols to follow established data privacy regulations. Doing so will make the process more easily navigable when future related laws are put into place while also demonstrating to consumers that their data rights and security are being taken seriously. Data breach and cybersecurity planning are essential to limit risks to your organization and its customers. This preparation is also critical to staying compliant, avoiding damaging fines, and remaining in trusted standing with consumers.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: nature provides the best medicine. Scientists were recently stunned to find that 18 patients with malaria were able to recover after they were given dried plant leaves, instead of conventional medication.
The Herb That Fights Malaria Better Than Conventional Medication
The Artemisia annua plant is commonly known as “sweet wormwood.” It’s often used in artemisinin combination therapy. ACT therapy combines sweet wormwood with other drugs in an effort to combat malaria.
Pamela Weathers, Ph.D. is a professor of biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She lead an international team in studying the use of dried leaves from sweet wormwood in the treatment of malaria. The team treated 18 malaria patients in the Congo who were not responding to conventional treatment. They treated the patients with dried leaves from the Artemisia annua plant.
All 18 patients made a full recovery within just five days of beginning treatment. The patients ranged in age from 14 months old to 60 years old. One of the patients was a five-year-old child who had fallen into a coma. When the ACT treatment failed, natural medicine proved superior.
The Healing Power Of Natural Medicine
The report read, “As a last resort, doctors turned to dried-leaf Artemisia (DLA), a therapy developed and extensively studied by Weathers and her team at WPI. After five days of treatment with tablets made from only the dried and powdered leaves of Artemisia (which has been prepared and analyzed using methods developed by Weathers and postdoctoral fellow Melissa Towler), all 18 patients fully recovered. Laboratory tests showed they had no parasites remaining in their blood. (Weathers noted more than 100 other drug-resistant patients also have been successfully treated with DLA tablets.)”
The small study turned out to be quite impressive, especially in a time where drug resistance is becoming more and more of a problem. Weathers commented that the recovery was “amazing” to witness. According to Weathers, the plant’s ability to heal may stem from the synergistic effects produced by the phytochemicals in the plant’s dried leaves. She believes that the whole plant could be used to overcome resistance to artemisinin and may help slow down the evolution of malaria drug resistance.


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Three lessons from local fights against climate change
New Local’s latest Communities vs Climate Change report lays to rest the myth that responding to the climate crisis is a challenge too great, too global, for local people and organisations to handle. Our research shows that communities, councils, the third sector and businesses are already joining forces across the UK to tackle the impacts of climate change that pose a significant threat to their place.
What can the local teach the global? These are three lessons on next steps national government and local climate partners should take to strengthen local climate action.
PICTURED: Members of Bristol’s Green and Black Ambassadors Programme, credit: Ujima Radio and Bristol Green Capital Partnership
1 . Local climate action is vital – but it’s a long-term effort that needs long-term national funding
Councils we spoke to for our research condemned the growing tendency of national governments to finance local net zero projects through short-term funding pots requiring competitive bidding between areas. Without the guarantee of long-term funding, councils are struggling to develop ambitious long-term plans to support local climate action.
Nonetheless, some councils are finding ways to circumvent national funding constraints to invest in community- and third sector-led climate projects.
Cornwall Council set up a Revolving Loan Fund of £2.4 million in 2012 to support community renewable energy projects. The entire loan facility has now been committed and revenue returns are starting to come in for the council.
Bradford Council has launched a £300,000 Community Climate Action Fund to provide seed funding to grassroots community projects that will help achieve the district’s ambition to become net zero by 2038.
And last month five councils in England and Wales announced that they would soon issue a bond to raise money for local green projects.
In its Net Zero Strategy, the UK Government committed to “explore” how to consolidate funds supporting net zero initiatives at the local level. But there is no timetable attached to this commitment, and local areas need financial backing to tackle the worsening climate crisis right now.
That is why our report recommends that national governments should devolve sufficient, long-term funding to local areas to help all parts of the country meet the national net zero target.
2. Inclusion is crucial for the legitimacy of local climate action
Climate change adaptation will require everyone to make significant changes to their lifestyle and behaviours. To create legitimacy for these changes, it is essential that all kinds of communities are represented and involved in local climate action.
In promoting its Community Climate Action Fund, Bradford Council is reaching out to communities in all parts of the district to support the best ideas. The council has so far received applications from over 80 local groups based in all parts of the city – a clear indication that it is resource, not lack of interest, that holds back communities in disadvantaged areas from setting up their own climate action projects.
Local climate partners should also be aware that environmental schemes have a range of benefits – such as improving health and wellbeing and creating pleasant community spaces – and that these benefits provide opportunities to engage people more widely in climate action.
When a community approaches Groundwork Greater Manchester for help to turn their street into an ‘Eco-Street’, the Groundwork team starts conversations with them on the merits of their idea. The team then gradually introduces the climate benefits of greening streets in a way that would appeal to the community, for example talking about the potential of green walls to keep the indoor temperature cooler and maintain good health and wellbeing in hot weather.
Inclusive climate leadership and diverse voices speaking about climate action are also critical to legitimacy, particularly as the climate movement can be perceived as overly white and middle class.
In Bristol, community radio station Ujima Radio and local partners set up the Black and Green Ambassadors Programme to recruit diverse leadership in the city’s environmental campaign. From 2020-23, nine young ambassadors will be mentored and supported to work with the city’s diverse communities, businesses, organisations and individuals on environmental sustainability, equality and inclusion.
3. Effective local green skills initiatives grow the case for fundamental local devolution
As the economy transforms to meet net zero targets, the number of green jobs – jobs that produce goods and services intended to protect or restore the environment – will increase significantly. Every area of the country needs to prepare now for the rising demand for green skills that will accompany the creation of green jobs.
The One Planet Pioneers (OPP) project in Middlesbrough illustrates the effectiveness of green skills development implemented locally. Led by charity Middlesbrough Environment City with support from public and third sector partners, OPP places young unemployed people in apprenticeship, kickstart and volunteering positions to give them experience in a range of environmental management activities.
As of December 2020, over half of young people engaged in OPP had secured employment, volunteering and paid training positions; some also obtaining qualifications in cycle maintenance and environmental conservation.
Another example comes from Treesponsibility, a not-for-profit community group in the Upper Calder Valley aiming to improve the local environment and involve communities in tree planting. One of the group’s main projects in 2020 was the ReTree It! programme, for which Treesponsibility organised residential training weekends for newly established tree-planting groups from across England.
OPP and Treesponsibility demonstrate the power of local skills development initiatives to reach people with practical mentoring and training opportunities in a way that remote national institutions cannot.
Our report calls on the UK Government to introduce a more fundamental approach to devolution that would see powers and resources to meet the demands of the climate crisis transferred to local areas.
The challenge of climate change becomes more acute by the day. The latent commitment and pride of communities, so central to the levelling up agenda, are part of the solution and ensure the process of decarbonisation is equitable and empowering for all places.
Hence our overall ask to national government in particular: trust and invest in local climate action. It’s already producing results.
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In the United States, the conditions for granting the ecological bonus for the purchase of an electric car have just been radically modified. Tesla and General Motors are rubbing their hands, but European and Chinese manufacturers will be forced to come and produce their cars on site.
Joe Biden, the President of the United States, signed the Inflation Reduction Act this week. This aims to reduce inflation, while promoting the use of cleaner energy. It is for this reason that the ecological bonus of 7,500 dollars intended for electric cars has been drastically changed. Some manufacturers are winners, but others are total losers.
One limit removed, two more added
The first good news is the pure and simple deletion (from January 1, 2023) of the limit of 200,000 vehicles sold per manufacturer, after which it was impossible to claim the bonus. We can say that Tesla is delighted with this change, since the manufacturer exceeded the limit as early as 2019. This is also the case for General Motors (GMC, Chevrolet et Cadillac) whose customers are no longer entitled to the bonus. The bonus, in the form of a tax credit, but which can now be deducted from the price of the car at the dealership, is set to last 10 additional years.
On the other hand, the new American bonus now includes several conditions. The first is linked to the income of the applicant ($150,000 per year for a single person), but also at the price of the vehicle (maximum $55,000 for a car or $80,000 for trucks). The second, which will cause a lot of ink to flow, is linked to the country of manufacture of the car.
Cars made in the USA or nothing!
Indeed, to be eligible for the bonus, the car must be produced in the United States. More precisely, the car must be assembled on site. It is therefore possible to bring in the parts from abroad and carry out the final assembly in the United States. But from 2023, everything will become even more complicated, since it will be necessary battery and “critical” minerals (aluminum, graphite, lithium, nickel, etc.) are sourced locally, whether through extraction or recycling. They may come from abroad, except from “worrying” countries. We imagine then that China and Russia will be excluded while many raw materials come from the Middle Kingdom.
A list of eligible cars has been published by the US government. European manufacturers are poorly represented, with for example, for Audi, only the Q5 plug-in hybrid and not the Q4 e-tron, e-tron et e-tron GT. The American Automotive Innovation Alliance estimates that 70% of the 72 electric cars sold in the United States become ineligible for the bonus with the new regulations like the relay Automotive News Europe. A blow for manufacturers and consumers.
Protectionism assumed, but gradual
In The detail, if in 2023, 60% of the battery components must come from the United States or from a country authorized by the US Treasury, this figure will gradually increase, until it reaches 100% for cars produced in 2028. With this mechanism , Joe Biden hopes to put pressure on American industrialists, so that they find new ways to supply themselves with lithium, cobalt and aluminum. A strategy which annoys in Europe and which sees this as discriminatory.
With the obligation of cars assembled in the United States to take advantage of the bonus, foreign manufacturers, and in particular the big names in Europe and China, will have to build American factories. And this is already what is planned with, in particular, the production of the Volkswagen ID.4 which started in Tenessee or Hyundai which announced 10 billion dollars of investment to produce in Alabama and Georgia. If for the moment, the majority of batteries and metals are made in China, the trend is being reversed, as evidenced by the many factories et planned mines in Europe.
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text: The soluble domain of the self-assembly vaccinia virus envelope protein A27L, sA27L-aa, consists of a flexible extended coil at the N terminus and a rigid hydrophobic coiled-coil region at the C terminus. In the former, a basic strip of 12 residues is responsible for binding to cell-surface heparan sulfates. Although the latter is believed to mediate self-assembly, its biological role is unclear. However, an in vitro bioassay showed that peptides comprising the 12 residue basic region alone failed to interact with heparin, suggesting that the C-terminal coiled-coil region might serve an indispensable role in biological function. To explore this structural and functional relationship, we performed site-specific mutagenesis in an attempt to specifically disrupt the hydrophobic core of the coiled coil. Three single mutants, L47A, L51A, and L54A, and one triple mutant, L47,51,54A, were expressed and purified from Escherichia coli. The physical properties of the mutants were carefully examined by gel-filtration chromatography, CD, and NMR spectroscopy, and the biological activities were assessed by an in vitro SPR bioassay and three in vivo bioassays: binding to cells, blocking virus infection and blocking cell fusion. We showed that the L47A mutant, which is similar to the parental sA27L-aa in forming a hexamer, is biologically active. L51A and L54A mutants form tetramers and are less active. Notably, in the triple mutant, the self-assembly hydrophobic core structure is uncoiled; as a consequence, the tetrameric structure is biologically inactive. Thus, we conclude that the leucine residues, in particular Leu51 and Leu54, sustain the hydrophobic core structure that is essential for the biological function of vaccinia virus envelope protein A27L, binding to cell-surface heparan sulfate.

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By Gerardine Donough-Tan
Hong Kong Fintech Week 2020 from November 2 to 6 went virtual and scored amazing results. The main conference and more than 30 satellite events drew over 1.2 million aggregated viewers with more than 100 hours of content and 18,000 business contacts made. Participants included more than 500 exhibitors, 350 speakers, 230 journalists and 29 delegations from over 130 economies.
The visually striking opening keynotes set the tone for solid conference content presented individually or in panel discussions by government and global heads in banking, financial services, fintech companies and technology players.
The mega-event was co-organised by Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK), Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Securities and Futures Commission and Insurance Authority.
King Leung, Head of Fintech at InvestHK, said: “Hong Kong Fintech Week 2020 truly demonstrated the resilience and creativity of Hong Kong and revealed the excellent potential for the future…Hong Kong is on a fast track to fintech success.”


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LCHS Donation Procedures
We are pleased to discuss donations to the Luzerne County Historical Society from friends, neighbors, and visitors. We need your help to tell the fascinating story of Luzerne County and its people. If you have any questions about making a donation to the collection please direct inquires to:
Luzerne County Historical Society,
49 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701
Luzerne County Historical Society staff are prohibited by federal tax law and by library and museum ethics from providing appraisals or an assessment of the monetary value of an object. LCHS staff are also prohibited from recommending one appraiser over another. To find a qualified appraiser, check your local listings or contact:
Once a potential donation is brought to the Luzerne County Historical Society, the staff examines it carefully. We review the object(s) using the following criteria:
The item relates to the Society’s collection. We collect objects and documents that are related to Luzerne County history.
The object will help further the Society’s programmatic and educational goals.
The quality and physical condition of the item is good.
The provenance is known and relevant.
Some or all of the following information is known: the original purpose of the item; who the creator/author(s) was; where and when it was created/written; its relationship to contemporary events; original and subsequent ownership.
- The item is not a duplicate of an item(s) already in the collection.
Once the item is assesed one of two things will happen
If part or all of the donation is accepted,
two deeds of gift will be mailed to the donor. The donor signs the deeds and returns them to LCHS to be countersigned. An original copy of the deed is returned to the donor for her/his records. LCHS retains the second copy with the files on the object.
If part or all of the donation is not accepted,
the donor will be notified. The item(s) will then be returned to the donor. Once the signed Deed of Gift is returned, the item(s) become the property of the Luzerne County Historical Society. It/they will then be catalogued, numbered and stored for future generations to enjoy.

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You’ve gotten your covid-19 vaccine dose and accompanying small, white vaccination card.
Now what do you do?
Take a picture — of the card — for backup. No selfie required.
The card from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention serves as official documentation.
The cards contain important information about a person’s vaccination status, said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a Pittsburgh-based infectious disease expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
“The cards are a record of the vaccinations you received regarding covid-19,” he said. “They’re a paper trail that you have of your vaccination status.”
According to the CDC, everyone should get a vaccination card after their first vaccination appointment. The card includes information such as when and where a person received the shot, their name and birthday, what type of vaccine they received and the vaccine lot number.
“Currently, the vaccine card is one method for the individual to have a reminder of the date of their second dose as well as have confirmation of their vaccine progress,” said Maggi Barton, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
For anyone who didn’t receive a vaccine card after receiving the shot, the CDC recommends contacting the vaccination provider or the state health department to find how to get a card.
Once individuals have a card, it’s important to keep it safe, said Laura Mark, Allegheny Health Network’s vice president of pharmacy.
“Keep that at a secure location,” she said. “We’re recommending people take a picture of it so they know what lot and the dates they received it in case they lose it.”
Some people opt to laminate the cards, which Adalja said is fine to do. Office Depot and Staples will laminate the cards for free. Other experts say laminating the cards could complicate documentation of any possible future booster shots.
Amazon sells clear waterproof plastic sleeves that allow people to wear their cards on lanyards or attach them to keychains.
But for anyone who does lose their vaccine card, there’s no need to panic.
“That data isn’t something that’s gone if your card is gone,” Adalja said.
Vaccination information is stored in a state immunization registry, something that has existed “for a long, long time,” Adalja said.
“If an individual were to lose their paper vaccination card, the provider would also have the electronic records,” Barton said. “If an individual were to lose their card and would like to have it, they can contact their provider who can confirm the vaccination record and supply them with that confirmation.”
Having proof of vaccination could be important for international travel or entering event venues or sporting events, though it’s still unclear exactly how that might work.
“Private industries might come up with ways to use these in a way to increase capacity or decrease mitigation measures because they have a vaccination-only section,” Adalja said. “These types of cards or some equivalent like an app would be what you use in those situations.”
But Adalja said it’s likely that the flimsy paper cards distributed at vaccine sites won’t be used for those purposes. Instead, he said an app would be an easier, more secure method of proving vaccination status.
“For international travel, it probably should be something a little more secure, maybe something tied to your passport or a more secure app,” Adalja said.
An app, Adalja said, beats the covid-19 vaccination cards because they could be more secure and harder to fake. Fake covid-19 vaccination cards have already cropped up, demonstrating why a more secure method may be preferable.
“Many vaccine hesitant people have no qualms about trying to get a fraudulent card,” Adalja said.
Apps proving vaccination are already being used in some places. New York launched the Excelsior Pass, a free, secure way to provide digital proof of covid-19 vaccination or negative test results. Israel rolled out a similar tool, called the Green Pass, which also proves covid-19 vaccination status.
In Pennsylvania, there are no definitive plans yet about how covid-19 vaccination cards might be used in the future.
“Pennsylvania is awaiting federal guidance on vaccination cards moving forward,” Barton said, encouraging anyone who has received the vaccine to save the card.
Melinda Wedde of McCandless received her second dose of the Moderna vaccine in the beginning of March. Since then, she’s kept her vaccine card in her night stand drawer so she doesn’t lose it.
“I think they’re too big and too flimsy to be showing as proof,” she said.
But she still plans to keep the card. For Wedde, it’s a piece of history.
“My grandparents, they lived through the Depression and World War II and Korea and all that stuff. I actually have my grandma’s ration booklet, some of her stamps and that stuff from back in the ’40s,” she said. “So things like this, I just feel like historical mementos like that are important to hold on to, even if you don’t need them right now.”
One thing the vaccination cards are not good for, however, are selfies, Mark said. She advised against posting pictures of the cards, because they contain personal information that people may not want to put online.
“You wouldn’t do that with your driver’s license or your insurance card,” she said.
Wedde said she felt comfortable posting a selfie with her card after she covered up her personal information.


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Coming Home to You
After the recent wildfire that swept through Harbin Hot Springs where I have worked and lived for many years, one of my favorite sanctuaries, my heart home, I am grieving, like many of you and others like us around the world. We have depended on the spirit of the land and waters of this special place to nourish us in precious ways, particularly during times of grief and hardship. But the land has made it clear that it needed a rest and to be nourished and renewed in turn.
It will take many years for Harbin to be rebuilt and we will need to find ways to nourish ourselves. This is a great gift. It has motivated me to make my Ministry, inspired by my time living and working at Harbin, available more readily for people to take home with them. It has also clarified for me the essential elements of the grieving process while healing from great traumatic change. For me, the most important element of this process is to find the gift, the golden nugget of truth, wisdom, or strength that I have gained from the experience, and to share that gift with others, both by putting it into practice in my relationships and everyday living as well as by teaching others to find it for themselves.
To these ends, I have created an audio meditation to help you connect with the same nourishment we get from soaking in the hot springs from your inner source of vital energy. It is called the Inner Hot Springs Meditation. I am offering it free of charge as a service to all who are grieving the loss of our sanctuary or any other loss in their lives and want to nourish their inner sanctuary. Please sign up above to access the meditation. May it serve you well.
Welcome home and thank you for visiting my site. It gives me great joy to create ways to support people to integrate the sense of peace and tranquility they have received from visiting sacred sites, ashrams, retreat centers, workshops, and resorts into their everyday life when they return home. It is so easy to fall back into familiar routines and patterns and quickly loose the gifts we received from our transformative experience. The invitation is to continue to nourish that experience of self love and care when we go home and engage with our everyday lives.
The same can be said for major changes in life that we did not necessarily choose, crises that are out of our control. We can go back to a diminished form of how things were before the big change, loss, or break-up, or we can find the gift in the experience that enhances our lives moving forward. This is what I love to help people to find, the gem, the pearl in the oyster if you will.

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Join Songkick to track Vintage Trouble and get concert alerts when they play near you. Be the first to know when they tour near Cheliabinsk, Russian Federation. View all upcoming concerts Vocalist Ty Taylor and guitarist Nalle Colt, friends of over 14 years, had regularly played together before forming Vintage Trouble in With the addition of mutual friend and bassist Rick Barrio Dill and drummer Richard Danielson, the group began recording in their own D.
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Air France and Emirates have started selling bag tags made for the skin of their first Airbus A380s. The double-decker airliners built early during the aircraft’s production run are reaching the end of their service lives. It would be easy to assume that a plane as significant as the world’s largest passenger airliner ever would be headed to a museum, but that won’t be the case.
Air France retired and scrapped its first Airbus A380 back in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The French flag carrier decided to retire its entire fleet of Airbus A380s amid the decline in air travel demand. While most of the jumbo jets were placed in storage, the oldest aircraft was already near the end of its service life so the airline scrapped the A380. Air France took delivery of the initial A380 in 2008 and racked up 41,725 flight hours on the airframe.
Simple Flying reported the bag tags are being manufactured and sold by the German company Aviationtag for $US42.27 each. This Air France A380 is the sixth of Airbus’ double-decker planes to have its skin turned into tags. The first Emirates A380 was scrapped and its skin bag tags became available for sale earlier this month. The four other A380s turned into tags were retired Singapore Airlines aircraft.
While one of the Airbus A380 test planes is on display at the National Air and Space Museum of France at Paris-Le Bourget Airport, it’s surprising that Air France’s first A380 couldn’t find a home in a museum. Alongside Concorde, the Airbus A380 is the most famous aircraft used by France’s national airline. Emirates built its entire airline around the A380, constructing an entire terminal in Dubai to accommodate its fleet of behemoths. Being able to purchase a commemorative bag tag doesn’t quite match seeing the historically significant aircraft preserved.
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The Angling Trust has written to Richard Benyon, the UK minister for fisheries and the natural environment, urging him to authorise the trapping and killing of the creatures to halt their spread into England, where fishermen claim they could cause untold damage.
The trust expressed its anger at a recent Scottish Government decision to allow a colony of around 100 beavers – believed to have escaped from private collections in Angus and Perthshire – to live and breed in the wild around the River Tay for at least the next three years.
Mark Lloyd, chief executive of the Angling Trust, said: “We believe that the Scottish Government has failed in its duty to protect the whole of the UK by allowing this situation to develop. These illegal releases should never have happened, and when they did, a rapid decision should have been taken to eradicate the animals from the wild.
“Quite clearly there will be nothing to stop the beavers moving south and into England with the potential to create damage to our river systems and spread diseases and potentially lethal parasites.”
Mr Lloyd went on to describe a scenario in which invading Scottish beavers might dam rivers, block access to fish spawning areas, fell trees and infect wildlife and people with tapeworms.
A trust spokesman added that beavers caused an increased flood risk and felled garden trees, saying: “An adult beaver can bring down a ten-inch wide tree in under an hour, and a single beaver family will fell up to 300 trees a year.”
Mr Lloyd explained that, ideally, the English anglers would like to see powers being brought into force to authorise culling of beavers in both Scotland and England. But, in the first instance, they were asking Mr Benyon to apply to the European Commission for an exemption to the beaver’s European Protected Status to allow them to be controlled and their dams to be dismantled, should they cross the Border.
A spokeswoman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: “We are aware of the two free-living populations in Scotland but to our knowledge there are no wild populations of beavers in England. Any releases in England would currently be unlawful without a licence from Natural England.”
A Scottish Government spokeswoman defended the decision to allow the escaped beavers to remain at large.
She said: “Scottish ministers decided to allow the Tayside beavers to remain in place for the time being to allow more information to be gathered on their impact on the environment and other species.
“If the beavers spread to other catchment areas they will be removed. There is no evidence at all that they have spread to the Tweed.
“Beavers co-exist happily with coarse and game fish in many other parts of the world and we will continue to monitor the position in Scotland.”


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21 years in Frameless Glass Pool Fencing and other Hardware
Pool Fence Direct have over 21 years of experience in Frameless Glass Pool Fencing and other Hardware. PFD is our retail arm, serving anyone who wants to build their own Frameless Glass Pool Fence. We are set up for DIY. Our website allows you to plan, quote, order and follow instructional videos to build your own Frameless Glass Pool Fence. If building your own Frameless Glass Pool Fence is too difficult, we will be able to recommend and installer in your local area. Currently we only offer base mounted miniposts due to the ease of installation, if you require core drilled miniposts, please contact us for a local supplier.
Online Pool Calculator
At Pool Fence Direct you have access to an online Pool Fence Calculator which tells you the sizes of panels and gaps. It also gives you a dimensional drawing which allows you to mark out the start and finish of each panel and the centre line of the miniposts. All you need to do is to tell it the length of your fence and whether it has a gate. The calculator does everything else for you. This is perfect for building your DIY Frameless Glass Pool Fence
Online Quotes and Ordering
After entering your Pool Fence sizes and clicking a few options, we give you an immediate price of everything you need to build your own Frameless Glass Pool Fence. This includes the glass, miniposts, closer, gate panels, hinge panels, latches and link patches. Once you are happy it is a simple process to complete and pay online. We also have 3D animated videos to show how to mark out, drill, and assemble your new Frameless Glass Pool Fence.
Unique Delivery System
Pool Fence Direct offer a unique shipping system for all of your glass pool fence products. We can ship upto 15 x <1450mm x 12mm pool panels, up to 28 miniposts, latches and closers. We can ship direct to your premises with a flatbed truck (additional cost) or if you have a forklift or are prepared to pick up the pack from our distributor (upto 800kg), we can supply a very attractive shipping quote.


The Bluetooth 5.1 specification enhances location services with a direction finding feature that makes it possible to detect the direction of a Bluetooth signal. With Bluetooth direction finding, developers can bring products to market that understand device direction and achieve sub-meter location accuracy.
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text: We had a craving for curry, so decided to try this little place. It's a little tricky to find, but it's right next to a Starbucks. I like ordering spring rolls when I try new restaurants. My husband thought we should have ordered 2 orders. I had yellow chicken curry with brown rice. My husband got the Red with medium heat. Both were seasoned nicely, I added a little more heat to mine. Every was very good. Something to note, they do not sell alcohol, but you can BYOB. Take out available.They also have a kids menu, too. Just keep in mind, it is a small "Mom and Pop" place family run . I would definitely eat here again. A good value for Kona area.

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Compelling looks and high-end features make ICON G5 your first choice. The dual SIM phone gives you excellent touch screen experience. Now chat, access web, check mails and do social networking like never before. The ultra wide screen is ideal for movie viewing. Specifications: Dual Sim (GSM+GSM), Dual Standby 3.2" Touch Screen(PDA) & handwriting TFT display Bluetooth, Motion Sensor, GPRS, WAP and Java Enabled Google, Facebook, Twitter, E-Buddy, MSN and Yahoo Messenger enabled 2MP Camera 3.5mm Audio Jack (Can be used with Music system) MP3 / MP4, AVI, 3GP Multimedia Players FM Radio with Scheduled Recording Inbuilt Memory 1GB & Expandable Upto 4 GB Bulk SMS from Phone using web Interface Support Indian local languages World Clock, Calculator, Currency Converter PC Sync Compatible (Can be used as modem also)
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This Nucleus handset features a display of 8.1 cm. The device has a convenient Touch Screen input interface. The built-in 2 MP camera, gives you the ability to click pictures, without having to carry a separate camera with you. What's more, the ICON G5 | Black gives you a talk time of up to 240 minutes without draining the device's battery. The handset features a stand by time of up to 24000 Hours. GSM support helps ensure that you have uninterrupted connectivity.


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- Finalizing files and artworks for all the jobs with pixel perfection and speed.
- Adapting artworks into many sizes
- Incorporate quick changes recommended by the clients into the final design within the constraints of time
- Ensures all work produced adheres to specified corporate guidelines
- Prepare file for printing upon request; identify the size and the form with customer’s file
- Develop graphics and material for presentations
- Carries out work as briefed, unless variations to brief are requested.
- Coordinate with the media / printing agencies
- Has ability to set priorities and meet deadlines in a dynamic fast paced environment
- Ensures the work is checked and signed off before releasing.
- Retouches images when necessary.
- Helps in creating storyboards, selecting graphic design elements and developing 2D and 3D animations
- Develop concepts Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Final Cut Studio.
- Collaborate with graphic designers and editors to develop motion graphics and animations for entire show packages.
- Create motion for television commercials, web, trade shows, special events and DVD delivery.
- Generate or source relevant video, graphics and audio elements to creatively convey the desired message.
- Maintain all graphics elements of the holding & subsidiaries
- Maintain high level of production and quality control
- Create new concepts & presentations whenever needed
- Facilitate the main designs in a timely manner
- Create social media posts designs and Vids
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