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Grocery shopping is always a scramble, but just like sparring, we can control the chaos. There is a plethora of options, fancy labels, and trendy products on the shelves these days, enough to make our head spin like we just caught a knee to the temple. To navigate the supermarket shuffle we need to go in prepared, have a game plan, and execute it. To do so, we need to break down what to look for, learn what to avoid, and to learn what the hell all of these “certified-organic-fair-trade-natural-ABF-superfood-low-carb” labels on a single granola bar means. Truth be told, the majority of these labels are simply marketing tactics but not all. To streamline the process, we are going to dig deeper into their meanings, figure out how to shop properly, and learn how to save some of our hard earned cash while fueling our body properly with this grocery buyers’ guide.
Own the Outside of the Mat
First and foremost we must understand our opponent, the everyday supermarket. This ultra-heavyweight is packed with tricks up its sleeve to squeeze us for all of our money, to have us walk in and force us to throw our game plan out the window, and leave us walking out with candy bars and high-priced superfood-organic exotic nut butters or generic ones that are three times the price because of a little catchy label on them.
The trick here is in knowing, deep down, all supermarkets are built the same way: they are structured the same, clockwise, with the fresh and perishable items around the outside of the store with the wallet and waist-buster items in the isles.
Pro-tip: treat the grocery store like someone’s guard, stay to the outside, the inside is where the danger lies.
Selecting the Right Way
When you are planning on shopping, do not go in just for one meal at a time and while hungry- this leads to impulse purchases and leaving with piles of junk you don’t actually need. Plan your meals and staple items ahead of time, create a list, and pick one time a week to go. The best time to go is actually on Wednesdays, grocery stores typically get their deliveries for the weekend around mid-week so you will be selecting from the best of the best before the weekend warriors go and ransack the place.
Now that you have your list ready to rock, know the best time of attack, and have a game plan on how to navigate once through the sliding doors, you need to know what to look for in each section and in the sequence in which you should grapple with your list.
Fruits and vegetables are the most commonly wasted foods. How many times have we gone in, saw some delicious looking oranges, bought a giant bag just to eat one and have it sit lonely and forgotten in the fridge until we have to throw them out because they have gone bad? Don’t lie, it has happened to all of us.
When selecting produce it is best to look for vibrant colored fruits and vegetables that are not wilting, have good structure, and generally look healthy. For fruits and certain vegetables, use your senses, start with sight, then use feel, look for ones that are heavy-for-their-size, firm but not hard, and do not be afraid to pick through the pile to find the right one- chances are it is in there.
For greens, go for deep-rich colored greens such as kale, mustard greens and swiss chard over romaine and iceberg. The more color, the more nutrients because it is typically a healthier plant.
Pro-tip: Buy just what the recipe calls for, bulk for onions and sweet potatoes are fine but the majority of fruits and vegetables have a much shorter shelf life than we think and again are often left forgotten to rot. Some items are best bought frozen but more on that later in this guide.
Know thy butcher, they will be your best friend. When shopping for meats and seafood, most grocery stores have a butcher/fishmonger on staff. Use their expertise and ask them questions on quality, specials, etc. Buying in bulk is a smart move here because we start to save a few bucks, can bring home that giant container of chicken breast, separate a few into ziplock bags and freeze what we are not currently using.
You should focus on getting quality, grass-fed and ABF, antibiotic-free, meats are ideally. When selecting your cuts, knowledge is power and learn more about selecting the right cuts of meat with our meat eaters guide. Look for bright coloration, good marbling (white lines of fat through the meat) and firm but not hard meats. It is fairly easy to tell the freshness and quality of meat by sight.
When buying seafood, unless you live on the coast, buy frozen. Almost all of the fish we buy will have been frozen at some point unless we got it straight from the boat at a local market. Depending on what type of seafood you are buying, you should focus on locally sourced as much as possible. Focus on richer, dark-fleshed fish for more nutrients such as salmon. Check out our guide to salmon for more information!
Dairy sections are always located the furthest from the door because grocery stores know the majority of shoppers will need something from this section, so they set a ton of eye appealing roadblocks on the way to it to try and bait you into impulse buys. Focus on skirting the outside of the store and once in the dairy section, the center will have the best products. Find your fresh cheese and yogurts here, focus on full fat because the skim and low-fat options are loaded with sneaky sugars.
Similar to the butcher, the baker is your best friend. Ask for specials or freshly baked breads here. Snag healthy options such as sourdoughs and whole grain breads. Freshly baked breads are not loaded with preservatives such as those loaves of Wonder Bread that could survive a nuclear apocalypse. When it comes to deli meats, another area of waste, buy only what you will need for the couple sandwiches you will make to avoid throwing away slimy meat at the end of the week.
Frozen foods are junk, right? Wrong, in fact, some frozen vegetables such as broccoli, green beans, and brussels sprouts are healthier and pack more nutrients than their fresh counterparts. This is due to the fact that when farmed, these vegetables are at peak nutrient levels, but as they sit out, their nutrients deplete. Typically fruits and vegetables when harvested are either sent out fresh or flash frozen which locks in nutrients! There is no harm in buying frozen.
Labeled as bulk foods for a reason, stock up once a month here. Focus on getting bulk rice, quinoa, beans, etc. It never hurts to have canned coconut cream, tomatoes, and other canned goods on hand but pay attention and avoid buying any cans that are dented or bulging as this can indicate bacterial growth.
Dude…come on. Skip the chips, buy rice cakes or mixed nuts instead.
Pro-tip: When checking out use the self-checkout, this way you’ll have a final checkpoint to weed out any impulse purchases and truly see/categorize what you’ve selected. Additionally, call me crazy, but this is where I like to bag my groceries in groups according to where they go in the house that way when I’m home I can just put each bag near where it belongs and be done putting it away in no time.
When to Go Organic
“Organic”, what a great marketing tool. Organic signifies that the food was grown without pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, and genetic modifications amongst other things. Pesticides are the major concern here that will dictate what you should and should not buy as not all fruits and vegetables rely on pesticides. Focusing your organic purchases on the “dirty dozen” foods that are typically grown with high-pesticides is your goal. This will save you from throwing money away on items that are marketed organic but do not need that label.
Understanding Our Foods Rank
100% Organic: Foods fully produced and grown with organic ingredients.
Organic: Up to 95% organic ingredients used and allowance of 5% non-organic agriculture products.
Natural: No artificial ingredients or added colors but may contain antibiotics and certain chemicals.
ABF (Antibiotic-Free): Free of antibiotics and similar chemicals.
Buy Organic/Natural/ABF: Strawberries, apples, cherries, grapes, celery, bell peppers, spinach, pears, peaches/nectarines, raspberries, cheese, red meats, poultry, and eggs.
Buy Generic: Seafood, melons, avocados, squashes, potatoes, and onions.
Coming Out on Top
Focusing on the big wins when you step onto the metaphoric mat that is the grocery store is key. Going in with a game plan, controlling the outside, and staying the course will keep you healthier, less wasteful and will save you a few dollars to buy the next Shoyoroll special release. We are made up of what we put into our mouths, so it is critical to select the right foods to have on hand for the daily grind that is life and jiu-jitsu.


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Chronicling my adventures in home video
“The Bourne Identity” Doug Liman, 2002
Full disclosure: I’m not an action guy, which is part of the reason it’s taken me eight years to sit down and watch the Matt Damon version of “The Bourne Identity.” I remember it being a fairly big deal when it was released (in that I actually remember its release), but despite the fact that I now see movies every week, I’m still not sure it would catch my attention.
So with fairly reserved expectations, I found Doug Liman’s film a pleasant experience, and was particularly impressed by its emphasis on character, which is a rarity among films of its type. Damon gives a solid performance, and I really like the casting of Franka Potente as his love-interest, when the impulse would so commonly be to cast a Hollywood A-lister.
Overall, I still found the film inconsistently exciting (I briefly nodded off a few times, but it was more a result of the time than the film), and the action gets a bit hokey when Damon’s fisticuffs are digitally sped up and mixed with kung fu sound effects. I also could have done without so much focus on the government antagonists tracking Bourne down, as I think it would have been more exciting to have his enemies seem an omnipresent phantom than trite Government bureaucrats.
Still, “The Bourne Indentity” struck me as an above-average espionage film. I can’t say I’ve been inspired to see the sequels, which I’ve heard are exponentially inferior to the original, but If, like me, you managed to avoid the first for this long, it’s probably about time to throw it on the queue.

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The Gender Equality Training (GET) is a knowledge-enhancing activity and a response to existing power imbalance between genders that has resulted in gender stereotypes and historically unjust distribution of genders in certain domains, e.g. in the transport sector which is rather male-dominated. Gender refers to power relations within such institutions, and poor practices should be recognised and challenged. Therefore, training is needed not only to provide people adequate theoretical knowledge and practical skills, but sometimes to change whole attitudes, concepts in someone’s mind and behaviour patterns.
According to the UN Women, GET is meant to ‘effect individual and collective transformation towards gender equality through consciousness raising, empowering learning, knowledge building, and skill development’. It is a tool, strategy and means that should be combined with other tools, strategies and means, and applied continuously.
The GET has three phases: preparation, implementation, and evaluation. Preparation phase involves the assessment of needs and creation of a broader strategy to achieve them, with the necessary funding, time and human resources (including the best possible trainer) to be secured. The implementation phase requires a gender-learning needs assessment that helps identifying existing problems and needs. Then, the design of the new gender competence development initiative should be supervised, promoted for others to join and learned, and constantly monitored (whether implementations meet the needs, are in line with the budget, delivered well, etc.). The evaluation phase is a continuation of this extant monitoring: an evaluation framework should be created, long-term impacts should be thematised, and participants should be encouraged to continue working on the base/with the newly gained knowledge and the gender-sensitive view.
Research shows that achieving gender equality is extremely difficult in historically formed structures which are based on a persistent male bias. That speaks even more for using it in the field of transport, including the definition of gender-equality objectives including 1) taking into account gender differences when planning and implementing policies on their basis, 2) monitoring the progress of whether e.g. the transport experience has really been enhanced for previously overlooked groups, and 3) evaluating programmes from a gender perspective.
If you want to read more on this, visit the TInnGO Data Repository!
This post is part of a series, introducing tools and methods to measure and analyse gender matters in transport. Click here to read the other parts. The series is based on this publication.

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What the Photo Cannot Show
In the photo two young brothers
step towards the Brownie camera;
the older may be five,
the younger sibling not yet three.
This is their backyard.
The older one appears eager
to protect his sibling: one hand
reaches towards his brother
to steady that chubby wobbler
on the uneven lawn.
The elder cannot know,
but five years after this photo
he will thrash an older, taller boy
for stealing his brother’s cookie.
Nor can he know he cannot
protect his brother against
cancer that will snuff his life
in four short decades.
All About Winning
Hey, it’s your turn to win! a disembodied voice
shouts out to me. Each morning here. Some mornings
I ignore the voice, ignore the words.
Other mornings I want to shout back at it, engage
in a personal accounting of wins and losses,
determine how I rank overall in the scheme of things.
This recorded vending machine voice hails me
as I pass it by on my usual mall walk route.
It’s just a money-scooping small crane,
a vending machine programmed like
a midway huckster, luring us over to operate
the scoop and take home the plush teddy bear.
There’s no limit to what you can win!
The machine taunts with phony enthusiasm,
though we know there are limits to everything.
What I want to tell it is that I am a winner.
Whether I have maxed out my wins, or whether
my luck is waning is not for me to say.
I do know my soul mate appears determined
to share the rest of her life with me; I’ve outlived
my parents, even my younger brother;
my limbs are all intact, and I am still quite able
to walk past without a second thought and ignore
this nameless, bodiless barker.
Glen Sorestad is a well travelled Canadian poet whose work has been published widely throughout North America and elsewhere. His poems have appeared in over 60 anthologies and have been translated into seven languages.
His most recent book of poetry is Hazards of Eden: Poems from the Southwest (Lamar University Press. 2015).


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The D2 Enterprise Growth Fund (D2EGF) has helped Derbyshire company Paper Escape to expand and create 12 new local jobs.
The Fund, managed in partnership by Derby City Council and Derbyshire County Council has enabled the document management company to make an essential move to purpose built new premises. A grant of £146,979 secured the future of 9 existing jobs and created the conditions for a further 12 FTE posts.
Paper Escape was founded in 2007 and provides electronic document storage solutions as well as document storage and secure shredding services. The company soon outgrew its home based office and in 2012 moved to an older warehouse in Chinley, Derbyshire.
Within just a few years, demand for the service exceeded expectations and it soon became apparent a further move would be necessary. Finding appropriate premises nearby proved difficult. Company directors were faced with a choice to either move out of the area, putting 9 jobs at risk, or to find an available plot on which to build a modern industrial unit.
Building land in the right location also proved difficult to find until a local farmer and retired local business owner was sympathetic and offered director Adrian Hill a plot of land suitable for such a building.
Adrian Hill said: “The grant from D2EGF was critical in enabling us to move forward with our plans for Paper Escape. Our existing premises were holding the company back. Without quality office space and sufficient storage we were limited in the level of service we could offer existing customers and restricted in what new business we could acquire.
“Thanks to the purpose built facilities we are now expanding and diversifying, improving our service to current customers whilst taking on larger projects that would have been impossible in our previous base. We were lucky to have help from many people throughout the project but quite simply it was the grant funding that made this a reality”
With the support provided by D2EGF Paper Escape has already created 5 new jobs, placing them ahead of their target to create 12 jobs in 3 years.
Councillor Tony King, Derbyshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Regeneration said: “Small businesses are a significant part of the Derbyshire economy so it’s important that we continue to support them as much as possible. We welcome this opportunity to help a local company grow and create jobs.”
Derby City Council Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Regeneration & the Economy, Councillor Martin Rawson said: “Many businesses have the potential to grow and develop but don’t always have the cash flow available when they need it. Paper Escape are an excellent example of how funding made available at the right time can benefit an SME. On behalf of Derby City Council, I am delighted to see the Fund helping to stimulate growth and create jobs locally.”

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February 10, 2022
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Finance Webinar: Fundamentals of Municipal Finance and Borrowing
Description: Municipal attorneys are often asked, “Can we do this?”, when “this” relates to getting, spending, and borrowing money by their municipal clients. This session will consider the essential legal issues attendant to that question. We will discuss basic constitutional issues like public purpose, corporate purpose, and lending of the public credit; the theoretical distinction between taxes and fees; the legal ramifications of that distinction; and other limitations on the ways that municipalities can get and spend money. We will also briefly consider the role and types of municipal borrowing. Because the laws vary widely from state to state, the session will focus on issue spotting and general questions that the municipal attorney should consider when asked financial questions.
Speaker: Eric Shytle
Eric Shytle is the General Counsel for the Municipal Association of South Carolina. Before joining the Association, Eric was chief of staff and general counsel of the City of Sumter, South Carolina, for eight years. Prior to working at the City of Sumter, Eric was a municipal bond lawyer at Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. for 12 years. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia, his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law, and his master's in public administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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Today’s customer uses mobile, social and other digital technology to take power from institutions, in particular corporations. They can discover pricing, and publicly critique products they don’t like and can buy from anyone at anytime and anywhere.
Forrester’s recent report, entitled Collaborating Internally to Serve Empowered Customers, hones in on how Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) businesses are facing this challenge of a rapidly changing business environment.
Forrester interviewed senior business and technology leaders from ANZ companies including Commonwealth Bank, IAG, Fuji Xerox and Suncorp, on how they are combating “misalignment and misunderstanding” between key leaders in technology, marketing and customer experience (CX).
The report cites the results of Forrester’s survey among budget-decision makers from ANZ companies, who stated their top priorities are moving toward efforts that support other business units and tech management’s ability to deliver effectively. The survey included small and medium-size business (SMB) and enterprise companies with 100 or more employees.
Read more: CIO-CMO Marriage Strained, But Can Be Saved
Seven of the top eight priorities for the next year were on items that contribute to business effectiveness and agility rather than infrastructure and other traditional IT priorities, according to the survey.
The report also cites a recent Forrester survey on budgets and priorities which found marketing departments across the globe are spending more on technology. Nearly a quarter (22 per cent) of global respondents reported increasing their budget by 5 to 10 per cent, and 15 per cent reported having increase their budget by more than 10 per cent.
Amidst these changes, here are some approaches ANZ businesses are taking to become more customer obsessed:
Co-location of teams
Having the technology and CX teams on the same floor can improve collaboration, the report says. One company that did this experienced “true collaboration” between the teams.
“The most valuable collaborations occurred over coffee breaks or by accidentally overhearing a colleague discuss a project in the hallway. Offers of help and support became commonplace — and all conducted face to face, person to person.”
But if it is not possible to have these teams physically move to sit with one another, Forrester suggests adopting collaboration techniques that encourage sharing between CX, marketing and technology leaders and their staff.
“Using structured approaches to the co-creation of strategy, customer understanding and technology project implementation will produce a better result, but leaders of different business units must collaborate early and often.”
‘Don’t create strategy, co-create it’
Culture dominates strategy, and if a company creates a strategy that goes against its normal way of doing things or does not explicitly enjoy executive support, the chances of that strategy’s success are slim, the report states.
Marketing must speak ‘technology’ and tech management must speak ‘customer experience’.
SunCorp, for example, conducted an extensive customer observation research project involving university doctorate students, external consultants and staff volunteers including the CEO and seven other senior executives.
The result was that Jacqui Jordan, head of customer strategy, was able to embed CX strategy within the company’s overall business strategy.
Hire and train people for ‘hybrid’ skills
Customer obsessed companies must create a common language, says the report. Marketing must speak ‘technology’ and tech management must speak ‘customer experience’.
The report says the best way to adopt a common language is to hire people who already speak it. It suggests including questions around customer advocacy and customer centricity when interviewing for a project manager or developer. When interviewing a marketing manager of CX specialists, he/she could be asked about technology knowledge and business analysis.
“A key aspect of CX maturity is how companies train their staff, both new and existing,” the report states. “In the spirit of collaboration and co-creation, training staffers to become hybrids together will encourage even better collaboration.”
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A San Jose woman was detained Friday after three bodies were found inside a burned Oakland house, police said.
Her identity was not immediately released, and police did not say she was arrested, only questioned in the triple homicide, reported at 12:20 a.m. in the 9400 block of Dunbar Drive. The house had also suffered some minor fire damage.
"We are questioning a person that is involved," Lt. Dom Arotzarena said. "We’re still in the process of gathering evidence and witnesses."
Police said when they arrived at the house after hearing a report of gunshots, they found an Oakland man lying in front of the house. He was dead of apparent stab wounds, police said. Two women were found inside of the house, police said, dead of apparent stab and gunshot wounds.
Neighbor Delaney Caldwell said she first smelled smoke, and then saw fire crews rushing toward the nearby home.
"That’s when I was like, 'Whoa! What’s going?'" Caldwell said.
The FBI was called in, Arotzarena said, because "they have a lot of forensics tools that we just don’t have, and they’re pretty good for us in an investigation."
On Friday evening, neighbors who live near the Oakland Coliseum said they felt unsafe. They noted that the family that lived in the affected house seemed "happy."
"As long as I've lived here, I haven’t seen anything like this before, especially with three lives lost," Linda Adams said.
Police said the names of the three victims will be released once their relatives have been notified.
Anyone who has information should call the Oakland Police Homicide Section at (510) 238-3821.


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Here are some picks that I made. These are probably my favorite of all my picks including all my store purchased ones. I have pretty much every pick ever made now.
ZOOM IN AND CHECK THESE OUT! Note that the comic is INSIDE and not on the surface. My son drew the skull one on a piece of paper and the rest came from the paper comics. Check out our website HOW-TO section for more information. There is a link on the page or go to www.pickpunch.com
Here is the back of the picks:
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text: Country of origin (COO) effects with respect to price, quality, brand effect, and social status to determine elite consumers' buying behavior in the emerging market of Pakistan are investigated. Manufacturers are looking for new consumers with a resilient purchasing power, which is likely to grow, in emergent markets. The most important finding resulting from the present research is the relatively limited significance that COO effects have on product perceptions and on the buying behavior of an elite, affluent group of consumers. The research demonstrated that COO effects, while important, do not often dominate the process of consumer preference formation or the decision to buy. This finding stands in marked contrast to earlier research. The equal importance of specific cue information with COO information when making purchase decisions is emphasized by the significant correlations between some responses to COO, price, quality, brand effect, and social status items.

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PPD Changed This Mom’s Life—Here’s What She Wants You to Know
The Bump presents #MomBoss, a series dedicated to showing off all-star moms. We catch up with mompreneurs behind products we love, influencers who get real about motherhood and SAHMs who can multitask in their sleep.
As a social worker with more than 20 years under her belt, Paige Bellenbaum is devoted to helping others. But when she faced severe postpartum depression and needed help herself, she felt alone and hopeless.
Eventually, she sought support from doctors and was able to find her way out of a very dark place. Now, the mom of two is an advocate for new moms and works as the chief external relations officer of The Motherhood Center, a new clinical treatment facility for postpartum depression. She gave us an inside look into The Motherhood Center’s progressive facilities and opened up about what motherhood means to her, including the good, the bad and the ugly.
I’m a California girl–born and raised in San Francisco. I moved to New York City in 2000 to attend Columbia University for my Masters in social work. I was all ready to move back to San Francisco, but right before then, I met my husband-to-be. In 2005, after one month of marriage, we found out we were pregnant. I guess I’m fortunate in the sense that my husband only had to look at me for that to happen. After our son Max was born, I was immediately filled with intense anxiety, which led to severe postpartum depression. Catherine Birndorf, MD, co-founder of the Motherhood Center, was actually part of my clinical treatment team, but we didn’t realize this connection until much later!
It was the darkest time of my life and I almost lost my life because of it. It’s like being in an ocean and not being able to swim, and just waiting for someone to throw you a life preserver. I couldn’t believe that nobody was talking about it, despite the fact that research suggests 1 in 5 new and expectant mothers experience a perinatal mood and anxiety disorder, otherwise known as postpartum depression (PPD).
After I recovered with the help of medication and therapy, I became furious that nobody was talking about how common PPD is. Instead, women like myself feel guilty and ashamed for their feelings and thoughts and keep it to themselves. I worked with a New York state senator to draft legislation requiring new mothers to be educated about PPD before they are discharged from the hospital, and strongly encouraging ob-gyns and pediatricians to screen for PPD.
My primary goal in life is to make sure other women suffering from perinatal depression and anxiety don’t have to suffer silently, which is why I agreed to help open The Motherhood Center with Catherine!
The Motherhood Center is a first-of its-kind clinical treatment facility in New York City for pregnant and new moms suffering from perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), otherwise referred to as postpartum depression. We offer various tiers of treatment based on the client’s symptom severity, including:
- A day program with a nursery for the babies
- Outpatient therapy and medication management
- Support groups for new and expectant moms who are having a difficult transition to parenthood
- Various classes and workshops preparing mothers for childbirth, breastfeeding support, and much more Clients are referred to us primarily by ob-gyns, pediatricians, doulas, psychiatrists and therapists, but we also get a lot of referrals from our social media efforts.
The Motherhood Center is one of only a handful of “Perinatal Day Programs” in the US. Our Day Program provides clinical treatment for new and expecting mothers with severe PMADs, who are having a very difficult time caring for themselves and/or the baby. Clients of the Day Program are with us five days a week, five hours a day and their babies are cared for in the nursery. Clients participate in therapeutic support groups, mindfulness, meditation, art therapy, yoga and more, and each one is followed by an individual therapist and psychiatrist that specializes in PMADs. What truly differentiates us is that, unlike the handful of other day programs out there, we’re not affiliated with a hospital. We are a standalone center, meaning we have the ability to create a warm, nurturing, non-clinical environment for women receiving treatment. It feels like a giant living room!
People are starting to talk about it more! Celebrities like Chrissy Teigen, Serena Williams and Adele sharing their personal experiences with postpartum depression gives permission to women everywhere to talk about it and hopefully seek treatment. Many states have legislation on the books, which includes mandatory screening, PMAD education, public awareness campaigns and more. And many national medical associations are strongly recommending screening for PMADs.
Ask mom how she is doing. All the attention is on the mom until the baby is born, and then mom is left in the dust. If mom appears to be overly anxious, depressed or easily irritated, is having obsessive thoughts that are running like a hamster wheel in her head or feels helpless or hopeless, she may be suffering from a PMAD.
You can let her know that she’s not alone—more than 20 percent of new moms experience postpartum depression and anxiety, and those are just the ones who talk about it. Tell her it’s not her fault and that she can feel better with the right support and treatment.
I would have told myself women who have a history of depression and/or anxiety are at a much greater risk of developing a PMAD. I didn’t know that at the time. I would have had a treatment team all set up for me, and I would have warned everyone around me to look out for the signs. I would have screamed in my own face, yelling, “Asking for help does not mean you’re a bad mom! Every new mom needs help! We are one of the only cultures in the world that doesn’t have built-in support for new moms!”
It was the second hardest thing that happened after my PPD. My daughter was a huge surprise. It honestly compares to the immaculate conception (remember earlier when I told you all my husband has to do is look at me?!).
I was so not ready to have another baby. In fact, I was never going to have another baby after Max was born. I couldn’t tolerate going through that again. But after some serious soul searching (and therapy), I decided that I was not going to let my first experience define me. I took total control over my situation, and I created a plan that covered all the areas I felt had contributed to my PPD the first time. I did everything differently, and it paid off. I did have a PPD relapse when she was 9 months old, but it was less severe and I knew exactly what to do. Antidepressants are wonderful thing.
Going from one to two kids is like going from 1 to 10. My kids are two years apart, so they were both in diapers for a substantial period of time. And sorry, No. 2, but by the time mom gets to you, we have often been through the worst of it with the first one and now we have perspective. The second-born has to figure out a lot of things on her own!
Red wine and binge-watching British crime shows with my 85-pound mama pitbull snuggled up under my chin.
If you or someone you know is suffering from postpartum depression and you live in the New York Tri-State Area, call The Motherhood Center at 212-335-0035 to get the help that’s needed to feel better.
For national resources, visit Postpartum Support International (PSI). PSI has PMAD resources available in every city and town across the US.
Published November 2018
Please note: The Bump and the materials and information it contains are not intended to, and do not constitute, medical or other health advice or diagnosis and should not be used as such. You should always consult with a qualified physician or health professional about your specific circumstances.
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Kilchoman Original Cask Strength 2014 ☆ [Recommended]
Style: Lively and Smoky
A big puff of charcoal smoke with a briny bite on the nose. Chilli flakes, towering spices with a touch of grassy notes. The core sits quite deep and unravels at a sluggish pace – quiet floral sweetness, and opens up to lavish honey with smoked cedar wood aroma. Drier undertone with sea salt, mineral notes and earthy peat.
Smoky water, delicious honey layer on top, topped with nice icing sugar sweetness. Raw timber shavings seasoned with white pepper, followed by a massive tropical fructose rush, pineapple and coconut notes blossom extravagantly. Finishes off with roasted walnuts, fresh oak and light vanilla. Peat smoke fuming gently from the back.
Soft peat smoke swaying, light vanilla oak and wonderful pineapple notes with a dash of sea salt gives a lengthy finish.
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PSEG Nuclear workers manually shut down the company’s Salem Unit 1 reactor Tuesday night after the breakdown of a pump supplying water to one of the unit’s steam generators.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials described the shutdown, involving a non-nuclear part of they system, as uncomplicated, and said the incident is under investigation.
Unit 1 is one of three reactors at PSEG’s Salem/Hope Creek complex on Artificial Island along the Delaware River southeast of Port Penn.
The twin Salem reactors generate about 1,175 megawatts each, while Hope Creek operates as high as 1,219 megawatts. Unit 1, the oldest of the three, received its initial operating permit in 1976.
PSEG spokesman Joe Delmar said that plant workers reduced reactor power before water levels could fall to a point that would have triggered an automatic shutdown.
“The control room operators made a conservative decision” to shut down before the automatic trigger, Delmar said. Plant workers are still searching for the cause of the problem, he said, adding that the company has not estimated when the plant would return to service.
Steam generators produce the steam used to power turbines. In pressurized reactors like Salem 1 and 2, steam for generators is heated by steam from the reactor without the radioactive and non-radioactive sides coming into contact. Boiling water plants like Hope Creek use the same water loop for reactor cooling and steam generation.
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ROBYN CURNOW, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, welcome to all of our viewers around the world. Thanks for joining me. I'm Robyn Curnow live from Atlanta. So just ahead, Antony Blinken defiance as lawmakers grill him on the chaotic exit from Afghanistan. Why he says staying longer would not have made any difference.
And the UK is officially moving forward with Pfizer jobs for kids. We also discuss what to expect from Boris Johnson's winter plan to combat the virus.
And fashions biggest night makes a comeback all the show stopping looks sort of them kind of outrageous from last night's Met Gala.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Live from CNN Center, this is CNN Newsroom with Robyn Curnow.
CURNOW: In the face of Republican calls for his resignation, the top us diplomat is offering his strongest defense yet of the military pullout from Afghanistan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told lawmakers there was a choice between ending the war or escalating it, and he said there was no evidence that staying longer would have made any difference. Kylie Atwood has the details.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Secretary Blinken --
KYLIE ATWOOD, CNN U.S. SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): facing fierce bipartisan criticism, Secretary of State Tony Blinken defending the Biden administration's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan.
ANTONY BLINKEN, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: There's no evidence that staying longer would have made the Afghan security forces or the Afghan government any more resilient or self-sustaining if 20 years and hundreds of billions of dollars in support equipment and training did not suffice. Why would another year, another five, another 10.
ATWOOD: And how it was done. BLINKEN: The evacuation itself was an extraordinary effort under the most difficult conditions imaginable by our diplomats, by our military, by our intelligence professionals.
ATWOOD: But Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee weren't buying it.
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL (R-TX): This was an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. I never thought in my lifetime, that I would see an unconditional surrender to the Taliban.
ATWOOD: Blinken also received critical questions from Democratic lawmakers about what could have been done better. Although the evacuation of more than 124,000 people from Afghanistan was one of the biggest airlifts in history. It was marked by chaos and the death of 13 American service members.
REP. GREGORY MEEKS, (D-NY) HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: All the things the administration could have done differently, absolutely yes, as always.
ATWOOD: At times, the hearing became a partisan battle. Democrats pointing their fingers back at the Trump administration's Afghanistan policies.
DONALD TRUMP, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: In Afghanistan --
ATWOOD: Accusing republicans of relying on selective memories.
REP. GERRY CONNOLLY (D-VA): I'm going to assert that the events of August 14th had their direct antecedent, with a bad decision by President Trump and Secretary Pompeo in 2018, to elevate and legitimize the Taliban in Doha gutter by agreeing to have face-to-face negotiations.
ATWOOD: Blinken agree that the Trump administration officials did strike the deal with the Taliban, forcing the U.S. exit.
BLINKEN: We inherited a deadline, we did not inherit a plan.
ATWOOD: And now the Biden administration must decide how to work with the Taliban, which is now in control of the country, and how to defend against any potential terrorist threats emerging in Afghanistan without us troops, diplomats, or intelligence officials in the country.
BLINKEN: We lost some capacity for sure. And not having those boots on the ground in Afghanistan. But we have ways and we are very actively working on that to make up for that, to mitigate for that, to make sure that we have eyes on the problem to see if it reemerges in Afghanistan.
ATWOOD (on camera): Now, Secretary Blinken repeatedly commended the State Department officials who have worked on this evacuation effort and many lawmakers have echoed him in doing the same but there are still questions about the continuation of these evacuations from Afghanistan.
There are about 100 Americans still on Afghanistan that are in touch with the United States State Department and Secretary Blinken heard from lawmakers were urging the department to continue to work with private individuals and non-government organizations who are trying also to get these Afghans and Americans out of Afghanistan. We are waiting for details as to how that partnership really worked out. Kylie Atwood, CNN, the State Department.
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CURNOW: And UN Donors Conference has secured pledges of more than a billion dollars to help Afghanistan far exceeding its goal of 600 million. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says Afghanistan was experiencing one of the worst humanitarian crisis before the Taliban takeover with poverty and hunger, spiraling.
And the World Food Program now warns 14 million Afghans are on the brink of starvation. And after decades of suffering, Guterres says Afghans could be facing their most perilous hour.
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ANTONIO GUTERRES, U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL: Humanitarian aids will not solve the problem if the economy of Afghanistan collapses.
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CURNOW: Arwa Damon is live this are in Istanbul. Mr. Guterres also said a whole bunch of other things really raising the stakes in terms of how dire he says the situation is in Afghanistan.
ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Robyn, it is in fact quite difficult to put into words at this stage. There are so many challenges that that country and the most desperate among its population are currently facing. Look, even before all of this, even before the Taliban takeover of Kabul, 76 percent of the population were living before below the poverty line.
What does that mean? That means that 76 percent of the population were struggling to put food on the table, parents were struggling to feed their children, all of that has now been amplified. And the issues that they're facing have been further aggravated. It's not just an issue, as Mr. Guterres was saying, of having the money for the humanitarian aid. You also have the logistics of its distribution and a number of aid organizations, international aid organizations have been negotiating and speaking to the Taliban, they have to, to get aid where it needs to go.
You also have the reality that during those evacuations that were taking place from Kabul, which was basically the only way in and out of the country, the Kabul airport. Aid flights were significantly slowed down nonexistent in some stages, as countries were focusing on mostly getting their own and nationals out. And then there is the medical side of all of this. We're not just talking about getting food to the hungry. A number of medical organizations that work in Afghanistan, including doctors without borders are also warning about the collapse of the country's medical infrastructure that was all ready, weak and decrepit to begin with, essential medications not available access to basic health care, very difficult, not to mention health for women who are pregnant for young girls. And so this is really a point where the international community cannot afford to turn away.
Look, if we look back at history of these kinds of conflicts, unfortunately, the reality is that while the conflict is unfolding, there is a lot of focus on what is taking place. There is a lot of effort to try to get humanitarian medical assistance where it needs to go. But then attention gets diverted. And Afghanistan is not a country where the world can actually afford at this stage to divert its attention.
And if we fail on that front, if the world does, in fact diverts attention from Afghanistan, that country is going to face, highly likely going to face actually, you know, malnutrition among children, which we're already beginning to see. And potentially what is this all going to mean? It's going to mean that more people in Afghanistan are going to unnecessarily die because they can't get the medical support that they need, because they are unable to get the food that they need to stay alive, Robyn.
CURNOW: In assemble there. Thanks so much Arwa Damon.
So Gul Maqsood Sabit is the former deputy minister of finance for Afghanistan. He is now a lecturer at Ohlone College in California. And he joins us from Union City. Good to see you, sir.
So as both Antonio Guterres and our Arwa reporting and Afghanistan's economics were in a precarious position before the fall of the government, the Taliban knew that. They've taken power without a plan, knowing the international community would not want to do business with them. How much responsibility for this precarious situation? Do you place on the new leaders and the Taliban?
GUL MAQSOOD SABIT, FMR. DEPUTY MINISTER OF FINANCE, AFGHANISTAN: In our responsibility, actually, all the current responsibility of this current situation in the situation that the country will get in falls on the shoulder of the current leaders. Now, it's a different question whether they will accept our take on that responsibility or even feel it or not, but it plays on their shoulder. There is nobody else who can take care of the suffering population. Those, you know, these people were caught by surprise, both economically and politically.
A large number of the population dependent on an economy that was heavily reliant on the international aid, that was tapped all of a sudden. There is no governance. Basically, governments is dysfunctional with no services at all. And humanitarian aid that flew into the country before, that stopped to all of a sudden, because of the political problems, and, you know, other logistical issues.
So, this is a shot for everybody. And the situation is, as you heard, rightly heard is worrying for all of us.
CURNOW: So what we've been seeing is a global call and response for aid for support. Yet, when we hear our reporter saying that, obviously, these aid agencies are having to talk to the Taliban, get security, assurances from the Taliban in terms of trying to get to ordinary people, should there be strings attached to any aid given to the Taliban, or at least an Afghanistan that is ruled by the Taliban? How much pressure or inclusive should this aid be, especially when it comes to say, women's rights? What kind of strings attached should be put on all if all -- at all?
SABIT: You know, world concerns are understandable, and in their right, they should think about those strings. But I think at this situation, we are facing a humanitarian crisis. There is a population of about 35 to 40 million, that will probably die of hunger and, you know, lack of medical supplies and other basic needs.
So at this time, I think it will not be right to link the two together. I think political pressure should be or political strength should not be attached to a humanitarian crisis or humanitarian aid at this time, because this will really result in the suffering of the common people. And I think world should separate the two. And in because if, you know, the current leaders do not really shoulder that responsibility or don't have the means to do so. Somebody has to and that's the world that has to.
CURNOW: China has pledged millions. We know that Pakistan is a longtime supporter of the Taliban, regional leaders have been meeting. How much responsibility is it then for neighbors to step up particularly those neighbors who will feel the impact of a broken economy and massive internal displacement?
SABIT: I believe this is everybody's responsibility. But I don't think only the neighbors can address this or can take care of the all the problems because this is much bigger than what they can afford to do. Pakistan has its own economic problems. They have a high ratio of debt to GDP. Similarly, China, usually their aid is mostly, you know, they have strings attached to it. And in this population right now needs help that without any strings.
I think the world must think about preventing this humanitarian catastrophe at this time, and then think about the strings and conditions later on. Because this is a problem that's currently at hand and that has to be addressed. And again, in the future, I think humanitarian aid or flowing of humanitarian aid is not the solution, because how long will you feed the population. You need an economy, a functioning economy, a functioning government or a system to feed those people. You cannot send an aid forever.
But I think at this time, before we move to the second stage of addressing governance problems, or putting conditions on the current rulers, or setting up an environment so that they can build their economy and feed the people. I think this crisis is very urgent and I think it needs to be addressed today.
CURNOW: Gul Maqsood Sabit, appreciate all of your perspective. Thank you for joining us here on CNN.
SABIT: Thank you for having me.
CURNOW: It is the final day of voting in the election to determine if California's democratic governor gets to keep his job. We'll hear how Gavin Newsom and his Republican rival are making their closing arguments to voters.
Plus details of New York City's new vaccine possible program and what is this -- what this means for people planning to visit indoor attractions in the city that's next as well.
CURNOW: Welcome back. We are just hours away from the polls closing in California where democratic governor Gavin Newsom is hoping to survive the effort to remove him from office, almost eight and a half million pre-election ballots have already been caused. Newsom and his main challenger republican Larry Elder, sharpen their final pitches to voters on Monday. Elder hit hard on California's high housing costs and pandemic restrictions that helped fuel the recall effort in the first place.
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LARRY ELDER, CALIFORNIA GUBENATORIAL CANDIDATE: The average price of a home in California is literally 50 percent more than it should be. One of the many things I'm going to do when I become governor is declare a statewide emergency on housing. I'm going to declare a statewide emergency on water. And to the extent that there still are mandates that this government has imposed for state workers, mandates for every worker who's not been vaccinated to be tested once a week, and to wear a face mask at work. I'm going to be repealing, those because I believe we still have something in this country called freedom.
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CURNOW: Meanwhile, Newsom brought our President Joe Biden who compared elder to former President Trump.
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JOE BIDEN, U.S. PRESIDENT: We're going to keep Gavin Newsom as your governor. Or you'll get Donald Trump. It's not a joke.
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CURNOW: So stay with CNN throughout the day for continuing coverage of those election results.
Mayor of New York says the city is back in full force as many returned to work amid new measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Now one of those measures is a vaccine passport required to take in many of New York's most well-known activities. Athena Jones has more Athena.
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BILL DE BLASIO, NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: This is the day we have been waiting for.
ATHENA JONES, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A pivotal day in New York City as people of all ages face new requirements aimed at beating back COVID-19 and is many of the city's municipal employees returned to their workplaces.
DE BLASIO: You're going to remember in the history of this city this day, September 13, 2021. Day that was a game changer, a difference maker, a turnaround day, this is the day. New York City's come back in full force.
JONES: Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test is now required at indoor restaurants, gyms and entertainment venues. With companies that don't enforce the rule facing fines.
Children under 12 too young to be vaccinated will have to mask up. Same goes for the nation's largest school district where all students and teachers must be masked as full time in person learning begins. And all public school employees must receive at least one dose of vaccine by September 27. The city's approach winning praise from federal officials.
MIGUEL CARDONA, U.S. EDUCATION SECRETARY: To all the families that are watching, they've worked so hard to be prepared. They're doing everything to make sure your children and staff are safe.
JONES: Experts say widespread mandates could be key to ending the pandemic.
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: I think that if you get trusted public messengers who put aside political ideas and convince people to get vaccinated. The other way to do it is to have many, many more mandates.
JONES: Dr. Anthony Fauci also telling the skim that when it comes to mandates for air travel --
FAUCI: I would support that if you want to get on a plane and travel with other people that you should be vaccinated.
JONES: In fact, new CNN polling shows the public evenly split on whether mandates for everyday activities are an acceptable way to increase the vaccination rate. But there is more support for requiring vaccinations for office workers, in-person learning, sports events and concerts. Still after President Biden announced companies with more than 100 employees must require they be vaccinated or tested weekly, blowback with swift.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is an egregious overreach of federal authority.
GOV. ASA HUTCHINSON (R), ARKANSAS: The problem is that I'm trying to overcome resistance but the President's actions in a mandate hardens the resistance.
JONES: And after too many maternity ward employees at one upstate New York hospital quit over vaccination requirements, a stunning step.
GERALD CAYER, CEO, LEWIS COUNTY HEALTH SYSTEM: We are unable to safely staff the service after September 24. The number of resignations received leaves us no choice but to pause delivering babies that Lewis County General Hospital.
JONES: Meanwhile, with average daily U.S. COVID deaths on the rise and nearly 100,000 people hospitalized with the virus, ICUs in Georgia and Alabama are maxed out.
The Washington Post reporting an Alabama man having a cardiac emergency died after being turned away from 43 hospitals that didn't have an available ICU bed.
(on camera): And the confusion of a when and whether booster doses of COVID vaccine will be necessary continues. Two FDA advisors who announced they'll be stepping down this fall. So they don't see the need for the general population to get booster shots. So others say the data supports boosters. Dr. Peter Hotez explaining that among other things boosters could help prevent long COVID and may prevent asymptomatic transmission. The FDA will be meeting to discuss the matter on Friday. Athena Jones, CNN, New York.
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CURNOW: The British Prime Minister will announce the plan for managing the coronavirus pandemic through autumn and winter on Tuesday. Downing Street says the plan focuses on vaccines as the first line of defense, followed by testing public health advice and monitoring for variants of the virus.
The government is expected to unveil its booster shot program with details of its rollout. The prime minister will also lay out plans to repeal previous emergency powers that have been granted during the pandemic such as applying restrictions to events and gatherings. Boris Johnson says he thinks the country is well positioned heading into the next few months.
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BORIS JOHNSON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: We've got to do everything that's right to protect the country. But the way things are going at the moment, we're very confident in the steps that we've taken. I'll be setting out a lot more. Tomorrow I'll be giving a full update on the plans for the autumn and the winter.
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CURNOW: And the UK will now be offering the first dose of the Pfizer- BioNTech vaccine to young people aged 12 to 15. Health officials say kids will primarily receive their vaccine in schools with invitations for appointments to begin next week.
Well, joining me now is Ravina Kullar, expert on infectious diseases. Ravina, hi, good to see you. Let's just talk about the UK. Obviously, they're saying plus 12. They're going to get their shot here in the US that's been happening for a few weeks for a few months, in fact, and people are waiting for younger kids here to get a shot.
But what we're seeing in the in the U.S. is startling. A 240 percent increase in cases in American children since early July. The numbers when you break them down are staggering.
RAVINA KULLAR, INFECTIOUS DISEASES EXPERT: Thank you, Robyn, for having me on. You're completely right. It's very staggering. I mean, we've seen an exponential increase in COVID-19 cases since July in those children and that children population. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, there have been over 250,000 cases this past week. I mean, that's a second highest number of COVID-19 cases in the pediatric population that we have ever faced here as a nation. Very scary for these children and their parents.
CURNOW: Yes, so children currently account for about 30 percent of COVID cases here in the US. I mean, what are the long, you know, what do we know then also about the long-term consequences for kids? A long COVID is going to impact them just as much. It's not just about whether they go to hospital not.
KULLAR: Correct. So currently there are about 2000 children which are hospitalized. Texas is leading the way with about 400 children which are hospitalized with COVID-19 infections.
Many of these children, they're in the ICU as well. Those individuals which are in the ICU, they do most commonly have comorbidities such as being obese and having some other comorbidities, but not all of them and you're right, Robyn, we don't know the long term consequences that these children can face down the line, their physical, their mental health can be negatively impacted down the down the line. So not only do they have disease, children have COVID-19 infection.
Now, it's very concerning as to what can happen long term to these children. We don't know what the answer is yes, but we do know that post-COVID are long-hauler, long -- they are long-haulers in adults where they're faced with respiratory symptoms, they're faced with mental --
CURNOW: And neurological.
KULLAR: Yes, neurological symptoms, correct, which is go on for a period of time, passed COVID -- passed after the COVID-19 symptoms have cleared.
CURNOW: So I want to ask then. So we're seeing these staggering numbers of kids getting COVID here in the US. Why is that? Has it coincided with going back to school? And has it also coincided with the fact that there really isn't -- there really is a hodgepodge, an ad hoc mask policy that's been politicized. I want to bring up a poll that CNN released on Monday, and they asked folks, you know, if they felt that masks should be mandated in schools, and only 63 percent said they should be. 37 percent are opposed. But many, many kids are being sent to schools, almost defenseless?
KULLAR: Yes, you're completely right, Robyn. I mean, I think the reason why we're seeing an increase in cases, number one, these children are back in school. Number two, these math mandates have not been enforced by all school districts. Every single state, every single county functions as its own entity. And until we all work together as a nation, these children are going to be negatively impacted.
We know for a fact that facemask do work. We know for a fact that physically distancing, and having optimal hand hygiene works to help prevent transmission. And those are the measures that we have in place, until vaccines will be available to some of these kids and until all these children get vaccinated.
So third, not every single child has been vaccinated. As of now only about 50 percent of those between the ages of 12 to 15 have received one dose of the vaccine. So until we get a dose of that vaccine in every child's arm, that can get it now this is going to be a huge problem.
CURNOW: And when can we expect then for younger kids to get a shot on their arm?
KULLAR: Well, Pfizer has announced that they're completing their trials looking at the COVID-19 vaccine and those aged -- those which are aged five to 11 years old. My projection is which Dr. Fauci also stated that we should hopefully have a vaccine available in that population by the fall period. So by October or November, those children should hopefully have a vaccine.
But I do want to tell the American people that I know everyone's impatient to get a vaccine in those eight -- in that age group, but the FDA is thoroughly conducting their trials to make sure that the vaccine is safe in kids, that the dosage is right in those children. And until we have answers to those two questions. I think we need to wait on the FDA to really see what -- whether they're going to approve the Pfizer vaccine in that population.
CURNOW: Thank you so much for joining us, Dr. Ravina Kullar, really appreciate it. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
KULLAR: Thank you, Robyn.
CURNOW: So coming up here at CNN, the typhoon that is sweeping through East Asia has weakened but it is still on the move as you can see here some dramatic images out of the region. We have the latest forecasts, stay with us for that one.
ROBYN CURNOW, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back to CNN.
And we've been covering this story, monitoring of course, the typhoon which has now weakened to a tropical storm in East Asia. It slammed into the Philippines and Taiwan over the weekend. It's now making its presence felt in China, as you can see from these sat images. But the worst of the rain is expected to stay offshore, which is really very, very good news.
Pedram Javaheri joins me now with the latest on this and other weather headlines. Hi.
PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Hi. You know, Robyn, this is a storm at one point it was the second strongest storm we've seen in our planet this year. It was a menacing feature and it, of course, it had a tight set across portions of eastern China, right into Shanghai.
And you'll notice on the backside of it, there are some thunderstorms still being produced in that region but the bulk of this system really beginning to dry out and break apart as it moves a little farther toward the east.
It's still just about 20 kilometers per hour shy of what would be equivalent to a category one system. But again, quite a bit of dry air on the backside of it, where all the population is.
So that is good news here as far as reducing the rainfall and the flooding threat. And you'll notice, it kind of meanders just off shore of an area that is home to more than 26 million people.
So again, a really unfortunate turn of events. It does shift off toward the east. We do expect impacts across Jeju Island within the next 24 hours and parts of the Strait of Korea into the East Sea. So it's still going to see quite a bit of rainfall associated with it. It is going to be mainly be a rain event. It's not going to be a wind- driven storm.
And again, because of its kind of long duration setup here, flooding is going to be expected, especially on the eastern side of it. If you're tuning in Japan, certainly want to be something worth noting over the next couple of days.
Now, that's not the only storm we're following, Hurricane Nicholas, this has been a (INAUDIBLE) because it has taken its time, remained offshore. Still hasn't made landfall even though models have suggested it could have made landfall as early as say seven or eight hours ago.
And it's parked right off the coast of eastern Texas. Houston, home to about 7 million people, a lot of these areas underneath the high risk. that is a rare 4 out of 4 issue by the Weather Prediction Center, which is about a 4 percent of all days to get this kind of magenta coloration which is a high risk for severe flooding.
But, they're responsible for about 40 percent of fatalities related with the storm. So that's the concern. We've had this sort of a set up in place around the northeastern U.S. where what was left of Ida moving across the region. So that's why there could be is concerning for flooding in this region.
And of course, a storm surge threats exist on the coast as well. But notice, it hugs the coast, and produces quite a bit of rainfall here. Could see as much as 300 to 400 millimeters, Robyn, in a lot of areas, across eastern Texas and parts of Louisiana as well.
CURNOW: And all those places have already been hit by more than enough rain, and storm surges in recent weeks.
Pedram Javaheri, thank you.
JAVAHERI: That is true.
CURNOW: Now nearly 1,000 firefighters are battling flames in southern Spain. The fires broke out last Wednesday, and it has since forced the closure of 8 main highways. Hundreds have been evacuated and one firefighter that has been killed.
And then the western U.S. is also under threat from wildfires. And President Biden says, it is blinking code red for the country on the impacts of climate change.
CURNOW: Mr. Biden's remarks came after he surveyed wildfire damage in Idaho and California -- both have been hard hit by recent fires. He also used the speech to push for his economic proposals that include funding for wildlife prevention methods like forest management. But he says the disasters also point to a larger truth.
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JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We know that decades of forest management decisions have created hazardous conditions across the western forest. But we can't ignore the reality that these wild fires are being supercharged by climate change.
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CURNOW: And as the world's climate crisis gets worse, attacks on environmental activists are rising. A new report found an average of four activists were killed each week last year -- a record high number.
And as CNN's Rafael Romo now reports, most of those killings happened in Latin America, Rafael.
RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The report was made after gathering and analyzing data from around the world regarding deadly attacks on environmental activists.
It was published by Global Witness, a London-based, human, and environmental rights NGO. The report's conclusions are alarming. It says, 2020 was the deadliest year on record for environmental defenders.
There was 227 killings, an average of four per week. And most of those deaths, happened in Latin America.
Colombia was the most affected country -- 65 environmentalists were killed there. Activists were protecting indigenous land or defending forests and their coca crops.
With 30 murders, Mexico rank second on the list. A third of those killed were working to stop deforestation in the country.
The only country outside Latin America that had more than 15 deaths of environmentalists was the Philippines. 29 people there were killed for attempting to halt mining, logging and dam projects.
Chris Madden, one of the reports' authors said, "It's clear that the unaccountable exploitation and greed that's driving the climate crisis are also having an increasingly violent impact on people."
In the last few years, a number of killings of environmentalists has been increasing. It went above 200, for the first-time in 2017. And in 2020, there were 15 deaths more than the year before.
Rafael Romo, CNN, Mexico City.
CURNOW: And we have this just into CNN.
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is in Moscow, for talks with his Russian counterpart. Vladimir Putin actually congratulated Mr. Assad on his recent election win and on his birthday.
Reuters report he also foreign forces deployed in Syria without U.N. approval are hindering the country's consolidation.
We'll continue to monitor developments, and bring you pictures of that in the coming hours, here, live on CNN.
And also still to come, China has a new sweetheart, 18-year-old U.S. Open winner Emma Raducanu. We'll explain why the Canadian-born tennis star is scoring so many new fans in the Asian country.
And after being canceled by the pandemic last year, fashion's biggest night makes a comeback. Up next, the Met Gala.
CURNOW: The so-called Oscars of the East Coast is back. The star- studded Met Gala is an annual fund-raiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute. It was postponed last year, like many other things because of the pandemic.
Well this year's theme is In America: a Lexicon of Fashion.
So, let's go through some of these looks. 19-year-old singer, Billie Eilish, traded in her baggy clothes for an Oscar dela Renta gown she said was inspired by Marilyn Monroe.
Social issues were also on the beige carpet. New York Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, wore a gown that had "Tax the Rich" written on it. And her fellow lawmaker, Caroline Maloney, sent a message with her shoulder panels, calling for equal rights for women, and a purse that said, you're a yes.
And newly-crowned tennis champ -- let's talk about tennis. Far better. She was also in attendance at the gala, Emma Raducanu, who just won the women's U.S. Open title, over the weekend, wowed the crowd with this stunning outfit on the red carpet. The Canadian born teenager is also wowing new fans in China, where her mom was born.
Kristie Lu Stout is following that part of the story.
KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Tennis' news superstar, Emma Raducanu was born in Canada, brought up in Britain, now the U.S. Open champion is being claimed by China.
On Sina-Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, the "#18-year-old Asian player won U.S. Open" has received 200 million views. The U.S. Open champion's mother is from China's Liaoning Province, and the fact that Raducanu can speak Mandarin has helped boost her appeal.
After her victory in New York, she used her second language to thank her Chinese fans for their support. Some Chinese netizens like this one, picked up on the athletes accent in the Weibo post saying, "It reflects Raducanu's mother's homeland in China's northeast."
Others reflected on the pride Raducanu's grandmother and family in Shenyang (ph) must feel after her fairytale win.
In an interview on the sidelines of the Wimbledon championships earlier this summer, the young athlete described her family in China as mentally resilient and credited her mother's work ethic as a big part of her inspiration.
Raducanu cites China's two-time Grand Slam champion, Li Na (ph), as a big influence on her game. And like her hero before her, Raducanu's combination of youth, tennis talent, and international appeal, is sure to draw sponsorship from her mother's homeland.
STEVE MARTIN, GLOBAL CEO, MSC SAATCHI SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: You think of the vast potential in the Chinese market, particularly for global brands, China (INAUDIBLE) to the market. And I think the world's her oyster here. I couldn't name a brand who wouldn't want to be associated with her at the moment. She is so positive, and has got that flare and her personality. But that's going to be humility, which will pale across multiple markets.
STOUT: Raducanu ranked 150th in the world coming into the U.S. Open, before blowing away more experienced opponents to win her first Grand Slam.
But sports marketing experts agree, to keep sponsors on the side (ph) she'll need more successes like this.
Kristie Lu Stout, CNN -- Hong Kong.
CURNOW: Thanks for watching. I'm Robyn Curnow. I'll be back in 15 minutes' time with more news.
I'm going to hand you over to "INSIDE AFRICA".

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Interpreters in the state of Washington are in an uproar. So are many healthcare providers there who serve Limited English Proficient patients.
After six years of a government-run program that pays for interpreters for public Medicaid and social services appointments, something changed. The contract was awarded to a new vendor.
The former vendor, CTS LanguageLink, processed payments for more than 7,000 appointments per week on average. About 1,100 interpreters worked under this program.
In the first week of July the new vendor, Universal Language Services (ULS) processed only 1,000 requests. Patients were turned away. Non-union interpreters are being brought in at lower rates.
The interpreters’ union, Interpreters United, is rising to the challenge. We wish them bon courage!


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The Lap Pool House designed by Aristides Dallas Architects emerges from a craggy, natural landscape as a “man-made cave”, its geometric form a modern reshaping of rocky cavities and ledges. Located in Tinos island, Greece, the house gazes down a gentle slope and toward the warm blue Aegean sea, presenting a contemporary aesthetic that clashes beautifully with the dry terrain it partially buries itself in.
“The scope of the project is to camouflage within the landscape while maintaining a dynamic presence of itself,” shares Aristides Dallas, founder and lead architect of the Athens and Tinos based studio. The Lap Pool House thus employs clean lines and a rudimentary colour palette that draws from the hues of local rocks, while its clean texture and materiality renders it a minimal visual retreat. According to the design team, the residential architecture is a physical embodiment of the "impact between stone and air".
The home complements the site as well as dramatically competes with it, unfolding across three concrete building volumes. A gleaming, clean cut rectangular pool extends from the front of The Lap Pool House, giving it its name. With its colour and fluidity, the pool water contrasts the bare, textural concrete skin, as a gestural element celebrating the interaction between the man-made and the natural.
Appearing as an extension of the sparse landscape is a single slab of concrete that covers these three volumes. This feature makes possible pockets of open and closed spaces that break the clinical look of the residential design. Aristides Dallas Architects planned it such that it creates “spatial points of exposure and introversion”. Lodged in an earth crack, the entrance has been placed at the dwelling’s rear, while various intentional incisions on the roof let in daylight and air into the house.
Private spaces, an expansive living room, a cosy bedroom and guest house are positioned inside the two volumes that project from the slab and sit perpendicular to each other. The roof that blends into the ground on one side cantilevers at the other, “setting its appearance as a greatly innovative structural element. That way, in the middle space under the slab, the common areas are formed,” explains Dallas.
At the client’s wish, this cantilever also performs as a sheltered, semi-outdoor and informal living space which sets dialogue with the minimal, almost bare interior, informed in a chorus of white, grey and accents of wood. Along with the extended pool, this feature underlines the linearity of the whole form, reaching out to the horizon.
Light grey follows inside the house as well, with the walls and the floors rendered in the same monotone shade. The sparseness of the exterior is echoed in the décor inside, with simple glass sliding doors framed with wooden as well as grey painted steel frames. Small potted plants dot the insides to break the monotony, along with the tables and countertops that are done in dark timber. A polished black recliner sits with a rust coloured sofa, a fabric lined steel chair, a glass topped coffee table, a black and white vase set and a floor lamp in the spacious living room.
“Embracing an idea of merging with the landforms and elements around it, the building urges the habitant to live with absolute connection with the scenery of Tinos and with nature altogether,” says Dallas, who placed The Lap Pool House and designed for it, ample vantage points to enjoy the island and the sea that stretches out leisurely in front of it.
Name: The Lap Pool House
Location: Tinos, Greece
Architect: Aristides Dallas Architects
Architects: Aristides Dallas, Konstantinos Stathopoulos
Structural Engineering: Emmanouil Roditis, Theodoros Chrysovergis
E/M engineering: Evangelos Tentis
Construction: Aegean Construction
by Almas Sadique May 29, 2023
The residential structure in Belgium is a single family home that is built along the undulating landscape in its vicinity.
by Anmol Ahuja May 27, 2023
STIR tours the recently completed Fish Island Village by Haworth Tompkins and The Trampery campus in Hackney Wick, discovering its industrial history and present day urban aspirations.
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A powerful curatorial structure by Lesley Lokko needs to be carefully absorbed as an exhibition, a presentation and a display.
by STIRworld May 24, 2023
The proposal by Haptic Architects and Oslo Works, comprising workspaces for marine industry, hopes to capture the fjord’s underwater life while anticipating its future.
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Historic southern schoolhouse-themed cottage nestled in downtown Summerville
About Lauren Sheldon
Hey there! My name is Justin. Along with my beautiful wife Megan, we own / operate the Schoolhouse Cottage - a historic southern home located in downtown Summerville SC. Our mission is to ensure your stay is one that you will remember fondly for a lifetime! Above all else we're about family. And memories. When those two things collide, we're at our happiest! In addition to the two of us, our family consists of Finley, Jhett, and Gray. Life Motto? "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others" - Mahatma Gandhi. Justin Dungan purchased this cottage in 2017
Lauren Sheldon purchased this Cottage in 2017
Why Lauren Sheldon chose Summerville
Our family has called Summerville home for over a decade. We absolutely love downtown Summerville. We feel that it's still a bit of a secret to everyone else just how special this little town is, but the word is getting out fast! We love that Summerville is only a quick 20 minute drive to downtown Charleston, and just over 30 minutes to the surrounding beaches, yet has it's own thing going on. We love the cafes, restaurants, bars, coffee shops, unique gift shops, etc. that this little gem has to offer. Our family lives right next to this property, in the blue house. We also own and operate Magnolia Suites, which is just around the corner, which holds 4 additional suites. Let's just say we're huge fans of old homes and the stories they all share. Magnolia Suites has been opened for over a year and we have enjoyed welcoming guests into our home! When we saw this home become available, we knew we had to have it to be able to continue to share Summerville's charm with others. We are ecstatic to share it with people coming to the Lowcountry for the same reasons we did over 10 years ago.
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We are located 1 street off of Main Street - so everything you need is accessible by foot! This includes countless restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, bars, unique shops, etc.

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The Egyptian international’s future was up in the air earlier this summer because of his contract situation but he has now signed a new long-term deal with the Reds.
Van Dijk has claimed that the player might have been distracted because of the uncertainty surrounding his future prior to signing the new deal.
“I think he already showed his level already for the last three years,” said the Dutchman to Liverpool Echo. “He’s under the microscope all of the time, he created that himself, he’s such a good player but he shows that consistently all the time in my opinion.
“At the end of the season, from maybe April until the end, there was a lot of talk about the contract and stuff, we’re all human beings and maybe that affected him a little bit unfortunately. Now everything is sorted, he’s playing with a free mind, he’s happy to be here and I think everyone else is happy too.”
The player was linked with clubs like PSG and Barcelona.
Salah’s form dipped considerably towards the end of last season because of all the talk surrounding his future. He had scored 27 goals by the end of February, but he managed to score just four goals in the last 20 games of the season.
The Reds will feel that they could have won the Champions League if their key star was in his peak form.
Liverpool will be delighted to have sorted out a key player’s future and Salah has certainly been playing with more freedom since.
The Egyptian was outstanding against Manchester City in the Community Shield game and he will be hoping to have a memorable season this year.
Salah has helped Liverpool win the Premier League title and the Champions League during his time at the club and he will be crucial to Jurgen Klopp’s hopes of winning silverware this season.


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The Commerce Commission has hit a hurdle in its fight against controversial ticket re-seller Viagogo.
Wakefield business owners are counting the costs after the Nelson-Tasman fire forced them to evacuate and shut up shop.
A Wakefield resident who was evacuated from her property for four days as bush fires burned near the town says she wasn't sure if she'd ever make it home.
As the Nelson-Tasman fire enters its seventh day, a make-shift campsite for evacuated residents and animals is showing no signs of slowing down. Audio
Family members of a teenager killed at an Auckland factory stormed out of the High Court this morning as his co-worker was sentenced to home detention.
The Commerce Commission has told the High Court ticket reselling website Viagogo broke the law by selling tickets to the 2017 British and Irish Lion's tour.
The Commerce Commission is set to make its case against controversial ticket reseller Viagogo at Auckland High Court today.
Police investigating the violent death of a man in his Auckland home say they have linked two previous incidents at his address to his death.
A music camp designed to bring more women into the industry is about to start in the capital.
Auckland's Waitemata Harbour is littered with abandoned boats, with a least one pulled from the water every week.
Joseph Parker's interview about his part in the Roast Busters gang has been described as "re-traumatising victims and an example of rape culture in action". Audio
The Auckland Pride Board has ditched its Pride Parade plans and has replaced the event with a Pride Walk across the city.
Almost 25,000 motorists were asked to get their vehicle WoF rechecked late last year, but just over 4000 have done so.
"Significant" losses of cryptocurrency after a security breach at Christchurch-based trader Cryptopia are under investigation by police.
Junior hospital doctors will strike in two weeks in a bid to get better employment protection.
A flurry of late donations has enabled the Auckland City Mission to hand out hundreds of extra food parcels on the final day of its Christmas drive.
A woman who prostituted her daughter 1000 times has had her jail sentence increased.
A woman who set up a website for people to anonymously share stories of abuse five years ago says it's sad women are still being sexually harassed.
A senior woman lawyer says the industry is changing because of the Me Too movement but not for the right reasons, in the first part of a RNZ series Katie Scotcher looks at how #MeToo gained momentum…
Grace Millane's father and uncle were among hundreds of people gathered at a vigil for the slain British backpacker and other victims of violence in Auckland last night.
A former flatmate of the man accused of murdering 22-year-old British backpacker Grace Millane says she felt uncomfortable living with him and he was a prolific user of online dating sites.
The number of people hospitalised for synthetic cannabis use has almost doubled in the past two years.
Tauranga shop owners say they are relieved the city council's ban on begging has passed its final hurdle. Audio
The Tauranga City Council has narrowly passed a bylaw banning begging and rough sleeping near retail and hospitality premises.
Auckland children with severe and often extremely painful teeth problems are having to wait more than eight months for treatment - double what they should be.


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Residents of the City of Clarkson, 18 years of age and older, may submit an application for Public Art Advisory Committees.
All appointments to the Public Art Committee shall be for a two (2) year term. Members may be removed or replaced at the discretion of the Mayor or City Council, consistent with the original appointing authority.
The Public Art Advisory Committee is tasked:• Advise the Mayor, City Council, and City Manager with recommendations on the arts for approval.
• study, assess, and render advice on projects, plans, partnerships, and City programs related to art, and shall bring forth any issues or concerns to the City’s elected officials about public art
• will recommend art projects that may be implemented within the City and collect data and disseminate information on city art in other communities for further development of art initiatives
• will work to promote private-public partnerships for the benefit of art along trails, streets, and within public parts


Why RO Systems are Necessary for Industrial Uses?
The modern-day manufacturing, production and processing industries need a huge volume of water for their operational use. In most of the cases, the water needs to be free from dissolved solids, impurities and contaminants. Industries like food and beverage processing, industrial boilers and pharmaceutical industries need purified water without any impurities including chemicals in it. This is the only way they can successfully complete the production or manufacturing process. This is why it is common to see RO water filtration systems installed at the plants and production facilities. RO helps provide a steady supply of high-quality purified water to support the operations of these industrial applications. Such transformation usually happens onsite where elements like biologicals, gases, suspended soil, sediments, and dissolved solids are separated to provide high quality purified water.
RO Systems for Manufacturing Companies
A boiler-based facility that relies on steam to power the machinery or progress with the production process requires high quality water. Impure water can leave behind limescale and other deposits on the walls and surfaces of the tubes in the boiler feed water, which erodes the walls lowers performance and reduces the life of the costly turbine parts. Adding an RO water filtration system in the process ensure that there is no performance issue and helps improve life of the machinery. Even micro electrical and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies rely on pure water treated with RO process. The technical specifications of the production facility need water to be free from any impurity or bacteria. This can be achieved only with RO water filtration. Even the level of dissolved solids is as low as 10000x lower than drinking water. Such impressive level of purity can only be achieved if an RO water filter system is made a part of the production process.
Even for the food and beverage industry, a highly purified water level is conducive to production of food and drink items. From bottled water to beer production and meat processing almost every manufacturing and processing facility in the food and beverage industry relies on RO purified water. This is why RO filtration systems are absolutely necessary for optimum production at the expected quality benchmarks.
These were some reasons why industrial applications will find it difficult to manage their operations in the absence of filtered water. This is a key reason why they are opting for water filtration systems to generate purified water that can be easily used in their specific operational processes.


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Elvira Launches Kickstarter for New The Wrath of Con Comic Book
Performer Cassandra Peterson's Elvira, Mistress of the Dark persona has been a pop-culture sensation for four decades, resulting in her appearing at a number of different fan events, but Elvira looks to be putting her own spin on convention culture in the upcoming comic book The Wrath of Con, which just launched a Kickstarter campaign. Merely hours after launching, the project surpassed its goal of $6,666, yet with the variety of perks, incentives, and stretch goals available, it marks a unique opportunity to not only add the upcoming book to your collection, but also score an exclusive piece of Elvira merchandise. You can head to the book's page to contribute now.
The Kickstarter campaign describes the project, "Welcome to my newest comic book! It is a wacky and wonderful 48-page original comic written by yours cruelly with my 'Diabolical Double D' partners -- Devilish David Avallone and Dastardly Dave Acosta! Together we've created something that will get you through this San Diego-less Summer! Here's what all the hubbub is about: Haven't you always wanted to go to Comic-Con with Elvira? Elvira is the Guest of Horror, and an army of angry maniacs want her beautiful head on a platter! Join the Mistress of the Dark for a fun-filled weekend in San Diego, with all the usual stuff… loyal fans, amazing cosplay, celebrity sightings… and ritual cult murder in… Elvira: The Wrath of Con!"
It adds, "We're bringing this new comic book directly to all of Elvira's fans here on Kickstarter. The books will not be released at a lower price at any time. If there are any copies left above what sells here in the crowd funder, those may be available at a higher price to fans that discover it later on a first come first serve basis. But it will never be offered anywhere else at a better price than we are giving every incredible backer here! We want to thank you for supporting Elvira's adventures and make sure you get these rare editions at the best possible price!"
Among the various perks are CGC-graded issues of the book, Elvira trading cards, cover art lithographs, a "Spectral Switchboard," and more.
You can head to the book's page to contribute now.
Will you be contributing to the campaign? Let us know in the comments below or contact Patrick Cavanaugh directly on Twitter to talk all things Star Wars and horror!0comments

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