1. (adj.) Composed of numerous diverse elements or facets: the myriad life of the metropolis.
2. (n.) Constituting a very large, indefinite number; innumerable: the myriad of fish in the ocean.
3. (n.) Sigma Controls’ versatile controller. Can be used for a myriad of control applications
First you should read the manual you can download it here:
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1. You must have a good signal from the sensor. Usually this is a submersible level transducer. The main (startup) display shows this value.
2. The lead on and lead off points must be set so that the controller knows when to call for a pump. These are found by going to MENU 1 and then selecting SETPNTS.
3. There should be jumpers installed for the negative DC power. These are shown on the drawing in the manual. Basically you must connect all of these terminals together. CAI, 1DC, 2DC, 3DC, 4DC, and CAO.
4. Field components must be installed or jumpers must be used in their place.
* Run Feedback - Supply a +24 volts signal to 1DI and 2DI that comes on when the pumps are running. Otherwise put a jumper from V24 to 1DI and 2DI.
* Critical Alarms - Supply a +24 volts signal to 3DI and 4DI that drops out when the pumps should shutdown. Usually this is a contact from a motor starters overload relay or a over temperature sensor . Otherwise put a jumper from V24 to 3DI and 4DI.
* Auto Switch - Supply a +24 volt signal to 1AI and 2AI that comes on when the pumps are enabled to run. Usually this is a contact from a OFF / ENABLE or a HAND / OFF / AUTO switch (in the auto position). Otherwise put a jumper from V24 to 1AI and 2AI.
5. The diagnostic screen can be helpful in verifying these signals. !!INSERT DOCUMENT LINK HERE!!
o The model 6100 is the standard in wastewater. It has a large sensing surface. It is rugged and handles turbulent processes well. It should be used where solids are present in the liquid.
o The model 6200 is also has a large sensing surface but not as large as the 6100. It is a more cost effective alternative to the 6100. It should be used where solids are present in the liquid and the 6100 cannot be used because of available space.
o The model 6000 is the standard in clear wells (drinking water wells, ponds, tanks, lakes etc.). It has a 1.25” thickness. It is rugged and has a thick stainless steel body. It should be used where width is not an issue.
o The model 8000MP is for use in many submersed applications. It is very accurate and it is temperature compensated form 0 – 50 Deg C. It has a 1.00” diameter. It has a stainless steel body. It should be used where the temperature of the liquid varies or where high accuracy is desired.
o The model 5000 is a very small diameter sensor for use in water wells. It has a .690” thickness. It has a stainless steel body. It should be used where the width of the 6000 and 8000 are too large.
o The model 7000 the same as the 6000 except is made of PVC. It ha
Microprocessor based electronics. As opposed to analog circuitry. The MP units measure temperature as well as pressure. This allows the output to be kept within tolerance over a 0 – 50 Deg C range. The MP boards are capable of digital communication with other devices. Communication options must be selected when ordering.
The cable is a conduit for the four wires, but it is also an air vent for the sensor. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE END OF OUR CABLE BE IN A DRY PLACE. If water or high levels of condensation get inside this cable, the unit it will be damaged THIS IS NOT COVERED UNDER WARRENTY. As long as the cable end is in a dry place, the cable can be cut and re-connected.
We don’t use a bag. If high levels of condensation are present at the end of the cable then use our Sigma R.D.E. Rechargeable Desiccant Enclosure.
They are for digital communication with other devices. Communication options must be selected when ordering. Do not connect anything to these wires unless you have ordered communication options and you have consulted a wiring diagram for proper installation.
There are several options available depending on the model. These are the most common.
o Most of our sensors are installed by hanging the unit by its cable. Often a strain relief is used so that the cable is not crimped at the hanging point. It is not uncommon to hang a sensor 500 ft down a well with no additional support other than the cable.
o SB Option – The cable support bracket is attached to the sensor. Stainless steel cable is attached to the bracket and run along side of the submersible cable. This allows the sensor to be pulled up by the stainless steel cable. This prevents the sensor from being separated from the cable when being removed from an installation where the sensor may be restricted. SB options must be selected when ordering.
o CD Option – The conduit adapter allows the senor cable to be run inside conduit while rigidly holding the sensor in place. ½ “conduit with a male threaded end or fitting is screwed into the top of the sensor. The conduit can be mounted using standard electrical hardware. CD options must be selected when ordering.
o SO Option – The Standoff adapter allows the model 6100 to be elevated from the floor. The whole assembly can then be set on the floor of the pit. SO options must be selected when ordering
The Four-to-Twenty Milliamp Circuit is the most common way to transfer an instrumentation signal from one device to another using only two wires. 4 milliamps would usually translate to a zero value and 20 milliamps would be some full-scale value. For example, if we want to keep track of the level of water in a 16' storage tank, 4 mA would mean the tank was empty, 20 mA would be full, and each milliamp in between would translate to one foot of water. A transmitter at the tank would sense the level by pressure and translate that into the 4-20 mA instrumentation signal and send it to a gauge or a chart recorder in a control room. The circuit is commonly powered by a 24 volt DC supply.
Sigma sensors connected to user-supplied indicating and or controlling equipment.
1) Equipment does not turn on:
a) Check for proper supply voltage to the indicator / controller (120VAC, 240VAC, or other).
b) Check fuses, if any.
c) Check Wiring terminations.
2) Equipment operates, but no level is indicated, or indicated level is totally incorrect:--
a) Check polarity of sensor leads, red to positive terminal, black to negative.
b) Test for DC voltage across sensor lead connections; minimum 13VDC, nominal 24VDC, maximum 45VDC.
c) Determine input signal required by equipment. 4-20MA, 1-5VDC, 1-10VDC?
d) Lift sensor several feet in well. Does the indicated level change?
Yes: Equipment not calibrated for the range of 4-20MA output of the sensor. Check sensor calibration sheet supplied with manual. Recalibrate equipment.
No: Possible wiring errors, see Manual open surge protector, damaged sensor.
3) Equipment works, but indicated level is incorrect, (major or minor error).
a) Level indication changes when cable pulled to raise and lower sensor, and calibration is correct. Sensor is not at required depth; or level is not anticipated height.
b) Pulling cable up to raise, then lower, sensor does not affect indication. Sensor probably hung-up and not completely down well; continue pulling the cable out until sensor is freed. Re-lower sensor to proper depth.
Yes, Sigma Controls has manufactured custom and standard control panels since 1985. From conceptual design to finished product, Sigma Controls can handle the smallest to the largest control panel project. Utilizing our own microprocessor based controller (Myriad Series) any industrial programmable controller (PLC) or simple relay logic, a control panel can be fabricated to meet the specific job requirements. All Sigma control panels are designed to meet all applicable national and local standards NEC, FPA, and NEMA. We are a UL508A certified facility and can certify any panel as a listed, serialized UL assembly.
All Sigma Controls, Inc. products are warranted to be free from defective materials and workmanship for one (1) year from date of shipment. Sigma reserves the right to repair or replace at its option any product found to be defective. In no event shall Sigma Controls, Inc. be liable for any consequential, incidental, or special damages and the limit of its liability shall not exceed the purchase price of the supplied equipment.
SENSORS AND CABLE THAT HAVE BEEN USED IN WASTE WATER OR HAZARDOUS LIQUIDS MUST BE THOROUGHLY CLEANED BEFORE RETURNING. UNITS RETURNED UNCLEANED WILL BE CONSIDERED UNREPAIRABLE AND RETURNED TO SENDER OR DISCARDED. NOTE: DO NOT SUBMERGE UNITS FOR CLEANING WITH CABLE CUT OR REMOVED. THIS WILL ALLOW CLEANING FLUID TO ENTER HOUSING, DAMAGING ELECTRONICS AND VOIDING THE WARRANTY.
If there is a representative in your area you should call them first. Otherwise we can accept direct orders.
Yes, we can take major credit card orders over the phone or you can buy directly from our online store
Most of our customer contact people can be emailed by using their first name then @sigmacontrols.com. For example; email@example.com
See the contacts page for a list of names http://www.sigmacontrols.com/contact.htm.
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City of Pasadena Temporarily Modifies Parking Policy
PASADENA, Calif.— In light of the current COVID-19 Pandemic, the Parking Division of the Department of Transportation is implementing the following temporary modifications to parking policy in an effort to reduce the financial burden on residents and local businesses:
- Suspension of enforcement of the overnight parking ordinance.
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- Suspension of daytime street sweeping restrictions.
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- Driveway blocks (by complaint only).
- Preferential parking districts, with the exception of the T-District (by complaint only).
- 72 hour parking violations (by complaint only, citations only, no impounds)
- Emergency access and public safety violations, including, but not limited to: parking in alleyways, blocking fire hydrants, and parking in fire lanes
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Additional measures will be considered as the situation evolves.
For further information please call 626-744-7665 or e-mail email@example.com
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In recent years, we at BTI have made it a Christmastime tradition to help local families in need, by holding an inter-office food drive in support of the local food bank, Eden Food For Change. Some of us would spend a lunch hour and take a trip to the grocery store, and fill up our baskets with non-perishables (the usual would be canned goods, rice, pasta and some cleaning products).
These food drives helped a lot of people in our community and gave us a proud feeling that we were making a difference.
But, this year we learned something different.
We learned we could be doing more.
Eden Food for Change was more than just a “food bank”. In addition to providing their members with the food they need, they also offer educational support on nutritious food preparation and healthy living, and put a focus on providing not just food, but Good Food For All.
They were receiving more than enough non-perishable foods through generous donations, but what they really wanted to provide were more nutritious fresh foods like vegetables, milk, and meat.
In order to provide food to their members, what Eden needed was money.
With monetary donations, they could
a) provide more food,
b) provide better and fresher foods,
c) help fund the educational programs that were so beneficial to the healthy lifestyles of their members.
For Eden’s annual Hunger Awareness campaign, they approached BTI with the challenge of increasing the amount of financial donations and fresh food donations. This would require a shift in the mindset of potential donors about the way they were donating.
Working closely with the Eden team, BTI developed the “Think Outside the Can” campaign which aimed to educate individual and corporate donors about the advantages of financial donations.
The campaign was launched to a receptive crowd at their annual breakfast event, and, with the help of generous donors and corporations, exceeded financial donation targets. This helped generate a significant increase in fresh food donations compared to previous years.
We are happy to have played a part in changing the way people donate to food banks, and helping Eden in their ongoing mission of providing Good Food For All.
Check out the video to see how we helped Eden reach their goals!
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When I was 17 or so, I started going to a physical therapist for my scoliosis. Unlike the typical physical therapist, Analea McGarey held her appointments in her house that was situated on a rising hillside in Glen Ellen. You had to cross a bridge to get there, over the wooded Sonoma Creek, and loop up a steep hill where you'd park by her overgrown garden and enter where the cats stood licking their paws in welcome. Her house always smelled like lavender and multivitamins.
Aside from being a remarkable therapist and the woman who was greatly responsible for the majority of my back healing, she was also a great source of advice on how to exist in the world.
One appointment, when were were sharing our joint anxieties about our futures (I was in my late teens and she was in her mid-40's) she told me that her new routine was to wake up every morning and say, "Today, I will love myself." We laughed at how obvious it was, and yet how hard it was to do. Shortly after my appointment, I vowed to do the same thing. I'd start every day, I promised, with "Today, I will love myself."
When she died of cancer in 2007, I remember thinking, "Well, f*ck it. What good is loving yourself if you're just going to die anyway." Because that's how I looked at death back then. "She died anyway," was my initial thought. Then, of course, after I recovered from losing her, I went back to saying it and, this time, I kept in the back of my mind, "because I will die anyway." And we will, won't we?
This is a long introduction to the poem that just recently came out in The New York Times T Magazine. The poem is about that choice to love yourself, even when all the outside world (or maybe just your inside voice) says you shouldn't. I don't know why its publication made me think of Analea, but it did and she's always worthy of honoring. And today, like most days, I try to love myself.
You can read the poem and hear my read it here. It's paired with a beautiful piece by the artist, Pae White. Many thanks to the editor, Meghan O'Rourke for publishing the poem.

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Former Thomas Cook workers are staging protests in Westminster on Wednesday amid claims they were "abandoned" by the Government.
They will hand in petitions to 10 Downing Street and the Business Department, calling for a full inquiry into the travel giant's collapse and for the company's directors to pay back their bonuses.
The workers will also call on Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom to make sure they receive their unpaid wages.
They were not paid their monthly wages on Monday, and many are now having problems with rent and mortgage payments, according to the Unite union.
Assistant general secretary Diana Holland said: "Unite is pleased to be supporting the lobby and protest in Parliament that has been organised by Thomas Cook workers who lost their jobs without warning.
"The fact that workers are coming to Parliament from all parts of the UK demonstrates just how angry workers are with the Government, which they rightly believe has abandoned them.
"This week, workers have been left with no income as their wages were not paid.
"Workers do not understand how the profitable Thomas Cook airline was allowed to collapse while the European subsidiaries were able to continue to fly.
"The very least the Thomas Cook workers deserve is to receive an answer to the question as to why the company was allowed to collapse, as well as an explanation from the Government as to its lack of action in the lead-up."


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From day to day
Day 1 - Arrival in Barcelona and transfer to the hotel.
Day 2 - Flight from Barcelona to Split (2 hrs) and transfer to the hotel in Zadar.
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The package includes:
- round-trip air transportation for passenger and bicycle with Air Transat, as well as transfer between airport and hotel;
- 14 nights in three or four star hotels and private houses, (double occupancy);
- 14 breakfasts and 5 evening meals;
- domestic flights with Croatia Airlines (outbound, from Barcelona to Split; inbound, from Dubrovnik to Barcelona);
- bus and ferry transfers;
- baggage transportation (one bag per person, 20-kg maximum);
- mechanical assistance and access to a relief vehicle;
- daily route plans;
- taxes and the $1 contribution per $1,000 of services purchased to the Compensation Fund for Customers of Travel Agents.
Equipment (e.g., bicycle) is not included.
Start/Finish: Montréal-Trudeau/Barcelona > Barcelona/Montréal-Trudeau
From 12 to 15 cyclists, accompanied by our guide.
Price of land portion of trip (taxes included): price to be announed
Package excluding air transportation for passenger and bicycle.

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Auto glass retailers in Hutchinson, Kan., are seeing an upswing in business after hail the size “of grapefruit” hit the area Tuesday, according to local reports.
“We are seeing severe damage,” says Brenda Pennick of Kansas Glass in Hutchinson, Kan. “We’re getting a lot of calls.”
The increased demand due to the storm is helping business, she adds. The company has been open during extended hours to serve customers.
“We started at 7 a.m. yesterday and didn’t end until 10 p.m. We’re mainly seeing windshields and sidelites,” Pennick says.
A customer service representative at Mobile Services Auto Glass, in Hutchinson, Kan., did not have time to say more than “we’re swamped with work.”
At a Novus franchise in Hutchinson, Kan., a customer service represented reported growth in business.
“We’re working normal business hours, but we’ve seen more business,” she says.

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Late September 1994
Memoir ~ #ReasonsISpeak
I am a #StigmaFighter
My nights are incomprehensibly long without reprieve. Yesterday I called upon another temporary suicide; their numbers are ever increasing, and my ability to continue; weakening. The day is coming, I feel, when I will commit permanent suicide my friends. I find less and less solace in such a temporary state. “If only,” I whisper, “that I could find peace.”
When committing a temporary suicide I am unreachable. I do not hear the phone, the door, not even the incessant bark of my dog. Nothing exists. I neither dream nor sleep. I neither scream nor weep. It is as if I, myself, cease to exist.
I neither dream nor sleep.
I neither scream nor weep.
First, my head lays limp on the pillow. My eyes darken and blur. Feeling leaves my extremities, and the voices I feel inside me stop. It is an indescribable point of no return. Something pulls at me in those last few conscious moments; though I care not what, because in the next moment I reach oblivion.
The unfortunate always occurs like clockwork. I come back.
I come back from my sabbatical, and life throws itself into me, and I become lazily conscious. My rage-filled eyes burn into bright red screams as they open slightly; seeing the day. My body is burdened heavily with weight unseen. Precious oblivion is over. I feel the touch of clothe against me. I feel the unusually disconcerting tightness of my skin; caused from dried blood.
It is yet another beginning. A re-birth unwelcomed, but even though I tread dangerously close to death, my fear of it haunts me. So, I retreat and stumble my way through yet another day.
TRACE the past.
It is always there, waiting.
The darkness erodes logic.
It is Friday of a particularly grueling week. Alcohol has lingered with me all week. I managed through, day after day, calling on my temporary suicides to bail me out of my overwhelmed self. But, I am tired. I am exhausted. I am drained of all sense of reason, and as I step into my cave I know the time has arrived that I willfully have prepared for and have just been patiently waiting for my exhaustion to reach out of me. And, I know.
I know by the difficulty I have unlocking my door. Fumbling and shaking, it is surreal, and life begins to play out, in slow motion.
Once inside I don’t even notice that I failed to lock my door. I have my instructions, and I have prepared well. There is nothing left for me; no hope, not light, no desire, and no will. No compassion and no empathy left within. It is the end.
So, I go to my cabinet and pull down all my stash of medication and over the counter pharmaceuticals and line them up on the floor by my futon. I take my family size bottle of rum out of its hiding place and place it on the floor also.
I am beyond all sense of right or wrong. I do not care about anything but the alcohol and the pills. I linger momentarily in the fantasy of what I am about to do. I have written no letters of sorrowful goodbyes. I have made no calls with morose messages of despair. I do not care.
Slowly and methodically I take twenty pills with one glass of rum every fifteen to thirty minutes. Time quickly becomes irrelevant and at some point I reach oblivion without even noticing.
There are no exotic thoughts of success, no white light stories, no sense whatsoever; other than I woke up in my own puke on a hospital gurney with rage; rage immediately pounding inside me to take action.
My intent evaded success. I was alive and miraculously so. I closed my eyes and lay there motionless as a lifeless pathetic soul. All I had done had merely brought depression to a new low. I was utterly hollow, yet gravity weighed heavy on my bones. I couldn’t move. All I could do was to shut my eyes and begin to cry. The tears streamed down like ribbons. Tears dripped down the side of my face soiling the pillow that held my head.
To this day I have never known exhaustion as I did in that moment. I did not care if energy ever recovered itself. Why? because within myself, I had wanted out.
Soon, I recognized a sense of touch on my shoulder, and yet I could not answer its call. The hand of a stranger or possibly someone else attempting to gently awaken my state of being. My exhaustive state precluded control over myself, but I must have made a movement, for I do hear a voice saying that I am able to be awakened and that this was a good sign. Not for me! I, myself, ME, Connie, without question; wanted to die.
I wanted to die.
I have never been more miserable. I had no choice but admit defeat. My behavior, appearing erratic and crazy to some, only served to infuriate others. I do not remember much of anything else of the situation until I woke up in a strange bed, in a strange place, that I knew I have never been before.
At first, I questioned my humanity and glimpsed a moment of peace in believing, maybe, I were dead. However, it was not to be. I remember the scene change. Feeling completely void of life; yet breathing. I managed to sit up; put my feet on the ground and sighed; as if it were a mighty feat.
I stood up and waffled my way to the doorway. I managed just well enough to stand in the doorway, upright. My mind was not able to record or process what I saw. I must have been staring loudly, for it was not long that a woman called my name, and made some sort of comment to the fact that I was awake, and again, that it was a good thing.
She explained that I was in a psychiatric hospital and that I would probably only be there for a few days. As it was to be, I was there, as an inpatient, for six weeks before being discharged to day treatment. Freshly DID with a journey onward walking.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) – Another 157 COVID vaccination sites, including one new regional site at Baptist Health LaGrange, opened Thursday, bringing the state’s total number of vaccination locations to 567.
But the big focus Thursday remained on flooding in many counties, highlighted by a dramatic rockslide behind the city garage in Paintsville.
“This means that vaccine locations are getting closer and closer to you. This is the infrastructure we have to build,” said Beshear. “The President told us earlier this week that every American adult who wants a shot can get their shot of hope by the end of May. That means that if we can get everybody interested, we’re going to vaccinate another 2.5 million people in the next three months.”
New locations also include 10 Kroger sites, 10 Walmart sites and 136 independent pharmacies. To see lists of all sites, organized by program and provider brand, visit vaccine.ky.gov or kycovid19.ky.gov/ky-covid-vaccine.
Among other things, the state has opened a flood damage hotline — 800-451-1954 — that residents can call to get a variety of assistance, from volunteers to help clean flood-damaged property to water and financial help.
“It’s our most important mission all month,” Beshear said of the clean up and recovery work that lies ahead.
Rocky Adkins, senior adviser to the governor and an Eastern Kentucky native, punctuated the extent of the flood damage by showing a video of the slide in Paintsville, which wiped out cars, trucks and everything else that was sitting on what once was level ground.
The state is seeking an emergency declaration from the federal government and financial assistance, including help for individual property owners.
State leaders implored flood victims to keep detailed records and take pictures of the damage and repairs to help the state make its case.
Federal inspectors will be in the state starting Monday to assess damage from the recent ice storms and to start the process of reviewing the flooding, including damage to homes and businesses.
Kentucky Division of Emergency Management Director Michael Dossett updated Kentuckians on the response to major floods across the commonwealth.
Twenty cities and 44 counties have declared a state of emergency. Over 194 county roads closed due to flooding. Three counties have reported power outages: Breathitt, Jackson and Owsley. Lee and Owsley counties each have one shelter open; Breathitt County has two.
Sixty-one National Guardsmen continue to help in Powell, Owsley, Breathitt, Lee, Martin, Johnson, Lawrence and Pike counties.
“Fortunately, no fatalities have been reported due to flooding this week,” said Director Dossett. “But the damage is significant. Lee County’s downtown business district was submerged in approximately six feet of water. Several manufactured homes as well as single family dwellings have been destroyed. Lee County Courthouse has suffered a major loss and other state and local government offices have been impacted. In Breathitt County, there was 5.48 inches of total rainfall, and some residents are still blocked in by water. We are still monitoring the breach at the dam that sits under Kentucky Highway 15 in Jackson and connects to Panbowl Lake, but the sand bag patch is holding, and Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, Division of Water Dam Inspector, Marilyn Thomas, has declared the dam is safe.”
“I just want people across Kentucky to know you’re not forgotten – we’re here every step of the way to try to bring relief to this devastation that’s happened to you and your communities, your homes and personal property, and to try to do everything we can to help with that recovery as we move forward,” said Adkins.
Adkins described the two federal disaster declarations: one for ice storm damage and one for flooding damage.
“For you homeowners and those of you who have had personal property damage, as well as road crews and local leaders – document the damage, take pictures,” said Adkins. “Make sure that’s part of our information we send into Washington D.C. for those declarations. We need a full application that will go in for approval to come back and bring relief to our people who are hurting so bad.
“Folks, my heart hurts to see our people suffer and I know the governor’s heart hurts to see our people suffer. But I can assure you that you have not been forgotten, we are working hard every day that we have our eyes open trying to make sure we are concentrating on the needs of the people of Kentucky especially those who are suffering so much right now
“We’re going to work hard, we’re going to make it right, we’re going to do everything that we can. If you see information on social media help us correct it. We can’t file for a federal declaration tomorrow, we have to get the information first,” Atkins concluded.
As of 4 p.m. Thursday, March 4, the state reported the following COVID-19 numbers:
New cases today: 1,068
New deaths today: 28
Positivity rate: 4.45%, the lowest since Oct. 12
Total deaths: 4,732
Currently hospitalized: 645
Currently in ICU: 172
Currently on ventilator: 91
Top counties with the most positive cases today are: Jefferson, Lyon, Fayette, Boone and Caldwell. Each county reported at least 45 new cases.
To see a list of those reported lost to the virus today, click here.
Today’s positivity rate is the lowest since Oct. 12.
Kentucky’s COVID-19 Vaccine Website, vaccine.ky.gov, shows Kentuckians which phase they are in specifically. Individuals can sign up for notifications so state officials can communicate with them when doses become available at new and existing sites. Vaccine.ky.gov also lists regional vaccination partners statewide, so Kentuckians can search their county or region and see how to schedule an appointment.
Kentucky’s COVID-19 Vaccine Hotline, 855-598-2246, has the same features as the website. Kentuckians can get assistance completing the vaccine eligibility questionnaire and scheduling an appointment when doses are available.
Free or reduced-cost transportation to and from vaccine appointments is offered by public transit agencies across the commonwealth. These services are already operating in over 90 counties, covering 75% of all counties across Kentucky. Kentuckians can find transportation services near them by heading to kycovid19.ky.gov for a full list of participating public transit agencies and their phone numbers, or by calling the Kentucky COVID-19 Vaccine Hotline.
To view the full daily report, incidence rate map, information on testing locations, vaccines, contact tracing, school reports and guidance, guidance for health care providers and the White House Coronavirus Task Force reports for Kentucky and more, visit kycovid19.ky.gov.


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POSITION: Enrollment Program Coordinator
STATUS: Non-Exempt; Full time
REPORTS TO: Member and Community Service Unit Manager
SUPERVISES: Enrollment Workers
DEPARTMENT: Member and Community Service Unit
OFFICIAL DUTY STATION: 50% LFHC Center and 50% ERHC
Under the direction of the Member and Community Service Unit Manager, Enrollment Program Coordinator (Enrollment PC) is responsible for supervising Enrollment Workers (EWs) for the Member and Community Service Unit (MCS Unit). The Enrollment PC assures that APHCV optimally enrolls and retains patients and community members in health insurance and subsidy health programs as defined by Member and Community Service Unit Manager (MCS Manager). Enrollment PC keeps EWs focused on meeting productivity targets while successfully enrolling and anchoring patients as appropriate. Enrollment PC and EWs are responsible for the entire Enrollment Services that are provided at various APHCV service locations in terms of quality, standard, and performance and implementation of policies and procedures.
APHCV expects all employees to respond and participate to emergency situation per emergency policies and procedures.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Supervision of Enrollment Workers. Performs supervisory duties including:
a. Sets productivity and quality goals for EWs.
b. Monitors day to day EWs performance, patients and clients flow and their satisfaction, and implements workflow improvement ideas.
c. Monitor EWs schedules to ensure coverage and continuity of Unit Services.
d. Develops and revise workflows/procedures related to operation of enrollment services at all sites that facilitates EWs achieving successful enrollment, retention of eligibility and retention of patients, and ensure they meet productivity targets.
e. Provides or coordinate on-going training for new and existing EWs regarding the Unit goals, program activities, performance expectation, policies and procedures for the program and APHCV.
f. Provides performance feedback to EWs in an on-going manner; and annual performance evaluation.
g. Collects and reviews EWs productivity reports and provides overall analysis and action plan and provide quality and productivity report to Member and Community Service Unit Manager.
h. Promote professionalism, accountability and initiative to EWs by providing trainings and coaching and being a role model.
i. Provides day to day interface and consistent communication with other departments for maximum efficiency for all health center operations.
j. Conducts huddles and periodic meetings with EWs as part of ongoing communication and team building efforts.
2. Member Services
a. Work with Managed Care Program Assistant to ensure EWs complete Initial Health Assessment (IHA) and IPA related phone calls.
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a. Assume a liaison role between APHCV and appropriate community including businesses, temples, cultural centers, service organizations, schools, and other community institutions.
b. Provide outreach productivity report to the MCS Manager.
4. Contract Management
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6. Conduct internal audit to ensure that all enrollment documentation is properly and accurately filed and provide findings and recommendation to Member and Community Service Unit Manager and other relevant staff.
7. Various other duties as assigned by Member and Community Service Unit Manager.
8. Participate in APHCV in-service and meetings.
9. Demonstrate awareness and compliance of the corporate and organizational mission and objective of APHCV.
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Erstmals seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskrieges gegen die Ukraine hat wieder ein Schiff mit Getreide den Hafen von Odessa verlassen. Das mit Mais beladene Frachtschiff „Razoni“ sei Montag früh in Richtung Libanon aufgebrochen, meldete der Sender CNN Türk unter Berufung auf das türkische Verteidigungsministerium. Weitere Schiffen sollen folgen.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed striking targets in the major Ukrainian port of Odessa on Saturday, revealing that its missiles hit military infrastructure and arms stockpiles.
Nach einem Dementi hat sich Russland nun doch zum Angriff auf den Hafen von Odessa bekannt. Man habe auf „militärische Infrastruktur“ gezielt, teilte das russische Außenministerium heute mit. Der Angriff erfolgte gestern wenige Stunden nachdem die Kriegsparteien ein Abkommen zur Ermöglichung von Getreideexporten geschlossen hatten, das Angriffe auf Häfen untersagt.
Moscow has so far remained silent on the latest claims from Kiev.
Air raid warnings rang at about 11 a.m. with the sounds of explosions echoing across the city. The military’s southern command reported no casualties. It said air defense systems shot down two other missiles in the attack, which the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine described as “outrageous.”
The strike threatens an agreement that diplomats had hailed less than 24 hours earlier as a breakthrough after months of negotiations.
While not all details of the agreement have been revealed, shipments from Ukrainian ports will begin in full in a couple of weeks, according to the UN. The ports will reportedly not be fully demined and the Ukrainian Navy and Coast Guard captains will be allowed to escort ships avoiding mined waters. Officials from Russia and other countries are expected to inspect the shipments to ensure no weapons are smuggled.
The initiative for the safe transportation of grain and food products from Ukrainian ports, the documents on which were signed on Friday in Istanbul, must be fully implemented, UN Secretary General António Guterres said during the signing of the documents.
– Russia and Ukraine sent defence and infrastructure ministers to Istanbul, Turkey
– They signed the landmark deal alongside U.N. gen sec and Turkish president
– The accord opens the way to significant volumes of vital commercial food exports from three key Ukrainian ports – Odesa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny
– Russia had been blockading the ports, preventing essential grain from leaving
– The deal, seen by many as the first breakthrough in the conflict, comes after almost six months of war
Ukraine and Russia, two neighboring countries in war since February, have signed two historic deals with Türkiye and the U.N. for the creation of a secure food corridor through the Black Sea under a comprehensive plan, dubbed the Black Sea Initiative, that would prevent a major global food crisis.
Ukraine and Russia signed two memorandums of understanding with Türkiye and the U.N. on July 22 to begin exporting their grains and other food products.
Andrey Paliy, the deputy commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, is the sixth top military figure to die during the invasion of Ukraine, after he was killed in battle around Mariupol.
The F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft arrived from the Aviano Air Base, Italy, which was employed for NATO’s bombing campaigns in Bosnia and Kosovo, and airmen from the 435th Combat Training Squadron and the 4th Combat Training Squadron deployed from Ramstein, Germany where both U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa and NATO Allied Air Command have their headquarters. The latter two share a commander, as do NATO as a whole (Supreme Allied Commander Europe) and U.S. European Command and U.S. Naval Forces in Europe and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO.
Nach Angaben des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums hatte das britische Marineschiff um 11:52 Uhr Ortszeit die russische Grenze überquert und fuhr drei Kilometer weit in die Küstengewässer am Kap Fiolent auf der Krim. Die Halbinsel wird vom Vereinigten Königreich nicht als russisches Land anerkannt und für „illegal besetztes ukrainisches Gebiet“ gehalten.
Der Zerstörer wurde im Voraus über den eventuellen Einsatz von Waffen im Falle einer Verletzung der russischen Staatsgrenze unterrichtet. Eine Reaktion auf die Warnung blieb jedoch aus.
Das russische Verteidigungsministerium sprach von einer Verletzung russischer Hoheitsgewässer durch einen britischen Zerstörer und Warnschüssen. London dagegen wies diese Darstellung zurück: Die „HMS Defender“ sei lediglich auf einer „friedlichen Durchfahrt durch ukrainische Gewässer“ gewesen.
Our correspondent, who had been invited aboard the ship before the incident happened, describes more than 20 aircraft in the skies above the British ship – and says two Russian coastguard boats shadowed the vessel, at times just 100 yards away.
Russia claims the illegally-annexed peninsula and its waters are its territory, but Britain says its ship was passing through Ukrainian waters.
The feature mentioned that U.S. Navy routinely operates in the Black Sea, crisis or no crisis, but that dispatching additional warships to the sea would “send a specific message to Moscow that the US is closely watching.”
In der Erklärung bekennen sich die Unterzeichner zum Vertrag von Montreux, der die Durchfahrt durch den Bosporus und die Dardanellen – also die Meerengen zwischen Schwarzem Meer und Mittelmeer – regelt.
Top Turkish officials on Sunday lashed out at an open letter signed by more than 100 retired admirals warning about a possible threat to a treaty governing the use of Turkey’s key waterways.
Turkey’s approval last month of plans to develop a shipping canal in Istanbul comparable to the Panama or Suez canals has opened up debate about the 1936 Montreux Convention.
„The Black Sea region is of strategic importance to NATO and to all Allies … We work closely with our valued partners, Georgia and Ukraine. Therefore, NATO maintains a significant presence in the Black Sea region and will work more closely with Ukraine and Georgia,“ Stoltenberg said during a press conference on Monday.
U.S. Navy ships regularly patrol in these waters in support of their NATO allies Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania and partners Ukraine and Georgia.
Turkey’s drillship Kanuni sailed from Istanbul on Friday to the Black Sea to start its first mission, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Donmez announced.
The frigate participated, starting on Oct. 27, in a NATO mission to monitor the naval traffic in the eastern Mediterranean, a mission that would end on Dec. 7.
In Novorossiysk, the delegations of the Russian Navy and the Navy of the Arab Republic of Egypt held a three-day conference on preparing and holding the joint exercise Bridge of Friendship -2020.
Selling a port of strategic importance to US companies, coupled with the availability of the facility for US and NATO troops, is raising many questions in Greece. The Mediterranean country remains only one in two countries surveyed in NATO where the civilian population is not in favor of the alliance and only 36% of Greeks view the US favorably
Der Verkauf von Häfen ist aus Gründen der nationalen Sicherheit und Souveränität äußerst riskant. Die Privatisierung von Häfen bedeutet die Deregulierung von Staatseigentum und die Übertragung aller Funktionen und Transaktionen auf den privaten Sektor anstelle der staatlichen Sicherheit. Was wird geschehen, wenn ein ausländischer Investor wie die USA in die Verwaltung der Häfen in der Ägäis eingebunden wird, die eine unersetzliche Rolle für die Grenze und die nationale Verteidigung Griechenlands spielt, insbesondere in einer Zeit, in der die Türkei ihre Kriegsrhetorik gegen Griechenland verstärkt?
“We’ve been continuing to look forward now that we’ve gained some confidence that we can train large-scale, collective [military exercises] in this environment,” Bernabe said. “We’ve been looking further and further forward. As we speak, we’re planning exercise Defender Europe 2021, to take place in the late spring, early summer of 2021, focused in the Black Sea and Balkans.”
Georgian Coast Guard vessels “Ochamchire” and “Dioskuria” and the Italian flagship ITS VIRGINIO FASAN, Canadian HMCS FREDERICTON, Bulgarian BGS VERNI, Romanian ROS REGINA MARIA and the Turkish TCG SALIHREIS participated in the joint naval exercise training.
The U.S. has transferred two Island-class patrol boats to Ukraine and plans to send three more to help boost the country’s navy, which is heavily outgunned by Russian forces.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) began its southbound transit from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, Aug. 18, 2019, after a scheduled port visit to Golcuk, Turkey, and conducting maritime security operations in the region.
The Syrian government has two big oil-producing friends, Iran and Russia. With the routes from the first apparently closed, it may have to turn to the second. This presents a new host of potential risks. Impounding an Iranian ship in the Strait of Gibraltar is one thing. Stopping a Russian ship in the Aegean Sea is quite another.
It seized documents and questioned the crew. The ten сrew members — all Russians — on the small oil-products carrier were later released, though the ship will remain, the Russian embassy in Kiev said, according to RIA Novosti. Ukrainian officials couldn’t immediately be reached to comment on that.
Over 2,000 forces and 27 ships are taking part in exercise Breeze 2019 in the Black Sea. The Bulgarian-led maritime exercise, which began on 12 July, involves forces from 12 NATO Allies – Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States.
The military exercise will last until July 21. The military headquarters based in Varna has named the zones of the military exercise in the Bulgarian aquatory and the exclusive economic zone of the Black Sea.
Twelve allied countries participate at the exercise with 27 warships and cutters, 5 planes and 6 helicopters. A total of 2,257 military men from Bulgaria, Albania, Belgium, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Canada, Poland, Romania, the USA, Turkey and France, as well as the Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) and the Standing NATO Countermeasures Group Two (SNMCMG2) participate at Breeze 2019 military exercise, BNR reported.
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Death Cab for Cutie performed a sensational set of new and older songs in front of a packed crowd last Saturday night at the Santa Barbara Bowl. The Bellingham, Washington-based four-piece is touring in support of their latest album, Codes and Keys.
The band started with a bass-heavy, throbbing rendition of “I Will Possess Your Heart” and plowed through an hour and a half of kinetic tracks from more than 10 years’ worth of albums, including older numbers like “Photobooth” and newer songs like “Codes and Keys.” One of the band’s most commercially successful hits, “The Sound of Settling,” from 2003’s Transatlanticism, had the audience on their feet — bouncing, swaying, and clapping along to the prerecorded version of the song’s hand-clap noises. Lead singer Ben Gibbard egged the crowd on, clapping in unison and appearing giddy with the post-adolescent nostalgia the songs invoked.
The bubblegum pop sounds of “Photobooth” were starkly contrasted with haunting renditions of “What Sarah Said” and “You Are a Tourist.” The show closed with “Transatlanticism,” which had audience members waving their arms back and forth in the air, holding up lighters and illuminated cell phone screens in a trance-like state.
Critics have described Death Cab’s genre as “alternative rock,” “emo,” and “indie” — but judging from the smiling, eager, and enthusiastic faces of Saturday night’s crowd, there is plenty of room for all labels when it comes to this band’s multifaceted repertoire.


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LOS ANGELES — Rare’s games come back as a collection called Rare Replay, releasing on Xbox One on Aug. 4.
Announced this morning at Microsoft’s E3 2015 press conference, this collection of games such as Banjo-Kazooie, Kameo, Killer Instinct, Viva Piñata, Battletoads, and Perfect Dark are part of this Xbox One exclusive. The British developer used to be a second party studio for Nintendo, but Microsoft acquired the company in 2002. This release makes use of the company’s back catalog of fan favorites.
The company also announced a new adventure game for Xbox One, titled Sea of Thieves.
Gamers and press speculated about older Rare games coming to the Xbox One when the recent indie hit Shovel Knight appeared on Xbox Live with Battletoads boss characters. Battletoads is the famous (infamous) Rare game for NES that’s gone down as one of the most difficult experiences in the industry’s history.
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Vice-Chancellors Conference: KEMU announces establishing robotic centre
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The King Edward Medical University (KEMU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Mahmood Ayyaz announced to the establishment of a robotic centre in his University and Mayo Hospital in near future.
He addressed the 3-day Punjab Universities Vice Chancellors Conference on "Paradigm Shift in Higher Education-Hackton Planning for Feature held in Murree.
Governor Punjab Muhammad Balighur Rehman attended the conference while vice-chancellors of different universities from Punjab also participated in various educational and research sessions.
Prof Mahmood Ayyaz said the establishment of the robotic centre in KEMU will give benefit the ailing humanity and also the trainee doctors.
He also shed light on the ongoing Educational, Research and Development Projects in the University.
Higher Education Commission (HEC) Prof Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, Chairman Punjab Higher Education Commission Prof Dr Shahid Munir, Conference host, Vice Chancellor Kohsar University Dr Syed Habib Bukhari also addressed the inaugural session.
Education experts offered suggestions based on their experiences to meet the global challenges facing higher education and improve the quality of education.
Ex-Vice Chancellor of KEMU Prof Khalid Masood Gondal told about the establishment of the telemedicine centre and its excellent work.
On this occasion, Punjab Governor Muhammad Balighur Rehman gave a shield to Vice Chancellor King Edward Medical University Prof Mahmood Ayyaz.

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Ikea Will Launch Their 1st Mall In Noida; Will Invest Rs 5500 Crore To Launch 3 Outlets In These Cities
IKEA is a Swedish multinational company, founded in Sweden in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances and home accessories, among other useful goods and occasionally home services. It also happens to be the world’s largest furniture retailer since 2008.
With over 400 stores worldwide, IKEA sells affordable household items to millions of customers.
New Mall In Noida
It is in our story today as soon, we shall see an IKEA shopping centre in in the city of Noida on the outskirts of Delhi after the furniture giant revealed that it has bought a 48,000-square-metre plot for its shopping centres business, which happens to be world’s largest.
In 2018, IKEA opened its first store in Hyderabad, following which it said that it would develop the new site into a mall anchored by an IKEA store in Mumbai in 2020.
Ingka Centres has 45 IKEA store-anchored malls across Europe, Russia and China. It has planned to invest nearly Rs 5,500 crore ($759 million) in the Noida project. Also, it plans to enter the United States in 2021.
In an email statement it said that a more detailed plan of the project shall be revealed in near future. In the coming years, across its existing markets the United States, Ingka Centres plans to enter around 45 large cities.
After the restrictions which prohibited malls and stores to run due to COVID-19, month of October saw visitors returning quickly to its malls. Ingka Group, which owns Ingka Centres, also owns most IKEA stores worldwide.
In the presence of CM of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, a MoU with IKEA was signed virtually. A 50,000 square meters of land in Noida has been provided by state government to IKEA, which shall in turn build one of its biggest outlets.
Affordability & Accessibility For Indians
IKEA entered the Indian market with a crystal clear strategy of providing Affordability & Accessibility. They wanted to offer an aesthetic experience at the lowest price possible.
For what will be the IKEA’s first ‘meeting place’ with a shopping, entertainment and business centre, the UP government allotted 12.3 acres in the city.
Noida Authority CEO Ritu Maheshwari said that this project would be of great economic significance as it shall create opportunity of trade and employment. It shall create jobs for 2,000 persons. The company will sell its products online as well as open franchises and showrooms in different cities according to experts.


Ana Quincoces' time on The Real Housewives of Miami was brief, but her vacation time down in the Florida Keys was cut even shorter. First by cockroaches and then by the law.
Quincoces had a suspended driver's license but continued to drive freely. Apparently she's been spending a lot of time down in the Keys, because Monroe County Sheriff's Deputies had previously informed her of her license status and that she shouldn't be driving. In fact, back on February 9, Deputy Bryan Cross had responded to a disturbance call in Key Largo and encountered Quincoces, according to the arrest report. Cross and a fellow deputy at the time informed her that her license was suspended, seized it, and told her not to drive.
Fast-forward to this past Sunday. Deputy Cross was doing a security check near Mile Marker 99 of U.S. 1 at 3:40 a.m. when he noticed a familiar Subaru SUV driving down the road. He recognized it as Quincoces' vehicle and pulled her over.
Quincoces had still not fixed her license situation, and Cross asked her why she was driving when she had previously been told not to. Quincoces had no excuse and was arrested on misdemeanor charges and taken to a jail on Plantation Key for a few hours.
However, according to Keys Info, Quincoces now has an excuse. She says she was staying in a home that had been listed by a realtor friend of hers, but found that the home was full of cockroaches. She said she just wanted to return home and didn't know she had a suspended license.
The grand irony of Quincoces' apparent inability to understand basic law regarding driver's license suspension is that she is indeed a lawyer by trade. She's also a cookbook author and "chef," but who isn't these days?
Quincoces, a 50 year old from Coral Gables, first appeared on the first season of Real Housewives of Miami as a guest, returned to the second season a main cast member, and was downgraded to recurring "friend of the Housewives" in season three. The show has not been officially cancelled or renewed by Bravo.


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Posted by: Candice Corrigan, follow @candicecorrigan September 21, 2012 Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012 Location: New Hampshire Motor Speedway—Loudon, N.H. Time: 2 p.m. ET Distance: 300 laps/317.4 miles Broadcast: TV-ESPN with coverage beginning at 1 p.m. ET Radio: Performance Racing Network (PRN) or Sirius XM Channel 90 After finishing in the 35th position last weekend [...]
Posted: September 21st, 2012
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Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 July 31, 2012 WINNERS Jimmie Johnson – Johnson put on a driving clinic on Sunday for his third win of the season and a record fourth victory at the Brickyard. He looked unstoppable in the second half of the race and easily pulled away from the field on [...]
Posted By: Anne-Marie Rhodes, follow @annemarierhodes As long as I’ve known drivers, seasoned ones or newcomers, I know they all share the same thing, deep desire. A desire that can’t be shaken. I mean, you do have to have a passion for racing or else you’d be crazy for getting in a car that goes [...]
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NEW YORK — Toy manufacturers are preparing a campaign to let the public know that phthalates used to make PVC toys soft are safe. Meantime, the toy industry's trade group is working with Environmental Defense on a way to let parents know what chemicals are used in children's toys.
Concerns about the potential risk of diisononyl phthalate to children under age 3 were among the subjects presented at a Feb. 14 toy safety seminar at the International Toy Fair in New York.
"By the end of 2001, we hope the issue will be resolved," said David Miller, president of Toy Manufacturers of America Inc., a New York-based trade group.
"The toy industry is looking forward to having the good name of phthalate restored and to be able to defend its use," Miller said. "We expect that [U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission] reports will show that the exposure to children of DINP is well under safety limits. Then we will be able to go back to our customers and say that we will mount a publicity campaign."
TMA also is involved in dialogue with Washington-based Environmental Defense, Miller said.
"They suggest that we list every chemical component on all the toys we make, with the reasoning that consumers have the right to know. The toy industry respects this, and we're trying to find a rational course of action," Miller said.
Following the seminar, Mark Sofman, director of industry affairs for the Vinyl Institute in Arlington, Va., said: "TMA wants to go with proven materials. Our position is that phthalate and vinyl have been used for many years, and they are very well-understood and have been extensively studied. There are no documented adverse consequences."


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Rob Schneider has appeared in numerous comedies with fellow SNL alum Adam Sandler but now the funnyman is starring in his own show Rob which mirrors his own personal experiences.
"It seemed like it would be funny and fun to do," Schneider said. "I like the potential for it and getting to work with some really fun actors."
The show loosely follows Schneider's experiences as an American man who marries a Mexican woman and the adventures that come with trying to get along with her side of the family. The comedian commented on how the idea for the sitcom came from his wife Patricia with no strings attached as to what they can depict from their real life experiences.
"I'm ready [to] expose myself," Schneider said. "I'm not going to get naked every show, but every other show. I'm at a point in my life where this is something that sounds like it would be fun to do."
Hear more from Rob Schneider and the rest of the cast in the video! Catch Rob when it premieres January 12 on CBS.

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GRACE Mugabe has reassured the nation that she will remain First Lady under the power-sharing agreement.
“Some people are taking advantage of the fact that you have limited access to the media and you are not following political developments,” she told Bindura residents.
“President Mugabe remains Head of State and Government and I will remain the First Lady while the two Vice-Presidents will remain office bearers.”
This is an interesting spin. First of all, who has taken advantage of gullible folk to spread the word that President Mugabe remains the absolute ruler under the power-sharing deal? There has been no suggestion that he is sharing anything in the columns of the state press.
Instead it is being said that he is accommodating other parties from the same generosity of spirit that led him to include whites in 1980 and Zapu in 1987. There is no hint that he is having to accommodate the MDC because his party lost the March general election at the same time that he lost the presidential poll.
The government media has invented the fiction that Zanu PF won “the popular vote”.
Whatever is meant by that construction, Zanu PF lost a majority of the seats which is how we determine which party gets to form the next government.
And we were interested to hear that “Amai” Grace Mugabe gets to stay on as First Lady in terms of the agreement.
We are not aware of any clause in the agreement referring to her status. The term “First Lady” has no constitutional basis. It is borrowed from the United States. Grace Mugabe is very simply the wife of the president. She has no other claim to fame except as a serial shopper.
She should stop promoting herself as some sort of saviour who will defend the “gains” of land reform.
How can she talk about the gains of land reform when the Americans and the EU are having to feed Zimbabwe’s starving masses because her husband has made such a mess of the economy?
As for the two vice-presidents, we don’t recall them being mentioned once in the various speeches made on September 15. And not much has been said about them since. Hence the necessity for a cheesy front-page picture in the Herald to remind us of their existence.
But how do we explain Grace Mugabe’s shrill intervention in a field that doesn’t really concern her?
Â Well, it could have something to do with Oppah Rushesha’s demise. Grace could have her eye on the leadership of the Women’s League. And Joice Mujuru could be the agent of her ambitions. Watch this space as the terrible two criss-cross the country handing out other people’s largesse.
It is said the farming implements, food hampers and tonnes of maize donated under Operation Gutsaruzhinji were sourced through the Reserve Bank. A picture in the Sunday Mail showed both donors and recipients dressed in Zanu PF attire.
Â In other words public funds were used for party-political purposes.
Â And isn’t it shocking that politicians like Mujuru can go around pretending that Zimbabwe’s problems are the product of sanctions and that in the March election voters didn’t understand “the developments that were taking place in our country”?
In other words, Zanu PF lost because voters didn’t understand the issues!
Rule No 1 Amai Mujuru: Don’t insult the voters.
“The hardships that the country is experiencing are a result of sanctions,” she proclaimed. “As leaders we should be careful that our politics do not hurt the people we lead.”
Has she told her politburo colleagues this?
One reason we believe the public press should be kept out of Zanu PF’s grasping clutches is to prevent distortions of the sort we witnessed on Tuesday where the Herald’s features and political editor claimed that Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki entered into a power-sharing agreement with Raila Odinga “following widespread post-election violence believed to have been ignited by the opposition…”
Not difficult to see what is going on here. But the truth is more instructive.
Post-election violence was sparked in Kenya because a younger generation of Kenyans felt they had been deprived of the opportunity for change by an ageing president who tolerated corruption and whose party used a suborned electoral commission to procure his return to office after an election the opposition manifestly won.
This is clear to everybody except the Herald’s political editor!
As for the Herald’s attempt to persuade us that “Tsvangirai got more than Kenya’s Odinga” in the September 15 agreement, a closer look suggests the two parties got about the same division of power. Whatever the case, Kibaki has been largely silent since Odinga’s appointment and the Kenyan prime minister seems to be playing the leading role in speaking for his country on a range of issues including Zimbabwe.
Perhaps we should revisit the Kenyan power-sharing deal to see how the allocation of important ministries to Kibaki’s party has not prevented Odinga from occupying the political high ground.
One area which the MDC has sacrificed to Zanu PF without realising their mistake is Media, Information and Publicity. Zanu PF are already using this portfolio to mislead the public about the September 15 agreement and prevent a diversity of views to be expressed about the way forward.
This is unacceptable. Zanu PF is demanding that the MDC help them in their agenda of closing down externally-based radio stations while continuing to spew partisan propaganda from the state-owned media at home and preventing newspapers such as the Daily News from reopening. The only voice heard on radio stations across the land is Mugabe’s.
Last weekend the Sunday News published an editorial in which it quoted the Information ministry’s permanent secretary George Charamba’s remarks criticising the MDC for three fulsome paragraphs and then added “We could not agree more…”
As if they would be allowed to do anything other than agree more!
This is obsequiousness at its worst. These flaws need to be brought to the attention of Zimbabweans in all walks of life before Zanu PF claims it enjoys a media mandate. And the MDC needs to be more forthright in backing media reform. As it stands, the absence of a free media will vitiate whatever agreement is reached as ruling party propagandists continue to resist change.
Muckraker was interested to read that a driver in the Ministry of Information and a salesman had appeared in court on allegations of stealing five brand new government trucks. The two committed the offence in league with the ministry’s acting director (finance and human resources) who has since fled the country, it is alleged.
The vehicles had been allocated by the Reserve Bank and were part of a batch of 79.
Charamba was quoted as saying the ministry was committed to keeping the public informed about any new developments in the case.
Muckraker has two questions: What does Gideon Gono think he is doing allocating 79 vehicles to a ministry which is little more than a party mouthpiece? And if the ministry is so committed to disclosure regarding the thefts why didn’t somebody spot the disappearance of the two vehicles when the thefts spanned the period February to September?
Muckraker raised the issue of government vehicles being abused by drivers and relatives of ministers in this column a few weeks ago.
On Tuesday the Herald reported police had launched a manhunt for Andrew Mutinhiri, son of Youth Development and Employment Creation minister Rtd Brigadier Ambrose Mutinhiri. He is wanted for allegedly diverting 10 tonnes of maize acquired from the GMB to buy a car.
This follows a crackdown on corrupt GMB officials.
So what do we have here? A parastatal widely seen, like other parastatals, to be a form of sheltered employment for those with ruling-party connections? And a minister’s son who is clearly a beneficiary of his family connections. The local GMB manager has been arrested in connection with this case.
The father occupied one of the finest farms in the country, a wine estate in Marondera, during the land invasions but then relinquished it to his wife, Tracy, who is also a politician, when he moved onto another farm. Tracy and young Andrew failed to make a going business of what is a very specialised field of agriculture. Which is probably why Andrew’s business interests took him into new fields of endeavour. He is the director of a milling company in Mahusekwa, we are told.
We are reading nearly every week of the delinquent progeny of chefs, but why is all this only coming out now? Are we missing something here? Surely Zanu PF can’t reinvent itself as a clean party, if that is the improbable intention.
ZTA CEO Karikoga Kaseke is a typical parastatal boss, repeating Zanu PF mantras about why Zimbabwe is currently isolated and using his clout to secure perks that other guests have to pay for.
He appears to have taken exception to comments in the column a couple of weeks ago regarding the Sanganai expo which he arbitrarily moved to Bulawayo when the city’s accommodation capacity couldn’t cope. As a result punters stayed in Harare where there was surplus space and were flown to Bulawayo every day for the expo.
Our Bulawayo staff contacted us on Wednesday to say that our newspapers had been refused accreditation to cover the expo.
There was no explanation for this counter-productive behaviour other than to learn that Kaseke had given the instruction.
He subsequently relented and admitted the reporters.
The episode however simple illustrates our point that over-mighty parastatal apparatchiks need a paradigm shift that removes them from the ruling party’s obsession with message-control and educates them in elementary media relations.