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Fesap’s general secretary says he left the first meeting with the new Public Administration Minister, Mariana Vieira da Silva, “sad,” who will return to rule out any temporary state pay increase this year. However, Jose Abrau said he hoped the government would resume salary updates next year, although he admitted there was no commitment to values in the 4% range.
The Fesap leader began by emphasizing that the civil service salary update will be 0.9% this year, despite the historic acceleration in prices.
“We left sad because we had the opportunity to hear from the minister that the cult of deficit must be maintained, and therefore, public administration employees will see their purchasing power decline for another year,” he said.
Regarding the upcoming year, the government “want to resume the principle set forth in the government’s annual salary update program”.
“They have now updated wages based on what they thought was inflation on November 30, 2021, assuming a 0.9% increase,” he said. “And we wonder: If inflation is going to be 4% at the end of 2022, if we have an increase in 2023 of 4%. The answer was we know, let’s see how it goes in terms of unpredictability.”
In other words, there are no specific obligations. The official later said there was some commitment to modernization in 2023, but without a guarantee that it would cover inflation this year. The minister said she wanted to comply with the government’s programme [quanto a] Back to the annual salary review.
Trading with no deadline in sight
He described “in the short term” and immediately after the approval of the budget, “we will discuss what we were told last year.” In other words, simplify recruitment in public administration, prevent operations from taking “two or three years”, make changes in the individual pay schedule to adjust positions for public jobs and change in the performance appraisal system.
However, the union leader, who had been available to sign the agreement for several years, did not convey any commitment from the government regarding the date of conclusion of these negotiations or the moment of their entry into force. “With the budget running through December 31, we expect to have these things done by then,” he said.
At the press conference to present the state budget, Finance Minister Fernando Medina dropped the obligation to increase the salary upon entry of senior technicians by 50 euros in January 2023. At that time, the value of appointing assistants and operational technicians would be the same due to the increase in the minimum wage.


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ST. FRANCIS, Wis. - A photographer from Appleton came to the Milwaukee area Wednesday, Jan. 11 to snap photos of a rare Mandarin duck that has been spotted at South Shore Park, and the experience turned out to be memorable for all the wrong reasons. Someone pulled a gun on Brent Balken and tried stealing his photography equipment shortly after he left the park.
"I just knew it was one that I wanted to get," said Balken. "I never got it."
When he heard it had been spotted in Milwaukee, the hobby wildlife photographer drove from Appleton to snap photos.
"It’s such an amazing duck," said Balken. "Absolutely beautiful."
He packed up after about 45 minutes at the park and headed down the road in search of owls. When he parked his truck, he found someone else.
"All of a sudden, I heard a vehicle come to a stop behind me," said Balken.
A man got out of a silver sedan in the parking lot of the St. Francis Seminary. His face was covered with a bandanna, and he was holding a rifle.
"The gun was about a foot and a half from my chest," said Balken.
He demanded Balken's equipment. When Balken refused to give up, his words turned menacing.
"He threatened me at that point by saying, ‘Is your life worth that equipment?’" said Balken. "I turned and said, ‘Is your life worth it?’"
The man reached into Balken's truck but was only able to pull out a bean bag. Balken walked toward him, and the man took off.
"That’s when I just froze," said Balken. "I don’t know if it was the adrenaline."
He tried following behind in his truck and called 911, but the man got away.
Balken said he wanted to warn others, especially photographers.
"I feel very fortunate," said Balken. "I feel like God was looking out for me."
St. Francis police are searching for the man who threatened Balken and tried to steal from him. Balken believes he was targeted and followed from South Shore Park.
Balken said he doesn't recommend doing what he did.
Despite what happened, he said he doesn't regret driving down to Milwaukee to see the rare duck.
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Entrance fees at Arches and Canyonlands national parks in Utah would more than double under a proposed open for public comment. Also targeted for an increase is the cost of touring the Fiery Furnace in Arches, both with a ranger and by yourself.
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A layer of snow can add a special dimension to the scenery in parks anywhere, but the contrast with colorful rock formations can be especially striking in places like Arches, Bryce Canyon and Grand Canyon National Parks. That's expected to be the case for start of the New Year in several parks in the high desert, but park officials are asking visitors to use caution—and common sense—on icy roads and trails.
Not every national park across the country experiences winter snow and ice, but some of those that do are beginning to experience some dramatic changes to the landscape. Social media sites offer an easy way to enjoy some views of the scenery during what's usually considered the off-season in many areas, so here's a brief sample for your early winter armchair travels.
To alleviate parking problems, for now, at the trailhead to Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, the National Park Service has settled on a plan to enlarge the existing parking area by almost one acre, a move that will add 82 parking spots.
After a long day in a national park, it's nice to sit back and enjoy one of the local microbrews. Which raises the question: Where is the best-tasting microbrew with a park connection located?
Polling Shows Most Westerners Approve Of Federal Land-Management Agencies, Oppose Giving Lands Over To The States
A public opinion poll of key Western states has produced somewhat contradictory results when it comes to federal lands in those states. While strong numbers voiced positive views of agencies such as the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service, strong numbers held their state governments in higher esteem than the federal government. Overall, though, a slight majority opposes proposals to turn those federal lands over to the states.
It seemed like the perfect photo shoot: Two climbers making a "first ascent" on a route in Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. Unfortunately for the climbers, not only did they install bolts into the rockface, which is against park system regulations, and also roll rocks down the slope, but they were recognizeable.
Geology factors into many units of the National Park System, but there are some parks that rise above all others if you have an interest in the geologic past...and present. What follows is a short list of some of the most geologically fascinating parks in the system, though we're sure you can add others.
If you've ever decided to hike Delicate Arch during the high season at Arches National Park in Utah, you know how difficult it can be to find a parking spot at the trailhead. Park officials realize that, too, and have developed a proposal for improving the congestion there that they want your thoughts on.
If you and your dog are inseparable, don't let the National Park System's pet rules stop you from taking a dog-centric vacation to our national treasures. A growing assortment of pet sitters, upscale boarding facilities and dog-friendly people hotels are making it possible for pets and humans to have unforgettable adventures in and around popular national parks.


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CTA Reduces MI Compared With Functional Stress Testing, but at a Cost
Researchers argue that even the MI benefit is debatable, emphasizing the increased use of downstream invasive procedures with CTA.
The use of coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) compared with functional stress testing is associated with a reduction in the incidence of MI in patients with suspected coronary artery disease, but it comes at a cost of increased downstream procedures, such as invasive coronary angiography and revascularizations, a new meta-analysis shows.
The coronary CTA imaging strategy does not reduce the risk of mortality or cardiac hospitalizations, researchers found, but was associated with increased diagnoses of coronary artery disease, as well as increased use of aspirin and statins.
“Individual physicians and researchers will bring their own biases into how a study like this is interpreted,” lead investigator Andrew Foy, MD (Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA), commented to TCTMD. “Biases aside, the increase in downstream procedures—cardiac catheterization and revascularization—is a strong signal and it’s a large effect size, especially if it’s applied on a population level. There’s really little doubt about that finding from my standpoint.”
Ron Blankstein, MD (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA), who was not involved in the study, told TCTMD there is no one perfect test when it comes to diagnosing suspected coronary artery disease and each comes its own inherent strengths and weaknesses.
“Any testing strategy has both advantages and limitations, and studies like this help us understand the trade-offs between them,” he said. “The trade-off is a reduction in myocardial infarction by virtue of diagnosing more coronary artery disease and implementing more preventive therapies. The downside is increased use of invasive procedures, which may be appropriate, but because of the excess we need to be cautious that some of them might be unnecessary.”
Making Sense of the MI Finding
The US and European guidelines both include coronary CTA as a diagnostic strategy for patients with suspected coronary artery disease. Recently, the NICE guidelines in the United Kingdom prioritized the use of coronary CTA for the diagnosis of patients with chest pain.
The new meta-analysis, which was published October 3, 2017, in JAMA Internal Medicine, included 13 studies, in which 10,315 patients were treated with a primary strategy of coronary CTA and 9,777 with functional testing. The studies included patients with stable and acute chest pain, and the mean duration of follow-up was 18 months.
Overall, there was no difference in mortality or hospitalizations for cardiac causes between patients undergoing coronary CTA and those undergoing functional stress testing. The incidence of subsequent invasive coronary angiography was significantly increased among patients treated with the CTA strategy (RR 1.33; 95% CI 1.12-1.59), an increase that was evident in patients with stable and acute chest pain.
Additionally, the use of coronary revascularization was significantly greater when patients were treated with the CTA strategy (RR 1.86; 95% CI 1.43-2.43), as was the diagnosis of new coronary artery disease (RR 2.80; 95% CI 2.03-3.87). Patients assessed with CTA were also more than two times more likely to receive aspirin and statin therapy compared with those assessed with functional stress testing.
Regarding the MI reduction, Foy called the signal “weak” relative to the increase in downstream procedures. Overall, coronary CTA was associated with a 29% reduction in the incidence of MI compared with functional stress testing (RR 0.71; 0.53-0.96). Approximately 250 patients would need to be tested with CTA to reduce the risk of MI, but more than that, Foy said, the finding did not survive in all the sensitivity analyses they performed.
For example, when they excluded the large SCOT-HEART study, the MI reduction with coronary CTA was no longer statistically significant. “Not only does the statistical significance of the MI reduction go away, but there’s a significant change in the effect size,” said Foy. In fact, the reduction in MI risk is cut in half when SCOT-HEART is excluded.
Moreover, Foy noted that SCOT-HEART involved a unique trial design, so much so that they considered not including it in the meta-analysis. In SCOT-HEART, 85% of patients in the CTA arm also underwent functional stress testing, he said. Finally, he said the reduction in MI with CTA doesn’t line up with the lack of effect on cardiac hospitalizations.
Taking a More Positive Outlook
In contrast, Blankstein took a more positive interpretation of the data, arguing the MI reduction is stronger than Foy and colleagues suggest. He pointed out that heterogeneity between clinical trials with respect to the MI finding was not statistically significant (P = 0.58), while there was significant heterogeneity between studies when the researchers analyzed the incidence of invasive coronary angiography (P = 0.004).
Furthermore, Blankstein said the finding is consistent with what has been observed in prior studies. In PROMISE and SCOT-HEART, for example, there were trends toward a reduction in MI with anatomic testing over functional testing, and this result was also shown in a meta-analysis published earlier this year by Danish researchers.
“We think much of this is because of better preventive therapies,” said Blankstein. “CT, by design, can detect plaque not seen by a functional test, which only detects plaque limiting blood flow. So you’re seeing more coronary disease even in cases where it’s not obstructive or flow-limiting. As a result, clinicians are acting on those tests more and prescribing more preventive therapies.”
Although it’s more controversial, in some cases revascularization might also reduce the risk of MI, he said, but this likely plays a smaller role than the increased use of preventive therapy, such as statins and aspirin.
In an editorial accompanying the study, Todd Villines, MD (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD), and Leslee Shaw, MD (Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA), say the meta-analysis supports the recent changes to the NICE guidelines and that CTA should be more broadly available to patients without known coronary disease who present with stable or acute chest pain.
Villines and Shaw also believe the benefits of CTA, such as the reduction in MI, are likely derived from greater use of preventive therapies, as well as the better selection of patients for invasive coronary angiography and revascularization.
Blankstein pointed out there was no trial-mandated algorithm for how to manage patients with a stenosis identified on CTA. “This probably led to more invasive procedures in patients who have intermediate lesions who may not have required such testing,” he said.
Today, however, there is better guidance from professional societies that recommend preventive therapies for all patients with plaque and functional testing for those who have moderate or severe stenoses. The consensus is that many such patients—especially those with a 50% to 69% blockage—should not undergo invasive angiography.
“I think if the trials were done now we would see less use of invasive downstream testing and even greater use of preventive therapies,” said Blankstein.
To TCTMD, Foy said the idea that greater use of preventive therapies in patients with newly diagnosed coronary artery disease is responsible for the reduction in MI is a “reasonable hypothesis,” but noted it’s unproven at this point. He also argued that either imaging modality, whether it’s stress testing or coronary CTA, provides “low value” in that it does little to help manage individual patients. Many of these patients don’t require a CT test to qualify for statin therapy, he said.
“For me, I actually don’t recommend testing low-risk chest pain patients, which are a lot of the patients that were included in the acute chest pain studies,” said Foy. “If you’re going to test, and you feel like you need to, I recommend exercise treadmill testing. If you need an imaging test, I recommend stress echocardiography because I think it’s important to avoid radiation.”
Photo Credit: Used with permission from the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Foy AJ, Dhruva SS, Peterson B, et al. Coronary computed tomography angiography vs functional stress testing for patients with suspected coronary artery disease. JAMA Intern Med. 2017;Epub ahead of print.
Villines TC, Shaw LJ. Coronary computed tomography—the first test for evaluating patients with chest pain? JAMA Intern Med. 2017;Epub ahead of print.
- Foy, Blankstein, Villines, and Shaw report no relevant conflicts of interest.
- Senior author Rita Redberg (University of California, San Francisco) is the editor of JAMA Internal Medicine but was not involved in any decisions regarding review or acceptance of the manuscript.

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One police officer was killed in Ismailia on Thursday evening when two militants on a motorbike attacked a security checkpoint in the city’s downtown.
A statement released by the Ministry of Interior revealed that the militant attack on the checkpoint led to a firefight between police and militants. Officer Ahmed Radwan Abdel Gawad was fatally injured by a bullet wound to the chest.
State-owned Al-Ahram reported that one assailant was arrested after he was injured in the clash and is currently being interrogated.
Law enforcement forces have been exposed to repeated attacks in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia recently. Two police conscripts were killed on 3 November, an army colonel was killed on 4 November, and two other army soldiers were also gunned down on 11 November.
In North Sinai, law enforcement on Thursday arrested 29 people including Ezzat Al-Gharib, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Bureau, on charges of “inciting against the army and funding terrorist organisations,” according to the army spokesman.
Al-Gharib was arrested in Sheikh Zuweid village.
10 houses were also destroyed; the army spokesman announced that two of them belong to Adel Habara, who is the alleged perpetrator of the killing of 25 CSF soldiers on 19 August.
A fuel transportation truck was also destroyed in Al-Mahdeya village.
The security campaign comes a day after a car bomb explosion in Sheikh Zuweid left 11 army soldiers dead and 37 injured.
The situation remains volatile in the Sinai Peninsula, with Defence Minister Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi vowing on Wednesday night to “continue to fight those who attack us and raise their weapons at the army, the police and the state.”


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BRUSSELS—The European Union has started withholding funds from Poland and Hungary, escalating the battle more than democratic requirements that is deepening the East-West divide in the bloc.
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Aversion to Epistemic Uncertainties in Rational Decision Making: Effects on Engineering Risk Managementby M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, Stanford Univ, United States,
Paul S. Fischbeck, Stanford Univ, United States,
Document Type: Proceeding Paper
Part of: Risk-Based Decision Making in Water Resources V
Abstract: When faced with epistemic uncertainties in a decision problem, subjective expected-utility theory (SEU) implies that the only relevant characteristic of these uncertainties is the mean of the outcome probability distribution. Behavioral decision theories, however, have repeatedly shown that people are averse to epistemic uncertainties (or ambiguity, i.e., lack of fundamental knowledge). For example, in the regulatory context, one may be consistently willing to trade an ambiguous probability of system failure with a given mean for a well-understood failure probability with a value higher than this mean. In this paper, a normative theory for incorporating ambiguity attitudes into rational decision making is briefly presented and its implications for engineering risk management are discussed. A key result of our theory is the determination of an individual's epistemic risk premium, i.e., the amount of safety or money that an individual is willing to forgo in order to face better-defined failure probabilities. For engineering systems for which the objective is to meet a safety threshold (i.e., a maximum acceptable probability of failure), this premium can be represented as an adjustment of the threshold value. For example, for probability-based building codes, SEU implies that the mean of the failure probability distribution must meet the safety threshold.
Subject Headings: Risk management | Probability | Failure analysis | Uncertainty principles | Safety | Probability distribution | Decision making | Systems engineering
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Easy Cheesy Meatball Skillet
These saucy, cheesy meatballs are a wonderful, family-friendly meal. You can make this cozy comfort food in less than 30 minutes – great for busy weeknights.
Start by heating your oven to 400 F. Add frozen meatballs and a jar of L&B Pasta Sauce to a skillet. Heat over medium-low heat for 10 minutes, or until meatballs are warm throughout.
Top with shredded mozzarella and place in the oven for 15 minutes. Serve with a loaf of our Italian Round Artisan Bread.

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ANA Launches Hub of COVID Vaccine Facts For Nurses
Today, the American Nurses Association (ANA), along with 19 other leading nursing and healthcare organizations launched COVID Vaccine Facts for Nurses, an educational resource to bring “critical, current, and culturally sensitive COVID-19 vaccine information to the nation’s nurses on the frontlines of the pandemic and those caring for patients in every community across the country.”
Nurses are known for their ability to cut to the chase with the health information that matters to the lives of their patients and when it comes to battling the coronavirus, it only makes sense that nurses would be the ones leading the charge in the fight for accurate COVID-19 vaccine information.
Breaking Down Barriers
In their press release announcing the new website, the ANA noted that, as a professional nursing organization, they are aware and sensitive to the vaccine hesitancy that exists in the nursing community. For instance, a survey from the American Nurses Foundation of more than 22,000 nurses nationwide found that the majority of nurses who have not yet received a COVID-19 vaccine--45%-- identity as Black or Afrian American. As Nurse.org has reported, there are real cultural and historical concerns that the Black community has faced with vaccines and healthcare, so the mission of campaigns such as this one is not to shame anyone for opting out of the vaccine, but rather to provide accurate education and information.
Of the nurses who have not yet elected to get the vaccine, they explained that their reasons primarily include: 1) being fearful of short-term or long-term side effects (66%) and 2) not having enough information about the vaccines (50%).
With their campaign, ANA hopes to help provide nurses with the resources they need to tackle both of those concerns. And in empowering and equipping nurses with the information they need to make educated choices about the vaccine, the ANA knows they can also help educate and empower the patients that those nurses serve.
“For nurses to be instrumental in administering COVID-19 vaccines, dispelling myths and getting vaccinated themselves, we must ensure that – no matter where they work – they have scientifically sound and accessible answers to both their own and patients' questions, “explained ANA President Ernest J. Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN in the press release. “Vaccination plays a large role in combating this pandemic, which is why we have come together to provide nurses with the information they need to educate themselves and counsel both patients and the communities they serve.”
What You’ll Find on the Site
So, what exactly will you find on the new website? Well, the The COVID Vaccine Facts for Nurses website is dedicated to providing relevant, accurate and up-to-date information on the pandemic and expert perspectives about the safety, efficacy, and importance of COVID-19 vaccines. The site features:
- Expert videos: One of the first videos you’ll see is, of course, featuring none other than Dr. Fauci himself, one of the leading voices in fighting this pandemic.
- FAQs: The current and always-updated list of common questions include those on how mRNA vaccines work, how a vaccine can be produced so quickly without compromising safety (this is an important one!), and the safety of the vaccine.
- Nurse-specific information: Because the site is geared towards nurses, one of the most helpful resources it offers is nurse-specific information. For instance, it discusses what type of PPE you will need if you are fully vaccinated, what PPE you should wear if you’re giving vaccinations yourself,
- Social-media friendly resources: The site is also designed to be very user-friendly and social-media ready. That means that nurses, as public health professionals, can easily share valuable information directly from the site right to their social media.
- Culturally-relevant conversation: The pandemic has disproportionately affected communities of color and that means that information needs to be tailored to address those disparities as well. The website is dedicated to hosting COVID in Color virtual events that will not only feature a range of nursing leaders in honest and clear conversation about vaccines and questions from communities of color, but also provide real-life nurses the opportunity to weigh in through surveys for interactive feedback and collaboration.
- Job opportunities: The need for nurses has never been greater, and ANA’s website also features RN positions through CVS Health, from vaccine nurses to infusion nurses to APRN positions.
The ANA also assures nurses that the site will be continually updated and address relevant concerns that come up with the pandemic. The COVID Vaccine Facts for Nurses information website is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, one of the makers of the three current COVID-19 vaccines available in the U.S. The other partnering organizations with ANA on the site are:
- American Nurses Foundation
- American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN-Critical Care)
- American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN)
- American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
- Asian American / Pacific Islander Nurses Association (AAPINA)
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
- Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
- Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
- Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc.
- National Association of Indian Nurses of America (NAINA)
- National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP)
- National Association of School Nurses (NASN)
- National Black Nurses Association (NBNA)
- National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA)
- Nurses Who Vaccinate
- Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA)
- Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma)
- Transcultural Nursing Society (TNS)
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text: Investment in good video content will boost UK economy and confidenceBy Iain Alexander / 5 December 2012 Video content that speaks The UK is facing a tough recession but there is an opportunity for video content to help bring inward investment into the economy. We saw a surprise GDP increase after the Olympics, and the general mood of the country was much improved. Confidence was boosted, business did better, and people felt more compelled to “Think big”. The publicity of all the cultural events and the Olympic fanfare did wonders for the UK’s international image. People were excited about our enthusiasm, quirkiness and personal characteristics. A lot of that was conveyed through video content, on the web, in the news and via amateur videos from people attending the games. What could help boost UK tourism and image in the future is good quality, short video content that shows what Britain is all about. The creative sector is vibrant and thriving and producing short, engaging video content could do wonders. Just take the Gangnam style phenomenon. That video has 850 million views and the remakes and parodies from that video push it way over 1 billion. The London version is just shy of 4 million views itself. Getting connected with trends and producing original content will boost the UK’s image abroad, and bring people closer and encourage them to visit or do business here. It is truly a golden age for short video content, and investing in it is a win-win situation. Part of the process of making videos involves bringing people together, and gets communities to share in a positive experience. That’s the kind of spirit that we need in tough times. So let’s do it!

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The collaboration between the young designer Barbieri and Scandola Marmi
who, after entrusting him with the art direction of his first collection of marble objects for the home and kitchen, which included the complete remake and repositioning of the Veronese company, from brand image to distribution, focuses on an innovative collection of floors and walls.
Al cersaie 2014 will be presented several solutions that play on color contrasts pointing to lines and modern.
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Like the profile of two embracing figures, the Profile floor is made up of two elements that together form a hexagon. Buyers will choose and, just like in love, they will be able to combine infinite types of marble to create the perfect combination. It is a romantic floor based on the thought of the union of love. And you, if you were a marble, which would you be?
Boomerang is an eye-catching and irreverent floor model. An unexplored form, which dares. If contrasting marbles are combined, extremely modern and impactful psychedelic effects are created. If, on the other hand, you play with different textures while keeping the same marble, Boomerang becomes a sweet combination of reflections and shadows. The shape recalls the herringbone floors typical of the houses in Milan of the past.
Pochette recalls the black and white chessboards of certain interiors imprinted in the collective memory. A reinterpretation of the square tile, it recalls the folds of a clutch bag, an accessory symbol of masculine elegance. The bevel on one of the edges allows the tile to enter the next. An exciting game that gives rigorous dynamism to the place where it is placed.
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|no-mow fescue in my front yard, no irrigation|
There was a great article posted this week at Owen Dell's landscaping blog- great at least for spreading half-accurate information on irrigation and pissing a lot of rain barrel users off. This was also commented on at the Garden Professors' blog, and just as controversial there.
I have never met Owen Dell. Apparently he is a landscape architect too, but in Southern California. In his article he posits that the needs of the average LA lawn come to 140,000 gallons a year, and that it would require 2,333 rain barrels to provide that amount of water.
There's a couple of problems with that. First, who the hell needs to put 140,000 gallons of water on their lawn? Unless you're subsisting entirely on what you grow, and your diet consists mostly of grass, you don't need anywhere near that amount of water. It's a want, not a need. Nobody needs to keep their lawn green all year. Nobody needs a lawn for that matter, we just all seem to have them whether we really want them or not.
Additionally, nobody needs to keep their lawn green for the entire summer. The cool season grasses that most of us in Minnesota, and most of the rest of the country, grow- grow best during the cooler months of spring and fall. In mid-summer, they naturally go dormant, turning a sort of greenish-yellowish-brown. That's perfectly normal. What is abnormal is the bright green grass on a golf fairway in July.
The other problem is that Mr. Dell is assuming that the rain barrel will fill only once per year, therefore requiring 2,333 rain barrels. Maybe it only rains once a year in Los Angeles, but the Twin Cities are a different story. We get about 30 inches of precipitation a year, to LA's 12. And ours is spaced out into little showers and storms here and there, not a few gully-washers (but with some snow thrown in for good measure).
The whole article left a bad taste in my mouth. He offers other, very good, methods of storing rain on your property, but the rant against rain barrels just doesn't seem deserved. He suggests that the best thing for homeowners to do, from an environmental as well as a cost-saving perspective, is to cut back on your irrigation.
But not to get rid of it-- that's the problem. Irrigation is not a necessity. There are plenty of un-irrigated yards in St. Paul, and they look fine! But irrigation has been so heavily sold (by experts from LA) and the green-all-year idea has been so ingrained that most homeowners think they have to have it in order to have any grass grow at all.
In the course of my work I do cost estimates for clients. I see that the irrigation system they believe that they need will cost them almost $1.50 per square foot, while adding extra inches of good-quality topsoil will cost 25 or 50 cents per square foot. When it's time to cut costs, often the topsoil will be cut from the budget, but the sprinklers will remain, even though they represent an ongoing cost in thousands of gallons of drinking water applied every year, and the topsoil represents a free storage reservoir that would store pure rainwater effortlessly, right where the grass can use it best.
And, not to mention that the irrigation system is using drinking water. This is the largest use of our drinking water in the Twin Cities, apparently. We've taken water from the Mississippi, and from local lakes, added chlorine and fluoride to kill bacteria and help our teeth stay white, then spray most of that water on plants which are killed or injured by large amounts of chlorine and fluoride.
The stupidity of it is baffling.
That's why I'm all for rain barrels, and for not installing irrigation. Maybe a rain barrel won't replace the volume of water that an irrigation system could provide, but you probably didn't need all of the water the irrigation system was providing in the first place.
Rain barrels make you take notice of the water the sky is providing, and of how much you are using. That seems worthwhile all by itself. So I'm getting my rain barrel in May. My neighborhood is offering a make-your-own-rain-barrel workshop this spring, and one of the options is a wooden whiskey barrel (at a subsidized price), which I've wanted for years anyway. So I'm going May 7th, and will post pictures afterward. If you live in Union Park (in St. Paul) click the link above for the registration form.
It think it'll be fun. Screw what the landscape architects in LA think.


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Massachusetts Drivers Warned That Perception of Alcohol Recovery Does Not Match Science
We often represent victims of collisions which are the result of drunk driving. In a recent study undertaken by Dr. Peter J. Snyder at Lifespan, an organization associated with Brown University Medical School in Rhode Island, it was shown that young drivers often “feel” that they are recovering or recovered from intoxication, however, objective test results show that that “feeling” is a “poor indicator of sobriety and the ability to operate a motor vehicle.”
The study tested students over an eight (8) hour period carefully monitoring their intoxication levels and testing their cognitive skills. Dr. Snyder and his colleagues found that “As people become increasingly drunk, we see a very dramatic increase in these errors on the test, and the recovery of the underlying cognitive impairments that lead to these errors is slower, and more closely tied to the actual blood alcohol concentration, than the more rapid reduction in participants’ subjective feeling of drunkenness.” Considering that drinking and driving causes over 11,000 deaths per year and that 30% of Americans will be involved in an alcohol related crash in their lives, it is critical that we teach our young drivers, and remind our older ones, that their perception of having “recovered” from imbibing, is not scientifically accurate.


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By ALFREDO ALVARADO
Members of the FDNY stood in honor of their fallen comrade EMT Yadira Arroyo at the street renaming ceremony in her honor on June 15, in the Bronx.
Her friends and colleagues joined her family and elected officials for a moving memorial tribute.
The Local 2507 member was killed on the job in the Bronx last year.
At the Friday morning ceremony, Arroyo’s cousin Sean Acevedo spoke of the loss. “It still hurts. But seeing all of these people here and what she meant to this community means a lot to me,” he said.
Acevedo works at Bedford Academy High School and is a member of Board of Education Employees Local 372.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was among those paying tribute to the 14-year veteran of FDNY Station 26. Also in attendance were Donald Nesbit, executive vice president of Local 372, Vincent A. Variale, president of Local 3621 and Oren Barzilay, president of Local 2507.
“Our sister Yadira Arroyo made the supreme sacrifice serving this community,” said Barzilay at the ceremony.
After the ceremony inside the station house everyone assembled on the corner of Boston Road and East 169th St. The busy intersection is now known EMT Yadira Arroyo Way.

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Fremont County Coroner Ed McAuslan meets with the Fremont County Commission. File photo.
(Lander, Wyo.) – The Fremont County Commission has given Coroner Ed McAuslan the go-ahead to find a way to work a forensic pathologist position into his 2014-15 budget.
McAuslan said in 2013 his office had 56 cases that required autopsies. Currently, Fremont County sends autopsy cases to a forensic pathologist in Loveland, Colo. He said generally the trips require about 10 hours from two employees. If the weather is OK the entire trip can take only one day.
Based on surveys with other nearby counties there’s potential for Fremont County’s pathologist to do 173 autopsies, amounting to roughly $170,000 in extra revenue. A least one other county has expressed interest in utilizing a more local forensic pathologist, McAuslan said, but did not return the survey.
Commission Chairman Doug Thompson asked if there was any way to reduce the number of required autopsies. McAuslan said his office doesn’t order any that are unnecessary.
At this time, McAuslan also couldn’t think of any renovations to the current morgue that would need to be made to accommodate a pathologist. The only additional cost he could think of was some one-time equipment expenditures.
McAuslan is still working on the budgetary details, but his proposal will be to make the pathologist a county employe, perhaps basing the salary at least in part on the number of autopsies performed. At one point there was a possibility that Natrona County could share the salary for the position, but that is no longer looking possible, he said.
While there is someone that has specifically reached out and worked with McAuslan about the possibility of creating the position, he said he fine with soliciting applications. He noted that several others have reached out after the possibility was discussed last November.


The Donald H. Humphreys Barton County Spelling Bee will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, in the Great Bend High School Auditorium.
Leonel H. Galindo, Great Bend, has been formally charged with forcible rape, alleged to have happened Jan. 5 outside a rural Great Bend nightclub. His preliminary hearing is set for 9 a.m. on Feb. 21 at the Barton County Courthouse.
The students at Holy Family Catholic School in Great Bend approach state tests with the focus that an athlete approaches the big game.
It's not too early to think about Valentine's Day, especially with Great Bend Community Theatre offering a limited number of dinner theater tickets for Feb. 14.
Two locally produced documentaries will be shown this week at the Barton County Historical Museum. The historical society will celebrate Kansas Day with a program today, and local history with its annual meeting on Monday, Executive Director Beverly Komarek said. Kansas became the 34th state on Jan. 29, 1861.
If there was any doubt about the intent of House Bill 2023, proponents made it clear on Wednesday.
Vehicular pursuits on Sunday and Monday ended with two men being booked into the Barton County Jail.
Since the start of the year, the state health department has stopped analyzing HIV tests for the Barton County Health Department and most other public health departments, forcing them to use private labs if they want to continue the service.
A free workshop on hazardous materials will be offered next week at Barton Community College. The workshop will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 30, in the Seminar Room, F-30 of the Fine Arts Building.
Fire destroyed a home just west of Dundee on Sunday.
Inauguration day, which is usually Jan. 20, has been moved to Monday because it falls on a Sunday. That means the second inauguration of President Barack Obama will coincide with Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Barton Community College officials plan to improve registration for online courses, Dean of Information Services Charles Perkins said.
The Great Bend Recreation Commission ended its last fiscal year with more than $1 million in the bank, board members were told Monday. Curtis Kuhn with D. McMillen Chartered certified public accounting firm of Great Bend presented an audit report that showed no irregularities.
The shootings at Newtown, Conn., and the possibility that Kansas may eventually allow people with permits to bring concealed weapons on campus, have prompted the trustees at Barton Community College to review security policies.
Gov. Sam Brownback announced Thursday that his administration will spend another $10 million on mental health care. His decision was reportedly prompted by the mass murders in December at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 26 students and teachers died.
Kansas Bureau of Investigation Agent Clint Hawkins said checks that Central Prairie Honor Flights members thought were written to businesses wound up instead in the banking account of the nonprofit organization's director, LaVeta Miller. Hawkins testified Wednesday in Barton County District Court, where Miller is on trial for two counts of theft by deception, each greater than $25,000 but less than $100,000.
The former treasurer of Central Prairie Honor Flights spent nearly four hours on the witness stand Tuesday, reviewing dozens of checks - including some deposited into the personal checking account of LaVeta Miller.
A jury was selected Monday for LaVeta D. Miller's trial in Barton County District Court. Miller has entered a plea of not guilty to two counts of theft by deception.
Most people who have heard of Title IX associate the term with gender equality in school athletics, but the federal act is much more than that. Angie Maddy, dean of Student Services at Barton Community College, recently provided college trustees with a status report on BCC compliance.
A local man won't be one of the first colonists on Mars. Grady Bolding, 27, of Great Bend, was one of more than 200,000 people who applied to become an astronaut with Mars One, a Netherlands-based company that intends to begin sending people to Mars by 2024. All of those applicants knew it would be a one-way trip.
News that the Great Bend Public Library was spending more than $762,012.92 on a geothermal heating and air conditioning system shocked the city council members, who wrote the check earlier this month. It was probably out of frustration that city councilman Dana Dawson asked whether the library will even be needed in the future.
When Jerry Esfeld prepared for an agricultural program at Riley School, ice cream was part of her lesson plan.
The house at 207 Plum St. was heavily damaged by fire early Friday, for the second time in two years. After investigation by the Great Bend Fire Department and the Kansas Fire Marshal's Office, police were asked to take an arson case.
Pauline Schneider considers herself a life-time member of the The Fort Zarah Club. The former Home Demonstration Unit was organized on Feb. 11, 1929, at the home of Hazel McDonald, Schneider's mother.
The Great Bend Evening Lions Club will be serving more than a hearty meal at this year's Ham & Bean Supper next Thursday, Feb. 26.
Recently, during Jeffrey Chapman's two-week trial on first-degree murder charges, the Great Bend Tribune showed photos of Chapman walking to the Barton County Courthouse in the presence of Barton County Sheriff's Officers. Because he was wearing modern constraints not visible to the naked eye, some people assumed he posed a flight risk and wondered what law enforcement officers were thinking.
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Netflix signs film rights deal with Sony Pictures, including Spider-Man
Streaming giant’s exclusive multiyear agreement will start with 2022 movie slate
Netflix secured exclusive US rights to new movies from Sony Pictures after they leave theatres, in a multiyear agreement giving the streaming giant upcoming films in the popular Jumanji and Spider-Man franchises.
The entertainment division of Japan’s Sony Corporation also gave Netflix the first chance to buy movies that are not for film theatres and take part in their production, another potential pipeline of original films. Financial terms of the deal announced on Thursday were not disclosed, though Bloomberg News previously reported Sony was seeking as much as $250m a year.
The titles from Sony include some of the most-popular film franchises at the box office year in and year out. Netflix will also be the streaming home for Morbius, a spinoff of Spider-Man, as well as Where the Crawdads Sing, an adaptation of the bestselling novel.
The agreement starts with Sony’s 2022 movie slate. Sony’s previous pay-TV deal was with Starz, owned by Lions Gate Entertainment.
These titles won’t attract millions of new subscribers to Netflix, which already releases nearly 60 original movies a year. But they do keep users entertained in between new series. Netflix previously offered new movies from Walt Disney, until the studio decided to keep its movies on Disney+.
Sony is the only major Hollywood studio that isn’t owned by a company that competes with Netflix in streaming. Universal, owned by Comcast, is weighing whether to renew a deal with HBO Max or keep its movies for Peacock.
Netflix did not say how long Sony’s movies will play in theatres before they appear on the streaming platform. Other movie studios have shortened the time between theatrical and home viewing, but the lag may increase a bit when Covid-19 cases fall and theatres are reopened worldwide.
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See the best of Prague on an all-inclusive "Grand Tour" by Segway and eScooter. Experience the city from a different perspective and marvel at monuments such as Prague Castle and the Franz Kafka Museum. Learn the history of the city from your guide.

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Pokemon Sword And Shield's Strongest Steel-type Move Name Will be Chosen by Fans
Nintendo asks Japanese fans to participate in a naming contest for the strongest Steel-type move of Pokemon Sword and Shield.
The May 2019 issue of Coro Coro Comic, releasing on April 15, has been leaked early today, as it always happens with such magazines. In it, Nintendo and Game Freak announced that a contest will be held regarding the upcoming new Pokemon games on Switch, Pokemon Sword and Shield.
The contest will ask Japanese Pokemon fans to name the strongest Steel-type move of Pokemon Sword and Shield. The move is described as a special attack, with 140 attack power. It deals heavy damage to the enemy pokemon but also cuts in half the current HP of the pokemon using it.
Japanese fans will be able to send in their name ideas with the form included in Coro Coro Comic. Hiragana, katakana, Alphabet, and numbers are allowed for the name, but it mustn’t be longer than 8 characters. The deadline for applications is on May 10. The winner of the contest will receive free copies of both Pokemon Sword and Shield. The fans behind the 20 other best names selected by Nintendo and Game Freak will receive a free copy of either Pokemon Sword or Pokemon Shield. It’s currently unclear if similar naming contests will be held for the game in other languages.
Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield were announced during a Nintendo Direct at the end of February. Screenshots, artwork, details on the new Galar region and the 3 new starters have also been published. Lastly, we’ve also analyzed the starters and ranked them based on our initial thoughts following the reveal.
Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield are scheduled to launch exclusively on Nintendo Switch in late 2019.

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The Medicine and Dentistry (MAD) professions parallel but rarely interact for their patient care. Many patients suffer, and it is maddening to make sense of non-sense in the medical-dental maladapted disconnection (MD-MD) phenomenon. Sitting in a dental chair is like entering the Twilight Zone: the popular 1960’s TV show which unfolds with eerie – and predictably unpredictable – outcomes. I send many of my patients to biological dentists with trepidation, into an unknown new dimension, to help them heal from chronic Lyme, cancer, neurological disorders, rheumatism, asthma, IBS and more.
For just about every complicated, complex, chronic disease patient, acupuncture meridian assessment (AMA) frequently indicates hidden dental problems even when their dental x-ray or cone beam CT scan report is read as normal. Who is right when the dental x-ray report is normal, but AMA indicates a dental problem? AMA is an adjunct diagnostic tool I use to detect disturbances in healthy frequencies along each of the body’s major meridian systems and reflects infections, inflammation and degeneration.
Several years ago, I saw a 65-year-old dentist with severe chronic fatigue who was interested in chelation therapy. Dentists as a profession are more prone to mercury exposure and he was convinced that mercury might be the cause of his severe fatigue. He had a mild positive mercury exposure on a DMPS provocation test, but his biggest problem was a dental-jaw infection at his root-canaled wisdom tooth #32. He believed creating an incorrect dental bite by extracting #32 with potential TMJ was more damaging than an actual (to him theoretical) dental-jaw infection found by my AMA evaluation, which did not show up on x-ray. Subtle electrical frequency disturbances precede visible physical changes.
The biggest hurdle for me is to get my patients to follow my advice regarding medically necessary dental work – even when they are dentists! I did my best to help him with chelation therapy and nutritional therapy, but it did not make a dent on his fatigue and exhaustion. AMA indicated that all his other meridians were balanced except the dental point, and I could not convince him to extract a root-canaled wisdom tooth. Each time I evaluated him the dental-lymph meridian was his only disturbed meridian, indicating a persistent problem. Eventually he agreed to extract his infected root-canaled wisdom tooth when he came back from vacation in Australia. He never came back to see me. I got a message from his family that flying back to Los Angeles, he had a stroke on the airplane. It was too late. He was in a wheelchair.
Another well-known biological dentist developed advanced prostate cancer, bone metastasis with PSA over 600. I told him he had a dental infection for over two years, but he did not believe that he could have dental cavitation (jawbone infection) because cone beam dental CT scan was negative. By the time he had cavitation surgery, it was too late; with advanced bone metastases he died a few months later.
One of my Parkinson’s disease patients did not respond to medications and also did not respond to detoxification of environmental toxins, chelation therapy and nutritional support. In his case, his AMA indicated a dental problem from a severe TMJ/dental bite malocclusion problem, not from a dental infection. His severe resting tremors of both hands resolved when his dental bite was corrected by a dentist who specialized in TMJ/dental bite related medical problems.
Whatever your medical diagnosis, once you are within the medical-dental-insurance system, you will likely encounter blood, urine and genetic tests, and advanced medical technology imaging, such as CT, MRI, or PET scans. You may feel you are living through the quagmire of “the sense of non-sense in medical care.” You may still get lost with too much medical information that does not prove helpful for your condition. You are not alone. You have entered the Twilight Zone of medical care in a parallel universe. Medical/dental chairs will take you to dubious known unknown unknowns. Be aware! Miracles can happen in the dental chair, or it might be the beginning of a medical nightmare.
The mouth is the entry to the airway and the gut; teeth connect to the brain via trigeminal, mandibular and maxillary nerves, and to every organ in the body via acupuncture meridians. Dental-oral functions control breathing, talking, and chewing and swallowing food: the basic necessities of survival, longevity and health. It is sad but true that many people suffer from a lack of integrated medical/dental knowledge from the age-old disconnections between the medical and dental professions – as if we are living in a Twilight Zone disconnected in a Parallel Universe.
If you have a chronic medical condition and are not responding to standard medical care, think of hidden dental problems (plus parasites, fungi, environmental toxins and EMF). They might be the missing links. My own staff had numerous medical complaints during the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely exacerbated by the stress of “going through the fear of pandemic” with eye problems, acute severe fatigue, shortness of breath, coughing mimicking COVID pneumonia, and hip/knee pain. All of these symptoms traced back to hidden dental infections via AMA testing. COVID-19 tests were negative.
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Courtesy: Daily Telegraph Australia
By Malcolm Conn
Cricket's most dangerous man, India board president N. Srinivasan, has continued his destruction of the game's credibility by having Australian Tim May dumped from the International Cricket Councils influential cricket committee.
Using blatant standover tactics, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) threatened countries to ensure the majority of Test captains voted against May, a constant critic of the BCCI in his role as chief executive of FICA - the international players union.
Some captains were threatened with the sack by their boards if they did not vote for Indian commentator and former leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan ahead of May, the former Australian off-spinner.
This is despite captains supposedly having independent and confidential votes to elect two player representatives on the committee. The other is former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara.
Support for May evaporated from nine of the 10 Test captains to just four, Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa, as India threatened to withhold tours and other favours which would cost countries millions in television rights.
Only South Africa stood firm amongst the dominant Afro-Asia block, which also destroyed the ICC's presidential electoral system when it refused to endorse former Prime Minister John Howard as president in 2010 for fear of being brought to account.
Srinivasan also unilaterally scuttled a major review last year, the Woolf report, which attempted to revamp the ICC's disgraceful governance.
India may be the world's largest democracy but the BCCI rules with a golden fist, rejecting any notion of good governance and free speech.
Any Indian commentator who dares speak out against the BCCI will inevitably be sacked so expect Siva, as he is known, to meekly support the BCCI's unfathomable stand against the umpire decision review system (DRS).
FICA boss May reflected vast international player support for improved governance and the DRS, which has significantly improved the number of correct umpiring decisions.
May has the overwhelming backing of players from most countries, which have player associations, but continuing its anti-democratic stance, the BCCI has banned a players' association.
May never stood a chance against cricket's dark forces.
India refuses to use the DRS. The ICC made it compulsory, before back-flipping under pressure from the BCCI.
The arrogant and dictatorial Srinivasan is the greatest example of all that is wrong with cricket, particularly on the sub-continent and in Africa.
India's FBI, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), is pursuing allegations of fraud committed by Srinivasan as managing director of India Cements, which is alleged to have rorted scarce water resources with corrupt state officials to double production and profits.
He is also at the centre of allegations of tax fraud by failing to pay stamp duty on 11 luxury vehicles that were seized by the CBI in March.
Srinivasan has the greatest conflict of interest in world cricket, with his India Cements buying the Chennai Super Kings IPL franchise for $91 million.
The BCCI wholly owns the billion dollar IPL, so as president of the BCCI Srinivasan has the most influence over the game's biggest Twenty20 competition and therefore the value of his franchise.
With India ranking a lowly 94 on the Transparent International corruption index, along with South Africa (69), Sri Lanka (79), Pakistan (139), Bangladesh (144) and Zimbabwe (163), is it any wonder the game's governance is in such bad shape?
New Zealand is ranked third, Australia seventh and the UK 17th.


Lacma director to rehang Pinault’s art
Michael Govan will co-organise an exhibition at the Punta della Dogana during the Venice Biennale
By Charlotte Burns. News, Issue 243, February 2013
Published online: 04 February 2013
Michael Govan, the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma), is co-organising an exhibition in Venice that will draw on works in the Pinault Collection. “It will be a complete rehang of the collection,” a spokeswoman says.
Govan is working with the collection’s curator, Caroline Bourgeois, on the show, which will coincide with the Venice Biennale. The theme has yet to be determined, although it is believed that works from the 1960s and 1970s will feature strongly in the exhibition at the Punta della Dogana (30 May-31 December), one of two contemporary art spaces in Venice owned by François Pinault.
In 2011, the French billionaire gave a master disc of Bruce Nauman’s video installation For Beginners, 2010, to Lacma.
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RBI policy review: 'Pragmatic' move to counter slowing economy
The monetary panel voted 4-2 in favour of 25 bps rate cut.
The policy stance, however, remains unchanged at 'neutral'.
With this, the repurchase or repo rate stands at 6 per cent. Cash reserve ratio (CRR) has been left unchanged at 4 per cent. And reverse repo comes down by 25 bps to 5.75 per cent.
Repo rate is the rate at which the central bank lends money to commercial banks in the event of any shortfall of funds. This is used by monetary authorities to control inflation.
"Short-term outlook on food inflation remains benign... RBI will continue to monitor evolving economic situation and will act accordingly," said Governor Shaktikanta Das in a presser that shortly followed the policy review decision.
The monetary panel voted 4-2 in favour of the 25 bps rate cut.
Let's see what's going on in the minds of analysts and industry hotshots after RBI's first monetary policy review of this financial year.
Abheek Barua, HDFC Bank
Concerns about liquidity measures have been taken care of. This has not been sort of a significant part of the discourse in the media, but banks have been making a very strong case for a leeway on liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) and expansion of Facility to Avail Liquidity for Liquidity Coverage Ratio (FALLCR). The RBI has been presenting a kinder face to the banks for a while now in its recognition of the need for infusions of durable liquidity. There have been innovations in terms of swaps, open market operations have been there, but what they have done now is just another thing which augments the lending capacity of banks. That is far more important than a 25 bps rate cut in enabling banks to lend at lower rates and making credit available at cheaper rates to encourage borrowing and growth and so forth.
Ashima Goyal, PM-EAC
They are moving slowly and watching the data. So, they have repeated a rate cut. They have taken measures to infuse more liquidity, but for private investment, they could have come with a larger rate cut since the real rates remain very high. Given that they have reduced their inflation forecast, there was room for more cut and since they had started late, the first cut should have come in December, given there was some slowdown in growth and inflation had fallen. They are a little behind the curve in cutting.
Soumya Kanti Ghosh, SBI
We were actually expecting that there could be some change in the stance, but one thing we are very happy that the RBI has given out a message that will actually cool the market. An additional amount of Rs 2,60,000 crore would be released to the banks in terms of the government securities. That means the RBI is actually making the groundwork for liquidity injection if need arises through the open market operations. That is a positive statement. The other thing which I would like to mention there is a task force set up for the development of the secondary market for capital loans. The other big point of the policy is an effective mechanism that could be worked out so that the external benchmark is constant.
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Biocon
This is a transient time. Let us wait for the new government to be formed. I am sure the repo rate cuts are in the right direction. Everything does not happen in one fell swoop. Just the trends are important to look at this stage and I think it is a good trend.
Lakshmi Iyer, Kotak Mutual Fund
A rate cut of 25 basis was baked into the prices. No negative surprises per se. A little bit circumspect on growth, given the global headwinds which are lingering, which is pretty much expected. There is benign inflation outlook, less than 2.6 right now, therefore the cut in inflation. Bond markets obviously wanted much more. Therefore, there has been a small selloff so to say, but I do not think one needs to read too much into it because a bulk of it as I said was already baked into the prices. Hope will continue to probably keep the markets anchored. For now, it is largely in line with expectations.
Pronab Sen, Economist
Well, if I were the governor, what I would worry about is not so much what may happen in the next budget, the actual budget that will probably come in July. What I would worry about now is there is a huge amount of currency with the public, which has essentially been saved up for election purposes. This money is going to be spent within the next month and a half and a lot of this is going to come into the banking system. The banking liquidity position is going to change, fairly substantially over the next month and a half. That is what they need to be able to monitor, we worry about fisc once the new government comes to power.
Mythili Bhusnurmath, ET NOW
The central bank has stayed strictly as per what the market expected. There is a clear shift in the RBI’s policy approach... this is the first time that the policy statement clearly says that we need to support growth and though the rate action and the stance may not be very supportive of growth, Shaktikanta Das has shown a kinder face of the RBI to the banks.
Rakesh Mittal, CII
The industry was hoping that we will have a 50 bps cut but eventually it is 0.25. Industry welcomes it. It is a good start. On the growth side, I think, they have taken a realistic picture keeping all the industries in mind but we are hoping that it will beat the growth path.
Naushad Forbes, Forbes Marshall
It is a welcome reduction but I think we still have some way to go before we start seeing a recovery in industrial demand and investment. The Q4 was quite soft. Normally, Q4 is robust and strong regardless of other years has gone so we need to I think serious recovery in industrial investment and industrial demand we are not seeing it yet.
Tanvee Gupta Jain, UBS Investment Bank
Well, I would say till the time we do not see enough policy action in terms of monetary transmission, even though we have seen a 50 bps cumulative rate cuts, the transmission will be delayed and partial because of the wide gap between credit and deposit right now. If you look at the credit-deposit ratio, it is actually near an all-time high.
Shishir Baijal, Knight Frank India
The policy action ushers in an era of falling interest rate regime. We hope that the reduction in rate is passed on by banks to home buyers. Lower interest rates and along with the recent reduction in GST rates for under-construction properties should provide the fillip to end-user demand. The real estate sector has been looking forward to such stimuli to boost sales velocity.
Joseph Thomas, Emkay Wealth Management
The RBI has adopted a very sensible and pragmatic approach. It took cognizance of the likelihood or potential for inflationary pressures emerging from food prices and fuel prices, and also fiscal pressures from the large government borrowing programme. The liquidity management through OMOs, repos and also the occasional currency swaps would help a somewhat better propagation of the impact of rate modifications to the lower levels.
Anuj Puri, ANAROCK Property Consultants
Back-to-back repo rate cuts by the RBI are indeed the perfect start to a new financial year, resulting in overall reduction of 50 basis points since February 2019. This will augur well for the Indian real estate sector and keep the momentum going in the coming year. The RBI has done its part. The onus is now on the banks to concurrently reduce home loan rates further, thereby encouraging more fence-sitters to take purchase decisions and giving another boost to the real estate sector.
V K Vijayakumar, Geojit Financial Services
A key takeaway from the policy is the projection of benign inflation for 2019-20 which has come lower than expectations at 2.9-3 per cent for H1 and 3.5-3.8 per cent for H2. This means that the headline inflation for FY20 is unlikely to go beyond 3.8 per cent anytime... The stance has been maintained at neutral perhaps in the context of the rising crude price and concerns regarding a below normal monsoon.
Sameer Kalra, Target Investing
The votes pattern remained the same showing the continuation of rate policy dependent on the data. Given the volatility in inflation due to oil prices, the MPC has lowered inflation targets by 40 bps, keeping buffer rate cuts if the inflation goes lower. We believe this is a good position as higher cut would have showed weakness at macro level, but such policy decision gives confidence to the stakeholders that there is room for further rate cut, only if needed.
Mihir Vora, Max Life Insurance
A significant portion of market participants were expecting a change in stance from neutral to accommodative, which did not materialise. While the RBI had taken steps to improve systemic liquidity by conducting large open market operations (OMO) and forex swaps in the past few months, a continuation of these measures is important for the bond markets to remain positive. We expect one more rate cut in the current financial year and a shift in stance to accommodative if growth slowdown persists. Oil and other commodity prices and the monsoon rain remain key variables to monitor.
Khushru Jijina, Piramal Capital and Housing Finance
It is necessary to resurrect India’s consumer demand and economic growth before a synchronous downturn in advanced economies heighten market volatility. Today’s rate cut and moderation in liquidity coverage ratio coupled with recent instances of liquidity injections indicate that RBI is cognizant of these risks. These measures would certainly help ease liquidity and improve access to cheaper credit by India Inc as well as retail consumers. The focus to align the Indian housing finance securitisation market as well as the secondary market for corporate loans with international best practices as announced today will essentially deepen these markets and ensure better price discovery.
Amit Gupta, TradingBells
This was the first policy review of the new fiscal, and the final one before the general elections. The markets were expecting a rate cut of 25 bps, and hence we do not expect any short term volatility in the domestic stock markets.


After the Centre Area Transportation Authority was forced to change several of its services due to severe staffing shortages, it is seeking feedback from the community on how that has impacted them. CATA will hold a community input meeting at 5 p.m. Dec. 7 in the Downsbrough Community Room at Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen Street, State College.
The first COVID booster for kids could be ready soon. The Federal Trade Commission is trying to get to the bottom of the supply chain crisis.
The suspect in Wisconsin’s parade tragedy is now accused of a sixth murder.
Today is the last day of the Atlantic hurricane season.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating what’s causing ongoing supply chain disruptions that are causing hardships for consumers.
Houston Man Gets Nabbed For PPP Fraud After Buying A Lamborghini. Lee Price, III scammed the Paycheck Protection Program out of more than a million-bucks. The Justice Department says the 30-year-old submitted fake PPP loan applications to two different lenders for three phony businesses. Price applied for more than two-million in loans and received more than a million, which he spent on a Lamborghini, a Ford F-350, a Rolex, office space and a lot of time at nightclubs. He pleaded guilty in September to wire fraud and money laundering. A judge sentenced him on Monday.
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NBA – The 76ers won.
NHL – The Penguins lost in an OT/SO against the Flames.
NFL MNF – The Washington Football Team held off the Seattle Seahawks, 17-15 at FedEx Field.


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Seattle firefighters responded to a string of recent fires in midst of the COVID-19 crisis.
March 27 at 9:30 p.m.: Staff at the Jim Clark Marina reported a well involved fire that quickly engulfed multiple vessels docked at the property. Flames with heavy smoke billowed high into the sky making them visible for miles around. Nine engines, three ladder trucks, Fireboat Leschi, Rescue Boat Five and several strategic support units were dispatched to the scene.
Intense heat and limited access to the vessels on fire were immediate challenges our crews had to overcome. Two ladder trucks raised their aerial ladders to pour water on the fire while a hose line was dragged onto the dock to provide close range fire suppression. Meanwhile, crews searched every boat and confirmed no one was on board any vessel. Fireboat Leschi arrived shortly thereafter to provide primary fire suppression. Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire within 30 minutes while an engine company stayed overnight for fire watch. Investigators were unable to determine the cause of the fire and no injuries were reported.
March 28 at 10:45 a.m.: Multiple callers reported a well involved fire in a vacant building at the 600 block of Roy St, facing Aurora Ave N. The first crews on scene attempted a primary search of the two-story former hotel, but were forced to cease efforts due to the deteriorating conditions of the floors as well as heavy smoke causing poor visibility.
Firefighters transitioned to a defensive strategy with several ladder companies utilizing their aerials ladders to pour water into the building while additional crews used hose lines at the ground level. Trash and debris inside the structure continued to fuel the fire, but we were able to gain control of it within a few hours. Investigators were unable to determine the cause of the fire due to significant damage and risk of structural collapse. One firefighter sustained minor injuries and was able to make a full recovery.
April 4 at 05:15 a.m.: Crews responded to another vacant building fire at the 800 block of N 50th St near Aurora Ave N. Crews cut through a chain-link fence surrounding the structure in order to gain access and pour water on the fire. They transitioned to a defensive strategy as all the heavy smoke caused poor visibility and the conditions inside the building were unknown. The cause of the fire is still under investigation and no injuries were reported.