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Cindy has been a writer for a number of years. She enjoys sharing her life experiences and what they have taught her.
We are programmed from an early age to believe in a 'happily ever after' plan for our future lives. The fairy tales we are read as children involve idealistic views of life, where the Prince or Princess of our dreams will become our lifelong partner if we try hard enough to find them. The reality is frequently very different, and a vast amount of us end up 'settling' for a partner in life who is not perfect, but is good enough and who we love in a way that is not lifted straight from a fairy tale.
Can a Relationship Work If the Couple Is Not "In Love" or If Only One Person Is?
I am guessing that most people will immediately clamber on to their soap box and start claiming that there is no future for a relationship where the two people are not in love, and that this is obviously a very unhealthy arrangement.
But stop, wait a minute and think this through properly.
There are situations where this kind of relationship can work very well. There is a difference between being 'in love' with someone and simply loving them, and sometimes love is enough even without the absolute passion of being in love with the person you share your life with.
Here, we will explore the types of relationships where being able to say we are committed the person we are with is enough, and we don't need to be in love (in the old fashioned sense) in order to see a long and healthy future for the relationship.
Arranged Marriages, For Example
Think about marriages of convenience or arranged marriages. In the former case, the people are often already good friends and in the latter, if they don't fall in love with each other over time, they frequently end up loving each other in a way that is unique to the cultures where such marriages are commonplace.
Relationships Where Romantic Love Doesn't Matter
There are various scenarios where a marriage or relationship can work without the two halves of the couple being in love with each other.
For example: Imagine for instance a scenario where a mature man has no real interest in a sex life any more, or maybe he has a problem with impotence. He is an older gentleman who wants an attractive woman on his arm when he attends various functions, and is essentially looking for a companion as opposed to a lover.
Then bring into the equation an attractive woman who has medical problems that have effected her libido and ability to work.
She is a warm and genuine person who needs security, and he is a lonely man who needs companionship. If these two people hit it off and they grow to love each other as close friends, why would them having a successful relationship be so unlikely? They might marry and live an ideal life as both of them are getting what they need from the relationship in a symbiotic way.
Another example: How about a situation where a person is terminally ill. For them, it might not matter whether their partner is in love with them or not, so long as they care enough to not let them die alone. If their partner cares for them for whatever time they have left, then surely this is a good relationship. Probably both of them will accept the fact the marriage or relationship is not based on being 'in love,' but each of them has love for the other in their own way, and this is why they get together and stay together until the end.
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I recently read the a case of a married woman was diagnosed as terminally ill. Her dying request to her sister was that after she died, her sister would marry her husband. After she passed, the sister honored the dying wish and married her sister's surviving husband. I am sure they are not 'in love' with each other, but I am also certain they must have love for each other to be able to do this.
Can Friendship Be Enough to Hold a Relationship Together?
What about a situation where a couple is best friends with another, but not necessarily "in love"? Neither have been lucky in love but as friends, they love each other. In many ways they are soul mates. Would it really be so bad if they married or become a long term couple? These two people have loads in common, they know each other inside out, and even if they aren't capable of being passionately in love with each other, they can still love each other to a degree they would each willingly sacrifice their own life to save the other.
Measuring Up to "Our First True Love"
Many of us have a person whom we will always remember as "our first true love." Often, this relationship does not work out for various different reasons, one of which is probably our lack of maturity at the time we meet (usually in our teens or early twenties). We may go on to have other relationships, but deep down we know they will never be that first true love. So what do we do?
Well generally, we settle for someone whom we are either in love with (but not to the same degree at that first love) or someone for whom we care deeply (but are not 'in love' with). Frequently, these relationships will last for many years and work well.
When Love Isn't Shared
There are cases where one partner is 'in love' with the other, but the other person only 'loves' them back. In other words, one is experiencing intense feelings of passion, but the other feels only warmth and comfort. This relationship isn't a bad one just because there are different levels of emotions involved.
The latter partner might desperately want to be 'in love' with their partner, but simply doesn't feel that way. This is not to say they would ever willingly hurt the other person, and it does not mean they would ever want to be with anyone else. It only means that they cannot quite achieve that depth of feeling for the partner they are with, possibly as a result of previous relationships where they have been hurt very badly and they have now put emotional barriers up to protect themselves against further hurt.
Marriages of Convenience
For citizenship. There are marriages that are convenient because they allow people from other countries to live in countries they would otherwise not be able to (think green card). Whilst these marriages are sometimes completely fake, there are times when the couple do develop a love for each other as time passes. There are even occasions when the love was already there and this is why one partner agreed to help the other out by marrying them so they could remain in the country of their choice.
For company. I have heard of many cases where elderly people have been left alone after their spouses die and decide to marry another elderly person in the same situation. This second marriage is for companionship. In some cases, they were well past the stage of life where sex was important, anyway. Why would they want to spend the rest of their own remaining months or years alone when they could have a friend whom they love as their spouse for the rest of their days, someone they could go on holiday, share a joke, cuddle, and chat with? They don't have to be passionately in love with each other. . . all they need is compatibility.
Love Without Love
Certain relationships can survive and be healthy even if the couple are not in love with each other. Sometimes, simply enjoying each other is enough, and the all the consuming passion of being madly in love is not essential. It is often said your husband or wife should also be your best friend, but in some cases they actually are, and that is all they will ever be. . . how can we say this is a bad thing and that it cannot work?
What Is Love, Anyway?
How People Fall In and Out of Love. With modern analytical tools at their disposal, science has set its sights on how people fall into and out of love. Find out what love is and how people fall in love, stay in love, and in some cases fall out of love.
Can a Relationship Work With Someone Who's Never Been In Love? When you are dating someone who has never been in love before, it can severely challenge and alter the relationship.
Why You Should Choose Someone Who Loves You More. "Would you choose someone who loves you or someone you love?" My friend asked me this question when I was still in high school. A decade after, I'm still thinking about this question.
7 Ways to Cope When He Can't Say 'I Love You!' How do you stay in a relationship with someone who has never said "I love you?"

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A new report has taken an in-depth look at the UK public’s attitudes to climate change – and how this might translate into action.
The Net Zero Living report, led by the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST), and the market research company Ipsos MORI, is launched today at a public webinar.
The researchers polled 5,665 people across the UK in August 2021 and found broad support for policies that would bring fundamental changes to food, travel, heating and consumption.
However, they found this support was weak and fell sharply when potential lifestyle and cost implications were made clear. When the benefits of net zero policies, such as enhanced air quality, job creation or health improvements, were highlighted they found support increased.
Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, environmental psychologist at the University of Bath and Director of CAST, which led the research, said: “Our report shows that the public does support net zero policies, but that this support is fragile and influenced by how these policies affect individuals personally and whether they see them as fair.
“There is a clear need for policy-makers to engage with the public on the societal transformations needed to reach net zero and to ensure policies are affordable and fair.”
The report outlines previous CAST research which found concern about climate change reached a record high in November last year, coinciding with the UK’s hosting of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
This latest research found policies garnered higher support if they were seen as fair and embodying the “polluter pays” principle, for example frequent flyer levies.
While the public were found to be generally supportive of increasing the provision of vegetarian or vegan options through public food provisioning choices (56%), more coercive measures, such as taxes on red meat and dairy, enjoyed less support (47%).
Similarly, support was higher for electric vehicle subsidies (62%) than restricting car-based travel by creating low traffic neighbourhoods (53%). Both policies would reduce carbon emissions from transport and decrease air pollution.
The public was more convinced by arguments around increased green jobs than the environmental benefits of these policies. For example, seven in 10 (69%) were convinced by the argument that increasing vegetarian and vegan options would create jobs in the plant-based food sector.
The authors said the fragility of public support meant policymakers needed to better understand what concerns the public have around the implications of net zero policies in order to address these and be more effective at communicating the benefits. The report seeks to help policymakers, at both national and local levels, as well as business, navigate a route to achieve net zero emissions fairly and effectively.
Rachel Brisley, Head of Energy and Environment, Ipsos, said: “Transitioning to Net Zero will require us all to change how we work, live and enjoy our leisure time. Net Zero Living provides valuable insights for policy and decision makers regarding the types of changes the public are willing to make and where they are concerned about the financial and lifestyle implications.”
About this study
- Survey data has been collected by Ipsos’s UK KnowledgePanel, an online random probability panel which provides gold standard insights into the UK population, by providing bigger sample sizes via the most rigorous research methods. Ipsos interviewed a representative sample of 5,665 adults aged 16+ in the UK between 19th and 25th August 2021.
- Data are weighted by age, gender, region, Index of Multiple Deprivation quintile, education, ethnicity and number of adults in the household in order to reflect the profile of the population of the UK. All polls are subject to a wide range of potential sources of error.
- Where percentages do not sum to 100 this may be due to computer rounding, the exclusion of “don’t know” categories, or multiple answers.
- Questions are asked of the total sample of n=5,665 unless otherwise stated.

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The California Department of Motor Vehicles is proposing to lease approximately 2.32 acres of 101,010 square feet of land and approximately 2100 square feet of office space. The facility will house a staff of 8 along with 14 public parking spaces. This office will conduct Commercial Driver's License (CDL) skills test and associated uses.
The proposed project is consistent with the existing zoning, adequate parking is provided and the project would not result in a traffic increase greater than 10% of the front access road capacity.
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The UK is Europe’s crime capital, clamours the Daily Telegraph. Analysis of figures from the European Commission show a 77% increase in murders, robberies, assaults and sexual offences since 1998 - the year, the London daily reminds its conservative readership, "Labour came to power". The British, for instance, commited more murders in 2007 than any other EU country – 927. Statistics also reveal that at 2,000, the Britain’s violent crime rate per 100,000 population is well ahead of reputedly placid Sweden and the Netherlands, and even the US (466). The Telegraph doesn’t neglect to mention, however, that for researchers comparisons of crime data between countries must be viewed with caution "because of differing criminal justice systems and how crimes are reported and measured".
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Stakeholders urge innovative approaches to affordable housing
With the projection of Nigeria population reaching about 450 million by the year 2050, stakeholders in the built environment are advocating for the deployment of technology to bridge the existing housing gap in the country.
NIQS research conference begins in Bauchi
The third Research Conference (RECON 3) of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) will hold from today at the Zaranda Hotel, Jos Road, Bauchi.
FG sets up committee on national urban, regional planning commission
Following the appeal by town planners for the implementation of the 1992 urban and regional planning Act, the Federal Government has established a committee to study the provisions of the law and modalities to constitute the National Urban and Regional Planning Commission.
Imo charges World Bank estate owners N1m ground rent
The search for internally generated revenue by the Imo State Government may have caught up with owners of the World Bank Estate on the outskirts of Owerri metropolis, as the State authorities have directed the occupiers to pay over N1million as ground charges or risk their property demolished by December.
Sokoto, Zamfara spend N100m on federal roads
To ease transportation challenges encountered by commuters plying the Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi and Katsina to Kaduna routes, the Sokoto and Zamfara State Governments have completed the repair work on the 214-kilometre highway.
Taraba urges FG to refund N30b spent on roads
Taraba Government has appealed to the Federal authorities to fastrack the refund of over N30 billion expended on construction of roads in the state.
‘Imo urban renewal designed to attract investors’
Undeterred by the peoples’ criticisms on its urban renewal effort, the Imo State Government has explained that the initiatives will make the state one of the best in Nigeria and attract foreign direct investments.
Africa rejects UN-Habitat reform, new agency to tackle global urbanisation
African Group is of the view that the package of recommendations will not necessarily serve to strengthen UN-Habitat and enhance its effectiveness, efficiency, accountability and oversight, as envisioned in the New Urban Agenda.
Engineers implore government to outlaw telecom masts in residential buildings
According to her, electromagnetic radiation consists of electromagnetic waves (EM), which are synchronized oscillation of electric and magnetic field that propagate at the speed of light through a vacuum.
NIA plans West African Architecture Festival
The event coming up in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, according to the President, Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA), Tonye Braide will bring all architects in Nigeria and in the diaspora together to celebrate excellence in architecture.
Developer unveils transport master plan for Lagos Imperial City
The design is expected to incorporate footways, and pedestrian cycle shared space boulevard connecting the Marina to the central business district (CBD as well as reduce the reliance on cars as a means to reduce the burden added on air quality.


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House committee substitute makes the following changes to 1st edition.
Amends GS 135-43.3 to provide that the General Assembly may use Legislative Services Office employees and may employ contractual services to monitor the Executive Administrator and Board of Trustees, the Claims Processor, and the State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees (Plan). Makes conforming change.
Makes conforming changes to GS 135-43.3, 135-44.2(c) and (e), 135-44.4(31), 135-44.6(a), 135-45.7, 135-45.10(d), 135-45.11, and 135-45.13(b) consistent with the transfer of the Plan to the Department of the State Treasurer.
Bill Summaries: H 161 TRANSFER STATE HEALTH PLAN TO STATE TREASURER.
Bill H 161 (2011-2012)Summary date: Mar 2 2011 - View Summary
Bill H 161 (2011-2012)Summary date: Feb 22 2011 - View Summary
Transfers the State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees (Plan) to the Department of State Treasurer. Makes corresponding changes to GS 135-43, 135-43.3, 135-43.6, 135-44.2, 135-44.7, and 135-44.8 and corresponding repeal of GS 135-43.1 and 135-43.2. Further amends GS 135-43(b) to clarify that the public records provisions in the subdivision concerning contracts between the Plan and its third party administrator or its pharmacy benefit manager do not prevent releasing information that is not made a public record to the Plan’s Board of Trustees. Effective September 1, 2011.

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Murcof, Frank Bretschneider, Tim Exile and Coppé featuring Plaid are among the acts who will play all-day electronic music festival 23rpm in London. Taking over The Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair on Saturday, October 6th, the A/V festival’s fourth edition will also see live sets from Andrea Belfi, Christ., Sonae, Earth Is Flat and Karsten Pflum
Guest DJs include Sutekh, Si Begg, Sofia Ilyas and DF Tram while exclusive live visuals and staging will come from Observatory London - formerly lightrhythm visuals.
The day co-organised by Mango + Sweetrice Records and Bit-Phalanx Music will run from 2pm to 11pm.
Find out more about 23rpm in the YouTube video below. For tickets priced from £30 and information visit the 23rpm Facebook event page.

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This year, 60 CNG buses have been added to the BC Transit’s Victoria Regional Transit System fleet, providing a quieter, greener transit experience, and reducing the average fleet age. 25 new medium-duty CNG buses have now been activated in Victoria, joining 35 heavy-duty CNG vehicles that also replaced existing aging buses in February.
BC Transit is constantly updating their fleet to provide a reliable, comfortable service to their customers. While the average conventional fleet age in Victoria prior to this year’s CNG implementation was 12.5 years, it is now 9.8.
CNG buses are part of BC Transit’s Low Carbon Fleet Program to support provincial targets for greenhouse gas emissions and align with the provincial CleanBC plan. The benefits of CNG technology are both environmental and economic, with reductions in tailpipe emissions and operational costs.
FortisBC supplies natural gas for BC Transit’s CNG fleets, while the filling station, located at the Langford operations and maintenance facility, is maintained by Clean Energy Fuels.
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Welcome to the last ever Caturday on this blog. The outdoor feral cats adopted us in August 2017, and we’ve enjoyed watching them around the homestead ever since. But as with the ducks and chickens, it’s time for someone else to look after them, as we begin our new adventure in a motorhome.
So let’s take a last look at some of the cats. Here are two outside their house:
Spud sleeping in a cabin:
Cat outside the feeder:
And inside the feeder:
Porcini relaxing in a garden:
A cat eating, and another waiting outside:
Spud in a cabin again:
Finally, lets finish with an animated GIF of cats at their house:
We will miss watching the cats. But we’ll still have our pet cat Paladin, so cat pictures will continue on my personal blog.

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Welcome to Bible Answers
PERSON OF CHRIST QUESTION 22
Where is Christ in the Book of Esther?
The Book of Esther does not mention the name of the Lord or God and is looked at by critics as not belonging in the Canon of Scripture. Christ is in that book, but not mentioned by name. If you read the Genealogy of Christ in Luke, you will see that He goes right back to Adam. One of the reasons for this is that He was first mentioned as becoming a man in Genesis 3:15, And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. The Seed of the woman was Christ. So all those genealogies you read in the Old and New Testaments are there for the expressed purpose of bring the Seed of the woman into the world. This genealogy went briefly through Seth, Genesis 4:25, then Shem Abraham Isaac Jacob Judah David and it went 42 generations in Matthew that brought Christ from Abraham to His birth.
Now, the Book of Esther is basically a story of a young Jewish woman, who married the king and her uncle Mordecai, who was also a Jew. A wicked man name Haman tried to destroy all the Jews and plotted a scheme to destroy all of them. Esther 3:6, And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
Esther was brought to this place for a reason, and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Esther 4:14. It was through her and her uncle Mordecai that the plan of Haman was reversed and the Jews were not destroyed by Haman. He was hanged on his own gallows. Hence, Esther and Mordecai saved the Jewish line that Christ came from. Gods ways are past finding out, because He is God and knows all things. How marvellously He work in the Book of Esther.
All comments and questions to: Harold Smith
Updated February 14th, 2014 by Sandra Felix

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This section contains information, facts, and worksheets on famous authors, writers & poets through history.
For as long as people could communicate, they’ve been telling stories. Whether it was to pass down knowledge or to instill values, to teach lessons, pass social and political commentary, or simply to entertain, storytellers have created whole other worlds spanning hundreds of languages, cultures and centuries.
Some authors, like William Shakespeare (1564-1616), were responsible for shaping the way stories were told. Through his work, Shakespearean style emerged in poetry, theatre and even the English language, and formed the backbone of Elizabethan literature.
John Keats (1795-1821) and Lord Byron (1788-1824) are two examples of authors working in the English Romanticism movement. While Keats’ life was tragically cut short by illness, his works embody passion and vitality. Lord Byron, not much longer lived, travelled extensively and his exposure to different cultures informed his works.
Authors Washington Irving (1783-1859) caused thrills and frights with his Gothic novel Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Other authors were adept at describing the social injustices of their time. Victorian author, Charles Dickens (1812-1870), for example, penned many a story about work and living conditions in industrial London. Similarly, Howard Thurman (1899-1981) made waves across America with his depiction of human rights issues and the fight for civil rights by African-Americans.
Emily Brontë (1818-1848), along with her sisters, caused quite the stir by becoming an accomplished writer and penning stories under a pseudonym – as at the time it wasn’t considered proper for women to be authors.
In more modern times, many authors have been responsible for bringing the world of literature to children. Hans Christian Andersen’s (1805-1875) fairy tales are credited with laying the groundwork for bringing inanimate objects to life and personifying animals later used by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) and Beatrix Potter (1866-1943).
Bringing silliness and light-hearted joy to children were the iconic works of Dr Seuss (1904-1991) and Roald Dahl (1916-1990), who thrilled audiences small and grown with silly rhymes and funny situations.
Today, a generation of children have grown up with Harry Potter, the main character in British author J. K. Rowling’s wizarding universe.
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Mayor Ed Lee is running for a second four-year term without any prominent, powerful or well-financed opposition, making it likely he will be re-elected. But the 63-year-old Democrat, the first Chinese-American elected mayor, is facing five eclectic challengers (plus four write-ins) who hope the city’s ranked-choice ballot will deliver a surprise victory to one of them.
Backgrounds and policy agendas
Edwin Mah Lee was the city administrator when he was appointed mayor in January 2011 after fellow Democrat Gavin Newsom decamped for Sacramento as the newly elected lieutenant governor. As a condition of his appointment by the Board of Supervisors, Lee promised not to seek a full term that fall.
In an effort to promote economic development, Lee and the supervisors approved a six-year payroll-tax break for technology companies in the mid-Market and Tenderloin areas. The savings persuaded Twitter not to move out of San Francisco. The City Controller’s Office later determined that the deal had been a net financial benefit to the city.
Reneging on his agreement not to seek a four-year term — “I’ve changed my mind,” he said — Lee then ran on a platform of bringing jobs to the city. In November 2011, he defeated two supervisors and 13 other candidates to become San Francisco’s first elected Chinese-American mayor.
By August 2013, the city’s unemployment rate had declined to 5.6 percent, compared with 9.5 percent when Lee assumed office. But it is unclear whether the rate dropped because previously out-of-work residents had found jobs, or if they had simply left San Francisco, replaced by new residents who could more easily afford the city’s interminably rising cost of living. And although unemployment had risen slightly faster in San Francisco than throughout California, the city’s fluctuations had largely followed statewide trends. (By September 2015, unemployment stood at 3.6 percent.)
Soon, headlines and City Hall’s policy discussions shifted to focus on San Francisco’s housing-affordability crisis, and Lee’s agenda shifted to match. In his 2014 State of the City Address, he said all San Franciscans shared the blame for “a crisis of our own making.”
“For too long in San Francisco, we’ve tried to have it both ways,” he said. “We want more money for affordable housing, but too often we oppose or scale back the very projects that generate those funds.
“We demand that developers build more housing affordable for working people and middle-income families, but then we slow them down at every step, severely limit where and what they can build, and then express surprise when new market-rate housing is affordable only to the wealthy.”
30,000 new or rehabilitated homes
He went on to announce a “goal” of 30,000 “new and rehabilitated homes” by 2020.
That goal still factors prominently into his re-election agenda — but as we’ve written, his vision merely counted projects that were already planned for construction. In some cases, those projects’ developers had applied for building permits long before Lee became mayor.
San Francisco’s homeless population is growing, according to the most recent count, and today it stands at nearly 6,700. As part of Lee’s long-term strategy to get people off the streets for good, he committed $3 million in September to expanding the city’s Navigation Center — an experimental facility that has placed 60 people in homes since it opened in April. Lee said that City Hall is contracting with owners of various Single-Room Occupancy hotels to make 500 permanent homes available for the center’s clients by the end of 2015.
Lee proposed the original version of Proposition A, which will create a new affordable-housing fund if voters approve the measure. But the Board of Supervisors pressured him to increase the fund, from $250 million to $310 million.
Most recently, Lee proposed a new policy that would let developers build taller housing than is currently allowed, in exchange for pricing 30 percent of those new homes for low- to moderate-income tenants. The so-called density bonuses would apply mostly in northern and southeastern neighborhoods.
Lee’s detractors have criticized him for favoring the business community, especially the technology sector. But Lee has said his decisions strengthened San Francisco’s economy and increased tax revenues, allowing City Hall to hire additional police officers, firefighters and emergency workers, while avoiding budget cuts to local nonprofits.
‘1-2-3 Replace Ed Lee’
Three mayoral candidates have teamed up to unseat Lee through the city’s ranked-choice voting system. Through their “1-2-3 Replace Ed Lee” campaign, Amy Farrah Weiss, Francisco Herrera and Stuart Schuffman are encouraging voters to choose all three of them in any order.
Francisco Herrera is a musician and community activist whose political agenda includes building more affordable housing, saving San Francisco City College, and enrolling all residents in the city’s health care program.
Herrera supports Proposition I, which, if approved by voters, would temporarily block the construction of nearly all new, permitted, market-rate housing in the Mission District. But as mayor, Herrera said he would try to expand the moratorium citywide.
He says he would also try to extend rent control to also apply to businesses. State law currently make this impossible. Challengers Reed Martin and Stuart Schuffman also support rent control for businesses.
Weiss supports Proposition F, which would limit short-term rental hosts to renting out their homes a maximum of 75 days per year.
Weiss wants to double the number of affordable housing units in the massive development being built on Treasure Island. A little more than a quarter of the homes are planned to be below-market rate, but she says she would push to raise that to 50 percent.
To address the city’s persistent homelessness epidemic, Weiss suggests building inexpensive homes on slivers of unused public land throughout the city. About 1,500 such “remnant parcels” were identified in a 2009 study by architect and Unicersity of California, Berkeley professor Nicholas de Monchaux.
Weiss has a bevy of other outside-the-box ideas. She says that San Francisco should lead the country in building tiny, backyard cottages, which could be prioritized for former city residents displaced by evictions or rising rents, as well as teachers, nonprofit workers and others from economically vulnerable slices of the community. Weiss also says the city should become a leader in hemp research and product manufacturing. And she envisions a “Stewards of Peace” pilot program that would take guns away from a small group of officers to see if they could effectively police by relying solely on their “verbal and physical de-escalation training.”
Stuart Schuffman is a blogger and travel writer, known by the moniker Broke-Ass Stuart. He has said openly that one of his original reasons for running was to document the process. But by late July, he had begun formulating a political platform.
Schuffman has a four-point plan to reduce the amount of human waste on the city’s streets: create a new tax on citywide construction, using that money to build a fleet of sturdy, solar-powered public restrooms whose design discourages drug use or sleeping in them overnight; reopen all San Francisco BART and Muni station restrooms, which have been closed since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks; increase funds to companies and city programs that provide public restrooms; and give businesses tax incentives to let people use their restrooms without buying anything.
In the next decade, affordable housing will be built in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, and Schuffman says he would give recently displaced San Franciscans first priority to move into those new homes.
Schuffman attributes the city’s congested traffic largely to an influx of drivers looking to make a profit through Uber, Lyft and other ride-share companies, as well as private shuttles for tech workers. If elected, Schuffman said, he would try to regulate the local ride-share industry so that only Bay Area residents could drive for-hire in San Francisco. He also wants tech-worker shuttles to pay higher fees to use the city’s bus stops, earmarking the revenue to help improve Muni.
Martin’s agenda features many big ideas: Creating “Our City Fund,” which would put 1 percent of the city budget — about $90 million — toward implementing ideas from local residents; inventing a San Francisco-only currency; creating a small-business incubation program, in which the city would share initial startup costs and revenue with the owner; converting ground-floor garages in residences into commercial space for new shops; making it illegal for building owners to leave their San Francisco properties vacant for extended periods; and expanding rent control to cover new residential buildings. As we’ve written previously, expanded rent control would be impossible without first amending or repealing state law.
Westside subway, clean energy, legalized prostitution
Martin also says that San Francisco should build its own water-recycling plant, as well as a new western subway line to alleviate traffic on Geary Boulevard and other major westside arteries.
A supporter of CleanPowerSF — the forthcoming municipal utility system that breaks Pacific Gas & Electric’s monopoly on delivering electricity to city residents — Martin believes the program should be expanded to encourage installation of rooftop solar panels and wind turbines to make the city more energy resilient.
Kent Graham is a retired hospital administrator who boasts that, while he lacks experience in politics, he has an extensive management background. He has promised to serve only one term, to avoid the taint of quid-pro-quo politics involving colleagues, potential donors or even voters.
Graham says he has professional experience bringing “400 budgets in on time and at or under budget.” As mayor, he says, he would reduce inefficiencies in government.
Most of Graham’s policy positions aim to have tangible, immediate impacts on the lives of city residents — fixing potholes or eliminating traffic bottlenecks, for instance. But he has some larger ideas too: He would try to legalize and tax prostitution, giving City Hall a new revenue stream while freeing up police to focus on more serious crimes. (Schuffman said he, too, would support legalizing prostitution.)
Graham has also said that if elected he would reallocate some of his salary to hiring more social workers to help homeless people get off the streets. To help black residents get higher-paying jobs, he would ramp up workforce development programs.
Photos: Mayor Ed Lee mixed with students during a visit to Presidio Middle School.
Three of Lee’s challengers — Francisco Herrera, Stuart Schuffman and Amy Farah Weiss — held a ‘Cakewalk’ rally at the Civic Center.
Photos by Stella Sadikin /San Francisco Public Press


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Between the California US Senator Feinstein who is 88 years old and Speaker Pelosi who is 81 and running for re-election enough is enough its someone else’s turn! President Biden is 79 and there is even talk of Hillary running again and she is a youthful 74. Way too many of the even older baby boomers running the country when they should be sipping Pina Colada’s on a beach somewhere!
FDR was a youthful 63 when he kicked the bucket and everyone including the media knew that he wouldn’t make it thru his 4th term. In fact one quick look by Churchill’s Doctor at Yalta convinced him that the President would not be above the grass for much longer! Maybe we should be allowed to sue the Press when they commit malpractice!
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Are tandem bikes worth it?
A tandem takes both riders’ power and puts it through the same transmission so it doesn’t matter if one rider is working harder than the other. … A suitable tandem can even be a great way to introduce children to the skills of riding a bike on the road, and many parents prefer it to small solo bikes or a trailer bike.
What’s the point of a tandem bike?
A tandem allows two cyclists of differing strength and ability to ride together, pleasurably. The faster rider doesn’t need to wait for the slower one; the slower rider doesn’t need to struggle to try to keep up with the faster rider.
Is riding a tandem bike easier?
While riding a (2 person bike) tandem is not difficult, it is different than riding a single bike. “Tandeming” is probably a new sport to you; we like to compare it to dancing.
Can 1 person ride a tandem bike?
Sure, more friction and a lot more weight, but overall something any cyclist with a tiny amount of experience can handle. Riding a tandem solo isn’t a big deal. It’s just a big long heavy bike; as others have said easier than riding a tandem with a stoker if they’re not putting much power in.
Does Walmart sell tandem bikes?
Tandem Bikes – Walmart.com.
Why are tandem bikes so expensive?
Money is the issue? Tandem bikes are more expensive than 2 normal bikes and can only be used by two people. You need an extra-long brake and gear cables which make reparations much harder.
What do you call a bike with 3 seats?
A three-person bike is called a Tandem Bicycle. Anytime you ride a bike that has two or more people on it, it is referred to as ‘Tandem’ because of the formation of it, not because of the number of riders. However, a bike with three people riding it is also referred to as a ‘triples’ or ‘triplets.
What is a bicycle built for two people called?
The tandem bicycle or twin is a form of bicycle (occasionally a tricycle) designed to be ridden by more than one person. The term tandem refers to the seating arrangement (fore to aft, not side by side), not the number of riders.
What is a 4 person bike called?
A quadracycle is a four-wheeled human-powered land vehicle. It is also referred to as a quadricycle, quadcycle, pedal car or four-wheeled bicycle amongst other terms.
How much weight can a tandem bike hold?
How much weight can a tandem bike hold? This depends on the tandem frame. We’ve seen tandem teams with a total team weight of up to 400 pounds.
How do you carry a passenger on a bike?
Passenger should stand in the back of the bike with one hand on the driver’s shoulder and one foot on the back peg. Passenger Places their other hand on the driver’s shoulder, and other foot on the back peg. Passenger should lean slightly forward before the driver accelerates.
How much does a tandem bike cost?
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Are tandem bikes fun?
Tandems are famous for being the ultimate test to a friendship but they’re also a tool for bringing people together. What’s for sure is that if you love being with someone, a tandem ride will be way more fun than a solo bike trip.

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Bollywood one of the highest-paid bollywood actresses Deepika Padukone’s love relationship with Ranbir Kapoor has taught her so many lessons that what appears nowadays as she doesn’t want to disclose her latest rumored rapport with Ranveer Singh.
However, Deepika and Ranbir both pair believes most romantic on-screen, though she has experienced how to stay away from disturbing things while having love relationship hence she doesn’t agree to announce her love with Ranveer publicly.
Even the 30-year-old Bollywood actress showed marvelous chemistry alongside with former boy-friend in previous romance-drama release ‘Tamasha’, while both reportedly enjoyed the filming of the film that shows couple has nothing between yet but regrets.
Nevertheless, it is quite possible Deepika can announce her love rapport with Ranveer Singh officially in coming years but recently feels fear because she believes to declare publicly about love may kill the relationship.
Deepika Padukone is not willing to experience again regrets as well heart breaking feelings now hence tries to keep her recent rapport with Ranveer secret.
On the other hand, despite Ranveer and Deepy refusal to love relationship both were seen cozying, hugging passionately even kissing at events, though the actor was also with her when Deepy suffered from dengue and during the filming of Zoya Akhtar’s comedy-drama ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’.
One of Deepika’s self-made conversations has also proved her strongest relationship with co-star in ‘Bajirao Mastani’, in this some second clip she explained Ranveer in some special words.
Everything everyone has been watching on social media about couple understanding as well chemistry even both remain top headline in tabloids but despite that love-birds refused all rumors and reports about their rapport because feel fear of split.
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One of the Chinese banking sector’s most enthusiast adopters of fintech has seen a surge in lending and personal loans in particular since the start of 2018.
Bank of Nanjing’s third quarter financial report indicates that total loans were 466.94 billion yuan, for a rise of 20.05% since the start of the year, while personal loans were 121.624 billion yuan, for an increase of over 36% compared to the end of 2017.
The non-performing loan ratio was 0.89%, while the coverage ratio was 442.75%, putting Bank of Nanjing at the forefront of the Chinese banking sector in terms of asset quality and risk control measures.
The surge in loans arrives in the wake of Bank of Nanjing’s efforts to position itself as a leading fintech lender, by engaging in active cooperation some of China’s biggest tech companies including, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and JD.Com.
On 6 November Bank of Nanjing executed a strategic cooperative agreement with Chinese fintech company Longtou Lexin (龙头乐信), under which the two parties will engage in cooperation in the areas of instalment purchases, fintech, e-accounts and consumer finance innovations, with an especial focus on consumer sites and consumer finance.
On 26 October Bank of Nanjing executed a strategic cooperative agreement with former Baidu unit Duxiaoman Financial to jointly advance fintech innovations, engage in cooperation in the areas of consumer finance and small and micro-financing, as well as share the fruits of their collaboration with more than 100 commercial banks who are allied with Bank of Nanjing.
At the start of 2018 Bank of Nanjing announced an official partnership with JD Finance, becoming one of the first banks in the country to open a JD Finance “Bank+” flagship branch for cooperation in the areas of payments, loans and wealth management.
On 28 September 2017 Bank of Nanjing also announced that it would team up with Alibaba Cloud and Ant Financial to launch the Xinyun + (鑫云+) platform, which on 26 April became the first commercial bank distributed core operations systems to come on line in China.


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- Manchester City draw 0-0 but advance 3-1 on aggregate against Dynamo Kiev
- Arsenal lose 3-1 on the night and 5-1 on aggregate to Barcelona
- Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid also advance
Manchester City are through to the Champions league quarter finals after a 3-1 aggregate win over whilst Arsenal failed to comeback against Barcelona.
The busy week of Champions League action saw a mixed bag of results for the English clubs as Manchester City joined Barcelona, Juventus, and Atletico Madrid in the last eight.
The Citizens are one of eight teams that will be in the pot when the draw takes place on Friday after PSG, Benfica, Real Madrid and Wolfsburg booked their places last week.
Arsenal on the other-hand hand saw another competition slip out of reach as they fell 5-1 on aggregate to Barcelona.
The Gunners had an uphill task of overturning a 2-0 deficit at the Camp Nou from the first leg against the defending Champions, and that advantage was extended by Barcelona when Neymar struck inside 20 minutes.
January signing Mohamed Elneny levelled the score in the night but Luis Suarez quickly re-asserted Barcelona’s superiority to make it 2-1. Lionel Messi. The Spaniard’s saw the match out to ease into the last eight.
Once again Arsenal have fallen short in the Champions League round of 16, albeit against much superior opposition. With the FA Cup exit at the weekend and the Premier League slipping away with every Leicester win, the chances of the Gunners lifting a trophy are all but diminished. Is it time for a change in management at the Emirates?
City played out a rather lifeless 0-0 draw at home to Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday to seal a 3-1 aggregate win, but the victory was overshadowed by yet another injury to Captain Vincent Kompany. The defender went off with a calf problem in the first half after only just making his return to action. Nicolas Otamendi was also injured during the match.
The Premier League side are looking better in Europe after struggling in recent years, and may fancy their chances of going deep into the competition with a good draw. City will certainly fancy their chances against Benfica or Wolfsburg in the last eight but they would be keen to avoid the Spanish sides and PSG.
The match of the round came at the Allianz Arena as Bayern Munich came from 2-0 down to defeat Juventus 4-2 after extra time. Paul Pogba capitalised on a defensive mistake to put the Italian’s ahead after five minutes. Juan Cuadrado finished off a fine move to double the lead before the break as the Bayern faithful looked on in shock.
Robert Lewandowski got one back to set up a nervy final 20 minutes as the Old Lady looked to hang on to their narrow advantage. But Bayern kept pressing and Tomas Muller equalised bang on 90 minutes to force extra time.
The German’s took charge of extra time and substitute Thiago struck just minutes into the second half to send Bayern into the lead for the first time on the night. Kingsley Coman, on loan from Juventus, added a fourth two minutes later to send Bayern into the quarter finals.
Atletico Madrid and PSV Eindhoven played out another 0-0 draw at the Vincente Calderon to take their tie to a penalty shootout. In a tense shootout, Juanfran scored the decisive effort to send Diego Simeone’s side into the next round.
Thursday will see the Europa League return as Manchester United look to overturn a 2-0 deficit against Liverpool. Tottenham Hotspur have a mountainous task of coming from 3-0 down against Borussia Dortmund.
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As it continues participation at COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Guyana’s representatives are seizing every opportunity to spotlight the importance of a just energy transition and creating effective food security systems.
Specifically, Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat, who represented Guyana last week at an event hosted by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, emphasised that approaches to food security need to be compatible with action to adapt to climate change, as well as efforts to maintain forests and other ecosystem services.
At the event which focused on opportunities for new agricultural practices to address food security across the Americas, Minister Bharrat spoke of how Guyana leads the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Food and Nutrition Security efforts. He said, “Our mission is focused on ensuring the protection of our citizens’ livelihoods and our goal is to action ’25 by 25’ meaning to cut food imports by 25% by 2025, amounting to savings of over US$5 billion.” He also cautioned that it is impossible to separate these issues from action on climate change, which is the main focus of COP27.
Minister Bharrat was joined at the event by former Norwegian Minister of Environment, Mr. Erik Solheim – who had signed the ground-breaking Guyana-Norway Agreement in 2009. At the time, the Guyana-Norway Agreement was the second largest of its kind in the world and supported the 2008 Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).
For the period 2009 to 2015, Norway paid Guyana more than US$211 million in recognition of Guyana’s forest management – this money is being invested in renewable energy, adaptation to climate change, Amerindian land titling, information and communications technology (ICT) access in the hinterland, and development projects across the country.
At the event in Egypt, Minister Bharrat highlighted progress since the original LCDS was launched – culminating in this year’s launch of the LCDS 2030, which was produced after a seven-month national consultation.
Afterwards, the Minister discussed the LCDS 2030 with Solheim and updated him on plans to evolve the original Guyana-Norway Agreement’s system of payments for forest climate services to integrate with the voluntary carbon markets. He also explained how the document lays the foundation for a just transition to renewable energy resources.
Wasim Mowla, Assistant Director of the Caribbean Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, has called for Guyana to use the COP27 world stage to lead a meaningful coalition on food security.
In a recent column, he said many countries across the Caribbean, Africa and Asia are smaller States and simply do not have the same growing global presence as Guyana. The consultant said such a global coalition if led by Guyana, can play two key roles.
First, it can be an added voice that can call for more concessional and blended financing for vulnerable countries that need to invest in new technologies that can help withstand weather events and changes that disrupt food production.
Secondly, Mowla said the coalition can help aggregate intellectual, financial, and technological resources among its membership.
Further, he said Guyana can add visibility to its plans to re-energise its agricultural sector.
Mowla said no country has more potential or has more eyes on it than Guyana right now. As such, he said COP27 can be a turning point on food security for the producer of world-class, low-cost oil.


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I was initially reluctant to accept online therapy as opposed to an in-person experience, I quickly became comfortable sharing my thoughts and feelings in video counseling sessions. While I didn’t utilize live chat, phone or text messaging options, those services are quickly accessible, safe and could be equally useful for the ideal person.
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Around one-fifth of U.S. adults say they’re experiencing “high levels of psychological distress,” and 28% of them say the pandemic altered their lives in a major way.
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The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and need for vaccines has made the situation of the country much more miserable than anyone would have ever thought. In March 2020, when the virus just entered the country, it caused panic and restlessness among the citizens, and the government even introduced several lockdowns. The implementation of lockdowns caused another tragedy in that many people lost their jobs, and India’s employment rate went down severely. Of course, it was all due to the ‘unplanned’ and ‘spontaneous’ implementation of the lockdown.
With the development of vaccines by the Serum Institute of India, the citizens saw a ray of hope that the situation might improve now. But now, the vaccination drive has been halted in several cities due to the lack of vaccines. The government was busy distributing vaccines to other nations giving its citizens ‘false hopes.’ What is the reason for the vaccine shortage when there are not even 5% of citizens are vaccinated? Is this yet another unplanned or ill-planned move of the government? Are the citizens of this country who do their part by paying taxes for every single item are not necessary rather than distributing free vaccines to the whole world? We don’t know.
Vaccine shortage when people needed it the most. Who is responsible for this trouble?
Many provinces have reported shortages of coronavirus vaccines as the number of cases in India has surpassed Brazilians, making it the second-highest number of world cases. According to Department of Health data, the second wave of infections is causing severe damage in India. Health officials report 161,736 cases in 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to more than 13.6 million. The death toll has risen to more than 171,000, and now the country is diagnosed with one in six diseases every day worldwide.
“Now that the situation has gone even worse and we are receiving more than 2 lakh cases every day, India needs to fasten up its vaccination process and create as many dosages as they can to vaccinate every citizen of India like other countries.,” MC Mishra, a former director and doctor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, told DW. India extensively supplied vaccines to other nations, which caused massive disruption and imbalance in the vaccination drive. Here the question is, where are taxes paid by the citizens and the donations collected under the PM cares fund gone?
The situation may go even worse in the upcoming days for the country, experts warned. The cases have been rising exponentially, and the virus is doubling with its full potential. If proper and planned decisions are not taken, India might see a different virus extension.
India, the largest producer of vaccines, but the Indian citizens dying in their own country due to a lack of vaccines!
Serum Institute of India is the largest producer of vaccines in the world. Undoubtedly, during such harsh times when the vaccine remains our only ray of hope, India lacks the supply of vaccines to its citizens. The situation can’t get any worse! When the vaccine was developed in India, thousands of people hope to get rid of this terrible virus, going back to their everyday lives.
The vaccination drive began with vaccinating the frontline workers first, prioritizing the most important people who are working day and night non-stop to save several lives of the people. Then came the older people who fall into 45 and above age groups. But, not even 50% of these people are vaccinated adequately till now. Some bizarre news related to vaccination drive comes in the news every day, which makes us question, is this really the seriousness that we should have right now while the country is on the verge of deteriorating with such a deadly virus?
In UP, a nurse accidentally vaccinated a woman twice as she was busy on her phone talking to her relatives. Similarly, a nurse vaccinated a man with Rabies injection in some other state just because they lacked vaccines! It can’t get any worse than this. This is nothing but an unplanned and motivationless initiative of the government as they are risking its citizens’ lives and showing carelessness! The situation will get even worse if the government does not take any immediate step in controlling the virus and preventing it from spreading further. But they are busy rallying for elections and gathering votes.
Is the vaccination drive really going smooth, as the government claims?
While posts and comments were received from people across India about vaccines showing their current stock status and other people returning from vaccines without detection, the study tried to understand to citizens whether anyone on his social network was facing the first ten days of April that they or someone in their network will be vaccinated. The facility has run out of vaccines. In response, six percent said, “it happened to four or more people on my social network,” six percent said it “happened with 2-3 people on my social network”, and another 6 percent said it “happened with one person on my social network.” However, 76 percent saying “nobody,” and six percent could not “say.
The combined response showed that 18 percent of wealthy citizens in their social network were unable to access the vaccine during the first ten days of April. The data received 9,016 responses. Serum institutes produce as large as 2 million vaccine dosages daily, and Bharat Biotech produces 0.3 million vaccine dosages on the day. But it still takes some time for vaccines to prepare.
If India continues to vaccinate three million people a day and if these two providers cannot rate their product, India will need to import vaccines from other countries. The initiative is supported by 56 percent of the citizens surveyed in favor of India acquiring Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J to conduct tests and make the vaccine available here in June.


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WORLD AIDS DAY 2021: FORTY YEARS OF HIV, FORTY YEARS OF PROGRESS
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November 30, 2021 – Toronto – Tomorrow is World AIDS Day — a day to reflect on the current state of HIV and AIDS in the world, where we started, and how far we’ve come in the 40 years since the first diagnoses. It’s also a day to celebrate those living with HIV, take stock of where we want to go, and how we’re going to get there.
Forty years ago, the world reacted to HIV with fear and stigma, with those affected pushed to the margins of society. Many were tragically lost and many more forced into hiding. But things started to change as organizations formed to fight for the human rights of those most affected by HIV and AIDS, from the front lines of health care, to activism centered on improving access to treatment, to advocacy challenging hateful laws and policies that impede health care and support. The HIV Legal Network has been active in this area for almost 30 years, consistently pushing for legal and policy changes in Canada and around the world to respect, protect, and fulfill the rights of people living with HIV, LGBTQ2S+ people, people who use drugs, prisoners, sex workers, and others who are disproportionately affected by HIV.
In the past several years, we have seen major advances in access to harm reduction services such as needle and syringe programs and supervised consumption services, which have lowered the risks of HIV and hepatitis C transmission through re-used injection equipment. We have seen fewer and fewer prosecutions of people living with HIV in Canada, though even one is too many. And while there is still much work to do to reform drug policy in Canada and beyond, we have seen fewer prosecutions of people who use drugs in Canada, too.
But we must go further.
As the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and the drug poisoning crisis exacerbate the threat to public health, we need immediate law reform in Canada to decriminalize drugs and facilitate access to a safe, regulated supply. We need better access to needle and syringe and other harm reduction programs in prisons. We need to repeal sex work offences, which deny sex workers their human rights and access to labour protections. We need governments that continue to criminalize LGBTQ+ people to recognize the human rights of our LGBTQ+ community members. And we need to end HIV criminalization, in Canada and globally, today.
Canada has signed on to the UNAIDS Goal of eliminating HIV as a public health threat by 2030, but we are not among the over 40 countries for whom this is within reach. The number of new cases of HIV diagnosed in Canada each year continues to grow and we urgently need improved funding to turn the tide. In 2003, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health unanimously recommended that Canada double its HIV funding to $85 million annually. In 2004, the Government of Canada largely agreed, committing to gradually increasing it funding over several years, but that funding never fully materialized. Instead, we have seen a deficit of more than $123 million that should have been dedicated to the fight against HIV.
This year marks 40 years of living with HIV — and 40 years of activism to address the societal inequities that have allowed this epidemic to continue. HIV, like the current COVID-19 pandemic, thrives on marginalization and fear. If we are to see the end of HIV as a public health threat, we must fully fund the fight and commit ourselves to addressing the injustices that have fed it.
This World AIDS Day, we must refocus our efforts in pursuit of a world that is more just and more equitable for all, including people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.
Megan Long, Communications Specialist
HIV Legal Network
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Nashville may be well-known for its music scene, but that’s not all Nashville has to offer. These 8 restaurants have their own unique spin on Southern hospitality. So, pull up a chair and be prepared to experience some amazing food with these Nashville dining establishments.
Music City Bar & Grill Locals and tourists alike rave about the old Honky Tonk feel of the Music City Bar & Grill located- appropriately so- on Music Valley Drive. Enjoy dinner and drinks while listening to live music and performers. Feel like doing the two-step in the middle of dinner? They have a dance floor that will let you do just that. With walls filled with photos and memorabilia, you may want to visit a few times to soak it all in.
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Puckett’s Restaurant – Downtown Nashville Puckett’s originally opened in the 1950s as a grocery store in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee. They since have grown to 6 locations and feature live music and events for all ages. Serving breakfast to dessert, Puckett’s has a range of Southern comfort food for even the most discerning diner. Chicken and Apple Jacks breakfast platter, Pimento Cheese Bites, Smoked Meatloaf, Music City Hot Chicken Sandwich, and the Cinnamon Roll Bread Pudding are just a few of the recommended menu items to try. Wash it down with Puckett’s own homemade blackberry-citrus sweet tea or pick some up by the gallon to go. Dine-in or take-out, the food’s always good at Puckett’s in downtown Nashville
House of Cards Go underground inside the Johnny Cash Museum to House of Cards, a 10,000 square foot space that offers a unique and mystical dining experience for adults 21 and older. Guests are encouraged to wander the dining room to see magician performances that will awe and delight. A full magic show is free with entree. The restaurant features classic American cuisine and handcrafted cocktails. The menu offers a number of vegetarian and vegan options as well. With a strict no photography policy, as well as a dress code, this restaurant may seem buttoned-up but don’t be too quick to judge. Note: They do offer a buffet family brunch on Sundays, see website for details and dress code. Pick a card, any card at House of Cards
Black Rabbit Take a stroll down Printers Alley and you will come upon the chic, intimate Black Rabbit. Order up some snacks or small plates such as Goat Cheese Toast, Rabbit Rolls, Charred Corn Grits, and Mahi Mahi - which are just some of their selections. For heartier appetites, a ribeye or half chicken might just hit the spot. Craft cocktails named Devil’s Temptation, Goat Rodeo, Eastside Cowboy, and Hot Lips Houlihan (for those M.A.S.H. fans) are intriguing enough to try by name alone.
No waistcoat or pocket watch needed at Black Rabbit
Named in honor of Chef Julia Sullivan’s grandparents, Henrietta Red opened in 2017 and is well-known for its fresh, seasonal fare and oyster bar. In 2018, Henrietta Red was nominated by the James Beard Foundation for Best New Restaurant and made it to the semi-finals. In 2020, Chef Sullivan was a finalist for the award of Best New Chef Southeast. The menu is seasonal, and at the time of this publication, fall menu items include Spaghetti Squash Toast, Zucchini Tempura, Wood Roasted Oysters with choice of Green Curry or Peach Poblano Butter, and Winter Squash Salad. Enjoy the fine menu and Southern hospitality on Saturdays and Sundays for brunch.
Southern hospitality is at its freshest at Henrietta Red
Where can you get dinner, take a yoga class by the pool, and bowl a few strings all in one visit? Pinewood Social was an innovative addition to the Nashville scene in 2015. The idea of a swimming pool, bowling alley, restaurant/coffee shop all rolled into one had a few people scratching their heads, but it quickly caught on with locals and tourists alike. With American fare (a few Southern favorites thrown in) including vegetarian/vegan options, inventive cocktails, a pool/patio area, and bowling, it would be hard to say there’s nothing to do at Pinewood Social.
Get a snack, take a dip, or bowl a few strings at Pinewood Social
Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse Discover art deco décor with opulence at every turn, an upscale menu famous for handcrafted steaks, and lively entertainment at Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse in Nashville. An elegant night out is on the menu in dining areas with ornate chandeliers, red cushioned chairs, and tables set exquisitely with precision. The atmosphere has the look and feel of the 1920s era. The menu features handcrafted steaks with a sizeable list of accompanying sauces to choose from, seafood delights (including sushi), delectable desserts, and a fourteen-page wine list which includes a featured collection of wines from the Far Niente family of wines in partnership with Jeff Ruby.
Nashville dining at its finest at Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse
The Loveless Café Last but certainly not least is the Loveless Cafe, which, by the way, is so much more than just a café! The location hosts The Barn, an event space that has hosted the performances of many a famous country music star, as well as a market, a gift shop, and even an outside area set up with yard games that make it easy to linger all day. Local menu favorites include Biscuits (used throughout the menu from breakfast to dinner in varying ways), Pulled Pork Barbeque Omelet, Chicken & Waffle, Pimento Cheese and Bacon Burger, and Real Banana Puddin’.
Get some Southern love at the Loveless Café
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Mortgage Foreclosure Help – Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
If you need mortgage foreclosure help, be sure you get the best legal advice.
As terrible as it is to lose your house to foreclosure or agree to a Short Sale, at least it is a relief to put your biggest financial headache behind you, right?
Former homeowners may still be on the hook if there is a difference between what they owed on their mortgages and what the bank could sell it for at auction. And these “deficiency judgments” are ticking time bombs that can explode years after borrowers lose their homes.
It can even happen to people who got their bank to approve them selling their home for less than it is worth (Short Sale).
Many homeowners are now in the same boat. And not just those who took out bigger loans than they could afford or who did so called “liar loans” where they didn’t have to verify their income.
Because of home prices, borrowers who always paid their mortgage but who have run into unforeseen circumstances — like unemployment or a job transfer — can no longer sell their homes for what they owe. As a result, they are being forced to short sell or foreclose. Some are getting caught up in deficiency judgments.
Can they come after you? If borrowers ignore the possibility of deficiencies, it could haunt them.
Mortgage Foreclosure Help with a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
Have you met with a bankruptcy attorney to see if filing a Chapter 13 bankruptcy will give your foreclosure help? You need to set up a free bankruptcy consult with me.
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What can be scary is that the judgments don’t have to be obtained immediately or even be a large amount. Lenders or collection agencies may wait until debtors have recovered financially before they close in.
Lenders may release property liens in order to facilitate short sales without releasing borrowers from their obligations to pay under the promissory notes. The secured debt can convert to an unsecured one after the sale.
Sometimes lenders go after borrowers walking away from their homes if they have other assets.
If borrowers have any doubts about their risks, they should call me for a free consult for foreclosure help.
I do not favor any short-sale contracts that leave any deficiency that can be pursued.
When looking for foreclosure help, I offer a free bankruptcy consult. A Chapter 13 Bankruptcy may be an option to keep your home.
Contact me today: Ralph A. Ferro, Jr., Esq. (201) 446-5904


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These kind of instrument panels which can be completely reconfigured, are based on TFT (Thin Film Transistor) technology and features a new concept of man-machine interface and graphics. This new concept no longer requires the use of fixed dials or indicators, allowing screens and information to be adapted to different driving contexts and, as a result, to configure the instrument panel differently depending different situations/needs.
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Chinese tournament operator Funspark has selected the Berlin-based GRID platform to provide data integrity and visualization services for its upcoming Funspark ULTI 2021 series.
The CS: GO series with a total prize pool of $ 630,000 will run from March 29 to December 12 and will end with a grand finale on an as yet unannounced date.
According to a press release, the tournament is part of Funspark's initiative to develop the CS: GO ecosystem in Asia, as well as connect Chinese teams to European franchises. Funspark is also committed to creating global competition and promoting local talent in the process.
The GRID agreement continues the company's trend towards partnering with tournament organizers, with Funspark joining companies such as WePlay Esports and Esforce Holding as partners.
GRID will provide real-time statistics and predictions for all events in the series, as well as links to social media for dissemination. In addition, Relog Media partnered with the Funspark ULTI 2021 Europe Series to assist in its production. Note that GRID is currently collaborating with Relog Media in the Home Sweet Home series.


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Strategies are needed to reduce the environmental impacts of dairy farms, and these may become more important as our climate continues to change. Double cropping small grain and corn silages provides a strategy that can benefit dairy farms in the northeastern U.S. as they adapt to a longer growing season. Subsurface application of manure may also reduce nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) losses as the region faces warmer temperatures and greater precipitation.
Evaluate whole-farm production, environmental and economic impacts of adopting these strategies on a representative dairy farm in central Pennsylvania under recent historical and projected midcentury climate.
Farm management strategies were simulated using the Integrated Farm System Model to determine effects on crop yields, feed production, volatile, leaching and denitrification losses of N, sediment erosion, sediment-bound and soluble losses of P, farm-gate life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, fossil energy use, and production costs.
Double cropping increased and stabilized feed production by providing forage from a winter rye crop with less dependency on the summer crops of corn silage and perennial grasses. Summer crops are susceptible to summer droughts, which are expected to increase in this region due to warmer temperatures and increased evapotranspiration. Double cropping was more beneficial in the midcentury climate due to the projected increase in growing season length. Double cropping and subsurface injection of manure reduced total N losses by 12–18% and total P losses by 16–19%. Double cropping using broadcast manure application had a neutral environmental and economic impact on the farm. Adoption of these strategies provided a feasible adaptation and mitigation approach for future climate by reducing projected increases in soluble P runoff and ammonia emission caused by warmer temperatures and greater precipitation while maintaining and potentially reducing total farm production costs.
Whole-farm simulation provides a tool for evaluating potential benefits and tradeoffs of novel technologies and strategies as agriculture adapts to changes in climate. Although these results are specific to a dairy farm in central Pennsylvania, they generally apply to dairy farms throughout the Northeast U.S. and climates where similar changes in temperature and precipitation are projected by mid-century. Our analyses suggest that use of a more intensive crop rotation (double cropping winter small grain and corn silage) along with improved manure application technology (subsurface injection) can help mitigate dairy farm environmental impacts now and even more in the future.


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Hi, I have the implant. 3rd one. 2nd since having ds who is 6 this month. Implant will be in 2 years next month. I have been bleeding since November. Spotting to start but for the last 2 weeks more like a period. Went to see the nurse and she wants to do an extra smear test which is next week. I asked for the pill to take a long side the implant to stop the bleeding but she's not too keen on that idea. Any thoughts welcome on what might be going on?
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