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On Valentine’s Day, even the nation’s most romantic full-service restaurants understand there are decadent profits in the details. The National Restaurant Association estimates 25 percent of diners will splurge for something special on February 14, which has operators ramping up their offerings with everything from unique menus to rose petals to parting gifts. Similarly, the National Retail Federation found, in a 2015 study, that last year consumers planned to spend a collective $3.5 billion on going out for Valentine’s Day. For restaurants, finding a way to stand out from the crowded field, and capitalize on the second-busiest day of the year (following only Mother’s Day), can be key. Oftentimes, it’s a matter of elevating a fine-dining experience to an unforgettable one.
At Blantyre, a Relais & Châteaux hotel in Lenox, Massachusetts, the ever-romantic dining room, with its pink tablecloths and candles, is taken up yet another notch. Out come rich, velvet burgundy tablecloths and delicate lace napkins. Antique plates—different styles on each table—are pulled out of storage, and each table is adorned with a vase of black roses, “which our florist has to search for,” says Christopher Brooks, the general manager. “The whole atmosphere of the dining room changes that night.”
“We get a lot of repeat business so we want to make this night different,” he adds. And because of this, on Valentine’s Day, guests—who are mostly from the hotel—tend to stay longer and tables typically aren’t turned.
Valentine’s Day isn’t a day to play it safe, either, says Gregg Rapp, a menu engineer in Palm Springs, California. There’s profit in the romantic details, from the décor to the drummed-up ambiance. “It’s a great time to package meals and experiences,” he says. “Being creative will help your guests remember you year-round for romance. Valentine’s Day gives you permission to push romance buttons and better position your restaurant as a leader in the field.”
Sepia, a restaurant in Chicago serving upscale American fare, also dolls up its dining room for Valentine’s celebrations, putting floor-length ivory overlay tablecloths on the usually bare tables, adding flowers and candles to adorn each two-top, and serenading diners with jazz.
Diners have certain expectations for Valentine’s Day, says New York City restaurant consultant Arlene Spiegel. “They expect the restaurant to put them in the mood for romance,” she explains.
Setting the Mood
In addition to dressing tables with more romantic finery, some restaurants reconfigure the dining room to set the mood for an intimate meal. Petrossian, in West Hollywood, California, reduces the number of tables on Valentine’s Day “because I’d rather guests have a fabulous experience than have those two extra tables come in,” says general manager Christopher Klapp. This way, he explains, there’s more room between the tables.
Canoe, in Atlanta, does the same. This modern American restaurant seats 190 on a typical night but just 160 on Valentine’s Day because several four-top tables are converted to deuces. “Sometimes you’re better off making less money to have people enjoy the experience and want to come back,” says executive chef Matthew Basford.
Dabbling with the tables you have can be tricky; some can’t be removed and some look odd as a two-top. WP24 by Wolfgang Puck, on the 24th floor of The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles, circumvents that awkwardness by removing very large tables and using credenzas and plants as dividers on others, though only when guests can’t tell. This results in a dining room of 56 seats compared with the usual 106.
And since this restaurant is known to have some of the best views in town, other four-tops are set around the perimeter of the restaurant so guests can look out onto the city. Because the view is such a focal point, general manager John-André Wielenberg opts for displays of red roses and other red flowers, but tries to keep it simple, to avoid distracting guests from the view and the food, he says.
The Terrace at The Charlotte Inn on Martha’s Vineyard resets any four-tops into tables for two on Valentine’s Day, and turns a large eight-seat table in the center of its dining room into a service station for bottles. Little extras for Valentine’s Day include red roses for the women and decorative dessert accessories wishing guests a “Happy Valentine’s Day.”
The Melting Pot, which has 127 locations and is known as one of the more romantic chain-restaurant settings, embraces all the potential promise of Valentine’s Day, by expanding hours of service and elevating the experience—a strategy that’s clearly working: Customer counts are typically three to four times higher than on regular nights.
“We decorate the restaurants with lots of pink, white, and red, and have flowers everywhere,” says Mike Lester, president of The Melting Pot Restaurants. Franchisees (four locations are company-owned and the remainder are franchised) also work to make each Melting Pot experience even more intimate on Valentine’s Day, offering special dinner packages with rose petals scattered over the table or a Champagne toast.
Putting a Price on Love
Prix fixe menus are almost de rigueur on Valentine’s Day. They give the restaurant more control over the pacing of the meal and the timing, explains Justin Melnick, executive chef at The Terrace. “It tends to be more of a special experience for our guests when there are multiple courses thought out in advance for guests to choose from,” he says. “The portion sizing, for instance, is much more consistent for a multi-course meal when it is set up as a prix fixe menu.”
Offering the prix fixe menus also allows for better ordering of ingredients on the planning side, and it enables the restaurant to deliver faster service and thus shorter wait times, says WP24’s Wielenberg.
However, when prix fixe menus result in increased costs for diners celebrating a special night, it is not always the best option. “You have to decide whether making memories for your customers is more important than milking Valentine’s Day for every penny,” says Tom Frank, a culture engineer with Round World Management in Phoenix. “Making memories is much more profitable in the long run. [Valentine’s Day] customers can become the most loyal customers you could have.”
Blantyre always offers a prix fixe menu, and on Valentine’s Day, the restaurant adds an extra course or two, some classical romantic dishes, or a dessert-and-wine pairing.
Last year’s Valentine’s menu included a wild mushroom risotto with truffles and a chateaubriand for two. The prix fixe menu is priced at $180 for food, and the wine pairings start at $145, which compares to $125 for the prix fixe menu on a regular night.
Petrossian prints out a special Valentine menu that includes a prix fixe meal as well as à la carte offerings. Many diners like to take the menu home as a keepsake, Klapp says.
The menu doesn’t include any Valentine-themed items, he explains, because Petrossian’s menu is already filled with culinary aphrodisiacs like truffles, caviar, and Champagne. “We can’t push that too far and still remain elegant. We prefer to just accent a few dishes with items like those,” he says.
The seven-course prix fixe menu at WP24 is offered alongside the regular à la carte menu, and the latter tends to be more popular with earlier guests, who have additional plans like a movie, Wielenberg says. The prix fixe menu—priced at $150 or $250 with wine pairings—features a collection of luxury items like caviar, oysters, lobster, and Champagne.
But the final impression may be as important as the first, and WP24 always sends guests home with something, be it a red rose or house-made chocolate truffles in a gift box. “It’s a nice gesture and while the food is very important, what you take home is a feeling—it’s when all the little pieces come together,” Wielenberg says.
Joël Robuchon Restaurant and L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon within the MGM Grand in Las Vegas do the same thing. They gift female diners with a giveaway that’s always something themed, such as a red fruit macaroon in the shape of a heart. “It’s one manner of tipping our hat to the holiday and acknowledging the reason for many people having dined with us that evening,” says Sebastian Dumonet, the director of operations.
The Melting Pot’s chefs love the challenge of envisioning romantic recipes for Valentine’s Day, Lester says, and they submit ideas to the head office for approval up to four months in advance. These are intended for the February 14 prix fixe menus (there’s no à la carte option that night) but some are so good they end up being rolled out to all of the locations.
Similarly, the five-course prix fixe menu ($95) at The Terrace offers special foods, Melnick says. “Usually I start people with a red velvet beet soup, which has a nice lush deep look, and I typically offer a dessert for two to share, a sampling of two or three things—a nice, romantic way to finish the meal,” he says. “Desserts might include chocolate and hazelnut mousse, raspberry crostata, chocolate-dipped strawberries, or a chocolate and caramel tart.”
Canoe does not offer a prix fixe menu for Valentine’s Day “because I like to give people options,” says Basford. “Would it make things easier for me? Sure, but it’s about giving customers the best dining experience we can.” Instead, Canoe offers a slightly reduced menu and adds in some more exotic items like beef tenderloin and lobster—“things associated with the night and with romance,” he explains. “And this gives regular customers something different.”
The Joël Robuchon restaurants serve their regular menus (an 18-course tasting menu and four prix fixe menus) on Valentine’s Day. “Our menus are created for the season, and it wouldn’t do justice to the menu if we changed it for that day,” Dumonet says. “We don’t feel the need to change much since we are already a celebratory restaurant.”
A Memorable Experience
Overall revenue drops slightly on Valentine’s Day at the Joël Robuchon restaurants because sales of expensive bottles of wine drop as more customers drink Champagne, Dumonet says. However, at the same time, food revenue tends to be up slightly because more people (70 to 80 percent) opt for the $445 per head tasting menu (compared to around 60 percent on a regular night), along with one of the three wine pairings (six glasses of wine for $295, $595, or $995 per person). Wine pairings are down, however, since more people continue to drink Champagne throughout the evening.
But overall, people splurge on Valentine’s Day, he says. “People are willing to spend a little more on their loved one. Instead of domestic caviar they might get a nicer, imported caviar. They’re also willing to splurge on some of the smaller things, like pairing all of their courses, or getting a nice Cognac or after-dinner drink,” Dumonet says.
At New York City’s famed Gramercy Tavern, there’s a focus on tradition as well as innovation. “Some people come to us every year for Valentine’s Day,” says general manager Kim DiPalo, “so we just want to keep it interesting.”
The restaurant is considering making changes to its Valentine’s menu this year, perhaps offering just its seven-course tasting menus (including a vegetarian option). The dishes served will include some favorites as well as some new dishes. “We make tweaks to add some surprises,” DiPalo says.
Average checks at Canoe go up slightly on February 14, mostly because wine sales—especially by the glass and Champagne—are higher (though more bottles sell if Valentine’s Day lands on a weekend) and there are more dessert sales. Desserts are a little more lavish, too, Basford says, with additional chocolate-based items such as chocolate-covered strawberries with a brownie, strawberry ice cream, and toasted meringue. He also likes to offer a shareable dessert such as raspberry-filled chocolate cake with chocolate ganache, Chantilly cream, and fresh berries.
The service is the most vital aspect of the experience on Valentine’s Day, Basford believes. “We want guests to come back another night. The service is the most vital part of [making sure] people leave with a positive lasting impression,” he says. Adds Frank: “This is the day to make emotional connections with your customers.”


Aerojet Rocketdyne successfully conducts hot-fire test of SLS RS-25
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — On Thursday, Aug. 13, Aerojet Rocketdyne (Rocketdyne) and NASA successfully carried out a hot-fire test of one of the aerospace firm’s RS-25 engines at the space agency’s Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi. The RS-25, formerly known as the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), powered the Shuttle to orbit for 30 years and is now being upgraded and tested for use on the agency’s new Space Launch System (SLS).
During Thursday’s test, the RS-25 burned its cryogenic fuel of liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX) for approximately 535 seconds (expected flight duration) and generated some 1,859 kN (418,000 lbf) of thrust. The test took place at Stennis’ A-1 test stand which was originally built to test the Saturn V second (S-II) stage and its five J-2 engines.
This latest test was the sixth, in a planned series of seven, which will be used to determine how the engines perform with higher pressure and lower temperature SLS fuel conditions.
The test series will also check out the design of a new controller that monitors the RS-25’s performance and serves as a relay between the engine and the launch vehicle while providing close-looped control of the engine by regulating thrust and fuel mixture ratio.
The RS-25 has a 1960s heritage, and its development began in the 1970s, but it’s undergone five major redesigns and is considered one of the most efficient engines ever produced.
The engine weighs in at approximately 7,700 pounds (3.49 metric tons) and is capable of delivering a specific impulse (/sp), at sea level, of 366 seconds (3.59 km/s). It’s also capable of throttling between 67 and 109 percent of its rated performance, and NASA / Rocketdyne officials are hopeful of increasing this capability to 111 percent after the first few SLS flights.
The RS-25 flew on the aft end of the Shuttle orbiters in clusters of three, but the SLS core stage will be powered by four.
Jim Paulsen, Rocketdyne’s vice president of Program Execution for Advanced Space and Launch, explained: “I’ve been with Rocketdyne 38 years. I worked on shuttle for most of my career, so this is very exciting to see that many of the [Shuttle] products move on and have a life after that.”
The SLS, as well as the Orion capsule being built to fly atop it, will allow the space agency to return crews beyond low-Earth orbit (LEO) for the first time since the early 1970s.
The first SLS mission, Exploration Mission One (EM-1), is scheduled to fly an uncrewed Orion around the Moon in 2018. After that, the agency has plans for an asteroid redirect mission (ARM) where astronauts will fly SLS / Orion to the vicinity of the Moon and rendezvous with a portion of an asteroid previously towed to lunar orbit by a robotic craft. And then, as the ultimate goal, NASA intends to send the first crews to Mars, aboard SLS / Orion, sometime in the 2030s.
Scott earned both a Bachelor's Degree in public administration, and a law degree, from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He currently practices law in the Birmingham suburb of Homewood. Scott first remembers visiting Marshall Space Flight Center in 1978 to get an up-close look at the first orbiter, Enterprise, which had been transported to Huntsville for dynamic testing. More recently, in 2006, he participated in an effort at the United States Space and Rocket Center (USSRC) to restore the long-neglected Skylab 1-G Trainer. This led to a volunteer position, with the USSRC curator, where he worked for several years maintaining exhibits and archival material, including flown space hardware. Scott attended the STS - 110, 116 and 135 shuttle launches, along with Ares I-X, Atlas V MSL and Delta IV NROL-15 launches. More recently, he covered the Atlas V SBIRS GEO-2 and MAVEN launches, along with the Antares ORB-1, SpaceX CRS-3, and Orion EFT-1 launches.


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Can anyone point me as to what narrative references would help me to prove that Brown can be forgiven for what he became after his trip?I have to write an essay on whether or not Brown can be ...
Can anyone point me as to what narrative references would help me to prove that Brown can be forgiven for what he became after his trip?
I have to write an essay on whether or not Brown can be forgiven for what he has become after his trip. I feel he can because everyone can be forgiven if one simply asks, but I need supporting narrative and I am not great at comprehension or making inferences.
One of the themes of Hawthorne's narratives on the Puritans is the unforgiving nature of this sect. His novel "Scarlet Letter" and short story "The Minister's Black Veil" underscore this theme of the Puritanical, sanctimonious condemnation of anyone who "sins." As such a sanctimonious, self-righteous Puritan--he must be judged in the context of this Puritanism in Hawthorne's story--Goodman Brown, too, allows for no forgiveness. Throughout the story, because of the limitations of his Puritan faith, Brown never understands himself; instead, he perceives others as sinful and faithless. Thus, after his "dream," he becomes
a stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, in not a desperate man...from the night of that fearful dream. On the Sabbath day, when the congregation were singing a holy psalm, he could not listen because an anthem of sin rushed loudly upon his ears and drowned all the blessed strain. When the minister spoke from the pulpit with power and fervid eloquence, and with his hand on the open Bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant death and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.
The question, then, is not whether Goodman Brown can be forgiven, but whether Brown can forgive others that, in his Puritanical self-righteousness, he perceives as condemned. To use the Puritan/Calvinistic term, these people are the "damned" and Brown a member of the "elect."
Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "Goodman Brown," like his other narratives, examines the unforgiving and stringent nature of Puritanic Calvinism that denies the humanity of man. This religion adamantly refuses to acknowledge the possibility of redemption. For this reason, the "desperate" young Goodman Brown in his Puritanism cannot forgive his community and perceives them as "blasphemers" when he, himself, is the man who has lost faith in his despair.

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Observation is made of the difficulties and processes which future teachers of mathematics encounter in the construction of some concepts in geometry during training. In this research, special attention is paid to the vocabulary the trainees employ and to the materil instruments they select in order to construct aids for teaching mathematics in situations where the body, as well as thought, is active and where the senses have been activated in order to find out about space.
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Kim Kardashian Wants to Rival Royal Wedding
Her nuptials to Kris Humphries are "not going to be small," warns her sister, Khloe.
Kim Kardashian is planning a blowout wedding to New Jersey Nets forward Kris Humphries.
"People keep asking us, 'When is it?' She doesn't know," Khloé told People.com at the Forbes Celebrity 100 event. "But you know, Kim goes big. It's not going to be small. And I joke and I say it will be like the Royal Wedding, because she is just like that." GALLERY: See Kardashian Inc. in pictures
Khloe's wedding to Lamar Odom was taped for an E! special, and Kim’s will likely play into their franchise of reality shows on the network as well.
"I'm looking forward to being in the wedding," Khloe said. "I don't want to help because Kim is going to be such a bridezilla! If I do one thing wrong, I'll be screwed! But I would love to be in the wedding."
She expects to be a bridesmaid. "[Kourtney and Kim] were both my maids of honor, so she has to do the same for us," Khloé said.
Her husband, who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers, is pleased another NBA star is joining the family, but says what really matters is "if she's happy. Whether he's an NBA player, a fireman, a policeman, whatever it may be, as long as she's happy."
The Hollywood Reporter revealed earlier this month that People magazine paid $300,000 for Kardashian's engagement photos. A rep for the reality star had no comment.
The Kardashians earned $65 million last year.

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ATLANTA, Ga. (WJBF) – More than a million Georgians have already received the COVID-19 vaccine since doses rolled mid December.
With a 70-percent increase in supply since January, Governor Brian Kemp is expanding the criteria for who can get a vaccine in the weeks ahead.
Atlanta Bureau Chief, Archith Seshadri, explains the new changes from the State Capitol.
Governor Brian Kemp says Georgia teachers will now be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine.
“We must have every student back in the classroom, 5 days a week, statewide.”
The governor says teachers should work with the Department of Education and Health if they want a dose starting March 8th.
“We cannot afford to wait for full in person learning any longer. Our children cannot afford to wait until fall.”
But the expanded list does not include college students and staff.
“Effective March 8th, the following groups will be eligible, k-12 and school staff, and includes both public and private schools, pre-k educators, adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their caregivers, and parents with children who have complex medications.”
Governor Kemp hopes to expand the criteria next month for those with severe and underlying health conditions — who are not over the age of 65.
“To avoid confusion over phases and what different states are labeling, we will not use 1a+ or 1b+. To ensure it is simple, Dr. Toomey will be listing those who are currently eligible as we move forward with expanding criteria.”
A recent survey showed that only half of Georgia’s teachers were interested in getting vaccinated.


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In order to achieve control over single electrons in a bunch, ultrashort light pulses of a few femtoseconds duration are needed. Physicists of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching and chemists of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich succeeded for the first time to use light for controlling single, negatively charged elementary particles in a bunch of electrons.
The scientists achieved a major milestone that they aimed for within the excellence cluster “Munich Center for Advanced Photonics” (MAP). (Physical Review Letters, 1 September 2009).
Electrons are extremely fast moving particles. In atoms and molecules they move on attosecond timescales. An attosecond is only a billionth of a billionth of a second. With light pulses that last only a few femtoseconds down to attoseconds it is possible to achieve control over these particles and to interact with them on the timescale of their motion.
These short light pulses exhibit strong electric and magnetic fields influencing the charged particles. A femtosecond lasts 1000 times longer than an attosecond. In molecules with only a single electron, such as the deuterium molecular ion, their control with such light pulses is relatively easy. This was demonstrated in 2006 by a team of physicists including Professor Marc Vrakking and Dr. Matthias Kling from AMOLF in Amsterdam and Professor Ferenc Krausz in Garching (MPQ).
Scientists led by the junior research group leader Dr. Matthias Kling (MPQ) in collaboration with Professor Marc Vrakking (AMOLF) and Professor Regina de Vivie-Riedle (LMU) have managed to control and monitor the outer electrons from the valence shell of the complex molecule carbon monoxide (CO) utilizing the electric field waveform of laser pulses. Carbon monoxide has 14 electrons. With increasing number of electrons in the molecule the control over single electrons becomes difficult as their states lie energetically very close to each other.
In their experiments the scientists used visible (740 nm) laser pulses with 4 femtoseconds duration. The control was experimentally determined via an asymmetric distribution of C+ and of O+ fragments after the breaking of the molecular bond. The measurement of C+ and O+ fragments implies a dynamic charge shift along the molecular axis in one or the other direction, controlled via the laser pulse.
The femtosecond laser pulses initially detached an electron from a CO molecule. Subsequently the electron was driven by the laser field away from and back to the ion, where it transferred its energy in a collision. The whole process took only ca. 1.7 femtoseconds. ”The collision produces an electronic wave packet which induces a directional movement of electrons along the molecular axis,” says Regina de Vivie-Riedle. ”The excitation and subsequent interaction with the remainder of the intense laser pulse leads to a coupling of electron and nuclear motion and gives a contribution to the observed asymmetry,” explains Matthias Kling.
The scientists could also image the structure and form of the outer two electron orbitals of carbon monoxide via the ionization process. The extremely short femtosecond laser pulses allowed the scientists to explore this process in the outermost orbitals. They found the ionization of the molecules to take place with a distinct angular dependence with respect to the laser polarization direction. This observation was found to be in good agreement with theoretical calculations and also gave a contribution to the observed asymmetry. The scientists could show that the strength of this asymmetry strongly depends on the duration of the laser pulses.
With their experiments and calculations, the researchers from Garching and Munich have achieved an important milestone that they aimed for within the excellence cluster “Munich Center for Advanced Photonics” (MAP). The goals were to achieve and observe the control of single electrons within a multi-electron system.
Electrons are present in all important microscopic biological and technical processes. Their extremely fast motion on the attosecond timescale, determines biological and chemical processes and also the speed of microprocessors – technology at the heart of computing. With their experiments the researchers have made a further, important step towards the control of chemical reactions with light. The results are also related to basic research on lightwave electronics aiming at computing speeds on attosecond timescales.Full bibliographic information
Matter falling into a black hole at 30 percent of the speed of light
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Scientists solve the golden puzzle of calaverite
24.09.2018 | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
The building blocks of matter in our universe were formed in the first 10 microseconds of its existence, according to the currently accepted scientific picture. After the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago, matter consisted mainly of quarks and gluons, two types of elementary particles whose interactions are governed by quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interaction. In the early universe, these particles moved (nearly) freely in a quark-gluon plasma.
This is a joint press release of University Muenster and Heidelberg as well as the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt.
Then, in a phase transition, they combined and formed hadrons, among them the building blocks of atomic nuclei, protons and neutrons. In the current issue of...
Thin-film solar cells made of crystalline silicon are inexpensive and achieve efficiencies of a good 14 percent. However, they could do even better if their shiny surfaces reflected less light. A team led by Prof. Christiane Becker from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has now patented a sophisticated new solution to this problem.
"It is not enough simply to bring more light into the cell," says Christiane Becker. Such surface structures can even ultimately reduce the efficiency by...
A study in the journal Bulletin of Marine Science describes a new, blood-red species of octocoral found in Panama. The species in the genus Thesea was discovered in the threatened low-light reef environment on Hannibal Bank, 60 kilometers off mainland Pacific Panama, by researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama (STRI) and the Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR) at the University of Costa Rica.
Scientists established the new species, Thesea dalioi, by comparing its physical traits, such as branch thickness and the bright red colony color, with the...
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Alpine says it will continue and extend its endurance program. The brand will compete in the LMDh premier class1 – aka Hypercar – starting in 2024 with the support of Signatech, which is currently working with the Alpine F1 Team.
A French team – Alpine Elf Matmut took the third podium spot at LeMans this year, with the Alpine A480 Gibson driven by Andre Negrao, Nicolas Lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere finishing four laps behind the race-winning Toyota.
Alpine says it wants to add new entries to its list of achievements. From 2024 onwards, Alpine will enter the LMDh, one of the two regulations of the Hypercar category. Alpine will field two cars designed around an Oreca chassis and, bien sûr, an Alpine engine developed at Viry-Châtillon. The power unit will derive with all the expertise acquired in Formula 1 by Renault.
Since Alpine’s return to endurance racing in 2013 in partnership with Signatech, victories have come. First in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS) with the drivers’ and teams’ titles in 2013 and 2014. Then on the world stage in the FIA WEC, with two titles (2016 and 2019) and three wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the very competitive LMP2 category (2016, 2018 and 2019), plus the podium in the Hypercar category this year.
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1 The Confusing Le Mans Top Classes
The top class in the FIA World Endurance Championship this 2021 year, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans, is Hypercar. Two types are eligible: LMH (Le Mans Hypercar starting in 2021) and LMDh (Le Mans Daytona h starting in 2023). In 2023, both types of cars will hit the track together in the FIA WEC and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Therefore, they will be seen at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
For the 2021 Hypercar class, only cars compliant with Le Mans Hypercar technical regulations will be on the track. This allows for a variety of architectures, specifically watch for a hybrid system on the front axle. In 2023, constructors having voted to follow the LMDh regulations will compete in the Hypercar class. In LMDh there will be four chassis manufacturers: Dallara, Multimatic, Ligier and ORECA. The engine, bodywork and hybrid system will come from the automaker in a move to save what has become an absurdly expensive class of racing.

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Poundland has been given the all clear to buy its rival 99p Stores for £55m by the Competition Markets Authority (CMA).
The competition watchdog launched an investigation into the deal in April following concerns that the merger would reduce the quality of goods and promotions in-store.
However, this morning the CMA said: “The companies are each other’s closest competitors but after the merger they will still face competition from other value retailers such as B&M, Home Bargains, Wilko and Bargain Buys, along with Tesco, and to an extent, Asda.”
Stiff competition on the high street from other multiples means that, according the CMA, shoppers would not have a reduction in choice or a lower-quality service as a result of the merger.
The inquiry group’s approval will result in Poundland extending its network to 800 stores nationwide.
CMA inquiry group chair Philip Marsden said: “There has been a significant rise in prominence of value retailers for UK shoppers. Our evidence indicates that customers are primarily attracted to Poundland and 99p Stores because of their affordability and see them as good alternatives to each other. Nevertheless some customers can and do switch to other types of discount retail chains.”
We have also seen in recent years the Big Four supermarkets engaging in intense price competition, some of which involving the promotion of £1 products. On the basis of the evidence to date, we do not think customers will be worse off from the merger.”
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SARATOGA SPRINGS – The New York Racing Association, Inc. will donate all net proceeds from clubhouse and grandstand admission on Monday, September 2, the final day of the 150th anniversary meet at Saratoga Race Course, to the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund (PDJF), announced The New York Racing Association CEO and President Chris Kay.
The donation will be made in honor of three-time Eclipse Award Outstanding Jockey winner Ramon Dominguez, who announced his retirement in June following injuries sustained in an accident at Aqueduct Racetrack in January. During his career, Dominguez won 4,985 races and earned nearly $200 million in purses.
Gates open at 11 a.m. on the meet’s final day with a special first post time of 12:30 p.m.
“Ramon is one of the best ambassadors for thoroughbred racing that the industry has known. We are proud to make this donation to the PDJF in Ramon’s name,” said Kay. “I invite all our fans to join us on our final day of racing while supporting a great cause as we conclude the 150th anniversary season at Saratoga Race Course.”
On Monday, leading riders from the Saratoga jockey colony will host an autograph signing for fans with a suggested donation to PDJF in front of the jockey silks room from noon to 12:30 p.m. Additional jockeys will greet fans and sign autographs between races throughout the day.
The money generated from admissions and customer donations on Labor Day will add to a $15,000 contribution that The New York Racing Association made to the PDJF on behalf of Dominguez during a recent tribute at Saratoga Race Course.
Additionally on Labor Day, fans will be invited to enter-to-win for the opportunity to take home memorabilia from the sesquicentennial that has been displayed on-track throughout the meet. Entry forms will be available at the admission gates and must be turned in at the Guest Services Information Booths no later than 2 p.m. Winners will be announced at 4 p.m. and must claim their prize at Guest Services by the end of the day.
The first 10,000 fans in attendance will also receive a magnet featuring the fall 2013 racing schedule at Belmont Park.
The final Grade I of the meet will be the 109th running of The Hopeful for two-year-olds, offering racing fans a look at some of the possible stars of the 2014 Triple Crown campaign and Travers.
Families can enjoy the second day of the Family Fun Fest from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with children’s activities returning to the backyard, including carnival games, magicians, caricatures and pony rides.
For additional information about events at Saratoga Race Course, visit www.nyra.com/saratoga/information/events.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Fingerpaint’s Parking for a Purpose program still has dates available for charitable organizations looking to utilize the company’s parking lot on Division Street for fundraising.
HALFMOON—Former Albany Police Officer Robert Schunk's last appeal was denied by the Court of Appeals, and he now stands convicted of criminal mischief, misdemeanor, and second degree Harassment for a crime in Halfmoon after jury trial. Schunk must surrender to Saratoga County Jail to start serving his year sentence.
SARATOGA SPRINGS—Two Saratoga Springs police officers involved in an altercation while off duty were cleared of any wrongdoing in the incident. On June 3, William Arpei and another unidentified Saratoga Springs Police Department officer had been at a downtown Caroline Street bar. Arpei and Christopher Raible of Delanson had a brief discussion where Arpei’s and the other officer’s occupations were discussed. According to police, the conversation ended amicably and Raible walked away.
SARATOGA SPRINGS—The woman attempting to cross Ballston Avenue who was struck and killed Friday afternoon has been identified as 55-year-old Jamie Jo McBride from Mukilteo, Washington. The man accused of striking her with his truck and running her over , Paul Nicholson II, 28, has been charged with first degree vehicular manslaughter and DWI and is still incarcerated at Saratoga County Jail charged with vehicular manslaughter.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Each year in May as part of National Historic Preservation Month, Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation recognizes individuals and organizations that have completed preservation projects in the past year.
MALTA — Around the year 2008, a group of Saratoga Springs residents banded together in an effort to convince New York State legislators to plant a botanical garden in Spa State Park, but to no avail as it was ultimately denied inclusion into the state park’s master plan. Though many still had interest in forming a botanical garden somewhere in Saratoga County, the group’s steam was lost and the effort faded away.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS – While the January NEACA Arms Fair may have come and gone without incident, the debate over whether the city should continue to allow future gun shows to take place raged on during the public comment portion of the January 15 Saratoga Springs City Council meeting.
With the January gun show in the rear view mirror, gun safety advocates focused their attention on seeing the next arms fair – scheduled for the weekend of March 15-17 – is cancelled or moved to a venue outside city limits.
SARATOGA SPRINGS – The NEACA Arms Fair, a gun show scheduled for January 12-13 at the Saratoga City Center, will go on as planned despite over a dozen people calling for its cancellation during the public comment period of the City Center Authority’s January 9 meeting.


Android-powered Philips TVs will be the first to support Spotify Connect, letting you stream music from a mobile device straight to the television.
From September, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to stream music on their compatible Philips Smart TV, in a move that will integrate the music service more into our homes.
And Spotify tells us that Philips is just the first in a "long line" of smart TVs that will be arriving with Connect support.
Because Connect draws on internet connectivity directly, the tunes will keep pumping even if your phone or tablet goes out of range, or you have to take a call - making it better than other connectivity options, such as Bluetooth.
On top of that, Spotify has announced some new Connect partners for home speakers, including Bose, Panasonic and Gramofon. More will be announced at IFA 2014, Spotify tells us, so keep an eye on this space.
And as for all you Windows Phone users, don't forget that Spotify has just opened up free streaming to your platform.
- IFA 2104 is just days away...


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Investment in apprentices at former pit towns
9:20am Monday 30th April 2012 in News
Front to back, Danielle Tatlock, Jenna Heesom, Derek Long, Liz Haworth, Gary Ellis and Vin McCabe.
A RICH seam of new talent is being mined in St Helens under an initiative to get young people from former pit communities across the country into work.
The project has created 45 apprenticeships in former mining villages and towns across the UK, as housing associations, the National Housing Federation and the Coalfields Regeneration Trust link up to help young people.
Two of the first batch are from St Helens.
Danielle Tatlock and Jenna Heesom, aged 19, were recruited as apprentices for housing association Helena Partnerships.
They launched the initiative on the new Saints Bridge at Langtree Park on Friday.
They were joined by Derek Long, head of the North for the National Housing Federation, Liz Haworth, executive director of Business Transformation at Helena, and Coalfields Regeneration Trust chief executive officer Gary Ellis and deputy chief executive officer Vin McCabe .
The trust has agreed to fund half of the wages for each of the 45 apprentices who gain employment with a housing association.
In return, each housing association has agreed that each trainee will receive a first-class apprenticeship opportunity, gaining at least a year-long contract of work and a pledge they will finish their traineeship with at least an NVQ level two qualification. The scheme has mainly targeted young people aged 16 to 25, including teenagers previously not in employment, education or training.
The scheme has focused on former pit villages and towns like St Helens in the north west, Yorkshire, the north east and the Midlands.
Derek Long said: “Housing associations provide great training and employment opportunities for young people as they are embedded in local communities.
“We are delighted to be working with the Coalfields Regeneration Trust and housing associations such as Helena to provide top-class apprenticeships across the country, including in St Helens.”
Danielle Tatlock lives close to St Helens town centre. She is an apprentice with Helena’s performance and intelligence team following an apprenticeship with St Helens Council.
She said: “Doing multiple apprenticeships has allowed me to experience different departments and meet new people, which suits me because I’m a hands-on person who prefers getting stuck into challenges rather than learning in a classroom.
“I’m very ambitious, and I hope my apprenticeships will improve my job prospects by making me stand out from the crowd.”
Jenna Heesom from Sutton is an apprentice organisational development and legal assistant at Helena.
She said: “I already feel like part of the team and am enjoying learning about HR. I’d like to work towards my NVQ level four in business administration.”
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Rubio Urges U.S. Interim Representative to the OAS to Continue Supporting Venezuelan Interim Government at the Organization
Jul 22 2021
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to Bradley A. Freden, Interim Permanent Representative of the United States to the Organization of American States (OAS), urging him to “prioritize efforts to ensure that the Interim Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, under President Juan Guaidó, continues to be recognized by the OAS as the legitimate government of Venezuela.” Rubio also called on Freden to “work with the U.S. Secretary of State, and other OAS member states, to take all necessary steps to support ongoing efforts by OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro to maintain broad international support for President Guaidó.”
Rubio is the Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues.
The full text of the letter is below.
Dear Mr. Freden:
I write to you concerning the situation in Venezuela and urge you, in your capacity as the Interim Permanent Representative of the United States to the Organization of American States (OAS), to prioritize efforts to ensure that the Interim Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, under President Juan Guaidó, continues to be recognized by the OAS as the legitimate government of Venezuela. I further call on you to work with the U.S. Secretary of State, and other OAS member states, to take all necessary steps to support ongoing efforts by OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro to maintain broad international support for President Guaidó. This should be a top priority for the United States.
Both the previous administration and the OAS took positive steps to highlight the human rights violations carried out by the Maduro regime. I strongly supported steps taken by Secretary General Almagro to hold the Maduro regime accountable for its crimes, including invoking the Inter-American Democratic Charter in 2016 to convene a Permanent Council on Venezuela and promoting diplomatic initiatives to foster the restoration of Venezuelan democracy.
As you know, after Nicolás Maduro’s attempt to inaugurate himself for a second term in office on January 10, 2019 following an electoral process that was not democratic, free, fair, or transparent, the United States and 60 other nations refused to recognize Maduro as Venezuela’s rightful president. The United States, and other like-minded countries, then recognized Juan Guaidó, then President of the Venezuelan National Assembly as the Interim President of Venezuela in accordance with Article 233 of the Venezuelan Constitution. Soon after, the OAS passed a resolution refusing to recognize Maduro’s second term and in April 2019, welcomed the Venezuelan National Assembly’s permanent representative to the OAS.
While I appreciate Secretary Blinken’s comments on January 19, 2021 that described Maduro as a “brutal dictator” and vowed to continue recognizing Interim President Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s rightful leader, I worry that the Biden Administration is faltering in its resolve. As the Maduro regime continues to use delay tactics to hold onto power and further violate the human rights of the Venezuelan people, I do not believe that the United States is stressing enough the importance of a return to democracy in Venezuela through free and fair elections.
Nearly 5.5 million Venezuelans have fled the country since the start of the crisis, where its people are fleeing a country in fear of unjust detainment, torture, and extrajudicial execution. According to Venezuelan non-government organization Foro Penal , in 2020, the Maduro regime arrested 413 people in politically motivated arrests. Those arrested included Congressmen Gilber Caro and Renzo Prieto, journalist Roland Carreño, and most recently Freddy Guevara, a close ally of Guaidó. In detainment, the Bolivarian National Police (FAES) subjected them to physical beatings, electric shocks, and even sexual violence. Finally, according to the Office of the United States High Commissioner for Human Rights, Maduro’s security forces have killed more than 19,000 people between 2016 and 2019 for “resisting authority.” In an environment with such widespread violations of human rights, Venezuelans look to the United States, and the OAS, for hope that one day soon, this man-made national nightmare may come to an end.
I know you share the hope for a democratic, prosperous, and safe Venezuela. I urge you to act on that hope and use your voice and vote at the OAS to continue to recognize Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s rightful leader and to continue shining a light on the horrendous crimes of the Maduro regime.
Thank you for your attention to these serious matters and I look forward to your response.

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After reading this article, individuals should be able to:
1. Understand the different phases of COVID-19 illness;
2. Effectively support patients experiencing ongoing or long-term symptoms of COVID-19;
3. Provide trustworthy information and advice to patients;
4. Recognise the signs and symptoms that require urgent referral.
The effects of COVID-19 have remained the focus of the world’s attention for more than a year now. However, there has recently been more attention given to the impact of COVID-19 on patients who are experiencing ongoing symptoms beyond their acute illness.
This is because a growing subset of people continue to feel unwell following acute infection with SARs-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19[3–5]. According to the Office of National Statistics, over the four-week period ending 6 March 2021, an estimated 1.1 million people in England living in private households (i.e. not including halls of residence, prisons, schools, hospitals or care homes) were still experiencing symptoms more than four weeks after first feeling unwell. The various phases of illness associated with COVID-19 have been defined and categorised into three stages[7,8]:
- Acute COVID-19 — the first four weeks following initial infection and, in most cases, patients are able to recover fully;
- Ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 — new or persistent symptoms are experienced 4–12 weeks after initial onset;
- Post-COVID syndrome — signs and symptoms that develop during or after an infection consistent with COVID-19, continue for more than 12 weeks and are not explained by an alternative diagnosis.
This article provides an overview of the diagnosis and management of ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 and post-COVID syndrome. It has been reviewed by a panel of expert clinical advisers and aims to provide pharmacy teams with the necessary information to effectively support patients.
The term ‘long COVID’ was initially used by patients to describe their persistent and unexplainable symptoms following the diagnosis of COVID-19. While it is not an official term, it is now commonly referred to when describing both ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 and post-COVID syndrome, where clusters of symptoms often overlap, fluctuate and change over time. As with acute infection, symptoms of long COVID can involve multiple organ systems but can endure for months and continue to significantly impact a patient’s quality of life. It is often characterised by persistent and fluctuating fatigue, breathlessness, cognitive dysfunction (‘brain fog’) and pain (see Table).
Currently, there are few evidence-based approaches to support healthcare professionals diagnose and manage patients. Published in December 2020, ‘COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing the long-term effects of COVID-19’ provides some guidance based on emerging evidence, as well as patient and clinician experiences[7,8].
The guideline is a product of a joint collaboration between the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), and follows a rapid review methodology[7,8]. While traditional guidelines usually take 24–36 months to develop, rapid reviews are a timely and affordable approach that can provide actionable and relevant recommendations produced within weeks to strengthen health policy and systems.
As SARs-CoV-2 is a new disease, long-term issues are still emerging and are not fully understood[7,8]. Much of the evidence is observational, retrospective data and the lived experience of patients and healthcare professionals is an important part of producing such guidance.
Although the guideline does not specifically refer to the role of pharmacists, it does acknowledge that management of long COVID requires a concerted multidisciplinary team approach, particularly in community and primary care[7,8].
Currently, there is no formal diagnostic process for long COVID because symptoms are highly variable, wide ranging and associated with varying degrees of autonomic dysfunction[13,14]. The underlying cause is unknown, but one theory suggests symptoms associated with hyperinflammation may be caused by mast cell activation by SARS-CoV-2. However, more research is required to substantiate this[15,16].
The likelihood of a person developing long COVID is not thought to be linked to the severity of their acute illness (including whether or not they were admitted to hospital). Even so-called ‘mild, acute COVID-19’ may be associated with long-term symptoms, most commonly cough, low grade fever and fatigue, all of which may relapse and remit.
Other reported symptoms include shortness of breath, chest pain, headaches, neurocognitive difficulties, muscle pains and weakness, gastrointestinal upset, rashes, metabolic disruption (such as poor control of diabetes), thromboembolic conditions, as well as depression and other mental health conditions.
Cognitive and psychological symptoms should be assessed with the same level of importance as physical symptoms. Both can have a significant impact on quality of life and on an individual’s ability to work and carry out their usual daily activities[7,8]. Patients may also display signs of delirium (particularly in older people) and post-traumatic stress disorder (e.g. severe anxiety or uncontrollable thoughts related to their symptoms and the pandemic), of which pharmacists should be aware.
Skin rashes can take many forms, including vesicular, maculopapular, urticarial, or chilblain-like lesions on the extremities (so-called ‘COVID toe’, see Figure). There seems to be no need to refer or investigate these if the patient is otherwise well.
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Recovery time is different for everyone and symptoms can change unpredictably, but for many people symptoms will resolve within 12 weeks[1,7]. Patients should be referred for medical review if symptoms persist and a medical diagnosis is required (see ‘Referral’)[7,8].
Pharmacists should therefore be aware of the signs and symptoms consistent with COVID-19 that develop during or after an infection, continue for more than four weeks and are not explained by an alternative diagnosis. Commonly reported symptoms of long COVID are summarised in the Table[7,8].
Concerned patients with new or ongoing symptoms four weeks or more after acute illness should be offered an initial consultation in conjunction with a clinical assessment[7,8]. It is important that patients should feel heard and not judged. Pharmacists may need to consult patients either in person or via remote consultation, and should ask the patient about the following[7,8]:
- Their history of suspected or confirmed acute COVID-19; for example:
- ‘Have you tested positive for COVID-19 in the past?’
- The nature and severity of previous and current symptoms; for example:
- ‘Please describe your symptoms to me’
- Timing and duration of symptoms since the start of acute COVID-19:
- ‘When did you first start to feel unwell?’
- ‘How long have you had each of these symptoms?’
- ‘How have your symptoms changed since you first became ill?’
- History of other health conditions, medications and complementary remedies; for example:
- ‘Do you have any other medical conditions’?
- ‘What medications do you take, including over-the-counter products, such as vitamins, supplements or herbal remedies?’
- Impact on day-to-day life, such as activities, feelings of social isolation, work, education and wellbeing; for example:
- ‘How do your symptoms impact your ability to work or carry out daily activities?’
- ‘How have your symptoms affected your mood?’
- ‘What support do you have at home and work?’
- Any feelings of worry or distress; for example:
- ‘What worries you the most about being unwell?’
These questions enable identification of the troublesome symptoms and risks for the patient in relation to COVID-19, whether any pharmacological or non-pharmacological treatment options are suitable and/or whether the patient would benefit from a medical review[7,8].
It may be beneficial for some patients to have a family member or carer present to provide support and/or aid in eliciting information and decision making[7,8].
Pharmacists should exercise their professional judgement and, if necessary, they should refer patients to a GP or a local post (long) COVID acute service[7,8]. A shared decision-making approach between pharmacists and patients should be employed to discuss and agree whether the patient requires medical referral, particularly for people in vulnerable or high-risk groups, such as those experiencing worsening frailty or people with dementia[7,8]. This is important to ensure patients have access to a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team that can focus on the physical, psychological and psychiatric aspects of care[7,8,22–25].
The following symptoms require urgent referral to acute or specialist services, and are indicative of an acute or life-threatening complication[7,8]:
- Severe or worsening shortness of breath (suspected hypoxaemia or oxygen desaturation on exercise or severe lung disease);
- Cardiac chest pain;
- Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (in children);
- Severe dizziness;
- New confusion or difficulty speaking;
- Severe mental health issues (anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder);
- Risk of self-harm or suicide.
In all instances where urgent referral is required, patients should be referred even in the absence of a positive COVID-19 test[7,8]. Routine testing has not always been available, particularly during the early and mid stages of the pandemic when risk of transmission was high. Consequently, many individuals may have had COVID-19 but were unaware and did not get tested.
Further tests and investigations
Once referred for a medical review, patients will undergo further tests and investigations tailored to the person’s signs and symptoms to rule out acute, life-threatening complications or underlying pathological causes, such as inflammatory bowel disease or cancer. These include blood tests (e.g. full blood count, renal and liver function tests, C-reactive protein, ferritin, B-type natriuretic peptide and thyroid function tests), exercise tolerance tests, blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation and chest X-rays[7,8].
Following medical review, patients may then be referred to relevant pathways between primary and community care, such as multidisciplinary rehabilitation and/or specialist services[7,8]. One example of such a service is the NHS Seacole Centre in Surrey, which provides physical, cognitive, psychological and psychiatric rehabilitation services for patients with long COVID and is staffed by more than 100 healthcare professionals, including nurses, physiotherapists and pharmacists. At the time of publication these services were not available throughout the whole of the UK and those that do exist may be significantly overburdened. This makes appropriate pharmacy management in community and/or primary care even more important.
Management and advice
There is limited evidence on how to treat common COVID-19 specific symptoms, such as fatigue, dizziness and cognitive problems (e.g. brain fog)[7,8]. However, pharmacists should provide and offer tailored self-management support and information to all patients, as summarised below, and provide medicines optimisation support to people with long COVID who have pre-existing comorbidities, such as recommending prescribers titrate antidiabetic medication for patients experiencing hyperglycaemia post-steroid therapy[7,8].
Box: Information and advice for patients with long COVID [7,8]
Pharmacists should counsel patients on the following:
- How to use medicines correctly and as recommended by prescribers;
- Provide advice on how to manage symptoms:
- Guidance on how to set realistic health and wellbeing goals;
- Using a diary to record and track goals, symptoms, mood, impact on wellbeing, as well as any progress made;
- Advice on self-management and rehabilitation. The World Health Organization Rehabilitation self-management leaflet provides basic rehabilitation exercises and advice for adults who have been severely unwell and were admitted to hospital with COVID-19;
- For symptoms of anxiety, depression and sleep disturbances, advise on sleep hygiene and techniques for managing stress and anxiety. The following pages may be useful to signpost to:
- At home, self-monitoring of heart rate, blood pressure and pulse oximetry, if supported by their GP, multidisciplinary rehabilitation service or if patients have access to wearable technology (e.g. smart devices). Ensure patients have clear instructions and know when to seek help.
- Pharmacists should advise patients who are planning to return to physical activity to consult their GP first because a cardiac or respiratory assessment may be required. Inform patients that:
- Gentle exercise may help to improve strength, but any activity should be undertaken cautiously under medical supervision and tailored to the severity of symptoms;
- Progress may be slow and it may not be possible to return to pre-COVID fitness levels;
- It is important to take regular rest periods when needed;
- Urgent medical advice is needed if patients start to experience severe shortness of breath or chest pain.
- Ensure patients know who to contact if they are worried about their symptoms or if they need support with self-management. For example, their GP, multidisciplinary rehabilitation team or relevant specialist service;
- Signpost to reliable resources for more information and advice about symptoms and ongoing care. For example:
- SIGN Long COVID patient booklet;
- NHS ‘Long-term effects of coronavirus (long COVID)’ page;
- NHS England ‘Your COVID recovery interactive web-based programme’ (support for people experiencing symptoms of long COVID);
- NHS Inform ‘Longer-term effects (long COVID)’ page.
- Ensure patients know how to seek help from other services or groups if needed, including:
- Support groups (pharmacists should advise patients that not all advice shared, particularly through social media, is accurate or evidence-based and to double check first with a registered healthcare professional);
- Provide information about new or continuing symptoms of COVID-19 that the person can share with their family, carers and friends (see Table);
- Inform patients that it is not known if over-the-counter vitamins and supplements are helpful, harmful or have no effect in the treatment of new or ongoing symptoms of COVID-19, and may interact with prescribed medicines (e.g. niacin and statins);
- Discourage patients from the illegal online purchase or importation of medicines (e.g. ranitidine). Also advise patients against taking medicines that have not been prescribed specifically for them, but may have been prescribed for a friend or family member (i.e. sharing medicines).
Management of persistent COVID-19 symptoms requires multidisciplinary input, particularly in primary care. Pharmacists should support patients who are experiencing prolonged symptoms by ensuring concerns are heard, providing advice on symptom management and recognising when further medical review is required.
The Pharmaceutical Journal would like to thank and acknowledge the following clinical advisers whose expertise and insight have contributed to the development of this article:
- Arlene Coulson, lead clinical pharmacist, surgery and specialist services, NHS Tayside; Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) council representative (Royal Pharmaceutical Society);
- Geraint Jones, expert patient and advanced pharmacist, HIV and homecare, Cwm Taf University Health Board;
- Cathrine McKenzie, clinical academic research lead (pharmacy), Kings College Hospital
- Angela Timoney, director of pharmacy, NHS Lothian; chair of SIGN;
- Stephen Ward, clinical pharmacy lead, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
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Maren Morris had herself a single Grammy nomination this year, as her hit 2019 single “The Bones” was up for Best Country Song. While it was revealed ahead of the broadcast that The Highwomen’s “The Highwomen” ended up winning the award, Morris had a nice consolation prize in that she gave a performance of the song during a country-focused block of the show, for which she was joined by John Mayer.
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Ahead of the show, Morris spoke highly of Mayer and explained how their collaborative performance came to be, telling ET, “He is amazing, I have been such a fan for a long time, but he has really always been supportive of me. We actually met at the Grammys here a couple years ago and we have just had this mutual respect for one another and our craft. When I got nominated this year and was going to be performing, I just reached out as a friend to John and was like, ‘Hey, will you come in and sit in on guitar?’ He graciously said yes and he has just elevated this song to an even higher level than I thought. I am just so grateful that he said yes.”
Morris also said of the song, “To end it here, because it is sort of the end of the single cycle, ending at the Grammys is a pretty damn good place to end it. My favorite thing is, I wrote it about a relationship, but then so many fans during the beginning of COVID-19 were saying, ‘This song reminds me of our world right now.’ When the bones are good, the rest don’t matter. […] We are in the trenches together.”
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Qualcomm has big ambitions for its Snapdragon 835 processor. The company is unveiling more details about the flagship mobile processor today at a press event at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas.
The processor has 3 billion transistors and is built in an advanced 10-nanometer manufacturing process, enabling advances in battery life, computing immersion, video capture, mobile connectivity, and security, said Keith Kressin, senior vice president of product management at Qualcomm Technologies, in an interview with VentureBeat. The chip will serve as the brains of a new generation of mobile devices, from smartphones to cameras. And these devices won’t seem like second-class citizens when compared to more capable desktop or laptop computing devices.
San Diego, Calif.-based Qualcomm revealed that the Snapdragon 835 was in the works back in August, and the company is now ready to share a lot more about the chip’s purpose and timing. In fact, the chip is in production now and will start appearing in Android and Windows 10 devices as early as the first half of 2017.
“You’re going to see it in PCs with Windows 10,” Kressin said.
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Qualcomm previously launched its Snapdragon 820 processor on a 14-nanometer process a year ago, and the appearance of the new chip on a new process shows that the company is being aggressive about keeping pace with the fastest-moving behemoths of the chip industry. More specifically, it’s trying to stay ahead of Intel, the world’s biggest chip maker, as well as other big companies in the $330 billion chip industry.
“With our flagship processor, we wanted to meet the demanding requirements of mobile virtual reality and ubiquitous connectivity,” Kressin said. “We wanted to improve battery life, immersion, capture, connectivity, and security. These are our pillars.”
Kressin wouldn’t say which contract manufacturer is fabricating the chip for Qualcomm.
“I expect the Snapdragon to be the highest performance chip for all Android applications in 2017,” said Patrick Moorhead, analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. “One will be able to touch their wireless integration, either. What I’m very interested in is its performance in Windows 10 and Chrome OS. Windows PCs and Chromebooks would be growth markets for the company.”
The company said the chip is the first mobile chip to use a second-generation FinFET process node, which helps shrink the chip, makes it less expensive, reduces power consumption, and speeds performance. This means the width between the circuits in the chip is miniaturized to just 10 nanometers, compared to 14 nanometers in the previous generation process from a year or two ago. The 10nm process enabled Qualcomm to create the 835 in a package that is 35 percent smaller than the 820 built with the 14nm process.
To take advantage of that process, Qualcomm redesigned the chip, which has a Cryo 280 central processing unit (CPU), to have longer battery life, with 2.5 more hours of usage per day. On top of that, it uses Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 4 technology, which gets you an additional five hours talk time with five minutes of charging. Overall, the power consumption is 25 percent lower.
“We didn’t emphasize peak performance,” Kressin said. “We emphasized battery life and sustained performance. If you put it in a VR headset, it should not overheat.”
What this means is that virtual reality and augmented reality apps, 4K capture and streaming, and gaming will have extended hours of use time when running on mobile devices, Kressin said.
The 835 also has a fully integrated X16 Gigabit LTE modem to provide better connectivity. And it has integrated multi-gigabit Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5, and integrated 2×2 802.11ac with MU-MIMO, designed to deliver fiber-optic speeds to your phone, wirelessly, where the networks can support it.
The integrated Adreno 540 graphics processing unit has 25 percent faster graphics, compared to the prior generation. The graphics are moving from 8-bit to 10-bit, enabling 60 times more colors, which is good for both VR and ecommerce. It supports q-sync and locking of the GPU rendering engine output, so there’s never a missed frame that could make someone really sick in a VR app. And the 835 will be ready for Google Daydream devices.
“We think it takes off more with mobile VR,” Kressin said. “We think that AR will be bigger than VR, and it follows VR in taking off. There’s a race to shrink the VR helmet as fast as possible. That’s why we emphasized the power and thermals. That’s the key metric for sleek form factors. You still need connectivity and performance. You’ll see sleeker designs with the 835.”
For VR, the 835 supports foveated rendering (which saves on processing power by blurring things that aren’t directly in view) and DSD scene-based audio. VR headsets can use six degrees of freedom, gaze and hand tracking, and reduced latency that shaves a few milliseconds from the response time.
Qualcomm has also integrated the TensorFlow machine learning framework favored by Google. The built-in digital signal processor will run machine learning code. Or it can run on the GPU or the CPU. Meanwhile, the device is programmable for machine learning, as the code for that is changing fast.
“We’ve put more effort from a software framework to efficiently use the cores in the chip,” Kressin said.
For capture, the camera has 32 megapixels of resolution at 30 frames per second with zero shutter lag. It has improved sharpness in all lighting conditions, especially low light, with Qualcomm Clear Sight. And it focuses accurately in fast-moving situations. It also has better zoom and stabilization for photos and videos. And it uses a Qualcomm Spectra 180 image sensor processor (ISP).
“You can now do extremely fast focus,” Kressin said.
The security will be built into the hardware in the form of SecureMSM and Qualcomm Haven. It will protect mobile payments and online banking, using hardware tokens that identify both the device and the user.
And it can provide hardware-based authentication that protects user data from input to the processor. That allows features such as secure fingerprint identification, eye-based and face-based recognition, and voice prints. Qualcomm Haven protects the camera for secure mobile payments and detection of zero-day malware. The system uses machine learning to detect malicious apps.
“If you have android app, it can’t get to the camera, which is in a protected memory,” Kressin said. “It’s secure for mobile payments. At the hardware level, we can collect data on the phone and determine whether it was booted securely.”
The company isn’t announcing design wins yet, but the first batch will be announced in the first half of 2017, Kressin said.


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