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Rajahmundry: Municipal corporation authorities have set up a toll free mobile phone number advising the people to call up in case they find any mad dog or a dog having infection so that they can shift it to a dog shelter located a Quarry Area and provide necessary medical treatment.
Municipal commissioner Sumit Kumar Gandhi in a meeting held with the municipal health wing here on Monday directed the authorities to take necessary measures to help the people get rid of trouble from mad dogs and dogs suffering with diseases and asked the people to call up at the number 7093921991 and complain to the authorities about their problem.
He also instructed the municipal health authorities to take up animal birth control and anti-rabies vaccination to the stray dogs to help control proliferation of their population and also control spread of rabies.
Municipal health officer M.V.R. Murthy informed the municipal commissioner that they were catching the stray dogs from the streets and shifting them to dog shelters to carry out ABC and ARV and later releasing them at the place of their origin after three days.
Mr Murthy said that a team of four dog catchers, two assistants and a medical officer was deputed for the purpose and added that they were closely monitoring the implementation of ABC and ARV programme.

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Sun Wave Pharma was founded.
SWP establishes its own logistics center in Bucharest.
The SWP reorganizes itself into 7 promotion divisions, with over 200 representatives in the field.
SWP becomes NR.1 in the segment of Natural Therapy.
The SWP has 9 divisions and 225 representatives in the field.
SWP reaches CA of 40 mil EUR and is taken over by Ascedis Wellness.
SWP is taken over by two investment funds Blantyre Capital & Letter1 and a new CEO is appointed – Bedros Kalfayan.
Sun Wave Pharma has more than 400 employees and reaches a turnover of EUR 85 million.

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So I experienced something last week that profoundly changed my outlook on the game of golf. Even though this life altering occurrence took place during the greatest golf week of my life – while I was attending the PGA Show – it had nothing to with the show and a lot do with how the game is played.
Here’s a little back story first to sweeten the plot..
Growing up in Vegas I was fortunate enough to have some tremendous golf “destination” resorts here in town. Add in the fact that you can play pretty much year round and you can quickly realize that there isn’t really a down time for the golf courses here in the valley.
That being said, tee times can come at a high premium, especially if you’re interested in playing some of the nicer courses we have. Unlike Southern Florida where they get an onslaught of Snowbirds from the North invading the area while the chill in the air and on the ground subsides, Las Vegas and the surrounding areas have a multitude of visitors year round and a TON of them play golf. In fact, the majority of them come here for the golf – the gambling and clubs are an added perk.
In Southern Florida once the warmer weather starts creeping into the Northern areas of the country, those snowbirds abandon their comfy nests and return home, leaving behind some pretty outstanding courses that are desperate for players. We’re not that fortunate. Warmer weather in this valley just means more fun in the sun for travelers and that also means more people coming to play golf.
In all honesty there is a benefit to the heat, the rates do drop for the summer months and a lot of the courses have some decent twilight rates where you can get in 18 holes starting off as late as 5pm, which is when I love playing.
I went off on a tangent there so let me get the story back on track.
The point I’m trying to make reverts back to the tee times being at a premium almost year round. The negative effect of this being a destination town is the locals get crapped on because the tee sheets are full almost every day and mainly from out of town visitors. Which is fine, I love the tourist, they help pave my roads and pay my taxes but after my round at Streamsong last week I also found out that they are robbing me of what makes the game of golf go from awesome to amazing, and that is walking a golf course.
I never get to walk a course here in town. Unless you’re playing at one of the elite courses where only a handful of guests go out each day, there is no way in hell a pro shop is going to allow a single or for that matter a group to go out and walk 18 holes when there are tee times that need to pushed out every 7 minutes.
Nowadays here in Vegas a 5.5 hour round of golf is the norm and that’s just sad. I remember going into the pro shop after a horrendous round last year that took 10min shy of 6 hours to complete. After we finished up I went into the Pro Shop to voice my displeasure with the pace of play, lack of marshals and complete disregard by the course management to try and make the round enjoyable and was greeted with a very disheartening “You don’t like it, don’t come back!” from the clerk behind the counter. Per their wished I haven’t been back.
I wish it was possible to pass the blame around but in my opinion it’s the big suits in the offices at these courses that were shown the money train years ago and have never looked back. It’s hard to argue with facts and facts say if there’s a tee time in Vegas, chances are it’s going to be booked, so you better snatch it up pronto!
So you can see why it’s practically impossible for me to show up at a course here in town and ask to walk 18. I’d be laughed out of the building, and if by some chance I was able to make it out onto the course in only my True’s, the first time I held up a group from teeing off cause they were “waiting” for me to “walk” to my ball I’d probably get some old school Vegas mafia style treatment just so they could get to the strip club in a timely fashion!
OK, that’s enough ranting on that subject. You can see I have a bone to pick with some of the courses around here, but let me get back on point to why I’m writing this tirade in the first place.
When we played Streamsong last week we got to walk the course, which is fairly common there. Luckily we had some pull carts because my out of shape ass struggled enough pulling my bag . . . I could only imagine had I needed to lug it throughout the entire course I might still be in Florida recovering.
Not getting to walk out here in Vegas I was a little nervous about the idea. Like I stated before, I’m not in great shape right now and the last thing I wanted to be was a nuisance because I couldn’t make it up a hill or two.
In reality what I found was one of the most exhilarating feelings I’ve ever felt on a golf course: the clarity of an uncluttered mind.
I hit my first tee shot and pulled the ball a bit, it was in decent size bunker so I wasn’t too worried about it, but as I made my way down the hill from the number one box on the blue course I started to really take in Streamsong.
The course is breathtaking to say the least and walking from the tee box to my ball, chatting with some friends and seeing the next shot I needed to execute as I walked up to my ball was so refreshing.
Cart golf pales in comparison. You hit your shot; hop in a cart, and in 30 seconds you’re at your ball ready to make contact. The sheer enjoyment of where you are and what you’re doing is completely lost! This was the first time that I think I actually saw a golf course for how it was intended to be seen.
That Wednesday I played some of the best golf of my life and had I not been “Doaked” a few times by the incredible architect Tom Doak, who designed this masterpiece, I could have put up a really nice score.
I ended up shooting a 93 but even Adam said I had certainly played better than the score had indicated. I felt the same way too, and when I started looking back at the at all the holes we had played I realized just how relaxed and calm I was throughout the entire round.
One of my biggest issues I’m having with my game right now is a mental block where I completely disengage myself from the round. I’ll hit a poor shot then allow it to build up to a point where in my mind I’m done. By doing so I’m taking a step back and then struggling to re-engage in the round.
I didn’t have that problem at Streamsong and I know it was because I was able to put my mind through a “filter” so to speak by taking a breath, relaxing, and enjoying walking the golf course.
I’m going to start looking for more courses that are open to walking. As much as I’d like to stroll every course in Vegas there are some that are just not walkable due to some pretty extreme elevation changes. Those I’ll acknowledge and not force the issue, but for the rest that are walking friendly I’m going to try and make it a habit to at least explore the option.
What about you guys? How many of you walk vs. ride? I know the golf cart is certainly a convenience for us but has anyone thought about how much the golf cart takes away from a round of golf? I know I’m real green when it comes to the subject but I’d love to hear what everyone else thinks about walking vs. riding.
Let me know what you think by leaving a comment below.

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1. Puppies first collar
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New Delhi, Sep 2: After its impactful trailer, makers of Kangana Ranaut starrer 'Simran' have dropped yet another bomb on the social media.
'Single Rehne De/ Maja Ni Life' is the song which every girl who does not wish to settle with anyone will relate.
'Simran' is most awaited movie for many reasons and 'Queen' of Bollywood, Kangana Ranaut is one of them. the song is already trending over the social media as the youth can already relate with the foot-tapping song.
Co-produced by Bhushan and Krishan Kumar's T-Series Films and directed by Hansal Mehta, the Kangana Ranaut starrer is all set to hit the big screens on 15th September this year.
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Today, celebrating 65 years in the music industry, Cliff Richard announced the release of his brand new orchestral album, a career-spanning hit laden collection with a full orchestra. Featuring 12 tracks over seven decades, ‘Cliff with Strings – My Kinda Life’ will be out digitally and on CD on East West Records on 3 November,with the vinyl release following on 24 November 2023.
His first release since last year’s epic number one chart battle with Stormzy, Cliff Richard has marked his incredible 65th year in the music industry by compiling and curating an album of his biggest hits and favourite tracks to be reworked with the orchestral arrangements by Chris Walden.
From debut number one single Living Doll (1959) as well as other number one hits Summer Holiday, The Young Onesand We Don’t Talk Anymore, plus Wired for Sound, Carrie, My Kinda Life and The Best of Me (Cliff’s 100th single), the collection brings new life and clarity to original vocal recordings with beautiful new orchestral and string arrangements. Most poignant on the album is the inclusion of Cliff Richard’s hit duet Suddenly from the 1980 film Xanadu with the late great Olivia Newton-John. Taken from one of their last performances together at Cliff Richard’s 75th Birthday concert on 14 October 2015, the new arrangement brings an emotional beauty to the two voices in harmony.
Spanning a full seven decades the collection not only includes 1993’s Peace In Our Time, but also the very rare recording from 1999 of Cliff Richard’s performance of Everything I Do (I do it For You) at his Millenium Countdown concert. The track has only ever been available on the DVD release of the concert.
Cliff Richard said: “After 65 years in the business, it is really an emotional journey to listen back to some of my original vocals and hear just how young I was and how my style changed over the years. These tracks mean a lot to me and they are so refreshed with the orchestral arrangements. The most emotional track on the album for me is Suddenlywith my dear friend Olivia Newton-John. We recorded this version together live for my 75th birthday in 2015 and it always strikes me how well our voices sounded together and the crystal gentility that Olivia always managed to exude. I’m glad I was able to highlight this great performance again.”
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Long gone are the days where transferring money, paying bills and setting up direct debits meant paying a visit to the local bank. Banking institutions are now looking for new ways to improve their customer experience, focusing on the use of the most up-to-date and innovative online tools to enhance the customer experience.
Many retail banks across the UK have already made significant inroads to improve their digital customer experience with tools such as online banking, multi-function smartphones and tablets. However, across the board there is still a reliance on slow archaic paper forms and old legacy systems which restrict staff to solely working within their physical branches.
The question is: how can banks harness data to transform the retail banking ecosystem?
The age of disruptive banking
We live in a world where everyone and everything is connected 24/7- customers can make a public complaint via the use social media within minutes. It is therefore essential to make sure customers are kept happy at all times to avoid reputational damage.
In recent years, new banks have emerged purporting to offer new accounts, better saving options and a more personal customer service, however, this in itself, is not enough. The marketing and targeting of customers’ needs has to be prioritised.
Traditionally, banks printed promotional material at large but now by analysing their own Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, banks can learn how people access information and can subsequently tailor their marketing towards this.
The rise of innovative new apps and interactive displays in bank branches is enhancing the customer banking experience, making accessing crucial account information easier than ever before. A ‘digital first’ approach can help to quickly and easily find information and increase the institution’s visibility and credibility as a business.
Banking in the interconnected world
In today’s interconnected world, harnessing technology ensures a more ‘joined up’ approach between branches. This approach can deliver significant improvements to customers, ensuring the right knowledge is gathered to handle all sorts of enquires, and to provide first class advice at all times- whichever branch one is based at.
Not only do these features enhance the customer experience but they also help banks reduce overheads as they are not forced into investing in training to develop highly-skilled advisors based in each and every branch across the country.
Equally, it’s not just branches that should be connected. Banking staff can have a part to play here too. Technology like unified communications (UC) can help enable expert staff to connect with customers whenever it’s convenient for them – whether at home or on the go, by phone, email or video conference.
Implementing personalised products and services
Banks already have a wealth of data available about their customers- from where they live to where they work and even if they have children or pets. By using this data, banks can build an accurate profile of their customers’ lifestyle and promote additional products and services to them. For example, if a customer is regularly booking holidays at a particular time of the year, the bank can be one step ahead of its rivals and offer them a currency or travel insurance in the run-up.
This helps support and promote your additional service offerings, create closer relationships with customers and improve revenues across increasingly diverse lines of business.
A matter of security
Finally, not only is paper harmful to the environment, costly to the institution and outdated to the customer, but it is also typically not secure. Many paper forms are filed or couriered around the country, but also, more often than desired, thrown away into bin bags having not been shredded or disposed of properly. This could leave your customers’ personal information at a significant risk.
By securely storing data through digital channels, banks will not only save on printing costs, but will also protect valuable customer data, which can help promote and sell additional services.
To conclude, the interconnected world offers the opportunity for banks to improve reputations and give the customer a greater sense of control. It’s time to fully transform the retail banking ecosystem with technology. We hope to see more banks take the necessary steps to enhance the customer experience in 2016.
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Hi Hiverr Community Camping, how are you all. Hope you guys are fine.
Today I returned to the camping club community. As usual, I come with a variety of interesting information, from the pictures that I upload every day.
My post this time is a flashback to the history of my country Indonesia against Japanese colonialism.
This is a Japanese heritage bunker when the war broke out with Indonesia, it is located in Aceh in 1942. This bunker is a silent witness to the Japanese savagery colonizing the Acehnese at that time. And became important evidence before the independence of Indonesia on August 17, 1945.
This bunker also became a fortress for Japan to overcome the entry of Dutch expansion, and Aceh had to become its colony. There are lots of bunkers in Aceh. However, today I got a bunker which is an important evidence of the history of war and must be remembered by the Indonesian generation, because there are still many Japanese children and grandchildren and their descendants who still roam in Aceh.
That's all guys, I hope my post this time can inspire.

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The Power of 22: Neighborhood Activism and Political Game-Changing in Northwest Philadelphia
Join us for a discussion on how neighborhood-based political activism at the ward-and-division level can increase voter turnout, help ensure competent individuals are elected to public office, and advance Philadelphia priorities effectively at the statewide and national level. Although the presentation will focus primarily on Democratic primary election results and Northwest Philadelphia's 22nd Ward, the information and discussion will be applicable to other political parties, the interests of voters with no party affiliation, and other areas of our region.
The program will be led by Weavers Way Member John Kromer. In the May primary election, John was elected Judge of Elections for the 2nd Division of the 22nd Ward. As a volunteer, he has helped staff the polling place at Summit Presbyterian Church during the past eight elections and has been a candidate for citywide office, a campaign manager and a committeeperson. As the City of Philadelphia’s Director of Housing from 1992-2001, John supervised the expenditure of more than $1 billion in public investment in support of housing preservation and development activities that improved living conditions for thousands of Philadelphia families. The perspective gained through this experience is described in his most recent book, "Fixing Broken Cities: The Implementation of Urban Development Strategies." John teaches about the politics of housing and urban development at the University of Pennsylvania to students in the University’s Government, City and Regional Planning, and Urban Studies programs. (Click here to read the September Shuttle story about the workshop.)
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Halt and Catch Fire Recap—Episode 2: FUD
It’s the office you always wanted.
Once along the wrong road
it’s Lido & the toe
dipped deep into the water.
Warm, like a home
you thought you had. We wrote
letters to each other
on white boards, we wished
we all had handles. Pick
me up, carry me
through the wall of sound
I’ve built around
myself. The phones just won’t stop
ringing. On the other ends,
saying no. Try this on for size:
the hardest things to sell
are the things you sell
yourself into believing. You
only know the night
below the stars.
Also, I have a website now?
Also also, please come out to Skylight Books tomorrow night if you’re in the area - I’d love to see you, and I’m bringing wine and really good cheese and I still haven’t decided what I’m going to read, and it’s just going to be all generally poet-y and weird.
The inimitable Cody Todd introduced a selection of my poems over at The Offending Adam and I couldn’t be more flattered by his words:
Elizabeth Cantwell’s poems defy the poet’s task of producing art. That is not to say the poems do not qualify as art; quite to the contrary. They are filled with subversion and dangerously figurative language. They approach beauty not through its representation but against its representation.
I don’t know if my little poems can stand up to his praise, but you can judge for yourself if you’d like!
Barrelhouse runs online fiction and poetry workshops for writers who are looking to hone their craft in a professional, fun, and encouraging environment. Participation is $199 and proceeds go to Barrelhouse and our guest instructors. Workshop space is limited to 12 participants. HOW DOES IT WORK? These …
Tumblr people! My friend, the INCREDIBLY talented Jessica Piazza, is running an online poetry workshop for Barrelhouse this summer. She’s looking for more people to join up!
This is a fantastic opportunity if you want to work on deepening your craft, and if you want to set some time aside this summer to really develop your voice.
I asked my husband to make me a book trailer based solely on how he felt after reading Nights I Let The Tiger Get You.
This is what he came up with.
(Oh yeah, and the book will be out REALLY SOON! You can preorder it here, or, if you’re in the LA area, come to Skylight Books on May 23rd and hear me read and drink some wine and eat some cheese and buy it there. IT’LL BE A BLAST.)
My chapbook, Premonitions, is here!
I had a fantastic time working with Scott Sweeney at Grey Book Press on this little manuscript—a group of poems I truly love, and that I hope you can truly love, too. Scott had some really nice things to say about this chapbook, and it will only cost you $6, which is super reasonable. Small presses are the best!
To order one, go here & scroll down until you see the link for Premonitions (the last entry on the Titles page, as it’s the most recent).
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"Spring," by Edna St. Vincent Millay
To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death.
But what does that signify?
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots.
Life in itself
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
Black Lawrence Press (publishing my book early next month!) featured me in their National Poetry Month series yesterday. I think y’all have read this poem before, but it’s one of my favorites.
Go take a look - and stay tuned for chapbook AND book updates from me very soon!
I’ll post this again when we get closer to the date, but: LAUNCH EVENT! If you live in LA and like poetry and want to come see me read from my book, put this on your calendar! It’s going to be so much fun! Exclamation marks abound!
Hey, this is fun news! A chapbook of mine will be published this spring by Grey Book Press. Super excited to work with Scott and see this little manuscript become a tiny, happy artifact.
Keep your eyes peeled for more details down the road.
One day I heard a man say that his wife / gave up the ghost. But he was like a ghost. / Maybe that’s the truth. We die to leave / the losses that we cannot give away.
I have raved about my friend Jess’s poetry before on here, so it’s high time I let someone else do the raving. Go read this lovely review of her book. And then go buy her book!
Finally getting around to reading Brian Teare, after being told repeatedly that his work would probably be something I’d love. Everyone was right, I love it, and now I just have one more person to wish I was (or to wish I wrote like) when I’m wishing I wasn’t me (or didn’t write like me), and Sight Map is on permanent reading-out-loud rotation in the Cantwell household. (At first I was only reading it out loud because that is one of the only ways I can get reading done these days, but it turns out this stuff is just pure gold to read out loud anyway: The way prayer is root to precarious : two crows creep / the steeple.) I would like to take these poems in a sort of container with me if possible. This has been a Wednesday night poetry reading recommendation.

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Posted 5/22/2020 23:52 (#8274466 - in reply to #8272992) Subject: RE: Beef imports
North Central Texas
Lots of misinformation on here about imports. Imports are way down even over last year. They peaked in 14 and have been down trending ever since. We are well below the 5 year average and it's shaping up to show imports will make up 8% of the beef market this year. Exports have been making up between 12 and 15% of the beef market. Export beef includes grade beef back to Canada and Mexico, the stuff we won't eat shipped to Mexico and others, and our premium beef sent to primarily Asia.
Let's shut it down. Retaliation hits and exports stop. We begin to overload on the stuff no one will eat here that had value created. That value is gone. Cattle prices decrease.
We load the market with premium beef. Consumers won't spend the extra for it and it has to be discounted along with the fact we just added 7% to the national beef production that must be absorbed by consumers in the US. More beef, prime price reduced to move means cheaper choice and select.
The lack of movement of variety meats and prime will drop the market like a rock.
We aren't importing shelf product, we are importing 90 trim or 50 trim. It's cow and bull used to make hamburger and it's priced accordingly. The majority of our exports are at the top of any. Market in value while our imports are at the bottom.
Some will say we can make the same. They can't because cheap old cows and bulls are what make it work. More cows means more calves. Which will only result in more beef, lowing grade prices.
IMO quality and largers guys adapt fast and survive. Taking imports away knocks the everyday producer in the head by adding competition that was exported before. V cool works, mcool should never be talked about.


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China would win any trade war with the United States, the country's state media said on Thursday, as U.S. officials sought to ease market jitters over escalating tensions between the world's two biggest economies.
China would win any trade war with the United States, the country’s state media said on Thursday, as U.S. officials sought to ease market jitters over escalating tensions between the world’s two biggest economies. After Washington and Beijing targeted each other with planned steep tariffs, Chinese state media declared that the country never surrendered to external pressure and would prevail in any tit-for-tat on trade.
In Washington, U.S. officials emphasized a desire for negotiations as a way to ease or avert punishing tariffs and get the two countries off a trade war footing. The dispute has roiled global markets, but stocks rose on Thursday as investors responded to comments from U.S. officials seeking to soothe concerns about a trade war.
“As part of this deal – and I think we are going to get a deal over a period of time – yes, I think these barriers will come down on both sides,” Larry Kudlow, director of the White House National Economic Council, told reporters on Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump understands that economies do better when trade barriers are reduced rather than raised, Kudlow said, and that tit-for-tat tariffs do not work for the economy in the long term.
“It’s all part of the, you know, fairly delicate, broad-based negotiation that’s long overdue if it fixes things, it could have a great ending,” Kudlow said. Later in the day, Trump continued his tough talk, however, although providing few details about the current dynamic between the two nations.
“You probably saw that, for many years, no president wanted to go against China economically,” he told a crowd at an event in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. “We can’t be taken advantage of any longer,” Trump said. “We’re at a point where we had to do this.”
Even as U.S. markets remained stable on Thursday, investors struggled to make sense of the signals coming from the administration. “I don’t think anybody really knows what’s going on. That’s why you’ve seen the volatility we’ve seen,” said Paul Nolte, portfolio manager at Kingsview Asset Management in Chicago.
“Investors aren’t dealing with it well. What we’re trying to figure out is how he handles policy and negotiation. We’re still learning what to expect from his negotiating style.” Trump has wedded much of his economic message to the performance of the stock market, and White House aides insisted this week that any downturn as a result of the trade standoff would be momentary.
On Wednesday, China’s ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, told reporters in Washington that Beijing preferred to resolve the trade dispute through negotiations, but China’s state media took a tougher stance. The ruling Communist Party’s People’s Daily said Beijing’s quick counter-move after Washington announced new tariffs this week had caught the Americans off guard.
“Within 24 hours of the U.S. publishing its list, China drew its sword, and with the same strength and to the same scale, counterattacked quickly, fiercely and with determination,” the newspaper said in a commentary on Thursday.
“The confidence to know that (China) will win the trade war comes from the scale of (China’s) consumer market,” it said, noting that China’s market potential was incomparable to that of other economies.
Late on Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency said the U.S. tariffs proposal would cost the United States “dearly.” “China will not be afraid or back down if a trade war is unavoidable. The country has never surrendered to external pressure, and it will not surrender this time either,” Xinhua said.
Many American consumer product and industrial companies see the Chinese market as a big source for future growth given the continued rise in the number of people joining both the middle class and the wealthier levels of Chinese society.
The United States’ proposed list of $50 billion in duties on Chinese goods is aimed at forcing Beijing to address what Washington says is deeply entrenched theft of U.S. intellectual property and forced technology transfer from American companies.
China’s threatened tariffs on U.S. imports include soybeans, planes, cars, whiskey and chemicals.
Some of Trump’s fellow Republicans in Congress have expressed worry the tariffs will hurt states that export farm products. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said the Trump administration would help American farmers who could take an economic hit in the trade moves.
“We have the backs of farmers in this administration,” Navarro told CNBC in an interview.
Neither of the tariff lists issued by the two countries has gone into effect yet. Washington will hold public comment period expected to last around two months, and Chinese officials have said its implementation will depend on U.S. action.

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by Editor | May 29, 2021 | Sin categoría
Within the framework of the project “Promotion of Tourism of Special Interests (TIE), Cultural Routes of Tierra del Fuego, the closing seminar“ Cultural routes and tourist management in Tierra del Fuego ”was held.
Experts from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) linked to the creation of this new tourism offer in the southern part of Chile, as well as local operators and representatives of the institutions associated with the project, spoke at the seminar.
The project “Promotion of Tourism of Special Interests (TIE), Cultural Routes in Tierra del Fuego”, are part of the program Diffusion and Technological Transfer of InnovaChile de Corfo, who finance the initiative with a contribution close to 80 million pesos, to in turn, the Catholic University and associated operators contribute 46 million pesos.
This project has developed the design of four Cultural Routes that link territory, history and heritage, revealing heritage tourist landmarks that, articulated and identified in the geographical space, propose ways of understanding Tierra del Fuego as a singular place positioned in the cultural imaginary of the West.
The Cultural Routes proposed are: Selknam Route, hunting and fire territories; Route of the Estancias and the sheep occupation of the territory; Wood Route in the Almirantazgo Sound; Route of the Punta Arenas. January 27, 2011.
Wetlands, birds and waters. The Cultural Routes represent an original international tourism initiative, they offer an attractive interpretation of the territory of Tierra del Fuego to a controlled number of visitors, tourists with special interests.
The special interests tourism sector demands a competitive design to highlight the tourist advantages of the area, hence the design of cultural routes, which are based on interpretations of the territory as nature, history and heritage, according to which the resources are used. scenic attractions, such as natural resources of Tierra del Fuego, to which value is added through their interpretation in historical and patrimonial terms, configuring a cultural landscape perspective.
According to a report by Sernatur, this type of tourism that is in contact with nature, where the culture of the locals stands out, a rural tourism, adventure, and in community, becomes increasingly important, with an annual growth of 15 %, so the project’s commitment is to transform Tierra del Fuego’s current weakness (low number of inhabitants, decreasing productive activities) into an opportunity to enhance its development based on Special Interest Tourism (TIE).
by Editor | May 29, 2021 | Sin categoría
Great unexplored steppes, stories that have passed from generation to generation, archaeological sites, bright blue skies, glaciers, sea birds such as penguins, albatrosses, petrels or cormorants. Sightings of humpback whales, red foxes and sea lions.
This and much more is what can be appreciated and enjoyed in Tierra del Fuego, in the Magallanes Region.
More than 3,000 km from Santiago, the place houses a unique nature and climate, however, at the tourist level there has been a lack of properly informed itineraries and an interpretive structure that is capable of explaining the territory, its history, its environment, its resources. and patrimonial assets.
This is why the Catholic University (UC) and its Cultural Heritage Center, supported by Corfo, created the Cultural Routes in Tierra del Fuego. These are based on the relationship between nature, history and heritage and seek to promote special interest tourism in the region.
“This project collects historical, cultural, patrimonial and natural elements of our own identity and makes them visible to us and also to other people,” says Andrea Téllez, director of Sernatur XII Region.
The design of the routes was carried out by a multidisciplinary team that was working in the area for 10 years, which included architects, geographers, designers and economists, in addition to the collaboration of two international experts, from MIT and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
In the beginning, 12 itineraries were created based on the idea of “adding value to the landscape in cultural terms. A mountain range like Darwin, in addition to being a fantastic place from the landscape point of view, has a history behind it ”, says Sebastián Seisdedos, project coordinator.
However, due to the lack of tourist infrastructure, it was decided to start with only four that will be available from March on the page www.tierradelfuegochile.com.
From there they can be downloaded to a GPS system or known via Google Earth to follow them independently or with local operators.
The routes are: de la Madera, Estancias, Selk’nam and Wetlands. The latter includes a circuit to the bottom area of Bahía Inutil, where there is a large colony of penguins.
“We want these four to be the starting point for a sustainable tourism development for Tierra del Fuego, so that in the future a new infrastructure will be enabled and that all those designed in the beginning can be implemented.”
The plan is part of an Innova Chile Corfo program and was consolidated thanks to the contribution of $ 80 million from the entity. In addition, UC and associated operators contributed another $ 46 million.
For Téllez, “this is the basis and a very important tool from which we can empower Tierra del Fuego as a unique destination in the world.”
by Editor | May 29, 2021 | Sin categoría
The Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region joins the celebration of World Wetlands Day through an activity organized by the Regional Ministerial Secretary for the Environment and the Illustrious Municipality of Primavera.
The activity that takes place this Tuesday, February 1, includes the participation of the Cerro Sombrero community in a conference and a visit to the Bahía Lomas Wetland.
World Wetlands Day is celebrated on February 2 of each year in commemoration of the date the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, called the Ramsar Convention, was adopted. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the international treaty that serves as a framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
Bahía Lomas, located at the eastern mouth of the Strait of Magellan, on the north coast of the Island of Tierra del Fuego, Spring Commune, is a coastal marine wetland, and is the southernmost Ramsar site in the country. This site is one of the most important areas for shorebirds in South America, and is home to a high concentration of migratory birds. This situation has led to Bahía Lomas being prioritized as a conservation site in Chile, promoting its inclusion in the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance and in the Hemispheric Network of Shorebird Reserves. Currently, the Ministry of the Environment is coordinating the development of the Management Plan for the Ramsar Bahía Lomas Site, an instrument that will allow effective management of the biological diversity of this internationally important wetland.
One of the main characteristics of Bahía Lomas is its wide range of tidal variation and its low slope, which allows the existence of a tidal plain that exceeds 7 km wide, being the most extensive in Chile, with similar ones in South America , only in San Sebastián Bay in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. This characteristic allows it to be the most important wintering area of the Arctic sandpiper, and habitat for other species of birds such as the straight-billed curlew, the white-backed sandpiper, the double-collared plover, the Magellan plover and the southern pilpilén.
The celebration of World Wetlands Day in Bahía Lomas by the Cerro Sombrero Community is possible thanks to the Municipality of Primavera, which has actively participated in the conservation initiatives of this Site; to the logistical support of the National Petroleum Company, ENAP, through its Program for the Rational Use of Wetlands, and thanks to the assistance of Ricardo Matus, who has studied the birds present in the wetland for several years.

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This question & answer column is for people living with chronic health challenges, who want to learn to increase the odds of improving their health by learning to live with mastery & wellbeing.
I invite you to post your questions in the comments box below and I will answer them on a future Friday in this column.
I post to this blog three times per week. Monday posts are articles I’ve written. Wednesday posts are interviews—mostly video. Friday posts now consist of your questions about living better with chronic health challenges, and my answers to them.
I’d like to share the following question with you because it has often been asked of me at workshops and presentations I’ve offered.
Q. You mentioned in your talk about the connection between stress and health; would you say more about that?
A. If you are exposed to a pathogen such as a bacterium, virus, or fungus, and you are in perfect health, you will not get sick. However, any form of physiological stress, such as pathological alterations in blood pressure, glucose, acid/base balance, or trauma results in impaired immune function. Regardless of whether the stressor is exogenous (outside the body) or endogenous (within the body), immune function declines. The most common source of physiological stress is emotional distress. For that reason, this website is devoted to cultivation of the life-skills that help people reduce emotional distress.
This website is offered as a free public service, supplying information that has been found helpful to certain people living with chronic health challenges. No treatment is offered on this website. The advice is general, and may or may not apply to your individual situation, and is not a substitute for psychotherapy or medical treatment.
What questions do you have about how to live better with chronic health challenges? Each Friday, I will answer your questions in Chronic Illness Q&A with Dr. B.
Just scroll down and type your question in the comment box and you’ll see my response to you in an upcoming Friday post.

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Campo Santo, the indie development team behind last year’s highly-successful, Firewatch, have done possibly one of the coolest things of all time for a fan of the game.
Posting on their blog, Campo Santo explained how Ryan, a big fan of the game, bought the Crime by the Numbers Notebooks pack (a collection of notebooks with covers from novels featured in the game) the Campo Santo store. Inside the notebooks there is a fake order form, and the audacious Ryan decided to fill one out and send it to Campo Santo, requesting a copy of Love at First Site (the only person to do so), a book that doesn’t exist. So the cool cats at Campo Santo decided to make it for him. Yep, Ryan, the lucky bastard is the sole beneficiary of a once-off produced copy of Love at First Site and a letter from the book’s faux publisher, Red Panda Press.
Let’s see, Ryan Real-Last-Name-Withheld, would like one copy of Mo Marlowe’s Love at First Site and included $4.50 to exactly cover the costs plus shipping and handling. A few hours of illustration by Claire Hummel, a few more hours of design by Jake Rodkin and a little elbow grease in the form of creative writing by me, Sean Vanaman, and voilà, one copy of Love at First Site, ready for our friend Ryan.
Bizarrely, Campo Santo has not heard from Ryan since the book was dispatched. However, Ryan wherever you are:

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…because I’m eating it again in my new spot for Colonial Life!
…into the spot. Yep, that’s my snout, chin, and profile, munching on popcorn in this new spot for HomeAdvisor. https://www.ispot.tv/ad/ZjBx/homeadvisor-game-day Ah, well. That popcorn was sure tasty!
I’m thrilled that my latest audiobook, the historical romance set in World War 1, Julia’s Gifts, Great War – Great Love, Book 1, by award winning author Ellen Gable, is now available on Amazon! This sweet book was a joy to work on, especially since I’m an historical fiction lover!

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A Federal judge ruled today that public libraries cannot bar homeless people because their presence, their staring or their hygiene annoys or offends other library patrons.
At a time when libraries across the country are increasingly used as a refuge by homeless people, however, the judge, H. Lee Sarokin of Federal District Court in Newark, did not dispute the right of public libraries to draft rules governing its patrons, including the homeless.
"Libraries cannot and should not be transformed into hotels or kitchens, even for the needy," he said. But, he said the regulations must be specific, "their purposes necessary and their effects neutral."
Judge Sarokin ruled in a case involving the Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township here, which adopted a set of rules in July 1989 specifically to keep out a 41-year-old homeless man from Morristown, Richard R. Kreimer.
While upholding the library's rules banning patrons without shirts or shoes, he said that other rules were too vague or broad, including ones barring patrons who are not reading, studying or using library materials, who harass or annoy others through noisy activities or by staring, or whose "bodily hygiene is so offensive" that it is a nuisance to others.Continue reading the main story
"If we wish to shield our eyes and noses from the homeless, we should revoke their condition, not their library cards," he wrote. Judge Sarokin said the unconstitutional regulations violated the First Amendment rights of the homeless by denying them access to the ideas in the books and newspapers in the library. "The First Amendment protects the right to express ideas and the right to receive ideas," he said.
He went on, "Society has survived not banning books which it finds offensive from its libraries; it will survive not banning persons whom it likewise finds offensive from its libraries."
Standing outside the library this afternoon with his lawyer, Bruce S. Rosen, Mr. Kreimer called Judge Sarokin's decision a "great ruling."
"The issue is does a homeless person have the same right to read, to sit and think, as someone else," he said. "You cannot discriminate. Just because a person doesn't look as good, smell as good or dress as good, you're not going to keep him out of the library."
Mr. Rosen, Mr. Kreimer's lawyer, called the ruling "novel."
"I don't know if there are any other rulings in the country dealing directly with homeless rights to public libraries under the First Amendment," he said.
The chief librarian, Nancy Byouk, declined to comment on the case, referring questions to the library's lawyer, Clifford W. Starrett.
Mr. Starrett said he would not comment on the ruling, or a possible appeal, until, after he and the library's board of trustees had discussed it. Libraries as Shelters
The executive director of the New Jersey Library Association, Patricia Tumulty, said she could not comment on the ruling until she read it. But she said the question of when a librarian can ask someone to leave has been increasingly discussed in New Jersey, where homeless people have appeared in city libraries more and more frequently, particularly in the winter.
"One of the things that librarians never do is ask people why they are there," Ms. Tumulty said.
Under New Jersey statutes, she said, it is up to libraries to develop policies and procedures on when a person will be asked to leave. A subcommittee of the library association is trying to develop a position paper on the subject.
Across the country, homeless people often turn to public libraries as daytime shelter, especially in winter. One community, Haverhill, Mass., has even designed a new library with a separate room specifically for homeless people.
Judge Sarokin's ruling is Mr. Kreimer's second legal triumph in the last month. On April 19, New Jersey's Attorney General, Robert J. DelTufo, held that the homeless in New Jersey must be allowed to vote even if they have no permanent mailing address or specific domicile in the election district where they are staying. Calls Ball Park Home
That case also involved Mr. Kreimer, who had applied to vote through the Morris County Election Superintendent, using the address of "Streets of Morristown, Fourth Ward." Election officials here had requested guidance from Mr. DelTufo on Mr. Kreimer's application.
Mr. Kreimer said today that in lives in Ledgewood Park, a baseball and basketball complex, in the Fourth Ward here. He said he had played both sports there as a youth.
"Sometimes I sleep under blankets, sometimes in a sleeping bag," he said. "If it's raining, I may go into a baseball dugout."
Asked where he took his meals, he replied, "I get them from a friend."
Mr. Kreimer grew up in Morristown and had worked as a house painter and in the warehouse of his family's paper goods business until about a decade ago, he said. He said he had been homeless since he lost his own house in 1982 "because of some family problems." He would not elaborate.
While his lawsuit against the library was pending before Judge Sarokin, library officials softened their regulations against his presence in the building and allowed him to enter. Reading About Sports
He said he generally spent an hour each morning and an hour each evening there, reading mostly books on sports.
"I just finished a biography of Yogi Berra," he said. He said he had also recently read books on Ron Guidry, the former Yankee pitcher; on the Yankee-Red Sox rivalry over the years, and on what he called the chronological stories of Eskimos.
During his months-long, highly publicized fight with the library, Mr. Kreimer has become widely known here and apparently fairly deeply disliked.
As he spoke outside the library this afternoon, at least five passing motorists shouted derogatory remarks at him. He also got into a heated exchange with one couple on the sidewalk.
"None of them know what it's like to be living on the streets," he said. "Despite the social and economic disadvantages of the homeless, we have the same rights to a library as everybody else."
An article on Thursday about a Federal judge's overturning of regulations to bar a homeless man from the public library in Morristown, N.J., misidentified the park where the man, Richard R. Kreimer, sleeps. It is Lidgerwood Park in Morristown.


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Health, Coconut Oil and Cancer. For thousands of years the people in and around Asian and the Pacific have used coconut oil for everything from a food to a medicine. The people in many tropical climates, for instance the regions of Polynesia, Sri Lanka, and the Yucatan, have diets that are rich in coconut oil. These people are universally thought of to be healthier and have less heart disease, cancer, and colon problems than Westerners. For years the common wisdom has been that "cholesterol and saturated fats are bad for you." However, It is now know that there are both good cholesterol and good saturated fats… Coconut oil is one such saturated fat!
To quote Dr. Mary Enig: “The research over four decades concerning coconut oil in diet and heart disease is quite clear: coconut oil has been shown to be beneficial.”
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Prince Harry 'wants a date with Katy Perry'
Mar 6, 2012, 9:01 GMT
Prince Harry reportedly wants a date with Katy Perry.
The second in line to the throne apparently hopes to sign the 'Firework' singer up for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert so that he can make his move.
Harry, 27, is even said to have turned to event organiser and Take That star Gary Barlow to help get 27-year-old Katy - who is back on the market after splitting with husband Russell Brand - on board.
A source told the Daily Star newspaper: 'Harry has a double reason for targeting Katy. First he thinks she is a rocking artist with great songs. But secondly she is single and very sexy.
'He sees this as an opportunity to get close to Katy. And he is confident his charm will win her over.
'And although Katy may have ended it with Russell, she still has a soft spot for wild boys.'
According to the report, the hook-up become a reality with Katy having previously admitted to fancying the royal bachelor.
However. a Buckingham Palace spokesman denied either Harry or his big brother Prince William have had anything to do with the line-up for the June 4 event, which will feature performances by Kylie Minogue, Stevie Wonder and Elton John.
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Those who know me know I'm a bit of an experimentalist in the kitchen. This evening while trying to find something interesting to put in an omelet, I tried some Indian ginger pickle. Now I admit this was an odd combination, but you have to admit, you never know unless you try, right?
Well, the verdict came back quickly, and the foreman was not pleased! Ugh! Not one of my better ideas. -)


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Costa Rica: Caribbean Mountains to Coast October 2021
Day 1 – San José
Set in the outskirts of the Grand Metropolitan Area, where the urban sprawl is rapidly overtaking the remnant agricultural fields, Hotel Bougainvillea’s gardens are an amazing oasis for birds, especially for Neotropical migrants. October is also a time of peak migration through Central America and this was quickly evident as we walked around the neighborhood of the hotel as Barn, Bank and Cliff Swallows and Purple Martins passed overhead as Yellow Warblers and the first of many Red-eyed Vireos worked the fence rows. We also saw several wrens, Rufous-naped, House and even the extremely skulky Cabanis’s Wren hopping in and out of view along a hedge.
October 02 – Irazú
Revisiting the hotel gardens early in the morning we encountered another load of Neotropical migrants including brilliant Blackburnian Warblers and Baltimore Orioles, Red-eyed and Yellow-green Vireos, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, a Summer Tanager ripping apart a wasp nest and a flock of Dickcissels flying overhead. Some of the common resident species showed well including Rufous-collared Sparrow, Inca Dove, Melodious Blackbird, Crimson-fronted Parakeet, Hoffmann´s Woodpecker and certainly one of the highlights was Mottled Owl roosting in a dense stand of exotic bamboo. After breakfast we met our driver Jorge and made our way to Costa Rica’s highest volcano, Irazú, a massive shield volcano towering 3,400m over the Central Valley and Caribbean Sea. These highlands are home to many of Costa Rica’s endemic species which we were hoping to find, so we put on our fleeces and began birding the high elevation roadside. Very quickly we had found Talamanca, Fiery-throated and Volcano Hummingbird, Lesser Violetear, Sooty and Mountain Thrush, Sooty-capped Chlorospingus, Slaty Flowerpiercer and Black-and-yellow Silky-Flycatcher. Several warblers gave fantastic views such as Wilson’s, Black-throated Green, Blackburnian and Black-and-white, but probably the most stunning was Flame-throated Warbler when a pair began foraging at close range and gave us views of every different angle possible. After a filling lunch we drove near the top of the mountain and found several of our targets before the dense cloud set in, Volcano Junco, Timberline Wren and Black-cheeked Warbler. After a successful day in the highlands we drove down towards the Reventazón River valley and Hotel Quelitales for the next two nights. We made one more stop near lake Cachí and had eye-level views of a pair of Bat Falcons, Mourning Warbler and a cooperative Tropical Parula.
Hotel Quelitales is owned by an avid birdwatcher and it shows! Set in the middle elevations with a backdrop of stunning mountains and fantastic oak-elm forest the birding is superb. In the gardens around the hotel we quickly spotted several new hummingbirds, Violet Sabrewing, Green Hermit, Green-crowned Brilliant, Lesser Violetear and two endemics, White-bellied Mountain-Gem and Coppery-headed Emerald. Incredible mixed species flocks constantly moved through all levels of the forest with Silver-throated, Bay-headed and Golden-hooded Tanagers, White-ruffed Manakins, Scarlet-thighed Dacnis, Common Chlorospingus, Rufous Mourner, Tawny-capped Euphonia, Slate-throated Redstart, Golden-winged Warbler, Collared Trogon, Spotted Barbtail, Wedge-billed Woodcreeper and striking views of both male and female Red-headed Barbets. One of the specialties of Quelitales is Sooty-faced Finch which comes out to eat cracked corn at a feeding station, providing great views of an otherwise difficult bird to see! After lunch we visited a coffee farm in Ujarrás to search for one of Costa Rica’s most threatened endemic, Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow, of which we found several pairs and had good views. Our next stop was another coffee farm, this one owned by Ernesto´s family. Cafe Cristina is a model organic, shade-grown coffee farm pioneering in producing coffee in the most environmentally friendly ways possible. We learned how this is not only beneficial for the wildlife, but also for the coffee as an important pest control.
October 04 – Las Brisas Nature Reserve
After breakfast we began our drive along the Reventazón river valley down towards the Caribbean. Along the way we stopped at a couple streams and found a specialty of this habitat, the fascinating Sunbittern which blends in perfectly with the boulders in the stream until it opens its wings and you get a burst of yellow, orange and red! Our next stop was Las Brisas Nature Reserve which is the main study site for Proyecto Cerúlea (www.cerulea.org), a research and conservation project led by Ernesto. It is also one of the most important stopover sites for the threatened Cerulean Warbler.
We had the opportunity to see the banding process in action explained by head bird bander and Eagle-eye Tours guide, Paz A. Irola who showed us an Emerald Tanager in the hand! Being late in the morning bird activity was fairly low, but we did find a mixed species flock with Red-throated Ant-Tanager, Carmiol’s Tanager, Emerald Tanager, Speckled Tanager and an adult male Cerulean Warbler! After a picnic lunch at the banding station we drove south-east along the coast and reached the town of Cocles in the late afternoon and checked-in to our beach-front hotel.
October 05 – Cahuita National Park
Early in the morning we walked along the beach and quickly found Scarlet-rumped Cacique, Belted and Ringed Kingfisher, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Whimbrel and Spotted Sandpiper. After breakfast we visited Cahuita National Park which offers an amazing opportunity to explore the flooded, tropical lowland forests from the dry comfort of a boardwalk! Just off the bus we spotted a Pied Puffbird high in a dead tree and soon we encountered several mixed species flocks and the birds allowed great views and photo opportunities. Dot-winged Antwren, Chestnut-backed Antbird, Black-crowned Antshrike, Bay Wren, Blue-black Grosbeak and even a Bare-crowned Antbird all gave us great views. In one of the forested puddles we heard a low ticking noise and after meticulously searching the overhanging vegetation we found an American Pygmy-Kingfisher! We reached the ranger station at the end of the boardwalk and the rangers showed us our first snake of the trip, two different color morphs of the Eyelash Pit-Viper!
After a tasty lunch and much desired cold drink in the small town of Cahuita we birded the side roads leading out of the town and found Cocoa Woodcreeper, Bright-rumped Attila, Baltimore Oriole, Black-cheeked Woodpecker, Olive-backed Euphonia, Groove-billed Ani, Squirrel Cuckoo and one of our main targets in this region, Black-chested Jay!
At dawn the flow of migratory birds was astonishing with a non-stop stream of Barn, Bank and Cliff Swallows, Eastern Kingbirds and Dickcissels flying overhead, a good omen for the rest of the day. Before breakfast we drove a few kilometers south-east along the coast and did some roadside birding near a small creek. Red-lored, Mealy, White-crowned and Blue-headed Parrots were squeaking and squawking in the treetops, Blue-chested Hummingbirds were visiting a flowering Fire Bush, a Green Kingfisher on a log below the bridge; birds everywhere! At this stop we also saw Great-crested, Dusky-capped, Yellow-olive and Olive-sided Flycatchers, Black-striped Sparrow, Yellow-throated Toucan, Cinnamon Becard and a Fasciated Antshrike singing in the top of a Sandbox Tree, but gave us good views in the scope. After breakfast we drove towards Cahuita again but this time headed up a side road that crosses over a small ridge called Fila Carbón. On our way we encountered a few kettles composed mainly of Broad-winged Hawks and Turkey Vultures with a few Swainson’s Hawks, Peregrine Falcons, Osprey and even one Northern Harrier! We found several mixed species flocks along the forested, gravel road with species such as American Redstart, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Lesser Greenlet, White-winged Becard, Ochre-bellied Flycatcher, Variable Seedeater and large flocks of Tawny-crested Tanagers moving through the undergrowth. As we neared the top of Fila Carbón it was as if the gates broke open as thousands of Broad-winged Hawks and Turkey Vultures began pouring through overhead. The sky was filled with raptors, literally, and after 45 minutes of watching in awe we had estimated about ten thousand birds had gone by! At the end of the day we inquired at the Kekoldi Hawk Watch about that day’s count and they had tallied a whopping 35,000! After lunch in Cahuita we drove north to bird several river mouths and found a variety of shorebirds including Sanderling, Least Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Willet, Whimbrel, Greater Yellowlegs, Semipalmated, Wilson’s and Black-bellied Plover, Royal Tern, Laughing Gull and Costa Rican rarity, a Brown Noddy!
October 07 – Río La Suerte to Tortuguero
After an early breakfast we packed-up and drove north to the town of Guápiles where we were to take a boat down Río La Suerte to reach the small village of Tortuguero. The weather was cool, which can be seen as a very comfortable situation in the tropical rainforest, but what can be comfortable for humans can certainly affect bird activity. That afternoon we walked the hotel grounds and enjoyed views of Russet-naped Wood-Rail, White-shouldered Tanager, Northern Waterthrush, White-collared Manakin, Collared Aracari and Purple-throated Fruitcrow.
October 08 – Tortuguero National Park
Early in the morning we boarded a small boat and set-off to explore the forested canals in Tortuguero National Park. Though it was rather quiet we did find Snowy and Great Egret, Little-blue Heron, Boat-billed Heron, Mangrove Swallow, Common Black-Hawk, Northern Jacana and a Semiplumbeous Hawk. After breakfast we visited the strip of land where the village of Tortuguero is located on the Caribbean Sea. Here we picked-up Pale-vented Pigeon, Tropical Mockingbird, Willow Flycatcher, Canada Warbler, Pale-billed Woodpecker, Tropical Gnatcatcher and up close views of the raucous, but spectacular Great Green Macaws!
We walked out to the beach and encountered the tracks left by turtles the previous night as they emerged from the sea to lay their eggs on shore! After lunch we went out for a second boat ride and the cool afternoon kept activity very low. We did get good views of a treetop dwelling flycatcher, the Brown-capped Tyrannulet. After dinner we went for a night walk and heard several Crested Owls and a Black-and-white Owl singing from the tall rainforest canopy. In the still of the night one could also hear dozens of Swainson´s and Gray-cheeked Thrushes migrating overhead.
October 09 – Fortuna to Arenal
After breakfast the next morning we packed our bags and awaited the boat back out to Guápiles, not before admiring a pair of Slaty-tailed Trogons and the resident troop of Geoffrey’s Spider Monkeys bidding us farewell and setting us on our way to the next destination. Jorge was awaiting us at the dock and off we went to the town of Fortuna where we snacked on ice cream before birding the forested road that borders Lake Arenal. Only minutes into birding, a heavy downpour made us rush back on the bus, but as quickly as it came it was also gone and birding was amazing! Broad-billed and Keel-billed Motmot, Buff-throated Foliage-Gleaner, Collared Aracaris, Scarlet and Summer Tanagers, Crested Guan, Keel-billed Toucan and a flock of White-fronted Nunbirds were just a small portion of the species we encountered on our short walk. We made our way to Arenal Observatory Lodge which has the young, conical Arenal Volcano in the background.
October 10 – Arenal Observatory Lodge
Early in the morning we met on the deck in front of the restaurant to watch the feeding frenzy at the fruit feeder. The Montezuma Oropendolas were boss, but whenever possible the smaller species would come in for a bite including Tennessee Warblers, Yellow-throated Euphonias, Green Honeycreepers, Red-legged Honeycreepers, Crimson-collared Tanager and Brown Jays. Down below, the Great Curassows were picking up the bits and pieces that fell to the ground. Foraging in the fruiting trees and bushes around the lodge were Hepatic, Bay-headed and Black-and-yellow Tanagers, Scarlet-thighed Dacnis, Swainson’s Thrushes and a Veery. After breakfast we set-out to the trails and quickly ran into an amazing mixed species flock which we were able to follow for about 200 meters along a forest edge, discovering new species as it progressed. We had fantastic and repeated views of species such as White-throated Shrike-Tanager, Russet Antshrike, Slaty-capped Flycatcher, Striped Woodhaunter and Rufous-tailed Jacamar.
Another highlight entailed as we heard a Thicket Antpitta singing from the undergrowth and we decided to try and call it out to maybe catch a glimpse. This species is heard often, but rarely does it show itself, so our hopes were not high. We positioned ourselves in front of the thicket and low and behold, after about a minute of whistling, the antpitta perched in clear view and even allowed for point-blank scope views! Although we thought we could not make the day any better, we topped off the morning with some outstanding hummingbirds including Green Thorntail, Blue-throated Goldentail, Violet-headed Hummingbird, Scaly-breasted Hummingbird, White-necked Jacobin and killer views of a male Black-crested Coquette. After lunch we walked down a different trail and found Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher, Long-tailed Tyrant, Southern rough-winged Swallow, Masked Tityra and Orange-chinned Parakeet. That night we went to the parking lot to look for the resident pair of Black-and-white Owls and sure enough there they were, catching the large insects attracted to the lights.
October 11 – Arenal to the Central Valley
We began our last day of birding climbing up the 15 meter observation tower that sticks up above the canopy giving us a different point of view of the birds we had been seeing, looking down at them for a change! Scarlet-thighed Dacnis, tanagers, Spider Monkeys and Howler Monkeys and some extremely close Orange-chinned Parakeets and Yellow-throated Toucans put on quite a show in the early morning light. After breakfast we loaded the bus and began working our way back to the Central Valley, making a few strategic stops along the way. Our first stop was at a fast flowing stream where we found Black Phoebe and a pair of Torrent Tyrannulets. A bit further along, down a gravel side road, we had fantastic views of the stunning White Hawk which stands out like a sore thumb against the dark forest. Another highlight of this road, just prior to the heavy rain, was a flock of Great Green Macaws flying eye level in the valley below, awe-inspiring. Next stop was lunch at Cinchona, a small roadside restaurant that has bird feeders and makes for an entertaining meal to say the least. Green-crowned Brilliants, Violet Sabrewings, Green Hermits and white-bellied Mountain-Gems were frequenting the hummingbird feeders. On the fruit feeders were Silver-throated, Blue-gray, Palm and Summer Tanagers, Baltimore Orioles and even a Black Guan. Hopping below the feeders we caught glimpses of the skulky Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch, and most importantly, our lunch promptly came out. From this site we made our way through the heavy rain to Hotel Robledal where we would bid farewell to each other and spend our last night of the tour.

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With the rapid adoption of enterprise-grade digital meeting and workstream collaboration tools in response to the coronavirus pandemic, organizations need to improve operations to support a newly remote workforce. As reliance on collaboration tools grows, Gartner has identified three steps IT leaders should take to ensure productivity and mitigate business disruptions.
“The rise in virtual meetings since the COVID-19 pandemic began is putting pressure on enterprise leaders to ensure employees have the right technological capabilities to maintain consistent, high-quality connections with colleagues, customers and partners while working remotely,” said Mike Fasciani, senior research director at Gartner, in a statement.
As employees become more dependent on these virtual meeting and collaboration tools, these steps can help IT leaders provide an improved and secure user experience.
SEE: Remote workers are here to stay: 4 tips to manage them effectively (TechRepublic)
Enable reliable and consistent virtual meeting experiences
Most enterprise leaders whose employees have been instructed to work from home due to COVID-19 have already procured and deployed an enterprise-grade video meeting and workstream collaboration offering.
Once these platforms are deployed, sufficient bandwidth and network reliability are critical for enabling productivity and a consistent user experience, Gartner said.
High-quality group video calls need an internet service that can deliver download and upload speeds of at least 1.5 Mbps, the firm said. While many locations today have enough broadband internet bandwidth to accommodate video meetings, some do not.
Employees who reside in these internet dead spots, which can include highly rural areas, can leverage workstream collaboration messaging capabilities to work with colleagues asynchronously or join meetings using the dial-in audio options to their telephony device, Gartner said.
Remote workers can also use 4G-enabled smartphones, rather than PCs, to connect to online meetings, the firm suggested.
“Many video meetings and workstream collaboration applications were built with a ‘mobile first’ design intent,” Fasciani said. “Often, these applications work as well on mobile as on a desktop or web-client.”
Make the meeting secure
Addressing security concerns is paramount for business leaders looking to enable productive online meetings. “End user organizations can contribute to more secure meeting experiences by being thoughtful around IT administrator settings, meeting host controls, and end user behavior,” Fasciani said.
“Simple steps, like using a separate host passcode, randomizing meeting IDs, and requiring that participants register for the meeting service before joining the call, can go a long way in ensuring online meetings remain private.”
Reshape meeting culture to promote productivity
Meeting overload is already an issue in many organizations, and it may be exacerbated in this current work from home environment, Fasciani said. “Managers should poll their team to determine the degree of meeting overload that they’re experiencing, and then experiment with one or two interventions focused on type, quality, formality, or cadence to improve meeting experiences,” he said.
Prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gartner projected that half of organizations would experience increased collaboration between their business and IT teams. The firm also predicted that the dispute between business and IT teams over control of technology would lessen as both sides come to understand that joint participation is critical to the success of innovation in a digital workforce.
Find more information about how organizations can lead through the disruption of coronavirus in the Gartner coronavirus resource center.


'All the Justices concur': Georgia Supreme Court unanimously rejects GOP case to end Saturday voting
The Georgia Republican Party appealed a lower court ruling this week that denied their efforts to eliminate Saturday voting in the state. The appeal was unanimously struck down by the Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday, however.
Most Georgia early voting is cut off at 5 p.m., which prevents people who work such hours from accessing the early voting, leaving Saturday voting as their only other option.
"Upon consideration, the Emergency Petition for Writ of Certiorari and Motion to Stay are denied. All the Justices concur," the court filing said.
The runoff date is set for Dec. 6 for Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and GOP challenger, Herschel Walker. Under Georgia law, there are at least five days of early voting mandated from Monday Nov. 28 through Friday Dec. 2, which requires that the Saturday option be available to voters. The largest counties, like Fulton County, which includes Atlanta and is a Democratic county, intended to hold Saturday voting on Nov. 26, after Thanksgiving.
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Earlier this week, NPR published an article about a White House commission report that was released, urging President Trump to declare America’s opioid crisis a national emergency.1 The opioid crisis is considered by some to be a public health emergency and the article highlights the disturbing fact that drug overdoses now kill more people every year than gun homicides and car crashes combined.
So what would declaring a national emergency do and how would it combat the opioid crisis in America? This blog will answer these questions, as well as a few others you may have.
Statistics on Opioid Overdoses and Abuse in America
- The number of opioid overdoses in America has quadrupled since 1999.2
- In 2017, more than 115 Americans died every day from an opioid overdose.3
- From 1999 to 2016, more than 630,000 people died from a drug overdose.3
- Opioid overdoses accounted for more than 42,000 deaths in 2016, more than any previous year on record.4
- More than six out of 10 drug overdose deaths involve an opioid.5
- Although there has not been an overall change in the amount of pain Americans reported, the amount of prescription opioids being sold in America have nearly quadrupled since 1999.3
- About 21 to 29 percent of patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain misuse them.11
- About 80 percent of people who use heroin first misused prescription opioids.11
- Opioid overdoses increased 30 percent from July 2016 through September 2017 in 52 areas in 45 states.11
- The Midwestern region saw opioid overdoses increase 70 percent from July 2016 through September 2017.11
What Is an Opioid Overdose?
Opioid drugs affect the area of the brain that regulates breathing. Therefore, when a person takes too much of an opioid or uses opioids with alcohol or sedatives, they may experience severe symptoms such as pinpoint pupils, unconsciousness, and respiratory depression. These symptoms are known as the “opioid overdose triad” and can result in death.5
Those most at risk for opioid overdose are people who have a reduced tolerance (due to recent detox, incarceration, or addiction treatment), people taking high doses of prescription opioids, people who inject opioids, people who have medical conditions, and people who are using opioids and alcohol or sedatives simultaneously.5 Although not all opioid overdoses are deadly, the risk of death is highest under the above-mentioned conditions.
What Is Naloxone and How Does It Work?
Naloxone is a solution that is injected or sprayed into the nose to prevent or reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. It is an opioid antagonist and has not been shown to produce any tolerance or physical/psychological dependence. It is a temporary drug and its effects wear off within 20-90 minutes.6,7
Why Declare a National Emergency?
Declaring a national emergency would give Health and Human Services (HHS) the ability to grant Medicaid waivers to states, which would provide more funding for inpatient drug treatment. Additionally, declaring a national emergency would allow the HHS to negotiate lower prices for Naloxone which would help state and local authorities make it more widely available.9
The interim report released by the White House commission also proposes using federal funds to expand the use of methadone and buprenorphine within medically-assisted drug treatment programs to help aid recovery and prevent relapse.1 As a result, this proposed action could potentially reduce the number of non-fatal and fatal opioid overdoses.
Are There Any Possible Negative Effects of Declaring a National Emergency?
The article published by NPR notes that some individuals are worried that declaring a national emergency would create a new version of the “war on drugs” declared by President Nixon in 1971. This well-known initiative and its drug policies resulted in claims of Congress passing overly excessive drug sentencing laws as well as the unfair targeting of minority communities.8 Some people also worry that those struggling with addiction may also be affected by heightened enforcement.9
What Else Can Be Done to Prevent Opioid Overdose Deaths?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have recommended several ways we can prevent opioid overdose deaths. These include3,5:
- Improve opioid prescribing practices by reducing unnecessary or inappropriate opioid prescriptions and limiting over-the-counter opioid sales
- Increase access and availability of evidence-based substance abuse treatment
- Expand access and use of naloxone
- Utilize prescription drug monitoring program on the state level to help prevent drug abuse