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The Times of Israel liveblogged Wednesday’s events as they unfolded.
IDF chief Aviv Kohavi has tested negative for COVID-19, the army announces.
Kohavi and two other top generals entered quarantine on Tuesday after it was discovered that they had a meeting with someone who had the virus.
The IDF says Kohavi feels well and will remain in quarantine until the end of the week.
Test results for Home Front Command Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai and head of IDF Operations Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva have not yet been received.
The District of Columbia has announced nine new COVID-19 infections among first responders.
The first day of “high-volume testing” for first responders revealed five new coronavirus cases among the fire department and EMS, bringing the total to 19. Four new cases were revealed for the Metropolitan Police Department, for a total of 13.
Hundreds of police officers, firefighters and EMS members remain quarantined. Washington has identified 504 positive cases, with nine deaths. Mayor Muriel Bowser has issued a stay-home order for Washington’s approximately 700,000 residents. Neighboring Maryland and Virginia have done the same.
The total US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has topped 4,000, more than double the number from three days earlier, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
The number of deaths is 4,076 — more than twice the 2,010 recorded late Saturday.
More than 40% of recorded deaths nationally were in New York state, the Johns Hopkins data showed. New York City alone has over 1,000 deaths.
On Tuesday the United States exceeded the number of deaths in China, where the pandemic emerged in December before spreading worldwide.
The number of confirmed US cases has reached 189,510, the most in the world, though Italy and Spain have recorded more fatalities.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, says a cargo plane had been shuttling between the Shayrat and T-4 air bases in central Syria before an alleged Israeli strike on the former, citing reliable sources.
Observers believe Shayrat to used by Iran as a forward base for bringing weapons into the country. T-4 had been seen as a main base for housing Iran-linked fighters and arms and has been allegedly attacked by Israel several times.
After a very long time noticeable activity can be seen at Al-Shayrat Airbase, #Homs, #Syria in the last month, a new building was constructed just North of one of the runways. I wonder if this was the target this evening?
— Aurora Intel – #StayHome (@AuroraIntel) March 31, 2020
Pop-up drive-thru coronavirus testing centers are slated to open Wednesday in the cities of Ashdod and Rahat, according to media reports.
Rahat, a Bedouin city of 69,000 in the northern Negev, has seen only 4 confirmed cases, according to Health Ministry data, likely due to low testing rates in Arab communities.
In 2013, the city was the epicenter of a polio outbreak, leading to a major immunization campaign.
Ashdod, home to a large ultra-Orthodox community, is the country’s sixth largest city, but has seen less than 100 confirmed cases.
The Health Ministry has upped the tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 5,591.
The tally shows 233 new cases confirmed since the night before and 760 cases in the last 24 hours, the largest single-day jump seen yet.
97 people are in serious condition and 76 are on ventilators.
The report also ups the death toll to 21, but does not provide details.
The Health Ministry tally reports that the number of recovered is up to 226, two more than a previous report.
118 people are in moderate condition, according to the release.
Soroka Hospital in Beersheba announces that the 21st death was a 98-year-old woman who had been hospitalized there.
It says the woman had “complicated and severe” preexisting conditions.
The IDF announces that Home Front Command Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai and head of IDF Operations Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva have both tested negative for COVID-19, joining IDF chief Aviv Kohavi.
Both will remain in isolation until the weekend, the army says.
Australia’s biggest newspaper publisher News Corp. says it will suspend printing of 60 local papers due to weak advertising revenue.
Local newspapers in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia will be digital-only from next week. The newspapers depend heavily on advertising related to real estate auctions, house inspections, community events and restaurants — all of which have been closed.
News Corp. Australia’s executive chairman, Michael Miller, said the top priority is to preserve jobs and position its business to counter the coronavirus crisis.
The COVID-19 outbreak has meanwhile brought a surge in new subscriptions to News Corp.’s online publications. The journalists’ union — Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance — has urged the government to help out several rural newspapers in New South Wales and Victoria that have already stopped printing due to lack of advertising.
In the US, the Gannett Company also recently announced it would force employees at its news outlets making over $39,000 annually to take a week unpaid vacation per month during the crisis.
— with AP
The economy is smarting under the weight of the coronavirus pandemic, but some are still raking it in.
The Plaza International real estate firm announces that it has signed a preliminary agreement to sell two plots of land in north Tel Aviv to the Hagag Group for a record NIS 400 million ($112 million).
Two towers are slated to be built on the plots, in the Park Bavli project near the city’s Bavli neighborhood, with at least 190 units each.
Plaza International is owned by the Tshuva Group and controlled by Gal Naor, the daughter of tycoon Yitzhak Tshuva, who lives in the project’s first tower.
A second tower is slated to be completed in 2023.
After the second death of a resident of a Beersheba elder care facility, residents there are begging to be tested.
According to reports, at least five people at the Mishan old age home have tested positive for the virus.
“Why do we have to bang on doors and beg to be tested,” resident Esther Halili says in a video published by Ynet. “Indeed, we are not MKs and not even the prime minister’s family, but we are people. We came here to live, not die.”
Earlier, Soroka Hospital in the city announced that a resident of the facility, 98, had died, days after another resident succumbed to COVID-19. Both had preexisting conditions.
According to Haaretz, operators of the Mishan facility said they would test residents after pressure from the Health Ministry.
Meanwhileת Channel 12 news reports that three cases have been discovered at a Bat Yam rehabilitation center.
Police in Bnei Brak are gearing up for the funeral of the wife of an ultra-Orthodox community leader, days after authorities were criticized for not stepping in to prevent hundreds from attending a procession there in contravention of social distancing rules.
Channel 12 news reports that police officials are attempting to negotiate with community leaders to keep people from congregating at the funeral for Aliza Friedman, the wife of one of the leaders of the hardline Jerusalem Faction sect.
A midnight funeral for another leader of the group late Saturday and early Sunday drew some 400 people. Police said they did not enforce the rules in order to avoid rioting, which they feared would make the situation worse, but were still reprimanded, and have since stepped up enforcement there and in other ultra-Orthodox areas.
In Modiin Illit, an ultra-Orthodox settlement, police have arrested six members of the sect Wednesday morning for holding an illegal prayer gathering.
Bnei Brak is seen as the largest virus epicenter in the country, with 571 reported cases in a population of just under 200,000 people.
Officials are reportedly leaning toward closing off the city to prevent the spread of the virus, but have so far only placed some checkpoints around the city to check IDs of some entering the Tel Aviv suburb.
Under Health Ministry rules, only 20 people are allowed to attend a funeral. Prayer gatherings of more than two people are forbidden.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan tells the Ynet news website that police are carrying out “exacting and unprecedented enforcement” in Bnei Brak.
He says he is pushing for authority to force anyone in the city who tests positive for the virus, or is required to be in quarantine, to move to a hotel, where their movement can be more easily tracked.
Senior Health Ministry official Boaz Lev tells the channel he is very worried about the city’s outbreak spreading across the country. “This is like a wildfire in a field of weeds.”
After partially clawing back from its historic losses over the last several days, the Tel Aviv Stock exchange’s major indexes have opened April with a return to losing.
The benchmark TA-35 is down 2.65 percent over an hour after the opening bell, and the TA-125 is down 2.88%.
The trend was repeated across East Asia, where shares mostly fell Wednesday, on continuing worries about the economic fallout from the pandemic as reports of coronavirus cases keep surging in various regions.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dropped 4.5% to finish at 18,065.41. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 3.6% to 5,258.60, while South Korea’s Kospi dipped 3.8% to 1,687.97. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 2.6% to 22,989.96, while the Shanghai Composite edged 0.5% lower to 2,736.28.
— with AP
The Defense Ministry says it has contracted with a Sderot manufacturer for 35 million face masks for medical staff.
Sion Medical will also manufacture hundreds of thousands of uniforms for medical staff, according to a statement.
Israeli officials are reportedly mulling requiring all who leave their homes to wear face masks, after initially downplaying the effectiveness of the gear.
The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 30,000 people in Europe, more than three-quarters of them in Italy and Spain, according to an AFP tally using official figures.
A total of 30,063 deaths have been recorded in Europe out of 458,601 cases, making it the continent hit hardest by COVID-19.
The most deaths were recorded in Italy, with 12,428 fatalities, followed by Spain with 8,189 and France with 3,523.
The global death toll stands at over 42,300 according to a Johns Hopkins University count.
A video being shared on social media shows an ultra-Orthodox man in Bnei Brak heckling a group of people who gathered for an illegal prayer, amid widespread concerns of a massive coronavirus outbreak in the city due to some refusing to heed rules against congregating for prayer or many other reasons.
“Get out of here, murderers,” the man yells as people, some in prayer shawls, appear to walk away from a synagogue, though at least one man is seen going back in. “I’ll report you 10 times. From now on, I’ll call the police every time.”
כל הכבוד למשטרה שטיפלה בהם, רק תבינו מה עושים קומץ אנרכיסטים לעיר בני ברק. pic.twitter.com/bqfQ0yley6
— יענקי פרבר (@yankihebrew) April 1, 2020
Police have begun to hand out fines of NIS 500 to NIS 5,000 to those breaking social distancing rules against congregating or leaving home for nonessential reasons, and have arrested some.
Residents of the Mishan nursing home in Beersheba will be tested for COVID-19, after a second person from the facility died overnight, the Walla news site reports.
Residents had begged for mass testing, fearing the virus was running rampant through the home.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Bnei Brak has jumped by 159 in the last 24 hours, according to Hebrew media reports citing official figures.
A total of 730 people in the city now have the virus, though it remains behind Jerusalem as the second largest hotspot. At least some of the increase may be the result of increased testing, after swabbing stations were set up in the city.
In Jerusalem, a total of 780 people have the virus, up from 650 a day earlier.
Much of the increase is seen as emanating from the ultra-Orthodox community.
According to Channel 12 news, double-digit increases were also recorded in several other cities with large ultra-Orthodox populations.
The Health Ministry has released figures on testing levels, showing upped numbers over the last three days.
According to the figures, 7,439 swabs were checked on Tuesday, 6,636 on Monday and 6,489 on Sunday. The five days previous each had daily numbers between 5,000 and 5,700.
Authorities say they are seeking to ramp up testing to at least 10,000 a day. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Defense Ministry to acquire enough kits to perform 30,000 daily checks.
The ministry had not released daily testing numbers since March 25.
The New York Times looks at the resurgence of virus cases in Asia and notes that the phenomenon is bad news for anyone hoping for a quick return to normal for the world.
According to the report, China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore and other countries in East Asia have snapped back restrictions and tightened borders amid fears of a new wave of cases, as travelers from the West bring the virus with them.
“The moves portend a worrisome sign for the United States, Europe and the rest of the world still battling a surging outbreak: Any country’s success with containment could be tenuous, and the world could remain on a kind of indefinite lockdown,” the paper notes.
The story says that with uneven domestic solutions across the world, flight restrictions may remain in place to some degree for the foreseeable future.
The Palestinian Authority says 15 new cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed in the West Bank, bringing the total to 134.
Government spokesman Mohammad Milhem does not say what condition the virus carriers are in.
On Tuesday, Gazan authorities confirmed two new cases there, bringing the total to 12.
The British government is under fire for failing to keep its promise to increase the number of tests performed for COVID-19.
The UK has restricted testing to hospitalized patients, leaving many people with milder symptoms unsure whether they have had the new coronavirus.
Many scientists have urged wider testing to allow medics who are negative to remain at work, and to better understand how the virus spreads.
That has happened in Germany, which has the capacity to do 500,000 tests a week.
The UK initially performed about 5,000 tests a day, but the government promised to increase that number to 10,000 by the end of last week.
The target has not been met, with just over 8,000 tests performed Monday, the last day for which figures are available.
Officials have blamed a shortage of the chemicals needed to perform the tests.
Communities secretary Robert Jenrick says the number of tests should hit 15,000 a day “within a couple of days” and rise to 25,000 a day by mid-April. He concedes, “We do need to go further and we need to do that faster.”
He tells ITV that “it isn’t easy to procure the tests in a global pandemic because there is a great deal of demand.”
Israel now has over 1 million job-seekers, the vast majority of them employees laid off in the last month due to the coronavirus crisis, according to reports citing official figures.
Since the start of March, 843,945 people have registered for unemployment benefits, 90 percent of them having been put on unpaid leave.
The new numbers put the unemployment rate at a whopping 24.1 percent.
Spain announces 864 people have died from the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total there to over 9,000.
Iran’s death toll from the coronavirus has crossed the 3,000 mark, the health ministry says, reporting 138 new fatalities within 24 hours.
Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour says the death toll now stands at 3,036. He said 2,987 new cases brought the total to 47,593 and 15,473 of those hospitalized had recovered.
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine says that the UK’s lockdown measures have managed to bring the coronavirus infection rate there down significantly, offering hope for a path out of the crisis.
According to preliminary data, the infection rate for each person who has the virus to pass it on to others, or R-naught, has likely dropped to 0.62 from 2.6 before lockdown measures were put in place, showing a significant flattening of the curve.
The data is based on an online survey asking participants to list their contacts from the day earlier.
“If we see similar changes across the UK population, we would expect to see the epidemic to start to decline,” Professor John Edmunds from the school, who led the research, says in a statement.
“This means the virus is cornered – it has nowhere to go and will burn out. Good news,” tweets University of Birmingham Prof. Karol Sikora.
The head of the Knesset committee overseeing the country’s response to the coronavirus crisis says an NIS 80 billion rescue package for the economy is not nearly enough.
“This is a preliminary plan, with some parts still missing clear details. And yet even now it’s clear that to actually address the crisis we will need a much broader plan and likewise a shift in the accepted budgetary approach,” Ofer Shelah of the opposition Yesh Atid party says in a statement following a Knesset discussion on the plan.
He calls for officials to take “unorthodox measures” given the size of the crisis and urges the government to make it safer for banks to extend credit to hurting consumers.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reinstated a plan to require all arrivals from abroad to be quarantined in a hotel for 14 days, a day after it was revealed that a similar plan had been nixed.
Unlike the earlier plan, all arrivals will seemingly now be required to quarantine under supervision, not just those from hard-hit Italy, Spain, France and the US, effective immediately.
Netanyahu’s office also says arrivals will be tested for the virus, should the Defense Ministry manage to acquire enough tests.
On Tuesday, a top health official had called Netanyahu’s decision to nix the Defense Ministry plan “idiotic.”
Police plan on stepping up enforcement of restrictions on movements and gatherings on the eve of Passover in order to make sure extended families do not attempt to get together for the traditional seder meal.
A police source tells Walla news that police will set up extra checkpoints on highways and hit the streets in extra large forces to make sure everyone complies.
“We won’t allow leniency,” the source says, adding that fines will be handed out.
Officials have expressed worries that seemingly innocuous holiday get-togethers could lead to a major flare-up of the virus, pointing to the Purim holiday in mid-March as a major reason for current high numbers of infected people.
“We’re very worried people getting together on Passover eve will lead to a spike in infections,” Health Ministry legal adviser Uri Schwartz says during a press briefing.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan says the issue is “our biggest fear right now.”
Only members of nuclear families who live together will be allowed to celebrate the traditional retelling of the Exodus from Egypt together. Others will have to hide/find the afikomen and watch “The Ten Commandments” solo.
Those on the lookout for Google to spring one of its traditional April Fools pranks can stop hitting refresh.
The search behemoth says it’s taking a year off from the tradition to avoid sowing more confusion in a world where grim and scary uncertainty is already rampant.
“Our highest goal right now is to be helpful to people, so let’s save the jokes for next April, which will undoubtedly be a whole lot brighter than this one,” Google marketing manager Lorraine Twohill wrote in an internal email, according to Business Insider.
Twohill wrote that she feared some in Google’s wide breadth of products may be planning pranks on their own, and urged managers to kill the hoaxes before they could get out.
Google has become legendary for its yearly pranks, like inserting Where’s Waldo into Google Maps, or announcing the release of a bad joke detector for email.
Other corporate outfits have taken to also releasing fake news or products, though many are expected to take the year off as well, according to Slate.
The heads of three global agencies are warning of the risk of a worldwide “food shortage” if authorities fail to manage the ongoing coronavirus crisis properly.
Many governments around the world have put their populations on lockdown causing severe slowdowns in international trade and food supply chains. Panic buying by people going into confinement has already demonstrated the fragility of supply chains as supermarket shelves emptied in many countries.
“Uncertainty about food availability can spark a wave of export restrictions, creating a shortage on the global market,” says a joint text signed by Qu Dongyu, head of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Roberto Azevedo, director of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
“In the midst of the COVID-19 lockdowns, every effort must be made to ensure that trade flows as freely as possible, specially to avoid food shortage(s)” from developing, they say in their statement.
Despite reports of shortages of eggs, matzah and other staples in Israel, Economy Minister Eli Cohen tells Army Radio that there’s nothing to worry about
“We have no food shortage. We have supplies for several months.”
— with AFP
A video shared online by Channel 13 reporter Yossi Eli shows ultra-Orthodox community members in the city of Beit Shemesh protesting police attempts to force them to comply with social distancing regulations.
The video shows a minor calling officers, unseen, Nazis, and then proceeding to try to cough in their general direction.
דיברנו על קיצוניים והנה בבית שמש זה מה שעושים ילדי הקיצוניים: משתעלים בכוונה על שוטרים…. זוועה pic.twitter.com/6PQBT4ZuIg
— Yossi Eli יוסי אלי (@Yossi_eli) April 1, 2020
A source involved in coalition talks says the negotiations are on the ropes and could be cut off if no breakthrough is made, Channel 12 news reports.
Despite signaling a willingness to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government last week, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz has yet to come to terms with his former rival, leading to concern over the fate of the swiftly flagging talks.
A source involved in the talks tells Channel 12 that Blue and White is now threatening to resume a legislative drive to pass a law making it impossible for the indicted Netanyahu to become prime minister again.
“We’re making an effort but we are not sure there will be a government,” the source is quoted saying.
The channel does not say what party the source is from.
A Blue and White source tells the channel that the right wing already has 61 votes — likely referring to Telem mutineers Yoaz Hendel and Zvi Hauser — so the centrist party is “trying to ensure our influence.”
Talks have seemingly snagged over the issue of whether Gantz will support unilateral annexation of parts of the West Bank under the contours of the Trump administration’s peace plan.
Israel has been stuck in political deadlock for over a year, with Netanyahu remaining as caretaker prime minister after three inconclusive rounds of voting.
Health Ministry deputy director Itamar Grotto tells Army Radio that asymptomatic coronavirus carriers are not as dangerous than those who are already sick, but backs away slightly from his claim a day earlier that they cannot infect others.
“Asymptomatic carriers are half as infectious,” he says after being pressed on the issue.
“I can’t say that for sure on the basis of studies, but i can say it on the basis of other information that I have,” he says, adding that he is using other diseases as a model, such as the flu.
On Tuesday, Grotto insisted to Channel 13 news that those without symptoms could not spread the virus.
While there is no solid medical literature pointing definitively one way or the other, health officials around the world have warned that even those who do not have the disease may unwittingly spread it, especially in the days just before symptoms begin to show.
“The bottom line is that there are people out there shedding the virus who don’t know that they’re infected,” Dr. Jeffrey Shaman, an infectious diseases expert at Columbia University, tells the New York Times.
Having recovered from coronavirus, the UK’s Prince Charles says he experienced only mild symptoms and praises health practitioners, volunteers and all those working to support society through the pandemic.
“The is a strange, frustrating and often distressing experience when the presence of family and friends is no longer possible and the normal structures of life are suddenly removed,” he says of the illness sweeping the world.
“At such an unprecedented and anxious time in all our lives, my wife and I are thinking particularly of all those who have lost their loved ones in such very difficult and abnormal circumstances, and of those having to endure sickness, isolation and loneliness.”
Charles remains in relative isolation at his home in Scotland.
Defense Minister Naftali Bennett calls for his ministry to be given the lead in the national fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
“We need to move logistical command of this crisis from the Health Ministry to the Defense Ministry — yesterday,” Bennett says at a press briefing. “The Health Ministry is a professional department but they’re not experts in crises… To handle a testing system of tens of thousands of tests a day is not something they will be able to so.
“You need advanced information and transportation systems. We won’t be able to bring the economy back on track if the lead does not return to the Defense Ministry.”
The coronavirus pandemic will plunge 8.3 million people in the Arab region into poverty, the United Nation’s Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia says.
ESCWA also warns that two million people could become undernourished as a result.
“With today’s estimates, a total of 101.4 million people in the region would be classified as poor, and 52 million as undernourished,” the UN agency says.
“Arab Governments must ensure a swift emergency response to protect their people from falling into poverty and food insecurity owing to the impact of COVID-19,” ESCWA executive secretary Rola Dashti says.
Britain reports 563 daily coronavirus deaths today, the first time the national toll has exceeded 500, bringing the total fatalities to 2,352, according to official figures.
“As of 5 p.m. (1600 GMT) on 31 March, of those hospitalized in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus, 2,352 have sadly died,” the health ministry says on its official Twitter page.
Wall Street stocks fall sharply in early trading on weak jobs data and a downcast warning from US President Donald Trump about the rising US death toll from the coronavirus.
About six minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 21,174.95, down 3.4 percent or around 740 points.
The broad-based S&P 500 fell 4.0% to 2,496.85, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index tumbled 2.7% to 7,490.27.
A 69-year-old woman has died of coronavirus at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, bringing the number of victims in Israel to 22.
She had significant preexisting medical conditions.
The woman is the second victim of the day, after a 98-year-old passed away in Beersheba earlier.
A 74-year-old man has died of coronavirus at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon.
He had been sedated and hooked up to a respirator in very serious condition and had numerous preexisting conditions, officials say.
The case brings the number of victims in Israel to 23.
Passengers who have just landed on a flight from New York are being sent to mandatory quarantine at Jerusalem’s Prima Hotel, Channel 12 reports.
It shows a soldier with a megaphone informing the new arrivals of the requirement.
Many of the arrivals are “very angry” about this, since they had expected to go into self-quarantine at home.
The passengers were met on landing by officials in white protective suits who took their temperatures. They were than gathered — at a safe distance from each other — to be briefed about their journey into quarantine, the report says.
This process contrasts with what has reportedly been the norm on many, if not all, of the few remaining flights into Israel in recent days. Despite assurances last week from Defense Minister Naftali Bennett that arrivals from virus hotspots such as New York, Italy, Spain and France were all being checked on landing for symptoms of the virus, and all being sent to one of the quarantine hotels, they were in fact walking unchecked straight out of the airport and into Israel.
Correcting what former Health Ministry director general Gabi Barabash called “idiotic” management that risked turning Israel into “a branch of New York,” a virus epicenter, those promised procedures are now apparently, if belatedly, coming into force.
Bennett had said Prime Minister Netanyahu chose to cancel his instructions; Netanyahu’s office said earlier today that the PM has ordered mandatory quarantine at the various repurposed hotels for all arrivals in Israel.
Police close a synagogue in Bnei Brak that was open despite coronavirus restrictions forbidding it, the Ynet news site reports.
Fifteen people were at the synagogue, and received fines, officials say. Police have sealed off the building to prevent further violations.
A five-week-old baby from the Galilee has been diagnosed with coronavirus.
The infant is currently hospitalized in Nahariya, and his condition is good.
Dozens of people are demonstrating and rioting in Jaffa after police questioning of a man who apparently broke his mandatory self-quarantine led numerous residents to gather and confront the officers.
Protesters are clashing with police, burning tires and blocking roads.
לא רמאללה,יפו!! pic.twitter.com/Uwk7HeQ5Cu
— dudi d????lev (@dudid2428) April 1, 2020
Four people have been arrested while the young man was fined for breaking quarantine restrictions.
El Al says its halt of regular passenger flights will be extended to May 2.
The company says it will continue to operate special flights to locations around the world “according to need and the demands of the Foreign and Defense ministries.”
Cargo flights are also ongoing.
Ramat Gan Mayor Carmel Shama-Hacohen has written a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other government officials demanding a general closure on the neighboring city of Bnei Brak, which has become one of the main coronavirus hotspots in the country.
Shama-Hacohen says the situation in Bnei Brak is placing his own residents in mortal danger.
The mayor says if action is not taken immediately he will petition the High Court of Justice on the matter tomorrow.
A number of top international events have been canceled in Britain in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The organizers of Edinburgh’s international festivals say they will be canceled for the first time in 70 years. Fringe Society chief executive Shona McCarthy says the decision to cancel The Fringe, International Festival, Jazz and Blues Festival, Book Festival and Military Tattoo was “heartbreaking.” But “having taken advice and considered all the options, we collectively believe this is the only appropriate response.”
And Wimbledon chiefs have canceled the Grand Slam tournament for the first time since World War II as the coronavirus wreaks further havoc on the global sporting calendar.
“It is with great regret that the main board of the All England Club (AELTC) and the committee of management of the Championships have today decided that The Championships 2020 will be canceled due to public health concerns linked to the coronavirus epidemic,” the organizers say in a statement.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will end his self-quarantine this evening at 9 p.m., his office says.
The premier has been isolating for the past two days after an adviser of his tested positive for coronavirus.
Tonight marks 14 days since Netanyahu last met the adviser in question. The prime minister has been tested for infection and found negative.
More footage from the clashes between police and Jaffa residents over lockdown procedures.
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) April 1, 2020
A 66-year-old woman has died of coronavirus at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, bringing the national toll to 24.
The woman is said to have had severe preexisting conditions.
The Ynet news site is now reporting that earlier claims that arrivals from New York were being sent to quarantine under government supervision may not have been true.
The website says it spoke with several passengers who said they were held up at the airport for two hours but eventually released after they signed a document promising to enter quarantine at home.
Even as he warns of a grim few weeks ahead with tens of thousands of Americans likely killed by the new coronavirus, US President Donald Trump is resisting issuing a national stay-at-home order to stem the spread of the disease.
Trump said earlier this week that he and members of his administration have discussed issuing a stay-at-home order but it was “pretty unlikely” for now. Then on Tuesday the White House offered “sobering” new projections that 100,000 to 240,000 Americans will likely succumb to the coronavirus even if current social distancing guidelines are maintained.
Surgeon General Jerome Adams today noted in a series of television interviews that the US federalist system leaves much of the authority on how to properly respond to catastrophes to individual state governors and local officials.
The White House’s best-case projection assumes statewide stay-at-home orders, according to a senior administration official familiar with Trump’s thinking and speaking on condition of anonymity. Trump, the official said, is a believer in federalism and that it is up to individual governors to set restrictions for their states. The official noted that states are being hit by the virus with varying degrees of severity and they are best able to adapt the policies for their specific situations.
Negotiations between Likud and Blue and White have renewed as the sides attempt to reach a deal to form a unity government.
The talks are expected to continue all night.
According to an unsourced Channel 12 report, currently Likud’s Yariv Levin is headed for the Knesset speakership.
If Yamina goes to the opposition, as it has threatened to do, former speaker Yuli Edelstein will be the education minister, the report says.
Meanwhile, the Public Security and Justice ministries will each have a minister and deputy minister.
There is currently no solution on the disagreements between the sides on the potential annexation of West Bank settlements, where Blue and White is said to be demanding veto rights to any potential plan.
A 66-year-old man had died of coronavirus at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, the fifth victim today.
The man had suffered from various preexisting conditions, officials say.
The national death toll is now at 25.
Channel 12 reports that as part of negotiations Likud has demanded that the position of acting prime minister — which Benjamin Netanyahu would ostensibly fill once Benny Gantz becomes prime minister in 18 months — include an official state residence, akin to the Prime Minister’s Residence.
The network says the stipulation appears in a draft agreement between the sides.
Meanwhile, Likud officials tell Channel 12 it is actually Gantz who has insisted on the official residence, rather than Netanyahu.
The government is discussing possible further restrictions on the city of Bnei Brak as it continues to produce large numbers of coronavirus patients, Channel 12 news reports.
Among the steps being considered are a ban on vehicles entering the city, as well as actions to force all those feeling ill evacuating from the city to receive treatment, to further curb potential infections.
An additional 501 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in Israel, bringing the national total to 6,092, health officials say.
Of those 95 are in serious condition.
Likud denies it has demanded that the acting prime minister — basically a deputy with added powers — receive an official state residence, supposedly to accommodate Benjamin Netanyahu entering the position in 18 months’ time.
The party says the claim is “fake news.”
Meanwhile, Benny Gantz’s former political partner Yair Lapid tweets: “So this is what an emergency government looks like: no word on daycares [in Hebrew “day residences”], endless talk about the residence of the prime minister and his deputy.”
There seems to be a lot of confusion on the two leaders’ residences.
Haaretz is now expanding on the previous reporting by Channel 12, claiming in a report that the sides have agreed that Benjamin Netanyahu would remain in his current residence, the official Prime Minister’s Residence, after he rotates the job with Benny Gantz in 18 months. Gantz would remain in his residence in the town of Rosh Ha’ayin as prime minister in such a situation, while the public would continue to fund Netanyahu’s residence but not his own.
But Blue and White officials just issued a statement saying Gantz “intends to remain in his home in Rosh Ha’ayin until becoming prime minister” — but supposedly not afterwards.
We’ll give you clarity when we get some.
After leaving his self-quarantine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to speak at any moment alongside health officials and give an update on the coronavirus crisis.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the government will further limit travel in and out of the virus-hit city of Bnei Brak, while ensuring the population there is taken care of.
“We have decided to limit to the bare minimum the entrances and exits from the city,” he says.
Meanwhile, all sick in the city will be evacuated to special hotels for coronavirus and suspected coronavirus cases.
Netanyahu details further steps to be taken amid the coronavirus crisis:
– The public is called upon to wear masks at all times when outside the house. Those who do not have masks should wear a scarf or other facial covering. (Previously, Netanyahu has said that masks are not necessary.)
– All Israelis returning from abroad will from Thursday be taken to hotels for quarantine, and will not be allowed to self-isolate at home.
– All families with children will receive NIS 500 ($140) stipends for each child (up to four children, up to the age of 18) for the Passover holiday. Every elderly person will also receive such a grant. He says these payments will be approved via emergency legislation, and that payments will be made directly into bank accounts, with no bureaucratic red tape.
The prime minister says if the public adheres to instructions, maintains social distancing and does not fall to the temptation to meet family members for the Passover holiday, “there is a chance that this Passover will be a turning point” in the fight against the novel coronavirus.
“We are still in the midst of an international tsunami,” he says. “This a huge storm. The whole world is on a united front.”
He says he spoke with Italy’s prime minister in recent days, who told him to take severe action early rather than late to prevent replicating the tragedy unfolding in Italy here.
Netanyahu warns that Israel could still find itself joining nations where people are dying in large numbers. “We are doing everything so we don’t get to that.”
First and foremost “we must save the lives of thousands in Israel.”
The director-general of the Health Ministry, Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, says the new instruction to wear masks while out in public does not necessitate buying masks, particularly as there appear to be shortages.
“You can improvise one at home. Save the masks for medical teams. You can take some cloth and two rubber bands and cover your face.”
He says the ministry will issue a video explaining how masks can be made at home.
Netanyahu, who has just emerged from voluntarily quarantine after an aide tested positive for the virus, says Israel is at a fateful juncture in the battle against the pandemic.
It can join the countries “that appear to have braked the coronavirus,” he says. “But it risks, heaven forbid, a slide toward those countries that already have thousands of dead.”
“In the past day in New York, someone is dying every four minutes,” he says.
Noting President Donald Trump’s warning that the US faces 100,000 to 250,000 deaths in the next few weeks, Netanyahu says: “That’s the optimistic forecast.”
In Israeli terms, “that would be equivalent to 5,000 dead here.”
“We’re starting to see signs that maybe… we’re on the path to gaining control of the pandemic,” he says, “but it’s too early to say that with certainty.”
He also calls again for a “national emergency government.”
In a statement sent to supporters Wednesday evening, Benny Gantz reiterates his assertion that he had no choice but to join forces with Benjamin Netanyahu, and acknowledges the “disappointment” among some of his erstwhile supporters.
But most Blue and White voters, he asserts, favor the idea of an emergency coalition.
But he sounds pessimistic about how the move may play out, acknowledging that it might mark the end of his relatively brief political career.
“The true narrative, which is more challenging than a ‘House of Cards’ script, obligated me to act in this way,” he says. “And if this is my political end, but I properly serve the State of Israel — then I will have done something.”
A 72-year-old man has died of coronavirus at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, raising the national toll to 26. He is the sixth victim of the day.
Officials say he was brought in yesterday in serious condition and died in the morning after a coronavirus test was taken. It has now turned up positive.
A new video issued by the Health Ministry explains how the public can make simple masks at home in order to comply with the latest regulations, which require everyone to wear masks when venturing outside.
The video is in Hebrew, but can probably be understood well enough even without a strong grasp of the language.
The IDF says 97 soldiers have so far been diagnosed with coronavirus, and all have experienced mild symptoms only.
Twelve of the soldiers have already been cleared as healthy following their bout with the illness.
More than 900,000 cases of coronavirus have been officially detected worldwide since the pandemic emerged in China late last year, according to an AFP tally using official sources.
At least 905,589 infections including 45,719 deaths, have been recorded in 187 countries and territories globally, with 203,608 cases and 4,476 deaths in the United States where the pandemic is spreading rapidly.
Italy with 110,574 detected cases has the highest number of fatalities with 13,155 deaths. Spain has 102,136 cases including 9,053 deaths and China has 81,554 cases and 3,312 deaths.
Several EU member states including powerful Germany and France warn that coronavirus emergency measures taken by bloc countries should not violate fundamental rights, after Hungary’s leader Viktor Orban took on sweeping powers.
While not specifically naming Orban or Hungary, 13 members of the 27-country European Union clearly target the premier’s move to assume strongman powers that critics call dictatorial.
“In this unprecedented situation, it is legitimate that member states adopt extraordinary measures to protect their citizens and overcome the crisis,” a statement says. “We are however deeply concerned about the risk of violations of the principles of rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights arising from the adoption of certain emergency measures.
The statement is also signed by Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
No Eastern European country, however, backed the document.
Channel 12 news reports that officials in the Finance Ministry were surprised by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that the government would give NIS 500 handouts to elderly Israelis and families with children.
Senior officials tell the network they heard about the decision from the media and have not been told where the money for the move will come from.
Meanwhile, associates of the prime minister tell Channel 12 the proposal for the stipends was made by ministry officials and the Treasury was a full partner in the decision.

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[act-ma] TOMORROW - 12p Continental Day of Action Against Mega resource extraction -
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Tue Jul 31 14:08:25 PDT 2012
*_We invite you to join us:_*
*_Continental Day of Action Against Mega Resource Extraction August 1,
*_31 St. James Ave, Boston, MA_*
*_From 12PM to 1PM_*
We are heading a call from communities in the global south that have
organized and are resisting the exploitive practices of the mega
resource extractive industry. The organizations below, in solidarity
with communities impacted by the mega mining extractive industry
throughout the Americas call for a Continental Day of Action on August
1st, 2012 to demand an end to exploitative and unjust mining practices.
Civil society along with communities from Canada to Argentina will
conduct coordinated actions including rallies, demonstrations, community
radio coverage, letter writing campaigns and other alternative and
imaginative actions of protest in front of mining corporate offices,
Canadian embassies across the Americas, and here in Boston we will have
a small rally in front of the Colombian Consulate.
*WHY PROTEST? *
. Corporate mining operations have deeply impacted territories,
communities, and life. Resource exploration and exploitation activities
have caused displacement, widespread destruction of livelihoods
(compromising water and food security), caused long- term health issues
, disregarded sacred indigenous territories and rights, exacerbated
human rights violations especially in contexts of internal conflict, and
contributed to the criminalization of artisanal miners, union and
environmental activists and community activists. Large-scale mining
explorations and exploitations have also led to an irreversible loss in
. Despite the fact that large-scale mining is usually presented as a
driving force of sustainable development by mining companies,
governments throughout the Americas, and international institutions such
as the World Bank, the long-term negative impacts on peoples and
territories contrast with the vague promises of jobs, and national
economic growth and development.
*OUR DEMANDS: *
*Divestment: *Governments should divest public funds from resource
extraction industries. (i.e pension funds invested in GoldCorp and other
corporations) and call for public funds to be invested in social
programs like free education, affordable housing and universal healthcare .
*Regulation: *Governments should enable legislation that establishes
corporate accountability standards for mining corporations operating
abroad. This legislation should penalize corporations linked to human
rights violations and should allow foreign nationals to pursue legal
action for damages in the courts of the country where the mining company
is from (Bills C-300 and C-323).
*Stop Complicity: *Stop utilizing public institutions to assist with
high profile public relations campaigns conducted by resource extraction
companies (such as the Museum of Natural History in Ottawa, Simon Fraser
University, University of Toronto, York University, CIDA-funded projects
such as the Devonshire initiative .
*Binding Community Consent Mechanisms: *That governments and courts of
the region respect and adhere to the internationally recognized right of
free prior and informed consent for Indigenous communities.
*People Before Profit: *End free trade agreements and bilateral
investment treaties that enshrine the right of corporations over
citizens and communities.
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PD EDITORIAL: Time to fully fund pensions for teachers
Published: Friday, December 28, 2012 at 3:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, December 27, 2012 at 5:43 p.m.
According to the state Legislative Analyst's Office, California faces a budget deficit next year of a mere $1.9 billion and is looking at budget surpluses in the years to come. But that's somewhat of a fallacy.
If the state Legislature was funding the retirements of teachers on a sufficient basis, the deficit would be more like $6.5 billion next year.
The difference of $4.5 billion is how much more the state needs to spend in 2013 — and each year for the next 40 years — to catch up on its contributions for teacher retirement plans. Overall, the California State Teachers Retirement System is underfunded to the tune of $65 billion.
We've written a good deal in recent years about pensions and the unfunded liabilities that threaten to eat deeper into funds needed to address basic public needs such as filling potholes. Most of these liabilities are rooted in reckless giveaways to public employees a decade ago that now threaten to sink cities and counties — including Sonoma County — across the state.
But as we've stated before, the situation concerning CalSTRS is different. While government agencies have had been forced to significantly increase their contributions toward retirements — 400 percent in Sonoma County — to make up for investment losses, the percentage the state contributes to teacher pensions has actually declined. Teachers contribute 8 percent of their salary toward their retirement while school districts pitches in another 8.25 percent. In addition, the state contributes another portion, but that has fallen from 4.6 percent in 1998 to 2.5 percent today.
In addition, benefits for teachers are far more modest than for other public employees. Teacher pensions are based on a formula of 2 percent of salary per year with a minimum retirement age of 60. Sonoma County employees, by comparison, get 3 percent at 60, while public safety employees get 3 percent at 50.
In addition, teachers, by a quirk of history, are not allowed to contribute to or benefit from Social Security.
This needs to change. Earlier this year, the Legislature passed a resolution encouraging CalSTRS to develop a plan for resolving the system's pension liability.
Second, teachers need to be allowed to join Social Security, which would bolster their retirements while infusing the retirement system with more contributors.
Finally, the Legislature needs to be given a directive of its own, to stop shirking its duty in supporting these reasonable retirement plans. Teachers have enough to worry about without being concerned with how their retirements will be funded.
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AUSTIN, Tex. — Leaving behind a rant against the government, big business and particularly the tax system, a computer engineer smashed a small aircraft into an office building where nearly 200 employees of the Internal Revenue Service were starting their workday Thursday morning, the authorities said.
The pilot, identified as Andrew Joseph Stack III, 53, of north Austin, apparently died in the crash, and one other person was unaccounted for. Late Thursday, two bodies were pulled from the site, though the authorities would not discuss the identities of those found, The Associated Press reported. Two serious injuries were also reported in the crash and subsequent fire, which initially inspired fears of a terrorist attack and drew nationwide attention.


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The Trace is a non-profit anti-gun propaganda organization masquerading as a “newsroom.” They seem to believe that guns are bad, but they can convince people of that if they just throw enough indoctrination at them.
Their latest effort is to talk about how dangerous guns are due to incompetence by talking about how many people have been accidentally shot so far this year.
So far this year, 71 people have been unintentionally shot at businesses across the United States, according to an analysis of Gun Violence Archive data. The locations include hotels, grocery stores, gas stations, theaters, and fast-food restaurants where Americans conduct their daily affairs. The total works out to about one person every four days. Seven of the shootings proved deadly.
Some of the victims were business owners or employees who accidentally discharged their weapons at work, hitting themselves or co-workers. Others were patrons utilizing state laws that allow gun owners to carry concealed guns outside their homes after undergoing training and securing a permit. (In the dozen states that now have so-called permitless carry laws, licenses are not required.)
Through the first nine months of 2017, an additional 28 people have been shot — one fatally — at businesses where the presence of guns would be expected, most often gun ranges. One of those shootings occurred at a range at the National Rifle Association’s Virginia headquarters; another was at the gunmaker Sig Sauer’s New Hampshire training academy.
To be sure, those accidents are a problem and simply should never happen.
However, while The Trace is crying about 99 people being shot by accident while out and about, they’re missing a key part of the conversation. They’re forgetting just how many guns are out there.
For example, this report from 2016 claimed there were 16.3 million concealed carry permits issued in the United States. If even half of those carry on a regular basis, then we’re still looking at a lot of guns on any given day. This doesn’t count those who carry without a permit in constitutional carry states.
Just for the sake of argument let’s say just 10 percent of concealed carry permits are actually used annually. So, out of 1.63 million firearms carried, we have 99 accidents. That’s 0.006 percent of those being carried are involved in an accident.
I don’t suppose The Trace would be interested in comparing those rates with auto accidents, now would they?
Further, that’s the result of me intentionally trying to stack the deck in favor of The Trace’s numbers. The reality is that I find it very difficult to imagine that only 10 percent of those who have permits use them. Also, as noted previously, none of the data regarding permit holders count those who carry firearms in constitutional carry states where they’re not required.
In other words, for all their scaremongering, they’ve actually proven just how rare accidents with firearms are out in public.
Over at The Truth About Guns, they offered this bit of wisdom:
The bottom line: according to the stats above, you’re 21 times more likely to be accidentally shot — or shoot yourself — in a grocery store than a strip club. Of course, there are other dangers: salmonella vs. syphilis. You pays your money, you takes your chances.
Probably not the most productive thought, but it amused me…and it’s accurate.
The truth is, The Trace’s data doesn’t illustrate how dangerous guns are in private hands. What it does is suggest that the vast majority of firearms in public are never even noticed, much less discharged in a negligent or accidental manner.

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(t) "Remedial actions" suggests These actions taken by an insurance company to suitable or get rid of any error or omission within the handling of claims on the Element of its insurance agent as described in subsection 2695.2(h), like, but not limited to:
(3) any person who has authority or accountability to notify an insurance provider of the claim upon receipt of a recognize of claim by a claimant; or,
Failure of the insurance agent or claims agent to instantly transmit observe of claim on the insurance company shall be imputed into the insurance provider besides where by the topic policy was issued pursuant on the California Automobile Assigned Threat System.
(a) Every single insurer shall open up to a first get together claimant or beneficiary, all Added benefits, protection, deadlines or other provisions of any insurance coverage issued by that insurance company that could utilize to the claim introduced through the claimant.
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The mission of Meals on Wheels is to foster the independence and dignity of homebound seniors in Montgomery County, TX by providing them with nutritious meals, transportation, and caring connections.
Meals on Wheels Montgomery County was established in 1973 and is the only non-profit organization specifically dedicated to serving the needs and enriching the lives of seniors throughout Montgomery County, Texas. Core services include a variety of programs that seek to meet the social, physical and emotional needs of seniors 60 years and older.


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The Webley Premier 'E' series was introduced in 1972. The 'E' Series designation was stamped on the frame near to or under the left grip together with serial number. Early examples had Brown Plastic Grips (see 119/120 of Webley Air Pistols By Bruce). This is an excellent example in .22 Calibre. It is undamaged and has the early brown plastic grips with embossed Webley logos. The left side of the cylinder is stamped 'The Webley Premier Made In England'. The frame near the left grip is stamped with the correct large ‘E’ (Series designation). The front of the cylinder is stamped with number ‘120’. It has a blade foresight & adjustable rear sight and it cocks and fires perfectly with a strong spring action. The pistol is contained in its original cardboard box with Webley labelling & imagery. 'Instructions for use' are adhered to the inside of the lid. The box also contains an original Webley illustrated components list dated 1969, 2 x period Webley pellet tin paper gift vouchers (obviously expired), a cardboard box which contains a quantity of lead .22 calibre pellets and an pamphlet titled ‘Airgun Law’ produced by the Shooting Sports Trust in the 1970’s (NB Some aspects of Airgun Law contained in the pamphlet may have changed since its publication). Price includes UK delivery. NB As a post 1939 Air Pistol the restrictions of the Crime Reduction Act apply to the sale & delivery of this item. Sn 11938
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A document setting out the work that the Law Commission plans to undertake between April 2011 and March 2015
29 March 2010
Protocol setting out how Government and the Law Commission work together
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The Commission’s plan for 2013 to 2014.
An overview of the year, including updates on law reform projects.
Also gives you access to other government law-related updates.
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While Aide Advised McCain, His Firm Lobbied for Georgia
MCCAIN LEADS THE WAY — One of the most striking features …
On Georgia Crisis, McCain's Tone Grows Sharper
Georgia Says Russian Troops Still Fighting Despite Accord
The Pandora's box of sovereignty
Georgian president: ‘There is no cease-fire’
Bush accuses Russia over Georgia cease-fire
Russian Troops Push Deeper Into Georgia
Obama's mandatory volunteerism starts NOW!
NY Times tries to torpedo anti-Obama book; succeeds in spreading its message
November suitors lining up to woo Colorado
John McCain and Ralph Reed: Together Again?
Mark Warner to deliver a Democratic convention keynote

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Long term goals of this project are to determine the biotin requires for normal individuals in circumstances in which biotin status may be impaired and to investigate the consequences and pathogenic mechanisms for marginal biotin deficiency. We recently demonstrated that marginal biotin deficiency is common during normal human gestation and have demonstrated that marginal deficiency is quite teratogenic in mice. Thus, the following five specific aims are relevant and timely.
In Specific Aim #1, we will test the hypothesis that maternal biotin deficiency causes abnormal development of fetal skeletons and palate by causing deficient fetal activity of the biotin-dependent enzyme acetyl- CoA carboxylase which leads in turn to deficiency of arachidonic acid and prostaglandin. In fetal palate and limb bud explants from biotin deficient and sufficient CD-1 mice, we will quantitative fetal arachidonic acid component and synthesis rates and will examine the malformation ameliorating effects of supplementation of arachidonic acid and prostaglandin and the amelioration blocking effects of cyclooxygenase inhibitors. Analogous studies will also be conducted in vivo.
In Specific Aim #2, we will test the hypothesis that infants with cleft plate or limb shortening have significantly reduced biotin status compared to normal infants. In a case-controlled study, biotin status will be assessed in cord blood using odd-chain fatty acid composition in red blood cell membranes and plasma and lymphocyte activity of the biotin-dependent enzyme propionyl-CoA carboxylase.
In Specific Aim #3, we will clone and sequence a biotin transporter recently discovered in our laboratory. In studies of cells from the first individual with biotin transporter deficiency, we will investigate the molecular nature of the genetic defect.
In Specific Aim #4, we will confirm promising new indicators of biotin status and investigate the validity of the expression of particular biotin- related genes (e.g., carboxylases) as indicators of marginal biotin deficiency in healthy adults rendered marginally biotin deficiency by egg-white feeding.
In Specific Aim #5, we will determine the subcellular localization of the enzyme(s) responsible for catalyzing the beta- oxidation of biotin to the inactive metabolite bisnorbiotin and characterize this pathway. Understanding of this pathway is important because accelerated biotin catabolism may be the major cause of biotin deficiency in pregnancy and anticonvulsants.
|Mock, Donald M (2017) Biotin: From Nutrition to Therapeutics. J Nutr 147:1487-1492|
|Bogusiewicz, Anna; Boysen, Gunnar; Mock, Donald M (2015) In HepG2 cells, coexisting carnitine deficiency masks important indicators of marginal biotin deficiency. J Nutr 145:32-40|
|Mock, Donald M (2014) Adequate intake of biotin in pregnancy: why bother? J Nutr 144:1885-6|
|Pindolia, Kirit; Li, Hong; Cardwell, Cisley et al. (2014) Characterization and functional analysis of cellular immunity in mice with biotinidase deficiency. Mol Genet Metab 112:49-56|
|Hernández-Vázquez, A; Wolf, B; Pindolia, K et al. (2013) Biotinidase knockout mice show cellular energy deficit and altered carbon metabolism gene expression similar to that of nutritional biotin deprivation: clues for the pathogenesis in the human inherited disorder. Mol Genet Metab 110:248-54|
|Bogusiewicz, Anna; Horvath, Thomas D; Stratton, Shawna L et al. (2012) Measurement of acylcarnitine substrate to product ratios specific to biotin-dependent carboxylases offers a combination of indicators of biotin status in humans. J Nutr 142:1621-5|
|Pindolia, Kirit; Jordan, Megan; Guo, Caiying et al. (2011) Development and characterization of a mouse with profound biotinidase deficiency: a biotin-responsive neurocutaneous disorder. Mol Genet Metab 102:161-9|
|Horvath, Thomas D; Matthews, Nell I; Stratton, Shawna L et al. (2011) Measurement of 3-hydroxyisovaleric acid in urine from marginally biotin-deficient humans by UPLC-MS/MS. Anal Bioanal Chem 401:2805-10|
|Stratton, Shawna L; Horvath, Thomas D; Bogusiewicz, Anna et al. (2011) Urinary excretion of 3-hydroxyisovaleryl carnitine is an early and sensitive indicator of marginal biotin deficiency in humans. J Nutr 141:353-8|
|Stratton, Shawna L; Horvath, Thomas D; Bogusiewicz, Anna et al. (2010) Plasma concentration of 3-hydroxyisovaleryl carnitine is an early and sensitive indicator of marginal biotin deficiency in humans. Am J Clin Nutr 92:1399-405|
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2019 has given us many things. Two new Beyoncé albums (albeit one being a live album and the other being Beyoncé‘s contemporary interpretation of the Lion King), Burna Boy being christened the African Giant and releasing an album with the same name, Rema becoming something akin to a phenomenon and so much more. 2019 has also been the year of the Hot Girl Summer as well as the year Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion climbing to global superstar status. Meg Thee Stallion’s voice rapping over hits like Big Ole Freak and Simon Says has been one of the best parts of 2019 which is why her being the cover girl of Paper Magazine’s latest digital cover is just perfect.
While the singer has always been candid and open about her life, she takes it a new level as she tells Paper Magazine about her upbringing, her influences as a musician which include her very own mother – the late Holly Thomas known better by her stage name Holly-Wood, new projects she is working on – a potential collaboration with Beyoncé and one with Rihanna and so much more, we see a part of the Hot Girl we don’t get to see often.
‘Sis.’ Megan begins as she tells Paper Magazine‘s Kiana Fitzgerald, reminiscing about her late mother and how she shaped her as an artist ‘I feel like off the strength that my mom was a rapper, and the music that her and my dad put in my ear as a child, it was bound to happen. Me watching her write and me watching her go in the studio and lay her verses down. Just to see how dedicated she was, that was normal to me. That just became the thing that I saw around my house. We bumping Pimp C, we listening to Three 6 all the time, we listening to Biggie. You know what I’m saying? I’ve always been a big fan of music. Just me growing up and turning into Meg Thee Stallion, this is a product of my environment‘
Megan’s catchphrase Hot Girl Summer has kicked off since the term’s original creation, gaining quite a bit of traction and growing into what seems to be a global movement, with global brands like Maybelline and Wendy’s all tweeting and attempting to get on the wave to megastars tweeting it and using it as Instagram captions so much so that Megan Thee Stallion is in the process of trademarking the phrase. She tells Paper Magazine how the process is going, noting that it isn’t exactly a fast one.
‘‘It’s going — it’s not a day process,” Megan explains. “I didn’t even think that it would be something that was this big. I just be talking. The Hotties run with it and love it, now everybody is a Hottie. I’m flattered. I appreciate it: spread the awareness, spread the movement.”
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...For the first time in terms of quitting smoking... I don’t feel alone
...I just don’t want something to control me.
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text: The consent decree requires that the organization, MTNA, "stop declaring unethical" certain trade practices. I say that the proposed order settling the FTC's charges that requires MTNA to stop declaring it unethical for its members to solicit teaching work from other music teachers is in violation of freedom of speech, association and belief. The FTC is in the right to require MTNA to stop restricting from its members to engage in competitive practices. The FTC, Federal Trade Commission, or for the matter, any federal or government body should not determine what is "ethical" or not to any individual or group of individuals, as the identification of an individual or group with certain ethical principles is part of their rights and freedoms as long as the practices do not violate individual rights. The body of moral principles or values governing or distinctive of a particular culture or group, or ethical principles, are the free choice of a group and should be considered as so. The member of a group, which has outlined ethical principles, has for the matter and in fact consented to such ethical principles by freely joining the group. If a member at certain time decides he is not in agreement with such ethical principles, then he is free to remove from the group or remain associated, knowingly that the ethical principles define the culture of the group. In the case of MTNA Code of Ethics, the practices that are outlined as unethical, are not enforced to the members. The Code of Ethics express the beliefs in an ethical behavior, which the members are in agreement with at the time association is enacted. However, the members can and are free to engage in those practices outlined as unethical and their liberties are not violated. If the association and its members who believe such practices are not ethical are not allowed to state them in the Code of Ethics, their freedom of speech and association have been violated. As a fair solution, MTNA should be allowed to state the Code of Ethics with the provisions that declares unethical the practice of solicitation, however adding that there is no member's agreement to not engage in competition practices and that members can fully exercise pro competitive practices, as their right to free trade.

domain: law


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Bible Verse Coloring Sheets
|Published Date||Saturday , August 15th 2020|
Coloring. Saturday , August 15th 2020.
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Animal coloring books. Find fun animal coloring books that provide an array of different animals for the students to color. Don’t just settle for the same old animals; look for coloring books with exotic animals. This not only provides some variety, but it also provides a great learning opportunity. The children will learn a great deal about new animals and their environments. Dinosaurs are also a very popular animal among young children. Find out which animals the kids like and provide them with coloring books specific to their interests.
The Choices in online Children’s Coloring pages, At some websites you’ll find the basic children’s coloring pages that can be printed and colored by hand with crayons, colored pencils, and whatever else. However, you can also find websites that offer interactive coloring pages that require you child to work on the computer itself to fill in the images with colors. Often times, these interactive coloring pages are part of an entire online community and the pages are just one of many things available to do on the website.
Just like anybody else, I understand the need to save money and budget. To cut costs, some of my clients went so far as to cut their own hair! It is true that maintaining your hair can be quite expensive, depending on what you get done. This is why more and more people are deciding to color their own hair at home. If you’re going for a dramatic change in your hair color, I would suggest going to a salon instead of doing it yourself. Before you apply any permanent dye to your head, read these tips on coloring your hair.
In trying to use visual aids to teach children about animals, fruits, vegetables, alphabets and other common things taught both in school and at home, then coloring pages is undoubtedly the best tool to use to achieving the maximum result. First, it serves as an attraction catcher for the child and a means of having so much fun while learning.
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Early diagnosis of common pregnancy disorders
Prof Shaun Brennecke, Dr Bill Kalionis, Dr Stefan Kane
There is an important need in modern obstetric care for non-invasive blood-based tests for the accurate assessment of the risks early in pregnancy that patients will develop common pregnancy disorders. The aim of this project is to develop these types of tests for the pregnancy disorders pre-term labour, pregnancy-induced hypertension/pre-eclampsia, fetal growth restriction and gestational diabetes. Although these diseases affect between 15 and 25% of deliveries in Australia and have a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of mothers and their babies, diagnosis is made in the clinic only after they are well established. Available predictive tests provide relatively poor estimations of risks. The placenta plays a critical pathogenic role in the pregnancy disorders and altered placental and release of various factors into maternal blood are important features of the disease process in each case.
This project uses an "-omics" approach to identify candidate placental factors that may be suitable for development as predictive tests. Evaluation of the predictive/early diagnostic capacity of the factors is made by measuring their concentrations in maternal blood prior to clinical manifestation of disease.

domain: biology


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释 义 肾炎综合征
例 句 To discuss the clinical manifestations and imaging features of Goodpasture syndrome. 探讨肺出血肾炎综合症的临床表现和影像学特征。
Syndrome 英 /ˈsɪndrəʊm/ 美 /ˈsɪndroʊm/
释 义 n. [临床] 综合症状；并发症状；校验子
例 句 Why cancer and metabolic syndrome might be connected is not yet clear. 还不清楚为什么癌症和新陈代谢综合症有联系。
作者： Lübbecke F
期刊：Dtsch Arztebl Int
As the target antigen of the antibody (the non-collagenous domain of the alpha 3 chain of type IV collagen) is accessible both in alveolar as well as in glomerular basement membranes, and as hemoptysis can be induced in animals using anti-basement membrane antibodies, there should be little doubt about the pathogenetic role of the antibodies. This importance of these antibodies seems to be also demonstrated by the observation that hemoptysis sometimes stops during plasmapheresis, although of course drugs such as cyclophosphamide, prednisolone, and perhaps rituximab are indispensable for the permanent control of the clinical picture.We thank the reader for his helpful comment and detailed remarks about the treatment of hemoptysis in Goodpasture syndrome. However, this is a rare cause of hemoptysis, with an incidence of 0.2%, for which reason we did not elaborate on the specific therapies in our review. As with other pathologies, special diseases require special therapies, as this clinical picture impressively highlights.

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New York State
James J. Wrynn Superintendent of Insurance 25 Beaver Street New York, N.Y. 10004
|ISSUED 12/10/2010||FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE|
Two life settlement providers were the first licensed under the State’s new life settlement law, the New York State Insurance Department announced today. The law empowers the Department to regulate the financial transactions that occur when consumers sell their life insurance policies to a third party.
FairMarket Life Settlements Corp. and Magna Life Settlements Inc. are the first two life settlement providers to be licensed under New York’s Life Settlement Act. The Act was signed into law in Nov. 2009 and became fully effective on May 18, 2010. The law marks the first time the life settlement industry has been regulated in New York.
“This represents an important next step in protecting consumers by regulating the life settlement industry. The Department continues to review additional license applications and will issue more licenses as these reviews are completed,” Insurance Superintendent James Wrynn said.
Twenty-nine other entities, which were doing business in New York legally before the new law took effect and have met specific requirements under New York’s Life Settlement Act, may continue to operate as life settlement providers pending the disposition of their license applications. A complete list of these entities is available at this location on the Department’s website, http://www.ins.state.ny.us/life/insurers/life_settle_entities_ny.htm.
Under the law, licensed life settlement providers may buy life insurance policies from policy owners. Typically, providers will pay more than the policy's surrender value, but less than the death benefit of the policy.
The law requires that an owner of a policy entering into a life settlement must receive a consumer information booklet and other disclosures providing the critical information that the consumer needs to make a decision to sell the policy. This information must include the amounts of all offers and counter-offers, as well as the fees paid to life settlement brokers, who are the entities or individuals that bring policy owners together with life settlement providers to complete transactions.
The law also includes safeguards to protect against the unlawful release of information concerning the identities of insured individuals and policy owners and information about the medical or financial status of insured individuals.
Consumers with questions should contact the Insurance Department’s Consumer Services Bureau from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday toll-free at 800-342-3736. Complaints may be filed using the Department’s website, www.ins.state.ny.us.


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