A U-Haul van parks in a neighborhood in Seal Beach, Calif., on Sept. 9, 2023. (Sophie Li/The Epoch Times)
For the second consecutive year, a majority of residents moving from California left for Texas, according to a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The survey revealed 102,442 residents left the Golden State for Texas in 2022, compared to 107,546 the year prior. California also welcomed more residents from Texas than any other state, with 42,279 new residents from The Lone Star state.
The Nov. 21 report measured states’ inward and outward migration, which measures people entering or leaving a state, versus the total number who have moved, including within the state.
California had the lowest immigration rate—meaning those moving to the state as a share of its total number of people moving, including those within the state—in the country of 11.1 percent.
Texas had the nation’s lowest outmigration rate with 11.7 leaving, mostly to California and Florida, with Florida receiving roughly 38,000 Texans and California receiving more than 42,000.
The most recent population estimates by the bureau are from 2022, which ranked the most populous states as California with 39 million residents, Texas with 30 million, and Florida and New York with 22.2 and 19.7 million residents, respectively.
The second largest number of residents who left the Golden State moved to Arizona, at 74,157 according to the report.
Although California boasts the most residents leaving the state, when compared to the total of people who moved, its outward migration is lower than the national average, according to the report. Washington D.C. ranked first for outmigration, with 46.6 percent of movers leaving, the majority to neighboring Maryland, according to the data.


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Historically bingo has been associated with elderly people who still like a little bit of living. I am not elderly, and I still like a lot of living, however, when the family vacation takes us to a resort where there are games evenings, you will find me in the front row of the Bingo Hall. Six cards in play, telling old Betty and Gladys on either side of me to pipe down in fear of missing the next number. Hell yes, a night at a Bingo Hall is far more heart racing and thrilling than even a spin on a dance floor at the resorts disco evening! Whats next, my husband asks! A game of bowls anyone?
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New water Bill helps big business extract water for huge profits at our expense
The Green Party are in government, so they’re bound to ensure the biggest users of water are regulated…
I mean…they’re all about conservation, aren’t they?
Well the government’s new proposed legislation has set the bar extremely high in terms of how much water a private company can abstract (take from the ground) before they’re required to obtain a license.
Two million litres per day is what is proposed by government (or 730 million litres per year) in the General Scheme of Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill.
For context, a bottled water company or a data centre can use the same amount of water as 18,000 households before having to seek a license off the State. Yet they want to bring in water charges and make those households pay for the water they use.
Not surprisingly, two million litres per day is more than most data centres use on a daily basis. For instance, Facebook’s data centre used half that allowance in 2019 (395 million).
The implications of this are that taxpayers are expected to fund a project bringing the river Shannon to Dublin because these data centres are using so much water there’s expected to be shortages in the Dublin region in the not-so-distant future.
We are going to pay more than €1.3 billion for that project so that these companies can have their water for free.
In an article by GreenNews.ie The Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) said the proposed Bill will fail to regulate the majority of instances.
‘The Bill has set regulation thresholds to such a high level that, “the substantial majority of abstractions will remain unregistered and unmonitored, potentially having serious implications for the local environment and future rural water supply”, according to SWAN.
The Bill will also result in potential breaches of key EU environmental directives, such as the Habitats Directive and the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive.
“The proposed Bill is very much light touch regulation and is a long way off providing meaningful monitoring or controls of the extraction of our most precious resource,” SWAN coordinator Sinéad O’Brien said.
Out of at least 21 water bottling plants in the country, none abstract enough water to pass the proposed threshold for licencing, according to SWAN, and only five abstract enough water to even require registration.’
This isn’t about conservation… it’s about enabling multinationals to extract our natural resources for free, making the rest of us pay for the enormous profits they generate.
But imagine what it would be like if we didn’t have a Green government…eh!
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A wildfire of color races across the night sky, somehow managing to be bright and beautifully dull at the same instance.
The earth is tipping, tipping, tipping. Using this racing color show as it’s farewell for another day.
You always loved this moment.
You always loved the moment when the colors sharpened against that steadily increasing backdrop of black. Red, to orange, purple then pink. It was the time that *** loved us the most you used to say, to give us such beauty and to learn to appreciate it because it is gone in such a brief moment.
Like you were.
You were my sunset, my beautiful moment that did not last long enough, and unlike you I didn’t appreciate that flash of brilliance.
I do now.
Unlike the sunset, the morphing of hues of colors that seem to blend endlessly into that final cresciendo, I let the black seep in until all the colors had faded away.
I wonder where you are now.
I wonder if you are watching this.
I wonder if you are thinking of me.
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The Only Wolf (Devil Mountain Shifters Book 1)
Adala Reger is searching for answers. Her parents were killed in an automobile accident that should have claimed her too. But somehow she survived. Now she is left on her own wondering how and why she turns into a wolf. To make matters worse, she is getting weaker. No longer able to work, and with the insurance money from her parents running out, she heads to Alaska – toward the only clue in her parents left her as to her real identity and destiny.
Dirk has taken over as the leader of the pack of shifters on the Seward peninsula in Northwest Alaska. Struggling to keep his clan safe is his number one priority, especially with the neighboring pack constantly threatening their borders. When Adala arrives, the last thing he expects is to find his mate.
Can they survive the invasions? Does Adala’s past hold answers to why the neighboring pack is attacking?
Second Mate (Devil Mountain Shifters Book 2)
Walther is happy for his friend, really he is. The only problem is that, with Dirk bonded, he is the only one without a mate. Walther lost his mate ten years ago in the incessant war waged by the enemy pack. Now, his wolf is destined to be alone. Trying to hide his depression and loneliness, Walther dives into his duties as General of the pack – including guarding the visitor from the enemy pack. Surely one little female can’t be that much trouble.
Sascha is the last cub born to her pack, and the last one ever to be born if she can’t find a way to convince the rival pack to let her have access to their lair. But first she has to convince her father that allowing her to proceed with a diplomatic solution is the way to go. Her father would rather continue the war and further deplete their numbers. But is going into the enemy’s lair the best solution, or has she bitten off more than she can chew?
History says a wolf mates for life. But what happens when the sparks fly for a second time?
Bear to Bond (Devil Mountain Shifters Book 3)
As a teen, Ursel witnessed the explosion of her parents’ relationship and the eventual death of her father. Determined that she will never endure that pain, she has sworn off mating. As the first female alpha of the polar bear pack, she lives a full life leading and helping others. Then Harald crosses her path…
Harald has spent his life as part of a pack that has no future. Their clan is slowly dying out and there is no one left for him to bond with. When his pack merges with their former enemies, he watches as all his friends find mates. Then he catches Ursel’s scent and knows she is the one.
Can Harald convince Ursel to take a chance on their bond? Or will she deny their bond and continue to live a life of loneliness?

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The Government are set to make a decision on whether to extend the electricity credits or not within weeks.
Electricity credits of €600 were announced in Budget 2023, which are being paid in three instalments of €200.
The first was in November while the second was paid this month in January and the next is set to land in March.
Read more:Social welfare Ireland: Certain workers could claim extra cash boost of up to €308 a week
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has said the Government will decide "in the next few weeks" whether or not to extend electricity credits into next winter.
Speaking on RTÉ's This Week, the Minister for the Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport said Covid-19 supports were wound down over time, and this issue would require something similar.
He said lowering the credits is "less likely" and that if they were to be continued, they would likely be continued as they are.
"You're best to really hold your fire on those to periods when bills are the highest going into the winter period," he said.
"We waited until October and we really went at it big then with social welfare increases as well as credits. I think we should stick with the approach that worked."
The date of the third credit has recently been confirmed.
The credit will be applied to customer's accounts between 1 March 2023 and 30 April 2023.
The date you get your credit depends on the date that your supplier normally sends you your bill. The credit may not appear on your first bill during these payment periods, this depends on your individual billing cycle. Suppliers will have information on their websites with the exact dates the credit will show on customers’ bills.
For PrePay customers, they will receive a top up code from their supplier.
The credit applies to all domestic electricity accounts registered with an electricity supplier in the Republic of Ireland.
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When people think of energy storage, they think of batteries. We've had them in their modern incarnation for more than 200 years and there are examples in the archeological record of things that could be batteries that are more than 2000 years old.
But batteries in their current form aren't enough. Cheap, scalable energy storage would allow us to quickly integrate large amounts of renewable energy onto the grid and decarbonize our electricity system.
When the wind blows and the sun shines in places where there are a lot of solar and wind projects (Germany or Denmark) they generate more electricity than the grid knows what to do with.
Even oil and gas-centric Alberta is looking into energy storage so it can unlock its massive renewable energy resources. Alberta Innovates hosted a national energy storage symposium in Calgary recently.
"There are a lot of very exciting technologies out there and really in terms of energy storage technologies there is no real one-size-fits-all technology," says Mark, senior manager of renewable energy at Alberta Innovates and the man who organized the event.
And he's not kidding; there were presentations on everything from compressed air, batteries and flywheels, to something called thermal matrix energy storage.
Power-to-gas: Turning wind energy into hydrogen
One of the most intriguing ideas brought up at the conference was something called power-to-gas -- it's a way of converting and storing surplus electricity for future use as a fuel.
It takes excess electricity, from a wind farm for instance, and uses an electrolyzer to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. Hydrogen is energy dense and can be used in fuel cells, in the fuel refining process, to drive a turbine and generate electricity and perhaps most intriguingly it could be injected into the natural gas pipeline network and stored.
Research suggests between three and 10 per cent of the capacity of natural gas pipelines could be filled with hydrogen. That might not sound like much but Canada has more than 800 billion cubic feet of underground gas storage, the equivalent to 40 per cent of our annual electricity use.
"The potential for power-to-gas in North America just for the direct injection could be anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000 megawatts," says Rob Harvey, director of energy storage with Hydrogenics.
Hydrogenics currently has eight pilot projects all over the world, the largest being a two megawatt sized project in Falkenhagen, Germany. Pipeline giant Enbridge has invested $5 million dollars into the company and they're looking at a project in Ontario.
Power to gas could be an important transition technology that makes good use of the existing fossil fuel infrastructure while reducing emissions and supporting the development of more renewable energy on the grid.
A better battery -- the possibilities are staggering
Imagine a battery that could last for a week on one charge, allow an electric car to go 500 kilometers in a go or store vast amounts of solar or wind energy.
That's what University of Alberta professor Weixeng Chen is working on. He's the chief technology officer of AdvEn Solutions and he's working on a better battery that he hopes can store four times as much energy as current lithium ion batteries.
Chen has a PhD in materials science engineering and as you might expect, the brief that explains how the technology works is a bit technical. But to go back to your high school chemistry a battery has three major components; a cathode (the negative terminal), the anode (positive terminal) and an electrolyte (the medium that allows the electric charge to flow between the two).
Chen's cell phone-sized aluminum encased prototype in a University of Alberta lab uses carbon nanotube arrays in the cathode and a patented process that uses fluoride ions in the electrolyte. They're looking to source an off-the-shelf anode from Lockheed Martin.
Chen explains the benefits of his design.
"It has much more energy density than the current lithium ion batteries. We've targeted our batteries to have four times as much energy density. We have a much larger cycle life than lithium ion batteries. Compared to lithium ion we can achieve 10,000 cycles, current lithium ion batteries have only 500 to 1,000 cycles," says Chen.
Chen's ideas are three to five years away from commercialization, but the impact could be game changing for consumer electronics, electric cars and for renewable energy.
Here are the links to the presentations from the Alberta Innovates energy storage symposium, fascinating reading for the energy geek:
- Wintering Hills wind energy battery storage pilot by Suncor and Teck
- Thermal Matrix Energy storage by Kelvin Storage
- Flywheel energy storage by Temporal Power
- Power-to-gas by Enbridge and Power-to-gas by Hydrogenics
- Induced fluorination batteries by AdvEn Solutions
- Compressed air energy storage by Rocky Mountain Power
Energy storage is one of the single most important areas of human research and commerce in our modern age, we will watching these technologies very closely here at Green Energy Futures.

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Last night (Monday 4/2/18) Lorde's Melodrama World Tour took over Wells Fargo Center in Philly. During her 20 song set, she paid tribute to The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, by covering "I'm On Fire." Watch fan shot video of the performance, below.
In Chicago she covered Kanye, in Toronto she covered Drake, so I was hoping she'd make a more Philly choice for our show last night - but how can you be mad about Bruce? I can't.
It's not the first time she's performed this song, but it was great and worth a watch if you dint' make the show (or to see it again if you did!)
Bruce has also covered Lorde in the past...the admiration is mutual:
Lorde Wells Fargo Center 4/2/18 Set List
Magnets (Disclosure cover)
Yellow Flicker Beat
Writer in the Dark
I'm on Fire (Springsteen cover) / 400 Lux
Sober II (Melodrama)


Limerick Hurling star Shane Dowling looks set to return to the fold for Na Piarsaigh ahead of their All-Ireland club semi-final.
The ace attacker missed the club's run to the Munster title in November, although his team mates managed to pull through in his absence, seeing off both Blackrock of Cork and Ballygunner of Waterford in comprehensive victories.
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The 2016 All-Ireland champions will do battle with Derry champions Slaughtneill in Parnell Park on the 10th of February and would represent the 2014 All Star's first appearance since last year's county final triumph over Kilmallock.
Dowling scored five points in the first half of the one sided affair, however, he was forced off at half time having damaged his knee.
Later scans revealed that he had damaged cartilage in his right knee and the subsequent operation that followed meant that he was ruled out of action for nearly three months.
Manager Shane O'Neill revealed that he is hopeful that the 24-year-old will be able to start the crunch clash as they continue to monitor his fitness.
'He’s coming along. He’s been back in full training from the day that he targeted which was last week. We’ll just see how it goes over the next week just to see exactly how he’s feeling himself.'
'It’s been slow enough for him but he’s worked very hard to get back to his fitness. As of now we don’t know, we haven’t gone near picking our team yet.'
'A fully fit Shane would obviously be on the first fifteen. He’s a big game player. Shane has performed in virtually every big game we’ve had.'
Hurling doesn't need Donal Og Cusack's arrogant dig, the players are doing the talking


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SO during Drama we have been making characters to fit the role of a melo drama role
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Hes 17 and an outcast sounds pretty basic but thats okay because its melo drama and its stero tipic type of character. His gender is a male but hes pretty thin and scrawny to be one.
The relationships he has are almost no one but hes pretty close to his friends family and often stays with them there, He has a few skills like for excample he is very quiet with the way he moves because of his scrawny body figure. Another thing is that he can fool or lie and make people believe of what hes saying.
His intreste are odd he likes crafting and rats out of all things but hes quite use to the way his life looks. something he dosen't know is that he ends up to be an accidental hero and people would expect more from him even tho what he did was an accident.
So far this is my character and I am happy with him I still have more to write about this character but i'll work on it more in the future


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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) -
Let's check in on which players have been driving fantasy owners' success and which ones have been driving us mad recently in this week's edition of "Who's Hot, Who's Not."
Ben Zobrist, 2B/OF Tampa Bay Rays - Zobrist's 2013 campaign has mirrored last season. Through June 5, Zobrist was hitting .246 with a 35/27 K/BB in 243 plate appearances. Zobrist's stats last season through June 6: 231 plate appearances, .199 average, 39/36 K/BB. Zobrist batted .306 with 14 homers, 55 RBI and a .923 OPS over his final 103 games last season, and appears to be starting another hot streak at the same time this year. In his last seven games, he's hitting .481 (13-for-27) with four doubles, one homer and five walks.
Gerardo Parra, Arizona Diamondbacks - Parra is an example of an insurance policy that has paid off big time. Parra was supposed to serve as a fourth outfielder and defensive specialist for the D-backs this season, but injuries to Adam Eaton and Cody Ross thrust him into and everyday role. After going 13- for-26 (.500) with three RBI and five walks over his last seven games, Parra is hitting .322 with five homers, 22 RBI, 42 runs, five steals and an .863 OPS this season.
Yasiel Puig, Los Angeles Dodgers - Not only is Puig's bat scorching hot, but the Cuban outfielder also got hot under the collar Tuesday against the Diamondbacks. Arizona pitcher Ian Kennedy grazed Puig's face in the game with a fastball, and then Puig got involved in a bench-clearing brawl when Kennedy hit Zack Greinke in the head later in the game. Puig wasn't in the starting lineup Wednesday due to a sore shoulder, but he picked up a pinch hit in the game and is 17-for-35 (.486) with four homers and 10 RBI in his first 10 major league games.
Jacoby Ellsbury, Boston Red Sox - Ellsbury may have left his power stroke somewhere back in 2011, but his wheels are looking as good as they ever have. The center fielder has swiped eight bases on eight steal attempts over his last six games and is hitting .440 (22-for-50) with 15 steals on 15 attempts over his last 11 games.
Matt Holliday, St. Louis Cardinals - We've been waiting all season for Holliday to find his groove and it looks like he's getting there. Even with an 0-for-4 under his belt Wednesday, the slugger is batting .389 with four doubles, two homers, eight RBI and seven walks in nine games since June 3.
Jeremy Bonderman, Seattle Mariners - No, this isn't a column from June 13, 2010; Bonderman really is back in the majors and thriving, at least over his last two starts. He blanked the Houston Astros on three hits over eight innings Wednesday, five days after holding the New York Yankees to one run on three hits over six innings to pick up his first major league win since Sept. 8, 2010.
Zack Greinke, Los Angeles Dodgers - Greinke had an 8.78 ERA and allowed 28 hits in 13 1/3 innings from May 21 to June 1, but he has worked his way off the "Not" list with two strong seven-inning performances. He beat Atlanta with seven shutout innings and then gave up two hits and two runs against Arizona Tuesday.
Miguel Gonzalez, Baltimore Orioles - Gonzalez is coming off his best start of the season Tuesday against the Angels -- he went eight innings and allowed four hits and a run. That came one start after beating the Astros with six five-hit innings of one-run ball. Gonzalez' ERA is slightly higher than last season, but he has been a better pitcher. He has lowered his line-drive rate from 22.4 percent to 17.7 percent and his fly ball rate from 42.6 percent to 37.4 percent.
Starlin Castro, Chicago Cubs - If fantasy owners were unhappy with Castro when he was hitting .264 at the end of May, they're likely throwing fits now. The shortstop has gone just 2-for-34 (.059) with eight strikeouts since the start of June. Castro's strikeout, walk and line-drive rates are all at career-worst levels, as is his BABIP.
Jed Lowrie, Oakland Athletics - Lowrie's BABIP has been due for a bit of a regression, and he's experiencing that over the last six games. He is hitting .150 on balls in play and .125 overall with four strikeouts over his last 24 at-bats. However, with one of the best line-drive rates in baseball at 27.5 percent and a strikeout rate that is down more than three percentage points from last season, Lowrie shouldn't be down for long.
Kelly Johnson, Tampa Bay Rays - Johnson was hitting .298 as recently as May 29, but his batting average was never going to stay that high, not with a 25 percent strikeout rate and a 15 percent line-drive rate. His BABIP over his first 45 games was .337, but he has hit .148 on balls in play and .100 overall over his last 40 at-bats.
Nick Swisher, Cleveland Indians - Swisher's average has continued to drop off the cliff over the past week. He hit .125 (3-for-24) with nine strikeouts over his last six games and is 4-for-48 (.083) with 16 Ks since May 30. Fantasy owners should buy low on the Indians first baseman, however, as he has been terribly unlucky. With a career-high 27.6 percent line-drive rate, his .282 BABIP should be much higher.
Mark Reynolds, Cleveland Indians - We're used to Reynolds going into prolonged slumps by now; he has been doing this since he became a regular in 2008. But he at least usually keeps his homer total up. That hasn't been the case recently, as he has gone 20-for-111 (.180) with 40 strikeouts and just one double and two homers since May 10. He has just four hits in his last 33 at-bats (.121).
Matt Moore, Tampa Bay Rays - As I mentioned in my column "FIP Files" on May 10, Moore was in line for some regression, as he had a .206 BABIP and a 4.06 BB/9 over his first 11 starts. Well, regression has hit him hard. Batters hit .563 on balls in play and picked up 19 hits and 14 earned runs over seven innings against the left-hander in Moore's last two starts, and just like that a 2.18 ERA skyrocketed to 3.78.
Trevor Cahill, Arizona Diamondbacks - Cahill's 2.88 ERA at the end of May has shot up to 4.02 after the right-hander gave up 18 hits and 13 earned runs in 8 2/3 innings in his first two starts of June. Cahill's K/9 is down from 7.02 to 5.69 since 2012, and his line-drive rate is up from 16.1 percent to 19.8 percent.
Matt Garza, Chicago Cubs - Fantasy owners who waited six weeks for Garza to make his 2013 debut have to be frustrated at this point. The right-hander has a 6.26 ERA in 27 1/3 innings after allowing 13 runs in 11 1/3 innings over his first two starts this month.

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - In 2016, a top executive of Upstate University Hospital asked to resign and return to the faculty of the medical school, but the State University of New York made a counter offer:
Dr. John McCabe could resign and keep his CEO salary of $660,500 for one year by serving as a consultant.
He took the deal - even though it required him to quit the faculty and medical staff.
The consulting work? The deal also required SUNY and McCabe to not talk about that.
But the confidential contract, obtained by syracuse.com through a Freedom of Information request, requires him to stay off campus. That means taxpayers paid McCabe $660,500 to consult for an institution from which he was practically barred.
For McCabe, he said he took it as SUNY's message "to disappear."
Upstate officials have refused to provide copies of timesheets and any reports he may have produced as a consultant. The job ended March 14.
McCabe, who was the highest-paid state employee in the Syracuse area in 2017, talked to syracuse.com about what led to the agreement. And he shared his disappointment about being cut off from the institution where he spent most of his career.
During his 30 years at the academic medical center McCabe created Upstate's department of emergency medicine, worked as a professor, medical school dean and finally hospital CEO for eight years.
Now he can't even volunteer there. The only thing he's allowed to do at Upstate is use the library, according to the agreement.
The secret deal between SUNY and McCabe is the same type of hush agreement that unsuccessfully required former porn actress Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump before he became president.
These confidential agreements are common in the private sector. But experts say their use by public, government agencies like SUNY subject to freedom of information laws raises ethical and legal questions.
McCabe, who stepped down as the hospital's CEO, refused to discuss the terms of the deal with SUNY in keeping with the agreement's proviso that he remain silent.
But in an interview he described the circumstances that led to the agreement with SUNY which, he says, wanted him to "disappear." Mimi Satter, McCabe's lawyer, accompanied him to the interview with syracuse.com, which McCabe recorded.
McCabe wanted to go back to teaching medical students when he decided in late 2016 to resign as CEO of the hospital.
Instead, he agreed to quit his Upstate faculty and medical staff positions when he resigned as hospital CEO under the terms of the non-disclosure agreement with SUNY. In exchange, Upstate kept him on the state payroll for another year in a consulting job with few requirements at the same salary he received as hospital CEO.
Upstate refused to answer most of syracuse.com's questions about the agreement. It also denied syracuse.com's request to interview Upstate President Dr. Danielle Laraque-Arena about the deal.
McCabe says he decided to resign after Laraque-Arena took over as president of Upstate Medical University in 2016 so she could put her own management team in place.
"There was never a time anyone asked me to step down," McCabe said. "It was clear to me she (Laraque-Arena) wanted to, and it would be helpful for her, to have a team in place that was of her own choosing to allow her to be successful."
McCabe said his relationship with Laraque-Arena was not contentious. He said his staff put together a large briefing book on hospital operations to quickly bring her up to speed. But over time " ... it felt increasingly as if hospital issues were being managed around me rather than with me," he said. Those issues included hospital strategy, planning, program development, finances and operations.
McCabe, 65, was a tenured professor at Upstate before he was appointed medical school dean and later CEO. When McCabe took the administrative jobs he says he stepped out of his tenured faculty position with the understanding he could rejoin the faculty when he left the administration. A 2015 letter from Dr. Gregory Eastwood, Upstate's former president, confirmed this. The letter said McCabe could return to the faculty when he left the administration at an annual salary of no less than $263,466.
In a Nov. 29, 2016 letter, McCabe told Laraque-Arena he wanted to resign and return to the faculty.
After Laraque-Arena acknowledged receipt of McCabe's resignation letter " ... all communication with the president shut down," he says. He was referred to a SUNY lawyer in Albany.
McCabe says he interpreted the message he got in his first phone conversation with SUNY lawyers as, "We'd like you to disappear."
The non-disclosure agreement was subsequently signed by McCabe and Laraque-Arena Dec. 30, 2016.
"It was SUNY's idea there would be an agreement and there would be terms that would have him (McCabe) resigning from the institution," said Satter, McCabe's attorney.
The $660,500 consulting job McCabe got as part of the agreement came with the title "senior assistant to the president" and a vague job description. The agreement required him to work off campus and provide "... a broad range of administrative services to the SUNY Upstate President as assigned from time to time." Those services could include developing reports and coordinating special projects.
McCabe had to file monthly written reports describing his efforts and time reports for payroll purposes.
McCabe says he complied with all the agreement's filing requirements.
In a prepared statement, Upstate said McCabe's "institutional knowledge of hospital operations" was valuable during the leadership transition.
"As senior assistant to the president, Dr. McCabe provided services to assist with this transition. The terms of the agreement with Dr. McCabe are standard provisions under the law," the statement said.
In its Freedom of Information request, syracuse.com asked for all documents - including contracts, timesheets, emails, letters, etc. - related to McCabe's appointment to the consulting job. SUNY responded by providing only the non-disclosure agreement, saying any other records are exempt from public disclosure. Syracuse.com successfully appealed that decision and SUNY agreed to do another review of the requested documents. That review is still in the works, according to Michael Jurbala, Upstate's Freedom of Information Law officer.
The secret deal between SUNY and McCabe is a voluntary agreement "... executed to avoid the expenses of litigation, administrative proceedings, and/or complaints to local, state, or federal government departments, agencies or any other conceivable venue for making claims or resolving disputes between the parties," the document says.
As part of the agreement, McCabe agreed to never sue SUNY Upstate, refer negatively to Upstate and current or former employees, interfere in Upstate's business operations or communicate with Upstate job seekers.
It also requires Laraque-Arena to never refer negatively to McCabe.
"It saddens me every day that I am no longer part of an institution that I spent 30 years at, knowing I could still be a productive faculty member in some capacity," McCabe said.


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Aaron Rodgers crumpled to the ground.
The Green Bay Packers quarterback scrambled, pulled up short, and threw a touchdown pass. He hobbled off the field with the help of two trainers. Moments later, he headed into the locker room on a cart. With the Packers up 14-7 on the Detroit Lions with the NFC North on the line, Green Bay looked rudderless.
The last time Green Bay fans winced like this, Rodgers was in a State Farm commercial.
At halftime, speculation ran wild. Would Rodgers return? Would the Packers survive? Is there anything worse than the Discount Double Check?
Those hysterical thoughts were put to rest in the third quarter. Rodgers returned, perfectly lit up like a Lambeau deity. He connected with Randall Cobb to send Green Bay up 21-14 as the third quarter came to a close. In the fourth quarter, Rodgers put the game on ice as he snuck in at the one-yard-line two add to the lead.
Game Green Bay.
Rodgers was nearly perfect upon his return. Ten-for-12, 144 yards, two touchdowns. We love to toss around the word “elite.” No one really bothers to define what that means, we just arbitrarily assign it to different players capable of putting up gaudy numbers. There are more than a few elite quarterbacks. Most of those under center in the postseason deserve that elite moniker.
But not all of them have what Rodgers has. It’s those intangibles – playing hurt and stepping up when the lights are brightest – that separate the great players from the best. Rodgers was at his best in Week 17, which is a pretty good sign heading into the playoffs.
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Pinterest’s first Global Advertiser Summit announced
Pinterest will host its first ever advertiser summit, Pinterest Presents, on March 3rd, for advertisers in key markets including the UK, US, France, Germany, Canada and Australia.
It says the virtual summit is designed to inspire and spark creativity among its audience and provide marketers with an exclusive look at the company’s latest ad product updates.
Pinterest Presents will bring together a range of industry voices, celebrities and speakers as a part of a virtual experience. In addition to CEO Ben Silbermann, global Pinterest speakers will include Andréa Mallard, Chief Marketing Officer, Aya Kanai, Head of Content and Creators Partnerships, and Dan Lurie, Head of Growth and Shopping Product.
The summit will feature customized content and speakers for each market, to give marketers a window onto local audience trends and ad opportunities. Sessions for each country will ignite conversations around diversity and inclusion, sustainability, scaling e-commerce, designing for accessibility, and entrepreneurship:
- US: Jon Kaplan, Pinterest Chief Revenue Officer will host Walter Frye, Vice President of Global Brand Engagement & Design at American Express and Sarika Sangwan, Pinterest Global Strategy & Financial Services Marketing Lead, who will dive into American Express’support of small businesses. Sinéad Burke, Founder of Tilting the Lens, will be sharing her personal story on how she lives in a world not designed for her and address how accessibility needs to be better integrated in technology. Celestine Maddy, Global Head of Consumer & Brand Marketing at Pinterest will present the Future Trends.
- UK: Katherine Ryan, Comedian, Actress and Writer will host the UK show and even try her hand at some Pinterest Predicts trends. Elizabeth Day, Journalist and Broadcaster and Karen Blackett OBE, UK Country Manager, WPP and CEO, Group M, will discuss personal and professional stories of positive failure through the lens of inspiration, and Steven Bartlett, Founder of Social Chain will interview Alex Loizou, Founder of Trouva about being an entrepreneur and heading up a challenger brand. Sinéad Burke, Founder of Tilting the Lens, will be sharing her personal story on how she lives in a world not designed for her and address how accessibility needs to be better integrated in technology. Milka Kramer, UK & Ireland Country Manager at Pinterest will present the Future Trends.
- France: Anaïs Grangerac, TV Presenter and Pinterest creator will host. Alexandre Mars, serial entrepreneur, philanthropist fund founder will talk to Yannick Bolloré, Havas Group CEO in a fireside chat about entrepreneurship and the future of ecommerce in the advertising industry. Inès Leonarduzzi, CEO of NGO Digital and Emmanuelle Paille, Head of Comms, CSR & Public Affairs at Bel Group will explore what users are expecting from brands today and the impact of the COVID crisis. Adrien Boyer, France, Southern Europe and Benelux Country Manager at Pinterest will present the Future Trends.
- Germany: Sascha Vitzthum, SVP Marketing at Home24 and Philipp Westermeyer, OMR Founder, will explore the shop window of the future. Jens Raskop, Head of Digital Marketing at MINI will be interviewed about aspects of reinvention and Maike Abel, Head of Media Communication & Content at Nestlé and Tijen Onaran, Entrepreneur and Author, will be talking about brand reputation and sustainability. Philip Missler, Head of Europe at Pinterest will present the Future Trends.
- Canada: Erin Elofson, Head of Canada and Australia will host Alex Panousis, CEO, Carat Dentsu Aegis Network to discuss the death of the last click, agility in the pandemic age, and breaking through with creativity and brand safety. Sinéad Burke, Founder of Tilting the Lens, will be sharing her personal story on how she lives in a world not designed for her and address how accessibility needs to be better integrated in technology. Pascal Duffaut, Head of Partnerships, Automotive & Emerging at Pinterest will present the Future Trends.
- Australia: Ryan Goldsworthy, Australia Agency Lead at Pinterest will host Megan Brownlow, industry leader, who will speak about how self-actualized brands embrace conscious commerce and align with social good. Turia Pitt, author, speaker, coach, and ironman athlete, will discuss how she has overcome hardships and truly embraces inspiration.
In addition, stars from the worlds of fashion and entertainment will be joining the line-up with exclusive advice for marketers. Pinterest will be announcing these special guests to registrants just before the event on March 3rd.
“In the past year, Pinterest’s long-held commitment to being a positive destination for inspiration has become more relevant than ever, and as a global brand, we have the opportunity to lead with our values and shape the future. Our partners and advertisers around the world play an incredible role in shaping this environment, and we’re excited to share our new ad tools and insights to make it easier to connect with our engaged audience around the world.” – Visha Naul, Director of Business Marketing for Europe at Pinterest


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text: Ecosystems change on a multitude of spatial and temporal scales. While analyses of ecosystem dynamics in short timespans have received much attention, the impacts of changes in the long term have, to a great extent, been neglected, provoking a lack of information and methodological know-how in this area. This book fills this gap by focusing on studies dealing with the investigation of complex, long-term ecological processes with regard to global change, the development of early warning systems, and the acquisition of a scientific basis for strategic conservation management and the sustainable use of ecosystems. Within this book, theoretical ecological questions of long-term processes, as well as an international dimension of long-term monitoring, observations and research are brought together. The outcome is an overview on different aspects of long-term ecological research. Aquatic, as well as terrestrial ecosystems are represented.


BBC Radio 6music are currently running a season in celebration of 90s Britpop. But I, for one, don’t really see much to celebrate in this time between the death of punk and the birth of Indie rock. Inevitably it will be celebrated, because most people in positions of influence in the music industry right now are people who grew up with this music, and thus regard the whole scene with a great wave of nostalgia. Mostly these are white men looking back to the days when similar white men to them ruled the charts with their sound drawn from the Madchester scene and reacting against the drone of American grunge.
When we look at Britpop we mustn’t look just at the music itself, but at the whole cultural shift it propagated in 90s Britain. Every time I read a feminist thinkpiece about the rise of lad culture in Britain I always wonder why they seem to describe it as some sort of modern phenomenon. People are misled into believing laddishness is a new occurrence, just because it is more visible due to social media. Lad culture as we see it now seems obvious to me to be a product of Britpop. These artists were desperate to appear like relatable cheeky chappies, even if they were actually rather posh, perhaps as a reaction to years and years of conservative government. It became all about going out, having a laugh, getting wasted, getting some girls. This was the era of Loaded and FHM, suddenly everyone was dropping their t’s and people were inventing new words like ‘ladette.’
Yet despite a desperate attempt to not appear posh, this was music by and for suburban middle class teenagers. There were no black people, no gay people and not many women in these bands (the most notable being the female fronted ‘Sleeper’ who never achieved a number one single or album and have not really lasted in popular memory). If you were to judge 90s music from what the NME or Stuart Maconie or Paul Morley present it, music not produced by straight white men barely existed in the 90s, or if it did it was merely to be sneered at.
Well, I refuse to sneer at it. So here are some of my personal favourite British tracks released in the 90s. Here is the UK Garage, the drum and bass, the soul, girl bands and boy bands, dance music and house music. You’re welcome.
If you think a 90s classic has been missed off of the playlist or you just want to rant about some 90s favourites of your own. Drop us a comment below.
Nick Cordingly is the Deputy Editor of MUSIC at PTL. He was recently dragged kicking and screaming out of the Cambridge bubble and is now in the enviable position of trying to find a use for a history degree when all he wants to do is listen to pop music and tweet. Nick also has a tumblr called ‘Sounds & Thoughts’ which he should update more regularly.
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On deck O’CEANOS has huge entertaining and living spaces, including a brilliant sundeck with jacuzzi, two dining tables, sun lounges, barbecue and bar for socialising in sheer luxury. There’s also a partially removable Bimini cover for protection in the heat of the day.
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NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has launched its 1st all-electric experimental aircraft named the X-57 “Maxwell”. It is NASA’s 1st crewed X-plane (experimental plane) in nearly 2 decades adapted from Italian Tecnam P2006T aircraft. The first delivery of the all-electric experimental aircraft was taken from Empirical Systems Aerospace (ESAero) in California, United States(US). The aircraft is expected to be operational by late 2020.
Static/Current Takeaways Important For IBPS SO 2019:
- NASA Administrator: Jim Bridenstine.
- NASA established: 29 July 1958.
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Yesterday I attended a meeting for an organization that is a bright spot in an otherwise dark world. We gather once a month and discuss progressive ideas and work to effect positive change in the world around us. The meeting yesterday was painful and left me rather hurt.
You see, someone I respect deeply and consider one of the wisest people I know was hurt and angry. My friend gave me an extra helping of that anger. My friend’s pain was so deep that I could feel it. Don’t get me wrong, I cannot begin to imagine what my friend was feeling. I cannot relate to the lifetime of experiences my friend as had. But I do empathize with that pain and anger.
I still have my moments of “righteous anger“. I still lash out myself at those around me when I am not feeling my best or things appear to be falling apart. Correcting that a very high priority for me. But in the meantime, I try to take time to evaluate why I am angry.
Most of the time when I am angry, it is not with the people around me, but rather with myself. It is because I feel like I have failed or I am not good enough. Rarely it is because others have made me feel useless or unwanted. And even more rare, those times when I feel undervalued.
It is not a sin or a bad thing to get angry. Anger is a natural emotion. And we are human after all. Even Jesus got angry. He turned over tables and yelled at people. It is how we direct that anger that becomes the issue. If we are directing it toward the people around us who care about us, then we are making a mistake. If we take time to analyze that anger to determine its cause and then work to resolve those issues, then we have handled it correctly.
We will make mistakes sometimes and that is ok too. The key is to apologize as soon as we can and resolve to do better.
I am praying for my friend and I will be there should he want to talk about everything that happened. And I am thankful for all the people who have been there to help me pick up the pieces when I fell apart. When it is obvious that a person is working to overcome some issues that caused the angry outburst or situation, then we should stand by them and be there for them.
After all, there will come a day when you may need someone there to help you pick up your pieces too.

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LIHU‘E — Restaurants are switching to take-out and delivery options as COVID-19 precautions pause dining in and other social activities or Kaua‘i residents, an action the Hawaii State Department of Health hasn’t developed specific protocols for, but condones.
A spokeswoman for HDOH said Monday that the state currently is following the safety precautions and protocols put together by North Carolina State University, which address the safety of take-out or drive-thru food. The information was put together in a project spearheaded by Ben Chapman, associate professor and food safety extension specialist at NC State University.
The information sheet, posted March 27 on the Food Safety News website, says there is no indication that COVID-19 can be transmitted by food or food packaging, and emphasizes currently the biggest risk of transmission is being around symptomatic individuals.
Food businesses should be following employee health policies and health department recommendations, and keep any symptomatic individuals at home.
NC State University analyzed risks associated with drive-thru, take-out and delivery food and currently surmises the option is “a good risk management choice, especially for high risk and elderly groups, because it helps maintain social distancing and reduces the number of touch points.”
Delivery, similarly, helps to maintain social distancing.
Current research, according to the University’s documents, shows the risk of transfer of the virus is very low when touching food packaging that has been exposed to coronavirus, but to further minimize the risk, “handling food packaging should be followed by hand washing and/or using hand sanitizer.”
According to NC State University, “there is no evidence to support transmission of the virus directly through eating food that might inadvertently contain the virus” — it’s generally thought to be spread from person-to-person through respiratory droplets, according to the university’s research.
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Whatever you may think about The Bachelor franchise, after more than 20 seasons and countless spin offs, we can all agree it’s here to stay. But let’s be real, the year is 2017. It’s a problem that after all these seasons, this is the first time the reality show has featured a black lead, Rachel Lindsay.
While the groundbreaking nature of Rachel’s casting has been rightly celebrated, the diversity of her suitors hasn’t gotten the same attention. This season, fourteen of the thirty one contestants are men of color, the most diverse group in the show’s history. So while this season is groundbreaking for The Bachelor franchise, its portrayal of black men is groundbreaking for primetime, network television in general.
Why? The way black masculinity is generally portrayed in mainstream culture is extremely limiting. We generally only see black, male characters enacting a handful of stereotypes which reinforce a negative, single story about what it means to be a black man – the dangerous, hyper-sexual thug; the funny but inconsequential friend; the victim in need of saving; the absent father. From the single dad to the 28-year-old prosecuting attorney, these contestants are breaking the mold television has set for black men by just being normal. With so many black suitors, the show has to differentiate them and show dimensions of their character we might not otherwise see, whether it’s their vulnerability, their sense of humor, or their excitement at an opportunity for love.
While the men are allowed to show various sides of themselves, the producers still apply limiting archetypes to certain characters. In DeMario, we find the stereotypical aggressive, dishonest black, male “player” who *spolier* was still seeing a woman when he signed up for The Bachelorette. But the caveat is that right next to him is Diggy, “a silly and sweet contestant” (according to his Instagram feed, thanks Bustle) who happens to be a senior inventory analyst who also loves fashion. Then there’s Kenny, the professional wrestler, a devoted dad who is far from the macho, hyper masculine character one imagines when “wrestler” is mentioned. These men are complex and full people who until now, we have rarely found in media.
This season of The Bachelorette with Rachel as the titular character is a reminder that we need more representation in film, media, and yes, even reality television. Not just because it makes shows more entertaining or, in this case, our go-to guilty pleasure, but because media is a critical part of our shared culture and it can be used to break down bias instead of build them up. But to do so, we need characters who are nuanced and have depth and whose story arcs are not solely defined by their race. The real surprise here is seeing this diversity of representation in a reality TV show that for so long erased and stereotyped black men.

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Group pushes University of California regents to block UCLA's potential move to Big Ten
National College Players Association says additional travel to Big Ten schools would hurt UCLA athletes' academic performance and mental health.
A college athlete advocacy group is urging University of California regents to block UCLA's planned move to the Big Ten conference, citing the toll that the additional travel will have on athletes' academic performance and mental health, among other factors.
In a letter addressed to the regents and dated Wednesday, National College Players Association executive director Ramogi Huma described the school's proposed move to the Big Ten as a "short-sighted money grab." He also argued that the move will disproportionately impact Black athletes.
The board of regents is expected to rule on the potential move at a meeting next week.
"A UCLA move to the Big Ten undermines UC’s educational mission," Huma wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by USA TODAY Sports.
"No matter how much money is generated, UCLA cannot spend its way out of increased travel times for its athletes that will directly reduce UCLA athletes’ ability to keep up with their academics and complete their degree."
UCLA announced in June that it would be leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten in 2024, along with fellow West Coast powerhouse Southern California.
The schools have said the move will bring added stability and national media exposure, though the most substantial benefits would be financial. According to tax records, the Big Ten distributed $48.9 million to each of its member schools during the 2021 fiscal year, while the Pac-12 distributed about $19.8 million. The Big Ten has since signed a new media rights deal worth a reported average of more than $1 billion per year.
While USC is a private school and can switch conferences at its leisure, UCLA must first receive approval from the UC board of regents, which has been discussing the matter for months. UC general counsel Charles Robinson confirmed at a meeting this fall that the regents have the authority to block the move.
One significant concern among board members is that UCLA's move would have a negative financial impact on Cal, as the system's flagship school is staying in the Pac-12. Travel is another, as the Big Ten's current member schools are in the Midwest and East Coast.
Huma noted in his letter that, according to a Pac-12 survey, the average conference athlete dedicates 50 hours per week to their sport during the season – a figure that would surely go up with the addition of cross-country flights to schools like Maryland or Rutgers.
He also reasoned that the increased travel could disproportionately hinder the academic performance of Black male athletes, who represent 28% of Black male students at UCLA. White male athletes make up just 2% of white male students at the school.
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"This move would also reduce the ability of UCLA athletes’ family members to attend games," Huma wrote in the letter. "... It will hit the athletes from low-income homes the hardest because their families will not be able to afford airplane tickets and hotel stays to attend games that are on the other side of the country."
UCLA leaders say the additional revenue from a Big Ten move would help the school provide more resources for athletes. They have pledged to add $10 million to the athletic department budget to cover additional academic and mental health resources for athletes, as well as charter flights to limit travel time.
Huma, meanwhile, argues that only a handful of top employees – such as the athletic director and head football coach – would reap most of the financial benefits. A former UCLA football player, he has long been critical of the NCAA and advocated for a revenue-sharing system in which athletes receive a cut of the television revenue that they generate for universities and conferences.
"Not all money is good money," Huma wrote to the UC board. "The Regents should not let a handful of people sell the soul of the UCLA athletics program for TV dollars that will be spent on luxury boxes in stadiums and lavish salaries for a few."
Contributing: The Associated Press
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Rutland Environmental Education Centre (REEC) is located in the Anglian Water Bird Watching Centre on Rutland Water Nature Reserve. It provides an ideal base to access both the main reservoir itself as well as providing a excellent location from which to carry out practical work on the Nature Reserve.
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The Ministry of Education has announced plans by the government to absorb the cost of the extra classes fee for students in school and on vacation under the Double-Track-System.
Under the new system, teaching hours will increase from six hours per day to eight hours per day.
Teaching hours are expected to increase from 1,080 hours per year under the current single-track system, to 1,134 hours per year under the proposed double-track system.
Speaking on the free SHS double track system at a press conference in Accra, the Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh noted government was going to provide 50 cedis to every student to cater for the extra tuition.
“Government is going to provide per head, ₵50 cedis to every student as an academic intervention where the teachers if they have to organize extra lessons in Maths and English, will not charge the students but the government will give them money to be able to pay for the extra tuition”.
When asked about when the blueprint for the double track system will be made public, he noted it would be made available on the Education’s Ministry’s website.
He added the double–track system will only affect fresh SHS one students and for only selected schools. He noted the double track is to enable the government to create room in the school over the perceived increase in enrolment, reduce class sizes, increase contact hours among others.
Responding to questions concerning the availability of the needed staff to teach the students in each track, he noted The Nation Builders Corps(NABCO), had got applications from more teachers, hence, some teachers will be sourced from there.
Background to the Double Track System
The government announced plans to implement the Dual Intake System for newly admitted Public Senior High School Students across the country in September 2018.
The new system which is expected to reduce class sizes and increase lesson hours will address the growing population of students benefitting from the Free SHS Policy.
President Akufo-Addo confirmed the implementation of the Dual Intake System during a durbar of students and teachers at Tamale Senior High School as part of his tour in the Northern Region.
According to President Akufo-Addo, the 2018/2019 academic year will see a 31 percent increase in the number of students entering senior high school.
The new system is expected to cost GH₵323 million to fully implement.
The cost comprises GH₵267.2 million for teaching cost and GH₵55.8 million for academic interventions.
The dual intake system is also going to be accompanied by an increase in the number of teachers.
The President had already noted that the government had plans to recruit 8,000 more teachers.


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Maldives Airports Company Ltd (MACL) is offering attractive discounts to all international airlines operating to Maldives’ main airport, Velana International Airport (VIA).
“As a key contributor to the aviation and tourism industry, MACL’s success has always been focused on its partnerships and therefore the management of Maldives Airports Company Ltd (MACL) has decided to offer incentive support from airport charges to International Airlines operating to the Velana International Airport (VIA),” a statement by the company read.
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak Maldives border has been closed from 27 March 2020 but the government of Maldives has now announced that borders will open from 15th July 2020 and hence, MACL will be starting operations on the same date as well.
MACL has offered discounts from ground handling, landing, navigation and parking charges to all the international scheduled airlines.
MACL’s incentive package is divided into 3 slabs which will start from 15 July 2020 and will continue till 26 March 2021 as follows:
– Operation starting period of slab 1, starts between 15th July & 31st August 2020 with a 100% discount. This is applicable from 15th July to 27th October 2020.
– Operation starting period of slab 2, starts between 1st September & 27th October 2020 with a 75% discount. This is applicable from 1st September to 27th October 2020.
– Operation Starting period of slab 3, starts or continues after 28th October 2020 with a 50% discount. This is applicable from 28th October to 26th March 2020.
MACL revealed that these incentives are to ease and assist the resumption of airlines, encouraging them to start its operations to produce a substantial inflow of tourists to boost up Maldives tourism.
Head of MACL management, Mr. Moosa Solih said “Due to the unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak, the aviation industry is undergoing a massive impact that has crippled air transport activities to a staggering halt. Since air transport is an integral part of the operations and business of VIA, it is crucial to focus on the resumption of flights as soon as possible.”
During the pandemic, MACL has continued to offer extensive support to its partners. MACL has also implemented social distancing measures with clearly visible distance information and floor markings in passenger terminals as a precautionary step for the safety of passengers and staff at Velana International Airport. According to MACL, bright floor markings can now visibly be seen, three feet apart from each other, in places of possible passenger congestion.
Guidelines for International Airlines
The Maldives Civil Aviation Authority has also revealed mandatory guidelines for airlines to follow when borders reopen in July. The circular by the authority reads that an online health declaration form must be filled out travelers that arrive to the nation 24-hours before their arrival.
Travelers must also wear masks which is subject to exceptions. Health circumstances, children below the age of six, and in-flight dining, as well as specific instructions by flight crews permitting the removal of the mask, are exceptions to the mask rule.
The circular also stated that travelers have to inform the immigration authorities if any symptoms of COVID-19 are identified. If the passenger is an outbound traveler, any health requirements issued by the country of travel must also be completed. Symptomatic individuals must also inform the HPA before they depart from the country.


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Originally produced as a segment of the television program Frontline, April 15, 2008.
|Credits:||Director of photography, Mark Rublee ; editor, Jon Neuburger ; original music, Cal Scott.|
|Performer(s):||Correspondent: T.R. Reid.|
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|Other Titles:||Frontline (Television program)|
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