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The Government has refused to rule out a Leicester-style local lockdown being imposed in places across Lancashire where coronavirus continues to spike.
For almost three weeks, the five east Lancashire boroughs of Blackburn with Darwen, Pendle, Burnley, Rossendale, and Hyndburn have had local restrictions put in place due to worrying rise of new cases of Covid-19 across the districts.
The rules mean that people cannot visit residents' homes or private gardens until the government lifts the law affecting those living in the boroughs.
A week after the new rules were put in place in east Lancashire, Preston joined them due to its own worrying uptrend in new cases of coronavirus.
Figures for the seven days to August 15 show Blackburn with Darwen has the second worst infection rate in all of England with 86.2 new cases per 100,000 people; an increase from 68.1 new cases per 100,000 people for the previous seven days.
Pendle has the fourth worst in England, with 69.5 new cases per 100,000 people. In the previous week, its infection rate stood at 99.9 and the then second worst in the country.
Oldham in Greater Manchester sits third on the list, with an infection rate of 83.1 new cases per 100,000 people; down from 109.7 in the week before.
Now, in an interview with BBC News this morning (August 19), Health Secretary Matt Hancock refused to rule out a local lockdown in areas such as Preston, east Lancashire and Oldham, similar to what we saw in Leicester, the MEN reports.
Leicester was placed into lockdown on June 29 due to an alarming rise in Covid-19 cases. This included non-essential businesses closing having reopened just two weeks earlier.
Bars and restaurants were also stopped from reopening from July 4.
Mr Hancock said: "Places like Oldham, where we are now seeing the number of cases rise, we have to take the same localised approach, working very closely with the local council, and make sure we get both the messages to the public and also the rules right in place and the resources, like the testing resources, to get a grip on it in all the areas where there is an outbreak, including Oldham."
In another interview with Times Radio Mr Hancock said: "There is a big challenge in Oldham, the numbers are clear about that.
"We see from what's happened in Leicester over the past few weeks that where we put a local lockdown in place it then has been effective and we have been able to announce yesterday that Leicester is coming out of most – not all – but most of the local lockdown measures because the numbers are under control.
"Obviously that has had a huge impact on the people of Leicester, including businesses, and of course I regret that, in the way I regret a huge amount of the impact of what we have had to do to tackle the virus.
"But we will do what is necessary and we will work very closely with the council, who have also got a really important part to play in this."
Mr Hancock has also said that everyone in the UK could get routine Covid-19 tests as a standard protocol.
It would mean that even those who have no coronavirus symptoms could get tested in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus while opening up the economy further.
Revealing very little more than that in the way of details, Mr Hancock said: "Mass testing, population testing, where we make it the norm that people get tested regularly, allowing us therefore to allow some of the freedoms back, is a huge project in government right now."


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Ratatouille is a delightful movie that is entertaining for the entire family. I have watched it a dozen times and never seem to get tired of it. Ratatouille is also the type of film where you can discover something different every time you watch it. It is the creative works of Disney and Pixar, which are the leaders in children's films and animation.
If you are looking for a good summer film for your kids or for that weekly family night, here are 5 reasons to watch Ratatouille.
1. Ratatouille has a great plot that focuses on a young rat (Remy) that wants to cook. He is influenced by a top chef in Paris that says anyone can cook. Remy experiments with different herbs and spices to make small creations, but is constantly reminded by his family that he is just a rat and rats don't cook.
2. There are a cast of excellent characters that help make Ratatouille a terrific movie. When Remy is separated from his family, he ends up in the city of Paris in front of the French Chef's restaurant. He befriends Linguini, a want to be chef that just does not have any talent. Throughout the movie Remy helps Linguini secretly cook extraordinary meals among some of the best chefs. I enjoyed all of the characters such as the food critic, the shady chef, the woman chef and Remy's family. All of them are notable characters.
3. The third reason to watch Ratatouille is to learn how to cook. The movie gives an introduction about which herbs and spices should be added to different meals. I never used Saffron before watching this movie but now I've taken an interest in using some of these strange spices to traditional meals.
4. Ratatouille has a lot of action and special effects. Kids will love the explosive beginning when the old woman is shooting throughout the house in a mad rage. And the high speed chase from the streets of Paris to the riverboat will keep everyone in their seats.
5. Finally, create a Family Night with your kids. Ratatouille is a treat you'll want to enjoy over and over. So get a large bowl of buttered popcorn and share the moment.

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NBCUniversal International Television Production has acquired a stake in Canadian producer Lark Productions.
The move formalises a four-year strategic production partnership NBCUI has had with Lark, which creates the Real Housewives of Vancouver format for Shaw and crime series Motive for CTV.
Under terms of the deal, NBCUI becomes a minority shareholder in Lark and gets a new first-look and distribution agreement. Lark president Louise Clark will remain in control of the prodco, which she founded in 2010.
Following the investment, Lark plans to scale up operations and is currently searching for its first COO. Former CTV and CBC exec Ed Robinson has joined as an independent board director.
Clark said today: "I am genuinely delighted to further strengthen what is already a fantastic creative partnership with NBCUniversal. Michael and the team share our passion for making great television, and we're already talking about a number of exciting new projects."
Lark is now formally part of the NBCUI group of prodcos, which also comprises Carnival Films, Monkey Kingdom, Lucky Giant and Chocolate Media in the UK, Matchbox Pictures in Australia and a joint venture with US-based Working Title Television.
"We have tremendous confidence in Louise and her team," NBCUITVP president Michael Edelstein said. "Our working relationship with Lark has been incredibly fruitful over the past three years, and we are immensely proud of what they have accomplished. I look forward to working with Lark in the years to come, and giving their shows the global reach they deserve."


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Raf Simons made cozy blankets and fancy candles to get 'intimate' with you
Separate from his namesake brand.
If you've ever wondered what goes on inside Raf Simons' mind, you're about to find out. The Belgian designer announced he's starting his own online retail platform with pieces curated and selected by him. Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop are shaking in their vegan leather boots. Though it's not marketed as a lifestyle platform, the site will give a look into Simons' "point of view, aesthetic and philosophy."
Simons named the new venture "History of My World," the same title he gave his 10th-anniversary collection in 2005. The platform is a separate entity from the Raf Simons brand, though many of the designer's pieces will be offered on the site. On top of Simons' fashionable picks, "History of My World" will also offer a selection of homeware, literature, and exclusive collaborations.
A Simons interior — The site is launching with 45 unique "Teenage Dream" blankets, which were each individually designed and produced by the Raf Simons Studio. The raw-edge wool blankets elaborate on Simons' Spring / Summer 2021 theme of family and community, and feature printed pins and patches from the Raf Simons house label. The covering is priced between $1,925 to $2,723. 25 of the one-off pieces had already sold out.
Alongside the blankets, you can buy a set of candles shaped like apothecary bottles. Coming in mint, cream, and apricot shades, the candles will set you back about $550. No one said living like Raf Simons was cheap. To get a closer look inside his life, however, the platform is selling rare publications published by the designer. Raf Simons Isolated Heroes (1999), Woe Onto Those Who Spit on the Fear Generation The Wind Will Blow it Back... (2002) and Raf Simons Redux (2005) are all available on the site. "In a further expression of intimacy, each of these books can be signed and dedicated by Raf Simons himself," said a press release for the platform.
Meet the maker — The press release further describes the website as a "personal and intimate window" into the designer's thought process. Simons has a long record of innovation, from his youth rebellion fashion shows to his most recent job of creating collections with Miuccia Prada for her brand in Milan. But now instead of a designer, this platform sees Simons move into a position more akin to that of a fashion buyer or curator.
You can explore History of My World online now and deck your home in Raf Simons' approved decor. New drops, including reissued pieces from Simons' archive, are rumored to be heading to the site soon. This is only the beginning of Simons' ultra-exclusive empire.


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Whatever we name it, we live in the lounge and that makes it the most important room in the house. We at BRIGHT have been writing about lounges for quite some time, and have decided to put together 10 of our best, all designed by the award-winning UDesign team. All different, but all with a common thread of architectural and interior design excellence, and all a joy to live in. Here are our 10 top lounges.
Words: Vivion O'Kelly Photography: courtesy of BRIGHT
Whatever we name it, we live in the lounge and that makes it the most important room in the house. We at BRIGHT have been writing about lounges for quite some time, and have decided to put together 10 of our best, all designed by the award-winning UDesign team. All different, but all with a common thread of architectural and interior design excellence, and all a joy to live in. Here are our 10 top lounges.
Words: Vivion O'Kelly Photography: courtesy of BRIGHT
Tropical Villa
The beauty and colour of this Caribbean island have been imported into the interior of this stunning home, located in the Cayman Islands. Splashes of colour and light from the sea and the lush tropical vegetation have been brought inside, making it a reflection of what's on the outside. The swing chair, facing the fabulous view of the sparkling blue sea, is of course the fun element of the design. We know which chair in this home will get used the most!
Garden Villa
This lounge is in front of an interior garden, with a tree growing out from the huge rocks and bushes, bang in the centre of the house and open to the sky above. When it rains, you not only see and hear the rain, but experience it, but you don't get wet: the floor tiles slope imperceptibly towards the centre. You can experience and enjoy the weather, whatever it happens to be, without moving from your sofa. With a distinctive Japanese flavour to it, almost Zen-like, nature is the drawing board in this home. Trees, flowers, plants, rocks, sand and architectural elements, using nature as the vital ingredient, all designed with precision and attention to detail, all put together in many different ways with absolute respect for nature.
Villa Serenity
Serenity by name, serenity by design. Inside or out? Hard to tell, because sitting in this lounge is as close as one can get to sitting in the natural surroundings of the villa itself. The walls of glass soar above the low seating area, drawing inside the carefully designed garden. Sparkling white is the predominant colour, accentuated by the simple black coffee table and the dark blue of the lights overhead, while the black window frames define the entire glassed area. In this villa, the concept of outdoor/indoor living is almost brought to an extreme, but it works in a beautiful and poetic way that invites us to be there.
Manhattan Suite
This magnificent penthouse lounge is top notch for the top notch, a contemporary design in a faux-baroque/contemporary style that will seal any deal. The high glass walls are an invitation to linger longer over the sprawling city below, as good a view by night as by day. The architecture is classic big-city American (Lloyd Wright would have loved it), and the interior design is cool, sophisticated and beautiful. Nothing off the rack here: the furniture is designer and the fittings have been made to fit this space and no other. The Manhattan Suite lounge is the perfect combination of simplicity, modernity, elegance and tradition, all in one.
Villa Andaluz
The formal lounge area in Villa Andaluz is drawn on the floor by the black lines in the carpet, enclosing a space that is defined architecturally by the high minimalist fireplace. The main seating in the lounge is a long purple Arketipo sofa, traditional in design and contrasting with the contemporary coffee tables in front. This is all about contrast and colour against a white architectural structure, with access to the rest of the villa in all directions making the space central – although not actually the centre – to the entire floor plan. In a way, this is a lounge without walls, an island of peace and relaxation in a vast open ground-floor area that can only exist naturally in the context of an Andalucian villa.
Mallorca Villa
The design of this Mediterranean villa is based around a central atrium with a hanging oriental garden, and its beautiful lounge occupies most of the ground floor. Lounges, to be more exact, because a lounge being a place to relax in, there is more than one such space here. A large space with two separate main seating areas, linked visually by the Asian aesthetic of less being more, and the wonderful atrium full of Bonsai trees and hanging plants brings nature right into the home. The space is extremely functional as a large lounge where all family members and friends can gather together without feeling claustrophobic.
Marbella Hills
This vibrantly coloured and sophisticated villa, filled with many of the best artworks in the world, is for the owner who has seen it all and still likes to party. One who also likes to relax in a relatively traditional lounge that is in keeping with the eclectic architecture and interior design of the rest of the villa. Structurally simple, with natural light flooding in from tall windows all around, this is actually the family TV lounge. Guests can make use of the many other seating areas in the vast property, not least of which is a magnificent outdoor lounge area at the far side of the pool, complete with its own fireplace.
Villa Nuraya
The Villa Nuraya lounge could be described as an art gallery masquerading as a lounge, or vice versa, depending on one's point of view, quite apart from the fact that the space itself is an entity of exceptional beauty. But putting aside the art for a moment, we see a quite unusual crimson sofa on one side, reminiscent of a piece of soft seventies sculpture, in front of a long low slab that is a coffee table, flanked at each end by rounded ochre/yellow armchairs, all sitting in isolated glory beneath a very high ceiling and gardens on both sides, one interior and one exterior. The minimalist stairway is in itself another work of sculpture. The end wall is splattered with giant gold and silver coloured blobs in a seemingly haphazard way, but nothing in this lounge has been put there by chance, and certainly not the fluttering cloud of gold leaves that hangs from the ceiling, which is, of course, a very beautiful and creative chandelier.
Vista Lago Residences
All 18 of the villas at Vista Lago will be designed and built individually, and in many cases, to specific clients' tastes, so it is, perhaps, difficult to show what they will all look like. But we can state that all are open-plan, and all conform to the non-conformity of great creative design. That means attention to both detail and overall concept. All villas are guaranteed to have uninterrupted views of the Mediterranean below, and beyond, and these views can be enjoyed from the lounge as much as from its extension onto the front terrace in each property. While some villas have colourful and exuberant interiors, like the one pictured here, others are more muted. Good interior design is pretty and decorative. Great interior design is an art form, and that has been achieved here.
Villa Alcuzcuz
The view from across the pool looking into the formal lounge in Villa Alcuzcuz takes the breath away. The beauty of the furniture and its layout is accentuated by the extremely high ceiling, extending up two floors, and the lighting becomes an imposing design element in itself, even in broad daylight when the natural light creates mottled patterns on the tall mural in the centre of the room. To say that this is all about the view from inside out would be wrong: the views are certainly important, but just as beautiful is the view from the outside in. The tall symmetry here is majestic, making this a space that explains perfectly why the villa has won important international design awards. Unfortunately for some, Villa Alcuzcuz has recently been sold.
All architecture and interior design in this feature is by UDesign, developed by BRIGHT.
This article was originally published on the BRIGHT blog: by-bright.com/news
BRIGHT is a developer of luxury, sustainable homes with a vision of improving the quality of people's lives through the creation of design-led homes. In the BRIGHT world, design always comes first.


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Tituss Burgess appears on your Netflix screens again to host 'Sing On!' Simply put, the show is the singing competition that we didn't know we needed. After all, 6 individuals battle it out on stage in 5 rounds to win a jackpot of up to $60,000. The vocal analyzer, that compares the accuracy of each singer, is the only judge in the karaoke contest. Emma was one (of the many) contestants we really loved. If you're like us, and you wish to learn more about her, then this article is for you.
Emma's Sing On! Performance
The first time we saw Emma was during the introductory performance of 'I Love Rock 'N Roll' and she had a powerful voice that was impossible to miss. She kicked off the competition with one of the most iconic rock songs, Bon Jovi's 'Livin' On A Prayer.' She even won the very first round with an accuracy score of 74%, and her dad cheered her on from the audience. This was followed by the song 'Teenage Dirtbag' from Wheatus, and although Emma did not secure the top spot, she did come in second after getting a 79% accuracy score. Jamie also voted against Emma because the latter was a strong contender.
The legendary rock band Aerosmith was covered next, and the participants sang 'I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing.' Emma scored 75% for her accuracy and won the challenge, thereby securing her spot in the next round. Her performance to Kelly Clarkson's 'Since U Been Gone' also won her the $1000 Golden Note prize. Would you be surprised to learn that she was the most accurate singer yet again? Her accuracy score of 79.4% allowed her to choose between P!nk's 'So What' and Starship's 'We Built This City.' The competition was very close. Although Emma and Jamie both performed really well, it was Emma that won for her performance of 'So What.' She was definitely a rockstar that night, and along with the $1000 prize, she also took home the jackpot that was worth $42,300.
Where is Emma Now?
Emma stated that she wanted to use the prize money to get an even bigger apartment in New York and care for more cats and dogs, which honestly, sounds like quite the plan! It was stated on the show that she worked as a restaurant server, but it's hard to comment on her whereabouts today owing to her absence from social media. We still hope that Emma enjoys carrying a tune and performing as she did on the show. Our best guess is that she would have continued with the service job, but we'd be lying if we said that we did not want to see her serenade her furry friends in that bigger apartment.
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August 21st was a good day at work. I had the pleasure of meeting Paul Mays, Jr. and his mother Georgeina Mays. Reason being, to present a $1,000 CHA scholarship to Paul, entering Widener University this semester. |
The Bennett Homes resident is one of our many hopes for the future. He didn't get where he is today without hard work. He went to Archbishop Carroll High School while working part-time at the Starbuck's in Brookhaven. When I met him at our little check presentation, he looked familiar so I figured I had just seen him around growing up at the Bennett. It turns out, I buy coffee from him in the morning at the Starbuck's drive-in window. He always seemed like a good kid, working diligently; polite to his customers. What a thrill for me to learn he's one of ours!Paul will study computer science among his many interests including detective work thanks to his mother's influence. We wish Paul Mays well in his studies and look forward to his world contributions after college.
Congratulations as well to Gina Mays on the great job she has done raising Paul!


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WASHINGTON — A piece of legislation that would scrap a rule banning dogs from D.C. restaurant patios is gaining more support, giving hope to dog lovers across the District who want to enjoy a drink or a meal with their furry family members at their sides.
"Hopefully we can get this through," said D.C. Council member Vincent Gray, who chairs the health committee.
During a council hearing Tuesday, Gray said he received dozens of emails from residents who support permanently overturning the rule.
Council members passed a temporary measure last month that puts the ban on hold — but it's only scheduled to last for 90 days.
"It is my hope that we will move quickly toward marking this bill up to be able to eliminate this concern that people have," Gray said. "I got myriad emails overwhelmingly in favor of dogs being able to be permitted."
The ban became a hot-button issue earlier in the year after the D.C. Department of Health received an uptick of complaints regarding dogs at restaurants, according to Dr. Vito DelVento, executive director of the department's Board of Veterinary Medicine.
"The department receives calls in favor of, and in opposition to, dogs at food establishments," said DelVento.
He went on to say that his agency supports the bill's provisions that give business owners "the discretion to choose whether to allow pet dogs in outdoor dining areas."
Peyton Sherwood, owner of The Midlands Beer Garden in Northwest, testified in favor of the legislation.
He was told by a city health inspector in September that his own dog, as well as his customers' dogs, would no longer be allowed at his business.
"We're not asking for dogs to run rampant through the place and we're not asking for anyone to let their dogs come inside," Sherwood said. "We just want them to sit quietly at the table with everybody else."


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ESSEX Police have defended their decision to appoint an officer who, according to his barrister, has special needs.
Police Community Support Officer Daniel Le Moine, 22, has been suspended from his post after he was convicted of deliberately deceiving colleagues.
During the trial, the court heard Le Moine had an IQ of just 84, relied heavily on his mother to help him out with letters, struggled to read and had memory problems.
Now, Essex Police have defended the decision to appoint him and the requirements for service as a PCSO.
Roger Grimwade, a police spokesman, said there were no formal educational requirements, but applicants must satisfy an entry procedure.
He said: "There is a recruitment and selection process, which all our staff go through, and he was obviously successful in that process.
"They are also on a period of probation.
"We also have facilities to assist any of our staff who might have any disabilities or requirements.
"There is no control over what defence barristers say, and what is put forward in mitigation does not necessarily stand up to the test.
"We would not review our procedures or requirements in the light of this case."
On Tuesday, a jury unanimously found Le Moine guilty of using an insurance certificate with intent to deceive.
The 22-year-old of Buckfast Avenue, Kirby Cross, was involved in a car crash in February 2008 when he was driving without insurance.
He told police he was insured and took an insurance certificate to a police station which he knew was invalid, the court found.
He denied the charge on the grounds his dyslexia affected his ability to take things in and remember them, which was why he had failed to register he was not insured, despite speaking to insurer Direct Line a week earlier.
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The residence of the former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana is seen in Kigali
The house of former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, whose 1994 assassination triggered the genocide, will be turned into a museum promoting national healing.
Sports and Culture Minister Joseph Habineza told AFP "Rwanda has decided to transform Habyarimana's former presidential residence into a museum".
"Setting up this museum was decided as part of a drive to promote reconciliation and Rwandan unity," he said. "It is a museum that will serve future generations in the struggle to ensure there is never another genocide."
Habyarimana's former residence is located in Kanombe, some 20 kilometres from central Kigali.
Part of the wreckage of Habyarimana's plane, which was shot down on April 6, 1994, will be displayed in the museum, which is expected to be inaugurated early next year.
According to the United Nations, around 800,000 people – mainly minority Tutsis but also moderate Hutus — were slaughtered within a few weeks in 1994.
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Straight Stand A Mic Stand that is adjustable in height but has no other adjustments. The microphone mounts directly on top of the stand. Straight stands can have heavy metal round bases or folding tripod bases. Boom Stand The addition of boom arm to the top of a straight stand makes the mic stand a "boom stand". The microphone mounts at the end of the boom, allowing more flexibility in mic placement. Boom arms are available in both adjustable and fixed length models. Desk Stand A short version of a "straight stand" designed to sit on a desk or table top, rather than on the floor. Straight stands are available in both adjustable and fixed height models. Goose Neck An flexible metal arm that mounts on the end of a mic stand (straight or desk) to give additional flexibility in mic placement. The microphone is mounted on the end of the goose neck. Goose necks are available in multiple lengths. Mic Clip A plastic clip that mounts on the end of a straight stand, boom stand, or desk stand to hold the microphone. Mic clips are available in a number of different sizes in order to accommodate different microphone designs. The mic clip is normally sold with the microphone rather than the microphone stand.


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Having an in-house IT department is convenient, but it's also costly. According to Salary.com, the average base salary for a systems administrator in Canada is $67,759 per year; that doesn't include the cost of offering insurance, paid time off and other benefits to each employee. Managed IT services give you access to IT expertise when you need it, eliminating the need to hire full-time employees and provide them with office space and equipment.
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Managed IT services is a form of outsourcing that takes place between a client and a third-party IT services provider. The two companies enter into an agreement that specifies what services the IT company will provide, how often the services will be provided and how much the IT company will charge. This is known as a service level agreement. The SLA may also include metrics for the organizations to use to determine if the IT company is meeting its obligations. For example, the SLA may state that the IT company must resolve at least 90% of all tickets within five business days.
The main benefit of using managed IT services is that it reduces technology-related costs for employers of all sizes. With an SLA in place, the client doesn't have to hire additional IT employees or worry about dedicating additional resources to IT issues. IT companies typically charge a flat fee for each SLA, which means the cost of working with a third-party IT company is also predictable. Clients don't have to worry that they'll see a huge jump in costs from month to month.
In addition to lower costs, using managed IT services has several other benefits. One of the most significant is that IT companies typically take a preventive approach, meaning consultants monitor a client's systems and make updates as needed, preventing costly business disruptions caused by major IT problems. If the consultants come across a minor issue, they can fix it immediately before it grows into a major problem for the client. Working with a managed IT services provider can also minimize downtime. Instead of installing patches and running updates during business hours, a managed IT provider can schedule system changes for nights or weekends, minimizing disruptions during the workday.
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Freddie Mercury is remembered today as a musical legend, a phenomenal force of nature who captivated the world as the flamboyant frontman of Queen.
"The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is."
- On his many creative influences
"I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear."
- On heartbreak
"I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love."
- Freddie Mercury on his unique sense of style
"I dress to kill, but tastefully."
- On the meaning behind his lyrics
"Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyse his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!"
- On the power of music
"I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it's just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile."
- Freddie Mercury on naming the band
"I thought up the name Queen early on. It couldn't have been King; it doesn't have the same ring or aura as Queen. It was a very regal name and it sounded splendid. It's strong, very universal, and immediate. It had a lot of visual potential and was open to all sorts of interpretations.
"I feel that the name Queen actually fitted that time. It lent itself to a lot of things, like the theatre, and it was grand. It was very pompous, with all kinds of connotations. It meant so much. It wasn't just one precise label. I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it."
- On fame
"I always knew I was a star. And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me."
- On death
"I don't expect to make old bones, and what's more I don't really care. I certainly don't have any aspirations to live to 70. It would be so boring. I will be dead and gone long before that. I won't be here… as far as I'm concerned, I've lived a full life and if I'm dead tomorrow, I don't give a damn. I've lived. I really have done it all."
- Freddie Mercury on Freddie Mercury
"The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course."


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THE FRIENDLY SKIES—First class on Virgin America just got a little sweeter: Humphry Slocombe is set to launch ice cream on the airline's outbound-from-SFO flights starting next month. Not only do voters get to pick the flavor, but Slocombe will give a free scoop for the next month from March 4-June 30 to any visitor with a leftover Virgin boarding pass. [SF Business Times]
UNION SQUARE—Those who've always dreamed of having a cop as their waiter should head to Morton's tonight, where the SFPD's finest are serving tables to benefit the Special Olympics. [SFist]
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SAN DIEGO - November 2, 2020 (Investorideas.com Newswire) GBT Technologies Inc. (OTCPINK: GTCH) ("GBT", or the "Company"), announced that GBT together with Alpha EDA ("Alpha"), its joint venture partner, have developed IC design productivity enhancement algorithms and methods. This technology is aiming to accelerate microchips design process with a focus on advanced nodes of 7nm and below. The IC industry has been following Moore's law for many decades which provides that "The number of transistors on a chip becomes double approximately every two years".
As the demand for semiconductor products and features continues to grow, the industry demands advanced IC design technology in order to be able to provide affordable, smart chips, with low power consumption and high performance. Foundries (the factories that manufacturing the actual chips) are moving toward lower geometries (FinFET 7nm, 5nm and the upcoming 3nm) for fabricating next generation electronics. Designing microchips in lower geometries has become a major challenge. The geometrical/physical design rules of the tiny transistors are becoming a bottleneck when it comes to achieving reasonable chips design time. The physical limitations of the small node silicon device create steep challenges to handle and cause long and expensive IC design time. Another significant aspect is the time to market factor. Projects are taking much longer time due to complex design rules and process related constraints. This fact enforces Electronic Design Automation ("EDA") vendors to constantly develop new solutions and approaches for the industry's needs but they are not able to catch up with the advancements of the deep nanometer progress. As processes are moving into 7nm and below, the current physical design/verification tools do not provide sufficient performance.
Consequently, designs do not meet their tape-out schedules and furthermore, fail to meet functionalities and electrical rules. New approaches and methods are needed to address deep nanometer design requirements, in a reasonable time manner.
Alpha has developed new systems and methods to enhance the productivity of ICs design process. In addition, GBT's existing technology is designed to enhance performance and shorten the scope of physical verification checks to quickly resolve complicated nanometer manufacturing design rules. Chips will become more power efficient, higher performance and more compact, which will have a significant impact on the silicon yield. We conservatively estimate that using Alpha developments with GBT's technologies may save between 40%-50% of an IC design cycle, eliminating design rules automatically and during early stages. These interactive technologies identify design violations during the construction of IC layout and eliminate them in real-time. In addition, Alpha's productivity solutions address electrical rules violations in order to maintain chip's power efficiency, high reliability, and high performance operation.
"Increasing complexity and integration, shrinking geometries and consequent physical effects have been some of the ongoing challenges of the deep nanometer era. Economy condition enforces IC design houses to move to more cost-effective design processes in order to stay in business. Reducing the size of ICs lowers power use, raises performance and reduces the cost, all important benefits at a time when companies want ever smaller devices that do more and cost less. With Alpha EDA, LLC we developed a set of algorithms and solutions that we believe will address advanced nodes" stated Danny Rittman, GBT CTO. "The ever demand of IoT technology, mobile, autonomous machines, artificial intelligence, and cyber security is growing exponentially, which acts as a driving force for scaling down transistors below the existing 7nm node for higher performance, low power and low cost. However, there are several major challenges of scaling down a transistor size, which hold IC design houses back from designing and producing better ICs, faster. These challenges are the intensive design rule compliance work and its major design time consuming. Design houses spend months and hundreds of millions of dollars to verify and tweak their designs in order to comply with the process's complex geometrical and electrical rules. Introducing advanced design rules automatic correction technology, within a wide range of arenas, will significantly shorten IC design time and therefore enable faster design and manufacturing of microchip, with higher performance and reliability. We are interested in commercializing this technology into a set of software tool's suite that will include our AI algorithms and methods. This technology will include our recent 3D IC patent implementation in order to enable the design and manufacturing of larger chips. We believe that our technology will be a game changer when it comes to an IC design productivity enhancement and will enable the design of larger and smarter chips, with higher reliability and performance" continued Dr. Rittman.
About GBT Technologies Inc.
GBT Technologies Inc. (OTC PINK: GTCH) ("GBT") (http://gbtti.com) is a development-stage company which considers itself a native IoT creator, developing Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled mobile technology platforms. GBT has a portfolio of Intellectual Property that, if commercialized, is designed to include smart microchips, mobile and security applications and protocols and supporting cloud software. GBT's system envisions the creation of a global mesh network. The core of the system will be its advanced microchip technology that can be installed in any mobile or fixed device worldwide. GBT envisions this system as a low-cost, secure, private mesh network between any enabled devices, providing shared processing, advanced mobile database management/sharing and enhanced mobile features as an alternative to traditional carrier services.
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The Atlanta Hawks made a substantial investment in former San Antonio Spurs center Dewayne Dedmon earlier in July and, at the moment, it appears reasonably likely that the 27-year-old will be the team's starting center on opening night. While the team provided him with a two-year contract (now known to start at $6 million with incentives) that includes a player option, it would be easy to argue for the deal from a pure value perspective given his per-minute production.
Still, there is always more to the story when it comes to the reasoning behind certain signings and Erie Bayhawks GM (and Atlanta Hawks executive) Malik Rose shed some light on the move. In speaking to Jeff Garcia of the Locked on Spurs podcast, Rose was highly complimentary of the Spurs organization, calling San Antonio a "model franchise."
"They been a model franchise for a long time. There are a lot of teams in the NBA, all the four major sports in the country try to pattern themselves after what the Spurs do as far as 'team' being everything. The program, the environment, the type of culture they have. A lot of teams try to emulate that. Those are some of the reasons the Spurs are who they are."
This comes as no surprise as, well, it is commonly accepted that RC Buford, Gregg Popovich and company operate a tremendous organization. With that said, Rose went on to cite the "Spurs connection" as something they saw in Dedmon before signing the promising big man.
"The Spurs connection was one thing but we liked what we saw as far as being an energetic big guy. He's athletic, he plays hard, he's still at a young enough age where we can probably get some upside out of him. We have high hopes for him. We've liked him for a long time. We'll see how things work out in Atlanta."
One of the arguments against signing Dedmon would be that the Hawks likely won't benefit from much of the upside that he could present. If he performs extremely well in year one under Mike Budenholzer, Dedmon would become likely to opt out of the second year of his contract, hitting the open market again and sapping some value in the contract.
Still, there is something to be said for Atlanta acquiring a player that does things that no one else on the roster can duplicate. Mike Muscala is a very solid player but Dedmon provides rim protection and burst that neither Muscala nor Miles Plumlee can duplicate, and the former USC center is able to fly out to the perimeter in pick-and-roll coverage to aid in overall effectiveness.
Just how prominent Dedmon's role will be remains to be seen but the Hawks clearly see something they like in his overall profile and that should be on full display.


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Thank you for following Thursday's LIVE coverage of Nottingham Forest.
It was press conference day at the City Ground, and we will heard from Reds manager Martin O'Neill ahead of Friday's trip to Sheffield United (12.30pm).
We'll brought you all the top lines from the media briefing and all the latest news emanating from Trentside throughout the day.
There was also be all the latest transfer news surrounding the Reds, as attentions turn to the summer with the gap to the play-offs now eight points with 12 to play for.
So make sure you catch up with everything below as we keep you up to date with all the latest Forest news and chat.
As always, you can keep in touch with us by joining the Facebook community or follow us on Twitter.
Key Events
That's your lot for today's coverage of the Reds.
We will be back from 7am tomorrow morning for full live coverage of Forest's trip to Sheffield United at the slightly earlier kick-off time of 12.30pm.
For now, though, here are today's top three stories:
O'Neill comments on Carvalho speculation
The Forest boss has his say on speculation linking Joao Carvalho with a move away HERE.
Why Sheffield United could be Colback's last game
Jack Colback could be bidding farewell to Nottingham Forest tomorrow.
He's walking a disciplinary tightrope that could see him miss the remaining three matches.
More HERE.
This is the Forest team fans want to see take on Sheffield United tomorrow at Bramall Lane. How does it compare to yours?
On the watch list...
A booking tomorrow for Jack Colback would see him miss Forest's remaining three games of the Championship season. He's on 14 yellow cards for the campaign in the second tier, and a 15th would trigger a three-match ban.
An wanted record...
Forest haven't lost four consecutive league matches since January 2017 under Philippe Montanier
Going for the jugular
Forest will face a Sheffield United side going "for the jugular" at Bramall Lane, according to the Blades' manager.
While Martin O'Neill's Reds have seen their Championship play-offs hopes falter, the Blades remain in the hunt for automatic promotion, sitting in third spot, three points behind Leeds United.
We're with Martin O'Neill this afternoon ahead of tomorrow's game, so stay tuned for news from the City Ground.
Strong words from Chris Wilder ahead of tomorrow's Bramall Lane showdown...
There's a lot of players in this division who don't care two whatsits for their teams. They couldn't give a stuff, really. We've got people here who care, though. I can guarantee you that. They wouldn't play if they didn't. We've got it all on to win a game against a great club and a great, very talented manager. It's all on every week in this division. And because it's all on, it shows what we've been doing to be in this position at this stage.
Former Forest boss McLeish responds to being sacked by Scotland
Alex McLeish's second spell as Scotland manager is over.
The Scottish Football Association announced former Nottingham Forest boss McLeish would be leaving his role "with immediate effect" after board members gathered for a meeting at Hampden on Thursday morning.
Read the full story HERE
In a statement from the SFA, Alex McLeish had this to say...
I am grateful for the opportunity to have managed my country for a second time and leave knowing that I gave my all in the pursuit of success. I am proud that together we finished top of our UEFA Nations League group and qualified for the UEFA EURO 2020 play-offs, which gives us a real opportunity to reach a major tournament for the first time in over 20 years.
I am also pleased to have given many younger players a first taste of international football that will stand them – and the country – in good stead for the future.
I would like to thank those players who showed a passion for wearing the dark blue, my assistants, Peter, James and Stevie, for their contribution over the past year. I would also like to extend my gratitude to the entire national team backroom staff and my friends and colleagues at the Scottish FA.
Finally, I would like to thank the Scotland fans for their unwavering support of the team and look forward to taking my place among them in the future.
This is Sheffield United's 46th league game on Good Friday but only their fifth at home – they have won six of their last seven Good Friday league matches (W6 D1 L0) since a 0-3 defeat at Sunderland in 2004
The Good Friday fixtures...
Bristol City vs Reading (12pm)
Sheff Utd vs Forest (12:30pm)
Millwall vs Brentford (1pm)
Birmingham vs Derby (3pm)
Bolton vs Aston Vill (3pm)
Leeds vs Wigan (3pm)
Boro vs Stoke (3pm)
Preston vs Ipswich (3pm)
QPR vs Blackburn (3pm)
Swansea vs Rotherham (3pm)
West Brom vs Hull (3pm)
Norwich vs Sheff Wed (7:45pm)
Celtic boss Neil Lennon has been explaining what he learnt from his time working with Reds manager Martin O'Neill. You can read the full story here.
If you love a stat...
You'll love this story, though it doesn't make for great reading if you're of a Forest persuasion...
A welcome boost...
Hillal Soudani has given Forest a timely injury boost ahead of the remaining four Championship games of the campaign.


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Ute Lemper has spent more of her 54 years outside her native Germany than inside, for the past two decades preferring New York as the family home she shares with her four children, because it is a city where "no one cares less where you are from".
The award-winning singer, actress, dancer and musical adapter – words that inadequately convey a range that stretches from reinterpreting the songs of Kurt Weill and Edith Piaf, to starring in Chicago, Cabaret and a string of celebrated art-house films, as well as voicing Disney's The Little Mermaid – has a complicated relationship with the land of her birth. "Don't call me German," she once rebuked an interviewer.
But today, sipping her coffee with perfect poise, her black leather jacket draped diva-like over her sinewy, tanned shoulders, Lemper confesses that something has been shifting of late in her attitude. "I'm may be happy to be German a little bit more than I was unhappy to be German before." The explanation lies in part, she explains, in two figures: Angela Merkel and Donald Trump.
It's 10 o'clock on a bright London morning, and for one whose natural habitat is the nighttime world of theatres, stages and outdoor spectaculars under lights, Lemper is surprisingly sparky. Her eyes have a mischievous twinkle and her eyebrows are forever arching. Only when the photographer appears does she protest in a sultry voice: "You need to find me some dark."
We are meeting in a deserted rooftop bar to talk about her two forthcoming shows, touring back-to-back in the UK – The 9 Secrets, a song cycle she has created from the words of the celebrated Brazilian spiritual writer, Paulo Coelho ("a little Bible without the religion"), and Last Tango in Berlin, a selection of her best-known numbers.
But it is on being German that she gets most animated. "When I started, in 1987, to re-record the catalogue of 'degenerate' music banned by the Nazis, I was thrown as a young German hundreds and hundreds of interviews worldwide, and asked to discuss the German heritage.
"It was very complicated for me as a post-war German to figure out what had the Germans done, what was the collective guilt, how could people see and watch the Holocaust, be aware of it and not face it more profoundly in the context of grief? These were questions I couldn't fathom at the time. I had grown up with no national pride but, rather, national shame."
And so she put some distance between herself and home: living first in Paris, where she won a Moliere Award for her Sally Bowles in a revival of Cabaret and starred as Louis XVI's ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette, in 1990's L'Autrichienne; then in London, where she won an Olivier Award in 1997 as the original Velma Kelly in Chicago – "throwing my legs up in the sky", as she puts it.
Her memory of those days is that it was a tough time to 'come out' as a German. "On one of my first trips to America in the 1980s, a guy was flirting with me. We had some drinks and some fun. He thought I was Swedish. When I declared I was German, he stopped talking to me. He was of Jewish heritage."
That must have been a shock? "It was okay. I probably would have done the same thing."
Lemper has a reputation for telling it like she sees it, no window-dressing, no self-censorship. So when we inevitably drift onto the state of the world today, she holds back not one iota on the subject of the current US president.
"Us New Yorkers hate Trump. It is horrible to drive all the West Side Highway and see the 15 Trump Towers he placed at the Hudson River, hindering the beautiful view into the older city. We are outraged."
She lives in an apartment on the Upper West Side with her two older children, Max and Stella, 23 and 20, by her first, seven-year marriage to writer, comedian and actor, David Tabatsky, and her two younger ones, Julian, 11, and six-year-old Jonas with second husband, musician Todd Turkisher.
That's one big age gap. "We had made one child in my second marriage, so we wanted a little sibling. And it took a bit of time to make him." She was 48 when Jonas was born.
But back to Trump. She speaks, she says, with a casual laugh, as one who has suffered under his chaotic travel ban. "They held me back at the border once because my Green Card [which allows her to live and work in the States as a foreign national] was on extension. So they didn't accept the stamp in my passport.
"There was a new rule to check every stamp in passports. I had to sit in the immigration room for three hours, surrounded by Arab men."
Up go the eyebrows, and I am wondering what those men must have made of her, because she certainly wouldn't have been waiting patiently and meekly. Lemper, though, isn't to be sidetracked. She is on a roll about the man in the White House.
"He certainly doesn't have the credentials to be a president. He's a sexist. He doesn't respect women. He is a primitive man. He got his redneck votes with racism and primitive talking." For someone for whom English is a second language, she certainly knows how to deploy words as weapons.
But if Donald Trump is making her a little less comfortable in America, then Germany is travelling in the opposite direction in her affections. "A lot of things have happened there," she reflects, pressing her elbows down into the arms of the chair and lifting and joining her long, elegant fingers in front of her long, elegant face.
"We had the fall of the [Berlin] Wall in 1989 and the new guilty people were discovered – the East German traitors, the Stasi, those who had betrayed their brothers and sisters fathers and sons to the East German government. Then came the millennium and a new generation, living in a post-Cold War world, with a new definition of the world, with civil wars and new religious wars. Germany now has a great reputation in the world."
And its leader, Angela Merkel, has, Lemper says, finally empowered many Germans to feel pride, not shame, on the world stage. "She was really outraged about the refugee crisis, so she stood for a policy that had some humanity. She has built villages out of nowhere to host the refugees, to give them education immediately, to find ways to assimilate them into the society, beyond their background.
"She did really good stuff – a clever, intellectual woman with her heart in the right place. And she's not even a liberal. She's a conservative."
Might that example tempt her one day go "home"? "Well, I do a lot of concerts in Germany and I see how things change, the face of the cities. My family still lives there. I am the only emigrant. So I feel connected. It is my root."
Her next two projects return her once more to those questions of German identity that have for so long shaped her view of the world and herself. The first, already performed in the States and most recently in Milan, is a programme of "songs for eternity", based on material written in Yiddish by those held in the Nazi concentration camps and in Jewish ghettos. "I want to show the other side of the story, not the music that was banned by the Nazis, but the music of those who didn't make it out."
And the other – still just a possibility, she stresses – would reunite Lemper with Marlene Dietrich. In 1992, she recreated Lola, Dietrich's celebrated role in the 1930 film The Blue Angel. "I've been compared to her for so many years. I'm running away from her for my whole life."
But not this project – perhaps for theatre, perhaps for film – about the relationship between Edith Piaf and Dietrich. "I've just got the offer and I'm thinking I might just do it. My first reaction was no, but if we can explore her [Dietrich's] political relationship to Germany, and the resistance she faced after singing for the American soldiers in the Second World War, then it needs to be explored and discussed."
"Needs" is a weighted word. She may live an ocean away from Germany, but the ties that bind Ute Lemper to her homeland, however uncomfortable, remain strong, perhaps even getting stronger.
• Ute Lemper is at London's Cadogan Hall on September 15 (cadoganhall.com). Her song cycle, The 9 Secrets (Steinway & Sons), is out now. For tickets and times of Last Tango in Berlin (September 16 to October 22), go to utelemper.com


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Snipe House, a hamlet in Alnwick parish, Northumberland, 3 miles SSW of Alnwick.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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The Hoof Stays Unbeaten in G2 Rich Hill Mile
02 January 2016
Pencarrow bred and part-owned Hasselhoof (NZ) (Tavistock x Alpine) demolished his rivals in the Group 2 $100,000 Rich Hill Mile (1600m) on New Year's Day.
The exciting four-year-old was unbeaten in five starts but faced his biggest test, taking on open company for the first time in a strong Group 2 line-up.
The Tavistock gelding began brilliantly from barrier 6 for regular jockey Matt Cameron to settle fourth one off the fence before working up to take the lead soon after straightening up and dashed away to win with ease. Consensus (NZ) (Postponed) finished second two-and-a-quarter-lengths behind with Irion (NZ) (Danroad) a nose back in third position.
"We are looking at the Karaka Stayers Cup (2200m) on Karaka Million Twilight Meeting at Ellerslie on the 24th of January and the Group 1 NZ Stakes (WFA, 2000m) on March 12,"commented co-trainer Donna Logan. "It depends what the handicapper does. This was his first run in open company and he's already carrying the same weight as Group winners."
Logan purchased Hasslehoof as a yearling at New Zealand's Bloodstock 2013 Karaka Select Sale for $14,000 from Pencarrow Stud.
Logan retains a share in the ownership in the four-year-old along with Sir Peter Vela, who bred him with Philip Vela, Sir Parick Hogan, the Dowager Duchess of Bedford, Garry Cossey, B & R Alexander, the Hoof syndicate, Baywatch syndicate and the estate of the late Bill Woods.
Unbeaten in six starts, Hasslehoof has now won over $116,000.
The son of Tavistock is out of a Zabeel mare Alpine and is a half-brother to stakes-winner Vercos (Catbird), winner of the Listed Wairarapa Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes. His dam is a full-sister to Manawa King (Zabeel), a runner-up in the Group 1 Sydney Cup, and is a half-sister to the stakes-winner Lord Ted (Ballina), winner of the Group 1 Ellerslie Sires' Produce Stakes.
A half-brother by Rip Van Winkle is catalogued at Lot 168 at the 2016 Karaka Premier Sale from Pencarrow Stud.


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Harper Lands 13 Year, $330M Contract With Phillies
When this past offseason began, we knew superstar free agent Bryce Harper was going to get payed big... But this big?
Harper officially signed a 13 year, $330M dollar contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. Harper who has played with the Washington Nationals his whole career will be staying in the same division as his former team, so look for a rivalry between Washington and Philadelphia to have high tensions this season. How many home runs, RBI's and hits will Bryce put up with his new club? Only time will tell.


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Texas Rangers investigating the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, have served search warrants on Apple, seeking digital photos, messages, documents and other types of data that might have been stored by gunman Devin Patrick Kelley, who was found with an iPhone after he killed himself.
Court records obtained by the San Antonio Express-News show the warrants are for files stored on Kelley's iPhone, a second mobile phone found near his body and for files stored in his iCloud account.
Apple's policy regarding iCloud content states that material may be provided to law enforcement agencies if they obtain search warrants. However, when it comes to iPhones, Apple and the FBI have battled in the past over privacy concerns.
Kelley opened fire with an assault rifle at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, about 35 miles southeast of San Antonio on Nov. 6. Twenty-six people died, and 20 others were wounded.


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Residing deep in the chest wrapped in a protective layer of tissues, heart stays away from infections. But viruses and bacteria present in blood may invade the heart by causing inflammation or other heart infections. These problems are not for long term, still infection and inflammation is a risk.
What Causes A Heart Infection?
Heart infections are not so common that is the reason most of the people are not aware about it. But it is very important to spread the talk about it as the consequences are quite serious. It's also important to recognize the symptoms and take steps to control the risk.
In earlier times the term endocarditis –means inflammation in the innermost lining of the heart's chamber was the greatest risk as far as infections through germs, bacteria or viruses are concerned. It manly occur in people older than 60. Presently the infection is so high that people with any age may suffer with this condition. Other two risky conditions are pericarditis and myocarditis.
Endocarditis. Also known as inflammation in the inner lining of the heart's chamber. It is the infection caused by bacteria in the endocardium, infection in the heart valves. Entry of germs, bacteria or fungi from other parts of the body to the heart's blood streams and reaches the infected area of the heart. It is life threatening if not treated well on time. It can be caused by daily activity like brushing. During brushing people may get bleeding gums, these bleeding gums consist of germs that may enter blood streams through mouth; Mouth is the medium for germ to reach other parts of body and then to heart. The bacteria can also enter the blood streams through break in skin, which can happen during surgical or dental activities or by intravenous drug use. Endocarditis often affects people by underlying or by birth heart problems. The treatment of endocarditis requires high dose of intravenous antibiotics for two to six weeks. During treatment a person is hospitalized for first week to keep the progressive track of treatment. If treatment does not show any progress then patient needs to undergo replacement surgery of infected heart valve, especially if some complication occurs.
Pericarditis. it is the inflammation of protective sack around the heart called pericardium. Entry of virus, bacteria, chest injury, chemotherapy or radiation cancer therapy or a medication reaction is the possible causes of pericarditis. It may also cause due to the complication during bypass surgery or pacemaker insertion. But most of the times the reason is not found. Pericarditis is sometimes mistaken consider as pleurisy, that is inflammation of membrane around the lungs and lines of rib cage. Sharp pain in the center or left side of the chest indicates the pericarditis suffering. This pain take sever face during deep breathe or lie down. It does not go away with rest but somewhat get relaxed if leaned forward. Pericarditis is a short term suffering; it may vanish from body by its own within few weeks but may reoccur. The painkillers like ibuprofen or aspirin can help you quell the pain temporary. Doctors prescribe colchicine named drug for easing inflammation and treat pericarditis.
Myocarditis. It is very rare. It is the inflammation in the muscular layer of the heart. Myocarditis often begins with the infection caused through nose, lungs or stomach. The virus name coxsackie, lives in digestive tract is main cause for myocarditis. The symptoms for myocarditis are initial flu, which may lead to fatigue, weight gain, breathlessness or swelling in the feet. Some cases which are very normal and mild does not need any treatment or special care, these cases get resolved by its own. Serious cases might require medication, medication used to treat heart failure, such as cardiovascular drugs.
Heart is the most important part of the human body, it pumps blood throughout the body by circulatory system, it supply oxygen and nutrient to the tissues and removes carbon dioxide and other waste from the blood. So it is needed to take special care of heart and consult doctor if there is any symptom that leads to heart infection.
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We want you to read our blogs and find out about all the incredible things we are doing as learners at Georgetown. To help you get into the blogs, we host BLOG SCAVENGER HUNTS THROUGH THE YEAR.
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Colombian Police captured Friday "El Torero", an allegedly important
leader of the paramilitary group "Los Rastrojos", who is held
responsible for the gang's drug trafficking to the Pacific coast.
The Police arrested "El Torero" in Cali together with four of his escorts. The criminal traveled with false documents.
According to El Espectador, "El Torero" is the fifth head of "Los Rastrojos".
Two other members of the paramilitary group, were arrested in Tumaco, Nariño department. The Police identified the criminals as Jose Marino Sanchez Aguirre alias "Arley" and Jose Antonio Serpa Ospina alias "Andrade".
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Facebook's Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg has "touched a nerve" by suggesting women are responsible for holding themselves back in the workplace.
As Facebook's chief operating officer she is one of the most powerful and successful women in corporate America.
In her newly released book Lean In, which talks about women in the workplace, Sandberg blamed women for a lack of ambition and only being relevant to people who are rich.
In an interview with 60 Minutes in the US, Sandberg said women subconsciously shied away from leadership opportunities in anticipation of one day having a family, News.com.au reports.
According to the report, Sandberg also said that a bias against successful women is at the core of why women are held back, and why they hold themselves back. She pointed out that women attribute their success to working hard, luck and help from other people, but men attribute it to their own core skills.


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Recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in June 1974, this CD features famed guitar and blues harp duo Buddy Guy and Junior Wells. They're joined by a rhythm section of the Stones' Bill Wyman, CSNY's Dallas Taylor, blues pianist Pinetop Perkins and guitarist Terry Taylor.
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- When You See The Tears From My Eyes
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- Ten Years Ago
- Messing With The Kid
- Hoodoo Man Blues
- My Younger Days
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Don't Buy Tesla Solar Until You Read This Article — Solar Buying Guide
In this article, I'm going to give you a lot of things to consider before buying solar. It isn't my intent to confuse you or discourage you from buying solar. On the contrary, I think solar is the second most exciting clean technology out there. It is probably more important to the world than electric cars, but I find cars more exciting than electricity.
In this article, I'm going to give you reasons to buy now, reasons to wait till next year, and reasons to wait several years. I'm going to give you reasons to buy a bigger solar system than you planned to buy, and I'll give you reasons to buy a smaller system than you were planning. I'll give you reasons to buy your solar system from Tesla, and I'll give you reasons to buy your solar system from someone else. If that is too confusing for you to think about and you want my impulse-buy suggestions, I suggest you click my referral link to go to Tesla's solar webpage and get $100 off, put in your address, and buy a system that is one size smaller than the size they recommend.
Though, I do recommend you read the whole article and figure out the right size system for your needs. But if that is too much work, Tesla's pricing makes it safer for you as a consumer to buy a system slightly smaller than you need than a system bigger than you need, since utilities typically pay you poorly or not at all if you produce more electricity than you need, and there will be many opportunities over the next 25 years of the life of your solar system for you to reduce the electricity needed in your house.
Reasons To Buy A Larger Solar System Than Tesla Or Another Installer Recommends
If any of these apply to you, your electricity needs will probably go up and you may want to get enough solar panels to meet those increased energy needs. Depending on what state you live in, an extra 1 kW of solar panels can add between 2.8 and 4.8 kWh a day of extra production. So an extra 4 kW of Tesla solar (the company only sells blocks of 4.08 kW of solar panels) would mean between 11.2 and 19.2 kWh more electricity per day.
- If you plan to have more people living in the house in the future or you plan to have one or more people working from the home. The heating and cooling costs are about the same as the number of people increases, but cooking, hot water use, lighting, and electronic use will all increase with more people in the home.
- You are driving gas or diesel cars now and plan to get one or more electric cars in the next 25 years (which is just about everyone in my opinion). If you drive those two cars a total of 20,000 miles a year and they use a kWh for every 4 miles, you need 5,000 kWh a year to power them. Let's say you do 80% of your charging at home — that is 4,000 kWh a year, or about 11 kWh a day.
Reasons To Buy A Smaller Solar System Than Tesla Or Another Installer Recommends
If one or more of these apply to you, your electricity needs will probably go down and you may want to get fewer solar panels so that you don't overproduce. As I mentioned above, overproduction isn't good for your pocketbook, because you paid good money to buy and install more solar than you need and it is difficult to get compensated for that overproduction — and utilities are unlikely to increase payments for overproduction in the future because, as more and more solar is installed, daytime electricity gets less valuable to society, as I touched on at the end of this article. I got the following efficiency tips in this great article by Scott Cooney and my own research that I shared here:
- Reduce your heating and cooling electricity use by either installing more insulation and weatherstripping, installing a smart thermostat, and/or upgrading your air conditioning to a higher efficiency unit when it is at its end of life. Many people will get a higher efficiency unit when they have an HVAC system fail, simply because they no longer even sell the low-efficiency units your house likely has. When I replaced my two HVAC systems, which were 10 and 12 Seer, with 16 Seer units in my large house in Florida (which was already well insulated), my bill went down about $1,000 a year, which is about 10,000 kWh, or 27 kWh a day. If I had put solar on to support those old air conditioners, I would have overbuilt my solar by 8 kW, or about $12,136 at Tesla's current prices!
- Replacing your hot water heater with a hybrid heat pump unit is another big win. In my house, with only two people and cheap 10 cents/kWh electricity, a hybrid unit will save me $1,700 in electricity costs over its 13 year life. With 4 people living in your house and 20 cents/kWh electricity, your savings would be 4 times as high, or $6,800 over the same 13 year life. As far as solar, for two people, it will save about 4 kWh a day, and for a larger family, it will save about 8 kWh a day. Replacing my water heater is enough in my house to cause me to go from the 8 kW solar system to a 4 kW solar, since I was already not going to fully utilize the 8 kW system.
- Replace your appliances with high-efficiency units as they wear out. These savings could be about $100 a year if you replace all your appliances, which is about 3 kWh a day.
- I imagine most regular CleanTechnica readers have already replaced all of their incandescent lights, but if you haven't, this can reduce your electricity use considerably, especially if you or your family is poor at turning off the lights when they aren't needed.
- Replacing your pool pump with a more efficient unit could save $400 to $800 a year and reduce energy use by about 10 to 20 kWh a day! These pumps pay for themselves in as little as 1 to 2 years, so if you have a pool, they are highly recommended!
Reasons To Buy Your Solar System From Tesla
- Incredibly aggressive pricing for a proven product that most other companies can't match — only $1.49/kW anywhere in the country.
- You like a large and successful company standing behind the product.
- You want a simple and fast ordering process.
- You like the idea of a simple and standardized product.
- You like the idea of doing most of the "paperwork" over email.
- You want to integrate the solar with a Tesla Powerwall and you want to control the whole thing from the Tesla app on your phone.
- You like the flexibility of Tesla's subscription option, whereby you can stop your subscription at any time with 30 days' notice. Most other companies have large penalties if you want to cancel your subscription.
- You like the mission of Tesla "to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy" and want to buy from a company that shares your values. (Though, admittedly, most solar companies have the same underlying mission.)
Reasons To Buy Your Solar System From Another Company
- Tesla doesn't offer as much customization as most local installers. You can get a 6 kW solar system from most installers, but Tesla will offer you either a 4 kW system or an 8 kW system. In addition, there are some advantages to systems that use microinverters. If you want that technology, Tesla doesn't offer that option today. (Tesla does offer power optimizers at an additional cost that offer some of the advantages of microinverters.)
- You like the traditional sales process in which a local salesperson comes to your home and explains the benefits of the system.
- Tesla doesn't have great online reviews, especially from customers who had systems that they purchased from SolarCity — Tesla took over those agreements when the two companies merged several years ago. Read reviews of different installers here for your area.
- You like working primarily with a local company and don't want to call a nationwide 800 number if you need help. You want to call a local number and talk to a person you know, perhaps the person who installed your system.
Reasons To Buy Your Solar System Now
- The tax credit is going down from 26% to 22% on January 1st, 2021.
- The sooner you buy solar, the sooner you start saving money on electricity.
- The sooner you buy solar, the sooner you reduce your carbon footprint.
- Electricity prices are going up in many places (8% in Tampa where I live), as natural gas prices have gone up.
- Utilities are trying to end net metering in several states, and if they succeed, you want to have solar installed before it ends — existing owners will likely get special benefits that new solar customers will not get.
Reasons To Buy Your Solar System Later
- Solar prices have gone down dramatically over the last 14 years, and they will likely go down enough in the future to make up for the reduction in the tax credit.
- Joe Biden looks like he is likely to win the election and he might increase federal incentives for solar.
- You are planning to move in the next few years. Solar adds value to your home, but it does make the sale of your property more complicated, especially if you have a long-term agreement with a solar company.
- Your roof is in poor condition. In this case, you want to either look at Tesla's Solar Roof or get your new roof before installing solar panels. Otherwise, you have to pay to have the panels removed and replaced.
I hope these ideas give you the information you need to plan when and how to install solar on your home. It is a great alternative to being dependent on your local utility company to power your home and car. It is important to do a little planning before you make the leap, since it is a decision that will affect the home for the next 25 years or more. Please let us know in the comments section what ideas you have for homeowners considering installing solar on their homes.
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