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Kerr Russell, as of the date of this publication, is informing clients and friends of the firm that they are legally obligated to continue to comply with applicable COVID-19 workplace safety standards and valid state and local public health department orders, notwithstanding the Michigan Supreme Court's opinion of October 2, 2020 invalidating the Governor's COVID-19 Executive Orders.
The Supreme Court's decision does not mean that businesses and individuals in Michigan may return to pre-COVID-19 behavior or ignore Executive Order standards which have an independent legal basis. Employers, businesses, and other organizations should seek advice from legal counsel on how these developments may impact them, before making any changes to COVID-19 procedures.
1. What did the Michigan Supreme Court rule on October 2, 2020?
The Michigan Supreme Court unanimously ruled (7-0 vote) that the Governor lacked authority under the Emergency Management Act of 1976, MCL 30.401 et seq., (the "1976 Act") to issue or renew Executive Orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic beyond the Legislature's approved extension through April 30, 2020. Additionally, the Supreme Court ruled (4-3 vote) that the Emergency Powers of the Governor Act of 1945, MCL 10.31 et seq., (the "1945 Act") is an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority to the executive branch. The Supreme Court's rulings mean that the Governor never had the authority to issue any Executive Orders under the 1945 Act (whether or not related to COVID-19), and that all Executive Orders which were issued or renewed beyond April 30, 2020 are invalid and legally unenforceable under the 1976 Act.
2. When is the Supreme Court's opinion effective?
News and social media sources have reported differing views among legal commentators as to when the Supreme Court's opinion becomes effective. While the Supreme Court could have stated in its opinion that its ruling would take immediate effect, it did not do so. The Governor and the Director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services filed a motion on October 5, 2020 asking the Supreme Court to confirm that its October 2, 2020 opinion does not become effective until between 21 days (October 23, 2020) and 28 days (October 30, 2020) after its issuance per Michigan Court Rule 7.315(C)(2)(a); they also seek to delay any precedential effect of the opinion during that time period. This view invokes the normal process under which Supreme Court opinions become effective, even though procedurally the issue was raised by questions certified by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The motion asserts the Governor's right to seek rehearing of the October 2, 2020 decision. If such a motion is filed and granted by the Court, the effective date of the opinion will be delayed while the Court rehears the issue unless otherwise ordered by the Court.
As a practical matter, it is anticipated that Michigan's prosecutors may no longer enforce violations of the Governor's Executive Orders through criminal prosecutions, nor would Michigan's courts enforce prosecutions. For example, Michigan's Attorney General publicly released such an announcement on October 4, 2020. The Attorney General noted that her position is not binding on other law enforcement agencies or Michigan state departments with independent enforcement authority. The Attorney General's statement is not binding on the courts.
3. Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's opinion and the Attorney General's announcement, what legal obligations are in place for Michigan's residents and businesses specific to COVID-19?
Workplace safety regulations, valid orders of state and local public health departments, and valid orders of other state agencies with independent enforcement authority relative to COVID-19 are legally enforceable and must continue to be complied with, or an enforcement action may be brought for violations.
For example, valid mask mandates issued by state and local public health departments are legally enforceable. However, orders issued by state and local public health departments may be inconsistent with one another, as well as with the Governor's prior Executive Orders. For example, the Governor's Executive Order mandating masks (EO 2020-153 issued July 17, 2020) required businesses to post signs instructing customers to wear masks and to refuse entry and services to customers who did not do so. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services issued its order to this effect on October 5, 2020 which, similar to EO 2020-153, requires businesses to refuse entry to those who fail to wear a mask, unless they fall within an exception (e.g., an individual cannot medically tolerate a face covering, etc.).[1] The MDHHS order does not explicitly require businesses to post signs instructing customers to wear masks, but business should continue to do so. In contrast, Ingham County Health Department order 2020-21 mandating masks, issued on October 4, 2020, imposes the same requirements as the Governor's Executive Order EO 2020-153. In the event of conflict between applicable state and local public health department orders, residents and businesses should follow the more stringent order which applies, until public health authorities issue other guidance.
Residents and businesses should check to see what, if anything, their local public health departments are doing on the subject of face masks. Some counties (like Macomb County) have said that they will not require that masks be worn, while others (like Wayne County) have said that they will not mandate masks at this time and will wait to see whether the legislature and Governor can agree on a consistent statewide approach to masks. Oakland County issued a mask mandate order, but rescinded it after MDHHS issued its order.
4. What effect, if any does the Supreme Court's opinion have on compliance with and enforcement of OSHA and MIOSHA workplace safety standards?
The Supreme Court's opinion does not affect compliance with and enforcement of OSHA and MIOSHA workplace safety standards for COVID-19. These standards are based on the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Act, respectively, independent of the Governor's Executive Orders. Consequently, Michigan employers should continue to follow workplace safety standards for COVID-19 even after the Supreme Court's opinion of October 2, 2020 becomes effective, or they may face enforcement action by workplace regulators. Michigan's occupational safety standards are available HERE.
5. MDHHS requires that masks always be worn in gatherings. What does this mean for employers?
The MDHHS mask order requires that masks be worn in all gatherings (being generally, a gathering of two or more), with limited exceptions (e.g., an individual cannot medically tolerate a face covering, etc.). The order became effective when issued on October 5, 2020 and will remain in effect through October 30, 2020, unless changed. The order could be read literally to mandate that face masks be worn by every person, in every workplace, even though at least six feet of physical distancing can be consistently maintained. However, this is inconsistent with and contradicted by CDC, OSHA and MIOSHA guidelines, and is even inconsistent with the Governor's prior Executive Orders, which all say that face masks do not need to be worn in the workplace when at least six feet of physical distancing can be consistently maintained.
Notwithstanding the MDHHS mandate, employers should continue to follow CDC, OSHA and MIOSHA guidelines providing that masks do not need to be worn in the workplace when at least six feet of physical distancing can be consistently maintained. A reasonable basis exists for concluding that the CDC, OSHA and MIOSHA guidelines concerning the wearing of masks in the workplace should apply, not the MDHHS mask mandate. It seems unlikely that the MDHHS would take any enforcement action against an employer which follows the guidelines established by the CDC, OSHA and MIOSHA, being the federal and state agencies primarily responsible for ensuring safety in the workplace, and that any action taken by MDHHS in such circumstances should not be legally enforceable.
6. What impact, if any, does the Supreme Court's opinion have on an employer's compliance with EEOC standards relative to COVID-19?
The Supreme Court's October 2, 2020 decision does not impact an employer's compliance with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") standards relative to COVID-19. Employers may continue to conduct confidential temperature checks and daily symptom screenings without running afoul of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA").
Guidance issued by EEOC on March 21, 2020, encourages employers and employees to follow guidance from the CDC as well as state/local public health authorities on how best to slow the spread of COVID-19 and protect workers, customers, clients, and the general public. This guidance further provides that because the relevant public health authorities have acknowledged the community spread of COVID-19, employers are entitled to conduct temperature checks of employees as well as ask employees questions about their symptoms to determine if they have or may have COVID-19. The EEOC "Pandemic Preparedness in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act," guidance can be found HERE.
7. Can the Michigan Legislature enact, and can the Governor approve, legislation imposing standards similar to or different from the Governor's Executive Orders which the Supreme Court has ruled are invalid?
Yes, the Michigan Legislature and Governor may enact legislation imposing standards similar to or different from the Governor's Executive Orders. Whether the Legislature and Governor will reach consensus on and enact such legislation remains to be seen.
8. "So, now what?"
The Michigan Supreme Court's decision invalidating the Governor's COVID-19 Executive Orders and the Attorney General's announcement that her office will not prosecute violations does not mean that businesses and individuals may now return to pre-COVID-19 behavior without legal consequences. Many COVID-19 workplace safety standards found in the Governor's Executive Orders continue to apply through OSHA's and MIOSHA's independent workplace safety regulatory authority. Orders issued by state and local public health authorities replicate many standards found in the Governor's Executive Orders. Compliance with CDC standards may be required on the part of employers and businesses generally and particularly by health care organizations rendering patient care. It is advisable for employers, businesses, and other organizations to consult with legal counsel before making any changes to COVID-19 procedures.
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In the early hours of Thursday, February 3rd, Edouard Glissant passed away in Paris, aged 82. Born September 21st 1928, in the French Caribbean island Martinique, this great poet has left an incomparable opus behind him, the poetics of which are resolutely political.
Driven by the goal of decolonisation, in which struggle he was amilitant activist, he imagined a real emancipation, of a kind that would not perpetuate the old patterns of domination. Homage to the champion, the eulogist of the notions of 'All-World' and of 'Relation'. A kindred spirit.
"An neg sé en sièc", ("anegro is a century"). Edouard Glissant included this creole proverb from Martinique as an epigraph to his Caribbean Discourse (Discours Antillais, 1981). It refers to the infinitely long history borne on the shoulders of those who hail from the Caribbean melting pot, the laboratory of the world's 'creolization'– the mixing of cultures and their adaptation to one another, notably through language.
Just above this quote, he inscribed another, attributed to Charles de Gaulle while on a trip to Martinique: "Between Europe and America, I seeonly dust". One can imagine the twinkle in the poet's eye before this ironic juxtaposition. The powerful only appear strong, while they are weak because blind; they are unable to imagine fragility becoming strength, these islands imagining themselves universes, this dustre inventing the whole world.
It is in this island arc that our European West inaugurated the vast project of slavery and colonisation that it was to impose all over the world. But it is there too that the oppressed rose from the dust and led the way to freedom, shaking off the shackles of thought systems that forge oppression and impose submission. There, on the scenes of such suffering and resistance, where the violence of the slave trade was matched by the courage of revolt and the invention of freedom, is where Edouard Glissant took on the role of indefatigable guide, blazing a trailwith the acuity of a visionary and the generosity of a storyteller.
His century began as our empires were crumbling, midway through the 20th century. Born at Bezaudin in the commune of St Marie on the ocean-facing flank of the volcanic Montagne Pelée (Bare Mountain), Edouard Glissant left his homeland to become a student in post-war Paris.
This is when he published his first writings: worksfrom the outset mature, including The Indies (Les Indes, 1956), which has since become a classic; and The Ripening (La Lézarde, 1958), a novel about emancipation, awarded the Prix Renaudot. Preceding these there had been A Field of Islands (Un champ d'îles, 1952), The Anxious Land (La Terre inquiète, 1954), Sun of Consciousness (Soleil de la conscience, 1956). The essential insights of the poet are already present in these first brilliant works.
"I conjecture that perhaps there will no longer be culture without all cultures, no civilization that is the metropolis of others, no poet who can ignore the movement of History", he writes in Sun of Consciousness, the first of his essays in which he invented a style echoing poetry and fiction, and which he favoured particularly towards the end of his life.
As a Martinican in Paris, he said at the time that he was "committed to a French solution." This formula sums up his stubborn rejection of closed identities that are shut off from others, blind to the unexpected, rejecting unforeseeable encounters, sticking to the beaten path. One has to know how to cultivate, he said, "a son's viewpoint, the vision of a foreigner."
Instead he advocated being at once within and without, here and there, sitting on the frontier and accompanying people across it. This, from the very start, was the originality and the power of Glissant's vision. It was his appeal and his strength, the strength of his appeal.
The poetics and politics of liberation
Far from drawing to a close with his death, Glissant's century has only just begun. For this old prescience of the poet, this visionary intuition of the young Glissant is the very imagination required by our globalised world. If, that is, we wish to spare it the predicted catastrophe of the prevaricating, belligerent headlong rush in pursuit of identity, so destructive of humankind and nature. To the threat of a uniform world dominated by merchandise, possessed by power, Glissant opposed his Tout-Monde (Whole World), where humanity is multiple, diversity the number one common asset, where feeling fragile is the first mark of lucidity, where the very principle of uncertainty is a precious compass.
"An island supposes other islands," he said in Poetic Intention (L'Intention poétique, 1969). Patiently dismantling hackneyed, lethal fantasies of monolithic identities with a single origin found, across the board, in our times of transition, he delivered the only message able to beat them: not the rejection of identity, nor of nations, countries, or even borders, but the affirmation of the obvious fact that our identities are entirely made up of relations. Woven into other contributions, nourished by various worlds, born of unforeseen encounters; diversity is what we have in common. Elsewhere is our wealth. Our humanity is first and foremost a plurality: we are made by the world that we make, that we mix with; modelled by what comes from afar, crosses our paths, and carries us forward.
Which is why Glissant preferred to refer to 'humanities', rather than the singular 'humanity', which runs the risk of slipping into the univocal, the dominant norm, the uniform rule. In the same way, he defended the use of the term 'creolization', rather than 'métissage' (mixed race), as the latter is limited by the implication that a new identity is merely the sum of two others, while the former suggests a criss-cross of encounters and exchanges that not only can nobody avoid, but that actually makes us all what we are.
Unremittingly, from one volume to the next, his work of the last few years ceaselessly offered hope to our worried consciences. Poetics of Relation (Poétique de la Relation, 1990, third volume of his Poétique), Treatise on the 'Whole World'1(Traité du Tout-Monde 1997, which extended Tout-Monde, 1993), A New Region of the World (Une nouvelle région du monde, 2006, beginning of the unfinished Esthétique), Philosophy of Relation, (Philosophie de la Relation, Poésie en étendue, 2009) are, among others, milestones marking the development of a philosophy, vision, and imagination where humanism, fraternity and solidarity can be tapped into. A random example from his Traité du Tout-Monde: "The thinking of One, which has magnified so much, denatured so much too - how to consent to this distorting thinking without offending and detracting from the Diverse? For it is diversity that protects us and maybe even perpetuates us."
With this insistence, this reiteration and proliferation, Glissant was only synthesising anew his precocious insights. He was not withdrawing into a literary ivory tower, sheltered from the urgent issues of the present. Quite the contrary. "Politics was the new domain for dignity" - words written in his first novel The Ripening. They concern his hero Mathieu, a name he would give his last son2. Totally committed to the decolonisation underway in the 1950s, he anticipated its development through time, its progression against the grain of former dominations that confiscated independence, denied democracy, exacerbated identities.
1: This title, apparently unpublished in English, is translated from the French by Mediapart.
2: With whom he returns to the places and themes of his work in a documentary first broadcast on French television in November 2010.
From independences to new liberations
A signatory of the 1960 Manifesto of the 121 (Déclaration sur le droit à l'insoumission dans la guerre d'Algérie - Declaration on the right to insubordination in the Algerian War), Edouard Glissant was co-founder of the separatist Front Antillo-Guyanais pour l'Autonomie in 1959, banned by the Gaullist authorities on July 20th 1961.
When he intervened in the Parisian congress that, in April, preceded this dissolution, it was to imagine how the freedom of small countries could bear witness "to the contact of cultures in a world conquered by complex cultures". Never relinquished, these engagements carried the unfulfilled promise of independence - the same that today is triggering the protests in Tunisia and Cairo, in quest of a new social and democratic liberation.
Poets generate luck, rather than believing in it. For it was in Carthage, Tunisia that, in 2005, the last big international seminar was held on Glissant, his poetry of Relation and his role of 'passeur de mondes' ('inter-world guide') in his presence. And it was also in Tunisia, almost fifty years ago, at the end of 1961, that his friend Frantz Fanon was laid to rest.
Fanon, his senior, also from Martinique, was an ardent defender of the free Algeria cause. In the 1950s, a time of colonial wars and hard-won emancipation, he addressed a Europe forgetful of itself in his book Black Skins, White Masks (Peaux noires, masques blancs 1952): "You mustn't try to tie man down, since it is his destiny to be free".
This book was published four years before the first International Congress of Black Writers and Artists was organised at the Sorbonne by the magazine Présence Africaine, in September 1956. Fanon and Glissant attended. The youngest there, they were in the company of Léopold Senghor and Aimé Césaire (Glissant was also at the second, held in Rome in 1959).
In various ways these four bards traced a path to the recognition of everybody's humanity, reconquering pride from Africa to America. Of them Edouard Glissant is the one who made the connection to our era, its perils and its challenges.
He was already looking ahead whilst being fully involved as a witness and actor in the 1950's heyday of 'négritude', the francophone black intellectual movement that spoke up for all humanity. Whilst fully embracing this necessary moment in history, he extracted its essentials to transform them and bring them into the future, our present. Entrusting Mediapart with his posthumous homage to Aimé Césaire, he anticipated and countered those keen to artificially oppose him to the author of Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, 1939). From within his homage to the great elder breaks through his own definition of the poet, or rather of a poetry that progresses at the risk of the world.
Césaire's negritude, he wrote in Aimé Césaire, the Poet's Passion (Aimé Césaire, la passion du poète, 2008) "is at once an awakening of memory and the premonitory call for a renaissance. To a certain extent, it precedes the flowering of modern négritudes of the African diaspora, in this sense it differs from Senghor's, which proceeds from a millenarian community, whose wisdom it encapsulates. Aimé Cesaire's poetics is one of volcanoes and eruptions; it is torn from the tangles of consciousness, sailing the waves coursing out of black suffering, with at moments a surprising tenderness of spring water and a clamour of joy and jubilation. At times the French reader might reproach him for a lack of moderation, although his is a poetry of true measure, but a measure measuring something unmeasured: the world. Césaire is one who brings the beauties of his heritage into accord with the beauties of his becoming in the world."1
However, in contrast to Césaire, Glissant - and this is another of his strong idiosyncrasies - would not institutionalise himself in politics, not even in Martinique. "Writing isn't intended to precipitate politics", he points out in Baton Rouge Interviews2 (Entretiens de Baton Rouge, 2008), a clear introduction to his thinking, where he defended "the poetic necessity of escaping the simplified reproduction of the political". But of this rejection was born a paradoxical invention, where politics aspires to a different form, and is carried out differently, finding its way via poetry, always curious about the world and concerned about the present, attentive to misfortune, generous with joy.
1: This citation is from a 2008 translation into English by Glissant himself and Christopher Winks.
2: This title, apparently unpublished in English, is translated from the French by Mediapart.
An immensely generous work
Today we are left with a vast opus, which will take a long time to collate, as Edouard Glissant never stinted on his creation, adding to his own writings hundreds of prefaces out of friendship, thousands of passionate conversations. And ceaseless poetry, but also seven novels and two plays, including the unforgettable Monsieur Toussaint. The official literary works (mostly published by Gallimard) are an endless archipelago, in which texts respond to one another and are prolonged, illustrating that unity of diversity he professed. But never did the construction of this literary monument become an obstacle to his availability, or, even more rare, to his admiration and praise of the work of others.
Only poets, he liked to say, are unafraid of admiring. In La Cohée du Lamentin (2005), he writes about his Italian friend, the writer Antonio Tabucchi: "The pure need to admire is not only a step towards changing oneself, but a real commitment to doing so. The poet whose work is his life is always besotted with the poetry of others. I change therefore I exchange." Glissant was not content to simply write this. He often initiated events where various artists and creative spirits gathered to express their admiration by reading poems. The last work he published was a homage to others, a vast anthology of the poetry of the 'All-World': Earth, Fire, Water and Wind (La Terre, le Feu, l'Eau et les Vents, Editions Galaade, 2010). In it you will indeed find poets mostly, with no pecking order of fame, but there are also sundry unlikely characters, philosophers, politicians, filmmakers, painters, novelists...
One writer is particularly well-placed to testify to this overwhelming generosity: Martinican Patrick Chamoiseau, with whom Edouard Glissant had a particularly fruitful relationship. We will be forever indebted to these two, who joined forces to sound the alarm bell from 2007. From their indictment of the French Minister of National Identity, in When Walls Fall1 (Quand les murs tombent, 2007), to their manifesto written during the Antilles social uprising A Plea for "Products of High Necessity" (Pour les produits de haute nécessité, 2009), via their open letter to Barack Obama, The Intractable Beauty of the World (L'Intraitable Beauté du monde, 2008), they were among the first to take a dignified stance against the current French presidency's devaluation of our nation.
No work is a given thing, especially when it is innovative and goes against the grain of status quo. The truth is not obtained without cost. Always rising above complaint, Edouard Glissant didn't let anything show, but we know how much he had to make his own way in the world. Banned from a career in public education following the repression of the national Antilles movement, he created his own private establishment in the 1960s, the Institut Martiniquais d'Etudes (Martinican Study Institute - IME), where innovative teaching methods blossomed.
During this period he also edited a magazine, Acoma, which lasted until 1973. At the end of the 1970's he was to be found at The Unesco Courier, where - another coincidence - he was succeeded by the duo Mahmoud Hussein, at the forefront of the recent Cairo uprising.
On paper he had reached retirement age, but for lack of a 'sensible' career behind him, he still had to earn his living. This is how he became a teacher in the United States: first at the University of Louisiana, then at the University of New York. It is to these years teaching in the United States that we owe Faulkner, Mississippi (Faulkner, Mississippi, Stock, 1996), a superb study of this southern ink-brother, of whom he loved to quote the droll admission: "I am a failed poet". It is also to this American period that we owe anthologies of interviews, which are illuminating introductions to his work, including the very last The Imagination of Languages1 (L'Imaginaire des langues, Gallimard, 2010), dialogues with Lise Gauvin, the Canadian academic from Quebec, spanning the period 1991 to 2009.
1: This title, apparently unpublished in English, is translated from the French by Mediapart.
2: Common pseudonym used by the two Egyptian authors Baghgat Elnadi and Adel Rifaat.
Alive like the earth, the water, the wind
Maybe this long American detour took him away from us too early. Falling ill early last summer, on his way back to New York, Edouard Glissant was not able to overcome an accumulation of medical complications, despite the caring efforts of his wife Sylvie, and other loved ones. But at least America recognised his genius, while France's establishment was somewhat forgetful, with the notable exception of Dominique de Villepin, who, as Prime Minister, had entrusted him with an assignment to write Memories of Slavery (Les Mémoires des esclavages la Documentation française, 2007).
The proposition that rounded off this report, buried by the leadership that emerged from the 2007 ballot box, is more topical than ever now: "The grandeur of a country is not primarily a question of its economic capacity, nor of the weight of its armed forces [...], but of its possessing the aptitude and the audacity to propose the opening of a new planetary road, the Road of World Solidarity. This road is more difficult to blaze than the old silk, salt, spice, or even slavery roads. But let us set out on it nonetheless, with neither naivety nor scepticism."
Edouard Glissant couldn't care less about the silence and indifference he was faced with at times, especially as he was always accompanied by a robust network of friends. Supported by the Ile-de-France region and by the Fondation agnès b., the Tout Monde Institute is a meeting place as nomadic as its founder. It is beneath its banner that his farewells were pronounced in France, with a wake hosted at Paris's Maison de l'Amérique Latine (Latin America House), directed by his friend François Vitrani. Then he set sail to his island-world, Martinique.
"S'en aller! S'en aller! Parole de vivant!" ("To depart! To depart! ..."), this cry inevitably springs to mind. It belongs to Saint-John Perse, a fellow poet, a double, born in Guadeloupe, but on the side of the plantations and its order. The young Alexis Leger, who was to adopt the pseudonym Perse, was nicknamed Ban-moin-lè in Créole (Give me air, space and wind). Edouard Glissant, now laid to rest in the Diamant marine cemetery, facing the great solitary rock that punctuates the southern extremity of Martinique, will have air and space. And, above all, he will be alive.
Before departing, in the early hours of the morning of February 3 2011, Edouard Glissant did actually find the time to say that he had dreamt that he was elected, or nominated - he couldn't quite remember which - as a "living soul of the world". Poets are not afraid of the childhood that remains an intrinsic part of them - as it does for all of us - of the spontaneity and whims of childhood, its vision and lucidity. For all poets are soothsayers, and Glissant was a visionary right to the very end. The work with which he has left us is very much alive, and it is up to us to let it grow.
In our last conversation, when he had already been bed-ridden for several months, we discussed rain trees, those trees that thrive while hosting a proliferation of other plants, vines and ferns on their trunks and branches. Yes, Glissant's work is alive like a rain tree, and like the earth, water and wind that give it life.
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If You're Over 65, Never Do These 4 Things on a Hot Day, CDC Says
Over time, it may feel as though you're just not able to withstand the heat as well as you could when you were younger—and that's not just your mind playing tricks on you. As you get older, your body is not able to adjust as well to sudden changes in temperature, making it much more likely for you to fall victim to heat-related illnesses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To help prevent this, the CDC advises older people to avoid doing certain things when the weather gets hotter. Read on to find out the four things you should never do on a hot day if you're over the age of 65.
RELATED: If You're Over 65, Never Eat These 4 Foods, CDC Warns.
Older people are more likely to have medical issues that affect their body's response to heat.
A hot day can affect anyone, but older people are at higher risk than most. According to the CDC, people over the age of 65 are more likely to have a chronic medical condition that changes how the body normally responds to heat. This includes age-related changes to the skin such as poor blood circulation and inefficient sweat glands, as well as heart, lung, and kidney diseases, per the National Institute of Health (NIH).
The CDC says that people this age are also more likely to be taking medications that affect the body's ability to control its temperature or sweat. According to the NIH, this includes medications such as diuretics, sedatives, tranquilizers, and certain heart and blood pressure drugs. Both these medical conditions and medications put people over 65 more at risk for developing a heat-related illness such as heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
There are four things the CDC recommends people over 65 avoid on a hot day.
When you're older, it's imperative that you stay cool and hydrated in hot weather to avoid heat-related illnesses. The CDC says this requires avoiding four mistakes that could make you and your home even hotter: relying on a fan as your main cooling source, waiting to drink water until you're thirsty, using your stove or oven to cook, and engaging in strenuous activities.
According to the CDC, an electric fan will not prevent heat-related illness once the temperature is in the high 90s, and both the stove and oven can add heat to your entire house. Waiting to drink water until you are thirsty and engaging in strenuous activities on a hot day can also make it harder for your body to cool down, putting you at risk for dehydration.
"If your doctor limits the amount of fluids you drink or has you on water pills, ask them how much you should drink during hot weather," the agency recommends.
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There are also ways you can make yourself cooler if you become too hot.
If you need to cool down, the CDC recommends changing into loose, lightweight, light-colored clothing, taking cool showers or baths, and getting plenty of rest. If you need to go outside, sunscreen, a wide-brimmed hat, and sunglasses will also prevent you from becoming dehydrated.
You should do your best to stay in air-conditioned buildings when it's hot outside. "If your home does not have air conditioning, go to the shopping mall or public library—even a few hours spent in air conditioning can help your body stay cooler when you go back into the heat," the CDC says. If this is not an option, "call your local health department to see if there are any heat-relief shelters in your area," the agency advises.
Watch out for any symptoms of heat-related illnesses.
You should have a friend or relative call to check on you at least twice a day during a heat wave if you're over the age of 65, according to the CDC. They can help monitor you for heat-induced illnesses, which could result in confusion, lost consciousness, or even death. Some common symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke include heavy sweating, headache, dizziness, nausea, fast pulse, clammy skin, and muscle cramps. If you think you or someone else is having a heat stroke—which is indicative of a body temperature of 103 degrees Fahrenheit or higher—you need to call 911 right away, as this is a medical emergency that can result in death. The CDC says that more than 600 people are killed by extreme heat in the U.S. ever year.
RELATED: If You're Over 65, Never Drink This While Eating, New Study Says.


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Hot on the heels of Freddie Freeman's extension, the Braves have struck again by locking up another young, promising commodity in the form of Julio Teheran. According to reports, Teheran's base contract is six years, $32.4 million, with a $12 million option for 2020 and a $1 million buyout. At minimum, the Braves owe Teheran $33.4 million over sevenyears; at maximum, the Braves will pay $44.4 million over seven years, which gives an AAV of $4.8M at the low end and $6.3M at the high end.
Teheran, as a 22-year-old, produced 2.4 fWAR over 30 starts and 185.2 innings. This puts him in pretty fantastic company; a slightly recent list of 22 year olds who threw at least 50 innings as starters in their age-22 season contains names such as Mark Prior, Matt Cain, Felix Hernandez, and Madison Bumgarner. Interestingly, Bumgarner got a similar contract during his age-22 season, so clearly the Braves were using his contract as a baseline. Bumgarner had a bit more service time and more fWAR, which is why Teheran's guarantee is a bit lower.
Bumgarner and Teheran are similar in more ways than their age and contract status, however. Observe the following table:
|Madison Bumgarner
|208 1/3
|Julio Teheran
|185 2/3
During their age-22 seasons, Teheran and Bumgarner produced almost identical strikeout rates, actually identical walk rates, and similar home-run rates, though Bumgarner's home run rate in 2012 may have been an outlier. Where they differ is in their batted-ball profiles; Teheran leans fly ball while Bumgarner leans ground ball.
In the future, Bumgarner's batted ball profile and home park should continue to suppress his home run rate, which will help keep him among the elite group of starting pitchers despite a non-elite strikeout rate. What about Teheran?
Teheran hasn't shown an elite strikeout rate since 2010, when he struck out 29.2% of batters in High-A ball. In 2013, his swinging-strike rate was almost 2% higher than league average for starters, so his strikeout rate appears to be for real, but Teheran is unlikely to get much better here. Teheran consistently showed good control in the minors, so his low walk rate is not outlandish either.
Where he may falter in his career path relative to Bumgarner is in home runs. As a fly-ball pitcher in only a slight home-run suppressing environment, Teheran has the potential to give up a few more homers than elite pitchers normally do.
In order to become an elite pitcher, Teheran either needs to increase his K% to make up for his average home-run rate or figure out a way to limit home runs. His average FIP- and xFIP- leave much to be desired, but given his age, and his good performance at such an age, there is the potential for him to improve. Bumgarner's K% increased in 2013, so surely Teheran's could too, as it did throughout the season.
Teheran did not get a Clayton Kershaw or Felix Hernandez-like extension. He doesn't have to be elite for this contract to be good value; if Teheran merely holds steady for six years, he will still provide surplus value, especially since his cost during his arbitration years will be fixed.
If Teheran does elevate his game, though, the Braves will be in quite the happy situation. Teheran is a risk, like all pitchers are risks, but he is a pretty good bet for the Braves, and this contract should not prevent the Braves from making other moves in the future.
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All statistics courtesy of FanGraphs.
Kevin Ruprecht is contributor to Beyond the Box Score. He also writes at Royal Stats for Everyone. You can follow him on Twitter at @KevinRuprecht.


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The German government "pushed through a new legal framework that led to the complete cessation of measures to combat Covid-19," local media commented on the massive lifting of covid-19 restrictions. Including for tourists – in most states of Germany, the "vaccine qualification", masks and other restrictions have been canceled. However, the government left the right "if necessary at the regional level" to introduce stricter rules – and two regions have already taken advantage of this, actually going against all other Germans.
As a result, since the beginning of this week, the system of passes for entering most public places has been canceled – including restaurants, hotels, entertainment centers and other "enterprises" of the tourism industry. The mandatory mask regime in shops, museums and restaurants has also been canceled, however, with the caveat "if masks are not required by a company, shop or institution" – in Germany they have the right to demand this regardless of national or state regulations.
However, two regions of Germany – Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – refused to lift the restrictions and declared themselves "hot spots". That is, they are willing to maintain existing Covid-19 restrictions, such as mandatory masks and vaccine passes for access to public places.
According to German eyewitnesses, the differences are obvious. "If you wanted to go shopping in Hamburg on Sunday, you needed the FFP2 mask. But just outside the city limits in Schleswig-Holstein or Lower Saxony, you can enter shops without any protection," they say. However, experts note that the ability to maintain local restrictions is part of the new Coronavirus Protection Law. The bottom line is that if the parliament of some German state thinks that there is a critical situation – be it in an urban area, a state or the whole country – and votes for it, then tighter covid safety measures, such as masks, social distancing and vaccine passes may remain or be reintroduced. Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern took advantage of this.
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Summer is here, which begs the question: What is a summer read, anyway? The Co-op's Alena and Colin find shade at the Front Table for a brief look and long view at what makes a quintessential (or potential) summer read.
Taking a line from Jorge Luis Borges' Labyrinths, we set out to read and re-imagine the Other on this week's episode of Open Stacks (our last before summer break), with Professor of Anthropology Robert Launay, who joins us in the stacks to help us think of others through the eyes of Savages, Romans, and Despots, and Palestinian American legal scholar and human rights attorney Noura Erakat on Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Plus, our booksellers share serendipitous discoveries while wandering (i.e., shelving) in the stacks.
We know that the most important things in the world are beyond measure," writes Co-op Director Jeff Deutsch in his most recent annual letter to the Co-op community, "On Measure." But in our over-quantified age, the urge to justify with numbers is all around us, literally. This week, we measure up to the Co-op's Front Table for a look at new releases to help put us on the map.


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Heaven on Earth?
On January 2nd, 2010, an attacker broke into the home of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard with an axe. Westergaard, famous for the controversial drawings of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, has lived under the shadow of death threats ever since its publication; in February 2008, Danish intelligence also foiled a plot against his life.
On March 9th, seven people were arrested on an alleged plot to assassinate another blasphemer, Lars Vilks, a Swedish artist whose "roundabout dog" gained him public disrepute.
It is important to note that these threats and attacks are not simply carried out by psychologically deranged individuals, but stem from seriously deranged politics: Ever since the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, writers or artists critical of Islam run the risk of facing the wrath of reactionary theocrats. To them, blasphemy is still a cardinal crime.
Astonishingly, the Left has often failed to take a clear stand against this, often in fear of encouraging "anti-Muslim hysteria." Responses have come reluctantly and with all kinds of reservations. This, I believe, is to do Muslims a great disservice.
Yes, it is certainly true that anti-Muslim sentiments are gaining ground in Europe, often taking the form of ugly racism and chauvinism. Right-wing luminaries like the Dutch politician Geert Wilders use every opportunity to have a go at immigrants and Islam, cynically exploiting widespread fears of "Islamization." This is deeply problematical. Any Left worthy of the name must fight these tendencies.
However, some important distinctions are easily lost in the debate. Let us briefly recapitulate some basic principles.
First of all, it is crucial that the Left never abandons the basic premises for free debate. We must stand up for freedom of expression, unconditionally and forcefully. Even if art and comments are provocative or even distasteful, they have a necessary place in an open society. By relativizing our hard-won freedoms, we risk losing them. Actually, whether we like it or not, unrestrained criticism is a precondition for an open society: Society is moved forward by argument. Only by maintaining freedom of expression can we continuously re-evaluate the foundations of our beliefs. Ironically, the open criticism of religion (and philosophy, for that matter) is a precondition for the tolerance of beliefs.
No religion exists in a cultural vacuum, and no religion can be exempt from social criticism. Fear of charges of anti-Semitism should not permit us to be silent on the reactionary policies and worldview of the late Meir Kahane and his Kach party. Neither will ridiculing the obscure Haredi sect Neturei Karta necessarily involve anti-Judaism. By the same token, various strands of Islam should be valued for their social and political content; this is not Islamophobic. In this respect, it is completely irrelevant whether we think liberal or fundamentalist Islam is "the real Islam": All religions are human-made and mirror social contexts.
Furthermore, we should never lose sight of what is really "offensive" and "insulting." As Maryam Namazie insisted, it is "the offended Islamists – from the Islamic Republic of Iran to Islamic Jihad to the Saudi government" who should apologize: "Not for their backward and medieval superstitions and religious mumbo jumbo but for their imposition of these beliefs in the form of states, Islamic laws and thepolitical Islamic movement." For Namazie, apologies for the "mass murder of countless human beings in Iran and the Middle East, and more recently in Europe, for veiling and sexual apartheid, for stoning, amputations, decapitations, Islamic terrorism," were of far greater importance. She is, of course, right.
The traditional Left triumphed human self-consciousness and fought hard to remove clerical powers, archaic traditions, and irrationality from social affairs. By challenging all established values they were "storming heaven."
Let us be frank here and acknowledge that criticizing Islamism is not Islamophobic, any more than criticism of Stalinism is anti-socialism. The failure to stand up for "bourgeois freedoms" – and to support Muslim dissidents – is an eerie reminder of how the Maoist and Stalinist legacy has poisoned the Left. Instead of keeping focus on human universalism and individuality, large sections of the Left have emphasized cultural difference and national independence, and subsequently lent uncritical support to all kinds of "anti-imperialist forces." As a result the Left of today finds itself disoriented and demoralized.
As a humanist, I certainly agree with Vladimir Nabokov that "no free man needs a god." But secularism is not about forcing people to be free from superstition; rather, it is to insist on a society where religion is removed from politics and made a matter of personal belief. In this sense, secularism is a precondition for a society where a multitude of believers and atheists can live side by side. No free society can have a god.
Editorial Comment
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Please take time to read the FAQ's below before you visit our Coffee Shops.
What are the opening times?
- Ottery St Mary: Monday to Saturday – 9am to 4.30pm, Sunday – 9am* to 4pm (* From January 1st 2023, our coffee shop will be opening at 10am on Sundays)
- Plymouth: Monday to Saturday – 9am to 5pm, Sunday – 10:00am to 4pm
- Jack's Patch: Monday to Saturday – 9am to 5pm, Sunday – 10am to 4pm
- Taunton: Monday to Saturday – 9am to 5pm, Sunday – 10:00am to 4pm
- Wincanton: Monday to Saturday – 9am to 4.30pm, Sunday – 10:30am to 4pm
- Torbay: Monday to Saturday – 9am to 5pm, Sunday – 10am to 4pm
- Lymington: Monday to Saturday – 9am to 5pm, Sunday – 9am to 4pm
What might have changed since my last visit?
Like many hospitality businesses we are struggling to recruit staff for some of our coffee shop, this may mean you have to queue longer than normal to be served. Please accept our apologies for any delays on your visit, we are doing all we can to look after all our customers and to minimise delays where possible.
What is available to eat and drink?
In addition to our wide range of hot and cold drinks, we are offering a full range of breakfasts, home-cooked lunches, lite bites, a great selection of home-baked cakes and deserts. When you arrive at our coffee shops the menu of the day will be displayed for you. Please note our food menu varies in each of our branches.
Sunday Roasts are available in all our coffee shops except Taunton.
Cream tea and savoury cream tea are available in all our branches.
Covid-19 Test & Trace
Although customers are no longer required to provide contact details for the NHS Test and Trace programme, we are encouraging customers to continue to scan the Test and Trace QR codes which remain in place. This is a personal choice.
The NHS Test and Trace program is a key part of the country's ongoing COVID-19 response. If the NHS can rapidly detect people who have recently come into close contact with a new COVID-19 case, swift action can be taken to minimise transmission of the virus. You can read further information on how NHS Test and Trace works by clicking here.
What safety measures will you have in place?
The safety of our customers and team members is our top priority. We are adhering to the latest government safety guidelines whilst aiming to offer that wonderful Otter experience we know you love.
- Social distancing floor markers remain in place as a gentle reminder to keep a distance from other customers.
- The number of customers at the coffee shops counter area will be limited, so you may need to queue.
- We encourage all customers to wash their hands prior to arrival. Hand sanitiser is available for all customers at the entrance and exit to our coffee shops.
- Strict hygiene protocols are in place including full cleaning and sanitising of tables and chairs between customers.
What will happen when I arrive?
- You may find the entrance to the coffee shops has changed, please look out for signs when you arrive or ask any of our team members.
- Please be aware that at some of our garden centres you may need to queue outside where there is no covering, please bring an umbrella with you if it's raining!
- On arrival, customers are required to approach the tills to order and pay for their food and drink, this may involve queuing if we are busy. Screens remain in place to ensure you can safely order and pay for your drinks with minimal contact with our team members
- Condiments will be offered to you when you order.
- With all these changes in place, if your meal takes a little longer than normal, please be patient with our team members.
What seating will be available?
- All our coffee shops are offering indoor seating. During busy periods you might need to wait for a table to become available, this may require you to queue when you arrive.
- We have kept our tables well spaced out to ensure a good distance can be maintained between your table and other customers.
- You may also find a one-way system in place to reach your table. We ask all customers to follow any signs.
- Subject to weather conditions, we will be offering outdoor seating at all our garden centres.
- If you chose to sit outside please be aware that, if the weather deteriorates, we may not be able to offer alternative indoor seating.
- Children must be supervised at all times and stay seated at the table.
- We are happy for customers to seat children in their buggies where space allows. We can offer highchairs, subject to availability, however as these are more difficult to sanitise between customers, we prefer for children to remain in buggies, if this is possible. If you require a highchair please speak to one of our team members when you arrive. We can offer cleaning materials to use prior to using highchairs.
Can I book a table in advance?
We are sorry that we are not taking bookings, please just turn up.
How long can I stay?
At this time, we will not be placing a time limit on your stay. However please be mindful of the fact that others might be queuing for a table.
Will water be available?
If required, please ask the till operator for a water when ordering.
Will the toilets be open?
Our toilet facilities are open. Please note that our toilet facilities are not all located close to our coffee shops and may involve a walk outside.
Can I visit the shop after visiting the coffee shop?
We encourage all our customers to extend your visit by browsing our garden centre. To read the Covid-19 guidelines for shopping safely at all Otter Garden Centres please CLICK HERE.
Other questions?
If you have any other questions regarding your visit to our coffee shops, please contact us by sending us a message, or calling us, contact details can be found by clicking here.
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Head Coach Shooting Stars Sport Club, Edith Olumide Agoye, has revealed how painful it was to have been preoccupied with academics and football without no time to enjoy his youthful days.
Agoye who hails from Akunnu Akoko, Ondo started his professional career with Shooting Stars Sports Club of Ibadan, and traveled abroad to join FC Schaffhausen of Switzerland being his first point of call in Europe before moving to Rot Weiss Oberhausen of Germany.
The merchant tactician who studied at University of Ibadan at the time he put pen to paper with Oluyole Warriors told a top Sport Platform, Family United By Football (FUBF) few things he missed if he could turn back the hands of time.
"lt wasn't easy marrying education with academics successfully in my early days, immediately l left the secondary school l got a club, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing FC in Ibadan.
"Exactly a year l left secondary I was admitted at University of Ibadan. It was a difficult period in my 100 Level days but afterwards I was able to adapt but I admit those activities took a lot away from me.
"l did not enjoy a bit of my youth life, my mates were able to indulge and enjoy lot of things because every day in day out its either I was in the field of play in the morning or classroom in the evening. Over the weekend, it's matchday. It was so difficult but by the grace of God l was able to pull through combining the two together and I was very happy," Eshin as he's fondly called concluded.
Agoye who was part of the victorious Shooting Stars of 1995 had a single cap for Super Eagles after being sidelined for so long due to injuries each time he was invited to national team.


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8/12/21: Weird experiment day!
Today I am going through every page I have in Life is a Fountain and adding something hopefully relevant to it from the annals of Clerkmanifesto. It's my desperate attempt to freshen up everything after being away for a couple weeks. So here you go:
I killed a rabbit.
I was driving home in my murdermobile when I came onto Highway 280. Note that it was a highway. I was traveling at about 50 mph when a rabbit leaped in front of my car. I don't know why. He was just beginning a relatively long journey across four lanes of roaring traffic when I hit him. One can surmise he wanted badly to die. But I might be looking for a way out from under all the… blood on my hands.
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
Did I have time to put on brakes? I guess I could have slammed them, and if I did it quickly enough then the braking would have commenced meaninglessly just after my smearing of the small animal beneath my car. Could I have swerved? Only if I wanted to hit him better. The actual thought I had in the half second after the rabbit appeared in front of my car and the point of my bringing quick and ragged death to him was "Just don't panic, make sure the wheels don't hit him, and if he lies low…" I think I was on the lie low part when I felt the undercarriage of the car grab him by the ears, or back, or head, hideously hurl him to the ground, and bounce him bloodily between the car and the highway before leaving his pulped and ruined corpse behind me.
It's amazing how much one can feel from the seat of a car. Though I suppose it's nothing like what one can feel from the underside of a car.
I don't actually know how guilty to feel. Something turns in my stomach as I write. But do you want to know what's in my stomach as I write? Some ground up cow. How did that get there?
Grape, in my small but clear headed audience, raises his hand.
"Do you remember…?"
Oh, of course I remember Grape. That was always part of this story. You see, I was an accessory to a rabbit murder once before, many decades ago. Grape and I were driving home from a backpacking trip. Grape was driving. The sun was setting in the long California desert. A jackrabbit rushed the road. Grape did what he could, but, "kerpluckt", the wheel smushed the poor wee hopper. A stunned silence fell on we tired nature lovers. Grape was devastated. I felt probably exactly the same way as I do now at my own inadvertent rabbit murder, 30 years and the lifetimes of billions of rabbits later. We did not say much for awhile. That he could not avoid this accident was but little succor when we mused on it. We stopped for gas.
We went into the gas station. A devastated Grape said to the station clerk "I feel terrible. I just ran over a rabbit."
"Aw, man." The clerk replied "There's so many rabbits around here we go out shooting them for fun."
Well, I'll have you know there are quite a few rabbits around here in the spring too. Not that I was running that one over for fun.
I've eaten rabbit a couple times. Both of them were at very fancy restaurants. At no point was I wracked with guilt. It didn't occur to me to feel guilt. Though, considering it now, why not. Go ahead and feel a little guilt, all the storied chefs and rabbit ranchers and rabbit butchers in the world cannot strain out the fact that those rabbits deaths go on my account. Yes, somewhere there is a great heavenly (or hellish) list of all the animals we killed or caused to die. Oh what a list. And to make one feel worse about it when one looks at the list the list doesn't say, like, "Mosquitoes: 18,265" No indeed. Each one is personally listed, with a name, like "Lucretia, Mosquito, 2 days old. She just had kids. She was happy."
How do they know she was happy? They know everything.
Speaking of driving deaths. Once I was driving home with my friend Matthew, across the Dakotas. We were beset by plagues on our way home. First were locusts. We had to use windshield wipers. They coated the front of the car. But that was nothing. The rains came, and then the frogs. Ah god, the frogs. For some reason they poured out onto the highway in countless thousands. "Thumpity, thumpitithumpitithump tump tump tum, pup pup pup." To drive was to kill them in the hundreds, maybe more. We pulled over. Look at all the frogs! Look at all the dead frogs we ran over. Should we just sit here forever by the side of the road? No. We drove on. If we drove slow we killed them slower for a long time. If we drove fast we killed them all at once, for miles and miles of murder. Hundreds of frogs. Thousands of frogs. All with names and written with blood on our souls.
So what is a mere rabbit to all those frogs?
Alas, plenty.
Yesterday I went out photographing. Not the kind of photographing I've been doing these days; of books and pictures, computer screens and backgrounds, but more traditional photography, with my fancy zoom camera, out in the gardens and River Gorges of Saint Minneapolis.
They didn't come out that well.
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
I saw the largest bee I have ever seen in my life. It was nearly the size of my fist. I was in a prairie flower garden. The bee was shy, which surely was a reflection of personality rather than mortal fear, since I think it could kill anything it wanted to with a stinger the size of the sword of Damocles.
Although, naturally, he would be disinclined to use such a thing.
I did take dozens of pictures of less shy bees.
They all looked gorgeous in the camera. But at home they were all blurry.
There were butterflies like thick jewels, lounging on flowers, and when I tried to photograph them they lifted into the air and swirled around me. It was beautiful.
I like animals.
I heard owls. Cardinals appeared but did not wait for me to line them up in my viewfinder. Chipmunks darted about. Turkey vultures soared overhead. It was lovely.
So I took pictures of nothing.
I added in the animals later.
Birding Paradise
My birding walk yesterday started innocently enough. I was just down to the river path and not 50 yards along when a bird with a red head flew right in front of me. Then another. I don't usually see groups of this bird, which I call a "Red-headed Woodpecker" because it is, it turns out, by sheer luck, called that. But there were at least five of these birds flitting about in the trees, a bit restlessly as far as I could tell, and probably up to something. But I didn't stay to see how it all turned out.
After all, I had to move on to the geese, though I didn't know that's what I was doing at the time. Yes, more than one geese. There were 16 million geese I was moving on to, though I didn't make a careful count of them. And the surprising thing about encountering 16 million geese is that I almost didn't see them at all. In the Winter around here most of the action is in the trees up over the Mississippi River Gorge, or in the sky above me, so I don't spend much time peering down into the dark, half-frozen waters. But something caught my eye, below me. Magically I found myself looking down upon a string of elegant geese, on a flyway journey down the Mississippi.
Bjork put it best:
A train of pearls
Cabin by cabin,
Is shot precisely
Across an ocean.
Actually, she wasn't talking about geese, but I'd really rather not go into that.
And watching those precise and steady and tireless and graceful birds the half frozen bed of the river came into my focus. And there I was stunned to find that it was
Full of birds, bobbing in the water, nearly blotting out the ice. A savanna of birds, like from some epic nature documentary of some place you will never go to and never be at at the right time and that it is all too late now to ever see because the natural world is only a shell of its former self. But lo, there were geese, and geese, and geese, and a million more geese, and I'm pretty sure I saw three or four ducks because it was a party.
No, seriously, it was a party.
And then there was a turkey in my path.
I am acquainted with two flocks of turkeys. The northern flock, by the U, is made of giant, Pleistocene sized turkeys who blot out the sun while merely lumbering around on someone's front lawn. The southern flock is regular sized turkeys but an unusual lot of them. This was a southern turkey who thus felt more approachable. But he didn't want to be petted and ran across the street to gambol about in the snow with 18 other turkey friends of his.
And then something screamed, a hideous cry.
That was a blue jay.
I didn't linger. Oddly, on the whole walk, I just lingered once, but it hasn't happened yet. And it didn't happen when a tan, almost yellow bird, twenty feet across, wingtip to wingtip, both fell and lifted out of the trees ten feet to my left, sending a kind of force wave into my soul. A hawk. The largest hawk I have ever seen, sinking towards the river to acquire speed only to rise heavily into the sky, strength and massivity balanced into something perfectly useful.
And that was it. I appeared to be done with the birds and was nearing where my path turns from the river. I started to think of how I would write about it all. And as I was crossing over the I-94 Freeway I wondered at how strange it was to see all the birds I ever see but not to see an example of one of my regular wonders, the bald eagle.
Which is when, exactly then, a bald eagle rose up from over Highway 94, which was over the river, and this bird just cleared the balustrade of the bridge I was on, and just cleared my head as well, surprising us both, and then flung wildly up into the air.
And I stopped, I finally stopped. And I laughed.
This one is called:
Eco System
After spilling our collected kitchen compost onto our kitchen floor I went out for my accustomed walk. But realizing, after a bit of desultory rambling, that the whole day was mine to do with what I liked, I decided to go far and feed the mosquitoes. I ventured past all the pretty houses and flowering yards of my neighbors and plunged into the pockets of deep woods tucked into the Mississippi River bluffs.
"Come for me mosquitoes. Wax fat." And they did. In their lightness and clouds, their quiet hungers and mellow bobbing in damp airs.
Scourge of mankind, disease bringer, pestilence of the North and South and Center. Oh squishable, whackable mosquito! Mighty hunter, lover of water, vampire, magician. Who are we to complain? We are all admiration for killers; lions bringing down zebras, a pack of wolves stalking the caribou herds, the owl, wings spread wide and plunging on some unsuspecting mouse. Why must everything die all the time? The mosquito doesn't think anything has to die. She sees all the meat on the hoof just as we do. But she translates us into trees, and plucks our blood like fruit. We can surely spare a bare drop of blood easier than our lives. And she leaves us the gift of an itch, to remember her by. Then she goes and has a few hundred children.
The rest of the time she eats the nectar of flowers.
I sound so calm about it, but in the thick of the mosquito swarms I resorted to running on the damp trails, flailing my hands like a madman.
And what about the blood I lost?
It's okay. I found wild raspberries, a great bank of them. The ripe ones were black and small. They grew scattered, on a sunny hillside, and I picked a handful to eat. They gave me the strength of my blood back. Then I picked some more and ate them because I liked them.
One or two of them were just the right ripeness, and delicious, but those were the rare ones. Mostly they were just good, tart, tasty, but not delicious. Do you know what was delicious?
I was.
Just ask the mosquitoes.


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It's not surprising that quotes are highly searched for online, but does reading positive quotes really lead to positive thinking?
Being positive makes a huge difference in your outlook. The more positive influences you have in your life, the more positive you become.
And as the saying goes, 'positive thinking brings about positive results.' Adopting a positive attitude really can change your life.
Here are some positive thinking quotes that can motivate and inspire you to adopt a positive attitude and practice positive thinking.
Positive Quotes To Motivate And Inspire
"Once you learn how to create your own happiness, no one can take it from you."
Robert Tew
"It takes the same energy to worry as it does to be positive. Use your energy to think positive and positive things will happen."
Joel Osteen
"Life is so much simpler when you stop explaining yourself to people and just do what works for you."
"When you start seeing your worth, you will find it harder to stay around people who don't."
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
Francis of Assisi
"At the end of the day what really matters is that your loved ones are well, you've done your best and that you're thankful for all you have."
"To be happy, you must let go of all the negative beliefs, emotions and people that are holding you back in life."
Robert Tew
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
Paulo Coelho
Positive Quotes On Success
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
Maya Angelou
"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan
"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much."
Joan Collins
"The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles."
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
Conrad Hilton
Positive Quotes On Change
"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change."
"Never be afraid to change. You may lose something good. But you may gain something even better."
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
Denis Waitley
"The world is changed by your examples, not by your opinions."
Paulo Coelho
"People are sent into our lives to teach us things that we need to learn about ourselves."
Mandy Hale
"If your thoughts are making you unhappy; change them."
"When you change your thoughts, you change your world."
Norman Vincent Peale
"If you truly want something, don't wait for it to happen; MAKE it happen."
Positive Quotes On Attitude
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
Thomas Jefferson
"When you need something to believe in, start with yourself!"
"I choose to believe things are possible, even when I don't know how they will happen."
Jack Canfield
"Staying positive doesn't mean that things will turn out okay. Rather, it is knowing that YOU will be okay no matter how things turn out."
"There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you."
Mel Robbins
Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks.
And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.
Ariana Grande.
"Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder."
"I've decided to be happy because it is good for my health."
"Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."
"Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace."
"Stop judging yourself! Everyone else is doing it for you!"
Positive Thinking Quotes On The Future
"Today is the perfect day to start living your dreams."
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C.S Lewis
"You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough."
Abraham Lincoln
"We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are."
Max Depree
"The future depends on what you do today."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Never stop believing. Never stop trying. Never give up. Your day will come."
Positive Quotes For Work
"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
Richard Bach
"Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work."
Joseph Barbara
"Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for."
Steve Harvey
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."
Dale Carnegie
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
Thomas Edison
"Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
"No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder."
Elon Musk
Reading personal development quotes and sayings really can brighten your day. We hope that these positive thinking quotes will inspire you to start living your dreams.
To help, you can find some free personal development books that you can download.
If you prefer listening or watching, we have Think And Grow Rich – one of the most important personal development books – read by Napoleon Hill himself on video.
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The Xavier assistant returns to his home state to try to turn around the Gophers
by jake geiger, staff writer
Xavier men's basketball Assistant Coach Ben Johnson is headed home as the new head coach at the University of Minnesota.
Johnson hopes to lead the Golden Gophers back to prominence as a tournament threat and dominate the state of Minnesota.
Johnson replaced former coach Richard Pitino after he failed to perform in the Big Ten with a 54-96 record.
He returns to Minnesota after serving as an assistant coach at his alma mater from 2013-18.
His deal is for five years and makes him the 18th head coach in program history with a $1.95 million annual base salary.
As an assistant, Johnson was a big part of recruiting current NBA players Daniel Oturu and Amir Coffey.
He also played a part in recruiting four-year letterman Gabe Kalscheur and developing Golden Gopher forward Jordan Murphy.
Murphy ended up atop the record books in Golden Gopher history, finishing second in points and first in rebounds.
Johnson came to Xavier in 2019 as an assistant coach and helped propel two top 30 recruiting classes.
Xavier also finished with a record of 51-37 under Johnson's tenure.
The former assistant coach expressed gratitude for the new opportunity and thanked the University of Minnesota administration.
"The University of Minnesota is such a special place and has impacted me in immeasurable ways on and off the court," Johnson said.
"I want to thank President Joan Gabel, Mark Coyle, Julie Manning and everyone involved in the search process for believing in me and trusting me to lead this historic program. I am ready to get to work," he added.
One of Johnson's main goals is to regain the in-state recruits.
In this NCAA Tournament, a few stars from the state of Minnesota include Colorado guard McKinley Wright IV, Texas center Jericho Sims and Wisconsin four-year starters Brad Davison and Nate Reuvers.
Johnson also wants his future Minnesota teams to have a distinct kind of player.
"You can tell Purdue players and Michigan State players. That's going to be our goal. I want our fans to say, 'That's a Minnesota dude,' Johnson said.
"We take a ton of pride in our state and our program, and we're not going to fail."
Johnson also played for the Golden Gophers in his last two collegiate seasons as a player after transferring from Northwestern.
At Minnesota, Johnson finished with 533 points and helped the Golden Gophers to a few tournament appearances.


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UK-based biopharmaceutical company NightstaRx (Nightstar) has initiated enrolment and dosing in a Phase I/II clinical trial of its gene therapy 'AAV- XLRPGR' for the treatment of patients with X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP).
The gene therapy utilises a viral vector known as adeno-associated virus (AAV) to deliver a codon-optimised copy of the retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator (RPGR) gene into cells of the eye.
The multi-centre, open-label, dose-escalation Phase I/II trial will evaluate the safety and tolerability of AAV- XLRPGR over a 12 month period in approximately 24 patients enrolled at ophthalmology centres such as Oxford and Manchester.
Nightstar chief executive officer David Fellows said: "We are thrilled to report the advancement into the clinic of our second lead retinal dystrophy programme. If successful, this gene therapy has the potential of transforming the lives of many patients."
Each subject will be administered a single sub-retinal injection of AAV-XLRPGR gene therapy.
University of Oxford ophthalmology professor and the trial's principal investigator Robert MacLaren said: "X-linked retinitis pigmentosa is a devastating disease of early onset, which leads to blindness in males.
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Dead Peepol Wins Best Group At 3music Awards 2021
Ghanaian musical duo, Dead Peepol has emerged as winners of the "Best Group Of The Year" category at the 3Music Awards 2021.
The group, Dead Peepol is composed of Frimpong Mark Agyin (Kofy control) and Owusu Richard (Cweku Ritchii) ; has managed to secure their first win in the first phase of the 2021 3Music Awards which held yesterday, Saturday, March 27th.
They competed with and secured the win over other groups such as; Keche, Dope Nation, R2Bees, Yaw Sarpong & Asomafo, Bethel Revival Choir, Fra and also Santrofi.
Dead Peepol released another street heat featuring Big C, Wendy Shay, Bosom Pyung, KOFI pages, Kweku Flick and Malcolm Nuna. They titled this one 'No Noise'..


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