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Bread for the World denounces the recent killings of George Floyd and generations of Africans and their descendants in the U.S. and around the globe who have been devastated by structural racism and inequity.Read Statement
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected virtually every nation. Stay-at-home orders remain in effect in many places, while some countries and U.S. states are beginning to reopen. At this writing, the world has surpassed 4.5 million known cases and 300,000 deaths.
One thing we know is that daily life will never be the same for most of the world's 7.8 billion people. We don't know the details of the changes and we don't have very much hard data, but the stories and pictures are a stark reflection of what people are experiencing right now.
So much of the future depends not only on the trajectory of the virus, but on human decisions over the next few months and the next several years. The situation will only worsen without urgent action.
Bread for the World Institute and our partners who work to end U.S. and global hunger are paying close attention to the immediate shocks to food security and to the predicament of people who were trapped in a hunger crisis when the pandemic began. In countries such as Yemen and South Sudan, large numbers of people are acutely malnourished. Here in the United States, in April, more than one in five households, and two in five with children under the age of twelve, were food insecure.
The COVID-19 crisis has exposed glaring inequities and vulnerabilities in society and in global and national food supply chains. The need for equity along race, class, gender, and other divides is arguably nearly as important in fighting the pandemic as the need for effective vaccines and treatments—and unlike medical research, building equity is something in which everyone can participate.
This means that in the midst of this crisis and the need to rebuild, there are also opportunities to fix what is broken and to "build back better." I reflected on what that might be like in a piece recently published in The Hill.
This month, we are releasing our 2020 Hunger Report, Better Nutrition, Better Tomorrow. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that food systems are among the things that urgently need to be built back better. Good nutrition is critical to people's health and to their future education and income potential. It is an integral part of ending hunger. The new Hunger Report offers recommendations to strengthen systems that are essential to improving nutrition outcomes, taking a critical look at food, health, social protection, and education systems. The 2020 Global Nutrition Report, launched this month, takes a close look at inequalities in the global burden of malnutrition and the role of food systems, and it offers recommendations on how to build nutrition equity.
For society as a whole, the coronavirus has shown that being in better health and having a higher income is associated with better protection from the worst effects of the virus. Those who are older, immune-compromised, or have to work to survive or because their jobs are deemed essential to the survival of the rest of society, are far more at risk. Because of hoarding, lockdowns, and stay-at-home orders, the food supply is also at risk.
The Hunger Report was finalized just before the news about the coronavirus hit. We had to decide whether to rethink it or to go ahead with it. We decided to go ahead, because what was happening illustrated the inadequacies and shortcomings we had found in the current food system. Nutrition is only an afterthought. All points in the food system exhibit huge inequities, from agricultural workers and low-income producers to restaurant workers and low-income consumers. And the entire system is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In this month's issue of Institute Insights, we connect the themes of the report with the current situation.
As with the Hunger Report released in the midst of the Great Recession, 2010's A Just and Sustainable Recovery, we hope that the COVID-19 crisis will jolt the United States into finding viable solutions to problems that perpetuate and exacerbate hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity. The United States can lead the way in building greater equity here at home and supporting developing countries to do the same.
The coronavirus came suddenly and swiftly. The climate crisis is less noticeable on a day-to-day basis to people in the United States, but the impacts are no less devastating and, in the end, may dwarf the impact of COVID-19. We still have time to do something about it. Fixing the food system is one step in the right direction, one that also comes with long-term benefits for human health and equity.
Asma Lateef is director of Bread for the World Institute.
Chapter 1 of the 2020 Hunger Report
By Todd Post
There are so many reasons to be concerned about food systems in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most people do not spend a lot of time thinking about the food supply chain, but in the United States, it came to public attention because of unfamiliar sights such as almost empty supermarket shelves.
The food system includes all the components of how societies organize to feed people. By definition, it is how individuals gain access to a healthy diet. Of course, people's nutritional status depends on what they eat. Food systems deliver nutrients that are essential to fighting disease. Conversely, food systems that do not function well can instead weaken people's health and increase their susceptibility to disease.
The Hunger Report analyzes the food supply chain from producers (farmers) to consumers. The goal is to identify opportunities all along the food chain to improve nutrition, and it turns out that there are many such opportunities. The processing link is one example: manufacturers can fortify foods by adding nutrients. Too often, however, they instead reduce the nutrient content by adding corn syrup or other unhealthy ingredients.
In the United States, we still have a bountiful supply of food—shortages in grocery stores were caused by consumer hoarding, which is a problem on the demand side rather than the supply side. But the longer the pandemic lasts, there is reason for concern about supply.
Meatpacking plants have become hotbeds for the spread of COVID-19. Other foods come from planted crops, which of course must be harvested. A significant share of the agricultural workers on U.S. farms are immigrants or temporary workers. Ninety percent of those here through the "H-2A" visa program come from Mexico. If borders were closed, as is happening in some other countries, the United States could have too few workers to harvest fruits and vegetables—the very foods we need for better nutrition and the foods that few people eat in sufficient quantity.
Every country is part of a global food system premised on the smooth flow of trade. Disruptions in global supply chains could unleash a rapid surge in hunger and malnutrition in some countries, especially those most dependent on food imports. Bloomberg News reported in April that global hunger could double in the next few months as a result of disruptions in supply chains.
One component of the worldwide economic downturn now more than a decade behind us (whose U.S. impacts are usually called the Great Recession) was the global food price crisis. Economists consider 2006-2008 to be its main phase, although some of the impacts were most noticeable in 2008 and 2009. The crisis began as the prices of staple grains such as maize and wheat suddenly shot up, in some cases tripling within a few months. Once prices were no longer spiking, they remained volatile. Tens of millions of people joined the ranks of the world's hungry and malnourished people. The crisis also led to rioting in dozens of countries.
The hunger crisis was not caused by global food shortages. The main culprit was supply chain disruptions caused by bans on exporting food that were imposed by countries that produce and export surplus food. This is a structural problem that the global food system has done little to solve in the intervening years. There are now reports that some countries have once again begun to restrict food exports.
The food price crisis was the main reason for the creation of the federal Feed the Future program, thanks in part to Bread for the World members and other anti-hunger activists, who advocated for more support to smallholder farmers in countries dependent on food imports. Through Feed the Future, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) helps equip smallholder farmers with the information and tools they need to be successful and become part of a stronger national food system. This way, countries will have more options during crises.
Before the food price crisis, agricultural development assistance had shrunk to a fraction of the overall U.S. development assistance portfolio. The vital role of agriculture was not recognized and supported. Bread helped change that. But the COVID-19 pandemic shows how much more needs to be done.
Chapter 2 of the 2020 Hunger Report
By Todd Post
The leading causes of death around the world are related to people's diets. Too much food, not enough food, or not enough food that contains essential nutrients lead to poor health, making people more susceptible to diseases and the complications that may accompany them.
Without good nutrition to boost their immune systems, no individuals are well prepared to survive COVID-19 when it arrives in their community. Diet-related health problems such as diabetes and heart disease also put people at higher risk of dying from the virus.
People at greatest risk from COVID-19 are already grappling with poorer health, often caused or exacerbated by hunger and malnutrition. In the United States, we see this reflected in the disproportionate numbers of COVID-19 deaths in communities of color. Not only are food insecurity and some vitamin deficiencies more common in communities of color, but more people also suffer from respiratory ailments because their homes are closer to large industrial sources of air pollution.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, nutrition advocates have been making the point that nutrition is closely connected to diseases, including COVID-19. "If we forget the food system right now, the COVID-19 health crisis will unwittingly use the food system as a catapult to have an even bigger impact on the global burden of disease," reads a statement from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition.
From food safety and food security to dietary quality, food systems should ideally be working hand in hand with health systems to reduce hunger and malnutrition. Hands are figurative in "hand in hand," but hands also play a very literal role since handwashing with soap helps prevent the transmission of COVID-19 as well as of diarrheal diseases, aggravated by malnutrition, that continue to kill millions of children each year. Up to 75 percent of people in low-income countries lack access to soap and clean water—an alarming statistic for public health officials trying to prevent COVID-19 from spreading and protect young children from other diseases that can be deadly.
Health systems are not designed to prevent hunger, and yet hospitals and clinics are where hungry people turn up when their bodies are broken by hunger. Doctors see this but do not often speak out. That is why it is refreshing to see an article, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in which three doctors argue that addressing food insecurity during an emergency such as COVID-19 is not only a matter of equity but "a critical strategy to reduce transmission" of the virus.
The nutrition safety nets that Bread supports, such as SNAP, school meals, and WIC (the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children), all enhance public health outcomes. Naturally they accomplishes this more easily if they have enough funding and are straightforward for participants and applicants to access. Bread for the World and other groups are calling for increasing the SNAP benefit by at least 15 percent. When this was done during the Great Recession, the hunger rate among SNAP households fell.
School meals are such a part of children's daily lives that we may forget how important they are to public health. Each day, the National School Lunch Program serves more than 30 million children, two-thirds of whom receive free or reduced-price meals. One of the biggest concerns about closures for the sake of public health is how to prevent children who rely on those meals from going hungry. Handling the logistics of transporting and delivering meals is now a major challenge for the food system.
The pandemic has led to school closures around the world. Nearly every country has some form of school meals program, so hundreds of millions of children suddenly stopped receiving the meals they were served at school. For many, they were sometimes the only nutritious meals they had. International support to fill this void is critically important as struggling economies slide into recession.
Chapter 3 of the 2020 Hunger Report
By Todd Post
The Hunger Report considers how food systems contribute to climate change. The global food system is responsible for up to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
This is due primarily to its dependence on fossil fuels. Modern food systems guzzle petroleum, from fertilizers and other chemical inputs used in production, to diesel powered ships and trucks that transport foods around the globe, to the ubiquitous plastics food manufacturers use to preserve freshness.
The deforestation of the Amazon is motivated primarily by the desire to clear the land for cattle grazing. If people in rich countries ate less meat, it could become possible to halt deforestation and/or begin to reforest various areas. Large reforested areas might even be capable of storing or "sequestering" enough carbon dioxide to begin to reverse climate change. The key is in adapting Western-style diets to promote both health and sustainability.
Deforestation also contributes to human vulnerability to zoonotic diseases. COVID-19 is a zoonotic disease, meaning it is caused by an infectious virus that is carried by wildlife, to whom it may or may not be harmful. Other deadly zoonotic diseases include HIV, Ebola, MERS, SARS, and H1N1.
In the case of COVID-19, bats may have been the original carriers, and an intermediary species that hosted the virus was possibly a type of anteater called a pangolin. Humans clearing vast land areas for food production then came in closer contact with these hosts and contracted the virus themselves. The human species has no immunity to the novel (new to us) coronavirus, which first appeared in people sometime in late 2019 and is obviously harmful.
In a review of scientific studies covering the last 80 years, researchers found that agricultural practices were responsible for 50 percent of zoonotic diseases, and they wrote that the proportion "will likely increase as agriculture expands and intensifies."
Factory farming is one vector of transmission of zoonotic disease. Researchers have documented links between commercial poultry systems and the emergence of virulent strains of influenza. Deforestation is probably the agricultural practice most responsible for human vulnerability to zoonotic diseases. Forests are being destroyed primarily to raise cattle or for crops used to feed them. Deforestation is also a main driver of climate change. As most of us probably know, climate change is a result of excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Fossil fuels can weaken people's respiratory systems and increase their vulnerability to viral infections. Low-income communities in the United States, especially communities of color, are more exposed to fossil-fuel related air pollution, and as such are more vulnerable to COVID-19 than communities with less exposure. COVID-19 attacks the lungs, with serious cases often leading to death from pneumonia. The mortality rate of children with acute malnutrition (wasting) increases 15-fold if they also have pneumonia.
Climate change is linked to a rise in number and intensity of droughts and severe storms. Water shortages increase the risk of transmission and put children who live in the drought affected regions at higher risk of malnutrition. Presently, several countries in East Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia are enduring unprecedented locust infestations, the result of unseasonable rains caused by climate change. Early rains extended the breeding times for the locusts, leading to massive swarms that are devouring food crops and threatening widespread hunger across the entire region. The food security outlook was already alarming before the emergence of COVID-19.
For the sake of human and planetary health, governments need to make sustainable food systems a core component of international climate agreements. We are overexploiting natural resources at our peril, as COVID-19 and climate change demonstrate. Land, water, climate, and biodiversity are the building blocks of food systems. All food systems have these common building blocks, but all food systems are not created equal when it comes to environmental footprints. Food systems with industrial-scale production practices are more harmful to the environment.
Chapter 4 of the 2020 Hunger Report
By Todd Post
Covid-19 has made it clear that poorly-paid work in food systems is in fact very valuable. Food systems employ more people than any other sector, but food system jobs are invariably among the lowest-paying in any country. Most of the people who plant, grow, harvest, pack, process, and serve the food consumed around the world do not earn enough to meet their own basic nutritional needs.
U.S. food workers qualify for federal nutrition programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) at twice the rate of workers in any other sector. In low- and middle-income countries, smallholder farmers and landless agricultural laborers produce the mother lode of food but are the poorest of the poor; they and their children make up the largest share of the global population living in extreme poverty.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, food workers across the food chain remain on the job: planting and harvesting crops, processing food in small and large factories, serving customers in checkout lines, and transporting, stocking, and delivering food. Public health emergencies make it obvious to everyone: food system workers are essential to the food security of everyone.
To continue to do their jobs day in and day out, despite the danger and anxiety of COVID-19, food system workers need basic employee protections such as health insurance and paid sick leave. But in most countries, few such protections apply to food system workers. These are longstanding fundamental economic inequities.
So far, it is not at all clear whether governments will update legislation and policies to restructure the labor market for greater equity and take other actions to repair and relaunch the social contract, even in the face of the dire necessities created by a global pandemic. Some U.S. states have made efforts to support the food system workers who are making it possible for the country to function. For example, in Minnesota, grocery store personnel are classified as essential workers and entitled to free child care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The food systems of most countries employ large numbers of immigrants. When California ordered residents to shelter in place, farm workers were exempt. They continued to work even though most laborers live in communal housing that is often crowded—ideal conditions for COVID-19 to spread rapidly from person to person. Employers are required to comply with several safety requirements, but there are documented cases of violations, e.g., workers have not been given gloves or access to soap. Nearly half of all U.S. farm workers are undocumented, making them nearly powerless to push for safe working conditions. Cases all over the world reveal that, as in California, COVID-19 makes the most vulnerable people even more vulnerable.
The Hunger Report's discussion of equity gives further illustrations of exploitation and discrimination in food systems. Some are inequities based on race, particularly in the United States, while others are biases against groups such as indigenous people, undocumented workers, or child laborers. Gender discrimination overlays and magnifies other inequities. Women are the primary actors in the food system as both producers and consumers. They do most of the food-related work, paid and unpaid, at work, in fields and markets, and at home.
The pandemic is already pushing additional families into extreme poverty. Supply chains have been disrupted by restrictions on work activities and, in some outbreak areas, high rates of illness among workers. Reductions in agricultural production lead to higher food prices. During the 2013-2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, for example, food prices in the affected countries of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone soared by an average of 24 percent.
The impact of COVID-19 and other shocks on nutrition in families is not gender neutral. In poorer families, a significant portion of the household income is already being spent on food, so there are few options when prices increase significantly. Households are forced to use negative or harmful coping strategies such as reducing the size and frequency of meals. In many societies around the world, women and girls are expected to eat last and least, so they are more likely to suffer from hunger and malnutrition.
Todd Post is senior researcher, writer, and editor with Bread for the World Institute.
By Christian Martinez
In my previous blog, Equitable Access to Organic Foods: Why It Matters, I emphasized the urgency of applying a racial equity lens to access to organic foods and other nutritious foods. This could lead to policies that would expand the access of communities of color to foods that are more nutritious. In turn, that would help individuals and families improve their health.
The limited access to healthy food of people living below the poverty line, who are disproportionately people of color, is one factor that helps explain the racial health disparities in diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. In order to end hunger by 2030, everyone must have equitable access to healthy, nutritious foods—but this has not yet been achieved.
COVID-19 is affecting people of color more severely than whites. A virus itself cannot exhibit bias, but the data tell us that so far, people of color have both a greater risk of becoming infected and a greater risk of death if they become ill. African Americans, Latinos, and Indigenous communities all face obstacles that make them more likely to contract and die from COVID-19 than whites, but the greatest disparities impact the African American community.
National data show that for every 100,000 African Americans, about 26 have died, compared to 11 of every 100,000 Latinos, 10 among Asians, and nine among whites. Moreover, in six states and the District of Columbia, the African American mortality rate is five times the national average mortality rate. The barriers and constraints that structural racism imposes on accessing healthy, nutritious foods, discussed in my earlier blog, helps explain the racial divide in chronic diseases, which in turn helps explain why communities of color have higher rates of infection and death from COVID-19.
The factors that put people of color at higher risk are not new. We can look to the responses and outcomes of past health crises to guide preparations for future health crises. For example, public health officials reviewing the data after the 2009 H1N1 pandemic could have noticed that mortality rates were strikingly different based on race. The Indigenous, African American, and Latino communities are each a minority of the U.S. population, and their mortality rates from H1N1 were disproportionately high. Compared to their share of the population, four times as many Indigenous people, three times as many African Americans, and twice as many Latinos died. Public health officials could have investigated the causes of these disparities and begun to implement strategies designed to reduce them before the next pandemic—COVID-19, as it turns out.
Applying a racial equity lens to the disproportionate mortality rates would have drawn attention to the need to reduce underlying racial health inequities. Being in poorer health as a group made communities of color more susceptible to contracting and dying from H1N1. We know that nutrition plays a key role in health. It would have been essential in 2009, and it is even more essential in 2020, to explore problems that played a role, such as inequitable access to healthy food options and possible solutions. Expanding access to healthy foods as a top priority is one action that could have made a difference.
Nutrition is not the only factor in health disparities, and health disparities are not the only cause of the disproportionate impact of COVID-19. It is equally important to consider access to high-quality health care, population density in neighborhoods, the types of jobs that people of color are more likely to have than whites, access to protective equipment, and so on. But not including nutrition in the discussion would mean missing important potential solutions.
More broadly, understanding the root causes and outcomes of health crises requires much more thought as to how communities of color are affected. Federal and state governments should continue to strive to make access to resources, such as nutritious foods, racially equitable to help meet the goal of ending hunger by 2030. What they should also consider is how prioritizing the application of a racial equity lens to health crises can help prevent racial inequities during future health crises. This will make our country better equipped to reduce hunger and to maintain this progress.
Christian Martinez is a Racial Equity and Hunger intern with Bread for the World Institute
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Verily, the life sciences branch of Alphabet, announced that it has partnered up with Stanford Medicine and Duke University School of Medicine for a groundbreaking new study meant primarily to study health, rather than sickness. Dubbed Project Baseline, and while not the only study in its category, Project Baseline is promising in that it will follow a massive 10,000 participant panel across a study period of at least four years. Patients who fall ill during the study will undergo special monitoring, with the goal being to get a good picture of what happens when illness begins, as well as the transition a healthy individual undergoes to become diseased. The study is meant to paint a picture of the commonalities between healthy individuals, and will begin open enrollment some time in the next few months, accepting participants at select sites in North Carolina and California.
Participants will be asked to make regular clinical visits and complete surveys every now and then, but the centerpiece of the study is a wrist-worn data gathering device made by Verily. The clinical visits will involve routine data gathering procedures like imaging and biospecimen screening. Between the device, the visits, and the surveys, Verily hopes to stay on top of patients stats in areas like their behavior, environment, molecular, and genetic factors, and how these all factor into overall health. One of the key goals will be to identify prominent risk factors and telltale signs of a participant getting sick, and monitoring that transition from health to disease closely to understand how it happens and what changes happen to the patient along the way.
During the study, Verily and their partners will be looking to the medical community at large, including the worlds of academia, professional medicine, and specialized research. Patient data stripped of identifying information will eventually be available to qualifying researchers for analysis and potential use in projects. The press release from Verily however, did not go over what it means to be a qualifying researcher, how to go about requesting the data, exactly what data can be released, or when qualifying researchers can begin putting in requests for the data.


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Your main character's name (or names if you have several): Brandonlp
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Your name: Brandon
Your age: 23
Your location: Tennessee baby!
Class: the greatest class ever.. mage!
Current Level: 70 of course
If you do not meet our current minimum level requirement of 60 then guild groups and help may be hard to come by, please explain why you do not think this will be an issue for you.
Professions? LOL skinner 300 and tailor 177 lawl
Current Spec: (Refers to all class's) currently deep frost, but i tend to raid arc/fire
Are you Attuned for Molten Core: ? yep
Are you Attuned for BWL: ? nope
Are you Attuned for Onyxia: ? just need ubrs for drakefire amulet
Are you Attuned for Karazhan: ? course
Any heroic keys? ALL
What experience do you have in all raid instances currently available: ? on this toon.. i've clear'd kara and every heroic a million times
Are you willing to respec to certain trees (Healers and Tanks Mainly) for the good of the guild progress for end game content: ? i spec how i feel at the moment
We currently have minimum raiding stats that people have to meet before they are able to raid with us. Do you currently meet these minimums and if not do you understand that you will have to work on meeting them to raid?
I think i might be legit for raiding
Have you read the About Us section of this website? (Yes/No) a lil bit.. so yeah sure
How did you hear about us? Who referred you to this site? (inlcude in this answer any AoA members you may be friendly with) krazyguy
Can you attend our scheduled Guild Events (Currently scheduled on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 5 server time)? most likely, but i work nights 5 days aweek
Do you currently use, or are you willing/able to download and use, Ventrilo voice chat software and the CTRaid Mod/Addon? i got vent, dmb, and damn near every addon u can think of
RPG/MMORPG history/experience (as in, is this your first one? If not, what others have you played?) this would be my first but i've lvl'd 2 characters to 70 so i'm no nub
Previous Guilds: ? lol too many to list
Why did you leave that guild: ? can't find a home
Any current members in Avengers of Azeroth that might know you and recommend you?: not that i know of
Cheesepie or cheesecake?(Very important question that you must answer!) WTF is cheesepie.. so i guess neither one
If accepted do you promise to sweep the leg? i won't hurt that lil karate kid!!!
We require all applicants to run an instance with us so that we may gauge if you would fit in well with us, please post a good time that you are free to run something with us: anytime really
Your personal reason for wanting to join AoA - as in, tell us WHY you think AoA might be the guild for you. The more specific (and less generic) your answer is, the better! Honestly, i just want a guild that i can run with and not have to pug anything. don't want any help just people to run with.. i'll be honest i hate most guilds, i odn't talk much, alot of people think i'm a dickhead. and that's only when we wipe repeatedly..
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Volga-Dnepr Technics Moscow (VDTM), provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for foreign-made aircraft in Russia, received the approval of the Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority (BCAA) for Boeing 737NG maintenance at Krasnoyarsk Airport.
Due to the expansion of the BCAA certificate VDTM engineering personnel may perform line maintenance and troubleshoot the specified aircraft at the line maintenance station (LMS) in Krasnoyarsk, a city that is also one of the destination network points for air freight carriers belonging to Volga-Dnepr Group, AirBridgeCargo and ATRAN.
'The decision to obtain BCAA approval for the Boeing 737NG maintenance was primarily due to the intention to support our regular customer, ATRAN freight carrier which has quite recently begun to operate its new type of aircraft on route to Krasnoyarsk. We are proud that we have successfully gained certification in a short time and expanded the range of aircraft maintained at LMS in Krasnoyarsk by adding the Boeing 737NG to the existing Boeing 737CL, Boeing 747-400 and Boeing 747-8,'- said Konstantin Surkov, CEO of Volga-Dnepr Technics Moscow.
VDTM Company plans to engage new customers to maintain the Boeing 737NG in Krasnoyarsk, which will be possible thanks to the high quality of the services provided, the popularity of this type of aircraft among other Russian airlines and the progress of the Krasnoyarsk Airport which increased passenger traffic by more than 12% in 2018 and the volume of cargo handled by 46%.
VDTM Company, a part of Volga-Dnepr Group, has been active in the Russian MRO market since 2009, constantly seeks to expand the range of services provided in response to customer requests. VDTM provides maintenance of aircraft types of the largest foreign manufactures such as Boeing and Airbus.


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The famous abandoned city, which once housed 50,000 residents. Sights to see are the schools, kindergarten, public buildings and the amazing cultural palace which contains a swimming pool, cinema and gymnasium, and overlooks the famous ferris wheel. Hazards are the crumbling buildings, and decaying wooden floors in places – so be careful. As of July 2008, most tours will not let you enter the buildings due to their current structural stability.
Minibus day-trips from Kiev typically stop in the town's center, at the west end of Lenin Street near the Palace of Culture. Short-term visitors are confined to the pavement at ground level; if you join one of these tours, your risk exposure is minimal, but so too is your exposure to the vast cultural reliquary that is Pripyat. A more in-depth visit (several days, staying overnight at the Desiatka hotel in Chornobyl, eating meals at the Desiatka restaurant) costs about $400 per person (2014). The long-term visitor is rewarded with considerably more freedom to explore, accompanied of course by an guide.
Decades of neglect have resulted in a physically-hazardous ex-urban environment in which radiation is of distant, secondary concern. Hazards include uncovered manholes in the middle of barely-recognizable streets, open elevator shafts, flooded basements, decayed wooden floors, collapsed roofs, large amounts of broken glass, challenging footpath obstructions in dark hallways, and quite possibly asbestos. Flashlights are essential to exploring interiors. Although radiation isn't a relatively major concern, the "hotter" spots in town would most certainly be off-limits to the public in the United States or Western Europe. As an example, the basement of the Hospital contains first responders' clothing (firefighters' clothes, boots, helmets, etc.) and presents external gamma exposure rates approaching one roentgen (R) per hour (June 2010). Some other hot spots are well-known to guides and they can either help you avoid these places or find them if so inclined. The most important precaution concerning radioactivity is to avoid ingesting loose contamination. Although your guide might eat snacks or smoke in Pripyat, you should not–particularly if you have been handling things or visiting places like the hospital basement. Buy an ample supply of drinking water at one of the the magazines in Chornobyl before going to Pripyat. (Obviously there is not potable water there.) Water can also be used to rinse contaminated shoes before re-entering vehicles.


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open Monday to Thursday from 8:30 am to 12am and from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Friday until 16H
The reception démarcherie is also open on Thursday afternoon from 15H to 19H and Saturday morning from 8am to 12am - tel. : 01 40 85 62 52
Official website of the Town Hall : www.ville-gennevilliers.fr
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Patrice Leclerc
Mayor, territorial adviser, South Township
Coordinating educational hub - city policy.
Secretariat: 01 40 85 62 23
Fax: 01 47 98 67 74
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Anne-Laure PEREZ
first Deputy
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Mad Max Prams
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Covering hundreds of miles at a time with no mod cons, the road warriors are dirty and hangry!
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Priced at .99 this costume will have people talking all night about how great you look! The costume is officially licensed by Universal Studios and includes Latex Headpiece, Jacket with Inset Shirt, Pants and Shoe Covers! The only thing you need to add is a little makeup here and there. The item number for this plus size costume is U17318 and fits men in a 44-50 jacket size.
There are two ways you can go about this costume. The first option you have is to simply buy pre-tie dyed clothing and adding a store bought wig. The second option is to tie dye some clothing at a previous point in time. If you are looking to entertain your child with arts and crafts, setting aside a day to make tie dye is perfect. You'll want to tie dye a shirt or sweat shirt, pants or a skirt, and a pair of socks. Channel your inner creativity with this costume.
This costume is great for any age, from young toddlers on up to adults. You can adjust the number of "spaghetti" strands and "meatballs" however you like. See how this costume looks here.
Make a car shape around the wheel chair with cardboard and paint it to mimic your child's favorite race car driver. Let them dress the part complete with driving gloves and a helmet. If you are pushing your child, play the part as well and make tire screeching noises as you stop in front of each house on Halloween.
Once you've done this Angry birds costumes for kids, cut the cloth into the shape of the Angry bird that you want to be. Make sure that the cut shape fits your body perfectly. You can even use a newspaper as a pattern initially and then only cut the cloth once you've perfected the shape and size using the newspaper or pattern paper.
Boys and girls running the streets for two hours decked out in their scariest and grossest of kids Halloween costumes is what makes Halloween exciting and fun. Allowing children to be children is what makes Halloween especially rewarding for parents. Nothing scares me more than a child dressed up as an adult the other 364 days of the year. Kid's Halloween costumes give kids a chance to break free from their stress and pretend to be anyone they wish.
To make the tail-tell straw, cut small strips of the craft foam, and fit around your child's wrists and neck to make sure it is going to be comfortable for him or her. Then you will cut in a wavy edge at the bottom, to give it an un-even look. Glue the straw onto the hat, and in the arms and neck of the shirt. You will then glue the patches of fabric around the coveralls, or safety pin them in place. Have your child put on the clothes. Now your ready to hit the streets, and get that candy!
Dress your little one all in blue, possible blue turtle neck and blue tights. Use a makeup brush and apply green paint to child's upper and lower eyelids, keep in a circle shape.


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Volume mixed with strength. I love drop sets!
Any type of pizza
Sweet potatoes
Don't carry one because I live at the gym, I have an office there that I keep my gear and supplements in!
Snowboarding, wake surfing, spending time with family and friends!
Hip hop! Drake, Future, Kid Ink, T.I.
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Manipulation of the soft tissues of the body by a combination of various movements such as stroking, kneading, and friction. The use of oils, creams, lotions, and hot or cold therapy may be used as well as passive and active joint movement.
Oriental bodywork is based on an ancient heal system which focuses on the balance and movement of energy (Qi) within the body. This technique affects muscles, CranioSacral rhythm, and all the major systems of the body.
Therapy for specific physical problems. The areas affected are focused on by using many different types of techniques and modalities, all of which help release the chronic as well as acute areas of tension and pain.
A scar resulting from a childhood injury to a major surgery can have a lifelong effect on the body's ability to function and perform properly. We use the S.T.R.A.I.T Method combined in a Medical Massage session to release the soft tissue component of the connective tissue that holds us together, known as the Fascia.
A form of compression massage based on the idea that stimulation of specific pressure points on the feet and hands affects other areas and organs of the body.
Based on Swedish massage, incorporating a wide range of techniques such as deep tissue, compression, cross fiber, trigger point therapy, and stretching. Each sport and athletic event uses muscle groups in different ways. Therefore this therapy is designed to address those specific areas that are relevant to the individuals athletic activity.
Relaxing and soothing strokes are used to help alleviate the stress and strains of childbearing. Excellent for backaches, edema and helps to increase the flow of oxygen, blood and nutrients to both mother and child. Given on a specially designed table which allows for gentle support of the abdomen and breasts.
Session times includes10 minutes for consultation and dressing. The remaining time is hands on
60 min- $90.00 30 min- $45.00 90 min- $125.00120min-$170 (cannot book 120 min on-line & discounts DO NOT APPLY)
Session times includes10 minutes for consultation and dressing. The remaining time is hands on. Parent or guardian must be present
30 min- $40.00
60 minutes- $120.0090 minutes- $160.00
$85 an hour per therapist
Aromatherapy $10.00 Pure aromatherapy blends are added to our massage oil for a total relaxing effect. Or save money and purchase one of our own Wellness line oil, cream or lotion and we will gladly use that for your massage. You get to keep the rest or bring it back each time you get a massage.
Cold Stone Sinus & Face $10.00 A facial massage using mini cold stones that focuses on sinus points and puffy under eye area
Circulation Boost $15.00 The body is dried scrubbed with exfoliating mitts then a massage is given with a special mix of essential oils that aid in circulation, conditioning the skin, lymphatic drainage, reducing fatty deposits and cellulite and aiding the body in elimination.
Hot Stone Back Treatment $10.00 Smooth stones are heated in water then applied to an area of the body with gliding strokes. Muscles melt and pain and stress is relieved.
Peppermint Foot Scrub $10.00 End your massage with an exhilarating foot scrub and a luxurious foot massage.
CBD Site Specific $18.00 A high level CBD infused topical analgesic for pain relief.
CBD Full Body $30.00 A CBD infused oil for a full body relaxation
15 minutes add on to a treatment:
Cellulite Buster$30.00 Add on to a massage only. A specialty blend detox oil is worked into the area of choice using aggressive strokes such as knuckling, kneading, friction skin rolling and rubber suction cups to break down the fat deposits. This is followed by a coffee scrub, hot towels and capsicum tingle cream.
Scalp Massage $20.00 With or without essential oils. only the smallest amount of oil is placed on the back of your head and will not ruin your hair. We promise! The essential oils are necessary to help open the sinuses and calm the mind.
Foot Massage $25.00 Relax with an extra 15 min foot treatment added at the end of your service. Complete with hot oil, hot stones, hot towels and tingle cream
Is given in a specially designed portable chair which allows the therapist to work the head, neck, shoulders, back, arms, and hands. No oils are used and no removal of clothing is required. Excellent for the person on the run who only has 10 to 30 minutes to spare. A great coffee or lunch break!30min $35.00
Heated stones are glided onto the body using a combination of strokes and motions which allows the heat from the stones to relax the muscles and increase blood flow. Included in this treatment is a Cold Stone Face and Sinus Massage. The contrast of temperatures is extremely pleasing. This treatment is not only incredibly relaxing but therapeutic as well
60 min $150.00
Tea bags are placed on the eyes while moist heated herbal poultices are applied to the body causing muscles to instantly relax. Warmed aromatherapy infused oils are massaged into the body using only soothing, gliding strokes. Hot towels are applied to the hands and feet completing this relaxing experience. (This is a total pampering massage not meant for those who want deeper therapeutic work or who are allergic to herbs)
60min $100.00 90min $130.00
A truly unique hot oil massage using a wonderfully scented candle that melts into a luxurious oil
We let the candle melt until a pool of oil has formed. Only the light of the candle illuminates the room while your therapist drizzles just the right amount of deliciously scented warm oil onto your body for a multi sensory experience you will never forget! The addition of the hot stones gliding on the back makes this a truly sumptuous massage! This is a definite treat!
It will be necessary to purchase this treatment and chose your candle in advance to allow approximately 15 minute burning time prior to your start time. It is an additional $20.00 for the candle
60min $105.00 plus $20 for the candle 90min $140.00 plus $20 for the candle
There are 9 different scents to choose from:
Bliss: raspberry grapefruit, Citrus: sweet orange, Creme: Vanilla, Desire: Chocolate, Ice: Peppermint, Flora: Jasmine, Fire: rosemary, Tranquility: lavender and Tropics: pina colada
We also sell the candles separately to use at home
Join the hundreds of other companies who have been effectively relieving stress in the workplace by implementing massage into your wellness program on a weekly or monthly basis, or use it as an incentive for good attendance, completing projects on time, or excellent work productivity.
Massage is a perfect way to relieve stress at work! It is cost effective because it can take place during break or lunch so no time is lost. You pay only for the employees who use it or employees can pay for part or all of the cost. There is no special equipment or facilities needed; only a minimal amount of space offering some privacy, such as an empty office, stock room, or a quiet corner. Massage can help lower health care costs, increase productivity, decrease absenteeism and improve morale.
Price does not include gratuity
$85.00 per hour, per therapist
Thai Massage has been practiced in Thailand for thousands of years. It is extremely beneifical for increasing flexability, releaving muscle and joint tension and to balance the bodys energy system
We ask that you wear loose comfortable clothing such as yoga or sweat clothes. No oils or creams are used.
This treatment is done on a floor mat which allows the therapist to move your body into various positions and stretches. The therapist is also on the mat and uses thier body to compress, pull and rock your body without any work on your part.
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The Somervell County Relay For Life is an overnight event which will take place from 6 p.m. April 25 until 6 a.m. April 26 at the Glen Rose Soccer Park that symbolizes the long journey a cancer patient endures.
�There is symbolism in everything about this event,� said event co-chair, Paula Noell. �The evening is the finding out that one has cancer, the late night is the treatment and recovery and the dawn is the realization that one has conquered the disease.�
Even though teams are set and have been for some time now, those wishing to come out and take part in the fight against cancer are invited out for an evening to remember.
Every team will set up a campsite and have something unique to help raise money for their team. A raffle and auction are other ways the American Cancer Society is raising money at the Relay for Life. There will be games for children, including a moon bounce and Guitar Hero. Some of the campsites will have different foods available.
There will also be a stage set up and local artists will perform for the crowd. Later in the evening, participants can take a shot at wooing the crowd during a karaoke showdown.
This year�s theme is �CELEBRATE� � in honor of the cancer survivors in our community, �REMEMBER� � remember those we have lost to this dreaded disease, and �FIGHT BACK� � what we all need to do when one we love is diagnosed with cancer.
In keeping with the theme, the Relay will begin with a �celebration� of survivors and caregivers who will take the first lap as the 36 participating teams are introduced and begin their laps.
Later in the evening there will be a �remembrance� ceremony in honor of all those who have fought the battle with cancer and lost. This year�s Relay for Life is dedicated to one of our own, Jere Ford, a volunteer for years with the Relay who lost his battle to the disease last year.
On the stage, there will be a fight back ceremony where participants will talk about how they plan on �fighting back� against cancer and what they plan to do in their individual battle with the disease.
The following morning, the Glen Rose Optimist Club will sponsor a pancake breakfast for everyone who participated in the event and those who made it through the night.
Please join the American Cancer Society in raising funds so we can see a cure for cancer in our lifetime.


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NEWPORT BEACH (CBSLA.com) — Coastal residents are braced for possible flooding as king tides coincide with the second wet storm of the week.
Forecasters warned that low-lying coastal areas could experience minor tidal overflow Wednesday morning, and an increased chance Thursday morning because of higher surf conditions.
King tides are typically the highest tide of the year, but this year it could get as high as eight feet.
Marino Psaros with the California King Tides Project told KNX 1070's Cooper Rummell that the tides alone typically don't cause damage, but when they hit during a winter storm like this week, flooding can be a concern.


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In conjunction with the FLETC Protocol and Communications Office (PCO), ITD administers the FLETC International Visitor Program for visits by non-U.S. citizens to the FLETC facilities. Requests to visit any FLETC facility must be coordinated through the ITD at email@example.com.
Request for visitors by non-U.S. citizens must be received at least 60 days prior to the proposed visit.


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Welcome to the Melbourne Food Hub
The Melbourne Food Hub is a visionary collective impact project and joint venture of Sustain: The Australian Food Network and Melbourne Farmers Markets (MFM), which has seed funding from Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation.
It's mission to to create a self-sustaining and replicable model Food Hub where community can meet, learn about, grow, make, eat and source fresh local produce.
The Hub reflects and celebrates intercultural diversity, where all are welcome and included for generations to come.
Visit their website for more updates on the project: melbournefoodhub.org.au
The Food Hub has been established at Melbourne Innovation Centre's Wingrove Street site, directly opposite Alphington Train Station. The site itself has been reimagined from a concreted barren scape into the bustling and lively Alphington Farmers Market on Sunday mornings.
Other planned features of the Food Hub include a commercial kitchen designed to divert food waste and support new food start-up businesses, establish community composting facilities, a farmer's depot, co-working offices and an abundant urban agricultural project.
Melbourne Food Hub respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which the hub stands, the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to them, their culture and their Elders, past, present and future.


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This hits hard.
The Wonder Years have unveiled a video for new track 'Cigarettes & Saints'.
Watch it below.
The track is taken from the band's new album 'No Closer To Heaven', which is out on September 04 via Hopeless.
The band will support Enter Shikari in the UK next year.
18 - GLASGOW Academy
19 - EDINBURGH Corn Exchange
20 - NOTTINGHAM Arena
22 - BOURNEMOUTH International Centre
23 - CARDIFF Arena
25 - MANCHESTER Victoria Warehouse
27 - LONDON Alexandra Palace
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STAKHANOV, Ukraine — On a grim, rain-soaked morning in this former industrial boomtown, a small crowd of working-class locals gathers under a hulking statue of Vladimir Lenin to air its grievances.
"The people in power today aren't taking even the smallest steps toward calming tensions in our society," says 51-year-old Oleksandr Kashparenko, a mustachioed, barrel-chested utilities worker. "They just don't hear us."
The revolution in Kyiv may be over, but in eastern cities like Stakhanov — an economically depressed city of around 100,000 in the pro-Russian heartland — discontent appears to be rising.
People here believe the new Western-leaning government in Kyiv, 450 miles to the west, rode in on a "fascist" coup facilitated by the United States and European countries.
While the authorities rush into Europe's embrace, many in the blighted east, who rely on trade with Russia to survive, are looking on with increasing dismay.
"The boiling point has passed," says Stakhanov mayor Yuriy Borisov. "Emotions here are simply raging."
If there were a perfect counterpoint to Kyiv's months-long, pro-European protest movement — with its Facebook activists and video campaigns — it could be this grim outpost of smokestacks, machinery and crumbling apartment blocks.
Local residents who were part of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych's support base pride themselves on the Soviet-style work ethic they say kept their region's factories humming — and Ukraine's budget fed — while Kyiv descended into revolutionary chaos.
It's a culture written into local history.
Alexei Stakhanov, hero of socialist labor, still enjoys prime real estate in the town that took his name.
It was here that coal miner Alexei Stakhanov caught the attention of the Soviet authorities in 1935 by supposedly mining 14 times his quota — 102 tons in less than six hours. His name was given not only to this city but also the Stakhanovite movement of "model" workers endlessly lauded in communist propaganda.
Whatever the truth about their actual accomplishments, they symbolized the transformation of obscure provincial cities like this one into showcases of Soviet industry.
Blue-collar laborers, especially coal miners, continue to hold special status for many here.
"Say what you will about the Soviet past, but the miners were very respected," says Viktor Tertychny, editor of the Stakhanov Banner, the city's official newspaper. "It's not for nothing they were called the 'vanguard of the working class.'"
But when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, so did the vast political and economic network that supported Stakhanov, whose coalmines and factories shipped their products throughout the communist empire.
In the 1990s, all of Stakhanov's four mines had been shuttered, thanks partly to a pervasive culture of corruption that drove inefficient and technologically backward operations out of business.
More than 15,000 jobs evaporated in the process, helping turn the city into a portrait of post-industrial depression.
Although a statue of Stakhanov, jackhammer slung confidently over his shoulder, still stands near the local police headquarters, the surrounding square is desolate.
Elsewhere around town, Soviet-era apartment blocks decay like rotten teeth, while cars rarely drive faster than 25 miles per hour on cracked central streets, swerving around foot-wide potholes.
Not a single new building has been built here in more than a quarter-century, Borisov says, because there's simply no money to pay for it: There's only one tax-paying worker for every three pensioners.
That's because many able-bodied workers have fled the depression, the vast majority to Russia. And they're still leaving.
"People don't even sell their homes," says Viktor Sinyaev, head of the local Communist Party branch. "They just don't want to come back."
Stakhanov now lives largely off its three remaining factories, including a railway car plant that provides up to 60 percent of the city's budget.
Its continued survival depends on trade with Russia, which buys around 90 percent of its products, Sinyaev says. But Ukraine's increasingly dismal relations with its Soviet-era ruler look set to jeopardize the close economic ties with Moscow.
Orders have already been cut back in recent months and workers laid off in droves. Already during the first three quarters of 2013, production was down by 40 percent compared to the previous year, local media report.
Now Stakhanov residents are cursing the Kyiv government for further jeopardizing their livelihoods by sidelining the industrial east.
Locals here and other cities across eastern Ukraine are calling for referenda in their regions to demand greater autonomy along with reforms to turn the country into a less centralized federal state. Others welcome annexation by Russia.
"Why didn't they ask us whether or not we want to join Europe?" says Kashparenko, the utilities worker. "It's not about our close ties to Russia, it's about unbreakable ties."
Economic factors account for only part of the worry.
People here also resent what they see as the Kyiv government's nationalist overtones, a fear fed by a heavy-handed Russian media propaganda campaign.
It's making Ukraine's revolutionary authorities out to be gun-toting extremists funded by the West and aiming to repress the country's Russian-speaking population.
More from GlobalPost: Why eastern Ukraine fears the new regime in Kyiv: A fisherman's tale (VIDEO)
While certainly exaggerated, there's truth behind claims that the government is growing increasingly concerned about separatist sentiments in the east.
Last week, Oleh Lyashko — a visible if marginal pro-Kyiv politician — showed up with several associates in Luhansk, the closest major city to Stakhanov, where he physically abused a pro-Russian activist for allegedly advocating separatism.
Some Stakhanov residents claim they've been harassed by the local pro-Kyiv security services for protesting against the government.
"Where was the referendum on Yanukovych's ouster?" says Marina Smirnova, a 51-year-old small business owner. "Where was the referendum that decided whether these authorities are legitimate?"
"No one here chose them," she adds. "They appointed themselves."
Borisov, the affable mayor, says the only way to calm such emotions is to create more jobs and boost the standard of living.
But doing that anytime soon is only wishful thinking, he says. "Today we simply can't do it."