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Pandemic Further Exposes Systemic Racism…
This will be ugly and sad. Racism has cost this country $16 trillion over the last twenty years according to a recent Citigroup report. Much of this loss ($13 trillion) was attributed to discriminatory lending practices and the 6.1 million fewer jobs created as a result, while disparity in wages ($2.7 trillion) and discrimination in housing policies and lost income due to restricted access to higher education accounted for the balance. The report estimates that if these gaps were to be closed, an incremental $5 trillion can be added to U.S. GDP over the next five years alone. Obviously, this does not even begin to account for the extraordinary pain and suffering racism inflicts on our country, much less the dramatic implications to the health and wellbeing for those impacted by racism.
The dramatic increase in unemployment since the onset of COVID-19 has garnered significant attention. While the overall unemployment rate of 7.9% in September is down from the pandemic-high of 14.7% in April, this improvement masks the dramatic discrepancies in rates for minorities; according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, white Americans are 7.0% unemployed while the Black unemployment rate is 12.1%. Somewhat jarring, last week Columbia University published an analysis showing that eight million more people are now living in poverty just since the expiration of Cares Act three months ago, disproportionally hitting minorities.
The story is even more dire when looking at the "True Rate of Unemployment" as defined by the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity which presumes that one needs to earn a minimum living wage of $20,000 to be deemed employed. Under such a definition, Black unemployment is 30.4%, although an improvement from what was seen for the ten years after the Great Recession of 2008.
Data: Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity; Chart: Axios Visuals
It is estimated that 100.6 million Americans are out of the labor force now, many of whom are from disadvantaged segments of the population. In fact, for those earning more than $60,000 annually, the unemployment rate is a mere 1.0% below where it stood at the onset of the pandemic. For those who make less than $20 per hour (equivalent to salary of approximately $27,000), the unemployment rate is 17.5% below where it was in February 2020 according to Opportunity Insights. Shockingly, America's billionaires net worth has increased more than $850 billion since April.
The difference in life expectancy between white and Black Americans is criminally high – nearly five years, even when adjusted for gender, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. While the underlying causes are complex and fraught with political overtones, this issue is now front and center as the country struggles with the pandemic.
Sutter Health recently published COVID-19 data that attributed the 2.7x increase in hospitalization rates in their hospitals for Black patients versus white patients to, in part, more advanced illness at the time of admission, arguably reflecting a cultural aversion to the healthcare system or challenges around adequate access. CDC data are even worse, tabulating a 5.0x higher rate of hospitalization, 2.3x greater mortality rate, and 3.0x greater infection rate for Black versus white Americans, respectively. This is particularly troublesome now with case counts spiking 17% just this past week and as winter sets in.
The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) forecasts that Medicaid roles will increase by 8.4% in 2021; in June there were 67.9 million Medicaid beneficiaries. It is quite clear that the pandemic is hitting minority and less educated segments of the population harder, often because they tend to be front-line essential workers and/or struggle with greater levels of unemployment. McKinsey recently estimated that as many as 10 million Americans will lose employer-sponsored health insurance due to COVID-19 by the end of 2021.
KFF also highlights the discrepancies in private health insurance rates by race: in 2018, white, Black, and Hispanic uninsured rates were 7.5%, 11.5% and 19.0%, respectively, which further exacerbates difficulties for minorities to access effective healthcare. The Affordable Care Act had a dramatic impact over the past decade as uninsured rates in 2010 were 13.1%, 19. 9% and 32.6%, respectively. This year the average family health insurance premium rose by 4% to more than $21,000.
While there is a heightened level of concern about the pace of coronavirus vaccine development, and whether there will be inappropriate political pressures applied to compromise long-cherished safety protocols, the Black community is expressing a particularly high level of skepticism. According to another KFF study, just under 50% of Black respondents would not take a free and safe vaccine, while only 17% would "definitely" do so. While further underscoring long-held distrust of the healthcare system, this phenomenon risks perpetuating the relatively poor health conditions experienced in many of those communities.
Recognizing this and the other numerous challenges introduced by the pandemic, the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) of 39 provider systems (many of whom are Flare Capital LPs) reiterated in September that racism is a public health crisis, putting forth a number of steps to chip away at these issues. First and foremost was a commitment to dramatically improve access to testing in underserved communities, as well as more robust inclusive hiring practices and greater spending with diverse suppliers and vendors.
Importantly, the HAN spotlighted that systemic racism uncouples the public health infrastructure from the private healthcare system, often leading to "generational trauma and poverty." A profound characterization. A recent Wall Street Journal analysis of CDC data showed a strong link between racism and mental health: in the week following the murder of George Floyd in May, 40.5% of Black adults exhibited symptoms of anxiety and depression (a five point increase from the week just prior). While somewhat similar to post-traumatic stress disorders, racism is chronic and on-going much like an injury and should not be considered a disorder. Clinicians have now developed a "Race-Based Traumatic Stress Symptom" scale when evaluating minority patients.
Advances in healthcare technology hold profound promise to improve the health and wellbeing of those most afflicted by racism, particularly during such difficult economic times. According to a provocative analysis by McKinsey (below), many of the most seminal transformative reforms in healthcare have come on the heels of major recessions. Arguably, what has been unleashed on the U.S. economy by COVID-19 may lead to a dramatic restructuring of the healthcare industry, which could usher in a wave of significant innovation to improve conditions for those most disadvantaged.
Entrepreneurship has been one of the great elixirs in the face of such devastating economic conditions and is often looked upon as one approach to reduce economic disparities due to racism. Here, unfortunately, the record is mixed. Given how critical access to capital is, the evidence that racial discrimination compromised many minority groups from accessing emergency funding programs like the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) this past spring is particularly painful. According to the Center for Responsible Lending, 46% of white-owned businesses had accessed bank credit over the past five years (compared to less than 25% for Black-owned businesses) which meaningfully facilitated their ability to secure PPP loans from those same institutions.
Furthermore, a 2016 Federal Reserve Bank study found that only 40% of minority credit applicants secure the full requested amounts of credit when applying as compared to 68% for white-owned applicants. Consistently minority-owned companies pay higher interest rates and have more onerous borrowing terms according to the Department of Commerce's Minority Business Development Agency. The financial landscape confronting Black-owned businesses is materially more hostile than what white-owned businesses face. Full stop.
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Rock Health, a leading seed stage healthcare technology investor (and partner of Flare Capital), recently conducted an extensive diversity survey. These sober findings further highlight the issues around access to capital for minority entrepreneurs. White and Asian founders were nearly twice as likely to backed by venture capitalists; 48% of Black founders bootstrapped their companies versus 25% of white founders. Of the nearly 250 founder respondents in the survey, 12% identified as Black but only a disappointing 5% of the 425 senior executives in those companies were Black. Just over 80% of Black respondents felt that the digital health sector was either the same or less inclusive from when they initially joined the industry. Obviously, much work is still to be done.
These issues are not at all lost on my partners and our firm. Since we started Flare Capital over six years ago, we have been committed to diversity and inclusion. In addition to simply being the right thing to do, it is the best thing for our business. We will make better investment decisions with a broadly diverse set of perspectives and experiences.
But as inclusive as we felt we were, it is time to do even better. There are systemic causes to these inequities in our industry that we can help address. Over the last four months we developed a set of new initiatives (summarized below) that we implemented earlier this summer. In summary, we identified two broad dimensions that we are committed to improving upon: more equitable access and accelerated career development. Structural challenges exist for many underrepresented entrepreneurs to meet with venture capital firms, much less successfully raise capital. These are fundamental problems that require deliberate, measurable steps from engaging with more diverse founding teams, recruiting more diverse management teams, and partnering with venture firms equally committed to diversity.
BIPOC = Black, Indigenous, People of Color
We recognize that it will take time and significant effort to address these inequities, and that success will be built, in part, upon many small victories. Arguably, Black Lives Matter is the largest movement in our country's history. The New York Times recently estimated that between 15 to 26 million Americans likely participated in demonstrations since the death of George Floyd in late May. We are proud to be a part of that movement.
11 responses to "Pandemic Further Exposes Systemic Racism…"
Bill Brodnitzki
Thanks for posting Michael – the data paints a pretty grim picture and hopefully is part of the many calls to action to help us as a nation be better and more intentional in overinvesting in communities of color.
ontheflyingbridge
Well said, Bill. Hope you are well.
Deborah Enos
Michael, thank you for providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of the many implications of structural racism\ in our society. COVID 19 has put a spotlight on and in most cases, exacerbated long standing inequities across the board. The question is "do we collectively finally have the will to do something about this"? I'm happy to learn that Flare Capital is answering the call and I hope your highlighting of these issues inspires others to do likewise.
Deb Enos
So nice to hear from you, Deb. Hope you are managing through the crisis. More advanced and relevant tech is hopefully one small step forward to addressing these issues. Must say, I was staggered when I stared at the data. Really appreciate the note.
Rob McCray
Michael – I commend your commitment and that of your firm and partners to addressing the structural inequalities that ruin lives and make all of society poorer. My 20 years of work with Alliance Healthcare Foundation has made me acutely aware of these inequities and how difficult it is to resolve them without broad political, social and policy changes. Private organizations nonetheless have a leadership role to play, as Flare is demonstrating.
FYI, Adam Serwer has an excellent review of the historical and political history of this problem in The Atlantic (link below). For the American experiment this is like a foundational weakness that must be corrected if the experiment is to succeed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/the-next-reconstruction/615475/
Thanks Rob – hope you are well. What a powerful Atlantic article – so tragic to see how history keeps repeating. Hopefully, advances in tech can start to bridge the gaps of racial inequities in healthcare
Tech is certainly a tool for change, or retrenchment, depending on the motivation of the people and institutions that use it. The question is whether we can break through the reluctance of people and institutions to recognize disparities and the harm they cause for victims and everyone's future. Hopefully this follows an arc of change similar to that of environmental quality/climate change.
Xi-Yong (Sean) Fu
I see systemic racism as a mechanistic bias in resource allocation. So when social shock hits the system, the disadvantaged groups always get hit the hardest. We know it is true for covid, because death can be easily measured, but it almost certainly goes beyond covid.
Really important observations, Sean. Hope you are well.
Roy Rosin
Outstanding post Michael. Thanks for writing it!
thanks, my friend.
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Doesnt really matter, we have 11 games before the World Cup, 5 of them against the home team where the WC will be held, same pitches. Then 2 warmup games as well.
That makes 7 ODI games not 11.
I don't think the PSL franchises would have been very happy with that.
LOL@ resting players during the PSL, is he for real?
And Malik has only experience in failing in the UK with a mighty 15 odd average.
Lol! Babar Azam doesn't make his WC squad.
Although it is visibly more of an emotional article by Yasir rather than an analytical one. Usually I have liked reading his blogs here. This one, for me, is not agreeable on many points.
Babar is not part of his worldcup squad?
So Abid Ali would be the permanent no 3 for the worldcup???
He changed his mind about the World Cup squad, I've updated it accordingly.
Well that's what he is saying - we need to make minds up about what is more important.
I agree with most of his comments. It is just unbelievable that you throw away an entire ODI series for experimental purposes.
Some poor planning by the PCB think-tank of late.
Resting players when they should be playing and playing players when they should be resting.


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Peter Swyn (* 1480 oder 1481 in Lehe; † 14. August 1537 ebenda) war ein wichtiger Anführer der Bauernrepublik Dithmarschen.

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Sein Vater war Reymer Swyn, von seiner Mutter ist nichts überliefert. Die Swynen, die erstmals 1329 urkundlich erwähnt wurden, bildeten zusammen mit den Nannen, deren erste Erwähnung aus dem Jahre 1386 stammt, das Geschlecht der Wurthmannen.

Peter Swyn hat vermutlich in Rostock studiert (wahrscheinliche Immatrikulation unter dem Namen "Petrus Blesse de Dithmercia" am 11. Mai 1496).

1499 wurde Peter Swyn Achtundvierziger. In der Schlacht bei Hemmingstedt 1500 stand er im Lundener Aufgebot. Am Hauptgefecht um die Schanze wird er jedoch nicht teilgenommen haben.

1508 ereignete sich das Scharmützel von Hemme: Weil ein Lundener Mädchen, das im Kirchspiel Neuenkirchen diente, ein uneheliches Kind gebar, zog Peter Swyn gemeinsam mit Bojen Herring aus, um diese Schande zu rächen. Sie verbrannten Mutter und Kind, die in einer Scheune schliefen. Diese Gewalttat weckte den Zorn der sogenannten Westerdöfft und der Kirchspiele Heide und Hemmingstedt. Es kam zu einer blutigen Fehde. Die Lundener verschanzten sich hinter den Mauern des Hemmer Kirchhofs. In dem folgenden Gefecht wurde einem Prediger aus Neuenkirchen ein Fuß abgeschossen. Dieser starb kurze Zeit später an seiner Verletzung. Nach einem weiteren blutigen Kampf auf der Flehder Feldmark, bei dem zwei Tote und zahlreiche Verletzte zu beklagen waren, gingen die Lundener als Sieger hervor. Es kam schließlich zu einem Vergleich.

1508 wurde eine Stiftung zur Unterstützung der Armen gegründet; zu den Gründungsmitgliedern gehörte auch Peter Swyn. Aus dieser Stiftung geht im Jahre 1518 die Pantaleonsgilde hervor.

1516 kaufte Peter Swyn Ablassbriefe, um die Schuld an der versehentlichen Verwundung des Predigers während der Fehde von 1508 zu tilgen. 1522 begab er sich auf die Wallfahrt nach Santiago de Compostela. Auch diese Reise steht im Zusammenhang mit der Todsünde der Priestertötung.

Im Jahr 1524 wurde der Reformator Heinrich von Zütphen ermordet. Obwohl Peter Swyn von einer voreiligen Verurteilung abriet, kam es zu einer Verschwörung. Maßgeblich beteiligt war neben dem Wurthmannen Peter Nanne auch Peter Swyns Sohn Henning. Am 9. Dezember wurde Heinrich aus Meldorf entführt und im Zuge der Aktion schwer misshandelt. Einen Tag später wurde er als Ketzer verurteilt, in Heide gefoltert und schließlich verbrannt. Die Ermordung des Reformators veranlasste Martin Luther, eine Schmähschrift gegen die Dithmarscher zu verfassen.

Unter dem Einfluss der Achtundvierziger Peter Swyn und Peter Nanne erlangte Lunden 1529 das Stadtrecht.

1537 setzte sich Peter Swyn für Reformen in Dithmarschen ein. Das einflussreiche Geschlecht der Russebollingmannen waren entschiedene Gegner dieser Neuordnungen. Darüber hinaus bestanden Streitigkeiten zwischen den beiden Geschlechtern, die schließlich in einer blutigen Fehde gipfelten. Die Morde und Blutrachen forderten vierzehn Menschenleben. Am 14. August wurde Peter Swyn das prominenteste Opfer. Als er mit seinem Pferd ausritt, wurde er am Goosweg in Lehe von bezahlten Mördern, den drei Bahren, von seinem Pferd heruntergerissen und erstochen. Peter Swyn wurde einen Tag später auf dem Lundener Geschlechterfriedhof beigesetzt. Ihm zu Ehren wurden drei Gedenksteine gesetzt, unter anderem eine Sandsteinstele, die im Relief seine Ermordung darstellt.
Die drei Bahren wurden als Mörder überführt und hingerichtet.

Sagen über Peter Swyn
In dem Kriege des Jahres 1500 machten die Dithmarschen große Beute. Zu keiner Zeit waren die Holsten mit so viel Kleinoden und Edelsteinen geschmückt und in so prächtigen Kleidern und kostbaren Rüstungen in den Krieg gezogen. So kriegten die Dithmarschen so viel Geld und Gut, als sie nie zuvor begehrt noch gewünscht hatten, also daß sie nicht groß darauf achteten, noch es ordentlich probieren ließen. Güldene Ketten, dieweil sie schwarz geworden waren, hielt man für Eisen und legte die Hunde daran, bis man sie erst beim Abschleißen erkannte.

Aus der Beute hatte Peter Swyn in Lunden, einer der achtundvierzig Regenten des Landes, ein kostbares sammetnes Wams gewonnen. Damit erschien er auf einem Fürstentage in Itzehoe und trug dabei ein paar weiße Webbeshosen. Ihn begleitete Junge Johanns Detlef; beide waren ein paar beredte scharfsinnige Männer von geschwindem Wort. Als die holsteinischen Herren den wunderlichen Anzug sahen, lachten sie darüber; aber Junge Johanns Detlef sprach alsobald zu ihnen: »Lachet doch nicht; denn wo der Wams geholt ward, hätte man auch wohl die Hosen Kriegen können, hätte Ehre und Zucht das nicht gehindert.« Auch erzählt man, man habe Peter Swyn selbst um seine Kleidung gefragt, woraus er geantwortet: »Das sammetne Wams trage ich, dieweil ich ein Landesherr bin; die Webbeshosen aber, weil ich ein Hausmann.«

Neocorus (und Hans Detleff) I, 229, 230.

Peter Swyn, der vornehmste Achtundvierziger zu seiner Zeit, ein Mann sein im Rat und stech in der Tat, brachte es dahin, daß auf den Morgen Land ein Sechsling Schatzung mehr gelegt ward, die vorhin nur ein Schilling gewesen. Deswegen wurden alle Leute auf ihn erbittert und ein ganzes Jahr lang hat er sich in seinem Hause zu Großlehe verborgen gehalten. Eines Tages aber wagte er sich zu seinen Kleiern aufs Feld, setzte sich aber aus Vorsicht zu Pferde. Doch kaum kam er auf den Acker, so sprangen die Kerle aus dem Graben und ermordeten ihn. Der Acker ist der, der zwei Wreden Mich von Lehe an dem Quer- und Gooswege rechter Hand liegt, und wo noch bis auf diesen Tag der große Stein steht, da ist die Stätte.

Harms, Gnomon S. 176. 2. Aufl., aus mündlicher Quelle."

Sonstiges
Der im Hochdeutschen gebräuchliche Spruch "Das kann kein Schwein lesen" wird auf Marcus Swyn, den Enkel von Peter Swyn zurückgeführt. Nach dem Ende der Bauernrepublik in Dithmarschen mussten Besitzdokumente vom Landvogt Marcus Swyn neu beglaubigt werden. Waren die Papiere unleserlich geworden, stellte man fest: "Das kann ja nicht einmal mehr ein Swyn lesen. – Dat kann keen Swyn lesen." Gesichert ist diese Herleitung allerdings nicht.

Literatur
 Eckardt Opitz: Peter Swyn in: Die unser Schatz und Reichtum sind. 60 Porträts aus Schleswig-Holstein. Christians, Hamburg 1990, S. 11–14 ISBN 3-7672-1115-7.
 Peter Swyn (1481/82): Ansprachen seines 450. Todestages am 15. August 1987 in der St.-Laurentiuskirche zu Lunden. Kultusminister des Landes Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 1987
 Adolf Bartels: Die Dithmarscher. Historischer Roman in 4 Büchern. Lipsius u. Tischer, Kiel u. Leipzig 1898.

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Universität Kiel
 Eine Dokumentation des Denksteines und des Grabsteines von Peter Swyn auf suehnekreuz.de.

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Each year, between 8,000 and 9,000 people nationwide complain to the government about nursing home evictions, according to federal data. That makes evictions the leading category of all nursing home complaints.
Sara Anderson and her father, Bruce Anderson, in 2015.
Sara and her father around 1985.
What if you had to go to the hospital, and when it came time to return home, your landlord said you couldn't move back in? Across the country, thousands of nursing home residents face that situation every year. In most cases, it's a violation of federal regulations. But those rules are rarely enforced by the states. So, in California, some nursing home residents are suing the state, hoping to force it to take action.
One of the plaintiffs is Bruce Anderson. Currently, he lives in a hospital room at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento. He's been there since May 28, 2015. That's when his former nursing home sent him to be treated for pneumonia. When he was cured, the nursing home refused to readmit him. The hospital hasn't yet found him another nursing home to go to. So the hospital room has been his home for 260 days. The cost to Medicaid to keep him there is about 2.5 times what his nursing home cost.
Bruce Anderson has a severe brain injury. It happened 11 years ago, when he had a heart attack and went without oxygen for several minutes. He was just 55 years old, and has lived in nursing homes ever since.
When his daughter Sara Anderson comes to visit, she asks what he did all day. He replies in a gravelly voice: "Nothing."
At the nursing home, Sara explains, there were activities for her dad. Bingo was a favorite. And the family could take him on outings. But in the hospital, Anderson can't simply come and go as he pleases, so he has just been sitting in his bed for the past nine months.
He has good days and bad days, says his sister, Sonja Bentley, who visits along with Sara. This is one of the good days, Sonja says.
Sara agrees: "He knew my name."
And that's rare, since Bruce Anderson usually thinks he's still in his 30s. Back then, Sara was only a baby. When she and Sonja visit now, they reminisce with him about his glory days, when he was a hunter, a fisherman and a well-known prankster in his small Central Valley town. Everybody remembers him, says Sara.
"Every single one of them goes, 'Oh, Bruce! He tried to drive a jeep up a tree once.' Or they all have some story about him," Sara says. "He was a legend."
Anderson is still a hell-raiser, but not in a good way, according to his former nursing home, Norwood Pines Alzheimer's Care Center. The home's legal representatives wouldn't comment. But in a recent court document they say that Anderson was combative, a danger to the staff and other residents. That would have been a legal reason to discharge him. Yet Norwood Pines never tried to do that in the nearly four years Anderson lived there.
So Sara Anderson was shocked when Norwood Pines wouldn't take him back. She appealed to the California Department of Health Care Services, which oversees Medicaid. The department held a hearing, and she won. Norwood Pines was ordered to readmit her father.
The nursing home still refused.
That's no surprise to Tony Chicotel, a staff attorney with California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.
"We have lots of cases where the state has found that it's appropriate for the residents to return, but then they don't do anything afterward," says Chicotel.
That's why his organization has joined with Bruce Anderson and two other nursing home residents in suing the state of California. They want a federal judge to make the state enforce its own rulings.
One reason that doesn't happen, says Chicotel, is that the department in charge of the appeal hearings for such evictions, the Department of Health Care Services, has nothing to do with disciplining nursing homes. That's the job of the Department of Public Health.
"It's easy to describe this situation as a Catch-22," says Chicotel. "Each agency does its own thing, and they don't work together very well, and the residents fall through the hole. But at this point I think [the problem] is indifference."
Chicotel says the residents most likely to be refused readmission fit a particular type. First, they're all on Medicaid, which pays nursing homes less than they get from Medicare or private insurance. Second, he says, these are patients who are behaviorally difficult to manage — for example, "residents with mental health issues or significantly advanced dementia, or maybe traumatic brain injury." They're undesirable, says Chicotel, "because they might take a disproportionate amount of labor time."
In other words, they're expensive to care for. Bruce Anderson, for example, requires someone to watch over him 24/7.
This is not just a California issue. Nationwide, between 8,000 and 9,000 people complain to the government about nursing home evictions every year. It's the leading category of all nursing home complaints, according to the federal Administration for Community Living.
Robyn Grant thinks the problem is even larger than reported. Grant would know: She's the public policy director for the nonprofit National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, so she hears about many nursing home evictions around the country like the ones in California.
"A lot of individuals, residents and their families, if they're told, 'You have to find another home,' just accept what the people in authority tell them and don't think they have any choices," Grant says. "They may not know that they have rights to challenge that eviction."
California officials wouldn't comment because of the lawsuit. But in their motion to dismiss it, they argue that nursing home residents already have plenty of options for defending their rights. Deborah Pacyna agrees. She's the director of public affairs for the California Association of Health Facilities, which represents nursing homes.
Nursing home residents can complain to the Department of Public Health, says Pacyna.
"The department can then investigate," she says. "They can impose daily fines, force the facility to put in a plan of correction. So, in our view, there are plenty of regulations on the books."
But California's Department of Public Health rarely uses those rules. State records show that, on average, just 11 nursing homes are fined each year for wrongly discharging a resident. And the average fine is only around $2,000.
Meanwhile, California taxpayers have paid well over $100,000 to keep Bruce Anderson in a hospital room that he tells his sister he can't wait to leave.
"I know," Sonja says, trying to soothe him. "We're going to get you out of here. We are."
Though when that might be — and where he'll go — no one in the family knows for sure.
Just imagine this scenario for a moment. You have to spend some time in the hospital. You come home, and your landlord says you can't move back in. You're evicted. This is actually happening around the country to people who live in nursing homes. Government rules do not allow this in most cases, but those rules are rarely enforced. And now in California, some nursing home residents are suing the state to force it to act. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.
STEPHANIE WOODS: How are you doing, honey? Do you remember me, Stephanie?
INA JAFFE, BYLINE: Nursing assistant Stephanie Woods gets along great with her patient, Bruce Anderson.
WOODS: Well, I'm going to come back and see you before I go home tonight, OK?
WOODS: Good seeing you, darling.
JAFFE: Bruce Anderson seems to be popular with the staff here at the Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento. They even gave him a handmade blanket to brighten up his room, which is nice, because this hospital room is where he lives now. He was transferred here from his nursing home late last May, when he came down with pneumonia. When he was cured, the nursing home wouldn't take him back. The hospital hasn't yet found another nursing home for him, so he's been in this room for 260 days, with Medicaid paying the hospital about two and a half times what it costs to keep him in the nursing home.
SARA ANDERSON: So what have you done today?
B. ANDERSON: Just laid here.
S. ANDERSON: Just laid there?
JAFFE: That's Sara Anderson, Bruce's daughter.
S. ANDERSON: Hey, you know what? I got an email from Charlie Fong. He said he came by and visited. Did you guys have a nice chat?
S. ANDERSON: You did? What did you guys talk about?
JAFFE: Bruce Anderson has a severe brain injury. It happened 11 years ago when he had a heart attack and went without oxygen for a few minutes. He was just 55 years old. He's lived in nursing homes ever since. His daughter says that at the nursing homes, there were activities for her dad - bingo was a favorite - and the family could take him on outings. But when you're in a hospital, you can't just come and go as you please. So Anderson's just been sitting in his bed for the past nine months. There's not much stimulation, but his sister, Sonia Bentley, says this is one of his good days.
SONIA BENTLEY: He's really alert today.
S. ANDERSON: He knew my name.
JAFFE: Which doesn't happen often, since Bruce Anderson usually thinks he's still in his early 30s, around the time his daughter was born. So Sara and Sonia reminisce with him about his glory days, when he was a hunter and a fisherman and a well-known prankster in his small Central Valley town. Everybody remembers him, says Sara.
S. ANDERSON: ...Some story about him. He was a legend.
JAFFE: Anderson is still a hell raiser, but not in a good way, according to his former nursing home, Norwood Pines Alzheimer's Care Center. The home's legal representatives wouldn't comment, but in a recent court document, they say that Bruce Anderson was combative - a danger to the staff and other residents. And that would have been a legal reason to discharge him. But Norwood Pines never tried to do that in the nearly four years Anderson lived there. So Sara Anderson was shocked when Norwood Pines wouldn't take him back. She appealed to the state. They held a hearing, and she won. Norwood Pines was ordered to readmit her father. They still refused. And that's how it usually goes, says Tony Chicotel of the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.
TONY CHICOTEL: We have lots of cases where the state has found that it's appropriate for the residents to return, but then they don't do anything afterward.
JAFFE: That's why his organization has joined with Bruce Anderson and two other nursing home residents in suing the state of California. They want a federal judge to make the state enforce its own rulings. One reason that doesn't happen, says Chicotel, is that the department that holds the hearings isn't allowed to sanction nursing homes. That's up to a completely different department.
CHICOTEL: It's easy to describe the situation as a Catch-22. Each agency does its own thing, and they don't work together very well, and residents fall through the hole. But at this point, I think it's indifference.
JAFFE: Chicotel says the residents most likely to be refused readmission fit a type. First, they're all on Medicaid, which pays the nursing homes less than they get from Medicare or private insurance. And second, they're difficult to manage.
CHICOTEL: And that's going to be residents with mental health issues or significantly advanced dementia or maybe traumatic brain injury and are undesirable for that reason - because they might take a disproportionate amount of labor time.
JAFFE: In other words, they're expensive to care for. Bruce Anderson, for example, requires someone to watch over him 24/7. Now, this is not just a California issue. Nationwide, between 8 and 9,000 people complain to the government about nursing home evictions every year. It's a leading category of all nursing home complaints, according to the Federal Administration for Community Living.
ROBYN GRANT: I really think that the problem is much bigger than reported.
JAFFE: That's Robyn Grant, the director of public policy for the nonprofit National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-term Care. She hears about nursing home evictions around the country similar to the ones in California.
GRANT: A lot of individuals - residents and their families - if they're told, you have to find another home, just accept, you know, what the people in authority tell them and don't think that they have any choices. They may not know that they have rights to challenge that eviction.
JAFFE: California officials wouldn't comment because of the lawsuit. But in their motion to dismiss it, they argued nursing home residents already have plenty of options for defending their rights. Deborah Pacyna agrees. She's the director of public affairs for the California Association of Health Facilities, which represents nursing homes.
DEBORAH PACYNA: They can complain to the Department of Public Health. The department can then investigate. They can impose daily fines, force the facility to put in a plan of correction. So in our view, there are plenty of regulations on the books.
JAFFE: But California's Department of Public Health rarely uses them. State records show that on average, just enough 11 nursing homes are fined each year for wrongly discharging a resident, and the average amount of the fines is around $2,000.
BENTLEY: You want a Hershey's Kiss or a Reese's?
JAFFE: Meanwhile, it's cost California taxpayers well $100,000 to keep Bruce Anderson in a hospital room he tells his sister he can't wait to leave.
B. ANDERSON: I want to go home now.
BENTLEY: I know. We're going to get you out of here. We are.
JAFFE: Though when that might be, and where he'll go, no one in the family knows for sure. Ina Jaffe, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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if we get cdn banned can we still install game updates via nsp? tinfoil/sxox? if not in the right section mods can move it or remove it. i could care less about getting banned (i know the risks) just wondering .
I heard Freeshop is risky as it could cause you a full (hard) ban.
I'd advise you to use cdn instead as it won't be using your console certificate.


Graduate School Admissions Guidebook: How to Get in to Grad School?
Applying to graduate school is a lot of work, and often, prospective students don't know where to start or what to showcase in their school applications. Discover what graduate admissions departments look for in candidates, learn how to craft a winning admission essay, and find resources and expert tips to help you navigate the admissions process.
Applying to graduate school is nothing if not a complex process - organizational skills are must. Prospective students preparing to apply to schools should invest in a calendar to help keep them on track through the various steps in the process.
Review the following application timeline for an in-depth look at what the application process may detail.
The interest left standing is your area of concentration. With your program in mind and the research you've completed, make a list of potential schools.
Start researching your program at those institutions more in depth. Research online and request materials about your program of interest from those schools.
As you research keep costs in mind and potential financial aid sources, application requirements for each school and deadlines.
Carefully examine each of the program application. Write down any questions you have and make a list of required application materials: letters of recommendation, admissions essays, transcripts, standardized test scores, resume, and work or writing samples.
Visit potential schools and connect with current students in the program. Faculty members are busy, so simply send a quick email introducing yourself and your interest in the program.
Contact three qualified references including former professors, employers and friends to provide letters of recommendation regarding your character, work ethic and academic performance.
Gather letters of recommendation, fill out application forms and write statement of purpose/personal statement, and graduate admissions essays.
Make sure transcripts are up to date and request copies from the registrar's office. Apply for fellowships, grants and scholarships to help offset the costs of school.
Take required tests this month such as the GRE, LSAT, MCAT or GMAT.
Complete the application forms for each program, and meet with faculty to review your writing.
Submit applications and all required materials (including financial aid documents for each institution) at least two weeks before they're due.
Create a contingency plan in case you're not accepted by your top choice.
Follow up before the deadline to ensure everything is in order with your application.
Most schools send an email upon receipt of each application — keep track of these.
If you don't receive a postcard or email, contact the admissions office to ensure that your application has been received before the deadline.
Follow up regarding the status of your application before the notification deadline.
Write or revise any scholarly writing or research samples to accompany your applications if requested, and re-take standardized tests if required.
Complete and submit any applications for programs with rolling admissions or late deadlines.
You will begin to receive letters offering admission, offering you a place on a waiting list or kindly denying your admission.
It's good practice to wait until you have heard from all programs before making your final decision about which institution to attend.
Make sure you have completed your FAFSA form if you're applying for need-based financial assistance. Financial awards of a merit nature are generally included with your acceptance letter. The application for need-based aid may take longer to process.
Make last-minute visits to schools that have offered admission, either to see them for the first time or to re-visit those that are on your list.
If you do visit, plan ahead and make appointments with key individuals and prepare appropriate questions based on thoughtful homework.
Depending on your field, you may be invited to interview at some of your potential schools. Start planning for the admissions interviews, and prepare answers to common questions.
If an interview is optional, take it. You'll gain more information about the program and to what extent it meets your needs.
Accept an offer. By doing so and paying a deposit, you are indicating that you have decided not to accept any other offers. To do otherwise in an effort to keep your options open is unethical. Also, many schools compare notes, and you may jeopardize your standing with both schools/programs.
Once your decision is made, notify all admissions offices where you applied of your decision.
Send thank-you notes to those who took the time to write your letters of recommendation and others who assisted you and inform them of your plans. It's important to maintain lines of communication with contacts and references for the future.
The clearer and more concise applicants are able to articulate why they are interested in pursuing a specific degree and what they hope to do with it will help the committee have a clear picture of the applicants. Earlier conversations with the program to determine the mission and goals of the program and how the applicant may contribute in this context (which is where experience, desire, commitment come in to play) are advisable as well.
Your essay is just one of hundreds read by admissions officers every day. So make it stand out. Separate yourself from what is sure to be a highly qualified and competitive group of applicants. Take this singular opportunity to introduce the committee to the person behind the letters of recommendation, application and transcripts. Tell admissions something they don't know about you. Get personal.
Use your own — albeit professional — voice, avoiding long words and jargon to weave bits and pieces of your personal history throughout your essay. Use concise, select experiences to answer the when's, how's and why's of your academic and professional goals and to highlight an achievement or work opportunity.
Your essay is pivotal. Engaging and well-written, it has the power to trump low test scores or a weak GPA. So give yourself several weeks to write your essay. Getting started is generally the most difficult part, and you may find that you start over several times. It's to be expected. But by giving yourself ample time, you can write, ruminate, review and make edits. You have time for others to review your essay(s) and provide valuable feedback.
If you're applying to more than one school, don't submit a blanket essay to each institution — giving yourself several weeks allows you the time to appropriate your essay to fit each program. And simply crafting your essays simultaneously preps you for potential interviews.
Decide what you want to communicate. Everything you include in your essay should point to that message. Here are a few tips and a simple outline to send you in the right direction.
There are a couple of ways to introduce yourself, and beginning the paragraph with "Hello. My name … " is not one of them. Try a more creative and personal approach. Write a short two- or three-sentence anecdote that captures your personality and succinctly describes your initial curiosity in your choice of field. You might start with a quote or question significant to the program, course of study and your interest.
"It was a Wednesday when my seventh grade English teacher handed me a copy of "Catcher in the Rye" and told me to read it. I poured through the book, and Monday morning found myself..."
Why/how did your interest in the field continue?
Are there any personal experiences that influenced your academic/career goals?
What continues to motivate you in your pursuits?
"I found myself drawn to male writers — an inclination I credit to the absence of a father in my life. I searched for him..."
What is special about you? What character traits do you possess worth mentioning? Be selective and show, don't tell.
Have you overcome any personal hardships to get where you are?
Highlight applicable work experience, research and/or undergraduate accomplishments, and make it personal. Don't regurgitate your application or resume.
"I'm resilient and determined. I was raised by a single mother of five children who encouraged my academic pursuits, but had little to no money to contribute to my education. Undeterred, I did it myself by..."
Researching the mission and direction of the program can help you appropriate your goals in your essay.
What do you hope to learn through your contribution to the program?
What is the significance of the program in terms of your academic and career goals?
"I would be hard-pressed to choose between male writers of the early 20th and late 20th century. The opportunity to study both generations of writers within the context of their political, social and personal environments would..."
What do you want to get out of the program?
Explain what you hope to accomplish with your degree.
How will it put you on the career path of your choice?
"Broadening my perspective of the male voice in literature during the last century will allow me to..."
Tie it back in to your introduction.
"Yes. The search for my father continues. But through literature"
Use proper grammar, syntax and spelling. Review your essays, and have a colleague review them as well.
If exact length is not specified, limit the essay to two pages.
Avoid controversial topics and make sure you respond to any questions that are required.
Don't oversell yourself, and don't try and guess what the committee wants to hear.
Avoid mention of pre-college accomplishments unless they directly relate to your field.
Your weaknesses — low GPA, low test scores, lack of work experience — don't belong in your essay.
What do you look for in a graduate school applicant?
It varies by graduate program and discipline. Each graduate program has an admissions committee that will review applications using their own established criteria to review and compare applicants for admission. Applicants would do well to communicate with the intended program of admission to try to determine for themselves what the admissions committee is looking for in an ideal applicant.
Alternatively, they could also speak to a current graduate student in that program to gain insights from them. I do think it's fair to say that all graduate programs are looking to create a cohort of students who have the capacity to enhance the conversation in the classroom and make a significant difference in their field of study. Of course, research-based programs also look for an aligned research interest with faculty in that particular program.
What qualifications do you seek in prospective students?
Keep in mind these are minimum requirements. At any institution you'll want to study the specific qualifications for the program to which you're applying. Keep in mind, however, that while GPA and test scores are important for graduate admissions, there are other qualifying factors to consider. For certain programs fieldwork, work experience and research, for example, may carry more significance than grades and test scores alone.
Can you detail the admissions process?
Like many schools, applications for graduate school at BYU are available and submitted online. There are, however, institutions that still accept paper applications. Inquire with the programs to which you're applying their process for submitting application materials.
At BYU, International transcripts and degree certificates are mailed to a third party credential evaluation service provider. This varies among institutions, however, and students should inquire with their prospective programs. Required test scores through ETS or TOEFL or IELTS can all be sent electronically to a majority of institutions, including BYU, at the request of the applicant. For professional programs — think MBA — an admissions committee will weigh work experience and goals differently than a research-based program. There are a number of programs that also request an interview during the process, though not all programs require this application component.
Do you have tips for preparation or presentation of your materials?
As mentioned previously, we suggest applicants visit with current students in their program of interest and with graduate coordinators so they understand what the department is looking for and how they can best showcase that in their application materials. For example, if you're applying for a research-based program, aligning yourself with a faculty member who is doing research that interests you is always beneficial, as they can advocate for your admission. In addition, applicants should submit their materials as soon as possible to allow for full consideration.
Is it OK for students to contact the admissions department with questions before the application deadline?
Yes. That said, we encourage prospective students to do as much of their own due diligence before contacting the admissions office.
What are the most common do's and don'ts of the admissions process?
Generally, don't have your parents submit your application for you.
Don't be rude or demeaning in your communication with the admissions staff regarding your application.
Don't procrastinate submitting your application.
Don't just assume that your recommenders will write a favorable letter.
Don't give up if you are not recommended for admission.
Be proactive in the process and know what your responsibilities are.
Communicate with the graduate program that you intend to apply to and make yourself known to key people by asking questions.
What comprises a winning admissions essay?
This is subjective and varies by graduate program — each admissions committee will review the statement of intent or admissions essay using its own established criteria or rubric to review and compare applicants.
While we consider criteria such as GPA and test scores, most programs look for experience in the core competencies needed to be successful in a graduate program. Related experience, fieldwork, research and industry also help frame an applicant's ability to enhance and contribute to the conversation. In other words, there is a lot of information that can be considered if you are applying to graduate study rather than just your GPA, ACT score and perhaps extra-curricular activities. Additionally, specific experience can trump what might be considered a low GPA or test score in a graduate program context.
While some similarities exist between undergraduate and graduate programs, there are some key differences between the two. Easily compare how graduate school differs from an undergraduate program to better prepare for graduate school applications.
ADMISSONS Focus on high school achievement; extracurricular activities; personality; institutional fit. Focus on professional and personal experience as it applies to specific department degree programs; research and industry experience.
LENGTH OF PROGRAM Typically 4 years Shortest: 1 ½ years, but can be completed with 4 years.
Applying to graduate school can be time consuming, confusing and often, overwhelming. To help ease the process, we have compiled a variety of writing, time management and application essay resources below.
From writing tips to strategies for crafting a standout application essay, Harvard's writing center has a wide variety of resources to help students improve their writing capabilities.
Review a step-by-step process for applying to graduate school including researching programs, what to include in your application and requesting letters of recommendation.
Learn how to improve time management skills which can prove helpful during the graduate school application process to working through a graduate degree program.
Find tips and tools for time management, scheduling, goals, and self-motivation.
Discover what a strong letter of recommendation should include, who to ask and how to submit them with your graduate school applications.


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BREAKING: New IGP Addresses Nigerians After Taking Over
The new acting inspector general of police, Usman Alkali Baba has addressed Nigerians after he takes over from Muhammed Adamu on Wednesday.
DAILY GIST reports that Usman Baba was appointed as the New IGP by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday.
Speaking after the wednesday inauguration, Baba promised Nigerians to expect an improvement in the insecurity challenges Nigeria is currently facing.
Baba noted the the police have tried their best in securing the country, but admits it's not enough.
In his word: "You will see improvement on where my predecessor has left. I came in at a very challenging time. I know it. I recognise it and I will work on how to improve from where my predecessor has left," he said.
"I have been a member of the management team. We have tried to do our best, but it's not enough. There is room for improvement.
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"Nigerians should expect improvement on the security situation. And Nigerians should also collaborate and cooperate with us. With all the inadequacies we have, we still require everybody to be part of policing in this country."
Baba said he will build a police force that will protect human rights, adding that he is mindful of the yearnings of Nigerians.
He acknowledged that his appointment comes at a time the country is experiencing security threats such as terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, secessionist agitation, and organised crimes.
"Much as the challenge of leading the force to address these threats in the shortest possible time frame, restore security order, and return our beloved nation to the path of national unity may appear daunting, I am inspired by the fact that from my extensive years of service, I can confidently say that the Nigeria police is endowed with some of the finest, courageous and patriotic officers who, undoubtedly, shall support me to advance the internal security vision of Mr. President," he said.
"I am also encouraged by the fact that the outgoing IGP has laid a solid foundation and entrenched a culture of professional efficiency in the Force. These will stimulate me in my capacity as the new acting IGP, to strengthen our strategies and provide the requisite leadership that will change the narratives in relation to our operational approach to the current security threats."
Baba said he will provide "the highest possible level of professional and responsive leadership" while on the job.
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Q: Application of Derivatives: $f(x)f'(x) \ge x\sqrt{1 - (f(x))^4}$ Let $f$ be a continuous and differentiable function in $(a,b)$. If $f(x)f'(x) \ge x\sqrt{1 - (f(x))^4}$ and $\lim_{x\to a^+}(f(x))^2 = 1$ and $\lim_{x\to b^-} (f(x))^2 = \frac 12$; for $x \in (a,b)$; then prove that $a^2 - b^2 \ge \frac \pi3$. Assume that $\lim_{x\to a} f(g(x) = f(\lim_{x\to a}g(x))$ holds true.

A: Let $y=(f(x)) ^{2}$ then we can see that $$\int_{a}^{b} \frac{f(x) f'(x)} {\sqrt{1-(f(x))^{4}}}=-\frac{1}{2}\int_{1/2}^{1}\frac{dy}{\sqrt{1-y^{2}}}=-\frac{\pi} {6}$$ and this is greater than or equal to $\int_{a} ^{b} x\, dx$ and we are done.

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Following the first board meeting of 2019, the French-American Foundation offered a discussion that focuses on the Yellow Vest Movement, or Les Gilets jaunes, in France. The meeting brought together board members, Young Leaders, Transatlantic Forum members, and friends of the Foundation to examine the history behind the movement and its impacts on the country and the transatlantic relationship. Leading the discussion was Emmanuele Ferragina of Science Po Paris and the University of Oxford and Richard Fontaine of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).
Emanuele Ferragina: Emanuele Ferragina is Associate Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po Paris, a member of the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC, CNRS) and the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire d'Evaluation des Politiques Publiques (LIEPP). Prior to Sciences Po, he was a Lecturer at the University of Oxford where he also received his PhD. Emanuele is interested in comparative social policy. Besides academia, he has established the think tank Fonderia Oxford, he is a columnist for the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, and he has appeared in several Italian political talk shows on issues related to the welfare state and inequality. He is currently a visiting Alliance scholar at Columbia University.
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Ex-Red Sox prospect and current White Sox flamethrower Michael Kopech is the latest baseball player to apologize for resurfaced offensive tweets he wrote in his younger years. This is a troubling trend.
Kopech, who made his Major League debut with the White Sox Tuesday, said the anti-gay and racist messages don't reflect who he is. One of the now-deleted missives included the N-word.
"I had to delete some stuff," he said, per the Chicago Sun-Times. "Things I said that were immature and inappropriate. I used some poor language in there. Obviously, I'm trying to be looked at as a role model and the last thing I want to do is have some kid look at what I'm saying and take it the wrong way.
The Red Sox traded Kopech to the White Sox in 2016 as part of the Chris Sale trade. Kopech, 22, is one of the highest-ranked prospects in baseball, featuring a fastball that routinely touches 100 mph. He struck out four batters in two innings during his big league debut, which was shortened due to rain.
Several baseball players have recently addressed old homophobic, racist, or sexist tweets they sent during their high school and college years. In the past month, Brewers reliever Josh Hader, Nationals third baseman Trae Turner and Braves hurler Sean Newcomb have all issued apologies for their ignorance.
While players shouldn't be defined by tweets they sent during their formative years, the slurs aren't meaningless, either. They're a reminder of the casual homophobia and bigotry that's still regularly part of people's vernacular. Speaking of which, while Kopech addressed his derogative tweets on the South Side of Chicago, new Cubs second baseman Daniel Murphy was speaking about his previous anti-gay statements on the north side of the city. In 2015, Murphy said he disagrees with MLB Ambassador of Inclusion Billy Bean's gay "lifestyle."
When Murphy was asked to address gay Cubs fans who may feel uncomfortable with his signing, he said, "Oh dear," and didn't expound on his previous comments. Murphy did talk about his newfound friendship with Bean, as if that expunges his previous words from the record.
The average MLB viewer is 57 years old, according to Sports Business Journal. As a result, the league is desperately trying to attract younger and more diverse fans. These kinds of stories don't help. The apologies are fine, but those who have spouted offensive language should solely be judged on their actions going forward.


This weekend was Mission: Get Rid of the Pumpkin, so when I found this Short Rib & Pumpkin Chili, I knew I was a goner!
Reduce the amount of meat. The recipe calls for 5 lbs. of short ribs (bone in), but I would reduce this to 3 1/2 or 4 lbs. The end product chili was approximately 80 percent meat, if not more, which for me is just a bit higher than I want it to be.
Increase the liquid, especially water / stock. The chili did not have nearly enough liquid, and as mentioned, was pretty much a bowl of meat. It didn't burn, and I think the recipe as written does work but for me, I would more liquid to help cut a bit of the richness of the meat and spread it out. Granted, it was incredibly tasty meat, but for me to consider this a chili, there needs to be a lot more liquid.
To note: the beer is good as welll, but I wouldn't increase only the beer, as that is very rich as well and the final chili ends up being quite rich. A weaker beer like a Bud Light might even be better.
Increase the amount of pumpkin and beans. Similar to the above, the final product was so short rib-heavy, I would have loved to have a little more of the other ingredients, with more black beans, and certainly more pumpkin (you could nearly double it).
I will admit that I perhaps cooked mine a little long, although followed the recipe. The pumpkin and black beans were a little bit on the overcooked / overly soft side, but all in all, the main goal was to make sure the meat was really fall apart tender, and it was (and it tasted amazing).
It was probably the most spiced (not hot spicy, but complex spicy) chili that I've ever made, but I really enjoyed it and I would certainly make it again, with the modifications above!
You can find the full recipe here. Let me know what you think!


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Enjoy a cup of joe every morning with this adorable Valentine's Day-inspired mug set. With their simple (yet festive) design, these glazed stoneware mugs are a great way to spread the love. Grab the whole collection with bowls, platters, and plates for a fun themed display you can set out for anniversaries, V-Day, and other special occasions.
Celebrate Valentine's Day in style with these unique heart-shaped coasters. Each coaster is hand-carved from real marble giving you one-of-a-kind veining and coloring. They're protected by a silken matte finish that enhances the stone's natural beauty, and sturdy feet help prevent slips and scratches on your table.
Set the mood with these classic mercury glass votives. The multifaceted glass gives off a shimmery, soft pink glow when you place a tea candle (or flameless candle) inside. Put them on your table for a romantic candlelit dinner or along your bath for a relaxing retreat after a long day.
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The Modern Cotton Body throw is crafted of a soft cotton blend knit, and accented by Calvin Klein's cropped logo.
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Tech companies are claiming the letter sent to Congress earlier this month urging lawmakers to resume work on cyber security legislation did not endorse any specific bill.
A privacy group launched an online protest, YouBetrayedUs, after the BSA Software Alliance, a consortium of software companies, sent a letter earlier this month to Congress that seemed to endorse the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). The group, Fight for the Future, called out the BSA and the 13 tech companies that signed the letter for ignoring user privacy and urged supporters to boycott the companies.
The BSA issued a statement Friday clarifying that the letter's purpose was to identify five key areas where Congress can pass legislation to strengthen the policy environment around digital commerce. The five areas covered reforming the Email Privacy Act, modernizing the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, and passing legislation for cyber threat information sharing, the Judicial Redress Act, and the Law Enforcement Access to Data Stored Abroad (LEADS) Act. The BSA said it does not support any of the three information sharing bills currently pending before Congress: CISA, the Protecting Cyber Networks Act (PCNA), and the National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act (NCPAA).
"The letter did not endorse any specific legislation in its current form," the BSA said in its statement.
The Sept. 14 letter, an "appeal for urgent action by Congress on five pending legislative efforts that will have an immediate positive impact on the digital economy," was signed by executives from Adobe, Altium, Apple, Autodesk, CA Technologies, DataStax, IBM, Microsoft, Minitab, Oracle, Salesforce, Siemens, and Symantec, along with the president and CEO of BSA.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff also took to Twitter Friday to explain to outraged customers that Salesforce did not endorse CISA. "The letter clearly was a mistake and doesn't imply CISA support. We need to clarify. I'm against it," Benioff wrote on Twitter. He denied the company was backpedaling, saying the letter's original intent had been misconstrued.
BSA -- and by extension, the other companies who signed the letter -- reaffirmed its focus on user privacy and said the bills need strong privacy protections before they can become law. Congress needs to focus on a program of real-time sharing of cyber threat information with protection for privacy and civil liberties, modernizing the public-private partnership protecting the critical cyber infrastructure without putting undue regulatory burdens on industry, supporting research and development efforts with more resources, giving federal IT staff authority and responsibility for handling vulnerabilities in government IT systems, and increasing the tools available to law enforcement, it said. The BSA also wants a uniform national data breach notification standard to inform customers when their personal data has been compromised.
"We will not support any information sharing legislation that does not include appropriate privacy safeguards," the BSA said in the statement.
Currently circulating in the Senate, CISA has been the subject of intense lobbying by privacy groups and security experts over the past few months. Privacy advocates and security experts were concerned about the broad language regarding information sharing and the liability protections would result in companies handing over user data without any legal repercussions. The problems with the broad use permissions led the the Center for Democracy and Technology to claim the bill "is as much about surveillance as it is about cyber security."
The House passed NCPAA and PCNA, complementary information-sharing bills, back in April. NCPAA would provide liability protections for companies sharing cyber threat information with the Department of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC). NCPPA includes provisions to limit the privacy impact of information sharing, including a prohibition on federal use of shared information to engage in surveillance for the purpose of tracking individuals' personally identifiable information.
Like NCPAA, PCNA is designed to encourage companies to share information cyber security risks, but with civilian agencies instead of DHS. PCNA will also allow the federal government to share cyber threat information with private entities, nonfederal government agencies, and state, tribal, and local governments.
The two bills are expected to be combined and sent to the Senate, awaiting the results of the CISA vote. At this point, it's not clear when the Senate will pick up CISA and its 22 amendments.
"At Salesforce, trust is our No. 1 value and nothing is more important to our company than the privacy of our customers' data," Burke Norton, chief legal officer of Salesforce (and the signer of the original letter), said in a statement.


Ask them to tell a familiar story in their own words. Through a simple activity such as recounting a fun experience, you will have introduced your toddler to the concept of storytelling.
A new generation of toddlers these days is extremely intelligent. Unfortunately, their smarts aren't always channelised in the right way as they are fed an unhealthy diet of mind-numbing, screen-derived entertainment. As parents and guardians, we have an opportunity to initiate a movement where these toddlers could grow into well-informed, aware, well-read, intellectually astute and curious individuals.
The atmosphere that parents create at home translates directly into what a toddler imbibes. If at home, the child is surrounded by Bollywood music, that is what he or she will naturally gravitate towards. Sharing rhymes, telling kids stories (even if they seem to not understand), is a great way of starting to build a literary foundation. Oral traditions of storytelling have stood the test of time and prove to be an immensely effective tool, not only to introduce literature to children but also of providing entertainment to them. If you feel that the child will get bored, that will happen only if the child's exposure so far has been video-content. Eventually, they will be delighted and listen with rapt attention to anything that is orally spoken—be it a story from the Panchatantra, a moral story or a nature poem.
Try to vary the stories that you are sharing with your toddler. As the parent of a toddler myself, we try and intersperse our storytelling and rhymes with recounting incidents, outings, experiences that have actually taken place. For instance, if you have taken your toddler to a play area or met a few other toddlers during a play-date, recount that as an oral story later. They will absolutely love it, and want to listen to it over and over. It is this sense of reliving their most exciting activity that they crave. By recapping that experience, you give your toddler a real and identifiable sense of a 'tale' while also provides immersive storytelling. This activity can then be followed by asking them to tell a familiar story in their own words. While they may struggle to articulate sentences, they will try, and this will give encouragement, and more importantly, context and content to actually speak about. Through a simple activity such as recounting a fun experience, you will have introduced your toddler to the concept of a story, the fun element, entertainment value and a chance to speak for himself or herself.
It isn't true that all technology is bad or harmful for very young kids. As long as one can avoid screens and phones, one is safe. In fact, technology can be used to harness a literary orientation. Audio stimulus is especially effective in this regard. If one is using a home-automation device such as the Echo, there are several skills one can enable on that device which can come in handy to introduce literary activities in a toddler's activity scheme. All the various oral narrations can then by supplemented by more rhymes, poems and spoken stories through various apps on these devices. Additionally, there are many interesting skills such as Animal Sounds. These tools are entertaining for the child, at the same time, informative and educational.
Ultimately though, a child does what he or she observes a parent or an elder doing. If you make it a point to do your own reading in front of the child, chances of them being predisposed to the idea of books and reading are infinitely higher. So we must try and surround the toddler with activities that we would like him or her to participate in.
Finally, toddlers should be introduced to their own books as early as possible. There are picture books, where they can learn the basics about shapes, animals, colours. Books that can be read out to them with simple, basic, one or two line stories accompanied by interesting visuals. If we can get toddlers into the habit of a dedicated reading time each day, we would have inculcated the much-needed reading habit right from the outset. Books can also be used as rewards and gifts rather than other products. Visits to bookstores, book fairs, even when you may feel a toddler is bored or isn't comprehending what's going on, is encouraged simply because even kids that young are more perceptive than we give them credit for.
Ultimately, it requires an entire eco-system of literature to be created around the toddler for him or her to become familiar, start enjoying, and eventually fall in love with the world of literature. If only we are a little conscious about certain things that are to be avoided, and others that are to be facilitated, we can easily lay a robust literary base for toddlers who will organically grow up to love stories, poems, and any kind of writing.


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JEX, William and Eliza
Derek Rowley January 6, 2021
Taken from Orson Whitney's history of Utah, Vol. 4
THIS worthy pair, the prolific though now aged parents of a numerous flock of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, about one hundred in all, stand at the head of one of the leading families of Spanish Fork, in which town they have resided since the time of "the move," when the inhabitants of most of the northern Utah settlements fled southward at the coming of Johnston's army. Prior to that period they bad lived for several years in Salt Lake City. They wore originally from England, where as young people they joined the Latter-day Church, at the usual sacrifice of home and friends, and were married on ship-board, February 22, 1854, soon after embarking for America.
William and Eliza Goodson Jex
William Jex came from Crostwick, in Norfolk, where he was born September 5, 1831. The son of William and Ann (Ward) Jex, he was one of four children, three of whom died in England. William was but seven years old at the time of his father's death, which event deprived him of all but two months' schooling and forced him into service at the tender age of twelve. He worked for a wealthy farmer named Howlett, and received a shilling a week, boarding and clothing himself; but his wages were gradually increased until he was paid eight pounds a year, which was considered good wages.
He was about twenty-two when he heard the Gospel preached by the Elders, and being converted to the "Mormon" faith, was baptized March 3, 1853.
His future wife, Eliza Goodson, daughter of John and Sarah Traxon, had also become a Latter-day Saint, and was on the same ship, the sailing vessel "Windermere," when on January 31, 1854, he went aboard, bound for New Orleans. For three weeks they lay in harbor, awaiting favorable conditions for sailing, and it was during this delay that the young couple were married, Daniel Kearns performing the ceremony that made them one. A rough passage of nine weeks and four days brought them to the mouth of the Mississippi river, from which point they proceeded as soon as possible to the outfitting post on the frontier, whence they traveled to Utah in Dr. Richardson's ox team train, reaching Salt Lake City on the 30th of September.
A farmer from childhood, Mr. Jex found his vocation and the experience it had given him, just so much ready capital with which to begin life anew in the half desolate region which was then his home. While farming in a small way, like most of his fellow settlers, he turned his hand to any kind of honest toil that offered remuneration. He labored on the foundation of the Salt Lake Temple and upon the wall enclosing the temple square. In the fall of 1855 he was among those assigned to take Church cattle to Cache Valley, where the sole evidence of civilization in that now populous and thriving section, was one little lonely log cabin. During the grasshopper raids of early years he and his family were driven to the necessity of subsisting for weeks at a time on roots and thistles, dug from land now in the neighborhood of the Rio Grande Western railroad depot.
In the fall and winter of 1857 he was in Echo canyon as a militiaman, helping to construct earthworks to repel the invader; his family meantime dwelling in a little adobe hut, almost destitute of food and clothing. Returning from this military expedition, he followed the example of the citizens in general, and having prepared his small home for buining, if necessary, joined in the move south, proceeding to Spanish Fork, where he settled permanently.
Mr. Jex spent many years in the canyons, running sawmills, and having charge of canyon road work. He was active in defending the settlements from the encroachments of the red men, and was at the battle of Diamond creek, where he and fourteen other volunteers fought the Indians and recovered a large number of stolen cattle. In this fight a man named Edmonds was killed and scalped, and Albert Dimock mortally wounded. Mr. Jex went with Bishop A. K. Thurber, George Bean and two Indian chiefs, to Rabbit Valley in 1877, to make peace with the savages and explore the country with a view to the formation of settlements.
His civic record comprises six years as city councilman and several years as school trustee. A devout Latter-day Saint, he is now senior President of the Fifth Quorum of Seventy. His wife served for many years as President of the Ward Relief Society.
In 1880 he organized the Jex Lumber Company, which was incorporated in [illegible] and of which he is still president and manager. The annual business of this concern is about fifty thousand dollars.
Father Jex practiced the patriarchal order of marriage, marrying as a second wife Jemima Cox, by whom he had four children, all dying young. The mother also dead.
By his first wife, Eliza Goodson Jex, he is the father of eleven children, four sons and seven daughters, all exemplary and respected members of the community. His family group, with its connections, includes four Bishops, sixteen ward officers, four stake officers, the postmaster and the mayor of Spanish Fork.
During his seventy three years of mortal life, the venerable head of the house, a man of unquestioned integrity sustained and aided by the loyal devotion of the loving wife of his youth, has done his utmost, at all times and places, for the development of the country, the rearing of righteous posterity, and the carving out of a useful and honorable career.
That success has crowned his efforts and those of his faithful companion, is abundantly manifest. They have prospered both spiritually and temporally; their sons and daughters up and bless them; and wherever known they are sincerely and deservedly esteem.
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Q: Detect multiple Simultaneous Live Streams on Youtube I'm trying to find a way to detect multiple live simultaneous streams on a same youtube channels.
I want to avoid using the search from the API because of the cost (100) and used since now the "get methods" by using this url : https://www.youtube.com/channel/CHANNEL_ID/live.
But when there is multiple streams in the same time this url seems to redirect only to one of the live.
Does anybody have a magic trick for that ?
I'm using Python and made something like that :
def get_channel_live_url(p_channelID):
    LiveChannelVideo = re.compile(r'https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v=(.*)')

    urlpage = 'https://youtube.com/channel/'+p_channelID+'/live'
    links = browse_and_return_balise(urlpage, balise='link', rel='canonical')
    for link in links:
        isLiveChannelVideo = LiveChannelVideo.search(link['href'])
        if isLiveChannelVideo != None:
            return isLiveChannelVideo.group(1)

where browse_and_return_balise are something like that :
def browse_and_return_balise(url, balise='a', class_=None, attrs=None, rel=None):
   result = []
   page = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
   soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html.parser')
   result = soup.find_all(balise, class_=class_, attrs=attrs, rel=rel)
   # Collect all links
   return result

The issue is that when a youtube channel broadcast 2 live at the same time I only catch the first one.


Zhang Jian's oil paintings are filled with small toys embodying them with emotion. Zhang may be painting the toys, yet shows concerns about the culture and humanity. Questioning reality and illusion, Zhang's intention is to shock the viewer triggering thought and reflection.


ASTANA. 22.01.2010. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ All extracting companies must pay taxes according to the new legislation; President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has said it today at the session in Akorda. The President noted that all foreign investors dealing with oil and gas extraction work according to contracts providing tax liability under the applicable law. "When our tax officers come they have to bring huge bags with legislation documents to find information how impose taxes on our investors working at oil and gas deposits of our country", the President stated. The Head of the State urged the Government to develop the issue so that all extracting companies were imposed with taxes according to the current law.


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