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Arizona sets record for COVID-19 patients in ICU | TheHill
Arizona is reporting a record number of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) who have or are suspected to have the coronavirus, announcing more than 10,000 new cases and 42 more deaths due to the virus on Sunday.
The Arizona Republic reported on Monday that 4,390 hospitalized COVID-19 patients were confirmed the day before, significantly higher than the peak of 3,517 observed in the summer. Some 1,007 suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients were in ICUs, beating the previous record of 970 in July.
According to Arizona’s coronavirus data dashboard, 91 percent of ICU beds in the state are occupied and more than half by COVID-19 patients. There are currently fewer than 200 ICU beds and 1,000 non-ICU beds available, reports the Republic.
Source: Arizona sets record for COVID-19 patients in ICU | TheHill
State sends team to help with overflow coronavirus conditions at LA County hospitals, Newsom says – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
The teams sent by the state would assess the needs of hospitals in terms of staffing, personal protective gear, oxygen machines and ventilators.
“We’ve been able to take that information and are sending a new team embedded at LA County hospitals to encourage load leveling and greater coordination,” said Newsom, meaning that hospitals will work together to transfer patients from those most severely impacted to those with fewer demands.
Newsom said the impacts to hospitals will begin to be seen among patients receiving care for non-COVID related issues. Across the state 86 hospitals were granted staffing waivers, but those changes have consequences that could result in care that’s below the quality patients typically enjoy. Those impacts can eventually lead to unnecessary deaths even for those people who might be at the hospital for reasons unrelated to COVID-19.
Short-Story About -The Norwegian Explorer the South Pole Regions.
HOT CROSS BUN
“Hot cross buns, hot cross buns, one a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns”
Who wouldn’t have grown up singing this rhyme.. We all have 😀
Hot cross buns have rich history and traditionally eaten on Good Friday but now available round the year in parts of Europe, USA, Africa, India, Australia, Canada and more. They have a sweet, bit spicy and tangy flavor.
So, here is my attempt in making them (the recipe may differ a bit from the traditional one) after searching tonnes of recipes.
So, join me and sing “hot cross buns” while we make it. 🙂
Cooking Time: 2.5 hours approximately
RECIPE:
Ingredients:
All-purpose flour: 2 cups
Yeast: 2 tea spoon
Castor sugar: 1 table spoon
Dry milk powder: 1/4 cup
Cinnamon powder: 1/2 tea spoon
Egg: 1
Butter/ Refined oil: 1/2 cup
Salt: 1/2 tea spoon
Dried cranberries: 1/2 cup
For the cross:
Lemon…
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ASAN Applauds the Pardon of Matthew Rushin | Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Matthew Rushin was incarcerated in 2019 after a serious car crash. Although Mr. Rushin said that the crash was unintentional, he was advised to plead guilty to malicious wounding, which requires intent to cause harm. ASAN believes that Mr. Rushin may not have received the support he needed to understand what this plea meant. He received a 50-year sentence with 40 years “suspended.” This meant that he would spend up to ten years in jail, followed by another forty years of supervision by the criminal legal system. This sentence was far harsher than state guidelines recommended. ASAN and the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWNN) expressed our concern in a July 2020 letter that racism and ableism influenced the plea and the sentence in Mr. Rushin’s case. In addition, Mr. Rushin faced severe difficulties accessing necessary medical and mental health care while incarcerated.
We are pleased that Governor Northam has granted Mr. Rushin a conditional pardon. Mr. Rushin’s pardon will reduce his sentence and enable him to be released in early 2021.
Source: ASAN Applauds the Pardon of Matthew Rushin | Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Trump’s Tyranny Proved America isn’t Immune to Authoritarianism
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Soon-to-be ex-President Donald Trump has proven that even the United States, which has long touted its “city upon a hill” universal appeal, is not immune to authoritarianism. There have been other threats to U.S. democracy, yet none so dangerous as Trump’s Twitter tyranny.
For almost a century, the United States’ leadership in world affairs made it an indisputable “first,” a superpower opposing undemocratic forces elsewhere.
Trump pushed another “America First” to justify his self-serving nationalism — tearing up trade deals and stepping back from global institutions. This slogan, once associated with opponents of the U.S. entering World War II, now illustrates how even this nation can suffer from dictatorial urges.
The United States of America is a far cry from the traditional Hitler- or Stalin-type authoritarianism, characterized by complete state domination over people’s lives. But it is no longer the America of everyone’s dream that won the Cold War —…
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Family
Guy and Maude Wright – August 23,1907 in Saranac, New York. My mother’s parents and my grandparents. I met Grandfather Guy in 1959 – I grew up in California after we moved from Massachusetts. I never met my Grandmother Maude, as died from complications of tuberculosis during giving birth to her second child in 1913.
Last photo of Maude Wright – 1912-1913.
I just arrived – I was adopted – 1944 with my father, Edwin Hamson in Hatfield, Massachusetts. My father immigrated to the US from Oldham, England in 1912. He and his father had steerage tickets with the White Star Line and missed the Titanic because his father has left tickets at hotel and did not get back in time, so they took the next ship.
Me on left, my father and my brother Charles, not long after we moved to California.
Photos capture just a moment in time; memories paint many images that color and leave imprints on our lives.
I am glad that I have a few photos to add to the images in my memory.
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