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The Low-Income Energy-Efficiency Grant Program provides grant funding to a state and tribal governments that implement programs which supplement the Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program in BPA's customer utility territory.

The program directly benefits low-income residents by funding the installation of energy-efficiency measures in their homes at no cost. Measures such as insulation, air sealing, efficient HVAC systems and energy-efficient appliances are installed by community action agencies and tribal staff. As a result, residents benefit from lower utility bills, healthy indoor-air environment and more comfortable living. Funding is determined annually as part of BPA's IPR process and is approximately $5 million per year.

The Low-Income New Opportunities Guide is a new resource designed to help understand the low-income program and how the different funding sources work.
Tribal Low-Income Energy-Efficiency Grant Program

The Bonneville Power Administration has a Low-Income Energy-Efficiency grant program, with funding set aside to be utilized specifically by tribal members for weatherization and some appliances. Grant amounts vary (typically from $5,000$100,000) and can be used on a variety of program options. The Tribal Energy-Efficient Grant Program offers the same energy-efficiency technologies as the state grant program; However, funding is contracted directly with the tribe in a government-to-government partnership. This allows the tribe to manage the staffing, community outreach and scale of the program to best meet the needs of the tribe. Approximately 812 tribal grants are distributed on an annual basis to tribal governments across BPA's region.

Qualified households must fulfill the following requirements:

  • Homes must have electric heat as their primary heat source (does not have to be working).
  • Homes must be occupied by a member of a federally recognized tribe.
  • Homes must be located in a public utility service territory served by BPA. (See: Tribal customer service areas map | BPA regional service areas map)
  • Households must be low income, as defined by federal standards. Low Income Housing Energy Assistance Program qualification lists are applicable.
Regional Low-Income Energy-Efficiency Workgroup

The Northwest Public Power Regional Low-Income Energy-Efficiency Workgroup aims to share information and develop best practices to increase low income residents' access to and uptake of energy-efficiency services across the Northwest. All BPA-served public utilities in the region, low-income advocacy groups, community action partnerships, or CAPs, Tribal governments, state energy offices and other interested parties are invited.

Identify barriers and solutions to increasing low-income access to energy-efficiency programs.

  • Increase knowledge of CAP and utility business activities.
  • Create and find simple solutions to streamline reporting between organizations such as CAPs and utilities.
  • Provide a venue for utilities, advocates and other organizations to come together and share ideas and successes for providing energy-efficiency opportunities to low-income residents.

All meetings are public and we welcome anyone interested in supporting the workgroup in finding solutions for offering low-income residents the opportunity to engage in energy-efficiency programs. The meetings will be posted to our events page.

Structure and Principles for the Low Income Energy Efficiency Workgroup (Amended, January 2017).
BPA Energy Efficiency Low-Income New Opportunities Guide (September 2020)

Low-Income Energy-Efficiency Resources

These resources can help you locate and learn about low income energy efficiency, weatherization and other programs in your area that are available to low-income households.

Meeting Materials Archive
Meeting #17, Aug. 4, 2020, 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., Online
Tacoma Power Remote Inspection Slides (To see detailed speaker notes, please click on the comment bubbles in the PDF.)
Meeting #16, June 27, 2019, 10:00 a.m. - Noon, Northern Wasco County PUD Board Room, 2345 River Road, The Dalles, OR 97058
Meeting #15, February 19, 2019, 10:00 a.m. Noon, PNGC Power, 711 NE Halsey, Portland, OR 97232-1268
2018: Hard to Reach Markets presentation, Yakima Nation Housing Authority presentation; Resource Program results and Energy Efficiency Goal proposal, Smart Thermostats presentation, Low Income Workgroup Heat Pump Water Heater training, PTCS ASHP Low Income Workgroup, Low Income Workgroup Ductless Heat Pump training.
2017: Seattle City Light's Low Income Strategy, Repair costs vs Installation costs; NEEA DHP presentation, NEEA HPWH presentation, NEEA sample sell sheet; Hard to Reach Markets: Northwest Energy Coalition, Hard to Reach Markets: Northwest Power and Conservation Council, Manufactured Home ReplacementBPA; Tribal Grant Review program, QA Form_5_12_16.

2016: ReHome Oregon presentation, ReHome one pager; Healthy Homes presentation, Low-Income Measures presentation; Multifamily requirements, DHP costs, US Department of Energy for Multifamily DHP, Multiple Unit DHP case study, Multifamily duct sealing case study.


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I also added a lovely arrow with heart perspextive to point to Paris on the map paper.

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Golf Academy and Golf Performance Center

GC Brandlhof Putting Green

Thanks to our indoor golf simulator, you can practice and train at the Golfclub Gut Brandlhof in Salzburg, Austria even off-season, when our 18-hole golf course is closed. Our professional golf coaches, Head Pro John Seymour and Pro Markus von Knoerzer, use the most modern techniques and technology for successful golf training.

Golf Training

The first step of the training is a thorough analysis of your play: which factors make your play successful – and which do not? After the diagnosis, you will receive a detailed training plan, and you will thoroughly practice your swing and putting movements. We aim to increase your performance, long term and permanent. Our holistic training approach also includes the usage of technological devices to improve your golf skills – no matter what level of skills you are.

That is golf training on tour level. Book your golf vacation including golf lessons now and improve your skills by learning from a head pro!

18-hole Championship Course

Our 18-hole championship golf course, located evenly between the glittering Saalach River and the Salzburg Alps mountain ranges, will make your heart beat faster. Improve your skills while enjoying the breath-taking view. On the virtual tour of the course and with our webcam you can get an excellent first impression and see the current conditions on the driving range.

John Seymour Golf Academy

PGA Advanced Fellow Professional John Seymour has more than 30 years of professional golf experience and is one of the 50 best golf professionals in Europe. In Golfclub Gut Brandlhof in Salzburg he will show you how to improve your skills.
In a short time and in comprehensive steps, the golf professional will help you to learn this fascinating sport – or, if you already are an experienced golfer, how to bring your play to perfection.
Get an overview of the golf training packages at the John Seymour Golf Academy.

Golf Packages

Whether you want to learn golf or to improve your handicap: We have the matching Golf Special for you. Create your individual service and room package during your booking. The packages include your stay at the Hotel Gut Brandlhof and all training units with Head Pro John Seymour and his team. Look forward to athletic holidays at the Golfclub and Hotel Gut Brandlhof near Salzburg, Austria.
Das Golf Performance Center im Brandlhof unter der Leitung von Markus v. K.

Golf Performance Center

Golf lessons with professionals

For golfers on every level: modern technology and elaborate training areas leave no wishes unfulfilled. We offer golf training on a professional level throughout the whole year. Improve your technique and your physical fitness.

In summer, you have endless possibilities to practice your golf play. At the Golfclub Gut Brandlhof, we offer an 18-hole championship golf course, including a driving range and putting area. However, our offer to practice golf also during winter is what makes us unique: The Golf Performance Center, lead by Pro Markus von Knoerzer, enables you to train and practice golf even in the cold season.

Markus is a dedicated golf instructor for almost 20 years. Ever since he started working as a coach in 2000, he has trained with various top teams and players. His focus lies on a holistic training approach. Apart from amateurs, he also coaches young talents and professional players. He is supported by a team consisting of

  • Condition coach Ricco Gross – multiple Olympia and world champion
  • Sports scientist Franziska Beil from the therapy and training centre Aktiva Medici in Priem at Chiemsee lake, she is responsible for performance diagnostics and fitness training
  • Dipl. physiotherapist Silke Blaickner – medical massage therapist

Training areas

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Swing Lab

At the Swing Lab, Pro Markus von Knoerzer supports you in optimising your golf swing. With a scope system and the GC2+HTM the players can train indoors and outdoors under professional conditions. Additionally, a TruGolf golf simulator is used for different training units.

Putt Lab

On our generous indoor putting green (10 stimpmeter) you can train your putt movements throughout the whole year. Train like a professional and use the putt lab programmes to improve your short play.

Golf Young Talents and Performance Centre

At the performance center of the Golfclub Gut Brandlhof, young athletes can train throughout the whole year under the guidance of Markus von Knoerzer and his team: “Especially when working with children and young adults, we realise our responsibility for their mental, social and physical development. We create the training in a way that emphasises the positive aspects of the play and still manages to obtains maximum performance in the professional sport.”

Fitness center

Avoid injuries and improve your drive length and precision: At our fitness center we provide specialized torso power training tools.

Year-round golf holidays

Golfing in Saalfelden near Salzburg: At the golf hotel Gut Brandlhof you can practice golf throughout the year: on our 18-hole championship course, in the Golf Academy and the Performance Center.

4-star Superior golf hotel

Our gourmet kitchen creates culinary dreams. In our Vivid Spa & Beauty, you can relax and recreate after your golf sessions. The area around the hotel amidst the Alps offers countless sports and leisure activities. Book your premium golf holiday now at Hotel Gut Brandlhof.


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Champions League:Gardiola Salutes Bayern.

gardiola1Bayern  need possession to play well  or else we will struggle, which is what happened during the first 15 minutes. We gave the ball away too quickly and this can’t happen against a great team like Arsenal. After MesutÖzil missed the penalty, we managed to have more possession and gained more control. When we were a man up, it certainly wasn’t easy for Arsenal. We showed patience and the rest of the match was quite good.

Today we again saw that it all depends on possession. We should have fought harder during the first ten minutes. It’s a question of personality; you need to want the ball. We are not a great counterattacking team, as we don’t have the physical requirements for that. We always need to have the ball, that’s what it boils down to.

It was three different periods – the first ten to 15 minutes Arsenal played incredibly. We were lucky, though the best keeper in the world showed his qualities. After that we played better, we started dominating. We had good attacks down the right, and after [Bayern’s] penalty the game changed completely. It was still not easy with nine players in their box. It is the first time I have won at Arsenal as a manager – but now we must concentrate on the second leg. If we can defend the result then it will be a great achievement.

I played here twice and both times we played very well with Barcelona but were not able to win it. We knew it would be very difficult. They are one of the best teams in the Premier League – you can play well here but you can never dominate. With [Jack] Wilshere, [Tomáš] Rosický, Özil, they have such great players and it can be hard to get the ball. But in the second half it was different.

My experience is that this round is always difficult. Against Arsenal the principle is always to get the ball. I really like players that want the ball. Players that want to play and play and play – Toni Kroos is one of these and his goal was great. It was a fantastic performance.

Bayern achieved a great result here last year and still suffered in the second leg. This time we again take home a superb result, but anything can happen in the last five or six minutes. We need to be very alert and have to capitalise on this result, otherwise we will be eliminated – it is that simple.

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Spinlet launches Spinlet Inspire – a dedicated family friendly music platform

Nkiru Balonwu - Spinlet

Spinlet is proud to announce the launch of a dedicated family friendly music platform to complement its existing service, the company revealed today. Spinlet Inspire will focus on more uplifting music, including inspirational songs, songs with non-explicit lyrics and gospel tracks.

A special toggle button built into the website and mobile app’s existing functionality will allow users to move between Spinet’s main website and the new service at the push of a button, enabling them filter out content they find inappropriate.

“When you think about the music industry today – in Africa and around the world – it has become highly sexualised and many parents are increasingly concerned about the programming being consumed by young, impressionable children,” said Nkiru Balonwu, CEO of Spinlet.

“Of course there is a place for provocative lyrics within the art form. But we recognise that there is a substantial audience out there who do not wish to engage with adult content, be they gospel music fans, children, parents, or even those who are simply searching for more uplifting tracks. They are after a certain type of music and Spinlet Inspire will provide them the desired filter.”

Speaking on the rationale, Balonwu further adds that “it is our first expansion into a user-defined platform. This is very exciting because it shows the possibilities of positioning Spinlet as a different service for different audiences. Other recent improvements, such as the launch of our original web series, I Go Blow, are enabling us to develop the Spinlet brand into much more than a traditional track-by-track streaming and download platform. This type of expansion is hugely important for monetising content in an increasingly digital world,” she stressed.

It is certainly a good point, which is often overlooked in music’s transition to digital. Services like iTunes and Spotify, or even the traditional charts shown on music channels, do not offer such a filter.

In addition, Spinlet is collaborating with leading artistes in Africa to produce a music album featuring gospel and inspirational music, billed for release soon.

The new service which has been launched, no doubt, with Christmas and New Year in mind, as periods of the year when there is a huge focus on seasonal and inspirational music. Going forward, it will be interesting to see, not only for Spinlet but for the modern music industry at large, just how many people hit the toggle button to go to Spinlet Inspire rather than sticking with the current offering.

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Group Booking Terms and Conditions

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General Group Booking Terms

By making a group reservation through you agree to the following terms and conditions as set by and as set by the hostel in question.

  • In order to make a group reservation on it is necessary to pay a deposit. The balance is due directly to the hostel according to their payment conditions.
  • The booking deposit is non-refundable.
  • Please note that any cancellations must be notified directly to the hostel at least 24 hours in advance of your scheduled arrival date, unless otherwise stated in the hostel's conditions.
  • are not responsible for changes or amendments to your reservation once it has been processed. All correspondence with regard to changes to your booking need to be dealt with directly with the hostel.
  • Cancellations for reservations must be made directly with the hostel and must conform with the individual hostels cancellation policy (see below)
  • It is your responsibility to pay the balance of your accommodation cost to the hostel in accordance with their payment conditions (see below). Failure to do so may result in your reservation being cancelled by the hostel.
  • Individual hostels may have special booking conditions relating to group stays, please read the hostel booking conditions carefully before making your reservation.

Hostel Specific Terms & Conditions

The remainder of the amount due will be charged to your credit card on arrival. Should numbers or room selection change, the per person deposit times the number of people who actually travelled will be deducted from the total accommodation charge levvied by the hostel.

Cancellation / No Show & Reduction in Numbers Policy

Group Reservations have to be cancelled at least 1 weeks in advance otherwise we are forced to charge the cost of one night stay on your credit card.

Additional Terms and Conditions

3/4 nights minimum stay for all groups for International Holidays(Easter Holiday weekend, New Years). Rest of the year depend (minimum from 2night till one week)

The following group types are not accepted by this hostel: Business Trip If you have misrepresented the type of group you are booking for, your booking may be cancelled by the hostel."

Additional Info:

2nights minimum stay for all groups during the year.
However for International Holidays,Easter Holiday weekend, New years booking, we take 3/4nights minimum stay,

Any cancellations resulting from agreement to these terms and conditions under false pretences will result in loss of deposit.

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Você deve aceitar os termos e condições para que possamos confirmar sua reserva.

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Hostel The Globe Center is located close to the Red Light District and overlooks two of the most famous historic canals in de Wallen, the oldest part of Amsterdam city. Its only three minutes walk from Centraal Station and less than 10 minutes walk from all of the major tourist attraction points, such as Dam Square, Flower Market, Shopping Streets, Rembrandt Square, the Red Light District and various coffee shops in the Centrum area. However, the Globe enjoys its quiet and easy neighbourhood while it is situated some distance away from the major tourist traffic.

The hotel has 20 clean and pleasant private rooms, each with its own en-suite bathroom and shower room. It has triple, quadruple, and up to eight-bed group en-suites available. We have dorms suitable for from six persons up to 10persons! Linens are included on all beds, but free towels (with limited numbers) are distributed upon request at reception. We also have free wireless connection available in the lobby and hotel/hostel rooms.

There are also pool table for any exciting moments. In the bar, also delicious lunch or dinner for you to order. Hostel guests get a 10% discount on the food menu upon presentation of the hostel entre card. Also, there are Happy Hours in the bar - you and your friends can enjoy our offer of buying one stella draft and getting another one free during these happy hours!

Amsterdam is such a great place to have fun. So, on behalf of our friendly staff, we hope to welcome you to our hotel. Well do our best to make your stay a unique and pleasant one!

Please note that we do not permit guests under 16 years of age in the shared dorms.

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Comentários e avaliações

  • Valorize Seu Dinheiro 7.4

  • Segurança 8.1

  • Localização 9.5

  • Funcionários 7.6

  • Ambiente 7.2

  • Limpeza 7.5

  • Instalações 7.2

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  • 9.7

    17 Abr 2019
    Escolhemos pelo valor, por ser o mais barato para a data que fomos. Mas nos surpreendeu. Era muito limpo e organizado. As camas eram menores do normal eu acho, para os lados. Haviam armários nos quartos, você só precisa de um cadeado. Localização boa, muito central. 5min da estação central. Seguro. Banheiros sempre limpos e com sabão líquido e shampoo. Muito boa escolha.
    Brasil, Casal, 31-40
  • 6.0

    03 Ago 2019
    There was a bedbug in my friend’s bed. We just saw it when we were leaving the hostel by night. At least at had a great location
    Brasil, Homem, 25-30
  • 6.0

    21 Jun 2018
    Quarto bem simples com 10 camas e um banheiro pequeno. Dos 10 lockers no quarto somente 4 estavam funcionando. Não tem wifi no quarto, somente no bar abaixo. Poucas tomadas para carregar o cel. Bem localizado, No coração da red Light e a 5 minutos caminhando da estação central
    Brasil, Homem, 31-40
  • 6.0

    13 Abr 2018
    Noise beds. Just ONE DIRTY bathroom per floor.
    Brasil, Homem, 31-40
  • 5.7

    23 Mar 2018
    Amazing location, but there's no atmosphere. The bar is okay, and the staff friendly but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
    Suíça, Mulher, 18-24
  • 4.9

    03 Set 2019
    Bed bugs in the beds and the employees from the bar it's rude.
    Portugal, Homem, 18-24
  • 4.0

    26 Dez 2017
    Room infested with bedbugs! Stay away from this place! Had two nights booked (2 beds in 8 mixed room) between Christmas and NYE, after the first night my friend and I woke up with bites all over our arms, legs and back going up to our necks. All the itching from the bites almost ruined our trip. We found another place to stay the remaining night and checked out. The local public heath council should take some kind of action towards this place.
    Portugal, Casal, 31-40
  • 3.4

    27 Jun 2018
    Para quem gosta de limpeza, organização e segurança não indico o lugar. O quarto que fiquei era horrível. Só não fui para outro lugar porque já tinha pago.
    Brasil, Mulher, 31-40
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General Group Booking Terms

By making a group reservation through you agree to the following terms and conditions as set by and as set by the hostel in question.

  • In order to make a group reservation on it is necessary to pay a deposit. The balance is due directly to the hostel according to their payment conditions.
  • The booking deposit is non-refundable.
  • Please note that any cancellations must be notified directly to the hostel at least 24 hours in advance of your scheduled arrival date, unless otherwise stated in the hostel's conditions.
  • are not responsible for changes or amendments to your reservation once it has been processed. All correspondence with regard to changes to your booking need to be dealt with directly with the hostel.
  • Cancellations for reservations must be made directly with the hostel and must conform with the individual hostels cancellation policy (see below)
  • It is your responsibility to pay the balance of your accommodation cost to the hostel in accordance with their payment conditions (see below). Failure to do so may result in your reservation being cancelled by the hostel.
  • Individual hostels may have special booking conditions relating to group stays, please read the hostel booking conditions carefully before making your reservation.

Hostel Specific Terms & Conditions

The remainder of the amount due will be charged to your credit card 4 weeks prior to arrival. Should numbers or room selection change, the per person deposit times the number of people who actually travelled will be deducted from the total accommodation charge levvied by the hostel.

Cancellation / No Show & Reduction in Numbers Policy

15 Nights Stay

Any cancellations resulting from agreement to these terms and conditions under false pretences will result in loss of deposit.

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From here, guests can enjoy easy location and easy access to all that the lively city has to offer. With its convenient location, Spirit House offers easy access to the most popular tourist destinations in the city. Guest House Spirit House also offers many facilities to enrich your stay in Saint Petersburg. Guests of the house, guests can take advantage of services such as free Wi-Fi in all rooms, round the clock front desk, urgent entry /exit, luggage storage. Enjoy the high quality of services available in the room, including heating, desk, kitchenette, refrigerator, to help you be able to fully relax and unwind after a busy day. In the guest house you can find a full range of services for relaxation and entertainment. Superb facilities and an excellent location make the Spirit House a perfect place to stay in St. Petersburg.

Guest House Spirit House (Ghost House) located on the street Dnepropetrovsk street.7N near metro Ligovsky and Bypass Canal, within walking distance Vitebsk, Moscow w / e and bus station on the Bypass.

It offers 14 rooms of different sizes (1,2,4 and 6-bedded). The cozy living room with sofas and a home cinema, a library and a modern kitchen. All rooms are equipped with winter-summer air conditioning. All rooms include free Wi-Fi internet.Tualetnye and shower room with toilet facilities, bath towels and hairdryers, always with hot water, sparkling clean!

Spirit Guest House Policies & Conditions:

Check in from 13:00.
Check out before 12:00.

Cancellation policy: 72 h before arrival.
This property may pre-authorise your card before arrival.

Payment upon arrival by cash, credit cards, debit cards. This property may pre-authorise your credit card.

Taxes included.
Breakfast not included - 300 RUB per person per day.

No curfew.
Pet friendly.
Child friendly.
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Summit County > Breckenridge Condominiums > Base 9

Base 9 Condos For Sale

Close to Peak 9 in Warriors Mark Neighborhood

base 9 condos

Two buildings, each three stories with ample parking around them, house the 22 units that make up the Base 9 Condominiums. They are located one block off Highway 9, on Broken Lance Drive in the quiet residential Warriors Mark.

Broken Lance is on the south side of Breckenridge and is the main drive for this close-in neighborhood. Base 9 is the first condo complex across the Blue River on the neighborhood side (not the highway side) of Warriors Mark.

This puts the Base 9 condos for sale on the free, town shuttle route, and just across the street from a small loop of similar condos that all share the Columbine pool and spa. A short walk along this loop will get Base 9 residents to the south end of downtown Breckenridge, and to other walkways and trails that span the short distance between this area and the ski lifts at Peak 9.

Learn more about this quiet condo complex, or discover the Base 9 condominium listings found below.

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Base 9 Condominium Style

Any Base 9 Condo for sale is two-bedrooms, some have a den, and all are more than a thousand square feet. All were built in the functional condo style popular in the ’70s with an open floor plan, galley kitchen with bar separating it from the living area.

Several features of each unit will distinguish one from another: the end units views may be toward the Ten Mile Range or toward Baldy Mountain, while the view from others will are up and down the Blue River Valley. Decks bring the outside into the upper levels, while a patio is available on the ground floor. The larger condos have an extra 200 sq. feet of living area.

Base 9, Breckenridge, CO

Quick Facts:

  • Number of Units: 22
  • Size: 2 BR
  • Size: 1150 sq. ft to 1350 sq. ft.
  • Year Built: 1979
  • HOA: Summit Bookkeeping
  • Amenities: Conveniently located near Highway 9, and side of Warriors Mark closest to town. Large surface parking.

127 Broken Lance Dr. Warriors Mark. Drive south on Main Street to last stoplight at Boreas Pass Road, turn right on Broken Lance Drive. Just before the three-way stop, turn left into the Base 9 parking area.

Are you ready to talk to a Summit County real estate pro? You can send us a message or call us at (970) 453-2200.

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Listing information last updated on October 22nd, 2020 at 3:45am MDT.


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Marvel Comics Introduces Muslim Superhero

Marvel Comics Introduces Muslim Superhero

Marvel Comics latest minority superhero is a teenaged Muslim-American girl of Pakistani descent who will take on the currently unused Ms. Marvel persona.

The teen will be named Kamala Kahn, a Muslim girl going to high school and growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey.

For the last few years the comics giant has been engaged in an effort to introduce “diversity” into a comics universe historically dominated by white, male superhero characters. Marvel has been floating all sorts of new minority superheroes into the comic book market in the hopes that one or more will stick with readers.

This new Ms. Marvel is part of that campaign.

The idea of a teenaged, female, Muslim character came from Marvel editors Sana Amanat, a Muslim herself, and Steve Wacker. The pair then approached writer G. Willow Wilson to begin to develop the character. Wilson is an American convert to Islam.

Since converting to Islam in college, much of Wilson’s work has been centered on Islam, Egypt, and Muslim-themed fantasy stories. But Wilson has also written for Marvel’s Mystic series as well as for rival comic company DC Comics where she wrote several entries in the Superman and The Outsiders titles.

This young Muslim’s super powers are a departure from past Ms. Marvel powers in that she can morph her body parts and shape shift instead of shooting energy beams from her fists.

From reports on the character, it seems that Miss Kahn will develop her powers X-Men mutant-style by just discovering she has them. She then assumes Ms. Marvel’s name because she admired Carol Danvers, the human alter ego of the previous Ms. Marvel–a character now called Captain Marvel.

“Captain Marvel represents an ideal that Kamala pines for,” Wilson is quoted saying in The New York Times. “[Danvers is] strong, beautiful and doesn’t have any of the baggage of being Pakistani and ‘different.'”

“It’s also sort of like when I was a little girl and wanted to be (Save By The Bell actress) Tiffani-Amber Thiessen,” Wilson said.

Wilson insists that Islam will not be the central or overriding theme of the new Ms. Marvel. Religion will just be a part of the character’s background and family life.

This story will not be Muslim “evangelism,” Wilson claims “It was really important for me to portray Kamala as someone who is struggling with her faith.”

The original Ms. Marvel was introduced in the 1960s as a part of the Captain Marvel (the male version) series. The character has waxed and waned over the years and had several brief runs as the featured hero of her own series.

The character was once even involved in a shocking story line that some called a rape fantasy where the character was impregnated unwillingly by an alien baddie in a series of stories in 1980-81.

More recently the original Danvers character has become the new Captain Marvel. This left the Ms. Marvel character defunct until the arrival of Miss Kamala Kahn in the Marvel universe.

The Ms. Marvel will debut next year in a February introduction where fans will learn how she gets her powers and why she connects herself to Ms. Marvel.

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For any business to flourish, there has to be the keen implementation of business strategies to help your business achieve, maintain, and advance its market presence. A business consultancy is the best person to advise you on the best strategies that will work for your company. The competence of the business consultant will directly determine the productivity of your business, for this reason, you should follow some guidelines to realize this step. Herein is a guide for identifying the most reliable business adviser.

The portfolio of the business consultant you intend to hire is the first thing that you need to look at. For anyone to be regarded as a professional in a specific career, he or she must have gone through the training and received a certification for the same, similarly, you should ensure that you find out the training as well as the certifications of the potential business consultant. Every business always has a vision, for this reason, you have to be clear about where your envisioned your business and thereafter, search for the business consultant that will create the perfect model to achieve this goal. The other thing you need to look at is the level of expertise of the business consultant. You have to go through the portfolio and find out how long the consultant has been working as well as the specific responsibilities that are assigned to him of her.

The other important thing is to choose a business consultant specialist that values customer service, you can confirm this aspect by going through the online reviews of the specialist. Apart from that, you can also interact with other companies that seem advanced to find out the secret behind their business models and the consultant that did the work for them. A highly regarded business advisor is more dependable, therefore, you have to make sure that you look into the status of the consultant you intend to hire.

The locality of the business consultant is equally significant when choosing such a specialist. You should consider a convenient location where you can easily hop in and out to consultant with the business consultant without any limiting factor like distance. The fees payable to the business consultant is also an important thing to look into, you should be keen not to avoid financial strain, you need to choose a business advisor whose charges are cost-effective. For you to get the most competitive rates, it is vital that you investigate the market equilibrium in terms of price and get to make a sound judgment based on the quotations you receive, as you do this, make sure that you do alter with the quality of service. The price should simply match the services you are getting.

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Your online reputation is either one of your most powerful assets or one of your biggest liabilities. Great reviews and positive online sentiment can be the deciding factor which prompts a new customer to choose you over a competitor.

If you haven’t yet read our 2017 Local Consumer Review Survey it might come as a surprise to know that consumers read an average of 10 reviews before trusting a local business, and 57% of consumers need at least a four-star rating before they choose to use a business. It follows then that poor reviews are very likely to turn potential customers away in their droves.

So, what happens when you wake up one morning to discover your businesses has been bombarded with one-star reviews and negative comments? What if an incident of poor customer service by your company has gone viral and attracted a crowd of users hoping to damage your reputation, whether they’re previous customers or not?

Unfortunately, recovering from a bad reputation is not as simple as flicking a switch. You can’t simply go around removing negative reviews or comments and hoping it will all go away. Repairing your poor reputation will take time but there are plenty of tips, tricks and techniques you can use to ensure that you bounce back better than ever. Let’s take a look at some of them.

Only expose yourself to reviews when you’re confident

Your Google My Business profile is arguably one of the most important profiles you’ll build online. Why? Simple: when a customer reviews your business page through Google, the reviews are displayed in the search results automatically. If you’re not confident in the quality of your service or the feedback your customers may provide, consider holding off on developing your Google My Business page until you’re certain you’ll pick up some positive comments.

Facebook business pages are also essential and these come with the ability to turn off reviews entirely. If your business is going through a turbulent time, or if you’re just getting off the ground, don’t be afraid to nix reviews for a while. Users can still write comments and post replies to your status updates, but they won’t have an effect on your star rating.

Keep track of everywhere your business is listed

In an effort to increase your visibility and encourage reviews and ratings, you’ve probably submitted your NAP (name, address and phone number) to a multitude of directories and business platforms. From Yelp and TripAdvisor to Facebook and Google, there are dozens of these and it’s important to keep track of all of them. However, this in itself can pose problems if you aren’t vigilant about keeping tabs on each and every one of them. In the worst-case scenario, failing to keep track of where your business is listed – and monitor reviews accordingly – can completely undermine your efforts to bounce back and take control of your online reputation.

Don’t be afraid to call in expert help to stay on top of what’s being said – good and bad

If you’re focusing on your Facebook and Google profiles, you may not notice that a flood of negative comments have started to appear on your Yelp page, which could be putting off future customers. Make sure you keep track of every place online where your site can be reviewed.

There are plenty of online reputation management tools available to help make this process more straightforward and ensure you’re staying on top of all online sentiment about your brand or business.

Entrepreneur guest writer Alex Matia says, “Monitoring what people say about you and your business may seem overwhelming, but there are quite a few free or low-cost tools to help you monitor your online reputation.” She suggests looking at services such as Google Alerts (if you’re on a tight budget), Namyz, Hootsuite and Reputology as good starting points. And I’d, of course, be remiss not to recommend BrightLocal’s own reputation management tool.

It’s also important to look into problems without delay when your reputation management tool picks up a less-than-stellar review. It may not be top of the priority list when you’re trying to juggle a dozen different marketing or business issues, but negative reviews should always be addressed quickly. You can find out more about the right way to respond to negative reviews online in our step-by-step guide.

Use negative reviews to help you improve

If you’re looking to bounce back from bad reviews, the best thing you can do is learn from them. Identify the problems that keep cropping up in those negative comments and resolve to take a proactive approach to rectifying them. Perhaps your new staff members are dropping the ball when it comes to providing good customer service. Maybe your support ticket system needs some work. Your internal processes may not be up to the high standards that customers expect.

Whatever it is, use the negative feedback to fuel your recovery. Speaking to The Guardian, Richard Anson from ratings and reviews service provider, Reevoo explained that bigger brands embed this learning mentality into the heart of their processes to ensure continual customer satisfaction. He said,

“I know that [electrical retailer] Currys uses [its] customer feedback to guide [its] product buying process, and a large car brand we work with also sends all feedback to its engineers and R&D department so that it gets fed into product improvement.”

A sudden influx is worth investigating

Picture the scene: your business is doing well, you have a steady 4.6 star rating on Google My Business and customers appear to be generally satisfied. Then one day you wake up to a flood of negative reviews, bringing your rating down to 3.2, seriously hindering your ability to attract new customers.

So what’s happened here? There are three reasons why you might experience an influx like this:

  • A disgruntled customer has been telling their story and encouraging friends, family and other social media users to leave bad reviews as ‘revenge’ for a poor experience.
  • One of your competitors has made a targeted attempt to harm your business with inauthentic reviews.
  • A piece of bad publicity has triggered a storm of unfair comments.

Our 2018 Local Consumer Review Survey found that consumers aren’t as easily mislead as you might think, with 74% of consumers believing they have read a fake review in the last year and 33% of consumers claiming they have read “a lot” of fake reviews in the last year. The danger of course is that it’s human nature to assume the five star reviews are the fake ones rather than questioning the veracity of seemingly negative customer experiences.

Depending on the platform you’re dealing with, there are different things you can do here. Many platforms offer some form of site support for fake or inauthentic reviews – raise a support ticket with them and wait for their response. You’ll need to gather evidence that these reviews are fake to support your claim. Look at usernames and record the times and locations of their posts if you can. You may be able to pinpoint the culprits and work to come to a reasonable solution that won’t harm your business any further.

Always respond to comments

The importance of responding to reviews has jumped 10% since 2016, so it’s becoming more critical to ensure you get back to any reviewer that’s negative or poses a question. However, although it can be tempting to answer back to a negative poster, giving them a piece of your mind, this could end up damaging your reputation even more. Instead, you should aim to answer every single review or comment in a professional way. There’s an appropriate response to every kind of review – you just need to learn which one to deploy.

Many of the reviewers posting negative comments online can come across as unreasonable. If you’re responding to customer reviews in a professional manner, you’re demonstrating to others that you are professional. In addition to going some way to placate the disgruntled customer, this approach can also end up making the original poster look like they’re exaggerating to the casual onlooker. Other users will see your professional response and respect you more for it.

When responding, apologize (if you feel it’s right to do so) and try to provide some context for the complaint for the benefit of other users. Encourage the original poster to contact you privately to resolve the situation rather than hashing out the details on a public review platform.

Work hard to gain positive reviews

So you’ve had a spell of bad reviews. It happens. Customers will be much more willing to forgive historic bad reviews if they can see that the company is making a real effort to improve.

For example, if you received a bunch of one-star reviews and lengthy, negative comments a year ago, but your star rating since then has been impeccable, potential customers will respond well, and our research shows that 77

84% of consumers don’t pay attention to reviews older than three months anyway. It’s important to show that you’re aware of the problem and are working hard to rectify it.

Don’t overreact

A bad review is not the end of the world. In fact, some savvy consumers have been known to be mistrustful of businesses that have flawless five-star ratings – it can make them look like they’re buying reviews or faking it somehow. A couple of poor reviews can actually make your overall rating look more realistic.

It’s important not to overreact when faced with bad reviews. Don’t resort to drastic steps like changing the whole name of your business, or starting brand new profiles on Google, Facebook and Yelp. Restoring a reputation is hard – but it’s not as hard as building a new reputation from scratch with brand new profiles.

Some final words of wisdom

Restoring your reputation will be a time-consuming process. From communicating with those who feel let down by your business to analyzing your internal processes and coming up with ways to improve, there are many different avenues to explore on the road to recovery. Remember that it won’t happen overnight. However, the effort you put into building a positive and resilient reputation will place your business in a much stronger position in the long-term.

We’d love to hear your thoughts

Have you bounced back from a poor online reputation? What techniques and approaches did you adopt to move in a more positive direction and win back consumer trust? Share your experiences with us in the comments.


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The FCC last week released a draft order (available here) in its proceeding looking at revising the procedures to resolve complaints of interference by translators (and certain LPFM stations) to existing FM stations. The draft order proposes many changes to the current process. For the most part, these changes will provide more certainty to translator operators as to whether the new translator they are constructing will be subject to being forced off the air, while making it somewhat more difficult for full-power stations to sustain a claim of interference from new translators. We wrote about the FCC’s initiation of this proceeding here and here.

The headline in many reports about this draft order is the FCC’s tentative decision to allow translators that do cause interference to move to any available FM channel to resolve that interference. In the past, channel moves have been limited to moves to adjacent channels that would be considered a “minor change” by the FCC. In many markets, this will provide the translator operator more opportunities to continue to operate its translator if it does in fact create areas of new interference. Of course, in some spectrum-limited markets, there may not be an alternative channel on which a new translator can be authorized if it has to move off its initial channel (and interference complaints may well be more likely in such spectrum-limited markets as the translator operator may not have had many channels that were clearly free from interference concerns from which to select). But the proposed new rules would also make objections harder to support.

Initially, the FCC plans to adopt the 45 dbu contour as the cut-off for interference complaints. A full-service station could not raise interference complaints from listeners outside its predicted 45 dbu contour except in the limited circumstance where there is a significant community outside that contour where numerous listeners to the station reside. If there is such a significant community where listeners reside, a full-power station may ask for a waiver of the cut-off on complaints from outside the 45 dbu contour. Currently, there is no contour limit on complaints.

The FCC also seems likely to significantly raise the number of complaints needed to sustain a complaint. Currently, a single complaint of interference that cannot be resolved will result in a translator being forced to cease operations. Under the proposed new rules, the number of complaints needed to support an objection based on interference complaints is based on the population within the protected contour of the complaining station. In small markets, a complainant would need at least 6 listeners within its 45 dbu contour to complain. In the largest markets, with over 6 million people in the complainant’s service area, 65 complaints would be required to support an objection.

The FCC’s draft order sets standards for disinterested listeners needed to support a complaint. Advertisers and underwriters are not considered disinterested, but social media contacts or members of station listeners clubs (or donors to non-commercial stations) are considered disinterested. If a sufficient number of disinterested complaints are received, the translator operator and the complaining station are to work together to resolve the complaints, using a neutral engineer to assess interference if the parties cannot mutually agree. The FCC will rely on reports from disinterested engineers to resolve complaints that the parties themselves cannot resolve – and will try to do so within 90 days.

This draft order is still subject to comment by interested parties until a week before the FCC meeting. The May FCC meeting is currently set to take place on May 9.


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The broadcast performance royalty is one of those issues likely on hold this year.  While it was recently re-introduced in Congress (see our article here), it is a struggle for any copyright legislation to get through Congress and, in a year like the upcoming one, moving a bill like the controversial performance royalty likely will likely not be high on the priorities of Congressional leaders.  This issue will not go away – it will be back in future Congresses – so broadcasters still need to consider a long-term strategy to deal with the issue (see, for instance, our article here on one such strategy that also helps resolve some of the music royalty issues we mention later in this article).

At the FCC, one would think that political broadcasting issues, like the reconsideration request we wrote about here seeking changes in the FCC’s recent controversial decisions on the disclosure of all issues and candidates in every non-candidate ad, would be high on the list of issues to be considered.  But political issues are also complex – October’s decision on issue ad disclosures took almost 3 years to be released, after a prior Media Bureau decision on the same issues was rescinded in early 2017.  Thus, it would not be at all surprising if these issues don’t get resolved this year.

Many people expected that we would see ownership reform in 2020– especially for radio.  Last year, the FCC started its Quadrennial Review to look at these issues.  But the September decision of the Third Circuit (see our articles here, here and here), overturning changes made in 2017, may have clouded the potential for any changes in the ownership rules this year.  These issues can be controversial in an election year.  But we have in the past seen FCC ownership decisions in the lame-duck period after an election but before a Presidential inauguration, so stay alert to what happens in this area.

In the interim, license renewal applications will trudge on, with TV starting to file their renewals in June of this year (starting with stations in Maryland, DC, Virginia, and West Virginia).  So far, the FCC has been judicious in issuing fines for public file violations disclosed in a license renewal application, only fining those stations who totally ignored their obligations (see our stories here and here).  We are waiting for the FCC’s patience to end – and would not be surprised to see the FCC become stricter in policing these issues in the future.

What other issues have we seen the FCC take comments on but not yet resolve?  EEO was one area that generated lots of comments earlier in 2019 (see, for instance, our article here).  But, with the FCC’s rulemaking notice being so general in its questions, and many of the proposals made in the proceeding so specific, if anything happens out of the proceeding, the most likely action would seem to be a further notice of a proposed rulemaking to give parties notice of any specific proposals the FCC wants to pursue.

For television, ATSC 3.0 looks to become a reality this year as stations begin to roll out the new technology and ATSC 3.0-compatible television receivers become available at consumer electronics stores.  On the regulatory front, the FCC still has some issues to resolve, including dealing with stations that cannot find a partner station to provide a “lighthouse signal” in the current digital technology when they are ready to convert to the new standard.  The TV band will also shrink, as the repacking following the incentive auction concludes in July – with all TV stations moved into the channels below 37.

The oldest of the broadcasting services, AM, will also possibly be looking at its own digital conversion – though the FCC will have to move very fast to get it done this year.  The proposal to allow AM stations to convert to full digital operations has been formally advanced through a notice of proposed rulemaking, with comments due March 9 and replies on April 6 (see our articles here and here).  The issues seem relatively simple, and for a voluntary conversion, relatively noncontroversial.  A decision before the end of the year is possible, though such quick action would require everything to fall into place just right.

Some of the biggest issues for broadcasters may come not from the FCC, but from other agencies or courts.  As we wrote here and here, the Department of Justice is considering changes to the antitrust consent decrees that govern ASCAP and BMI.  Should the DOJ review reach a conclusion and suggest a radical restructuring or abolition of the current system, Congress would almost assuredly have to step in to take action.  We’ll be watching closely to see if any action comes from the DOJ this year.

BMI is currently in rate court litigation with the Radio Music License Committee over the rates that radio stations should pay for the use of BMI music.  That proceeding could result in higher fees for radio broadcasters.  SESAC’s three-year license with the radio industry (see our article here) has also expired, meaning that if no new rates can voluntarily be arrived at, their rates will be decided by an arbitration panel.  SESAC has added some new songwriters (including Adele), so you can be sure that they will want more money from the radio industry.  And, of course, the litigation with GMR goes on, though it may not be concluded this year.

What will be concluded before the end of the year is the new rates that webcasters (including broadcasters who stream their audio signal on the Internet) will pay SoundExchange for the right to publicly perform sound recordings on a digital platform for the period from 2021 through 2025.  The Copyright Royalty Board is currently considering proposals from music services and SoundExchange for new rates – SoundExchange looking for a significant increase while the services are looking for a decrease.  A trial is scheduled for March, with a decision required by law before the end of the year.

With the election coming in November, the prospects for other “big” issues being tackled this year seem to be less than in most years.  We have noted (see, for instance, or articles here and here), that the FCC has been very active in enforcing the rules that it does have – which may be a safe political course for it to pursue but one fraught with potential dangers for broadcasters and other regulated entities.  But each year issues come up that surprise us, so watch the FCC releases, the trade press, this blog and others like it, and be ready for whatever regulatory issues may come your way in 2020.


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When unmarried couples involved in a long term relationship separate, one issue that may arise is that of property ownership. If the couple have bought a house together,to whom does it belong?

Legally, if the house is in both parties’ names, they both hold the legal title to it. The issue arises in relation to the ‘beneficial interest’ in the house, the value, when parties have bought a house together but have not contributed equally, either by way of a deposit, mortgage payments or the cost of property improvements.

Where this has happened, the prospect of the value of the house simply being divided 50/50 can seem very unfair, especially against the background of ill feeling that so often accompanies separation. However, in cases where there have been unequal contributions such as where one party pays the deposit, whilst the other spends an equal amount on their holiday, to not separate the value 50/50 may also produce an unfair result.

What is important is what the parties intended the division of the value to be, though how this is to be identified in the absence of an express agreement is not easy.

The intention of the parties

Couples will often not set out, in clear terms, at the beginning of a relationship exactly what they do intend the position to be regarding the beneficial ownership of a property purchased together. The Court must therefore figure out what the parties intended.

Jones v Kernott

In this case, the parties met in 1981 and had two children. They purchased a house in 1985 in their joint names. They paid £30,000 with a despoit of £6000 from the sale proceeds of Ms Jones’ previous home. The mortgage and upkeep on the house was shared between them. In 1986, they jointly took out a loan of £2000 for an extension, on which Mr Kernott did some of the work himself. The trial judge found that this extension probably enhanced the value of the property by about 50% to £44,000.

Mr Kernott moved out of the property in 1993. Ms Jones remained with the children and paid all of the household expenses herself. Mr Kernott made no further contribution towards the purchase of the property and, in 1996, he bought his own house by cashing in a joint life insurance policy for the deposit, and by making mortgage payments. The Court found he would have been unable to do this had he been making any contribution towards the mortgage on the former family home.

Over the years, the value of the former family home increased and in 2006 Mr Kernott indicated that he wished to claim a beneficial share in it. In response, Ms Jones applied for a declaration under section 14 of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 that she owned the entire beneficial interest in the property. Ms Jones’ position was that in the 14 and a half years following the seperation, there was evidence that their intentions had changed. Mr Kernott had bought his own house and ceased to make contributions to Ms Jones. By 2008 the property was valued at £245,000.

What the Court found

The Supreme Court concluded that the following principles should be applied where a family home is bought by a cohabiting couple in joint names with both responsible for the mortgage, but without any express agreement as to how the value of the property should be divided upon seperation;

  1. The starting point is that equity follows the law and, as they are joint legal owners, they jointly own the property 50/50.
  1. That position can be challenged by showing that (a) the parties intended something different when they bought the property, or (b) that they later intended that their ownership of the property would change.
  1. The intention of the parties can be deduced from their words or conduct.
  1. In cases where it is clear that (a) the parties did not intend joint ownership at the point the property was first purchased, or, if they did, (b) had changed their minds (but it is not possible to deduce what their actual intention was) the Court will award each party the share of the property that it considers fair. This it will do by considering the whole course of dealing between the parties.
  1. Each case will turn on its own facts, and the financial contribution of each party is one of many factors the Court must consider.

The Court found that whilst the starting point should be joint and equal ownership of the property as it was held in joint names, in this case, because of the parties’ conduct, that intention had changed. Once Mr Kernott had purchased a new home, his interest in the former family home was established. He maintained his new home whilst Ms Jones maintained the former family home. The intention was therefore that Ms Jones would have the sole benefit of any gain in that home and Mr Kernott would have the sole benefit of any gain in his new home. On that basis, the division made by the trial judge, 90/10 in favour of Ms Jones, would be appropriate in all the circumstances.

This case illustrates the principles the Court will follow and the correct approach. Where the property is in joint names, the starting point will always be that the parties are equal joint owners. If words or conduct at the time of the purchase, or later, before the property is sold, indicates something to the contrary, then the Courts may divide the interest differently. This is something the party seeking a greater share will have to satisfy the Court of, and it will not be an easy burden to discharge.


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Over 480 Covid-19 patients given plasma therapy at two Delhi govt hospitals

Over 480 Covid-19 patients have been administered convalescent plasma therapy at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital and Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital over the last few months

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Over 480 COVID-19 patients have been administered convalescent plasma therapy at the government-run Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital and Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital over the last few months, officials said on Tuesday.

LNJP Hospital and RGSSH are dedicated facilities.

Plasma therapy was started at the LNJP Hospital, the largest under the government, in June. Later, Delhi's second plasma bank was set up at the hospital in July.

The national capital's first plasma bank was inaugurated at the state-run Institute of Liver and Biliary Science (ILBS) on July 2 by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

The LNJP Hospital has 2,000 beds, of which 432 were occupied as on Monday. Of these, 258 patients are in the ICU, said Suresh Kumar, medical director of the hospital.

"Till a couple of days ago, about 286 patients had received plasma therapy. Males outnumber females, and mostly people aged above 60 need it," he told PTI.

Kumar said only serious patients whose condition is deteriorating are administered this therapy.

Initially, people's response to calls for donating convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients in was "lukewarm". Doctors had attributed it to apprehensions about associated health risks and the tendency to put off donation for any future need of family members in case they get infected.

However, with increased awareness and the situation getting somewhat better in terms of daily cases, the number of donors has risen, according to officials.

"Each person can donate 250-500 ml of plasma. We give the first dosage of 250 ml to the recipient, and if needed, the second dosage of 250 ml after 24 hours," Kumar said.

At RGSSH in east Delhi, over 200 patients have been administered the plasma therapy till date, its Medical Director B L Sherwal told PTI.

"We have been combating COVID-19 for a long time now, and there have been several learnings too. The plasma therapy is a trial and it is administered with the assumption that it will help. Also, old and young both may need it depending on a patient's condition," he said.

RGSSH has 650 beds out of which 119 are occupied. Ninety-one patients are in the ICU and five of them on invasive ventilatory support, Sherwal said.

"We have also created a place to cryogenically store donor plasma which we get from the ILBS," he said.

For donors, people who have recently recovered from COVID-19 and developed antibodies, there are some strict criteria. Counselling and screening is done for them before the actual donation process begins. The process for each donor is completed within two to two-and-a-half hours.

A donor's antibodies are transferred to the recipient through plasma.

People in the age group of 18-60 who have fully recovered from COVID-19 and show no symptoms for 14 days can go for donation subject to strict guidelines for eligible donors.

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Theresa May's Disastrous Election Has Left Her Too Weak To Reshuffle The Top Cabinet Jobs

Boris Johnson, Philip Hammond, Amber Rudd and David Davis will stay in their posts, after weeks of speculation that the PM was planning big changes after the election.

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Theresa May has been forced to abandon her plans for a major cabinet reshuffle after returning to Downing Street with a lower majority, keeping senior ministers including Boris Johnson and Philip Hammond in position.

But with recriminations in the Conservative party growing on Friday, May put off making a decision about whether to keep her controversial senior aides, despite calls from some MPs to sack them after the humiliating result.

In a statement, Number 10 Downing Street announced on Friday evening that the chancellor Philip Hammond will keep his job as chancellor, despite weeks of speculation that the second most important minister in government will be moved from the Treasury.

According to reports during the campaign, Hammond’s future was in doubt after clashes over policy and political decisions with Nick Timothy, May’s influential co-chief of staff. Hammond had been conspicuously absent during the election campaign, even when economic issues were being debated, and May pointedly refused to back Hammond at an awkward press conference last month.

In the weeks leading up to the election, numerous sources in Westminster said that the chancellor was “in play”, with one telling BuzzFeed News last week that he was “done” as chancellor. Others were also likely to be moved if, as was thought likely, May won a healthy majority, the sources said.

But Hammond has survived after the bitterly disappointing election – in which May threw away a 17-seat majority – effectively removed the prime minister’s leverage to make big changes to the cabinet.

Amber Rudd remains as home secretary, having clung on to her seat in Hastings & Rye by just 346 votes after a recount. Rudd appeared more frequently in the campaign than any other member of candidate, including standing in for May in one of the TV leaders debates, and was tipped as a potential chancellor.

Boris Johnson stays as foreign secretary. And David Davis has kept his position as the chief Brexit minister, leading the negotiations with the European Union that are set to begin in 10 days.

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Michael Fallon has been reappointed defence secretary.

No other appointments will be made on Friday, Downing Street said.

To many in Westminster, however, the composition of May’s senior staff is even more important than that of her cabinet.

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Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, May's senior advisers, leaving Conservative Party headquarters after the election result.

Downing Street's influential chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, are heavily relied on by the prime minister and were integral to her rise to the top of British politics. As BuzzFeed News reported this week, the pair, who began working with May in the Home Office, provide ideas and drive to their patron and have been involved in just about everything she has done since becoming Conservative leader.

They acted as her eyes and ears in Whitehall, serving as gatekeepers and enforcers, to the consternation of officials who complain that their approach is controlling and secretive and has led to “bottlenecks” in government. They resigned their positions as Downing Street to play major roles in the Conservative campaign, though they twice were allowed to return temporarily to the government staff after the London and Manchester terror attacks, so they could join May in secret intelligence and crisis response meetings.

Many in the party have blamed Timothy and Hill for the party’s predicament — particularly the unravelling of the policy manifesto, which Timothy oversaw. On Friday night, as the results came in, one senior MP told BuzzFeed News that their sacking would be the “minimum” that angry senior figures would demand if May was to have any hope of keeping her job.

But May appears to be sticking by her loyal aides — or at least, putting off a decision on their future.

Asked by journalists in Downing Street late on Friday afternoon whether she will make staff changes, May said: “What I’m doing today is focusing on forming a government… I’ll shortly be forming my cabinet, and other staff issues are for other days.”

Chief of Staffs watch: Am told David Davis pushing for TM to get rid of Hill/Timothy. Hearing suggestions Timothy likely to go soon.

Late on Friday, Hill and Timothy were said to be catching up on sleep.

In a statement to TV cameras in Downing Street on Friday afternoon, May said she was sorry that some Conservative MPs, including ministers, had lost their seats because of her ill-judged decision to go early to the polls.

It was the second statement May had made outside Downing Street on Friday. Earlier, after returning from Buckingham Palace, where she sought the Queen’s permission to form a minority government, she made a defiant statement without showing any sign of contrition or embarrassment for the unexpectedly bad result.

After criticism that the statement had struck the wrong tone, May spoke again later. But while she expressed her condolences to those who had lost their seats, the prime minister still seemed unwilling to acknowledge how badly her party had done.

That may not be sustainable, however, as anger within the party grows.

Senior Tory MP: "We all f***ing hate her. But there is nothing we can do. She has totally f***ed us".

Rob Wilson, one of several ministers who lost his seat, told Sky News the Conservatives had run a "terrible" campaign. It was, Wilson said, "certainly the worst I've been through by a long, long way".

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Half Of The Women With Mesh Implant Complications Lose Their Partners, A Senate Inquiry Hears

    "This is what my husband feels every time we try to have sex."

    Half of the women who experienced adverse physical and psychological side effects after receiving a vaginal mesh implant have also suffered from a relationship breakdown after the procedure, a Senate inquiry into transvaginal meshes has heard.

    Urogynaecological meshes, sometimes known as transvaginal meshes, are inserted into women as a treatment option for pelvic organ prolapse (when the connective tissue securing the vagina and uterus to the pelvis gives way after childbirth), or urinary incontinence.

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    The inquiry, which reports in November, was set up to find out exactly how many women have had transvaginal mesh implants and, of those, how many experienced adverse side effects.

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    "Since 2007 we have been seeing patients suffering chronic pain after mesh surgery with increasing frequency."

    Vancaillie called on manufacturers to "voluntarily withdraw some of their products" and urged Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration to adopt an ongoing surveillance system to monitor complications after transvaginal mesh surgery.

    Dr Liz Howard of the WHRIA said 72% of patients in the institute's pelvic pain impact questionnaire said the pain had impacted the level of intimacy or sexual relations.

    Hinch told the hearing that one patient had approached him with a handful of steel wool and said: "This is what my husband feels every time we try to have sex".

    Many of the women testifying on Monday could not sit still for more than 15 minutes at a time, so leaned against the walls or paced along the back of the room in New South Wales parliament.

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    Senator Derryn Hinch.

    Queensland associate professor of urogynaecology Christopher Maher has estimated more than 200,000 mesh implant surgeries have been performed in Australia to date.

    More than 100 women have written to the inquiry.

    Patients who suffered ongoing complications after their surgery, including relationship breakdowns, testified at Monday's hearing.

    One woman, identified only as Madeleine, testified via phone at the hearing about how her "vagina felt like it was full of barbed wire and shards of glass" after her implant was inserted.

    "It left me with the inability to share intercourse," Madeleine, who had three operations to remove the mesh, told the hearing.

    Another woman flew from regional New South Wales to describe how a "piece of plastic" had ruined her emotional and sexual life, changing her from a "passionate primary school teacher" into a "victim".

    "I've had frequent catheters, groin pain, frequent [urinary tract infections], pain during sex with the inability to orgasm, problems with urethra and bladder function, I can no longer run or cycle," she said.

    "I feel sexually inadequate and have pushed away friends due to my lack of self-worth."

    Gai Thompson received a mesh implant nine years ago and told the hearing she was "never warned about how catastrophic the complications would be".

    "I wasn’t warned of the shame, isolation, mental anguish and financial burden this surgery would cause, and that it would consume every aspect of my life," Thompson said.

    She said when she complained to her doctor about her inability to have sex with her husband because of the pain, he said: "There are many ways to skin a cat".

    This echoed previous testimonies from women who couldn't have vaginal sex due to ongoing sexual dysfunction from urogynaecological mesh, who told the hearing their GPs' advice was to have anal sex instead.

    Thompson is one of more than 700 Australian women currently in court fighting Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, in a class action brought by Shine Lawyers which claims vaginal medical devices left women "suffering painful and life-altering complications".

    An estimated 100,000 Australian women have been implanted with Johnson & Johnson mesh devices since 2000.

    The lawyers representing the women have said there could be upwards of 8,000 Australians who have been implanted with one of the nine devices.

    Johnson & Johnson said the company's pelvic mesh products had been developed in "close consultation with specialist surgeons" and were "backed by years of clinical research".

    In its submission to the Senate inquiry, the company said the use of implantable mesh was supported by clinical research and was often the preferred option to treat pelvic conditions, including incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.

    The final public hearing for the inquiry is in Canberra on Tuesday.

    If you need to talk to someone, you can call Lifeline Australia on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue Australia on 1300 22 4636; Anxiety UK on 08444 775 774; or Hopeline America on 1-800-784-2433.

    Gina Rushton is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Sydney.

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