Ossama Ali, a spokesman for an ambulance center in eastern Libya, said at least 5,100 deaths were recorded in Derna, along with around 100 others elsewhere in eastern Libya. Search teams went through shattered apartment buildings and retrieved the dead floating offshore in the Mediterranean Sea, al-Falah said. The only two usable roads from the south take a winding route through the mountains.Ĭollapsed bridges over the river split the city center, further hampering movement. “It was like a Hollywood horror movie.”ĭerna lies on a narrow coastal plain, under steep mountains. “They were screaming, ‘Help, help,’” he said over the phone from a field hospital in Derna. ![]() Two dams in the mountains above the city collapsed, sending floodwaters roaring down the Wadi Derna river and through the city center, sweeping away entire city blocks.Īs much as a quarter of the city has disappeared, emergency officials said. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused deadly flooding Sunday in many towns of eastern Libya, but the worst-hit was Derna. Wherever you go, you find dead men, women, and children,” Emad al-Falah, an aid worker from Benghazi, said over the phone from Derna. “Bodies are everywhere, inside houses, in the streets, at sea. ![]() Aid workers who managed to reach the city described devastation in its center, with thousands still missing and tens of thousands left homeless. ![]() The Mediterranean city of Derna has struggled to get help after Sunday night’s deluge washed away most access roads. By SAMY MAGDY and YOUSEF MURAD (Associated Press)ĭERNA, Libya (AP) - Search teams combed streets, wrecked buildings and even the sea Wednesday to look for bodies in a coastal Libyan city where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed at least 5,100 people.
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![]() UPDATED: Final MDS 3.0 Item Sets version 1.18.11 v6 We’ve also improved Medicare’s Compare sites. Now available! Our new Provider Data Catalog makes it easier for you to search and download publicly reported data. Medicare Provider Cost Report Public Use Files.Provider statistical & reimbursement report.Medicare fee for service for Parts A & B.Medicare Claims Synthetic Public Use Files (SynPUFs). ![]() Health Care Information System (HCIS) data file.Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data.Prescription Drug Plan Formulary, Pharmacy Network, and Pricing Information Files for Download.Next Generation ACO Model (NGACO) Public Use Files.Medicare Advantage/Part D Contract and Enrollment Data.Comprehensive End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Care (CEC) Model Public Use Files.For questions related to the new methodology or ratings, facilities can follow the instructions in these reports.Īdditional details regarding the staffing rating methodology are included in the updated Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating Technical Users' Guide. Facilities will receive a preview of their ratings in their July Provider Preview report that includes guidance on where to direct questions. The changes in the staffing domain described above will change many facilities’ staffing and overall star ratings. These changes seek to incentivize a more holistic approach to improving nursing home staffing, and ultimately aim to result in better quality of care and outcomes for residents. These changes will provide a more comprehensive representation of each facility’s staffing for residents, families, caregivers, and consumers that use the Care Compare website to view information about nursing homes to support health care decisions for themselves or someone they care about. Rather, only facilities with a five-star staffing rating will result in an increase in their overall star rating by the addition of one star. Rating thresholds will be set based on this initial distribution, but remain static over time to allow providers to demonstrate improvement.Īdditionally, to emphasize the importance of staffing, we will no longer add one star to the overall rating of facilities that have a four-star staffing rating. The remaining thresholds will then be assigned to produce the four remaining groups (1 to 4 stars). Similar to the staffing methodology that was implemented in April 2019, the new rating system will use staffing levels of nursing homes with high performance on the quality measures related to hospitalizations to set the five-star staffing rating threshold. Number of administrators who have left the nursing home within a given yearĪ facility’s performance on each measure is converted to points, which are then totaled and compared to thresholds for each staffing star rating.Total nurse staff turnover within a given year.Total nurse (RN, licensed practical nurses, and nurse aids) staffing hours per resident per day on weekends.In addition to existing staffing measures for registered nurse (RN) and total nurse hours per resident per day, the new staffing domain rating methodology will include the following measures: We also note that improving nursing home staffing and increasing transparency are key components of the White House Fact Sheet on improving nursing home quality and safety. Now, we are adding four new measures to the Nursing Home Five Star Quality Rating System effective with the July 27 release. In January, we began posting new weekend staffing and staff turnover measures on Care Compare ( CMS memorandum QSO 22-08-NH ). Over the last several years, CMS has made improvements to the information reported. For more than 10 years, CMS has been posting information on facility staffing measures on the website Care Compare. Staffing in nursing homes has a substantial impact on the quality of care and outcomes residents experience.
![]() Clients can receive “nutraceuticals,” intravenous concoctions such as the “Immunity Blend” (zinc chloride, vitamin C and a B-complex blend). In lieu of accepting insurance, the clinic operates on a membership model that “allows people the dignity of freely making their own health care decisions without 3rd party interference,” according to the clinic’s brochure. It employs a small team of medical professionals who offer pretty much the same services as any other primary-care facility, with one key distinction: “We’re not gonna push the vaccine - ain’t gonna happen,” Mellor says. What it represents is distrust of mainstream institutions - and the initiative some skeptics are taking to create institutions of their own.īesides the Hollow, Mellor has built a health-care facility called We the People Health & Wellness Center, to serve people who, like Mellor, distrust the medical establishment. “Physically, there’s not a whole lot to the Hollow,” Mellor says. ![]() The gun range adjoining the Hollow, where Mellor has hosted shooting classes. Even without anyone there, it seemed clear to me why this place might appeal to a certain kind of southwest Floridian: It was a kind of anti-elitist hangout where like-minded people could gather without anyone telling them Donald Trump’s a liar, or indoctrinating their kids with liberal B.S., or requiring them to get vaccinated against communicable diseases, or insisting that gun culture is its own kind of illness. It was closed because of a zoning dispute at the time of my visit, in mid-August, but he’s optimistic it will be allowed to reopen. This is the Hollow, Mellor’s light at the end of the tunnel. Alongside the back of the property is a gun range, where Mellor has hosted instructors who teach kids as young as 7 how to shoot. Here, a man who calls himself “America’s Constitution Coach” has hosted weekly “Constitutional Defense” classes - a “one of a kind course on the meaning and purpose of the 2nd Amendment and the entire Constitution!” per a Facebook post. The passageway empties into an outdoor bar and patio adorned with a wall-length Betsy Ross flag. Vic Mellor in the cavelike entryway to the Hollow in Sarasota, Fla. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyone have the same problem? Thanks on the beforehand. And I can’t make head nor tails of google flash file because I don’t really understand how the translation function works. It would make more sense if it didn’t work at all. Then even if both subtitles are shown one above the other, they are both in English. Does anyone know why this is happening? What I don’t understand is that it begins translating but only does it for a couple of minutes. The test button didn’t work and I’m not sure what this was testing. Then I tried to check the ‘google translate’ option clicking on the ‘test’, open file, reload application and login. I prevented all processes except for PotPlayer but this didn’t work. So I thought maybe if I limit the bandwidth of other programmes it Google translate would keep translating. Now, the only online reference I could find is that in a recent update it said “online subtitle translation” would not ‘browse slowly’ in the new version. I’ve set the source language as English and the translation language as Dutch. But now for some reason it translates for about five minutes and then it stops. This is fantastic because you can’t always find Dutch translations on the subtitles websites. 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Which is pretty impressive performance for a machine that is much lower powered and under half the price! Navigating through the project was fluid and we didn't experience any real differences between the two machines. We then averaged the timesĢ4 Seconds to open the project on a 2.7GHz Quad Core Retina MBP.Ģ6 Seconds to open the project on the 1.3Ghz MacBook Air. This would give the machines the opportunity to write or cache any files it needed. We tested both the MBA and a Retina MBP by opening up and then closing a complex FCPX project from a Thunderbolt drive. So how did the MacBook Air handle FCPX? There is some good news and some very bad news. It's enough space however to put a single report together if you were in a war zone and your pocket Thunderbolt drive had saved your life by taking the bullet hit. Apple say that the flash memory in the new Air is 45% faster than the previous generation.īut will you be using the internal memory for video files? Probably not as 256GB could become limiting once you've downloaded all the applications you need with content. So having powered the machine up and done any software upgrades that were needed, we ran the Blackmagic Speed test.Ī pretty impressive performance that beats a Retina by about 200 MB/s on read and write. USB to Ethernet adaptors could be utilised to get around this problem. If this doesn't seem a problem, remember that connecting to the internet or a network via Ethernet will always be at the end of the chain. All peripherals apart from one would have to be passthrough and not end of chain devices. The lack of a second Thunderbolt port could prove to be a problem. As a comparison, the cheapest 13 inch Retina MacBook Pro has a native resolution of 2560 x 1600. The maximum resolution on the Air is 1440 x 900, so you won't be watching any HD 1080 material pixel on pixel. The Air doesn't have a retina screen which means if you've been used to working with one, you'll find the MBA screen soft. Our first impression was not one of the size, but the display. The front of the MBA chamfers down to almost nothing, the Retina is the same thickness front to back. Connectors on the right hand side are an SDXC card slot, another USB 3 and the machine's only Thunderbolt connector. Travelling without a mains connector with a laptop feels strange & slightly exposed. The moment you stress the MBA with a render, the fan kicks in and battery life will drop a lot more quickly. Power consumption on the MBA is very low and working on the machine doing web browsing or email is possible all day long without a top-up. The two little holes on the right of those are microphones. On the left hand side of the Air you'll find a MagSafe 2 power port, a USB 3 and a headphone connector. ![]() Now that the MacBook Pro has built in flash memory, the back thickness of the two machines is very similar. ![]() ![]() Previously in a comparison to a MacBook Pro, the Air would look very svelte against its bigger brother packing a spinning hard disk. The machine is small, but not as small as you would expect if you are a Retina MacBook Pro user. The machine supplied was a top of the range 13 inch model, 1.3Ghz processor, 4GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage. We reveal some very dramatic performance figures.Īs we said in our previous article, the MacBook air isn't normally a machine that we would have in the office, so a loaner for a month gave us the opportunity to try it out. We had the opportunity to test out a top of the range MacBook Air and naturally we thought it would be a good idea to see how it performed with Final Cut Pro X. In the wild, females bear on average only a single pup every two to three years. Monitoring and regulation of the exploitation and trade of both manta ray species is urgently needed, as well as protection of key habitats.Īnother factor which adds to the vulnerability of the Manta ray is its low reproductive rate. Products from manta rays have a high value in international markets, and targeted fisheries hunt them for their valuable gill rakers used in traditional Chinese medicine. Mantas migrate vast distances, crossing international boundaries, in search of food. Both of these species have been classified as vulnerable in the IUCN Red List. Now though, researchers have observed that there are actually two: the Reef Manta Ray ( Manta alfredi) and the Giant Manta Ray ( Manta birostris). Until recently people believed there was only one species of Manta Ray: Manta birostris. Photo by Vovo Korth Vulnerable in Spite of their Size However, Mantasīoth collaborate when feeding and follow the plankton, so Manta rays sometimes leap out of the water, falling back Filtering your food out of the oceansĭoesn't take much energy, which is why Manta rays can be Occur near the surface of the seas, that's where MantasĪre also found. Head fins to direct plankton into theur mouths. Water with steady sweeps of their giant wings.Ĭompletely harmless filter-feeders, Manta rays use their Waters around the world, gracefully flying through the “They’re smart, almost like the dolphins of fish,” says Setyawan.Awesome to see underwater, the Giant Manta Ray is an enormousįish spanning nearly 7 m (22 feet). Some are ready and willing to show off their bellies and identify themselves, while others swim in the other direction. Some are shy and some are more extroverted. His team can tell them apart from the unique spot patterns on their bellies. Manta rays’ large brain-to-body ratio allows them to have individual personalities, says Setyawan. His findings were published in May 2022 in Frontiers in Marine Science. “It took eight years of research to prove we had found it,” he says. In this protected environment, the babies are birthed and live until large enough to survive elsewhere. Setyawan says he and his colleagues have found the world’s first confirmed manta ray nursery in Raja Ampat. Scientists think that the animals give birth in manta ray nurseries, where most of the mantas living there are pups. Manta moms give birth to around one live pup every two to three years, and then she sets them on their way. Manta ray filter feeding above a coral reef in the blue Komodo waters (Credit: Kjersti Joergensen/Shutterstock) “It’s the best place to interact with mantas,” he says. In the morning or afternoon, for example, they regularly find their spot on the coral reef and enjoy what basically amounts to a marine spa treatment.Īs the tiny fish and crustaceans clean the rays, Setyawan bears witness to a sea creature in its element. Much of his observations occur in what are called “cleaning stations.” Manta rays often hover over coral reefs while cleaner fish, like the wrasse fish and the scarlet cleaner shrimp, remove parasites, dead skin cells and bacteria from the rays’ skin.Īlthough manta rays tend to fly solo, they’re known to gather at such cleaning sites during certain times of the day. ![]() ![]() It’s a slow-growing, long-lived species that has been shown in some cases to live up to 60 years, says Setyawan. The giant manta ray is the largest ray in the ocean, with a wingspan of up to 30 feet. 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