d6 items of interest week of november 13

“We have not addressed House membership in over a century, despite a growing population and an overwhelming amount of evidence illustrating the need for reform of the House of Representatives,” Hastings said in a statement. “This past year, Americans from coast to coast demanded change and turned out at the polls in record numbers. It is high time we examine representation to ensure the people’s House truly reflects those we serve.”.

Do Your Most Thoughtful Work (On Paper)When you want to do deep thinking, one of the most effective strategies is to step away from your computer or smartphone. If you need to take a flight sans laptop, bring sheets of blank paper a pen. If you shopping around for a paper notebook or planner, here are a couple of can help.Then pick one or two of these key projects to tackle:Proposals.

In this article we examine the relationship between standards and subjectivity in the context of compensating the victims of terrorism. We do so by drawing on a corpus of data that features survivor and bereaved accounts of two twenty first century terrorist attacks. We investigate the distressing period in which compensation claims remained undecided, in some cases for over seven years after the attacks, and how the process of assessment acts as a ‘technology of desubjectification’.

About 82% of the patients also took dexamethasone, a steroid that the RECOVERY trial found also reduces deaths from severe COVID 19. After the findings came out in June 2020, dexamethasone became part of the standard care plan for patients with severe COVID 19. Now the research team is recommending that hospitalized patients receive both dexamethasone and tocilizumab to reduce COVID 19 deaths..

I want to thank Madison Fire Department Chief Davis for showing me around Station 14 this morning. As you can see from the photo below, there is still ongoing construction at the site. However, the good news is that as of 7:00am on December 27, 2018 the Station should be up and running..

While Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s multiplayer, Blackout, and Zombies modes are varied affairs, there’s little in the way of cohesion between them barring basic traversal elements. They could essentially stand as three different games. Granted that was the case with past Call of Duty titles as well, but the presence of a single player campaign made the overall package feel more robust and uniform, with a similar theme permeating through the proceedings..