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Goodbye Youtube, Hello Peertube
This is a really nice, informative video as to why Gentle Living Shop has left Youtube and embraced Peertube and the Fediverse.
Lots of excellent reasoning here, along with an explanation of what the Fediverse is.
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Trojans Training 19/9/2021
The trojans have their last training session before the final game of the season.
Date : Sunday 19th September 2021 Time : 10 am —> 13:00 **Location : ** Foxhole playing field, Bellfield Road, Paignton
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Code Club 18/9/2021
Code club is on Torday, 10 – 12 at Paignton Library. Please contact the library to book.
We will carry on with what we have been doing. Working through own projects, code club projects etc.
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Covid update 3 – 17/9/2021
Vaccinations and boosters
This week we have seen announcements regarding COVID-19 boosters for over 50s and the vulnerable, Flu vaccination for over 50s, children and all risk groups, and COVID-19 vaccinations for 12–15 year olds.
Seasonal flu is an unpredictable but recurring pressure that the NHS faces every winter and vaccination offers the best protection. The rollout of this year’s Flu vaccine has already started, and many people have been invited along to one of the clinics. This includes all children aged 2 to 15 years old.
Annual flu programme – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Further information on the roll out of COVID-19 vaccination for 12-15 year olds can be found here:
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JVCI) announced this week that they recommend the rollout of the COVID-19 booster. The COVID-19 vaccines provide high levels of protection against hospitalisation or dying from the virus. To maintain this high level of protection through the coming winter and booster vaccines will be offered to those more at risk from serious disease, and who were vaccinated during Phase 1 of the vaccine programme (priority groups 1 to 9). This will start in the next few weeks and people will be invited to make an appointment.
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Covid update 2 – 17/9/2021
Planning for Winter
The Government published its COVID-19 Response Autumn and Winter Plan this week. The plan focuses on four areas:
autumn response
If COVID starts to put significant additional pressure on the NHS then ‘Plan B’ will come into operation with further possible measures that may be introduced if needed:
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Covid update 1 – 17/9/2021
Friday 17 September 2021
We hope that everyone has enjoyed the summer and managed to spend some time with friends and family. We were very lucky with the weather which meant that some more normal activities and events were able to go ahead.
It was definitely a bumper summer for the number of visitors to the Bay this year which is positive for our hospitality industry as many people took a staycation in the South West.
With our high case rates, Torbay along with the rest of Devon and Cornwall was designated an ERA (Enhanced Response Area) at the end of August. Rates have been slowing slightly over the last two weeks although they remain at fairly high levels and we are continuing to see outbreaks in some of our settings.
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Planets form in organic soups with different ingredients
Interesting article found on Mastodon, scientists have mapped the chemical composition of planetary nurseries. Looks like I have quite a bit of reading to do, as there are 3 papers linked to this article.
I have included the usual links to the original article & discourse discussion.
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#Astronomy,#AstroChemistry,#Planetary,#Discs,#Science,#ScienceDaily,#Articles,#Papers,#Research
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “Planets form in organic soups with different ingredients: A series of new images reveals that planets form in organic soups — and no two soups are alike.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 15 September 2021
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Trojans Training 12/9/2021
The Torbay Trojans will be back training Sunday from 10 – 13:00. Please see the website for more information.
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Back up and running 11/September/2021
For the few days (until 10/September/2021), this blog site has been off line. I would like to say a big thank you to the admin team at personaljournal.ca for their work getting the service back up and running.
Thank you and keep up the good work.
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Astrology versus Astronomy: What's the Difference, Really?
This is the September public lecture from the Space Telescope Science Institute
Location: Online Attendance Only Date ; September 7 2021 Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
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#Science,#Space,#stsci,#Telescope,#Astronomy,#Astrology
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