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Gov. Murphy says NJ has now moved "well into" stage three of the state's coronavirus reopenings. Here's what that means, and what's next.
By Tom Davis, Patch Staff
Sep 3, 2020 9:16 am ET|Updated Sep 3, 2020 7:21 pm ET
NEW JERSEY – New Jersey has achieved a significant milestone as the state's metrics in the coronavirus crisis continue to drop: The Garden State has moved into "stage three" of its reopening plan.
Stage three is not the last stage of the reopening process, and there are still components of New Jersey's economy that remain closed – or their reopening was strictly limited, and can still be expanded (see list of what's open, what's not, and the reopening chart below).
But Gov. Phil Murphy said the state "largely ticked through the box things in stage two and at this point, we're well into stage three, whether in substance form or otherwise."
The last stage in the state's reopening plan is called "New Normal," and New Jersey would enter it if there was widespread distribution of a vaccine or treatment.
Murphy did warn that he could easily revert back to stage two – or reverse some reopening decisions – if New Jersey's numbers tick back up, or if there is a second wave of the virus.
"Would we consider reversing this if it looked like it was blowing up in our face? Sadly, I'd have to say yes," Murphy said.
New Jersey's daily case numbers have remained largely flat, hovering in the 300 level for more than a month. Murphy announced 329 new coronavirus cases and 11 more deaths on Wednesday. Read more: NJ Coronavirus, Reopen Updates: Here's What You Need To Know
Murphy said it would take a sustained increase in metrics, perhaps over a seven-day period, to cause New Jersey to reverse its reopening decisions.
Those metrics would be: percentage of positive tests, which are among the lowest in the nation; new daily hospitalizations, which were once in the hundreds and now hover around 30; and the transmission rate, which is now way below the dangerous level of 1.0.
All three on Wednesday were at perhaps their lowest levels since the crisis began in March:
Murphy, on other hand, said he'd consider reopening more, such as expanding indoor dining to 50 percent, "if the metrics stay with us."
"That would be our hope, but we can't predict that. We have to see how this impacts all the stuff we look at it," he said.
"You hope someday we're going to get back to normal, folks, and we will. I just can't tell you exactly when."
Here is what New Jersey has done to enter stage three:
Indoor gatherings expanded: Murphy on Monday raised the indoor gathering limits to 150 people, or 25 percent capacity, for religious services, weddings, funerals and memorial services and political activities. Read more: Gov. Murphy: NJ Movie Theaters To Resume Amid Coronavirus Crisis
Indoor dining reopening: Murphy announced that indoor dining can finally resume. The governor announced that restaurants across the state will be able to open for indoor dining beginning at 6 a.m. this Friday at 25 percent capacity and with social distancing between tables. He also outlined many of the rules. Read more: Gov. Murphy: NJ Indoor Dining To Resume Amid Coronavirus Crisis
Movie theaters: Murphy said movie theaters and indoor performance venues can resume this week. Read more: Gov. Murphy: NJ Movie Theaters To Resume Amid Coronavirus Crisis
Here is what New Jersey would need to do to finish stage three, and move to the "new normal:"
- Reopen bars and clubs
- Allow fans back at concert and sporting events.
- Expand indoor dining and related activities to 50 percent or higher.
Murphy said reopening bars is a "bone in my throat" and the "explosions" that have happened in cases in other parts of the country took place because bars were kept open, or they were reopened too early.
"Bars were a huge culprit and I'm a big bar guy so, with a heavy heart, I say that," he said.
Murphy, however, said he wouldn't take this week's reopening steps if weren't for the fact that New Jersey continues to show progress.
"We wouldn't be taking this step if we did not have a supremely high level of confidence that we'd be open for business," Murphy said.
Here is what has opened already:
- Fishing charters and watercraft rentals reopened at 6 a.m on May 17th
- Nonessential retail stores for online and phone ordering and curbside pickup, as well as nonessential construction, were allowed to resume at 6 a.m. on May 18th
- In-person automobile and motorcycle sales were allowed to return on May 20th
- Beaches were allowed to reopen on May 22nd
- Batting cages and golf ranges, with foursomes – not just pairings – were allowed to tee-off on May 22nd
- Shooting and archery ranges, horseback riding and private tennis clubs and community gardens were allowed to resume on May 22nd
- Elective and invasive surgeries were allowed to resume on May 26th
- The limit on outdoor gatherings was raised from 25 to 100 on June 9th, paving the way for outdoor entertainment, recreational activities, religious services and protests to resume
- The limit on indoor gatherings was raised to 25 percent capacity, or 50 people total, on June 9th, paving the way for indoor church services to resume
- Libraries were allowed to do curbside pickup beginning on June 12th
- Open houses to view real estate, with attendees wearing face coverings, resumed on June 14th
- Car washes were allowed to resume on June 14th
- Yard and garage sales were allowed to resume on June 14th
- Fireworks displays at public and private beaches, boardwalks, lakes and lakeshores were allowed to resume on June 14th
- Outdoor dining reopened on June 15th
- Limited in-person retail reopened on June 15th
- Child care centers reopened on June 15th
- MVC driver services resumed (pick-up only) on June 15th
- Municipal and private-club swimming pools reopened on June 22nd
- Non-contact organized sports activities restarted on June 22nd
- Beauty salons reopened on June 22nd
- Barber shops reopened on June 22nd
- Cosmetology shops reopened on June 22nd
- Day and medical spas (not steam rooms, saunas or shared bathing facilities) reopened on June 22nd
- Electrology facilities reopened on June 22nd
- Hair braiding shops reopened on June 22nd
- Massage parlors reopened on June 22nd
- Nail salons reopened on June 22nd
- Tanning salons reopened on June 22nd
- Tattoo parlors reopened on June 22nd
- The limit on outdoor gatherings rose to 250 on June 22nd
- Indoor gatherings were limited to 25 percent capacity of the rooms in which they will take place, with a maximum of 100 persons, as of June 22nd
- Golf and tennis resumed competitions on June 22nd
- Baseball, softball, soccer and outdoor basketball resumed on June 22nd, but they are limited to non-contact drills and practices.
- Non-contact football drills resumed on June 22nd
- Inspections and road tests resumed on June 29th
- Indoor malls reopened on June 29th
- In-person clinical labs and hands-on programming at colleges were allowed to resume on July 1
- Career and training schools reopened on July 1st
- Gymnastic centers reopened on July 2nd
- Dance studios reopened on July 2nd
- Playgrounds reopened on July 2nd
- Amusement parks reopened on July 2nd
- Water parks reopened on July 2nd.
- Casinos reopened on July 2nd.
- Racetracks reopened for in-person bets on July 2nd
- Museums reopened at 25 percent of capacity on July 2nd
- Aquariums reopened at 25 percent of capacity on July 2nd
- Bowling alleys reopened at 25 percent of capacity on July 2nd
- Shooting ranges reopened at 25 percent of capacity on July 2nd
- Arcades reopened at 25 percent of capacity on July 2nd
- Libraries reopened on July 2nd
- Gym and fitness centers opened only for individualized training, and by appointment, involving one person and/or your family on July 2nd
- The limit on outdoor gatherings rose to 500 on July 3rd
- Indoor pools reopened on July 3rd
- Youth summer camps and programs reopened on July 6th
- In-person graduations were allowed to begin on July 6th
- Baseball, softball, soccer and outdoor basketball competitions were allowed to resume on July 6th
- NJ Transit returned to full weekday service on July 6th
- MVC driver in-person driver services, including driver's license renewals, resumed on July 7th
- Some indoor dining spaces that can open to the outside were allowed on July 8th
- NJ Transit's 50-percent capacity limit was lifted on July 15th.
- Full football practices and competitions resumed on July 20th.
- Yoga and martial arts studios were allowed to resume on July 22nd.
Gov. Murphy Issues 58 COVID Reopening Rules For NJ Indoor Dining 9/4/2020
NEW JERSEY – Gov. Phil Murphy and state health officials released a long set of rules on Friday for reopening indoor dining amid the coronavirus crisis. Murphy issued the rules as he announced, during a Friday news conference, 478 additional coronavirus cases and seven more deaths (you can watch it here, below).
The update comes as the number of cases continues to rise in New Jersey. Read more: NJ Coronavirus, School Reopen Updates: Here's What You Need To Know
Murphy issued 58 rules for reopening indoor dining as restaurants, indoor performance venues and movie theaters were set to restart on Friday (see list of indoor dining rules below).
AMC also provided a list of its reopenings and a set of rules on Friday for reopening its theaters. Read more: All AMC Theaters In NJ Will Be Open In A Week
The reopenings take place as New Jersey has moved "well into" stage three of its reopening plan, Murphy said. The governor did say he could reverse the decision if coronavirus cases tick back upward. Read more: Gov. Murphy: NJ 'Well Into' Stage 3 Of Coronavirus ReopeningSubscribe
Murphy said indoor dining, indoor performance venues and movie theaters must be limited to 25 percent capacity, up to a maximum of 150 people. But there are a number of steps that regulate customer and employee behavior.
"Given the progress we continue to see statewide, and with the proper precautions and limitations in place, I am proud that we can take this step today to allow our restaurants to once again welcome patrons back for indoor dining services," said Murphy. "Our job now is to ensure that this resumption only leads to future expansions of indoor capacity limits, and that we do not have to take a step backward."
Some lawmakers have expressed frustration with governor's timing, saying the decision it too little, too late. Many restaurants are struggling to survive, and some lawmakers say they needed the summer business to stay afloat.
But Marilou Halvorsen, president of the New Jersey Restaurant & Hospitality Association, said she appreciates the governor and his team "communicating with the association and members of the industry as the reopening took place."
"The industry is ready for a safe reopening and getting New Jerseyans back to work," she said. "We look forward to the next phase."
Here are the rules:
Managing the establishment
- Limit the number of patrons in indoor areas to 25 percent of the food or beverage establishment's indoor capacity, excluding the food or beverage establishment' employees. Ensure that the new maximum occupancy limits are posted.
- Post signage at the entrance that states that no one with a fever or symptoms of COVID-19 should enter the establishment.
- Ensure that tables where individuals or groups are seated are 6 feet apart in all directions from any other table or seat.
- Individual seats in any shared area that is not reserved for individual groups, such as an indoor bar area, also must be 6 feet apart in all directions from any other table or seat.
- Limit seating to a maximum of eight customers per table (unless they are from a family from the same household).
- Bar seating may be utilized if customers are seated and comply with physical distancing guideline of at least 6 feet between customers. Standing in a bar area is not permitted.
- A maximum of four customers that have a common relationship may sit together at the bar, while adhering to the physical distancing guidelines between other customers.
- Install physical barriers and partitions at cash registers, bars, host stands and other area where maintaining physical distance of 6 ft is difficult.
- Rope-off or otherwise mark tables, chairs and bar stools that are not to be used. Provide physical guides, such as tape on floors and signage on walls to remind customers/visitors to remain at least 6 feet apart in line and/or in common areas.
- Eliminate self-service food such as buffets and salad bars. Limit self-service drink stations to those that can be routinely and effectively cleaned and disinfected.
- Eliminate all amenities and congregate areas such as children's recreational/play areas, dance floors, and game rooms that encourage close person to person interaction.
- Consider using digital menus, single-use disposable menus (such as paper) discarded after each customer, or a written posting such as a chalkboard or whiteboard to relay menu information. Businesses shall use such alternatives where traditional menus cannot be appropriately sanitized between uses.
- Consider using single-use condiments and table items.
- Require all reusable linen napkins and/or table cloths to be laundered after each customer or party's use.
Cleaning
- Provide hand sanitizers with at least 60 percent alcohol for employees and customers close to work stations and customer tables.
- Use touchless payment options as much as possible, if available.
- Implement a restroom use policy to limit the number of customers inside the restroom.
- Ensure that live performers remain at least 10 feet from patrons and staff.
- Consider conducting health checks for all live performers and encourage the use of masks when feasible.
- Disinfect all tables, chairs and any other shared items (menus, condiments, pens) after each use.
- Clean commonly touched surfaces in restrooms (suck as toilet seats, doorknobs, stall handles, sinks, paper towel dispensers, soap dispensers) frequently and in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
- Conduct frequent disinfecting of heavy transit areas and high-touch surfaces (such as doorknobs, staircases like credit card machines, keypads, and counter areas to which employees and customers have access).
- Implement procedures to increase cleaning and disinfection in the kitchen areas. Avoid all food contact surfaces when using disinfectants. Food contact surfaces must be cleaned and sanitized before use with a sanitizer approved for food contact surfaces. Non-food contact surfaces must be frequently cleaned.
- Maintain cleaning logs that include date, time, and scope of cleaning.
- In the event of a presumptive or actual positive COVID-19 case of a worker, patron, or vendor, the restaurant must be immediately shut down for 24 hours and then must be cleaned and disinfected in accordance with current CDC guidance before re-opening.
Ventilation
- Keep doors and windows open where possible and utilize fans to improve ventilation.
- Inspect and evaluate the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) unit to ensure that the system is operating within its design specifications.
- Conduct routine maintenance as recommended by the manufacturer or HVAC professional.
- Increase the volume of outdoor air to the HVAC unit's maximum capacity while the facility is occupied.
- Reduce the volume of recirculated air being returned to the indoor spaces.
- Increase the volume of air being delivered to the indoor spaces to the maximum capacity.
- Select maximum filtration levels for the HVAC unit.
- Run the HVAC unit continuously while the facility is occupied.
- Run the HVAC unit for at least two hours before and two hours after the facility is occupied.
- Consider installing portable air cleaners equipped with a high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter to increase the amount of clean air within the facility.
- Review and follow the latest CDC guidance for ventilation requirements.
Employees
- Require employees to wash and/or sanitize their hands when entering the food or beverage establishment.
- Prior to each shift, conduct daily health checks (such as temperature screening and/or symptom checking) of employees safely and respectfully, and in accordance with any applicable privacy laws and regulations.
- Require employees with symptoms of COVID-19 (fever, cough, or shortness of breath) be sent home.
- Require employees to wear a face covering/mask, except where it would inhibit the individual's health, or where doing so would create an unsafe condition in which to operate equipment or execute a task (i.e. cooks that work near open flames). Employers must provide all employees with such face coverings.
- Require all customer-facing employees (such as servers, bus staff) to minimize time spent within 6 feet of customers.
- Require infection control practices, such as regular hand-washing, coughing and sneezing etiquette, and proper tissue usage and disposal.
- Provide employees break time for repeated hand-washing throughout the workday.
- Place tables in break rooms 6 feet apart and encourage outdoor breaks.
- Prohibit the use of small spaces (such as freezers, storage rooms) by more than one person at a time.
- Provide sanitization materials, such as hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes to staff.
Customers
- Consider conducting health surveillance assessment for customers (such as temperature screening and/or COVID-19 symptom checking). Refuse entry if customer is found with any COVID-19 symptoms.
- Inform customers of COVID-19 safety measures such as social distancing, wearing face coverings when they are away from their table and unable to social distance and hygiene practices must be adhered to while in the food or beverage establishment.
- Customers must wear face coverings at all times, except where doing so would inhibit the individual's health, or where the individual is under two years of age.
- When seated at their table or their individual seat, indoor patrons shall wear face coverings until their food or drinks arrive, and after individuals have finished consuming their food or drinks, they must put their face coverings back on.
- Decline entry to a customer who is not wearing a face covering, unless the customer has a medical reason for not doing so or is a child under two years of age.
- Consider requiring reservations for greater control of customer traffic/volume.
- Recommend customers to provide a phone number if making a reservation to facilitate contact tracing.
- Require customers wait in their cars, outside the establishment or away from the food or beverage establishment while waiting for a table if wait area cannot accommodate social distancing.
- Alert customers via calls/texts to limit touching and discourage the use of shared objects such as pagers/buzzers.
- Food or beverage establishments with table service must require that customers be seated in order to place orders.
- Food or beverage establishments with table service must require that wait staff bring food or beverages to seated customers.
- Customers may consume food or beverages only while seated.
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Trump suspends funding to World Health Organization
The US will halt funding to the World Health Organization after Donald Trump accused the global health body of “severely mismanaging” the coronavirus pandemic.
The president said hundreds of millions of dollars in US funding would be suspended while a review was conducted to assess the WHO’s “role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus”. He also criticised the organisation’s relationship with China.
“American taxpayers provide between $400m and $500m per year to the WHO; in contrast China contributes roughly $40m a year, even less,” Mr Trump said on Tuesday. “As the organisation’s leading sponsor, the United States has a duty to insist on full accountability.”
The US, where almost 26,000 people have died from Covid-19, is the largest single contributor to the WHO. It gives the body about $500m each year, with $116m mandated by the UN and about another $400m in voluntary payments.
“With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have deep concerns whether America’s generosity has been put to the best use possible,” Mr Trump said.
“The reality is that the WHO failed to adequately obtain, vet and share information in a timely and transparent fashion.”
Democrats criticised Mr Trump’s decision, accusing the president of trying to distract voters from his own handling of Covid-19, having initially said the virus would disappear “like a miracle”.
Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator and member of the foreign relations committee, said the decision was made to distract Americans from Mr Trump’s management of the outbreak. “Halting payments to the WHO because of China’s failure to alert the public about coronavirus is a blatant ploy by the president to cast blame elsewhere for his own inaction. Pulling out of the WHO makes America much less safe,” he said.
Nita Lowey, a Democratic congresswoman from New York, accused the president of playing “counterproductive political games”.
“If we don’t eradicate it everywhere, we are still at risk here, which is why the president should not be taking valuable tools away from international health experts who are fighting a battle he largely ignored and downplayed,” she said.
On Wednesday, Zhao Lijian, China's foreign ministry spokesperson, said Washington’s decision would “weaken the capabilities of the WHO, harm international co-operation against the epidemic, and affect various countries including the USA itself domestically”.
China’s state media also announced that President Xi Jinping would publish an essay titled “United co-operation is the most powerful weapon of the international community in winning the war against the epidemic” in Thursday’s edition of Qiushi, a Communist party journal.
But Australia has also expressed concerns about the WHO’s handling of the pandemic, calling for greater transparency from the health body on the causes of the outbreak.
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The Financial Times is making key coronavirus coverage free to read to help everyone stay informed. Find the latest here.
Scott Morrison, Australia’s prime minister, criticised the WHO’s apparent refusal to advise China to keep its wet markets closed, which are thought to have been the source of the outbreak in Wuhan.
“On the issue of the wet markets, I just find it baffling. I just don’t get it,” Mr Morrison said.
Mr Trump’s decision won favour with Republicans on Capitol Hill, who have repeatedly censured the WHO and questioned its links with China.
Jim Risch, the Republican senator from Idaho who chairs the Senate foreign relations committee, said last week that the health body had become a “political puppet of the Chinese government” and called for an independent investigation into the organisation.
“The WHO has failed not only the American people, it has failed the world with its flagrant mishandling of the response to Covid-19,” Mr Risch said.
In January, the WHO said there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission of Covid-19. But as China confirmed the first cases of human-to-human transmission, the WHO announced there was “some limited” direct transmission among humans.
Later that month, the WHO described the virus as a global emergency, yet recommended countries keep their borders open. That same day, Mr Trump banned most travel from China to the US.
Separately on Tuesday, Republican senators Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, Martha McSally, Kevin Cramer, Steve Daines, Todd Young and Joni Ernst sent a letter to the WHO requesting more information on its “role in helping the Chinese Communist party cover up information regarding the threat of the coronavirus”.
Ronald Waldman, a public health professor at George Washington University who previously worked at the WHO, said the body was of “vital importance” to most countries and “should not be held responsible for the course of the pandemic in the US”.
“The US citizenry may not immediately suffer from a decision to withdraw funding from the organisation, but many people around the world who depend on WHO programmes to develop and guide policies that protect their health and the health of their children will,” he added.
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The US will halt funding to the World Health Organization after Donald Trump accused the global health body of “severely mismanaging” the coronavirus pandemic. The president said hundreds of millions of dollars in US funding would be suspended while a review was conducted to assess the WHO’s “role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus”.
He also criticised the organisation’s relationship with China. “American taxpayers provide between $400m and $500m per year to the WHO; in contrast China contributes roughly $40m a year, even less,” Mr Trump said on Tuesday. “As the organisation’s leading sponsor, the United States has a duty to insist on full accountability.” The US, where almost 26,000 people have died from Covid-19, is the largest single contributor to the WHO. It gives the body about $500m each year, with $116m mandated by the UN and about another $400m in voluntary payments. “With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have deep concerns whether America’s generosity has been put to the best use possible,” Mr Trump said.
The WHO has failed not only the American people, it has failed the world with its flagrant mishandling of the response to Covid-19 Jim Risch, Republican senator “The reality is that the WHO failed to adequately obtain, vet and share information in a timely and transparent fashion.”
Democrats criticised Mr Trump’s decision, accusing the president of trying to distract voters from his own handling of Covid-19, having initially said the virus would disappear “like a miracle”. Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator and member of the foreign relations committee, said the decision was made to distract Americans from Mr Trump’s management of the outbreak. “Halting payments to the WHO because of China’s failure to alert the public about coronavirus is a blatant ploy by the president to cast blame elsewhere for his own inaction.
Pulling out of the WHO makes America much less safe,” he said. Nita Lowey, a Democratic congresswoman from New York, accused the president of playing “counterproductive political games”. “If we don’t eradicate it everywhere, we are still at risk here, which is why the president should not be taking valuable tools away from international health experts who are fighting a battle he largely ignored and downplayed,” she said.
On Wednesday, Zhao Lijian, China's foreign ministry spokesperson, said Washington’s decision would “weaken the capabilities of the WHO, harm international co-operation against the epidemic, and affect various countries including the USA itself domestically”.
China’s state media also announced that President Xi Jinping would publish an essay titled “United co-operation is the most powerful weapon of the international community in winning the war against the epidemic” in Thursday’s edition of Qiushi, a Communist party journal.
But Australia has also expressed concerns about the WHO’s handling of the pandemic, calling for greater transparency from the health body on the causes of the outbreak. Editor’s note The Financial Times is making key coronavirus coverage free to read to help everyone stay informed.
The WHO has failed not only the American people, it has failed the world with its flagrant mishandling of the response to Covid-19
Scott Morrison, Australia’s prime minister, criticised the WHO’s apparent refusal to advise China to keep its wet markets closed, which are thought to have been the source of the outbreak in Wuhan.
“On the issue of the wet markets, I just find it baffling. I just don’t get it,” Mr Morrison said. Mr Trump’s decision won favour with Republicans on Capitol Hill, who have repeatedly censured the WHO and questioned its links with China.
Jim Risch, the Republican senator from Idaho who chairs the Senate foreign relations committee, said last week that the health body had become a “political puppet of the Chinese government” and called for an independent investigation into the organisation. “The WHO has failed not only the American people, it has failed the world with its flagrant mishandling of the response to Covid-19,” Mr Risch said.
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In January, the WHO said there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission of Covid-19. But as China confirmed the first cases of human-to-human transmission, the WHO announced there was “some limited” direct transmission among humans.
Later that month, the WHO described the virus as a global emergency, yet recommended countries keep their borders open.
That same day, Mr Trump banned most travel from China to the US. Separately on Tuesday, Republican senators Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, Martha McSally, Kevin Cramer, Steve Daines, Todd Young and Joni Ernst sent a letter to the WHO requesting more information on its “role in helping the Chinese Communist party cover up information regarding the threat of the coronavirus”.
Ronald Waldman, a public health professor at George Washington University who previously worked at the WHO, said the body was of “vital importance” to most countries and “should not be held responsible for the course of the pandemic in the US”.
“The US citizenry may not immediately suffer from a decision to withdraw funding from the organisation, but many people around the world who depend on WHO programmes to develop and guide policies that protect their health and the health of their children will,” he added.
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Until now, fewer than 50 people have been to this part of West Antarctica, less than have been to space. By the end of this month, 100 will have visited. The reason why is simple: Thwaites is a potential climate time bomb that we need to learn much more about.
This vast glacier is about the size of Great Britain. While it has been shrinking since the early 1990s, ice loss has almost doubled over the past 20 years. It is shedding a dizzying 35 billion tonnes a year. On its own, its collapse would raise seas by around 65 centimetres. That is worrying enough in the context of the 19-cm rise in the whole of the 20th century. But the bigger worry is that this glacier buttresses the entire West Antarctic ice sheet. If Thwaites goes, the fear is it will trigger a wider collapse of ice – enough to raise seas by a calamitous 3.3 metres within a few hundred years.
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Sometimes all you (or someone else) needs to turn a bad day around is a genuine smile. Smiling heals, brings on happy endorphins and gives genuine positive vibes to the people around you. These smile quotes show the power of smiling, and why you should smile as often as possible in your daily life.
Quotes on the Power of Smiling
“A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it’s the greatest feeling in the world.” – Mandy Moore
“I don’t always like walking down the street and making sure that I smile and say hello to everybody who’s walking their dog in the opposite direction. But I do do it. And it’s a small, tiny thing to do. But to me, it means ‘I see you. You’re not invisible to me.'” – Patty Griffin
“Somebody said to me, ‘Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.’ That’s a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.” – Clarence Clemons
“Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.” – Kenneth Branagh
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia
“I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.” – Goldie Hawn
“Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind’s tearing tension.” – Sri Chinmoy
“If the world’s a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.” – Lucy Larcom
“I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly, I have a smile on my face.” – Vidya Balan
“If you’re able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that’s worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.” – Maria Sharapova
“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Obama’s stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.” – Tina Brown
“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.” – William Hazlitt
“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” – Maya Angelou
“When I look out at the people and they look at me and they’re smiling, then I know that I’m loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.” – Etta James
“Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.” – Christie Brinkley
Funny Smile Quotes to Brighten Your Day
“My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I’d look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen.” – Adam F. Goldberg
“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.” – George Eliot
“Smile, it’s better than a poke in the eye.” – Douglas Horton
“My cheeks explode when I smile. That’s why I have to look so nonplussed.” – Rufus Wainwright
Quotes on Smiling and Perseverance
“My worst day, I’m just going to try and smile.” – Iman Shumpert
“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“We all have our down days, but it’s not hard to smile and say, ‘Thank you.'” – Yvette Nicole Brown
“Give yourself ten years of failing with a smile on your face. If, after ten years, you still have the passion, you’re heading to success!” – Walshy Fire
“Whatever comes in my way, I take it with smile.” – Kubra Sait
Quotes on Kids and Smiling
“Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.” – Thomas Gray
“If you see a kid who’s not having the best day, you can make the day better just by giving him a smile. Or her.” – Jacob Tremblay
“It is a great day anytime I can bring a smile to a girl or boy, knowing that I am helping to inspire them to always dream big.” – Normani Kordei
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68 Genius Albert Einstein Quotes on Everything
Einstein may have been a physicist, but he sounded off on all sorts of topics in a way you’d only expect from a certified genius. Albert Einstein quotes are quirky, fun, and at times encouraging and always thoughtful. Here are some of his best quotes on all sorts of topics.
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” -Albert Einstein
“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.” -Albert Einstein
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” -Albert Einstein
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” -Albert Einstein
“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” -Albert Einstein
“The human spirit must prevail over technology.” -Albert Einstein
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” -Albert Einstein
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” -Albert Einstein
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” -Albert Einstein
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” -Albert Einstein
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” -Albert Einstein
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” -Albert Einstein
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” -Albert Einstein
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” -Albert Einstein
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” -Albert Einstein
“All generalizations are false, including this one.” -Albert Einstein
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” -Albert Einstein
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” -Albert Einstein
“Never memorize something that you can look up.” -Albert Einstein
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” -Albert Einstein
“True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.” -Albert Einstein
“Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men – above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.” -Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” -Albert Einstein
“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.” -Albert Einstein
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” -Albert Einstein
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” -Albert Einstein
“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” -Albert Einstein
“Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.” -Albert Einstein
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” -Albert Einstein
“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” -Albert Einstein
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” -Albert Einstein
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” -Albert Einstein
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” -Albert Einstein
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.” -Albert Einstein
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” -Albert Einstein
“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.” -Albert Einstein
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” -Albert Einstein
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” -Albert Einstein
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” -Albert Einstein
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” -Albert Einstein
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” -Albert Einstein
“A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.” -Albert Einstein
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” -Albert Einstein
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” -Albert Einstein
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking” -Albert Einstein
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” -Albert Einstein
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” -Albert Einstein
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” -Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” -Albert Einstein
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” -Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” -Albert Einstein
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” -Albert Einstein
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” -Albert Einstein
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” -Albert Einstein
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” -Albert Einstein
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” -Albert Einstein
“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.” -Albert Einstein
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” -Albert Einstein
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” -Albert Einstein
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.” -Albert Einstein
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” -Albert Einstein
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” -Albert Einstein
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” -Albert Einstein
“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.” -Albert Einstein
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.” -Albert Einstein
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” -Albert Einstein
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15 Beautiful Maya Angelou Love Quotes
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” – Maya Angelou
“Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.” – Maya Angelou
“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.” – Maya Angelou
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” – Maya Angelou
“In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.” – Maya Angelou
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou
“The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.” – Maya Angelou
“Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.” – Maya Angelou
“You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.'” – Maya Angelou
“I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.” – Maya Angelou
“I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.” – Maya Angelou
“The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.” – Maya Angelou
“Life loves the liver of it.” – Maya Angelou
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25 Love of My Life Quotes to Send (or Say) to Your True Love
These are the words you need when you can’t find them on your own. The perfect thing to write (or say) to your true love. Wether you are looking for the right words for a special occasion or event, or just to express how you feel ‘just because’, these love of my life quotes will help you show your true feelings (and celebrate your love together).
Quotes for the Love Of Your Life
“From the day you walked into my life, you’re all I think about. You’re the reason I breathe. You are the stars in my sky. I wouldn’t want this any other way. You’re the love of my life.” – Kemis Khan
“I love you every minute of my life; you`re my love and my life. Not all people are lucky to find the sense of their life. I am happy, cause I had found it when I met you – the love of my life.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.” – Sarah Bernhardt
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” – The Notebook (read more quotes from The Notebook)
“I may search for another thousand years but still may not find someone as sweet and loving as you are.” – Smokey Mack
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim
“Life has turned into a beautiful garden ever since you entered into my life. You have changed my life and made me feel so good. I feel so loved and cared for. You are the best thing that happened to me.” – Kamand Kojouri
“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.” – Cassandra Clare
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow–this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me.” – Rumi
“You were made perfectly to be loved – and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.” – Anonymous
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” – Leo Christopher
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” – Elizabeth Browning
Quotes on What True Love Is (And Means)
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Oscar Wilde
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.” – Randeep Hooda
“Love to me is someone telling me, ‘I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to I’d jump out of a plane for you.’” – Jennifer Lopez
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“Love is… never asking for more than you are prepared to give.” – Kim Casali
“When I love somebody, I cannot drop it out of my life. Love is not something like you open and you close, you know?” – Agnes Varda
“Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” – John Lennon
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