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Bring Me The Horizon Reveal They Are Working On A New Album – mxdwn.com
Posted: February 2, 2021 at 7:25 pm
Krista Marple January 31st, 2021 - 11:48 AM
After much speculation, Bring Me The Horizon has officially confirmed that they are working on a new album as a part of their Post Human series. Oli Sykes, frontman for Bring Me The Horizon, took to his personal Instagram account to make the announcement by posting a photo of himself with the caption Time for record 2 (&3, &4..). The release will be part of multiple installments of their recent Post Human: Survival Horror album release.
Were just beginning really. Were actually working on parts two, three and four simultaneously and working on ideas from all the records. Theres a good chance that we might release songs from each before we release the next record, said Sykes to NME.
Post Human: Survival Horror was just released on October 30 of last year. To Sykes, the album was a dark and heavy record. He elaborated on the fact that he doesnt feel he could emotionally create another album on that level anytime soon. However, that doesnt necessarily mean the next release will be completely optimistic. The next record is going to be emotional in a different way, it just hast o be. Emotional is the word, with higher emotions. Not necessarily happier.
Their recent album was first announced last October when the band posted the album art and track list on social media, which confirmed the collaborations with BABYMETAL, Amy Lee and more.
In January of 2019, they released amo, which was their first album release since Thats The Spirit in 2015. Not even a whole year later, they released a surprise album titled Music to listen to~dance to~blaze to~pray to~feed to~sleep to~talk to~grind to~trip to~breathe to~help to~hurt to~scroll to~roll to~love to~hate to~learn Too~plot to~play to~be to~feel to~breed to~sweat to~dream to~hide to~live to~die to~GO TO. The eight-track album dropped in late December of 2019. Halsey was among a few artists that were featured on the surprise release.
In recent news, Greenfield Festival in Switzerland announced their 2021 lineup, which features Bring Me The Horizon on the bill. The festival is currently scheduled to take place June 3-5 this year. Bands like Korn, Rise Against, Bad Religion and more are listed alongside Bring Me The Horizon.
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This Week In Pop 1 February 2021 – scenestr
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Welcome to This Week In Pop. This week, Bluey breaks a record by becoming the first Australian children's album to top the ARIA Albums Chart. Meanwhile, Olivia Rodrigo continues her domination and Hottest 100 entries are sprinkled throughout the Singles Chart.This week's album chartifacts#1: Bluey Bluey The Album 'Bluey The Album', the soundtrack to Australian animated series Bluey debuts at #1 on this weeks ARIA Albums Chart. The release features 17 original compositions from Season 1 of the Emmy-winning ABC Kids show, including an extended version of its beloved theme tune. Joff Bush, 'Bluey's music composer, has twice been nominated for APRA Screen Music Awards for episodes from the show. 'Bluey The Album' becomes the first Australian childrens album to top the ARIA Albums Chart. #3: Bring Me The Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror On the back of its physical release, 'Post Human: Survival Horror' by British rock band Bring Me The Horizon re-enters the Top 50 for a fourth week. Released in November 2020, the EP originally peaked at #7. This week also saw two tracks from 'Post Human: Survival Horror' make it into the Triple J Hottest 100. #8: Lime Cordiale 14 Steps To A Better You Sydney band Lime Cordiale climb up 28 spots to #8 with their former #1 '14 Steps To A Better You'. It comes after five songs from the album featured in the Hottest 100. The band won Best Breakthrough Artist at the 2020 ARIA Awards.This week's single chartifacts#1: Olivia Rodrigo Drivers License Its week three at #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart for Drivers License by American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo. The single this week continues its dominance at the top of charts around the world including the US and UK. #2: Glass Animals Heat Waves After taking out the #1 spot on the Triple J Hottest 100, Heat Waves by Glass Animals jumps from #11 to #2 on this weeks chart. Its a new peak for the British band who also had two other tracks in the annual countdown, which aired on 23 January. Glass Animals third album 'Dreamland' returns to the ARIA Top 50 this week at #22. #6: Tones And I Fly Away Tones And Is Fly Away scores a new peak as it moves up two spots to #6. The track placed at #58 in the Hottest 100. Its the singles fourth week in the Top Ten. #8: Spacey Jane Booster Seat Perth band Spacey Jane scores their first entry in the Top 50 of the ARIA Singles Chart with Booster Seat. Coming from the bands debut album 'Sunlight' (#2 June 20), the track placed #2 in Triple Js Hottest 100. Spacey Jane had three other tracks in the Hottest 100. Top 10 Albums1. 'Bluey The Album' Bluey 2. 'F*ck Love (Savage)' The Kid Laroi 3. 'Post Human: Survival Horror' Bring Me The Horizon 4. 'Dangerous: The Double Album' Morgan Wallen 5. 'Fine Line' Harry Styles 6. 'Evermore' Taylor Swift 7. 'Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon' Pop Smoke 8. '14 Steps To A Better You' Lime Cordiale 9. 'What You See Ain't Always What You Get' Luke Combs 10. 'Legends Never Die' Juice WRLD Top 10 Singles1. 'Drivers License' Olivia Rodrigo 2. 'Heat Waves' Glass Animals 3. 'Without You' The Kid Laroi 4. 'Mood' 24kGoldn featuring Iann Dior 5. 'Levitating' Dua Lipa 6. 'Fly Away' Tones And I 7. 'Head & Heart' Joel Corry, MNEK 8. 'Booster Seat' Spacey Jane 9. 'So Done' The Kid Laroi 10. 'Anyone' Justin Bieber'Good Days' SZA
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Celeste is on track for her first number one album this week – NME
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Celeste is on course to securing her first UK number one album this week with her debut LP Not Your Muse.
The artist,who won the BBCs Sound Of 2020 poll and the BRIT Awards Rising Star prize last year, released her debut album last week.
According to the Official Charts Company, Celeste commanded a lead of 8,000 sales yesterday (February 1) after Not Your Muse racked up the most physical and digital sales over the weekend.
Celeste is currently holding off Steven Wilsons The Future Bites and Arlo Parksdebut Collapsed In Sunbeams, which respectively occupy the two other positions in the current top three.
This weeks final UK albums chart will be announced on Friday afternoon (February 5), with Bring Me The Horizon who bagged the UKs number one album last week with their October-released EP Post Human: Survival Horror set to relinquish their grip of the top spot.
Earlier this week Celeste announced a UK tour for spring 2022 in support of Not Your Muse. Shes also set to play a trio of gigs in London in the summer.
You can see Celestes 2022 tour dates below.
March 202231 O2 Institute, Birmingham
April 20223 O2 Academy, Bristol7 Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow12 Corn Exchange, Cambridge16 Albert Hall, Manchester21 Roundhouse, London
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In the name of cricket sex, humans need to stop making noise – KNBR
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We humans tend to spread and frolic about wherever we please, a development that has been found to harm animals environments and health, and therefore ultimately our own. That may be the effect on crickets because of our constant noisemaking from traffic and other activities.
The mating behavior of crickets may be significantly affected by those sounds, according to a study published Monday in the journal Behavioral Ecology.
The reproduction of field crickets is important to the worlds of plants, humans and animals. Because field crickets eat lots of plant materials rich in cellulose, their fecal matter is easily decomposed by bacteria and fungi.
Their activity, then, greatly accelerates the energy and nutrient flows in an ecosystem and provides plants with a much more abundant reservoir of highly available, essential growth factors, according to a Penn State New Kensington blog post.
Field crickets diets also help to manage weed growth on both natural and human-made ecosystems. Additionally, crickets are essential food sources for some birds and other animals that have crucial roles in providing our food, timber, medicine and recreation.
Humans are continually changing the characteristics of environments, including through the production of anthropogenic noise, said study coauthor Sophie Mowles, a senior lecturer in animal and environmental biology at Anglia Ruskin University in England, in a news release.
As mate choice is a powerful driving force for evolution through sexual selection, disruptions may cause a decline in population viability. And because anthropogenic noise is a very recent evolutionary selection pressure, it is difficult to predict how species may adapt.
Male crickets have an innate playlist of songs from which to choose to attract potential mates: The calling song attracts the female, then the courtship, or mating, song induces the female to mate. A fighting chirp sends warnings to other male suitors. And what both sexes need for all these things to happen are highly sensitive organs on their forelegs, so that they can receive sound.
To assess the effects of environmental changes, the researchers paired female crickets with silenced male crickets in ambient noise conditions, artificial white noise settings and recorded traffic noise conditions.
The researchers allowed the males to court the females, and when the males tried to sing their mating tunes, the researchers played artificial courtship songs that ranged from low- to high-quality.
When induced to mate by a high-quality courtship song amid ambient noise, female crickets mounted the males sooner and more often. But when those crickets were subjected to white noise and traffic sounds conditions, the quality of the mating song didnt help the frequency and duration of females mating with males, the study said.
Traffic noise and the crickets courtship song do not share similar acoustic frequencies, so rather than masking the courtship song, we think the traffic noise serves as a distraction for the female cricket, said lead author Adam Bent, who led the study as part of his doctoral program at Anglia Ruskin University, in a news statement.
Mating songs are labor-intensive; they require male crickets to expend a lot of energy and therefore hold key details about the males qualities, the study said so human-made noise may have changed how the females perceived the males when deciding on a mate. This blurring also could affect male crickets health if they work to produce a more impressive mating song, and therefore those crickets survival, too.
At the same time, female crickets may choose to mate with a lower-quality male as they are unable to detect differences in mate quality due to the man-made noise, Bent added, and this may lead to a reduction or complete loss of offspring viability.
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Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes lived with monks in rural Brazil to get out of very dark place – The Scottish Sun
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BRING Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes has revealed he spiralled into a very dark place during lockdown but credits going to live with monks in rural Brazil for perking him up again.
The singer, 34, whose band is at No1 in the album charts with Post Human: Survival Horror, said he went on a spiritual rehab by staying in a Hindu ashram with his wife, Brazilian model Alissa Salls.
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In an exclusive chat, he said: For a while I just went into a very dark place, a place that Ive been in before, but it was the start of a beautiful thing finding myself again.
I think everyone experienced some level of this during lockdown. Even the most positive of people cant hide from the fact that these are very dark times.
It was depression for me, for sure, but that worst kind of depression where its not like youre feeling sad but where youre feeling nothing at all. Youre really just out of touch with your own emotions.
A couple of hours from where Alissas family lives theres actually an ashram, a Hare Krishna ashram, and they invited us to go and stay there.
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So for the best part of a month we went and lived on an ashram, without all our devices and disconnected and basically lived as if we were Hare Krishna for a month.
We woke up at five in the morning and prayed to Krishna and sang and danced, to just connect with who we are.
And these people are just the happiest people in the world, these monks, you go and meet them and theyre the most positive and spiritual people, and I just thought, I want a piece of that. I want to see what its like.
In 2014, Oli found himself in dark times and was admitted to rehab for a Ketamine addiction.
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But the singer believes living on the ashram is the best kind of therapy you can get.
He added: It was like a rehab to be honest. I went to rehab a few years ago for drugs.
But when I came here it was a detox, but from everything emotional issues, dependency on devices, dependency on being a musician.
I just learned how to be still and wake up and think Ive got nothing to do today and thats absolutely fine.
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The songwriter has long been an outspoken atheist and has penned blasphemous lyrics.
But the musician now sees religion in a new light after staying at the monastery.
He said: There were definitely a lot of questions I had for myself when I was there.
I almost felt bad because I thought, if the main guru knew some of the songs I sing about God, would they want me here? I spoke to the guru and I voiced these concerns.
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I said to him I really like your principles and the way you look at stuff. They believe youre serving God, so whatever comes your way will happen, you should just be happy and blessed by it and not always wanting more.
I said I really like that concept and I could use that in my life to be happier.Its the organised system of religion I have a problem with, the way it divides people.
But now on a spiritual level I think its really important to believe in something higher and bigger than yourself.
The band topped the album charts for a second time last Friday, which came as a shock to the rocker.
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In recent years, the charts have been dominated by rap and hip hop music, but Oli believes the pandemic may be the catalyst for a resurgence of rock music.
He said: Its just trends. In the early 2000s rock was pop music, and now its hip hop and house music. It comes around in waves.
And theres no doubt in my mind that at some point rock is going to be the biggest thing in the world again.
At some point people crave raw emotion. Its just reflective of the times and I kind of had this feeling. I feel that rock music was born out of depressive times with the Beatles coming after the world wars.
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The thing is with coronavirus, maybe people have stopped connecting as much with rappers singing about expensive cars and living in The Hills and people might be like, well that doesnt mean anything to me anymore.
Im going through these hard, dark times, I need to listen to people talking about that. I think out of this the rock scene will get bigger again.
Yorkshireman Oli isnt the only rock frontman to have come out of hometown Sheffield.
He went to Stocksbridge High School then Barnsley College alongside indie band Arctic Monkeys and lead singer Alex Turner - who were in the year above Oli at the time.
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And the musician says he would love to collaborate with his Sheffield schoolmates some time.
He shared: A couple of years ago we were at a festival and Alex was playing and I just walked into the backstage area, the VIP bit where people are having drinks, and he just saw me out the corner of his eye and went, 'Wahey, Ive been waiting years for this!'
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He ran up to me and gave me a big bear hug and I was so taken aback like what the f*** just happened. And he was like Ive watched all your videos on YouTube, hows it going
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I mean, he was a bit merry, but I couldnt believe it. Hes in one of the biggest bands in the world, and fair enough we went to school together, but I just did not see that coming. It was a super cool moment.
I would love to do something with them, collaborate somehow. Because it is just a sick thing that we both went to the same school and both did well.
Theyve been an inspiration to my band, we watched how they did stuff and we took a lot of notes. So it would be super cool to do something with them at some point.
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Rupesh Mahore commit this 23-year-old NIT Rourkela student’s name to memory as he is going to take Astrophysics by storm – EdexLive
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Somewhere between being enraptured by Physics and developing an inclination for Astrophysics,Rupesh Mahorediscovered his purpose. And the fact that in his very first year at NIT Rourkela he started getting involved in small research projects gave his research ambitions a bigger boost. From the Department of Nanotech at IIT Guwahati to Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Kolkata, he was already finding as much work as he could. But it was when he was interning with ISRO for the Chandrayaan-2 mission that he was left wide-eyed with wonder. "I was at the launch site of Chandrayaan-2 and I felt the propulsion of the craft in the atmosphere. It was a different kind of energy altogether," says the 23-year-old in an attempt to describe that palpable feeling that drives him every day. Feeding off this feeling, he joined hands with friendsGunendra MahoreandShantanu Koreto launch the start-upSpacegrade Incin October 2019 in their quest to develop solutions for space technology with the power of AI and ML.
Here's is where we should mention the Planck Physics Society started by Rupesh and Shantanu under which they organise guest lectures at NIT. The most successful one they have organised was with Gabe Gabriel, former Engineer Programmer for the Kennedy Space Centre, NASA. "It was a wonderful event with people not just from our institute but also from DRDO and other parts of Rourkela attending," says the youngster who is pursuing a five-year Integrated MSc in Physics and is currently in his fourth year. Actually, it was in another discussion with Gabriel that he encouraged students to work on AI and ML-assisted projects for space applications.
They are working on three projects now, one more exciting than the other. Keep reading and you'll see for yourself.
Sweeping through spaceDead satellites, orbiters shredded into pieces are just the beginning of the debris floating around in space at this very moment. It actually poses a monumental problem and Rupesh tells us why. "They travel at the speed of 20,000 km per hour and that could harm existing satellites and missions," says the youngster. And where there is a problem, there is scope for a solution. Thus, they joined forces with Hyoristic Innovations, a space start-up based out of Chennai, providing Research and Development support for debris mitigation. It's all about tracking the different sizes of debris and capturing them.
Working within limitsWith spacecrafts, there is always the limitation of space, volume restriction to be specific. There are all kinds of fluids, gases and lubricants that need to be supplied from one part of the craft to another and for this, tiny micropumps or micro propulsions are required. Hence, they are designing PZT-actuated micropumps for space application and these, we are told, are as small as a coin. "When we pass electricity or voltage through it, it creates a pumping action," explains Rupesh. Their preliminary research work was accepted at the International Conference on Nano and Materials Science 2021 at Georgia Tech and IEEE-ICEE 2020 at IIT Delhi.
Which solution would you choose?Last year, when ISRO issued a clarion call that it was accepting proposals for 17 topics for its next mission, the team at Spacegrade Inc knew that they had to jump right into it. And with the help of Prof RK Biswal from the Department of Humanity Sciences at NIT Rourkela, they have taken up the psychological tests that the astronaut goes through pre, during and post human spaceflights. "For example, during the test, based on their facial expression during the isolation and confinement phases, we try to test how they are doing. And after, we test the ill effects of the flight," informs Rupesh. With the help of the only Indian who has been to space, Rakesh Sharma, they have already started working on this project last month.
Go Corona, go!With regards to the COVID crisis specifically, the team designed a Hexafunctional Autonomous Robotic Cart (HARC) which can be remotely controlled and can perform up to six functions, like delivering medicines and taking someone's temperature. They presented a paper on this at the International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at IIT Madras in December 2020 and supplied the device to a few hospitals in and around Rourkela.
For more o him, check outlinkedin.com/in/rupesh-mahore-83499712a/
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Bring Me The Horizon Tickets For New Hull Bonus Arena Show On Sale 12pm Today – Stereoboard
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Monday, 01 February 2021 Written by Jon Stickler
Bring Me The Horizon have added a Hull show to their Post Human Tour. Bring Me The Horizon tickets go on general sale at 12pm today.
The Sheffield quintet will take over the Bonus Arena on September 20, prior to previously confirmed stops in Glasgow, Cardiff, Sheffield, Birmingham and London, where they'll play the O2 Arena. Tickets for those dates are already on sale.
In January, the band announced three intimate instore shows; twoat Pryzm in Kingston on September 16 and one at Liverpool's Mountford Hall on September 18.
The low profile performances will see the band play their 2020'Post Human: Survival Horror' EP in its entirety for the first time. Remaining tickets are on sale now.
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Govt suspends Internet, fortifies sites and chokes supplies to stifle farmers unrest, but it wont deter them – National Herald
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The Delhi Police, on its part, took recourse to literally picking up a freelance journalist involved in exposing the fact that a group of locals who had managed to simply walk in and attack the peacefully protesting farmers at Singhu border, leading to violence, were in fact outsiders apparently deployed to create mischief from the site on Saturday evening.
The journalist, Mandeep Punia, was thereafter untraceable, only to be produced before a magistrate on Sunday, and summarily remanded to judicial custody in Tihar jail for 14 days, without the presence of a defence lawyer.
Punias wife later revealed that while the journalist was slated to appear before the court at 2 pm, the police ushered him in within the court premises at 1:30 pm, causing the proceedings to begin even before the scribes lawyers could arrive.
According to the FIR against Punia, a group of protesters tried to break the barricades at Singhu border and after they were stopped, one person got into a scuffle with a constable and started to drag the latter towards the protest site, referring to Punia. It claimed that three policemen were injured in the scuffle.
The event triggered a huge outcry on social media and among members of civil society, but it remains to be seen if the journalist manages to secure bail.
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DHEC Announces Change in the Way COVID-19 Percent Positive Is Calculated – SCDHEC
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Although rate is reflected differently, spread remains at elevated levels
COLUMBIA, S.C.The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced a change in the way percent positive is calculated for COVID-19 cases. The change will allow South Carolina percent positive calculations to be more easily compared to those used by federal entities, including the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Starting today, DHEC is now reporting percent positive using the tests-over-tests method. Percent positive is now calculated by dividing all positive COVID-19 tests by the total number of COVID-19 tests (positive and negative), and then multiplying the result by 100 to get a percent.
With the change, the public will notice a big drop in the number representing percent positive. That does not mean the level of spread in the community has decreased. Percent positive will appear to be lower only because it is calculated differently.
Not only will DHEC use this new method going forward, but it will go back and recalculate the percent positive for the entire time COVID-19 has been tracked in South Carolina. Anyone wishing to see what the old data looked like can visit this link: https://scdhec.gov/sites/default/files/media/document/COVID19-Archived-Percent-Positive.pdf.
State Epidemiologist Dr. Linda Bell said it is important to note that when changing methods, you cannot compare information from the old method (people over people) with the new method (tests over tests). It is important that people understand that while percent positive appears as a smaller number under the new way of calculating the rate, COVID-19 continues to spread at an elevated level in our state. That smaller number is solely based on the change in the way we calculate the rate, Dr. Bell said.It is important that South Carolinians continue to take steps we know to protect us all from this deadly disease: wear a mask consistently and correctly, stay six feet away from others, wash your hands frequently, and avoid crowds. And when your time comes, get vaccinated, Dr. Bell added.
New Calculation Allows for Greater Data ComparisonWith many federal agencies and state health departments using the tests-over-tests method, this change by DHEC will allow comparisons with percent positivity calculations provided by the CDC, The White House Coronavirus Task Force, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), other academic institutions and many states. In December, CMS began requiring health care facilities to use test over test; DHEC began preparing for the change at that time.
Understanding How Precent Positivity is CalculatedPreviously, DHEC had been calculating percent positive using the people-over-tests method. That required dividing the number of people with positive results by the number of people who had taken tests overall, which included positive and negative results.
DHEC decided to use this method early in the pandemic because the focus was on identifying new people who were testing positive. This becomes harder to do when much of the population has been tested. With the continued recommendation for South Carolinians to be tested frequently, the shift from people to tests also becomes a more effective method to monitor active cases.
The positivity rate helps public health officials determine the level at which COVID-19 is spreading in the community and whether enough testing is taking place, said Dr.Bell. The rate provides us a snapshot of how much COVID-19 is circulating in the community at a given period of time.
What Does Percent Positivity Tell Us about Community Spread?Percent positive will be high if the number of positive tests is high, or if the number of total tests is low. A higher percent positive suggests higher spread and that there are likely more people with COVID-19 in the community who have not been tested.
Percent positivity does not reflect a complete picture of COVID-19 in South Carolina. While it tells us some information about disease spread, other factors are at work as well, including access to testing and how quickly results come back from the lab. No single measure can give a complete picture of COVID-19 spread in our state and our counties.
For information on COVID-19 percent positive rates in South Carolina, visit the testing tab in the county-level dashboard.
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February 2, 2021 by Jill DvorkinCategory: Strategies and Programs , Open Public Meetings Act , Public Records Act , COVID-19
Editor's note: This is an updated and republished version of a blog post originally written on January 13 and updated again on January 28. This version contains new information about Proclamation 20-28.15, which addresses in-person meetings, the Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA), and the Public Records Act (PRA), as well as the updated Miscellaneous Venues guidance issued on February 1.
This updated blog sets out our latest understanding of where things stand for local governments based on a recent conversation with Governor Jay Inslees office clarifying some questions related to daily government operations and conducting open public meetings during the COVID-19 emergency.
As of January 11, Washington State is operating under the new COVID-19 reopening plan called theHealthy Washington Roadmap to Recovery, made effective through the governorsProclamation 20-25.12. And on January 19, the governorextended 26 proclamations, including the OPMA/PRAProclamation 20-28.15, through the duration of the COVID-19 emergency or until rescinded. This followed action by the legislature on January 15, which passedSCR 8402, extending statutory waivers and suspensions contained within those 26 proclamations.
For now, agencies in Phase 1 jurisdictions still may not hold an in-person component to their public meetings. Phase 2 jurisdictions may have an in-person public meeting component, limited to 25% capacity or 200 people, whichever is fewer, and consistent with the revised Miscellaneous Venues guidance. Local government operations are to be guided by locally-developed operational plans, described further below.
The latest OPMA/PRAProclamation 20-28.15states, in relevant part:
Proclamations 20-28, et seq., are amended to (1) recognize the extension of statutory waivers and suspensions therein by the Washington State Legislature until termination of the state of emergency pursuant to RCW 43.06.210, or until rescinded, and (2) similarly extend the prohibitions therein until termination of the state of emergency pursuant to RCW 43.06.210, or until rescinded, whichever occurs first.
So, what does this mean for public meetings? Because this is a simple extension of the previous proclamation (version 14), we must look toProclamation 20-28.14to determine the rules applicable to meetings subject to the OPMA. Proclamation 20-28.14 requires that all public meetings must be held remotely but provides an option for an in-person meeting component consistent with the business meetings requirements contained in the Miscellaneous Venues guidance, which is incorporated into Proclamation 20-25, et seq. The relevant language states:
As an exception to the above prohibition, public agencies holding public meetings may, at their option and in addition to hosting the remote meeting elements described above, include an in-person component to a public meeting if all of the following requirements are met:
1. The open public meeting complies with the guidelines for business meetings, found in the Miscellaneous Venues guidancehere, as incorporated into the Proclamation 20-25 et seq., Stay Safe Stay Healthy - Rollback of County-By-County Phased Reopening Responding to a COVID-19 Outbreak Surge;
The Miscellaneous Venues guidance was updated February 1 to reflect the new phasing approach. Business meetings are prohibited in Phase 1 regions but allowed in Phase 2, consistent with the requirements set forth in the guidancemeetings allowed up to 25% capacity or 200 people, whichever is fewer (excluding staff), with several safety measures that must be met.
While the previous Stay Safe - Stay Healthy plan (the last version can be found atProclamation20-25.11) followed a four-phase reopening approach based on metrics measured at the county level, the new plan divides the state into eight regions and currently contains only two recovery phases.
The eight regions in theRoadmap to Recoveryare based largely on Emergency Medical Services (EMS) regions used for evaluating healthcare services. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) will evaluate each region based on a set of four metrics. The metrics look at trends in COVID-19 disease rate, hospital admission rate, intensive care unit (ICU) occupancy, and COVID-19 test positivity rate.
The firstRoadmap to Recovery Reportwas issued by the DOH on Friday, January 8, with every region starting in Phase 1. On January 21, the state launched a newRoadmap to Recovery Dashboardthat will be used for the DOH evaluation and reporting. Based on an update to the Roadmap to Recoveryannounced by the governoron January 28, a region must meet three of four metrics to move from Phase 1 to Phase 2 (previously a region must have met all four metrics) and continue to meet three of four metrics to remain in Phase 2. Two regions (Puget Sound and West) moved to Phase 2 on Monday, February 1. The updated Roadmap to Recovery also changes the timing of the DOH evaluation and potential changing of phases from weekly to every two weeks.
Thischart in the Roadmaplists broad categories of activities allowed in Phases 1 and 2, although more specific guidance is available for many activities on the governorsCOVID-19 Reopening Guidance for Business and Workerspage.
The latestRoadmap to Recoveryand updated COVID-19 Reopening Guidance for Business and Workersprovide guidance and benchmarks for certain local government activities; however, how a local government chooses to conduct their daily operations, within CDC and other recommended safety parameters, remain largely within their discretion. The governor recognizes local control and the need for local governments to develop their own appropriate operational plans.
On June 19, Governor Inslee issued thismemo to local governmentsthat encourages them to use the Safe Start Reopening Guide for State Agenciesin developing their own safe start plans. The governor continues to recommend that local governments use this guide in developing their plans (Version 5, linked above, is the most recent).
The state guidance covers:
For state agencies, the guidelines for activities described in the Roadmap to Recoveryand updated COVID-19 Reopening Guidance for Business and Workersare intended to act as minimum standards for operations. On p. 6, the guidance states:
The phases in the governors Healthy Washington - Roadmap to Recovery plan act as a minimum standard for how businesses, counties, and regions can reopen.
For example, continued telework is strongly encouraged and offices should remain closed for those government agency activities that would fit within theProfessional Servicescategory. For those services that cannot be provided remotely, the plan sets a limit of 25% capacity. Similarly, the governors office recommends applying these benchmarks for local government operations.
In the previous phased re-opening plans, customer-facing government services were not allowed to resume until Phase 3. Our understanding from talking with the governors office is that this prohibition was part of the former phasing plan and is no longer applicable. Again, local governments will need to make their own plans, prioritizing and resuming services as safely as possible, using current statewide capacity and safety guidance, as applicable.
On January 19 the governor extended dozens of proclamations until the termination of the emergency, or until rescinded. Some proclamations affecting local governments include20-64.5and20-23.14.
The governors website contains afull list of all updated proclamations.
The actions of the legislature and governor extending the emergency proclamations until the termination of the emergency will provide more certainty going forward, without having to wonder whether any given proclamation will be extended or renewed after the rolling expiration dates. Local governments should be using the Roadmap for Recovery and related activity-specific guidance in developing their own operational plans. Meetings subject to the OPMA continue to be guided by the specific limitations set forth in Proclamation 20-28.15.
As always, we recommend consulting with your agencys legal counsel with questions and keeping a close eye onMRSCs websitefor the latest guidance regarding local government operations during the COVID-19 emergency.
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