’s chief executive, Grant Millard, saying communication from within the home had been “far from satisfactory”.
“Phones went unanswered day after day. Calls were not returned. Details about our individual loved ones were not provided regularly,” the letter read.
Some family members say Anglicare has improved its communication. After the NSW opposition leader, Jodi McKay, held a press conference outside the home on Wednesday, Louise Payne, who has led much of the campaign to improve communication with families, said she’d received a phone call from Millard and been able to have a window visit with her mother.
“It was wonderful. It sounds such a little thing but I was absolutely elated because it’s been two weeks of hell not knowing how she is,” she said.
Others, however, are losing patience. Elizabeth Lane, from Windsor, in Sydney’s west, takes comfort in knowing her mother, Rose Davies, 84, is still making life hard for the nurses in Newmarch.
“Mum’s always been a very difficult individual, so when they say she’s being a bit of a handful I think: ‘Thank god, she’s still OK.’ If they told me she was being nice and cooperative I’d know something was wrong,” she said.
Davies lives in the palliative wing of Newmarch, and suffers from dementia. She has not tested positive for Covid-19, but Lane’s voice cracks as she talks about the toll more than a month without seeing her family is taking on her mother.
“It’s heartbreaking to think this is how she’s going to end her days,” she said.
Lane said that when the outbreak occurred, she “naively” trusted that Anglicare would manage to “get on top of this”. But as the weeks have passed, her patience with the lack of communication from the home has worn out. When the aged-care home provided mobile phones for residents, Lane said she discovered her mother’s hadn’t been set up for her. A number she had been calling in the nurse’s station for updates was abruptly disconnected with no warning.
“I’ve got six or seven numbers that I just call over and over until someone answers,” she said.
She was finally able to see her mother through a window on Friday, but only after she contacted the federal minister for aged care, Richard Colbeck.
“He called me and said he’d sort it out for me,” she said.
Matthew Fowler, whose father Lionel has so far tested negative to Covid-19 twice, says he has been frustrated at Anglicare’s management of the situation.
On Friday, he joined the daily vigil outside the home, and said he was glad to see Anglicare had placed a senior chaplain for gathering family for the first time.
As federal and state governments coordinate local health districts and surge staffing assistance to Newmarch, health authorities are struggling to understand how the virus is still spreading inside the heavily controlled facility.
In a statement, Anglicare said the new infections had occurred “despite us having strict procedures and enforced infection control practices in place”.
“These new cases may reflect historical transmissions and reflect the rigorous and ongoing testing at Newmarch House. We will be investigating further how this has occurred,” the statement read.
On Friday, when unveiling a national code for aged-care facility visitation, Colbeck said the government’s assistance to Newmarch meant it was “effectively running a mini-hospital within the facility”, but did not criticise Anglicare for its response to the situation.
“There has been no limit on the resources made available to Newmarch in managing this,” he said.
On Saturday, Chant announced a further infection control review of Newmarch launched after a wave of infections this week had shown breaches of safety protocol “amongst particularly the staff”.
“And that’s obviously a concern. There have been some elements where consistent application of infection control practice has not occurred,” Chant said.
For the family of some residents, the situation is become increasingly desperate.
“I sort of lost my temper with it all the other night a bit. I just think, can’t they bring the army in, get them all out of this toxic cesspit and take them somewhere else,” Mark Fahey said.
Building a steel-string acoustic guitar: a pictorial voyage through the construction of a guitar (well, several, actually). Describes and illustrates the approach I use to build acoustic instruments.
Note: the document is big (~30 MB) because of all the pictures, so may take a while to download.
The Long Compass, a short piece on making and using this tool for drawing arcs of circles of large radii.SCA
SCA invests in heat from renewable fuels
When SCA’s mill outside Sundsvall carries out a larger project, Zert’s consulting department Selecto is included. The assignment is to manage and document risk assessments of technical systems.
SCA is one of the world-leading operators within sectors like: personal hygiene products, tissue and forest industry products. Right now SCA is implementing the Biocoop project at its plant outside Sundsvall. The project includes a new plant for the grinding of pellets and the burning of wood powder in two bio fuel boilers as well as investments in smoke gas cleaning. They are also rebuilding for the delivery of distance heating to Sundsvalls Energi AB.
Selecto conducts and documents risk assessments in the project
In the project Selecto, Zert’s consultant unit, has been commissioned to conduct and document risk assessments of technical systems in consultation with the SCA project management. Apart from SCA’s own staff, risk assessment groups also include experts from Sundsvalls Energi, third-party authorities, a number of consultants and the various suppliers within the project.
More heating from renewable fuels will lead to reduced oil consumption
The investments into Biocoop will lead to SCA being able to supply more heating from renewable fuels to the Sundsvall district heating network from both the Östrand and the Ortviken plants. The investment will also lead to a substantial reduction of oil consumption in Sundsvall and a reduction of CO2 emissions. Oil consumption is estimated to be reduced by ca 25 000 m3 per year.In the spring equinox today, a sudden drop of heavy snow in the northeast region, a "cold wave" hit the northern land of the motherland, "falling cold" came early, just like the current performance of the ferromolybdenum market, it is too late to "recover".
Affected by the lower price of ferromolybdenum, the price of international molybdenum oxide and ferromolybdenum was slightly reduced to 12.3-12.45 USD/lb molybdenum and 28.8-29.1 USD/kg molybdenum. Domestic molybdenum prices are temporarily stable, market transactions are not active, and the cautious wait-and-see atmosphere is strong.
Some 40-45% molybdenum concentrates reached a deal at the current price of 1760 yuan / ton, bulk ferromolybdenum reached a small amount of transactions between the current amount of 11.8-12 million yuan / ton, the total turnover of the molybdenum market is low.
Yesterday, Jiangsu No. 1 Steel Plant tendered 60 tons of ferromolybdenum, the price was accepted at 117,500 yuan / ton; another steel mill in Jiangsu tendered ferromolybdenum 60 tons, the price has not been determined. South Korea's Pohang Steel tendered 100 tons of ferromolybdenum, the final price of about 28.8 US dollars / kg of molybdenum.
The relationship between molybdenum mines, molybdenum iron plants and steel mills is relatively close, and the impact on molybdenum market is also obvious. At present, the production and supply of molybdenum mines are stable. Steel mills generally perform on ferromolybdenum purchases, but they have not been in the fourth quarter of 2018. Since the steel mills reduced their own ferromolybdenum inventory, the ferromolybdenum plant has maintained normal production, resulting in a gradual increase in the inventory of ferromolybdenum in the ferromolybdenum plant.
Compared with the ferromolybdenum iron inventory in the ferromolybdenum plant, ammonium molybdate enterprises are concentrated in several major enterprises and environmental protection in various regions, which has restricted the production of some enterprises. The spot market of ammonium molybdate market is not much, which is also the price of ammonium molybdate. The main reason for the continued strength.
The terminal demand performance of the downstream processing market of molybdenum still has no bright spots and remains light. The enthusiasm of enterprises for purchasing raw materials is not high, and the production and sales of products are mainly to maintain order production.
International ferromolybdenum prices have accelerated in recent days, and the latest offer has fallen to US$28.8/kg of molybdenum. It is reported that China’s VAT rate has been lowered from 16% to 13% since April 1.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Peru, the production of molybdenum concentrate in Peru in January 2019 was 2009 metal tons, a decrease of 16% from December 2018 and a decrease of 9.5% from January 2018.
According to the research