One. is Temporarily Closed
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This is not an April Fools joke, but we wish it was. As we are sure you all have heard, One. is temporarily closed to in person clients. With the recent Covid-19 outbreak we have switched to virtual activity only. We never could have imagined a time where we would have to deal with a pandemic, but we want you all to know that we are not going anywhere, and we will be here for you all through these challenging times. As soon as it has been deemed safe to open our doors, we will return, and like the above picture taken this week at the SOFO Bay Ridge Garden Triangle, Hope Springs Eternal.
In the meantime, our newsletter will be a little different this month, but as always we hope you read on for important health information (you many not have heard yet and debunking of some covid-19 myths) and things that the Annapolis community is doing to come together during this disaster.
We cannot wait to see you all again, and in the meantime, be sure to join one of our many live virtual classes that can be found by clicking the class schedule button below.
To reserve your spot, send us an email, and be sure to download the Zoom app to your viewing device.
https://zoom.us/download
A link to join in will be sent to you 15 minutes prior to class. Classes are just $16 or $140 for 10. This is a fantastic way to help us to keep the lights on as we navigate these uncharted waters.
We miss you all terribly,
Jennifer and Christina
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Virtual Power Stretch class with Sue Clements
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As we make our way through new territory in our world (and yes, this is an old picture of what class used to look like), We hope we all are taking care to fit in some mindful activity. We need to continue to take care of our mind and bodies during these especially stressful times.
Each Monday at 7:30 AM, Sue Clements is offering a live Virtual Stretch class at One. via Zoom.
Power Stretch is mostly that, stretching. It's not Yoga, it's not Pilates, it's not strength training or cardio. Sue guides students through a short warm-up and a series of stretches covering the entire body. There are also a few exercises that will strengthen the core muscles. Any equipment that you have is helpful, but not necessary. The tools mostly used are the foam roller, a thera-band, a strap and a yoga block.
The group that Sue has led over the last 15 months has made incredible progress in overall flexibility, core strength, spinal range of motion, as well as balance and agility.
Please consider joining. If this is something that you really need, you will know right away. The need for flexibility increases as we age. We stiffen and the muscles shorten. Therefore, when we stretch we become stronger, more stable and more agile. More able to live a fully active life.
If you would like to join the class, simply click here to reserve your spot.
Reserve your spot for Power Stretch
Please feel free to share this with any friends or family that may benefit, as many of you know, the virtual classes are our only revenue stream at this time.
Hope you will join us!
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Virtual Guided Meditation
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During these particularly stressful times are you feeling overwhelmed and anxious?
Unable to turn the news off?
Difficulty focusing or completing tasks?
Join One. on
Wednesdays
for a Virtual Guided Meditation with Jeff Masenheimer at
1:30 PM.
Guided meditation has been shown to improve mindfulness, boost immunity, reduce anxiety and improve sleep. All the things we could use a little more of right now.
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Looking for a great Gentle Virtual Yoga class?
Diane Elliott will be guiding her clients through this gentle practice on Fridays at 8 AM via Zoom.
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Social Distancing... Annapolis style
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Six Great Ways to Destress-
courtesy of Laurie Deane's son, Jake Deane,
Director True Lacrosse
1. Workout:
I don't care if you're 5 years old or 90 years old. You need to workout. Even if we are quarantined in our homes, we can find ways to keep active. Challenge yourself to stay active and sweat a little each day!
2. Meditate/Stretch/Breathing Exercises
The first thing you should do in the morning is get up and do some stretching and deep breathing. Find a quiet place in your house with no one around. Relax your body and stretch. Take deep breaths. This is important to do everyday but will be especially helpful during times of stress and high anxiety.
3. Be creative
Don't sit home on the couch and watch TV all day. Don't fall into the downward spiral of a negative attitude and complaining about life. Get creative! Come up with a few fun games that you can do at home or outside. There are so many ways to have fun and laugh a little if you get creative.
4. Spend time with your family:
Spend time with your family members. Hang out. Laugh with them. Yes, you will get tired of each other. But the silver lining to these unusual times is that we can put the focus back on our families. It's so easy to take our families for granted, but if this pandemic has taught us anything, it should be that nothing is guaranteed, no one knows what each day will bring. So try to cherish this time together. You might argue, you'll get annoyed, but who cares. You all love each other and these times together might create memories that will last forever.
5. Call someone each day:
Yes, every day actually talk to someone on the phone. Do not text, do not call them to talk about the coronavirus. Call them to talk about life or business, family, etc. I know this might be hard to do, but focus on other things rather than what everyone is talking about. The more you talk to people about other things, the more you will be able to take your mind off of what's going on in the world.
6. Do something educational:
Watch videos on YouTube, read something, listen to a podcast that you wouldn't otherwise have listened to before or didn't have time to listen to. Yes, everyone wants to read about the virus right now, but why not instead learn about something entirely different, something you've always wanted to learn? Doesn't seem like a better time than right now to do it!
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Food Prep Delivery Kits
All of us should be avoiding going into grocery stores right now and sticking to delivery services as much as possible. As some of the traditional ordering services become unavailable, food prep delivery kits can be an attractive option.
They are not all created equal, but Green Chef is a certified organic company that offers plans for every lifestyle.
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There is WAY too much information being passed around surrounding the COVID-19 virus. It is encouraging that the Annapolis community is coming together like this to help, but to consolidate it a bit, Eye on Annapolis has put together a concise resource page. Hopefully this list of vetted links will help. Links to national and global sites (WHO, CDC, etc) are prominently placed on the more regional sites listed below.
Events are being canceled left and right and stores are changing operational policies. As we learn of them, Eye on Annapolis will post that information separately; but the best solution is to check the
Facebook
Page of the organization, store, or event for their most current status.
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Guide to Dining During COVID-19
Just because you’re hunkered down doesn’t mean you can’t get a good meal. We’ve been figuring out the options for carry-out, delivery, curbside pickup, and other dining-while-social-distancing options.
Over 250 Chesapeake restaurants are open for breakfast, lunch or dinner options! CBM Bay Weekly proudly presents your guide to Dining Out During COVID, our interactive map of all the available options for carryout and delivery of your favorite foods.
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CSA Organic Produce pickup
Avoid the Grocery Store-
Each week Shareholders are greeted with bins full of freshly harvested produce to choose from. The Share is free-choice within limits and averages 8 items of produce at each distribution. We provide an incredible diversity of vegetables and fruits, which changes at each distribution site.
We are taking the COVID-19 risk VERY seriously and are closely monitoring CDC and local health department recommendations. We are doing everything within our power to keep our communities safe-we all must do our part to minimize the risks of this virus. We are planning for CSA Pickups to continue at the same times and locations as previously scheduled, with extra cleanliness precautions. Rest assured that we are proceeding with an abundance of caution. We will post any necessary changes to this distribution plan.
Please Note: To reduce risk and keep everyone safe, we will temporarily be pre-boxing all Produce Shares. Boxes will be picked up at the regular locations, dates, and times. Produce Shareholders will simply pick up a clean, brand-new box pre-filled with their complete Produce Share. This step will make CSA Pickup even quicker and safer than usual for everyone.
Farming Practices
At Groundworks Farm they farm with the health of the land and the health of our animals in mind. Some call it Regenerative Agriculture.
Vegetables
Their produce farm is USDA Certified Organic.
They annually test their vegetable field nutrient levels and use only certified organic compost and other certified organic soil amendments to meet our needs. They use cover-cropping to protect our waterways from nutrient leaching during the winter and to build up soil organic matter. Cover cropping improves our environment and soil health. We “rest” some of our fields every year, growing a cover crop instead of vegetables to avoid pests and build up soil organic matter.
They start all their transplanted plants in compost-based germinating mix.
They don’t spray herbicides and use only certified organic sprays to contain pests and fungus when necessary. To control weeds we use cultivation tools and straw and wood chip mulches. To control pests and diseases we rotate our crops and use floating row covers.
We believe that plant health starts with soil health.
Transparency
This is honest food.
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Pay it Forward to the Arts
For an arts organization built around in-person, shared experiences, this is a challenging time. Like many of you, we are actively thinking about how to support our artists, friends, neighbors and businesses that make our world such a joy to be a part of. We hope you keep the arts high on your priority list as you contemplate how you can help. With that in mind, one of the groups that will be hardest hit during this period are the small, local, restaurants and merchants in our community.
We have created a way for you to support them while also supporting the arts.
Please consider purchasing a gift card or gift certificate from your favorite local restaurant or merchant and then donating that gift card to Maryland Hall. We will integrate the donation into the silent auction at our annual Arts Alive celebration this September 11, 2020.
Your money will go to work right away in our community AND will help Maryland Hall raise needed funds in the future.
To participate, simply send your gift card or certificate to Maryland Hall, 801 Chase Street, Annapolis, MD 21401. Include your name, address and the gift card amount. We will send you a tax receipt for the donation. Gift cards are cash equivalent donations and thus tax-deductible when donated to a non-profit.
Businesses to Support (just a starting point!):
- Restaurants
- Boutiques
- Gyms & fitness studios
- Bed & breakfasts
- Local hotels
- Hair salons & spas
- Coffee shops & cafes
- Art stores
- Local furniture & houseware shops
More Ways to Help
We also ask that you help lift up our Resident Companies and partner organizations during this time. We all rely on each other to share the arts and none of us do it alone. Performances and events are being rescheduled and/or cancelled and hard decisions are being made as rehearsal time windows on future performances become smaller. Many of these groups rely on the income of these events to operate. If a show has been cancelled or postponed to a date you cannot attend, please consider donating your tickets to the organizations helping them sustain their revenue and allowing you to receive a tax deduction. If you didn’t have a ticket to begin with, come be a part of the audience on the new date.
A list of cancellations and postponements can be found
on our website here.
We will continue to keep it updated and we will share our reopening date as soon as know more. Do not hesitate to reach out to
info@marylandhall.org
with any questions.
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COVID-19: Recovered patients have partially reduced lung function
- Date 20.03.2020
- Author Alexander Freund
What you may not be hearing on the news, and why Covid-19 is especially concerning. You may recover from the virus, but be left with permanent lung damage.
"Now researchers in Hong Kong have said that recovered coronavirus patients can be left with permanently damaged lungs.
A small study of 12 patients discharged from hospital showed that two or three had reduced lung function. However, it is too early to confirm any long-term effects.
"In some patients, lung function could decline by about 20 to 30% after recovery," says
Dr. Owen Tsang Tak-yin,
medical director of the Infectious Diseases Centre at Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong.
Computer tomography have shown fluid- or debris-filled sacs in the lungs, which may get progressively worse as the illness develops.
The findings from Hong Kong confirm very early investigations from Wuhan in early February 2020. In a
recent study,
scientists from Zhongnam Hospital of Wuhan University analyzed 140 lung scans of COVID-19 patients and found a ground glass opacity in both lungs of each patient. "
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Annapolis Food Pantries during shutdown
Anne Arundel County Food Bank is expanding their mobile food pantries and working to distribute food to the county during the coronavirus pandemic while also trying to limit contact among people throughout the process.
Food bank director Susan Thomas said they are constantly adding food pantry locations on
their website
. Those locations serve as pick-up sites and hours vary while others require appointments. Most of the food bank’s drop-off sites were county locations in public spaces and are closed to due to the virus.
Many are waving income requirements during this times
PANTRIES
Annapolis Church of God, 84 Janwall Street, Annapolis, 410-961-0892, Monday and Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Asbury Broadneck, 657 Broadneck Road, Annapolis, 410‐757‐2995, second and third Tuesday from 6:30 to 8 p.m.; third Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; fourth Sunday from noon to 1 p.m.
Asbury West Street, 87 West Street, Annapolis, 410‐268‐9500, Wednesday & Fridays 9 a.m ‐ 11 a.m.
Cecil Memorial, 15 Parole Street, Annapolis, 410‐266‐5651, fourth Friday 9 a.m. ‐10:30 a.mm Every Thursday 10:30 a.m. ‐11 a.m.
Eastport UMC, 926 Bay Ridge Ave., Annapolis, 410‐263‐5490, third Wednesday 11 a.m. ‐1 p.m.
First Baptist Of Annapolis, 31 West Washington Street, Annapolis, 410‐268‐5532, Saturdays 11 a.m.‐ 1 p.m.
Heritage Baptist Church, 1740 Forest Drive, Annapolis , 410-263-6680, Tuesdays 9:30 a.m. ‐11 a.m.
Salvation Army, 351 Hilltop Lane, Annapolis, 410-263-4091, Tuesday 9 a.m. ‐3:30 p.m. APPT NEEDED
St Luke’s, 1011 Bay Ridge Ave., Annapolis, 410-268-5419, Tuesdays 11 a.m. ‐ noon
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Coronavirus Disease 2019: Myth vs. Fact
There's a lot of information circulating about Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID), so it’s important to know what’s true and what’s not.
Lisa Maragakis, M.D., M.P.H.
, senior director of infection prevention at Johns Hopkins, helps clarify information to help keep you and your family healthy and safe.
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Comprehensive Lecture on Coronavirus by Princeton University Alumnus
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This lecture is over an hour long, but absolutely worth the listen. Simply the most comprehensive information you will hear about the causes of our current pandemic and separating fact from fiction.
This lecture was given recently to Princeton alumni by James (Jaime) Martiney '85 P'14 earned his BA in Biology from Princeton and PhD in Experimental Pathology from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Jaime has 30+ years of experience teaching STEM-related graduate-level, upper-level and intro-level courses for science, pre-health career, and non-science majors. Jaime served for fourteen years in the United States Navy Reserves, Medical Service Corps, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Commander, where he trained to strategically prepare and respond to biological warfare events, global pandemics and disaster preparedness. He was activated to Active Duty in 2003 and became a veteran during the Iraqi Freedom operations.
•Fleet Biological Warfare Agent Detection for Navy Environmental and Preventative Medicine Personnel – Biological Defense Research Directorate, USAMRIID•Medical Management of Chemical and Biologic Warfare Injuries – US Navy•CBRNE (Chemical Biological RadioNuclearExplosive event Wargame Exercises – US Navy
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The Annapolis Film Festival is going virtual --- THIS WEEKEND ONLY March 27-29!
If you are looking for something that will inspire, entertain and inform you this weekend, the Annapolis Film Festival has 76 films available via their new secure screening platform -the Annapolis Film Festival Channel at
www.filmfestivalflix.com
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The AFF Channel is the place to be Friday, March 27-March 29th. buy a ticket $15 or a weekend pass $75 to see unlimited films with whomever you want in your living room. See the films from your couch!
-Viewing is restricted to people who live in the Annapolis metropolitan area (some have a 50 mile restriction around Annapolis, others 60 and others 75 miles). Most of the shorts are available to anyone, anywhere.
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Boneless chicken breasts, sliced mushrooms, and garlic make this dish a wonderful, rustic combination. Serve this chicken and tomato sauce over hot cooked spaghetti or another similar pasta.
Boneless chicken thighs are an excellent choice for
this recipe
because they are more flavorful and stay moist and juicy in the slow cooker. A combination of chicken breasts and chicken thighs would be excellent as well.
Cooked on low, the condensation should add extra moisture to the dish, but if you cook the dish on high setting or if your slow cooker tends to cook quickly, check and add more chicken stock or water, as needed.
The oregano and basil are added about halfway through the cooking to prevent bitterness. If the sauce is somewhat bitter, add a teaspoon or more of granulated or brown sugar, or to taste. Feel free to leave the wine out and use more water or stock.
Ingredients
- 1 medium onion (thinly sliced)
- 1 1/2 pounds skinless (boneless chicken breast halves or boneless chicken thighs)
- 2 (6-ounce) cans tomato paste
- 8 ounces mushrooms (sliced)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 cloves garlic (minced)
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/4 cup dry white wine (or red wine)
- 1/4 cup water (or chicken stock)
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
Serve over zucchini noodles or fresh veggies!
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DID YOU KNOW?!?!?!
- TRUE or FALSE? A face mask will protect you from COVID-19.
FALSE.
For the general public without respiratory illness, wearing lightweight disposable surgical masks is not recommended. Because they don’t fit tightly, they may allow tiny infected droplets to get into the nose, mouth or eyes. Also, people with the virus on their hands who touch their face under a mask might become infected.
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