DES MOINES, Iowa — Farmers already reeling from low prices and uncertainty amid the nation's trade dispute with China are welcoming a decision to extend a deadline for federal aid because of the partial government shutdown.
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Purdue on Tuesday announced the Agriculture Department would extend a Jan. 15 deadline for farmers to apply for payments to offset losses they had incurred due to the trade dispute, which led to new tariffs that lessened demand and lowered crop prices. About $9.5 billion in direct payments have been set aside for growers of soybeans, corn, wheat and other commodities.
Farmers can apply online for the aid, but Purdue noted they couldn't complete the application because the USDA's Farm Service Agency has been closed since Dec. 28. Under Purdue's new order, the application deadline will be extended by an equal number of days to the business days the government was partially closed.
Purdue's announcement was welcomed by Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a farmer who earlier had said he'd seek the federal aid.


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Prospect Breakdown: KZ Okpala
The Stanford high-flyer could be an option in either round for the Sixers
By Tyler Monahan Jun 6, 2019, 7:56am EDT
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Many are wondering exactly what position the Sixers are going to prioritize in the first round of the NBA Draft. A backup center is an obvious need after the performance of the bench bigs in the playoffs, but some extra bench production from the wings would also be a big help. It could come down to the best player available on Philadelphia's board, which could make the Sixers more likely to try and draft upside picks. A player like KZ Okpala is the type of player on whom the Sixers could take a gamble. Many evaluators have differing opinions on him, but he does flash some serious potential.
Standing at 6-foot-9 and 210 pounds, KZ Okpala doesn't look the part of a player who consistently drives inside looking for contact. To the eye, you would think his wiry frame works best on the perimeter, yet Okpala continues to buck the trend of skinny guys making a living on the outside. One of the reasons why he finds success inside is because of his long wingspan of 7-feet, 1.75-inches (best among small forwards at the NBA Draft Combine). What he lacks in physicality, he makes up for in length to get shots up over larger defenders.
By forcing his way inside, Okpala has shown the knack for getting to the charity stripe, and yet, that is still a big area of concern for the forward. His attempts at the line per game improved from 4.7 in his freshman year to 6.0 in his sophomore year, yet his percentage never took that step forward, sitting at 67.1 percent this past year. For a player who relies heavily on driving inside, those numbers are going to need to improve quickly if he is to get any substantial playing time at the next level.
In the clip above, Okpala scores on the drive, and yet, it shows exactly the concerns over his play. He receives the hand-off and immediately drives in to three defenders without having any idea of where he was planning to go or when to take the shot. Okpala is able to get some separation to get the shot up but the shot should have never been taken in the first place.
As a small forward, KZ Okpala is going to have to rely on his jump shot much more while he works on adding extra weight to his frame. He showed the necessary improvement in college to feel confident that it will continue, but by no means is his shot a finished product. As a freshman, he only shot 22 percent from deep on 1.3 attempts per game. Both of those numbers increased in year two as he shot the 3-pointer 3.0 times per game at a 37 percent clip. The percentage is still slightly concerning, but the numbers are steadily improving. If Okpala can continue to grow his shot, it can become a real threat in the future.
Okpala did a lot of the heavy lifting on offense for Stanford this past season, in large part because of his athleticism. Averaging a team-leading 16.8 points per game as a sophomore, Okpala showed that at his peak he can be a threat on all three levels offensively.
He will go through some rookie lows, but if he brings this type of athleticism to the NBA, he should be able to carve out some type of role eventually. Just imagine KZ Okpala and Zhaire Smith catching lobs on offense and try not to get excited.
For the same reasons there is big upside on offense with Okpala, the same can be said on defense. He will have to continue to work on his body to make an impact at the next level, but his length and jumping ability allow him to compete immediately. Similar to his offensive play, Okpala isn't afraid to fight inside for rebounds and blocks on defense, which is why his rebounding numbers improved from 3.7 as a freshman to 5.7 as a sophomore.
Once Okpala learns the nuances of playing at the next level, as well as what it takes to grow his body to fight against bigger players, he should be a solid defender. On both ends of the court, his athleticism should help him get the chance to at least earn minutes. In the instances where that athleticism is negated by other teams, Okpala is going to be a work-in-progress.
Positional Fit
KZ Okpala should be drafted as a small forward that can be molded into an athletic slasher on offense and someone who can guard multiple positions on defense. There is going to be a lot of work to do on his game, but with the risk there is also going to be a lot of reward should things pan out. If a team can surround Okpala with solid shooters, he will be able to play his style of basketball and work on driving the lane and using his athleticism to make plays inside the arc.
Draft Projection
Okpala was gaining steam as a potential first round pick early on in the season, but the more he played, the more questions came up surrounding his game. In most mock drafts now, he seems to have settled in as a fringe first round prospect that is more likely to be drafted near the top of the second round. The Sixers are going to need more options on the wing who are on cheaper deals, so Okpala could be an option, but I don't see that happening in the first round. Okpala has a lot of upside, but Philadelphia should be able to find something closer to a finished product with the 24th pick. Depending on what the team does with their first round pick, he could be an option with either of the early second round picks they own.
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Laval mulls banning right on red
Plans to double bike, pedestrian travel on Île Jésus
Laval is considering joining Montreal and Manhattan as a metropolis that forbids motorists from turning right on a red light—at least on a limited basis.
The prohibition is part of the city's plan to double the number of people who rely solely on muscle power to get around, Mayor Alexandre Duplessis disclosed during a news conference, March 28.
"Laval has reached a point in its growth where motor vehicles can no longer be the sole urban transit solution," said the mayor.
The city initially plans to prohibit right turns on a red light at intersections located near metro stations, bus terminals and commuter train stations as well as at intersections with bike paths.
Mayor Duplessis announced that Laval intends to build 230 kilometres of new bike paths, to add to the city's existing 175 km network of bike lanes, paths and shared roadway.
"We want to promote a lifestyle that offers a better balance between motorized and active transportation," Mayor Duplessis emphasized. "It's a first step toward a healthier lifestyle and cutting greenhouse gas emissions."
In 2011, his predecessor, Gilles Vaillancourt, committed Laval to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent per citizen.
The city also wants to encourage exercise. According to Laval's health and social services authority, "nearly half of Laval residents age 18 and over (49 per cent) are overweight."
Although an Agence métropolitain de transport survey revealed that the city saw a modest drop in car use to 85 per cent, most of the shift in commuters reflected a shift to public transit. Thanks to a series of Société de transport de Laval (STL) modernization initiatives, bus transport increased 43 percent during the past decade and now carries more than 10 per cent of the population. Pedestrian and cyclist traffic dropped more than four percent, though, during the same period, and favoured by only six percent of Lavalois.
Other proposed measures include introducing bike lanes and sidewalks on bridges to Laval, adding more pedestrian signal lights and audible warnings for the blind at intersections, introducing traffic calming measures, lowering the municipal speed limit to 40 km/h, bolting bike carriers onto STL buses, adding bike racks at metro and train stations and in public places, and possibly turning Jacques Tétrault street into a pedestrian mall.
Another goal is to get more children to walk to school. At the moment, protective parents are shuttling their kids around by car in record numbers, the city said.
"Not only do elementary school students walk less and less to and from school, those who do walk are traveling ever shorter distances," the city's study concluded.
During the past year, Laval police have launched several safety campaigns aimed at pedestrians and motorists, in order to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries resulting from accidents at city intersections. They have also equipped patrol cars with Doppler radar, to stem egregious speeding on residential streets.
Laval has published its plan on the city Internet site. Residents can view the entire document by visiting www.evolucite.laval.ca/index_english.html and clicking the active mobility plan link.
Throughout April, it has invited citizens to comment on the proposals. They can do so online, by e-mail, or in person at kiosks that the city will set up in public places. To encourage participants, the city has promised those who provide feedback that they will be eligible to win one of two, $1,000 bikes, or a year's worth of STL bus passes.
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Synopsis: Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, Boyhood charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before. Snapshots of adolescence from road trips and family dinners to birthdays and graduations and all the moments in between become transcendent, set to a soundtrack spanning the years from Coldplay's Yellow to Arcade Fire's Deep Blue. Boyhood is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing up and parenting. It's impossible not to watch Mason and his family without thinking about our own journey.
With Boyhood, director Richard Linklater has not just set a new bar for coming-of-age films; he has pushed the cinematic medium as a whole forward. What, at a glance, might seem like an experimental film, is actually a moving portrait of a (fictional) family's life chronicled over 12 years. It's a story about growing up, about struggling to find yourself, about the many hardships life throws our way, and how every single moment shapes us. It's a brilliant piece of film history, an unforgettable journey, and easily one of the best movies you'll see all year.
Starting more than 12 years ago, Linklater conceived Boyhood as a unique experiment in filmmaking. He would rally up a small cast of actors every so often for more than a decade, and shoot scenes for his film. So, as each character is depicted as growing up in the film they are actually growing up in real life. That, in and of itself, is a concept worthy of attention, but it's how Linklater uses Boyhood's plot to build a modern coming-of-age story that's all the more impressive.
At the center of it all is Mason (Ellar Coltrane), the titular boy of our film. We meet Mason at age five and watch as he grows (literally in front of our eyes) to be an 18-year-old college freshman. Early on, Mason struggles to find direction from the main figures in his life, specifically his mother (Patricia Arquette), father (Ethan Hawke), and sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater). His mother and father have separated and so his father becomes a source of worship for Mason early on, whereas the consistent parade of drunken, abusive boyfriends throws regular ruts into his relationship with his mother. We see that Mason's mother is a hard-working single mother trying to get by and that his father is little more than a deadbeat, but Linklater smartly frames our perception of these characters through Mason's distorted lens.
However, as the film progresses, we see Mason adapt to his surroundings and slowly develop as a young man. He begins to share a lot of the qualities of his father and even learns to respect his mother, while at the same time bouncing all over the teenage spectrum. At one point he's a rebellious young teenager and the next he's a more responsible adult – but whereas changes like that happen within the blink of an eye they now happen with a scene transition.
There are consistent through lines that connect each passing moment in Mason's life, but putting together who he is at any given age is one of the film's most appealing qualities. Linklater never gives the bullet point update that says what's transpired since last we saw Mason and his family, but instead provides subtle visual and dialogue cues that suggest how the status quo has or hasn't changed. Much like life, it's only when you stop and think about where you're at that you begin to understand where you came from. And eventually Mason starts to understand what type of man he wants to be, but we as an audience don't know if he'll ever get there. All we know is that the 5-year-old boy that opened the film is nowhere to be found in this 18-year-old adult.
At nearly 3 hours long, Boyhood feels like a journey – one that you'll likely never have again. Richard Linklater's cinematic experiment works only because his storytelling and writing are so strong, and it transcends the coming-of-age genre with one of the most authentic and earnest depictions of growing up. To find a cast so devoted to a subject matter must have been difficult, but Boyhood's major players are phenomenal throughout. But of course the highest praise should be directed at Ellar Coltrane for his willingness to share his physical transformation with the public world while at the same time trying to breathe life into the character of Mason. How, at such a young age, he is able to balance his real life insecurities with Mason's is simply incredible, but that's the film in a nutshell. Boyhood is the type of movie that has the highest aims and somehow achieves them all in a completely effortless way. We'll likely never see anything like Boyhood again and that's okay.
It goes without saying that Richard Linklater deserves all the praise for his work on Boyhood, easily his best work. His script never plays into the real time experiment and his filmmaking never draws attention to it either. Rather, Linklater lets the fiction become our reality as naturally as possible. Boyhood needed so many things to go right in order for it to be an overwhelming success – strong performances, an engaging story, solid filmmaking – and Linklater somehow did it all, but obviously not without a little help. On the one hand, Boyhood is a modern coming-of-age story highlighted by period specific music and design elements. But its themes are so timeless that most will connect with it 10, 20, or 30 years down the road. Growing up is a universal part of life, but it's not so easily duplicated on screen, and yet Linklater made it look easy.


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Q: writing bash script to change text and write to a log I have written a very simple bash script to help me migrate from dev to staging.  What it does is it deletes all files in staging, copies the files over from dev to stage.
However, the config.inc.php file needs to have the first instance of "dev" to be changed to "stage", and no other instance changed.
Second, everytime I run it (I run the script from the dev directory), i'd like it to write a log back in the dev directory which will append the date/time stamp that I ran the staging bash script into this log.
Thanks.

A: This will change only the first appearance of "dev" to "stage"
sed -i '0,/dev/ s/dev/stage/' config.inc.php

Be aware that it changes "devel" into "stageel". This version behaves just like you want, only a "dev" is searched, not a "devel" (in fact, s/\<dev\>/stage/ as the substitution expression should work, but it does not seem to work as expected? I'll be glad if anyone with more sed-fu can explain. )
sed -i  "/\<dev\>/,/\<dev\>/ s/dev/stage/" config.inc.php

For logging:
date >> /path/to/dev/run.log

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*Assuming other issues are resolved (see below), the second sed command can still change devel to stagel if the line contains, for example, "move devel code from /some/dev/location to /some/stage/location".

*Also, the second sed command will map each dev found between the first line containing dev and the second such line.  This matters if there's more than one matching line, whereas the original '0,/dev/' (or amended '0,/\<dev\>/') only matches the first line as requested.

*The reason "s/\<dev\>/stage/" doesn't work is not a sed issue but a shell issue. Use single quotes and you'd be almost OK.  With double quotes, the back-slash less-than sequence appears to sed as just less-than.

*Rule of Thumb: use single quotes around any argument in a shell script containing regular expression material.  Unlesss it is saturated with single quotes, replace each single quote in the regular expression with the sequence quote, backslash, quote, quote "'\''".  (The first quote terminates the single quote string; the backslash quote is a single quote; the last quote restarts the single quote string.)

*Note that the '-i' option is a GNU extension to sed; it is a legimate part of the answer since the question is tagged Linux, where GNU sed is used; be aware if you need to move to a platform such as Solaris, AIX, HP-UX.

*Finally, sed does not support extended regular expressions as standard; you have to explicitly enable them in GNU sed with the '-r' option.

In my estimation, assuming overwrite is desirable, the command should be:
sed -i -r '0,/\<dev\>/s/\<dev\>/stage/' config.inc.php

A: To change a word in a file:
cat config.inc.php | sed 's:dev::stage' > config.inc.php.new

To append to a log file:
echo $timestamp >> mylogfile.log

A: The first part (editing your file) can be done well with the stream editor utility sed:
sed -i -e s/dev/stage/ config.inc.php

This edits the file in-place (-i) with no backup, using expression /dev/stage/ (-e) to replace one expression with another.

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Originally published in The Patriot-News on Dec. 7, 2011.
Patricia Behrens woke up to the sound of explosions.
It was about 7 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, in Hawaii.
The U.S. military reservation had a habit of waking residents up with its drills.
"Why do they do it Sunday mornings?" Behrens said. Wide awake, she left her bedroom and walked to where her mother stood, by the door of their home.
Behrens, now Patricia Cameron, 86, and a resident of Camp Hill, was 16 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. She was a senior at Punahou School in Honolulu and lived in a suburb in the Monoa Valley with her mother. They had moved to Hawaii to be closer to her father, the executive officer on the USS Concord stationed in Pearl Harbor.
The night of Dec. 6 was a night like any other. Cameron even had plans for the next day. She was meeting up with a serviceman who was stationed at Pearl Harbor.
Cameron has a clear memory of sitting in her bedroom reading George Bernard Shaw's "Plays Unpleasant" that night before falling asleep.
Everything was normal. The morning would be anything but.
She never finished the book. And it would be 10 days before she heard whether her Navy friend was even alive.
As Cameron stood with her mother, a neighbor's door opened. A man ran out, put on his Navy uniform, hopped into his car and sped off. Soon Navy officers poured into the street from their homes and ran toward Pearl Harbor.
Cameron's own father was off the coast of South America that day.
So it was just Cameron, her mother and their Japanese maid in the home when the news came that Japanese paratroopers were thought to have landed in the hills behind their house.
A blackout policy was implemented, so when the sun set the entire community was plunged into darkness.
Cameron's family had a radio, which had a small monitor that lit up when turned on. It was roughly the size of the space between her outstretched thumb and pointer finger. They were listening to it one night in the dark, trying to get news of the outside world and piece together what was happening when there was a knock at the door.
The knocker was the air warden. "You are showing a light," he said.
From then on the radio was covered in a blanket when turned on, its low voices and sounds murmuring in the dark.
A few days after the attack Cameron's father was able to get a call through to Hawaii. But just as the town was kept in blackness at night, so the outside world was kept in the dark on information about Pearl Harbor.
Within the first three days, Queens Hospital put a call out for blood donations. Cameron and her mother immediately went to donate. But there was a problem, donors were supposed to be 17 years old. Cameron was only 16.
Before the attacks had even begun, Cameron and her mother had purchased tickets to California for Christmas. Her father was going to be stationed in San Francisco for the holiday and they were going to join him.
Those plans had definitely not changed in light of the attack.
Cameron and her mother had to go to the Pearl Harbor to pick up the paperwork allowing them to leave.
On Dec. 20, 1941, Cameron was on the first convoy that left Hawaii for California. The ship's passengers were triple the usual number, the numbers inflated by people fleeing the Philippines and the 100 worst burn cases from Pearl Harbor.
The journey was one of trepidation. "There was no guarantee we would make it safely to California because that had not yet been accomplished," Cameron said.
As the ship neared California, Japanese submarines were spotted off the coast of Los Angeles.
The passengers spent Christmas Eve in life jackets.
On Christmas morning 1941, they sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge and stepped foot on California soil.
Cameron and her family never went back to Hawaii.
In 1942, Cameron was in Philadelphia, studying at the Friends School when she received a letter from Punahou, her Hawaiian school, stating she could still have a Punahou diploma.
Cameron received two high school diplomas from schools 6,000 miles apart.
Patricia Cameron, 86, is the founder of St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Harrisburg. She currently resides in Camp Hill with her husband Duryea Cameron. The Dauphin County Historical Society was instrumental in getting this interview.


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Property agent Lambert Smith Hampton has acquired rival Douglas Newman Good Commercial for an undisclosed sum.
Founded by Edmund Douglas in 1993, Douglas Newman Good Commerical manages over 2 million sq ft of assets, generating income in excess of €45 million per annum. Its services include property management, sales and acquisitions, lettings, rent review negotiations and valuations.
Key clients include AIB, Bank of Ireland, Grant Thornton, Nama, State Street and Tesco.
Edmund Douglas will head Lambert Smith Hampton's enlarged operations in Dublin and Galway. Peter Rowan, who was previously head of Lambert's Dublin office has left the business.
Lambert Smith Hampton, which can trace its origins back to 1773, is a national commercial property consultancy with a network of 26 offices across the UK and Ireland.
It has been on the acquisition trail of late, acquiring BTW Shiells, one of Northern Ireland's largest estate agents in 2014, and both ES Group and Tushingham Mooreearlier this year.
BTW Shiells was previously part of Lambert Smith Hampton until a management buy-out in 2003.
"It is no secret that Lambert Smith Hampton is on a mission to create the most progressive commercial property agency in the UK and Ireland. We have been investing selectively in areas such as retail agency and property management over the past 18 months, where we are seeing considerable demand for our services," said Ezra Nahome, the company's chief executive.
"Bringing Douglas Newman Good Commercial into the group is perfectly aligned with this strategy, building on our acquisitions of BTW Shiells and Tushingham Moore and giving us critical mass in markets where there is significant potential," he added.
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AfHEA's 6th scientific conference: WHO health financing sessions
Health, COVID-19, Health PFM
On 7 March, Danielle Serebro from the CABRI Secretariat joined a session arranged by the World Health Organisation (WHO) at the sixth African Health Economics Association (AfHEA) conference on how Public Financial Management (PFM) systems and strategic purchasing arrangements in Africa adjusted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The session focused on the barriers and enablers for an effective response, key adjustments that were introduced in countries to facilitate the health sector response, and lessons for how to rebuild and strengthen PFM systems and strategic purchasing arrangements to make them more responsive to future pandemics and capable to sustain efforts towards Universal Health Coverage.
Scheduled until 11 March, this conference seeks to promote debate and discussion among African and international researchers, experts and policy makers on resilient health systems and the role of health economics and policy research in resilient health systems in Africa.
The sub-themes of the conference are:
Decolonizing Health Economics and policy research and the drive for greater equity and inclusion.
Vaccine economics: equity, distribution, financing, trade and the lessons learnt during the covid-19 pandemic.
What adjustments are required to make health and health financing systems in Africa more resilient to pandemics?
Cost-effectiveness of addressing social/underlying determinants of poor health vs. funding medical interventions.
Building back better health systems: the role of innovation, multi-sectoral approaches and global financial architecture in building resilient health systems in Africa.
UHC, politics, policy processes, and reforms during covid-19 pandemic.
The role and use of data and evidence for policy decisions in a pandemic (the case of covid-19).
Looking to the future: what plans are in place to mitigate the impact of covid-19 post the pandemic?


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Then in 2001, we saw that some of our clients were having trouble sending HTML email newsletters to their customers. They basically had two options. They could somehow rig Microsoft Outlook to send an HTML email with broken links, broken images, and broken attachments, or they could pay thousands of dollars a month for some bloated enterprise-level service that was packed with features they never used and never understood. We thought, "Sheesh, people are too busy running their businesses to learn how to code HTML emails. Email marketing is so easy, a monkey could be doing it for them." We put our pragmatic programming skills to work and built a simple tool that included everything our clients needed and nothing they didn't. We made it so easy, a human could use it. Our clients loved it. So we made it available to the public. The word kinda spread.
In 2007, we officially ended all web development work as "The Rocket Science Group" and focused exclusively on MailChimp. And the rest is history.


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Adaptive Reuse of Carob Warehouses in Northern Cyprus
Hulya Yuceer ( Adana Science and Technology University , Turkey)
Beser Oktay Vehbi ( Eastern Mediterranean University , Northern Cyprus)
Open House International
Article publication date: 1 December 2014
Scattered mainly along the coast of Cyprus, a series of modest stone built carob warehouses provide a historical legacy of the agricultural, social and economic life of the rural areas of Cyprus during the late 19th and early 20th century. They were constructed of local materials and employed local building techniques, and have become a largely unrecognized part of the local landscape. Most remain in a dilapidated condition through neglect and weathering throughout the years. It is suggested that this is largely due to a lack of understanding of their cultural significance, and a lack of vision as to how a holistic conservation approach could help to address wider strategic policy objectives in the areas of sustainable tourism/place marketing, and rural economic development. More specifically it is suggested that a tourism path incorporating former carob collecting routes could support the adaptive re-use of the former warehouses based upon contemporary cultural needs and opportunities. The development of such an approach will require a multi-agency, cross-sectoral involvement that sees these buildings as a significant cultural resource.
Adaptive Re-Use
Carob Warehouse
Yuceer, H. and Vehbi, B.O. (2014), "Adaptive Reuse of Carob Warehouses in Northern Cyprus", Open House International, Vol. 39 No. 4, pp. 65-77. https://doi.org/10.1108/OHI-04-2014-B0007
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"ANOTHER YEAR OF WHAT TO LIKE AND HOW TO LIKE IT"
NW METAL CALENDAR
VIDEOGRAPHY: LUCTUS, KYOTY, ASG, NORTHERN GENOCIDE, LORD IMPALER, DIGITAL DOOMZDAY SEEN AND HEARD (PART 2): WITCHCRAFT, BORKNAGAR, WOMB, CEMETERY FILTH, LOW FLYING HAWKS, BRUTALITY
SEEN AND HEARD (PART 1): HOSTIUM, DAEMONIIS AD NOCTUM, HELION, LAMANTIDE, NADIMAC, THRASHFIRE
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As I mentioned in my last post yesterday (here), I had more than the usual amount of time on Monday and Tuesday to explore new music and found a lot that I enjoyed. In addition to the six videos collected in that last post, I've selected recent songs from six more bands here. And at the risk of overwhelming you with metal, we'll soon be following this round-up today with a second one assembled by Grant Skelton.
HOSTIUM
Hostium are rooted in Vancouver British Columbia. Their debut album The Bloodwine of Satan is projected for a vinyl release by Germany's Iron Bonehead Productions in February of the new year, and a CD version will be released around the same time by NecroShrine Records. In recent days Iron Bonehead deployed a track named "Bloodwine Chalice" to Soundcloud.
This is primitive, primally appealing black metal. It seems so simple at first, but it's like a delayed-action poison — when it kicks into gear, it burns like a fever. It lumbers, it races, it rocks, it repeats — and as the song changes tempos and rhythms, it continues to burrow into your veins. At the end, it builds to a rampaging gallop. (The vocals, by the way, are vile and disgusting — just as they should be.)
www.ironbonehead.de
http://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com
DAEMONIIS AD NOCTUM
Daemoniis Ad Noctum are from Portland, Oregon, and their roster includes members of Panzergod and Raptor and a former member of Axion and Dead Conspiracy. The band's debut EP Shade was released on November 17 by Portland's Exile Music(k) on limited edition tape and digitally.
Shade integrates the dismal drag and soul-sinking weight of doom with hell-ripping black thrash assaults, combining sludgy low-end heft, whirring treble-shifted riff swarms, and scalding shrieked vocals. Heavy and evil and nicely headbangable.
https://exilemusick.bandcamp.com/album/daemoniis-ad-noctum-shade-demo
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Daemoniis ad Noctum – "Shade" demo by Daemoniis ad Noctum
The Lombardy region of northern Italy is home to the death metal band Helion. Their debut release is a four-track EP entitled Duat's Calling. Yesterday (thanks to a link from my friend Tito) I caught up with a YouTube clip that combines the EP's instrumental introductory track and its first song proper, "Pyramid's Cult".
That introduction is a somber string piece backed by a martial drum pattern, and the beginning of "Pyramid's Cult" picks up that mournful melody and then spins it (and your head) through a high-speed centrifuge of ferocious, technically flashy (and thrashy) death metal with a contrasting, off-pace second half that features exotic eastern melody — the song is something like an intersection of Nile and Behemoth.
After listening to that video clip, I found the EP's other two tracks on Soundcloud and I'm including those below as well (the last of which ambitiously reaches for the 12-minute mark). Like "Pyramid's Cult", they display not only impressive speed and technical flair but also a knack for interesting melodic hooks (and the extended instrumental interlude in that long track, which includes piano, strings, and wonderful guitar soloing, is beautifully done).
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Helion/180006592030495
LAMANTIDE
Coincidentally, the next band also comes from Lombardy in northern Italy, and more specifically the town of Cremona. Their name is Lamantide, and their latest release is an EP entitled Carnis Tempora: Abyssus that came out late last month. It did a very effective job staving in my head and scrambling the brains.
Lamantide's music is part hardcore, part death metal, part post-metal, part math-core derangement. The band prove their skill at keeping the listener off-balance, vaulting from brutally effective skull-clobbering to spinning out seductive melodies, while piercing the songs with blinding eruptions of unhinged guitar dissonance or episodes of shimmering cosmic ambience. The tempos and moods turn on a dime, but this is one talented band who know how to make such sharp twists and turns work, even though you never know what's coming next.
Carnis Tempora: Abyssus is a "name your price" download on Bandcamp, and it's also available on clear vinyl (distributors are listed on the Bandcamp page):
https://www.facebook.com/lamantidehc
https://lamantide.bandcamp.com/album/carnis-tempora-abyssus
CARNIS TEMPORA: ABYSSUS by LAMANTIDE
NADIMAC
For the next selection of heavy sounds I'm venturing to Serbia, which is the homeland of a thrash band named Nadimac (Надимач). Metal-Archives shows that they've put out songs for a prodigious number of splits since 2008, as well as four full-length albums. The most recent of the latter (released this past June) is Manifest protiv sudbine, which I discovered on the Bandcamp page of the excellent Witches Brew label.
Below I'm going to embed the stream for the album's 11th of 14 tracks — "Glas Pod Zemljom" — because that's the first one I heard; and then I'm also including a stream of the album as a whole. "Glad Pod Zemljom" is so goddamn full of energy, so loaded with high-octane riffs and turbocharged drumming, so infectiously groovy and inventive, that I found it irresistible. If you stick with it, you'll find that the rest of the album is just as electrifying. This really isn't run-of-the-mill thrash.
https://witchesbrewthrashes.bandcamp.com/track/glas-pod-zemljom
Manifest Protiv Sudbine by NADIMAC
THRASHFIRE
I decided to stay in a thrash vein for the last item in this collection. It was the last discovery I made before putting this post to bed, but it might be the catchiest song in here. It's called "Chainsaw Metal", and it's by a band named Thrashfire from Ankara, Turkey. The song is off the band's new EP Vengeance of Fire, which will be released by Dave Rotten's Xtreem Music label on December 20.
The riffs in this thing are solid gold, except they're so heavy and vicious that maybe it's better to say they're solid uranium. And the song includes vocals that are just as hellish and deranged, as well as some cool bass work that becomes especially noticeable when the band switch riffs after the halfway point. And to repeat, this thing is as contagious as influenza.
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Posted by Islander at 6:00 am	Tagged with: Daimoniis Ad Noctum, Helion, Hostium, Lamantide, Nadimac, Thrashfire
4 Responses to "SEEN AND HEARD (PART 1): HOSTIUM, DAEMONIIS AD NOCTUM, HELION, LAMANTIDE, NADIMAC, THRASHFIRE"
Gorger says:
I favor Helion in this post right now, but the competition is fierce.
That Manifest Protiv Sudbine artwork deserves a second, more detailed look:
http://marena-fanzine.rs/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/nadimac_cover.jpg
Islander says:
Thank you for that larger artwork! Very cool. A round of applause to the artist ("Silencer 8").
ZackCrownInitiate says:
I'm digging Daemoniis Ad Noctum!
Leperkahn says:
Daemoniis ad Noctum and Helion are both pretty solid finds.
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Cabela's: The Hunt - Championship Edition is the most exciting hunting game to the Nintendo Switch. You will experience the thrill of the hunt while you stalk and kill your prey in some of North America's most famous hunting spots. With local multiplayer, arcade mini-games and season hunt modes, Cabela's: The Hunt is fun for gamers and hunters alike.
Includes The Bullseye Pro peripheral. The controller assembles to be over 22".
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Epic Prey: Hunt Whitetail Deer, Mule Deer, Elk, and Moose. There are also "Legendary Animals" in each region - coveted trophies including King of Bucks, deer, bears, cougars, coyote, wolves, boars, big horned sheep, turkeys, ducks and more.
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Bhausahed Badhiye (May 23, 1909 – 13 Oct 2006)
Bhausahed had attended the Vijaydashmi function of RSS at Reshimbagh. He was one of the volunteers who had taken oath of RSS from its founder Dr Hedgwar.
Born on May 23, 1909, in Jalalkheda, Bhausahed took primary education at Kelwad. In 1920, he participated in Mahatma Gandhi's satyagrah and in the agitation that led to the closure of the school. He took further education in a school run by an indian. He then shifted to Umrer, alon with his brother. He completed his primary education in Umrer, and later got admitted to Parwardhan High School, Nagpur and passed matriculate examination in first division. He then did graduation in arts from Morris college(VN Institute of Arts and Social Sciences) and secured degree in Law from Law College, Nagpur University.
Bhausahed joined municipal school in Umrer as headmaster, but was dismissed due to association with RSS. He moved the court and won the battle agianst this injustice. Later, the school closed down because of local politics. Bhausahed along with some other prominent persons established Academy of Arts and Science and started public school in 1940. Bhausahed was its head fro two years and then started practising law with Adv P G Fadke.
Bhausahed was continuously involved in the RSS activities and became Karyawah of Mahal area. He was in prison from 1947 to 1951 following ban imposed on RSS. He was then appointed Karywah of Nagpur and Vidarbha prant. He was president of city unit of Jansangh from 1962 to 1972. He was again sent to jail during emergency. He was vibhag Sanghchalak from 1980 to 1994. He was closely associated with all the senior functionaries of RSS and Bhartiya Janta Party.
(Taken from Nagpur Hitawada, City LINE, 13 October 2006)
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Review: Doomsday Clock #10 Changes the History of Comics Forever
Maurice Mitchell 5/30/2019 08:47:00 AM Comics, Doomsday-Clock, Gary-Frank, Geoff-Johns, Maurice-Mitchell, review-comics, Superman, Watchmen
Read the review to find out if Doomsday Clock #10 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank is worth buying.
If you want to avoid spoilers for this comic then skip to the overall section at the end.
Warning: Spoilers for Doomsday Clock #10
This series has been in the works for a long time. The first issue was released in November back in 2017! Years later we finally get the answer to the big question of who's manipulating the timeline of the DC Universe. After waiting all this time is it worth it? Yes!
Doomsday Clock is a 12-issue limited series that picks up after the events of Watchmen. Watchmen was a comic series by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987. It tells the story of a world of flawed superheroes and the appearance of an all-powerful hero Dr. Jonathan 'Jon' Osterman nicknamed "Doctor Manhattan". Although the character is very different from Superman it was obviously intended as a pastiche of the "Man of Steel". A hero so powerful he becomes detached from humanity and uses his power in increasingly amoral ways. At the end of the story, he says he's going to look for another world.
So if you add that to the series timeline it means the answer to the question of what happened to Doctor Manhattan took over thirty years. After waiting all this time is it worth it? Yes!
Doomsday Clock #10 uses the same broken narrative structure as Watchmen to tell the story from Doctor Manhattan's perspective. The story jumps from 1938 all the way to modern day. It shows Jon watching Superman appear the same year that he enters the world. He also watches as Superman's origin is twisted and pulled from 1943 all the way to the events of "New 52". It turns out everything in this universe's history hinges on Superman. Fascinated he decides to alter Superman's history again and creates the events of "Rebirth".
Throughout the story Jon stuggles with the same questions, he grappled with in Watchmen. If he can see the past, present, and future then should he intervene? Does he have to save a struggling actor from death or can he let him die? Should Superman be all-good or an anti-hero? It's all very powerful and Geoff Johns is obviously close to the material and gives the story of the myriad of reboots, multiverses, and retcons in DC history a fresh new take. But the comic asks an even bigger question.
Are the changes and revisionism of comics good or bad for comics? The story leaves the question open but Jon's confusion mirrors comic book readers. How long before readers just give up? Is it better for 1940s heroes like Superman to stay in the past or do they need a modern makeover? Doctor Manhattan likes changing them but is that good or bad? We'll have to see. Plus, he introduces a new concept in the "metaverse" that has a single reality changing and morphing to fit the narrative.
Gary Frank's artwork is strong but a little uneven. One panel perfectly captures Dave Gibbons style of Doctor Manhattan, but then he uses his own style drawing new characters like fictional actor Carver Coleman and the two styles don't always mesh. But, overall the posing, facial expressions, and action are well done and a lot of time was put into the work. He even uses the same nine-panel page layout which isn't used much today and I'm sure was a challenge.
Brad Anderson does a great job on coloring too and everything from Jon's eerie blue glow to the muted tones of Superman's New 52 costume is a welcome sight.
The next issue, Doomsday Clock #11, is scheduled for release August 14th, 2019. I'll be sure to pick up the next issue if it's released on time.
Overall: Buy Doomsday Clock #10 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank
Great writing and good artwork combine to make the strongest book in the limited series yet. This one is one you'll want to read and re-read over and over again.
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About Doomsday Clock #10
Written by Geoff Johns
Artwork by Gary Frank
Inking by Gary Frank
Color by Brad Anderson
Synopsis: This stunning issue of the critically acclaimed hit maxiseries reveals the secrets behind Dr. Manhattan and his connection to the DC Universe.
On Sale Date: May 29th, 2019
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A disc jockey duo are getting set for a lock-in to remember, as they take on a mammoth 48-hour broadcast this weekend.
Cleckheaton Online Radio presenters Wayne Davidson and Adam Burnett have pledged that, if they get £400 worth of donations by 7pm today, they will take part in a 48-hour broadcast until Sunday evening.
The station is no stranger to long-haul feats of broadcasting as, last year, presenters had a 24-hour broadcast lock-in, which raised £200 for the station.
But Wayne believes they can go one better, and are planning to stay awake for two solid days to help raise money to keep the station running.
He said: "I think tempers could be frayed by the end of it!
He even added that listeners can watch as the duo spin away on a webcam through the radio's site.
The broadcast will also feature live interviews, phone-ins, competitions and even live sets from local artists.
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It is splendid music. I request 「Praise/The Son Will Arise」.
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Cyprus National Day is a public holiday in Cyprus and is recognised on 1 April each year. It is also known to some as Greek Cypriot National Day and is a different holiday to Cyprus Independence Day, which is on 1 October.
On 1 April 1955, a guerilla organisation was established. It was called Ethnikí Organósis Kipriakóu Agónos (EOKA), or the National Organisation of the Cypriot Struggle, and fought for Cyprus's independence from colonial Britain, and for union with Greece (known as enosis). The organisation was established by Archbishop Makarios III and led by General George Grivas.
In the four years following, EOKA fought against British installations in Cyprus with bombings and armed warfare. The British troops were temporarily depleted due to the Suez Crisis but, in 1957, the British Army sent in extra forces and sought out the hideouts in the mountains.
The agreement declared that the State of Cyprus would become a republic with a Greek President, a Turkish Vice President, the national languages of Greece and Turkey, and its own flag. The agreement came into practical effect later in 1960.
Today the public holiday is largely a day of rest and relaxation for the people of Cyprus. In the lead up to the holiday, schools reinforce the lessons about EOKA and the Zurich Agreement. On the day, many attend religious services.


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Ian Brown was the singer for the Stone Roses, the glorious and seminal Manchester band who dropped the ball so hard that a bottomless pit of nasal-toned clones was soon born. The simian Mancunian has emerged with a solo career that balances stupid and clever on a scale where the weight is unfortunately tipped a bit on the former. While his voice still carries the whispery inflections and cool, vibey attitudes that make you want to pull your sleeves over your hands, it's obvious that his brilliance shines brightest in collaboration. His songs are catchy, but they fail to deliver the same heartfelt triumphs of life and love as they did in the past. Where he once sung lyrics like "She stands on shifting sands / The scales held in her hands," he now sings, "The dolphins were monkeys that didn't like the land." Oh, and he does a wonderfully novel cover of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." Great to listen to while you're waiting for the other three Stone Roses to leave their powders and pride on the back burner to give their fans what they really want: a reunion.
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A live roadmap is your best communication tool
The struggles
As a Product Manager, a big chunk of your time is destined for communication, we can go even as far as saying that one of your main outcomes is communication.
You need to communicate the strategy across multiple teams and even departments, you also need to be accountable for the current state of your product with your stakeholders. In addition to that, you need to be clear when setting expectations with your stakeholders and upper management.
With so many touchpoints sometimes it's hard to keep all the people updated on every change we have, or on the current state of the product. Sometimes this can lead to unpleasant moments and a lack of transparency for your stakeholders when for example something can't be added to the roadmap within the current quarter.
A roadmap to rule them all
Here is when your roadmap should shine and make your life easier, your roadmap should be able to communicate:
What are we working on right now?
What's coming up next?
When can I expect something to be done?
To be honest, I prefer when roadmaps also communicate "Why are we working on this right now?".
This can be achieved by adding a link between the feature or initiative with the strategic goal it's aligned with. I don't ask you to have a full explanation, but it would be great to have, at least a link to see the strategic alignment.
I would also recommend for internal purposes making clear within the roadmap the estimated portion of time dedicated by Product Folks to develop the specification, and then the portion of time that will be destinated for implementation by Engineering. If you have an estimated release date, it can also be here.
Keeping the roadmap updated
It's not rare that things don't go as planned. Implementation got delayed, specification is not ready by the date, the content was not provided, or a new initiative suddenly appeared on the road that needs to be tackled now (regarding the last one, be careful, this should be an exception and not the rule).
It's important that everyone can rely on the roadmap, so whenever a change occurs I would urge you to update it. Sometimes we don't do that, we rely on communication when something happened and we leave the roadmap forgotten after two weeks into the quarter, sometimes roadmaps don't even survive the week after it's presented to whoever was interested in it.
But in addition to updating the roadmap I would also recommend you to keep the previous version of it after any modification, this way you can work backwards in the future and analyze why the roadmap was modified, and even take great insights about bad patterns happening within your organization.
One of the most difficult things could be to make a change in an organization's culture, but sometimes it's worthy to be done. You need to teach your stakeholders, upper management, and whoever this roadmap is relevant to, to read it and rely on it.
A lot of meetings can be skipped by just reading the roadmap knowing it's fully updated, also a lot of requests and decisions can be supported by the roadmap. There you are bringing transparency on what's going on and why something can or can't be done.
It can also help your organization prepare for the future, for example, hirings for a specific period when it's visible the current capacity won't be enough to hit certain key targets.
Roadmaps are great communication tools when used wisely
Roadmaps should answer key questions to your stakeholders
Roadmaps are live documents that should be updated
It's important to build a culture where people can rely on the information in a roadmap
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Curaçao is a heavenly Caribbean island located just north of Venezuela. Formerly a Dutch territory but now an independent country, it offers island life infused with a distinct European influence. You can wander through the busy streets and admire the brightly painted houses that the island is famous for. Curaçao's rugged coastline has many coves and coral reefs to explore. It takes less than 2 hours to drive from one end of the island to the other, so, if you want, it's possible to explore all of its 35 beaches.
Get a flavour for the island at a Curaçao hostel in a former ice cream factory or step closer to history in a colonial house with a colourful exterior. A hostel constructed with bricks made of sea sand and coral is another offbeat option. Many Curaçao hostels have an outdoor area so you can take advantage of the island breeze. Travel light and book a hostel that provides linen and towels.
The bustling capital city of Curaçao is Willemstad. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site that's culturally diverse and steeped in history, and you'll find plenty of places to eat, drink and shop there. For a more rustic vibe, head to Pietermaai District, where the streets are boldly decorated with murals and come to life at night with bars and music. The white-sand Grote Knip and Klein Knip beaches are the most popular with locals, while at Playa Lagun you can see boats strewn across the sand in a more peaceful setting.
At Christoffel National Park, you can do some birdwatching, join a safari tour or follow one of the hiking trails. Get a feel for island culture at one of the many clubs and bars that play jazz into the early hours. Sample the local cuisine at a truk di pan (food truck), with Caribbean-style tapas and arepas (stuffed cornmeal pittas) among the delights on offer. If you've come for water sports, you can snorkel or dive and spot wrecks, including a sunken plane, at Westpunt.
Curaçao is served by its own airport, Curaçao International Airport. Getting to the island's capital, Willemstad, is easy by taxi and only takes about 20 minutes. To get around the island, you can hop on a "convoy" – one of the public buses that run through most areas. If you want to get around a little faster, try the local taxis that run around the main areas of the island.
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China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) presents a wealth of opportunity along major global land and maritime trade routes. But how can business owners outside China take advantage?
It is five years since the rest of the world became aware of Chinese plans to become a champion of globalisation and free trade through the previously dubbed "One Belt One Road Initiative" or OBOR, a USD$1 trillion infrastructure programme that affects Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. Over that time, 68 countries and international organisations have signed up for the project.
First proposed in a speech at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan by China's president Xi Jinping, a main driver for BRI is Xi's commitment to turning China's emerging economy into a 'moderately prosperous society' by 2020. China's president has set the same tight deadline for ensuring all of his nation's rural populations are out of poverty.
But while it is easy to see the scale of the opportunity along these historic trade routes, how can business owners gain exposure to this massive multi-generational project? And how do they best engage with Chinese businesses?
An initiative on the scale of BRI sends out two clear messages. First, in terms of direct Chinese capital investment, hundreds of billions of Renminbi will pour into the development of railways, ports and power stations along the trade routes. Second, these developments will stimulate domestic investment. So, if they are not already, dynamic companies should be looking to understand the opportunities it presents if they want to be part of the next chapter in global trade.
One region that has seen a significant influx of investment is the commonwealth of independent states (CIS), which separates China from Europe. Gurgen Hakobyan, Regional head for the CIS and Mongolia of Grant Thornton International Ltd, says that China's volume of trade with CIS countries is approaching USD$100 billion a year.
Azerbaijan is set to be a key transit country for the BRI and has also seen a steady flow of investment in recent years, it was one of the first countries to support BRI; as they believe it will diversify the country's economy and enhance economic cooperation.
In 2015 a Memorandum of Understanding on Joint Encouragement of the Establishment of "Silk Way Economic Belt" was signed between both countries, focusing on fund invests in infrastructure, energy and natural resources, industrial and financial cooperation.
But how easy is it for firms to take advantage of the opportunities? "It is not as easy as you might think," says Jonathan. "First of all, the culture is different, so we have all learned how to engage with and speak to Chinese people. The main difference is in terms of behaviour, because of their expectations in terms of what they are used to when it comes to the business environment and relationships.
"A second issue is that the working relationship is much more challenging. And there is, of course, the language barrier. Chinese English can be good but it takes effort on our side, too. Fortunately, Grant Thornton International Ltd is set up to advise businesses looking to take advantage of the opportunities BRI presents," says Jonathan.
"Where BRI is concerned, it's all about identifying and making the best possible use of the significant opportunities that are emerging," agrees Panos Vodinas, who heads Grant Thornton's China Europe Business Group (CEBG).


ONTARIO (PRWeb) Feb. 20, 2010 – PT Health, a Canadian network of physiotherapy clinics, is pleased to announce the addition of a new health injury library on its Web site at www.pthealth.ca. The in-depth patient injury library, added as part of an upgrade to the site, provides a wealth of information about different injuries, conditions and therapy programs.
The Web site's new injury library is a helpful tool for patients wanting to learn more about their specific injury prior to starting treatment. It's also an excellent resource for anyone who is researching various treatment options. Visitors will find the library extremely user-friendly and easy to navigate. To facilitate the search process, most injuries are conveniently broken down by issues, symptoms, anatomy and surgery.
The article topics cover injuries associated with many parts of the body, including the ankle, knee, back, hip, wrist and shoulder. The articles also address common conditions such as arthritis, osteoporosis and fibromyalgia. High-quality images are included to help illustrate the subject matter and make it easier to understand.
In addition to first-rate articles, the health injury library also includes straightforward frequently-asked-questions sections, exercises and prevention tips. Visitors with more specific interests can peruse the Sports Activities, Work Activities and Injury Care sections to expand their knowledge. For example, the Sports Activities area touches on everything from golfing and running to skiing and snowboarding. The Work Activities section covers issues like ergonomic principles, healthy computer habits, manual lifting, comfortable driving and hand tools selection.
For more information about PT Health's new injury library or its vast network of physical therapy clinics please visit https://www.pthealth.ca.
Founded in 1995, PT Health is an extensive network of physiotherapist-owned clinics located all across Canada. Today, PT Health is one of the fastest-growing health care physiotherapy companies in the country. It operates more than 75 physical therapy clinics across Canada and provides services to nearly 100 Canadian nursing homes. PT Health's clinics are grounded in the principles of integrity, accountability and trust while delivering services in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, chiropody, sports medicine, athletic therapy, massage therapy and other areas. Headquartered in Ontario, PT Health is one of very few national physiotherapy providers that deliver consistent, progressive therapy for patients.


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WASHINGTON, D.C.—A new study by a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration economist estimates the total economic impact of foodborne illness across the nation to be a combined $152 billion annually.
The Produce Safety Project, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts at Georgetown University, published the report, Health-Related Costs from Foodborne Illness in the United States. In addition, an interactive online map that graphically represents this cost information for every state in the nation is available at www.MakeOurFoodSafe.org/cost_map.
To obtain a copy of the report, visit www.MakeOurFoodSafe.org.
Despite the substantial magnitude of this problem, the aggregate economic cost of health losses associated with foodborne illnesses has not been examined comprehensively in this way before.
There are a number of ways to estimate the economic impact of foodborne illness. This report uses an FDA cost-estimate approach: health-related costs are the sum of medical costs (physician services, pharmaceuticals, and hospital costs) and losses to quality of life (lost life expectancy, pain and suffering, and functional disability). The report also estimates the cost of illnesses associated specifically with produce, which is linked to the largest number of outbreaks involving FDA-regulated foods. For example, E. coli O157:H7 cases in produce accounted for 39 percent of outbreaks and 54 percent of illnesses. Using CDC data, the report estimates that foodborne illness costs related to produce alone are almost $39 billion per year in the U.S.
While the Make Our Food Safe coalition does not necessarily endorse any single method to develop such estimates, coalition members agree that this study highlights the magnitude of the problem and the need for action to reduce foodborne disease. Furthermore, the coalition agrees that steps to reduce or eliminate contaminated food are sometimes pressing public-health measures that must be taken even when, due to data gaps, a comprehensive monetized economic analysis is not possible.


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Pensioner arrested and area cordoned off as police investigate incident at a pharmacy
Forensic teams are working at Garnant Vantage Pharmacy and Cwmaman Surgery has also been cordoned off
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A pensioner has been arrested following an incident at a pharmacy in Ammanford .
Police are appealing for witnesses after the incident at Garnant Vantage Pharmacy at 12.40pm.
Forensic police officers are at the scene and Cwmaman Surgery also cordoned off.
A police spokesperson said: " Dyfed-Powys Police are appealing for witnesses to an assault that occurred at Garnant Pharmacy, Cwmamman Road at approximately 12.40pm today.
Police at the scene
"A 68-year-old man was arrested at the scene, and is in police custody. Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.
"The pharmacy is closed until further notice, but the doctor's surgery remains open. Anyone who witnessed the incident, or has any information, is asked to contact police by calling 101."
Garnant county councillor Kevin Madge said: "As the mayor of Cwmamman I am shocked. You do not expect it to be in your own village.
"The forensics are there in masks and everything, when you see people in masks it's really serious.
"They cordoned off the doctors' surgery as well. It's one of those things you do not see coming."
Dyfed-Powys Police
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2 dead, dozens injured in Amtrak train accident in Pennsylvania
VIDEO: Deadly train accident in Chester, Pa.
CHESTER, Pa. -- At least two people were confirmed dead and about 17 others injured after an Amtrak train struck a backhoe, derailing the lead engine in Pennsylvania Sunday morning.
The accident was reported at 7:53 a.m. Sunday near Booth Street on the Palmetto Train 89 in Chester. The train was operating from New York to Savannah, Georgia.
Amtrak suspended all service between Philadelphia and New York City until later in the afternoon when it ran a limited service.
All Amtrak service is suspended between New York City and Philadelphia at this time. Updates available at https://t.co/0oilXAZsFc.
— Amtrak (@Amtrak) April 3, 2016
Amtrak officials said the train struck a backhoe that was on the tracks and the impact derailed the lead engine of the train.
Chester Fire Commissioner Travis Thomas said in a late Sunday morning press conference that the scene extended to Trainer, Pa.
Officials with the Pennsylvania Emergency Management confirm there were two fatalities. Officials said they were not passengers, and Amtrak said they were workers in the vicinity of the backhoe.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters in New York that he had spoken with Amtrak board chairman Anthony Coscia regarding. He said both workers killed were Amtrak employees.
Schumer said debris from the crash flew into the first two cars, injuring some passengers. According to Amtrak, approximately 31 people are hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
Schumer said it's unclear whether the backhoe was performing regular maintenance or whether it was cleaning up debris from high overnight winds. He called for a complete investigation.
ABC7 sister station WPVI-TV spoke with witnesses and victims of the crash. Linton Holmes of Wilson, North Carolina was on the train when it derailed in Delaware County.
VIDEO: Linton Holmes describes feeling on Amtrak train
"The train was rumbling. We got off track, I guess. It was just a bunch of dust. There was dust everywhere. Then the train conductors, they were running to the front, because I was all the way in the back. Five more minutes, we were just waiting there. Then the train conductor came up and told us there was a fatality and wanted to see if anyone else was injured," Holmes said.
Holmes recalled an explosion of some kind.
"It was an explosion. We got off track and then there was like a big explosion. Then there was a fire and windows burst out. Some people were cut up, but it was just minor injuries," Holmes said.
Mariam Akhtar from Washington, D.C. was on the sixth car.
VIDEO: Passenger recalls Amtrak train derailment
"It felt like the train hit something and there were like three or four really big bangs and it kind of threw us off the seats we were sitting in. There was a lot of smoke and everybody was yelling. The train kind of stopped and later on, everybody was running to the front. Then the people were in the front started walking toward the back," Akhtar said.
Akhtar added that the crew handled the situation well and none were panicked. She said she was on the train for about 30 minutes before she was able to exit.
WPVI-TV also spoke with a man on the phone whose 52-year-old mother was on the train. He says she was on her way from New York City to her home in Maryland.
His mother said she has injuries to her knees, head and back, but he was able to talk to her on the phone. She told him it was a scary and chaotic scene; she was stuck on the train for some time before being taken out in an ambulance.
WPVI-TV also obtained scanner audio from first responders who were called to the scene shortly after the crash.
The Federal Railroad Administration responded to the scene. The NTSB is also investigating.
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Kahai Street Kitchen is so much more than a take-out eatery.
This sentiment immediately is evident from the moment you place your order at the takeout window to the point at which you open up your Styrofoam plate lunch.
As its name suggests, Kahai Street churns out homemade-quality food — fare you'd expect to come straight from your family's kitchen — with an elevated twist.
You'll still find local classics such as Hamburger Steak and Chicken Katsu on Kahai Street's menu, but there's also refined selections like Crab Crusted Mahimahi and Guava Barbecue Braised Brisket. Also take advantage of weekly specials, including this week's KSK Baked Stuffed Salmon Benedict, which will be available Tuesday-Friday, and is perfect from breakfast to dinner.
This local-style plate lunch wouldn't be complete without a scoop of rice (white or brown) and a side salad (potato mac or tossed).
A fillet of Atlantic salmon and sauteed spinach and onions, are encased in the puff pastry and cooked to moist perfection.
Two poached eggs are perched on top of the pastry, as a healthy pouring of sunshine-colored hollandaise sauce covers the entire meal.
A flaky puff pastry replaces the English muffin found in standard eggs Benedict, adding layers of buttery crispness to the beloved breakfast dish.


Yesterday, we all learned a bit more about what to expect with the arrival of Windows Phone 8. I must say as a physician and former hospital CIO/CMIO I liked what I heard.
You'd have to have your head in the sand not to be aware of the BYOD (bring your own device) phenomenon that is currently all the rage among consumers. Since physicians, nurses, and other clinicians are consumers too, they are just as likely as anyone else to bring a personal device into their workplace and want to use it for both business and pleasure. But of course, their business is healthcare and that raises all kinds of issues about the privacy and security of data on the device, especially personal health information. Breaches or loss of personal health data pose a huge risk to the enterprise and subject it to severe penalties. So, IT staff will be pleased to learn that Windows Phone 8 surpasses its predecessor as a viable enterprise platform that I believe will also please consumers and clinical end-users.
Driving home this point is Peter Bright, a contributing writer who covers programming and software development, security and more for ars technica. Although his comments were not directed specifically at the healthcare industry, what he had to say should be reassuring to anyone who works in healthcare, especially those in IT.
"Windows Phone 8 fills the gaps and makes Windows Phone a viable enterprise platform. Thanks to the common Windows core, it will support secure booting and full device encryption, based on BitLocker. This will integrate with existing device management systems for remote wiping and enforced password and PIN policies.
Application deployment has also been improved substantially. Corporations will be able to ship applications without Microsoft's involvement or intervention; they'll be able to put applications on internal Web servers or SD cards and distribute them without using the Marketplace".
Take all that and combine it with a very pleasing user interface and some of the best-made, coolest Smartphones on the market and you arrive at what should be an excellent choice for healthcare professionals. Assuming developers respond with even more of the clinical apps doctors and nurses desire, I think we'll have everything anyone who works in healthcare would want in a Smartphone – including the privacy officer and CIO.
I'm delighted to see Microsoft coming back into the game. The original tablet concept was ahead of its time but let down by the technology that was available and the lack of software. The combination of the tablet, a stylus, correct software (and you have a lot of that) and integration into the cloud should make for a compelling offering. I just hope it spurs even more innovation.
But can you use Windows Phone 8 devices with NHS Mail? NHS.net seems very obtuse about that.
There should absolutely be no reason not to use the new generation of Windows Phone 8 devices in healthcare settings. These phones are enterprise grade, encrypted, and can be managed by IT. Plus, they are every bit as fun to use as any Smartphone on the market. I totally love my Nokia 920. The HTC 8X rocks as well.
WP8 devices can be used with NHSmail as they support encryption at rest.
Please note: should you wish to use a personal device to access NHSmail you must ensure you have approval from your own organisation to ensure compliance with local information governance policies.
A guide on how to configure NHSmail is located in the "Training and Guidance" pages if you log in to the nhs.net web portal.


Creative Beats with Creative Control Introducing SoundTrek Drummer, an easy to use yet powerful and flexible MFX MIDI plugin that allows you to quickly create new and original drum beats in many different styles of music. SoundTrek Drummer creates realistic sounding and creative drum beats using your favorite drum sounds in your preferred MFX or VST host application. Whether you want to create drum parts for a complete song, work out some quick drum beats or create an extended dynamic jam, SoundTrek Drummer gives you the tools to be creative without the hassles of programming or the repetition of loops.
– Create realistic sounding drum beats in a variety of musical styles.
– Quickly and easily create anything from a single drum instrument to a complete arrangement including drum fills.
– Never ending supply of beats and ideas. If you don't like a take, compose again and get a new variation.
– Musician clips are arranged on the timeline then composed. The amount of variation in the composed takes is completely up to you.
– Style library contains over 2500 musicians and musician grooves to use as building blocks.
– Multi-level undo / redo lets you experiment without worry.
– Load and save your arrangements/presets to your hard drive. No matter which hosts you use you will always have access to your preset files.
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