Personal Injury Attorney | Take Notes After an Accident. One of the first things you should do after you are injured is write down everything you can about your accident, including details of your injuries. These notes can be very when you put together all the important facts into a final demand for compensation. Having notes to remind you of the details of what happened, and what you went through, is both easier and more reliable than counting on your memory.
Get into the habit of taking notes on anything you think might possibly affect your personal Injury and carry it through the entire claims process. Whenever you remember something you had not thought of before — while you're in the shower or just before you fall asleep, write it down and put it with your other notes. Here are some specific things our personal injury attorney recommends after an accident.
As soon as your head is clear enough, jot down everything you can remember about how the accident happened, beginning with what you were doing and where you were going, the people you were with, the time and weather. Include every detail of what you saw and heard and felt — twists, blows, and shocks to your body immediately before, during, and right after the accident. Also include anything you remember hearing anyone say about the accident, such as a witness. You will need to be able to relay this information to your personal injury attorney later.
In the first days following your accident, make daily notes of all pains and discomfort your injuries cause. You may suffer pain, discomfort, anxiety, loss of sleep, or other problems which are not as visible or serious as another injury but for which you should demand additional compensation. If you don't make specific note of them immediately, you may not remember exactly what to include in your demand for settlement weeks or months later. Also, taking notes will make it easier for you later to describe to an insurance company how much and what kind of pain and discomfort you were in.
In addition, writing down your different injuries may help your doctor diagnose you. For example, a relatively small bump on the head or snap of the neck may not seem worth mentioning, but it might help both the doctor and the insurance company understand why a bad back pain developed several weeks after the accident. Also, by telling the doctor or other medical provider about all of your injuries, those injuries become part of your medical records that will provide evidence later that such injuries were caused by the accident.
You may be entitled to compensation for losses, as well as for pain and suffering. But you will need good documentation. Begin making notes immediately after the accident about anything you have lost because of the accident and your injuries: work hours, job opportunities, meetings, classes, events, family or social gatherings, vacation, or anything else which would have benefited you or which you would have enjoyed but were unable to do because of the accident. Your personal injury attorney will be able to help you recoup these losses.
Make written notes of the date, time, people involved, and content of every conversation you have about your accident or your claim. In-person or telephone conversations worth noting may include those with any witness, adjuster, or other insurance representative, or with medical personnel.
Since 1989, the personal injury attorneys of Clekis Law Firm have been representing injured people and their families in Charleston and throughout the Low Country. At the Clekis Law Firm our clients always come first. If you or a loved one has suffered a serious personal injury due to the negligence of another, don't be victimized twice. You need someone on your side to help you with your personal injury case and obtain the fair and reasonable compensation that you deserve. Call Clekis at 843.779.1160.


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One of the Loudest Dogs You'll Ever Meet... Its Name Even Means "Loudmouth"
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Beagles are loving, gentle and friendly dogs with an independent streak and an intelligent nature
Beagles are scenthounds and will follow a trail with unbroken determination (making a fenced yard or walks on a lease essential)
Beagles are vocal dogs, known for baying loudly, and they also enjoy companionship from both humans and other dogs
Beagles, the 5th most popular dog breed in America, are adored for their curious and friendly personalities, and their love of companionship and adventure. Beagles actually date back to the 1300s and were originally used for trailing rabbits in England.1
As scenthounds, Beagles love to follow a trail. They've got about 220 million scent receptors in their noses, compared to about 5 million in humans,2 so it's no wonder that they're even used by law enforcement for contraband detection.
Beagles have a small to medium build, but don't let their size fool you. These compact dogs are hardy and love to be active, although they have an independent (some might say stubborn) streak that requires a patient and persistent owner.
What else should you know about Beagles, especially if you're considering making one your new best friend? Paw Nation has summed up 10 cool facts about Beagles that virtually everyone (even non-Beagle owners!) will want to know…3
10 Beagle Fun Facts
1. They're Thousands of Years Old
Beagles are an old dog breed, so old that their exact origins are unknown. However, modern-day Beagles' ancestors lived in England around the Roman Empire era or before, and became popular with the rise of fox hunting in the area.
2. The First Beagles Were Miniature
Early "Beagles" were only eight or nine inches high – small enough to carry in a pocket. Known as pocket Beagles or miniature Beagles, it wasn't until later that these tiny dogs were bred into the larger hunting hounds we known today.
3. Beagles Have White-Tipped Tails
If a Beagle is purebred, it will have some white in its tail. It may only be a few hairs at the tip, or it may be mostly white, but a "Beagle" without any white in its tail is probably a mix.
4. Beagle Means "Loudmouth" in French
Beagles are known for being very vocal, with barking, baying and howling. According to Paw Nation:
"In fact, it is believed the name 'Beagle' comes the Middle French 'bee gueule,' literally 'wide throat,' but more poetically translated as 'loudmouth.'"
5. They're Very Popular in the US
Beagles are one of the most beloved dog breeds in America. As of 2014, they were the fifth most popular breed (down from fourth place in 2013).
6. Snoopy Is a Beagle
The "Peanuts" character Snoopy is arguably the most famous fictitious Beagle. Snoopy was silent for the first few years of the comic strip, but later was given an active imagination and inner monologue.
7. Queen Elizabeth I Loved Beagles
Queen Elizabeth II is known as a corgi fan, but the first Queen Elizabeth loved and owned pocket Beagles, which were small enough to fit in one hand.
8. Beagles in the White House
President Lyndon Johnson had two Beagles, named Him and Her, in the white house during his presidency. He was often photographed walking and playing with the dogs.
9. Barry Manilow Loves Beagles
Singer Barry Manilow adopted a Beagle in the '70s and named him Bagel. Bagel was featured on several album covers, including one featuring Manilow wearing a t-shirt that read "I Love Beagles."
10. The US Department of Homeland Security Has a Beagle Brigade
The US government trains Beagles to sniff out luggage at airports, helping to find contraband agricultural products and prevent them from reaching American soil.
Are You Thinking of Adding a Beagle to Your Family?
Beagles are wonderful family dogs, but there are several factors to consider before bringing one home. For starters, Beagles are pack animals and do well with other dogs. They also appreciate human companionship and do not enjoy spending long hours alone. A Beagle left alone for too long may become destructive, especially if he hasn't gotten enough exercise.
Beagles are inquisitive and strong-minded. They will follow their noses, which means they'll run off if they catch a whiff of something interesting. If you're looking for a guard dog, a Beagle may not be the best choice, since they tend to be friendly, even to strangers.
Also, remember that Beagles are very vocal dogs. The most common reason they're turned over to shelters is because of excessive baying,4 so they may not make the best apartment dogs. If you want to hear a Beagle howling firsthand, check out the video below.
That being said, Beagles are loving, gentle and intelligent dogs that find a lasting place in many people's hearts. If you'd like to add a Beagle to your family, I recommend you check out one of the many Beagle rescue organizations in the US, which have dogs of all ages available across the country.
Paw Nation May 30, 2014
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Thanks to everyone who turned out for the January meeting. It was a great combination of education (Cameron's workshop), playing (plenty of open stage performances), and listening (John Jarvie and Peter Thomas Duo from Eugene) which are the three core elements of the Guitar Society mission!
This is a great opportunity to build on our ensemble activities to which we will be returning in the second half of the year.
7:05 – 7:40pm Guitar Ensemble Workshop with James Bishop-Edwards and Kimberly Fitch.
8:20 – 9:00pm Featured Artists from Ashland Guitar and viola Duo James Bishop-Edwards and Kimberly Fitch.
We are very pleased to be working with the Corvallis Arts Center to present the spring concert on the afternoon of Sunday April 8th at the Corvallis Arts Center, downtown Corvallis. This promises to be a fantastic musical experience featuring two top flight musicians who will be performing a combination of solo and duet works.
We wish you all the very and I hope to see you at the Society Meeting on March 5th.


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Q: render child component div in lwc by matching data-attributes on button click I have a component that displays a list of questions using a for:each. For each question rendered I have a child component (which is a simple form with a few fields) to capture a followup question.
I want to be able to render the specific child component on button click on parent. The parent component looks like this -
<template for:each={list} for:item={question}>
    <lightning-edit-form record-id={question.id} object-api-name="customobj__c" key={question.id}>
    <lightning-output-field field-name="customfield__c" data-question={question.Name}></lightning-output-field>
    <lightning-button type="submit" label="submit" onclick={handleclick} data-id={question.Name}></lightning-button>

This repeats for various fields being rendered conditionally. Submit button also is added to each field type
I want this div to show up when submit button is clicked only for that instance of question (not under every question)
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    <div class="slds-box" data-followup={question.Name}>
        <c-child-component question-id={question.Id}/>
    </div>
</template>

I am trying to see if I can match the data-attribute on Submit button(data-id) click to div(data-question) and render that specific div.

A: Use 'access-key' attribute inside template like below:
access-key={question.Id}

Now from 'handleclick(event)' function inside javascript, fetch the id like below:
const questionId = event.target.accessKey;

A: if:true={isBool}

Should be:
if:true={question.isBool}

Which, by the way, isn't a great name for a variable unless you mean to say the data type is a checkbox.
You need one variable per row in order to control each row independently.

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In an interview with WIRED, Mark Zuckberg seemed to accept the idea of some US regulation. Other countries could provide the blueprint.
The drumbeat to regulate Big Tech began pounding long before the Cambridge Analytica scandal rocked Facebook—six long years ago, the Obama administration pushed a "Privacy Bill of Rights" that, like most other legislative attempts to safeguard your data online, went nowhere. But this time, as they say, feels different. Thanks to repeated lapses from not just Facebook but all corners of Silicon Valley, some sort of regulation seems not only plausible but imminent.
US politicians have called for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear in person before Congress. Some tech-focused legislation is currently wending its way through the Capitol's corridors. And regulators in other countries have already clamped down on tech.
In an interview with WIRED editor-in-chief Nicholas Thompson Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckberg seemed if not outright welcoming toward regulation, at least accepting of it. "There are some really nuanced questions though about how to regulate, which I think are extremely interesting intellectually," says Zuckerberg, who points to the bipartisan Honest Ads Act, cosponsored by senators Mark Warner, Amy Klobuchar, and John McCain, as an example of the sort of bill his company can get behind.
The Honest Ads Act, legislation that calls for increased transparency behind who pays for political ads online, makes for a convenient example, though, in part because Facebook has already implemented many of its provisions. The bill, introduced last October, also appears to have languished, making it a non-substantive threat. Meanwhile, critics say it wouldn't have stopped Russian propagandists from flooding Facebook in the first place.
Besides, even the Honest Ads Act's sponsors have noted that it addresses a very small piece of a very large problem. And it does nothing to address the data privacy concerns that rightly create so much angst among anyone with any sort of presence online. Which is to say, everyone. For that, the US would need something much bigger.
Even then, though, Facebook got off with a scolding. It had to sign a consent decree, essentially a promise that it wouldn't stray again. That's gone unchecked until this week, when the FTC reportedly opened an investigation into the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and could fine Facebook up to $40,000 per violation—with 50 million people impacted, the potential fine hypothetically stretches into the trillions.
But the threat of retroactive fines clearly hasn't done the trick. The FTC, meanwhile, can only work with the legislative tools it's given. So what would it look like if Congress gave it better tools? Other countries might offer something like an outline, if not an outright blueprint.
In Finland, officials feel that their strong public education system and a coordinated government response have been enough to stave off Russia's propaganda; Sri Lanka banned Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram entirely. Which is to say, it's a wide gamut.
On the data privacy front, the most recent high-profile model comes from the European Union, where General Data Protection Regulation becomes the law of the land on May 25. GDPR focuses on ensuring that people who use online services know not only exactly what data those companies will take, but how they put it to use.
Zuckerberg also raises the question of the use of artificial intelligence in weeding out unwelcome uploads. "Now that companies increasingly over the next five to 10 years as AI tools get better and better will be able to proactively determine what might be offensive content or violate some rules, what therefore is the responsibility and legal responsibility of companies to do that," Zuckerberg says.
Eventually, though, Silicon Valley may run out of ways to appease regulators. By now there have been too many data breaches, too much negligence, whether by Facebook, Equifax, or the government itself. "I do think increasingly that there's a sense that we need it," says Vladeck.
At the very least, when regulation does come, Facebook has an open invite to help inform what happens, albeit in gruff terms. "Mr. Zuckerberg needs to testify before the Senate and answer some tough questions about Russian activity on the platform, and the way his company protects—or doesn't—its users' data," said Senator Mark Warner in a email to WIRED Wednesday.
And if it doesn't pitch in, Congress has a model for privacy protection waiting for it, at least philosophically, just an ocean away.
After all this, does Mark Zuckerberg even understand the core problem?


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Ohio man ordered to pay over $75,000 and serve one year in prison.
U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that David Nichols, 69, of Marysville, Ohio, who was convicted of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit air bags, was sentenced to serve one year in prison and ordered to pay $75,846 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo who handled the case, stated that from August 2015 through March 2016, Nichols and co-defendant Raymond Whelan imported and sold counterfeit automobile air bags from China. Since Nichols lived in China at the time, he was responsible for locating manufacturers that would produce the counterfeit air bags at the lowest cost.
Nichols imported approximately 364 counterfeit automobile air bags from China that were subsequently sold as a genuine air bags to unsuspecting customers over the internet.
The sentencing is the result of an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Kevin Kelly, and Customs and Border Protection, under the direction of Rose Brophy, Director of Field Operations.
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The Favor  é um filme estadunidense de 1994, do gênero comédia romântica, dirigido por Donald Petrie, roteirizado por Sara Parriot e Josann McGibbon, música de Thomas Newman.

The Favor foi filmado em 1990, mas foi lançado em larga escala nos Estados Unidos e no Canadá em 29 de abril de 1994, devido à falência da Orion Pictures em 1991. Foi lançado em vídeo caseiro no formato DVD da Região 1 em 29 de dezembro de 2001, pela MGM Home Entertainment.

No site Rotten Tomatoes, recebeu 27% de críticas favoráveis com uma classificação média de 4.9/10.

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Mulher casada pede a sua melhor amiga para seduzir um antigo namorado dos tempos de escola, a fim de satisfazer as curiosidades que tem sobre ele.

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Filmes dos Estados Unidos de 1994
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chai.use(require('sinon-chai'));
const expect = chai.expect;
const requireHelper = require('../../../require_helper.js');
const directory = requireHelper('lib/playerComponent/directory/index');

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  it('should get root items', function () {
    const expectedRootItems = [{
        title: 'Artists',
        thumbnailUri: 'https://neeo-sdk.neeo.io/folder.jpg',
        browseIdentifier: 'Artists',
      },
      {
        title: 'Albums',
        thumbnailUri: 'https://neeo-sdk.neeo.io/folder.jpg',
        browseIdentifier: 'Albums',
      },
      {
        title: 'Genres',
        thumbnailUri: 'https://neeo-sdk.neeo.io/folder.jpg',
        browseIdentifier: 'Genres',
      },
    ];

    const rootItems = directory.getRootItems();

    expect(rootItems).to.deep.equal(expectedRootItems);
  });

  it('should get queue items', function () {
    const queueItems = directory.getQueueItems();

    expect(queueItems.length).to.equal(10000);
    expect(queueItems[0].title).to.equal('Queue Item 1');
    expect(queueItems[9999].title).to.equal('Queue Item 10000');
  });
});

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The action levels discussed above with respect to poisonous or deleterious substances address these added substances.
The Board outlawed explosives or other deleterious substances, and created a $ 500 fine for violations.
Generally, if a food contains a poisonous or deleterious substance that may render it injurious to health, it is considered to be adulterated.
Second, if the poisonous or deleterious substance is unavoidable and is within an established tolerance, regulatory limit, or action level, the food will not be deemed to be adulterated.
Regulation, policing, and surveillance of other laws, namely the Poisonous and Deleterious Substance Control Law, Stimulant Control Law, and Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Law were transferred to the current ministries as mentioned above.
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They are not binding on FDA . FDA has established numerous action levels ( for example, one part per million methylmercury in fish ), which are set forth in its booklet Action Levels for Poisonous or Deleterious Substances in Human Food and Animal Feed.
They did not identify or regulate other elements, not because the contemporary understanding was that carbon dioxide might contain them, but because the presence of an extraneous or deleterious substance such as benzene or strychnine was wholly unexpected, and could only occur due to some manufacturing or other mishap.
Added substances are not separately defined in the act, but are understood to be different from food itself based on the definition of adulterated food, and a later section authorizing the FDA to set forth tolerance limits for " [ a ] ny poisonous or deleterious substance added to any food . . . ".
The FDA doesn't equivocate when it comes to the dangers of mercury levels in these imported fish : When the fish are above the action level of 1 part per million, they " contain a poisonous or deleterious substance, excessive levels of mercury, which may render it injurious to health, " according to an FDA import alert.
The FDA doesn't equivocate when it comes to the dangers of mercury levels in these imported fish : When imported fish are above the action level of 1 part per million, they " contain a poisonous or deleterious substance, excessive levels of mercury, which may render it injurious to health, " according to an FDA import alert.
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Please pray for the repose of the soul of Donald Federko. Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace.
Collins Christian Ministry (CCM) is the name of the prison Ministry Retreat Program that will take place at Collins Correctional Facility from March 30th – April 2nd. Please consult today's insert which explains how you can play an active role in bringing the Holy Spirit to the weekend.
If you are planning on donating baked goods, please deliver them to SS. Peter and Paul Church rectory at 508 Cherry St., on Wednesday, March 29th by 2:00 PM. You can also drop off at this same time, any monetary donations. For additional information contact Deacon Sam at 485-3901.
We are once again accepting names in memory of or in honor of loved ones living and deceased, for our Easter Flower Memorial Fund. Minimum donation is $15. A special insert in the Easter Sunday bulletin will list those remembered. Fill out the coupon below and mail it to Holy Apostles Parish at 508 Cherry St., or drop it in the Sunday collection basket in a plain white envelope marked "Easter Flower Memorial Fund." Deadline is Monday, April 10. We cannot accept names after this date.
LENTEN PENANCE SERVICE at 7:00 PM.
Plans are now being made for the NATIONAL CATHOLIC YOUTH CONVENTION which will take place in the fall. If you are in grades 9 – 12 you are cordially invited to attend. You will be receiving information in the mail soon regarding the upcoming Convention. If you don't receive any info within the next couple of weeks, contact Paula Slagle at 485-8783. Keep checking future bulletins for more info as we prepare for this exciting Convention!
Our Parish family would like to say a special "thank you" to everyone who prepared and served the foods and pastries at our recent St. Joseph Table. We received many positive compliments on the setting and people were so grateful to have the opportunity to partake of the traditional fare and that St. Joseph was appropriately honored. In keeping with tradition, donations of food were made to several local organizations that assist people in our community. Cookies were given to Chautauqua Adult Day Care at its two sites, boxed pasta goods were given to the St. Susan Center, and sheet cakes were given to the Boys and Girls Club. We also shared with our neighbors at St. Mary of Lourdes Parish in Bemus Point by a donation of cannoli shells and filling. Viva San Giuseppe!
Once again, we are most grateful to Carm Ciancio and Sue Boland whose diligent planning and hard work provided all who joined us with the opportunity to share food and fellowship in the spirit of gratitude for St. Joseph's intercessions.
LENTEN FISH DINNERS continue every Friday during Lent (except for Good Friday) at St. John Church hall from 4:30 – 7:00 PM. Adults $10 and children $8. A variety of fish dinners (battered or broiled) as well as Vegetable Lasagna is available. Join us!
The Stations are a way to pray and meditate on Christ's sacrifices for us. Please join us.
I'm writing this on the "ides of March" on the second day of a raging snowstorm which has caused all sorts of cancellations and disruptions of peoples routines. Who would have thought that after enjoying temperatures in the 70's at the end of February we would be coping with mid-winter conditions in the middle of March? Go figure. Perhaps it is situations such as these that are the origin of the saying, "the only thing certain is death and taxes." At any rate, by the time you read it will be spring and maybe all of the snow piles will have disappeared.
I mention this because the unpredictable nature of the weather can serve as a metaphor for the uncertainty of our lives. As careful as our plans may be we cannot say with a high degree of certainty what will happen tomorrow. This is true in our practice of the faith as well. How many of us, for example, began Lent with the intention to become more fervent in our faith only to have unforeseen circumstances get in the way of realizing our goal? This can be discouraging and may even lead to our giving-up and thinking ourselves hopeless. Yet when this happens it provides the opportunity to double-down on living the Gospel. Indeed, it was probably in view of circumstances such as this that our Lord made it clear to the disciples that he would be with them always (see Matthew 28: 16-20).
This is now the fourth Sunday of Lent and we would do well to consider in what areas of our lives we most need to be aware of that abiding presence of the Risen Christ. Especially when something unpredictable happens and we are knocked off curse it is easy to forget about the Lord's promise. One of the values of a daily routine of prayer and Scripture reading is that such practices keep us grounded in our Catholic world view which sees the temporal in the light of the eternal. Often, when I'm faced with unpredictable circumstances I'll remind myself that because God is in control there's likely a reason for the situation, and I can best handle it by discerning what God wants me to find there.
This is where spoken prayer needs to yield to silence and listening, to what is referred to as "waiting upon God." Given the reality of the world in which we live, so filled with activity and noise, this is hard work and requires a determined act of the will. All prayer, Scripture reading and study, all devotions, should lead to and flow from a personal encounter with Jesus the Risen Lord. As with all personal relationships, this is a two-way street, and it requires of us a willingness to hear what Jesus wants to say to us. Our spending time in silence gives him such an opportunity, and may be just the key to making sense of why the unpredictable is happening.


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Ecological Approaches in Public Health
Stanislaw Tarkowski, MSc., DSc,
Professor emeritus, Nofer Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Environment Health Hazards, Lodz, Poland
Email: stantarko@gmail.com
At the end of the 20th century public health witnessed a growing challenge of the dominance of biomedicine and the need to give greater emphasis to the ecological context in the study of human health and disease. The emerging new paradigm of public health is based on a holistic conception of health, integrated with shaping social and environmental conditions conducive for health. The social and physical surroundings in which people live affect their health. Individuals and populations are embedded within social, political and economic systems that shape behaviors and offer or constrain access to resources necessary to maintain health.
In 1969 John Hanlon, assistant US surgeon-general in 1960s, said that the emphasis which must be given to establish such a new basis for public health is, in essence, the application of the principles of ecology to the human circumstance. It is based upon a recognition that the health status of man is the outcome of the interplay between and the integration of two ecological universes; the internal environment of man, the biosocial organism, and the external multi environments in which he exists. The human ecologic approach calls for an interdisciplinary effort wherein the natural, physical, and social sciences, in company with engineering, combine to study the adaptive responses of man, and especially the effects of unsuccessful adaptation on his health.
The number of studies and publications arguing for ecological approaches in public health has been growing during last two decades. Public health researchers present a strong conviction that the dominating bio-medical model of public health, which neglects to a high degree the cross-disciplinary perspective, is not able to alter the conditions that shape the rising rates of non-communicable diseases. Current public health literature presents new models of ecological public health and frameworks for their delivery. The frameworks provide a new structure that bring together the multiple components of public health, relate them to key influencing factors and provide greater clarity, balance and direction for the effective delivery of public health.
Creating social and environmental conditions conducive to health is a multi-sectoral responsibility. The public health community has to take the lead in building strong partnerships and to be in the forefront of promoting population health as a key criterion of sustainable development. Public health researchers have a significant responsibility for undertaking research that will assist society to understand and avert the health impacts of ecological changes.
The deadline for manuscript submission is 28th February, 2016.
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Building Interdisciplinary Research Capacity: a Key Challenge for Ecological Approaches in Public Health
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text: Q: Does garbage collector purge global variable property in NodeJs? I am assigning a mongoose db connection to the global object as global.mongoose_instance which is then used int the controller module. This seems to be working fine so far in development and staging environment, but in production the global.mongoose_instance is undefined when I use it in the controller. The only reason I can think of is that the GC is purging this property. Is it plausible and how can I prevent it?


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In Bahrain, Justice Is Still a Far-Off Goal
A controversial verdict raises questions about the UK's role in efforts to reform Bahrain's judiciary.
Bill Law • Jan 15, 2020
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On January 8, Bahrain's high criminal court of appeal upheld the death sentences of Mohammed Ramadan and Hussain Ali Moosa. The two were convicted in December 2014 in the killing of a police officer using confessions secured under torture. The UK Minister of State for the Middle East Andrew Murrison tweeted, "I am deeply concerned about the death sentence given to Mohamed Ramadan and Husain Moosa today," adding that "the UK has proactively raised the matter with senior members of the Bahrain government."
Britain has had a significant stake in efforts to reform both the police and the judiciary in the wake of a report commissioned by Bahrain in 2011. The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) was established to examine the way in which the government of King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa put down a popular protest in February and March 2011. The commission was headed by the distinguished human rights expert Cherif Bassiouni. His investigation proved, in forensic detail, that the police and the security forces had used harsh and disproportionate force, up to and including prisoners beaten to death in detention, to crush what had been a largely peaceful protest movement.
Torture Allegations
The BICI report made numerous recommendations, all of which were accepted by King Hamad. Among them was the establishment of the position of ombudsman. With the support and guidance of the UK, the ombudsman's office — the first of its kind in the Middle East — opened in 2013 under the auspices of the kingdom's Ministry of Interior.
In May 2016 the office undertook an investigation into allegations, repeatedly raised in court and by family members, that Ramadan and Moosa had been subjected to torture. It closed the investigation in October 2016, refusing to disclose any findings. Presumably under pressure from the UK, the ombudsman subsequently reopened the investigation. In its 2018 report, the office acknowledged that in the case of Mohammed Ramadan there was evidence of torture and recommended that the death sentences for both men be "reconsidered."
On October 22, 2018, the court of cassation overturned the verdicts and ordered a case review. That decision was based on evidence that included medical reports by a doctor from the public prosecution office documenting torture allegations. That evidence had not been considered by the court in the original trial. The case was referred back to the high criminal appeals court. It was this court that on January 8 reconfirmed the death penalties, a decision that ignores credible evidence, supported by the government's own investigation, that the original convictions were based chiefly on confessions secured under torture.
In addition to moral and ethical considerations, the British government has spent more than £5 million on efforts designed to reform the security and justice systems in Bahrain. The ombudsman's office is a significant part of that effort. The money has come from three little-known funds: the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund, the Global Britain Fund and the Integrated Activity Fund. Critics argue that the funds, which have received little parliamentary scrutiny, serve as expensive window dressing that enables and allows for the continuation of a culture of impunity and abuse.
Dereliction of Duty
Giving weight to that position is a UN report released in August 2016, which noted that only a few months after Mohammed Ramadan's arrest in 2014 his wife had filed a complaint with the ombudsman that her husband had been mistreated and denied medication. Subsequently a more detailed complaint alleging torture was filed in July of that year. Neither was investigated by the ombudsman.
As the report states: "Concern is expressed at the absence or at least serious delay of a thorough, independent and impartial investigation or prosecution into the allegations of torture and ill-treatment of Mr. Mohammed Ramadan and the continued upholding of his conviction and imposed death sentence … with the reliance on false confessions extracted under torture as a basis for the verdict."
In its 2018 report, the ombudsman's office, despite calling for "reconsidering" the verdicts, shows no intent to properly investigate the torture allegations. In light of the fact that these two men are facing execution by a firing squad, this seems a particularly egregious dereliction of duty.
After all, the organization carries on its website a mission statement committing to the "protection of (an) individual's rights, his personal freedoms and his right to physical safety against any maltreatment by NSA (National Security Agency) staff, in accordance with the constitution of the Kingdom of Bahrain and its valid laws, and in the light of standards and controls laid down in the international conventions endorsed by the Kingdom of Bahrain."
In light of this latest court decision, various human rights organisations, Amnesty International among them, are calling for the government of Bahrain to quash the convictions. Now may be the time for the UK government, in private if not publicly, to add its voice to that call.
*[This article was originally published by Arab Digest.]
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Fair Observer's editorial policy.
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Q: MATLAB enlarge 3D plot without enlarging colorbar Is it possible to enlarge a 3D patch without altering the size of the colorbar? My original picture is like this one:

I just want to enlarge the block in the middle of the figure keeping the colorbar unchanged. I used zoom(1.9) before, it is good but since I need to use a for loop to read sequential files to plot different graphs and make video, the graph became larger and larger so it seems that I need another method to enlarge the plot.
Update: my codes
set(gcf,'Renderer','zbuffer'); %eliminate unnecessary background and prevent stationary video - Important!
vid = VideoWriter('afation.avi'); %Create a avi file
vid.Quality = 100;
vid.FrameRate = 15;
open(vid); %Open the avi file so that films can be put into it later on

for ii=FirstFile:FileInterval:LastFile

fid = fopen(filename,'r');
datacell = textscan(fid, '%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f'); %There are 8 columns to be read so there are 8 %f
fclose(fid);

all_data = cell2mat(datacell); %converted into a matrix containing all the dis. density info. for every simulation cell

M=zeros(NumBoxX,NumBoxY,NumBoxZ); %create a matrix of 50x50x5,representing array of simulation cells
% % the following loops assign the dislocation density from all_data to M
for i=1:NumBoxX
    for j=1:NumBoxY
        for k=1:NumBoxZ
            num=k+NumBoxZ*(j-1)+NumBoxZ*NumBoxY*(i-1);
            M(i,j,k)=all_data(num,ValCol); %the ValCol column of all_data is dislocation density
        end
    end
end

indPatch=1:numel(M);
[F,V,C]=ind2patch(indPatch,M,'v'); %Call the function ind2patch in order to plot 3D cube with color

title('AA in different cells','fontsize',20);%set title \sigma_{xx}
xlabel('y','fontsize',20);ylabel('x','fontsize',20); zlabel('z','fontsize',20); hold on;
set(get(gca,'xlabel'),'Position',[5 -50 30]); %set position of axis label
set(get(gca,'ylabel'),'Position',[5 50 -15]);
set(get(gca,'zlabel'),'Position',[64 190 -60]);
patch('Faces',F,'Vertices',V,'FaceColor','flat','CData',C,'EdgeColor','k','FaceAlpha',0.5);
axis equal; view(3); axis tight; axis vis3d; grid off;
colormap(cMap);
caxis([MinDis MaxDis]); %set the range of the colorbar   %caxis([min(M(:)) max(M(:))]); %range of the colorbar according to one file only
cb = colorbar;     % create the colorbar
set(get(cb,'title'),'string','aaty(m^{-2})','fontsize',20);

lbpos = get(cb,'title'); % get the handle of the colorbar title
set(lbpos,'units','normalized','position',[0,1.04]);
MyAxes=gca;
set(MyAxes,'Units','Normalized','position',[0.05,0.1,0.8,0.8]);

zoom(1.9);
writeVideo(vid, getframe(gcf)); %get the picture and put in the avi file with the handle "vid"

end

close(vid); %close the avi file after putting all the films into it
% winopen('ggggon.avi'); %play the movie

I put the zoom in the for loop because I need to enlarge the picture one by one and put them into my avi file to make movie.


STATE COLLEGE — For many in Centre County, there were a lot of questions when Nature's Medicine, the county's first medical marijuana dispensary, opened its doors in June.
After all, marijuana was illegal in the state until a law allowing the use of medical marijuana went into effect earlier this year. Nature's Medicine manager Angel Rodriguez said that he understands the questions and wants to answer as many of them as possible.
The facility, located at 2105 Atherton St., State College, is having a grand opening from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, inviting the public to come and ask the questions they might have about medical marijuana and the facility.
The event will be held in the parking area outside, with vendors and informational booths set up. Rodriguez said the public can meet growers and processing representatives, receive promotional giveaways and speak with state representatives. He said patients will be able to come into the facility and speak with a pharmacist.
Rodriguez is new to State College and said having the event during a Penn State home game will be interesting, but he said that's part of being a member of this community.
Rodriguez said that the reception from the community has been positive so far, but he wants to make sure everybody understands what Nature's Medicine is about and to be able to ask questions of him, his wife and co-manager, Nia Rodriguez, and their staff.


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City Pages: Bill Sullivan's memoir 'Lemon Jail' revisits his glory days as the Replacements' roadie
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By Erica Rivera
Bill Sullivan could tell you stories.
And in Lemon Jail: On the Road with the Replacements, a "more hysterical than historical" tour diary about his experiences as a roadie in the '80s, he does just that.
It all started at the Walker Art Center, where Sullivan now nurses a Gluek's as he recalls his past. His curly brown hair is a touch bedraggled, his goatee graying. He no longer quite resembles the "skinny and cute with guyliner" portrait of himself in the book.
Sullivan first heard the Replacements on KDWB during a shift at the Walker as a night guard. After the band played the museum, Sullivan befriended them, and in April 1983, he quit the guard gig and joined band members Paul Westerberg, Bob Stinson, Tommy Stinson, and Chris Mars, along with fellow roadie Tom "Carton" Carlos and manager Peter Jesperson, for the Replacements' first national tour.
Lemon Jail, named after the band's derelict van, takes readers on the road, behind the scenes, and in-studio over six years, highlighting tours with the likes of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, R.E.M., and X.
Lemon Jail A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota's greatest bands—with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
Commentary of 1958
ARTICLE 79 . -- CASES OF INTERNMENT AND APPLICABLE
Articles 41 , 42 and 43 deal with the case of aliens who are in the territory of a Party to the conflict when hostilities break out. They lay down the general rule that internment or placing in assigned residence are the most severe measures of control which can be applied to protected persons; they specify, moreover, that any protected person who has been interned or placed in assigned residence is entitled to have his case reconsidered "as soon as possible" by an appropriate court or administrative board designated for the purpose by the Detaining Power.
Articles 68 and 78 deal with the position in occupied territory. The first of these Articles lays down that internment may be ordered for offences intended to harm the Occupying Power but not constituting a grave collective danger; the second provides the same safeguards as those laid down in Articles 41 , 42 and 43 for aliens in the territory of a Party to the conflict, with the one difference that the six-monthly review of decisions concerning internment, which is compulsory in the case of internees in the actual territory of a belligerent, is optional in occupied territory.
[p.372] An account should be given here of the experience in this field during the Second World War. On the outbreak of war the International Committee of the Red Cross approached the governments and proposed that they should apply the Tokyo Draft: the only result obtained was that persons of "enemy nationality" interned on the outbreak of war, in the territory of one of the belligerents, could "by analogy" receive the benefit of the Prisoners of War Convention. Thanks to the action thus taken some hundred and sixty thousand civilians received correspondence and relief supplies and their camps were visited by delegates of the International Committee. Since many countries were occupied, however, such internees only represented a very small minority of the civilians subjected during the war to restrictive measures of varying degrees of severity. Whenever the question arose of interning civilians in occupied territory, the only safeguards available to them were the brief provisions contained in Section III of the Hague Regulations of 1907. The
new Geneva Convention represents a great advance in that these civilians will in future enjoy a status similar to that of prisoners of war and regulated by a Convention. It may seem paradoxical to consider that placing civilians on the same footing as members of the forces in time of war represents progress. The truth of the matter is that modern war makes demands on the whole nation. The whole economic system of a State is placed at the service of national defence. The engineer or workman is as necessary as the officer or soldier, and every individual may have his part to play in the war; that fact justifies the security measures which each of the Parties to the conflict may take in regard to individuals of enemy nationality in their territory, or which the Occupying Power may take in regard to the inhabitants of occupied territory. Such measures should at least conform to the laws of humanity, and that is the assurance given to protected persons by Article 79. Their internment both in the territory of the Parties to the conflict and in occupied territory
is subject to rules which would have provided millions of human beings with protection if they could have been applied during the Second World War.
Satisfactory as they may be, the results achieved are not yet complete; for the Convention, we must remember, does not apply to the relations of a State with its own "nationals" (1). It conforms to the traditional conception of international law. A person is only a legal subject within a State and the provisions concerning the protection [p.373] of civilians in time of war take no account of disputes which may exist between the State and its own citizens. That is a serious matter, in view of the arbitrary action of certain governments during the last world war. Charitable organizations which may wish to plead the cause of the nationals of such countries have no legal arguments on which to rest their case. Nevertheless, their essential humanitarian character does not allow them to remain indifferent. It is well known what the International Committee of the Red Cross, in collaboration with various National Red Cross Societies, was able to do during the last war for thousands of unfortunate people, under particularly difficult circumstances, and no
one can prevent the Red Cross, even in the absence of treaties, from demanding humane treatment for persons who are not "protected". To support their demands it would obviously be best to refer to the regulations concerning internment contained in the Convention.
It is possible that a doctrine which is today only beginning to take shape may acquire authority in international law tomorrow and one day provide the basis for establishing the rights of the individual in relation to the State of which he is a "citizen". The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is doubtless as yet only a "common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations", but just as the protection afforded by the humanitarian Conventions applied first to the wounded and sick on the battlefield, and was then extended to prisoners of war and finally to civilians (with the exception of nationals), it may well end by covering the "citizens" of a country themselves, and so embody in law the original guiding idea of the Red Cross, that suffering should be relieved wherever it exists, without political considerations of any kind, in the name of the respect due to the human person.
Two important Expert Conferences convened by the International Committee of the Red Cross and composed of persons eminent in international law or in the Red Cross movement have already stated that that is their view (2). It is to be hoped that governments will concur in the conclusions of the experts and consider that it is in the interests of humanity and in accordance with the requirements of civilization that humanitarian safeguards -- in particular those defined in the present Convention -- should apply to people with whom their own government is in dispute for political or social reasons.
Notes: (1) [(1) p.372] Except for the fourteen Articles in Part II
which refer to the establishment of safety zones, the
protection of hospitals, the transmission of family news
and the reuniting of dispersed families, and are, as we
have said, absolutely general in scope;
(2) [(1) p.373] The first of these Conferences was convened to
consider the question of political prisoners. It met at
Geneva from June 9 to 11, 1953, its report being published
in the ' Revue internationale de la Croix-Rouge ', July
1953. The second was concerned with the question of the
application of humanitarian principles in the event of
internal disturbances. It met at Geneva from October 3 to
8, 1955. Its report was published in the ' Revue
internationale de la Croix-Rouge ', October 1955;
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BlackRock CEO declares 'fundamental reshaping of finance'
Climate change is the foundation of what may be a fundamental reshaping of finance, BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink wrote in an open letter to CEOs released Tuesday that announced the asset manager's plans to place sustainability at the center of its investment approach.
BlackRock, which has close to $7 trillion under its management, is one of the world's most powerful institutional investors. Fink said investors increasingly are recognizing that climate risk creates investment risk.
As a result, he announced BlackRock's plans to:
Exit investments that present high sustainability-related risks, such as thermal coal producers.
Launch new investment products that screen fossil fuels.
Strengthen its commitment to sustainability and transparency in its investment stewardship activities.
"We are facing the ultimate long-term problem," Fink wrote. "We don't yet know which predictions about the climate will be most accurate, nor what effects we have failed to consider. But there is no denying the direction we are heading. Every government, company, and shareholder must confront climate change."
Fink called for improved reporting and disclosure on companies' sustainability practices, saying that the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) provides a clear set of standards and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is a valuable framework for evaluating and reporting climate-related risks and associated governance issues.
BlackRock this year will ask the companies in which it invests to:
Publish a disclosure in line with industry-specific SASB guidelines by year end or disclose a similar set of data.
Disclose climate-related risks in line with the TCFD's recommendations.
"We will use these disclosures and our engagements to ascertain whether companies are properly managing and overseeing these risks within their business and adequately planning for the future," Fink wrote. "In the absence of robust disclosures, investors, including BlackRock, will increasingly conclude that companies are not adequately managing risk."
BlackRock will be increasingly disposed to vote against management and board directors when they are not making enough progress on sustainability-related disclosures and initiatives, according to Fink.
"Disclosure should be a means to achieving a more sustainable and inclusive capitalism," Fink wrote. "Companies must be deliberate and committed to embracing purpose and serving all stakeholders — your shareholders, customers, employees, and the communities where you operate. In doing so, your company will enjoy greater long-term prosperity, as will investors, workers, and society as a whole."
— Ken Tysiac (Kenneth.Tysiac@aicpa-cima.com) is the JofA's editorial director.


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Q: Select text between two patterns with sed, when the patterns are repeated I would like to select the text between two patterns, when some of the patterns can be repeated as follows.
Here is the input:
Blalala
PAT1
'Omfoem From
balanf PAT1 This is the
text that I want
to get PAT2: apples
Whatever: oranges

Here is the output I would like:
This is the
text that I want
to get

I have tried using this script (I am using OSX):
gsed -e 's/PAT1/\nPAT1\n/' -e 's/PAT2/\nPAT2\n/' file1.txt | sed -n '/PAT1/,/PAT2/{//!p;}'

But it outputs the following:
'Omfoem From
balanf
PAT1
This is the
text that I want
to get

In this particular case, I could apply sed -n '/PAT1/,/PAT2/{//!p;}' a second time and I would get the right output.
However, I am looking for a script that works in different situations: if any of the patterns is repeated, independently of the number of times, and if the pattern are not repeated at all.
In any of these cases, I would like to be able to extract the text between pattern PAT1 and PAT2 when PAT1 and PAT2 are the closest to each other.

A: One way could be (POSIX sed):
$ sed -e '
   /PAT1/,/PAT2/!d
   H;/PAT1/h;/PAT2/!d;g
   s/PAT2.*//;s/.*PAT1//
' file

Assuming PAT1 and PAT2 are on different lines.


Seventh grader at C.M. Eppes Middle, Izzy Slingerland, right, demonstrates her presentation, "The Irrigation Station" to Brad Hufford, left, and Leo Corbin, center, during the YEP (Young Entrepreneurs Pitch) Challenge at the Thomas H. Willis building Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018.
If local businesses started by local residents are the product of a growing economic ecosystem in Pitt County, the seeds were sowed on Wednesday at the Young Entrepreneur Pitch Challenge.
Brad Hufford with the Economic Development Commission described the event in those terms as he walked around East Carolina University's Willis Building to check out business ideas from nearly 50 local middle and high school students representing five schools.
As students pitched ideas in the hopes of winning a cash prize, he said a foundation was being laid for honing entrepreneurial skills and developing a passion for business.
The Young Entrepreneur Pitch Challenge was part of a week-long effort orchestrated by local education, government and business entities. Wednesday night was the CompePITTch'n, which gave about 35 prospective entrepreneurs the chance to pitch an idea to local business leaders. The first place winner took home $6,000 in cash. Tonight at 6 p.m. at the Murphy Center, ECU students and alumni will vie for a $12,000 grand prize.
For the young students in the Willis Building, there was no shortage of ideas.
There were displays set up for solutions concerning issues in the medical field, transportation problems, a lack of playground equipment for disabled children and apps that would satisfy hunger pangs of the indecisive. One group drew up designs for an Elmhurst environmental park while another created a prototype for an automatic file cabinet.
Izabella Slingerland, a seventh grader at C.M Eppes Middle School, went so far as to design a fully-functioning irrigation station that used electrical power to run water through PVC pipes to help farmers in drought. Not every idea had a working prototype, and Slingerland planned on selling her idea for more than $400.
What originally started as a dirt sensor to gauge the water level around plants eventually turned into the impressive invention after months of work.
"I'm glad that it works and it's not just sitting there and the water is running through it," Slingerland said, noting that the invention was inspired by learning about struggling farmers in South Sudan.
The effort earned Slingerland the top prize in the middle school portion of the event, and she took home $150. The second- and third-place inventions earned $100 and $50, respectively.
The middle school ideas were judged based on introducing a solution to problem, identifying existing competition, demonstrating professional behavior and more criteria.
Meanwhile, the high school competition gave three finalists a chance to pitch their ideas on stage in an effort to secure the $500 grand prize.
Brenda Beltran, a student at the Pitt County Early College High School, won the cash thanks to her Whip-A-Mug idea, featuring a handle that slides into the mug for easy storage.
"I just know personally from trying to put mugs away how frustrating it can be," she said during her pitch.
Whip-A-Mug beat out Safe Swim, a bikini bottom designed for girls on their menstrual cycle who have aversions to tampons or other related products, and the Automatic Filing Cabinet, which took second and third place, respectively. Both the runners-up were designed by Early College students.
The showcase of ideas was the end of a process that lasted months for some students. From generating ideas, to revising them, to conducting research on the market and pricing products, the work spanned both in-school activity and after-school work.
The hard work paid off for Acklin as her shirt protector idea, which featured a plastic coating for clothing, earned her second place in the middle school competition.
In all, Hufford and the panel of eight judges consisting of students at East Carolina University's Miller School of Business saw the occasion as the hopeful start for what will potentially grow into a successful local business idea.
In short, the ecosystem is well maintained throughout the entrepreneurial week. The student pitch challenge is perhaps a sign of things to come, as the event has grown from five participants when it first started to nearly 50. If the growth continues, Hufford joked, they may need to rent out Minges Coliseum in the future.
For him, it is a representation of a commitment to help businesses thrive locally. The seeds now planted will have plenty of help to maybe one day sprout into something bigger.
"We've got a lot of partners that can take these ideas and give them education, support, financing even, to make their dreams become a real business," Hufford said.
Contact Brian Wudkwych at bwudkwych@reflector.com or 252-329-9567 and follow @brianwudkwych on Twitter.


Have you ever smelled a storm approaching? It's Okay To Be Smart explains how you don't have to check your phone to see if it's about to rain, you can use your nose!
A barometer is an instrument that measures air pressure, allowing weather forecasters and scientists to better predict extreme weather events. Despite its incredible usefulness, inventing the barometer was no walk in the park. Asaf Bar-Yosef describes the series of scientists and events that contributed to the birth of the barometer -- and explains how it actually works.
Bad-tempered, obstinate, a tendency to spit, kick and grunt like a weightlifter. You could say that camels have a bit of an image problem, but they also have a magic about them as they tramp off in single file across miles of desert in search of water and then, seemingly against all the odds, find an oasis.
A rose, a fresh cup of coffee, a wood fire. These are only three of the roughly 1 trillion scents that the human nose and brain are capable of distinguishing from each other, according to a new study. Researchers had previously estimated that humans could sense only about 10,000 odors but the number had never been explicitly tested before until now.
How accurate do you think humans can predict rain? Which animals do you think can do it better?


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In summer, there is little rainfall and the average maximum temperature is just under 30 degrees Celsius. Hot days are usually cooled off with lovely afternoon sea breezes. Summer evenings are balmy to mild with temperatures around 15.5 degrees Celsius.
Most of the rainfall occurs in the winter but winter still has plenty of glorious sunny days. Winter enjoys mild temperatures that average 16 to 18 degrees with some days in the early 20's. Winter evenings are mild and average above 8 degrees Celsius but are still cool enough to enjoy a log fire.
Spring and autumn are lovely and warm with plenty of sunny days.
Each season reveals different aspects to appreciate. In summer the stunning beaches seduce swimmers and kite surfers. In winter, they're graced with a passing parade of whales.
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Access to quality health care is heavily dependent on building and maintaining a workforce that feels valued, is engaged and is productive. Networks can play a key role in addressing these issues in their communities.
Join us for one of the largest rural health conferences in the nation, with over 600 participants! The 2019 MNRHC is hosted by the MDH ORHPC, MRHA and The Center.
Save the date for the 2019 Flex Program Reverse Site Visit (RSV), scheduled for July 10-11, 2019 in Washington, DC with a pre-event workshop on July 9 on the topic of EMS.
The tentative topic for the August Flex VKG is Grant Logistics: Closing out the Flex Grant Year. Flex VKG webinars provide a forum for state Flex Programs to share successes, discuss challenges and brainstorm strategies for improvement and Flex Program excellence.
The tentative topic of the August TASC 90 webinar is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). This quarterly webinar will include updates from TASC, RQITA, FMT and FORHP, to include both the Flex Program and policies impacting CAHs.
Identify alternative ways to analyze, visualize, and share MBQIP data with CAHs to drive quality improvement. Review resources developed by RQITA to assist in data analyzing and visualization. Hear other MBQIP news, including forthcoming updates to the EDTC measure and changes to the outpatient quality reporting program notice of participation.
Financial forecasting begins with thinking through how to deliver the product or service that your customers may want. Rural Health Innovations (RHI) has developed a tool, Product and Service Canvas, that helps generate thinking for this development.
This recorded State Partner Webinar provides updates and an overview of year two of the DRCHSD Program.
In this webinar recording, discover the scope and scale of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) matters in rural America. Understand the personal impact of COPD. Learn about national initiatives and FORHP efforts. Hear an example of state-level efforts underway with COPD.
This workshop will build on the network's Marketing Plan by building out the Business Model Canvas while increasing knowledge of each component of the Business Planning Canvas, with an emphasis on the Financial Forecasting component of the canvas.
This virtual bootcamp consists of three interactive webinars provided by BKD billing and coding experts, Paula Archer and Marla Dumm. Each webinar is composed of 2-hour sessions. The first webinar is Rural Hospital focused, and the second and third are focused on Rural Health Clinic (RHC) billing and coding.
This webinar will provide you information on who can provide behavioral health services in Minnesota as it relates to Medicaid (MA) and state and federal grants, as well as discuss reimbursement rates. The webinar will provide links to resources for future use by providers.
Hear from the FMT about updates coming to CAHMPAS. Participate in a discussion and provide feedback to the FMT about CAHMPAS and forthcoming updates. Discover how peer Flex Programs are using CAHMPAS data for activity planning.
Understand the current state and expectations for CAH implementation of antibiotic stewardship. Learn about an opportunity for high performing CAHs to share their implementation successes. Explore opportunities to align Flex and SHIP activities to support antibiotic stewardship. Engage in peer-sharing regarding quality in the 2019 Flex Program funding proposal.
The road to population health depends heavily on our ability to overcome the most vexing barriers to access. This summit will provide a space to connect with other network leaders from across the country to brainstorm and share best practices for addressing barriers to access.
Learn the Recommendation Adoption Progress (RAP) interview process as a tool for project evaluation. Identify opportunities to integrate the RAP interview process into your state Flex Program. Understand methods state Flex Coordinators can use to manage RAP conversation.
A business plan outlines the resources, partners, and income needed to deliver products and services to your target market. Learn about the toolkit designed to support your work of developing a business plan for your project.
Explore the new work plan template for the Flex Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), including its instructions, layout and example content. Participate in a live Q&A with Flex Program peers and TASC to ask questions about how to use the work plan template and tie it to other components of the NOFO submission.
View a summary from a National Rural HIT Coalition conference call with state and federal updates. Discussion topics included the Federal Communications Commission Rural Health Care Program, opioid initiatives and funding, and cybersecurity.
Hear from FORHP about the Flex program Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).
Hear from FORHP about the Flex program Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 EMS Supplemental Funding Opportunity.
Learn evidence-based approaches to implementing a successful Community Health Improvement Plan by partnering with the community to address leading causes of disease while accounting for SDOH.
Did you know that, effective January 1, 2019, hospitals must comply with the new CMS mandate to post a listing of their current standard charges on their hospital website? Join us to learn more about pricing transparency, hospital and patient challenges, identifying best practices, and how SHIP Coordinators can support their hospitals with this new mandate.
Listeners will identify signs of stigma towards behavioral health in their own organization and learn tools to use to address stigma within their organization.
The webinar covers the various components of value-based care and explains how the new alternative payments models will make a positive difference for rural hospitals.
The topic for the January Flex VKG is Flex Program support for provider-based RHCs. Flex VKG webinars provide a forum for state Flex Programs to share successes, discuss challenges and brainstorm strategies for improvement and Flex Program excellence.
Improving population health can be complex and is an area in which technology can make a difference. This event will introduce ways you can utilize technology while learning from your peers how they are utilizing technology in their work.
Sustaining an effective care coordination goes beyond billing requiring an intentional step back and reflection on a regular basis. We'll look at the elements for this intentional reflection by taking a high-level view of care coordination and exploring the elements to make the most changes in those being coordinated for.
Many Network Development grantees have found it challenging to maximize reimbursement for behavioral health integration activities. This cohort call will allow networks to learn strategies for increasing reimbursement, share their own experiences and ask questions.


Musings 'n scribblings of a philanthrope .. : Reliance Jio - bigger Tsunami coming ??
Jio, what are they upto ?
Reliance Jio - A Tsunami or Disruptive Innovation ?
This morning we had a good discussion in the BBA class and also in the MBA class on the Jio case, whether it was a Tsunami or a disruptive Innovation ? The introduction was looked with much trepidation and fear by telecom MNCs operating in the country. In fact some of the lesser known incompetent global players got wiped out in the tsunami like Telenor, Sprint etc. Vodafone just managed to retain its businesses after being taken over by an Indian giant Birla group.
India is the only country in the world which as of now offers free voice calling on any telecom network within the country.
IS IT BECAUSE INDIA IS SO MUCH COMPETITIVE THAT EVEN UNITED STATES, JAPAN, CHINA OR EUROPE ARE NOWHERE NEAR INDIAN PROWESS AND CAPABILITY AT EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT IN THE TELECOM SECTOR.?
Let us look at how India has reached this very envious stage in global telecom expertise and management.
Prior to 2017 Sept, the mobile telecom bill + data bill for my four member family used to be around INR 1600/- to INR 2000/-. (Excluding landline). After the arrival of Jio it is about INR 700/- (unlimited calling with approx. 9 GB data daily ..).
This is the situation in almost all of the middle class families in India who account for almost 25% of the Indian population. Is this disruption set to penetrate to the other sections of the Indian population ?
Is this disruptive innovation, customer-centric business or killing Indian telecom sector ?
With loss of 75,000 jobs, loss to telecom sector of almost $700 billion, loans of telecom companies of about $114 billion to be serviced, Jio's impact on Indian economy has been phenomenal !! Jio redefined the concept of telephone communication making it totally FREE, charging only for DATA, forcing other players to fall in line ! All incumbents in the telecom field suffered heavy losses and 7 out of 11 got wiped out ..
Technology not only disrupts. It causes massive destruction and devastation !! 4G technology where even voice and data are sent as packets through huge pipes of Internet bandwidth has changed the whole field of telecommunications.
Moreover Jio has the world's largest ever investment in telecom sector of $ 33 billion in the Indian market setting up fibre optic cabling across the country. Is it indicative of the confidence of Reliance in the telecom and data sector in the modern world ? Jio also got other major private Indian telecom players who were exploiting the customer to fall in line.
India has mobile telecom penetration of 70% and Internet penetration of 35%. There is a huge market yet to be tapped. Jio has an Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) of about INR 155 while all other operators are in the red at about INR 115 or so.
As of March 2018, there were 1035 million mobile phone subscribers in India. Airtel tops with 305m subscribers, Vodafone is second with 223m, Ideal Cellular comes third with 211m, followed by Reliance Jio 187m and BSNL at 100m.


A number of pokemon were made available for audience members' Pocket Monsters X and Pocket Monsters Y games as part of the movie's promotion.
Four legendary pokemon - Jiraachi, Victini, Manaphy, and Darkrai - appeared in the short "Pikachu, What is This the Key To?" For this year's pre-order bonus, fans were given the chance to choose which of these four will be the pokemon to be given away.
Pokemon-Movie.jp - Through the movie's official website. One vote per visitor.
World Hobby Fair Winter '14 - Visitors who stopped by the Pokemon Booth at the World Hobby Fair Winter '14 were able to fill out a voting card in person. The World Hobby Fair was an event occurring January 19th in Nagoya (Nagoya Dome), January 25th and 26th in Tokyo (Makuhari Messe National Exhibition Hall 9, 10, & 11), February 2nd in Fukuoka (Fukuoka Yahoo Auction! Dome), and February 9th in Osaka (Kyocera Dome Osaka).
Pocket Monsters XY - Pressing the d button on your television remote during particular airings of Pocket Monsters XY brought up a "data broadcasting" screen that enabled you to vote. Your television had to be connected to the Internet in order to participate. Voting could take place on January 16th ("Nymphia vs. Keromatsu! Panic at the Kindergarten!!"), January 30th ("The Mysterious Rain Shelter! Nyasper's Watching You!!"), and February 7th ("Harimaron vs. Mafoxy! A Diet Battle!?") between 19:00 and 19:30 JST.
Pokemon Center - Visitors of any of the eight Pokemon Center stores across Japan (Sapporo, Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Tohoku, Tokyo Bay, Nagoya, and Fukuoka) were able to fill out a voting card in person.
CoroCoro Comics - The February 2014 issue of CoroCoro Comics (on sale January 15th, 2014) included a postcard that could be sent in with your vote. A 50 yen stamp needed to be attached to the postcard. Click on the image below to see a larger version.
The voting deadline was February 10th, 2014 at 16:00 JST. Darkrai ended up winning the poll. The results were announced on March 15th, 2014 in both the April issue of CoroCoro Comics (on sale March 15th) and the movie's official site.
Those who buy a pre-order ticket between April 19th and July 18th, 2014, will be able to get a special Level 50 Darkrai for their Pocket Monsters X and Pocket Monsters Y games.
Tickets must be purchased between April 19th (Saturday) and July 18th, 2014 (Friday). Darkrai is able to be downloaded between April 19th (Saturday) and September 30th, 2014 (Tuesday) by inputting the serial code printed on the pre-order ticket. One pokemon per ticket. The same ticket cannot be used to download a Darkrai in multiple games. This promotion is not compatible with foreign versions of the games. Not compatible with any other games in the Pocket Monsters series.
A Diancie will be distributed to those who see the movie The Cocoon of Destruction and Diancie.
One pokemon per ticket. The same ticket cannot be used to download a Diancie in multiple games and multiple tickets cannot be used to download multiple Diancie to the same game. Not compatible with any other games in the Pocket Monsters series. This Diancie cannot be uploaded to the GTS. If you've modified your game using any sort of cheat devices then Diancie may either not download correctly or may corrupt your save data in some way.


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Artists Cy Twombly Art Works
Cy Twombly Artworks
American Draftsman, Painter, and Sculptor
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Born: April 25, 1928 - Lexington, Virginia
Died: July 5, 2011 - Rome, Italy
Artworks by Cy Twombly
The below artworks are the most important by Cy Twombly - that both overview the major creative periods, and highlight the greatest achievements by the artist.
Untitled (1954)
Artwork description & Analysis: While in the army, Twombly modified the Surrealist technique of automatic drawing by creating compositions in the dark - after lights out. These "blind" drawings resulted in the kind of elongated, distorted forms and curves that we see in this work. Biomorphic imagery is also apparent in the figurative scrawls giving way to more non-figurative scribbles and markings.
Colored pencil - Collection Cy Twombly Foundation
Leda and the Swan (1962)
Artwork description & Analysis: Leda and the Swan (the title is written in the lower right corner), one of Twombly's most accomplished works, illustrates his career-long attraction to the stories, literature, and events of classical antiquity, an interest that expanded further after he moved to Rome in 1957. The title refers to the Roman myth in which Jupiter, transformed into a swan, seduces Leda, who would later give birth to Helen of Troy. Rather than depict the conventional and erotic imagery of a graceful nude languidly entangled with a swan, Twombly combines diverse media, with the violent and forceful swirls, scratches, and zig-zags flying out in all directions suggesting the presence of Jupiter and the fleshy pinks and ovoid forms suggesting Leda and the eggs that were produced from the union. Amidst these colliding, graffiti-like elements, Twombly included recognizable hearts, a phallus/swan neck, and a window-like rectangle. This "window" provides a stabilizing effect on this otherwise explosive painting, but also amplifies content in its witty paradox of being part of graffiti on a flat wall vs. a window that might offer passage through the flatness to the world of the painting (and the myth of the title) or in the opposite direction to the real world outside. The work as a whole reconciles themes of male/female, destructive/creative, and earthly/divine. As in much of his work, Twombly transformed an ancient myth by becoming Jupiter himself: ravaging the canvas and producing beauty. As Roberta Smith has commented, "the crux of his achievement was not so much to overturn [Abstract Expressionism]," ... but to connect Abstract Expressionism to other forms of culture."
Oil paint, lead pencil, wax crayon on canvas. 75 x 78 3/4 in. - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Discourse on Commodus (1963)
Artwork description & Analysis: For this nine-part series, Twombly took inspiration from Commodus, Emperor of the Roman Empire and son of Marcus Aurelius, who was later assassinated. The series was also painted following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Twombly's frenzied splatters and layers of color against the grey background reflect the volatility and civil war that stemmed from Commodus' oppressive rule that ultimately led to his assassination. Yet, these works also have a structured composition, and each is based around a grid form, perhaps summoning ideas of the imposed order of the Roman Empire. The series as a whole, and perhaps as a sort of narrative, begins with a conflict of two painted white masses that are still contained within the grid structure; it continues with increasing evidence of violence and its consequences, concluding with this panel, where the "victor" and the "vanquished" rise above a frail and single rectangle as if to say that all order has been abandoned. The "fallout" from such violent acts floating down in the long and empty vertical space below serves as a reminder of the past and a caution to the future; the famous historian Edward Gibbon saw the rule of Commodus as the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. When exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1964, when the critical establishment was embracing Minimalism, the series did not receive positive reviews. It is now recognized as a major Twombly work.
Oil paint, wax crayon, lead pencil on canvas - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Artwork description & Analysis: For this work, Twombly's composition has taken inspiration and form from ideas of handwriting or mark-making. It is the largest of a group of grey-ground works he created from 1966 to 1972 evoking blackboards covered in chalk writing. It is said that the feeling of continuous flow in the marks is a product of the way Twombly executed this work as he sat on the shoulders of a friend who moved from side to side in front of the canvas. Yet although his continuous loops and scrawls were inspired, in part, by handwriting drills, Twombly's repetitive, rhythmic drawing does not create specific words. The painted background creates a luminous glow suggesting a potentially enlightened state of mind and being, as the artist - and by extension humanity - frantically, and perhaps futilely, summons the "logos" or word, making marks to name things and trying to understand them. Twombly has said that Leonardo da Vinci's notebook drawings of both structured diagrams, where Leonardo drew in order to learn, thus emphasizing the process of drawing, and tumultuous floods, with their rippling, spiraling motion, influenced him while he was producing these works.
Oil based house paint, wax crayon on canvas. 159 1/2 x 252 1/8 in. - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Quattro Stagioni. Part I: Primavera (1993-1994)
Artwork description & Analysis: Each painting in the Quattro Stagioni (A Painting in Four Parts) depicts a different season within the ongoing cycle of life, a frequent theme in the Classical and Renaissance work that Twombly so admired. In Primavera (Spring), Twombly applies bright red and yellow paint layered over lighter whites to suggest the vitality of spring's renewal. The image as a whole resembles the stem, leaves, and blossom of a flower. Individually, the curved shapes in red recall Egyptian rowboats, a motif he integrated into several paintings and sculptures after spending time in Egypt in the 1980s. Such boats would be appropriate here, as they were used in ritual for the deceased's transport to the afterlife and were thus a symbol, like spring, for new beginnings. The artist also includes the word "Primavera," along with joyful excerpts of poetry that he used to inspire himself to paint the colorful forms.
Acrylic, oil paint [paint stick], wax crayon, colored pencil and lead pencil on canvas. 123 x 74 3/4 in. - The Tate Collection, London, UK
Artwork description & Analysis: In this work, from a series of peony paintings, each on six connected panels, Twombly turned to bursts of vibrant, expressive color and recognizable imagery. For these works, he drew inspiration from Japanese art, which can be seen in the motif of the blossom and the six divisions of the large-scale panel recalling the painted screens of the Edo period. The peony's emblematic associations are rich. Like the chrysanthemum, it is an ancient symbol of aesthetic contemplation commonly associated with Japanese art. While Twombly's later work moved away from the graffiti-like scratches of his earlier paintings, writing and drawing remained integral to his work: the painting is also inscribed with haiku poetry: "Ah! The peonies for which Kusunoki took off his armour." Here Twombly refers to the 14th-century samurai warrior Takarai Kikaku, who, inspired by the beauty of the peonies, laid aside his armor for a moment of quietude and joy. The exuberantly painted deep red blossoms float calmly but authoritatively against a bright yellow background, and are cut by the edges of the painting, suggesting their proliferation and continuity. The red vertical lines help to visually support these blossoms (as would stems) at the same time that they suggest their disintegration and transient nature as part of the life cycle.
Acrylic, wax crayon, lead pencil on wooden panel. 99 1/4 x 217 1/4 in. - The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica
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First published on 05 Jun 2014. Updated and modified regularly.
A tendency among New York painters of the late 1940s and '50s, all of whom were committed to an expressive art of profound emotion and universal themes. The movement embraced the gestural abstraction of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, and the color field painting of Mark Rothko and others. It blended elements of Surrealism and abstract art in an effort to create a new style fitted to the postwar mood of anxiety and trauma.


Our theoretical roots are psychoanalytic but our interests and emphases are diverse and we do not define ourselves by adherence to a particular school of thought. Our concern is with what each individual manages to make of the many sources of knowledge and inspiration they may choose to use.
The idea of curriculum doesn't describe us very well. The root meaning of curriculum or course is onward movement in a particular direction, a track, a race or a plan. It is an appropriate metaphor for many trainings where what is to be learnt is set out in advance and progress through it can be monitored, but it doesn't suit us. Our approach to learning is not that of a course. Alternative metaphors people have used from time to time are that of a garden and its cultivation, a meal with many choices and a journey with many possible routes, companions and modes of transport.
In short, there is no set curriculum. We do not list what people should study. We do not give lectures or seminars. We ask people to create their own encounter with the field. People inevitably grapple with the psychoanalytic inheritance that forms such a powerful background to all psychotherapeutic work. We also encourage people to read widely and variously in whatever else interests them – philosophy, the arts, literature, cultural studies, for example. This is done individually and collectively. Individually it is an important personal journey where each student is free to read and study what they wish. With the help of the ordinary members and other students, each person can explore the range of possible inspiration and knowledge and develop their own way through it. As much as what is read, we value the way it is read and the quality of the engagement people have with their reading. We want it to be personal, appropriate, and stimulating. This is often dependent on finding the right text at the right time and the right person or people with whom to discuss it. Collectively the student group plans topics for discussion and invites ordinary members and outside speakers to participate. This usually provides a helpful and containing background for the more individual work. It also involves sharing responsibility for others' learning. Ordinary members can always be approached for suggestions and advice. When this approach to learning works it produces feelings of ownership, confidence, breadth and appreciation of complexity, in which there are genuine transformations of understanding. It doesn't suit everyone however and we ask applicants to think carefully about whether they feel able to undertake it.
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