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Cornwall Community Accountancy Service was the idea of our Chartered Certified Accountant Debbie Risborough. Debbie is a practising accountant who specialises in charities and not for profit organisations.
Many small charities and organisations have difficulties in putting together financial information. They struggle to make sufficient funds to maintain their charitable work and do not like to spend their funds on expensive accountancy services and try to produce their own records without professional help. As a qualified charted accountant this sometimes made Debbie's work as their Independent Examiner more complex than needed and often led to their returns being late.
Through research on the Charity Commissions register in 2010 Debbie discovered 10.8% of all the registered charities in Cornwall had overdue returns, suggesting a need for affordable or free additional support with statutory accounts for community groups in Cornwall.
Debbie approached East Cornwall Council for Voluntary Services with her findings to see if there was a way they could work together to help these groups and improve the late return statistics in Cornwall. 100 questionnaires were sent to charities on the overdue list asking, what were the main problems they were experiencing with recording and providing statutory accounts. They were also asked what support they felt they needed to enable them to keep and produce accurate accounts with confidence.
Under 5's concentrate on enjoying their day not worrying about their finances!
From these questionnaires CCAS was developed. A fee paying tailor made accountancy service for community groups and charities, which can also provide bursaries for those organisations not yet in a position to pay accountancy fees.
CCAS is a registered charity in its own right but is also a project under the Cornwall Community Action (CCA) partnership which comprises of Cornwall Rural Community Council (CRCC) and Penwith Community Development Trust (PCDT). We are pleased to be working with CCA and give a big thanks to CRCC and PCDT for their continued support.
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Community Division, 1934-1950
File — Box: 1, Reel: 23, microdex: 4
YWCA of the U.S.A. records, Record Group 11. Microfilmed headquarters files (SSC-MS-00324-RG11)
Subject files, around 1899-1970
Documents concerning the YWCA of the U.S.A. Community Division. The Community Division's purpose is to provide direct services to local associations and aid in communication between local associations and the national organization, as well as to other organizations. Branch and center materials concern work with African American women, Asian American women and International Institutes serving women immigrants. A history of the development of the branches and their purpose in addition to documents studying their relationship to the YWCA of the U.S.A. as a whole, documents the history of the branches and relationship to the YWCA of the U.S.A. Other materials include reports from the Community Division on constituency groups including young girls, business and professional women, industrial women, the Girl Reserve, rural girls, war relocation centers, immigrants and others.
Dates of Materials
From the Record Group:
This collection is open for use without restriction beyond the standard terms and conditions of Smith College Special Collections.
However, by agreement with the YWCA of the U.S.A., microdexes known to contain financial records or personal health information (usually on job applications) were not digitized and/or not published in our online repository as part of the CLIR Digitizing Hidden Collections grant. These microdexes may still be accessed on the original microfilm, and digital files may be made available to individual researchers upon request.
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African American girls -- Societies, etc
African American women -- Societies and clubs
Associations, institutions, etc
Federations, Financial (Social service)
Indigenous girls -- North America
Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Nonprofit organizations -- Management
Rural girls
United Service Organizations (U.S.)
Women -- Employment
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work
Young Men's Christian Association
Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. G.R. Dept.
bylaws (administrative records)
Box: 1, Reel: 23, microdex: 4 (Microform)
Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository
https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/about/sophia-smith-collection-womens-history
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Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:Record Group 11. Microfilmed headquarters files, YWCA of the U.S.A. records, Sophia Smith Collection MS324, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:Record Group 11. Microfilmed headquarters files, YWCA of the U.S.A. records, Sophia Smith Collection MS324, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts. https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/171069 Accessed January 27, 2023.

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'May I Please Enter' by Alan Resnick review
May 4, 2021 Zach Lebowitz Leave a comment
Image taken from: https://youtu.be/TgxSIFcTvLo
Alan Resnick, known for his creepy and strange lil' shorts that he puts out every once in a while, made this Adult Swim "small" known as "May I Please Enter". And with it being sorta one of the "newer" ones of his, I thought I'd review it, in an opinionated way, talking about what I personally saw in it, so yeah, here we go.
So, Alan Resnick has been making stuff for years and years, whether it be mini series', shorts, music videos, etc, and the common theme which most people and I could probably notice when watching his stuff, is that he really enjoys making people uncomfortable. Through either building unrealistic, yet surprisingly tangible tension, or through breaking the viewer's expectations so irrationally, that they might not even know how a scene was supposed to make them feel. It definitely might not be for everyone, but hey, I think it's pretty good, so yeah, this short "May I Please Enter," is assuredly no different.
Once you get to this point in the article you should probably watch it on YouTube if you're interested (https://youtu.be/TgxSIFcTvLo). It's about 10 minutes, and at least I think it's pretty good enough to the point that it'll be worth watching to avoid what could be considered spoilers. (That and you'll probably not really understand like 80% of this without watching the short beforehand anyway).
So, it opens up with Alan in some sorta cowboy getup, doing a sort of "reality show" where he tries to enter someone's home, and that's supposed to just be the show I guess. By the first minute, he already sets the tone pretty well by contrasting the somewhat "upbeat" opening theme with an eerie aftermath of him looming towards the door of the house he "selected" and being strangely threatening towards the random people who he comes across while they wonder if he should come into their living space.
One thing you'll notice, is how blunt, awkward, and strangely obvious every line of dialogue happens to be. This, while also adding to the humor of it all, sets the unsettling tone pretty well, as it leaves the viewer to desire some semblance of normalcy in an already uncomfortable situation.
Even self aware stuff, such as the "He reminds me of North American colonialism", almost parodying the viewer trying to make sense of, and take meaning from, what they are being presented with, really just feeds into how unnatural it all is from the start.
Alan Resnick honestly builds tension in a pretty impressive way as well. As one YouTube commenter put it, "This is a horror movie without the horror". There is so much rising discomfort in how the audio cues, visual hints, and even scenes that look as though they contain eerie foreshadowing, all ultimately go nowhere, and just leave the viewer dazed and confused by the end of it all.
Like, the "other people live in this house" thing, just perfectly had the atmosphere of the obvious cadence which tells you "something's not right", but it just ends unresolved with Alan wanting to just go and see more of the house.
There's plenty of scenes like this throughout that also do the "fake foreshadowing" thing, like the whole breathing slipper/weapon scene and whatnot, but I think you get the idea.
Another smaller scene I wanted to point out, was the whole part about those "funny little phrases they bought on the internet" with most notably the one that went: "Imagine being so wealthy that your body stops moving", which sorta predicted the whole phenomenon of NFT's that's going on right now if you think about it. It's not too important specifically to this review, but I just found that interesting watching it again and wanted to mention it here for whatever reason.
But honestly, no scene in this short really is integral or meaningful to the plot, which at the same time, makes all of it equally important, if that makes sense. I mean, without the atmosphere this is total nonsense, and nothing anybody does really matters, but honestly, that's kinda what makes it, and things like it so interesting.
I mean, most narratives in general, take place in a comfortable "grounded" reality in how people interact with each other on a day to day basis. Like if you watch a movie where it takes place in a sorta crazy ol' fantasy world or whatnot, characters will still be made to be like, relatable to the viewer. But this makes it seem almost as though our own world is more unreal than any fantasy situation we could see in a movie or book, as we watch just how honestly strange and unsatisfying everyday interactions, and general human behavior, could be as viewed as, through the perspective of a sorta artificial intelligence based robot, or something like that, looking into the breakdown of human behavior as a whole.
So, that's how efficiently I feel Alan makes our world seem fictional. Like everything they do in the short, easily could be something people do in their every day lives, but it's presented in such an unconventional, yet uncomfortably blatant way, that it feels almost like an uncanny reflection of how we as people see ourselves, and how incredibly alien and awkward it all feels when you just ever so slightly offset the typical path of how life plays out as a whole in human society.
So yeah, I personally thought it was amazingly strange, creepy, and awkward throughout all of it. And like all Alan Resnick's shorts, I could definitely find the humor in the discomfort of it all, so I'm not gonna give it a score or anything, all I'm gonna say is, if you're into this sorta thing, I hope you enjoyed it, and if not, at least you can see where I'm coming from with this breakdown/review of it.
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If not stopped, starving, stuffing, and purging can lead to irreversible physical damage and even death. Eating disorders can affect every cell, tissue, and organ in the body. The following is a partial list of the medical dangers associated with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder.
Swollen glands in neck; stones in salivary duct. "Chipmunk cheeks."
Excess hair on face, arms, and body.
Person feels out of control and helpless to do anything about problems.
Hyper vigilant. Suspects others of wanting to interfere.
Feels alienated and lonely. "I don't fit in anywhere."
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Important: Eating disorders are treatable, and people do recover from them. The above complications, or threat of them developing, should encourage people to seek treatment, not give up and sink into despair. Sooner is better than later. The sooner treatment is begun, the sooner the person can develop personal strength and begin to create a life worth living.


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The Shape of Water (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery #1) (Paperback)
By Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translated by)
This is book number 1 in the An Inspector Montalbano Mystery series.
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The first inspector Montalbano mystery is a highly entertaining, witty, fast paced caper which takes place in contemporary Sicily. Good food, vendettas, beautiful women and of course murder are the ingredients which made this mystery an international bestseller. A terrific "read on vacation" book. — Sarah Knight
"You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen...transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano."
—A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
The Shape of Water is the first book in the sly, witty, and engaging Inspector Montalbano mystery series with its sardonic take on Sicilian life.
Silvio Lupanello, a big-shot in Vigàta, is found dead in his car with his pants around his knees. The car happens to be parked in a part of town used by prostitutes and drug dealers, and as the news of his death spreads, the rumors begin. Enter Inspector Salvo Montalbano, Vigàta's most respected detective. With his characteristic mix of humor, cynicism, compassion, and love of good food, Montalbano battles against the powerful and corrupt who are determined to block his path to the real killer.
Andrea Camilleri's novels starring Inspector Montalbano have become an international sensation and have been translated into numberous languages.
Andrea Camilleri is the bestselling author of the popular Inspector Montalbano mystery series, as well as historical novels that take place in nineteenth-century Sicily. He lives in Rome.
Stephen Sartarelli (translator) is an award-winning translator and poet. He lives in France.
Praise for Andrea Camilleri and the Montalbano Series
"Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano mysteries might sell like hotcakes in Europe, but these world-weary crime stories were unknown here until the oversight was corrected (in Stephen Sartarelli's salty translation) by the welcome publication of The Shape of Water…This savagely funny police procedural…prove[s] that sardonic laughter is a sound that translates ever so smoothly into English."—The New York Times Book Review
"Hailing from the land of Umberto Eco and La Cosa Nostra, Montalbano can discuss a pointy-headed book like Western Attitudes Toward Death as unflinchingly as he can pore over crime-scene snuff photos. He throws together an extemporaneous lunch of shrimp with lemon and oil as gracefully as he dodges advances from attractive women."—Los Angeles Times
"[Camilleri's mysteries] offer quirky characters, crisp dialogue, bright storytelling—and Salvo Montalbano, one of the most engaging protagonists in detective fiction…Montalbano is a delightful creation, an honest man on Siciliy's mean streets."—USA Today
"Camilleri is as crafty and charming a writer as his protagonist is an investigator."—The Washington Post Book World
"Like Mike Hammer or Sam Spade, Montalbano is the kind of guy who can't stay out of trouble…Still, deftly and lovingly translated by Stephen Sartarelli, Camilleri makes it abundantly clear that under the gruff, sardonic exterior our inspector has a heart of gold, and that any outburst, fumbles, or threats are made only in the name of pursuing truth."—The Nation
"Camilleri can do a character's whole backstory in half a paragraph."—The New Yorker
"Subtle, sardonic, and molto simpatico: Montalbano is the Latin re-creation of Philip Marlowe, working in a place that manages to be both more and less civilized than chandler' Los Angeles."—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: May 31st, 2005
Series: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
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Logikcull Raises $25 Million in 17 Days. A Message From Our CEO To Our Customers & Employees: Thank You!
January 29, 2018 | 6 min read
By Andy Wilson
We have some exciting news to share today: we've raised a $25 million Series B round! And we did it in just 17 days so that we could get back to work on making discovery instant and accessible for everyone.
NEA, one of the oldest, largest, and most respected venture capital firms in the world, led the round, with participation from previous investors OpenView Venture Partners and Storm Ventures. In backing Logikcull, NEA adds another fast-growing SaaS company to an impressive portfolio that has included Salesforce.com, Workday, and Mulesoft. NEA was also one of the first venture investors in Apple, way back when Jobs and Wozniak were working out of a garage. We're welcoming NEA general partner Chetan Puttagunta to the Logikcull Board of Directors.
This is an exciting time for us and our customers, so I thought it would be appropriate to share some of my thoughts on the past and future of Logikcull.
3...2...1...GO!
Since we launched Logikcull.com in 2013, we have seen non-stop growth. Our customer base has doubled every year since we went live, but it was only in 2017 that things really took off. Our customers now host more than 1B pages of content in Logikcull, and this is growing at 10% month-over-month. We are on track to hit 1B new pages per month within 24 months. The amount of data uploaded into Logikcull is staggering. Individual uploads range in size from a few kilobytes to 175GB .zip files full of other .zip files and mailboxes. The average data uploaded is nearing 1TB per day. This is the result of democratizing discovery and growing our customer base by 500% in less than 12 months, growth that continues to accelerate. Along the way, we doubled our employee headcount in 2017, with Patrick Barry recently coming on board as our COO. The business is humming.
All of this is thanks to you: our customers and employees.
None of this would be possible without the support of the Logikcull community. The stories you have told us over the past few years have amazed and humbled us. Just this past year, we've heard about our customers leveraging Logikcull to accelerate much needed justice to more than 100 women who were sexually assaulted by Dr. Larry Nassar. We've heard about governments dramatically accelerating Freedom of Information (FOI) requests by using Logikcull. In one case, a major city in the US went from an average FOI turnaround time of three weeks to less than a day. Wow! We've also heard about pro se litigants using Logikcull to level the playing field against larger adversaries. One of those pro se litigants was seriously considering buying and configuring a six-figure eDiscovery product made in Chicago before doing a simple Google search, because to him, "there just had to be a better way." He was right. Within 24 hours of finding Logikcull through Google, this pro se litigant had his data uploaded and organized for review. Three days later he was done. His cost? Under $200.
Our mission is to make discovery instant and accessible for everyone. We believe that quick access to discovery - the search for truth - is a fundamental right to every citizen of Earth. Because of this mission, Logikcull now has customers all over the world ranging in size from solo practitioners to the largest cities, states, law firms and Fortune 500 companies.
We're just getting started. There's so much more to do. Building a world-class software and service takes talent and time. Now we can continue heavily investing in both.
To make discovery truly instant, there can be no friction in using Logikcull... and yet today, Logikcull has a lot of friction. Sure, our customers no longer have to go through the arduous task of outsourcing their discovery to eDiscovery vendors, because Logikcull has automated the eDiscovery process from 3,000+ steps into 1 step: drag-n-drop. Still, there's a lot more work for us to do.
Despite having an uptime of 99.999% in 2017, we still had some unplanned hiccups that caused Logikcull to slow down on occasion. This is unacceptable for our users and counter to our mission to make discovery instant. Many of our customers see Logikcull as "mission critical," and a mission critical service should never go down. That's our long term goal with Logikcull: zero downtime, period. No quarterly maintenance windows. No more reports of slow performance with tagging (rare, but it happened a few times in 2017). In 2018, we will continue to invest into our infrastructure by adding more redundancy and performance enhancements to the dozens of services running within Logikcull.
When we say instant discovery, we mean it. But we're not there yet. The average upload into Logikcull is processed and loaded for review in under 2 hours, and the average download (AKA production) in Logikcull is completed in under 30 minutes. While these speeds are night-and-day faster than what our customers tolerated pre-Logikcull, they aren't instantaneous. Occasionally, very large uploads (e.g. 175GB .zip files) and downloads (e.g. 5M pages) can take close to 24 hours to complete. In 2018, we will invest more into our processing pipeline to accelerate data processing to make it near-instant for any size of data. We'll also invest more in people and product to make dramatic improvements in document viewer speed, tagging speed, search speed, and more.
Trust is all a business has to offer. Our customers trust Logikcull to keep their highly sensitive data safe and secure. In 2017, Logikcull became SOC2 Type I certified, a testament to our commitment to building a stronger security foundation for our customers. We also released a powerful and easy way to enforce two-factor authentication across a Logikcull account. And from Heartbleed to Meltdown, our InfoSec team successfully made the necessary security patches across Logikcull's thousands of services in under 24 hours whenever a new threat emerged. But we still need to do more here. In 2018, we'll invest heavily into the future of data security by expanding our InfoSec teams and adding more robust security services across the entire service of Logikcull.
Our Customer Success Team tripled in size in 2017. The average response time to an in-app question was lightning fast at under three minutes. While our customer base grew by 500% in less than 12 months, our Success Team still maintained a 97% customer satisfaction score. This world-class support is reflected in the hundreds of positive online reviews that have made Logikcull #1 on Gartner, G2Crowd, and Capterra. In 2018, we will continue to invest heavily into building out more world-class support and services for our customers, so you can get even faster and higher quality responses in the year to come.
We released dozens of new features and product improvements in 2017. Logikcull is a version-free software, which means our customers are always on the latest and greatest version: no point or version upgrades necessary. We know that our customers need certain features in order to get their work done faster and smarter. In 2018, we will add several engineering teams to work exclusively on various aspects of the app (document viewer, search engine, etc.). This investment will mean faster feature development across the entire platform.
In summary, the future of the Logikcull community is very bright, and it shines because of you: our customers and employees. Thank you for choosing Logikcull. Your investment in us has and will continue to pay off.
P.S. We're hiring for over 20 roles. Apply here: https://www.glassdoor.com/Jobs/Logikcull-Jobs-E1256051.htm
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Smoking hot: E-cig explodes in man's pants (VIDEO) The health risks of vaping are up for debate but at least one California e-cigarette owner might think twice about puffing on one in the future after his device suddenly exploded inside his pocket.
Surveillance footage posted online by a television outlet in Anaheim shows a man at the store almost going up in smoke when an e-cigarette in his pants malfunctioned.
The incident occurred at Anaheim's HDTV Outlet. The store's manager said he feared the burning vape machine might start a fire and he had to rush to extinguish the device.
It's not known what caused the tobacco alternative to spark and explode. According to , the victim did not suffer serious injuries and he treated his burns at a local pharmacy.
But judging by the CCTV imagery the unidentified male was lucky not to have come to serious harm as flames could be seen rising up his leg and burning a hole in his trousers.


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"The people viewing the remains in the Memorial Pavilion in Monument Square, Cleveland, O." [Monument Square now known as Public Square]
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Rustic bridge in monumental park in Cleveland, Ohio. At this time, Public Square was known as Monumental Park. Shows a fountain and several pedestrians on the bridge. Print created from a wood engraving.
Superior St., west from Monumental Park.
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Western view of Superior St. from Public Square. Shows retail shops and pedestrians. Print created from a wood engraving.
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Forest City House, a hotel located on the corner of Superior And Monumental Park in Cleveland, Ohio. Shows many pedestrians in the street. Print created from a wood engraving.


Each issue, we publish a photo of a familiar but unidentified object. You are invited to make your best guess. All correct entries will be put into a drawing and a winner will be drawn and announced in an upcoming issue. The winner will receive $25.00.
Deadline for entries is March 20.
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100 years have passed since the First World War and Europe has changed a great deal: people who were once at war now spend their summer holidays on the peaceful beaches of Cavallino-Treporti, surrounded by the extraordinary scenery of Venice and its lagoon. Although it may seem incredible, the same waters were sailed by battle ships and the allied forces came here to combat those of the central empires.
Almost all traces of this terrible conflict have disappeared from the Veneto plain, but our coastline still preserves clear symbols of its warlike past, made up of a whole system of forts, coastal military batteries, barracks, powder magazines and telemetry towers…
At the beginning of the 1900s, as part of a general plan to defend Venice from possible threats from the sea, it was decided that new coastal batteries would be built that would be able to combat the now faster and better-armed fleets. 1909 saw the start of the ambitious project to fortify all the coastline that protected the city and in Cavallino, positioned further towards the east, work began on the three coastal batteries: the Vettor Pisani, the San Marco and the Radaelli, joined by the building site of the Amalfi in 1915.
Between 1909 and 1914 the first three were ready, while work on the more imposing Amalfi continued until May 1917, when the complex successfully passed its test and became fully operative, shortly after the breakthrough of Caporetto. First, the vast flood areas were reclaimed and ports were built to unload material, while the road network was rebuilt and the electricity network was strengthened. A decauville railway was built that wound across virtually the whole coastline.
Basically, in the early years of the 20th century Cavallino-Treporti became one enormous building site made up of thousands of home builders, plants, technical, military and civil building works. When Italy entered the war in May 1915, the new defensive system around Venice was fully operational and was a deterrent for the Austro-Hungarian fleet which, despite the relative proximity of the ports of Pola and Trieste, never dared to challenge the powerful coastal artillery of the Venetian Republic.
In order to get a closer look on the overall fortification system in Cavallino-Treporti, we refer you to the PDF file "Cavallino-Treporti in the Great War", designed by Furio Lazzarini, which includes other historical buildings of great interest, like the Vettor Pisani and the Amalfi gun batteries, which are being refurbished (see video).
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Perfect for radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and residents in both fields, Practical Radiation Oncology Physics provides a concise and practical summary of the current practice standards in therapeutic medical physics. A companion to the fourth edition of Clinical Radiation Oncology, by Drs. Leonard Gunderson and Joel Tepper, this indispensable guide helps you ensure a current, state-of-the art clinical practice.


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Tierion is one interesting blockchain project that's taking on an area unique from others. They are working on data verification but on a massive scale.
More specifically, the team has taken the idea of notarization and the safekeeping of documents, and has shifted it to the protection of digital data. They are trying to make the process of this verification simple and most importantly, cheap.
However, can such a grand vision be realistically achieved?
In this Tierion review we will give you everything that you need to know about the project. We will take a look at their technology, development and team members. We will also analyse the potential for the TNT token to secure more adoption in the long term.
Complete verification of data and documents is indeed quite a challenging affair. While there are standard procedures for doing this, these are sometimes dated and have not kept up with the pace at which technology moves. Tierion is trying to make use of immutable blockchain technology to verify this data.
Other companies have tried to do something similar by anchoring data to blockchains, but every one of them ran into the challenge of scalability and were unable to get past this hurdle. These early attempts used the Bitcoin blockchain and published just one document hash alongside each Bitcoin transaction. The problem is Bitcoin doesn't have nearly enough network throughput to accommodate all the document hashes that needed to be recorded.
And using the Bitcoin network and blockchain became prohibitively expensive, with the cost of each document rising to more than $3 by 2017. As if all this wasn't enough, the delayed block time from Bitcoin meant the timestamp on the documents weren't accurate. Tierion's team has found a way to get past all of these hurdles.
There are many industries that will be able to benefit massively from a blockchain solution that is capable of verifying and securing data. Healthcare, financial services and insurance are just a few of the industries that spend tens of millions of dollars to authenticate and securely store data every year. Tierion could both simply the process and make it far less expensive. And by transferring all this data to the blockchain it becomes immutable as well.
Tierion was on the right path long before it's ICO in the summer of 2017. In the short two years of its existence to that point it had already formed a collaboration with Microsoft on data integrity. In addition to that it has also done Internet of Things data work with Phillips, as well as credential verification and auditing work with other companies.
In truth, when you consider the scope of data integrity, data verification, auditing and credential verification, the range of what Tierion can be used for become nearly limitless. Various companies and industries will be able to use it for notarization, for verifying credentials, to provide proof of process, and to timestamp transactions.
Moreover, there are a number of different industries that could make use of the Tierion protocol. They can provide cryptographic proof of order, integrity and timestamp of numerous business processes. These include the likes of supply chains, financial transactions, insurance claims, medical records and KYC (Know Your Customer) procedures.
Tierion uses the Chainpoint technology to create what they've called the "proof engine". Through this use of Chainpoint Tierion says it can use blockchain technology to verify data. That includes everything from medical records to financial trades and legal contracts. Their ultimate goal is to simplify the process while making trust less expensive.
Tierion works by anchoring data to a transaction on the blockchain using the proof engine. This allows anyone, at any time to verify the integrity and timestamp of the data simply by looking it up on the trustless blockchain. This removes the need for third party trusted sources such as notaries. Currently Tierion provides this ability for both the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains.
Chainpoint is the open standard that can be used by any developer for linking data with a blockchain to create a timestamp and proof. Chainpoint includes several developer tools, and has been used by hundreds of companies to create applications that utilize data linking. Chainpoint is also the foundation of the Tierion Network.
Perhaps the most exciting part of the Tierion Network is its Proof application that is expected to launch in early 2019. The Proof application runs on Chainpoint, which will allow it to scale to millions of daily proofs. A proof is where a business verifies the integrity of data and timestamp without using a third party trusted source. Businesses will be able to get started in just a few mouse clicks, and data verification will be quick, simple and inexpensive.
When taking a look at the viability of a project, it is really important dig into the background of the core team members. The Tierion team seems to be quite an impressive mix of business and engineering experience. Tierion was co-founded by Wayne Vaughn (CEO) and Jason Bukowksi (Lead Developer).
Vaughn started his career in the mid 1990s with a digital marketing agency and was responsible for creating one of the first SaaS marketing automation platforms. He is also on the Advisory Board of Blockchain Capital.
Bukowski has been primarily involved in developing highly scalable software. He developed one of the very first real-time web analytics platforms and now serves as the Lead Developer for Chainpoint. The two are joined by VP of Engineering Glenn Rempe who is the principle architect of Tierion, as well as VP of Business Development Pierre Wolff and Head of Marketing Adam Evers.
There are also some high profile companies in the blockchain space that have invested in Tierion. These include the likes of blockchain capital, the Digital Currency Group and Fenbushi Capital. The Digital Currency Group was founded by Barry Silbert and they are the owners of Coindesk, the largest media business in the crypto space.
For a project that began in 2015 I wouldn't call the Tierion community either large or strong. Probably that's because Tierion never focused on building a community as they are more interested in selling their solution to other businesses. In any case, the Tierion blog hasn't been updated in over a month, and on Twitter, where there are 17k followers of Tierion there are gaps of 7-10 days between tweets.
The Tierion Reddit boasts just over 2,500 readers. The largest active group is on Telegram, where the team is also mist active, and there are currently 4,319 members of the Telegram group.
Tierion conducted its ICO in July 2017, with a hard cap of $25 million. That was a pretty ambitious figure at the time, but it took just 1 day to meet the $25 million hard cap, with 350 million of the total supply of 1 billion TNT tokens sold for $0.0710 each. An additional 350 million were kept as future incentives to the ecosystem, 290 million were retained by Tierion, and 10 million were used to cover the cost of the token sale.
Anyone can earn TNT tokens by running a node. These node operators receive TNT as a reward for securing the network and improving its scale and reliability. TNT tokens will also be used to access network services such as Chainpoint and the upcoming Proof.
TNT tokens rallied immediately following the ICO, with the price nearly reaching $0.23 by late August 2017. Price then dropped all the way to $0.047 by October and November, which was surely disappointing for the ICO investors. They got a second chance however when TNT rocketed higher in December along with the broader cryptocurrency markets.
The token hit its all time high of $0.445170 on January 8, 2018 and has since headed steadily lower until the beginning of February 2019, where it trades at just $0.014759 and is ranked #303 by market cap on Coinmarketcap.com.
If you aren't interested in running a node but still want to hold some TNT tokens you can buy them on several exchanges. Binance is by far the largest, and controls nearly all the trading volume in TNT. There is also a very small trading volume on Huobi Global, and the token is listed on a small number of other exchanges, but there is no trading volume to speak of at these smaller exchanges.
TNT is an ERC-20 compatible token, so any wallet that supports ERC-20 tokens can be used for storing TNT. i.e. MyEtherWallet, MyCrypto, Mist and MetaMask.
To get a sense of just how much work is being done on a project it is helps to take a look into their GitHub. This is generally a rough reflection of how much code is being pushed and committed by the developers.
In the case of Tierion, there are two GitHubs of interest. These are the Tierion project and that of Chainpoint. Taking a deeper look at the code commits, it is quite clear that the Chainpoint one has had the most activity of the two. Below are the commits of the most active Chainpoint repositories.
While this is a good sign that the project is still working on their protocols, there is way less activity than in other projects that we have seen in the space. For example, the project currently ranks at 297th in code tracking sites.
Of course, there could be other reasons for the relatively low levels of activity. Perhaps the protocols are already well developed and are just being maintained. The Tierion team is also busy working on other projects like the Proof application.
This application is due to be launched sometime in the next few months so it will be interesting to see exactly what the technology involves and whether it can really entice enterprise and business clients.
With several years under its belt and key partnerships with several global technology companies it looks like Tierion is positioned well for the future. Tierion was the first company to make it possible to anchor data to the blockchain in a scalable fashion, which should lead to applications across a wide variety of industries.
While the community behind Tierion doesn't seem too active and remains small, it isn't a large community that the company is after. Rather it has focused on partnering with companies who can use the technology, and plans on growth by that route.
While some people might be concerned about the drop in price for the TNT token, we do want to note that the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem has been in a year-long bear market. Once the bear market dissipates and the Tierion ecosystem grows larger we should see a commensurate rise in the price of TNT.
Overall it looks like a strong project that has been able to deliver and is ready to move into the future as a supporting blockchain across nearly every industry.


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Prosecutors Refuse to Meet With Michael Cohen Before Prison
Audrey McNamara
Updated May. 04, 2019 9:34PM ET / Published May. 04, 2019 9:33PM ET
Yana Paskova/Reuters
Federal prosecutors in New York have reportedly refused to meet with President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen, despite his repeated offers to provide more information on alleged wrongdoing by Trump. "Why not see him?" his lawyer, Lanny Davis, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. "What's the downside? He's about to go to prison." Since March, Cohen's legal team has reached out to prosecutors repeatedly asking for an opportunity to meet for a "frank discussion" about reducing his sentence, based on his cooperation. Cohen has maintained that he covered up Trump's "dirty deeds" because of his blind loyalty to the president. He is scheduled to report Monday to a federal prison 70 miles north of New York City to begin serving his three-year sentence for campaign-finance violations, tax evasion, bank fraud and lying to Congress.
Read it at AP News


In my previous posts, I have shown ways to add a lot of metadata to a Jekyll blog's posts. However, the use of the metadata shouldn't be left just for the search engines and social network sites. You too can benefit from the added metadata many sites expose these days.
The Discourse project shows a "onebox" when a user posts a link in a discussion thread. This functionality is available as its own gem and because it's in Ruby, it's easy to integrate with a Jekyll blog as well.
The one assumption onebox makes that doesn't really fit a blog is that it uses a whitelist. Below, the Liquid filter adds my own blog to the whitelist but for more general use I should override the whole whitelisting.
Pretty neat. The downside in using a Liquid filter is that you're mixing Markdown with Liquid markup which is not really optimal. A better solution would be to yet again extend Kramdown (or whichever converter you use) to support custom markup.


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Dupaningan Agta (Dupaninan Agta), ou Cagayan Agta Oriental, é uma língua falada pelo povo de caçadores-coletores semi-nômades Negritos das províncias de  povo das províncias Cagayan e  Isabela no norte de Luzon, Filipinas. Seu dialeto Yaga é apenas parcialmente inteligível.

Geografia
Robinson (2008) relata que Dupaningan Agta é falado por um total de cerca de 1.400 pessoas em cerca de 35 comunidades dispersas, cada uma com 1-70 famílias.
 Ilha Palaui - Os falantes não se consideram Dupaningan, mas a linguagem é muito semelhante à dos outros Dupaninganos.
 Nangaramuan, Santa Ana, Cagayan
 Barongagunay, Santa Clara e Santa Ana, Cagayan
 Vale Cove, Baggao, Cagayan
 Kattot
 Bolos a Ballek (Ponto Bolos) - aldeia onde a língua Dupaningan Agta é mais amplamente utilizada.
 Bolos a Dakal (Bolos, Maconacon, Isabela)
 Santa Clara, Gonzaga, Cagayan

Escrita
A língua Dupaningan usa o alfabeto latino sem as letras C, F, J, Q, U, V, X, Z.

Fonologia

Consoantes

Vogais

Notas

Ligações externas
 PARADISEC has an open access collection of recordings in Dupaningan Agta. These recordings include elicitation sessions, wordlists, stories, and songs. Sessions also include Ilocano, the local contact language, and occasionally also Tagalog.

Dupaningan em Omniglot.com
Dupaningan em Etnologue
Dupaningan em Endangered Languages

Dupaningan
Dupaningan

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS IMPATIENT
The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
As I believe I mentioned the other day, I have recently become mildly obsessed with the videos on the YouTube channel for the Alternate History Hub. I have been a fan of the concept of alternate history for many years, first discovering it through one of the 'juvenile' novels of my favourite author – Robert Heinlein. the idea that events on a quantum level can change the entire course of human history is both a useful plot device in speculative fiction and an interesting philosophical idea.
I have been working my way through these videos like a dose of salts, and – even this morning, while Jessica was switching on her computer – I watched a speculative video which wondered what the world would have been like if the Russian revolution had not happened.
I do not agree in all of their extrapolations, but I find the whole thing fascinating in the extreme, and wholeheartedly suggest that you check it out.
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Beach Boys - Never Lea...
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Later this week, Dweezil Zappa will release Via Za...
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Chris Squire Tribute sung by The Müsïka Family [On...
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Jon Anderson, Mack Moloney, Counting Crows, Tommy James, Adele, Änglagård, David Bowie, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Jaki Windmill, Tim Rundall, Roy Weard, Mack Moloney, A J Smitrovich, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#159) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Jon Anderson and Matt Malley on the cover and interviews with them both inside. Jon muses on David Bowie, we interview Tommy James, Doug talks about Änglagård and Corinna sneers at some more tacky pop memorabilia. John talks about Adele and Stereaming, Neil unearths a hidden gem, Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column, C J Stone does his, A J Smitrovich continues thumbing through his Dad's LPs, and Mr Biffo has more of his regular slices of insanity from the world of Digitiser 2000, and there is a radio show from Strange Fruit, one from Friday Night Progressive and another from Mack Moloney, and Tim and Jaki are back with a new show. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antechinuses wanting poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who are slightly constipated, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
David Bowie, Sinead O'Connor, Tom Jones, Keith Richards, Stevie Wonder, Steve Lamacq, Joy Division, Morrissey, Paul McCartney, Mary McCartney, Stella McCartney, Keith Levene, Ringo Starr, Steve Ignorant, Strange Harvest, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jaki Windmill, Tim Rundall, Scott Richard Weiland, Wayne Bickerman, Alex Cooley, Carols Jesus "Buddy" Moreno, Ronald David "Ronnie" Bright, Anthony Valentine, Johnny Winter, 13th Floor Elevators, Spirits Burning, The Pirates, Michael Jackson, Dee Palmer, Freddie King, The Selecter, Ducks De Luxe, Alexis Corner, James Brown, John Lee Hooker, Anglagard, Tommy James, John Brodie-Good, Adele, Roy Weard, A.J. Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr. Biffo, Hawkwind, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, The Monkees, The Bee Gees, Yes, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, Alice Cooper, Rick Wakeman, Matt Malley, Neil Nixon, Black Sweden, Gwydion
Issue 151 (Corky Laing)
Issue 150 (Roger Dean)
Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)
Issue 148 (Wally Hope)
Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)
Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)
Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)
Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)
Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)
Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)
Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)
Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)
Issue 139 (Raz cover)
Issue 138 (Galahad cover)
Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)
Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)
Issue 135 (FNP cover)
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and a small kitten totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a young lady called Jessica. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the infantile orange cat, and the adventurous kitten?
RSPB slams 'Victorian attitudes' after discovery o...
Rare raptors among birds of prey poisoned illegall...
The Messengers: Preview our upcoming climate chang...
Alderney may get first accredited bird observatory...
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject.
There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in.
The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking.
ARTICLE: Africa's Best Kept Secret: An Ultra-Luxur...
ARTICLE: Big Cat Fossils: Early Ancestors Might Ha...
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Loch Ness Monster sightings way up
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A view of the Loch Ness Monster, near Inverness, Scotland, April 19, 1934. The photograph, one of two pictures known as the 'surgeon's photographs,' ...
Whoa, Take A Look At Dr. Meldrum's Bigfoot Skeleton!
Dr. Jeff Meldrum stands next to the 3D printed bigfoot skeleton that was a side project for the Bigfoot Captured television special. Who knew 3D ...
Bigfooter Shows How They Set Up Their Sasquatch Gifting Area
Bigfooters everywhere are catching the holiday spirit! Ok, a lot of bigfooters leave gifts for bigfoot. It's not just because it's Christmas time. But hey, if ...
Frightened Hunter Videos Treepeeker Bigfoot (Video)
Ok, so this isn't the Patterson film, but it's still pretty interesting. Nv Tv posted the following video taken by a hunter of a possible bigfoot hiding and ...
The Hunt For Bigfoot In Oklahoma
BigfootDaily.com
So, News 9 went along on a Bigfoot exhibition here in Oklahoma to see for ourselves. Under the tall trees of southeast Oklahoma, the slightest shake ...
Bigfoot is seen roaming around New Jersey in 1981
Bigfoot is seen roaming around New Jersey in 1981 (Originally published by the Daily News on June 30, 1981.This story was written by Bruce ...
Bigfoot believers share Northstate sightings
Bigfoot believers share Northstate sightings. The production crew from the show "Finding Bigfoot" on Animal Planet stopped by the Old City Hall in ...
Ohio Bigfoot Hunters Find Strange Tree Damage In Salt Fork State Park
Tim Stover and company continue their recent expedition in the bigfoot hotbed of Salt Fork State Park in Ohio. In this video of their 2nd day at it, they ...
Rare Interview Footage Of The Late Bigfoot Enthusiast Ray Crowe
A real interview. Ray Crowe: a Bigfoot Community organizer and Pioneer in the Pacific Northwest. Founder of the Western Bigfoot Society (1991).
A man imitates the Sasquatch HOWL that changed his life
Sasquatch Chronicles
A man named Ronnie encountered a HOWL in northern California that rocked his world. A man imitates a Bigfoot scream. Sasquatch scream.
NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday
ON THIS DAY IN 1783 - The first executions at Newgate Prison took place.
Is the super rat on the rise?
Bristol Zoo's incredibly cute baby pygmy hippo has...
Newly-discovered snake species has pitch black eye...
Are these weird creatures the giraffe's long-lost ...
Japan Built These Adorable Tunnels to Help Turtles...


Bagan is a plain in the middle of Myanmar, covering a tract of country measuring about 16 square miles along the east bank of the Ayeyarwaddy. The monuments which are now in all stages of decay were erected mostly from the 11th to 13th centuries A.D., when Bagan was the seat of the Myanmar dynasty. Tradition carried by the local chronicles, has it that a long line of fifty-five kings ruled over this kingdom during the twelve centuries. King Pyinbya was the builder of the present-day Bagan city wall. King Pyinbya was the 34th king of the dynasty, who in 874 A.D. transferred the capital from Tampawaddy, now known as Pwasato. The latter was built by Thaiktaing, the 12th king, and there were two other capitals, namely, Thiripyitsaya' built by Thelegyaung, the 7th king and Paukkan built by Thamudrit, the founder of the dynasty in 108 A.D. But the authentic history of the dynasty as supported by epigraphic evidence begins only with, the reign of Anawrahta (1044-77 A.D.). In 1057 Anawrahta conquered Thaton and brought back to his capital the Theravada scriptures in Pali, a large number of Buddhist monks, and artists and craftsmen of every description. From the Mon monks the Bagan people received their alphabet, religion and scriptures. It was from this momentous date that there began the extraordinary architectural and artistic activity which, in a little more than two centuries, covered the city and its environs with thousands of splendid monuments of every shape and size, the inner walls of most of which are decorated with incredible frescoes. The square temples dominated by Mon influence are distinguished by their dark corridors which are dimly lighted by perforated windows and the bright frescoes of variegated colour with Mon writing on the walls. The typical Bagan Style temples are bright and airy within, with imposing plan and height. But there are also some temples with intermediate forms. The end of the thirteenth century witnessed the fall of the Bagan dynasty. Thousands of pagodas were despoiled by the invaders and vandals and the king, who fled from the Chinese, is believed to have dismantled a considerable number of the monuments to collect materials for building forts. Since then the great mass of the religious edifices were left to decay and ruin and today we see no more than a hundred splendid monuments which attract and retain attention and since their foundation, have remained as places of worship.


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Pictured (L-R): International School at Dundee second graders Mariam Hussain, Sophia Orrell, Miyu Ito, and Christopher Garcia pose with "That Poetry Guy" Ted Scheu during his appearance at the school in March.
"That Poetry Guy" Ted Scheu, author of hundreds of fun and funny school, family and sports poems for kids, visited the International School at Dundee last month. Scheu, author of six books, including Getting the Best of Me, I Froze My Mother and Now I Know My ZBCs, talked with students about the power of poems and the ways that they express their thoughts and ideas. He also helped students juggle and play with words to create their own poems.
Award-Winning War Photojournalist Presents "More than a Snapshot: The Fragile Lives of Children in Conflict"


Donna Shrimpton counts herself among the lucky ones.
While it is not uncommon for her to have an epileptic seizure a few times a week, they are a vast improvement on the full-body seizures that she used to experience.
"We finally found medication that prevented the full-body seizures," Donna says.
"Nowadays, the seizures last a few minutes maximum and I just appear a bit disorientated to other people or I might say something strange.
Sydneysider Donna was diagnosed with epilepsy in her mid 20s after a fall during a holiday caused her to hit her head and lose consciousness.
Doctors warned her that epilepsy may be one of the side-effects of the accident — and they were right — but it hasn't stopped Donna, 46, leading a fulfilled life with her husband and nine-year-old daughter.
"I can't drive and sometimes I wish I could, but then I think that Sydney traffic would drive me mad," she says.
This month marks Epilepsy Awareness Month in Australia, Europe and the US, and CEO and Managing Director of Epilepsy Action Australia, Carol Ireland, said it was a pertinent time to address some of the myths surrounding the condition.
"The World Health Organisation once said of epilepsy that there was no other health condition that was more misunderstood," Ms Ireland told MedAdvisor.
So what are some of the most common myths sufferers come across?
"For starters, it's not a rare condition at all, as one in 100 people will suffer from it," Ms Ireland said.
Furthermore, the standard notion of an epileptic seizure consisting of body stiffness and muscle jerking, known as tonic clonic, is also misplaced.
"The tonic clonic type is not the most common, and there are more than 40 different seizure types," Ms Ireland said.
Thankfully, some 70 per cent of sufferers respond to medication, while one-third must try to manage the seizures by identifying any stressors, such as tiredness, that could trigger their epilepsy.
"It's important to stress, too, that it's not a psychiatric condition although some people still have that myth in their heads," Ms Ireland said.
"Epilepsy is genetic." While some seizure disorders are genetic, there are many causes of epilepsy, including a brain tumour, injury, or any other brain disorder.
"You should put something in someone's mouth if they are having a seizure so they don't swallow their tongue." It's physically impossible to swallow your tongue, and putting something in someone's mouth can cause serious damage to teeth and gums, or even cause breathing difficulties.
"Flashing lights causes seizures." Around only three per cent of epilepsy sufferers have seizures triggered by flashing lights.
"Seizures are always a medical emergency." Most of the time, an ambulance isn't necessary if the seizure lasts less than five minutes and the person is responsive five minutes after the seizure ends. However do call '000' if another seizure quickly follows the first, there is food or vomit in their mouth, the seizure is longer than five minutes, the person has difficulty breathing afterwards, is injured, or the seizure occurs in water.
Protect the head from injury.
Roll them onto their side after the seizure ends or immediately if there is food, fluid or vomit in their mouth.
Stay with them until they recover.
Put anything in the person's mouth.
Move them unless in danger.
Source tips: Epilepsy Action Australia.