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Iranian Rapper Salome: Scream to Let Your Voice Be Heard
by Olivia Stransky / September 12, 2011 / 2 Comments
Photo by Salome
Iranian rapper Salome describes herself as "apolitical," but her lyrics call out to a country rife with repression, censorship, and unrest. The twenty-six year old rapper, artist, and textile designer began rapping when she was eighteen and is part of the first generation of rappers in Iran. Though hip-hop is growing quickly in Iran, Salome remains one of the very few female rappers.
Currently Salome is studying printmaking in Japan, but despite the thirteen hour time difference, she was able to meet with me over Skype where we talked about her influences and the dangers of being a rapper in Iran.
BEING A WOMAN SINGING CONSCIOUS RAP
What was/is your family's reaction to you being involved in rap?
Well now they've accepted it, and I'm living on my own, so they're not involved. When I first started they were nervous because things like this are dangerous in Iran. My father especially was nervous for me. I tried to make him understand, and now they're encouraging me and are happy that I'm doing this because they realized that it's something meaningful that I'm doing with my life.
There aren't a lot of female rappers in Iran, are there?
No, there aren't. At least as far as I know there aren't many. In Iranian rap we have problems with definitions. There are girls who call themselves rappers, but their music is nothing like rap. We learned about rap from America, so we're still importing it and trying to mix it with our culture. It's premature right now. When I first started rapping, there were very few people in the whole of Iran that were rapping. So we know ourselves as the first generation because we learned from the masters. We know the definitions, the boundaries, the values, we know what is what.
Right now there's a third generation of rappers in Iran, and most of them have definitions that are so mixed-up because they didn't ever listen to any American rap. I'm not saying that you have to listen to American hip-hop to know what hip-hop is, it's just I believe that if you want to understand something fully you have to go to the roots, and right now there are lots of people that don't know the difference between rap and R&B, for example. It's hard to say. It's a hard topic, I usually prefer not to talk about this.
Can I ask why you prefer not to?
For example, we already have people who think that if you want to make Iranian hip-hop known worldwide you have to appeal to the eye. Someone I know had an idea to find some girls, and he would write the lyrics and the flow and just make them rap and then make a video of them and put them on TV. So basically it's a very primitive version of what's happening in the music industry in America, where you find someone who appeals to the eye even if their talent is average. You make them beautiful and use business strategies to make them blow up and make money. I find the whole idea very ugly, no matter what country it's in.
This is why I never thought of signing to a label; I know that's going to limit my creativity because that's what labels do. They want to earn money and control your direction so that they can have a profit. So there are things like that that I've seen and it's why when this topic comes up—since the girls were used for profit in the name of rap and hip-hop—it just makes me angry. I prefer not to talk about it.
Are there any specific obstacles that you face as a woman who raps?
Not really. I'm not facing any more obstacles than a man because they cannot perform in Iran either. If you're already working underground your gender doesn't matter, so I don't care if they're trying to ban me or not. I guess the only downside to it is you cannot perform independently in bars. But in Iran I don't face things because I'm a woman; men can't do them either. You might not think so because it's Iran and society sees it as a place where "women can't do that," but I guess it depends on where you're coming from. If I was raised in a smaller city and my parents weren't educated I would probably face more difficulties. But I was lucky enough to be raised in an educated family and the people around me now are all culturally rich people, so I didn't face any obstacles specifically because I'm a woman.
Rap has gained a lot of attention internationally as a vehicle for activism. Do you have any thoughts on why rap is such a popular genre for political and social commentary?
First of all you can tell a lot through hip-hop because it's the most direct music style. In one song you can say a lot, compared to any other music genre you can think of. Since the beat and the background is not prominent, your lyrics stand out, and the listener can actually listen to what you're saying. You might be listening to a rock song or a jazz song, just enjoying the harmony without listening to the lyrics. But in rap that hardly happens, especially in conscious rap. I guess after they started to create commercial rap where they're rapping about bling and parties and girls that that kind of music might make you tune out, but rap is the best way to say what you want to say and make yourself heard.
You used the phrase "conscious rap." I was wondering if you could explain what that means for you.
We have a special term in hip-hop, "conscious rap." It's a genre where you are socially and politically aware, you're aware of your environment, you know what you want from your environment, what people are doing around you, you are aware of what politicians are trying to do, and you try to make other people aware of it. That's what conscious hip-hop is. You can call any music conscious music if they are trying to make you aware.
THE RAP CENSORS
Does the government in Iran have any state-sponsored rappers?
I think a few years ago there was an album that got permission from the ministry. We have a ministry named the Culture Ministry that you have to get permission from for anything cultural: Books, music, or whatever. There was a pop singer who got permission for concerts and stuff in Iran, and he made one rap album with permission. I know of some rappers that tried to get permission but couldn't. I find that funny because a lot of these musicians call themselves "underground."
I want to say something about the term "underground." When I say I'm an underground musician it doesn't mean I go underground because I have to, but because I chose to. In Iran all forbidden music is "underground music." Some of these underground artists do want to be mainstream, want to be talking to the masses, but they can't because the government is not letting them. So it's a special situation in Iran because you don't have a choice, and I always want to make it clear that I would be underground no matter what. Even if the Iranian government wasn't like this, I wouldn't try to get any kind of permission from any government anyway. That's just going to limit my creativity. Governments shouldn't be meddling in this kind of stuff regardless.
Could you tell me a little about the 2008 anti-rap documentary Shock? Did it have an effect on the public image of rap and hip-hop?
That was a documentary series that I never actually watched because it makes me angry. I feel like they're so pathetically trying to brainwash people. Every time there is something that is effective among young people the government makes a documentary about it to show how it is evil. It's aimed at the average people who won't read for themselves; they just watch TV and believe everything they're told.
For example, there was this underground rock concert outside of Tehran a few years ago, and the police went there and arrested the performers and a lot of the audience. In the newspapers they said that they caught young people doing satanic rituals. For a while they were saying that rock and metal music are satanic and that the people who like them drink blood. After rap became prominent among young people they made Shock and started to call rap satanic. They would interview these young people who had these crazy hairstyles, who didn't have anything to do with rap, and ask them, "Why do you make your hair like this?" "Oh I saw it on MTV," and then they talk about how MTV is making people worship the devil.
The people that are around me are all educated, self-educated instead of brainwashed, and don't give in to this bullshit, but I'm sure there are people out there who actually believe it. If not, documentaries like that wouldn't be made in the first place. Stuff like this contributes to the distance between the people and the government. Day by day, people are getting more angry than ever before. That's why it's not going to last like this.
The government of Iran has recently announced plans to create a National Internet. As someone who distributes their music online how would you handle a government-controlled internet?
Yeah, I read about that, but it's just one of their things. They say things like that a lot, and they have all these plans that just aren't going to work because it's impossible. They cannot do that. I'm not worried about that yet.
How do you record your music? Is it hard to get a hold of equipment?
When I first started I was paying money to use a studio, but it was getting really hard for me financially. So I saved money and got my own equipment so that I could record at home. The quality is not as good as studio, and my room is not soundproof, but the equipment I got is basically studio equipment. I've been recording at home for five years now. Actually finding equipment in Iran is not hard because equipment like this has other uses too, so they aren't banning it.
Would you be allowed to have a concert?
No, of course not! I have performed live in front of groups that didn't have permission from the government to meet. For example, there's this women activist assembly that meets every year on March 8th. Every year they have to meet in a new place, and I perform for them. So I can perform, but I cannot have an official concert with my posters outside and tickets. I can perform among my friends at parties, at events that don't need permission from the government.
If you're performing unofficially is there any possibility of arrest?
It depends on where I am. At an event like the women activist assembly meeting, which already is dangerous, if the government finds us they will arrest everyone there. But if I'm there it's going to be double-trouble. Maybe they'll say that I'm a devil worshiper! There's always danger. Even if you're partying with your friends at home there is danger because the police can enter and say you were doing whatever.
INFLUENCES AND IRANIAN RAP
Do you have any American influences in your music?
Well, not directly in my lyrics, but there are American rappers who have influenced me and made me be engaged with my environment more. I listen to American rappers like Immortal Technique, Everlast, and Atmosphere. Most of my hip-hop influences were Americans.
What would you recommend to Americans interested in listening to Iranian rap?
Right now Iranian rap is still really young, no more than ten years old. Despite that we already have a lot of bullshit music, and it's hard to find conscious rap. Even in Iran, where you would think that you would only find conscious rap because of the politics, you will find people rapping about having fun and things like that.
Hichkas is a great rapper to listen to, and Reveal is Iranian but raps in English which could be good for Americans to start with.
Are there any major differences between American rap and Iranian rap?
You cannot say "American rap" because there are a lot of different styles and ranges. It's the same in Iran and it's really difficult to make that kind of comparison. It wouldn't really be scientific. If you are going to compare you have to compare two parties that have something in common to begin with.
I can say that the Persian language is structured differently from English. It's a really poetic language so it's really rhythmic and that fits hip-hop. It's not just my opinion, other rappers feel that way too. Persian is made for hip-hop.
Do you see any influences from traditional music in rap in Iran?
Lyrically I was influenced by Iranian poets. I see it in my own music because I have some poets that I really like from Iran, like Rumi. His world view affects me and sometimes I use that world view in my lyrics. I sometimes even quote a verse of his poetry. So lyrically Iranian rap is affected by our culture because we have a lot of good poets in our history.
As for music, there are people that use traditional instruments to make beats so they can make the sound more Iranian. Also there is the rhythm; we have rhythms that don't exist in Western music, like 6/8. There are people that use it in pop music. I've never done that, I always use 4/4, but there are people that try that kind of thing. It can have interesting outcomes.
How do you promote your music?
I used to do graffiti, and everywhere I went I would put it up to promote my website. Also I do a lot of promoting online. It's hard to promote in the streets. When I was in Iran last year I had an exhibition for my art, and in the corner I put some of my CDs for people to take if they wanted. So I do things like that, just not openly.
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2 Comments on "Iranian Rapper Salome: Scream to Let Your Voice Be Heard"
Gerry Hiles September 14, 2011 at 1:48 am ·
Hi Salome,
You have not heard from me for quite some time, but I have been getting your emails and I take delight in knowing that you are having success.
My favourite rap of yours remains \Green Land\,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSdox68-Z-8
But I appreciate all you do, so I am glad that you are getting recognition.
It is very sad, for me, that war is constantly being waged against Islamic countries … I have personal ties with Libya especially.
Can I suggest a rap about the destruction going on there?
Kind regards, Gerry.
Please SCREEM for Libyans being massacred, like those in Gaza.
I lived in Libya for a while and I cry about what is being destroyed by Washington/London/Paris/NATO … where is next? Syria? Lebanon? Iran?
\Listen to me please all you out there, you are next.
It does not matter where you are.
You think you are safe in your homes, but you are not.
Yes you in the US of A, England and France.
You think that your government protects you, but it does not.
It is not YOUR government, it is the government for banks and Zionism.
You think that nineteen Islamic terrorists caused 911 … I have to laugh at that … with dark humour!
911 was an inside job, just to get you fired up to go to war.
You think that you war for freedom, but you war for your own enslavement and the death of innocents.
You are complicit in the slaughter of millions of men, women and children.
You are complicit in bombing hospitals, schools and water supplies.
And you are next.
Those governments you comply with are also destroying those things for you too …. \
Well, Salome, could all that make a rap?
I am way too old, at 68, to do what you do; so over to you, if you think my words have merit.
Best wishes, Gerry.


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The implications for the region and beyond are grave, but it's not too late for a counter-revolution.
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Discover the role pheromones play in human attraction.
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SPEAKER: You've heard the saying, love at first sight, right? Well what about love at first scent? Maybe some of you out there have been thinking about buying some pheromones to put you on the fast track to romance. Before we get into whether or not that's a good idea, let's take a look what pheromones are, and if these things can actually affect the way we think.
Entomologists first identified pheromones in 1959, as chemical substances that were used by insects to cause certain behavioral reactions in their peers. In other words, they were a pretty impressive form of chemical communication in the animal kingdom. As research developed, pheromones were identified in all walks of life, including human beings. However, studying pheromones in insects is a cake walk compared to humans, because we are far more complex creatures.
There's also many kinds of pheromones out there. So let's focus on the pheromones called releasors, the ones that involve sexual attraction. Every individual lives in their own sensory world. And this is the main reason why studying pheromones is extremely difficult. Personal history, or even the context of a perceived smell, can affect an individual's response to it.
For example, you might like the smell of gasoline because your dad was a mechanic. Someone else might hate it because they were in a car accident. Also, there isn't a standard set up for everyone's olfactory system. So each person has a different set of chemical sensors in their nose.
Scientists haven't been able to isolate releasors in humans yet. And it very well could be due to these complications. So if there aren't any isolated human releasors yet, what the heck are they putting in those love potions you buy online?
Most of them contain trace amounts of these three volatile compounds. And believe it or not folks, these are in fact real releasors, and they do work wonders, but only if you're a pig. No, I'm not saying to put the pheromones on and act like a pig. I'm saying that these are compounds that have been isolated in pigs. So if you're feeling suave and dab a little bit of this stuff on your wrists, stay away from the farm. It's for your own good.
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Weekend Recap: Coronavirus hits markets
9 Mar 2020 • 3 minute read
It's Monday again. Time to look back at the weekend that was. There was another twist in the Steemit drama, more fallout from Coronavirus, and a variety of other exciting developments. Fill your boots.
Another twist in Steemit drama
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Sun purchased Steemit, a decentralised social network that sits on top of the Steem blockchain. The Steem community didn't trust Sun, so they voted for a soft fork that stopped him from using those tokens. Sun retaliated by calling the community "hackers," and getting Binance, Huobi, and Poloniex to agree to remove the previous witnesses in favour of just one — @dev365, an account allegedly owned by Justin Sun, the founder of Tron.
Over the weekend, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao attempted to quell concerns that they had helped Sun: "Our relationship with Justin Sun is the same as with any other project listed on Binance. There are no equity holdings or investments of any kind between us," Zhao told CoinTelegraph. " I wouldn't even say I have much of a personal relationship with him outside of work," he added. The full thread is below.
Is this the end of the saga, though?
STEEM thread. I was hoping not to be involved, but alas, doesn't seem to be possible. I did approve the vote from Binance, thinking (wrongly) it was a regular upgrade/fork. For that, I apologize. Guess it is only fair that I get involved until the issue is resolved.
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Ebola Epidemic Highlights the Need for ICD-10
By	Adam Lokeh, MD, and Kathy Lindstrom, RHIA
Original story posted on: February 16, 2015
When the first U.S. Ebola patient was admitted to a Dallas hospital in the summer of 2014, the ensuing media firestorm scrutinized nearly every aspect of the U.S. healthcare system's readiness to deal with an epidemic that had already left thousands dead and dying overseas.
From isolation management and diagnosis protocols to safety procedures and even electronic health record (EHR) systems and utilization, it seemed that no stone was left unturned.
There was, however, one glaring oversight when identifying weaknesses in the U.S. healthcare system: the limitations of ICD-9.
While the rest of the world is leveraging the richness of detail inherent in ICD-10 to track and monitor patients with Ebola and other illnesses and diseases, U.S. providers cannot even code for Ebola because a diagnosis code for it does not exist in ICD-9. Instead it is bundled with "other specified diseases due to virus" or under "hemorrhagic fever not elsewhere classified."
It is not just the rare viruses that are left out in ICD-9. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the final updates to the code set in June 2012. Since then, it has remained frozen in time, with no updates made and no room to make them. Thus, even something as common as new strains of influenza that emerge annually cannot be properly coded under ICD-9.
H1N1 (swine flu) and H5N1 (avian flu) were the last two influenza types to be given separate ICD-9 codes, rather than the strains being added to the lumped-together influenza codes. This means that from a purely statistical standpoint, there is no way to differentiate between patients with H1N1 or H5N1 or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), just as there is no way to differentiate between those with the deadly Ebola virus and those with a similar disease.
The impact of the repeated delays in implementing ICD-10 is being felt beyond our own borders. When the U.S. submits its data to the World Health Organization (WHO) for tracking these illnesses on the global stage, it first must be translated into ICD-10 so it will be comparable with data from the rest of the developed world. Because ICD-9 lacks the specificity of ICD-10, the translated data is generic in nature, which means the quality of U.S. information is subpar to that of many other nations – despite the fact that our advanced utilization of electronic health records (EHRs) has enabled us to collect far greater volumes of data than our foreign counterparts.
Impacts at Home
It may be easy to wave off high-profile, low-volume illnesses like Ebola and MERS as too rare to be considered seriously as it pertains to reasons to accelerate U.S. adoption of ICD-10, but they are nonetheless excellent examples of just how limited ICD-9 is as a code set. It is critical to be able to work with accurate and comprehensive data when tracking potential global epidemics and pandemics, and to be able to compare apples to apples when conducting research or tracking deadly outbreaks — just as it is when tracking for more narrowly defined population health issues.
The granular detail provided by ICD-10 enables early identification of incipient epidemics, such as the reemergence of measles and polio. Whether it's influenza or enterovirus, Ebola or Chikungunya, to effectively track and treat, clinicians must be able to drill down into the data to look for specific variants or diseases to better understand how they are impacting patient populations. ICD-9 simply does not support this level of analysis.
Nor does ICD-9 facilitate the comprehensive level of documentation that lets us leverage coding to drive real-time decision-making. ICD-10 breaks conditions down and provides clinicians with much greater detail to work with, whether retrospectively or to drive clinical decision support.
Advancing Point-of-Care CDS
For example, if a patient's problem list is maintained in the EHR and is coded using ICD-10, it drives more effective decision support at the point of care. It goes beyond standardizing vocabularies, which is only as good as the size of the vocabulary being used. ICD-10 provides the ability to describe patient encounters accurately and fully, in high-definition Technicolor, so to speak, rather than black and white.
If we can only say "other viral infection," as is the case with Ebola in ICD-9, we've removed much of the detail regarding that patient's history that tells the full story. It has been dumbed down to the point of near-uselessness. With ICD-10, you have the robust vocabulary you need to tell a powerful and accurate story that can be reported, shared, and analyzed.
Most importantly, with ICD-10 you have a level of detail that can be leveraged to advance patient care. ICD-10 enables location-specific trauma severity detail that is lacking in ICD-9, information that will move the U.S. healthcare system closer to a universal classification of injuries that more accurately details the resulting mortality risk and probability of residual impairment. For example, in ICD-9, a hand surgeon can code only "open hand fracture." In ICD-10, with a single code, the detail expands to include, for example, "fifth metacarpal fracture," "right," and "postoperative visit."
It is a level of detail that improves not only direct patient care, but also lends itself to better population health management. ICD-10 provides comprehensive, analyzable data that can be used to determine when and how injuries occur for surveillance purposes and to design injury prevention and control initiatives.
Another example of ICD-10's superiority can be found in the patient record. More accurately coded data, stored within the EHR, can be used to generate on-the-fly clinical decision support, such as patient-specific order sets or a scenario in which a clinician is alerted to a possible emergent condition that would otherwise have been missed.
Driving Quality Improvements
Finally, ICD-10 has the potential to provide better data for use in improving quality of care. The robustness of the code set lends itself to data that better depicts severity and mortality, which is crucial to measuring clinician performance against patient outcomes.
The ability to do this has taken on greater urgency in light of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announcement that by the end of 2016, 30 percent of Medicare payments should be based on value provided versus quantity of service. By the end of 2018, that proportion should increase to 50 percent.
It's an ambitious target for providers to hit, and it will be nearly impossible to do so when relying on ICD-9 codes for reporting.
Stop Delaying the Inevitable
Ebola may never return to the U.S., but its brief stay within our borders drove home the realities of just how much our healthcare system is limited by its adherence to ICD-9. Continuing to delay the inevitable move to ICD-10 is impacting our ability to drive population health at the local, national, and global levels. It is impacting our efforts to advance care quality and outcomes through improved decision-making at the point of care.
Simply put, ICD-9 has outlived its usefulness and is limiting our contributions to global healthcare.
Adam Lokeh, MD is a practicing plastic surgeon at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota and vice president of clinical development and informatics with Wolters Kluwer Health.
Kathy Lindstrom, RHIT, is a coding specialist with Wolters Kluwer Health.


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Q: Finding objects within objects I'm trying to search inside an object array to see if any object contains the object I'm looking for and assign it to a variable.
This is the interface that I'm using. Basically I have an array of countries, each of which has it's own array of cities.
import { ICity } from "./city";

export interface ICountry {
    name: string,
    capital: string,
    language: string,
    population: number,
    density: number,
    area: number,
    majorCities: ICity[]
}

The object I'm looking for is the city parameter of this function, but it always returns undefined. What is the best way to find country which a certain city belongs to?
remove(city: ICity): void {
    var country;
    this.countries.forEach(cn => {
      if (cn.majorCities.includes(city)) {
        country = cn;
        console.log(cn);
      }
    });
    console.log(country);
  }

A: The best way (in my opinion) is to store country id in city so you can find it easier.
But in this case you can do it like below:
remove(city: ICity): void {
  var country;
  this.countries.forEach((cn) => {
    if (cn.majorCities.find(c => c.toLowerCase() === city.toLowerCase())) {
      country = cn;
      console.log(cn);
    }
  });
  console.log(country);
}

A: Your ICity type object is not just a simple string I assume, so a check like:
if (cn.majorCities.includes(city))

would just return true if one of majorCities elements is the actual instance referenced via the city variable.
As your ICity interface surely consists of something like a name property
e.g.
interface ICity {
name: string
}

you should check for such a string-type property.
if (cn.majorCities.some((el) => {
        return el.name == city.name

    })) {
    // do something
}

A: You should do like below

const countries = [{
    name: 'Iran',
    cities: ['Shiraz', 'Tehran']
  },
  {
    name: 'Germay',
    cities: ['Berlin']
  }
]

const findCity = (city) => {
  countries.forEach(country => {
    if (country.cities.includes(city))
      console.log(city, 'has founded!')

  })
}
findCity('Shiraz')

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Q: Html code removal error while loop c# I'm creating a small piece of software that takes the HTML data from a specific website(The SCP foundation to be precise) and I am having trouble removing the html code (<html> <br> etc...). I need to remove the html so it doesnt show up in the final string(newDescri) but everytime i call this function, it freezes my windows form. Thanks in advance!
void HTMLrem()
        {
            while (htmlf)
            {
                string text = data;
                htmlcode = getBetween(text, "<", ">");

                if (htmlcode != "")
                {
                    newDescri = newDescri.Replace("<" + htmlcode + ">", "");
                }
                else
                {
                    htmlf = false;
                }
            }
        }

edit: so sorry, i forgot to paste the code the first time facepalm

A: Yeah, as was said, you should show some code and be specific.  If you're aiming for just removing HTML from a string, then the following answer may help:
How can I strip HTML tags from a string in ASP.NET?
If you're having the form itself freeze, one way you can deal with determining what's causing it is by setting a breakpoint early on, and gradually step to the section that's causing the problem.  You can get it down to the method/call that's doing it.


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//
//  NSDate+BRAdd.m
//  TestIMDemo
//
//  Created by 任波 on 2017/7/28.
//  Copyright © 2017年 renb. All rights reserved.
//

#import "NSDate+BRAdd.h"

@implementation NSDate (BRAdd)
#pragma mark - 获取系统当前的时间戳,即当前时间距1970的秒数(以毫秒为单位)
+ (NSString *)currentTimestamp {
    NSDate *date = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:0];
    /** 当前时间距1970的秒数。*1000 是精确到毫秒,不乘就是精确到秒 */
    NSTimeInterval interval = [date timeIntervalSince1970] * 1000;
    NSString *timeString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%0.f", interval];

    return timeString;
}

#pragma mark - 获取当前的时间
+ (NSString *)currentDateString {
    return [self currentDateStringWithFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
}

#pragma mark - 按指定格式获取当前的时间
+ (NSString *)currentDateStringWithFormat:(NSString *)formatterStr {
    // 获取系统当前时间
    NSDate *currentDate = [NSDate date];
    // 用于格式化NSDate对象
    NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    // 设置格式:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss
    formatter.dateFormat = formatterStr;
    // 将 NSDate 按 formatter格式 转成 NSString
    NSString *currentDateStr = [formatter stringFromDate:currentDate];
    // 输出currentDateStr
    return currentDateStr;
}

#pragma mark - 获取聊天消息时间
+ (NSString *)chatTime:(long long)timestamp {
    NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
    // 1.获取当前时间的年、月、日
    NSDate *currentData = [NSDate date];
    NSDateComponents *currentComponents = [calendar components:NSCalendarUnitYear | NSCalendarUnitMonth | NSCalendarUnitDay fromDate:currentData];
    NSInteger currentYear = currentComponents.year;
    NSInteger currentMonth = currentComponents.month;
    NSInteger currentDay = currentComponents.day;

    // 2.获取消息发送时间的年、月、日
    NSDate *msgData = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:timestamp / 1000.0];
    NSDateComponents *msgComponents = [calendar components:NSCalendarUnitYear | NSCalendarUnitMonth | NSCalendarUnitDay fromDate:msgData];
    NSInteger msgYear = msgComponents.year;
    NSInteger msgMonth = msgComponents.month;
    NSInteger msgDay = msgComponents.day;
    // 格式化
    NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
    if (currentYear == msgYear && currentMonth == msgMonth && currentDay == msgDay) { //今天
        formatter.dateFormat = @"  HH:mm  ";
    } else if (currentYear == msgYear && currentMonth == msgMonth && (currentDay - 1) == msgDay) { //昨天
        formatter.dateFormat = @"  昨天 HH:mm  ";
    } else { //昨天以前
        formatter.dateFormat = @"  yyyy年M月dd日 HH:mm  ";
    }

    return [formatter stringFromDate:msgData];
}

@end

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Michael Samuels' sculptures suggest barely visible traps and little pitfalls. Never played out as full-blown atrocities or spectacular disaster, his works nonetheless- as we approach them more closely- suggests things that might go wrong. Tables and chairs, balancing precariously, may fall. Or, in the earlier works, the seductive travel agent's idyll of a South Sea island. Soon leads us in the direction of discovering that Utopia may lack the means by which to feed us, or perhaps even the slight suggestion that we could end up as food sources ourselves….
This is not to suggest that Samuels' works are pessimistic or negative. Quite the contrary, they often have a joyful playfulness and wide eyes awe of a child, able to make extensive narrative fantasy out of basic matter. There is a way that his work as a sculptor is unabashedly geeky: the way he uses honed technical skills to nurture the maximum impact out of fairly mundane materials. It's not unlike someone's dad locked away in the secrecy of the attic, building the ultimate model railway. Michael Samuels' work is most definitely that of an artist whose ode to the unsung hobbyist is implicit. His work is dripping with admiration and appreciation of the rather beautiful human drive to make complex and elaborate facsimiles of the world in all its detail on a small scale. Or to knock up technically precise household furniture in a garage workshop. And, even if we argue that these activities share certain control freak elements with megalomaniac militarists- the model railway is not far from the battle of little soldiers- that are almost benign. There are few weekend carpenters or model railway enthusiasts who turn their hands to the production of weapons. The relevance of all of this to Samuels' work may not be apparent at first. In the main, we rightly understand his work- particularly the recent bodies of work that have eschewed the use of scale models representative elements in favour of working in a more non-illustrative way: as being concerned with the formal aspects of objects in space. His trop that's is less concerned with actually constructing a representation or narrative illusion as and end in itself and more with questioning the reading of various meanings attributed to sculptural forms within a space. Of course, narrative and representational elements are essential to this core area of research. Without constructing and experience that overly refers to recognizable contexts- domestic furnishings and common tools-those questions about the visual language of objects would be insufficiently evocative-too abstract- for the kind of questions he poses for the audience.
Perhaps it is pure speculative projection to look to London based Samuels' Australian upbringing. And yet, this work that shares certain commonalities with the narrative structures that we find in much of Australian creativity, particularly in film. It might be reasonable to say, for example, that the most powerful Australian creative products have often taken stereotypical aspects of Australian cultural identity- such as a certain geographical isolation, an outdoorsy suburban lifestyle or anti intellectualism- and subverted them with certain kinds of humour into something that become both impregnated with a distinctly Antipodean flavour, whilst finding resonance way beyond that notorious geographical location, so far from many more densely populated regions of the globe.
Samuels' works do have inherit qualities with the materials and motifs that we can readily see holding a resonance for such cultural narratives. The Formica and wood of the recent sculptures readily fit with the laid back suburban lifestyle that we understand form soap operas beamed around the world, complete with aesthetic qualities that denote practicality and perhaps even a preference for comfortable nostalgia rather than chic sophistication. The miniature car park in which a drugs deal might have gone wrong has more of a whiff of a deserted nighttime lot besides a suburban mall than downtown ghetto. And the picturesque islands on which ironic horror might occur are all too frequently the ideal destinations Australian travellers who are ambivalent in their denial of being stereotypes.
It is into this world that Samuels takes us and it is with in the lives of the people he encourages us to invent through the imagery of such work that his small-scale dramas or tragedies are introduced. In this, its shares a lot in common with the best of Australian cinema or fiction. Furthermore, again showing certain similarities with tendencies in other Australian art forms, it is exactly this tension between the modest, domestic scale of the tales told and the actual depth and complexity of experience related that the power of the work lies. Understatement as a means of addressing serious content, especially through humour, is present in Michael Samuels work in much the same way that it is in the works of Australia's most talented filmmakers. The little dramas played out on Samuels' islands have a quirky almost cute side to their humour: these are not really dramas that we should take too seriously. And yet, of course, they are. They are every bit as much about failure, damage and death as any dark Teutonic misery-fest. Underlying the laconic and non-confrontation al imagery, his are works that address exactly the same traumatic questions about human existence that other tropes address in far more angry or aggressive manners. This questioning or underlying morbid preoccupation, however, is far less evident or, at least, far more sublimated and dissipated in the more recent works. Toppling over, after all, is not necessarily as serious as languishing in starvation on an island surrounded by shark-infested waters. And it certainly seems that Michael Samuels is, for the present at least, turning his attention to questions sculptural rather than existential. Or, in any case, not in the very human sense. Existence - of the object in actual space and all of its tangential ramifications- remains at the heart of these new works.
One might even go as far as to say, the more recent body of work has become less about the potential for toppling over and far more about evoking a sense of joy and pleasure in remaining erect. These are works that elaborate the clever mechanisms and techniques by which the often-monumental piles of furniture remain upright, epic, proud and gravity- defying. They are much more about architecture and engineering, perhaps even making the linkages between these esteemed and import ant disciplines and fairly basic human drives for ordering and creating things from the grubby shambles of the natural world. The kid flipped in to a hyperactivity episode by the appearance of Lego or Meccano is, after all, an essential prerequisite if we are to continue to grow adult architects and engineers. The little gasps of cleverness at Samuels' precise cutting of legs or insertions of joints into the cannibalized domestic-looking furniture - facilitating that the whole stands almost illogically straight and stable- makes the links between the solutions that children learn to find with toys and the marveling respect that we feel when we see an architect do something clever and seemingly impossible with concrete and steel. If the possibility of collapse and failure are never entirely absent in the more recent work, they are certainly not one of the main narratives playing out in the centre of the frame as they often were in earlier works.
It is also perhaps testament to Samuels's skill and evolution as a sculptor that these new works can operate on various levels without overly elaborate explication. A friend, recently critiquing the work of a talented young painter said, "He has a lot less to do." Implicit in this sharp-eyed comment is the recognition that, as an artist develops, his or her restraint and editorial skills become an increasingly powerful strength. There is a way in which Michael Samuels' more recent bodies of works demonstrates that the almost obsessive narrative details that he used in earlier works, now having undergone a process of full exploration, are not required to address the topics raised by the newer bodies of work. Of course, the same level of craft is still there. But, like a much more experienced musician, here it is not necessary to dazzle with conspicuous trills and overt decoration. Bold blocks of colour used repetitively, replicated incisions of similar proportion or forms repeated in different scales all work as a sculptor's version of a restrained palette or minimal variation of form. As a result, the very precise and insightful discourses about aesthetics and composition actually made by these work s arrive silently, without fanfare. Samuels quite intentionally draws us in to a state of delight with the aspects of the work that are immediately and overtly clever. But it is only when we linger longer, that we realize that these sculptures are not nearly as incidental as they seem. If the initial experience appears to be about serendipity, it soon turns out that these works are entirely about a planned, constructed reality, By displacing our thinking through the initial reading of the work - the red herring that we are dealing with something that is almost certainly about domestic forms only- Samuels cleverly makes his more architectural points quietly. Only when our curiosity makes us spend time with the work to understand exactly how it was made do we undergo certain realizations. Like Todorov's theories s on the detective novel, the works run two narratives in opposing directions. We live out the forward narrative. Ours is the story of the audience investigating how the work has been constructed. And, in so doing, we uncover the backwards narrative, the story, unfolding in reverse order, of how the sculptor has made the work. With lessons learned as children, we take something apart in order to learn how it was put together.


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The slippery slope of the human gene editing debate
The Human Gene Editing Debate
By John H. Evans
The ethical debate about what is now called "human gene editing" (HGE) began sixty years ago. At the time, eugenicist scientists wanted to use new knowledge about the structure of DNA to modify humans—to perfect the human species by making us more healthy, musical, intelligent, and generally virtuous. A consensus later formed that gene editing on individuals to remove disease is acceptable, but nobody should try to change the human species. This is known as the somatic (individual) vs. germline (species) distinction, and it served as a moral limit on HGE for 50 years. A few years ago the news broke that a Chinese scientist had facilitated the creation of children who have been genetically modified so their descendants would also be modified—germline HGE. The germline limit now seems to be gone. Are there any limits left?
The HGE debate, like many bioethical debates, is set up like a slippery slope. At the top is an act universally considered morally virtuous (point A). Stepping on the slope at the top makes the act a little bit further down the slope (point B) slightly more likely because people have gotten used to A. Having arrived at B, it is more likely that the debate will allow C, even further downslope. Having reached C, it is more likely that the debate will reach the dystopian bottom of the slope that nobody at point A wanted to reach.
The classic slippery slope concern is that euthanasia for the terminally ill (point A) will slip to the severely depressed (point B), which will slip to adults who do not want to live anymore (point C), to children who do not want to live (point D), and eventually to E—for people who have outlived their social utility. For debates like this, it is not that you do not get on the slope at A, but rather that you try to stop the slipping by creating a moral distinction that serves as a barrier—to keep it from sliding down to where you do not want to go.
In the HGE debate, 50 years ago everyone got on the slope at point A, which was somatic gene therapy—healing genetic disease in existing people in a way that the changes would not pass on to descendants. The bottom of the slope in the debate, let's call it D, is portrayed as an unequal world of genetic control of the species where people are designed for particular purposes. This has been metaphorically represented by the novel Brave New World and the movie Gattaca. People got on at A because they wanted to relieve suffering of existing people, and because they thought the somatic/germline barrier below would hold. If we stopped at germline modifications, HGE could not slide to species perfection. Now, the scientists who do this type of research are creating plans for more germline HGE. There are no agreed upon barriers between where we are now and the bottom of the slope.
If we look at the debates, at first glance there appear to be barriers. But, what sound like barriers in the debate are not actually limits but are conditions—speed bumps that have to be passed on the way down the slope. The first condition is safety—no HGE should occur unless it is safe. Of course, all agree with this, but note that this means that if Gattaca-style germline genetic control were to become safe it would be acceptable. Safety is a speed bump, not a barrier.
Others in this debate say that editing embryos is a type of reproduction, and women have an autonomous right to modify their children, in the same way they have a right to an abortion. This is also not a barrier, because people could autonomously select any modification they want, such as cognitive enhancements.
Scientists and bioethicists often say they want to limit editing to improving "health." "Health" is of course a notoriously slippery concept, which the World Health Organization famously defined as "a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." With this definition, "health" could encompass any social problem, particularly when it is the autonomous individual who will decide what "health" means to them.
It turns out that the somatic/germline distinction was the last clear barrier between the universally accepted somatic gene therapy for disease and the dystopian bottom of the slope. The somatic/germline barrier served to assure people that they could advance the moral good of somatic therapy without the risk of dystopia and reassured the public that scientists believed in limits. Scientists are moving past that barrier. For those who want to avoid the bottom, and those who want the public to support applications like somatic gene therapy, it is critical to develop some limits to our technological abilities.
Featured image via Pixabay
John H. Evans is the Tata Chancellor's Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, Associate Dean of the Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of California, San Diego.


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#include "LinuxWin32.h"

#if defined WIN32 || defined WINAPI_FAMILY
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <Windows.h>

#define THREAD_HANDLE			HANDLE
#define MUTEXT_OBJECT			HANDLE
#define MUTEX_INIT				INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE
#define CRITICAL_SEC_OBJECT		CRITICAL_SECTION

#else
#include <pthread.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define THREAD_HANDLE			pthread_t
#define MUTEXT_OBJECT			pthread_mutex_t
#define MUTEX_INIT				PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER
#define CRITICAL_SEC_OBJECT		pthread_mutex_t
#define INFINITE                0xFF
#endif // WIN32

#define WAIT_OBJECT_UNLOCKED	0xFFFFFFFF
#define FAILED_EXIT_CODE        0xFFFFFFFF

typedef void (*ThreadMgrFunc)(void* pParam);
typedef void* THREAD_MGR_HANDLE;

class CThreadMgr
{
    typedef struct _tagThreadInfo
    {
        THREAD_HANDLE hThread;
        ThreadMgrFunc fnThreadFunc;
        void* pArg;
    } ThreadInfo;
public:
    CThreadMgr() : m_psInfo(NULL)
    {}

    virtual ~CThreadMgr()
    {
        if (m_psInfo != NULL)
        {
            delete m_psInfo;
        }
    }

    static void ThreadSleep(const unsigned int& nMilliSec)
    {
#ifdef WIN32
        Sleep(nMilliSec);
#else
        sleep(nMilliSec/1000);
#endif
    }

    THREAD_MGR_HANDLE StartThread(ThreadMgrFunc threadFunc, void* pParam)
    {
        THREAD_MGR_HANDLE sResult = NULL;
        if (threadFunc == NULL)
        {
            sResult = NULL;
        }
        else
        {
            m_psInfo = new ThreadInfo;
            m_psInfo->fnThreadFunc = threadFunc;
            m_psInfo->pArg = pParam;

#ifdef WIN32
            m_psInfo->hThread = CreateThread(NULL, 0, ThreadFunc, m_psInfo, 0, NULL);
            if (m_psInfo->hThread != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
#else
            int nRetCode = pthread_create(&m_psInfo->hThread, NULL, ThreadFunc, m_psInfo);
            if (nRetCode == 0)
#endif
            {
                sResult = (THREAD_MGR_HANDLE)m_psInfo;
            }
        }
        return sResult;
    }

    bool IsThreadRunning()
    {
        bool bResult = false;
        if (m_psInfo != NULL)
        {
            if (m_psInfo->hThread != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
            {
#ifdef WIN32
                if (m_psInfo->hThread != NULL && WaitForSingleObjectEx(m_psInfo->hThread, 0, TRUE) != WAIT_OBJECT_0)
                {
                    bResult = true;
                }
#endif
            }
        }
        return bResult;
    }

    static void StopCurrentThread(_In_ unsigned long ulExitCode)
    {
#ifdef WIN32
        ExitThread(ulExitCode);
#else
        pthread_exit( (void*)ulExitCode);
#endif
    }

    unsigned long WaitForThreadToEnd(_In_ unsigned long ulTimeout)
    {
        unsigned long ulExitCode = FAILED_EXIT_CODE;

        if (m_psInfo->hThread != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
        {
#ifdef WIN32
            unsigned long ulRetCode = WaitForSingleObjectEx(m_psInfo->hThread, ulTimeout, TRUE);
            if (ulRetCode != WAIT_OBJECT_0)
            {
                ulExitCode = FAILED_EXIT_CODE;
            }
            else if (!GetExitCodeThread(m_psInfo->hThread, &ulExitCode) )
            {
                ulExitCode = FAILED_EXIT_CODE;
            }
            else
            {

            }
#else
            void* threadResult;
            if (pthread_join(m_psInfo->hThread, &threadResult) != 0)
            {
                ulExitCode = FAILED_EXIT_CODE;
            }
            else
            {
                ulExitCode = (unsigned int)(intptr_t)threadResult;
            }
#endif
        }
        return ulExitCode;
    }

protected:
#ifdef WIN32
    static unsigned long WINAPI ThreadFunc(void* pthreadParam)
#else
    static void* ThreadFunc(void* pthreadParam)
#endif
    {
        ThreadInfo* psInfo = (ThreadInfo*)pthreadParam;
        psInfo->fnThreadFunc(psInfo->pArg);

#ifdef WIN32
        CloseHandle(psInfo->hThread);
        psInfo->hThread = NULL;
#endif
        return 0;
    }

    void CloseThread(THREAD_MGR_HANDLE handle)
    {
        if (handle != NULL)
        {
            ThreadInfo* psInfo = (ThreadInfo*)handle;
            if (psInfo->hThread != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
            {
#ifdef WIN32
                CloseHandle(psInfo->hThread);
#endif
                psInfo->hThread = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
            }
        }
    }

private:
    ThreadInfo* m_psInfo;
};

class CMutexMgr
{
public:
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Like always, your dumps are adorable and bring out my fangirl for disgaea..always !!
I'm super glad you're still doing these !!
I'll happily continue to support your future works and continue to look forward to them !
Is that angel Prinny Big Sister Prinny?
By the way this reminds me. Get Disgaea 4 vita when it comes out!
I picked up a japanese copy and it is fantastic!
If you memorize Disgaea 4 then you don't need to speak japanese to import.
I was a fool to do so.
despite the fact that my hours of resetting will be in vain when the english version is released.
Is it just me or was D4 revisited the absolute worst SE that NISA has ever made?
A poster, a cloth and 3 keychains that are really just tiny posters.
PS: I'm still kinda mad at you guys about the Valvatorez pillow.
That is some amazing sketches! I like it!
and the prinnies lining up for valvatorez.


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The Walking Dead started with Rick Grimes. We all remember the very first episode when Rick got shot down, has been comatose and when he awaked, he and we as Fans realised that the Zombie-Apocalypse is real.
We followed Rick through 9 Seasons, what he created was a milestone on the Story of TWD.
Andrew Lincoln is Rick. Rick IS TWD and TWD without him ISNT TWD.
So with this petition we as Fans of The Walking Dead and Andrew Lincoln/Rick Grimes want to show Angela Kang, TWDs new Showrunner, how much we want him back.
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Tennessee lawmakers confused and fearful after mistaking mop sink installed in men's room for a Muslim foot-washing station
By Hayley Peterson
Republican lawmakers from Tennessee can breathe a sigh of relief after they have confirmed that a recently installed mop sink at the State Capitol Complex is not, as they had feared, a basin for Muslims to wash their feet before praying.
The floor-level sink installed in the men's restroom outside the House Chamber was part of a $16 million renovation to the Capitol building that was completed in December.
Two Republican lawmakers, who happened to co-sponsor a bill last year that would make certain Muslim practices a felony in the state, reportedly brought their concerns about the purpose of the basin to Senate Clerk Russell Humphrey.
Confused: Republican lawmakers from Tennessee expressed concerns that a recently installed mop sink at the State Capitol Complex was actually a basin for Muslims to wash their feet before praying
Republican state Sen. Bill Ketron confirmed to the Associated Press that he had spoken to Humphrey about whether the basin served any religious purposes after the issue was first raised by Rep. Judd Matheny.
'I just asked the question about what was the intent of that,' Ketron told the AP. 'And it satisfied my curiosity after it was presented to me.'
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Matheny, however, is denying any involvement in the matter.
'I don't know what you're talking about,' he told the AP. 'It's not ringing a bell.'
Humphrey confirmed that he had been approached by a House and Senate member regarding the purpose of the sink but he would not identify the lawmakers or elaborate on what they said.
Concerned: Sen. Bill Ketron (pictured) and Rep. Judd Matheny were among those reportedly concerned about the new sink
Denial: Rep. Judd Matheny (pictured) is denying any involvement in the matter, although Sen. Ketron said he first raised concerns about the sink
'There was concern about why [the sink] had been modified,' Humphrey said of the confrontation.
The new basin replaced an older mop sink that was slightly raised off the ground.
Ketron and Matheny sponsored a bill two years ago that would outlaw parts of Sharia law, the moral and religious code of Islam.
The Muslim faith requires followers to cleanse their faces, hands and feet before praying.
A number of universities came under fire six years ago for installing foot baths for Muslim students to use before daily prayer sessions.
TN lawmakers confuse mop sink for Muslim foot-washing sink


Viviane Robinson is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Learning, Development and Professional Practice, Faculty of Education, The University of Auckland and Academic Director of its Centre for Educational Leadership, which has delivered the national induction programme for new school leaders for the last 10 years. Viviane also leads the Leadership Research Group at the Faculty, which carries out research that covers a broad range of issues in school leadership, educational policy and leadership skills, particularly interpersonal leadership skills that are crucial to effective leadership.
Viviane specialises in school improvement, leadership and the relationship between research and the improvement of practice. She is the author of five books and numerous chapters and journal articles. Her latest book entitled "Student-Centred Leadership" an evidence-based account of how school leaders can make a bigger difference to student outcomes and the knowledge and skills they need to do so.
Viviane has consulted on leadership development and research to government agencies and organisations in England, Singapore, Chile, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Over the last four years she has been running professional development courses in Open-to-LearningTM and conferences on student-centred leadership in Denmark and Norway.
Viviane has received awards from national and international professional organisations including the Australian Council for Educational Leaders and the New Zealand Secondary Principals Association. She is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association for sustained excellence in educational research. Over the last year, Viviane has been made an Officer of the Order of New Zealand Merit for her services to education and won the University of Auckland's Vice Chancellor's Medal for Excellence in Research Commercialization. She has also been appointed by the New Zealand Minister of Education as an expert adviser to the OECD conference on the education profession and assigned as one of nine national judges of the Prime Minister's Education Excellence Awards.
What is educational leadership and how is it distinctive?
What are the direct and indirect impacts of leadership on student outcomes and how do these impacts occur?
What leadership capabilities are required for making a greater impact on student outcomes?
What types of intervention are effective in developing these capabilities?
Supervision areas: Leadership, administration and organisational and school effectiveness.
Preferred methodology: Mixed methods and qualitative.
Robinson, V., Bendikson, L., McNaughton, S., Wilson, A., & Zhu, T. (2017). Joining the dots: The challenge of creating coherent school improvement. Teachers College Record, 119 (8), 1-44.
Robinson, V. M., Meyer, F., Sinnema, C., & Le Fevre, D. (2016). Truth-seeking or truth-claiming? Leaders' patterns of social problem solving. Paper presented at 2016 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA. 8 April - 12 April 2016. Related URL.
Le Fevre, D., Robinson, V., & Meyer, F. (2015). The challenge of open-minded leadership: An examination of leaders' stance when engaged in conversations about educational concerns. Paper presented at ISATT 2015: 17th Biennial Conference of Teachers and Teaching, Auckland, New Zealand. 13 July - 17 July 2015.


Past research has proven that palliative care — specialized medical care focused on pain and symptom management as well as psychosocial interventions to improve quality of life — benefits patients with malignant diseases such as aggressive cancers. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) health care providers are now studying whether palliative care can also benefit those with advanced liver disease, a diagnosis that precedes either a life-saving liver transplant or death.
Advanced liver disease, also known as decompensated cirrhosis, is a progressive illness that develops after chronic inflammation leads to cirrhosis or scarring of the liver, which leads to a significant disruption of the liver's function. While the hepatitis C virus and alcoholism are leading causes, fatty liver disease from obesity is also a growing reason for the disease's development, said Martin.
The only existing cure for advanced liver disease is organ transplantation, but many patients who need a transplant don't receive one due to a shortage of donor organs or they can't undergo liver transplantation for other medical reasons.
Patients with advanced liver disease can develop ascites or fluid in the abdomen, as well as fluid in their lungs and severe muscle pain and cramping. These individuals have to follow a specific diet and strict fluid restrictions, and all these factors can greatly affect their quality of life, she said.
Study participants are adult patients admitted to Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital with advanced liver disease and a poor prognosis, as identified by their hepatologist.
Participants either receive usual care for their disease management or usual care with the addition of palliative care services.
Those services, involving both patients and their caregivers, include education, symptom and pain management, as well as addressing other issues such as stress and depression.
Vanderbilt has a hospital-based Palliative Care team led by specialty-trained physicians, nurse practitioners, case managers and social workers. Palliative Care staff also work closely with other specialists, including pastoral care, child life and pharmacy.
Study participants who receive palliative care services receive follow-up telephone consultations with palliative care team members for at least one year after their hospital discharge. All participants complete surveys at specific points throughout the year.
"We're hoping to find that patients who receive palliative care will go for longer periods of time before a hospital readmission, but more importantly, we're gathering data on quality of life, symptom management and caregiver fatigue, and we're hoping to show significant improvement in these areas as well," Martin said.
Investigators aim for the study to be replicated for other patient groups in the future, such as those with end-stage lung disease, and end-stage cardiac disease. The hopes are to develop a protocol for engaging palliative care services in patient care that can be applied to many disease processes and even at other institutions.
Chan Chung, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, has regularly referred patients with severe liver disease to Palliative Care when he feels those services will improve their quality of life, and he is part of the research team for this study.
"Subspecialists like me tend to focus on the medical condition," Chung said. "We have limited time during clinic visits or even in the hospital, and we don't always have time to ask our patients, 'How are you feeling about all of this?' or 'Does your family understand what's going on?' I do have those discussions with my patients, but at the same time I appreciate someone who can spend additional time and has professional expertise in terms of symptom management and quality of life issues stepping in.
"People often have the misconception that palliative care is a death sentence, and it's just not. It's about giving patients and families more options. It's comprehensive care. I have seen how our palliative care colleagues can really help patients and families achieve liver transplantation and also to help improve their quality of life even if they are unable to undergo liver transplantation," Chung said.
The study, named the Creation of Models for Palliative Assessments to Support Severe Illness (COMPASS) Investigation: Testing Early and Ongoing Implementation of Palliative Care for Incurable Non-malignant Diseases (NCT03022630), began in February 2017 and is expected to end in 2020, with a target of 400 participants.


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Q: What is the bottleneck algorithm for medical imaging applications? What is the computational bottleneck algorithm for medical imaging applications? We are trying to figure out if there is a benefit to run these algorithms on regular cloud server instances or GPU accelerated server instances.

A: Unless the software has been specifically designed with GPU processing power in mind, GPU accelerated instances will be about the same performance as regular commodity server instances, only at a higher price.
I'm willing to gamble and say that the bottleneck of any algorithm, medical or not, imaging or not is the rate at which you can throw data at the CPU, and the number of cores, and the clock rate.
Get some fast CPUs, Insanely fast RAM, blindingly fast striped/mirrored storage, and do it that way.
I suspect that you'll probably find that running on "the cloud" is actually counter-intuitive, or at least counterproductive, as many cloud service providers don't tune their storage backends to cater for high performance computing, but more to providing a little bit of IO to the masses.
I think you'd be better off with owned dedicated hardware, that way, you can spend more time and money in efficiently tuning the hardware stack to match your software stack.  Any cloud service provider (including Amazon) will give you some trade offs and compromises.
Oh, and don't forget about not putting all your eggs in one basket.  What happens when Amazon goes offline, and nobody can examine any X-Rays, or the poor schmuck who put a heart monitoring application on Amazon Cloud instances, and Amazon went offline in a massive outage.
Aside from the compromises  of cloud hosting, the problems of being redundant and resilient to provider outages, not putting critical infrastructure on the cloud, there's other questions surrounding the architecture of your application itself.. Will it scale linearly?
I bet it won't.

A: By benching a GPU-like implementation against Cloud Server instances, you can see huge FPS differences [1, 2] for operations on large (e.g., CR) images. However, on the other hand, the GPU can be occupied with a lot of memory and therefore delaying and giving continuously dropouts. Therefore, a Cloud Server solution could be more stable with not as many dropouts and a smoother feeling but with lower FPS.
[1] Zhang, Lequan, et al. "A high-frequency, high frame rate duplex ultrasound linear array imaging system for small animal imaging." IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control 57.7 (2010).
[2] Miguez, D., et al. "A technical note on variable inter-frame interval as a cause of non-physiological experimental artefacts in ultrasound." Royal Society open science 4.5 (2017): 170245.


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