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Wednesday Oct 24 DENNIS LEHANE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24; 5:30 PM DENNIS LEHANE will make his first appearance at Books & Co and will be introducing Live By Night, a prohibition-era tale that catapults readers between 1920s Boston and Florida where we meet a cast of...
Wednesday Oct 24 MARTHA MOODY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24; 7 PM MARTHA MOODY will introduce her new novel, Sharp and Dangerous Virtues, which is set in Dayton, Ohio in 2047. It's a much different Dayton than today. In response to food and water shortages, we find...
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24; 5:30 PM
DENNIS LEHANE will make his first appearance at Books & Co and will be introducing Live By Night, a prohibition-era tale that catapults readers between 1920s Boston and Florida where we meet a cast of hard-living gangsters, petty criminals and two memorable women. It begins in 1926 in Boston where readers are thrust into the black market's maze of underground distilleries and speakeasies that are home to gangsters and corrupt cops and takes us to Tampa's Latin Quarter where similar activity is thriving. It's a tale of swindling and strong-arming that pits one gangster against another in a fight for respect, superiority, and firm control of the Atlantic coast's rum business, told by a master of his craft.


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Q: How to capitalize first letter of EACH WORD, in input type text $(document).ready(function () {
    $(document).on('keydown', '.FIRSTNAME',
        function (event) {
            if (this.selectionStart == 0 && event.keyCode >= 65 && event.keyCode <= 90 && !(event.shiftKey) && !(event.ctrlKey) && !(event.metaKey) && !(event.altKey)) {
                var $t = $(this);
                event.preventDefault();
                var char = String.fromCharCode(event.keyCode);
                $t.val(char + $t.val().slice(this.selectionEnd));
                this.setSelectionRange(start, end);
            }
        });
});

can you use my code and edit it?
the difference is the first letter in every word...
I just want to capitalize the first letter in every word
someone help me... tnx in advance

A: No need of using the javascript. You can simply do it in CSS using text-transform: capitalize; like this

<input type='text' name='name' class='name' style="text-transform: capitalize;" placeholder='Enter your name here'/>

A: jquery this way easy capitalize first letter of EACH WORD, in input type text

Capitalize the first letter of all words in a string: <input type="text" id="txt_firstCapital" name="txt_firstCapital" />

A:

function capitalize(obj)
{
    obj.value = obj.value.split(' ').map(eachWord=>
      eachWord.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + eachWord.slice(1)
    ).join(' ');
}
<input type='text' id='textfield' onkeyup='capitalize(this)'>

A: This can be done with this function in JS
function firstCap(str)
{
 return str.toString().replace(/\w\S*/g, function(txt){return txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() +
 txt.substr(1).toLowerCase();});
}

A: You only needed css to fix it. Add the below code in your css.
.FIRSTNAME{
  text-transform: capitalize;
}

OR try this
<input type="text" id="txtval" style="text-transform:capitalize" />

this works
NB: There is no need of jquery for this.

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Digital Signage Federation Member BrightSign Offers Tool to Help with AV Professionals Improve Installation Efficacy
Digital Signage Benchmark Platform Makes it Possible to Virtually Test Content Compatibility of Digital Signage Hardware Prior to Installation
Warrenton, VA – June 4, 2018 – The Digital Signage Federation® (DSF), the only independent not-for-profit trade organization serving the digital signage industry, today announced that it will be adding a new tool to its member-created resource library. The Digital Signage Benchmark (DSB), developed and managed by DSF member BrightSign, is a new device-agnostic testing platform designed to enable systems integrators and Pro AV specifiers to load-test digital signage hardware prior to deployment. DSB is a free resource used to evaluate whether digital signage hardware performance is adequate to support the type of content being created for an installation. The ability to simulate hardware/content compatibility prior to the actual content delivery and installation gives AV professionals peace of mind that the hardware they specify for their projects will support the content being created for those installations.
"The Digital Signage Federation is bringing awareness of this member-created benchmarking tool, and other industry advancements like it, to help the digital signage industry improve the efficacy of its installations," said Richard Ventura, Vice President of Strategic Management, DSCE, NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc. and DSF Chairman. "This innovative tool can help integrators, developers and end-users to optimize their hardware decisions for the types of content to be displayed.The DSF appreciates BrightSign's effort to create and share this tool, which can be a useful additional resource for our members."
UHD video, HDR color space, HTML5, CSS animations, live video playback, WebGL, touch & mobile interactivity, IP streaming and video-on-video overlays are some of the robust content sources populating today's digital signage. This breadth of content becomes problematic when various content sources are played on a signage network incapable of properly displaying the content. The DSB empowers AV professionals to evaluate hardware performance prior to installation, using a testbed of content sources to assess hardware/content compatibility. For more information, visit www.digitalsignagebenchmark.com.
About Digital Signage Federation®:
DSF®'s Mission is to support and promote the common business interests of the world-wide digital signage, interactive technologies and the digital out-of-home network industries. The DSF® is a not-for-profit independent voice of the digital signage industry reflecting the diversity of its membership. It promotes professional recognition through certifications, continuing education, conferences, publications, and presentations offered by the DSF® and affiliate groups. It provides regulatory advocacy to leverage the collective strength of members and represent their interests at the higher levels of government and the community. The DSF® provides leadership and networking opportunities focused on building a strong foundation for the advancement of the digital signage industry. For more information, visit www.digitalsignagefederation.org.
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Tuesday 5 November 1918 We Lost 1,324
by greatwarliveslost
Arthur John Palliser
During strong winds, HMS Campania begins to drag anchor in the Firth of Forth. Soon it collides with another ship anchored nearby, HMS Royal Oak, which in turn collides with HMS Glorious. A gaping hole is torn in the port side of the Campania and it begins to sink by the stern. Just over three hours later it sinks stern first.
A 7-victory ace
A former member of the All Blacks Rugby Club
The son of a member of the clergy
Multiple families that will lose two and three sons in the Great War
A man who had two cousins killed last year
Captain Harman James Lindale Willink (Duke of Wellington's Regiment) is killed at age 32. He is the son of the Reverend Arthur Willink Vicar of Nackington.
Captain Arthur Brownlow Denham-Cookes (London Regiment) dies at home at age 27. He is the son of the 'Honorable' Mrs. Denham-Cookes.
Captain Robert Edward Watson Semple MC (Royal Field Artillery) dies of wounds received in action on 22nd October at age 22. He is the son of Lieutenant Colonel 'Sir' David Semple and his older brother has been killed in action in 1916.
Lieutenant Norman Royston (Royal Air Force Kite Balloon Section) dies of pneumonia at age 19. His brother died of wounds in October 1916.
Lieutenant Arthur John Palliser (Australian Flying Corps) a seven-victory ace is killed in action at age 28.
Lieutenant James Hyslop MM (London Regiment) is killed at age 32. His brother was killed last March.
Corporal Edwin George Page (Warwickshire Regiment) dies at age 22. His brother was killed in August 1917.
Lance Corporal Arthur Frederick Huckle (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) is killed in action at age 24. His brother was killed in October 1916.
Corporal Edward George Page (Warwickshire Regiment) dies at age 22. His brother was killed in August 1917.
Private Reuben Morris (East Surrey Regiment) dies of wounds at Agra, India at age 32. He is the youngest and last of three brothers who lose their lives in the Great War.
Rifleman Alexander Joseph Ridland (New Zealand Rifle Brigade) is killed at age 36. He is a former member of the All Blacks Rugby Football Club.
Gunner James Jeffrey Huggan (Royal Garrison Artillery) dies of wounds at age 30. His two cousins were killed last year.
Filed Under: Artillery, Australian Flying Corps, Military Cross, New Zealand Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy
Tags: Yeomanry


Devices are cool and they're fun and they're not just for adults. A much better resolution is to present them the Good Circuits Video games & Gadgets Electronics Lab. The headphones, which are available in two colors (iridescent steel or rose gold), are compatible with MP3 gamers, cell phones, and different audio units with an ordinary headphone jack. Then watch as this compact gadget, which received finest robot" at the 2015 Shopper Electronics Show, follows your design.
There's a selection to select from out of the brand new arrivals in electronic devices as well as excessive-tech standbys. The internet of things and the digital integration of the fashionable-day home is in full effect and I've searched high and low for among the more creative and useful digital house gadgets. Most of the retailers across the world do enterprise with Chinese wholesalers as they get these electronics gadgets for a really low value so that they'll preserve an excellent revenue margin and enhance their business.
Electronic items are indisputably hot objects out there immediately and entrepreneurs or on-line resellers like you should have a greater chance of creating it huge in this business by retailing electronic devices. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play combines the awesomeness of a play station and the functionality of a phone, supplying you with double the explanations to invest in it. It means that you can play greater than 40 video games, which embrace the all time favorites, Guitar Hero and FIFA.
That's the reason we've come up with 10 cool gadgets on your kids this 2017. It's these units we're recognizing in this checklist of the 50 most influential gadgets of all time. Whereas spy listening devices could appear cool it's illegal to use them in some areas and courts of legislation will not enable recordings from them for use as evidence except each events taped have signed release kinds.
Glass confirmed that designers working on computing devices that are worn face a special set of assumptions and challenges. Use voice instructions, like play my music" to stream Prime Music, Spotify, Pandora, or IHeartRadio by the machine, your headphones, or Bluetooth speakers. The electric automobiles, smartphones and other assorted goodies — just like the water bottle that may additionally brew coffee due to a constructed-in battery — would be the talk of 2018.


just to get to it.
Maybe ard the height of the Cosmos or slightly taller will be good?
Do you even have a Stacker? They're huge.
Did get to see both the Cosmos S & Stacker 832 in store, torn between the 2.
Love the design of the Stacker but wishing it's as big as the Cosmos.
Well, I think you'll find you have plenty of room in either case to do whatever. It sounds like you'll be using a modular psu, so cable management should be a walk in the park for you. As for height, The stacker does come with attachable wheels that makes it plenty tall enough and with the front panel connectors/buttons on the top, you won't need to bend down at all. Everything's within easy reach. I don't think you'd really notice the difference between the cosmos and the stacker in real world usage.
My system's a bit torn apart atm, but I could post some pics if you'd like.
What could you possibly need a bigger stacker for?
For example original real Stackers have internal height for PSU both above and below motherboard, 83x only on one side so more important than precise external measures is how that space is used.
I couldn't even fit components I have to those.


Check the On/Off switch on the device; it may be loose.
Thanks for the help. But it looks like its time to take it in for service.
i have the same problem and i cant use my pod x3 live, can you help me?
If it's the same problem, then you should follow the instructions in this thread. The last resort is to take it in for servicing.
I had the same.In the middle from the power side there is a spool of wire.
I had the same problem. After inspection I observed that the small spool of wire had come loose from the board (part 221 in vulgaris73 post)and one of the wires came un-soldered. I re-soldered the wire and the unit is working OK. If you are not experienced with soldering I recommend you take your unit to an electronics repair shop or send it in for service.


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Claudette Powell (born 24 October 1952) is a Bahamian sprinter. She competed in the women's 100 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics. She was the first woman to represent the Bahamas at the Olympics.

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Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1971 Pan American Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for the Bahamas
Place of birth missing (living people)
Pan American Games competitors for the Bahamas
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Home » Stake a Health Claim
Stake a Health Claim
By Charlotte Atchley
With consumers increasingly concerned about health, slapping a health claim on packaging seems like a surefire way to get them to purchase a product. However, making a health claim on a food product requires more than enthusiastic marketing copy and eye-catching design. The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) requirements regarding health claims can be fraught with the threat of warning letters and unfriendly jargon. Still, linking snacks or baked goods to disease prevention or a healthier lifestyle can help a favorite product fit into the health-conscious consumer's shopping cart.
A health claim expresses or implies the relationship between a substance in a food and a disease or health-related condition. These claims can be in the form of a statement on a label, a symbol, a third-party reference or a vignette. FDA allows three main types of health claims that food companies can make on packaging: authorized claims, qualified health claims and FDA Modernization Act of 1997 (FDAMA) claims.
Authorized and qualified health claims must undergo the evaluation-based review system, which involves FDA examining all available science-based literature submitted by the company on the relationship between an ingredient and a disease or health condition. Not only are the findings evaluated, but FDA judges the methodology of each study to discern the strength of the science behind each claim.
In 2003, the FDA issued the Consumer Health Information for Better Nutrition Initiative, which allows qualified health claims to be made on conventional foods. The initiative was intended to provide more information to consumers concerning their diets and health. Qualified health claims still must be supported by publicly available evidence reviewed by FDA, but the evidence doesn't need to be as strong as that supporting authorized health claims. The wording of these health claims must come with a disclaimer letting the consumer know that the strength of the science backing up the claim isn't conclusive.
According to a health claim expert at FDA, if the agency establishes a health claim relationship and verifies the scientific evidence once, then any company can use that health claim on a product that meets the claim's requirements. No notifications, petitions or reviews are necessary. A list of these claims can be found on FDA's website,www.fda.gov. If a company wishes to use a claim that hasn't been reviewed, the company must petition FDA and submit all the science-based literature supporting the claim to undergo the evaluation-based review system, which can take the agency months.
FDAMA claims are statements that resemble health claims and are supported by an authoritative report such as the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. A company must notify FDA of its intention to use an FDAMA claim and submit the authoritative report that supports it, said an FDA health claim expert who spoke with Baking & Snack under the condition of anonymity. FDA then reviews the report and issues a response that dictates the exact wording that must be used when making the claim.
LOST IN TRANSLATION.
Although some health claims have become more available for food companies, most gravitate toward nutrient content claims over health claims. According to Elaine Meloan, director, food labeling, AIB International, Manhattan, KS, a nutrient content claim such as "fat free" is easier for consumers to grasp than the complex wording required for health claim statements.
For instance, a claim about walnuts cannot simply say on the packaging, "Walnuts may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease." According to FDA, the claim's wording must be exact. Because the evidence supporting qualitative health claims is limited, the statement must be qualified with a disclaimer to prevent misleading consumers.
In the case of walnuts, the qualified health claim on a package must read, "Supportive but not conclusive research shows that eating 1.5 oz per day of walnuts, as part of a low-saturated-fat and low-cholesterol diet and not resulting in increased caloric intake, may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. See nutrition information for fat [and calorie] content." While this wording may not misinform consumers, it won't get them excited about the health implications of a product either.
Despite tougher requirements governing authorized health claims, the wording of the claim on the package doesn't have to be exact. According to Ms. Meloan, authorized claims have recommended wording and certain elements that must be included in the label, but the final wording of the claim is more flexible.
"There are many popular health claims, but you don't see them on a lot of products, and I think that's because of the cumbersome language required," said Lee Sanders, senior vice-president, government relations and public affairs, American Bakers Association. "For example, folic acid is a great message and a great opportunity, but the language that you have to put on your label is hard to fit on."
Simplifying the language of health claims, however, is a task that falls on FDA. Bakers, snack producers and their organizations can only suggest to FDA that this change be made.
"I think if we were able to streamline the language and shorten it, make it more concise and consumer-friendly, then it would encourage bakers to have more of those types of claims on their products," Ms. Sanders said. She added that companies producing foods with enriched or whole-wheat flour should take advantage of any opportunity to the tout health claims that come naturally for their products.
WORTH THE RISK.
The requirements and challenge of fitting a health claim on a label may seem daunting and not worth the risk of an FDA warning letter, but Ms. Sanders said she believes companies have a lot to gain from pursuing health claim labels.
"I think consumers look for those messages," she said. "When they're looking for a specific product and they see those descriptors on the packages, then it helps them make a choice."
With today's tightening budgets, she added, consumers are looking for their groceries to do more for them nutritionally, and including health claims on packaging helps them make informed choices to meet their families' nutritional needs.
Foods that make health claims must also qualify as containing low levels of negative nutrients such as fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium and high levels of a positive nutrient such as certain vitamins or minerals, protein, or fiber.
"Some of the current health claims are not that hard to meet if you truly have a healthy food," Ms. Meloan said. "If your food meets the requirements for 'low fat,' you already meet the health claim concerning dietary lipids and cancer, and you can make a statement such as, 'Development of cancer depends on many factors. A diet low in total fat may reduce the risk of some cancers.'"
The amount of information on label claims — health claims and nutrient content claims — can be overwhelming, and it is easy to get lost in the maze of online resources. For links to all information regarding regulations, petitions and a list of existing health claims, visitwww.fda.gov/Food/LabelingNutrition/LabelClaims/default.htm. The Grocery Manufacturers Association offers seminars, conferences and resources to help food manufacturers break down food labeling atwww.gmaonline.org/resources/gma-claims-prgram. AIB International also offers seminars and guidance on labeling, and if a company is still stuck, AIB has food labeling experts to assist with specific labeling needs. For more information, visitwww.aibonline.org/researchandtechnical/services/foodlabeling.???


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Q: Как выбрать конкретный элемент Html если у него такой же класс как и другого элемента? Проблема вот в чем, путём  document.getElementsByClassName('class'); я получаю доступ к первому элементу с классом "class". Но мне нужно выбрать второй, как это сделать?

  //этот нужно выбрать

A:

// методом document.getElementsByClassName('class'); получаем не первый элемент
// данного класса, а все...
console.log(document.getElementsByClassName('classs'));

// первый мы получаем методом document.querySelector('.class')
console.log(document.querySelector('.classs'));

// что бы получить нужный элемент способов куча...  все завист от для чего и где

// если у элемента нет уникального идентификатора как в данном случае
// то просто по индексу
console.log(document.getElementsByClassName('classs')[1]);

// или можно ему присвоить ID уже без индекса получить его по ID
console.log(document.getElementById('vtoroi'));
//или так
console.log(document.querySelector('#vtoroi'));

// если это какая нибудь функция в которой должен делать что-то именно второй
//элемент то так

// надо прокрутить в цикле
var classs = document.getElementsByClassName('classs')

for (let i = 0; i < classs.length; i++) {
  classs[i].addEventListener('click', function() {
    // и тут условие
    if (classs[i] == classs[1]) {
      this.style.background = 'red';
    }
  })
}

  Первый. Кликни по мне

  Второй. Кликни по мне


It is my belief that this surge of interest is no accident, but rather a sign of the collective realization that we must maximize the potential for young learners to have access to both traditional foreign language education and to immersion programs, beginning at the earliest grade levels, with continued sequential learning supported through Pre-K/K-12, and with planned transition bridges to college and university, where a variety of pre-professional and interdisciplinary curricula will provide career pathways to careers in language services, international business, STEM, and beyond.
It necessary to continue to develop partnerships among community and other foreign language advocates and stakeholders.
A dreary Friday afternoon was brightened by two special exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC — Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, and Visitors to Versailles: 1682-1789.
Our first stop after arriving at the museum was Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, well suited to its setting in the beautiful Robert Lehman wing. I enjoyed seeing old favorites like A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and Le Parc Monceau, as well as works by Monet, Corot, Caillebotte, and many more within the context of the evolution in garden spaces and in awareness of the green spaces around us.
Video depicting Monet painting in his famous garden in Giverny, and L'Arroseur arrosé, an early comedy on the trials and tribulations of the garden and its gardener by Louis Lumière, were a wonderful addition to the exhibit.
We then visited Visitors to Versailles: 1682-1789, which highlighted the opulence and grandeur of the Palace of Versailles as it welcomed visitors from Europe, America, and beyond — including Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.
Magnificent though Versailles may have been, the story of its expansion from simple country chateau to world showplace during the reign of Louis XIV, followed by its decline in the years leading up to the French revolution in just over a hundred years, clearly demonstrates the transitory nature of power and influence. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Both exhibits exceeded expectations, bringing back memories of my own visits to Versailles and of time spent in the Jardin des Tuileries and other beautiful green spaces in Paris.
The rest of the afternoon European painting, European sculpture and decorative art, the American Wing, and the Temple of Dendur.
An early, yet memorable, dinner in The Dining Room at the Met, overlooking the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, in Central Park, concluded our visit.
We then attended an interesting event at Albertine, located in the nearby Payne Whitney mansion, a conversation on bilingualism and the brain.
The importance of France in world culture and history, and in our own American story, was the recurring theme of the entire day.
I am so happy to have attended the discussion on bilingualism yesterday evening at Albertine — featuring a conversation between Dr. Fabrice Jaumont and Dr. Ellen Bialystok, and introduced by French Cultural Counselor Bénédicte de Montlaur, engaging speakers all.
Speaking before a full house on "The Brain and the Benefits of Bilingualism," Dr. Bialystok spoke at length on the benefits of bilingualism, reminding us that so many of the world's people speak one or more additional languages.
In addition to Dr. Bialystok's insightful remarks and evident depth of feeling on the importance of languages, highlights of the evening included her preference for "monolingual disadvantage" rather than the often-used term "bilingual advantage," and Dr. Jaumont's perceptive comment that the monolingual disadvantage can be cured!
Feeling so fortunate to have the opportunity to be in the presence of a scholar whose writings have so often inspired me and who graciously and thoughtfully answered many, many questions from those present, I asked what advice she would offer to parents, educators, language advocates, and other language stakeholders. Her reply was — "confidence" — that we should be "confident" in making our case for languages in our schools and communities.
Every revolution begins with one person — an old, but true saying.
We are, indeed, fortunate, to have had the privilege of learning about the most current research on bilingualism from Dr. Bialystok, and for having in our metropolitan NYC area a leader and "bilingual revolutionary" in Dr. Fabrice Jaumont.
The conversation resonated with me both personally and professionally.
Growing up in a North Jersey community where bilingualism in Spanish and English was the norm, and later serving as my hometown's first bilingual public library director, bilingualism has been a lifelong interest.
Living for some years in Québec, where bilingualism in French and English is part of the Canadian way, I was inspired by research and teaching at Université Laval and its Centre international de recherches sur le bilinguisme led by Dr. William Mackey, which drove my own graduate research on comparative stylistics in French and English under the direction of noted scholar and expert Jean-Louis Darbelnet.
Many thanks to the French Cultural Services and to French Cultural Counselor Bénédicte de Montlaur for having organized this event, and special thanks to Dr. Fabrice Jaumont and to Dr. Ellen Bialystock for this significant conversation.
Delighted to have received my copy of my article, "Maximizing Study Abroad," in the May issue of Language Magazine.
Nearly 2,000 downloads for my newest book on the US Foreign Language Deficit — Thank you all!!
"If you thought the U.S. was a pricey place to live, think again.
"French is littered with pesky 'false friends' – so don't just try and say English words in a French accent.
The false friends of the French language can be harmless, inconvenient, or downright embarrassing.
ICYMI — "Kathy Stein-Smith explains why demand is growing for French the world over.


This letter agreement (the "Letter Agreement") will summarize the basic terms which Peabody Energy Corporation (the "Company") believes would be appropriate to govern a continued employment relationship between you and the Company until such time as you would relinquish your duties and responsibilities as the Company's Chief Executive Officer and continue as the Company's Chairman of the Board with expanded responsibilities as set forth in the attached Amended and Restated Employment Agreement (as further described in this Letter Agreement) and thereafter.
As you know, the Company has elected its new President and Chief Executive Officer, to become effective January 1, 2006 (the "Effective Date"). The Company believes that a gradual transfer of your duties and responsibilities as the Company's Chief Executive Officer to your successor over several calendar months is an essential step to ensure a smooth transition in connection with your succession. Therefore, the Company would greatly appreciate it if, throughout the balance of this calendar year 2005, you would agree to acquaint your successor with the duties and responsibilities associated with the Chief Executive Officer position with the Company and perform such transition duties as shall be approved by the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") to ensure a seamless transfer of your duties and responsibilities as the Company's Chief Executive Officer to your successor.
As a result, until the end of calendar year 2005, you would continue to be employed by the Company as its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board under the terms and conditions of the Employment Agreement made as of May 19, 1998, between you and the Company, as previously amended (the "Existing Employment Agreement"). The gradual transfer of duties and responsibilities between you and your successor and any Board-approved organizational modifications relating thereto, as described in this Letter Agreement, would be deemed not to constitute Good Reason for purposes of the Existing Employment Agreement or any other relevant agreement between you and the Company.
enter into an Amended and Restated Employment Agreement for a two-year term beginning on the Effective Date and ending on December 31, 2007, with possible renewal periods, if mutually agreed upon, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by reference.
Please confirm your agreement with the foregoing (including, but not limited to, the terms and conditions of the Amended and Restated Employment Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by reference) by signing and dating the enclosed duplicate copy of this Letter Agreement and returning that copy to me, or contact me with any questions or comments you may have. If you terminate your employment with the Company at any time before the Effective Date after having executed this Letter Agreement, the Amended and Restated Employment Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A would not be applicable.


Facing scrutiny over his apparent embrace of nuclear proliferation, Donald Trump's transition team on Friday released a week-old note from Russian President Vladimir Putin wishing the president-elect happy holidays and laying the groundwork for collaboration once he takes the oath of office.
Russia's U.S. embassy later confirmed the letter's authenticity.
Trump included a statement of his own with the release of Putin's letter, saying he agrees with the underlying premise of greater collaboration.
What's curious about the matter is the timing. Putin's letter is dated Dec. 15. Why Trump waited until now to make it public isn't precisely clear. But the context seems pertinent. On Thursday, Trump issued a tweet that many interpreted as a call for expanding America's nuclear arsenal, shortly after an article surfaced saying Putin wanted to do the same in his country.
The presumption here is that the globe is about to experience a revival of some Cold War-style tete-a-tete. But the result could actually be something far different: collaboration, not conflict, between the U.S. and Russia.
Putin, for one, said he was not bothered by Trump's tweet on Thursday. And as Ron Rosenbaum reported for Slate, Trump has been considering a deal with the Russians ― in which the two countries would effectively serve as the world's nuclear policemen ― since the late '80s.
"Most of those [pre-nuclear] countries are in one form or another dominated by the U.S. and the Soviet Union," Trump said back in 1987.
This story has been updated to note that Russia's embassy confirmed the authenticity of Putin's letter.


Part two of this adventure revolved around staying with friends and friends' families.
For two weeks I traveled the Midwest, sometimes camping, sometimes staying with people I knew (or people of people I knew.) It turns out I know a lot of Midwesterners, and their company was a nice reprieve from solitude.
In Macomb, Illinois I stayed with my girl Ricci's mom, Beth. In Chicago I stayed with my old coworker Kevin. In Athens, Illinois (a charming little town outside of Springfield) I stayed with my old roommate Zac's family. Zac, in case you didn't read this post, is one of several reasons why I asked Joe out. He also threw me a sweet bon voyage dinner party the night before I left town, at which he cooked my favorite authors' favorite foods. (Hemingway's gazpacho was delish.) Zac's marrying us in September. I've also convinced him to MC the event.


In this section you can find some information on research projects, feasibility studies and requests for services of the bioPmed members.
The bioPmed Innovation Cluster is financed in the framework of "ERDF-POR Piemonte 2007-2013 Activity I.1.2 Poli di innovazione".
TecnInn, hard technologies including new materials, electronics, information science, precision mechanics, microfluidics, nanotechnology etc.
NdHCA, sectors not directly connected with human health, that is market needs related to products or processes that may indirectly lead to benefits in the health care area (for example, instruments, innovative food products with effects on human health, research kits, etc).
Project focused on health care problems are also developed in other Regional Innovation Clusters. A synthesis (September 2012) is present in the document in italian: "I poli di innovazione della Regione Piemonte e il focus di bioPmed: le progettualità legate alla salute umana emerse negli altri contesti".
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Walt Disney World Changes; Distancing, Capacity, and Mask Changes
Fresh on the heels of the news that Universal Studios Orlando would be reducing their physical distancing requirements from 6-feet to 3-feet, Walt Disney World is following suit. Add in that Disney CEO, Bob Chapek shared more details in today's earnings call and it sounds like many of these things will be changing fast. With increased demand in the Disney Parks and the pandemic beginning to slow, Walt Disney World has already made an effort to begin returning things to normal. For Walt Disney World the coming changes at the state and local levels are almost constant. With recent changes to self-service stations, temperature checks, and parking, this distance requirement is just another change on the docket, on the way back to normalcy. Here is the round-up of things changing at Walt Disney World.
1 Face Masks No Longer Required
2 Physical Distancing Changes
3 Ride Queue Distancing Changes
4 Capacity Changes at Walt Disney World
5 Why does Disney Still Feel So Crowded at Reduced Capacity?
6 Temperature Checks Have Been Removed
7 Parking Returns to Normal
8 Other Changes at Walt Disney World
Face Masks No Longer Required
Effective immediately, Walt Disney World is no longer requiring the use of face masks in outdoor common areas or pool areas. Face Masks are still required for indoor areas, like restaurants, attractions, theaters, etc. As always keep an eye on Disney's experience updates page for continuing changes.
"…today's guidance that we got from the CDC in terms of those that were vaccinated do not necessarily need to wear masks anymore, both outdoors and indoors. Is very big news for us, particularly if anybody's been in Florida in the middle of the summer with a mask on. That could be quite daunting. So we think that's going to make for an even more pleasant experience and we believe that as we're now bringing back a lot of people back to work, that it's going to be an even bigger catalyst for growth in attendance, and we've been quite pleased to date." – Bob Chapek
Physical Distancing Changes
Effective immediately, in alignment with Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings' three-phased plan, theme parks in Florida are allowed to change their six-foot distance requirements to three feet. For Walt Disney World, this means they are "allowed" to lift this requirement, but they will be doing so gradually. As physical distancing measures are reduced across the park guests, this comes with a few exceptions. Six-foot distancing measures are still in place and mean to continue in all restaurants and dining locations as well as all gift shops and retail.
Ride Queue Distancing Changes
One of the biggest things influenced by the physical distancing change is the ride queue lines. If you're been in the parks at all this year or last you know that at six feet apart even the shortest lines weave through the park, affecting the flow of traffic and crowd perception. We don't know how long three-foot distancing will be in place but for the time being this change will help the parks handle increased capacity.
Capacity Changes at Walt Disney World
What is Capacity at Walt Disney World during COVID? So, how will these capacity limits affect your vacation? Remember that capacity will be very controlled via the Disney Parks Pass system Reservation app. This is in place until at least 2023. You must have both a ticket and a reservation to get into the parks. Resort guests will not have guaranteed entry to the parks. Everyone will need both a ticket and a reservation. Knowing this capacity is helpful, but in real life, won't matter if you haven't gotten the ticket and reservation. Disney CEO Bob Chapek, announced in MAy 2021 that Walt Disney World is increasing capacity slowly up from 35%. Shown below are the percentage caps in each Disney Park.
At 35% capacity levels, the number of people for each Disney Park is as follows.
Magic Kingdom: 31,500 people.
EPCOT: 38,500 people
Animal Kingdom: 21,000 people
Hollywood Studios: 21,000 people
At 50% capacity, the number of people for each Disney Park is as follows.
Why does Disney Still Feel So Crowded at Reduced Capacity?
We're gonna be honest here. At 35% capacity, it FEELS CROWDED! Like really crowded. While we don't have exact answers on this one we can give you some musings on why we think it feels crowded. As a disclaimer, we've been going to Walt Disney World annually since 2013 and have been out-of-state Annual Passholders for a bulk of that time, so we've seen it ebb and flow. That said, we're going to break this down with a ton of guesses! Enjoy!
You Don't Know What Full Capacity Feels Like
Have you ever experienced Disney at Full Capacity? While many Disney Vacationers can often feel the weight of the crowds, unless you have been there on Christmas Day you probably have never felt it at Full Capacity. So who's to say that you haven't been experiencing Disney all this time at 60% capacity, and now 35% feels like too much?
Many Things are Still Closed
BEFORE, many guests could be found spending time in restaurants, the gift shops, and all their favorite rides. NOW, some restaurants aren't even open and for restaurants still, open there is limited seating and limited hours. Some rides also aren't open or have limited capacity, so fewer people are on rides. Character Meet and Greets aren't even happening, so those 30 people that used to be in line to see Cinderella, are now out in the midway, searching for their next thing to do. Or crowding the sidewalk for the next Character Cavalcade. Gift Shops now have six-foot distancing requirements and more staff than ever monitoring this. So what used to be a lovely browse is now a game of frogger trying to find that jersey and get the heck out of there.
Less Open Hours
Shorter hours and loss of magic hours, both in the morning and evenings can be contributing. Each park's hours are up in the air almost daily. And without anchor events like the fireworks, parades, or parties to pull in crowds only at certain times, the "general crowds" are happening all throughout the day making things feel generally congested.
Fewer Areas Open
FEWER SPACES ARE OPEN. Much like we see at random Magic Kingdom parties there when spaces get closed in the park, people all gravitate towards the same areas. So you will naturally see more crowds. For example, Magic Kingdom's Big Top Souvenir's was closed when we went last, this pulls huge family crowds away from the Dumbo section of the park and into other sections instead. In EPCOT, Future World is still under construction- so entire spaces are literally taken away from the previously large park footprint, forcing guests into areas that are open.
Lines Appear Longer and Crowd the Midway
Lines at Walt Disney World still include 3-foot distancing. As a result, gone are the days of smashing together inside the It's a Small World Ride. Now, lines fill quickly and spill over into the very visible midway areas. This gives the impression that there are crowds, when in fact you may just be seeing more people.
Buildings Are Minimally Used
Buildings are NOT BEING USED like they used to. Remember the good old days when you'd head to the Land building for your Soarin' FastPass, stop by Living with the Land and grab food at Sunshine Seasons so you could check out the cupcakes in the pastry case? Buildings even have stricter requirements regarding capacity, so your time in these spaces is hurried, pushing you back into the crowds.
You're in a Smaller Park
Are you feeling crowded at Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios? As Walt Disney World's SMALLEST Parks, they naturally fill up faster than the other parks. With substantially less stomping ground and rides that are off-limited due to their indoor nature, you will likely feel the crowds here first.
People's Park Time is Spent Differently
While the Disney Park Pass Reservations system is generally a good thing, people are hyper-aware now that getting into a park, potentially staying in the park, and making the most of their time at that park is necessary. Where previous Disney vacations may have included breaks at the resorts, or late mornings or early evenings, today's park atmosphere is not filled with leisure. Previously long lunches, strolling with your coffee, or having a 20-minute break in an indoor experience like Philharmagic or Mickey Shorts Theater, don't really feel safe, and some of these experiences aren't available anyway. Many things are no longer part of the Disney Park experience- at least not right now.
You're More Aware of Your Personal Space
You're more "Aware" of the Crowds. While this may sound like a cop-out answer, we can't tell you how much we felt the weight of the crowds when we last visited Walt Disney World. Between being aware of 3-foot distancing, trying to make sure our restaurant table was far enough away from others, and finding random corners to stop and take a drink, the day gets exhausting. And of course, making sure our hands didn't touch anything, and saving bathroom stops for the ones we knew were less crowded definitely took its toll! While previous Disney Trips regularly included people bumping into us, strollers everywhere, and people smashed together in lines, everyone is avoiding these types of interactions.
Temperature Checks Have Been Removed
Walt Disney World has removed temperature checks in all locations across the parks, including in restaurants. This was a blanket change as a result of the recent state order.
Parking Returns to Normal
Previously allowing cars to park only in every other space, cars parking in any of the Disney Parks parking lots are now able to park in every space, as directed.
Other Changes at Walt Disney World
In addition to all the recent changes, there is also a move across the park to return to normal.
Self-Service Drink Stations are now Open to Guests. Previously, only accessible via a cast member, Disney guests can now get fill and refill their refillable mugs at Disney Resorts. Character Dining returns May 18th at select Walt Disney WorldRestaurants; Chef Mickey's at Disney's Contemporary Resort, Cape May Café at Disney's Beach Club Resorts, and Tusker House Restaurants at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
Visiting Walt Disney World in 2021
With all the changes at Walt Disney World, be sure to keep an eye on the news, as it's changing fast! And as a reminder, a Disney Park Pass Reservation is required in addition to a valid ticket to enter any Walt Disney World park. If you're visiting Walt Disney World this year, be safe and have fun!
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian, 1756-1791): Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro"
From a tent in Scotland, we go today to the opera. Mozart's birthday is Jan. 27th, and we will celebrate it when the time comes, but one day is not enough for him! Mozart's favorite genre, and arguably the one that informs all the others he wrote in, was opera. He loved the drama and the characters, and the complicated, often very silly, plotlines--which definitely describes "The Marriage of Figaro." Sometimes overtures incorporate tunes that come later in an opera, but this overture is completely unrelated to later themes; it merely serves to set an energetic, fast-paced, and good natured mood. Enjoy!


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Tyreke Evans posterizes Gary Neal [video]
It has been a rough season for the Kings, but Tyreke Evans gives Sacramento Anaheim fans hope with this wicked dunk on the Spurs' Gary Neal.
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Tags: 2010-11 NBA season, Anaheim Royals, great dunks, Sacramento Kings, Tyreke Evans
DeMarcus Cousins expected to be suspended after altercation with teammate [video]
Posted by John Paulsen (02/14/2011 @ 1:53 pm)
FanHouse has the details about the altercation that DeMarcus Cousins had with teammate Donte Greene after the Kings' loss to the Thunder on Saturday night.
Kings rookie forward DeMarcus Cousins was removed from team plane bound for Phoenix after an altercation with teammate Donte Greene on Saturday night, according to two sources close to the organization.
The incident, which was first reported by FanHouse, immediately followed a loss to Oklahoma City. Cousins, who had overcome early-season struggles of the performance and personality variety recently, is expected to be suspended for at least one game.
According to the sources, Cousins (whose postgame interview can be seen here) was furious at the last play in which Tyreke Evans missed a three-pointer in the final seconds of regulation that would have won the game. Cousins, who had been calling for the ball in the post in the final possession, watched angrily as Greene in-bounded the ball to Evans for the final shot.
After the buzzer, Cousins let his opinion be known to Greene as he blew by him in the tunnel leading into the locker room. According to the sources, Greene and Cousins began exchanging words inside the locker room. The situation then escalated when Cousins accused Greene of being too "scared" of making what Cousins thought was the right play and with both players taking swings at each other before they were separated.
Here's the play in question. Watch as Green inbounds the ball to Evans instead of Cousins, and then watch Cousins' reaction after the game ends.
FanHouse looks at the bigger picture:
There is certainly a bigger picture to consider for the Kings, though, as their volatile 20-year-old who was taken fifth overall in the June draft clearly has no plans to keep quiet about what ails the team. The situation has become nothing short of a power struggle between the rookie and the reigning Rookie of the Year, with Cousins' improved play of late giving him the gumption to question the way in which Evans is so often given carte blanche control of scenarios such as these.
This is not how the Kings wanted this to go, but when a team is 13-38, the frustration is going to pile up. Sacramento was hoping that Evans and Cousins would make a great 1-2 punch, and they still may, but clearly Cousins isn't afraid to vent his frustration when he isn't being utilized in late-game situations.
One thing I noticed about the video is that Cousins didn't react negatively until the play was over. He didn't snap his hand down in frustration (like Kobe does ALL THE TIME) when Greene didn't pass him the ball and he fought for the rebound until the buzzer sounded.
In the game, Cousins was 5-of-14 for 14 points, while Evans was 11-for-22 with 30 points, so this may not be the battle that Cousins needs to fight. Evans was 0-for-2 from long range before he missed the potential game winner, so maybe he should have instead taken the ball into the paint to try to tie the game up at home.
Over the last 10 games, Cousins is averaging 18.1 points and 9.8 rebounds, and is shooting 48% from the field, so he has it in him to be great. But, fair or not, with his reputation he's under a microscope and he can't be getting into physical altercations with teammates after a loss. He needs to channel that frustration into getting better — if he does, he could become one of the all-time greats. He's that good.
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Tags: 2010-11 NBA season, DeMarcus Cousins, DeMarcus Cousins fight, DeMarcus Cousins suspended, Donte Greene, Oklahoma City Thunder, Sacramento Kings, Tyreke Evans
Great finish to Kings/Grizzlies game [video]
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2010 Year-End Sports Review: What We Learned
Posted by Staff (12/21/2010 @ 7:02 pm)
Years from now, when people look back on 2010, what will they remember as the defining sports moment? Uh, they can only pick one? We discovered that Tiger Woods likes to play the field and that Brett Favre doesn't mind sending pictures of his anatomy to hot sideline reporters via text message. We found out that LeBron listens to his friends a little too much and that Ben Roethlisberger needed a serious lesson in humility. But we also learned that athletes such as Michael Vick and Josh Hamilton haven't blown second chance opportunities (or third and fourth chances in the case of Hamilton). It was also nice to see a certain pitcher turn down bigger money so that he can play in a city that he loves.
We've done our best to recap the year's biggest sports stories, staying true to tradition by breaking our Year End Sports Review into three sections: What We Learned, What We Already Knew, and What We Think Might Happen. Up first are the things we learned in 2010, a list that's littered with scandal, beasts, a Decision and yes, even a little Jenn Sterger.
Contributors: Anthony Stalter, John Paulsen, Paul Costanzo, Drew Ellis and Mike Farley
Tiger Woods gets around.
We hesitate to put this under "golf" because the only clubs involved were his wife's nine-iron hitting the window of his SUV and the various establishments where Tiger wined and dined all of his mistresses…over a dozen in all. This was the biggest story of the early part of the year, but it got to the point that whenever a new alleged mistress came forward, the general public was like, "Yeah, we get it. Tiger screwed around on his wife. A lot." He has spent the rest of the year attempting to rebuild his once-squeaky clean image, but it's safe to say, we'll never look at Tiger the same way.
LeBron wilts when his team needs him most.
Say the words "LeBron" and "Game 5" in the same sentence and NBA fans everywhere know exactly what you're talking about. In the biggest game of the season, LeBron looked disinterested, going 3-of-14 from the field en route to a 120-88 blowout at home at the hands of the Celtics. There were rumors swirling about a possible relationship between LeBron's mom and his teammate, Delonte West, and there's speculation that LeBron got that news before tipoff and that's why he played so poorly. Regardless of the cause, LeBron played awful in that game, and it turned out to be his swan song in Cleveland as a member of the Cavaliers. Talk about leaving a bitter taste.
You can auction off your talented son's athletic abilities and get away with it.
The NCAA set a strange precedent this season while dealing with the Newton family. The always inconsistent and completely morally uncorrupt NCAA decided in its infinite wisdom that despite discovering that Cecil Newton shopped his son Cam to Mississippi State for $180,000, and that is a violation of NCAA rules, that Cam would still be eligible because it couldn't be proven that he knew about it. Conference commissioners and athletic directors around the country spoke out about the decision, while agent-wannabes and greedy fathers everywhere had a light bulb go off in their own heads: As long as we say the player doesn't know about it, it could go off without a hitch. What was Cecil's punishment in this whole thing? Limited access to Auburn for the last two games of the season. Easy with that hammer there, NCAA. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tyreke Evans arrested for reckless driving
California Highway Patrol released video that shows Tyreke Evans going 120-130 MPH.
He was arrested at gunpoint, pled guilty to reckless driving and was sentenced to 80 hours of community service.
Ailene Voisin of the Sacramento Bee writes that it's time for the Kings to change their approach to the young star.
"It has to be a one-time thing," an animated co-owner Joe Maloof said late Friday. "Believe me, Tyreke has been scolded by everyone. But we have to put this behind us; we have to move on."
And how to do that? Change. Philosophically and pragmatically, the approach to the coaching, nurturing and packaging of Tyreke has to be revised.
No more sacred cows or separation. Evans isn't Chris Webber, and he certainly isn't Charles Barkley. He hasn't earned superstar treatment yet. He isn't even a winner yet. While he obliged with impressive individual stats during the 20-5-5 ticket campaign, the Kings slumped to 7-23 and dropped 11 of their final 12 games.
Yet almost from the moment Evans emerged as a major talent, the Kings altered the rules. They handed him the keys to the Mercedes. There was one set of guidelines for the prized rookie and another set for everyone else – a development that caused resentment in the locker room and is among the reasons Kevin Martin, Spencer Hawes and Andres Nocioni welcomed trades.
Evans' personal trainer, for instance, enjoys unique access before and after games. A practice was canceled so Evans could fly to Las Vegas and meet President Barack Obama. Westphal routinely jumped Hawes, Donté Greene, Jason Thompson, Omri Casspi and other young Kings for mistakes yet blatantly looked the other way when Evans' game became linear – times he dominated the ball or ignored wide-open teammates.
And now, here comes 19-year-old DeMarcus Cousins, oozing ability, personality, and immaturity.
Someone has to become the adult. Like, soon. With players entering the league at an increasingly young age, there is a finite amount of time to influence careers; at some point, the kids stop listening.
Voisin is right to be outraged. Evans could have killed someone with his antics that day.
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Tags: Sacramento Kings, Summer of 2010, Tyreke Evans
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The Headstones © Gordon Hawkins
The Headstones share the story behind debut 1993 album Picture of Health
For their 25th anniversary the rock band wanted to give their fans even more
Sydney Morton
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, The Headstones are going back to the beginning.
The rock group from Kingston Ontario has re-released their debut album, Picture of Health that went Certified Platinum after it was released in 1993.
Lead singer, Hugh Dillon says he never thought they would be playing music 25 years later.
"We were nihilistic and self destructive, it was so crazy—it was the 90s, it was crazy self-destructive where we were at mentally, it didn't seem like an option (to be playing 25 years later) but funnily enough it was the band that saved us from a dark place," said Dillon.
When Picture of Health was released, the band hid the true meaning of the album, which was dedicated to a friend who died while they were recording.
"At that time people didn't talk about mental health or drug addition to the extent that they do now. A friend of mine killed himself and he was a really great person and part of that music. The album is dedicated to him. We were carrying a lot of that baggage and darkness," Dillon said.
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By remastering the album, the band hopes that fans will learn why they never played certain songs such as the middle part of their song Three Angels. They couldn't relive it because it was too personal and raw, Dillon said. He never held back when writing lyrics and he was so inspired by bandmate Trent Carr's guitar playing that he would rip off parts of his soul to share with their fans, he said.
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"I am inspired to write lyrics because of their playing," said Dillon. "I forgot for so long why that stopped me on my pursuit of destruction. Why did Trent's playing inspire me to write lyrics? Those are the questions you ask yourself and now you see why," said Dillon.
The band reunited in 2011 after taking a break in 2003 and look to release another album next year.
"It's easier (to write from a personal place) because the older you get it's too exhausting to bullsh*t, it's way easier to be up front with our fans and with ourselves, " said Dillon. "We weren't doing it for the girls and we weren't doing it for the parties, it was a way for us to cope."
The Headstones will stop in Kelowna Nov. 26 at the Kelowna Community Theatre with special guests The Matchstick Skeletons. Tickets are available at selectyourtickets.com.
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Films and TV series such as Flucht in Ketten, Alcatraz or Prison Break show us exactly what you need for a perfectly planned prison escape. First of all, there are various digging tools to dig the obligatory tunnel into freedom. A homemade weapon, such as the soap in the sock to ward off annoying fellow inmates or to take out the guards, is of course also part of a prisoner's standard inventory. And then the uniform of a supervisor must not be missing, which I exchange for my orange outfit, so that I can walk through the prison complex unharmed. How to get to these utensils is left to the convicted criminal. I can get such a nice blue service suit by knocking out a guard, for example, or by taking a job in the laundry and simply letting the garment go with it. For digging, however, I can simply take the cutlery from the dining room, which is rather useless for concrete walls and stones. Then I have to make more effective tools out of various tools.
But of course you can also do without sophisticated escape plans, because sometimes it is enough to simply instigate a small revolt. While prisoners and guards are fighting each other, you can try to escape in peace and quiet. Or you can lay a few extra layers in the training room and use brute force to make your way out thanks to your hardened body. Not necessarily the most elegant way and also mostly not crowned by success – but still lies in the area of numerous possible solutions.
The prerequisite is of course always that you want to break out at all, because in The Escapists the escape to freedom is the given goal, but at its core it is a simulation of everyday prison life. This means that every prison has a fixed daily routine that the inmates have to stick to. This includes night rest, appeals and also unannounced controls of the cells. The latter are particularly nasty, because if the supervisors find illegal objects and materials, they are not only confiscated, but one immediately wanders into solitary confinement or wakes up on the infirmary again. The social structure of a prison is also recreated, so that every fellow inmate, but also every guard, has individual personality traits. Some sell useful things at horrendous black market prices, others demand a "favor," such as procuring various objects or beating other prisoners. For example, you will receive one of 185 unique objects that can be converted into something more useful. Or you turn other prisoners into accomplices and pull supervisors to your side. But also the opposite can be the case, because at least as fast one loses the won favour also again and is put by the colleagues on the so-called black list. Thus complete prison hierarchies are formed, in which one should stand as high as possible. Of course you can stay out of all trouble and take one of about ten different prison jobs or train in the gym – the actual goal, the escape, should never be lost from sight.
Playfully, the social component tends to remain in the background. It is almost always a matter of collecting various utensils for the escape and waiting for the right time. But even if you can escape every prison with many different possibilities and The Escapists offers a lot of freedom to tinker – really clever plans are not always necessary. Especially the first prisons are kept relatively simple. After that the level of difficulty rises rapidly and often reaches the frustration limit due to trial & error.
Optically The Escapists offers atmospheric 8-bit pixel art, accompanied by an adequate, squeaky sound background. Thus the switch version is almost identical to the one on the other platforms. As already on the other consoles, the control, at least in comparison to the PC, is a bit awkward. On Nintendo's hybrid console, navigating through the menus, at least subjectively, is even a bit more tedious. But after a short training period one has come to terms with these peculiarities and knows which keys trigger which action. In terms of content, the Complete Edition offers not only the original game including all DLC packs, but also the bonus levels and with Paris Central Pen and Fhurst Peak two new prisons, exclusive to the Nintendo console.
The gameplay of The Escapists in the form of an open-world prison simulation is still ingenious even just four years after its first release and has lost nothing of its fascination. The almost infinite possibilities allow different solutions and motivate even after a successful outbreak to play through again. But at the same time as its strengths, the new Switch version has also inherited the game's weaknesses. After a very moderate introduction, without much explanation, the learning curve quickly rises steeply and many challenges become a tedious trial & error. In addition to good talent for combination, a lot of patience is also required here. You will be rewarded with a great puzzle game in a cool setting. The Complete Edition also offers a very nice complete package and fits perfectly to the mobile Nintendo console. On the other hand, smartphone and tablet owners can experience an almost identical gaming experience for far less money – so whether the manageable exclusive features on the switch justify the higher price is up to everyone to decide for themselves.
What is The Escapists Complete Edition? Outbreak simulation in which players get a carefree insight into everyday prison life.


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Patient-led research is a key element of pandemic response
On August 12, the Council of Medical Specialty Societies hosted the fifth webinar in their series focused on COVID-19 and clinical registries.
If you missed it — or want to watch it again — here's the video:
Here, also, are the panelists' slides and a collection of tweets posted in advance of and during the event.
As moderator, it was my job to frame the discussion and, later, choose from the many questions posed by the audience.
To begin, I quoted Subha Madhavan, who, in a prior webinar, called for data science education and training in advance of a crisis like a pandemic. I invited people to think: How might we raise and train a citizens brigade or Cajun Navy of personal scientists? People ready to help measure, test, and report symptoms, just like the people with sewing machines were ready when we needed thousands of cloth masks.
David Glazer made a point during a prior webinar about how the massive data necessary for genomics and radiology forced those two fields of study to adopt cloud technology early. I asked the audience to consider: What fields of study need to be early to patient-generated data and patient-led research? How might we tackle not only the current mystery of COVID-19 but also build up our skills and tool sets to be ready for the next one, and the next one?
Heather Hogan, who is in week 20 of living with longcovid, wrote, when she realized her clinicians had no experience with her challenges: "I was the science." How might we diversify our response to be more ready for patient input to situations like this? How might we tap into existing peer-to-peer networks of patients to fill in the missing puzzle pieces?
Below are all the questions and comments shared by audience members during our webinar. I was able to ask a few of them, but thought it would be useful to post the full list, in case panelists and others would like to weigh in now.
Audience questions and comments:
Could the panel please elaborate a bit on how they define patient-led research? Who "qualifies" as a patient (and who does not)? And what qualifies as "leading research"?
Some registries combine self directed and clinical approaches – like Evidation.
Re choosing the IRB route for the second survey: What are the main benefits and downsides?
Have you thought about recruiting people who recovered quickly or even people who did not get covid as comparison groups?
The comment from Gina on "proper researchers think that researchers shouldn't use themselves as research subjects" really resonates with me. Could you talk about how you have handled/managed/addressed comments like that?
Do we need to change how we make science to include expertise outside academia? What are the main obstacles to achieving this? What's the problem with not [seeing] patients as promising knowledge makers?
A fundamental tenet of clinical research is identity verification, have any of the these studies included online methods for identity verification? Note the identities don't need to be reported, but the responders need to be "real".
For Gina and Hannah, have you personally or in your data learned about the rehab needs of patients? Would research on that be helpful?
For Emily, what PROs are you using in your research?
Patient/public follow through problems
Given that women are traditionally under represented in clinical research, does it mean something special to you that – from the gate – women are more fully represented in these initial studies?
Can such a C19 (possibly a chronic illness) be a for profit platform
Please repeat the URL for Hannah & Gina's study. Thanks. [SF: Sorry I didn't get a chance to answer during the panel! Their site is patientresearchcovid19.org — here's the link.]
I am in in awe of the work Gina and Hannah have done while feeling so unwell.
Gary mentioned getting further away from serving the research community and being separated from the medical community. What suggestions do you and panelists have to bring these pieces together?
Long-term patient engagement is the biggest hurdle. Lot of money needed to invest in new ways to engage for the long term.
What you're doing is great! Washington University in St Louis has a COVID biobank sample. It would be good to have a partner to store blood or other biological samples to compare changes over time. Any effort in this direction?
How to bring DNA sequencing into the fray–why do different people respond differently to C19.
How did you screen out people who may not actually have had covid? So meaning, do you think a percentage of your respondents were really just looking for community?
Amazing panel!!! Thank you!!!
Excellent discussion. Congrats on all your work! Thank you for sharing in this webinar.
If you were able to attend (or catch up to watch) the webinar, what did you think? What questions, nightmares, hopes, or dreams did we inspire? Comments are open.
Image: "Puzzling," by Jolene Faber on Flickr.
Filed Under: health data, participatory research, patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, research issues Tagged With: Body Politic, Council of Medical Specialty Societies, COVID19, Emily Sirotich, Gary Wolf, Gina Assaf, Hannah Davis, Helen Burstin, LongCovid, patient registries, Quantified Self, rheumatoid arthritis
Hadly Clark says
This was such a mind-blowing discussion this week to hear from the CMSS panelists. But now I wonder, how can we integrate this patient-generated data into broader research? How do we legitimize data collected and produced by patients?
Susannah Fox says
Yes! It's a huge question, so I'm hoping we can break it down into manageable pieces. For example: Which fields of study or medical specialties would benefit most from patient-generated data?
Gary Wolf says
Thank you to everybody who listened and asked questions; and, thank you especially to Susannah for organizing and Gina, Hannah, and Emily for the conversation during the preparation meeting. I've learned a lot from what you are doing and expect to continue to learn. I tried to capture my main lessons from the webinar in a blog post here:
Self-Registration: A person-centered approach to recording symptoms, observations, and outcomes: https://quantifiedself.com/blog/self-registration-a-person-centered-approach-to-recording-symptoms-observations-and-outcomes/
Gina made a point during the webinar that is extremely important when thinking about how to take some of these ideas into practice, so that our discussion doesn't become just another "hmmm, interesting" moment. That is, patients who have had to take charge of their own community building and data gathering efforts often do so because they are sick and therefore very motivated to make and contribute to discoveries. This is a source of innovation and leadership, but without institutional support most of these projects will not realize their potential over the long term.
By institutional support I'm very much not referring to volunteer councils and consultations. What's needed is a serious, long term funding commitment to support patient leadership and build the institutional capacity to engage traditional biomedical research on a more equal basis. This need is not a bright shiny object, so it's probably only going to appeal to people whose been scorched by the flames of a few bright shiny objects failing in mid-flight and burning those of us on the ground. But I want to state the need as clearly and directly as possible, because until we build some institutional infrastructure all the burden is going to remain on relatively unsupported patient leaders pulled into these efforts by acute personal need. Their unstinting work can do a lot, but every time we allow them to burn out on their own, or in severely under resourced "collaboration" with academic partners, we lose ground.
Michael Kurisu says
Wonderfully said Gary !
As you know I have been co-creating this community with my Project Apollo patients.
For those interested here is link of this patient community:
https://projectapollo.me
Finding the "institutional support" is paramount for long term success. The workload always lands on the patients themselves. They have to be motivated to track their own wellness journey. They have to self assimilate as well and form their own community.
To me, this is NOT fair to the patients. They are all suffering from their own chronic conditions. Plus they are fighting the 'system' the whole way. Their resources are ALREADY limited and adding another burden on top of things is not a sustainable model.
"Taking charge" of your own health should be part of the infrastructure.
Empowering each patient to do so should be part of the 'system'.
I'm all in on building this infrastructure.
Happy to help out from the physician / provider and clinical point of view.
And empowering patients.
But yes, finding the support and institutions to 'plug' into is the key here.
Thanks for commenting Michael. I know about Project Apollo of course, and I know you have faced challenges similar to those faced by many other participatory care projects. I recently visited the Project Apollo web site, and spent some time on this page: https://projectapollo.me/collaborate-with-us.php#organizations and thinking about your list of affiliated organizations. It's an impressive list (see below), and I hope I'm not revealing any secrets to guess that most of these organizations do NOT contribute financially to your work. In general, I doubt the problem of sustainable effort can be solved by every small patient organization spinning itself up into a fully staffed non-profit foundation with the capacity to do the kind of development that keeps them going for the long term. I almost feel impolite talking frankly about this in public; but only "almost." If it doesn't get said and discussed, we can't fix it.
I note that you chose the name Project Apollo. I remember some years ago when you first told me about it and we were all at the Quantified Self Public Health Meeting that Dr. Smarr hosted. Soon after, I was at a conference including many patient scientists in Europe and at the bar after the conference we discussed the popularity of the concept of the "moon shot." Thomas Blomseth Christiansen pointed out that the Apollo program built upon decades of work by the pioneers of rocketry and space flight. It did not start from scratch in 1961. A question I've since put to people who think about moon shots is the same one Thomas put to me that night: What if we aren't yet at the Apollo stage? What if we are far, far earlier? It's obvious that at this stage of participatory research and personal science, there are a relatively small number of people convinced that our approach is not an interesting special case, but potentially the main engine of health discovery.
I'm seeing some patterns in how peer-to-peer and personal science communities are getting stuck at a certain stage of development.
At the risk of repeating myself, but because I think it could be useful, here's how I see the COVID-19 Patient Research Group's progress through the first few stages of peer-to-peer health care:
1) Isolation. You not only feel alone but you are also told you are an extremely rare case. As Heather Hogan wrote: "I was the science." (This is what I call Stage Zero of peer-to-peer health care.)
2) Connection. The moment when you hear about, read about, or even connect directly with someone else who shares your symptoms, diagnosis, life stage, or whatever characterizes your health status. This is what Brene Brown might call the "knowing laughter" stage, when shame falls away. Those who are in the know can start to crack open their facades and laugh with each other. (Stage One of peer-to-peer health care.)
3) Organization. Innovation in small groups. People who have banded together start sharing ideas about how to solve problems they all face. For some COVID-19 long-haulers, that meant joining a group like Body Politic and contributing to their study. For someone learning about personal science, this is when you join a Quantified Self chapter or start going to meetings. There are LOTS of groups stuck at this stage of development. (Stage Two)
4) Resource infusion. Mainstream institutions take notice and start helping. Ed Yong's article about long-haulers in The Atlantic was one turning point – the infusion of media attention is a powerful boost to any social movement. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control acknowledging that 35% of people are not back to normal after the suggested "recovery" period is another example of a mainstream institution adding fuel to the peer network's fire. The National Institutes of Health's All of Us program's heavy use of community partnerships is an example of mainstream attention and energy pulling groups into this stage. Count Me In is another example of serious money and resources being infused into patient-partnered research effort. (Stage Three of peer-to-peer health care.)
A "moon shot" is the right label for an ambitious project that originates inside a big organization like NASA. What's a term for one that originates OUTSIDE a big organization but is recognized as needing to be nurtured and given resources by powerful, mainstream institutions?
I'm going to continue this conversation as if we're all together in a room! (I know that people who haven't been active in this space may question some of the assumptions here – if that's you, feel free to pipe up.)
Susannah, I think there's a big barrier between stages 3 and 4. The barrier is not just one of getting noticed. If that were the case, the Quantified Self community would have had way more impact than it has had so far. I wrote a cover story for the New York Times magazine, had a TED talk with more than 1 million views, and I remember there were two years in a row where the big consumer tech show in Las Vegas (CES) was said to be "The Year of the Quantified Self." (Being the "year of something" two years in a row is illogical, but OK we'll take it.) But in the end, as we reported in our Robert Wood Johnson Foundation white paper during the first QS Public Health meeting, five years ago, mainstream biomedicine continued to see person generated data as merely a "production input." That is: give us your data, and we will make knowledge from it, and turn the product back to you for your benefit, eventually. That's really not what people in our community wanted. We were interested in advancing our own agency as participants, empowering ourselves to formulate the questions that were most relevant to us in our own lives; questions that might not ever make it onto the agenda of biomedicine, which has a focus on "one-size fits many" outputs that are either healthcare products or new standards of care. We want to collaborate with each other and the research community, and build reliable ways to share data and discoveries, but we don't want this to be a one-way street. Especially when all the work we do is volunteer effort on our own time, while every single academic and clinical researcher, without exception, is doing this professionally and supported institutionally. We know their work is not easy! They are our friends and allies! But there is a giant power disparity, and a real clash of approaches, and even though our allies were loved by us and we needed their help, the actual institutional agendas, publish-or-perish, and scientist/enterprise oriented workflows and priorities often prevented progress.
OK, so maybe it was just us? There could be many reasons why our community wasn't able to get as much benefit from biomedical collaboration as we hoped. (We certainly tried. Martijn de Groot and I even edited a special section of Methods of Information in Medicine on "N-of-1" research, but that's another story.) But fine, maybe we didn't have what it takes. The counter-argument to this is to look at ALL THE OTHER EFFORTS. Even the most successful, such as Patients Like Me, in the end had to basically transform themselves into biomedical and scientist/healthcare admin projects to survive. Submit, or vanish. My conclusion is that even with discounting for bias on my part, it's rational to look for systematic barriers between stages 3 and 4.
For homework, let's look at the data return policy of one of the flagship projects you mention, Count Me In. Here's what Count Me In promises to do with the data we contribute:
"Our research teams will process this data and will remove all readily-identifiable information before uploading it to the research databases that scientists around the world use to study cancer. Keep in mind, we do not return any individual research results to patients and cannot offer clinical advice to guide your treatment—that's always best provided by your own physician."
Think hard about this policy. From a biomedical perspective it makes perfect sense. How can an academic/clinical researcher take responsibility for the medical care of thousands of anonymous contributors. It would be irresponsible to attempt and impossible in practice. However, the de-identification of data and failure to return results to participants guarantees a "one-way street." A foundation with the courage to go upstream a few steps would find that there are alternative approaches to data gathering and participant management that have evolved in open culture projects; for instance, trusted 3rd party, community-managed data stewardship that allows revokable continuous access to data; and, I2D (infrastructure to data) approaches that allow analytical operations on data that is never copied to the researcher's data store. These may seem bizarre or futuristic to biomedical researchers who are used to workflows designed to serve them, but they are neither bizarre nor futuristic within the domain of participatory culture generally.
To take this route would be to, if not give up on the concept of the moonshot approach exemplified by the All of Us initiative, at least to supplement with some different approaches to collaborative knowledge making based on realizing the potential for genuine large scale participation in discovery.
As a reward to anybody who made this this far, I give you the full text of Sherry Arnstein's classic paper: "A Ladder of Citizen Participation." If you have seen the image of the ladder of citizen participation in this paper reproduced in one of the countless citizen science articles that cite it, but have never read the paper itself, now is your chance. Note Arnstein's important concern about manipulation and tokenism. These issues are salient for our discussion!
https://lithgow-schmidt.dk/sherry-arnstein/ladder-of-citizen-participation.html
A really nice mini-bio of Arnstein in here: https://www.aacom.org/become-a-doctor/financial-aid-and-scholarships/sherry-r-arnstein-minority-scholarship/sherry-arnstein-biography
Thank you — this discussion is vital and although I do wish we could all be in one room to hash it out, it's useful for me, personally, to be able to read & chew over these ideas asynchronously.
You are absolutely right: The transition from "small-group innovation" to "resource infusion" is ENORMOUSLY difficult. There are massive barriers and getting attention (such as from the media, big conferences, etc) do not dissolve them. Sometimes they can exacerbate them, as when people hear so much about a trend or innovation that they think it's solved already.
We've been talking on this thread about clinical data registries, but we can widen the lens now to hear from people with other projects, other expertise, if anyone wants to weigh in.
Lorraine Johnson says
I really appreciate this robust discussion, Gary, Michael, Susannah. We have over 13,000 in our patient registry, MyLymeData–which is a patient led research effort, and, yes, we have had to raise money to do this as a non-profit. We do act as a trusted third party intermediary. We are working on our second, third, and fourth studies from the registry –with one peer reviewed published and 2 very close. I do think that research disadvantaged diseases (no one is incentivized but the patients) have had to lift this extraordinarily difficult burden without funding or support from the government. And we are doing bleeding edge research that can be culture transformative. Anytime you look to a sustainable model that is not non-profit fundraising–they involve trade-offs as Gary mentioned.
Even PCORI with its patient powered research networks ultimately required data sharing at a level our community was not comfortable with. With stigma and research bias issues in Lyme disease, our role as third party data stewards involves vetting researchers, vetting projects, and managing data use/reuse. That means we don't simply post data for any researcher to use for any project. Also, we do give back to our community by continually sharing data analysis and what we know now. For the most part that means something that looks a lot like community based participatory research with patients at the lead and funding coming from patients. Our research is conducted through long term partnerships primarily.
I've read Arnstein's ladder and cited it in a college text book chapter I wrote with Jay Bea Smalley from PCORI (then)–NIH editors. It is the core of all of this. I recreated a graphic of that ladder for the text chapter. (Johnson, L.B.; Smalley, J.B. Engaging the Patient: Patient-Centered Research. In Strategies for Team Science Success: Handbook of Evidence-Based Principles for Cross-Disciplinary Science and Practical Lessons Learned from Health Researchers, Hall, K.L., Vogel, A.L., Croyle, R.T., Eds. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2019; 10.1007/978-3-030-20992-6_10pp. 135-147.) I still work with the PCORnet groups as a subject matter expert through NORC at the University of Chicago. One topic? The Challenges of Sustainability.
Also note the Chicago Beyond graphic of research equity and how we create "truth"–who has authority, who is accountable, who claims authorship, who owns the data/results, who determines value and validity. Very powerful concepts. https://chicagobeyond.org/researchequity/
Thank you Susannah for providing the space for this conversation!
I have separated this comment out–
Any idea why so many females in the Patient-Led Research for COVID-19 survey (77%) ? Is this who gets long hauler effects (immune system response etc) or is it a survey response self selection issue? Susannah your research on internet use shows a 10-15% spread between males and females in term of diagnostic internet research. (That could reflect women as caregivers taking the lead or survey selection bias–any ideas?) https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2013/01/15/information-triage/ I would be interested in the groups thoughts here. We are working on a gender bias study presently and trying to sort this all out.
https://cmss.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CMSS-Webinar-8.12.2020-FINAL.pdf
Patient-Led Research for COVID-19 Gina Assaf and Hannah Davispatientresearchcovid19.com
Majority of respondents are white76.5%
and identified as cisgender female76.6%
Since this blog is my outboard memory, I'm adding some articles and links related to the theme of patient-led research:
How and Why Patients Made Long Covid, by Felicity Callard and Elisa Perego in Social Science & Medicine.
Patient researchers — the missing link? Patients' contributions to biomedical research have quickly been shifting from passive participant to active contributor. But what happens when the person with lived experience of the disease becomes the clinical researcher? by Sara Riggare in Nature Medicine.
Brain Tumor Discussions on Twitter (#BTSM): Social Network Analysis, by Josemari Feliciano, Liz Salmi, Charlie Blotner, Adam Hayden, Edjah Nduom, Bethany Kwan, Matthew Katz, Elizabeth Claus in Journal of Medical Internet Research.
If you see other examples, please share them!


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