ENGLEWOOD, CO--(Marketwired - May 4, 2017) - Evolving Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVOL), a leader in consumer lifecycle engagement, analytics and monetization solutions for connected mobile devices worldwide, provided clarification in response to certain statements made by SITO Mobile, Ltd. ("SITO") in recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") (including its Schedule 14A Consent Revocation Statement, dated May 2, 2017 and its letter to shareholders published on May 3, 2017).
Specifically, SITO has asserted that the nomination by certain SITO stockholders of certain members of the Evolving Systems board to the board of directors of SITO is in furtherance of an undisclosed agenda to acquire SITO by Evolving Systems. The Company today states unequivocally that it has no current or reasonably foreseeable agenda or intent to acquire SITO. The Company further disclosed that while there was initially interest in potentially entering into select business arrangements with SITO, it has moved forward with other partners. As a result, Evolving Systems sees no synergies between the companies that would benefit Evolving Systems and its stakeholders, and has no intent to pursue any business dealings at this time.
To further clarify comments made by SITO in its SEC filings and public statements, Thomas Thekkethala, in his role as Chief Executive Officer of Evolving Systems, had a routine meeting with members of SITO's management on March 31, 2017. This meeting was for preliminary high-level discussions about potential marketing and sales synergies between Evolving Systems and SITO. Although Evolving Systems remains open to considering potential ways in which Evolving Systems and SITO might do business in the future, Evolving Systems has no plans, intentions or proposals to enter into business arrangements, nor does it have any intent or interest to acquire SITO Mobile.
Mr. Matthew Stecker, who currently serves as chairman for Evolving Systems, and Mr. Thekkethala, who also serves as a board member, have been nominated to stand for election to SITO's board of directors. Both Mr. Stecker and Mr. Thekkethala place great emphasis on strong corporate governance. If elected by SITO shareholders to serve as directors, they intend to uphold their fiduciary responsibilities, while working with management and the board in a cooperative manner to support the development and execution of SITO's business plan with the primary goal, to unlock and sustain shareholder value. They were selected to stand for election because of their respective backgrounds in enterprise software, telecommunications and mobile advertising, as well as their public company and board experience. Both Mr. Stecker and Mr. Thekkethala, along with all directors and executives of Evolving Systems, remain focused on executing their own business plan and driving long-term sustainable value for Evolving Systems customers, partners, employees and shareholders.


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text: Mr Rajeshwar Nath was a self-made industrialist who established his woollen industry in Panipat in 1939. He was a pioneer by spirit and experimented with new ideas in his field which brought him great success. Throughout his life he believed in helping others to establish themselves. His special effort was always towards helping struggling students who could not afford the education they wanted to pursue. At the end of his career Mr Nath founded Raj Charitable Trust. He never believed in giving alms but strongly believed in providing an infrastructure where many could benefit by their own effort. The need of the hour in 1985 was improvement in the quality of school education in Panipat. Bal Vikas School was his vision to provide quality education at affordable cost. Since, it is a non-commercial institution it is run on "no-profit" principle. It has made a big difference in the society of Panipat and changed the way of thinking of parents. Education has finally got the importance that is required to change society for the better. Bal Vikas Progressive School a sister school of BVS was founded in 2006 by Mr Rajeshwar Nath as one the many social services of Raj Charitable Trust.

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Why Enterprises Have a Love/Hate Relationship with Digital Natives
It's been more than a decade since the oldest millennials entered the workforce and the youngest members of Generation Z just graduated from college, yet leaders at traditional workplaces are still trying to get a handle on how to manage digital natives. What's the best tactic to address their increasing demands for flexibility, put to good use their constant need to challenge the status quo, and take advantage of their technological prowess? Sure, these youngsters have been disruptive, but they've also been useful.
The same is true for digital native companies. Because they are "born in the cloud," they already know the language and landscape. Their infrastructures are already cloud-based so they can easily adopt emerging cloud technologies — something that's proven harder for enterprises with their legacy technology, slower processes, and longer tech learning curves. Digital native organizations tend to be smaller, leaner, and more agile, which is great when they're a vendor or partner, but not so great when they're a competitor.
Take, for example, the retail industry. There are the digital native companies that brought stores revenue-boosting gems like email marketing, e-commerce websites, and social media. But other natives — ahem, Amazon — brought the industry to its knees and made everyone else go digital or go home.
Of course, traditional enterprises can adapt and even thrive. Many retailers have done so, even in the Amazon era. Just like baby boomers can master a smartphone, enterprises can master digital transformation. It just might take a little longer. Enterprises can also do what smart baby boomers do — shorten the technology learning curve by letting a digital native show them how it's done.
Don't Fear the Competition
There's no denying it: Digital native competitors are among the greatest threats to traditional enterprises. These technology-forward companies are in tune with industry trends and are successfully taking hold and reaping the benefits of unified communications and other emerging cloud technologies. They have proven to be the most aggressive adopters and drivers of digital solutions and, in doing so, effectively put the hurt on many traditional enterprises.
However, hope is not completely lost for the incumbents. Those that fully embrace digitization become at least as competitive as digital natives, according to a recent McKinsey report. Despite the impressive growth that cloud-born companies often boast, they're starting with a smaller market share — about 5 percent, on average. Meanwhile, traditional enterprises with a strong digital focus command about 20 percent and are twice as likely as other enterprises to report exceptional financial growth.
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Of course, the race to full cloud adoption isn't a fair one, considering digital native companies started at the finish line. Still, enterprises that are poised to catch up can give the new guys a run for their money.
2. Build Digital Ecosystems: Digital native decision-makers don't just look for digital solutions. They look for solutions that work together — platforms that combine different tools and can be integrated with other systems and databases using developer-friendly APIs.
For example, instead of investing in a cloud phone system from one vendor, an instant messaging tool from another, and secure texting from a third, they look for unified communications platforms that can streamline internal communications. Instead of having dozens of tools to interact with customers in real time, they use a communications platform-as-a-service — one that can be integrated with unified communications-as-a-service, CRM, and other communications software.
Put simply, rather than siloing data and communications, they build digital ecosystems that are increasingly connected. This streamlines operations and gives them a head start on adopting artificial intelligence, the IoT, and other emerging technologies.
3. Have a Truly Digital-first Mindset: For executives at these young companies, digital technology isn't just a tool. It's at the core of their business models, communications, workflows, operations, and talent management. It's not an expense: It's a strategic investment. It's not about keeping the lights on, it's about spending money to make money.
Granted, enterprises have to spend more up front to replace legacy systems and scale their efforts, but the long-term benefits are worth it. Along with the competitive advantage that digital-first organizations now have, cloud computing can cut IT costs by 25 to 50 percent, according to the World Economic Forum.
4. Stay Aware of the Latest Technology: Digital natives — both the human and corporate variety — know that technology changes rapidly. So, they stay up-to-date on the latest trends, emerging technologies, and advances that are still under development.
Not only are they avid consumers of information about these technologies, but they also work with innovative and knowledgeable vendors who can help them navigate the current trends and prepare for future disruptions.
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October 18, 2018 - November 10, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 18, 2018 6-8pm
Mert Avadya
Ananya Behera
Deric Carner
Julia Fama
Ivo Ilic
Case Jernigan
Tana Kellner
Youngjin Lim
Hazy Mae
Erica Mao
Laura Mosquera
Gabriela Ong
Debbie Quick
Kaori Sakai
Holly Wilson
Wen Yu
Curated by Hazy Mae
Gallery Madison Park is pleased to present "Studio Apartment" a group exhibition. "Studio Apartment" will run from October 18, 2018 - November 6, 2018 with an opening reception Thursday, October 18th from 6-8 p.m.
This group exhibition is an eclectic mix of eight artists who've come together with pieces that make a mock studio apartment in New York City. Within the walls of Gallery Madison Park will be a playful studio apartment filled with objects that create a fantasy living environment. Amongst the work is a wonderfully excessive bed for the bedroom by Holly Wilson, a quirky and fun installation of sculptures by Deric Carner for the bathroom, animations of monsters, heroes, soccer stars by Case Jernigan playing in the living room television, along with a chair by Debbie Quick that looks as if it's from a fairy tale. And decorating the walls of the Studio Apartment are colorful and exciting works by Tatana Kellner, Erica Mao, Laura Mosquera and Wen Yu.
Deric Carner makes sculptures about the body as sites of trauma, pleasure and identity. He uses techniques that emphasize the human touch, such as hand molding and haptic presentations. He invites viewers to let go of the notion of the real or true self, to allow for an acceptance of entropy and free play. In this, the ideal of a perfect body gives way to an uncovering the possibilities of bodies and an endless becoming of identity.
Case Jernigan's light boxes and animated films focus on textural shifts, scale juxtapositions and the importance of an otherworldly or alien light, drawn from childhood sentiment, dreams, and constant battle with visual aura inducing migraines. The works are nostalgic adventures that explore borders, maps, mazes, cross-section picture books, comic heroes and zigzagging Saturday morning cartoons.
Tatana Kellner
Tatana Kellner's work presents a poetic vision of the visceral nature of experience, the space between abstraction and representation and the excitement of the unknown. Her process is organic and intuitive, beginning with a mark or a large abstract shape, which lead her to create an optical and emotional experience. From the tentative beginnings, to the new figure or associative element that emerges; she responds to a sense of ambiguity, of things under the surface.
Hazy Mae cookie Jars are each hand sculpted and made in limited editions of 10. Inspired by her large collection of vintage cookie jars, Hazy Mae makes each unique and eccentric piece with a love for characters, and a love for art and design that's funny, whimsical and functional.
By combining layers of silkscreen, woodcut, and hand painted elements Erica Mao constructs a world that draws on classic americana landscapes and architectural structures. Within these worlds she introduces strange figures and objects that fill the space with a creeping sense of foreboding and an undercurrent of depravity. A figure or shadow that belongs in this stark environment reminiscent of middle of nowhere America. By introducing these figures and objects she starts to reveal a hidden depravity that is often present in the dark corners of polite society.
Laura Mosquera uses the physical shape of the canvas to depict a psychological or emotional experience or feeling. The relationships of the shapes within the painting are dynamic and can push, pierce and bounce against each other, defining themselves and how they relate to one another. Some shapes within a painting can be twisted or bent within the composition, but find a path to exist in a beautiful way. Like a problem creating and solving process, she pieces the shapes together to become a cohesive whole of interesting complexity.
Debbie Quick's work is filled with the imagery, antiquated terms and unsettling archetypes of a fascinating story. The works act as multilayered stories which are based on how she sees, experiences, and questions the world around her. Odd and uncanny characters warrant further examination to expose the absurdity of their symbolic function.
Holly Wilson's sculptural works are conglomerations of discarded objects and by products that form obsessive units that 'enhance' the everyday routine. Although society constantly strives to obtain eternal bliss through convenience and technology, it never seems like enough. Her work questions what happens when our desires and routines are so modified and convenient that one subliminally forgets what it is like to experience reality.
Wen Yu's mixed media work explores the line between digital and handcraft, where most of the layers are designed in software and then screen-printed and hand-drew on the surface.The geometric patterns and the organic movements contrast reality with a sense of time and space.


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If a Nochri was selling produce and claims that the fruits are Orlah or Neta Reva'i, he is not believed. (1)
If a witness sees a Mes by the light of a candle or the light of the moon, he may testify that he died.
There was an incident in which a person announced on top of a mountain that a certain man had died, and they allowed the wife to remarry. (2)
Beis Shamai: A woman may not get remarried on the basis of a Bas Kol. Beis Hillel: She may get remarried on the basis of a Bas Kol.
A demon has a shadow, but not a shadow within a shadow.
At a time of danger, a person may write and give a Get on behalf of someone who requested it, even if we do not recognize the person who requested it. (3)
A woman may get remarried on the basis of a witness in the name of another witness, or on the basis of the testimony of a maidservant.
A woman is believed to bring her own Get and to testify, "In front of me it was written and signed."
Rebbi Akiva: We do not interrogate witnesses who testify about the death of a husband. Rebbi Tarfon: We do interrogate them.
Rebbi Chanina: Min ha'Torah, all witnesses must be interrogated, but the Chachamim decreed not to interrogate witnesses in monetary cases. (4)
Torah scholars increase Shalom in the world.
1. He is not believed because his intention is to extol his produce. Similarly, if a Nochri threatens a Jewish person to do his bidding or else he will kill him just as he killed so-and-so for defying him, the Nochri is not believed, because he is making it up in order to intimidate the person into doing his bidding.
2. They allowed her to remarry even though they were unable to locate the person who announced it.
3. For example, a man is trapped inside a pit and he says that anyone who hears his voice should write a Get to his wife.
4. This is in order so that we do not "close the door" on people who need to borrow money.
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NYPA and Rensselaer Lab Collaboration to Research Cleaner Grid Technologies
New York Power Authority and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will Develop Tools to Enable a Strong and Reliable Green Energy Grid, Supported by NYSERDA
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Newswise — TROY, NY—Inter-lab collaboration between the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is paving the way for a greener and more resilient power grid – and attracting interest from businesses and government in the process.
The Analysis Laboratory for Synchrophasor and Electrical Energy Technology (ALSETLab) at Rensselaer in collaboration with the Advanced Grid Innovation Lab for Energy (AGILe) at NYPA were recently awarded two large projects from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). The projects support Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's Green New Deal initiative, the nation's leading clean energy and jobs agenda, which will provide for New York state's transition to clean energy, spurring the growth of the green economy and mandating New York's power be 100% clean and carbon-free by 2040, one of the most aggressive goals in the U.S.
"New York state has very ambitious green energy goals and integrating renewable energy sources and testing advanced technologies is key to modernizing our electric grid," said Gil C. Quiniones, NYPA CEO and president. "NYPA is pleased to team up with RPI and NYSERDA to seek new power solutions that will further increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
Alicia Barton, president and CEO, NYSERDA, said, "Developing the technology needed for the statewide economy-wide clean energy transition outlined in Governor Cuomo's clean energy and climate plan requires the development of disruptive and innovative technologies. These projects will encompass the forward thinking needed to create a reliable, resilient grid of the future that incorporates renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, and storage."
ALSETLab is directed by Luigi Vanfretti, an associate professor of electrical engineering at Rensselaer, and its name (if you read the acronym backward) pays tribute to his hero, legendary inventor Nikola Tesla. AGILe was established in 2017 by NYPA, in partnership with a number of New York stakeholders, to promote collaborative research that can help modernize and strengthen the state's electric grid and facilitate development and potential commercialization of new technologies.
"To be able to have a cleaner grid, the prerequisite is to have better monitoring, control, and protection," Vanfretti said. "We are building an infrastructure that could potentially be deployed easily without many years of development and without interoperability problems."
Vanfretti's team will support a $550,000 project led by NYPA's Research, Technology Development and Innovation team and co-funded by NYSERDA, which will harness the power of deep-learning algorithms to develop software capable of identifying and predicting system issues, alerting operators, and recommending possible solutions.
"We will use a lot of simulated data to train machine-learning algorithms," Vanfretti said. "The recommender system we create will be able to tell you, based on real-time indicators and thousands of simulations, if we found a similar situation that says, if you apply a certain change you will get an improvement. Just as Netflix recommends shows you would like, this software will recommend actions that will improve the resiliency of the power system."
A second $480,000 project, led by NYPA in partnership with Vanfretti, aims to develop an interpreter tool that will allow power system modeling and simulation to be shared and understood between multiple simulation software tools and organizations. This will become increasingly necessary as operators look to study and incorporate new technologies, like solar and wind energy, into the existing grid.
More broadly, ALSETLab is creating advanced modeling and simulation technologies for the power grid and collecting data to learn more about how the grid performs. This will allow researchers to develop and test sensors, software, and code that they hope, one day, will interact within a nationwide power grid network.
About NYPA
NYPA is the largest state public power organization in the nation, operating 16 generating facilities and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines. More than 70 percent of the electricity NYPA produces is clean renewable hydropower. NYPA uses no tax money or state credit. It finances its operations through the sale of bonds and revenues earned in large part through sales of electricity. For more information visit www.nypa.gov and follow us on Twitter @NYPAenergy, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr and LinkedIn.
About NYSERDA
NYSERDA, a public benefit corporation, offers objective information and analysis, innovative programs, technical expertise, and funding to help New Yorkers increase energy efficiency, save money, use renewable energy, and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. NYSERDA professionals work to protect the environment and create clean-energy jobs. NYSERDA has been developing partnerships to advance innovative energy solutions in New York State since 1975. To learn more about NYSERDA's programs and funding opportunities, visit nyserda.ny.gov or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Instagram.
New York State's Green New Deal
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's Green New Deal is the most aggressive climate change program in the nation and puts the state on a path to being entirely carbon-neutral across all sectors of the economy, including power generation, transportation, buildings, industry and agriculture. The Governor's program also establishes a goal to achieve a zero-carbon emissions electricity sector by 2040, faster than any state in the nation. The recently passed Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) mandates several of the Governor's ambitious Green New Deal clean energy targets: installing nine gigawatts of offshore wind by 2035; six gigawatts of distributed solar by 2025 and three gigawatts of energy storage by 2030. The CLCPA also calls for an orderly and just transition to clean energy, creating jobs while spurring a green economy. It builds on New York's unprecedented ramp-up of clean energy including a $2.9 billion investment in 46 large-scale renewable projects across the state, the creation of more than 150,000 jobs in New York's clean energy sector, and 1,700% growth in the distributed solar sector since 2012. The CLCPA also directs New York State's agencies and authorities to work collaboratively with stakeholders to develop a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 85% from 1990 levels by 2050, and to work toward a goal of investing 40 percent of clean energy and energy efficiency resources to benefit disadvantaged communities.
About Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Founded in 1824, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is America's first technological research university. Rensselaer encompasses five schools, 32 research centers, more than 145 academic programs, and a dynamic community made up of more than 7,900 students and over 100,000 living alumni. Rensselaer faculty and alumni include more than 145 National Academy members, six members of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, six National Medal of Technology winners, five National Medal of Science winners, and a Nobel Prize winner in Physics. With nearly 200 years of experience advancing scientific and technological knowledge, Rensselaer remains focused on addressing global challenges with a spirit of ingenuity and collaboration. To learn more, please visit www.rpi.edu.


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Malcolm Forsyth
(1936-2011) Canadian Composer
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Malcolm Forsyth Symposium in Calgary, Oct 17-19/19 – Book published.
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There was a Symposium at the University of Calgary for Malcolm Forsyth, Oct 17-19/19. His daughter Amanda, a world-renown cellist, performed the concerto her father wrote for her, Electra Rising, with the Calgary Philharmonic.
From this Symposium a book on Malcolm Forsyth, edited by Mary I. Ingraham and Robert C. Rival, was issued by the University of Alberta Press. Copies of this book Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth can be purchased through this link. It is available in hard copy and pdf formats.
Malcolm Forsyth (1936–2011) was a musical legend: a much-loved composer, performer, teacher, and mentor. Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth presents a captivating and approachable portrait of one of Canada's finest modern composers. Readers will discover both public and private sides to the man and gain fresh insights from critical assessments of a broad range of Forsyth's compositions, his continuing popular appreciation, and his lasting influence on the next generation of musicians and music scholars. Drawing from the perspectives of leading scholars, composers, and musicians, as well as on those of family, friends, students, and colleagues, Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth honours the rich life and cultural significance of this exceptional creative mind. It is important reading for music students and researchers, professional performers, and anyone who loves contemporary music.
Contributors: Tommy Banks, Allan Gordon Bell, Nora Bumanis, Robin Elliott, Amanda Forsyth, Valerie Forsyth, Allan Gilliland, Carl Hare, Mary I. Ingraham, Edward Jurkowski, Ryan McClelland, John McPherson, Fordyce C. (Duke) Pier, Roxane Prevost, Kathy Primos, Tanya Prochazka, Leonard Ratzlaff, Rayfield Rideout, Robert C. Rival, Julia Shaw, Dale Sorensen, Christopher Taylor
Publication date: October 2019
Features: 68 musical examples, 5 tables, list of works, notes, index
Malcolm is a 3 time Juno award winner for Best Composition, and was also nominated for that award another 3 times.
Conquering Beauty: The Life and Music of Malcolm Forsyth
Conquering Beauty: The Life and Music of Malcolm Forsyth continues to garner awards and acclaim as it makes the rounds of film festivals. Having screened to critical audiences at the Classical Arts film festival, and been awarded the Rising Star Award in recognition of excellence in filmmaking at the 2016 Canada International Film Festival, the film has recently been nominated for best Biography Documentary at the upcoming Yorkton Film Festival at the
end of May. Conquering Beauty has been nominated in four categories at the upcoming AMPIA (Alberta Media Production Industry Association) Rosie Awards to be held in Calgary May 7, 2016. The film will also be screening that same day at the North West Film Fest in Edmonton at 12:00 pm at the NAIT Shaw Theatre.
Composer Malcolm Forsyth, father of international cello superstar Amanda Forsyth, emigrated from South Africa to Canada in1968, where he began a career in music which spanned five decades. A complicated man fascinated with the ideal of beauty, he was destined to become one of Canada's leading classical music composers. His work resonates with audiences and musicians alike, and his final, culminating piece, A Ballad of Canada, which premiered just a few weeks before his death, is heralded as a Canadian masterpiece.
This powerful documentary explores his life, his turbulent relationship with his daughter, and his tremendous impact on Canadian music. It is a narrative about a composer's life. It is also an invitation to explore the beauty, complexity and value of classical music.
"His music was played across the country. There's not an orchestra that hasn't played it, there's not a choir that hasn't sung it. He did desire a better country."
—Allan Gordon Bell
The film was produced for CBC TV with funding from the Alberta Media Fund.
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Season the roast with salt and pepper and deeply sear in olive oil in a Dutch Oven or heavy covered pot.
Add onion and garlic and sauté until softened. Add wine, stock, tomatoes, carrots and thyme, bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat and simmer 3 to 3½ hours until tender and begins to separate when pressed with back of large spoon.
Remove roast to a platter. Dissolve cornstarch in 2 tablespoons cold water. Bring gravy to a boil, stir in the cornstarch and cook 2 to 3 minutes until glossy and thickened. Slice or push on the meat with the back of a spoon to break up into serving pieces and sauce with carrots and gravy.
I could make this once a week. You get so many meals out of it and once cooked, it is ready for any meal and the juice over the meat make it pouch happy! A dutch oven by far makes a tastier roast than a crockpot, in my opinion.


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L.A. County hospitals running dangerously low on oxygen, supplies as ER units are overwhelmed
Christmas arrived in Los Angeles County with hospitals in a full-blown coronavirus crisis.
There are now so many patients that some hospitals are running dangerously low on oxygen and other supplies critical to treating those with COVID-19.
Patients are waiting as many as eight hours in ambulances before they can enter the emergency room. With intensive care units at 0% available capacity, health officials are urging that people avoid emergency rooms or dialing 911 for assistance unless absolutely necessary.
And in a grim reminder that the worst is still likely to come, one L.A. County health official has asked providers to reach out to patients who have serious illnesses or are medically frail to review their advanced-care directives and ensure forms are on file detailing their end-of-life care.
As dire as the conditions are now, there's growing concern that large numbers of people may opt to once again ignore health guidance and gather with other households to celebrate the holidays — a potentially disastrous outcome experts say would all but certainly trigger another coronavirus surge that would further hammer hospitals already reeling from the Thanksgiving-fueled wave.
The stakes are already high, and the toll already devastating. On Thursday, L.A. County saw its most-ever COVID-19 deaths in a single day: 140.
As the coronavirus continues to spread widely and send unprecedented numbers of Angelenos to the hospital, hospitals in L.A. County are running dangerously low on their supplies of oxygen, a person familiar with the matter told The Times.
Oxygen is critical to treating severely ill COVID-19 patients who have begun to suffocate on account of their virus-inflamed lungs. Doctors and nurses have learned since the early days of the pandemic to, as much as possible, avoid placing patients on ventilators, which involves sticking a breathing tube down the throat.
Many patients instead receive a high-flow oxygen treatment, where oxygen is sent through plastic tubes placed in the nose.
And the need for that assistance is high. While a non-COVID patient may receive six liters of oxygen per minute, COVID-19 patients need 60 to 80 liters a minute.
So now, hospitals need 10 times more oxygen than they did before. There have been periods of time where hospitals have run dangerously low on their stores of oxygen before obtaining additional supplies, said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Hospitals are also running short of other key supplies, such as the special plastic tubes used to bring the oxygen into the lungs.
The county this week sent a letter to healthcare providers urging them to take additional measures to deal with the flood of patients requiring hospital-level treatment.
"Hospitals have implemented their surge plans and are adjusting staffing and space to try to meet the needs of their community," Dr. Sharon Balter, the county's chief of communicable disease control and prevention, wrote in the memo. "It is critical that as a healthcare community we look at all available opportunities to help decrease the surge on hospitals and our 911 system, where possible."
Balter asked providers to talk to patients with ongoing medical problems about when it was appropriate to visit the ER or call 911, and to do so only when it is a true emergency. She also encouraged the quick discharge of hospitalized patients to try to create as much space as possible on wards, citing a "steep increase" in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
"There are very limited hospital and ICU beds available and emergency departments are strained to capacity," Balter wrote.
There were about 6,700 coronavirus-positive patients hospitalized countywide on Wednesday, according to the latest state data, with 1,329 of them in the ICU. Those numbers have spiked by 85% and 62%, respectively, over the past two weeks.
Dr. Brian Gantwerker, a neurosurgeon in Santa Monica, said he dreaded what the next several weeks would hold. Already, the community hospital where he works is "swamped by COVID cases," with physicians fearing they will soon have to ration care due to shortages of beds and staff.
Each day that the number of COVID-19 patients grows also increases the likelihood that more neurosurgery patients may have to wait for care or find it elsewhere, he said.
This puts doctors in the uncomfortable position of determining who receives the limited resources remaining at the hospital. A large brain tumor would probably be operated on immediately, he said, but surgery for a smaller, less dangerous one might be delayed.
"Then it becomes a question of: 'Where is the breaking point? When do we have to start sending patients out to other places?' And the nightmare scenario is: 'What happens if there are no beds available in the county?'" he said. "Everything we've worried about and talked about and warned people about since February is coming to fruition — we're at that point now."
As hospitals struggle, officials are hoping people take to heart their urging to avoid gatherings and parties on Christmas Day. Should large numbers of people flout that guidance and gather with those they don't live with over the coming winter holidays, officials and experts alike warn that will likely lead to a "surge on top of a surge" — meaning more people will become infected, fall ill and, eventually, die.
Dr. Christina Ghaly, L.A. County's health services director, forecast this week that nearly 7,000 more people might die from COVID-19 by the end of January if current trends continue. Already, the disease has killed 9,305 people countywide.
"We know that this emergency is our darkest day, maybe the darkest day in our city's history," L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said. "But we must find the fortitude, we must summon the strength to make sure that we save lives."
L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer has said that crowded shopping malls are a big concern. Under the state's regional stay-at-home orders, shopping malls are supposed to be capped at 20% of capacity, but it's clear that those limits are not being followed.
"We're going to take a hard look this weekend at the shopping malls because the pictures we've been seeing are … another little mini disaster," Ferrer said. "The occupancy is supposed to be down to 20%. But when you look around, they look way more crowded than 20%. And that just means a complete breakdown of what we are requiring."
Inspectors will be out over the post-Christmas weekend, Ferrer said, "and we're going to have to take a hard look at what we see."
She added: "The only way that those malls conceivably could be opened is because there wasn't going to be any crowding. So if there's a lot of crowding, that's a situation that we have to actually get fixed right away. That can get fixed by shopping malls taking more responsibility, or that can get fixed … by us going ahead and looking at whether we need to change [health] orders. But I think the right place to start is to go and take a hard look at what's going on."
The county Department of Public Health also issued a plea Thursday for people of faith to forgo gathering indoors to worship any winter holidays, and instead attend remotely streamed or outdoor services.
Though county health officials lifted a ban on indoor religious services last Saturday — following a series of court rulings involving houses of worship that argued pandemic-related restrictions violated religious freedoms — they said in their statement that attending services indoors is "too risky" right now.
Times staff writers Jaclyn Cosgrove and Hayley Smith contributed to this report.
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Q: Vue props not loading image or video sources I'm working on making components that allow me to define what content to display and providing a url to the assets, whether it's an image or a video, but when ever I define a prop with a valid asset that isn't default to the component, it dosn't load the video, or the image.
Parent component:
<PosterMedium
        Video__Background
        Video__Background__Source = "@/assets/videos/keyboard.mp4"
        Poster__Title = "Upgrade your workflow"
        Poster__Description = "Add to your productivity with our tools, build from the ground up on UIX with modern design trends in mind, all together to give you a powerful arsenal to boost your workflow. "
      />

Child Component
<template>

            <video id="background__video" autoplay loop muted>
                <source :src="Video__Background__Source" type="video/mp4"/>
            </video>

</template>

The thing is, when ever I put in the sources as raw html, it works fine, but as soon as I try to pass it through props, it has an issue with loading the assets, and I've already tried using :src="require(Video__Background__Source)" but that just kills the component entirely.
The video is giving me the most issue, with just not wanting to load entirely when I opt to use the prop, but the image is fine with using the prop and it's default string, just the video source just not wanting to have anything to do with the prop, or it's default string.

A: Just had to use :Prop = "require('<source>')" in the component props
Thanks again @MichalLevý
p.s
For the background image, I just opted for a normal image that is using the same fix.

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Code Bytes: According to Codearth Report a small and stealthy group of engineers within Google has been working on software that they hope will eventually replace Android, the world's dominant mobile operating system. As the team grows, it will have to overcome some fierce internal debate about how the software will work.
According to Bloomberg, the prime motivation behind Fuchsia is to create a single operating system capable of running all of Google's own products, from Pixel smartphones to Google Home smart speakers, as well as third-party devices that rely on Android/Chrome OS.
The plan is to embed Fuchsia in connected home devices within three years, and then move on to larger systems like laptops.
The project, known as Fuchsia, was created from scratch to overcome the limitations of Android as more personal devices and other gadgets come online. It's being designed to better accommodate voice interactions and frequent security updates and to look the same across a range of devices, from laptops to tiny internet-connected sensors. Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai has set his company in this direction — toward artificial intelligence services that reach consumers everywhere. Yet its prime operating systems, which depend on scores of hardware partners, haven't kept up.
Additionally, Google believes that Android, which was developed just when smartphones were getting touchscreens, isn't equipped to handle the voice-based apps and OS capabilities that Google envisions as the future.
Consequently, Fuchsia is being developed with voice-interaction capabilities at its core.
Fuchsia can also adjust to various screen sizes, which can help it cater to a vast range of products from TVs to refrigerators.
Reportedly, the development of Fuchsia has also seen some internal feuds at Google.
Some of the privacy principles that Fuchsia developers are enshrining have already come into conflict with Google's business model – tighter privacy envisioned in Fuchsia would negatively impact Google's ads business which uses user data for targeted advertisement.
In one such clash between advertising and engineering, the ad team prevailed.
Android is also the subject of regulatory scrutiny and legal squabbles for the company, which means any changes to the software will be closely watched. European regulators on Wednesday levied a record $5 billion antitrust fine against the company for using the mobile software to spread its services. And within Google, Fuchsia already faces some internecine squabbles over how it should be designed and deployed, particularly when it comes to privacy features.
Publicly, the company points to Fuchsia as an example of its freewheeling approach to creative products. "Google views these open-source experiments as an investment in innovation," a company spokesman said in an email. In 2015, Lockheimer wrote a blog post that said the company had no plans to replace its Chrome operating system with Android, a position the Google spokesman said still applies today.
However, it would be naive to assume that Fuchsia is just a basement project.
Reportedly, despite not charting out an official roadmap, CEO Sundar Pichai has already voiced his support for the project internally.
Additionally, a new, more robust OS would enable Google to compete more closely with Apple, whose operating systems already boast better performance, privacy, and security than Android or Chrome OS.


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Q: Measure of goodness of curve fit I am trying to fit a cubic polynomial to a set of data which contains outliers. To find if the data has any outliers, I compute the residual error of the curve fit and if the residual error is less than a threshold, I assume that the fit was good and that there is not outlier. It is assumed that the data is generated from a cubic polynomial. So there is no need to change the order of the polynomial being fit.  The attached figure shows one of the snapshots where I am fitting a cubic polynomial( dashed red line) to set of data points(red points). There is clearly an outlier in the right bottom corner which I need to reject. And I know that we can use Ransac method to achieve that. However, my question is about the method computing the residual error. I computed the root mean squared error for this fit and it was 0.0293 which was within my acceptance tolerance. But I know that this is a bad fit.
Is there any other way to calculate the goodness of fit?
RMSE  = $\frac{\sqrt{\sum\limits_{i=0}^N\left(y_i - \hat{y}_i\right)^2}}{N}$
where, $y_i$ is the true value at $x_i$ and $\hat{y}_i = a_0 + a_1x_i + a_2x_i^2 + a_3x_i^3$ is the value obtained from curve fit. $a_0, a_1,a_2,a_3$ are the coefficients of the curve.
One way is to compute the error along the normal to the curve i.e. to compute the error at $x_i$, I can compute the tangent to the curve at $x_i$ and then $\hat{y}_i$ can be the distance of the point $y_i$ from the tangent. Do you think that it makes sense?


The 3.3 mile loop follows the White Trail, which zig-zags through Gay City State Park. The trail starts as a wide access road with few bumps along the way. About a mile into the race the trail narrows, be prepared to encounter more rocks and roots and a few down hills and climbs. After crossing the water dam, participants climb the Blue Trail and then turn onto the road for a downhill finish by the pond.


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New Zealand has a vibrant performing arts scene reflecting both Polynesian and European culture.
From the very first days of settlement, amateur actors and actresses have been a feature of New Zealand society. In Auckland, Wellington and Nelson, small companies of players sometimes performed to assist charities such as the 'Widow and Orphans' Fund' or the 'Suffering British Subjects in India'. During the mid 1880s, when British regiments were stationed here, garrison theatres were built and soldier-actors staged many plays.
The 20 years between the world wars saw the emergence of amateur theatre as it is still produced today. Repertory societies appeared in most of the country's towns and cities. While not all of these societies are still operating, it's worth checking out the entertainment pages of any local newspaper for details about current productions.
A number of professional theatre companies have emerged in recent years, particularly in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin. Their productions range from children's pantomimes through to the bravest experimental works.
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I do like sponge cakes, they are easy, simple and scrumptious! 😀 This one is absolutely worth making, the base is flavoured with coffee and chocolate, which can be your favourite – dark, milk or cherry-flavoured, for en extra twist add vanilla. You can use only mascarpone for the cream, add cherries or some ganache into the filling. The possibilities are endless!
If you're not coffee-lover just leave it out, and replace with water or juice.
Preheat oven to 355°F / 180°C. Butter cake pan, line it with baking paper and set aside.
In a large bowl, combine all the dry ingredients except for the sugar.
In a small bowl, beat egg yolks with sugar until the mixture is pale. Add oil, coffee, water and stir well. Set aside.
Incorporate the wet ingredients into the dry.
Beat egg whites with a pinch of salt and lemon juice until soft peaks form.
Slowly incorporate egg whites into batter until just combined.
Pour into your greased dish and bake for 34-45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean when inserted. Coll completely. Cut cake into two layers.
To make the cream, whip the cream and icing sugar for 3-4 minutes or until foamy (Be careful! Don't overbeat!). Add mascarpone, chocolate and nuts, and combine. Optionally, you can stir in some fresh berries.
Spread the cream evenly over one cake layer, top with the second one.
To make the chocolate ganache, bring cream to the boil in small saucepan. Remove from the heat. Add the chocolate and stir until smooth.
Spread the ganache over the cake, decorate with berries or chocolate.
Refrigerate cake 3-4 hours or overnight before serving.
Christmas and New Year are definitely my favourite holidays. Hustle and bustle time. Snowing outside, everybody is in rush, searching presents and gifts for the loved ones. Unfortunately in the UAE I can't feel such wonderful emotions in full, but I can bring the festive mood and flavours to my home by baking some winter treats.
And if you pack them in a little Xmas box – it might be amazing gift for a friend.
I'm pretty sure that better to double the amount of the ingredients, so you don't need to cook it twice!
Melt the chocolate and butter together in a bowl under the simmering water, gently stir.
Whisk the egg and sugar together in another bowl until light and fluffy.
Carefully fold in the chocolate mixture, then add the flour and combine.
Scoop the cookie batter with a teaspoon, shape small balls and roll them in plate with icing sugar.
Place on a baking tray and bake for 9-10 minutes in a preheated oven 180C/360F.


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Computing and Communications
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HighWire Doctoral Training Centre
2018kershawphd
Available under license: CC BY: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Language change and evolution in Online Social Networks
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
Daniel Kershaw
Supervisors/Advisors
Stacey, Patrick, Supervisor, External person
Blair, Gordon, Supervisor
Rowe, Matthew, Supervisor
Noulas, Anastasios, Supervisor
Thesis sponsors
Language is in constant flux, whether through the creation of new terms or the changing meanings of existing words. The process by which language change happens is through complex reinforcing interactions between individuals and the social structures in which they exist. There has been much research into language change and evolution, though this has involved manual processes that are both time consuming and costly. However, with the growth in popularity of osn, for the first time, researchers have access to fine-grained records of language and user interactions that not only contain data on the creation of these language innovations but also reveal the inter-user and inter-community dynamics that influence their adoptions and rejections. Having access to these osn datasets means that language change and evolution can now be assessed and modelled through the application of computational and machine-learning-based methods. Therefore, this thesis looks at how one can detect and predict language change in osn, as well as the factors that language change depends on. The answer to this over-arching question lies in three core components: first, detecting the innovations; second, modelling the individual user adoption process; and third, looking at the collective adoption across a network of individuals.
In the first question, we operationalise traditional language acceptance heuristics (used to detect the emergence of new words) into three classes of computation time-series measures computing the variation in frequency, form and/or meaning. The grounded methods are applied to two osn, with results demonstrating the ability to detect language change across both networks. By additionally applying the methods to communities within each network, e.g. geographical regions, on Twitter and Subreddits in Reddit, the results indicate that language variation and change can be dependent on the community memberships.
The second question in this thesis focuses on the process of users adopting language innovations in relation to other users with whom they are in contact. By modelling influence between users as a function of past innovation cascades, we compute a global activation threshold at which users adopt new terms dependent on exposure to them from their neighbours. Additionally, by testing the user interaction networks through random shuffles, we show that the time at which a user adopts a term is dependent on the local structure; however, a large part of the influence comes from sources external to the observed osn.
The final question looks at how the speakers of a language are embedded in social networks, and how the networks' resulting structures and dynamics influence language usage and adoption patterns. We show that language innovations diffuse across a network in a predictable manner, which can be modelled using structural, grammatical and temporal measures, using a logistic regression model to predict the vitality of the diffusion. With regard to network structure, we show how innovations that manifest across structural holes and weak ties diffuse deeper across the given network. Beyond network influence, our results demonstrate that the grammatical context through which innovations emerge also play an essential role in diffusion dynamics - this indicates that the adoption of new words is enabled by a complex interplay of both network and linguistic factors.
The three questions are used to answer the over-arching question, showing that one can, indeed, model language change and forecast user and community adoption of language innovations. Additionally, we also show the ability to apply grounded models and methods and apply them within a scalable computational framework. However, it is a challenging process that is heavily influenced by the underlying processes that are not recorded within the data from the osns.


First Nerve: This is What Democracy Smells Like?
OWS on parade in S.F.
This exhibition is concerned with the conjunctions where art, olfaction and politics intertwine.
Neato! That's also one of FN's favorite triple conjunctions.
With this work, Gayil Nalls argues that the sense of collective experience has distinct olfactory aesthetics.
OK. Every crowd has its own smell.
While predominately imperceptible, the sense of smell allows for a binding power contributing to the sensus communis, or the power of the people, demonstrating that the sociocultural Zeitgeist or mood of this movement has an olfactory truth.
Olfactory truth of the Zeitgeist? Uh . . . I guess so. In my experience, "power to the people" smells like pot, patchouli, and jug wine.
Visitors will experience chemosensory messages of Occupy Wall Street protestors from tee shirts worn by 99 participants: physical Occupiers, working group members and solidarity marchers.
A tag hangs from each shirt revealing identification and contact information for each individual and their [sic] statement of dissent.
Hmmm . . . that could backfire.
The shirts give form to a body of messages, having been worn for the previous week, absorbing the molecular form of this enigmatic moment.
What was enigmatic about it? I went to Zucotti Park and saw a bunch of neo-hippies pissed off about their student loans, along with a lot of the usual protest fringers (LaRouchians, Krishnas, anarchists and stoners). I found it emblematic of the stale state of the "progressive" movement.
If you missed Zucotti live, you can get a nostalgic nose full of it courtesy of Gayil Nalls at Doorways, 62 Van Duzer Street, in Staten Island, NY, through February 11.
You have cited what a gathering would smell like in your experience. What would your imagination think the current crowd would smell like absent the mary jane, and jug wine, and all the new deodorants since Right Guard. What would a bottled water, non-smoking, Axe deodorized crowd smell like if there is no wool to carry a scent? What does anger and frustration smell like, with a smattering of diabetes.


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Band prepares new marching show
Lauren O'Donnell, Fall 2017 J1 student
This year the Blue Valley Marching Band has strayed from their typical style for the marching show. Drum major junior Karina Howey said this year's Tron-like theme is unlike past shows.
"The past two years have been a more light-hearted message, but we're going toward a darker side," Howey said.
The theme, "Gameland," features a red team and a blue team that battle throughout the show.
Howey said the difference between a marching show and other band shows is the more interpretational and abstract theme. It's expressed through the music, choreography, costumes and even formations.
"The drill, which is what the band looks like, represents an idea," Howey said. "Like for a ballad, where it's more soft and beautiful, we're going to have more rounder shapes like curves and circles, while a more aggressive movement, like for our red team, will have more boxes."
Another large part of the expression of theme is the color guard. Co-captain of the color guard junior Celie Strain said they help establish the storyline of the show this year.
"We are kind of setting up the whole story of how it's the red character versus the blue character," Strain said. "I'm blue team leader and Haley Jones is red team; the rest of the girls on color guard who are not the team leaders are just on the different teams."
The storyline also develops
over the prelude and four movements of the marching show in the choreography and props. Different sections of instruments in the band will be doing more choreography and even battle scenes with instruments.
The color guard is using several different flags as well asa new prop, Air-Blades. Strain says the Air-Blades are very similar to spinning rifles.
"They have little holes cut out off them, are made of plastic, and are a little bit bigger than rifles, but you spin them very much the same," Strain said.
Competition season for the marching band consists mostly in fall. They will be attending four competitions this year. The competition at Blue Springs was on Saturday, September 30th, where the marching band took 5th place in finals. They also took 11th place in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday, October 14th. The other two competitions will be at KU and the Kansas State Championship. The band is hoping for good results at this new state competition, Howey said.
"The Kansas State Championship is new for us, and our goal is, since we're technically not a name within that competition, to just go in there, be a first year and throw down. Hopefully, we can come back with a State Championship," Howey said.


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Illustrious Sir Carl Douglas "Doug" Mayes (Oasis)
President of the	South Atlantic Shrine Association - 1987-1988
Carl Douglas "Doug" Mayes, 93, of Denver, NC, passed away on Sunday, October 18, 2015, at his residence. Born December 12, 1921, in Westmoreland, TN, he was a son of the late Joel Elijah and Bertha Lou Spears Mayes. Doug was the first television News Anchor in Charlotte, NC, beginning his career in 1952 with WBTV. He joined WSOC in 1982 and retired from the station in 1988. Doug continued in the Broadcasting Industry doing occasional specials upon request, including co-anchoring the WBTV News at 11 in 2013.
He was a member of Denver Masonic Lodge #757, was a 33rd Degree Scottish Rite member in the Charlotte chapter, and served as Potentate of Oasis Shriners in 1976. Doug was Past Director of Royal Order of Jesters Court 109 in 1983 and was a life member of Court 109. He was an Emeritus member of the Public Relations Committee for Shriners International and was one of the first members to receive the Imperial Potentate's Award of Merit for outstanding and lasting impact on Shriners Hospital for Children and Shriners International.Doug was an Emeritus Representative for Shriners International and served as President of the South Atlantic Shrine Association from 1987-1988. He was a member of the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas Hall of Fame. Doug was inducted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Charlotte Broadcast Hall of Fame in 2015. He was a member of the NC Broadcasters Hall of Fame, member of the Salvation Army ARC and Area Command advisory boards, where he served as membership chairman. Doug was also a recipient of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. Doug was a WWII veteran having served in the US Navy.
He was an accomplished musician having been taught at a young age by his father. Doug was preceded in death by his wife, Ruby Vaughn Mayes; daughter, Brenda Mayes Lupino and sisters, Mabel Dodson, Elizabeth Simmons and Peg Bullington. Doug is survived by his son, Joe Mayes; granddaughter, Heather Leslie Rahn and great grandson, Theo. Funeral services will be held at 11 AM, Wednesday, October 21, 2015, at Denver United Methodist Church, Denver, NC, with Rev. Jeff Johnsen officiating. Burial will follow at 2 PM in Evergreen Cemetery, Charlotte. The family will receive friends from 6 – 8 PM, Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at Cavin-Cook Funeral Home, Mooresville. Memorials may be made to the Shriners Hospital for Children, c/o Oasis Shriners, 604 Doug Mayes Place, Charlotte, NC 28262 or The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center, P O Box 5669, Charlotte NC 28299. Cavin-Cook Funeral Home, Mooresville, is serving the family of Doug Mayes. Condolences may be made to the Mayes family at	www.cavin-cook.com.


About: I am a Jazz Vocalist and Artist living in Chicago, IL USA. I also have Lupus, and the reboot has helped put me into remission :) and my rashes are gone!
I like your idea about feeding the fibre to your dogs. I will try that when I get new dog. My 15 year old australian shepherd died this past April.
I am so sorry to hear about your Aussie... I hope that you are doing well and were able to adopt a new furry family member. We lost an ACD 2 years ago and it was like losing a child. xoxoxo!
With the Reboot I put my Lupus into remission!
I have Lupus, a genetic auto-immune disorder that can cause bleeding rashes on your skin, as well as fever, joint pain and organ failure. It runs in my family and I was born with it. With the reboot, I have changed my life and healed my body by raw juice fasting and ridding my diet of all processed foods and preservatives, and keeping myself away from fragrances and household chemicals that irritate skin, like fabric softener or air fresheners. I used to have to live on steroids to keep the rashes down, but now that I juice fast and eat a natural, mostly raw diet, I am rash and symptom free, and the Lupus is in remission. It's a miracle, and all it took was a little determination and changing the way I eat and live. Thanks Joe, for your inspiring movie!
Many of my friends are very overweight, and they are sick too. Arthritis, MS, Lupus... and if they don't want to watch Joe's movie or listen to my testimony, that's ok. I don't push it on them. But it's so hard to be around them, hearing about how sick they are, and watching them stuff their faces with spaghetti, chocolate dipped bacon, cheesecake... you name it. No wonder they are sick! Anyhow, I am slowly moving away from them I fear, and it's a sad thing to watch them eat themselves to death. I am trying to make new friends, but it is certainly a big social adjustment, as is being much thinner.
Has anyone had issues like this, while doing a reboot? Has choosing a healthier lifestyle caused you to lose friends, or even your marriage? I'm lucky that my husband John likes Joe's movie, and is doing a reboot himself, so we are still close and not arguing about this, but last week when I refused to meet a friend out for dinner at a cheesecake restaurant.... Food is such an addictive substance in American culture, and a basis of our socializing. I have recently started to attend OA meeting as well, and they are being so helpful with all of these issues but I also wanted to address them here.
We have 2 Aussie Cattle Dogs, and they have very sensitive skin. I've tried every kind of dog food, and nothing keeps them from getting rashes, so at the suggestion of our groomer, I've been cooking salmon and fish scraps for them which has helped them so much. But I've recently added the veggie mush that's left over from the juicer and the LOVE IT, they go crazy over it. So now they are getting all the fiber and leftovers from the juicer along with their salmon, and their fur is growing in thick and shiny and healthy. Reboot can be good for Doggies too!
I am a body builder and I lift weights daily, and I'm concerned about getting enough protein during a reboot. Do you have any suggestions? My doctor wants me to get 50 grams of protein a day, is this possible with just juicing?
The Initial reboot, weight loss and healing are the honeymoon, but then reality sets in after more time goes by and when you are tested by stress how do you cope? What do you do to deal with food addiction?
I was diagnosed with Lupus in July 2014. Now I am recovering through the integration of holistic healing modalities including diet . I got inspired and decided to join this community . Let's juice together ?


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Karnataka's online gaming ban won't work. It shows poor grasp of tech
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Heavy-handed technology regulation is a recipe for economic disaster and social rebellion. It reflects a lack of basic understanding of technology.
The legislative assembly of Karnataka passed the Karnataka Police (Amendment) Bill 2021, banning all formats of online games involving monetary stakes on 23 September. It is one among many prohibitory statutes enacted by southern states including Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh. Tamil Nadu's Gaming and Police Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021, which is similar in substance to Karnataka's legislation, was struck down by the Madras High Court just a few months ago for being "unreasonable" and "irrational". Such statutes are enacted in the name of protecting people from "the evils of online gaming". It's worth examining this pattern of digital paternalism from a wider international lens.
In August, China introduced new rules which cap the total time minors can spend on video games to three specific hours a week – between 8 and 9 pm on Fridays, weekends, and public holidays. As a country that has an infamous internet firewall, China makes a good case study for digital paternalism. However, it is not the only nation to have prescribed such overbroad curbs on gaming. In 2011, South Korea introduced a "shutdown law", that prohibited children under 16 from playing video games for a six-hour period starting at midnight. In March 2020, the Kansai region in Japan passed a similar law limiting the game time for minors to one hour a day.
Heavy-handed technology regulation is a recipe for economic disaster and social rebellion. Soon after Beijing announced its new curbs, the shares of Tencent and Netease – two of the largest gaming companies in China, plunged by 8.5 and 11 per cent respectively. This wiped off $60 billion in combined market value. India is already among the largest gaming markets in the world in terms of user participation. Therefore, a sunrise sector, which is pegged to reach Rs 155 billion by 2023, threatens to be stymied through a spate of bans.
Moreover, experience suggests that regulations with moral overtones do not fulfil their societal aims either. For instance, studies show that the South Korean law failed to limit the time spent by minors on gaming activity. In fact, the South Korean government recently announced its decision to abolish the shutdown law. Similarly, China's previous attempt to curb video game addiction was unsuccessful. In 2019, the country introduced a regulation that imposed a gaming curfew between 10 pm and 8 am, capped game time for minors to 90 minutes a day, and prescribed an in-game purchase ceiling of $57. However, gamers were quick to find ways to circumvent the regulations. Last year, Chinese state media reported that some e-commerce platforms allowed the rental and sale of verified gaming accounts, which can be used to bypass the regulations. Children also became more adept at skirting restrictions by using virtual private networks. Not only do morally motivated regulations fail to achieve intended outcomes, but they also risk pushing the very demographic they want to protect, into unregulated spaces.
Paternalism and its perils
State interference with individual liberty is particularly in vogue in digital markets. However, technological advancements outpace the ability of countries to ensure that regulations remain fit-for-purpose. Moreover, policymakers do not understand the technologies they seek to regulate. This issue is not unique to India. In 2018, when Mark Zuckerberg appeared to testify before the United States Congress, he was asked how Facebook is profitable if his app is free to use. Such instances reflect a lack of basic understanding of technology platforms and their business models.
The current wave of prohibitory laws that concern online games show a similar lack of rulemaking mastery. Consider the Tamil Nadu Gaming and Police Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021. The law, in its statement of objects and reasons, suggests that it was enacted to "protect innocent people from the evils of online gaming". Other reasons included reported cases of people being cheated while playing rummy and poker online, as well as related suicides. To address these issues, the state government imposed a blanket ban on all online games played for monetary stakes. Similarly, the Telangana Gaming (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 identified online rummy as a 'regulatory trigger', but ended up prohibiting all forms of online games played for stakes, whether judicially upheld or otherwise.
Thankfully, Indian courts tend to step in to uphold constitutional rights more often than not. In Junglee Games v. State of Tamil Nadu, while striking down the impugned online gaming law, the Madras High Court highlighted a misplaced sense of morality. The court remarked that the lack of empirical studies around the impact of laws often led to the good and bad being clubbed together because there was no informed alternative to choose from. Such observations from the higher judiciary, especially in the case of technology regulations, are not new. In 2018, the Reserve Bank of India issued a circular that prohibited financial institutions from dealing in virtual currencies (or digital assets) like Bitcoin. The circular was struck down by the Supreme Court, which highlighted that the central bank had failed to furnish any evidence of harm caused due to the trade in virtual currencies.
While the judiciary is constantly trying to counteract state paternalism — as visible in the judgments of Madras HC — the passage of the Karnataka Police (Amendment) Bill highlights the fact that lawmakers refuse to see the pitfalls of paternalistic laws and pay scant attention to previous judicial orders.
Remedies for gaming 'addiction'
An ideal regulatory approach requires a shift from hard paternalism to libertarian paternalism. The former justifies the restriction of personal liberty for an individual's own good, while the latter adopts a non-coercive approach. According to Professor Richard H. Thaler, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, libertarian paternalism attempts to steer people's choices in welfare-promoting directions without eliminating freedom of choice. Thus, instead of limiting the scope of individual choice, it seeks to nudge people to make more informed decisions.
Towards this, regulators must consider alternative solutions. For example, South Korea is shifting towards a 'choice permit' system, which allows children, their parents or their legal guardians to request a permit per game and designate hours for playing these titles. Similarly, regulations should leverage technological measures to achieve policy objectives. Examples of such measures include fatigue systems, which discourage users from prolonged gaming by cutting down in-game rewards. Another example could be in-game warnings, which entail notifying users about the risks of excessive gaming, analogous with the health warning messages that appear on tobacco and alcohol packaging.
It is important to mention that several online gaming services already leverage technology to ensure fairness in their gameplay. These include user identity verification solutions like enhanced KYC, GPS/IP address-based verification of a user's location to prevent collusion and anti-bot solutions to prevent fraudulent users from using scripts and bots to manipulate the game. The use of such measures safeguards gamers against cheating and resultant financial losses, thus achieving some of the policy objectives which paternalistic laws seek to attain.
Mandates supportive of greater business responsibility are another potent alternative to digital paternalism. This is also a solution that courts seem to support. For example, the Rajasthan High Court held that online fantasy sports, which operate in accordance with the self-regulatory charter of the Federation of Indian Fantasy Sports, a self-regulatory body for the segment, are protected under Article 19(1)(g) of the Constitution. Against this backdrop, states can legitimise existing self-regulatory efforts through statutory recognition. Doing so will address outstanding regulatory concerns with the use of minimal state capacity and without infringing upon individual autonomy.
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Welcome to the 2021-2022 Season of The Jackson Symphony.
We are currently offering season ticket packages which include Full season, Pops only, and other season packages.
We have a new "Please Take a Seat" reserved seating package for bundling our Pops concerts.
Special events will be posted as they become available.
Our single ticket sales will go on sale August 2nd so please come back and check out our page for updated purchasing options.
Please Take A Seat
Pops Concerts
Family Concerts
Chamber Concerts
Sept. 11 | 7:30 PM | FBC
Starlight Symphony
Sept. 18 | 7:30 PM | FPC
Family Spooktacular
Oct. 16 | 11:30 AM | CC
Symphony Spooktacular
Oct. 16 | 7:30 PM | CC
Beethoven 1 and 9
Nov. 6 | 7:30 PM | CC
Resounding Joy
Nov. 7 | 1:30 PM | FBC
Dec. 4 | 11:30 AM | CC
Dec. 4 | 7:30 PM | CC
An Evening of Romance
Feb. 12 | 7:30 PM | CC
Beauty and Passion
Mar. 5 | 7:30 PM | FBC
Just Julian
The Beatles Solo Years
Apr. 2 | 7:30 PM | CC
Mozart by Candlelight
Nov. 16 | 7:00 PM | NED
Feb. 13 | 1:30 PM | FBC
Our season opens with Schubert's "Great" C Major Symphony, full of resounding positivity and energy. Baritone Dashon Burton joins us for Mahler's dramatic "Songs of a Wayfarer," and select Schubert songs arranged for orchestra. Sharing the theme of the "wanderer," Mahler and Schubert take us on a journey through the beauty of
German romanticism.
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No one should miss the chance to witness the fire and majesty of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
live. Featuring four soloists, full choir, and The Jackson Symphony orchestra, this is a unique opportunity to hear Beethoven's first and last symphonies live. Ending with "Ode to Joy," this concert is an anthem to humanity that
celebrates the apex of the human spirit.
Winner of the 2020 Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition, Julian Rhee has been enjoying success since performing his first concerto at the age of 8. Praised as one of his generation's most celebrated violinists, Julian joins the Jackson Symphony to perform Mendelssohn's violin concerto. After the intermission, join us for Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony- a work full of passionate intensity, and a cornerstone of the orchestral repertoire.
Fun and fright are in the air as The Jackson Symphony takes the stage for a night of ghostly music! Highlights include the screeching sounds from the famous shower scene in the movie Psycho, Bach's iconic "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor," and Pop favorites including Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean. Bring your cauldrons and your costumes and revel in the orchestra's spooky sounds.
Kick off the holiday season with this family-friendly concert
as The Jackson Symphony presents you with the gift of music, performing all your favorite sounds of the season. Featuring soloists, fun sing-along opportunities, and
the full power of The Jackson Symphony, this evening promises to be the perfect start
to your holiday celebration.
Anthony Kearns, Ireland's Foremost Tenor, and The Jackson Symphony will be Jackson's most entertaining way to spend Valentine's weekend. Bring your date, or your group of friends, and enjoy the sounds of love and romance.
After the Beatles broke up, John, Paul, George and Ringo each continued to write and record countless iconic songs. This kept them front and center in the eyes and ears of the world. "Imagine" brings together the solo hits of the individual Beatles such as "My Sweet Lord," "Band on the Run," and "Live and Let Die." This new Beatles concert
is another exciting collaboration from the
creative team behind our recent top-selling
concerts "Piano Men" and "Classic Rock."
It's creepy, crawly, and such a blast it's spooky! Little ghosts and goblins will love this one-hour family matinee. An exciting event that features frightfully fun symphonic music, this concert promises to stimulate young eyes and ears. The entire family is invited to dress up in their favorite costumes and enjoy "boo-tiful" music with The Jackson Symphony.
After years of success, The Jackson Symphony is pleased to once again offer this fun-filled, one-hour family matinee. Featuring well-known Christmas classics and sing-along melodies, this concert is the ideal way to get in the holiday spirit for moms, dads, and kids of all ages!
Written at the end of Franz Schubert's very short life, Winterreise (A Winter's Journey) is one of the greatest song cycles ever written. It represents the culmination of Schubert's compositional genius. Our first chamber music concert of the season is an incredible opportunity to witness this stunning work with soloist, Dashon Burton. Accompanied on piano by our very own Keith Herris,
this afternoon will be one you will not forget.
The four vocal Guest Artists from the Beethoven 9 concert are sure to delight as they dazzle you with opera arias, art songs, and more! Joined by choirs from the night before, this afternoon chamber concert will be a celebration of the human voice. Join us for an afternoon of resounding joy!
Join us on this romantic weekend for what promises to be a gorgeous afternoon of music with husband and wife team, Dawson (piano) and Taneea (clarinet). Enjoy this afternoon as they perform romantic favorites including Clair de lune, Fly Me to the Moon, Moonlight Serenade, and many more.
"Just Julian" is your last chance to spend an hour with the young virtuoso violinist, Julian Rhee, after what promises to be a world-class performance of Mendelssohn's Violin concerto the night before! Experience Julian's technical mastery and flare once more as he performs works by Biber, Saint-Saens and Wieniawski. We are delighted to have Dawson Hull to provide the piano accompaniment
for this afternoon of beautiful music.
To celebrate Jackson's bicentennial anniversary, The Jackson Symphony plays its part by taking you on a tour through Jackson's rich musical history, all the way from 1822 to the present day. Whether it's the cannons of the 1812 Overture or the rockabilly of Carl Perkins, this promises to be a Starlight Symphony like no other.
Join us at The Ned for another "sweet night" under the flickering of candlelight. This concert, featuring Mozart's best-known and loved orchestral works, is combined with opportunities to mingle and to enjoy desserts and drinks in what promises to be an intimate and elegant experience.
©2020 by The Jackson Symphony


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SBP: Pakistan's Inflation Rate was the Highest in the World in 2020
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has disapproved reports suggesting that Pakistan's inflation rate was the highest in the world in 2020.
The central bank of the country shared a series of tweets that stated, "A chart from our Inflation Monitor has generated erroneous headlines. It compares Pakistan's inflation to a few developed and developing countries. While Pakistan did have a relatively elevated inflation rate so far in FY20, it is not true that it was the highest in the world."
The SBP said, "For instance, Argentina, Iran, Nigeria, and Turkey's inflation has been higher. Since January, inflation in Pakistan has fallen sharply and much faster than in most other emerging markets."
The SBP also warned the public to beware of fraudsters when it came to the awareness of the central bank that unscrupulous elements are making phone calls to individuals, posing as SBP officials or other agencies, seeking personal information on their deposit accounts on the pretext that SBP collects information from banking clients in the event of an emergency declared in the country.
In some cases, the fraudsters also claim that information is required to ensure the smooth functioning of their accounts if ATM services become unavailable.
SBP said that it never seeks the information of any bank's account holders, and all such calls made on its behalf are deceitful and fraudulent. "Public is advised not to respond to any such calls and not to provide any information," urged SBP.
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