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Sobriety is just one pathway to recovery. Harm reduction is another
By Susan E. CollinsApril 11, 2019
Elaine Thompson/AP
In Washington state, where I live and work, the only kind of substance-use treatment currently allowed by state law is abstinence-based treatment, or treatment that demands sobriety. So as a substance-use treatment professional, that's what I've been providing.
But I started realizing that this approach wasn't reaching many of those struggling with substance use disorders. In fact, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Survey on Drug Use and Health showed that 19 million American adults had a substance use disorder in 2016, but only 11 percent of those who needed treatment received it. Of the other 89 percent, nearly 96 percent said they "didn't need treatment." For whatever reason, our abstinence-based treatments are not reaching the vast majority of people with substance use disorders.
As counselors and researchers, my colleagues and I at the University of Washington's Harm Reduction Research and Treatment Center decided to go back to the drawing board. We asked the people we were working alongside — people with lived experiences of alcohol-use disorder and homelessness — how they would redesign alcohol treatment. Ninety-four percent of them favored harm reduction approaches.
Harm reduction refers to a set of compassionate and pragmatic approaches that aim to reduce substance-related problems and improve quality of life without emphasizing sobriety or a reduction in use. On the policy level, harm reduction can include decriminalization, legalization, and regulation of controlled substances. On the population level, it can be public service announcements, like the Ad Council's famous "Friends don't let friends drive drunk." Evidence-based practices such as safer-consumption sites, needle and syringe exchanges, and low-barrier housing are all community-level manifestations of harm reduction.
Related: By shunning medication-assisted therapy, 12-step meetings are making the opioid crisis worse
On the individual level, which is where many counselors work on a daily basis, harm reduction can be supported by medications like extended-release naltrexone for alcohol use disorder or Suboxone and methadone for opioid-use disorder, but it must also be reflected in how we talk to people.
With that in mind, we co-designed a harm reduction treatment program with a community advisory board made up of staff, management, and clients at the Downtown Emergency Service Center in Seattle, an agency serving people who experience homelessness.
In the resulting harm-reduction treatment, counselors met with participants once a week for three consecutive weeks and again after one month. At each session, participants were asked, "What do you want to see happen for yourself?" Some generated their own substance-related goals, like reducing their drinking or not mixing drugs and alcohol. But about half chose to focus instead on other important quality-of-life goals, like getting housing, reconnecting with their children, or engaging in meaningful activities such as creating art or going to the library.
Participants also worked with research staff to brainstorm scientifically informed ways they could stay safer when drinking, such as eating before drinking or taking B-complex vitamins to support their brain health and function.
Related: Move over Hippocrates: Harm reduction as the new paradigm for health care
They also created their own metrics for success. Some defined success as experiencing fewer overall problems due to alcohol use. For others, the metrics were more specific, like having fewer blackouts or seizures. Researchers then helped participants track these outcomes over time so they could see incremental improvements in what they felt mattered most in their lives.
In a randomized controlled trial involving 168 participants, we compared the effectiveness of this harm-reduction treatment with usual care at three clinical and social services agencies in Seattle.
As we reported in the International Journal of Drug Policy, participants receiving harm-reduction treatment showed significantly greater improvements in alcohol outcomes than participants receiving usual care. Compared with their levels at the start of the program, alcohol use among harm-reduction treatment participants decreased by 66%, alcohol-related problems decreased 71%, and the number of alcohol use disorder symptoms declined by 63%. And even though the harm-reduction approach didn't push sobriety, positive urine tests for alcohol decreased by 20%.
My colleagues and I have also seen promising initial findings that talking to people about harm reduction works for smoking. We believe it could also work for opioid-use disorder to support the use of medication-assisted treatment, though we are just beginning to test this hypothesis.
The bottom line: Even if people are not ready, willing, or able to stop using an addictive substance, they can start getting help and making positive changes in their lives. And a harm-reduction approach to treatment can help them do that.
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This finding is important to me as a scientist and counselor, but also as a regular person. My family has an intergenerational experience of addictive behaviors and their sometimes tragic and deadly fallout. I started attending 12-step meetings when I was 16. Years later, I felt the rush of shame and anger that my clients must also feel when my doctor called me an "alcoholic" and dismissed any questions I had about his proposed diagnosis and treatment plan.
I eventually stopped drinking alcohol because of its effects on my health. I also stopped because I wanted to be fully present for my young daughter. So as a mother, a daughter, a granddaughter, a wife, a friend, and an "alcoholic," I believe in the power of sobriety and the 12 steps.
But that's not everyone's pathway, and it doesn't have to be. When it isn't, I believe we need to support individuals' autonomy to make safer and healthier choices for themselves and their families, even when they continue using substances.
Increasingly, that belief is backed up by the science.
Susan E. Collins, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, co-director of the Harm Reduction Research and Treatment Center, and associate professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
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Comment by Mom on April 14, 2019 at 2:33 pm
Blah, blah, blah… I'm so sick of all this talk and NO ACTION while thousands keep dropping dead. Why aren't relatives of all the deceased questioned, why does it take over a month to get a frikkin appt with mental health after the death of a child, why can a dr not be accountable for all these drugs, why could Walgreens fill 120 Oxycodone pills, WHY, WHY AND WHY. Nobody has any answers except God. Alot of this is because of pure greed, plain and simple, and despair and hopelessness in this Godless society we live in. This is too big to solve. The haves and have nots. Have fun. God will figure it all out in the end. Or do like the Sackler family. Create a new poison to get one off another poison. What a frikkin joke!!
Comment by Joe on September 22, 2019 at 6:08 am
Harm reduction bullshit drug substitutions a drug is a drug is a drug. Lets get this straight a drug addict will not abuse an opiate to treat an opiate addiction. Thats just stupid as an alcoholic drinking mouthwash because its not labeled as booze so he is not a drunk anymore if he does. You cant od on suboxon you can how many have died at the hands of big pharm. Why arent we talking vivatrol thats right it cost more than suboxon and what insurance wont pay for vivatrol but will for opiates. Some harm reduction! Thats why people in fellowships are not supporting those who come to meeting on harm reduction opiates because there high! Hows that for a comment?
Rekha D. Halligan, MD, PhD says:
Comment by Rekha D. Halligan, MD, PhD on April 14, 2019 at 10:36 am
Amazing program and testimonial. I plan on reviewing this approach for the elderly for whom I serve as their PCP. Alcoholism and prescription opiate abuse has not/does not spare those in their golden years.
Peter Faulk says:
Comment by Peter Faulk on April 13, 2019 at 5:55 am
#soberworldorg founder. Agree that there are many solutions. The recovery Community has tremendous efficacy when there is serious harm but there is also a fantastic opportunity to do preventative mental education and Stress Management to mitigate self-medicating in first place.
Comment by Mom on April 12, 2019 at 12:42 pm
Sobriety is great but when a doctor is giving hundreds of Oxycodone to someone, which was my son, plus Valium and Ambien I can not imagine how he could have ever got sober. He died in Aug 2017 from fentanyl and we have no knowledge of him ever using that. We are OUTRAGED nothing has been done to this dr and all we have left is grief and overwhelming sadness. It was sudden and unexpected and nobody bothered to call us. It is known who gave him this we are told but nothing done there yet either. Andrew Kolodny, an expert in opioid addiction told us to get atty but nobody cares. At least not in Jax Fl. One cop even had the nerve to tell me my son was fat, obese, a drug addict and more ad nauseam. Our son's car and Harley were stolen and NOTHING done. Hell I could even say the person's name who is believed to be the person of interest and Florida still would not do crap. I can only pray they get their karma in a BIG way. No parent should ever have to deal with this or a sibling getting a msg on Facebook from someone he doesn't know that his brother is dead. Oh yeah this dr still practices.
Suzanne Beare-Knight says:
Comment by Suzanne Beare-Knight on April 16, 2019 at 6:52 pm
I am so terribly sorry, that you have such deep sorrow, and devastation. My heart goes out to you.
Unfortunately, your story has become very commonplace for too many reasons.
My hope for you, and your son's other loved ones, is that someone can assist you, with some resolution, especially regarding the highly incompetent M.D., who prescribed a slew of narcotics, to your son. I know this won't end your pain, as nothing will, but knowing that there is one less quack in the medical field, might offer a bit of closure.
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Krishnendu Roy  is an Indian football defender who played for India in the 1984 Asian Cup. He also played for Mohun Bagan.

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Climate change affects everyone – from villagers in the most remote parts of the world, to metropolitan heads of government and private sector leaders. Amid a changing political landscape and an increase in climate impacts, dialogue and collaboration are needed more than ever to make a lasting difference.
The past years have seen a mainstreaming of climate issues following the 2015 Paris Agreement and COP21, laying out emission reduction requirements to keep global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius.
While these multilateral contexts provide a crucial framework, meeting the requirements will require a truly varied engagement – NGOs, aid workers, diplomats, municipal authorities, and state militaries, among others, all have a role to play.
The International Conference on Enhancing Climate Diplomacy in a Changing Political Environment, held in late November in Brussels, presented a chance for stakeholders to come together around the common theme of climate diplomacy. From new technologies to security implications, the conference provided a platform for participants to leverage in building partnerships and exchanging best practices.
Capacity4dev caught up with three participants to learn about the work they are doing in their respective spheres of influence – a non-profit research organisation, the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), and the military of Pakistan. While vastly different as actors, each brought a new perspective and insights into modes of engagement, demonstrating just how connected the world is when it comes to the climate we share.
Kitty van der Heijden, Director of Europe and Africa at the World Resources Institute, sat down with us to discuss the role of data in making sense of climate change and the new tools it can power in countering environmentally-destructive practices.
"Data is extremely important," van der Heijden said. "It has the potential to really create disruptive change… it is in our hands whether this creates a positive change, or a negative one." Pointing to the steam revolution that powered the 19th century and the use of oil in the 20th, she explained that data will be the driving force of our time.
"Where we are now is in a data revolution," she said. "With our processing capacity, we can get data to talk to each other." Doing so provides the bigger picture – deciphering just how changes to the natural environment impact communities, regions, and nations.
The challenge, she said, is to connect data and analysis often held in different spheres of focus. The sheer quantity of data and disparity in sources means that collecting and presenting it in a way that decision-makers can understand is crucial. Data-informed policy making would constitute a major step forward in addressing climate change, explained van der Heijden.
The World Resources Institute focuses on interconnected issues – food, water, forests, cities, energy and climate, among others – with data being at the centre of their work. The Institute has been building a platform to address the need for integrated analysis, powered by the best data available; Resource Watch is set to be released in April 2018.
Resource Watch will bring together over 300 data sets – around 50 of which are being updated in near real-time – in partnership with NASA, Google, the UN, and the World Bank, among others.
The platform will map how biophysical change (such as climate change, soil degradation, and water scarcity) impacts the socioeconomic (such as food security and health), along with the ways in which it may exacerbate political marginalization, exclusion, and migration.
For van der Heijden, Resource Watch's integrated data will both demonstrate the political relevance of ecological degradation, providing an impetus to act, while functioning as an important tool for those in decision and policy making positions.
Referring to the work of Global Forest Watch (which the Institute has set up a small fund to support), van der Heijden explained that new technologies can enable every citizen to track and act against deforestation in the areas they live and care about.
Through setting automated alerts tied to the detection of deforestation by satellites, the platform's users can get information – in near real-time – on where it's occurring. These alerts enable them to mobilise their communities and the media against illegal practices and hold the culprits accountable – be they municipal authorities or international companies.
Dr. Asif Ali Zaidi, senior advisor to the Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch at UN Environment, worked in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2008 – during the time of the transitional government of Afghanistan and the first government to be elected after the fall of the Taliban regime.
"In fragile countries, there are multiple risks," explained Zaidi, "when climate change comes, it acts as a risk multiplier." While many of these risks may be difficult to address – such as governance breakdowns – he believes that the science on climate is strong enough for it to be an area where effective action can be taken.
For Zaidi, understanding the impact of climate on political hotspots is a first step in developing a response. By presenting climate-sensitive solutions, the overall degree of instability can be reduced and associated risks better managed.
Afghanistan provides a concrete example of the measures that can be taken to address environmental issues in a fragile state, explained Zaidi.
Afghanistan's transitional government, which came into existence in 2002, requested that UN Environment conduct a post-conflict environmental assessment. Following the release of the findings in 2003, UN Environment was asked to implement some of the 156 advisory outcomes of the report, leading to the establishment of an office in the country, with Zaidi as head.
"One of the major problems at that stage was that during the 30 years of war, the institutions were decimated," Zaidi said. This extended from the governmental down to the village level, where a mismanagement of natural resources under armed groups resulted in the destruction of local ecosystems.
"Our first task in Afghanistan was to help the government revive the institutions at all levels," Zaidi said. This was followed by assisting the government in creating policies and legislations to adequately manage resources – though to Zaidi, it was clear that these would not be enough on their own.
"During the civil war, between 2.5 and 3 million refugees fled to Pakistan, while another 1 to 1.5 million fled to Iran," he continued. "Large-scale migration meant there was not much capacity left, both technical and managerial." The next step was to establish training programmes for large numbers of people, in order to redevelop the human know-how required to effectively carry out the implementation of environmental policies.
The final step, Zaidi explained, was to have people see with their own eyes the potential impact of environmental regeneration. UN Environment launched a series of pilot projects to show people that rivers, forests, and grazing lands could all be revived – building the faith needed to achieve engagement for a lasting impact.
While armed forces in Afghanistan contributed to environmental degradation in the country, Lieutenant General (retired) Tariq Waseem Ghazi, former Defence Secretary of the Government of Pakistan, highlighted the positive role militaries can play through climate diplomacy.
"Climate change is an issue that has not been on the radar in Pakistan," he said, adding that the difficulties in promoting environmentally friendly measures have largely stemmed from a lack of climate awareness across the country.
A common belief that climate change was created by other nations – and should therefore be solved by them – along with a concern for more pressing issues, such as hunger and poverty, have meant that climate change has too often been overlooked. "The big task is to get people to understand that climate change threatens all of us," Ghazi said.
The 2005 earthquake and floods in 2010 and 2011 played a part in increasing climate awareness in the country – though a more proactive engagement is required if the worst effects of climate change are to be mediated, he believes.
"The big task is to get people to understand that climate change threatens all of us"
For this reason, Ghazi chose to teach about the link between security and climate change at the National Defence University of Pakistan – targeting the mid to high-level officers who go through training before assuming policy making positions in their later careers.
Ghazi explained that the military also plays an important role as first responders to environmental disasters in Pakistan, managing large relief and rehabilitation efforts. Training the military on environmental management and in recognising early warning signs can improve their ability to react and pre-empt disasters.
"Climate change is a national security risk," Ghazi said, emphasising that militaries can help catalyse change by making their national governments aware of the implications of a changing climate.
According to Ghazi, while some treaties (like the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 between India and Pakistan) exist to manage the allocation of water – including arbitration mechanisms for potential disputes – a changing climate has put these under stress.
In times of drought and scarcity, cross-border tensions can be amplified by these realities, with the military's focus centring in on how to keep the water flowing. "Military considerations and national security take resource allocation into mind, and this can raise tensions when there should be efforts directed at resolutions," Ghazi explained.
The flow of nearly 7 million refugees from the Soviet-occupied Afghanistan to Pakistan resulted in a considerable strain on Pakistan, he added. From societal tensions, which can lead to internal turmoil, or a lack of adequate resources to deal with a refugee crisis, "external problems can quickly become an internal problem, and vice versa".
For Ghazi, the most important thing that can be done for climate diplomacy is to ensure a good knowledge-base for actors to draw on. In order to do this, adequate resources need to be provided to properly map the risks that climate change poses and ensure that the findings reach those in a position to use the information.
"We need to make people aware through research and by developing scenarios on how climate change will create specific security threats," he said.
Ghazi further emphasised the need for strong transnational and multisectoral forums to ensure a comprehensive understanding of the problems, contributing to the formulation of appropriate responses. Lastly, he pointed to the need for interactive platforms to facilitate better funding allocation.
"Climate change is an issue that does not respect boundaries," he concluded. Without collaboration that bridges sectoral and national divisions, we risk being caught out.
This article was written by Craig Hill, Journalist and Content Editor at Capacity4dev, with input from DG DEVCO and UNEP.
Around the tables at the Climate Change Conference in Paris, nations are striving to reach consensus on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and damage to the environment. To turn recommendations into results, all stakeholders need to be able to participate and be heard in the planning stages. Though they receive less coverage, the same principle holds true for the hundreds of projects addressing climate change in developing countries.


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Is Hijab an Insult to Unveiled Women?
Short Answer: Islam was revealed with a set of orders to its believers concerning their clothes, food, way of praying, places to go for pilgrimage, and so on. It is clear in the Quran that obeying such orders is the way to the kingdom of Heaven for the Muslims who received these orders in their book, but they do not concern the followers of other religions who did not receive the same orders either of Hijab or of otherwise. Therefore, why should unveiled women feel offended? _____________________________________ Salam Dear Muhammad, Thank you very much for your question and for contacting us. I do…
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Salam. My question is regarding the status of Muslim women. It is said in the holy Quran that Muslim women should cover themselves to guard their modesty. It also means that by doing that, they would have higher self-respect. Now, should a non-Muslim woman get to know the reason Muslim women wear the Hijab? Wouldn't they feel looked down upon? It will be like saying that they have no self respect for themselves indirectly and this can cause them to further away from the religion of Islam. Also, wouldn't it lead Muslim women to isolate themselves away from the non-Muslim women as they feel they are at a higher status? Please share your view. Thanks.
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Short Answer: Islam was revealed with a set of orders to its believers concerning their clothes, food, way of praying, places to go for pilgrimage, and so on. It is clear in the Quran that obeying such orders is the way to the kingdom of Heaven for the Muslims who received these orders in their book, but they do not concern the followers of other religions who did not receive the same orders either of Hijab or of otherwise. Therefore, why should unveiled women feel offended?
Salam Dear Muhammad,
Thank you very much for your question and for contacting us.
I do not quite understand the assumption that this command from God to the Muslim women to wear hijab is regarded as an insult to non-Muslim women, and that it accuses them of not having self-respect.
I believe that such assumption is the furthest from the truth.
Each religion represents a comprehensive and interrelated moral system based on a number of does and don'ts that are peculiar to it but do not mean to offend the believers of other religions.
Therefore, the prerequisites which the believers should fulfill to enter Paradise are different from one religion to another.
God's commands should not be a matter of argumentation.
Knowing that they are from God is enough reason for one to abide by these commands if he is a follower of this religion or to show respect for it if he belongs to a different belief even if he is not convinced.
Examples from Christianity
Take the example of baptism as an example.
According to Christianity, no one can enter the kingdom of Heaven unless one is baptized and that one can only gain remission of his sins through baptism.
It says in the Bible:
[He that believes and is baptized shall be saved, and he that disbelieves shall be condemned]. (Mark 16: 15-16)
I wonder if a Muslim or a Jew reads this and accuses the Bible of discriminating against them by claiming that they are deprived of Heaven and that they won't be saved and will be tortured just because they are not (and will not) be baptized.
Take the belief in Christ as the only way to salvation in Christianity as a second example.
Salvation is only pledged to the one accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior. The Bible says:
[Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead…Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.] (Acts 4:10-12)
Is it the right of a follower of another religion to protest against this prerequisite for salvation if he does not hold a belief in Christ in this manner?
The answer will definitely be "No" because this is a Christian discourse addressed only to Christians giving them their roadmap to Paradise.
But as for the followers of other religions, this may not be the case. They may have other instructions to do as they are told.
An Example from Judaism
I was once searching for the wisdom behind eating Kosher by the Jews; I wondered that the Jews believe that this ritual (which forbids eating certain animals like camels and hares in addition to combining certain foods in one meal like fish and dairy) is the way to keep them aloof from the animal souls.
In the Bible of Chabad Chassidism, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi says that we each possess two distinct souls: the animal soul, and the Godly soul. And by following such eating rituals we control the animal self which is blind to everything save the gratification of its egocentric instincts.
In relation to your question why don't we say that Judaism describes all who eat camels and hares as animal souls?
Only those who are prejudiced will think in this way.
But the more open-minded people will understand that this is a command from God to the Jews by which only they should abide, and that it does not mean any 'insult' to the gentiles who do not have a similar order in their holy books.
Hijab in Islam
In the same way, Islam was revealed with a set of orders to its men and women believers concerning their clothes, food, way of praying, places to go for pilgrimage, and so on.
And it was clear in the Quran that obeying such orders is the way to the kingdom of Heaven for the Muslims who received these orders in their book, but they do not concern the followers of other religions who did not receive the same orders either of Hijab or of otherwise. Therefore, why should they feel offended?
Although other religions might not have indicated women's dress to be in this design of hijab, they all stressed the fact that women should not show in a vulgar appearance.
But hijab which is a type of uniform prescribed in the Quran to cover all the head and body except for the face and the two hands and is neither tight nor transparent, is only decreed on Muslim women for logical reasons.
Therefore, I see no point in non-Muslin women getting offended or insulted by this decree which was not directed to them.
You say that Muslim women feel superior to wear hijab, and that they isolate themselves from others thinking that hijab makes them of higher status.
The fact is that hijab is constantly criticized in all non-Muslim societies and is thought of as a token of backwardness and patriarchy, consequently Muslim women are looked down upon in non-Muslim societies and are isolated by others.
A clear example of this is when France and some Scandinavian countries banned hijab in public places and deprived Muslim women in hijab to go to their work, schools or hospitals for treatment.
What really worries me, dear Muhammad, is that after the enemies of Islam accused hijab of being a sign of backwardness and oppression for women, now they are starting a new round claiming that hijab insults non-Muslim women. And they will find in this claim a good excuse to start their war against hijab.
What we need now is to remove all suspicions from our hearts towards one another and to try to understand and be lenient with the small differences which are assigned among the different religions.
The world has become a small village in which we all have to live together whether we like it or not.
Can't we be smart enough to build this small village on basis of mutual understanding and respect instead of mutual hatred and distrust?
I hope this answers your question. Please keep in touch.
(From Ask About Islam archives)
Please continue feeding your curiosity, and find more info in the following links:
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Helping My Non-Muslim Mom Understand Hijab
Catholic Parents Object That I Wear Hijab
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ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Dougherty County Police responded to a serious car crash involving a truck and a Yukon SUV, around 1:30 p.m. Friday in the 5600 block of Hill Road.
Investigators said a truck was heading westbound, and the SUV carrying a family was heading east. DCP said the truck driver reported seeing the SUV go past him, begin to swerve and then over-corrected, and struck a telephone police.
There were two adults, one man and one woman, and two infants. The man sustained serious injuries as did one baby. Both were rushed to the hospital.
Multiple DCP units, two Albany fire trucks, four ambulances and multiple Albany fire rescue vehicles were all on scene.
For hours, Water Gas and Lights crews have been trying to repair an electrical pole after a family's car hit it. Now, several members of that family are battling severe injuries.
Now DCP are still investigating what actually happened in this case. They're unable to release the names of those involved. As soon as we find out more information, we'll be sure to update you.


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Twitter for Windows 10 updated with ability to quote and retweet yourself
August 6, 2016 by Jack Wilkinson
Twitter has released an update to its Universal App on Windows 10 devices. The update, as expected, comes without a changelog, however, some changes and improvements have been noticed.
The latest update adds the ability to quote and retweet your own tweets, allowing users to quote things they've said in the past or bring older tweets back to the top with a retweet. There also appear to be improvements in the loading speed of the app, followed by some improvements in the stability of loading content, which should lead to there being less black screens or staring at loading icons.
Inside the Moments page, it is now possible to view the Rio 2016 sub-section, which allows users to watch streamed clips live via Twitter.
The update is available now from the Windows Store on Windows 10 devices.
Developer: Twitter Inc.
It's good to see Twitter continuing to update its app and add new features, albeit at a slow pace. Notice anything else that's new in this update? Let us know in the comments below!
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ARK Survival Island Evolve 3D is an adventure game – action-packed 3D. The game is set in the aftermath of the cataclysm world, and Everything has changed. You are one of the lucky ones to survive. You tried to swim to remote islands with the belief that there are resources and food. But a storm took you to a desert island. The island is sweltering, there is green grass and there is a special chest on the beach. You are on a big island full of dinosaurs and you have to find food, collect resources, craft weapons, tools and armor to survive. You will always feel lonely and you need to take care of your pets. You can choose any dinosaur to tame. Also, you must build a shelter and fight ferocious animals. You can even build a skyscraper if you can. An interesting game Simulate survival on an island in the sandbox.
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New traffic lights by Aquatic Centre
New traffic lights will be installed on Kapiti Road where it intersects with Larch Grove and a new access road leading to the Coastlands Aquatic Centre. The traffic lights will...
Coastal hazard submitters to get extra month and independent commissioners
The deadline for submissions on coastal hazard provisions in the Proposed District Plan has been extended by a month to give affected property owners more time to prepare. The...
Additional questions are no surprise
Kāpiti Coast District Council is not surprised that the Greater Wellington Regional Council has put forward additional questions concerning Council's Waikanae River Recharge with...
Expressway decision welcomed
Kāpiti Mayor Jenny Rowan has welcomed the draft decision by the Board of Inquiry into the MacKays Crossing to Peka Peka Expressway. "It is fair to say this project has deeply...
Water meters installation almost complete
The installation of water meters in Ōtaki is almost completed. More than 3000 meters have been installed over the past few months by contractor Thomas Plumbing and Gas Ltd. "They...
August opening for Coastland's Aquatic Centre
Coastlands Aquatic Centre will open to the public on Saturday, 10 August. The date is later than Council had hoped for but Chief Executive Pat Dougherty says the stalling of the...
Removable ramp confirmed for Coastlands Aquatic Centre
A removable ramp has been approved for the main pool at Coastlands Aquatic Centre. The Dutch manufacturers of the pool's moveable floor, VarioPool, last week confirmed that a...
Last chance to be on Coastlands Aquatic Centre tile wall
You'll have to be in quick if you want to become a small and permanent part of the Coastlands Aquatic Centre. There are only four gold tiles left at $500 each and they will only...
Council building consent process sound says Acting CE
Kapiti Coast District Council has been praised by the Minister of Building and Construction Maurice Williamson for the way it responded to a recent audit of its building consents...
Access 'first class' says former sportswoman
Coastlands Aquatic Centre has been described as a 'world class' facility when it comes to catering for the disabled.Sandie Waddell on the raised, moveable floor of the main pool at...
Council explains Waikanae River planting strategy
A strategy to plant locally native species along the Waikanae river corridor is underpinned by long-standing agreements between Council, the Friends of the Waikanae River group and...
We have "nailed it" says Mayor
The decision by independent commissioners to approve a resource consent application for the Waikanae River Recharge Project is a major breakthrough, says Kāpiti Mayor Jenny...
Council report card shows a year of real progress
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Council refuse bags no longer collected from 1 October
Council refuse bags will no longer be collected from 1 October 2013. This follows a Council decision to stop selling refuse bags from 1 July 2013 due to a substantial drop in bag...
Council revises District Plan timeline
Council has decided to slow down the District Plan review process to allow the community more time to consider and discuss issues around future land use and development in the...
Construction phase of water supply solution gets green light
The appeal period for the River Recharge Project closed on Friday with no appeals lodged. Resource consent for the project was approved in mid-September and a tender was sent out...
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$2 million saving by Council
Almost $2 million has been saved as a result of the competitive tendering process for Stage 1 of the River Recharge Scheme and the Water Treatment Plant upgrade. Kāpiti Mayor Ross...
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Amsterdam to host European Medicines Agency
Amsterdam won the right to host the European Medicines Agency (EMA) after Brexit, after tying with Milan in a vote on Monday that was then decided by the drawing of lots, diplomatic sources said.
Both were strongly favoured by staff at the EU's drug regulator, who had warned many might quit their jobs, possibly disrupting healthcare in Europe, if governments chose a less attractive host city, notably in ex-communist eastern Europe.
In all, 19 cities had bid to host the EMA, which will leave London after Brexit.
The British capital is also set to lose the European Banking Authority (EBA).
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Quiet Seremban Town – Two weeks ago, I drove all the way to Singapore with my family. It was lunch time and we passed by Seremban, wanting to go into the little town to look for lunch. It's actually my second time visiting Seremban. We went there before few years ago but couldn't find any good food and this time, we went there to have a try again.
I've heard that there has good Hakka Mee @ Tou Kee, I followed the GPS to the place. Unfortunately it's not opened. We tried to look for other food around the town but still there's nothing look interesting and most of the shops were closed, on a Friday afternoon. I wonder why the town is so quiet during a weekday?


Carthage can be proud of its many Religious organizations. The members of these varied churches often donate countless hours every year, in the hope of making Carthage an even better place to live than it is. These groups concentrate on anything and everything that needs attention, often coordinated by the Carthage Ministerial Alliance. You may find many of them on the web, just click here to see our list.


The Blind Cafe, founded by a Colorado-based musician named Rosh, right, in 2010, invites guests to eat a meal and listen to a concert in complete darkness. Photo from Blind Cafe.
I went to this dinner a number of years ago, and it's a pretty surreal sensory experience that is both startling and fascinating. The dinner is a vegan meal prepared by a local chef, served by blind servers and enjoyed with live music, all in complete darkness.
The event returns to Austin on Tuesday through Thursday, Feb. 22-24, with two seatings each night, 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Organizers sell tickets on a sliding scale, from $55 to $195, based on what you can pay, and there's a nice FAQ on the site to learn more. You can buy tickets and find out more at theblindcafe.com.


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StarTech.com Debuts Digital Signage Series
By AVNetwork Staff (AVTechnology) 2010-07-19T15:14:25Z Business
StarTech.com has released DS Series Digital Signage Broadcaster (DS128) and Digital Signage Receiver (DSRXL), which can be used to extend high resolution VGA video and stereo audio over Cat5 Ethernet cable at distances up to 300m (900ft). The broadcaster and receiver also provide centralized operation of connected devices such as A/V receivers and display panels, over a serial connection extended to each monitor/equipment location.
"The DS Series is the perfect solution for anyone wanting to run VGA video over Cat-5 cabling in a digital signage application" said John Mardinly, product manager for StarTech.com. "The DS Series offers a Java software utility that allows users to take control of signal distribution, display panels and other connected devices over a serial or LAN connection from any platform (Windows, Mac, Linux). Plus, you can fine tune the image or control audio volume over the RS-232 connection, making it easier to consolidate device control."
"Used together, the digital signage broadcaster and receiver also offer a very scalable method of distributing audio and video signals" said Mardinly. "Each DSRXL receiver can be daisy chained with up to four additional receivers and provides two VGA ports for additional remote displays. In total, this allows users to connect and control up to 80 monitors from a single location".
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A prudent first step is to learn from others—both inside and outside our industries. This brought us in late November to a meeting of more than 20 executives from a range of industries from across the world, hosted by the World Economic Forum.
While we didn't have all the answers to those questions, one idea that resonated with the group was to combine "today forward and future back"—every digital transformation must include elements that pursue business opportunities that are relevant today as well as those that put the organisation on the path towards the future.
We recently announced a new onshore integrated operations centre to increase safety, improve operations and reduce emissions. In parallel, 11 high-potential leaders from across the company were tasked with exploring future-back ideas—the next evolution of Statoil in a digital age. This dual approach led to a clear, balanced vision, business engagement and a group of executives motivated for the transformation to succeed.
Through our conversations, we clarified the idea that digital transformations are still business transformations. They must drive real value for the customer and improved outcomes for the business—not merely install technology for technology's sake. These transformations typically result in shifts in the customer experience, digitalisation of products and services, the emergence of new economic models, and advances in operations. All of us asked the same question: is this just the cost of doing business today or can we derive additional value from these improvements?
All our digital journeys require changes to key enablers or the installation of new ones—data and analytics, IT systems, operating model, people and culture. While digital transformations are obviously about technology, technology often turns out to be relatively easy to get right. We were amazed at how much success really depends on organisation and culture, and how difficult those can be to change. Our greatest challenges lie in hiring new talent, enhancing skills of our own, and shifting our culture to become more innovative and adaptable.
The final topic we discussed was orchestration. Many of us in the room are currently in charge of managing a digital transformation and realise how complicated the journey truly is. Most digital programs start with experimentation—a contained test with dedicated funding, top talent, and strong leadership support. Here, we've all seen success. However, it remains a formidable task to then take that experiment and scale it throughout the enterprise. We run into obstacles around securing funding, changing the behaviour of thousands of people (not just 10), and integrating into legacy IT systems, to name a few.
Leadership has been critical to the success of the transformation journey for Statoil—communicating priorities, securing funding and overcoming other obstacles. In addition, high-potential leaders from across functions act as digital ambassadors. They are championing the digital effort within their teams and across the company and are helping change the mindset of our 20,000 employees.
Åshild Hanne Larsen is the CIO and senior vice president, Corporate IT, of Statoil ASA. Ouriel Lancry is a coleader of Bain's Global Digital practice and is based in Chicago. Mehran Gul is the project lead for the Digital Transformation of Industries initiative at the World Economic Forum in Geneva.


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Canadians aren't saving like they used to and that doesn't bode well for anyone
The low savings rate leaves Canadians more vulnerable to an economic shock and signals consumption-led growth in the economy is nearing its end
The savings rate in Canada has dipped to the lowest in more than a decade, a sign consumption driven growth may be nearing an end.
Statistics Canada reported Friday the household savings rate, which represents the proportion of disposable income that remains after spending, fell to 0.8 per cent in the third quarter, the lowest level since early 2017. It's averaged 1.4 per cent over the past year, the worst on an annual basis since 2005.
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The low rate leaves Canadians more vulnerable to an economic shock, according to Brian DePratto at Toronto-Dominion Bank. "It's concerning that households aren't building up buffers and prepping for retirement like they used to," the Toronto-based senior economist said by email. "The extent to which Canadians turn around their priorities when it comes to their financial situation could also mean less money for consumer spending."
The statistics agency made revisions to account for income as reported by the Canadian Revenue Agency. Those revisions shifted the average rate of savings in data back to early 2016 downward to 1.4 per cent, from 3.6 per cent previously.
Feeble savings may also signal that consumption-led growth has nearly reached it's end, as Canadians are spending by drawing down savings. "It doesn't bode well for consumption spending moving forward," National Bank Financial's Krishen Rangasamy said Friday in a research note.
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Clinerion and Precision Medicine-Hospital Information System Development Group of Korea University Medical Center collaborate on patient-data-driven solutions for precision medicine.
Home / News / Clinerion and Precision Medicine-Hospital Information System Development Group of Korea University Medical Center collaborate on patient-data-driven solutions for precision medicine.
Clinerion and Precision Medicine-Hospital Information System Development Group of Korea University Medical Center (P-HIS Development Group) sign Memorandum of Understanding to support the development of the Korean national Precision Medicine Enterprise project with real-patient data solutions.
Clinerion has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the P-HIS Development Group of Korea University Medical Center (KUMC) to support the KUMC's activities in developing a patient data platform in the Republic of Korea, in particular for precision medicine. Clinerion's contribution will involve implementation and use of its Patient Network Explorer solution.
The government of the Republic of Korea has created a National Key Project dedicated to precision medicine, involving both the Ministry of Science and IT and the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The KUMC leads this project, with twin pillars being the development of a universal common data model (as part of the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) consortium) and a precision medicine cloud HIS platform (P-HIS). Both pillars will support the provision of a patient data platform which can be used for analysis for precision medicine.
The Clinerion Patient Network Explorer (formerly PRS) enables the query of patient data from partner hospitals without compromising patient data privacy and without the data needing to leave the hospital IT infrastructure. The results of the queries are seen only as counts of patients matching inclusion/exclusion criteria; however, partner hospitals have a method of identifying matching anonymized patients for enrollment in clinical trials via Clinerion's proprietary "Anonymized Identification" technology.


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Fall/Winter Roundup: Castillo and Puerto Rico capture Caribbean Series title
This week's roundup covers play for the period of February 6-12. For the full list of Red Sox players who participated in offseason action, check out our Fall and Winter Leagues page.
Note that this will be the last roundup of the offseason. You will be able to find further updates in our regular offseason notes columns.
Puerto Rico captured its first Caribbean Series title in 17 years after beating Mexico 1-0 in 10 innings in the deciding game. Rusney Castillo went 0 for 4 in the final game, and finished 4 for 23 overall in the series. His best game game against the Dominican Republic last Saturday when he went 2 for 5 with a two-run home run.
The Brisbane Bandits won their second straight ABL title, beating Daniel McGrath and the Melbourne Aces 2-0 in the best-of-three series. McGrath pitched to one batter in the final game, coming in with two outs and runners on second and third to record a big strikeout to keep the deficit at two.


By the time The New Voyage went into production, Yamato music had become a national and cultural phenomenon in Japan. A saturation campaign of airplay, concerts, singles, and LPs had built a popularity that rivaled the anime itself. Maestro Hiroshi Miyagawa, the man most directly responsible, was now as integral to the continuing Yamato saga as its fictional characters, and another dimension was added to his work in 1979.
Two TV series and two movies had already cemented certain musical themes into the Yamato lexicon. Therefore, some of it demanded a place in the score for The New Voyage. This helped to bridge the worlds of the 'old' and 'new' Yamato. Even at this level, everyone felt it was important to recognize that fans who had watched from the beginning might be uncomfortable with a style change. Thus the 'leitmotif' approach was called for, combining signature themes with all-new ones. This fertile soundbed became the driving force for Yamato (the ship) as well as Yamato (the story), to launch on its new voyage.
Breaking a rule that had been made back in 1974, a synthesizer was used for the theme of the Dark Nebula Empire, and also supplied some of the sound effects for the giant mechanical planet Goruba. The performer was Hideki Matsutake, then the virtuoso of synthesizer music in Japan. He participated in Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) as a sound programmer from 1978 to 1982. He organized his own group called Logic System in 1981, and went on to produce several albums with them. He had already scored his Yamato credentials when he co-produced a 1978 album of synthesizer music called Space Fantasy, half of which consisted of Yamato tracks.
The piece that expresses Dessler's feelings for Starsha featured a solo by guitarist Yoshio Kimura, and became the emotional center of the entire score. In addition, one of Japan's best-known Enka (folk ballad) singers, Chiyoko Shimakura, was brought in to perform the ending theme, Sasha My Love, which crossed over into a wholly different genre. Last but not least, the rousing main theme Yamato!! The New Voyage was rendered by the ever-reliable Isao Sasaki and became a fan favorite.
This is the song that accompanies the launch of Yamato in The New Voyage, strongly echoing the spirit of the original theme. It was also the first Yamato song to include an English phrase, which had recently become a trend in other anime tunes. The phrase 'Remember Yamato' also recognized that the series had begun to build its own legacy.
Starsha, Thoughts Among the Stars was a single that had previously been released in connection with the first feature film. Read about it here.
New Voyage symphonic, Drama, and BGM albums.
Main Title Hit Song Collection, Song Collection CD,, Eternal Edition File No. 5, No. 10, and The Best II.
This is the song heard at the end of the film, meant to represent the thoughts of Starsha toward her beloved daughter. The B-side is a track lifted from Symphonic Suite Yamato that was originally titled simply Starsha.
Maintaining the tradition of the first two symphonic albums, this one was substantially rearranged from the film score, which would go unreleased for another 16 years. It also incorporated vocals from both of the songs described above.
This album was released twice on CD. First in 1995 (below left/Nippon Columbia, COCC-12229) and again as part of the 2004 Eternal Edition Premium set (below right/Columbia Music Entertainment, COCX-33021). Read all about the set here.
Accompanied by a 13-page storybook, this double album captured the entire movie in audio form. At the time, it was the only source for the pure BGM tracks. It was a real find for true completists since a few alternate takes were used in this version, and some tracks were replaced entirely.
The growing popularity of karaoke and the profusion of impossibly catchy anime themes collided at full force in the late 1970s, giving another lease on life to songs that had already been sold in other forms. This single brought the two catchiest Yamato tunes together for the first time. With Isao Sasaki's voice removed, fans now had their own opportunity to be backed up by the Royal Knights (on side A) and the Feeling Free Chorus (on side B).
This single was the second in a series of five, all of which were also available on an LP titled TV Manga Karaoke Big Complete Collection (Nippon Columbia, CB-7060~3). It was one of the last times the term "TV Manga" had been used in general commerce, since it was systematically being replaced by the word "anime" and would disappear altogether in another year or two. Not surprisingly, the smash success of Yamato was the catalyst in making that happen.
Several Yamato cassettes appeared during the production years without a Columbia label on them, which contained cover versions of various songs. Some were unauthorized, but these two from Camel Records didn't fall into that category, as indicated by the JASRAC stickers (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers). This is actually the same cassette released with two different titles: Immortality of Space Battleship Yamato (1979) and Yamato Be Forever (1980). The cassette's 16 tracks went from Series 1 through The New Voyage, all performed by the "Camel Studio Orchestra." As of this writing, a vinyl LP edition has yet to surface from the mists of ancient history.
This was actually the second album of its kind, the first being an all-Yamato choral and piano album arranged by the same man, Jo Hisaishi, in 1979. (Learn about that album here.) It kicked off a concept-album rush that made 1982 a fascinating year for Yamato music. Brave Raideen was a "Super Robot" anime series from 1974. Its music was arranged by composer Shoetsu Kawasaki to fill side B. Both sides were performed by the Kanma Corps Chorus with accompaniment from pianist Akiko Shima. The entire Yamato side was included as bonus tracks on the 2000 Eternal Edition CD devoted to The New Voyage.
The Karaoke boom is a recent example of the joy of singing, which grew over generations to occupy an important place in our lives. There is a lot of nuance in the word 'chorus,' covering all the spaces between seriousness and joyful relaxation. But too often it is thought of only as a channel for classical music. And certainly, I cannot praise Beethoven's 9th Symphony Chorus highly enough. But the subtle nuance of this word also takes into account a wider repertory. In other words, 'Chorus' is a term for study and style. As with a symphony orchestra, the members of a chorus must have a sensitivity and love for the music they are performing, or the results will be bland.
Modern music crosses all types of media with great diversification as the natural result. Wherever I go, I will hear Beethoven and the latest pop singer alike. The world of anime brings unique pleasure to elementary and junior high students. These anime themes bring a new charm to the chorus. I'm sure you will find great affection for them, and want to sing them yourself. We all recognize that as the first step toward joining a chorus. After a while, the world of anime will combine with choral suites to become a major force.
Yamato and Raideen are world favorites, and can now be heard in an unprecedented form, an important opportunity for everyone to experience the joy and fun of a chorus. A love for anime gives everyone a hot-blooded life, and singing together in a chorus could create a new era of empathy. It would be a wonderful gift to today's children. The world of anime expressed as a choral suite will bring you great listening enjoyment and a flavor you can't find elsewhere.
The pure soundtrack of the film was finally released 16 years after the film itself in the mid-90s revival that finally brought Columbia's entire catalog to CD and augmented it with new albums like this one.
In 2000, a New Voyage music collection was released as part of the Eternal Edition CD series. This disc faithfully reproduced all the music used in the film, including pre-existing cues. The entire Yamato side of the New Voyage/Brave Raideen choral album was added as a set of bonus tracks. This disc was packaged along with Eternal Edition File No. 6, which featured the soundtrack to Be Forever.
Read all about the Eternal Edition series here.
The most recent take on The New Voyage was a substantially-altered version of the story created for the Playstation 2 console, supervised by Leiji Matsumoto for Bandai and released on the 30th anniversary of the original TV series. A deluxe box-set version of the game included a mini-artbook and this soundtrack CD, half of which consists of midi-style synthesizer versions of original BGM. The other half is all-new music written for the game, which sounds utterly unlike a Miyagawa score. It is also one of the few CD sources for the "TV size" version of the Yamato Theme as originally heard in the broadcast of series 1.
A total of six games was released across Playstation 1 and 2, but this is so far the only available disc of its kind.
This is the most recent reissue of the symphonic album, which contains several karaoke versions of Yamato songs as bonus tracks.
This reissue of the BGM comes with a generous selection of bonus tracks from other productions, including the Yamato II compilation film. There are also a few variants in main portion, so even if you already have a New Voyage BGM disc, you don't have everything.


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Bags of evidence are removed Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, from a home in the New Colony Mobile Home Park. (Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Police in Pennsylvania say a 6-year-old boy was shot to death by his 10-year-old brother while the two were home alone. Allegheny County police say officers and paramedics arrived at the mobile home in West Mifflin, near Pittsburgh, at about 9:45am Wednesday to find the 6-year-old with a gunshot wound to the head, the AP reports. He was taken to a hospital, where he died from the injury. Investigators determined the boy's 10-year-old brother fired the gun in the mother's bedroom. Superintendent Coleman McDonough says the boys' mother was at work when the shooting happened. He says the 10-year-old first called his mom and then called 911 at her urging.
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Good morning, No Doubters! After all the excitement last night from the Teen Choice Awards, the media seems to be loving the band's killer debut live performance of "Settle Down" last night. First, No Doubt walked the pink carpet in style — like, serious style. The band all donned matching sunglasses and black ensembles. Very classy and edgy. They are so back.
What did you think of "Settle Down" live?
Fuse — The last time most of us were talking about No Doubt was a decade ago, when the group's fifth album Rock Steady was playing on a new device called an iPod and your only way to hype up the band was word-of-mouth and chat rooms.
After releasing their first song in 11 years last week, though, No Doubt returned to pop consciousness last night at the Teen Choice Awards, performing their new single "Settle Down" to a predictably receptive audience and highlighting a show that saw (relative) newcomers Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift dominate the awards portion.
The bouncy reggae-pop of "Settle Down" prove that some things don't have to radically change to be impactful. It's possible most of the audience don't even remember when the group's ska-pop first dominated music in the late-1990s. But no matter. The Internet exists, kids have older brothers and sisters, etc.
Introduced by Hayden Panettiere and will.i.am and going with an all-black-and-white color scheme (notwithstanding the Jamaican flag colors on the drums), the band sounded triumphant, with Gwen Stefani fist-pumping through the track and (almost) fist-bumping with the crowd. Yeah, it's that kind of track.
MTV — It's been over a decade since No Doubt took the stage at the Teen Choice Awards, and on Sunday night (July 22), it looked like no time had passed since they last stormed the show in 2001 during their Rock Steady days.
Gwen Stefani had her ska-loving swagger turned up to 10 as she performed the band's new single "Settle Down" live for the first time alongside her longtime musical comrades. The entire band wore black-and-white everything, so the focus of the super sparse performance was all about the foursome, with no bells and whistles to distract the room from the iconic rockers.
In fact, Stefani seemed perfectly comfortable sharing this sentiment with the room: "I'm fine (And nothing's gonna knock this girl down)/ I'm hella positive for real, I'm all good/ I'm fine (And nothing's gonna knock this girl down)/ It's gotten complicated, that's for sure."
While many of the music lovers in the audience and at home watching were babies — or, in some cases, not even born — when the band skyrocketed to fame in the '90s, they couldn't settle down their excitement at welcoming No Doubt back to the scene.
The performance is a big tease to the release of the band's September album, Push and Shove. Earlier this week, the SoCal rockers released their Sophie Muller-directed video for the ska-infused track, which followed the foursome as truck drivers on the road to a big parking-lot hoedown. The single was produced by Diplo, who worked with the group on their forthcoming project, their first studio album release in more than 10 years.
E! included No Doubt on their Best and Worst feature from last night; naming them the Best Return of the Stage
E! Online — Best Return to the Stage: No Doubt performed their comeback hit single "Settle Down," and although it wasn't some crazy theatric performance, we liked it, because it was real. Gwen Stefani (does she age?!) actually sang and rocked the crowd. They've still got it.
No Doubt was also included on their list of five jaw dropping moments from the Teen Choice Awards
E! Online — 1. Reunited and It Feels So Good: Last night was the first time in a long time that we saw Gwen Stefani take the stage with her No Doubt homies. We were excited to see them perform "Settle Down," but we were even more excited to introduce the younger generation of teens to this awesome group.
Rolling Stone — No Doubt took the stage at last night's Teen Choice Awards to play their new track "Settle Down" on TV for the first time. With Gwen Stefani singing and leaping about the stage, they sounded tight as ever as they eased through the steady-rocking first single from their upcoming album Push and Shove, which drops September 25th.
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Amanda G says:
Such inaccurate reporting lately. They totally skip over the "It's My Life" single.
I know. And they have been working together on projects over the years, too. But I guess to the general public that's how it seems.
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Announcing the Winner of the 2016 New Voices Contest: Benjamin C. Jenkins
We are pleased to introduce the winner of the 2016 New Voices Contest, Benjamin C. Jenkins. What follows is a short essay by Ben, about writing about his winning story, "Headdressing," and his perspective as a Native American writer.
I didn't set out to write "Headdressing" with any Native American elements in mind, but somehow they found their way into the story. While I am a card-carrying, tribal member of the Choctaw Nation, I never grew up on the reservation. I wasn't a member of any tribal clubs during school, and didn't even attend a pow-wow until I was in my thirties. None of these were conscious decisions, it was just something that was part of my life—and not part of my life.
My grandfather, Jesse, had all of those experiences. He was sent away to a boarding school. He was told not to speak his language. He must have experienced prejudice, but he never talked about it—at least not to me.. Whether his silence was out of some sort of shame, or because he wanted to protect his children from the experiences he endured, I'll never know. Regardless, by not talking about it, his kids and his grandkids lost an immediate connection to their own story.
The silence is so persistent on that side of my family, and within that culture, really, it's hard to hear the stories, and it's hard to tell them. But, I think we need to tell our stories to heal. For those of us that are indigenous, even if it's just a little bit, we need to speak up, speak out, and make our voices heard. Especially today, with racism so prevalent in our leader's rhetoric, we need to let it be known that we won't stand by silently while the injustices of the past are repeated.
I never considered myself an indigenous writer before. I'm no Sherman Alexie, N. Scott Momaday, or Leslie Marmon Silko. I'm certainly nowhere near as talented as them, but also, my writing hasn't been as focused on the lives of Native Americans. With "Headdressing," I could feel that side of me speaking up. The game of cowboys and Indians the children play was inspired by a story about my uncles. They used to cry when watching westerns as kids, because the Indians were always killed. I don't blame them. It had to have been hard to see a larger than life representation of your culture killed in Technicolor.
One of my favorite quotes is one from Neil Gaiman's book Coraline: "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." I love stories in all forms and about all things. I love them because they teach us about others and about ourselves. They warn us about how things might turn out, and they show us how good things can be.
I'm extremely grateful to See The Elephant Magazine and Metaphysical Circus Press for giving a voice to emerging indigenous writers, and for letting me tell my own tall tale. Only through silence do we die. This is true of writers, of people, and of nations. By giving voice to the underrepresented, we strengthen our society and weaken those that would do it harm by censoring all but a few.


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Sen. Richard Gordon questioned the restrictions on the deployment abroad of just 5,000 Filipino nurses within the calendar year, stressing that it is a violation of the Constitution.
"You have no right to stop somebody seeking employment abroad even if there's a war," Gordon told POEA.
"I'm saying (the restrictions) may be attacked as arbitrary, excessive and oppressive. That's my position," he added.
The POEA temporarily stopped the deployment of newly-hired nurses and healthcare
workers overseas and halted the issuance of Overseas Employment Certificates
(OEC) for nurses after the agency reached the annual deployment cap quota last June.
According to data provided by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), there are currently 512,719 licensed nurses in the country, while there are only 165,361
employed in private and public health facilities.
Labor Sec. Silvestre Bello III was also quoted in a 2021 radio interview that there was an "oversupply" of nurses in the country, which begs the validity of the deployment ban.
Gordon said the current restrictions violate Article II, Section 9 of the 1987 Constitution that provides for the improvement in living standards through policies that promote full employment, whether locally or abroad.
He previously appealed to the IATF and POEA to reconsider the restrictive measure as seven nurses who were then applying in Qatar faced a similar predicament.
In the letter, Gordon argued that the deployment of nurses abroad can help alleviate the country's unemployment problem and improve its struggling economy through dollar remittances.
On June 18, POEA Administrator Bernardo Olalia informed Gordon that the IATF passed Resolution 122 on June 17, which allows the increase of healthcare workers' annual deployment ceiling to 6,500 from the 5,000 cap.
As a long-time advocate of the Health sector, Gordon continuously promotes the welfare of every health worker in the country by creating policies that are beneficial to them.
He also recently co-authored Senate Bill 2371, a measure granting the continued benefits of essential healthcare workers, including nurses, who risk their lives in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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People seem to be more concerned about the environment these days. I support that, I really do. Even though it's pretty much killed my plans to sell a wood-burning air conditioner.
Actually, it's OK. Because I'm now working on a hybrid that runs on coal and whale blubber.
That'd fit the definition of a hybrid, all right; instead of gas/electric, you're going for long-dead-plant and recently-slaughtered-animal?
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OTEC GIW International Innovation Week Empowers Global Talents to Start Businesses in Beijing
Written by KrASIA Writers Published on 22 Sep 2020
On Sept. 20, OTEC Global Innovation Week successfully held one of its subsections, GIW Spark, in Beijing's Prince Jun Hotel.
On Sept. 20, OTEC Global Innovation Week successfully held one of its subsections, GIW Spark, in Beijing's Prince Jun Hotel with eight innovative projects in total being presented and scored at the event.
Project Alpha & Omega Nutrition (A&O) from South Africa won the GIW entrepreneur Runway championship with a 1 million yuan prize.
Brett Lyndall Singh, founder and CEO of A&O, said during his presentation that the company aims to alleviate protein-energy malnutrition, the largest type of malnutrition around the world. According to Singh, the company manufactures a patented oligosaccharide fortified protein formula based on original scientific research and development for malnourished children living in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(From left to right: Brett Lyndall Singh, founder of Alpha & Omega Nutrition, and Xiao Zhenxiang, vice-director of Chaoyang High-level Talent Service Center. Source: OTEC GIW)
Besides the protein formula, A&O is working on establishing an app to initiate "My brother's keeper" and Ubuntu (health) QR code and is in the design phase of a measurement device which can also be used as a watch.
According to the company's introduction, A&O's goal is to be the first China-Africa healthcare initiative to create a "revolutionary" product that supports targets of Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) including good health and well-being, and zero hunger.
Build a "soft environment" for the international talent community and optimize the ecology of international innovation and entrepreneurship
As one of the three major sections of the 8th Overseas Talent Entrepreneurship Conference (OTEC), GIW aims to encourage and support international talents from all over the world with aims to start businesses in Beijing and form a "soft environment" for the international talent community.
The term "soft environment" refers to ideological concepts, cultural atmosphere, institutional mechanisms, policies and regulations, and the level of government administrative capabilities, according to Hujiang.
The event organizer told Pandaily that GIW provides comprehensive services for innovation and entrepreneurship in Chaoyang District and "fully" mobilizes international resources covering the innovation centers of multinational companies in Beijing, international organizations in the region, chambers of commerce and alumni associations of foreign countries, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan regions.
"We aim to build a platform for young people from all over the world to communicate their innovative ideas in the post-epidemic era," the event organizer said.
Accurately meet the needs of international talents and build a stage for integration and innovation development
GIW includes three major sections: GIW Runway, GIW Master Class and GIW Spark. The whole process of these sections involves international project selection, international project venture capital connection, policy interpretation, and other activities.
GIW Runway features four special sessions: European and American Special Session, Asia-Pacific Special Session, BRI (Mid-east & Africa) Special Session, and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Special Session.
Each session has an Entrepreneur Runway and an Innovator Runway. The former is for international entrepreneurs who have plans or are already in business in Beijing. The newly added Innovator Runway provides opportunities for talents with innovative achievements in certain fields, and further integrates Chaoyang's cultural and international advantages to promote the innovation and development of Chaoyang, according to the event organizer.
GIW Master Class invited many international experts and scholars, including Guo Xin, President and CEO of Beijing Career International Co.,Ltd., Yang Zhuang, Professor of Management at Peking University National School of Development, Zhu Nongfan, an international partner of King & Wood Mallesons, and Ke Yingde, President and CEO of Ogilvy PR Asia Pacific.
Only shortlisted entrepreneurs and innovators had the opportunities to participate in the Master Class section. Topics include cross-cultural leadership, IP Protection, human resources, intellectual property, market development, covering various issues that non-mainland-Chinese entrepreneurs might encounter at the early stage of their businesses.
The event also invited Brent Goldfarb, academic director at the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, to give an online lecture on Bubbles and Crashes: The Boom and Bust of Technological Innovation with a more international perspective and focused on the current environment.
The event attracted competitive innovative entrepreneurs from 47 countries and regions with the participating projects involving diverse fields including artificial intelligence, education, consumption upgrade, general health, and cultural communication.
This time, the organizer and Startup Grind set up awards such as Innovator of the Year, Startup of the Year, Power Investor, and Community Hero. By way of online voting, these awards were awarded to STEMind, Photogenic, SOS Ventures, Bearapy.
GIW provided shortlisted international contestants with services such as "Phoenix Project" related services and top enterprise resource docking, investment opportunities from top international investment institutions, and project landing support.
Based on the "high-precision and cutting-edge" orientation, OTEC integrates market resources to create a "6+X" track
Since 2013, OTEC has successfully held eight seasons, attracting more than 30,000 entrepreneurs and more than 6,000 entrepreneurial projects from 39 countries and regions around the world, with more than 100 venture capital institutions participating. More than 500 projects have landed in Beijing and received investment, and the total financing scale has exceeded 2.7 billion yuan.
This year, OTEC breaks through the previous competition model and builds the "6+X" vertical track: data intelligence and new infrastructure, medical health, entertainment and sports, service and consumption upgrade, industrial internet, future cities, and X track (including anti-epidemic entrepreneurship track, Olympic elite entrepreneurship track, OTEC X ZhenFund Pitch Day).
"The setting of the track is fully in line with current technological innovation. It includes emerging fields such as this year's hottest anti-epidemic and new infrastructure, and combines industries with a certain growth foundation, such as the industrial Internet, entertainment and sports, and consumption upgrades, with new situations and new technologies," the event organizer said.
The event adopts the "summit + competition + docking" approach and invited international platform corporate executives, industry experts, and investors to share and discuss topics. Each competition is not only a competition of shortlisted entrepreneurial projects but also a sharing of new technologies and new ideas, as well as a discussion and prospect of the future development trend of the industry.
This year's Entrepreneurship Competition attracted 984 entrepreneurial projects from 39 countries and regions around the world and 26 Chinese cities. The number of overseas participating projects has increased significantly, and the number of live video events has exceeded 200,000. After fierce competition on each runway, 9 championship events were selected.
Boson Tech, the champion of the digital intelligence and new infrastructure track, pioneered the Coherent Quantum AI Coprocessor, which uses coherent light pulse phase encoding qubits. It is mainly used in artificial intelligence algorithm acceleration.
At present, Google uses traditional spintronic quanta to achieve only 72-bit quantum computing, while Boson Tech has taken a new approach and has achieved thousands of bits of computing using photons, and is said to achieve tens of thousands or even 100,000-level computing in the future.
The championship of the X track, the anti-epidemic entrepreneurial track, was obtained by Linking Med. With "Ai data intelligence + medical treatment" as the core, Linking Med provides technical tools and cloud services such as automatic organ delineation, target area delineation, adaptive radiotherapy planning, radiotherapy quality control and other technical tools and cloud services for Hospitals' radiotherapy departments and third-party imaging and radiotherapy centers.
At the same time, based on the Internet and cloud service platform, Linking Med provides professional remote collaboration and radiotherapy operation network services for the majority of radiotherapy doctors and physiologists. At present, the project has obtained a round of financing from Linear Capital and Danhua Capital.
Among the projects that entered the finals this year, about 70% showed their intentions of settling down in Chaoyang. The event organizer told Pandaily that in order to facilitate the sustainable growth of the project, the Chaoyang District committees, offices, and functional zone management committees will rely on the "Phoenix Plan" service system to promote the integrated development of industrial policies and talent policies, and effectively provide full-chain services for startups which will develop businesses in Chaoyang.
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