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CPAP Product Reviews / Machines Reviewed / Travel/Mini
Somnetics Transcend 3 Review – With Scores and Rankings
Last Updated: Thursday, May 19th, 2022
Written By: David Repasky
The Transcend 3 is the latest update to the Transcend series of CPAP machines and released in mid-2019. There have been some changes to the Transcend Auto miniCPAP that were covered in this update. Here are some of the things that are new:
More Stable Bottom With a Rubber Grip
Uses the Same Batteries and Accessories as the Transcend Auto miniCPAP
Industry Leading 3-year Warranty
"Drying Mode" Removes Moisture from the Tube After Use or Cleaning
FAA Certified for In-Flight Use
Overall, the Transcend 3 has everything you loved about the Transcend Auto with improved stability and new features that help make it easier to clean after every use. By using the existing batteries and accessories for the Transcend Auto, it means you won't have to get new accessories if you wanted to upgrade from the Transcend Auto to the Transcend 3.
We've done a deep dive with this machine, and measured it based on 10 factors, evaluating each on a scale of 1 – 10. We've then compiled all the scores into a composite score out of 100. Our ratings are below:
Our Ratings for the Transcend 3
Noise Level – 5
Like its cousin the Transcend 365, the Transcend 3 also checks in at 30 decibels. Most premium travel machines check in around 26 decibels. While on the louder end of the spectrum, we're hoping the Transcend 3 has a quieter pitch to the motor than the Transcend miniCPAP. If that's the case, the extra decibels may not be so bad.
Other Machine Noise Level Scores
AirMini 4
DreamStation Go 4
Transcend 365 5
Transcend Auto (Transcend 2) 5
Cost – 9
The Transcend 3 has a nice value price when compared to other popular travel CPAP machines on the market today. It debuted at $529, and when you consider all that comes with this machine, it's a really good bargain.
Other Machine Cost Scores
Warranty – 9
The Transcend 3 has an industry leading 3-year warranty, much like the Transcend 365. Most premium CPAP machines only cover a machine for up to 2 years. The Transcend 3 takes this a step further and adds an extra year without adding extra cost.
Other Machine Warranty Scores
Weight – 9
The weight of the Transcend 3 is comparable to the Transcend Auto. It's small enough to fit into a briefcase, backpack, or small travel bag and go to almost any destination near or far.
Other Machine Weight Scores
Size – 9
The size of the Transcend 3 is roughly the same as the Transcend Auto. It's compact in size and light in weight. It's not the smallest CPAP on the market today, but it's pretty close.
Other Machine Size Scores
Pressure Relief – 9
The Transcend 3 uses EZEX pressure relief (comparable to EPR or C-Flex), reducing pressure on exhale so it's easier to breathe out, and more comfortable to use. Most CPAP and APAP machines have similar features, so the Transcend 3 isn't doing something unique, but it's still a good thing to have.
Other Machine Pressure Relief Scores
Therapy Tracking – 3
Somnetics doesn't have a mobile app for any of their machines, and getting access to your therapy data isn't easy. You'll need to have a Windows computer to view the information, as the Transcend 3 isn't compatible with Macs. The Transcend 3 also doesn't have an LCD screen, meaning you'll have few options to get at your data.
Other Machine Therapy Tracking Scores
Humidification – 5
The only humidification options for the Transcend 3 is the waterless HME units that are popular with the Transcend machines and the Z1 and Z2. There aren't a lot of good water-based humidification options for the Transcend 3, which is why we gave it a 5.
By contrast, the humidifier on the Transcend 365 is able to only supply humidification when inhaling, making more efficient use of water. It can even run purely on battery power, something no other machine / humidifier combo can do.
Other Machine Humidification Scores
Smart Features – 8
Despite not having much in the way of therapy tracking, the Transcend 3 has smart features like ramp, AHI, and leak detect with cloud-based compliance tracking.
Other Machine Smart Features Scores
Battery – 8
While the Transcend 3 doesn't have a battery of its own, it uses all the same accessories as the Transcend Auto. This means the existing P4 and the P8 batteries will work with the Transcend Auto, and that's a huge plus when considering the overall cost of ownership.
Other Machine Battery Scores
TOTAL SCORE: 74 / 100
Other Machine Total Scores
AirMini 78
DreamStation Go 71
Transcend 365 75
Transcend Auto (Transcend 2) 71
The Transcend 3 has been a welcome update to the design of the Transcend Auto, which was very well received by the CPAP community. The Transcend 3 resolved several pain points with the Transcend Auto, and continued in the Somnetics tradition of ultra-portable, rugged CPAP machines ideal for off-the-grid use.
For anyone who likes camping or trekking, this is a good machine to use. The Transcend 3 scored the highest for cost, warranty, size, smart features, and battery. This makes it a great value-priced option for anyone looking to get a travel CPAP machine. It may not be a good machine to use if you want to keep a close eye on your therapy data, as it scored the worst in the therapy tracking category.
Overall, it's a good machine, at a great price, and the final score is pretty good when compared to other CPAP machines we've rated.
David Repasky
David Repasky has been using CPAP treatment since 2017 and has first-hand experience with what it's like to live with Sleep Apnea. He brings the patient's perspective to the CPAP.com blog and has received formal training in CPAP machines, masks, and equipment.

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Justice Served! Vision! Beware of the Boomerang Effect
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WHAT AN AMAZING TIME to be engaged in the "Turning Tables Prayer Project." Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been indicted today on 12 counts including money laundering, tax evasion, and lying to cover up work as undisclosed agents representing Russian interests.
It's important to note that no connections with President Trump were alleged in the indictment. Trump is not even mentioned.
But did he know? He most likely discovered something was wrong. It is very telling that the Trump campaign fired Manafort immediately following the Republican National Conference last summer. Keep in mind this means that right after his greatest victory, Trump fired the chairman who helped him win. The unprecedented action strongly indicates Trump vehemently opposed even the appearance of Russian collusion, once he found out Manafort was compromised.
Seemed crazy then—like a lot of Trump's actions. And like a lot of Trump's actions, it makes all the sense in the world a year later.
Exposure! Those Who Judged are Now Being Judged
BETRAYERS EXPOSED. THEY WILL FALL IN THE FALL. This again was the word the Lord gave at the outset of our Glory Train journey in early August. Now betrayal at the highest levels is being exposed. God is turning the tables!
And what's really scary is many of the strongest accusers are apparently compromised themselves. "Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things" (Romans 2:1).
Sex Abuse Exposed
After receiving communion across the nation and asking God to expose those who remained resolute betrayers of His heart and covenant, it was interesting how Playboy founder Hugh Hefner died as we completed our journey coast to coast in California. Hefner stood in open defiance of God and the clear biblical values meant to protect women, men, family and covenant. The sexual revolution soon followed. Hefner's betrayal quite literally led the nation into betrayal—from the innermost chambers of our home and hearts.
Jolene and I ministered in Hollywood five days later, over the weekend that hosted Yom Kippur this year. So important to understand this was a verdict of justice from the Lord, setting the course for the future from Yom Kippur.
Our friends Jonathan and Sharon Ngai, directors of the Hollywood House of Prayer, were shown by the Lord three years previously that Hugh Hefner was the strongman over Hollywood. They felt then that when he was removed, major exposure would follow. Not a coincidence that just a few weeks after Hefner's passing, Harvey Weinstein and his horrific legacy of sexual abuse of our nation's greatest actresses was exposed. The domino effect continues, with major producers and actors being exposed.
It's also interesting that Weinstein was a strong supporter of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Weinstein wielded his power to move much of Hollywood towards the extreme liberal end of the political spectrum while vilifying traditional conservative values. And the people who embraced them.
Last summer there was jubilation emanating from Hollywood. In the midst of the presidential campaign, the left reveled in the covered-up sexual abuses of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and "No Spin Zone" anchor Bill O'Reilly. Reparations were demanded. Both were excoriated in Hollywood and in the press. Both were fired.
Then Access Hollywood struck in October. Just weeks before the presidential election, the Washington Post exposed a tape from 2005 featuring Donald Trump bragging about the capacities for sexual exploitation that come with wealth and power. Note that Hollywood and major news collaborated together in what was allegedly planned as a strategic take-down of the Republican candidate for the presidency.
Fast forward to the demise of Playboy's founder in Hollywood. Covenant with death and hell annulled! The dark canopy of deception covering over Hollywood's worst abuse immediately began to unravel. Weinstein. Toback. Affleck. Now Kevin Spacey. And so many more.
Many of those who judged… were themselves judged. The boomerang effect.
Russian Collusion Exposed
Now, as indictments on Russia collusion begin, it is clear that members of both the right and the left have colluded with Russia. All expressions of injustice need to be fully exposed. Including the Uranium One scandal involving the Clintons.
And in process, lets not forget what this exposure is really all about. It's really about the corruption of power across the political spectrum and the entertainment world. We started the year with the cry, "Drain the Swamp!" Now from Washington DC to Hollywood, this is becoming a reality.
Our Lives on the Scales of Justice—Jon's Vision
We must continue to watch and pray over these national issues. However lets also check our own hearts. We're not designed to be exposed to this level of evil. And when we respond out of our soul we can all become bogged down by unforgiveness and bitter root judgements.
As I shared last week on our conference call, that was happening to me. My human spirit was no longer buoyant—instead I felt heaviness. It was hard to find God. I became easily resentful and angry, especially towards leaders who through the years had seemingly wronged me.
What was going on? I figured it was just the atmosphere of Washington DC imposing itself on me, as it way too often does. But while receiving communion I discovered something that to me was horrific. The accusations and resentment were coming from within my own heart! It took a long while to wrestle through to forgiveness and peace.
While praying on this, I had a vision. I saw myself standing on scales of justice, seemingly before Heaven's Court. To my GREAT surprise, they were actually tipped against me! I heard the Lord say, "You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting."
In the vision I saw that I was wearing what looked to be a medal, like those awarded athletes in the Olympics. It wasn't gold, it looked like corroded iron or something. It was really heavy. I reached down, removed this heavy medal from around my heart and neck, over my head, and handed it to the Father.
Immediately the scales began to shift and balance out! Once again I clearly heard the voice of the Lord declare over me, "Vindicated and validated!" And it was like my access to Heaven's courts and treasures were immediately restored.
Beloved, do you want your access restored? Do you want your spirit to become buoyant once again? There's a process which must be worked through. Forgive those who defrauded you or betrayed you. Take off the heavy chain of resentment and bitterness. Refuse the medals of your own self-righteousness and self-vindication at the expense of others.
Take time now to work with Holy Spirit! Ask Him to create in you a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within you. Receive cleansing from the great Table of the Lord, experiencing the reality that Jesus genuinely died to forgive us all.
And as you receive from His Table, watch how your vision is restored. You will see and hear the Lord with renewed clarity to take on the giants once again. No King but Jesus!
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Vol. 30 No. 2 · 24 January 2008
I read with interest Alexander Zevin's 'Paris, 18 October' (LRB, 29 November 2007). In the autumn of 1955 I enrolled as an étudiante étrangère at the University of Paris, and on my first day of classes found myself in the middle of a demonstration. A professor who had been jailed for collaboration with the Nazis during the Occupation was out of prison and coming back to teach. Left-wing students had organised groups to chant 'Pas de collabos à la Sorbonne,' while right-wing students matched them with chants of 'Pas de communistes à la Sorbonne.' A couple of other foreigners and I joined the shouting and shoving. No flyers were in evidence; paper was far too dear and xerography – even mimeography – was out of our reach. We milled and yelled for a couple of hours and then dispersed. This was before the police dared to enter the central court of the Sorbonne. The professor met his classes.
'There are many ways to feel out of place as an American in Paris,' Zevin writes, 'but few are as jarring as joining in a protest.' Why did my fellows and I feel ourselves so exquisitely placed? Perhaps that is a function of the vast differences – political, economic, demographic – that fifty-odd years have placed between my student world and Zevin's. Not only did we know auto workers, some of whom attended our classes, but we were conscious of our privileged place in the class structure, whose existence the United States denied. We felt solidarity with a worldwide stratum (nobody said 'global' in 1955) of 'students and workers'. How charmingly funky the phrase seems now, after the Prague Spring, May 1968, and the hegemony of MBAs.
Apropos Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett's dismissal of Auden as a 'poet of Cumbria' seems misplaced (LRB, 3 January). In 1950, Auden wrote: 'My great good place is the part of the Pennines bounded on the S by Swaledale, on the N by the Roman Wall and on the W by the Eden Valley.' This is where Cumbria, Northumberland and Durham meet. There are well over a hundred place names in this area to be found in Auden's writings, and another thirty across the Eden Valley in the Lake District. But to be moved, inspired (even obsessed) by a wilderness does not oblige one to live there.
Some forty poems of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the unpublished epic 'In the year of my youth …' and two influential plays, Paid on Both Sides and The Dog beneath the Skin, are set in the North Pennines. Rookhope in Weardale, where Auden first became aware of 'self and not-self/Death and Dread', is also here. In A Certain World (1970), Auden states clearly that his fascination with these limestone moors and the associated lead-mining industry prompted him to formulate principles which he applied to all artistic fabrication.
Alan Myers
Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Alan Bennett says that 'all' of the 'Writers' Rooms' featured in the Saturday Guardian 'have had awful fireplaces'. I have photos of 11 of them in front of me. Only one, Jacqueline Wilson's, has a fireplace. Apart from a life, am I missing something?
Charles Turner
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Alan Bennett doubts whether a literary masterpiece would ever be set within the frame of a story. But there is no reason in principle why someone capable of writing a masterpiece could not write a distinct or discrete masterpiece within it, given that the frame narrative is a common enough literary device, as in Wuthering Heights, for example. Doctor Zhivago, too, ends with a marvellous sequence of poems purportedly written by the main character. In practice, however, the best examples of a masterpiece within a masterpiece deploy a different art form, thus obviating the necessity to deliver the goods. It is a specialised form of suspending one's disbelief. Balzac's story 'The Unknown Masterpiece' famously involves a great painting which Balzac is not obliged to paint.
Anthony Rudolf
London N12
Alan Bennett may be right about the dearth of rent boys in Penrith but he's wrong about libraries: there's a good public one right by the church.
Glenn Lang
Cumbria Library Services, Carlisle
Resistance is Surrender
My critics make the following claims (Letters, 13 December 2007): 1. that my message to the left is that there is no chance of overcoming capitalism; all we can do is to 'sit at home and watch the barbarity on television'; 2. that I advocate modest realistic demands rather than the pursuit of big impossible goals; 3. that in dismissing the Western democratic left, I support power-mad dictators like Chávez. That such mutually exclusive positions have been read into the same short text shows that I touched a nerve.
It is truly weird that David Graeber thinks my 'real message' is that 'intellectuals have always been, and always must be, whores to power.' On the contrary, isn't it the advocates of resistance from the interstices of power, such as Simon Critchley, who claim that direct engagement with power turns intellectuals into whores? In my view, the withdrawal to such a safe moralising position is the highest form of corruption.
My opinion is that the left is not able to offer a true alternative to global capitalism. Yes, it is true that 'capitalism will not be around for ever' (it is the advocates of the new politics of resistance who think that capitalism and the democratic state are here to stay); it will not be able to cope with the antagonisms it produces. But there is a gap between this negative insight and a basic positive vision. I do not think that today's candidates – the anti-globalisation movement etc – do the job.
So what are we to do? Everything possible (and impossible), just with a proper dose of modesty, avoiding moralising self-satisfaction. I am aware that when the left builds a protest movement, one should not measure its success by the degree to which its specific demands are met: more important than achieving the immediate target is the raising of critical awareness and finding new ways to organise. However, I don't think this holds for protests against the war in Iraq, which fitted all too smoothly the space allotted to 'democratic protests' by the hegemonic state and ideological order. Which is why they did not, even minimally, scare those in power. Afterwards, both government and protesters felt smug, as if each side had succeeded in making its point.
Rudd's Australia
I agree with much of what Tom Nairn has to say about the Australian elections (LRB, 13 December 2007). However, I do have some reservations about his treatment of the republic. Whether Rudd will raise the question again via a referendum or plebiscite I do not know, but it should be noted that when he took office he reverted to the 'republican' oath – i.e. there was no mention of the monarchy or of any loyalty to it. That was certainly a signal which many ignored. I also think Nairn misses the real significance of Howard's attitude to the monarchy. No doubt there was a sentimental side to it but the Crown was not under him a way to preserve Anglo-Celtic Australia: it was a way to increase the authority of the prime minister and of the federal government. Howard's behaviour was seemingly paradoxical. He was a supporter of the monarchy, yet no prime minister has treated his governors general (the Crown's representatives in Australia) so casually as Howard. Certainly no Labour prime minister has. The present system in effect allows the prime minister to appoint (and dismiss) the head of state as s/he wishes. As a result the governors general under Howard (once the last Labour appointee, an outstanding figure, had retired) have been utterly marginalised both politically and ceremonially. Nearly all those functions were appropriated by the prime minister. What Howard did not want was a head of state with a clearly defined constitutional role since that could formally limit the power of the prime minister. Howard's opposition to the republic must be seen in the context of the conservative parties' abandonment of federalism in favour of an authoritative and authoritarian government in Canberra.
One last note. The prime minister and the minister for indigenous affairs did indeed both lose their seats, but that had nothing to do with federal intervention in the Northern Territory as Nairn seems to imply.
Tom Nairn describes the Australian Defence Force's intervention in the indigenous communities of the Northern Territory as an 'invasion'. That is simplistic, shallow and offensive. There are well documented instances of child abuse in the north, including gang rapes, severe alcohol abuse and petrol sniffing; and infant mortality rates are comparable with those in the Third World. Nairn fails to mention that it's the state and territory governments that are primarily responsible for the management of these issues; and he fails to mention the bipartisan political support for the military intervention.
Stephen Sasse
Killara, New South Wales
The First Plagiarist
In a letter I've only just come across (Letters, 16 August 2007) David Whalin claimed that the earliest official recognition of authors' rights came with a statute enacted in the new United States in May 1790. The first historic mention of copyright, however, which set the universal precedent, can be traced much further back, to sixth-century Celtic Ireland. It is contained in a judgment of Diarmaid, High King of Ireland – the legal equivalent of today's Supreme Court – in his finding against the Christian missionary Columba, founder of monastic rule, later canonised as Saint Columcille, who had become an incorrigible plagiarist. (The very same St Columba who settled in Iona.) Columcille had taken to visiting monasteries, borrowing books from their libraries and having his own monks copy them for him to distribute. At one stage, a certain abbot, on hearing that Columcille was on his way to visit, buried his complete library in the orchard, provoking the frustrated Columcille to put a curse on the monastery. Finally, St Finian of Clonard objected to Columcille – a former pupil – plagiarising his prized Latin Psalter, and pleaded for a definitive judgment on the problem from the High King.
Ireland was then an agricultural society and one of the native Brehon Laws of the time related to the ownership of animals found wandering. The very reasonable rule of law was that a calf, wherever it might be found, belonged to its mother, wherever that cow was kept. The High King took that well-founded legal precedent and extended it in his judgment against Columcille thus: 'As to every Cow its Calf, so to every Book its Copy.'
Eamonn Grogan
Naas, Co. Kildare
City Types
The banking system John Lanchester describes most eloquently, in which banks need to hold only a fraction of their liabilities in reserve, is known as 'fractional reserve banking' (LRB, 3 January). The modern version dates back to the days when merchants travelled the country weighed down by bags of gold coins. They realised that the safest place to store their gold was with the people who had the strongest safes: the gold merchants. In return for storing the gold there, the merchant would give them a slip of paper – effectively an IOU. As the system gained in popularity, the IOUs became a currency, relieving people of the need constantly to take out or deposit the gold itself.
The gold merchants, over time, realised that they were storing far more gold than was ever taken out. So, rather than issue IOUs on a like-for-like basis with the gold deposited, they began to issue (sell) far more IOUs with a far greater total value than the gold they held, profiting handsomely from the proceeds.
Rob Best
Morpeth, Northumberland
John Lanchester classifies himself as a Clapham aborigine, but Clapham was colonised a hundred or more years ago by City types with rolled umbrellas and brief-cases living in built-to-let houses. The reason they chose Clapham was that it was no more than a brisk hour's walk away from their place of work.
John Gretton
Lafage, France
Despite what Soledad Fox says in her piece about Luis de Góngora (LRB, 13 December 2007), the Soledades are written in hendecasyllables and heptasyllables: that's to say, the poem is a silva. The form allowed Góngora greater freedom in versification and syntax than would be possible with strict adherence to 11-syllable lines, especially as he changes between shorter and longer lines pretty much at will.
Not Flying but Falling
The compound ghost in Eliot's 'Little Gidding' warned of the unpleasantness of old age 'as body and soul begin to fall asunder', not 'fly asunder' as Frank Kermode energetically had it (LRB, 13 December 2007).
Robert Berold
Grahamstown, South Africa
Fateful Decisions
R.W. Johnson points out, correctly I believe, that Ian Kershaw should have included the battle of Khalkhin-Gol in August 1939 in his list of turning points in the Second World War (LRB, 29 November 2007). However, he incorrectly credits 'the future Marshal Zhukov' as solely responsible for 'crushing' the Japanese, calling him 'the Soviet equivalent of the young Napoleon'. Before Stalin executed them, in 1941, two other generals, Grigory Shtern and Y.V. Smushkevich, shared the honour with Zhukov. Moreover, Shtern was in command of the entire military during the battle while Zhukov commanded only the army. Johnson surely knows that under Stalin all traces of those purged, regardless of their rank and merit, were expunged from the public record.
Valentin Lyubarsky
I wonder what led R.W. Johnson to lump Eamon de Valera, neutral Ireland's wartime political leader, in with a clutch of Fascist leaders. De Valera had many faults, but he was not a Fascist, or crypto-Fascist, and joining forces with Hitler was never seriously considered even for purely strategic reasons. Ireland's wartime policy was de facto pro-Allied, despite formal neutrality. Openly joining forces with the recently dislodged colonial master was not an option for domestic political reasons. The motley crew of Nazi sympathisers was carefully monitored and never posed a threat. The IRA's foolhardy and myopic flirtation with the Reich, based on the logic that my enemy's enemy is my friend, led to its virtual annihilation by de Valera's 'Emergency' regime. Secret Irish co-operation with the Allies was a more effective contribution to the war against Nazism, according to British Intelligence, than open belligerence, especially given Irish military weakness. MI5 was unambiguous: 'Eire neutral was of more value to the British war effort than Eire belligerent would have been.' De Valera's unforgivable visit to the German representative in Ireland to offer condolences on the death of Hitler, a wrongheaded demonstration of formal, public neutrality, should not be misread in such a lazy way.
Donal Ó Drisceoil
R.W. Johnson claims that 'some in Berlin suggested' that Hitler 'should wait' before entering the war against America; 'after all, FDR had immediately declared war on Japan but three days later had said nothing about Germany.' Roosevelt's problem was how to manipulate Congress into declaring a war that he had long wanted, but that the American people opposed. To this end, he said plenty about Germany in the days immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. In fact, he blamed the Japanese attack on Hitler, claimed that Germany and Italy were already at war with the United States, and ordered the incarceration of German nationals as enemy aliens.
'The course that Japan has followed for the past ten years in Asia has parallelled the course of Hitler and of Mussolini in Europe and Africa,' Roosevelt declared on 9 December, in a speech broadcast internationally. 'Today, it has become far more than a parallel. It is collaboration, actual collaboration, so well calculated that all the continents of the world, and all the oceans, are now considered by the Axis strategists as one vast battlefield.' He warned Americans: 'Remember always that Germany and Italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the United States at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with Britain and Russia.' To this he added that Germany had incited Japan to attack the United States and had offered it territories in North, Central and South America if it did.
On the same day Roosevelt ordered the arrest of German and Italian nationals, including German journalists, as enemy aliens. The New York Times of 10 December quoted him as proclaiming that 'an invasion or predatory incursion is threatened upon the territory of the United States' by Germany and Italy. 'No distinction was made between the Axis citizens and Japanese,' it reported, 'although the United States has not declared war on either Germany or Italy, and in the capital it was believed that this was an advance indication of an important extension of the war.'
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Redefining the SMART Back-Office: Linedata Releases Latest Version of Linedata Optima Fund Administration BPM Tools
Jul 5, 2017 | Business
Linedata Optima elevates process optimization by providing oversight, transparency and operational risk management capabilities within the back-office operations.
PARIS, FRANCE, July 05, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — Linedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, has launched the latest version of Linedata Optima, a powerful, innovative suite of business process management (BPM) tools designed specifically for fund accounting and administration.
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Following the successful development and roll-out of earlier modules (Event Monitor and Process Monitor), this release sees the inclusion of a new component, Linedata Optima Workflow, designed to empower the end user. As a SMART back-office solution, this new workflow component delivers an abundance of new functionality; with the capacity to provide the end user, on a single screen, landing page or home page, the information required to effectively perform their role, including a daily diary.
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Welcome to the Middle School at Harare International School, where teachers and students work enthusiastically and rewardingly to meet the school's Mission Statement and the IB Learner Profile, in a challenging but joyful environment.
The middle school years are years of change for young scholars as they move through stages of physical, emotional and academic growth. Our outstanding faculty designs and delivers pedagogy with a pastoral element to meet those stages.
Harare International School is a full IB school so the teaching and learning partnership in our Middle School follows the rigourous but very enriching IB MYP curriculum, designed to support the acquisition of knowledge and conceptual understanding through inquiry, critical thinking, and problem solving. The MYP builds upon all that was learned in elementary school, (here at HIS, the PYP program), and prepares our maturing scholars to meet the academic challenges of the DP program.
In addition to academic work our MYP students also engage in a broad spectrum of activities exposing them to enriching challenges outside the classroom, including community service, sports teams, clubs, arts groups, and more, as they continue molding themselves into well-rounded, contributing members of global society.
Once again, welcome to Harare Middle School. We look forward to a bright and rewarding year.
Mike Schuetze
MS Principal and MYP/Coordinator
Philosophy and Procedures
As part of the International Baccaleaureate (IB) continuum of international education, Harare International School (HIS) is proud to have an authorized Middle Years Programme (MYP).
The three IB programmes (PYP, MYP, DP) share a common philosophy and a commitment to a high quality, international education that HIS believes promotes our ability to thrive and reach for excellence. Across the continuum, our teachers are committed to the principles of an IB education, promoting inquiry-based teaching strategies and conceptual-based learning that support the IB Learner Profile and foster students' growth in the Approaches to Learning (ATLs).
At HIS, students in grades 6-10 participate in the Middle Years Programme (MYP) across all of the subject groups. Through the MYP students find a sense of belonging in an ever-changing and incresingly interrelated world. The MYP also:
provides a framework of learning which encourages students to become creative, critical and reflective thinkers. The MYP emphasizes intellectual challenge, encouraging students to make connections between their studies in traditional subjects and to the real world. It fosters the development of skills for communication, intercultural understanding and global engagement, qualities that are essential for life in the 21st century. (IB Middle Years Programme. Web. International Baccalaureate. 27 August 2013.)
Through thoughtful and purposeful implementation of the MYP, we believe students will adopt a positive view of their subjects and embrace the attitudes necessary to foster lifelong learning.
Students are at the center of an IB education and, as such, we recognize their importance in the learning process through our instructional strategies. Learning in the MYP takes place in subject groups that are similar to those found in schools around the world; studies in Language and Literature (English), language acquisition (French or Spanish), Individuals and Societies (social studies/history), Science, Mathematics, Visual Arts, Physical and Health Education, and Design.
In each of these subjects, an emphasis is placed on the understanding of key concepts within a global context. Students are challenged to explore these concepts through inquiry-based learning practices that help them answer factual, conceptual, and debatable questions. The level of higher order thinking fostered by the MYP and the further development of transferrable skills provides a strong foundation for students' work in the Diploma Programme (DP) and beyond.
To help ensure that students are the center of the learning process, assessment in the IBMYP is referenced against criteria. Each subject group assesses using four criteria, which reflect aspects of student learning that are crucial to student development and growth. The levels of achievement reached by the students in each of these four areas are used to award the student a grade at the end of the semester. For further information on assessment in the MYP, please read through this information.
For further information about the IB and its programmes, please visit https://www.ibo.org
If you would like more information on the IB Middle Years Programme at HIS, please contact MS Principal.
When we use the term curriculum in our Middle Years Programme (MYP), we are referring to the many parts of our written teaching and learning documentation, as reflected on our unit planners.
As an IB Continuum school, we use the IB framework for teaching and learning to shape our unit planners. These planners incorporate the chosen departmental standards* which, in conjunction with the global contexts and the key and related concepts, guide the content we choose for our inquiry questions (factual, conceptual, debatable).
Within the scope of this larger framework, we utilize backwards design to create our unit planners. To this end, we design authentic and developmentally appropriate assessments and use relevant approaches to teaching strategies. We further embed the development of our students' approaches to learning (AtL) skills and IB Learner Profile attributes in our lessons and unit planners.
All of these aforementioned individual elements are combined symbiotically to form our MYP curriculum.
Every MYP parent at HIS has access to an overview of their child's curriculum via ManageBac (MB). We encourage parents to use MB to explore what their MYP student is learning by looking at the individual unit planner overviews for each course.
As part of our curriculum, MYP students participate in the HIS CORE program. Through the CORE, students engage in MYP action, as well as ATL skill building, academic enrichment, and pastoral care. Information about this program is outlined in our CORE selection guide.
If you would like more information on:
The CORE program, please contact the MYP CORE Coordinator at ccharsley@his.ac.zw/ kreeler@his.ac.zw
Your child's courses, please contact his/her teachers directly.
* Our HIS standards are adapted to suit our students and the subject-groups they are studying.
In mathematics and language and literature, our standards come from the Common Core. The standards for our science, arts, and individuals and societies courses are based upon those from AERO (American Education Reaches Out). Modern language teachers use ACTFEL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) standards in their courses and the standards for our health and physical education courses are based upon SHAPE America.
For general information on the standards we are incorporating into our curriculum, please click on the links above.
For more specific information about the standards and benchmarks our students encounter in each subject area and how these benchmarks build upon previous skills and knowledge, please click on the links below.
Language and Literature standards
Language Acquisition standards
For ease of viewing, the science standards are divided into three areas: life science, physical science and the nature of science.
Life Science Standards
Physical Science Standards
Nature of Science Standards
Individuals and Societies Standards
Mathematics Standards
Music Standards
HPE standards
At HIS, we believe that the concept of assessment is multi-faceted and broader than a narrow set of pedagogical guidelines. In line with our IB framework for teaching and learning, we believe assessment is a continuous, ongoing process to be used for 1) the assessment of student learning and growth, i.e. summative assessment, and 2) for the purposes of shaping student learning experiences and teacher planning, i.e. formative assessment. We have, therefore, organized our conceptual understanding of assessment around the broad ideas of formative and summative assessment. While these two categories of assessment provide us with a framework for shaping our assessment philosophy and practices, we acknowledge that assessment is much more than the brief definitions provided above. We are currently in the process of reviewing our HIS MYP/DP Assessment Policy, which will be posted to the website once it is completed.
Please refer to the Guide on MYP Assessment at HIS for more general information on assessment in the IB MYP. For assessment information specific to your child's courses, please contact his or her teacher directly.
In addition to our internal, HIS assessment, we also provide students with external, norm-referenced assessments that include MAP, ISA, and PSAT. If you have questions that are specific to the use of these examinations at HIS, please contact the MYP/DP Counselor at khawkins@his.ac.zw.
At HIS, we believe it is important for students and parents to have as much information as possible about the procedures and policies we use in implementing the IB Middle Years Programme. The policies below are designed to help provide you with some of this information. Should you have further questions about our IB policies, please contact the MYP Principal. For classroom specific questions, please contact your child's teacher directly.
Academic Honesty Contract
Guide on MYP Assessment
Learning Support Services Policy
Grade 9 students working with Grade 5 students
During the grade 5 PYP unit on Sharing the Planet, our 9th graders worked with our 5th graders on debate techniques and how to use evidence to support a perspective on various global issues.
During their time together, our grade 9 students helped the grade 5 students organize their ideas and choose information to support their arguments. Through this activity, our 9th graders had to articulate their own knowledge of argumentation, effective research, and how to use evidence to support ideas in a voice appropriate for 5th graders. Many of our 9th grade students commented on how much deeper their own knowledge became as a result of having to explain it to someone else.
The Fair Trade Trade Fair
The Fair Trade Trade Fair is organized by our students in grade 8 and open to our school community. It is the end result of a unit on fair trade, marketing, and ethical consumerism.
The descriptions below were written by our students after the fair and the images you see were created by our students to advertise the fair trade/green-focused businesses in attendance.
When we first got the assignment of the fair trade trade fair, everyone was excited. From the entire unit everyone learnt a massive amount ranging from advertising techniques, being a helpful employee of a business, to interview tips and tricks! Now being masters of the techniques needed to organize such a fair, we can't wait to see the next grade 8s do this unit.
It was hard work, but the end result was worth it! The entire experience was fantastic thanks to all the people who contributed and helped out. A big thanks to Mrs.Tobin who organized the entire unit!
The overall fair was a huge success! A huge thanks to everyone who helped out on the day, even just showing up was helping the businesses as it shows support!
We supported ethical companies and local businesses that really need support. It would be great to see them grow and continue to encourage ethical consumerism and the positive things they stand for. Many people said they would like to purchase from the businesses in the future, so they can hopefully expect many customers to come.
HIS would like to thank the businesses for working with the grade 8s! We hope to see them again next year.
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Current-Argus Wins NMPA Awards for Business, Environmental News Reporting, and Obituaries
Through their reporting, Williams and Hedden explored the impact of COVID-19 on the economy of the City of Carlsbad, an oil and gas community in southeast New Mexico. Current-Argus reporter Adrian Hedden shared a first place award with Ed Williams, staff writer for Searchlight New Mexico in the Daily Class 2 Business Writing category. Searchlight New Mexico is a non-partisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative reporting in New Mexico.
Read the article:Thriving coronavirus, ailing oil industry leave Carlsbad residents struggling
"Beautifully articulates the complex web of costs of the pandemic to Carlsbad painting a vivid portrait from visceral individual experiences," a judge commented about the entry.
Hedden also won second place in the same category, sharing the award with Thomas Zambito, investigative reporter for The Journal News, a Gannett owned newspaper in New York.
The reporters details how nuclear fuel generated in New York, New Jersey and across the nation could find a home in New Mexico as Holtec International explored the construction of a repository in Carlsbad. The article outlined how the project might spark a new economic pillar for the state steeped in fossil fuel extraction.
The same reporting earned Hedden and Zambito a first place award in the Daily Class 2 Environmental and Agricultural Writing category.
The judge said: "This is a comprehensive overview of the issue, with details that give the readers a vivid sense of the community in the middle of it."
Hedden also won first place in the Daily Newspapers Class 2 Investigative Reporting category for exposing how the lack of mental health resources in Otero County leads to higher number of criminal cases landing in court. The article was published in the Alamogordo Daily News.
Read the reporting:Nuclear solution for New Mexico's economy could be key to storing Northeast's spent fuel
Read the article:A community on trial: Lack of treatment means more crimes go to court in rural New Mexico
Current-Argus reporter Mike Smith was awarded first place in the Daily Newspaper Class 2 Obituary News category.
Smith told the story of Artesia Police Officer Thomas Frazier who was killed in May 2021 in a vehicle crash while on duty.
The judge wrote: "Very informative about the life of Frazier and very interesting to read."
Read the article:'That man did it all': Artesia officer killed in crash remembered as hard worker, family man
Smith also shared a second place win with Carlsbad Current-Argus News Director Jessica Onsurez in the Daily Newspapers Class 2 Breaking News category.
Read the article:One dead as result of flooding in Carlsbad
The two reported on the flooding that killed one person in Eddy County in June 2021.
Read the column:Wait your turn or take a trip to Texas? Equitable vaccine distribution is everyone's responsibility
Onsurez won a second place award in the Daily Newspapers Class 2 Editorials category for her column on equity and responsible COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Onsurez explored the phenomenon of New Mexicans traveling to Texas to receive vaccinations early on in the pandemic.
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Madam C.J. Walker, née Sarah Breedlove le  dans la paroisse de Madison en Louisiane et morte le  à Irvington dans l'État de New York, est une femme d'affaires afro-américaine. Elle est la première femme américaine à devenir millionnaire par elle-même.

Biographie

Jeunesse
Sarah Breedlove naît le 23 décembre 1867 à Delta, un village de la paroisse de Madison. Ses parents, Owen et Minerva Anderson, étaient d'anciens  esclaves travaillant dans les champs de coton. Sarah a une sœur aînée, Louvenia, et quatre frères, Alexander, James, Solomon, et Owen Jr ; elle est le premier enfant de la famille né après la proclamation d'émancipation . Elle a sept ans quand sa mère meurt, dix ans quand son père décède à son tour. Orpheline, elle commence alors à travailler comme servante domestique à Vicksburg, Mississippi, avec sa sœur aînée et le mari de cette dernière, Jesse Powell.

À l'âge de quatorze ans, elle épouse un ouvrier, Moses McWilliams et donne naissance à seize ans à une fille, A'Lelia. Quatre ans plus tard, son mari meurt, la laissant seule pour subvenir aux besoins de sa fille. Elle remonte alors le Mississippi et s'établit à Saint-Louis, Missouri, où elle exerce le métier de blanchisseuse et suit des cours du soir. Elle y rejoint ses frères Alexander, James et Solomon, devenus barbiers. Elle fréquente l'église méthodiste St. Paul, ce qui lui permet de côtoyer les membres de la bourgeoisie noire locale.

Carrière professionnelle
En 1888, Sarah et sa fille déménagent à St. Louis, Missouri, où vivent trois de ses frères. Sarah trouve du travail comme blanchisseuse, gagnant à peine plus d'un dollar par jour. Elle est déterminée à gagner suffisamment d'argent pour fournir à sa fille une vraie éducation. Pendant les années 1880, elle vit dans une communauté où la musique du genre Ragtime est développée ; elle chante à l'église épiscopale méthodiste africaine de St. Paul et commence à aspirer à une vie instruite en regardant la communauté des femmes de son église.

Comme cela est courant chez les femmes noires de son époque, Sarah souffre de problèmes de pellicules sévères et d'autres affections du cuir chevelu, y compris la calvitie, en raison de troubles cutanés et de l'application de produits agressifs utilisés pour nettoyer les cheveux et laver les vêtements. Ces mauvaises conditions sont aussi dues à une mauvaise alimentation, des maladies et des bains et lavages de cheveux peu fréquents à une époque où la plupart des maisons américaines manquent de plomberie intérieure, de chauffage central et d'électricité. Sarah veut alors remédier à ce problème.

Au début, Sarah apprend les soins capillaires avec ses frères, barbiers à St. Louis. Au moment de l'Exposition universelle de Saint-Louis en 1904, elle devient alors commissionnaire en vendant des produits pour Annie Malone, une entrepreneuse afro-américaine de soins capillaires, propriétaire de la société Poro. Les ventes à l'exposition sont une déception puisque la communauté afro-américaine a été largement ignorée. Tout en travaillant pour Malone, qui deviendra plus tard sa plus grande rivale dans l'industrie des soins capillaires, Sarah commence à développer ses nouvelles connaissances en la matière et à créer et améliorer sa propre gamme de produits. En juillet 1905, alors qu'elle a 37 ans, Sarah et sa fille déménagent à Denver, Colorado, où elle continue à vendre des produits pour Malone et à développer sa propre entreprise de soins capillaires. Une controverse se développe entre Annie Malone et Sarah parce que Malone a accusé Sarah d'avoir volé sa formule, un mélange de vaseline et de soufre qui était utilisé depuis cent ans.

Après son mariage avec Charles Walker en 1906, Sarah est connue sous le nom de Madam C. J. Walker. Elle se présente comme une coiffeuse indépendante et une revendeuse de crèmes cosmétiques. "Madam" est adopté en référence à des femmes pionnières de l'industrie française de la beauté. Son mari, qui est également son partenaire commercial, fournit des conseils sur la publicité et la promotion. Sarah vend ses produits de porte à porte, enseignant à d'autres femmes noires comment se coiffer avec. En 1906, Sarah confie à sa fille la responsabilité de la vente par correspondance à Denver, tandis qu'elle et son mari voyagent dans le sud et l'est des États-Unis pour développer l'entreprise.  En 1908, le couple déménage à Pittsburgh, en Pennsylvanie, où ils ouvrent un salon de beauté et créent le Lelia College pour former des "coiffeurs". En tant que défenseur de l'indépendance économique des femmes noires, Sarah ouvre des programmes de formation dans le «Walker System» pour son réseau national d'agents de vente agréés qui gagnent une bonne commission.

Après que Sarah a fermé l'entreprise à Denver en 1907, A'lelia dirige les opérations quotidiennes depuis Pittsburgh. En 1910, Sarah établit une nouvelle base à Indianapolis. A'lelia a également persuadé sa mère de créer un bureau et un salon de beauté dans le quartier en pleine croissance de Harlem à New York en 1913, devenu plus tard un centre de la culture afro-américaine.

En 1910, Sarah déménage ses entreprises à Indianapolis, où elle établit le siège social de la Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company. Elle achète d'abord une maison et une usine au 640 North West Street et plus tard construit une usine, un salon de coiffure, une école d'esthétique pour former ses agents commerciaux et un laboratoire pour aider à la recherche.  Elle crée une équipe composée de Freeman Ransom, Robert Lee Brokenburr, Alice Kelly et Marjorie Joyner, entre autres, pour aider à gérer l'entreprise en croissance constante.  De nombreux employés de son entreprise, y compris ceux qui occupent des postes clés de gestion et de personnel, sont des femmes.

Pour augmenter la force de vente de son entreprise, Sarah forme d'autres femmes à devenir des "cultivatrices de beauté" en utilisant "Le Système Walker", sa méthode de toilettage conçue pour favoriser la croissance des cheveux et conditionner le cuir chevelu grâce à l'utilisation de ses produits.  Le système de Walker comprend un shampooing, une pommade conçue pour aider à la pousse des cheveux, un brossage intense et l'application de peignes en fer sur les cheveux. Cette méthode prétend rendre aux cheveux ternes et cassants une texture douce et soyeuse.

Engagements

Sarah C.J. Walker s'implique, en parallèle de son activité commerciale, dans la défense des droits des femmes et des Afro-Américains. Elle participe notamment au financement de plusieurs associations comme la National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) dont elle finance à hauteur de  une campagne contre le lynchage. En 1918, elle est élue vice-présidente de la , fondée par William Monroe Trotter. Elle est une figure symbolique de l'afro-féminisme.

Hommages
Madam C.J. Walker est inscrite au National Women's Hall of Fame.

L'artiste afro-américaine Faith Ringgold lui rend hommage dans son tableau-quilt The Sunflowers Quilting Bee at Arles: The French Collection Part I, #4, 1991.

Un timbre à son effigie est émis en 1998 par le United States Postal Service (USPS). Il fait partie d'une série consacrée à l'histoire des Afro-Américains.

En 2020, une série produite par Netflix lui est consacrée sous le titre Self Made : Inspired by the life of Madam C. J. Walker.

Famille
Les parents de Madam C.J. Walker, Owen et Minerva Breedlove, nés aux alentours de 1828, sont esclaves et travaillent sur la propriété d'un riche planteur, Robert W. Burney. Ils ont quatre autres enfants avant sa naissance.

Sa fille Lelia, née en 1885 de son premier mariage, est plus connue sous le nom de A'Lelia Walker.

Bibliographie
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Notes et références

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Femme d'affaires américaine
Pionnière en entreprenariat
Personnalité afro-américaine
Personnalité des droits civiques aux États-Unis
Inscrite au National Women's Hall of Fame
Naissance en décembre 1867
Naissance dans la paroisse de Madison
Décès en mai 1919
Décès dans le comté de Westchester
Décès à 51 ans
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière de Woodlawn

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Learning that you've got heart disease can be scary, but it doesn't have to be. The good news is that many types of heart disease can be treated by making healthier choices and changes to your lifestyle. Increasing physical activity (even an hour a week), paying attention to nutrition, and maintaining a healthy weight can improve and even reverse the effects of heart disease. People with heart disease and those who love them have a lot of power when it comes to working together to enrich their quality of life.
The term "heart disease" encompasses an array of conditions affecting the heart. These include coronary artery disease (restricted blood vessels), heart rhythm problems (arrhythmias), and congenital heart defects (those you were born with). "Heart disease" and "cardiovascular disease" often are used interchangeably, though cardiovascular disease usually refers to conditions involving narrowed or blocked blood vessels that can lead to a heart attack, congestive heart failure (CHF), chest pain, or stroke.
Heart attack. When blood vessels are restricted and a blood clot blocks part of the heart, this can cause a heart attack. If blood flow is completely cut off by the clot, the part of the heart muscle supplied by that artery begins to die. Though most people survive their first heart attack, it's a warning alarm that you need to make some changes. Talk to your doctor to learn more about medication and lifestyle changes that can help.
Stroke. The most common type is ischemic stroke, which happens when a blood vessel feeding the brain is blocked, usually from a blood clot. This can cause brain cells to die, sometimes affecting the person's ability to walk or talk. A hemorrhagic stroke is the result of a burst blood vessel and is cause most often by hypertension. While some brain cells die after a stroke and are never replaced, some cells don't die—they're only injured and can repair themselves over time.
Heart failure. During congestive heart failure, the heart isn't pumping blood as well as it should. Though it keeps on ticking, it's not meeting the body's need for oxygen. Without treatment, heart failure can get worse.
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Mozambique is losing at least $60m a year because of illegal fishing, the country's minister of the sea, inland waters and fisheries, Agostinho Mondlane, has reportedly said.
According to Mozambique News Agency, Mondlane revealed this during the 7th meeting of Fish-i Africa in the capital Maputo recently.
"We should take on individual and collective responsibility for defending the noble interests of our peoples and nations," Mondlane was quoted as saying.
He said the most effective way to fight illegal and unreported fishing would be through unified efforts from African countries along the Indian Ocean to help gain food security for the development of the affected countries.
The fight against illegal fishing has been ongoing, as it also contributes largely towards overfishing. A lot of fish and other marine animals have been placed on the "threatened species list", according to UN Environment.org.
In 2014, WWF Global applauded the ratification of the FAO Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) by Mozambique, saying that this was a "huge step in the global fight to eliminate illegal fishing".
WWF said at the time that African countries were among the most targeted by Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated ("IUU") fishing, due to insufficient fisheries monitoring and governance in the region.
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