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Q: Fit image width of imageView in ReyclerView item I currently have this code working. What I'm doing is downloading an image using Picasso and loading it into an imageView, which is inside a RecyclerView item.
Recycler Item XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/card_item"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    app:cardPreventCornerOverlap="false"
    app:cardElevation="4dp"
    app:cardCornerRadius="4dp"
    app:cardUseCompatPadding="true">

    <FrameLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">

        <!-- Loading View -->
        <com.wang.avi.AVLoadingIndicatorView
            android:id="@+id/avloadingitem"
            android:layout_width="50dp"
            android:layout_height="50dp"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:visibility="gone"
            app:indicator="BallClipRotate"
            app:indicator_color="@color/colorAccent"/>

        <!-- Imagen -->
        <com.wallakoala.wallakoala.Views.ProductImageView
            android:id="@+id/grid_image"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            app:riv_corner_radius_bottom_left="4dp"
            app:riv_corner_radius_bottom_right="4dp"
            app:riv_corner_radius_top_left="4dp"
            app:riv_corner_radius_top_right="4dp"/>

        <!-- Pie de foto -->
        <RelativeLayout
            android:id="@+id/footer"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="bottom"
            android:alpha="0.75">

            <!-- Info extra -->
            <include android:id="@+id/extraInfo"
                layout="@layout/product_footer_extra"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:visibility="visible"/>

            <!-- Info principal -->
            <include android:id="@+id/mainFooter"
                layout="@layout/product_footer"
                android:layout_height="@dimen/footer_height"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_below="@id/extraInfo"/>

        </RelativeLayout>

    </FrameLayout>

</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

This is my custom ImageView.
public class ProductImageView extends RoundedImageView
{
    public ProductImageView(Context context)
    {
        super(context);
    }

    public ProductImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
    {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public ProductImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle)
    {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec)
    {
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);

        setMeasuredDimension(getMeasuredWidth(), (int)(getMeasuredWidth() * 1.32f));
    }
}

I know the aspect ratio of the images, so I can do this in onMeasure method to tell Android the height I want:
setMeasuredDimension(getMeasuredWidth(), (int)(getMeasuredWidth() * 1.32f));

So now it works perfectly with images with that aspect ratio,however, I want to get rid of this, as I want to download images with different aspect ratios. So, how can I tell Android to fit the width and adjust the height of the imageView maintaining the aspect ratio?
Thanks in advance,

A: Think you should add the adjustViewBounds attribute to your image tag
 <ImageView
              android:id="@+id/thumbview"
              android:layout_width="120dp"
              android:layout_height="120dp"
              android:layout_gravity="center"
              android:adjustViewBounds="true"/>

A: You ImageView in xml should have height wrap_content, like this..
<ImageView
            android:id="@+id/grid_image"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:scaleType="fitXY"/>

then, you should use post() method with picasso lib to load image from server.
imageView.post(new Runnable() {
                                @Override
                                public void run() {
                                    Picasso.with(mActivity).load(path).resize(imageView.getWidth(), 0).into(imageView);
                                }
                            }); break;

A: There is a lib called ''Glide''. You can do this simply loading the image into a imageview and call .centercrop
ex:  Glide.with(yourFragment)
    .load(yourUrl)
    .centerCrop()
    .into(yourView);
Font> https://github.com/bumptech/glide/wiki/Transformations

A: What you're looking is: .fit().centerCrop() or .fit().centerInside()
Picasso
  .with(context)
  .load(imageUrl)
  .fit()
  .centerCrop()
  // or .centerInside()
  .into(myImageView)

*

*fit:  wait until the size of the ImageView can be measured, and resize the image to fit the ImageView

*centerInside: The image will be displayed completely, but might not
fill the entire ImageView (Mantains aspect ratio)

*centerCrop: scales the image so that it fills, cropping the extra

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FOR more than two years, Edward Marx, of Cos Cob, Conn., deliberated about buying a mattress and box spring with a $4,500 price tag. Plagued with a bad lower back, he hoped his dream mattress in the Duxiana showroom in Greenwich, Conn., would alleviate his nightly discomfort.
Now though, Mr. Marx, a 47-year-old stockbroker, says it was money well spent. ''The difference is remarkable,'' he said, adding that he hasn't had a morning backache since buying the bed in January.
Thousands of consumers, in pursuit of sounder sleep, are flocking to buy expensive bedding, some sets costing $7,000 or more. ''Sleep has become a luxury item,'' said Ron Passaglia, executive vice president of the Simmons Company in Atlanta.
As they focus more on their sleep needs, Americans are dreaming big. Queen-size mattresses -- 60 by 79.5 inches -- have become the most popular size, eclipsing doubles; sales of king-size mattresses -- 76 by 79.5 inches -- have swelled, too.
Of the 19.5 million mattresses and 15.8 million box springs shipped to stores in 1997, 38.5 percent were queen and king size, up more than 6 percentage points from 1992, according to the International Sleep Products Association, a trade group.
The escalating price tags are a result of technological innovations, improved designs and more expensive materials.
Yet the biggest appeal for high-end bedding is not its value as a status symbol, but its perceived importance for personal health. ''Sleep is part of the triad of quality of life, along with nutrition and exercise,'' said James B. Maas, a psychology professor at Cornell University and author of ''Power Sleep'' (Villard Books, 1998).
With exercise difficult to schedule and nutrition a frequent victim of eating on the run, one thing that most people can do is sleep better. ''It doesn't require anything other than a good environment and a comfortable surface,'' said Jim Nation, chief executive of the Spring Air Company, which is based in Des Plaines, Ill. Consumers, he says, now buy the best bed they can afford as an investment in their well-being.
At Spring Air, that means the Luxuriance line, whose king bedset sells for $4,500. Kingsdown, of Mebane, N.C., has a new $8,500 king bed, called the V.I.P., in its 18-month-old Passions collection.
A treasured bed has had a place in American homes as far back as colonial times. Then, the ''best bed'' was often the largest single investment in the house, and homeowners frequently bequeathed them to the next generation.
Now, some bedding companies are intent on reviving that kind of reverence. ''No one seems to think about questioning spending the same amount of money on a leather sofa or dining room table,'' said Bo Gustafsson, president of Dux Interiors N.A. Dux sales consultants like to compare the time customers spend on a mattress to other costly pieces of furniture.
OTHER companies try to emphasize the high-priced spread as luxury most everyone can afford. Stearns & Foster became a premium brand in 1994 when the Sealy Corporation of Cleveland bought and repositioned it. A sales brochure promotes a $900 mattress as actually costing about 25 cents a night.
So what do you get for the extra money? Extra padding, for one thing: Mattresses now measure 9 to 15 inches thick, up from 7 inches a decade ago. Premium bedding also usually includes ''pillowtops,'' a cushion layer filled with foam or other stuffing. The mattresses have hand-stitched borders, cloth handles and woven designs.
Mostly, though, it comes down to the coils in the innerspring mattress, the number of which varies by sleep system. Manufacturers say an increase in coils raises a mattress's ability to conform to a sleeping body. That is why the luxury mattresses tout their coil counts in the thousands, compared with hundreds for less expensive bedding.
Also key are the wires in the springs, which come in a range of ''gauges.'' A lower gauge means thicker and stiffer wire that generally offers a firmer suspension.
Finally, as in other markets, technology is driving innovation. The Simmons Back Care, Kingdown Passions and Dux lines all purport to compensate for the differences in the weight and shape of the human anatomy. Dux's king bed features an ''integrated spring system'' that is a continuous interlocking unit, rather than individual coils.
Serta, of Itasca, Ill., recently introduced its Perfect Sleeper ''Vitalize,'' a $5,000 queen bed that features an innerspring mattress surrounded by an airbed. The layer of air cells is monitored by a computer that lets sleepers record their respiratory activity and how many times they turn over.
But while marketers might insist that a good night's sleep is only a question of a better bed, it is unclear what can be legally advertised. Anything suggesting a medical benefit is suspect: Saying a product offers a better night's sleep would not be construed as false or misleading, for example, but saying a mattress cures lower back pain would.
Thus, when it comes to whether such bedding is needed, sleep researchers and orthopedists agree that it is a personal call.
However grand the new breed of mattresses, Americans have already missed their chance to sleep like British royalty.
From 1992 to 1995, mattresses from Heals of London, outfitters to the Queen, sold for $10,000 in queen size at ABC Carpet and Home in Manhattan. But Heals no longer distributes its wares in the United States.
The Heals bed -- made with linen ticking and cattle and horse hair filler -- ''was too premature for the American market,'' said Evan Cole, the president of ABC Carpet.


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General protocol information Sampling method: 1 ml samples and centrifuged for 4 min at 4000, r.p.m at 4 ºC
Quenching procedure: —
Extraction technique: not used
Sample analyzing method: HPLC-UV/RI
Biomass concentrations were monitored by measuring optical density (OD) at 600nm with a spectrophotometer (model Novaspec II, Pharmacia Biotech, USA). The correlation of OD with biomass dry weight (0.486 gDW/l OD) had previously been determined from a batch culture grown on 10 g/l glucose minimal medium. To determine the extracellular concentrations of glucose, ethanol, acetate, pyruvate, succinate and glycerol, 1 ml samples were taken and centrifuged for 4 min at 4000 r.p.m. at 4ºC. The supernatant was analyzed with an HPLC system (Agilent HP1100) as described by [1], equipped with a polymer column (Aminex HPX-87H from BioRad, Switzerland). As eluent 5mM H2SO4 was used and the column was heated to 60ºC. The compounds were detected and quantified with a refractive index (RI) detector and an UV/Vis-detector (DAD). For absolute quantification, calibration curves with external standards for the corresponding pure substance obtained from Sigma (Switzerland) were used.
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Letters to the Editor | June 2013
International Health Electives: Strengthening Graduate Medical Education
Zachary Comeaux, DO
Professor at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, member representative to the Osteopathic International Alliance, and former president of the World Osteopathic Health Organization
Medical Education / Graduate Medical Education
The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, June 2013, Vol. 113, 446-447. doi:10.7556/jaoa.2013.113.6.446
Comeaux Z. International Health Electives: Strengthening Graduate Medical Education. J Am Osteopath Assoc 2013;113(6):446–447. doi: 10.7556/jaoa.2013.113.6.446.
Reading the December 2012 issue of The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, I was encouraged by the article by Sidney Coupet, DO, MPH,1 on the use of international health electives to strengthen graduate medical education programs. I thought the article was scholarly, cogent, and timely. In reflecting on the subject matter, however, I believe that we in the US osteopathic medical community are overlooking an important element in the global evolution of medicine and culture: parallel to the progressive involvement of US-trained osteopathic physicians and osteopathic medical students in international medical missions and rotations is the rapid evolution of international osteopathy as a cohesive profession.
The aspects of our education and professional activity that make US osteopathic physicians distinctive are repeatedly scrutinized and debated, and they are perennially evolving. I have formed this opinion after 30 years of participation in faculty discussion, as well as participation in national and international organizations, committees, and associations. This process of self-scrutiny and refinement, which involves deciding what is essentially distinctive about our profession and then improving it by adapting best practices from different streams of the osteopathic profession, is a benefit of participating in the osteopathic medical community.
For those not well versed in the history or current status of international osteopathy, the 2006 article "A Global Snapshot of Osteopathic Medicine" by Jane E. Carreiro, DO,2 is still largely relevant. Developments in international osteopathy are ongoing, as is evident from the reports of representatives of different countries presented at the March 2013 Osteopathic International Alliance (OIA) Spring Board Meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Establishment of the OIA in 2004, as well as formation of the now discontinued World Osteopathic Health Organization, initially stemmed from the desire of US-trained osteopathic physicians to be recognized globally and to enhance developments in osteopathic medicine around the world. The creation of these organizations complemented a desire among European osteopaths for recognition and enhancement of both competency and educational standards. Formation of the European Federation of Osteopaths, European Register for Osteopathic Physicians, Forum for Osteopathic Regulation in Europe, and Osteopathic European Academic Network, among other organizations, reflects the wide-spread effort to fulfill this wish.
So far, these organizations (including the OIA), and their active members, have had a substantial impact on catalyzing the global osteopathic medical profession. Many communities that have had osteopathy and osteopathic medicine introduced by diverse historical routes have reflectively pursued a future with more in common than different. Ongoing consensus discussions among OIA participants in Europe, Asia, and North and South America have led to the development and promulgation of the World Health Organization's Benchmarks for Training in Osteopathy.3 In addition, the OIA, along with its constituent organization members, provides information and support to those implementing osteopathy or osteopathic medical care in new political or cultural settings.
In discussions of US-trained osteopathic physicians and our professional identity, the elephant in the room remains to be addressed. Although training in osteopathic manipulative medicine is compulsory for all osteopathic medical students in the United States, very few of these students develop everyday competency in this distinctive practice and choose to use it.
A survey by Allee et al4 showed that 67.9% of osteopathic physicians in American Osteopathic Association–approved family medicine residencies claimed to use manipulation regularly, compared with 39.5% of those in family medicine residencies approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. In addition, a number of the latter's allopathic peers reported interest in learning osteopathic manipulative treatment.4 However, in another survey of osteopathic physicians in Ohio (a state relatively heavily saturated with osteopathic physicians), 79% of respondents reported hardly ever using osteopathic manipulative treatment; those in specialties reported using none.5
From personal experience, including teaching abroad, I have noted that the manner of integrating osteopathic principles and practice into a health care setting varies. Foreign-trained osteopathic physicians, however, seem to particularly value these principles and apply them with specific intention and with more passion than many of our US osteopathic medical school graduates. Exposure to foreigntrained osteopathic physicians and their means of integrating manual therapy into clinical practice may spark a renewed interest by US osteopathic medical students and graduates in the uniqueness of osteopathic medicine. It might also inspire them to practice osteopathic medicine with the same intention and passion as foreign-trained osteopathic physicians.
This conjecture undoubtedly will be dismissed by many individuals who have a false sense of our identity as US-trained osteopathic physicians in relation to our colleagues who are practicing osteopathy in other countries around the world. I believe that exposure to global health care techniques during individual professional development, however, could contribute to an understanding of the real power and potential of maintaining the uniqueness of osteopathic medicine, including the judicious inclusion of manual diagnosis and manipulative treatment as a resource for patients. Reciprocally, such exposure would also offer opportunities to showcase the osteopathic medical profession's potential to integrate osteopathic principles into contemporary full medical practice.
I suggest that, to some extent, we merge international health electives with opportunities for exposure to international osteopathy. The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine and the OIA have initiated small-scale discussions of how to implement more international exchanges into US osteopathic medical education, and individual osteopathic medical schools have taken the initiative to promote such exchanges. No such undertaking is simple, but I believe that this debate would benefit from wider exposure and a discussion of the issues.
Coupet S. International health electives: strengthening graduate medical education. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2012;112(12):800-804. [PubMed]
Carreiro JE. A global snapshot of osteopathic medicine. Osteopathic Family Physician News. May 2006;6(5):14-16.
World Health Organization. Benchmarks for Training in Traditional/Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Benchmarks for Training in Osteopathy. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2010.
Allee B, Pollak M, Malnar KF. Survey of osteopathic and allopathic residents' attitudes toward osteopathic manipulative treatment. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2005;105(12):551-561. [PubMed]
Spaeth DG, Pheley AM. Use of osteopathic manipulative treatment by Ohio osteopathic physicians in various specialties. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2003;103(1):16-26. [PubMed]


The Kobakant tailor shop in Berlin offers to its more or less surprised clients a number of services, provided by electronically "upsmarted" fashion clothes. A broad spectrum of wishes, ranging from robust needs such as being electrically protected against unwanted advances, through uncertain requests such as having something that vibrates when one looks to the North, up to more sublime desires, for instance, for fancy luminescent party or event dressing, may be fulfilled.
Yet Kobakant does not only offer a variety of prefabricated benefits, but instead they present themselves ready to fulfill whatever wish a client may express. This gives the whole endeavour a new, slightly uncanny twist: all of a sudden the clients may find themselves in the not always comfortable position to tell what they want. One may feel reminded here of the standard situation in fairy tales when a generous extramundane being offers some humans to fulfill three of their wishes. Significantly, as Sigmund Freud and Ernst Bloch have remarked (Freud [1919h]: 245; Bloch 1973, vol. 3: 1552) this leads in most cases to poor results. For example, for a married couple in a novel from Johann Peter Hebel's collection "Schatzkästlein" ("Treasure Box"), to which both authors refer: the wife longs for a sausage, the angry husband swears that the sausage may grow from the wife's nose, and finally both agree that the sausage should disappear again. Obviously it is all but easy to tell what one's most important wishes are, or what one should wish in such a moment. The wisest first wish would, as Hebel has suggested (see Bloch, ibid.), be wisdom – or, in other words: the first wish one utters should precisely be to know what one should wish.
As Karl Marx has already perspicuously remarked, capitalist economy does not only produce commodities that satisfy existing needs, but also creates new needs (Marx 1857: 624). And philosopher Günther Anders noted that, at a certain moment, probably in the 1950ies or 1960ies, in many capitalist societies, when the notion of "Überflussgesellschaft" ("affluent society") came up, not the goods, but the needs and requests have become scarce (Anders 1988, vol. 2: 16).
This development corresponded to a shift in the ideological superstructure – from more or less authoritarian "Fordist" discipline to anti-authoritarian, neoliberal permissiveness. All of a sudden, individuals found themselves not anymore confronted with the question whether they were allowed to do what they wanted, but rather with the problem if they were actually able to want what they were allowed to. At this moment, "exhaustion" started to become the key psychic problem, as sociologist Alain Ehrenberg has analyzed (Ehrenberg 2004): repression (of inacknowledged wishes) was replaced by depression (the effect of lacking desire, of "unwished acknowledgments", as it were).
Under the condition of a majority of goods opposed to a minority of desires, knowing what one wants has become an increasingly difficult task. Obviously, this task has never been easy. As Benedict de Spinoza has stated, "in no case we do strive for, wish for, long for, or desire anything, because we deem it to be good, but on the other hand we deem a thing to be good, because we strive for it, wish for it, or desire it." (Spinoza 1955: 137). Thus desire always precedes judgment, and – as a consequence – knowledge. Yet in an economy of scarcity, it may have been sufficient to keep in mind the teachings of Epicurus about the hierarchy of needs (Epikur 1995: 44ff.): natural and necessary (such as a warm place to live, drinking water, food, the company of good friends); natural but not necessary (a big house, delicious food, servants etc.); and not natural as well as not necessary (such as fame, recognition or power). Knowing what one wanted meant here to recall this hierarchy; to restrict one's aspirations to the most basic needs; to be aware of the happiness that was accessible through them, and not to spoil it by "crazy opinions". Happiness was thus actually a matter of "knowing" (what one wanted); an 'epistemological' question rather than an 'ontological' one: as soon as hunger or lack of friendly company had been overcome, happiness was accessible; and the problem did not consist in finding it but rather in recognizing that it was already there; that one had already found it. (A late echo of this Epicurean materialism is to be found in Bertolt Brecht's poetic lines "Ja renn nur nach dem Glück/Doch renn nur nicht zu sehr!/Denn alle rennen nach dem Glück/Das Glück rennt hinterher." Brecht 1984: 1118).
The Epicurean triad "natural and necessary", "natural but not necessary", "not natural and not necessary" seems to perfectly correspond to Jacques Lacans distinction between "need", "demand" and "desire" (see for this Evans 1996: 35ff.). In Lacanian terminology, the Epicurean principle can therefore be formulated as follows: "focus on your needs, and avoid demand as well as desire". Since, as Lacan emphasized, "desire is always the desire of the other", such a principle would amount to avoiding otherness – but, funnily, not in the name of ownness, autonomy or "personal" subjectivity; quite to the contrary, Epicurus' principle would instead lead us to regard ourselves more like objects; or impersonal, needy creatures of nature; philosophizing animals, equipped with certain necessities, but also easy to satisfy.
With regard to this point, something has changed in history. Ernst Bloch notes that in ancient and medieval times philosophers were keen to define a "highest good". Modern, bourgeois society, to the contrary is, as Bloch explains, occupied with the question of the ideal self (Bloch 1973, vol. 3: 1559). This shift can be described in Freudian terms as a shift from "object-libido" to "ego-libido": We are not so much concerned anymore with what we want to have than with what we want to be. Therefore our most precious objects are in most cases not objects, but rather protheses by the help of which we design our ideal ego – the "God of protheses" that Sigmund Freud has nicely described (Freud [1930a]: 92).
This may be the reason why it seems particularily difficult for us to tell what we want. The question of "choice" has apparently become more delicate, compared to earlier epochs, as sociologist Renata Salecl has pointed out in detail (Salecl 2011). The difficulty does obviously not only stem from the fact that there are more options available today – 117 possible colour combinations for your small car, or 350 contact offers on tinder within one hour. Our grandparents who, in their village, may have only had 2 or 3 options for possible marriage partners and managed to decide for a lifelong relationship, would not have become mad with a broader spectrum either. On the other hand, we postmodern Hamlets would not be able to deal even with only 2 or 3 options. Apparently we have overcharged our wishes with the idea that the chosen object should be absolutely perfect and completely mirror our ideal self. This may be illustrated by the observations made by Andreas Reckwitz in his recent book "Gesellschaft der Singularitäten" (Reckwitz 2017): Whereas "modern" after-war generations were mainly striving for improving their life standard by standardized products, we "postmodern" customers go for "life quality" and aim at "singularized" objects that promise to emphasize our unmistakeable individuality. What has been called "cultural capitalism" nicely fits into this frame: we do not only buy an apple, but together with it a whole lifestyle of health, global justice or local production and sustainability – whatever may suit our desires, not for a fruit, but for an ideal self-image.
Under the perspective opened by Günther Anders, i. e. the idea that our needs and wishes have become scarce, we might yet provide a slightly different description of this: Could we not say that instead of buying a good we are desperately trying to buy the wish for this good? When we buy, for example, a book – are we not secretely hoping to get not only the book, but rather the whole atmosphere of leisure time in a quiet reading room, undisturbed by electronic media? Is "cultural capitalism" not another name for the desperate attempt to sell to people the desire they find themselves unable to have?
From this perspective, the ladies from Kobakant turn out to be not only witty artists, but also pretty good merchants: for they offer a "smart" piece of fashion in exchange for somebody's wish. And, in these times, trading in a fulfillment for a wish may be an excellent deal.
2014 Gibt es eine Kunst des klaren Wollens, Gespräch mit Wolfram Eilenberger, in: Philosophie Magazin Nr. 05/2014: 60-65.
Robert Pfaller is a Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria. Founding member of the Viennese psychoanalytic research group "stuzzicadenti". 2007 he was awarded "The Missing Link" price for connecting psychoanalysis with other scientific disciplines, by Psychoanalytisches Seminar Zurich – for the German edition of his book "The Pleasure Principle in Culture: Illusions Without Owners" ("Die Illusionen der anderen. Ueber das Lustprinzip in der Kultur. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 2002).


iAdapt sign Memorandum of Understanding with e-Sek.
South African based ERP software development house iAdapt has signed a memorandum of understanding with local specialist company e-Sek. Founding member and CEO of e-Sek Mosa Manganye said that they had been looking for a locally based ERP technology partner for some time and finally agreed to a long term strategy with iAdapt. e-Sek is a company that was started in 1999 as a project management company that has grown tremendously over the last 5 years to now specialise in areas of strategic BPR, Needs Analysis and Business Analysis amongst other professional services. The primary objective of the partnership is to explore each companies offering and bring these to customers in a closed loop thereby alleviating the necessity to appoint a consulting company, another BPR company and finally a technology company which will suite the customers business objectives. This way all these services and products are offered as a total solution. It was also of prime importance for both companies that they be locally based and owned.
A further press release will follow as soon as the initial pilot site is underway.
Business Software Tools Development company Four J's recently launched their new online relational database engine at the Futurex show on the 17th May 2006. The company's Genero compiler has traditionally been product agnostic, but the company saw a need to introduce a relational database of its own. The key strategy for entering the database market is to reduce end-user total cost of database ownership and offering a database with better features than the traditional products. Many of the mainstream products on the market have merely been "plugged and patched" over the last 15 years which has resulted in databases that have a number of good, but disparate features and is now extremely cumbersome as well as being extremely expensive. With Genero db the product was written from a blank sheet of paper and the developers took a long and hard look at the short comings of the current products with the objective of improving on these. The new database runs on asynchronous non-pre-emptive tasks (ANTS) technology, developed by a niche technology company called ANTS Software Inc. The product has claimed better performance and support for newer technologies, such as thread pooling and re-assignment, compiled SQL model execution and elimination of 99% of locking problems. Genero db will only lock in non-deterministic situations, but the indexes and table rows will remain lock-free, provided that the software application does not force a lock. Furthermore the Genero db will require very little re-coding or re-training as the syntax compatibility spans Informix, Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server. Genero db is currently available for the Windows, Linux and Solaris platforms, but will soon be joined by HP-UX and AIX in the early part of next year. Software development company iAdapt, which is one of the top Genero technology companies in the world, has been appointed a Genero VAR for the new database due the extensive knowledge the company has of the Four J's product set as well as being a top Informix technology company. "The switch from Informix to Genero db has not been that dramatic" says iAdapt Director of Technology Johan de Lange. " The largest component that needed major work centered around the conversion of the data from other databases into Genero db and then tuning some of the source code to adapt from the database specifics to Genero. This process however is followed in ALL database migrations." says de Lange. The technical department of iAdapt simultaneously released its full blown ERP system in Beta test on the new Genero db at the Futurex show. "The commercial release of our ERP applications on Genero db will largely depend on the response we get from the market" says Gilbert Parsons. "We are however working very closely with the Four J's technical developers based in France to add enhancements for mainstream business applications and Tools. We are hoping to secure some interest in our software in Europe and the States where Genero db will be a lot stronger"
In a R1,5m deal medical supply IT company Medicom has selected the Informix Workgroup Edition v10 for the corporate roll out within the company. Medicom is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Pharmaceuticals and has been a long time user of Informix. Company spokesman Paul Card says that the reason the company selected Informix was that they needed an industrial strength relational database that was also not so resource intensive as some of the other databases on the market. They were also looking for speed and integrity for their database. Informix was just the right choice in terms of value for money. Informix VAP partner iAdapt has been an IBM partner to Medicom for close on three years and was chosen to supply and support the product. The new version will be rolled out over the next month as part of a major upgrade project for the internal systems at Medicom.
Motor Industry specialist organisation Mimed has moved off the VIP payroll and migrated onto the iAdapt Remuneration Management software in a centralisation project aimed at streamlining the Payroll function. Mimed is the Medical Administration arm of the Motor Industry Bargaining Council (Mibco) which invested in the iAdapt software in 2004. The reason for the move is that the VIP payroll was not flexible enough to handle the complex reporting requirements of the council. The whole project which included data cleaning and conversion took a total of 2 months to complete. This included training the additional users, change management and roll out. Says Mimed project manager Lilian Ntoagae "Having experienced the exceptional support and superior product it was not a difficult choice to replace VIP with iAdapt. Their support levels are of the highest standard and the software has matured well within Mibco. The power of the product lies in the fact that it is able to be customised extremely fast without compromising the integrity of the base software. Mibco was also in the process of streamlining its internal process's by centralising all the Human Resource functions including Payroll. This is going to apply to all the subsidiaries of Mibco."
The system will be running on the powerful relational database Informix which is the core of the Mibco internal systems.


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You Guys, Busy Philipps Is Getting Her Own Talk Show
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By Kristie Rohwedder
You guys, the queen of Instagram Stories is getting her own talk show. On Tuesday, May 1, The Cut reported that Busy Philipps will host an E! late-night talk show series. According to a press release, the working title for the I Feel Pretty star's talk show is Busy Tonight. Well, that sure is a perfect working title that would also make for a perfect official title. Busy Tonight is one of the six new series that are slated to premiere on the channel later on this year. What will Philipps's forthcoming talk show entail, you wonder?
Take it away, E! press release:
"Hosted by actress Busy Philipps, Busy Tonight features comedic commentary, interviews, and segments that go behind her most popular Instagram stories. Unfiltered, in-the-know and always entertaining, Busy will give us her unique and hilarious point of view on literally everything. Executive Producers for Busy Tonight are Busy Philipps, Julie Darmody and Eric Gurian for Little Stranger."
After the Busy Tonight news broke, Philipps grabbed her phone and — what else? — looked into her front-facing camera and created some fresh Instagram content. She said in her Instagram Stories,
"Guys, do you know that saying that the only things worth doing are the things that scare you the most? Ignore my bags under my eyes. I'll get them fixed when I'm a big talk show host. Anyway, I'm super excited about this. I can't even, it's going to be dope. Let's have a late-night talk show, guys. Let's just, like, hang out and talk about stuff. Interview people. I mean, the good news is, I love to talk. This guy is just driving by and is like, Why is this girl talking to her phone? Just wait, sir. Just wait. Anyway, to everybody to leaving really sweet messages, thank you so much. And tell me what you want to see. We're open. Open for business. And also suggestions. And now, I'm just going to leave you because I've got to finish the last chapter of my book, because now this guy is looking at me. Again, sir, it'll all become clear in a few months."
Yes, Philipps has a book coming out this year, too. The actor/author/Instagram Stories artiste/late-night talk show host is basically wearing more hats than an ice rink after a hockey player scores three goals in one game, and we are all the more lucky for it.
Philipps taking on the role of late-night talk show personality feels so, so right. Who among us wouldn't want to watch a television program hosted by the same person who got locked out of her house after the Golden Globes in 2017 and documented the whole debacle on Instagram Stories? Whether she's playing a fictional character in a scripted TV show, telling her cell phone's camera about some raccoons copulating out on her deck, or reacting to a certain envelope mixup whilst seated in the front row at the Oscars, the Freaks and Geeks star is a dang delight, and a talk show seems like the perfect platform for her brand of candor.
The only foreseeable issue? Each and every Busy Tonight guest will probably want to be Philipps's best friend. As Michelle Williams said in The Cut's recent profile of her dear pal,
"She has this amazing quality: People just fall in love with her. Like, you spend ten minutes with her, and people are like, She's incredible."
Heck, you spend two minutes watching her Instagram Stories, and you're like, She's incredible.
And when Busy Tonight heads to E! later on this year, the show is bound to be incredible, too.


The latest announcement from Feadship has encapsulated the true emotion behind the launch of a custom yacht, and the new 70 metre superyacht Joy not only represents a moment set aside in history for her owner, but for everyone involved.
Joy is also a serious statement of intent by Bannenberg & Rowell as the London-based studio showcases its exterior expertise for the first time since the death of Jon Bannenberg in 2002.
The flow between the interior and exterior spaces and the generous wide walkways are without precedent on a motor yacht of this size, while fascinating concave shapes in the superstructure give Joy a design language and identity all of her own.
In another debut, Joy features a contemporary classic interior by Studio Indigo. The London designers who facilitated a holistic design that makes it easy to extend the interior spaces by opening glass doors on to the main, owner and bridge decks aft.
Joy was an incredibly complicated boat to build with so many shapes and lines, we are very grateful to the fairing gods at Feadship and all the other craftsmen who have showcased their skills on such a unique boat.


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SMSF trustees with certain dividend stripping arrangements in place can unwind the arrangement with reduced regulatory follow-up.
Over the next few months, the ATO will contact SMSF trustees who may have implemented the types of dividend stripping arrangements described in Taxpayer Alert 2015/1 in the income tax years ended 30 June 2011 to 30 June 2015.
Trustees will be offered the option to either self-amend relevant SMSF annual returns or to contact the ATO to make a voluntary disclosure to correct the tax position resulting from such arrangements.
"We recognise the importance of preserving the assets which SMSFs hold to fund retirement incomes so we are only seeking to unwind these arrangements," the ATO stated.
Trustees who have implemented an arrangement substantially similar to the one described in TA 2015/1 and its addendum and who choose to self-amend will not be subject to administrative penalties, the ATO said.
However, a shortfall interest charge (SIC) will apply to the tax shortfall amount.
"Penalties may apply to arrangements more complicated in their structure and intent, and therefore such arrangements will be considered on a case-by-case basis," the ATO said.
To be eligible for reduced penalties and to avoid compliance action, trustees who are not contacted by the ATO earlier must lodge the relevant amended SARs by 15 February 2016.
"We recognise that some arrangements may look right and trustees think the advice they have received is sound, but there may still be underlying problems such as those identified in TA 2015/1," the ATO said.
"We don't believe trustees should be harshly punished when they think they have done the right thing."
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More Than 10,000 Excess Cancer Deaths due to COVID-19 Delays
Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center.
UPDATED with comments June 26, 2020 // A model created by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) predicts that tens of thousands of excess cancer deaths will occur over the next decade as a result of missed screenings, delays in diagnosis, and reductions in oncology care caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr Norman Sharpless
"As director of NCI, I am deeply concerned about the potential impacts of delayed diagnoses and deferred or modified treatment plans on cancer incidence and mortality," said Norman "Ned" Sharpless, MD.
"In the past 3 decades, we have seen steady and strong progress against death and suffering from cancer, thanks to improvements in prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment. I worry that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has put those decades of steady progress at risk and may precipitate reversals of these trends."
In an editorial published June 19 in Science, Sharpless highlights modeling performed by the NCI that predicts an excess of 10,000 deaths from breast and colorectal cancer over the next 10 years.
The number of excess deaths per year would peak in the next year or two, likely sooner for colorectal than for breast cancer, but "for both cancer types, we believe the pandemic will influence cancer deaths for at least a decade."
In an interview, Sharpless pointed out that this analysis is conservative because the researchers only evaluated two types of cancer. They chose breast and colorectal cancer because these are common cancers (accounting for about 1/6th of all cancers) with relatively high screening rates.
"We didn't model other cancer types, but we have no reason to think that we're not going to see the same thing with other types of malignancies," he told Medscape Medical News. "That is a significant amount of excess mortality."
Delayed Diagnosis, Modified Therapy
One of the effects of the pandemic has been to cause delays in cancer diagnosis.
"Routine screening has plummeted and is running at less than 90% in some systems," Sharpless said.
"Most cancers are diagnosed when people experience symptoms and go see their doctors, and those symptomatic screening events are also not happening," he continued. "Fear of contracting the coronavirus in healthcare settings has dissuaded people from visits."
In some cases, a delay in diagnosis will allow the cancer to progress to a more advanced stage. "The earlier the diagnosis, the better, and if the stages are more advanced, patients will not do as well for virtually every kind of cancer," he said.
In addition to delays in diagnosis, treatments are being postponed or modified for patients recently diagnosed with cancer. Because of delays and reductions in curative therapies, patients may be receiving less than optimal care.
"We are seeing a lot of nonstandard care," said Sharpless. "All of these things add up to increased cancer morbidity and mortality."
He also pointed out that the term "elective" is confusing and problematic. "It doesn't mean that it's not needed, just that it's not an emergency and doesn't need to be done today," said Sharpless. "But if we're talking about chemotherapy and surgery, we don't think they can be delayed for too long — maybe a week, but not for several months."
Sharpless feels that overall, it is time for cancer care to resume as much as possible, because "ignoring cancer for too long is an untenable choice and may turn one public health crisis into another."
"If we act now, we can make up for lost time," he writes in the editorial.
"Clearly, postponing procedures and deferring care due to the pandemic was prudent at one time, but now that we have made it through the initial shock of the pandemic, I believe it is time to resume robust cancer care."
Through their network of cancer centers, researchers with the NCI can develop innovative solutions that allow screening and treatment to move forward while maintaining safety. "We need to make patients feel safe, and we have to answer important questions quickly," he said.
Real Phenomenon
Approached by Medscape Medical News for an independent comment, Otis Brawley, MD, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, agreed that the delay in diagnosis and treatment is a real phenomenon and that it will result in some increased deaths.
"The effect could last 10 years, and the CISNET program that Ned Sharpless is quoting showed that the big drivers from March to end of May are more from delays in diagnosis of symptomatic tumors and treatment," said Brawley.
"This means women who find a mass in their breast will not be diagnosed in a timely manner and men and women with blood in their stool will not get it evaluated. There are also some known, already diagnosed cancers that have delayed treatment as well."
Brawley pointed out that its not only the shutting down of clinics in March and April that are driving these delays but also the "fact that even now that clinics are open, patients are afraid to come see the doctor for fear of catching COVID. The heart attack and stroke rate have gone down over the past 3 months for the same reason.
"In this screen-screen world, we forget that a substantial proportion of breast cancers are still found by women taking a shower, feeling a mass, and going to the doctor," he added. "The screening impact on mortality, as noted in Sharpless's public presentation to the National Cancer Advisory Board, is minimal as long as the shutdown in healthcare is a few to even 6 months."
Another expert wished that Sharpless had distinguished seeking care for symptoms from screening. "We ought to be encouraging women who feel new breast lumps to come in for a diagnostic mammogram ― whatever the local COVID risk," said Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH, senior investigator, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. "Encouraging all women to get screened is a different kettle of fish ― particularly now.
"It is now clear that the substantial decline in breast cancer mortality we've experienced over the past 30 years primarily reflects improved treatment, not screening," he told Medscape Medical News. "Screening may help a very few women avoid breast cancer death, but it leads many more to be overdiagnosed and many, many more to be told they need follow-up testing and biopsy."
He added, "This is the time for us to focus on the sick, not to turn more people into patients. Does medical care really need to be adding more anxiety to an already anxious world?"
Impact of COVID-19 on Cancer Care
The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed healthcare systems worldwide and has created major challenges for clinicians who are caring for patients with cancer.
As previously reported, hospitals reprioritized resources for an impending onslaught of COVID-19 patients. Services and procedures deemed to be nonessential were canceled or delayed, including surgeries and imaging.
In a survey conducted by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), half of the 1219 respondents reported changes, delays, or disruptions to the care they were receiving. The services most frequently affected included in-person provider visits (50%), supportive services (20%), and imaging procedures to monitor tumor growth (20%).
In addition, 8% reported that their treatment, including chemotherapy and immunotherapy, had been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the United Kingdom, Cancer Research UK estimated that because of the disruption to cancer services, 2.4 million people did not undergo cancer screening or further testing or did not receive cancer treatment and that tens of thousands of cases have gone undiagnosed.
Similarly, a survey by Macmillan Cancer Support showed that almost half (45%) of cancer patients have experienced delays or cancellations of cancer treatments, or their treatments have been altered as a result of coronavirus, leaving many living in fear. Calling cancer "the forgotten C" of the pandemic, it warned of a potential cancer "time bomb" when, as the number of deaths from COVID-19 falls, cancer returns as the leading cause of death in the United Kingdom.
Last month, a report also predicted that there will be an excess of cancer deaths in both the United States and United Kingdom because of patients not accessing healthcare services.
The authors calculated that there will be 6270 excess deaths among cancer patients 1 year from now in England and 33,890 excess deaths among cancer patients older than 40 years in the United States.
Welch has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Science. Published online June 19, 2020. Editorial
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Food NetworkDavid Molho2016-01-28T23:47:49+00:00
Food Network has been creating tastefully prepared, highly entertaining programming since 1993. Originally owned by Providence Journal, and then A.H. Belo Corp, the innovative network was acquired by The E.W. Scripps Company (now Scripps Networks Interactive) in 1997. After establishing such household icons as Emeril Live and Iron Chef America, it has gone on to create such signature programs as Alton Brown's GoBod Eats and Rachael Ray's Thirty-Minute Meals. Food Network currently serves its appetizing 24/7 menu of recorded programming to over 99 million households around the world.
Bill Jarett joined Food Network as the VP of Engineering in March 1994. His mandate: to lead the engineering development of the initial production facility at 1177 Avenue of the Americas. As a loyal viewing audience began to build, so too did demands on the studio. By 2003 there was a clear need for more room and upgraded facilities. A 110,000 square foot space was found at 75 Ninth Avenue, Chelsea Market, situated near the heart of the West Village's rapidly gentrifying Meat Packing District. A new digital/HD ready facility was designed, featuring studios, control rooms, audio and video post-production facilities, including a fully functioning 3,500 square foot support kitchen.
While 5.1 was on the agenda at the outset of the expansion program, audio remained a stereo format throughout the migration to an HD video system. "Our intention was to move to 5.1 when demand reached critical mass," Jarett explains. "The initial game plan for Ninth Avenue was to shoot primarily in SD mode using Grass Valley components including signal routing, cameras and a video switcher, while recording on IMX video recorders and posting in Avid NLE rooms. We shifted to more HD production with each passing year and eventually moved to recording HD iso camera feeds on HD CAM video recorders and posting in our HD NLE rooms via an Avid ISIS storage system. The process worked until 2008 when we rebuilt the Audio, Flex and Production Control Rooms and became fully HD compliant in our studio operation," he adds.
The Walters-Storyk Design Group had been engaged for the initial Food Network Ninth Avenue move, and was the natural choice to develop the new control rooms for the continuation of the expansion program. "I had worked with John Storyk on another project back in the early 1990's, and again in 2005 when we turned our DAW room into 5.1" Jarett reveals. "I knew his professionalism and attention to detail would guarantee a great job. I remember attending a seminar that John gave concerning his methodology for designing audio facilities and found his approach to our project reminiscent of his classroom presentation. He comes prepared, knows his subject, and is a confident team leader."
WSDG project manager Joshua Morris describes the assignment as one that took advantage of the full range of company services. "Systems integrator Judy Elliot-Brown worked to ensure that the infrastructure was not only correct, but future proofed for additional expansion. Brown also assisted in making sure the proposed design was consistent with how the rooms were to be utilized. Construction was supervised by Chris Harmaty of Technical Structures, a long-time WSDG associate who specializes in studio control rooms and acoustically demanding production environments. "Company co-principal Beth Walters and interior design project manager Kathryn Boland devised a color palette that would complement the Network's established design. The entire WSDG team collaborated on selecting wall treatments and ceiling panels capable of addressing existing internal acoustic problems, and recommended lighting fixtures and modifications to existing millwork," Morris adds. "Our team has collaborated on hundreds of challenging space, time and noise sensitive projects," John Storyk says. "Food Network was particularly exigent as we had a locked completion date. Bill Jarett needed to have these rooms online within a single month, including positioning the surround speakers and rebuilding and replacing equipment furniture to accommodate the new sound field. Scheduling the various components of this assignment sometimes approached NASA launch proportions. On the plus side was the fact that the control rooms had been well planned initially. We didn't need to raise the ceilings or reformat them dramatically. This is where experience and teamwork play a deciding role."
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Western Victoria schools have received an Andrews Labor Government grant for some much needed protection from harmful UV radiation by installing sun shade around their school.
Member for Western Victoria, Gayle Tierney MP today announced the recipients of grants from the first round of the Andrews Labor Government's School Shade Grants Program.
The Labor Government has committed $15 million for skin cancer prevention initiatives, including $5 million for SunSmart campaigns and $10 million in grants for shade in public places.
Western Victoria schools will share in the $10 million worth of grant funds to use to build new shade structures, repair existing shade, purchase portable shade or create natural shade by planting trees.
Australia has the highest rates of skin cancer in the world and in 2014 melanoma was the fifth most common cancer in Victoria. It's estimated that 40,000 new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in Victoria every year.
Shade is a simple and effective way to protect ourselves from the sun and by doing so reduces the likelihood of deadly skin cancer.
It is important to balance the risks of skin cancer from over-exposure to UV radiation with maintaining adequate vitamin D levels and spending time outdoors keeping physically active as part of a healthy lifestyle.
The Schools Shade Grant Program is complemented by the Community Shade Grant Program which provides grants for shade in community settings such as parks, sports clubs and playgrounds.


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Racism and Discrimination on TV Is the American media racist? Watch American television and you might think so. It's been over fifty years since the civil rights movement and unfortunately American television, at times, keeps racism and discrimination alive. Some of America's longest running and most favorite television shows are riddled with negative stereotypes, hidden prejudices, and outright discrimination. Even worse, is the commercials that are on everyday television that demoralized and debase a whole race of people. Sadly, these companies and corporations sometimes don't even realize that there is anything wrong with what they are showing on television. This shows how sad the state of our race relations are in this country.…show more content…
The fact that they used an African American kid for this commercial is highly prejudice. Prejudice is when a negative attitude is felt against an entire group of people (Schaefer 2015). This advertisement gives that image that all African Americans are drug dealing monsters. This type of imagery has led to discrimination against African Americans because they are looked at like they are criminals when that is not the case. Discrimination is when a group of people is denied the same rights and opportunities because of prejudice (Schaefer 2015). Something that is disturbing about this advertisement and the group that was behind making it, Partnership for a drug free America, is that they were funded by over two hundred major American corporations. These types of images that were played on television and backed by so many large companies show that institutional discrimination is a problem in this nation. Institutional discrimination is when a group of people are denied opportunities and their rights are taken away during the normal operations of society. Lastly, that brings me to my last example of racism in the media and that is the Willie Horton and the revolving door ads. Willie Horton was a prisoner in the Massachusetts prison system for murder. In 1986, he was released as part of a weekend furlough program but did not return and a year later he raped a woman and physically
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Racism Is A Prominent Epidemic
Throughout the world, everyone makes comments that may offend one's character or race to distinguish him or her as inferior. These comments have flourished through the racist scenarios and characters produced by the media. Racism is a prominent epidemic that has affected African Americans, especially in the development of America. Africans were torn away from their homes and brought to America in the 17th century to work as slaves, where they experienced various forms of chastisement and torture (Siddiqui)
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Racism is one of the world's major issues today. "What racism?" many people tend to say, "Didn't we just elect this black guy president?" (Implying: "Doesn't that prove that racism is over in America?").It is obvious that racism is bad as it was many decades ago but it sure has not gone away. Racism still exists in America because of popular culture, history, and even politics. Discrimination through mass media is a huge factor when it comes to why racism still exists in America. The idea that
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"The media 's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that 's power. Because they control the minds of the masses" (Ruddy, 2002). Malcolm X, a prominent African American human rights activist, strongly believed that the media played a vital role in how they make society perceive events and people. An issue that is present, historically and currently, is media contributing to racism. When news is reported involving
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The new UK-wide Code of Practice for Disability Equipment, Wheelchairs and Seating Services is designed to address this, and offers a template for commissioning and providing services; it includes clearly defined and specific standards and measurable outcomes.
Following the Code, in all its parts, will go a long way in overcoming many of the difficulties highlighted above and will significantly improve both clinical and financial outcomes. It will also help to identify where weaknesses are within the whole system and allow root causes to be traced. Following the Code will also enable any equipment-related strategies to be achieved.
The Code, in some or all its parts, relates mainly to disability equipment, wheelchair and seating services. It also applies more generally to other assistive technology-related services; there are certain Code Standards which provide a link to related services, which will assist with integration and offering seamless provision.
In addition to the Code CECOPS has supported the development of iCOPS®, the first ever self-evaluation and performance management software tool for assistive technology related services, including wheelchairs, to complement its scheme.
iCOPS® gives commissioners, providers and clinical staff the ability to evaluate and review services, manage contracts, instil good governance, monitor, assess and manage quality, safety and performance, and drive continuous improvement.
Details about iCOPS® can be found here: www.icops.co.uk. A free one month trial is available.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss any of the points above.
Brian is the founder and director of CECOPS CIC and the author of the Code of Practice.
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Government played a fool on the people by rushing in 103rd amendment in the last session of Parliament
Updated : January 22, 2019 06:46 AM IST
There are hardly any jobs vacancies in the government that are going to be filled up in such short time as between now and a few weeks from now when the Election Commission of India announces the schedule for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The tragedy, in the meanwhile, is that the law to reserve 10 percent to the poor among the upper castes, based as it is on specious and un-constitutional premises, will remain notified and just that
V Krishna Ananth
A petition at the Madras High Court by DMK leader, RS Bharthi and the court's directions ordering notice to the central government today makes sense to draw parallels with the first of the petitions against reservations.
The case, Champakam Dorairajan vs state of Madras, one of the first writ petitions after the constitution came into force, also happened to be decided first at the Madras High Court.
Well. The parallels end with this. And all else that followed then were in the opposite direction and this includes the basis of the challenge. Champakam Dorairaajan, belonging to the upper caste, went to the court then, against reservation of just one seat for applicants from among the scheduled castes in the Madras Medical College.
Provision for this reservation was in vogue since 1931, based on a government order that year, and was challenged by her on grounds that what was good in law in the pre-constitution era was bad with the coming of the constitution. The reservation scheme, it was held, was violating the right to equality guaranteed by Article 14 of the constitution.
India, then, was under the interim government headed by Jawaharlal Nehru. This and other judgments leading to the quashing of land reforms legislations haunted the cabinet. And they did not wait for the general elections to be over and Parliament come into place to amend the constitution.
The constitution (first amendment) act, 1951, was moved, debated and passed by the constituent assembly (called to act as Parliament) and thus came Article 15(4) of the constitution to annul the Madras High Court's decision (also upheld by the Supreme Court) to save such reservation for the socially and educationally backward classes (SEBC).
The amendment too was challenged and the Supreme Court upheld the constitution as amended and making sure that the scheduled castes and tribes enjoyed reservation in educational institutions and in jobs. The doctrine behind this was that it was imperative for the independent state to ensure a social transformation and that reservation was the key to it and all other measures as complimentary.
Since then and until the a constitution bench held reservations for the SEBCs as constitutional and that caste is indeed a valid category to measure social and educational backwardness in the Indra Sawhney vs Union of India (also known as the Mandal judgment), the principle remains central; that reservations are not a poverty alleviation programme and instead meant to ensure social justice as enshrined in the preamble to the constitution and elsewhere.
It is indeed incidental that the Madras High Court has been approached and that too by the DMK, through one of its functionaries, against the constitution (103rd amendment) Act, 2019. All the ingredients, in this case, are the opposite of what happened in 1950.
But the philosophical foundations on which the petitioner herein has built his case have been drawn from the paradigm that was set when the Republic was just born and also on legal and jurisprudential pronouncements that hold reservations as a tool for social and political justice. This, indeed, is what the constitution (103rd amendment) act, 2019 has tried to overturn and distort.
It is likely that the court is approached, by the union of India, seeking more time to reply to the notice when the matter comes up next on February 18, 2019. The learned judges may also grant it. The matter will drag on for a while and certainly drag on beyond May 2019. It is even likely that the DMK, along with some others who think the same way as MK Stalin's party on the constitution (103rd amendment) act, 2019 will be part of the new regime in New Delhi by then.
And that is when the fate of the constitutional amendment to reserve 10 percent of jobs in government and educational institutions for the economically weaker among the upper castes will come up for serious arguments before the Madras High Court. That will be when those parties that voted for the bill and yet will be on the other side then, in other words on the side of the government then, will be forced to take a call and decide what shall be the government's reply to the notice from the Madras High Court on this case by RS Bharathi.
Well. Bharathi, then, may even end up in the Lok Sabha as things look favourable for the DMK in Tamil Nadu in May 2019; and Bharathi is a veteran who has been fielded in the past as the DMK's candidate and end up contesting from one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in or around Chennai in the coming elections! Interesting days ahead.
The tragedy, in the meanwhile, is that the law to reserve 10 percent to the poor among the upper castes, based as it is on specious and un-constitutional premises, will remain notified and just that. There are hardly any jobs vacancies in the government that are going to be filled up in such short time as between now and a few weeks from now when the Election Commission of India announces the schedule for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. This will bring the Model Code of Conduct into force. Neither will jobs be notified then nor vacancies filled up.
The point is the government played a fool on the people of India by rushing in the constitution (103rd amendment) act in the last session of Parliament. Such play of cynical games ought to have been desisted at least with the constitution of India.
V Krishna Ananth is a Professor of History at SRM University, AP.
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