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This section contains external resources, guides, and sites of organizations that provide access to sexual health information, services, and other supports, including trans-specific resources.
Trans Health Organizations
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
Non-profit, interdisciplinary professional and educational organization that provides evidence-based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health.
Transgender Professional Association for Transgender Health (TPATH)
First global transgender healthcare organization headed by trans-identified health care professionals, broadly identified as researchers, clinicians, providers-in-training, activists, and other service-oriented experts.
Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health (CPATH)
CPATH is an interdisciplinary professional organization that works to support the health, wellbeing, and dignity of trans and gender diverse people.
Halifax Sexual Health Centre-transgender health
Transition and sexual health support for trans people in Halifax.
Trans Care BC
Supports the delivery of equitable and accessible care, surgical planning, and peer and community support for trans people across British Columbia.
Action Santé Travesti(e)s et Transsexuel(le)s du Québec (ASTT(e)Q)
Also known as Québec Trans Health Action. The organization is a part of a long and rich history of activism, advocacy, and community organizing for improved access to health care and social services, housing, decent working conditions (particularly for sex workers), as well as HIV prevention, and an overall greater quality of life for trans people in Québec.
Health PEI-information on transgender health services
Basic information relating to trans health services in PEI.
Sherbourne Health Centre – trans health care services
Trans health programs and resources at Sherbourne including surgery supports and guidelines and protocols of trans care.
TransWellness Ontario
Formerly known as Windsor Essex Transgender and Allied Support, Trans Wellness Ontario is aiming to expanding its capacity to service not just the Windsor -Essex area but the Ontario province.
London Intercommunity Health Centre – Trans Health Program
Trans health care for people living in London, Ontario.
HIV/AIDS Resources & Community Health (ARCH – Guelph)-transgender health care
Trans care clinic and social support in Guelph.
TG Innerselves (Sudbury)
Northern Ontario's trans support site.
Hamilton Trans Health Coalition
A non-profit coalition of healthcare providers, advocates, and community members, working to increase the capacity of health systems in Hamilton, Ontario to meet the needs of trans, gender-diverse, and non-binary people.
UCSF Transgender Care
Based in San Francisco, this is a multidisciplinary program of experts in transgender medicine and surgery at UCSF Medical Center. Their work includes providing clinical care for transgender and gender non-binary communities.
Sexual Health Resources and Guides
Canadian directory of finding HIV local services in your area.
Canada's Source for HIV and hepatitis C information.
Canadian Cancer Socieity-trans men and cervical cancer screening
Information on pap tests and cervical cancer screening for trans men.
TheSexYouWant.ca
An Ontario-based sexual health resource for gay, bi, trans, and Two-Spirit guys from the Gay Men's Sexual Health Alliance.
Sexual Health Ontario
A directory of sexual health clinics in Ontario, including anonymous testing sites.
Sophomore's Sex Ed Guide
A guide that aims to fill the gaps in Ontario's sex ed curriculum.
BDSM: Safer kinky sex guide
A guide to safer BDSM by ACT (AIDS Committee of Toronto).
Barrier Guide for STI Transmission
An informational guide to different barriers that can help prevent STI transmission.
Keeping it Clean: Top Tips for Sex Toy Sanitation
An article that gives sex tory sanitation tips.
Trans-specific Sexual Health Resources and Guides
Brazen: Trans Women's Safer Sex Guide
A sexual health resource for trans women, produced by Toronto-based organization The 519 and Canada-wide organization CATIE.
Guide Homme Trans
A sex guide for trans men, produced by the Montreal-based organization RÉZO.
A questions and answer guide for dating trans folks, produced by the Manitoba organization Rainbow Resource Centre.
Check It Out Guys
A pap tests campaign for transgender men in Canada.
Safer Sex for Trans Bodies
A guide to safer sex for trans and genderqueer individuals, produced by the US organizations Whitman-Walker Health and Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
A sexual health resource for gay, bi, and queer trans men, produced by the Australian organizations Peer Advocacy network for the Sexual Health of Trans Masculinities (PASH.tm) and Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO).
Sex as a Trans Man
A sexual health guide for trans men, produced by UK organization Terrence Higgins Trust.
Resources from cliniQ
Inclusive trans and non-binary sexual health and wellbeing resources, produced by UK organization cliniQ.
METRAC–ACTION on Violence
METRAC works to end gender-based violence across communities through education, research and policy. Its work includes The TransFormed Project, an action-based research project to better the health of trans, gender-diverse, and Two-Spirit survivors of domestic violence/intimate partner violence.
Originating in Toronto, White Ribbon engages men to end gender-based violence. The organization has previously produced programs that aim to prevent violence against trans people.
love is respect—LGBTQ+ communities page
An article on abuse in intimate partner relationships involving LGBTQ+ youth. love is respect is an online resource to empower youth, and prevent and end dating abuse. It is produced by the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
FORGE is a US-based national transgender anti-violence organization that provides direct services to trans survivors. Their website contains guides for trans intimate partner violence and sexual violence survivors.
Safer Injection
A guide to safer injecting, produced by CATIE.
Naloxone information—Ontario Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health's programs distribute naloxone kits free-of-charge to reverse opioid overdose.
Find Harm Reduction Supplies—Ontario Harm Reduction Distribution Program
A listing of locations in Ontario that provide free harm reduction supplies.
Pieces to Pathways (P2P)
A peer-led initiative offering Canada's only substance use support program for LGBTTQQ2SIA youth (ages 16–29).
Toronto VIBE
Provides safer drug use information for people partying in Toronto's gay, bi, queer men's party scenes.
A health and wellness intervention program to deliver safer partying education and awareness among guys into guys who participate in party and play (also called PnP or chemsex). Spill the Tea is produced by MAX Ottawa and ViiV Healthcare.
National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC)
NEDIC provides information, resources, referrals and support to Canadians affected by eating disorders. The organization sometimes hosts trans body image webinars.
m.bodiment Body Positivity: A Webinar for Health Providers
A webinar on m.bodiment, an Egale project that addressed gay, bi, trans, and queer men's body image, mental and sexual health, and physical identity. The webinar also discusses ways for healthcare providers to be inclusive of the body image/eating disorder needs of the GBTQ community.
Trans Wellness—Nonnormative Body Club
A Philadelphia-based project to create accessible fitness spaces for those of us whose bodies and identities rebel against normative definitions of beauty and health. This page includes free top surgery recovery videos.
Decolonizing Fitness
A social justice platform that provides affirming fitness services, community education, and apparel in support of body diversity. The website also sells guides with workout plans specific to the transmasculine trainer and anyone who seeks to align with masculinized aesthetics.
DisabilityAfterDark podcast
A podcast by Toronto-based LGBTQ activist Andrew Gurza that shines a bright light on issues about sex and disability.
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community
A resource guide for transgender, gender expansive, and non-binary populations, covering health, legal issues, cultural and social questions, history, theory, and more. This book includes a chapter, Disabilities and Deaf Culture, authored by Syrus Marcus Ware and Zack Marshall.
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
A book by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha that explores disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people.
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
A book by genderqueer and disabled writer Eli Clare that explores cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Eli's site provides additional LGBTQ-specific, disability-related resources.
Sexual Assault and Sex Trafficking
Links page-Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime
A list of links by Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime, an organization that supports and guides individual victims and their families in obtaining services and resources, and knowing their legal rights.
Canadian Human Traffic Hotline
Provides 24/7 services to connect human trafficking victims and survivors with emergency, transition, and long-term supports and services.
Sexual Violence – Ontario.ca
Information about sexual violence. Also includes a link to a list of supports for people who are experiencing violence.
Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape
A grassroots collective, run by women and non-binary people, working towards a violence-free world by providing anti-oppressive, feminist peer support to survivors of sexual violence.
Sistering
A multi-service agency for at-risk, socially isolated women and trans people in Toronto who are homeless or precariously housed.
PrEP/PEP Providers
OntarioPrep.ca
Ontario's guide to PrEP and PEP information, programs, and service providers. Includes PrEP/PEP information for trans people.
The PrEP Clinic
A free online PrEP prescribing service in Ontario.
MedsEXPERT Pharmacy and Clinic
A queer-owned, queer-staffed clinic and pharmacy in Toronto that services the LGBTQ+ community, including trans clients.
Freddie makes it easy, understandable and free to get PrEP online in Canada. PrEP prescribed online and delivered to your door, confidentially. Prescribed Online.
Where to Get PrEP—TheSexYouWant.ca
A directory of where to get PrEP across Ontario. This website is produced by the Gay Men's Sexual Health Alliance.
Parenting/Pregnancy
PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) Canada
A national organization that offers local, practical, and emotional peer-to-peer family support for individuals and their loved ones challenged by gender/sexual identity.
Planned Parenthood Toronto
Pro-choice community health centre that advances and advocates for the sexual health, health, and well being of youth. Provides LGBTQ support, testing and reproductive health resources (Toronto).
Planned Parenthood Ottawa
Provides unbiased information, support, and services to make healthy choices about relationships, health, and pregnancy.
SHORE Centre
Provides sexual health education and confidential pregnancy options support for people in Waterloo Region. This organization has offices in Kitchener, Cambridge, and Guelph.
Trans-inclusive Abortion Services: A Manual for Providers on Operationalizing Trans-inclusive Policies and Practices in an Abortion Setting
This manual was produced for Fédération du Québec pour le planning des naissances (FQPN), as part of their commitment to expanding discussions of sexual and reproductive health to include trans people and their families.
Sex Worker Resources
Provides sex-worker-driven, accessible resources, tools, and supports that prioritize health, safety, ethical business practices, and training for sex workers and clients.
Maggie's Toronto
Maggie's Toronto Sex Workers Action Project is an organization run for and by local sex workers.
Prostitutes of Ottawa-Gatineau Work, Educate and Resist (POWER)
An Ottawa-based bilingual, sex-positive organization created by and for sex workers that works to further the rights of sex workers as workers and human beings.
MAX Ottawa
An Ottawa-based non-profit organization that focuses on maximizing the health and wellness of gay, bisexual, Two-Spirit, queer, and other guys who are into guys.
Butterfly: Asian and Migrant Sex Worker Support Network
A Toronto-based network formed by sex workers, social workers, legal professionals, and health professionals. Butterfly provides support to, and advocates for, the rights of Asian and migrant sex workers.
Canada and USA
A non-profit organization that provides a peer support phone service run by trans people. You can call this hotline if you need someone trans to talk to, even if you're not in crisis or if you're not sure you're trans.
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Canada's largest mental health teaching hospital and one of the world's leading research centres. CAMH provides a wide range of clinical care services for patients of all ages and their families.
Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Youth Line
Offers confidential and non-judgemental peer support through telephone, text, and chat, serving all of Ontario.
Across Boundaries
Provides mental health and addiction services, including LGBTQ programming, for racialized people across the Greater Toronto Area.
FrancoQueer
Organization that offers support to LGBT francophones in Ontario.
RÉZO
A Montreal-based organization that serves cis and trans men who are gay bi, or have sex with other men.
Interligne
A frontline centre providing help and information for LGBTQ+ people. Services include a 24-hour hotline (available by phone, text, chat, and email).
Les 3 sex*
A Montreal-based non-profit organization and charity that tackles issues related to sexual health by mobilizing the Canadian community on sexual issues.
Indigenous and Two-Spirit
Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN)
An organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice throughout the United States and Canada
Indigenous Friendship Centres
A list of Friendship Centres represented by the National Association of Friendship Centres. Friendship Centres provide culturally appropriate services for Indigenous people living in urban centres.
Enchanté Network
An organization that connects and supports Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ communities across Canada.
Aboriginal Health Access Centers
A list of Aboriginal community-led, primary health care organizations in Ontario.
2 Spirited People of The First Nations
Provides prevention education and support for 2-Spirit people, including First Nations, metis and Inuit people, living with or at risk for HIV and related co-infections in the Greater Toronto Area.
Support for Trans Employees: A Guide for Employees and Managers
A guide produced by Public Services and Procurement Canada, a department of the Government of Canada.
Youth Employment Services (YES)
A non-profit that provides free services and paid and unpaid apprentice programs for youth to find employment.
Employment Ontario
Helps job seekers, workers, and employers with advice, grants, and other services around public and private sector employment.
Fred Victor—Employment and Training Services
A social service charitable organization that fosters long-lasting and positive change in the lives of homeless and low-income people across Toronto. Sometimes offers trans-specific support.
Trans Employment Program—SF LGBT Center
A unique, collaborative program designed to help create inclusive workplaces and jobs for trans and gender non-conforming people in San Francisco.
Migrant Resources
Settlement.Org
Ontario's settlement site provides newcomers with information and resources, including information on where to get health care without Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) coverage.
Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI)
A collective voice for immigrant-serving agencies that provide resources and programs for immigrant needs and concerns.
Health Care for People Without Insurance in Toronto
A list of services in Toronto that provide health care even if you don't have medical insurance. (Please note that some of the information in this document may be out of date).
Blue Door Clinic
A walk-in clinic that serves people with HIV who don't have adequate health insurance coverage (e.g., due to not having immigration status) or access to HIV medication. The clinic is based at Regent Park Community Health Centre in Toronto.
Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services
Provides services (including LGBTQ programming) for immigrants, refugees, and their communities. Run from various locations in Toronto.
HIV Legal Network
Promotes the human rights of people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV or AIDS, in Canada and internationally, through research and analysis, litigation, and other advocacy, public education, and community mobilization.
Rights of LGBTI Persons—Government of Canada
Information on LGBTI rights in Canada, including an overview of legal protections, a list of provincial and territorial human rights legislation, and a list of resources.
HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (HALCO)
A charitable not-for-profit community-based legal clinic that provides free legal services for people living with HIV/AIDS in Ontario.
Street Youth Legal Services
A Toronto-based program that provides legal information, advice, referrals, and representation to street-involved youth through workshops and individual consultations.
Research and Articles
This section contains some of the most recent trans research and trans-specific sexual articles and guides to help us expand our knowledge about trans health and inclusion.
TransPulse (Ontario)
A community-based research project that investigated the impact of social exclusion and discrimination on the health of trans people in Ontario.
Reports and Publications—Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC)
CBRC promotes the health of gay, bi, trans, Two-Spirit, and queer men through research and intervention development. This collection of reports and publications is filterable by category, including the categories of Trans & Non-Binary Health and Indigenous & Two-Spirit Health.
Trans Youth Canada
Contains surveys and reports for a research study on building better supports for trans, Two-Spirit, gender diverse, and/or gender non-conforming youth in Canada.
Employment Support Services for LGBTQ+ Individuals
This 2018 review by Ontario HIV Treatment Network explores the barriers that LGTBQ+ people experience in seeking, gaining, and maintaining employment, as well as best practices in offering employment support services.
TRANSforming JUSTICE—Trans Legal Needs Assessment Ontario Project
A mixed-method legal needs assessment/research study of trans people in Ontario.
Barriers to Accessing Health Care among Transgender Individuals
A 2017 review on the barriers that prevent transgender individuals from accessing health care and sexual health care on a holistic level.
Research by Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre (SARAVYC)
This page outlines past and present research by SARAVYC, which is based at University of British Columbia. Among the reports is a 2015 report on the Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey.
HIV and Transgender People—Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The latest CDC data on HIV and transgender people.
7 Things to Know about Birth Control if you are Transgender or Nonbinary
Biff and I:
YouTube vlog series by two Portland dads, Biff and Trystan: "We have two big kids, Hailey and Riley, that we adopted when they needed a safe place to call home. We welcomed our baby Leo into the family last year; Trystan (who is transgender) carried and gave birth to him."
A 2019 article in Teen Vogue.
The Big Queer Guide to IUDsA Big Queer Guide to IUDs:
A 2015 article in Autostraddle.
Thinking about Pregnancy as a Nonbinary Person
A 2019 article by Elliott Cennetoglu about resources, personal experience, and considerations.
STIs for Trans Men (Part 1: Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Syphillis)Youtube series
The first video in this 2016 two-video YouTube series by trans YouTuber Chase Ross. The video description also contains a link to the second video—STIs for Trans Men (Part 2: Herpes, HPV, HIV/AIDS).
Trans Inclusion Toolkits
Trans and Nonbinary Youth Inclusivity in Sexual Health—Guidelines for Educators and Service Providers
These guidelines were developed through a research project by Planned Parenthood Toronto.
Primary Health Care for Trans Patients
A guide by Rainbow Health Ontario to caring for trans and gender-diverse patients. This illustrated guide is based on Sherbourne's Guidelines for gender-affirming primary care with trans and non-binary patients.
Designing Forms for Gender Diversity and Inclusion
A 2017 article on creating forms and surveys for trans, non-binary, and gender diverse individuals.
Creating Authentic Spaces: A Gender Identity and Gender Expression Toolkit to Support the Implementation of Institutional and Social Change
Developed by Toronto-based organization The 519, this toolkit and education program aims to challenge transphobia and to foster environments that are inclusive of gender identity and gender expression.
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Lace up your running shoes and prepare for the annual Hog Jog in Stratford, Ont. on June 20.
For the 13th consecutive year, the Ontario Pork Industry Council will host the event at the Ontario Pork Congress.
"The goal of the Hog Jog is to raise awareness about an important local cause, give back to the community, celebrate the people of the pork industry and have fun," Lori Moser, a volunteer on the 2018 Hog Jog Committee, told Farms.com today.
Each year, the event committee selects a different charity to receive the funds from the race.
For the 2018 event, the organization will donate the proceeds to The Local Community Food Centre in Stratford, which offers meals, and cooking and gardening classes to the public. The Local also has a community garden, the Hog Jog website states.
The Local will use the funding to make improvements to its dining room and storehouse, Derek Barnes, manager of community outreach and communications, told Farms.com.
These enhancements will allow "low-income community members to enjoy our region's food bounty with less of the stigma or diminishment often associated with emergency food programs," he said.
Local pork producers can participate in the 2018 Hog Jog in multiple ways.
"They can register to run or walk and ask friends to support them, form a team and work together to raise funds, volunteer, or support others who are running and raising funds," Moser said.
a free 500-metre weaner run for children who are six years old or younger.
a family-friendly 3.5 km route on pavement.
a 10 km course with a segment in the T.J. Dolan Conservation Area.
Individuals and teams can register online until June 19, or in person on the day of the race. To participate, adults must pay $30 and youth must pay $20.
The registration fee includes a ticket for dinner after the race. Conestoga Meats donated pork for this meal. Participants can purchase extra meal tickets at a price of $5 per guest.
Last year, participants raised more than $52,000 for Optimism Place, a women's shelter in Perth County. The shelter purchased a van to transport local and rural women and their children, the website says.


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Q: Core Data app failed to launch in time I have an app that creates a persistent store in application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions. Adding the store can apparently take too long, which causes iOS to terminate the app before it finishes launching.
How to add the store to the coordinator off the main thread? Any examples?
stackoverflow link
OS Version:      iOS 6.1.3 (10B329)
Report Version:  104
Exception Type:  00000020
Exception Codes: 0x000000008badf00d
Highlighted Thread:  0
Application Specific Information:
com.maksanzhi.person failed to launch in time
Elapsed total CPU time (seconds): 13.470 (user 13.470, system 0.000), 22% CPU
Elapsed application CPU time (seconds): 0.343, 1% CPU
Thread 0 name:  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0:
- (NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *)persistentStoreCoordinator

if (_persistentStoreCoordinator != nil) {
    return _persistentStoreCoordinator;
}

NSURL *storeURL = [[self applicationDocumentsDirectory] URLByAppendingPathComponent:@"COOLPERSONS.sqldata"];

NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
if (![fileManager fileExistsAtPath:[storeURL path]]) {

    NSURL *defaultStoreURL = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"COOLPERSONS" withExtension:@"sqldata"];
    if (defaultStoreURL) {
        [fileManager copyItemAtURL:defaultStoreURL toURL:storeURL error:NULL];
        [self addSkipBackupAttributeToItemAtURL:storeURL];
    }
}

NSError *error = nil;
_persistentStoreCoordinator = [[NSPersistentStoreCoordinator alloc] initWithManagedObjectModel:[self managedObjectModel]];
if (![_persistentStoreCoordinator addPersistentStoreWithType:NSSQLiteStoreType configuration:nil URL:storeURL options:nil error:&error]) {

    NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);
    abort();
}

return _persistentStoreCoordinator;

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions

UINavigationController *nav = (UINavigationController *)self.window.rootViewController;
MainViewController *cvtc = (MainViewController *)[[nav viewControllers]objectAtIndex:0];
cvtc.managedObjectContext = self.managedObjectContext;
[self setAppereance];
return YES;

}

A: as general advice you should not create nothing heavy in the applicationDidFinishLaunching method. The Core data Persistent Store isn't heavy to create, but in the feature could be, due to migration process. To be sure that is the persistent store and not something else, try to comment out that part of code.
Are you initializing the store with data?

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When Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) finds another shard of the destroyed Allsparks, he draws the attention of the Master of the Decepticon to himself and starts a fierce war of the Decepticons against the Autobots and their Earth allies. Sequel stuffed with action, but less fun.
Autobot-Leader Optimus Prime with Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf).
After Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and his girlfriend Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) have saved the world from the threat of the evil Decepticons and their leader Megatron with the aid of the good Autobots, the Earth is a peaceful place again. The last splinter of the Allspark is concealed safely, the remains of Megatron lie in a deep oceanic trench and are guarded by a military fleet, and around Optimus Prime and his Autobots the task force NEST has formed, which hunts down the scattered Decepticons.
Because there is no need for Sam's help any more, he wants to lead a normal life again and go to College. Mikaela prefers to stay in their hometown, which amounts to a long-distance relationship. Packing together, an undiscovered shard of the Allspark falls from his clothes and brings the kitchen appliances to robotic life. Sams car and Autobot protector Bumblee destroys the Witwickys' recently renovated house. Sam gives Mikaela the shard for safekeeping.
Sams Parents bringing there Son to the College.
Without Mikaela and Bumblee Sam goes to college. His hedonistic roommate Leo (Ramon Rodriguez) operates a website devoted to conspiracy theories and alien cover-ups and tries to come on to their fellow student Alice (Isabel Lucas). But Alice hits on Sam, who wants to be faithful to Mikaele. After a Decepticon tried to steal the shard, Mikaele drives to Sam's college and catches him in bed with Alice.
Alice turns out to be a Decepticon, too, being after Sam because of his visions of cyberglyphs, which come ever stronger after he has touched the Allspark splinter. The cyberglyphs point to a place on Earth where a long forgotten secret is being kept. In order to revive Megatron, captivate Sam and destroy the Earth ultimately, the master of the Decepticons, the Fallen, is on his way to Earth.
The Fallen is coming to get ya!
When the first instalment, "Transformers", hit cinemas worldwide two years ago, it became a success, because it impressed with a quite balanced mixture of humour, romance and action as well as a great serving of charm and novelty. Now "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" opens in theatres and this time director Michael Bay strikes the audience dead with a gigantomaniac, excessively long spawn.
The proportions have changed enormously for the worst: higher budget, cheaper humour; many more robots, less character; substantially more action, less keeping track; more mindlessness, less charm. Although the film superficially offers more, "Revenge of the Fallen" seems spoilt in the end.
Sam and Mikaela (Megan Fox) running away from the Decepticons.
Because of the extensive action scenes, the outcome of which known from the start due to missing surprises, the audience's enthusiasm is exhausted pretty soon. With so many robots (about 60) it is difficult to follow the clashes and to understand whether the good or the bad ones are under fire.
Already at the beginning of the movie it becomes obvious that less heart, but more technique and technology was at work here. That's the reason why Sam's mother Judy, played by Julie White, is more hysterical and maniac, why Sam and Mikaele's relationship is pure skirmish, and especially why the sexual pestering is cruder than crude. In order to get to the vast matériel battle as quickly as possible, human emotions and credibility gets sacrificed to the point that the spectator is reduced to a gawking robot himself.
The Twin-Autobots Skids and Mudflap in front of the Pyramids of Giza.
Even the justified doubt in the story around the Allspark shard, which sets everything in motion, spoils the film party. Why does Sam give the second splinter to Mikaele and puts her in danger? Why does Sam trust his friend Bumblebee so little that he does not give him the shard to let Optimus Prime use, hide or destroy it?
It is really nice that Michael Bay was able to cast all the actors from the first instalment again. But they are incapable of keeping up with the superior number of computer-generated characters and their fights, which have been thought up again by screenwriter duo Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman ("Star Trek", "Mission: Impossible III") on the basis of Hasbro's toy franchise. What Industrial Light & Magic boasts with strikes everything dead.


Spironto is a tool for semantic annotation of patient documentation. Chronological entries can be enriched by concepts that can be defined and modified by users. Originally it has been developed to assist interdisciplinary teams in palliative care, but can be used also for other care situations where (i) doctors, nurses and other professions have to build and evolve a holistic overview of a patient's situation over time and (ii) it is interesting to analyze cases and do cross-case analysis in reflective learning situation to improve overall collective knowledge about treatment and care.
It has been developed by an interdisciplinary team, coordinated by Tanja Stiehl from LMU Munich, and Traugott Roser from University of Münster, Christine Kunzmann (Pontydysgu) and Andreas P. Schmidt (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences), .


Loop Magazine is one of the premiere Japanese magazines about cycling culture, feature products, fashion and street wear trends. Many Thanks to the Loop crew for their write up, and the great pictures by Takuya Sakamoto of the new Affinity Kissena and Cyclone frames. The new issue looks sick!


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Kathiann M. Kowalski is an experienced journalist who writes on a wide range of topics. To date, Kathi has written 25 books and more than 600 articles and stories. She welcomes the challenge of new assignments for print, broadcast, and online media.
Kathi obtained her Bachelor's degree in political science from Hofstra University. Her law degree is from Harvard Law School, where Kathi served on the Harvard Law Review. Kathi has been a Science Journalism Fellow in the biomedical and environmental hands-on lab programs at MBL in Massachusetts. She has also participated in workshops sponsored by the Society of Environmental Journalists, the National Science Foundation, and the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources. In addition to writing, Kathi has spent 15 years practicing law, with an emphasis on environmental issues, corporate matters, and litigation.
Kathi's writing has won multiple awards and honors. Attack of the Superbugs: The Crisis of Drug-Resistant Disease (Enslow, 2005) was included by the National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council on their list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 for 2006. The Everything Kids' Nature Book (Adams Media, 2000) won an ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Honor in the Non-Fiction, Environment and Ecology category. Order in the Court: A Look at the Judicial Branch (Lerner, 2004) and Hazardous Waste Sites (Lerner, 1996) won awards from The Society of School Librarians International. Teen Rights: At Home, At School, Online (Enslow, 2000) and Global Warming (Marshall Cavendish, 2004) were listed by The Pennsylvania School Librarians Association (PSLA) on its YA Top Forty Nonfiction Titles lists.

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Q: using numpy arrays for integer and array inputs I am a Matlab user, and trying to move into Python. I tried to code a minimal example of de2bi function (which converts a decimal into binary as right-msb) in Python which I had before in Matlab. But, I am confused with numpy arrays.
Python code:
import numpy as np

def de2bi(d, n)
    d = np.array(d)
    power = 2**np.arange(n)
    d = d * np.ones((1,n))
    b = np.floor((d%(2*power))/power)
    return b

Python output:
>>> print(de2bi(13,8))
[[ 1.  0.  1.  1.  0.  0.  0.  0.]]

print(de2bi([13,15],8)) #This line fails

Matlab code:
function b = d2b( d, n )
    d = d(:);
    power = ones(length(d), 1)*(2.^(0 : n-1));
    d = d * ones(1, n);
    b = floor(rem(d, 2*power)./power);
end

Matlab output:
>> d2b(13,8)

ans =

     1     0     1     1     0     0     0     0

>> d2b([13,15],8)

ans =

     1     0     1     1     0     0     0     0
     1     1     1     1     0     0     0     0

Matlab code is working both for integer inputs and array of integers. But python code works for integer inputs, but keeps failing for arrays. How to manage operations both for integers and integer arrays in Python automatically? It may be a very easy question, excuse me, but I am a very newbie in python.
Thanks in advance.

A: Your problem is with the multiplication: d = d * np.ones((1,n)). NumPy attemps to perform an element-wise multiplication, which would fail because of dimension mismatch (your ones array has only one row). When d is scalar though, NumPy can infer that you mean multiply to scalar, hence the code would run.
What you really want to do (as I understand) is to expand each element to an n-length row. A possible solution would be to create an intermediate array to hold the new values, since the size of an array is not changeable:
def d2b(d, n):
    d = np.array(d)
    d = np.reshape(d, (1, -1))
    power = np.flipud(2**np.arange(n))

    g = np.zeros((np.shape(d)[1], n))

    for i, num in enumerate(d[0]):
        g[i] = num * np.ones((1,n))
    b = np.floor((g%(2*power))/power)
    return b

A: Does this help?
In [439]: d=np.array([13,15])
In [440]: power=np.ones((d.shape[0],1))*(2**np.arange(8))
In [441]: power
Out[441]:
array([[   1.,    2.,    4.,    8.,   16.,   32.,   64.,  128.],
       [   1.,    2.,    4.,    8.,   16.,   32.,   64.,  128.]])
In [442]: np.floor((d[:,None]%(2*power))/power)
Out[442]:
array([[ 1.,  0.,  1.,  1.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
       [ 1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.]])

we don't even need the ones:
In [443]: power = 2**np.arange(8)
In [444]: np.floor((d[:,None]%(2*power))/power)
Out[444]:
array([[ 1.,  0.,  1.,  1.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
       [ 1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.]])

When broadcasting d against power, the dimension expansion for power is automatic: d[:,None]%(2*power[None,:]).  The ones in MATLAB accomplish the same dimension expansion (to (2,8) shaped arrays).
May want to start with d=np.atleast_1d(d), so it treats the scalar case like a 1 element array.  We could refine things so it returns a 1d array when given a scalar, and 2d when given a list or 1d array.  In MATLAB everything is 2d or higher.

Better yet, use ellipsis when expanding d.  Then d can be 0d, 1d, or even nd.
np.floor((d[...,None]%(2*power))/power)


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Hard-rocking country singer-songwriter Brantley Gilbert releases his latest single "Hard Days," an uplifting track penned as a reminder that difficult times do pass and we often come out on the other side strengthened by what we've endured.
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Hard Days' is about finding and acknowledging hope in the midst of turmoil and taking the good with the bad," shares Gilbert. "I look back on some of the harder times in my life and think about where things are now, and I'm thankful for the bad that led to the good.
This song means a lot to me," he continues. "It's been a long time since I've heard a song that can stand on its own lyrically. Brock Berryhill, Logan Wall, Jimi Bell and Jay Brunswick gave me the opportunity to work with them, and it's something I'm extremely proud to be a part of. I feel like all of us are in need of a little bit of healing and in need of a little bit of hope. And this song offers that."
Hard Days" encourages us to acknowledge the moments that tend to feel much sweeter after persevering through our own rough patches.
Hard Days" follows the release of "Fire't Up," from Gilbert's most recent album FIRE & BRIMSTONE (via The Valory Music Co.) released Oct. 4, 2019, and recent No. 1 "What Happens In A Small Town" with Lindsay Ell, which marked the Maysville, Georgia native's seventh No. 1
For additional information, visit BrantleyGilbert.com or follow him on Instagram and Twitter at @BrantleyGilbert and on Facebook @BrantleyGilbertMusic.
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Known for his viral mashups, remixes, and edits, Kap Slap is super humble and knows how to work a room. After catching up with his fans aside the booth at at The Grand Boston last night, he made his way over for a quick chat before his set. Check it out to find out where he gets the best super quesadilla, his upcoming projects, and to-do list of things.
People in the elevator were just talking about you being from here, Boston…
►Lexington High, yeah yeah.
Any friends from home here tonight?
►There are some buddies out there, so it should be a good time. It's tough to keep up with a lot of them. I had some dinner earlier with one of my buddies I grew up with in elementary school; it's so great to catch up.
What's one of your favorite things here?
►Anna's Taqueria in Cambridge, Porter Square. The best super quesadillas in the entire world. It's phenomenal. People from Boston will know.
Yup, had 'em.
►Oh yeah, it's the best. Every free block after high school, we'd have double frees and we'd take cars and all race down there.
We see you're drinking VOSS water.
Don't you have some sort of promo happening with them?
►After a show in San Diego, they tagged me in something then I hit them up on Instagram and got a little sponsorship. I think this here was completely separate, the venue might have even had this. A cool coincidence.
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For sure. We also saw things just got a little strange in the studio…
►A little Stranger Things, that was a lot of fun. My manager was like, "Yo we should do something with Stranger Things," and I was like, "Yeah, alright I'll give it a shot," and started putting things together and it turned out pretty cool.
Was this before or after you watched the show?
►Oh no, I watched the show. I love the show, it's amazing.
Do you have anything else pop culture-y or TV-related coming up?
►I'm constantly on the hunt for that kind of stuff. I'm currently putting together a workout mix, specifically the high energy, get-the-blood-pumping, don't stop, keep grinding kind of thing. I'm going to be doing those kinds of mixes and I've got a little collaboration or two I'm working on.
We'll keep an eye out. So you're at Shrine tomorrow night, not too far. What's up next?
►Jefferson Theater in Virginia. That is a blast every time I'm there. A really cool, energetic college crowd.
That's a fun crowd.
►They put their heart and soul into dancing and the energy is amazing.
You're like 28, yeah?
►Yeah, an old man [laughs].
Were you into this stuff when you were here, in high school, growing up?
►Not at all. I was into jazz, progressive rock, and classical music. Then things like Beck and Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, all over the board but not even close to dance music. I found about that more in college. I was in a frat and whenever we'd have these parties, guys would put on this dance music and after these minute-long builds, girls would change the song to a pop song. I was just like, "We can do better than this," so I just started making pop format songs with vocals over the dance music stuff and here I am.
Is there anything else you've wanted to work on?
►I really want to bring up an Instagram influencer. Someone who really wants to be somebody, has a lot of raw talent, but not a lot of technical know-how to make the tracks. I want to be kinda behind the scenes. That's on my to-do list of things.
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If you've got some money to play around with, one of the best ways to make it multiply is by investing. Of course, investment comes with its own dangers and risks, but if you study the industry and find out how everything works, there are many ways you can invest money and make even more in the long run. Here are some of the top reasons you should start investing.
Most people dream of having freedom, particularly financial freedom. Not only do they want control of their own finances, but also how great would it be to make money without being tied down to a job you hate or a business you're struggling to run effectively? With financial freedom, you're able to get rid of many of the daily stresses you may be experiencing, and you'll still earn money without all the headaches that you're suffering now.
It's a great skill to know how to invest and be familiar with the way the trading market works. You can take part in stock trading courses, which allow you to learn about how it works and the best ways to invest. Some times of the year are better for buying stocks, while other times are better for selling, and the secret to making plenty of money is recognising when these times are happening and what you can do to take advantage of them.
If you manage to earn plenty of money investing, you can keep investing and you won't have to work anymore. You will have to do some form of work, such as filing paperwork for the investments and looking up which projects or stocks you want to invest in, but it's very different from a day job and you can manage it all yourself.
People will be eager to impress you to get your support, and you'll have full control over your finances, your time and what you do. Nobody will be able to tell you what to do, so it's just like running your own business. You can choose where to put your money, what to invest it in, when to withdraw your money and everything in between. Investing in the stock market is one of the ways to free up a lot of your time, and make money without really doing any hard work.
If you're investing and your money is making interest, you'll then earn interest on the interest and therefore your money will multiply rapidly. You can then decide to invest this extra money is a more risky venture, since you'll feel like you haven't had to work at all for the interest it's earn, or you can save it up and use it for something else, such as a retirement fund or your next trip away.


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John Dwyer has been blowing audiences away with energized live performances dripping with creative electricity. Thee Oh Sees are known for their far out psychedelic, punk, pop guitar drive. The have the ability to create a variety of sounds and songs. 2016 is a big year for Thee Oh Sees with 3 new releases A Weird Exits, Live in San Francisco, and the latest, An Odd Entrances out on Castle Face Records.
An Odd Entrances is described as follows: "This LP is a companion piece to 'A Weird Exits' an appendix, if you will." "An Odd Entrances" is more spacey, groove oriented and doesn't get into heavy punk territory. This album has a number of guest musicians who contribute vocals, keys, cello, guitar and percussion adding to the wonderful mix of sounds echoing through the speakers. Thee Oh Sees has an ever changing line up over the last few decades this album features the dual drumming of Dan Rincon and Ryan Moutinho, Tim Hellman on bass and John Dwyer on Guitar, vocals, Flute, Keyboards and percussion.
"An Odd Entrances" opens with a slow burn spacey riff. Echoing guitar strings sliding and reverberating. 'You Will Find it Here" becomes textured and atmospheric with futuristic sounds. The lyrics are poetic, meaningful, and grim. "Feel the Grass reaching up through your fingers. Hold you love while it still lingers. Laugh and cry in allotted time now. Look to the Sky before you fade away"
"The Poem" is a slower tune complete with string arrangements and richly layered effects. the slower pace has a psychedelic folk vibe. It moves and streams with synth, flute dancing with the rhythm.
"At the End, On the Stairs" a lyrical murder ballad with an upbeat pop beat. Followed by "Unwrap the Fiend Part 1" which kicks in the fuzz riffs, creamy leads, and harmonizing keyboard lines. "Nervous Tech (Nah John)" is derived from Miles Davis, "Go Ahead John". The rhythm section lays down a groove then piercing hot guitar starts to burn over the top. The drums begin complex jazz patterns behind the solos. It breakdown to a deep bass line and intricate timings between the percussionists and the keys and guitars. The groove oriented track has a tribal psychedelic sound.
"An Odd Entrances" track listing:
You Will Find it Here
Jammed Exit
At The End, on the Stairs
Unwrap the Fiend Part 1
Nervous Tech (Nah John)
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The Service Apartments and Town House provides comfortable accommodation at a reasonable price. These properties renovated and designed with amenities like living room, dining area, kitchen, water heater, car park and television for a comfortable and relaxing stay in the Cats City. In the city, there are Shopping Malls (like the Spring, City One Mega Mall, Vivacity Mega Mall, Boulevard, etc), eatery, restaurants and all the City Attractions close to this properties.
The Country Homestay is still under construction. When it is ready, there will be more rooms and chalets on top of the hill right in the centre of the Dayaks Village.


In my last blog, I provided two strategies for successful business speaking that are rooted in theater techniques that I used while I was rehearsing and performing the role of Amanda in The Glass Menagerie this past summer.
Here is another technique you can use in business to enhance your confidence when you are about to make a presentation: know your venue and become adaptable to the space, so that you can speak comfortably in a range of situations.
Our set for The Glass Menagerie depicted a tenement apartment in St. Louis during the late 1930's. Right before one performance, the stagehands had placed a heavy chair in the wrong spot on stage. I had been directed to sit on the arm of the chair all the way stage right, at an angle facing away from my scene partner. With the chair in its incorrect spot, my sitting on the chair that way would block half the audience from any view of the action. I had previously thought of various other options for my stage movement, so I was able to improvise a solution during that performance. Under the new circumstances, I stood in the stage area far right of the chair, to open up the view for whole audience.
Business speakers, too, should be ready to improvise physically when necessary.
Whether your business presentation or conversation takes place in an office, conference room, boardroom, or convention hall, visit the space in advance whenever possible.
Notice what is in the space and how it might help or hinder your ability to communicate. Request what you do want and do not want to be "in your space". Then, assume that the space may not be just as you wish, and look for ways to improvise, if necessary. Determine Choice B and Choice C for where you will be and where you will move, so that you can be ready to adapt.
During your advance visit, do a brief "walk-through" or "sit-through" of your talk. Experiment with a variety of other spots for you to stand, sit, or move. This will help you improvise gracefully (and give your audience a full experience) whenever you face challenges with the physical setup of the room.
Preparing for uncertainty in this way will give you a wonderful sense of security and the confidence that your message will have impact for your audience, even when your venue is not ideal!
In my last two videoblogs, I talked about the first two steps in this process: (1) Speak in complete thoughts and (2) pursue your point with energy and focus.
Today, I'll share step three: Pause briefly after speaking a complete thought, to allow the idea to "land".
Successful business speakers, like good actors, always consider pacing when they prepare to speak. The tempo of the spoken word has a strong impact on the listener and directly influences the way speakers are perceived. This raises the issue of pausing.
Even the smartest and best listeners need a moment to digest a complete thought. When you are speaking face-to face or on camera, your listeners need time to interpret meaning from a broad palette: a palette that includes your visual as well as vocal delivery. So, pauses are important.
A University of Michigan study revealed that speakers who never paused had the lowest success rate in getting listeners to do what they wanted them to do. The great British actor, John Gielgud, famously said that, when acting Shakespeare, the pauses are the most important moments of the speech! He knew that pauses can be captivating.
Help your business listeners receive the full impact of your message by giving them the gift of time. Pause briefly after each complete thought, to let it "land". Don't be in a rush to go on to your next idea. The pause will also give you time to get a reading on your listener's understanding and engagement level. During the pause, breathe deeply and maintain good eye contact.
Without the pauses, your listeners may feel overwhelmed by an unmanageable amount of input. They may lose some of your meaning; they might even tune you out.
When you give your listeners time to process each thought, you are respecting their needs while you communicate your own conviction that your message is important.
Every person connected with the theater knows that an audience must become engaged with the action on stage as soon as possible, in order for that stage effort to be successful. The same is true for your business presentations. You can start by applying three simple strategies at the beginning of each talk.
1.	Maintain good eye contact.
Eye contact means "eyeball to eyeball": not looking at foreheads, to the tops of heads, or looking in the general direction of individuals. Make eye contact with people within audience sections: for example, focus on individuals on the left side of the audience, then the right, then the center – or in any order you choose. Be sure to cover the whole audience territory and remember to include people seated in the back rows. Depending upon the size of your audience/venue, it may be challenging to make eye contact with people who are furthest away from you, but seek out as many eyes as possible. Contrary to common fears, maintaining good eye contact actually helps relax you as a speaker. Seeing people's eyes will remind you that the audience is, after all, made up of regular folks just like you, and that they do want you to succeed. They are usually hopeful and expectant; they want to believe that they have made a good choice by attending your presentation!
2.	Use a conversational tone, vary your pace, and be sure that conviction and passion are visible on your body and audible in your voice.
Most listeners respond favorably when a speaker communicates gratitude and humility, and a conversational tone helps project these qualities in you. It lets your audience know that you are approaching them as an expert who is an equal, not as a professor or pontificator. Speak as you would during a one-on-one conversation, with the slight adjustment of a heightened energy. Take the attitude that you are pleased to be sharing an important secret with your audience; that you are speaking confidentially to each individual listener. Vary your pace, to generate interest and convey enthusiasm. Take time to allow you thoughts to "land", and occasionally pause for dramatic effect. Audiotape your rehearsals; when you play back the tape, take special note of the moments when you sounded most authentic, most conversational; moments when your voice and YOU were "one"; when your voice is the true YOU. Analyze what you were doing that caused that authentic sound, and strive to replicate that underlying behavior (rather than the sound). Your sound in any given moment is the result of your intention and communication behavior. You can achieve an authentic and effective sound by doing something; pursuing an appropriate objective. The degree of conviction and passion in your voice and gestures is within your control. Gestures and body language should match the intensity of your voice, as well as your content.
3.	Ask questions and ask for volunteers.
Involve your audience by asking questions and inviting individuals to come to the platform area to participate in simple tasks/exercises related to your topic. When you pose questions to your audience, people invariably answer them, which immediately makes the responders a part of the presentation. Audiences enjoy this. Ask questions that you know they can answer, and be sure that everything you ask is directly related to the purpose/main idea of your talk. For pure engagement and entertainment value, nothing beats demonstrations by your audience members. Create simple tasks/exercises for individuals or pairs that will illustrate your points. Ask for volunteers from the audience to come to the platform area; if people seem shy at first and no one immediately volunteers, wait. WAIT. Have the courage to tolerate silence or hesitation from the audience, and during the silence, make strong eye contact with a broad smile and open arms. Avoid all temptation to recruit individuals; allow them to volunteer. (During the hundreds of presentation I have made in all industries, I have never faced a situation where we lacked volunteers.) Audiences include those who enjoy receiving attention and will rise to the occasion! Audience members who remain seated become immediately captivated: this is theater, the drama of watching a situation unfold in the here and now, where anything can happen. It is compelling and irresistible because of its immediacy.
When you involve your audience early in your talk in these three ways, you set the stage for the audience to bond with you. The sooner they bond with you, the stronger their connection with you will be. This is true engagement.
While many people are quick to agree that being a good public speaker enhances one's business life, fewer consider capitalizing on this skill when they possess it. This is a mistake; the benefits of good public speaking skills are often underestimated and deserve greater attention.Being a good public speaker helps you persuade listeners to take actions you want them to take, makes you a valuable asset to any organization you are connected with, and is one of the best ways to generate business.There are few aspects of professional success that are more important than the power to persuade. Whether you are trying to convince your executive vice president of HR to adopt your latest initiative, or you are a business owner trying to close a deal, skill in public speaking allows you to organize your message, deliver it with an effective style, and defend your position with poise.If you are a professional working in the corporate arena, skill in public speaking is one of the best ways to demonstrate that you are ready to become an active spokesperson for ideas and initiatives of interest to your organization; it makes you a key player. When you make a dynamic impression by speaking on a given topic, you allow top executives to view you as someone with leadership qualities: an "idea" person who has the ability to persuade. So, find opportunities to speak within your organization: at meetings, forums, and company events. There is no better advertisement of your value or leadership qualities.If you are a business owner, using your skill at public speaker is one of the best ways to generate new business, because it positions you as an expert in your field. When you begin your journey as a public speaker (whether or not you are paid to speak), "high profile" speaking opportunities need not be the goal. What matters most is value and volume: speak as often as you can, to generate interest and build a following. Contact associations whose memberships may be interested in your topics, and offer to create seminars for them. Provide valuable content, and over time people will seek you out for your expertise.Whatever your career objectives, you should view your skill as an excellent speaker as one of the best strategies to reach your professional goals.
In my last blog, I presented some visual strategies that will increase your persuasive power with upper management, no matter what department you work in, and no matter how little time your are given to make your case. I focused on how you can build belief visually. In today's blog, I will offer a few tips for building belief with your voice.First, some background information. In his article for CLO Magazine, Kevin D. Wilde (VP and Chief Learning Officer at General Mills) suggests that, when you have just a few minutes to win over the CEO, it is crucial to make your message "executive crisp". Although Wilde's strategies are useful, they fail to address two key ingredients in the art of persuasive speaking: visual and vocal impact.My response is supported by the findings of a Harvard Business School study: only seven percent of the success of business speaking is based upon content. A full ninety-three percent of the impact that business speakers make is based on their visual and vocal impact: how they deliver their message to build belief within the listener.The vocal component of your presentation is crucial. Be sure that your vocal "performance" supports the value of your ideas:1. Vary your pace: when you begin, speak slowly; when you come to information that is less important, increase your pace; when you come to your most important points, pause and then slow down.2. Vary your pitch, and be sure to end your statements with a pitch glide downward (not upward, as we do when asking a question).3. Whenever possible, rehearse what you are going to say by glancing down briefly at note cards. Internalize your content; don't memorize it. Pick a spot on the wall to direct your eyes during rehearsal, and never practice with a mirror (it will distract you from your message and from the audience you should have in your mind, and it will keep you focused on how you look — a poor strategy).No matter how many minutes upper management can spare, your best content will have persuasive power only when your visual and vocal performance convey your own conviction, poise, and passion.


DSAP is a skin condition manifested by multiple, dry, scaly rings, each measuring up to 1 cm (1/2 inch) across. They are found mainly on the forearms and legs. It is due to excessive sun exposure causing thickening of the skin. It is sometimes confused with actinic keratosis which is also caused by sun exposure; however, actinic keratosis is more likely to arise on the face and hands.
Sun and/or ultraviolet light exposure causes DSAP. This condition tends to affect people with fair skin who burn easily and tan poorly in the sun. It may appear more obvious in summer and less obvious in winter. The best way to stop this skin condition from worsening is to avoid sun exposure (including sun beds). Patients taking medication or with illnesses that weaken the body's immune system are also more likely to develop this skin condition.


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(Antwerp 1601-1678)
The Garden of Eden 58.5 x 89.5 cm. (23 x 35¼ in.)
Sold for £ 207,200 (US$ 270,439) inc. premium
6 Jul 2005, 14:00 BST
Jan Brueghel the Younger (Antwerp 1601-1678)
The Garden of Eden
the support stamped with the coat-of-arms of the City of Antwerp
58.5 x 89.5 cm. (23 x 35¼ in.)
see front cover illustration
Acquired by the current owner's family in the mid-19th century and thence by family descent
We are grateful to Dr. Klaus Ertz for confirming the attribution and for dating the present painting to circa 1635, after inspection of the original. A certificate by Dr. Ertz, dated 25 April 2005, is available with this lot and it is to be included in Dr. Ertz's updated catalogue raisonné on the artist. The present work is a hitherto unrecorded version of this composition by Jan Brueghel the Younger, the earliest known version of which was painted around 1620 (oil on panel, 52 x 83.5 cm.). This is now in the Szepmüveszeti Museum, Budapest, while other later examples hang in the Museo del Prado, Madrid (circa 1626, oil on copper 57 x 88 cm.) and the Castello Sforzesco, Milan (circa 1630, oil on panel, 55 x 89 cm.).
A member of a large and successful family of artists, Jan Brueghel the Younger very probably began his training at the age of ten in the studio of his father, Jan Brueghel the Elder, whose works had a heavy influence on the younger painter. The landscape of the present composition, for example, is very much inspired by a group of paradise landscapes by Jan Brueghel the Elder, for example, Noah's entry into the Ark of 1613 in the Getty Museum, Malibu. Thus the early Budapest version of the present composition shows extremely close affinities to the work of the artist's father, in whose studio it would have been painted. Between 1624-25, the younger Brueghel made a journey to Italy and stylistic comparisons between the Budapest picture and those other versions would suggest that they were painted at different sides of the artist's southern trip, the present painting being the latest, dating from circa 1635, when the Younger's own particular style had become broader and thus more independent.
After travelling to Milan to meet Jan Brueghel the Elder's patron, Cardinal Federico Borromeo, in the spring of 1624, Jan the Younger decided to prolong his Italian journey and went to Palermo with his childhood friend, Anthony van Dyck. However, this expedition was cut short: his father and three of his siblings were struck down suddenly by cholera in 1625 and Jan returned to Antwerp where he took over his father's studio. Once back in Antwerp, Jan the Younger sold the remaining paintings by his father and completed those not yet finished. His work continued in much the same vein. Like his father, he collaborated frequently with Rubens and Hendrick van Balen as well as working on occasion with other artists, such as Abraham Janssen (his father-in-law), David Teniers the Younger and Hendrick de Clerck. The importance he attained in the artistic community in Antwerp is reflected in his being head of the Guild of Saint Luke, 1630-31.
With its symbolism of Original Sin, the Garden of Eden subject was popular among artists from the days of Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach the Elder in the sixteenth century, but from the incidental part here played by the figures of Adam and Eve, it appears to have interested Brueghel more for allowing him to display his interest in the exotic beauty of the natural world. Precedents for animal paintings were found in fable illustrations, emblem books, bestiaries, hunting texts and tapestries. But the 'animal parks' that proved popular for seventeenth century artists, such as the Jan Brueghels, Roelandt Savery and Aelbert Cuyp, even when presented under the guise of traditional subjects, such as the Fall, Noah's Ark and Orpheus among the Beasts , displayed a whole new genre for easel painting. This genre may be placed in the context of the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution, which saw man's desire to record and categorise nature and coincided with the keeping of princely menageries, the first extensive collections of rare and unusual plants and the cult of the kunstkammer, a repository of such naturalia as antlers, shells, fossils and skeletons.
Thus the incident of the Fall as seen here is secondary to the composition while the painting as a whole may be better placed in the context of such displays of detailed virtuosity as Jan Brueghel's allegories of the Four Elements. Indeed, the artist used the same background landscape and groupings of birds that he did in the present work in a depiction of the Four Elements that was sold in these rooms on 8 December, 1992 (lot 62) – a work painted in collaboration with the figure-painter, Hendrick van Balen and which sold for £165,000.
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The Maker Games is a rapid prototyping competition open to all UNSW undergraduate students. The competition is based on challenges put forward by industry partners and any student can pitch their idea for a solution. The best ideas would be invited to move from the pitching phase to the prototyping phase. Teams of 4-6 will compete to build the most innovative and attractive technical prototypes. At the Showcase, a judging panel will pick the best overall prototype and the team will win a trip to Silicon Valley.
Read more about UNSW's Maker Program here.


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The fish, crocodile and note banhttps://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/demonetisation-anniversary-pm-narendra-modi-note-ban-indian-economy-arun-jaitley-cashless-job-loss-4928735/
The fish, crocodile and note ban
Black money is not a stock, but a process. The voodoo economists of the Modi regime have scripted the collapse of demand, slide in growth, while black money remains undiminished.
Written by T M Thomas Isaac | Updated: November 9, 2017 12:40:54 am
The writer is CPM MLA Alappuzha and former finance minister of Kerala
Money is the lifeblood of any economy. If you have bad blood then go for dialysis, you would not withdraw the stock of blood from the body, lest you die. (Illustration: C R Sasikumar)
"It is crazy, madness". This was my first reaction after the prime minister's speech on November 8 last year declaring that Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes will be withdrawn as legal tender from midnight.
Many people phoned me to say that I could have waited till daybreak to issue such a condemnation. Next morning, a detailed statement was tabled in the Kerala Legislative Assembly, the thrust of which was that the note ban would not eliminate black money. The same objective could be achieved even with the old notes circulating for two or three months and citizens being given enough time for replacing the old notes. Finally, the sudden note ban is going to disrupt the economy, particularly the unorganised sector accentuating the poor growth of the recent period. Each of these arguments, which are now part of the legislative records, have been borne out by the past year's experience.
Why is note ban a crazy idea? Money is the lifeblood of any economy. If you have bad blood you would go for dialysis, you would not withdraw the stock of blood from the body, lest you die. The voodoo economics of Narendra Modi sucked out 86 per cent of the currency and it took nearly a year to replenish the same. So much for the clinical precision of the "surgical strike" on black money. For two to three months, serpentine queues in banks, empty ATMs and agony, pain and around 140 deaths stalked the citizens of India.
Any student of economics knows that the level of production in an economy depends on the aggregate demand. The note ban resulted in a collapse of demand severely affecting the unorganised sector. The results are there for everyone to see in the GDP growth statistics put out by the government: Q4 growth fell from 8.7 per cent in 2015-16 to 5.6 per cent in 2016-17; annual growth fell from 7.9 per cent to 6.6 per cent. Add the RBI's caution to this growth number, "absent the implementation of the 7th Central Pay Commission and one-rank-one-pension (OROP) for defence services embedded in government consumption, real GDP growth would have been lower by 2 percentage points" and 2016-17 growth would have been just 4.6 per cent. A loss of 3.3 percentage point in GDP meant loss of production of over 4.5 lakh crore. Who is responsible for this national loss?
What happened to the black money? I am reminded of the story of the fish and crocodile in a pond. They were bitter enemies. When the pond owner decided to drain the pond to catch the crocodile the fish came out in support of him. The result was all the fish died and the crocodile escaped as it could live in both water and land. In fact, only six per cent of the total black money in India is kept in the form of currency notes. The rest is hoarded in gold or invested in land and other assets or even in legitimate business. Black money is not a stock but a process through which unaccounted wealth is constantly produced.
But the voodoo economists believed that the rich with black money would not dare to deposit it in banks. A figure of Rs 3-4 lakh crore, it was assumed, would not return to the banks and would consequently reduce the liabilities of the RBI resulting in a windfall gain to the RBI and to the Central government. I have heard this personally from the highest levels of the Central government. But what is the outcome after one year? 98.96 per cent of all Specified Bank Notes (SBNs) have already come back and the RBI is still counting.
The believers of Modi-economics have not lost hope. The real hunt for black money is yet to start, they argue. Systematic inquiry into the bank deposits will unearth black money and offenders will be brought to justice. I wish luck to the 5,000 to 6,000 income tax officers set on this historic effort. But I have a simple question, the same question that I raised on that fateful night. Wouldn't this process be possible without demonetisation?
So now on the anniversary of the greatest stupidity in Indian economic history, the Union finance minister is arguing that though the note ban generated short-term pain, it is going to be a great boon in the long run. Well, one did not have to wait for the long run before the fake notes reappeared. The number of income tax payers might have increased significantly. But this has happened on a more significant scale in the past without the note ban. In the long run, it will be business as usual.
The only way to realise the dream of a vibrant India is through what we have followed in Kerala — social spending for economic growth and a better way of life — and not through such callous acts of torture and intimidation of the common man.
That only fills the bloated egos of some neo-nationalists.
1 General speaks too much
2 As Delhi Chokes, Do NOT Head for the Hills
3 Fiddling With The Violin


At the moment there seems to be a flurry of string quilts, which are so much fun to make.
A few years ago four of us were invited to another friends little beach cottage for a weekend of sewing.
The plan was for each of us to make a string quilt, sharing each others strips.
My quilt was made with really large blocks, and I was going to use some old calico ( quite thin after years of being curtains) as my backing instead of paper, but then found it would make the quilt too heavy, so used a light weight sew-on vylene.
We all arrived with our "strings" dumped them in the middle of the room and started sewing.
The cottage is very tiny, so with 5 of us sewing on our tables, and stepping around all our fabric it was a tight squeeze. As you can see we made a pathway to walk through.
Back of the blocks stitched onto vylene.
16 blocks together. Each block after trimming and sewing measures 16 3/4". A funny size, but that was the average of all.
Its still at this stage, as I'm not sure about batting and machine quilting, but I think I may use a light weight pellon.
Another day a few years earlier sewing a string quilt for a grand-daughter.
The interest in string quilts and in particular Humble quilts has got me itching to start another one.
I love your granddaughters quilt & the yellow in your other one really pops, that's neat. You girls sure made your tight conditions work. I shall read up about Humble Quilts next. Thanks for sharing Sue!
Fun string quilt patterns. I love the photo of the strings taking over the cottage. It's exactly what happens.
Last fall I had decided I was going to concentrate on sewing up my box of 1-1/2" strings. I had no idea that so many other people were going to string along until I started seeing all the string posts on other blogs. You've made some lovely string quilts, I'm sure you have plenty of fabric to make more. Happy stitching!
What a fun sewing at the beach party! Now if I could just round up a few friends who sew... LOL.
Your string quilts are wonderful, so happy and vibrant.
lizzy at gone to the beach..
Love string quilts, in a way it is mindless sewing but such fun to see what evolves from all the strings. I have a stack of strings just waiting for me to start on them.
You're definitely on a roll with your strings - beautiful! I've always used vilene for string piecing, couldn't face all the paper ripping!
The best way to sew strings is with a group - so much more variety.
And the hearts one for your granddaughter is very clever.


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was a Japanese architect born in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu. Doctor of Engineering. Conferred Jusanmi (従三位, Junior Third Rank) and Kunsanto (勲三等, Order of Third Class). Former dean of Architecture Department at Tokyo Imperial University.

Tatsuno is most widely known for his work as the designer of the Bank of Japan building (1896) and the Marunouchi building of Tokyo Station (1914).

Education and early career
Tatsuno studied architecture at the Imperial College of Engineering where he was a student of the influential British architect Josiah Conder, called "father of Japanese modern architecture". After his graduation in 1879, Tatsuno journeyed to London in 1880 attending courses at the University of London. During his stay he worked at the architectural offices of the Gothic Revivalist William Burges. Burges died in 1881 during Tatsuno's stay, but before returning to Japan Tatsuno also took the opportunity to travel extensively in France and Italy.

On his return to Tokyo, Tatsuno taught first at the Imperial College of Engineering before becoming department head at University of Tokyo.

In 1886, he was one of the founders of the forerunner of the , the then called "Building Institute". The organisation was based upon the Royal Institute of British Architects and the group met regularly, sponsored lectures and produced Japan's first architectural journal.

Tatsuno Kingo (金吾) was called Tatsuno Kengo as a nickname for him because Kengo (堅固) means firmness and his designs and layouts were solid.

Later career
Although his early work was influenced by his travels in Europe with traces of Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren, the Shibusawa Mansion (1888) was influenced by Serlio, Ruskin and Conder's own Venetian styled works. The site, on one of Tokyo's canalways suited itself to a Venetian character.

Bank of Japan

Tatsuno's connection with Shibusawa Eiichi brought him the commission to design the Bank of Japan in 1890 (completed in 1896). It was first building of its type to be designed by a native Japanese person. Tatsuno immediately set off to Europe for a year to do research for the project, studying amongst other buildings, the Banque Nationale in Brussels by Beyaert and Janssens.

The bank is a three-storey building constructed with reinforced brick faced with stone and has limited use of steel for long spans. Its style displays Neo-Baroque architectural influences. echoing European central bank buildings of the period. The original building was square in plan with the banking hall situated immediately behind the porticoed main front.

Tatsuno not only designed the Tokyo Head Office of the Bank of Japan, but was also responsible for designing the Bank of Japan's branch offices in Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Kanazawa, Hakodate and Hiroshima. Almost two thirds of the 140 buildings that Tatsuno was associated with in his career were to be bank buildings.

Tokyo Station

Other than the Bank of Japan building, the structure most closely associated with Tatsuno in the later stages of his career is undoubtedly the Marunouchi facing side of Tokyo Station. The broadly Neo-Baroque design completed in 1914 is distinctive for its use of extensive steel framing and red brick with ribbed domes crowning the north and south wings of the structure. Much of the original steel framing was imported from England and the sturdiness of the design enabled the structure to survive both the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923 as well as wartime bombing and fires in 1945. A sympathetic 5-year renovation of the 1914 structure was completed in October 2012, restoring the domed roof structures that had been a feature of Tatsuno's original design.

Tatsuno also had a strong influence Japanese colonial architecture - especially in Manchukuo. Connection with construction firms like Okada Engineering, the Association of Japanese Architects (Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai 日本建築学会) or through the new Journal of Manchurian Architecture (Manshu kenchiku zasshi 満州建築雑誌),helped insure that a particular architectural style—that popularized by Tatsuno, sometimes called the Tatsuno style (辰野式) initially became the standard throughout Japanese Manchuria. This involved a somewhat grand interpretation of the style of historical eclecticism that was popular in contemporary Europe.

In 1903 Tatsuno set up his own architectural office, the first Japanese architect in the country to do so. He died as a result of the 1918 flu pandemic in 1919.

Other Noted Buildings

 Bankers' Association Assembly Rooms, Sakamoto-cho, Tokyo (1885)
 Shibusawa Mansion, Kabutocho, Tokyo (1888)
 College of Engineering, Tokyo Imperial University, Hongo (1888)
 Hamaderakōen Station, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture (1908)
 The first school building of Kyushu Institute of Technology (1909)
 National Sumo Arena, Kuramae, Tokyo (1909)
 Nara Hotel, Nara (1909)
 The West Japan Industrial Club, Tobata, Kitakyushu (1911)
 Bank of Korea, Seoul (1912)
 Old Yasuda Mail Products, Yahatahigashi-ku, KitaKyushu (1912)
 Manseibashi Station, Tokyo (1912)
 Nanten-en Ryokan, Osaka (1914)
 Old Hyaku-Sanju Bank Yawata Branch, Yahatahigashi-hu, KitaKyushu (1915)
 Old San-yo Hotel, Kokutestu, Shimonoseki (1923)

Honors
On 14 May 2021, 136795 Tatsunokingo, a sizable near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid which was discovered by astronomer Takashi Hasegawa at Kiso Observatory in 1997, was  by the Working Group Small Body Nomenclature in his memory.

References

Bibliography
 Dallas Finn, Meiji Revisited: The Sites of Victorian Japan, Weatherhill, 1995
 Louis Frédéric (translated by Käthe Roth), Japan Encyclopedia, 1996 (2002),

 Ruxton, Ian, 'Tatsuno Kingo (1854-1919): 'A Leading Architect' of the Meiji Era', Chapter 33, pp. 443–455 in Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume VII, Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2010

External links

 Tatsuno, Kingo | Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures (National Diet Library)

Japanese architects
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo alumni
Deaths from Spanish flu
People from Saga Prefecture
History of art in Japan
1854 births
1919 deaths

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