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Volume 32 - Issue 2 - September 1989
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African Visual Arts From a Social Perspective
Paula Ben-Amos
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 May 2014, pp. 1-54
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The study of African art began in the first decade of this century. In looking back over more than 70 years of research, it is possible to discern a distinctive set of social science concerns, priorities, and modes of analysis. This social perspective depends not so much on disciplinary affiliation as on the kinds of stands taken on the nature of art and on the relative importance of culture as an explanatory principle in understanding its meaning. This paper is concerned with articulating the main models that have been utilized in social research on African art and with tracing their impact on the development of art studies. This historical account will also point out some of the most serious limitations of these models and will suggest studies which may lead to promising new directions.
The focus of this review, then, will be on tracing the development of conceptual models with a social perspective. Studies with a social perspective include those which deal with the relationships among art, society and culture. These relationships can be conceived in a number of different ways, including, as Baxandall (1985: 89) succinctly suggests, "causality or significance or analogy or participation." Such relationships are always a two-way street: not only do social practices and beliefs illuminate and affect art, but art also illuminates and affects social practice. Two essays will clarify the specific nature of the social perspective. Both classics in the field, both dealing with aesthetics, they are: "Yoruba Artistic Criticism" by Robert Farris Thompson (1973b) and "Principles of Opposition and Vitality in Fang Aesthetics" by James W. Fernandez (1966).
African Visual Arts from an Art Historical Perspective
Monni Adams
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 May 2014, pp. 55-104
This overview assesses the study of sub-Saharan art by art historians in the United States, as a complement to the earlier examination by Paula Ben-Amos (1987) of African art studies from an anthropological perspective. Academic status for African art history, focused on sub-Saharan Africa, began in the 1950s, when a small group of scholars assigned style categories and broad social functions to works of West and Central African sculpture. With the expansion and development of the field, linked to the use of anthropological methods, the emphasis in research has shifted towards adopting multiple perspectives of analysis and seeking African categories in relation to varied artistic production. Nevertheless, study of sub-Saharan art has achieved only a marginal status in the disciplines of art history and anthropology. This essay examines the problems of these relationships, the types of changing scholarly activities that have characterized the field of sub-Saharan art, and considers options for the future.
Olusola Akinrinade and J. Kurt Barling, eds. Economic Development in Africa. London: Pinter Publishers. 1987. x + 266 pp. $30.00. Cloth.
Nicholas van de Walle
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 May 2014, pp. 105-106
David W. Brokensha and Peter D. Little, eds. Anthropology of Development and Change in East Africa. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1988. ix + 258 pp. Index, Tables, Maps. $33.00. Paper. - R. E. Downs and S. P. Reyna, eds. Land and Society in Contemporary Africa. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1988. xiii + 383 pp. Index, Tables, Maps. $45.00. Cloth.
Constance G. Anthony
Naomi Chazan and Timothy M. Shaw, eds. Coping with Africa's Food Crisis. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Reinner, 1988. xi + 250 pp. Index. $32.00. Cloth. - Ronald Cohen, ed. Satisfying Africa's Food Needs: Food Production and Commercialization in African Agriculture. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Reinner, 1988. xi + 244 pp. Index. $25.00. Cloth.
Stephen Orvil
Vernon February. And Bid Him Sing, Essays in Literature and Cultural Domination. London and New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1988. $55.00. Cloth.
Anne Lippert
Prosser Gifford and William Roger Louis, eds. Decolonization and African Independence: The Transfers of Power, 1960-1980. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1988. xxix + 651 pp. Bibliography, Index, Map. $50.00. Cloth.
Laurence D. Schiller
William D. Graf The Nigerian State. London: James Currey, 1988; Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1989. xvi + 281 pp. Bibliography, Index, Maps, Tables. $40.00. Cloth. - William Miles. Elections in Nigeria. A Grassroots Perspective. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 1988. 168 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index, Maps, Pictures, Tables. $26.00. Cloth.
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Raul Honwana. The Life History of Raul Honwana. An Inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence, 1905-1975. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 1988. 181 pp. $27.50 cloth.
Merle L. Bowen
Juhani Koponen. People and Production in Late Precolonial Tanzania: History and Structures. Monographs of the Finnish Society for Development Studies, No. 2; Transactions of the Finnish Anthropological Society, No. 23; Studia Historica, 28. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of Africa Studies, 1988. 434 pp. Bibliography, Index, Maps, Plates. Price Not Available. Paper.
M. A. Tolmacheva
Richard Lobban and Joshua Forrest. Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. 2nd ed. Metuchen New Jersey, and London: Scarecrow Press, 1988. $25.00. Cloth. - Richard Lobban and Marilyn Halter. Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde. 2nd ed. Metuchen New Jersey, and London: Scarecrow Press, 1988. $22.50. Cloth.
Louise Leonard
Richard Pankhurst and Leila Ingrams. Ethiopia Engraved. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1988. 214 pp. Introduction, Catalogue. $45.00. Cloth.
Charles G. H. Schaefer
Johan Pottier. Migrants No More: Settlement and Survival in Mambwe Villages, Zambia. International African Library Series. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press in association with the International African Institute (London), 1988. xiii + 210 pp. $35.00. Cloth.
Brian Siegel
Peter Roussos. Zimbabwe: An Introduction to the Economics of Transformation. Harare: Baobab Books, 1988. xxi + 184 pp. $5.00. Paper.
James Cobbe
Michael G. Schatzberg The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988. 190 pp. Bibliography, Index. $25.00. Cloth.
Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
Glenn L. Sitzman African Libraries. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1988. xiv + 486pp. Bibliography, Index, Photographs. $49.50. Cloth.
Nancy J. Schmidt
Stephanie Urdang. And Still They Dance: Women, War and the Struggle for Change in Mozambique. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1989. 256 pp. $12.00.
Jean M. Allman
L. Lewis Wall. Hausa Medicine: Illness and Well-Being in a West African Culture. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1988. 369 pp. $32.50. Cloth.
K. David Patterson
ASR volume 32 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
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ASR volume 32 issue 2 Cover and Back matter
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Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019) | New Official Trailer | Paramount Pictures
Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019) - New Official Trailer - Paramount Pictures
If you think you know Dora…think again! 🎒 Dora's going on her biggest adventure yet in the new trailer for Dora and the Lost City of Gold, in theatres across the U.S. from Friday, August 9! #DoraMovie
Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora (Isabela Moner) for her most dangerous adventure ever – High School. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego (Jeffrey Wahlberg), a mysterious jungle inhabitant (Eugenio Derbez), and a rag tag group of teens on a live-action adventure to save her parents (Eva Longoria, Michael Peña) and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost city of gold.
Add some adventure to your messages with the new #DoraMovie stickers! 🐵 Available now on Apple (paramnt.us/DoraStickersiOS) and Android (paramnt.us/DoraStickersGoogle).
Update (7/9) - Paramount has today also released new stills from the movie as well as the film's brand-new poster!:
The second trailer opens with a young Dora (Madelyn Miranda) breaking the fourth wall as she asks the audience to say "Delicioso." While the format is common in the Nickelodeon animated show, in which the heroine says something in Spanish and challenges the viewer to say to say it, her family in the live-action film looks around in confusion. "She'll grow out of it," says her father.
A time jump then occurs as Dora reluctantly attends her first day of high school. While she struggles to adjust to her new life as a traditional high school student, her parents share that they discovered the ancient city of gold. Intrigued by her parents' discovery, Dora recruits the help of Diego and their two classmates to explore the secret city. Boots also joins the group on their adventure, which features Dora in her natural habitat of the jungle.
The trailer concludes as the teen explorers and Alejandro Gutierrez (Derbez) accidentally walk through quicksand. As they lift their legs out of it, the friction creates a fart-like sound. The teenagers giggle as Alejandro jokes, "I ate chili con carne."
Swiper the Fox also makes a brief appearance in the trailer.
The first trailer for the film, which highlights the teenagers' search for Dora's parents, was released in March.
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Dora the Explorer 'breaks some rules' in new Lost City of Gold trailer
Dora the Explorer is all grown up — and she has the street smarts, mighty muscle, and a gigantic knife to prove it — in the latest trailer for her first big-screen adventure.
Paramount's upcoming cinematic adaptation of the beloved animated series, titled Dora and the Lost City of Gold, sets the titular adventurer on a journey through the perils of high school before sending her on a quest to save her parents from a lost Incan city.
The trailer introduces Dora as a peculiar child (in a hilarious riff on the animated series' format, she speaks to the camera to ask an invisible audience to repeat the word "delicioso" as she eats) who ultimately hones her survival skills with her adventurer parents (Eva Longoria, Michael Peña), who go missing shortly after telling their daughter about a legendary civilization built entirely of gold.
To track them down, Dora enlists the help of her classmates — some more jungle-ready than others — as well as a jungle inhabitant named Alejandro (Eugenio Derbez) and her trusty primate companion, Boots (voiced by Danny Trejo). Along the way, the group encounters various obstacles, including a room filled with levers that squirt water, the thieving fox, Swiper, and a foreboding pit of squishy-sounding quicksand (which, of course, prompts the gang to make fart jokes as they sink into the earth).
Directed by The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted helmer James Bobbin, Dora and the Lost City of Gold swings into theaters Aug. 9. Watch the new trailer above.
Celebrate #TakeYourDogToWorkDay with #DoraMovie's Isabela Moner and her perro Pluto! 🐶 Did you bring your pup to work today?
More Nick: Isabela Moner Adopts Three-Legged Dog She Found Whilst Filming 'Dora And The Lost City Of Gold' in Australia!
Originally published: Tuesday, July 09, 2019 at 18:16 BST.
Additional sources: Collider, The Hollywood Reporter, io9, Vital Thrills, CBR.com.
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NIGERIAN INSTITUTE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY AND MARINE RESEARCH (NIOMR)
About NIOMR
Research vessel
The Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR) was established in November 1975 by the Research Institutes' Establishment Order 1975. The headquarters of the Institute is located on Wilmot Point Road, off Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos. She also has outstations at Buguma (River State), Aluu (Rivers State), Sapele (Delta State) and Badore (Lagos) . The main research departments in the Institute are: Aquaculture, Biological oceanography, Biotechnology, Fisheries resources, Fish technology & Product development, Physical & Chemical oceanography, Marine geology/geophysics, African Regional Aquaculture Centre (ARAC), Extension Services, Mariculture, Fishing Technology and Safety and Marine Meteorology and Safety. There are also service departments and section which include: Administration, Finance and Account, Information and Documentations, Planning, Technical Services, NIOMR Consult.
To Become a world class Centre of Excellence in Marine Science
Aspiration as a National Fisheries and Oceanography centre of excellence using dedicated, world-class scientists to collect, analyze and provide scientific data and information for the development of scientific products necessary for sustainable exploitation of Nigeria's Marine resources and utilization, coastal and ocean environment for the benefit of our national community at large.
"To key into the national development goals of food security, poverty reduction, marine environment cleanliness and sustainability"...
Rational Exploitation of Marine Resources and Conservation for Sustainable development and Healthy Marine Environment.
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Abundance, distribution, biological and other characteristics of species of fish and other marine forms of life and management measures for their rational exploitation and conservation
Improvement of brackish / marine waters aquaculture
Genetic characterization of marine and brackish water culturable fish species including the development of improved strains of fish species culture;
Effective and sustainable management of fisheries resources through improved post-harvest preservation, utilization and storage using profitable technological processes
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Effect of pollution on the health of Nigerian coastal waters and its prevention
The socio-economic challenges of exploitation of the resources of the sea and brackish water
Global climate change and sea level rise
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The nature of the coastal and marine environment including coastal erosion, monitoring marine hazards, forecasting/prediction and the topography of the sea beds and deposits on or under it
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Sun, 29 June 2014
House to Astonish - Episode 128 - Stupid Tales
It's Al and Paul's last episode before their hiatus, and they're talking about Bob Kane's Hollywood Walk of Fame star, DC's new creator royalties structure, Warren Simons's promotion to Editor-in-Chief at Valiant, Elden Henson and Rosario Dawson joining the cast of Daredevil and the latest developments in the Kirby estate case, along with reviews of Outcast, Superman and New Avengers Annual. The Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe found love in a hopeless place, and a spoon in the knife drawer.
Direct download: House_to_Astonish_128_-_Stupid_Tales.mp3
House to Astonish - Episode 127 - Cummerbund Bandersnatch
Back to recording without an audience, as Paul and Al talk about the creative changes on Moon Knight, the Edge of Spider-Verse miniseries, the new Deathlok ongoing, the Hawkeye v Deadpool mini (and the numbering thereof), DC's upcoming slate of movies, directorial news for both Ant-Man and Doctor Strange, the casting of the Kingpin, CB Cebulski and Jeanine Schaefer's career moves and ReedPop's Super Week. Theye've also got reviews of Armor Hunters, Infinity Man and the Forever People and... um... Angry Birds. Where does the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe go to my lovely, when it's alone in its bed?
Direct download: House_to_Astonish_127_-_Cummerbund_Bandersnatch.mp3
House to Astonish - Live! On Fire! On Ice!
It's been a long time coming, but here it is - House to Astonish Live, recorded at the City Cafe, Edinburgh in aid of Alzheimer Scotland. Al and Paul are discussing the departures at Marvel Studios, the fallout from the Graphic.ly closure, the cancellation of Iron Patriot and the upcoming Avengers event. They've also got an interview with a comics legend, a live reenactment of scenes from a truly terrible recent comic. The Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe - the other white meat.
Direct download: House_to_Astonish_Live_On_Fire_On_Ice.mp3
House to Astonish - Episode 126 - Abandoned Pantones
It's Paul and Al's last episode before their big live show (which, in case you've missed their many, many reminders about it, is on May 31 at the City Cafe in Edinburgh, with tickets on sale now for £12 and granting you entry to the live podcast, a buffet and the House to Astonish Comics Quiz, where there are bags of prizes to be won). They're talking about Superior Spider-Man issues 32 and 33, Steven T Seagle and Mark Dos Santos's Imperial, the new movie Batman costume, the trailers for Constantine and The Flash and the general state of the comics TV union for 2014/2015, and reviewing Original Sin, Justice League United and United States of Murder, Inc. The Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe can't dance, The Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe can't talk, only thing about it is the way it walks.
Direct download: House_to_Astonish_126_-_Abandoned_Pantones.mp3
House to Astonish - Episode 125 - Even A Waffle Iron Can Cry
Happy Free Comic Book Day! Al and Paul have got over an hour and a half of discussion for you, talking about FCBD itself, the sad passing of Al Feldstein, the changes to the Comixology app, the news from C2E2 (including the death of Wolverine, the Tenth Realm storyline, the new Storm and Star-Lord ongoing series, the 100th Anniversary issues from Marvel, the revival of Dark Horse Presents and the Young Guns 2 initiative) and the Chew animated movie, along with reviews of Southern Bastards, Batgirl Annual and Amazing Spider-Man. Life is like a hurricane, here in the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.
Don't forget to pick up your tickets for the House to Astonish Live show in Edinburgh on May 31!
Direct download: House_to_Astonish_125_-_Even_A_Waffle_Iron_Can_Cry.mp3
House to Astonish - Episode 124 - Gas a Fish
Paul and Al are back with another 90 minutes of comics chat, discussing Amazon's purchase of Comixology, the launches of Grayson, Multiversity and Earth 2: World's End, and Warren Ellis's relaunch of the Project: Superpowers universe, and presenting reviews of Skinned, Batman: Eternal and Transformers: Windblade. Westley, what about the OHOTOHOTMU? Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe? I don't think they exist.
Direct download: House_to_Astonish_124_-_Gas_a_Fish_1.mp3
House to Astonish - Episode 123 - The Space Year 2013
Al and Paul make the most of a quiet but spider-heavy couple of weeks, with discussion of Original Sin 3.1-3.4, Original Sins, Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Verse and Amazing Spider-Man's huge preorders, along with Grant Morrison and Rian Hughes' new comic for the BBC and Vertigo's new detective series Bodies. There are also reviews of Inhuman, Aquaman and the Others and Dead Letters (with some spoilers). Sometimes the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe shines on unkind people.
Don't forget that House to Astonish Live is taking place in Edinburgh on May 31; tickets are available at http://housetoastonishlive.brownpapertickets.com, with all profits going to Alzheimer Scotland.
Direct download: House_to_Astonish_123_-_The_Space_Year_2013.mp3
House to Astonish - Episode 122 - Michelin Pentagram
Paul and Al have got a whole load of great chat for you this time round, with discussion of DC's top brass moving to California, Oni press's upcoming projects, the Harley Quinn SDCC one-shot and the new Star-Spangled War Stories series, as well as the June solicitations and reviews of Daredevil, Sovereign and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There's also a big announcement about House to Astonish's most ambitious project to date. The Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is like red but not quite.
Direct download: House_to_Astonish_122_-_Michelin_Pentagram.mp3
House to Astonish - Episode 121 - Aptain Camerica
Al and Paul have a juicy hour and a quarter of comics chat for you, with talk about the Comixology hack; Archie's new CCO (and new writer); Boom!'s new director and their Big Trouble in Little China series; the IDW Cartoon Network crossover; the new writers of Thunderbolts; Gail Simone and Jim Calafiore's Leaving Megalopolis moving to Dark Horse; Titan's new Doctor Who ongoing series; Skottie Young's Rocket Raccoon; the Stan & Sharon Sakai benefit auctions and Eric Stephenson's speech to ComicsPRO, along with reviews of Moon Knight, Evil Empire and The Auteur. If you were the only girl in the world, and I were the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, you'd be very unlucky.
Direct download: House_to_Astonish_121_-_Aptain_Camerica.mp3
Sat, 22 February 2014
House to Astonish - Episode 120 - Mr Trousers
It's a big week for movie news, as Paul and Al look at the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer, the potential Black Widow movie and the Fantastic Four casting, as well as ReedPop's new New York convention and the May solicitations (no, they didn't do Dark Horse, but you could probably write those yourself), as well as reviewing Undertow, New Warriors and Loki: Ragnarok and Roll. The Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe! It's the modern power that can save the day!
Direct download: House_to_Astonish_120_-_Mr_Trousers.mp3
House to Astonish - Episode 119 - Artisan Menhir
Hot on the heels of their special episode on CHIKARA Pro, Al and Paul are back with a regular hour-and-a-bit of comics chat. They're talking about Mike Marts and Nick Lowe's editorial moves, the new creative team on Superman, the Chew/Revival crossover, the Preacher TV show and various bits of comics movie casting, and they've also got reviews of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Ms Marvel and Batman: Joker's Daughter. Theorising that one could time travel within his own lifetime, The Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator... and vanished.
Direct download: House_to_Astonish_119_-_Artisan_Menhir.mp3
House to Astonish - Episode 118 - LoveC.A.T.S.
This time round, Al and Paul are discussing Marvel's announcements, including a variety of new series, the relaunch of the Ultimate books, and... something to do with Spider-Man? They're also looking at Lex Luthor taking the reins of the Justice League, DC's second Aquaman series, and the Vertigo anthology CMYK, and whizzing through all of the announcements coming out of the Image Expo, as well as reviewing Black Widow, Black Dynamite and EGOs. The Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is no competitive eater, just a regular guy with a serious appetite.
Direct download: House_to_Astonish_118_-_LoveC.A.T.S..mp3
Sun, 5 January 2014
House to Astonish - Episode 117 - Inspector Force
Welcome to 2014, a shiny new year of comics, and what better way to see out 2013 than to look back at the best it had to offer? Paul and Al are naming their picks in a variety of categories, with the result of the listener vote also being revealed. They've also got a little news, regarding Star Wars moving to Marvel, Jim Starlin's new Thanos graphic novel and Deadpool's wedding celebration, but the emphasis is on the Homies as they hand out the gongs... or rather, have to watch them being handed out. There's the best new series, best actually new series, pleasant surprises, cliffhangers and outstanding achievements, among others, so please do join the guys for a night of glittering prizes.
Direct download: House_to_Astonish_117_-_Inspector_Force.mp3


Don't be the person holding up the line.
Wearing the right outfit can help you get through the security line even faster.
To avoid getting patted down, don't wear maxi dresses or skirts.
Too many bobby pins can surprisingly set off the metal detector.
We're always in pursuit of further refining our ensembles for every destination, whether it's the airport or the office. And while we've done enough traveling to have a general idea of what works and what doesn't at the airport — those lace-up sandals were awesome until we held up an impatient line of people trying to take them off — we figured there's still a thing or two we can learn from a true expert. Enter Kimberly Pruitt, a former TSA agent who spent more than five years working as a security officer at Los Angeles International Airport. We sat down with Pruitt to learn the surprising items that always seem to cause an issue when going through security. After you read Pruitt's tips, we guarantee you'll rethink your next airport look…After all, no one wants to be the one holding up the security line, right?
Scroll down to check them out and make your next traveling experience that much smoother.
"If you are opposed to getting patted down, then wearing a maxi skirt or dress isn't your best bet because the officer will have to check you are not hiding anything under your skirt," Pruitt tells us.
"Believe it or not, too many bobby pins will set off the metal detector. If you're looking to maintain your hair and skip the pat-down, I would suggest getting dolled up after screening," says Pruitt.
It's always good to be prepared for the security line.
"Cargo pants and shorts are one of the most difficult items of clothing at the airport," Pruitt advises. "All the different pockets become a major hassle because they almost always set off the alarm. When being told by an officer to remove everything from your pockets, there is always a lighter or set of keys that you've forgotten in a hidden pocket."
"Large metal bracelets and necklaces will set off the metal detector," Pruitt says. "The biggest problem item is the Cartier Love bracelet. These bracelets can only be removed with a screwdriver, so they become an issue when going through security. It might be wise to put your jewelry on after screening to avoid a pat-down."
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The Nepean Blue Mountain Supportive and Palliative care team is conducting a survey regarding opioid prescriptions in community for cancer-related pain. Optimal cancer pain management is essential for holistic management of this vulnerable group of patients.
Your participation in this survey is vital and will help us explore and understand the trends of cancer pain management by our fellow GPs.
Kindly respond by accessing this link for survey.


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OCS joins ISO 'elite'
OCS has achieved certification to the new international standard for occupational health and safety management systems, ISO 45001.
We are one of the first companies in the UK to achieve migration to ISO 45001. The certification, which covers the UK and Ireland, follows a five-month-long assessment by the British Standards Institution at 20 customer sites.
"This is a great achievement," says Andrew Gorton, Head of Quality and Compliance. "As well as being consistent with our core values of Care, Safety, Trustworthy and Expert, it demonstrates our commitment to compliance and continual improvement."
The new standard promotes a proactive approach to health and safety, and greater emphasis is placed upon leadership engagement and colleague consultation.
Andrew says: "By implementing the most up-to-date occupational health and safety standard, OCS will be seen as an elite category of business and be internationally recognised. It is a level of excellence that is acknowledged worldwide and will help set us apart from our competitors."
OCS joins ISO 'elite'


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Here is the latest update of the season to the E Ratings and how they predict the rest of the season will pan out. The rating system is explained here, but in a nutshell it's based on the combined quality of chances that clubs create and allow, rather than their results.
The attack rating broadly equates to how many goals' worth of chances a team would create against an average opponent (so higher is better), with the defence rating equivalent to the chances they'd be expected to allow (so lower is better). The overall rating is the difference between the two – effectively the average expected goal difference per match – so a positive number is good and a negative one is bad.
The graphic below lists each club in descending order of their overall E Rating and shows how this – along with their individual attack and defence ratings – has changed over the past 30 league matches. The red and green arrows indicate how the overall rankings have moved in the past month and the numbers in brackets show the ranks for each team's attack and defence ratings.
You can see how the model assessed the latest round of matches here.
Two of the runaway top three – Portsmouth and Doncaster – look to have deserved their likely promotion but the model is a bit surprised by Plymouth, whose displays have been listing for some time without affecting results all that much.
Where there's been some vindication for the model lately is the case of Accrington, who are continuing their recovery from a dire mid-season run towards a league position more reflective of their underlying quality.
Below I've used each club's current ratings and those of their remaining opponents to predict how the rest of the season could play out. Each of the remaining fixtures has been simulated thousands of times, using the current E Ratings to generate probabilities for where each club will finish.
We know that Doncaster are guaranteed to return to League 1 now, and it shouldn't be long before Plymouth and Portsmouth assure their own ascent back into the third tier.
However the play-off race looks set to entertain us for a while yet, with all of the contenders having suffered recent setbacks. The four teams below Luton all lost this weekend, which has provided plenty of hope to a crowded chasing pack.
At the bottom, another defeat for Leyton Orient makes relegation look a near-certainty – they're 10 points from safety with 15 to play for – but Newport are looking increasingly capable of clawing their way to safety. A win at Exeter nudges their chances of dropping back into the National League back down towards 50%, with Hartlepool looking catchable after a draw at Morecambe.


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import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.function.ObjLongConsumer;

public class HelloLambdasObjLongConsumer {
	public static void main(String... args) {
		System.out.println("Hello Lambdas ObjLongConsumer!");

		List<Long> longs = Arrays.asList(4_000_000_002L, 4_000_000_003L, 4_000_000_004L);

		Map<String, Long> map = new HashMap<>();
		for (Long longVal : longs) {
			map.put("val_" + longVal, longVal);
		}

		// Simplest - As Lambda Object
		ObjLongConsumer<String> odc1 = (s, x) -> System.out.println(s + " " + x);
		odc1.accept("abc", 4_000_000_123L);

		ObjLongConsumer<String> odc2 = (s, d) -> System.out.printf(s, d);
		odc2.accept("value = %,d\n", 4_000_000_123L);

		// ObjLongConsumer Lambda Object Method Reference Inlined
		System.out.println("---");
		map.forEach(odc1::accept);

		// ObjLongConsumer Lambda Object As a Parameter to a Separate Method
		System.out.println("---");
		ObjLongConsumer<Long> odc3 = (s, i) -> System.out.println("" + s + " " + i);
		printAllPairs(longs, odc3);

		// ObjLongConsumer Lambda Object as a Referring Method
		ObjLongConsumer<Map<String, Long>> objCon = HelloLambdasObjLongConsumer::adder;
		System.out.println("---");
		objCon.accept(map, 4_000_000_000L);
	}

	private static final void printAllPairs(final List<Long> longs, final ObjLongConsumer<Long> printer) {
		Long first = null;
		Long previous = null;
		for (Long longVal : longs) {
			if (null == first) {
				first = longVal;
			} else {
				printer.accept(previous, longVal);
			}
			previous = longVal;
		}
		if (null != previous && null != first) {
			printer.accept(previous, first);
		}
	}

	private static final void adder(final Map<String, Long> map, final long value) {
		map.forEach((key, val) -> System.out.println(String.format("%,d + %,d = %,d", val, value, (val + value))));
	}
}


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Russia have been handed a suspended ban from organisers of the Euro 2016 tournament in response to fan violence at the weekend.
It means the side are allowed remain in the competition but face being kicked out if there's more trouble in a stadium at the competition.
The side were also fined €150,000 over unrest in the stadium when the team played England in Marseille on Saturday.
Russia were found guilty by Europe's governing body of crowd disturbances, racist chanting and throwing fireworks.
Moscow earlier described the violence involving Russian fans as unacceptable and called on them not to react to any provocation.
"This is absolutely unacceptable. We count on Russian citizens and fans to obey the laws of the country they are in," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that "we can only call on our fans not to react to any sort of provocation".
"Fans from a whole range of countries took part in the riots. Unfortunately from Russia as well," he said.
Meanwhile local authorities say that a group of Russian football supporters are being thrown out of France because it is feared they will cause more trouble.
Authorities were today checking the identities of 29 supporters at a hotel near Marseille and some of them are to be taken to a holding centre at the border, local authorities told AFP.
It is believed the supporters intended to travel to the northern city of Lille, where Russia play Slovakia tomorrow.
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River City condo owners seek temporary restraining order as they aim to halt sale
Their lawsuit calls the deal "an illegal and fraudulent forced sale" and says it should be shut down by the court.
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A group of condo owners in the South Loop's River City building are seeking a temporary restraining order in their fight to stop the sale of the building to a buyer that wants to convert it to apartments.
Owners of 20 units in the 449-unit building sued last week in Cook County Circuit Court to stop the sale. The lawsuit alleges members of the condo association's board helped the potential buyers, Marc Realty and equity partner Wolcott Group, make lucrative side deals with some residents to win their votes. It also alleges that the condo board essentially stuffed the ballot box in an Aug. 28 vote to approve the buyer's $90.5 million offer.
The lawsuit calls the deal "an illegal and fraudulent forced sale" and says it should be shut down by the court.
The condo board denies the allegations.
"The board was in no way involved in the collection or tabulation of proxies or ballots," the board said in a statement, adding that the board and its attorneys conducted another review. "The board and legal counsel have confirmed (again) that over 77% of the unit owners voted in favor of the sale. The voting results are specifically supported by physical ballots and proxies, which are available for review by any owner at any time, as well as the certified tabulation from the association's independent auditor."
The parties are scheduled to appear in court tomorrow morning.
The $90.5 million offer came after Marc in the spring abruptly canceled a $100 million deal to buy the condos, which residents had voted to approve in December 2017.
Marc's $100 million offer was the third and highest price the firm had offered in a courtship that began in January 2016 with Marc's $81.4 million offer. Under Illinois condominium law, if at least 75 percent of homeowners in a condominium vote to approve a bulk sale, all owners are required to sell.
In their lawsuit, the owners of the 20 units say it's not known how much the side deals added to the $90.5 million offer, but it presumably does not bring the total back up to the previous $100 million price.
This story has been corrected to reflect the status of the temporary restraining order.
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So far, elite triathletes from 8 countries are on the Start List for the 2012 Bridgetown ITU Sprint Triathlon Pan American Cup scheduled to take place on the morning of Sunday 12th February 2012 on Spring Garden Highway.
USA triathletes lead the way with 5 men and 3 women, and there are triathletes coming from Canada, Germany, Panama, Russia, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, and UK, to battle it out with top elite triathlete from Barbados, Jason Wilson. Among the entries is the 2008 world champion, Daniel Unger from Germany, perennial World Cup rated Igor Polyanskiy from Russia and Dmitriv Gaag from Kazakhstan.
Jason was a top ten finisher in the first Pan American Cup triathlon for 2012 which was held in Argentina on Sunday. The men's race was won by Tyler Butterfield (Bermuda) with Canadian Brent McMahon, who was last year's Pan Am Games bronze medallist, taking silver and Kyke Jones, the bronze.
In the women's race, Sarah-Anne Brault, the reigning Canadian National champion, blitzed the women's field for her first elite Pan American title, having previously won the junior crown in 2008. Sarah had been training in Barbados for the past two weeks in preparation for the race.
Jillian Petersen (USA) came from behind to take silver, adding to her bronze from the 2010 Pan American Championships in Mexico. She edged out teammate Margaret Shapiro by four seconds as the U.S. claimed two of the three podium spots.
As this is the Olympic year, world triathletes are scrambling to accumulate qualifying points for London 2012. At the last Olympics in 2008, Unger was 6th and fellow German Ricarda Lish, who was 15th, is also entered for the Barbados race. Dmitriv Gaag from Kazakhstan is also an Olympian and winner of many World Cup races as well as a past World Champion while in the female race, Kathy Tremblay of Canada was 5th at the Pan American Games last year and already has a World Cup gold medal.
Preparations for the Barbados race is progressing well and the course will guarantee a close, fast race. Main sponsors for the event are Powerade, the BOA, FCIB, BTA, BHTA, and Fortress Fund Managers. The first Elite triathlon race will begin at 7:00am with the Men competing over the 750m swim, 20km bike, 5km run event. The Elite women will start, after the men, at 9:00am.
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Leonard Aloysius Scott Stokes est un architecte anglais, né à Southport, dans le Lancashire, en 1858, et mort à Chelsea (Londres) le .

Biographie
La famille Stokes a déménagé à Londres quand Leonard Stokes est devenu stagiaire dans les bureaux de l'architecte réalisant des églises catholiques Samuel Joseph Nicholl (1826-1905) en 1874, pendant trois ans. Il a ensuite travaillé en 1877 dans les bureaux de l'architecte londonien James Gandy, puis a été pendant un an contrôleur des travaux (clerk of works) à la cathédrale Christ Church de Dublin, ensuite assistant dans les bureaux de George Edmund Street. Il a suivi les cours des Royal Academy Schools en 1878 et a fait de brefs passages dans les bureaux des architectes James Piers St Aubyn, Thomas Edward Collcutt et Bodley & Garner (George Frederick Bodley et Thomas Garner). Il ouvre ensuite ses propres bureaux à Kensington, en .

Ayant gagné le Pugin Studentship, il a pu voyager en Allemagne, en 1881, et en Italie avec Walter Millard, en 1882. Il a été reçu associé au Royal Institute of British Architects en 1881

À partir de 1883, la plupart de ses ouvrages ont été des bâtiments catholiques comprenant des églises, des couvents et des écoles. Son premier travail était l'église du Sacré-Cœur d'Exeter. Il a également conçu l'église de St Clare de Liverpool, qui a été achevée en 1890.

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Leonard Stokes a été président de l' Architectural Association entre 1889 et 1892 et reçu membre de la RIBA en 1890. Il a reçu une médaille d'argent de l'Exposition universelle de Paris, en 1900. Il a été président du Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), de 1910 à 1912. En 1919, il a reçu la Médaille d'or du RIBA.

Il a fourni en 1914 les plans de la cathédrale de l'Immaculée Conception de Georgetown (Guyana) qui avait été détruite par un incendie en 1913 et qui a été réalisée en béton armé.

En 1915, il a eu une grave attaque de paralysie. Son bureau a continué avec George Drysdale qui a été stagiaire dans son bureau d'architecture. Il a reçu la Royal Gold Medallist en 1919.

Sir Albert Edward Richardson, qui devint plus tard président de la Royal Society, a été formé dans ses bureaux. Joseph Fearis Munnings (1879-1937) a été stagiaire dans son bureau d'architecture en 1909.

Famille
 Charles Scott Stokes ( -1837), solliciteur
 Scott Nasmyth Stokes (1821-1891), ancien élève de Trinity College, membre fondateur de la Cambridge Camden Society, il s'est converti au catholicisme en 1845, avocat et inspecteur en chef des écoles, marié à Emma Louisa Walsh (1820-1896) :
 Philip Folliott Scott Stokes (1853–1922), avocat (barrister), élu membre (bencher) de Lincoln's Inn, marié à Mary Fenwick (1861- ? ), fille de Richard Christopher Rapier :
 Richard Rapier Stokes (1897-1957), soldat, député travailliste et ministre.
 Anthony Scott Stokes (1898-1970), peintre.
 Adrian Scott Stokes (1854-1935), peintre paysagiste, marié à Marianne Preindlsberger.
 Leonard Sokes s'est marié en 1898 avec Edith Gaine, fille du directeur général de la National Telephone Company.
 Sir Frederick Wilfred Stokes (1860-1927), a été un ingénieur et inventeur du canon Stokes.
 John Scott Stokes

Notes et références

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Annexes

Bibliographie
 Jan Ward, The Leonard Stokes Directory: Architect in a Dressing Gown, 2009
 Adolf K. Placzek, « Leonard Stokes », dans Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, 1983
 Alexander Stuart Gray, Jean Breach, Nicholas Breach, « Leonard Stokes », dans Edwardian architecture: a biographical dictionary, University of Iowa Press, 1986
 George Drysdale, The Work of Leonard Stokes, , dans Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1927, volume 34,  (aussi publié dans Architecture en 1926)

Liens externes

 RIBA : Portrait de Stokes, Leonard Aloysius Scott (1858-1925), Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, 1912
 Scottish Architects : Leonard Aloysius Scott Stokes
 Archiseek : Stokes, Leonard Aloysius Scott (1858-1925)

Architecte anglais
Naissance en 1858
Naissance à Southport
Décès en décembre 1925
Décès à Chelsea (Londres)

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Implants & Bone Conduction
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Practical Approaches to Evidence-based Practice
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How can professionals make informed decision—based on scientific facts—for their patients and practices?
Ruth Bentler, PhD, is a professor at the University of Iowa; Cheryl Eiler, MA, is a research audiologist at the Starkey Hearing Research Center in Berkeley, Calif; Benjamin Hornsby, PhD, is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center in Nashville, Tenn; Sheila T. Moodie, MClSc, is a research audiologist at the National Centre for Audiology in London, Ontario, Canada; Laurel Olson, MA, is manager of clinical product research at Starkey Laboratories, Eden Prairie, Minn; and Michael Valente, PhD, is professor and director of adult audiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis.
The culture of our profession is evolving. All stakeholders must share the same goal: improved patient care, based on management steeped in strong supporting scientific evidence.
Audiologists and other hearing care professionals are expected to assess the individual needs of their patients and—using the best available evidence coupled with clinical experience—prescribe the best technology for them. However, the strength of evidence (from a traditional evidence-based practice perspective) supporting the use of differing types of hearing aid technologies (eg, methods of compression, noise reduction, directional processing, and feedback-reduction strategies) is often weak.
Likewise, new technologies are being introduced at a rapid pace, and the time between the introduction of new technology and the peer-reviewed publication of clinical research quantifying its benefit—or lack thereof—can be years. As a result, the utility of the research in helping clinicians make informed decisions is significantly compromised.
Additionally, consensus on how to verify the performance and benefits of a new technology is difficult to achieve, and the efficacy (laboratory performance/benefit) or effectiveness (real-world performance/benefit) of these new technologies can vary based on the measures used during the assessment. Given these constraints it may be difficult for clinicians to draw strong conclusions about the potential benefits of current and new technologies for their patients.
Mountains (or Molehills?) of Evidence
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has its roots in medicine. EPB is defined as:
"…the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients…[by] integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research."1
The literature is full of examples from medicine wherein practices deemed to be "best practice" at the time have turned out to be wrong or even harmful when scientific rigor was used to evaluate the effects. Examples include the ancient Greek practice of bloodletting for a variety of ailments, including hypertension.2 In the 19th century, opium was used to treat diabetes. In the 1940s, premature infants were "oxygenated" to prevent retrolental fibroplasia, a condition later found to be caused, not cured, by the treatment. The list goes on.
The application of EBP principles in hearing care has taken root in the past decade. Academics, clinicians, and manufacturers all have important roles in the use of these principles for sound decision-making. Understanding our roles, and roadblocks, is important for the successful movement of knowledge into everyday practice.
Concurrently, the audiological field has witnessed an explosion in the availability of both technology and published literature. Clinicians have access to new diagnostic tools, measurement tools, processing schemes, and even style designs every few months. In addition, research publications have become increasingly more abundant. The number of papers published in the main audiology journals has grown from 200 per year to 1,700 per year since 1960.3 A clinician would need to read more than five papers a day for 365 days annually in order to keep up! If hearing science literature is added, the total rises to 4,350 papers per year, and requires reading 12 papers daily!
The task is daunting. Yet, in this era of increased accountability (third-party payers, legislation, and ethics), the clinician is often forced to make clinical management decisions, in many cases without good available and supporting data. Further, it is often not clear to the clinician whether data provided from industry comprises evidence or marketing. All these factors present significant roadblocks to the use of EBP principles.
EBP, EBD, and Levels of Evidence
First, we must distinguish between EBP and evidence-based design (EBD). For research and development (R&D) purposes in industry, the principles of EBP hold, but with several caveats or hurdles. EBD is an evidence-based approach to hearing instrument design that encourages the development of features with proven patient benefit. That proven patient benefit often comes from a slightly different model of evidence gathering. Internal decision-making leads to new algorithm development, new microphone designs, or even new case styling.
The key word here is internal. For any manufacturer to move forward and maintain or improve market share, it must develop its own internal criteria for "evidence-base." While that evidence is often generated internally, any advertisement, brochure, or other promotional claim must follow certain rules of content. That is, industry may initiate and utilize internal research in the development of new products and features in a proprietary manner. However, if the manufacturer plans to make claims relative to a new product or algorithm, the Guidelines for Hearing Aid Manufacturers for Substantiation of Performance Claims4 developed by the Hearing Industries Association (HIA) provide the protocol for obtaining the scientific data to substantiate those claims. HIA developed these guidelines in a consensus document that complied with the substantiation requirements of the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission. The guidelines also provide a basis for hearing aid manufacturers to privately resolve disputes about promotional claims.
In summary, research is carried out at various levels within the industry. Some efforts are proprietary; other efforts are intended to provide substantiation of advertising claims. Whether or not these internal efforts are used as evidence in the clinician's critical evaluation of available data depends upon the level of the evidence. Although several hierarchies have been proposed, most follow along these lines:
Level 1a: Well-designed meta-analysis
Level 1b: Well-designed randomized control trial
Level 2a: Well-designed controlled study without randomization
Level 2b: Well-designed quasi-experimental study
Level 3: Well-designed nonexperimental studies (eg, case studies)
Level 4: Expert opinion, consensus statement, etc.
The lack of EBP may be holding back new investors in the hearing industry, says Brent Edwards, PhD, in his article, "What Outsiders Tell Us About the Hearing Industry."
Information provided in a brochure or instructional booklet cannot be construed as evidence, according to this hierarchy. Information provided in trade magazines may or may not be construed as evidence. That is because, in addition to this level delineation, the quality of the research must be considered in determining its value in our decision-making. Issues of appropriate design, sample size, blinding, statistics, etc, all lead to the designation of high quality.
Inherent in this is the assumption that the study has undergone the necessary rigorous scrutiny of the peer-review process; consequently, trade magazine "data"—while carefully gathered and presented—typically has not undergone the scrutiny of the scientific community and cannot be considered to carry the same value as evidence from those peer-reviewed journals. If industry-generated research (for EBD) is to be included in the critical review (for EBP), that research must also be available to the practitioner in a peer-reviewed format.
Summit Recommendations
The Key Issues
In an effort to organize the discussion and recommendations of the summit participants, four issues/questions were defined:
How does our profession speed up the process of validation of new evidence-based advances in hearing aid technology for clinicians so that they can decide whether or not to put them into practice?
How do we disseminate information in a format that clinicians can look at and clearly interpret?
How do we change clinical practice to be evidence-based?
How do we ensure that students understand that what they do in the clinic should be based on the best evidence-based research available?
Good research can be carried out in many settings, including clinics, university laboratories, and industry. However, good research takes considerable time and money to accomplish. In order to continue to move forward both for EBP and EBD in the hearing care field, increased investment in collaborative university-industry relationships and research consortia could be beneficial. Some potential barriers to increasing university-industry collaboration exist, including how to best include university researchers in the R&D process while ensuring that:
Protection of intellectual property for both parties is preserved;
The R&D product development time line is achieved; and
University ethical mandates are followed.
Another barrier to improving communication of new findings is that peer-reviewed journal publication takes months—even years—to complete. That does not help the "speed up the process so clinicians can decide" problem related to the implementation of EBP in audiologic management. Both academic and industry settings are capable of providing the evidence. While large clinical trials may result in higher levels of evidence, multiple smaller studies can be pooled for the same result. Considering "effect size" across studies provides a larger data set in a shorter time frame. (Effect size refers to the magnitude of the result. A larger effect size is more likely to indicate an important and clinically significant result. Combined with confidence intervals, clinicians have useful information for clinical decision-making.)
Funding this research must be a cooperative effort. Academics interested in the efficacy/effectiveness of new technologies must derive their operating costs from industry, private foundations, and limited federal sources. Industry-based researchers may have the R&D budgets, but not the time or resources to undertake the necessary research on a broad enough scale. Collaborative efforts across academic, industry, and private practice settings can ensure the availability of the necessary evidence in a more timely manner.
Disseminating "best practice" information in a format that clinicians can clearly interpret is a challenge. There is sufficient evidence to suggest that most clinicians do not engage in EBP, but rather rely upon tradition, most recent experiences, and what they learned years ago in graduate school.5 In one survey of speech and hearing professionals,6 reasons for this oversight were noted as insufficient time in the workplace (70%) and lack of available evidence (48%). At the same time, the respondents reported being "very likely" to use other colleagues (68%), continuing education opportunities (50%), peer-reviewed literature (37%), and professional organization policy statements (25%) to obtain the necessary evidence for clinical decision-making.
There are several ways to provide evidence in a more comprehensive manner, rather than expecting that clinicians will have the time and library resources to review evidence:
Rating evidence levels. Structured abstracts that include "Level of Evidence" ratings would provide easier access to important findings. Those assigned levels could be determined by an independent and trained panel of reviewers.
White papers. Position papers are another viable vehicle to get the foundation of evidence established. Our professional organizations (eg, ASHA, AAA) can accomplish this task by committee effort and compilation. Publication of these position papers online and in trade magazines makes them readily accessible.
Attending and participating at conferences. Unfortunately, since "passive dissemination of information" generally leads to only small changes in clinical practice,7 we need to ensure that continuing education opportunities at state and national meetings provide engaging activities for attendees. Interactive educational meetings and use of opinion leaders have been more consistently effective in promoting behavioral change among health professionals than distribution of practice guidelines and lectures.7
Emphasizing EBP principles in all educational and training activities. At the very basic level, training programs need to include the principles and process in their curriculum so that clinicians can most efficiently consume the available evidence for their ongoing clinical practices.
Changing clinical practice to be more evidence-based creates a significant challenge. Change at the individual clinician level is important; however, equally important is modifying the organizational environments in which people work so that evidence-based decision-making fits the context in which the individual works.8 For example, if the profession of audiology is to thrive as a doctoral-level profession, we will need to ensure that our daily clinical practice promotes us as highly qualified professionals who have identified the determinants that improve research uptake and use by hearing health care providers. In addition, we will need to develop methods of evaluating the outcome of our evidence-based practices. To do so will take commitment on the part of the training programs, clinicians, and industry-related personnel.
We can ensure that students understand that what they do in the clinic is, and should be, based on sound research. That attitude must become the underpinning of our profession, instilled from the classroom onward. Within each training program, the value of implementation of EBP must be emphasized. Lack of confidence in performing critical appraisal of research and knowledge of statistical analyses have evolved as other key barriers to research use in a number of studies across a number of health-science-related professions.
This underscores the importance of teaching these skills during graduate-level training and ensuring that graduates are provided with this training in continuing education opportunities. And, as any good educator will attest, these skills must be practiced and refined throughout the clinical career.
In summary, the culture of our profession is evolving. All stakeholders must share the same goal: improved patient care, based on management steeped in supporting scientific evidence. The academic environment holds the most responsibility for training future clinicians, thus instilling the value of good scientific principles in clinical management. The clinician holds responsibility for consuming the available evidence and using the data to support good practice decisions. Industry holds responsibility for following good research practice in the development of training and advertising materials. Good training, good research, and good collaboration among the stakeholders are essential.
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The Official Walmart Twitter Account Just Savagely Trolled Tennessee
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KNOXVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 01: Fans pack the stands to support their teams as the Mississippi Rebels face the Tennessee Volunteers on October 1, 2005 at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
There was a time brands used social media to call attention to their products and upcoming deals. We no longer live in that time.
In 2018, brands such as Wendy's have turned to insulting would-be consumers, albeit satirically. That's exactly what Walmart did earlier today when it called out the Tennessee Volunteers.
How'd we get here? Well it all started by a Volunteers fan tweeting about new Florida head coach Dan Mullen's shoes. Houston Kress, of Fox Sports Knoxville, took a shot at rival Florida by saying that only the school's colors could make an iconic shoe look like it came from a bin at Walmart.
Here's that tweet.
The official Walmart Twitter account decided to clap back in epic fashion. Someone running the Walmart account decided Volunteers fans needed to be reminded of last year's epic loss to Florida in the final seconds.
We truly live in a beautiful and terrifying time.


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My wife's grandfather died a few days ago at 98 years of age. Or, years of youth. We were going to drive out to see him next week and show him his latest great-granddaughter (I think he now has something like 8 great-grandkids) and we're sad that he won't get to meet her.
He was awesome at pool. When we lived in Ohio we would drive up a few times a year to see him and my wife's uncle. We would play pool and he would usually beat us. I know geometry but I can't play pool. This guy was in his late 80's/early 90's and he was kickin' our butts at pool. We would win but I think he did that on purpose just to keep us playing. Like that would have stopped us.
This will be a busy week since we are also going to scatter my mom's ashes this weekend. We were going to do this first (it's also a family reunion for my side of the family) and then drive to Ohio but now we have to switch things. Which means a 12 hour drive to Ohio to get there on Thursday (the service is on Friday) followed by a 9 hour drive to Iowa that Friday (my mom's service is on Saturday).
Again, don't forget your family. Make up if you're fighting. They won't be around forever and you just might miss them.


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After successful vaccination campaigns, the WHO in 1980 declared the eradication of smallpox, though cultures of the virus are kept by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States and in Russia. Smallpox vaccination was discontinued in most countries in the 1970s as the risks of vaccination include death (~1 per million), among other serious side effects. Nonetheless, after the 2001 anthrax attacks took place in the United States, concerns about smallpox have resurfaced as a possible agent for bioterrorism. As a result, there has been increased concern about the availability of vaccine stocks. Moreover, President of the United States George W. Bush has ordered all American military personnel to be vaccinated against smallpox and has implemented a voluntary program for vaccinating emergency medical personnel who would likely be the first people to respond in case of a bioterrorist attack.
Famous victims of this disease include Ramses V (not confirmed), Mary II of England, Louis XV of France, and Peter II of Russia. Henry VIII's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, survived the disease but was scarred by it. A smallpox victim.After first contacts with Europeans, the death of a large part of the native population of the New World was caused by European-transmitted diseases. Smallpox was the chief culprit. On at least one occasion, germ warfare was used by the British army under Jeffrey Amherst when smallpox-infected blankets were deliberately distributed to the Ottawa tribe in 1763.
Smallpox is described in the Ayurveda books. Treatment included inoculation with year-old smallpox matter. The inoculators would travel all across India pricking the skin of the arm with a small metal instrument using "variolous matter" taken from pustules produced by the previous year's inoculations. The effectiveness of this system was confirmed by the British doctor J.Z. Holwell in an account to the College of Physicians in London in 1767.
Edward Jenner developed a smallpox vaccine by using cowpox fluid (hence the name vaccination, from the Latin vaca, (cow); his first inoculation occurred on May 14, 1796. After independent confirmation, this practice of vaccination against smallpox spread quickly in Europe. The first smallpox vaccination in North America occurred on June 2, 1800. National laws requiring vaccination began appearing as early as 1805. The last case of wild smallpox occurred on September 11th, 1977. One last victim was claimed by the disease in the UK in September 1978, when Janet Parker, a photographer in the University of Birmingham Medical School, contracted the disease and died. A research project on smallpox was being conducted in the building at the time, though the exact route by which Ms. Parker became infected was never fully elucidated.
What is smallpox? - Smallpox is a highly contagious disease unique to humans caused by two virus variants called Variola major and Variola minor.
What are the symptoms of smallpox? - The initial symptoms of smallpox include the acute onset of fever, chills, headache, nausea, vomiting and severe muscle aches.
How is smallpox spread? - Smallpox is most often spread by the respiratory secretions of people with smallpox to people who have close face to face contact.
What causes smallpox? - Smallpox is caused by variola virus. Anyone exposed to the smallpox virus may get smallpox.
What's the treatment for smallpox? - There is currently no cure for smallpox - although the vaccine can sometimes help those recently exposed.
How can smallpox be prevented? - There is a vaccine to prevent smallpox. Getting smallpox vaccine before exposure will protect about 95 percent of people from getting smallpox.
What is smallpox vaccine? - Smallpox vaccine contains live vaccinia virus, a virus in the orthopoxvirus family and closely related to variola virus, the agent that causes smallpox.


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The Wuling Zhengtu or Fighting is a mid-size pickup truck produced by SAIC-GM-Wuling under the Wuling brand since 2021.

Overview

The first information about the large, passenger-delivery pickup truck Wuling appeared in September 2020, when photos from the Chinese patent office showing the full exterior of the car appeared on the Internet. Initial photos and information about the vehicle were presented in January 2021.

The Zhengtu took the form of an angular pickup truck with an over 3-meter wheelbase, which was dictated by the combination of the personal characteristics of a four-door, four-seat passenger compartment combined with a spacious 2-meter-long transport compartment. The sides of the transport compartment are made of light metal and they enable the disassembly of all three walls.

The official presentation of Zhengtu took place in March 2021. While emphasizing the transport functionality of the vehicle, Wuling made the passenger compartment similar to the manufacturer's passenger models. The dashboard is decorated with an 8-inch touch screen of the multimedia system.

The range of power units was limited to the 1.5-liter four-cylinder gasoline engine, typical for Wuling models, developing 99 HP in cooperation with a five-speed manual transmission.

The Zhengtu was built with the Mainland Chinese market in mind, where its sales began just after its debut in March 2021. The manufacturer is not planning to export the pickup truck to foreign markets. The price for a subscript copy in China is the equivalent of USD 9,000.

References

Cars of China
Pickup trucks
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Zhengtu
Cars introduced in 2021

External links
 https://www.sgmw.com.cn/zhengtu-1.html


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We were sent the samples as shown to review.
Love the caterpillar and spider - very good! These are a great range of pens and pencils - love what Stabilo have to offer little ones.
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Leaders in health tech innovation
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A Success by Any Other Name…
What does success look like for medical devices these days? It's easy to lose track of the wins with all the doom-and-gloom circulating about reimbursement struggles and regulatory pitfalls. Success might not look like what it used to, but it's there.
Bill Starling, the notable medical device entrepreneur, discussed this topic at a recent Stanford Biodesign Alumni Association event. And who better than a guy who has seen success in many forms across his career?
Bill was a member of the founding management team at Advanced Cardiovascular Systems (ACS) back in the early 80's. At the time, coronary angioplasty was still new, having been first performed by Andreas Gruentzig in 1977. ACS was able to quickly become a dominant player in this field because the larger medical device companies were slow to react. In fact prior to joining ACS, Bill was working at Edwards Lifesciences and had just tried to convince them to move into this new space. When they decided to pass, Bill promptly left to join the early team at ACS. Coronary angioplasty grew faster than even he expected, and ACS was there to capture the revenue. In 1984, ACS was acquired by Eli Lilly for more than $200M having raised only about $9M in venture funding. The bench to bedside was fast, the market penetration was rapid, and the return on investment was high. That's probably one of the best examples of success from the early days of medical device startups.
One of the biggest changes about med tech today that Bill highlighted was the cost of innovation. Previously, the time to market was so much shorter that introducing new therapies was orders of magnitude cheaper.
In addition, the amount of venture capital available, specifically within the last several years continues to shrink for an increasing number of entrepreneurs. As shown below, venture capitalists have shied away from investing in early stage deals and therefore money to fund these products is being filled in by angels and friends and family.
However, Bill stressed, there are still opportunities for success today – they just look different. His current company Aegis Surgical is working on a 510(k) access and delivery tool for TAVR procedures. If you attended the event you were lucky enough to hear the specifics about this device. But suffice to say that the company has been structured in response to the changes within the medical device landscape.
Bill's rule of thumb is that if it costs less than $5M to get to a first-in-man, then it is worth doing. Otherwise it may be too much of an uphill battle in today's environment. Aegis is lean with a mainly virtual structure to keep burn low and the funding required minimal. This has also allowed them to envision multiple successful exit scenarios. On the flip side, the low overhead means that as CEO, Bill has to fill in for various roles that would normally be contracted out. However, Bill says he is "reinvigorated to do this all again."
The Biodesign Alumni were thankful for the great talk and wish Aegis Surgical the best of luck.
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