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Name: cdn-kemp -- KEMPs AND KIN
Updated: 10-14-2019 09:10:06. Owner: Cheryl (Kemp) Taber
Name: Anna Van Vorst
Death: JUL 1789 in Fredericksburgh Tp., Addington County, Ontario, Canada
Burial: Fredericksburgh Tp., Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
Person Id: I930
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Jacobus Van Vorst: Death: AFT 1791 in Schenectady, Albany, New York, USA
Anna Beck: Death: ABT 1746 in Schenectady, Albany, New York, USA
Married: Nicolaas Van der Bogart on 29 JUL 1753 at Schenectady, Albany, New York, USA.
Nicolaas Van der Bogart: Death: BEF JUL 1758 in Schenectady, Albany, New York, USA
Tjerk "Cherrick" Van de Bogart: Death: 11 AUG 1835 in Genesee County,New York, USA
Francis Van de Bogart: Death: 7 JUL 1829 in Richmond Tp., Addington County, Ontario, Canada,Addington County, Ontario, Canada
Rachel Van de Bogart: Death: BEF 1767 in Schenectady, Albany, New York, USA
Married: John Kemp on ABT 1759 OR 1760 at Schenectady, New York, USA.
John Kemp: Birth: ABT 1723 in possibly Maryland, USA. Death: JAN 1795 in Fredericksburgh Tp., Addington County, Ontario, Canada
John Kemp: Birth: ABT 1768 in New York State, USA. Death: AFT APR 1861 in Ontario, Canada
Nancy Ann Kemp: Birth: AFT 1768 in New York State, USA. Death: AFT 1820 in Ontario, Canada
Joseph Kemp: Death: AFT 1836
James Kemp: Death: 23 MAR 1803 in Fredericksburgh Tp., Addington County, Ontario, Canada
Rachel Kemp: Death: AFT 1795 in Ontario, Canada
a. Note: ORST and Anna BECK and was baptized on Oct. 22, 1732, at the First Dutch Reformed Church of Schenectady, N.Y. At the age of 18, on July 19, 1751, Anna married Nicolaas VAN DER BOGART, the son of Tjerk Fransen VAN DER BOGART and Margaret Gietje VEDDER, in Schenectady. Sometime between Dec. 11, 1757 and before the baptismal of his fourth child on July 16, 1758, Nicolaas died leaving Anna a young widow of only 26 yrs. of age. Anna was left with four very young children, ranging in age from newborn to 4 years old. Baptismals of the Van der Bogart children were: Tjerk, March 5, 1754; Frans, May 4, 1755; Rachel, Feb. 6, 1757; and Margarita, July 16, 1758. It is believed that Rachel Van der Bogart died young. Sometime prior to 1759/60, she married John Kemp. John Kemp raised the young Van der Bogart children and he and Anna subsequently had five children. Anna was buried 15 Jul 1789 in Fredericksburgh Tp., Ontario, Addington County, at about 57 years of age. Anna's father, Jacobus Van Vorst, left instructions in his will, written in 1790, for Tjerk Van der Bogart (one of Anna's sons from her first marriage) to care for Rachel Kemp (a daughter by John Kemp). Her father's will read: "Then I give & bequeath to my said daughters Elizabeth Quackenbos & Angelica Welch & in trust to Cherick Van de Bogart for keeping & maintaining Rachel Camp daughter of John Camp all the Stock & Cows to be divided equally among them & to their heirs & assigns for ever".
Schenectady Reformed Church Baptisms 1694-1811, by Arthur Kelly: pg. 45, #990 - Oct. 22, 1732 - Anna, Parents - Jacobus van Vorst & Johanna Bek, Witnesses: Abraham Mebi, Anna Vedders.
Marriages Schenectady Reformed Church, by Keller, pg. 17: #363 - 7.29.1753 - Klaas Tjerckse Vanden Bogart, wid, Schenectady to Anna Van Vorst, jd, liv here.
Schenectady Reformed Church Baptisms 1694-1811, by Arthur Kelly: pg. 93, #2063 - March 5, 1754 - Tzjerk, Parents - Claas van den Bogaart & Anna van Vorst, Witnesses: Harmanus van den Bogaart, Catarina van den Bogaart.
pg. 96, #2136 - May 4, 1755 - Frans, Parents - Claas Van den Bogaard & Anna Van Vorst, Witnesses: John Marrissen, Catharina Marrissen.
pg. 101, #2250 - Feb. 6, 1757 - Rachel, Parents - Claas Van den Bogaard & Anna Van Vorst, Witnesses: Jacobus Van Vorst, Sarah Van Vorst.
pg. 104, #2306 - Dec. 11, 1757 - Nicholaas, Parents - Harmanus V den Bogaard & Catarina van Antwerpen, Witnesses: Nicholaas van den Bogaard, Anna van den Bogaard. [Note: Nicholas was alive in Dec. 1757 but dead by July 1758.]
pg. 106, #2351 - July 16, 1758 - Margarita, Parents - Claas van den Bogaard, deceased & Anna Van Vorst, Witnesses: Thomas Nikson, Anganita Nikson.
Pg. 116, #2570 - July 20, 1761 - Joseph, Parents - John Camp & Anna van Vorst, Witnesses: Neal Mackely, Catarina Mackely.
pg. 118, #2624 - Feb. 14, 1762 - Jacobus, Parents - Jilles Van Vorst & Annaatje Berrit, Witnesses: Johannes Van Vorst, Annaatje Camp.
pg. 121, #2690 - Jan. 9, 1763 - Jacobus, Parents - John Camp & Anna Van Vorst, Witnesses: Jellis Ja: Van Vorst, Anna Van Vorst. (Jacobus = James)
pg. 143, #3191 - Aug. 23, 1767 - Rachel, Parents - John Camp & Annaatje Van Vorst, Witnesses: Jacobus Van Vorst, Sarah Van Vorst.
pg. 209, #4689 - Dec. 19, 1779 - Annaatje, Parents - Adam Kittel & Margarita Van den Bogaard, Witnesses: Tjerk v den Bogaard, Annatje Camp.
Genealogies of the First Settlers of Schenectady, by Jonathan Pearson, pp245,246 shows her history and baptismal date. Also p215 shows Anna under the history of Nicolaas Van Der Bogart. This shows her marriage date and the baptismal of her 1st four children. Pg 32 shows Anna under the Camp history and the baptismal of her first three children.
Early Church Records of Rev. John Langhorn & Rev. Robert McDowall, by Loral & Mildred Wannamaker: Burials of 3rd Town (Fredericksburgh), Ontario, recorded by Rev. Langhorn - pg. 81 - Anna, wife of John Kemp, died July 15, 1789.
Note: Anna's maiden name was VAN VORST. She was the daughter of Jacobus VAN V


Continuing from my last post, let's do five more! Actually, what the heck, let's do six!
Marco is the reluctant, smart-aleck hero of the animorphs. He knows the world is at stake, but he feels it isn't fair to his father for him to keep fighting. What if his father lost him, like how they lost Marco's mom?
This choice, along with his sense of humour, sets Marco away from the other animorphs. It isn't until the fifth book, after we get into his perspective, that he changes his mind. And it's not just because he sees that fighting is the right thing. He's given a reason to fight, in a huge twist, and it gets us rooting for him that much harder.
Ella grows organically from the novel's concept–the "blessing" of obedience to a child from a fairy. She's fun to watch, and Levine makes wonderful use of internal dialogue to show Ella's anxiety and wishfulness.
She is heavily involved in a romance plot, but girls are allowed to like boys. (Climb aboard the third wave!) The letters between herself and Charmont give her more time to show other interests as well. She cinches her designation as a hero at the climax of the novel, where like all good modern princesses, she saves herself.
A hundred and fifty years before Balsa and the Paper Bag Princess, there was Tatterhood. A princess wearing rags who uses a gigantic wooden spoon to lay the beatdown on hags and trolls.
She's brave. She's fearless. She doesn't have to be beautiful! Well, actually, that changes near the end, but it happens under her own power. I'd still file this one under early feminist fairy tales.
Although Pippi Longstocking is the more popular of Lindgren's heroes, I find Pippi somewhat shallow. Ronia has more depth, and the choices she makes show more courage.
Basically, she goes against her father, the Robber King, to create peace with the other band of robbers. A classic example of embracing the other. And further, like many of the women on my list, she's allowed to be wild and passionate and free.
Peter Pan is magical. Not just the novel/play (although it is) but the character himself. The first mention of him is when Mrs. Darling is cleaning up the children's minds to prepare them for bed. Talk about surreal! The same chapter has a dog acting as a nanny, tucking them in.
Then we go for a ride, chasing a shadow, flying through the air, fighting pirates, romancing mermaids. The whole time there's this weird selfishness that makes Peter mesmerizing.
Although I love the character, Peter Pan (the novel/play) is one of the best examples of why we still need new children's books today. It's an amazing, enchanting story full of adventure. But it's also full of toxic ideas–from the noble savages, to Tinkerbell's hissyfit, to Wendy's depiction as a nurturer who spends her free time knitting socks.
We need to write stories just as thoughtful, energetic, and seductive that carry more progressive ideas. And so, in a way, I see Peter leering down on children's literature from a century back, acting as both one of its heroes and one of its villains.
If I had made this post as a list, Arnold would be a contender for #1. He stands up to his entire community by leaving the reservation to go to a white school. As a result, he loses his best friend.
Like the Logan family, it's unfair to expect Arnold to overcome systemic problems. It's enough that he chooses a different path and fights the system on his own. Interestingly, similar to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the first heroic action is a reaction to an out-of-date textbook.
What makes Arnold memorable are the traits that make him unique. Not just his circumstance and disabilities, but his amazing sense of humour. He's one of my favorite characters, full stop.
In making this list, it was very clear what my next post needed to be: diversity in children's literature, particularly fantasy.
Today's list was the hardest one so far. It highlights just how much I still haven't read. So for this list there's no real order, and I'll continue with five more in the next post. Here we go!
Children's literature is full of curious kids who are blandly brave. They're almost interchangeable. Rather than the focus of the story, these protagonists are nearly invisible while we are immersed in the books' worlds. It's not always a bad thing–often the world is quite interesting–but these characters are more spyglass than hero.
Characters are determined by the choices they make, so a hero character to me is one who makes heroic choices. My favorites are those who forward a new theme, aside from simply "doing the right thing" in situations where "the right thing" is obvious. I like characters who question their surroundings and stand up to things that are difficult. For me, Neville Longbottom ranks much higher than Harry Potter.
And sometimes, a strong enough idiosyncrasy is enough to carry a hero and make them memorable.
For most of the story, Winnie Foster is one of the curious, brave, precocious children we see everywhere in children's literature. What makes her special is the choice she makes, revealed in the book's epilogue.
Yeah, I'm listing the whole family. They all work together in the fight against the real villainy of Mississippi racism in the 1930s. I could go character by character, from Little Man to Mrs. Logan to Cassie to Stacey to Mr. Logan listing off brave actions and moral choices, but then I'm just giving you a plot summary.
This is an incredible example of characters being more notable for what they try to do than for what they accomplish. In order to be heroes, the Logan family does not have to wipe out racism. They do not have to free the land from oppression. It's more than enough to stand up where and when they can.
Furthermore, this is an important series that portrays oppression from the point of view of the oppressed. Children's literature needs more books like these.
Not every story needs a deep theme. Fantastic Mr. Fox stands out by being hilarious. Wes Anderson managed to read a lot of pathos into Mr. Fox and his lost tail and his family, but the original story is just a great example of repetitive humour and escalation.
No matter what's wrong–superb confidence. Keep digging! Dig until you are digging faster than bulldozers! Dig until you have made a gigantic loop to the surface!
Balsa has sworn to work as a bodyguard-for-hire until she saves eight lives, in atonement for the eight people killed on her behalf when she was a child. Despite this noble work, her character is complicated by the statement that the reason she fights is that she can't stop herself. It's a compulsion and obsession.
The strongest insight into her as a hero comes from Chagum, the prince who she has sworn to protect. A water spirit has planted its egg in him. He can feel how desperately the egg wants to live, but he still can't bring himself to risk his own life for it. In contrast, Balsa leaps in front of assassins and demons to save him on several occasions.
It's become common to see female warriors as characters, but most are still wrangled into romance plots. Balsa is allowed to have other ambitions and drives.
A notable reversal where the princess goes off to save the prince. What's more, she does it without glamor, walking down the road in a simple paper bag.
Want more? Check out the next post in the series!


Non slate pool tables are more affordable than those that use it. If you aren't familiar with slate, it is a solid material used underneath the felt on the top of the gaming area. This is in place to give the surface a smooth and level element so that the balls move around properly on it. When you play pool on a non slate table it doesn't mean that you won't still enjoy the game.
However, the same level of quality won't be there as with a slate one. On the plus side though non slate tables are more affordable and that can mean you are able to afford one in some situations. When slate isn't used there is some other type of material that is in its place. The ones most often used include slatron which is a type of synthetic material. Basically it is nothing more than some layers of plastic that are on top of cheap particle board. Sometimes what is known as fiberboard will be pressed around the particle board to make it more durable.
You will find different levels of quality when it comes to non slate tables. It is a good idea to ask what types of materials that the backing is made from as well as the surface underneath the felt. That way you can get one that is as well made as possible. There is really no point in paying for a very low cost pool table that is non slate if it won't last you very long. The more you can find out about the design of the non slate pool table the better choice you will make.
If you will play your pool table often then non slate may not work to your advantage though. This type of product is more likely to warp which means that the playing area won't remain level. If you have children that will play the pool table they can be harsh on it and rough. As a result such damage can occur so you need to take that into consideration.
Also, you need to be very careful that moisture doesn't get onto a non slate table. Even though you can remove it from the surface in most instances it can seep through and ruin the other materials. If you do encounter any types of spills or water leaks, be sure they get cleaned up as quickly as possible. This process will help to minimize the possible damages to your pool table.
The decision to buy a non slate table is one you need to carefully consider. You don't want to invest in one and then later on wish you had paid more for one with slate. Take the time to try out some non slate pool tables though that are on display. That way you can find out for yourself what the playing will be like. If you find that you are accepting of it then you may as well save some cash and look into this option further.


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December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998
"The Chairman of the Board." "The Voice." "Old Blue Eyes." Francis Albert Sinatra had a lot of names. But, mostly, everyone just called him "Frank."
Hoboken, New Jersey's favorite son was one of the largest entertainers in the world for decades. His smooth and unmistakable baritone catapulted him into super-stardom and made him the idol of a generation. From his early days singing with bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey to his unprecedented success as a solo artist, Sinatra wowed audiences and radio listeners with his rich voice and unique phrasing.
He was also a decent actor. He resurrected his somewhat waning career by portraying Angelo Maggio in 1953's From Here to Eternity. The performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar and opened the door for what would be a very productive second chance. More movies and albums followed and Frank enjoyed the pinnacle of his career throughout the 1950's and '60's.
Sinatra was the defacto leader of the Hollywood/Vegas boys club, "The Rat Pack" (though he preferred the term "The Summit") a group of superstars including Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and actor Peter Lawford. But, Sinatra was the brightest star. Even in that blinding constellation.
In his later career, Frank Sinatra continued to record. He continued to perform. He never really slowed down until the very end. On May 14th, 1998, Francis Albert Sinatra died following a heart attack in Los Angeles. His last words were reportedly "I'm losing." He may have had his ups and downs in his life. He may have been abusive. He may have had ties to the mob. He may have, at times, been a miserable son-of-a-bitch. But he never lost.
Desert Memorial Park – Cathedral City, CA
UPDATE 01/03/21 – Apparently Frank has a new marker now. Time to head back to the desert for an updated pic.
Section B-8, #151; South end of the park; 4 spaces east of the road, just north of a curbside tree.
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Q: WCF single endpoint with multiple service contracts discovery I use single endpoint with multiple service contracts. For example:
In interface assembly:
public interface IServer1 { ... }

public interface IServer2 { ... }

In server assembly:
internal interface IServer : IServer1, IServer2 {}

internal class Server : IServer
{
    ...
    var host = new ServiceHost(this);
    host.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof(IServer), ...);
    host.Description.Behaviors.Add(new ServiceDiscoveryBehavior());
    host.AddServiceEndpoint(new UdpDiscoveryEndpoint());
    ...
}

In client assemblies:
internal class Client1
{
    ...
    var factory = new ChannelFactory<IServer1>(...);
    ...
}

internal class Client2
{
    ...
    var factory = new ChannelFactory<IServer2>(...);
    ...
}

It works just fine, except service discovery case:
var discovery = new DiscoveryClient(new UdpDiscoveryEndpoint());
discovery.Find(new FindCriteria(typeof(IServer1)); // Not found
discovery.Find(new FindCriteria(typeof(IServer2)); // Not found

Is there any way to discover IServer1 and IServer2 without exposing IServer?

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Famous July Inventions and Birthdays
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Mary Bellis covered inventions and inventors for ThoughtCo for 18 years. She is known for her independent films and documentaries, including one about Alexander Graham Bell.
With both the first-ever U.S. patent and the first numbered patent issued in the month of July, the seventh month of the Gregorian calendar is full of historically significant inventions, patents, trademarks, and copyrights as well as a handful of famous birthdays and events.
From the trademark registration of Silly Putty to Model T inventor Henry Ford's birthday, find out what historical events took place "on this day" in the month of July.
July Inventions, Trademarks, and Patents
More than seven million patents have been registered out of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) since the Patent Act of 1836 was passed on July 20 of that year ("Patent X1"). However, there were a great many that were registered even before that, starting with the patent issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1790, for a method of producing pot and pearl ash.
1952 - The trademark for Silly Putty was officially registered, though originally filed on March 31, 1950. A trademark protects words, names, symbols, sounds, or colors that distinguish goods and services. The roar of the MGM lion and the shape of a Coca-Cola bottle are also trademarked.
1907 - Emil Haefely obtained a patent for a machine that wraps electrical conductors in insulating tubes. This method is still used for a large number of electronic devices today.
1979 - The phrase "Radio City Music Hall" was trademark registered.
1933 - William Coolidge obtained a patent for the X-ray tube, popularly called the Coolidge tube.
1988 - The Bugs Bunny phrase "What's Up, Doc?" was trademark registered.
1904 - Patent #764,166 was granted to Albert Gonzales for a railway switch that's still used today on railroads across America.
1989 - Warner Brothers copyright registered "Batman," a movie based on a popular cartoon character.
1873 - Anna Nichols became the first female patent examiner.
1968 - US patent #3,392,261 for the "Portable Beam Generator," also known as a hand-held laser ray gun, was granted to inventor Frederick R. Schellhammer.
1847 - The rotary printing press was patented by Richard Hoe.
1893 - Hood's Sarsaparilla CIH & CO Compound Extract was trademark registered, which was used as a medicine to "purify the blood" and treat heart disease, rheumatism, scrofula, and dropsy.
1990 - Bill Atkinson, the inventor of HyperCard software, left Apple Computers along with Andy Hertzfeld, co-inventor of the Apple Macintosh, and started a new company called General Magic.
1927 - "Green Giant" Great Big Tender Peas were trademark registered.
1836 - Patents were first numbered, changing the way the system of patents and trademarks was organized.
1885 - Sarah Goode became the first Black woman to receive a U.S. patent for her invention of a folding cabinet bed.
1975 - The Detroit Tigers name was trademark registered.
1985 - Aldus PageMaker, the first desktop publishing program, was first shipped for sale to consumers, invented by Paul Brainard.
1878 - Thaddeus Hyatt was granted a patent for reinforced concrete.
1888 - Granville Woods received a patent for the "tunnel construction for electric railways."
1950 - The patent for producing terramycin, an antibiotic, was issued to its inventors Sobin, Finlay, and Kane.
1921 - The name Breyers Ice Cream was trademark registered.
1865 - The Patent Act of 1865 directed the Commissioner of Patents to turn over patent fees to the Treasury and meet expenses through congressional appropriations, restructuring the department again.
1875 - Mark Twain's novel "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer" was copyright registered.
1984 - The first robot-related fatality in the United States occurred when a factory robot in Jackson, Michigan, crushed a 34-year-old worker against a safety bar.
1873 - Louis Pasteur received a patent for the manufacture of beer and treatment of yeast, which would later influence his discovery of the process known as pasteurization.
1906 - The song "America the Beautiful" was copyright registered by Katharine Lee Bates.
1872 - Jonathan Hoyt patented an improved lamp.
1956 - A patent for an oral form of the antibiotic Penicillin was granted to Ernst Brandl and Hans Margreiter.
1876 - Emily Tassey was granted a patent for an apparatus for raising sunken vessels.
1994 - Design patent #349,137 for a toy teddy bear was granted to Josef Gottstein.
1960 - The first episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" was copyright registered.
1921 - Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best first isolated insulin, and within a year, the first human sufferers of diabetes were receiving insulin treatments.
1885 - The "ready light" or taper was patented by John Mitchell.
1997 - Design patent #381,781 for a swimming pool leaf and debris removal net was granted to Ross Clay.
1933 - The Monopoly board game was copyright registered, and Carles Darrow, the inventor, became the first millionaire game designer after he sold his patent to Parker Brothers.
1790 - Samuel Hopkins was issued the first U.S. patent for manufacturing potash.
July Birthdays
From the birthday of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, the German physicist who discovered branching electric discharges inside electricity insulating materials, to the birthday of John Ericsson, who invented the screw propeller for ships, a number of great inventors and idea-makers were born in the month of July. Find out who shares your July birthday below:
1742 - German physicist and educator Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was known for discovering treelike patterns called Lichtenberg figures. He was known for what he called "waste books," which were the detailed notebooks that he kept full of quotes, sketches, and stories.
1818 - Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, was made famous for realizing that many diseases were contagious and could be drastically reduced by enforcing appropriate hand-washing behavior by medical caregivers.
1872 - Louis Bleriot was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer; the first man to fly an airplane across the English Channel, and the first to invent a working monoplane.
1904 - Mary Calderone was a physician and the founder of Planned Parenthood.
1908 - Estee Lauder is famous for founding Estee Lauder cosmetics, one of the most popular brands of makeup in the world.
1847 - Marcel Bertrand was a French mine engineer who founded tectonic geology and formulated the orogenic wave theory of mountain-building.
1888 - Selman Waksman was an American biochemist and microbiologist who researched organic substances and their decomposition that led to his discovery of Streptomycin and other antibiotics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1951.
1905 - Jean Rene Lacoste was a French designer who used a crocodile logo on his Lacoste shirts when he introduced them in 1929. Also a tennis player, Jean Rene Lacoste won the U.S. Open in 1926.
1906 - Hans Bethe was a physicist who contributed to quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid-state physics, and particle astrophysics. He was the director of the theoretical division at the Los Alamos laboratory and helped invent the first atomic bombs, receiving a Nobel Prize in 1967.
1932 - Dave Thomas was the founder of Wendy's Restaurants chain of fast-food restaurants.
1883 - Alfred Korzybski was a Polish scientist who formulated the theory of semantics.
1753 - Jean Pierre Francois Blanchard was a French balloonist who made the first aerial crossing of the English Channel and made the first balloon flight in North America
1776 - The birth of the United States. The Declaration of Independence was signed, officially separating the United States from the United Kingdom.
1847 - James Anthony Bailey was a circus promoter who co-started the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
1883 - Rube Goldberg was an American inventor, engineer, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist famous for the Rube Goldberg machine, which uses a series of moving parts to perform simple tasks.
1885 - Louis B. Mayer was a motion-picture executive who founded the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and invented the star system of actors.
1794 - Sylvester Graham invented the graham cracker.
1810 - Phineas Taylor Barnum was a circus promoter who co-started the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
1867 - Andrew Ellicott Douglass invented the dendrochronology method that's used for tree-ring dating.
1891 - John Northrop was an American biochemist who crystallized several enzymes and won the Nobel Prize in 1946.
1904 - Ernst Mayr was a German biologist who formulated the biological species concept.
1884 - Harold Vanderbilt was known for inventing the game of contract bridge.
1752 - Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the Jacquard loom that weaved complex designs.
1922 - Pierre Cardin was a French fashion designer who invented the unisex look.
1838 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin invented the rigid airship.
1893 - Fritz Perls invented Gestalt therapy.
1802 - Thomas Davenport invented the first completely electric motor.
1819 - Elias Howe invented the first American-patented sewing machine.
1856 - Nikola Tesla was a Croatian electrical engineer who invented the radio, X-rays, vacuum tube amplifier, alternating current, Tesla Coil, and more, completely reshaping the world of electrical engineering, even to this day.
1911 - John Archibald Wheeler was born in Florida, a theoretical physicist who coined the terms black hole and wormhole.
1879 - Harry Nicholls Holmes was a chemist who crystallized vitamin A.
1902 - Kurt Alder was a German chemist who formulated the Diels-Alder reaction and won a Nobel Prize in 1950.
1917 - Don Herbert was an American television personality who was Mr. Wizard on a science show called "Mr. Wizard's World" (1983–1990).
1920 - Owen Chamberlain was an American physicist who discovered antiprotons and a subatomic antiparticle, and won the Nobel Prize in 1959.
1838 - John Wanamaker invented one of the first (if not the first) true department store, the first White Sale, the first modern price tags, and the first in-store restaurant. He also pioneered the use of money-back guarantees and newspaper ads to advertise his retail goods.
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, an England pottery designer, and manufacturer, invented the technique for making Wedgwood china and industrialized the manufacturing of pottery.
1849 - William Osler was a Canada physician who is considered a father of modern medicine and wrote about the circulatory system.
1854 - George Eastman was an American inventor who invented the Kodak camera and rolled photographic film.
1895 - Buckminster Fuller was an American architect who invented the geodesic dome.
1913 - Willis Lamb was an American physicist who discovered how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom and who won the Nobel Prize in 1955.
1826 - Stanislao Cannizzaro was an Italian chemist who formulated the reaction of Cannizzaro.
1944 - Erno Rubik was a Hungarian inventor who invented the Rubik's cube.
1857 - Frederick Maytag invented the Maytag washing machine.
1874 - Andre Debierne was a French chemist who discovered the element actinium.
1918 - Jay Forrester was a digital computer pioneer who invented core memory.
1921 - Geoffrey Wilkinson was an English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry, invented Wilkinson's catalyst, discovered the structure of ferrocene, and won a Nobel Prize in 1973.
1924 - James Whyte Black was a Scottish doctor and pharmacologist who invented propranolol, synthesized cimetidine, and won a Nobel Prize in 1988.
1817 - John Fowler was an English engineer who built the London Metropolitan Railway.
1704 - John Kay was an English machinist who invented the flying shuttle that improved looms.
1801 - Julius Plucker was a German mathematician and physicist who formulated Plucker formulas and was the first person to identify Cathode rays.
1888 - Frits Zernike invented the phase-contrast microscope that allowed for the study of colorless and transparent biological materials; he won the Nobel Prize in 1953.
1907 - Orville Redenbacher invented and sold Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn.
1920 - Gordon Gould was an American physicist made famous for inventing the laser.
1635 - Robert Hooke was an English physicist and the first person to see micrographia by using a microscope.
1853 - Hendrik Lorentz was a Dutch physicist who discovered and explained the Zeeman effect and derived the transformation equations used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time. Lorentz won the Nobel Prize in 1902.
1814 - Samuel Colt was an American gunmaker who invented the Colt revolver.
1865 - Charles Horace Mayo was an American surgeon who started the Mayo Clinic.
1897 - Tadeusz Reichstein won the Nobel Prize in 1950 and was a Swiss chemist who invented a method to artificially synthesize vitamin C.
1947 - Gerd Binnig was a 1986 Nobel Prize winner and German physicist who invented the scanning tunneling microscope that could view individual atoms.
1620 - Jean Picard was a French astronomer who first accurately measured the length of a degree of a meridian (longitude line) and from that computed the size of the Earth.
1810 - Henri Victor Regnault was a French physicist and chemist known for his research on the thermal properties of gasses as well as a photographer who invented the use of pyrogallic acid as a developing agent.
1923 - Rudolph Marcus was a Canadian chemist who formulated the Marcus theory of electron-transfer reactions in chemical systems and who won a Nobel Prize in 1992.
1822 - Gregor Mendel was the geneticist who discovered the laws of heredity through experimentation in his garden.
1844 - William Archibald Spooner invented spoonerisms, a play on words wherein the first letters of two words are switched, often to humorous effect.
1887 - Gustav Hertz was a German quantum physicist who experimented with inelastic electron collisions in gasses known as the Franck–Hertz experiments and who won a Nobel Prize in 1925.
1908 - Amy Vanderbilt might be the inventor of etiquette and wrote the "Complete Book of Etiquette."
1827 - Pieter Caland was a Dutch hydraulic engineer who built the New Waterway of Rotterdam.
1828 - Jonathan Hutchinson was an English surgeon who was the first to describe the medical signs of congenital syphilis.
1898 - Amelia Earhart was an American aviator who was the first woman to pilot across the Atlantic; she disappeared during one of her trans-Atlantic flights.
1795 - James Barry was a female disguised as a man who became the surgeon general of the British army.
1866 - Frederick Frost Blackman was an English plant physiologist who wrote the 1905 paper "Optima and Limiting Factors," in which he demonstrated that where a process depends on a number of independent factors, the rate at which it can take place is limited by the rate of the slowest factor.
1799 - Isaac Babbitt invented "babbitt's metal" used in engine bearings.
1860 - Philippe Jean Bunau-Varilla was a French engineer who helped build the Panama Canal.
1875 - Carl Jung was a Swiss psychologist who invented analytical psychology, known as Jungian psychology, who greatly influenced later works of many psychologists around the world.
1894 - Aldous Huxley was the English science fiction author who wrote "Brave New World."
1919 - James Ephraim Lovelock was an English scientist and futurist known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he postulates that the Earth functions as a kind of superorganism.
1848 - Roland Baron von Eötvös was a Hungarian physicist who formulated the concept of molecular surface tension and the Eötvös torsion balance.
1938 - Gary Gygax was an American game designer who co-invented the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game.
1907 - Earl Silas Tupper invented Tupperware.
1891 - Bernhard Zondek was a German gynecologist who invented the first reliable pregnancy test in 1928.
1863 - Henry Ford was an American automaker who invented the Model T Ford.
1887 - Felix Andries Vening Meinesz was a Dutch geophysicist who invented a precise method for measuring gravity called the gravimeter. The gravimeter allowed for a precise measure of gravity at sea, which led Meinesz to discover gravity anomalies above the ocean floor due to continental drift.
1889 - Vladimir Zworykin was a Russian electronics engineer who invented an electronic television system.
1803 - John Ericsson was an American inventor of the screw propeller for ships.
1918 - Paul D. Boyer was an American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner in 1997.
1919 - Primo Levi was an Italian chemist turned writer best known for his autobiography, "Survival in Auschwitz."
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Climate Change and Human Rights: The Imperative for Climate Change Migration with Dignity (CCMD)
By David Ritter - 24 November 2015
This column by David Ritter is part of Global Policy's e-book, 'Climate Change and Human Rights: The 2015 Paris Conference and the Task of Protecting People on a Warming Planet', edited by Marcello Di Paola and Daanika Kamal. Contributions from academics and practitioners will be serialised on Global Policy until the e-book's release in November 2015. Find out more here or join the debate on Twitter using #GPclimatechange.
All international human rights instruments are products of their historical circumstances. When the global framework for protecting refugees was established in the context of the Second World War, the notion that the world would be contemplating mass-displacement of people caused by physical forces unleashed by unintended alterations to the chemical composition of the atmosphere, incidental to industrial society, would likely have been considered as fanciful. And a legally binding human rights instrument to protect people against the impacts of climate change does not currently exist.
Given that the impacts of climate change are already upon us, and that things can be expected to worsen considerably even if stay within less than two degrees of global warming (always more a political than a scientifically mandated limit, in any case), it is now inevitable that large numbers of people will be driven away from their homes by consequences of climate change. The global nature of the problem and the lack of any current international apparatus for addressing climate change migration means it is essential that a legal framework and institutional mechanism are established as soon as possible.
A substantial number of high level political calls have already been made for action. In 2009, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon the UN General Assembly to consider adopting a legal course that would ensure the social, cultural and economic rehabilitation of environmental degradation and climate-change induced migrants. She repeated the call at the Copenhagen climate talks in December that year. Just a few weeks ago, I attended the Coalition of Low Lying Atoll Nations on Climate Change (CANCC) 'High Level Meeting on Climate Induced Migration' in Kiribati, which was co-convened by HE President Anote Tong and HRH Prince Albert II of Monaco. The leaders of Pacific Island nations who were present stressed that the key doctrine underpinning a global framework must be 'migration with dignity.' The Outcomes Document notes that 'climate change is a major universal calamity which knows no boundary and which requires urgent global solutions.' The Outcomes Document also contains an appeal to the international community and development partners to demonstrate greater political will and leadership that is critical for the very survival of affected nations and vulnerable peoples from around the world.
There was a clear juxtaposition at the meeting between the studied inadequacy of the responses from the representatives of the governments of Australia and New Zealand, and the determined urgency of the Heads of State and other representatives from low lying Pacific Island nations. But it was notable that this meeting took place only few days after the political demise of Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia. As the richest and most powerful country in the region with a lot at stake strategically, Australia has a special interest and obligation to lead on a solution for Pacific Islanders displaced by climate change. As one of the highest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases and the second largest exporter of coal in the world, Australia is also an oversized contributor to the problem. Australia should thus acknowledge a special obligation to our neighbours and partners in the Pacific on this issue; something that the Abbott Government egregiously failed to do. It is to be hoped that the new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will make a decisive break with his predecessor on this issue.
Undoubtedly, establishing economic pathways for labour mobility will be an important tool in creating options for people from those nations most vulnerable to climate change. A landmark UN multi-agency project has been doing very important data-collection and idea-generation work in this regard in the Pacific. Yet it is also important that there is no discursive sleight of hand here that allows the operative ideology of neo-liberalism to redefine the inescapable impacts of structural forces as autonomous individual choices. People who are losing their homes as a consequence of climate change should not be conceptualised as self-maximising rational actors. If your home is facing inundation, the notion of real choice is illusory.
The concept of climate change migration with dignity (CCMD) is yet to be authoritatively defined. In order to satisfy the requirement of dignity, CCMD would need to reflect criteria which includes being legal, planned, orderly, safe, timely and respectful. The rules and apparatus of a system for CCMD should be negotiated cooperatively and in advance, with migrant and recipient nations participating in respectful partnership. The basic ethical underpinning – that the most vulnerable nations to rising sea levels and other impacts of climate change are also often among the poorest in the world, which have made the least historical contribution to the growth of emissions – is complemented by the realpolitik that it is in the interests of less vulnerable developed countries to establish solutions in advance, rather than waiting for the migratory destabilization induced by large-scale climate disasters.
Already, the world's system of protection for displaced persons is in crisis. Almost sixty million people currently meet the criteria of displacement – the highest number since the end of the Second World War. The influx of people to Europe fleeing the Syrian Civil War and other instability and conflict in the Middle East is the most high profile manifestation of what is a deeply complex and multivalent global problem. In this context, it is imperative to make climate migration a matter of global priority. The primary response must still be to swiftly and effectively reduce global emissions as much as possible. However, given that some climate change migration is by now inevitable, it is both morally imperative and in everyone's interests to establish binding global principles and institutional apparatus to facilitate CCMD as a matter of the highest priority. The timely establishment of an effective global framework for climate change migration with dignity could yet become a beacon of successful international cooperation in the twenty first century.
David Ritter is the Chief Executive Officer of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Australia and an Associate of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights at the University of Sydney.
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There is something I find sad and devastating about today's world. Divorce. I have seen countless of my friends go through it. Though I do firmly believe there are a few acceptable reasons for divorce, I have to admit that most of the reasons are not valid. At least in my book.
I've tried to write this into a post at least 18 times. It's hard to write. I can feel and I can think pretty easily. But at times, it's hard to write it all out. As an avid writer, I've learned that sometimes, I just need to experience a whole lotta word vomit.


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I have finally got around to finishing another Quirky Portrait today.
I started her in October. Here is her sketch drawing.
Then I prepared her background.
And here is the sketched girl drawn on to the collaged background.
So today I had some time at last to take out my paints and finish her off.
She is painted in acrylics on 10″ x 10″ fibreboard.
Now I am presently calling her Library Girl, because she looks to me like she would be very happy swotting in the library but I am hoping someone can come up with a name for her. I would really welcome your suggestions in Comments please. A quirky name that sounds librarian like. Ha ha!


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Warsaw Department (Polish: Departament warszawski) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Warsaw in years 1806–1815. Its capital was Warsaw.

Administrative division: 10 counties

Błonie County
Brzezin County
Czersk County
Gostynin County
Łęczyca County
Orłów County
Rawa Mazowiecka County
Sochaczew County
Warszawa County
Zgiersk County
Siennick County (1810)
Stanisławow County (1810)

In 1815 it was transformed into Masovian Voivodeship.

References

 Jacek Arkadiusz Goclon, Polska na królu pruskim zdobyta, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2002.
 Mieczysław Bandurka, Zmiany administracyjne i terytorialne ziem województwa łódzkiego w XIX i XX wieku, NDAP, UW w Łodzi, AP w Łodzi, Łódź 1995.

Departments of the Duchy of Warsaw
History of Warsaw

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If you're going to design for mobile, then it's a good idea to have a grasp of what makes up the modern smartphone in terms of hardware and software. You can then start to think about the possibilities these offer when creating user experiences. The better you know the device, the more you can exploit its capabilities within your products.
The smartphone has gone from nowhere, in a few short years, to become the world's most popular Internet access device. Developing mobile apps and mobile websites has become a huge opportunity market because of this but what do we need to consider in terms of the device itself when making design decisions for mobile?
The anatomy of a smartphone comes in two parts; the hardware and the software.
There are two operating systems that dominate the mobile landscape: Android and iOS. However, there are other operating systems to consider as well.
Founded by Andy Rubin and supported by Google and drawing the backing of many of the major hardware and software developers in the smartphone sphere; Android has gone from strength-to-strength since it was conceived on October 2003. It is the world's leading smartphone operating system and has been dominant since late 2010.
Apple's operating system was, for a considerable period of time, the leading smartphone operating system. It is unsurprising that it should be in 2nd place in terms of market penetration today. Apple does not license its operating system to other hardware providers nor does Apple operate in the budget sector of the smartphone market. While it may be second in terms of market penetration – there's no doubt that the average iOS user spends more money on apps than the average Android user.
Windows may be the dominant operating system on the desktop but it's a bit of an "also ran" on the smartphone. There are fewer apps available for this operating system and it tends to be a tertiary consideration (if it is considered at all) for most developers.
Blackberry was once the dominant force in corporate handset provision. Poor management decisions led to Blackberry suffering a huge dip in market share after smartphones launched. The operating system continues to exist and support millions of subscribers – however the company launched their first Android operating system handset in November 2015 and the future looks dim for Blackberry. It is unlikely that developers will focus on Blackberry without an overwhelming business driver for doing so.
Firefox's open source OS was launched back in February 2012. While there are a few commercial handsets running Firefox OS at this moment it's not a primary consideration for most developers.
Sailfish is based on Linux and Mer and has a unique programmable UI in the form of Jolla (a multi-tasking interface). It is a project from MeeGo (consisting mainly of ex-Nokia employees) and is yet to achieve any significant commercial uptake.
A smartphone is, at heart, a miniature computer and thus it shares many similar components with computers – such as processors and memory. These components are constantly upgraded in new generations of phones and it's important to consider how to balance the demands you place on this hardware. If you take advantage of latest generation technology; you rule out many existing smartphone owners from using your product. Go back too far in generations and you risk releasing a product which isn't as powerful as your competitor's.
However, in this section we want to look at smartphone specific hardware options that are commonly found in smartphones that are not commonly found in desktop/laptop computing. These are the hardware items that designers will want to consider taking advantage of when developing smartphone user experiences.
The sensitivity to touch – resistive screens are made of two layers of conductive material with a gap between them to serve as resistance. They are not as responsive as a capacitive touchscreen, which uses a layer of glass with a conductor over it that senses a break in the electric field when a finger comes into touch with it. There is also the haptic screen which provides tactile feedback to the user when they touch the glass. The Super AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) screen includes touch sensors on the display and is a further improvement in both performance and thickness of screen.
The quality of resolution – TFT (Thin Film Transistor) screens offer reasonable resolution but are power intensive, IPS-LCD (In Place Switching Liquid Crystal Displays) offer improvements in both resolution and power consumption (the Retina screen is an IPS-LCD). Then there are OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) and AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) screens to consider too both of which offer advantages over LCD.
GPS chipsets are found in most mid-range and high-end smartphones. They enable, with varying degrees of accuracy, the handset to pinpoint where on earth the smartphone is located.
Designers will need to consider location based services for certain products. GPS allows them to automate much of the grunt work for this.
Not all phones contain an accelerometer but many do. An accelerometer measures the speed of movement of the device and the direction in which the device is moving.
This enables the pedometer function common in many health apps as well as other more ingenious uses of motion data.
Nearly all smartphones come with on-board cameras today. These vary in terms of their quality in both resolution and availability (front and/or back mounted cameras) and can be used as input devices.
Many phones come with a heart rate monitor now and those looking to create mobile health apps will want to tap into this functionality.
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High-end smartphones often incorporate finger print scanners and finger print recognition technology. While this can be a useful security measure – over-reliance on finger prints can become a barrier to user acceptance.
Smartphones offer a different experience to desktops and laptops not just because they are smaller but also because they are markedly different from both a hardware and software perspective. The smart designers will look to take advantage of these differences to create memorable user experiences.


WebsterX's New Trio Of Songs Denotes His Restless Summer Leading the the hip-hop Renaissance in Milwaukee, 26-year-old rapper Webster X punctuates his three new singles with unbridled charisma and a "who asked you?" mentality.
With three back-to-back-to-back singles dropped in the last two months, 2018 Slingshot artist WebsterX stamps the season as a restless summer. The Milwaukee rapper releases three singles delving into bleak feelings, unabashed confidence and self-identification.
"Feels," comes in two parts. First, the audible notes of struggle and violence. It's a bleak world, and sometimes in Milwaukee, a city whose violent crime rating is worse than 95% of the country, it can feel a little bleaker. A gunshot rips through the song at the two-minute mark.
As the second part of the song starts, it's little more starry and reflective than the initial blast of energy. Midway through the verse, WebsterX lays down a mission: "The task is black youth to make it past twenty."
At 26 years old, he's made it there, and now he's doing work to pull Milwaukee's black youth to the other side with him.
In 2015, WebsterX started FREESPACE, a monthly, all ages, free music showcase that invites Milwaukee's young creative to come together and collaborate. That idea evolved into The New State, an upcoming permanent all-ages music venue, engineering studio, consignment store and performance space in the heart of Milwaukee.
"No End" is the song you wait for at the show. And once, it starts you're waiting for WebsterX to hit the chorus "Yaaaa 'til there is no end." The way he sings it, it's an invitation for you to sing along with him; to close your eyes in the darkness, open your mouth, and yell like there is no end.
The feeling of opening up and yelling together is a central part of WebsterX's music. Some artists like to hole up and produce in isolation, but WebsterX is a collaborator. Milwaukee's hip-hop scene is in a renaissance right now with Lorde Fredd33, ishDARR, and WebsterX leading the way. WebsterX occasionally performs with his artist collective, New Age Narcissism, where each artist plays their own solo songs, but they perform them with the group. It's like The Avengers of music. We have never seen anything quite like it, and we may never see it again.
Here, he comes together with long time collaborator Q the Sun and up-and-coming Milwaukee producers Immortal Girlfriend. When they pull back all the production to have WebsterX yell, "Ima push the limit till there is no end" it may sound like it, but he is not alone.
There is a reluctant optimism in "Ain't My Fault." "I actually give a f***" WebsterX spits defensively in the opening bars of the song. In a music scene that's as close and connected to each other as Milwaukee's, there is inevitably going to be backstabbing, infighting, and questions of legitimacy. In this dark clap back to those fringe conspiracy theorists, WebsterX defends his own identity.
There is something beautiful about hearing someone sneer, "Mineral water we sipping" with genuine malice. And there is something touching about knowing that WebsterX cares enough to write this song. No one should feel like they have to apologize for being themselves, and here WebsterX says that with authority. It's a dark song from an artist that's full of light.


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Dialog Health Makes Telehealth Easier and More Effective By Adding Two-Way Texting
FRANKLIN, Tenn. April 3, 2020 – Dialog Health, a two-way texting platform that enables information to be pushed to and pulled from patients, caregivers and healthcare facility staff, announces it is expanding support for organizations interested in leveraging text messaging to establish and expand their telehealth programs.
"Text messaging should be part of any telehealth program," said Brandon Daniell, president and co-founder of Dialog Health. "It is the most effective way to communicate with a majority of patients and encourage them to take advantage of available telehealth services. The telephone is a ubiquitous telehealth tool at a time when telehealth is fast becoming crucial. A text can turn the mobile phone into a powerful telehealth tool."
As a result of social distancing and rules limiting face-to-face interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has taken on greater importance in the delivery of care. Furthermore, some federal privacy regulations have been relaxed and payment policies broadened to encourage increasing access to telehealth services. Healthcare providers nationwide can now deliver a wide range of billable services via telehealth, including the Medicare annual wellness visit, virtual home health visits, post-discharge follow-up appointments, and initial patient assessments.
"But as practices and other facility types are finding, there are technical, accessibility and engagement challenges that often accompany the launching of telehealth services," Daniell says. "To address these challenges, organizations can turn to text messaging."
Texting is advantageous for numerous reasons. Two way-texting platforms are SaaS products only requiring internet access, so facilities do not need to invest and set up new hardware. Nearly all consumers already own mobile phones. Most mobile phones can access the internet and include a camera, and all can receive and interact with text messages. There is little to no learning curve for patients as most know how to use their phone for texting, and most have used videotelephony programs (e.g., FaceTime, Skype, Facebook Messenger). There is no need for someone to have wi-fi, a computer, speakers, or even be at home to access telehealth services through their mobile phone.
Organizations can send text messages that include hyperlinks to initiate telehealth consultations (see Image #1). A texting system like Dialog Health informs a provider when a patient receives the text. Once the link in the text is selected, a web browser or default videotelephony app will automatically open and the camera on the phone should activate.
As the demand for telehealth services has surged in recent weeks, Dialog Health has received numerous requests from organizations interested in pairing text messaging with their telehealth programs. To meet these needs, Dialog Health has expanded its customer service and support team to help with setup, messaging and inserting links.
One such organization that has partnered with Dialog Health to strengthen its telehealth program is Medalliance Medical Health Services, a diagnostic and treatment center in Bronx, N.Y. "Dialog Health has helped us stay connected with our patients and keep them informed during this critical time," says David Alejandro, marketing and community relations director. "We send daily links via text that direct patients to our telehealth platform. Patients can then receive follow-up care and answers to their pressing questions in real time. The ability to text with patients has really made delivering care much easier."
"Facilities are looking for ways to help ensure high quality of care during these challenging times," Daniell says. "Telehealth and texting are two solutions that organizations should strongly consider."
Organizations interested in adding text messaging to their telehealth program should visit the Dialog Health website, email info@dialoghealth.com or call (877) 666-1132.
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PATHS2: Transforming the Nigerian Health System
The focus of the Partnership for Transforming Health Systems 2 (PATHS2) evolved during its eight years, from governance, to service delivery, to private sector partnerships.
But PATHS2's central goal did not change: Improving the planning, financing, and delivery of sustainable, replicable, pro-poor health services for common health problems. The project has much to show for its efforts, in particular improving child health and reducing maternal mortality.
PATHS2 was led by Abt Associates and funded by UKaid from the Department for International Development. Abt's partners included MannionDaniels, the Axios Foundation, and Options. The project worked in five states beginning in 2008: Enugu, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, and Lagos.
PATHS2 strengthened the drug supply system in all five supported states, leading to functional drug revolving funds in 535 health facilities, including faith-based organizations. These revolving funds guarantee a supply of high-quality, affordable drugs direct from manufacturers.
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The project concluded in the northern states of Jigawa, Kaduna, and Kano in January 2014, but continued in the southern states of Enugu and Lagos through July 2016, principally working through public-private partnerships (PPPs) to strengthen service delivery.
Thousands of Lives Saved
"PATHS2 brought fundamental change to Nigeria's health care system," said Diana R. Silimperi, M.D., division vice president for International Health at Abt Associates. "The project engaged people at all levels of the government, in communities, and in the health system and prepared them to take stewardship roles in the system."
Women in Jigawa, Kaduna, and Kano states with an Increase in Knowledge of Maternal Health and Utilization of Services
"The project also strengthened citizens' and civil societies' ability to hold local health authorities and service providers accountable for quality, affordable care," Silimperi said.
PATHS2's long list of achievements includes:
Helping save more than 140,000 lives in Northern Nigeria by supporting a robust and resilient health system with improved access to and availability of quality maternal, newborn, and child health services;
Increasing deliveries by skilled birth attendants from 13 percent in 2009 to 48 percent in 2015;
The proportion of PATHS2 supported public health facilities with a defined list of essential drug supplies in stock at time of the visit grew from 4 percent in 2009 to 87.5 percent in 2016; and
Increasing the percentage of the public who can spot significant, pregnancy-related health problems from 4 percent in 2012 to 26 percent in 2016.
Properly Funding Nigeria's Health System
"Perhaps the most significant achievement facilitated by PATHS2 was the December 2015 enactment of the National Health Act, which had been debated for more than a decade," Silimperi said.
PATHS2 trained more than 18,000 community volunteers to recognize the danger signs of a difficult pregnancy, which produced faster referrals for emergency care and saved lives.
The law ensures steady funding for health services by requiring one percent of the country's consolidated revenue fund to be dedicated to health care.
Half of the funding is for health coverage for pregnant women, children under five, the elderly, and the physically challenged. The other half is for primary healthcare services, including buying supplies – such as vaccines – plus for facility maintenance, equipment, transport for primary health care facilities (PHCs), and development of human resources for PHCs.
Also, PATHS2 aided the development of a number of health care policies, plans, and systems to ensure that the best-possible services are delivered by the best-trained and supported staff. These include the first-ever National Strategic Development Plan and subsequent plans for the five states supported by PATHS2, which lead the 31 other states to follow suit. The plans set goals and measure progress against these goals.
Working with Informal and Private Sector Health Providers
PATHS2 worked to ensure that informal health providers in Nigeria – including traditional birth attendants and patent medicine vendors – were officially recognized and integrated into the country's health system. PATHS2 also integrated the private sector into the health system in part by facilitating the creation of lifesaving referrals via emergency transportation agreements, also called Emergency Transport Schemes.
But nurses, doctors, and other health providers cannot do their jobs without adequate medical supplies. So PATHS2 strengthened the drug supply system in all five supported states, leading to functional drug revolving funds in 535 health facilities, including faith-based organizations. These revolving funds guarantee a supply of high-quality, affordable drugs direct from manufacturers. After an initial capital investment, the fund uses the proceeds collected from drug sales to replenish drug stocks. This eliminates frequent excessive markups from intermediary distributors.
Felicia Ademoye, a client of the Igbogbo Primary Health Centre in Ikorodu, Lagos State, said that the drug revolving funds increased her visits to the facility. "Now they have most of the drugs here," she said. "This encourages me to patronize the facility because the drugs are cheap and of high quality."
Driving Change through Community Events, Empowerment
"One of the most important lessons of the project is the power of community partnerships and outreach to bring change," Silimperi said.
PATHS2, for example, established 1,098 community groups to actively influence the types and quality of services delivered in both public and private health facilities.
The project also:
Trained traditional leaders and male gatekeepers to be advocates for maternal, newborn, and child health issues;
Conducted more than 3,500 health care outreach events by trained health workers; and
Trained more than 18,000 community volunteers to recognize the danger signs of a difficult pregnancy, which produced faster referrals for emergency care and saved lives.
"From my knowledge of the maternal danger signs I would say that I have been taking a very big risk with my life. I know better now. No woman should risk her life or that of her baby," said Mrs. Gift Ede of Igbo-Etiti, Enugu State.
Read more about PATHS2:
An Effective Partnership for Health Systems Strengthening: The PATHS2 Legacy in Northern Nigeria
Nigeria: Working to Improve Health, Governance, and Food Security
PATHS2 Shares Health Systems Innovations and Experiences in Nigeria through Knowledge Fair
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Robert M. Smith of Laurel died March 9. He was 84.
The son of William and Florence (O'Neil) Smith, he was born Nov. 8, 1932, in Queens and graduated from Bayside High School.
Mr. Smith served in the U.S. Navy from 1952 to 1956 an was a lieutenant for the NYPD.
He was a Third Degree Knight with the Knights of Columbus in Cutchogue and served as a Eucharistic minister for the Sacred Heart Parish.
Family members said he enjoyed gardening, jogging, family gatherings, and loved family gatherings, dinner with friends, a good song, a hearty laugh and a good cup of coffee.
Predeceased by his first wife, Helen, in 1986, he is survived by his wife, Barbara Jean (née Thompson); his sons, Robert, of Garden City, Richard, of Hicksville, Michael, of Whitestone and Kevin, of Nesconset; brother, William, of Bayside; 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The family will receive visitors Sunday, March 12, from 2 to 6 p.m. at Coster-Heppner Funeral Home in Cutchogue. A funeral service will take place at 10 a.m. Monday, March 13, at Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church in Mattituck. Interment will follow at Mount Saint Mary's Cemetery in Queens.
Memorial donations may be made to Bill Wilson House in Dorset, Vt. and Long Island Alzheimer's Association.
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WORK OF THE WEEK | 4 November 2019
CAG.306 Ian Cheyne, Beeches in Glen Lyon, 1937, colour woodcut on paper, 32.3 x 39.5 cm. Purchased, Doig, Wilson & Wheatley, 1939 (Gibson Bequest Fund). © the artist's estate.
We're registering the seasonal change with this gorgeous WORK OF THE WEEK!
Rich in texture and colour, Beeches in Glen Lyon (1937) by Ian Cheyne is one of several contemporary prints that we acquired from fine art dealers Doig, Wilson & Wheatley (Edinburgh) in 1939.
Forming part of the Gibson Bequest collection, this work demonstrates the influence of Japanese woodcuts on the artist's practice. Its subject, Glen Lyon, was once described by Sir Walter Scott as the 'longest, loneliest and loveliest glen in Scotland.' Cheyne's treatment of the landscape, however, bears a modern – and fashionable – Art Deco quality, combining in its central Beech tree the burnished tones of autumnal leaves and the curvilinear form of the famed 'Praying Hands' geological feature.
Ian Alec Johnson Cheyne (1895-1955) trained at the Glasgow School of Art and, from 1920, exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA). He is best known for his woodcut landscapes of Scotland, France, and Spain, but also practiced in oils and still life.
Beeches in Glen Lyon (1937) by Ian Cheyne is featured in EVERYTHING OF THAT TIME MIGHT SOON END – The Gibson Bequest: Between the Wars until 24 November 2019.


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S400: Why is the City giving away waterfront land for free parking?
Why is the City of Seattle, which is facing a severe budget shortfall and aims to promote alternatives to car use, giving away some of its most valuable waterfront land as free parking?
Along just a few blocks of Fairview Avenue to the north of the Fairview/Eastlake Avenue intersection, each weekday morning one can count over 200 cars parked for free on City owned property. There are no parking meters and no requirements that cars have a neighborhood zone parking permit. It's simply free parking in a valuable and rapidly urbanizing part of the central city.
Not only is this foolish for a city with a budget problem, it's also remarkable since much of the free parking is on the Lake Union waterfront and aligned in such that the ends of parked cars often protrude significantly into the recently established though still fledgling Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop, making it impassible.
This, it seems, is a fairly stark contradiction of the City's plan for the trail as a, "multi-use loop around Lake Union…that connects people to open space," as well as the sensible goal of encouraging people to commute to work and get around the city via means other than cars.
Ideally, I believe that the City should eliminate this free parking and use the land to turn the Cheshiahud Loop into a true trail and not just pretty street signs and colored lines on a Parks Department map. What could be a stronger way to encourage urban living, walking and biking than replacing parking with a wonderful amenity for city residents and visitors, a true multi-usepath along Lake Union? Those people who have been parking for free have undoubtedly gotten a sweet deal which they'll be loathe to lose, but why can't they pay to park (or carpool, take transit or ride a bike) like the vast majority of people with jobs in the central city? As many urbanites have recognized over the years, successful, prosperous and livable cities prioritize and orient themselves around people, not cars.
If the parking to trails conversion idea is simply too bold and contentious for our leaders, then how about a compromise in which the City creates more of a true multi-use trail by re-aligning the parking spaces so that they run parallel to the street, and charging market rate for its valuable real estate? Simple math indicates that if in this area there are 200 stalls for which the city could be charging $5 per weekday (comparable to lots in the area), that is $5,000 per week or $260,000 per year that the city is giving up to provide free parking. That amount could pay for the improved trail, save the jobs of at least two full time City employees, or pay for a lot of pothole repairs.
Great idea! I walked the trail loop awhile back and it was kind of ridiculous. You're right that it is mostly just signage without a real trail. A full-size multi-use trail would be a wonderful amenity and would assist with bike commuting as well. It baffles me that there is still free parking in the city center. This is a valuable commodity that people are willing to pay for.
Allowing citizens to use something they already own is "giving it away"?
Well excusssssssse us, BigBrother. Is there anything we can do or own in our own city without paying a ransom?
"Free" parking isn't really free. You're giving one set of people (generally the people who arrive the earliest) a benefit that belongs to the entire city.
The city needs to get rid of its entire fleet of vehicles. They have two proposals. You choose which one is more fair.
1. Auction them off. The proceeds are returned to the general fund and taxes are lowered slightly or new projects are built with the funds.
2. Give them to the first people that show up, for free. Taxes are kept the same and no new projects are built.
Try to understand the difference between disposing of an unneeded asset and "allowing" citizens to use an asset they own.
3. City keeps these vehicles. They pay to maintain them and keep them reasonably clean. Instead of selling them or giving them away, they allow citizens to use this asset they own. First come first served, but please return them to the city hall parking lot when you're done. Taxes are increased slightly, or some existing projects are cancelled.
I noticed there's also free parking at the new SLU park. Though I assume that will be remedied soon. I usually don't even try to look for parking there, because free parking is almost always unavailable parking.
Yeah, I wonder how many people there are actually using the park.
I use it. I love it (ok, the gravel area will be better in a decade after the trees grow in). It's surrounded by construction right now, but a few weekends ago I met friends there and we each brought our kids in swimsuits to play in the fountain. It was crowded enough that a local Jimmy Johns employee came by with sandwich samples and told us they'd deliver to the park.
There's also a sad little "mini-ferry" that's well used – when we went to see the boats there were a good dozen people waiting for it. I believe it goes to UW, and was a few dollars.
Another way to think about this is: If this valuable city owned land (i.e. property that abuts a city "trail" along Lake Union) were currently unused, what would be its optimal use?
I doubt anyone could credibly propose that the optimal use (i.e. maximum utility for the city and its citizens) would be free parking, which generates no revenue for the city and provides no benefit to citizens other than the 200 people who routinely park there for free.
It might make more sense if this free parking were somehow critical to the use of an adjacent public facility like a park park or the survival of a nearby neighborhood retail area (i.e. if it provided some measure of utility to the public), but that is not the case here.
There is also a vast mile or 2 of free parking all along Westlake. Make that a real trail as well please.
The city has blown it on both sides of Lake Union – Westlake is a commonly known failure in design to accommodate parking, however, an area south of where this post is talking about along Fairview, was a complete give away by the city (Norm Rice). The city owns a good 50 ft of additional right-of-way between Fairview and the Lake, which is being used as free parking for the commercial developments in that area (Moss Bay, I Love Sushi, etc).
The city installed pay stations along the right of way you mention (Moss Bay, I Love Sushi, etc) somewhat recently. I personally think that a true trail in that location (also Westlake) would be a better amenity for the city's residents than parking.
Or maybe the city could compromise and for starters just reduce and reconfigure some of the parking so that a running/walking/biking path could be added as well?
Any suggestions out there for how best to broach this issue with the city?
Fex Ex them a spine, so that they do the right thing instead quiver and melt every time a business owner looks at them sideways.


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SAS first Airbus A350 XWB is flying home
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With the delivery of its first A350-900, AS became the newest operator of this latest generation, highly efficient widebody aircraft. The airline has a total of eight A350-900 aircraft on order and operates an Airbus fleet of 68 aircraft (51 A320 Family, 17 A330 and A340 Family aircraft). In the coming years, as part of an extensive fleet modernisation, SAS will take delivery of 54 additional A320neo Family aircraft and the remaining seven A350-900s through direct purchase and lease contracts.
SAS's A350-900 features a modern and highly comfortable three-class cabin layout with 300 seats: 40 "SAS Business" class, 32 "SAS Plus" class and 228 "SAS Go" class seats. On 28 January 2020, the airline will start to operate the new aircraft on its Copenhagen-Chicago long-haul route, followed by other international destinations including North America and Asia.
The A350 XWB features the latest aerodynamic design, a carbon fibre fuselage and wings, plus new fuel-efficient Rolls-Royce engines. Together, these latest technologies translate into unrivalled levels of operational efficiency with a 25% reduction in fuel burn and emissions. The A350 XWB's Airspace by Airbus cabin is the quietest of any twin-aisle and offers passengers and crews the most modern in-flight products for the most comfortable flying experience. Moreover, SAS will benefit from Airbus' unique aircraft commonality. The incoming A350s will seamlessly integrate into SAS's current Airbus fleet in service today at the airline.
At the end of October 2019, the A350 XWB Family had received 913 firm orders from 50 customers worldwide, making it one of the most successful widebody aircraft ever.
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Google Lunar XPrize Is a Bust -- But This Company Could Still Go to the Moon
Could Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin succeed where so many others have just failed?
Rich Smith
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Feb 19, 2018 at 6:03AM
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Three years ago, we asked: "Which private company will be first to get to the Moon" and win the coveted Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL)-sponsored Google Lunar XPRIZE competition?
One year ago, we narrowed down the list of finalists to just five companies: Israel's SpaceIL, America's Moon Express, Indus from India, Hakuto from Japan, and Synergy Moon, an international alliance hailing from just about everywhere.
Last month, at long last, we learned the answer: Which of these private companies will be first to land on the Moon?
None of them.
One Moon contest has ended. Will Amazon's Jeff Bezos declare "play it again, Sam?" Image source: Getty Images.
Have rocketship, won't travel
In theory, the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition should have already wrapped up with one or more of the five companies having landed a robot on the Moon. With the clock ticking down on 2017, however, the organizers of the Alphabet-backed project extended the Lunar XPRIZE deadline into 2018 -- to the end of March.
Turns out even that wasn't enough. Difficulties with raising the funds needed to finance a Moon landing attempt combined with technical hurdles and "regulatory challenges" continually tripped up the timeline. In the end, XPRIZE organizers Peter Diamandis and Marcus Shingles issued a joint statement last month terminating the Google Lunar XPRIZE contest: "After close consultation with our five finalist Google Lunar XPRIZE teams," they said, "we have concluded that no team will make a launch attempt to reach the Moon by the March 31st, 2018 deadline."
What it means to Alphabet -- and everyone else
So it seems Alphabet's Google unit is going to hang onto its $30 million grand prize purse. And yet, XPRIZE says it's still open to keeping the contest alive -- maybe with a new sponsor, or maybe with no monetary "prize" at the finish line.
After all, it's not like the money was the primary incentive of this contest. As XPRIZE notes, teams competing for the Lunar XPRIZE "raised more than $300 million through corporate sponsorships, government contracts and venture capital" in the course of trying to win the competition. With a grand prize of only $30 million waiting at the finish line, none of these companies was going to make a profit by winning the Lunar XPRIZE.
Rather, other goals were set -- and achieved:
"Hundreds of jobs" created among the participants.
The foundation of "the first commercial space companies [ever formed] in India, Malaysia, Israel, and Hungary."
The "first-ever 'Mission Approval' from the U.S. government to send a private spacecraft beyond Earth's orbit and to the Moon" -- awarded to America's Moon Express.
And "hundreds of thousands of young people across the globe" newly enthused about the race to space in the 21st Century.
These were the real objectives of offering a handful of millions of dollars as a reward for sending a privately financed spaceship to the Moon.
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And we may get there yet -- maybe not this year, but soon. As Diamandis and Shingles noted, "we are inspired by the progress of the Google Lunar XPRIZE teams, and will continue to support their journey, one way or another, and will be there to help shine the spotlight on them when they achieve that momentous goal" of landing on the moon.
Meanwhile, other companies, unconstrained by artificial deadlines and with no lack of funds, may take up the quest. Indeed, just one day before XPRIZE officially called a halt to its contest, on January 22 Blue Origin (the space venture backed by Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos and financed by sales of Bezos's Amazon.com stock) put out this tweet:
Blue Moon is designed to fly on any launch vehicle, including SLS, Atlas V, Vulcan and New Glenn. Delivering large payloads to the lunar surface, Blue Moon can help put astronauts on the moon -- this time to stay. #BlueMoon #Apollo50th pic.twitter.com/sUTXuvFFA4
-- Blue Origin (@blueorigin) January 22, 2018
Bezos very much wants to see NASA return to the Moon -- preferably after hiring Blue Origin to help it get there. His Blue Origin space venture is hard at work designing a new lunar lander -- "Blue Moon" -- that could fly atop any of NASA's current or future rocketships (designed by Boeing and Lockheed Martin).
Just in case NASA doesn't provide funding, though, Blue Origin is building a monster rocket of its own, dubbed the "New Glenn," that should also be powerful enough to carry Blue Moon to the Moon. Granted, at last report, Bezos didn't think the lander would be ready for service before July 2020. Then again, it's starting to look like the several tiny start-ups that arose to vie for the Google Lunar XPRIZE -- and should have arrived at the Moon already -- might not get there before 2020, either.
Long story short? The Google Lunar XPRIZE is history, having ended without a winner. But a new space race may be just beginning, one in which multiple tiny, funding-challenged start-ups race against Amazon-backed Blue Origin to see who can get to the Moon first.
This everyone-versus-Amazon contest could be even more entertaining to watch than the original Google Lunar XPRIZE.
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Ex-sheriff pleads guilty to fraud
David Abston will be sentenced Nov. 25
Stephanie Taylor Staff Writer
Former Pickens County sheriff David Abston pleaded guilty Tuesday to two of the nine federal charges against him.
Abston appeared in U.S. District Court in Birmingham at a 10 a.m. hearing with his wife, Debra, and attorney. He pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of filing a false tax return.
He declined to speak to reporters Tuesday morning when he left the Hugo Black Courthouse. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Nov. 25.
Federal prosecutors agreed to drop seven wire fraud charges and one of filing a false tax return. Abston could face up to 20 years in prison, but attorneys with the U.S. Attorney's Office have said they'll recommend a reduction because he accepted responsibility and agreed to pay $51,280 in restitution.
Abston set up an account through Highland Baptist Church in Gordo to purchase food from the West Alabama Food Bank for just 18 cents a pound.
He used that food to feed the county and federal inmates housed at the Pickens County Jail, pocketing the leftover money provided by the government for food.
According to the indictment, Abston received more than $400,000 between 2014 and 2018 to feed inmates. State law at the time allowed sheriffs to keep any leftover money from their food funds. The Legislature stopped that longtime practice with a bill passed during the last session.