Pilot project on Promoting Self-management for Chronic Diseases in the EU.
PRO-STEP is a pilot project focusing on self-management in chronic conditions. While this shares some similarities with self-care in minor conditions, such as the importance of health literacy, there are important differences as chronic disease requires a long-term approach with emphasis on patient empowerment and appropriate support services.
The general aim of PRO-STEP is "to put in place a framework for action to enhance self-care at EU level and develop strategies to support the broader implementation of effective self-care" building on findings from other work e.g. EMPATHiE (2014) and PiSCE (2014-).
The consortium brings together organisations with a broad range of expertise in fields and backgrounds relevant for self-care in chronic disease. The consortium is led by a patients' organisation (EPF) and includes representatives of key stakeholders: health education (DCHE), research and implementation (FAD), and health policy (EFHH) as well as translation of knowledge (advisors to the steering committee).
EPF is participating as a consortium leader, which will allow that the role of patient involvement from grass roots to the European policy level will be at the centre of the work.
As the leader partner of Work Package1, EPF oversees and coordinates the management of the project; and as the leader partner of Work Package7, it also takes care of external communication and dissemination of the results.
The project has significant added value for the European society in general and in particular for people living with one or more long-term conditions. The importance of developing effective strategies for promoting self-care by patients and citizens is growing, as governments seek to develop healthcare systems that guarantee high quality care whilst facing the challenges of ageing populations, increase in chronic diseases and rapid technological development in the context of constrained finances.


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The Novachord is often considered to be the world's first commercial polyphonic synthesizer.[1][2][3] All-electronic, incorporating many circuit and control elements found in modern synthesizers, and using subtractive synthesis to generate tones, it was designed by John M. Hanert, Laurens Hammond and C. N. Williams, and was manufactured by the Hammond company.[4] Only 1,069 Novachords were built over a period from 1939 to 1942. It was one of very few electronic products released by Hammond that was not intended to emulate the sound of an organ.
Hammond Novachord
72-voices
Divide-down
6-channel electromechanical vibrato
Synthesis type
Subtractive analogue
3-stage resonant bandpass
72-notes
History of production
While production of the Novachord began in November 1938, it was first heard at the 1939 New York World's Fair.[5] The Novachord Orchestra of Ferde Grofé performed daily at the Ford stand with four Novachords and a Hammond Organ. The first instrument was delivered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 30, 1940 as a birthday present.
The Novachord was not well-suited to the technique of organists or pianists and required frequent adjustments to controls on the front panel to create new sounds. Like many analog synthesizers, it was much better-suited to producing "otherworldly" timbres. The instrument found its niche some years after production, shaping the sound of many science fiction film and television scores.
Production stopped because of a shortage of parts in 1942 and poor sales kept it from being built after the war.[6] It is estimated that fewer than 200 Novachords are still in existence and considerably fewer are still in operation. The vast majority of surviving examples are in North America, although one is known to be in the United Kingdom. As of November 2017, there is now one in Australia.
Containing 163 vacuum tubes and over 1,000 custom capacitors,[7] the Novachord weighed nearly 500 pounds and was roughly the size of two spinet pianos. The divide-down oscillator architecture, based on vacuum-tube monostable circuits, permitted all 72 notes to be played polyphonically by deriving several octaves of notes from twelve top-octave oscillators. A similar design was adopted in polysynthesizers released more than 30 years later by Robert Moog and ARP.
The Novachord featured an early implementation of ADSR with seven attack/decay/sustain envelopes selectable by rotary switch and sustain-pedal controlled release. It also utilised a three-stage resonant band-pass filter network with variable damping and an electro-mechanical 6-channel vibrato unit operating on pairs of adjacent oscillators. The resulting sonic palette ranged from dense sustained string-like and vocal-like timbres to the sharp attack transients of a harpsichord or piano.
Despite its historical importance, the Novachord did not enjoy commercial success. This was partly due to instability issues and the onset of World War II: reliability issues were caused in the main by the tight tolerances required of the operating parameters of hundreds of custom components. Hammond soon offered a special upgrade to improve stability, which was no more than a low-power heater bolted inside the enclosure to reduce the effects of humidity. The instrument was not known for vacuum tube failure perhaps because the heater voltage was reduced from the normal 6.3 volts to 5 volts.
Appearances in contemporary media
Like its contemporaries, the Theremin, the Ondes Martenot and the Trautonium, the Novachord can be heard occasionally in horror and science fiction film scores including many genre films from Universal Studios and James Bernard's ethereal music for Hammer's The Gorgon (1964). Jerry Goldsmith used the Novachord in several of his film scores and is known to have held the instrument in high regard. It was also used for the entr'acte music in Gone With the Wind (1939).[8] Composer Heitor Villa-Lobos included a part for the Novachord in his Symphony Nº. 7 (1945).[9] Hanns Eisler used the Novachord in his Kammersinfonie op. 69.
The Novachord can be heard on many recordings of the era. Many songs sung by Vera Lynn, including "We'll Meet Again", were accompanied by Arthur Young on the Novachord. One of the most notable recordings to feature the Novachord is "Brother Bones" recording of "Sweet Georgia Brown" on Tempo Records TR652. The Novachord is used for the bass line on that track, but can be more prominently heard on the B side of the record playing the melody on "Margie". [10] American jazz musician Slim Gaillard and his Quartette also recorded with the instrument on their 1947 instrumental release "Novachord Boogie" (Parlophone R 3035)[11]
Cirocco, Phil (2006). "The Novachord Restoration Project". CIROCCO MODULAR SYNTHESIZERS. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
Morris, Jan (1998). Manhattan '45. JHU Press. p. 47.
Davison, Annette (2009). Alex North's A streetcar named Desire: a film score guide. Scarecrow Press. p. 82.
Steve Howell; Dan Wilson. "Novachord". Hollow Sun. Retrieved 26 April 2011. See also site's 'History' page
Introduction to the Hammond Novachord
120 Years of Electronic Music, The Hammond Novachord (1939) Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
Hammond Novachord. Many photos, outside and in.
Hammond Novachord Sightings.
Liner notes to Villa-Lobos H: Symphonies Nos. 6 and 7, NAXOS 8.573043
https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?threaded=1&v=0tbiFphWHc4
YouTube - Slim Gaillard Quartette - Novachord Boogie.
A detailed restoration of a Novachord with sound clips
A modern recording of a 1939 Novachord recently restored in the UK
US Novachord restoration project
UK Novachord restoration project
Virtual Novachord Software
1942, 78 RPM recording of Parade of The Wooden Soldiers
Video of British pianist/composer Billy Mayerl playing his Marigold on the Novachord in 1941 (British Pathé film)

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We need to send a strong signal that we, the small donors, will back Democratic leaders with the courage to stand up for Democracy in the Democratic party. Please join me and sign this statement today.


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package qos

import (
	"strconv"
	"testing"

	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/resource"
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/v1"
	kubetypes "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/types"
)

const (
	standardMemoryAmount = 8000000000
)

var (
	cpuLimit = v1.Pod{
		Spec: v1.PodSpec{
			Containers: []v1.Container{
				{
					Resources: v1.ResourceRequirements{
						Limits: v1.ResourceList{
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceCPU): resource.MustParse("10"),
						},
					},
				},
			},
		},
	}

	memoryLimitCPURequest = v1.Pod{
		Spec: v1.PodSpec{
			Containers: []v1.Container{
				{
					Resources: v1.ResourceRequirements{
						Requests: v1.ResourceList{
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceCPU): resource.MustParse("0"),
						},
						Limits: v1.ResourceList{
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceMemory): resource.MustParse("10G"),
						},
					},
				},
			},
		},
	}

	zeroMemoryLimit = v1.Pod{
		Spec: v1.PodSpec{
			Containers: []v1.Container{
				{
					Resources: v1.ResourceRequirements{
						Limits: v1.ResourceList{
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceMemory): resource.MustParse("0"),
						},
					},
				},
			},
		},
	}

	noRequestLimit = v1.Pod{
		Spec: v1.PodSpec{
			Containers: []v1.Container{
				{
					Resources: v1.ResourceRequirements{},
				},
			},
		},
	}

	equalRequestLimitCPUMemory = v1.Pod{
		Spec: v1.PodSpec{
			Containers: []v1.Container{
				{
					Resources: v1.ResourceRequirements{
						Requests: v1.ResourceList{
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceMemory): resource.MustParse("10G"),
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceCPU):    resource.MustParse("5m"),
						},
						Limits: v1.ResourceList{
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceCPU):    resource.MustParse("5m"),
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceMemory): resource.MustParse("10G"),
						},
					},
				},
			},
		},
	}

	cpuUnlimitedMemoryLimitedWithRequests = v1.Pod{
		Spec: v1.PodSpec{
			Containers: []v1.Container{
				{
					Resources: v1.ResourceRequirements{
						Requests: v1.ResourceList{
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceMemory): resource.MustParse(strconv.Itoa(standardMemoryAmount / 2)),
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceCPU):    resource.MustParse("5m"),
						},
						Limits: v1.ResourceList{
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceMemory): resource.MustParse("10G"),
						},
					},
				},
			},
		},
	}

	requestNoLimit = v1.Pod{
		Spec: v1.PodSpec{
			Containers: []v1.Container{
				{
					Resources: v1.ResourceRequirements{
						Requests: v1.ResourceList{
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceMemory): resource.MustParse(strconv.Itoa(standardMemoryAmount - 1)),
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceCPU):    resource.MustParse("5m"),
						},
					},
				},
			},
		},
	}
	criticalPodWithNoLimit = v1.Pod{
		ObjectMeta: v1.ObjectMeta{
			Annotations: map[string]string{
				kubetypes.CriticalPodAnnotationKey: "",
			},
		},
		Spec: v1.PodSpec{
			Containers: []v1.Container{
				{
					Resources: v1.ResourceRequirements{
						Requests: v1.ResourceList{
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceMemory): resource.MustParse(strconv.Itoa(standardMemoryAmount - 1)),
							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceCPU):    resource.MustParse("5m"),
						},
					},
				},
			},
		},
	}
)

type oomTest struct {
	pod             *v1.Pod
	memoryCapacity  int64
	lowOOMScoreAdj  int // The max oom_score_adj score the container should be assigned.
	highOOMScoreAdj int // The min oom_score_adj score the container should be assigned.
}

func TestGetContainerOOMScoreAdjust(t *testing.T) {
	oomTests := []oomTest{
		{
			pod:             &cpuLimit,
			memoryCapacity:  4000000000,
			lowOOMScoreAdj:  999,
			highOOMScoreAdj: 999,
		},
		{
			pod:             &memoryLimitCPURequest,
			memoryCapacity:  8000000000,
			lowOOMScoreAdj:  999,
			highOOMScoreAdj: 999,
		},
		{
			pod:             &zeroMemoryLimit,
			memoryCapacity:  7230457451,
			lowOOMScoreAdj:  1000,
			highOOMScoreAdj: 1000,
		},
		{
			pod:             &noRequestLimit,
			memoryCapacity:  4000000000,
			lowOOMScoreAdj:  1000,
			highOOMScoreAdj: 1000,
		},
		{
			pod:             &equalRequestLimitCPUMemory,
			memoryCapacity:  123456789,
			lowOOMScoreAdj:  -998,
			highOOMScoreAdj: -998,
		},
		{
			pod:             &cpuUnlimitedMemoryLimitedWithRequests,
			memoryCapacity:  standardMemoryAmount,
			lowOOMScoreAdj:  495,
			highOOMScoreAdj: 505,
		},
		{
			pod:             &requestNoLimit,
			memoryCapacity:  standardMemoryAmount,
			lowOOMScoreAdj:  2,
			highOOMScoreAdj: 2,
		},
		{
			pod:             &criticalPodWithNoLimit,
			memoryCapacity:  standardMemoryAmount,
			lowOOMScoreAdj:  -998,
			highOOMScoreAdj: -998,
		},
	}
	for _, test := range oomTests {
		oomScoreAdj := GetContainerOOMScoreAdjust(test.pod, &test.pod.Spec.Containers[0], test.memoryCapacity)
		if oomScoreAdj < test.lowOOMScoreAdj || oomScoreAdj > test.highOOMScoreAdj {
			t.Errorf("oom_score_adj should be between %d and %d, but was %d", test.lowOOMScoreAdj, test.highOOMScoreAdj, oomScoreAdj)
		}
	}
}

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Three pedestrians including one year old killed in crash
Augusta police say they are still investigating
Two pedestrians are dead(WMTW)
By Allegra Zamore
Updated: May. 20, 2021 at 3:05 PM EDT
AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - Augusta Police now confirming three people including a one year old girl were killed after being hit by a vehicle on Cony Road in Augusta Thursday afternoon around 2 p.m.
Officers were called to a report of a motor vehicle crash involving multiple pedestrians. 69-year old Barbara Maxim Hendsbee, of Augusta, 62-year old Rosalyn Jean, also from Augusta and a one year old girl all died as a result of the crash, according to police,
The driver of the vehicle was identified as 56-year old Robert Santerre from Chelsea.
Augusta Police say they are still investigating the details involved in this crash. It was reconstructed by the Maine State Police.
Ted Scharf lives along Cony Road. He says he sees people walking along the street all the time. "To me, it's crazy to think someone went for a walk and this is what happened to them," says Scharf. "This road has a lot of traffic. It's a shortcut for people and from Route 3 to 27 and a lot of people drive much faster than they should both directions."
If you have any information about the crash, please contact the Augusta Police Department at 626-2370.
Copyright 2021 WABI. All rights reserved.
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as it embodied the knightly virtues of honour, chivalry, and martial ability.
At this Armour Study Day, historians and curators from some of Europe's most prominent museums will speak about collecting and display practices of Renaissance armour in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Who were the men that collected these objects, what qualities were considered favourable, and how did collectors and museums choose to display this armour once acquired?
Lunch and tea/coffee will be provided. The day will also include a handling session, giving attendees the opportunity to handle pieces of fifteenth and sixteenth century armour.
This entry was posted in Conference, Upcoming Events and tagged armour, Chivalry, Collecting, medievalism on April 21, 2017 by thegrailquest.


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