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Monaster Świętych Cyryla i Metodego – prawosławny klasztor męski w Ujkowicach.

Monaster Świętych Cyryla i Metodego został założony w 1986. Przez pierwsze osiem lat funkcjonował jako stauropigialny klasztor greckokatolicki. Od 1994 wspólnota podlegała jurysdykcji biskupa diecezji przemysko-nowosądeckiej Polskiego Autokefalicznego Kościoła Prawosławnego (PAKP). W 2015 liderzy wspólnoty z Ujkowic zostali suspendowani przez PAKP, a wspólnotę monastyczną rozwiązano decyzją Świętego Soboru Biskupów PAKP. Od tego czasu klasztor w Ujkowicach de facto nadal funkcjonuje, ale poza strukturami jakiejkolwiek prawosławnej Cerkwi kanonicznej.

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Klasztor greckokatolicki
Monaster męski w Ujkowicach powstał w 1986 na mocy specjalnego dekretu biskupa greckokatolickiego, Włodzimierza Tarasewicza, który przed śmiercią, korzystając z udzielonych mu przez Stolicę Apostolską pełnomocnictw, erygował katolicki klasztor obrządku bizantyjsko-słowiańskiego w Polsce na prawach stauropigialnych.

Założycielami monasteru byli mnisi Nikodem i Atanazy. W 1984 powrócili oni do Polski ze Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki z zamiarem założenia neounickiej wspólnoty zakonnej. Obaj duchowni byli byłymi paulinami z Jasnej Góry, którzy w 1980 podczas pobytu za granicą przeszli z obrządku łacińskiego na obrządek bizantyjski i otrzymali święcenia kapłańskie w Ukraińskim Kościele Greckokatolickim.

24 lipca 1986 za zgodą prymasa Polski Józefa Glempa ojcowie Nikodem i Atanazy zakupili gospodarstwo rolne pod Przemyślem i w budynkach gospodarczych zorganizowali kaplicę oraz dom zakonny. Niemal natychmiast po przybyciu na Podkarpacie spotkali się z niechęcią, zarówno ze strony lokalnej społeczności, jak również duchowieństwa rzymskokatolickiego diecezji przemyskiej.

Klasztor prawosławny
W 1994 z powodu patowej sytuacji w konflikcie z łacińskim arcybiskupem przemyskim Ignacym Tokarczukiem oraz wiernymi parafii rzymskokatolickiej w Ujkowicach, ojcowie Nikodem i Atanazy odeszli z Kościoła katolickiego, przeszli na prawosławie i podporządkowali się jurysdykcji Polskiego Autokefalicznego Kościoła Prawosławnego.

W 2014 w monasterze było 12 braci, w tym 9 mnichów. Był to wówczas największy pod względem liczby mieszkańców męski klasztor prawosławny w Polsce. Stanowił w strukturach PAKP lokalne sanktuarium i ośrodek pielgrzymkowy. Wierni przybywali tutaj modlić się przed kopią ikony Matki Bożej "Pocieszenia i Dobrej Rady" z Monasteru Watopedzkiego. Na terenie monasteru mieściła się cerkiew Świętych Cyryla i Metodego. W budowie była druga – pod wezwaniem Watopedzkiej Ikony Matki Bożej.

W 2015 Święty Sobór Biskupów PAKP ogłosił likwidację monasteru z uwagi na szkodliwą dla Kościoła działalność jego przełożonego (szkalowanie innych duchownych i biskupów, nawiązywanie kontaktów z "prawosławnym Kościołem niekanonicznym", niestosowanie się do poleceń ordynariusza diecezji przemysko-nowosądeckiej). Archimandrytę Nikodema i ihumena Atanazego Sobór suspendował, innym mnichom i posłusznikom pozostawił możliwość wstąpienia do innych wspólnot monastycznych Kościoła.

W maju 2016 świętu patronalnemu monasteru, który kontynuuje działalność poza PAKP, przewodniczył biskup lwowski i sokalski Dymitr z – ówcześnie niekanonicznego – Ukraińskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego Patriarchatu Kijowskiego.

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MINNESOTA WILD RE-SIGNS DEFENSEMAN HUNTER WARNER TO ONE-YEAR, TWO-WAY CONTRACT
Minnesota Wild Assistant General Manager Tom Kurvers today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has re-signed defenseman Hunter Warner to a one-year, two-way contract ($700,000/$80,000).
Warner, 23 (9/21/95), recorded seven points (1g, 6a), 97 penalty minutes (PIM) and a plus-7 rating in 73 games with the Iowa Wild in the American Hockey League (AHL) last season. He ranked second on the team in PIM and fourth in plus/minus rating. The 6-foot-3, 223-pound native of Eden Prairie, Minn., added four points (1g, 3a) and a plus-5 rating in 11 Calder Cup contests to rank T-1st amongst team defensemen in scoring and second in plus/minus rating during the playoffs. Warner has collected 18 points (3g, 15a) and 181 PIM in 165 career AHL games with Iowa.
Minnesota originally signed Warner to a three-year, entry-level contract on Sept. 23, 2014.

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fou un sacerdot espanyol de la Companyia de Jesús. El 19 de gener de 2008 va ser triat com el trentè Prepòsit General de la Companyia de Jesús, succeint a Peter Hans Kolvenbach. Va ocupar el càrrec fins al 14 d'octubre de 2016, data en què va ser substituït per Arturo Sosa Abascal.

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Oriünd de Villamuriel de Cerrato, província de Palència, era el tercer de quatre germans (Antonio, Félix, Adolfo i José). El seu pare era militar de professió. Va estudiar en el Col·legi de Areneros amb la promoció de 1953.

El 15 de setembre de 1953 va començar la seva vida religiosa entrant com a novici a Aranjuez. Posteriorment, va acabar els estudis de Filosofia a Alcalá de Henares. Es va traslladar a Tòquio en 1961, on va acabar Teologia i va ser ordenat sacerdot el 17 de març de 1967, amb 30 anys. Entre 1968 i 1971 estudia teologia sistemàtica i obté el doctorat en Teologia a Roma, a la Pontifícia Universitat Gregoriana. El 1971 va tornar a Àsia, on va estar quaranta-quatre anys. A Tòquio exerceix com a professor de Teologia Sistemàtica a la Universitat Sofia i fa els últims vots a la Companyia el 5 d'octubre de 1976. Després de set anys a Tòquio és traslladat a les Filipines com a director de l'Institut Pastoral de Manila (EAPI) fins a 1984. Entre 1991 i 1993 exerceix de rector de l'escolasticat de Tòquio, i posteriorment, entre 1993 i 1999, és el Superior Provincial dels Jesuïtes al Japó. Entre els anys 2000 a 2004 treballa en un Centre Pastoral d'immigrants a Tòquio. El seu treball és difícil però és capaç d'ajudar a immigrants filipins i d'altres països asiàtics a Tòquio. S'obté així una experiència de primera mà del sofriment d'aquestes persones.

Des de 2004 i fins a la seva elecció com prepòsit general exerceix el càrrec de president de la Conferència de Provincials d'Àsia Oriental i Oceania. Va ser corresponsable de tota la regió jesuïta d'Àsia Oriental que va des de Myanmar (Birmània) i la Xina a Micronèsia al Pacífic, incloent-hi la província d'Austràlia.

El 19 de gener de 2008 els 217 jesuïtes electors reunits a Roma el van elegir com a successor de Peter Hans Kolvenbach, en la 35a Congregació General, convertint-se així en el setè espanyol que arriba al càrrec. A més del seu nadiu castellà, parla cinc idiomes: català, japonès, anglès, francès i italià. El primer acte de Nicolás com a Superior va ser visitar les habitacions on el fundador, sant Ignasi de Loiola, va viure molt de temps, va escriure les Constitucions i va morir.

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The Myths and Obscured Truths of 5G Phone Service
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The congested mess of the radio frequency spectrum in the US at present.
Each new generation of wireless/cell phone service comes with faster data speeds and greater hype. What is now being officially counted as 5G or fifth generation wireless phone promises extraordinarily fast data speeds, or maybe that's just the enormous layer of hype that has insulated us from the reality of what 5G really is and will be for most of us, most of the time.
We all know that over time the data speeds on our phones have been increasing. There have been a number of technological changes allowing for those speed increases, and it is not quite as simple as clean changes between each different generation. There have been intermediate steps as well – 3.5G, 3.75G, 4.5G and 4.9G, to name just a few. There have also been disconnects between the official names for the "behind the scenes" technologies and the marketing names the wireless companies have boasted about – most recently with AT&T's marketing boasting about having 5G technology that, in technical terms, was not 5G technology at all.
There are plenty of tables on plenty of web pages showing the different speed capabilities of the different generations of wireless connectivity, and we'll not repeat any of that, because most of the tables fail to reflect the real-world experiences we get during our normal daily operations. The theoretical speeds assume a perfect set of circumstances – you're right next to a cell phone tower, you're not sharing the cell phone tower with any other users, and there's a fast direct connection from the tower into the more general "internet cloud". As soon as you start to move away from the tower, your signal weakens of course, and that can translate to slower speeds. And as soon as more people start connecting to the tower, it has to share its total bandwidth among more users, and each person often then gets just a share rather than a full theoretical allocation of maximum bandwidth.
Which leads to our first point.
Why Not Just Fix 4G's Failings
The enormous discrepancy between theoretical and real-world speeds makes the theoretical claims useless and meaningless. In theory, your phone at present, in a 4G LTE area, is capable of download speeds up to 1 Gbps. But what does it actually get?
Why don't you check your download speed right now – first download the Ookla Speedtest app, then turn off your Wi-Fi and run the app. How close do you get to 1Gbps? If you get 100 Mbps, you're doing better that most of us, most of the time (my recent record is 157 Mbps, but that was a one-time outlier).
Who really cares what the theoretical maximums are, when the real-world experiences are so much removed from that? Do we really need an even higher theoretical maximum when most of the time, we're struggling to get 5% of the promised 4G maximum speeds? Why not just do whatever is needed to bring 4G closer to its actual capabilities?
For that matter, if we really are getting even a modest but reliable 50 Mbps speed connection, do we need anything more than that? The answer to this question is surely "No, we don't". 50 Mbps is fast enough to stream two or three 1080P movies simultaneously, and to be doing web browsing, checking email, and more bandwidth spare. And remember, this is on a phone. We don't need and physically can't watch multiple movies at the same time. We don't need to be uploading and downloading large files interactively "while we wait". Apart from some ultra-high-end gaming applications (which are more suited for a regular computer and full size screen), any and every conceivable phone type application can work at full speed at 5Mbps or less.
5G Is Not a Solution to Any Present Problems
We don't need even faster theoretical speeds through a new technology. We need the wireless companies to make good on the potential of the current 4G speeds. How can we realistically expect 5G to be any faster than 4G in a case where 4G is seldom giving up more than about 5% of its promised maximum speed?
It is a bit like being stuck in a commute on the freeway, crawling along at 20 mph. A faster car won't see us go any faster in the bumper to bumper traffic. We need more freeway lanes rather than faster cars. Does 5G also give us "more lanes" as well as "more horsepower"?
The Promise of 5G
5G service has been described in terms of ridiculous optimism. For example, this recent Wired article claims we'll get 600 times faster data speeds than we do on 4G service – 10 Gbps. Even if that were possible, we doubt any of our phones would be able to process the data coming in at that speed. Typical solid state memory write speeds (eg on a fast SD card) seldom go over a 1 Gbps write speed – ten times slower than the data that might be coming in from a wireless connection.
It is also interesting to see their claim that 10Gbps is 600 times faster than 4G. 4G's theoretical maximum is 1G, 10G is only ten times faster than that. A speed 600 times slower than 10GBps is 16.7 Mbps – we'll grant that is closer to reality with 4G, but it is neither fair nor accurate to quote theoretical maximum 5G speeds alongside actual real world 4G speeds.
The Wired article hints at the contradiction between reality and theory when it observes that the fastest 5G network in the world (in Saudi Arabia) averages 144.5 Mbps, and here in the US, 5G speeds are averaging 33.4 Mbps, which is only twice the cited speed of 4G in Wired's article. So, within a few short paragraphs in a single article, our 5G expectations collapse down from 10 Gbps to 33.4Mbps.
There is another claim that seems close to physically impossible. Actual data throughput and the experience of responsiveness and speed as a user is measured not just by data transfer speeds, but also by the time it takes for computers to talk to each other. When you ask for a web page through your browser, your computer doesn't just say "give me this page" as a single request. Your computer ends up talking to half a dozen, maybe more, different computers, and has maybe 100 – 150 different "conversations" as part of the process of getting a single web page. Each time your computer "says something" it takes time for that message to travel through the internet, being switched through a dozen or more points as part of that, and each time the other computer replies, it takes time for your computer to receive its answer. These delays are described as latency.
Some of these delays are "switching delays" as your signal goes through routers on its path from your computer to the destination computer at back. (Think of these like driving through your city and needing to stop at lights along the way.) Some of these delays are just the time it takes the signal to travel each mile of distance – fiber cable carries signals at about 70% of the speed of light, or about 130,000 miles per second. A signal can go around the world five times in one second.
That seems unbelievably fast, but when you reduce it down to milliseconds, that is only 130 miles per msec. It takes 20 msecs for a signal to travel from coast to coast oneway, plus the extra time created by switching delays. And so on. This all adds up to a lot of delay.
5G claims it will reduce this latency down to virtually zero. That is a nonsense/impossible claim, because the speed of data traveling down a fiber cable can not be increased, and neither can the speed of data traveling through the radio waves between your phone and a tower. Maybe the switching speed of the circuits in each tower can be improved slightly, but that isn't going to be massively noticeable.
The wireless carriers claim they'll bring more of the computing to the "edge of the cloud", but you know for sure that there's not going to be an enormous server farm at the base of every cell tower. So the concept of "edge" is fuzzy rather than exact, and won't apply to all services – even something as simple as a Google search query needs to get to a massive Google server farm, not just to a cache close to a cell phone tower.
Fitting 5G Into the Congested Radio Frequency Spectrum
Something few people ever pause to consider is there is what has become, today, a very limited amount of different frequencies available for any new type of radio service. There's effectively not a single Hertz of unused bandwidth from any frequency way below the point that becomes useful for cellular service (say, 300 MHz at the lower end) and the point where frequencies go too high to be of value (a number that keeps extending upwards, albeit with more and more compromises and limitations).
This is graphically illustrated at the top of the article – the white space is unused space, and as you can see, every frequency is already being used, often by several different competing and potentially conflicting services. (I know the chart is too small to see in detail, if you are interested, you can see the complete chart, at any magnification you wish, here.)
The problem is that, as a rule of thumb, the faster you want your internet speed to be, the broader the chunk of frequencies you need. This has encouraged each new generation of phone service to go further up the frequency spectrum, and with 5G, there has been a split into three different regions – some relatively low frequencies (ie under 1 GHz) (note that "relatively low" needs to be stressed – 1GHz is an extraordinarily high frequency already), some medium frequencies (between about 1 and 6 or so GHz) and some stunningly high frequencies, way over 6 GHz.
These different frequency groups have slightly different properties. In general, the lower the frequency, the further it can travel (but never more than line-of-sight at any cell phone frequency) and the better it can penetrate objects, but the slower its data speeds will be. The highest frequencies, 39 GHz, are severely attenuated even by a thin sheet of window glass (this article says they drop by 65% – 70%) and for all intents and purposes, are blocked by almost everything.
This is creating a modern day Tower of Babel. Originally, cell phone service in the US was all clustered around one single frequency band, about 800 MHz. Back then, the frequency chart, above, wasn't nearly so congested. Even so, a problem soon arose because different countries had different "gaps" which they could allocate to cell phone service. By the 1990s, things were still manageable – there were four main frequency bands in use for cell phones around the world – 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz. But then with 3G and 4G service, more frequencies were needed to provide support for the extra data being served, and different countries started allocating whatever space they had.
It is now common for a cell phone to support ten or more different frequency bands so as to maximize its value around the world. Even this isn't enough to guarantee coverage everywhere. There are 22 different defined 4G frequency ranges, and because different bands support different types of 4G, these 22 different frequency ranges end up as 88 different "bands".
This image above shows all the different bands that a new Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G supports. Early cell phones supported just one or two bands.
Oh – as well as those bands, most cell phones also have two bands for Wi-Fi, another band for Bluetooth, and possibly a FM radio receiver as well.
5G adds still more frequency ranges, and still more bands (and continues to add more as time passes).
The important point to keep in mind here is that there are actually three different types of 5G. Your wireless carrier may support one, two, or all three, and your local cell towers may only support one of the three different bands, maybe two, seldom all three. You'll get very different experiences from the three different bands – for example, a Wall St Journal review of the new iPhone 12 series reported they achieved speeds, on the Verizon mmWave network (the fastest highest frequency type), of up to 3 Gbps when standing right next to the cell tower. But a block away, the speed had dropped to 800 Mbps on the street, and when they went inside a building, there was no 5G signal at all.
So clearly it is possible to achieve crazy-fast speeds, but only if you're right next to the cell tower, and also, we suspect, only if you're not sharing that service with multiple other users at the same time. In the real world, we doubt you'd regularly see even the 800 Mbps very often, and only when outdoors.
The review also reported that when communicating at top speed, the iPhone became too hot to hold!
At least they managed to find some 5G. A friend bought a wireless device to use with Verizon's 5G service, and walked a block in Manhattan that allegedly offered that service, and was unable to pick up any 5G signal at all.
It is similar internationally. A friend in London has had a 5G phone for a while, and has only found a couple of spots in London where 5G service can be found, and at speeds nothing like those promised.
Our 5G Experience
We received a new Samsung A71 5G phone, served by Google's Fi service (which in most cases uses T-Mobile's network). I drove around the Redmond/Bellevue area and tested both the 4G and 5G speeds at four different locations, chosen more or less at random, including the Microsoft world headquarters campus and close to T-Mobile's US headquarters, but each time being served by a different cell tower, and with moderate to reasonable signal strength.
I was stationary in my car for each test. (Speeds are often slower when you are driving, and also, if driving, signal strength and possibly serving tower can change, block to block, making comparisons unfair).
I did two or three speed tests of both 4G and 5G at each location, using the excellent Ookla Speedtest app (available on both iOS and Android) and monitoring tower connections and protocols with the Network Cell Info app (unfortunately only available on Android – Apple doesn't allow apps to get quite so much "low level" data about its phones). Speeds are in Mbps and latency is in milliseconds.
Location 4G Download 5G Download 4G Latency 5G Latency
Locn 1 Min 34.3 11.1 28 28
Locn 1 Avg 35.1 38.3 29 32
Locn 1 Max 35.9 60.1 30 39
Locn 3 Min 148 55.7 21 24
Locn 3 Avg 152.5 112.9 24 28
Locn 3 Max 157 146 26 32
All test Avg 74.5 69.7 26.4 32.5
As you can see, the 5G average download speed was better than 4G in locations 1 and 2, the speed was the same at location 4, and location 3 had faster 4G than 5G speed. Averaging all the readings at all the locations showed 4G to be slightly faster, overall.
We also have to observe that latency – the property of a connection that 5G promoters are claiming they'll reduce to practically zero, was appreciably longer/slower with 5G in all four locations and overall.
Our testing may not be representative of what is happening around the country. Some areas do have some small patches of truly faster 5G service, and more areas will be getting faster service in the future.
But, at least for the high-tech corridor on the Eastside of Seattle, and right now, we're not seeing a compelling case for 5G at all.
Should You Buy a 5G Phone
Based on our observations, and what we've read about other people's experiences, for most of us, if you already have a reasonably modern 4G phone that you'd not be upgrading if it weren't for 5G, you are probably best advised to delay an upgrade for another year or so. That will give time for the wireless service providers to come up with clearer patterns of which frequencies they are using, making it easier for the cell phone manufacturers to provide sufficient support for more frequencies.
It will hopefully also see more truly fast 5G deployed.
If you need (or want) to upgrade your phone anyway, at present, then if you can get a phone with some 5G capabilities included, and if it doesn't cost too much more than a similar phone without 5G, we'd probably suggest you get the 5G version. This "future proofs" your phone somewhat, and hopefully over time, you'll get more and more benefit from the 5G services, although (depending on your location) maybe at present you'll get no added benefit at all.
Our sense is that the wireless companies are now much more focused on adding new 5G cells than they are on continuing to deploy more 4G cells, so into the future, phones that have 5G as well as 4G will have more choices of cell sites to connect to, and generally better service as a result.
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package com.moon.signaldetector.data;

import java.util.Arrays;

import com.google.common.base.Objects;

public class Cell {
	int type;
	int mcc;
	int mnc;
	int cid;
	int lac;
	int rssi;
	double latitude;
	double longitude;

	@Override
	public int hashCode() {
		return Arrays.hashCode(new int[] { cid, lac });
	}

	@Override
	public boolean equals(Object obj) {
		if (this == obj)
			return true;
		if (obj == null)
			return false;
		if (getClass() != obj.getClass())
			return false;
		Cell other = (Cell) obj;
		if (cid != other.cid)
			return false;
		if (lac != other.lac)
			return false;
		return true;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return Objects.toStringHelper(this).add("cid", cid).add("lac", lac)
				.add("rssi", rssi).toString();
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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I got back to my paints and brushes.
In preparation for the first game of second edition Wild West Exodus whole Jesse James posse received a splash of paint.
It was a quick paint job so they would be ready for game, but they look decent.
I did not manage to finish all of Watchers for the game, but umber scarab received some paint. Scarab was painted same as the rest of Watchers - form gloss black base with gray zenithal highlights I added more brown highlights on limbs than on body. Few greenish washes were added to front "armor" plate and head, and whole miniature was painted with mid brown wash with gloss medium.
Scenery needed for game, son and I assembled year or two ago. Now we painted them all. Most of them are from first WWX kickstarter. My son put the acrylic base for wood, with little brown tint in it, first then brown lint with little water. Then houses come to my hands and I added few shades of brown with airbrush.
I started to paint forge I printed a week ago. Internet says that prints could be painted without base coat. I used common craft acrylic.
There are few more miniatures from Essen on assembly line, and some Warmarchine Cygnar models start to get paint on them.


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Based on the novel by celebrated writer Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden), this is the story of the educated but penniless Emily (Lydia Wilson). During her duties as a lady's companion for Lady Maria (Joanna Lumley), she meets her employer's wealthy widower nephew, Lord James Walderhurst (Linus Roache). Accepting his practical if unromantic marriage proposal, Emily finds solace in the company of Walderhurst's nephew Alec Osborn (James D'Arcy) and his glamorous wife, Hester (Hasina Haque), after Lord James leaves to rejoin his regiment. Emily, alone with the Osborns, increasingly comes under their control. She begins to fear for her life.
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What does nonbinary mean?
Medically reviewed by Timothy J. Legg, Ph.D., CRNP on April 18, 2018 — Written by Aaron Kandola
What is nonbinary gender identity?
Understanding the terminology
Nonbinary is a term that describes someone who does not identify exclusively as a man or a woman. They may fall on a psychological and social spectrum between male and female, feel elements of both, or feel different from either.
The term nonbinary can describe several different concepts, and it is often used interchangeably with other terms such as genderqueer. This creates some confusion over what these terms mean and how a person should use them.
This article will discuss the meaning of nonbinary gender identity and define the terminology surrounding it.
Gender identity refers to how someone conceptualizes their gender, and it can be distinguished from their sexual orientation and their biological sex.
Binary identity
Some people's gender identity is not exclusively male or female.
For many people, their personal gender identity aligns with the biological sex they were born with.
This is usually determined by biological factors, such as the anatomy of their sexual organs.
In these cases, people may identify with a majority of the conventions associated with being either a man or a woman.
This way of conceptualizing gender can broadly be described as binary.
Nonbinary identity
For some people, their gender identity is not exclusively male or female. They may still have a strong sense of their gender without identifying as a man or a woman.
The concept of nonbinary is rooted in the idea that gender identities fall on a spectrum rather than an opposition. This means that there are varying degrees of how much someone identifies with being male or female.
Difference between nonbinary and transgender
Nonbinary is an umbrella term used to describe a gender identity that is neither exclusively male or female.
Transgender refers to someone who does not identify with the biological sex that they were born with.
Some people who are nonbinary will identify as transgender, but others may still identify with their biological sex to some extent.
Researchers have published several informative review papers that discuss the concept of nonbinary gender identities in greater detail, including their wider socio-political context.
Difference between nonbinary and intersex
It is possible to be born with sexual anatomy that is not typically male or female. A person may have a mix of male and female genitalia, or with a combination of both XX and XY chromosomes. This condition is known as intersex.
Being intersex does not necessarily mean someone is nonbinary or transgender, although some intersex people may use those terms to describe themselves.
Some people use other terms, such as "genderqueer," rather than nonbinary.
Many people use the term genderqueer interchangeably with nonbinary, though some people may identify as one and not the other.
The term "queer" on its own, however, refers to sexual attraction that does not fit other catergories, such as heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual.
People who are nonbinary but identify to some extent with a particular gender may describe themselves as demigender. Different types of demigenders include:
demiboy
demifluid
There are many other types of nonbinary gender identities that exist, such as:
multigender
ceterosexual
The pronouns a person uses to address another person or group of people who identify as nonbinary will vary depending on their individual preferences. Some people are nonbinary but still use binary pronouns, such as him or her. It is also common to prefer "they/them."
Others may choose gender-neutral pronouns including:
ze/hir/hirs
ze/zir/zirs
xe/xem/xyrs
It is important to find out which pronouns a nonbinary person prefers. Using an incorrect pronoun is known as misgendering, and it is polite to avoid this.
It is simplest to use gender-neutral terms in scenarios where it is impossible to determine the pronoun an individual prefers, such as when speaking about someone in third person. These include:
person/people
them/they
partner/spouse
People conceptualize gender in different ways and many people do not identify with being a man or a woman.
Society is increasingly becoming more accepting of nonbinary gender identities. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) recently removed gender identity disorder as a diagnosable mental health condition from the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual (DSM-5).
Many states in the United States, such as Colorado and California, now include nonbinary as an option on official documentation, such as driver's licenses.
Many people with nonbinary gender identities report feeling discriminated against, and experience psychological distress as a result of this. Understanding and appreciating nonbinary gender identities is a step towards ensuring that people feel accepted and represented.
Becoming familiar with the terminology or learning which terms a nonbinary person prefers is essential for their comfort, as well as a step towards greater inclusitivity.
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Meet at Safety Town at 12:00 and plan on walking in.
No vehicles are allowed in the park on weekends and we can't park in the cemetary.
If you can't make it at 12:00 come when you can.
Go to the Jailhouse and walk/ride down through the grassy field and into the woods. You'll see us on the left.
Plans right now are to rock armor 3 spots.
If more than just a few folks show we'll reroute a small section, cut some drains and do some deberming.


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"The Lazy Burden was made over about four or so days in my dear ma's garage in South London, Bellingham to be precise, edited in my Tokyo apartment a little while after. I don't know when but probably a few years ago now. Its probably going to be the last Koen Park album to be honest, unless I have a massive change of heart and finances! The whole point for the Koen Park project was just to celebrate my heap of junky musical gear and have lots of fun. It's provided that and so much more but unfortunately to fund my labels I have had to sell off that garage full of drums, guitars, keyboards, computers and weird oddities. I no longer have the time to bend my casios either, so these are the sad obvious reasons.
I think this album, more than all the others, is more 'garage', not in genre, but in its creativity. Whilst I spent some time producing the other Koen Park work, this stuff is pretty much first time played drums, guitars, violins, oddities, electronic machines and samplers into my four track fostex tape recorder…then processed into my laptop a wee bit. Limited production at best and I make no apologies for this. That Koen Park was able to let me just rock out a bit, feel free and not worry about recording quality compared to my 'solo' works, I am most thankful for.
Its not about too much I guess, but does point to my laziness, or at least feelings of it. If I do nothing in a day I feel like its a burden of laziness when the truth is probably quite different. Nonetheless this work is inspired by feelings of laziness, staying in bed most of the day, obsessive behaviour, surviving off vitamins and drinking far too much coffee so that I get the shakes, grind my teeth and go back to bed. I'll then go and make music, in this weird, off-kilter state.
Final note is that I asked Ed Cookson to do the artwork. Ed is an insanely talented animator, programmer, musician and artist who runs The Sancho Plan project, more info here: http://www.thesanchoplan.com/ – or for more info about Ed himself: www.edcookson.com – He also happens to be one of my closest truest friends. Years ago I moved back to my hometown, Oxford, living with Ed and making music together with another very close friend of ours, Tom. Over the years, Tom and Ed have taught me a heck of a lot about electronic music and this album, as with all the Koen Park really, is for them. I'd also like to give a special thanks to Paul and the Acroplane crew as they have been huge supporters of this work and run a superb label.
Much love to all. Peace." – Ian Hawgood.


I never quite got on with my Canon G11 as a walkaround camera, mainly because I've been brought up on traditional viewfinders. Anyway, after giving the matter my usual nanosecond of thought I decided to enter the world of Micro Four Thirds and the Olympus OM-D EM-5 is the result. I'm delighted with it, and it's first major outing will be the forthcoming trip to Blancpain's factory in Biel, Switzerland.
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Farm workers in Devon stunned to find £20k worth of cocaine hidden under gatepost
Haul was concealed in plastic carrier bag buried on rural land
Joel Cooper
Brett Gibbons
When two workmen began to dig out some old gate posts, they were startled with what they discovered hidden underneath.
The pair found an old plastic carrier bag spilling over with a haul of cocaine, thought to be worth up to £20,000, concealed on land between Barnstaple and Bideford in North Devon.
They were believed to have been carrying out work on May 22 for another farmer when they found the Costcutter bag, which looked like it had been been hidden for a while.
The farmers contacted the police who seized the drugs, Devon Live reports.
A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said: "On Wednesday 22 May a quantity of a controlled substance with a street value of between £10k and £20k was located in a rural location by two workmen replacing a gate post close to the Old Bideford Road in North Devon.
"Upon discovering the substance the police were contacted and the substance was seized as evidence.
"This is obviously a significant find that has temporarily disrupted the supply of illegal substances into North Devon.
"The matter is currently under investigation."
Police said specialist drug dogs did a sweep of the area but found nothing more.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Devon and Cornwall Police on 101 quoting crime reference number CR/045209/19.


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The first Kuduro International Conference was held in Luanda (Angola) at the Nacional Cine-Teatro from 23 - 25 May 2012.
We are pleased to announce that Hettie Malcomson who completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge has been appointed Lecturer in Music at the University of Southampton. Earlier this year she was temporary Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the University of Manchester.
We are pleased to announce the publication of the new book Contemporary Carioca: Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene (Duke University Press) by Frederick Moehn.
Jonathan Stock has moved from the University of Sheffield (via a one-year posting in Sydney) to a permanent position as Professor of Music and Head of Department at University College Cork, Ireland. Congratulations, Jonathan!
Congratulations to David Kaminsky whose article, "Gender and Sexuality in the Polska: Swedish Couple Dancing and the Challenge of Egalitarian Flirtation" in Ethnomusicology Forum 20(2), August 2011, pp. 123–52 has been given the Marcia Herndon award for 2012 by the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Emma Brinkhurst has recently completed her PhD thesis, entitled "Music, Memory and Belonging: Oral Tradition and Archival Engagement Among the Somali Community of London's King's Cross".
Canadian ethnomusicologist, Michael Marcuzzi, died in September after a long battle with cancer.


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Home Entertainment Television American Gods Season 1 to Introduce New Character Not Featured in the Novel
American Gods Season 1 to Introduce New Character Not Featured in the Novel
American Gods Season 1: Award-winning author Neil Gaiman has been flooded with praise for his modern fantasy novel American Gods and the readers were highly overwhelmed when Bryan Fuller and Michael Green decided to come up with a television series related to the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning book. And an even more intriguing news which has enthralled fans is the introduction of an all-new character in the television series who was not featured in Gaiman's book. Therefore, American Gods Season 1 would surely have a lot to put forward when its starts airing on Starz.
American Gods Season 1 will start airing from April 2017
Ready yourselves. The gods are arriving in 2017. #AmericanGods pic.twitter.com/AD1yqaHrxc
— American Gods (@AmericanGodsSTZ) November 18, 2016
According to an exclusive report by Entertainment Weekly, a character called Vulcan will be added to the television series and it will be portrayed by none other than Psych actor Corbin Bernsen. The report has also given an insight into Bernsen's character, according to which, he will have the traits of a Roman God who has emerged as a modern and successful individual in a country where everything has been ravaged by violence. Showrunner Bryan Fuller mentioned the characteristics of Vulcan by saying "Vulcan's the god of the volcano and the forge, and what is the modern-day extrapolation of what that god could do?". The viewers might be thinking if American Gods Season 1 will be able to match up with the intensity of the book or not, but Gaiman's involvement in the project is a sure marker that the series is not going to be anything less.
The report also stated that Gaiman himself created the new character who would be seen in American Gods Season 1. Nevertheless, The 100 star Ricky Whittle's appearance as a pivotal character in the show has made all his fans curious and now they are just waiting for the upcoming television series to hit the silver screens.
American Gods Season 1 will start airing on Starz from April 2017.
Check out the trailer for American Gods Season 1 below
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"Ta Prohm temple inside of Angkor Thom complex was by far my favorite that we saw while we were in Siem Reap. Remember how I love trees jutting out of rocks? This was pretty much the epitome of just that. It�s even where the tree made famous by Tomb Raider stands in all its glory.
We wandered through the never ending maze of crumbling walls, tree roots and the reconstruction of the walls they could still salvage. Each tree seemed even more unique than the last as we gave into our click happy fingers, racking up what felt like hundreds of photos in just a matter of hours."
This temple, adapted from Bayon Style, was built during the late 12th and early 13th centuries, during the reign of King Jayavarman VII (AD 1181 - 1120) as a place of worship for Brahmans and Buddhists.
Ta Prohm is the modern name of a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara.
The temple is 42 meters long, 36 meters wide and 11 meters high. Today the temple body, the gallery, the wall, the gopura (gateway) and the moat surrounding the temple are heavily damaged. The temple was constructed of brick and sandstone and divided into many rooms. The outside wall is decorated with bas-reliefs illustrating the Brahman story about the celestial nymph. Inside the temple are five rooms and a 13th century Buddha statue that faces east.
The temple's stele records that the site was home to more than 12,500 people (including 18 high priests and 615 dancers), with an additional 80,000 souls in the surrounding villages working to provide services and supplies. The stele also notes that the temple amassed considerable riches, including gold, pearls and silks.
After the fall of the Khmer empire in the 15th century, the temple of Ta Prohm was abandoned and neglected for centuries.
As of 2010, however, it seems authorities have started to take a more aggressive approach to restoration. All the plants and shrubs have been cleared from the site and some of trees are also getting removed.
A crane has been erected and a large amount of building work is underway to restore the temple, with much of the work seemingly just rebuilding the temple from scratch as at other sites. Wooden walkways, platforms, and roped railings have been put in place around the site which now block some of the previously famous postcard photo opportunities.
The temple of Ta Prohm was used as a location in the film Tomb Raider. Although the film took visual liberties with other Angkorian temples, its scenes of Ta Prohm were quite faithful to the temple's actual appearance, and made use of its eerie qualities.
The trees growing out of the ruins are perhaps the most distinctive feature of Ta Prohm, and "have prompted more writers to descriptive excess than any other feature of Angkor".Two species predominate, but sources disagree on their identification: the larger is either the silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) or thitpok Tetrameles nudiflora, and the smaller is either the strangler fig (Ficus gibbosa). or Gold Apple (Diospyros decandra). Indulging in what might be regarded as "descriptive excess".


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classical music, opera, theatre
Wagner: Die Walküre
19 June 2020, Friday
6 pm — 10:30 pm
two intervals
Mupa Home
Produced by Müpa Budapest
Artistic director and conductor:
Ádám Fischer
Walter Fink
Johan Reuter
Anja Kampe
Brünnhilde
Evelyn Herlitzius
Fricka
Atala Schöck
Helmwige
Gertrúd Wittinger
Gerhilde
Eszter Wierdl
Ortlinde
Beatrix Fodor
Waltraute
Gabriella Fodor
Siegrune
Éva Várhelyi
Rossweisse
Zsófia Kálnay
Schwertleite
Annamária Kovács
Grimgerde
Krisztina Simon
The Hungarian Radio Symphonic Orchestra
Gábor Bora, Zoltán Csere, Georgina Ékes, István Gantner, Erzsébet Szilágyi, Judit Somorjai, Dóra Szelőczey, Kinga Szent-Ivány, Gábor Vida
Set designer, director
Hartmut Schörghofer
Christian Martin Fuchs †
costume and puppet designer
Corinna Crome
Andreas Grüter
Momme Hinrichs, Torge Møller (fettFilm)
Teresa Rotemberg
Rebekka Stanzel
Etelka Polgár, Sylvie Gábor
Orsolya Fajger
musical assistant
László Bartal, Szilvia Mikó, Tamás Salgó
répétiteur
János Kovács
Wagner: Die Walküre - A music drama in three acts (German-language performance, with projected subtitles in Hungarian and in English)
We would like, even during this extraordinary situation, for the Müpa Budapest audience to still be able to encounter the world's most outstanding and thrilling artists each evening - this time in their own homes. It is precisely for this reason that we have decided to unlock our media library for everyone over the weeks to come and - each night at the familiar times - open Müpa Budapest's virtual concert hall and auditoriums by providing access to a single unforgettable performance from past years.
The performance will be broadcasted on our website, Facebook-page and YouTube channel.
'His is the art of translating, by subtle gradations, all that is excessive, immense, ambitious in spiritual and natural mankind. On listening to this ardent and despotic music, one feels at times as though one discovered again, painted i...n the depths of a gathering darkness torn asunder by dreams, the dizzy imaginations induced by opium." This is how Charles Baudelaire, one of Richard Wagner's most enthusiastic followers, described what the Ring of the Nibelung, a 15-hour tetralogy forming one of the most grandiose epics in music history, meant to him. Of the four operas, it is perhaps Die Walküre that has the greatest number of musical passages to become established on non-operatic concert programmes, such as the sweeping storm music, Siegmund's Spring Song, the Ride of the Valkyries, and finally Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music.
South African-born Johan Botha has been at the vanguard of international opera life since 1993. He has been a regular guest at New York's Metropolitan Opera, Milan's La Scala, the Salzburg Festival, and has won roles in audio recordings of Wagnerian operas conducted by such world-famous conductors as Thielemann, Barenboim, Bychkov and de Billy. Walter Fink, bearer of the Wiener Staatsoper's prestigious 'Kammersänger" title, has portrayed some 70 characters in 650 performances at the renowned opera house. Danish baritone Johan Reuter has been a member of the Danish National Opera since 1996, and played Wotan, the chief of the gods, at the Bayreuth Festival's 2010 production of Das Rheingold. He has appeared in productions conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Marek Janowski and Kent Nagano, among others.
Anja Kampe is one of the greatest Sieglindes of our time: in the past three years, she has portrayed Hunding's wife at the Bayreuth Festival, where she has appeared in a total of nine years, while audiences at the Washington National Opera got to see her in the same role, partnered with Plácido Domingo, in 2003 and 2007. Atala Schöck has worked together with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Daniele Gatti and Philippe Jordan. Since 2004, she has sung at the Bayreuth Festival on a total of eight occasions, and has been involved in Müpa's Budapest Wagner Days since the outset.
Evelyn Herlitzius made her début in 1997, as Leonora (Fidelio) at the Dresden Semperoper, where she has since portrayed Venus (Tannhäuser), Kundry (Parsifal) and Brünnhilde (Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung). She has sung in Deutsche Oper Berlin's Ring cycle, and at Milan's La Scala (Ortrud, Lohengrin). She made her Bayreuth début in 2002, as Brünnhilde, and in the years to come she was invited back for the entire Ring, as well as for the roles of Kundry, Ortrud and Isolde. In Berlin and New York, at the invitation of Sir Simon Rattle, she sang Brünnhilde in a concert version of Die Walküre together with the Berliner Philharmoniker. She has appeared in major opera houses in Europe and Japan, as well as in Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence. In 2002 she was recognised with the title of "Kammersängerin", and has also been nominated for a Grammy Award.
This recording was made at a concert held at Müpa Budapest on 17 June 2016.
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CIA declares VHP, Bajrang Dal as terrorist organisations
By Monitoring Report
NEW DELHI: The Central Intelligence Agency, in its recent edition of the 'World Factbook', has named the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal as "terrorist organisations".
The agency, the intelligence wing of the US government, has categorised them under "political pressure groups", defined as organisations that are involved in politics or that exert political pressure but whose leaders do not stand for legislative election.
The CIA also lists the RSS, Hurriyat Conference and Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind among the political pressure groups in India. The RSS has been defined as a "nationalist organisation", the Hurriyat Conference as a "separatist group" and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind a "religious organisation".
The CIA annually publishes a World Factbook which feeds intelligence or factual reference material on a country or issue to the US government. This includes information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues. Data is available for 267 countries. The agency has been publishing this material since 1962, but only made it public in 1975. The Factbook is produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US intelligence community. It is one of the types of intelligence delivered, the other two are 'The President's Daily Brief' and the 'National Intelligence Estimates'.
Khemchand Sharma, former national convenor of the BJP's Samvad cell, on Friday rejecte the CIA's assertions. Calling it "fake news", he said legal action will be initiated against the agency. "We completely reject CIA reference to VHP and Bajrang dal as religious militant organizations. these are the nationalist organisations, all knows it. Legal proceeding will be initiated against this reference soon," Sharma tweeted.
APP adds: A video showing Indian soldiers forcing four Kashmiri youths to sit before their vehicle as human shield during a cordon and search operation in Samboora village of Pampore, yesterday, went viral on social media in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK).
According to Kashmir Media Service, the video showed the protestors yelling at the soldiers for being cowards to use the youths as human shield. "See the hypocrite Indian forces that have been using our brothers as human shield," yells one of the protesters, saying that these youths have been dragged out of their houses.
The locals of Samboora told media that a cordon and search operation was in progress when youth came out to protest, after which clashes began between protesters and the Indian troops.
In the video, about nine army personnel are seen standing in front of the vehicle with four youths forced to sit on ground. Superintendent of Police Awantipora Mohammad Zahid said that police were ascertaining the authenticity and genuineness of the video.
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I actually purchased this to remove the picture and place an autograph photo in it, but the back is all sealed up and looks like photo is not removeable. Nice photo, great looking, sports fans would love it.
Was given as a gift. It was loved! The quality of the photo and frame is first class. May get one for me someday.


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Archive for the 'Bobby Fuller Four' Category
Bobby Fuller Four
Listen: Let Her Dance / Bobby Fuller Four
Released during the summer of '65, 'Let Her Dance' somehow made merely a dent (# 133) on BILLBOARD's Bubbling Under The Hot 100, sadly getting airplay only in Southern California.
Amazingly, the single didn't spread like wildfire. It's not like Los Angeles airplay couldn't break a record. I still can't believe it wasn't a hit.
Apparently, more than those at the original label, Mustang thought so too. They proceeded to license it to Liberty Records, clearly expecting to take the song national as Mustang did later in the year with 'I Fought The Law'. Why it wasn't re-released as the followup to 'I Fought The Law' remains a mystery, given a few trade mentions in March '66 that indeed it was scheduled. I suppose Liberty insisted if re-released, despite passing on 'I Fought The Law' later that year, it be via them or some such wrangle.
To be honest, Little Steven turned me on to this about five years ago. He plays it regularly on his Sirius radio channel. Sounds fantastic on the air as it must have that summer while driving along the Pacific Palisades, surf boards popping out the back of pink or aqua woodies. Foolishly, I hadn't paid much attention prior.
Missing this when originally issued is indeed an embarrassing admission, but one that makes for endless records to discover as life moves on.
'Let Her Dance' remains a haunting record with a suspicious streak, one that blossomed in an unfortunate way. I was never sure why the single appeared on both the Mustang and Liberty labels, so decided to do some research, stumbling on Aaron Poehler's 'The Strange Case Of Bobby Fuller'. It's a must-read.
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Jack Nitzsche
Sunday, April 17th, 2011
Listen: The Lonely Surfer / Jack Nitzsche
The Lonely Surfer / Jack Nitzsche
Somewhere in this collection a US copy of 'The Lonely Surfer' lurks. Must have taken it out to dj with, because my recollection of it sounding huge and rather scary through the sound system at Brooklyn Bowl is quite vivid.
The sport of surfing was not big in the UK, nor was the musical genre, unsurprisingly. Given that UK pressings of surf singles are thin on the ground, finding this Jack Nitzsche 7″ in a tattered box of 45′s on a freezing October morning along the Portobello Road market indeed felt quite the anomaly.
Jack himself, well he was so entrenched in LA's recording scene during the early 60′s that coining the ultimate surf anthem isn't really a shocker. His many credits often included arrangements, something no one really does these days, not exclusively and certainly not for money. The guy kept a lot of plates in the air, working with Phil Spector at Philles, organizing THE TAMI SHOW, taking Doris Day to #1 in the pop charts, arranging for The Rolling Stones when they were at the RCA studios and managing to keep up a solo career on Reprise. There alone his array of releases included Chopin style renditions of then current pop hits to, well, surf anthems like 'The Lonely Surfer'.
Having arranged and orchestrated Ike & Tina Turner's 'River Deep – Mountain High' would be a pretty daunting accomplishment for anyone to top, but in many ways that's exactly what he does on 'The Lonely Surfer'. From the title to the eerie horns, he's captured a dark and alarming side of the supposedly sunshine and fun theme. Sorry but this record has always reminded me of seedy old Hollywood, the unsolved Bobby Fuller murder and Sal Mineo's as well.
By the way, ever noticed that some of the best surf records have the most unhappy horn bits on them.
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Dementia care: a tech-enabled future
This year's Barbara Dicker Oration looked into the tech-enabled innovations that are reshaping the individual experience of dementia.
Back to November
The 2020 Barbara Dicker Oration explored the possibilities for a tech-enabled future in dementia care
A panel of Swinburne experts shared the latest findings in their fields that could reshape the future of dementia
Eminent Australian, Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE, joined our expert panellists to share his personal journey with dementia and its impacts on his wife, Lady Lyn Nossal
At Swinburne University of Technology's (Swinburne) annual Barbara Dicker Oration 2020, a panel of experts discussed the tech-enabled innovations that are advancing the experience and care of people living with dementia.
From digital twins to telehealth counselling, technology is helping communities and practitioners shape the future of care from a personal to global scale.
Dementia is not just a medical issue or condition, it includes much broader social challenges. According to Dementia Australia, more than one million people will have a diagnosis of dementia in Australia by 2058.
While the search for a cure continues, there is a real opportunity to use technology to improve experiences for individuals with dementia,their carers and families.
Swinburne's Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Professor Jane Farmer and Professor Sunil Bhar discussed the latest research findings in their respective fields that are pushing the frontiers of human-centred technology that could reshape the experience and care of dementia. Eminent immunologist, Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE also joined this year's panel sharing his personal journey with dementia and its impacts on his wife and best friend, Lady Lyn Nossal.
Technology stereotypes and digital twins
Professor Sunil Bhar is co-director of Swinburne's Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults, and recently launched a national telehealth counselling and support service for residential aged care. This telehealth service has earned the clinic a HESTA Excellence Award nomination.
"Through our telehealth project, we have found that existing stereotypes of people with dementia and the idea that they are unable to interact with practitioners to be completely untrue," says Professor Bhar.
He adds, "From our work with people in residential aged care settings, we've discovered that they could benefit from systemic therapy with their families and carers who know them best."
Another stereotype that Professor Bhar's team proved to be unfounded was the idea of older adults being resistant to use technology, especially as a medium for mental health services. "It is absolutely feasible and people are able to develop rapport with their clinicians via telehealth, which gives us hope," Professor Bhar explains.
Deputy Director at Swinburne's Iverson Health Institute, Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe, shared the concept of a digital twin to inform the palette of options to care for those living with dementia.
"The concept of a digital twin is to map data points from the personal stories and journey of people with dementia and to look at these data points as trajectories to analyse and identify where they may be at on their dementia diagnosis," Professor Wickramasinghe explains.
These data points are then placed in augmented or mixed reality technology to support people with dementia and their carers.
"This research is at its infancy and it is hoped that in the long term we will be able to develop the most personalised support for people with dementia and a range of care options for these individuals," she adds.
Intersecting technology with humanity
While the advances in technology could go a long way in improving the experiences and care of dementia, it is important to be mindful of its role as an enabler, not a solution.
"Technology is part of the care team," says Director of Swinburne's Social Innovation Research Institute, Professor Jane Farmer.
"We need to keep our focus on the person with dementia and work around them and their needs and look at how we can use technology to improve their experience and care," she adds.
Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Pascale Quester noted, "While we are learning more from our research, we are only scratching the surface in terms of our understanding, we must work harder and faster to deliver more for those that need the care and strive to utilise technology to create a human-centred world."
Swinburne and the Barbara Dicker Brain Sciences Foundation
The Barbara Dicker Brain Sciences Foundation was established by Dr Ian Dicker AM and his family in honour of his late wife, Barbara to support research to improve treatment options, explore preventative measures and ultimately find cures.
The Dicker family established their foundation with Swinburne in 2011, providing seed grants for early career researchers to pursue their work. In 2020, the Dicker family generously announced a further five years funding support.
Anyone wishing to partner Swinburne, investing philanthropically in dementia research can visit the Barbara Dicker Brain Sciences Foundation giving page to learn more and donate.
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Q: Skip function if it takes too long In Java I have a function that processes a text file in a certain way. However, if it takes too much time the process will most likely be useless (whatever the reason is) for that text file and I would like to skip it. Furthermore, if the process takes too long, it also uses too much memory. I've tried to solve it this way, but it doesn't work:
for (int i = 0; i<docs.size(); i++){
    try{
        docs.get(i).getAnaphora();
        }
    catch (Exception e){
        System.err.println(e);
    }
 }

where docs is just a List of files in a directory. Usually I have to manually stop the code because it is 'stuck' at a particular file (depending on the contents of that file).
Is there a way of measuring time for that function call and tell Java to skip the file the function takes more than, let's say, 10 seconds?
EDIT
After scraping a few different answers together I came up with this solution which works fine. Perhaps someone else can use the idea as well.
First create a class that implements Runable (this way you can pass in arguments to the Thread if needed):
public class CustomRunnable implements Runnable {

    Object argument;

    public CustomRunnable (Object argument){
        this.argument = argument;
}

    @Override
    public void run() {
        argument.doFunction();
    }
}

Then use this code in the main class to monitor the time of a function (argument.doFunction()) and exit if it takes to long:
Thread thread;
for (int i = 0; i<someObjectList.size(); i++){
    thread = new Thread(new CustomRunnable(someObjectList.get(i)));
    thread.start();
    long endTimeMillis = System.currentTimeMillis() + 20000;
    while (thread.isAlive()) {
        if (System.currentTimeMillis() > endTimeMillis) {
        thread.stop();
        break;
    }
    try {
        System.out.println("\ttimer:"+(int)(endTimeMillis - System.currentTimeMillis())/1000+"s");
        thread.sleep(2000);
        }
    catch (InterruptedException t) {}
    }
}

I realise stop() is depcecated, but I haven't found any other way to stop and exit the thread when I want it to stop.

A: Wrap your code in a Runnable or Callable and submit it to a suitable Executor to execute it. One of the submit method takes a timeout period after which has passed the code is interrupted.

A: You can use System.nanoTime() inside run method as a condition.
For example,
long cur = System.nanoTime(); //records the time when start executing
...
double elapsedTime(System.nanoTime() - cur) / 1000000.0; // at the end

A: Detailed solution with Runnable (see previous thorbjorn's answer):
           ExecutorService executorService = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();

           executorService.execute(() ->doFunction()); //here is the Runnable (represented as simple lambda here)

           executorService.shutdown();

           try {
                    if (!executorService.awaitTermination(2000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)) {
                        System.out.println("ERROR: Stopping going to next step");
                     }
            }catch(InterruptedException e){
                   e.printStackTrace();
            }


Kolkata: Atletico de Kolkata (ATK) came back from being a goal down to win 2-1 against Chennaiyin FC in an Indian Super League (ISL) encounter at the Salt Lake stadium here on Wednesday.
A 27th minute strike from Brazilian midfielder Raphael Augusto was cancelled out by ATK's Sameehg Doutie in added time of first half. Then it was Canadian marksman Iain Hume who found the winner for the hosts in the 63rd minute guiding home a Doutie cross.
With the win, Atletico now climb up to the second spot in the league table with 17 points from 11 games whereas Chennaiyin are still languishing at the bottom of the table with 10 points from 10 matches.
The contest lacked pace from the beginning. Both sides tried controlling the midfield but some poor passing led to the attacks getting nipped in the bud.
It was a comedy of errors which resulted in the first goal for the visitors as Brazilian midfielder Augusto was first tackled by Tiri but he got up quickly and chased the ball. He then evaded a tackle from Augustine and then skipped past a diving Arnab Mondal before slotting the ball in.
Surprisingly, there were three sliding tackles from three defenders but none could get a touch on the ball.
However, the hosts were quick to re-gather their thoughts and started pressing forward in numbers.
A long ball from Tiri in the 35th minute was flicked on by Iain Hume, Doutie was through on goal but Chennaiyin defender Dhanachandra Singh's last minute challenge was enough to clear away the danger.
Next it was Hume who tried his luck with a header but it fizzed just over the woodwork.
But their hardwork paid off a few minutes later as Doutie found the back of the net through a maze of players. It was a Gavilan Martinez free-kick which was punched away by custodian Karanjit Singh but the sphere fell in the way for the South African medio who unleashed a piledriver.
At halftime the scoreline read 1-1.
Early in the second half, Chennaiyin FC stepped on the gas. First it was a chance for Brazilian star Elano but his effort was just off target and then he laid one in the path of Fikru but ATK goalkeeper Karanjit Singh was quick to come off his line and grab the ball.
Just after the hour mark the home side broke out into one of their trademark counter attacks, Doutie after being released on the right darted forward and then sent in a delightful ball into the six-yard. All Hume had to do was get a touch and he obliged by guiding his flick home.
Doutie was again in the thick of things as he squared one for Gavilan inside the box but the latter's effort was blocked.
Chennaiyin tried hard in the last few minutes but could not find the net but the hosts remained strong and did not let go of the one goal advantage.


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The Factory Girls of Lark Lane by Pam Howes (Book Review)
Today, I am so happy to be featured on the blog tour for The Factory Girls of Lark Lane by Pam Howes. Thank you to Kim at Bookouture for inviting me to take part. I hope you love the book as much as I do.
Here, is the synopsis for the book.
The struggles of war will build the strongest of friendships…
1940, Liverpool: Best friends Alice Turner and Millie Markham work for the war effort at Rootes munitions factory, making shell caps and Halifax bombers. Alice's sweetheart Terry is home from the front for a brief period of leave, and the women are excitedly planning a whirlwind wedding.
But the honeymoon is soon over, and the ever-present air raid sirens quickly bring Alice back down to earth. A terrible explosion at the factory leads to a tragic death, and a loved one is announced missing in action, it's only their friendship and the support of the other factory girls which help to keep Alice and Millie's spirits up.
As the war stretches on with no sign of an ending, can Alice and Millie help one another make it through – and find happiness even in the darkest of times?
The Factory Girls of Lark Lane is a heart-wrenching family saga about women in World War 2, the strength of friendship, and hope. If you're a fan of Nadine Dorries, Diney Costeloe and Kitty Neale, you'll love Pam Howes!
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This is the first book I have read by Pam Howes and I absolutely loved it!
I have to admit I got so carried away with the story that I completely forgot I was supposed to be writing a review on it, that's a first for me!
The book is set in 1940s, Liverpool, whilst the men are away fighting for their country. However, the women roll their sleeves up, and do what is needed to care for their families.
I love a book that features strong women and the female characters were just that. Alice has married her sweetheart Terry whilst he is on a forty-eight-hour pass from the army. She pays the bills by working in a munitions factory, making parts for Halifax Bombers. In addition to loved ones being sent away, food is rationed and the air raids come often.
However, Alice can always rely on best friend Millie to be by her side through good times and bad. The story is about resilience, strength, and companionship. It grips you from the first page and transports you to a time of unimaginable hardship. Alice and Millie become real, no longer characters in a book. You feel their fear, their heartbreak, and their happiness.
In short, The Factory Girls of Lark Lane comes highly recommended to lovers of wartime sagas. Have your tissues ready!
Thank you to NetGalley and the author for supplying me with a copy of the book.
ABOUT PAM HOWES
Pam is a retired interior designer, mum to three daughters, grandma to seven assorted grandchildren and roadie to her musician partner.
The inspiration for Pam's first novel came from her teenage years, working in a record store, and hanging around with musicians who frequented the business. The first novel evolved into a series about a fictional band The Raiders. She is a fan of sixties music and it's this love that compelled her to begin writing.
You can find Pam on Twitter at https://twitter.com/PamHowes1
You can find Pam on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Pam-Howes-Author-
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Beautiful review ❤
Oooooh, thank you.
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