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Michael Jackson / Conrad Murray in the news > Nurse details anesthetic treatments for Jackson
http://news.yahoo.com/nurse-details-anesthetic-treatments-jackson-214613416.html
Nurse details anesthetic treatments for Jackson
By ANTHONY McCARTNEY | Associated Press –
FILE - In this Feb. 22, 1998 file …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson had a high tolerance for certain drugs and wasn't always forthcoming with his medical history, a nurse anesthetist who treated the singer testified Thursday.
Witness David Fournier told jurors he had worked with Jackson for a decade until the relationship ended in 2003, when Fournier refused to participate in a medical procedure.
Jackson was acting "goofy" and was slow to respond to standard questions before a scheduled cosmetic surgery that was canceled after Fournier refused to administer an anesthetic, he said.
The incident came a few months after Fournier said he had to help Jackson breath while undergoing another procedure and later determined that Jackson had not disclosed a new medical condition.
"He wasn't honest with me," Fournier said without detailing the change in Jackson.
At the time, Jackson had an implant in his abdomen to block the effects of Demerol and other opiate drugs.
Fournier testified that he had given the singer a relatively large dose of a powerful anesthetic and needed to know how Jackson was going to react.
A judge ruled that Fournier couldn't testify about the implant because he learned about it from Jackson's dermatologist, and it was a hearsay statement.
Jurors, however, had heard about the device through videotaped testimony of another Jackson doctor on Wednesday.
Fournier testified as a defense witness in a negligence case filed by Jackson's mother against AEG Live LLC, the promoter of Jackson's comeback shows.
Katherine Jackson claims the concert promoter failed to properly investigate the doctor who was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter for giving Jackson an overdose of the anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid in 2009.
AEG denies it is liable for Jackson's death. Its lawyers have said Jackson hid his prescription drug use from nearly everyone.
Fournier said his incomplete medical records show he administered propofol to Jackson at least 14 times between 2000 and 2003. He estimated he gave the singer the drug numerous other times over the years for a variety of cosmetic and dental procedures.
He noted in his records that Jackson had a high tolerance for certain drugs, which Fournier said could be attributed to a variety of factors, including genetics.
During cross-examination, Fournier said Jackson never requested any specific drugs, including propofol, during procedures or asked to be sedated for longer than was necessary. He said the singer didn't exhibit any drug-seeking behavior or signs that he was doctor-shopping.
Fournier said he knew that Jackson had received an above-average number of anesthetic treatments over his lifetime, and many were related to procedures needed after Jackson was badly burned in a shoot for a Pepsi commercial in 1984.
Fournier said it was not common to administer an anesthetic during cosmetic procedures, but the ones done on Jackson were complex and involved dozens of injections. Some of the procedures were near Jackson's eye and sedation was necessary to keep him still, Fournier said.
Fournier also said he never had any indication that the singer was using propofol as a treatment for insomnia.
Jackson's physician Conrad Murray had been giving the singer nightly doses of propofol as Jackson prepared for his ill-fated "This Is It" shows.
Anthony McCartney can be reached at http://twitter.com/mccartneyAP


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Record-setting Kentucky quarterback Jared Lorenzen, 38, dies
CFB Headlines
UNLV OC Cotton awaiting heart transplant
Delany: Old mistakes to blame for woes
SEC coaching stability a rare sight
ACC's Coastal again appears up for grabs
UK's Stoops gets Florida question again
Va. Tech not ready to name starting QB
Mason promises 'different-looking' Vandy
Duke handing offense to QB Harris
(AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Jared Lorenzen, a husky left-handed quarterback who set multiple Kentucky passing and offensive records before backing up Eli Manning on the New York Giants' Super Bowl-winning 2007 team, has died. He was 38.
A release from the school said Lorenzen's family announced his death on Wednesday, but did not specify a cause or where he died. Kentucky Sports Radio founder Matt Jones tweeted a statement from Lorenzen's family announcing his passing.
Popular around Lexington for his outgoing personality, Lorenzen was listed at 6-foot-4 and 275 pounds his senior season and known by several nicknames including "The Hefty Lefty." The Covington, Kentucky, native holds school records including 10,637 offensive yards on 1,793 plays from 2000-03. He also tops UK passing marks for yards (10,354) and attempts (1,514), including a record 321 throws in 2000.
A member of the New York Giants from 2004-07, Lorenzen was on the squad that upset unbeaten New England 17-14 in Super Bowl 42 in 2008.
The Giants tweeted that Lorenzen "was an important member of our 2007 team, one that created its own destiny. Our thoughts are with Jared's family and friends who loved and appreciated him so much, just as our organization and fans did."
Lorenzen was elected to the UK Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015. Athletic director Mitch Barnhart said "We are deeply saddened to learn of Jared Lorenzen's passing" in a statement and added, "He was a true Wildcat and a man whose love for the University of Kentucky was plain to see well after his playing days were over."
Lorenzen played with the Northern Kentucky River Monsters among several indoor teams before retiring in 2013.
More AP sports: https://apnews.com/tag/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports
Updated July 3, 2019

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Леонид Дмитриевич Куколевский (1921—1987) — старшина 2-й статьи Военно-морского флота СССР, участник Великой Отечественной войны, Герой Советского Союза (1945).

Биография

Леонид Куколевский родился 24 июля 1921 года в селе Минское (ныне — Костромской район Костромской области). После окончания семи классов школы работал в колхозе. Позднее работал на стройке гидроэлектростанции, затем масленщиком в Костроме. В 1940 году Куколевский был призван на службу в Военно-морской флот СССР. С начала Великой Отечественной войны — на её фронтах. К июлю 1944 года матрос Леонид Куколевский был старшим химиком 66-го отдельного отряда дымомаскировки и дегазации Днепровской военной флотилии. Отличился во время освобождения Белорусской ССР.

В июле 1944 года Куколевский участвовал в восемнадцатидневном походе флотилии в немецкий тыл по белорусским рекам. Куколевский пять раз участвовал в десантах, неоднократно отличаясь в боях. Так, в боях за Багримовичи он заменил собой погибшего пулемётчика и уничтожил несколько вражеских солдат, а ночью того же дня с товарищем скрытно пробрался в немецкий дзот и уничтожил весь его гарнизон. В бою за село Дорошевичи Куколевский во главе группы матросов отвлёк на себя основные силы противника, что способствовало успешному освобождению всего села. 9 июля Куколевский высадился в Пинске и с товарищами уничтожил группу немецких офицеров, отдыхавших в городском кинотеатре, благодаря чему в рядах противника поднялась паника. Группа Куколевского два дня отражала немецкие контратаки. В тех боях Куколевский лично уничтожил 1 самоходную артиллерийскую установку, 2 дзота и 1 пулемёт противника, получил контузию, но продолжал сражаться.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 7 марта 1945 года за «образцовое выполнение заданий командования и проявленные мужество и героизм в боях с немецкими захватчиками» сержант Леонид Куколевский был удостоен высокого звания Героя Советского Союза с вручением ордена Ленина и медали «Золотая Звезда» за номером 5879.

В 1947 году в звании старшины 2-й статьи Куколевский был демобилизован. Вернулся в Кострому, работал на городском хладокомбинате. Умер 24 января 1987 года, похоронен на кладбище деревни Поддубное в Костромской области.

Был также награждён орденом Отечественной войны 1 степени и рядом медалей.

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Литература

 Голубев Е. П. Боевые звёзды. — Ярославль: Верх.-Волж. кн. изд., 1972.

Моряки Великой Отечественной войны
Похороненные в Костромской области

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Q: How to join two models by id (without ForeignKey) and sort by linked model fields in admin I have a problem with joining two django models in django admin.
What I have and what can't I change?
(of course this is a changed shortcut of what I really have)
class Thing(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField()

class ThingRelation(models.Model):
    related_thing1 = models.IntegerField()
    related_thing2 = models.IntegerField()

Where related_thing is a relation to Thing.id.
Now I have Django admin:
class ThingRelationAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('related_thing1', 'related_thing1_name', 'related_thing2', 'related_thing2_name')

    def related_thing1_name(self, obj):
        try:
            thing = Thing.objects.get(id=obj.related_thing1)
        except ObjectDoesNotExist:
            return ''
        return thing.name

    def related_thing2_name(self, obj):
        try:
            thing = Thing.objects.get(id=obj.related_thing2)
        except ObjectDoesNotExist:
            return ''
        return thing.name

Now to the point. Everything so far works fine. But what I really want right now is to have the _name columns sortable. I do know, that this would be impossible, if the functional columns would be totally disconnected from models itselves, but in this situation I guess that must be somehow possible. I've spent some time trying to achieve joining ThingRelation with Thing, but maybe there's some other way.
And I can't simply change IntegerField into ForeignKey.
Any help would be appreciated.

A: Try to override ModelAdmin queryset method to add fields to query (by using queryset extra method) on which you can sort and then use admin_order_field attribute:
class ThingRelationAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('related_thing1', 'related_thing1_name',
                    'related_thing2', 'related_thing2_name')

    def queryset(self, request):
        qs = super(ThingRelationAdmin, self).queryset(request)
        # change appname to your application name in which this models placed
        qs = qs.extra(
            select = {
                'rt1name': 't1.name',
                'rt2name': 't2.name'
            },
            tables=['"appname_thing" as "t1"', '"appname_thing" as "t2"'],
            where=['appname_thingrelation.related_thing1=t1.id',
                   'appname_thingrelation.related_thing2=t2.id']
        )
        return qs

    def related_thing1_name(self, obj):
        return obj.rt1name

    def related_thing2_name(self, obj):
        return obj.rt2name

    related_thing1_name.admin_order_field = 'rt1name'
    related_thing2_name.admin_order_field = 'rt2name'

A: Have you looked at Django Many-to-one relationship model? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/db/examples/many_to_one/

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MMM This looks very tasty. I could use one right now.
Oh I should do these today, IT IS meatless monday after all….
I love taco night at our house, it usually includes game night as well. Loving this Vegetarian style taco bowl., never tried the veggie protein before and this is interesting cause it has cucumbers too.
I like having Vegetarian meals because they are so healthy, and i want to try these taco bowls out because they look so delicious!


Internationally, many health care interventions were diffused prior to the standard use of assessments of safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. Disinvestment from ineffective or inappropriately applied practices is a growing priority for health care systems for reasons of improved quality of care and sustainability of resource allocation. In this paper we examine key challenges for disinvestment from these interventions and explore potential policy-related avenues to advance a disinvestment agenda.
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Бруно Мосса Резенде (; 2 июля 1986, Рио-де-Жанейро) — бразильский волейболист, связующий, игрок сборной Бразилии и «Модена». Чемпион и двукратный серебряный призёр Олимпийских игр, чемпион мира, победитель Мировой лиги.

Карьера
Бруно Резенде родился в Рио-де-Жанейро в волейбольной семье. Его мать Вера Мосса участница трёх Олимпиад (1980—1988), отец — Бернардиньо, призёр Олимпиады 1984 года, многолетний тренер национальной сборной Бразилии. Бруно пошёл по стопам родителей, а кроме этого, как и отец, выбрал амплуа связующего.

Спортивную карьеру Бруно начал в Флорианополисе в 2003 году, а уже год спустя выиграл первый титул чемпиона Бразилии. Всего за годы выступления в национальном чемпионате он шесть раз завоёвывал золотые медали, многократно признавался лучшим связующим первенства.

В 2007 году дебютировал в составе сборной Бразилии, с которой сразу же выиграл Кубок мира. В 2008 году был членом олимпийской сборной на Играх в Пекине и завоевал «серебро», так как в решающем матче бразильцы уступили сборной США со счётом 1-3.

На чемпионате мира 2010 года в Италии Бруно помог своей сборной выиграть чемпионский титул, также дважды со сборной выигрывал Мировую лигу.

На Олимпиаде в Лондоне Бруно был основным связующим бразильской сборной, но вновь не выиграл золотые медали. Как и четыре года назад бразильцы стали вторыми, проиграв финал сборной России со счётом 2-3. Также вторыми бразильцы стали на мировом первенстве 2014 года, уступив в финале хозяевам турнира полякам со счётом 1-3.

С 2014 года выступает в составе итальянской «Модены». Чтобы не считаться легионером в 2015 году он получил итальянское гражданство, но при этом продолжил выступать за сборную Бразилии, являясь её капитаном.

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Волейболисты Бразилии
Олимпийские чемпионы от Бразилии
Олимпийские чемпионы по волейболу
Чемпионы летних Олимпийских игр 2016 года
Серебряные призёры летних Олимпийских игр 2008 года
Серебряные призёры летних Олимпийских игр 2012 года
Волейболисты на летних Олимпийских играх 2008 года
Волейболисты на летних Олимпийских играх 2012 года
Волейболисты на летних Олимпийских играх 2016 года
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A History Of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs
Episode 39: "Please Please Please" by James Brown and the Famous Flames
Episode thirty-nine of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "Please Please Please" by James Brown, and at the early rock and roll career of the Godfather of Soul. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.
Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "Come Go With Me" by the Del Vikings.
As always, I've created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode.
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Just as the other week we talked about a country musician who had a massive impact on rock and roll, one who was originally marketed as a rock and roller, so today we're going to talk about a funk and soul musician who got his first hits playing to the rock and roll audience.
There is a type of musician we will come across a lot as our story progresses. He is almost always a man, and he is usually regarded as a musical genius. He will be focused only on two things -- his music and his money -- and will have basically no friends, except maybe one from his childhood. He has employees, not friends. And he only hires the best -- his employees do staggering work while being treated appallingly by him, and he takes all the credit while they do most of the work. Yet at the same time, the work those employees do ends up sounding like that genius, and when they go on to do their own stuff without him, it never sounds quite as good. That one percent he's adding does make the difference. He's never really liked as a person by his employees, but he's grudgingly respected, and he's loved by his audience.
There are people like that in every creative field -- one thinks of Stan Lee in comics, or Walt Disney in film -- but there are a *lot* of them in music, and they are responsible for an outsized portion of the most influential music ever made. And James Brown is almost the archetypal example of this kind of musician.
James Brown had a hard, hard childhood. His mother left his father when James was four -- stories say that Brown's father pulled a gun on her, so her wanting to get away seems entirely reasonable, but she left her son with him, and James felt abandoned and betrayed for much of his life. A few years later his father realised that he didn't have the ability to look after a child by himself, and dumped James on a relative he always called an aunt, though she was some form of cousin, to raise. His aunt ran a brothel, and it's safe to say that that was not the best possible environment in which to raise a young child. He later said that he was in his teens before he had any underwear that was bought from a shop rather than made out of old sacks. In later life, when other people would talk about having come from broken homes and having been abandoned by their fathers, he would say "How do you think I feel? My father *and my mother* left me!"
But he had ambition. Young James had entered -- and won -- talent shows from a very young age -- his first one was in 1944, when he was eleven, and he performed "So Long", the song that would a few years later become Ruth Brown's first big hit, but was then best known in a version by the Charioteers:
[Excerpt: The Charioteers, "So Long"]
He loved music, especially jazz and gospel, and he was eager to learn anything he could about it. The one form of music he could never get into was the blues -- his father played a little blues, but it wasn't young James' musical interest at all -- but even there, when Tampa Red started dating one of the sex workers who worked at his aunt's house, young James Brown learned what he could from the blues legend.
He learned to sing from the holiness churches, and his music would always have a gospel flavour to it. But the music he liked more than anything was that style of jazz and swing music that was blending into what was becoming R&B. He loved Count Basie, and used to try to teach himself to play "One O'Clock Jump", Count Basie's biggest hit, on the piano:
[Excerpt: Count Basie, "One O'Clock Jump"]
That style of music wouldn't show up in his earlier records, which were mostly fairly standard vocal group R&B, but if you listen to his much later funk recordings, they owe a *lot* to Basie and Lionel Hampton. The music that Brown became most famous for is the logical conclusion to the style that those musicians developed -- though we'll talk more about the invention of funk, and how funk is a form of jazz, in a future episode.
But his real favourite, the one he tried to emulate more than any other, was Louis Jordan. Brown didn't get to see Jordan live as a child, but he would listen to his records on the radio and see him in film shorts, and he decided that more than anything else he wanted to be like Jordan. As soon as he started performing with small groups around town, he started singing Jordan's songs, especially "Caldonia", which years later he would record as a tribute to his idol:
[Excerpt: James Brown, "Caldonia"]
But as you might imagine, life for young James Brown wasn't the easiest, and he eventually fell into robbery. This started when he was disciplined at school for not being dressed appropriately -- so he went out and stole himself some better clothes. He started to do the same for his friends, and then moved on to more serious types of theft, including cars, and he ended up getting caught breaking into one.
At the age of sixteen, Brown was sent to a juvenile detention centre, on a sentence of eight to sixteen years, and this inadvertently led to the biggest piece of luck in his life, when he met the man who would be his mentor and principal creative partner for the next twenty years. There was a baseball game between inmates of the detention centre and a team of outsiders, one of whom was named Bobby Byrd, and Byrd got talking to Brown and discovered that he could sing. In fact Brown had put together a little band in the detention centre, using improvised instruments, and would often play the piano in the gym. He'd got enough of a reputation for being able to play that he'd acquired the nickname "Music Box" -- and Byrd had heard about him even outside the prison.
At the time, Byrd was leading a gospel vocal group, and needed a new singer, and he was impressed enough with Brown that he put in a word for him at a parole hearing and helped him get released early. James Brown was going to devote his life to singing for the Lord, and he wasn't going to sin any more.
He got out of the detention centre after serving only three years of his sentence, though you can imagine that to a teen there was not much "only" about spending three years of your life locked up, especially in Georgia in the 1940s, a time and place when the white guards were free to be racially abusive to an even greater extent than they are today. And for the next ten years, throughout his early musical career, Brown would be on parole and in danger of being recalled to prison at any time.
Brown ended up joining Byrd's *sister's* gospel group, at least for a while, before moving over to Byrd's own group, which had originally been a gospel group called the Gospel Starlighters, but by now was an R&B group called the Avons. They soon renamed themselves again, to the Flames, and later to the *Famous* Flames, the name they would stick with from then on (and a name which would cause a lot of confusion, as we've already talked about the Hollywood Flames, who featured a different Bobby Byrd). Brown's friend Johnny Terry, who he had performed with in the detention centre, also joined the group. There would be many lineups of the Famous Flames, but Brown, Byrd, and Terry would be the nucleus of most of them.
Brown was massively influenced by Little Richard, to the extent that he was essentially a Little Richard tribute act early on. Brown felt an immediate kinship with Richard's music because both of them were from Georgia, both were massively influenced by Louis Jordan, and both were inspired by church music. Brown would later go off in his own direction, of course, but in those early years he sounded more like Little Richard than like anyone else.
In fact, around this time, Little Richard's career was doing so well that he could suddenly be booked into much bigger halls than he had been playing. He still had a few months' worth of contracts in those old halls, though, and so his agent had a brainwave. No-one knew what Richard looked like, so the agent got Brown and the Flames to pretend to be Little Richard and the Upsetters and tour playing the gigs that Richard had been booked into. Every night Brown would go out on stage to the introduction, "Please welcome the hardest working man in showbusiness today, Little Richard!", and when he finished ghosting for Little Richard, he liked the introduction enough that he would keep it for himself, changing it only to his own name rather than Richard's.
Brown would perform a mixture of Richard's material, his own originals, and the R&B songs that the Flames had been performing around Georgia. They'd already been cutting some records for tiny labels, at least according to Brown's autobiography, mostly cover versions of R&B hits. I haven't been able to track down any of these, but one that Brown mentions in his autobiography is "So Long", which he later rerecorded in 1961, and that version might give you some idea of what Brown sounded like at the period when he was trying to be Little Richard:
[Excerpt: James Brown, "So Long"]
Brown's imitation of Richard went down well enough that Richard's agent, Clint Brantley, decided to get the group to record a demo of themselves doing their own material.
They chose to do a song called "Please, Please, Please", written by Brown and Johnny Terry. The song was based on something that Little Richard had scribbled on a napkin, which Brown decided would make a good title for a song. The song fits neatly into a particular genre of R&B ballad, typified by for example, Richard's "Directly From My Heart to You":
[Excerpt: Little Richard, "Directly From My Heart to You"]
Though both "Directly From My Heart" and "Please Please Please" owe more than a little to "Shake A Hand" by Faye Adams, the song that inspired almost all slow-burn blues ballads in this period:
[Excerpt: Faye Adams, "Shake a Hand"]
However, the real key to the song came when Brown heard the Orioles' version of Big Joe Williams' "Baby Please Don't Go", and used their backing vocal arrangement:
[Excerpt: The Orioles, "Baby Please Don't Go"]
The Famous Flames were patterning themselves more and more on two groups -- Billy Ward and the Dominoes, whose records with Clyde McPhatter as lead singer had paved the way for vocal group R&B as a genre, and Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, whose "Work With Me Annie" had had, for the time, a blatant sexuality that was unusual in successful records. They were going for energy, and for pure expression of visceral emotion, rather than the smooth sophisticated sounds of the Platters or Penguins.
They were signed to Federal Records, a subsidiary of King, by Ralph Bass, the visionary A&R man we've dealt with in many other episodes. Bass was absolutely convinced that "Please Please Please" would be a hit, and championed the Flames in the face of opposition from his boss, Syd Nathan. Nathan thought that the song just consisted of Brown screaming one word over and over again, and that there was no way on earth that it could be a hit. In Brown's autobiography (not the most reliable of sources) he even claims that Bass was sacked for putting out the record against Nathan's will, but then rehired when the record became a hit. I'm not sure if that's literally true, but it's a story that shows the emotional truth of the period -- Bass was the only person at the record company with any faith in the Famous Flames.
But the song became hugely popular. The emotion in Brown's singing was particularly effective on a particular type of woman, who would feel intensely sorry for Brown, and who would want to make that poor man feel better. Some woman had obviously hurt him terribly, and he needed the right woman to fix his hurt. It was a powerful, heartbreaking, song, and an even more powerful performance:
[Excerpt: James Brown and the Famous Flames, "Please Please Please"]
The song would eventually become one of the staples in the group's live repertoire, and they would develop an elaborate routine about it. Brown would drop to his knees, sobbing, and the other band members would drape him in a cape -- something that was inspired by a caped wrestler, Gorgeous George -- and try to lead him off stage, concerned for him. Brown would pull away from them, feigning distress, and try to continue singing the song while his bandmates tried to get him off the stage.
Sometimes it would go even further -- Brown talks in his autobiography about one show, supporting Little Richard, where he climbed into the rafters of the ceiling, hung from the ceiling while singing, and dropped into the waiting arms of the band members at the climax of the show.
But there was trouble in store. The record reached number six on the R&B chart and supposedly sold between one and three million copies, though record companies routinely inflated sales by orders of magnitude at this point. But it was credited to James Brown and the Famous Flames, not just to the Famous Flames as a group. When they started to be billed that way on stage shows, too, the rest of the band decided that enough was enough, and quit en masse.
Bobby Byrd and Johnny Terry would rejoin fairly shortly afterwards, and both would stay with Brown for many more years, but the rest of the group never came back, and Brown had to put together a new set of Famous Flames, starting out almost from scratch. He had that one hit, which was enough to get his new group gigs, but everything after that flopped, for three long years.
Records like "Chonnie On Chon" tried to jump on various bandwagons -- you can hear that there was still a belief among R&B singers that if they namechecked "Annie" from "Work With Me Annie" by the Midnighters, they would have a hit -- but despite him singing about having a rock and roll party, the record tanked:
[Excerpt: James Brown, "Chonnie On Chon"]
Brown and his new group of Flames had to build up an audience more or less from nothing. And it's at this point -- when Brown was the undisputed leader of the band -- that he started his tactic of insisting on absolute discipline in his bands. Brown took on the title "the hardest working man in showbusiness", but his band members had to work equally hard, if not harder. Any band member whose shoes weren't shined, or who missed a dance step, or hit a wrong note on stage, would be fined. Brown took to issuing these fines on stage -- he'd point at a band member and then flash five fingers in time to the music. Each time he made his hand flash, that was another five dollar fine for that musician. Audiences would assume it was part of the dance routine, but the musician would know that he was losing that money.
But while Brown's perfectionism verged on the tyrannical (and indeed sometimes surpassed the tyrannical), it had results.
Brown knew, from a very early age, that he would have to make his success on pure hard work and determination. He didn't have an especially good voice (though he would always defend himself as a singer -- when someone said to him "all you do is grunt", he'd respond, "Yes, but I grunt *in tune*"). And he wasn't the physical type that was in fashion with black audiences at the time. While I am *absolutely* not the person to talk about colourism in the black community, there is a general consensus that in that time and place, black people were more likely to admire a black man if he was light-skinned, had features that didn't fit the stereotype of black people, and was tall and thin. Brown was *very* dark, had extremely African features, and was short and stocky.
So he and his group just had to work harder than everyone else. They spent three years putting out unsuccessful singles and touring the chitlin' circuit. We've mentioned the chitlin' circuit in passing before, but now is probably the time to explain this in more detail.
The chitlin' circuit was an informal network of clubs and theatres that stretched across the USA, catering almost exclusively to black audiences. Any black act -- with the exception of a handful of acts who were aiming at white audiences, like Harry Belafonte or Nat "King" Cole -- would play the chitlin' circuit, and those audiences would be hard to impress. As with poor audiences everywhere, the audiences wanted value for their entertainment dollar, and were not prepared to tolerate anything less than the best.
The worst of these audiences was at the amateur nights at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. The audiences there would come prepared with baskets full of rotten fruit and eggs to throw at the stage. But all of the audiences would be quick to show their disapproval.
But at the same time, that kind of audience will also, if you give them anything *more* than their money's worth, be loyal to you forever. And Brown made sure that the Famous Flames would inspire that kind of loyalty, by making sure they worked harder than any other group on the circuit. And after three years of work, he finally had a second hit.
The new song was inspired by "For Your Precious Love" by Jerry Butler, another slow-burn ballad, though this time more obviously in the soul genre:
[Excerpt: Jerry Butler, "For Your Precious Love"]
As Brown told the story, he wrote his new song and took it to Syd Nathan at Federal, who said that he wasn't going to waste his money putting out anything like that, and that in fact he was dropping Brown from the label. Brown was so convinced it was a hit that he recorded a demo with his own money, and took it directly to the radio stations, where it quickly became the most requested song on the stations that played it.
According to Brown, Nathan wouldn't budge on putting the song out until he discovered that Federal had received orders for twenty-five thousand copies of the single.
Nathan then asked Brown for the tape, saying he was going to give Brown one more chance. But Brown told Nathan that if he was going to put out the new song, it was going to be done properly, in a studio paid for by Nathan. Nathan reluctantly agreed, and Brown went into the studio and cut "Try Me":
[Excerpt: James Brown and the Famous Flames, "Try Me"]
"Try Me" became an even bigger hit than "Please Please Please" had, and went to number one on the R&B charts and number forty-eight on the pop charts.
But once again, Brown lost his group, and this time just before a big residency at the Apollo -- the most prestigious, and also the most demanding, venue on the chitlin' circuit. He still had Johnny Terry, and this was the point when Bobby Byrd rejoined the group after a couple of years away, but he was still worried about his new group and how they would fare on this residency, which also featured Little Richard's old group the Upsetters, and was headlined by the blues star Little Willie John.
Brown needn't have worried. The new lineup of Famous Flames went down well enough that the audiences were more impressed by them than by any of the other acts on the bill, and they were soon promoted to co-headline status, much to Little Willie John's annoyance.
That was the first time James Brown ever played at the Apollo, a venue which in later years would become synonymous with him, and we'll pick up in later episodes on the ways in which Brown and the Apollo were crucial in building each other's reputation.
But for Brown himself, probably the most important thing about that residency at the Apollo came at the end of the run. And I'll finish this episode with Brown's own words, from his autobiography, talking about that last night:
"The day after we finished at the Apollo I was in my room at the Theresa, fixing to leave for Washington, when somebody knocked on the door.
"Come in," I said. I was gathering up my belongings, not really watching the door. I heard it open, real slow, but that was all. After a minute, when I realized how quiet it was, I turned around. There was a small woman standing there, not young, not old. I hadn't seen her since I was four years old, but when I looked at her I knew right away it was my mother.
I had no idea she was coming to see me that day or any day.
"I've been looking for you for a long time," I said. "I'm glad to see you."
She started to smile, and when she did I could see she'd lost all her teeth.
All I could think to say was, "I'm going to get your mouth fixed for you."
She didn't say anything. She just walked toward me. We hugged, and then I kissed my mother for the first time in more than twenty years."
Episode 41: "Be-Bop-A-Lula" by Gene Vincent and the Bluecaps
Episode 40: "Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll" by Janis Martin
Episode 38: "Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis Presley
Episode 37: "I Walk The Line" by Johnny Cash
Episode 36: "Blue Suede Shoes" by Carl Perkins
Episode 35: "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?" by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
Episode 34: "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard
Announcement -- Guest appearance and Patreon Bonus
Episode 33: "Mystery Train", by Elvis Presley
Episode 32: "I Got A Woman" by Ray Charles
Episode 31: "Only You" by the Platters
Episode 30: "Bo Diddley" by "Bo Diddley
Episode 29: "Maybellene" by Chuck Berry
Episode 28: "Sincerely" by the Moonglows
Episode 27: "Tweedle Dee" by LaVern Baker
Episode 26: "Ain't That A Shame" by Fats Domino
Episode 25: "Earth Angel" by the Penguins
Apology -- Next Episode Up Tomorrow
Episode 24: "Ko Ko Mo" by Gene and Eunice


See you later, I'm moving to a cave.
We're all aware that privacy is essentially nonexistent on today's web. Using a VPN and switching to Firefox may help, but it's a sad fact of life that advertisers follow us from site to site, creating personas of who we are and offering up just the right ad in response.
Increasingly, AI researchers are pushing the boundaries of how they can identify individuals in real life, too. Soon, architecture itself could help organizations, governments, and companies track people as they move through the world–and not just through cameras. From your snorts to your gait, software may soon be able to decipher your identity in all sorts of crazy ways. The good news is that we're all unique snowflakes after all. The bad news is that in the hands of neural networks, those snowflakes are very, very easy to recognize.
People have at least 24 different factors that can be measured while they walk. A new system called SfootBD, published this spring in the journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, can track them all. That makes the system capable of creating a unique signature of your gait, allowing it to identify who you are based on your footsteps. The hardware system itself requires pressure sensors in the floor and a high-resolution camera, but these items can be installed relatively covertly. With a 0.7% rate of error, it's not perfect, but it's shockingly close. Oh, and Wi-Fi signals can identify your walking, too.
Gasp. By recording the inhalation and air turbulence caused by breathing in between the words we speak, Carnegie Mellon researchers have learned how to identify individual people with 91.3% accuracy. It sounds crazy, until you realize that everyone's oral passageway varies, like a uniquely shaped instrument. Of course, your breath can give you away in other ways, too. While it doesn't rely upon AI, scientists can measure the chemistry in your exhalation–a breathprint–and identify you and the unique mix of microbes inside of you.
Combined, all of these techniques are enough to make you wonder if we'll ever be able to guarantee your privacy, or anonymity, again. Without more regulations in place, a GDPR for every building in the entire world, perhaps, it certainly doesn't seem very likely.


With its vintage flair and perfect precision, the rotary sharpener for Swiss pencils from Caran d'Ache has long won the hearts of lovers of colour and writing. Originally created in 1933 in the wake of the creative expansion of the company and its coloured pencils, the rotary pencil sharpener embodied the same values of quality and reliability from the very outset that are so dear to the Geneva-based company.
Redesigned in 2013 to celebrate its eightieth anniversary, the Caran d'Ache rotary pencil sharpener is a modern icon.


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Durbin: 'We're ready for that fight' for local government relief funds
Cities face cuts without funding, U.S. senator says
Sarah Mahsur
Capitol News Illinois
U.S. Sen. Dick Durban, D-Springfield, said this week that he will continue to fight for millions of dollars of funding for state and local governments that was left out of the recently approved coronavirus relief package.
The Congress reached an agreement on a roughly $900 billion coronavirus relief package that extends unemployment benefits, provides stimulus checks to Americans within a certain income bracket and funding to small businesses, but it fell short of providing direct funding to state and local governments.
Durban said the bill doesn't provide the $160 billion in funding for state and local governments that he hoped it would, but suggested that funding could be included when President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
"It's going to be a priority for him, and we're ready for that fight," Durbin said during a Zoom news conference Tuesday. "The difficulty if we don't is that these units of government will have to lay off firefighters, policemen, health care workers, teachers. That's exactly the wrong thing at this moment in history. We need to protect those jobs, give those people a chance to go back to work."
The relief package approved by both chambers of Congress Monday evening comes as the federal assistance provided in the last aid package, the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, or CARES Act passed in March, are set to expire Saturday.
The bill still needs to be signed into law by President Donald Trump.
The new coronavirus relief bill provides 11-week extensions to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, which is available for gig workers, independent contractors and other self-employed individuals who don't normally qualify for traditional unemployment insurance, and to the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, which is available to individuals who have exhausted their regular jobless benefits.
Those programs will provide $300 per week in supplemental unemployment benefits.
The $900 billion package also will provide $600 in direct stimulus payments to individuals making $75,000 or less annually, and to families making $150,000 or less.
The Paycheck Protection Program, which provides forgivable loans to small businesses affected by the pandemic, will receive about $284 billion under the new relief package.
After the initial aid package passed, Illinois received roughly $3.5 billion in CARES Act money to pay for expenses related to its COVID-19 response, and it has a little over $1.8 billion remaining.
Most of that funding, roughly $557 million, was spent by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, for things like medical supplies and testing equipment.
Although the state of Illinois currently has a roughly $4 billion budget deficit, Durbin said he would advise state leaders not to count on the federal government for additional aid to fill budget holes.
"I wouldn't make any assumption that money is coming from Washington for the help of the state. They have to prepare their budget on the possibility there'll be no assistance," Durbin said.
Durbin, who described the new COVID-19 relief package as having "strong bipartisan support," said it is meant as an emergency measure.
"This is supposedly written as an emergency piece of legislation for the first three months of next year, just so Joe Biden can get his feet on the ground, and get this administration moving," Durbin said
Sarah Mansur: smansur@capitolnewsillinois.com


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*Checked blacklist of URL

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*created a blank test static html page with pretty much nothing on it to really
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Sacramento Valley CAIR Receives Quran in a Tub of Lard in the Mail
Posted 9:51 PM, July 19, 2017, by Anisca Miles and Mark Demsky, Updated at 09:50PM, July 19, 2017
SACRAMENTO -- The Sacramento Police Department is investigating after the Sacramento Valley Council on American-Islamic Relations received a strange package in the mail.
"We did not know what would be inside. We thought we saw a book, it was probably the Quran, but we let the authorities open it," Katelyn Costa, CAIR, said.
The organization received a FedEx package and inside they found a Quran stuffed in a tub of pork lard.
(Photo Courtesy: CAIR Sacramento)
The sender also wrote "menacing" and "hateful" messages inside the pages of the Quran.
The incident happened June 28, just days after two area mosques were vandalized.
On June 24, a burned Quran filled with bacon was left hanging on a handcuff near the Masjid Islamic Center in Sacramento and on June 23 a driver threw large pieces of the Quran at the Islamic Center of Davis.
Those incidents though were classified as hate crimes, this one however, falls into a different category.
"We are looking into it as hate-related activity. However, there was no actual crime committed," said Linda Matthew with the Sacramento Police Department.
Although this wouldn't be classified as a hate crime, CAIR members see it as a hateful act.
"Definitely hateful. We're going to let the authorities determine if it's a crime or not. But this is part of a rash of hate incidents. There were three in June, and it's just part of a larger up-tick in hateful incidents across the country," Costa said.
Officials from CAIR say that the package was sent from Houston, Texas.
"Through the investigation the detectives were able to determine the package was shipped by a female, white adult in her 40s or 50s," Matthew said.
The Sacramento Police Department has made no arrests for any of the incidents in June.
"We are currently working with the Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center as this behavior is something that we do not tolerate," said the Sacramento Police Department in a Statement to FOX40.
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Outdoor Retailer will shift its winter show dates a day earlier to let retailers return to their stores for the weekend rush, the Nielsen-run trade show announced Monday.
The Winter Market show, held in Salt Lake City, will now run from Wednesday, Jan. 23, through Saturday, Jan. 26, with the All Mountain Demo Day now planned for Tuesday, Jan. 22. The show had originally been scheduled to run from Jan. 24-27, with the All Mountain Demo Day held on the Wednesday.
Reservations for housing already made through Travel Planners, OR's official housing partner, will be automatically updated, Nielsen said in the release.
The next edition of the trade show is slated for Thursday, Aug. 2, through Sunday, Aug. 5, at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake. The growing trade show announced late last month that it was opening a discussion with attendees and stakeholders to define the show's future, from its look and makeup to the date and location.


Olomouc parks have multiple cycling and inline skating routes and a Cardio route. Newly added is the nordic walking s průvodcem. The trail leads through the Olomouc parks and the historic city centre.
Olomouc parks belong to the historical and cultural treasures of the city. The first Olomouc public park, the Rudolph alley, founded by the Archbishop of Olomouc, was a popular place for outings of the Olomouc population as early as the 1820s.
The park, located originally on military lands, was taken over by the city administration in 1832. This laid the foundation of urban public parks in Olomouc. Today Olomouc boasts three large parks covering more than 47 hectares – Smetana Park, Čech Park and Bezruč Park. Of particular interest is the main avenue of the Smetana Park, 710 meters long. Also worth visiting are the botanical collection greenhouses – the Palm-, the Cactus-, the Tropical- and the Subtropical greenhouses with a unique collection of plants and trees. A Botanic Garden and a Rose garden (Rosarium) are accessible in the Bezruč Park in summer. In the Botanic garden there are wooden sculptures placed that originate from several sculptural symposia held in Olomouc.


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Instagram founders depart Facebook after clashes with Zuckerberg
Kevin Systrom, CEO and co-founder of Instagram, attends a news conference in June in San Francisco. | AP
SAN FRANCISCO – The founders of Instagram are leaving Facebook Inc. after growing tensions with CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the direction of the product, sources said.
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, who have been at the company since Instagram's acquisition by Facebook in 2012, were frustrated with an unusual uptick in day-to-day involvement by Zuckerberg, who is now more reliant on Instagram for Facebook's future growth.
The New York Times earlier reported Systrom and Krieger's departure. The two built Instagram and sold it to Facebook for $1 billion six years ago.
Instagram, which now has more than 1 billion users, is a key driver of revenue for Facebook.
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Q: onIceGatheringChange not been in COMPLETE state After all of the candidates are generated, IceGatheringState should be in COMPLETE state. But IceGatheringState on GATHERING state and only goes to COMPLETE when signaling state become CLOSED.
PeerConnection::OnIceGatheringChange has been called once and IceGatheringState became GATHERING state, but after all the candidates are generated IceGatheringState still on GATHERING state. When the call has disconnected Signaling state becomes CLOSED and then only IceGatheringState in COMPLETE state.
    @Override
    public void onIceGatheringChange(PeerConnection.IceGatheringState newState) {
        Log.d(TAG, "IceGatheringState: " + newState);
    }

Anyone have any idea? I'm using AppRTCMobile app for android webrtc build in Ubuntu 16.0.4

A: Its Continuous Nomination feature to make seamless switch between WiFi & Cellular Networks. (Available only in native clients)
We can control this with the peerConnection configuration.
If you enable PeerConnection.RTCConfiguration.continualGatheringPolicy, then PeerConnection will continually look for network changes/ new candidates. Always you have to send the new candidates to remote peer.


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William McCrum (7 February 1865 – 21 December 1932) was a wealthy Irish linen manufacturer and sportsman, most famous for being the inventor in 1890 of the penalty kick in football.

Life and family
Born on 7 February 1865 in Ballynahone Beg townland, outside Milford, County Armagh, William was the son of the linen millionaire Robert Garmany McCrum, JP, DL (1829-1915) and his wife, Anne Eliza Riddall (1840-1869) from Limavady, County Londonderry. His father created the famous linen manufacturing firm of McCrum, Watson and Mercer and was the builder of the Victorian era model village of Milford. William studied at The Royal School, Armagh and then Trinity College, Dublin, where was university champion. He lived at Milford House with his father and later worked for the family business, including a time as London representative and one of the managing directors. William was not a success at running the family business and lacked the business acumen and innovation of his father. He was High Sheriff of Armagh in 1888.

He played for many years as goalkeeper for Milford Football Club, including in the first season of the Irish Football League (1890–1891). Milford finished bottom of the league with 0 points from 14 games, having conceded 62 goals and scored only 10. "Master Willie" as he was known to the villagers also spent his spare time taking part in amateur theatrics in the Milford village hall, called the McCrum Institute.

When not travelling the world, he spent a large proportion of his life living in Milford where he was a justice of the peace and representative of many sporting clubs and committees including Milford FC, Milford and Armagh cricket clubs, and Armagh Rugby Football Club. He played chess for Armagh and participated in individual and team competitions and also submitted games.

Marriage

William McCrum enjoyed gambling in Monte Carlo and having a good time. In one weekend alone he accumulated debts in six figures. His father paid the debt on this occasion. In 1891 he married Maude Mary Squires, daughter of W.W Squires of Montreal Canada. They had one son, Cecil (1892-1976), who was later Captain of HMS Hood. William was a shareholder in the family firm McCrum, Watson and Mercer and acted as a factory  agent. In 1897, William and Maude were living at Hartford Place on the Mall in Armagh city when Maude was implicated in scandals involving gentlemen in the national newspapers. Maude could not show her face in society and went to Liverpool with her son, and William stuck by her and went to Liverpool too. His father, Robert G. McCrum, thought William would not return and was advised by his American agents to make the firm a public liability with shares in the stock market. It appears William and Maude equally enjoyed a good lifestyle and quickly accumulated debts of over £2,000.  William and Maude later returned to Armagh, but in 1903 Maude ran off to the French Riviera with a Major Heard. William lived at Milford House with his father.  At this point, Maude was given an allowance by her father-in-law, Robert G. McCrum, provided she didn't divorce William. Her father-in-law stipulated in his Will that she would lose the allowance if she divorced or ever remarried after William's death. Maude waited until 1932 before marrying Major Heard.

In 1915, Robert G. McCrum died and William inherited Milford village in Co. Armagh and half the shares in McCrum, Watson & Mercer. The Will stated that William had the right to live at Milford House and use its contents, but if he ceased to live there for more than six months of the year, the property would pass to his sister Mrs. Harriette Miller.  He later became Chairman of the firm. He was passionate about scout movement and was Head of the Scout organisation in Northern Ireland. He once said in Armagh Court that the Milford Scout Troop may be mill boys, but they are the best kind of gentlemen. He was friends with Baden Powell and often dined with them. He presented a cup to Armagh Cricket club and was highly thought of. In 1928, he went to the White House as part of delegation of the Northern Ireland linen industry.

Decline and Death
In 1929, the Wall Street crash hit the fortunes of McCrum, Watson & Mercer hard. It had large business interests in America. The firm collapsed and the Northern Bank seized control of Milford factory and village. In November 1930, the entire contents of Milford House were dispersed at auction. William went to live with his family in England. It was not a great success. His grandson Tony remembers that he could tell within two minutes if you were capable of playing chess or not – William said Tony wasn't, but his brother Michael could. William later returned to Armagh city where he lived in a boarding house in Victoria Street. On 21 December 1932, he was taken to Armagh Infirmary where he died of a heart attack. He is buried with parents and grandparents in St. Mark's Churchyard Armagh. The grave was restored by  funding from FIFA in 2015.

Legacy
Milford House became Manor House School Northern Ireland only Country House Residential School for girls. In 1966, it became Manor House Special Care Hospital. Since 1994, Milford House has been derelict and is today one of the top ten listed buildings at most serious risk in Northern Ireland.

British writer and former literary editor of The Observer Robert McCrum, is his grandson, and wrote about William McCrum:Shut out of the family business as a lightweight, eventually deserted by a faithless wife and coldly ignored by his father, Master Willie travelled the world, lived high on the hog and was well-known as a gambler.

Another grandson Mark McCrum, an English journalist and travel writer, made references to William McCrum in his book, The Craic – A Journey through Ireland.

Today William McCrum and Milford House are world famous as the home of penalty kick and appear in some form of media somewhere in the world every five minutes.

The penalty kick
It was in his role as member of the Irish Football Association that McCrum proposed the idea of the penalty kick to stop the prevalent practice at the time of defenders professionally fouling an attacking player to stop a goal. The idea was submitted to the June 1890 meeting of the International Football Association Board by the Irish FA's general secretary and IFAB representative Jack Reid.

The original proposal read:If any player shall intentionally trip or hold an opposing player, or deliberately handle the ball within twelve yards from his own goal line, the referee shall, on appeal, award the opposing side a penalty kick, to be taken from any point 12 yards from the goal line, under the following conditions: All players, with the exception of the player taking the penalty kick and the goalkeeper, shall stand behind the ball and at least six yards from it; the ball shall be in play when the kick is taken. A goal may be scored from a penalty kick.

The proposal initially generated much derision and indignation amongst footballers and the press as the "Irishman's motion" or the "death penalty" as it was known, conceded that players might deliberately act unsportingly. This went against the Victorian idea of the amateur gentleman sportsman. Public opinion may have changed after an FA Cup quarter final between Stoke City and Notts County on 14 February 1891 where an indirect free kick after a deliberate handball on the goal line did not result in a goal.

The penalty kick rule was approved as number 13 in the Laws of the Game, a year after it was proposed, on 2 June 1891, at the Alexandra Hotel, Bath St., in Glasgow "after considerable discussion" and with changes affecting where the goalkeeper and other players could legally stand.

Gallery

References

External links
 FIFA
 The Guardian
 RSSSF
 ROSA

1865 births
1932 deaths
Irish association footballers (before 1923)
People from County Armagh
People educated at The Royal School, Armagh
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Linen industry in Ireland
Association football goalkeepers


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Q: Are 868 MHz and 915 MHz antennas interchangeable? In the context of RF communication for 10-20 km range, I see some antennas sold as 868 MHz, some sold as 915 MHz, and some sold with a broad range like "850-950".  The latter seems to imply that some antennas can be used for both frequencies.
How precise is the actual antenna?

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How precise is the actual antenna?

It depends on the individual antenna. It's quite possible to have a design that covers only a single band, or a design that covers both bands. You'll need to check the data sheet for the specific antenna you wish to use (or measure it). If an antenna is described as being suitable for just one of those bands you shouldn't assume it will work adequately on the other one.
The bandwidth (operating frequency range) is one of a set of parameters that can be traded off against each other as part of the antenna design process. So the designer might choose to cover both bands at the cost of a lower gain, or a single band with higher gain for a given number of antenna elements. Or they might choose a design with more antenna elements giving higher gain across both bands at the cost of more complexity and hence a higher price.


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The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine Appoints Assistant Dean of Equity, Inclusion & Diversity
The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine has appointed Kimberly Freeman as Assistant Dean of Equity, Inclusion & Diversity. Hanold Associates' Sandra Peña and Katrina Maione led the search for this role based in Pasadena, California.
As Assistant Dean of Equity, Inclusion & Diversity (ADEID), Kimberly will expand and implement policies and processes that shape and foster an inclusive environment in all areas of the school. In this role, Kimberly will focus on ensuring faculty members are fully engaged with EID learning lessons and prompt success from broader schoolwide EID programs. Kimberly will report to Senior Associate Dean for Admissions and EID, Lindia Willies-Jacobo and lead a team of three. Prior to joining the School of Medicine, Kimberly served as an Associate Dean and Chief Diversity Officer at University of Southern California's Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine is a medical school associated with the Kaiser Permanente health system and located in Pasadena, California. The school's mission is to provide a world-class medical education that ignites a passion for learning, a desire to serve and an unwavering commitment to improve the health and well-being of patients and communities. In July 2020, the School of Medicine welcomed its inaugural class of 50 students as they began their journey to becoming outstanding clinicians and advocates for patients and communities.
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