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Körpersozialisation beschreibt den Prozess der Anpassung an und der Aneignung von gesellschaftlichen sozialen Normen (Sozialisation) durch den Menschen, welche über und durch den menschlichen Körper geschieht. Die Interaktion von menschlichen Körpern und der menschliche Körper an sich spielen in verschiedenen soziologischen Theorien eine Rolle. Besondere Beachtung findet Körpersozialisation im Bereich der Körpersoziologie.

Körper und Sozialisation

Der Soziologe Robert Gugutzer schreibt zur Rolle des menschlichen Körpers bei Sozialisation: "Der menschliche Körper ist ein durch und durch soziales Phänomen: Was auch immer Menschen mit ihrem Körper tun, welche Einstellung sie zu und welches Wissen sie von ihm haben, ist geprägt von der Kultur, Gesellschaft und Epoche, in der diese Körperpraktiken, -vorstellungen und -bewertungen auftreten."

Der menschliche Körper ist laut Gugutzer also kein "natürliches" Produkt der Biologie, sondern ein "soziales Phänomen" welches durch Sozialisation geformt wird.

Gerade für die sozialwissenschaftliche Analyse ist der Körper grundlegend, da, so der Soziologe Thomas Alkemeyer "Die Bewegung des Körpers (…) als die kleinste Einheit der sozialwissenschaftlichen Analyse Verstanden werden [kann]".

Bestandsaufnahme der aktuellen Debatte um Körpersozialisation
Als Bestandsaufnahme der aktuellen Debatte um und über Körpersozialisation und sozialisierte Körper fasst der Soziologe Uwe H. Bittlingmayer zusammen: "[Dass] (…) in den letzten Jahren zunehmend körpertheoretisch fundierte Studien vorgelegt worden [sind], die sich entweder in Auseinandersetzung mit soziologischen Klassikern (vor allem Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Erving Goffman und Harold Garfinkel), der neueren Gendertheorie von Judith Butler und Nancy Fraser oder schließlich in Auseinandersetzung mit den sozialantropologischen Studien von Helmuth Plessner, Peter L. Berger und Thomas Luckmann um ein Verständnis darum bemühen, welche sozialen Standardisierungsprozesse, normativen Manipulationsformen und performativen Spielräume aktuelle individuelle Körperlichkeit erfährt."

Thomas Alkemeyer fasst über die Beschreibung von Bewegung des Körpers und die Interaktion von Körpern innerhalb einer körperbezogenen (Sozialisations-)Debatte zusammen: "Die soziale Modellierung der Bewegung ist aus historisch-antropologischer und (körper-) soziologischer Perspektive nicht nur als eine Technisierung (Marcel Mauss, Leontjew), Normierung und Regulierung (Simmel), sondern auch als eine Zivilisierung (Elias) und Disziplinierung (Foucault) beschrieben worden."

Weitergabe von gesellschaftlichen Strukturen über die Sozialisation von Körpern
Laut dem französischen Soziologen Marcel Mauss bildet sich über Interaktion eine "soziale Motorik" aus, anhand derer sich Schicht- und Gesellschaftszugehörigkeit erkennen lässt. Dabei findet eine Formung und Prägung des Körpers "durch materielle Kultur" wie Techniken, Werkzeugen und Handlungen statt.

Laut Mauss wirkt sich dabei die Sozialisation der körperlichen Haltung auf die Psyche, die Motorik und auf Sichtweisen aus.
Der Soziologe und Philosoph Pierre Bourdieu beschreibt Körpersozialisation in seiner Habitustheorie.
Bourdieu schreibt von einer "Stillen Pädagogik" über welche Sozialisation im Verborgenen stattfindet.
Er beschreibt, wie "Über stumme, gestische und körperliche Prozesse (...) implizite Einstellungen, Werte, Kosmologien eben nicht explizit zum Gegenstand von Lern- oder Sozialisationsprozessen gemacht, sondern implizit übertragen" werden.

Über diese "mehr oder weniger stumme und implizite körperliche Pädagogik" ist es laut Bourdieu möglich, über eine Sozialisation des Körpers und seiner Interaktionen "eine komplette Kosmologie, Ethik, Methaphysik und Politik (…) beizubringen". Er geht davon aus, dass Körper über Interaktion geformt werden. Dabei ist der "Laib (…) eine Art Gedächtnisstütze"

Der Körper spielt also in Bourdieus Konzept von Strukturvermittlung (seiner Habitustheorie) eine grundlegende Rolle, da "In der Soziologie Bourdieus (…) die körperliche Dimension von Sozialisationsprozessen (…) in den Mittelpunkt gestellt [wird]."

Durch Körpersozialisation reproduzierte soziale Ungleichheit
Sowohl in Beiträgen der aktuellen Gendertheorie als auch in Pierre Bourdieu Habitustheorie wird explizit die Reproduktion von sozialer Ungleichheit über Körpersozialisation thematisiert. Pierre
Bourdieu beschreibt dazu sozialklassenspezifische Körperkonzepte, in der Gender-Debatte wird darauf eingegangen, inwieweit Körper geschlechts- beziehungsweise genderspezifisch sozialisiert werden.

Reproduktion von (Sozial-) klassenspezifischen Körperkonzepten
Pierre Bourdieu geht davon aus, dass über den Körper gesellschaftliche Strukturierungs-Strukturen aufgenommen und so
manifestiert werden. Laut Bourdieu werden über die Sozialisation des Körpers so gesellschaftliche Strukturen und explizit auch soziale Ungleichheit weitergegeben.

So schreibt Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, dass Bourdieu "Auf der Grundlage von Daten aus den sechziger und siebziger Jahren(...) zeigen [konnte], dass die beherrschte Klasse ein auf Stärke bezogenes Körperkonzept favorisiert", weiter stellt Bittlingmayer fest, dass "die Bourdieuische ungleichheitsorientierte Körpersoziologie, die einen stark herrschaftstheoretischen wie auch probabilistischen Zusammenhang zwischen der Position eines sozialen Akteurs und seiner Körperkonzepte annimmt", davon ausgeht, dass Ungleichheit nicht nur Ausdruck in unterschiedlichen Körperkonzepten findet, sondern auch über diese reproduziert wird.

Laut der Soziologin Paula-Irene Villa ist "(...) die leibliche Ebene unserer soziostrukturellen Verortung etwa in Ungleichslagen wie Klasse und Geschlecht wesentlich dafür, dass wir einen "sozialen Sinn" (Pierre Bourdieu) entfalten, ein gewissermaßen intuitives Gefühl, für unsere soziale Stellung im gesellschaftlichen Gefüge."

Auch andere Soziologen betonen die Rolle von bestimmten Körperkonzepten bei der Weitergabe von Sozialisationsmustern. So schreibt Alkemeyer über Disziplinierung über und Reproduktion von Körperbildern im Dritten Reich: "Körperbilder und Metaphern spannen Sinnlichkeit und Emotionalität in politische Prozesse ein und sind geeignet, unbewusste Sinninhalte zu aktivieren". So wurde laut ihm auch im NS-Regime "des Kults um den sportlich trainierten Männerkörper" gehuldigt, um im Sinne des Regimes "Stimmungen und Sehnsüchte hervorzurufen."

Gesellschaftliche Strukturen (Denk-,Wahrnehmungs- und Handlungsmuster) werden also über den menschlichen Körper und seine Metaphern sowohl manifestiert als auch über die Interaktion sozialisierter Körper reproduziert.

Geschlechts- und genderspezifische Körpersozialisation
In der Gender-Debatte spielt eine geschlechtsspezifische Körpersozialisation eine wichtige Rolle, weil, so stellt der Sportwissenschaftler Jürgen Baur fest, "das Geschlecht eine der ersten und zweifellos eine der grundlegenden biosozialen Differenzierungskategorien darstellt" und "auch Lebensläufe und Körperkarrieren geschlechtstypisch ausgelegt" werden. Es findet also eine gender-spezifische Körpersozialisation statt.

Grundlegend für die Weitergabe von (Gender-)Strukturen ist, laut der Soziologin Regine Gildemeister, die Wahrnehmung und Interaktion von Körpern. Dazu schreibt Gildemeister, dass "Im Alltag, (...) [die] Identifikation des Anderen als "weiblich" oder "männlich" nicht auf Physiologie, Hormone und/oder Chromosome rekurriert, sondern auf Darstellungsleistungen und Interpretationen dieser Darstellungen in Interaktionen" beruht (siehe auch doing Gender).

Gestützt wird diese These der Rolle von Körperinteraktion bei Sozialisation auch mit Bourdieu, der, wie der Soziologe Uwe H. Bittlingmayer feststellt, davon ausgeht, dass Körper "nicht im Sinne einer unproblematischen Existenz, eines physischen Körpers im Raum-Zeit-Gefüge einfach da, sondern körperlicher Ausdruck, körperliche Form, Haltung, Maße etc. sind".

Kritik an Bourdieus Konzept von Körpersozialisation
Pierre Bourdieus Konzept von Körpersozialisation sowie der Weitergabe gesellschaftlicher Strukturen in seiner Habitustheorie werden kritisiert. So stellt der Philosoph und Soziologe Stephen Turner fest, dass Körpersozialisation im Sinne Bourdieus für die Sozialisationsforschung wichtige Fragen nicht beantwortet.

Er fragt "How do presuppositions or practices get implanted, if this is the right methaphor, how do they get wherever they go in a person, and where do they go? (...) and in what form are they sent?" (Ubersetzung: "Wie werden Muster und Praktiken aufgenommen, wenn das die richtige Methapher ist, wie kommen sie, wohin auch immer das sein mag, in eine Person und wo gehen sie dort hin? (...)und in welcher Form werden sie übertragen?")

Weiter unterstellt Turner logische Inkonsistenz, da er der Meinung ist, dass die von Bourdieu beschriebene verborgene Weitergabe ("Stille Pädagogik") von Vorannahmen und Mustern nicht möglich ist, ohne diese in offenkundiges Verhalten umzusetzen. Laut Turner muss diese Interaktion also jenseits eines Verborgenseins stattfinden, da die Weitergabe von Mustern auf gegenseitigem Wahrnehmen beruht.

Neurobiologische Aspekte von Körpersozialisation
Laut Robert Schmidt erfährt die Diskussion über Körpersozialisation neue Impulse durch aktuelle Erkenntnisse aus der Neurobiologie. Er führt an, dass gerade die von Bourdieu vorgebrachten Überlegungen zu unbewusster Sozialisation über Körperinteraktion, also unbewusster Interaktion, von aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen zu Spiegelneuronen untermauert wird.

Siehe auch
 Anpassung
 Entwicklungspsychologie
 Erziehung
 Psychomotorik
 Sozialisation
 spezielle Soziologie

Literatur
 Stach, A. (2013). Einübung eines kritischen Blicks auf den weiblichen Körper–Die Sendung Germany's next Topmodel und ihre Bedeutung für die Körpersozialisation junger Frauen und Männer. In Körper• Geschlecht• Affekt (pp. 117-135). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
 Nestvogel, R. (2000). Weibliche Körpersozialisation in interkultureller Perspektive. Schuhmacher-Chilla, Doris (Hrsg.), 34-64.
 Preuss-Lausitz, U. (1998). Körpersozialisation und Modernisierung: Freundschaft und Kooperation zwischen Jungen und Mädchen. In Zwischen Dramatisierung und Individualisierung (pp. 109-123). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
 Rudlof, M. (1997). Die Produktion von Männlichkeit: Zur Gefühls- und Körpersozialisation des Jungen in der Moderne. Ethnologica, 22, 53-60.
 Preuss-Lausitz, U. (1987). Körper und Politik. Zur historischen Veränderung der Körpersozialisation im 20. Jahrhundert. deutsche jugend, H, 7-8.

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A: This might be somewhat complicated, but you could design an algorithm that changes a token based on ticks from timestamps. So, the user is issued a token and the application notes the time as well. The algorithm then alters the token based on a defined (secret) pattern. Then when the form is submitted you analyze the token and the timestamp delta between initial log in and when someone form submission to ensure 2 things. 1. That your delta is humanly possible. And 2. That the pattern matches the between the token and the timestamp.

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Association of Atrial Fibrillation With White Matter Disease The ARIC Study
by Alvaro Alonso; IY Shao; MC Power; T Mosley; C Jack; RF Gottesman; LY Chen; FL Norby; EZ Soliman
Background and Purpose - Evidence suggests that atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with increased risk of cognitive decline and dementia, even in the absence of stroke. White matter disease (WMD) is a potential mechanism linking AF to cognitive impairment. In this study, we explored the association between prevalent AF and WMD. Methods - We performed a cross-sectional analysis of participants attending the ARIC-NCS (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities-Neurocognitive Study) in 2011 to 2013 who underwent brain magnetic resonance imaging. AF was ascertained from study visit electrocardiograms or prior hospitalization codes. Extent of WMD was defined by measures of white matter (WM) microstructural integrity and WM hyperintensity volume. Multivariable linear regression models were used to assess the association between AF and WMD. Results - Among 1899 participants (mean age, 76 years; 28% black; 60% women), 133 (7%) had prevalent AF. After multivariable adjustment, differences between participants with and without AF were -0.001 (95% CI, -0.006 to 0.004) for global WM fractional anisotropy, 0.031×10-4 mm2/s (95% CI, -0.075 to 0.137) for global WM mean diffusivity, and 0.08 mm3 (95% CI, -0.14 to 0.30) for WM hyperintensity volume. Conclusions - The results suggest that there is no association between prevalent AF and WMD.
Atrial Fibrillation, Brain Volumes, and Subclinical Cerebrovascular Disease (from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive Study [ARIC-NCS])
by Alvaro Alonso; K Moazzami; IY Shao; LY Chen; PL Lutsey; CR Jack; T Mosley; DA Joyner; R Gottesman
The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between atrial fibrillation (AF) and total and regional brain volumes among participants in the community-based Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive study (ARIC-NCS). A total of 1,930 participants (130 with AF) with a mean age of 76.3 ± 5.2, who underwent 3T brain MRI scans in 2011 to 2013 were included. Prevalent AF was ascertained from study ECGs and hospital discharge codes. Brain volumes were measured using FreeSurfer image analysis software. Markers of subclinical cerebrovascular disease included lobar microhemorrhages, subcortical microhemorrhages, cortical infarcts, subcortical infarcts, lacunar infarcts, and volume of white matter hyperintensities. Linear regression models were used to assess the associations between AF status and brain volumes. In adjusted analyses, AF was not associated with markers of subclinical cerebrovascular disease. However, AF was associated with smaller regional brain volumes (including temporal, occipital, and parietal lobes; deep gray matter; Alzheimer disease signature region; and hippocampus [all p <0.05]) after controlling for demographics, cardiovascular risk factors, prevalent cardiovascular disease, and markers of subclinical cerebrovascular disease. Subgroup analysis revealed a significant interaction between AF and total brain volume with respect to age (p = 0.02), with associations between AF and smaller brain volumes being stronger for older individuals. In conclusion, AF was associated with smaller brain volumes, and the association was stronger among older individuals. This finding may be related to the longer exposure period of the older population to AF or the possibility that older people are more susceptible to the effects of AF on brain volume.
Correlates of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive Study (ARIC-NCS)
by Alvaro Alonso; David S. Knopman; Rebecca F. Gottesman; Elsayad Z. Soliman; Amit Shah; Wesley T. O'Neal; Faye L. Norby; Thomas H. Mosley; Lin Y. Chen
BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been associated with faster cognitive decline and increased dementia risk. Factors associated with dementia in patients with AF have been seldom studied. METHODS AND RESULTS: We studied 6432 individuals from the ARIC-NCS (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive Study). In 2011 to 2013, participants underwent a physical exam, echocardiography, detailed cognitive assessments, and a subset, brain magnetic resonance imaging. Dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), as well as etiology of MCI/dementia, Alzheimer's disease-related or vascular, were adjudicated by an expert panel. AF was defined by study ECGs and past hospitalizations. We used logistic regression to estimate odds ratios and 95% CI of MCI/dementia by AF status and to assess cross-sectional correlates of MCI/dementia in patients with AF. Among 6432 participants, 611 (9.5%) had prevalent AF. AF was associated with increased odds of dementia and MCI (odds ratio, 95% CI, 2.25, 1.64-3.10, and 1.28, 1.04-1.56, respectively). Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease-related MCI/dementia and vascular MCI/dementia were higher in participants with AF than without AF (odds ratio, 95% CI, 1.29, 1.04-1.61, and 1.50, 0.99-2.25, respectively). In multivariable analyses, older age, lower body mass index, diabetes mellitus, stroke, and APOE genotype were associated with dementia prevalence in participants with AF. In models evaluating MCI/dementia subtypes, diabetes mellitus was associated with Alzheimer's disease-related MCI/dementia, whereas male sex and stroke were risk factors for vascular MCI/dementia. CONCLUSIONS: In a large, community-based study, AF was associated with higher prevalence of MCI and dementia. Controlling cardiometabolic risk factors is a potential target for prevention of adverse cognitive outcomes in AF patients.
Ectopy on a Single 12-Lead ECG, Incident Cardiac Myopathy, and Death in the Community
by Kaylin T. Nguyen; Eric Vittinghoff; Thomas A. Dewland; Jonathan W. Dukes; Elsayed Z. Soliman; Phyllis K. Stein; John S. Gottdiener; Lin Y. Chen; Alvaro Alonso; Bruce M. Psaty; Susan R. Heckbert; Gregory M. Marcus
BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation and heart failure are 2 of the most common diseases, yet ready means to identify individuals at risk are lacking. The 12-lead ECG is one of the most accessible tests in medicine. Our objective was to determine whether a premature atrial contraction observed on a standard 12-lead ECG would predict atrial fibrillation and mortality and whether a premature ventricular contraction would predict heart failure and mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS: We utilized the CHS (Cardiovascular Health) Study, which followed 5577 participants for a median of 12 years, as the primary cohort. The ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study), the replication cohort, captured data from 15 792 participants over a median of 22 years. In the CHS, multivariable analyses revealed that a baseline 12-lead ECG premature atrial contraction predicted a 60% increased risk of atrial fibrillation (hazard ratio, 1.6; 95% CI, 1.3-2.0; P<0.001) and a premature ventricular contraction predicted a 30% increased risk of heart failure (hazard ratio, 1.3; 95% CI, 1.0-1.6; P=0.021). In the negative control analyses, neither predicted incident myocardial infarction. A premature atrial contraction was associated with a 30% increased risk of death (hazard ratio, 1.3; 95% CI, 1.1-1.5; P=0.008) and a premature ventricular contraction was associated with a 20% increased risk of death (hazard ratio, 1.2; 95% CI, 1.0-1.3; P=0.044). Similarly statistically significant results for each analysis were also observed in ARIC. CONCLUSIONS: Based on a single standard ECG, a premature atrial contraction predicted incident atrial fibrillation and death and a premature ventricular contraction predicted incident heart failure and death, suggesting that this commonly used test may predict future disease.
Comparative effectiveness of rivaroxaban versus warfarin or dabigatran for the treatment of patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.
by Faye L. Norby; Lindsay G.S. Bengtson; Pamela L. Lutsey; Lin Y. Chen; Richard F. MacLehose; Alanna M. Chamberlain; Ian Rapson; Alvaro Alonso
BACKGROUND: Rivaroxaban is an oral anticoagulant approved in the US for prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). We determined the effectiveness and associated risks of rivaroxaban versus other oral anticoagulants in a large real-world population. METHODS: We selected NVAF patients initiating oral anticoagulant use in 2010-2014 enrolled in MarketScan databases. Rivaroxaban users were matched with warfarin and dabigatran users by age, sex, enrolment date, anticoagulant initiation date, and high-dimensional propensity score. Study endpoints, including ischemic stroke, intracranial bleeding (ICB), myocardial infarction (MI), and gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, were identified from inpatient diagnostic codes. Multivariable Cox models were used to assess associations between type of anticoagulant and outcomes. RESULTS: The analysis included 44,340 rivaroxaban users matched to 89,400 warfarin and 16,957 dabigatran users (38% female, mean age 70) with 12 months of mean follow-up. Anticoagulant-naïve rivaroxaban initiators, but not those switching from warfarin, had lower risk of ischemic stroke [hazard ratio (HR) (95% confidence interval (CI)): 0.75 (0.62, 0.91)] and ICB [HR (95%CI): 0.55, (0.39, 0.78)] than warfarin users. In contrast, anticoagulant-experienced rivaroxaban initiators had higher risk of GI bleeding than warfarin users [HR (95%CI): 1.55 (1.32, 1.83)]. Endpoint rates were similar when comparing anticoagulant-naïve rivaroxaban and dabigatran initiators, with the exception of higher GI bleeding risk in rivaroxaban users [HR (95%CI) 1.28 (1.06, 1.54)]. There were no significant differences in the risk of MI among the comparison groups. CONCLUSION: In this large real-world sample of NVAF patients, effectiveness and risks of rivaroxaban versus warfarin differed by prior anticoagulant status, while effectiveness of rivaroxaban versus dabigatran differed in GI bleeding risk.
HIV Infection and Incidence of Cardiovascular Diseases: An Analysis of a Large Healthcare Database
by Alvaro Alonso; A. Elise Barnes; Jodie Guest; Amit Shah; Iris Yuefan Shao; Vincent Marconi
Background: People living with HIV (PLWH) experience higher risk of myocardial infarction (MI) and heart failure (HF) compared with uninfected individuals. Risk of other cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in PLWH has received less attention. Methods and Results: We studied 19 798 PLWH and 59 302 age- and sex-matched uninfected individuals identified from the MarketScan Commercial and Medicare databases in the period 2009 to 2015. Incidence of CVDs, including MI, HF, atrial fibrillation, peripheral artery disease, stroke and any CVD-related hospitalization, were identified using validated algorithms. We used adjusted Cox models to estimate hazard ratios and 95% CIs of CVD end points and performed probabilistic bias analysis to control for unmeasured confounding by race. After a mean follow-up of 20 months, patients experienced 154 MIs, 223 HF, 93 stroke, 397 atrial fibrillation, 98 peripheral artery disease, and 935 CVD hospitalizations (rates per 1000 person-years: 1.2, 1.7, 0.7, 3.0, 0.8, and 7.1, respectively). Hazard ratios (95% CI) comparing PLWH with uninfected controls were 1.3 (0.9–1.9) for MI, 3.2 (2.4–4.2) for HF, 2.7 (1.7–4.0) for stroke, 1.2 (1.0–1.5) for atrial fibrillation, 1.1 (0.7–1.7) for peripheral artery disease, and 1.7 (1.5–2.0) for any CVD hospitalization. Adjustment for unmeasured confounding led to similar associations (1.2 [0.8–1.8] for MI, 2.8 [2.0–3.8] for HF, 2.3 [1.5–3.6] for stroke, 1.3 [1.0–1.7] for atrial fibrillation, 0.9 [0.5–1.4] for peripheral artery disease, and 1.6 [1.3–1.9] for CVD hospitalization). Conclusions: In a large health insurance database, PLWH have an elevated risk of CVD, particularly HF and stroke. With the aging of the HIV population, developing interventions for cardiovascular health promotion and CVD prevention is imperative.
Trajectories of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation Over a 25-Year Follow-Up The ARIC Study (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities)
by Faye L. Norby; Elsayed Z. Soliman; Lin Y. Chen; Lindsay G.S. Bengtson; Laura R. Loehr; Sunil K. Agarwal; Alvaro Alonso
Background: Timing and trajectories of cardiovascular risk factor (CVRF) development in relation to atrial fibrillation (AF) have not been described previously. We assessed trajectories of CVRF and incidence of AF over 25 years in the ARIC study (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities). Methods: We assessed trajectories of CVRF in 2456 individuals with incident AF and 6414 matched control subjects. Subsequently, we determined the association of CVRF trajectories with the incidence of AF among 10 559 AF-free individuals (mean age, 67 years; 52% men; 20% blacks). Risk factors were measured during 5 examinations between 1987 and 2013. Cardiovascular events, including incident AF, were ascertained continuously. We modeled the prevalence of risk factors and cardiovascular outcomes in the period before and after AF diagnosis and the corresponding index date for control subjects using generalized estimating equations. Trajectories in risk factors were identified with latent mixture modeling. The risk of incident AF by trajectory group was examined with Cox models. Results: The prevalence of stroke, myocardial infarction, and heart failure increased steeply during the time close to AF diagnosis. All CVRFs were elevated in AF cases compared with controls > 15 years before diagnosis. We identified distinct trajectories for all the assessed CVRFs. In general, individuals with trajectories denoting long-term exposure to CVRFs had increased AF risk even after adjustment for single measurements of the CVRFs. Conclusions: AF patients have increased prevalence of CVRF many years before disease diagnosis. This analysis identified diverse trajectories in the prevalence of these risk factors, highlighting their different roles in AF pathogenesis.
The QT interval and risk of incident atrial fibrillation
by Mala C. Mandyam; Elsayed Z. Soliman; Alvaro Alonso; Thomas A. Dewland; Susan R. Heckbert; Eric Vittinghoff; Steven R. Cummings; Patrick T. Ellinor; Bernard R. Chaitman; Karen Stocke; William B. Applegate; Dan E. Arking; Javed Butler; Laura R. Loehr; Jared W. Magnani; Rachel A. Murphy; Suzanne Satterfield; Anne B. Newman; Gregory M. Marcus
Background: Abnormal atrial repolarization is important in the development of atrial fibrillation (AF), but no direct measurement is available in clinical medicine. Objective: To determine whether the QT interval, a marker of ventricular repolarization, could be used to predict incident AF. Methods: We examined a prolonged QT interval corrected by using the Framingham formula (QTFram) as a predictor of incident AF in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. The Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) and Health, Aging, and Body Composition (ABC) study were used for validation. Secondary predictors included QT duration as a continuous variable, a short QT interval, and QT intervals corrected by using other formulas. Results: Among 14,538 ARIC study participants, a prolonged QTFram predicted a roughly 2-fold increased risk of AF (hazard ratio [HR] 2.05; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.42-2.96; P <.001). No substantive attenuation was observed after adjustment for age, race, sex, study center, body mass index, hypertension, diabetes, coronary disease, and heart failure. The findings were validated in Cardiovascular Health Study and Health, Aging, and Body Composition study and were similar across various QT correction methods. Also in the ARIC study, each 10-ms increase in QTFram was associated with an increased unadjusted (HR 1.14; 95% CI 1.10-1.17; P <.001) and adjusted (HR 1.11; 95% CI 1.07-1.14; P <.001) risk of AF. Findings regarding a short QT interval were inconsistent across cohorts. Conclusions: A prolonged QT interval is associated with an increased risk of incident AF.
Genome-Wide Association Analysis of the Sense of Smell in US Older Adults: Identification of Novel Risk Loci in African-Americans and European-Americans
by Jing Dong; Annah Wyss; Jingyun Yang; T Ryan Price; Aude Nicolas; Michael Nalls; Greg Tranah; Nora Franceschini; Zongli Xu; Claudia Schulte; Alvaro Alonso; Steven R. Cummings; Myriam Fornage; Dmitri Zaykin; Leping Li; Xuemei Huang; Stephen Kritchevsky; Yongmei Liu; Thomas Gasser; Robert S. Wilson; Philip L De Jager; Andrew B. Singleton; Jayant M. Pinto; Tamara Harris; Thomas H. Mosley Jr.; David A. Bennett; Stephanie London; Lei Yu; Honglei Chen
Psychology, Clinical
The human sense of smell decreases with age, and a poor sense of smell are among the most important prodromal symptoms of several neurodegenerative diseases. Recent evidence further suggests a racial difference in the sense of smell among U.S. older adults. However, no genome-wide association study (GWAS) on the sense of smell has been conducted in African-Americans (AAs). We performed the first genome-wide meta-analysis of the sense of smell among 1979 AAs and 6582 European-Americans (EAs) from three U.S. aging cohorts. In the AA population, we identified nine novel regions (KLF4-ACTL7B, RAPGEF2-FSTL5, TCF4-LOC100505474, PCDH10, KIAA1751, MYO5B, MIR320B1-CD2, NR5A2-LINC00862, SALL1-C16orf97) that were associated with the sense of smell (P < 5 × 10 −8 ). Many of these regions have been previously linked to neuropsychiatric (schizophrenia or epilepsy) or neurodegenerative (Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease) diseases associated with a decreased sense of smell. In the EA population, we identified two novel loci in or near RASGRP1 and ANXA2P3 associated with sense of smell. In conclusion, this study identified several ancestry-specific loci that are associated with the sense of smell in older adults. While these findings need independent confirmation, they may lead to novel insights into the biology of the sense of smell in older adults and its relationships to neuropsychological and neurodegenerative diseases.
Brain function and structure and risk for incident diabetes: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
by Michael P. Bancks; Alvaro Alonso; Rebecca F. Gottesman; Thomas H. Mosley; Elizabeth Selvin; James S. Pankow
Introduction: Diabetes is prospectively associated with cognitive decline. Whether lower cognitive function and worse brain structure are prospectively associated with incident diabetes is unclear. Methods: We analyzed data for 10,133 individuals with cognitive function testing (1990–1992) and 1212 individuals with brain magnetic resonance imaging (1993–1994) from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities cohort. We estimated hazard ratios for incident diabetes through 2014 after adjustment for traditional diabetes risk factors and cohort attrition. Results: Higher level of baseline cognitive function was associated with lower risk for diabetes (per 1 standard deviation, hazard ratio = 0.94; 95% confidence interval = 0.90, 0.98). This association did not persist after accounting for baseline glucose level, case ascertainment methods, and cohort attrition. No association was observed between any brain magnetic resonance imaging measure and incident diabetes. Discussion: This is one of the first studies to prospectively evaluate the association between both cognitive function and brain structure and the incidence of diabetes.


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Ex-wife: Pet parrot repeating words man said before death
ENSLEY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - The ex-wife of a western Michigan man believes a parrot is repeating something said just before his fatal shooting, but a prosecutor is downplaying whether that could be used in court.
"I'm not aware of any legal precedent for that," Newaygo County Prosecutor Robert Springstead told The Associated Press on Monday. "Certainly, as we work our way through the case, that may be something to look at, but I highly doubt there is any precedent for that."
Also, Springstead said, when a judge asks a witness to raise his or her right hand, "to a parrot, are you raising a wing, a foot?"
Martin Duram, 45, was shot five times in his home in Ensley Township in May 2015. Then-wife Glenna Duram had a head wound, but survived.
Duram's ex-wife, Christina Keller, now owns Bud, an African grey parrot that has repeated "don't (expletive) shoot" in Martin Duram's voice, she told WOOD-TV.
But Springstead said he hasn't heard it.
"I tried to on my smartphone and online. I couldn't get the audio feed to work," he said.
No charges have been filed in the case and Martin Duram's death remains under investigation. Springstead said Duram's appeared not to be self-inflicted.
"As soon as I receive the investigation, I will make a charging decision," he said. "I expect that to happen in the next few weeks."


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Jean Drèze-Aadhaar-Enabled Savings Are Nothing But Government-Sponsored Propaganda
On Social-Welfare Programmes Under The NDA Government
By SAGAR |
The economist Jean Drèze's book, Sense and Solidarity, published in late 2017, deals with the impact of Aadhaar on social-welfare programmes, such as the National Food Security Act and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, among other things. Drèze was a member of the United Progressive Alliance government's advisory council, which designed the NFSA and MGNREGS. He co-authored some of the essays in this book with colleagues and activist friends, including his wife, Bela Bhatia. Drèze spoke to Sagar, a web reporter at The Caravan, about the National Democratic Alliance government's indifference towards social-welfare programmes, many of which have seen the exclusion of genuine beneficiaries due to the mandatory requirement of an Aadhaar number.
Sagar: You have suggested in the book that in the framing of a public policy, empathy and interaction with the oppressed is as important as statistical evidence. Does the government share that approach to public policy?
Jean Drèze: What I have written is that experience is as important as evidence, and that one useful role of experience is to help us re-examine our values. Our values are often influenced by our interests, or the interests of the class or caste or social group we identify with. For policy-makers, that would usually mean a privileged group. Spending time with underprivileged people can help to see things from their point of view. To illustrate, India's public distribution system tends to be disparaged as a wasteful freebie in the business media, but poor people often see it as a lifeline. That is not, in itself, a vindication of the public distribution system, but it is certainly a useful insight.
Coming to your question, the government's approach to public policy seems to me to pay little attention to the lives of the underprivileged. Critical decisions are mostly taken behind closed doors in the Prime Minister's Office or finance ministry, where the poor are just numbers on a computer screen. Demonetisation is a prime example of the dangers of this approach. To this day, the government claims against all reason that the operation was a success, based, for instance, on statistics related to digital payments and tax compliance. The fact that millions of poor people were pushed to the wall for weeks if not months after demonetisation does not seem to matter at all. In the recent debate that accompanied the first anniversary of demonetisation, one even sensed a kind of Darwinian outlook that celebrates the survival of the fittest.
S: You recount incidents of extreme hunger and starvation during 2001 in villages of Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. What had led to such a situation there, and have the government's health and food schemes reached those places yet?
JD: These incidents were partly due to chronic poverty, aggravated by widespread drought. But they were also made possible by a virtual absence of any sort of public support for vulnerable households. Instead, the government was busy accumulating huge food stocks at that time, well in excess of official buffer norms. This reduced the effective food supply and heightened food prices, even as people were struggling to survive. Far from helping, public policy contributed to starving the poor.
This has certainly changed to a significant extent, with the creation or expansion of social programmes such as the public distribution system, school meals, social security pensions and the MGNREGS. These programmes do reach far and wide, and there is considerable evidence that they make a difference. Of course, there are plenty of shortcomings and irregularities. But at least some foundations have been laid for a possible social security system.
S: The prime minister once scoffed at MGNREGS in Parliament and said he will not abolish it and keep it going so that he can trumpet the failure of the UPA government, which introduced the scheme. Do you think there is a deliberate attempt from the NDA government to weaken schemes such as the MGNREGS?
JD: The prime minister spoke in jest on this subject, and while the remark was in bad taste, we should not read too much in it. However, there are many other signs that the NDA government is not interested in social policy. The main priority seems to be to save money. Social schemes have been retained, because rolling them back would be politically risky, but they have been left to languish. With the partial exception of Swacch Bharat Mission, there have been no significant initiatives in the field of social policy during the last four years.
Sometimes, the fixation with saving money is truly deplorable. Consider for instance maternity entitlements—all pregnant women have been entitled to cash benefits of Rs 6,000 per child since 2013, under the National Food Security Act. After brazenly ignoring this for three years, the NDA government finally made a modest provision for maternity entitlements in last year's Union Budget and notified a new scheme for pregnant women, the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana. In the same stroke, however, it discontinued an earlier scheme, the Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana, taking back with one hand most of what it was giving with the other. Further, maternity benefits under this new scheme are restricted to one child per woman, and reduced to Rs 5,000 instead of Rs 6,000. In short, the government is making a pretence of accepting its responsibilities under the food security act, but actually diluting women's entitlements at every step. This is not only unfair and illegal, but also very short-sighted considering the importance of maternal health for the well-being and future of Indian children, not to speak of women themselves. Maternity benefits are not very costly and could go a long way, but this is of no interest to the NDA leadership.
S: This government has shifted to Aadhaar-based transfers for schemes such as old-age pensions and MGNREGS, and claimed that the new system is saving crores of public money. What's your view?
JD: Most of the recent claims about Aadhaar-enabled savings are nothing but government-sponsored propaganda. Ministries and state governments are under pressure to report figures of Aadhaar-enabled savings, and some faithfully toe the line. One recent example is the Jharkhand government's startling claim, on 11 September 2017, that it had cancelled more than 11 lakh fake ration cards with the help of Aadhaar. Firstly, the figure is wrong, and was indeed retracted later. Second, most of the cancelled cards are not fake cards at all. Some of them were ordinary ration cards that had been cancelled in the routine process of updating the lists. For instance, when a joint household splits, the old card is often cancelled in favour of separate cards for the new households. In other cases, cards were cancelled because the cardholders had failed to link their ration card with Aadhaar, for no fault of their own. This is the worst type of so-called Aadhaar-enabled savings, where eligible people are bumped off the lists and then the savings are credited to Aadhaar.
S: Last year, Baba Ramdev was lobbying to win a contract worth Rs 700 crore to supply packaged food under the midday-meal scheme to schools in Uttar Pradesh. How would this affect the scheme and children who are beneficiaries?
JD: This sounds like a replay of the infamous hijacking of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in Uttar Pradesh by Ponty Chadha. Even as most other states were moving away from ready-to-eat mixtures to cooked food for children in the age group of three to six years, Uttar Pradesh continued to give them a useless mixture called panjiri. This panjiri did nothing for child nutrition, but it meant a hugely lucrative contract for the winning supplier. In this case, the winner was Ponty Chadha, a notorious gangster-businessman close to Mayawati, who also had the monopoly of liquor licenses in Uttar Pradesh at one time. Baba Ramdev is the new Ponty Chadha. Replacing cooked midday meals in UP schools, if it happens, will be disastrous for children but it will be another business coup for Ramdev.
S: There have been reports of caste conflicts in the implementation of the midday-meal scheme because upper-caste families did not allow their children to dine with Dalit children and refused to let them eat food prepared by Dalit cooks. How will the packaged food system negotiate with this caste conflict? Will it get worse or better?
JD: What needs attention here is not just caste conflict, but also the positive value of midday meals as a way of combating caste prejudice. It may be true that replacing cooked food with packaged food would ease caste tensions around midday meals, since upper-caste parents who object to their child eating wholesome food cooked by a Dalit woman may not object to them eating biscuits or potato chips. In the process, however, an opportunity will be missed to challenge these prejudices and impart more egalitarian values to children. When children learn to sit together and share a meal irrespective of caste, the caste system takes a healthy blow.
S: Recently, the government also made Aadhaar compulsory for children to avail the benefits of the midday-meal programme. How will it affect the coverage?
JD: Hopefully, this will not affect the coverage of midday meals because school teachers will be sensible enough not to deprive any child of food for lack of Aadhaar. But it will cause a lot inconvenience and waste of time, for no purpose. If midday-meal registers are inflated, by adding the names of pupils who are actually absent, linking children's names with Aadhaar will not help unless it is combined with biometric authentication for every meal. Daily biometric authentication is bound to create the sort of chaos we have already seen in the public distribution system. It would also reduce coverage, and exclude many children for no fault of their own. Quite likely, the real purpose of making Aadhaar compulsory for midday meals is to force children to enrol. This is one example, among others, of the coercive and invasive nature of Aadhaar.
S: In September last year, hundreds of MGNREGS workers were on dharna for five days in Delhi to protest against delays in wage payments and other infringements of their rights. What does the protest indicate?
JD: The protest was mainly about the stagnation of real wages under MGNREGS, delays in wage payments, and the denial of compensation for delayed payments. Almost ten years have passed since bank payments of MGNREGS wages were introduced. Yet the system is still unequal to the task of paying wages within 15 days, as prescribed under the act. Sometimes wages are even lost in transit due to technical glitches in the Aadhaar-based payment system. Wages are also held up for other reasons from time to time—in Jharkhand, for instance, wages were held up for months last year because a few districts had not submitted their social audit reports to the central government. In one district, apparently, the report was delayed because the district coordinator was on paternity leave. In these and other ways, MGNREGS workers are constantly held hostage to lack of funds, centre-state disputes, and technical hurdles. Aside from being a grave injustice, this threatens to undermine the entire programme. If people have worked, they must be paid without delay.
S: You write that whoever thinks the Kashmir problem is due to lack of development is severely deluded. Could you explain why it is not a problem of development?
JD: Kashmir is actually a prosperous state compared with most Indian states. That is obvious to any visitor, and also evident from statistical data. For instance, official poverty estimates based on National Sample Survey data suggest that poverty rates in Jammu and Kashmir are among the lowest in India. Jammu and Kashmir's social indicators are also quite good: better, for instance, than those of Gujarat, almost across the board, despite Gujarat being regarded by some as a model. Kashmir does have a serious unemployment problem, aggravated by years of conflict, but living standards there are relatively good. So, lack of development is a very misleading explanation for the Kashmir conflict. This explanation is part of a larger discourse aimed at denying or obfuscating the real reasons for the deep alienation of the Kashmiri people from India.
http://www.caravanmagazine.in/vantage/jean-dreze-social-welfare-programmes-under-nda
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Brandon Jew, chef at the Michelin-starred Mister Jiu's in San Francisco's Chinatown, is sharing some of his intricate Chinese cooking techniques with home cooks in his new book, "Mister Jiu's in Chinatown." "There's been a lot of maybe secrecy behind...
Brandon Jew, chef at the Michelin-starred Mister Jiu's in San Francisco's Chinatown, is sharing some of his intricate Chinese cooking techniques with home cooks in his new book, "Mister Jiu's in Chinatown." "There's been a lot of maybe secrecy behind some of Chinese cooking and I'm hoping that the more people actually learn about Chinese cuisine, the more people will appreciate our culture and our food," Jew said on "Salon Talks."
Jew also opens up about his own Chinese-American identity and how food can bridge racism. "By having the most delicious food in the city here in Chinatown, people started to break down a lot of those walls," he said.
Watch the full episode above to hear more about preparing professional-level Chinese recipes at home and some of Jew's favorite recipes from the book.
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This player is designed to play a video that is transferred by the MPEG-DASH protocol to iOS devices.
The player reads a MPD-file, parses it, and then downloads and plays the media that MPD-file points to.

The ffmpeg library is used for decoding video chunks.
OpenGL ES is used to increase performance. OpenGL ES does conversion from YUV to RGB color space using the GPU.
The player supports two MPD-types: static and dynamic.

To use this app, you need to specify an MPD-file URL, and after the player has downloaded it, you press the "Play" button.
If a static stream is played, it is possible to scroll the video to any desired time position.

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MPEG-DASH Player iOS Application is developed by [DataArt] Apps and distributed under Open Source
[MIT license](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License).

© Copyright 2015 DataArt Apps. All Rights Reserved

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Dinesh D'Souza's What's So Great About Christianity is the comprehensive answer to a spate of atheist books denouncing theism in general and Christianity in particular. Dinesh D'Souza has had a prominent career as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual, and has also become an award-winning filmmaker. Born in India, D'Souza came to the U.S. as an exchange student at the age of 18 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College. Called one of the "top young public-policy makers in the country," D'Souza quickly became known as a major force in public policy through his books, speeches, and films.
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Not to mention Congrats on Number 900 of a Great Comic!! Cheers!
This is a perfect page to signify how strong the unity and bond of the co-workers are, and how they truly pull together, just fantastic.
Also I am predicting soon that something bad will happen that will open a new arc, say, someone from corporate coming by on an inspection, that Reggie didnt know about (Making him get all nervous and fidgety and think to himself, possibly out loud as well that, maybe, JUST MAYBE…. he wasnt trust worthy enough to know, or they, god forbid, forgot to tell him!) So now they have to make the store at least look like its doing well, with a mixture of shenanagins and devious plots to have the place staged, hiring friends to come in and what not, which gets mixed up and end up swamped with actual customers to the point the corporate big wig might get tossed and turned around in the hustle and bustle, making the crew think that this is even worse, believing that this makes it look like they cant control the store anymore, and it turns out that either the person approved of the overall commotion being great for business….. or that she didnt come to inspect the store, but something more trivial such as the computer software, and handing out a newer version that will be distributed to all the stores.
Aw thanks!…. So didja get anything while you were there?
Oh crave, you are like the drug dealer I've never had.
I love this page! LOVE IT!! It's such a great take on life! On the day to dayness of everything we do and how easy it is to forget it will someday be the past so live up it, (even if it's just playing nerf wars in your down time) so that you enjoy life!
Aw, thanks! I needed my fix, RA hasn't updated yet, and I LOVE BETWEEN FAILURES!! If you ever you make money off it, would you consider updating 5 times a week?
It used to be 5 times a week, but I can't color and letter fast enough to make that many pages a week on my own. Even if I was making a lot of money I'm not sure I could work that fast. You never know though, I try to work smarter and faster all the time.
Aww, there goes the punchline I was hoping for.
This page is good nonetheless. I just wanted to see Carol messing with John's mind some more.
Give it a little time. He has other trials to endure first.
That was so cheesy. Wow.
Ever the danger of speaking with sincerity.
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit." (One day perhaps he will rejoice to look back even on this.) Vergil, _Aeneid_.
It was the motto of my high school Latin club.


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Family of Jemel Roberson, security guard shot dead by Midlothian officer, receives $7.5M settlement -- but mother says justice hasn't been served
By Jermont Terry
July 13, 2022 / 11:12 PM / CBS Chicago
Family of Jemel Roberson, security guard shot dead by Midlothian officer, receives $7.5M settlement
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MIDLOTHIAN, Ill. (CBS) -- More than three years after security guard Jemel Roberson was shot and killed by a south suburban police officer, the family has settled with Midlothian police for more than $7 million.
Roberson's mother told CBS 2's Jermont Terry Wednesday that money won't stop her fight for justice.
Roberson, 26, was working at Manny's Blue Room Lounge in Robbins on Nov. 11, 2018, when shots were fired after a fight broke out inside the club.
Midlothian police Officer Ian Covey was among the officers who responded to the shooting, and he shot Roberson as the security guard was holding down the gunman – and pointing his weapon at the gunman in the parking lot.
In their initial account of the shooting days after the incident, Illinois State Police said Covey gave Roberson multiple verbal commands to drop his weapon, and claimed Roberson was not wearing clothing clearly identifying him as a security guard.
However, witnesses and Roberson's family attorney have said he was wearing a cap and shirt labeled "security," and that people at the scene told the officer Roberson was a security guard. Another security guard at the club also said he told police Roberson was a security guard.
"The person that shot and murdered my son – he needs to be in jail," said Roberson's mother, Beatrice Roberson.
Ms. Roberson spoke after the Village of Midlothian settled a civil suit over the matter for $7.5 million.
"The money doesn't matter to me," Ms. Roberson said. "I wanted my son."
Jemel Roberson never got a chance to meet his own daughter, Justice, who is now 3.
"Not too long ago, she asked me, "Where's my daddy at?'" Ms. Roberson said, "and that really broke my heart."
The daughter will receive the settlement.
"She'll be able to take care of herself for the rest of her life," Ms. Roberson said.
Roberson's family and the community fought for charges against Officer Covey. But the Cook County State's Attorney's office said there wasn't enough evidence to move forward against the officer.
"My son was shot four times in his back, and this murderer gets away?" Ms. Roberson said. "There's no justice for Jemel."
Despite the settlement, the grieving mother said the family will continue to look for new evidence so the State's Attorney can review the case again. She added that all she really wanted was accountability and a simple apology.
"I will never accept that as an apology, because I'm a person. My son was a person," Ms. Roberson said. "It's not about the money. They need to look me in my face and apologize."
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Oct. 20, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Plantronics (NYSE:PLT), an audio pioneer and communications technology leader, today announced that it has been named by Frost & Sullivan as its 2017 North American Augmented Reality Technology Innovation Award recipient for Habitat Soundscaping – the company's industry-first service for addressing open office noise and distraction.
Habitat Soundscaping represents a completely new way for businesses to address the significant problem of noise and distraction in open office environments. The service consists of nature-inspired elements – sounds of water, water walls, digital images of streams, and other options – combined with intelligent software that actively monitors for distracting speech and effectively 'turns it down' by amplifying the soothing sound of water in the surrounding area.
Habitat Soundscaping uses nature-inspired audio and visuals, coupled with intelligent software to mitigate distractions due to speech – the most common complaint employees have about their open workspaces.
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Intelligent Software – To reduce distraction, the service actively senses disruptive, intelligible speech and dynamically adjusts the natural sounds in the surrounding work zones in real time to help others stay focused without interrupting any collaboration. It even works at the subconscious level, acoustically incentivizing the right behavior, so that especially loud talkers are encouraged to keep their voices down. The system also automatically analyzes its performance to ensure it's running optimally day-in and day-out.
Please visit habitat.plantronics.com to learn more about this industry-first solution for open office environments.
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Since clinical trial data vary on many parameters (participant demographics, study procedures, method of data collection, etc.), case report forms should be developed according to an accepted standard. The Clinical Data Acquisition Standards Harmonization (CDASH) outlines best practices for presenting data to maintain consistency and quality across different trial phases and therapeutic areas. The use of CDASH also provides significant cost and time saving benefits to organizations conducting clinical trials.
In this webinar, three experts in clinical data programming will elaborate on these benefits, complete with demonstrations of how to build and use a CDASH-compliant library. Among other things, participants will learn how new standards in data entry processes make it easier for stats programmers to analyze data.
Claude Toney has been in clinical research for 19 years. Starting as an In-house CRA, Claude widened his scope and moved into both project management and data management. Most recently Claude has become focused on clinical data programming and validation activities. He's always scanning the horizon for more efficient ways of working to support colleagues and customers.
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March 24, 2015 October 15, 2020 By Tami ScrippsTagged: african american museum in dallas, Artists, blue rhino, digital PR, lawrence anthony earth organization, living flame ministries, michelle benjamin, pablo picasso quotes, paintings of blue rhino, paul baloche, photos of michelle benjamin, Publicity online, Quotes, reach for a dream foundation, save the rhino international, Skybok, social media management, social media managers south africa, soho art house, south african digital artists, texas
"Blue Rhino" by Michelle Benjamin has become the global icon for Rhino Activism. It was auctioned last year in London for Save The Rhino International at the Prince Albert Suite in the London Zoo. It was also exhibited on a 25 storey billboard in Times Square this year.
Skybok welcomes talks with potential client Michelle Benjamin, a prominent South African artist whose artwork "Blue Rhino" has become the global icon for rhino activism. It's been exhibited in Pretoria, Durban, London, Italy, France + New York. With a following in 40 countries worldwide, it was recently auctioned in London for Save The Rhino International. Earlier this year it was exhibited on a 25 storey billboard in Times Square, New York!
Some things Michelle has been involved with
+ Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization.
+ The African American Museum in Dallas, Texas. Her piece "Madiba" will join their private collection.
+ Reach For A Dream Foundation. Her piece "Eesha's Journey" was donated to them for auction in 2013 and all proceeds went toward fulfilling the dreams of children with life-threatening illnesses.
+ Paul Baloche. This world renowned Gospel musician, singer, songwriter owns an edition of "Blue Rhino" in his private collection.
+ Radiant Hope Foundation, part of Living Flame Ministries, who auctioned her collection "Vyrna-Lee Rose" in 2014. All proceeds were donated towards empowering and healing disadvantaged communities.
Some facts about her work
+ Her "It's My Horn" + "Blue Rhino" artworks were auctioned in London for Save The Rhino International at the Prince Albert Suite, London Zoo, in 2013. All proceeds were donated toward the fight against rhino poaching.
+ Her "5 Cities" Collection was showcased at the Blue Sky Exhibition at Soho Art House, New York.
+ Her "Whose Keeping Score" contribution for the US Superbowl was exhibited there in 2013.
+ She has exhibited at the "Altered States of Reality" Exhibition in Chelsea, New York.
+ She has exhibited at the Soho Gallery For Digital Art in New York at the "Steampunk Burlesque & Exhibition Fundraiser For Coney Island", where proceeds went towards the recovery of devastation from Hurricane Sandy.
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This is how I slapped Debian/Sarge onto my shiny new T43, which seems quite a nice machine all in all. It's a very new type, being based on the Sonoma platform with PCI Express, SATA and other happy things. Does Intel marketing really call Sonoma a "platform"? Oh well.
This is only necessary if you want to keep your Windows installation for dual booting. I kept mine just so I could update the BIOS more easily in case it becomes necessary.
I was able to boot Knoppix 3.7, but only with the 2.4 kernel. Then resizing the existing 70-odd GB NTFS partition presented no problems at all, but it was rather slow (no DMA mode) due to the ICH6 IDE/SATA controller not being recognized properly. Use ntfsresize, or if you don't trust your knowledge of this rather powerful and potentially confusing tool, try QtParted. Both are available in Knoppix' K menu. Don't be worried if nothing happens while you resize your partition, it took more than an hour on mine.
As of Knoppix 4.0, the default 2.6 kernel also works.
When initially installing Sarge from the rc3 Debian Installer images, the installation disc's 2.4 kernel saw the hard drive as /dev/hda. Since the ICH6 controller doesn't support DMA that way, transfers are extremely slow. Therefore I started by installing a base system with a compiler so I could build my own kernel. After building my kernel with options to support ICH6 (Device Drivers → SCSI device support → SCSI low level drivers → <*>Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support (CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX)), the drive is seen through libata's SCSI emulation as /dev/sda, though.
I suppose the Debian installer might at some time switch to a kernel that supports ICH6 natively, removing the need for this procedure.
(2005-07-02) Debian Stable 3.1 (sarge) still has this problem.
(2005-09-20) To date the problem has NOT been fixed!
2.6.11.7's CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO (speedstep-centrino.ko) and CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ (acpi-cpufreq.ko) both seem to work to scale the CPU frequency. Which of the two gets you more battery life and a less noisy CPU fan has yet to be determined. I noticed the CPU fan is rather loud and active a lot. Not something you'd expect for a laptop this expensive. On the other hand, the whole system is pretty brand new and perhaps future kernels will allow for a quieter machine.
The network card identifies to lspci as "Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express" and works with the tg3 module, both on kernel 2.4 and 2.6. I didn't find anyhting special here. Haven't tested it on an actual gigabit network, though, so nothing to benchmark with.
And you can try using "hcitool scan" to scan for nearby devices. My Sony Ericsson T630 was found immediately and I could back up its contens using MultiSync.
You must first grab radeontool and copy it to /usr/local/sbin for this to work, of course. The script itself was stolen from someone else (whose name I forgot -- sorry!) and modified to work with the current version of radeontool.
To have all the hardware show up with its proper name, I had to get a new pci.ids file from the Linux PCI ID Repostiory and copy it to /usr/share/misc/pci.ids. I believe newer distributions and kernels won't need that file anymore.
See Problem with fan noise for further discussion, alternative scripts and fine-level control of fan speed.
I cannot see /proc/acpi/ibm/fan yet, perhaps it's because /etc/init.d/acpid tries to load any and all available acpi modules when the system boots, so a module is already filling places that ibm_acpi wants to take. I'll reconfigure it so it leaves out "fan" and "thermal" and see if ibm_acpi can then grab those two.
It appears that wasn't the problem, but that the ibm-acpi that ships with 2.6.11.7 doesn't have the experimental fan adjustment support. I downloaded the latest available version and will try with that.
It works when using the downloaded ibm-acpi and when that's loaded with the "experimental=1" option.


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St Marie de l'Incarnation (+1672) "Teresa of New France" mother, mystic, Ursuline nun, missionary to Canada, educator , and Mother of the Canadian Church.
Maria was the daughter of a baker who from an early age had a profound interest in prayer and experienced mystical encounters with Jesus and his saints. At seventeen she entered into an arranged marriage with Claude Martin with whom she had one son before her husband died, after only two years of marriage.
Returning to her family, she refused considering remarriage, and instead became the manager of her brother in-laws shipping company where she showed great aptitude for administration.
10 years after husband's death, Marie turned care of her son, also named Claude, over to her sister and entered an Ursuline convent taking the name Marie de l'Incarnation. Claude struggled deeply with this decision, and with several of his 12-year-old companions, he stormed the gates of the convent, but to no avail. Later in life, primarily through correspondence, they reconciled and Claude ended up becoming a Benedictine monastic, himself, who wrote Marie's biography.
Marie experienced further visions with the Ursulines and one in particular after discernment with her spiritual director and superiors she interpreted as a call to go to "New France", Canada, to assist with the Jesuit missions there. On April 3, 1639 she departed to arrive in future Quebec on August 1.
She worked as a missionary providing a much needed feminine genius to the Jesuit presence and educated as equals the local Native and colonial populations of girls. She became proficient enough in Algonquin, Iroquois, Montagnais, and Ouendat that she eventually wrote dictionaries and catechisms in all four languages and translated hymns so that both the French and Native girls took turns singing in their native tongue.
She founded schools and a convent and adapted the Ursuline Rule and Constitution for life in the New World. She left prolific correspondence which speaks not only to profound spirituality but also describes aspects of life in the French colonies. She died at age 72 in Quebec City. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1980 and in 2014 was canonized by Pope Francis.
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