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Last Updated on July 13, 2019 by Abhishek Jariwala Leave a Comment
Nintendo has launched a new video game console and affordable version of its Nintendo Switch. This new console is named as the Nintendo Switch Lite. As you would expect, the Nintendo Switch Lite is not as powerful as the Switch but it is still powerful enough.
However, the biggest difference between Nintendo Switch Lite and the Switch is that it cannot be connected to a TV. While the Switch could be connected to TVs, you can only play games on Switch Lite as a handheld device. Also, the JoyCons in Switch Lite from Nintendo are also not swappable like the Switch.
Nintendo Switch Lite announced as an affordable version of Switch for $199
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While the Nintendo Switch is quite popular among the masses, it is priced slightly on the higher side. Nintendo's Switch is currently available in retail stores in the US for $299. While it is still affordable compared to its competition, Nintendo decided to launch an even affordable variant.
The new Nintendo Switch Lite is launched at just $199 in the US markets. Also, the Nintendo Switch Lite will hit the US stores on September 20 in a trio of colorful options.
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As we mentioned earlier, there are some sacrifices you have to make if you buy the Switch Lite. For example, you get a 5.5-inch 720p display on the Nintendo Switch Lite as compared to a 6.2-inch panel on the Switch.
Also, you can play games on Nintendo Switch by connecting to a TV while you can't do the same on Switch Lite. Nintendo says that the Switch Lite's battery is improved and it should last for 6 hours on a stretch.
You get a traditional headphone jack on the Nintendo Switch Lite, same as the Switch. However, Bluetooth headphone support is not yet added. Since you cannot detach Joy-Con controllers on the Switch Lite, you have limited customization options.
To solve this problem, Nintendo has announced three color variants of the Switch Lite in Grey, Blue, and Yellow. A limited edition Pokemon variant is also coming for the Nintendo Switch Lite later this year.
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Coming to the $200 price tag of Nintendo Switch Lite, it is $100 cheaper than the Switch. With the launch of Switch Lite, Nintendo hopes to repeat the success of PlayStation Portable which was also a handheld device only.
There are reports that Nintendo is also working on a powerful version of its Switch for 'avid' gamers. This variant will slot up above the Nintendo Switch in company's lineup and might be named as Nintendo Switch Pro.
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Abhishek has a deep love for gadgets and follows each and every new smartphone launch that takes place in the market. He can also be found reading books and watching Cricket or Formula 1 in his free time.
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Ernst Questions Secretary of the Army Nominee on Gender Integration Implementation
"I do support providing women with various opportunities to serve in any capacity as long as we are not lowering standards… and that we're not decreasing our combat effectiveness."
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) questioned the Secretary of the Army nominee, Honorable Eric K. Fanning, on the military's implementation timetable of their gender integration policy. The hearing comes on the heels of Senator Ernst's recent visits to Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where she visited the installations to hear firsthand from those who ultimately engage our nation's enemies in close combat—our Army and Marine infantrymen and special operations soldiers—about the path forward to ensure gender integration ultimately is effective for our national defense.
During the hearing, Senator Ernst questioned Fanning, as to whether he had talked through gender integration with soldiers yet.
The Iowa Senator also stressed, "In order to ensure that women are fully integrated into these previously closed positions, I believe the implementation strategy must be thoroughly and fully developed, to include having an understanding of those secondary and tertiary effects so that we're not setting our women or our men up for failure."
This follows the U.S. Department of Defense's announcement to open all military occupations and positions, including combat roles, to women without any exception. Senator Ernst responded with a cautionary sentiment that this "must be a military decision, and not a political one."
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SEN. ERNST: Thank you Mr. Chair, thank you Mr. Fanning for being here today and for your service in so many different capacities throughout our various departments. I want to thank your mother for joining us today as well, thank you Kathy for being here. As you know, Mr. Fanning, last month Secretary Carter announced that all military occupational specialties will be open to women. I do support providing women with various opportunities to serve in any capacity, as long as we are not lowering standards to allow participation and that we are not decreasing our combat effectiveness. So, in order to ensure that women are fully integrated into these previously closed positions, I believe the implementation strategy must be thoroughly and fully developed to include having an understanding of those secondary and tertiary effects so that we are not setting our women or our men up for failure. Over the past few weeks, I've had the opportunity to visit with a number of soldiers and Marines. I've visited Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, as well as Marine Base Quantico in Virginia, and during my trip to Ft. Bragg, I was able to sit down with a number of special operators and airborne paratroopers from the 82nd to discuss the gender integration, and I did the same at Quantico. Both of these groups were mostly senior level NCO's, some more junior and non-commission officers, and, of course, some junior officers, both men and women, and really talked about gender integration. Have you had the opportunity to go out and talk through gender integration with soldiers, and are you committed to doing that if you have not?
HON. FANNING: I have, and I have been to Ft. Benning, Ft. Bragg, Ft. Hood, and I spent a lot of time at Benning in particular, discussing this issue, down at a ranger school. And if confirmed, it would be a dialogue I would continue to have because I share your view that we need to get this right. It is critical that we get this right.
SEN. ERNST: Absolutely, and I think we have to again make sure that we are planning wisely, and that we are understanding what any follow-on effects will be, whether it is positive or whether it is negative as well. One of the top concerns I've heard about the implementation is that it shouldn't be done haphazardly, and we have seen this recently with short terms of getting plans turned in and short turn around for implementation and I'm directing those comments at the Marines. But we want to make sure that the Army does it right. We want to make sure everybody does it right. Do you think that having such a quick turnaround of 15 days for a plan to work that out, do you think that's enough time to get it right?
HON. FANNING: I haven't seen the Marine Corps plan or any guidance they have been given. I will say that I think getting this right means doing it methodically, deliberately, and however much time it takes to get it right. And the Army plan as I saw it before I left is just that—it is a long term plan that I think is carefully thought through, starting with validated requirements for an entry man, for example. What requirements do you need to meet to do the job at entry man, and if you can meet the requirements, then we can start from there. But I don't believe in the Army plan, and all of the plans are with the Secretary of Defense for review, you are going to see anything that looks like a rush to judgment.
SEN. ERNST: I am very hopeful of that.
HON. FANNING: That would set us back, set back the opportunities for women and take us more time in the end.
SEN. Ernst: Yes and I agree with that, we do have to be very methodical and talk about the implications of the standards and what that might do to orders of merit lists and promotion opportunities. Are we setting our women back or moving them forward? We don't know what those implications are yet. So, I appreciate your thoughtful approach to that. Also, do you believe that women now that we've opened up those areas—combat—do you believe that women should be required to register for the selective service?
HON. FANNING: Senator, I think that's something that the administration has taken up and is looking for a recommendation for Secretary Carter, so I can't get out front of him. I will say if we are focused on equal opportunity, I think a part of that is equal responsibility.
SEN. ERNST: Okay thank you. I do appreciate your thoughtful manner as we work with our soldiers in the Army. I also want to echo—I know Senator Sullivan—had spoken earlier about the 425 and we want to make sure that we are protecting our assets in the Pacific Northwest, that is of great concern, many of us have talked that through, and so I would appreciate your consideration with that as well. Thank you Ranking Member Reid, and thank you Mr. Fanning.
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Meghan Marke's wedding to Prince Harry is fast approaching, and more and more details are emerging about the big day.
Last week, the palace announced that the couple had chosen London-based florist Phillipa Craddock to create their floral displays.
And now it has emerged that Meghan will pay a special tribute to Diana with her bouquet, which will be made up of white garden roses as a nod to the beloved royal.
It's also thought the Suits star could pair her wedding dress with the Spencer tiara, which hasn't been worn since the princess's death in 1997.
In Meghan and Harry's first televised interview since their engagement, the actress said that she wanted Diana's memory to be a big part of her wedding.
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UC San Diego Health System CNO/Acting COO Receives Visionary Award
Engaging, empowering leadership style drives transformation
Kim Edwards
Margarita M. Baggett, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer, UC San Diego Health System, is Nursing Management's 2011 Visionary Leader award winner.
Margarita M. Baggett, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer, UC San Diego Health System, is the winner of Nursing Management's 2011 Visionary Leader award. The annual award recognizes a nurse leader who "views nursing as both art and science by promoting caring and competence as the link between science and humanity." Baggett's winning nomination profile will appear in the January 2012 issue of Nursing Management.
"Over the last five years, her dedication to promoting a professional nursing practice model has engaged our entire organization," said Tom McAfee, Interim CEO, UC San Diego Health System. "We share and appreciate Margarita's vision of establishing sustainable structures and processes to guide our organization into the future."
Baggett is directly responsible for more than 1,900 staff and oversees functions related to nursing, pharmacy, Care Coordination, and Volunteer Services. She joined UC San Diego Health System in July 2006 during a period of transformation, and in just five years, her leadership helped establish an environment of engagement and excellence across services.
Employees credit division success to Baggett's dedication to two concepts: building initiatives around clear structures, processes, and outcomes; and helping all levels of staff reach their hopes, dreams, and aspirations. Employees say this approach "laid the foundation for building a culture of trust, an engaged workforce, and significant improvements in clinical outcomes."
In collaboration with finance, nursing directors, and nurse managers, Baggett developed and implemented a system of monthly key-indicator tracking at the unit, division, and overall nursing levels. Outcomes from these initiatives show that nurse retention rates have improved from 88 percent to 98 percent; nurse fill rates have improved from 86 percent to 105 percent; and the most recent employee opinion satisfaction survey showed new RNs scored 4.44 rating out of 5.0 on readiness to practice.Baggett also helped developed the professional role of the nurse, including clinical ladder promotions, increasing certifications, encouraging professional organization involvement and participation in UCSD-sponsored education opportunities. Since implementing this promotion practice in 2009, clinical advancements have averaged 49 promotions per year. Professional certifications have increased from 20 percent in 2008 to 31 percent in 2010. 30 percent of nurses report membership in professional organizations. The number of attendees at UCSD-sponsored educational opportunities grew from 6,000 to 11,000.
UC San Diego Health System is the region's only academic health system, with a mission of providing excellent and compassionate patient care, advancing medical discoveries and educating future health care professionals. It comprises UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest, and UC San Diego Thornton Hospital, Moores Cancer Center, Shiley Eye Center, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center and Jacobs Medical Center (slated to open in 2016) in La Jolla, as well as other primary and specialty practices of UC San Diego Medical Group. For more information, visit http://health.ucsd.edu
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SGA discusses student engagement, response to DePaulia article on earnings of high-ranking university employees
Theodora Koulouvaris, Staff Writer|April 18, 2021
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DePaul University Lincoln Park campus.
DePaul's Student Government Association (SGA) passed a measure to create an ad hoc committee on student engagement during its general body meeting Thursday.
SGA Senators Zoe Soteres and Gema Tinoco, Executive Vice President of Operations Wesley Janicki and DePaul senior David Hupp are spearheading the effort to create the committee, which will focus on ways to get the student body more involved in SGA.
Soteres, who represents the Theatre School, reached out to theatre school students asking why they were not involved in SGA.
Soteres said the reasons students provided include students believing that SGA was more associated with the Board of Trustees and DePaul President A. Gabriel Esteban and that the SGA did not care about students.
Hupp, who regularly attends SGA's meetings, said the committee members will conduct preliminary research on the issue and create a proposal to present to the general body.
Response to DePaulia Article on Earning of University Employees
SGA members discussed ways to demand the university increase transparency after a DePaulia article examined the earnings of the university's high-ranking employees. Those ideas included creating a resolution or writing a petition calling for the university to change how it decides faculty members' salaries.
SGA expressed concerns about this, citing that dining workers at DePaul were laid off at the start of the pandemic last year and that the senior vice president of enrollment, who is among the high-ranking employees, decides which students receive scholarships.
To examine this issue further, SGA discussed conducting a comparative analysis of how the salaries of high-ranking university officials compared to the executive salaries of other universities across the city and the country.
Vaccine Promotion Campaign
SGA Executive Vice President of Diversity and Equity Robbie Merkel is working on organizing a panel consisting of individuals from the College of Science and Health that will discuss Covid-19 vaccine efficacy. According to Merkel, the Center for Community Health Equity, the College of Science and Health along with the Office of Health, Promotion and Wellness have shown interest in sponsoring the event.
Merkel also encouraged SGA members to submit a photo as part of SGA's vaccine promotion campaign and explain why others should get vaccinated. SGA will open the Google Form to the rest of the DePaul community this week, according to Merkel.
In addition, Zoom backgrounds are now available for the DePaul community to use to indicate they have received or will receive a Covid-19 vaccination.
SGA Elections Coordinator Jane Pallos said the applications packet and petition for prospective candidates will be posted on SGA's DeHUB page Monday.
In this week's president's report, SGA President Alyssa Isberto said she is working with Merkel on a resolution to push the university to mandate vaccinations for all members of the DePaul community. Isberto added that other departments at DePaul are working on a similar initiative.
Soumitra Ghosh, the vice president of enrollment management, will join SGA during this week's general body meeting. Ghosh was scheduled to come to last week's meeting, but was unable to attend.
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SGA Vice President Watfae Zayed encouraged SGA members and others to watch the Ramadan Education video put together by DePaul's United Muslims Moving Ahead (UMMA).
SGA Senator for Mission and Ministry Jessica Nalupta discussed donating a portion of SGA's Vincentian Service Day fund to the student food pantry. SGA voted on a design for its upcoming t-shirt drop. Newsline will release a poll for the university's 125th birthday asking the DePaul community to vote on its official logo as part of DePaul's 125th anniversary logo design challenge.


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Madras High Court blames Election Commission for Second wave of Corona Virus. | Find Your Advocate |
A bench of Chief Justice, Sanjeev Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamurthy scolded the election Commission.
According to the High Court, Election Commission officials are to blame for the second wave of the Coronavirus. In such a case, why not file a murder charge against Election Commission officials?
Tamil Nadu cabinet's minister and MLA of AIADMK from Karur, MR Vijay Bhaskar has filed a case in the High Court of Madras, On behalf of Vijay Bhaskar it was said that only 2 counting rooms have been made for the counting of 77 candidates in Karur. No space was given for counting in the corona work.
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When the Election Commission's counsel told the judges that all necessary steps were being taken, the bench said that it had cleared the way for the outbreak of the second wave of Covid-19 by allowing political parties to hold rallies and meetings. The judges verbally warned that they would not hesitate to stop the counting of votes on 2 May. If the Commission does not prepare a blueprint by May 2 to ensure adherence to the Corona Protocol, vote counting will be prohibited immediately.
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Further, the bench said Election Commission is singularly responsible for the second wave of Covid-19. Constitutional authorities have to remind such things. Only when a person survives he will take part in the festival of democracy. The High Court asked the officials that were you on another planet when big rallies were taking place?
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Escoffier's Rescue, Mission Accomplished. Yes He Did!
After eleven and a half hours in his liferaft since being forced to abandon his IMOCA 60 PRB in strong winds and big seas 840 nautical miles SW of Cape Town, Vendée Globe skipper Kevin Escoffier was dramtically rescued by fellow competitor Jean Le Cam at around 0118hrs UTC this Tuesday morning.
Escoffier was racing in third place on the 22nd day of the Vendée Globe solo round the world race in 25-30kts SWly winds and big seas when his boat nosedived into a wave and, he reported after his rescue, literally broke in two, giving him minutes to grab his survival suit and take to his liferaft.
His boat's emergency distress beacon was automatically activated. The emergency signal was transmitted to CROSS Griz Nez which immediately alerted Vendée Globe Race Direction in Les Sables d'Olonne.
At the same time 40 year old Escoffier from Saint Malo, a very experienced southern ocean racer who has won the crewed Volvo Ocean Race and held the Trophée Jules Verne record for the crewed speed record round the world, called his technical team with the terse message "I need assistance. I am sinking. This is not a joke."
Race Direction called on Jean Le Cam, the racer closest to PRB's position, to divert his course immediately to the zone. The veteran 61 year old who is on his fifth Vendée Globe race, arrived at around 1615hrs UTC and located Escoffier's liferaft, establishing visual and voice contact despite the big, unruly seas and winds gusting to 35kts.
But Le Cam's repeated initial efforts failed and Race Direction had to escalate the operation.
Remarkably it was hours later, only when Escoffier appeared in the background of a video call that Le Cam had left running through the entire proceedure, that Race Direction fully realised Le Cam had rescued the stricken solo racer.
Le Cam recalled "Because I had a good position. I told him I will be back there was no need to rush things. I had just the main with two reefs in 30-32 knots with the rough seas it was not easy to manoeuvre. I came back to the spot where I left him but there was no one there." Le Cam reported early this morning, " I went there (looking for him) five or six times which means I had to tack five or six times because of the mishaps that happened all the time, the sea state and so on, I ended up going backwards and lost sight of him."
Because of the pitch black night and the bad wind and sea conditions, Race Direction requested three other skippers to divert to the rescue zone, Germany's Germany's Boris Herrmann (Seaexplorer-Yacht Club de Monaco), Yannick Bestaven (Maître CoQ IV) and Sébastien Simon (ARKEA PAPREC).
Race Direction drew up a search protocol using Meteo France's MOTHY (Modèle Océanique de Transport d'HYdrocarbures). drift prediction programme and engaged the three solo skippers in a triangle search pattern. They had intermittent distress beacon signals which appeared to follow no pattern.
Race Director Jacques Caraës explained, "We always had a signal. The only position we were getting was the MOB but we did not know if it was attached to Kevin as it appeared to be quite random and moving a lot from one place to another. And so we did not know if the EPIRB was in the liferaft or close to the boat or what. At some point we thought we thought the EPIRB could be in the liferaft, it could be with him, the EPRB could be drifting in the water or it could be attached to the IMOCA (yacht). And so it was not easy. But when we saw that the EPIRB position was lining up with the drift prediction track we sent Jean to that point."
"We had organised a triangle search scan pattern with Yannick Bestaven, who went seven miles away, then Boris was closer and Sébastien was closer. They did seven miles across by 0.3 of a mile apart on each scan. They sailed with three reefs. Jean Le Cam recommended that because it was a battle. The wind was dropping a bit. But at the beginning when Jean saw Kevin the weather was bad. Jean did seven scans."
Speaking on a video link this morning a relieved Le Cam said, "I arrived, it was all good, I saw him. Kevin in his liferaft. Because I had a good position. I told him I will be back there was no need to rush things. I had just the main with two reefs in 30-32 knots with the rough seas it was not easy to manoeuvre. I came back to the spot where I left him but there was no one there. I went there (looking for him) five or six times which means I had to tack five or six times because of the mishaps that happened all the time, the sea state and so on, I ended up going backwards."
"I told myself I would stay on standby and wait for daylight. Then I thought that in the dark it might be easier to see his light. One moment when I was on deck I saw a flash, but in fact it was a reflection that glinted off a wave. But the more I got closer to the light I saw it more and more. It is amazing because you swit
ch from despair to an unreal moment in an instant."
"I put myself to windward of him, I saw Kevin. Kevin asked me 'will you be back?' I said, 'No we are doing this now!' Then at one point the boat was falling backwards too fast in reverse and he was just there, two metres off the stern, and thank goodness I had prepared the red life ring that is usually in the cockpit. I throw it to him, and he catches it.I threw him the life ring. And he caught it and then he managed to pull himself in to catch the transmission bar (rudder link arm). And that was it."
Escoffier described the moment the boat literally folded from the bow, "You see the images of shipwrecks? It was like that, but worse. In four seconds the boat nosedived, the bow folded at 90°. I put my head down in the cockpit, a wave was coming. I had time to send one text before the wave fried the electronics. It was completely crazy. It folded the boat in two. I've seen a lot before but this one…"
Caraës praised his team and the collaboration of the rescue authorities and Jean-Jacques Laurent the CEO of PRB, a long time sponsor of entries into the Vendée Globe who was at Race HQ all night, assisting and supporting the mission,
"It is the outcome we were hoping for. It was pitch black, not easy conditions but finally the outcome is almost a miracle. It was not easy to pick Kevin up in the middle of the night, Jean is an extremely experienced sailor and he always followed our instructions to the letter. And we were lucky enough to have experts helping us on all sides, Meteo France with their drift simulation programme that corresponded with our EPIRB tracking. But we had lots of unknowns, lots of different positions. We had to be positive all the time and believe in things. We were lucky, luck was on our side. It is a very happy outcome and we at Race Direction are very happy."
This amazing rescue reverses roles played out between 5th and 6th January 2009, during the 2008-2009 Vendée Globe. Vincent Riou, the then the skipper of PRB, rescued Jean Le Cam from his upturned IMOCA 60 which had capsized 200 miles west of Cape Horn. Le Cam was trapped inside his upturned VM Materiaux for 16 hours during which time it was not known for certain if Le Cam was safe inside his boat or not.
Asked this morning if he was scared or worried during his ordeal in his liferaft Escoffier replied, "No. As soon as I had seen Jean I was sure I would be saved."
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Apply A-Color Glass Paint to a piece of hard foil.
Mix the colours lightly with the end of a brush handle.
Grease the glass plate with cooking oil.
Put the glass plate on top of the piece of hard foil with the lightly mixed colours. When removing the glass plate, the colours stick.
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Shown here is the layout of the timber and masonry of the inside of the front door to this partly mediaeval building; because of its age and the existing holes through the door the spindle for the latch needed to be above the latch bar and this arrangement was the solution, which we then used on other new doors adjacent.
The hinges for the doors and the simple vertical action bolt were decorated with the same stamped relief; Also detailed is the hold back for one of these very wide doors. All forged steel; finish hot waxed.


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October 2017 : Security Breaches
November 5, 2017 · 769 words · 4 minutes read · Information Security
The data security breaches occurred/disclosed in October 2017.
The popular commenting system was breached in 2012. Disqus got notified by Troy Hunt, a security expert, who obtained a copy of the data. According to the company, the data exposed are from 2007 and involve 17.5 million users. Among the user's information stolen include email addresses, usernames, sign-up dates and last logins. However, about one third or approximately 5.8 million users, also got their passwords in the wild. At least, the passwords were not in clear text but hashed with a salt with the now weak SHA-1 algorithm. They seem to have handled the situation well with a public disclosure in 24 hours and they asked the affected users to reset their password account. They have also mentioned that they are now using the bcrypt algorithm which is now the best practice.
Far Eastern International Bank
A malware infected this Taiwanese bank which instructed the SWIFT terminal to move $60 million into different bank accounts based in Sri Lanka, Cambodia and the United States. SWIFT is the main global banking network where it is possible for banks to exchange funds between them. It is not the first time this situation occurs and a well-know breach occurred in 2016 with a Bangladesk bank where the attempt was to steal $951 million. The Far Eastern International Bank was able to retrieve most funds. Mostly since the breach in 2016, the SWIFT organization has developed a more stringent security requirements for their customers with the Customer Security Programme (CSP) but many banks are still in the process of getting certified.
This is another big name in the IT consulting industries. Accenture offers consulting services for the largest organizations and often seen as a leader in cloud consulting services. UpGuard reported that AWS S3 buckets were configured for public access. In total, 4 buckets were available for everyone. These buckets contained confidential API data, customer information, private keys, 40 000 passwords mainly in clear text and even logs from a monitoring solution. One bucket contained more than 137 gigabytes of data.
Remember the data breach that occurred in 2013 at Yahoo? It was first disclosed by the company that someone had access to information on one billion accounts. This number was revised by Verizon, the now parent company of Yahoo, at 3 billion accounts. It was possible to retrieve the usual information such as names, email addresses and hashed passwords. Some hash would still be with the weak MD5 algorithm.
It was possible to obtain the information from cards manually entered or swiped at the front desk. This situation occurred between March 18, 2017, and July 2, 2017, in 41 properties across 11 countries. As expected, it was possible to get the cardholder name, card number, expiration date and verification code. This is the second security breach for this company.
About 60 000 customers might have been impacted by a security breach that would have occurred from the morning October 1, 2017, to midday October 2, 2017. Data including customer names, billing postal code, delivery addresses, email addresses, and payment card information. Pizza Hut notified by email customers impacted only 2 weeks after the situation and they are offering a free credit monitoring service for a year.
66 million records were obtained on South African. What, wait, the population is only about 56 million people? The obtained database also included 9 million people with a deceased status. The database was openly available on a web server owned by Jigsaw Holdings and was probably bought from a credit bureau in 2014. Information available include South African ID number, name, gender, age, location, marital status, estimated income, address, phone numbers, employers, etc.
Patient Home Monitoring Corporation
An estimated 150,000 American patient files were available through an unsecured AWS S3 bucket. It is hard to know for how long this bucket was available with public access but Kromtech Security Researchers have discovered the breach on September 29, 2017. 47.5 gigabytes of data with about 316,000 PDF files including mainly blood test results. These documents contained names, addresses, contact information, dates of birth, diagnoses and names of physicians. All this information is strictly regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
When you are a major company who is developing software and hardware, you have a central database somewhere to track and document all vulnerabilities related to your products. Of course, this database contains critical information about your products and you probably prefer to keep it secret. Well, this database at Microsoft was hacked in 2013.
#Accenture
#Disqus
#Far Eastern International Bank
#Hyatt
#Patient Home Monitoring Corporation
#Pizza Hut
#Security Breaches
#South Africa
#SWIFT
#Yahoo
© Jean-Philippe Rivard Lauzier 2009 - 2020


After writing for so many years, it becomes hard to stop.
So, continuing with this addictive habit that I can't seem to give up, I just finished seven, short chapters for SD: HTLTLYL (abbreviated). I don't think that it will take me very long to finish this e-book since I'm feeling quite inspired. It will, by the way, be published under my real name.
What I don't say in the introduction is that the title was inspired from a chapter in one of my pseudonymous works. It was a particular something, a je ne sais quoi that, apparently, made a huge impression on me which, unbeknownst to me, would, in and of itself, turn into an entire e-book. I wonder if this ever happened to someone else.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that I've been, and continue to be, inspired when writing this e-book.
I get the feeling that a couple of chapters are ready to be 'hatched,'—and yes, it seems to be coming in spurts of two chapters at a time which leaves the odd, first chapter which came unhitched—place myself in a comfortable position, and write. I've been writing on 8 1/2 " x 11″ sheets of paper, what is commonly known as regular paper, using a ballpoint pen and later transcribing the content into my laptop and saving on USB flash drives.
To say that the chapters are brief is an understatement. They are, indeed, very brief. And, in all their brevity, pack a punch. This is because, inspiration aside, the more I write the more I come to believe that the lower the word count, the more power is contained in the material.
An image referring to brevity.
I fully recognize that saying this is controversial and goes against the grain. It flies in the face of conventional wisdom that says you have to 'pack it in' and do 'lots of rewrites.' I completely understand since I used to (prior to 2008) believe and practice this approach. Not any more. Now I know, experientially, that it's not a matter of writing and re-writing, but of being inspired and keeping it short. Please understand that editing is a given and can be practiced ad infinitum toward the perfection of a work.
I've heard of an author who writes one book every ten years. She makes sure that every word is correct and that all of her ideas are perfectly expressed. This is in fact rare, though, because most authors produce one book per year and most publishers expect this to be the case. Prolific authors who can't 'kick the habit,' produce more than one title per year. Publishers, this the cue for you to rub your hands now.
If you think about it, everything in our modern lives involves reduction and efficiency. Cars are becoming smaller, houses more ergonomic, Tesla electric cars are replacing gas guzzlers, condos are being preferred over houses, electronic communications are replacing handwritten forms of expression and the post office as we know it may soon disappear (never mind home delivery). Written communications are becoming shorter and today's winners are those who can tell 'sticky' stories in a nutshell.
An image of modern life.
On Pinterest, we pin images to boards with, hopefully, the briefest of cutlines, that speak volumes. It's just that people don't have the patience or the time for more. But if, as they say, an image is worth a thousand words then, ironically, this is the platform on which we are expressing more than anyone can ever imagine.
What about blog posts? They are regular novels these days! If reading a 140-character tweet is taxing, then reading a 400 to 600-word blog post may put us over the edge.
I am, of course, being facetious. Rest assured that in spite of what everybody says, people still read books that contain between eighty and a hundred thousand words—the expected length of a novel.


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It's great to have the Women's National Team in town
By John Meyer
Heather O'Reilly, midfielder, U.S. Women's National Team (Denver Post file)
I have a hard time being objective when I write about the Women's National Team. It always reminds me of the impact Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy and Brandi Chastain had on my daughters when they were growing up and falling in love with soccer.
When I watch today's Women's National Team interact with little girls in soccer uniforms, as I did at DU Friday after a team training session, it reminds me of the day one of my daughters got autographs from Hamm and Chastain on a trip to Denver long ago. And when I see the team play, it reminds of the Olympic gold medal game I covered at Athens in 2004 when the U.S. beat Brazil. I had tears in my eyes watching that celebration because of what those women meant to my girls and millions of others.
Sunday we get to see them play China at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, and I can't wait. I watched three training sessions this week, and I marveled at the skill of these women. It's great to have them back in town.
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To date there have been no double-blind, placebo controlled studies that clearly show that Growth Hormone is both safe and effective in Noonan Syndrome. These studies would involve dividing similar patients with NS into two groups, one of which is treated with GH and the other not, and looking at their final adult heights. It is not therefore possible to say with any certainty that use of GH is safe or beneficial. There is data available but it is incomplete, which puts anyone with a child with NS in the difficult position of having to make a decision about their child's growth and use of GH without knowing all the facts. It is therefore important to learn about Growth Hormone, although it should be appreciated that its use in Noonan Syndrome is not medically indicated, but simply cosmetic.
The data that is available does not relate to final height as the children involved have not yet finished growing; and by the time that this information is available, most of the children attending this conference will be beyond the age at which they can still receive GH. So as was mentioned before, we unfortunately have to make a decision on whether or not to give GH at a time when there is still incomplete information.
Noonan Syndrome is relatively common, and has a compilation of features including short stature; more than 80% of those with NS will be shorter than average. Although the birth weight and length is typically normal, there is often progressive growth failure with time, with most children falling on or below the 3rd centile on the growth charts. (There are in fact special growth charts available for children with NS.) The final mean adult height is 152cm (5') for females, and 162cm (5'4") for males. However there will always be some who are taller and some who are shorter.
The hypothalamus and pituitary glands lie inside the head, the hypothalamus controlling the pituitary gland and stimulating it to produce growth hormone. Growth hormone then circulates throughout the blood stream and has direct effects on tissues responsive to growth; it also probably mediates growth through the production of other growth factors, one of which is IGF1 (Insulin-like Growth Factor 1). All of these hormones increase cell proliferation and protein synthesis, and cause growth. Much of this growth is epiphysial, i.e. occurs at the ends of the long bones (the 'growth plates').
Many children with delayed growth will have their bone age determined; this is assessed by x-raying the hand and wrist and looking at the epiphysial area to see how open it is and thus how much growth potential is available for the child.
At different stages in development children develop at different rates, and infancy and puberty are two periods when the growth rate is highest. (Growth tends to slow a little during childhood.) In children who do not have Noonan Syndrome the average growth rate is 2 to 2½" per year, which will maintain the child on the normal growth chart. It is very important in terms of monitoring growth that the growth parameters are measured at regular intervals and plotted on an appropriate growth chart; if measurements are sporadic they are not as useful.
Often in paediatric offices once children learn to stand they are measured standing up instead of lying down, thus measuring height as opposed to length. These measurements can be quite different, and only length should be plotted the specific growth chart for children 0 - 36 months of age; if height is plotted on a length chart, the child can appear a lot shorter than they actually are.
Others, e.g. IGF1 level and other GH stimulation tests.
Bone age x-rays look at the epiphysial centres of growth to see how much growth potential the child has left. Most children with NS have delayed bone age, which is actually good because it means that they have an increased potential for growth. If a child of 10 has a bone age of 8, then it means that they have the growth potential of an 8 year-old, and should thus have an extra 2 years of growing potential left. Sometimes 'scatter' may be mentioned, which means that some parts on the x-ray may appear older than others, but this is quite common and no cause for concern.
A lot of the evaluation done for growth is to make sure that the child is basically well and there is no other illness that could be affecting growth; the most important of these is malnutrition. Many children with Noonan's have a lot of feeding problems in the first few years of life, but beyond that as children get older, very often their food preferences don't give them and adequate calorie intake for growth. This may be particularly common in families who follow low-fat diets where there is not a lot of fatty food in the house. Very often when children are seen who are very thin and are not getting adequate calories, the first thing that will be done is just to try to increase the calorie intake. Beyond the toddler stage, when feeding problems are not such an issue, we need to make sure that children eat enough calorificaly dense food, for example whole milk as opposed to skimmed, giving extra snacks etc.
Other endocrine causes for poor growth include and under-active thyroid gland; all children with growth problems should be tested for this, and it can be easily treated.
Assuming a child is not growing and that preliminary tests have ruled out other reasons for slow growth, eventually we may consider whether or not the child produces adequate growth hormone.
Some centres may use other tests such as overnight sampling every 10 minutes as so, but these are not thought to be as accurate.
All other ideologies have been ruled out.
However, many children being treated with GH today are actually found to make GH by the provocative tests, and they are given GH because they still do not grow sufficiently. This may be because although they produce growth hormone in response to the agents given for testing, they do not produce enough spontaneous GH, or because the GH they are making may not be a bioactive form. Paediatric endocrinologists still don't really have all the answers as yet, and views on treating children who are not growth hormone deficient with GH vary.
Growth Hormone first became available in 1965 when it was obtained from the pituitary gland of cadavers. But some of this cadaveric growth hormone was found to be contaminated with infectious agents and in some cases caused fatal disease, and so it was taken off the market in 1985 when biosynthetic GH became available. This meant that it was no longer necessary to use cadavers as large quantities of synthetic GH could be produced in the laboratory that was totally free of contamination. Synthetic GH has been approved and used since 1985.
But should growth hormone be thought of as some sort of 'wonder drug'? Despite the fact that it's effects are purely cosmetic, kids who are short can be very aware of the fact and may suffer from teasing and bullying at school, and so often an increase in height can be quite beneficial.
Dr Romano described the case of a boy who at the age of 10½ had started to 'fall off' the growth chart. His mother was only 4'11" and his father 5'1", so for years physicians had told him that his short stature was familial and that nothing could be done about it. He was evaluated when he was 14 and had two stimulation tests, and was found to have GH levels of around 18. But his predicted adult height was only 5'1", and in the United States males with a predicted adult height of less than 5'5" are usually considered to be candidates for GH therapy. He was therefore given GH on a trial basis to which he showed an excellent response, despite the fact that he was shown to produce GH himself in the stimulation tests. When he started college he was 5'7" tall, and made the decision himself to discontinue GH treatment.
His brother fell off the charts at a slightly earlier age and was actually found to be GH deficient when tested at 9 years of age. He was given GH, and at 13 he is now on the growth chart.
However not everybody that doesn't grow needs growth hormone. A little boy was mentioned whose growth was actually on the growth chart around the 5th centile, but would have been expected to have been nearer to the 25th to 75th centiles based on parental height. But it turned out that the boy was a very poor eater and was terrified of using the bathroom at school, so wouldn't eat anything all day. When his diet was changed he started to grow and gain weight, emphasising the fact that nutrition is also very important.
Growth hormone therapy can also produce good results if given later on: a patient with NS was seen at 16 years of age and was on the 5th centile on the charts. He was started on GH therapy and is now on the 10th centile, and his bone age indicates that he still has around a years growth potential left.
A few studies have been published on GH therapy in Noonan Syndrome, although generally they have been short-term and with small numbers of patients. In 1995 a paper was published by Dr Romano et al summarising the NCGS data from Genentech, which followed 150 children with NS on GH therapy. The response of these children was compared to the response to GH of 2000 Turners patients, and 8091 patients with GH deficiency.
Looking at the age that therapy was begun, the patients with NS were on average a little older (10 yrs) than those with GH deficiency, but looking at their bone age the patients with NS had a much greater bone age delay. However the baseline growth rate of the groups was similar, with NS patients growing an average of 4.3 cm/year and the GH deficient children an average of 4.5 cm/year. After a year of GH therapy, the children with NS were found to have grown 8 cm/year, and those with idiopathic GH deficiency 9.8 cm/year. Growth continued through years 2, 3 and 4, but at a continuously decreasing rate; however this was still greater than the rate of growth pre-treatment.
Compared to patients with Turners Syndrome, children with NS grow substantially more. Growth Hormone was approved by the FDA around a year ago for use in Turners Syndrome, but the response in patients with NS is actually better.
From this study it was concluded that no significant adverse events were seen in NS patients when treated with growth hormone, although this was only a small trial of 150 patients. One patient had transient joint swelling and another joint aches and pains, but nothing that was believed to be related to the GH.
The Noonan's patients in this group were considered small even by NS standards, and it was interesting to note when looking at their GH testing results, around a half were GH deficient, and the other half not. All obviously had poor growth and were not growing well, and some still made GH on provocative testing, so it seems that even if a child is making GH, it does not necessarily mean that they will grow well. The other important finding was that there was absolutely no correlation between how well a child grew on GH, and whether or not they made GH on stimulation testing. So provocative testing cannot therefore be used to predict whether or not a child will grow well.
In otherwise healthy children there did not seem to be any significant side effects, and no worsening of cardiac abnormalities was seen. This was however, only a small scale, short-term study (150 children and 1 year), and so any child on GH should have cardiac screening before commencing treatment and at 3-6 monthly intervals thereafter.
The Noonan Syndrome Support Group, Inc. and any associated parties will not be held responsible for any actions readers take based on their interpretation of published or disseminated material. Please review medical treatment and decisions with your physician.


For those who think New Orleans was #robbed, know this: No one can steal the love our city has for one another. I have never seen a crowd like Sunday's — not New Year's Eve, not at Mardi Gras, not even during the real Super Bowl in 2010.
All day (Feb. 3) we watched the old Saints Super Bowl game on a never-ending loop — in bars across the city, in restaurants, at home. Every play, we gasped and cheered as if we'd never seen it before — and we laughed, because only here can an entire community embrace a memory like that and bring it alive on demand.
Downtown there were moments when the crowd pressed in on you in a thick surge of humans, till you wondered if you'd get lost, separated, trampled.
I love how after our Saints got robbed, the city decided to come together.
But not today. If you bumped someone, you said, "Oh, sorry." And the person you bumped said, "That's OK, baby." That's what it was like, if you were in that number. I'm proud to say, we were.
I saw black people and white people hugging, fist bumping. Kids, grandmothers and every citizen of NOLA laughing together, dancing, singing, chanting.
This is us. This was just the family. It wasn't tourists filling our city. It was just us. The Who Dat Nation.
And when we got home (early, because it was a school night) we realized we didn't see a single police officer in all that crowd. And we didn't need policing, because we were one united thought.
No sour grapes here, Roger. You can take no credit for the best Super Bowl Sunday ever — it was ours alone.
This piece originally appeared on Facebook and is published with permission.


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Rep. Thornberry Reacts to National Emergency to Fund Border Wall
by: Crystal Martinez
Last week, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to get funding for the border wall. This week, Congressman Mac Thornberry gave his opinion on the declaration.
"I think a basic job of any nation is to control who and what comes across its border. It's part of a definition of a country," Thornberry said.
While Thornberry supports building the wall, he does not support tapping into our Department of Defense's budget to do so.
"He identified several pots of money from which he would take funds in order to build part of a barrier on the southern border," Thornberry stated.
"What I have more problems with however is military construction funding," Thornberry said. "If you take that money then you're hurting our military. So that's really robbing one part of national security to support border security and I don't think that's a good idea."
As for his opinion on Trumps decision to declare a national emergency, Thornberry said that it is nothing new to the country, but the situation in which this one was declared is.
"There has been a national emergency that has been declared for a variety of national disasters that law has been used a few times after 9-11," Thornberry said.
Congressman Thornberry said the law is too vague to say what is and what is not an emergency.
"The law does not define what a national emergency is," Thornberry explained. "So I believe that the courts are not going to second guess a president's judgment since there's no definition to compare it to."
Thornberry said taking money from the Department of Defense would have detrimental consequences for our troops as military infrastructure was one of the accounts most deprived during the Obama-era defense cuts, and that it would undercut one of the most significant accomplishments of the last two years.
Amarillo ISD Board of Trustees unanimously votes to rename Lee Elementary to Park Hills Elementary
by Kaley Green / Jul 16, 2019
AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — The Amarillo ISD Board of Trustees voted unanimously Monday night to rename Lee Elementary School.
When the school year starts, kids will step off the bus and into Park Hills Elementary instead of Lee Elementary School.
Politics Today: July 14, 2019
AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — President Trump is threatening to veto a bill that would help ag producers affected by PFAS contamination. We talk with local farmer Art Schaap who says the contamination has ruined his livelihood and he needs help now.
When it comes to our homeless population, Amarillo uses a model called "Housing First," but the city is asking for more ideas as to how to help our homeless neighbors. We're diving into the upcoming Mayor's Summit on Homelessness with the mayor herself.
Democrats push bill to combat PFAS contamination
by Raquel Martin / Jul 12, 2019
WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — Ignoring President Donald Trump's veto threats, House Democrats included a plan to clean up toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, in the next year's Department of Defense spending bill.
"We have a job to do. We don't work for the president," said Rep. Dan Kildee, a Democrat from Michigan. "This says we're going to protect public health. This is a step in the right direction


Hearing is one of our 5 senses and is crucial in keeping us safe and socially connected to our family, friends and the community.
Research has shown that hearing loss can lead to reduced income earning potential, depression, isolation and a variety of physical ailments.
The good news is that in most cases, hearing loss is completely preventable. The key is taking proactive measures to protect your ears and monitor your hearing regularly with a hearing test.
How Can I Protect My Ears?
Is Ringing in the Ears Normal?
Why Do Noises Bother or Annoy Some People?
How Do I Hear Sounds?
How Do I Interpret My Audiogram?
Noise is the most common cause of hearing loss, tinnitus (ringing in the ears or head) and hyperacusis (sound intolerance).
It is important to know when noise can damage your hearing. A rule of thumb is that if you cannot hear a person at one arm's length away, you should be wearing earplugs. Some common noise hazards are lawn mowing, attending music concerts, and aerobic classes.
Today almost everyone owns an iPod or MP3 player. These personal listening devices are a wonderful way of enjoying music; however, playing music too loud can impact your ability to enjoy music later in life. People often don't realize how loud the volume is when they are in a noisy area such as on a subway or walking down a busy street. If others can hear your music then it is too loud. One simple solution is to invest in noise cancelling headphones to block the noise around you, keeping your volume at a safe level.
If you work around loud equipment or are a musician, ear protection is crucial.
Book an appointment with us to find the best solution for you to protect your ears.
The short answer is YES … to a certain extent.
Tinnitus, pronounced as TIN-i-tus or Tin-I-tus, is the term used to describe a sound heard in the ears or head that has no external source. It has been described in many ways, such as a ringing, buzzing, hissing, cricket chirping, or pumping sound.
An early study by Morris Heller and Moe Bergman study (1953) revealed that we all have tinnitus, and that it is essentially a physiological noise from our brain. Most of us do not hear it because our ears naturally tune it out.
Tinnitus becomes problematic when it is heard and associated with a negative emotion, such as fear or annoyance. This emotion heightens our brain's awareness of the sound and as a result makes it louder than it really is, if measured.
Tinnitus can arise from medical conditions such as hypertension, acoustic neuroma, thyroid disease, vascular disorder, TMJ disorder, ear infection, impacted cerumen, nutritional deficiency, an aneurysm, multiple sclerosis, etc. Certain prescription and non-prescription drugs list tinnitus as a potential side effect. However, the most common cause of tinnitus is excessive noise exposure.
See "How Can I Protect My Ears?" for more important information.
Tinnitus can significantly impact a person's quality of life. It is most noticeable in quiet environments and thus the most common complaint is its effect on sleep. Individuals have trouble both falling asleep and staying asleep. Lack of sleep can affect a person emotionally, psychologically and physically, making them unable to function effectively on a day-to-day basis.
The good news is that something can be done to help. Our Doctor of Audiology is one of two Audiologists in Ontario with a post graduate certificate in the Advanced Studies of Tinnitus and Hyperacusis. She uses evidence-based literature and personal experience to help guide her assessment and treatment of this hearing-related disorder.
According to the Tinnitus Association of Canada, as many as 360,000 Canadians suffer from annoying tinnitus. Of those, approximately 150,000 Canadians experience a degree of tinnitus that significantly affects their quality of life.
If you or someone you know suffers with tinnitus, please call us to book a tinnitus consultation today 289-963-1512.
Hyperacusis is the term used to describe an intolerance or extreme annoyance to moderately loud sounds. Common everyday sounds, often usually sudden high pitch noises, are perceived as too loud. Some examples of these trigger sounds are alarms and sirens, bus brakes, vacuum cleaner, clapping, etc.
Like Tinnitus, hyperacusis is often triggered by a loud sound and significantly impacts an individual's quality of life.
Almost half of the individuals with tinnitus will also have hyperacusis. See "Is Ringing in the Ears Normal?" for more important information.
Two other types of sound intolerance conditions are misophonia, an intense negative reaction to soft repetitive common sounds such as chewing, and phonophobia that is a fear of sounds. Most people who suffer from hyperacusis develop phonophobia rapidly if not treated.
If you or someone you know is affected by sound intolerance issues please ask them to call us 289-963-1512 and book a hyperacusis consultation. We can help!
Our ear is a fascinating and complex sensory organ made up of three parts – the outer, middle and inner ear.
Objects in our environment make noise by disturbing air molecules, creating sound waves. The sound waves are sensed by our ears and directed into our ear canals. The sound wave vibrates our eardrum at the end of the ear canal and moves a chain of 3 bones on the other side of the eardrum, in our middle ear space. The bones transfer the energy by beating against the round window of our sensory organ, the cochlea, in our inner ear space.
The cochlea is filled with fluid and lined with hair cells. The fluid moves like a wave, as the round window of the cochlea is vibrated and stimulates certain hair cells. The stimulated hair cells are activated and send a bio-electrical signal to the connected auditory nerves. These nerves send the signal up to the hearing centre (auditory cortex) of your brain. Your brain interprets the signal by intensity and pitch and compares it to previous experiences of the sound.
An audiogram is a graph where your hearing thresholds (the softest sound you can hear) are recorded. On the x-axis (along the top or bottom) are frequencies from 250 to 12,000 hertz. These are the frequencies where speech occurs.
The y-axis, on the right or left side of the graph, is the intensity (loudness) scale in decibels.
A dot is placed under each frequency at the decibel where the pitch is just noticeable.
If you were to connect the dots across the frequencies and overlap it with an audiogram of familiar sounds, all the sounds above the line would be inaudible.
There is often confusion about who is the best person to see for help for ear-related problems. Most people will go to their family physician with a concern. Your family physician can help you find the right professional, but it also helps if you are informed.
The HIS holds a college diploma and is trained in performing hearing tests and dispensing hearing aids. They cannot prescribe hearing aids.
The ENT is a medical specialist dealing with the ear, nose and throat. They are often referred to as the "Ear" doctor. They provide medical and surgical treatment options when warranted. They often have a long waiting list.
Audiologists holds a Master's degree. They assess, diagnose and treat hearing loss, hearing-related conditions and balance disorders. They are the hearing expert in the field. Some Audiologists will also have a Doctorate degree. An Audiologist with a Ph.D. conducts research studies in the field, whereas an Audiologist with an Au.D. works as a clinician.
If you or someone you know is concerned about their hearing, balance, or has ringing or other noises in the ears or head, ask your doctor for a referral to an Audiologist. An Audiologist is the hearing expert who can see you quickly.
Salus Hearing Centre is owned and operated by Sabrina DeToma, Doctor of Audiology, thus a referral from a family physician is NOT required. You can call us any time to book a hearing test or consultation. Just dial 289-963-1512 and our friendly receptionist will be happy to help you.
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