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Dr. Anandibai Joshi, Dr. Keiko Okami, and Dr. Sabat Islambouli in 1885
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This photo depicts Dr. Anandibai Joshi of India, Dr. Keiko Okami of Japan, and Dr. Sabat Islambouli of Syria, three women who became doctors in 1885, at least two the first female physician in their own country, and 36 years after Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. (All three completed medical school at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.) Be sure to click "See More" to read the full post at the first link. (Previously, on the lives of trailblazing women in medicine.)
From PRI's The World: "It was the first women's medical college in the world, and immediately began attracting foreign students unable to study medicine in their home countries. First they came from elsewhere in North America and Europe, and then from further afield. Women, like [Dr.] Joshi in India and [Dr.] Keiko Okami in Japan, heard about WMCP, and defied expectations of society and family to travel independently to America to apply, then figure out how to pay for their tuition and board... . Besides the international students, it also produced the nation's first Native American woman doctor, [Dr.] Susan LeFlesche [sic], while African Americans were often students as well. Some of whom, like [Dr.] Eliza Grier, were former slaves."
posted by ocherdraco (20 comments total) 25 users marked this as a favorite
great photo. great story.
posted by blob at 1:51 PM on July 17, 2015
And now women make up 47% of medical school graduates in the U.S.!
posted by gwint at 1:59 PM on July 17, 2015
yay women!
posted by infini at 2:31 PM on July 17, 2015
Oh my god, somebody write this movie, where these pioneers come to the US and have to be fish out of water, women, AND med students. But give it a happy ending where the one girl doesn't die but is cured by her colleagues and goes on to save hundreds of babies.
Also cast Tyne Daly as the Quaker lady and Jane Seymour as the medical college dean.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 2:43 PM on July 17, 2015 [6 favorites]
Oh my god, somebody [named Eyebrows McGee] write this
*whistles innocently*
posted by ocherdraco at 3:06 PM on July 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
How fantastic!
I got ahold of a children's biography that made me briefly obsessed with Elizabeth Blackwell when I was about eight. She inspired me to try to become the first female major league baseball player. Granted, I hated exercise, was hated in PE, and didn't know the rules of baseball, plus no one at home knew them either. But by God, I wanted to be the first female something, because of Elizabeth Blackwell. Eventually I had to settle for being one of the first girl drummers in the school band.
posted by Countess Elena at 3:22 PM on July 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
I wanted to be the first female something
posted by infini at 3:33 PM on July 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
I say, I might actually have a first myself, but I have to confirm it before I can claim it.
posted by infini at 3:38 PM on July 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
My alma mater! Halfway, at least. WMC eventually merged with Hahnemann (formerly the homeopathic medical college of Pennsylvania) to form The Medical College of Philadelphia, which was ultimately saved from the Allegheny Health bankruptcy by Drexel.
That's all a little inside baseball but, given that my med school's history otherwise revolves around homeopathy and the largest healthcare bankruptcy in the US, it's good to have a reason to be proud.
posted by The White Hat at 3:43 PM on July 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
I know at least one med school that will have women as 60% of the entering class next year :D.
posted by bobobox at 4:43 PM on July 17, 2015
Scalpel : the 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania on Flickr
Which is that bobobox? I'm very curious.
posted by ocherdraco at 5:13 PM on July 17, 2015
you know...i love the story...it's great...1885 is very early to make those kind of progressive leaps, but the amount of progress socialist/left-leaning 3rd world countries made in educating their own women dwarfs america's contribution to elevating women in 3rd world countries.
posted by brainimplant at 5:32 PM on July 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Another US pioneer was the English nurse Alice Fisher, mentored by Florence Nightingale, who came to Philadelphia in the nineteenth century and reformed the Blockley Almshouse/Philadelphia General Hospital. She is buried in West Philadelphia in the Woodlands Cemetery.
posted by carter at 5:47 PM on July 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Also here is the archives for Drexel University College of Medicine and its predecessor institutions, including Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (W/MCP) and Hahnemann University. They have some digital collections, for instance some background on Eliza Grier and Matilda Evans.
The prologue-montage shows a young Ana (Anandabai Joshi), aged up to about 14, marrying a man about 20 years her senior because her family can not afford their debts. To her surprise, her husband is quite progressive, and encourages her in her education. When she is 16, she bears their first child, who dies due to lack of medical care. She and her husband discuss, tearfully, how there are no doctors available to care for women due to gender segregation and caste issues and she wishes that women could attend the medical college in Bombay. Her husband goes to secure her admission while she is grieving, but is rebuffed. A kindly doctor (who maybe was prevented from helping Ana by social norms and mean other doctors) pulls him aside after the administrators laugh him out of their office. "There is one place women may learn to be doctors," he says in Hindi. "In America. In Pennsylvania. Take Ana there."
Cut to Keiko Okami in Japan. We see her teaching English to Japanese children. She goes home; her mother is the local midwife. Keiko's mother is paging through an old, battered anatomy book, studying the diagrams (labeled in German). She is trying to figure out what went wrong at a local birth, where mother and baby survived, but barely. "If only I knew more!" her mother rues. The next day, Keiko's sees in the English-language newspaper they receive at the mission that the Quakers have opened a medical college for women in America, and immediately begins to write a letter.
Sabat Islambooly (a Kurdish Jew, from the little mentioned in the links) has a scholarly father and two older brothers studying to be doctors. She wants to be a doctor, but there is no school that will accept women. Her father comes home one day with a story from a Hebrew-language newspaper. "Find your English books, Little Flower, and study hard" he tells her. "I have sold two goats, and you are going to America." She throws her arms around his neck with a cry of joy.
Susan La Flesche, a young teenager on the Omaha reservation, witnesses her brother die when a white doctor refuses to care for him. "He needs help!" she argues. "You're the only doctor here!" "I didn't go to Harvard to treat redskins!" the offended doctor replies, as if that explains everything. "You took an oath!" Susan shrieks at him. "Madam, no doctor within 500 miles is going to touch your brother. Good day." Susan comforts her brother as he dies, and swears to him that SHE will become a doctor so there will be one to treat their people. Montage of her poring over books while her hairstyles get more adult, and then we see her reading an acceptance letter to medical school and riding east across the Great Plains on a steam train, dressed in very very proper Victorian traveling clothes, headed for:
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Philadelphia, 1880
The City of Brotherly Sisterly Love
We see the women traveling and arriving; Ana and her husband together on a ship to Southhampton and then Philadelphia; Keiko with a Christian missionary group across the Pacific and then by train; Sabat from Jewish community to Jewish community across the Middle East and Europe to Rome, from where she sets out with an emigrant family to Philadelphia, where her father has arranged for her to board with a local Ashkenazi rabbi. Ana and her husband find a tiny back-street house in a black section of Philadelphia, and her husband takes some kind of sort-of demeaning job that Brahmins could still do; Keiko boards in the nursing dormitory and is constantly mistaken for a nurse; Susan has a distant elderly aunt in Philly. As they arrive in the city, we see the best and worst of America through foreigners' eyes -- a free and boisterous city, noisy and dirty, with loud-talking and laughing and happy Americans, and sideways looks and spat racial slurs. They are welcomed to the school by Jane Seymour (Dr Quinn Medicine Woman mode) and told how hard they will work.
They sit in a lecture hall with the other students for their first class, breathlessly watching the door to meet their first professor. As it swings open, a murmur runs through the room: A dignified, matronly black woman in fearsome Victorian dress, whose presence instantly commands the room, strides confidently in.
"Who's that?" one of the background white students hisses to another.
"Doctor Rebecca Cole -- second Negress to qualify as a doctor, right after the War ended," the first hisses back. "She runs the home for Destitute Colored Women. Everyone's heard of her."
She drops her heavy textbooks on the teaching table with such a loud bang that everyone jumps.
"Before we begin, there is something I must make clear to you," Dr. Cole informs them. "The education you are about to receive is a gift. It is the gift of two thousand years of struggle by men and women who called themselves doctors, a struggle against the demons of sickness and death and pain." The women hang on her every word. "Your education puts you debt to all of those who have gone before you, fighting hand-to-hand against Death and his dominion. It puts you in debt to me. And you will repay this debt to me by treating every person, no matter their race or religion, who comes through those doors. Medicine," she says slowly, emphasizing every word, "has no place for bigots." The room is silent. "If you cannot learn from a Negro, or you cannot treat a Negro, there is no place for you at this school. There is no place for you in this profession. To a doctor, there is no Jew or Greek, no slave or free, no male and female; there is only mankind, and you will be called to serve all of mankind." A long pause as the gravity of this charge sinks in. She continues in a lighter tone: "I know most of your daddies must have been abolitionists, or you wouldn't be at a Quaker medical school in Philadelphia." (nervous laughter) "Now, ladies, tell me who you are. Where you're from. And why you want to learn medicine."
Montage of different girls giving their names and where they're from. "Philadelphia; my father's Doctor Jones." "My daddy died in the War, of dysentery." "I -- I really like chemistry." "I was engaged to a doctor, but I liked his books better than I liked him."
"Keiko Okami, from Japan. My mother is the village midwife. There are no woman doctors in Japan. There is no one to do obstetrics. I must change that."
"Anandabai Joshi, from India. My first child died because no doctor would touch me for fear of pollution, because I am a woman. We also -- need a woman doctor, for the obstetrics."
The look at each other, and Keiko bows slightly.
Body of movie where we see the women getting to know each other, first Keiko and Ana, and then the other two. They study together, practice English, go to Susan for help with American customs, celebrate holidays together, and cook each other food, often gathering at Ana and her husband's house. We see a scene about the danger women alone are in when one is assaulted going home after dark after a surgery; she uses her scalpel to cut the guy's face to make him back off. (When she is booked on assault, Jane Seymour bails her out and gives a heart-to-heart talk about the courage of women alone facing a world of men.) A patient refuses to have a "hindoo" doctor; Dean Jane Seymour tells him he will have a Hindu doctor or no doctor. Keiko has an almost-romance with a white doctor, who pulls himself back at the last moment, remembering he is white and she is not. It hurts. There are amusing scenes of blood and viscera flying in faces, and "stomach cancer" turning out to be simple gas (complete with farts). They grow steadily more sure of themselves as they approach graduation. Keiko and Ana compete to deliver the most infants. Little girls watch the woman medical students with looks of awe. Their white classmates are variously friendly, tolerant, and jerky, but grow to respect the four women of color in their classes. Breakthroughs occur when white woman patients thank them profusely, caring only about their help, not their skin. They cook turkeys for Thanksgiving and it goes riotously wrong. They go to a Fourth of July celebration.
Nearing graduation, Ana shares the joyous news that she is pregnant, but near the end of her pregnancy, things take a bad turn. One evening when they are at her house for dinner, she collapses and goes into labor. There is no time to get her to the hospital; the other three girls must deliver the baby. Calm and steady Keiko directs the other two as they do some sort of emergency procedure on Ana, safely delivering the slightly premature baby and saving Ana's life. "Mr. Joshi," Susan says, sticking her head out of the dining room where they've delivered the baby, to where Ana's husband is sitting fearful and despondent, "You have a little girl." She hands him a wrapped cooing bundle and he cries with joy.
They graduate, and depart for the four corners of the world. We see their epilogues while each narrates a letter. "Dear Susan," Tabat writes, "It is unusually cold in Damascus, and we have been battling an influenza ..." "My dearest Ana," Susan writes. We see her working on the reservation and in town, helping Native Americans and whites alike. Setting a broken leg for a miner, we see them smile significantly at each other. "All is the same here on the reservation; the children break their arms falling out of trees and I explain twice a month what glaucoma is. Thank God for Dr. Cole's work on eyes ..." We see a pregnant Ana delivering babies in India ... and then later not pregnant, but coughing. She is 40, and she has developed TB. We see her working until the end, coughing and coughing, and then lying in bed while her six children and her heartbroken (elderly) husband gather around her. Her oldest daughter, nearly 20 now, who was born in Philadelphia, picks up a pen and writes in careful English letters,
"Dear Auntie Keiko, my mother asked me to write you, when she was gone." (The scene switches to Keiko, delivering baby after baby, teaching lectures to women -- and a few men! -- in Japan, slowly aging. We see her lecturing midwives as well as medical students.) "She said to tell you she has delivered 1200 babies, and that she hoped this was enough to keep her ahead of you, but that she feared the Japanese are fearsomely long-lived and you would beat her in the end. Now that mother's illness is over, I am to begin medical school, in Calcutta. She begged me to ask you to pray to your ancestors for my success. My father is comforted by his children, but he misses my mother a great deal. When I am finished with school, I hope to at last come to Japan and meet you again for the first time. With all my heart, I am ... Padma Philadelphia Joshi."
In the last scene, we see an assured young Indian woman, dressed in 1905 Indian traveling clothes and carrying a stethoscope, disembarking in Tokyo before taking uncomfortable conveyances to the countryside. She approaches a doctor's office with the caudecus on a sign outside, and consults the Japanese characters on it to see if they match the ones in her hand. She knocks on the door. It is opened by an elderly Keiko, stethoscope around her neck; we hear a baby crying in the background.
"Auntie Keiko?" Padma asks, tears welling in her eyes. Keiko's face shows startlement; then love; she embraces Padma and we fade to the girls, young and in medical school in Philadelphia, dressed in their native costumes for yearbook pictures, giggling and jostling into position. The photographer shouts, "Hold still!" and a massive 1885 flashbulb flashes. We snap to a photo of the four young women (Susan is now included) in sepia 1885 style. It fades out as a baby's cries turn to laughter.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 6:35 PM on July 17, 2015 [38 favorites]
Eyebrows, I literally teared up reading that. I feel like I just watched the movie, and loved it, and that's not even my kind of movie. Brava!!!!!!
posted by chocotaco at 7:13 PM on July 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Um, Eyebrows, remember a few days ago when you posted an AskMe about what project you could sink your teeth into and I said you should blog? That. Please. That was fucking beautiful.
posted by third word on a random page at 7:39 PM on July 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
That... was exactly what I needed to read at this moment. Thank you, Eyebrows, that was wonderful.
It's 2:22 AM, and I've returned to the thread because I needed to vent. I had also shared this link on Facebook, before I wrote the post here. A few people commented (one wanted to make sure I'd heard of Elizabeth Blackwell). A couple hours ago, just before I went to bed, I checked Facebook again, and I found this comment (from a grade school classmate) appended to my post:
I want a guy working on me, personally.
A real punch to the gut, considering I'm a woman, and starting medical school myself in less than a month. What am I supposed to do with that? In what world would it have made sense to share that comment on a post celebrating women physicians, on the page of a woman who is herself embarking upon a career as a physician?
Was it a joke? It wasn't funny.
Was it intended to express his personal preference in his own physician? If so, it is at best irrelevant.
I'm baffled, and hurt. It was the last place I expected to find misogyny today, and I'm taking it pretty hard.
So to come back to the thread and find that script summary, filled with wonderful women physicians doing wonderful things... well, it really, really helped.
posted by ocherdraco at 11:40 PM on July 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Thank you for the post ocherdraco, it made me proud to be an Indian woman born in March who'd fought her own fight to study science and engineering.
posted by infini at 1:36 AM on July 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
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May 10, 2019 Arts & Culture » Community & Lifestyle
Wilma Mankiller's story is brought to life by an Oklahoma City illustrator in Wilma's Way Home.
By Charles Martin
Disney Hyperion / provided
Wilma's Way Home, featuring illustrations from Oklahoma City artist Linda Kukuk, was published by Disney Hyperion in February.
Native Americans stormed the beaches of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to claim the notorious prison for the "Indians of all tribes." For nineteen months, the shuttered federal facilities were reopened by the activists and turned into homes. They hoped to force the U.S. government to make good on the Treaty of Ft. Laramie that promised to return all retired federal lands to the native people who once occupied the area. Wilma Mankiller was one of the volunteers trying to keep the dream alive, an early step in her long career of advocacy for Native American communities.
Mankiller's landmark achievement was to become the first elected female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, but that is just one aspect of her fascinating life to be explored by countless books and her own autobiography, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People. Disney Hyperion has also recently released Wilma's Way Home, a children's book written by Doreen Rappaport and illustrated by Oklahoma City artist Linda Kukuk.
Kukuk, a member of the Choctaw Nation, said this is her first children's book and the project came "out of the blue" when an editor from Disney reached out online.
"They said, 'We are doing this book and feel like it is very important that we get an illustration partner that is right. We think that is you,'" Kukuk said. "When I looked into the other books in the series, it seemed like Disney tries to make a connection between the subject in the book and the illustrator."
Kukuk will sometimes explore Native themes within her watercolor and scratchboard art and exhibits regularly in Native-focused art shows. Kukuk's editor sent her a collage of images from Kukuk's own website to guide the style for her illustrations. Though Kukuk was already familiar with Mankiller, she began consuming every book she could find about Mankiller's life and recognizing parallels between their lives. Kukuk's experience as chief of the Commander's Protocol Office at Tinker Air Force Base helped her appreciate Mankiller's deft ability to inspire and coordinate people to get large projects done. Kukuk's extended family also gave her insight into what Mankiller's childhood looked like.
"When I went to visit my aunts and uncles in southeastern Oklahoma, they lived exactly as Wilma did," Kukuk said. "No running water, outdoor plumbing, get your water from a spring, cook on a wood-burning stove. I thought it was fun when I was a kid, but I imagine in the wintertime, it wouldn't be."
Kukuk made trips to Mankiller Flats to talk to the people who knew Mankiller best.
"One of the things that I noticed was everyone I talked to, without fail, believed they were Wilma's best friend," Kukuk said. "That told me a lot about her character, how she was a very warm person and embraced everyone that she met."
Finding connections
Mankiller's early life is an all-too-familiar story of cultural disruption faced by many Native Americans in the 20th century. Her parents attempted to squeeze a life for their family of 11 out of the difficult farmlands of Mankiller Flats near Rocky Mountain. Struggling to keep the family fed, Mankiller's parents volunteered to move as part of the Indian Relocation Act of 1956 that took hundreds of thousands of other Native peoples from reservations to cities, with many landing in and around San Francisco along with the Mankillers.
Linda Kukuk's illustrations in Wilma's Way Home capture Wilma Mankiller's experiences after the Indian Relocation Act of 1956.
Wilma's Way Home documents Mankiller's struggles that began the moment they entered the chaos of a modern American city. That sense of displacement lasted throughout her early adulthood as she strived to find ways to connect to her culture. Eventually, she connected with a Native American center in the Bay Area.
"The militants, the wise elders, the keepers of the medicine, the storytellers — were my best teachers," the book quotes Mankiller about her time at the Native American center. "I felt like a newborn whose eyes have just opened to the first light."
For those curious about reading more about the long-term impacts of relocation on Native culture, Tommy Orange's brilliant novel about Native Americans in Oakland, There There, focuses on that crisis of identity, including a glimpse into the living conditions of families that occupied Alcatraz Island.
With a renewed spirit, Mankiller packed up her daughters and returned to Oklahoma, where she would begin her historic rise through the Cherokee Nation despite tremendous odds.
"Her perseverance was amazing," Kukuk said. "She had a terrible auto accident that killed one of her best friends who was in the other car. They didn't think she would walk, but she came back from that. She had to have a kidney transplant, then another one, then she got cancer, but she just kept going and doing."
Wilma's Way Home features some traditional Cherokee words, including gadugi (gah-DOO-gee), which is defined as "the philosophy of people helping each other," sprinkled in with pronunciation guides. Kukuk believes this is a foundational idea Mankiller tapped into that helped transform the tribe.
"Women can help turn the world right-side up," Mankiller is quoted within the book. "We bring a more collaborative approach to government."
"She almost single-handedly got the Cherokee people to stop waiting for the government to do things for them and to do things for themselves," Kukuk said. "She was one of those unusual and amazing people. I felt her presence helping me through this project. I never knew her but now feel like she is my best friend."
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BCIs have generated enough buzz to make it into Gartner 's hype cycle, the tech analyst's measure of which new technologies are living up to their promises, and which are falling short. BCIs are, according to last year's hype cycle for emerging technologies, in the peak of inflated expectations.
Perhaps it's no surprise that the hype is running ahead of the reality, especially when it comes to consumer use of technology. For now, the most able and interesting uses of brain-computer interfaces are found in research labs. Many are aimed at helping people with injuries and medical conditions recover abilities they've lost, while a few -- gaming using a BCI controller, or flying a drone using thought alone -- are designed to show how the tech could one day be used by consumers.
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Perhaps the biggest impact that BCIs will have on consumer technology is by fundamentally changing the way we interact with our devices.
Take authenticating our identity, for example. Currently, the most common way to get access to software or hardware is still passwords, with all the hassles that goes with it: they're hard to set, easy to forget, and frequently hacked. Researchers are already experimenting with 'passthoughts' as an alternative, and have shown that a BCI that can fit inside an earbud can pick up thoughts with enough reliability to be used as a method of authentication.
BCIs could change how we interface with our devices in other ways. Facebook, among others, is betting big on BCIs. It recently acquired CTRL-labs, a brain computer interface startup, in a deal thought to be worth up to $1bn. CTRL-labs offers wrist-worn hardware that picks up nerve signals from the skin using EMG and translates them into movement signals that can be used to control digital devices. Rather than opening or closing a software window with the click of a mouse, systems like CTRL-labs will enable users to do the same thing using a small gesture.
The drive for new ways of controlling devices In recent years mirrors the rise of virtual reality gaming, as well as augmented reality kit like Google Glass. These new devices have highlighted the need for interfaces that are less intrusive and which need minimal physical interaction for a user to take an action. VR in particular requires users to hold clunky controllers while gaming, which detracts from the feeling of quasi-reality such systems are trying to generate.
Prior to being acquired by Facebook, CTRL Labs released a developer kit, and published demos showing how its BCI system could be used in gaming. Whether CTRL Labs will boost the gaming side of its business when the acquisition closes is not clear (Facebook also owns VR kit maker Oculus Rift), but others with an interest in BCIs are already showing just how brain-computer interfaces could be used in gaming.
Researchers have demonstrated a BCI version of a Tetris-like game, where players worked collaboratively to win, while BCI startup Neurable launched a BCI-controlled game back in 2017.
While most BCI-controlled games released so far have been research projects by researchers or attention-grabbing stunts, a recent talk by Michael Ambinder, the lead experimental psychologist at game developer Valve, shows how seriously gaming companies are investigating BCIs.
According to Ambinder, by using a BCI instead of a traditional controller, gamers would be free from the constraints of having to remember complex chains of key presses to control their avatar; with a BCI, they could just think it. For professional e-sports players, BCIs could also offer a way of cutting down reaction time when playing.
For most players, however, one of the key ways that BCIs could shape gaming is by allowing the creation of games that respond to the way players are thinking. By measuring players' moods and attention levels through the BCIs, game designers could create personalised experiences. Like fighting bosses of a certain type, or finding a particular level too boring? The BCI could pick up changes in your mood that shows that, and alter the game to make it more entertaining. Using real-time feedback from BCIs to adapt games would mean "we'd be much better games designers," Ambinder said.
Aside from gaming, there are other brain-computer interface use cases emerging for consumer technologies.
Several brain-computer interface companies are pitching BCIs as a means of improving memory and mental alertness. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), which has been explored by both medical and military researchers as a way of improving cognition, is also starting to make its way into the consumer tech sphere. A handful of companies are already selling devices that, when worn on the head, can transmit electrical currents into the brain and so, the theory goes, modulate your brain activity (signals carried in the brain are electrical themselves). They're touted as both ways of dealing with medical conditions like fibromyalgia and migraine, as well as boosting users' memories and mental sharpness if coupled with 'brain-training' protocols.
The jury is out on tDCS' effectiveness -- and even its safety -- however: "There have also been reports that tDCS can enhance physical as well as mental performance. For example, 20 minutes of exposure to tDCS was found in some studies to improve the peak performance of cyclists," a recent report by the Royal Society said. "Other researchers have issued warnings about the unknown factors in tDCS, such as the possibility of unintended damage to parts of the brain not being stimulated and variable impacts on different people. Others have suggested that the apparent effects of do-it-yourself tDCS may amount to a 'placebo response' in people resulting from an expectation of benefit."
tDCS isn't the only way that BCIs could be used to deliberately hack the brain: neurofeedback systems are being pitched as a way to deal with stress, or even a way to improve willpower or concentration. Researchers at Columbia University have shown how neurofeedback using an EEG-based BCI could be used to affect alertness and improve subjects' performance in a cognitively-demanding task.
Such neurofeedback systems, for now, are largely still in the lab. However, BCI companies believe that neurofeedback could be used to adjust mood or stress, and could one day become another information stream for the quantified self.
Jamie Alders, VP of product at Neurable, told ZDNet in a recent interview that BCIs could ultimately become part of a "FitBit-for-the-brain type of solution".
In the same way fitness trackers can monitor heart rate, oxygen saturations, and step count, "in the future we'll be able to give you insights on what your brain has been looking like -- how is your stress level, how is your fatigue level, how your focus changed over the day, and help you make decisions on when's a good time to be at work or when should you take a break and relax. That's not something that's ready today, but that's something we're working towards. That's our vision -- these devices that can control using brain activity and give you feedback that is useful," Alders said.
Gathering data about the workings of the brain could potentially be fed into existing consumer wellness systems like Apple's Health or Google's Fit to add a new dimension to health tracking. Along with monitoring their physical health, users could gather data on their wellbeing, by measuring metrics such as stress level or emotional state, and potentially use that information to improve mood or reduce anxiety.
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That information may be not only useful to the BCI's users, but it may equally be of interest to their employers, allowing them to keep an eye on how stressed or focused staff are, and adjust employees' environment or workload accordingly.
"If BCI use is seen as enhancing forms of worker efficiency (whether that be using EEG data to help workers meditate or get into a particular psychological state, or if the BCI itself can be used to accomplish tasks such as recognition-based tasks), employers and companies could start pushing their employees to adopt technologies," Richmond Wong, a PhD researcher at the UC Berkley School of Information specialising in BCIs, told ZDNet.
"We've already seen a version of this where workers get Fitbits or other activity-tracking technologies in exchange for lower healthcare deductibles, but their employer and the healthcare companies get access to their data," Wong said.
If consumer BCIs take off, they will provide whole new data streams about users' thoughts that have never been gathered before. And where there's data, there's likely to be someone looking to make money from it. BCI technology may be cutting edge, but the data it collects is likely to plumb into numerous existing business models that involve consumers sharing vast stores of their own data, some of it sensitive, with a company that then profits from it.
"Companies will probably find ways to monetize and profit from the data collected from BCI devices," Wong said. "If EEG data is seen as particularly valuable (or even as potentially valuable), companies may encourage new uses of BCIs in order to collect and stockpile this potentially valuable data about users. This is similar to a lot of online services we see today, where users get free use of a social media service, in return for their data being used for advertising purposes or for analysis by the companies collecting the data."
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Objectives: The objective of the present implementation study is to document how an intervention to reduce work-related skin problems by means of implementing an evidence-based skin protection programme in six gut-cleaning departments in swine slaughterhouses was understood, accepted and carried out. The association between the degree of implementation and the reduction of work-related skin problems in each department is examined. The intervention included a top-down strategy with establishment of a management system focusing on skin risks and a bottom-up strategy with participation of a selected group of shop floor workers and the safety representative, as change agents, as well as an empowerment-based educational programme, where the middle management and representatives from the top management also participated. Methods: The study design was a randomized controlled intervention study with a 1-year study period. The outcome of the intervention was evaluated by telephone interviews. Data on the implementation process consisted of self-administered questionnaires, focus interviews and compiled written materials. Four indexes referring to the management system and the change agents' intervention activities were constructed. Finally, the Pearson correlation coefficient was used to test the correlation between the degree of implementation and the eczema frequency at 1-year follow-up. Results: There was a statistically significant association (p <0.05) between both the index for the combined implementation method and the eczema frequency after 1 year of intervention, and between the activities of the change agents and the eczema frequency. In contrast to this there was only a weak association between the establishment of a formal management system alone and the outcome. Conclusion: The study evidences that a combination of a top-down and a bottom-up implementation method is effective to reduce work-related skin problems, and that the process of implementation is a significant determinant of the overall results.
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When Lee Greenwood penned the empowering words of his multi-chart No. 1 "God Bless The USA" in the back of his tour bus in 1983, he had no idea they would become the words of the most recognizable patriotic song in America over the last century — he was just speaking from his heart. The son of a World War II veteran, his authentic life-long patriotism of the United States compelled him to write two former books, Does God Still Bless The USA: A Plea For A Better America (2012), and God Bless The USA: Biography of A Song (1993). Now, with the hope of ingraining life-long pride and patriotism for America in our country's youngest generation, he announces the release of his first children's book, Proud To Be An American, in stores Memorial Day Weekend, May 23-25. The book marks his third professional work as an author, and features poignant lyrics from "God Bless The USA" paired with colorful, thought-provoking illustrations by Amanda Sekulow. The book also includes a FREE song download, and its foreword tells the true story of his childhood upbringing that led him to become an American patriot:
"Growing up on my grandparents farm in California gave me an appreciation for folks who worked hard and got by on very little. My grandparents lost their farm after government regulations prevented them from farming the more profitable fields. But they didn't question why it happened; they just started a new business. They believed no matter what difficulties we experienced, we would be okay because we were free. America is still the greatest country on earth. As you sit reading the words of my song to your child or grandchild in my new book, it is my hope that young and old alike will feel tremendous pride in being citizens of the United States of America," he writes.
In conjunction with the release of Proud To Be An American, Greenwood will continue his long-standing position as the National Ambassador for Helping A Hero, a non-profit organization committed to providing specially-adapted housing and support to military personnel severely injured in the war on terror. Greenwood first appeared at a Helping A Hero event in January 2012 as part of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, where he sang the iconic anthem "God Bless The USA," for a Christmas tribute, while welcoming severe burn victim SSG (Ret) Shilo Harris to his new home. For the past three years, the music superstar has continued to be a part of numerous house-gifting and "Welcome Home" ceremonies, holiday concerts for veterans and their families, volunteer appreciation luncheons and more, bearing witness to the real-life struggles our servicemen and women face after returning from combat with life-altering injuries and emotional distress.
"I'm consistently blown away with the impact Helping A Hero makes on veterans and their families. To know that heroes like SPC (Ret) Jay Briseno, USAR in Manassas, VA, who was hit by a sniper and is semi-conscious as a result, now has a fully-accessible home that includes a lift system, a 300 sq. foot bathroom with a shower bed, heated towel warmers, and a therapy room for his daily physical therapy needs, really fuels my passion for helping those who have made such great sacrifices for our freedom. No one is more deserving of outreach and care than our nation's heroes, and I'm just grateful I can be a small part of giving back to them," he said.
For more information on Helping A Hero and to find out how you can contribute to the cause, please visit helpingahero.org. For more information on Lee Greenwood's Proud To Be An American children's book, please stay tuned for updates on his website at LeeGreenwood.com.
Proud To Be An American is published by Clovercroft Publishing in Franklin, Tenn.
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Alex Middleton's screen-printed idiom contests inspired by retro boxing posters
Have you ever wondered who would win if one idiom was pitched against another? In Alex Middleton's latest series, he presents Word Championship Bouts, screen-printed artworks inspired by retro boxing posters.
"Idioms, they're used every day. A figure of speech used to express meaning in a particular situation," explains Alex. "If there are too many folks involved in a meeting – 'too many cooks', one might say. However, the comeback to that could be 'The more the merrier'. But which of the two would be the victor? Who wins? You decide."
What would be a clever comeback to 'The pen is mightier than the sword'? Or perhaps 'Out of sight, out of mind'? You can find out more and view the full project on Alex's website.
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By the end of 15th-century Sikhism emerged in India that spoke of generosity, equality, bravery. Since then, the founder of Sikh faith, Guru Nanak has been in every Sikh followers' home in a form of invisible protector and guardian. Every year, to honour his birthday, massive procession and festivity is held in various Gurudwaras across the world. In India alone it is considered an opportunity to display love and affection to the Guru so the entire temple is decorated in colourful fairy lights and candles. Guru Nanak Jayanti is also known as Gurpurab and also Guru Nanak's Prakash Utsav, it is celebrated on 12th November every year and this year is going to be his 550th birthday. It is one of the holiest festivals for the followers of Sikhism. As Guru Nanak Jayanti is being celebrated across the globe, let us take a pilgrimage tour to some of the most popular Gurudwaras in India that are associated closely with Guru Nanak himself.
Sultanpur Lodhi for Gurudwara Sri Ber Sahib
Sultanpur Lodhi is located in a sleepy little town in Kapurthala district, Punjab and it is a historical town where Guru Nanak spent more than 14 years of his early life. During Guru Ji's time spent here, he was employed as the person in-charge of the civil supplies store. He also married Bibi Sulakhani and raised his children. It was here that he attained enlightenment. As the history goes, while bathing in Bein River he disappeared and went missing for three days, he returned at the place where Gurudwara Shri Santghat Sahib is situated now. Guru Nanak then began his lifelong mission of preaching Sikhism. He also planted a Ber Tree in Gurudwara Shri Ber Sahib which has grown into a large tree. Today, Sultanpur Lodhi has many gurdwaras each commemorating events dedicated to the life of Guru Nanak. And on his 550th Birthday on 12th November, 2019, Sultanpur Lodhi is going to be the centre stage of a grand event held from November 1st to 12th, (the last day to be the main event). It is said to be such a festive celebration that even the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi and several other officials will attend Guru Nanak Jayanti.
Amritsar for Golden Temple
Gurpurab is a very auspicious celebration for Sikhs, which marks the birth anniversary of the Sikh Guru. In Amritsar the entire city is adorned in beautiful decorations. And the Harmandir Sahib better known as the Golden Temple is overlaid in beautiful gold foil, it is truly a beautiful attraction widely known across the globe. Built in 1604 by Arjan, the fifth Sikh Guru, people are welcomed here irrespective of cast, creed or race to seek solace and enjoy the holy existence. If you visit the temple during the auspicious celebration of Gurpurab, you'll witness parade with religious processions carrying the Sikh flag, known as the Nishan Sahib. The festival begins with 'Akhand Path' prior to Gurpurab. It is said that the gurudwaras recite 48-hour long verses from the Guru Granth Sahib which is the holy book of Sikhs without interruption. This reading is called Akhand Path. There are no time restrictions here, it is open for all at any time of the day. People come from various parts of the country and seek refuge in the Gurudwara. It also offers rooms to rest and free meals to uphold the principle of equality among all people.
New Delhi for Gurudwara Bangla Sahib
Coming to Delhi will give you an opportunity to explore Gurudwaras but two of the must visits are Bangla Sahib in New Delhi and Gurudwara Sis Ganj Sahib Ji in Old Delhi. If you come during the month of November, you can experience the holy festival of Gurpurab, the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak in Gurudwara Bangla Sahib. This Gurudwara is one of the most spectacular religious places in Delhi with interesting looking gate and a museum/art gallery on your left as soon as you enter. On the special event of Guru Nanak's Birthday, the entire complex is beautified with fairy lights and candles everywhere. This holy ground is religiously significant for Sikhs and it has an expansive sarovar which is a sacred pool where people can take a dip to cleanse their sins. It also contains large gold fishes that help cleanse the water. The entire complex is perfect for every travellers coming to see the grand Gurudwara. It contains "Yatri Niwas" which is a Travellers Hostel and also a large hall where people can sit down to practice langar, where free food is prepared by gursikhs who work and also volunteer. Before Bangla Sahib was a religious temple, it was a residence which belonged to Raja Jai Singh. It was formally known as Jaisinghpura Palace located in Jaisingh Pura. This was a historic neighbourhood which was demolished in order to create a shopping district now known as the Connaught Place.
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A recent image shared to GameStop that reveals Star Wars Battlefront II's preorder bonus has revealed what Rey and Kylo Ren will both look like at some point in The Last Jedi. The promotional image also hints at what kind of Force abilities we'll see from the two characters in the movie.
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It should be noted, though, that both characters are adorned with a message that states "Movie production stills are not actual in-game images." – signifying that these are not the in-game renders. Still, it's not hard to imagine that they'll look too different in the game itself. It's also interesting to hear that the Millennium Falcon might look a bit different circa The Last Jedi than it did in The Force Awakens, or that Kylo Ren will have an attack ship of his own. It seems like we're also going to get quite a few scenes of Kylo Ren without his mask this time around.
The wait is finally over, folks. The first trailer for the eagerly-anticipated Star Wars: The Last Jedi premiered at Star Wars Celebration Orlando to rapturous applause. Now that the world has been given an official first look at what happens following the events of The Force Awakens, let's rundown through 10 of the best moments from this incredible trailer.
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The scammers might say there's been a suspicious purchase, a lost package or an order they can't fulfill, according to an earlier alert from the Federal Trade Commission.
The Amazon scammers are sickeningly good at what they're doing — and they're stealing a bunch of money and creating a ton of headaches this year.(Ted S. Warren / AP)
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The bad part about having me as a sister-in-law is that one day you're bound to hear the phrase: "Didn't you read my column on that one?"
Even so, my brother-in-law is a good sport to let me share his incredible story involving the fast-spreading, phony Amazon fraud alert scam where someone allegedly made a ridiculously high charge on your account.
One thing I want you to know up front: The Amazon scammers are sickeningly good at what they're doing — and they're stealing a bunch of money and creating a ton of headaches this year.
And, quite honestly, they're making good people feel bad when they shouldn't.
Scammers pretend to be from Amazon at alarming rates
I wrote about the surge in "suspicious activity" scams on June 2, just a few days before my brother-in-law got his call. His story of how the scammers contacted him and sounded so convincing is worth telling, given how big this scam is getting.
We're looking at Amazon Prime Day now — two days of online sales on June 21 and 22 — which could give scammers even more cover for impersonating Amazon and others, including names like Walmart.
Somehow Amazon is the new IRS for scammers. People bought plenty of goods from Amazon during the pandemic, and scammers know Amazon trucks are a regular sight in our neighborhoods.
Consumers are receiving up to 150 million robocalls per month from fraudsters claiming to be with Amazon, according to YouMail, which has a robocall blocking app.
The West Bloomfield police issued a scam alert in June stating: "Scammers are posing as Amazon employees and requesting payments or fees to keep accounts active."
The Better Business Bureau is warning that if you think there might actually be a problem with one of your accounts, contact the company using a phone number or website you know is real. Don't go to a website that a caller suggests.
My brother-in-law, Larry Geromin, a Ford retiree now living in Norfolk, Va., did what a lot of people do to avoid scams these days. He didn't answer his cellphone when he didn't recognize the number. All good there.
Scammers know that U.S. consumers often don't pick up, so they often leave an alarming message anyway. Larry remembers hearing something about an "unusual charge" on his Amazon account for $499.99.
"OK, so I call them," Larry told me on the phone the other night. "And I said I don't have an Amazon account."
Ever prepared, the scammer who claimed to be from the Amazon fraud department said someone must have made the charge using Larry's debit card.
And then the story sounded plausible.
Several years ago, someone was able to use Larry's debit card to run up a little less than $1,000 in charges or so — at less than $500 a pop. So it made perfect sense to him that some crook might try that one again.
Not to worry, the scammer then told Larry, there was a way to take care of it. All he had to do was fill out a form — and the scammers, helpfully, told him to go to a website.
He turned on his computer, went to the website and clicked on a link to get the form.
"All of a sudden," he said, "I see this cursor on my computer."
When he asked why there was a cursor there, the scammer said he would be able to help Larry fill out the form.
Along the way, the scammers showed Larry what looked like his bank account information and a negative $499.99 on that statement.
The scammer was going to take that charge off but somehow ended up putting $3,499.99 into Larry's account, which Larry could see on his computer screen.
Larry said: "Hey, you put $3,000 too much into it."
"Oh, we've got to correct this," the scammer said. "You've got to give me the money."
Larry recalls the scammer trying to make him feel sorry for him with all sorts of comments. "I'm an honest American," the scammer said. "I've got a 2-year-old daughter. My boss is going to fire me."
Larry's response: "You put the money in there. You get it out."
The scammer asked Larry to drive to his nearest CVS. Larry told him he doesn't drive anymore, which he doesn't. (But frankly, that's not a bad line for people to use.)
"Well, get a ride," the scammer said, suggesting that Larry call him when he arrived at the CVS.
At one point, the scammer even told Larry that he could buy just $2,800 in gift cards, not $3,000. And then what? Keep this so-called $200?
"I said, 'I'm done with you,' " Larry said.
He knew that something had to be wrong when they suggested he buy gift cards.
Then the scammer threatened that he could just empty Larry's bank account right then and there. Larry told the scammer that he couldn't do that. But somehow the screen that Larry saw that supposedly showed his bank account later showed all zeroes.
Larry just hung up. The scammer tried to call him 17 more times. Larry never answered.
The scammer then started texting him. Larry's son Patrick — who drove over to help his dad work through this mess — texted the scammer back.
Let's just say Patrick's text was the exact opposite of "Have a nice day."
Larry, thankfully, didn't end up using $2,000 or $3,000 of his money to buy gift cards for a scammer.
But he did end up with with a mess because the scammers had access to his computer when he clicked on that link.
The next steps proved to be quite a headache, as Larry and his family alerted authorities, changed passwords, called the bank to get a new account number and the like.
"The bank froze my account when they saw some transaction trying to come through," he said.
But the screen Larry saw for a bank statement was likely a phony. The mistaken extra $3,000 is only designed to get the victim to hand over real cash via a gift card, bitcoin or wire transfer.
It is good that he contacted his bank immediately. The bank reissued a new debit card and gave him a new account number. But that created more work to make sure the bills that are on automatic payment could get paid.
And Larry had to take steps to make sure the new account number was given to the Social Security Administration and others so that he could get the money that was direct-deposited into his account.
His rent check on his apartment didn't clear because he wrote the check shortly before the account had to be closed. But he worked through that mess, too.
He filed a complaint with the police, who told him to file a report with the FBI.
Many of these scams build on bits of information that's already available.
Adam Levin, founder of CyberScout and author of Swiped: How To Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers and Identity Thieves, said a huge batch of compromised login credentials was discovered recently that was associated with accounts with Amazon, Apple and many other big online entities.
He noted that Windows malware had collected account information of many consumers between 2018 and 2020.
So, he said, it's important that your credentials should be different for every online account you use, and you should enable two-factor authentication where you can as an extra precaution.
"Your identity can be stolen and your bank account placed at risk with one bad click," Levin said.
He noted that scammers are skilled at getting people to make a move that opens up their device to hackers.
"A malware-laden link might download spyware, a keystroke logger, for instance," he said.
"This corrupted software allows hackers to collect login information, or the link might allow for a takeover that provides a hacker with complete access to a device, which includes any login information that might be stored on it," he said.
Seeing a cursor on a screen, for example, may indicate a remote takeover.
When fraudsters gain access to your computer, the threat of ID theft is real. You can contact the Federal Trade Commission to report fraud at ReportFraud.FTC.gov, and the site offers tips on what to do next. You can also file a complaint at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.IC3.gov.
You also may want to place a fraud alert on your credit report, freeze your credit report, and monitor your credit report and financial accounts for unauthorized activity, experts say.
Amazon notes that you can report suspicious emails or web pages to stop-spoofing@amazon.com.
While scammers want you to buy gift cards, they also may want to steal personal information. So it's essential to alert your bank when such problems take place.
A Troy victim, for example, lost $1,000 in an Amazon-impersonation scam on June 1 after receiving an email supposedly from Amazon regarding a purchase of an Apple MacBook, according to a Troy police report.
The MacBook was being delivered, supposedly, to an address in Wellington, Fla.
The victim notified them he did not buy a MacBook. The number was connected to scammers.
According to the police report, scammers gained his credit card information and convinced the victim to buy two $500 gift cards and give them the serial numbers so they could access the cash.
In 2020, the FBI's IC3 received 105,301 complaints about a variety of scams from victims over the age of 60 with total losses that were more than $966 million.
Scammers often target people who are 60 and older because they may have money after working and saving for years.
Larry, like a lot of people I write about when it comes to these scams, is one of the good guys. His granddaughter Penny Bloom says his favorite color is "America."
Larry and my sister Linda raised three children in their home in Hamtramck, sent them all to college, made sure to be there when anyone needed them.
Linda and Larry — whose names were glued together in our family — would have celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary this year on Thursday.
After a long illness, with Larry always at her side, Linda died in early 2018. She was in the hospital on her last anniversary in 2017, and Larry was at her side that day, too. He moved from Michigan soon after her death to be near his son and daughter in Virginia.
"I thought I'd never fall for a scam," Larry told me. "I don't consider myself too dumb here. Yeah, I got caught on that one. It seems simple enough."
I joked with Larry about not reading my column. But the reality is I've written too often about these scammers not to know how they're able to catch someone off guard. Maybe you've had a bad time during the past year's coronavirus crisis. Maybe, like Larry, you just had some medical procedure that's thrown you off your game.
The crooks are clever, but they're evil, too. They're not raising 2-year-olds or fearing getting fired, like many people who are busting their behinds every day. They're just dialing for dollars and snickering at everyone along the way.
And frankly, I've lost my patience with smug people who blame the victims of these scams. From where I sit, you're complicit in the crime if you blame victims and easily let the crooks off the hook. Scammers are real threats to all of us.
Many times, I hear people make themselves feel better by saying they'd never fall for a stimulus payment scam, a romance scam or even this Amazon scam.
Sure, call me when the scammers get you going one day. Then maybe you'll understand how vicious scammers are these days.
Larry said he couldn't figure out how he missed my column. Maybe he had a golf game that day.
After we talked, he told me that he later made copies of my earlier Amazon column to hand out to members at the American Legion post in Norfolk to warn them about the scam.
He thought it was good that I share his story so others don't get anywhere close to being scammed, too.
I told you, he's a good guy.
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In fairness , I think you're the only one who doesn't believe him.
OK - interesting that it has taken so long for someone to say that when it has been discussed for so long.
It seems very obvious to me that the board members decide our transfer policy. There is nobody else. Conte has given enough clues in press conferences recently without fully coming out and saying that he has no control over transfers.
I wonder who is then , seeing as Conte says he's not buying the players and there is absolutely nobody else ?
I think it's done by committee in which there is involvement from all areas of the club. Conte has a role in identifying areas of recruitment and identifying and approving players. He often says he is asked to give his opinion on different situations. I suspect they jointly create lists of potential targets, which they order according to availability, how they fit in and so on and then the club pursue their targets. The club buys the players, not Conte.
I expect every club wish they followed this method. Why bother employing football people when you can get a couple of accountants and lawyers to do it based on whatever agent is hawking his tat around. Lions led by donkeys.
I am pretty sure that is not what I intended to say. I said there was "involvement from all areas of the club" and this seems to be confirmed by Conte. That means "football people" as well as "accountants and lawyers".
No. That's not want you said at all ! That's what I'm saying , it's been my belief for years that regarding the playing side of our game our board are grossly incompetent , they screwed Mourinho over twice and are fully committed to doing the same to Conte , the lot of them need removing from any aspect of player recruitment other than picking them up from the airport.
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Well there should be 'if I were Abramovich' thread.
Not me Michael I'm a bit flighty - but I have heard more sense here than any pundit,commentator,coach or anyone else in footballing circles that I have ever met.


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This beautiful picture was taken at a village called Naula in the Mathale District. I do not know the exact name of the mountain or the lake. But since it is in Naula, I named it Naula Kanda (Kanda means Mountain). You can reach here via Mathale - Dambulla Road. The mountain and the small lake look stunning from the roadside when the dusk start to fall in.
I was lucky to climb to the top of the mountain. It was such an enthralling journey!
Thanks for sharing KGP.. A stunning scenery indeed. And what were the flowers covering the lake? Was it 'Olu' or 'Nil Manel'? Can't see them clearly from the pic.
hey, SL Tourist board is looking for inspiring stories and pix that might be useful in promoting tourism in Sri Lanka and by god this blog is a gold mine..
places and descriptions are impressive, good work Kirigalpoththa, i think you need to send your URL to Tourism Board or whosoever doing the campaign..
After some observations and follow through your blog, I strongly believe SK is very similar to the place I stay, Penang, Malaysia. We both enjoy these beautiful mountain and waterscape.
It is very picturesque. Wonderful nature shot.
Yes I took a few photos on the mountain top as well. I shall upload soon. Think at Ulhitiya you get similar scenery. I can vaguely remember there was a similar mountain there too.
Thanks a lot for the information. Glad to know that tourist board trying more avenues to promote tourism in SL. If someone visit Sri Lanka after seeing my blog, I will be one of the happiest person  I shall inquire what I can do to help the tourist board.
You are absolutely correct. Your description on hike trails and pictures show striking similarity to what I find in SL. Love to visit Penang soon.
Yes the soft reflection also adding more beauty to the scenery. Thanks for visiting my blog and I enjoyed your site too!
Thanks a lot for your comments too!
I'm glad that the picture came up so well.
A lovely place. What was the view like from the top of the hill?
Really? might have been nice. I've not seen Olu except on TV (not the drama, I mean the flower.. lol), but the other 2 I've seen up close.. especially white and pink 'nelum' and 'nil manel' (our national flower, right?).
I can easily imagine how beautiful this is as the sun is setting. It must be very beautiful any time of the day.
Yep sunset was quite beautiful as the mountain was towards West.
A very beautiful and peaceful scene! Perfect choice for Watery Wednesday.


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Q: how to change or replace class attr? i have problem to display option class default selected when load page and to replace class default?
first I'm a newbie. this my code

function myView(sel) {
$("#colomView").addClass(sel.value);
};
function myView2(sel) {
$("#colomView").addClass(sel.value);
};
.redBG {
    background-color:red;
    padding:10px;
}
.blueBG {
    background-color:blue;
    padding:10px;
}
.redBOX{
    border:1px solid red;
}
.blueBOX{
    border:1px solid blue;
}

HERE DEFAULT TEXT

    <select onchange="myView(this);">
        <option selected="selected" value="redBG">redBG</option>
        <option value="blueBG">blueBG</option>
    </select>
    <select onchange="myView2(this);">
        <option selected="selected" value="redBOX">redBG</option>
        <option value="blueBOX">blueBG</option>
    </select>

the problem : how to replace class from attr? if i click blueBOX then i click redBOX, result will be class="blueBOX redBOX".
please help solve my problem? thanks

A: To use jQuery, you need to include it. Then you could use:
$("#colomView").attr('class', sel.value);

if no other class need to be set on this element.
http://jsfiddle.net/wuj5tfwo/
If you want to 'toggle' only this two specific classes, then you can use:
$("#colomView").removeClass('redBG blueBG').addClass(sel.value);

A: On changing the selected box first you have to remove all the classes present in class attribute of 'colomView' div, then u have to assign selected options class,
Try this code ,

function myView(sel) {
    $("#colomView").attr('class',sel.value);
};

A: Check this fiddle please.
You should use attr('class', className); className will be the name of the class you want to assign, in order to replace the default class.
Hope it helps.

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