While project planning can be an extremely complex process, there are ways to simplify it and make it to a streamlined function of your business. Here are five suggested ways: use project management software that "balances the user-friendliness of the whiteboard approach with the details and collaborative approach of cloud software"; select a "taskmaster" who keeps track of the master plan across team functions; "assign names, dates, and consequences" for tasks, and showing the different teams the entire project beyond their immediate parts; prioritize projects and focus on which ones should be handled first, taking care not to give your team more than they can handle; and "have a post-mortem" after every project.
The stories of business failures abound, and high-profile ones like Kodak, A&P and RadioShack have one common theme: a resistance to change. The author relates he let his company grow at a modest pace for over five years, because "I grew complacent," and he ended up losing millions because he didn't change. The problem is that change is constant, particularly in business. He then discusses four attributes of companies that effectively manage change: a purpose-driven mission; engaged executives; an early-adopter culture; and personalized training processes.
Announcements made in advance of Microsoft's annual developer conference indicate that it is planning, and in some cases has already released, a number of new features to its offerings that could make a big impact on the way your employees do their work. The four biggest advancements include: employees will be able to "more deeply leverage LinkedIn data," such as collaborating with LinkedIn connections via Word, Excel and PowerPoint; they'll have access to powerful A.I. technology using Microsoft 365, such as taking an image of a graph or chart and have it automatically convert into an Excel spreadsheet; your developers will be assisted in building applications that use A.I. algorithms by new tools on the Azure Learning Machine, which will help them select the best algorithm to use and automatically optimize it; and, with the introduction of Dynamic 365 A.I. for Sales and for Customer Service, your sales and service teams will be equipped to accomplish their jobs faster, and better.
In this interview, part of Women Entrepreneur's "My Worst Moment" series where female founders give a firsthand account of their most difficult experience while building a business, the CMO of ContentSquare describes being faced with having to fire 35 people – an entire marketing team in England – on her second day on the (previous) job she held as the new VP of marketing for a well-established tech company in Europe. She hadn't been informed of this unpleasant task, and as a new leader from the U.S., she didn't know the employees in question, some of whom had been with the company for many years. She'd been flown from the U.S. to England to "restructure" some of their teams. She describes the process she used and what she learned, including advice for others who may find themselves facing this difficult decision.
Billed as the #1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference for Business Leaders in 2018, RE-WORK's Deep Learning Summit will be holding its second event in Toronto on October 25th and 26th. Featuring 60 speakers and attracting 600 attendees, the event is co-located with the AI for Government Summit and Women in AI Dinner. The summit will feature the latest advancements from AI, or deep learning technology, from global leaders in the field, focusing on how industry leaders and startups are applying deep learning techniques. Because Canada is itself a leader in deep learning, with organizations such as Element AI, Uber AI Labs, and the Vector Institute, the Canadian Government has committed over $125 million to AI developments, including a Toronto Smart City project led by Alphabet. For more information, or to register, visit: the RE-WORK website.
More small businesses are starting to integrate solutions into their workflows that are based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), giving them a competitive edge by automating processes. In this short guide, the author discusses how AI is being used in email marketing automation, fraud detection, document processing, lead generation, and customer service chatbots.
Slack, the intra-office communication tool that is ubiquitous in startups these days, has morphed beyond its primary function as a means to fuel productivity, the author, cofounder and CEO of Vidyard, states. With more than 70% of U.S. tech industry employees using chat apps at work, he addresses the question of the impact of instant office communication platforms on workplace productivity, and how worried you should be about it as a leader. To the latter point, his short answer is "not very," as the "constant communication is evidence of a new work paradigm, one in which the professional and personal are mingling, and that's not necessarily a bad thing." He then discusses the "profound upside of office chatter" and how chats function as a "safety valve," as well as dealing with the downside of chat.
Now that you've created a solid business plan and are ready to form an LLC (limited liability company), how do choose the right name for your business? The author suggests that for the small business owner, a good place to start is choosing a name that reflects the products and/or services you provide, and is easy for your potential customers to spell and pronounce. Other tips include making your name memorable, avoiding geographic names that (if you plan to expand into other areas), and doing a business and website domain search to determine if your name is available. He further discusses how to avoid registered trademark issues, as well as tips for getting trademark protection for your business name and logo.
Your startup is failing, now what?


zerah Apr 01 2017 1:34 am i really like him! being an american and living in reservation area, he looks so familiar to me, like my indian friends. :) my regards and my congratulations Sir for your acting. The King and I - wonderful performance and now I am enjoying Squad 38.
Tp Oct 19 2016 6:59 pm I got confused when I saw u on 38 task force. Thought you were Eric Moon!
Amyshun Aug 15 2016 12:20 am An underated actor and entertainer..he is one of very talented actor.
linda Jun 28 2016 7:34 am Lee seung gi + eric mun = Oh man seok' s face ! I'm a fan, good job, fighting!!!
Migthy Thor May 21 2016 10:42 pm Very talented actor! Brilliant and great in his performances! I enjoyed watching him play volleyball in Cool Kiz On The Block! A great singer too in Immortal songs! I hope to see more in Korean dramas.
GOOD LUCK and FIGHTING !!!
ChaEunYang Dec 02 2015 7:03 am I can tell that he look really like Lee Seung Gi.. but I really like his acting. Love it.
Syuen Oct 10 2014 2:02 am Oh man seok looks exactly like Eric moon from shinhwa. Seriously. You guys need to go check it out. It's like they are twins.
ameerzila Mar 04 2014 7:01 am obuseyo oh man seok oppa? i really hope that i could be yoon eun hye that u've kissed..haha..sarangheo oppa!
Sarah M Nov 14 2013 7:03 pm OMS is soooooo talented and charming! He fufills all my dreams about a man and career. And I'm so lucky that my husband is this type,too. Hope to see you more in the drama.Love you forever!!
thiwa Aug 14 2013 3:11 am you are excellent in vineyard man.but I m really disappointed because you are not seen in a drama like that recently.hope you'll show your true talent soon.best of luck.
Mariza S May 07 2013 12:56 am oh man seok, you acted really good in Man in the Vineyard. Love you!
heni Feb 23 2013 12:48 pm i like oh man seok after watching whats up.and then i realize he's a good actor.
Melai Sep 05 2012 12:40 am Hi Oh Man Seok, I hope you're doing fine. After watching the Man in the Vineyard, I realized that nothing compare with your character and talent.
elize Feb 26 2012 10:58 am you are really good actor and u make perfect match with yoon eun hye!


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When I was a little girl, I loved the rain. I can remember wearing my cute little rain coat, rain boots, and oversized umbrella. How I loved jumping puddles! I would run around singing, "I'm singing in the rain," and it was my favorite thing in the world. I don't know why, but as a child it was so bewildering to me. Kids have a way to look at life with such a freshness. Their opinions and judgement are not yet clouded by experience.
Somehow over time, rain has turned into something sad for me. It is gloomy, wet and annoying. When I lived in Brussels it rained almost everyday. I never looked up, always looking down to avoid the sticky rain from hitting my face. Rain was simply water now. What ever happened to that girl that jumped for joy in the rain?
The truth is , when I was a curious child, I was fascinated with life. Rain! What is this? Puddles of water? Wow! Discovering new things was exciting! I was like a sponge waiting to discover life. As a child it was easy, but as an adult it is hard to remember. There are still so many amazing things I do not know about, and yet I am so content with what I already know. I close off any door of opportunity. Life is a routine, and learning is no longer necessary. I have my degrees, I finished school, why learn anything more? Who has the energy to change it up, and discover life?
Ever since my breakup, I have changed it up. It was the distraction I needed, and it has reminded me of the zest I had as a child. There is something exciting about trying something new, or experiencing something you never did. It is an excitement very different from the kind you get in a relationship. It widens your view on life, and its possibilities. Today, I had my business law class, and it is so weird. I was a music major for most of my life and artists tend to have a very "philosophical" perspective. It is so interesting for me to interact with people who use the law to rule their life, and to see their perspectives.
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LA Louver: 30 Years in Context
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Peter Goulds opens up about how his landmark gallery went from far-flung dream to art world success
As an arts student who had studied communication design and experimented with closed circuit television (CCTV), Peter Goulds was brought to UCLA as a visiting lecturer in 1972. Consumed at the time in researching Picabia and Duchamp and in profiling other 20th century artists, Goulds' intention for his work was for it to culminate in a series of films for television. Although those three years at UCLA bestowed Goulds with an intimate understand- ing of 20th century art, the fact that there was no filming following his efforts encouraged him to turn the lens on himself. Responding to an inner urge for a project that would fuse his interests (and keep him stateside), Goulds posed the following question:"Imagine some nutcase has hired you to start a gallery as an information design project—how would you go about it as a designer?"
The answer was simple. "I hired myself," he explains.
In 1975, with $15,000 saved in tax credits, the North Londoner charged himself with opening an art gallery on NorthVenice Boulevard with a modest intent not only to make a difference in the art community, but "to make a contribution in a way no one was doing at the time, to develop a gallery that has an international profile and to contextualize artists working in Los Angeles to the international scene," he says. Oh, and he set himself no expectation of making sales for two years.
Why begin in Venice? Goulds recalls, "At the time, where could you, with modest means, open and be competitive? We [with textile designer wife, Liz] thought, 'hang on—where serious artists live and work, curators, writers, other artists, collectors, etcetera must visit studios.' So if you open in a neighborhood with that kind of fluidity to it, then you've got an audience and, if you've got anything to say, then you've got a business."
A year later, with $20,000 in sales and having introduced Foirades/Fizzles—Jasper Johns's "extraordinary body of etchings" of Samuel Beckett's prose—LA Louver had entered the artistic scene of the left coast with unending calls for an encore.
$80,000 in sales followed in the gallery's second year and $230,000 in its third. With the money, Goulds bought inventory. "What I decided to do was buy art fromoneartist…DavidHockney,andby'78Iownedorhadborrowedatleastone copy of every print he'd ever made," he recounts. As to why Hockney, he relates, "it started when I first went to school in 1965. Hockney was just this iconoclastic artist pursuing his own direction, pushing the envelope of what art seemed to be. He was pulling information from reference sources not conventionally drawn upon by artists—from writers such as WH Auden and Wallace Stevens—and travelling to look for Luxor and off to New York. It was exciting, stimulating to consider."
La Fille
LA Louver's 1979 show This Knot of Life featured, for the first time together on US soil, the London School's Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Sir Peter Blake, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, RB Kitaj, Leon Kossoff,William Coldstream and Euan Uglow. With that arsenal of talent, the foreword's mention that This Knot of Life features "paintings and drawings by British artists" seems understatedly akin to Duchamp's own simple introductions (for example, Nude Descending a Staircase).
Goulds also took this opportunity to inform the gallery's visitors that American artists—such as then-painted-paper-magnate Charles Garabedian—had for a time been concerned with figurative subjects and were experiencing an awakening of appreciation.
The alarm clock had sounded resoundingly and the unorthodox spirit of his gallery reverberated with his clientele. Goulds confesses, "I took my first salary check in 1981." As to whether he used it to buy art, Goulds laughs, "I bought a house. I already had far too much art at that stage—it would take me the rest of my life to sell it all."
La Mère Sur La Mer
With emerging artists Gajin Fujita and Rebecca Campbell; the identifiable work of Deborah Butterfield,Tony Berlant, Nancy Reddin Kienholz;Tom Wudl, Gwynn Murrill, Don Suggs, Peter Shelton, Joel Shapiro and Frederick Hammersley; the estates of Fred Williams and Edward Kienholz; and providing a Los Angeles home to an international surge that, in addition to David Hockney, comprises Sean Scully, Richard Deacon, Per Kirkeby, Leon Kossoff,Tony Bevan, Guillermo Kuitca, Juan Uslé and Domenico Bianchi, Goulds ensures that the gallery consistently delivers on the intent he set out with in 1975.
Additionally, Goulds and the gallery's preparator for the past sixteen years, artist and independent curator Chris Pate, scour Los Angeles' artists to uncover hidden treasures for LA Louver's Rogue Wave as a "way of making a contribution, in hopefully a goodcuratorialrigorousway,tothechangingtapestryofemergingartists,"saysGoulds. The third installment of Rogue Wave will whet exploratory artistic appetites in 2007.
"If there's a unifying force between all the disparate artists I work with inter- nationally, nationally, locally…it's the intellectual rigor in the studio, how it is they come to what it is they have the need to make," explains Goulds. "The image is one thing but what is it that brought that image into life? That's what I look for— an intellectual curiosity. That's what turns me on and provides me with the incentive to work hard on their behalf."
La Père
Thirty years on, Goulds takes stock of the progress of his assignment. "Obviously, I've stayed connected and engaged with my only subject," he says.
"I'm very proud of the fact that very little of our work comes up for resale when you consider how much art we've sold over the years," he continues. "It's immense.The people that buy the art want to own it.They're not speculating, they're not in this for some dice throw…they're hopefully using their discretionary income to enhance their lives. I believe that art should be bought with discretionary income, not as an investment, and it should hopefully enrich the experience of the viewer. We attract, hopefully, the same kind of independent maverick spirit in the buyers as is imbued in the artists we represent."
Indeed, the modern explorer is one who delivers packaged experiences to us, brings boundaries and borders within our midst and confronts us with reflections of our world and ourselves. It's no coincidence then that Goulds, the Manchester School of Art graduate who came to UCLA as a visiting lecturer in 1972, has enlightened the well-traveled with a serious appreciation of the artistic landscape of coastal California and contemporaneously enabled Angeleno canal-dwellers to traverse the globe through the gallery's gatherings.
A portrait of Goulds by Hockney recently came down at LACMA to make way for a Belgian surrealist who might have declared that Peter Goulds, well, "il n'est pas un marchand d'art." But it is that other friend of André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, without whom LA Louver may have been dubbed simply "Venice Art Gallery", who aptly stated,"The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes…"
Goulds's distinct gift is his ability to see not what is created, but to question why. It is in pursuit of that unanswerable but gripping quest that LA Louver makes her mark.
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Q: Confusion: Handler and IntentService So I have gone through the developer site:
https://developer.android.com/training/articles/perf-anr.html
So I came to a conclusion :avoid intensive tasks via worker thread. So should use Asyctask, Intent Service and Handlers.
Also these three tasks have some limitations:
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*Cannot be used when using multiple asynchronous operations and and the   need for UI change, will become more complicated

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*Operation running cannot be interrupted

Now keeping this in mind, as Handler and IntentServices could be used for long running operation.
can anybody help me with the difference between Handler and IntentService ?
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Also what is the best approach to run request asynchronously?

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"Climate change scepticism defies logic"
Climate change denial can be founded on a range of values that have little or nothing to do with science, writes 26-year-old Sean O'Rourke from Melbourne, Australia.
On any day of the week, a cursory glance at a letter to the editor page of any major Australian newspaper will reveal the confusion and anger felt by some members of the public regarding the Federal Government's proposal for a carbon tax.
While some writers may contribute letters expressing their concern about the impact of this tax on cost of living pressures, a vocal minority not only dispute the effectiveness of a carbon tax, but dispute that global warming is a problem caused by human agency.
While robust debate concerning climate change policy is certainly welcome, one has to wonder upon what foundation climate change scepticism can be based?
In December 2004, an analysis of peer reviewed scientific literature found that in the last 10 years there were 928 articles concerning climate change, of which a grand total of 0 were found to dispute the global consensus that greenhouse gas pollution has caused most of the global warming of the last 50 years (1).
Likewise, at least 34 national academies of science from across the globe believe that anthropogenic global warming is occurring, along with numerous other reputable scientific institutions (2). Clearly, the weight of scientific opinion errs toward the sense that climate change is real, and is being driven by human activity.
A recent article by academic Andrew Hoffman looked at the cultural drivers behind climate scepticism (3) and found that climate change denial often stems from a political belief system that values personal liberty and small government, laissez faire economic models and a distrust of scientific peer review.
Climate change science is refuted as any actions taken to reduce climate change would require active government intervention in social and economic life and increase regulatory mechanisms that would limit the operation of 'free' markets.
Finally climate change sceptics often distrust the science, treating the academic fraternity as a group of co-conspirators pursuing their own interests and agendas.
An equally impressive point made by Hoffman is that to date academic studies of climate change have largely been confined to the economic and engineering fields. Taken further, this implies that for the public, debate concerning climate change is focused squarely on technology and economics, or cost.
While both are important for their capacity to offer solutions to halt climate change, these areas alone cannot account for the whole range of social and cultural problems that may develop if some of the worst case scenarios for climate change come to fruition.
Understanding that climate change scepticism can be founded upon a range of values that have little or nothing to do with science, or the likely impact of climate change upon human activity, is in itself important.
Likewise, addressing the silences that exist around climate change and food security, public health, water shortages and social disadvantage will go someway to raising awareness of the full impact of climate change, and a long way to silencing climate change scepticism.
"GMOs and the food scarcity crisis in Uganda"


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Call Of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War
Call of Duty: Black Ops-Cold War's multiplayer is free until Christmas Eve
By Rich Stanton published 18 December 20
No catch, comrade.
Following the release of Season One across Call of Duty: Black Ops—Cold War and Warzone, Activision has made (most) of the former's multiplayer mode free until December 24. Presumably so that all the six year-olds who get it on Christmas day don't have to put up with you freeloaders.
Now's your chance to experience the next evolution of Black Ops Multiplayer.Jump into the #BlackOpsColdWar Multiplayer Free Access Week through 12/24. pic.twitter.com/v7c7BMgAsXDecember 17, 2020
From Thursday, December 17 till Monday, December 21, free players can participate in the Team Deathmatch, Domination, the butt-clenchingly good 2v2 Gunfight, Nuketown and Raid the Mall playlists. Then at some yet-undefined time on the 21st, the Prop Hunt, Combined Arms Hardpoint, and Fireteam Dirty Bomb modes are added until the promotion ends on December 24. The last mode in particular is a complete mess but kind of amazing.
In addition, double XP and double weapons bonuses are running for all players till December 21, and double battle pass XP will be activated from December 22 (this runs past the free period, until December 28). The free trial is accessed through the Battle.net app.
Rich Stanton
Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as "[a] must-read for serious minded game historians and curious video game connoisseurs alike."


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Matters of the Heart Review with Celebrate Lit Tours
Book: Matters of the Heart
Author: Heidi Gray McGill
Genre: Christian Historical Fiction
When those experiencing the same fate she endured show up at her doorstep…
Katie determines to be their champion, no matter the fallout.
Will the man who fought for the other side also fight for her?
Unconventional Katie empathizes with the widows and orphans of the Civil War, searching for a place to call home in Shumard Oak Bend. But with no one to help her, she'll need to do it secretly, a challenge she readily accepts. She's taken charge before, and she'll do it again, no matter who she has to outwit to get the job done.
He vowed to be his own man and stop doing everyone else's bidding. But he follows orders when a pair of emerald green eyes, blazing red hair, and freckles that dance on the bridge of a pert nose conscript him to duty. Be his own man. Who is he kidding? Skunks don't change their stripes. They leave disasters in their wake wherever they go, just like him.
Overcoming personal obstacles and finding your true self doesn't mean going it alone. Yet the answer isn't always in the one you seek.
Heidi is an optimist who chooses to find the silver lining in life's clouds of doubt. This plays out in her writing. Her ability to weave scripture seamlessly into the lives of her characters will uplift and encourage you, while her masterful storytelling will keep you turning page after page and wishing for more.
Heidi lives with her husband of thirty years near Charlotte, NC. When she isn't writing, you will find her outside playing with her two grandsons, walking, scrapbooking, reading, cooking, traveling, or finding an excuse to have an outing with a girlfriend.
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True Christian Fiction. Relatable Characters. Life-changing stories.
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Where did the idea for Matters of the Heart originate?
Before I was an author, I was the founder and director of an English as a Second Language ministry. The program touched the lives of students from 35 different countries. Regardless of culture, religion, language, or age, I found a substantial similarity in these students—they all wanted to improve their lot in life and that of their children.
Stories abounded of walks across deserts, financial hardships, desperate attempts to explain emergencies to medical professionals or law enforcement, failed verbal connections with schoolteachers, and an inability to obtain work because of their lack of language skills. Prejudice and distrust blocked them, culture shock took them outside their comfort zones, and the urgent need to survive made them scramble to dig deep inside and find creative ways to secure shelter and put food on their tables.
It wasn't that these immigrants weren't capable of achieving success. In their home countries, vocations varied from chemist and biologist with PhDs, to teachers, lawyers, and medical professionals. Others came from poverty and had little education but were not afraid of hard work, long hours, and low pay. They were tenacious, and they worked with relentless determination and a bullheaded resolve to achieve their goals. They relied on each other and soaked in everything around them in their desire to assimilate into the American culture and find a new place to belong.
Immigrants in the late 1800s were not much different. Individuals came to improve their lot in life and be a part of the greatest country in the world. In Matters of the Heart, Hans Korhonen left Finland with his brothers to take advantage of the land grants. Together, they worked to establish a farm large enough to sustain four families and support troops during the Civil War. Yet, in their desire to belong and give back to our great nation, Hans's idyllic life changed through his service as a Union soldier.
Kathleen Murphy, or Katie, came to the United States to escape a life of extreme poverty and abuse in Ireland. Working in her aunt and uncle's boarding offered more than a job. It provided the love and support of a family. Katie rose from her previous station and started fresh with hope on the horizon. She found a source of ministry that gave her life a purpose she'd not had before.
My association with my former ESL students helped me develop the characters in this book into individuals with which readers can identify.
Join Katie and Hans as they establish themselves in their new home of Shumard Oak Bend.
Debbie's Dusty Deliberations, August 5
Texas Book-aholic, August 6
Book Butterfly in Dreamland, August 6
lakesidelivingsite, August 8
For Him and My Family, August 9
Abba's Prayer Warrior Princess, August 10
Locks, Hooks and Books, August 11
Blossoms and Blessings, August 12
Connie's History Classroom, August 13
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Babbling Becky L's Book Impressions, August 15
Pause for Tales, August 16
Truth and Grace HomeschoolAcademy, August 17
To Everything There Is A Season, August 17
Happily Managing a Household of Boys, August 18
To celebrate her tour, Heidi is giving away the grand prize package of a $25 Amazon gift card and signed copy of the first three books in the series!!
This is a fun read that reminds me of the traditional Christian fiction I grew up reading. I had a little difficulty in really connecting with the characters in this story so that made it difficult as I didn't completely love them. But the story line is sweet and I thought that Katie's journey made for a good story line. I think it would have helped if I had read the books prior to this one to fully enjoy the story. I think as a stand alone it is fine but I really wish I had read the first books. There is a strong faith element throughout the book that I thought was well written and that is really what makes this book what it is.
"I received this book from the author for free. All opinions are my own and I was not required to write a positive review."
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Bea LaRocca said...
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on Matters of the Heart, this sounds like a great story and I am looking forward to reading it myself
Stormy Vixen said...
Matters of the Heart sounds like a must read for me and I am looking forward to reading it! Thanks for sharing it with me!
Thanks, To Everything There Is A Season, for sharing your thoughts!
Have a marvelous TGIF!
marisela zuniga said...
The cover looks very pretty, this sounds like a great book
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Patient Falls in Hospital
By: Kelda Doherty
An 81-year-old retiree who presented himself to Mount Sinai Hospital reached a settlement of $850,000 after falling while unassisted on the way to the bathroom. The man who was admitted to undergo a laryngectomy suffered serious head injuries as a result of the fall. A CT and MRI scan revealed skull fracture, bleeding in the brain and a subdural hematoma which is usually associated with traumatic brain injury.
The plaintiff argued that staff at Queens Hospital failed to properly assess his risk of falling and failed to properly monitor/ observe him, which constituted medical malpractice. The plaintiff also claimed that he had informed staff he had suffered dizziness on arrival at the Queens Hospital. An expert nurse for the plaintiff said that his dizziness should have led to a treatment plan, which included safeguards against falling, such as a nurse accompanying the plaintiff to the bathroom and that failure to do so constituted negligent practice.


Should we accept technology takeover for Mortgages?
Once upon a time signing mortgage deeds was a long, hassling process but now some companies are claiming you can complete an application in as little as 15 minutes. So, how is this possible? The move to paperless mortgage deeds is finally happening this year in the public sector.
The idea of digital mortgages has been in private testing since June of 2016 but only now is it coming to the public sphere. Over the next 3 years, the government plans to create 89 new digital services, including online divorces and mortgages; it will mean that buyers will be able to sign deeds electronically with the government then authenticating it online. There will be no need for unnecessary paperwork whilst solicitors and conveyancers are able to track the progress of specific cases online.
In a recent speech, Caroline Nokes, Minister for Government Resilience and Efficiency stated that the government was committed to being up to date in the digital space. The move of going digital is to ensure government services are delivered effectively and promptly. In addition, going digital with allow data sharing across governmental departments meaning widespread improvements can be made for the benefit of the public. A common concern that the Minister acknowledged was the issue of security; however, she also said that the government would provide £1.9billion over a 5-year lifetime of National Cyber Security Strategy in order to show that security is a top priority.
At the moment, private companies in other parts of the world as well as the UK are branching out into the digital age for their mortgages with certain companies offering apps where you can track all the steps of your application. The problem with going all digital is that there is no face-to-face contact to discuss anything you might not understand about the contract. The responsibility is placed wholly on you and once the contract is signed it is legally binding.
One company that is trying out this new technology is Hull based firm, Hoocht; they claim to offer real time mortgage advice, using 'Chatbots' for customer conversations until their basic requirements are determined. After this, the customer is then passed onto a broker for advice via online chat to help finalise things. It may seem as if tech companies are simply looking to simplify and quicken the process of signing a mortgage but the fact remains that buying a house and getting a mortgage is one of the most important decisions in someone's life.
With some companies claiming a close within 15 minutes, it seems unlikely that the best advice can really be given in such a short amount of time. In this situation, there is a fine line between efficiency and irresponsibility. Despite being introduced to new technologies everyday and being in the so called 'digital age' people still want people and more specifically actual, real life people to talk them through something as major as a mortgage. Digital mortgages may work for a certain type of case but what about the more complex cases? Fundamentally, technology is not always the answer, so why are we acting like it is the only solution?


We also learnt about various methods and algorithms for Object Detection where the some key points were identified for every object using different algorithms. In this tutorial we are going to use those algorithms to detect real life objects, here we would be using SIFT and ORB for the detection.
Here object detection will be done using live webcam stream, so if it recognizes the object it would mention objet found. In the code the main part is played by the function which is called as SIFT detector, most of the processing is done by this function.
And in the other half of the code, we are starting with opening the webcam stream, then load the image template, i.e. the reference image, that is the programme is actually looking through the webcam stream.
Next, we are continuously capturing the images from the webcam stream with the help of infinite while loop, and then capturing the corresponding height and width of the webcam frame, and after then define the parameters of the region of interest (ROI) box in which our object can fit in by taking the corresponding height and width of the webcam frame. And then we draw the rectangle from the ROI parameters that we had defined above. Then finally crop the rectangle out and feed it into the SWIFT detector part of the code.
Now the SIFT detector basically have two inputs, one is the cropped image and the other is the image template that we previously defined and then it gives us some matches, so matches are basically the number of objects or keypoints which are similar in the cropped image and the target image. Then we define a threshold value for the matches, if the matches value is greater than the threshold, we put image found on our screen with green color of ROI rectangle.
Now let's move back to the main part of the code, the function which is called as SIFT detector, it takes the input as two images one is the image where it is looking for the object and other is the object which we are trying to match to (image template). Then gray scale the first image and define the image template as second image. Then we create a SIFT detector object and run the OpenCV SIFT detect and compute function, so as to detect the keypoints and compute the descriptors, descriptors are basically the vectors which stores the information about the keypoints, and it's really important as we do the matching between the descriptors of the images.
And then define the FLANN based matcher, we are not going into the mathematical theory of matching behind it, but you can easily Google about it. Firstly, define the index kdtree to zero and then we set the index and search parameters in the dictionary format, we just define the algorithm we are going to use which is KDTREE, and the number of trees we are going to use, the more tree we use the more complicated it gets and slower. And in search parameter define the number of checks, which is basically number of matches it's going to complete.
And then create our FLANN based matcher object by loading the parameter we previously defined which are index parameters and search parameters and based upon this create our FLANN based matcher, which is a KNN matcher where KNN is K-nearest neighbors, basically it's a way where we look for nearest matchers and descriptors and we do the matching with initialization constant k. Now this FLANN based matcher returns the number of matches we get.
FLANN based matching is just an approximation, so as to increase the accuracy of the FLANN based matcher we perform a Lowe's ratio test and what it does is it looks for the matches from the knn flann based matcher and define some matric parameters which is distance here, for which distance is a numpy function, and once it meets the criteria append the matches to the good matches and returns the good matches found, and so the live video stream tells the number of matches found at the corner of the screen.
Object detection using SIFT is pretty much cool and accurate, since it generates a much accurate number of matches based on keypoints, however its patented and that makes it hard for using it for the commercial applications, the other way out for that is the ORB algorithm for object detection.
Similar to the method of object detection by SIFT in which we divided the programme into two parts, the same will be followed here.
Firstly, we define the function ORB_detector which takes two inputs one is the live stream image coming from webcam and other is the image template on the basis of which we are going to match our image. Then we grayscale our webcam image and then initialize our ORB detector, and we are setting it here at 1000 key points and scaling parameters of 1.2. you can easily play around with these parameters, then detect the keypoints (kp) and descriptors (des) for both the images and the second parameter we are defining in detectANDCompute function is NONE, it is asking for the use of image mask or not and we are denying it here.
Then move to the detector previously we have been using FLANN based matcher, but here we will be using BFMatcher and inside BFMatcher we define two parameters one is NORM_HAMMING and other is the crossCheck whose value is TRUE.
Then compute the matches the matches between those two images using the descriptors defined above, which in all returns the number of matches since these matches are not approximation and hence there is no need to do Lowe's ratio test, instead we sort the matches based upon distance, least the distance more the match is better (here the distance means distance between the points), and at the end we return the number of matches using length function.
And in the main function we set the threshold to a much higher value, since orb detector generates much of noise.
Now let's talk about a different descriptor which is Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG's).
HOG's are pretty much cool and useful descriptors and they are widely and successfully used for object detection, as seen previously the image descriptors like SIFT and ORB where we have to compute keypoints and then have to compute descriptors out of those keypoints, HOG's do that process differently. It represents objects as a single feature vector as opposed to a set of feature vectors where each represents a segment of the image. It means we have single vector feature for the entire image.
It's computed by a sliding window detector over an image, where a HOG descriptor is a computed for each position. And then each position is combined for a single feature vector.
Like SIFT the scale of the image is adjusted by pyramiding.
Previously we have used matchers like FLANN and BFMatcher, but HOGs do it differently with the help of SVM (support vector machine) classifiers, where each HOG descriptor that is computed is fed to a SVM classifier to determine if the object was found or not.
Understanding HOG's could be quite complex, but here we are only going to deal with the theory of HOG's without going deeper into the mathematics related to it.
So let's take this picture it's a little pixelated a bit, and on the upper corner is 8x8 pixel box here, so in this box we compute the gradient vector or edge orientations at each pixel. So it means in this box we calculate the image gradient vector of pixels inside the box (they are sort of direction or flow of the image intensity itself), and this generates 64 (8 x 8) gradient vectors which are then represented as a histogram. So imagine a histogram which represents each gradient vector. So if all the points or intensities lied in one direction, the histogram for that direction let's say 45 degrees, the histogram would have peak at 45 degrees.
So what we do now is we split each cell into angular bins, where each bin corresponds to a gradient direction (e.g. x, y). In the Dalal and Triggs paper, they used 9 bins0-180° (20° each bin). This effectively reduces 64 vectors to just 9 values. So what we have done is reduced the size but kept all the key information which is needed.
Next step in calculating the hog's is the normalization, we normalize the gradients to ensure invariance to illumination changes i.e. Brightness and Contrast.
We divide the vectors by the gradient magnitudes we get 0.707 for all, this is normalization.
Similarly, if we change the intensity or change the contrast we get the below values.
Normalization doesn't take place on a cell level, instead it takes place in a block level, so here the blocks are basically a group of 4 cells, this takes into account neighboring blocks so normalize while taking into consideration larger segments of the image.
# We index blocks by rows first.
# for each cell of its group for each group. Indexing is by rows then columns.
The image shows how the input image is represented as HOG representation.
As previously discussed, we can extract features from an image and use those features to classify or detect objects.
What are HAAR Cascade Classifiers?
An object detection method that inputs Haar features into a series of classifiers (cascade) to identify objects in an image. They are trained to identify one type of object, however, we can use several of them in parallel e.g. detecting eyes and faces together.
negative images (i.e. images without the object present).
Once we have those images, we then extract features using sliding windows of rectangular blocks. These features (HAAR features) are single valued and are calculated by subtracting the sum of pixel intensities under the white rectangles from the black rectangles.
However, this is a ridiculous number of calculations, even for a base window of 24 x 24 pixels (180,000 features generated).
So the researchers devised a method called Integral Images that computed this with four array references. However, they still had 180,000 features and the majority of them added no real value.
Boosting was then used to determine the most informative features, with Freund & Schapire's AdaBoost and it found most informative features in the image. Boosting is the process by which we use weak classifiers to build strong classifiers, simply by assigning heavier weighted penalties on incorrect classifications. Reducing the 180,000 features to 6000, which is still quite a bit features.
In those 6000 features, some will be more informative than others. So if we used the most informative features to first check whether the region can potentially have a face (false positives will be no big deal). Doing so eliminates the need for calculating all 6000 features at once. This concept is called the Cascade of Classifiers - for face detection, the Viola Jones method used 38 stages.
So after gaining some theoretical knowledge about the HAAR cascades we are going to finally implement it, so as to make things pretty much clear we will break the lessons in parts, first we would detect frontal face after that we will move to detect frontal face with eyes and finally we would do live detection of face and eyes through the webcam.
So for this we are going to use pre-trained classifiers that have been provided by OpenCV as .xml files, xml stands for extensible markup language, this language is used to store vast amount of data, you could even build a database on it.
You can have the access of these classifiers at this link.
Let's try for the frontal face detection, you can have the access for the cascade of frontal face detector here. Just extract the zip file to get the xml file.
# it returns the list of lists, which are the location of different faces detected.
Now let's combine the face and eye detection together, you can have the access for the cascade of eye detector in the same zip file.
So this code is same as much as that the code for the face detection, but here we have added eye cascades and method to detect them, as you can see we have chosen the Gray scaled version of the face as the parameter for the detectMultiScale for the eyes, which brings us to the reduction in computation as we are only going to detect eyes only in that area only.
So till now we have done face and eye detection, now let's implement the same with the live video stream from the webcam. In this we will do the same detection of face and eyes but this time we will be doing it for the live stream form the webcam. In most of the application you would find your face highlighted with a box around it, but here we have done something differently that you would find your face cropped out and eyes would identify in that only.
Scale Factor Specifies how much we reduce the image size each time we scale. E.g. in face detection we typically use 1.3. This means we reduce the image by 30% each time it's scaled. Smaller values, like 1.05 will take longer to compute, but will increase the rate of detection.
Min Neighbors Specifies the number of neighbors each potential window should have in order to consider it a positive detection. Typically set between 3-6. It acts as sensitivity setting, low values will sometimes detect multiples faces over a single face. High values will ensure less false positives, but you may miss some faces.
To find out where you python.exe is installed, just run these two lines of code, it would print the location where python is installed.
You can have the cascade for pedestrian detection and from the zip file attached here.
After successfully detecting pedestrian in video, let's move to the code for Car detection, You can have the cascade for pedestrian detection from here.
You have noticed that we have added time.sleep(.05), it's just a delay in frame rate so you can confirm that all the cars are correctly identified, or you can easily remove it just by adding a comment label to it.


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Historic Pony Express Celebration Giveaway Day
Published by Christina on July 31, 2013, in Charitable Giving, Recent Projects
ON TAHOE RIM TRAIL
Meet Pony Express re-ride riders and their horses in the Tahoe Meadows
off of Mt. Rose Highway on Friday, Aug. 9
By Nicole Cheslock, NC Communications.
The National Pony Express Association conducted a re-ride of the Pony Express Trail just last month. The ride, including a portion of the Tahoe Rim Trail, was a non-stop event including more than 600 riders and horses. On Friday, Aug. 9, Lake Tahoe and Reno visitors and residents can meet Pony Express re-ride participants, Petra Keller and her horse Tiara Nevada ("T"), among others, on the Tahoe Rim Trail as part of the inaugural Tahoe Rim Trail Challenge, a self guided adventure open to the public.
"Adults are keen to meet our equestrian friends and learn more on the Tahoe Rim Trail, and kids love feeding carrots to our horses," shares Keller, a member of the Tahoe Rim Trail Association (TRTA) Board of Directors. "Come out to meet us on the trail on Friday, Aug. 9. This is such a fun photo opportunity and recreation event with a historic twist for friends and families."
Ranked among the most remarkable feats of the American West, the Pony Express was in service from April 1860 to November 1861. Its primary mission was to deliver mail and news between St. Joseph, MO and San Francisco, CA. Telegrams and letters were carried in a "mochila," the Spanish word for knapsack. Keller and her friends from the National Pony Express Association will have a mochila used in the Pone Express re-ride on the trail. While other riders carried mail by horseback, it was the mochila, easily transferrable from one horse to another, that made the Pony Express unique. Since the riders had just two minutes to exchange horses, the mochila design allowed for easy and quick removal and placement on a fresh horse at remount stations, was used. The rider's weight kept the mochila in place during the rugged rides. In addition to a mochila, T's mother, a Nevada Mustang named Charlie, will be on site from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 9. Everyone donning a Tahoe Rim Trail Challenge T-shirt is eligible for giveaways on Aug. 9.
TAHOE RIM TRAIL CHALLENGE
The inaugural Tahoe Rim Trail Challenge is a self-guided program designed to encourage people to enjoy the great outdoors and support the TRTA, the non-profit organization expressly dedicated to stewardship of the trail. The 2013 Trail Challenge features six extremely scenic and accessible locations that vary in length from two to six miles roundtrip. The Challenge is open to the public and new members are encouraged to join. Upon registration, members receive access to a special members-only webpage with interesting hike descriptions and colorful pictures, a tech T-shirt plus annual membership to the Tahoe Rim Trail Association and invitations to members-only events. Membership costs $55 for individuals and $85 for families. Custom corporate packages are also available.
The Trail Challenge is excited to announce the Historic Pony Express Celebration Giveaway Day on Aug. 9 as part of the "Where's McLeod? Giveaway Days." Representatives will be staged at various vista points to cheer on participants and provide a free giveaway from presenting Trail Challenge sponsors in addition to photo opportunities with trail mascot, McLeod the Marmot. Everyone who is wearing their Trail Challenge T-shirt or joins on-site will receive gifts including cold water provided by Spin Games. Giveaways include gift certificates, whistles, bandanas and more from corporate sponsors including CA Technologies, Redemption Sports and Squeeze In. Additional Trail Challenge Giveaway Days will take place on Aug. 24 and Sept. 21. Visit www.trailchallenge.tahoerimtrail.org to register.
The 2013 Tahoe Rim Trail Challenge is made possible from generous sponsorship support from NV Energy, Spin Games, REI, Desert Research Institute, International Game Technology, The Weekly, 101.5, KOLO 8, Reno Gazette Journal and Capital Public Radio as well as Sunshine Tahoe, Squeeze In, KristineMitchell.com, KPS|3, North American Embroidery, and NC Communications.
ABOUT THE TAHOE RIM TRAIL ASSOCIATION (TRTA)
Established in 1981, TRTA is a membership-supported organization that maintains and enhances the Tahoe Rim Trail, a trail like no other™. TRTA exists to practice and inspire stewardship, promote access to the beauty of the Lake Tahoe region and sustain the Tahoe Rim Trail system. This mission is accomplished through two overarching programs: Trail Operations and Trail Use. Both programs offer in-depth trainings and rewarding volunteer opportunities. TRTA recruits, trains and manages approximately 1,000 volunteers who contribute more than 17,000 hours annually to support TRTA's mission. Volunteer efforts, individual and corporate donations and grant funding make TRTA's annual stewardship work and more than one hundred free public offerings possible. Visit http://www.tahoerimtrail.org.
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Petra Keller, a member of the Tahoe Rim Trail Association Board of Directors, and Tiara Nevada riding a portion of the Tahoe Rim Trail during the June 2013 Historic Pony Express Re-Ride.
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Tahoe Rim Trail Association Trail Challenge
Published by Christina on July 2, 2013, in Charitable Giving, Recent Projects
Offering incredible views of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada, the 165-mile long Tahoe Rim Trail is one of the world's most scenic trails. Established in Tahoe in 1981, the Tahoe Rim Trail Association is a membership-supported organization that maintains and enhances the Tahoe Rim Trail.
"Our new program highlights alpine lakes and creeks, wildflower meadows, waterfalls, amazing vista points, and unique geologic features. We're still in the early phase of the first-ever Tahoe Rim Trail Challenge, so now is the time to round up your friends and coworkers to start an incredible summer adventure," said Kristine Mitchell, TRTA's Vice President of Trail Use. "Depending upon the trail and season, you can bike, hike, ride horseback, ski or snowshoe to the Trail Challenge destinations. It's all about fun – get out there and go!"
The Trail Challenge is a self guided outdoor recreation program offered by the Tahoe Rim Trail Association (TRTA). Everyone who registers becomes eligible for many on-the-trail giveaways. Coming up soon, Squeeze In, a favorite restaurant that is consistently voted Best Breakfast in North Tahoe, Truckee and Reno and home of "The Best Omelettes on the Planet," is offering up to 300 EggHead Gifs on Saturday, July 6, and Sunday, July 7, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. exclusively for Trail Challenge participants.
Squeeze In President, Shila Morris exclaimed, "We live here too! This is our community and our trail. The Squeeze has been a favorite with hikers and outdoor enthusiasts for decades. We love the opportunity to support the Tahoe Rim Trail. We'd like to help you get egg on your face with a free breakfast!"
Additional surprise giveaways are planned throughout the summer and fall. Registration also includes access to a special members-only web page where participants share pictures and trail experiences, a trail tech T-shirt and a full year TRTA membership. The website offers descriptions of the six Trail Challenge locations, photo and story sharing capability, and electronic tracking of individual achievements.
Wondering which places along the Tahoe Rim Trail have been selected for 2013? Part of the fun of joining the challenge is discovering the absolutely stunning sites. Here's a peak – one journey takes you 2.5 miles roundtrip with an elevation gain of 700 feet and culminates with a spectacular waterfall and stunning Lake Tahoe vistas. Another site is 3.5 miles roundtrip and features wild flowers blooming in a lush meadow. Register online to learn more about these amazing sites and begin your adventure on the Tahoe Rim Trail.
Join the Trail Challenge to get started in 2013. Trail Challenge membership costs $55 for individuals, $85 for couples and there are custom corporate packages. Existing TRTA members can enroll for just $20. For details and registration visit www.tahoerimtrail.org.
Support for the 2013 Tahoe Rim Trail Challenge comes from individuals and companies including NV Energy, Spin Games, REI, Desert Research Institute (DRI), The Weekly, 101.5 Tahoe Truckee Radio , KOLO 8, Reno Gazette-Journal, Capital Public Radio as well as Sunshine Tahoe, Squeeze In, KristineMitchell.com, KPS|3, North American Embroidery and NC Communications.
Read a little about what a few of our incredible sponsors have to say:
Kristine Mitchell, TRTA Vice President of Trail Use
Desert Research Institute – DRI
"The Tahoe Rim Trail Challenge presents our faculty, students and staff with a unique motivation to get outside and explore a region we sincerely treasure," said Dr. Stephen Wells, President of the Desert Research Institute (DRI). "For several decades DRI scientists have produced an array of comprehensive scientific studies to better understand the region's complex ecology. This work, combined with the environmental stewardship efforts lead by community organizations like the TRTA is providing the road map to a healthier future for the entire Tahoe basin." DRI joins Spin Games, NV Energy and REI among other corporate participants in support of the 2013 Tahoe Rim Trail Challenge.
"The Tahoe Rim Trail is the perfect way to highlight the majestic beauty that makes our little slice of heaven world famous. For nearly four decades, the Squeeze In has been a local favorite and we are thrilled to be partnering with the TRTA to reward the hikers who take on the challenge. Whether you're an avid outdoor enthusiast, or you just like a good hike, you will love experiencing these amazing trails, and you'll certainly love having a free breakfast at Squeeze In afterwards."
"We live here too, this is our community and our trail. The Squeeze has been a favorite with hikers and outdoor enthusiasts for decades. We love the opportunity to support the Tahoe Rim Trail. We'd like to help you get egg on your face with a free breakfast!"
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Using a resume of just about two decades as head from the regional council, Nahal Sorek, Eli Escuzido continues to lead the council to נחל שורק מועצה אזורית אלי אסקוזידו להמשך קריאה prosperity and prosperity. Over the years, Askozido has succeeded in making a platform for mutual respect involving the residents, the establishment in the Torah Institutions Fund in the Council's settlements, improvement with the education system and its expansion, the establishment of a community center and much more.
Numerous residents with the Nahal Sorek Regional Council get in touch with the council head, Eli Askuzido, a "man of action" and not for nothing. Due to the fact taking workplace in 1999, Askozido has turned the council upside down.
The beginning with the road in the Council
Escudozio began his public career in 1991, when he was elected chairman of the Bnei Braim Yeshiva and served for eight years. In which he initiated and sought to expand the settlement.
Four years later, in 1999, Askozido, who was already a member of the council plenum, decided to try his luck inside the race for the position of head of the council and won. In truth, considering that Eskozido's election as mayor, there have been no elections in Nahal Sorek – the public is satisfied and also the council is continually growing.
Eskozido operates for the advantage with the public
You can find these who say that the key http://biblehub.com/topical/s/sorek.htm with the accomplishment of Escuzido lies in his wish to see the public advantage prior to his eyes, as well as his capability to see the "broad image." Moreover, Askozido is very caring about almost everything that is definitely going on in the council along with the ability to invest resources and energies in establishing and improving the council's life.
In the starting of his career as head of the council, the Nahal Sorek Regional Council consisted of only four settlements, whereas these days it has eight settlements. Moreover, the amount of residents grew from 1,800 to 10,000.
Challenges on the. way
More than the years, Escuzido was forced to cope with tricky challenges including the absorption of Gush Katif evacuees in 2005. Escuzido welcomed the evacuees with open arms and turned Nahal Sorek into their residence. Right now, Gush Katif evacuees are an integral a part of the council.
In recent years, Askozido continues to market numerous projects that contribute to enhancing the life in the Council in all areas, from education, culture, overall health, transportation, welfare, nursing, housing and infrastructure, and more.
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This story is about an American drummer who has played on the big stages. He is popularly known as "Sugarfoot", and was Michael Jackson's live drummer.
Jonathan "Sugarfoot" Moffett was not your usual drummer who was born with a passion for drumming. In fact, he never liked playing the drums but was forced to play by his father. His father was motivated and convinced by the idea that getting his kids into music was the only way he could get them off the streets and keep them safe.
One day, after returning from work at the post-office in New Orleans, Louisiana, he asked his three children if they were interested in playing music and they all replied in agreement and with excitement. His father asked which instrument they would want to play but the six-year-old Jonathan had to wait for his elder brothers to pick their interest before he could speak.
His brothers chose the guitar and bass guitar as the instruments they would like to learn but Jonathan decided to do something different. Something he only could master. The only thing he knew at that time were drums, so he chose that, oblivious that he had sealed his fate to the drum set for life.
Jonathan's father played a key role in building his interest for drums as he bought him a full drum set on one of his birthdays and even got him a drum teacher.
By the time he was nine years old Jonathan had started playing at local parties and even moved on to be playing in clubs at age ten.
Jonathan got his nickname "Sugarfoot" after he joined a local band called Spectrum because of his foot technique in drumming. After the Spectrum band folded he went on to play jazz with James Rivers for a couple of years till he was contacted by Jermaine Jackson of the Jackson 5 after he heard Jonathan play.
One night, Jonathan got lost on the freeway after he picked up a friend at the airport from New Orleans. As he was trying to find his way he bumped into James McField who was the Musical Director of the Jacksons. He offered him a slot to be on the band which he accepted.
He soon became the live drummer for The Jacksons which set Jonathan's career as a musician plunging through the roof.
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Jonathan was Michael Jackson's drummer for over 30 years and has recorded and/or toured with some of the greatest pop artists of our time, including Elton John, Lionel Richie, Kenny G, Janet Jackson, The Jacksons etc. He has also been a guest appearing on popular television shows like Good Morning America, The Tonight Show and Saturday Night Live.
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▶ What are Botox/Dysport/Xeomin/Myobloc? What is difference between these products?
These are trade names for botulinum toxins sold by different pharmaceutical companies. They all, come in the form of a purified protein. All these Botulinum toxin block the neuro-transmitters leaving the motor nerves that are essential to innervate the muscle to contract. Botox, Xeomin and Dysport are all type A Botulinum toxin, while Myobloc is type B.
They have little (stops sweating)to no effect on the skin nor do they make the skin numb. Botox is a muscle relaxant that works by stopping nerve signals from reaching the muscles. When muscles under the skin do not contract, wrinkles in the skin above will not form. The lines disappear within 7-10 days. The effects of Botox last for approximately three to four months, at which time the patient needs retreatment.
The facial esthetic areas that Botulinum toxins are commonly used for are the forehead, the 11's between the eyes (glabellar region), and around the corners of the eyes (crow's feet) and around the lips. They have important clinical uses in patients that have overworked facial muscles causing chronic TMJ and facial pain. They are also used to complement esthetic dentistry cases, as a minimally invasive alternative to surgically treating gummy smile cases, denture patients who have trouble adjusting to new dentures, lip augmentation, and has uses in orthodontic cases where retraining of the facial muscles may be necessary.
▶ What are peri-oral soft tissue (dermal) fillers?
Dermal fillers are rarely injected into the skin but rather under the skin. They will add volume to areas that have lost elasticity, muscle, fat, bone and collagen as we age. As the face starts to lack volume, the nasolabial folds deepen, marionette lines form, the chin folds and the lips start to thin. Popular hyaluronic acid fillers such as Restylane and Juvederm as well as other filler materials are then injected extraorally right underneath these folds to"pump up the skin" and replace the volume lost. This re-creates a youthful appearance.
These soft tissue fillers can be used for high lip line cases, asymmetrical lips around the mouth, lip augmentation, and completing cosmetic dentistry cases by creating a beautiful, young-looking frame around the teeth. The effect of soft tissue fillers typically last anywhere from 3 to 9 months at which point the procedure needs to be repeated.
These procedures can be very painful and should only be performed using injected local anesthesia as well as topical anesthetics. Newer filler materials contain lidocaine powder, a strong anesthetic agent. Dentists are best in providing these treatments because they understand smile esthetics as well as giving skilled and painless intra-oral anesthetics.
▶ Will my malpractice insurance cover these procedures?
Although malpractice issues are extremely rare for "temporary" Botox and dermal filler procedures, all healthcare professionals should have malpractice insurance that covers every procedure they perform. Some dental liability insurances like Medpro are now offering riders for these treatments. Other dental liability insurance companies (like TDIC) are not yet set up to cover dentists for Botox and dermal filler procedures. Every dentist should check with their own insurance provider and see what their coverage status is for these treatments. If your insurance carrier is not yet set up to provide this coverage, there are third party add-on malpractice liability insurance carriers that will cover dentists who have been properly trained by the IADE or Dentox for these procedures. However these third party carriers are the most expensive option. Dentox works with some of the major dental liablity insurance companies and our course is accepted as the gold standard. IMPORTANT NOTE: If your current insurer does not cover you for these procedures, then YOU should terminate your coverage before they do and change to a carrier that will cover you.
▶ Does my state dental board allow dentists to perform botox and dermal filler procedures?
Your dental board does not regulate individual procedures just as they don't regulate implant, dental esthetic, or prosthodontic procedures. If a dentist is properly trained and competent, they leave it to the dentist's discretion. It is certainly appropriate for dentists to use Botox and dermal fillers for dental uses within the scope of dentistry as defined by your state practice act which most of the time includes but is not limited to treatment of the masseter, temporalis, frontalis, corrugator, procerus, obicularis oris for TMJ and facial pain cases, oral and maxillofacial areas, lip augmentations, and treatment in the lower face. Any areas that a dentist already can treat in the oral and maxillofacial regions, take a biopsy from, and/or inject with local anesthetic would be included in areas that may be treated with Botox and dermal fillers. Please note – we have represented and assisted many dental boards in formulating policy now accepted .
▶ Where can a dentist get training for botox and dermal fillers?
Training with the most experienced instructors is key to developing competency and the skill to satisfy your dental state board and third party liability insurance requirements. We have trained thousands of dental and healthcare professionals in Botox and dermal filler therapy longer than anyone else. There is a very short learning curve because dentists are already well trained in injections. What you need to learn is competency in understanding the mechanisms of these materials, reviewing the facial expression muscles, indications, risks and benefits of these treatments, and hands on training in placing these materials and preventing and managing complications. With some practice, you can be well on your way to performing these procedures.
▶ Why the IADE endorses Dentox?
Teaching dentists to use injectibles like Botulinum neurotoxins (Botox, Dysport, Xeomin, Myobloc), PRP, lecithin, hyaluronidase and fillers is all Dentox does. Since 2002 when Dr Katz and Dentox developed these treatments and training programs his classes remained the gold standard and the #1 dental training course in Botox and dermal fillers available. Dr Katz has taught more dental professionals and has had more articles about these treatments published in peer reviewed scientific journals than any other dental educators.
New treatment protocols for dentistry and facial esthetics are constantly being developed by IADE alumni including Dr Howard Katz. Dr Katz has injected more patients and supervised more dentists injecting their own patients than any other educator in this field. It is from this wealth of experience that treatments are updated for improvement.
Dentox does not offer the most frequent hands-on training classes like some of the other copycat courses that are trying to climb on the Botox bandwagon, but may offer the most comprehensive and clinically accurate. Most other courses require multiple sessions and are offering old Dentox methods and protocols as their own without knowing why some of these protocols are no longer used. The IADE will only endorse courses that offers current protocols, teaching methods and legislation for 2012 and 2013. Rather wait a week or two longer for an IADE approved course and avoid disappointment.
All Dentox course participants will have the opportunity of practicing on mannequin heads before they inject at least one live patient with Botox and fillers. In addition they will look over the shoulder of other doctors being supervised while they treat their own patients. You will be prepared to begin treating patients on an array of conditions as soon as you get back to your office.
Attendees may bring as many live patients as they choose to a Dentox program (by pre-arrangement). Every attendee is given 1 syringe of Botox to use included in the tuition fees.
Dentox trains dentists in the real dental uses for Botox and HA (dermal) fillers in addition to the smoothing of facial wrinkles and folds. It is very important for dentists to practice within the scope of dentistry as defined by their state dental boards.
Migraine is initiated by aberrant trigeminal nerve function with feedback originating from within the anterior temporalis muscle. The genesis of migraine and TMD can be arrested by limiting and controlling temporalis nerve feedback centers from within the anterior Temporalis muscle.
▶ Why don't you offer an Advanced Level II Course?
Our level Botox and Dermal Filler training course is the most comprehensive training course available. What you have to learn at other advanced courses is covered in our basic yet comprehensive programs. We recommend that you consider taking our class if you have a problem with our Self-Test (click here).We also recommend that you consider our mannequin course if you have not yet injected every facial area.
▶ What is the future of botox and dermal fillers in dentistry?
There are currently approximately 17% (and growing fast) of dentists who perform Botox and dermal fillers in North America. Botox and dermal fillers will grow much faster than other areas of dentistry that require large equipment purchases. There is no large investment that needs to be made by dentists other than the disposable materials which is another reason it is so popular. Your only investment should be in the best education to become proficient at delivering Botox and dermal fillers.
▶ Why are botox and dermal fillers becoming so popular with dentists now?
Patients must be in good health with no active skin infections in the areas to be treated. Patients with infection, neurological, autoimmune and immunological diseases are not the best candidates. The patient should by healthy and have a clean medical history. The model patient should not be needle phobic.
The facial areas that are ideal to treat with Botox are the horizontal forehead lines, the vertical frown lines (11's) between the eyes when the patient makes the "angry" facial expression, and the "crow's feet" or smile lines at the corner of the eyes.
If your patient has TMJ please inform us so that we bring additional Botox - these patients require at least 100units of Botox.
Patients who bruise easily because of medications or other disease processes may not be good candidates.
The model patient should not have any important social functions coming up within two weeks of treatment as they may have some swelling and bruising after treatment.
Every model patients including spouses and family must sign an informed consent prior to treatment. There will be no exceptions.
We reserve the right to refuse treatment to any patient.
If you have any additional questions about your patient, please email Dr. Katz at hkatz4@hotmail.com.
The facial areas that are ideal to treat with (dermal) fillers are the nasolabial folds (lines from the corner of the mouth to the corner of the nose), marionette lines (lines from the corner of the lips that go down the face toward the jaw line), and downturned corners of the lips. Lip augmentation may also be done on a patient that would like to enhance the fullness of their lips.
The model patient should have not have very deep folds.
The model patient should not be needle phobic.
The model patient should be easy to anesthetize and be able to tolerate local dental anesthesia.
Patients must be in good health with no active skin infections in the areas to be treated. Patients with neurological, autoimmune and immunological diseases are not the best candidates as well as people with long term systemic diseases. The patient should by healthy and have a clean medical history. Patients who bruise easily because of medications or other disease processes may not be good candidates.
The model patient should not have any important life events coming up within two weeks of treatment. The model patient may have some bruising after treatment.
Every model patient must sign an informed consent prior to treatment and there will be no exceptions.
▶ How many continuing education credits are available for this course?
Each course day will give the attendees a full 8 AGD PACE or 7.75 AAFP (American Academy of Family Physicians) continuing education credits which is the required amount for liability insurance purposes. Should you require additional credits you may attend another practical session at no additional cost except materials.
▶ What is the deadline for registration?
Classes are filled on a first-come, first served basis. Most classes fill up well in advance as the class size is limited so every attendee gets plenty of one on one instruction. There is a 10% discount for early sign-ups (more than 45 days in advance) so take advantage of this. Sign up today for training on Botox and dermal fillers to boost your dental practice. Please click here for an application. We hope to see you at a course very soon.