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Baby Taliesin arrived in to the world three months early, at only 28 weeks in to his mum, Liz's pregnancy. Liz had started having contractions earlier that week and first went to the nearest hospital in Carmarthen where she was given steroids to mature the baby's lungs. As it became clear that Liz was going in to full labour, the couple were moved to Newport, the nearest hospital with facilities for such a premature baby. Taliesin was born weighing 2lb 10oz on 25 February 2020. His parents had only a few seconds with him before he was taken away to be stabilised. When Liz and Rhys saw their baby again, he was attached to countless wires and machines on the neonatal intensive care unit.
Despite being three months premature, Taliesin did very well at first. He needed minimal support with his breathing and Liz and Rhys were surprised when they walked on to the ward on the second day and were given the opportunity to hold their tiny baby. After seven days, a cot was found for Taliesin in a NICU unit closer to home – a huge relief to the new parents who had spent the week shuttling between a hospital and house two hours apart. One step closer to home, Rhys and Liz were hopeful that the worst was behind them.
But, early in to his second week, Liz and Rhys were told that Taliesin's protein levels were dangerously high and he was diagnosed with PKU, a condition where enzymes needed to break down protein in the body are absent. Treatment for the potentially life threatening condition is usually to reduce protein intake from food with a specific PKU formula. But as breast milk, which is naturally high in protein, is also essential for such a small baby's health, the clinical team faced a challenge to get the balance right.
Soon enough, Taliesin was on the move again, another step closer to home at a local special care baby unit. But after only a few days, Taliesin's leg started to swell and, suspecting cellulitis, the clinical team started IV antibiotics. Worried that he may also be developing sepsis, Liz and Rhys were told that their baby was being transferred for a third time back to a bigger specialist unit in Swansea. Liz and Rhys drove to the hospital, anxious about what to expect when they saw their baby next. Little did they know at that point that Covid-19 was about to make a difficult situation, a lot more difficult.
Liz explains: "The day Taliesin moved again was the first day of lockdown. While on our way to the hospital, we received a call from a nurse on the unit who told us that as of that morning, only one parent would be allowed in. It was such a horrendous feeling. Knowing that our baby was so unwell, but not exactly what was wrong, that we had been so close to going home but we were now worse off than we'd ever been. And knowing that whatever was behind those ward doors, I would have to face alone while Rhys couldn't even be with us.
"Rhys spent weeks apart from Taliesin after that and during that time I had to call him to tell him the news that Taliesin had been put on a ventilator, had developed oedema (severe swelling) and was on strong antibiotics for a suspected infection in the bone of his leg. After 11 long days, things did briefly start to look up and Taliesin was taken off the ventilator. But then late one night we received a call that every NICU parent dreads. Taliesin was going downhill again fast and I needed to go in straight away."
With blood tests revealing dangerously high infection markers, Taliesin was given two blood transfusions before being rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit in Cardiff. There, he was diagnosed with sepsis and osteomyelitis, infections of both the blood and bone. By this point, Taliesin's infection markers were 242, 160 above the number classed as critical. His body was swollen to the point that the pressure had caused his fingers to turn white. Bruises that had started to appear on his leg were turning in to huge blood blisters.
Liz says: "The team in Cardiff were amazing right from the start. I'd never seen anything like it! Taliesin was placed in a state of the art incubator which I found out later had been funded by the Noah's Ark Charity and, within minutes of us arriving, we were introduced to a new consultant who ordered countless different tests.
"Taliesin's antibiotics were sent off to be assessed by the microbiology team and soon after Taliesin was down in MRI having his leg assessed. He was put on three types of antibiotics and then it was a waiting game to see if they'd take effect. By that point I felt like an expert in understanding the medical lingo and various monitors. I had become obsessed with the numbers, panicking each time his oxygen levels or heart rate dropped. It's hard to describe the intensity of that experience or the level of pure adrenaline I felt my body was running on."
Gradually, over a period of weeks, Taliesin's condition again started to improve. The skin on his body, which had been badly stretched by the swelling, started to heal, as did the wounds left from the blood blisters on his leg. Ten days after their arrival in Cardiff, Taliesin was considered well enough to come off the ventilator. But, yet again, the improvement was short lived. .
Liz says: "I was changing Taliesin's nappy when I suddenly noticed that his skin was turning grey and his stomach was heaving. The nurse sounded the alarm and within seconds we were surrounded by doctors who ventilated him again and made attempts to catheterise him. I was ushered out of the room and had to ring my husband to break the most frightening news.
"This time Taliesin was so ill that Rhys was allowed in. We sat up with him all night watching his oxygen levels drop and his dependency on the ventilator increase until it was at 100% and Taliesin was transferred to the last resort – an oscillator. But his sats continued to drop, his blood refused to clot and his blood pressure remained dangerously low. On what also happened to be our first wedding anniversary, we were taken aside and told the worst news possible. Though they would continue to try and work out what was wrong, at that point there was nothing more they could do to help our baby. It was horrendous. We sat at his bedside and prayed, taking it hour by hour."
Miraculously, Taliesin held on through that day and night and by the following morning, some further tests had come back. The strong antibiotics which had been essential to save Taliesin during the previous infections had also killed off much of the good bacteria in his body, leading to fungal sepsis. Tiny Taliesin was still critically ill, but at least now the clinical team knew what to treat.
Over the next four weeks, Taliesin remained in his incubator, attached to the oscillator that breathed for him. He was also attached to 14 different pumps providing him with medicine, blood and plasma. Taliesin was being kept alive entirely by machines. His condition was so unstable that even the slightest change in position would cause his blood pressure and heart rate to plummet. His mum went a whole month where she held her baby only once.
Liz says: "The pain of having your baby so ill and not even being able to hold him felt excruciating at times but hearing the anguish of other parents losing their baby was almost too much to bear. It's something I heard several times during our stay on the unit and all I could do was sit at Taliesin's cotside and cry – for them and for us." .
"It was often the kindness of other people that pulled us through. By this point, Rhys and I were allowed to take it in turns to be with Taliesin but Rhys is an essential worker so had to travel hours each week to come to and from the hospital. It meant that we weren't able to be there for each other emotionally or practically either. The concept of leaving your baby on their own to get food or coffee when they were so ill was terrifying, as was the fear of somehow bringing Covid back with you. Thankfully for the whole time that we were in Cardiff, the Noah's Ark Charity provided food for the parent kitchens and we were so grateful for that. I remember being amazed that people would be so kind as to support a charity helping NICU parents at such a strange time.
"The doctors and nurses became our temporary family while we couldn't be with ours, looking after us almost as much as they did Taliesin. Once, when Taliesin had improved a bit, I came in to find that the nurses had re-arranged the whole bay so that he could come out of his incubator on his machines and I could hold him. Another time, after mentioning that I'd never given him a bath, they arranged for me to give him one, complete with Spa music playing in the background."
Thankfully, there were no more major setbacks for Taliesin after that. By the end of May last year he was well enough to be transferred to a hospital closer to home in Llanelli. Then on the 20th of July, for the very first time, five-month-old Taliesin finally went home.
Liz says: "I cried for hours on that first night. I just couldn't believe that we were finally home after being right on the edge of losing him so many times. Before I'd got up to express to the sound of an alarm but now I was getting up to the sound of his cry. I could do everything that most people would take for granted like play with him and dress him without worrying about dislodging a wire or a monitor going off. He was finally ours."
Being home also gave Liz and Rhys the space to process their experience and earlier this year they decided to give something back through fundraising.
Liz says: "One of the mums I met on NICU shared a link to the Noah's Ark Virtual Half Marathon and it made me think of the food we received and the equipment like the ventilator, pumps and incubator funded by the charity that helped save Taliesin's life. That was all made possible through the kindness of strangers and it felt like a good way for us to pay that kindness forward."
Taliesin is now 14 months old and though he continues to face medical challenges he is full of beans and reaching all his developmental milestones. He'll remain under the care of the specialist team at the Noah's Ark Children's Hospital in Cardiff for some time yet, which is another reason why the family support the charity.
Liz says: "Before Taliesin was born I would never have imagined that experiences like ours exist but they do – all of the time. Once you are in that situation though, you quickly begin to appreciate how vital those services and the people who support them are. From the incredible medical teams that cared for Taliesin, the state of the art equipment that kept him alive and the seemingly little things like food that gave us one less thing to think of, it all played a vital part in getting us where we are now – home and happy."
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Picture a government that measures civic value on a numbered scale, with civic performances tallied on leader boards, like a football match. Imagine if civic value was viewed as a game played by everyday citizens, sometimes in competition, other times working in harmony towards a common goal. And imagine that winners were celebrated (and losers blamed) collectively. All over the world, governments, public bodies and international organisations are using technology in ways to transform the exercise of public power into a game. Gamified public power is much closer to reality than it may first appear - and as Eugeny Morozov ironically points out, it looks nothing like 'your average Tetris'.
The book aims at discussing the promises and the challenges behind the use of gamification in public governance, both at the national and supranational levels.
In the first part, the book reviews the landscape of gamification, takes a brief look at its history, provides definitions and examples of its application within the private and public sectors. At the private level, examples include business companies, civic organisations, media outlets and universities. In the public sector, the examples include both successful and unsuccessful efforts by public regulators at the national and supranational levels to 'gamify' their policies.
The second part shifts the focus from the descriptive to the problematic analysis of gamification in governance. Readers are also introduced to a number of issues and challenges linked with the use of game-design elements into policy-making. Risks include the nurturing of an elite concept of participatory democracy, the rise of implementation and monitoring costs, the rise of a distorted perception of public powers from the public, and linguistic and privacy issues.
Building on previous parts, the third section addresses the efforts that civic engineers, scholars and policy-makers propose to make of gamification a tool for improving democracy.
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Q: 5D plot in R using ggplot2 I'm using the following code to plot a 5D visualisation. Although graph is generated successfully but there is an extra item appears in the MUF40 legend (the first item). I wonder if there is something wrong in the code!
Before updating some packages (e.g. Keras , Tensoreflow, cluster and etc) on RStudio the code was working properly without any problem.
SLAMUF <- read.csv("/Users/Ayyoub/Desktop/MUF-SLA-Ver2.11/csla_dataset.csv")
library("ggplot2")
require("ggplot2")

SLAMUF$QoS.cat <- cut(SLAMUF$QoS, quantile(SLAMUF$QoS, (0:5)/5), include.lowest = T)

ggplot(SLAMUF, aes(x=SP.InP.SP, y=SP.SP.EU, size=MUF40, color=penalty)) +
  geom_point(shape=21) +
  scale_color_gradient(low="black", high="red") +
  facet_grid(. ~ QoS.cat) +
  labs(subtitle = "Five ranges of QoS")+
  guides(size = guide_legend(order = 1)) +
  theme(legend.position = "right",
        axis.text.x = element_text(face="bold", angle=45),
        axis.text.y = element_text(face="bold", angle=45),
        plot.subtitle = element_text(hjust = 0.5)
       )
ggsave("/Users/Ayyoub/Desktop/MUF-SLA-Ver2.11/plot3/MUF40.pdf", width=12, height=6)

> source('~/Desktop/MUF-SLA-Ver2.11/5Dvisualisation-Dataset-test.R')
Warning messages:
1: Using size for a discrete variable is not advised.
2: Removed 2 rows containing missing values (geom_point).

Produced graph with an extra item in MUF40 legend

A: You need to turn off the size legend item.
library(ggplot2)

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg, y = disp, size = cyl, color = vs)) +
  theme_bw() +
  scale_size_continuous(guide = FALSE) +
  geom_point()

A: I'm guessing based on the labels that your MUF40 variable is of an ordinal nature, no? (discrete categories but ordered). If that is the case, I would suggest you remove the guides(size = guide_legend(order = 1)) statement and add the following:
scale_size_discrete(breaks = levels(SLAMUF$MUF40), limits = levels(SLAMUF$MUF40))

This should in theory restrict your size variables to just the levels in your data, if your MUF40 variable is a factor and has the levels ordered correctly.
If this doesn't help, you may want to have a look at SLAMUF$MUF40 values and see if there is anything out of the ordinary, such as NAs, NaNs, empty strings etc.

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When we see God's involvement in our day to day life – that's when things start to get interesting.
Is God a show off?
This is a guest column by Rabbi Da-vid Rosenthal, from Aish Minnesota.
Do you ever have those moments when you feel like you're Jim Carrey in the Truman show? You know, things in your life seem to be orchestrated just a little too perfectly? I'm not necessarily talking about times when everything goes right, or goes the way you want; just instances when you feel direct input from Above, like it's a setup of some kind.
Some people call it "fate".
Judaism refers to this phenomenon as Hashgacha Pratis, or Divine Providence (I personally like to think of it as "Hashem's guidance of our daily lives").
Nice idea, but where do we see that in the Torah?
This past week's parsha is a bit of a multimedia experience. It's here we encounter the first 6 plagues brought against Egypt. One has to ask oneself when reading all the descriptions of the calamities, wasn't it a bit of overkill on G-d's part? If we're talking about an All-Powerful Creator, it's not like He can't just take the Jewish people out whenever he wanted. He doesn't exactly need the permission of Pharoah, or anyone for that matter. So what's with the big "light and sound show"? Is G-d showing off or something?
The answer lies in the verses themselves. "So that you all should know that I am G-d in the midst of the land". The purpose behind all the grandiose miracles and wonders was to teach the world at large a supremely important lesson – one that is applicable to this very day.
Many people look around at the ridiculously complex design found in nature and can't help but admit that there must have been some force behind it all. However, acknowledging there was a Creator has very little impact on ones day to day life. It's similar in a way to admitting that for every building, there must have been an architect. Not exactly life altering information.
But when we see G-d's involvement in our day to day life – that's when things start to get interesting.
One of the major messages of the miracles in Egypt was G-d's supreme involvement in the lives of the Jewish people. Hashem was – so to speak – screaming from the rooftops that not only was He the Creator of the world, but that He was also intimately involved in the running of the world. He took an interest in the goings-on down here. This was particularly demonstrated in the way the plagues afflicted only the Egyptians, while their next-door neighbours – the Jews – went along unscathed.
This then was the content of the theatrics. G-d isn't some old fogey who set up the universe and then took a back seat, having little or no relevance to our meanderings on this Earth. Not only does He care, but He's even willing to overturn the laws of nature to save us. This was the motivation behind the myriad of plagues. It was a giant "Powerpoint Presentation" of the way G-d relates to the world:
Yes, there's a G-d.
He controls all of nature
He cares about our lives and is directly involved in their guidance.
The ramifications of this idea are far reaching. According to Judaism, there is nothing in this world that happens to us by chance. From the person sitting next to you on the bus this morning, to how sunburnt you got at the beach, Hashem controls it all, and is directing the script down to the last minute detail.
Consequently, there is no time in your day which isn't meant to be a learning/growing experience. If you're not tuned into this idea, and things are just random, you miss out on so much. But if you're always on the look out wondering "How am I meant to grow from this circumstance?" "What is G-d trying to teach me now?", then you're a different person. Your life becomes so much richer, so much fuller.
"Fate" isn't some haphazard ball of chance, where sometimes you "get lucky". Rather, it's a carefully scripted movie, and you're the main character. So much opportunity, but also responsibility.
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Australian Open 2020: Djokovic in final, Federer's 21st Grand Slam dream broken
by Powersportz Studio January 31, 2020 February 1, 2020
Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic has reached the final of the first Grand Slam Australian Open of the year. On Thursday, World No-2 Djokovic defeated Swiss veteran Roger Federer 7-6 (7-1), 6-4, 6-3. The defeat left 38-year-old World No.3 Federer's dream of winning the 21st Grand Slam title unfulfilled.
The match, which lasted 2 hours 18 minutes, was defeated by Djokovic of Serbia in straight sets. Now on Sunday Djokovic will face the winner of the second semi-final, where Alexander Zverev and Dominic Thiem will clash with Novak.
Djokovic won the first set in a tie-breaker when he collided with Federer for his 17th Grand Slam, and then there was no difficulty in making the second and third sets his name.
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"Again" is a song by American singer Faith Evans. It was written by Ivan Barias, Carvin Haggins, and Evans for her fourth studio album The First Lady (2005), while production was helmed by Barias and Haggins under their production moniker Carvin & Ivan. It contains a sample from "Genuine" by American 1970s soul group the Whatnauts. Due to the inclusion of the sample, Jerry Harris and Venus Dodson are also credited as songwriters. A midtempo R&B song with heavy neo soul and Motown influences, it discusses Evans's 2004 arrest for drug possession.

Released as the lead single from The First Lady on February 7, 2005, the song marked a top-10 return for Evans on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, peaking at number seven. "Again" also peaked at number 47 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Worldwide, the song charted within the top 50 in Austrasia and peaked at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart. The accompanying music video for "Again" was directed by longtime collaborator Chris Robinson and filmed in Los Angeles, California in late January 2005.

Background and recording
"Again" was written by Evans with Venus Dodson, Jerry Harris, and Ivan Barias and Carvin Haggins, while the latter handled the song's entire production. The track is one out of several track on which Evans collaborated with Carvin & Ivan, both of whom advised her to record a song for the album that would address her 2004 arrest for drug possession. In an interview with Vibe, Haggins noted, that the original lyrics to "Again" were actually more risqué than the version that was eventually recorded for the album. In the first version of the song's second verse Evans name-checked radio personality Wendy Williams and cited old rumors about a romance with Tupac Shakur. Evans called "Again" a "testament to my name" and added: "This song is near and dear to my heart. I'm not perfect, and everything I've been through has been for a reason. My faith in God and knowing that he watches over me helps me to believe that if he brought me to it, he'll bring me through it."

Music video
The accompanying music video for "Again" was directed by longtime collaborator Chris Robinson and filmed in Los Angeles, California in late January 2005. Production was overseen by Dawn Rose for Robot Films/HSI, while Jeff Selis served as the video's editor. It debuted in March 2005.

Track listings

Credits and personnel
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of The First Lady.

 Ivan Barias – producer, writer
 Venus Dodson – writer
 Faith Evans – vocals, writer
 Carvin Haggins – producer, writer

 Jerry Harris – writer
 Manny Marroquin – mixing
 Brad Todd – recording

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

Faith Evans songs
2004 songs
2005 singles
Capitol Records singles
EMI Records singles
Music videos directed by Chris Robinson (director)
Neo soul songs
Song recordings produced by Carvin & Ivan
Songs written by Carvin Haggins
Songs written by Faith Evans
Songs written by Ivan Barias

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West Virginia mothers, children to benefit from health funds
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TODAY Tuesday 6th November should be a red-letter day for cycling in Oxford and Oxfordshire. Two motions are being discussed at Oxfordshire County Council's full council, both of which are about cycling and active travel.
The first motion has been brought by Councillor Paul Buckley, Wolvercote and Summertown Division. This motion requests that "This Council accepts the recommendations of the Andrew Gilligan report into how to increase cycling in and around Oxford, commits to implementing them and calls on Cabinet to implement and bid for funding".
The Gilligan report comes from the National Infrastructure Commission and is about improving cycling in Oxford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge, as part of managing traffic pressure arising from the increase in homes in the "growth arc". Gilligan suggests that investment of £150m is needed to bring Oxford to world class standards of cycling infrastructure.
The second motion has been brought by Councillor Suzanne Bartington, Witney North & East Division, who is Cycling Champion for the county council. Her motion asks the council to invest for active travel for Oxfordshire. This motion calls for the county council to prioritise a 'strategic active travel network', to seek additional funding, and to allocate local transport funds to active travel infrastructure.
Should these motions be accepted the county council will be committing to increasing investment in active travel. While existing policies, like the Local Transport Plan 4 and the Oxford Transport Strategy, put a lot of emphasis on walking and cycling, to date motor traffic has been given priority, and space has not been taken away from it. Investing in active travel, means truly allocating more space to pavements and cycle paths.
A large group of people is gathering at County Hall today to show their support for these two motions, and to encourage their councillors to vote in favour of these two motions. It is vital that both these motions are passed. This will show the strength of support for increasing active travel in the city and the county, with all the concomitant benefits to health and wellbeing in communities in Oxford, through increasing physical activity as part of daily living, and reducing air pollution, while at the same time improving the economy of our beautiful city and county.
Find out if your councillor supported these motions. You can find their email address on the county council website. Write to them to ask how they voted and ask them how they will continue to support active travel and cycling. The more emails and letters they get from their constituents the more they will feel empowered to take this forward. They have influence in two ways. As individual councillors they can vote for change in policy and they can also comment on local developments. Of course, those running the Council set the policy and can set priorities for the county, but councillors have to vote those changes in. Let's hope as of today we are at a tipping point where the county council truly embraces the importance of active travel and the need to invest in it.


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Tom Holland will play the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man with Marisa Tomei playing Aunt May, and Zendaya appearing in a yet-to-be-revealed role.
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package org.cipango.server;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ListIterator;
import java.util.Locale;

import javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.sip.Address;
import javax.servlet.sip.Proxy;
import javax.servlet.sip.ProxyBranch;
import javax.servlet.sip.Rel100Exception;
import javax.servlet.sip.SipServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.sip.SipServletResponse;

import org.cipango.server.session.SessionManager;
import org.cipango.server.session.SessionManager.SessionScope;
import org.cipango.server.transaction.ServerTransaction;
import org.cipango.sip.NameAddr;
import org.cipango.sip.SipFields;
import org.cipango.sip.SipHeaders;
import org.cipango.sip.SipMethods;
import org.cipango.sip.SipParams;
import org.cipango.sip.SipStatus;
import org.cipango.sip.Via;
import org.cipango.sip.security.Authenticate;
import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log;
import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Logger;

public class SipResponse extends SipMessage implements SipServletResponse
{
	private static final Logger LOG = Log.getLogger(SipResponse.class);

    private SipRequest _request;
    private int _status;
    private String _reason;
    private SipProxy _proxy;
    private ProxyBranch _proxyBranch;
    private boolean _branchResponse;

    /**
     * Need to send multiple 200 to a request.
     * See {@link B2bHelper#createResponseToOriginalRequest(javax.servlet.sip.SipSession, int, String)}
     */
    private boolean _sendOutsideTx = false;

	public SipResponse() { }

	public SipResponse(SipRequest request, int status, String reason)
    {
		_request = request;
		if (status >= SC_OK)
            _request.setCommitted(true);
		setStatus(status, reason);

		setCallSession(request.getCallSession());
		setTransaction(request.getTransaction());
		setSession(request.session());

		SipFields reqFields = request.getFields();
		_fields.copy(reqFields, SipHeaders.VIA_BUFFER);
		_fields.copy(reqFields, SipHeaders.FROM_BUFFER);
		_fields.copy(reqFields, SipHeaders.TO_BUFFER);
		_fields.copy(reqFields, SipHeaders.CALL_ID_BUFFER);
		_fields.copy(reqFields, SipHeaders.CSEQ_BUFFER);
		if (status < 300)
			_fields.copy(reqFields, SipHeaders.RECORD_ROUTE_BUFFER);

		if (needsContact() && _session != null)
		{
			if (request.getConnection() != null)
				setContact(_session.getContact(request.getConnection().getConnector()));
			else
				setContact(_session.getContact());
		}
        // TODO Server
	}

	/**
	 * @see SipServletResponse#createAck()
	 */
	public SipServletRequest createAck()
    {
		if (!SipMethods.INVITE.equalsIgnoreCase(getMethod()))
			throw new IllegalStateException("Not INVITE method");

        if (_status > 100 && _status < 200)
        {   // For Sip servlet 1.0 compliance
            try
			{
				return createPrack();
			}
			catch (Rel100Exception e)
			{
				throw new IllegalStateException(e.getMessage(), e);
			}
        }
        else if (_status >= 200 && _status < 300)
        {
        	setCommitted(true);
            return _session.getUA().createRequest(SipMethods.ACK, getCSeq().getNumber());
        }
        else
            throw new IllegalStateException("non 2xx or 1xx response");
	}

	public SipServletRequest createPrack() throws Rel100Exception
	{
		if (isCommitted())
			throw new IllegalStateException("Already committed");

		if (!SipMethods.INVITE.equalsIgnoreCase(getMethod()))
			throw new Rel100Exception(Rel100Exception.NOT_INVITE);

		if (_status > 100 && _status < 200)
        {
            long rseq = getRSeq();
            if (!isReliable1xx())
        		throw new Rel100Exception(Rel100Exception.NOT_100rel);

            SipRequest request = (SipRequest) _session.createRequest(SipMethods.PRACK); // TODO do not use API method
            request.getFields().setString(SipHeaders.RACK_BUFFER, rseq + " " + getCSeq());
            setCommitted(true);
            return request;
        }
		else
            throw new Rel100Exception(Rel100Exception.NOT_1XX);
	}

	/**
	 * @see SipServletResponse#getOutputStream()
	 */
	public ServletOutputStream getOutputStream()
    {
		return null;
	}

	/**
	 * @see SipServletResponse#getProxy()
	 */
	public Proxy getProxy()
    {
		if (_proxy == null)
            _proxy = getTransaction().getRequest().getProxyImpl();

        return _proxy;
	}

	public String getReason()
	{
		return _reason;
	}

	/**
	 * @see SipServletResponse#getReasonPhrase()
	 */
	public String getReasonPhrase()
    {
		if (_reason == null)
			return SipStatus.getReason(_status);
		return _reason;
	}

	/**
	 * @see SipServletResponse#getRequest()
	 */
	public SipServletRequest getRequest()
    {
        if (_request == null && getTransaction() != null)
            _request = getTransaction().getRequest();
		return _request;
	}

	/**
	 * @see SipServletResponse#getStatus()
	 */
	public int getStatus()
    {
		return _status;
	}

	/**
	 * @see SipServletResponse#getWriter()
	 */
	public PrintWriter getWriter()
    {
		return null;
	}

	/**
	 * @see SipServletResponse#send()
	 */
	public void send() throws IOException
    {
        send(false);
    }

	/**
	 * @see SipServletResponse#sendReliably()
	 */
	public void sendReliably() throws Rel100Exception
    {
	    SipRequest request = (SipRequest) getRequest();
        if (!request.isInvite())
            throw new Rel100Exception(Rel100Exception.NOT_INVITE);
        if (_status < 101 || _status > 199)
            throw new Rel100Exception(Rel100Exception.NOT_1XX);

        Iterator<String> it = _request.getHeaders(SipHeaders.SUPPORTED);
        boolean supports100rel = false;

        while (it.hasNext() && !supports100rel)
        {
            String s = it.next();
            if (s.equals(SipParams.REL_100))
                supports100rel = true;
        }

        if (!supports100rel)
        {
            it = _request.getHeaders(SipHeaders.REQUIRE);
            while (it.hasNext() && !supports100rel)
            {
                String s = (String) it.next();
                if (s.equals(SipParams.REL_100))
                    supports100rel = true;
            }
        }

        if (!supports100rel)
            throw new Rel100Exception(Rel100Exception.NO_REQ_SUPPORT);

        try
        {
            send(true);
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            LOG.debug(e);
        }
	}

	/**
	 * @see ServletResponse#setCharacterEncoding(String)
	 */
	public void setCharacterEncoding(String encoding)
	{
		/*
		 * Because of a change in Servlet spec 2.4 the setCharacterEncoding()
		 * does NOT throw the java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException as derived
		 * from SipServletMessage.setCharacterEncoding(String) but inherits
		 * a more generic setCharacterEncoding() method from the
		 * javax.servlet.ServletResponse.
		 */
		_characterEncoding = encoding;
	}

	/**
	 * @see SipServletResponse#setStatus(int)
	 */
	public void setStatus(int status)
	{
		_status = status;
	}

	/**
	 * @see SipServletResponse#setStatus(int, java.lang.String)
	 */
	public void setStatus(int status, String reason)
	{
		if (status < 100 || status >= 700)
    		throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid status-code: " + status);

		_status = status;
		_reason = reason;
	}

	/**
	 * @see javax.servlet.ServletResponse#flushBuffer()
	 */
	public void flushBuffer()
	{
	}

	/**
	 * @see javax.servlet.ServletResponse#getBufferSize()
	 */
	public int getBufferSize()
	{
		return 0;
	}

	/**
	 * @see javax.servlet.ServletResponse#getLocale()
	 */
	public Locale getLocale()
	{
		return getContentLanguage();
	}

	/**
	 * @see javax.servlet.ServletResponse#reset()
	 */
	public void reset() { }

	/**
	 * @see javax.servlet.ServletResponse#resetBuffer()
	 */
	public void resetBuffer() { }

	/**
	 * @see javax.servlet.ServletResponse#setBufferSize(int)
	 */
	public void setBufferSize(int size) { }

	/**
	 * @see javax.servlet.ServletResponse#setLocale(Locale)
	 */
	public void setLocale(Locale locale)
	{
		setContentLanguage(locale);
	}

	//

	public String getMethod()
	{
		return getCSeq().getMethod();
	}

	public boolean isRequest()
	{
		return false;
	}

	public boolean needsContact()
	{
		return (isInvite() || isSubscribe() || isNotify() || isRefer() || isUpdate())
				&& (getStatus() < 300);
	}

	protected boolean canSetContact()
	{
        return isRegister()
        		||(getStatus() >= 300 && getStatus() < 400)
        		|| getStatus() == 485
        		|| (getStatus() == 200 && isOptions());
    }

	/*
	public Transaction getTransaction() {
		return request.getTransaction();
	}
	*/

	public boolean is2xx()
	{
		return (200 <= _status && _status < 300);
	}

    public void setRSeq(long rseq)
    {
        getFields().setString(SipHeaders.RSEQ_BUFFER, Long.toString(rseq));
    }

    public long getRSeq()
    {
        return getFields().getLong(SipHeaders.RSEQ_BUFFER);
    }

    private void send(boolean reliable) throws IOException
    {
        if (isCommitted())
            throw new IllegalStateException("Response is commited");

        SessionManager csm = getCallSession().getServer().getSessionManager();

        SessionScope scope = csm.openScope(getCallSession());

        try
        {
        	_session.sendResponse(this, (ServerTransaction) getTransaction(), reliable);
            setCommitted(true);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            LOG.warn(e);
            if (e instanceof IOException)
                throw (IOException) e;
            throw new IllegalStateException(e.getMessage());
        }
        finally
        {
        	scope.close();
        }
    }

	public Via removeTopVia()
	{
		Via via = _fields.getVia();
		_fields.removeFirst(SipHeaders.VIA_BUFFER);
		return via;
	}

	public void setContact(Address contact)
	{
        _fields.setAddress(SipHeaders.CONTACT, (NameAddr) contact);
    }

	public boolean isReliable1xx()
	{
		if (_status > 100 && _status < 200)
		{
			if (getRSeq() == -1)
				return false;
			Iterator<String> it = _fields.getValues(SipHeaders.REQUIRE_BUFFER);
			while (it.hasNext()) {
				String val = it.next();
				if (SipParams.REL_100.equalsIgnoreCase(val)) {
					return true;
				}
			}
            return false;
		}
		return false;
	}

	public Iterator<String> getChallengeRealms()
	{
		List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
		ListIterator<String > it = _fields.getValues(SipHeaders.WWW_AUTHENTICATE_BUFFER);
		while (it.hasNext())
		{
			Authenticate authenticate = new Authenticate(it.next());
			list.add(authenticate.getParameter(Authenticate.REALM_BUFFER));
		}
		it = _fields.getValues(SipHeaders.PROXY_AUTHENTICATE_BUFFER);
		while (it.hasNext())
		{
			Authenticate authenticate = new Authenticate(it.next());
			list.add(authenticate.getParameter(Authenticate.REALM_BUFFER));
		}
		return list.iterator();
	}

	public ProxyBranch getProxyBranch()
	{
		return _proxyBranch;
	}

	public void setProxyBranch(ProxyBranch branch)
	{
		_proxyBranch = branch;
	}

	public boolean isBranchResponse()
	{
		return _branchResponse;
	}

	public void setBranchResponse(boolean branch)
	{
		_branchResponse = branch;
	}

	public String getRequestLine()
	{
		return _status + " " + _reason;
	}

	public Object clone()
	{
		SipResponse clone = (SipResponse) super.clone();
		clone._request = null;
		clone._proxy = null;
		return clone;
	}
}

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Q: Is $\mathbb{Z}$ isomorphic to a direct subproduct of the family $\left\{ \mathbb{Z}_{n}\right\} _{n>1}$? Is $\mathbb{Z}$ isomorphic to a direct subproduct of the family $\left\{ \mathbb{Z}_{n}\right\} _{n>1}$?

A: I'm assuming that $\mathbb Z_n$ means $\mathbb Z/n\mathbb Z$.  I'm also assuming that "subproduct" means "subgroup of the product".  If this is the case then yes, the subgroup generated by $(1, 1, \ldots) \in \prod_{n > 1}\mathbb Z_n$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb Z$.
To see that this is the case note that we can always define a homomorphism out of $\mathbb Z$ by picking an element $x$ and declaring $m \mapsto m\cdot x$.  So what we need is for this to be injective.  When $x = (1, 1, \ldots)$ we have $m\cdot x = (m, m, \ldots)$ and if $m \neq 0$ then the looking at the $|m| + 1$ coordinate gives $m\cdot x \neq 0$.  Another way to see this: if $p$ is prime then the coordinate of $(m, m, \ldots)$ corresponding to $\mathbb Z_p$ is zero if and only if $p$ divides $m$.  So if $m\cdot x = (0, 0, \ldots)$ then every prime divides $m$, so $m$ must be $0$.


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Put these on your dance card!
By Carrie Seidman , Herald-Tribune
/ Friday, October 14, 2011
Having returned from a trip to Washington, D.C. to watch the Sarasota Ballet's debut there and immediately plunged into performances by Colin Dunne and los Hermanos Macana at the Ringling International Arts Festival, I've barely had time to catch my breath and check my email inbox -- which, as it turns out, is jam-packed with news of other dance events coming up in the next few days that I don't want to miss. And you should either.
So put these on your dance calender:
Tomorrow (Saturday): At 2 p.m. at the Ringling International Arts Festival, six choreographers and a large group of dancers from Florida State University School of Dance/Contemporary Dance will present "23 dancers x 56 folds," a choreographic response to the kinetic architecture and soundscaping of Zimoun, the mechanized sound and movement sculptures of the Swiss artist Zimoun that are being featured at the festival. The dancing will take place from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the museum's courtyard. I'm all for art collaborations and this sounds like a doozy. Don't miss it.
Come welcome home the dancers of the Sarasota Ballet after their triumphant debut in Washington, D.C. on Monday, Oct. 17./ Photo by Frank Atura
Monday, Oct. 17: At approximately noon, dancers from the Sarasota Ballet that made the trip for the company's performances in the nation's capital will have a triumphant return to town. Supporters are invited to join in a free reception in their honor at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts (5555 N. Tamiami Trail), hosted by the Friends of the Sarasota Ballet. Dancers will arrive from the airport by limo and there will be sparkling wine to toast their latest accomplishment. Join in -- no reservations necessary.
Tuesday, Oct. 18, 5:30 p.m.: As part of the Festival sARTée, Leymis Bolanos-Wilmott, the award-winning artistic director of Fuzion Dance Artists, has choreographed "Community in Motion," an original site-specific, multi-media dance performance designed specifically for the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee Clyde G. Nixon Courtyard at 8350 N. Tamiami Trail. Following the performance there will be a Q and A with the choreographers, dancers and musicians to discuss the theme of building community through the arts, as well as a reception with refreshments. Cost is $15, but its free for any student with an ID card and all children under the age of 12. Register at www.sarasota.usf.edu/ippl and select "RSVP today." For more information, call 359-4774. Come be a part of what makes Sarasota such a unique and special arts community.
The Clyde G. Nixon Courtyard at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee.
Carrie Seidman
Dance/arts critic, Sarasota Herald Tribune
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package integration_tests_test

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"io/ioutil"
	"time"

	"github.com/myshkin5/jsonstruct"

	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
)

type WikipediaSample struct {
	FirstName    string        `json:"firstName"`
	LastName     string        `json:"lastName"`
	IsAlive      bool          `json:"isAlive"`
	Age          int           `json:"age"`
	Address      Address       `json:"address"`
	PhoneNumbers []PhoneNumber `json:"phoneNumbers"`
	Children     []string      `json:"children"`
	Spouse       *string       `json:"spouse"`
}

type Address struct {
	StreetAddress string `json:"streetAddress"`
	City          string `json:"city"`
	State         string `json:"state"`
	PostalCode    string `json:"postalCode"`
}

type PhoneNumber struct {
	NumberType string `json:"type"`
	Number     string `json:"number"`
}

var _ = Describe("JSONStruct", func() {
	var (
		buffer []byte
	)

	BeforeEach(func() {
		buffer = loadFromFile("./wikipedia_sample.json")
	})

	Measure("just a read", func(b Benchmarker) {
		// Prime any caches
		parseToWikipediaSample(buffer)
		parseToJSONStruct(buffer)
		parseToWikipediaSample(buffer)
		parseToJSONStruct(buffer)

		var jsonRunDuration, wikipediaRunDuration time.Duration
		for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
			start := time.Now()
			if i%2 == 0 {
				parseToWikipediaSample(buffer)
				wikipediaRunDuration += time.Now().Sub(start)
			} else {
				parseAndReadJSONStruct(buffer)
				jsonRunDuration += time.Now().Sub(start)
			}
		}

		Expect(jsonRunDuration / 2).To(BeNumerically("<", wikipediaRunDuration))

		b.RecordValue("Wikipedia Sample Struct Run Duration (ns)", float64(wikipediaRunDuration.Nanoseconds()))
		b.RecordValue("JSON Struct Run Duration (ns)", float64(jsonRunDuration.Nanoseconds()))
	}, 10)

	Measure("read followed by five value gets", func(b Benchmarker) {
		// Prime any caches
		parseAndReadWikipediaSample(buffer)
		parseAndReadJSONStruct(buffer)
		parseAndReadWikipediaSample(buffer)
		parseAndReadJSONStruct(buffer)

		var jsonRunDuration, wikipediaRunDuration time.Duration
		for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
			start := time.Now()
			if i%2 == 0 {
				parseAndReadWikipediaSample(buffer)
				wikipediaRunDuration += time.Now().Sub(start)
			} else {
				parseAndReadJSONStruct(buffer)
				jsonRunDuration += time.Now().Sub(start)
			}
		}

		Expect(jsonRunDuration / 2).To(BeNumerically("<", wikipediaRunDuration))

		b.RecordValue("Wikipedia Sample Struct Run Duration (ns)", float64(wikipediaRunDuration.Nanoseconds()))
		b.RecordValue("JSON Struct Run Duration (ns)", float64(jsonRunDuration.Nanoseconds()))
	}, 10)
})

func loadFromFile(filename string) []byte {
	buffer, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filename)
	Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
	return buffer
}

func parseToJSONStruct(buffer []byte) jsonstruct.JSONStruct {
	var jsonStruct jsonstruct.JSONStruct
	err := json.Unmarshal(buffer, &jsonStruct)
	Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
	return jsonStruct
}

func parseToWikipediaSample(buffer []byte) WikipediaSample {
	var sample WikipediaSample
	err := json.Unmarshal(buffer, &sample)
	Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
	return sample
}

func parseAndReadJSONStruct(buffer []byte) {
	jsonStruct := parseToJSONStruct(buffer)

	firstName, ok := jsonStruct.String(".firstName")
	Expect(ok).To(BeTrue())
	Expect(firstName).To(Equal("John"))
	lastName, ok := jsonStruct.String(".lastName")
	Expect(ok).To(BeTrue())
	Expect(lastName).To(Equal("Smith"))
	age, ok := jsonStruct.Int(".age")
	Expect(ok).To(BeTrue())
	Expect(age).To(Equal(25))
	streetAddress, ok := jsonStruct.String(".address.streetAddress")
	Expect(ok).To(BeTrue())
	Expect(streetAddress).To(Equal("21 2nd Street"))
	postalCode, ok := jsonStruct.String(".address.postalCode")
	Expect(ok).To(BeTrue())
	Expect(postalCode).To(Equal("10021-3100"))
}

func parseAndReadWikipediaSample(buffer []byte) {
	sample := parseToWikipediaSample(buffer)

	Expect(sample.FirstName).To(Equal("John"))
	Expect(sample.LastName).To(Equal("Smith"))
	Expect(sample.Age).To(Equal(25))
	Expect(sample.Address.StreetAddress).To(Equal("21 2nd Street"))
	Expect(sample.Address.PostalCode).To(Equal("10021-3100"))
}


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Cows and contentment
Small island herd of Red Devons adds personality
Courtney Naliboff
Every morning on my way to work I get a little serotonin boost about a half mile from my house. There, in a long, narrow field edged with woods, moseys a small herd of Red Devon cows. One gentle, thick-necked bull, three horned steers, and one pregnant cow named Frieda can be spotted gathered around the hay, or lounging around in clusters, or staring at the road with mild curiosity.
I have a rule, which is that it's mandatory to yell "HI COWS" when we spot them. Or when I spot them, solo in my car, at 7:25 am.
These particular cows are the fourth herd to bring their unconcerned grace to Middle Road. The first group appeared in late 2019. They belong to Doreen and Sam Cabot, who own Foggy Meadow Farm out on Crabtree Point.
The field on Middle Road is land that's been farmed by Doreen's family for decades, though not recently. She brought the cows there when her herd outgrew the available space at Foggy Meadow, but also because her father, Eliot Brown, liked looking at them.
They arrived in North America almost exactly 400 years ago, coincidentally with Sam Cabot's ancestors…
I do, too. The cows gained significance in early pandemic times, when Bill, Pen, and I were all home together. We took an almost daily family walk—one of the few bright spots I remember from those months—alternating between going to the town park to check on a clutch of salamander eggs in a vernal pool, and visiting the cows.
These were Hereford mixes, which Doreen said are more challenging, and naughtier, than the Red Devons. They're reluctant to cross the road to the other available piece of field, unless she didn't want them to cross the road. In that case the black cow could frequently be found in unexpected places, like next to the school bus parked in her father's yard.
The cows are bred for meat, so we try to not get too attached to each herd. Each new set of cows has a distinct set of personalities and make markedly different silhouettes as they gather at the little pond set against the wooded border. Red Devons are particularly distinctive, with shaggy, chocolatey coats and broad, blunt heads.
They're an ancient breed, with records dating them back to 23 BCE in Devon, England. They arrived in North America almost exactly 400 years ago, coincidentally with Sam Cabot's ancestors, who escorted them on the Mayflower.
Their thick hide, gentle demeanor, imperviousness to snow and foul weather, and willingness to eat scrub and spruce boughs rather than relying on perfect hay helped them meander West with the pioneers.
Why is it so pleasurable to look at a free-roaming herd of cows? There's just something about their curious foraging, their adorable faces as they gaze back at us, and their sweet interactions that's a balm to the soul in otherwise troubled times.
On a recent walk to visit them I saw Reuben, the bull, licking one of the steers in the herd on the haunch. The other two steers, whom
Doreen refers to collectively as the Three Stooges, lay nearby, unbothered by the half-frozen, muddy ground. Frieda stood farther off, making eye contact with me as I watched them and talked to them unselfconsciously.
"Hello cows! How are you today? Are you good cows? Handsome cows?"
Doreen said that before he passed away this summer, her father enjoyed sitting on his front step in a chair, watching the cows. What could be more blissful, more charming, than that? The cows are fully present, in the moment, unaware of and unaffected by any human turmoil. Watching them, one gets a window into serenity, and perhaps a few moments of serenity to ourselves.
Courtney Naliboff parents, teaches, writes, and plays music on North Haven.
SaltWater Cure


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Reducing tax, doling subsidies to regulated recycling sector can help reduce lead pollution: Study
Recycling was put forward as a good way to deal with the scarcity of metal and to handle the accompanying pollution. However, the proper recycling of lead is still a concern and it is lagging due to mushrooming of the unregulated battery recycling sector alongside the regulated ones.
September 07, 2021, 08:05 IST
Reducing tax and providing subsidies to the regulated recycling sector can help reduce lead pollution from lead-acid battery recycling, a study by researchers from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) Madras and Kanpur has found.
Researchers from the two institutes have come together to look collectively at the problem of lead recycling in India as lead pollution can harm the mental and physical health of people and can contaminate the environment. The team's research was aimed at finding out appropriate policy instruments that can help Indiareduce lead pollution.
The results of the research have been published in international research journal 'Resources, Conservation and Recycling'. According to the team, the workers who recycle lead in an informal setting break the lead-acid batteries in a fashion causing spillage of acid and lead dust in the soil and surroundings. Also, the lead is melted in open furnaces due to which poisonous gases reach the air.
This way of lead recycling is not only harmful to the environment but also the health workers engaged in the recycling process. However, the low operational cost of this manoeuvre makes it still an attractive choice. The presence of the informal sector and its undesirable consequences are more predominant in developing countries where the costs and lenient regulations and laws have helped the unregulated sector to grow at a faster pace.
The study suggested that policy guidelines such as reducing tax on the regulated recycling sector and providing subsidies to regulated recycling and re-manufacturing sectors reduce lead pollution from lead-acid battery recycling. Another important finding was that a very high subsidy to the formal re-manufacturing sector can lead to the shutting down of both regulated and unregulated recycling sectors.
"The insufficiency of primary lead sources to satisfy the demand makes the recycling of used batteries necessary. However, the unscientific way of recycling by the unregulated sector poses serious environmental and health threats due to the high amount of lead excretion. We studied to quantitatively assess the impact of different policy instruments on shifting the recycling business from unorganized to the organized sector in India," said R K Amit, Professor at Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras. In the study, the researchers have assessed the impact of policies such as reducing tax on regulated recyclers, subsidies to organised recyclers and formal battery re-manufacturers on the performance of battery recycling to name a few.
The team used a system dynamics model to explore the implications of economic policies quantitatively on the recycling of used lead-acid batteries. "From the implementation point of view, the policymakers can consider the results of this study to frame policies and rules for the LAB recycling activity in India. As a natural course of future research, the implication of these policies on the social dimension, in terms of job loss in the unorganised sector and possible ways through which the unorganised sector's workforce can be integrated with or relocated to the organised sector will be explored," he said.
Lead is used in various industries such as paints, cosmetics, dyes, ammunition, and jewellery,but the battery sector remains the major consumer of this metal by utilising 85 per cent of the production. Several rules on battery waste management, handling and recycling have been put in place at appropriate times by respective countries to handle lead pollution.
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In addition to receiving the digital Diploma thanking your participation in funding the clinic, your name will be mentioned on social networks; additionally, you could have a your photograph with the Toubab logo.
Diploma, broadcast on dedicated networks and a signed Toubab photo.
A photograph with one member of the Toubab team or someone from the local community carrying a blackboard with your full name and/or nickname. The photograph will be posted in our social networks and website. In addition, you will receive by e-mail a high-quality copy of the photograph ready for printing. You will also get a digitalized Diploma thanking you for participating in funding the clinic. The photograph on social media and website is restricted to only those donors that agree on the posting.
In addition to all the rewards in the above categories. A personalized acknowledgement of the donor (name and surnames) in both the hard copy and digital forms of the book.
For the first 15 a Toubab T-SHIRT.
In addition to all the rewards described in the above categories. Direct home mail delivery (postage included if in Spain) of the printed book with the photographs of the construction of the clinic and interviews, which are part of the collective reward.
Toubab Book and Invitation to the book presentation party!
In addition to have your full name printed and receiving a hard copy of the book, you can come to pick it up personally the day of the book presentation party. You can then meet everybody in the Toubab team and get first hand details of the project. If you come you will also receive a Toubab mug.
We say HELLO from Senegal! Opportunity to participate during one of the visits to Sam Sam in a videoconference with the project participants. The visits are designed to monitor the construction, so you can learn first hand detailed information of the Project as well as its positive impact of the comunity.
E-Workshop of 30 ' videoconference of the donor with the Toubab team, and the nun and teacher Regina, the local leader of the Project. She is the Director of the Women's Center in Sam Sam and importantly our counterpart in this dream. Meeting her will be a life changing and your will know that your money is in good hands.
In addition to all the above rewards. The photograph of the donor will full or nick name on a designated place within the clinic. Your imprints will be forever part of the building. We will send you a replicate at home.
The space for the clinical practice will have an extension of 11 m2. Likely, it will provide daily service for 300 people including men, women and children from the Sam Sam neighborhood. Having the support of the State and local authorities, the dispensary will provide 5 days of consulting per week to treat the most prevalent diseases within the population: malaria, respiratory and dermatology infectious diseases, diarrhea and malnutrition. We plan to computerize the medical records and this will increase the safety of the patients. We will work together with physicians and patient groups. The dispensary can provide health care services to more than 300 people a day, who currently have no access to any type of health network. We need a good planning foundation.
A treatment room of 11 m2, will be located next to the room dedicated for clinical practice. The building needs a strong foundation. The treatment room will held nursing services to treat wounds, burns and infections. It will also serve for small surgical interventions such as drainages and injury excisions, otic washes and vaccinations. Undoubtedly, it is the most important room of the clinic, with an influx of about 200 patients a day and where treatments will be done sometimes without analgesia and antisepsis, something to which we are used to in the first World. This particular issue is the one we want to work harder and train professionals. The treatment room is a multifunctional space where the nurses will mainly perform the cures. It is therefore a major place that will provide quality treatment of serious burns, wounds and infectious skin lesions, which are common in Senegal, and affect many people's lives. The aseptic conditions in this room will be critical. We want to emphasize that the implementation of aseptic practices will bring many benefits to the population in preventing sequelae from for example, an infected limb wound. We want to reach with special interest to nursing schools, care nursing and nurse educators.
The clinic hospitalization and treatment room will have an area of 35 m2, including one full bathroom with toilet, sink and shower, as well as an outdoor steam room for all patients and visitors. Bathrooms will flow into a septic tank located at the western end of the clinic grounds. A good foundation is necessary. Approximately 100 patients will come to this room. The treatment room is a multifunctional space it will be used to perform transfusions as well as infusions of malaria treatments. Patients with fever, diarrhea or convulsions will come to the treatment room and check in. We will work towards its funding from the general population, health administration and patient associations.
The maternity room of the dispensary will have an extension of 52 m2, including a full bathroom with toilet, sink and shower, as well as an outdoor steam bath room for all patients and visitors. Bathrooms flow into a septic tank located at the western end of the clinic grounds. In Senegal, it is required by law and to ensure the survival of both mother and baby that women come to monitor their pregnancy and to give birth to the clinic. In Sam Sam this is not possible because for a whole population of 10,000 there is no place to carry out this right for women: "to receive quality care and live their motherhood without putting the mother's life in danger". The maternity room is the most important room in the clinic and is the reason why Sister Regina has been working all these years. She has seen how after putting the efforts to educate the young girls, as she calls them, they die during childbirth. The maternity room is the largest room and it is also the delivery room. The midwife will be there as well as, women will come for both the dilation of birth and the postpartum. This room will be able to hold up to 20 births per week and we specially intend to work for getting the salaries of midwives and gynecologists. A good foundation is necessary.
The pharmacy and storage are two adjacent rooms, each of approximately 12 m2. They will be used for the storage and the sale of medicines, but also for the production of medicines, conducting laboratory tests (e.g. diagnosis of malaria, pregnancy ...), preparation of surgical materials, etc ...). In Senegal, patients have to pay for consultations and for each of the resources used in diagnosis and treatment (gauze, bandages ...). In general and to reduce the cost, the clinic will buy wholesale. The laboratory rooms and the warehouse will hold the functions of storage and community pharmacy. Every day there will be more than 500 people stopping by the pharmacy. We especially want to involve pharmacists and pharmacy schools. A good foundation is necessary.
On the outskirts of Dakar is a cesspool called Sam Sam neighborhood, in the district of Pikinie, where 10,000 people live in precarious conditions. Sam Sam is under sea level, in an area where the ground water is just a few meters from the surface. In rainy seasons Sam Sam becomes a morass of garbage and overflowing septic tanks.
Due to the lack of sanitary conditions in Sam Sam, life expectancy is about 60 years. In addition, there is not a single medical unit where to go in the area. There is neither a decent delivery room, so maternal mortality during childbirth is extremely high. This is a health indicator with disastrous consequences. We aim to improve this situation with our current project, among others.
Our goal is to build successive phases of funding, a dispensary equipped with doctor's offices to take care of children, women and elderly, and a room dedicated to childbirth and for treating patients. The dispensary will also have a pharmacy and a laboratory to prepare and dispense first need medicines and to perform diagnostic tests, as well as a treatment room for primary care patients. Altogether, we will be able to provide health care to the people in this poor neighborhood, and importantly we will promote health education. The dispensary will also be a place to carry out community health activities (such as childbirth preparation classes, perinatal care, family planning ...). The construction of the dispensary will allow providing 120,000 primary health care services per year.
Sam Sam is under sea level, in a region where ground water levels lies a few meters from the surface. For this reason the cost to build the dispensary is high. A good percentage of the total budget will be used for the foundation of the building. The first phase of the financial planning and funding will be dedicated to build a strong and durable foundation for the center.
The dispensary will be equipped with waterproofed septic tanks, what will prevent water overflow during the rainy season. Also, thanks to our contacts in the region, a local construction company with outstanding credentials will carry out the project. This will ensure using high quality materials that are key for the success and durability of the project.
We are a committed association; we have trusted local contacts in the neighborhood. We also have support from State and local authorities and they assure that our project will be successful. A contribution of only 1 € will allow us to serve 4 people.
Now all we need is your help, without your help such a big Project wont be possible. Do you want to help us?
Our goal is to build from a swale ground awarded by the local Goverment, a Health Center. The Health Center will have doctor's offices to attend children, women and elderly; a maternity room and a treatment room for patients. The Center will have bathrooms, a pharmacy and a laboratory to develop and provide medicines and for diagnostic tests; it will also have a treatment room for primary health care. Each room will have windows to the outside for ventilation and natural light. Similarly, the treatment and maternity rooms will have inside and outside WCs for the use of visitors and other patients. This will allow minimizing the costs of the septic tank in that part of the building. The septic tank will be waterproofed what will prevent the entry and overflow of water during the rainy season. The construction of the Health Center, will allow providing 120,000 health care services in 1 single year. In addition of providing primary health care to people in this poor neighborhood, the center also will be a place to carry out community health activities (such as childbirth preparation classes, perinatal care, family planning, hygiene promotion ...).
We arrived in Dakar in November of 2015 and met other volunteers, NGOs and missionaries who told us about Sister Regina. They gave us her contact information and when we called her she said, "There is so much to do in this place". We did no hesitate and went personally meet her, and to know the neighborhood where she lived.
She spoke enthusiastically of her project, a clinical dispensary for the neighborhoods of Sam Sam. We caught her enthusiasm and optimism, her strength and perseverance, trust and professionalism, and her confidence and seriousness towards her goals.
The project is aimed for everybody in Sam Sam (approximately 10,000 people), its neighborhood as well as other nearby neighborhoods within the region of Pikine (approximately a total of 100,000 people), whose health is below the WHO minimum recommended basic levels. Therefore they cannot enjoy a dignified and fulfilling life that will allow them developing normal daily activities. For this reason, we aim to build a Health Center that provides assistance to some 12,000 people.
• The construction of a Health Center for health care.
• The training of professionals who will work in the center.
• The official opening of the facility and the commission of the services.
• Annual monitoring of the progress of the clinic, and working closely with local professionals.
a) The people will be closer to Health Services.
b) The Sam Sam Health Center will become a reference structure for all the districts in Pikine.
Local and National authorities provide the necessary equipment, furniture and staff to run the center.
The main objective of this project is to improve the health status of the population of Pikine and surrounding towns.
Our goals are 1) to reduce maternal and infant mortality during childbirth or from complications of childbirth; 2) to improve immediate primary care in accidents and emergency units; and 3) to address the most prevalent diseases and other endemic diseases such as malaria, infections, etc.
We, the Toubabs Team, are the drivers and executors of this project that is carried out without intermediaries. We supervise the entire project from Spain and Sister Regina Casado supervises it from Senegal, she is our local partner who takes care the neighborhood. We travel regularly to Sam Sam to supervise and monitor the Project. Out next trip is in November of 2016.
Our team: We are Cristina Andana 34, President and Nurse at the Hospital of Vinalopó in Elche, Maria Angeles Medina 51, treasurer and Family Doctor at the Hospital of Vinalopó in Elche, Josep Moreno 60, secretary and Family Doctor at the University of Alicante General Hospital and Juanra Ramirez 31, and Carol Martinez 34, both vocal and Nurses at the Hospital of the Vinalopó in Elche.
In November of 2015 with our backpacks and full of enthusiasm and hopes, we went for one month to Dakar, Senegal. During those four weeks we traveled to different parts of the country and worked in rural clinics (dispensaries Saint Laurent in Dakar and Sanghe, Thiiés), orphanages (The Pouponnière of Dakar), nurseries (in Sanghe) and schools for women (Promotion Center female Kalasans Sam-Sam). We connected with other volunteers with NGOs and missionaries who had already spent many years working in Senegal and who helped us understand the needs to work on.
We have contacted serious and trustworthy people who in Senegal will be the counterparty and will provide transparency to the project. These people are professionals, community leaders and neighbors who felt our commitment and who provide the Know How to the project as well as its long-term viability.
The Toubab Book: "Building Hope"
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David Barrett
Non-Golf
An abundance of championships
Arjun Atwal won the Wyndham Championship on Sunday, but what exactly does that make him the champion of?
Once upon a time, most PGA Tour events were called "Opens," with an occasional Invitational or Tournament. The only tournaments with "Championship" in the title were actually the championship of something, like the PGA Championship.
In 1959, somebody in Houston had the bright idea of calling the former Houston Open the "Houston Classic." It sounded a little bit more special, and soon other tournaments started calling themselves Classics, too (though Houston eventually reverted to "Open.")
Ah, but "Championship" sounds even more special than "Classic." The first tournament to call itself a championship without really being the championship of anything was the former Tournament of Champions, which became the Mercedes Championship in 1994. But if we give that tournament a pass because at least it has a field of only winners, the step was made by the former Anheuser-Busch Classic, which became the Michelob Championship at Kingsmill in 1996. That was followed by the Air Canada Championship, in 1999.
Those two events, relatively minor ones on the PGA Tour, are no longer around, but there are more and more championships all the time. Some of them are legitimate. We have the Players Championship, which is the flagship event of the PGA Tour. The Tour Championship is another event run by the PGA Tour, but we'll allow it as legit because it is a season-ender featuring the top players of that particular year. And there's a Match Play Championship, too.
But we also have the CA Championship, the Transitions Championship, the Wells Fargo Championship, the HP Byron Nelson Championship, the Travelers Championship, the Turning Stone Resort Championship, the Wyndham Championship, the Deutsche Bank Championship, and the BMW Championship. These tournaments are "championships" in branding alone.
Indeed, Championship has taken the lead as the most-used title on the PGA Tour, with 14 on the 2010 schedule compared to 11 for Open and 10 for Classic. (The U.S. Open Championship and [British] Open Championship go double in their titles, so I haven't included them as either Open or Championship. There are nine others that are called Invitational, Tournament, or something else).
A look back by tournaments in years ending in "0" shows the evolution of tournament names.
1950: 28 Opens, 3 Tournaments, 2 Invitationals, 1 Championship, 4 others, 0 Classics.
1960: 33 Opens, 2 Classics, 2 Tournaments, 1 Championship, 5 others
1970: 25 Opens, 10 Classics, 2 Championships, 7 others
1980: 21 Opens, 12 Classics, 4 Tournaments, 3 Championships, 4 others
2000: 15 Opens, 15 Classics, 7 Championships, 10 others
2010: 14 Championships, 11 Opens, 10 Classics, 11 others
What's next? Could there be something more special than calling your event a Championship? An Extravaganza? A Festival?
Maybe this week's event on the PGA Tour will be the new trend-setter. The Barclays. A tournament title that says, we're so cool we don't even need a descriptive word. (Not to mention that it totally focuses attention on the sponsor.)
TOPICS: Golf, News, Personalities
ABOUT: David Barrett
David Barrett was an editor at Golf Magazine for 18 years and has written two books on golf–Golf Courses of the U.S. Open and Golf's Dream 18s. A long time ago, back when Seve Ballesteros and Tom Watson were the perennial favorites, he covered the Masters (as well as SEC football, ACC basketball, etc.) for The Augusta Chronicle.
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