Tech Talk: Could Wearable Devices Warn Of Sickness?
A new report has been published by a panel of California-based biological experts detailing how wearable devices might be used to provide early warning signs of sickness. In the report, the panel investigated how portable biosensors could be used for frequent measurements of human physiological changes, and how the collected data might be processed and interpreted to provide an early warning mechanism. The panel used a volunteer team of up to 43 individuals for two years taking a number of measurements from up to seven worn biosensor units. The collected data was combined with an understanding of real world circumstances in order to build a database of up to over 250,000 daily measurements.
The source document details how the body shows physical signs that all is not well, for example the heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature provides a basic status report of health status. If any of these readings are high, this could be the cause for concern. However, current medical practice and technology means that measurements are typically taken upon a visit to a physician's office and for a healthy person, this could be every other year. As such, patients could be suffering from an underlying issue for a number of months before one or more changes in the body is detected. Another issue is that measurements taken at a regular appointment are compared with the overall population typical results, but we all have our own unique characteristics and these are themselves variable: a single isolated visit cannot identify a trend. The document elaborates that the information obtained from body measurements is especially important for caregivers, where the patient is perhaps less able to report on discomfort or other symptoms. In total, the experiment utilized wearable biosensors to measure the heart rate, skin temperature, blood oxygen levels, a number of activity parameters (including steps, activity type, calorie burn and acceleration), weight and total gamma and X-ray radiation exposure.
In recent years, this technology has both been shrunk in size and cost such that they are now affordable, highly portable and provide "a promising approach to routinely monitor personalized physiological measurements." Wearables are able to measure and deliver data in real time to either the patient or the physician. Several data streams may easily be combined to provide a thorough picture of activities, such as walking, running and sleeping. According to the report, as at July 2015 there were over 500 different healthcare wearable devices, three times the number available in 2013. The market has also grown such that it had over 34 million sales in 2015. The research team ran the project using a combination of one regularly monitored individual equipped with seven sensors, and many other subjects wearing two or more sensors. This technique allowed the team to assess accuracy and ease of data collection. In addition to the biosensors, volunteers collected additional data using a smartphone and one conclusion from the experiment that a combination of a smartphone, smartwatch and two sensors was enough to provide comprehensive data.
The research team concentrated on easily and accurately recording biosensor readings in either real time or at a high frequency. This data was then used to establish daily patterns and measure a "personalized baseline." This data was then used to determine the differences in health states between different kinds of individuals, the example given being those volunteers with diabetes and those without. Another objective of the report was to "detect inflammatory responses and assist in medical diagnosis at the early phase of disease development" so as to improve medical care. As a side project the team were also able to gauge the technical abilities of a number of different sensors. A number of devices used during the research had already been validated for clinical-grade accuracy but the team still "performed extensive testing to assess the accuracy of the different devices against gold standard measurements" and against their Welch Allyn [WA] 6000 series instrument, "routinely used at the clinical laboratory services at Stanford University." The instruments used were deliberately picked for accuracy and the team found this to mostly be the case; but when one instrument was found to be less accurate the trending information was still viable for the study.
Some of the observations detected included how the blood oxygen level decreased during a high altitude flight, which the researchers noticed was inversely correlated with altitude. The higher the aircraft flew, the lower the blood oxygen levels. However, the team also noticed that during long haul flights of seven hours or longer, the human body appeared able to adapt and increase the blood oxygen levels. During and after the experiment, the team are working on producing "a computational algorithm for personalized disease detection" based on the data. The researchers observed a period of elevated heart rate and skin temperatures leading up to and during a period of Lyme disease. Other participants also showed similar physiological changes immediately prior to reporting being ill. The team discovered that it was relatively easy to determine the physiological differences between individuals who are sensitive to insulin, and those who are not, and the data from this experiment could become a way to determine the risk of type 2 diabetes.
Ultimately, the panel agreed that the data collected by wearable biohealth sensors could be useful for medicine, and that wearable sensors "are likely to play an important role in managing health." As such, as wearable devices become less expensive and contain more sensors, so the logical conclusion from this is that we may start to see clinically approved biosensor-equipped smartwatches, although these may need to be supplemented with one or more additional sensors around the body. Furthermore, we may see manufacturers introducing smartwatches or activity trackers able to provide an indication of an impending illness some days before we might otherwise detect it ourselves.


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Women Who Believe Sex Drives Can Change Are Able To Deal With Low Libido Better
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Originally posted on Bustle
While it's natural to be curious about how often others have sex, it's also important to know there's no such thing as a "normal" sex drive— it varies with each person and each relationship.
But not only are there a range of sex drives you can have, each individual can experience ups and downs with their own levels of desire, too. And new research from the University of Waterloo shows that how you view your sex drive can have a huge effect on how you handle a bout of low libido. The research, which appears in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, found that women who believed that their sex drive was changeable were less affected by low libido than women who believed that their sex drives weren't supposed to change.
The study looked at 780 women who were randomly assigned readings. Some were given readings designed to make them believe that their sex drives were variable, while others were given readings designed to make them think the opposite. Then participants were asked if they had experienced or were likely to experience any issues with their sexual desire and they were given a test to explore how well they would handle those issues. Women who viewed their sex drives as variable and thought that they might experience a problem with their own libido were less likely to handle a drop in sex drive problematically. Instead, they were more able to cope with it. On the other hand, women who didn't think that their sex drives were changeable demonstrated that they were less likely to try to overcome any low libido issues.
"The most surprising result was that something as simple as providing women with messages about whether their sex drive changes or stays the same had an impact on how they expect to handle libido problems, like low desire," Siobhan Sutherland, a PhD candidate and lead study author, tells Bustle. "So, educating women about the fact that the sex drive tends to change may help them to better manage difficulties getting in the mood."
Sex Drive Changes Are Completely Normal
It's really important to appreciate that sex drives can change over time, because there are a lot of factors that can affect how strong your libido is at any given moment. "Female sexual drive is impacted by mental and physiological factors," Rhonda Mildrad, LCSW, relationship therapist and founder of the online relationship community, Relationup, tells Bustle. And those are only some of the factors that can affect it.
While some of the issues that affect your sex drive might have to do with your partner, there are plenty that have nothing to do with how attracted you are to someone — issues like work stress can have a huge impact.
"Not leading a balanced life, and constantly feeling the stress and pressure of work, can alter the body's hormone balance," Milrad says "With stress, the hormone cortisol is released and elevated levels of cortisol can suppress the body's natural sex hormones." If you're stressed and you notice that your sex drive has dropped, there are steps you can take to make yourself less stressed. And sometimes it's an external factor that can cause a change. Some medications, like antidepressants and hormonal birth control, can lower your libido.
Changes in sex drive are common, so it's worrying to see that some women think that their libido is written in stone — and that it keeps them from looking for solutions when their libido gets low. If you have a sudden change in sex drive, you don't need to panic. Avoiding the issue or shutting your partner out is never the answer. There are healthy ways to deal with a change in libido, and it starts with being honest about what's happening and trying to understand the reasons why — because it can happen to anyone.
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The Collecting Couple Who Became Sleuths of Photographic Forgery
Karen Chernick
D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson. Sandy Linton, his boat and his bairns, New Haven, 1845. Courtesy of The Barnes Foundation, Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg.
Désiré-François Millet. Untitled (Bride), n.d. Courtesy of The Barnes Foundation, Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg.
Many newlywed couples make big purchases in the early years of their marriages, procuring grown-up furniture, upgraded kitchenware, and perhaps a 30-year mortgage. But when Judy Hochberg and Michael Mattis wed in the early 1980s, the items on their wishlist were moderately sized, two-dimensional, and black-and-white. The pair, then doctoral candidates of modest means at Stanford University, started to collect photographs—specifically 19th-century prints, the earliest in the medium's history.
"We started the collection when we got married and had a little money," Hochberg, who holds a doctorate in linguistics and teaches Spanish at Fordham University, told Artsy. "Photography seemed like something that we could afford."
Now more than 30 years into both their marriage and their collecting, the thousands of prints handpicked by Hochberg and Mattis constitute one of the most comprehensive private collections of vintage photography in the United States, and one of the top photography collections in the world. A selection of 250 of their earliest photographs—including hand-tinted erotic daguerreotypes, allegorical portraits by
Julia Margaret Cameron
, and a
Felix Nadar
print of writer Victor Hugo on his deathbed—recently went on view at Philadelphia's Barnes Foundation, in the exhibition "From Today, Painting Is Dead: Early Photography in Britain and France."
Installation view of "From Today, Painting is Dead: Early Photography in Britain and France," at The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. Courtesy of The Barnes Foundation.
The show's title refers to French painter
's reaction when he first saw a photograph around 1840 (just one year after the medium's invention was announced simultaneously by
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
William Henry Fox Talbot
). "From today," Delaroche exclaimed, "painting is dead!"
That hasn't been the case, of course, and certainly has not been the prevailing attitude in the art world. Photography was long considered painting's far-less-illustrious stepsibling: In the medium's first hundred years, very few museums had photography departments; at auction, prices for paintings long dwarfed those commanded by photographs. That started to change in the 1970s, when photography took off as a collecting genre.
"We started, to some extent, 10 years late, but our excuse is that in the 1970s, we were in high school," Hochberg said. "So we had to work a little harder."
Even so, the standards for collecting photography were still being defined when the couple began visiting dealers and auction houses. A canon of photographic masters had been identified—among them
Hill & Adamson
(all represented in the pair's holdings). But even with an awareness of who the greats were, for the first year or so of their collecting, Hochberg and Mattis stumbled to grasp what qualified as a solid purchase.
Pulling focus on rare photographs
William Henry Fox Talbot. Articles of China, 1844. Courtesy of The Barnes Foundation, Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg.
"The first photographs we collected we no longer have," Hochberg admitted, referring to some posthumous prints produced from the negatives of big-name shutterbugs (such as
). "There was definitely a learning curve."
They learned fast. After a year or so of what Hochberg calls "making mistakes," Mattis (formerly a physicist by profession) realized that 19th-century photographs were incredibly undervalued. These were early experimentals with a now–incredibly pervasive medium—rare and trailblazing exemplars of new photographic processes.
"We decided we would move in on it, in a big way," Hochberg recalled. "We were beginning collectors, we didn't have a big budget, but as much as we could, we tried to be aggressive."
Anonymous, Ferns, 1850s. Courtesy of The Barnes Foundation, Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg.
Julia Margaret Cameron. King David and Bathsheba (Henry Taylor and Mary Hillier), 1869. Courtesy of The Barnes Foundation, Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg.
Mattis's hunch proved correct: Recognizing the value of 19th-century prints helped the couple create something singular out of a market focused, by definition, on easily reproducible multiples. But beyond targeting the earliest decades of the medium, their strictest guiding principle was to buy exclusively vintage photographs. Vintage photographs (as opposed to posthumous prints) are the few prints created by a photographer immediately or soon after shooting the negative. On rare occasions, they're also signed.
"We're really into the vintage thing," Hochberg says. "We feel that the vintage print reflects the artist's intention when they made the photograph." As photography collectors have become more numerous, knowledgeable, and sophisticated, vintage photographs have commanded significantly higher prices than later prints made from the same negative, even in cases when the photographer reprinted them themselves. As early as the 1990s, the price for a vintage photograph could be exponentially higher than the value of a later print of the same image.
By insisting on vintage, Hochberg and Mattis have had a major impact on the field, helping to develop ways to detect photographic forgeries. When the duo started their collection, prices were rising at a fever pitch, but the market had few safeguards for determining whether or not a photograph was actually vintage. The need for dating tools became evident in the late 1990s, when a suspicious number of purportedly vintage prints by
—an American photographer who recorded child labor conditions and made portraits on Ellis Island—flooded onto the market.
A toolkit for photography collectors
Adolphe Braun. Vallee de Chamonix, c. 1870. Courtesy of The Barnes Foundation, Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg.
"It just started to fail the smell test," Hochberg said of that period. The couple worked with Paul Messier, a paper conservator they had used in the past, to develop scientific tests. The results of their collaborative research can now be found in just about any auction house or major photography gallery.
"Let's say you go to an auction preview today, and there's something being offered, and it says '1930,'" explained Hochberg. "You'll ask, 'Have you black-lit that picture?' and they'll say, 'Why, of course. Do you want to black-light it yourself?' And maybe you'll take it to a back room where it's dark, and you hold it under a black light to see if the paper fluoresces. That is standard talk today, and nobody used those words before the Lewis Hine thing."
The couple determined that their purportedly vintage Hine photographs were posthumous in part because the paper was bleached, a practice that only began in the 1950s when manufacturers began adding optical brighteners to paper.
Gustave Le Gray. The Great Wave, Sète, 1857. Courtesy of The Barnes Foundation, Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg.
Messier, Hochberg and Mattis's collaborator on the scientific tests, also developed a watermark cheat-sheet to help determine the age of photographic paper. The Agfa logo, for example, has changed over the years, and knowing the year range for a particular version can help date a photograph. The tools Messier helped the couple develop for their own collecting purposes have now become industry standard.
But in directing their focus two centuries backwards, Hochberg laments that she and Mattis have overlooked some things. As they amassed calotype negatives and early albumen prints, photography crept into present day fine-art collecting, and they missed out on buying the early work of contemporary artists.
"Our collection basically starts with Talbot and goes to
Mapplethorpe
, and pretty much ends there. We have a few
Nan Goldins
, but we don't have the very large contemporary photographs, which would have been the smartest things to invest in," Hochberg said. "They're the ones now going for huge sums of money because they crossed over from the photography world into contemporary collecting."
Still, Hochberg added, she and her husband are happily committed to their collecting habits. "We wanted photographs that would drive us wild in a visual sense," she said. "You do what you do. Did I mention [that we have]
Thumbnail Image: Anonymous, Young Frenchman with gilt background, 1847. Courtesy of The Barnes Foundation, Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg.
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Gallerist Emi Eu Is Championing Printmaking and Southeast Asian Art in Singapore
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle
How Surging Inflation Is Impacting Art Galleries
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Collector Kent Kelley on Supporting the Brilliance of Black Emerging Artists
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Jim gives preparation tips and tricks when giving a core conversation speech at SXSW, or at your next meeting.
I made $1,200 within the first 10 minutes of being an entrepreneur.
How did I do that? Well, it wasn't through marketing or selling a product or closing a deal. On November 1, 2011 I was called into a director's office and was told my position had been eliminated. Although I was a bit shocked at the sudden layoff, I was actually pretty thrilled at the prospect of starting my own business.
I walked back to my desk, checked my personal email, and sitting in my inbox was an invitation to speak at SXSW 2012. I still wanted to go to the conference, but obviously my company – now my former company – wasn't going to pay for it.
What this meant is that as a speaker chosen from more than 3,200 applicants, I would receive a free gold-level conference pass. Value? About $1,200. My freelance career was off to a good start.
There are a few different types of programming sessions at SXSW, such as solo keynote speeches and panels. This first year was a 20 minute reading around my book Salary Tutor, followed by a book signing. Rather than read from the book, I did a presentation called How to be a Salary Negotiation Rock Star.
– I had honed the material for the past year in other speeches.
– I put this particular presentation together weeks in advance.
– I knew my opening, I knew my jokes, I practiced it over and over again until it was smooth as butter and timing out at 19:45 seconds.
– If I may be so bold, I rocked it. Exactly to plan.
From sxsw.com… The informal discussions that pop up in the hallways between, during and after panel sessions have traditionally been one of the most productive parts of the SXSW Interactive Festival.
In 2008, we formalized this process with the Core Conversation program which has quickly become one of the more popular aspects of the event. In these less formal hour-long sessions a single moderator will introduce the topic to be discussed and then facilitate the conversation.
In many ways, a core conversation is similar to any meeting that you need to run at the office. It's not always presenting findings from the latest marketing plan… sometimes you need to discuss a project with many decision makers, make sure everyone is clear on the goals, has their input, and get everyone on the same page.
While I was just slightly nervous when doing my book reading, I knew that I could overcome any anxiety through preparation, and you can too. Practicing a major speech in front of a friend or spouse, or even videotaping it, can give you insights that you can change before you go live.
You're in control. You know your slides, you know the jokes, you know the timing. Presenting in front of a large audience is terrifying for many people, but at least you can prepare.
This is not something you can do with a core conversation, and it freaked me out a bit. But I love the saying, do something every day that scares you. Or if you're a little bit scared about doing something, that's a good thing. So here is what I did.
Let me walk you through the general structure that I used, which can be adapted to any meeting.
First, I read up on exactly what was expected from the SXSW website, to get that clear. Then I went called my friend Twanna Hines from Funky Brown Chick, a SXSW veteran who has led many panels.
"It's not about you. Don't make it about you, make it about them. Your goal is to get them talking, not teach them. Because to be honest, the people in that audience know more than you do.
Don't be afraid to call on people in the audience. And remember, it's not about you." Thanks Twanna.
The next thing I did was start researching. There wasn't a lot of data (which is why I'm giving back by writing this), but I did come across this great blog post by Gene Kim, How I Prepared For Moderating My SxSW Core Conversation.
He narrowed it down to rehearsal, preparation, and process. The key thing I really got from it, was to chunk out different topics into smaller increments (his were 6 minutes), and use a quick-reference sheet to keep organized.
I started out with a huge, high energy welcome, and asked them a for a show of hands on a question, gauging whether they were newbies just learning about the topic, or experts looking for a few extra key tips. This will help you guide the level of your discussion.
I started the conversation with facts: We are all living in a gig economy. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, by 2020, 40% of the workforce – 65 million people – will be freelance or temp workers.
This set a serious context for what we were talking about… we are all freelancers in some way, and knowing what to charge is crucial. It also gives the note-takers something to jot down, and is very tweetable.
The great part about that joke is that it is so bad, that it catches people off guard and they laugh before they can groan.
While I knew the session wasn't all about me, it IS important to give context around who you are, what you do, and why you're qualified to lead this session. I practiced my opening bio several times to make sure it was succinct without being boastful or going on too long. People want to know who you are.
Before I could finish my sentence, the room erupted into conversation, as everyone turned to their neighbor and started chatting. This really brought up the energy in the room, and get people excited. This is a must-do.
I thought about the best way to be a leader but not a speaker, and that was coming up with a structure around the conversation. This played in perfectly to the layout I've been working on for freelance negotiation.
This allowed me to frame the conversation along the way and keep things flowing. I didn't have a hard in and out on timing, but was always aware to move ahead after 5 minutes or so. Sometimes people brought up issues that I allocated for later (ie, a tactic while we were still on mindset) and I said we'd get back to them, other times I just let it flow.
What this also did was let me create a notecard like Gene recommended to keep my pace and have some talking points.
I have to say, the people in attendance were the stars. I could have done all of this, but it was up to them to really speak, and the audience was awesome, with lots of people contributing amazing tips. I thank them.
– I comment… thanks… do you have markers?
For the average person, this would have been a nightmare. I had planned on putting all the housekeeping info… the Hashtag, my twitter handle, the ABCs on one whiteboard, and the MY RATE acronym on the other. Even if there was a pen, I'd have been frantically writing, looked very unprepared, and started late.
Fortunately, I follow Murphy's Law and completely prepared for the worst. I had picked up some of the new large Post-It notes (see point #2 in photo above) they were giving away at the trade show (Thanks 3M!). I brought my own pens and markers, and while they were scurrying for the whiteboard, I assume they would not arrive and used the Post-Its to great success.
Always, always, always have a backup plan.
After 30-40 minutes of the same routine… going to the next letter, asking questions, calling on people in the audience, people tend to drift off and start checking their phones. There is a lull for sure.
I combated that by busting out a case study about beer ¾ of the way through the presentation (see point #1 in photo above). This broke up the monotony of what was happening, brought things back to me for a moment, had a specific, actionable learning takeaway, and even had a few jokes mixed in.
If you've been selected to lead a core conversation at SXSW, congrats and welcome. However, I think it's easy to translate these goals to any business situation where you need to lead your peers.
10) Be prepared. Be incredibly over-prepared for the worst case scenario.
It's almost April. It's tax season. Who LOVES doing taxes?
Well, I just got my tax return back from my accountant, and while it was pretty complicated, he didn't have a single question because I tracked all my income and expenses in Freshbooks.
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First thing you need to know about dogs and puppies. Dogs can provide you with companionship and love. However, they are not this way from birth. They need to learn what to do to behave, and they have to be cared for. This guide will allow you to learn those things and more, so continue on.
Ask your vet how much food your dog should get every day. While some individuals give their dogs food by following the package, sometimes these guidelines are inappropriate for your dog. Your vet will give you personalized advice.
Rawhide treats are better for your dog than real meat bones. Real bones can break into pieces that can then become dangerous due to how sharp and small they can be. Rawhide is a healthy alternative and will help keep your dog's teeth clean as he satisfies his need to chew.
Don't feed your dog the cheap stuff. Your dog will benefit from eating healthy, quality food. While this could mean paying more for higher-end brands, your dog's proper health will be guaranteed through eating healthfully.
Some dogs are more likely to have certain health issues, so you need to know what is expected for your dog. Find out what your dog's breed frequently suffers from and the symptoms. Also, you can speak with the vet to see what can be done so that your pet will have a better chance at avoiding health problems.
It does not take a science degree to look after a dog. Although in the beginning it might make you frustrated, stick to the proven tips that will have you headed down the correct path. Take everything you have learned here, and use it to take care of your four-legged friend.


Why has Facebook been undergoing a purging and how does this tie into THE EVENT?
What does the Spring Equinox have in store for humanity?
What is the significance of the upcoming Supermoon in Libra?
How close are we to our next level of spiritual progression into 5D?
Gregg Prescott and Kerri Ann Sanders talk about these topics and MUCH MORE in this video!
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Today's Newsletter: Celebrating International Women's Day
By Christine Weiser 2018-03-09T02:04:52Z
Today is International Women's Day. What better day to celebrate women who are innovating across technology, science, and design? Wired Magazine highlighted women who are doing just that, such as Wang Qi, who transformed the lives of subsistence farmers in her hometown by showing them the benefits of e-commerce, and Kresse Wesling, co-founder, Elvis & Kresse, which tackles the build-up of materials in landfills by finding creative ways to transform waste streams. Mary Snapp, Corporate Vice President and Head of Microsoft Philanthropies, writes about the #PressforProgress, movement, which aims to inspire the next generation of female STEM leaders, and Education World has gathered a list of resources for teachers to celebrate International Women's Day. Tech & Learning celebrated women edtech leaders in our latest list of most influential edtech influencers, such as Suz Somersall, founder of KiraKira3D, which promotes STEAM education for everyone, with a focus on young women. Thank you to all of the educators who find ways to inspire young women every day to become the next generation of innovators. – Christine Weiser, Content Director
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Face masks don't negate the benefits of facial recognition
Apr 7, 2020 | General
How SAFR maintains accuracy in the age of COVID-19
By Eric Hess
Senior Director of Product Management for Face Recognition & Security Solutions
As we continue to adjust to social distancing mandates, more experts are now recommending wearing face masks as another way to limit the spread of COVID-19. In situations and environments where SAFR face recognition is vital for security and secure access, face masks don't negate its benefits.
It's true that the more facial features available as data points, the greater the chance of an accurate match. However, a resilient algorithm can adapt when it sees a face obscured or partially covered — occluded — and can still deliver excellent results.
Occlusion detection has been a feature of the SAFR platform for some time — we've worked hard to make it work well. As preventative masks become more common around the globe, accurate recognition of partially occluded faces is more important than ever. To address this need, we're enhancing our occlusion logic even further to ensure we can maintain the highest accuracy and best performance under challenging conditions.
A mask is just one way a face can be occluded. When any portion of the face is not visible, a facial recognition algorithm must focus on whatever face landmarks it can see in order to determine an accurate match. It's a process that requires training and tuning to get right. When deployed commercially, accurate recognition under occluded conditions is valuable and in some cases life-saving:
Healthcare workers can move through secured areas without removing personal protective equipment.
Essential service providers can continue to deliver products and services without delay.
Security threats will not go unrecognized, and responses will not be delayed.
SAFR evaluates occlusion on a variety of levels, and sometimes the level is such that an exact match can't be made. In these cases, SAFR can automate subsequent procedures that ensure safety and security protocols are upheld. For example, different matching thresholds can be required when occlusions are detected, a multifactor authentication workflow can be initiated, or security personnel can be notified when a person is not recognized because of a face mask or other occlusion.
In this moment, many vendors are excitedly sharing news that they are "mask immune" — able to recognize faces with the same accuracy as when people are not wearing masks. That may be true when their sample size is small. But what we know about human faces is that they are all different, and as your sample size (enrolled database) grows, the range of represented facial traits and likelihood that someone with somewhat similar-looking features will appear in the database increases. Some faces have especially unique traits around the eyes or nose, while others may have more unique mouths or jawlines. Therefore, some people will be more easily recognized when the upper half of their face is visible, and others when the lower half is available for analysis. Because of this, not all people may experience the same level of accuracy even when they are occluded by similar objects.
We are currently emphasizing training for our algorithms to reduce the negative impact that occlusions such as face masks have on accuracy. But you can take advantage of one feature in SAFR right now to improve accuracy when the outward appearance of a person changes significantly — Grouping in the Person Directory. Refer to the SAFR documentation under "Manage People in the Person Directory" for directions.
Yes, we too can match faces when people are wearing masks, but we feel a responsibility to be honest about the limitations, and even better performance can be achieved when SAFR understands how a person may appear when wearing a mask.
Accuracy is always a complex topic, as multiple variables are involved: the quality of the enrolled face image, the degree to which a subject cooperates with having a good-quality image captured, and the impact of lighting and other environmental variables. SAFR's current capability on the University of Massachusetts Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) dataset is a 99.87% True Identification Rate with just 1:1,000,000 False Identifications (false positives). Internal benchmarking shows that when subjects present themselves in cooperative identification scenarios, such as in an Access Control use case, and both the subject and one of their enrolled face images are wearing masks, the true positive identification rate is 93.5%, with less than 1:3,760 false identifications. While this is an excellent level of accuracy considering 50% to 60% of the face is covered, at SAFR we plan to improve this capability even further.
Our goal now, as it has always been, is to equip our end users with high-performance software and systems powered by intelligence that adapt to rapidly changing environments and evolving needs. It's a reality we're becoming all too familiar with in this time of crisis. We hope SAFR can help.
For more information — or to get a demonstration of occlusion detection and other features of the SAFR platform — drop us a note.


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Q: Getting the next value in a Queue I have problem today with a queue variable that i am try'n to read in and get the next object inside the queue. I am using a foreach loop that goes through all of the objects inside the queue. But i also want to find out a value of the next object and that is where i am stuck. This is the code that i have completed thus far.
private static void outResult(Queue<OrderClass> orderQueue)
    {
        int week = 0;
        int orderCount = 0;
        bool last = false;

        foreach(OrderClass n in orderQueue)
        {
            week = n.DesiredWeek;

            if(week != n.NextWeek)//This is what i want to do
            {
                last = true;
            }
            if(last)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Shipping Report for Week {0}", week);
                Console.WriteLine(" ");
                Console.WriteLine("Number of Orders: {0}");
                Console.WriteLine(" ");
                Console.WriteLine("Products shipped: ");
                Console.WriteLine("Cabin:  ");
                Console.WriteLine("LarghFort:  ");
                Console.WriteLine("Ranch:  ");
                Console.WriteLine("Shed:  ");
                Console.WriteLine("SmallHouse:  ");
                Console.WriteLine("Tower:  ");
                Console.WriteLine(" ");
                last = false;
            }
        }
    }

A: It sounds like inside the for loop, you want to look at the next value in the queue without removing it.  If that's correct, what you want to use is
var next = orderQueue.Peek();
if(week != next.DesiredWeek){
    // do stuff
}

Edit: My original example was incomplete for your use case.  You'd need to modify how you are iterating as well since the foreach iteration doesn't actually pop elements. See below for a more complete example.
var queue = new Queue<int>();
queue.Enqueue(1);
queue.Enqueue(2);
while(queue.Count > 0 )
{
    var val = queue.Dequeue();
    Console.WriteLine("Current: {0}", val);

    if(queue.Count > 0)
    {
        var next = queue.Peek();
        Console.WriteLine("Next: {0}", next);
    }
}

A: I don't think the Queue<T> is the right structure for the operation you are doing. Seems more like a case for List<T> since you are not taking any elements out of the Queue.
That being said here are 2 ways to do what you are looking for with a Queue.

*

*The 'Destructive' way is the way a Queue is supposed to be used, you Dequeue() the items as you go along. To achieve what you are looking for, after you Dequeue() you Peek() ahead. Be aware that both functions throw an exception if there is nothing left in the Queue. There are multiple ways you can skin this cat. Either you get the Count after each iteration in a while() loop or like I have shown below just once with a for loop. I chose the later for this specific case since you are peeking ahead, too, normally I would use the while loop.

*If you are stuck with a Queue but this is just an intermediate function you are calling that must leave the queue untouched and must not Dequeue() items, I have added a non-destructive version that just uses enumerators. Note the use of IEnumerable in the signature. This will make it work with other Collections that implement this interface as well and is not just restricted to a Queue since you are not using Queue functionality.

And here is the code example, it prints something out on the console for each iteration but you can see where you would put your code for the 'last' iteration cases.
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Queue<OrderClass> orderQueue = new Queue<OrderClass>();
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
        {
            orderQueue.Enqueue(new OrderClass() { DesiredWeek = (i / 3) });
        }

        outResultNonDestructive(orderQueue);
        outResultDestructive(orderQueue);

    }

    public class OrderClass
    {
        public int DesiredWeek { get; set; }
    }

    private static void outResultDestructive(Queue<OrderClass> orderQueue)
    {
        bool last = false;

        int lengthOfQInTheBeginning = orderQueue.Count;
        for (int i = 0; i < lengthOfQInTheBeginning; i++)
        {
            var current = orderQueue.Dequeue();
            if(i >= lengthOfQInTheBeginning - 1)
            {
                last = true;
            }
            else
            {
                var next = orderQueue.Peek();
                if(current.DesiredWeek != next.DesiredWeek)
                {
                    last = true;
                }
            }
            if (last)
            {
                //Do work...
                Console.WriteLine(current.DesiredWeek.ToString() + " - Last? " + last.ToString());
                last = false;
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine(current.DesiredWeek.ToString() + " - Last? " + last.ToString());
            }
        }
    }

    private static void outResultNonDestructive(IEnumerable<OrderClass> orderQueue)
    {
        bool last = false;

        IEnumerator<OrderClass> currentEnumerator = orderQueue.GetEnumerator();
        IEnumerator<OrderClass> nextEnumerator = orderQueue.GetEnumerator();

        if(!nextEnumerator.MoveNext())
        {
            //No elements
        }

        while(currentEnumerator.MoveNext())
        {
            OrderClass next = null;
            if(nextEnumerator.MoveNext())
            {
                next = nextEnumerator.Current;
            }
            var current = currentEnumerator.Current;
            if(next == null || current.DesiredWeek != next.DesiredWeek)
            {
                last = true;
            }
            if (last)
            {
                //Do work...
                Console.WriteLine(current.DesiredWeek.ToString() + " - Last? " + last.ToString());
                last = false;
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine(current.DesiredWeek.ToString() + " - Last? " + last.ToString());
            }
        }
    }

Be aware that neither of the functions are thread safe!


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As of June 2017, the number of SMSFs increased to 596,516. The number of SMSF members in Australia is 1,124,453.
The estimated value of total Australian and overseas SMSF assets is $696.7 billion.
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A conveyor belt system is a modern part of transportation of handling equipment. It helps transport materials from one place to the next, drastically cutting out manual labor and saving time. Conveyors are commonly seen at airports, manufacturing plants and other locations.
Conveyor systems are useful any time a need arises that some type of object needs to make its way from one place to another. It makes the process faster and more importantly convenient. Conveyor belts built for industrial use are similar to consumer with the additional ability of being able to withstand larger loads and extreme conditions.
A conveyor belt in a system like this may need to move into different directions and in strange angles. Without conveyors, materials would need to be moved by having labor needing to manually move objects. This is going to cost a lot and come with its own logistical problems. Human labor isn't as efficient and neither is it as effective as a complex conveyor system put into place. Commercial conveyors are beginning to enter into areas that include food, transportation and even pharmaceuticals.
There are various types of conveyor systems out there put into place to deal with different types of problems and come up with new solutions. They differ on the industry they're used in. Here are some of the common types of systems.
A chain belt conveyor is designed to be able to carry a large volume of products. It'll be usually used in regards to the work floor and transporting waster materials. These chain belt conveyors will shift and sort different types of line feeds and mixed lines. Steel Belt Conveyors consist of two different belt designs called the piano hinge and steep apron. A conveyor system like this is built to withstand a lot of weight, Usually it can manage anywhere from 20 to 50 tons in a single hour. Underneath the design are heavy-duty lines and 2 RAM scrap balers.
Some of these mechanical components such as the stud mount ball transfer units can be configured and bought to fit into a new or preexisting conveyor belt system. Another type of conveyor system is the slider bell. They have varying speeds that can also carry from 1 to 15 tons of the machine. MRF sorting lines features a slider bed, chain belt and steel belt. They're designed to meet an individual's client's needs.
Conveyors have an inherent advantage over using regular human labor to get the job done. Some conveyors are designed with the added benefit of having an inclined based system. This allows the transportation of both large and small items to have the ability to move from varying elevations. They have an uninterrupted system of being able to continuously operate.
In many large factories there will be the requirement where materials must move to multiple levels of the facility, conveyors can easily meet this need for transportation. With an automated incline belt, there is no need for manual unloading and having to monitor materials being unloaded.
Conveyors can move in both direction and have complete control over how fast or slow the objects will move. Judging the speed, it can be a way to monitor for any broken or lost objects.
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Tournaments > 2016 > United States > 2016 Goliath Phamous Poker Series
Tournament: 2016 Goliath Phamous Poker Series
Date: May 26 - Jul 10, 2016
Event: No Limit Hold'em - Weekend (Event #20) (Jun 4, 2016)
Buy-in: $145 + $35
Prize: $50,000
May 26 - 29, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Quantum Reload (Event #1) $100 + 30
May 29, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Casino Employees (Event #4) $100 + 30
May 29, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - USO Charity Tournament (Event #3)
May 30, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Dealers Choice (6-Handed) (Event #6) $100 + 30
May 31, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Exposed (Event #10) $70 + 5
Jun 1, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Value Deepstack (Event #13) $80 + 20
Jun 1, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Double Stack Turbo (Event #12) $100 + 30
Jun 1, 2016 No Limit Hold'em (Event #11) $130 + 30
Jun 3, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Weekend (Event #17) $145 + 35
Jun 4 - 6, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Goliath Million (Event #22) $520 + 80
Jun 6, 2016 H.O.R.S.E. (Event #24) $200 + 40
Jun 6 - 8, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Goliath Stack (Event #23) $305 + 45
Jun 7, 2016 Pot Limit Omaha (Event #26) $200 + 40
Jun 8, 2016 Big-O - 5-Card PLO 8 or Better 6 Handed (Event #29) $200 + 40
Jun 8 - 10, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Almost Goliath Stack (Event #30) $255 + 45
Jun 9, 2016 Dealers Choice 6 Handed (Event #32) $100 + 30
Jun 9, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - 6 Handed (Event #31) $130 + 30
Jun 10, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Value Deepstack (Event #35) $80 + 20
Jun 10, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Turbo (Event #34) $305 + 45
Jun 10, 2016 No Limit Hold'em (Event #33) $145 + 35
Jun 11, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Weekend (Event #36) $145 + 35
Jun 11, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Double Stack Turbo (Event #38) $100 + 30
Jun 11 - 14, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Goliath (Event #) $520 + 80
Jun 13, 2016 H.O.R.S.E (Event #41) $240
Jun 13, 2016 No Limit Hold'em (Event #39) $600
Jun 13 - 15, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - ININJA Championship (Event #40) $350 + 50
Jun 14, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Deep Stack Turbo (Event #42) $130
Jun 15, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Value Deepstack (#51) $100
Jun 15, 2016 Big-O - 5-Card PLO 8 or Better 6 Handed (Event #45) $200 + 40
Jun 15, 2016 Pot Limit Omaha - 6 Handed (Event #44) $240
Jun 15 - 16, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Six Max (Event #46) $200 + 40
Jun 16, 2016 Big O Seven Max (Event 47) $200 + 40
Jun 16, 2016 Triple Draw Mixer - 2-7 & A-5 (Event #50) $200 + 40
Jun 16 - 19, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Quantum (#49) $200 + 40
Jun 16, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Almost Goliath (#48) $200 + 40
Jun 18, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Goliath Senior's Championship (50+) (Event #5 $520 + 80
Jun 18, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Seniors (Event #54) $600
Jun 20, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Exposed (Event #57) $200 + 20
Jun 20, 2016 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud - 8 or Better (Event #58) $240
Jun 20 - 24, 2016 No Limit Hold'em (Event #59) $130
Jun 22, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Goliath Ultimate (Event #61) $600
Jun 23 - 24, 2016 Pot Limit Omaha (Event #62) $520 + 80
Jun 24, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Value Deepstack (Event #65) $100
Jun 25 - 28, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - (Event #69) $180
Jun 25, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Goliath (Event #71) $600
Jun 25 - 29, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - DST (Event #70) $130
Jun 28 - Jul 1, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Value Deepstack (Event #74) $100
Jul 1, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - (Event #78) $180
Jun 30, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Goliath(Event #76) $300
Jul 1, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Weekend (Event #79) $130
Jul 1, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Value Deepstack (Event #80) $100 + 30
Jul 2 - 5, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Goliath (Event #83) $520 + 80
Jul 2, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Weekednd $50k in a Day (Event #81) $165 + 35
Jul 4, 2016 Pot Limit Omaha - 8 or Better (Event #85) $200 + 40
Jul 4, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Value Deepstack (Event #88) $80 + 20
Jul 4, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Double Stack Turbo (Event #87) $100 + 30
Jul 5, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Tag Team Switch (Event #90) $165 + 35
Jul 5, 2016 No Limit Hold'em (Event #89) $130 + 30
Jul 6, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Deaf Poker Tour (Event #97) $105 + 45
Jul 6, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Poker Hall of Fame Bounty (Event #95) $125 + 35
Jul 6, 2016 No Limit Omaha - 8 or Better (Event #94) $200 + 40
Jul 7, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Deaf Poker Tour (Event #101) $105 + 45
Jul 7 - 10, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Goliath Main Event (Event #100) $1,500 + 150
Jul 8, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Police vs. Fire (Event #102)
Jul 9, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Deaf Poker Tour Ladies Event (Event #108) $105 + 45
Jul 9, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Deaf Poker Main Event (Event #105) $195 + 55
Jul 9 - 10, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - LIPS National Championship (Event #104) $200 + 50
Jul 10, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Deaf Poker Tour 500 (Event #112) $500 + 70
Jul 10, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Deaf Poker Tour ASL Bounty Event (Event #113) $105 + 45
Jul 10, 2016 Charity Series of Poker (CSOP) Event #7 benefiting Three Square $300
Jul 10, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Deaf Poker Tour Final Event (Event #115) $105 + 45
Jul 10, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Survivor (Event #110) $350 + 50
Jul 10, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - LIPS Ladies (Event #111) $165 + 35
Jun 30, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Heads Up $520 + 80
Jul 3, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - LIPS Ladies (Event #84) $165 + 35
Jul 9, 2016 No Limit Hold'em - Deaf Poker Tour Madness Event (Event #109) $105 + 45
Jun 29, 2016 Pot Limit Omaha - Heads Up $300 + 50
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Specific phobia is a fear of a particular thing, like dogs, heights, blood or needles.
Panic disorder is characterized by sudden, unpredictable panic attacks. A young person experiencing a panic attack may have feelings of impending death or doom and symptoms similar to a heart attack.
Until recently, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were classified as anxiety disorders. Young people with OCD have unwanted thoughts that they try to get rid of by practicing ritualized behaviors, such as obsessive hand-washing, counting, or lining things up. PTSD symptoms develop after a disturbing event and can include detachment, difficulty sleeping, irritability and reliving the event. While not technically considered anxiety disorders, young people with OCD and PTSD do struggle with feelings of anxiety.
Anxiety disorders are often difficult to spot in young people. Some experts call anxiety the "great masquerader" because the symptoms can seem like something else. Disruptive or antisocial behavior can be a cover for anxiety. Kids who constantly seek reassurance, are overly hard on themselves, or who cope by escaping into social media or video games may be dealing with severe anxiety.
Anxiety disorders can be treated with behavioral therapy, medication, or a combination of the two.
Most often, anxiety disorders are treated with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which addresses a young person's worries and patterns of distorted thinking. Exposure and response prevention is one type of CBT often used to treat anxiety. In this type of therapy, young people are exposed to anxiety triggers gradually, in a safe setting. As they become accustomed to each of the triggers, the anxiety fades.
Medication can alleviate symptoms of anxiety and may make behavioral therapy more effective. SSRIs, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, have proven effective at managing anxiety. Fast-acting medications called benzodiazepines (e.g. Xanax, Klonopin) are sometimes used to treat acute anxiety, but are not helpful for reducing symptoms in the long-term. They also carry a risk of dependence and are generally not recommended if someone has a co-occurring substance use disorder due to risk of addiction or overdose if used in combination with alcohol or opioids.
Adolescents with anxiety disorders may use drugs and alcohol to temporarily alleviate anxious feelings associated with socializing, having to present in class, or living up to other expectations. When anxious feelings become too much to handle, alcohol and drugs allow them to feel better for a short period of time.
However, using substances can complicate treatment of anxiety. Because the effects of the substance cover up or mask the anxiety symptoms, it becomes that much more difficult to assess the disorder and provide appropriate treatment.
Additionally, adolescents who use alcohol or drugs to alleviate anxiety symptoms may feel their anxiety is more intense when they aren't using. This can lead to a pattern of increasing use that can lead to dependence and addiction.
Untreated, anxiety disorders also present long-term risks for substance use or misuse. The good news is that identifying and treating anxiety early can help cut risk of future substance use disorder in half.


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Even though Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' has been around for a long time it is still making inroads into modern gardens of all styles. It is one of the few ornamental grasses that can fit into everything from a traditional herbaceous border or cottage garden through to a stark modernist city planting in containers, and work well in meadow or naturalistic style gardens too.
Clump forming and sterile it is safe and reliable, being tough and hardy enough for almost anywhere in the UK and indeed most of Europe. The conditions that seem to cause it most problems are hot and dry.
Early into growth in February and March the fresh, deep, green leaves emerge to make a good clump while many other deciduous grasses are still dormant. The upright stems produce their flowers from the second half of May, purple flushed at first slowly turning a warm buff by midsummer and holding on well into winter as "seed" heads. Heavy rain will make the flower stems bow, but once they dry out they almost always spring back up to their usual columnar shape.
For average to good soil in sun or a little shade. Cut back in late winter.
There are also variegated selections ('Avalanche', 'England' and 'Overdam') but they tend not to be such good plants for flowering.
From Karl Foerster, in Germany before 1959.
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Stricta' is sometimes considered a synonym but many sources say that one flowers a couple of weeks before the other - the jury is still out here!


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Q: Change the Flutter desktop app window size I am trying to build a desktop app with flutter. I want to display the app window half the size of screen when login screen of the app is visible.
Is there a way to change the size of the App window programmatically? Actually  I am new to dart and flutter Please help me, I can't find a way to do it.

A: The window_size plugin will let you find the size of the screen and resize the window.

A: you can use window_manager
await windowManager.setSize(Size(800, 600));

or desktop_window
 Size size = await DesktopWindow.getWindowSize();
 DesktopWindow.setWindowSize(Size(800,600));
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One of the most common nutrient deficiencies is Vitamin B12. Some symptoms of a B12 deficiency are fatigue, joint pain, muscle aches and weakness, anemia, poor moods, and low concentration. A simple blood test and exam from your primary care physician will determine if you have a B12 deficiency.
Foods high in B12 include grass-fed beef, dairy products, and fish. Some individuals may have a harder time absorbing and utilizing this nutrient due to digestive or genetic conditions. B12 injections or daily oral supplements are good alternatives for these individuals.
The injection is nearly painless and is usually administrated in the deltoid muscle of your upper arm or in the hip. We recommend weekly injections for optimal results and to experience the full benefits.


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Climate Change & Sustainability in Shoscombe
The big river clean up : 8th May 2022
10 of the climate change group came along to the Wellow Brook litter pick on Sunday the 8th of May 2022.
22 bags of rubbish were scooped out from the short stretch – plus tyres, a basketball hoop and a whole load of all kinds of kids'/dogs'/sports' balls, etc. . . but mainly plastic bottles. There were so many plastic bottles!
And the trickiest thing to scoop out? Polystyrene foam. It disintegrates into tiny bubbles. It leaches toxic chemicals as it is a plastic that's very bad for people and for all other creatures.
Thanks again to all for support and for the permission of the landowners and a huge well done!
Climate Change and Sustainability, Shoscombe
In March 2020, Shoscombe Parish Council declared a Climate Emergency as have many countries and tiers of government the world over. BaNES declared a Climate Emergency in March 2019 and an Ecological Emergency in July 2020.
Declaring a Climate Emergency is to formally acknowledge the seriousness of the situation. It's also a statement of intent to take action. At the March 2020 Parish Council meeting, Councillors unanimously voted to adopt the following Declaration:
The Council undertakes to consider the reduction of carbon emissions and issues of sustainability in all its decisions, actions and procedures.
The Council has set up a Sustainability and Climate Crisis Working Group tasked with developing initiatives to reduce our community's carbon footprint and to encourage and support more sustainable living.
The Council will actively encourage and offer support to relevant projects set up by groups within the community.
The Parish Council has moved its funds to an ethical bank; we're now with Triodos, and a Climate and Nature Working Group has been set up.
To get in touch with the Climate and Nature Group:
Email: hello@shoscombeclimateandnaturegroup.co.uk
Latest minutes of meeting held 29th May 2022:
scan_may_29_meeting_notes.pdf
Group meeting 12th March 2022
Thanks to all who came along to the first in person SCAN group meeting on the 12th March 2022. Please take a look at the notes and the action plan by following the link below.
scan_march_22_meeting.pdf
scan_action_plan.march_2022.pdf
 FROM THE ARCHIVES...
Climate and Nature Community Forum 19th May 2021
On 19th May an on-line Community Forum was held to talk about how we can reduce our carbon footprint and protect Shoscombe's landscape and wildlife.
Before the Forum, a Survey was delivered with the Newsletter asking for residents' specific climate and nature concerns, and also their ideas about what could be done. The Survey gave everyone the opportunity to have a say even if they couldn't attend the Forum. The programme for the evening was as follows.
Sarah Warren, Deputy Leader of Bath & North East Somerset Council, gave the opening presentation.
BaNES is committed to achieving net zero by 2030 and it's starting point was to have a better understanding of carbon emissions and where the Council's, and Bath's, highest emissions are. This has led to a huge number of in-house and local initiatives; the Clean Air Zone; Liveable Neighbourhoods, i.e closing roads to traffic to encourage walking and a healthier, more peaceful urban environment; cycle routes along main roads; attracting new Green industry to Bath; retrofitting all Council-owned buildings; internal procurement; the Affordable Warmth Grant; planting 100k trees, and many more.
BaNES Council supports communities like Shoscombe who are taking action. Change must come from the top - that's central Government and regional/town Councils - but the situation is critical now and action is needed at an individual and community level too and people getting together to find ways of living more sustainably and working to care for their environment.
Sarah wishes us luck with our Climate and Nature Action Plan. She asked us to let her know how we're getting on and encourages us to seek information, contacts or expertise from BaNES as we need it.
Next were the results of the Survey in order of importance with 1, the top priority, and 8 the lowest, although many respondents felt that all the issues were vitally important.
Enhance/restore nature and wildlife habitats
Reduce waste, reduce single use plastics, increase recycling
Promoting local clean air and dark skies
Switching to a renewable energy provider. Increase low carbon/zero carbon transport
Reducing energy usage in homes and buildings
Increase low/neutral carbon shopping
Switching to ethical/zero carbon banking
Low carbon food, organic food, less meat and dairy
Breakout Groups
We split up into groups to discuss a range of issues. The aim was to come up with a list of practical and do-able actions for Shoscombe.
There were some interesting discussions, for example; the impact on the landscape of future changes in farming; the idea that Government should use Stamp Duty to help fund home insulation; the need to work together and take a bigger view of sustainability; people should put on a jumper rather than turn up the heating! However, the Action Plan includes only those ideas for which a practical action was identified.
Follow the link below to see the Climate and Nature Action Plan in full.
As you'll see, it's an ambitious plan. There's a fantastic range of creative and exciting ideas, but what's needed now is people. Whatever your age, skills or interests, please get in touch if you see something you'd like to be involved in or would like to know more about. You'll see find our contact details here on the website or on the Climate and Nature page of the Newsletter.
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website.july_2021.action_plan.pdf
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Daniel Kovalik
American activist and human rights lawyer
Dan Kovalik (born 1968) is a human rights, labor rights lawyer and peace activist. He has contributed to articles CounterPunch, Huffington Post and TeleSUR. He currently teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Instead of taking responsibility for its own failings, the US government, and its compliant media, have taken to trying to scapegoat others... Russia is taking measures to confront the pandemic which the US has failed to do, particularly in the epicentre of the pandemic, Moscow... far exceeds the efforts of the US which has yet to announce plans for mass testing of individuals for the virus...
The US has always prided itself at being number one in the world, and it continues to be number one in many categories – for example, the number of prisoners held in jails, the most mass shootings, and the most costly and ineffective healthcare system in the industrialised world. And now, the US has the dubious distinction of being number one in terms of the number of COVID-19 cases and the number of people killed by COVID-19
Quoted in Western MSM Chastise Russia For Taking Timely COVID Measures Which US & EU Failed to Do Sputnik News, (March 26, 2020)
The US appears to be intentionally spreading chaos throughout strategic portions of the world, leaving virtually no independent state standing to protect their resources, especially oil, from Western exploitation. And, this goal is being achieved with resounding success, while also achieving the subsidiary goal of enriching the behemoth military-industrial complex.
Quoted in Book Review: "The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil" by Dan Kovalik, By John Rachel, Nation of Change -July 30, 2019
Former president Jimmy Carter recently made a profound and damning statement — the United States is the "most warlike nation in the history of the world." Carter contrasted the United States with China, saying that China is building high-speed trains for its people while the United States is putting all of its resources into mass destruction. Where are high-speed trains in the United States, Carter appropriately wondered.
As if to prove Carter's assertion, Vice President Mike Pence told the most recent graduating class at West Point that it "is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for America at some point in your life... You will lead soldiers in combat. It will happen." Clearly referring to Venezuela, Pence continued, "Some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere." In other words, Pence declared, war is inevitable, a certainty for this country.
We must stop our nation's push for relentless war By Oliver Stone and Dan Kovalik, Boston Globe, (July 1, 2019)
Nearly every day, we are bombarded with "news" about problems in Venezuela. And certainly, there are problems, such as food and medicine shortages and skyrocketing inflation. But there is something that is downplayed. What the press downplays, if it mentions it at all, is the very real and significant ways that US sanctions have contributed to these problems facing Venezuela and how these sanctions are making it nearly impossible for Venezuela to solve these problems. What the press also fails to mention is the even greater humanitarian issues confronting Venezuela's next-door neighbor, Colombia – the US' number one ally in the region and, quite bizarrely, the newest "global partner" of NATO from Latin America. And, the US is very much responsible for these issues as well, but in quite different ways. The fact is that, by a number of measures, Colombia has one of the worst human rights situations on earth, but you would never know this from watching the nightly news.
Colombia, the death squads & the US' human rights double standard, RT News (7 June 2018)
I just returned from observing my fourth election in Venezuela in less than a year. Jimmy Carter has called Venezuela's electoral system "the best in the world," and what I witnessed was an inspiring process that guarantees one person, one vote, and includes multiple auditing procedures to ensure a free and fair election. I then came home to the United States to see the inevitable "news" coverage referring to Venezuela as a "dictatorship" and as a country in need of saving. This coverage not only ignores the reality of Venezuela, it ignores the fact that the U.S. is the greatest impediment to democracy in Venezuela, just as the U.S. has been an impediment to democracy throughout Latin America since the end of the 19th century. ...most of Venezuela's poor are better off now than they were before the Bolivarian Revolution of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro... Before Chavez, the sprawling poor barrios which ring the cities were literally not on any government maps, and they had no utilities and no election centers. After Chavez...they were provided with utilities, health service, election stations and, most important, dignity. Chavez even started a world-class music program which has now provided 1 million underprivileged children with music education.
The Real Venezuela Is Not What You Think, Venezuela Analysis, (31 May 2018)
Grateful for a government on their side and flouting U.S. extortion, the poor came out to vote in large numbers for Mr. Maduro.... These are the same poor, by the way, who came down from the mountains in 2002 to demand the return of Hugo Chavez to power after he was overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup and kidnapped. But you never hear the voices of these poor people in the U.S. press. You never hear their side of the story, how they have benefitted from the Bolivarian Revolution and how desperately they do not want to go back to how things were before. While they have been given a voice in Venezuela, it remains muzzled in this country, and by a press which passes off pro-intervention and pro-war propaganda as journalism. It is no wonder the United States continues to careen into one disastrous military adventure after another.
...I am simply baffled by what appears to be the prevailing view in this country... that Russia is somehow a threat to the United States....While I certainly understand it is in the interest of the military-industrial complex... to continue to vilify Russia in order to justify our already-bloated military spending... Russia was our ally in WWII in defeating the Nazis. And, contrary to what most Americans are taught, it was Russia that truly won that war in Europe, having lost over 20 million people to the war... 80 percent of the... Nazi['s] kills... [USA lost ~400,000]... certainly since 1960 and up to the present time, the U.S. has been much more brutal and blood-thirsty than Russia. It is not even a close call...
Listen Liberals: 'Russia Is Not Our Enemy', Huffington Post (15 February 2017)
It is these U.S. wars, along with the U.S.'s over 800 military bases in more than 70 countries (Russia has bases in only one country (Syria) outside the former Soviet Union) which has led to the U.S. rightly being viewed in a poll of people in 65 countries as by far the greatest threat to world peace... President Trump's expressed desire to stop antagonizing Russia and to work with it... should be welcomed as eminently reasonable and indeed necessary to avoid a possible nuclear confrontation. This should also be welcome by an American public whose resources have been drained by the greatest military-spending spree by far on the planet....Certainly, liberals, who at least once stood for peace and for greater social spending, should be in the lead in cheering such overtures instead of drumming up anti-Russian hatred which can only lead to more war and more impoverishment of our society.
Listen Liberals: Russia Is Not Our Enemy, Huffington Post (15 February 2017)
I certainly consume NPR news more than any other mainstream source, usually listening to it at least twice daily, though I abhor its coverage of international events. For these reasons, and with the reader's forbearance, I have chosen to single NPR out to look at how we in the U.S. are collectively misled into ignoring or accepting our own government's atrocities.
This week, NPR has had some significant segments on the world's refugee crisis, the worst since World War II. While Syria is always mentioned in these segments and gets much mention on NPR in general, there is barely a mention of the refugee crisis emanating from Yemen.
And, this is a big omission, for as the International Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) has recently reported, Yemen had more people displaced last year due to conflict than any other country on earth. Thus, 2.2 million people were displaced by the armed conflict in Yemen in 2015, a figure which accounts for over 25% of the 8.6 million people displaced around the globe due to conflict last year. In addition to Yemen's refugee crisis, the IDMC also notes that over 14 million Yemenis are on the verge of starvation as a result of the current conflict.
NPR, Yemen & The Downplaying of U.S. War Crimes, Huffington Post(25 May 2016)
...The only discussion I have found that NPR gave to Yemen in the context of the world refugee crisis was one, solitary piece back on May 11, and that piece was very telling in what it refused to say about the causes for Yemen's mass displacement problem... The result of this disproportionate news coverage is that the listener could very well miss out entirely on any discussion of such issues as U.S.-backed crimes in Yemen. And, even if one does hear a segment or two on this matter, this issue will be easily forgotten and certainly not taken as seriously or treated as urgently as the misdeeds of the U.S.'s ostensible enemies, such as Syria's Assad government, to which NPR gives nearly obsessive attention.
In this way, we in the U.S., who may otherwise be moved to care about the fate of millions in Yemen whose lives are being upended with our own government's complicity, are lulled into complacency, with our comfortable feeling about our nation's inherent goodness fully intact. The result is that those in power in our ostensibly democratic government are given a free hand to aid and abet such atrocities as the near-total destruction of Yemen without the fear of any reprisal or approbation.
Kovalik's articles in the Huffington Post
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