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NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc.) Bill
Published Friday, 15 January, 2016
Tom Powell
This House of Commons Library briefing paper provides information on the NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc.) Bill (Bill 11 2015-16).The Bill aims to reduce the Department of Health's involvement in NHS charities (charities linked to NHS bodies). Specifically it makes provision for the removal of the Secretary of State's long-standing powers to appoint trustees. The Bill also contains provisions to ensure that a new independent Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity can receive royalties in relation to performances or publications of the play Peter Pan (JM Barrie gave the hospital rights to the royalties in 1929).
NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc.) Bill (759 KB, PDF)
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This House of Commons Library briefing paper provides information on the NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc.) Bill (Bill 11 2015–16).
Wendy Morton presented this Bill on 24 June 2015, having come fifth in the Private Members' Bill ballot. The Bill received its Commons Second Reading on Friday 6 November 2015, where the Government and the Labour Opposition confirmed their support for the Bill. No amendments were tabled during a short debate at Committee stage on 2 December 2015. The Bill is due to receive its Commons Report Stage on 22 January 2016.
The Bill aims to reduce the Department of Health's involvement in NHS charities (charities linked to NHS bodies). Specifically it makes provision for the removal of the Secretary of State's long-standing powers (currently under the National Health Service Act 2006, as amended) to appoint trustees. The Bill also contains provisions to ensure that a new independent Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity can receive royalties in relation to performances or publications of the play Peter Pan (JM Barrie gave the hospital rights to the royalties in 1929). This right is currently conferred on the special trustees appointed by the Secretary of State for the existing NHS Charity and the Bill would transfer these rights to the new Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.
NHS charities' funding supports innovation and research and enables the provision of additional facilities, services and equipment. As well as raising their own funds, they are also the automatic recipients of money the public donate to NHS bodies. Like the hospitals they are linked with the history of many hospital charities pre-dates the creation of the NHS in 1948.
There are currently around 260 NHS charities with considerable variation of size across the sector. The top 30 NHS charities accounted for over two‐thirds of total NHS charity income/assets. The vast majority of NHS charities use the corporate trustee model. The Secretary of State has appointed separate trustees to 20 NHS charities, including most of the largest charities. Collectively NHS charities hold around £2 billion of assets and receive a combined annual income of around £330 million.
The Association of NHS Charities and a number of individual NHS charities have called for reform. They have said that the current legislative framework limits NHS charities' freedom to grow and better support their beneficiaries. There are also concerns that Ministerial involvement in these charities may discourage donors, and could be seen to undermine the independence that is required by charity law.
The Government supports the Bill and the Department of Health have prepared Explanatory Notes for the Bill, with the consent of Wendy Morton, which provide further detail on each part of the Bill.
As well as providing a summary of the Bill, this briefing includes further information on the role and legal status of NHS charities, and on proposals to reform their regulation (see section 2). Section 3 of this briefing sets out further background on the relationship between Peter Pan and Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. Section 4 provides an overview of the wider role of charities working with the NHS, although the Bill would not affect these independent charities.
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1 How Do People Injured in Accidents Find Lawyers?
2 What Is the Cost of Not Retaining Personal Injury Clients Fast Enough?
3 How Much Does It Cost to Retain a Personal Injury Claim?
6 How Do You Ask a Potential Accident Client to Retain Your Legal Services by Email?
How Do People Injured in Accidents Find Lawyers?
With the exception of referrals, potential injury clients have no loyalty and will often retain the first accident lawyer who responds. Even accident clients who have been referred to an injury lawyer should be retained immediately.
What Is the Cost of Not Retaining Personal Injury Clients Fast Enough?
If you miss just one small accident case worth only $25,000, that can cost you a legal fee of $8,333 or more depending upon your state.
It has been estimated that personal injury attorneys miss 27% of calls. Even more potential accident clients are lost when they are not signed up fast enough.
If your law firm intake is 100 new cases annually you probably don't even realize that you may have been able to sign up as many as 140 new cases instead of 100. That could cost you $333,320 annually if all of them are worth only $25,000.
But if you miss retaining just one accident case with an injury worth $1 million, you just lost $333,333 or more!
How Much Does It Cost to Retain a Personal Injury Claim?
We used to spend an average of 3-4 hours signing up accident clients including travel time and time meeting with the client. Figuring 10 hours of work to settle a case for an average of $33,333, That means your time is worth $3,333 per hour and it will cost you $10,000-$13,333 just to sign up an accident case. We earn an average hourly rate of 2-3 times that.
If you send a paralegal or investigator to sign up potential new accident clients instead of sending a lawyer, your cost will be less but still expensive and is diverting valuable employee time away from working on cases.
Some law firms insist on sending a lawyer to meet with potential new injury clients while some law firms will send an attorney or paralegal, depending on who is available.
We have a partnership with a law firm that employs 50 people including 12 attorneys. They try to set up an appointment with potential injury clients and often meet with them as far as a week later. When potential new clients can't or don't want to come to the office, they send an attorney to meet with the potential injury client. Occasionally, their attorneys travel as much as 2-3 hours each way.
The problem is that the law firm loses some clients who sign up with other lawyers during the days or a week before meeting with them and it costs a fortune on employee time and lost productivity to meet with potential new accident clients who won't come to the office.
We get calls from potential personal injury clients all day, night and on weekends. When someone is injured in an accident, we want to retain the client immediately, not tomorrow, not even hours later. And we don't want to spend a lot of time doing it.
Unlike our partners, we sign up accident clients within minutes to hours but we only spend 10 minutes after hanging up the phone!
How do you retain a client minutes after speaking with the caller before another lawyer gets the case?
How do you save the time and cost of meeting with potential accident clients?
This image shows the email returned to us by Adobe Sign with the accident retainer agreement signed. Circled in red you can see that the retainer agreement was signed on Saturday at 11:22 AM, seven minutes after it was sent.
How Do You Ask a Potential Accident Client to Retain Your Legal Services by Email?
At some point during the call, the caller usually will ask what the next step is. If they don't ask, we simply say that we would like to represent them. We say to the caller, "You can come to us, we can come to you, or if you prefer, we can email you a retainer agreement which you can sign on your phone or computer and we can be working on your case in 15 minutes." 98% of the time, callers go for the email option.
We get so many more cases than we can handle so we formed a partnership with a large law firm with 50 employees. They still sign up injured accident clients the old way! They insist on meeting every new potential client.
If you want to meet every new client, sign them up by email and meet them later. We found that new clients don't feel like they have to meet us if they can easily reach us on the phone. That's why we always take calls from clients and never put them off.
Now that you know how to retain new accident and injury clients within minutes, find out why you are losing clients you never knew you could've had but lost because you didn't know they called.


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Microscopy Congress
14th-15th Nov 2016
Registration from 8am
London Heathrow Marriott Hotel
2nd Microscopy Congress
UTILISING MICROSCOPICAL TECHNOLOGIES AS A TOOL FOR PROGRESSING MEDICAL RESEARCH
Building on the success of our 2015 Microscopy Congress in London, Global Engage is pleased to announce the 2nd Microscopy Congress, which will be held on 14 – 15 November, 2016 in London.
Attracting experts working in all areas of microscopy for biological sciences, including optical, electron and scanning probe microscopy, super-resolution microscopy, 3D imaging, Cryo-EM and CLEM, the conference will examine the latest developments in technologies and techniques being used for progressing medical research in areas such as diagnostic microscopy, neuroscience, pathology, and developmental biology. The meeting will also focus on image analysis and data handling.
With significant breakthroughs in resolution capabilities brought about by the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners, this is an exciting time to be working in microscopy. Not only is it one of the most fundamental techniques used by biologists, but microscopy is also facilitating crucial advances in healthcare and drug discovery, allowing scientists to observe the micro world in ever increasing detail.
Andreas Engel
Professor, Department of Bionanoscience, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Peter Friedl
Professor, Dept. Cell Biology, Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; GU Medical Oncology, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Paula da Fonseca
Group Leader, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Christian Eggeling
Professor of Molecular Immunology, MRC Human Immunology Unit & Scientific Director, Wolfson Imaging Centre Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
Martin Booth
Professor in Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK
Royal Society University Research Fellow, Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, UK
Should you be an expert in developing microscopy technologies and platforms, or a scientist using microscopy to further medical research, the conference will be an excellent opportunity to learn, share, discuss and engage with the most current research and technology in microscopy. During the two-day conference, there will be networking, breaks to promote interaction with your peers, expert-led case study presentations, and a dynamic exhibition room filled with technology providers showcasing their technologies and solutions.
Instrumentation, Techniques and Developments
Examining the latest developments in optical and electron microscopy and techniques such as labelling strategies and sample preparation.
Latest developments in optical and electron microscopy
TEM/STEM
Cryo-EM and immersion freezing
Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD)
Advanced fluorescence imaging
Correlative light electron microscopy (CLEM)
Digital / virtual microscopy
3D imaging and tomography
Advances in sample preparation techniques
Labelling strategies
Light sheet microscopy
High-throughput microscopy
Super Resolution Microscopy
We will cover the updates in techniques and developments in super resolution microscopy since the significant breakthrough in resolution capabilities brought about by the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners.
Latest techniques and developments in super resolution microscopy
Deterministic super-resolution
STED microscopy
Stochastic super-resolution – BALM, (d)STORM, PALM, SPDM, FPALM, etc.
Structured illumination
Microscopy Applications in the Biological Sciences
Discover the latest developments in the technologies and techniques being used for progressing medical research in areas such as diagnostic microscopy, neuroscience, pathology, and developmental biology.
Diagnostic microscopy and endoscopy
Live cell imaging / medical imaging / in vivo imaging / intravital microscopy
Deep tissue imaging
Pathology and oncology
Developmental biology / monitoring cell growth
Single molecule imaging
Imaging of nuclear nanostructure
Image Processing and Data Analysis
Tools and techniques that ensure image acquisition and processing yield the best possible image data to enable meaningful and successful analysis.
Quantitative imaging
Image processing techniques
Bioimage analysis tools
Image metadata analysis
Big data handling
Image resolution and biomedical information
Get free resources and updates
For updates on the congress agenda, plus free resources and reports as and when our speakers authorise their release, please complete this quick form.
Microscopy Newsletter
Peter Dedecker
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Belgium
Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin
Professor, Institut of Pasteur, France
Thomas Huser
Professor of Physics, Biomolecular Photonics, Department of Physics, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Musa Mhlanga
Honorary Research Professor, Division of Chemical Systems & Synthetic Biology, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Theo Lasser
Professor, Head of Laboratoire d'Optique Biomedicale, EPFL, Switzerland
Philip Tinnefeld
Professor, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Ralf Jungmann
Group Leader, Molecular Imaging and Bionanotechnology, LMU Munich and MPI of Biochemistry, Germany
Jason Swedlow
Professor of Quantitative Cell Biology, Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee, UK
Ardan Patwardhan
Coordinator – cellular structure & PDBe production, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
Grégory Giannone
CNRS Research Director, University of Bordeaux, France
Victoria Birkedal
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University, Denmark
Ida Daniela Perrotta
Chief Technician and Laboratory Manager of Transmission Electron Microcopy (TEM) Unit, Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis (CM2), Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Science – University of Calabria, Italy
Nadine Peyriéras
Head, BioEmergences Laboratory, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Christoph Cremer
Professor, Group Leader, Super Resolution Microscopy, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Mainz; Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University, Germany
Ben Giepmans
Principle Investigator, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands
Erik Meijering
Associate Professor of Bioimage Analysis, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Rafael Carazo Salas
Group Leader, Genetics Department and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, UK
Alberto Diaspro
Director of the Department of Nanophysics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Professor of Fungal Cell Biology, Institute of Inflammation and Repair, University of Manchester, UK
Alberto Luini
Principal Investigator, Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council of Italy
Paul French
Professor, Photonics Group, Physics Department & Vice Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, UK
Niek Van Hulst
ICREA Professor, ICFO – the Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
Mervyn Miles
Professor of Physics, Director of the Centre for Nanoscience & Quantum Information, University of Bristol, UK
Professor, Chair of Biophotonics, SIPBS, University of Strathclyde, UK
Emmanuel Beaurepaire
Research Director – CNRS, Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences, École Polytechnique, University of Paris–Saclay, France
James R Smith
Senior Research Fellow, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, UK
Alessandra Cambi
Professor, Chair of the Cell Biology Department, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen
University Lecturer, Adjunct Professor, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Deborah Kelly
Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, USA
Chi-Kuang Sun
Distinguished Professor, Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics and Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Christian Colliex
CNRS Emeritus Research Director, Solid State Physics Laboratory, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
Peter J. Peters
Director of The Maastricht Multimodal Molecular Imaging institute, Professor of Nanobiology, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Abraham Koster
Professor, Electron Microscopy, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands
Yves Mely
Professor and Director, Laboratory of Biophotonics and Pharmacology, CNRS, France
This congress will be an excellent opportunity for anyone using microscopy to further medical Research or developing microscopy technologies and platforms to learn share, discuss and engage with the most current research and technology. Keynote Presentations and expert speakers include:
3DEM: Tool of choice for efficient high-resolution analyses of cellular components, Andreas Engel, Professor, Department of Bionanoscience and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Super-resolution light microscopy: challenges for medical research, Christoph Cremer, Professor, Group Leader, Super Resolution Microscopy, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Mainz; Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University, Germany
High resolution cryo-EM as a new tool for therapeutic drug discovery, Paula da Fonseca, Group Leader, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Multi-parameter intravital microscopy of cancer invasion and therapy response, Peter Friedl, Professor, Dept. Cell Biology, Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; GU Medical Oncology, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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We are grateful for their support and contribution to the conference
Digital Pathology & AI Congress
2nd-3rd Dec 2020
The conference will take place at the London Heathrow Marriott Hotel
UB3 5AN
One of the leading London Heathrow hotels, the London Heathrow Marriott is near Heathrow Airport with easy access to motorways and connected to London in 15 minutes via the Heathrow Express. Wake up in noise-free guest rooms complete with luxury bedding. Dine in the Tuscany Ristorante, awarded an AA Rosette for culinary excellence, or try the Steak House or sports bar if you prefer. The hotel's recently refurbished Leisure club with gym, indoor pool, sauna, steam room and spa is the ideal place to wind down after a day traveling or get invigorated before a conference day.
The hotel has been awarded a Green Tourism Gold Award as well as their restaurants AA Rosette.
Gettting there:
London Heathrow Airport – LHR
Airport shuttle service, scheduled, fee: 4.5 GBP (one way), 8 GBP (return ticket)
Shuttle Phone: 44 20 8754 7344
For bus map, click here
Estimated taxi fare: 18 GBP (one way)
From Terminals 1& 3: follow exit signs and go through tunnel staying in the right-hand lane. Follow signs for A4 local traffic, take 3rd exit at Emirates Roundabout sign posted A4 Central London. Go through the traffic lights at the top and continue about 0.5 miles through a further set of lights. The hotel is on the left hand side. From Terminal 4: follow exit signs taking the A30 towards Central London for 2 miles. Take A312 to Hayes for 1/2 a mile and then the A4 towards Heathrow Terminal 1 & 3 and continue for 1/2 a mile. The hotel is on the right hand side.
On-site parking, fee: 5 GBP daily
For any further information contact hotel concierge 0044 20 8990 110
Option 1 – Please phone +44 (0) 1865 849841 and we will take your details over the phone
Register now to ensure your place
Poster presentation sessions will take place in breaks and alongside the other breakout sessions of the conference. Your presentation will be displayed in a dedicated area, with the other accepted posters from industry and academic presenters.
We also issue a poster eBook to all attendees with your full abstract in and can share your poster as a PDF after the meeting if you desire (optional).
Whether looking for funding, employment opportunities or simply wanting to share your work with a like-minded and focused group, these are an excellent way to join the heart of this congress.
In order to present a poster at the forum you need to be registered as a delegate. Please note that there is limited space available and poster space is assigned on a first come first served basis (subject to checks and successful registration).
We charge an admin fee of £100 to industry delegates to present, that goes towards the shared cost of providing the poster presentation area and display boards, guides etc. This fee is waived for those representing academic institutions and not for profit organisations.
We will require the form (downloadable below) to be submitted by the 28th of October. This is the formal deadline however space is another limiting factor so early application is recommended. Therefore please contact us with any questions you have as soon as possible.
To submit your poster please complete the form below.
Posters should be presented as A0 or US equivalent, size E (841mm x 1189mm or 34 x 44 inches respectively) in portrait orientation. In order to present a poster at the forum, you need to be registered as a delegate.
Submit Poster Abstract
Contributing Author(s)*
Include your email address in poster abstract book?*
Poster Title*
Abstract (300 words approx.)*
Posters should be sized A0 (841mm x 1189mm) in portrait orientation. We must receive the abstract on or before 28th October 2016*. Abstracts received after this time may not be accepted so please submit your abstract at your earliest opportunity. Global Engage will provide boards and fixings. Delegates are responsible for bringing the copy of their poster to be presented. If you wish a pdf copy of your poster to be distributed after the meeting to all attendees, please send the file to scott@globalengage.co.uk *Please note – Global Engage reserves the right to change the date for submission without notice if all available poster spaces are filled prior to the above date.
Your poster submission has been received. We will contact you shortly.
Comments about last year's meeting
Opportunities to network
It was well organised with lots of opportunities for networking and the talks were heterogeneous.
Anja A. Kühl
Flow Cytometry and Light microscopy Core Facility Manager, Charité –iPATH.Berlin
Interesting talks
I heard some interesting talks, met interesting people and saw some useful equipment at the sponsorship stands.
Michael Duchen
Professor of Physiology, Department of Cell and Development Biology, University College London
I like the overall organization of the Congress and I think the schedule was established well. In just two days there were a lot of lectures and still enough time for poster presentations, visiting the exhibitors and discussions with the experts.
Polona Mrak
Researcher, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Biology, University Of Ljubljana
We are grateful for the support of our sponsors who have helped us develop this conference
Smaract
SmarAct develops, produces and distributes piezo-based micro- and nanopositioners, advanced control systems and micro-tools.
Furthermore, we manufacture miniaturized manipulation systems, ranging fro single linear axes and rotary positioners to XY tables and customized multi-manipulator systems. Our microscopy products, which can be applied in normal pressure as well as in vacuum conditions, are used in a wide range of industries.
Our customers benefit from our over 10 years of experience in several scientific fields.
AHF analysentechnik AG focuses mainly on the production and distribution of the following components: Optical filters for Super-Resolution, TIRF, RAMAN-, Fluorescence-Microscopy as well as High-End Light-Sources for Microscopy.
Besides we offer Custom-Made-Filters and Light Sources from small to high quantities.
We advise independently, because AHF offers products from all leading international manufacturers. Our philosophy is to offer the best possible solution for the needs of our customers.
NKT Photonics
NKT Photonics is the leading supplier of high performance fiber lasers and photonic crystal fibers. Our main markets are within imaging, sensing and material processing. Our products include OCT imaging systems, pulsed lasers, such as supercontinuum sources, low noise fiber lasers, distributed temperature sensing systems and a wide range of specialty fibers. NKT Photonics has its headquarters in Denmark with sales and service worldwide. NKT Photonics is wholly owned by NKT Holding A/S.
Attocube
Photometrics designs and manufactures high performance CMOS, EMCCD and CCD cameras for life sciences. The original architect of the world's first scientific-grade microscopy EMCCD camera, Photometrics has led the industry for decades with state-of-the-art imaging instrumentation. QImaging designs and manufactures user friendly sCMOS, CCD and EMCCD cameras for a variety of life science applications. These affordable, versatile digital solutions offer ease of use and reliability for quantitative image analysis and high resolution image acquisition for publication.
Oxford Nanoimaging
Media Cybernetics
CoolLED have specialised in fluorescence microscopy since it introduced the first commercially available LED illumination system in 2006. LEDs are now the system of choice because they are more stable, longer lasting, and energy efficient than traditional mercury based illuminators as well as offering superior safety and environmental features. CoolLED offers a comprehensive range of LED illumination systems for bioscience and clinical microscopy.
Laserlines
Laser Lines, a leading supplier of lasers for microscopy, will be exhibiting Cobolt's range of compact CW DPSS and diode lasers, including the new modulated DPL 532 & 561 nm lasers, and ultrafast fibre and OPO systems from Radiantis and KMLabs, ideal for multi-photon microscopy. Also on show will be Gentec-EO laser power meters, spectrometers, eyewear and optical filters.
Stratech
Stratech supply over 1.8 million specialist life science research tools for researchers who need consistent, reproducible results. They have built an excellent reputation over 34 years for supplying high quality, competitively priced, reliable products. They are a family run business dedicated to delivering exceptional product quality with unbeatable technical support.
Cosmos Biomedical
Cosmos Biomedical Ltd is a privately owned diagnostic medical company founded in 2003 based in the Midlands. The company has been supplying quality diagnostics to NHS Pathology labs, Blood transfusion labs, Food testing labs, University Research, veterinary labs and pharmaceutical labs for well over ten years. The company also provides on-line Pathology Education courses for Microbiology and Blood Science labs.
KEYENCE has steadily grown since 1974 to become an innovative leader in the development and manufacturing of inspection equipment worldwide. Our innovative products not only meet current needs but also future customer requirements in the manufacturing and R&D sectors. The VHX-5000 Series digital optical microscope offers a large depth-of-field and advanced measurement capabilities for inspection and failure analysis processes. Contact us or speak to one of our team for more info and a free demonstration.
Nanomagnetics
NANOMANYETİK BİLİMSEL CİHAZLAR LTD. (NMI) is one of the world leading companies in the field of Scanning Probe Microscopes and measurement systems for various field of science and technology. Founded in 1999 as the first nanotechnology spin off in Turkey, markets its products in the world under NanoMagnetics Instruments Ltd. brand, which is a fully owned subsidiary.
A.P.E
APE GmbH is a worldwide operating developer and manufacturer of instruments for the generation of ultrashort laser pulses with widely tunable wavelength as well as devices for pulse measurement and management. APE´s product portfolio ranges from autocorrelators to harmonic generators, from acoustooptics to synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillators (OPOs), ideal light source solutions for various multiphoton microscopy variants, such as MPE, and coherent RAMAN microscopy, e.g. CARS and SRS.
Twenty Minute Prearranged One-to-One Meetings
You will be able to select which delegates you would like to meet in a series of prearranged twenty-minute one-to-one meetings, held during breakout sessions from the main conference agenda. In order to assist you with your choices, ten days before the conference we will provide you with profiles of all attending delegates and once you have made your choices we will combine this with delegate choices to provide you with a confirmed meetings schedule for the conference. Our conference team will be available at the sessions to ensure all your meetings take place on time.
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How Do I Know if I've Hit Rock Bottom?
How Do I Know if I've Hit Rock Bottom?
Rock bottom is a complicated concept. Many people assume that rock bottom must include serious consequences such as financial problems, homelessness, and jail time or legal problems. However, rock bottom is a different experience for everyone and can be entirely internal.
Peg O'Connor, in a 2014 Psychology Today article entitled What's Wrong With 'Rock Bottom', explains, "The expression, 'hit rock bottom,' was popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous and has become part of our common language. Usually it means that a person has reached a point where there is nothing else to lose. There is no lower place to fall to; you've reached the rock bottom. The landing is so painful and jarring, we believe, that it just may be enough to motivate a person to change. Pain can be a powerful motivator, and clearly this is one trajectory that recovery may take." The problem is that this experience in entirely different for each individual and there is no accepted point of when someone has hit rock bottom.
Rock bottom is generally thought of as a point in one's life when things can't possibly get any worse. However, anyone who has struggled with the disease of addiction for a long enough period of time recognized that things can always get worse the longer they drink or use drugs. There is no bedrock when we can't continue digging. As long as we are caught up in the cycle of addiction, we will continue to plumb the depths of suffering as a result of our powerlessness over drugs and alcohol.
Recent research has shown that rock bottom may be a destructive concept because it makes men and women suffering from addiction think that things need to get worse before they reach out for help. Megan Grant, in a 2017 article for The Bustle entitled The Complicated Psychology of 'Hitting Rock Bottom', explains, "would an oncologist tell a patient to wait until the cancer has metastasized before they sought treatment? No. So why would we behave as such with other illnesses, like addiction? (Yes, addiction is an illness.) Of course, these scenarios are not the same thing, but it raises an important question: why wait until life can't get any worse to see how we could make it better?" The sooner we seek help, the more likely we will be to successfully recover. We cannot wait until addiction has consumed us entirely before we reach out for help.


In recent news, Snapchat has partnered up with 4 news discovery platforms: Storyful, NewsWhip, SAM Desk and Tagboard. All of these platforms a re news-orientated, targeting regularly updated content which can be distributed globally.
This is another bold venture for Snapchat considering earlier falls in the prior months of app usage, with celebrities like Kylie Jenner admitting they no longer use the app as much. Earlier research highlighted only 20% of Snapchat users (on average) actually consumed content from publisher's Discover edition daily (UK Business Insider). Although, this was identified in January, and the app itself has come a long, long way since then. From controversial updates, to geo-filters, and now further improvement of their Story Kit.
This partnership essentially means all four platforms are entitled to access and distribution of news content – all posted within the app, of course. Alongside this, the four platforms are entitled to access of selected shared content on the Discover channel. This select group includes: NBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, NowThisNews, and The Economist. Finally, there is also access to Snapchat's in-house curated content.
Storyful is a tool used for sourcing, verifying, and acquiring, social content for brands and clients. In this particular case, this is will be social video content. Storyful intends to leverage Snapchat's API to create a video content feed including geolocation and time-stamping. This will create the possibility for the platform to sequence breaking news events with the videos sourced from Snapchat.
2. NewsWhip prioritises the importance of insights and trends that impact audiences on a global scale. Whether this be through websites, stories, and general posts across the world. From this, they are able to predict news story engagement for clients and brands.
3. SAM Desk is an artificial intelligence tool, targeting breaking news from social media data. From this, SAM Desk groups targeted social content from their algorithms to alert your company or brand with alerts and context surrounding developing news stories and/or events worldwide.
4. Finally, Tagboard is typically used by broadcasting networks, brands and teams to produce quality social content for the client's own purposes.
With solid partnerships between dynamic platforms, Snapchat will change the game of published content on their discover channel. Despite prior anxieties of Snapchat's discover section, they seem to show no fear regarding this. Instead, they are fighting back the rumours by improving their content and investing in help. Finally, they are investing more time (and money) in their published content.


Clayton Patterson's life changed dramatically on the night of August 6-7, 1988 when he gained notoriety for videotaping the Tompkins Square Park police riot in which the NYPD violently clashed with protesters and park dwellers until the sun came up the next day. In what was the first of many legal cases for Patterson concerning artists' rights to their work and freedom of expression, he was arrested and jailed for refusing to give up his tape which is the only concrete account of what really happened that night. The actions of officers against neighborhood residents, homeless individuals, affordable housing advocates, anarchists, squatters, and others resulted in the filing of over 100 complaints of police brutality. This footage was important evidence in the investigations and legal proceedings that followed, and several officers were disciplined or criminally indicted. The city also paid an estimated $2-3 million in settlements to the injured. Despite the tape's infamy, few have ever actually seen it…especially in its entirety. Here, on the 25th anniversary of its creation, we're going to change that.
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As from North Korea economy bone, hints of relaxation isolation | Business and economic news
By Tammy Waldman
When a mysterious virus got sick people in China in begin 2020 became North Korea the first country to seal its borders from the world.
After almost two years of in the neighbourhood-total isolation because of what the world Now that we know it's COVID-19, there are signs that Kim Jong Un's secret regime is cautious steps to loosen controls while the country struggles with severe economic deprivation after a collapse in trade with China.
South Korea's spy agency last week told lawmakers it was north in talk with China and Russia over to resume key cross-border train routes already this month and that the authorities in increased shipments accepted in recent months of emergency supplies.
The briefing came after the release of Chinese customs data shows that total trade between the allies more then doubled in September to $69.9 million.
The numbers are still a fraction of the pre-pandemic peak, with total trade in the first nine months of this year reaches $185.3 million, compared met $1.95 billion in same period in 2020.
The north, whose ill health system would struggle to deal with a major COVID-19 outbreak has not yet reported a single case of the virus, a record doubted by many observers given the country's vast land border with China.
The World Health Organization also announced last month it resumed shipments of medical supplies to the country, after Pyongyang earlier this year an offer declined of three million doses of the Chinese-made Sinovac vaccine.
North Korea trusts on China for more than 90 percent of to be trade, with border towns such as Dandong serve as key gates between the two sides [File: Dake Kang/AP]
Tim Peters, a Christian counselor who runs Helping Hands Korea in Seoul, told Al Jazeera he had observed a "very limited opening" of cross-border transport" since the summer.
"I am aware of of this because sure of our humanitarian shipments were able to get around die time over the border be brought to very vulnerable burgers", said Peters, adding that his organization was working outside government channels and trusted on "unofficial methods".
Another helper, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Al Jazeera that their organization is no help in could have gotten the country and that any relaxation of restrictions seemed to be limited to high level official trade.
"I realize all things" in North Korea is effectively controlled by the government, but there are degrees of control, and from what I see, it seems that whatever trade is happening is at a pretty high level," said the source, referring to the north by its official name of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea.
"It doesn't seem like 'regular'traders have been able to resume more pedestrian trading activities."
appalling conditions
Get Accurate information out of North Korea is notoriously difficult because of the regime's tight control of the country and has become even more difficult since the pandemic caused diplomats and aid organizations leave the country en masse last year.
Few observers expect the north, long known as the 'hermit kingdom', to open up up anywhere at any time soon, and some analysts warn: against over-interpretation of recent characters of a cautious relaxation of controls.
"Trade figures between China and North Korea obviously do not take into account" met for smuggling, and official numbers have long been manipulated by Chinese customs, which is why I don't think we should use these as robust data points for analysis," says Theo Clement, adjunct lecturer at Pyongyang University of Science and technology and an advisor who conducted fieldwork on the border between China and the DPRK.
"About China-DPRK trade, Although various proxies are useful to get an idea of the trade activity between the two countries, nothing beats qualitative fieldwork and we are not going to do that except for Chinese researchers access the border and set up interview anytime soon' he told Al Jazeera.
However, there is broad consensus that the country facing appalling economic conditions.
North Korea counts on China for more than 90 percent of to be trade, including import of vital goods such as grains, fertilizers and agriculture equipment, And his population has trusted for a long time on cross-border smuggling and black markets as a supplement to expired state rationing system.
In addition to the pandemic isolation, the North economy has been hard hit extreme weather and international sanctions aimed at suppressing the regime's nuclear and missile programs.
The countries economy contracted 4.5 percent last year, the steepest decline in over two decades, according to a July estimate by the power station bank.
Even before the pandemic, the United Nations estimates that: more then one in four North Koreans suffered from malnutrition.
In July, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization predicted the country could fall short of his food needs met 860,000 ton in 2021.
Kim, the third member of to be family until rule the secret state, has itself acknowledged the hardships facing to be population, and even compares the crisis met the Korean War of 1950-1953.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has acknowledged growing hardship in the country [File: KCNA/Reuters]
"Even when the harvests are good, North Korea is barely self-sufficient in grain even at the reduced levels on die it calculates," Alastair Morgan, who served as ambassador to the United Kingdom in the north between 2005 and 2008, Al Jazeera said.
"It's not clear for me that every branch of North Korean industry – including the relatively successful light industry – is completely self-sufficient of could be."
Morgan said he doubted of the North would do that . give up on trying to keep the virus out, but the known authorities may not have expected this how long would the pandemic last.
"The consequences of closing the air, Nations – met intervals – sea borders will probably be very clear in the country," he said.
Peters, the aid worker, said the pandemic isolation had caused informal markets, known as jangmadang, become "paralyzed" in obtaining the necessary goods to make available to the public, which has made hardship for normal people all the more grave".
Potential liability
Although the north economy is far behind behind Which of neighboring South Korea for For decades Kim oversaw modest growth in the first years after he took power according to the death of to be father in 2011.
In a speech on the occasion of the birthday of the ruling Workers' Party last month, Kim emphasized the need improve people's living conditions, having previously admitted that his five-year had an economic plan failed.
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, co-editor of North Korean Economy Watch, told Al Jazeera that Kim may be feeling… more full of confidence to"begin to open upafter the authorities quarantine facilities in construction on the border.
"In the long-term" run, I think the economic downturn has significant potential risk met entails, although it is bad hard say," Katzeff Silberstein said. "The North Korean public has endured hard times before, but it's different story when the state first spends years sending the signal that the public should expect living conditions to improve, only to see them deteriorate."
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Vietnam confirms appointment of security official as next Prime Minister
The selection of a career security official suggests a continuation of the Party's hard line on corruption and dissent.
Vietnam has confirmed its top leadership appointments for the coming five years, selecting a career member of the security forces to serve as the country's next prime minister.
On Monday, Vietnam's National Assembly voted to make Pham Minh Chinh the new head of government, while shuffling his predecessor Nguyen Xuan Phuc over to the largely ceremonial post of president.
Coming a week after the country's nearly 500 lawmakers approved Vuong Dinh Hue, an experienced economist, as the next chairman of the National Assembly, the votes completed the quinquennial renewal of Vietnam's four highest ranking leadership posts.
Lacking a paramount leader, Vietnam is led by the "four pillars": the general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), the prime minister, the president, and the chair of the National Assembly.
None of Monday's selections was surprising; the votes affirmed selections that the VCP made during its 13th Party Congress, which were leaked to the press even before the congress met in late January.
he most dramatic development at the congress was the appointment of the 76-year-old Nguyen Phu Trong to an unusual third term as General Secretary of the VCP, primus inter pares of the four top leadership posts.
Trong will now be seconded by Chinh, 14 years his junior, who has risen vertically through Vietnam's powerful security apparatus. He was formerly head of the VCP's Central Organization Commission, which is involved with internal personnel management, and also served as deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security, which is tasked with everyday policing and responsible for the Party's recent harsh crackdown on dissent.
Chinh is also notable for being the Vietnamese prime minister not to have previously served as a deputy prime minister since the launch of the doi moi economic reforms in 1986 – another norm that was stretched at this year's Congress. One of the reasons for these diversions from the norm, analysts have argued, was the difficulty in balancing the various internal factions within the Party, something that also explained Trong's appointment to an unexpected third term as Party chief.
The appointment of Chinh suggests that the coming five years is unlikely to be marked by any significant breaks in Vietnam's political trajectory. As Zachary Abuza wrote in these pages in February, there was "a tremendous degree of continuity in both the composition of the new Politburo, the highest decision making body in the country, and the policies it is expected to pursue."
The selection of a security official to head the Vietnamese government until 2026 suggests a continuation of the "blazing furnace" campaign to eradicate corruption, a hallmark of Trong's second term as VCP chief, as well as a continuation of the Party's recent harsh repression of the country's pro-democracy movement. As Abuza wrote, "the 13th Politburo still reflects Trong's imprimatur, including the Party's recent brutal crackdown on dissent."
As prime minister, Chinh will face a host of challenges, from economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic to the perennial dilemma of how to handle relations with China, a hugely important economic partner with which Vietnam nonetheless has a host of issues, from disputes in the South China Sea to the effect of Chinese dams on the Mekong Delta, all of which have made China deeply unpopular with a large swathe of the Vietnamese public.
Indeed, this is something with which Chinh has some experience. From 2011 to 2015, he served as Party chief in Quang Ninh province, which borders China. During that time, he pushed for the establishment of a Special Economic Zone, one of three that were planned for the northern, central, and southern regions of the country. In 2018, the SEZs became the subject of widespread protests out of fear that they would act as bridgeheads for a Chinese colonization of Vietnam, forcing the government to cancel them.
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There are four types of such formulations, differentiated by the concentration of an active substance (400, IU, 1000IU, 200IU, and 5,000IU) and form (soft gels or tablets). The product is advertised as free of artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives. It also lacks the most common allergens such as yeast, starch, milk, gluten, or fish.
This formula is designed for adults concerned with their overall health. Vitamin D deficiency is very common in the USA and has become increasingly more alarming in recent years as a result of a poor diet or insufficient sun exposure. Vitamin D supplements have become a very popular alternative recommended as an effective way to increase the levels of this nutrient in the body and prevent numerous conditions that result from such a deficiency.
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The New Cool: Finding jazz inspiration in the music library
KNKX Public Radio | By Abe Beeson
Published July 29, 2020 at 10:34 AM PDT
ATA Records album cover, Neil Innes and Pete Williams
Instrumental scene setters and mood music — the next generation.";
Originally created for commercial use, hidden gems in music libraries have inspired a new generation of musicians producing their own versions of these odd but ubiquitous musical interludes. Among them are the Englishmen of ATA Records, and you'll hear their new-but-retro creation Saturday on The New Cool.
Sometimes called "production music", library music is intended for use in film, television, radio and other media for background. These libraries of incidental theme music are completely owned by the publishers, done on a work for hire basis by so-called "studio musicians".
Though the song titles or performers are mostly unknown, these songs can become part of our cultural landscape. Television football themes, educational film music, commercial jingles, classic film score material and even drive-in movie promos are recognizable to generations.
Library music's recent revival has focused largely on European companies like England's KPM, Bruton Music, DeWolfe and others, and the groovy '60s beat and early electronica they produced.
Often played by anonymous but expert musicians, legendary film composer Ennio Morricone made library music, too. Classic library cues have found new life in films by Quentin Tarantino and others, and hip-hop producers find rare breakbeat gems to sample.
Some modern musicians are following in the footsteps of these little-known musical icons. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Shawn Lee has released several albums directly influenced by library music, and he recently produced a fascinating documentary on the subject.
Which brings us to the new library music-inspired album from Neil Innes and Pete Williams, label heads who are also now recording as ATA Records. Their new album, The Library Archives Vol. 1, is their distillation of the funky, atmospheric and — as they say — "downright weird output" of these libraries.
From the unique sound of the vibraslap to echoes of '60s monster movies, this ATA Records collection has everything a library fan could want. Titles like "Midnight Heist" and "Wiretap" evoke funky '70s police action. "Siren's Sea" brings an acoustic, vocal interlude of retro romance. The funky beat of "Duck Strut" may remind you of Quincy Jones' film score output.
The album's lead song, "Whack, Slap & Blow" (for the actions of the musicians, naturally) comes on like Gangbusters with punchy horns that brings to mind the vintage coming attractions theme, "Funky Fanfare." Drummers establish a cool Latin rhythm, with soulful Hammond organ supporting a groovy theme not so different from the modern jazz of West Coast boogaloo masters The Greyboy Allstars.
Tension builds and releases, there's a sample-bait drum break for DJs, and the triumphant repeating theme perfect for strutting down the street looking for bad guys or just a good time.
The album is credited to ATA Records, not the musicians. Innes and Williams probably want as much personal attention as the nearly forgotten musicians who made this unforgettable music. The music is the point, after all.
You'll surely hear my copy of The Library Archives Vol. 1 at my next opportunity to DJ for a live audience — patience, my friends. ATA Records has been building this collection piece by piece over a few years and show no signs of slowing down, but the road to match KPM's 700 albums (and still growing!) is a long one. Join us on The New Cool for a few steps of that journey Saturday on KNKX.
The New Cool airs Saturdays from 3 to 5 p.m., hosted by Abe Beeson and produced by KNKX Public Radio in Seattle.
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Fu uno dei fondatori del cinema russo e tra i più importanti registi del periodo prerivoluzionario, durante il quale diresse numerosi film, tratti di preferenza dai classici della letteratura russa. Convinto assertore del realismo psicologico, Protazanov assegnava alla recitazione dell'attore un ruolo di fondamentale importanza, considerandola come parte attiva alla creazione dell'opera cinematografica.

Il suo film più valido del periodo prerivoluzionario è Otec Sergij (Padre Sergio, del 1918) dal racconto omonimo di Lev Tolstoj. Dal 1920 al 1923 Protazanov lavorò a Parigi e a Berlino. Tornato in patria diresse un bizzarro film di fantascienza: Аėlita (del 1924), dedicandosi poi a film ispirati alla nuova tematica politica ma vincolati a uno stile ormai sorpassato.

Il suo migliore film sonoro fu Bespridannica (Senza dote, del 1936) tratto dall'omonimo dramma di Aleksandr Nikolaevič Ostrovskij.

Filmografia (parziale)

Regista

La fontana di Bachčisaraj (1909)
Uchod velikovo starca (1912)
Ključi sčast'ja (1913)
La canzone del forzato (Pesnja katoržanina)
La dama di picche (Pikovaja dama) (1916)
Vo vlasti grecha (1916)
Ženščina s kinžalom (1916)
Satana likujuščij (Satana trionfante)
Prokuror (Прокурор) (1917)
Otec Sergij, co-regia di Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Volkov (1918)
Maljutka Elli (1918)
Aėlita (Аэлита) (1924)
Ego prizyv (La sua vocazione) (1925)
Il sarto di Toržok (Закройщик из Торжка) (1925)
Process o trёch millionach (Процесс о трёх миллионах) (1926)
Sorok pervyj (L'isola della morte) (1927)
Čelovek iz restorana (1927)
Don Diego i Pelageja (1928)
Belyj orël (Белый орёл) (1928)
Činy i ljudi (1929)
Prazdnik svjatogo Iorgena (La festa di San Giorgio)
Tommi (1931)
Marionetki (1933)
O strannostjach ljubvi (1936)
Bespridannica (Senza dote) (1936)
Salavat Julaev (Салават Юлаев) (1941)
Nasreddin v Buchare (Nasreddin a Bukhara)

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Protazanov
Sepolti nel cimitero di Novodevičij

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3DS fans have plenty to look forward to over the next few months, and the Wii U won't go neglected, either.
Watch the Nintendo Direct replay here.
We were pleased to see a new Wii U announce during today's Nintendo Direct: Paper Mario: Color Splash is coming to Wii U this year, confirming a January leak.
Star Fox Zero blessed us with a new trailer and the news that Miyamoto's Project Guard will be bundled with it as Star Fox Guard.
Nintendo didn't have anything new to say about Pokken Tournament, but did release a trailer.
The game formerly known as Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem, Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE, is coming in June.
Wii U favourite Splatoon isn't quite finished, Nintendo said, and will receive two more free updates.
Speaking of updates, Super Mario Maker's getting one, too. It adds locked doors and spike columns.
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games launches on 3DS on March 18. The Wii U version is set for June 24.
Nintendo announced a free downloadable game for 3DS and Wii U called Mini Mario & Friends Amiibo Challenge, which nobody seems especially interested in, to be honest.
To 3DS exclusives now: huge news for Monster Hunter fans as Monster Hunter Generations, the new name for Monster HUnter X, was confirmed for western release. There's a trailer and details of some bonus Fire Emblem content through that link, too.
The very cute Kirby: Planet Robobot was announced for June release, along with a new series of Amiibo.
The controversial Metroid Prime: Federation Force got a look-in with a new trailer, as well as some pointed comments from the Metroid Prime series producer on its place in the canon.
For those in Europe, Fire Emblem Fates has a release date at last.
Disney Art Academy releases on 3DS on May 13 in North America and July 15 in Europe.
A new series of The next series of Animal Crossing Amiibo Cards will release in June, as will a Summer Outfit Isabelle Amiibo.
Free demos for Yokai Watch and Hyrule Warriors Legends were released on the 3DS eShop following the presentation. Speaking of Hyrule Warriors Legends, it will be supported by a four-drop DLC season pass including Medli from Wind Waker.
Possibly the most intriguing 3DS news was a new title from Game Freak, the developer of Pokemon. This new one is called Pocket Card Jockey, and involves playing fast-paced Solitaire to propel your chosen steed along a horse racing track. Look for it on the 3DS eShop in May.
Nintendo also announced a new entry in the Rhythm Heaven series for 3DS, called Rhythm Heaven Megamix. Unfortunately, we were only given a "later this year" release window but given this presentation was all about the next few months there'll probably be a follow up announce soon.
The New 3DS Virtual Console now supports a pack of SNES titles. Some are available right now while others are coming soon.
We got a new trailer for Azure Striker Gunvolt 2, but still no release window beyond northern summer. The first game is on sale on the 3DS eShop through June 1, though. So that's nice.


During pregnancy, support and advice reassures the expectant mother within this time of emotional change. When addressing health, physical and physiological wellbeing, relaxation plays an important role, particularly at a time of such transition. In addition to massage, breathing exercises are beneficial, particularly during the 3rd trimester as the baby begins to grow and may restrict the diaphragm.
Massage during pregnancy is an area of support for the expectant mother which is natural, comforting, and produces a feeling of well-being. Relaxation is an important factor to consider during the whole gestation period. Allowing time out for massage has many benefits as during pregnancy you may become more fatigued. Massage is a time to completely relax, to be nurtured. You may also experience an improved night's sleep.
Insomnia, headaches, migraine and anxiety can all be brought about by psychological, circulatory, hormonal and muscular tension. Relief through massage can help reassure, alleviate pain, and reduce the accumulation of toxins brought about from the changes in metabolism.
Relieving muscular aches and pains is one of the most common complaints during pregnancy that expectant mothers mention before treatments. Often changes in the body's shape can bring about alignment issues resulting in soft tissue tension and joint instability. As the centre of gravity shifts, postural imbalance can bring about strain on the back. The lower back is particularly challenged as the ligaments that attach to the uterus are under greater strain. It is also important to pay attention to any tension in the shoulders as this may lead to chest pain.
Massage can also help support the lymph and circulatory systems which often become sluggish during the later stages of pregnancy. Swelling can occur around the calves and ankles which can be alleviated with manual lymphatic drainage, a separate treatment in itself. The possibility of varicose veins, high blood pressure and excessive fluid retention can also be reduced. With the changes in hormonal levels as well as the increased pressure in the abdomen, indigestion and sickness may be experienced. Regular massage will help stimulate nutrient absorption and gently release indigestion.
Finally, many women may be concerned about post natal stretching to the skin as well as postural problems. Massage during the gestation period will significantly reduce the possibility of such issues.
Treatment by a professional pregnancy massage therapist will provide that extra support during the gestation period to improve the quality of life both for the mother and expectant baby.


With the promise of bringing 'Your Government – Your Way,' the State of Hawaii rolled out updates to its website, Hawaii.gov, and launched its newest service – my.hawaii.gov. The new tool is a one-stop shop allowing Hawaii residents to completely customize how they interact online with the state on any device, anywhere, anytime – securely and reliably.
With a first of its kind approach to the gamification of government, my.hawaii.gov leverages the existing portal architecture and utilizes its single sign-on system. The new service integrates with seven of the 17 departments and includes a rich, personalized history of all business conducted online with the state. It also directly integrates with almost 60 of the 100+ online services offered in Hawaii. For highlights of the great new features, visit m.hi.gov/myhi.
To help citizens stay connected to their government, we offer 273 social media pages, 1,200+ Twitter followers, a Flickr photo pool, and 20 YouTube videos. The online services area now includes how-to videos and detailed information pages for each service. Navigation between the 60 mobile apps, 100+ online services, and trending data is easier than ever.
For fun, we've also created the error page of Armageddon – portal.ehawaii.gov/404, a secret konami code, and a changing design based on time of day.
We invite the public to visit the state's new web portal at Hawaii.gov and provide feedback at portal.ehawaii.gov/feedback.html.
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New Grant Program to Help Diverse Historic Places Challenged By Pandemic
(WASHINGTON, DC) Today the National Trust for Historic Preservation announces a new $3.5 million program designed to help preserve and interpret historic places that reflect the inclusive narrative of American cultural history, made possible through a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' American Rescue Plan Humanities Grantmaking for Organizations.
The goal of Telling the Full History: Sustaining the Stewards of America's Diverse Historic Places, the National Trust's new grant program, is to sustain diverse cultural sites of importance to underrepresented communities, especially those that have been critically impacted during almost two years of pandemic closures. The National Trust expects to be able to award $25,000 and $50,000 grants to 60-80 humanities-based organizations through this initiative, in an effort to sustain an inclusive American narrative that represents all of the peoples involved in shaping our history and identity.
In the last two years, loss has had an abiding impact on our families and our economy, and recovery efforts have rightly been focused on those aspects of our lives. However, without notice or fanfare, the dedicated stewards of important cultural resources have also quietly struggled during this crisis to protect important places that tell the full American story. This grant program is a recognition of the vital roles that historic places and humanities-based organizations play in defining the American experience and is meant to directly benefit the stewards of diverse historic places as they recover momentum that was lost during two years when operation was critical, yet impossible.
"So many cultural institutions often operate without the material resources they really need," said Paul Edmondson," president and CEO of the National Trust, "but they survive by the grit and sheer determination of a committed few. This program is a visionary effort by the federal government through the National Endowment for the Humanities to recognize these keepers of American identity and strengthen their capacity to tell the full American story. In many cases, these grants will serve as a lifeline to institutions operating in the margins, but who hold the keys to our American past." The National Trust sees
"The National Trust sees historic places as powerful primary sources and their preservation and interpretation advances our quest for a more perfect union," said Katherine Malone-France, chief preservation officer of the National Trust. "The very presence of these places and the institutions that steward them makes a positive difference in our country. They tell us the truth about ourselves and affirm the fact that it took many cultures, a variety of peoples, who all contributed their strength, ingenuity, and sacrifice to help build our nation. That is the unifying shared national narrative that these grants are meant to express and to help sustain."
A broad range of humanities-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations are eligible for these grants, including state and local preservation organizations, historic sites, museums, historical societies, and genealogical associations, as well as accredited academic programs in historic preservation, public history, and cultural studies of underrepresented groups. Additionally, local and state governmental agencies, such as state historic preservation offices, tribal historic preservation offices, city and county preservation offices and planning departments, state and local commissions focused on different aspects of heritage, and publicly owned historic sites and museums also are eligible.
The grants will help preserve and interpret historic places of importance to underrepresented communities including, but not limited to, women, immigrants, Asian Americans, Black Americans, Latinx Americans, Native Americans, and LGBTQA communities. Funding will be awarded in these categories:
Research, planning, and implementation of humanities-based public interpretive programs that utilize diverse historic places to tell the full history of the United States;
Humanities-based research and documentation to enable local, state, and federal landmark designations to recognize places of importance to underrepresented communities;
Architectural design and planning to advance preservation and activation of historic buildings and landscapes that tell the full history of the United States; and,
Humanities-based training workshops to support underrepresented groups in preserving and interpreting historic places that tell the full history of the United States.
To sign up for updates on this grant program, please click here to join our grants interest list.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately funded organization that works to save America's historic places. www.savingplaces.org


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NHL DFS Ice Picks February 9th, 2020
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Joel Dorcas | February 9th, 2020
It's safe to say our featured games for our previous article didn't pan out as expected. Edmonton and Philly failed to meet expectations on home ice, but we are not here to pout, it's on to the next slate. Sunday has a few afternoon games on the docket but my focus will be on the 6:00 pm eastern tilt between the L.A. Kings and the New York Rangers as well as the Chicago Blackhawks visiting the Winnipeg Jets which is set to start at 7:00 eastern. Time to make your Sunday even better, time for some Ice Picks!
Los Angeles Kings (19-32-5) at New York Rangers (26-23-4)
The Rangers, who have been fairly impressive this season despite the fact they are in somewhat of a rebuild, will come into this one with a red-hot powerplay that has been clicking at a 40% rate over the last month and eight days, tops in the league by a wide margin. They draw the Kings who continue to struggle (2-11-1, with an average of 3.31 goals against since January 1st). The Kings will be playing the second of a back-to-back after dropping a 3-0 decision to the Devils last night.
The trio of Chris Kreider, Mika Zibanejad and Pavel Buchnevich is absolutely scorching right now. Buchnevich is the least expensive of the three, in his last six games, he is averaging a point a contest which includes four snipes(goals).
As for Kreider and Zibanejad, both are lighting it up. Kreider despite being involved in plenty of trade rumors, has produced 14 G and 11 A in his last 24 games. Zibanejad is averaging 1.33 pts per game spaned over the last 12 games, including six goals. Both Kreider and Zibanejad are key elements to this highly efficient powerplay.
Chicago Blackhawks (25-21-8) at Winnipeg Jets (27-23-5)
Here we have two clubs in the middle of both offensive and defensive statistical team leaderboards. The Hawks average an 18th best 2.93 goals per game while the Jets boast a 2.91 goals per game rate. Defensively the teams are ranked 15th and 16th respectively. Heading into Saturday's action both teams owned a goals-against-average of 3.04.
My slight edge is on the Hawks as they are simply playing better of late. Chicago is 7-4-2 scoring 3.23 goals per contest and allowing 2.77 against since the 1st of January.
The Jets, who are coming off a home victory against Ottawa yesterday afternoon, will be fighting for their playoff lives(much like CHI). Since January 1st, they are 5-8-2, with an average of just 2.47 goals per game and a goals-against of 3.20 (yesterday not included).
Although my lineup(s) will include one or two Jets, let's highlight some Hawk players who profile well. Patrick Kane has put up respectable numbers in three games versus the Jets this season with a goal and four assists. As for his last 10 games, just a single goal but he does have 10 assists and 39 shots. His price, as of Saturday on DraftKings, is a very affordable 6.8 K.
How about Kirby Dach. There is a lot of buzz surrounding the rookie prospect and the Hawks are rewarding him for some good production as of late. Dach is currently getting first line looks on the powerplay. He has a modest goal and five assists in his last five games. A lot to like with Dach as he will get prime time minutes alongside Kane on both five-on-five situations as well as with the man advantage.
Thanks for stopping by, make sure to keep it locked on the Scorecrow for all the latest news and insight!
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CLEVELAND – For a few minutes on Sunday afternoon, it looked like the Yankees would have a stress-free path back to .500.
But as we all know, nothing has been easy for these Yankees.
A double-digit fifth-inning lead turned into a bit of a nail-biter for the Bombers, but Nathan Eovaldi ultimately settled things down to finish off an 11-7 victory over the Indians.
After losing two of three in both San Diego and Chicago to start the road trip, the Yankees finished it 5-5, slugging their way back to the .500 mark.
By taking three of four from the first-place Tribe at Progressive Field this weekend, the Yankees head into the All-Star break with a 44-44 record, only the 17th time in 88 games this season they've been .500 or better. Their high-water mark remains two games over back on April 12 when they were 4-2.
"I think you could probably say in one word," Joe Girardi said when asked to assess the first half. "Inconsistent."
Masahiro Tanaka appeared to be well on his way to a solid start on regular rest Sunday, allowing one run over the first four innings. But he fell apart with a 10-run lead in the fifth, allowing six runs in the inning – two of them unearned thanks to Didi Gregorius' throwing error – before being pulled with two out.
Eovaldi, banished to the bullpen last week, had been slated to be the Yankees' closer Sunday with the "big three" unavailable. Girardi had to go to him much earlier than expected and the righthander responded with 4.1 scoreless innings to earn the win.
"It feels good coming in that situation the way I did and being able to finish the game," Eovaldi said. "I was getting quick outs with my fastball."
A Carlos Santana error led to the Yankees' first run in the second, before Jacoby Ellsbury thought he had drawn a walk.
But home plate umpire Ramon De Jesus called the 3-1 pitch a strike, so Ellsbury took out his frustration on the next pitch, crushing Carlos Carrasco's changeup over the wall in right-center, the three-run blast giving the Yankees a 4-0 lead.
"He was able to concentrate, focus and was able to get a good pitch to hit and hit it out of the ballpark," Carlos Beltran said. "It was a big home run for us."
Tanaka gave back a run in the bottom of the second, but he got Santana to ground out to first with the bases loaded to leave the bags juiced.
The Yankees added a run in the fourth as Chase Headley led off with a double, later scoring on a fielder's choice. Carrasco didn't make it through the inning, charged with five runs (only one earned thanks to Santana's second-inning error) over 3.2 innings.
The six-run fifth appeared to put Cleveland away as manager Terry Francona needed to use four relievers just to get through the inning. Francisco Lindor's errant throw to second base with the bases loaded allowed two runs to score, while the Yankees had six hits, two sac flies, a hit batter and a walk during the lopsided frame.
"We felt like we put good at-bats against those guys," Beltran said. "There's no doubt that Cleveland has a great pitching staff and we were able to score runs against them."
Tanaka came out for the fifth with a 10-run lead. Somehow, he failed to make it through the inning.
Four of the first five Indians batters had hits to start the fifth, though the Yankees still held an 11-3 lead. With two out and runners at second and third, Gregorius committed a throwing error to first, extending the inning and allowing two more runs to score.
With the lead whittling away at 11-5, Tanaka served up a two-run home run to Tyler Naquin, pulling Cleveland within four runs and sending the starter to the bench after 4.2 innings.
"I tried to go out there and just shut it down," Tanaka said through his translator. "Obviously I wasn't able to do that."
Eovaldi got the final out to stop the rally, then allowed a hit and three walks to send the Yankees into the break on a high note, one Girardi believes was their best series victory of the season.
"It's a positive thing; we beat a very good team three out of four games," Girardi said. "To end up 5-5 on the road trip where it starts off pretty poorly is good. Hopefully we can carry this momentum over to after the break."


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When I bring up good design, I'm not just talking about the graphical layout. A professional web design includes accessibility, interface, layout, and user experience.
With this in mind I have put together some elements of bad design I have come across over the years. As a designer these elements should be steered away from, as they can cause the end user to click the back button just as quickly as clicking the link into your site.
At one time this was the rave of the internet. No longer. Forcing the end user to listen to the noise you think sounds wonderful is like asking the diseased politician to stop its sorcery. It might sound pleasant at first, but imagine if you ran a huge site with hundreds of pages. The second the end user clicks the button to move on to the next page, the music starts to play through it's an endless loop. Now I love music, I am a musician myself... but we live in a very secular society, and with good reason, try not to burden the end user with your idea of good sound. I have been to quite a few websites that pull this off, but that is because I enjoy the sound of what they are portraying, try to make the site pleasing to every visitor it comes across.
User accessibility and graphic design are huge parts of the end user experience. No matter how good the content of your website design, or the sales copy, if it's illegible you won't be getting your message across or sale made. You have to design the text on your website to be legible in all cases. Keep the site to a reasonable font size for both parties, those that have 60/60 vision (like myself) and those that have to wear glasses to see everything clearly. It is not enough to make the website visually appealing to your 1920 x 1200 resolution 24-inch monitor. Try and design your site with the end user in mind. I always view my websites in different resolutions to see the outcome of the end product.
To conclude. As a webmaster... try and make the website you create do what it is meant to do effectively, intelligently, and with user accessibility. Try and create the end product with the end user in mind.


Pan-fry the leeks and mushrooms in the butter, then stir in the anchovies, herb stuffing and hazelnuts.
ff as much filling between each slice as you can. Truss the meat to hold it together. Season and roast for 45 minutes, then rest for 15 minutes.
To make the white onion petals, place the onions in a dry, heavy-based pan and cook until slightly charred.
the onions and gently separate the petals. Serve the lamb with the onion petals and sage. Season to taste.
Cook's note: If the stuffing seems a bit dry, add more butter. You can replace the nuts with soaked chickpeas or omit them.
A rack is extra tender and it doesn't take as long to cook. The herb-and-anchovy stuffinng will have everyone begging you for the recipe.


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I've recorded and played live with a variety of different artists including Glen Hansard, The Frames, The Swell Season, Therapy?, Snow Patrol, Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries), Bronagh Gallagher, Halite, Gemma Hayes, David Keenan, My Little Funhouse, Caitríona O'Leary, Rosanne Cash, Tom Jones, Marlon Williams, Oh Pep!, Rhiannon Giddens, David Kitt, Mundy, The Reindeer Section, Alphastates, Autamata, Ann Scott, Josh Ritter, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Mark Geary, Jape, Colm Quearney aka Q, Square Pegs, Ollie Cole, The Pale, Pugwash, Jerry Fish, An Emotional Fish, Lisa Hannigan, Miriam Ingram, Paula Toledo, Ferghal McKee (Whipping Boy), Richard Cocciante, Andrew Strong, Fionn Regan, Lir, The Cake Sale, Boss Volenti, Duckworth Lewis Method, Neil Hannon (Divine Comedy), The Walls, Spectrum, Conor Deasy (The Thrills), Nina Hynes, and many more.
Here's a selection of albums I've played on…
Glen Hansard, Didn't He Ramble (2015)
The Frames, The Cost (2006)
Jape, The Monkeys in the Zoo Have More Fun Than Me (2004)
Ann Scott, Pauper Tiger and Poor Horse (2002 & 2004)
Jamie Lawson, The Years In Between (2019)
Paula Toledo, Stay Awhile (2006)
Pugwash, Jollity (2005)
The Lost Brothers, Little Angle (2014)
The Frames, Longitude (2015)
Oliver Cole, Father, Brother, Son (2020)
Alphastates, Made From Sand (2002)
David Keenan, A Beginner's Guide To Bravery (2020)
Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Agus Anois an Aimsir (2014)
Therapy? Shameless (2001)
Halite, Courses (2004)
Pugwash, A Rose In A Garden Of Weeds (2005)
Glen Hansard, Live At Sydney Opera House (2020)
The Prophet, original soundtrack (2015)
Therapy? Music Through a Cheap Transistor (BBC sessions, 2010)
The Cake Sale (2006)
Therapy? Suicide Pact — You First (1999)
Jerry Fish, Celebrate (2012)
The Pale, The Contents of a Shipwreck (2007)
Q, Root to the Fruit (2010)
Therapy? The Smiths tribute (1997)
The Frames, Dance The Devil (1999)
My Little Funhouse, Destiny EP (1993)
David Kitt, Square 1 (2003)
Planet Parade, Mercury (2017)
Brendan McCahey, To Where I Begin (2014)
Halite, Head On (2003)
Once soundtrack (2007)
Square Pegs, self-titled (2017)
Oliver Cole, We Albatri (2010)
Dolores O'Riordan, Are You Listening? (2007)
Bronagh Gallagher (2012)
Grainne Hunt, Firing Pin (2015)
David Keenan, Evidence Of Living (2018)
Therapy? So Much For The Ten Year Plan (2000)
Susan Quirke, album and singles (2019)
Pugwash, Giddy (2010)
Glen Hansard, This Wild Willing (2019)
Street Lights, various artists (2018)
Catriona O'Leary, The Wexford Carols (2014)
Autamata, Short Stories (2005)
David Kitt, 20 (2021)
The Swell Season, John Martyn tribute (2011)
The Frames, Burn The Maps (2004)
Therapy? Semi-Detached (1998)
Boss Volenti, self-titled (2006)
The Swell Season, Strict Joy (2009)
Miriam Ingram, Trampoline (2006)
David Kitt, Not Fade Away (2006)
Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Dare to be Wild OST (2015)
Therapy? Alpha Motherfuckers, tribute to Turbonegro (2000)
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Homeowners are required to obtain approval from the ACC prior to painting the exterior of their home. The homeowner must specify colors for the base (siding), trim (around windows, doors and on gutters), front door, garage door, and shutters if applicable. The ACC recommends that the garage door be painted the same color as the siding but the trim color will be considered provided it is a shade of white or a light color.
6. Front door colors are typically darker than base and trim and can include darker shades of blue, green and red as well as black.
Note that other colors will be considered but using the guidelines above will provide you with the best chance of obtaining quick approval.


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Q: Transform 3D to PointCloud I'm working with Persistent Homology and I need cloud points of common 3D shapes to be able to test my methods.
The problem is that I'm a Java programmer and Java doesn't offer such tools, but I'm pretty sure Matlab does... I tried reading about this here:
http://www.mathworks.com/help/vision/ref/pcfitsphere.html
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/sphere.html
http://www.mathworks.com/help/vision/ref/pcshow.html#inputarg_ptCloud

Those links provide information on Spheres and PointClouds, but I've never programmed on matlab so I can't even propose code.
Is there a way to take a 3d shape, get it's point cloud and print the point cloud on the console?
Like:
x0, y0, z0
x1, y1, z1
x2, y2, z2
...
What I was doing was creating a Java class that printed random points based on a function, so for example I'd give my program the function of a sphere... But it gets super complicated when I'm trying to create functions of pyramids or three-torus.

A: Here is a MATLAB example of points inside a sphere:
% random points in spherical coordinates
N = 1000;
theta = 2*pi*rand(N,1);
phi = asin(2*rand(N,1)-1);
radii = 3*(rand(N,1).^(1/3));

% convert to cartesian
[x,y,z] = sph2cart(theta, phi, radii);

% plot
scatter3(x, y, z, 10, 'filled')
axis vis3d equal, grid on, box on
xlabel X, ylabel Y, zlabel Z

See this for reference.

EDIT
Here is another example for generating points inside a pyramid.
This time I'm taking a brute-force approach by simply generating lots of random 3d points in the [0,1] cube, and then filtering them by testing which points are inside the pyramid convex polyhedron (using Delaunay triangulation).
% random points
N = 3000;
XYZ = rand(N,3);

% unit pyramid in [0,1]
V = [0   0   0 ;
     1   0   0 ;
     1   1   0 ;
     0   1   0 ;
     0.5 0.5 0 ;
     0.5 0.5 sqrt(2)/2];

% delaunay triangulation
DT = delaunayn(V);

% determine points within
in = ~isnan(tsearchn(V, DT, XYZ));

% plot
scatter3(XYZ(in,1), XYZ(in,2), XYZ(in,3), 8, 'filled')
view(3), axis vis3d equal, grid on, box on
axis([0 1 0 1 0 1])
xlabel X, ylabel Y, zlabel Z

% overlay pyramid
hold on
h = tetramesh(DT, V);
set(h, 'FaceAlpha',0.1, 'EdgeColor','m', 'FaceColor','m')
hold off


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Introduction to Dialogue
The Uniting Church values relationships with people of other faiths and cultures and affirms the place of interfaith dialogue in creating and sustaining a culture of peace and harmony.
In and through interfaith dialogues we meet with other people who share an experience of the divine as we do. Dialogues cover areas of common interest and concern, explore different themes and issues of faith, and allow questions, confusions, and misconceptions to be explored. Relationships and friendships in these dialogues model mutual and respectful relationship to the wider community, and assist us to support, encourage and reach out to each other when there are issues and challenges in particular communities.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) Guidelines on Dialogue with People of Living Faiths says in part:
It is Christian faith in the triune God- creator of all humankind, redeemer in Jesus Christ, revealing and renewing Spirit- which calls us Christians to human relationship with many of our neighbours. Such relationship includes dialogue: witnessing to our deepest convictions and listening to those of our neighbours. It is Christian faith which sets us free to be open to the faiths of others, to risk, to trust and to be vulnerable. In dialogue, conviction and openness are held in balance. Dialogue is a style of living relationship with neighbours. This in no way replaces or limits our Christian obligation to witness, as partners enter into dialogue with their respective commitments.
As articulated in the theological statement Living with the Neighbour Who Is Different, the Uniting Church believes that interfaith dialogue is not the easy option, which avoids the sharing of one's faith; rather it is the difficult option which calls us to share our faith in a conversation of true mutuality.
Members of the Uniting Church are involved in a number of dialogue groups, interfaith activities and government consultations on interfaith cooperation.
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