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Sonik Sports appoints Vermeulen for surprise move into feeder fishing sector
Mel Bagnall April 7, 2022
After huge success in the carp market, the UK's Sonik Sports has announced plans to replicate its model in the European feeder fishing sector, with a new brand and a big industry name in charge.
Sonik's Commercial Director Ian McCormack believes the decision to launch into the coarse fishing sector in 2023 is the biggest step in the company's history since he founded it 13 years ago. Since then, Sonik has become established as a successful, predominantly carp brand and has, according to McCormack, grown its business more than four times in the last few years.
Now the UK-based operation could be on the brink of another quantum leap as it prepares to enter a new category with a focused range of feeder/commercial products, each of which is designed outperform others within its price range. The new brand will be introduced to the trade this Autumn in time for it to be available at retail in the Spring.
And there's no doubt about the size of Sonik's ambition. "You ain't seen nothing yet," McCormack told Angling International. "This brand is set to replicate the success the company has created within the mid-priced carp fishing sector. It is going to make people sit up and take notice. It is not just an add on to the Sonik proposition, but a completely new brand that will stand on its own feet in terms of product development and marketing."
With Atle Haakonsen, formerly Global VP Sales and Marketing at Mustad, as CEO Europe, and Pascal Vermeulen, well known for his time at Spro and Preston Innovations, as Managing Director Europe, the new brand could hardly be better equipped to succeed. In addition to its UK head office and distribution centre, Sonik also has a 2,500 square metre logistics centre in Prague, with around 85% of product supplied direct to retailers. The company is now in the process of finding a location in Holland for its first European office.
Carp fishing is currently the core of the company's business, representing some 90% of turnover. Sonik has more than 800 active accounts in Europe. Now it is looking to the coarse sector to double the size of the business once again in the next three years.
Feeder fishing ticks all the boxes. That sector's growth over the last few years shows no sign of stalling. It is more accessible than specialist carp fishing and the technique is easy to master, making it especially attractive to the new entrants and returnees who have boosted participation numbers since the onset of COVID. "It is booming all over Europe," says Vermeulen. "You need only a couple of hours for feeder fishing, whereas you might need two days for a decent carp session. It is suitable for both commercial and natural waters and is a good method for different species."
Rods and reels will be at the vanguard of the highly-anticipated launch. "They have always been the company's core competence and will be at the forefront of the new offering," he explained.
"There will also be seat boxes, luggage, clothing, line and accessories, which of course cross over into other types of coarse fishing."
Sonik cannot reveal the name of the new brand until the trade mark has been approved.
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Easter Eggs have dramatically changed over the years. However, it raises the question, where does the Easter Egg actually come from?
Decorated, engraved eggshells have played a part in spring rituals for over 60,000 years. Ornate ostrich eggs were originally associated with death and re-birth in early Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Cretan cultures. Representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver were a common sight on graves of the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5,000 years ago, which could have influenced early Christian and Islamic cultures.
Early Christians would stain eggs with red colouring to symbolise the blood of Christ, a tradition which would be officially adopted by the Catholic Church in 1610.
The Easter egg tradition could then have started merging into the celebration of the end of Lent. It was tradition to use the last of the household eggs before Lent started. This culminated with the creation of Pancake Day, marking the last consumption of eggs and dairy before the fast would start.
Throughout Lent, chickens would not stop laying, with a larger than usual store available at the end of the fast which would need using up as quickly as possible to prevent wastage. Families therefore hard-boiled their eggs to prolong their life and gave them as gifts which would again lend itself to the egg decorating tradition.
Dying Easter eggs in different colours started to become a common occurrence, with the colour achieved by boiling the egg in natural substances (including onion peel, oak or alder bark or walnut nutshell (black), beet juice (pink) etc), or using artificial colourings. A greater variety would be achieved by tying on the onion skin with different coloured woollen yarn.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, egg shaped toys came filled with sweets, and were given to children as a further celebration of Easter. Soon after this, the eggs would start to take a chocolate form and has since become a worldwide tradition, with a shift from religion to welcoming in spring.
The first chocolate Easter egg was introduced into the UK by J.S. Fry & Sons in 1873, with solid chocolate eggs already starting to appear in France and Germany in the early 19th Century. However, it was the eggs from Fry & Sons' which were the first of what we now know as Easter eggs.
The UK Easter Egg market is now worth more than £220 million, with more than 80 million eggs sold each year to sweet-toothed Brits.


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In Defense of the Fast Burn Romance
You know the social media trend where an author or fan drops some emoji-filled bullet points about tropes or other elements in forthcoming books? I have complex feelings about those. On the one hand, I don't love this reductive approach to books. Books are more than just collections of tropes, and plenty of authors can make me love a trope I usually avoid.
Moreover, just because a trope is present doesn't mean I will automatically enjoy the book. But at least when I see a bullet point claiming a book is a slow burn, I know what I'm getting into. Because when it comes to reading romance, I share the sentiment made famous by the esteemed organizational queen Marie Kondo:
And a fast burn romance can really bring the mess. The book that made me so thankful that not everyone is writing slow burns this year is A Lot Like Adiós. This is the second book in Alexis Daria's excellent Primas of Power series. In this book, Michelle Amato takes a job heading the marketing campaign for the new New York location of a hot Los Angeles gym. That gym's co-owner happens to be Gabriel Aguilar, Michelle's high school best friend. The two already have so much history and so much entangled family. So a fake dating scheme makes things even more complicated.
To add to the mess, things get physical between Michelle and Gabe rather quickly. What I loved about this book is its exploration of two people who have a lot of physical chemistry while not having all the emotions figured out yet. Being out of step in that way amplifies the messiness. An added bonus in this book is the fanfic angle. If you read You Had Me at Hola and enjoyed the telenovela interstitials, you're likely to enjoy the fanfic about a fictional TV show interlaced through this story as well.
What keeps us turning the pages?
There are words that people throw out when talking about what sustains a romance, namely tension and conflict. Sometimes I think people conflate delaying sex and intimacy with establishing tension. I've read some slow burn romances that have little to no tension because the characters' plots send them in all directions except toward each other. I hesitate to call those kinds of books slow burns because nothing ever ignited in the first place!
A Lot Like Adiós shows that physical intimacy does not necessarily resolve conflict. Giving sexual tension an outlet doesn't mean there aren't other kinds of tension in the relationship. I'm reading this book with my heart in my throat, not wondering when they're finally going to bang, but wondering how they're going to make sense of the mess they've made. And obviously all reading preferences are personal, but the latter is often more appealing to me.
Let's Talk About Feelings
I think it's also worth drawing a distinction between a romance dinged for being "instalove" and a fast burn romance. I share the sentiments of fellow Rioter Danika Ellis when I say that I too can enjoy a true whirlwind of a romance. But let's also be clear that acting on sexual feelings isn't the same as having an instantaneous romantic connection. These things can be in or out of step. Let's make a little axis, shall we?
I love to express myself with a graph.
I have undoubtedly adored romances from all four quadrants. Also, I want to be very clear that romance doesn't require sexual intimacy, so this axis doesn't apply to the entire genre. Nonetheless, let's celebrate that messy upper right. I do believe A Lot Like Adiós belongs in that quadrant. Not only did Michelle and Gabe get physical fairly early in the book, there were already plenty of feelings from the start because of their long history. There's nothing quite as soothing as seeing such a snarl untangle over the course of a book.
Trope to Look Out For: One Night Stand
If you are looking for a fast burn romance, it can be tricky to know where to spot them. People don't typically put "fast burn" in a bullet point tweet the way they do for "slow burn." Still, some tropes are more promising than others. One tried and true trope is one-night-to-forever, where a one night stand defies its ostensible duration. If the Boot Fits, Rebekah Weatherspoon's Cinderella reimagining, subs in a one night stand for Cinderella's night at the ball, which is a truly delightful spin on the fairytale. While that initial enchanting evening isn't on the page, the story of a Hollywood personal assistant accidentally absconding with the swag bag holding her one night stand's Oscar is pure delight.
In Diana Quincy's Her Night With the Duke, Lady Delilah Chambers has a little tryst while stranded at an inn, only to learn her inamorata is the duke about to wed her stepdaughter. That book lets readers in on the chemistry right from the start. And if that premise isn't messy, I don't know what is. 2022 is promising for fans of this trope, because Meryl Wilsner's Mistakes Were Made is forthcoming. That book follows a college senior who has a one night stand with a woman who turns out to be her friend's mom. I am on tenterhooks for that one!
Trope to Look Out for: Sex Pact
Another great trope is the sex pact. This trope features characters who agree to have sex for some very practical reason. Rilzy Adams's Go Deep features Navaya Howard, who needs some real-life inspiration for the erotic literature she writes. She enlists her friend Xander for the job, and whoops, it's also love. Jodie Slaughter's Bet On It is another 2022 book I'm eager to read. It involves a "BINGO-based sex pact," so I'm hoping it delivers a fast burn too.
And of course, if you really want to go for it with a fast burn romance, there's always aphrodisiac plot lines. I admit I'm a little shy about those because I like good portrayals of consent in my romance novels. But I did heartily enjoy Sophie Jordan's The Virgin and the Rogue, in which Charlotte Langley's sister accidentally gives her an aphrodisiac — it was supposed to be a cure for menstrual cramps! Kingston is the target of Charlotte's amorous affliction, but he's not happy with only one encounter. It's a madcap historical romp if you're in the mood for such a confection.
Tell Me I'm Not Alone
Sometimes I worry that the slow burn is considered the hallmark of "skillfully written" romance. Am I meant to be satisfied by longing glances for hundreds of pages? Sometimes I am, sure, but at the end of the day, what I want to read in romance is desire. Characters can certainly wallow in desire without ever touching one another. To me, the pervasiveness of that desire, regardless of whether or when it's consummated, is the mark of skillful writing.
If you too love a fast burn romance, throw me some recommendations, kindred spirit. Like the narrator of Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice," I hold with those who favor fire.
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It is bind boggling that they haven't hired someone yet.
I am beginning to think the school don't want football and,if I had a football player at my old school now I would be doing everything in my power to get him somewhere else. West Caldwell is now officially a joke in football and from what I hear every other sport too. Truth is they (West) have a leadership problem and if I am wrong someone prove it. Sorry facts show truth.
Hearing possibly Mike Biggerstaff coaching again and could be the next HC at WC.
Anyone else heard this or anything else?
Mike is 70+ years old and if you know him you know that rebuilding isn't his thing he wants to win immediately.
News Flash: No one wants this job, that's the secret. That's why they have not hired anyone. Good Luck Warriors!!
Biggerstaff did well rebuilding East Burke in the 2000's.
I can assure you that lack of interest was not a factor in this search or coaching hire. I am told an announcement will be made on Thursday and if the name I was told is correct, I am trilled.
I'm so sorry( laughing inside ) but that has been said over and over. Next Thursday then it never happens. I really don't think it will happen, but good luck with that. My old school is just out of wack now a days. I follow them and come back for some games but I think this year I will stay down here near Charlotte where they care about sports and make it fun for the students. I have lost faith in the leadership of my old school.
West Caldwell was good in the 80s under Mike Biggerstaff. The best West Caldwell team might have been 1987. If this is true. That's almost like Mack Brown returning to North Carolina. Best of Luck to the West Caldwell football program.
Mr. Styron has been there less than one year and is doing an amazing job of changing the culture. Not doubt about it, the football program is at a low place but the person that will be announced today at 1:20 will be a huge step toward that goal or returning our alma mater to what it once was. It wont occur easily but I believe in the leaders we have, I believe in our young men and I believe in the one who will be named our new head coach today. If you really do care about West Caldwell and the community, I hope you will support them regardless.
First I support the community and I pull for the young men that play there. I watch one down here at NC Elite camp every Sunday and that young man gives it every thing he has. I have NO support for the leadership at West cause they left those young men hanging. So please don't ever think I don't support our kids cause they deserve better then what I have seen from the leadership mainly when it comes to football. So yes I hope things change but until I see the leadership care for our young football players it is hard for me to support that leadship. Maybe they (Leadership) will change my mind. I hold that hope.
Maybe they (Leadership) will change my mind. I hold that hope.
That's fair - me too (hope)!
Give Styron a chance he cares about West Caldwell football. You just don't know all the factors he's had to deal with. I believe he will get the job done and get the football program headed in the right direction.
I heard the announcement was going to be Friday morning. But, today works too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just hope these young men get someone in there to put some discipline in the system and make these guys stronger and better!
Biggerstaff new HC at WC!
I'm sure Biggerstaff is a quality guy but let's face it, this was a position filled without quality applicants. Reeks of desperation when you hire someone who will not be long term at his age and out of the game for a long time. And I find it hard to believe he is coming back to teach and recruit the halls. Best of luck Warriors and Biggerstaff. Certainly a uphill battle given the bleeding of transfers.
He might be just coaching not teaching!!Sounds like they never had a teaching job open for a coach! Just glad for the kids they have some one now!! This has been a strange job opening for sure!!
That is what was holding them up the whole time looks like!!Sounds like they did the best they could do without a teaching job open!!
School boards shift teachers to other schools all the time to accomplish goals. You have to ask yourself why not the effort at West Caldwell? I've seen 12 teacher and principal in a small system in one year. Can Caldwell County not think out of the box? When you sign a contract they don't guarantee a school, only a job.
That is not true. There were several qualified and experienced head coaches who continuously called me asking what was going on with this job in hopes of getting an interview. I think given the move the 2A, the great facilities, great part of the state to live in, and working for a football coach principal, this had the makings of a very attractive job.


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Vandals leave Lutterworth Cricket Club left with £1,000 bill
The cricket pitch covers were so badly damaged, they are beyond repair
Dan Bird
Vandals slashed the covers that keep the pitches at Lutterworth Cricket Club dry
A community cricket club has been left with a £1,000 bill after "mindless vandals" slashed up its pitch covers.
Management at Lutterworth Cricket Club - thought to be one of the oldest clubs in the world - are now working out how to pay to replace the covers which keep the pitch dry.
The incident happened during the night of July 14 when a chair belonging to the club was smashed and litter was strewn across the hallowed turf.
Online fundraising has already raised nearly £250 towards the cost of replacing the covers but the incident, which is one of many over recent years, has caused frustration for the many players, volunteers and spectators.
The covers are used to keep rain from damaging the pitch, which also suffers from people driving motorbikes over the site, which belongs to Lutterworth Town Estates.
Player Karl Smith said: "We have four Saturday teams, a ladies team and about 250 juniors who play here so this has frustrated a lot of people.
"It's a big club so it's a lot of people in the town who are affected.
"In the past vandals have come onto the pitch and slit the covers but we've been able to patch them up.
"This time, though, they're so badly damaged they can't be salvaged.
"It's completely mindless vandalism. Whoever it is, they seem to get some enjoyment out of it and this sort of thing is happening at a lot of clubs."
Player Steven Masic, who has set up a crowdfunding site to raise money to replace the covers, said: "This type damage is really difficult to swallow for the wonderful volunteers and supporters who run Lutterworth Cricket Club, which is a not for profit."
Among those donating online were John Stew of Leicester County Cricket Club, who said: "So sorry to read of this mindless damage."
Steven Underwood, who also donated, said: "This is why our club is so good - lets stick together."
To help the fundraising effort, visit www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lutterworthcc-covers
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By Adam (Notion) 3 months ago 4 min read
We wanted to give a brief update from GEN.ART HQ.
We strive to keep as many communication channels open as possible; namely through Discord, Sunday Sessions, Twitter and this blog.
We noticed that we hadn't written a post on here in a while. So at the risk of duplicating what you've already heard (from this week's Sunday Session) we wanted to post an update here for those who couldn't make it.
Our drops
We're now in Week 10, since launch. Time has flown by, for us at least...
In that time we've had five amazing drops from seven incredibly talented artists. We've found a cadence that seems to work for the community, the artists and us as a team - every two weeks.
We've also got an incredible roster of artists planned, taking us right through to 2022. If you're an artist, don't let that put you off, the calendar is flexible, and we'd encourage you to send us a note through the Artists' Apply page on the website.
This week we're mixing it up a little, and in collaboration with French generative artist, Gaëtan Renaudeau (@greweb), we're releasing our first limited collection.
It will only be 1,000 pieces. It's open to both Gold and Standard Members on a first come, first served basis. And will go live at 7pm CET on 3rd November.
The collection is entitled Cirque de Lumières, which is French for "Circus of Lights". The fusion of glowing shapes in motion explores many dualities: organic and mechanical, smooth and sharp, minimalistic and complex, solid and morphing.
So far the GEN.ART membership model has performed incredibly well. We've seen countless examples of members waiting until gas on the ethereum blockchain has been low. As well as welcoming new members who have purchased a membership on secondary, with prior mints available - Christmas come early for them!
No gas wars remains a core value of GEN.ART - and with this in mind we'll continue to deliver at least one drop for all members, each month. That's 5,500 pieces.
But every now and again, we also want to try out something new, to give us data - so that the DAO can make informed decisions when it comes to new GIPs that have been proposed.
We also need to operate within the constraints of the current contracts in the GEN.ART ecosystem - unfortunately they're write once! New contracts mean new collections on OpenSea, and we're trying to now limit this, so that people who discover GEN.ART don't get too confused.
We've mentioned it before, but it's worth reiterating - all of our drops are on-chain. This remains a core value of ours. Behind the scenes we're busy innovating and trying to push the boundaries of on-chain generative art. We have quite a few amazing drops in the pipeline, that do just this.
GEN.ART Platform
This month we're focused on delivering the DAO Platform. That means members who have the $GENART tokens will be able to both submit and vote on GIPs. With this in mind, we'd encourage you to re-familiarise yourself with the Governance Paper (PDF) that was circulated a few weeks ago.
We'll be using the Snapshot.org API, so we'd also recommend you have a click around there, as it will show you the expected functionality - once we're live.
We welcomed two new contract developers to the team, to help not only with the DAO Platform but for the new GEN.ART website launch. Just a couple of weeks in we already started working on v2. Striving for the platform to have a much better user experience as well as a design and style that you would expect from one the world's leading art platforms.
Thank you to everyone who participated and voted in Arihz's Panel Contest. The GEN.ART DAO won! It was an honour for us to be competing against such prestige DAOs, and it was incredible seeing our community rally together. Our values, voice, and camaraderie really shone through. Everyone using their specific strengths to edge us forward. You are able to see the winning panel here, and you're also able to read more about Panels here.
For our pop-up gallery, we continue to work with contractors on the ground in London. We've tentatively planned it for 15th - 21st November, but don't book anything quite yet. There's still some dependencies that could let us down. We'll release a full micro-site dedicated to it when it's set in stone, hopefully within the next week.
For the Print Shop, we're hoping we'll be able to open the doors at the same time as the new website goes live. As with anything that has a supply chain, we want to make sure that it doesn't breakdown on the first day. Thanks so much for your patience on this. The GEN.ART Print Shop will enable you to get high quality prints of NFTs that you own, in your wallet.
For the $GENART token, and liquidity, in terms of being able to trade it. We've pencilled this in for mid-November. We have a few details to iron out, as well as continue to work on the boring legal stuff behind the scenes. We know that people are eager for the ability to trade. But please do keep in mind; first-and-foremost, we're a DAO and these tokens are the means to self-governance.
That's mostly it - we'd like to give Laya a shoutout for being featured in both The Defiant and The Hindustan Times. She continues to be a beacon of inspiration for young coders and artists around the world.
As always, please do join us in our Discord. Continue to share your wonderful collections on Twitter. And we can't wait for the next few weeks - there's a lot to be excited about!
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Eating in the same place each night can be boring. Often we only want something small to eat rather than ploughing our way through yet aanother buffet. Here are some suggestions for independant eating out in Victoria Falls.
The River Brewing Company opened in Victoria Falls Town recently. Situated in the old Sopers Curios building near the Elephant Walk Shopping Centre and Three Monkeys Restaurant and bar.
The focus is on its own freshly brewed beer but a full range of other beers, wines and spirits also available as well as a simple menu of food options.
A combination of new age feel and old age charm, the Zambezi House", is found under a group of evergreen Ebony trees on the banks of the Zambezi River between a'Zambezi River Lodge and the entrance gate to the Zambezi National Park. Not strictly an independant eating experience but it's a great evening out. Expect African style delicacies like crocodile, mopani worms and warthog in addition to steak and chicken and the usual. The after dinner drumming is loads of fun.
The latest independent restaurant in Vic Falls, Pariah State has created a treehouse feel in the centre of Vic Falls. Free (Fast!) wi-fi delicious coffees and sublime snacks and meals. Worthy of an early breakfast or late afternoon drinks and dinner. Cruise the Zambezi River in luxury upstream from the Victoria Falls. This is a very popular cruise on the Zambezi River which combines a sunset cruise with dinner and is the ultimate value for money. There is excellent food and drinks on offer at the Explorers Village from an international menu as well as a pizza oven.
Situatedwithin the Victoria Falls Rest Camp, in addition to meals latest offerings include frappés and smoothies. For those visitors who can't do without a familiar snack from home KFC has come to Vic Falls. Located in the Landela Centre in central Victoria Falls Town. Lolas offers a wide variety of meals and tapas, good cuppacinos and free wifi! Lolas closes at 9pm.
Located next to the Landela Centre in central Victoria Falls. African cuisine specialities on offer. Ilala Lodge has become known for its great food. Guests staying at other hotels are welcome to enjoy a meal on the terrace with a view of the Victoria Falls spray. At last a place to eat within the Victoria Falls rainforest. Great for light meals. Closes at 6 p.m.
The Stanley's Terrace at The Victoria Falls Hotel is abrilliantplace toenjoy a mealaccompanied by aview of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the spray of the Falls.High Tea is also served each afternoon. Visit the newest restaurant in the heart of the Vic Falls town, Zimbabwe. The 3 Monkeys is an upmarket restaurant and cocktail bar that can seat up to 100 people. There is a wide selection on the menu to choose from, catering for everyones' palates. The Lookout Café, is perched 120m above the turbulent rapids of the Zambezi River, overhanging a giant chasm of the Batoka Gorge, just downriver of the iconic Victoria Falls Bridge, which forms part of it's spectacular backdrop. Latest news. The LOC burnt down in December 2018 due to an electrical fault and is in the process of being rebuilt.


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Q: Sed for windows I am attempting to use SED for the first time. To complicate matters, I am using it in Windows. I downloaded from this source. Since I don't have installation privileges on my work machine, I created a folder in my profile for executables and added it to my PATH.
I am having issues trying to use SED for the first time.  It keeps failing with the error:
sed: -e expression #1, char 1: unknown command: `''

I have tried a few different samples from this how to, but I just can't get it. I found noone else is having this problem. What should I try? I have tried encapsulating it in quotes, double quotes, and back-quotes. Nothing seems to help.

A: Unlike the Unixes, the Windows command-line shell does not perform any word-splitting and does not strip away the quotes; the program just receives a single string containing the entire command line. This means that not all programs can follow the same quoting rules.
In this case, the GnuWin32 version of sed only supports one quoting style – " double quotes ". For example, in my tests the following works fine:
sed "s/foo/bar/"

You can also get sed from Cygwin, along with a more-complete Unix-like system: shells, editors, other tools. It will be easier if you use a Unix shell for learning, to avoid such syntax issues in the future.

A: C:\>sed sdf
sed: -e expression #1, char 3: Unterminated `s' command

C:\>echo aaa > f
C:\>sed -e "s/a/x/" < f
xaa

This is using sed from unxutils

A: Appreciate this is an old question however if you have Git Bash installed you can use a lot of unix features (sed /ssh / scp/ grep) in a Windows environment.

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Contexts of the Social Body:
The concept of the Social Body is meant to capture a wide range of phenomena. Examples follow:
Sociology: In the most general sense it refers to the social collective where the social body is analogous to the individual body - so conflict and the social body would refer to the ways in which the social collective (an an embodied, material phenomenon) is constituted, organized, broken, etc through conflict.
Health Sciences: It could mean the biological body which (at least from a sociological perspective) also has social elements to it - how are biological bodies impacted by conflict?
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Yes! That's how we're gonna start this thing off. Did you know that this song, released in 1978, was Chaka Khan's debut single? She wanted to let it be known right out the gate who tf she was. And I applaud her for it.
In honor of it being Women's History Month... and International Women's day is March 8 (One of my best friends' birthday, who is another wonderful woman of God.), I am writing about all things WOMAN for this here post. So get ready for some real GIRL POWER!
Last month was Black History Month and with such powerfully important months back to back like this, many dynamic women come to mind for both. Women like Sojourner Truth, Harriett Tubman, Madam CJ Walker, Rosa Parks, Katherine Johnson and Mae C. Jemison. Those ladies made their names be known by their actions and still today, we celebrate them for their historic moments.
Woman of the Past
One woman that has be a force to be reckoned with for over 7 decades was Cicely Tyson. Ms. Tyson was born December 19, 1924 and became a powerhouse that all of us can love. Not only did her work as an actress and fashion model garner her the well-deserved accolades she's received for years. But she has also been honored for her support of civil rights as well.
With films such as Sounder, Fried Green Tomatoes (A personal favorite), Diary of a Mad Black Woman, and The Help as well as television roles on Guiding Light, The Autobiography of Jane Pittman, Roots, The Women of Brewster Place, and How to Get Away with Murder (Loved her as Ophelia) spanning decades, there's no doubt that Ms. Tyson left a mark on this place called earth.
Cicely Tyson carried several titles: daughter, wife, mother, actress, model, philanthropist, etc over the years. However, her last work of art, before her passing this past January, was adding the title author to the roster. As a writer and author myself, I remember smiling hard as hell when I saw her book on the shelf. Weirdly enough, I happened to see her book for the first time and felt urged to buy it on the day of her passing. I didn't buy it that day because I really don't have any space for any physical books right now... and I want the hardcover of that. So, it is definite on the TO-DO List of things to buy.
Rest Peacefully Ms. Tyson
Woman of the Future
To keep in theme with my shout outs to the movers and shakers we're celebrating this month, I also wanted to highlight some ladies I either know personally or have encountered that are making a name for themselves in their own right. I know so many woman that are hard working and deserve this recognition so I'm going to have to do this a few times before this month is out. lol So, look forward to receiving posts on varying women from past history along side ones that are making history now.
First, I want to recognize my good friend, Belle Smith. We met in high school when I joined the church I'm currently a member of and I knew back then she was going to be going places and doing things. But WOMAN! Her tenacity to be greater than average is very moving to say the least. Not only is she an awesome mother, wife, daughter, and friend. She's a therapist, author (The WonderFULL Trip, Destination: Full Effect), and business owner. She's the founder of a women empowerment movement called Wonderfull.Effect, in which I have been a proud member of since practically it's inception.
Check out this interview I did with her a couple years ago
More women in history coming throughout the month. Stay tuned...
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Haydn. Mozart. Beethoven. These famous musicians all got their start during a time period that gave birth music to we still know and love today: classical. This vast, wide-ranging genre of music embraces a single melody played by multiple instruments, giving it a powerful sound that inspires a wide range of emotions.
No matter what genre you play–jazz, country, rock, R&B, soul–there's never a wrong time to delve into the wonders that is classical music. To celebrate Classical Music Month, we wanted to take the opportunity and share some of the most well-known pieces for you and your family to enjoy!
Franz Joseph Haydn: Opus 76, No. 3 ("Emperor")
Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer who wrote 107 symphonies in addition to countless scores.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Op. 125.
Beethoven (1770–1827) was a German composer and pianist who wrote his first composition as early as twelve years old. Despite being deaf, Beethoven was a prominent musical figure whose innovative compositions combined vocals and instruments to dramatically transform the scope of music during that time period.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492
Mozart (1756–1791) was an Austrian composer an innovator in the world of classical music who created a string of operas, concertos, symphonies, and sonatas that help shaped classical music as we know it. He also composed twenty-four operas including The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, and The Marriage of Figaro.
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Makuvaro Veronica, Walker Sue, Munodawafa Adelaide, Masere Tirivashe Phillip, Murewi Cyril and Chagonda Ignatius (2014). "An overview of current agronomic practices of smallholder farmers in semi-arid Central and Western Zimbabwe." African Journal of Agricultural Research 9, No. 35, 2710-2720.
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_By Eugene Fransch_

I was an average student in my theology classes at Solusi College in pre-independent Zimbabwe. My hardest subject was Greek, and the highest grade that I ever got in it was a "C."

When I wrote my final Greek exam, I knew that I had failed.

"Doc, I failed again," I said as I handed it to the professor, Dr. Leo Raunio.

He smiled and said, "It's OK."

For the next week, I mourned the fact that I couldn't graduate. I had planned to get married a month later, and the notion of spending another six months redoing Greek was unthinkable.

Then Dr. Raunio, a retirement-age missionary born in Finland, called me into his office, and I understood for the first time the meaning of God's grace.

"I've been watching you for four years on this campus," Dr. Raunio said. "I've seen you change from a radical fellow to a hardworking young man who loves the Lord. I noticed that even the music on your tape recorder changed from rock-and-roll music to Christian music."

I was surprised that he had observed something that no one else seemed to have noticed.

"You have done well on your other subjects and passed," Dr. Raunio said. "But you have battled with Greek. I know how much this graduation means to you in three weeks. I know you have done all you could to pass your Greek exam, but failed.

"Still, I want to give you grace," he said. "I know the Lord has a plan for you in the work that you are going to do. By grace, I'm going to give you a passing grade so you can graduate."

Then he prayed for God to guide my future work.

Little did I know how far God would take me. The Lord helped me to work for 18 years as youth ministries director for the Adventist Church in Zimbabwe. After that, I served as youth director at the church division for seven years. I also received a doctorate in leadership. Every day, I pray for God's help to extend grace to others, just as it was given to me.

God sees potential in us even in our lowest state of sin. He sees what we can accomplish once we're filled with His Spirit. We also should stop looking at the present and adopt God's eyes to see the future potential in others.

_Eugene Fransch, 61, is associate secretary with the Zimbabwe Union Conference based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Leo Raunio died at the age of 72, in 1984, three years after Eugene's graduation._

_Part of a 2015 Thirteenth Sabbath Offering went to Solusi University to double the size of its crowded cafeteria from 500 seats to 1,000._

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Joshua Kimmich is a crucial player for Bayern Munich. Here is everything you need to know about his net worth.
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By Hiranya Karnatak | Jan 24, 2023 | 2 Min Read
Joshua Kimmich is a professional footballer for the German club, Bayern Munich. The 27 year old midfielder plays a vital role in Bayern. He is regarded as one of the best and most complete midfielders in the world due to his comprehensive playstyle, adaptability, aggression, and playmaking abilities. He is frequently compared to Philipp Lahm, a former captain of Bayern Munich, and is seen as Lahm's successor. In addition to Pep Guardiola, José Mourinho and many other managers and experts hailed him and called him a sensation.
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He is a Rottweil, Germany, native who graduated from the youth programme of VfB Stuttgart. He made his Stuttgart debut on September 28, 2013, when, at the age of 18, he came on as a substitute in a 3.Liga match against SpVgg Unterhaching that ended in a 2-2 tie. Kimmich signed a five-year contract to join Bundesliga powerhouse Bayern Munich on January 2, 2015. He entered the field for the first time on August 9 while wearing a Bayern jersey as the German powerhouses defeated FC Nöttingen 3-1 in the DFB-Pokal first-round match. He developed into a crucial part of the team under Pep Guardiola, who praised the player for his versatility in the field, which allowed him to play in both midfield and defence.
Joshua Kimmich established the idea of "complete footballer," being adept at passing, tackling, crossing, and shooting. The 27-year-old, aptly known as "Joker" for his versatility, has played in 212 competitive games for Bayern; he has scored 22 goals and contributed more than 50 assists. At the club, he has won seven Bundesliga championships, three DFB-Pokal crowns, five DFL-Supercups, and one Champions League trophy. He and Germany won the 2014 UEFA European U19 Championship on the international stage.
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Crypto Down; G20 Calls for Continuous Monitoring
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Investing.com – The crypto market traded in the red on Monday morning in Asia with the total market cap down to $245.6 billion.
dropped 2.90% to $7,620.9 by 11:25 PM ET (03:25 AM GMT). The coin has been too weak to climb back to the $8,000 level since a drop last week. Now it hovers around the $7,600 range.
Similarly, lost 3.07% to $232.75, shed 4.72% to $0.3852, and was down 0.91% to $115.52.
Regulations on cryptocurrencies seem to gathering steam worldwide.
On June 9, G20 finance ministers and central bank governors asked the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and global standard-setting organizations to monitor risks arising from cryptocurrencies.
"We welcome the FSB's directory of crypto-asset regulators, and its report on work underway, regulatory approaches and potential gaps relating to crypto-assets. We ask the FSB and standard setting bodies to monitor risks and consider work on additional multilateral responses as needed," the financer ministers said in a note.
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Riccardo Tarocco was a portrait life model in my drawing class. At lunch, over some take-out sushi, he was the first person to ever make me think about the complexity of gender identity. Here we talk about dance, bilingualism, and the culture of disembodiment.
I'm from Verona, Italy, which is North-East of the country. I moved to Milan when I was 14 and then I moved to London when I was 20.
Teased for being gay
Verona is very rich and very snobbish. People there are not happy with any gender debates, so I always had a bit of a problem.
Growing up, the cousins would point and laugh at me for being gay. At eleven or twelve, you pray for this to stop. Once I grew into myself, whenever they teased me for being gay, I teased them back for being straight.
It took time, but eventually everyone moved on.
Attitudes change very slowly. My mum has always been a bit of a hippie because she grew up in a convent. But my dad and his family are far more conservative.
Dance is for men
Dancing was totally a part of becoming cool with myself. Culturally, there is this idea that dance takes away from being a man.
But, when you're surrounded with people who share your interests and attractions, and who are perfectly fine with them, whether these are acceptable never becomes a question.
Language persona
My boyfriend is Portuguese and we speak English. Partially because we live in the UK, so it feels natural.
I have a very different persona in each language. When I speak Italian, I link with a memory of the time when I spoke Italian regularly, until I was nineteen; what life was like then; how I felt then.
Now, whenever I go back to Italy, I feel like a teenager. I use the vocabulary of a certain time in history and in my life. If I try to explain in Italian something I totally understand in English, like my undergraduate thesis, I struggle.
Having thought about things
It's not the vocabulary; it's having thought about things, having engaged with concepts and having broken them down. It's about a different level of understanding, which, when it comes to my thesis, isn't accessible to me in Italian.
But it's not just my thesis. Having lived in London, whenever I go back to Italy, I notice that there is more diversity than there used to be, but there is very little mixing of cultures. There is segregation that, living in London, I've become attuned to.
In Italy, you never see Black or Asian people working in a bank. Only Italian people work in a bank. It's as if a class system is emerging; people of particular backgrounds are pre-assigned certain roles and there is no deviating from it.
Italy still needs to get used to diversity and equality.
Ironically, this includes my Italian persona. On one hand, this segregation freaks me out. On the other hand, when I see people of another ethnicity in Italy, I do a double take.
There is a big Chinese community in Florence. This is weird, and I hate myself for this, but when I go to Florence and this Chinese girl – she's Italian, but of Chinese heritage – talks to me about pasta in perfect Italian, I go, wait, what?
Diversity is something I only experienced in English. In Italian, I missed out on this mental process.
When I moved to London, a lot changed for me. For one, in my career, I moved from ballet to contemporary dance.
In contemporary dance, movement is not pre-defined. There is freedom to explore. In ballet, there is only one way of being beautiful; everything else is ugly. But, how can it be?
A body doesn't become ugly just because I move my hand in a different way. If I see it through ballet's definition of beauty, sure, it's ugly. But who's to say that that definition is the right one?
Overtime, I realised, I'd been watching people move with control for over twenty years; it no longer impressed me. It's beautiful, but, on its own, it's also incredibly boring.
I needed more. I started searching for another layer and this is what got me into performance art.
Multitudes of categories
Dance and performance see each other as separate. The problem is, they feed on the same thing and they don't want to share. Things that are now considered cutting-edge in performance were considered interesting in dance in the 1960s.
There is nothing exciting in doing something in performance if it's already been done in dance. You need to make new connections.
Britain likes to separate things. You're expected to fit into one. If you're lucky, you can maybe bounce between two, but there is no permission to come together and say, hey, this is where we are, this is what's been done in dance and this is what's been done in performance, now let's work together and move it forward.
For example, I learnt a lot about performance through life modelling. It's very odd because, coming from a dance perspective, the idea of not moving for so long, I'd never considered the possibility.
Still movement
In the first twenty minutes, the model makes adjustments they can do nothing about. Students were told they could start sketching, but that things would change and they shouldn't blame the model.
That intrigued me.
I'm very aware of my body and during those twenty minutes, I had no idea I was moving. Yet, at the end of the twenty minutes, I realised I was tilted. It was a revelation.
No bodies
We now live at the moment when there is a sense of disembodiment that I'm not happy about.
We're pushing ourselves away from our bodies, separating our minds from our bodies.
How can mind and body be separate if an emotion can push my bones into my muscles and stop me from moving?
Thinking and experiencing with the body, not just with the mind, is something we need to learn.
Riccardo Tarocco is a performance artist based in London. He works in a duo together with António Branco making art about the body – its physicality, aura, psyche. It is their first and ultimate instrument, raw material and site for performance. Their work is open. The work doesn't have to be presented as a finished stagnant piece, but rather a work receptive to change throughout its longevity in the space while being responsive to its audience. With their work Riccardo T. and Antonio care about getting people to reconnect with the forgotten zones of their psyches and bodies, and understand the possibilities of their own freedoms. Find their work at .2Dot Performance.
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In compiler theory, dependence analysis produces execution-order constraints between statements/instructions.  Broadly speaking, a statement S2 depends on S1 if S1 must be executed before S2.  Broadly, there are two classes of dependencies--control dependencies and data dependencies.

Dependence analysis determines whether it is safe to reorder or parallelize statements.

Control dependencies
Control  dependency is a situation in which a program instruction executes if the previous instruction evaluates in a way that allows its execution.

A statement S2 is control dependent on S1 (written ) if and only if S2s execution is conditionally guarded by S1. S2 is control dependent on S1 if and only if  where  is the post dominance frontier of statement . The following is an example of such a control dependence:

 S1       if x > 2 goto L1
 S2       y := 3
 S3   L1: z := y + 1

Here, S2 only runs if the predicate in S1 is false.

See data dependencies for more details.

 Data dependencies

A data dependence arises from two statements which access or modify the same resource.

 Flow(True) dependence

A statement S2 is flow dependent on S1 (written ) if and only if S1 modifies a resource that S2 reads and S1 precedes S2 in execution. The following is an example of a flow dependence (RAW: Read After Write):

 S1       x := 10
 S2       y := x + c

 Antidependence

A statement S2 is antidependent on S1 (written ) if and only if S2 modifies a resource that S1 reads and S1 precedes S2 in execution.  The following is an example of an antidependence (WAR: Write After Read):

 S1       x := y + c
 S2       y := 10

Here, S2 sets the value of y but S1 reads a prior value of y.

 Output dependence

A statement S2 is output dependent on S1 (written ) if and only if S1 and S2 modify the same resource and S1 precedes S2 in execution.  The following is an example of an output dependence (WAW: Write After Write):

 S1       x := 10
 S2       x := 20

Here, S2 and S1 both set the variable x.

 Input dependence

A statement S2 is input dependent''' on S1 (written ) if and only if S1 and S2 read the same resource and S1 precedes S2 in execution. The following is an example of an input dependence  (RAR: Read-After-Read):

 S1       y := x + 3
 S2       z := x + 5

Here, S2 and S1'' both access the variable x.  This dependence does not prohibit reordering.

Loop dependencies

The problem of computing dependencies within loops, which is a significant and nontrivial problem, is tackled by loop dependence analysis, which extends the dependence framework given here.

See also
 Program analysis (computer science)
 Automatic parallelization
 Automatic vectorization
 Loop dependence analysis
 Frameworks supporting the polyhedral model
 Hazard (computer architecture)
 Program slicing
 Dead code elimination

Further reading

Static program analysis

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Being the firearm Hyundai group entertainer in Rally Australia has left New Zealand's Haydon Paddon feeling more certain about securing a fulltime part with the Korean group.
Sixth from the three-day occasion around Coffs Harbor, New South Wales, abnormal in being particularly hot-paced yet not guaranteeing any WRC setbacks was massively satisfying for the Geraldine young person and co-driver John Kennard, being their best come about with the World Rally Championship equip after four excursions.
Commonly, the ever-humble Geraldine driver figured he was still on a learning bend in the auto and, however quietly chuffed to have come to inside 0.5 seconds for every kilometer to Sebastien Ogier of France, the victor who headed an all-Volkswagen platform – in the wake of being two seconds untied in Sardinia recently – figured there was opportunity to get better.
"I appreciated it, a great venture forward yet there are different kinds of things we can chip away at … we are even now attempting to discover the points of confinement," he said.
The youthful star had come to Australia looking to inspire in front of occasions that may well focus his shots of running fulltime with the group in 2015, his next excursion in Spain on October 23-26 and afterward the season-finishing British Rally on November 13-16.
He unquestionably ticked each individual aspiration before the completion yesterday.
A preevent system to run hard yet with a level of alert to guarantee no errors in an occasion he knew well and treated as a home race without a New Zealand WRC round was deserted by the evening of Friday, the first day, when Paddon turned into the group's best trust for a platform.
Group No.1 Thierry Neuville had lost two minutes with harmed guiding, while third driver, Australian Chris Atkinson, a Hyundai test driver in the auto for an one-off home ground spell, was battling all weekend as first out and about.
As tenth seed, Paddon was in the ideal spot to assault on well-cleared, hard and super quick surfaces and he met the test, not slightest in a fight with Citroen's Mats Osberg that didn't end until the Norwegian harmed suspension on yesterday's penultimate stage.
Paddon by then was timing stage times that were as speedy as, and some of the time speedier than, those from Neuville, who was energizing back the field and in the end come seventh, however with no trust of getting the Kiwi.
The Osberg-Paddon stoush was the spellbinding component of yesterday's stanza and Paddon said they'd both given everything; on the day's first stage the Kiwi excelled, just to see his opponent recoup on the following.
"It's was energizing, that is beyond any doubt. We were attempting – we weren't going for broke however we weren't staying nearby either.
"We're still in that phase of how to drive quick in these auto. It's not a matter of going hard and sideways … a great deal of it is about procedure and frequently being extremely smooth through the corners, which can really feel moderate.
Paddon has affirmed he will now be with the group at the following WRC round, the Rally de France, on October 3-5, yet not to drive. In that occasion, his auto will be in the hands of Frenchman Bryan Bouffier, an alternate adolescent confident for a full team drive.


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Captain Shouts Fore – September 2015
Published 30/09/2015 | By Bruce Richards
This is already my sixth Inside Right insert and I am officially half way through my year as Captain. The committee continues to meet on the Monday evening after every game to analyse the current affairs of the club and to also plan our upcoming events. I would like thank each of the committee for their work and input so far, it is much appreciated and the Gauteng club is in a sound position, both financially and in respect of membership. In particular, I would like to thank Andrew Mostert, who has been arranging all our away tours, with only two remaining this year. Also to Mike Payne, who stepped in after Sean was elected as JVC. Mike has been extremely busy with arranging the Swaziland Nationals in October and the Southern Cape Nationals entry form has just come out, so that will keep him occupied for the next couple of months. Also to Spero Marinaki, who volunteered to be our 55th Anniversary co-ordinator. Spero and I have been working closely together on this event and it promises to be a successful one.
On the subject of the 55th Anniversary – the anniversary takes place at our monthly game on 20 November and entries will be sent out shortly, which will differ from the traditional game entry form. Please remember that we have invited Nomads from around the country, as well as the International Clubs. We will also be hosting the Club Captain's from all our local clubs at which we play our monthly games. This initiative was introduced last year and replaces the old traditional Captain's Dinner. As a consequence of these potential attendees there will not be any guests invited to the day. I also urge each of you to enter as soon as you receive the entry form as we will have limited space available in the field.
We played our monthly game at Reading in September and thanks to – Todd Young (Captain), Mark Rondi (who received his 15 year tie) and Sid Rickhoff (our club secretary who continues to work hard in the background compiling the agenda, minutes and wading through all the correspondence circulated between the clubs) – for joining me on the day. We had a rather poor attendance with only 108 players and over 30 of those having paid to go. It sounds as though a rumor went around that Reading had seven temporary greens and as a result our numbers declined. The reality is that there was only one temporary green. I thought that under the circumstances and with Joburg Water having laid a pipe through the course it was in good condition. These are the courses where we receive our best playing rates and we use that revenue to offset the losses we incur at the more expensive courses. If we increase our playing numbers at these courses, it may be possible to maintain our current playing fees for next year. Please make every effort to enter for Germiston on 5 November.
At Reading we also introduced the new Gross Score Input System. Gauteng undertook to try the system first, with the assistance of Bruce Richards and if successful, to roll it out nationally. My thanks to both Bev and Wilma who captured all the scores and only found one score card error. As a result, the system will now be implemented nationally. Please remember that this new system only affects you if your CLUB handicap is higher than 18.
See you at the next game and post-game function.
Graham Bishop
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The latest edition of the Ericsson ConsumerLab and Media study has identified two major tipping points for TV viewing in three years' time with linear and video on-demand (VOD) viewing almost equal, and half of all viewing being done on a mobile screen.
Ericsson found that all forms of TV and video viewing are on the rise, but how, when and where we watch content is changing. The ConsumerLab study reveals that time spent watching TV and video content has reached an all-time high of 30 hours a week, including active viewing of scheduled linear TV, live and on-demand Internet services, downloaded and recorded content, as well as DVD and Blu-ray. However, it noted that almost three-fifths of viewers now prefer on-demand viewing over scheduled linear TV viewing, an increase of around 50% since 2010.
The survey showed that the average number of used on-demand services has increased from 1.6 in 2012 to 3.8 services in 2017 per person and that two-fifths of consumers already pay for on-demand TV and video services today. Nearly a third say they will increase their on-demand spending in the next six to 12 months. Portability is also becoming increasingly important factor, with more than a third of consumers wanting access to content when abroad. The growth of on-demand viewing is set to continue to soar through to 2020 so that by then on-demand will make up almost half of total viewing.
Mobile viewing through tablets, smartphones and laptops, is by 2020 projected to enjoy an increase of 85% since 2010. Smartphones alone are expected to account for almost a quarter of viewing, an increase of nearly 160% over a ten-year period. Approximately 70% of consumers now watch videos on a smartphone – double the amount from 2012 – making up a fifth of total TV and video viewing. 16-19-year-olds watch the most content each week (33 hours), an increase of almost ten hours a week since 2010. However, more than half of this demographic spend their time watching content on-demand, with more than 60% of their TV and video viewing hours.
Yet despite this growth, Ericsson cautioned that the findings also show that while consumers have more access to TV and video services than ever before, the average time spent on searching for content has increased to almost one hour per day, an increase of 13% since last year. In fact, an eighth of consumers believe that they will get lost in the vast amount of available content in the future. With the user experience becoming ever more fragmented, three-fifths of consumers now rank content discovery as 'very important' when subscribing to a new service, while 70% want 'universal search for all TV and video'.
The 2017 ConsumerLab TV and Media report also marked the first time that Ericsson explored the level of consumer interest in virtual reality (VR) in conjunction with media consumption, and the company said that the findings have been 'fascinating'. A third of consumers is projected to be VR users by 2020, and Ericsson notes that the technology is expected to play an essential role in the future of TV and video. Yet it warns that if consumer interest in VR is to increase, several things will need to change. Close to 55% of consumers planning to get VR devices would prefer it if the headsets were cheaper, and almost half think there should be more immersive content available. A third said that they would be more interested in VR if they could get a VR bundle from their TV and video provider.


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Emerging technologies help advance the understanding, detection and control of epilepsy
American Epilepsy Society
PHILADELPHIA, December 6, 2015 - A smartphone-induced EEG waveform and an intelligent algorithm for seizure detection are among the emerging technologies to be unveiled at the American Epilepsy Society's (AES) 69th Annual Meeting. Four innovative studies presented at the meeting promise to reshape current paradigms for seizure detection and epilepsy management.
In the first study, (abstract 3.277) researchers from Brighton and Sussex Medical School demonstrate that electrodermal (EDA) biofeedback - a technique that uses electrodes to detect changes in the skin's electrical activity - is an effective method for reducing seizure frequency in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.
The authors' prior work showed that increased skin conductance in patients with epilepsy can calm over excitability in the motor cortex, and that skin conductance is associated with regional changes in brain activity.
In the current study, the authors explored whether EDA biofeedback restores normalcy to the complex networks of neural tasks that often run amuck in patients with epilepsy. They examined clinical trial data from eight patients with temporal lobe epilepsy who received EDA biofeedback training three times a week for four weeks and fMRI scans at the first and last sessions.
One month of biofeedback training reduced seizure frequency by an average of 40 percent in all patients, the authors report. Increased network connectivity was noted in regions of the brain responsible for emotional arousal and control of the motor cortex.
"Our findings suggest that EDA biofeedback is an accessible, non-pharmacological, and side effect-free treatment for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy," says Yoko Nagai, Ph.D., a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
A second study (abstract 3.114) uncovers a previously unknown waveform associated with smartphone use. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in conjunction with colleagues at Rush University Medical Center have identified the waveform during video EEG monitoring of 129 patients evaluated for epilepsy at institutions in Florida and Illinois.
Dubbed the 'texting rhythm,' the waveform is induced by active text messaging and produces a reproducible, stimulus-evoked, generalized frontocentral monomorphic burst of 5-6 Hz theta. The waveform was not observed during voice calls or during non-texting activities involving cognition, speech/language or movement in one arm of the study. According to the authors, the waveform may reflect the neural coding observed during non-auditory communication, and its significance should be assessed in further studies.
"These findings provide objective evidence that the use of smartphones is capable of altering neurophysiologic function. This feature of the EEG could represent a unique brain-technology interface that could further our understanding of the way in which some people communicate without verbal expression or visual cues. From a practical standpoint it provides an objective measure in the brain that could potentially interfere with tasks that require full attention, such as driving," says William Tatum, D.O., a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Florida.
In a third study, (abstract 3.092) researchers from Johns Hopkins University use data acquired in real time to train a machine learning algorithm for seizure detection. Few technologies can reliably warn patients of an impending seizure due to wide variations in seizure onset patterns and the locations where seizures originate and spread in the brain. Modern seizure detection technologies rely on machine learning algorithms to sort EEG features into seizure or non-seizure events, but the clinical data needed to build reliable, patient-specific algorithms can be hard to come by.
The researchers circumvent this challenge by constantly retraining the machine learning algorithm with the patient's own brain patterns. Using intracranial recordings from patients with focal epilepsy who were undergoing presurgical evaluation, they describe an algorithm capable of detecting previously unnoticed seizures between 0 to 4 seconds after onset, even when those seizures had novel ictal signatures. The ability of the algorithm to adapt to changing brain activity often allows for the detection of seizure onset before clinical symptoms appear.
"The use of a dynamically adaptive algorithm is a promising strategy for detecting seizures with characteristics that are unknown at the time of the patient's admission," says Daniel Ehrens, a Ph.D. candidate and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellow in the laboratory of Christophe Jouny, M.S.,Ph.D., at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
A fourth study (abstract 2.084) describes a carbon nanotube-based strategy for enhancing the power of the Responsive Neurostimulation System (RNS), the only FDA-approved intracerebral neuromodulation therapy to date for patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy. The electrodes used in the RNS act locally, activating neurons within 4 mm of the electrode's surface. Carbon nanotubes could potentially expand this area of influence by enhancing the conductivity of the brain near the electrode.
The authors performed cytotoxicity testing on human brain cells to confirm the safety of functionalized carbon nanotubes. Computational and experimental modeling experiments demonstrated that the nanotubes indeed expand the area of activation.
"Functionalized metallic-type carbon nanotubes are biocompatible within the brain and could enhance the volume of activation by an electrode via direct neurostimulation. This could allow the electrode to interface with and activate a greater extent of the epileptogenic circuit," says Marvin Rossi, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of neurology at Rush University Medical Center.
About the American Epilepsy Society:
The American Epilepsy Society is a medical and scientific society whose members are engaged in research and clinical care for people with epilepsy. For more than 75 years, AES has provided a dynamic global forum where professionals from academia, private practice, not-for-profit, government and industry can learn, share and grow. Find out more at aesnet.org.
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American Epilepsy Society's 69th Annual Meeting
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In 1983, The National Organization of Rare Disorders (NORD), working with Representative Henry Waxman was instrumental in advocating for the passage of the Orphan Drug Act (ODA) which brought new hope to the rare disease community by encouraging the manufacture and distribution of new therapies. 35 years ago, when it was introduced, there were only 34 therapies available to treat rare diseases. Today, there are over 700.
Under the ODA drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic agents would qualify for orphan status if they were intended to treat a disease affecting less than 200,000 American citizens. In order to encourage the development of drugs for orphan diseases, the ODA included a number of incentives including seven-year market exclusivity for companies that developed orphan drug, tax credits equal to half of the development costs, later changed to a fifteen-year carry-forward provision and a three-year carry-back that can be applied in profitable year, grants for drug development, fast-track approvals of drugs indicated for rare diseases, and expanded access to the Investigational New Drug Program. The law was also later amended to waive user fees charged under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act.
Since CRPS was designated as a rare disease, a number of pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers have signaled their intention of sponsoring CRPS clinical trials. Prior to this designation, I could only cite two major RCTs during the last twenty years. A number of corporations have approached me or members of our scientific advisory committee to discuss the feasibility of sponsoring trials now because CRPS has the rare disease moniker. Currently, Grünenthal is sponsoring a clinical trial in the US of neridronic acid, to test its efficacy and safety in people with CRPS.
Last year, Congress cut the incentives for companies to manufacture orphan drugs contained in the ODA by half. Senator Hatch and Reps. Lance and Butterfield have introduced a resolution; (a) applauding the growth in research and development for rare disease therapies, (b) recognizing the continued need for significant research and development efforts to treat and cure rare diseases, and (c) affirming the need to continue support public and private investment in research and development of new treatments for rare diseases.
The RSDSA Board of Directors has voted to support House Resolution 1154. The Board authorized a statement asking RSDSA members to contact their members of Congress to affirm the importance of the Orphan Drug Act, applauding its lifesaving contributions over its 35-year history, and recognizing the need to continue supporting research and development for rare diseases).