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"Our question is:
What is health?"
We are using that."
"Colored light contains information.
yet even better is the self-confident one."
"The mature patient is good,
on the wrong path."
"Disease is only walking
to work on the causal chain."
"Real health means
Welcome at ESOGETICS friends
New – ETD-Bioscan according to Peter Mandel – now digital!
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Update Seminar / Birthday Celebration 80 years of Peter Mandel from June 18 – 20.2021
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Strengthening of the Immune System – Video and Brochure
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Video – Peter Mandel Esogetics Holistic Medicine
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Information Energy Reflector Set
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Cause of Depression: The Viewpoint of Esogetic Medicine
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We are glad that you are here. Esogetic Holistic Medicine is a human holistic medicine. We definitely see ourselves as a partner to all healing systems. Exactly: All! We are neither the polar opposite to the modern times, nor dogmatic know-it-alls. We are simply thinking in an integrative manner, we are formulating what is most probable, we are pursuing what is obvious and we are acting empirically. For us rational, scientific scholarly insights and empirical data are not polarities, but parts of something much larger: Your health.
We are seeing the human being as a singular, great and incomparable creation. There are some basic principles underlying the function of life. The biophoton field of the body for instance has the ability to respond to all disturbances flexibly. It is permanently oscillating between "yin" and "yang". That is what we call health. Esogetic Holistic Medicine aims at natural self-regulation. We are inviting you here to ponder the question:
How does my health work?
If we know that, then the way towards resolving your symptoms becomes not only shorter, but also easier, maybe even more evident; maybe even with a "radiance" in regard to the rest of your life. As an initial orientation we are providing you with six complexes of complaints. No matter whether there is an acute need or simple curiosity: Courage is appreciated! Start on your journey to more competence; for your own health.
Exemplary Complexes of Complaints.
Essential Diagnostic Procedures
The Essential Methods of Diagnosis and Therapy.
In general Esogetic Holistic Medicine is based in empirical knowledge. That means we are observing what works. In order to do so we are creating new procedural combinations and keep observing. We have more than 200 protocols, which are effective by themselves or can be used in useful combinations. And: They can also be connected to other existing media of diagnosis and therapy that are outside of Esogetic Holistic Medicine. As an introduction: these are our most frequently used methods.
Energetic Emission Analysis
The Energetic Emission Analysis, abbreviated as EEA, is our central method of holistic diagnosis. It is conclusive, reproducible and based on simple physics. In four steps it assists us in treating the patient individually.
Interpreting:
Exact holistic diagnostic statements even in regard to not yet noticeable physical challenges.
Diagnosing:
Recognition of the connections between symptom and cause.
Definite cues about the necessary therapeutic measures.
Controlling:
Immediate feedback about the effect of the applied therapy.
The holistic diagnostic instrument that Peter Mandel has designed is based on the discoveries of the Russian researcher couple Kirlian around 1936. The approach is pure physics: Every living organism discharges electrical impulses. With the refined EEA device the tips of the fingers and toes are brought to an energetic discharge. These natural discharges then become visible in an image. We are looking at 2 x 10 corona shaped discharges, which become the basis for any diagnosis. Now competence, experience and open-mindedness are called for in the dialogue between therapist and patient. The "landscape" represented by these emissions needs to be decoded. We are opening causal chains, are taking genetic predispositions into account and are compiling all the information into holistic findings.
In the age of the world wide web many things can be read about the topic of "Kirlian photography". All we know is that Peter Mandel has taken more than 1 million photos in over 40 years. From the relationships between the ultra-weak light emissions and the individual condition of the "photographed" patient he then developed our central system of diagnosis.
In the best sense "Kirlian photography" is a photography of nature. As a result of the electric field strength gases, like air, get ionized and then discharge. The tips of fingers and toes are basically luminescent channels of discharge. The EEA device that Peter Mandel has created works similarly: In a darkened room there is a metal plate. On top of it there is an insulator, like for instance a thin ceramic tile. On top of the insulating tile the film is fixated, with its photosensitive side towards the top. The object to be photographed is placed on the film. It can be a leaf or a human being or only the tips of his fingers and toes. Depending on the required duration of exposure the electrical tension is applied for fractions of a second (about 100 µs). A corona shaped discharge shows up around the object.
The 2 x 10 corona shaped discharges, which are then visible on the photographic paper, each have a unique, completely individual characteristic. This is where the real work of Esogetic Holistic Medicine or more precisely of our therapists starts. How exactly can this be read? What does it mean?
To remind you: Peter Mandel always proceeds empirically. That means he is observing something obvious, creates correlations and is examining his assumptions in any new and similar situation. Quote by Peter Mandel: "If I notice something 10 or 20 times as a phenomenon, then I have to say it can be coincidence. If I notice it 4000 times, then there has to be some validity there." We do not have anything to add to that statement. Except: We are looking towards the future with unbridled optimism and are not seeing any contradiction in the observation of phenomena and their scientific lack of explanation. On our part we would like to keep working for your health.
Establishing relationships between signs.
Since the early seventies of the last century Peter Mandel has developed a complex and enormously multilayered method to read the emissions. Nowadays several thousand therapists are providing hundreds of highly individualized therapeutic protocols according to exactly this system every day. The ensuing treatments and the following recursive refinements and corrections are pleasing people around the globe.
Anamnesis
Each holistic diagnosis encompasses an extensive anamnesis conversation, in which we pay particular attention to the family anamnesis. We have been observing that there is a really strong correlation between health challenges and social, familial and generation transcending conflict situations. By using the holistic diagnostic systems of Esogetic Holistic Medicine we are able to clear a path through the "masks" that have arisen over the course of time. We are looking for the original causes.
Visual Diagnosis
The perception and recognition of the other are some of the most important prerequisites for the profession of a therapist. In the field of iris diagnosis for instance the iris and the sclera (white of the eye) are the primary focus. We are attempting to use the genetically given phenomena of the eye and especially the iris for our holistic diagnosis, while including all the reflex areas of the individual. We are also calling this the "indicator diagnosis", because the clinical patient's findings are often validated through the exact anamneses and the list of complaints. It is always important to recognize dispositions and weaknesses early on in the preliminary stages of symptoms and diseases.
For us the central carrier of the signs is primarily the skin. Thus Esogetic Holistic Medicine has taken on the task to decode this information. It is then assigned to certain internal processes, and interpreted within the trinity of life – spirit-soul-body. When an approach to the troubled place can be found through this route, then appropriate therapeutic media can easily be found to transport "neutral reflexes" towards that individual disruption. The responses to such measures are often reactions that the patient can notice. In Esogetic Holistic Medicine we look at these reactions as "symbols". They are providing the therapist with excellent clues about the individuality of the treated patient.
Peter Mandel refers to the meaning of the term "Visual Diagnosis"and how his teacher Dr. Anton Markgraf designed it. In his eight volume work "The Genetic Information of Visual Diagnosis" Dr. Anton Markgraf shows the connection between manifest phenomena and functional disruptions and diseases. Peter Mandel and thus Esogetic Holistic Medicine learned from him to gain orientation from the reflex zones of the skin.
The Energetic Emission Analysis, abbreviated as EEA, is our central method of diagnosis. It is conclusive, reproducible and based on simple physics. In four steps it assists us in treating the patient individually.
Exact diagnostic statements even in regard to not yet noticeable physical challenges.
The diagnostic instrument that Peter Mandel has designed is based on the discoveries of the Russian researcher couple Kirlian around 1936. The approach is pure physics: Every living organism discharges electrical impulses. With the refined EEA device the tips of the fingers and toes are brought to an energetic discharge. These natural discharges then become visible in an image. We are looking at 2 x 10 corona shaped discharges, which become the basis for any diagnosis. Now competence, experience and open-mindedness are called for in the dialogue between therapist and patient. The "landscape" represented by these emissions needs to be decoded. We are opening causal chains, are taking genetic predispositions into account and are compiling all the information into holistic findings.
The 2 x 10 corona shaped discharges, which are then visible on the photographic paper, each have a unique, completely individual characteristic. This is where the real work of Esogetic medicine or more precisely of our therapists starts. How exactly can this be read? What does it mean?
Each diagnosis encompasses an extensive anamnesis conversation, in which we pay particular attention to the family anamnesis. We have been observing that there is a really strong correlation between health challenges and social, familial and generation transcending conflict situations. By using the diagnostic systems of Esogetic medicine we are able to clear a path through the "masks" that have arisen over the course of time. We are looking for the original causes.
The perception and recognition of the other are some of the most important prerequisites for the profession of a therapist. In the field of iris diagnosis for instance the iris and the sclera (white of the eye) are the primary focus. We are attempting to use the genetically given phenomena of the eye and especially the iris for our diagnosis, while including all the reflex areas of the individual. We are also calling this the "indicator diagnosis", because the clinical patient's findings are often validated through the exact anamneses and the list of complaints. It is always important to recognize dispositions and weaknesses early on in the preliminary stages of symptoms and diseases.
The Skin Says more than a Thousand Words.
Every day our skin has to manage an infinite number of impressions. They lead to feelings, emotional and physical reflexes. It has been known and used for thousands of years that during this process some areas of the skin react more sensitively than others. Nowadays we are experiencing a comeback of these methods and insights even in western medicine. Early on Peter Mandel started to refer to the pioneering work of Dr. Anton Markgraf, MD. His basic discoveries in regard to the topic of genetic information in visual diagnosis have been exerting a fundamental influence on Esogetic medicine up to the present day.
The news from the visual diagnosis are many-voiced. In our evaluation we are always looking for the overall view of all signs. The reflex zones of the face (pathophysiognomy), the tongue, the segments of the back, the feet and the hands all play a part. They are correlated with the genetic information from the iris diagnosis and the present state as shown in the Energetic Emission Analysis. All these different informations are melded into a common topography. Only when this "landscape" of the patient has been created, can we analyze the situation in a responsible and sound manner.
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For us the central carrier of the signs is primarily the skin. Thus Esogetic medicine has taken on the task to decode this information. It is then assigned to certain internal processes, and interpreted within the trinity of life – spirit-soul-body. When an approach to the troubled place can be found through this route, then appropriate therapeutic media can easily be found to transport "neutral reflexes" towards that individual disruption. The responses to such measures are often reactions that the patient can notice. In Esogetic medicine we look at these reactions as "symbols". They are providing the therapist with excellent clues about the individuality of the treated patient.
Peter Mandel refers to the meaning of the term "Visual Diagnosis"and how his teacher Dr. Anton Markgraf designed it. In his eight volume work "The Genetic Information of Visual Diagnosis" Dr. Anton Markgraf shows the connection between manifest phenomena and functional disruptions and diseases. Peter Mandel and thus Esogetic medicine learned from him to gain orientation from the reflex zones of the skin.
Essentials Therapies
Therapies of Esogetic Holistic Medicine
One central type of therapy in Esogetic Holistic Medicine is the use of light. More precisely: colored light. But beyond that we are utilizing many more procedures. All the different protocols have been tested for years and can be combined as a system. Some are further developments of procedures known for hundreds of years already. All together they form an interplay of diagnosis and therapy to regulate the individual state of health.
The prerequisite for health is the harmonious balance of all body processes.
This harmony happens through the communication of the cells. Cellular metabolism and communication would be impossible without light. We are using this notion by using light and its different wavelengths specifically as an impulse and "motivator". Every nuance of color, including all shades of gray, possesses an individual vibrational energy, a specific "information". This information is introduced to the "energy system of the human being" at precisely defined reflex points and reflex zones. This is a further development of traditional acupuncture, we are talking about a complex network of communication. A balancing regulation of information is evoked, where the cause of the disruption is located through the use of the light conducting system of the body. The impulse entering exactly defined sensitive points of the body triggers a chain reaction, which "washes away" the obstacle and regulates the body's innate information and energy, so that it can once again flow in the predetermined pathways without impediment; gently and painlessly.
Colorpuncture with Infrared and Ultraviolet
Our body related infrared and the penetrating ultraviolet therapy are intentionally used for a very effective and individual treatment. The quality of the infrared radiation coupled with certain reflex zones of your body makes a very sustained effect possible.This application is often very helpful in pain therapy. The ultraviolet light on the other hand addresses the mental level. With it we are touching some deep causal places, so that possible disharmonies are addressed and dissolved.
Induction Therapy
We all are living in a rhythm. Our brain oscillates in five different rhythms. We have separate rhythms for deep sleep, light sleep, relaxation, for the waking state and for extreme physical performance.
Each and every impulse on the outside or inside of our body has to be processed by our consciousness. If we are not feeling well and there is a beginning stage of disease, then we also can suspect a disruption of the brain rhythm. In most cases the original vibrational concept can be reestablished. By using the induction method we are able to return to the inherent brain vibrations. The thalamus is the gate to consciousness and it takes in the impulses of the induction program that have been introduced through the skin. Previously overstimulated parts of the brain start to relax. Blocked system return to normalcy. We are treating the brain therapeutically in the same way that the brain would do it for itself. By developing the induction therapy Peter Mandel has developed a procedure, which can remind the brain of "forgotten" harmonious patterns. Briefly stated: we are not adding anything foreign from the outside, we are only assisting you in healing yourself; gently and individually.
For our crystal therapy we are not using gemstones, but patterns on facetted crystal glass pieces. Peter Mandel is using artificial crystal glass for his crystal therapy, a material without structure and information, which has been imprinted with certain holographic patterns and information. The goal is to use differently cut crystals to stimulate the self-healing faculties of the human body.
The idea behind that: We know that the body knows best how to heal itself; the crystals are a helpful assistance. This is how it is done: Specially cut glass stones with specific imprinted patterns are applied to certain reflex zones of the human body in order to stimulate the self-healing powers. According to the resonance principle an individual's distorted patterns of harmony can be returned to their original state.
Peter Mandel has developed artificial crystals in cooperation with the SWAROVSKI company. They carry certain holographic patterns and colors and are made for two types of applications: In case of the crystal therapy they are activators to be placed on specific skin zones. In the case of crystal puncture we are using smaller hologram imprinted crystals, which are glued to equally precisely defined points on the skin.
Self-help is appreciated!
Why don't you get acquainted with yourself?
Esogetic Holistic Medicine is helping you, after a detailed explanation and extensive on-site instruction, also with self-applications at home for beginners and the advanced, as well as a preparation for a treatment at one of our clinics later on. This way you can get a first impression of the impulse/effect mechanisms in your own body. Completely individually you can become part of the empirical system and experiential treasure trove of Esogetic medicine.
Please keep in mind: Certain diseases are less or not at all fit for self-treatment. Always consult your physician before applying self-treatment.
Peter Mandel has purposefully designed the following products for people who want to treat themselves. Each product comes with an instruction manual. To state it in short: Apply, observe, optimize!
After professional instruction you can use these crystals by yourself at any time. They are also great for the use in children. They are stimulating the self-healing powers, support deep relaxation and assist in a variety of nuisances in the adult and the young to come back to balance.
Synapsis Home Device
With this device you can comfortably conduct your own induction therapy at home. The rhythmic inductions remind your brain of "forgotten" harmonious patterns. The included harmonious oscillation programs show the brain "only" its own harmonious rhythms in a mirror. These are essential in for instance the return to a healthy sleep rhythm, the activation of good stress reduction and in order to return from continuous overstimulation to internal awareness. Always pay close attention to the recommended methods of use.
Wildcrafted Herbal Oil Relax
Your skin is a very wonderful carrier of information. So give some information back to your skin for a change. With the wildcrafted herbal oil you are stimulating and regulating your energy centers. Through specifically described zones you are fostering healthy sleep. Moreover you can use exactly defined dream zones and thus get a good "bowel movement of the soul" going. To wake you up to a most excellent morning!
We are recommending to use these products as a completely natural everyday process. They are not meant as a huge massive intervention, but a gentle and natural support for your balance of spirit-soul-body. And as you know: prevention is the best medicine.
Color-Sound Therapy
Color frequencies are translated into sound frequencies and thus information, which has a supportive and stabilizing effect; it is conducted from the ear to the brain and then to the coordination centers of the body.
They are used for the treatment of subconscious, usually not yet manifest problems and disruptions. The combinations of sounds are structured and not arbitrarily designed like meditation music. The soundscapes are a step-by-step nonverbal regression to the original natural human state. It is best to listen to them in sequence, because they are building on each other.
The point of this CD series is acoustic stimulation in regard to the desynchronized brain. Gentle regulatory impulses are carefully leading to a resolution of blockages. All four CD's complement each other. These steps are only beneficial as a package and can therefore only be bought as a set.
The Path and Work of Peter Mandel
The observations and insights of Peter Mandel were the beginning of Esogetic Holistic Medicine. He has worked as a physical therapist and naturopath in Heidelberg and since the early seventies in Bruchsal.
In cooperation with the biophoton researcher Fritz-Albert Popp he conducted pioneering research in the areas of biophysics and its structural modes of action in the physical body. Prof. Popp managed to prove that cells communicate with each other through light and colors, meaning photons. In 1976 Peter Mandel developed his method of color therapy through colorpuncture. The core concept is the connection between reflex zones on the skin and physical organs. In 1973 he made a huge leap from just a phenomenon to an entire system with the help of the Energetic Emission Analysis (EEA), which was based on the Kirlian photography of the twenties. It enabled him to provide visible and physical validation of his healing technique. Up to the present the diagnostic EEA chart that he consequently developed is our basis for the discovery of each patient's individual causal chain.
His teachings are opening up completely new perspectives in the diagnostic as well as the therapeutic direction. Terms like "Colorpuncture", "pain therapy" or "conflict resolution therapy" have become a fixture of Esogetic Holistic Medicine. Many colleagues, among them physicians and dentists, naturopaths and physical therapists, are practicing these methods.They are using them also as a complement to classical medical and technological medical measures. The close contact with clinics – especially as far as the new pain therapies are concerned – is an important step to a useful, mutually complementary cooperation between new healing methods and classical medicine. In the meantime Esogetic medicine has found a therapeutic clinical place in over 20 countries worldwide and is utilized by more than 20.000 physicians to the benefit of their patients.
His teachings are opening up completely new perspectives in the diagnostic as well as the therapeutic direction. Terms like "Colorpuncture", "pain therapy" or "conflict resolution therapy" have become a fixture of Esogetic Holistic Medicine. Many colleagues, among them physicians and dentists, naturopaths and physical therapists, are practicing these methods.They are using them also as a complement to classical medical and technological medical measures. The close contact with clinics – especially as far as the new pain therapies are concerned – is an important step to a useful, mutually complementary cooperation between new healing methods and classical medicine. In the meantime Esogetic Holistic Medicine has found a therapeutic clinical place in over 20 countries worldwide and is utilized by more than 20.000 physicians to the benefit of their patients.
Today Peter Mandel is a respected therapist and lecturer worldwide. He gives lectures and seminars in all of Europe, the USA, India, Japan, China, Australia and is cooperating with many well-known scientists and institutions, like for instance the biophoton researcher Professor Dr. F.-A. Popp and Hangzhou University, China. Peter Mandel is a honorary doctor of "Medicina Alternativa" in Alma-Ata, honorary member of the Academy for Holistic Medicine of the Grieshaber Foundation, and a founding member and second in charge of the "Academy for Medicine and reformed Healing Methods e.V." established in Worms in 1997.
Naturopathic Clinic Mandel & Wunderlich
Here we have all the diagnostic and therapeutic options available that we have developed in the last 40 years. Peter Mandel and his son Markus Wunderlich are treating and teaching here. Always close to the pulse of clinical work and always occupied with the question: How does individual health function? How do we achieve it, and what do we have to pay attention to on our way there? Therefore we are always conducting a very detailed anamnesis in the beginning, and we would like to motivate you to actively participate in your recovery process. We are seeing ourselves as a partner, coach and motivator for your own healing potentials. A very warm welcome!
Our Philosophy and Way of Thinking
ESOGETIC is not simply a fusion of esoteric – from the ancient Greek for "inner realm" – and energetic, but much more. It is an attitude combining research into cause and effect and an open curiosity for old and new knowledge. In brief: Esogetic Holistic Medicine is a meticulous holistic medicine. When body, soul and spirit are communicating with each other harmoniously, we are healthy. When they do not, then symptoms of stasis, standstill occur, usually termed disease. If recognized in time, they are only an information for us. We can change the situation.
At a later stage, that usually is called chronic, we do have to investigate the causal chain. In its core Esogetic Holistic Medicine does not only want to heal, but it wants to promote health. To do so we are employing more than 200 traditional and modern, western and eastern healing methods. Esogetic Holistic Medicine is thus not the opponent, but the partner of modernity. Traditional Chinese medicine, concepts from bioenergetics, biophysics and even bionics are all parts of something much larger; the complex system called human being. Everything serves only one purpose: Your health.
Esogetics Seminars
Esogetics Products for Beginners
Wildkräuteröl
The essential oils in this Esogetic herb oil regulate and stimulate the entire individual.
Sleep yourself fit
Sleep yourself fit! If that would be possible… Yes, it really is! And you have more influence on it than you may think.
Heart Disc in a box
Symbolically, the human heart is linked to sentiments and feelings such as affection, kind-heartedness, devotion and love, which are anchored deep within our hearts.
CD Headaches / Migraines
Statistics show that every third person suffers from headaches and migraines at irregular intervals and every tenth person regularly.
Synapsis home 2
Home instrument for applicate the induction therapy according Peter Mandel with 2 programs of your choice.
Perlux F-333 for the treatment of surfaces
The colorpuncture set for simple surface radiation in the office, at home and on the road.


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Thursday, February 5th, 2009 was Brain Injury Advocacy Day at the Vermont State House. The BIAVT staff and members of the TBI community worked very hard to educate Legislators and Policy Makers about the needs of Vermonters with brain injury and their families. The BIAVT would like to thank everyone who attended this event and for helping raise awareness of Brain Injury.
Dedicated members of the Brain Injury Association of Vermont (BIAVT) work together to increase the public's awareness of brain injury and its consequences, develop support systems, encourage appropriate rehabilitation for survivors and disseminate information about brain injury. BIAVT believes that everyone who faces life after brain injury deserves the opportunity to achieve maximum functioning. BIAVT advocates for statewide public and private services and the funding to pay for them.
We advocate for and with people who have sustained a brain injury and their family members by responding to their challenges and representing their concerns through legislative efforts and active support of programs created for their needs. The Association participates with the Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights (VCDR), State TBI Program and other state agencies, and the Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) program in efforts to improve Vermont's capacity to support and serve Vermonters experiencing brain injury and their families.


Summer is upon us and we know that you probably have some amazing plans but we want to invite you into some of the exciting things we have going on here this Summer.
It's June, it's graduation season and school is getting out for the summer. Here at Fellowship, we transition our kids and students to their incoming grade for the fall in June.
If you're a parent of an incoming Kindergartner, Sixth Grader, or Ninth Grader we have a Parent Meeting just for you this Sunday where you'll have the opportunity to learn all about the new program your kid is entering, meet their leaders, and ask any questions you might have. Don't miss this!
Then on Sunday, June 10 all of our kids and students will move up to their incoming grade for the fall. It's something we like to call, Transition Sunday.
Still don't know how to make this a fun, memory-making, and impactful summer for your kids? Sign them up for Fellowship Summer Camps! We've got camps for kids ages 3 through 18. We believe camp equals impact. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity. Scholarships are available. Go to madeforfellowship.com/camps to learn more and sign up!
It's our annual Summer Speaker Series! We are bringing in nine world class speakers that will not only transform your summer but also your life! It's going to be so good you won't want to just keep this to yourself, invite your friends, family, and neighbors to experience these great speakers this summer.
Finally, this summer we have some amazing volunteer opportunities. If you have some free time or margin we would love it if you could help us out. We'll have more information on how you can get involved with these summer volunteer opportunities soon.
For more information on all of the exciting this happening this month check out our upcoming events page.


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Sheffield Hallam student's shock after his cold turned out to be a rare cancer
Amir was diagnosed with leukaemia at 15 after suffering with symptoms for two years
Amir was just 15 when he was diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia (Image: Mirror)
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A Sheffield student who was diagnosed with leukaemia thought that his symptoms were just a heavy cold.
Amir Robinson-Behnejad was only 15 when he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, after developing symptoms two years prior.
He had originally thought that he was just suffering from a cold, but his symptoms turned out to be indicative of the rare cancer that attacks white blood cells.
Amir, now 18 and studying an economics degree at Sheffield Hallam University, was treated at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital, The Mirror reports.
On the day that he was admitted, Amir said it was a "heavy day" but that was the point that it started to get easier, as hospital staff wasted no time in getting the teenager the treatment he desperately needed.
Amir said: "As soon as you get to Alder Hey, they're very professional and you quickly realise they know what they're doing, they're switched on. As soon as I got in there, I had a pizza, I had someone to talk to and they had a plan set out.
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"There was no waiting around, it was like 'we know what it is, we know what we're doing, now let's get a move on'.
"As soon as I got into treatment, they showed me the plan, the three-year plan on the second day. As soon as I saw that I was at ease, and then it was just a case of going through the paces for the next three years and making sure I was all good."
But Amir was struck down with pneumonia during his treatment, which left him bedridden for eight weeks - though he was able to go to his secondary school prom, which lifted his spirits.
Amir is now in his first year at university in Sheffield (Image: Mirror)
He said: "Luckily, Alder Hey, great team over there, managed to get me out in time of my prom, so I was able to go to my high school prom which was nice.
"I was back in hospital that night but at least I got to go out because by that point I think I had been in hospital for seven weeks straight, so it was getting a bit tough being in there for so long and not feeling the best.
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"I was pretty under the weather. A week after that I was out and thankfully no more hiccups after that."
Supporting his journey was Amir's loving mum, Lisa, dad, Alborz and brother, Ali.
And there was not a single night that Amir was left alone in hospital, as his mum Lisa even left her job so that she could stay with her son in hospital.
But several months in and Amir's lymphatic system failed, leading to fatty liquid to seep into his chest cavity. This meant a zero-fat diet which, at first, largely consisted of dry toast.
He said: "With my dad we sat down and figured out what I could and couldn't eat. I ended up eating egg white omelettes.
"He sat with me making some really nice meal plans. I got through that like I got through everything else. I wouldn't have got through that as easily if it wasn't for that and everyone else."
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Thanks to both Hartford Church of England Secondary School and Sir John Deane's Sixth Form College, in Northwich, where Amir is from, he was able to go onto to study his A-Levels despite only being able to take one of his GCSEs from his hospital bed.
Five years on, and Amir is living cancer-free in Sheffield, enjoying what he can in his first year of university after getting his physics, maths and economics A-Levels last year.
Whilst his first year has been plagued with a global pandemic, it hasn't stopped him loving every minute of it and Amir is now determined to enjoy life as it comes.
He said: "I'm just enjoying my time here. I think that is one thing I took away from it all is to just really enjoy what you're doing right now. Try and live in the moment.
"When you go through stuff like that there are moments where I wondered 'am I going to pull through?' and to have those thoughts and to come out the other side, you learn to not take anything for granted.
"You realise how great everything is. I sound daft but you just want to live in the moment. I'm not thinking too far ahead in the future, I just want to finish my degree, enjoy my time here and get a good degree."

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Q: Google signin playstore error I have google login in my android application. When i generated signed apk and install that APK, google login works well. But when i put that APK in playstore, google login not works.
I generated signed apk with my keystore. And i've already generate new fingerprint from my keystore for my application and put it in my credential and add new google-service.json to my application.
I'm not using firebase in my google login.

A: It may be because the SHA1 is different when plugged into the playstore, maybe download the APK of your in-store application and try to generate the Signing-certificate fingerprint.
Make sure the package name hasnt changed nor have your keys otherwise the login will be invalid,  read this: https://support.google.com/googleapi/answer/6158849?hl=en#installedapplications&android
for some more information on it

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Halcro dm38 power amplifier
John Atkinson | Oct 15, 2004 | First Published: Oct 1, 2004
One of the highlights of recent Consumer Electronics and Home Entertainment shows has been the demonstrations of sound quality put on by Australian amplifier manufacturer Halcro with Wilson Audio loudspeakers. At my first exposure to one of these demos—described in my April 2002 "As We See It"—enormous dynamic range was coupled with a grain-free presentation and almost holographic stereo imaging to produce a breathtaking sweep of sound. Paul Bolin reviewed Halcro's dm58 monoblock in October 2002, and that amplifier was subsequently voted this magazine's "Amplification Component of 2002" by our reviewers.
The dm58 is physically large; when I tried the review samples out in my system prior to measuring them, they dominated my room. So when Halcro's affable US distributor, Philip O'Hanlon, asked me if I would be interested in reviewing the company's first two-channel design, the $18,790 dm38, I didn't need much persuading.
Two channels, not one
The dm38 is basically the circuit of the dm58 monoblock, duplicated for stereo but with reduced output power because the same heatsink area now has to be shared by two channels instead of being dedicated to one. The aluminum chassis has an attractive brushed-silver finish, and keeps the same H-shape of the '58. The uprights, sitting on wooden plinths, contain the output circuitry and heatsinks; the lower of the two crossbars is the power-factor-corrected switch-mode power supply, the upper the input circuitry and the I/O connectors.
With two channels to handle, as well as balanced and unbalanced inputs, the latter offering both voltage-mode and current-mode operation, the rear panel of the upper module is crowded. But there is still room to connect fairly heavy-duty cables, and the output binding posts are usefully insulated with rubber shrouds.
AC power is supplied via an IEC connector on the base of the lower module, where the main power switch resides. The amplifier is switched in and out of standby with a button on the underside of the upper module.
Vanishingly low distortion
When Halcro burst onto the US high-end scene in 2001, they made much of their amplifiers' astonishingly low levels of distortion, and of the fact that the excellent linearity had been achieved without the compromises introduced by traditional circuits that use excessive amounts of negative feedback, such as the shifting of energy from the relatively benign low-order harmonics to the much more objectionable (because they are not musically consonant) high-order harmonics. Such amplifiers would have low distortion only as long as you weren't using them to amplify a signal! And there would be other problems, such as slew-rate limiting and marginal stability.
To find out more about the Halcro amplifiers, I met with their designer, Bruce Candy, in London last November. ("Halcro," a Scandinavian name of Orkney Islands origin, is Bruce's middle name.) He was passing through en route from Helsinki and Australia, and I had just finished the sessions for Antony Michaelson's Mozart Clarinet Concerto project (see "Letters" in this issue). The most important part of the design is the output stage, Dr. Candy told me. He uses complementary vertical FETs, of a type normally used for switching, because they can turn on and off fast enough to eliminate crossover distortion. (Candy hates crossover distortion.) But the problem with these so-called switching FETs, he explained, is that it is "hard to make them stable with temperature so that all the devices draw the same current"—which is perhaps one reason they are not in widespread use in audio circuits.
Candy was reluctant to go into detail about how his patented Halcro output stage works, but he did tell me that the key to the design is that the distortion-canceling circuitry "float" up and down with the output stage. So even though the output-stage voltage rails are conventionally high, this important circuitry "sees" only a small voltage, of around 10V. This allows him to use very wide-bandwidth small-signal devices in the error-canceling circuitry. "This is all classical microwave stuff," Candy explained, which left me none the wiser, other than to assume that circuits that handle microwave frequencies must, by definition, be fast.
Continuing our discussion, we touched on: why tube circuits tend to sound good; protection circuitry (Candy is for it, when it is done right); how hard it is to design a switching-mode power supply that won't overheat while operating at high speed with high efficiency; the optimal loading for Shure moving-magnet cartridges, which he feels still sound great on classical orchestral music (though he admires how a moving-coil design will reproduce opera); why the ubiquitous use of simulation programs such as Spice is not necessarily a good thing for electronics engineers; and even jet engines—"you must think of it in terms of gain and gas flow, the relative impedances," Candy elaborated, "if you want to understand how the engine works." The conversation veered back to audio in the shape of class-D or switching amplifiers—Halcro plans to introduce multichannel amplifiers for home-theater systems that use some innovative thinking on Dr. Candy's part.
But eventually we returned to the subject of Halcro's amplifiers and how hard it was for me to comprehend how an amplifier with as little distortion as one of Candy's designs could sound so radically different from a conventional amplifier when the distortion artifacts of the latter are already well below the threshold of human hearing. "That's a good question!" he laughed, venturing no answer.
When I got back to New York, I did some Web work and uncovered Bruce Candy's patents on the Halcro amplifier designs (footnote 1). Rather than use conventional negative feedback to reduce the level of errors, he uses a complex, active error-correction circuit. Correction of errors in amplifier design goes back, in my memory, to Quad's "current-dumping," feed-forward design of the mid-1970s. As Dr. Candy points out in his patents, Malcolm Omar Hawksford, Masayuki Iwamatsu, and Robert Cordell all published papers or patents on this subject in the 1980s, and I believe Nelson Pass also attempted something along these lines with the "Stasis" circuitry used in 1980s Threshold designs.
The circuit diagrams in the patents are way beyond my ability to grasp. In Candy's words when I spoke with him, "It definitely would take the average amplifier designer quite some time to recognise the circuit as that of an amplifier if presented with no direct clue as to its purpose"—and I am not an amplifier designer at all, average or otherwise! However, it appears that the essential innovation of the Halcro amplifier is indeed the use of a floating power supply for the distortion-canceling circuitry, to allow the use of small-signal devices, including a differential-input op-amp with an extremely high (100MHz) gain-bandwidth product, coupled with multiple nested correction loops and enormous care taken with isolating the input circuitry from the magnetic coupling effects of the high-current output stage.
Candy stresses that there are significant differences between his circuit and earlier distortion-cancellation designs. Unusually, the Halcro amplifier doesn't appear to use the usual fully complementary topology. Candy's feeling is that the complete cancellation of even-order distortion this produces works against his design goal of having less odd- than even-order distortion. He also explains that, wherever possible, the circuit is arranged to keep the voltage across and current through semiconductors under "very near constant conditions," to eliminate the variation of the devices' operating parameters with frequency, voltage, and current. (I conjectured 21 years ago, in the August 1983 issue of Hi-Fi News, that a possible reason amplifiers with class-A output stages sounded good was not so much the elimination of crossover distortion, but the fact that the output transistors were carrying a constant current and were therefore immune to having their temperature, hence gain, modulated by the music signal (footnote 2).)
"To this day, I have yet to hear any amplifier that equals the dm58's combination of complete neutrality, harmonic generosity, lightning reflexes, and a sense of boundless power that is difficult to describe," was how Paul Bolin summed up his experience with Halcro's dm58 monoblock. It also nicely describes my reaction to the dm58 when the review pair briefly spent some time in my listening room.
Footnote 1: Two key patents are US 5,892,398, "Amplifier Having Ultra-Low Distortion," April 6, 1999; and patent application US 2003/0058044 A1, dated March 27, 2003.
Footnote 2: My thanks to Dutch reader Hans Polak for sending me an informative analysis of this subject, and for drawing my attention to the writings of French engineer M. Perrot on this subject, which Perrot calls "Thermal Distortion" and claims is a reason tube amplifiers are preferred to solid-state.
Halcro
US distributor: On A Higher Note
26081 Via Estelita
www.halcro.com
Follow-Up, January 2007


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IDP2015 (IV). Internet, Politics and Society
By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 02 July 2015
Main categories: Cyberlaw, governance, rights, e-Government, e-Administration, Politics, Information Society, Meetings, Participation, Engagement, Use, Activism
Other tags: anselm_bodoque_arribas, idp, idp2015, jose_luis_marti, laura_roth, maria_jose_senent_vidal, vicenta_tasa_fuster
Notes from the 11th Internet, Law and Politics Congress: Regulating Smart Cities , organized by the Open University of Catalonia, School of Law and Political Science, and held in Barcelona, Spain, on 2-3 July 2015. More notes on this event: idp2015.
Internet, Politics and Society
Chairs: Rosa Borge
New democratic movements, political culture and models of democracy
José Luis Martí, Laura Roth
We are beginning to contest the assumption that not voting is not participating in politics. And it is increasingly clear that it is not so: participation in extra-representative politics is becoming more important and will most likely be. Under this new train of though, what should be the profile of the "good citizen" in terms of political participation and engagement?
There is a first factor that needs being reframed. Most literature on social capital, participation in organizations, etc. seems not to be fitting what current ways of participation are to be found in new social and political movements. It looks like citizens begin to have new approaches, new attitudes, new cultures of participation that are just not compatible with old school participation models.
Four models:
The traditional model: citizens are like readers that read the "book of ideas" of their representatives. But little more.
The accountability model: addedd to "reading the book", they can comment on it, they can compare what they see with their own position, etc.
The participative model: citizens are also authors of the "book" while representatives are like "editors" who put the ideas or proposals into practice. New values like toerance, equity. Also new skills.
Networked democracy: citizens are authors, editors and readers of the "books" created by the collective. This model is a total rupture with the preceding models.
Open politics and participation. The case of Podemos
Vicenta Tasa Fuster, Anselm Bodoque Arribas
There is a confrontation between what some call old politics and new politics, the latter being characterized by an intensive use of technology and highly valuing participation.
Participation: in a democratic sense, participation only has sense if it is permanent, open, free and deliberative (Joan Subirats).
Podemos has fostered participation, but it has decreased over time, and never reached 50% of the members of the party. They use a combination of platforms and tools (Appgree, Loomio, Reddit, Impulsa, the Talent Bank, Doodle, TitanPad, Google Groups and Google Drive, etc.).
When it comes to internal organization, it is difficult to tell new from old politics. But in matters of participation, there may be a difference.
After several participation processes, the average in Spain is that only 27% of the members of the party participated in voting for their representatives to be secretary general in their respective regions. For the primary elections (March 2015) participation was even lower (circa 23%).
Why this low participation when the party self-defines itself as participatory? ESpecially relevant, as the newcomers should be, in theory, highly motivated. And the barriers to vote were very low, as they only required and ID and a connection to the Internet. Different reasons:
Different degree of organization and definition of the own interests: there are many ways in which people participate.
People that always participate.
People that only participate in some specific issues of their interest.
Partisans that are not very organized.
Partisans that never participate.
Gender divide. Women usually have less time to participate, due to domestic burdens, sheer discrimination, etc.
Digital divide. Relevant if the main (if not the only) means to participate is digital and requiring high digital skills. In addition, we know that there is a gender divide within the digital divide.
Different reasons of the partisans. Most leaders in Podemos are men, and many topics raised in the participation platforms are genuinely masculine.
Digital divide and gender
María José Senent Vidal
We see that the digital divide has an important gender component, especially when it comes to usage and advanced uses (second and third digital divides).
Ability to access.
Ability and control of use.
Advanced uses, participation in processes of decision and creation.
Proposals:
Right to digital inclusion.
Overcoming of stereotypes.
Technological empowerment.
Albert Batlle: is Podemos faking participation but its design is aimed at making participation difficult? Bodoque: It is not clear. There seems to be an opposition of factors and values. On the one hand, Podemos was born thanks to participation, on the other hand, the more the party grows, the more difficult to manage participation. It is also true that the decrease in participation may also be due to the fading of the newness factor and tiredness of several participation processes.
David Martínez: how sustainable are these new forms of political participation? Can we put into practice such a model of democracy? José Luís Martí: the 15M was not about decision-making, was about deliberation. This is a difference with Podemos, which is a party and wants to make decisions, but it also gives some ideas on the nature of Podemos and what they think about participation: it's about deliberation, and about doing it outside of the institutions, on one's everyday life. On the other hand, it is not only internal participation that matters, but also general participation of the citizen.
José Luís Martí: it has been said that participation in Podemos was low. But, how do we tell low from high? How do we compare? Vicenta Tasa: there are two clear concentric circles in Podemos, one that leads and participates the whole time, another one in the periphery and with much less engagement. Anselm Bodoque: it's true, that in general terms people in Podemos participate, deliberate and vote much more than in other political parties. But still, one would expect like more excitation in the ranks of Podemos.
Anselm Bodoque: it is important to highlight the motivation factor and the false sense of equality in participation. It is just not true that everyone participates in equal conditions in participatory processes: some people organize and some don't. And the ones that organize are more effective and efficient that the lone wolves.
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Twenty-year-old woman dead following an ATV crash in St. John's early Saturday morning
Keith Gosse | Posted: Dec. 4, 2021, 5:27 a.m. | Updated: Dec. 4, 2021, 6:44 a.m. | 3 Min Read
A female ATV driver was critically injured following a crash in the Goulds area of St. John's early Saturday morning. Keith Gosse/The Telegram
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A female ATV driver is dead following a crash in the Goulds area of St. John's early Saturday morning.
The incident occurred on the gravel road next to the Robert E. Howlett highway at about 3:30 a.m. and was reported by passersby who happened on the scene.
The passersby then gave the female emergency medical attention until first responders from the arrived.
The injured driver was placed on a stretcher and taken to an ambulance that was waiting just metres away on the highway.
Police were also on scene and the area was cordoned off for an investigation into the crash.
More details will be provided as they become available.
Keith Gosse is a photojournalist for the Telegram in St. John's.
Twitter: @TelyPhotoGosse


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Q: Choosing image size for react native app I need some fullscreen images for a react native app. What size should I stick to? Should I add multiple images for different resolutions, like one of width 320, one of width 480, 720, 920, 1280, 1920 etc and choose them according to Dimensions.get output? If so, which sizes should I include? Or maybe I don't need that much images and sticking to one with average resolution is still fine? What are best practices to choose image size?

A: the size of the images to serve depends on the data you get from Dimensions, pixelRatio and NetInfo.
Let's say regular iPhone width is 320. If you get that and pixelRatio is 2, it makes sense to serve 720 if you want the images to be sharp. That is the math to base the sizing upon.
On top of that it makes sense to check NetInfo.isConnectionExpensive() and downgrade the quality if the network isn't appropriate.
I think a good way to handle this is to have 3-4 base image sizes - small, medium, large, extraLarge (to cover tablets) and use them accordingly.

A: The documentation describes, that you can place your Image where you want in your JS-Structure and you can use @2 and @3 suffix to support different Pixel-Densities, if you use static resources: https://reactnative.dev/docs/images#static-image-resources
The rest will be handled by reactnative (even like only importing images are really needed.
But I also wonder what are a good starting-point to provide good resolutions.
Maybe anybody has an additional suggestion, wich resolution to start with on default density, and which to use for @2 and @3 suffixes.


While what exactly goes on within the event horizon of a black hole is still well within the realm of theoretical physics (and it's said that at the very heart of a black hole physics as we know it gets a serious kick in the pants) researchers are learning more and more about what happens in the immediate vicinity around a black hole, within the flattened disk of superheated material falling inexorably in toward the center. Using supercomputers, scientists can model the behavior of black holes' accretion disks and see how gas behaves as it gets accelerated and drawn inward, heated to millions and even billions of degrees.
"Our work traces the complex motions, particle interactions and turbulent magnetic fields in billion-degree gas on the threshold of a black hole, one of the most extreme physical environments in the universe," said lead researcher Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Gas falling toward a black hole initially orbits around it and then accumulates into a flattened disk. The gas stored in this disk gradually spirals inward and becomes greatly compressed and heated as it nears the center. Ultimately reaching temperatures up to 20 million degrees Fahrenheit (12 million C) — some 2,000 times hotter than the sun's surface — the gas shines brightly in low-energy, or soft, X-rays.
For more than 40 years, however, observations have shown that black holes also produce considerable amounts of "hard" X-rays, light with energy tens to hundreds of times greater than soft X-rays. This higher-energy light implies the presence of correspondingly hotter gas, with temperatures reaching billions of degrees.
Working with Julian Krolik, a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Scott Noble, a research scientist at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y., Schnittman developed a process for modeling the inner region of a black hole's accretion disk, tracking the emission and movement of X-rays, and comparing the results to observations of real black holes.
Using the data generated by Noble's simulation, Schnittman and Krolik developed tools to track how X-rays were emitted, absorbed, and scattered throughout both the accretion disk and the corona region. Combined, they demonstrate for the first time a direct connection between magnetic turbulence in the disk, the formation of a billion-degree corona, and the production of hard X-rays around an actively "feeding" black hole.
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Spring is a time when the weather gets warmer, the flowers bloom, and the birds sing. It might also rain blood now and then. When that does happen, this officially licensed umbrella based on Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise from the new adaptation of Stephen King's IT is the right tool for the job.
As you can see, the canopy features a minimalist Pennywise-themed design, but the special feature here is the liquid reactive fabric that changes color and reveals the clown makeup and blood splatter when wet. You can pre-order one right here for only $22.99 with free shipping slated for June. On a side note, there's a famous behind-the-scenes photo of Tim Curry holding an umbrella and smoking a cigarette in full Pennywise makeup from the original IT miniseries. I pictured this umbrella in his hand and laughed.
In other strange Stephen King merch news, an officially licensed The Shining doormat was recently released and it's available to pre-order here for only $34.99 with free shipping slated for April 30th. It even incorporates a "Welcome to the Overlook Hotel" design, which should help make your guests feel right at home.
There have been many replicas of the Overlook Hotel carpet featured in Stanley Kubrick's classic film adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining. However, an officially licensed pattern based on David Hicks' original 1960s design can set you back thousands of dollars - and that's only for a rug version. That makes this doormat seem like an absolute steal.
IT: Chapter Two is slated to hit theaters on September 6th, 2019.


China is to announce an action plan later this month to address water pollution and save its depleting freshwater resources.
The long-awaited plan, which is expected to be approved by the Chinese cabinet in April, will allow the regulators to hold responsible authorities and those who are contaminating the potable water resources.
Economic boom has affected water availability in the Asian country, leaving most of the water resourses unsuitable for human consumption or to be used for irrigational purposes, reports Reuters.
The anticipated plan will ask industries, especially the paper mills and dye and chemical plants, to treat their water discharges.
Official media reports suggest that it will also set exorbitant penalties on water polluters.
Public health and food security in China is at major risk, according to official data. An estimated 33% of the major river basins in the country and 60% of its underground water have been contaminated.
Once implemented, the plan can lift the water treatment industry in the country with an estimated investment of CNY2tn ($323bn).
The Chinese authorities will monitor the industrial pollutant discharges under the plan, and classify water resources according to their level of contamination. Any source rated as 'five' or even worse will not be safe even for human skin.
The proposed plan is likely to improve the drinking water system in the country, by preventing industrial waste contaminating rivers, lakes and underground water. It is also expected to support and strengthen the rural water infrastructure in the country.


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Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) has the right to alter, suspend, or terminate any Services available on or through the Site at any time. Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) makes no guarantee that any Services are accessible to you and/or in your area, and a reference to Services on the Site does not imply they will be accessible.
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Users who willfully and/or repeatedly infringe Digital Strategy Institute (DSI)'s policies are terminated.
Please contact us if you have any questions regarding obtaining permission to use material from the Site.
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In a way that is sure to cause perplexity;
To identify your products or services;
You are not permitted to use a confusingly similar name as part of your name, trademarks or service marks, or otherwise try to pass off your own brand names or service marks.
We have found instances where companies have used our names or logos without seeking permission from us.
In a manner that disparages or defrauds the owner of the Marks.
You agree not to use or display the Marks in any manner without prior written consent from Digital Strategy Institute (DSI). To seek permission, please contact us immediately. We will evaluate your request and respond as soon as possible.
Disclaimers And Limitation Of Liabilities And Warranties
There may be mistakes on the Site, such as technical inaccuracies, typos, or outdated information. Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) makes no warranties about the accuracy, trustworthiness, completeness, or timeliness of the information available on this site. At the bottom of each page, Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) reserves the right to make modifications to the Site at any time. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE, INCLUDING ANY SOFTWARE AND SERVICES AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE, IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE USE OF, ACCESS TO, OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE, SITE IN/OR SERVICES. (Because some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.) Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) DOES NOT GUARANTEE, EXPRESSLY OR IMPLIED, THAT THE SOFTWARE, MATERIALS, AND/OR SERVICES AVAILABLE FROM THE SITE ARE MERCHANTABLE OR FIT FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ALL OF WHICH ARE BEING OFFERED "AS IS." We do not promise that Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) will be able to assist you with all of your concerns. Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) DISCLAIMS ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSSES OR INJURIES TO YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT OR OTHER PROPERTY AS A RESULT OF YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR BROWSING THE SITE OR YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY SOFTWARE OR Materials from the website.
You shall indemnify and hold Digital Strategy Institute (DSI), its affiliates, employees, and agents harmless from and against any and all liability, losses, claims, demands, disputes, damages, and costs of any kind (including but not limited to reasonable attorneys' fees) resulting from or in any way connected with your use of the Site. This includes any Software or Services that you may receive through the Site, as well as any Content you submit through the Site. This also applies if you breach any of the terms and conditions or the privacy policy.
Intellectual Property Limitation Of Liability
Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) believes in respecting the intellectual property of others, and we ask that you do the same while visiting our Site. If you believe your work has been used in a manner that is considered copyright infringement, please provide the following information in the form of a written notification (pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)) to the designated Copyright Agent of Digital Strategy Institute (DSI):
Identifying the copyrighted work(s) that you believe has been infringed;
We ask for the following information so that we can identify where the material that you claim to be infringing is located on our site:
It must also include a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the contested material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
The notice must also include a declaration that the information in the notification is correct, and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
Your telephone number, address, and e-mail address; and
The designated agent of Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) for claims alleging copyright infringement on this Site may be contacted as follows:
Address: Designated Agent for Intellectual Property
Lucy Hale, Director - Operations
Furthermore, if you believe your trademarks or service marks have been infringed, or that your image has been used without your consent, please notify the Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) designated agent.
All actions based on any violation of these Terms and Conditions shall be brought in the federal or local courts of San Francisco, California, United States, as appropriate, and with whose jurisdiction you consent. If the court discovers a breach, it has the authority to issue an injunction and impose fines as well as attorneys' fees and other remedies.
Applicable Laws And Jurisdictional Issues
The Site is governed by the laws of the United States, specifically including but not limited to copyright and trademark regulations, as well as the legislation of the State of California governing contracts entered into and to be fulfilled entirely there. You agree to the courts of California's jurisdiction and to receiving service of process by mail if you access and use the Site. You hereby waive any and all jurisdictional and venue defenses that may otherwise be available.
You agree not to use the Site, Software, or Services in violation of these Terms & Conditions or that is illegal. You also agree not to access, download, utilize, or export the Site or Software or Services provided on or through the Site in violation of any applicable laws, rules, or regulations. By submitting your personal information, you agree to adhere to all export rules and limitations of any United States or foreign agency or authority, as well as not to offer the Site, Software, or Services accessible through the Site in violation of any such restrictions, laws, rules, or regulations.
Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) shall not be held responsible for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations in the event that such performance is prevented by acts of God or government regulation, war, conflict, blockades, strikes, lockouts, or any other cause beyond Digital Strategy Institute (DSI)'s reasonable control. If a force majeure condition arises, Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) must promptly notify you. This clause does not absolve Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) of its obligation to perform, but only suspends it until as soon as possible after the force majeure condition has passed away.
For the purpose of convenience, each of these Terms & Conditions has headings. These headings are merely for reference and should be ignored in the interpretation or construction of any of these terms and conditions.
No Assignment
You may not transfer or delegate your rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of Digital Strategy Institute (DSI).
Invalidity Of Provisions
In the event that any part of these Terms and Conditions is found to be illegal, the unenforceable portion shall be construed as nearly as possible to reflect the original purpose while the rest of the provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) be liable for any cost or damage resulting from any failure on its part to insist upon strict performance of any provision of these Terms and Conditions.
Changes To The Terms & Conditions
Except as otherwise provided in these Terms & Conditions, no modification or amendment of these Terms & Conditions shall be made except by a new posting on the Site, and no information or advice received from the Site or its representatives is deemed to constitute an amendment, waiver, or change to these Terms & Conditions unless such an amendment, waiver, or change in writing from an authorized representative or officer of Digital Strategy Institute (DSI).
Complete Understanding
The following Terms and Conditions are the entire agreement between Digital Strategy Institute (DSI) and you regarding the Site.


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