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Hong Kong High-End Audio Visual Show Report
by Julie Mullins
Of all the years to get invited to visit Hong Kong to check out the show and audio scene there, this proved to be a more exciting one than most. No need to go into politics, but suffice to say that the local protesters didn't put a damper on our small press trip's activities. (Although the show wound down a couple of hours early on the last day as the demonstrations were scheduled to be moving into the area.) The show must go on, as they say. Indeed, enthusiasm and strong attendance numbers prevailed.
Hong Kong is a hot market—and in August, a hot and steamy subtropical climate—within a vibrant cultural scene. With the Hong Kong High-End Audio Visual Show's attendance at around 28,000 this year, it's said to be Asia's biggest and probably most important audio show. This is only down a few thousand from last year's count (of around 35,000 we're told); the show's organizers noted that the difference seemed to arise primarily from fewer attendees from mainland China this year. Many European and American manufacturers exhibit here in addition to Asian counterparts.
You might think an audio show is an audio show, but the Hong Kong High-End Audio Visual Show sets itself apart in a few ways. First, rather than taking place in a more typical hotel, the enormous Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre serves as the venue. Located right on the city's main harbor, it's not only scenic as you ascend the many escalators but comparatively quite good-sounding—particularly the large rooms on the upstairs floors where a host of brands were represented in each. Based on the limited listening I was able to do, the rooms themselves sounded quite good compared to those found at many other show venues.
Frequently filled up with both gear and people, the rooms also hosted many lecture/demos that proved very popular but also made it more challenging to drop in just to listen and/or obtain information about the components if you didn't time things right (or find someone to speak with). In general, the show was so populous in most areas that it was tricky to get good photos. Yet this well-organized show didn't feel in any way as crowded as I might have anticipated, thanks in part to the venue's large overall scale and the very open hallway areas off which the upstairs exhibit rooms were located.
Additionally, there's a huge, more "market-style" open-plan room, filled with rows of displays and demos, known as Hall 5FG (similar to the Halles on the ground level of the MOC venue for the Munich show). In similar fashion it also contains some "temporary" pre-fab rooms within the main hall.
An opening ceremony kicked off the show the first morning, complete with a large drum ensemble, traditional Chinese flute players, and "Christmas" crackers (I believe they have these in England too—think indoor smokeless firecrackers). Guests were invited to gather onstage in a large pack after show organizers Rebecca Chin and Lincoln Cheng made some announcements and introductions. (Watch this space for more on those two as well as Audio Exotics, an important Hong Kong-based dealer/distributor with some unique approaches to high-end audio retail.)
A few live concert events rounded out the show. We attended one near-standing-room-only afternoon showcase in a ballroom—sponsored by our kind hosts from Audio Exotics—that featured a trio of popular female singers from the Pop Pop Factory label. I can't say I ever would have expected to hear bossa nova tunes sung in Cantonese but it was charming—not to mention crowd-pleasing.
Sure, the place was packed with plenty of "traditional" audiophiles but overall the Hong Kong show drew more young people (as in Millennials), women, and couples than I think I'd ever seen at an audio show before—all of which is encouraging. Another trend seemed a sense that, for some, "more is more" as there was plenty of ultra-high-end gear on display, including some flashier designs and/or more exotic colors and finishes.
Below I offer highlights and several photos from the high-energy Hong Kong High-End Audio Visual Show (where our small group spent the better part of a day and a half) perusing. As usual, apologies in advance for any factual errors and to those whose exhibits I missed or was unable to revisit as rooms were too crowded, etc. As noted, listening proved more challenging than at most other shows I've attended, between packed room conditions, presentations—and many quite talkative but friendly folks in the rooms.
Spirits seemed high, and it was good to see the locals—and internationals—living it up and enjoying the show despite some complex political situations.
A Few Debuts and Other Highlights
Zellaton unveiled its brand-new Plural Evo speaker (stands for Evolution). Five years in the making, this three-way design with partially handmade sandwich drivers and an open-baffle midrange (with grille) will begin production in September. Designed in "modern materials" and with ported bass it's intended for smaller living spaces and easier placement, e.g., closer to a wall. Retail cost is still TBD, but the Plural Evo will be priced considerably more affordably than its traditional models.
The Siltech Symphony loudspeaker that premiered at the show represents a truly no-holds-barred statement design. It has 26 drivers, is reportedly flat to 17Hz with measured distortion a mere .25%, and .05% in midrange, which is said to be a world record. In a special presentation Siltech's Edwin Rijnveld explained his principles for creating the speaker: a grand piano's lower octaves and divisions into five equal bands across the human hearing range. It contains six amps for "assisted power amplification" (think power steering) for extra control but there is no gain so separate amplification is still needed. Naturally, everything inside uses Siltech monocrystal wire.
The 93dB-efficient speaker has a switch on the back that allows you to choose between two tweeters, a diamond option or a ribbon one, to suit your sonic preferences or listening to different types of music. As an engineer, Edwin said couldn't choose so he included both! He described how jewels and steel are used in a unique and effective approach to decouple each speaker's separate cabinets. Pricing is to be determined but these won't come cheap—though future trickle-down products were mentioned.
Gryphon Designs of Denmark debuted several new products at the show. Introduced as a prototype at AXPONA earlier this year, the Ethos CD player/DAChas three digital inputs and contains a StreamUnlimited CD Pro 8 transport from Austria. For the Ethos, designer Fleming Erik Rasmussen was inspired by turntable elements: the way the player opens and closes on top is a fully manual function, akin to lowering a tonearm to begin playing a record. Expected price is around $35k and shipping starts mid-to-late September.
Also premiering were late-stage prototypes of the new Essence series of amplification: monoblock amps, a stereo amp, and a preamp. Though hardly petite, the monoblocks will be the smallest amplifiers the company makes and deliver will have a (conservative) 50W of pure Class A with 440,000 microfarads per side. Interestingly, the front panel's triangle is meant to symbolize a stylus in a record's groove.Representing the company's entry-level point for Class A power amps, this monoblock and the rest of the series are expected in market by February of 2020.
Storied German turntable maker Thorens introduced a classic-looking new turntable, the TD 1600 with all-manual operation, alongside a 1601 version which has auto-lift capability; an optical element shuts off the synchronous motor. The TD 1600 and 1601 come with an outboard power supply and contain a completely redesigned sub-chassis construction that uses a discrete motor and a sub-chassis on springs that can be adjusted from the outside. A fixed metal post on the bottom aluminum plate runs through the sub-chassis and is connected by string so that it always stays tangential. First shown as a prototype in Munich, the turntable is entering production for November shipping, and the 1601 will retail for €3000 and the 1600 for €2500.
Another turntable (and tonearm) manufacturer from Germany introduced a new 'table, the Acoustic Signature Montana, which replaces the Novo model. The substantial yet not outsized new model follows the company's, uh, signature use of its specially manufactured constrained layer damping with multiple layers. The mighty Montana has a three-motor drive and can handle two tonearms so long as they're between 9- and 12-inches in length. Shipping in the U.S. has begun and pricing is estimated in the $23k range.
Red registers as an important color here; it's said to be associated with good fortune. It so happens some crimson components turned up at the show: an Audio Research Ref 160S mono power amplifier premiering in a custom red color plus an Ref 6 tube preamp (also in red) paired with Wilson Audio Sasha 2 DAW speakers in a blue hue.
There were YG Acoustics Carmel 2 speakers in red, and a new Luxman tube CL-1000 control amplifier with a crimson wood-veneer type of finish on top.
Speaking of striking colors, the new 2nd Generation version of the Naim Mu-so wireless music system was introduced at the show. It comes in three color options and contains the same streaming technology as the rest of its product family. Its compact scale and home décor aesthetics make it an attractive choice for multi-room environment usage. The company is finalizing software and EQ and the updated version will be available in early September and retail for $899.
UK's Cambridge Audio presented its cool new Melomania 1 wireless in-ear monitors that use Bluetooth 5.0, are iOS and Android-friendly, weigh just 4.6 grams and boast a long (9-hour?) battery life. They come in a handy case wherein they can be plugged in and charged. Rubber outer covers for the case are available in several fun color options.
Marvel Music, one of Audio Exotics' Hong Kong dealers, presented a room that featured Cessaro Firebird speakers driven by a 500W Synästec Audio stereo amplifier with a Wadax Arcadia DAC/CD and SACD player. A listen to my Ali Farka Touré Talking Timbuktu CD delivered a highly resolved and three-dimensional presentation that, though a bit bass-laden (presumably due to some room challenges), rendered the musicians and instrumental layers quite convincingly within the soundstage through excellent imaging and placement. Transient attacks were fast, and decays long, with good ambiance of the recording space and echoes therein.
VTL and VPI both had extensive exhibits of their product lines, as did Cardas Audio cables, as seen in an attractive display case. A number of Magnepan's planar-magnetic speakers and lineups of Sonus faber and Elac loudspeakers were also on static display, among many others. Peter Mackay of Magico was on-hand to present the maker's M2 speaker.
Stenheim exhibited its most recent Alumine 3 loudspeakers in a room within the Hall 5FG, and upstairs the Swiss maker's Reference Ultime speakers were paired with AVM and Acoustic Signature sources. Both systems were driven by Dartzeel electronics.
Piega of Switzerland presented its MLS3 aka Master Line Source speakers, and its new Premium Wireless Series of active speakers and Connect interface that will be shipping in the U.S. in September or October.
Another Swiss company, Soulution presented a full suite of its top-tier 500 and 700 series amplification plus a 541 SACD player and 560 DAC along with a DeBaer Saphir turntable, all supported by Critical Mass Systems equipment racks.
An impressive stack of Swiss manufacturer CH Precision's components was displayed, including some in a "gold" finish in keeping with its recently released 10thAnniversary products seen in Munich.
Piega of Switzerland presented its MLS 3 (Master Line Source) loudspeakers, its new Premium Wireless 301 active speakers along with the PS 101 subwoofer.
AVM presented its first loudspeaker, the Ovation AM 6.3, a three-way active floorstander with proprietary DSP technology and 1750 watts in total amplification per channel. And for those who already own AVM's all-in-one CS units and SD and PA preamps will appreciate their wireless connection capabilities to the AM 6.3.
MBL presented its Radialstrahler 101E Mk.II loudspeakers powered by the German company's Noble line electronics and a United Home Audio tape deck. MBL's Jürgen Reis was giving a presentation explaining the principles behind the speaker's omnidirectional design—speaking a bit of Cantonese at the beginning, no less—was but what little listening I was able to do impressed, as per usual.
An array of Dan D'Agostino Master Audio Systems electronics was displayed passively while in an active system a pair of his statement Relentless monoblock amps drove Vivid Audio Giya Spirit G1 speakers to impressive effect. A listen to a 12-inch single of the Miami Vice hit "Axel F" by Jan Hammer packed punchy bass and sharp attacks with clean resolution.
A number of classic loudspeaker models seldom seen at shows but still being produced, including the Rogers HiFi LS3/5A loudspeakers and the Tannoy Prestige Grand Reference, for examples, were on display at the show.
Timothy Jung displayed many of his made-in-England MAD speakers, and paused to pose with jazz singer Lyn Stanley.
Isolating and cleaning up power apparently is taken seriously in this market based on displays seen and conversations with locals.
Physical media is still very popular in Hong Kong—as are QR codes, somewhat ironically—and from what I understand remains a trend throughout the Asian market generally as well.
I'm talking about albums of course, but CDs of all kinds are still prevalent, and in addition to SACDs, there are a couple of higher-grade CD formats that utilize new materials, as in the UHQCD, or Ultimate Hi-Quality CD, and even very limited-edition, very pricey Crystal or glass discs that are also labeled MQA-CDs. The UHQCDs are produced in Japan by the AQCD Technology Company. Along with some proprietary mastering techniques, the UHQCDs use materials in the stamping and reproduction process that are reputed to yield sonically superior results: a higher-quality polycarbonate base, a silver alloy in the reflective layer, and the application of a liquid photopolymer (instead of only polycarbonate) to better penetrate and "coat" the tiniest pits in the stamper to replicate the patterns more accurately for better sound.
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National Health Centers Week 2021
Home Blog National Health Centers Week 2021
Homeless Health Day
1114 6th St. Modesto, CA 95354
Monday, August 9th | 8:30AM – 10:00AM
On Monday August 9th, 2021 Golden Valley Health Centers will be providing giveaway bags, juice, snacks, hygiene kits, swag and great information about our general services, our Medically Assisted Treatment program, and the Ryan White Program.
Collectively, health centers serve 1.3 million individuals experiencing homelessness each year, with about 1 million of these individuals served by the 300 health centers that receive HCH funding.
People who experience homelessness incur a number of health issues on the streets or in shelters, and being without housing can exacerbate current health conditions. People without homes endure higher rates of chronic and acute disease, behavioral health conditions, and other needs that make them particularly vulnerable to poor health, disability, and early death. HCH's provide high-quality, comprehensive primary and behavioral health care, case management, outreach, and other supportive services to meet the needs of people experiencing homelessness. Due to the nature of homelessness, services are intentionally provided in trauma-informed ways that provide healing, choice, safety, and trust while honoring consumers as partners in care and experts in their own lives.
National Health Center Week is a time to honor and celebrate the work being done to advocate for policies that end homelessness by providing comprehensive housing and health care as a human right.
AGRICULTURAL WORKER HEALTH DAY
696 Livingston Cir. Westley
Tuesday, August 10th | 8:30AM – 10:30AM
Golden Valley Health Centers, Second Harvest Bank and Housing Authority of Stanislaus County along other volunteers will be delivering nonperishable food items, health care education and COVID19 updated health information to 170 agricultural and migrant worker households at Westley Migrant Camp from 8:00-10:30 to celebrate AG Workers Health Day for National Health Center week, want to volunteer? See you there
Community Health Centers serve approximately 20% of the estimated 4.5 million Agricultural Workers in the United States. Over the past few years, hundreds of health center staff members, community health workers, clinicians, executives, consumer board members, and advocates have come together to develop more effective strategies to increase access to care for migrant and seasonal agricultural workers and their families. Migrant/Agricultural Worker Health Center grantees are critical to ensuring access to quality primary and preventive care for patients who might otherwise go without care.
STAKEHOLDER APPRECIATION DAY
302 Northgate Drive, Manteca, CA 95336
Wednesday, August 11th | 8:00AM – 9:00AM
The incredible value Community Health Centers bring to their stakeholders deserves to be recognized. Golden Valley Health centers will be holding a special meet n' greet Coffee and light breakfast event with Manteca Chamber of Commerce and invites you all to join us and celebrate National Health Center Week!
PATIENT APPRECIATION DAY
1405 California Ave. Dos Palos, CA 93620
Thursday, August 12th | 8:30AM – 10:30AM
Throughout the week we will be showing our appreciation to our patients by providing cool swag and snacks at all of our 44 health centers and on Thursday August 12th, 2021 Golden Valley Health Centers will be holding a patient appreciation celebration at our Dos Palos clinic that recently reopened! Come and visit and enjoy some music, swag and health information.
Our community board members are individuals who live in the community, are patients, and represent others who are served by the health center in terms of demographics such as race, ethnicity, and gender. GVHC ensures that our patients are represented by the needs and voice of the community. Today, we celebrate patients and community board members who keep health centers accountable and abreast of community needs.
CHILDREN'S HEALTH DAY
847 West Childs Ave. Merced, CA 95341
Friday, August 13th | 8:30AM – 10:30AM
Bring your lawn chair or blanket and be prepared as we will have a stage with a science show by the Kids Discovery Station, also a Merced Police K9 demonstration, Merced United FC (soccer demonstrations) and music and fun. Without a doubt, the timing of National Health Center Week lends itself well to engaging the youngest members of our communities as they prepare to return to school, it is the perfect time for well checks, immunizations and sports physicals. We will be conducting free sports physicals (that include a free backpack with all materials to get your child kick started for school, while supplies last) from 8am-11am
More than 8 million children in the United States get their primary health care from a Community Health Center. Without a doubt, the timing of National Health Center Week lends itself well to engaging the youngest members of our communities as they prepare to return to school. From well-child checks to book drives to fun runs, health centers host events that will help children feel healthy, happy, and empowered now and in the future.
Recognize your Legislative Contacts with an Official Certificate from the Health Center Advocacy Network – Download and customize the Certificate of Recognition template.
Health Center Tours with Legislators or Legislative staff – Invite legislators and their staff to come for a tour of your health center to see firsthand all the good work you and the health center team are doing to care for the community. During the visit you can present an award to your elected official(s) recognizing their support, or you ask them to present an award to a deserving team member at the health center. Awards and recognition are always a great way to connect with policymakers.
Submit a Letter to the Editor (LTE) or Opinion Editorial to Your Local Media Outlet – use the NHCW media templates to submit a letter to the editor or opinion editorial addressing your policymakers and/or their staff, expressing appreciation and/or explaining the reason why their continued support is so important for the health center and the patients you serve.
Member of Congress can't make it to your events? Ask them to celebrate NHCW on social media!
About NHCW 2021
National Health Center Week 2021 will be celebrated this year from August 9 – August 13. Elected officials will join communities across the country in elevating the work Community Health Centers have done while fighting on the front lines of COVID-19 to keep our communities healthy and safe. Their visits and messages will demonstrate that not only is it possible to move beyond the partisan divide over health care, but to support and agree on a program vital to our communities.
Health centers provide preventive and primary care services to almost 30 million people and have continued to do so while facing a global pandemic. Community Health Centers provide care to people who disproportionately suffer from chronic disease and lack access to affordable, quality care. While our approach is community-based and local, collectively we are the backbone of the nation's primary care system. Community Health Centers lower health care costs to the tune of 24 billion dollars a year, reduce rates chronic diseases, and stimulate local economies.
At Golden Valley Health Centers we provide Family Medicine, Optometry, Pediatrics, Dental Care, Women's Health and much more. Community Health Centers are not just healers, we are innovators who look beyond medical charts to address the factors that may cause poor health, such as poverty, homelessness, substance use, mental illness, lack of nutrition, and unemployment. We are a critical piece of the health care systems and collaborate with hospitals, local and state governments, social, health and business organizations to improve health outcome for people who are medically vulnerable. We have pivoted to serving our communities through telehealth, drive through COVID-19 testing, and still ensuring our patients can access basic necessities like food and housing resources.
While COVID-19 continues to exacerbate social and medical inequities across the country, Community Health Centers have stretched themselves to reconfigure services for those in need. As unemployment rates rise and more people lose their employee-sponsored health insurance, Community Health Centers must remain open to provide care for all, regardless of insurance status.
The mission of Community Health Centers remains crucial today because access to basic care remains a challenge in parts of the United States. Many people live in remote and underserved communities where there is a shortage of providers and, in many cases, the nearest doctor or hospital can be as far as a 50-mile drive in another county. Language barriers have also played a critical challenge when reaching communities with crucial updates to personal healthcare, with state and national healthcare information not being distributed fast enough.Congress must act immediately for CHCs to continue to serve as health care homes. Long-term and stable funding for Community Health Centers will ensure we can keep our doors open and close the growing access gap for medically vulnerable communities.
Show your support during National Health Center Week by supporting a health center in your community. We will be there when you need us.

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Q: Angular2 | Typescript How to call a function on a property with Unit Types I have the following class in Angular2
export class Person {
    public children: Person[] | (() => Person[])
}

So, my intent is to have the children property to be either an array of a function that can get me the array. Without getting into why this class is structured that way, I would like to see if anyone has had the same issue with typescript complaning about the type when trying to call person.children().
The error is:
Cannot invoke an expression whose type lacks a call signature

Error given by TypeScript
Now, if I cast person as "any", the Typescript error goes away (as expected) and javascript executes the function no problem.
Is there any way I can avoid that cast?

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Cannot invoke an expression whose type lacks a call signature

You need to use a type guard (more https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/types/typeGuard.html) so that typescript knows that its not going to be an array at that point. e.g.
class Person {
    public children: Person[] | (() => Person[])
}

const person = new Person();
if (typeof person.children === 'function'){
    person.children();
}

Tested with alm.tools

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Picking Good Israel Women
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Elharar can also be the most severely disabled individual to serve in authorities, requiring a wheelchair due to muscular dystrophy. Thus our battle for indigenous sovereignty within anti-colonial activism as feminists is essentially situated within the protection of Palestinian women's bodily security and sexuality, family, and communal right to life. Settler colonialism, as a "structure, not an event" operates via a "logic of elimination" that seeks to erase indigenous presence on a specific territory (settler colonialism's "irreducible element"). Settler colonialism "destroys to have the ability to substitute." The invasion of indigenous land seeks to permanently erase the indigenous presence on the land, to have the ability to exchange it with the new settler society and polity. Scholars have argued that settler colonialism's logic of elimination could culminate in indigenous genocide. In its European formations, each settler colonialism and genocide have "employed the organizing grammar of race." Since its inception, the Jewish state has been embedded in a racialized colonial logic.
She had stopped being observant herself a couple of year before the bus incident and had generally worn shorts – abjuring the traditional gown code of skirts – with some askance looks from neighbors, however no censure. Their opponents reply that segregating men and women, and a world the place girls are hardly ever seen in public roles or in the media, normalizes conduct that discriminates in opposition to girls and is one that does not stay an isolated, inside issue for the ultra-Orthodox, but impacts all Israelis. The importance of the report drawn up by the Commission on the Status of Women lay not only in its suggestions, but also in the opportunity it provided for ladies from completely different spheres to work collectively. Approximately one hundred women participated in the commission, and it constituted the first encounter between ladies politicians and women lecturers. Participating in the plenary and within the periods of the sub-committees served as a way of consciousness-raising. The work invested by all these involved in getting ready the commission's report clearly constituted a formative experience for a new technology of feminist management. In 1970, upon her return from the United States, Shulamit Aloni—founder of the Citizens' Rights Movement—was the first to ask "Does Israel need a women's rights movement?
I started strolling on the outskirts of our village, and slowly, this developed into skilled running," she says. The coronavirus disaster forcing gyms to close has stepped up our awareness of the advantages of walking and operating in the open air. But for so much of Arab girls in Israel, outside fitness center lessons on the outskirts of their villages are becoming more and more common for other reasons as nicely, including the want to create a secure space to have interaction in bodily activity that accords with the community's societal norms. Yet the achievement of peace would definitely assist to eliminate one of the major obstacles to equali¬ty, thus according women a further interest, so to speak, in peace. Women have been drawn to the peace camp, nevertheless, for many reasons, a few of which do indeed derive from their specific state of affairs as girls.
The Three Major Ingredients Utilized in the Production of Israeli Girls
Browse 20,368 israeli women stock photos and images out there, or seek for jewish woman or torah to find more great stock photos and footage. The Web web site of Jewish Women International , a Washington, DC-based NGO that seeks to make sure Jewish ladies's self-sufficiency and safety from home violence around the globe (JWI n.d.a), lists six hotlines serving feminine victims of violence in Israel (JWI n.d.b).
From hiding in a shallow grave when she was a baby from Israeli troopers to protecting her younger son from being hauled off to Israeli prison for accusations that weren't true — Abuarquob has suffered time and time again due to the occupation and by the hands of Israeli soldiers and people. On 23 June 2011, Orna Barbivai grew to become the primary female Major-General in the IDF upon her promotion to the function of commander of the Manpower Directorate. The Jewish Daily Forward famous that gender segregation has been a practice in Israel and is actually on the rise, now encompassing gender segregated elevators in some places. In elements of Jerusalem the place ultra-Orthodox stay, ads and billboard do not have footage of women, and some supermarkets have totally different hours for males to buy than women. The 1998 Israeli Sexual Harassment Law interprets sexual harassment broadly, and prohibits the habits as a discriminatory practice, a restriction of liberty, an offence to human dignity, a violation of every person's right to elementary respect, and an infringement of the proper to privacy.
In the rabbinical courts, which function in accordance with halakha , a Jewish girl is allowed to initiate divorce proceedings, however her husband should give his consent to make the divorce last. If the husband disappears or refuses to grant the divorce, the wife is taken into account an "agunah" (lit. "chained woman") and should not remarry or give delivery to halakhically respectable his response children. Rabbinical tribunals may, and sometimes do, sanction a husband who refused divorce, however still do not grant a divorce without his consent. In 2017, Israel was ranked the eighth-safest nation in the world for girls by the New World Wealth analysis group.
Elections to the 20th Knesset marked a historic day for women in Israel, with a document number of 28 ladies being chosen to serve. In 1995, she became the primary runner-up at the Miss Israel beauty contest, which cemented her place as one of the beautiful women in Israel. Miri received her worldwide acclaim in modeling when she got here out because the third runner-up of the Miss World magnificence contest held in South Africa that year. [newline]This woman hosted television sequence like the 2009 "House of Style" on MTV, and she has additionally even been one of many judges on the TV present "Germany's Next Top Model." This hot Israeli magnificence is one to watch as she continues to wow her fans impressively every single day as she goes on in life. Natalie's household moved down to the United States not a lot long after her start, and he or she continued her schooling there where she finished her highschool at the Syosset High School, Long Island, in 1999.
Of the 210 eligible girls, 14 had declined to participate, and the remaining 196 were included within the ultimate evaluation. We performed a cross-sectional research that included 196 Israeli Druze women who anonymously completed a 36-item questionnaire between January-July, 2011. According to the examine, Arab Israeli ladies have significantly improved their tutorial achievements at the highschool level, are more successful than Arab Israeli males. Shem VeNer referred to as upon Jewish people all over the world to mild a candle on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day for a misplaced family member or just for one of the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Holocaust. Despite the expansion in the variety of girls, it is just a slight enhance when wanting at the huge picture, rising from 13.5% feminine representation in 2013 to 16.6% right now. Kitchen Talks is a social project that goals to connect completely different teams in Israeli society. Furthermore, whereas in the remainder of the population physical activity seems to increase with age, with Arab girls it declines.
Figures on violence in opposition to Israeli women vary among the many sources consulted by the Research Directorate. In 2003, the Health Minister reported that some forty,000 women suffering from domestic violence had been seen in hospital emergency rooms, and of those, 15,000 had been hospitalized . According to the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel , one in three Israeli ladies shall be sexually assaulted in her lifetime . A younger Israeli girl carries a coffin throughout a protest held by family members and pals of ladies killed by violence in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The Israeli Druze community numbers round a hundred and forty,000, most of whom live in villages within the northern a part of the country . In 1957, at the request of its communal leaders, the Israeli government designated the Druze as being a definite ethnic neighborhood, and an autonomous non secular community, impartial of Muslim spiritual courts. Members of the group have attained prime positions in Israeli politics and public service [19-22]. Consideration and higher understanding of patients' wants on the part of the healthcare system may assist increase the variety of folks in search of necessary medical care. Many research have been conducted on patients' preferences in choosing their well being care supplier, but the majority of them were conducted in fashionable western societies, establishing a need to discover other populations. The present study was carried out within the Israeli Druze group which consists of a uniquely traditional and religious inhabitants.
Although Israeli feminism has its roots in the pre-state struggle for suffrage, the liberal actions of the Nineteen Sixties within the Western world Israel largely untouched. The first Israeli radical women's movement was established in 1972; the 1973 Yom Kippur War then created an awareness of the that means of the gendered role division between women and men. Soon after the warfare, a choir of voices, organizations, and actions started to struggle for feminist causes, and feminist organization intensified in the late 1970s. The major shift in the late Seventies and 1980s was the emergence of Mizrahi feminism, and because the late Nineties, schisms primarily based on the politics of identity have divided the Israeli women's movement.
However, with regard to different actions, the ordinance stipulates that it is permissible to position all troopers in a mixed-gender framework. And all IDF soldiers must participate in formal military ceremonies, with no exemption on the idea of spiritual way of life. Furthermore, and perhaps extra importantly, the Haredi parties' energy could also permit them to efficiently resist legislative initiatives aiming to extend female representation. Already, Shas and United Torah Judaism have objected to numerous payments seeking to punish or reward parties based mostly on the number of ladies in their lists and drive parties to merely accept some minimal variety of female candidates. It thus stays up to every individual party to decide whether or not or not to reserve places for ladies and to attempt to improve the number of ladies in their lists.


Re: Another accident at Bowen road ?
There have been two accidents on Deadman's curve since the F150 was totalled. I have been told that both incidents required Medevac.
After wrecking his orange Jeep, the driver was in a jovial mood despite the drama he had created. A local pup named Sidney attempted to lick him back to sobriety, but was kept at distance by the Sheriff's Department.
I am told that the other incident involved a sandrail or similar vehicle.
Another accident at Bowen road ?


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Area studies and comparative politics: Subfield: US politics
This guide focuses on principal resources in a subfield of political science. It is supplements the main subject guide for political science and international studies. The Other political science research guides tab is a menu that connects you to related research guides for the major subfields of the discipline and for related programs in the VT School of Public & International Affairs.
Resources listed on this page are clustered into Key databases for accessing scholarly literature; Research starters; Background information and reference sources; Contact information for the subject librarian; and tabs identifying Additional information.
Parts of this guide are also available in related subject guides: Social data sources, News/journalism/streaming media, Advice for searching/citing/engaging with related scholarly literatures, and Accessing VT library resources from off-campus.
Essential resources to know
The go-to resource for searching the literature regarding all aspects of political science and related fields, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts indexes citations and abstracts from journal articles, books, essays, book reviews, working papers, technical reports, theses, and dissertations in the social sciences related to politics. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1975-present.
National Journal is a comprehensive resource on politics and policy for the academic community including: National Journal, National Journal Daily, National Journal Daybook, National Journal Hotline, National Journal Race Tracker, National Journal Almanac, and National Journal Presentations, National Journal Events.
National Journal serves government affairs professionals with the intelligence and tools they need to save time, increase efficiency, and deliver success. With a focus on actionable research, insights, and custom content, National Journal keeps members informed about key movements in people, politics, and policy.
VoxGov is an interesting application of "big data" to tracking the outputs – traditional documents and also official social media -- of persons and agencies of the US government. Coverage of some official print outputs extends back to the late 1970s. The content is updated every 15 minutes. Visualizations are simple but effective. The advanced search interface gives a sense of the scope of coverage and the many dimensions for filtering and comparing the data. You can also browse by policy categories, compare members of Congress, and track outputs from the last presidential, gubernatorial, and congressional elections.
HeinOnline Portal Large and wide-ranging collections of historical and contemporary legal materials, including codes, treaties, constitutions, topical collections of historical documents, law reviews (resembling JSTOR), legal treatises from the US, Canada, and the UK. Not limited to narrowly legal topics: includes, for example, Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law.
PolicyMap
Policy Map offers both extensive data and mapping options about communities across the US, especially for topics of interest for public policy. Data are aggregated from multiple sources and normalized to map across different geographical levels, from census tracts and ZIP codes to states. Data reports may be downloaded without maps. Policy Map also permits users to upload and map their own data. Focus is on information compiled since the early 2000s.. For deeper historical coverage (necessarily with fewer variables), along with some non-US data and mapping options, try Social Explorer.
Videos and tutorials about using PolicyMap are available on the Support Page. For information on PolicyMap datasets, visit Data Indicators.
U.S. Government Information
Govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the US federal government. When you search the content available on Govinfo, you will be able to download the full text of publications. But you won't see records for documents that are not stored on Govinfo -- use either version of the GPO Catalog of Publications to discover those other documents.
Govinfo has an extensive set of how-to video tutorials.
Background and reference information
CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher publishes single-themed, 12,000-word reports researched and written by a seasoned journalist and noted for in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports provides an overview; background and chronology; assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from opposing positions; and bibliographies. Pre-1996 are HTML; newer are PDFs. 1991-present.
Congressional Research Service Reports
There is virtually no topic that would not draw the interest of members of the US Congress. The Congressional Research Service in the Library of Congress exists to provide information and analysis that members or committees request.. By law, most CRS reports are confidential, so this database is not complete as a historical record, but it can be a rich background source for many research questions. Covers 1978-present.
SAGE Research Methods indexes full-text books, reference sources, the "little green book" series (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences), the "little blue book" series (Qualitative Research Methods), journal articles, and videos. Since this platform focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences, and more. Full text available in HTML and PDF. You can limit searches by research method type. 1970s-present.
Research starters
You can start with a hot topic
If you're fishing for a topic, often a good place to start is current controversies. If your reaction to a statement is "How could someone say something like that?", run with it -- not to refute it but to discover and explain whatever evidence and reasoning might lead a reasonable person of good will to say "something like that" is true or right in some respect or under some circumstances, which your research and analysis will test.
The "In context" family of databases from Gale lay out pro-cons of controversies with articles and data from scholarly journals and popular sources. Use them to refine and focus your own thinking; use their references to find trustworthy scholarship, data, and primary sources; and especially to harvest on-target search terms to use in subject-oriented databases like Worldwide Political Science Abstracts or HeinOnline. These can be especially useful for political and political science/international studies research:
Opposing Viewpoints In Context from Gale
You risk violating the Honor Code if you rely only on the "canned" sources in these databases for assignments that expect you to do your own research design, searching, and analyses. Check with your instructor.
Often predefined topics won't keep up with events. Peer-reviewed scholarship can take two years and more to appear after an event. Journalism may be your best available source of information. News sources might identify experts in universities, government, think tanks, or industry who have published research about similar events or problems that you can apply.
Access World News from Newsbank is a broad-based collection of news reports with a straightforward interface. (Factiva is bigger and more powerful but a bit harder to learn.)
Academic OneFile from Gale is a bridge between journalism and other popular sources and scholarship across many disciplines. You may find it is more manageable than the "discovery" search box on the library homepage.
You can start with published data
If data have been published, there is research behind them. Reputable data collections will provide source information: who or what agency collected and analyzed the data, when. Data citations will often include titles of publications that can connect you to datasets collected over time and/or across related questions in one place or period. These data collections are good starters:
Data Planet from SAGE
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Endocrine System Home > Hyperthyroidism
Also called overactive thyroid, hyperthyroidism affects about 1 percent of the population -- it occurs when too much thyroid hormone is produced by the thyroid gland. Graves' disease is the most common cause, but hyperthyroidism can also occur due to thyroid nodules, thyroiditis, and other conditions. Symptoms will vary, but may include fatigue, increased sweating, and weight loss, among others.
What Is Hyperthyroidism?
Hyperthyroidism (also known as an overactive thyroid) is a condition that occurs when the thyroid gland makes more thyroid hormone than the body needs. It is sometimes called thyrotoxicosis, the technical term for too much thyroid hormone in the blood.
Hyperthyroidism affects about 1 percent of the population. Women are much more likely to develop this condition than men, and the risk increases with age. About 5 percent of women over the age of 60 have been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism (see Hyperthyroidism Risk Factors).
What Is the Thyroid Gland?
The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland that is about two inches in length. It is located in the front of the neck below the larynx (voice box) and above the clavicles (collarbones). It is made up of two lobes, one on either side of the windpipe.
The thyroid is one of a group of glands that are part of the endocrine system. The endocrine glands produce, store, and release hormones into the bloodstream that travel through the body and direct the activity of the body's cells. Thyroid hormones regulate metabolism, which is the way the body uses energy, and they affect nearly every organ in the body.
The thyroid gland makes two thyroid hormones: triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4). Thyroid hormones affect metabolism, brain development, breathing, heart and nervous system functions, body temperature, muscle strength, skin dryness, menstrual cycles, weight, and cholesterol levels.
Thyroid hormone production (both T3 and T4) is regulated by thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), which is made by the pituitary gland. Located in the brain, the pituitary gland is the "master gland" of the endocrine system.
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Hollowell JG, Staehling NW, Flanders WD, et al. Serum TSH, T-4, and thyroid antibodies in the United States population (1988 to 1994): National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2002;87:489.
Brent GA. Clinical practice. Graves' disease. N Engl J Med. 2008;358:2594.
Trzepacz PT, Klein I, Robert M, et al. Graves' disease: an analysis of thyroid hormone levels and hyperthyroid signs and symptoms. Am J Med. 1989;87:558.
Nordyke RA, Gilbert FI Jr., Harada ASM. Graves' disease: influence of age on clinical findings. Arch Intern Med. 1988;148:626.
Franklyn JA. Drug therapy: The management of hyperthyroidism. N Engl J Med. 1994;330:1731.
Singer PA, Cooper DS, Levy EG, et al. Treatment guidelines for patients with hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. J Am Med Assoc. 1995;273:808.


Codependent Parenting: Are You Nurturing or Enabling?
The term "codependency" can also be associated with being emotionally dependent on others in relationships — whether addiction is present or not.
Here we examine the parent-child relationship, and how over-nurturing a child can be seen as codependent parenting, which creates a dysfunctional dynamic within the family system. Codependent parenting can lead to problems for both the parent and the child.
Fathers can be over-protective or codependent as parents, but because mothers are typically the primary nurturers in the family unit, they are often the ones who over-parent or over-nurture in an effort to keep their children happy and content. To avoid conflicts or meltdowns, they may frequently give in to their young children's demands or make decisions that help to minimize a blowout in the moment, but later undermine their efforts to discipline the children and establish boundaries or behavioral guidelines.
This can lead to unruly and defiant children who don't respect parental or adult authority. If a mother has low self-esteem, it contributes to this problematic dynamic, as she may lack the self-confidence to establish order. She may avoid disciplining her children so she isn't seen as the "bad cop" — she wants her children to love her and appreciate her, so she doesn't put her foot down.
Robertson notes that parents can develop these fears if their child is making poor choices that are self-damaging and dangerous or negatively impact the parent's image. When such fears take hold, positive nurturing traits cross the line into dysfunction as the parent tries to control the child to keep them from making mistakes. The parent's control is actually an illusion because a parent can never ultimately control the child. This dynamic can cause the parent to increase their controlling or enabling behaviors in an attempt to avoid the consequences of their child's bad choices.
Parents who have been nurturing their children in this way can easily end up enabling their kids' negative behaviors. Over time, the children may become increasingly difficult to handle. If this kind of dynamic continues as the children grow and mature, it can make the parent feel frustrated and powerless in the parent-child relationship.
A parent can also over-nurture by doing too much for their children. As parents, we want to do what we can for our kids, but if we do everything for them, are we nurturing them beyond the point of healthy necessity?
It has been said that in recent generations, many people have become "super-parents" who hyper-manage everything in their children's lives, from what they eat to what sports they play, to their choices of friends and fashions. They ferry them from activity to activity and make sure they have the latest electronic gadgets or other trendy items. They may even spend more energy (and money) on their children's interests than their own. These actions may make them feel they are fulfilling their parental duties when, in fact, they are unwittingly enabling a sense of entitlement or dependency in their kids, and preventing them from developing self-reliance.
In the 1990s, the term "helicopter parenting" was coined to describe parents who hover over their children and intervene on their behalf. Instead of modeling self-sufficiency and independence, they readily step in to solve their kids' problems for them, without realizing that it is sometimes better to step back and let the kids figure stuff out on their own.
Some psychology experts attribute helicopter parenting or over-nurturing to self-doubt and perfectionism, proposing that this type of parenting evolves from living vicariously through a child rather than allowing them to be their own person, distinct from the parent.
A parent with this behavior may be over-compensating for their own low self-esteem, so they work overtime to ensure their children are happy and content. Their motivation may be that they want their kids to have it all and not to suffer any of the hardships they endured, but … what kind of adults are they raising?
Children raised in family environments that are too reward-oriented and permissive or where all their decisions are made for them often encounter emotional and behavioral issues as adults. Like birds with their wings clipped, they may lack the confidence they need to leave the nest and become independent. They also may lack confidence in their own judgment and decision-making abilities or, because so many problems have been handled for them, they may have difficulty managing adversity as a normal part of life.
Is it also possible that parents who confuse nurturing with enabling raise adults who develop addictive behaviors because they can't manage life's hardships? Studies have found that addiction results from multiple factors, including hereditary (addiction can run in families, just like other diseases) and environmental influences. It may be that over-nurtured kids mature into adults who experience self-doubt, have difficulty managing responsibilities and adversity, and end up self-medicating their way through life.
Robertson explains that parents who have controlling behaviors are, in reality, enabling a dependent child's dysfunction. By attempting to rescue their child from bad choices, they are removing the consequences. When a dependent child doesn't suffer the consequences of their bad choices, there is no motivation or need to change. If a parent continues to "save" a child from their mistakes, the child is actually empowered to continue making the same bad choices or mistakes because they assume they will always be rescued.
According to a research study that investigated levels of well-being among college-age adults, an impact of controlling parenting or over-parenting can be higher levels of depression and decreased satisfaction with life. Parenting behaviors that were characterized as "hovering" or "smothering" were associated with "lower levels of autonomy, competence and relatedness." The researchers found that college students who had been raised in these types of family environments reported low motivation and low desire to live independently.
There are a few signs you can look out for to help you determine if your parenting style has crossed the fine line from being a nurturing parent to being a controlling or codependent one. You can break dysfunctional behavior patterns, if you are aware of them.
Guilt-tripping. If you guilt-trip your kids to manipulate them into do things they won't readily or willingly do, this can be a sign of codependency. Instead of making them feel guilty about not doing what you ask them, tell them the consequences they will encounter if they don't do chores or assignments. For example, tell them there will be no dessert after dinner or no play date with a friend until they complete a chore or task — and follow through on that.
Thinking you are always right. As a parent, do you feel you are always right? Even if your child doesn't do things exactly as you would, you don't have to always correct them — or jump in and do things for them. Their way of doing things may be different, but possibly just as effective. Practice stepping back to let kids do things their way — this helps them learn competence. Listen to your child's feelings and problems. Observe their personality and way of being in the world. Their different view or approach is not necessarily "wrong" or a threat to you or your authority.
Being overly emotional to maintain/regain control. If you are losing control of a situation or an argument with your kids, do you resort to crying, yelling or other acts of intimidation to restore the balance in your favor? This is a codependent manipulation tactic. Instead of using emotion to control your kids, try giving them choices or options for how they can handle situations, and then offer encouragement.
Trying to maintain 100% control. Do you feel the need to be in control of your kids at all times and over all they do? To maintain this control, do you switch from subtle manipulation and passive-aggression to dominance and yelling? Try relinquishing a little control and giving them some breathing space to make the right choices on their own — then step back to watch. Offer your support and let things play out. Learn to merely supervise and to restrain yourself from controlling or dominating the details.
Helping or Hovering? The Effects of Helicopter Parenting on College Students' Well-Being. Holly H. Schiffrin, et al. Journal of Child and Family Studies, April 2014.
When Helping Your Child Becomes Enabling, (And how to know the difference). Joel L. Young MD. Psychology Today, February 2014.
Codependency in Children. Would you know how to spot codependency in children? Raychelle Cassada Lohmann, MS, LPCS. Psychology Today, October 2013.
Signs You Might be a Codependent Parent. Big Elephant, August 2015.
What is a Co-Dependent Parent? Susie Duffy, MA. ChildFun. Aspen Education Group, 2002.
Parenting vs. Enabling: Are We Hurting Our Kids by Doing Too Much for Them?


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Q: Failed request between pods I have a cluster on EKS with some APIs running on it, this is the yaml file used to deploy them:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: <api-name>
spec:
  type: ClusterIP
  selector:
    app: <api-name>
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 80
      targetPort: <container-port>
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: <api-name>
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: <api-name>
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: <api-name>
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: <api-name>
        image: <ecr-image-url>
        ports:
        - containerPort: <container-port>
          name: <api-name>
        env:
          - name: ENVIRONMENT
            value: <environment>
---
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: <api-name>
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx"
spec:
  rules:
  - host: <app-name>.<dns>
    http:
      paths:
      -  backend:
          serviceName: <api-name>
          servicePort: 80

The routing works perfectly ok (Network Load Balancer created by nginx-ingress), but when I try to make a request from one pod to another, I receive a:
[2020-08-14 11:49:42,214] ERROR in app: Exception on /services [GET]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 2447, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1952, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask_cors/extension.py", line 161, in wrapped_function
    return cors_after_request(app.make_response(f(*args, **kwargs)))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1821, in handle_user_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask/_compat.py", line 39, in reraise
    raise value
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1948, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.preprocess_request()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 2242, in preprocess_request
    rv = func()
  File "/app/app/views/__init__.py", line 12, in before_rest_callback
    validate_request(token)
  File "/app/app/utils.py", line 29, in validate_request
    response = httpx.post(url, headers=headers, timeout=60)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/httpx/_api.py", line 269, in post
    return request(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/httpx/_api.py", line 86, in request
    return client.request(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/httpx/_client.py", line 640, in request
    return self.send(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/httpx/_client.py", line 670, in send
    response = self._send_handling_redirects(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/httpx/_client.py", line 699, in _send_handling_redirects
    response = self._send_handling_auth(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/httpx/_client.py", line 736, in _send_handling_auth
    response = self._send_single_request(request, timeout)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/httpx/_client.py", line 759, in _send_single_request
    (
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/contextlib.py", line 131, in __exit__
    self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/httpx/_exceptions.py", line 359, in map_exceptions
    raise mapped_exc(message, **kwargs) from None  # type: ignore
httpx._exceptions.ReadError: Server disconnected while attempting read

I can get no connection between pods. The request doesn't reach the other application, running on the same cluster, same node. Nginx Ingress was installed following the official documentation.
Any clues about what might be causing this? I discarded anything related to the deployment (API or gunicorn in this case). It seems to be something related to the cluster and/or nginx-ingress. Tried searching about it and found stuff related to "idle timeout", but that's not applicable to Network Load Balancers.

A: Problem solved using http://<app-name> (app-name being the service name). Reference: How to implement Kubernetes POD to POD Communication?


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