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Luis Rios and his daughter, Jenaveve, relax outside the home where Rios' wife, Griselda, lives.
Like lots of folks, Luis Rios has a countdown calendar on his cellphone. The Indianapolis resident received an alert Nov. 20 from the calendar that reminded him how far he's come.
"You have been clean and sober for 13 months," it said.
What's Rios doing? He's taking classes to become a recovery coach. He figures his firsthand addiction experience, and his recovery through the Blue Triangle program, which Adult & Child Health supports, helps him relate to others who are battling addiction or homelessness. He's dealt with both.
The program is designed to provide safety, security and comprehensive health care for people who are experiencing homelessness, and help them rebuild their lives. Partners in Housing owns the building, Adult & Child Health and Anthem provide staffing to the tenants, and the City of Indianapolis pays for their room and board.
Rios discovered the program in September 2017, when he decided it was time to get help. He stayed in the house for two days, then entered Valle Vista Hospital in Greenwood for a week of treatment. He then returned to the Blue Triangle, where he has lived ever since.
Rios and the other residents can access a food pantry, transportation information and other resources at Blue Triangle.
Rios said Amanda Wills of Anthem placed him on the list for Blue Triangle housing, and he still speaks with her once every couple of days. He also works with Adrianne Harris at Adult & Child Health, his outpatient therapist for addictions treatment. She meets with Rios twice monthly to make sure he's following his treatment plan goals and maintaining his recovery.
He currently spends a little over half his time at his wife Griselda's house, and the rest of the time at Blue Triangle. He recently received a scholarship to become a certified recovery coach.
Rios is keeping his employment options open, but mentioned he'd like to work in an emergency room at a hospital. Several local hospitals have positions where employees inform overdose patients or other drug-related patients about resources such as Blue Triangle.
Harris said Rios is following through on all of the program's requirements and reports no challenges with his recover. She believes Rios serves as a great example of what can happen when clients utilize Adult & Child Health's resources during their recovery paths.
RELATED CONTENT: Learn more about Adult & Child Health's Transitional Living Program.
Wow – such a Blessing for Luis and family to come this far. Success through Partners in Housing – Adult and Child/Anthem/City of Indy all working together – Wonderful. And, Luis has definate/obtainable goals with all in support.
This is my brother and I am so grateful for all the wonderful people he has met on his path. He is blessed to have the support from such great organizations! Thank you!


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Welfare Residential Schools for the academic year 2019-2020 - Orders – Issued.
G.O.Ms.No.24, BC Welfare (B) Department, dated.10.10.2016.
In the reference read above, Government have issued orders for establishment of 119 Residential Schools for the Backward Classes in the state from the academic year 2017-18.
2. In order to provide better and quality education to the children belonging to Backward Classes, the State Government felt that there is a need for opening ore number of Residential Schools for Backward Classes in different parts of the State.
3. Government, after careful examination of the matter, have decided to establish (119) new Residential Schools for the Backward Classes in the state from the academic year 2019-2020. Accordingly, administrative sanction is hereby accorded for establishment (119) new Residential Schools for the Backward Classes in the State from the academic year 2019-2020.
4. The Secretary, MJPTBCWREIS, Hyderabad shall take necessary action to identify suitable locations for establishment of above said schools and send proposals to the Government at the earliest.
5. The orders for sanction of Teaching & Non-teaching staff and to take recruitment by the Telangana Residential Educational Institutions Recruitment Board (TREI-RB) will be issued separately by the Finance (HRM-II) Department.
GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA ABSTRACT Backward Classes Welfare Department - Establishment of 119 New B.C. Residential Schools from the academic year 2017-18 - Identification of locations constituency wise - Orders – Issued.
1) G.O.Ms.No.24, BC Welfare (B) Department, dated.10.10.2016.
2) From the Secretary, MJPTBCWREIS, Hyderabad, Letter Rc.No.D/913/2016, dated.13.10.2016.
1. In the reference 1st read above, administrative sanction was accorded for establishment of 119 new Residential Schools for the Backward Classes in the State from the academic year 2017-18.
In the reference 2nd read above, the Secretary, MJPTBCWREIS, Hyderabad has furnished the list of locations constituency wise for establishment of 119 new B.C. Residential Schools.
4. The Secretary, Mahatma Jyothiba Phule Telangana B.C. Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society, (MJPTBCWREIS), Hyderabad, shall take necessary further action immediately and to identify suitable buildings for starting classes from 5th to 7th in the above said schools from the academic year 2017-18 in consultation with the concerned District Collectors / District Backward Classes Development Officers.


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Why your mum was wrong when she taught you that 'compromise is best'
Pascal Baker August 25, 2015Blog
For many years I have believed that we are entering the age of the 'Super Supplier' or the 'One Stop Shop'. I have sat through too many presentations where global software and services firms have presented their integrated service oriented platform aspirations,where the seamlessly integrated firm would promise so much more than the sum of the parts. Yet, we continue to be disappointed by all-encompassing platforms in the market that offer tight integration, but demand significant compromise and frequently leave clients worse off. I would argue that new 'Future of Work' technology and tools may start to hammer the final nail in the coffin of the Super Supplier. Finally, the Enterprise has the ability to harness inspired service delivery models and create truly impactful service hybrids without the dependence on one single supplier.
Let's take a look at some recent examples of where 'One Stop Shopdom' have fallen short:
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Global hardware providers have acquired outsourcing firms, offshore labour arbitrage firms and even bolted on BI capabilities to their portfolios, cobbling a holistic offer together in an attempt to become the single supplier across the customer base. The strategy appeared sound, but the execution was left wanting. While the 'one logo' vision exists neatly in the M&A pitch deck, the reality has faltered in its execution. Without the investment in change management and full integration, the erstwhile operations remain in silos and one can argue that each component functioned better independently rather than under one roof.
Fortune telling, or fortune quelling?
Let's also consider an organisation that was a pioneer and leader in the relational database market. Over the last 40 years the company has grown (organically and through acquisition) to become one of the largest providers of back, middle and front office technologies. The company underpins most of the Fortune 500 and is without a doubt a phenomenal success story. However, as client organisations have strived to maintain technology compatibility, they have lost their flexibility to shop around for best-of-breed components that would deviate from the core platform. Whilst there are many advantages to the technology Super Supplier, we have allowed technology to dictate how we grow our business and manage our clients. And, we've also allowed our tools to dictate our long term flexibility and agility to adapt to new challenges and opportunities.
Looking across any organisation, we find complex needs that continue to evolve at pace. These needs will be best served by a combination of best-of-breed interactions that follow logical processes and communicate effectively with one another. Therefore, 'best-of-breed' can probably never be a single solution, as one size can't possibly fit all. Furthermore, as we have seen from our two examples, the Super Supplier can emerge from many fields, but often creates forced compromise, which is never good for the end customer.
Having spent half of my career in Early Stage specialist shops and half in Super Suppliers (but always in technology-related industries), I have truly seen the pros and cons of both types of organisation. The Super Suppliers offer their clients stability, broad solutions and hefty price tags, whereas the smaller firms bring cutting edge concepts, flexibility, and solution creativity.
To be clear, I'm not anti Super-Supplier. It's just that I've yet to meet one that consistently provides 'best of breed' solutions across their service portfolio.
Robots (and other inspired service delivery models) to the rescue
The good news is that technology appears to have caught up with the flawed logic that it alone should drive how we manage our business. As we enter the age of the cloud, crowd and robot, we are seeing that several new service delivery options have a significant role to play in how we conduct business. Rather than deploying an 'all under one roof' model, enterprise is now endowed with a rich set of choices for how best to source talent, technology and efficiency.
Caveat emptor: Let the buyer beware
New capabilities such as automation will make a significant impact to the organisation, but are not stand-alone offerings. Automating a poor process may still achieve stellar cost management in the short term, but as customers start to leave in droves, the short-term cost savings will not seem so attractive. The key is to design processes such that they can work holistically across a hybrid operating model consisting of automation and people (Internal or BPO Provider), to ensure an optimal mix of existing and new components to this Future of Work model. The power of Future of Work capabilities is that the dissemination of best-of-breed capabilities across an organisation need not come from one place. Super Suppliers, by their very nature, are vested in cross-sell and account expansion.
In summary, the Super Supplier of the future is unlikely to ever exist, but the Super Solution will and it will finally allow organisations to build best-in-class, service oriented platforms with the customer at their heart and not built restrictively on compromise. Connected people, process and business strategy underpinned by enabling technology can finally become a reality…we've heard it all before, but this time we mean it.
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Interview with Jason James
April 27, 2018 LonesomeHighway.com
Genuine young classic country artists are as difficult to uncover in recent years as hen's teeth with 'country' music continuing its wretched decline into the dreaded pop crossover so much beloved by the music industry movers and shakers. Artists embracing the 'outlaw' country tag thankfully continue to emerge with young ones Colter Wall and Tyler Childers the latest pair to join that club that includes some wonderful 'I'll do it my own way' acts such as Whitey Morgan, Dallas Moore and the commercially successful Chris Stapleton, all representing the male sex.
Not to suggest that female artists aren't every bit as worthy of the outlaw tag, to do so would be an insult to Elizabeth Cook, Nikki Lane and Lydia Loveless to mention but a few. Unfortunately, breakthrough classic country artists are not emerging in the same numbers, so the discovery a few years back of the young Texan Jason James was a joy to behold to the champions of that genre among us Lonesome Highway purists.
His 2015 self-titled release was uncompromising and no-frills honky tonk, groomed, polished and perfected by years of performing at dance halls and clubs across his home state. It's more than likely that he would have continued to travel around Texas making a living as a live performer had his mother not taken the bull by the horns and unknown to him sent some demos of his songs to New West Records. Studio sessions were arranged by the label in both Austin and Houston with some crack session players and the results impressed label president John Allen to the extent that he lined up additional studio time in Nashville, to finalise the recording. Three years later and we wondered had James joined the gang of musicians that deliver a once off classic and disappear off the face of the world, until the news filtered through that he was, in fact, about to start work on another album.Lonesome Highway tracked down James to get the lowdown.
We've been loving your self-titled album at Lonesome Highway since its release. The whole package unapologetically captures what we consider to be classic country – with two capital C's - across the twelve tracks. It's ironic that an album with so much in common with decades past sounds so refreshing! How satisfied were you with the final product?
Ha-ha well, thank you so much! Means a lot. Sonically speaking I had a pretty good vision of what I wanted. That being said it can really be tough to find the right producers that can help manifest your vision into a product. Both John Evans and Keith Gattis knew exactly where to steer the ship when it came time to record. I am happy with the record very much ... considering the length of time in between sessions and all ... I'd say it flows real well. I can tell some things but that's because I was there! But, when I have listened to the record at times it is very fluid. Gattis did a great job in that respect. Not venturing from the overall feel of the record that John Evans had it going in. There was no real ego on the record, it was for the sake of the songs.
You're beginning working on a follow album. What timescale can we expect?
Pre-production is already under way. We should have the record done by the end of July and a release date is scheduled for late this year or early next.
The last album was recorded in Austin, Houston and Nashville with an impressive line-up off players to say the least. Where will you record this time around?
It was all over the place last time. And yes, I was blown away sitting in the studio with those cats. I've stayed close with most of them too. As honoured as I was to play with those guys I'd hear them shouting after a take "now that's country music!" For as serious as the situation was for me professionally, I've never laughed as much as we did in the studio. It was incredibly light hearted. I think we're going to record in Austin this time with John Evans again.
Will you be using players from your band for the album?
I'm not sure. We may. Depends on scheduling and all. When I'm not on the road with my guys they are making a living playing constantly.
You included a co-write with Jim Lauderdale (Walk Through My Heart) on the album. How comfortable are you writing with others as opposed to working alone?
I wrote that with Lauderdale and Odie Blackmon and it was my first ever co-write with anyone else. Ever. I had no idea what would happen but at least I'd get to hang with those two fellas. Glad we got a song as good as that out of it Lol. I prefer to write myself though. Prolific doesn't always mean great but ... I have a lot to say. I feel possessed at times like I have some deadline to say everything I can say. But, I'm also open to work with others. I've had to learn to not hold my songs so tight to my chest. Other input can be great.
A small number of artists like yourself, Joshua Hedley, Dallas Moore, Zephaniah O'Hora and J.P. Harris are leading the charge in keeping classic country very much alive and kicking. Do you feel that the industry in general is helping or hindering your progress?
I only know Dallas and J.P. personally. But, I will say that those two guys are some of the most talented and hard working men I've ever known. Anything credited to their success has less to do with the industry but, rather them putting their boots on the ground and grinding and putting out the best material they can routinely.
The larger labels are taking note with Atlantic signing Sturgill Simpson and Third Man giving Margo Price and Joshua Hedley deserved support. Does seeing artists like these getting a break keep you enthused?
Uh, it's hard to answer that for me personally. I'll be honest- I have no illusions of ever wanting or really caring to be famous. If that happens and there is a "musical movement" then great! I just enjoy singing and writing and touring and doing things I like to do. Fame comes and goes. That being said- I'm happy for them for sure. And from what I've heard of them and about them they are in it to win it. Score one for the good guys and girls!
Diversities between Texas country and Nashville country have been debated for decades. Do you feel that Texas still recognises and supports 'real' country more so than its neighbours?
Yea, that comes up quite a bit. Texas definitely has a lot of dancehalls and county festivals that seem like Mayberry where I play on a trailer and it feels so country. But, I also feel like I haven't been threatened by anyone outside of Texas when I play. I think it's all in your attitude and the way you approach people. We played Chicago recently and everyone loved it. Country music comes from the heart. Not everyone will like it but that's ok. Sometimes I like to stick in Texas because it's my comfort zone. I always feel like someone will make fun of me for being country. That's my own personal issues though (laughs).
Is there much radio support locally for you and your peers?
Oh yea!! I'm played in Texas a lot. In fact, I released just recently a song from the record. "Here Comes The Heartache" it was just put into rotation and it's already climbing the chart. My friends are all on there too.
Like so many younger artists we encounter that are travelling the traditional country path your earlier years involved playing punk and rock. What encouraged you to move towards country?
Lord - I'll be honest. I was so lost for a long time. I was in trouble with the law growing up. Music saved me. I think I liked expressing myself and it just came out in the way of punk. I only played it for such a short time. People have come up to me and I've used the old demos as a frisbee lol. I would cover Hank Williams in the old band(s). When I heard Hank Williams again I realized what my path would be. It directed me here. I owe my life to country music. I love it more than anything and I'll never stray from it.
You're on the record noting how people at shows tell you they don't like country music but like what you're playing, which pretty much sums up the what most people perceive to be country today. Are you finding a younger audience buying into what you're doing?
Young people all the time come up and tell me they've been a fan for their whole life. I always smile and chuckle. I try to keep the songs simple and catchy so I can see why kids like it. The songs are kinda like nursery rhymes. 20 and 30 something's have also gravitated towards my sound. Young adults who are just now getting a dose of real life and the ups and downs that it throws at them. My music documents loss and the overall struggle. But the melody I try and keep pretty. So, it's a dance in between light and dark. I get people who've had a bit too much to drink and cry at the edge of the stage to "sing their life to em". Of course, my life has been everything but squeaky clean... so maybe they find it comforting to have someone else that has been through it too. We're all on this trip together I suppose. Country music is the misfit. The unwanted, the forgotten but, it's also about salvation. It's real life. Don't try and be a phony son (laughs).
Is the market in Texas big enough for you to survive as an artist like or do you need to establish yourself outside the State?
Oh, this state is huge. Unless you've travelled every bit of it it's hard to fathom at times. I make a living here. But, I'd love to travel and see America and the world. The label I was on kinda tried to keep me only in Texas. I'm not sure why ... but, I got the feeling they didn't see how much people wanted to hear this type of music.
And the European market. There is a hard core following for classic country in the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and Holland. Do you expect to tour over here?
Yes Sir! I had a 3-week tour scheduled there and I got no help for tour support and had to back out last minute. After this record is out though I will most definitely be there! I'll start making announcements soon.
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By playing the role of Edith, you will find out what happened to each member of her perennially unlucky family. Explore the history of her family and try to figure out why she's the last Finch left alive.
Developers: Giant Sparrow
Publishers: Annapurna Interactive
Initial release date: April 25, 2017
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4.
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Games in most cases have not been known to evoke emotions that compel the player to tears. Well, this game has taken this direction. The plot etched in moments of bitterness is bound to take you on a journey that ends in acceptance. Moreover, the defining moral of the plot is echoed by the words of Sir Winston Churchill: Never give up! The characters keep pushing on despite knowledge of what to expect in the future.
Similarly, the uniqueness of the game is amplified further by the presence of short stories making the entire design of the game. This is a different approach that will definitely spark interest than the usual one- story based plot. The stories focus on the death of a different member of the Finch family. The characters in each story are designed to feel and be different from the rest. This impeccable direction of the whole storyline generates the hunger and desire of one more hour of gameplay before bedtime. The game experience sure does leave a lasting impression.
The first three stories explained
She is the main character of the first story. It's quite strange and relatively hard to demystify. The death of Molly is explained in her journal. Edith finds the journal placed on her cupboard. In it, Molly is seen being denied food and locked in her bedroom. In her quest to fill her hunger, she turns into a cat which chases a bird, a shark that hunts down a seal, an owl swooping after rabbits and ultimately she morphs into a sea monster that devours on humans. Mysteriously, she returns to her room where she writes of these experiences as the monster lies in wait for her beneath her bed.
His story is simple to comprehend and marks the beginning of the Finch family and how they grew. Edith explains her death through images that narrate of how he flees Europe from a family curse. The curse was due to his house being wrecked at the Washington coast and drowning subsequently drowning. Edie, his daughter, Molly and Sven, Edie's husband survive and they begin the building of the house explored by Edith. He is the first family member to be buried in the family cemetery.
This is one of Edith's grandparents who passed on when they were quite young. Calvin's story is one of the most compelling in the game. It's narrated by his brother Sam through a poem. He dies when his only 11 years. The character dies when swinging. He gets flung from the swing to towards the sea and hits the rocks below. He dies trying to face his fears.
Some drawbacks
Despite its poignant storyline, it feels quite short and the gameplay feels limited. Other than the labyrinth and the secret passageways of the house, the game is wanting. Due to the different stories being told, there's an absence of fluidity. However, in spite of this, the game promises you thrill and an emotional rollercoaster.
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Can COVID-19 Be Treated? Does Blood From Survivors Help? Experts Answer Our Questions on Antibodies.
Folks, it's time to nerd out.
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On January 20, just a day before the coronavirus officially showed up in the United States and more than a month before the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic, doctors in China launched a small, five-person clinical trial to test whether plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients could help treat others in critical condition. Within days of receiving this plasma, four of the five patients began to recover—and as of late last week, three of the patients had been discharged, and two were in stable condition.
The results are preliminary, of course, but early studies like this, plus the long history of successful plasma treatments, offer a promising option to help some patients with severe cases among the 1 million globally who've contracted the coronavirus. "Convalescent plasma," as plasma from survivors is called, is now being deployed in clinical trials in the US: Last week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the state, which has been overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, would become the first to conduct research with the treatment, and the state is currently collecting blood donations from people who've recovered.
Vaccines basically teach your immune system to fight a virus, while antibody treatments help your immune system fight a virus. It's sort of like, if you wanted to eat a pie, you have two options—learn to bake the pie or buy one that's already made.
As treatments go, convalescent plasma is low-hanging fruit—it is widely accessible and relatively safe—but it's actually just one of several antibody-based COVID-19 therapies currently in development. Some researchers, for example, are producing coronavirus antibodies in a lab; others are testing antibody treatments already on the market for other conditions, with potential crossover benefits for COVID-19 patients; and some scientists are even sourcing coronavirus-fighting antibodies from mice. Overall, there are dozens of antibody treatments (and several more that aren't antibodies) in clinical and preclinical stages of development.
But remember: Nothing is a sure thing here.
There are a lot of possibilities to unpack. To start: How do these various antibody treatments actually work? How are they different from a vaccine? Will receiving plasma from a survivor make you immune to the virus? And what about testing for antibodies in the first place? What does that look like, especially since we know that many infected people don't show symptoms?
Over the past week or so, I joined my colleague James West, himself a COVID-19 survivor looking to help, to dig into these questions and so much more. We spoke with several experts: Vincent Racaniello, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and co-host of the podcast This Week in Virology; Jesse Goodman, a professor in the School of Medicine at Georgetown University and director of the university's Center on Medical Product Access, Safety, and Stewardship (COMPASS); Shane Crotty, a professor in the Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI); and Nahid Bhadelia, an infectious diseases physician and the medical director of the Special Pathogens Unit at Boston University School of Medicine.
Below I've distilled our conversations into some key points:
Antibody treatments are different from vaccines. A COVID-19 vaccine would give you immunity to the disease, but antibody treatments won't.
There is a simple difference between vaccines and antibody treatments: Vaccines basically teach your immune system to fight a virus, while antibody treatments help your immune system fight a virus. It's sort of like, if you wanted to eat a pie, you have two options—learn to bake the pie or buy one that's already made. Buying a pie from the store may satisfy your craving immediately. But if you learn to bake, you can make as many pies as you want in the future.
It's the same with your immune system. If you're vaccinated against a virus, your body will be trained to fight the virus over and over. Receiving antibodies from someone who has recovered from COVID-19, on the other hand, won't make you immune to the virus. That's the job of your own immune system.
The clear consensus is that surviving COVID-19 confers some immunity. And doctors can test to see if you've had the coronavirus in the past, even if you weren't diagnosed at the time.
Though it hasn't been proven yet, based on what we know generally about the immune system's response to viruses, it's assumed among experts that after you get the novel coronavirus once, you'll have some immunity to it in the short term. As Dr. Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease expert leading President Trump's coronavirus task force, told the Daily Show's Trevor Noah last week, "It's never 100 percent, but I'd be willing to bet anything that people who recover are really protected against reinfection." It's unclear how long that immunity lasts.
"There will always be a low level in the blood that you can detect for years and years after infection."
With a blood sample, doctors can conduct a test to see whether someone had the coronavirus—even if they were asymptomatic—and is now likely immune. These tests, called "serological tests," are different from the diagnostic ones taken by more than 1 million Americans.
Widespread testing for immunity could prove crucial as we try to get this crisis under control: People who are immune could, in theory, go back into the workforce, care for the sick, and donate plasma for treating patients. "Doctors and nurses are being exposed to this all the time," Crotty says. "And if you knew you had a group of people who were immune, you might stratify some of the jobs differently in terms of who takes care of the most severe cases or whatnot."
Luckily, experts say serological tests are accurate long after someone has recovered
Serological tests, which work by detecting antibodies in the blood, can be accurate for a very long time after infection. Your body likely starts making antibodies against the coronavirus between seven and 21 days after you're infected, Racaniello says. Those initial antibodies typically stick around in your system for about three months, while other antibodies take a little longer to develop and will likely be found in your blood years after you've had COVID-19. "Their levels go down gradually," Racaniello says. "But there will always be a low level in the blood that you can detect for years and years after infection." Serological tests can detect both types of antibodies.
These tests, which are already starting to be rolled out in New York, could be critical in revealing how many total Americans were really infected with the virus.
The tests often work by first removing the cells from the blood with the help of a centrifuge and then exposing the remaining liquid to a little piece of the virus. If you had COVID-19 at any point, antibodies in the liquid will attach to the virus fragment, just as they would in your body.
Listen to the Mother Jones Podcast to hear our own James West explain what it was like to live through COVID-19 and detail his attempts to donate plasma as a survivor—which, it turns out, he as a gay man was barred from doing. James also wrote about the experience here.
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Not all antibodies are created equal
Some people are capable of producing powerful immune responses. Others, not so much. It's not exactly clear why, and it could be due to any number of factors, including genetics, diet, and prior infections. "For sure, people differ in their immune responses, right? Some people have great immune systems, and they rarely get infections," says Racaniello. "And other people get infections all the time." This variation in immune response includes, but is not limited to, antibodies. "There are lots of places where your immune system can be defective," he adds.
On one end of the spectrum, some people can't produce antibodies at all, Racaniello explains. Some people will make antibodies but they won't be very diverse. Or they'll be ineffective. That's why doctors test plasma from recovered patients before giving it to others. In some people "it won't be very good," Racaniello says. In "other people, it'll be better."
There are several types of antibody treatments in development—all of which have different upsides
Researchers across the world are trying to determine if antibodies can help cure COVID-19 patients. These are three common methods that could potentially use antibodies to help block the coronavirus:
Convalescent plasma: This is what you've probably already heard a lot about, as patients in New York are starting to be treated using this method on an emergency case-by-case basis. It relies on plasma sourced from patients—or pooled from many patients—who've recovered from COVID-19. The plasma is injected into sick patients intravenously, providing the antibodies that another person created. This approach is generally safe and more than 100 years old. While it "is not proven for COVID-19 or any disease related to COVID-19," Crotty says, "the overall concept of antibodies being protective is proven to be true for many infectious diseases, but not all of them." The other potential catch is that for this treatment to be applied at a large scale, it would require tons of recovered patients to donate their plasma.
Synthetic antibodies: This is another option that relies on patients who have recovered from COVID-19, Racaniello explains. It requires taking the cells out of their blood that make these coronavirus-fighting antibodies, called B cells. In a lab, scientists can use the B cells to make tons of antibodies, purify them, and then administer the product to patients. "That's what we did for Ebola," Bhadelia says. "We looked at the serum of survivors and we found those antibodies that were particularly effective. And then we created drugs that were basically biological drugs that were clonal copies of those antibodies." Companies in South Korea, Israel, Canada, and the United States, among others, are working on making antibodies sourced from COVID-19 survivors. Researchers are also testing lab-created antibodies that are already on the market for other conditions, like cancers, arthritis, and HIV. They're hoping these antibodies may also be effective in COVID-19 patients, to help their immune system in fighting the coronavirus or suppressing their immune system's over-response to it, which can be deadly. There are several of these drugs already in clinical trials across the world, including in the United States, China, and Italy. Until a vaccine is available for the new coronavirus, these lab-grown antibodies, which can be produced rapidly, might make a better widescale option than collecting blood plasma, Goodman says.
Coronavirus antibodies from animals: This would entail basically the same process as creating human antibodies in a lab—expose an animal, like a mouse, to parts of the coronavirus, collect the animal's B cells, and create virus-blocking antibodies. The only problem is, humans' immune systems may reject the antibodies from another animal, Racaniello says. "What people do instead is to try and make the mouse antibody as human as possible. It's called 'humanizing' the antibody. And that will overcome these problems," he explains. The benefit of this treatment is that it doesn't require the complex process of screening for human coronavirus-specific antibodies, experts say. In fact, some synthetic antibodies already on the market that are being tested against COVID-19 were sourced from mice or other animals. New York biotech company Regeneron aims to start clinical trials with antibodies from mice in June.
It's possible that certain antibodies can be administered to prevent, not just treat, COVID-19.
"The overall concept of antibodies being protective is proven to be true for many infectious diseases, but not all of them."
It's a somewhat complicated distinction: While antibody treatment for sick patients will not directly give them immunity to the coronavirus, it's possible that administering antibody treatments to people before they get sick could prevent illness temporarily. "When you inject the antibodies into your blood, they end up diffusing into all of your tissues, including your lungs. And so they would prevent infection," Racaniello says. "That's how a vaccine would work—except the vaccine would have you make your own antibodies."
This isn't the same as being immune, because, as I explain above, your body isn't making its own response to the coronavirus; you're still using someone else's. That's why, to prevent an infection with antibodies, you'd need an injection every month or two, Racaniello says. While this wouldn't be considered effective long-term preventive care, this sort of treatment could be especially helpful for health care professionals on the front lines.
We're already using antibodies as a prophylactic for some diseases that don't have a vaccine, Goodman says. Take RSV, a common respiratory virus, especially in babies. "There is no vaccine against [RSV] yet," he says, "but there is an approved [lab-grown] antibody that, in very high-risk children—for example, children with certain congenital lung and heart disease—can reduce their incidence of what are severe infections that occur in them."
Additional reporting by James West
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On our fourth day, we started the day with a little Moana.
And then we headed to nearby… Bletchley Park!
Bletchley Park is, of course, the secret complex where British WWII codebreaking took place. Alan Turing was one of the main geniuses behind so much of it and then he was thanked after the war by being persecuted for being gay. Nothing about what happened to him as a result was fair or just or good, and we prematurely lost a genius mind because of it. Well done.
A formal apology was eventually written by the Prime Minister, though in 2009, well after his death.
I got this sandwich at the cafeteria and it was actually really good.
Poor honey, we tired her out!
After Bletchley Park, we headed for Leavesdon studio for the Harry Potter studio tour! Something I've been wanting to do forever. Our entry was for about 4:30 and the timing worked out just great!
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What can be better than a homemade Christmas present? So the chutney is so lemony it makes your ears squeak. The elixir is overly potent and my friend swears she will kill me if I give her husband any more feathers but I know the recipients of these gifts will enjoy a little of the countryside being bought into their homes during this season of confinement, especially when the gifts are wrapped in my potato printed homemade wrapping paper.
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There's no question about it, autumn is in the air. The starlings are gathering, the blackberry's are ripening, the nights are drawing in. Free food is dripping from every hedgerow and who am I to ignore my instinctual need to gather this harvest before winter sets in? This week I found a recipe to deal with the mass of lavender that sprouts all over my front garden.
chop the lemon peel and flesh into small pieces removing the pips and pith. Place in a mixing bowl and sprinkle with salt. cover the lemons with vinegar and leave for 24 hours. Next day place the mixture in a pan and add the rest of the ingredient. Bring to the boil then reduce the heat and simmer. The mixture is ready when you can run a wooden spoon down the centre as it does not fill up with vinegar. Remove the cinnamon stick and pour into warm jars. Seal tightly.
This is a spicy and unusual chutney which goes well with meat and cheese.
Not normally a fan of pictures of people's lunches but couldn't resist showing you this photo of my foraged and bagged lunch. Sea beet and eggs courtesy of one of my marshland farmers.
This spicy jelly is best made after frost has allowed the apples to blett. It is well worth the effort and would go well with cold meat, cheese or on toast. It is the perfect taste for Christmas.
Medlars are brown, hard fruits which are native to England and can sometimes be found growing wild in hedgerows. I picked mine from the apple orchard at Othona in Essex and left them in my cellar for a few weeks to blett. This is a process where they become soft and brown. The frost seems to have the same effect and we have experienced that even in Kent this year. Once bletted the fruit looks rotten but don't despair this is when it is at its best.
Wash and chop the medlars and put into a large saucepan with enough water to cover them. Simmer slowly until you are left with a brown pulp. Strain the pulp through a scalded jelly bag or pair of tights. I found the juice did not run easily so gave it lots of squeezing. Measure the juice and weigh out 12oz sugar for every pint.
Put the sugar in a bowl and place this in a cool over until warm and dry. Add the lemon juice to the pan of juice and bring to the boil. Stir in the warm sugar and stir without boiling until it has all dissolved. Increase the heat and boil the liquid rapidly until the setting point has been reached. (about 25 minutes) Skim off the scum and pour into warm sterilised jars.
Here in England the clocks have gone back, the nights are drawing in and Autumn is upon us. It is time to gather in the remaining fruit from the hedgerows and prepare for the season of colds and sore throats and what better health tonic do you need than Rosehip syrup. One rosehip contains 30 times the vitamin c of an orange, so I am fond of quoting on guided walks. Just think what a whole spoonful of this stuff can do.
Prep the rosehips by removing the stalk, cutting them into two and removing most of the seeds and small hairs. Do this with a knife and try not to touch the hairs too much, there is a reason that small children of yesteryear used the hairs as itching powder.
Chop the rosehips up a bit smaller and then throw them in a pan with the 2litres of boiling water.
Pour the juice into a jelly bag or some old tights and let the juice drip through.
Put the mush back into the pan with another litre of water and go through the process again to extract more goodness.
Pour the juice into a pan and reduce until you have about 1 litre left.
Once the juice has reduced, add the sugar and stir until it dissolves.
Bottle in sterilised warm jars.
It can also be frozen for later in the winter.
It's harvest time and the hedgerows are bursting with so much fruit that I can't keep up. Kent is blessed with many old orchards, some now abandoned or turned into community orchards where the fruit is available for anyone to pick. I scurried away from Iwade yesterday with a bag of Victoria plums with which to make this great recipe.


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Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi
The prophets were chosen by Allah to guide mankind to the Divine Path. They faced many difficulties and suffered severe hardships in their efforts to call their straying people to obey and worship Allah. This edition of Stories of the Prophets presents the lives of Allah's prophets (peace and blessing be upon them).
The stories were written by the renowned Islamic scholar Maulana Sayyed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi. He was one of the greatest living authorities on Islam and his works are used as textbooks through the Arab and Muslim world.
This translation from a major Arabic work provides English speaking Muslims with the benefits of Maulana Sayyed Abul Hasan's scholarship. The stories which have been drawn from the Holy Quran constantly reflect the authors depth of knowledge.
They are written in a lively style with subtleties explained and descriptions vividly portrayed to provide the reader with a clear picture of each Prophet's mission. Each story is a delight to read and should provide both adults and children with a fresh insight into the life of the men Allah chose to guide their communities.
The story of the last Prophet has not been included in this edition as it deserves a book to itself. To ensure that young people receive all the guidance, knowledge and inspiration that Stories of the Prophets offers, a workbook is included.
The Prophet Nuh
The Prophet Hud
The Prophet Salih
The Prophet Ibrahim
The Prophet Yusuf
The Prophet Musa
The Prophet Shu'ayb
The Prophet Dau'ud & Sulayman
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The Prophet Zakariyya and Yahya
The Prophet 'Isa ibn Maryam
Contributions of Muslims to Indian Subcontinents
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Abstract Expressionism > Painting > Elizabeth Franzheim
Childlike Folly
Elizabeth Franzheim
Oil and Paper Collage on Canvas, signed verso
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A large vertical painting by the artist, perhaps an abstracted face or a figure standing before a game of hopscotch.
An abstract work open to interpretation, either way it is filled with Childlike Folly.
About The Artist: Elizabeth Franzheim
Elizabeth Franzheim was born in Chicago in 1923. At Age thirteen she began working with the noted portrait painter Wayman Adams and continued her art studies at the Corcoran Academy and Yale University. In the 1950's she moved to Houston, Texas, where she painted work for the interior of many private and public buildings, collaborating at times with the american artist Rufino Tamayo and others. Since 1961 she has lived in Paris and achieved...
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Security Code by the Equation Group, an NSA Affiliate, Leaked by Hackers?
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Security experts report that NSA security code might have been exposed. The cause of their concerns are the recent leaks of source code from a group called the Equation Group. The crew is rumored by many specialists to be affiliated with the National Security Agency of the USA. The hacker group known as The Shadow Brokers released a large amount the files on GitHub and have created an auction where the remaining code will be sold to the highest bidder.
The Mysterious Equation Group
The leak was published on August 13 by the hacker collective known as The Shadow Brokers on the GitHub platform. According to security researchers, the source code contains exploits that target firewalls by Cisco, Juniper and Fortinet and Topsec. So far none of the manufacturers have commented on the leaks. The Shadow Brokers state that the released portion of the code is 60% of all accessed data from the Equation Group. The remaining data will be sold at a Bitcoin auction to the highest bidder. GitHub was quick to deny access to the published files.
Various researchers state that this could be an NSA hack that showcases some of the arsenal that the agency uses in its covert operations. In 2015 experts revealed that the Equation Group possesses a very advanced set of tools that can be used against various states, companies, and individuals. Some of the allegations include sponsorship of the Regin and Stuxnet attacks. These two historical events have never been proven to be US-sponsored. However, there is evidence that points in this direction. The published exploits from the hackers indicate that they have not been exposed before. Malware researchers speculate that the group may have already created surveillance infrastructure in various establishments.
There have been speculations that the leak may have been caused by foreign countries or sponsored by them companies.
The Equation Group Code
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Q: What's the most efficient way to pull culture information out of a resx's filename in c#? What's the most efficient way to pull culture information out of a resx's filename using C#?  The solution should also handle there not being culture info in the file name (ie form1.resx).  In that case a string assigned "Default" should be returned.

A: This seems like it would work:
string GetCulture(string s)
{
  var arr=s.Split(".");
  if(arr.Length>2)
    return arr[1];
  else
    return "Default";
}

A: Your best bet is just using regex:
string ParseCulture(string input)
{
  var r = Regex.new('[\w\d]+\.([\w\-]+)\.resx')
  // Match the regular expression pattern against a text string.
  Match m = r.Match(input);
  if (m.Success)
  {
     return m.Groups[1];
  }
  else
  {
     return "Default";
  }
}

This gets back a match (with the phrase you're looking for as the match), or no match (which means you should use "Default").

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Glenn joined the firm in 1997 as the partner in charge of growing and managing the temporary staffing division. Under his consistent, professional leadership, the temporary division has grown from 40 assigned temporary workers in 1997 to nearly 2,000 diversely skilled employees working throughout the country today.
As a recognized leader in the staffing industry, he is a former board member of the New York Staffing Association. Glenn is a member of the NYSA's Political Action Committee and participated in the lobbying efforts in Albany that resulted in favorable treatment of the staffing industry as it pertains to the proposed Fair Pay Act and Wage Form requirements in NY.
Glenn's business philosophy is based on more than thirty years of experience in the recruiting and staffing industry. "Treat the client's trust as sacred. Listen to what your candidates are really saying. Look out for the interest of your client and candidates. Communicate clearly and openly; be fair and ethical and everything else falls in place." Glenn is most proud of the wonderful group of professionals that have achieved success and helped build the industry-leading firm that The Execu|Search Group is today. Additionally, he's shared his expertise and insight about hiring trends through appearances in several media outlets, including CBS News, NJ Public Television and FastCompany.com.
Glenn served as Executive Vice President of TempsAmerica, a large regional temporary staffing firm, prior to joining The Execu|Search Group. He is a graduate of New York University and also holds a degree in Business Management from Adelphi University.
A fitness enthusiast, boater, and avid golfer, Glenn enjoys watching and participating in most sports and is a diehard NY Jets fan. He is also proud to be a very involved and committed father of three great young adults.


Doing anything on a budget is no fun (but always necessary) and budget marketing is no different. To make things a bit more interesting, I'm going to talk about a few things that will help you do some marketing on no budget. Some ideas I mention assume you do have some basic framework in place for your business, though.
While you're reading this (or skimming it) keep in mind that I'm talking about a small to no budget. A small to no budget for marketing means a large to huge time commitment. There is a direct correspondence to time vs. cost. It's like the old saying: You can have it done fast, cheap, or good but you can only choose two.
Before I get into some of the specifics, it's important to understand what marketing is and what it isn't so you can use these ideas effectively.
It's easy to equate marketing with selling because they're related, but they aren't the same thing. When you're trying to market your business in the ways mentioned in this article, keep in mind it's always about building relationships. If your message is crafted with a direct sale in mind, it will be too direct and will fail.
Helping people accomplish their goals.
Using relationships to earn business.
Capturing leads to sell a product to.
Marketing on a budget is possible but it will all be a waste of time if your message is shallow and meant only to sell. Building relationships with people and helping them accomplish their goals should be your only goal.
All ideas I present below cost money but for many, it's in the form of time. This article assumes you have already paid for some basic marketing framework such as somewhere to bring potential customers back to (ie. a website). Without somewhere to bring potential customers back to for them to learn more, you're creating unneeded barriers. Most if not all people won't call, not from the Internet.
A great example of what your budget should have already taken into account is a blog. If your website was done properly, you'll be able to create a blog without additional costs, therefore, keeping your budget in check. Budget marketing is always dependent on many factors but I've tried to account for them the best I can in this article.
Free is a great place to start for an article specifically about budget marketing, so let's start there.
Social media is still a great place to market your business and it's still growing. There are some caveats to social media though because it's not all free. There are better networks than others for accomplishing your goals and some are no longer free for businesses at all!
Let's take a closer look at some of the different networks and how they could help you.
Facebook is one of the cheapest places to advertise on the Internet right now. While Facebook is cheap compared to the rest, it's still not cheap enough to be considered budget marketing. Ever since Facebook adjusted their algorithms to limit the organic reach of pages, there hasn't been much of an opportunity for budget marketing on Facebook.
It's going to cost you money to reach customers on Facebook even if someone has already liked your page. Yes, to reach your own fans it'll cost you money. Organic reach for those fans who have liked your page is hovering right around 2.5% by the estimate of some. That means when you post something on your Facebook page, only 2.5% of your fans will ever see that post.
There is still one place on Facebook that is a good place to connect with potential customers, though. If you can find a group to participate in and add value to, there can be an opportunity there. Don't waste your time with general topic groups, though, you'll find a lot of advertising noise but nobody looking at them.
There are fortunately many social media networks still available that can be a good part of budget marketing.
These two networks are still free and there are no limitations to who you can reach and when you can reach them. The only limitations are the natural noise of social networks.
Instagram is a great place to create an authentic relationship with potential customers and give them some views behind the scenes of your business.
Twitter is a great place to join the conversations your potential customers are already having. There are a lot of options to take advantage of Twitter on a budget. Some of these include providing helpful information through hashtags and my personal favorite, Twitter chats.
There are Twitter chats available for almost any topic you can imagine, you just have to know who your target audience is and what may interest them. There are many directories you can use to find the chats but here's a directory a friend of mine hosts.
If you decide to use social media in your budget marketing mix, be sure you check out this article on approaching social media effectively first.
While social media is sort of a part of inbound marketing, its complexities demanded I put it into its own section (that's not saying other topics aren't complex, though!). Inbound marketing is one of the best ways to market on a budget and there are more ways than ever to reach your audience.
There are a number of methods you can use that cost almost nothing. Blogging, podcasts, and email marketing are some great methods to market. Not only that but by combing those with whitepapers, infographics, and great content you can easily create an amazing way to help people and pull them in too.
As you create content on your blog, you'll have a growing library of content that can help visitors. This will bring visitors to your website and if you pair blog posts with other content, you'll not only help your customers but you'll strengthen your trust and brand with them.
Blog posts need to always be helpful, though, you don't want to sell or make the posts all about you. Each post should answer a specific question and be helpful but never about your product unless it helps answer the question.
Your company blog isn't a place to write about your company but rather a great place to answer common questions people have about topics related to your industry. Blogs are so important to your business that I included it as a must in my list of 17 things your small business website needs list.
Podcasts are growing in popularity and it's understandable why. Video is also growing but podcasting is more versatile therefore are again growing fast. People are always on the go and smartphones makes that even more possible. Video doesn't work as well with the on-the-go lifestyle as podcasts do.
There are a lot of niche podcasts and it's growing every day. You can find a podcast related to your business and often pitch to be a guest. Be sure if you pitch for a guest appearance that you take the time to learn about the podcast and know what their style is.
If you do get to be a guest on a show, be sure you at least mention your business but don't make it the center of attention. People will be intrigued by what you say and naturally seek out your brand online if they want to learn more.
This is a topic close to the top of my mind because I recently wrote several articles on email marketing. That also means I'm not going to mention a lot about but will say read those articles because they will give you some ideas.
Email marketing is all about building your relationship with people who are already aware of your brand. It'll help you build trust, be helpful, and achieve brand affinity over time.
I started out with what marketing is and isn't, this is where I tie it all together with how important that is. Making sales isn't about the product or anything else, it comes down to relationships and how confident the customer is that you can solve their problem.
Trying to approach any of the methods I mentioned above with a sales mindset will undoubtedly land you with no relationship with a customer and no hope of a sale now or in the future. Marketing always needs to create value and that's even more true with budget marketing.
Never approach marketing as a sale, it's always a relationship. Nobody is going to hear your message and buy from you instantly. It's all about creating lasting relationships that you grow until they eventually turn into customers.
Go out there and conquer your message but always bring value to those who need it. With time, you can do many of these on your own but of course, it's always helpful to have a bit of guidance.
If you're a bit overwhelmed with all the options and how to effectively approach them, I'm always available for guidance. I will give you a free consultation and report that will point you in the right direction to grow your business online.


I have a confession, I've never really got why you should compensate for ambient light when calibrating and profiling monitors. Don't get me wrong I understand the principles and the effect that ambient light can have on the images you see on your screen, it's just that to me making your monitor brighter or darker based on the light surrounding it is the wrong way round. Isn't it better to get your ambient lighting to the right level so the monitor looks its best?
My first experience of colour correction came when I was working in a pre-press company and our drum scanning suite was housed in a former funeral parlour. Windows were few and far between and you can imagine that the lighting was on the sepulchral side, especially during the night shift. My current office has a large window but as soon as I do any image correction or software testing down comes the venetian blind to make the lighting as dim as I can. When I go on site to retouchers or video editing suites the light is also very low. My standard advice is that if the monitor is the brightest light source then your eyes will adjust to it correctly. Some customers say they haven't got control over ambient light and I can imagine that in an office environment but for all our amateur customers most spare room digital photo studios are surely equipped with a light switch and a set of curtains.
I think the problem is that I know enough about monitors and print viewing to know not to hold a print next to my screen and expect it to match exactly. If I want to get closer agreement between the two I break out the viewing booth and adjust my monitor calibration targets to get a visual match but I usually take my prints to the window and view them in daylight and I find when I allow my eyes to adjust properly to either daylight or the monitor then what I see on screen is close enough to what I get out of the printer. So my only aim for the ambient lighting around my monitor is for it to be dim enough for me to see all the details in my images, especially in the shadows, so for that the room lighting has to be very dim.
Anyway, I've just started beta testing a new monitor calibration solution and amongst the first few screens in the software is the ability to measure ambient light and adjust the calibration targets accordingly. The developers were making a big song and dance about it so I thought I better revisit the area of ambient light compensation to see if I was missing something.
Our biggest selling monitor calibration and profiling solution is the i1 Display 2 from X-Rite. It's philosophy dove tails with my own view on ambient lighting in that it does allow the measuring of ambient light but it is for information only and doesn't suggest calibration targets, affect the calibration or monitor ambient light and adjust the monitor on an ongoing basis.
I connected my i1 Display 2 and launched i1 Match. I checked the Ambient Light Check option and then closed my blinds as I usually do when I work on images. I clicked measure and found that at 28 lux it thought my lighting was too dim so I opened the blades on the blind slightly and remeasured until the black line was in the central green area. The room was still acceptably dim but not quite as dark at 53 lux. After calibrating the monitor to 120cd/m2, 2.2 and 6500K (my usual targets) I examined my Square Black Level Test image that has concentric areas of very low RGB values. I could not see much variation in the blacks but if I closed the blinds completely again then I could see all the values distinctly. The recommended values for ambient light in the i1 Match software are based on the ISO 3664 standard although another ISO standard, ISO 12646, recommends lower levels of light, such as I normally have.
The Spyder3 Elite software does have more ambient lighting features. During the calibration process it can measure the ambient light and suggest new calibration targets. The Spyder Utility can also be set to monitor ambient light and warn you if it begins to differ too greatly. The first half of this article was written in the late afternoon when the sun had gone around the side of our building. This second half on the Spyder I'm writing in the morning with the spring sun shining on the window. I have the blind fully closed but it is still much brighter than yesterday, i1 Match says 182 Lux.
Running the ambient light analysis as I calibrate the monitor using Spyder3 Elite it suggests a luminance level of 200cd/m2 and that is much higher than my normal 120cd/m2 target. It reports the lighting level as Very High. It is brighter than yesterday but I wouldn't really say it was very bright, it's still dimmer than most offices. I accepted the Spyder's recommendation and calibrated the monitor. It was much brighter than I'm used too and looking at images in Photoshop both before and after I preferred my normal luminance level. I couldn't see the shadow detail on my Square Black Level Test image even with the monitor set brighter than normal. I turned on the ambient light monitoring in the Spyder utility and after a short while the little icon turned red and when I went into the utility it said the ambient lighting was now just High and I should recalibrate or return the ambient lighting to the condition it was when I calibrated. I hadn't opened the blind or anything, the sun must have gone in or moved around the building a little.
If I was a photographer wanting to process some RAW images I would now have the quandary of wondering wether to wait for a cloudy day, recalibrate every time the weather changes or, I suppose, buy a proper black-out blind.
Constant recalibration would mean the images I see on my monitor would always be changing and I think I still prefer to stick to the same calibration targets over time. Obviously you can't always choose when you process your files. So, of the three choices the black-out blind makes the most sense to me. If you can block all light coming in from outside you could control the lighting level more precisely, all though of course you'd have to choose any artificial lighting carefully for the intensity, colour temperature and colour rendering index. Many of us started our photography by working in a darkroom and I think for many it still makes sense to work in one now.


The endeavour initially entailed producing regular newsletters, in printed and .pdf formats, to provide staff at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) with news about recent developments, latest research and the whole range of current publications of relevance to Dementia Care.
The subject orientation has broadened out (from an exclusively "publications-driven" research focus) into a more general news service that might be of interest to a wider audience.
The monthly current awareness bulletin "Dementia: the Latest Evidence" has been in production since July / August 2010. The website and blog "Dementia Care News" (an online adjunct to "Dementia: the Latest Evidence") came into existence a few months later in November 2010, as a direct result of an initial meeting between the Editor and the Supervising Editor on October 29th 2010.
The day-to-day Editor of this information service is a Library Assistant employed part-time by the NHS.
Intellectual guidance is supplied by the Supervising Editor; namely Dr Daryl Leung, Clinical Director, Care of the Elderly at New Cross Hospital.
There is a feedback page for general enquiries, suggestions, email newsletter subscription requests etc.


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Lohri, Makar Sankranti, Bihu, and Pongal 2022: Date, History and Significance
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If India was a palette, it would be the most diverse, with cultures and ethnicities changing every few hundred kilometres. The evidence of this diversity is etched in the festivals that people of this country observe throughout the year. Starting from the month of January, the country drips diversity till the month of December.
After the common celebrations associated with the New Year, the first set of the festival comes two weeks after the first day of the year. Lohri, Pongal, Makar Sankranti, and Bihu are festivals that represent different cultures but unite under one country – India. All the festivals are loosely related to one single premise – crops, but vary depending on the part of the country it is celebrated in. Let's look at each of these four festivals that people celebrate together, separately:
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A large bonfire with people dancing, singing, and having a good time is what contains the essence of this festival. Lohri is celebrated a day before Makar Sankranti and is primarily celebrated in North India, especially the agricultural state of Punjab. It marks the end of the sowing season. Delicacies and snacks, for example, Rewri, Peanuts, Sarson Ka Saag, Makke Ki Roti, etc., are enjoyed with full vigour.
Makar Sankranti follows Lohri by a day, and is a popular festival in most parts of the country, but the festivity is at its prime, mainly in North India. The festival marks the advent of the harvest season and also signifies the end of Winter as the days start getting longer. Many people dip in the sacred waters of Ganga and offer their prayers to the Sun. In many parts of North India, kites take over the skies, and delicious sweets such as Til ke Laddoo are enjoyed.
As we move down towards the South, the festivities celebrating the harvest season turn into Pongal, where the harvesting of sugarcane and rice spark joy in the people of South India. Pongal is a four-day festival that starts from January 14, and is vibrant as people decorate their cattle, paint their houses, and carry out pious processions.
Magh Bihu
The same spirit and the same premise, when it travels all the way to North East India, takes the shape of Magh Bihu. The ending of the harvest season is what the festival represents. Traditional dance, traditional games, and activities such as Cooking in Meji (Bamboo Huts) define the festival in the state of Assam.
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There are two staples at almost every happy hour you can find. The first being the drinks, usually margaritas of all different types. The second is guacamole because nothing goes better with a margarita than chips and dip. The best part is, these happy hour recipes are pretty easy to make yourself. Giving you the chance to have happy hour whenever you want and in the comfort of your own home.
Making these happy hour recipes will guarantee a happy party, afternoon or evening.
Add the tequila, Cointreau syrup, and lime juice.
Serve in chilled martini glasses, with or without salted rims and garnish with lime wedges.
With the tip of a knife, score the avocado flesh and scoop it into a medium bowl.
Mash with a fork or potato masher until fairly smooth. Stir in the remaining ingredients, mixing well but gently, and serve immediately.