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Antash'a English, transgender woman, fatally shot in Jacksonville, Florida
By Anna Swartz
Antonia English, 38, known to friends as Antash'a, died Friday in a Jacksonville, Florida, hospital after being fatally shot, local outlet First Coast News reported on Sunday. English's death marks at least the 11th homicide of a transgender person so far this year — and the second reported homicide of a trans woman in Jacksonville. In February, Celine Walker, a 36-year-old trans woman, was killed at a Jacksonville hotel.
On her Facebook page, English described herself as "a very independent transgendered woman ... who thrive[s] on being the best person I can be." In May, just weeks before her death, English had shared a photo of herself with the caption, "I will no longer be a victim of discrimination. # Trans rights."
Friends and loved ones remembered English as a strong personality and a good friend. Taliyah Smith, who was friends with English, told First Coast News that English was a regular performer at InCahoots, a local gay nightclub. "She was an unapologetic, bold and loyal person," Smith said. "We met years ago while at a gay pageant. We both were entertainers."
LaTrini English Brown, who identified himself on social media as English's brother, posted a series of messages of mourning on his Facebook page. Among them was the message, "I miss u babes. Loving u always. God loved u more. Rest in Peace."
A Thursday evening vigil is planned to honor English, followed by a benefit show at InCahoots, the club where she was known and loved. On the Facebook page for the event, organizers wrote, "To honor our beloved Antasha Devine Sherrington English, we are asking you to come out and celebrate her life with a candlelight vigil and balloon release ... Upon the completion of the vigil, we will walk from the park to InCahoots showing our love for Shay and all other transgender and LGBTQIA friends that we have lost over the years and our continued fight for equal rights in the world. We will be providing 38 candles and balloons to mark the number of years, this world has been blessed with Shay's presence."
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, which is handling the ongoing investigation into English's death, misgendered her in a statement released to local media, First Coast News reported. Advocates told Mic in 2017 that misgendering of trans victims — either by law enforcement, media or family members — can mean that the number of annual homicides of trans people may be significantly underreported.


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Identification and enumeration of nucleated red blood cells on the coulter LH 750
Ian Chin-Yee, Wendy Brown, Kathleen Johnson, Michael Keeney, Bernard W Steele, Nancy Wolfe, Sandra Kaplan
Identification of nucleated red blood cells (NRBCs) is an important and challenging aspect of the automated complete blood count. To date, automated methods have focused on either identifying NRBCs on the basis of volume (events hovering at the white blood cell [WBC] threshold) or by employing nucleus-staining dyes. The new Beckman Coulter LH 750 complete blood cell counter uses advances in computer algorithms coupled with impedance, differential volume, conductivity, and light-scatter information to define a "signature position" occupied by NRBCs. In this multicenter study, we compared NRBC and WBC enumeration by the LH 750 with flow cytometry (FCM) and manual slide review. From 3 sites, 314 samples, including 51 cord blood samples, were selected on the basis of either flagging on a predicate analyzer or detection of NRBCs by blood-film review. Correlation determinations (r2) and a signed rank test for difference between medians (P) were performed on each data set. Correlation of the NRBC pooled data from all sites showed an r2 of 0.710 for LH 750 versus FCM. There appeared to be a significant difference between the LH 750 and the FCM procedure (P < .001). Closer examination of the peripheral blood samples (n = 263) revealed that the r2 of the LH 750 versus FCM was 0.781 with no significant difference between the data sets (P = .22). Comparison of cord blood NRBC data (n = 51), showed an r2 of 0.710 for the LH 750 versus FCM, with a statistically significant underestimation of NRBCs by the LH 750 (P < .001). For each data set, similar results were obtained when compared with the manual NRBC method. Comparison of the WBC pooled data from 2 sites in the range of 0.41 to 41.0 × 109/L (n = 162) showed an r2 of 0.978 for LH 750 versus FCM. On a subset of 67 samples, the Abbott Cell-Dyn 4000, which uses a laser-excited nuclear dye to identify NRBCs, was compared with the LH 750. Flow cytometry was used as the comparative procedure. The r2 of the Cell-Dyn 4000 to FCM was 0.631 (P = .36) and the r2 of the LH 750 to FCM was 0.620 (P = .82). Looking specifically at those samples with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease (n = 19), we found the LH 750 results to correlate better to the FCM procedure than the Cell-Dyn 4000 did (r2 = 0.874 and 0.567, respectively). The false positive/false negative rate for the complete data set (n = 67) was 1.5%/16.4% on the Cell-Dyn 4000 and 3.0%/6.0% on the LH 750. The LH 750 represents a significant improvement over previous impedance analyzers in the detection and quantitation of NRBCs. It provides an extremely accurate WBC count in the presence of these cells. When compared with the Cell-Dyn 4000, the LH 750 showed improved sensitivity to the presence of NRBCs. Importantly, these data are provided on the LH 750 at no additional cost with every sample analyzed for a complete blood cell count and differential.
Laboratory Hematology
Erythrocytes
Blood Cell Count
Fetal Blood
Leukocyte Count
Blood Cells
Cell-Dyn 4000
Coulter LH 750 analyzer
NRBC count
WBC count
Chin-Yee, I., Brown, W., Johnson, K., Keeney, M., Steele, B. W., Wolfe, N., & Kaplan, S. (2002). Identification and enumeration of nucleated red blood cells on the coulter LH 750. Laboratory Hematology, 8(4), 210-217.
Identification and enumeration of nucleated red blood cells on the coulter LH 750. / Chin-Yee, Ian; Brown, Wendy; Johnson, Kathleen; Keeney, Michael; Steele, Bernard W; Wolfe, Nancy; Kaplan, Sandra.
In: Laboratory Hematology, Vol. 8, No. 4, 01.12.2002, p. 210-217.
Chin-Yee, I, Brown, W, Johnson, K, Keeney, M, Steele, BW, Wolfe, N & Kaplan, S 2002, 'Identification and enumeration of nucleated red blood cells on the coulter LH 750', Laboratory Hematology, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 210-217.
Chin-Yee I, Brown W, Johnson K, Keeney M, Steele BW, Wolfe N et al. Identification and enumeration of nucleated red blood cells on the coulter LH 750. Laboratory Hematology. 2002 Dec 1;8(4):210-217.
Chin-Yee, Ian ; Brown, Wendy ; Johnson, Kathleen ; Keeney, Michael ; Steele, Bernard W ; Wolfe, Nancy ; Kaplan, Sandra. / Identification and enumeration of nucleated red blood cells on the coulter LH 750. In: Laboratory Hematology. 2002 ; Vol. 8, No. 4. pp. 210-217.
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Are you taking a deep breath now that the mid-term election is over? How can we not breathe a sigh or relief as we taper off a $1 billion campaign? Political ads were everywhere: on radio, television, newspaper and social media feeds. There was no escape. I was subjected to a new ad every couple of minutes watching Best Blind Auditions of The Voice Mongolia on YouTube. Even when I went as far away as Mongolia, those ads found me.
This was less a political campaign than a marketing extravaganza. There was no mistaking how the marketing tools of the GOP far outweighed those of the Democrats. With the Oval Office in constant motion, the arrival of the president or vice president at various venues was a series of unstoppable media moments. While presidential visits aren't a new development on the mid-term campaign trail, the numbers, optics and exaggerations are historical standouts.
Those who focused on presidential lies virtually ran out of breath in the final days of the campaign. Jake Tapper reported that the president told four lies a minute. Paul Krugman's column, "A Party Defined by its Lies," underscored the convenient Republican turnabout on pre-existing conditions, an experience one of my cohorts described as swallowing a sudden glob of fat that would barely fit down a pig's gullet. Not to mention the labeling of the "caravan" trodding toward our Southern border as a bunch of outlaws, gang members and Middle Eastern terrorists requiring more troops to safeguard Americans than we currently have in war-torn Afghanistan.
Despite objections by pundits and opponents, the lies do not and have not generated outrage in large sections of our population. Instead, there's been buy-in to the political circus.
Chattanooga had a front row seat at this circus last Sunday. Standing-room only at Bessie Smith Hall for Phil Bredesen was hardly the same as standing-room only at McKenzie Arena with President Donald Trump, Vice Mike President Pence and U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn. Bredesen's security was modest compared to the stadium's combined Secret Service, FBI and local law enforcement. Bredesen's arrival was invisible compared to the landing of both Air Force 1 and 2, plus the presidential motorcade. Booths lined the arena streets selling T-shirts and hats with eye-catching symbols, with some of them sporting ugly, dehumanizing slogans.
The somber tone of Bredesen's interfaith lunch and the prayers for those massacred at Pittsburg Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh was in stark contrast to the wild, noisy, raucous atmosphere at the stadium. Bredesen's emphasis on counteracting hate-provoking divisiveness was a lost cause given the stadium frenzy. His insistence that we work together was drowned out by the energy surrounding Trump at the stadium.
Bredesen understood the vote's likely outcome. He was eager for the election to be over so that his children and grandchildren didn't have to see the viciously negative ads about him. He jokingly added that even his dog wouldn't look him in the eye anymore. Unfortunately, Bredesen lost. Even more unfortunate is that his plea to work together was lost.
Some officials now hint at working together, but why does that sound so unlikely? Maybe because in-your-face rhetoric is the new normal. So indulge now in a deep post-election breath, because you'll need that oxygen. Trump will increase the lies for his 2020 campaign. Democrats will try to end complicit silence over Trump's questionable business dealings. Given the Oval Office's marketing advantage, brace for all-out war. Buckle up!


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Home » Racing » Zak Brown: No Formula 1 teams are for sale, it's a seller's market
Zak Brown: No Formula 1 teams are for sale, it's a seller's market
Zak Brown reckons such is the interest in this year's F1 championship that all the teams have benefitted, creating a "seller's market" and "no one wants to sell".
This season has been arguably the best championship in years with Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton racing wheel-to-wheel for the World title, McLaren fighting Ferrari for third place in the Constructors' Championship, and four of the 10 teams winning races, eight of the ten stepping onto the podium.
It's a season that Brown feels has paid off for all the teams, creating an interest in Formula 1 that hasn't been seen in years.
With that interest comes money, and that comes at a time when the teams are also under a budget come which has slashed their yearly spending.
Such is the interest in Formula 1, especially in a growing American market, that Michael Andretti entered talks with Sauber about buying their Formula 1 team. Those talks ultimately fell apart with reports suggesting it was money and the asking price that put paid to a deal.
If that is the case Brown wouldn't be surprised as Formula 1 is currently a "seller's market" such is the success of the series.
"I think the health of the teams has never been stronger," the McLaren CEO told City AM.
"In Formula 1, there's always been two or three teams in trouble at any one time. Now you have 10 very well funded teams by very credible individuals or investment groups.
"Sauber was saved by [Tetrapak heir] Finn Rausing a few years ago. And here he is just a couple of years later, counting down $400m (£302m) for the racing team.
"I'm now getting phone calls on a routine basis, from very significant sports investors, really keen on buying Formula 1 teams, and there's no team to buy.
"It's become a seller's market, and no one wants to sell.
"Formula 1 has brought in a lot of partners, we've brought in a lot of partners, other racing teams have brought on a lot of partners. So I think the overall commercial health of the sport is awesome."
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Brown, though, reckons Mercedes' recent controversial sponsorship deal with construction firm Kingspan shows that teams have to be very selective.
Mercedes faced an instant backlash after announcing the deal, Kingspan part of the Grenfell Tower tragedy in which 72 people lost their lives.
Mercedes announced a few days later that they had withdrawn from the agreement.
"I think who we are associated with is very important to us," Brown said. "If you look at the companies that we're associated with, they're all global leading businesses or fast moving, fast growing businesses.
"We undertake, before we do any partnership, a lot of due diligence. You can imagine when you land Coca-Cola as a partner, you don't need to do that much due diligence. But yes, that is something that we do a lot of homework on.
"Who are we doing business with? Are they like minded? Do they share the same passions and brand attributes just saw us? We would not put together a partnership with someone we were uncomfortable with.
"We're financially doing very well. We're doing very well with corporate partners. We can now be selective."
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PhoneGap supports Windows Phone 8
Version 2.3 of both PhoneGap and its parent project, Apache Cordova, have been released. PhoneGap allows native mobile applications to be developed using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The framework serves as a container for mobile web applications and provides access to native system features via custom interfaces. Finished applications can be made available as native packages for target platforms such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry, webOS or bada. Adobe offers a fee-based service which automates the build and deployment process; it is due to support the new release in the near future. PhoneGap itself is developed as an open source technology within the Apache Cordova project.
The PhoneGap developers said that, just before Christmas, the Apache Cordova project received a code donation from Microsoft that has enabled them to provide full support for Windows Phone 8, the latest version of Microsoft's mobile operating system. Further background information is available in a blog post by Adobe's Jesse MacFadyen. Another new feature is the "InAppBrowser" API, a built-in web browser for PhoneGap apps, with an API that follows web standards, though only iOS and Android are currently supported.
Further information about the new features related to iOS can be found in the iOS readme; information for Android is available in the Android readme.
Cordova becomes Apache Top Level Project, a report from The H.
PhoneGap App Framework reaches version 2.0, a report from The H.
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Cordova becomes Apache Top Level Project
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// https://bost.ocks.org/mike/shuffle/
// (It's late and I didn't feel like working it out on my own :P)
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                // add them in. I'll search more through the docs and API to better understand
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        commit('gameboard/startNewGame', shuffle(deck), {root: true})
    },

    loadASavedGame ({dispatch}, label) {
        // pull the state from local storage by the key
        let state = storage.getaSavedState(label)

        // ba;lksajfl;adkjfaslkj why am I having to do this when I'm using
        // an arrow function!!!!!!!
        let routerr = router
        dispatch('gameboard/loadSavedState', state, {root: true})
            .then(() => {
                routerr.push('/game-board')
            })
    },
    deleteASavedGame ({commit}, label) {
        storage.deleteASavedState(label)
        commit('removeSavedGameLabel', label)
    },

    loadSavedStates ({commit}) {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            const savedStates = storage.getSavedStates()
            let savedStateLabels = Object.keys(savedStates)

            commit('setSavedStates', savedStateLabels)
        })
    },

    storeGameState ({commit, state}, payload) {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            const stringifiedState = JSON.stringify(payload.state)
            storage.storeaSavedState({label: payload.label, state: stringifiedState})
            resolve()
        })
    },

    reset ({commit}) {
        commit('loadState', initialState())
    },

    closeKeypad ({commit}) {
        commit('showKeypad', {show: false, for: ''})
    },

    setBoardSizeInputByInputName ({commit}, payload = {inputName: null, newValue: null}) {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            if (payload.inputName === 'width') {
                commit('setBoardWidth', payload.newValue)
            } else if (payload.inputName === 'height') {
                commit('setBoardHeight', payload.newValue)
            }
            resolve()
        })
    },

    toggleSettings ({commit}) {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            commit('toggleSettings')
            resolve()
        })
    }
}

export default {state, getters, mutations, actions}

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Meeting the First-Time User Challenge
Dec 2, 2011 | Practice Management |
This study looks at several factors related to first-time use of hearing aids with the new Oticon Intiga device, which employs a system of gradual gain increases during the first month of use until it reaches full prescriptive gain. Some benefits derived from the use of help systems—such as directional microphones—are realized almost immediately and grow as the hearing aid increases the amplification. Other help systems provide some significant immediate benefit, and then appear to grow in terms of improved aided performance over time, as the auditory system experiences increased audibility of, and learns to use, speech and spatial cues that facilitate speech understanding in complex sound environments.
When first-time users (FTUs) initially visit a hearing care practice, most have already journeyed through a long process that ultimately led to the decision that they probably need amplification. This process is likely to include:
Attracting unwanted attention to oneself due to misunderstandings and miscommunications;
Becoming suspicious that this is due to a hearing loss;
Acknowledging that there is a problem;
Contemplating and realizing the consequences (and perhaps even self-examination); before
Admitting/understanding that there is a hearing problem, and hearing aids may be the solution.1
Thomas Behrens, MScEE, is manager of clinical evidence and communications at Oticon A/S, Smoerum, Denmark; Brian Kreisman, PhD, is director of the Center for Amplification, Rehabilitation, and Listening (CARL) and an associate professor at Towson University, Towson, Md; Michael Schulte, PhD, is a research audiologist at Hörzentrum Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany; and Julie Neel Weile, MA, is a clinical audiologist at Oticon A/S.
This recognition process is troublesome for a large proportion of FTUs, but it also provides a good background to explain to them the potential benefits of hearing rehabilitation. If, for example, they are aware of their loss of social interaction due to untreated hearing loss, then they are also more likely to seek out hearing aids that may benefit them in social situations.
Hence, when they finally decide to do something about their hearing loss, we should be able to provide a solution that benefits them in key listening situations, allows them to adjust to amplified sound, and is so discreet that it does not attract attention.
This article presents findings of a study about the potential benefits of a new hearing solution for FTUs, Oticon Intiga. The study investigates the immediate benefits and acceptance of the devices, both in the field and in the laboratory. These are compared to benefits obtained over the first month of use, when an Automatic Adaptation Manager ensures the transition from an initial first-fit gain prescription to a fully prescribed gain setting. For a full report on the findings of this study, please refer to the companion paper by Nagle et al (manuscript in preparation).
Benefits of Hearing Aids to First–Time Users
Interestingly, when looking through the literature, very little evidence exists to describe the immediate benefits and acceptance of hearing aids during the first week of use. The traditional paradigm is that it takes time to acclimatize to hearing aids and experience many of the benefits (eg, "You'll get used to it"). However, this paradigm has led to protocols that have generally ignored benefit and acclimitization during the first week of hearing aid use.
Figure 1. Average audiometric data from Oldenburg in the left panel and from Towson in the right panel.
Studies on speech understanding benefits of hearing aids are typically conducted using an input level of about 65 dBSPL with hearing aids in an omnidirectional mode. While this may be a valid observation for a very specific acoustic condition, modern hearing aids typically include automatic functions that enable and disable help systems, such as directionality and noise reduction, depending on the particular acoustic environment. These automatic changes are based on specific acoustic criteria programmed into the acoustic scene analysis systems that drive the "decision-making" processes of a hearing aid. Therefore, it seems reasonable to evaluate potential benefits of hearing aids at different levels in different masking conditions.
Valente and Mispagel2 reported no benefit of an open-fit hearing aid in an omnidirectional mode, and 1.9 dB benefit of the same device in a directional mode. These results were obtained by first-time users after 4 weeks of hearing aid use, with the speech presented in a demanding competition from a surrounding restaurant noise presented at 65 dBSPL. A similar benefit of about 1.8 dB was found by Kuk and Keenan3 using the HINT in competing noise presented at 75 dBSPL.
In a study by Hällgren et al,4 a relatively small hearing aid benefit, in this case about 0.4 dB, was found in steady-state speech-shaped noise presented at 75 dBSPL. However, when they used a speech masker, benefit increased to about 2.5 dB. Thus, when there are temporal fluctuations in the masker, the benefits of aided listening in noise seem better materialized because level fluctuations allow for listening of speech cues in the weaker masker intervals.
Study Method to Assess Immediate Benefit and Acceptance
To assess immediate benefit and acceptance, a protocol was designed that examined a number of laboratory and field measures over the first month of use. On days 0, 1, 3, 14/16, and 28/30 relative to the fitting day, the following measures were administered at the Hörzentrum in Oldenburg, Germany, and at Towson University in Towson, Md.
To investigate potential benefits and acceptance reflecting daily life use with the devices, two different acoustic conditions were created. One condition was created with the purpose of providing information about the amplification and compression system of the present hearing aid. A second condition was designed to investigate the benefits of one of the help systems, Split Directionality, that is enabled in situations with background noise at moderately high levels (described in more detail below).
Subjects. Inclusion criteria were symmetrical hearing loss (maximum 10 dB difference between ears) and no or negligible conductive components. As the study also sought to test the first month of use with a shorter adaptation period, an inherent minimum wear-time was needed for the user to become experienced with amplified sound and for the adaptation manager to reach the level of prescribed gain.
A total of 43 test persons with no prior hearing aid experience participated at the two test sites, with 22 at Towson and 21 at Oldenburg (total of 20 females, 23 males). One subject from Towson was unable to comply with the minimum wear-time demands of at least 6 hours per day; he was excluded from the study. Therefore, data from 42 participants were included in the data analysis, 21 from each site.
The mean age of the study population was 67.6 years (65 in Towson and 70 in Oldenburg), ranging from 20 to 85 years. The mean 4-frequency PTAs (average of threshold at 0.5, 1, 2, and 4 kHz) were 39 dBHL and 40 dBHL in the right and left ear, respectively. The average air conduction hearing thresholds (HTL) of subjects at the two study sites are shown in Figure 1.
Figure 2. Average German OLSA (left) and US Matrix (right) test results from unaided and aided testing for the 5 test days. Also shown in green is the fixed level of the ISTS masker. Note that lower thresholds indicate better performance.
Hearing instrument. Oticon Intiga is a small open-fit, receiver-in-the-ear (RITE) style hearing instrument. It is equipped with the Speech Guard amplification and compression system, Spatial Sound 2.0, the proprietary Voice Aligned Compression rationale, and a number of help systems (eg, traditional noise reduction, split and full directionality).
Additionally, it has been optimized for first-time users and thus comes with a new first-fit gain prescription and new, faster automatic adaptation manager. In addition, the designs of both hearing instrument and speaker unit have been optimized to ensure greater headroom and better retention.
Materials and procedures. The test protocol encompassed lab tests, as well as daily life tests, that were repeated through the first month of hearing instrument use; at the day of fitting (Day 0), the first day of use (Day 1), the third (Day 3), at approximately 2 weeks (Day 14-16), and after 1 month (Day 28-30). Different specified days 14/16 and 28/30 were allowed for the two last visits at the two sites, as this significantly facilitated the practical execution of testing at each site and was considered insignificant to the results.
The laboratory tests used were the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT)5,6 in the United States, and in Germany the Göttinger Sentence Test (GOESA),7 the Matrix test (available in both German8 and US English), and a measure of listening effort based on the use of the Matrix sentences. A preliminary validation study of the US Matrix is currently being conducted at Towson University, with a larger, multi-site study being planned.8,9
Figure 3. Hearing aid benefit (aided – unaided threshold), as a function of test day and test site of the OLSA and Matrix tests.
The Matrix test was used to test the benefit of amplification in a situation with soft speech in a background of ISTS maskers. The uncorrelated ISTS signals10 were presented from speakers at ±45° and ±135° at 55 dBC with the adaptive speech coming from the front (0° azimuth) with a start level also at 55 dBC. The hearing instruments were set in fixed omnidirectional microphone mode.
The HINT was used to test speech-in-noise benefit of the hearing aid in split directional mode. Standard uncorrelated continuous noise from ±90° and ±135° at 70 dBC was used, with speech presented adaptively from the front at 0° azimuth. The hearing aid was fixed in split directional microphone mode (high frequency directional).
For both speech tests, loudspeakers were placed at a distance of 0.8 m and 1.5 m from the center of the head of the subjects in Towson and Oldenburg, respectively.
To minimize training effects in the data, each test was administered beginning with a short training session, followed by either the aided or unaided condition. The conditions and order of tests were balanced and randomized between the participants.
For the listening effort test, the same speaker setup and hearing aid settings as in the Matrix test were used. The ISTS masker was set at 55 dBC from ±45° and ±135° azimuth, with speech coming from the front (0°) at levels of 49, 52, 55, 58, 61, and 64 dBC (from -6 to +9 dBSNR) in randomized order. A training session was followed by an aided and unaided condition; the latter two were randomized. During the test, the subject rated perceived listening effort on a 13-point scale, ranging from no effort to extreme effort as described by Luts et al.9
At each visit, the internally developed New User Questionnaire was administered to observe how the participants perceived the use of the hearing instrument. The questionnaire was filled out in person by the participants at every visit, making it possible to follow their perceptions over the course of the first month. It includes items relating to the physical comfort of the devices, listening comfort of loud sounds, speech in quiet and in noise, perception of own voice, and overall performance. In addition, it contains items relating to the process the first-time user is going through. These are questions on whether the users are happy with the decision to acquire hearing aids, how well they adjust to the aids, and whether they see themselves as long-term users. A 5-point scale with "1" indicating poor performance or dissatisfaction and "5" indicating good performance or great satisfaction is used in the questionnaire.
Study participants were generally in compliance with the minimum use-time criteria. However, as mentioned, one subject was excluded due to low usage time. The average daily use-time logged by the hearing instruments was about 10.5 hours.
Data in absolute scores from speech intelligibility lab tests were analyzed using a repeated measures analysis of variance (RMANOVA) with study site coded as a between-subject factor. The factors investigated by the overall analysis were potential changes in speech reception thresholds over the first month of use and differences between unaided and aided conditions. Furthermore, a second analysis was conducted on the benefit (differences between unaided and aided scores) data from the two specific tests, Matrix/OLSA and HINT/GOESA, to examine the effects of site and the change in benefit over the first month. Data from the listening effort test were processed similarly, investigating the effects of site, changes in scores over time, and differences between aided and unaided conditions. The significant main effects and interactions from these analyses are reported.
Figure 4. Mean ratings of listening effort with +3 dBSNR, when listening for Matrix sentences in an ISTS masker (speech at 58 dBC and masker at 55 dBC). Ratings are given for each site individually, Oldenburg to the left and Towson to the right, and related to the scale used.
Speech reception. Figure 2 shows the unaided and aided speech reception thresholds from the Matrix test, presenting the data as they were obtained in the laboratory setup, with thresholds given in absolute numbers and related to the fixed noise level used. The outcome of the RMANOVA showed significant effects of test site, significant differences in thresholds over time, and significant differences between unaided and aided thresholds (all significant at p<0.001). The site effect relates to thresholds obtained at Towson being systematically lower (better SRTs) than those obtained in Oldenburg; however, there were no interactions with site, which indicates that developments over the first month of use (as well as differences between aided and unaided) did not differ significantly between sites.
Threshold changes. Significant changes in thresholds over time can be seen in Figure 2, and appear to indicate a lowering of aided thresholds. Analyses (Post-Hoc, Tukey HSD, p<0.001) verified that aided performance was better than unaided performance on all test days, and that aided performance on Days 1 through 28/30 was significantly better than on Day 0.
Average benefit of hearing aids at both sites for the Matrix and OLSA tests is shown in Figure 3. Averaging across sites, benefit was about:
1 dB on Day 0,
1.3 dB on Day 1,
1.3 dB on Day 14, and
2 dB on Day 28.
The RMANOVA analysis revealed a significant effect of day (p<0.01), but no effect of site (p>0.05). Further analyses (Post-Hoc, Tukey HSD) showed significant changes from Days 0 to 28 (p<0.01), Days 3 to 28 (p<0.01), and Days 14 to 28 (p<0.05). Thus, the data demonstrate that there is a hearing aid benefit already on Day 0, and that this benefit increases over the first month of use.
The results of the HINT and GOESA testing also showed aided benefit, again with a difference between sites, which did not interact with benefit. In addition, aided thresholds continued to decrease during the entire period, indicating a significantly improved performance with split high frequency directionality as gain increases in the devices.
Table 1. Mean ratings of the 9 items in the New User Questionnaire for all test days along with the corresponding standard deviations in parentheses. Note that no data are available for items 4, 6, and 8, at Day 0 as the subjects did not have the experience to make such judgment.
Listening effort. Ratings of listening effort in the modulating speech-like ISTS masker were obtained for a great range of signal-to-noise ratios. The manuscript by Nagle et al covers this in more detail; in this article, we limit our focus only to one of these: using a speech level of 58 dBC. In effect, this produces a situation with a positive SNR (recall that the masker level was set to 55 dBC), compared to the negative SNRs where most of the speech intelligibility testing took place. Results at this SNR are shown in Figure 4 for each test day.
Figure 4 suggests that there are lower mean ratings for aided listening than for unaided listening at every day tested, and the overall magnitude of the hearing aid benefit is roughly constant over time, being about a scale point. Ratings from Towson are generally lower than ratings from Oldenburg, and the hearing aid benefit appears to be larger at Towson than at Oldenburg. These results were verified by the analysis, which showed significant effects of aided relative to unaided and of test site (RMANOVA, p<0.001).
Comments on site effects. The site effects seen on the aided and unaided thresholds, as well as on the corresponding effort ratings, are likely due to a number of factors differing between test sites. It is well known that differences in speech reception threshold exist between implementations of the same test in different languages.9,11 Also, the difference in distance between the subject and the loudspeakers at the two sites may have contributed to some differences in the perceived acoustic mixtures.
Questionnaire results. Mean questionnaire ratings of the nine items of the New User Questionnaire for all test days are shown in Table 1, along with the corresponding standard deviations (in parentheses). In general, the data indicate relatively stable self-ratings across the test period. All ratings start above 3 and remain high during the entire study, indicating mean rating levels from acceptable to good. Item 1 relating to physical comfort in the ear does show a tendency to improve during the period, and indeed the mean rating on Day 28 of 4.2 is significantly greater than the mean ratings for Days 0, 1, and 3 (p<0.01 on Days 0 and 3, and p<0.05 on Day 1, Wilcoxon Matched Pairs).
Item 7 regarding the perception of own voice improves significantly from Day 0 to Days 14 and 28 (p<0.05, Wilcoxon Matched Pairs). Laugesen et al12 reported similar results when examining FTU perception of own voice; they found that both first-time users and experienced users perceive changes in the sound of their own voice, but generally users accept this change as being unavoidable and, with time, not worth mentioning.
Relating mean ratings to the labeling used in the questionnaire, the average rating on physical comfort is slightly better than "comfortable." Similarly, loud sounds are rated as slightly better than "somewhat comfortable." That loud sounds are given this rating is an expected finding, given that all users ended up in a full prescribed setting— which is not the case in a large clinical population, where the final gain setting would typically be less than full prescribed after 1 month. Still, this finding suggests that a full prescribed setting can be used as the default at the end of the adaptation period.
For the item concerning speech understanding in quiet, the mean rating corresponds to "easy" to understand; in noise, it is "somewhat easy." Perception of own voice is typically rated between "somewhat natural" and "natural," and overall performance is typically rated "above average."
The items that relate to the process the user undergoes typically indicate that the user is "happy" with the decision to get hearing aids, that adjustment to the aids has been "easy," and that they "more than likely" see themselves as long-term users.
Results from this study have shown that there are immediate benefits of the Oticon Intiga hearing aids used, which materialize on the first day of use. Some benefits deriving from the use of help systems, such as directional microphones, are realized in large part immediately and grow as the hearing aid increases the amplification. Others give some significant immediate benefit, and then appear to grow (in terms of improved aided performance) over time, as the auditory system experiences increased audibility of, and learns to use, speech and spatial cues that facilitate speech understanding in complex sound environments.
The small open-fit RITE style hearing aid used in this study also seems to provide immediate acceptance of the physical fit, loudness, and speech understanding, as shown in questionnaire ratings. Also, self-ratings show the users adapted well from the first-time user prescription (adaptation Step 1) to the experienced user prescription (adaptation Step 3). The ratings further suggest that Oticon Intiga provides the overall performance that is necessary for a first-time hearing aid user to become an experienced long-term user.
The authors would like to thank our colleagues from Towson University: Stephanie Nagle, Jennifer Smart, Candace Robinson, Caitlin Marczewski, and Cortney Butler; and from Oldenburg: Kirsten Wagener, Kevin Pollak, and Anja Schröck; and from Oticon: Don Schum, Anja Ravn Madsen, Maria Grube Jakobsen, and Sebastian Oakley.
Engelund G. Time for Hearing—Recognising Process for the Individual. A Grounded Theory [PhD thesis]. University of Copenhagen & Oticon Research Centre, Eriksholm, Denmark, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistic Audiologopedics; 2006.
Valente M, Mispagel KM. Unaided and aided performance with a directional open-fit hearing aid. Int J Audiol. 2008;47:329-336.
Kuk F, Keenan D, Ludvigsen C. Efficacy of an open-fitting hearing aid. Hearing Review. 2005;12(2):26-30.
Hällgren M, Larsby B, Lyxell B, Arlinger S. Speech understanding in quiet and in noise, with and without hearing aids. Int J Audiol. 2005;44:574-583.
Nilsson M, Soli S, Sullivan J. Development of the hearing in noise test for the measurement of speech reception thresholds in quiet and in noise. J Acoust Soc Am. 1994;95:1085-1099.
Operating Instructions HINT Audio CD 2.0. Eden Prairie, Minn: Maico Diagnostics; 2004.
Kollmeier B, Wesselkamp M. Development and evaluation of a German sentence test for objective and subjective speech intelligibility assessment. J Acoust Soc Am. 1997; 102:2412-2421.
Wagener KC, Brand T. Sentence intelligibility in noise for listeners with normal hearing and hearing impairment: influence of measurement procedure and masking parameters. Int J Audiol. 2005;44:144-156.
Luts H, Eneman K, Wouters J, et al. Multicenter evaluation of signal enhancement algorithms for hearing aids. J Acoust Soc Am. 2010;127:1491-1505.
Holube I, Fredelake S, Vlaming M, Kollmeier B. Development and analysis of an International Speech Test Signal (ISTS). Int J Audiol. 2010;49:891-903.
Soli SD, Wong LL. Assessment of speech intelligibility in noise with the Hearing in Noise Test. Int J Audiol. 2008;47:356-361.
Laugesen S, Vestergaard H, Nielsen C. Common conceptions about first-time versus experienced hearing aid users: facts or fiction? In: Rasmussen A, Poulsen T, Andersen T, Larsen CB, eds. Hearing Aid Fitting. 21st Danavox Symposium. 2005:261-287.
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Q: Iterating json array objects using node js I have got a task to iterate through the complex json file that contains json array. I could not access the array object from the json file.

I need to access the particularly the class-name object from the json
  file.

classdetail.json
[ [ {   "student" : [
     {
     "name" : "AAaa",
     "class-name" : "A",
     "grade-label" : "AA"   },
     {
     "name" : "AAbb",
     "class-name" : "A",
     "grade-label" : "AB"   },
     {
     "name" : "AAcc",
     "class-name" : "A",
     "grade-label" : "AB"   },
     {
     "name" : "AAdd",
     "class-name" : "B",
     "grade-label" : "AA"   } ],
      "Average" : 2.5 },

      {
     "student" : [
      {
     "name" : "BBaa",
     "class-name" : "B",
     "grade-label" : "AB"   },
      {
     "name" : "BBbb",
     "class-name" : "B",
     "grade-label" : "AA"   },
      {
     "name" : "BBcc",
     "class-name" : "B",
     "grade-label" : "AA"   },
      {
     "name" : "BBdd",
     "class-name" : "B",
     "grade-label" : "AA"   } ],
      "Average" : 2.5 } ] ]

iterate.js
var fs = require('fs');
var express = require('express');
var http = require('http');
var publicApis;
var item;
var subItem;

classmem = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("classdetail.json", "utf8"));

for (item in classmem) {
  for (subItem in classmem[item]) {
     console.log(classmem[item][subItem]);
  }
}

A: for (item in classmem) {
  for (subItem in classmem[item]) {
     var student = classmem[item][subItem].student;
     for (row in student) {
       console.log(student[row]['class-name']);
     }
  }
}

But read about Array.forEach.

A: for...in iterates over object properties in arbitrary order.  It might not be what you want to use for an array, which stores items in a well-defined order.  (though it should work in this case)
Try Array.forEach():
// iterate over `classmem`
classmem.forEach(function(element, index, array) {
  // iterate over classmem[index], which is an array too
  element.forEach(function(el, idx, arr) {
    // classmem[index][idx] contains objects with a `.student` property
    el.student.forEach(function(e, i, a) {
      console.log(e["name"], e["class-name"], e["grade-label"]);
    });
  });
});

A: first check the value is array then access to the "class-name" value
for (item in classmem) {
    for (subItem in classmem[item]) {
        **if (typeof classmem[item][subItem] === 'object') {
            classmem[item][subItem].forEach(function (val, ind) {
                console.log(val['class-name']);
            });
        }**
    }
}

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The Festival of Contemporary Music last Friday at Tanglewood offered up 15 brief, brand-new pieces by the Composition Fellows, and at the Shed the BSO gave enjoyable performances of repertory that is as standard as it gets, plus some folk songs expertly gussied up by Aaron Copland and delivered with poise, aplomb and even humor by Thomas Hampson. It made for a relaxing day.
The FCM afternoon concert presented works from the Fellows' Piece-a-Day project. At the beginning of the project, the composers start their day at 10 a.m. They are given an ensemble of instruments to write a piece for, which must be completed in the next 24 hours. Then they present the piece, and are given a second ensemble, for a second piece. This is repeated one last time. After the three pieces are written, an additional day is dedicated to revisions, and then the pieces are done. John Harbison in his program note says that Piece-a-Day is "at least eight years old," but this is the first time the results have been presented at the Festival. They were performed, of course, by Tanglewood Music Center Fellows. There was also an "animal, vegetable, mineral" theme to each day's pieces. The ensembles were all duos of string and wind instruments: the "animal" pieces were for bass and trombone, performed by Alanna Jones and Zachary Guiles; violin and bassoon were "vegetable," realized by Samuel Weiser and Shelly Li; and Linda Numagami and Rachelle Jenkins played viola and horn for the "mineral." The small forces and unusual combinations encouraged the composers to experiment with the potentials of the instruments, almost to the point of cruelty. Guiles was asked to play almost his entire suite of five pieces at the extreme high end of the trombone's range, and Li had to place a rag in the end of her bassoon, making it visibly more laborious to play. The string players made all manner of sound as well, from airy passages sounding like all harmonics to Bartok pizzicatos snapping on finger boards. All of the instrumentalists acquitted themselves well, giving color and personality to each work and tackling the technical challenges with confidence.
As the pieces were brief, the concert was over in less than an hour, which places some limits on what one can reasonably say about them. But at the risk of overprojecting based on a small set of atypical works, there are voices and personalities to be discerned in these young composers, whose ages ran from 20 to 32. Yi Yiing Chen, of Taipei, seemed eager to cram many ideas into each small piece, and used a straightforward, tonal language. That gave all of her pieces ("Crane," "Seaweed," "Mercury") an ingratiating surface, sounding like a less spiky Stravinsky, or midperiod Britten with a more mercurial streak. By contrast, Arne Gieshoff, from Mainz, Germany, was frankly experimental: his pieces were often fragmented from moment to moment, but each had a strong individual profile: "Pig" alternated distant melancholy with present threat, "Cinnabaris II" was restless and distracted, while the bow sounds and high harmonics of "Asparagus (white)" barely disturbed the silence. Andrew Hsu, of Fremont, California, was harder to pin down: "Tarsier (or Slightly Larger Than the Pygmy Mouse Lemur)" was an etude in simultaneous movement, but "Raw Artichoke" sounded like a fragment of any of a hundred other contemporary pieces, with aperiodic rhythm and wide leaping broken motives. "Lead Violence" earned its name, making the most of the visceral potentials of the horn and ending with the violist adding a scream to the final chord. David Hertzberg, from Los Angeles, had perhaps the subtlest pieces: "canto della civetta" used varying ostinatos on the bass to color the long high lines of the trombone, "canto della barbabietola" was the one that put the rag in the bassoon, also a practice mute on the violin, to create a texture so fragile as to barely exist; and "canticum cadmium" saw music appear from a distance, restless and anxious to conclude. Elizabeth Kelly may have been most comfortable with the demands of the form, however: her "Elephantine Passion" used flutter-tonguing and sliding to evoke an elephant's recitative, deadly serious, never playing for laughs, still entertaining. "Steamed Broccoli: Sublime Marriage of Vegetable and Water" was a beautifully companionable conversation that allowed the players to be accommodating without losing their independence. Her most experimental effort, "Fool's Gold," had the viola frantically rolling out harmonics, a quiet sound that implied immense volume at a distance, with a hint of electric guitar timbre, while the horn played majestic Wagnerian lines aggressively punctuated.
It was a pleasure to listen to these works, even if it is unlikely any will be played again. I'd love to attend a concert like this every month in Boston, during the concert season, in a venue that serves drinks. If it were as popular as this concert was, however, there would be no place to stage it—Ozawa Hall was surprisingly filled.
English conductor Edward Gardner was called upon to replace Christoph von Dohnanyi (family illness) in Friday's crowd-pleaser of Strauss, Copland and Beethoven. Gardner has had extensive success in Europe: appointed music director of the English National Opera in 2007, he was recently named chief conductor of the Bergen Symphony. A trim and athletic presence, this evening he showed strengths in creation of rich sonorities of massed forces, an ability to structure and produce majesty. In the opening work, Till Eulenspiegel, and the concluding work, Beethoven's Seventh, the big moments were the best, fanfares and processionals in Strauss, and the great grinding passages of the slow movement of the Beethoven. While a master of contrast—the pianissimo of that same slow movement made you hold your breath—drama was missing. Till never threatened to make anyone laugh, and the gallows scene was noisy but tame. Gardner's approach to the last movement of the Seventh was fast and loud and full of incident. I found it tiring and lacking in variety, but its surface excited, and Gardner knows how to stick his landings: the Shed erupted as he brought it to a close.
In between, Thomas Hampson sang six of Aaron Copland's Old American Song settings. Hampson certainly brings the drama—when he raises his eyebrows on the stage of the Shed, someone in Pittsfield suddenly thinks they're being watched—and the BSO and Gardner did excellent work realizing the distinctive colors of Copland's orchestration. The songs described a fast-slow-fast progression. "The Dodger" began quickly, but was followed by "Long, Long Ago," "Simple Gifts" (which moves along but in this realization has a profound sense of calm and rest at its heart), and "The Little Horses," closing with "The Golden Willow" and "The Boatmen's Dance." Hampson commanded with his voice and with his presence; he can italicize simply by opening his arms. He was not above distorting vowels into a kind of country drawl when he thought the voice of the song demanded it; my seatmate found this tasteless, but I felt it highlighted the tension between the aestheticized settings and the frequently rough and ready originals. Gardner and the orchestra uncovered some especially lovely moments: the rising figure that follows the rapid music in "Pretty Horses," for example, was supple, precise, clear and strong, and you yearned for it to return as soon as it sounded. But conductor and singer weren't fully in tune with each other, the Gardner's rubato not quite aligned with Hampson's. This was no big loss in a rollicking song like "The Dodger," but was a significant problem in "Simple Gifts," where Copland's precisely displaced attacks in the orchestra demand rhythmic precision to land properly.
Ending with "The Boatmen's Dance" represented a small stroke of genius. Its great hollering opening notes before each stanza thrilled, the accelerating patter excited, and it was touching and striking to have it end quietly, in an echo of one of those opening hollers. I enjoyed it enough to regret (a little) Hampson's decision to encore with "At the River," one of my favorite songs and one I was surprised had not been included in the main program. It obscured the memory of that final note of "Boatmen's"; as beautiful and brief as it is, the impulse to round off the first half with it was understandable, and appreciated by the audience, which reacted warmly each time Hampson came to the edge of the stage and opened his arms, as if asking us to applaud ourselves.
I heard No. 7 symphony over the radio.
The woodwinds (esp. the flute) sounded most insincere I have ever heard. I suspect that was from poor instructions of the conductor. The great genius Wagner's words may have confused him. The performance was musically awful.


The author of Frommer's Orlando guidebook returns with ideas for enjoying central Florida beyond the big theme parks. Then Tampa Bay Times reporter Craig Pittman discusses what makes his home state one of a kind — and much more than the target of punch lines. Plus, writer and trespasser extraordinaire Ken Ilgunas describes his hike from the tar sands of Alberta to the Gulf Coast of Texas.
Jason Cochran, editor-in-chief of Frommer's Travel Guides, and author of "Frommer's Easy Guide to Disney World, Universal, and Orlando"
Jason Cochran writes Frommer's Easy Guide to Walt Disney World, Universal, and Orlando.
The Visit Central Florida website includes tips for visiting Winter Park and Legoland.
The Universal Studios theme park has a new ride based on TV host Jimmy Fallon.
The Kennedy Space Center is open for visitors.
De Leon Springs State Park (as in Ponce De Leon) is just north of Orlando.
Jason Cochran provides tips for visiting the Disney theme parks near Orlando, in his interview on Travel with Rick Steves program #486, from June 2017.
Craig Pittman is an environmental reporter for the Tampa Bay Times.
Craig's book "Oh Florida!" is published by St. Martin's Press. It won a gold medal for non-fiction in the 2016 Florida Book Awards.
Police have identified a golf cart theft ring at The Villages, Florida.
Sanibel Island is home to the National Shell Museum.
The Salvador Dali Museum is in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
The Miami Book Fair is held in November.
The Florida Cracker Trail Association sponsors a cross-state horse and wagon ride re-enactment in February. Registration opens up in October.
Ken Ilgunas' website and Facebook page. His book, "Trespassing Across America" is published by Penguin-Random House. A review by the Los Angeles Times includes photos from Ken's trip.
The BBC analyzes the controversies behind the Keystone XL pipeline route across Canada and the central US.
Wikipedia discusses the Keystone XL pipeline. The TransCanada-Keystone XL website maps the route extension through Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska.
Some Midwestern farmers and ranchers are erecting solar panels on their land, to impede the route of the proposed oil pipeline.
Ken Ilgunas describes more about his walk across America, from north to south, in Travel with Rick Steves program #471, from January 2017.
Ken Ilgunas' latest book, "This Land is Your Land," deals with the right to roam in America.


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Officially on September 13th, 2016 the CORE Merchant's of Menifee association was organized. CORE stands for Community Organization of Retail and Entrepreneurs and this group was developed to bring together the Sun City area of Menifee. Boundaries for the group include the businesses located between and around the streets of McCall, Sun City Blvd, Cherry Hills and Bradley Road.
The main purpose is to encourage business growth by spreading the word about the many amenities, stores and restaurants located in the core off McCall Blvd and the 215. Events will be planned, special incentives announced and communication will be strengthened within the community.
Elected President is Brian Walker from Rilynn Company Insurance Services offering Home and Auto insurance. He has owned the Rilynn Professional Building for over 5 years located next to Provident Bank and Stater Bros. He has been in Menifee for over 14 years in total. Serving as Vice President is Karen Nolan from LCL Realty across the street from McDonald's. LCL offers Real Estate and Property Management services all throughout the valley.


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Semisopochnoi est une île faisant partie des îles Rat dans les îles Aléoutiennes, en Alaska. C'est une île volcanique. Son point culminant est à .

Semisopochnoi est le point le plus à l'est des États-Unis en termes de longitude, proche du .

Activité géologique

Depuis septembre 2018, plus activement depuis début 2021, le cône volcanique Cerberus est en activité éruptive plus soutenue, sous forme d'explosions produisant des volumes de cendre nécessitant des précautions (niveaux d'alerte aériennes jaune à orange, puis rouge) pour les lignes aériennes passant au voisinage ou sous le vent.

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Île en Alaska
Île inhabitée aux États-Unis
Île volcanique
Île de la mer de Béring
Stratovolcan
Caldeira en Alaska
Volcan en Alaska

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Scienmag: New global migration mapping to help fight against infectious diseases
Mobility Analysis
In this article Worldpop's and Flowminder's work on mapping migration in low and middle income countries and its relation to the spread of infectious diseases is presented. Professor Andy Tatem, Director of WorldPop and Dr Alessandro Sorichetta are cited in this article.
According to figures from the IOM and The World Bank, more than one billion people live outside their place of origin – 740 million as 'internal migrants'. Human mobility is expected to continue to rise, creating a range of impacts, such as invasive species, drug resistance spread and disease pandemics.
Researchers from the WorldPop project and from the Flowminder Foundation have, for the first time, mapped estimated internal migration in countries across three continents; Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. The researchers have used census micro-data to model estimates of migration flows within countries and then produced a series of maps to visually represent the data. The research paper 'Mapping internal connectivity through human migration in malaria endemic countries' published in Scientific Data details the methods they employed, and presents the freely available data.


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Dear Presidents and Representatives of ICIAM member societies,
Today is the first day of a brand new year. Let me wish you and your family a very Happy New Year of 2022!
2021 was a difficult year for us. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the board meeting of ICIAM was held online on October 30th. At that meeting, the Board made many important decisions, including the following: Officer-at-Large Wil Schilders was elected President-Elect, and Liliane Basso Barichello (nominated by SBMAC) was elected as an Officer-at-Large of ICIAM, and will serve a six-year term until 2027. Two societies, the Hong Kong Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (HKSIAM)and the Serbian Mathematical Sciences Association (SMSA) were accepted as new members of ICIAM. The board also approved the list of invited speakers for ICIAM-2023 proposed by the chair of the Scientific Program Committee, Prof. Yasumasa Nishiura. Finally, the bid from the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (KWG) and the Dutch Platform for Mathematics (PWN) for hosting the ICIAM 2027 Congress in The Hague was approved.
Our secretary, Sven Leyffer was elected as the President-Elect of SIAM. Let us congratulate him with warm hearts! He will be the President of SIAM starting January 1st 2023. That means that ICIAM will need to elect a new secretary before the end of 2022. Hence, I am asking member societies of ICIAM to nominate candidates. Nominations should be sent to the President (president@iciam.org) or the Secretary (secretary@iciam.org) before June 15th, 2022. When a nomination is made, please provide a CV (at most four pages) of the candidate together with a written statement on his/her aspirations and visions for ICIAM.
The COVID-19 pandemic is not over yet. The Omicron wave is affecting the world heavily, and also impacting our plans for 2022. I wish all of you and your families a safe, healthy, and a very Happy New Year!
ICIAM President
Ya-xiang Yuan is the current President of ICIAM (2019-2023). He is a professor at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on optimization.


Paralleling the annual "Bell Let's Talk" campaign, a "Let's Talk UTM" event will take place on January 30. There are wall posters across UTM encouraging students, staff, and faculty to open up about their struggles with mental health. This kind of event aims to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness.
U of T's promotion of "Bell Let's Talk" is nothing new, and the focus on awareness and conversation-based initiatives, as with the recent Mindfest event, appears to be favoured. There is no question that enabling students to speak without shame and educating people on the seriousness of mental illness are important.
However, these alone are not sufficient. When it comes to mental health, U of T can't just talk the talk. It must walk the walk, by providing adequate services, resources, and allyship to students who are struggling. Otherwise, these events amount to token gestures designed to market the university as an institution that values mental health, without actually making the necessary material investment.
Mental illness is a growing problem on campuses, and services intended to deal with it are operating over capacity. Consider the dramatic increase in student registration at Accessibility Services in recent years for mental health reasons. Perhaps this is an indication that mental health initiatives, designed to reduce the stigma, are working. Students, rightly, are told that they aren't alone and that it is okay to seek help.
But when they do seek help, students aren't met with the kind of support they are promised. Instead, they face long wait times for appointments, and caps on the number of counselling sessions they are allowed to receive from university health care providers.
Time and resources allocated to operating mental health campaigns should be matched with hiring more counsellors and mental health nurses. Although the limit on appointments at Health & Wellness per year has not been verifiable, the personal experiences of Varsity masthead and contributors suggest that UTM has a cap of five, UTSC has a cap of eight, and UTSG has a cap of 10.
One of the most common forms of therapy is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). According to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), CBT is a common form of psychotherapy that takes a thought-based approach. This means that individuals are taught to develop skills and strategies to improve their mental health.
CAMH indicates that CBT can be beneficial if done in six to 20 sessions. But given U of T's caps, students who build the strength and courage to attend counselling will likely not benefit from CBT. The same applies to other forms of counselling. The sessions won't be effective if students are restricted to a certain number of visits. Students who reach their cap are advised to seek counselling outside the university.
Although students are automatically enrolled in a health insurance plan, which would pay for a portion of these appointments, the amount provided through insurance is not always enough to cover the entire cost. This means that counselling services remain out of reach for some students, especially those who are financially insecure. Additionally, there is a cap on the amount of money students may receive through insurance in a single policy year — leaving students alone, once again, when their policy runs out.
The very willingness of students to access mental health services has likely also been compromised since the approval of the university-mandated leave of absence policy (UMLAP) last summer.
According to the university, the UMLAP is a positive step toward better mental health on campus. Under the UMLAP, students experiencing mental health issues that the university believes interfere with their studies, or pose a threat to themselves or others, can be asked to leave the university until they are able to demonstrate that they are mentally well enough to continue their schooling.
The Varsity's editorial board has expressed concern about the UMLAP in the past. It takes away students' autonomy, and its existence likely deters students from seeking help in fear of the policy's consequences. Revealing too much could result in students being asked to leave the school.
This is the university's answer, even though a student may simply prefer a middle ground of better accommodation while still progressing in their degree, pursuing extracurricular activities, and remaining in a social space and support network on campus — all of which can boost their mental health.
Ironically, then, the UMLAP does not address the problem. Rather, it re-stigmatizes mental illness and forces students to face their challenges alone. The application of this policy completely contradicts the messages of encouragement and support peddled through university-run mental health campaigns.
When somebody died by suicide last June at the Bahen Centre for Information Technology, it was a grave reminder of the reality of students' struggles with mental health. And when the university still chose to approve the UMLAP just days after this incident — and on top of significant student opposition — it revealed a severe lack of judgement and sensitivity toward campus affairs.
U of T would much rather pretend that there is no mental health crisis on campus, because it likely fears that such a revelation would compromise its reputation and deter student enrolment, ultimately affecting the university's bottom line. It would much rather pathologize, isolate, and remove vulnerable students who challenge U of T's sterling reputation.
But mental illness is not exogenous to the university. Surely, cultures of stigma toward mental illness and an emphasis on competitive academics, for which U of T needs to take responsibility, produce students with mental illness.
If the university were to adequately invest in services and policies that encourage openness and properly accommodate students, it could help students reach their potential and strengthen the academic reputation it prioritizes so much. It could even bolster U of T's image as a benevolent institution that cares about its students, and thereby stimulate enrolment.
To this end, doing better for the mental health of students is also a matter of self-interest — even though it shouldn't be — and is financially within reach if the university makes it a priority in their multibillion dollar budget.
If U of T is going to encourage students to open up about their struggles, the university should adequately respond and support them when they do. Students need access to mental health resources, and not in the form of toques or self-care bags. So, okay U of T, let's talk — but put your money where your mouth is.


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Kobierzyn – część Krakowa, wchodząca w skład Dzielnicy VIII Dębniki, dawna wieś o rodowodzie średniowiecznym, włączona w granice administracyjne miasta w 1941 r. Nazwa o charakterze dzierżawczym wywodzi się prawdopodobnie od nazwy osobowej Kobier(z)a.

Historia
Wieś szlachecka, po raz pierwszy wzmiankowana w poł. XIV w. Podlegała wówczas pod parafię św. Stanisława na Skałce. Rozwinęła się przy trakcie wiodącym z Krakowa do Oświęcimia, który przebiegał w miejscu dzisiejszych ulic Kobierzyńskiej i J. Babińskiego. Historyczna granica wsi biegła na północy u podnóża Pychowickiej Górki, dzisiejszą ul. Gronostajową, na wschodzie ulicami Pszczelną, Obozową i Kiemliczów, na południu doliną potoku przy obwodnicy, a na zachodzie w okolicy współczesnych ulic Spacerowej i Czerwone Maki. W XV wieku na terenie wsi istniał folwark, położony w okolicach dzisiejszej ul. Zawiłej.

W 2. połowie XIX wieku wieś Kobierzyn zamieszkiwało 395 mieszkańców. Należała wówczas do parafii św. Józefa w Podgórzu. W tym okresie powstały w Kobierzynie, zachowane do dziś (na północ od ul. Zawiłej), koszary wojskowe – element Twierdzy Kraków.

W 1907 r. Sejm Krajowy uchwalił budowę szpitala psychiatrycznego w Kobierzynie. Budowę kompleksu budynków rozpoczęto w 1910 r., a oddano do użytku w 1917 r. pod nazwą Krajowy Zakład dla Umysłowo Chorych. Była to wówczas jedna z najnowocześniejszych placówek w skali Europy o charakterze samowystarczalnego miasta ogrodu. W pobliżu szpital powstał cmentarz szpitalny – obecnie cmentarz komunalny Kobierzyn-Maki Czerwone. Pierwszym dyrektorem szpitala został profesor Jan Mazurkiewicz. W czasie okupacji hitlerowskiej pacjenci szpitala zostali wymordowani na miejscu lub wywiezieni do KL Auschwitz, a w budynkach po kobierzyńskim zakładzie Niemcy ulokowali ośrodek dla Hitlerjugend. W części budynków obiektu ulokowano SS-Stützpunkt, a także SS Lazarett Kobierzyn – szpital dla jednostek SS.

Obecnie mieści się tutaj placówka lecznictwa psychiatrycznego, odwykowego i neurologicznego – Szpital Specjalistyczny im. dr Józefa Babińskiego, popularnie zwany "Kobierzynem". Zespół szpitala psychiatrycznego został w 1991 r. wpisany na listę zabytków.

W latach 1909–1911 w centrum wsi powstał kościół Matki Bożej Królowej Polski, który w 1934 r. stał się siedzibą nowo erygowanej parafii. W tym samym roku założono cmentarz parafialny – obecnie cmentarz komunalny Kobierzyn-Lubostroń.

W czasie II wojny światowej Niemcy na terenie wsi stworzyli obóz jeniecki (Stalag 369), głównie dla francuskich i belgijskich podoficerów. W 1941 wieś została włączona do Krakowa jako XXVII dzielnica katastralna.

W 1986 r. w północnej części Kobierzyna, na dawnej granicy z Zakrzówkiem, rozpoczęto budowę osiedla mieszkaniowego Ruczaj-Zaborze. W późniejszym okresie na południe od niego powstają kolejne osiedla, określane mianem Ruczaju. W południowo-wschodniej części powstaje kolejny zespół nowych osiedli mieszkaniowych Kliny Zacisze.

W Kobierzynie urodził się o. prof. Józef Ścibor.

Współczesny zasięg
Współcześnie za zabudowania wchodzące w skład Kobierzyna uznaje się tereny położone w okolicach ulic: Kobierzyńskiej, Lubostroń, Skośnej, Konopczyńskiego, Czerwone Maki, Zamiejskiej, Zawiłej, Komuny Paryskiej, Babińskiego, Piltza, Spacerowej, Kwiecistej, Sidzińskiej i innych przylegających. Od strony osiedla Ruczaj-Zaborze, za granicę Kobierzyna można uznać skrzyżowanie ulic: Kobierzyńskiej z Szuwarową i Torfową. Od strony Skotnik, granica pokrywała się w przybliżeniu z obecną ulicą Bunscha, aż do jej skrzyżowania z ul. Babińskiego. Od strony północnej, ostatnie zabudowania Kobierzyna znajdowały się na ul. Lubostroń, Szwai, aż po obecną ul. Bobrzyńskiego. Od strony południowej naturalną granicę z Klinami stanowi ul. Zawiła, oraz ul. Drozdowskich w okolicy ul. Komuny Paryskiej. Do Kobierzyna w sposób naturalny zalicza się domy przylegające bezpośrednio do Szpitala im. dr Józefa Babińskiego i sam szpital.

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Dzielnica VIII Dębniki
Dzielnice Krakowa do 1954 roku


The Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing to question top Obama administration intelligence officials behind closed doors on Wednesday on their explosive assessment that officially accused Russia of meddling in the 2016 presidential election to boost then-candidate Donald Trump.
The committee, led by Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., invited former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan, former National Security Agenda Director Michael Rogers (who retired earlier this year) and former FBI Director James Comey.
Comey, though, plans to skip the closed-door session Wednesday due to a "previously scheduled engagement," his attorney said.
Sperry: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes next plans to investigate the role former CIA Director John Brennan and other Obama intelligence officials played in promoting the salacious and unverified Steele dossier on Donald Trump — including whether Brennan perjured himself in public testimony about it.
Congressional investigators say that the "explosive information" Reid referred to was the false or unverified claims in the Clinton-funded dossier — which the sources say were passed along by Brennan. They add that Brennan gave more than one briefing.
After Trump won the election, sources say, the CIA director sought to "weaponize" the dossier's wild accusations against the president-elect.
At the time, the Washington Post was assured by Obama intelligence officials that "the sources involved in the [dossier's] reporting were credible enough to warrant inclusion of their claims in the highly classified [presidential] report." Months later in public testimony, however, Brennan said the dossier and its sources were not credible enough to incorporate the information in a separate January 2017 intelligence report on Russian election interference publicly released by the administration. The published unclassified version of the report nonetheless echoes the dossier's central assertion that Moscow meddled in the election to help Trump.
"It's what the dossier said and the extent to which it was — it's corroborated or not. We had some concerns about it from the standpoint of its sourcing, which we couldn't corroborate," Clapper added last October in an interview with CNN.
"But at the same time, some of the substantive content, not all of it, but some of the substantive content of the dossier, we were able to corroborate in our Intelligence Community Assessment from other sources, which we had very high confidence of," Clapper said.


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Drill and blast adjacent to an existing (in service) high pressure gas line in Ramapo, NY, for a new line adjacent to the original one. Blasting occurred within 18 feet of the existing line. Contract was by-the-day for Otis Eastern Pipeline.
MD's initial challenge was to submit to the owner, Spectra Energy, well-defined blast plans using strict criteria so that blasting would be permitted. The majority of the work occurred within 15 feet of the existing line and, in some areas, within 12 feet. Access was difficult and resources had to be planned well as once we were in the site there was no going back until the end of the shift. Strict environmental constraints were also in place.
Spectra Energy approved all of the blast plan submittals and commencement of work. The project required full-time supervision by an MD Regional Superintendent to interface with the contractor and owner on a daily basis. MD exceeded Otis Eastern's expectations for daily production. The project was completed successfully two months early.
Liberty Excavators are currently running the Bell & Evans Phase #1 Mass Excavation/ Mass Grading, site located off Chestnut Hill Road in Fredericksburg, PA. This is a 113-acre job site with 680,000 CY of mass excavation in which approximately 250,000 is rock that is needed to be blasted to complete the Job. Maine Drilling & Blasting has been onsite since 12/27/17 to current battling the cruel conditions of Pennsylvania's winter. Although some would call off having to work in conditions like these, Maine Drilling & Blasting has been working everyday, six days a week, sun up to sun down, to get the rock blasted so Liberty can complete this job ahead of schedule. I would like to take a moment to personally thank Dave, Kyle, Dennis, Tyler and any others that were associated with this project for all their hard work, perseverance, and dedication. I have personally worked on numerous jobs with Maine Drilling & Blasting and they have always met schedule, and I had no doubt this project would be any different. I'll be looking forward to working with Maine Drilling & Blasting in the future."