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Serverless in healthcare
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Serverless computing allows users to run code without provisioning or managing any underlying system or application infrastructure, and they automatically scale to support increasing or decreasing loads. https://blogs.gartner.com/andrew-lerner/2017/07/21/serverless-is-not-networkless/
A serverless architecture forces an enterprise architectural design that modularises and isolates code. Rather than creating a full-stack enterprise application containing components for user interactions, business logic, business rules and a persistence layer, one can break-up a solution into its functional constituents isolated from one another.
A serverless function such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions or Microsoft Azure Functions can be written and deployed virtually instantly, with the hosting provider automatically scaling to manage the load. Ideally, such a function should do one or a few things very well, perhaps offering a set of application programming interfaces for clients to use with clear documentation as to how it can be called and what results might be expected. As such, the function is isolated and can be tested in lots of ways to ensure that it provides the results it is contracted to provide.
However, writing small, well-defined services that provide a limited range of function is a characteristic of any microservice. What makes a serverless approach different is that managing the deployment and scaling of that service is delegated to the hosting provider, such as Amazon, Google or Microsoft.
As a result, a rarely used operation may take up no computing resources until it is triggered by an event, such as a HTTP request. Rather than trying to implement all functionality into a single or clustered server, one can break-up that functionality into separate functions. For instance, rather than writing a service to accept uploaded image files, process them, create thumbnails and then serve them as a photo-album, one might write a range of individual separate serverless functions to handle each step of that process so that, the thumbnail generation is automatically executed after a file is uploaded.
One then imagines an overall application being simply a range of different independent pieces of functionality stitched together in a declarative manner to solve a specific range of problems.
"This declarative approach then becomes a key driver of architecture. The application speaks the language of the domain and it's easy to detect and fix force-fits, gaps, misrepresentations and erroneous assumptions in the application each time the implementation is reviewed against the domain. A declarative interface makes it easy to adapt to changes in the domain model." http://www.pragatisoftware.com/blog/functional-programming-and-software-architecture
"Functional programs are often organized as, sort of, a data flow graph, rather than a dependency structure. There's declarative orchestration, right,? You just set up a whole bunch of things and you can see how they are related but you don't have to, sort of, specify the order in which things happen, and you have referential transparency, right? I hand two values to a function, it will always give me the same value as the output because of referential transparency." https://serverless.com/blog/bobby-calderwood-functional-programming-microservices-emit-2017/
As a result, one is forced to focus on two core perspectives: an overall perspective that takes in the combined architecture in which multiple microservices are stitched together and a granular perspective at the level of an individual microservice.
Healthcare takes steps into the cloud…
Many, if not most, health services still run applications on local servers physically sitting on their premises, running on a private intranet inaccessible to the outside world running the day-to-day organisational processes of the business and usually providing clinical information to clinicians as well.
But things are changing, many years after most industries have made extensive use of cloud-based services, we are now seeing health organisations move to host servers on commodity cloud providers, resulting in a hybrid approach in which some services run locally and others run elsewhere.
In addition, rather than buying software and installing it for local users, we are starting to see organisations starting to procure platforms-as-a-service (PAAS) in which cloud-based services are used within the enterprise. For instance, in most modern organisations, a previously private intranet is increasingly having new communication channels laid down in order to enable interaction with patients and their devices.
For instance, some providers now use PAAS-based patient portals such as Patients Know Best to enable patients to view their records. Such portals are also committing to opening up their data so that patients can choose to share their information with other providers; for instance have a look at their plans for a FHIR API). Likewise, other cloud-hosted services such as DrDoctor permit organisations to manage their outpatients by providing a platform on which patients can be contacted ahead of appointments to provide reminders and to collect outcome data.
As such, we already see health organisations making use of cloud-based services for hosting their own infrastructure and by using ready made large-scale off-the-shelf services from other providers.
As such, we already have a distributed healthcare platform; it is hosted by our organisations and unfortunately is usually disconnected so that clinical staff in one organisation cannot see health information about their patients from another organisation. Presently, we see healthcare making tentative steps to either move to or adopt cloud hosted services, but these usually remain organisationally-bound.
In parallel, healthcare is changing…
In parallel with these technological changes, we see a range of disruptive influences in healthcare highlighting three core changes enabled by new technology:
Changes in models of care
Patients as active participants
'Hospitals without walls'
Fundamentally, advances in technology enable a transformation of care. We should look to information technology to re-imagine how citizens interact with their health services. I spoke at a recent Digital Health and Care Conference on the benefits of an open platform.
In summary, I highlighted the importance of modelling data a and workflow/process b. It has been a source of surprise and frustration that so many efforts to digitise healthcare neglect communication between professionals and with the patient, particularly when information technology has been used so effectively for communication in other domains.
This is my phase 1 vision of an appropriate enterprise architecture for NHS Wales:
See that little box, "test requesting and results". This is what is inside it:
Here we abstract a new notification service that handles notifications to users such as professionals in response to a result being made available by the laboratory.
Why is this phase 1? Because I see the building blocks of our architecture becoming increasingly distributed and shared among healthcare providers. Why embed a terminology service within an application when one can pick one off the shelf and use on a subscription or pay-as-you-go model?
So what could the shift to a services-based economy mean for health?
A microservice economy means that multiple providers will offer small-scale, well-defined software functionality on a pay-as-you-go basis. We heard an announcement last week from Amazon launching their new AWS serverless application repository to enable a new marketplace of serverless apps that can be consumed by clients in order to solve real-life problems. I expect other providers to do the same, and there is ongoing work to create toolkits that permit serverless applications to be hosted by any cloud provider.
These technological trends mean that we will see large software applications and platforms being broken up into modules and as we progress, we will stitch together functionality from multiple providers to order to create clinical applications.
If we combine these trends with a need to support cross-organisational working, to make patients "active participants in their care" and create "hospitals without walls", we can see that we are moving to a distributed, decentralised, data-driven and cloud-hosting mixed environment combining functionality from multiple providers in order to create and run our health services.
We could see core services providing data access and basic workflow models for each organisation but we will increasingly wish to federate across those services, creating a combined view of all data from multiple organisations. For example, an organisation may own or rent a document repository, probably based on IHE-XDS or FHIR document model and because other organisations also converge on standards-based open services then, subject to citizen consent, those repositories can be federated so we see a list of documents across all repositories.
Similarly, we could quickly see a marketplace of value-added functions that provide functionality layered upon those core services. For example, we might find a market for advanced natural language processing of unstructured text or services that encapsulate the application of machine learning algorithms to existing and new data. For example, why not rent a service that can, given a citizen's distributed health record data, identify those taking a particular disease modifying treatment such as methotrexate and monitor and arrange the required three-monthly blood tests to check for signs of bone marrow suppression, renal impairment or liver damage? If that service was provided algorithmically as a microservice, given access to the required data and cost a fraction of a pence per patient, it could replace the administrators and specialist nursing staff whose job it currently is to monitor these patients.
Healthcare application sandboxes
It is easy to see how some serverless resources might work. They may simply provide a HL7 FHIR resource endpoint and allow applications to use its application programming interface as if it were hosted locally. Imagine a distributed audit trail functionality, made available via the HL7 FHIR AuditEvent endpoint. FHIR servers can support one or many different types of resource and it is not difficult to imagine a single serverless application providing a capability statement documenting only a single end-point and providing that functionality in an automatically scalable fashion.
Such a model would be fine for a single organisation, but how can that work in a distributed fashion?
But we need to create a distributed platform that means that we can plug-and-play these different microservices and make them useful to the wider health economy. To do that, we must design a sandbox environment in which user facing applications running on desktops, web-pages and mobile devices and backend serverless applications can be dropped and expect to work.
Much like Apple has "app stores" for mobile and desktop applications and Google has similar for Android, we need to consider what architecture is required for user-facing and serverless applications to be deployed easily and quickly into our distributed healthcare economy. Amazon has introduced the AWS Serverless Application Model which annotates a serverless application with information about its dependent resource types needed for its proper operation.
So how could this work for our methotrexate monitoring example serverless application? It needs to be provided with a sane runtime environment from which it can safely access the information it needs and to take any actions that are necessary. So what does it need access to?
a test results service to get results including renal profile, full blood count and liver function tests
a test requesting service
a document or clinical narrative repository
a audit event logging service
In software engineering, we frequently use a concept called dependency injection to pass through dependencies to a subsystem so that we can configure it appropriately and appropriately isolate separate functionality. As such, much like the AWS Serverless application model referenced above, we need to consider how we glue together sensitive health data with different services, perhaps provided by multiple different vendors?
Given that all the functionality our serverless application needs is provided by HL7 FHIR resource endpoints (diagnostic reports, procedure request, documents and audit), it might be possible to simply pass in those endpoints as dependencies either when the service is provisioned or even when it is called.
And now the logical question becomes, how do we manage looking up and accessing resources across a distributed health enterprise, particularly when we are dealing with sensitive private data?
As I wrote in the part three of my disruptive influences series:
Applications running on Apple's iOS provide a useful analogy. In order to gain access to components of the underlying device and its operating system, such as the camera, the photo archive, location services etc, the application must use the appropriate API which forces explicit user consent. This "sandbox" environment means that an application is prevented from accessing resources to which consent has not been provided and presumably can log each and every attempt should that be required.
Can we do the same for health applications and services? It seems to me that we can create tremendous value from healthcare data - for patients, for health professionals and for society - but the foundation must be to allow that information to be organised in such a way that we can make it "universally accessible and useful" subject to individual consent.
The answer to our distributed future, built declaratively to glue together distributed data and services, is underpinned by a robust model of citizen consent that itself is hardwired into the systems to manage resource lookup and access. We now need to start thinking about how this will work, and how a "healthcare application model" might operate so that we can make use of new technology to improve the care of our patients. We need to start talking about how an "API gateway" might work for healthcare.
a: Data modelling ensures that we create semantically interoperable data coded in such a way as to make it meaningful to multiple disparate units of software. Such data may represent all types of clinical information, such as a blood pressure measured with a traditional sphygmomanometer on the right arm or the result of a laboratory test. As such, a focus on data standards is important so that there is agreement as to how individual items are coded and contextual information can be understood, such as who performed the measurement, how it was done and when.
b: While a prospective clinical record of structured and unstructured information forms our medical record, the medical record does much more than simply record a narrative of events. Our medical records are our clinical practice, enabling processes and workflow. Paper medical records have important properties in enabling workflow; their presence on my desk with a post-it note tells to do something vital. It is therefore important to conceptualise not only a model of healthcare data but also model the workflow, processes and communications that enable care.
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Disruptive influences in healthcare information technology
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by Dr Mark Wardle, Consultant Neurologist, clinical informatics and software developer. Founder, Eldrix Ltd.


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The United Kingdom (UK) has suspended temporarily, its flexi appointment (walk-in) service.
The British High Commission, Abuja, in a message on its Facebook page, said the decision was taken to protect the safety of customers waiting outside of its Visa Application Centres (VAC).
"You will not be able to book one of these appointments online or by turning up at the VAC. If you have already paid for this service (before 10 January) then you can still benefit from this.
"You should not attend the VAC until it is your allocated appointment time, or you have been contacted by TLS to collect your passport. Visa customers who turn up at the VAC significantly before their appointment will be asked to leave and return at the correct date and time.
"Where there are extremely compassionate or compelling circumstances (for example, a medical emergency), UKVI may consider expediting specific cases. However, the bar for this is high and will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. If your request is exceptionally urgent you can contact UK Visas and Immigration for help. Please note that this is a chargeable service for overseas customers. https:www.gov.uk contactukvi-inside-outside-uk," the British High Commission said.
The British High Commission further said if you have not yet been contacted by TLS, it means your application is still being processed by the UKVI team and the VAC will not be able to assist you.
"The staff in the VACs are not involved in the processing of UK visa decisions and are unable to provide updates on your application," the British High Commission also said.
On students applications, the British High Commission stated that it was aware that large numbers of prospective students are queuing outside of the Visa Application Centre (VAC) to try and secure a visa appointment.
It added that student applications were being processed within the customer service standard of 15 working days.
"To help meet this demand, we are working hard with TLS to offer additional VAC appointments. More information will follow on this shortly. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause," the British High Commission further said.
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Police nab two suspected rapists in Ekiti
A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt has ordered the arrest of two Italian nationals, Giandomenico Zingali and Davide Anelli, over their refusal to attend court to answer criminal charges against them in an alleged $119 million dollars power plant fraud.
The court ordered the Inspector General of Police, Commissioner of Police and other security operatives to effect their arrest wherever they are and can be found.
Justice Okogbule Gbasam invoked section 120 of Rivers State Administration of Criminal Justice ACJA to order the arrest and directed the IGP, CP and other security agents to produce the Italians in court to face trial in respect of the 16-count criminal charge filed against them by the Rivers State government.
A certified true copy of the order of arrest was obtained on Friday in Abuja by DAILY POST correspondent through Chief Godwin Obla SAN who stood for Rivers State in the matter and moved the motion for the issuance of the bench warrant.
Giandomenico Zingali and Davide Anelli are part of the seven defendants billed for arraignment before Justice Gbasam over their alleged complicity in the $119 million dollars power plant scam.
The defendants are Saipem SPA, an Italian Company, Saipem Contracting Nigeria Ltd, Walter Peviani, Kelechi Sinteh Chinakwe, Giandomenico Zingali, Vitto Testaguzza and Davide Anelli who are 1st to 7th defendants respectively.
Saipem SPA, Saipem Contracting Nigeria Limited, its Managing Director, Walter Peviani and 4 others are accused of conspiracy, fraud, obtaining credit of N7 billion naira by false pretences and cheating.
Details of the charges are: conspiracy contrary to Section 518 (6) and (7) and punishable under Section 518; obtaining credit of $130 million USD by false pretences or other fraud contrary to Section 419A and punishable under Section 419 (A) (1) (b)
The offences are also said to be contrary to sections 518 (6) and (7), 419 (A) (1) (b), section 421 of the Criminal Code Law of Rivers State, Cap 37 Vol. 2 Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999.
Saipem and its top management staff are being prosecuted based on fiat issued to Chief Godwin Obla SAN, George Adeyemi, Esq and John Eche Okpe, Esq both of OBLA & Co, Abuja by Rivers State government.
Their arraignment on the 16 count charge marked PHC/3106/CR/2021 has been put off several times by Justice Gbasam due to failure of some of the defendants to be in court.
The enrolled copy of the order reads in part "Upon this matter coming up for plea today before His lordship, Hon. Justice Dr. O. Gbasam, sitting at High Court Port Harcourt; and after hearing the oral application for the activation of the application for the issuance of a bench warrant on the 5th and 7th defendants made by Chief Godwin Obla, SAN, with D.G. Adeyerni, Esq., appearing for the State, on the last adjourned date 14/12/2021 which this court kept In abeyance till today;
"And after hearing the oral response of the opposing counsel, H. Odeiln Ajumogobia, SAN, with Patrick Osu, Esq., Akinola Akinyoju, Esq., and Shekina Wokoma of counsel for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 6th defendants, and. A, Akinwole, Esq., with O. Nwogu, Esq., and R.C. Kanu, Esq., for the 4th defendant,
'It is hereby ordered that as follows:
*That an order of bench warrant be and is hereby issued by virtue of Section120 of the Rivers State Administration of Criminal Justice Law, 2015 directing the Inspector General of Police, the Commissioner of Police and other security agencies to arrest the 5th and 7th defendants – Giandomenico Zingali and Davide Anelli wherever they are and can be found and produce them before this honourable court to face their trial as per the 16-count charge contained in the amended information dated 19/11/2021.
"The charges are summarised as follows:
Conspiracy contrary to Section 518(6) & (7) and punishable under Section 518 of the Criminal Code, Cap 37, Vol. 2, Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria, 1999;
"Obtaining credit by false pretences or other fraud contrary to Section 419(A) and punishable under Section 419 (A) (1)(8) of the Criminal Code, Cap 37, Vol. 2, Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria, 1999;
"Attempt to cheat contrary to Section 508 and punishable under Section 509 of the Criminal Code, Cap 37, Vol. 2,.Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria, 1999;
"Conspiracy to receive credit by false pretence contrary to S. 518(6) and punishable under S. 518 of the Criminal Code, Cap 37, Vol. 2, Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria, 1999;
"Cheating contrary to Section 421 and punishable under Section 421 of the Criminal Code, Cap 37, Vol. 2, Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria, 1999;
"False statements by officials Company contrary to Section 436(B) and punishable under Section 436(B) of the Criminal Code, Cap 37, Vol 2, Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria, 1999;
"It is further ordered that the Inspector General of Police, the Commissioner of Police and other security agencies are hereby vested with the legal authority to enter any premises where the 5th and 7th defendants – GiandomeniCo Zingali and Davide Anelli – are and can be found for the purpose of executing this bench warrant;
Meanwhile, Justice Gbasam has adjourned the matter till February 2, 3, and 4, 2022.
The police in Ekiti State have arrested two men for alleged rape and blackmail.
The suspects, 40-year-old Anthony Adedokun and 44-year-old Ayoola Ayodele, were arrested following report to the police by a 20-year-old female victim who alleged that she was raped and videotaped for blackmail by the duo.
Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti State Command, Sunday Abutu, who made the disclosure while parading them in Ado Ekiti on Friday, said "the suspects would be charged to court as soon as possible for prosecution".
Abutu, while giving details about the matter, said that Adedokun forcibly had carnal knowledge of the victim in his apartment alongside Ayodele, a timber contractor.
He said, "Police investigation revealed that the victim and Adedokun met through Facebook and started a relationship since sometime in 2021. Adedokun, presented himself to her as a police officer who could assist her to join the Nigeria Police Force.
"In the process, the victim solicited for a financial help of N10,000 from Adedokun, who obliged, but insisted that the lady must come to his house in Ado Ekiti to get the money. The victim decided to visit Adedokun in his house on January 17, 2022, and the suspect took her to Ayodele's house where he had carnal knowledge of her against her wish.
"Surprisingly, Ayodele videotaped them and used the video to blackmail the victim to have sex with him also, which happened in the same room and on the same bed.
"Furthermore, the two suspects forcibly booked an appointment with the victim to come back on January 21 for another round of sex or risk sending her sex video to the internet for the world to see."
Abutu noted that during interrogation, the two suspects confessed to the commission of the crime and as well many others, adding that they had, through similar trick, slept with many unsuspecting ladies.
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Horses drop dead in bizarre scenes at Newbury
Two racehorses dropped dead in front of shocked spectators in bizarre scenes at the start of the prestigious Tote Gold Trophy day at Newbury.
By JA McGrath and Adam Lusher
8:49PM GMT 12 Feb 2011
Witnesses suspected Fenix Two and Marching Song had been electrocuted after they died in front of a packed parade ring before the start of the first race of one of the biggest days in the jumping calendar.
The first race was run, but the meeting was then abandoned because officials at the Berkshire course could not immediately confirm why the horses had died.
Workers from the Southern Electric company, called in to help investigate the deaths, later dug up part of the paddock using a bulldozer and found a cable, which is thought to date from when the racecourse's Berkshire Stand was being built in the early 1990s.
The investigation is continuing, with officials trying to ascertain whether the cable might have caused the accident.
The two horses died within ten yards of each other at the western end of the paddock.
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Nick Scholfield, the jockey who was to have ridden Marching Song, said: "I've never seen anything like it before in my life. When we walked onto the grass his legs went like jelly and he fell to the ground."
Colin Pritchard, a stable lad, said he felt a shock when he touched Marching Song. He said: "I went to try to help him and got a tingling static shock."
Dan Skelton, the assistant to trainer Paul Nicholls, who trained the eventual winner Al Ferof, said it was as if the horses were having a fit. "I've seen horses have heart attacks before, but this was different. They seemed petrified."
According to another observer one of the two stricken horses let out an horrific noise soon after collapsing.
Bewildered and shocked racegoers did not know where to turn as tarpaulins were dragged into the parade ring to cover the two dead horses.
The first race, the Novices' Hurdle, was run 25 minutes late with seven runners instead of the 10 declared. Apart from the two dead horses, Kid Cassidy was withdrawn by his trainer Nicky Henderson.
A visibly shocked Henderson said: "It was the most horrific thing I think I have seen. I have been racing for 33 years and I have never seen anything like it.
"It is pure speculation but it seems as if there has been an electrical incident.
"Whether there is an (underground electric) line through there I've no idea, but I'm sure someone is going to tell us."
Christopher Spence, the Newbury chairman, said: "It's a nightmare for everybody. We all think it's electric, but we don't know.
"We've looked at the cables and we couldn't see any damage and no work has been carried out on the paddock since the last meeting."
Witnesses said the deaths happened soon after the horses, wearing aluminium 'racing plate' horseshoes, stepped from a rubberised path on to the grass of the paddock.
Jockeys, owners and trainers, most of them thought to be wearing rubber-soled footwear, also stepped onto the grass, but were unharmed.
Graham Thorner, co-owner of Marching Song, was in tears in the paddock. Andrew Turnell, the horse's trainer, said: "He was dead within ten seconds."
Jonjo O'Neill, the trainer of Fenix Two, said he saw Kid Cassidy, the horse in front of his, go down on his knees before his own horse was struck.
"Mine reared up and we couldn't get him back. It was like he was stuck to the ground. It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life."
A further two horses were seen to "wobble" and a lead rein on one of the dead animals was said to have shown traces of burning. Unconfirmed reports suggested that some of the runners who took part in the race appeared to have burn marks around their mouths when their tack was removed.
Paul Barton, the stipendiary steward, said: "The rein will go away for forensic examination to establish what happened to it."
A Thames Valley Police spokeswoman said: "We have not been asked for our help at this stage. The course authorities are carrying out their own investigation, but they have not reported anything criminal or sinister."
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In today's fast-paced culture, chivalry has become almost nonexistent. Long gone are the heralded and lauded acts of kindness and chivalry that made men gentlemen, rather, that have given way to a culture that has fostered detachment from society.
Man's ability to emotionally connect has fallen to the wayside and resulted in an inability to go out of the way for others. We here at Elite Daily always strive to be the best version of ourselves, and with these seven simple gestures, we hope it will bring out the inner gentleman in you.
This simple act has become so rare nowadays that some people seem taken back when it actually happens. Honestly, how much effort does it take to open a door for someone? How many precious seconds do you expend holding a door for people?
As Nike says, just do it! This effortless act should be routine in your life. When walking with your girl or some friends, simply walk faster than them, open the door, wait till everyone passes, then follow.If there are people behind your group, hold the door open for them, too. It's simply common courtesy.
Pro Tip: Open the car door for your lady every time you get in and out of your vehicle.
This slight act gives an allusion of caring and protection for your lady. When you're with a female and about to be seated, - be it at a restaurant, theater, or bus - let her pick the seats, let her sit down first, and then you can sit down.
Letting her pick the seats means you take into consideration where she wants to sit and stand until she sits because her preferences come before yours. This act is simply gentlemanly. Also, if you're taking public transportation and someone is in your vicinity in need of the seat more than you, offer it.
This applies to the elderly, pregnant women, mothers with children in tow, and whoever looks like they need a seat.
Pro Tip: When a lady is exiting/standing up from her seat, stand up as well. This is an antiquated act that is almost nonexistent and might raise a few eyebrows, but it looks damn impressive. It might take a while to get comfortable pulling it off, and if you're too self-conscious about it, then don't do it.
This is possibly one of the biggest social faux pas in existent, yet it is ubiquitous! As a gentleman (or a decent human being), you should always strive to be on time. I doubt that your life is just so much more important than your friend's that you just ignore proper etiquette of being on time.
Not only is it rude, but also, you are sending a blatant message that you do not care about the people you are making wait. What's the point of setting a time to meet if you're outright going to ignore it? Gentlemen are considerate to others and are always prompt.
Pro Tip: If you know you are going to be late because something came up (i.e., heavy traffic, helping save a neighbor's car stuck in a tree), send a courtesy text or call. DO NOT say you are five minutes away when you are still in bed.
If you are with your lady and you went shopping, or you are going to the beach, moving, etc., offer to carry most of the things. Chances are, you are bigger and stronger than your girl so act like it. Don't be the douche letting your girl lug around the beach cooler, while you're chilling with lawn chair.
Pro Tip: For those living at home, go help your parents with the groceries when they come home from the supermarket.
We place emphasis on the "sincere" part. Most people can smell bullsh*t coming from a mile away, especially from a guy. Do not try to force compliments, just genuinely compliment people whenever you want. And this does not stringently apply to just those you are familiar with; go ahead and compliment a stranger if you're digging his outfit or her smile.
A small compliment can go a long way in making someone's day. A gentleman always looks to brighten up someone's day.
Pro Tip: Compliment your parents, too! Or just tell them you love them.
A great way to dissuade people from getting to know you better is to avoid eye contact. Maybe you're shy, but it's rude to consistently avoid eye contact. At worst, people get offended, and at best, people see you as a beta male who's scared to look someone in the eye.
This is a crucial social skill you need to foster. If it proves difficult, make a conscious effort to look people in the eye when you engage in conversation. And remember, there's a fine line between eye contact and creepily staring into someone's eyes.
Also, smile a lot! A nice smile is such an innocent, disarming tool. It shows people you are accessible and happy: two awesome traits in a person. Gentlemen know how to use both of these essential social tools.
Pro Tip: If you're uncomfortable smiling because you do not want to show off your teeth, that is something you can mend. Get braces, get teeth whiteners, or master the art of flossing. A confident smile goes a long way.
When conversing with people, pay attention to what they are saying. Do not go off into adventurous daydreams or keep trying to sneak glances down a girl's shirt. You can only get away with "I'm sorry, I forgot your name. What was it again?" for so long.
It really brightens up a person's day when you remember intimate details about his or her life because it may have been mentioned in passing (i.e., your girl prefers dark chocolate over milk chocolate, or your cousin hates oysters but loves clams), but you remembered it.


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I'm sure most of you have been keeping up with my series of posts about weathering powders and varnish and trying to seal them onto your models so they are usable for gaming.
The more I get into this, the more I realize I know very little about the whole process and I'm only scratching the surface. As a way to finish off this whole thing before it gets completely out of control, I enlisted the help of misterjustin and convinced him to do a video for me showing me how he seals them in place when done.
So what exactly have I learned through this whole thing?
There are a number of things I've picked up by experimenting and all the comments others have left on the posts in this series.
1. Make sure everything else is dry. Powders come last for me. Make sure your paint is dry, any varnish and such is dry as well and you're not running the risk of any chemicals interacting.
2. There are lots of ways to apply powder to a model. From sprinkling it on, to drybrushing it in place, dusting it on gently, mixing it with thinners, etc. It all depends on the look you want in the end.
I am very light in my application. I tend to drybrush the powder in place and remove any excess. I like the "dusty" look I get from powders and use it for that more than I do other effects or texture. It's not wrong, just how I use them which is odd, because I am fairly heavy handed in all the other types of weathering I do. Go figure.
3. Varnish (of any kind) will have some effect on your powders in the end. You can minimize it by using good practices, experimenting beforehand and making sure you plan for the alterations in the end.
When it comes to using alcohol, make you allow it to flow onto the surface of the model carefully. You don't want to disturb the powder by dabbing it in place and you don't want to use too much since it may move the powder around as well. This is my preferred method. While it may not permanently fix the powders to the model, it helps some and that's good enough for me.
The trick is to not let the brush tip touch the model, but let the alcohol flow from the brush onto the model as the drop of alcohol itself touches the model surface.
4. Spray varnish is tricky and can be used at a distance if you're careful.
The distance is the big thing. Like any other varnish, shake well, use in a ventilated area and there needs to be no wind for this to truly work. You want to be back far enough that you get only the lightest of dustings on your model.
Anything closer and you'll destroy your powder effect. This takes lots of practice to perfect I suspect. Twenty miles might be an exaggeration, but you want to make sure you're back as far as possible.
That's right, despite what I have learned and the frustration I have sometimes with them, I love the look I can get by using them. They are here to stay in my painting kit. They aren't everything, but they have their place.
By using them in key spots when appropriate, carefully fixing them in placing with alcohol and watching how I handle my models, I should be able to come up with some great looking minis from here on out.
But remember, it's all about the experimenting, once you get into weathering powders, there is so much you can do with them. It really is a matter of trying new things with them until you find what works for you and gets the results you like best on your own models.
And a link to everything I've done about weathering powders to date.
And last but not least, a special thanks to misterjustin for sharing his time.
Thanks for this series, it has really helped me as I was curious about powders for some time. Your articles have convinced me that I am better served by continuing to use my wash and drybrush methods as I do not have the patience to do powders justice. Thanks again!
The Pirate Viking: Don't let the work scare you away. It's like anything else, it takes some understanding and some experimentation until you get it right.
I don't know of any other method that gets the same results... but like you've seen, it has it's pros and cons.
I think the 20+ miles image has got "meme" potential within the minis blogging community. Definitely made me chortle.
"The trick is to not let the brush tip touch the model, but let the alcohol flow from the brush onto the model as the drop of alcohol itself touches the model surface."
In the end it's all about effect. I keep 3 thinners and 2 fixers within reach of my pigments. Which I use, and how I apply it, depends on the project in question.
When it comes to spray varnish - that's all about gaming models. I don't think I'd use this method for a display model. But if you're not going to be handling it then thinner alone might be enough to keep the pigment on the model.
I've also subscribed to the comments on this one so I can keep up with any questions.
misterjustin: can you list the thinners and fixers you use ? How about a guest article?
I could do another guest article but it would need to focus on a specific question or two. The pigments topic is so broad I could easily spin a dozen articles and miss what you were looking for.
As for the thinners and fixers - SURE!
I still prefer alcohol for most of my work - as I prefer thinners and that's my favorite - but I'm also working with a chemist to produce an enamel fixer that doesn't take forever to dry.
I've only recently started using weathering powders on miniatures, so I've sorta been learning as I go, as well. I've been using it both as a basing material (suspended in denatured alchohol) and as weathering for my Sisters of Battle (drybrushed). I was actually surprised by how much my matte sealer altered the appearance, so I'll have to try holding the can further back than normal and see what the overall change will be.
However, in the end, they're gaming pieces, so I'll just have to deal with some minor discoloration for the sake of not having "cheetos-fingers" after every time I handle them!
Jonathan: And that's the biggest thing... figuring out what works best for you and your own minis.


In all of the Zelda news, Kid Icarus is getting a tad overlooked. While that's understandable, well because there's Zelda news after all, this game isn't yet getting the focus it deserves. From the demo I played of it – it is the best looking and feeling 3DS game to date. Yes, even more than Ocarina of Time from my experience with demos of both games.
It was made for 3D, and shows it off fantastically – with great off-into-the-distance depth. Just imagine the enemies flying at you like in the video, but actually in 3D. The footage also shows off some fast-paced flying combat (and the game is all-round fast paced). We get to see some Medusa, and an awesome transition sequence from the clouds above down to the earth.


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President Signs Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention, Consumer Protection Act
Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building
President's Remarks
2:42 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. Welcome. Thank you very much for coming today. Today we take an important action to strengthen -- to continue strengthening our nation's economy. The bipartisan bill I'm about to sign makes common-sense reforms to our bankruptcy laws. By restoring integrity to the bankruptcy process, this law will make our financial system stronger and better. By making the system fairer for creditors and debtors, we will ensure that more Americans can get access to affordable credit.
I'm pleased to be joined today by the Attorney General Al Gonzales. I want to thank the bill sponsors in the House and the Senate -- Senator Chuck Grassley of the Senate -- I think you told me you'd been working on this bill for nine years. That's a long time. (Laughter.) I appreciate Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner from the House for being the sponsor in the House. Thank you.
I want to thank the Speaker. Yesterday, the Speaker and I, by the way, had the honor of opening the Lincoln Library in Springfield, Illinois. I know he'd be pleased to hear me say, if you're looking for something to do this summer -- (laughter.)
I thank Senator Mitch McConnell, Senator Orrin Hatch, Senator Jeff Sessions, and Senator Tom Carper. I appreciate the members of the House who are here -- Mike Oxley, Rick Boucher, Bob Goodlatte, Steve Chabot. Thank you all for coming, and thanks for working on this piece of legislation.
Our bankruptcy laws are an important part of the safety net of America. They give those who cannot pay their debts a fresh start. Yet bankruptcy should always be a last resort in our legal system. If someone does not pay his or her debts, the rest of society ends up paying them. In recent years, too many people have abused the bankruptcy laws. They've walked away from debts even when they had the ability to repay them. This has made credit less affordable and less accessible, especially for low-income workers who already face financial obstacles.
The bill I sign today helps address this problem. Under the new law, Americans who have the ability to pay will be required to pay back at least a portion of their debts. Those who fall behind their state's median income will not be required to pay back their debts. This practical reform will help ensure that debtors make a good-faith effort to repay as much as they can afford. This new law will help make credit more affordable, because when bankruptcy is less common, credit can be extended to more people at better rates.
The new law will also require credit card companies to let card holders know up front what they are expected to pay, and what the penalties they will face if they are late on a payment. When people get a credit card, they should not be trapped by a provision in the fine print.
To make the system more fair, the new law will also make it more difficult for serial filers to abuse the most generous bankruptcy protections. Debtors seeking to erase all debts will now have to wait eight years from their last bankruptcy before they can file again. The law will also allow us to clamp down on bankruptcy mills that make their money by advising abusers on how to game the system.
America is a nation of personal responsibility where people are expected to meet their obligations. We're also a nation of fairness and compassion where those who need it most are afforded a fresh start. The act of Congress I sign today will protect those who legitimately need help, stop those who try to commit fraud, and bring greater stability and fairness to our financial system. I'm honored to join the members of Congress to sign the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act. (Applause.)
(The bill is signed.)
END 2:45 P.M. EDT


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Exodus' 2011 Game Plan: Target Middle School Kids
Wayne Besen April 04, 2014
Last week, I commented on how the "ex-gay" group Exodus International had a sluggish year where, at times, it seemed as they had dropped off the radar. It turns out that Exodus had gone into hibernation since the summer to ask God for direction. According to a new letter written to Exodus supporters from Executive Director Alan Chambers:
As is the case every year about this time, my team and I are gearing up for a new year! We have been in meetings regularly since August praying and talking about how and where God is leading Exodus International in 2011 and beyond. Some years we roll out big new endeavors and introduce big ideas that God has given us. This year, however, God isn't calling us to do anything new.
God's call to do nothing sat well with me, considering Exodus was already losing relevance. Unfortunately, I continued reading and was was alarmed that Exodus' top goal in 2011 is to recruit school children as young as eleven years old (Middle School age). The organization plans to lure these children by investing in high-tech gadgets and new media. According to the online letter:
…the greatest area of need in our culture is outreach to young people. We will be changing the name of Exodus Youth to Exodus Student Ministries in order to encompass middle school thru [sic] college age students.
We have listened to youth pastors, parents and especially students and we want to amplify our message in a way that they will best receive it: via web communication, YouTube, podcasts and short to the point booklets. We are also in the process of creating an App for iPhone users.
Given the organization's appalling record with youth, this organization has no business in schools or around anyone under the age of 21. Their message is hateful, intolerant, scientifically bankrupt and may lead to teens harming themselves — including the potential for depression, drug abuse and even suicide.
Disconcertingly, many of Exodus' "counselors" have virtually no professional training and the organization does not employ rigorous standards when they pair up vulnerable youth with adults. The results of Exodus' lack of professionalism has, at times, been devastating.
The so-called "ex-gay" organization has forced youth, against their will, into its programs. The most notable example is Zach Stark, a 16-year-old Tennessee boy, who in 2005 was forced into Exodus' "Refuge" boot camp, run by member ministry Love In Action. Zach Stark made international news when he posted his predicament on MySpace:
Somewhat recently, as many of you know, I told my parents I was gay… Well today, my mother, father, and I had a very long "talk" in my room where they let me know I am to apply for a fundamentalist christian program for gays. They tell me that there is something psychologically wrong with me, and they "raised me wrong." I'm a big screw up to them, who isn't on the path God wants me to be on. So I'm sitting here in tears, joing the rest of those kids who complain about their parents on blogs – and I can't help it.
The uproar over the incident prompted Exodus into closing down the notorious Refuge program. Similarly, on October 6, 2010, Exodus shuttered its noxious Day of Truth program which mocked the Day of Silence, an annual event where students take a vow of silence in support of LGBT friends who are bullied.
Exodus took this extraordinary step following a high profile string of suicides, tacitly admitting that its program exacerbated homophobia and bullying in schools.
"Even though we have reached a fair number of students", said Chambers, "We believe that due to the timing of the event, Day of Truth was always perceived in an adversarial manner, and became more about policy than people.
One of the more disturbing aspects of Exodus is the tendency to place youth in programs alongside sexual reprobates. On the March 15, 2007 the Montel Williams Show featured former Exodus client Lance Carroll who spoke out about his harrowing experience with Exodus:
"I went to one of your organizations," said Carroll, who was speaking directly to Exodus' Alan Chambers. "I was in a group with a convicted sexual offender."
Lance Carroll is not alone. Exodus clearly has an ongoing predator problem that it must seriously address before it makes brainwashing youth its foremost priority in 2011.
Patrick McAlvey was also an Exodus client at the age of 19. He visited Exodus' Lansing affiliate Corduroy Stone where he was counseled by Mike Jones. During counseling, McAlvey was asked about the size of his member and made to engage in erotic cuddling.
'Ex-gay' survivor Jaylen Braiden was taken advantage of by an Exodus team leader at Desert Stream Ministries [DSM]. This counselor later got in trouble for sexually abusing other minors. Exodus' Alan Chambers has yet to come clean and publicly discuss the Desert Stream Ministries scandal.
However, on March 8, 2010 Desert Stream founder Comiskey wrote a blog post entitled "Falling Mercies" where he says DSM had been, "cast out of our home church", Vineyard Anaheim, as a result of "a darker strain of sin in our own ranks." He goes onto reveal that this sin was, "a longstanding staff person from Desert Stream had sexually abused at least one teenager who had sought help from us."
Aside from the very real prospect of youth being placed with unsavory characters who appear to be unmonitored and unfiltered, the message of Exodus is destructive. The organization tells youth that they are sexually broken, sinful, counterfeit, satanic or perverse.
Spiritual warfare is a common part of Exodus' rhetoric.
In a 2005 Exodus Newsletter Chambers said:
"One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy, is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can."
At the "Family Impact Summit," a right wing conference in Brandon, Florida held on Sept. 21, 2007, Chambers told the crowd of social conservatives:
"We have to stand up against an evil agenda. It is an evil agenda and it will take anyone captive that is willing, or that is standing idly by."
To lure youths, Exodus resorts to outright lying about LGBT life. For example, Chambers says that that gay life is only for the young.
Chambers also misleads by falsely claiming that gay life will disappoint.
Given the recent uptick in gay suicides and understanding that hate leads to bullying in schools, it is grossly irresponsible for Exodus, given its reprehensible record — to target youth. Before parents hand their children over to this organization or get them an i-phone application, they should know the whole truth about this notorious organization.


æfter-hýrigean. l. æfter-hyr(i)gan, and add:--Mé gelamp ðæt ic ðæt gehýrde, ðæt ic æfterhyrgan ne mæg me audire contingit quod imitari non valeo, Gr. D. 182, 16.
æfter-ild(o). v. æfter-yldo in Dict.
æfter-lic; adj. Second:--Ðý æfterlicum háde secundi sexus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 83, 72.
æfterra, æft(e)ra; cpve.: æft(e)resta; spve. I. where relation of two objects is marked, (1) in time, latter:--Se æfterra anweald--se æ-acute;rra, Bt. 16, 1; F. 50, 12. Wæs heora æftra sýð wyrse ðonne se æ-acute;rra, Chr. 1001; P. 133, 25. (2) in place, hinder, lower:--Ðæt æ-acute;rre folc and ðæt æfterre those before and those behind, Bl. H. 81, 25. Se æftera stemn puppis, Wrt. Voc. i. 63, 37. Se æftra streám aquae inferiores, Jos. 3, 16. On ðæ-acute;m æftran teáme bimus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 70. I a. giving order of a group in a series, latter:--Sý alleluia gecweden mid ðám syx æftrum (posterioribus) sealmum, R. Ben. 39, 17. I b. where there are more than two objects the superlative æftresta = last:--Ðreó frigedagas, se æ-acute;resta . . . se nýhsta . . . se æftresta, Angl. xi. 3, 69. II. where there is juxtaposition, immediate sequence, next, following:--On ðæ-acute;m æfterran geáre ðæs anno post hunc subsequente, Ors. 3, 6; S. 108, 15. On ðám æftran geáre þe se ar&c-tilde;&b-bar; wæs gemartyrod, Chr. 1013; P. 143, 9. On ðæ-acute;m æfteran dæge, Bl. H. 71, 34. Ðýs æftran geáre sequente anno, Nar. 30, 11. III. as an ordinal, second:--Æ-acute;rest . . . se æftera . . . ue þridda, Chr. 827; P. 60, 27. Sió æfterre tá . . . sió feórðe tá, Ll. Th. i. 90, 20. Hér endað sió forme bóc and onginð sió æfterre, Ors. 1, 14; S. 58, 12: 1, 7; S. 36, 26. Ðá æðelu ðæ-acute;re æfterran ácennesse (regenerationis), Past. 85, 15. Ðæs æfteran sealmes capitul, Ps. Th. 2, arg. On ðæ-acute;re æfteran míle fram Róme, Bl. H. 193, 19.
æfter-ræ-acute;pe a crupper:--Æfterræ-acute;pe postela, Wrt. Voc. i. 23, 15. Mid æfterræ-acute;pum postelis, Hpt. 31, 14, 336. [O. H. Ger. after-reifi postelina.] Cf. æfter-ráp in Dict., where add: [O. H. Ger. after-reif postella].
æfter-sanglic; adj. Of matins:--Lofe hí singon æftersingallice (l. sanglice) laudes psallant matutinales, Angl. xiii. 398, 476.
æfter-spræc, -sprecan. l. æfter-spræ-acute;c, æfter sprecan. v. sprecan, VI. ¶.
æfter-weard. Substitute: I. adj. (1) later, latter:--Ver novum fore&dash-uncertain;weard lencten vel middewærd lencten, ver adultum æfterweard lencten. Eodem modo et aestas et autumnus vocantur, Wrt. Voc. i. 53, 27. (2) being behind (?), absent:--Ðeáh ðe hé lícumlíce ðæ-acute;r æfterweard (æfweard, v. l.) wæ-acute;re quamvis corporaliter absens, Bd. 3, 15; Sch. 264, 6. II. adv. prep. After:--Hí urnon ealle him æfterweard, Hml. S. 31, 995. Weorþan æfterweard to be after, to pursue, follow:--Iohannes heów ðæt hors mid ðám spuran and wearð him æfterweard . . . and cwæð tó ðám fleóndum, Ælfc. T. 18, 22: Rä. 16, 14. Petrus wearð æfterweard Peter followed, Hml. Th. i. 374, 6. v. æfte-weard.
æfter-weardness, e; f. Posterity:--Æfterweardnesse posteritatem, Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 66.
æfter-writen; adj. (ptcpl.) Written later on:--Ðá æ-acute;rgenemnedan læ-acute;cedómas and ðá æfterwritenan, Lch. ii. 186, 12.
æfte-weard. Dele first quotation, and add:--On æfteweardum ðæ-acute;m sealme in the latter part of the psalm, Ps. Th. 38, arg. On æftewyrdne December, and on foreweardan Ianuarie ðám mónþe, Lch. iii. 154, 12. ¶ substantive use:--On æfteweardan ðæs regoles, Hml. S. 3, 150. On æfteweardan ylde heó bið on bedde lange licgende, Lch. iii. 184, 6. Hand sceal habban h on forewerdan and d on æfteweardan, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 292, 3.
æf-þanc, &c. Add:--Æfþancan invidia, An. Ox. 8, 161: Angl. xiii. 33, 157. Gif hwylc yfeldæ-acute;de man þurh æ-acute;nigne æfþancan óþerne begaleþ, Lch. i. 190, 9. Sé ðe læ-acute;rð sunu his on æfþuncan (in zelum) hé ásent feónd he that teacheth his son grieveth the enemy (Ecclus. 30, 3), Scint. 176, 12. Ðá wræc hé his æfþancas on his feóndum, Guth. 14, 4.
æftresta, æf-þunca. v. æfterra, æf-þanc.
æftum; adv. After:--Swilce ne wæs oþ þis nú ne æftum ne weorþaþ, Mt. R. 24, 21.
æf-weardness. Add:--Hí ofer ðæt swá dón noldon in ðæs fæder æfweardnysse, be ðám hí ongæ-acute;ton ðæt hé him symble wæs ondweard on his gáste, Gr. D. 127, 25. On heora hláfordes æfweardnysse, 29, 2.
æf-wela, an; m. Decrease of wealth:--Gyf man méte þ-bar; hé his hús timbrie þ-bar; byð his weaxnes (þ-bar; hys gód byþ weaxende, v. l.). Gyf him þince þ-bar; his hús sí tóworpen sum æfwela (ætlætnes, v. l.) him bið tóweard, Lch. iii. 170, 13.
æf-wirdla, -werdla. Add:--Dispendium, i. damnum, impedimentum, defectio, periculum, detrimentum æfwerdla, wonung, wom, wana, vel hénþa, Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 68. Æfwyrdlan dispendio, An. Ox. 353: detrimentum, i. contemtum, 452: jacturam, Wrt. Voc. ii. 43, 67. Ðæt hé him ðæs befæstan eówdes nánne æfwirdlan (æ-acute;wyrdlan, v. l.) hæbbe ut detrimenta gregis sibi commissi non patiatur, R. Ben. 14, 9. Ðæt hí hwylcne æfwyrdlan (æ-acute;wyrdlan, v. l.) geþrowedon heora ágenra sáwla animarum damna patirentur, Gr. D. 50, 24. Scipes æfwyrdlan navis jacturam, 141, 13. Æfwerdlan áræfnede damna pertulit, 205, 1. Ðá æfwerdlan (æ-acute;wyrdlan, v. l.) selfe hire leoma ipsa detrimenta membrorum, 284, 5. Æfwyrdlan, An. Ox. 965: 1864. v. æ-acute;-wirdla.
æf-wirth(u) (?); f. Degradation, disgrace:--Nyðerunga, æfwyrðe detrimenta, R. Ben. I. 16, 6.
æ-fyrmþa. Dele: washing, ablutions; and see æ-acute;-firmþa.
æg. l. æ-acute;g, and add:--Dó æ-acute;ges ðæt hwíte tó, Lch. ii. 20, 12. Genim æ-acute;ges ðæt geoluwe, 22, 19. Æ-acute;ges geola, 130, 12. Nó ðonne bútan med&dash-uncertain;mycelne dæ-acute;l hláfes and án henne æ-acute;g mid lytle meolc wætere gemengedre hé onféng, Bd. 3, 23; S. 554, 33. Þreó æ-acute;gero, Shrn. 135, 18. Gif hit festendæg sié selle mon fisces and butran and aegera ðaet mon begeotan maege, C. D. i. 293, 11. Genim nigon æ-acute;gra . . . and nim eall swá fela dropena wínes swá ðæ-acute;ra æ-acute;gra beó, Lch. i. 380, 1-5. Sellan æ-acute;gra tó súpanne, ii. 220, 7. Genim gebræ-acute;dde æ-acute;gru, 100, 11. Gif hé gesihð henne æ-acute;gru lecgan, iii. 204, 30. Hwæt máre ytst ðú? Wyrta and æ-acute;gra, Coll. M. 34, 27.
æ-acute;-gafol(-e?); adj. Free from tax, rent, &c.:--Án híwissce æ-acute;gefæles landæs hidam liberam, C. D. v. 137, 23.
æ-acute;gen. See other instances under ágen: æ-acute;ger-felma; m. (not f.).
æ-acute;ger-geolu, wes; n. The yolk of an egg:--Aegergelu fitilium, Txts. 62, 429.
æ-acute;-gewrítere. In Kent. Gl. 245 'legum conditores' is rendered by a word which Zupitza reads as scepttenras. This in Junius' copy of the MS. is given by ægewriteras. The scept is uncertain, and Zupitza gives egewritteras as a more possible reading than that of Junius.
æ-acute;g-gemang, es; n. A mixture of eggs:--Aeggimong ogastrum (olgastrum, 46), Wrt. Voc. ii. 115, 44. Æ-acute;ggemang, 63, 38. [Beþe mid aagemogc, Lch. iii. 38, 2.] v. æ-acute;g-mang.
æ-acute;g-hwá. Add:--Hió gehæ-acute;t him æ-acute;ghwæs genóg abundantiam promittit, Past. 71, 23: Sch. 94. Sélre byð æ-acute;ghwám, An. 320: El. 1270: Met. 8, 5. Æ-acute;ghwæ-acute;m, B. 1384: Sat. 363: Met. 8, 38. Fira æ-acute;ghwám, Ps. Th. 134, 3. Ic eom gehéned on æ-acute;ghwám humiliatus sum usquequaque, Past. 465, 29. Hét ic æ-acute;ghwæt swá dón swá hé ús bebeád, Nar. 27, 14. Æ-acute;ghwæt gefremman ðæs ðe hié woldan, Bl. H. 137, 1. Hé him æ-acute;ghwæt sealtes beorge, Lch. ii. 130, 8. ¶ æ-acute;ghwæs in every respect, quite, altogether:--Æ-acute;ghwæs hé wæs ansund incolumis inventus est, Gr. D. 213, 7. Se earm stód ungebígendlic æ-acute;ghwæs þám ágendfreán ungewylde, 254, 38: Th. 44: Jul. 593: Cri. 1421. Æ-acute;ghwæs untæ-acute;le, B. 1865. Æghwæs unrím quite countless, 3135. Æ-acute;ghwæs ealne dæg tota die, Ps. Th. 55, 4.
æ-acute;g-hwæ-acute;r. Dele á-hwæ-acute;r, and add: -hwár, -wern. I. local, (1) in every place, (a) referring to the whole of space:--God bið á wesende and æ-acute;ghwæ-acute;r ondweard, Bl. H. 19, 26. Æ-acute;ghwár, 23, 21. (b) of limited space:--Oeghuer, -huuér, óghuuaer vulgo, passim, Txts. 107, 2173. Æ-acute;giwern passim, An. Ox. 11, 160. Wé forhealdað æ-acute;ghwæ-acute;r (-hwár, v. l.) Godes gerihta, Wlfst. 157, 14. Hié hergodon æ-acute;ghwæ-acute;r be ðám sæ-acute;, Chr. 918; P. 98, 12: 998; P. 131, 13. Him wæs æ-acute;ghwæ-acute;r wá, Sat. 342. Æ-acute;ghwæ-acute;r onbútan circumquaque, An. Ox. 2, 251. Æ-acute;ghwæ-acute;r on eorþan, Gen. 2705. Geneósian ealra þeóda æ-acute;ghwæ-acute;r landes ad visitandas omnes gentes, Ps. Th. 58, 5. Æ-acute;ghwár eorðan usquequaque, Ps. L. 118, 107. [In Met. 10. 58 substitute:--the likes of them are everywhere.] (2) to every place, in every direction:--Se wind mæg féran æ-acute;ghwæ-acute;r, Rä. 41, 69. Hié sendon æ-acute;gwern æfter fultume, Ors. 4, 1; S. 154, 22. II. in every case:--Bið andgit æ-acute;ghwæ-acute;r sélest, B. 1059: Gú. 573. III. in every respect:--Æ-acute;ghwáre usquequaque, R. Ben. I. 36, 10.
æ-acute;g-hwæþer. Add: I. of two, (1) substantival:--Wæs æ-acute;ghwæþer sáwla full, Bd. 5, 12; S. 627, 39: Cri. 1577: Sal. 108. Æ-acute;ghwæþer óþerne oftrædlíce út dræ-acute;fde, Chr. 887; P. 80, 28. Fæder ðára æðelinga æ-acute;ghwæðres, Rä. 47, 5. Æ-acute;ghwæðres . . . worda and weorca, B. 287. Æ-acute;ghwæðrum wæs bróga fram óðrum, 2564. Hæfde æ-acute;ghwæþre (-hwæþer?, but for pl. cf. II. below) ende geféred an end had come to both, 2844. (b) adjective:--Æ-acute;ghwæþer ende líþ on sæ-acute;, Bd. 1, 25; S. 486, 21. II. of more than two:--Ðrittig manna . . . æ-acute;ghwæþere ðára wæ-acute;ron on droht&dash-uncertain;nunge munuclífes well gelæ-acute;red, Bd. 4, 4; S. 570, 36. ¶ Æ-acute;ghwæþer ge . . . ge (and) both . . . and:--Hí æ-acute;ghwæðer ge an farað ge eft cumað, Met. 20, 12. Æ-acute;ghweþer, Bl. H. 125, 8: 215, 13. Forwyrnednesse æ-acute;ghweðer ge on mete, ge on hrægle, ge on æ-acute;ghwylcum þinge, 219, 29. Wæs æ-acute;gweðer ðæ-acute;m eádigan were ge seó Godes lufu hát . . . and him wæs eác manna lufu mycel, 225, 35. v. æ-acute;gþer.


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Fueling Brain Research
A new program at MIT is developing the next generation of technologies to uncover the hidden secrets of our brain.
The past decade has seen a revolution in our understanding of the brain. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) gives scientists a view of our deepest thoughts and hidden anxieties. Tiny arrays of electrodes that record neural signals from the different parts of the brain reveal clues to the way our neurons encode and send information. But what discoveries will the next generation of technologies bring to neuroscience? Scientists at MIT hope to hurry along that answer with the McGovern Institute Neurotechnology Program, a new program dedicated to the development of novel neurotechnologies. Charles Jennings, newly hired director of the program, talks with Technology Review about his vision for the future.
Charles Jennings, newly hired director of the McGovern Institute Neurotechnology Program, hopes to encourage development of the next-generation technologies for the brain.
Technology Review: Why start a specific program to develop neurotechnologies?
Charles Jennings: Neuroscience has always been both driven and limited by the technologies available to study it. The brain is so challenging–you need ways to record from and stimulate it. The power with which you can do these things determines the pace of the research and of the eventual clinical applications.
TR: What are the limitations of existing technologies for studying neuroscience?
CJ: For the most part, recording from the brain involves peering through the skull in ways that are fundamentally limited. FMRI, which was a great advance and one of the most powerful of these techniques, measures blood flow. So you can never get a better resolution than the speed of blood flow. You can never get down to the level of a single cell.
On the other end of the spectrum, we can stick an electrode into the brain, usually of animals, a technique that has been tremendously important. But mostly we can only record from one or several of the billions of neurons in the brain. Lots of information is encoded in the timing of the signals between neurons, which you can't see unless you record from lots of neurons at once.
We're also limited by the duration which we can record. If you want to study a process or behavior that takes weeks to acquire, you need to be able to look at the brain over long periods of time. That capability would open up many research questions: the processes that underlie habit formation, long-term degeneration, such as Alzheimer's, or psychiatric diseases, which often develop over years.
Long-term recording is also important clinically for brain-stimulation treatments for Parkinson's disease and depression. [In this procedure, an electrode is surgically implanted into part of the brain involved in the disease. Delivering electrical pulses via the implant blocks the electrical signals causing tremors and other symptoms of Parkinson's disease, and, more recently, it has shown some promise in treating severe depression.] And it's important in prosthetic devices for paralysis victims, in which a device records from the part of the brain involved in planning and then translates that activity into movement of a computer cursor or artificial limb. The challenge is to create something you can implant in the brain that will behave consistently over long periods of time.
TR: What are some interesting new technologies you see on the neuroscience horizon?
CJ: I think we're going to see a big impact from human genetics. Our neighbors at the Broad [Institute], for example, have developed tools to look at individual variations in our genetic information and are looking for genes involved in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. (See "A New Map for Health.") Few genes have been identified so far, so there is really an urgent need to uncover the genetic basis of these diseases.
One of the trends we've seen in the last year or two is interest in combining genetics and brain imaging. If you identify a gene involved in psychiatric disease, you want to ask how that gene affects behavior and how it affects brain function. The brain is a black box until you look into it. The biggest challenge will be drawing all the connections between genes and behavior. How do environmental influences interact with genetics to shape the brain and influence behavior?
TR: What kinds of technologies do you want to develop?
CJ: So far, we are collaborating with Ian Hunter, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who is developing nanowire electrodes that are much finer than current electrodes. (See "Tiny Electrodes for the Brain.") You can feed them into more parts of the brain while doing less damage to the tissue.
Another project is to develop new methods for fMRI. We want to create reporter molecules that are sensitive to different [chemicals] in the brain, such as calcium, an important signaling molecule. A marker that changes with calcium concentration could image neural activity with much greater resolution than current methods.
In the long term, we want to think big–high-risk, high-payoff projects. If you look at fMRI, it's a radical new way of looking at the brain. What will replace it 20 years down the line? The sci-fi view would be miniature devices that would lodge in the capillaries and record from close-by neurons and transmit that data through the skull. Think what you could do if you had high numbers of these things that could power themselves and swarm around the brain. We don't know if it can be done, but I've been told there is no theoretical reason why it couldn't.


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CIC News > Latest News > General > Parliamentary Committee Recommends 21 Changes to Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Parliamentary Committee Recommends 21 Changes to Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Published on September 21st, 2016 at 12:05pm EDT Updated on July 30th, 2020 at 11:14am EDT
Government Ministers set to respond to Committee report, with major changes to current regulations expected
A House of Commons committee tasked with reviewing Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) has made a wide range of recommendations for changes to the program, including easier pathways to permanent residence for foreign workers and simpler ways for businesses to respond to labour market needs.
The committee also calls for the elimination of a rule that ties a foreign worker's work permit to a specific employer, based on testimony that this creates a power relationship that is open to abuse. Furthermore, under these recommendations, employers with a track record of using the program appropriately would then be placed into a 'Trusted Employer Program' whereby their applications for Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs) would be fast-tracked.
The report also supports ending the rule that forces certain workers to leave Canada after four years.
Within hours of the report having been published, the Minister of Immigration, John McCallum, and the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, MaryAnn Mihychuk, announced that they would respond to the recommendations within the legislated timeframe of 120 days. Given that the Committee was dominated by Liberal members and that the Liberal Party holds a majority within the House of Commons, the long-awaited report is expected to guide upcoming changes to the TFWP that have been promised by the government since it took office last November. The most recent major changes to the TFWP were introduced by the previous Conservative government in June, 2014.
Recommended changes to the TFWP
Glossary of terms:
Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities ('The Committee') – The House of Commons Committee that submitted the report and the list of recommendations.
ESCD – Employment and Social Development Canada, the government department responsible for social programs and the labour market at the federal level.
LMIA – Labour Marker Impact Assessment, a document that an employer in Canada may need before hiring a foreign worker.
IRCC – Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the government department overseeing immigration to Canada.
TFWP – Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
Labour Market Impact Assessment Application fee
The Committee heard that the $1,000 LMIA application fee made it difficult for certain businesses, in particular small businesses, to remain competitive. For families needing to hire caregivers, the fee has been financially burdensome. Accordingly, the Committee recommends as follows:
That ESDC and IRCC take immediate steps to extend work permits for caregivers in the low-wage stream from one to two years.
Processing and timelines regarding LMIA applications
The Committee agreed that there is a need to streamline and standardize the LMIA application process. In particular, the Committee heard that the length of time it takes to process LMIA applications affects companies' productivity, and has an impact on the temporary foreign workers themselves whose work permit renewals are dependent upon a positive LMIA. The Committee recommends as follows:
That ESDC review the LMIA application process, with a view to increasing speed and efficiency; and that such a review take into consideration the National Occupational Classification (NOC) Codes as well as the adequate allocation of resources towards training and meeting service standards.
That ESDC implement a Trusted Employer Program with the objective of reducing LMIA processing timelines for employers who have demonstrated trustworthiness in their use of the TFWP.
That ESDC review the policy with respect to foreign faculty members currently employed or seeking employment with a recognized Canadian academic institution, whose employment is currently dependent upon a LMIA, with a view to providing exemptions or accommodations for this class of foreign nationals.
That the TFWP permit minor modifications to contracts between employers and employees with regards to the nature of the work and increases in wages if both parties consent, the changes do not disadvantage the worker, and ESDC is adequately informed of any changes in short order. The changes must not violate the spirit of the job description.
TFWP streams
Currently, the TFWP comprises various streams, each with its own specific requirements. Witnesses appearing before the Committee suggested that the current way in which the TFWP is structured needs to be reformed as current stream-specific requirements do not fully address the individual needs of various industries. The Committee acknowledges that the current program streams may not fully reflect Canadian labour market needs and recommends as follows:
That ESDC appropriately restructure the TFWP such that it achieves better overall economic and social benefit for Canadians and program participants. That ESDC re-establish the TFWP into more specific program areas and streams that adequately reflect the realities of labour market needs in Canada.
That IRCC study the impacts of expanding the definition of primary agriculture as found in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations.
That ESDC and IRCC seek to review and improve mechanisms in which migrant workers are brought into Canada to fill both temporary and permanent positions, preventing the use of the TFWP to satisfy permanent labour needs.
Transition Plans
Currently, employers seeking to hire high-wage workers must submit transition plans along with their LMIA application to ensure that they are taking steps to reduce their reliance on foreign workers over time. High-wage workers are those earning above the median hourly wage for a given occupation in specified region. Transition plans are designed to ensure that employers seeking foreign workers are fulfilling the purpose of the program.
The majority of witnesses who appeared before the Committee to talk about the high-wage stream shared the view that the requirement for a Transition Plan may not be realistic when there is a proven labour shortage of high-skilled workers that cannot be addressed domestically in the short-term. Other stakeholders support abolishing Transition Plans altogether. The Committee recommends as follows:
That ESDC provide an exemption on the Transition Plan requirement for five percent of the business' workforce that consists of high-wage temporary foreign workers.
That ESDC work to implement measures to ensure appropriate training and education resources are allocated in those fields most likely to present labour and skills shortages. Also, that appropriate apprenticeship targets be included as a requirement of the Transition Plan for employers to ensure they meet their recruitment and training obligations for Canadians.
That ESDC, businesses, and stakeholders continue to monitor labour market needs as to ensure skills, training, and educational output match Canada's current and future employment needs such that our reliance on foreign labour diminishes, and invest in better collection and retention of labour market information in Canada to adequately assess labour market needs.
Cap on the proportion of the workforce that consists of low-wage temporary foreign workers
Currently, employers with 10 or more employees applying for a new LMIA are subject to a cap of 10 percent on the proportion of their workforce that can consist of low-wage temporary foreign workers. The introduction of this cap has negatively affected some businesses' production levels, and some industry-specific exemptions may be contemplated. The Committee also recommends as follows:
That ESDC ensure the cap on the percentage of temporary foreign workers a business can employ at a given time, be set at a minimum of 20 percent, and further review sector and geographic considerations.
Certain low-wage positions in the Accommodation, Food Services and Retail Trade sectors
Currently, LMIAs with respect to certain low-wage positions in regions with a six percent or higher unemployment rate will not be processed. However, witnesses told the Committee that available labour market data is very high-level and not suited to determining labour market conditions in smaller communities situated within the broader geographic region. The Committee recommends as follows:
That ESDC take immediate steps to improve the collection of labour market data and review the geographic zones used for determining unemployment rates, with a view to aligning the labour market conditions of more localized economies with the requirements of the TFWP.
Employer-specific work permits
Temporary foreign workers employed in the low-wage stream and the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP, part of the TFWP) have consistently stated that employer-specific work permits tying workers to one employer lead to a power imbalance that may lead to abuse. The Committee recommends as follows:
That ESDC take immediate steps to eliminate the requirement for an employer-specific work permit; provided that it implement appropriate measures to ensure temporary foreign labour is only utilized within the existing provisions of the LMIA process, including sector and geographic restrictions.
That IRCC provide multiple entry work visas for temporary foreign workers employed in seasonal work, with the objective of allowing these individuals greater mobility during off-seasons; that when a work visa is extended, the multiple-entry visa must also be extended so workers can continue to enter and leave Canada.
Pathways to permanent residence for all migrant workers
The Committee acknowledges that all migrant workers, especially those that are filling long-term labour needs and are fully integrated into Canadian society, should enjoy greater pathways to permanent residence. Therefore, the Committee recommends as follows:
That IRCC review the current pathways to permanent residence for all temporary foreign workers, with a view to facilitating access to permanent residence for migrant workers who have integrated into Canadian society and are filling a permanent labour market need. That IRCC allocate adequate resources to allow for the timely processing of permanent residence applications for those migrant workers that are hired under the TFWP.
That IRCC work with provinces, territories and other government departments to increase information sharing that will create more harmonization with immigration and nominee programs to function in collaboration with one another. That these efforts aim to reduce duplication of work benefiting both the government and applicants.
That IRCC amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to remove the relevant provisions with respect to the "cumulative duration" rule, which currently makes certain workers ineligible for new work permits if they have been working in Canada for four years and bans them from applying for a new one for an additional four years.
That IRCC reform the Express Entry immigration selection system to allow for fixed-term employment contracts to be allocated the same number of points as permanent work contracts, where there is a strong likelihood of continued employment.
The Committee acknowledged that program monitoring and enforcement remains an issue, despite recent steps towards improvement. The Committee recommends as follows:
That ESDC, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, review current monitoring and enforcement mechanisms, with the objective of addressing gaps in employer compliance and the protection of migrant workers' rights. In addition, an effort shall be made to move away from a complaint-driven model of program enforcement. The review shall take into consideration the following specific measures:
increasing resource and information sharing with provinces and territories;
increasing the frequency of on-site inspections and ensuring that they be conducted while temporary foreign labour is being used;
creating an accreditation system for recruiters, which requires compliance with the TFWP rules and from which employers could exclusively select;
establishing a dispute resolution mechanism for migrant workers when conflict with an employer arises;
ensuring, through on-site inspections, that labour laws and regulations are properly enforced where migrant workers operate; and
guaranteeing that any workplace injuries that require immediate attention be granted emergency care where deemed necessary in Canada.
That ESDC, in collaboration with stakeholders, establish measures to ensure that incoming migrant workers and their employers are informed of their rights and responsibilities under the TFWP, including dispute resolution and abuse reporting procedures, as well as information on wages, benefits, accommodations and working conditions; and that the Department undertake best efforts to provide this information in the language of preference of the migrant worker.
The next steps
"The Committee has undertaken a major project and returned with some welcome recommendations that would benefit Canadian workers, foreign workers, and businesses alike. Representatives from each stakeholder group have been consulted and, consequently, the report is thorough," says Attorney David Cohen.
"Although some of the recommendations may be tweaked or shelved, I would expect many, if not most, of these recommendations to become part of the program regulations in one form or another. With a program that is likely to undergo significant changes over the coming months — and as businesses and workers figure out exactly what may be required of them before and after the program is modified — I would encourage stakeholders to consult an expert on Canadian work permits to ensure a smooth hiring process."
Canadian employers: To learn more about your options for hiring foreign workers, please contact wp@canadavisa.com.
Foreign workers: If you have received a job offer from a Canadian employer and wish to submit an inquiry about getting a work permit and working legally in Canada, please complete the form on this page.
labour market impact assessment, lmia, temporary foreign worker program, tfwp


Georg Jensen Infinity jewellery has been adding grandeur and opulence to a lady's look for a number of years. The designs are popular with those who like understated, elegant designs for wearing to the office or accompanying everyday attire. Each piece of Infinity jewellery made by Scandinavian design house, Georg Jensen can be combined with another, allowing the lady to mix and match the designs to create a new look depending on the occasion in mind. Each piece of Infinity jewellery is crafted from a single piece of sterling silver before being given a unique hand-applied surface polish which gives the design a distinct Georg Jensen look. Infinity designs are inspired by the figure 8 and elements of natural beauty taken from designer, Regitze Overgaard's surroundings. Each piece of jewellery from the collection is intended to encourage the lady to embrace femininity in a unique way whilst also being practical and comfortable to wear for any occasion. This charming Georg Jensen Infinity pendant is crafted from polished silver and displays a loose figure of 8 shape. The pendant is suspended from a delicate silver chain which measures 18 inches in length. The Infinity icon itself measures 35mm in width and 45mm in length. The pendant can be worn alongside other creations from the Infinity collection but looks just as stylish when paired with a classic black evening dress and a sparkling clutch bag.


Three studies regarding heroism perception of individuals participating in the important historical events are presented. We hypothesized that individuals who actively decided to act for a common cause would be perceived as more heroic than passive individuals. We also hypothesized that passive individuals (about whom there is no information regarding their sacrifice for a common cause) who died, would be perceived as more heroic than those who are still alive. The results of two experiments regarding social perception of individuals participating in Warsaw Uprising confirmed these hypotheses. These results additionally showed that the impact of the fact that the individual participating in historical events was not alive was limited only to perception of his/her heroism and was not significant for other interpersonal evaluations. Possible mechanisms are discussed.


It has been a really busy stretch and I've been excited to get to this blog post all week! Jen and Kyle were an absolute delight to work with and I'm just thrilled with how their images turned out.
We started the day with the girls getting ready at Jen and Kyle's house. Everyone was so friendly and Jen had added her own special touches in a number of places. One addition that had just about everyone in tears were the two photos of her dad that were attached to her shoes. He had passed away a number of years ago but this way he still got to walk her down the aisle – how special!
After we captured the couple's first look in a nearby park the wedding party headed downtown to the Manitoba Hydro building. Jen suggested the silhouette shot on the stairs and I absolutely love how it turned out; good idea Jen! Just outside the building we got a few more group shots and a quick shot with all the girls with the Coach purses Jen had given them.
Since the reception was in Headingly we had decided to head back to this area to take a few photographs at the train bridge. One of Jen's bridesmaids had the cute sign made and it was a wonderful touch for these shots. With the sun being at its peak and it feeling pretty hot, we headed under the bridge and captured some spectacular shots of Jen and Kyle. Of course, I had to make one last stop at the old white barn that I love so much. It's a stunning backdrop for a bride in a beautiful white dress!
Then it was off to Breezy Bend for the ceremony and reception. Jen and Kyle had their ceremony outside under the trees and it was a perfect setting for their wedding. As Jen came down the aisle, they were both fighting back the tears. :) After the ceremony they had cocktails for the guests as we quickly did the family photographs. Then it was time to get the party started. The ballroom was beautifully decorated with little personal touches. I especially loved the centre-pieces as well as the flip flops they provided for guests. No sore feet for dancing at this wedding! After some awesome speeches came the dance and to finish off all the formal part of the night Jen danced with both her brothers. I don't think there was a dry eye in the building.


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Saint Cúan (died 752) was an Irish abbot who was the founder of many churches and monasteries in Ireland. He lived to nearly 100 years. Little is known about him, but he is mentioned in the Annals of Inisfallen  as the abbot Liath Mo-Chaemóc. St. Cuan's Well, near Ahascragh, is a holy well associated with him.  Saint Cúan is commemorated on 1 January by Western Rite Orthodox communities.

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After WhatsApp, Facebook Now Acquiring Drone Manufacturer
Social media giant Facebook is in the news again after their high profile acquisition of WhatsApp a few days back. The company is said to be in negotiations with a manufacturer of drones. Yes, drones! The company intends to boost Internet connections in remote locations in Africa by making use of drones.
Facebook is one of the players said to be backing internet.org project that intend to network to remote parts of the world that are offline. As of now, just 2.7 billion people are connected to the Internet. Other companies that are backing this project are Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung.
Reports are now emerging that Facebook aims to acquire the manufacturer of solar powered drones that can stay in air for as long as 5 years at a go. This is a part of their plan to alter the drones to offer Internet access to users on the ground. Drones of Titan Aerospace can reach an altitude of 65,000 fee, which increases their likelihood of acting as satellites with lesser operating costs.
As per reports from TechCrunch, Facebook aims to provide Internet connectivity to places that don't have a connection by building 11,000 of these drones. A project of this nature puts it in direct competition with Project Loon funded by Google. 30 balloons will be sent into the stratosphere to forge a network that will be programmed by using currents of winds at multiple altitudes to sustain a geostationary position in Project Loon.
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Froissy is een gemeente in het Franse departement Oise (regio Hauts-de-France) en telt 909 inwoners (1999). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Clermont.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Froissy bedraagt 6,6 km²; de bevolkingsdichtheid is 137,7 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

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Gemeente in Oise


Lace up your sneakers—it's time to step On the Hardwood with the Miami Heat, in this officially licensed NBA team book. In today's game, no conversation is complete without mention of the 'Big Three' (LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh) in South Beach. Though the future in Miami is as bright as the Florida sun, their past is quite unique as well. On the Hardwood: The Miami Heat takes us to the roots of the franchise, into their rivalry with the New York Knicks and through their championship season in 2011-2012.
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