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Vancouver International Children's FestivalLaraKroeker2020-08-10T15:32:36-07:00
Fred Penner
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The Vancouver International Children's Festival and SoundOn present Fred Penner at home.
At a recent keynote address to an early childhood education conference, acclaimed family entertainer, singer/songwriter, composer, actor, writer, author, TV host and keynote speaker Fred Penner delivered a simple, yet powerful message. "Never underestimate your ability to make a difference in the life of a child."
A gentle giant with kind eyes and an undeniable ability to make you feel good about yourself, this musical master brings 45 years of commitment, consistency and depth to a career that skillfully blends the many genres of performing and communication. Dubbed "Mr. Multi-Media" by Billboard Magazine, his diverse repertoire includes a prolific 12 Children's Albums, countless energetically packed live shows for throngs of eager audiences across North America, composing the music for APTN/YTV's Tipi Tales, and writing the score and hosting the TV documentary The Simple Way (focused on the relevant, world-wide topic of voluntary simplicity). He has, without a doubt, established himself as a fundamental part of the North American family entertainment scene. And whether it's through CDs, videos, books or television, his cornerstone philosophy remains the same: absolute trust that his work can make a difference.
The first children's entertainer to headline at the Los Angeles Amphitheater, this four time recipient of the Parents' Choice Award and the man Los Angeles Parent called the "Canadian Minister of Positivity" has successfully transformed children's entertainment into a family affair. Offering his broad talents to speak to the family unit and express his feelings about where the world is going and what children are learning. A devoted father of four, lessons learned through the challenges and rewards of parenthood are translated into all that he does.
His pre-music experience working with troubled youth set the stage for what was to come; providing an understanding of the trauma of child abuse and the ability of music to heal. Those learnings, along with the untimely passing of his 12- year-old sister with Down's Syndrome and subsequent passing of his father a year later, sparked a period of deep soul-searching and life-changing decisions. Inspired by his sister's pure love of music, the man who had planned to become an economist, made a choice to become a performer. Lucky for us, he did.
More than the music, the two-time Juno winner (equivalent of a Grammy) for Best Children's Album, Fred Penner's Place (1985) and Sing with Fred (2004) and eight-time nominee's body of work is about energy and emotional connection. The guy who crawled magically out of that hollow log for 12 seasons and more than 900 episodes in the hit CBC TV show Fred Penner's Place receives fan mail to this day from some of the 55 million American viewers where the show ran for four years on the Nickelodeon's Nick Jr.. Always building on a common theme rooted in integrity and a "belief in what I can do" he has created a lasting impact that crosses the generations and continues to grow.
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Lindley for Breakfast
In about 2003 or so, David Lindley came to Santa Cruz to play at Palookaville, a wonderful club downtown that is no more. The night was a disaster that wasn't…for some reason, electric power failed utterly downtown that night. Events and gigs were cancelled throughout the Pacific Mall area…except at Palookaville where scores of fans found candles; and David and Wally Ingram, in the very best show biz tradition declared that the show would go on. This was not a small club; capacity was about 300 to be fire marshal-legal, which meant that with someone like David, there were likely to be 350 people there. The only "electric" lights in the place were the automatic battery powered backup emergency lights, supposedly to be used to help people exit the venue. But nobody left. We were there for a show, and David was there to power on. Wally wrapped strands of gaffer's tape around barbeque stickers to make low volume drum sticks; David decided to go full acoustic, not even a battery powered amp for him; he understood that the crowd would turn their ears up to hear him. Some folks made special candle reflectors out of aluminum foil so David could see his Weissenborn lap steel strings. The result? An evening of total musical magic.
I'd known David for several years by that time, and he was kind of "Uncle David" to Jessica and my son, Elias, who was about seven at the time of this gig. We'd invited David over for breakfast the Sunday morning after the gig, fully knowing that the show had really taken it out of him…doing a full show to over 300 people…with NO pa system. This was strictly old school. Eli was elated, ecstatic, totally over the top that "Uncle David" would be coming over, and even though we prepared him…"the show was really tough last night; he might not want to talk much; we're just trying to support him with good food while he's on the road", etc., Eli was just over the top.
So, having recently been introduced to the concept of knotting string, Eli decided to design and build a "Lindley trap". Eli got up early and got to it with a design that was something between a fish net and a spider's web…a lace of string starting at the front door that was to entice David inward, but not allow egress. Yes, keep Uncle David around forever! Well, could we possibly object to what Eli had in mind? NO!
David arrived with his tour manager; Jessica made a splendid breakfast; David admitted to how difficult the gig had been while it was yet triumphant, and discussion ensued into many subjects. Eli had gone back to his room, apparently to contemplate; bear in mind that he was maybe about seven years old, but of a thoughtful nature since birth. Then Eli came back into the living room with a question on his face. We all acknowledged his curious look, and he said, "Uncle David, I have a question. What do you think of the Shroud of Turin?" What the fuck! My kid who is barely in grade school just asked Lindley about what? The Shroud of fucking Turin? I don't think the subject had ever even come up in the household, though I certainly admit intellectual interest. How is it that Eli has even heard about it, much less developed curiosity about the thing? But there we all were, chins on chests, and so ensued a conversation in which David expressed his belief that the Shroud of Turin was a forgery done by Leonardo Da Vinci, and there was the most rational conversation you could imagine…catalyzed by a seven year old who is now twenty one…and still asking those questions.
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Q: Invoke virtual method on null reference, but why is it null? So this is a chronometer that I am trying to implement in my application but since the build in chronometer doesn't display milliseconds I wrote this one, well the idea is not mine but anyway: `import android.content.Context;
public class Chronometer implements Runnable {
public static final long MILLIS_TO_MINUTES = 60000;

private Context mContext;
private long mStartTime;
private boolean mIsRunning;
public Chronometer(Context context) {
    mContext = context;
}

public void start() {
        mStartTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    mIsRunning = true;
}
public void stop() {
    mIsRunning = false;
}
@Override
public void run() {
    while(mIsRunning) {

        long since = System.currentTimeMillis() - mStartTime;

        int seconds = (int) (since / 1000) % 60;
        int minutes = (int) ((since / (MILLIS_TO_MINUTES)) % 60);
        int millis = (int) since % 100; //the last 2 digits of millisecs

        ((MainActivity) mContext).updateTimerText(String.format("%02d:%02d:%03d"
                , minutes, seconds, millis));

        try {
            Thread.sleep(30);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}
}`

So the code above is in a class of it's own. And here is the method that updates the textView that contains the chronometer and which is located in another class
    public void updateTimerText(final String time){
    runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
                mTvTime.setText(time);
        }
    });
}

So the problem is Process: com.example.user.myap, PID: 6131
                  java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.widget.TextView.setText(java.lang.CharSequence)' on a null object reference
                      at com.example.user.myap.MainActivity$2.run(MainActivity.java:105)

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Q: How to use SSML in Alexa Skill + Lambda + Js I'm trying to use SSML in my Alexa Skill. I use Lambda as my service endpoint and Js to program it. Now my question is, how do I correctly implement this in my skill? I'm using the following function to use SSML:
function buildSSMLSpeechletResponse(title, output, repromptText, shouldEndSession) {
    return {
        outputSpeech: {
            type: "SSML",
            ssml: output
        },
        card: {
            type: "Simple",
            title: "SessionSpeechlet - " + title,
            content: "SessionSpeechlet - " + output
        },
        reprompt: {
            outputSpeech: {
                type: "SSML",
                text: repromptText
            }
        },
        shouldEndSession: shouldEndSession
    };
}

My code:
function onLaunch(launchRequest, session, callback) {
    console.log("onLaunch requestId=" + launchRequest.requestId
        + ", sessionId=" + session.sessionId);

    var cardTitle = "Hello, World!";
    var speechOutput = { type: "SSML",
    ssml: "<speak>Welcome to Hubo help. <amazon:effect name='whispered'>You can ask questions like</amazon:effect>: 'How do I paint a wall?'. Now what can I help you with?.</speak>", };
    callback(session.attributes,
        buildSSMLSpeechletResponse(cardTitle, speechOutput, "", true));
}

I think I made a mistake at the callback? Thanks in advance!

A: If you are using the Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js you can just include the SSML markup in the text to emit.
For example:
this.emit(':tell', 'Sometimes when I look at the Alexa skills you have all taught me, I just have to say, <say-as interpret-as="interjection">Bazinga.</say-as><break time="0.3s"/><amazon:effect name="whispered"> I love it. </amazon:effect>')
this.emit(':tell', '<say-as interpret-as="interjection">Oh boy</say-as><break time="1s"/> this is just an example.')
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UAZ (ros. УАЗ, Ульяновский автомобильный завод; Uljanowskij Awtomobilnyj Zawod) – rosyjski producent samochodów terenowych oraz dostawczych, który ma swoją siedzibę w mieście Uljanowsk w obwodzie uljanowskim. Od 2000 jest własnością spółki Sollers. Do 2016 UAZ wyprodukowało ponad 51 tys. samochodów.

Historia
Fabryka rozpoczęła produkcję samochodów w okresie II wojny światowej. W 1941 roku do Uljanowska przewieziono oprzyrządowanie z ewakuowanej z Moskwy przed wojskami niemieckimi fabryki samochodów ZiS i w 1942 r. rozpoczęto tam produkcję samochodów ciężarowych ZIS-5W z przeznaczeniem dla wojska. Po wojnie fabrykę przeniesiono w inne miejsce Uljanowska. Pierwszym powojennym samochodem produkcji UAZ była półtoratonowa ciężarówka konstrukcji zakładów GAZ – GAZ-MM. Od 1954 roku rozpoczęto w Uljanowsku produkcję samochodów terenowych GAZ-69 pod oznaczeniem UAZ-69. W 1958 roku rozpoczęto produkcję terenowych samochodów dostawczych i lekkich ciężarówek UAZ 450, a od 1965 r. popularnych UAZ-ów 452, produkowanych po kilku modyfikacjach do dziś. Od 1970 roku rozpoczęto produkcję najsłynniejszego samochodu z Uljanowska – terenowego UAZ 469B, który w 1985 r. zmienił nazwę na UAZ 31512 Commanders (produkcję zakończono w 2003 roku).

Samochody terenowe UAZ wszystkich modeli produkowane były w największych ilościach na potrzeby wojska – Armii Radzieckiej i wojsk państw Układu Warszawskiego, gdzie były standardowymi samochodami terenowymi, oraz innych państw będących pod wpływem ZSRR.

Działalność
Przedsiębiorstwo zatrudnia około 20 tysięcy osób i produkuje kilkaset tysięcy samochodów rocznie, głównie na rynek rosyjski. Od kilku lat następuje modernizacja produkcji i wprowadza się nowe samochody o wyższym standardzie (UAZ Hunter, UAZ 3162 Simbir, UAZ 3153 Strech de luxe, UAZ Patriot).

Modele
 UAZ-69
 UAZ 450
 UAZ 452
 UAZ 469
 UAZ 31512
 UAZ 3153 Strech de Luxe
 UAZ 3162 Simbir
 UAZ Hunter
 UAZ Patriot
 UAZ Pickup
 UAZ Hunter Classic

Galeria

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna strona internetowa

Marki samochodów
Rosyjscy producenci samochodów
Radzieccy producenci samochodów

Uljanowsk

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The winners and runners-up of the World TV Awards 2017 were announced on the 7 June during the Asia Media Summit which took place in Qingdao, China.
"Driving the Change", broadcast by EMTV – Papua New Guinea and directed by Mr Marcos Venditti won the Award under Humanity Category for the Best TV Documentary on "Combating Poverty".
Mr Chang Jin, Director of AIBD, and Mr John Maguire, Director of International Relations and Cooperation of France Médias Monde, who jointly announced the winner, presented a trophy and certificate to Mr Venditti.
Mr John Maguire, Mr Marcos Venditti, Mr Chang Jin
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"Earth, Our Only Planet – Rediscovery of Po" directed by Mr Chan Seok Heo and broadcast by EBS – Korea was the winner for the best TV Programme on "Sustainable Energy for All", under the category Science/Environment.
Mr Chang Jin and Mr John Maguire presented the trophy and certificate to Ms Hu Mendgie, Marketing Manager EBS – Korea, who represented Mr Chan Seok Heo, who was not able to attend the ceremony.
For each category the winners will receive a cash prize of US$5,000.
Mr John Maguire, Ms Hu Mendgie, Mr Chang Jin
As the Chairperson of the jury for the World Television Awards 2017, Mr John Maguire, explained the selection process of the Awards during the ceremony.
The runner-up for the category Humanity was "Field Guide to Innovation – Root of Innovation", directed by Amelia Su and broadcast by Mediacorp Pte Ltd, Channel NewsAsia, Singapore.
"Solar Power: Green Energy for Green Environment", directed by Md Imam Hossain and broadcast by Bangladesh Television (BTV) was the runner-up for the category Science/Environment.
The World TV Awards 2017 were supported by Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) and Islamic Broadcasting Union (IBU), France Médias Monde, Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD)
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Houses of Worship Tour-Germantown Jewish Centre
A MESSAGE FROM
Chestnut Hill Historical Society
…at our first for 2015
Houses of Worship Tour.
Germantown Jewish Centre
400 W. Ellet St. in Mt. Airy
February 8 at 4pm
The congregation has been serving the Jewish community in Northwest Philadelphia and its surrounding counties for more than 75 years. The building of the Germantown Jewish Centre was designed by Harry Sternfeld, a professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
The lectures and tours are free. Light refreshments will be served following each tour. A free-will offering at each congregation will be greatly appreciated by the congregations that are graciously making their facilities available.
Spring 2015 Houses of Worship Tour Schedule
Chapel at Mount Saint Joseph Convent February 15th, 2015 at 3pm
(located at Chestnut Hill College)
Cresheim Valley Church March 22nd, 2015 at 4pm
500 West Willow Grove Avenue
Seventh-day Adventist Church April 12th, 2015 at 3pm


Julia is a full-time realtor dedicated to providing the best service to each of her clients. She is well-educated and hard-working. She has earned master degrees in Political Science in Fudan University, Shanghai, China and Computer Science in California. In addition to English, Julia is fluent in Chinese.
She is currently a member of the California Association of Realtors and the Arcadia Association of Realtors. Julia's commitment to her work has provided her with an extensive referral business from clients, both past and present.
Julia looks forward to making your dreams come true. Her goal is to find the home you want at a price you can afford or help you sell your home at the price you want.
Unlike most realtors, Julia is a friend for life. Her warm personality and diligence will make your real estate transactions a pleasant experience.
If you are looking for knowledge, professionalism, integrity, and personal service in a real estate agent, Julia Zhao has it all.


A Community Conversation on the Government of Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy with Oakville M.P.P. Kevin Flynn.
The Government of Ontario has committed to developing a poverty reduction strategy by the end of 2008. This is your opportunity to provide input on behalf of the Halton community.
Sponsors for this event include: Kevin Flynn-M.P.P. Oakville, Community Development Halton, Make Poverty History-Burlington/Halton Chapter, Halton's Public Elementary Teachers, International Union of Operating Engineers-Local 793, Burlington Old Timers Hockey Club-White Division, Halton Nonprofit Network, Advancement of Women Halton, Halton Community Legal Services, Halton Multicultural Council, Affordable Housing Halton, Halton Women's Place, Halton District School Board, Halton Catholic District School Board, Oakville and District Labour Council, East Plains United Church, Food for Life and SAVIS.


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Skalite (słow. Skalité, węg. Sziklaszoros, do 1899 Szkalite) – wieś (obec) na Słowacji (w kraju żylińskim, w powiecie Czadca, przy granicy z Polską) w pobliżu (po polskiej stronie) Zwardonia. Centrum wsi leży na wysokości 524 m n.p.m. Liczba mieszkańców 5255 (31.12.2016), powierzchnia 33,163 km² (gęstość zaludnienia 158 osób/km²).

Położona w górnej części doliny Skaliczanki (Skaliťanki), na pograniczu dawnego księstwa cieszyńskiego i polskiej Żywiecczyzny. Powstała prawdopodobnie w latach 40. XVII w. z inicjatywy właścicieli państwa Streczno – Esterhazych. Świadczyła o tym przynależność jej mieszkańców do parafii w Czadcy. Została zasiedlona przez osadników z Orawy i z Małopolski. Pierwsza wzmianka o wsi (pod nazwą Podskalite) pochodzi z urbarza państwa streczniańskiego z 1662 r. Liczyła ona wtedy 42 gospodarstwa siedlacze i 32 chałupnicze. Charakterystycznym rysem początków osadnictwa w Skalitem były ciągłe zatargi o tereny wypasowe z sąsiednim księstwem cieszyńskim.

Rozwój wsi od XVIII w. związany był głównie z jej położeniem przy trakcie handlowym, którego odnogi (przez przełęcze Przysłop i Graniczne) wiodły przez Żywiec do Krakowa. Węgierski posterunek celny mieścił się w centrum wsi. Mieszkańcy Skalitego trudnili się pasterstwem, rzemiosłem (funkcjonowały tu 4 młyny wodne), jak również przemytem, zwłaszcza polskiej soli na Węgry. W 1749 r. zbudowano pierwszy drewniany kościół i erygowana została parafia. Koniec XIX w. przyniósł budowę linii kolejowej (1884) i stacji Skalite. Powstała mała rafineria, produkująca naftę oświetleniową, a krótko przed I wojną światową – parowy tartak z 12 trakami i wielkim składem drewna. Działał browar. Jednocześnie jest to jednak okres znacznego wzrostu ucisku madziaryzacyjnego i wzmożonej emigracji ludności ze Skalitego, zwłaszcza do USA.

18 listopada 1938 r. we wsi miała miejsce manifestacja przeciwko planom przyłączenia górnoczadeckich wsi do Polski. Pomimo tego tydzień później część Skalitego po linię kolejową została zajęta przez wojsko polskie. 1 września 1939 r. przez Skalite i Przełęcz Zwardońską wkroczyły do Polski oddziały wojsk niemieckich. W 1945 r. zamknięto ruch na obu przejściach granicznych, drogowym i kolejowym. Znaczna część mieszkańców wyemigrowała do ośrodków przemysłowych na czeskim Śląsku.

1 czerwca 1992 r., po kilkudziesięciu latach przerwy uruchomiono tu kolejowe przejście graniczne Zwardoń-Skalité, a w 1997 r. nowe całodobowe przejście drogowe Zwardoń-Myto-Skalité obsługujące samochody osobowe oraz ciężarówki o masie do 3,5 tony, a w 2006 r. utworzono przejście graniczne Zwardoń-Skalité obsługujące ruch osobowy i towarowy o dopuszczalnej masie całkowitej do 7,5 tony. W Polsce prowadziła do niego droga krajowa 69 z Bielska-Białej - obecnie jest to droga ekspresowa S1. Z kolei istniejąca po stronie słowackiej stara droga została zastąpiona otwartym w dniu 10 czerwca 2017 r. o godzinie 16:00 odcinkiem słowackiej autostrady D3 Skalité - Świerczynowiec. Budowę terminala granicznego rozpoczęto w roku 2001, koszt inwestycji wyniósł 78 milionów złotych – po wejściu Polski i Słowacji do strefy Schengen terminal przestał spełniać swoją rolę.

Kultura
We wsi jest używana gwara czadecka, zaliczana przez polskich językoznawców jako gwara ze zmieszanymi elementami dialektów małopolskiego i śląskiego języka polskiego, przez słowackich zaś jako gwara przejściowa polsko-słowacka.

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The Horn Center benefits students by ensuring open access to amenities such as a wi-fi enabled study lounge, multiple adaptive (height-adjustable) computer workstations, self-service print/copy machines, and the Open Computer Lab. Faculty benefit from the convenient location to borrow equipment needed for classrooms on this side of campus.
Printing, Copying, Scanning: Self-service stations are available inside the central corridor as well as within the Computer Lab.
Technology Help Desk: The THD, easily accessible just inside the main entrance, is staffed with experts who are ready to solve issues related to personal computing as well as campus data systems and software.
University Art Museum: While spending the day at The Horn Center, students can refresh their minds and enjoy a study break at the adjoining museum.
As the largest open computer lab in the CSU system, the Horn Center Computer Lab ensures equal access to high-quality equipment, software, and onsite technical assistance needed for academic success and creative expression. The lab is open to all CSULB students, regardless of degree program or area of study.
ADA (adaptive) workstations with height-adjustable tables, large print keyboards, and lighted book magnifier units.
As a former library, the Horn Center facility offers the ambiance to inspire focused concentration as well as the essential services that students need - all under one roof.
Contact the Horn Center: 562.985.2303.
The Horn Center Computer Lab is closed to the public.


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Sweden, Finland convey NATO requests to Secretary-General Stoltenberg – RT
All eyes are on Turkey, which has objected to the two Nordic nations joining the alliance
Diplomats representing Sweden and Finland in NATO met with Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday to convey their government's requests for their countries to join the military bloc.
Axel Warnhoff of Sweden and Klaus Korhonen of Finland met together to file papers with the NATO chief. The foreign ministers of the two countries signed two letters on Tuesday.
Stoltenberg thanked the envoys for submitting the application, which he said was a historic step for the organization, adding that all members agreed. "On the importance of NATO expansion." Secretary General mentioned, Dr. "All allies need to consider security interests" They consider bids, and that is what NATO will do "Work through all the problems and come to a quick conclusion."
Just: "This is a good day …" #NATO Chief Stoltenberg received a letter from the Finnish Amb korhonen_klaus And Sweden NATO Amb Axel Warnhoff says to start discussions on membership Stoltenberg pointed to the roadblocks (Turkish) diagonally, saying he was confident they would be resolved. pic.twitter.com/VBNO63UIUF
– Terry Schultz (terischultz) May 18, 2022
Earlier, Turkey had publicly objected to its inclusion in NATO, accusing it of harboring terrorists and discriminating against Turkey in trade.
Turkish officials cited perceived humility towards anti-government groups such as the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which Ankara considers a terrorist group, and imposed sanctions on arms exports to Turkey in 2019 in the wake of the Ankara crackdown. On Kurdish militants in Syria.
The NATO chief has previously confirmed that Turkey's problems with the applicants will be resolved quickly and will not hinder their accession. The new NATO members must be approved unanimously so that Turkey can decide to refuse admission to Sweden and Finland.
After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Stockholm and Helsinki broke their tradition of non-alignment and sought membership in the US-led military. Moscow has said it will make the necessary preparations for self-defense from NATO with the inclusion of two new members.
Russia invaded the neighboring country in late February, following Ukraine's failure to implement the terms of the first Minsk agreement, signed in 2014, and the final recognition of Moscow's Donetsk and Lugansk's Donbas republics. The German- and French-brokerage protocols were designed to give special status to isolated territories within the Ukrainian state.
The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine formally declare itself a neutral state that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kyiv has insisted that the Russian invasion was completely unpopular and has denied claims that it is planning to forcibly retake the two republics.
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The workflow consists of firstly identifying spot (which can be also gravity center of cells identified by another method), and then secondly compute trajectories by linking these spots by global optimisation with a cost function. This method is part of the methods evaluated in Chanouard et al (2014) as "method 9" and is described in detail in its supplementary PDF (page 65).
A pdf file with instructions and output description is also available in the zip .
MTrackJ : Used for visualization of tracks. Preinstalled in Fiji.
Imagescience.jar: This library is used by MTrackJ. Use update site to install this plugin.
can be used in batch, some analysis results provided.
The tracking part is not dependent of ImageJ.
the optimization algorithm used is a simulated annealing, so results can be slightly different between two runs.


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Children's Books that Help Teach Anti-Racism
Children are never too young to start learning about about race. Now more than ever, it's time for a change. And that change can start at home.
Not only is representation important – for kids to see themselves and their experiences in the books they read, the movies they watch, the toys they play with, etc. But it's also important for children to read about people who are different from them.
Reading books featuring Black characters and experiences provide a great way to start a conversation about race with your children. Books provide a great way to start a conversation about race and how to be anti-racist.
12 Books that help Raise Anti-Racist Children
All Are Welcome: Discover a school where—no matter what—young children have a place, have a space, and are loved and appreciated.
Hair Love: Tender and empowering, Hair Love is an ode to loving your natural hair — and a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere.
Let's Talk About Race: In this acclaimed book, the author of the Newbery Honor Book To Be a Slave shares his own story as he explores what makes each of us special. A strong choice for sharing at home or in the classroom.
I Am Enough: This gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another comes from Empire actor and activist Grace Byers and talented newcomer artist Keturah A. Bobo. We are all here for a purpose. We are more than enough. We just need to believe it.
The Day You Begin: Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael López's dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes-and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway.
That is My Dream: Follow one African-American boy through the course of his day as the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice comes into vivid focus. But the boy dreams of a different life—one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun.
Malcolm Little: Malcolm X grew to be one of America's most influential figures. But first, he was a boy named Malcolm Little. Written by his daughter, this inspiring picture book biography celebrates a vision of freedom and justice.
Let It shine: The lives these women led are part of an incredible story about courage in the face of oppression; about the challenges and triumphs of the battle for civil rights; and about speaking out for what you believe in–even when it feels like no one is listening.
Each Kindness: This unforgettable book is written and illustrated by the award-winning team that created The Other Side and the Caldecott Honor winner Coming On Home Soon. With its powerful anti-bullying message and striking art, it will resonate with readers long after they've put it down.
The King of Kindergarten: A confident little boy takes pride in his first day of kindergarten, by the Newbery Honor-winning author of Crown.
Last Stop on Market Street: Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty—and fun—in their routine and the world around them.
We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street): Elmo and his Sesame Street friends help teach toddlers and the adults in their lives that everyone is the same on the inside, and it's our differences that make this wonderful world, which is home to us all, an interesting—and special—place. This enduring, colorful, and charmingly illustrated book offers an easy, enjoyable way to learn about differences—and what truly matters. We're Different, We're the Same is an engaging read for toddlers and adults alike that reinforces how we all have the same needs, desires, and feelings.
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Update: Turns out others can comment on the Center's Facebook wall — they've "just" blocked a journalist, to keep any questions from being asked!
Something very strange is happening on 13th Street at the LGBT Center. As a scourge is affecting LGBT organizations — the Bronx Pride Center shut down yesterday, amid charges its director, Lisa Winters embezzled $338,000 — the city's main LGBT Center refuses to speak to the press.
As we wrote in last week's Voice feature "Does 'Gay Inc.' Believe in Free Speech?" the Center clamped down a year ago and refused to allow any discussion of the Israel/Palestine situation. This flies in the face of decades of queer people being able to discuss the important issues of the day on a variety of gay-specific and non-specific topics.
But just as disturbingly to us (for obviously personal reasons) is that the Center refuses to speak to the Voice about anything, or to answer any questions from press as far as we can tell. This could be because of critical things we've said about Executive Director Glennda Testone and her leadership (or lack thereof) over free speech at the Center.
But the Center does get a huge amount of public money (about $2.75 million a year, according to the most recent publicly available tax filings), and Testone is paid a little more than Governor Andrew Cuomo (we'll have more about this in the coming days), so we think it's entirely appropriate she and her paid, full-time spokeswoman would take questions from the press (or at least from the Voice, the first paper to cover Stonewall and a major publication in the neighborhood where the Center resides). The Center has refused to speak to us for a year, but as the Bronx burns with its Pride Center shuttering due to financial matters involving its leader, it's imperative that the partially publicly funded LGBT Center answer questions.
The Center responded by not only (predictably) erasing this question, but by shutting off the ability for anyone to post anything on their wall. It's a pretty harsh reaction to keep any of the 97,000 people who "like" the Center from commenting just because they didn't like one question from one reporter.
But this is the locked-down world of Gay Inc., where "communication" only goes one way.
What is the Center hiding? Why are they so afraid of speaking with the press about free speech, their finances, their staff, or anything else? Why will they not answer questions, as another LGBT Center's finances have imploded, about what they are doing with their own money? It's ironic that both Creager and Testone came from GLAAD, an organization adept at telling the media what to say, and yet they both refuse to speak to their hometown newspaper.
But that's a through line through all of the heartbreaking stories we are investigating right now. The heads of these LGBT organizations go from one job in Gay Inc. to another, moving without loss from GLAAD to the Center to other non-profits, no matter how much damage happens on their watch. No matter how poor the people are they are supposed to be "helping," the people who helm these organizations go from one high paying job to the next, often with little setback even when they preside over (or cause) the worst of financial mismanagement.
We saw a lot of this when we reported on "The Nonprofit 1 Percent." It's sad to see it in Gay Inc., too.


This Phase I trial combines ADI-PEG 20 with docetaxel in patients with advanced solid tumors with emphasis on castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). The investigators hypothesize that the combination will result in greater tumor cytotoxicity with an acceptable toxicity profile (i.e., manageable side effects) in cancer patients due to the unique mechanism of action of ADI-PEG 20. The investigators also hypothesize that the combination of ADI-PEG 20 and docetaxel will result in enhanced tumor cell apoptosis in part due to autophagy and that this will be particularly relevant in CRPC.


The cathedral is embedded in Rabat city centre in the heart of the historic quarter. A tall and simple facade, two bell towers where the huge bells are still operated by hand. The Maltese cross can be found right at the top and in the centre we see how strong an influence the church still has on this islnd. Inside everything looks more looked after than in our Spanish churches. Fresh, glowing windows and religious motifs all around. On this occasion I recorded a wedding ceremony, a bride, groom and lots of guest ... until I got caught!


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168 police personnel on radar in JK, likely to face action
A file photo of JK Police personnel deployed in Srinagar.
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has put the police department's 168 personnel on the radar for their alleged "involvement in subversive, criminal, corrupt activities" and action against them is on the cards, reports said on Monday.
The administration had earlier sacked several civil officials including senior ones for their "direct, indirect involvement in militancy activities."
Among 168 Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) personnel whose links with subversives are under investigation, only seven belong to Jammu division while 161 are in Kashmir valley, the Daily Excelsior reported quoting official sources.
The report said seven police personnel, whose credentials are doubtful and being probed by the police at the highest level in the Jammu division include two each from Jammu, Rajouri, and Poonch districts and one in Kishtwar while 161 cops, who are under radar in Kashmir, belonged to all 10 districts of the Valley.
As per the report, out of 168 police officials, whose cases are under review, two are in the rank of Inspectors, 11 Sub Inspectors, and 49 Assistant Sub Inspectors. The report said the rest of the personnel are in the ranks of Head Constables, Selection Grade Constables, Constables, and Followers.
Quoting the sources further, the report said, "The track record and credentials of the police personnel will be examined minutely. Their performance and role, if any, in subversive and militant activities will be looked into."
There is a condition that the police personnel against whom action is proposed to be taken might have completed 22 years of service or attained 48 years of age, the sources were quoted further saying.
During the past few months, the JK administration has sacked many government employees for their alleged involvement in militant-related activities.
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It almost sounds too good to be true. But are machines really up to the task?
One industry that has highly leveraged AI is recruitment. As we have previously written about here, the task of sifting through hundreds or thousands of resumes is uniquely suited to machines. An important feature of the application of AI to recruitment is reducing human bias in the selection of candidates. But as we warned, an AI system is only as good as the data inputted into it – a critical point recently confronted by Amazon.
Amazon developed an AI tool to automate recruitment and reduce bias. While it appears to have been effective at the former, it seriously failed at the latter. Since the AI was trained to select applicants based on resumes previously submitted over a 10 year period, the algorithm was in effect trained with tainted data. The sample contained resumes that were disproportionately from male candidates, and as such, the AI began to prefer male candidates.
Thankfully, Amazon was alerted to and rectified the gender bias in its AI, but eventually scrapped the program altogether. What if the issue was not discovered, or other biases remained? Further, who is responsible when an organization uses an algorithm to select candidates that in effect discriminates against an identifiable group on human rights grounds? Since an algorithm cannot explain its decision-making process, how can you be sure it is working as intended and not simply perpetuating existing biases?
This raises new and challenging issues for employers and HR professionals. The issue of liability could differ depending on whether companies develop their own AI such as Amazon, or where a company utilizes third-party recruitment applications (the more likely scenario).
Using third-party software that creates biased outcomes could arguably simply be a result of historical biases in a company's hiring decisions, and have nothing to do with the AI itself. But do most employers or HR professionals have the capacity to evaluate whether the bias is created by the algorithm or their company data fed to the algorithm (or both)?
AI recruitment vendors can perform adverse impact tests to determine the integrity of the data. However, this is often one of the last steps and can come after an organization has invested significant time and resources in implementing the technology. A best practice could be for organizations to negotiate that vendors detect bias at the start of the project or mitigate it in the course of algorithm development.
Still, this doesn't guarantee that bias will be eliminated entirely or clarify who is ultimately responsible for biased outcomes.
So should employers and HR professionals hold off on using AI in recruitment? No, technology is nothing to be afraid of. AI is still an expedient and efficient tool for large-scale recruitment, and organizations with a long history of unbiased decision-making processes will have better results. If nothing else, it does turn an organization's attention to the input and underlying data that feeds into the selection process. This is always a good internal conversation to have, whether or not technology is involved.
As always, we would be happy to answer any questions you have regarding the use of AI in the selection of candidates for your workplace.


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Q: How can I query an AppHost for a specific route? Basically I have following architecture:

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*Website-project (1)

*Domain-project (2)

*Api-project (3)

Dependencies:

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*1 uses 2 and 3

*3 uses 2

*2 uses nothing

In my Api-project I define a concrete implementation of ServiceStack.Webhost.Endpoints.AppHostBase, eg ApiAppHost:
public sealed class ApiAppHost : AppHostBase
{
    private ApiAppHost()
        : base("Description", typeof (ApiAppHost).Assembly) {}

    public override void Configure(Container container)
    {
        this.SetConfig(new EndpointHostConfig
        {
            ServiceStackHandlerFactoryPath = "api"
        });

        this.Routes.Add<Foo>("/foo", "POST");
    }

    public static void Initialize()
    {
        var instance = new ApiAppHost();
        instance.Init();
    }
}

This is pretty straight-forward.
Now I want to query my this.Routes (in combination with EndpointHostConfig.ServiceStackHandlerFactoryPath) from my Website-project to get the specific path for Foo.
How can I do that without creating an interceptor on my own? Does ServiceStack.Net provide anything which fits?

A: Currently I am doing something like this
public static class AppHostBaseExtensions
{
    public static string GetUrl<TRequest>(this AppHostBase appHostBase)
    {
        var requestType = typeof (TRequest);

        return appHostBase.GetUrl(requestType);
    }

    public static string GetUrl(this AppHostBase appHostBase, Type requestType)
    {
        var endpointHostConfig = appHostBase.Config;
        var serviceStackHandlerFactoryPath = endpointHostConfig.ServiceStackHandlerFactoryPath;

        var serviceRoutes = appHostBase.Routes as ServiceRoutes;
        if (serviceRoutes == null)
        {
            throw new NotSupportedException("Property Routes of AppHostBase is not of type ServiceStack.ServiceHost.ServiceRoutes");
        }
        var restPaths = serviceRoutes.RestPaths;
        var restPath = restPaths.FirstOrDefault(arg => arg.RequestType == requestType);
        if (restPath == null)
        {
            return null;
        }

        var path = restPath.Path;
        var virtualPath = "~/" + string.Concat(serviceStackHandlerFactoryPath, path); // bad, i know, but combining with 2 virtual paths ...
        var absolutePath = VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute(virtualPath);

        return absolutePath;
    }
}

I know that it is wrong because of many issues (path-combining, not taking rest-paths into account, not taking rest-paths with placeholders into account), but it works as a start ...
Edit:
And this only works, if you register the route within Configure(Container) of your AppHostBase-implementation. It wont't work with the RestServiceAttribute-attribute ...


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School of Health Research
Clinical Professors
Gary A. Abrams, M.D.
Clemson University School of Health Research
Chief, Gastroenterology/Hepatology
Prisma Health–Upstate
Contact: 864-455-2888 or gary.abrams@prismahealth.org
Who is Dr. Abrams?
Dr. Abrams is the Chief of Gastroenterology/Hepatology at Prisma Health Upstate. He received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, and completed his medical residency and Gastroenterology/Hepatology fellowship training at Yale. He was an NIH-funded clinical research investigator during his fellowship specializing in hepatology. Due the epidemic of obesity, currently the most common cause for elevated liver tests is nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).  Dr. Abrams' research over the past 12 years has examined NAFLD in the bariatric population undergoing gastric bypass surgery with respect to the spectrum of histopathology, the relationship of hepatopathology in morbidly obese subjects with and without metabolic syndrome, and the utility of "NAFLD Fibrosis Score" in morbidly obese individuals with NAFLD.  He has previously collaborated with basic science colleagues examining mitochondrial respiration and proteomic modification in animals fed high fat diets and hepatic steatosis. Dr. Abrams' and Dr. Susan Duckett have had discussions regarding future collaborations to investigate the efficacy of palmitoleic acid in a piglet model of NAFLD as well as to establish a novel animal model of NAFLD with Dr. Renee Cottle in Clemson's bioengineering department.
For more information, see his Curriculum Vitae.
How Dr. Abrams' research is transforming health care
Dr. Abrams' initial studies investigated pulmonary dysfunction in subjects with cirrhosis-specifically Hepatopulmonary Syndrome (HPS). He and his colleagues developed a clinical algorithm to screen for HPS for early identification and listing criteria for liver transplantation eligibility. Their studies have expanded the histopathologic spectrum of NAFLD in the adult bariatric population, and resolution of NAFDL post-surgery and its relationship to the metabolic syndrome. In addition to the standard histological findings diagnostic for NASH (steatosis, inflammation and ballooning hepatocytes) they identified a subset of individuals with isolated portal fibrosis without evidence of NASH (now commonly identified in the obese pediatric population). They applied new upper limits of ALT activity for men (30 IU/ml) and women (19 IU/ml) to the bariatric population demonstrating 65% of obese subjects undergoing GBY would be considered to have an elevated ALT compared to 28% using the laboratory ULN. However, the prevalence of NASH remained similar (23-26%). A subset of their bariatric database underwent repeat liver biopsy approximately 18 months post GBY revealing statistical significant improvements in steatosis and ballooning hepatocytes whereas inflammatory cells and fibrosis did not significantly change. Most recently, Dr. Abrams' and his colleagues have identified 105 subjects in their database of 445 GBY subjects that did not meet criteria for the metabolic syndrome defined by the International Diabetes Foundation. A substantial prevalence of NAFLD persisted composed of 56% with Fatty Liver only and 18% demonstrated NASH.
Key Health Research Interest Areas
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Cirrhosis, Pulmonary Dysfunction in Cirrhosis
CUSHR Faculty
CU-Prisma Health Partnership
Healthy SC
CU-MUSC Partnership
CU-HSSC Partnership
Clemson University Center for Human Genetics
College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences
Prisma Health–Upstate Research
SC-TRIMH


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Cristiano Ronaldo reaffirms his commitment to Portugal on social media
Will Cristiano Ronaldo continue to be a substitute? 0:40
(CNN) — Cristiano Ronaldo reaffirmed his commitment to Portugal on Thursday, just a few hours after the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) denied reports in the media that the captain had threatened to leave the team during the World Cup.
The 37-year-old wrote on Instagram: "A group too close-knit to be broken by outside forces. A nation too brave to fear any adversary. A team in the truest sense of the word, who will fight for the dream until the end! ! Create with us!".
The information about Ronaldo's possible abandonment of the national team came after the 37-year-old star was not included in the starting eleven against Switzerland in the round of 16 of the World Cup in Qatar.
Ronaldo's replacement, Benfica striker Gonçalo Ramos, stepped up by scoring a sublime hat-trick in Portugal's 6-1 win over Switzerland.
Portuguese publication Record reported on Thursday that the striker had previously threatened to leave the team after a conversation with coach Fernando Santos. That is why the FPF came out to deny the news.
"The FPF clarifies that at no time did the captain of the team, Cristiano Ronaldo, threaten to leave the team during his stay in Qatar," a statement read.
"Cristiano Ronaldo builds every day a unique trajectory of service to the national team and the country, which must be respected and which speaks of the unquestionable degree of commitment to the national team," he added.
Portugal will face Morocco this Saturday in the quarterfinals and will seek a place in the semifinal for the first time since 2006.


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A super-speciality hospital lies in coma
Rajiv Gandhi super-speciality hospital in Raichur remains shut for over a year
June 10, 2013 09:58 am | Updated July 08, 2016 02:43 pm IST - Raichur
Kumar Buradikatti
TAKING AWAY A FACILITY: People are opposing plans to convert the RajivGandhi Super-specialty Hospital into a postgraduate teaching hospitalattached to the Raichur Institute of Medical Sciences.
Rajiv Gandhi Super-specialty Hospital in Raichur, which was a landmark initiative in providing affordable healthcare to the people of backward Hyderabad Karnataka region for 10 years, has remained shut for the last one year with no hope of revival.
The government, in the meanwhile, is making plans to convert it into a postgraduate teaching hospital attached to Raichur Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), which would mean that it will no longer be a super-specialty hospital. This move has left people of the region and former employees shocked.
Better known as OPEC Hospital (as it was built with the Rs. 60-crore financial aid of Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), the facility built on 72 acres sanctioned by the government was, in its heyday, comparable to the best super-specialty hospital in the State capital. Today, the massive building is abandoned and high-end equipment remains covered in dust.
The 285 employees of the hospital observed June 1 as Black Day by blocking Hyderabad-Raichur highway. It was on this day that the hospital shut down a year ago.
OPEC Hospital, the 422-bed state-of-the-art facility, was inaugurated in 2000 by Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Just a year later, the government handed it over to Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd for 10 years to run it under government supervision. The government agreed to meet the monthly revenue expenditure of Rs. 1 crore, in addition to capital investment for machines and equipment.
It also agreed to provide one-time grant of Rs. 9.5 crore for re-equipping and Rs. 10.1 crore for administrative expenditure.
The hospital handled an average of over 25,000 patients annually, mostly poor, as families of Below Poverty Line (BPL) could get super-specialty treatment free of cost while families of Above Poverty Line (APL) could get huge concessions.
However, with the contract between Apollo and the Karnataka government expiring, OPEC Hospital closed its doors on June 1, 2012, as the government showed no interest either to renew the contract or to take over the management.
Instead of taking steps to reopen the super-specialty hospital, the government transferred the hospital from the Department of Health and Family Welfare to the Department of Higher Education and plans to turn it into a teaching hospital, much to the shock and disappointment of people.
R. Manasaiah, who has been in forefront of the struggle of the employees, says that it is the private hospitals lobby that was responsible for first handing the hospital over to a private management and finally its closure.
The common demand in the region is for reopening the hospital, but people are opposed to handing it over the management to any private entity.
They demand that it should be reopened as an autonomous body or that the management should be vested with the State government.
When The Hindu contacted U.T. Khader, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, he pleaded ignorance of the issue and promised to consult officers concerned and get more information.
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I asked each of my children separately. Here are there answers.
Even as I type this I can hear them discussing this question trying to figure out if it's a trick question or if there's a loophole to the "correct" answer. The words "I will die if she doesn't tell us what color five is" has been said more than once. And now they are chanting outside my door with signs, "Tell us! Tell us! Give us the truth or give us death!" (My kids are extremely dramatic.) I may just let them discuss it longer just to see where it leads.
This is the best interrogation imaginable. I am giggling uncontrollably. Thank you, thank you.
Oy! That should say *their* in the second sentence.
Sheesh. I actually see another error. *Has* should be *have* in another sentence. (Eye roll to myself.). This is what I get for "torturing" my kids with questions like this. If there are any other errors in that comment or this one, please assume I know proper grammar. I shouldn't care, but unfortunately I do.
Also, I've tried sending you a picture via email of what I saw when I came out of my room, but my email service isn't working properly. Sorry if you get a bunch of copies of it later.
This is so fascinating! How cool that your kids do this! I associate a color with letters of the alphabet, but they go in rainbow order (red orange yellow green blue purple, and then repeat all the way through) because that was the color order of the alphabet chart in my first grade class and apparently, I stared at it a lot. Other than that, I'm sadly lacking in this respect. I will ask my daughters, though. I can't wait to hear what they say!
Wow, that is so cool! I have never heard of that before and now I need to go ask my children if they see numbers in color as well.
5.5 yr old boy: (looks at my phone to see if there's a 5 on the screen) I don't know. Blue. Is it blue?
2.5 year old girl refused to answer.
This is so weird. And so cool!!!
Yep, we experienced this with our middle child. He happens to also be juuuust baaarely "on the spectrum", so in a sense we went all that surprised to find one more way his brain is really unusual and interesting . There's newer research that suggests that perhaps that pre-cognitive "thought" is color based– particularly pre-language skills– is color based and so synthesis is kind of a hold-over from infantile thought/language. I'm probably not explaining that perfectly, but that's my layman's version of what I've been told.
Aaack! So many typos!! I hate texting from my phone!!
11 yo – how can I know that?
Yikes. 2 and 7 ARE yellow.
I always loved learning about synesthesia in college.
We have three children, ages 22-17-14. We have known our middle child, Elizabeth, has had this form of synesthesia since she was 4 yrs. old. The other two do not. In addition to most everything having a color, they also have a gender (male/female), and her answers have not changed in 13 years. She excels in everything EXCEPT math… and I've always wondered if it doesn't have something to do with the perceived "color of numbers" being a distraction for her. Sometimes she says things like, "It doesn't make any sense those numbers would go together; their colors are not complimentary." I find it all fascinating!
I don't do the color thing, but letters and numbers have a specific gender to me.
This especially bothers me because I am a huge feminist and I hate that females are also underrepresented in a made up construct in my own mind.
I see colors for two numbers…. 4 and 5. Red and green make 9. Made perfect sense to me….my kids don't seem to have a touch of this , but one reports that a friend sees music notes as colors. Brains are certainly interesting.
Love this! I have a friend who has sound/color synesthesia. I don't know if I do officially, but I associate sound, taste, and smell with color as well.
I don't know anyone in real life with synesthesia but I did once see a really cool episode of Criminal Minds where the unsub (CM code for bad guy) had a form of synesthesia where he saw spoken words and truths were white and lies were red.
Not that I'm comparing your kids to unsubs.
I see music (which I've mostly learned to ignore otherwise driving would be SO HARD, but I cannot hear two things playing at the same time or I lose my mind) and taste colors (sorta…it's hard to explain…like things taste a color, but it's not always the color that the food item is? If that makes sense) but unfortunately numbers/letters are not colorful to me. That is way cooler in my opinion.
My child sees colors with numbers, letters, and days off the week. But it is in the order of the rainbow. Then black grey brown white repeat.
I have grapheme-color synesthesia and got all the way to college thinking everyone's brain worked that way (I think because my sister humored me). It came out one day during a finals week when I was super tired and someone asked me what day I was leaving to go home and I answered "Nine." They started questioning me and I said, "I meant Thursday, I said nine because nine and Thursday are both brown." By then a whole table of people were listening and thinking I'd gone crazy and I wished I'd thought up something better to say, but another person piped up and said,"My nine is pink!" Neither one of us knew it had a name, but we did some research and found out all about synesthesia…Just two semesters before I learned about it in my neuroscience class.
I've always been good a memorizing in general, but sequences of numbers especially. I used to know lots if phone numbers, back when it mattered. Also, now that I know not everyone experiences the colors I do ( which sounds funny now, but I really thought they did), I use it to do things like write the PIN numbers on the back of my debit cards just incase I do forget. Totally against the bank's recommendation, but who else is going to know what those little color stripes mean?
Wow I have never heard of this before! Fascinating!
I asked my 14 year old what color was B. He immediately replied blue. I asked several other colors and without missing a beat he stated a color. Just as I thought he might have this synesthesia, he looked at me and said "you are just weird, letters are not colors." Gotta love the teenage years.
This is so interesting. My husband, 18 year old son and 15 year old daughter were in the room when I asked "what color is number 5?" My son frowned and said "what??" My daughter at first seemed like it was a silly question but then said "blue" right before my husband said "blue". Then we laughed as they continued to have all the same colors for the numbers even though we had never talked about it before. They did not have colors for the alphabet though. It is so fascinating. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. It made for a very interesting conversation.
That's fantastic!!!! Thanks for sharing!


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Weekly Advance: Week of March 19
By Bill.Mooney • 03/16/12 4:56pm
TRENTON – Mark Thursday on your calendar, and no, it's not to set aside time to watch the next round of the NCAA basketball tournament.
Gov. Chris Christie's two Supreme Court nominees – Bruce Harris and Phillip Kwon – will receive their hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Harris, the Chatham mayor who is openly gay, has been an attorney for 20 years, but Democrats early on cited his lack of courtroom experience.
Kwon, first assistant attorney general, took a hit when the Star-Ledger reported on financial circumstances of a business owned by Kwon's mother. Those reports spurred Republicans to call on the Senate president to discipline whoever leaked confidential information.
The GOP called for prompt nomination hearings, but the Democrats were in no hurry to rush the process.
But now both men will have their day before the Legislative committee.
Back to school issues
The proposed reorganization of higher-education in New Jersey will be front and center again at two venues on the same day.
The Assembly Budget Committee will meet Monday morning at the Dental School at UMDNJ in Newark and focus primarily on education, higher education and local government issues.
Meanwhile a bit later that day, the Senate and Assembly Higher Education committees will convene a joint session at Rowan University in Glassboro to go over the proposed reorganization involving UMDNJ, Rutgers University, and other institutions.
Later in the week, the Senate Budget Committee will hold court on Wednesday at Burlington County College in Pemberton as the budget hearing process grinds its way forward.
Gov. Christie holds court on Monday in Kearny.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, such as the recent confrontation with a former Navy SEAL at a town hall in Roebling, don't be surprised to hear a call for the Judiciary to move the court nominations along, and possibly some comments on the recent vote in the Assembly to allow the Transportation Committee to have subpoena powers to look into activities at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Republicans questioned the Democrats' motivation as well as the fact committee Chair John Wisniewski is also head of the state Democratic Committee.
On Thursday, the Board of Public Utilities will hold a hearing into the problematic Solar Renewable Energy Certificates.
The public will have the opportunity to weigh in on the proposal for an extension of the program. New Jersey's solar energy efforts have made it No. 2 in the nation in terms of installations, but prices for SRECs have fallen dramatically, raising concerns about what – if anything – the public sector should do to prop up the alternative energy sector.
And U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will hold a press conference with some of New Jersey's congressional delegation Monday at the Hoboken Train Station to highlight jobs they say will be created by the Surface Transportation bill.
The Senate has passed the bill but it awaits House action. They are expected to say that the program will lead to 2.8 million jobs building or rebuilding bridges, roads and other infrastructure.
10:30 a.m., Town Hall, Archdiocesan Youth Retreat Center gymnasium, 499 Belgrove Drive, Kearny
Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno
Not yet scheduled
11 a.m., Senate and Assembly Higher Education Committees, Rowan University, Chamberlain Student Center, Eynon Ballroom, 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro
9:30 a.m., Assembly Budget Committee, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Dental School, 50 Twelfth Ave., Newark
4 p.m., Site Remediation Professional Licensing Board, Department of Environmental Protection, 401 E. State St., Trenton
7 p.m., Atlantic Coast Shellfisheries Council, Nacote Creek Law Enforcement Office, 360 New York Road, Port Republic
1:30 p.m., Senate Surface Transportation Bill press conference, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Bob Menendez, and Rep. Albio Sires, Hoboken Train Station, 1 Hudson Place, Hoboken
10 a.m., State Mosquito Control Commission, Department of Environmental Protection, 501 E. State St., Trenton
10 a.m., N.J. Commission on Brain Injury Research, Department of Human Services, first-floor boardroom, Market and Warren streets, Trenton
11 a.m., Election Law Enforcement Commission, 28 W. State St., Trenton
9 a.m., Budget and Appropriations Committee, Burlington County College, Pemberton Campus gymnasium, 601 Pemberton-Browns Mills Road, Pemberton
9 a.m., Delaware River Port Authority, 11th-floor boardroom, One Port Center, 2 Riverside Drive, Camden
9:30 a.m., Commission on Radiation Protection, Bureau of X-ray Compliance, 25 Arctic Parkway, Ewing
10 a.m., Sales and Use Tax Review Commission, Division of Taxation, 10th floor conference room, 50 Barrack St., Trenton
10 a.m., Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp., main conference room, Treasurer's Office, Statehouse, Trenton
10 a.m., Endangered and Nongame Species Advisory Committee, Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Fish and Wildlife, Central Region Office, Assunpink Wildlife Management Area, Robbinsville
10 a.m., Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission, Prallsville Mills, 33 Risler St., Stockton
1 p.m., N.J. State Museum Board of Trustees, 205 W. State St., Trenton
7 p.m., Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority, Eatontown Municipal Building, 47 Broad St., Eatontown
8:30 a.m., N.J. League of Municipalities, "Leaves of Absence in N.J.: A Look at the Family Medical Leave Act, the N.J. Family Leave Act, and ADA Compliance," Robert Meyner Reception Center, Holmdel
6 p.m., Author Ira Shapiro discusses his book, "The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis," Eagleton Institute of Politics, Wood Lawn, 191 Ryders Lane, Rutgers University.
10 a.m., Judiciary Committee, Rm. 4, Statehouse Annex, Trenton
9:30 a.m., Board of Public Utilities, discussion of proposal for Solar Renewable Energy Credit programs, 44 S. Clinton Ave., Trenton
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9 a.m., Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism, Basic and Clinical Autism Research Grantees, National Conference Center, Holiday Inn, East Windsor
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Written by Kate McDonald on 02 July 2015 .
Telstra Health has officially gone live with its ReadyCare telemedicine service, offering phone and video consultations with GPs 24 hours a day from a purpose-built facility in Sydney's Alexandria.
A joint venture between Telstra Health and Swiss telemedicine provider Medgate, ReadyCare is initially being targeted at the business-to-business market including health funds, mining companies, state governments and corporates.
It has signed its first big contract with travel insurance and medical assistance firm Cover-More, which insures 1.8 million travellers every year and handles 35,000 medical episodes. From next month, Cover-More will offer its customers the ability to call an Australian doctor 24/7 for medical assistance wherever they are in the world.
Telstra Health managing director Shane Solomon said ReadyCare was different to existing telephone advice lines in that its GPs are able to diagnose and treat medical conditions and to write prescriptions. ReadyCare GPs will be able to write a script that is then faxed to the patient's pharmacy of choice and a hard copy posted at a later date.
In addition to Medgate's evidence-based clinical guidelines and protocols – which have been Australianised from the original Swiss guidelines to take into account our interesting array of native fauna and their tendency to bite, including an impressive image library of spiders – ReadyCare has adopted the triage process used in Switzerland.
This involves the caller being triaged by a telemedicine assistant, who will then arrange a time for a GP to call back if the call is seen as appropriate. ReadyCare's chief medical officer, Amandeep Hansra, said the Swiss experience showed that about 60 per cent of callers could be assisted by telecare and the other 40 per cent were referred to face-to-face care.
However, with the use of video calls and a consumer app that ReadyCare is set to launch soon that will give patients the ability to take photos of bites or rashes and upload them to ReadyCare's cloud-based clinical software to be viewed by the GP, Dr Hansra said it was possible that the rate could be higher.
Dr Hansra said the clinical guidelines were a decision support tool for GPs rather than the 'decision tree'-style protocols often used by nurse-led helplines. In the latter, nurses must follow the protocol whereas with ReadyCare, GPs will use their own clinical judgement.
ReadyCare is using the Clarity clinical and practice management system that Telstra Health owns following its purchase of cloud-based software vendor Cloud9 last year. Video calls will be handled initially by the BlueJeans browser-based cloud video conferencing technology.
A summary of each consultation will be sent by secure messaging to the patient's regular GP to ensure continuity of care, and the technology also has the normal prescription and referral writing capabilities.
While the joint venture is targeting the business market initially, the plan is to test the waters to gauge direct-to-consumer interest. Mr Solomon said he expected the convenience of the service to appeal to time-poor workers, new mothers, after-hours callers and those who simply cannot access a regular GP.
A consultation will cost $69 plus GST, which is comparable to a non-bulk billing GP visit, and according to ReadyCare's CEO, Gianin Zogg, the company will also offer an annual subscription plan. The cost to corporate or institutional clients will be customised, Mr Zogg said.
The plan is, however, to show that B2C telemedicine can work effectively, safely and efficiently in Australia and to provide it to GPs to use in their own practices and with their own patients, Mr Solomon said. Then the government will be able to take a good look at whether to allow GP to patient teleconsults on the MBS.
While direct-to-consumer is part of the longer term plan, it is being tried out already through a discount offering to Telstra employees. However, Mr Solomon said the B2B market was actually larger than imagined.
"You start thinking about people in prisons, people in remote locations and mining companies, people who are insured but who don't have a regular GP and let things get to the point where they end up in the emergency department. There are a lot of B2B possibilities.
Mr Zogg, who helped establish Medgate in Switzerland 15 years ago, has come out to Australia to head up the new service. Medgate is now Europe's largest telemedicine provider, sees up to 4300 patients a day and has provided more than four million consultations in its time without an instance of a malpractice suit, he said.
"We are quite careful about our medical protocol system – we Swiss can't help that," he said. "It is our mission to provide quality and cost effective immediate access to healthcare wherever you are and whenever you need it, at night or in remote areas or simply where there is no other form of access to healthcare.
Twenty GPs have gone through two weeks of intensive training in using the system, all of them fellows of either the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) or the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM), and all of them working for ReadyCare part time and also working in traditional practice.
The company also has a clinical advisory panel that has reviewed the clinical protocols, consisting of former RACGP president Chris Mitchell, former ACRRM president Bruce Chater, and former ACEM president Sally McCarthy.
ReadyCare now plans to investigate how to begin offering the service to GPs for use in their own practice, and to test whether telemedicine will begin to reshape how healthcare can be delivered in Australia, Mr Solomon said.
"I want to emphasise that we are trying to prove something here," he said. "We are trying to prove that [telemedicine has] quality, efficiency, safety and consumer value.
"It is a complex piece of IP, it's not just technology, but our vision is that part of every GP's normal practice will have a telemedicine component and what we're doing here is proving that it can be done.


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