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from .entity import Entity

class AirtimeTransaction(Entity):
    """
    Represents a transaction where airtime is sent to a mobile phone number.

    To send airtime, first [create a Custom Actions service to send a particular amount of
    airtime](/dashboard/add_service?subtype_id=main.service.rules.contact&action_id=main.rule.sendairtime),
    then trigger the service using [service.invoke](#Service.invoke),
    [project.sendBroadcast](#Project.sendBroadcast), or
    [project.scheduleMessage](#Project.scheduleMessage).

    Fields:

      - id
          * ID of the airtime transaction
          * Read-only

      - to_number
          * Destination phone number in international format (no leading +)
          * Read-only

      - operator_name
          * Operator name
          * Read-only

      - country
          * Country code
          * Read-only

      - status
          * Current status of airtime transaction (`successful`, `failed`, `cancelled`,
              `queued`, `pending_approval`, or `pending_payment`)
          * Read-only

      - status_text
          * Error or success message returned by airtime provider, if available
          * Read-only

      - value
          * Value of airtime sent to destination phone number, in units of value_currency
          * Read-only

      - value_currency
          * Currency code of price
          * Read-only

      - price
          * Price charged for airtime transaction, in units of price_currency
          * Read-only

      - price_currency
          * Currency code of price
          * Read-only

      - contact_id
          * ID of the contact the airtime was sent to
          * Read-only

      - service_id
          * ID of the service that sent the airtime
          * Read-only

      - project_id
          * ID of the project that the airtime transaction belongs to
          * Read-only

      - external_id
          * The ID of this transaction from an external airtime gateway provider, if available.
          * Read-only

      - vars (dict)
          * Custom variables stored for this transaction
          * Updatable via API
    """

    def getBaseApiPath(self):
        return "/projects/%(project_id)s/airtime_transactions/%(id)s" % {'project_id': self.project_id, 'id': self.id}


This pack of 20 glow in the dark stars and shapes are ideal for decorating bedrooms and classrooms.
Give your childs bedroom a funky outer space glow! Stick these Cosmic glow in the dark shapes onto bedroom walls, ceiling or even on the bed.


Come join in on a club ride with other club members on March 24th at Camp Hale. We will depart from the Camp Hale ramp parking at 10:00am sharp! This ride will include the Ptarmigan Pass area as well as Shrine Pass road into Red Cliff. We plan to have lunch at Mango's some time between 1:30pm and 2:30pm. The roads should be groomed and this ride is open to all levels. There will be areas for all levels of riders to enjoy.
Visit the following link for details on parking and directions on where we plan to ride and eat lunch.


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I am getting to the stage where you've heard it all before. I am making lots of stuff, litres of strawberry jam, strawberry tea, jam slice (with the failed first batch of jam), raisin bread, but it's all a bit fresh in the audience memory. So I'm going to talk about the cat.
I first suspected that something was wrong when he would stand in front of a toilet with the lid closed and make a sound like a toddler was tying his tail into a neat bow. He wanted to drink from the toilet. A lot. To the point where he'd actually nag you to get off the thing, are you going to spend all day there? Oh, we supply a bowl of water, but apparently it has dog germs. He was one thirsty cat.
So the vet did a thing where they deftly inserted a needle into him and withdrew some fluid ounces of urine. The urine was all wrong, Linus was in the early stages of renal failure. But don't worry, they blithely reassured me. Give him these pills and this special food and you'll have him for years to come! He's already nearly fifteen. I'm still getting the stains out of the carpet from the last elderly cat we had on the premises. Years, hey. Hmm. That food is really expensive.
He liked the first sachet. But not the second, after I'd bought a case of the stuff. I'm not surprised, it looks like the sort of thing a small marsupial would produce after a night on the turps.
He'd also stick his claws into me quite a lot. The dogs, on the other hand, thought the stuff was delicious, so I'd have to guard Linus every time he wanted to eat, which was every ten minutes. So very irksome. So I looked up do it yourself renal care food. Wow, too complex, and I don't know if I'd like to risk grinding chicken bones in the Thermomix. So many supplements, and who knows if you'd get the balance right? Question, what would he be eating in the wild? Answer, nothing, he'd be dead. And guess what my research also uncovered? A cat will actually starve itself to death if it doesn't approve of the food choices its human is making for it. I've had cats all my life, this really shouldn't come as a surprise.
So for the moment we're going with a compromise. He gets the pill, that's not a problem. I mix some marsupial poop with the renal kibble and a scoop of delicious kangaroo meat, his previous high protein diet. Human grade too, sometimes I suspect the pet grade stuff is just sawdust soaked in blood. He's stopped sticking his claws into me quite as much.
He's not nagging people to stop using in his water bowl as a toilet any more. This may just work.
It's like this. No, that's not right. It's not like I actually went out and… Well, what with one thing and another, I appear to have a job. Only a small one, mind. But it does involve quite a lot of standing up and talking and rather gives one a thirst.
I've tried the sipping of water and it isn't enough. I'm not just talking, I'm projecting. Singing a little bit. By the end of the first day what I most felt like was a glass of honey with a splash of whiskey in it. The following week I discovered that the beverage I was looking for was iced tea. Which is odd, really, because I don't like tea. Sometimes I feel like it, or the occasion seems to demand it, and then I have it black with one. Most of the time I regret it, because it makes me feel like my tongue has been sandpapered and I get a squeezed feeling about the kidneys. But I appear to be able to drink iced tea with no ill effects. So naturally ones thoughts turn to making the stuff.
It turns out to be dead easy. In its most simple form it is actually tea diluted by its volume again in cold water and heavily sweetened. I fancied it flavoured, but the peaches you can get at the moment come from very far away. What is cheap and a plausible tea flavour is strawberries.
First make a pot of tea. I have in the collection a teapot that makes about a litre of tea.
Four scoops of tea in the mesh strainer thingy. I really must go and buy some nice tea for this exercise, because once the kids discover it I'll be making it a lot. Then put a decapitated punnet of strawberries into the Thermomix, along with a peeled and deseeded half a lemon. You knew the Thermomix was going to come into it. Zap the fruit. Pour in the hot tea. Zap again. Taste for sweetness. There isn't any. I have a small pot of honey that I found in my handbag last time I cleared it out, I have some vague memory of someone giving it to me. Its time has come.
I think it would be about a third of a cup. Possibly half. That took it up to the desired sweetness. I thought I'd filter it into a jug, there was a lot of pulp that I'd rather not strain through my teeth. I added a litre of water to the jug. The we have it, strawberry iced tea.
The Moose said it tasted just like Liptons, which I'm fairly sure is a compliment. I thought it was much nicer. If it doesn't last until Friday, I'm sure I can find five minutes to make up some more. I wonder what other plausible tea flavours there are?
Don't make me talk about when my favourite knife died. You can find it in the archives. It involved sorbet. And epic foolishness on my part. Foolish foolish foolish. I need to let it go, that lesson is learned, and now I need a new knife.
I had blocked out today to wait for the shower screen guys, but as they managed to turn up twenty four hours early I was free to accept a kind invitation from a neighbour to chase her around the Bay then go on an excursion to Peters of Kensington. Exactly the emporium from which I had been planning to buy my new knife.
I do love Peters of Kensington. There's a ton of stuff there, you need to go around four or five times to absorb the amount of stock you're being presented with. Avoid looking up in the section with the expensive porcelain figures, there's a really creepy clown perched above the shelves. We stopped at the little cafe for refreshments. It was full of the elderly taking tea, Rosemary Clooney crooning about whatever will be will be, we had to get up to the knife section before we were tempted to buy velvet cushions and book in for hip replacements.
It was a very serious knife section. I was pretty sure that I wanted exactly what I had last time, a sixteen centimetre Wusthoff chefs knife. My friend had just bought a Shun knife and was very impressed by it. So sharp she was worried she'd lose a finger, or slice right through her kitchen bench. I should at least have a look at one. The serious sales assistant unlocked the display and very gently laid the knife in front of me. I felt like I should swish and flick and bring down rolls of dusty wands. I did swish it a bit, but it has a very straight handle, it didn't nestle in my hand like the Wusthoff. Then the serious lady started singing the praises of the knife, it was outrageously sharp, but very delicate. "You couldn't cut pumpkin with it", she said. "Or anything with a bone, you could chip the knife". "And you can't sharpen it with a steel, the angle is different to European knives. You have to get it sharpened professionally". I got the feeling she didn't really want to sell it. I hefted the Wusthoff. Ah, that's the one. "I'll take this, plus a paring knife", I said. "Great! You know they'll sharpen it for free. You can write to them and they'll send you a reply paid envelope and you can post it to them. They're in Perth. They'll send it straight back. You'll only be without your knife for two weeks. Oh, and I'll have these knives sent downstairs for you". What, you wouldn't trust me to carry them downstairs? I did wonder if she was in the right profession at all.
With heroic self restraint I avoided buying it, which meant I had none left when I came across the carrot sharpener. It sharpens carrots!
I believe the idea is to create lavish curls of carrot for your fancy salads. But the excellent side effect is… Weaponised Carrots!
I've got my new knife home now, and it's already cut strawberries and carrots and cucumber and capsicum and pork ribs and broccoli and I love it. I promise to hand wash it and replace it in its cardboard sleeve. And I will never let it near sorbet. I promise.
I know you've been on the edge of your armchairs, wondering how the muttering bathroom renovation has been coming along. Are they able to ablute inside yet? Would it be safe to go near them in warm weather?
I've been trying not to think about it, because it causes me to clutch at my hair and mess up its perfect symmetry ahahaha. I ordered all the bits early in April. Early in May the kitchen company indicated they were ready to go ahead. I called the supply place, My Bathroom and Tile Centre in Drummoyne, if you're looking for someone to avoid, who had indicated they'd like a week's notice. They were getting two weeks. And that's where it all started to come unstuck.
Well, you've heard most of it. Only delivering half the tiles. Forgetting to bring the bath waste. None of the tradesmen turning up at the advised time, mostly late, but some early. Discovering that the existing bathroom drain was actually just a hole in the floor and not even at the lowest point. And the towel rails. Oh, the saga of the towel rails. First they had just forgotten to bring them. Then they were the wrong ones. Then they weren't ready. I suspect they just forgot to order them, actually. Then it was going to be six weeks, because they were being hand plated by specially imported Irish leprechauns who only worked under the light of a full moon. Then it was going to be another six weeks, because they'd delivered one brand new shiny one and one battered one in a dusty box. Well they finally turned up yesterday, and here they are.
Aren't they beautiful. And I had an added bonus today. A phone call from My Bathroom and Tile, almost exactly a month after they said the shower screen would be ready in a week. Where was I this morning? Well, a spot of gym, some shopping, that kind of thing. The shower screen people had popped by and were less than gruntled to miss me. I tactfully suggested that as they'd advised it would be installed on Wednesday, that being tomorrow, I hadn't stuck to the premises like I had on so many other days, waiting, waiting, waiting for that next tiny step forward towards a working bathroom. Stick around, they suggested. Sure enough, miraculously before school pickup time, I finally had a shower screen.
Complete with a five year warranty, in case it explodes in the night like that of a good friend. You hear all the horror stories when you renovate. "Don't touch it for twenty four hours or it will leak everywhere", they suggested. What a tease. But it does mean that tomorrow night it will be possible to shower indoors without soaking the entire room for the first time since we moved into this place twelve years ago come Lammas Eve. Or thereabouts.
You know, when I think about it, most of my troubles come from the fact that I foolishly asked for my metal accents to be gold rather than chrome. I live in a house that celebrates its hundredth birthday this year. We have lights that turn on by pulling a string. In two of the rooms we still have gorgeously ornamented gas light fittings. I can't have a bathroom that looks like something out a spaceship. But I wish they'd warned me that I would pay for being so very difficult, I might have just gone and bought all my fittings off the shelf at Recollections. Be warned. Learn from my tale of woe. Though, on the bright side, I may have a finished bathroom by the end of the week, and then all of the lies and disappointments will fade quickly into the past. First world problem? It's up there.


I stumbled across this article on Facebook via one of the relatives of this Thousand Oaks, CA woman who just turned 107. Imagine my paleo delight when I read the phrase (bolded below) about bacon grease. Haha. Does anyone else stumble across these anecdotes about longevity, where the young are shocked at how granny could live so long eating such 'unhealthy,' 'fatty' foods?
"Two days before turning 107 years old, Lorena Volz celebrated her birthday with a vodka tonic and chocolate cake topped with candles as she was surrounded by three generations of family members ??? including several great-grandchildren.
"I don't have a secret. It just happened," said Volz, who was born Oct. 9, 1905. "I guess I got the right genes."
Volz was the guest of honor Sunday at a party in Thousand Oaks at the home of son Don, and daughter-in-law Kay.
"She's pretty cool," said her great-grandchild, 19-year-old Chloe Volz. "I think about how she was born before women could vote. She lived through two world wars and the Depression, and she's still going strong. She's always happy. You never see her not smiling."
"She has a warm attitude and she's always happy," said Chloe's brother, 17-year-old Sam Volz.
Don Volz jokingly attributed his mother's long life to "orneriness, and doing all the wrong things. She ate the worst foods in the world. She cooked her fish in bacon grease and her sister lived to be 100."
"I attribute her longevity to her Finnish and German genes," said her granddaughter, Kathy Mardirossian. "Hopefully, I've inherited them, too."
Born in Oscoda, Mich., Volz lived in Detroit and Saginaw, Mich.; Mesa, Ariz.; and Marco Island, Fla., before moving to Thousand Oaks. She has been living at Hillcrest Manor, an assisted-living home, for seven years.
"We put her in Hillside Manor when she was 100 because she was falling and not doing well. She's been there seven years now, and she just thrives," Kay Volz said. As far as her life span is concerned, "it must be genetic because she did everything ??? she drank quite a bit and smoked until she was 95."
Volz had odd jobs throughout her life and didn't have one profession, Kay Volz said. She married Harold Volz in 1930, but he died in 1969 and she was on her own for quite a while.
"Lorena is a lovely young lady for 107," said Severino Lozano, a registered nurse at Hillside Manor who has known Volz for several years. "She's very with it. When I first came here to take care of her, she commented on my mustache. She said, 'I don't like that mustache; you need to shave it off.' That's the type of personality she has ??? she speaks her mind. She's kind of stubborn, and she knows what she wants, so we try not to mess with her routine as much as possible."
Volz is the oldest person who has ever lived at Hillside Manor, Lozano said. "We have one who's 101, but not as with it and together as Lorena. She still watches her football and still reads her paper."
Lozano partly attributes her longevity to her family.
"They are wonderful and always coming to visit and always engaging her," he said. "It's also her attitude. She's very giving and selfless ??? she engages her family and even strangers. It's very inspiring to see."
In her spare time, Volz enjoys crocheting, doing crossword puzzles and spending time with family.
"The only thing she has is a pacemaker," Kay Volz said. "She just had it replaced a month ago. Her cardiologist said it's good for another 10 years ??? he said she has the heart of a 25-year-old."
What people need to know is that bacon grease has no salt, no carbs and no transfat. It has less saturated fat and cholesterol than butter. If anyone out there has been looking to buy the best hickory bacon grease they can go to www.hotbellybacongrease.com It makes everything taste better and if you use it to cook your meat and veggies in, you don't even feel like your dieting. Each container is only $7.00 and it's like frying three pounds of bacon.
Totally agree. Social relationships matter more than eating kale and salmon. When I was 12, I had a paper route in a neighborhood with a lot of seniors and college students. One older man always greeted me warmly when I delivered the paper. One day he was on his front porch and very glum. I learned that his wife had passed away. He died within a week. I doubt that kale and salmon would have saved him.
Manul, if you read my answer carefully, we are in agreement. However, I know many people who eat SAD (everything in moderation - not total crap but plenty of gluten/sugar/veg oil/processed/restaurant food) and they seem fine into their 70's and 80's. Of course I think that paleo/primal/ancestral/PHD is healthier than SAD or I wouldn't be here. And many people can suffer less by switching to a healthy diet. There are people who seem to do fine on SAD - there is no need to turn this into a religion.
It's not about living long. It's about living without pain and fatigue.
Don't forget to give her credit for smoking! She sounds like someone I'd really enjoy taking tequila shots with. When I was a kid, there was a guy well over a hundred that still walked to the mall every day. Lucky peeps!
What about the vodka and birthday cake?
I enjoy life more fully after having some bacon.
Yeah my grandpa lived to 98 or something, subsisted almost exclusively on chocolate-covered doughnuts, coffee and white-bread ham sandwiches. Just got the longevity gene.
I'll take you up on the offer. Present your case. I can supply you with my personal email in case you are unable to fit your entire elucidation of the topic in the comments section provided. I lay in wait for what assuredly will be an eloquent response.
Hahahaha! OMG, you are so correct it's ridiculous!
That was a fascinating link...thanks!
My friends aunt is in her 90's. For 30 years she has a hot dog and an orange soda from the vendor near her apartment three times a week for lunch. She eats candy and chocolates and generally very typical SAD food. Probably worse than most. Some people live an amazing long time eating crap. I could eat really well and still die much earlier.
Please stop the magical thinking that paleo (or any diet) is going to make you live x number of years. It won't. Maybe you'll be healthier in the time you have. Enjoy life as fully as you can. Stop worrying about the rest.
Since I've started using bacon grease (and other rendered fats) to cook in my husband's cholesterol has dropped over 100 points, and his b/p is now in the normal range......it's amazing how the paleo lifestyle has helped us get healthier!
I think the take away is that lard won't kill you young, which isn't the same as making you live longer.
I can guarantee you that for every centenarian eating bacon there's 1000x 40/50-somethings dropping dead from CVD. Folks that live to 100+ do so in spite of diet often times.
That's what I got out of this!!!
Everyone's different. A few days of vodka and chocolate cake and I feel like a 150 yr old cancer patient on drugs. Add smoking, and, well..... I feel like a corpse.
I like the part about the vodka tonic. I don't like to fry bacon that much, and what I do fry isn't really enough for cooking, but I did find a place to order it online. Amazon.com has it. It's called hot belly bacon grease. You can just google it and go straight to their site.
anecdotes are not evidence ... period.
"Buhler's daughter, Justina Suderman, said her mother kept a positive attitude, despite enduring hard times in the former Russian empire and farming during the Great Depression.
Buhler's religious faith and regular exercise were the keys to her longevity, said Suderman, also noting her mother ate whatever she wanted and was fond of cooking with lard."
So I guess lard / bacon grease and a positive attitude are the keys to a long life!


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Georgia County Plants Daffodils For Holocaust Remembrance
By SABRINA KERNS, Forsyth County News
Sabrina Kerns, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rabbi Levi Mentz with Congregation Beth Israel and his daughter plant daffodil bulbs outside of the Forsyth County Arts and Learning Center on Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. (Sabrina Kerns/Forsyth County News via AP)
CUMMING, Ga. (AP) — Leaders with Forsyth County Schools, Congregation Beth Israel and the OneForsyth Council all got their hands dirty on Nov. 8 as they each began the planting of 500 daffodil bulbs.
They planted the bulbs outside of the school district's new Forsyth County Arts and Learning Center as part of the Daffodil Project, a worldwide initiative aiming to plant daffodils all over in honor of each of the 1.5 million children who died during the Holocaust.
Thanks to their partnership, Forsyth County will now be home to 500 of those daffodils, which will bloom in the spring on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
FCS Superintendent Dr. Jeff Bearden, Rabbi Levi Mentz with Congregation Beth Israel and OneForsyth Council Chair Kristin Cook all gave opening remarks at the ceremony before county and school district leaders began planting each of the bulbs.
Cook said she was proud to be there, speaking on behalf of OneForsyth, the Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce's diversity initiative, and modeling their guiding principles of uniting, celebrating and promoting inclusion in the county.
"Our hope is that, by continuing to support events like these, we will all grow to appreciate the unique identities that embody us all," Cook said.
Metz said he was overjoyed to see the project coming to Forsyth County, his involvement feeling personal to him and his family as his grandfather was a survivor of the Holocaust.
His grandfather was first taken with his family to a Warsaw ghetto in 1939. He later lived through six different concentration camps and was able to build a family after the war. During that time in the ghetto, though, Mentz said his grandfather faced difficult decisions in what would be the beginning of a long, devastating time in his life.
At the time, Mentz said families living in the ghetto were given cards which were used in exchange for food, and families were never given enough to really sustain themselves.
Because of this, many were forced to find ways to get more cards. His grandfather's older brother "did whatever he could" to collect more and feed their parents, who were older and needed the food.
"After doing this for many months, he was finally noticed by an SS soldier," Mentz said.
The soldier ordered for him to be shot and killed at the back of the ghetto, but thanks to a family member who befriended another SS soldier, he was instead sent away to a labor camp.
Mentz' grandfather was the next oldest brother in their family still in the ghetto with his parents. He had to ask himself if it would be worth potentially risking his own life to feed those he loved.
"I share this with everyone today because why did my grandfather, together with millions, have to go through something like this?" Mentz asked. "It's for one reason — because the Nazis felt that the Jewish people were different."
Mentz hopes that people today can learn from those mistakes made then, knowing now that, on the inside, "all of us are the same." He said our differences on the outside just make us that much stronger as a united society.
"It's the many colors that make the tapestry look beautiful," Mentz said. "It's the many sounds that make the music coming from an orchestra so exhilarating."
The Daffodil Project chose to honor those children who died in the Holocaust with daffodils because, as they bloom, the flowers resemble the Star of David. They also represent "poignant hope for the future," according to the project's website, at www.daffodilproject.net.
As the daffodils in Forsyth County first begin to bloom in the spring, FCS, Congregation Beth Israel and OneForsyth plan to hold another ceremony to read the names of and honor those who lost their lives.
"We realize that, in our unity, we are stronger," Mentz said.

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What does it take to be a successful personal trainer? Our fitness expert, James Anderson explains the 5 personality traits you'll need to be the best in your field.
For the most part, personal training should be pretty easy, right?
Step 1: Speak with your clients about their goals.
Step 2: Design a program to best help them achieve their goals.
Step 3: Implement the program; watch your clients achieve the desired result.
However, what you need to understand is that personal training is far more than just designing a program and sitting back with your arms crossed counting reps.
Because, although we use inanimate objects such as dumbbells and barbells, our clients are the opposite. They're living, breathing organisms – just like us. That means that they're real people, with real lives, with real struggles, with very real feelings and emotions – just like us.
I was told the above quote when I first started in the industry and it has stuck with me ever since. It's very easy to get caught up (especially when you first start out) in yourself and how much knowledge you have. But I'll tell you one thing, people don't care about the origin and insertion points of the semimembranosus – they simply want to know that you've got their back.
Make it relevant to their goals.
More importantly – make it understandable (e.g. use "hamstring" instead of the semimembranosus).
We all get into the industry for different reasons, you may be someone who's always been really good at sport, or someone who loves the human body or simply loves training themselves at the gym.
But I'll be very honest with you here in saying that it's one thing to love playing sport, learning about the body or training yourself hard at the gym but it's a very different (and incredibly important) thing to also have a fondness for other people too. This means training, motivating, supporting and encouraging them even if they're not as committed as you are to your training.
Just think of personal training as a team contact sport, the more people you contact (with an authentic desire to help them), the better you'll do. But it must first start with a genuine love of people.
Good personal trainers ask quality questions, and then they'll carefully listen to their clients – not just verbally, but also their body language, too.
Clients will often use a lot of words without being very specific. You need to become a detective to cut through the "fluff" - continue to ask questions to ensure that you're getting the truest information to then be able to provide real solutions to clients needs whilst being able to develop strategies to overcome problems. This doesn't necessarily come straight away, but it is certainly something that can be developed over time – just be present and listen intently. Because the more you know and understand about your client, the better you'll be able to help them.
The personal nature of this job means that you're required to be "on" at all times when you're with your client – despite what may be going on in your life. Your job as a trainer is to be a leader, a coach and a motivator – if you're not passionate about what you're doing - neither will your client be. So, if you don't have a burning desire to be the best trainer you can be by continually developing your knowledge and skill base - then that burning desire will quickly turn into pile of ashes and you'll start to lose clients – fast. Stay hungry.
As a personal trainer, you'll encounter all types of people, personalities, injuries, goals, and even excuses. You have to stay flexible in your approach to ensure that you'll achieve the desired result for your clients.
Far too often I see personal trainers who are so rigid in their approach to training or nutrition methodologies that they fail to help their clients achieve their desired result. I made this mistake when I first started out and it cost me countless clients as I didn't listen to what they wanted. Instead, I tried to push them into an unsustainable training and nutritional program which ended up with them failing and me losing a client.
All I can say is that you should always be learning something new. This doesn't mean that you have to implement it, it's just about taking the best of what works and leaving the rest.
I'd like to venture a guess that if your goal is to be a personal trainer, that you'd most likely be a results-driven person? Good, because I'll let you in on a little secret. It doesn't matter how good of a listener you are, or how passionate, personable, flexible and understanding you are. If you don't get results, then you're not doing the job that your clients have invested their hard earned money and time with you for.
You need to ensure that you can deliver the results that you say you can. As I mentioned earlier, you should continually learn and develop so you stay at the cutting edge of the industry – because if you don't, you'll quickly be left in the wake of the trainers that do.
Strive to continually achieve the best results – both for your clients, and yourself.
Want to help others achieve their health and fitness goals? Research careers in the rewarding Fitness industry here.


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New book looks at early Cubs history
April 3, 2015, 6:29 a.m. CT
Wrigley Field turned 100 last year, and next year marks the 100th year of the Cubs as it's tenant. But the Cubs have been around a lot longer than the stadium. The team existed for decades before they relocated to the North Side, decades before they were even called the Cubs! There's a new book brimming with stories from the earliest days of the sport in The Windy City. It's called Before The Ivy: The Cubs' Golden Age in Pre-Wrigley Chicago. Author Laurent Pernot sat down with Morning Shift's Jason Marck to talk about some of the history.


I offer integrative supervision to counsellors and students as well as those practising in other caring professions.
My own model of practice is a relationship built upon a foundation of Person Centred core conditions. I use Gestalt and T.A. techniques when exploring development, attachment and family dynamics. I look at transference and counter transferential processes when exploring the relationships the clients grew up in and the difficulties they are experiencing in their current relationships.
I employ cognitive methods when looking at goals and achievable outcomes. Areas of experience include mental health issues (MIND), clinical experience working for the N.H.S., Bereavement, Couple Counselling and Individual Relationships, Employment Assisted Programmes involving the Care service sector and the Prison Service.
If you choose to work with me my approach combines collaborative discussion which may challenge your thinking and yet I am respectful of difference.
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The Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP) is a collaborative project applying computational approaches to comparative linguistics using a database of word lists. The database is open access and consists of 40-item basic-vocabulary lists for well over half of the world's languages. It is continuously being expanded. In addition to isolates and languages of demonstrated genealogical groups, the database includes pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and constructed languages. Words of the database are transcribed into a simplified standard orthography (ASJPcode). The database has been used to estimate dates at which language families have diverged into daughter languages by a method related to but still different from glottochronology, to determine the homeland (Urheimat) of a proto-language, to investigate sound symbolism, to evaluate different phylogenetic methods, and several other purposes.

ASJP is not widely accepted among historical linguists as an adequate method to establish or evaluate relationships between language families.

It is part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

History

Original goals
ASJP was originally developed as a means for objectively evaluating the similarity of words with the same meaning from different languages, with the ultimate goal of classifying languages computationally, based on the lexical similarities observed. In the first ASJP paper two semantically identical words from compared languages were judged similar if they showed at least two identical sound segments. Similarity between the two languages was calculated as a percentage of the total number of words compared that were judged as similar. This method was applied to 100-item word lists for 250 languages from language families including Austroasiatic, Indo-European, Mayan, and Muskogean.

ASJP Consortium
The ASJP Consortium, founded around 2008, came to involve around 25 professional linguists and other interested parties working as volunteer transcribers and/or extending aid to the project in other ways. The main driving force behind the founding of the consortium was Cecil H. Brown. Søren Wichmann is daily curator of the project. A third central member of the consortium is Eric W. Holman, who has created most of the software used in the project.

Shorter word lists
While word lists used were originally based on the 100-item Swadesh list, it was statistically determined that a subset of 40 of the 100 items produced just as good if not slightly better classificatory results than the whole list. So subsequently word lists gathered contain only 40 items (or less, when attestations for some are lacking).

Levenshtein distance
In papers published since 2008, ASJP has employed a similarity judgment program based on Levenshtein distance (LD). This approach was found to produce better classificatory results measured against expert opinion than the method used initially. LD is defined as the minimum number of successive changes necessary to convert one word into another, where each change is the insertion, deletion, or substitution of a symbol. Within the Levenshtein approach, differences in word length can be corrected for by dividing LD by the number of symbols of the longer of the two compared words. This produces normalized LD (LDN). An LDN divided (LDND) between the two languages is calculated by dividing the average LDN for all the word pairs involving the same meaning by the average LDN for all the word pairs involving different meanings. This second normalization is intended to correct for chance similarity.

Word list
The ASJP uses the following 40-word list. It is similar to the Swadesh–Yakhontov list, but has some differences.

Body parts
eye
ear
nose
tongue
tooth
hand
knee
blood
bone
breast (woman's)
liver
skin

Animals and plants
louse
dog
fish (noun)
horn (animal part)
tree
leaf

People
person
name (noun)

Nature
sun
star
water
fire
stone
path
mountain
night (dark time)

Verbs and adjectives
drink (verb)
die
see
hear
come
new
full

Numerals and pronouns
one
two
I
you
we

ASJPcode
ASJP version from 2016 uses the following symbols to encode phonemes: p b f v m w 8 t d s z c n r l S Z C j T 5 y k g x N q X h 7 L 4 G ! i e E 3 a u o

They represent 7 vowels and 34 consonants, all found on the standard QWERTY keyboard.

A  mark follows two consonants so that they are considered to be in the same position.
Thus,  becomes .
Syllables like , ,  and  are considered lexically similar to .

Similarly, a  mark follows three consonants so that they are considered to be in the same position.
 is considered similar to ,  and .

 marks the preceding consonant as glottalized.

See also
 Lexicostatistics
 Historical linguistics

References

Sources
Søren Wichmann, Jeff Good (eds). 2014. Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics, p. 203. Leiden: Brill.
Brown, Cecil H., et al. 2008. Automated Classification of the World's Languages: A Description of the Method and Preliminary Results. Language Typology and Universals 61(4). November 2008.
Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, and Cecil H. Brown (eds.). 2018. The ASJP Database (version 18).

External links
 ASJP Database official home page

Organizations established in 2008
Comparative linguistics
Computational linguistics
Historical linguistics
Linguistics websites
Linguistics databases
Lexical databases
Cross-Linguistic Linked Data
Word lists

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Now that my season is over I like to herald in the fall by placing my egg shell collection container on my kitchen counter. True, it is not the most decorative touch but it reminds me to continue to save egg shells and build up my stores for the next season. In reality it is nothing more than an old Folgers coffee container with holes poked in the top to allow air circulation and my husband always seems to be trying to hide it away, under the sink. But one could decorate it nice if you were concerned over the aesthetics of it all. What's the big deal? Plenty, if you want the most from your purple martins nesting efforts.
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The actual preparation of egg shells is pretty easy. And "yes", you do have to prepare the egg shells. It is quite easy and just following these instructions on "Preparing Egg Shells" at our parent site, gives an easy recipe, of sorts.
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The PMCA also has an article in their publication The Purple Martin Update Vol. 15 (2) on page 20 I believe that is an interesting read. Contact the PMCA for a back issue of that.
To paraphrase all and take from my own experiences with domestic birds; by providing supplemental calcium you will help your female purple martins in how many eggs are actually laid and the number of birds that actually hatch. Also the nestlings with supplemental calcium have longer feathers at the same age and better growth rates overall. Though the PMCA states that Oyster Shell is much better absorbed than eggshell, if you can't get the Oyster Shell, Egg Shells are better than nothing.
As my purple martins are gone, most of you know that I often amuse myself and keep the blog going by following up on interesting news articles, roost updates and by the time winter roles around I dabble in reviewing purple martin products and even general birding information.
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William Salmon (1644-1713) est un médecin empirique anglais, qui se présentait lui-même comme « Professor of Physick » et un auteur de textes médicaux et botaniques.

Biographie
William Salmon est né le  (selon une inscription sous un portrait dans Ars Anatomica).
Ses ennemis ont affirmé qu'il reçut sa première éducation d'un charlatan avec qui il voyageait et dont il reprit le fonds de commerce. Ses voyages l'ont conduit jusqu'en Nouvelle-Angleterre.

Salmon se lança à la recherche de patients près de la porte de Smithfield du St Bartholomew's Hospital. Il traitait toutes les maladies, vendait des prescriptions spéciales de sa propre invention, ainsi que des médicaments en général, il établissait des horoscopes et professait l'alchimie.

Il déménagea ensuite à Red Balls à Salisbury Court près de Fleet Street. En 1684, après un court séjour à George Yard, près de Broken Wharf (port de Londres), Salmon se transféra vers Blue Balcony du côté du fossé, près de Holborn Bridge, où il a résidé jusqu'au-delà de 1692. Il assistait habituellement aux réunions d'une nouvelle secte à Leathersellers' Hall.

Salmon accumula une importante bibliothèque, il avait deux microscopes, un ensemble de réglettes de Neper et d'autres instruments mathématiques, des flèches et autres curiosités qu'il rapporta des Antilles, ainsi que quelques peintures hollandaises.

Il est mort en 1713. Son portrait est annexé à son édition de Diemerbroek ainsi qu'à son « Ars Anatomica », publié à titre posthume en 1714. Plusieurs autres portraits gravés sont mentionnés par Bromley, dont un dû à Vandergucht.

Œuvres
William Salmon publia en 1671 un ouvrage en trois volumes intitulé Synopsis Medicinæ, or a Compendium of Astrological, Galenical, and Chymical Physick. Le premier volume est dédié au  Peter Salmon, médecin aisé de l'époque ; le troisième à Thomas Salmon de Hackney, mais l'auteur n'indique aucune relation de parenté avec l'un ou l'autre. Des versets élogieux, dont un de Henry Coley, présentent cet ouvrage comme une combinaison admirable d'Hermès, Hippocrate, Galien et Paracelse.
Une deuxième édition a été publiée en 1681, suivie d'une réimpression en 1685 et d'une quatrième édition en 1699.

Richard Jones du Golden Lion, éditeur sis à Little Britain, qui publia ce livre, édita en 1672 un autre ouvrage de William Salmon, Polygraphice, the Art of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Colouring, and Dyeing, dédié à Peter Stanley d'Alderley, qui avait peut-être consulté William Salmon professionnellement. Outre les parties techniques de l'art, des indications sont données sur la manière de représenter les passions et les émotions dans l'art du portrait
À la fin, William Salmon vante ses pilules, qui peuvent être obtenues pour trois shillings la boîte et sont bonnes pour toutes les maladies.

En 1681, William Salmon fit paraître une nouvelle édition de son Synopsis par un nouvel éditeur, Thomas Dawks, qui publia aussi son Horæ Mathematicæ en 1679, Doron Medicon en 1683 et Iatrica seu Praxis Medendi en 1681 (réimprimé en 1684).

William Salmon publia un almanach prophétique en 1684, sa première publication dans ce genre, déclarant dans la préface qu'il aimait mieux traiter de médecine que de prophétie. En 1687, il publia, avec Randal Taylor, Select Physical and Chirurgical Observations, et en 1689, avec Edward Brewster, une traduction de l'anatomie de Isbrand van Diemerbroeck d'Utrecht. En 1690, il publia A Discourse against Transubstantiation, sous la forme d'un dialogue entre un protestant et un  papiste.

Son Medicina Practica, with the Claris Alcymiae, (3 vol. Londres, 1692) révèle son objectif dans son sous-titre :

Ce vade-mecum combine la médecine avec l'alchimie. Selon Lynn Thorndike, la référence à la tradition alchimique d'Artesius se rapporte à l'Artephius de Roger Bacon qui vécut jusqu'en 1025, et remonte à Al-Tughrai.

Ses cas enregistrés peuvent souvent être reliés à d'autres sources. Il est plausible que, comme William Salmon l'affirme (Iatrica - préface), il ait agi comme copiste d'une autre personne. William Salmon poursuivit avec le Pharmacopeia Londinensis. Or, the New London Dispensatory, (6 vol. Londres, 1696).

En 1696, William Salmon fit paraître également un ouvrage sur la médecine domestique, The Family Dictionary.
En 1698, il prit part à la controverse du Dispensary (cf. Sir Samuel Garth), dans un Rebuke to the Authors of a Blew Book written on behalf of the Apothecaries and Chirurgians of the City of London.
En 1699, il publia un traité général de chirurgie, Ars Chirurgica et, en 1700, un Discourse on Water Baptism. En 1707, il publia The Practice of Physick, or  Sydenham's « Processus Integri » translated et en 1710 et 1711 deux volumes folio, Botanologia; or the English Herbal, dédié à la reine Anne.

Des parties de la Bibliothèque des Philosophes chimiques(1672) et du Dictionnaire hermétique (1695) lui sont attribuées.

Et outre les ouvrages mentionnés ci-dessus, il écrivit Officina Chymica, Systema Medicinale, Pharmacopœia Bateana, et Phylaxa Medicinæ. La bibliographie de ses œuvres est complexe, car plusieurs ouvrages ont été réimprimés avec des modifications.

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Écrivain et médecin
Naissance en juin 1644
Décès en 1713


Special thanks to Pat Bednarz who represented MASN so wonderfully and professionally along side First Lady Sue Snyder at the Immunization press conference on September 10!
MCMCH has again partnered with fellow advocates and health professionals--Michigan Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics, School-Community Health Alliance of Michigan and the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital--to produce five policy briefs and a website as a resource for policymakers, and to provide background, data, and contact information to facilitate a dialogue between candidates, voters, and providers as we approach the November election.
The briefs focus on timely policy priorities in five key topic areas: Immunizations, Infant Mortality, Mental Wellness, Obesity, and Oral Health. The full briefs can be found at the new website: childhealthfactsmichigan.org.
Michigan's First Lady Sue Snyder and a coalition of Michigan physicians and nurses held a press conference this week to urge parents to help make sure their children are ready to learn this fall by updating their immunizations.
"Kids learn best when they're safe and healthy," Mrs. Snyder said. "Ensuring our Michigan kids get the vaccines they need is one of the easiest and best ways to help them learn and thrive and keep classrooms healthy."
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that Michigan has the 4th highest non-medical exemption rate in the nation. More than 5.3 percent of Michigan parents simply choose not to immunize their children.
In 2011, less than 72 percent of Michigan 2 year old children were up to date on their recommended vaccines, and only 63 percent of adolescents were up to date on their recommended vaccines leading to dangerous outbreaks of preventable diseases.
Michigan's health care providers and advocates, including MCMCH, Michigan Academy of Family Physicians, Michigan State Medical Society, Michigan Osteopathic Association, Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Michigan Association of School Nurses, the School Community Health Alliance of Michigan and the Michigan Association of Health Plans are united in their effort to better educate parents about the importance of childhood immunizations.
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Nicotine - whether it comes from a traditional or electronic cigarette - could be a gateway drug to marijuana and cocaine, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"While e-cigarettes do eliminate some of the health effects associated with combustible tobacco, they are pure nicotine-delivery devices," said co-author Dr. Denise B. Kandel, a professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University Medical Center and a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Kandel and her husband, Eric, also of CUMC, reviewed her research dating back to 1975 that purported nicotine to be a gateway drug. But they weren't sure if that was because nicotine was a readily available drug or because there was something in it that altered other drugs' effects.
To investigate that, they also went over previous studies they did on mice that found that rodents exposed to nicotine had altered brain chemistry and activated genes that deal with rewards. They had given those mice nicotine and found that the cocaine worked at an amplified effect. And it only worked if mice were given nicotine first and cocaine second, not the other way around.
"One drug alters the brain's circuitry in a way that enhances the effects of a subsequent drug," Dr. Eric Kandel said.
Then, Dr. Denise Kandel looked at 2004 data and found that cocaine dependence was highest in users who started the drug while smoking cigarettes. This meshed with her findings that mice exposed to cocaine days after exposure to nicotine didn't show the amped effects of the drug - the nicotine and cocaine use had to be taken within a small window.
The scientists say that e-cigarettes pose the same risks for addiction to nicotine and, as a result, cocaine, as traditional cigarettes, especially during adolescence when the brain is developing.
"Nicotine clearly acts as a gateway drug on the brain, and this effect is likely to occur whether the exposure comes from smoking cigarettes, passive tobacco smoke or e-cigarettes," they said.
This is the latest study to call into question the safety of electronic cigarettes. Recent research showed that they emit toxic metals in the air, and the World Health Organization made recommendations earlier this month calling for the prohibition of indoor smoking and sales and advertising to minors.
Millions of infants and children aren't receiving recommended medical care aimed at detecting and preventing disease, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Preventive services that kids and teens are missing out on range from basic medical care to vaccinations and screenings that can have a lifelong impact on their health.
The appraisal, published in the Sept. 12 issue of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, also revealed large disparities between groups when it comes to receiving preventive services.
For example, uninsured children are less likely than insured kids to receive these services, and Hispanic children were less likely than non-Hispanics to have reported vision screening.
Parents of eight out of 10 young children had not been asked by their doctor to fill out a formal screening questionnaire to detect developmental delays.
More than half of children and teens had not visited a dentist in the past year, and nearly nine out of 10 had not received a dental sealant or fluoride treatment.
About half of infants who failed their initial hearing screening did not receive the follow-up testing needed to diagnose potential hearing loss.
Two-thirds of children between 1 and 2 years were not screened for lead poisoning.
One in five children had not had a vision exam by age 5.
One-quarter of doctor visits by children younger than 18 didn't include a blood pressure check.
Four out of five teenage smokers got no help quitting, either through counseling or a cessation program.
Nearly half of teenage girls had not received their first recommended dose of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which prevents cervical cancer.
The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) has released a Request for Proposal (RFP) for organizations interested in applying for Health Innovation Grant funds for one-time projects up to $35,000 that demonstrate an innovative approach to improving the delivery of Michigan's health services. Applications are due Sept. 22. Applicants may be public, non-profit and private organizations. MDCH is looking for projects that may be replicated and have clearly defined outcomes. Organizations are encouraged to include matching funds in their proposal in support of their proposed initiative.
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The Board of Directors of the Michigan Health Endowment Fund is conducting a listening tour to gain a better understanding of the health issues confronting Michigan residents, and to familiarize the public with the purpose of the Michigan Health Endowment Fund.
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At the 2015 MI-AIMH Biennial Conference, "Working Together for the Health and Well-Being of Infants, Toddlers and Their Families: Caring for the Whole Child," MI-AIMH will recognize three individuals who will be awarded the Selma Fraiberg, Betty Tableman and Hiram E. Fitzgerald Awards. The Conference will take place May 17-19, 2015 at the Kalamazoo Radisson in Kalamazoo.
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The Historic New Orleans Streetcars - Viajeros. Amigos.
New York has the Subway, San Francisco has the Trolleys, and New Orleans has the Streetcar.
Technically, they're the same as trolleys, but they have been going since before the trolley engine was created, so the streetcar name has stuck.
New Orleans' streetcars are part of the larger RTA (Regional Transit Authority) that runs the streetcars and buses, among other things. You can use the bus to get around, but the streetcars cover all of the main tourist attractions, such as the Garden District, or the National WWII Museum.
The streetcars have been running for quite some time and consist of 4 or 5 lines depending how you look at it.
The RTA breaks it down into Canal, Loyal, Riverfront, and St. Charles lines, but the Canal streetcar splits into two directions, so I would consider it 5 myself.
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The famous play A Streetcar Named Desire features the New Orleans streetcars and was written back when the city had many lines. Soon after the play was released, most of the streetcar lines were replaced by newer buses.
Because of this widespread removal, the St. Charles Streetcar was for many years the only one in the city, surviving thanks to its status as a monument and the interest of visitors. The Riverfront Streetcar was added in 1988, followed by others, with the latest line opening as recently as 2017.
New Orleans is a wet city.
The St. Charles Street line is the longest running in the lines. It also has the oldest cars, so don't expect any air conditioning.
It runs from Canal Street, on through the Garden District, and provides a nice view of the houses lining St. Charles Avenue.
When we visited, there was some work being done along the route so we would exit at Lee Circle and transfer to a city bus that would drop us off at Canal Street.
Riding the streetcar is like stepping back in time.
The driver pulls a lever to open the door and close it. Then the driver moves some handles and valves around to switch gears and signal as it passes certain points.
The driver then yells out the major stations, so you'll need to keep an ear ready if you aren't familiar with the area.
If no one is requesting a stop (either by asking the driver or by pulling a cord that signals to stop), the driver will continue right on by a stop, so it's wise to pay attention to the ride.
Fares on the streetcars are cheaper than a New York city subway ride.
One-way fares cost $1.25 for standard fare, and 40 cents for Senior Citizens/Disabled.
If you anticipate riding the streetcar several times, it may be more economical to order a multi-ride pass.
The RTA calls these "Jazzy Passes" and offer them in 4 groupings: one day for $3, three days for $9, five days for $15, and thirty-one days for $55.
Unless you are doing the month-long pass, it costs the same per day no matter how many days you buy. We bought a 3-day and a 1-day pass for our trip.
You can purchase the passes multiple ways, such as at a Jazzy Pass vending machine. The simplest way though would be to download the GoMobile App, which is what we did, and pull up the pass on your phone when you board.
The app also allows you to check in on trolley arrival times. When you arrive at a stop, you can look up the stop number printed on the sign, and find out how long you should expect to wait.
For more information on the streetcars, you can visit the RTA's website.
For more information on specific routes, click here.


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Skiin Connected Health & Wellness System selected as a CES 2020 Innovation Award Honoree
TORONTO, November 11, 2019 – Myant Inc., the world leader in Textile Computing, is pleased to announce that the company has been selected as a CES 2020 Innovation Award Honoree for its Health and Wellness System. CES Innovation Awards is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products.
Connectedness between you, your body, your loved ones and your world is essential to a healthy life. The relationship between social connectedness and health outcomes is central to the reason Myant created the Skiin Connected Health & Wellness System. Continuous monitoring of ECG*, stress level, sleep quality, activity, temperature, among other metrics, is one of the most efficient and reliable ways to potentially prevent health issues.
Coming to market under Myant's consumer facing brand Skiin, the system provides a continuous connection to the human body by embedding the ability to measure biometrics directly into everyday clothing. The system includes a variety of clothing options that can track your health including underwear, bras, shirts, and sleep masks, providing you with the option of 24/7 monitoring across your day. These garments connect to the Skiin App, running on the Myant Platform, which analyses your data and provides you with advice about lifestyle changes to improve your wellbeing. Most importantly, sharing this information with your Care Circle ensures that you are never alone in your journey towards better health, improving the way we care for each other. The underwear will be the first garment of this system, launching in Q1 2020. Future updates to the Skiin app will unlock additional potential from the Myant Platform, enabling users to subscribe to services such as slip & fall detection, driver fatigue monitoring, ovulation tracking, atrial fibrillation detection**, and other features. Myant is actively engaging partners to help develop the ecosystem on both the textile interface side (i.e. apparel, environments) as well as the algorithm and outcomes side.
The announcement of this award comes as the company gears up for CES 2020 from January 7th to 10th in Las Vegas. The Myant booth, featuring 3,000 sqft. of the latest developments in Textile Computing, will show visitors how the way we work, play, and manage our wellbeing will all be transformed by continuous and ambient connections created through textile interfaces and the machine learning algorithms within the Myant Platform. The booth will also have a stage featuring live demos and presentations talking about the future of connected work, play, and home, plus special appearances by select partners (like Canadian Tire Corporation) to discuss how their partnerships with Myant will change the lives of consumers.
"Myant is thrilled to be acknowledged as a winner in the Health & Wellness category of the CES 2020 Innovation Awards," said Tony Chahine, founder and CEO of Myant. "This award is a testimony to the tremendous need people have to participate and develop meaningful connections. It is time for technology to morph around people as opposed to the other way around. Technology should fade out of our daily consciousness, allowing us to bring empathy and the human element back into the way we connect with our own bodies, with each other, and with the world around us.."
* Under FDA pre-submission process
** Currently investigative feature only and not for sale under any jurisdiction.
About Myant Inc.
Myant has created the world's first platform that continuously and ambiently connects people to their bodies, to each other, and to the world around them. Using connected textiles that can sense and react to the human body and a platform that enables machine learning driven health and performance outcomes, Myant is on a mission to transform human connectedness. With an extensive patent portfolio, key exclusive relationships within the textile computing industry, a multidisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, data scientists, fashion designers and knitting specialists, and over 80,000 ft² of manufacturing capacity, Myant is changing the way people across society connect. Connect with us to find out how we can help you create innovative solutions powered by connected textiles and the Myant Platform.
For more information please visit www.myant.ca.
About the CES 2020 Innovation Awards
The CES 2020 Innovation Awards is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products. The program recognizes honorees in a multitude of consumer technology product categories and distinguishes the highest rated in each. The CES Innovation Awards are based upon descriptive materials submitted to the judges. CTA did not verify the accuracy of any submission or of any claims made and did not test the item to which the award was given.
For more information about the CES 2020 Innovation Awards, visit http://www.ces.tech.
Brian Fung
Marketing Strategist at Myant
[email protected], 416-423-7906 x401
Frank Florio
VP, Strategy & Business Development at Myant
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*Device is currently for investigative use only and under pre-submission of FDA. It is not available for sale in any jurisdiction.
* Advanced monitoring service available via subscription, available later in 2020.
© 2020 Skiin Connected Innerwear.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.IO;

/// <summary>
/// A .NET Support Vector Machine library adapted from libsvm
/// Copyright ©  Matthew Johnson 2009
/// </summary>
namespace Thrinax.Utility.SVM
{
	public class PerformanceEvaluator
	{
		private class ChangePoint
		{
			public int TP;

			public int FP;

			public int TN;

			public int FN;

			public ChangePoint(int tp, int fp, int tn, int fn)
			{
				this.TP = tp;
				this.FP = fp;
				this.TN = tn;
				this.FN = fn;
			}

			public override string ToString()
			{
				return string.Format("{0}:{1}:{2}:{3}", this.TP, this.FP, this.TN, this.FN);
			}
		}

		private List<CurvePoint> _prCurve;

		private double _ap;

		private List<CurvePoint> _rocCurve;

		private double _auc;

		private List<RankPair> _data;

		private List<ChangePoint> _changes;

		public List<CurvePoint> ROCCurve
		{
			get
			{
				return this._rocCurve;
			}
		}

		public double AuC
		{
			get
			{
				return this._auc;
			}
		}

		public List<CurvePoint> PRCurve
		{
			get
			{
				return this._prCurve;
			}
		}

		public double AP
		{
			get
			{
				return this._ap;
			}
		}

		public PerformanceEvaluator(List<RankPair> set)
		{
			this._data = set;
			this.computeStatistics();
		}

		public PerformanceEvaluator(Model model, Problem problem, double category)
			: this(model, problem, category, "tmp.results")
		{
		}

		public PerformanceEvaluator(Model model, Problem problem, double category, string resultsFile)
		{
			Prediction.Predict(problem, resultsFile, model, true, 1);
			this.parseResultsFile(resultsFile, problem.Y, category);
			this.computeStatistics();
		}

		public PerformanceEvaluator(string resultsFile, double[] correctLabels, double category)
		{
			this.parseResultsFile(resultsFile, correctLabels, category);
			this.computeStatistics();
		}

		private void parseResultsFile(string resultsFile, double[] labels, double category)
		{
			StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(resultsFile);
			string[] array = streamReader.ReadLine().Split(new char[1]
			{
				' '
			}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
			int num = -1;
			int num2 = 1;
			while (num2 < array.Length)
			{
				if (double.Parse(array[num2], CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) != category)
				{
					num2++;
					continue;
				}
				num = num2;
				break;
			}
			this._data = new List<RankPair>();
			for (int i = 0; i < labels.Length; i++)
			{
				array = streamReader.ReadLine().Split(new char[1]
				{
					' '
				}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
				double score = double.Parse(array[num], CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
				this._data.Add(new RankPair(score, (double)((labels[i] == category) ? 1 : 0)));
			}
			streamReader.Close();
		}

		private void computeStatistics()
		{
			this._data.Sort();
			this.findChanges();
			this.computePR();
			this.computeRoC();
		}

		private void findChanges()
		{
			int num3;
			int num2;
			int num;
			int num4 = num3 = (num2 = (num = 0));
			for (int i = 0; i < this._data.Count; i++)
			{
				if (this._data[i].Label == 1.0)
				{
					num++;
				}
				else
				{
					num2++;
				}
			}
			this._changes = new List<ChangePoint>();
			for (int j = 0; j < this._data.Count; j++)
			{
				if (this._data[j].Label == 1.0)
				{
					num4++;
					num--;
				}
				else
				{
					num3++;
					num2--;
				}
				this._changes.Add(new ChangePoint(num4, num3, num2, num));
			}
		}

		private float computePrecision(ChangePoint p)
		{
			return (float)p.TP / (float)(p.TP + p.FP);
		}

		private float computeRecall(ChangePoint p)
		{
			return (float)p.TP / (float)(p.TP + p.FN);
		}

		private void computePR()
		{
			this._prCurve = new List<CurvePoint>();
			this._prCurve.Add(new CurvePoint(0f, 1f));
			float num = this.computePrecision(this._changes[0]);
			float x = this.computeRecall(this._changes[0]);
			float num2 = 0f;
			if (this._changes[0].TP > 0)
			{
				num2 += num;
				this._prCurve.Add(new CurvePoint(x, num));
			}
			for (int i = 1; i < this._changes.Count; i++)
			{
				num = this.computePrecision(this._changes[i]);
				x = this.computeRecall(this._changes[i]);
				if (this._changes[i].TP > this._changes[i - 1].TP)
				{
					num2 += num;
					this._prCurve.Add(new CurvePoint(x, num));
				}
			}
			this._prCurve.Add(new CurvePoint(1f, (float)(this._changes[0].TP + this._changes[0].FN) / (float)(this._changes[0].FP + this._changes[0].TN)));
			this._ap = (double)(num2 / (float)(this._changes[0].FN + this._changes[0].TP));
		}

		public void WritePRCurve(string filename)
		{
			StreamWriter streamWriter = new StreamWriter(filename);
			streamWriter.WriteLine(this._ap);
			for (int i = 0; i < this._prCurve.Count; i++)
			{
				streamWriter.WriteLine("{0}\t{1}", this._prCurve[i].X, this._prCurve[i].Y);
			}
			streamWriter.Close();
		}

		public void WriteROCCurve(string filename)
		{
			StreamWriter streamWriter = new StreamWriter(filename);
			streamWriter.WriteLine(this._auc);
			for (int i = 0; i < this._rocCurve.Count; i++)
			{
				streamWriter.WriteLine("{0}\t{1}", this._rocCurve[i].X, this._rocCurve[i].Y);
			}
			streamWriter.Close();
		}

		private float computeTPR(ChangePoint cp)
		{
			return this.computeRecall(cp);
		}

		private float computeFPR(ChangePoint cp)
		{
			return (float)cp.FP / (float)(cp.FP + cp.TN);
		}

		private void computeRoC()
		{
			this._rocCurve = new List<CurvePoint>();
			this._rocCurve.Add(new CurvePoint(0f, 0f));
			float num = this.computeTPR(this._changes[0]);
			float num2 = this.computeFPR(this._changes[0]);
			this._rocCurve.Add(new CurvePoint(num2, num));
			this._auc = 0.0;
			for (int i = 1; i < this._changes.Count; i++)
			{
				float num3 = this.computeTPR(this._changes[i]);
				float num4 = this.computeFPR(this._changes[i]);
				if (this._changes[i].TP > this._changes[i - 1].TP)
				{
					this._auc += (double)(num * (num4 - num2)) + 0.5 * (double)(num3 - num) * (double)(num4 - num2);
					num = num3;
					num2 = num4;
					this._rocCurve.Add(new CurvePoint(num2, num));
				}
			}
			this._rocCurve.Add(new CurvePoint(1f, 1f));
			this._auc += (double)(num * (1f - num2)) + 0.5 * (double)(1f - num) * (double)(1f - num2);
		}
	}
}

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For the past several years, I have seriously wondered if I had developed some type of mental illness… or worse. I briefly explained this in "Potholes — The Aftermath," an earlier Zap Tale. To be perfectly honest, I'm still not certain what I have become, despite having my epiphany and being freed from whom I believed I was.
It's a hell of a head trip trying to figure out if my brain is firing on all cylinders, or as referred to in clinical terms "chemically unbalanced." For the most part, this leaves me constantly guessing exactly how and what I'm supposed to feel. I couldn't begin to count the times I have awakened from a peaceful night's sleep to ponder what I have become, only to return to bed, still unsure.
To add to my conundrum, while trying to interpret my true feelings, I sit in front of my aging typewriter and desperately try to disentangle a knot of thoughts. I start out fine, then the letters begin to fly past my face as though I was in the prison version of The Matrix, except the code is far more jumbled. Then, a familiar song will blare from my headphones and take several words from the printed page with it.
However, taking into account where I presently reside (or who I reside with) , aside from second guessing my mental state, future well being, or worrying about my attention span. If my thoughts were different than most of yours, would that indicate mine are actually flawed?
Before I designated myself as a closeted bi-polar, I had to attempt to compare my inner most thoughts to others — but then wonder if they are normal? Then I had to ask myself several more questions? What exactly is normal, or what if the same people I've been using for comparison are suppressing (or devoid of) the same emotions that had recently overtaken me — then what?


He's set to become King of England one day, so it's only fair that Prince George should have a few extra privileges.
It turns out, the five-year-old – along with his siblings Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis and their unborn Sussex cousin – will have the right to marry someone of Catholic faith, something that has not been allowed since 1688.
The 2013 Succession of the Crown Act meant that Princess Charlotte was the first royal baby take her place in the line of succession based on her order of birth and not on her gender. The same law also means that the royal children are now able to marry Catholics.


Ain't That Sherific?: Ssshhhhh . . . .
Ssshhhhh . . . .
Don't tell the kiddos, but I am having a date with the hubby tonight. I say Woooooo the the Hoooooo! You all know how much we desperately need this! We have not had a night out without the children in well over a year. I am thrilled.
We are going to see a friend's band play at a local bar and grill. Rumor has it, my hubby has been asked to sing a song or two. It will be awesome. I haven't seen my husband on stage in a long time! I know we will have a good time!
Hope you had a blast! You deserve it!


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Q: How to set pandas table properties globally? I want to print my pandas dataframes with newline characters actually being new lines. I can use the following code but it's quite verbose.
How can I set this globally, i.e., for this jupyter notebook?
df = pd.DataFrame({
    'data': ['Laughing\nIs\nGood\nFor\nYou']
})

# Shows newline characters as '\n'
display(df)

# Actually prints new lines but is quite verbose
display(df.style.set_properties(**{
    'text-align': 'left',
    'white-space': 'pre-wrap',
}))

A: Illustrating with code adapted from OP code my comment about the use of Sharing styles to export a style and use again to be less verbose:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({
    'data': ['Laughing\nIs\nGood\nFor\nYou']
})

# Shows newline characters as '\n'
display(df)

my_df_styled=df.style.set_properties(**{
    'text-align': 'left',
    'white-space': 'pre-wrap',
})
display(my_df_styled)

###-------above inherited from OP code--------###

df2 = pd.DataFrame({
    'data': ['Trombones\nCan\nAlso\nBe\nGood\nFor\nYou']
})
df2_styled=df2.style.use(my_df_styled.export())
display(df2_styled)
display(df2)

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Now It Is The Elite That Are Feverishly 'Prepping' For The Collapse Of Society
Michael Snyder February 7, 2017 February 7, 2017 No Comments on Now It Is The Elite That Are Feverishly 'Prepping' For The Collapse Of Society
The Elite That Are Feverishly 'Prepping' For The Collapse
Once upon a time, "prepping" was something that was considered to be on "the lunatic fringe" of society. But in 2017, wealthy elitists are actually the most hardcore preppers of all. This is particularly true in places such as Silicon Valley, where a whole host of young tech moguls are putting a tremendous amount of time, effort and money into preparing for apocalyptic scenarios. So while interest in prepping among the general population has fallen extremely low right now, the election of Donald Trump has given liberal wealthy elitists even more urgency to prepare for what they believe is a very uncertain future.
In the January 30th, 2017 edition of the New Yorker, reporter Evan Osnos has done an extraordinary job of profiling these wealthy elitists that are "getting ready for the crackup of civilization". One of the people that he interviewed was Steve Huffman, the young co-founder and CEO of Reddit…
Huffman, who lives in San Francisco, has large blue eyes, thick, sandy hair, and an air of restless curiosity; at the University of Virginia, he was a competitive ballroom dancer, who hacked his roommate's Web site as a prank. He is less focussed on a specific threat—a quake on the San Andreas, a pandemic, a dirty bomb—than he is on the aftermath, "the temporary collapse of our government and structures," as he puts it. "I own a couple of motorcycles. I have a bunch of guns and ammo. Food. I figure that, with that, I can hole up in my house for some amount of time."
According to the article, Huffman estimates that "fifty-plus percent" of his elite friends in Silicon Valley have some form of "apocalypse insurance". Needless to say, that number would be far higher than for the general population as a whole.
Another tech mogul that was interviewed by Osnos for the story was former Facebook product manager Antonio García Martínez…
Last spring, as the Presidential campaign exposed increasingly toxic divisions in America, Antonio García Martínez, a forty-year-old former Facebook product manager living in San Francisco, bought five wooded acres on an island in the Pacific Northwest and brought in generators, solar panels, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. "When society loses a healthy founding myth, it descends into chaos," he told me. The author of "Chaos Monkeys," an acerbic Silicon Valley memoir, García Martínez wanted a refuge that would be far from cities but not entirely isolated. "All these dudes think that one guy alone could somehow withstand the roving mob," he said. "No, you're going to need to form a local militia. You just need so many things to actually ride out the apocalypse." Once he started telling peers in the Bay Area about his "little island project," they came "out of the woodwork" to describe their own preparations, he said. "I think people who are particularly attuned to the levers by which society actually works understand that we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now."
As you can see, a lot of these liberal elitists are actually secretly stashing away lots of guns and ammunition.
So don't believe everything that you read about them being "anti-gun".
Other big names in Silicon Valley have decided that having a property on the other side of the planet is the best form of "apocalypse insurance". The following comes from a story about Paypal founder Peter Thiel in the New York Times…
Mr. Thiel's admiration for New Zealand is longstanding. "Utopia," he once called it. He has an investment firm in the country that has put millions into local start-ups. He also owns lavish properties there, which his Silicon Valley friends hope to fly to in the event of a worldwide pandemic.
And of course Thiel is far from alone. So many wealthy individuals are buying up property in New Zealand these days that it is actually becoming a significant political issue over there. In fact, it is being reported that foreigners purchased an astounding 3500 square kilometers during the first ten months of 2016…
Statistics showed foreigners had bought over 3500 square kilometers of New Zealand in the first ten months of 2016, which is over four times as much as they did in the same period in 2010.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman told The New Yorker that New Zealand had become the hot topic among Silicon Valley leaders lately.
"Saying you're 'buying a house in New Zealand' is kind of a wink, wink, say no more. Once you've done the Masonic handshake, they'll be, like, 'Oh, you know, I have a broker who sells old ICBM silos, and they're nuclear-hardened, and they kind of look like they would be interesting to live in."
Hoffman estimated that over half of the Silicon Valley insiders were into preparedness – especially since anti-elite sentiment has risen around the globe in recent years. It was intensified by events like Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, he added.
So are these wealthy elitists ahead of the curve, or are they just being paranoid?
Only time will tell, but they didn't become exceedingly wealthy in the first place by being stupid.
As I discussed yesterday on The Most Important News, there are certainly reasons to be optimistic now that Donald Trump has become president, but there are also lots of reasons to be prepping harder than ever.
We should be hopeful for the future and working for a better tomorrow, but we also need to understand that we live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable.
And most of us think that it is just common sense to purchase insurance for our homes, our cars, our health, our lives and so many other things, and yet most of the population is completely unprepared for a major catastrophic event.
It is a good thing to have balance in life. My wife and I are very proud preppers, and there won't ever be a time when we aren't prepping.
But we also live our lives without any fear. We know that the world is going to get crazier and crazier, but we do not believe that it is a time to dig a hole and try to hide from the world.
Rather, now is a time to rise up and become the people that we were created to be.
This year my wife and I are going to be taking on some new adventures, and these new adventures are going to give us a bigger voice than ever before.
Someone once told me that life is like a coin. You can spend it any way that you want, but you can only spend it once.
We don't want to spend our lives paying bills and killing time.
Instead, we want to do all that we can to make a difference and to change the world.
So unlike these wealthy elitists, let us not be in fear of what is coming. There is no other time in history that I would have rather lived than right here and right now, and I can't wait to see what comes next.
Survival Food Prepping Ideas/ULTIMATE Top Skills 2017
Discover how to survive: Most complete survival tactics, tips, skills and ideas like how to make pemmican, snow shoes, knives, soap, beer, smoke houses, bullets, survival bread, water wheels, herbal poultices, Indian round houses, root cellars, primitive navigation, and much more at: The Lost Ways
The Lost Ways is a far-reaching book with chapters ranging from simple things like making tasty bark-bread-like people did when there was no food-to building a traditional backyard smokehouse… and many, many, many more!
Here's just a glimpse of what you'll find in The Lost Ways:
From Ruff Simons, an old west history expert and former deputy, you'll learn the techniques and methods used by the wise sheriffs from the frontiers to defend an entire village despite being outnumbered and outgunned by gangs of robbers and bandits, and how you can use their wisdom to defend your home against looters when you'll be surrounded.
Native American ERIK BAINBRIDGE – who took part in the reconstruction of the native village of Kule Loklo in California, will show you how Native Americans build the subterranean roundhouse, an underground house that today will serve you as a storm shelter, a perfectly camouflaged hideout, or a bunker. It can easily shelter three to four families, so how will you feel if, when all hell breaks loose, you'll be able to call all your loved ones and offer them guidance and shelter? Besides that, the subterranean roundhouse makes an awesome root cellar where you can keep all your food and water reserves year-round.
From Shannon Azares you'll learn how sailors from the XVII century preserved water in their ships for months on end, even years and how you can use this method to preserve clean water for your family cost-free.
Mike Searson – who is a Firearm and Old West history expert – will show you what to do when there is no more ammo to be had, how people who wandered the West managed to hunt eight deer with six bullets, and why their supply of ammo never ran out. Remember the panic buying in the first half of 2013? That was nothing compared to what's going to precede the collapse.
From Susan Morrow, an ex-science teacher and chemist, you'll master "The Art of Poultice." She says, "If you really explore the ingredients from which our forefathers made poultices, you'll be totally surprised by the similarities with modern medicines." Well…how would you feel in a crisis to be the only one from the group knowledgeable about this lost skill? When there are no more antibiotics, people will turn to you to save their ill children's lives.
If you liked our video tutorial on how to make Pemmican, then you'll love this: I will show you how to make another superfood that our troops were using in the Independence war, and even George Washington ate on several occasions. This food never goes bad. And I'm not talking about honey or vinegar. I'm talking about real food! The awesome part is that you can make this food in just 10 minutes and I'm pretty sure that you already have the ingredients in your house right now.
Really, this is all just a peek.
And believe it or not, this is not all…
Making Your Own Beverages: Beer to Stronger Stuff
Ginger Beer: Making Soda the Old Fashioned Way
How North American Indians and Early Pioneers Made Pemmican
Spycraft: Military Correspondence During The 1700's to 1900's
Wild West Guns for SHTF and a Guide to Rolling Your Own Ammo
How Our Forefathers Built Their Sawmills, Grain Mills,and Stamping Mills
How Our Ancestors Made Herbal Poultice to Heal Their Wounds
What Our Ancestors Were Foraging For? or How to Wildcraft Your Table
How Our Ancestors Navigated Without Using a GPS System
How Our Forefathers Made Knives
How Our Forefathers Made Snow shoes for Survival
How North California Native Americans Built Their Semi-subterranean Roundhouses
Our Ancestors'Guide to Root Cellars
Good Old Fashioned Cooking on an Open Flame
Learning from Our Ancestors How to Preserve Water
Learning from Our Ancestors How to Take Care of Our Hygiene When There Isn't Anything to Buy
How and Why I Prefer to Make Soap with Modern Ingredients
Temporarily Installing a Wood-Burning Stove during Emergencies
Making Traditional and Survival Bark Bread…….
Trapping in Winter for Beaver and Muskrat Just like Our Forefathers Did
How to Make a Smokehouse and Smoke Fish
Survival Lessons From The Donner Party
So get some books, find some websites, and start building up your skill-set. Here are some resources to get you started:
The Lost Ways (Learn the long forgotten secrets that helped our forefathers survive famines,wars,economic crisis and anything else life threw at them)
Survival MD (Best Post Collapse First Aid Survival Guide Ever)
Liberty Generator (Build and make your own energy source)
Family Self Defense (Best Self Defense Strategies For You And Your Family)
Survive Any Crisis (Best Items To Hoard For A Long Term Crisis)
Survive The End Days (Biggest Cover Up Of Our President)
Drought USA (Discover The Amazing Device That Turns Air Into Water)
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