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Researchers find disproportionate public transportation burden on minority neighborhoods
1 Impact of Transportation Access on Medical Care
2 Using GIS to improve health care access
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 5 2020
Transportation barriers, such as personal access to a vehicle or public transportation, disproportionally affect minority communities, according to results of a new study presented at the virtual American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2020.
The study was performed by researchers at the University of Colorado at Aurora who used geographic information systems (GIS) to better understand traffic paths to hospitals offering elective and emergency surgical care throughout Denver.
They tracked public transportation routes across census tracts and found areas with higher minority populations have nearly double the travel time burden to health care facilities when using public transportation.
Facilities with acute surgical capacity (emergency department, intensive care unit, and acute care surgery services) were identified within a 20-mile radius of the city center. Travel times were then estimated from the center of each census tract to the nearest facility by the shortest route.
Using this method, the researchers determined travel times for individuals traveling by both car and public bus for a Monday morning appointment, weighted by percentage of the population in each census tract without vehicle access according to the American Community Survey.
For the 144 census tracts within Denver, the researchers found patients traveling by car were likely to spend approximately 12 minutes time driving to a health care facility as opposed to 33 minutes each way when traveling by public transportation.
The overall drive times weighted by lack of vehicle access across the city are estimated to be 11 minutes by car and 28 minutes by bus. Additionally, census tracts with higher minority populations and higher populations without access to a personal vehicle saw approximately 3 minutes in increased travel time by bus for every 10 percent increase in the minority population.
Impact of Transportation Access on Medical Care
Barriers to health care access like race, income, and having insurance are well-documented, but structural barriers, like geography, can act in similar ways. In Denver specifically, freeway routes dividing the city and communities have shut residents off from resources to which they were previously able to walk.
Prior work by the same group found that lack of health care coverage was not a significant barrier to surgical care where the majority of patients who presented emergently had some health care coverage, and many of the patients had sufficient coverage such that they had already been scheduled for elective surgical consultation, or even surgery itself.1
Regardless of type of health care coverage, patients who presented emergently tended to live in areas of higher social vulnerability and were overwhelmingly non-white. Qualitative data derived from narrative data in the charts revealed that a common factor leading to emergent presentation included difficulties arranging transportation.
In fact, approximately 3.6 million people in the United States forgo medical care due to transportation issues, such as lack of vehicle access, inadequate infrastructure, long distances, and lengthy travel times to reach services. As a result, procedures that could be treated in an outpatient appointment can frequently run the risk of becoming emergency situations.
Transportation patterns in areas where people don't have access to a vehicle can add 30 or more minutes to travel to an appointment.
When you factor in that people have to take additional time off from their jobs to go to an appointment to get elective care, and add in the fact that a lot of people have jobs where they don't have a lot of paid time off or the ability to take off that much time in a day, you may be looking at them having to take an entire day off to be able to make it to an elective surgical appointment. So, you're adding barrier after barrier, and these things tend to compound themselves."
Catherine Velopulos, MD, MHS, FACS, Study Coinvestigator, Health Services Researcher and Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine
The findings also suggest a double effect of transportation barriers. Not only are some patients facing a greater barrier in terms of the percent of the population that has access to a private vehicle, but those same populations also have longer public transportation times per mile to acute care surgical facilities.
Using GIS to improve health care access
Census data can be used with GIS mapping to collect information about the environment, allowing local governments to identify communities with disproportionate transportation burden to acute care surgical services. By identifying where increased burden exists, cities can make structural changes to accommodate these needs.
"Place truly matters. Where you're located and where you live affects your health care outcomes," said coinvestigator Heather Carmichael, MD, a surgical resident at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. "If you can identify where patients are coming from, that gives you a lot of information about the environment that they're in that can affect their health care outcomes."
"And location of residence may be easier to determine in a research setting than in individually collecting each of those sociodemographic variables for an individual patient."
Understanding this combined data helps communities focus on where best to place resources like outreach programs and other forms of health care navigation, like Colorado's Non-Emergent Medical Transportation services, as well as to reevaluate traditional bus routes and pick up locations to better suit the needs of the community.
"A lot of people's access to the health care system is through surgical disease," added Dr. Velopulos, "And it's important for us as surgeons to recognize that we have a duty to improve access to care all around because it makes our patients healthier and our surgical outcomes better, and it allows us to reach our patients at an earlier point in their disease."
American College of Surgeons
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Friday 4th October saw the worldwide release of the new DC movie, The Joker. The Joker follows the life of Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian who suffers from a neurological condition which causes him to laugh uncontrollably regardless of the situation he is in at the current time. Arthur also suffers from innate depression and as such is provided with medication to try and help him combat this, although they do not work.
The movie depicts the many different aspects and challenges that face Arthur during a small period of time in his life, which lead him to becoming the Joker, a crazed lunatic who is intent on causing havoc and chaos in the city of Gotham, ending with the death of Murray Franklin which causes city-wide chaos and ultimately, the death of Batman's parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne.
The Joker and Batman have a long-held feud which dates back to the night of the death of Batman's parents, and is depicted in many forms of media, whether that's the comics, on TV, or blockbuster movies such as Batman: The Dark Knight. As such, when you think about the Joker, you will immediately also think of Batman, as they are intertwined as enemies.
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Man who beat BP store attendant to death with a baseball bat gets life sentence
Bruce Vielmetti
A man who fatally beat a gas station clerk with a baseball bat was sentenced Friday to life in prison.
Derrick Eugene Williams, 33, was found guilty at trial in September of first-degree intentional homicide in the January death of Harjinder Singh, 34, during an argument at a BP station on Milwaukee's north side. The Jan. 5 dispute started after Singh accused Williams of shoplifting from the store on W. Lisbon Ave. and N. 26th St.
Singh had chased Williams with the bat before yelling, "Don't come back," and dropping the bat.
But as Singh returned to the store, Williams ran back, grabbed the bat and struck Singh repeatedly on the head, at least eight times according to a witness. Williams admitted to four strikes.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Wagner made Williams eligible to seek supervised release after 33 years in prison.


Although botanicals including rosemary, spearmint, tea tree, citronella, sandalwood and roman chamomile are quite aromatic, it takes a significant amount of plant material to produce even a small quantity of essential oil.
We should be mindful and refrain from utilizing essential oils in an excessive, careless or wasteful manner. We often emphasize the important less is more approach when it comes to essential oil safety and efficacy. However, the less is more approach can and should also be applied to the conscientious use of essential oils due to the significant amount of botanical material required to produce essential oils. Sustainability is a very real concern, especially given the growing demand for essential oils.
Distilling rose petals (Rosa damascena) results in a yield of only 0.02-0.03% Rose Otto Essential Oil, and potentially much less if the petals are not harvested and distilled at the most opportune time. [Betinna Malle and Helge Schmickl, The Essential Oil Maker's Handbook (Austin, TX: Spikehorn Press, 2015), 85-86.] If I am doing my math correctly, that translates into a yield of only 1 kg of Rose Otto per 3,500-5,000 kg of rose petals.
For some botanicals, it's optimal to first dry or partially dry the botanical prior to distillation. For others, it's best to work with freshly harvested botanical material. Not all botanicals produce enough essential oil to make it cost effective to extract the botanical's precious essential oil.
The cost to plant, grow, harvest, sort and dry (when needed) the botanical material combined with the costs to distill and resulting yield all impact the final pricing of the essential oil.
The Essential Oil Maker's Handbook provides an enlightening overview of the optimal way to distill over 100 botanicals and includes the typical yield range for each. The book Aromatica also provides yield information within the 30 detailed essential oil profiles that it features.
Betinna Malle and Helge Schmickl, The Essential Oil Maker's Handbook (Austin, TX: Spikehorn Press, 2015).
Peter Holmes LAc, MH, Aromatica: A Clinical Guide to Essential Oil Therapeutics (London and Philadelphia: Singing Dragon, 2016).


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After the update can I leave my phone at home connected to my Wi-Fi and now receive forwarded calls and messages? I know this option didn't work previously as you'd have to disconnect your phone from Wi-Fi and connect it to the phones 3G 4G network for it to work.
Definitely working. Connects always now. Turning off bluetooth several times on my Note to test and always turned on and doesn't delay as much as it did. 1 to 2 min connect.
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Western Washington DX Club sponsors several awards for radio amateurs both in Washington State and around the world.
WWDXC sponsors several awards, including the Washington Totem Award, The WACYA (All County Activation Award), the Annual DXCC Award, and the humorously named NAANY Award.
Each December the WWDXC awards members for service to the club. The WWDXC Member Awards Program is designed to acknowledge the contributions to the club, to our area, and most of all, to the hobby.


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Список компаний Большого Чикаго, также известного как «Чикаголенд», агломерации, связанной с городом Чикаго, штат Иллинойс, и его пригородами. С населением 9,4 миллиона человек это третий по величине мегаполис в Соединённых Штатах и регион, наиболее связанный с городом географическими, социальными, экономическими и культурными связями.

Архитектура и инженерия

Проектирование

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 Компании с офисами в Чикаго

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Недвижимость

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Существуют и другие крупные корпорации, представленные в Чикаго и/или его пригородах (но чьи корпоративные штаб-квартиры расположены в другом месте), в том числе:

Автомобили
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См. также

Примечания

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Q: Have one cell represent a cell range Excel 2003 Question:
I'd like to have one cell represent a range of cells. So that another formula can use it.
Right now, I have an equation to sum the hours worked on a specific project. It looks for a project name, and then beside it, I have a column with how long i've spent on it. This is the formula  =SUMIF(D1:D10,"project1",C1:C10)
If you look at the first picture,
I want B10 to say the range of Duration (B23-B28)
I want C10 to say the range of Project (C23-C28)
Now look at the second picture, with the formula.
Instead of having the range manually, I just want it to look at B10, and C10 so I get the range once. This way, I only have to change the range in one spot instead of how ever many projects I have.
I'm sorry if this is a messy problem. I'm not sure how to ask it, but I will be quickly answering comments if people aren't clear on what I'm trying to accomplish.

A: Store in the cell the address as mere text.
When using that range, use INDIRECT(B10).
See Excel DSUM with multiple criteria for a somewhat more complex usage example.

A: Making it a bit more clear. You can enter the range (Address) as a text in the cells, and then use INDIRECT to reference them to a range instead of just text.
So enter
"C23:C46" in cell B10 (without quotes)
"D23:D46" in C10      (without quotes)

and use INDIRECT in your formula for SUMIF
Here's a picture for more clarity.

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'Every moment of the action was alive...a crisp, dynamic performance…a great career awaits this young conductor.'
Currently Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chilean-Italian conductor Paolo Bortolameolli has a bustling concert schedule across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. In addition to his post in Los Angeles, he is also Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Esperanza Azteca (México) and Principal Guest Conductor of Filarmónica de Santiago (Chile).
Highlights of the 20/21 season included performances with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra della Toscana (Italy), the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias and a fully staged production of La Traviata at the Macerata Opera Festival (Italy).
Having conducted every significant orchestra in his Chilean homeland and been awarded prizes four times by the Arts Critics Association as Symphonic and Opera Conductor of the Year, Paolo has regular conducting relationships across Latin and North America, Europe and Asia including the Houston Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Orchestra della Toscana (Italy), Gulbenkian Orchestra (Portugal), Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolivar (Venezuela), Orquesta de las Américas, Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia (Spain), Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires (Argentina), Orquesta Sinfónica del SODRE (Uruguay), Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería (México), Orquesta Filarmónica Joven de Colombia in addition to the Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA Phil).
Paolo's relationship with the LA Phil will continue through the 21/22 season, where he will conduct subscription concerts and increase his engagement with the newly opened YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) education centre designed by architect Frank Gehry.
Paolo has conducted concerts in both the Hollywood Bowl and at the Disney Concert hall every season since his arrival in LA, including a landmark new production of Meredith Monk's inventive opera, ATLAS, performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in 2019.
2021/22, Paolo will work with other top orchestras in North America: Kansas
City Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, as well as
orchestras and opera houses at the highest level across Europe.
Passionately committed to new music and audiences, Paolo has developed innovative projects such as "Ponle Pausa", a project that seeks to rethink the concept of music education through the implementation of short videos and concerts targeting social network users.
In 2018 he was was a guest-lecturer for a TED Talk in New York. His talk has already gathered more than 700,000 views on YouTube.
In 2020 he released his first book: RUBATO Procesos musicales y una playlist personal.
Paolo holds a Master of Music degree (Yale School of Music, 2013), a Graduate Performance Diploma (Peabody Institute, 2015), a Piano Performance Diploma (Universidad Católica de Chile, 2006) and a Conducting Diploma (Universidad de Chile, 2011).


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Devina Divecha writes, in Pinterest — friend or foe?, "I cannot, in good faith, become a Pinterest user until the copyright infringement issues are resolved." She continues: "The website itself is trying to provide a temporary fix to those concerned about copyright by providing an "opt out" code for blog and website owners, who can incorporate into their websites preventing people from pinning their work."
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Anyone interested in having their website blocked from pinning doesn't need to bother recoding anything. Just write an angry letter to copyright@pinterest.com and they will do it for you.


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Love Stitchers: Knitting comfort and healing into every stitch
By Amy Wight Chapman, Bethel Citizen
A dozen members of the "Love Stitchers" gathered last week in Bev Melville's living room in Locke's Mills, took out knitting needles or crochet hooks and yarn, and got down to business.
Laughter filled the room as they shared stories and jokes, coffee and fellowship, but they were aware that they were also engaged in serious work: that of providing comfort and solace to people in need.
Meeting weekly in members' homes, the Love Stitchers create prayer shawls for members of their communities who struggle with loneliness, illness, or grief.
Some also knit or crochet projects for other charitable causes, such as blankets for a women's shelter or mittens to be given to children who come to school without them.
They recently completed their twentieth prayer shawl, destined for a community member who has entered long-term residential care.
Comprised of members of the West Parish Congregational Church and the Locke's Mills Union Church, the Love Stitchers got their start prior to the 2013 General Synod of the United Church of Christ.
At that time, members of UCC congregations throughout the country were being asked to contribute brightly-colored handmade scarves, to be given to delegates and visitors at the biennial meeting.
The rainbow of scarves symbolized inclusion, and the General Synod attendees' pledge to take action against bullying, particularly against members of the LGBT community. The initial goal was to collect 3,000 scarves, but a total of more than 10,000 were donated and distributed.
After discovering the energy and fellowship that resulted from coming together to create scarves for the General Synod, the local group wanted to keep it going.
They realized that there were many members of their communities who were lonely or suffering, and they hit on the idea of creating prayer shawls, also known as comfort shawls, to pass on to those in need.
"People who have received them comment on how they wrap themselves in the shawl and feel the love that surrounds them," said Lida Iles of Bethel.
Members of the West Parish Congregational Church bring their completed shawls to a weekly prayer group, which is held at the church each Tuesday morning at 8:00. There, the shawls are passed through the hands of the prayer group members and receive a personal blessing from each before being delivered to the recipient.
Melville, the organist at the Locke's Mills Union Church, said that blessing the shawls has become a moving part of her church's regular Sunday morning service.
"After the passing of the peace, all the members of the congregation, even the little ones, come up and place their hands on the shawl," she said. "Then [Pastor] Sondra [Withey] says a prayer."
Louise Lovejoy of Bethel is a member of the Love Stitchers who is herself currently undergoing cancer treatments. She has experienced firsthand the comfort the shawls can bring to their recipients.
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No Need to be a Snowplow Parent. Entrepreneurs Have 5 Remarkable Qualities That Are Far More Effective
As evidenced by the recent college admissions scandal, snowplow parenting backfires. As an entrepreneur, you have what it takes to help your kids find success and happiness on their own merits.
By Marla Tabaka@MarlaTabaka
The recent college admissions scandal has demonstrated that helicopter parents and tiger moms are being shoved aside by parents who practice a more hyper-intensive style: snowplow parenting. These pushy mothers and fathers take extreme measures to clear the path for their children by removing any obstacles to what they want their children to achieve.
Some experts say that this method deprives children of the life skills necessary to find their own way in the world. "Like most parents who want the best for their kids, their intentions are good," says parent educator and coach, Helaina Altabef. She warns that this is not the path to raising empowered kids. Rather, snowplow parenting sends the message that the child cannot be trusted to make life choices and find their own way in this world.
As an entrepreneur, you need not worry about plowing the path to happiness and success for your children. By virtue of the experience and qualities you possess as an entrepreneur, you can demonstrate and teach your kids the life skills and values that are essential to their happiness and success.
Even if your kids don't follow your career path, Altabef says that you can inspire and equip your children to launch successfully and control their own lives. Here's how.
1. Help them find their zone of genius.
This core concept of entrepreneurship, where you identify and leverage your superpower, is one of the best things you can watch for in your kids.
"My first question to clients who come to me because their kids aren't cooperating or motivated is 'What is his superpower?' says Altabef. "It catches them off guard because they have become habituated to look at their weaknesses."
When we are constantly focused on their weaknesses, kids get the message that there is always something that needs fixing. But when you name their zone, it becomes something concrete and real to them. Once kids recognize their own strengths, they become more self-possessed. When they are faced with a new challenge, you can remind them of their superpower and encourage them to use it. In short, notice and support your kids' interests and strengths and they will show an improvement in confidence, cooperation, and motivation.
2. Teach them to be problem solvers.
Parents naturally want to protect their children, so we can tend to jump in too quickly to fix our kids' problems. However, approaching things with a high level of urgency can rob kids of the chance to use their intuition and analytical skills.
"Our wisdom as adults is helpful, but so is the chance for children to solve problems in an age-appropriate way," says Altabef. "One client I work with said that her son told her, 'Your way works for a mom. My way works for me.'"
If we are always jumping in, then kids don't get the chance to go through the temporarily painful, but ultimately satisfying process of fixing their own problems. This is a muscle we must give them a chance to exercise.
Altabef offers these short phrases to cue kids to use their problem-solving muscle
What is your plan?
I'm curious about how you think you should solve this?
How have you approached this before?
3. Let them figure out their productivity methods.
You can try to teach your kids the methods that worked for you, but what if your kid is nothing like you? This means you might have to step back and let them find their own flow. "This is hard, but it works wonders," says Altabef.
For instance, if you have a kid who is holding it together all day, forcing him to do his homework right after school is going to be a nightmare. "I work with a client who started allowing her son to figure out homework time for himself," says Altabef. "He decided to do the work that's easiest for him at night and set an alarm for the morning to do the stuff that's harder for him." Give your child space to determine his or her best approach to productivity.
4. Teach them communication skills.
You're probably an amazing communicator at work, but as a parent in a digital world, you may worry about your kid's social skills. Start with modeling the basics, like eye contact, not interrupting, making sounds of acknowledgment, active listening, and asking for clarification.
You don't have to dive deep to teach your children about perspective and point of view, but some simple phrases like,
I'm curious about what's going on from your perspective.
Can you see where I'm coming from?
Tell me about what you love about your games/hate about piano practice/understand about your teacher.
What are you concerned about?
I will listen to you and not tell you what to do.
I can hear you when you aren't attacking me.
5. Force them out of their comfort zones.
Entrepreneurship involves tolerating a lot of discomfort. Altabef believes this is beneficial for kids living in the digital world. Some kids are used to the safety that being at home and on screens affords. Others who have been conditioned to being controlled may initially have a hard being nudged out of their comfort zone, and that's okay. Altabef suggests that parents challenge their children to take risks such as trying out for a team that they are on the fence about or enrolling in a program that they are reluctant but curious about choosing. "It's a gift to show kids that they can be fine, even if something is hard, new, or scary," says Altabef.
As an entrepreneur, you've mastered these challenges. Pass your mastery on to your children and they will have the skills to find their own way to happiness and success.


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I am looking for Deborah Harry – Debbie Harry as she once was, the sardonic, sexy blonde icon from the late Seventies' perfect pop band, Blondie. I do not expect to find her.
Since her return to the pop scene in the mid-Nineties, after nearly a decade in reclusive semi-retirement, ungallant members of the press lucky enough to be granted an audience or interview have tended to react by branding Harry an unbearable disappointment, a disastrous shadow of her former glory – a kind of cross between Big Daddy and Miss Piggy.
'Scruffy, overweight and past it,' one critic put it. 'Gone were the razor-sharp cheekbones,' wrote another. 'The luminous skin was dulled, her golden hair had become dry and straw-like, and her battle against the extra pounds had been lost.'
Such is the price you pay for being beautiful.
With her pursuit in later life of careers in areas such as jazz, the theatre and art, the suggestion is, she has sought to become mundane and respectable.
So, now, as a fan, arriving at the North London studios where we have arranged to rendezvous, I find myself not looking forward to meeting her.
When I arrive in the building, the only person in the grey foyer is a nondescript, middle-aged woman standing lifelessly, waiting for the lift. Her face is buried, hidden, deep inside an enormous green parka and a kooky green hat she has tied up on her head.
It is Deborah Harry. I recognise her by her voice as she launches into a rousing rendition of 'Oh Canada', seemingly to entertain herself.
This is the first sign that, even though she might not be the ultra-cool bombshell she once was, when songs such as 'Atomic', 'Denis', or 'Heart Of Glass' were among Blondie's 13 Top 20 hits, she remains post-punk's most appealing, natural star.
The second is her earring – a long, plastic lizard dangling from her right lobe. It is not remotely precious, appealing or artistic, but the most basic, cartoon-like design of a lizard, like something improvised from a child's toy.
'My little lizard?' she beams, pleased. 'It's cute, huh?' And, 'My dog actually picked it out for me,' she adds offering no further explanation.
In the lift, we talk about the American elections. She says how much she admires Hillary Clinton, but doesn't think America will vote for a female president.
'Not in my lifetime, anyway.'
She seems less enamoured of Hillary's husband, even though, I remind her he is quite cool.
'Yeah he does plays the saxophone,' she drawls. 'But he plays it really badly.'
When we walk into the canteen, the dozen musicians with whom she is rehearsing for a performance of Roy Nathanson's jazz CD, Fire at Keaton's Bar & Grill, greet her arrival with genuinely heartfelt cheer – the sort that used to greet Norm in Cheers when he walked into the bar.
'Hey Debbie, you're working that hat, man,' one of the guys shouts. Touched, she suddenly looks at home, and settles down alongside the guys to tuck into some soup and cadge a cigarette.
If she would rather hang out with the band than start the interview, you can hardly blame her.
Deborah Harry knows what's coming.
She is at that age (her mid-fifties), and at that stage in her life (the icon from another era; the ageing beauty whose face was so much an integral part of the band that she gave it her nickname, Blondie), when the key questions are obvious.
None of them is pleasant, either to answer or to ask, but she knows they will all be worked in somehow: How does she cope with growing old ? and What is it like losing your looks ? are two of the most fundamental, the most interesting, and harsh.
What is it like playing in the reformed Blondie – given that, despite their number one single, 'Maria', last year, they will never be as big as they once were ?
Then there is her personal life – a topic which in Blondie's heyday Harry never had to discuss much, because it was so straightforward, because for 11 years, throughout Blondie's career, she was inseparable from the band's guitarist, Chris Stein.
She knows that there will be the question about the three-and-a-half years she spent nursing Stein through a life-threatening illness, which he survived, but which their relationship did not.
Not to mention such issues as how she is facing her life ahead – approaching her sixties, alone, with no partner and no children.
Harry herself takes it all very well, though, with the combination of gutsy humour and poise that was part of what made Blondie unique.
When I ask her how her love life is, she answers, with a kind of Zsa Zsa Gabor flourish: 'I'm open to suggestions, darling.'
Even so, you get the impression she has adapted a jolly attitude to the future because she has to.
Although she always said marriage was 'bondage, a form of slavery', she has admitted that she doesn't want to end up 'a spinster at 70'. (Stein got married.)
'I haven't been dating much lately,' she shrugs and indicating she is used to life in her Chelsea apartment with 'a pug called Chi-Chen' and 'a calico cat called Peaches.'
Her one regret, she has said, was that she and Stein had not had a child. As far back as 1993, she was talking of adopting and, even from a brief meeting, you feel what a missed opportunity this may have been.
'I think it's probably one of the few things I regret. Years ago, I would've been unsure about it because of my emotional state of mind – whether I would've been a good influence. I wasn't sure I could provide what I feel would be a responsible or strong environment.'
The obvious assumption is that this was something to do with having herself been adopted, in Florida in 1946, by a salesman, Richard Harry, and his wife.
'I take it seriously because of my own adoption,' she acknowledges, 'but I don't think it was the biggest issue.'
The truth, one suspects is that she simply didn't want to do it without Stein.
'It doesn't mean that I can't still adopt, though. I could be a terrific parent – even at this stage of my life. But I don't want to do it alone. I don't want to try and create a family living alone.'
Although we probably both know that the chance has almost certainly gone now, I suggest that, on her own, she would be more than enough. This, visibly, rather poignantly, lifts her spirits.
'Well, maybe I will do it. You're being very encouraging to me, thank you. I like that. That's very nice !'
She has remained reluctant to track down her birth parents. No doubt her reasons are complex, but she says simply, 'I know too much about valuing my own privacy to want to intrude on someone else's.'
Asked if she worries about growing old, she answers with commendable aplomb – 'What, with all the advances in plastic surgery, I should say not!' – but with enough dry irony to make it clear that the subject makes her uneasy.
'Maybe they'll come up with some hormonal thing and all that elasticity will zip-zap right back !'
In the meantime, thanks to her unenthusiastic regime of aerobics and swimming, she is certainly sleeker than she was during the spell she calls 'the ice-cream years', adding 'I looked like the Michelin man.'
Her face is rounder, paler with age, but the knowingly reckless expression in her eyes, her secretive semi-smile, and caustic Noo Yawk humour that made her a gorgeous, punk version of Mae West, are immediately evident. The only time she shows any sign of brittle temper is at the mention of the other Eighties icon whose emergence plagued her: Madonna.
'Can we talk about someone else now, please ?' she smiles through firmly gritted teeth, even though we have barely talked about her at all.
For years, Harry was openly bitter about the way that – while her own career was sidelined as she cared for Chris – Madonna single-mindedly replaced her, with what Deborah called 'a bland bourgeois version' of her act.
She accused her record company at the time (Warner Brothers) of failing to support her solo career because 'they were all more interested in some other blonde'.
'I'm older and wiser now. Madonna is really a superlative pop star. She's magnificent and she's great at stardom. I think she's terrific,' Harry drawls, as if nothing could impress her less.
'I wouldn't want what she got. I don't think I could've done what she has done, anyway. She is totally General Public. That whole thing about her sexuality, her liberal attitudes, is just marketing. It doesn't mean anything. The things she writes about are not a challenge intellectually.'
There is something rather sad about Harry's need to stick up for her own songs.
'Some of the things I put into my songs – if you see them or if you don't – there's always a double edge to everything that's there.'
This was Blondie's secret – the way the group combined an instinctive, addictive talent for effortless, euphoric music, with the darker and more knowing ironies of Harry's vocals and persona. Debbie Harry was different and unreachable, if only because she was older and smarter than her strident contemporaries (she was already in her thirties when Blondie had their first hit, 'Denis', in 1978).
Punk was meant to be a reaction to, and a dismissal of, exactly the sort of conventional beauty she exemplified. With Blondie, she flouted her sexuality, despite all the sexism and stereotypes that consequently came her way. Record company executives habitually addressed business conversations to the male members of the
band.
You could sense the benefits of her beauty were ambiguous. 'Pretty people are not expected to be serious. They don't have to be – they can survive on being pretty. I have a terrific amount of tenacity and drive, but I'm also smart – smart enough to be nervous of attention. Did I get it for the reasons I wanted ? Obviously not.'
Her sense of alienation is possibly rooted in the fact that she was put up for adoption.
'I think children without parents for any period of time are traumatised. They need attention.'
When she was a teenager, her favourite singers were Peggy Lee and Billy Holiday, and legend has it that she identified so closely with Marilyn Monroe that she used to fantasise that Marilyn had been her real mum.
Once, when she was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she said: 'To be famous, what else?'
No wonder she was Andy Warhol's favourite pop star.
'Yeah, I did, quite badly. I was always interested in glamour and identity, although it was the idea of the sex symbol that intrigued me. I think I was looking for recognition. You know, some kind of attention. And to be a person that somehow I could relate to, feel comfortable with, and feel a sense of belonging. I came from a small, conservative, suburban town (Hawthorne, New Jersey) and I felt like I needed to make a statement. I was always in the arty circle, always wearing black.'
At school, she says, she was 'kinda quiet. I was very shy' – before casually mentioning that part of the 'statement' she was making was that 'I had blue hair and stuff like that. In those days [the early sixties], blue hair was really kind of out there'.
It probably still is, I point out.
'I guess. I started to dye it when I was 12. I had blue and white and violet – all the old lady shades, really.'
For her adoptive parents, she agrees, it must have been particularly difficult to know how to react. 'They were good people – humane people, with a very moral sense about them. I think I must have brought a scary element into their lives. They did give me a little talking to, and looked at me askance, but they would never, ever have tried to stop me.'
I suggest she must have been quite something.
'Well I was extraordinary looking, I think,' she admits seriously. 'But a lot of people thought I was in a different world than I was. My inside world was a lot different from my outside world.'
Despite the outwardly outrageous image she presented, her reticence and anxiety always made it hard to tell how wild she really was.
She had been a Playboy bunny and was a veteran of the New York punk scene, hanging out with such bands as The Ramones, Iggy Pop and the New York Dolls.
One of her best friends was Nancy Spungeon, the girl who was eventually murdered by the Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious. But, at the same time, she was sweet, funny and good-natured, eschewing all the offers and attention she got from men, spending the whole period 'mostly with Chris'.
'Chris and I were with each other all the time. He was my best friend and my partner and my lover. It was a very intense relationship.'
Before Stein's illness, even after they had sold 25 million records and conquered the world, Harry always had an aura of sadness. In his book, Please Kill Me: an oral history of punk, writer Legs McNeill said, 'Debbie was gorgeous, but she was also hysterically funny. After success, she just seemed lonely.'
'It wasn't fun anymore. We were all really disillusioned because "Heart of Glass" had gone to number one in America and, simultaneously, the legal department of the record company announced that we had broken our contract which said that we had to make three albums per year.'
She had already grown sick of being so recognisable as the public face of Blondie when, in 1982, Stein became ill with Pemphigus, a rare, often fatal, stress-related skin disease that attacks the immune system.
'For six months he couldn't eat. Then his skin went, losing all its oils. He was told, in that condition, 10 or 15 years earlier, he would've died.'
Although she is fond of saying that 'reports of my sainthood are greatly exaggerated', she did disappear to nurse him for all those years, seemingly seizing the chance to kill her image. (Eventually, to a lot of critics' chagrin, when she did come back it was as a brunette.)
Hardly surprisingly, given the gravity of Stein's illness, Harry stopped caring about her own appearance, eventually returning to the limelight looking worn and depressed, clearly demoralised by the effect that the guitarist's illness was having on her career – as well as her personal life, of course.
'When Chris got ill, everything changed. It really did derail us totally. We were so close. He had always been the mentor. He had always been the funny, positive one. Suddenly, it was not so light-hearted. Suddenly I was holding everything together.'
Professionally, she felt her record company couldn't cope with the fact that, for the first time, she had come back looking more her age.
'It's an industry that's based on youthful output and appearance, and the record company wasn't really interested. I wanted to do a tough, more mature, more aggressive version of Blondie. And they didn't really want that. They didn't want Dirty Harry !'
Having put up with all kinds of insulting, dismissive and sexist stereotyping – because of her looks – during Blondie's heyday, she has (like a pop version of Bardot) suffered virtually continual criticism about her changing looks ever since.
As long ago as 1983, the knives were already being sharpened when the Sunday Mirror ran a story headlined, 'POOR OLD DEBBIE: No Picture, She Said, And I Can See Why.'
One interviewer complained that she was 'enormous. Bizarrely enormous. So enormous that I keep thinking about Eric Stoltz in The Mask.'
'At that point, I never thought I would have a viable pop career again. There's only a few artists that have ever managed to mature with their audience. I really thought that I was finished.'
The truth is, of course, that Deborah Harry has lost a lot more looks than most people ever had. And nowadays, now that she is comfortable with having lost some of the excessive weight, she is growing into that phase where she looks like a glamorous, dramatic siren; a post-punk Lauren Bacall or Hutton, adopting an attitude of trying not to care.
'It varies from day to day,' she considers, quietly. 'But if you're not going to be smart enough to adjust to the inevitable, then what kind of idiot are you ? Some people are really concerned with getting old, and other people are really concerned with getting on with living. Tell me, what do you think is the most important thing ?'
It's not easy, I say.
'Nothing is easy,' she says bluntly. 'Nothing is ever easy.'
I wonder if she had ever convinced herself it would have been easier to be plain or ordinary.
'No,' she says immediately, with her characteristic gusto. 'I think it's a privilege to be considered pretty or beautiful or good-looking, don't you think? Growing old sucks, basically, but you can either let yourself get miserable about it or you can find something that makes you feel good. It becomes more of a challenge to put yourself together, surviving with a little bit of style. When you see somebody in the street that's older and got that spirit, I think it's a turn on, right ?'
Blondie has returned, reunited and – unique among other money-grubbing, nostalgia-peddling bands from that era – are writing and recording adventurous new material, even though every band from Moloko to The Cardigans are brazenly copying them.
'Having Blondie back together is kind of curious after all these years. It's been interesting. I'm not sacrificing things I want to do for a kind of frozen pop image.'
She is enjoying the only benefits of her Grand Dame status – the facility to explore other art forms: short-story writing, photography, art and acting on Broadway in Sarah Kane's play Crave.
Her movie career seemed promising, with her eye-grabbing performance in weird-but-wonderful films such as David Cronenberg's Videodrome and John Waters' Hairspray. But the opportunities have not come pouring in.
'I don't really understand it myself,' she ponders, wryly. 'But I do have some films coming out shortly. Some funny little parts I've done.'
In terms of her personal life, she somehow carries the aura of someone who is resigned to being single, stuck with the sadness of knowing she lost the love of her life, and is gamely carrying on.
She said as much once when she described the type of man she was looking for as 'small, furry, and able to sit in my lap while I drive'.
The notion of Deborah Harry, growing into her later life, having to cope with the traumas of her lost beauty, lost love, on her own, with no man and no children could seem quite dispiriting.
Somehow, though, it rather suits her. The aspect of faded beauty, of romantic tragedy and, despite all this, her resolute humour, only adds to Deborah Harry's imperious air of glamour.
As she says, 'It's more of a challenge to put yourself together. Surviving with a little bit of style.'
After all, this is what real legends do, of course, and this is what she does.
She says that she aspires to end up 'like one of those jazz singers, like Ella Fitzgerald, looking great at 70 and still up there, on the bandstand in a giant Crimplene dress, belting it out like there's no tomorrow.'
When you watch her in rehearsal, it takes just one line of a song to convince you that the voice that made Blondie so distinctive and so intriguing is still as strong and as wry as ever.
Then there is that earring – exemplifying the fact that her spirit is not only strong but, essentially, the same.
'I don't know what sort of lizard it is,' she ponders. 'It's not really a regular kind of lizard, is it? It's just this sort of make-believe little lizard.'
Whatever it is, Deborah Harry still wears it well and remains her own kind of kooky enigma.


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I didn't find out that newborns take a few months to see color until after Logan was born. Apparently not a lot of people know that fact either. We saw first hand that Logan was only stimulated by high contrast colors, specifically black and white. So when I started shopping around for black and white mobile, I was so so surprised that there weren't any. Maybe even companies for baby products aren't aware of that fact.
I decided to make a hot air balloon mobile for Logan. I took a while to plan it out in my head. So long, in fact, that KT started wondering if I was ever going to get it done.
Logan loves staring at it. Especially when I spin each of the balloons. I decided to add a color border for each of the hot air balloons so that when he can see colors, he would be able to appreciate the mobile even more.
Here's a view from below to give you an idea of what Logan sees when he's underneath it.
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The American Medical Association (AMA) has posted on its Web site tools that physicians can use to participate in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician Reporting Quality Initiative (PQRI).
The reference measures can be downloaded from www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/17432.html.
The PQRI, which launched July 1, 2007, is a voluntary program to encourage quality of care improvement though the use of 74 performance measures on a variety of clinical conditions. Under the PQRI, physicians who report a designated set of quality measures on claims for dates of service from July 1 to December 31, 2007, may earn bonus payment of up to 1.5 percent of their total charges for Medicare physician fee schedule services.
Learn more about the PQRI by visiting www.cms.hhs.gov/pqri/.


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A graph displaying Konstantin Tyukavin's form, up and down via their performance for each fixture. The matchratings range from zero to 10 and are calculated via our algorithms covering more then 50 datapoints.
The next match which Konstantin Tyukavin's team, Dinamo Moskva, are involved in. This includes the date and location of the fixture.
26 Feb, 2022 at Arena Khimki
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Who is Konstantin Tyukavin?
Konstantin Tyukavin is 19-years-old, born on 22 June 2002, and is a right-footed professional football player from Russia. Born in Arkhangelsk, Konstantin Tyukavin is currently playing for Dinamo Moskva in RFPL as a Striker (Centre)
What are Konstantin Tyukavin's last performances?
One of his best performances from last period, was the match against Krasnodar, played on 18 March 2021 in RFPL (Regular Season). Konstantin Tyukavin received a match rating from FC of 8.4 for his performance and Dinamo Moskva won the match with a score of 2-3. The Striker (Centre) scored 2 goals. Konstantin Tyukavin made the equaliser and scored the winning goal.
Other exemplary match performances of Konstantin Tyukavin in this period were:
• Dinamo Moskva - Ural (2-2), played on 11 April 2021 for the RFPL (Regular Season). He received a match rating of 7.7 2 assists.
• Dinamo Moskva - Ufa (4-0), played on 03 April 2021 for the RFPL (Regular Season). He received a match rating of 7.5 Scored 1 goal and made 1 assist.
One of his least good performances was the match against Lok Moskva, played on 08 May 2021 in RFPL (Regular Season). Konstantin Tyukavin received a match rating from FC of 4.7 for his performance and the match ended with a score of 0-0.
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The main positions in which Konstantin Tyukavin starts for Dinamo Moskva. On the graphic main positions are highlighted green, with the brighest colour displaying their most-played position.
A shortlist of Konstantin Tyukavin's team-mates, which holds a link to the full playing squad.
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Album Review: Hallatar – "No Stars Upon The Bridge"
October 16, 2017 October 16, 2017 Corey
While Hallatar is a name that may ring unfamiliar and No Stars Upon The Bridge is technically a debut, the minds behind the project are highly respected veterans of their craft. Forged from the music and emotions of Juha Raivio in memory of Aleah Stanbridge, who passed April of last year, No Stars Upon The Bridge is an immense atmospheric doom metal experience inspired by collections of Aleah's work. Working with Tomi Joutsen of Amorphis and former HIM drummer Gas Lipstick, every word and note resonates with personal meaning. As a result, No Stars Upon The Bridge delivers a multi-layered impact on a listener that few albums have managed to accomplish.
For those familiar with Trees of Eternity, Hallatar can be viewed as a tangential branch-off of that project. Categorically, it is cut from the same cloth. With Raivio responsible for the writing process as well as the guitar and bass work, and inspiration stemming from the stunning voice of Stanbridge featured on Hour of the Nightingale, we would expect (and appreciate) as much. Furthermore, the lyrics of the album are also those of Stanbridge. While not physically here, her presence is across all planes. Music specifically, it is of similar atmoshperic doom, constructed of weighted, solemn passages supplemented with uplifting, cleaner moments. Over the 41 minute runtime, No Stars Upon The Bridge takes on a wide range of forms and leaves us endlessly captivated as an audience.
We get arguably the heaviest this album has to offer at the outset of "Mirrors." Powerful notes are driven home with a deliberate cadence, giving them ample time to wash over an audience. Meanwhile, Tomi Joutsen introduces a vocal range rarely explored with Amorphis. His gritty, higher pitched growls allow the full impact of the album's emotional backbone to present itself. The more familiar bellows and cleaner lines come through intermittently, but there is a notably different feel to what he brings to the table. It is darker, more painful, and cuts deeper.
The importance of the vocal performance should not be understated, and it only continues to evolve as spoken lyrics by Heike Langhans emerge on the transitional "Raven's Song." This vocal element has a crucial role on how the album is absorbed, especially as the complexity of the album increases in the middle stages. "Melt" opens delicately with Tomi almost speaking in anguished isolation before the track erupts at the midway point in a barrage of thunderous notes. Delicate keys and occasional softer guitar passages serve as basic guidance along the nearly eight minute excursion. Within these tracks, continuing through "My Mistake" and beyond, the cadence rises and falls with natural regularity, and it's the dynamic performance of these two vocalists that help enhance these differences.
While the overall burden of this album is undeniable, appreciation must be shown for the placement and execution of the subtler moments. Specifically, the back to back presentation of "Pieces" and "Severed Eyes" almost serves us a sense of calm in the middle of the sorrow. While earlier tracks introduced occassional moments of optimism within their construction, the weight of them never truly left us. These four minutes, while haunting, introduce hope before entering the latter stages of the album. "The Maze," immediately following "Severed Eyes," delivers some of the more consistently burdening moments of the album, so the timing is key.
The crown jewel of this album, however, (and I maintain this stance after several listens) is the closing "Dreams Burn Down." Featuring the most stunning phrases of the album, it contains an exceptionally sobering feel. Almost as if admitting defeat and succumbing to an inevitable dread. A calm acceptance, maybe. There can be beauty in pain, and these minutes capture that concept. Of note, the female vocals on this track are Aleah Starbridge's, giving this track further meaning still.
Through this debut from Hallatar, the darkest emotional layers of life are not only acknowledged, but embraced. within this album's brilliance — the instrumental work all the way through the lyrics and vocals — No Stars Upon The Bridge takes us on a densely moving journey that is as genuine as it is creative. It is something that resonates with a listener long after the final notes have subsided and begs replay time and again through the complex weight it leaves behind. Driven and inspired by real, personal experiences, the act of listening to this album becomes a personal experience in and of itself. It may be a project stemmed from a moment in time, but there is no question that its impact will resonate for years.
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No Stars Upon The Bridge will be out on October 20th, 2017 via Svart Records. More information on Hallatar can be found on their official Facebook page.
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Topic: Just the Facts: Conducting Workplace Investigations
Description: Conducting workplace investigations is a necessary, but challenging, process. Employers perform investigations for a number of reasons, including to ensure that employees and others experience a respectful, safe, and legal workplace. This webinar, which will be conducted by Celia M. Joseph, Of Counsel in Fisher & Phillips LLP's Philadelphia Office, and Jodi Dickinson, Vice President, Human Resources at Nobel Learning Communities Inc. will provide information on the practical and legal challenges of conducting workplace investigations.
Among the topics Celia and Jodi will discuss will be: options for general steps in conducting investigations general steps for employers to take when conducting investigations; documentation, including investigator's notes, employer's reports and communications to individuals, such as the complainant and others; case law from both the courts and governmental entities, including the National Labor Relations Board; and hypothetical scenarios that will help provide lively and informative explanations and suggested best practices.
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Celia Joseph is an employment attorney in the Philadelphia Office of Fisher & Phillips LLP. She is a member of the Firm's International Employment and Affirmative Action Practice Groups. Celia has extensive U.S. and international employment law experience, including: conducting and managing workplace investigations; harassment and discrimination prevention; employment contracts, training; policies; litigation; mergers and acquisitions; litigation; and reductions in force. Prior to joining Fisher & Phillips, Celia was employed as Assistant General Counsel, and Employment Law and EEO/Diversity Manager at Rohm and Haas Company. Celia frequently lectures on employment law and affirmative action matters for her clients and other organizations, including the OFCCP, the EEOC, ACC, SHRM and ABA, and has authored articles for many U. S. and international publications. She has conducted global harassment prevention, affirmative action, equal employment opportunity, employment law and diversity training, investigations, restructures and many other aspects of employment law in numerous countries and international regions. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Philadelphia SHRM and the Philadelphia (Liberty) Industry Liaison Group, the President and member of the Board of Directors of the International Employers Forum, and is on the faculty and Planning Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Annual Employment Law Institute. Celia also has a mediation certificate and is a pro bono mediator in the EEOC's Philadelphia Office.
Jodi Dickinson has worked in the field of Human Resources for nearly 20 years as an internationally experienced executive with a proven track record in multiple industries. Jodi is currently the Vice President and Head of Human Resources for Nobel Learning Communities, Inc. Previously, Jodi was the Associate Vice President of Human Resources for ARAMARK Global Business Services and worked multiple escalading leadership roles in ARAMARK; first as the Associate Vice President for the Education business then as the Associate Vice President for the Sports and Entertainment business. Prior to joining ARAMARK, she served as Global Vice President of Human Resources for Laureate Education in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to Laureate, Jodi was the Global Senior HR Director Arkema Inc. in Philadelphia as the HR business Partner and was the HR Executive who was responsible to lead Compensation for the organization. Prior to Arkema Inc, Ms. Dickinson was in escalating human resources leadership positions in global business partnership and specialist capacities at Campbell Soup Company, SIEMENS, and United Staffing Services.
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Q: How do I deal with greedy write locking in MongoDB? My question - is there a way to read and write to the MongoDB simultaneously? Or make MongoDB reader greedy?
I have a web application that uses MongoDB for the database. In my application, I have a Serial Event that I am listening for. On this Serial Event, I create a new thread to deal with the event. In the thread, the string from serial is parsed and an object is created then written to the mongo database (a new document is created and added into a specific collection).
However, while this serial event is occurring, I am trying to also read from the database and update a graph to show the new incoming data from this collection. The problem is that because MongoDB is writer greedy (see http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/concurrency/), it appears that the reads are never being allowed to occur.
My serial events are happening about 2/3 times a second. And my reading is happening about 2 times a second as well. The data needs to stay written to a database so that all clients can have access to it, not just the client receiving the Serial event.
So my question is, is there a way to allow my reads through? Can I change the lock on MongoDB to be reader greedy? Or is there a way I can read and write at the same time without compromising speed? Is sharding a way around this problem (I do not know a lot about sharding so not sure if this would fix my problem)?
If you want any code posted up let me know! Any comments or workarounds would be greatly appreciated!

A: Are you saying that your reads are not getting thru at all? What exactly is happening? Yes the mongodb write lock per database can cause issues but generally at much higher transaction levels than you are discussing.
How quickly do your readers need to see the newly written objects? If you can handle some latency you could read against replica set secondaries. Not without it's own issues (specifically dealing with replication lag) it can help with read only queries.
I'd also consider looking at the output of mongostat and mongotop to get a handle on the amount of time the database is locked and what collections are being used.


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Knate koti (Areipeleng Mogomotsi Mona) was born in Bloemfontein South Africa on the 18th of September. He spent most of his life in Bloemfontein with a very nomadic family that moved from location to location. He fell in love with music at very young age but specifically with house music at the age of 9 years. By then, he had been influenced by some of the great South African legends like DJ Fresh, Glen Lewis, Ganyane, Masters at Work and the late DJ Khabzela to name a few. At a later stage, he moved from listening to compilations to listening to the actual music of producers like Franck Roger, Kerri Chandler, Osunlade, Julien Jabre, Gregory Darsa, Charles Webster, etc.
With his great ear for music he managed to meet up with people that helped him to realise his dream of making music. In 2006 he was introduced to music production by a friend and together they formed a Duo called "Nsk & Knate".
Knate Koti always wanted to DJ as hobby or rather as an extra neural activity while still pursuing his Academic career of being a public official. He studied at Central University of Technology with a Degree in Public management. After finishing his studies, he had difficulties in getting employed in his field of study. So, he then spent more time on music production. That time very crucial for him because that was when he decided to make making music his life. In 2013 He did his 1st remix project for a song by Thatojazz f.t Myza - Anniversary. He infused a touch of deep dubby music on the remix. In 2014 he got signed with Ancestral Recordings and released a debut E.P called My City that consisted of three tracks with a touch of Afro/Soul/Deep. His sound has been escalating from then on. As Knate is constantly exploring new styles and genres, his musical stylings promise to thrill his fans for years to come. Recondite Tryst Podcast is one of the initiatives He took to create a plat-form for showcasing his talent of both dee-jaying and music production. Some of the mixtapes published in his podomadic include tracks that he produced, including: "Knate Koti- Ground zero" & "Knate Koti- Lost customs". 2016 finds Knate joining forces with House Music upstart House Ministy. Stay tuned.
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Call for Papers: Volume 3, Issue 1 / 2016
January 23, 2017 јануар 23, 2017
Comparative Balkan Politics (CBP) is a new annual journal in the field of comparative politics and international studies with a focus on Southeast Europe. CBP defines its scope broadly to include comparative studies in politics, economy, and social science in all of the Balkans and Southeast Europe, as well as in countries that have strong ties to the region, and comparative studies of countries that give new insights to developments in the Balkans. CBP aims to publish original articles that give new insights into Balkan politics in order to promote better understanding and informed debate on political processes in Southeast Europe.
Comparative Balkan Politics is now accepting manuscripts for its forthcoming issue, on the topic "The Presidentialization of Political Parties – Limiting Internal Party Democracy". We welcome both theoretical and empirical research articles, single case studies, as well as comparative perspectives. Research articles not focusing on presidentialization of political parties, as well as review articles, will be accepted within the general section of the journal.
The deadline for submitting manuscripts to be included in this issue is 1 February 2017.
Manuscripts of research articles should typically be between 6000 and 8000 words, including references, tables, captions and footnotes. Manuscripts of review articles should be between 3000 and 4000 words. Please refer to the Author guidelines for more details.
All manuscripts are accepted in English language. Submissions have to be an original work of the author(s), and must not duplicate any previously published work, including the author(s) own previous publications. The manuscript must not be under consideration or peer review or in the process of being published elsewhere.
All manuscripts undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. Referee recommendations and high academic standards are the final criteria of judgment for inclusion in the journal.
All articles published in Comparative Balkan Politics are Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs License (CC BY-NC-ND).
For additional information please contact the Editor Zlatko Vujović (zlatko@cemi.co.me).
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Legends of Tomorrow: Mr. Parker's Cul-De-Sac
by Mikey Heinrich
Pippa: "Do you need to change your shoes?"
Ray: "I think I do."
Ah, the traditional mid-season 'this should be three separate episodes, but we don't have that long a season' episode. It came early this year.
The comedy of errors farce that is 'Guess what evil wizard is coming to dinner' wraps up at the forty minute mark, including commercials.
I say this at least twice every season, but if they had a full 22 episode season order, that would have been the entire episode.
Instead, we have three and a bit episodes welded together here, at least two of which should have been entire hours on their own. But we're not here to review what should have been, we're here to review what we actually got, so let's talk about that.
The first forty minutes focus on Ray wanting to propose to Nora, only to get sidelined by Nora's (evil) father showing up and bringing with him a carnival of misunderstandings. Everything about this plotline was hysterical and perfect. The layers of misunderstanding were built up expertly, and all resolved at exactly the right time relative to one another. Sara and Ava's argument about Sara's job offer was ridiculously gratuitous and in any other context would have been stupid beyond excuse, but it worked here because it was clearly nothing more than an additional complication for the big fight scene. And as such it was genuinely funny, even if we never really took it seriously for a moment.
This segues awkwardly into the Mister Rogers pastiche, which was funny for what it was, but was only allowed ten minutes of screentime, and so never got to be as good as it could have been. It accomplished the message of 'it's good to cooperate,' and more or less justified Charlie and John finding common ground regarding the loom of fate and therefore allowing that plotline to move forward. But it also underlined how shallow the Sara and Ava argument was by having it resolved in twenty seconds by puppets, and that's a flaw.
So, serviceable, but nothing more than that. At least, from minute forty one to minute fifty. That's disappointing, even if it's not un-entertaining to watch.
It's frustrating, because those first forty minutes are probably the best time that I've had watching television in years. So funny. So clever. So satisfying how they side-stepped the conflict between Sara and Nora by having Nora just talk to her and say 'can you just give me this night to try?' This show consistently rewards by having the characters behave as adults, and that was a well appreciated example.
The final third was the Ray/Nora wedding sequence, which would never have sustained an entire episode itself, but I loved every second of it. Maybe I'm just an old softy.
The only other section to address is Mick and Zari with his daughter. I liked the way they made Mick's problem with an internet troll a thing that this new Zari could help with. I hated the way Mick violated his daughter and Ali to get out of the situation. I have hope that he'll be redeemed from that decision later. Please.
Everybody remember where we parked:
Everybody hung out in 2020, except for the version of Gary from the end of season three who was in 2018. That was kind of fun.
Bits and Pieces:
-- I really wonder what the casual viewer could possibly have made of this.
-- I get why they used it, but I really hoped we were done with the Rebecca Silver plotline.
-- I look forward to more of Lita. She and Mick had a good spark.
-- Having Damien Darhk as an Encore was brilliant. What a great way to bring him back and resolve his relationship with Nora. Great usage of the season-long plot concept.
-- The message that love for your child can save you is not a terrible one to embrace.
-- I didn't hate the way they used Pippa as a plot device.
Sara: "Astra has made her choices, John. It is not up to you to undo them."
Nate: "Defiling the library I see."
John: "Yeah, well, you know, I quit smoking, so I need a new habit."
Gary: "Did I just fritz out of existence?"
Nora: "Oh, yeah... yeah.. this is just a place where I hang my hat... and do my dark rituals."
Zari: (Quoting the internet) "Rebecca Silver knows as much about love as a teenage boy's sock drawer."
Mick: "Do you know who I am?"
Lita: "Yeah, what are you doing here, Becky?"
Ali: "This is Lita. She's your daughter."
(Mick faints.)
Zari: "Twist. Oh, he's fine."
Damien: "I love it. You can just smell the dark forces at work in here."
Ava: "Are you seriously invoking book club right now?"
Nora: "Yeah?"
Ava: "You get one of those. You get one."
Sara: "How many courses did Ray have planned?"
Ava: "By my count, five. Six if you include cocktails."
A really great episode, followed by two pretty good episodes, all awkwardly welded together. God, I love this show. Please never stop giving more show than we can see.
Four out of five chocolate mousses. I'd watch this all year long.
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Billie Doux Monday, March 16, 2020 at 11:44:00 PM EDT
It was actually nice to see Damien again. Who knew?
Sara and Ava as puppets was my favorite part of the episode.
Robin Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at 11:25:00 AM EDT
I love that of all the characters to be the classic "Dad's preferred son-in-law," it ended up being Constantine. Of COURSE Damien would respect a fellow magic-user, even when that magic-user just blasted him with a fireball. "Now THAT guy is marriage material!"
I also love Nate and Behrad picking up the Mr. Parker binge deep into its run when Mr. Parker "could sure use a cold one."
In my heart, I want Mick to use time travel to have popped into Lita's childhood periodically to offer guidance, financial support, and underage beers. I'm looking forward to seeing where they end up going with it.
Mikey Heinrich Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at 11:34:00 AM EDT
The puppets were super funny, and I did enjoy them. I'm just worried that the puppets and rebecca silver are both jokes that they're going to keep retelling until we're all sick of them, if that makes sense. They're not there yet, but I can see it on the horizon.
I loved how I was just asking myself, 'Did Damien and Constantine ever meet? I don't remember.' when the show had Damien clarify it for me.
Yes please on Mick retroactively being part of Lita's life. Lita would have been my best friend in high school. I want good things for her.
Josie Kafka Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 2:08:00 AM EDT
I loved Dominic Purcell's faint. I may have re-watched those 15 seconds a few times. :-)
I also loved that the first glimpse we get of Mick's daughter is her burning something. Ah, genetics.
If you'd asked me whether or not I ever wanted Damien Darhk to come back, I would have said no. And I would have been wrong.


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El cuarto distrito electoral de Chile es un distrito electoral ubicado en la Región de Atacama que elige cinco diputados para la Cámara de Diputados de Chile. Fue creado en 2018 a partir de los antiguos quinto y sexto distritos y está compuesto por la totalidad de la región. Según el censo de 2017, posee 286 168 habitantes.

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