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Friends of the Children-Chicago gets $1.6M to expand south
Organization with Oak Park connections, uses mentorship to connect children and their families
by Samantha Callender August 2, 2022 August 2, 2022
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Friends of the Children-Chicago, the local West Side branch of a national organization that pairs children as young as 4 years old with paid mentors until the child is finished with high school, was recently one among five organizations that received the first Gun Violence Prevention and Reduction Grant awards.
The grants are funded through Cook County's portion of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding and total around $14.4 million over three years.
Friends of the Children-Chicago will get $1.6 million in grant funding over three years, which will allow it to expand operations from North Lawndale to the South Side.
Friends of the Children was founded in 1993 by entrepreneur Duncan Campbell and his wife, Cindy Campbell, in Portland, Ore. Taal Hasak-Lowy launched the organization's Chicago chapter in 2018. The local organization has multiple board members and donors with Oak Park connections.
"We work with so many incredible families that have been dealing with generations of oppression, racism, hurt and trauma," said Hasak-Lowy, who now serves as the executive director of Friends of the Children-Chicago. "We're excited to have seen the impact on West Side families and are excited to bring that same impact south."
The Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, Kids Above All Illinois, the Roseland Cease Fire Project and Saint Anthony Hospital also received funding. The grants are managed by the Cook County Justice Advisory Council.
"These five organizations proposed different evidence-based violence programs leveraging strategies such as street outreach and case management, trauma-informed counseling, and intensive youth mentoring," county officials explained in a June 21 statement.
Friends of the Children-Chicago also received a nearly $374,000 grant from the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) earlier this year. That money is part of the state's Restore, Reinvest and Renew (R3) program, and uses revenue from recreational cannabis sales to fund programs operated by organizations helping residents in areas that were hardest hit in the country's war on drugs.
Hasak-Lowy said, in addition to expanding to the South Side, the two grants will allow Friends of the Children-Chicago to increase the number of families it serves on the West Side — from 72 to 112.
Children are enrolled in Friends of the Children-Chicago through a recruitment pipeline that identifies at-risk youth.
"We work with partners to help identify the families that are struggling with a lot of trauma and violence themselves. We send out our program team to develop a relationship with that parent or caregiver to gain their trust to get them to choose to voluntarily enroll their child in our program," said Hasak-Lowy. "So we're seeking the people who aren't necessarily seeking out support for their child. We just come to them once we identify which families could benefit from our level of service."
Hasak-Lowy said she believes the mentorship program is successful because the mentoring is much more intensive and enduring than that provided in many traditional mentoring programs. Friends of the Children-Chicago provides a range of services for mentees and their families, including housing and rental assistance.
Melanie Adams, a former mentor who was recently hired as a program director for Friends of the Children-Chicago, said that even though she's moved into an administrative role within the organization, she still keeps in touch with the kids she once mentored.
"I recently found out one of my former mentees was in the hospital and I went to visit them. They couldn't believe that I still made time to come out and support them. Even though I'm no longer their assigned Friend, that [mentee] is my buddy," she said. "I'm going to always be there for the kids."
Adams added that the organization "allows you to really have a stake in children's lives beyond hanging out for a few hours a week. I'm excited to grow these connections and extend these relationships to children and families on the Southside."
Hasak-Lowy said the organization plans to extend its programming to the South Side Englewood, Auburn Gresham and Roseland communities.
"I'm excited for us to be able to expand community programming. Recently we did a financial literacy workshop for our caregivers, which focused on helping families create budgets and ways to not live paycheck to paycheck," said Adams. "We're also going to be doing things like hosting wellness initiatives for families."
CONTACT: samantha@austinweeklynews.com
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Once we truly understand that it is part of life, we will be able to live happily and freely.
Goodbyes can be painful but it can be life rewarding as well once we come to terms with ourselves that goodbyes are fine just as long as we learn from it.
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In a way, we are blessed that we have this chance and this life to start over; to love the people who we cherish, to care for the ones who matter and to make full use of this lifetime to do the things that we love.
All in all, we can be people with good character and attitude as well as to do our part in making sure that this world can be a better place.


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STEPHEN'S SERMON
7 "Are these things true?" the high priest asked.
2 "Brothers and fathers," he replied, "listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,d 3 and said to him: Leave your country and relatives, and come to the land that I will show you.A,e
4 "Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this land in which you are now living.f 5 He didn't give him an inheritance in it—not even a foot of ground—but he promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him,g even though he was childless. 6 God spoke in this way: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and they would enslave and oppress them for four hundred years. 7 I will judge the nation that they will serve as slaves, God said. After this, they will come out and worship me in this place.B,h 8 And so he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. After this, he fathered Isaac and circumcisedi him on the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.j
THE PATRIARCHS IN EGYPT
9 "The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt, but God was with himk 10 and rescued him out of all his troubles. He gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and over his whole household.l 11 Now a famine and great suffering came over all of Egypt and Canaan,m and our ancestors could find no food. 12 When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time. 13 The second time, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh. 14 Joseph invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five people in all,n 15 and Jacob went down to Egypt. He and our ancestors died there,o 16 were carried back to Shechem, and were placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.p
MOSES, A REJECTED SAVIOR
17 "As the time was approaching to fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people flourished and multiplied in Egyptq 18 until a different king who did not know Joseph ruled over Egypt.C 19 He dealt deceitfully with our race and oppressed our ancestors by making them abandon their infants outside so that they wouldn't survive.r 20 At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God's sight. He was cared for in his father's home for three months. 21 When he was put outside, Pharaoh's daughter adopted and raised him as her own son.s 22 So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his speech and actions.t
23 "When he was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. 24 When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian. 25 He assumed his people would understand that God would give them deliverance through him, but they did not understand. 26 The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, 'Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?'u
27 "But the one who was mistreating his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying: Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us? 28 Do you want to kill me, the same way you killed the Egyptian yesterday?D,v
29 "When he heard this, Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.w 30 After forty years had passed, an angelE appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight. As he was approaching to look at it, the voice of the Lord came: 32 I am the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob.A,a Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.
33 "The Lord said to him: Take off the sandals from your feet, because the place where you are standing is holy ground. 34 I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt.B,b
35 "This Moses, whom they rejected when they said, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?C—this one God sent as a ruler and a deliverer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.c 36 This man led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt,d at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.e
ISRAEL'S REBELLION AGAINST GOD
37 "This is the Moses who said to the Israelites: GodD will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.E,f 38 He is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors.g He received living oracles to give to us.h 39 Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.i 40 They told Aaron: Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what's happened to him.F,j 41 They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.k 42 God turned awayl and gave them up to worshipm the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:
House of Israel, did you bring me offerings and sacrifices
for forty years in the wilderness?
43 You took up the tent of Moloch
and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship.
So I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.G,n
GOD'S REAL TABERNACLE
44 "Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.o 45 Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before them,p until the days of David. 46 He found favor in God's sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the GodH of Jacob.q 47 It was Solomon, rather, who built him a house,r 48 but the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:s
49 Heaven is my throne,
and the earth my footstool.
What sort of house will you build for me?
says the Lord,
or what will be my resting place?
50 Did not my hand make all these things?I,t
RESISTING THE HOLY SPIRIT
51 "You stiff-neckedu people with uncircumcised hearts and ears!v You are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your ancestors did, you do also. 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute?w They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderersx you have now become. 53 You received the law under the direction of angelsy and yet have not kept it."
THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MARTYR
54 When they heard these things, they were enragedJ and gnashed their teeth at him. 55 Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven. He saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.z 56 He said, "Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"aa
57 They yelled at the top of their voices, covered their ears, and together rushed against him. 58 They dragged him out of the city and began to stoneab him. And the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.ac 59 While they were stoning Stephen, he called out, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"ad 60 He knelt down and cried out with a loud voice,ae "Lord, do not hold this sin against them!" And after saying this, he fell asleep.af
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Meditation app Headspace brings on former Netflixer Dolores Tersigni as chief people officer
Matthew Lynley	@mattlynley / 3 years
Dolores Tersigni was hoping she would be taking a long-overdue vacation after leaving Netflix earlier this year — instead, she was spending a lot of time talking to the team over at meditation app Headspace.
Now she's landed a job there as the chief people officer, starting full-time this week. The conversations actually led to a little bit of an involvement throughout the year, but now she will be working to craft the company's culture and help recruit new talent to the meditation app. Tersigni is the second big executive hire in the past month and a half or so, with the company bringing on a new chief business officer in June.
"A bunch of people in my life were talking about Headspace," Tersigni said. "People were just telling me to use the product because I'm very much into mindfulness and yoga and meditation and had even begun trying to integrate it at Netflix. On another front, some people that I knew from a business perspective were really just interested in the business model. I had friends that knew some of the investors first or second hand and Headspace came up 4 or 5 times in 2 weeks. I kept thinking, I wonder why this company keeps coming up, and that led me to think more about what the company culture would be like."
Tersigni was previously the VP of Talent at Netflix, where she spent four years working on building up a team on the content side. Now, Netflix's original content efforts have exploded into a multi-billion dollar effort — revving up Netflix's growth engine as it looks to expand internationally.
"They haven't really had anyone in my role before," Tersigni said. "Trying to define what does that mean, how do you bring the culture to life, how does everyone in the company speak the same language, that's going to be the big challenge. How do you recruit and retain talent against those values and behaviors."
The role comes with plenty of unique challenges — many of which aren't actually measurable. The role will be judged in terms of hiring and retention, but a lot of it will be touchy-feely (to borrow the phrase for a class at a business school) and ensuring that the team is able to grow while maintaining its culture. That means sending out surveys, getting feedback and then trying to gauge whether or not people are actually enjoying their time at the company.
The latter of that is critical in terms of retaining talent. And it might be a little more difficult given that Headspace just went through a small round of layoffs. The company raised an additional $37 million earlier this year to fuel expansion. It may be in a better shape to continue to attract new talent and hold onto its existing employees. But for a meditation app, building that culture of mindfulness that the app is literally built around may be more of a challenge than expected.
"We have a lot of employees and we're seeing increased complexity in the business," Tersigni said. "In any startup in the initial phases, it's all hands on deck and everyone does everything. As you start to mature, it gets more complex, and you create more functions, your roles are more and more defined. You're less of a generalist and become more of a specialist. At that point, you have to start defining what does [success] mean. Right now is the time in that organization, people start asking 'what does my career progression look like here'. Really creating a framework and road map, how they're able to define success, that's gonna be my first 30-60 days will be mapping that out so people have a better understanding."


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Heritage and Culture Warwickshire's Social History Collections
Social History collection
This collection consists of domestic and working life objects featuring items used in the homes and workplaces of Warwickshire people from the 18th century to the present day. This includes a wide range of materials from teapots to agricultural implements including:
Equipment used by Warwickshire people in their working life both at home and local industries
Objects reflective of the growth of communities within Warwickshire, including public utilities, entertainment and development, and availability of technology.
We have a regionally important costume and textiles collection featuring objects from the 17th century to the present day.
Children's costume including girls and boys clothes from the late 18th century to the present day
Women's dresses from the 18th century to the present day, with particular concentration from 1850 to 1950
A Gentleman's shirt belonging to a Hartshill family from 1600 to 1615
A 17th century casket decorated with embroidery which belonged to a North Warwickshire family
Clothing designed by Mary Quant
Dolls, Toys and Games
Our extensive collection of dolls, toys and games dates from the late 18th century to the present day. The core of the collection belonged to Hilda May Hill in the early 20th century,
it was developed by her daughter Joy Robinson, who opened the Warwick Doll Museum in 1955. The collection became the responsibility of the Warwickshire Museum Service in 1987 and has since grown with the addition of the Cyril Hobbins Collection of toys and games.
Toys made in Warwick by German Prisoners of War during the Second World War
Wooden dolls made during the 18th Century
Pedlar dolls from the 19th century
Contemporary toys wished for and played with by Warwickshire boys and girls including Action Man and Star Wars figures.
2nd Warwick Sea Scout Group
Archaeological Information and Advice (AIA)
Archaeology Warwickshire
Archaeology Warwickshire: Can You Dig It?
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Q: import_once or require_once in vue, react like llibraries? In PHP I can use include_once("phat/library") to include if has not yet a library or file to improve performance not re including it.  Something like that in vue or react or another child of javascript ?
Yes, exist and in this link you can see it
or not, the new javascript frameworks or libraries dont care performace

A: There is no need for import_once because as Remicaster's links explain, imported modules are cached during first evaluation so that multiple imports of the same module return the exact same object.  Your bundle analysis shows multiple bn.js modules because bn.js is a dependency to other modules and those other modules are very likely all using different versions of bn.js.
What you can try to do is add an override in your package.json to force only one install of bn.js for all your dependencies to use, though there is no guarantee that this won't break dependencies that rely on bn.js being a specific version.


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Call for a fundamental change to thinking around mental health
Doctors and patients have called for fundamental change in the way people think about mental health, and the way psychological issues are managed as part of the wider NHS.
In a session at the NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo titled "Is the term 'mental health' doing more harm than good and what can we do about it?", NHS England's National Clinical Director for Mental Health, Dr Geraldine Strathdee, NHS England's National Clinical Director for Diabetes, Prof Jonathan Valabhji, Consultant liaison psychiatrist and Royal College of Psychiatrists spokesperson on suicide and self-harm, Dr Alys Cole-King, and mental health campaigner Georgina Wakefield, called for an end to the stigma surrounding mental health, both inside the NHS and in the wider public.
All four agreed that current services and attitudes are resulting in fragmented services, lack of understanding and lack of support for clinical specialisation, leaving people at risk.
Dr Strathdee said: "We are at the same stage in terms of mental health as we were in medicine when I was a student. We used to talk about general medicine and general surgery but we never do that any more. We have specialist diabetes, nephrology, urology – but we still have mental health as a single blob.
"We still have people who say mental health issues are just part of life, but I can show you the brain scans, the genetics and the viruses that impact on, and cause, mental health problems, influenced by people's experiences, lives and relationships."
Diabetes expert, Professor Valabhji, highlighted the very close relationship between mental and physical health, telling the audience that people with schizophrenia are up to twice as likely as the general population to have diabetes.
He said: "When people present to their GP in my area with a diabetic foot ulcer, they are immediately referred to multi-disciplinary hospital teams that take in every aspect of diabetes.
"It is far more challenging to achieve that for someone who has a mental health condition as well as diabetes because there just isn't affiliation between the acute trusts and the mental health trusts. That needs to change."
Dr Cole-King, called for a greater emphasis on personal resilience and management to avoid mental health crisis, and highlighted the fact that only 27 per cent of those who die by suicide had been seen by a mental health professional in the last year.
She said: "The other three-quarters don't live in isolation – they live in communities, they see their GPs and other healthcare professionals. We are all part of the solution and we can all play our part in building emotional resilience.
"To do that, we need not only to reduce stigma, but to eradicate it completely, and eradicate the silos that cause mental health to be pushed to the sidelines."
Georgina Wakefield, whose son Christian suffers from schizophrenia, spoke movingly about her own family's experiences. She told the conference of the public opposition her son had faced while living in shared specialist accommodation after leaving hospital, and the challenges in getting access to treatments She said: "Until we combat the stigma we are on a hiding to nowhere."


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Evidence overwhelmingly shows that this sort of behavior releases a fair amount of endorphins – natural hormones which make people feel warm and happy.
One study also reveals that gossiping is a primary need which gives us a natural high. Moreover, gossiping is absolutely essential for our physical and psychological well-being.
Many leading anthropologists also believe that human beings innately need to bond which probably explains why over 60% of all conversation is gossip.


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Legal Aspect of Indian Medical Device Sector - King Stubb & Kasiva
Legal Aspect of Indian Medical Device Sector
By - Kulin Dave on May 9, 2019
Legal Aspect of Indian Medical Device Sector - Indian medical device sector is considered as Asia's fourth largest market. At present, multi-national companies prevail India's medical device sector, which is evident from the fact that about eighty percent of the sales are generated by imported medical devices. On the contrary the domestic entities focus on low cost devices. India export more than sixty percent of their output as Indian markets are dominated by such imported medical devices. The sector is at present growing at a high pace. Most of the purchasers of medical devices are private medical institutions and hospitals. Further, the sector is witnessing strong Foreign Direct Investments inflows. This reflects the confidence and interest of global players in the Indian market.
Legal Aspect of Indian Medical Device Sector - Legal and Regulatory Regime
The Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 ("DCA/Act") regulates the Indian medical device sector. The Central Government and the State Governments are responsible for the enforcement of the Act. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization ("CDSCO") which is headed by the Drugs Controller General of India ("DCGI") is primarily responsible for coordinating the activities of the State Drugs Licensing Authorities, formulating policies, and ensuring uniform implementation of the Act throughout India. The Medical Device Rules, 2017 (MDR), issued under the DCA, regulate the following categories of substances –
Some categories of devices have been notified by the government ("Notified Medical Devices"). These specific devices intended for internal or external use in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease or disorder in human beings or animals. These devices are notified by the government from the time to time under the DCA.
Substances intended to affect the structure or any function of the human body which are notified by the government under the DCA. The substances notified till date are mechanical contraceptives (example: condoms, intra-uterine devices, tubal rings), insecticides and disinfectants.
Surgical staples, surgical dressings, surgical sutures, ligatures, blood and blood component collection bag with or without anticoagulant, surgical bandages;
Substances used for in vitro diagnosis.
The objective of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (DCA), and Medical Device Rules, 2017 (MDR) is to:
Regulate the import, manufacture, distribution and sale of Notified Medical Devices.
Ensure the availability of standard quality Notified Medical Devices to the consumer.
Manufacture of Notified Medical Device in India
Each manufacturing location requires a separate license for each Notified Medical Device at such manufacturing location. The license for manufacturing a Class A or B device is issued by the State Licensing Authority whereas the licensing to manufacture a Class C or D device is issued by the Central Licensing Authority. On the contrary, importing a Notified Medical Device into India requires additional legal formalities. The import of medical devices is governed under the provisions of the Export and Import Policy of India.
Standards of Manufacture
All medical devices are required to conform to the following standards, in the same order of relevance:
A standard notified by central government for the medical device specifically or which has been laid down by the Bureau of Indian Standards ("BIS"); or
Where (i) is absent, to a standard laid down by International Organisation for Standardisation ("ISO") or the International Electro Technical Commission ("IEC"), or by any other pharmacopoeial standards; or
Where both (i) and (ii) are absent, to the validated manufacturer's standards.
Moreover, MDR in its fifth schedule lays down 'Quality Management System' (QMS) that is to be followed during the manufacture of medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics.
The labelling of Notified Medical Devices is governed by three statutes:
The Medical Devices Rules, 2017 ("MDR") – A Notified Medical Device must be labelled according to specifications outlined in the MDR before it is sold or distributed in India. It is permissible for importers to print the mandatory declarations on a label and stick the label to the package. The MDR prescribes the contents of the label to the package such as name of the medical device, name of manufacturer and address of manufacturing premises, the details necessary for the user to identify the device and its use, etc.
The Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodity) Rules, 2011 – These Rules, notified under the Legal Metrology Act, 2009, regulates the packaging and labelling of pre-packed commodities in India. Since 1st January, 2018, Notified Medical Devices are required to bear additional declarations and particulars on retail package as prescribed under the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodity) Rules, 2011.
Drug (Prices Control) Order, 2013 – It requires all manufacturers and importers of Notified Medical Devices to declare the MRP on the label.
The Government of India through Ministry of Health and Family Welfare notified an amendment to the Act in 2009 which attempts to strengthen the existing law against the menace of spurious and counterfeit medical devices in India. The said amendment has changed certain provisions of the Act that specifically relate to the offences of manufacture and trade of spurious Notified Medical Devices.
The penalties have been enhanced through the amendment for manufacture, sale, and distribution. Exhibiting or offering for sale or distribution of spurious or counterfeit Notified Medical Devices attracts a penalty up to INR 1,000,000 (appx. USD 16,667) or 3 times the value of the Notified Medical Device confiscated, whichever is higher and imprisonment of not less than 10 years which may extend up to life, for spurious or counterfeit Notified Medical Device leading to death or grievous hurt.
Exim Restrictions
With regard to Legal Aspect of Indian Medical Device Sector in Imports and exports, it is regulated by the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992, the Customs Act, 1962 along with Export-Import Policy (EXIM Policy), issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the Government of India. The present EXIM policy also known as the Foreign Trade Policy covers the period 2015 – 2020. The objective of the EXIM policy is to improve export performance, develop export potential and create a favourable balance of payments positions.
Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisement) Act, 1954
The application of above legislation, earlier applied only to drugs, has been extended to medical devices by the Indian Courts. The Act prohibits advertisements about diagnosis, cure, mitigation or prevention of (54) diseases and enumerated disorders such as rheumatism, heart diseases, cancer, diabetes, etc.
The Competition Act, 2002
The continuous growth of medical devices industry, raises competition law issues (anti-trust). However, the medical devices are protected under several Intellectual Property laws. The need to provide protection to medical device companies for their innovation is well recognized under the Competition Act, 2002, however the same is restricted by providing specific inclusions under Section 3(5) of the Competition Act.
Patent Protection - Legal Aspect of Indian Medical Device Sector
The patent rights in India is governed by the Patents Act of 1970 under which the Patents Rule, 2003 have been passed. This Patents Act of 1970 provides for patenting of both, products and well as processes for a span of 20 years.
The invention of a medical device is granted patent in India. A patent right with respect to any invention is created only upon grant of the patent by the Patent Office following the procedure established by the Patents Act and the Patent Rules there under. As a conclusion to Legal Aspect of Indian Medical Device Sector it can be said that India complies a declarative system with respect to patent rights. Patents in India are granted on a 'first to file' basis.
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Q: Why is the postgreSQL waiting while executing vacuum full table? 4T table data I have a bloated table, its name is "role_info".
There are about 20K insert operations and a lot of update operations per day, there are no delete operations.
The table is about 4063GB now.
We have migrated the table to another database using dump, and the new table is about 62GB, so the table on the old database is bloated very seriously.
PostgreSQL version: 9.5.4
The table schema is below:
CREATE TABLE "role_info" (
  "roleId" bigint NOT NULL,
  "playerId" bigint NOT NULL,
  "serverId" int NOT NULL,
  "status" int NOT NULL,
  "baseData" bytea NOT NULL,
  "detailData" bytea NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY ("roleId")
);
CREATE INDEX "idx_role_info_serverId_playerId_roleId" ON "role_info" ("serverId", "playerId", "roleId");

The average size of field 'detailData' is about 13KB each line.
There are some SQL execution results below:
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SELECT
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    pg_stat_get_live_tuples(c.oid) AS lives,
    pg_stat_get_dead_tuples(c.oid) AS deads
FROM pg_class c
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Execution Result:

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SELECT *,
       Pg_size_pretty(total_bytes) AS total,
       Pg_size_pretty(index_bytes) AS INDEX,
       Pg_size_pretty(toast_bytes) AS toast,
       Pg_size_pretty(table_bytes) AS TABLE
FROM   (SELECT *,
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        FROM   (SELECT c.oid,
                       nspname                               AS table_schema,
                       relname                               AS TABLE_NAME,
                       c.reltuples                           AS row_estimate,
                       Pg_total_relation_size(c.oid)         AS total_bytes,
                       Pg_indexes_size(c.oid)                AS index_bytes,
                       Pg_total_relation_size(reltoastrelid) AS toast_bytes
                FROM   pg_class c
                       LEFT JOIN pg_namespace n
                              ON n.oid = c.relnamespace
                WHERE  relkind = 'r') a
        WHERE  table_schema = 'public'
        ORDER  BY total_bytes DESC) a;

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3)
I have tried to vacuum full the table "role_info", but it seemed blocked by some other process, and didn't execute at all.
select * from pg_stat_activity where query like '%VACUUM%' and query not like '%pg_stat_activity%';

Execution Result:

select * from pg_locks;

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There are parameters of vacuum:

I have two questions:

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*How to deal with table bloating? autovacuum seems not working.

*Why did the vacuum full blocked?

A: With your autovacuum settings, it will sleep for 20ms once for every 10 pages (200 cost_limit / 20 cost_dirty) it dirties. Even more because there will also be cost_hit and cost_miss as well.  At that rate is would take over 12 days to autovacuum a 4063GB table which is mostly in need of dirtying pages.  That is just the throttling time, not counting the actual work-time, nor the repeated scanning of the indexes.  So it the actual run time could be months. The chances of autovacuum getting to run to completion in one sitting without being interrupted by something could be pretty low.  Does your database get restarted often? Do you build and drop indexes on this table a lot, or add and drop partitions, or run ALTER TABLE?
Note that in v12, the default setting of autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay was lowered by a factor of 10.  This is not just because of some change to the code in v12, it was because we realized the default setting was just not sensible on modern hardware.  So it would probably make sense to backport this change your existing database, if not go even further.  Before 12, you can't lower to less than 1 ms, but you could lower it to 1 ms and also either increase autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay or lower vacuum_cost_page_* setting.
Now this analysis is based on the table already being extremely bloated.  Why didn't autovacuum prevent it from getting this bloated in the first place, back when the table was small enough to be autovacuumed in a reasonable time?  That is hard to say.  We really have no evidence as to what happened back then.  Maybe your settings were even more throttled than they are now (although unlikely as it looks like you just accepted the defaults), maybe it was constantly interrupted by something. What is the "autovacuum_count" from pg_stat_all_tables for the table and its toast table?

Why did the vacuum full blocked?

Because that is how it works, as documented.  That is why it is important to avoid getting into this situation in the first place.  VACUUM FULL needs to swap around filenodes at the end, and needs an AccessExclusive lock to do that.  It could take a weaker lock at first and then try to upgrade to AccessExclusive later, but lock upgrades have a strong deadlock risk, so it takes the strongest lock it needs up front.
You need a maintenance window where no one else is using the table.  If you think you are already in such window, then you should look at the query text for the process doing the blocking.  Because the lock already held is ShareUpdateExclusive, the thing holding it is not a normal query/DML, but some kind of DDL or maintenance operation.
If you can't take a maintenance window now, then you can at least do a manual VACUUM without the FULL.  This takes a much weaker lock.  It probably won't shrink the table dramatically, but should at least free up space for internal reuse so it stops getting even bigger while you figure out when you can schedule a maintenance window or what your other next steps are.


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The cycle serpent – solving a cycling infrastructure demand
Home » Find partners » City of Copenhagen » The cycle serpent – solving a cycling infrastructure demand » The cycle serpent – solving a cycling infrastructure demand
The Cycle Serpent is a great example of a costly yet effective cycling solution in Copenhagen
The Cycle Serpent – an overpass that benefits the city space and road users
The Biycle Serpent, is a 230 m long sky bridge which offers a short cut to the bridge "Bryggebroen" and was opened in the summer of 2014. The Biycle Serpent takes off where Bryggebroen ends on the Eastern side of the harbour and continues to Kalvebod Brygge. More than 20.000 cycle journeys across the Cycle Serpent every day.
The bridge has been giving its name "The Bicycle Serpent" (Cykelslangen in danish) as it weaves its way around the glass-fronted buildings on the harbour front in level with the first floor. The bridge is exclusively for bicycles. Pedestrians use the space Havneholmen underneath the bridge.
Before the bridge was built, Copenhageners had to lug their bikes up and down the stairs, and share the limited space with the pedestrians on the steps that lead from the main entrance of shopping mall Fisketorvet down to the area of the harbour at Kalvebod Brygge. Every cyclist saves 1 minute by not having to use the stairs, which amounts to almost EUR 2000 a day — more than EUR 0.7 million a year in socio-economic benefits. That gives a payback time of 7 years and it thereby a great benefit to society.
The Cycle Serpent is a great example of a costly yet effective cycling solution in Copenhagen. The project had a cost of EUR 5 million and was partly finances by national funds and by the City of Copenhagen.
The idea behind the bridge was to create something that could be more than just a replacement of the staircase. The idea was to make the bridge more joyful to ride on, with less steep gradients and better curvature, and at the same time make it an element that could pull together an area with a multitude of incoherent buildings. The Bicycle Serpent is thus a specific answer to a specific challenge in the infrastructure in Copenhagen.
The bike route barely touches land or water as the bridge is resting on slim columns with a distance of 17 – 20 m. The colour is orange to give it warmth in daytime and at night it is lit up from the LED strips in the glimmering stainless steel handrails. At the same time the elevated solution that DISSING+WEITLING architecture has come up with is described by the architects as not an attempt to establish elevated bicycle routes as such, but to separate cyclist from the ground level.
The structure of the bicycle bridge
The bridge is a painted, airtight welded steel structure, carried by a central steel spine – a 75 cm box girder, from which a series of cantilevered struts, made of folded steel plates, carries the steel plate deck. The architects have aimed for a slim structure to reduce the visual impact. The parapet consists of inward leaning steel bars with a circular cross section with a stainless steel handrail. The anti-slip pavement consists of a granulated stone on an acrylic compound. The bridge is lit from LED strip lighting built into the parapet handrail.
The world's best cycling city has no missing links the establishment of The Bicycle Serpent is a part of The City of Copenhagen's goal of becoming the world's best city for cycling. Copenhagen's network of cycle tracks must be connected so that the bicycle becomes an even easier and faster choice for people to get around the city. In the bicycle network, missing links are tried to be removed by for instance by establishing new bicycle tracks, bridges, tunnels and throughways to make road junctions safer. It is estimated that the time saved by cyclists because of The Bicycle Serpent amounts to more than 5 million DKK yearly, with other positive effects not taken into consideration. On top of that, it was expected that the number of cyclists would rise with the opening of the bridge and therefore The Bicycle Serpent will have paid for itself in 8 years, based on timesaving alone.
Design phase: 2010-2011 Detail design: 2011-2012 Completed: 2014
Total length: 230m Total width: 4.6m Height difference between Havneholmen and Fisketorvet main entrance: 5.5m Column distance: 17m
Client: Municipality of Copenhagen Architect: DISSING+WEITLING architecture Landscape: Marianne Levinsen Landskab Engineer: Rambøll (DK) Contractor: MT Højgaard (DK) Light Design: lightconstructor (DK)
Renderings: DISSING+WEITLING architecture
City of Copenhagen
Amalie Østergaard
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The Cycle Serpent – an overpass that benefits the city space and road users The Biycle Serpent, is a 230 m long sky bridge which offers a short cut to the bridge "Bryggebroen" and was opened in the summer of 2014. The Biycle Serpent takes off where Bryggebroen ends on the Eastern side of the […]
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