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Q: (raspberrypi) ImportError: Unable to import required dependencies: numpy I use raspberrypi 4 ; 32 bit, linux run python
error occur:

ImportError: Unable to import required dependencies: numpy
Original error was: libcblas.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory

I find the solution link:
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/15090
I haven't solve yet.
below I did Try uninstalling and reinstalling numpy to solve
joy@raspberrypi:/ $ python --version
Python 3.9.2
joy@raspberrypi:/ $ python3 --version
Python 3.9.2

joy@raspberrypi:/media/joy/DATA $ pip uninstall numpy
Found existing installation: numpy 1.19.5
Not uninstalling numpy at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, outside environment /usr
Can't uninstall 'numpy'. No files were found to uninstall.
joy@raspberrypi:/media/joy/DATA $ pip install --upgrade numpy
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Requirement already satisfied: numpy in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (1.19.5)
Collecting numpy
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/numpy/numpy-1.23.4-cp39-cp39-linux_armv7l.whl (12.4 MB)
Installing collected packages: numpy
  WARNING: The scripts f2py, f2py3 and f2py3.9 are installed in '/home/joy/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed numpy-1.23.4

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*but when I run python script with importpandas and pymongo (the main correct script) still cannot run, somewhere setting inside raspberrypi is wired I assume

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/media/joy/DATA/excel_to_mDB.py", line 3, in <module>
    import pandas as pd
  File "/home/joy/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    raise ImportError(
ImportError: Unable to import required dependencies:
numpy:

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THIS FOR ADVICE ON HOW TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE!

Importing the numpy C-extensions failed. This error can happen for
many reasons, often due to issues with your setup or how NumPy was
installed.

We have compiled some common reasons and troubleshooting tips at:

    https://numpy.org/devdocs/user/troubleshooting-importerror.html

Please note and check the following:

  * The Python version is: Python3.9 from "/usr/bin/python"
  * The NumPy version is: "1.23.4"

and make sure that they are the versions you expect.
Please carefully study the documentation linked above for further help.

Original error was: libcblas.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

in case someone want to see the whole script( code is correct, that I can run on normal linux computer, just have some setting error on raspberry pi 4)
import pandas as pd
from pymongo import MongoClient

aaa = pd.read_excel("T1_new.xls")

print(aaa.head)

client = MongoClient('127.0.0.1:27017')
db = client['sample_data_in_DB']
collection = db['sample_collection']

collection.insert_many(aaa.to_dict('records'))

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*tried to use venv

*I also did uninstalling ,reinstalling them

*still stocking on pip install numpy or pip install pandas

*tring on download minconda deal with it now

(venv) joy@raspberrypi:/media/joy/DATA $ python excel_to_mDB.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/media/joy/DATA/excel_to_mDB.py", line 3, in <module>
    import pandas as pd
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pandas'
(venv) joy@raspberrypi:/media/joy/DATA $ sudo pip install pandas
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Requirement already satisfied: pandas in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (1.1.5)
(venv) joy@raspberrypi:/media/joy/DATA $ sudo pip uninstall pandas
Found existing installation: pandas 1.1.5
Not uninstalling pandas at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, outside environment /usr
Can't uninstall 'pandas'. No files were found to uninstall.

A:
We have compiled some common reasons and troubleshooting tips at:
https://numpy.org/devdocs/user/troubleshooting-importerror.html

Then you can use sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev , the result is below
seems at least that fix ImportError: Unable to import required dependencies: numpy and might need the similar way for pymongo later on
(venv) kay@raspberrypi:/media/kay/DATA $ sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfuse2
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libatlas3-base
Suggested packages:
  libatlas-doc liblapack-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libatlas-base-dev libatlas3-base
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,055 kB of archives.
After this operation, 26.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian bullseye/main armhf libatlas3-base armhf 3.10.3-10+rpi1 [2,454 kB]
Get:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian bullseye/main armhf libatlas-base-dev armhf 3.10.3-10+rpi1 [2,601 kB]
Fetched 5,055 kB in 4s (1,271 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package libatlas3-base:armhf.
(Reading database ... 110976 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libatlas3-base_3.10.3-10+rpi1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libatlas3-base:armhf (3.10.3-10+rpi1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libatlas-base-dev:armhf.
Preparing to unpack .../libatlas-base-dev_3.10.3-10+rpi1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libatlas-base-dev:armhf (3.10.3-10+rpi1) ...
Setting up libatlas3-base:armhf (3.10.3-10+rpi1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/atlas/libblas.so.3 to provide /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libblas.so.3 (libblas.so.3-arm-linux-gnueabihf) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/atlas/liblapack.so.3 to provide /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/liblapack.so.3 (liblapack.so.3-arm-linux-gnueabihf) in auto mode
Setting up libatlas-base-dev:armhf (3.10.3-10+rpi1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/atlas/libblas.so to provide /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libblas.so (libblas.so-arm-linux-gnueabihf) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/atlas/liblapack.so to provide /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/liblapack.so (liblapack.so-arm-linux-gnueabihf) in auto mode
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-13+rpt2+rpi1+deb11u5) ...
(venv) kay@raspberrypi:/media/kay/DATA $ python excel_to_mDB.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/media/kay/DATA/excel_to_mDB.py", line 4, in <module>
    from pymongo import MongoClient
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Q: WPF MVVM DataGrid Binding Well, not the problem, just working on my course work and trying an MVVM pattern. All is working well or I think so. But this thing shouldn't work and I don't understand why is it okay...
Here is a ViewModel:
    public class ViewModel : OnPropertyChangedClass
    {
        private readonly static IService service = new Service();
        private static reFolder selectedFolder;
        private ObservableCollection<reObject> folders;
        public ObservableCollection<reObject> Folders
        {
            get => folders;
            set
            {
                folders = value;
                OnPropertyChanged();
            }
        }
        private reFolder folderExplorer;
        public reFolder FolderExplorer
        {
            get => folderExplorer;
            set
            {
                folderExplorer = value;
                OnPropertyChanged();
            }
        }

//these methods are called from MainWindow.xaml.cs, it's the only way I've found to track nodes
        public static void NodeExpanded()
        {
            service.UpdateFolder(selectedFolder);
            service.ChangeFolderExpandedState(selectedFolder);
        }
        public static void NodeSelected(reFolder folder)
        {
            selectedFolder = folder;
            service.UpdateExplorer(selectedFolder);
        }
        public ViewModel()
        {
            folders = service.UpdateDrives();
            folderExplorer = service.UpdateExplorer(null);
        }
    }

And the part in MainWindow.xaml
        <DataGrid x:Name="Explorer" ItemsSource="{Binding FolderExplorer.FoldersFiles}" Background="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}" Foreground="{x:Null}" AutoGenerateColumns="False">
            <DataGrid.Columns>
                <DataGridTextColumn Header="Name" Binding="{Binding Name}" FontWeight="Bold" FontSize="16" IsReadOnly="True" Width="168" Foreground="#FF1BB37C"/>
            </DataGrid.Columns>
        </DataGrid>

As I understand, DataGrid updates after calling OnPropertyChanged(), but it's only called once in the constructor:
folderExplorer = service.UpdateExplorer(null);

But when I just select something in the TreeView in runtime, xaml.cs calles NodeSelected method:
service.UpdateExplorer(selectedFolder);

It not triggers setter or OnPropertyChanged in debug, but DataGrid still updates.
Can somebody explain me this, please. If you need more code, just tell me, thanks.

A: Your question is a bit difficult to understand. I read it like you wonder about the different behavior of the DataGrid compared to the TreeView?
Your expectations are correct: the DataGrid will update the cell, if the bound property has changed.
But this is never happening in your case - at least this is what I can tell from your posted code. Opposed to your claims, even your posted constructor is not raising the PropertyChanged event:
// Assignment of a field. Fields never raise PropertyChanged (your code)
folderExplorer = service.UpdateExplorer(null);

// Assignment of a property. Properties can raise PropertyChanged
FolderExplorer = service.UpdateExplorer(null);

You didn't posted this code, because you thought it is unimportant. That's why I assume you are expecting the execution of the FolderExplorer set method.
But this is not happening for a good reason: the properties that are actually edited and updated are inside the FolderExplorer.FoldersFiles collection. Set a breakpoint into the class of the items that are contained in the FoldersFiles on the Name property and you will see, that the properties set methods are called whenever you edit the corresponding DataGrid cell.
If a nested property changes e.g. FolderExplorer.FoldersFiles/FolderFile.Name, then PropertyChanged is only raised on the actual (nested) property and not on all the top level properties along the path of a nested property call.
Furthermore your comparison of the DataGrid behavior with the TreeView behavior is not valid. Editing a cell modifies the data while selecting doesn't. So clicking on a cell won't raise any PropertyChanged events in the first place. In this scenario a property change would only occur, if you bind the DataGrid.SelectedItem to a property of your ViewModel.


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About James Cannon - Downtown Abbey Star Joanne Froggatt's Former Husband
Published Sat Oct 17 2020 By roshni
James Cannon works as an IT manager, popularly known as the ex-husband of Actress Joanne Froggatt who is currently living in Buckinghamshire, the United Kingdom.
Cannon is also passionate about film and theatre, but his ex-wife said she married James because he doesn't belong to the entertainment industry. Froggatt and Cannon married in 2012 and split after eight years.
James and Jonna were long-term partners who dated three years and got married in 2012. In their marriage ceremony, all co-actors of Downtown Abbey are presented.
James and Jonna separated after eight years of their marriage. Image Source: Getty Images
Joanne said about her perfect relationship with James and He's passionate about film and theatre, so they have a common interest, even told James was just made for her in 2015, in the showbiz industry.
However, James was keen to support his wife's career and was regularly photographed along with her at red-carpet events.
Jonna announces her separation from James in 2020. She doesn't want to disclose about their life inside the home and their divorced reason in public.
James Cannon Gay-o-Meter
Is James Canon Gay? He has not disclosed his sexuality with anybody. Truth be told, he was married to actress Joanne Froggatt's. Yet, his primary explanation behind separated was just known by them.
James hit the dance floor with young ladies The moment which made us puzzle over whether James Cannon is gay or not When he began spending time with his male friend being close in clubs.
"Downton Abbey" star Joanne Froggatt has parted from spouse James Cannon.
James and Jonna: Relationship after the Divorce
Joanne and James are friends and set up a production company and run it together, and are said to be planning to continue working together despite no longer being romantically involved. Currently, they are working together on their new project.
Networth of James and Joanne
James and Joanne don't rely on one another for cash. The Networth of Joanne is $2 million. Moreover, James acquires from his IT organization and runs in excess of 50 ventures and his net worth is around $1.2 million.
James Cannon: Love Sports
Joanne Froggatt's husband James' affection for the game was seen when he showed up at Wimbledon in London alongside his better half. He wants to invest energy with his better half viewing extraordinary interactivity.
James and Jonna at Wimbledon in London. Image source: Instragram@jamescannon
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After the divorce James is focusing on his projects, where his ex-wife Jonna is also together with him. They are still friends and work together. Likewise, Jonna is also very busy with her next project "Liar" season 2 shooting.
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Ebay yanked my auction for my portion in Heaven because "We don't allow listings that aren't offering anything for sale or those that have intangible items (generally things don't physically exist)." I take this as proof that Olam Habaah (Heaven) does not exist.
But for those of you who do still want it, below is my sales pitch, feel free to bid on it right here.
"Okay sure, I went off the Derech. But even the worst Rasha only goes to Gehenom for eleven months, and that's without anyone saying kaddish for them. I have seven(!) brothers, I'm sure a couple of them will outlive me and say kaddish for me. I've done my fair share of Aveiros, but I have a decent amount of unassailable Mitzvos under my belt as well. I was a good student all through yeshiva, never broke any Halachos – and was even careful about Minhagim – until my early twenties, I am now a vegetarian, so I don't eat any real treif (anymore), and being that I'm an atheist, I don't worship Avodah Zoroh. I have dedicated a lot of time and effort to fighting molestation in the Frum community, I served in the US Army, where I was the Jewish Lay Leader on my base in South Korea for a year, and when I was deployed to Haiti in 2010 immediately after the earthquake I saved countless lives (I realize they're goyim, but still – they've gotta count for something).
So all in all I think my Chelek in Olam Habaah is definitely worth a pretty penny. Don't be a cheap Jew, and fork it over like it's Maftir Yona. Remember – you're bidding on an eternal reward in heaven!
The winning bidder will receive a signed contract, guaranteeing my timeshare in Shomaim, and an additional signed contract guaranteeing that I will not become a bigger Baal Aveira than I am now, and that if I become a Baal Teshuva (don't bet on it), I will pay the fair market value for the return of my Olam Habaah.
There is no way you are certain enough that it doesn't have option value to you that is greater than whatever you'd get on an ebay auction for it.
Pascal's Wager was always a sucker bet. Here's a very nice demolition of it.
I'm not suggesting Pascal's wager. It is different here because he has already done all the stuff, and is willing to sell the option value for a pittance.
Dan – there is no way you are certain enough that the Mormons aren't correct that if baptized into the Church of Latter Day Saints, after death you will be a god on your own planet.
Or as the video points out the Scientologists, Shaivites, whatever the Martians worship, Cthulhu Cultists and an infinity of other beliefs most of which we cannot even imagine.
And that is why if the Mormons thought that I deserved to be a god on my own planet simply for stuff I had already done, and you offered to buy that for 5 dollars, I gander I would say no.
I think the whole discussion is silly. I wouldn't sell a share in the world to come whether I believe in it or not.
These shares are non-transferable and if I took money from someone for it, it would be a scam that I'd feel guilty about.
Heshy you should probably mention this wasnt ur ad.
There's a hat tip at the bottom, not my fault if people don't read the hat tip.
Additionally, it would make more sense to say BEFORE a direct copy and paste that you are taking it from somewhere else. As in a link for attribution, and perhaps a whole sentence from you rather than just copying and pasting several paragraphs, not linking, and writing "HT" buried with the 4torah ads and expecting that to be sufficient.
Truth be told, if I didn't already know about the auction, I'd probably have thought it was you also.
In fact, when reading the first line, I was thinking "What, now Heshy too?", followed by "I wonder if his wife is OK with this".
Anyone reading this would assume Heshy was talking about himself (unless they had prior knowledge that it was not true about Heshy).
He plagiarized without attribution or quotes or anything but a "HT" at the end.
I am about as certain that Olam Habaah doesn't exist, as you are that Santa doesn't, so I'd rather get $5 now.
You should question yourself why that is so.
It seems to me to be going well beyond a rational position.
Why's that? Are you worried about going to hell for not accepting Jesus Christ as your lord and savior?
That is different. If it only cost me 5 bucks to get Christian salvation, and it didn't negate my Jewish salvation, I bet I would buy in.
This is not Pascal's wager, and it certainly isn't Nuran's youtube video about making pascal's wager with every religion.
I simply don't believe that you don't think your olam habah has a 5 dollar option value, for any rational reason. I think that in the name of intellectual honesty, you should ask yourself what the irrational reason is.
The irrational reason may be a good one. Perhaps assigning any value to it would bother you by introducing doubt into your thinking, such that the pain associated with that doubt would not be worth the option value. That seems like a pretty good reason.
Nope. It's Pascal's Wager, just not for Catholics. You're asking him to weigh the price he'd get against the value of what he's giving up times some probability that it's true. And you're telling him the Jewish payout is greater than $5 cash money. Pascal's Wager to ten decimal places. Insisting "No it isn't!" doesn't change the facts.
It isn't Pascal's wager, because Pascal was talking about making a large investment into his wager, while Rachmono's investment is only 75 dollars and will require no continuing maintenance of the investment. Quite different than Pascal who was going to live a religious life for his wager.
It also is not susceptible to the argument of the youtube video you linked. The argument there was that there are so many different religions you would have to live according to to do the wager, and you could not possibly do so. Here however, there is only one religion that he has earned all these brownie points towards, and whose adherents he thinks will pay 75 dollars for.
It is not a sunken costs fallacy. The sunken costs fallacy would be if I were relying on his previous investment to justify a now bad investment. I am challenging that his current investment of 75 dollars is not worth the option value, and do not believe his response that he thinks it is not.
The other bit here is special pleading on your part. Rachmuna has no reason to believe that Adonai or the World to Come are anything besides fairy tales. So the value of an E-ticket to Yidworld is zip as far as he's concerned. I can't think of any way you're going to convince him otherwise. He's already heard all the tired old arguments and plenty of charismatic speakers who make great emotional appeals.
What's more, you demand that Judaism be specially privileged for no good articulable reason.
I don't care to convince him of anything.
And I'm not asking for anything to be privileged. I'm making one simple argument which you should be agreeing to, but you are afraid to because you think you will be agreeing to Judaism if you do.
So let me clarify: I am not saying rachmonoh should believe in Judaism, or any other ism. I am simply pointing out that there is no way in the world it does not have a 75 dollar option value. That's all.
And as I said above, I would be making the same argument about mormonism or islam or catholicism.
I think you are too busy hyperreacting to the tired old arguments of charismatic speakers that you are unable to consider any arguments.
We can�t be certain about anything, but if someone told me that there were fairies who sometimes go around turning old worn-out socks into gold just for fun, and offered to buy my old worn-out socks, I�d sell him the socks. You would hold onto the socks on the off chance the fairies are real?
So far the bidding is at $75, which is $75 more than I'll have after I kick the bucket, so I'm not complaining.
How are you certain, you yourself said you had unanswered questions,, meaning you're not certain. By the way Santa was invented by coke. Also your olam habaah is worthless since only someone who is part of the klal, but sinned gets a portion, you however are not since you took yourself out. Also you are morally corrupt for selling something you don't believe to exist.
Ray Comfort's Wager: this is from the top of my memory, so I may be ruining it. But here goes.
Let's say I offered you a choice of one of four things. You could either have a) a Lamborghini b) a billion dollars c) an original Matisse painting or d) a parachute, which one would you pick?
Now let me change the offer a bit. Let's say you were about to jump out of an airplane. Now which one would you pick? Obviously, you would pick the parachute.
The other world religions may have more material attraction. But they will not save you once you are trying to get into the next world.
For example, Hindus believe that when you die, you get resurrected. If you were good, you move up in the world; if you were bad, you move down. This is like saying that it's okay to jump without a parachute. You will just end up back in the airplane. If you were good, you will end up in first class. But if you were bad, you end up in between an insurance salesman who won't shut up and a crying baby.
Islam also believes in God. But they don't accept the salvation of Jesus. So they don't guarantee your entrance in the world to come.
And Ghottistyx is putting up bad parodies of these other religions' doctrines, full to bursting with errors.
There is no single Hinduism. There's a sub-continent full of every religious variety you can imagine. Reincarnation isn't just getting new tickets forever. There is also moksa which lets you get off and leave the airport.
Islam holds that People of the Book – Muslims, Jews, Christians and according to some authorities Zoroastrians – who follow their religion all have Get Out of Hell Free cards.
And Buddhists? You'll have to change what you mean by "world", "illusion" and the one doing the jumping.
I wish it was a parody. But sadly, this is my memory of Ray Comfort's grandiose argument on why you should believe in Jesus. Yes, it is full of errors. My intent on posting it was to show some of the ridiculous excuses for arguments people use.
For those unaware, Ray Comfort is the guy who passes out free copies of "On the Origin of Species". The text itself is in small hard to read print. In the front is his intro trying to explain why Darwin was a heathen. It is laughable. I picked it up, laughed at Comfort 's fallacious understanding of Darwin, read "On the Origin of Species" (my first time reading the actual text); I can safely say "Comfort, you lose!" His purpose is to allow us to see for ourselves how bad evolution is. All he did was reaffirm my disdain for religious fundies.
Some of you may recognize him as the man who turned Kirk Cameron of Growing Pains fame into a loony Internet preacher.
An antiques dealer paid some arab kid a small sum for the qumran scrolls (or so the legend goes). The scrolls then sold for a large fortune.
Truth is everyone was happy. The boy who found them, the antiques dealer, and the final buyer all thought they were getting a good deal. But on the other hand the arab boy was exploited.
So whilst I think up to 300 USD would be a bargain for this kind of chelek, like alter cokcer, I would feel too guilty to buy it.
A good question to the frum folks, is why are you not buying it?
I'm not sure I'm convinced by the "I don't want to take advantage" argument.
It can't be sold. That's not how it works.
Why not, indeed? That's the sales pitch I get pretty much every week. "Give us money to support some guy warming a chair in kollel. The Brownie points he gets for learning are transferred to your account." This is just the same thing as a one-time offer.
Do you really get those sales pitches?
How, have you ever given before?
I got them after I started contributing to a local shul.
No, they're not saying you get someone's share in the world to come.
They're claiming it's a good deed and it will improve your ledger. There's a difference. They are not saying if you give them money you will get his share in the world to come.
Credit for a good deed. I don't think they're saying you get part of his olam haba. Try asking them and see what they say.
My point is, regardless of which religion (that believes in the afterlife), none of them say you can barter your "share" like baseball cards. You can't offer a Saberhagen 1985 card plus an afterlife to be named later for another afterlife.
And even if you could, it's not a tangible item, so why would anyone buy rachmana's share? rachmana might've "sold" it 20 times already. The whole "sale" is meaningless.
Turns out eBay isn't part of the atheist mafia, and they didn't yank my auction, so feel free to put in a bid.
$5.80 for shipping? What a rip-off!
price is up to $99,900!
I'm not sure how, but someone must think that its value has increased exponentially in the past day!
If you wanted to be smart about this again, you would make it "Rachmuna Litzlacha's Helek in Olam Haba & Megillas Esther" or something like that.
Put the contract for the sale of first page of the Megillah, and now Ebay has been satisfied.
How are you certain, you yourself said you had unanswered questions,, meaning you�re not certain. By the way Santa was invented by coke. Also your olam habaah is worthless since only someone who is part of the klal, but sinned gets a portion, you however are not since you took yourself out and the fact that you may have done good deeds in your life doesn't count. Also you are morally corrupt for selling something you don�t believe to exist.
Yeah, what's up with that Rachmuna? Isn't it unethical to sell something to someone that you don't believe exists, even if they do?
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package net.sf.jabb.util.exp;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Logical expression that results in true or false.<br>
 * 产生true或false结果的逻辑表达式。
 *
 * @author Zhengmao HU (James)
 *
 */
public class BooleanExpression {
	protected static final int OPERATOR_AND 	= 1;
	protected static final int OPERATOR_OR  	= 2;
	protected static final int OPERATOR_NOT 	= 3;
	protected static final int OPERAND			= 4;

	public static final BooleanExpression TRUE;
	public static final BooleanExpression FALSE;

	protected int operatorType;
	protected List<BooleanExpression> children;

	static{
		TRUE = new BooleanExpression(OPERAND) {
			@Override
			public boolean evaluate(Object context){
				return true;
			}

			@Override
			public String toString(){
				return "true";
			}
		};

		FALSE = new BooleanExpression(OPERAND) {
			@Override
			public boolean evaluate(Object context){
				return false;
			}

			@Override
			public String toString(){
				return "false";
			}
		};
	}

	/**
	 * 创建用AND连接的表达式
	 * @param operands
	 * @return	用AND连接之后的表达式
	 */
	static public BooleanExpression AND(BooleanExpression... operands){
		BooleanExpression result = new BooleanExpression(OPERATOR_AND);
		result.addOperand(operands);
		return result;
	}

	/**
	 * 创建用AND连接的表达式
	 * @param operands
	 * @return	用AND连接之后的表达式
	 */
	static public BooleanExpression AND(Collection<? extends BooleanExpression> operands){
		BooleanExpression result = new BooleanExpression(OPERATOR_AND);
		result.addOperand(operands);
		return result;
	}

	/**
	 * 创建用OR连接的表达式
	 * @param operands
	 * @return	用OR连接之后的表达式
	 */
	static public BooleanExpression OR(BooleanExpression... operands){
		BooleanExpression result = new BooleanExpression(OPERATOR_OR);
		result.addOperand(operands);
		return result;
	}

	/**
	 * 创建用OR连接的表达式
	 * @param operands
	 * @return	用OR连接之后的表达式
	 */
	static public BooleanExpression OR(Collection<? extends BooleanExpression> operands){
		BooleanExpression result = new BooleanExpression(OPERATOR_OR);
		result.addOperand(operands);
		return result;
	}

	/**
	 * 创建用NOT修饰的表达式
	 * @param operand
	 * @return	用NOT修饰之后的表达式
	 */
	static public BooleanExpression NOT(BooleanExpression operand){
		BooleanExpression result = new BooleanExpression(OPERATOR_NOT);
		result.addOperand(operand);
		return result;
	}

	static public BooleanExpression HAS(final Object obj){
		return new BooleanExpression(OPERAND){
			protected Object key = obj;

			@Override
			public boolean evaluate(Object context){
				if (context instanceof Collection<?>){
					return ((Collection<?>)context).contains(key);
				}else{
					throw new IllegalArgumentException("The context object for evaluation must be instanceof Collection.");
				}
			}

			@Override
			public String toString(){
				return key.toString();
			}
		};
	}

	/**
	 * 创建一个实例
	 * @param operatorType
	 */
	protected BooleanExpression(int operatorType){
		this.operatorType = operatorType;
		if (this.operatorType != OPERAND){
			this.children = new LinkedList<BooleanExpression>();
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 给表达式增加运算数
	 * @param operand
	 */
	public void addOperand(BooleanExpression operand){
		children.add(operand);
	}

	/**
	 * 给表达式增加运算数
	 * @param operands
	 */
	public void addOperand(BooleanExpression... operands){
		for (BooleanExpression operand: operands){
			children.add(operand);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 给表达式增加运算数
	 * @param operands
	 */
	public void addOperand(Collection<? extends BooleanExpression> operands){
		children.addAll(operands);
	}

	/**
	 * 获得表达式的结果。子类可以重载这个方法。
	 * @param context
	 * @return result
	 */
	public boolean evaluate(Object context){
		switch (operatorType){
		case OPERATOR_AND:
			for (BooleanExpression e: children){
				if (e.evaluate(context) == false){
					return false;
				}
			}
			return true;
		case OPERATOR_OR:
			for (BooleanExpression e: children){
				if (e.evaluate(context) == true){
					return true;
				}
			}
			return false;
		case OPERATOR_NOT:
			if (children.size() != 1){
				throw new UnsupportedOperationException("One and only one operand is allowed for NOT operator.");
			}
			BooleanExpression e = children.get(0);
			return !e.evaluate(context);
		default:
			throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Operand should implement its own evaluation method.");
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 用null作为context获得表达式的结果。子类不必重载这个方法。
	 * @return	evaluate(null)
	 */
	public boolean evaluate(){
		return evaluate(null);
	}

	/**
	 * 转成字符串表示。子类可以重载这个方法。
	 */
	public String toString(){
		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
		sb.append('(');
		if (operatorType == OPERATOR_NOT){
			sb.append("NOT ");
			sb.append(children.get(0));
		}else{
			boolean isFirst = true;
			for (BooleanExpression e: children){
				if (isFirst){
					isFirst = false;
				}else{
					switch(operatorType){
					case OPERATOR_AND:
						sb.append(" AND ");
						break;
					case OPERATOR_OR:
						sb.append(" OR ");
						break;
					default:
						sb.append(" ? ");
						break;
					}
				}
				sb.append(e);
			}
		}
		sb.append(')');
		return sb.toString();
	}

}

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Ishanya: ahi-sa-NE; north-east from here. In India its said as ishanya, aisanya etc and if Romanized analysis is adequate you get a ne to the end which would mean: noorth-east of India. And Japan lies to the north-east of India.
Why I think its east? if you suppress north perhaps you get only Japan as north of India is China. So it means even if China is the origin of most of our language it is through Japan. China went to Japan and Japan came through its route to India. China also percolates to India. But if a mainstream civilization comes through that link there is no way the established firm system would be uprooted although there would be sycretism and mixing.
ishan its argued comes from isha = supreme Lord. supreme or not does not matter. Thats religious. God is already mythical enough. Our purpose is to understand facts and that we can do by understanding myth and we do not need to amplify myth. Ofcourse its a painful preoccupation but if you are careful enough and extensive enough you will see light at the end of myth.
so I agree isan or ishan comes from God's in a way it was assigned to God and must be recovered from there. Since atheism exists from day-1 of human civilization and its pre-empt times there has to be some peaceful co-agreement that God need not be unnecessarily allowed to dilate our laborious fact-seeking attempts. In that sense God is allowed but not a supreme reign over our necessity to be ever open to our true place on this planet where we have lived most of our existence in darkness, compassioned by the light of nature which is not anyway the light of God to the extent that God itself is not an answer to our mysteries but an attempt as such of such. In ancient times God-philosophy were used to eg map the directions, understanding about nature and so on. The point in making is he does not supercede but by philosphising well enough valid understanding of our ancestors have come to us which we shall not waste in mindless preoccupation with a master-creator. In other words neither our ancestors nor us has an answer about God. This is intimately connected with the social and universal prosperity of the whole mankind which may or may not be taken for the better course without an attempt to understand our true failures towards the ideal goals of humanity. Its not to find so much whether a powerful God exists or not but a conscience of our citizen-responsibility which can be equally dangered from any kind of fascism whther atheism, religiosity or a plain ignorance or a lack of responsibility of scientific ideals.
azuma > asuma > asuna > isuna [of isu, of God, light, sun, fire, existence, rightfullness, person] this isuna is then isana. So what east in Japan is north-east in India if that has to be firmly used say 1500 years ago with their phonetic variations over this time not-with-standing.
Note: zu/su are close phonetics in Hiragana as they should be. Vowels are nominal and not strict, they are mere tone-adjustments. m<>n is quite awesome.
Interestingly I had given 0.5–1 year ago Chinese: doung = east comes from dou-kashi-ang. its like dougashi or yougashi = higashi = east. In Chinese you is right so yougashi becomes higashi. but Indian: dakshin = doukashi/dougashi/yougashi/higashi = right/east. So Chinese/Indian/Japanese are using the same linguist-system for meaning plenty of things. This is possible only through unification [science] and not diversification [religion].
China-India-Japan uses the same ancient language among many modern and mixed ones.
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This fern defies both time and perhaps nature. Known officially as Cystomcarpium Roskamianum, it is a hybrid created by two ferns separated by 60 million evolutionary years.
Ferns are one of the most soothing ground covers, delicate enough to inspire tranquility in a shady corner of the garden, yet tough enough to make it through a long, hot summer if properly attended often spreading, multiplying, only to be divided and shared with others.
Yet the love between two ferns seems to know no bounds, not time certainly or even reproduction. According to a DNA analysis, a hybrid fern known as Cystomcarpium Roskamianum, has parents from two different species separated by nearly 60 million years of evolution.
"A 60 million year divergence is approximately equivalent to a human mating with a lemur," says Carl Rothfels, a fern researcher at the University of British Columbia, who headed the study. The team's DNA analysis confirming the odd coupling is published in the March edition of the journal The American Naturalist.
Ruthless says the fern comes from two parents that you wouldn't expect to be a couple. One lives on rocky outcrops. The other is found on the floors of forests. They are two different species are from different places, and yet somehow they get together to make this hybrid.
The freaky fern isn't rare, but it is a record. These days, you can even buy it at some European garden centers, which means it will likely turn up in the U.S., perhaps to be purchased by some unknowingly plant enthusiast.
"Ferns are unique among plants for many reasons, and this study adds another potential difference to the list," says Emily Sessa, a researcher at the University of Florida in Gainsville. Apparently, ferns do not easily evolve barriers that keep them from interbreeding.
Like many hybrids, this one is sterile, though it can reproduce by sending out runners across the ground.
"It seems to be quite happy," says Rothfels.


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Prince William County Public Schools » News » 2017-18 News » IT Services Director Selected for advisory board
Director of Information Technology Services selected to serve on national advisory board
The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) has selected AJ Phillips, director of Information Technology Services for PWCS, to serve on a new advisory board of global K-12 education leaders to explore and determine the top themes to enrich teaching and learning. The new publication series, Driving K-12 Innovation, will provide school leaders with high-quality information on emerging issues and technology trends.
"I am very excited to serve on the Driving K-12 Innovation Advisory Board for CoSN," Phillips said. "This is a great learning opportunity and an excellent way for me to share the PWCS story."
Phillips is one of 100 advisors selected nationwide. The advisory board discussions are taking place in an online workspace and continue through the end of 2018. CoSN will issues its findings and insights from the advisory board in three individual, free briefs in 2019.


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Searching for the True Sources of Crime
Where neuroscience meets criminology
By Michael Shermer on June 1, 2013
In his best-selling essay entitled "Guns," Stephen King contrasts a mass killer's school yearbook picture, "in which the guy pretty much looks like anybody," and the police mug shot of someone who looks "like your worst nightmare."
Do criminals look different from noncriminals? Are there patterns that science can discover to enable society to identify potential felons before they break the law or to rehabilitate them after? University of Pennsylvania criminologist and psychiatrist Adrian Raine attempts to answer these and related questions in his book The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime (Pantheon, 2013). Raine details how evolutionary psychology and neuroscience are converging in this effort. For example, he contrasts two cases that show new ways to look at the origins of wrongdoing. First is the example of "Mr. Oft," a perfectly normal man turned into a pedophile by a massive tumor at the base of his orbitofrontal cortex; when it was resected, he returned to normalcy. Second, we learn of a murderer-rapist named Donta Page, whose childhood was so horrifically bad—he was impoverished, malnourished, fatherless, abused, raped and beaten on the head to the point of being hospitalized several times—that his brain scan "showed clear evidence of reduced functioning in the medial and orbital regions of the prefrontal cortex."
The significance of these examples is revealed when Raine reviews the brain scans he made of 41 murderers, in which he found significant impairment of their prefrontal cortex. Such damage "results in a loss of control over the evolutionarily more primitive parts of the brain, such as the limbic system, that generate raw emotions like anger and rage." Research on neurological patients in general, Raine adds, shows that "damage to the prefrontal cortex results in [increased] risk-taking, irresponsibility, and rule-breaking behavior," along with personality changes such as "impulsivity, loss of self-control, and an inability to modify and inhibit behavior appropriately" and cognitive impairment such as a "loss of intellectual flexibility and poorer problem-solving skills" that may later result in "school failure, unemployment, and economic deprivation, all factors that predispose someone to a criminal and violent way of life."
What is the difference between an aggressive tumor and a violent upbringing? One is clearly biological, whereas the other results from a complex web of biosocial factors. Yet, Raine points out, both can lead to troubling moral and legal questions: "If you agree that Mr. Oft was not responsible for his actions because of his orbitofrontal tumor, what judgment would you render on someone who committed the same act as Mr. Oft but, rather than having a clearly visible tumor, had a subtle prefrontal pathology with a neurodevelopmental origin that was hard to see visually from a PET scan?" A tumor is quickly treatable, but an upbringing—not so much.
We also need an evolutionary psychology of violence and aggression. "From rape to robbery and even to theft, evolution has made violence and antisocial behavior a profitable way of life for a small minority of the population," Raine writes. Theft can grant the perpetrator more resources necessary for survival and reproduction. A reputation for being aggressive can grant males higher status in the pecking order of social dominance. Revenge murders are an evolved strategy for dealing with cheaters and free riders. Even child murder has an evolutionary logic to it, as evidenced by the statistic that children are 100 times more likely to be murdered by their stepfather, who would have an interest in passing on his own genes over a rival's, than their natural father.
An evolutionary psychology and neuroscience of criminology is the next and necessary step toward producing a more moral world. In Raine's concluding remarks, he exhorts us to "rise above our feelings of retribution, reach out for rehabilitation, and engage in a more humane discourse on the causes of violence." Although some people may balk at the biological determinism inherent in such an approach and others may recoil from the preference for rehabilitation over retribution, we can all benefit from a scientific understanding of the true causes of crime.
This article was originally published with the title "CSI, Science" in Scientific American 308, 6, 90 (June 2013)
Michael Shermer is publisher of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com). His book The Believing Brain is now out in paperback. Follow him on Twitter@michaelshermer


Julie and Peter Moran started mushroom farming in June of 2016 because the NH Mushroom Company was looking for contract growers to expand their production of certified organic mushrooms. Under the watchful guidance of Eric Milligan, the Morans developed a system to grow shiitake, oyster, and chestnut mushrooms in their 3 grow rooms (affectionately called Shroom 1,2, and 3) in the basement! Growing mushrooms inside is costly and requires a highly controlled environment – any change in temperature, humidity, light, and air movement, can cause a disaster, or can cause fast or slow growth. Controlling each parameter creates a need to correct the other three parameters accordingly, so if temperature increases, the humidity needs to be decreased, or air exchange needs to be adjusted… or both. But the result is happy thriving mushrooms that are tasty and healthy for us!
Although the Morans always wanted a farm of some sort, they never dreamed of growing mushrooms in the basement. Peter is a busy family physician with a passion for healthy eating. Julie started working on a farmers co-op with the many small vegetable farmers in the North Country in 2007. The co-op incorporated as the North Country Farmers Cooperative, Inc. in 2013 at a ceremony at the Mountain View Grand Resort. The co-op now supplies local restaurants, hotels, institutions, and individuals with locally grown and raised meat, produce, and eggs. All the farms of the co-op raise or grow their products as naturally as possible for the best health of our customers.
Between her work on the co-op and the hours in the basement, Julie spends some spare time with Peter snowmobiling, riding jet-skis and motorcycles, bowling, and checking in with their 4 children and 7 grandchildren.
Located in the heart of New Hampshire's White Mountains, Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa is one of America's truly grand hotels. We combine first-class comfort and casual elegance with attentive, personalized service. Our classic New Hampshire White Mountains resort presents a dazzling array of offerings and amenities all wrapped in a timeless storybook setting.


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Virtual Care Education
Direct-to-consumer lab testing: legal, regulatory, and clinical considerations for companies
The rise of patient-consumerism has flipped the concept of diagnostic testing on its head. As patients increasingly adopt a self-service healthcare mentality, the popularity of direct-to-consumer (DTC) lab testing has grown exponentially over the past few years.
In fact, it's estimated that the global market for DTC lab services will double in the next few years from a reported 1.4 billion in 2020 to 2.4 billion by 2025.
It's no wonder that digital health companies and labs themselves are clamoring for a piece of the diagnostic pie.
As health and wellness companies look to offer consumer-initiated testing, there are critical legal, regulatory, and clinical considerations that stakeholders must take into account to ensure a safe and compliant lab service offering.
Here, we'll dig into the consumer lab testing market, review lab test regulation requirements, and outline the clinical capabilities required for an effective program.
Intro to the direct-to-consumer lab testing market
The global pandemic accelerated the adoption of virtual care, and more recently, ushered at-home testing into people's daily lives with readily available COVID test kits. Before COVID, genetic testing led the way, with companies like 23andMe and Counsyl capitalizing on curiosity about our ancestry and genetic makeup.
Today, consumers can access a myriad of testing kits for general wellness, men's and women's health, food or allergen sensitivities, STIs, and more.
Direct marketing of lab testing to consumers has risen in popularity due to several factors:
Privacy or stigma
Ownership over health data
Self-empowerment in managing health
Rapid turnaround time
Early disease detection
Access to tests that aren't covered by insurance
What is direct access testing (DAT)?
Direct-to-consumer lab testing is also known as direct access testing, patient-initiated testing, or consumer-directed testing. Rather than a clinician ordering a test for a patient, individuals can purchase a lab test directly from a digital health or lab company online, paying for the test up-front.
It should be noted that some states do not allow for DAT without prior consultation with a clinician or a clinician's authorization. This means companies interested in offering nationwide services must partner with clinicians for testing oversight in the states with limitations or prohibitions on DAT.
What is an in vitro diagnostic test (IVD)?
IVDs are clinical tests that analyze samples like blood, urine, or saliva to diagnose conditions, guide treatment decisions, or mitigate/prevent future disease. IVDs measure the presence of certain substances, the absence of specific markers, or an immune response to an infection.
An IVD can be a DTC test, and it's an important category to understand for regulatory purposes.
Regulatory oversight for diagnostic testing
FDA lab testing reviews
In the United States, IVD tests for the commercial market are regulated by the FDA to ensure safety and effectiveness. Technically, the FDA categorizes these tests as medical devices.
Medical devices, and therefore in vitro diagnostic tests, are categorized based on risk, with tests falling into one of three categories (Class I - Class III). The testing category determines the level of oversight the FDA has over the test's accuracy.
FDA reviews include:
Analytical validity: Whether a test can accurately and reliably measure what it claims to measure
Clinical validity: Whether the measurement is predictive of a certain state of health
Claims: What a company says about their test and how well it works
In general, direct-to-consumer tests for non-medical, general wellness, or low-risk medical purposes are not reviewed by the FDA before they are offered. Direct-to-consumer tests for moderate to high-risk medical purposes, which may have a higher impact on medical care, are generally reviewed by the FDA to determine the validity of test claims. - FDA.gov
Whether or not a particular test requires FDA review, companies still must generally register with the agency, list the products to be commercially distributed, and make those products according to Quality Systems Regulations unless an exemption applies.
It's important for companies looking to market consumer tests to understand the differences in each FDA classification and where their products fall to determine the upfront requirements for compliance.
Learn more about FDA oversight for DTC lab tests
Diagnostic labs and CLIA
All labs performing direct-to-consumer testing must have an appropriate CLIA certification (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments), among other state and local requirements. CLIA certification is enforced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to ensure quality control.
Digital health companies interested in partnering with a lab for test analysis should ensure the lab is CLIA-certified. The CDC provides a searchable database here.
Learn more about CLIA regulations for DTC lab tests
Differences in state laws for direct-to-consumer lab testing
Another critical consideration for companies is where to market DTC lab tests. Not all states allow consumers direct access to tests without clinician review and authorization. Among states that do allow DAT, there are differences in the types of tests requiring prior clinician review and approval. To service customers nationwide, companies will need to partner with a clinical network to ensure that all lab tests are reviewed and, where appropriate, ordered compliantly.
Companies like Wheel can provide clinician oversight services for nationwide consumer lab testing. Learn more >
Clinical considerations for DTC testing companies
Securing a reliable network of board-certified clinicians for test review, authorization for appropriate tests, and results review is a vital step for labs and digital health companies.
Beyond sourcing experienced and qualified healthcare professionals for clinical quality, it's important to ensure the clinician network is independent. In this case, independence refers to a clinician's ability to make unbiased, independent clinical decisions on test appropriateness.
What is clinician oversight for lab testing?
Some lab tests and certain states require prior authorization from a clinician to compliantly offer DTC tests. This is called clinician oversight or prescriptive authority for labs.
Clinician oversight includes test review, authorization where appropriate, and results' assessment.
Test review is when a clinician reviews a customer's health information to determine whether a test is clinically appropriate for the individual. If deemed appropriate, the clinician approves the lab test requisition and the customer can complete the test (either at home with a lab kit or at a designated facility).
Test results' assessment is when a clinician reviews the lab results for abnormalities or critical values, and when necessary, provides clinical guidance in a follow-up consultation with the customer.
Choosing a clinician oversight partner
Choosing the right partner for clinical services is essential for delivering compliant, competitive, and customer-friendly lab offerings. Poor clinical services can severely impact the brand experience and customer safety, as well as leave companies open to regulatory enforcement.
Clinicians should be independent and white-labeled
Working with a vendor that has a patient front door or is partnered with a competitor can put companies at a competitive disadvantage. It's important to ensure clinicians are empowered to act with independence and put patients' needs first. Clinicians should be trained to act as an extension of the companies' team for the most streamlined customer experience.
Vendors should adhere to rigorous clinical quality standards
Clinically appropriate test approvals and reliable test interpretation are imperative for above-board testing services. Third-party clinical partners should retain an in-house medical team for clinical quality oversight and clinician support.
Partners should demonstrate thorough regulatory compliance
Relationships between labs and provider groups are highly regulated and frequent targets of enforcement. Navigating these regulations on a national scale is complicated, and unlawful compliance can seriously jeopardize a business. At a minimum, companies must ensure their clinical partners employ in-house legal counsel experienced in lab and provider group contracting, adhere to HIPAA guidelines, and leverage technology with uncompromised privacy and security controls.
Technology should be simple and easy to integrate
Complex and inflexible integrations not only slow time to market but also deliver disjointed and poor customer experiences. A clinical oversight partner should have a technology infrastructure that supports efficient clinical workflows for rapid test turnaround and flexible APIs for seamless data transfer.
Get fast, reliable clinician oversight with Wheel
Wheel provides clinician oversight for direct-to-consumer lab testing that companies and their customers can trust. Our tech-enabled clinical network ensures lab test reviews and consultations are completed in a compliant, efficient, and customer-friendly manner so that companies can scale with confidence.
Direct-to-consumer lab testing with Wheel:
Nationwide clinician coverage
Thorough clinical reviews for test appropriateness
Reliable test interpretation
Rapid turnaround times
Safe and medically sound judgment
Stringent privacy and security compliance
Consumer-friendly follow-up consultations
Flexibility to scale up or down quickly
Simple integration and easy tech
Learn more about growing your lab services with Wheel today!


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Exclusive podcast discussing true stories of the intersectionality between cognitive and communication disorders and involvement with the criminal justice system, mass incarceration, and the school-to-confinement pipeline.
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Mental Health, CTE, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Tragedy in Rock Hill
In this episode of Brain Injury Chronicles, Dr. D. tells the story of former NFL player, Phillip Adams. The symptoms of CTE is discussed in connection to dual diagnosis of mental health impairments.
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Second Chances When You Never Had a First: Sentenced To Life Before Living Your Life
Dr. S shares the stories of Evan Miller and Michael Soto.
Wrestling, Football, and Saving Brains
Brain Injury Chronicles: Dr. D. shares the stories of former WWE wrestler Chris Nowinski and former NFL player Dave Duerson, and discusses how they are both connected to the Brain Bank for concussion research.
Paying With Your Natural Life: One Mistake As A Child Results In A 70 Year Sentence
Cog Cap New Episode: This episode is about Mr. S. Gridine sentenced to an adult sentence that is essentially a de facto life sentence. The episode will discuss the continued stark differences in the justice system for Black Youth and the disregard for development in the cognitive capacity of the youth.
When the NFL Had T-Bone and Dirty Waters
This episode of Sunday Dinner features Brain Injury Chronicles and Dr. D. discusses the NFL concussion timeline including Terry "T-Bone" Long and Andre "Dirty Waters" Waters.
Disclaimer: This is episode discusses events surrounding suicide.
One Step Toward Decriminalizing Cognition: Atkins & The 8th Amendment
This podcast will discuss the landmark case the shifted the discussion of whether the death penalty was an 8th Amendment violation of individuals with disabilities constitutional rights. The podcast details the case that reached and won in the Supreme Court, Atkins v. Virginia
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Rosie Batty
After the loss of her 11 year old son to domestic violence, Rosie Batty has turned her energy and focus to lead the campaign against domestic violence to ensure other people do not fall victim. Rosie Batty shares her remarkable story of resilience and courage through her keynote presentations, leaving audiences inspired.
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Rosie Batty's Biography
Family violence campaigner Rosie Batty is the 2015 Australian of the Year and the Pride of Australia's National Courage Medal recipient. Rosie is a leader in the crusade against domestic violence and has turned her personal tragedy into a fight to help others.
Rosie's name became synonymous with the words courage and resilience. Only hours after her son's life was tragically taken, Rosie gave voice to many thousands of victims of domestic violence who had until then remained unheard. Rosie Batty rose above her personal tragedy and the great loss of her 11 year old son, Luke, who was the victim of domestic violence at the hands of his father in a very public assault.
Rosie's ability to articulate the train of events that had led to this tragedy, has demonstrated the wider implications of her experience. She showed that the system isn't working to ensure the safety of those who find themselves in these circumstances; that family violence can happen to anyone.
The then Victorian Police Chief Commissioner, Ken Lay, praised Rosie as the most "remarkable victim" he has ever met and commented that Rosie has put domestic violence on the national agenda. The Commonwealth Government recently launched the Second Action Plan and has allocated more than $100 million over the next four years to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children.
Rosie now champions efforts in the fight against domestic violence; her public speaking appearances are a remarkable story of resilience and courage and they shine a spotlight on the issue and call for systemic changes. Rosie's incredible strength and selfless efforts are an inspiration to many people.