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Mobile App Spotlight: Viewbox
By Erik L. Ridley, AuntMinnie staff writer
June 23, 2015 -- AuntMinnie.com presents the next article in an ongoing series highlighting notable mobile apps in radiology. In this installment, we take a look at Viewbox, an iPad app designed to help users view, organize, and present teaching file images from a variety of different sources.
We chatted recently with Viewbox's designer, Dr. Luther Adair II, to learn more about the app. Adair is a radiologist and the CEO of app developer Viewbox Holdings.
AuntMinnie: What inspired you to create this app? What problem does the app help solve?
Adair: The app was partially inspired by memories from my childhood and partially by my own experience as a radiologist. When the iPad first came out, I was studying for the radiology oral board exam and I started using my iPad to review imaging files. As I continued to study, I began to brainstorm different ways of utilizing my iPad more efficiently to view and present medical images. Primarily, I wanted to create an app that can be used easily on the go and would allow me to avoid the inconvenience of having to hover over my colleagues during board review sessions.
Growing up, I would occasionally go to work with my father, who was a radiologist. When I went to work with him, I became familiar with the traditional sound of a hanging x-ray film. This sound has always been enjoyable to me, almost nostalgic, so I incorporated the sound of hanging an x-ray into the app as a way to bridge the past with the present.
Viewbox allows users to search, view, share, edit, and present images from several sources, including their Apple Photo Stream accounts through the iCloud, Google Picasa, Dropbox, and RSNA's Medical Imaging Resource Center (MIRC) server.
Viewbox users can organize their teaching file images and create presentations. Images courtesy of Dr. Luther Adair II.
Who is the target audience for your app, and how do you envision that it will be used?
Our app was created with the radiologist, medical student, dentist, dental student, and medical professional (generally) in mind. Viewbox allows easy portability for teaching file images in the workplace as well as the classroom. Teaching files are essentially the bedrock of radiology learning and education. By using Viewbox, users don't have to rely on multiple storage devices for images.
What are the app's most important features?
Users can snap a photo of a cool case at their workstation, edit it, and save it in a HIPAA-compliant manner in their Viewbox app. Then, within seconds, the user can access a drop-down list of American College of Radiology (ACR) cases in Viewbox that resemble their cool case, and immediately get continuing medical education credits on the case. It's a more personalized way of approaching case-based learning.
Dr. Luther Adair, CEO of Viewbox Holdings.
How many users do you currently have for the app?
There have been 2,600 Viewbox downloads since the app was released in 2012, and about 75% of those users have downloaded our most recent update last year.
What are your future plans for the app? Are there any new features or content in the works? Do you have any plans to develop a version for Android?
Our team has long held the belief that mobile imaging would be the most efficient technological vehicle for users to interact with and share medical images. Radiologists have evolved at a very rapid pace from using film to disks [and now] to digital media to view images. With our target market using mobile phones and tablets more than ever before, our company plans to expand the app across major mobile platforms, including Android, and app marketplaces, with a goal of making it accessible to every mobile user in the marketplace.
Other projects on the horizon include the generation of radiology subspecialty apps and a self-assessment CME tool tethered to Viewbox, given our already expansive in-app case reference library. This will allow all of our medical colleagues to tap into the huge educational potential of the app.
Viewbox can be downloaded for 99¢ from the iTunes Store.
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MMDAs urged to take advantage of AfCFTA
BY: Kwadwo Baffoe Donkor
Dr Fareed Arthur — Head of Ghana AfCTFA Coordinating Office Follow @Graphicgh
Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been urged to collaborate for the development of the country.
The Director-General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Dr Kodjo Esseim Mensah-Abrampa, said it should be possible for district assemblies to put their resources together to set up factories and produce to feed the African market.
He said there was a huge market for local products under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement, which, according to him, presented an opportunity for district assemblies to work together rather than compete with one another.
Dr Mensah-Abrampa, who was speaking at the Trade Stakeholders' Conference organised by the NDPC in Kumasi, said it should be possible for the district assemblies and even a region to have joint projects "as some of the production chain goes beyond one district".
The conference was organised by the NDPC for the MMDAs to deliberate on how they could take advantage of the AfCFTA and also identify the challenges that were impeding their participation in the regional trade agreement and seek their views on the integration process.
Dr Mensah-Abrampa said the involvement of the district assemblies was critical in the pursuit of AfCFTA.
"Much as it is responding to our national development of transforming the industrial sector, modernising agriculture and also improving upon our trade infrastructure in general, it is also pertinent that we look at the bid opportunity which has been opened to us by AfCFTA," he stated.
He said the district assemblies ought to leverage on the opportunity created by AfCFTA to attract some of the investments to develop and build the local economy.
"It is only when we take advantage of this that we can also be able to enhance our comparative advantages," he stated.
Impact of AfCFTA
For his part, the Head of Ghana AfCTA Coordinating Office, Dr Fareed Arthur, said the impact of the agreement would be measured by the increase of volume of trade and the number of "companies that are able to take advantage of it".
After seven months of the implementation of the agreement, he said there was the need for Ghanaian companies to take advantage of it and export to other countries on the continent and expand their market.
He said the country stood to derive other benefits from the agreement as it could serve as basis for industrialisation.
"So we are now looking at the index on value addition that our companies would start putting onto their values in the process of trying to access the African market.
According to him, there was nothing new under the AfCFTA with regards to the requirements for export of goods and that all requirements would have to be followed and the additional requirements were that all goods must be produced in Africa or have at least 30 per cent value addition in Africa to qualify to trade under AfCFTA.
That, he explained, was to discourage dumping and unfair trade and unlike other agreements, "the AfCFTA is considered as the only one that has a clear cut protocol on dispute resolutions at various levels and this dispute resolution comes with sanctions and other measures to ensure that enforcement is made".

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Featured in a WMTV video this month, Abbey Whisky have bottled another terrific single cask malt. This is part of their Rare Casks series and they really do seem to know a thing or two about cask selection. This has that special quality, that spark of personality which distinguishes truly great whisky from just good whisky. For more detailed tasting notes check the podcast in the link above.
If you haven't sampled any Glenrothes, this expression is a fantastic introduction to the distillery's style. Plenty of zesty fruit on the nose and palate of this full flavoured whisky, with some white pepper spice on the finish, make this an appealing and very accessible Speyside scotch from a much loved distillery.
Apart from a release under the Flora and Fauna range when the distillery was owned by Diageo, Craigellachie haven't issued any own bottlings until now. The new owners obviously realised they have some gems in the warehouse and have released 13, 17, 19 and 23 year old expressions - all of which are superb. For us the standout expression is the 19 year old but sadly it's travel retail only. This 17 year old however is almost as much of a delight and rather good value at the price. More info in an upcoming blog post.
David Beckham is without doubt incredibly handsome, an advertisers dream, so you might well have seen him staring from the pages of the colour supplements clutching a blue bottle of Haig Club. Might well have seen him? If you haven't seen him and his hipster 'friends' then you've obviously been on Mars for the last month. Many years before David thought about releasing grain whisky in a blue bottle John Glaser thought about releasing it in a brown bottle. It still tastes rather good.


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Field Notes by Josh Glenn, Posted October 8, 2020
Originally published at HILOBROW in 2011.
According to the Internet, the pogo — a dance in which the object is to jump up and down in place, torso stiff, arms rigid, legs close together — was invented in 1976 by Sid Vicious. Vicious told Sex Pistols' chronicler Julien Temple that he'd invented the dance as a way to attack non-punks who came to punk shows. The Pogues' Shane MacGowan has backed up Vicious's claim, asserting that a leather poncho which Vicious wore to gigs prevented him from any other form of dancing except jumping up and down.
Leather poncho — ha! Vicious and MacGowan were obviously taking the piss. Though it began as a joke, no one has ever corrected the Vicious-invented-the-pogo meme, which continues to metastasize. As of today, however, we will dispel this shibboleth once and for all.
The pogo is an arrow that was first added to the quiver of young, anarchic British dancers not in 1976 but in 1964, the first year of the Sixties (1964-73). The origins of the dance can be spotted in Richard Lester's Beatles pseudo-documentary, A Hard Day's Night, filmed and released that year. In a scene set at London's fictional Cirque Club (actually Les Ambassadeurs), Ringo Starr is drawn across the dance floor (at 22:59, shown above) into the orbit of a friendly, gawky, deeply unhip-looking fellow in his late 30s.
Starr has only one dance move in his repertoire — a rope-a-dope arm exercise that Paul McCartney mocks at 21:43 (today's version: the dice-shaking-and-rolling move, mocked in the movie Knocked Up) — and he's noticed that the older fellow is an equally awkward but much more imaginative dancer. "I'll show you my move if you show me yours," he silently signals.
The older dancer — who from 22:42-48 can be seen closely studying, and sometimes imitating, the other dancers, with lip-biting concentration — has never been identified; Beatles scholars have tended to assume that he was an extra who happened to be at Les Ambassadeurs that evening. In fact, he was the pioneering social anthropologist Clifford Geertz, then on staff at the University of Chicago. Geertz was 37 when he was filmed by Lester.
Geertz was at that very moment developing his influential theory of "symbolic anthropology," which regards culture as "a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which people communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life" (The Interpretation of Cultures, 1973). Geertz argued that the role of anthropologists was to interpret the guiding symbols of each culture; long before Dick Hebdige's Geertz-influenced Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979), in A Hard Day's Night we catch a glimpse of Geertz practicing what he preached — by studying the mating rituals of Swinging London.
Leave it to Geertz — who in 1964 published an essay on "Ideology as a Cultural System," in Ideology and Discontent — to find his way onto the same dance floor as the Beatles. One wonders why he never published on the topic — too far ahead of his time?
April 15, 1966 issue of TIME
In the above-mentioned essay, Geertz notes that the question of the social sciences' objectivity was then being hotly debated in academe. "Claims to impartiality have been advanced in the name of disciplined adherence to impersonal research procedures of the academic man's institutional insulation from the immediate concerns of the day and his vocational commitment to neutrality, and of deliberately cultivated awareness of and correction for one's own biases and interests," Geertz notes with obvious distaste. There was nothing impersonal or neutral about Geertz's research methods, as can be seen first-hand in A Hard Day's Night; however, Geertz cautioned his fellow social scientists that biased, partisan subjectivity wasn't the only alternative. "An attitude at once critical [objective] and apologetic [subjective] toward the same situation is no intrinsic contradiction in terms (however often it may in fact turn out to be an empirical one) but a sign of a certain level of intellectual sophistication," he concludes.
Geertz (a member of the Postmodernist Generation) would revisit this theme in his 1988 treatise, Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author, which revisits important anthropological works by Claude Levi-Strauss, Edward Evans-Pritchard, Bronislaw Malinowski, and others, and deconstructs the literary means by which they shrouded their findings in an aura of (semi-bogus) objectivity. It's in keeping with Geertz's negative-dialectical epistemology that he'd be fascinated by the making of a pseudo-documentary — to the point of traveling to London in order to be an extra in one of its scenes.
In the A Hard Day's Night scene parsed here, Geertz enthusiastically imitates Starr's rope-a-dope dance move. He's researching, learning by doing — as he'd done so many times before in the field. In 1958, for example, we read in Geertz's well-known essay "Deep Play: Notes on Balinese Cockfighting," he and his wife, the anthropologist Hildred Geertz (the tall, lovely woman seen dancing with Geertz and Starr) attended an illegal cockfight in a remote Balinese village… which led to their arrest in a vice raid. His stuffy, objectivity-mongering colleagues would never have placed themselves in such a predicament, Geertz notes unapologetically:
It was the turning point so far as our relationship to the community was concerned, and we were quite literally "in." The whole village opened up to us, probably more than it ever would have otherwise … and certainly very much faster. Getting caught, or almost caught, in a vice raid is perhaps not a very generalizable recipe for achieving that mysterious necessity of anthropological field work, rapport, but for me it worked very well. It led to a sudden and unusually complete acceptance into a society extremely difficult for outsiders to penetrate.
It gave me the kind of immediate, inside view grasp of an aspect of "peasant mentality" that anthropologists not fortunate enough to flee headlong with their subjects from armed authorities normally do not get. And, perhaps most important of all, for the other things might have come in other ways, it put me very quickly on to a combination emotional explosion, status war, and philosophical drama of central significance to the society whose inner nature I desired to understand.
So much for "the academic man's institutional insulation from the immediate concerns of the day." Geertz believes in getting your hands dirty, shaking your tailfeathers — and he didn't have to be the genius he was to recognize that the Beatles phenomenon would provide unprecedented insight into the emotional explosion, status war, and philosophical drama of the emergent era. That is, the Sixties.
At 23:09, we can see Geertz take a postmodernist leap (literally) when he transitions from observing to demonstrating. At Ringo's urging, Geertz teaches the younger man a new dance move. However, Lester cuts away at that precise moment, obscuring the move. What was it?
At 23:12, Lester cuts back to Clifford, Ringo, and Hildred. They seem to have resumed doing the rope-a-dope — did we miss Geertz's move? No! At 23:15.5, Geertz does it again.
Torso stiff, arms rigid, legs close together, Geertz demonstrates to the gathered crowd how to do the adumu — the Masai warrior "jumping dance," known to few outside Kenya and northern Tanzania at that time… except, naturally, for anthropologists like the Geertzes.
Perhaps Geertz had read about the dance in Robert F. Gray's 1963 study, The Sonjo of Tanganyika, in which we read that the Sonjo/Batemi people who live within Maasai territory perform "a competitive dance called gikhoji in which the object is to jump as high as possible without perceptibly bending the knees. The Sonjo claim to surpass the Masai in this jumping dance."
Or, much more likely, Geertz read about the adumu in Joost A.M. Meerloo's 1959 treatise, Dance Craze and the Sacred Dance, which had cheekily and presciently compared rock'n'roll dancing to ritual dancing of so-called primitive peoples.
Meerloo, who — like Geertz — was deeply interested in ideology — briefly mentions the Masai dance whose "vertical movement serves to imitate the jumping and grunting of the lion to be caught. The men bounce up and down and jump themselves into an ecstatic temerity."
"Ecstatic temerity" — like Geertz's "attitude at once critical and apologetic toward the same situation," the dance introduced via this movie to British youth is not merely negative. The pogo/adumu is a negative-dialectical dance. And it wasn't invented by punks.
Josh Glenn is a pioneering, Boston-based consulting semiotician. He is cofounder of Semiovox, editor of the hermeneutic blog HiLoBrow, founding editor of MIT Press's Radium Age Science Fiction series, and co-author or co-editor of The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the family activities guide Unbored, among other books. In the '90s, Josh published the zine/journal Hermenaut; in the 2000s, he was a Boston Globe staffer and columnist.
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7:00 pm – January's speaker is Chris Merkle. Chris will be presenting a class in how to support your bees and feeding for winter.
Beginning Beekeeping Classes – Learn all you need to know about becoming a beekeeper. Series of 4 classes, on Wednesday (2/6, 2/13, 2/20 & 2/27) 2013 starting at 7pm.
Note: The cost for the Beginning Beekeeping Classes is $45 which includes membership into GCBA. Educational material "Beekeeping for Dummies" may be purchased during the classes for an additional cost.
7:00 pm – March's speakers include Denise Ellsworth and Doug Sponslor. Denise Ellsworth is Program Director and Extension Educator (OARDC Wooster) and will be leading a discussion on Native Pollinators. Doug Sponsler will be providing an update on his Master's Research Program and Success of recently installed bee packages.
7:00PM Hive Management and how to make "Splits" – A pre-conference introduction of the various methodologies to splitting your hive.
7:00 pm – Kim Flottum will be the Key Note Speaker. The presentation will focus on "Producing Varietal Honey" and how to market thee products.
7:00 pm – Fall Feeding and strengthening your hive for winter. Best Practices in preparing your colony for the upcoming winter challenges.
7:00 pm – The November meeting will include a presentation on making "MEAD". 2014 Officer Candidacy and Nominations open to the membership.
Beginning Beekeeping Classes – Learn all you need to know about becoming a beekeeper. Series of 4 classes, on Wednesday (2/1, 2/8, 2/15 & 2/22) 2012 starting at 7pm.
6:30PM package bee dump demonstration.
7:00PM Bill T. Mondack will speak on Pesticides that Affect Suburban Beekeeping and Good Alternatives. Bill lives near Wellington, Ohio on a small mixed crop and fruit farm and has been a beekeeper since 1996. Bill is also a Certified Pesticide Applicator and a member of the Lorain County Beekeepers Association.
Saturday 5/19/2012, Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds !!
January – Don Downs: Apitherapy.
August – Kirt Ward will be discussing fall/winter preparations. Learn how to help your bees BEFORE the start of cold weather. There is much to do and think about. Kirt is a 20 year beekeeper.
September – Queen Rearing Class speakers. Fifteen members took the Queen Rearing Class. They will be sharing what they learned.
October – John and George Sinanis will introduce NEW breakthrough technology for mite control. MITE ZAPPER is chemical free and 85 – 95% effective in killing Varroa mites.
November – Carmen Conrad of Conrad Hive and Honey will give a presentation on beeswax from start to finish. She was 2007 Ohio Beekeeper of theYear.
December – GCBA holiday potluck party and improv night. Potluck dinner with members sharing their most memorable experiences from the season.


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As part of Israeli Apartheid Week, yesterday March 6, about 40 people gathered at the conference 'Profiling of Arabs and Muslims in Canada : an historical perspective' at Café artere. A conference organized by Tadamon Collective, which reunited the historian, Houda Asal and the activist Mary Foster as part of the BDS (boycott sanction and divestment) campaign.
The historian Houda Asal reminds that the historical perspective of the discriminatory profiling has to be taken as a long perspective and not such as something new. In fact, it began in the 19th century : restrictions and discrimination of minorities had already an impact in society. First mobilizations of Arabs minorities in concert with the origin country began in 1945: the Palestinian defense of auto-determination.
First activists in Canada were against the sharing plan of Palestine where Canada government played an important role. From the beginning of first mobilizations, the Canadian government had already a negative vision of pro-Palestinian mobilizations with a strong supervision.
According to Houda Asal, we can see that the Canadian government has an interest to protect Israel in the International relations.
The year 1967, as the start of big international mobilizations for the Palestinian issue is also the beginning of the Canadian mobilizations around the Canadian Arab federation. Simultaneously, profiling increased at the same time in a suspicious climate of intimidation for these activists.
The first Golf war between 80's and 2001 has increased the conflation between Arabs and Muslims with a growth of racism and discrimination directed to these populations.
According to the historian Houda Assal, 'there is a big link between the international politics issues and their local repercussion'.
Mary Foster, activist in Montreal, notice also that there is nowadays a growing of the violence and racism of profiling in general.
Tadamon Collective aims also to struggle against the expansion of the Canada-Israel free trade agreement (CIFTA) that serves to legitimize Israeli occupation.
As well, the BDS movement is calling for International Mobilization so that Hewlett-Packard ceases to collaborate with the Israeli Apartheid System.


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#Basic nodejs test suits runner
## Install
  `npm install simple-test-runner`

##Usage:

```javascript
var Tests = require('simple-test-runner')
  , tests = new Tests(__dirname + '/test_suits')
  ;

tests.start();
```
Test suits directory should contain some 'test-' prefixed test suits.
Each suit runs as a separate process.
Sample suit:
```javascript
var Test = require('simple-test-runner').Test
  , test = new Test('simple suit')
  ;
//name, tester(success_callback, fail_callback)
//success or fail should be triggered after test complete
test.add('Success Test', function setEmptyWorker(success, fail) {
  setTimeout(function () {
    if(true) success();
    else fail();
  }, 100);
});

//test that error throwed, third parameter same as expected error(type and message)
test.add('Catch Error Test', Test.catch(function () {
  throw new Error('Some Error');
}, new Error('Some Error')));

test.run(function(res){
  process.exit(res);
});
```

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MiLi Pro v2.0 pico projector gets a nip and tuck
By Darren Quick
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Apart from shedding some bulk, the MiLi Pro v2.0 is largely identical to its predecessor
The MiLi Pro v2.0 pico projector
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Maybe feeling that their original MiLi Pro pico projector wasn't quite pico enough, MiLi has put the device under the surgeon's knife and produced an updated model that has shed a few millimeters around the waist appropriately titled the MiLi Pro v2.0. Although it packs the same Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) LED projector producing 10 lumens and 640 x 480 pixel resolution found in its predecessor, the fan has been ditched, resulting in a unit that the company claims is almost 50 percent slimmer than the original and "perfectly silent."
Despite coming in at around the thickness of two iPhone 4's, the new MiLi Pro v2.0 also sees the addition of a bigger battery that provides nearly 2.5 hours of viewing pleasure. In addition to the ability to project images of 5 to 70-inches in size (although 40 inches is the optimal size), the device also functions as an iPhone charger and docking station. It is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod, and can also project content from other devices via it's A/V and VGA inputs.
The MiLi Pro v2.0's retail price is US$499, but it is currently available through Amazon for $393.
Via PicoProjector-info.com
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Darren's love of technology started in primary school with a Nintendo Game & Watch Donkey Kong (still functioning) and a Commodore VIC 20 computer (not still functioning). In high school he upgraded to a 286 PC, and he's been following Moore's law ever since. This love of technology continues as Managing Editor of New Atlas.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disabling condition that has a very unpredictable course. Some people have relapsing forms of the disease, while others continually suffer with symptoms that progressively worsen.
If you have MS and your condition is impairing your ability to work, you might qualify for Social Security disability for multiple sclerosis in Raleigh. For more information about how to apply and for help with the claims process, call a disability lawyer at Lunn & Forro, PLLC for a free consultation: 888-966-6566.
Can multiple sclerosis qualify as a disability?
"Disorganization of motor function in two extremities resulting in an extreme limitation in the ability to stand up from a seated position, balance while standing or walking, or use the upper extremities.
How does the SSA evaluate multiple sclerosis?
The SSA Blue Book provides specific guidelines that claims examiners use to evaluate your condition. When a claims examiner reviews your case, s/he will begin by evaluating your signs and symptoms, such as such as flaccidity, spasticity, spasms, incoordination, imbalance, tremor, physical fatigue, muscle weakness, dizziness, tingling, and numbness.
If you have other impairments or secondary disorders such as vision impairments under which the SSA can evaluate you.
Even if your MS does not quite fit the listing requirements, you may still qualify for disability if your signs, symptoms, and/or secondary conditions are severe enough to impair your ability to engage in substantial gainful activity (SGA), or the ability to earn more than $1,130/month.
You must have a medical condition that meets the SSA's definition of disability. This could mean either meeting the criteria for the one of the conditions on the Listing of Impairments, or having another disability (or combination of conditions) that substantially impairs your ability to work.
You must be unable to engage in SGA.
You must be unable to do the work you did before and you also must be unable to adjust to other work because of your medical condition(s).
Children, those who have never worked, or those who have not worked long or recently enough to qualify for SSDI will instead need to apply for the alternative disability benefit program, Supplemental Security Income (SSI). To meet the financial criteria for SSI, your income and assets must fall below a certain level.
How do I prove my disability so that I can collect benefits?
To justify your benefits, you will need to provide adequate evidence from acceptable medical sources that verify your disability. This includes your medical history, findings of mental and physical examinations, and your diagnosis, as well as results from medical tests such as MRIs, spinal taps, EEGs, CT scans, and evoked potentials.
The SSA will also consider other evidence from non-medical sources that provides insight about your limitations, such as testimonies from your family, social worker, employer, etc.
If your disability does not exactly fit the requirements in the Listing of Impairments under MS, the SSA will further assess your physical, mental, and sensory limitations using physical and mental Residual Functional Capacity (RFC) forms. These forms help the SSA determine what kinds of things you can and cannot do, and whether there are any jobs available that you can perform based on your RFC.
Note: The SSA has very strict requirements and only awards benefits to people that are totally disabled. (It does not give benefits to those with partial disabilities.) Ask a local disability lawyer for help filing your claim and proving your condition to the SSA.
Do I have options if I received a denial?
If the SSA has denied your application for benefits, our MS disability lawyers at Lunn & Forro, PLLC can help you appeal your case. We can help gather additional evidence that proves your impairment and request that the SSA reconsider its initial decision. There are actually several levels of appeals we can use, but there are strict limits on each, so it is important to take action as soon as possible.
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Who is Ontario Society of Senior Citizens' Organizations/La Société des Organisations des Citoyens Aînés de l'Ontario (OSSCO)?
Ontario Society of Senior Citizens Organizations / La Société des Organisations des Citoyens Aînés de l'Ontario (OSSCO) is a provincial organization and a registered charity.
We are a collaborative group of community minded individuals in our province who are committed to improving the quality of life for Ontario's seniors. We do so by involving seniors through various learning and feedback activities.
Our members consist of seniors' networks, alliances, groups and organizations as well as individual seniors. Our membership represents 500,000 senior citizens across Ontario with 140 organizations under OSSCO's umbrella, representing 500,000 seniors in Ontario. In 2017, OSSCO celebrated 30 years of contributing to the quality of life for Ontario seniors.
We focus on 3 things – educational programming, research and public policy awareness. Through signature events, ongoing seniors' educational programming and community outreach, older people are kept informed on issues of interest to an aging Ontario, and ensure that their voices are heard by stakeholders.
Since 1987, we have been instrumental in uniting seniors, and keeping them informed and engaged on current issues.
2017: OSSCO partners with 5 organizations to offer Job Search and Employment Networking Group programs in Toronto and the GTA to help older unemployed workers enhance their economic opportunities. Ontario Trillium Foundation funds this program from 2017 – 2021.
2016: OSSCO launches a pilot project to Enhance Economic Opportunities for Unemployed Older Workers funded by Ontario Trillium Foundation. The project helps people who face the challenge of finding employment, making a career change or starting a business as well as deciding to exit from the workplace.
A Symposium called Reducing the Risk of Social Isolation and Loneliness: Celebrating Best Community Practices is videotaped and edited into 3 Seniors' Conversations Worth Sharing: Home Alone: Reducing the Risk of Social Isolation and Loneliness. Some provincial training programs are offered in multiple languages i.e. French, Mandarin, Russian and Farsi.
2015: My Home, My Community: Safety Starts Here Conference is presented. This conference is the only one focusing on elder abuse awareness and prevention for people in a retirement home setting. The supporting educational brochure is developed with 2,000 copies distributed to retirement homes, libraries and seniors' groups. An additional 3,000 brochures printed and distributed to assist seniors in finding information. The Roadmap for Information Decision Making a fact-finding report is published.
2014: Shifting the Paradigm: Strategies for Positive Active Aging, is published with the results confirming that ageism exists. The report addresses 10 areas where clichés and stereotypes exist on getting older. Strategies for a supportive and senior-sensitive society are included. An Elder Abuse Symposium is delivered in St. Catharines. The Roadmap for Informed Decision-Making project is completed in rural, large urban centres and northern Ontario, with feedback on why older people need access differently to make appropriate decisions.
2013: OSSCO launches the Tuesday Seniors' Workshop program. Working with the Jamaican Canadian Association, OSSCO organizes the Elder Abuse Symposium: The Universal Challenge to raise awareness on the topic. OSSCO organizes an International Seniors Day event, a forum on Positive Aging.
2012: OSSCO in partnership with Unifor Retirees Local 598 organizes and presents the Elder Abuse Symposium: The Universal Challenge in Sudbury. The Symposium is standing room only.
2009-2010: OSSCO partners with Ontario Seniors' Secretariat (OSS) to host a series of multicultural health and wellness fairs.
2009: OSSCO promotes the Age-Friendly Communities (AFC) model, publicized through 7 regional forums. This is a partnership with OSS and OSS Liaison Committee members.
2005: Publication of OSSCO's 20th Anniversary Commemorative Book.
2003: OSSCO organizes a Health & Homecare in the Multicultural Community Conference. Fourth Annual Summer Learning Series – The Media and You, planned and presented by OSSCO, Bernard Betel Centre for Creative Living and Ryerson's Continuing Education Department. Both events were over subscribed!
2001: Second Summer Learning Series for Seniors, a 4-part educational forum with Anne Balaban planned and presented by OSSCO, Bernard Betel Centre for Creative Living and Ryerson's Continuing Education Department. Organized forums on Long Term Care and Primary Health Care in response to the report: Long Term Care-In Limbo or Worse?
2000: OSSCO receives funding for a play "If Not Now…When?" about seniors facing the future in our society. This play was performed in 6 cities in Ontario.
1999: OSSCO hosts 2 half-day sessions at the Fourth Global Conference on Aging held in Montreal with participation by seniors' groups from across Canada. International Year of Older Persons Conference – The ABCs of Aging held at Ryerson Polytechnic University with 375 participants from across Ontario.
1998: A Snapshot of Caregiving in Ontario, a project that took a closer look at caregiving in diverse urban, rural, francophone and ethnic communities is developed by OSSCO.
1997: The Older, Wiser, Living Stronger project is completed.
1996: Training for the Future for the Unemployed Older Worker and Retirees' project has 10 workshops and a manual to enhance the quality of life for older workers and retirees. OSSCO organizes the Conference – Getting out of the Hospital – The Long Road Home.
1995: OSSCO publishes and distributes Life Before Medicare: Canadian Experiences. OSSCO organizes a forum on problems facing seniors of different ethno-cultural and racial minority communities called Diversity and Aging. OSSCO celebrates its 10thAnniversary!
1994: OSSCO's Think Tank takes place. It also organizes the Home Alone: Who is Taking Care of our Elderly conference.
1993: OSSCO organizes several workshops on housing and health care as well as a Leadership Development Forum for Senior Women.
1992: As part of "The Senior Citizens' Consumer Alliance for Long Term Care", OSSCO holds 16 days of public hearings, 2 policy conferences, 7 mini-forums and issues a comprehensive report on the Ontario government's proposals for redirected long term care. Final report to government and 6,000 organizations is presented.
1991: Citizen Participation in the Health Public Policy project.
1985: Seniors' groups persuade the federal government to abandon its proposal to de-index the Old Age Security Pension. OCSSCO is founded as a result.


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Tickets for Pakistan vs New Zealand second test at Karachi not required
By K. Shahzad January 1, 2023 January 1, 2023 Sports
The second test between Pakistan and New Zealand was to be played in Multan on 3rd of January 2022, however, there have been several changes in schedule other things regarding that. Firstly, the match will take place in Karachi and the starting date of match has been advanced by one day. Second test will take place at Karachi on 2nd Jan, 2022.
Secondly, there will be no entry ticket for general public to watch the match. Means entry will be free for all. However, there is an exception to this rule and that is, there are two VIP enclosures, so if you want to sit in them to watch the match, you will need to pay 500 entry ticket per head. This ticket will also be available to be bought at the stadium gates.
As people did not showed much interest in watching the first test match between Pakistan and New Zealand, the attendance at stadium was too low. Keeping this in view, Pakistan Cricket Board's new management decided to free the entry at stadium except just two VIP enclosures.
Also, the educational institutions, schools, colleges and charitable organizations like orphanages were being contacted to bring children so that they can watch the match and be amused. Same step will help filling up the stadium and promote the sport of Cricket in Pakistan.
Also the PCB have other responsibility to think and figure out why the stadium was empty. Tickets for first test match were not available online and were just being sold at stadium while entry. May be this was not communicated well with people, as definitely many were interested in buying ticket. We can claim this because many came on infoPakistan.pk website, in search of those tickets and by many we mean more than a thousand people. Which means, if tickets for first match would have been available online, things would have been much different.
Same is true for second test match, which have free entry to most enclosures. But there is a ticket for VIP enclosure but that is not available online, this may also affect the attendance of those enclosures. As PCB needs to clearly communicate how tickets will be available.
Lastly, selling the tickets at stadium is also not a very good strategy, as it requires people to come and stand in queues for buying tickets. Many will not come in fear that they will get the ticket or not, or how much wait they will need to do. Tickets must be first put for sale online, some tickets may be sold via partnerships with organizations and via banks etc. Then if some tickets are remained, then the number of available tickets should be clearly announced and these can be put for sale on stadium, before entry.
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In general, a visual identity consists of your logo, colours, typography, imagery style, and textures. While it's often mislabeled as "brand", your visual identity is actually an outward expression of a bigger strategy.
Think of it as your brand's style.
If your brand was a person, the visual identity is what type of clothes they wear, how they cut and colour their hair, and what style of makeup they like. Are you more likely to see them in jeans and t-shirts or suits and high heels?
The human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text and 90% of information sent to the brain is visual. Contrary to the aphorism, we *do* judge books (and marketing material) by their covers.
Having a professional visual identity gives your audience a window into what they might expect from you, allows you to build trust with your audience, and is an outward expression of what you stand for.
Your visual identity also allows your audience to easily recognize you and to know what content, products, and advertising have been produced by your brand.
First, start with brand strategy. Remember that the visual identity is not your brand, it's an expression of it. This is a very confusing thing for many entrepreneurs as we regularly see people talking about their "rebranding" or "their brand" when they mean a new website or logo.
Before you build your identity, figure out what matters to you. What is your brand going to stand for? What do you value? Who are your people and what is important to them? Where are you going to position your brand compared to your competitors? What are your key messages?
Once you've determined this, create a list of words that describe your brand and how you want people to feel when interacting with you.
This is a great opportunity to set yourself apart.
For example, if you sell financial advice, you'll want to look secure and trustworthy but you could also represent yourself as fun and friendly.
A wedding photographer who really wants to work with edgy, non-traditional couples, will need a portfolio that represents the type of people they like working with and the shots they want to create.
An executive coach who wants to change traditional corporate culture might present themself in jeans and t-shirts.
One of the most important things to recognize about a visual identity is it is meant to evolve.
Likely, you aren't wearing the same outfits you loved 15 years ago. Some of you aren't wearing the same things you wore last year. The same is true of your visual identity. Entrepreneurs tend to agonize over logos, thinking they are stuck with it forever, but you truly aren't. Companies evolve their logos (and their looks) all the time.
The important thing is your visual identity represents you well for where your brand is today. As your brand grows and changes, your identity definitely can and should too.
If you're in the process of creating your brand and visual identity, and you feel like you just can't see the forest for the trees, I'd love to talk to you. Schedule a call and let's see if I can help.


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MIKE DENOVE
Keeping Account of Priorities
"The United Way brand derives its character from the local needs and initiatives of our region."
Mike Denove was raised with an understanding of hard work, commitment, dedication and a strong philanthropic spirit. These are the same values he and his wife, Dana, instill in their children today. A father of soon-to-be three children, and a partner at Ernst & Young, Mike makes it a priority to support United Way both financially and through volunteering.
His support of United Way goes back 15 years, to when he graduated from Penn State in 2002. Early on, Mike recognized the importance of United Way. "United Way is the foundational lifeline for the majority of our non-profit agencies in the region," he said.
He appreciates that United Way is the source of many great initiatives like the Be There campaign to promote school attendance and PA 2-1-1 Southwest, United Way's resource and referral service that is a lifeline for people in need. "These are programs that United Way has developed and fostered to meet the basic needs of so many of our neighbors," he recounted.
One of Mike's most memorable experiences with United Way was leading the development of United Way's Next Generation Committee. Mike served as the committee's first co-chair. "United Way's acknowledgement of tomorrow's donor was a leading edge indicator that we're focused on how our younger generation thinks and how best to serve them," Mike reflected. "Young professionals want to be much more connected to the cause."
Mike enjoys being a member of the Tocqueville Society as it "allows an individual to liaise with like-minded individuals in our region who share the same commitment and passion for giving back to the community that we all call home," he commented.
Despite his hectic schedule, Mike wants to make it a priority to not lose sight of the issues impacting the local community. "The problems we hear about from our national media platforms are real and present in our own backyards," Mike said.
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DMRpresents: Dr. Sley "The Messenger"
DMRpresents: Dr. Sley
Kingsley Tingwei Ngu aka Dr. Sley was born in Buea, a city located at the foot of Buea Mountain found in the Republic Of Cameroon. He was the fifth child of a Christian family of seven children. After his primary education in Government School Bonduma Bokoko, Dr. Sley joined a prestigious acapella group known as the Angelic Brothers at the age of 18. They were very famous as they performed in all neighboring schools during social events and for special occasions around town. Dr. Sley loved singing to orphanages and would carry his group along. He experienced how music can add meaning to deceased minds and to a community. It was for this reason that Dr. Sley decided to become a great artist.
As he started working very hard toward his vision, his family became the wind that was blowing on his back unlike other African parents. As time wore on, the first recording studio, M1 Studio, was built in his town. He managed to record some demo tracks that became popular and made Dr. Sley a household name. He performed in many places and his family gave him the full support for him to realize his dream. His father paid the money for him to complete the recording of his first album in 2006 which was never released. He later formed a music group called Da M Thugs, which became well known in the English part of Cameroon. Da M Thugs released an album called Street Revolution produced by Street Thugs Studio.
Dr Sley, who died at the age of 2 only to wake up after many hours, knew there was something special about him having a second chance at life, so he started searching for the truth. He traveled to Nigeria and lived as a street child just to know what it feels to be without shelter, food, or water. Lagos was a perfect place for him, and he found love. This gave him a unique inspiration. He returned home after 2 years in Lagos. The songs with messages that he recorded where strange, so his friends and fans gave him the title Doctor. From then on, King Sley became Dr. Sley.
Dr. Sley has inspired so many other Cameroonians and people around the world. He has released hit singles like "Victim of Love", "Teach Me How To Love", "Ghetto Queen", and "Down By The River Side". Dr. Sley has won many awards and received recognition home and abroad:
Best Male Artist and Best Video at Cameroon Urban Music Award Cameroon, 2011,
Best Male and Best Reggae Artist Cameroon Entertainment Award USA, 2012, Highest Voted Video at FAIRPLAY 2012 Anti-Corruption Music Competition Organized by JMI and sponsored by World Bank,
Best Activist Anthem at Honesty OSCAR Award 2014,
Board of Director at Dreams Made Real Inc., USA.
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Stanly baseball, softball players win awards at Hot Stove event
Published 5:35 pm Monday, January 27, 2020
West Stanly won Team of the Year at the Piedmont Hot Stove banquet while Jordan Hatch was named Pitcher of the Year. From left, head coach Craig Carter, Jordan Hatch, Slugger of the Year nominee Shelby Barbee, West senior Kaitlyn Clark and assistant coach Mike Coley. (Contributed)
South's Stanly four nominees at Saturday's Hot Stove banquet. From left, Catch of the Year winner Mattie Hinson, Pitcher of the Year nominee, Sadie Lee, teammate Huntley Rummage and Scholar-Athlete Award winner Kaitlyn Tucker. (Contributed)
North Stanly's Rhett Lowder (right) won the 2020 Piedmont Hot Stove award as Pitcher of the Year. He is picture with the Catcher of the Year, East Rowan's Charlie Klinger (left) and rising star Jake Hunter, also from East Rowan. (Contributed) charlie klinger won catcher of the year and jake hunter was rising star
A number of baseball and softball players representing high schools in Stanly County were presented with awards at a banquet Saturday night as part of the inaugural Greater Piedmont Hot Stove League ceremonies in Salisbury.
On the baseball side, North Stanly's Rhett Lowder, signed to play next year at Wake Forest, earned Baseball Player of the Year honors. The senior last season went 9-0 on the mound with a 0.61 earned-run average for the Comets.
The softball programs of South and West Stanly each came away with awards, with the Colts being named as the area's Team of the Year for winning the 2A state championship in 2019.
Junior Jordan Hatch was named the Piedmont area's Pitcher of the Year for her efforts last season winning all of the Colts game finishing with a 0.54 ERA, striking out 364 batters and allowing opponents to hit .130 against her last year.
Another athlete from the West Stanly area, Teagan Ritchie, was the co-Youth Softball Player of the Year with West Rowan's Emma Clarke.
South Stanly's Kaitlyn Tucker, who will be playing at Presbyterian College next year, earned Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors with a 4.5 grade-point average, while her teammate, senior Mattie Hinson, was named the area's Catcher of the Year (.432 avg., .945 slg., 18 RBIs).
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Trenchless technology is a type of subsurface construction work that requires few trenches or no continuous trenches. Trenchless technology is the science of installing, repairing and renewing underground Pipes, ducts and cables using techniques which minimize or eliminate the need for excavation. It can reduce environmental damage, Social costs and produce an alternative to open trench method of installation, renewal and repair it includes in, development of all kinds of underground napping techniques, tunnelling devices and specialist materials and equipment.
It is a rapidly growing sector of the construction and civil engineering industry. It can be defined as a family of methods, materials, and equipment capable of being used for the installation of new or replacement or rehabilitation of existing underground infrastructure with minimal disruption to surface traffic, business, and other activities.
The trenchless construction methods involve different techniques that are related to the commencement of a new work or new project in underground. It may be a new conduit or pipeline installation in the site or any other new utility. The trenchless renewal methods that facilitate already existing utilities. It may be renewing or rehabilitation or renovation. This work is applied on old, existing utility or pipeline systems that may have some problem with their performance.
In general, trenchless technology minimizes highway damage, environmental impacts, and traffic problems. The disadvantages and difficulties encountered in conventional trenching methods have resulted in thinking of the need for trenchless technology. The advantages of the no-dig technology are also responsible for the need of this technology to be adopted in mainly urban areas. Disadvantage of Open trench methods the open trench is going to create obstruction roads, busy areas, diversions have to be provided before the start of any digging work. As the obstruction is created, the traffic has to be rerouted causing traffic jams. Many a time, while cutting deep trenches in congested areas appear in the adjacent buildings. Another difficulty, which is encountered very often is the damage caused to other service lines or cables present underground. While cutting open trenches, trees, shrubs, gardens etc. may have to be destroyed damaging the environment.
By adopting this technology we can successfully implement pipes under the surface without making any disruptions to the environment and public.
Why is No-Dig and Trenchless Technology Important?
Trenchless technology has come a long way over the last few years, and many underground maintenance and repair jobs can now be completed without the need for any extensive excavation. Trenchless technology has a number of potential benefits that come with not having to conduct extensive excavations. Trenchless technology represents a number of different methods and specialized pieces of equipment meant to allow access to underground utilities, such as sewer lines or electrical lines, without disturbing much of the surface area. Generally these processes involve the boring of small and precisely located holes that provide direct access to an affected area, without the need to expose the entire underground utility. This technology is often used in sewer line repair, where an old pipe is repaired by pulling a slip through its interior to plug any holes or a brand new pipe is pulled through as the old one is burst using a special bursting head.
Not only can excavation be expensive, but it can also take a lot of time. Preparing the area, performing the excavation, filling the excavated area back in and restoring the area above the surface can take days or even weeks in some cases. Trenchless technologies allow you to skip a lot of time and mess associated with excavations, particularly when it is done in a busy or high-value area, like a street or garden.
One of the benefits of trenchless technology that is often overlooked is the safety advantages that it offers. Excavation is messy and dangerous work. Moreover, this danger extends far beyond just the contractors who are working in the area. The danger can extend to your family, pets, property and neighbours. Any large and messy hole in the ground is basically an accident or a lawsuit waiting to happen, so avoiding this problem altogether is often a major advantage of trenchless technology.
Thee technology is becoming more appealing today as a cost-effective way to get things done. The use of trenchless is growing exponentially each year, which is a great thing. Municipalities are learning how to stretch the money they have to spend.
The rapid growth of urban population coupled with the reducing subsurface, as well as ground spaces for laying utilities, are the base catalysts for the application of trenchless techniques in India and other nations of South Asia.
Added to this, the deteriorating state of existing physical subsurface infrastructure evolves into a situation where the conventions are giving way to advancements – trenchless technologies.
In India 10 years ago, the trenchless technique was a term known only for advancements and automation and the information in subsurface construction. Even that knowledge at the time was rather bookish. During the last decade, Indian Trenchless markets have seen a substantial growth in the population of drilling rigs – in fact, the population grew from non-existence to the current total of more than 400 operating units.
Similarly, lining businesses, which started with a few meters of demonstration applications, have evolved into businesses worth millions of dollars. A recent project executed in New Delhi boasts of CIPP lining with diameters up to 1,900 mm with an approximate length of 7 km. A substantial amount of glass-fibre reinforced pipe (GRP) linings have also been executed during this period and at times, it serves as a cost-effective alternative to CIPP.
Indian Subsurface infrastructure has a varied age, starting from newly laid pipes tones that are as old as 200 years. Lengthwise, New Delhi has one of the largest subsurface pipe networks with approximately 5,000 km in length. There are functional sewers in old cities such as Benaras, Kolkata or Mumbai, with pipe ages exceeding 100 years.
In New Delhi, the lines are not only silted but settlements of the crown and other structural failures are rampant in some of the other locations. In some of the cities, such as Coimbatore, another type of problem is the ageing of the pipes where the pipe materials have completely failed.
Apart from the above problems, another difficulty dogging the Indian Subsurface networks is at times the failure of proper grades for gravity lines, necessitating an all-weather round pumping due to sluggish flow. Moreover, the present state of affairs is that after an extremely long period of neglect, now the utility service providers have started feeling the pinch as to the failure of the networks, which are now leading to serious environmental disasters.
One prominent example is the of the Yamuna River. Faced with such situations all over, several utility services providing authorities have embarked upon Environmental Improvement Projects (EIPs). Some of the examples are Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project (RUIDP), Tamil Nadu Urban Development Project-III (TNUDP-III), Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project (KEIP), etc.These are from Gurgaon, a town in the National Capital Region where the road has settled and cars fell into the ditch one after the another.
With trenchless technology, underground utilities can be installed, replaced or renewed with minimal excavation and disruption to residents, businesses and traffic. Trenchless construction techniques are often more environmentally sensitive and cost effective than traditional surface excavation methods, and can be used in fragile environments where open-cut is not an option. Trenchless technologies have proven effective for numerous utility applications, including water, sewer, gas, industrial, electrical and fiber optics.
Application-wise, the largest need for trenchless techniques is in the water and sewer sector, where the networks are either failing badly or deteriorated to an extent where new installations are becoming a necessity. There are, however, lines where rehabilitation work can still be done and even this work is substantial.
An interesting fact to note is that although India has a large population of drilling rigs, micro-tunnelling machines are still few and far between – despite the huge need for them. For an example, in New Delhi alone a substantial length of various diameter pipelines needs to be installed by microtunneling and pipe jacking methods, as open-cut has been completely ruled out in those cases.
The next popular application of trenchless is in the oil and the gas sectors, where the networks are not as old as the water and sewer lines and are presently under development. Naturally, in this case, the new installation techniques are more applicable and some of the new drilling rigs of larger size and push/pullback capabilities have started arriving in India because of these projects.
One such job under construction is at Paradeep in Orissa. With the growth of oil and gas pipeline networks, such projects are expected to continue to increase. Although the lines for oil and gas are not that old, there are lines like HBJ, where the rehabilitation need is apparent. The Indian Society for Trenchless Technology (INDSTT) has been interacting with different project owners and service providers and has been promoting the application of trenchless techniques in all such projects.
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