Focal Segmental Glomerulonephritis (FSGS) is short for FSGS. Hematuria or blood in urine is one of the symptoms. Well then, what is the treatment for 2+ blood in urine from FSGS?
First, you should know where blood in urine comes from?
Focal-only some of the glomeruli are involved. Segmental-only part of each glomerulus is involved and glomerulosclerosis refers to scarring of the glomerulus. When glomerulus is affected, your kidneys will allow blood cells to leak into urine. Treatment for glomeruli is the key in eliminating blood in urine 2+.
Second, what is the treatment for 2+ blood in urine from FSGS?
In order to repair injured glomeruli, we recommend Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. It is an unique Chinese medicine therapy and used externally. Chinese medicines are processed into powder and then put into two medicated bags. Patients just need to lie on bed to take this therapy. It feels very comfortable. The osmosis machine helps the active ingredients of Chinese medicines arrive at kidney lesion directly. Chinese medicines can dilate blood vessels, improve blood circulation and improve more blood flow to your kidneys. This can soften your blood vessels and stop sclerosis of your glomeruli. Moreover, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can help provide nutrients, prevent inflammation and coagulation, degrade extracellular matrix and removing immune complexes. These functions can stomulate the self-healing ability of injured glomeruli and gradually improve renal function. In this way, 2+ blood in urine from FSGS can disappear radically.
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Minnetrista political machine using taxpayer dollars to influence mayoral election
John Adams: ""Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
Last I checked it's illegal for a school district to use taxpayer funded school resources to influence elections. That is exactly what has occurred. As I was door knocking on Sunday a resident disclosed she had received an email regarding the Minnetrista mayoral election from Westonka Public Schools discrediting my campaign. Below is the email Mr. Kevin Borg, Superintendent of Westonka Public Schools, sent on September 22, 2020 to "Key Communicators" in the Westonka community. The many false statements contained therein are highlighted and numbered with facts below.
Fact #1: Mr. Borg makes the claim the Shannon Bruce for Mayor committee stated the invoice in question was "sent to the district." She never made a claim it was "sent" to the district, only that it was "invoiced" to the school's account. In fact it never was sent to the school for payment. The printer created the Westonka School District invoice, showing campaign expenses on it for Lisa Whalen's mayoral campaign but never sent it to the school district. Instead, the printer's sales person, who incidentally was an active member of her campaign committee (according to subpoenaed emails) sent the invoice to the Treasurer of the YesWestonka political committee who arranged for it to be paid by Whalen's campaign committee manager, David Kolb (ex-Minnetrista police chief). Emails subpoenaed from Whalen's campaign finance violations trial support the facts above.
Fact #2: The statement "The Westonka School district received an invoice from Tandem Printing" is FALSE. See Fact #1. The school never received an invoice because payment on that invoice occurred outside of the school district with Whalen's campaign committee (Our Minnetrista/Minnetrista411) paying it directly so it wouldn't be discovered.
Fact #3: The contact person on the invoice, Bill Latour, was the Treasurer of the YesWestonka political committee which was tasked to promote the Westonka School District's $22M bond referendum. He was not a school employee but was intimately involved in school district finances and worked closely with Mr. Borg. He was the person that placed the order with the printer instructing them to use the school's account, but intending to pay for it with the Whalen campaign funds. Presumably this was done to evade paying sales tax and/or take advantage of the school's discount or postage rates.
Fact #4: Mr. Borg's claim "We contacted Tandem Printing to explain that the invoice was sent to Westonka Schools in error and would not be paid" is FALSE. See Fact #1 and Fact #3. The invoice was never sent to Westonka Schools. Subpoenaed emails show the printer's sales person gave it to YesWestonka and it was subsequently paid by Whalen's campaign committee (Our Minnetrista/Minnetrista411). Why would Mr. Borg claim to have contacted the printer in 2014 when the school district was unaware of the invoice until it was discovered in 2019 during the discovery phase of the lawsuit against Lisa Whalen and her campaign committee?
Fact #5: Mr. Borg claims his demand letter to the Shannon Bruce for Mayor Committee was prompted by a Youtube video released in August 2020. Mr. Borg was first made aware of the invoice in question in February of 2019. He was also aware of several social media posts that same year regarding the invoice subsequent to that date, all of which stated the same facts contained in the August video. After knowing about the invoice and ignoring it for over a year and a half he decided, two days before voting began for the Minnetrista mayoral election on September 16, 2020, to suddenly make claims of false statements by the Shannon Bruce for Mayor committee.
Fact #6: Mr. Borg claims his communication with Shannon Bruce was "private" when he had, in fact, copied the Westonka School Board on his email and one of them had subsequently provided it to Lisa Whalen's campaign committee who used it, in addition to some of their own misrepresentations, in a post on social media, using the Westonka School logo, in an attempt to discredit the Shannon Bruce for Mayor campaign.
Fact #7: Mr. Borg attached his demand letter to Ms. Bruce to his "Key Communicators" email claiming it "outlines the facts" but, in fact it contains known false statements he knew at the time were untrue. He neglected to attach any of the email exchanges between himself and Shannon Bruce whereby she requested a meeting to share her evidence with him that would prove the video and prior social media posts were entirely factual. Mr. Borg refused the meeting and has never, on any occasion, contacted Shannon Bruce regarding these matters prior to his September 16 letter making false allegations against her campaign.
Fact #8: Mr. Borg claims his communication, timed two days before voting began in the Minnetrista mayoral election, was not politically motivated. What other conclusion can be drawn when he chose to ignore the matter for over a year and a half and then, suddenly, decided two days before voting begins that it was now time to address it? Why then, in his email to "Key Communicators" does he ask them to share this "news with others as appropriate" if not to discredit the Shannon Bruce for Mayor campaign?
There is a political machine at work here that has controlled Minnetrista for years and it not only includes the Mayor and her past campaign committee "Our Minnetrista/Minnetrista 411", the YesWestonka political committee, several school board members, current and former council members, but sadly it now appears our own Westonka School Superintendent. I am saddened by that and what that means to our community.
It is illegal for a taxpayer funded public school to intentionally influence an election but that is exactly what has occurred in Mr. Borg's communication to Westonka Schools "Key Communicators." He has attempted to discredit a mayoral candidate with known falsehoods and unsubstantiated allegations designed to influence the Minnetrista mayoral election. Minnetrista has an opportunity to stop this abuse of power in our community.
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I want to publicly thank the many individuals who have reached out to me over the past few days concerning the vicious, libelous attacks from the "Our Minnetrista" political committee. Please understand these attacks are merely retaliation over the group being caught at corrupting our city elections. They lost their case in court and now must discredit the person that exposed them. Most of you know better than to believe a group that cheated to win, were taken to court and sanctioned for it. I'm sure the attacks will continue as this election year approaches but at least their tactics have been exposed and that's a good thing for Minnetrista. Thank you all for your kind, encouragement.
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Exterior view of Istanbul Modern, 2010. Photo by ArtAsiaPacific.
On December 27, artists arrived at Istanbul Modern with a banner that read, "There is censorship in this museum" and hung posters declaring "we spotted censorship" alongside their work in the exhibition, "Dream and Reality." The action came amid a storm of criticism from the Turkish art community directed at the privately funded museum for suppressing freedom of expression, after the institution refused to enter a commissioned artwork by Bubi Hayon into a fundraising auction or to acquire the artwork for its permanent collection. The museum provoked further ire for its unapologetic response to the artist and to subsequent outcry from other members of the art community.
The affair first became public earlier in December when, in a written statement, Hayon accused Istanbul Modern of censorship. The sculptor was one of eight artists originally selected to create works for the museum's seventh annual Gala Modern, held on December 10, to support the institution's educational program. His sculpture Oturak ("Chamber Pot," 2011), an upright wooden chair with bedpan embedded in the seat, was not displayed after curators asked him to make modifications to the piece—specifically, to cover up the toilet seat—and Hayon refused.
Hayon insisted that the museum gave him full creative freedom in conceiving the work and that it did not specify the piece's purpose when he was first approached about the commission. The artist claims that Oturak was intended to be critical of the quasi-sacred status of art museums in society. After seeing the final outcome, Istanbul Modern claimed that the artwork did not meet the proper requirements for the auction and would not accept it without alterations.
Hayon and others speculated that the museum deemed that the piece wasn't as saleable with the chamber pot in its seat, and that this was the motivation for asking him to cover up, or remove, the supposedly undesirable component. After the artist had circulated his account of the episode, others members of Turkish art community agreed that the museum was committing a form of soft or "conditional" censorship. Numerous discussions were held on social-media sites, leading many people to express long-held frustrations with the museum's lack of professionalism.
However, even within the art community, there was broad disagreement about whether Istanbul Modern's decision did in fact constitute censorship. The board of directors of both the Turkish National Committee of the International Plastic Arts Association (IPAA) and the International Association of Art Critics (IAAC) released separate statements saying that they did not believe Istanbul Modern's action was censorship, because the event was a private auction, closed to the public, and there was no third-party intervention that caused the work to be removed. Istanbul Modern maintains that its curators had the right to select which artworks would be included in the auction. Hayon, a member of the IPAA, resigned on December 26.
On December 27, a panel discussion in the Istanbul Modern auditorium in conjunction with the current exhibition "Dream and Reality" turned into a public discussion of the incident, though neither Hayon nor the any of museums' curators were present. One of the evening's panelists, Mürüvvet Türkyılmaz, announced that she would remove her work from "Dream and Reality" in protest and walked out of the museum because she believed that the museum was no longer taking care of artists shown under its roof. Eight other artists—Ceren Öyküt, Gözde İlkin, Güneş Terkol, İnci Furni, Ekin Saçlıoğlu, Neriman Polat, Leyla Gediz and the collective AtılKunst—subsequently announced that they would also withdraw their works from "Dream and Reality."
In a statement released on December 30, the museum rejected charges of censorship, noting that the Gala Modern event was not open to the public and that "the sole purpose of the evening and the art in question was to raise money for Istanbul Modern's educational programs." The museum disputed the Hayon's account, and maintained that the purpose of the commission had been "explained carefully" to the participating artists:
"Bubi [Hayon], too, received a detailed briefing about the character and importance of Gala Modern. He knew that Gala Modern was not an exhibition and that the primary purpose of the work he created was to raise funds for Istanbul Modern's educational programs. In events of this kind, the curatorial team selects the artists that will participate and determines which works will be included. This is standard international practice."
However, the museum's chief curator Levent Çalıkoğlu told Today's Zaman that Istanbul Modern would honor the artists' wishes to have their works removed from "Dream and Reality." Despite media reports in late December that the pieces had been taken down, as of January 3, none of the artworks had been physically removed or altered.
Leyla Gediz, one of the eight artists who wished to have her work removed from "Dream and Reality," explained in an email to ArtAsiaPacific that the artists had been advised by lawyers that they could not remove their works, since most of the pieces are on loan from private collectors (and are therefore no longer property of the artists), and furthermore that the consignment agreements between the museum and collectors cannot be easily canceled. However, Gediz remarked, "We are content with the harm we've done to the museum's so-called prestige and morale, and feel that we've done enough to challenge them into rethinking their principles and aims."
By the last day of the exhibition, on January 21, six artists had been able to secure the necessary permissions to take down their works. Ceren Oykut's large wall drawing had been painted over in white, and Neriman Polat took down her installation of photographs and a video, leaving behind a large red, empty wall, and the collective AtılKunst's wall of small collage projects was bare. A two-channel video by Selda Asal had been turned off, Mürüvvet Türkyılmaz emptied a small room of her photographs, and Güneş Terkol removed her hanging fabric piece.
Istanbul Modern is privately funded by the corporate holding company Eczacıbaşı Group, which comprises 39 enterprises in diverse industries. The museum's collection is comprised of artworks on long-term loan or donated to the museum by the Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Foundation, Oya-Bülent Eczacıbaşı Collection and other private collections. Oya Eczacıbaşı is the chair of the museum's board of directors.
All of Turkey's major cultural institutions are backed by corporate holding groups, as there are no national art museums or state-funded galleries. A persistent complaint in the Turkish art community—again raised during debates over the Hayon incident—is that cultural institutions have no public accountability and their decision-making processes are nontransparent. Despite their claims of adhering to "standard international practice," Istanbul Modern, since opening in 2004, has run into problems before in working with both artists—most notably over a large-scale film commission by Doug Aitken—and professional curators, as in the case of David Elliott, who served as the museum's director for just eight months in 2007.
The artist Hakan Akçura has circulated an online petition that was signed by prominent members of the Istanbul art community and several international figures, decrying this act of "conditional" and "commercially orientated" censorship. In a light-hearted moment, the petition announces that "Our guiding free spirit is awareness of our existence and surely is R. Mutt's Fountain"—a reference to another famously censored toilet-as-artwork: Marcel Duchamp's readymade, upturned urinal, which was hidden from view in 1917 exhibition at the Society of Independent Artists in Philadelphia.
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Booker DeWitt (Troy Baker) is the protagonist of BioShock Infinite. A disgraced Pinkerton agent, he has the chance to settle his gambling debts by going to Columbia and rescuing Elizabeth. Maybe he'll wipe his conscience clean while he's at it.
In inFAMOUS 2, Cole MacGrath is granted the electric-based super power, which has the unfortunate side effect of siphoning energy from other humans. He'll soon have to make a tough decision between saving thousands of Conduits like himself, or sacrificing them to save millions of people who have come to despise him.
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Andrew walked through the door of his office and fell into chair as the fatigue of the day hit him.
He'd spent the last several hours in a stuffy boardroom justifying his training methods to a group of uptight auditors who seemed more than determined to see him busted down to janitor or charlady or whatever they determined the lowest possible position in the organisation to be.
Slumping back in his chair, Andrew didn't know if he'd have a job come morning or not and, the way he felt at the moment, he wasn't sure whether he cared. Deciding to call it a day, he sat upright and slid his laptop and journal into his briefcase.
As he headed out, he popped his head into Dolores' office and bid her farewell. Dolores Henry was what Andrew jokingly referred to as the Watcher Wrangler. She organised all of the in-house Council Watchers, co-ordinating their various classes and arranged transportation, accommodation and the many other necessities that made life run smoothly.
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"I have a message for you." She peered through her glasses at a notepad. "Rupert has requested your presence across the road."
Andrew's shoulders slumped. He'd had enough for one day and didn't fancy rehashing his horrible day with Giles. "Can I give it a miss?"
"I wouldn't worry, love. He didn't sound like a man on the warpath, but if he gives you grief, I'll have his bollocks for breakfast." Dolores smiled sweetly. "Now get out of here and I'll see you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed in the morning"
Andrew offered her a half smile. "I may not have a job to come into tomorrow."
"Don't be silly, they'd be fools to let you go and they'll have me to answer to if they even think it. Now go on with you."
"You're a treasure. Night, Dolores."
Andrew waved goodbye, smiling to himself at the pleasant image of Dolores manhandling the auditors into new and interesting positions.
He left the building and ran across the road with his briefcase over his head to shield himself from the drizzle. Giles spotted him as he entered the pub, waved him over and handed Andrew a half pint of lemonade.
"How was the lion's den?"
"I think I got myself sacked." Andrew was so drained from the day that he could barely feel anything beyond numbness.
Giles clapped him on the shoulder in solidarity. "What did they say?"
Andrew snorted, whether with laughter or bitterness, Giles wasn't sure. "They thought that using magic to send my junior Slayers to strange and interesting places was an abuse of power."
Giles raised an eyebrow. "You used Willow's transportation spell?"
Andrew sipped his lemonade before looking up. "I didn't deny it."
"Ah." There was a world of difference between what Andrew said in the meeting and what really happened. "I take that to mean that the lovely Dolores had a word with you about answering only what you were asked and not elaborating. Always good advice. You were sure to mention it was a training exercise?"
"Several times." Andrew doodled in the condensation his drink had left on the tabletop. "I made certain to include comparisons between my method that allowed the girls the full use of their powers and the traditional teaching that insists on blocking them."
Giles winced. He'd always hated that particular test, finding it unnecessarily cruel and pointless. "How did they take that?"
Andrew shrugged. "I don't have a clue if anything I said made an impact. I guess I should start looking for another job."
Giles waved the suggestion away. "Nobody died and your girls showed they'd learned enough from you to make their way back unaided and unharmed. The auditors are there to keep the parents happy when their little princesses kick up a fuss before the ungrateful brats understand that they have a duty to perform. You haven't lost your job." It looked as if a great weight had been lifted from Andrew's shoulders and he smiled for the first time since he'd walked into the bar. "Now, would you care to explain exactly how you transported the girls?"
"Royal Mail." Andrew grinned at Giles confusion. "Let me start at the beginning."
Andrew explained that he'd been working the kinks out of a new defensive spell with Xander, when his current batch of junior Slayers had pushed him too far and he'd used it on them without thinking.
"You turned them into action figures?" Giles blinked in surprise. "How did you know it was safe?"
"I'd already tested it on Xander." Andrew still hadn't told Xander about the photos he'd taken of him in imaginative poses with Jean Luc Picard or that he'd accidentally knocked him off the shelf into a cup of tea. "I was still so mad with the girls that I put them up for sale on eBay and had shipped them out before I'd managed to get my broken desk replaced."
Giles couldn't contain his laughter.
Oh, for the chance to have had that spell while he was training Buffy. The girl would have been the centrepiece of a collection in some sweaty teenager's basement before she could make one more shoe obsessed remark. He would have regretted it later, of course, but it would have felt so good it the heat of the moment.
"Someone wants a word." Giles nodded in the direction of young woman who was making her way to their table.
"Mr Giles, Mr Wells. Mrs Henry asked me to remind you that you have meeting with her at 8.30 tomorrow morning." The girl looked at the floor and shuffled her feet.
"Thank you, Courtney. That will be all." The girl almost tripped over herself in her haste to leave their presence.
Courtney had been the bane of his life since she started his classes. It looked like finding herself atop the bookcase of a middle-aged Star Trek obsessive in Idaho and having to talk her way out of his basement and back to London, had given Courtney a modicum of respect for Andrew. Or, at the very least, a healthy dose of fear.
"If that's the type of change I can expect from your students, maybe we should implement your new training initiative across the board." Giles raised his glass in salute.
Andrew mused that perhaps now wasn't the time to mention the money he'd made from his sale of prototype collectibles. He sipped his drink and smiled shyly. No, he'd leave that revelation for another day.
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Funnel cakes are my favorite part of festivals, they are so yummy!
omg fair/carnival rides terrify me too! its like at any moment they could go flying into kingdom come!
love the pics and love you guys! Fall Festival. That should be a requirement in every town ever!


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Jepsen, best known for her amazing hit "Call Me Maybe," turned into an overnight star following its release in February 2012.
Although Cinderella will mark her professional stage debut, she appeared in high school productions of Annie, The Wiz and Grease, later going on to study at the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria, B.C.
Jepsen also feels she has a great affinity for the character she's playing and the story she tells, since "it's so hopeful and inspiring.
Also joining Jepsen in the show Feb. 4 will be TV star Fran Drescher (The Nanny), taking over the role of Madame in Douglas Carter Beane's new adaptation of the beloved story, which Rodgers and Hammerstein first turned into a live television musical in 1957, starring Julie Andrews.
The words "Rodgers and Hammerstein" and "live television musical" were joined together earlier this month, when Carrie Underwood starred in a live-to-air broadcast of the great R&H hitThe Sound of Music, which played to 18.5 million viewers.
NBC has announced they would like another live broadcast next December and seeing the success that American Idol Underwood had with a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, one wonders if Canadian Idol Jepsen might be feeling her way toward bringing Cinderella to television as a follow-up.
Jepsen's run in the show has been announced as a strictly limited 12-week engagement at New York's Broadway Theatre, before the singer returns to the pop concert touring circuit later this year.


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History Documentary hosted by Anders Wahlgren, published by SVT in 2011 - Swedish narration
Anders Wahlgren's two-part drama documentary provides an insight into how everyday people lived during the era when the great warship Vasa was constructed, almost four hundred years ago. We follow the fates of various people during trying times ja the shadow of a war - which would later be called The Thirty Years' War. At the time, Stockholm was a small and dangerous capital, with barely fitteen thousand inhabitants. The Stockholm shipyard, run by Margareta Hybertsson, was the largest workplace in the city.
It took more than three years to complete this comprehensive dramatization. The DVD also contains a film where Anders Wahlgren guides the viewer through the famous ship's history, and explains how 16th century Stockholm, and the Vasa, is portrayed in the series with the help of advanced digital techniques.
Written, directed, edited, produced and narrated by: Anders Wahlgren
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Asphaleia in Diodorus Siculus' historical conception
Author(s): E.S. Danilov, candidate of Sciences, P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia, e.danilov@uniyar.ac.ru
Issue: Volume 45, № 4
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Annotation: Diodorus Siculus' (90–30 BC) Bibliotheca Historica has been the subject of textological analysis many times. Scholars often took notice of the ancient mythographer's moralizing maxims. This article is aimed at finding a place for the concept of asphaleia in the system of Graeco-Roman historical and philosophical ideas as exemplified by the Diodorus' work. Security is thought to be a sign of peaceful and careless existence. It is ensured by wise governance. Public security was certainly considered to be more important than any personal interests. Even when Diodorus speaks about personal security, he sometimes makes a reference to collective protection. If the king cares for his people's prosperity, treats his subjects justly, maintains the rule of law, then his security becomes a precondition of general stability. Such a mutually beneficial cooperation is traced by the historian at the level of individual ethnic and social groups. According to Bibliotheca Historica, treason for the sake of security was a commonplace. Moreover, such base acts were often caused by the guarantee of asphaleia, but not by promises of money or other material benefits, though such cases were also not uncommon. Not only beneficial rulers, but also gifted generals deserved the reverential attitude. Indeed, good commanders keep a lid on important information, maintain discipline and watch over the course of battles. They are potential saviors of their native land from plunder, distemper and military defeats. Diodorus suggests that the general's soteria is a guarantee of well-being of his army and his victories. Diodorus believed that citizens doing military service accepted responsibility for the security of their state, because it cared for them in peacetime. The cause of general safety may be jeopardized due to the greed of private individuals. Only modesty and equality accompany glory and security. It is unworthy to cling to one's own security and cowardly wait for the outcome of war. It is a seeming advantage and it turns into disgrace. It is honorable to sacrifice one's personal security in exchange for undying glory. Heroes who kept a stiff upper lip and disregarded their own lives in times of trouble were always held in respect. Only prudent and righteous people are able to protect the fatherland. Asphaleia for Diodorus is materialized in the form of certain religious symbols and geographical features. The first conventional group includes deified animals under whose images people united in order to stand against perils. The second group is mainly represented by sea harbours and sanctuaries serving as asylums. What should people do to be in security as long as possible? They must follow not only the philanthropy principle, but also the considerations of benefit. Diodorus supports Epicurus who believed that only pious life could be calm. But is it possible to equate ataraxia and asphaleia? What is the correlation between inward peace and earthly reliability of being completely dependent on externals? It appears that Diodorus' asphaleia is an active component of the world history as distinguished from ataraxia. Asphaleia is rooted not so much in the contemplation of peaceful life as in the active struggle for law and justice. In other words, ataraxia is a derivative of asphaleia. It seems that Diodorus' ataraxia is closer to asphaleia than to the Stoic apathia. Perhaps, we should also separate asphaleia and soteria. Soteria is salvation, i.e. the boundary condition characterized by release from danger, which results in security.
Keywords: ancient historiography, Diodorus of Sicily, security, asphaleia, soteria.
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Q: Apache Kafka - get messages that should be deleted Hay there,
today i spoke with a colleague of mine and we stumbled over a question dealing with the expired messages in a Kafka-topic.
We were wondering if there was a way to get the messages that are "marked" for deletion due to an expired retention-timer.
Like at the moment when a message is deleted, a component receives an information about the message.
Is there any way to do something like this? Since this question is  just out of curiosity I don't have any good example.
Thanks in advance!

A: The best you can do is to parse each of the LogCleaner logs on the broker (meaning you need to de-dupe by topic and partition) to know when a segment on each broker is about to be removed
There's no way to know when individual messages will be deleted without dumping the log segments

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Suniel Shetty says he stopped doing films because 'audience wasn't willing to pay for trash'
Suniel Shetty has said that he made mistakes while picking films, adding that his audience is not willing to "pay for trash". The actor said that when his kids get to see the love he receives from his fans, they wonder why he stopped doing movies. Suniel's kids–daughter Athiya and son Ahan Shetty–are both actors […]
Suniel Shetty has said that he made mistakes while picking films, adding that his audience is not willing to "pay for trash". The actor said that when his kids get to see the love he receives from his fans, they wonder why he stopped doing movies. Suniel's kids–daughter Athiya and son Ahan Shetty–are both actors in the Hindi film industry and have featured in a few movies.
He made his debut with Balwaan in 1992. Suniel never stopped working in films, though he has featured in non-Hindi movies of late. Over the past four years, he has worked in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. He had several guest appearances in Hindi films and his last Hindi film with a full-fledged role was Sidharth Malhotra-starrer A Gentleman in 2017.
Suniel told Bollywood Bubble, "It's been a long time. I did one off Darbar and Kannada film and Pailwaan and one of those films but that was more to test waters, to understand and see do I remember the craft even now? Have I forgotten it? Do I have an audience? Of course everywhere I go there's tremendous amount of love that I get. It's unbelievable."
He added, "Even my kids say 'Baba it's unbelievable why did you get out?' I said I got out probably because I made mistakes. I had an audience but they weren't willing to pay for trash that I was giving them. And you realize that it's only when you give churn out trash that the audience says I don't want to pay for it." Suniel also said that distributors did not buy his films if they did not have his action scenes, adding that they even demanded "couple of action scenes and a rain dance song" after watching rushes of his films.
Suniel Shetty was most recently seen in the web show Dharavi Bank. Next up, he has interesting films lined up for release. These include the third film in his hit comedy franchise, Hera Pheri. As per reports, Suniel will join Paresh Rawal for the film, but Akshay Kumar is not likely to be back in Hera Pheri 3. Akshay has said that he is not doing the film. Kartik Aaryan has joined the team for the third Hera Pheri film.
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Sacromonte exclusive rooms start in a factory in the metropolitan area of Montevideo in Uruguay. It is a speedy process of less than 10 weeks, after which they are transported over more than 200 km in a single day. Leaving the city behind, the rooms cease to exist as such and become landscape shelters. They are no longer objects but rather evolve into experiences.
The modular metal structure, a blend of steel framing and light steel framing, gives preference to constructive simplicity and the efficient use of materials. Finishing is simple and expressive. Materials are used in harmony with their nature.
In sharp contrast, the walls supporting the prefab modules are built onsite with local stones and take diverse organic shapes adapted to each placement. Circular pools, composing a new sensory experience of the landscape, complement them.
The space is organized in a sequence of longitudinal layers of different thicknesses, between which daily life develops. The rear plane of the cabins is composed by piles of wood logs, reminiscent of woodpiles typical of lifestyles in natural settings.
The following layer hosts the wet areas such as the bathroom and the kitchen, a fireplace and a reading nook ideal for just reading or sleeping a siesta, sheltered by the landscape.
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Sacromonte is landscape. It is a field of relational forces, of ancient intensity and new impulses that jointly create a new, unprecedented entity. Thus, nature, production, infrastructure and the palpable energy of the site configure a field of stimuli to be discovered; a field of experiences.
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Q: How can i split my dataset into training and validation with no using and spliting test set? I know this is wrong for training and validation sets spliting,but you can understand here what i really need. I want to use just training set and validation set. I don't need any test set
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from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split

x_train,x_val,y_train,y_val=train_test_split(x,y,test_size=0.976,random_state=0)

A: The test is the validation;
x_train, x_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(x, y, random_state=0)

x_test and y_test is your validation test or test set. They are the same. It is a small slice of the total x, y samples to validate your model on data it hasn't been trained on.
By using random_state you get reproducible results. In other words, you get the same sets each times you run the script.

A: The terms validation set and test set are sometimes used to interchangeably, and sometimes to mean slightly different things. @Sy Ker's point is correct: the sklearn module you're using does provide you with a validation set, though the term used in the module is test. Effectively, what you're doing is getting data for training and data for evaluation, regardless of the term used. I'm adding this answer to answer that you might, in fact, need a form of test set.
Using test_train_split will give you a pair of sets that allow you to train a model (with a proportion specified in the percentage argument -- which, generally, should be something like 10-25% to ensure that it's a representative subsample). But I would suggest thinking of the process a little more broadly.
Splitting data for use in testing and model evaluation can be done simply (and, likely, incorrectly) by just using some y% of the rows from the bottom of a dataset. If normalization/standardization is being done, then make sure it train that on the test set and apply it to the set for evaluation so that the same treatment is applied to both.
sklearn and others have also made it possible to do cross-validation very simply, and in this case "validation" sets should be thought of a little differently. Cross-validation will take a portion of your data and subdivide it into smaller groups for repeated testing-and-training passes. In this case, you might start with a split of data like that from train_test_split, and keep the "test" set in this case as a total holdout -- meaning that the cross-validation procedure never uses (or "sees") the data during it's test/train process.
That test set that you got from the test_train_split process can then serve as a good set of data to use as a test for how the model performs against data it has never seen. You might see this referred to as a "holdout" set, or again as some version of "test" and/or "validation".
This link has a quick, but intuitive, description of cross-validation and holdout sets.


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Man behind controversial diabetes treatment pleads guilty in public corruption case
by Megan Wood and Brandon Quester January 4, 2019 Why you can trust inewsource
G. Ford Gilbert, founder and CEO of Trina Health, is shown in an office at the company's Sacramento headquarters on Feb. 5, 2018. He is flipping through a PowerPoint presentation he uses to explain to investors the effects of the Trina IV insulin infusion procedure. (Megan Wood/inewsource)
The founder of a nationwide chain of diabetes clinics, which inewsource investigated for months, pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to conspiring to bribe a state lawmaker in Alabama.
The nation has a limited supply of healthcare dollars to spend on drugs and services, which is why the government and health plans require scientific evidence of patient benefit. This is especially important for the 30.3 million people in the U.S. with diabetes, whose medical costs in 2012 totaled $245 billion.
Sacramento lawyer G. Ford Gilbert used the clinics, including one in San Diego, to offer insulin infusion treatments that he claimed could reverse diabetes complications. Experts inewsource interviewed called the procedure a fraud and a scam. Medicare and some private insurance companies also refused to cover the treatments.
Gilbert was indicted in April on charges stemming from a $2,000 payment he made in 2016 to then-Alabama House Majority Leader Micky Ray Hammon, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Montgomery. In exchange for the money, Hammon tried to win support for legislation that would have forced health insurer BlueCross BlueShield to pay for Trina Health treatments.
The insurance company had refused to pay for the insulin infusions at Trina's three Alabama clinics.
"Mr. Gilbert thought that it would take only a small payment to turn the Alabama House of Representatives into a tool for solving his own business problems," U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin Sr. said Friday.
Watch inewsource's Trina Health investigation on the PBS NewsHour
With his guilty plea on one conspiracy count, Gilbert faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
When a federal grand jury indicted Gilbert last year in the public corruption case, he faced charges of bribery, racketeering, and healthcare and wire fraud. He originally pleaded not guilty to the charges.
According to the Montgomery Advertiser, the indictment followed a three-year investigation into Hammon that also implicated several other Alabama lawmakers and the former chairman of the state's Republican Party.
See our Trina Health investigation
inewsource investigated G. Ford Gilbert and his promotion of what he calls a "miraculous" procedure for reversing the complications of diabetes, a condition that affects 30.3 million Americans.
Click here to see the full investigation.
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As of this autumn, the Riigikogu (the Estonian parliament) is using a new system to prepare verbatim reports of its sittings. According to the representative of the Estonian IT company Finestmedia who developed the system, the solution, which is based on speech recognition technology, has great export potential and could prove to be a useful tool for other public and private organisations.
The system is called Hans and uses speech recognition technology created at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) to perform the time-consuming work of stenographers. The system records the debates taking place in the Riigikogu as sound files, which the speech recognition software then transcribes. After this, editors revise the text, which is finally published on the Riigikogu website.
The Parliament may be but does not have to be the most innovative institution in the country. However, parliaments are often the most open and visited institutions in their respective countries, and here, the innovative IT-solutions may be of great help. I am glad that Riigikogu has taken a bold technological step into the future with the help of Finestmedia and TalTech by making the Chancellery's operations more efficient and helping us better introduce the activities of Riigikogu to the public. I am certain that what we have done so far is only the beginning.
Ahto Saks, Administrative Director at the Chancellery of the Riigikogu
Finestmedia's Head of Division Lauri Esko says that creating the verbatim report system was an exciting challenge for the company, as the technological solutions provided by the different parties involved were able to be inventively integrated to see how the resulting synergy brought about major developments.
"We've created a solution that has much wider potential than just the use it's being put to at the moment," he said. "Systems utilising speech recognition can be very effective tools in the work of courts, prisons and the police, but also in health care, research and journalism, where writing things down and producing detailed reports of conversations is an unavoidable necessity." Esko added that the solution had great export potential. "We've already introduced Hans to delegations from several countries who are interested in using it to start writing the success story of their e-governance," he said.
According to Ahto Saks, the Administrative Director of the Chancellery of the Riigikogu, the development of the system has taken two years from idea to introduction, and improvements are ongoing. "To start with, Hans will be producing verbatim records of Riigikogu sittings and Question Time," he explained. "But there are plans to use the system in the work of committees in the future as well."
Tanel Alumäe, the head of the Laboratory of Language Technology at Tallinn University of Technology, says the new system shows how modern technology can help make routine work more effective.
"We've been actively working on speech recognition for 15 years, and Estonian systems are currently being used by radiologists, researchers and journalists," he said. "Web-based speech recognition is freely available to everyone on the tekstiks.ee site as well. Estonian might be a small language, but the technology based on it is at a really high level!" Globally, speech recognition is widely used with larger languages.
Press release from Riigikogu.
Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) is leading Estonia and the world towards a sustainable digital future with confidence. As a leader in science, technology, and innovation, the school maintains constant interaction with universities around the world, bringing together scientists, students, and entrepreneurs. TalTech is also the most international university in Estonia. Of the nearly 10,000 enrolled students, approximately 16% come from more than 100 different countries across the globe.


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Q: replace sub tag from html file by something else I have a string like below:
string = "1"

I wanna change the tag sub to something like this:
 "1" ->  "-sub--1--sub-"

I've tried this:
string1 = re.sub('','-sub--',string)
string1 = re.sub('','--sub-',string)

but it doesn't work.

A: re.sub(r"<([^>]*)>([^<]*)<\/([^>]*)>", r"-\1--\2--\3-", string)

A: You've used the greedy operator .*, where the non-greedy operator .*? would work better. Additionally, your second change overrides your first.
Try this:
string1 = re.sub('','-sub--',string)
string1 = re.sub('','--sub-',string1)

However, you should probably avoid using regex to parse XML. Use an XML parser instead.


Yesterday I wrote about how important it is to get Born Again. I wrote about that we should repent, get baptized in water and in the Holy Spirit. Although it sounds easy and Peter is very clear about it during Pentecost (see Acts 2,38), for me it was not that easy.
I thought I was baptized six days after my natural birth. In the church tradition I grew up in, it is taught that every child of believing parents should get baptized. It is believed there that baptism is the sign of the New Covenant from God with the believers. Just as circumcision was in the times of the Jews. Later I learned that there is no reference in the New Testament of baptism as sign of the New Covenant. Jesus only refers to his blood (the cup at the Lord's Supper, see Matthew 26,27-28) as sign of the New Covenant. I also learned that the general teaching about baptism (for someone who doesn't have believing parents), is that someone has to repent and believe before they get baptized.
Although I grew up as a christian, I was not really living for Jesus at that time. I did believe in what was taught in the church and was even confirmed there, but Jesus was not relevant for my everyday life. Later I repented on the 5th of August 2011. I didn't realized that I repented because I taught that I was a christian all my life. However, I realized later that my life before my repentance was totally different from my life after my repentance, even though I had to grow in faith and needed to learn how to live in freedom. As I described yesterday, it is good to leave your old life behind through repentance and get baptized to break with your old life. Also, being baptized in the Spirit enables us to live according to God's will and not according to the desires of the flesh. For me it was not that easy, because on one hand I didn't immediately realized that I became a follower of Jesus and also that no one around me could teach me to get born again.
Therefore, I want to share this testimony and other posts with you to encourage to get completely born again. In the years after I had repented, it came back to me several times that it would be good to get baptized on my own faith with full immersion. I didn't get convinced immediately. Mainly because most people didn't had good reasons why I should get baptized 'again'. The most important reason seemed to be that Jesus was baptized and I had do it as well to follow Jesus' example. But no one ever got crucified to follow Jesus' example. Besides, I was still thinking about baptism as just a sign, so I thought it wouldn't botter to get baptized as a baby or as an adult.
Struggling about this, I asked more people about it and also God was working in my heart to convince me. Someone explained to me that the Bible teaches us that people first repented and then got baptized. This started with John the Baptist and continued with the Apostles after Pentecost. From then on I realized that I repented in 2011 and needed to get baptized. It was June 2014 at that time and I didn't know where to get baptized.
I didn't want to get baptized in some random evangelical church where they still see baptism as a kind of ritual, even though they baptize people as adults. For me it was a choice to leave my old life behind and not just a ritual. It was very serious to me, because I knew my parents and others didn't want me to get baptized as an adult. In the church tradition I grew up in, it is a sin to get baptized as an adult after getting baptized before (as a baby). I found a proper church close to my place and found out they were baptizing people in two weeks. I wanted to get baptized, but two weeks seemed really fast and didn't know how to share about it with my parents in the mean time. At that time I read about a Muslim who chose to follow Jesus, even though it costed him his relation with his parents. I realized that I probably would not loose that much and had to obey Jesus no matter the costs. I knew I had to leave my old life behind and follow Jesus, not because my parents liked it, but because I found Jesus more important than anything else in my life.
I was still wondering how I should tell my parents. I really didn't know what to do, so I decided to pray God to help me and give me an answer. I asked God to give me an answer in a way that I would recognize it as his answer. The next day I was reading a little Bible study with my roommate. It was about a story of Gideon (you can find it Judges 6). Gideon receives the task from God to destroy his father's altar and pole to worship idols. Gideon is obedient, but, afraid for his family, he does so at night. Still he obeys and the Spirit of the Lord came on Gideon. This was how God spoke to me. I knew that I didn't have to tell my parents beforehand. They would know afterwards, but the most important thing was to obey God.
And so it happened at the 6th of July 2014 and it was powerful. After repentance, I was stuck in my old life of church traditions and other things which withhold me from serving God. Through baptism I was set free. I had to choose myself to get baptized and start a new life with God. This is what I wish for everyone of you. Because I got baptized years after my repentance, I don't know exactly when I got baptized in the Holy Spirit. I think it was just before my baptism at a Bible school, but most of the times it happens after baptism in water.
However, most important is that we repent, get baptized in water and in the Spirit. The best is if we do all these three at the same day. But, as for me, it can happen that you didn't see what needed to be done to really start a complete new life with Jesus. Of course, if you haven't repented from your sins, I want to encourage to start confessing your sins and turn away from your sinful life. There is no reason to keep following a path that leads to death. If you haven't get baptized, I want to encourage you to get baptized and break with your old sinful life. If you are not (sure that you are) baptized in the Holy Spirit, make sure someone prays for you to get filled with the Holy Spirit till you start to speak in tongues, prophesy or worship God. It is so good to live a completely free life with Jesus. It is what you are created for.


[ #inspiration #Motorbike ]Here's what you get when a highly talented bike builder fuses together a 1000cc V-twin powered motorcycle in a fashion that's more steampunk than anything else. Maxwell Hazan, owner of Hazan Motorworks did just that, creating a monstrous beauty of aluminum; an elegant masterpiece that deserves recognition in the world of custom motorcycles.
The engines are two 500cc Royal Enfield powerhouses that practically make up the bike in its entirety, aside from the frame and oversized tires of course. It's a project Maxwell has wanted to build for years and we for one are excited he's made the dream come true. In fact, the bike's origins come initially from a block of wood, then hand cast and hand-machined into the shimmering beast you see before you. The tires are two BF Goodrich Silvertown car tires, which, along with the wheels and the headlight, were the only purchase parts. Everything else was handmade. The tank and fenders are all shaped from aluminum, the shocks from bearing bronze, and the seat from an aged piece of walnut.


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Q: How to handle progress update using ReactiveX Observables/Subjects? I'm writing an Angular app which uses the ReactiveX API to handle asynchronous operations. I used the API before in an Android project and I really like how it simplifies concurrent task handling. But there is one thing which I'm not sure how to solve in a right way.
How to update observer from an ongoing task? The task in this case will take time to load/create a complex/large object and I'm able to return intermediate progress, but not the object itself. The observable can only return one dataType. Therefor I know two possibilities.

*

*Create an object which has a progress field and a data field. This object can be simply returned with Observable.onNext(object). The progress field will update on every onNext, while the data field is empty until the last onNext, which will set it to the loaded value.

*Create two observables, a data observable and a progress observable. The observer hast to subscribe to the progress observable for progress updates and to the data observable to be notified when the data is finally loaded/created. These can also be optionally be zipped together for one subscription.
I used both techniques, they both work, but I want to know if there is a unified standard, a clean way, how to solve this task. It can, of course, as well be a completly new one. Im open for every solution.

A: After careful consideration I use a
solution similar to option two in my question.
The main observable is concerned with the actual result of
the operation.
A http request in this case, but the File iteration example is similar.
It is returned by the "work" function.
A second Observer/Subscriber can be added through a function parameter. This subscriber is concerned only with
the progress information. This way all operations are nullsafe and no type checks are needed.
A second version of the work function, without the progress Observer,
can be used if no progress UI update is needed.
export class FileUploadService {

 doWork(formData: FormData, url: string): Subject<Response> {
    return this.privateDoWork(formData, url, null);
 }

 doWorkWithProgress(formData: FormData, url: string, progressObserver: Observer<number>): Subject<Response> {
    return this.privateDoWork(formData, url, progressObserver);
 }

 private privateDoWork(formData: FormData, url: string, progressObserver: Observer<number> | null): Subject<Response> {

     return Observable.create(resultObserver => {
     let xhr: XMLHttpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
     xhr.open("POST", url);

     xhr.onload = (evt) => {
         if (progressObserver) {
            progressObserver.next(1);
            progressObserver.complete();
            }
         resultObserver.next((<any>evt.target).response);
         resultObserver.complete()
     };
     xhr.upload.onprogress = (evt) => {
         if (progressObserver) {
            progressObserver.next(evt.loaded / evt.total);
         }

     };
     xhr.onabort = (evt) => resultObserver.error("Upload aborted by user");
     xhr.onerror = (evt) => resultObserver.error("Error");

     xhr.send(formData);
     });
 }

Here is a call of the function including the progress Subscriber. With this solution the caller of the upload function must
create/handle/teardown the progress subscriber.
 this.fileUploadService.doWorkWithProgress(this.chosenSerie.formData, url, new Subscriber((progress) => console.log(progress * 100)).subscribe(
    (result) => console.log(result),
    (error) => console.log(error),
    () => console.log("request Completed")
    );

Overall I prefered this solution to a "Pair" Object with a single subscription. There is no null handling nececcary, and
I got a clean seperation of concerns.
The example is written in Typescript, but similar solutions should be possible with other ReactiveX implementations.


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Christina Uticone | March 23, 2012 | 11:30am
This week on PRAS: Final three Michael Costello, Austin Scarlett, and Mondo are ready to face judgment day. The three boys dress in their Sunday finest--Austin rocks a Liza Minelli-style black sequined jacket, while Mondo and Michael settle for button down shirts and ties--and head out to meet their fate. The show is being held at Gotham Hall, but before the models hit the runway there are notions to be sewn and snark to be snarked as the designers get a peek at each other's final collections. In addition to Angela Lindvall, Georgina Chapman, and Isaac Mizrahi, Tommy Hilfiger and Ken Downing (fashion director, Neiman Marcus) join the judges panel.
Mondo thinks Austin is choking, after biting off more than he can chew. Once the models come in, last minute fittings begin and Michael realizes one of his garments is totally wonkified--the zipper is wrong, and one sleeve is super tight while the other is as baggy as M.C. Hammer pants. Mondo's biggest problem seems to be a pair of sheer tights that should be opaque--he remains unfazed. After hair and makeup Michael realizes one of his gowns is a full six inches too large, requiring him to remove the entire lining to make the adjustment. When Joanna Coles visits Mondo backstage his collection is in good shape, but Coles determines Mondo needs a once-over with the lint roller which makes Mondo adorably uncomfortable. "It's a little uncomfortable. It's like your aunt rolling you down," says Mondo.
Now, let's hit the runway!
Austin welcomes the crowd, and describes his collection (called "Austin Scarlett," naturally) as, "The story of a vampire from the 18th century who has lived many hundreds of years and now resides in Williamsburg, and occasionally borrows clothes from her Hasidic dandy friends." The color palette is bright pink and black, with lots of shine (leather, sequins); the final look is a huge, gorgeous wedding dress.
What the Judges Said: Tommy Hilfiger calls Austin's ability to put together this collection is just four days "masterful" while Georgina Chapman enthuses, "I think you've got some really special pieces here." Isaac says Austin did a great job, but that rather than a collection it looks like a "best-of, someone's work, over a number of years." The judges love the youthful, glamorous woman for whom Austin designs. Even though all of the judges love the wedding dress, they agree that it's a little out of place with the rest of the rock-and-roll inspired pieces. While the judges agree that Austin is "an ideas machine," and one of the most talented and original designers, they want him to edit his ideas for a more focused collection.
Mondo's collection is called "Therapy" and is meant to reflect his struggle to find inspiration. The color palatte is bold black-and-white with hints of red, and Mondo's signature mixing of patterns is ever-present.
What the Judges Said: Georgina says "as always you are masterful in your use of print." Mizrahi calls Mondo's collection the most cohesive, while Hilfiger gushes over Mondo's separates. Ken Downing loves the Rorschach-print dress Mondo created, calling the print "professional, like it came from a fabric house." Downing admires Mondo's attention to detail, especially since he had only four days to complete the entire collection. As usual, Mondo's workmanship and ability to mix prints are universally praised among the judges. The judges would like to see more restraint from Mondo, to make his strengths (details, mixed textiles) more impactful.
Michael's collection was inspired by and named after the Serengeti, a place he has presumably never been since he hasn't mentioned ever visiting as he made this collection. Then again, Austin isn't really a 300-year-old female semi-Hasidic vampire, so maybe Michael has some leeway here.
What the Judges Said: Georgina Chapman calls the collection "exceptional"; Hilfiger thinks the pieces are ready to be sold in stores as-is, while Downing admires the cohesiveness of the collection. Mizrahi likes that Michael followed his inspiration, but feels that his use of print wasn't as interesting as it could have been. There is discussion of how well Michael uses fabric-vs-flesh in his designs, and the judges compliment his ability to balance the two for maximum sex appeal. Hilfiger called the collection "commercial, but cohesive." The judges love Michael's draping, and construction.
WINNER: Mondo!
Michael is third runner up, winning a trip to Paris. Oh-la-la! Austin comes in second, and also wins a trip to Paris.
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Julia Hede Wilkens (Estocolmo, 16 de febrero de 1962), es una actriz sueca, anteriormente actriz infantil que más tarde fue directora de fotografía y directora de cine. Estudió su carrera en el área de filmografía en la universidad de filmografía, radio, televisión "Dramatiska Institutet" entre 1986-1989.

Hede Wilkens trabaja desde 2015 como profesora de producción televisiva y francés en la secundaria Täby Enskilda Gymnasium. Conduce el programa televisivo Curiosos, el cual se da en el canal de televisión TV Nord y es filmado en el estudio de televisión de la escuela Täby Enskilda Gymnasium.

Filmografía

Dirección
 1995 - Au Pair

Roles
 1973 – Den vita stenen (serie de televisión)
 1975 – Monismanien 1995
 1983 – Privatdetektiven Kant
 1985 – Tvätten
 1991 – Ett paradis utan biljard

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Actores infantiles de Suecia
Directores de fotografía de Suecia
Nacidos en Estocolmo

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Low-Cost Prosthetics Made By These Women Have Helped Over 40K Differently-Abled!
"I am honoured that despite my physical limitations, I have not just helped myself, but hundreds of other women!" says one of the gritty women. #Respect #Inspiration
Post author:Ananya Barua
Post category:Disability / Technology / Women
For Noor Jaan, the idea of self-reliance was a foreign concept. Growing up, at every single step, a relative or a neighbour would remind her that independence was not in her fate.
"I had a polio attack when I was just three years old, and it took away the strength in the lower section of my body, from the hip to my legs. So, most of my life, I would need support either from someone, or use crutches. I had convinced myself that this is what my life was going to be like, and I had to accept it," she says.
In 1997, much to her surprise, an opportunity arrived that changed her life forever.
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"It feels like my life began some 22 years ago when they approached me. They said they would give me a job after one year of training in making prosthetic devices. For the first time ever, I would not just be helping and supporting myself but also be able to extend the same to thousands of women like me. It was a privilege!" recalls the 50-year-old prosthetic expert.
Like her, nine more women were approached and hired in that year.
They were all joining the Rehabilitation Aids Workshop by Women with Disability (RAWWD) formed by five passionate individuals as an offshoot of Mobility India; an NGO focused on mobility aids to the differently-abled.
The five founders—Chapal Khasnabis, Albina Shankar, Jaikodi, Ritu Ghosh and Veda Zachariah—built the institution with a vision to create a ripple effect.
Their aim was to empower a group of differently-abled women by training and hiring them, who would then do the same or even more for thousands of others.
Today, after almost two long decades, RAWWD's small office hidden under a canopy of trees, on Old Airport Road, is a second home for Noor and many other women, who found their true independence and life's purpose, right in the middle of the prosthetics workshop.
"RAWWD has not only provided these women with a new light to life, qualification and employment but has in turn provided thousands of differently-abled individuals with prosthetics and supporting devices. And all this, at rates much lower than the standard market rates," says Indra Moses, the finance manager of the organisation.
For the Women, By the Women
The start of the organisation sprouted from a fundamental problem faced by many differently-abled women.
"Most women with disabilities do not have access to mobility aids. The reason behind this is a simple but important one. It is because, generally all technicians and experts who need to measure them for the aids and appliances are men, causing a sense of hesitation for many. That's why most of them decide to not opt for such devices, thus contributing to the functional hindrance, both personally and as a community," Indra explains.
So, the founders came up with a holistic plan where these devices will not only be for women and children exclusively but also be made and fitted, all by women!
She adds that owing to the plan, a group of 10 women were identified where each individual took almost a year-long certificate course in prosthetics and orthotics at a Bengaluru-based training institute, accredited by the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics.
After the first 10, a total of 26 have been trained at the institute till now. Noor Jaan and Prerna (43) are two of the oldest members, who were a part of the first batch.
Following this, they are employed to develop both quality rehabilitation prosthetic (an artificial body part) and orthotic (supporting devices like splints and braces) devices.
The organisation now works with a total of 8 employees out of which seven are differently-abled.
"RAWWD has served as a great platform for many to launch their careers in this area. Some of us stayed back, while others gained experience and moved on to other opportunities. It's truly something to be proud of," says Noor.
Talking about the process of preparation, Indra adds, "Our clients sometimes come directly, or are even referred by city-based doctors, because of the efficiency of our employees and the affordability of the items. Each client individually consults with our employees. What sets these women apart, is not only how they make the clients comfortable but also extend emotional and technical support. They have grown to become role models for many other women with disabilities."
Owing to their efforts in the last few decades, RAWWD has been able to help more than 40,000 differently-abled individuals!
On the 22nd anniversary of her second home, Noor Jaan looks back at her overwhelming journey, and with a slightly unsteady, cracking voice, she concludes,
"People look at us with a bag full of perceptions and emotions. Our independence and self-reliance are often seen as a great feat by others, but, I am lucky and honoured that despite my physical limitations, I have not just helped myself, but hundreds of other women like me, gain much-deserved confidence and independence. Now that's something I'm truly proud of!"
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(Edited by Gayatri Mishra)
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