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Barbara Hardy, Louis Mink, and David Carr
Historical theory about "narrative" has tended to fixate on experience versus language, often showing little or no respect for the way stories take root and play out in our minds.
In an obscure literary journal from 1968 Barbara Hardy says "narrative, like lyric or dance, is not to be regarded as an aesthetic invention used by artists to control, manipulate, and order experience, but as a primary act of mind transferred to art from life." That quote is preserved by Louis Mink and David Carr, who each cited Hardy against one another while debating the correspondence between life and narrative. Unfortunately, both men misunderstood her severely. What Hardy was actually talking about could be called cognitive storytelling; in her own words, "a pre-aesthetic state in routine acts of human consciousness" and "the narrative structure of acts of mind." Her stated purpose was "to suggest the deficiency of our commonly posited antagonism between dream and realistic vision." That is, Hardy was attacking a scholarly divide between fiction and realism. Among other points, Hardy defended fiction's value by observing that depictions of realism incorporate various shades of the fantastic (and vice versa).
The article, "Towards a Poetics of Fiction," found an audience among scholars of Victorian literature. It deserves more attention from narrative theorists and philosophers of history.
In calling narrative "a primary act of mind transferred to art from life," Hardy was complicating an old dichotomy, but apparently Mink and Carr thought she was taking a side. The dualism of realism held dominance from Aristotle's Poetics (identifying mythos with mimesis) through Thomas Carlyle ("Narrative is linear, Action is solid.") and it grew stronger in 1976 when Louis Mink wrote "Narrative Form as a Cognitive Instrument." While that article is famous for (correctly) denying that "the past" amounts to "an untold story," Mink's argument that narrative offers "ways of making the flux of experience comprehensible" subsumed the composition process into written literature itself, and so missed the mediating stage of cognitive processing. That is, the "flux of experience" can also become "comprehensible" via personal reflections which never become verbal narrations. In refuting Hardy, Mink said the mind doesn't put life upon art. He thought she had her ideas exactly backwards. In truth, he misread her words. In her phrase, "a primary act of mind transferred to art from life," Mink saw only life and art. According to Hardy, the "act of mind" is the central dynamic.
For Mink, the problem with words was their imperfect alignment with things. Hardy saw a middle stage: (1) life, (2) cognition, (3) art.
David Carr's famous rebuttal to Mink (in 1986) reinforced the same false dichotomy and simultaneously, again, misunderstood Hardy's ideas. In defending "narrative features of everyday experience," Carr described action "as a temporal configuration." Arguing that narration can and does represent experience accurately, Carr also missed the cognitive stage in-between. Carr quoted Hardy in support against Mink, as if she was affirming "the structure of everyday experience and action." Essentially, Carr imputed his own thoughts into Hardy's work, but it was Carr's work that most desperately needed to learn from what Hardy was saying.
In fairness, Carr's thinking may come nearer the truth than his writing. When Carr talks about "life" and "experience" he would more accurately be describing the ways in which our subjective processing makes sense of chaos in the physical universe. Personally, I make the most sense out of Carr by supposing he could not see "action" except in its truncated form, in his memory. He could not see as Carlyle did. He could not step out of his literary imagination in order to think like an engineer or a physicist. At least, that would explain why Carr so often speaks about "action" itself having the same structure in life as it displays in narrative. Well, no, it absolutely does not. Then again, yes, it does seem to be that way when we look back on our own experiences.
Mink was technically right, and Carr was technically wrong, but Hardy's view adds the nuance we need. Life is not like a story but our minds make it feel like a story, in hindsight. Unlike Carr, we must step back and see the chaos around us, as could Mink and Carlyle. Action is solid, but narrative is primarily an act of human cognition. Unlike Mink, we must escape the dualism of realism, as Aristotle and Carlyle did not. Narrative is linear, but so is the experience of human consciousness.
Most common narrative structures evolve naturally due to hindsight and cognition.
Here's my own view. In between human experience (lived, researched, imagined, or vicarious experience) on the one hand and narrative representation (diaries, reports, oral tradition, and/or written histories) on the other, the subjective mind takes time to reflect, process, attend, and remember constructively. For any writer composing history, biography, autobiography, research synopses, or journalistic reports, the process of non-fiction storytelling is necesarily preceeded by two stages: experience comes first and cognition comes second. Narration and depiction comes no sooner than third. This trichotomy holds as firmly for receivers of non-fiction narratives, who test the purported representation of an author not by comparing that literature against the actual past, but comparing that literature, once received, against their own recollections and previous knowledge.
In sum, there is actually (1) experience, (2) cognition, and (3) narrative.
Mink subsumed (2) within (3) and Carr subsumed (2) within (1), which left both men theorizing about a dichotomy, which is why both men misunderstood Hardy. For her own part, I believe, Hardy saw (2) mediating between (1) and (3). Whenever we re-live past experience, or visualize future activities, we present ourselves with silent stories, narrativizations that take shape exclusively in our minds, which become fully formed without verbalization. Cognitive processing develops stories without discourse, the structured and truncated residue of experience which Mink and Carr each failed to recognize properly.
In recent years, multiple articles in History & Theory feature continued attempts to work through the perceived dichotomy of narrative versus experience. Meanwhile, lots of practicing historians who contributed to "the memory boom" since the 1980's have been shrwedly applying the rubric of "memory" to get defensibly meta (e.g., Jan Assmann, Barry Schwartz; for a broader survey see Patrick H. Hutton, The Memory Phenomenon in Conteporary Historical Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). On some level, all this rubric of "memory" is based on a key insight of psychological research, that mental narratives (not unlike written narratives) are not always 100% accurate recollections. Still, philosophers of history do not yet appear to have taken a cognitive turn. Although there has been laudable progress in bridging the divide between experience and narration (e.g., Frank Ankersmit, Jonas Grethlein, Kate Mitchell, the innovative "triangulation" of Chris Keith and Anthony LeDonne), a large number of historical theorists remain stuck on the problem of language.
Barbara Hardy knew better. Narrative is primarily an act of the mind. Cognitive Scientists call this process "Remembering". Personally, I suspect if we focus on remembering as the mediating process between experience and language, we might begin to discover some mnemonic dynamic that governs the roots of all narrativity… but perhaps that's a radical tangent.
One easy path forward may begin from observing that Louis Mink and David Carr were both wrong about Barbara Hardy. There is indeed an inner storytelling that fills our waking hours, and this psychic narrative has a structure which comes from acts of the mind - what Hardy aptly described as pre-aesthetic routines of consciousness. In the 1960's, working in fiction with other women, she happened to point out something more subtle and inward than anything yet observed by the boys club of historians. Her basic insight suggested that story structure derives neither from experience itself, nor exclusively from composition, but rather it derives from what our minds do after perceiving an experience, and what our minds do before attempting to verbalize narratives about it.
In academic discussions, Mink usually gets the better of Carr, but cognitive processing must not be subsumed within the composition process. If the framing of Carr's arguments could be transformed by Hardy's perspective, we might finally be approaching actual bedrock. Although there is not one untold story of "the" actual past, there have indeed been countless stories which remain untold up to a given moment. Those untold stories may not correspond to actual experience but they do correspond with that which the mind makes from its perception of actual experience. There is a common narrative structure that our minds naturally lend to events. In my own humble opinion, that structure derives from the necessities of forgetting and remembering. It deserves far more attention. At the very least, we might start by taking a much closer look at Barbara Hardy's "Towards a Poetics of Fiction" (1968).
Just as writers of history are wise to anticipate and contend with the collective remembering of their prospective audiences, philosophers of history should begin to consider the cognitive processing which precedes literary narration in the mediation of human experience. Such pursuits might even help us begin to distinguish standard patterns of cognitive structure as something independent of authorial bias.
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Zac Szymusiak has been starting a bunch of new bands lately, and the musician-about-town (who you may know from his recent stints drumming with Dolby F---ers or playing keys and guitar for The Main Street Gospel) debuts his latest project, Mr. Rubberburner, tonight at Carabar, 115 Parsons Ave. They're up last, while Alive Band to Watch Rosehips begins the evening's entertainment. But the headliners, who will perform second, deserve the most attention. They're called Howlies, and Szymusiak describes them as such:
the howlies are from the ATL, on their first national tour, and about to break it big (as big as a band in a van can in '08). they are a sweet mix of classic pop conventions and the 80's college rock undergound. kind of like the black lips, without the sh*tty moustaches and attitudes.
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Volvo halts Iran truck assembly due to U.S. sanctions
Reuters – Swedish truckmaker AB Volvo has stopped assembling trucks in Iran because U.S. sanctions are preventing it from being paid, a spokesman for the company said on Monday.
The sanctions against Iran, reimposed on Aug. 6 by U.S. President Donald Trump after his decision to pull out of a nuclear deal with Tehran, have forced companies across Europe to reconsider their investments there.
Volvo spokesman Fredrik Ivarsson said the trucks group could no longer get paid for any parts it shipped and had therefore decided not to operate in Iran in another blow to the country's car industry, which unlike the energy and banking sectors, had managed to sign contracts with top European firms.
"With all these sanctions and everything that the United States put (in place) … the bank system doesn't work in Iran. We can't get paid … So for now we don't have any business (in Iran)," Ivarsson told Reuters by telephone.
Before the sanctions were reimposed, Volvo had expressed an ambition for Iran to become its main export hub for the Gulf region and North Africa markets.
The European Union has implemented a law to shield its companies, but the sanctions have deterred banks from doing business with Iranian firms as Washington can cut any that facilitate such transactions off from the U.S. financial system.
TRUCK EXIT
Volvo was working with Saipa Diesel, part of Iran's second-largest automaker SAIPA, which was assembling the Swedish firm's heavy-duty trucks from kits shipped to Iran.
The head of Volvo Trucks was reported to have told Iranian media that he expected 5,000 Volvo trucks to be assembled locally in the year to March 2019 and that Saipa Diesel would begin to produce three Volvo truck models domestically.
Ivarsson did not know how much of this target had been delivered on. However, he said Volvo had no active orders in Iran as of Monday.
Reuters could not immediately reach Saipa Diesel for a comment.
Swedish truckmaker Scania, which is owned by Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE), said it had canceled all orders that it could not deliver by mid-August due to sanctions, while French carmaker PSA Group began to suspend its joint venture activities in Iran in June.
Germany's Daimler has said it is closely monitoring any further developments, while carmaker Volkswagen has rejected a report that suggested it had decided against doing business in Iran.
Reporting by Esha Vaish in Stockholm; Editing by Alexander Smith
Fredrik Ivarsson, US sanctions against Iran, Volvo Group	September 24, 2018
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News & Events News Bites
News Bites from CDA Knowledge Networks – 2021/01/12
CDA Oasis January 12, 2021
COVID-19 Dentistry-Related News: Canada
Dental hygienists could be deployed to give Albertans COVID-19 vaccine jab. cbc.ca, Jan 12: Dental hygienists and other regulated health practitioners may be the province's answer to expanding its capacity to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine. The College of Registered Dental Hygienists of Alberta says it's seeking a ministerial exemption for some hygienists to help administer the COVID-19 vaccine. Read more
Ontario implements another state of emergency and stay-at-home order to combat COVID-19. cp24.com, Jan 12: …Health care services, including dental offices, physiotherapy and chiropractors will remain open. Banks will also remain open. Read more
Dental services are essential — and never more so than during COVID-19. tvo.org, Jan 11: To support the health of Ontarians, the government must recognize that dentistry is not optional, writes Daniel Haas, the dean of dentistry at U of T. Read more
Ontario's Dentists Calling for Early Access to COVID-19 Vaccine. youroralhealth.ca: Dentists are a critical part of the healthcare system and on the frontlines of the pandemic. Read more
Don't skip your check-up: Manitoba Dental Association assures appointments are safe amidst pandemic. globalnews.ca, Jan 10 (also appeared on msn.com, power97.com): With the COVID-19 test positivity rate high still in Manitoba, Winnipeggers are on the fence about whether they should be keeping up with their yearly dental appointments. Read more
Manitoba dentists to help administer COVID-19 vaccine. winnipeg.ctvnews.ca, Jan 9 (also appeared on iheartradio.ca/virginradio/Winnipeg): Along with checking your pearly whites, Manitoba dentists are jumping on the COVID-19 frontline. Dentists are answering the call to help with vaccine injections, according to Dr. Marc Mollot, president of the Manitoba Dental Association. Read more
Sask. dental hygienist says they could help administer COVID vaccine. cbc.ca, Jan 8: It may still be months before the general population begins getting vaccinated for COVID-19. But when we do, will we have enough trained professionals to administer the vaccine? … Other provinces have announced they are expanding the pool of people who could administer the vaccine to include health professionals such as dentists, veterinarians and lab techs. Read more
COVID-19 Dentistry-Related News: World
Governor Newsom authorizes dentists to administer COVID-19 vaccine. cbs8.com, Jan 12: As of right now, you can't get the vaccine at a dental office. Instead, dentists are being asked to help at vaccination clinics. Read more
You thought the dentist's couldn't get any worse? Patients could soon be asked to wear HELMETS that suck up any COVID-infected cough droplets. dailymail.co.uk, Jan 12: Developed by experts at New York's Cornell University, the disposable, transparent helmets are connected to a pump that creates a reverse flow of air around the head. ... The full findings of the study were published in the journal Physics of Fluids. Read more
U.S. News & World Report: Dentists continue to have one of top 10 best jobs. ada.org, Jan 12: Dentists No. 9 in 2021 rankings as health care jobs dominate list. … The global pandemic has reinforced the need and value of health care professionals, said Antonio Barbera, consumer advice editor at U.S. News & World Report. Read more
Research shapes safe dentistry during COVID-19. sciencedaily.com, Jan 11: Leading research at Newcastle University has been used to shape how dentistry can be carried out safely during the Covid-19 pandemic by mitigating the risks of dental aerosols. Read more
'Dentists Should Be Performing Covid-19 Saliva Tests On Patients To Help Combat The Virus' Says Nationally-Renowned Dentist. prnewswire.com, Jan 12: Next time you go to get your teeth cleaned, imagine spitting into a vial and getting rapid Covid-19 results from your dentist. That scenario is now being advocated by Dr. Joel Strom, a former California State Dental Board President and Adjunct Fellow at the Cambridge, Massachussets-based Forsyth Institute which is one of the leading research centers for oral biology and salivary diagnostics in the world. Read more
Dentists warn about continuing to delay dental visits during pandemic. wmur.com, Jan 11: More cases of teeth grinding seen in patients, dentists say. Read more
Delta Dental Foundation opens $400K COVID-19 dental equipment fund. wzzm13.com, Jan 11: Delta Dental Foundation opens $400K COVID-19 dental equipment fund. The fund will help safety-net dental organizations in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana purchase COVID-19 related dental supplies and equipment—making it easier for more people to safely access dental care. Read more
Report: Wearing masks for extended periods of time can lead to serious oral health issues. whdh.com, Jan 12: "Mask mouth" has become a trend since the beginning of the pandemic, with people developing bad breath, dry mouth, tooth decay, bleeding gums, mouth ulcers, and other oral health issues, a new report from Express Dentist indicates. Read more
'I thought dentists had some of the best job security': More dental students are having second thoughts. marketwatch.com, Jan 8: Before the pandemic, dentistry was considered a growing industry. … But the pandemic has shown that the industry is no more stable than many other industries that have been hard hit by the pandemic, dimming career prospects. In turn, many dental and dental hygiene students are reconsidering their career paths, according to a peer-reviewed study conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry. Read more
'Light at the end of the tunnel'. ada.org, Jan 8: Oregon dental resident becomes first dentist to administer COVID-19 vaccine, highlights another role in pandemic. Read more
Dentists, students called in to help deliver coronavirus vaccines. cnn.com, Jan 8: As the US looks for ways to speed the administration of Covid-19 vaccines, some states and providers are pulling in non-traditional vaccinators, including dentists, retirees and students, to aid in the process. Read more
More frontline health care workers in Los Angeles County will be able to sign up for the COVID-19 vaccine starting Monday. ktla.com, Jan 10: … That means that in addition to frontline health care workers, people working in primary care clinics, specialty clinics, laboratories, dental clinics and pharmacies can get the vaccine. Read more
Dental delays leading to 'complications unseen since the 70s'. brusselstimes.com, Jan 9: Dentists are warning that putting off a dental appointment out of fear of catching Covid-19 is likely to lead to troubles later, as problems go undetected. Read more
Kids' oral health decays after COVID restricts visits to the dentist. smh.com.au, Jan 9: Victorians could face long-term dental disease problems for years to come after a dramatic drop in regular visits to the dentist in 2020. Children and low-income earners are likely to suffer the most serious deterioration in dental health. Read more
COVID-19 News: Canada
Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Wednesday. cbc.ca, Jan 13: Alberta sees new record for reported deaths from COVID-19 in a single day. Can Alberta make its own deals with vaccine makers? Ottawa says go for it. Ontario issues stay-at-home order as COVID-19 models show province is at 'dangerous point'. Canada-U.S. border to remain closed until at least Feb. 21. U.S. will require negative COVID-19 tests for nearly all arriving international air passengers. Read more
Vaccine dilemma: report says delaying second dose up to 42 days is OK, but some warn of risks. ctvnews.ca, Jan 12: …a new report from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization says provinces can accelerate the number of people being vaccinated by delaying the second dose for up to 42 days. This would lengthen the specific waiting period between doses that has been proven to work in clinical trials for both vaccines. The updated recommendations, released Tuesday by NACI, raise questions for Canadians anxiously awaiting the protection of a vaccine, as well as officials trying to speed up the rollout. Read more
Record COVID-19 deaths; Alberta extends vaccine timeline for second dose to 42 days. edmontonjournal.com, Jan 13: Thirty-eight more Albertans have died from the disease. Chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw said the ominous landmark demonstrates the need to dispense as many first doses of the vaccine as possible, even as the province has warned of the potential for supply shortages in the future. Read more
Quebec's COVID-19 vaccine plan runs contrary to new federal guidelines. montrealgazette.com, Jan 13: The federal immunization committee recommends administering a second shot within 42 days of the first. Quebec plans to wait twice as long. Read more
Saskatchewan now has highest active case rate of COVID-19 in country: Health Canada. cbc.ca, Jan 13: According to data from Health Canada, Saskatchewan had an active case rate of 319 per 100,000 population on Tuesday, an increase of one from the day before. ... The national average rate currently sits at 215. Read more
Track how many COVID-19 vaccines have been administered across Canada. cbc.ca, Jan 12: See how the vaccine rollout is going in your province or territory. CBC News is tracking the data, so you can follow the progress as vaccines are rolled out across the country. CBC's vaccine data comes from provincial and territorial websites, news briefings and releases, and the Public Health Agency of Canada. Read more
COVID-19 in Indigenous communities: total cases in First Nations surpass 11,000. cbc.ca, Jan 13: The number of active COVID-19 cases in First Nations communities continues to rise, according to the latest data from Indigenous Services Canada. Read more
Software company offers Indigenous communities free services for vaccine rollout. globalnews.ca, Jan 12: Coconut software will equip communities with the technology to schedule and organize in-person vaccine appointments more efficiently. Read more
Canadians worried about the mental health of their co-workers, report finds. ctvnews.ca, Jan 13: According to Morneau Shepell's monthly Mental Health Index, 36 per cent of Canadians indicated that they were concerned about a fellow employee's mental well-being. The report, released Wednesday, suggests that the Canadian workforce may be at risk of "detrimental long-term mental health effects" amidst the pandemic. Read more
Pandemic worsening mental health for women more than men, poll suggests. thestar.com, Jan 13: New polling from Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies suggests some Canadians feel their mental health has declined as the pandemic has rolled on, with the impacts potentially striking women, single parents, the unemployed, relatively recent immigrants and racialized people more than others. Read more
Ontario long-term care homes need 'immediate emergency intervention,' advocates say. cbc.ca, Jan 12: Coalition demands province launch recruitment strategy right now to prevent more COVID-19 deaths. Read more
Canada locks in 20 million more Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses. ctvnews.ca, Jan 12: Canada has exercised an option with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer-BioNTech to secure an additional 20 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced. ... This news comes on the heels of Procurement Minister Anita Anand confirming she chose not to exercise an option to buy up to 16 million additional doses of the Moderna vaccine because they would not have arrived until late in 2021. Read more
Canada building facilities to make vaccines for COVID-19 and other viruses. cbc.ca, Jan 12: Vaccine independence is important, because relying on relationships with other countries doesn't always work. Read more
Itching for injection: Number of Canadians who say they want to be vaccinated ASAP against COVID‑19 surges. angusreid.com, Jan 11: Canadians appear to be transitioning from a place of professed caution to enthusiastic compliance when it comes to their willingness to be vaccinated against COVID‑19. In a one-month span, the number of people saying they plan to be inoculated as soon as possible has increased 12 percentage points, with a firm majority (60%) now willing, and waiting. Guest: Krishana Sankar, Doctoral Researcher at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Medicine. Read more
Pfizer could withdraw vaccine supply from Quebec if two-dose schedule not followed: Legault. ctvnews.ca, Jan 11: Quebec's supply of COVID-19 vaccines could take a hit if the province continues to follow a schedule that isn't recommended by its maker, provincial leaders suggested Monday. … That schedule calls for a second dose of the vaccine to be given three weeks after the first dose. The Quebec government's plan calls for a modified schedule, with people receiving their second dose months after the first. Read more
As Canada battles rising COVID-19 cases, advocates say lack of sick leave fuels transmission. ctvnews.ca, Jan 12: As Canadian provinces struggle to contain rising COVID-19 infections, a lack of adequate paid sick leave for front-line workers is fueling transmission, doctors and advocates say. While political leaders and health officials advise sick people to stay home, many people can't afford to. Some 58% of workers in Canada lack enough paid sick leave, according to the Decent Work and Health Network, and that percentage rises as wages drop. Read more
More than half Manitoba's active COVID-19 cases are in First Nations population. cbc.ca, Jan 11: Vaccine distribution has begun on a handful of Manitoba reserves as a task force reports that 61 per cent of the people with active COVID-19 in the province are First Nations. Read more
Vaccine hesitancy in care home workers. omny.fm/shows/the-simi-sara-show, Jan 11: Just getting the vaccines we need has been a complex undertaking, but now public health is faced with addressing vaccine hesitancy. SafeCareBC released a survey of long term care workers last month which found only 57 percent of respondents wanted to get the shot, that could be a big problem considering how long term care home residents are particularly vulnerable to the virus. Listen 6:46
Two per cent of Canadians with COVID have logged it in contact-tracing app. ipolitics.ca, Jan 11: ...On Jan. 5, when 618,644 cases had been reported nationally, Health Canada said only 13,697 people had loaded key codes into the app by that day. Read more
Health-care workers battled burnout before COVID-19 — now it's even worse, experts warn. cbc.ca, Jan 12: 78% of nurse respondents reported recent feelings of burnout, pre-pandemic survey found. Read more
Why some hospital PR executives and staff on leave have received COVID-19 vaccines before front-line staff. ctvnews.ca, Jan 11: As thousands of front-line workers remain susceptible to COVID-19, a surprising group of people has been vaccinated ahead of them. Despite the insistence from health officials that the scarce vaccines would first be reserved for the highest-risk populations, including health-care workers in COVID-19 wards and in long-term care homes, staff who have little to no interaction with patients have already received the jab. Read more
Ontario's homeless 5 times more likely to die of COVID-19, study finds. cbc.ca, Jan 11: Those without homes also more likely to test positive, suffer complications. A study published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal is painting a stark picture of how COVID-19 has impacted Ontario's homeless population. Read more
'Racism is a comorbidity': Advocates call out anti-Black bias in Canadian medicine. ctvnews.ca, Jan 11: It's long overdue for the Canadian medical field to stop dragging its feet to address disparities for Black patients, anti-racism medical experts wrote for the Canadian Medical Association Journal. … During the COVID-19 pandemic, those effects have been magnified with racialized people having a greater chance of testing positive for COVID-19 and a poorer health outcome. Read more
Canada's COVID-19 vaccine contender: Medicago's breakthrough, ties to Big Tobacco and warnings a pandemic was coming. globalnews.ca, Jan 11: Under a winter's snow cover on the outskirts of Quebec City, a high-tech greenhouse, set at a balmy 23 C, is growing row after row of a weed that could help end the coronavirus pandemic. It's called Nicotiana benthamiana, a relative of the tobacco plant, native to Australia, and it is a key to biopharmaceutical company Medicago's COVID-19 vaccine. Read more
Blood kits sent to 48,000 Canadians to survey extent of COVID-19. ctvnews.ca, Jan 11: Statistics Canada is mailing pinprick blood tests to 48,000 Canadians to gauge the virus' prevalence in the country. In what is one of the first large-scale surveys of its kind in Canada, researchers are examining the blood samples for antibodies pertaining to the virus that causes COVID-19. Read more
COVID-19 vaccines arrive in remote First Nations as leaders work to combat hesitancy. cbc.ca, Jan 10: 'Do it for the elders in the community and the vulnerable,' tribal council leader says. … The council employs nurses who are among those administering vaccinations so people see a familiar face they know and trust. Read more
The tale of two pandemics: Provincial COVID-19 case numbers suggest growing disparity. torontosun.com, Jan 11: It was a day of disparity in Canada's protracted battle against the novel coronavirus, with some provinces recording alarmingly high numbers of infections on Sunday while at least one province managed to whittle new cases to zero. Read more
COVID-19 News: World
New coronavirus mutation raises vaccine questions. ctvnews.ca, Jan 13: As the British coronavirus variant occupies countries' pandemic plans due to its increased transmissibility, other mutations to the Sars-CoV-2 are provoking concern among scientists who are scrambling to work out if they will still respond to vaccines. In particular, one mutation, known as E484K, detected initially in South Africa and on subsequent variants in Brazil and Japan, has raised alarm among researchers. Read more
US COVID-19 deaths hit another one-day high at over 4,300. abcnews.go.com, Jan 13: Coronavirus deaths in the U.S. have hit another one-day high at over 4,300 with the country's attention focused largely on the fallout from the deadly uprising at the Capitol. Read more
It's essential to understand why some health care workers are putting off vaccination. vox.com, Jan 11: Early data on why health care workers are delaying the Covid-19 vaccine could help us end the pandemic sooner. Read more
Despite having intimate knowledge of the pain and death caused by the coronavirus, a surprising number of US healthcare workers are refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine. businessinsider.com, Jan 10: In American nursing homes and hospitals, a surprising number of healthcare workers are refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. As many as 80% of staff are turning down a vaccine in some institutions, according to AP. This is due to unfounded fears about the side-effects of these life-saving shots, AP reported. Read more
Many have a real fear of needles, overcoming that is critical for the vaccine rollout. ctvnews.ca, Jan 13: As a fourth-year medical student at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Amanda Walker knows that vaccinations are both safe and essential. Getting one, however, is still an ordeal for Walker, who has needle phobia. It's a common fear. Read more
Chinese COVID-19 vaccine far less effective than initially claimed in Brazil, sparking concerns. ctvnews.ca, Jan 13: A leading Chinese COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech was just 50.38% effective in late-stage trials in Brazil, significantly lower than earlier results showed, according to a statement published by the government of Sao Paulo Tuesday. Read more
China sees biggest daily Covid tally since July as WHO prepares to fly in. theguardian.com, Jan 13: China has recorded the highest one-day case total in more than five months, according to the National Health Commission, with three cities in lockdown in a bid to prevent another wave of infections in the world's second-biggest economy. Read more
Tokyo Olympic president says it is 'absolutely impossible' to postpone Games again. cbc.ca, Jan 12: Two polls in the last few days have shown just over 80 per cent of Japanese people surveyed think the Olympics should be cancelled or postponed, or believe they will not take place as COVID-19 cases surge in Japan. Read more
UN: COVID-19 herd immunity unlikely in 2021 despite vaccines. abcnews.go.com, Jan 11: The World Health Organization's chief scientist has warned that even as numerous countries start rolling out vaccination programs to stop COVID-19, herd immunity is highly unlikely this year. Read more
Could COVID-19 accelerate the adoption of a national digital ID in the US? biometricupdate.com, Jan 11: ...An estimated 1.1 billion consumers globally don't have basic identification, such as passports or birth certificates. Without proper identification, people are excluded from employment, health insurance, banking, loans, mortgages, credit cards, and even stimulus checks or pandemic- related financial benefits. Giving these consumers a verifiable identity, accessible via the Internet, is an integral way to establish identity in the 21st century. Many believe a national digital ID accomplishes this. Read more
BioNTech lifts 2021 COVID-19 vaccine output target to 2 billion doses. reuters.com, Jan 11: Pfizer's partner BioNTech boosted the 2021 delivery target for their COVID-19 vaccine to 2 billion doses, up from 1.3 billion previously, as they bring new production lines on stream and as more doses can be extracted per vial. Read more
As world begins vaccination push, delayed rollouts draw criticism. ctvnews.ca, Jan 11: Political leaders are promising that mass vaccination campaigns will see life return to normal, as a more contagious variant of the coronavirus spreads across dozens of countries, adding urgency to the race to end the pandemic. But vaccination efforts are rolling out slower than promised, raising doubts about an imminent way out of the crisis. Read more
Over half a million under lockdown as Beijing outbreak spreads. ctvnews.ca, Jan 11: China has largely brought the virus under control, but is tackling a number of local infections with lockdowns and mass testing. Authorities are keen to stem any outbreak in the capital -- home to over 20 million people -- particularly ahead of a week-long national holiday next month. Read more
Other News: Canada
Embarking on a sustainable 2021. runnermag.ca, Jan 11: ...According to the Canadian Dental Association, individuals need to change their toothbrushes every three to four months. To me, that sounds like a ton of toothbrushes that somehow will find themselves in the ocean and eventually be spit out into the shore in some unknown part of the world. My first attempt at living an eco-friendly life was by purchasing a bamboo toothbrush, which is biodegradable. Read more
What Is a Holistic Dentistry: A New Health Trend on the Rise in Vancouver. natureworldnews.com, Jan 11: Vancouver has seen a rise in holistic health trends across the board over the last few decades, and now holistic dentistry is taking off. Let's examine what exactly it is. Read more
Internal N.S. report describes rise in overdose deaths and community contaminants. globalnews.ca, Jan 12: Drug policy advocates have long argued that releasing information to communities about what specific harms are showing up in their illicit drug supply would help save lives. Or at the very least, it would keep people as safe as possible when it comes to using drugs by equipping them with timely information, they argue. Read more
'It's very alarming': Ontario seeing unprecedented spike in stimulant-drug deaths. tvo.org, Jan 12: Opioid-related death rates have soared to record levels across Canada in 2020, but stimulant-related deaths are also on the rise — and experts are calling for action. Read more
The Conference Board of Canada Forecasts Economic Growth In 2021 And 2022. conferenceboard.ca, Jan 12: The Conference Board of Canada has released its two-year economic outlook and forecasts that real gross domestic product (GDP) will grow 5.3 per cent in 2021 and 3.5 per cent in 2022 respectively. The growth forecasts for the next two years follow an estimated economic contraction of 5.3 per cent in 2020, one of the deepest recessions in modern times. Going forward, the strength of Canada's economic recovery will largely depend on the successful distribution of vaccines against COVID-19. Read more
Cabinet shuffle and Ontario's possible new COVID measures nationalpost.com, Jan 12: The shuffle is due to the departure of Navdeep Bains, who is not intending to run again in the next election, which could come as early as this spring. Premier Doug Ford said residents can expect an announcement on new measures today when the province will also make new COVID-19 projections public. Read more
'It's more than just smoking something:' Community advocates call for Edmonton city council to reconsider shisha lounge ban. edmontonjournal.com, Jan 11: ...Before the ban, shisha served in the city's 45 lounges was considered tobacco-free, but council voted in July 2019 to treat the water pipe smoking like tobacco and eliminate it from indoor public spaces a year later. Read more
Nova Scotia – Disability advocates call for easier access to 'life-changing' technology. cbc.ca Jan 10: Assistive devices can improve quality of life, but their high cost keeps them out of reach for many. Read more
Other News: World
Dentists share concern over recent TikTok trend. cbs4indy.com, Jan 12: Influencers on the social media site have been sharing before and after posts of major dental procedures such as veneers, crowns or what's known as a "total mouth rehab." Procedures that leave them with perfect looking teeth and "Hollywood" smiles. There's been so much interest in these videos, particularly by young people wanting to pursue such procedures, that some dentists have been making their own versions emphasizing how serious these procedures are, while outlining the risks and rewards. Read more
Youth vaping threatens to wipe out gains in cigarette use, health experts warn. phillyvoice.com, Jan 11: E-cigarettes are a gateway to traditional smoking, new research shows. Originally marketed as a way to help adult smokers quit, e-cigarettes appear to be just as addictive, especially for younger users. Children who vape are three times more likely to smoke regular cigarettes as adults, a new study has found. Read more
TikTok users are making DIY dentures out of InstaMorph beads that could cause major gum damage. insider.com, Jan 11: A TikToker went viral for showing how she makes teeth out of InstaMorph beads — an inexpensive product that can be molded after heating — as an alternative to a more expensive "flipper". Read more
Steris to buy Cantel Medical for $3.6 bln to expand dental care. financialpost.com, Jan 12: Medical equipment maker Steris Plc is buying rival Cantel Medical Corp for about $3.6 billion to expand into dental care and add endoscopy equipment to its products. New Jersey-based Cantel produces infection prevention equipment including filtration, sterilization products and disposable products used in endoscopy procedures for hospitals and dental clinics. Read more
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Thats nuts. I live in Denton Tx.
Marcos and I were at UNT at the same time back in the late Eighties/early Nineties.
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good art, he should hire a new copy writer...
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very cool stuff. i have a friend that went that route too, though he's just starting and his first gig was for a show at planet hollywood's art gallery.
Marcos Rosales holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and a BFA from University of North Texas in Denton, TX. He has recently exhibited work at Peres Projects, Los Angeles, Angstrom Gallery in Dallas, Steven Wolf Fine Arts in San Francisco and staged performances at The Kitchen and Movement Research @ Judson Church in New York. He has won numerous grants and awards including The DeGolyer Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art and a grant from The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
Marcos Rosales was born in Waco and raised by an adopted family in central Texas. His background is reflected in his deeply psychological work that is both cryptic and sardonic. Earlier works documented his search for his biological family with several pieces relating to an actual letter found in his adoption files. This emotional and apologetic letter from his biological mother was covered with black ink scribbles concealing all pertinent information. In Rosales' world, colored by a rural upbringing of witchcraft, Santeria, tarot cards, and faith healers, the logic of autobiography leads not to the concrete but to twins, doppelgangers and multiple personalities.
Rosales mines his collection of stream- of-conscious writings lifting words and phrases from his poems, stories, and monologues transforming them into scripts for his numerous video works, as well as transformed into songs by the electronica band Experimental Make-Up. Other texts reemerge in his paintings as barely recognizable references, more abstract imagery than words. Their cryptic messages and surreal proclamations subliminally inhabit the stark white surfaces of his paintings. His works serve as documents of translation upon translation, passed through numerous filters of Rosales's own attempts to make sense of his experiences.
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While Michael was, at first, nervous about the possibility of a baby brother usurping his status, he is very excited about having another boy in the house.
He is also getting excited about a future wrestling partner and a friend who won't be grossed out by bugs and dirt. And a sibling to share his room, who won't want pink princess sheets on the bunk.


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After 37 long hours of travel, Yanni and his team arrived to Vadodara, India to an incredibe warm welcome from the people of the city. Yanni and Krystalán were greeted with beautiful flowers, bindi, and local musicians. Vadodara, India honored Yanni by inviting him into their city as a State Guest.
It took weeks to prepare for opening night. All the hard work paid off. The stage was set in front of the stunning and majestic Laxmi Vilas Palace that lit at night brought an even more special and magical environment to the concert.
Yanni and his orchestra enchanted thousands of fans that came from over 20 countries according to the organization of Vadfest.
Opening night at VADFEST in front of the magestic Laximi Vilas Palace was like no other. Such a special night and one that we will never forget.
Thank you Vadodara for such a special and unforgettable time with you.


It's been so long since I wrote a proper blog post. Things always seem so hectic. As usual, I have just about recovered from Christmas and New Year, when Emily and Rob's birthdays arrive and this year they were quickly followed by half term. Add into the mix a leaking radiator, a new washing machine, a new Motability car, Emily's high school offer, Emily's build up to SATS and bad weather (with extra days off school for Emily, no PA and Rob working at home) and that's me exhausted just thinking about it!! The emotions of Christmas and New Year and birthdays are as hard to deal with as the physical and I am into my 21st year of ME. I think I will leave those things for another post.
Of course birthdays require cards and presents so I have been making a few behind the scenes, though I seem to spend hours planning them even if they are only simple so each card seems to take days. Then I have to remember to photograph them and save them to my PC. I always seem to forget one stage or another and have been known to post the cards without signing them!!
So what have I made, bear with me whilst I locate the images which seem to have a mind of their own and turn up in the wrong folders! I never know should that sentence have a question mark in it?
Small card made with Tattered Lace Patchwork Elephant Die and Spellbinders Adorning Squares Die, mounted on scalloped card. This item is available in my shop.
Made with Lady with Umbrella Die cut in sparkly card. White oval die from stash and Forever Friends backing paper sample. After making this I have a desire to make more of these black and white cards as I think they are simple, but effective, so watch this space! This card is available in my shop.
Made from Stitching cards pattern, stitched with metallic thread in shades of pink and white. It took a while to make this card. I managed 5 segments without too much trouble, but final segment took about 6 attempts to get it right! All the segments are the same!! This card is available in my shop.
Made with Cottage Cutz Cat Garden Die cut in sparkly card. Mounted on Spellbinders Adorning Squares Die and Forever Friends backing paper. Made for a friend who likes cats and who feeds my cat when we are away.
Small card made with Girl Blowing Bubbles die, mounted on Spellbinders Ovals Die, backing paper from stash and card from Craftstyle.
This card was made for my husband, using pattern from Stitching cards and stitched with metallic thread in shades of green. Backing paper from Paperprintables. My husband tells me that the shape has a name, I thought it was a circle and he couldn't remember what the name was. I found this confusing to stitch and there is a mistake in the colour change, but I don't think it is noticeable.
Made for Valentine's Day using pattern from Craftsuprint and backing paper from Craftville. Mounted on button embossed card from Craftstyle. I wanted the beads to match in colour, but didn't have correct sizes so the rice beads are a little small and the seed beads a bit big so the finished effect is not as delicate as it should be, but pretty all the same.
Made for 70th birthday using pattern from Stitching Cards, Rob used a bird from another pattern and added it with the apple so it could be personalised. Backing paper from Paperprintables Apple Blossom. stitched using metallic thread.
Next a 40th birthday with pattern from Stitching Cards, 40 added in place of one of the stars. Backing paper again Paperprintables Apple Blossom. Stitched in metallic thread.
Another 70th birthday and another music pattern from Stitching Cards, 70 added. Backing paper from Craftville. stitched with metallic thread.
Anniversary card made with Sue Wilson Heart of Hearts Die cut in red sparkly card and mounted on small Craftstyle card. I actually added some red gems to the card after the photograph.
This butterfly card made for Mother's Day using Tattered lace Build a Butterfly Die and Demi Awaking Squares die. The card is covered in blue butterfly vellum and mothers day die cut added. The wording was bought ready cut rather than purchasing the die.
This Mother's day card created with Die'sire Tea Party Die cut into lilac card and then cups cut again in shades of purple and added to card, with sparkly gems on saucer and top cup. Mothers day wording added using ready cut wording. Card is lined with purple vellum to show through pattern.
Wow finally got to the end. I have included a lot of details and it has taken several days to complete this post. The links I have used are not where I have purchased many of the products from, but are just to show what the product is. I only buy cutting dies when they are on special offers or I ask for them as gifts.
It was supposed to be a Christmas present, then a birthday present, I finally finished it last week! Now got matching slippers to make, 1 down 1 to go! The wool is James C Brett Flutterby Chunky and is the softest wool I have ever felt. The pattern is Sleep Tight Tilly's Wishes.


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Court papers show B.C. Liberals wanted to provoke teachers strike, Dix says
British Columbia teachers protest for better student learning conditions outside the cabinet offices in Vancouver, March 18, 2013. The opposition New Democrats said Feb. 12, 2014 that court documents show the Liberal government was intent on provoking teachers into job action, rather than bargaining in good faith.
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Justine Hunter
Published February 12, 2014 Updated February 12, 2014
The Opposition New Democratic Party says court transcripts show B.C. Premier Christy Clark was involved in plans to provoke a full-blown strike in the public school system in a bid to gain public support for legislation that would end a labour dispute with the B.C. Teachers Federation (BCTF).
"I think that it's reasonable to conclude from the evidence provided – not by teachers or by parents or by anyone else, but by evidence presented by government people in the court – that the Premier and her government set out to provoke a strike to stop kids from going to school, to further Liberal political interests," NDP leader Adrian Dix told the House.
A day after Ms. Clark said she "fundamentally" disagreed with a Supreme Court judgment that her government tried to provoke a strike rather than bargain in good faith, the NDP opposition read the court transcripts in the legislature. The NDP said they show the government's lead negotiator in the talks discussed the labour strategy with John Dyble, the top bureaucrat in the Premier's Office, to prepare cabinet for a briefing.
The province has applied to the B.C. Court of Appeal to challenge the B.C. Supreme Court ruling that the government's legislated settlement of the teachers' dispute was unconstitutional.
The province's lawyers are also seeking to keep under wraps cabinet documents that were tabled in court that deal with the government strategy around the BCTF labour dispute.
But on Wednesday, the NDP skirted that court battle by reading aloud from transcripts of Paul Straszak's testimony about the strategy under cross-examination last September.
Mr. Straszak, the former CEO of the government's bargaining agent, the Public Sector Employers' Council, explained in court that he provided a strategy document to Mr. Dyble setting out how to manage the teachers' labour dispute that was brewing in 2011 and 2012. The Premier is not directly mentioned in the transcripts the NDP released on Wednesday.
At the time, the teachers' union was engaging in job action such as refusing to participate in extracurricular activities. The government wanted to legislate an end to that in 2012, but Mr. Straszak warned that could alienate the public unless the teachers could be goaded into a full strike.
"What we are talking about here is cabinet is going to be in an awkward situation in the context of a low-scale strike, meaning it's going to want to put an end to it, but the public won't necessarily see the need for the legislation because the kids are still in school," he explained in court.
He then was asked how the government intended to address the situation: "We have some tools to increase the pressure on the TF [Teachers' Federation] to escalate the strike," the court heard. Those tools included cutting teachers' pay – a measure that the Labour Relations Board later rejected.
The Premier refused to take questions in the House about the revelations, deferring to Justice Minister Suzanne Anton. Ms. Anton also declined to answer questions: "All of the evidence will be before the Court of Appeal," Ms. Anton told the House. "The Court of Appeal will make its judgment accordingly and we must leave them to it."
As recently as Tuesday, the Premier denied to reporters that her government tried to engineer a full-scale strike. "Absolutely not," she said. "I understand that was the characterization that was set out [in the judgment]. I fundamentally disagree with that, it is not correct, that is one of the many reasons we are going to have another judge take a look at it."
Ms. Clark did not speak to reporters after Question Period. Education Minister Peter Fassbender insisted the judge was wrong. "Clearly this government has worked very hard … to not provoke strikes in any sector and that is the case in this as well. I'm not going to comment on [Mr. Straszak's] testimony."
In announcing the government's appeal of the Supreme Court ruling in favour of the B.C. Teachers' Federation (BCTF), Education Minister Peter Fassbender said it would cost taxpayers "upwards of $1-billion" to restore classrooms to the contract language that existed in 2002.
However, with 60 school districts, each with different needs, budget issues and contract language, the cost of such a restoration is a complex calculation. The BCTF says the province has lost close to 1,400 specialist positions.
School districts are now calculating the implications of the ruling; here is what some of them are saying:
Rafal Gerszak the The Globe and Mail
Vancouver School Board
The Vancouver School Board estimates it would need $47-million in additional funding to match the 2002-2003 service levels. This breaks down to $31.5-million in lost staffing, including 524 entry-level teachers, and $15.5-million in loss of supplies and services such as technology and building maintenance, according to the VSB. This estimate is based on the school board's 2002-2003 base budget, which was adjusted to reflect a number of factors, including collective agreement increases and changes in student enrolment. (Pictured: Grade 12 students Stephen Keitlah, 17, left, and Gerald Angus, 17, talk outside Britannia Secondary School in Vancouver on Jan. 21, 2014.)
Rafal Gerszak for The Globe and Mail
Surrey Schools
Surrey is one of the fastest-growing cities in the Metro Vancouver area, with one-third of its residents under the age of 19. If pre-2002 contract language was restored now, the city says it would have 18 more teacher-librarians, 19 more counsellors, 51 more special-education teachers and 80 English-language learner teachers. (Pictured: Robyn Thiessen works with students Mehar Shergill, 10, left, and Kabir Sidhu, 10, at Green Timbers Elementary School in Surrey, B.C., on Jan. 09, 2014.)
Keith Anderson/Kamloops Daily News/The Canadian Press
Kamloops/Thompson (School District No. 73)
The Kamloops/Thompson school district is calculating what a restoration of the contract language would mean and is expected to have a better idea next week, said Superintendent Terry Sullivan. While he says some teacher-student ratios are better than 2002 levels, he expressed concern that a shift in ratios could create a ripple effect through schools (Pictured: A third of the students at Brocklehurst Secondary School in Kamloops, B.C., about 300 in total, walk out of school on Jan. 9, 2002, in protest to send a message to the government that they would like the teachers' job dispute to end.)
B.C. teachers, government hold contract talks after divisive court ruling
Clark promises education shift, stresses private-sector needs
B.C. Liberals move to stop release of BCTF-related cabinet documents
B.C., teachers going back to war
B.C. to appeal judge's ruling restoring teachers' bargaining rights
Analysis: Court ruling a major blow to Clark's strategy with teachers
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An economic indicator known as the yield curve is has been getting a lot of attention lately. The curve tracks the difference in the yields of short-term and long-term bonds. Short-term can be as little as three months while long-term is 10 years or more.
Market watchers use the yield curve as a way to judge investor optimism about the future. Long-term bonds traditionally offer better yields than short-term bonds. The greater the difference between the short-end and the long-end of the curve, the greater the optimism about the future.
Occasionally though things get turned around and the yield curve "inverts", with short-term bonds offering better yields than long-term. Much is being made of this right now because it has happened, in both Canada and the United States, and it is widely viewed as bad news.
In the U.S., bond yield inversions have routinely been followed by a recession, in about a year. But, like so much of what has happened over the past decade, this time is different. Economists are nearly unanimous in downplaying the risk. They point out that the inversion was not big enough and did not last long enough to trigger any alarms. They also remind us that any possible recession will not happen overnight and is still a year away – plenty of time for action or a correction.


Dry, laconic deep-sound/hi-hat combinations set the beat, interspersed with intermittent calculated breaks. Baselines in the narrow sense are few and far between, and the low frequency spectrum is – with a few exceptions – covered by sounds that are more punctuated than anything else. In one sense this lends the album a minimalist and accidental type of harmony, but, on the other hand, it also adds a percussive touch to the sound. It goes without saying that the rhythms are reduced und mathematical: the drive, however, is created by the many background micro-loops and delays that mark the album, often with high frequency trills, whirrs and clicks, allowing a smooth transition from one track to the next. Most of the track titles originate from what is perhaps the most apparent aspect of GOLD: the short, accentuated morsels of language - often containing just one syllable, for example »blue«, »two« or »weiss«. This style was last evident on Komet's first release SAAT (1996) and lends GOLD a kind of popular touch. And yet, amidst all the arithmetic and calculation there is still room for the accidentals, and the very fabric of the multi-layer delays und loops results overall in a nice, relaxed flow.
GOLD is Komet's - aka Frank Bretschneider - eighth album. GOLD evolved over a long period of time, and some of the tracks, such as »Omsk« or »Left«, were recorded as early as 2001 for a raster-noton session at the New York radio station WFMU. Likewise, the first recordings of »Two«, »Weiss« and »Gold« were made two years ago. Since then, the material has been modified and added to continuously.


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Uber Wants to Replace Its Drivers With Robots. So Much for That "New Economy" It Was Building.
By Alison Griswold
Feb 02, 20157:27 PM
Hands-free driving is an Uber driver's worst nightmare.
Photo by Marcel Antonisse/AFP/Getty Images
In May 2014, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick set off alarm bells when he suggested at a tech conference that self-driving cars, and not people, were the future of Uber's ride services. "The reason Uber could be expensive is because you're not just paying for the car—you're paying for the other dude in the car," Kalanick said. "When there's no other dude in the car, the cost of taking an Uber anywhere becomes cheaper than owning a vehicle." Ironically, those statements also came one day after the company first trumpeted that half of its drivers working in New York City were making more than $90,000 a year (a claim that's long since been debunked).
When those initial comments about self-driving cars triggered panic among Uber's drivers, Kalanick quickly backpedaled. "Drivers on @uber_nyc making $90k/yr," he tweeted. "Driverless car is a multi-decade transition. Let's take a breath and I'll see you in the year 2035." And yet: Not even a full year later, TechCrunch has reported (and Uber has mostly confirmed in a blog post) that Uber has hired more than 50 senior scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the National Robotics Engineering Center, and invested several hundred thousand dollars in building a robotics research lab that will develop a fleet of autonomous taxis.
The Uber Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh will "focus on the development of key long-term technologies that advance Uber's mission of bringing safe, reliable transportation to everyone, everywhere," Uber wrote on its blog. Those involved in the project will "do research and development, primarily in the areas of mapping and vehicle safety and autonomy technology." The announcement also closely followed a report from Bloomberg's Brad Stone that Uber has begun feuding with Google, one of its biggest investors. According to Stone, Google is working on its own ride-hailing platform and Uber is considering removing David Drummond, Google's senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer, from its board. Uber would not comment on the news beyond pointing to its own blog post, and Google did not respond to a request for comment.
But let's set the Google piece aside for now, and focus on Uber's research center announcement, which, once again, is a display of impeccably bad timing. Why is that?
Well, any progress on self-driving cars—while potentially great for consumers and overall transit efficiency—is simply bad news for the drivers that Uber employs. Already, that's hundreds of thousands of people, and as Kalanick said at the end of 2014, the goal for this year is to create another 1 million jobs around the world through Uber's platform. In what seemed an effort to further that goal, Uber two weeks ago released an Uber-commissioned study touting how great it is to drive for Uber. The company's claims, co-signed by Princeton University economist and former Obama administration adviser Alan Krueger, centered on the notion that Uber is helping to create a new kind of economy—one that empowers contract workers to be their own bosses, on their own schedules, while earning a reliable income.
I hate to be the one who always rags on Uber, but here goes: Really? Sure, it's true that no one knows yet how contract work will play out and whether the so-called 1099 model will ultimately be good or bad for workers. As Danny Vinik pointed out at the New Republic when Uber's study initially came out, the evidence that contract jobs lead to unstable employment situations with poor benefits is, so far, weak. It's also unclear how much longer Uber will be able to legally sustain its contractor-dependent model. Late last week, a federal judge said that Uber's drivers might have to be treated as employees instead of independent contractors, which would change a lot. But even taking all that uncertainty into account, you know what's a quick way to undermine your claims about building a new and sustainable work model? Announcing two weeks later that you are building a research facility to develop the technologies that will eventually render all of the people employed in that new work model obsolete.
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The vision of KCRI is to be an internationally recognised centre of excellence in health research, well embedded in the academic medical setting of KCMC, the Tanzanian health care system and international research networks.
The mission is to create a critical mass of researchers embedded in an academic setting that is rooted in a region with specific health problems, which is a powerful tool to develop evidence for medical interventions and health policies. It is a prerequisite for developing a research agenda, which is suitable for the recipient population in the endeavour of improving health.
1. To improve the practice of medicine in Northern Tanzania through the development and implementation of medical interventions at a university medical centre in which care, education and research are jointly embedded.
2. To provide evidence through research for new health policies and medical interventions.
3. To enhance knowledge of health systems and pathogenesis, both internationally as well as specialised to the Tanzanian situation.
4. To provide research expertise and a research infrastructure, which is adapted to local circumstances, and well connected with local stakeholders.
5. To create a critical mass of Tanzanian researchers, enabling Tanzania to set its own research agenda and to operate as an acknowledged partner in international networks.


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I absolutely love this product! I use onion salt a lot! The flavor from his seasoning is so fresh! It comes in a 16oz container.
This is great as a finishing salt on your dishes or as a flavoring agent when you don't want to use a fresh onion. Good flavor and the salt come out well from the shaker cap.
A little onion, a little salt, perfect ratio in this regal spice. Great price and you get a lot in this larger size bottle. Good valu.
Onion salt is definitely great for adding more of that much needed onion flavor without the unnecessary added moisture which more fresh onions would bring.
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Regal is known for it's great spice and seasonings. This ground onion from Regal is perfect for meats and vegetable seasoning. Definitely should be in everyone kitchen.
I have never been a big user of onion salt, but the Regal brand seems to have a better flavor than others. It is no more expensive, and actually less expensive than the others I've tried.
Onion salt is a must-have for any kitchen. I use mine for soups mostly. Tastes great, and the price is a steal for the quantity.
The husband likes to use onion salt on meats before grilling. This one tastes great. The prize is good and 16 oz goes a long way.
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Strong flavor for sure. this size stores easily and the seasoning, as always, is fresh and inexpensive. Highly recommended as a staple in any kitchen.
The onion salt really delivers that extra something in my cooking. It smells great and comes in a versatile bottle for easy pouring or sprinkling.
This onion salt has some amazing flavor that goes really well on burgers of any kind. You get a ton of it for a very fair price.
We use this in seasoning and cooking meals but it also has a great buttery taste that its an added bonus on popcorn. You really get a lot for the price! Highly recommend.
The regal onion is perfect for cooking. The price is right and the taste is great. Will continued to purchased from your website. Great product.
We use the Regal Onion salt in everything. The taste is the perfect mix. USe this in our potaotes to chicken to pork. Use this also in our homemade soup.
I use this onion salt on many items. I do some home smoking of meats, and this is a must to have. It is not the ordinary super market blend. It is great.


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Michael Maves Appointed Senior VP of Development at USP
The surgeon and former USP trustee hails from ProjectHOPE.
The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP; Rockville, MD) has installed Michael D. Maves, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.S., into the newly-created position of senior vice president of development, where he will oversee "capacity-building activities in resource-constrained parts of the world," according to USP CEO. Roger Williams.
A board-certified surgeon, Dr. Maves previously served on USP's Board of Trustees and was most recently the executive vice president of the global nonprofit health education and humanitarian assistance organization, Project HOPE. He also previously held the title of executive vice president and CEO of the American Medical Association.


I fell in ove with computers from the first time when I received my Sinclair ZX Spectrum and programmed it using BASIC in the 80s! I went to college to graduate as an electronics engineer in 1994 and worked as a computer engineer for 2 year before going to Malaysia for post graduate studies. Both my MSc and PhD were on nonlinear and intelligent system identification and control of electrical machines, the subjects that I mainly teach. However, all my projects and supervision were and still are mainly on robotics, especially drones.
Control Systems; Intelligent, Robust, Real-Time with Embedded systems.
Robotics; Manipulators, Mobile, and Flying Objects.
T.NANDHA KUMAR, HAIDER ABBAS and FABRIZIO LOMBARDI, 2016. Current-Based Testing, Modeling and Monitoring for Operational Deterioration of a Memristor-Based LUT Springer, Journal of Electronic Testing.
NEMAT ELHASSAN, T.NANDHA KUMAR and HAIDER ABBAS, 2016. Modelling of Wire Resistance Effect in PCM Based Nanocrossbar Memory IET, Journal of Engineering.
EL-HASSAN, NEMAT H., KUMAR, NANDHA THULASIRAMAN and ALMURIB, HAIDER ABBAS F., 2016. Modelling of wire resistance effect in PCM-based nanocrossbar memory JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING-JOE.
NATHAN P.T., ALMURIB H.A.F. and KUMAR T.N., 2011. A review of autonomous multi-agent quad-rotor control techniques and applications In: 2011 4th International Conference on Mechatronics: Integrated Engineering for Industrial and Societal Development, ICOM'11.
NATHAN P.T. and ALMURIB H.A.F., 2011. Optimization of nonlinearities through control techniques of the quadrotor aerial vehicle In: 2011 4th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization, ICMSAO 2011.
ASKARI M., MOHAMED, H.A.F., MOGHAVVEMI, M. and YANG S.S., 2009. Model predictive control of an inverted pendulum In: International Conference for Technical Postgraduates 2009, TECHPOS 2009.
HASSAN L.H., MOGHAVVEMI, M. and MOHAMED, H.A.F., 2009. Power system stabilization based on artificial intelligent techniques; a review In: International Conference for Technical Postgraduates 2009, TECHPOS 2009.
GAEID K.S., PING H.W. and MOHAMED, H.A.F., 2009. Indirect Vector Control of a Variable Frequency Induction Motor Drive (VCIMD) In: International Conference on Instrumentation, Communication, Information Technology, and Biomedical Engineering 2009, ICICI-BME 2009.
GAEID K.S., PING H.W. and MOHAMED, H.A.F., 2009. Simulink representation of Induction motor reference frames In: International Conference for Technical Postgraduates 2009, TECHPOS 2009.
MOHAMED, H.A.F., YANG, S.S. and MOGHAVVEMI, M., 2009. Improving induction motors speed and flux control using Fuzzy-SMC-PI In: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2009.
YAHYA, S., MOHAMED, H.A.F., MOGHAVVEMI, M. and YANG, S.S., 2009. Motion planning of hyper redundant manipulators based on a new geometrical method In: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2009.
MOHAMED, H.A.F., LAU E.L., YANG, S.S. and MOGHAVVEMI, M., 2008. Fuzzy-SMC-PI flux and speed control for induction motors In: 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, RAM 2008.
MOHAMED, H.A.F., YANG, S.S. and MOGHAVVEMI, M., 2008. Integral sliding mode control for improved robustness and accuracy of induction motors In: 17th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC.
YANG, S.S., CHEN J., MOHAMED, H.A.F. and MOGHAVVEMI, M., 2008. Sensor fault tolerant controller for a double inverted pendulum system In: 17th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC.
HASSAN, L.H., MOGHAVVEMI, M. and MOHAMED, H.A.F., Dynamic stability assessment of the Iraqi power system network In: International Conference for Technical Postgraduates 2009, TECHPOS 2009.


Looking for a vacation home or place to call home? This is the property for you. Move-in ready home features 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, 2 nice porches, upstairs sun room, full basement, with a beautifully landscaped back yard and excellent views of Lake Huron. Across from the beach and park, one block to the buzz of main street, the ferry to beautiful Mackinac Island and historic downtown.


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Татьяна Анатольевна Шачкова (род. 17 января 1973, Первоуральск, Свердловская область, СССР) — российская спортсменка-конькобежка. Мастер спорта России международного класса. Чемпионка России на дистанции 1500 м (2001), серебряный призёр чемпионата России на дистанции 5000 м (2004) и в командной гонке (2006), бронзовый призёр чемпионата России на дистанции 5000 м (1994).

Биография
Выступала за ВФСО «Динамо» Екатеринбург и г. Первоуральск Свердловской обл. Тренеры — заслуженный тренер РСФСР В. С. Дмитриев, заслуженный тренер СССР Борис Фёдорович Вашляев.

С 1994 года выступала в сборной команде России. Участвовала в чемпионатах мира (1994, 2002) и Европы (1995, 1998, 2002), Кубке мира. Завершила спортивную карьеру в 2006 году.

Окончила Уральский государственный педагогический университет.

Доцент кафедры теории и методики физической культуры Уральского государственного университета физической культуры.

Тренер по технике катания, общей физической подготовки Школы хоккейного мастерства «IceStyle-Ekb» в Екатеринбурге.

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 Профиль на speedskatingnews.info
 Профиль на infosport.ru

Чемпионы России по конькобежному спорту
Конькобежцы России
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Who counts in history? Jenny Uglow faces the question head on in this vast, daunting chronicle of British life as it played out during the first modern world conflict. "In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815'' is a teeming narrative, but it doesn't showcase the exploits of great figures. Lords Wellington (hero of Waterloo), Nelson (hero of Trafalgar), and Napoleon — "Boney," who haunted children's dreams — lurk as background figures. This is hardly a typical war story.
She instead zeroes in on the home front and the transformations wrought by a war that seemed to stretch on forever. Over a million men and boys would serve in the army and navy. "Everyone shared in the wars," Uglow writes. She describes the lives of ordinary people — farmers, bankers, factory boys, weavers, clergymen, and sundry others. She also includes the views of poets and writers like William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, and Jane Austen, whose brothers served in the Royal Navy.
The author, justly lauded for "The Lunar Men'' and many other studies in British history and culture, serves up a rich harvest of diaries, letters, and other documents. Her approach has strengths and drawbacks. Across 60 packed chapters, Uglow's hovering camera eye takes you into the beating heart of the British economy: farms and factories; drawing rooms and boardrooms; pubs and clubs; mansions and slums; city and country; London, Leeds, and points between.
Britain emerged a stronger country when peace came in 1815. "In These Times'' is a fastidious register of the toll victory took on the homefront.


Any time any one gets a new job, or moves to a new place, or really, any number of new things, there are always adjustments to make. And moving across the ocean to one of the poorest countries on earth is no exception to that rule. So I thought a collection of Things We've Had to Adjust To would make for fun reading.
Now these Things We've Had To Adjust To are not necessarily good or bad or right or wrong nor have they necessarily been Difficult Adjustments, just Adjustments all the same.
First and foremost, if I can be brutally honest and well, maybe a bit self-incriminating, the biggest adjustment by far has been working full time. While I was always plenty busy (as in Plenty Busy) in Denver, it was always with a myriad of various and assorted things–work, house projects, small group stuff, volunteer, getting together with people, play (OK, maybe play should have made it higher up on the list), but not the 8-5 (7-5:30) Every Day of the Week Grind. So just having to be at work five days in a row has, in itself, been a big adjustment. Not bad, just an adjustment. I'm not whining; just an adjustment.
The beer choices. Or, more accurately, the lack thereof. Now it's kind of embarrassing that this would make it into the Top Five Things We've Had to Adjust To, but the fact is, it has. Primus and Amstel (both brewed here), with the occasional Heineken import thrown in, are all the choices there are. Tusker, a Kenyan beer that isn't half bad, is on most menus, but they never have it. (It's just a tease to put it on the menu.) And well, it just gets old. This from a person who's always said there are too many choices in the world. Well, I guess I meant too many toothpastes and wall color choices, not beer. Not that I ever have more than one. (I don't. I'm on call.) But still, variety is the spice of life. You can rest assured that our consumables shipment we have coming to us sometime in the next year will be mostly Colorado microbrews! 🙂 Because when it comes to microbrews, Coloradans are just plain spoiled.
My response to Mzungus. As you might remember, Mzungus is their word for us. (It actually means "traveler" but it is used almost exclusively to refer to white people.) There are plenty here, more than I would have expected, but it still takes my breath away when I see one out somewhere, and I really have to resist the urge to go over to them, hug them, say something like "Hey, where y'all from?". I have to remember that white doesn't necessarily equal English speaking, and certainly not American. And many of them are here for the long haul, and are no longer fascinated by the concept of another white person all the way over here, too. So I practice restraint, not my forte, and just die of curiosity wondering what the heck that person is doing here and why they are not as interested in me as I am in them.
And the flip side of that, is being a Mzungu ourselves. A novelty. The stares. Especially when we have Quandary with us. Thankfully, there are only a few places in town where the street boys accost us for handouts, so we don't have to deal with that part of it often, because if we did, that would be way worse.
The money. And the cash economy. Forget it. Period. I am and always have been exchange-rate-challenged and I just can't figure it out. I wonder if I ever will. And since no one takes credit cards, we always have to make sure we have cash (and wads of it because a thousand bufrancs is only sixty-three cents). My greatest fear is going out to eat with a whole bunch of people without Randy and the bill comes and I have to figure it all out. Hopeless.
Having people around all the time (the guards are here 24/7, our household help is living here, the gardener is here all during the week). I have a blog post brewing entitled The Help, so I'll save the rest of those thoughts for that one.
Camping out. And by this, I don't mean, camping out. I mean, being without our stuff. This has been a particularly hard adjustment for Randy, because he is home more than I am, and therefore noticing the lack of stuff. (Our state department supplied welcome kit has four plates, four forks, four spoons, four towels, etc., and no gas grill and no cast iron wok and it's getting old.) We are ready for our stuff to arrive.
And there you have it. There have been many other adjustments, too, like watching AFN (Armed Forces Network) TV with their AFN commercials (hysterical). And the food. And shopping. And missing our family and friends and our church. And the weather. (Which I don't know why that's been an adjustment–it's pretty much the same every day, but a few days it's been overcast and I just wasn't prepared for that variation.) And seeing the Southern Cross in the night sky. (How cool is that?) And dealing with state department foolishness. And having a very small social circle.
But all of these "adjustments" add to the richness of the adventure and the enlarging of our perspective, and the appreciation for all things precious. And for that, and so much more, we are thankful.
After six weeks on the job, on call 24/7 (although for the record, I don't get called often), and not having ventured more than a fifteen minute radius from either home or the embassy, we finally headed out.
Now keep in mind that "heading out", for which I am known, is not as simple or easy as it might seem.
First of all, I have to find coverage–someone to be on call for emergencies within the embassy community. Thankfully I haven't had any emergencies yet, but I still have to be ready and prepared. There is some back-up available–a local nurse and a local doctor, but with language barriers and cultural differences, and a lack of, shall we say, 9-1-1, I don't take that lightly.
And thirdly, there's safety and security. We can't just pack up and go. If the first two issues above are addressed, then we have to make sure what we're doing is approved by the Regional Security Officer, and that it's safe. Safe usually means at least a two car caravan. Although the mandatory two car rule is no longer in effect, we can't exactly call Triple A Roadside Assistance if we have a breakdown. So two cars is just a good idea. And radios. And first aid kits. And the awesome sheet of paper we carry in our cars that we're supposed to hand out in the event of an accident: "I can't discuss it with you right now. Please call this number." in English, French and Kirundi. I love it.
And for someone like me who has the itch to go and the whole continent of Africa personally calling my name, you can imagine the angst.
BUT, everything fell into place last weekend, and we road tripped to Rwanda. Yea, I just said that. And it was awesome.
First the four or so hours out of Bujumbura to the border. This made me want to become a photographer, which I am not. This also made me want to have my own car so I could stop every five minutes and photograph the local color, of which there is plenty. Think: one of the most densely populated countries in Africa. Think: people and villages lining the highway (African euphemism for one and a half lane curvy mountain road peppered with random speed bumps and potholes and large vans speeding by in the opposite direction). Think: colorful garb and loads of just about anything carried on bicycles and heads. Think: little scantily clad children playing right on the road. Think: just about anything you can imagine being sold roadside–chickens, produce of all kinds, (well, tropical produce like bananas, mangoes, tomatoes, beans, peas, cabbage, avocados, manioc, sweet potatoes, but no apples, just in case you're wondering), baskets and other handmade wicker items (one whole village sold nothing but these little handwoven, three-legged round stools), furniture of all kinds, goats, pigs, fabric, clothing. In one town, we even saw a parade, but that made our friend who was driving very nervous, because although it looked colorful and fun, it was really a political rally and those can turn violent and scary very quickly. Suffice it to say, it was A. quite visually stimulating, B. quite the adventure, and C. quite Africa. For real.
Not like I'm collecting them or anything. Ha.
And then we were in the Republic of Rwanda. OMG. Such a different country.
Paul Kagame, the former leader of the rebel force that ended the Rwandan genocide twenty years ago and the de-facto leader ever since (officially the president since 2000), is a controversial figure in the west. I'm not here to make this a place for political rantings or for taking sides, but he has been instrumental in bringing changes to his country and progress in many areas, including courting western business interests and investment.
but I'm here to tell you that I certainly enjoyed some of his "results" after living in his far less stable and far less developed neighbor to the south, Burundi.
You movie buffs will recognize its significance. The rest of you will just have to go look it up, but yes, we really stayed here. Way cool.
If you look closely, you can see A HAND picking up the fallen pins and replacing them in the set. I kid you not. But, hey, that's more bowling than in all of Burundi.


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from rest_framework import serializers

from .models import (
    ChoiceFeedbackQuestion,
    ChoiceFeedbackQuestionValue,
    TextFeedbackQuestion,
)

def object_exists(model, pk):
    if not model.objects.filter(pk=pk):
        raise serializers.ValidationError("The question doesn't exist")
    return True

class FeedbackQueryParamsSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    conference_id = serializers.IntegerField()

class TextFeedbackSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    id = serializers.IntegerField()
    text = serializers.CharField()

    def validate(self, data):
        if object_exists(TextFeedbackQuestion, pk=data["id"]):
            return data

class ChoiceFeedbackSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    id = serializers.IntegerField()
    value_id = serializers.IntegerField()

    def validate(self, data):
        if object_exists(ChoiceFeedbackQuestion, pk=data["id"]):
            if ChoiceFeedbackQuestionValue.objects.filter(
                question_id=data["id"], pk=data["value_id"]
            ).exists():
                return data
            raise serializers.ValidationError(
                "The multiple choice value isn't associated with question"
            )

class FeedbackSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    schedule_item_id = serializers.IntegerField()
    text = TextFeedbackSerializer(many=True, required=False)
    choices = ChoiceFeedbackSerializer(many=True, required=False)


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Tezozómoc est une station de la Ligne 6 du métro de Mexico, située au nord de Mexico, dans la délégation Azcapotzalco.

La station
La station est ouverte en 1983.

Son nom vient de la colonie voisine, baptisée d'après le souverain Tezozomoc. Une particularité de la station est que, comme celle d'Allende, ses deux plates-formes ne sont pas reliées entre-elles à l'intérieur de la station ; afin d'aller de l'un à l'autre l'usager doit sortir, traverser la rue, entrer dans l'autre sens et acheter un nouveau ticket, ou retourner aux stations précédentes (Azcapotzalco ou El Rosario selon le cas) pour ne pas avoir à payer un autre ticket.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des stations du métro de Mexico

Ligne 6 du métro de Mexico
Station du métro de Mexico
Station de métro mise en service en 1983


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Q: Is it possible to run Inifinispan continuous query with js-clien I am investigating Infinispan and its js-client. I have found Continuous query in the documentation but I can find an example of how to use it in node.js.
Does js-client support continuous query?

A: The Infinispan js-client does not yet support querying nor continuous query (we accept contributions ). You can still do queries over HTTP REST (see example), or you can go the C/C++ layer and do continuous query with that (see here and here).

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Q: Sorting dynamoDB query results using secondary local index I have a table with the following fields in dynamoDB:

*

*primary key: reference_number

*sort key: user_id

*local secondary index on: isEligible

*local secondary index on: score

I want to fetch all documents corresponding to a reference_number with isEligible as true. I am doing this using a query, with a range condition on isEligible field. I now want the results of this query to be returned in order sorted by score field. Is there a way I can achieve this?
All of this is being done in java

A: As currently modeled, no.
If had a LSI with a composite sort key, ex:
"true#85"
"true#100"
"false#45"
You could then use a begins_with in your Query().

A: Is your secondary index just on one Key? you can assign them both keys as well - say pk: isEligible, sk: score.
Then a query against the that index and pk == True will return all the true scores in order.
EDIT my mistake. LSI vs GSI. So my answer would be a GSI would be the best for you, without having to make another concatted field... as long as you dont make too many. If you find yourself making a ton of GSIs then re-evaluate how you have your data stored. Likely its stored in a way that is better for a SQL /Relational Database not a noSQL table. Access Patterns is your key, not storage patterns.