Sonova is successfully driving the development of innovative hearing solutions in its globally unique research center in the USA, where research audiologists assess the effectiveness of hearing aid technology in the exact acoustic conditions in which the various devices will be used.
When I heard Mozart's 'Lacrimosa', I was overcome by the beauty of the music – it was as if angels were singing. And I noticed the tears running down my face. For the first time in my life, I was feeling the power of music.
It is moments like this in the lives of hearing aid wearers that drives Sonova to constantly push its limits in order to even better serve their specific needs. With that objective in mind, Sonova recently opened the Phonak Audiology Research Center (PARC), a unique research facility designed to push the limits of technology to produce the scientific evidence which supports those technological initiatives.
The USA was not selected as the location for the research center by chance: the country is the world's largest market for hearing aids, and there is still considerable scope to expand supply – a perfect opportunity for an innovative company like Sonova. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, more than 35 million Americans are affected by hearing loss, but only 25% of them currently use a hearing aid. More than three million hearing aids are sold annually in the USA and in addition, no fewer than 10,000 people celebrate their 65th birthday in the States every single day – a trend that will continue over the next 18 years.
Located 30 miles outside of Chicago, the cutting-edge research center, which works closely with clinics and other scientific institutions, is unlike any other hearing aid research facility. Scientific theory and practice mesh here in a so-called "Listening Loft" where hearing aids are tested and refined under realistic listening conditions. "The work we do here at PARC not only establishes whether a product is functioning as it should; we want to know how it can improve wearers' quality of life." says Christine Jones, Director of the Research Center.
The Listening Loft's layout includes a living and dining room with an adjacent kitchen, all equipped with a wireless speaker system used to create sound scenarios that occur in everyday life. For example, the space can be turned into a noisy party- like environment in which music and the clatter of dishes compete with a sea of voices or else the television in the living room can compete with the sound of a dishwasher in the kitchen while several people talk and another person calls from the next room. The space is also an adaptively reverberant environment that can be adjusted so that researchers can assess the effectiveness of hearing aid technology in numerous challenging acoustic conditions. The state-of-the-art center investigates a broad range of technologies, including EchoBlock, AutoSense OS, and assistive listening devices such as Roger.
"There have never been as many opportunities to make real improvements in people's lives as there are today," says Jones.
My mother is doing great. She states she hasn't been so excited since she got her first hearing aid 30 years ago. For the first time in years she feels comfortable on the phone and heard her husband in the car. It made a huge difference in her quality of life and has been truly life-changing for all of us.
Difficult listening situations such as the "cocktail party" scenario historically has been a significant challenge for people with hearing loss. Not surprisingly, for many this difficulty has often led to negative social consequences: if you are unable to make conversation over dinner or can't understand what someone is saying to you when you are outside, on the phone or in a busy work space, you soon withdraw and may become isolated from your family, friends and co-workers.
"The biggest needs regarding hearing and speech intelligibility among people with hearing loss are the exact issues that we explore at the PARC. This process allows Phonak to continuously launch new products that lead to unprecedented gains in hearing performance and generate an evidence base that supports hearing professionals in making the best clinical decisions for their patients," says Jones.
Several other labs also comprise the PARC. "We have a 12- speaker array set up in each of our two sound booths, enabling us to create diffuse and complex acoustic environments," says Rakita. "When research participants come in to test new products, we want to collect both their subjective impressions and objective speech testing abilities in very complex and challenging environments," she says.
The PARC in the US is integral to Sonova's global research network, since the center's research results are used all over the world and are rapidly leveraged for product development.


Jackson, Mississippi's own Taylor James releases his soulful new project "Insane." This project is strictly for the grown folks! James serves up a healthy dose of feel-good R&B with a sprinkle of Gospel and Pop influence. Something you can play around the family or for your lady, Taylor James' and producer Patrick "Guitarboy" Hayes combine for jam after jam on their latest release. Drawing inspiration from Charlie Wilson and Babyface, one could even hear some young Robert Kelly in Mr. James' voice. Released by Heart Of Gold LLC, "Insane" is Taylor James' second full-length release since 2017. Writing, producing, and arranging since the age of 17 it's obvious Taylor was born to do this. The infectious "Back 2 U" is a single to remember as James finds the groove perfectly while stating his dedication to his lover. Featuring Ann Nesby, D'Andre Vison, J Wonn, and Cassandra Wilkerson.
Be sure to hit play on "Insane" by Taylor James and add his him to your R&B playlist while you're at it!
The youngest of seven siblings, Taylor James grew up in West Central Mississippi and has performed professionally with the band Wynd Chymes all over the South. Drawing influence from Motown, Quincy Jones, and James Brown, Taylor James began his musical affair as a freshman in high school when he was just fifteen. By seventeen, he was writing, arranging, composing, and producing original music. In college, he released his first two singles, "Christmas" and "Are You Ready", as well as his first album "No Way Out" on Great Southern Productions before releasing his latest release "Insane" in December 2017. Now, the singer-songwriter-producer-composer-multi-instrumentalist writes music ranging from R&B and Soul to Hip-Hop, Pop, and Gospel.
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Q: WSGIServer not working with https and python3 We got a old package write in python2, and working on upgrade it to python3. It's a web app and we are using the WSGIServer.
from gevent import pywsgi
from geventwebsocket.handler import WebSocketHandler

server = pywsgi.WSGIServer(('', port), apphandler, handler_class=WebSocketHandler)

def apphandler(request, start_response):
    log.info("ATTENTION: request is {}".format(request))
    # do something

However, when I try to use the web app with https://website, it would show this error:
This site can't provide a secure connection
website.com sent an invalid response.
ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

And in my server log, I would see things like:
Invalid HTTP method: '\x16\x03\x01\x02\x00\x01\x00\x01ü\x03\x03Èæ\x01\x92É\x16ÁW»P½\x1aBÐa\x83ÆÊa]ãíDp¥¥¥\x12Ç\x82|\x1f E5\x03aAv\x99¢Nª\x93ÅÏ:Ð\x9d÷3£\x80çÍïÌÑÿC\rÏUÄ\x8b\x00 ªª\x13\x01\x13\x02\x13\x03À+À/À,À0̨̩À\x13À\x14\x00\x9c\x00\x9d\x00/\x005\x01\x00\x01\x93ZZ\x00\x00\x00\x00\x005\x003\x00\x000website.com\x00\x17\x00\x00ÿ\x01\x00\x01\x00\x00\n'

When I actually use the website as http://website.com, it would work. And when in python2, the server would respond correctly to https.
I'm guessing it might be encoding issue, but it won't even reach where I put log in apphandler function. Does anyone know how am I possible to fix this? Do I need to change server or python3 encoding setup?

A: Looks like you are starting up a plain TCP web server sitting on port 443 and then hitting it from a web browser using an https: url.
If you check out the documentation:
https://www.gevent.org/api/gevent.pywsgi.html#gevent.pywsgi.WSGIServer
You need to supply ssl_args in order to get the socket to run under SSL instead of TCP. Just supplying a port number of 443 is not sufficient.
You can find a few examples of how to set ssl_args here:
https://www.programcreek.com/python/example/78007/gevent.pywsgi.WSGIServer

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Q: Changing sprite to image in processing I am using binary digits to create an enemy and now I looking to replace it with an image  however I keep getting errors when I try and replace the sprite data to an image data as their are too many lines of code to take into consideration when changing the data. I have included how I created my sprite and what I am trying to do to change it to an image, and what error I keep getting:
This is how I drew my sprite:
class Enemy extends SpaceShip {
  Enemy(int xpos, int ypos) {
    x = xpos;
    y = ypos;
    sprite    = new String[5];
    sprite[0] = "1011101";
    sprite[1] = "0101010";
    sprite[2] = "1111111";
    sprite[3] = "0101010";
    sprite[4] = "1000001";
  }

  PImage img;

  img = loadImage("image.png");
  }

  void draw() {
    image(img, x, y);
  }

The error I am getting is that although the sprite does get replaced it is not moving how the sprite was and is not the correct size either.

A: The code snippet you posted is a bit confusing.
Firstly, the syntax isn't quite right, perhaps you meant something like this:
class Enemy extends SpaceShip {
  PImage img;

  Enemy(int xpos, int ypos) {
    x = xpos;
    y = ypos;
    //assuming sprite is inherited from SpaceShip ?
    sprite    = new String[5];
    sprite[0] = "1011101";
    sprite[1] = "0101010";
    sprite[2] = "1111111";
    sprite[3] = "0101010";
    sprite[4] = "1000001";
    //you are loading an image, but I see no use of the sprite
    img = loadImage("image.png");
  }

  void draw() {
    image(img, x, y);
  }

}

It's unclear why you're loading a separate image when you want to display the binary string pattern as an image. If I understand correctly, you want to convert the binary string representation to a PImage.
You can directly access the PImage's pixels, so you could directly write your image like this:
PImage sprite = new PImage(7,5,RGB);
sprite.pixels = new int[]{color(255),color( 0 ),color(255),color(255),color(255),color( 0 ),color(255),
                          color( 0 ),color(255),color( 0 ),color(255),color( 0 ),color(255),color( 0 ),
                          color(255),color(255),color(255),color(255),color(255),color(255),color(255),
                          color( 0 ),color(255),color( 0 ),color(255),color( 0 ),color(255),color( 0 ),
                          color(255),color( 0 ),color( 0 ),color( 0 ),color( 0 ),color( 0 ),color(255)};

sprite.updatePixels();

noSmooth();
image(sprite,0,0,70,50);

Notice color(255) is used where you'd expect 1 and color(0) is where you'd expect 0.
Alternatively, you can traverse the String[] and each character of each row to set pixels of an PImage:
PImage fromBinaryStrings(String[] sprite){

  int h = sprite.length;
  int w = sprite[0].length();

  PImage result = new PImage(w,h,RGB);

  for(int y = 0 ; y < h; y++){
    String row = sprite[y];
    for(int x = 0; x < w; x++){
      if(row.charAt(x) == '1'){
        result.set(x,y,color(255));
      }else{
        result.set(x,y,color(0));
      }
    }
  }

  return result;
}

Basic demo:
void setup(){
  noSmooth();
  scale(10);

  Enemy e = new Enemy(0,0);
  e.draw();
}

PImage fromBinaryStrings(String[] sprite){
  //determine height: number of lines
  int h = sprite.length;
  //determine width: length of a line
  int w = sprite[0].length();
  //create an image
  PImage result = new PImage(w,h,RGB);
  //traverse rows
  for(int y = 0 ; y < h; y++){
    //access row string
    String row = sprite[y];
    //traverse cols
    for(int x = 0; x < w; x++){
      //check each char's value and set the color accordingly
      if(row.charAt(x) == '1'){
        result.set(x,y,color(255));
      }else{
        result.set(x,y,color(0));
      }
    }
  }

  return result;
}
class SpaceShip{
  int x,y;
  String[] sprite;
}
class Enemy extends SpaceShip {
  PImage img;

  Enemy(int xpos, int ypos) {
    x = xpos;
    y = ypos;

    sprite    = new String[5];
    sprite[0] = "1011101";
    sprite[1] = "0101010";
    sprite[2] = "1111111";
    sprite[3] = "0101010";
    sprite[4] = "1000001";

    img = fromBinaryStrings(sprite);
  }

  void draw() {
    image(img, x, y);
  }

}


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Home » Initiating a nursing home lawsuit in Georgia
Initiating a nursing home lawsuit in Georgia
Posted: October 18, 2018 | Categories: Legal Procedure
What does it mean to "file suit" against a nursing home? Where does it occur and when? In today's episode, attorneys Rob Schenk and Will Smith discuss initiating an average nursing home lawsuit and what families of injured residents may expect.
TRANSCRIPT OF EPISODE
Schenk: Welcome to the Nursing Home Abuse Podcast. My name is Rob Schenk.
Schenk: Today is going to be one of those days where we go into the nitty gritty, the nuances, the..
Smith: The minutiae?
Schenk: The minutiae of lawsuits. We're going to be specifically talking about some of the considerations – not all of the considerations – some of the considerations around…
Smith: Which would mean we're not going to go into the minutiae. So instead of a broad view, maybe a 50,000-foot view, but it's still not going to be…
Schenk: Yeah, bring it in. Bring it in.
Smith: It's going to be brought in but it's still not going to be a 6-inch view. It's going to be maybe a 5,000-foot view.
Schenk: Right. So it's like this. If you haven't pulled your parachute by now, you're toast.
Schenk: So at any rate, what this is about is just the considerations surrounding filing a lawsuit against a nursing home or the various defendants within that sphere in the state of Georgia. To that, let me just say this, that we never do this at the beginning of the show. We used to but we don't anymore. But two things, and experts say that you're supposed to have your audience, to give your audience a call to action. And the call to action is for you guys out there listening to this show to find us on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher and give us a thumbs up or a review of some sort if you're so inclined. Like don't do it if you don't like it because what's the point? Why would you trash us? But we want the five stars.
Smith: Exactly.
Schenk: We want the high rankings because that helps us out and stuff. All right, so normally when we take a case, it's going to be investigated for a certain period of time. Medical records will be acquired. Witnesses will be interviewed, send out requests for documents under particular statutes and the Freedom of Information Act to get information from various state and federal agencies. Basically an all-encompassing, comprehensive investigation of as many facts as we can get without submitting the case to a lawsuit.
Is a "Claim" the same thing as a "Lawsuit?"
Smith: And I think it's a good point of clarification that you can have a claim, because I had somebody recently confused about this, so you can have a claim against a nursing home, a complaint, a claim. That is not a lawsuit. A lawsuit is an official action where you actually go down to the courthouse or a lot of things are done online now, and there's a paper that's given to the clerk, and they stamp something on it and it starts a series of deadlines, and it starts the court action. So just because we're requesting records, just because we're making a claim against a nursing home doesn't mean that it's a lawsuit.
Schenk: Yeah, that's actually a good rabbit hole to go down because claim, that has a lot of background to it. I don't know what the right word for it is because a claim can also mean an allegation, like I'm making a claim against you, and the claim is I'm going to the administrator and yelling at you.
Smith: And there can be a claim number in pre-lawsuit cases because we've made a claim and there's an insurance company for the nursing home and they will put a number to that allegation. That is a claim number. It is not the number of the lawsuit because one hasn't filed yet. It's just a claim.
Schenk: That's right. Fast forwarding through all that, the investigation process, if there is an official insurance claim or if there's just been an incident report or allegations, whatever you want to call it.
Smith: We've done everything, we tried, we tried to settle it pre-suit, none of that's working, whatever the case may be, we're about to file a lawsuit.
What does a nursing home lawsuit look like?
Schenk: We're jogging through there. All right. So now you may ask, okay, so what is a lawsuit then? So the lawsuit itself is going to involve the court and all that stuff is essentially just a document that lists all of your allegations that are allowed under the law against the facility.
So for example, the document is going to say, "Family member of resident or residents versus facility: Count 1 – negligence. They didn't do something they were supposed to do," or in some instances maybe "Invasion of privacy." In some instances, maybe it's a violation of a regulation that says that the facility has to hire employees that have not been accused of abuse in the past. Whatever the specific allegations that are allowed under the law, most often, it's going to be some type of negligence or professional negligence. Okay, so that's listed.
And then a basic set of facts are going to be listed in that complaint, but one of the more important things in the complaint is that you're asking the court to put us on a docket to the point where we will have a trial that will be heard by a jury. In Georgia, it'll be a 12-person jury, and that's what the document is. It's setting out specific allegations that are allowed under the law against the facility and requesting the court ultimately for a trial by jury, most often trial by jury – you can have bench trials, but most often for reasons we won't get into, or maybe we will…
What court hears a nursing home lawsuit in Georgia?
Smith: Yeah. No, I think it's important to note that in most of these, there are a couple of different levels of court on the Georgia as a state level. There are federal courts, which reside in Georgia, the northern district, the middle district and the southern district, but Georgia has state and superior courts, right? And within the state, there are municipalities that may have a magistrate court that may have municipal courts, but there's a state and superior court. And superior court, it is automatically a 12-person jury. In state court, it is a six-person jury, so if you get a DUI, you'll have six people deciding guilt or innocence.
If you have a breach of contract or anything else, you could have a nursing home case, medical malpractice, if it's in a state court, it will be a six-person jury with the exception that if it's over $25,000 that you're seeking, the other side, the defense, can request a 12-person jury. In our experience and in the experience of all of our colleagues is that 100 percent of the time, I haven't seen it any other way, 100 percent of the time, when we file these lawsuits in state court, which is where we file them because it moves quicker because superior court has jurisdiction over family law and other issues that slow down their docket, when we file in state court, the other side will always pick 12 jurors.
So in other words, the reason for that is your case is going to be heard by a jury of 12 in state court, so if you hear somebody say, "Well I thought state court was six people," it is, but you have the right to ask for 12 under certain conditions, and nursing home cases always meet those conditions.
The difference between Georgia State and Federal Courts for nursing home lawsuits
Schenk: And another thing that's kind of underlying what Will was saying is that most often in these cases and as a family member of a resident that's been abused and possibly might take something to court is that most often, the claim is going to be heard in the state court versus a federal court. So there are state courts in every county in Georgia, but there are only three federal trial courts.
So something that was underlying what Will was just talking about is there's a difference between state court and federal court. So federal court, the jurisdiction of a federal court is different from the jurisdiction of a typical county state court. Generally, county state courts can hear just about anything. In federal court, there must be certain requirements that are met that we really won't get into here, but suffice it to say that most often, your case is going to be heard in a state court, like what Will was saying. So for example, Fulton County State Court as opposed to the federal district court sitting in the northern district of Georgia.
There are some advantages to that, and there will be times that the facility wants to remove something to federal court, but most often, you want your case to be heard by people that live in your geographic area or in the geographic area of the county that the case is in as opposed to a larger geographic area for reasons that we'll get into in another episode, maybe about trial strategies. But suffice it to say that most often, once you have that document that has the counts on it that alleges something against the facility and it gets filed somewhere, it's likely going to be filed in a state court in the state of Georgia in some county somewhere.
Smith: And I think it's important to talk about that process because people may not understand exactly how that happens. And as of January of 2019, it's going to change significantly, the actual process itself. So a lawsuit is everything that Rob was talking about. It's got the names of the plaintiffs versus the names of the defendants. It's got a facts section on it.
What are the sections of a nursing home lawsuit complaint?
Schenk: Facts – F-A-C-T-S, not F-A-X.
Smith: Facts section on it. It's got different charges, different counts on it – count 1: negligence, count 2: negligent supervision of staff. And what typically used to happen and will continue to happen in some places until January 1st is you would print all of this out in a lawsuit and you would have on top of it a summons that would say, "To the defendant, you are hereby required to answer this within 30 days," and it would be the official – it's not a subpoena, but it's the official order of the court, order of the clerk of court to say, "Hey, you need to take this seriously." And you would take that and you would give it to the clerk. They would stamp it. They would sign it and they would give you a copy.
And then they would either give it to the sheriff's office to serve it or they would give you a copy that you could give to a private process server who would serve it, because somebody's got to go and hand it to the defendant and go, "Hey, this is official." Your attorney can't do it. You can't do it. You have to have either the sheriff or a process server.
Are Georgia nursing home lawsuits filed online or in person?
But what is going to be different going forwards is as of January of next year, all of this will be done online. So now we go to – so for example, I just filed a lawsuit against an unnamed hospital that I won't mention right now, but I did everything online. So I type up my complaint, I electronically sign it. In other words, I type in my name, and I save it as a PDF file and I go to the clerk of court's website or whatever website the specific court system in that county is using, and then I upload it. It goes to the clerk's office. They're on their computers, they're looking at it, making sure everything is okay, and they electronically sign off on it. I get an email saying, "Hey, your lawsuit has been approved." And then I can print it off and have the sheriff serve it or I can print it off or have somebody else serve it. But what it does is it makes things a lot quicker and more efficient.
Schenk: As opposed to the case I filed very recently in Jones County in Georgia, which is south of here, where you've got to send a courier down with all the documents. The courier goes to the window, hands it to Sandy – Sandy, who could be a man or a woman. Sandy file stamps the complaint, gives everything back, and there's I guess room for human error, and that happens sometimes. Maybe they don't stamp the copy of the summons, something like that. But as Will was saying, that's on the way out. Now everything is going to be done online, which in many ways makes things easier if you're good at computers.
Smith: Yeah, there's still a bit of a learning curve. This lawsuit that I recently filed, I had it rejected at first and sent back to me because I had failed to click a certain box on the screen, right? Which is frustrating because there are all these different boxes, all these different ways you can make a mistake. But it's a quick turnaround, unlike Rob's case where if you have to send a courier all the way to Nowhere, Georgia, to file a lawsuit and it comes back and by that time, you realize, "Oh, you guys didn't stamp or you didn't sign the summons or whatever," you've got to do the whole thing over again. This one, they immediately contacted me and said, "Hey, you've got to click this box." I had to go back online, click the box and it's all good.
Schenk: So really quickly, we won't spend a lot of time on this, but one of the next questions was, Will, okay, you've got the lawsuit. You're going to the court. How do we know what court to go to? There are a 195, 195? 196? 195 counties at least…
In what county do you file a nursing home lawsuit?
Smith: No, it's 155. I think you added 40.
Schenk: I'm throwing in extra counties.
Smith: It's the most counties of any state in the Union, but it's 155.
Schenk: Only a Southerner would say "in the Union." I feel like that is definitely a Southern expression, like in the United States, of all these United States.
Smith: We're admitting the North won, and I'm not contesting that or saying I disagree with it, so it's the Union.
Schenk: Okay. So within the Union of counties in the state of Georgia, you're going to have 150 or so options to go to. And generally you're going to – the attorney's going to have an understanding where the county, we'll call it the venue, where the venue is going to be best for a nursing home case. Sometimes by operation of law, you can bring the case in a county that might not necessarily have anything to do with the claim but is a good place to bring a trial. So in other words, it's a place where the jurors in that particular county often provide fairer verdicts. Some counties are known to always give deference or always provide verdicts that favor facilities. So the first thing as a lawyer, we're going to take that complaint and we're going to try to go to a county that, number one, is playing it friendly, is what you would call that.
Smith: And I think it's important, and you may be about to get into this, that we don't have ultimate discretion over that.
Schenk: That's why I said it's by operation of law.
Smith: Yeah, venue is decided by operation of law.
Schenk: So that's the first consideration. And then generally though, oftentimes is it's generally going to be in the county in which one of the defendants resides or operates from. So sometimes the lawsuit, the piece of paper, one of the defendants, it might be the administrator. It could be one of the shareholders. It could be the facility itself. It could be a doctor. It could be a nurse. So in Georgia, generally you're going to be able to place the lawsuit, if you can't find a plaintiff for any venue through operation of law, which we'll get into, but you're going to go into those counties, and then from all the counties that are possible, you want to, again, that potentially could be the best.
Smith: Well we don't have to get into it because it could potentially get extremely technical.
Schenk: Yeah, I'm just saying, they're like, "Hey, well why are we going to this county?"
Smith: But in general, just so you understand, venue is going to mean where the lawsuit can be held, where you can file the lawsuit. So in a criminal matter, let's say you murder somebody in Henry County but you live in Habersham County, the venue is going to be the Henry County district attorney's office that's going to prosecute you, so you're going to be in Henry County Superior Court. In a person injury matter…
Schenk: In a civil matter.
Smith: In a civil matter.
Schenk: Like what we're talking about.
Smith: Like what we're talking about, it's different. It doesn't matter where it happened. That's not what's going to dictate it.
Schenk: Sometimes it does but not every time.
Smith: Right. It's going to be more or less where the business resides, where its principal place of office is, where its registered agent is.
Schenk: Often.
Smith: Often. But it's very tricky and there's a whole – I mean you can have an entire book on venue in the law because it changes. It's different when you have multiple defendants, but generally speaking, it's going to be where the defendant resides, where the principal place of business is, but it can change.
Schenk: Right. And so again, you've got the lawsuit, the document. You go to the court. By the court file stamping that, it's official.
Smith: It's started.
Schenk: In the Wild West, you would initiate your business by going into the street and hollering back into the saloon and saying, "Hey, Stinky Pete, we have business out here," and you all would duel.
Smith: I just want to point out that in no way, shape or form is Rob a Wild West historian or a frontier historian, and that's probably not accurate at all.
Schenk: I think I mean everybody is free to look up who Stinky Pete is. I'm sure he lived in the Wild West.
Smith: Or how you initiated a controversy or claim in public.
Schenk: The point I'm trying to make is that's making it official. The lawsuit is making it official that you have business against this facility that you want a magistrate to take care of.
What is the statute of limitations for nursing home lawsuits in Georgia?
Smith: And what really matters on the concept that it's official is that you have a statute of limitations that dictate how long you have to bring a lawsuit. For example, every state can be different and they are different. Tennessee is one year for these types of cases. For Georgia, it is two years with some exceptions that may or may not apply in certain cases. But let's say that it's two years. You have two years to sue somebody for negligence at a nursing home. Well that two years is two years for you to get that lawsuit to the clerk's office is what that means. So once that clerk file stamps that and makes it official, then you have made it.
Schenk: Right. So we've got the complaint written up with all the allegations that we are going to prove at some point at a trial. The document also says that we are demanding a trial. We want a jury to hear the trial. We have picked the venue that is most appropriate. Hopefully it's the best venue that's available to you. And it has been filed either electronically through whatever system, PeachCourt. In Georgia, it's PeachCourt.
Smith: As of January, if it's not designated specifically by the county, it will be PeachCourt by default.
Schenk: And don't worry if you're listening to this and you don't have a computer. The law will still allow you to take a paper copy down to the courthouse.
Smith: Not to mention the fact that if you're listening to this and you're trying to get a general idea, it's just to help you understand the process. If you have a claim against a hospital or a nursing home and you want to file a nursing home…
Schenk: Better go talk to somebody.
Smith: You need to talk to an attorney.
Schenk: Yeah, so either you file it electronically or a paper copy, then what's going to happen is that point, then as Will mentioned earlier briefly, that document has to be appropriately provided to the facility, whoever the defendant is. And generally that's going to be done either by a marshal, like a county marshal, a sheriff's department, or a private individual that hides in bushes and jumps out at you, like he's wearing a Pizza Hut uniform.
Smith: But is approved by the court.
Schenk: But is approved by the court, but he still has to wear the Pizza Hut uniform.
Who is authorized to serve nursing home lawsuit documents in Georgia?
Smith: Right, it's absolutely imperative. In some counties, it's Dominos. In Fulton, it's Pizza Hut. And that is not true at all. But what is true is that they have to be approved by the court. And this is important because I had a client ask me this recently. It was the lawsuit that I just filed. She said, "Well you've been speaking with the opposing council. Can't you just send the lawsuit to her?" Well first of all, no. The lawsuit has to either be officially served by a marshal or a sheriff or a process server. Or there are circumstances in which you can ask a company or a corporation to waive service, but those are limited exceptions and they have certain conditions that your attorney as a plaintiff may not want. But if you don't do that, it has to be sheriff, marshal or somebody that has some paperwork that says the court recognizes their ability to officially serve.
Schenk: And then at the end of the day, once that lawsuit with the summons that Will mentioned earlier, the summons that says you've got 30 days to answer, they're going to have 30 days in the state of Georgia to answer, meaning that they have to respond to the accusations that are alleged in the complaint, so "We deny that we were negligent. We deny that we did anything wrong. We deny blah-blah-blah-blah-blah." And then from that point, the lawsuit has begun. And I think that we've really beat initiating a lawsuit to death. Actually when I first conceptualized this episode, we were going to go through the entire litigation process, but now we've literally just filed the lawsuit.
Smith: And the crazy part is we've left a lot out. We've left a lot of exceptions, like even something about how long they have to respond can be affected by numerous other occurrences or things that can happen. That's why we always tell you, you have to speak with a lawyer. These are extremely complicated. We could probably do another hour just on serving a lawsuit and choosing venues.
Schenk: We could also do another hour on how angry Will gets using the PeachCourt online system to do anything. You could imagine the angry yells of, "Why do I have to push this button? Why won't the mouse click on this thing?"
Smith: Well because you've got to think – imagine when you're trying to log onto your LA Fitness account and they make you jump through seven different security protocols, including a captcha that you can't even read or make sense. And that's what you have to do in order to file this lawsuit. And it's just frustrating. And not to mention that at least LA Fitness has enough money to pick somebody to make their website user-friendly. The court system always goes for the absolutely lowest bidder. So it's very frustrating.
Schenk: You know, there is a genre of comic strips like Peanuts or Garfield that is dedicated to making captchas the punchline of the comic strip. So like if the captcha is like cat butler, they take that captcha image and put it at the final frame as the joke, so they set it up so cat butler is the joke. Anyways…
Smith: That's interesting.
Schenk: And if you're listening to this, Will says "interesting" in air quotes.
Smith: Air quotes.
Schenk: Here's something that's going to be interesting – if you happen to be in Atlanta, Georgia, today and you're hungry, go to the bankruptcy section of the Atlanta Bar Association. They're having a luncheon and Will and I will be speaking today. We're going straight from here to there and we're going to be speaking about – what are we speaking about? Oh, we're speaking about video marketing.
Smith: Video marketing to the bankruptcy law section.
Schenk: And one of the things we're going to be talking to them about in terms of specifically about video marketing is making sure that people know how they can consume your videos.
Smith: And what are the different ways is the question that Rob is going to ask me.
Smith: And the different ways you can do this is you can go to iTunes, if you have Apple or Mac products. You can go to Stitcher. You can go to Spotify. You can go to our website, which is www.NursingHomeAbusePodcast.com. You can go to our YouTube channel, and if you do that, please click "Like" and "Subscribe."
Schenk: Oh nice, extra twist. And with that, that concludes this episode, number 89, and we will see you next time.
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Бишбалык (также Бешбалык, Бэйтин, изредка Бесбалык) — средневековый древнетюркский город. Современные развалины находятся на севере уезда Джимасар Синьцзян-Уйгурского автономного района КНР.

История

Согласно китайским источникам, основан в хунно-усуньский период. Впервые название Бишбалык встречается в памятниках Кюль-тегина.
До VIII века город являлся ставкой басмылов, затем карлуков. В 720 году Бильге-каган подчинил город восточным тюркам. После 840 года город вошёл в состав владений уйгурских идикутов и на протяжении нескольких веков был крупным и развитым городом. Остатки городища исследовались в начале XX века японской экспедицией Отани, английским археологом А. Стейном и в 1928, 1979—1987 годах — китайскими археологами. Длина внешней окружности 4596 м, внутренней 3003 м, высота 2—5 м. Снаружи вокруг стены и крепости вырыт оборонительный ров.
Во время раскопок обнаружены фрагменты глиняной и фарфоровой посуды, медные монеты, бронзовые зеркала и другие многочисленные бытовые изделия, украшения и предметы труда. Внутри крепости — развалины дворцовых построек и буддийского храма. В 2 км к западу от Бишбалыка расположено буддистское святилище размерами 70,5×43,8 м, построенное уйгурскими идикутами. В центральном дворце и гроте-святилище найдены различные изваяния, на стенах выбиты рисунки религиозного содержания и надписи на уйгурском и китайском языках. Бишбалык существовал продолжительное время и после нашествия Чингиз-хана в период правления Чагатаидов. Разрушен в конце XIV века при походах эмира Тимура на Восток. В XV—XVI веках часто упоминается в качестве одного из районов Могулистана. Бишбалык, находясь на северном отрезке Великого шёлкового пути, играл важную роль в истории и культуре тюркских народов.

Литература

Из КНЭ:
 Грумм-Гржимайло Г. Е. Описание путешествия в Западный Китай, т. 1, СПб., 1896.
 Stein A. Innermost Asia, Yol, II. Ill, Oxford, 1928.
 Mэн Файжень. Бэйтин пи ди яньцзю (Исследования по истории и географии Бэйтина), Урумчи, 1985.
 Синьцзян вэнъу каогу синьшоу хо (Новые открытия в археологии Синьцзяна, 1979—1989), Урумчи, 1995.

Археологические объекты Синьцзян-Уйгурского автономного района
Города Шёлкового пути

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Martin Luther King Jr. has charisma—as does Adolf Hitler. So do Brad Pitt, Mother Teresa, and many a high school teacher. Charisma marks, or masks, power; it legitimates but also attracts suspicion. Sociologists often view charisma as an irrational, unstable source of authority, superseded by the rational, bureaucratic legitimacy of modernity. Yet charisma endures in the modern world; perhaps it is reinvigorated in the postmodern, as the notoriety of celebrities, politicians, and New Age gurus attests. Is charisma a tool of oppression, or can it help the fight against oppression? Can reexamining the concept of charisma teach us anything useful about contemporary movements for social justice?
In Defense of Charisma develops an account of moral charisma that weaves insights from politics, ethics, and religion together with reflections on contemporary culture. Vincent W. Lloyd distinguishes between authoritarian charisma, which furthers the interests of the powerful, naturalizing racism, patriarchy, and elitism, and democratic charisma, which prompts observers to ask new questions and discover new possibilities. At its best, charisma can challenge the way we see ourselves and our world, priming us to struggle for justice. Exploring the biblical Moses alongside Charlton Heston's performance in The Ten Commandments, the image of Martin Luther King Jr., together with tweets from the Black Lives Matter movement, and the novels of Harper Lee and Sherman Alexie juxtaposed with the writings of Emmanuel Levinas, In Defense of Charisma challenges readers to turn away from the blinding charisma of celebrities toward the humbler moral charisma of the neighbor, colleague, or relative.


Investigator service is an up and coming service to the UK. This service has been around for years especially inside the States. It covers many services such as surveillance, missing persons, investigations and security. Security is large company in this modern age. Many celebrities might be noticed around town with an entourage of security men and drivers crowding round them. Many individuals within the public eye go for security these days. When there is a film crew filming out and about you may also find a fleet of security men.
Of course an investigator service would also do some investigating but what and exactly where dose the function come from. Folks today desire to have every little thing and swiftly. Once upon a time folks would wait for the Police to assist them with crime. Today the Police are busier than ever along with a small support goes a lengthy way. By way of example, if your automobile was stolen you would have to wait for the Police to find it - as well as then it may not be all in one piece. You could have an investigator fit a car tracker to your vehicle after which you'd know where it was when it was stolen. You could even hire a private detective to go and get it back for you.
If you are suspicious that a member of your staff is stealing from you at function you could have a covert camera installed and catch them red handed. There are many services accessible to you from a private detective or a private investigator. We can find men and women that have gone missing. We can follow folks to see where they go and what they do and who they meet. You would have the ability to use that sort of evidence in court.


lol I got your 420 m fog line. AFTER recent update.
That other one with the wires is a pretty good one. I'll use that one to practice flag grab techniques cause you can see the full frame model of the flag. Lets you know how far out you can reach it.
I never understood why developers make maps with low visibility whether it's nighttime or a haze like the pic Groove posted. Fog I get, but when you **** with the lighting it really pisses me off.


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DailyStormer comes back with Albanian domain; gets booted off
DailyStormer, the neo-nazi and racist website is having a difficult time finding domain on the regular web. For the third time in a month, the website has been booted off from the web due to its indecent and racist content.
In the latest, DailyStormer made a comeback through the Albanian domain provider (dailystormer.al) about three days ago, but it took almost a second for the company to permanently suspend the domain once they came to know the nature of its content.
https://twitter.com/NamaTikure/status/902969663180738560
In a conversation with HackRead.com, Anonymous Albania said that "Members of the Anonymous Albania collective celebrated the decision after the hacktivist collective had flagged up the fact that the Daily Stormer had relocated to a .al domain."
According to Washington Times report, Albania's Electronic and Postal Communications Authority (AKEP) asked the HostDotal hosting company to remove the site from their service.
"We're sorry to report that AKEP (the registry of all .AL domains) has gave an order to disable dailystormer.al – This is out of the registrar and our control. The Daily Stormer had violated "clear regulations on racism and hateful agenda," said AKEP.
The DailyStormer was first kicked out by GoDaddy and Google after its owner wrote a controversial article about Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old resident of Charlottesville, Virginia who was killed by a white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr during Unite the Right rally.
The site surfaced on the Dark Web and announced that it successfully bought a new domain on a Russian domain provider under a .RU address, but it took a couple of days for the Russian authorities to kick the site out of its service. At the same time, CloudFlare removed its DDoS protection after the company's CEO Matthew Prince called the DailyStormer as "Assholes."
Moreover, DreamHost hosting provider suffered a series of massive DDoS attacks from Anonymous hackers for providing hosting services to punishedstormer.com, a new domain address bought by the DailySotmer owner to make a comeback by laying low with a different name. But following the attacks, DreamHost suspended the site's account to avoid further controversy.
At the time of publishing this article, all DailyStormer domains were offline while its Dark Web domain was up since TOR decided it will not remove the site from its platform. However, DailyStormer is not the only site facing the aftermath of publishing offensive content. Stormfront, Internet's oldest neo-nazi website was also booted off three days ago.
Carolina works for HackRead as a technical writer. She is a Brazilian traveller who has been to almost every country around the world. She has a keen interest in technology, gadgets and social media.
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Mrs. Eckert ran a fun library program over winter break that encouraged students to use Overdrive for eBooks and audiobooks. Overdrive is a free app that students can use on their devices or computers to read or listen to books. Each time students checked out an eBook or audiobook over break, they received another chance to win the grand prize. The winning student was Ava Brewster in 7th grade. She won a $50 gift card to Books-A-Million and a brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab. Congratulations, Ava!


As Asian demand for food booms, it's time to work to overcome the hurdles to local investment in bush communities, Stephen Anthony writes.
The government's feud with the not-for-profit super industry lobby, over independent director legislation, is at a deadlock.
The Fraser Review has found super funds don't need independent directors. Minister Kelly O'Dwyer called the report nothing but 'lobbying'.


If gamblers, especially from South East Asia, go on a strike, life in Macau would come to a standstill. Yes, quite like Las Vegas, USA. And because gamblers rarely make that mistake, Macau thrives. The city sleeps during day and gets active after sunset. Macau is a nocturnal animal.
Macau has its own international airport but Hong Kong is a very popular gateway. I took the flight from Shanghai to Hong Kong. I could get a connecting ferry without going through the Hong Kong customs. Most visitors to Macau don't need a visa. Just a little tip, the ferry would allow one piece of bag per ticket. Additional bags will be charged at HKD 60 per piece. The guys from the ferry clear your bags even if your final destination was Hong Kong and not Macau. Likewise, you can avail your boarding pass for your final destination at Macau ferry terminal. Contrary to my belief, bags were not misplaced. The cost of the ferry from Hong Kong airport to Macau varies but HKD 235 per head would be a safe bet. The currency of Macau is Patakas, but Hong Kong Dollar is quite popular over there. Casinos will accept only HKD. At the time of writing, USD 1 got MOP 7.65. MOP & HKD are almost at par.
Macau has a population of 5.5 million that lives and works either in Macau Peninsula or the islands of Tapia and Coloane. These islands are connected by 5 different bridges with Macau Peninsula. Each of the bridge is very artistically built, especially the one named the friendship bridge. To me the bridge appeared as smiling lips.
A Portuguese trader, in the 16th century, was passing by Macau when rough water threatened to damage the ship. The Chinese authority gave him the permission to unload his wares for drying. Thus began the trade and eventual Portuguese rule in Macau. Soon Macau flourished thanks to entrepreneurship of Portuguese and Chinese traders. Macau became independent from Portuguese rule in 1999, but the legacy and the influence all around Macau is obvious and very charming.
I was hosted at MGM Grand. I had an ocean facing room on the 15th floor. Every time I looked out, I saw boats and small passenger & cargo ships sail by negotiating the various bridges. I could also see Tapia and Coloane that made a beautiful backdrop as also the windmills atop a mountain in Mainland China. One can actually swim from Coloane village to Mainland China, but nobody does. And shouldn't.
I was to be in Macau for 2 days and 2 nights. That evening, I decided to foot around. I walked through the streets and finally reached Senado Square - the most popular place for locals as well as tourists. Paved streets inlayed with black stones made a remarkably beautiful pattern. Buildings on both sides of the streets were a fine example of Portuguese architecture. The authorities have done well to maintain the heritage. Candy coloured buildings had boutiques, shops and restaurants at the street level. Whilst there, I was intrigued to see many people carry a typical brown coloured shopping bag with some Chinese calligraphy printed on it. I wanted to know what was within. English is not a popular street language so I worked with signs. Pointing at the bag I questioned. And each time I was directed to a street. Probably, the shoppers thought, and quite rightfully that I was asking for the shop's directions. Eventually, I realized that the bag belonged to Choi Heong Yuen Bakery, famous for its candied dry fruits, nuts and various meats. Give it a try.
Some quick calculations and I realized that taking a half day site seeing tour would be more sensible as the cost of the tour would include entrance tickets to top of the Macau Tower and Macau Museum. Individually, both put together would cost more than the tour price. It was a good deal for MOP 108 for 5 hours with visits to some excellent heritage sites. Of course, I couldn't cover all, but got the essence nonetheless. By the way, MOP 20 tip was not included. The tip was actually asked for by the tour guide. There was no option!
First stop was the Macau Tower. We went on the 58th floor for a bird's eye view of Macau and parts of China. Then we proceeded on the 61st floor from where one could opt to bungee jump or skywalk. I preferred the elevator to come down. It took me 40 seconds more, but that's OK, especially if the jump costs upwards of MOP 1500. I am told the jump ranks amongst the highest in the world. I will let my son know. Yes, my high blood pressure is an excuse!
Next, it was a brief visit to Coloane village and the Tam Kung Temple, which essentially is the fishermen's God, known to protect the fishing folks from evil at sea. In return, the deity is offered lavish food and gifts and not to forget the bursting of fire crackers to announce the safe arrival of the fishing boats back from the sea. I walked the streets that took me back in time. Houses with Chinese and Portuguese architecture were indeed captivating. In Coloane village, there's a bakery that's famous for its Portuguese egg tarts. The technique and recipe has been passed down from generation to generation. You may want to try the tarts.
From there we moved on to Taipa Houses-Museum. A portion of road with Portuguese homes has been converted into a museum. Pastel green homes, overlooking a small lake were equally pretty. The location is quite popular with newly weds to have their pictures taken. I was witness to one such beautiful bride.
While moving on to Cotai Strip, we passed a street in the corner of which was an eating place. The place was full to the brim with crowds enjoying their pork chops. Pork was always a preferred meat of the Portuguese. Goa, in India, which was also under Portuguese rule well up to 1962, stands testimony to pork preparations. Cotai Strip, probably is called so since it follows the steps of its big brother from Las Vegas. Cotai Strip has Hotels & Casinos. As if, existing rooms were not enough, construction was in full swing to build thousands and thousands of more rooms.
As we moved towards Macau Museum on the Macau side, we passed by the Jockey Club, Golf Course, Macau Stadium and the Macau International airport - home to 12 airlines that connect to 25 destinations. Macau Museum is a must do for people who are short of time. In about an hour I could go through Macau's early period, its development and commerce, its culture, its homes and artifacts.
Walking distance from the Macau Museum are the ruins of St Paul. Only the fa�ade remains of what once was a very elaborately built Church. Massive fire gutted the Church which was made from wood.
The last stop on the tour was Lisboa - Hotel & Casino. Lisboa was Macau's first casino when gambling was made legal in 1970. Founded by Dr Stanley Ho also nicknamed Gamble King has put on display some of his personal collection of antiques notably a wooden chair made during the Ming Dynasty which he bought at an auction for nearly HKD 14 million. Crystal Palace, as the name suggests, is a theme casino elaborately decorated using crystals. It has a ceiling that has 36,000 crystals studded. From Lisboa, I walked back to my hotel.
I am not a gambler. But that didn't prevent me from exploring some famous hotels & their casinos. It's a good idea to shunt between various casinos in a taxi. They are not expensive. However there's a better idea that's free. Most of the hotels & casinos have free shuttle services that run at regular intervals to & from the ferry terminal. Apply the hub and spoke rule. Check a hotel and come back to the ferry terminal. Hop on another bus and back. I did this a few times and discovered The Venetian, City of Dreams and The Wynn.
It would be hard to say, which one is better. Venetian boasts of Roman grandeur in its architecture. It hosts shows that are famous. Whilst I was there, Cirque du Soleil was on. I certainly missed it since the next show was scheduled on the day I was leaving. If you have kids with you, you may want to park them at the Cube - an electronic entertainment arcade while you roll the dice. Manchester United store has put up MU Experience wherein one can kick balls and get points & grading� eventually to improve your skills at the game.
City of Dreams is built around the concept of water. Bubble shaped chandeliers and water walls are magnificent. The Bubble is a sphere that has a multimedia show. The one running was Dragon's Treasure. A 15-minute burst of lights, music and graphics that take you below the ocean. A must see. And the fun is it's free!
Wynn is contemporary and as big as its competitors. I am sure, other hotels & casinos in this magic land would be equally fun to be in. I had to head back home. Office was calling too.
Sad, for some people there's no lucky money.


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Its all in a days work, a continuation
There was an old woman that lived in a shoe, she had so many children she didn't know what to do. I often think of this childhood rhyme and liken our lives to it.
Here at the EHCRC Foundation as many of you know we are not only a home and sanctuary for 54 horses, ponies and donkeys, we have also taken in an assortment of other rescued animals that people have brought to our gates over the last five years. This also takes up a vast amount of time and energy caring for all of them every day, this is just an example of a day with these other animals.
Many of these have been rescued by distraught holiday makers who were unable to give homes for them their selves, but they cared enough to try to help them and secure their future by bringing them to us as they couldn't find anyone else to take them in, during their short stay here.
Due to this we now have 4 cats and 6 kittens, 9 dogs, 1 of which is blind , 2 parrots and a cockatiel sharing our house with us, everyone of these animals is a rescue. Thankfully Isadora the pig, who also used to be a resident in the house, now has her own dwelling in the garden which she shares with Ernie the turkey.
Ernie was a raffle prize three Christmases ago, an English couple witnessed his winners throwing into the back of a van with his legs tied together with rope, and they were so horrified that they negotiated and bought him and brought him here. Then of course there are the peacocks, who also share the garden, this all came about last Summer when one of our supporters found a baby peacock. She couldn't keep it so she brought her here, we named her Jasmine. She was so tiny we put her in a cage and kept her next to our other birds, this worked well until Jasmine started to outgrow her cage. By that stage she was so tame she didn't want to be outside with the other birds and kept bringing herself back into the house. Unfortunately one of the dogs chased her and she ran into the glass conservatory window and got concussion. We rushed her to the vets where she stayed for five days. Obviously we realised we would have to find a secure area of the garden to put her in. The only possible place we had left was where we used to keep our rescued rabbit, which somebody else brought us, that they had named Whispering Grass. Sadly Whisper contacted myxomatosis and died. Please note, anybody that has a pet rabbit, you can now get your rabbit an inoculation against this, we didn't know this until afterwards. So this became Jasmine's home, as it wasn't fair to keep her on her own, Rod went out and bought another young female peacock as a companion for her. Then somebody else brought a male peacock to us that they had found kept in a tiny cage, and yet again had nobly decided to save it, however the only place they knew where to bring him was here. As all three grew the accommodation was too small for them, so we decided to get their wings clipped, as peacocks can fly and we didn't want them to fly off and get lost. This then created another problem as Ernie the turkey decided he wanted the two female peacocks and started a fight to the death with the male peacock and at the same time Jasmine decided to make her way back to the house, where Sam our latest rescue dog, who is completely blind, and also a chicken hunter, he might not be able to see them but he can sense where they are, was sitting by the gate, as he always does, waiting for an unfortunate chicken to come into his area. Obviously our chickens and Ernie have got wise to this, but Jasmine was unawares, so we grabbed Jasmine, separated Ernie and the male peacock, but we couldn't get the back into their previous accommodation as they had now experienced freedom. Rod spent what was left of that day and also the next creating yet more boundaries and fences to keep them all safe and give them their own spaces. When we come in from feeding the horses at night, we then have to feed all the dogs, cats and birds and we mustn't forget the fish in the pond, we probably have about 50 that have also been brought to us over the years, from people moving back to England and not being able to take their pet goldfish back with them.
First of all we feed the cats, three of which were what you could call Christmas presents as they mysteriously turned up as very young kittens at our very popular Christmas carol concert two years ago. At the time, we said that's ok they can be stable cats, however they decided they didn't like that job and very soon became house cats. Amazingly this Christmas a pregnant female cat turned up, obviously we had to take her in, we named her Primrose and she ended up giving birth to six kittens in our kitchen cupboard, which now makes 10. All of these we negotiate outside into the back yard with their food and shut the door so that the dogs don't steal their food and also to stop Primrose attacking the dogs as she's still very protective over her kittens. We then proceed to get nine feed bowls out and do the dog food in the kitchen, while the three birds are screaming loudly at us from the conservatory, wanting to come in, one of us has to stand guard to make sure the big dogs don't pinch the food from the little dogs. Whilst this is being done the birds are then wheeled into the dining room from the conservatory in their massive cages. The birds consider the evening their quality time with me and Rod, two of them, Amadeus a parrot who believe it or not is also agoraphobic (has a fear of open spaces) and Joey a 16 year old cockatiel who is inseparable from Amadeus, have to have the TV on at night, so they are taken from their cages into the front room and placed on a bird stand, their favourite films are musicals and action movies, ridiculous but true. Charlie the African Grey is a secret talker and prefers to stay in his cage and talks loudly to himself when he thinks no one is watching.
Finally when everybody has what they want and need and all the barking, meowing and screeching has stopped, Rod and I eventually feed ourselves and sit down, this is normally 10 o'clock at night. At midnight we then have to go out again and check on all the horses and give the ones that need to gain weight an extra feed. We finally get to go to bed and set the alarm for six o'clock so we can get up and do it all again the next day.
Next week we will continue with the update on Jett and Crystal our two latest rescue horses and also more stories.
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Italian Rationalism is an architectural trend which developed in the Twenties and Thirties. It is based on the principles of functionalism, according to which the appearance of a building must clearly reflect the purpose for which it is created. By taking the following rationalist tour, you will have the chance to see the influence that this particular movement had on the city of Como.
The Camerlata fountain is located in the middle of Piazzale Camerlata, at the conjunction of the three main roads which provide access to the city.
The particular structure of the monument, which is made of alternating rings and balls made of stone, was meant to communicate an idea of order in the middle of the traffic junction for which it was projected.
The fountain was designed by Cesare Cattaneo and Mario Radice in 1936, in occasion of the sixth Milan Triennial Exhibition where it was exposed. After being destroyed during the Second World War, the monument was rebuilt in 1961 in its current location.
Sant'Elia kindergarten was built in 1937 after the designs of Giuseppe Terragni, who wanted to pay homage to the famous Futurist architect Antonio Sant'Elia.
A great example of Italian Rationalism, the building is characterized by the presence of large windows, which develop the idea of open-air school and give the interior full brightness.
The old Casa del Fascio is the most important building designed by the architect Giuseppe Terragni. Situated in Piazza del Popolo, it originally hosted the Fascist Party headquarters, whereas now is the seat of the provincial command of Guardia di Finanza (one of the Italian law enforcement agencies).
The Terragni Palace, which was completed in 1936, is still a reference point for architects from around the world; it looks like a perfect parallelepiped that is characterized by essential lines, which give birth to a perfect equilibrium of full and empty spaces.
The rationalist tour can continue heading for the War Memorial (locally known as Monumento ai Caduti).
On one side of the monument, located on the lakefront of Viale Puecher, you will read the following inscription: "Stanotte si dorme a Trieste o in paradiso con gli eroi" ("Tonight we'll sleep in Trieste, or in heaven with the heroes"). The memorial is a 30 meter high reinforced concrete structure covered with karst rocks, and was built in memory of local people who died in the First World War.
It was inspired by a sketch made in 1914 by the futurist Antonio Sant'Elia, who died in the Great War; even though the original project was meant for the construction of a lighthouse, the painter Enrico Prampolini was later asked to turn it into an architectural work. The War Memorial was finally realized with the help of Giuseppe Terragni.
The Como stadium was built in 1927, after the reclamation of the area once known as Prà Pasqué (an old swamp due to the mouth of Cosia stream). It was designed by Giovanni Greppi and Gianni Mantero, and was named after the local rowing champion Giuseppe Sinigaglia.
The stadium is the first Fascist public work which was built in a rationalist style. The Sinigaglia stadium, located a few steps away from the War Memorial, hosts the matches of the local soccer team, Calcio Como.
Novocomum is the first rationalist work ever realized in Como by Giuseppe Terragni (1929). It's a four floor palace which is characterized by two rounded balconies topped by a right-angled third.
The Novocomum was built with deception, since the project that was originally approved by the municipality looked different from the final result. This was the reason of an inevitable scandal, so the structure risked being demolished.
The Novocomum, located in Via Sinigaglia, has been renamed "Transatlantic" by some locals.


Glycoconjugate vaccines obtained by chemical linkage of a carbohydrate antigen to a protein are part of routine vaccinations in many countries. Licensed antimicrobial glycan–protein conjugate vaccines are obtained by random conjugation of native or sized polysaccharides to lysine, aspartic or glutamic amino acid residues that are generally abundantly exposed on the protein surface. In the last few years, the structural approaches for the definition of the polysaccharide portion (epitope) responsible for the immunological activity has shown potential to aid a deeper understanding of the mode of action of glycoconjugates and to lead to the rational design of more efficacious and safer vaccines. The combination of technologies to obtain more defined carbohydrate antigens of higher purity and novel approaches for protein modification has a fundamental role. In particular, methods for site selective glycoconjugation like chemical or enzymatic modification of specific amino acid residues, incorporation of unnatural amino acids and glycoengineering, are rapidly evolving. Here we discuss the state of the art of protein engineering with carbohydrates to obtain glycococonjugates vaccines and future perspectives.


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California attorney general opens review of church files on abuse
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) — California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has opened an investigation into how the state's 12 Catholic dioceses have addressed allegations of sexual abuse of minors by priests, lay church employees and volunteers.
In a May 2 letter to each diocese, Becerra requests church officials to preserve all documents related to abuse allegations.
The Los Angeles Archdiocese was among those receiving the letter, Angelus, the news outlet of the archdiocese, reported.
"The California Department of Justice is conducting a review of your archdiocese's handling of sexual misconduct allegations involving children, including whether your archdiocese has adequately reported allegations of sexual misconduct, as required under California's Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act," the letter said.
Archdiocesan spokeswoman Carolina Guevara said "the archdiocese has not officially received the letter from the attorney general, however, we will be responding cooperatively as we have with the past three grand jury investigations of the archdiocese."
The records being requested by Becerra's office include allegations of sexual misconduct received by the dioceses since 1996 — including those handled in compliance with the law — as well as those of individuals accused of misconduct toward minors who may still be active in ministry.
The letter also asks for records on actions taken by the dioceses against individuals accused of abuse or anyone who may have failed to report sexual abuse allegations to law enforcement.
In a statement, the archdiocese said it is committed to transparency and "does not tolerate anyone who does harm to a child or vulnerable person." It also said that it had "also already cooperated with two state and one federal investigation and continues to fully cooperate with all civil authorities."
In November, Becerra announced an online reporting form for people who believe they've been abused by clergy members in California. However, similar reporting structures have not yet been launched for abuse allegations against employees of other institutions in the state, such as public school districts.
"To date, the Office of the Attorney General has not informed the archdiocese of any reports made to their online reporting form concerning the Archdiocese of Los Angeles," Guevara added.
The California investigation is similar to other reviews of the Catholic Church being conducted across the country, including in Illinois and Georgia.
Written by staff members of Angelus, the news outlet of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
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One of the easy ways to stay productive is work offline and distraction free. I often prefer desktop blog editors to write a blog post, as I can stay away from social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and so on.
The important thing we need to know is how to make the work process easier and faster to be more productive and effective.
So, usually you will be blogging from the default dashboard, but you need to accept the fact that default dashboard lacks in many features.
Let's see what desktop blogging editors can offer something new. Usually, our target is to get a WYSIWYG editor, which will help u us in formatting.
The open live writer is the best desktop blog editor for Windows; the free application can turn your writing experience. It has many excellent features which lack in default dashboard.
The plugins integration in Windows live writer helps you to be more productive and work faster. It supports most of the blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, and much more.
The only thing which I miss is a Mac variant of Windows live writer. This is so far my fav. Desktop editor and it offers many image editing and features that you need.
For ex: Add watermark to images, Add tables and much more. If you are deciding between many other editors, OLW should be your first choice for WordPress.
It totally changes the working environment. The full-screen distraction free editor can increase your creativity in writing.
The undisturbed workspace will let you be more productive. It doesn't support any plugins like OLW, but the distraction free workspace can make you be more productive by letting your thoughts flow in.
Indulge yourself in a relaxed and calm atmosphere and achieve a whole new level of concentration! WordPress user can use this feature in latest version of WordPress, and it's very useful when you are writing post from WP dashboard.
Thingamablog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application that makes it easy for publishing your blog post effortless.
Thingamablog does NOT require a third-party blogging host, a CGI/PHP enabled web host, or a MySQL database. In fact, all you need to setup, and manage, a blog with Thingamablog is FTP, SFTP, or network access to a web server.
You can publish your blog post with single click, remotely via email, create unique layout with customizable templates, etc.
<Link: ThingamaBlog> Last updated in 2009 so I would suggest skip it.
Though out of all Open Live Writer is my favorite and I have not found any best alternative to it. Do let us know which desktop blog editor you are using and which one you recommend to others?
This was useful for me way back when my internet connection wasn't stable yet (that's a looong time ago) because I can do my stuffs without really worrying that much. Im using blogdesk back then and its really a good productivity tool for bloggers. However these days, Im always connected to the internet so I rarely use it now.
Using WLW since long time.Not tried any other blog editors mentioned in this articles.Hope I don't need to search for other blog editors as WLW works fine for me.
Good Review. I know only Windows Live Writer from the above list. I will try other tools too.
Check Zoundry Raven – another interesting tool.
Nice list! I love Windows live writer. But the down side of WLW is that when you save the post from WLW to your blog, the image names does not belong accurate. e.g if you use '-' between the word in image name WLW ignores those when uploading the post to your blog.
like how do we add the ALT text through windows live writer for images?
I thought you were a mac user. Do you blog using a OS X application or do you only use windows for blogging ?
I'm also a bit WLW fan, I haven't found anything that will really replace it, but the lack of updates for years is getting to me. The latest annoyance that has me looking for something to replace it is that it has no support for windows font scaling, so on higher resolution screens you're forced to deal with minuscule text or to set your screen resolution down to something sub optimal to use it.
If anyone has found a solution that comes even close and plays nice with blogger/blogspot and it's default (picasa/google+) picture hosting I'm all ears.


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For those who don't know him, Joel has made many contributions in the field of corporate finance. He was among the first people who suggested that GAAP earnings do not always matter and said that investors should look at Economic Profits and he later put in place a system called EVA, that stands for Economic Value Added. This system was "adopted" by McKinsey and others, but Joel's firm, Stern Value Management is the world leader in implementing value creation programs and putting in place effective incentive systems for companies around the world.
While I disagree with Joel on some things (efficient markets, risk measurement) I do think that he has makes a valid point about government interference. Many interest groups are asking for government help on what seems a worthy cause for them. The problem, as Joel said, is that this money has to come from somewhere and at the expense of somebody else who might not necessarily think that the cause is worthwhile. An industrialist might oppose a subsidy to farmers and the farmers might oppose a subsidy to clean energy projects and so on. You can easily see how this gets very complicated because everybody's concept of justice is different.
After the financial crisis some government agencies and regulatory bodies have overreacted and enacted many rules and regulations that as Joel said, lower productivity levels because these regulations are time and resource consuming. Also, since many of these regulations take forever to deliberate and finalize there is a lot of uncertainty in the business community. Uncertainty is the foe of economic growth because it makes it difficult to predict the after-tax rate of return on investment. As a result, businesses choose to delay investments until they have more visibility on what the rules of the game are.
I also attended Joel's lecture about incentives at the Business School of SMU. Even though I'm familiar with the material, it is always fun to see Joel teaches, or as he puts it: "If you don't understand anything, at least you get some entertainment" and entertaining it was. I think that studying incentives and their influence on behavior is a crucial thing for anyone who does business. Business Schools do not devote enough attention to this highly important topic and I tip my hat to SMU who embedded this topic in their curriculum. Anyway, I may write more about incentives in a separate post in the future but for now, we will leave it at that.
During a dinner I had with Joel, I asked him about John Malone. Those who read the blog know that lately I've been paying a lot of attention to two companies that are under his control and I thought it would be interesting to hear what Joel thinks of him. First, unfortunately, Joel never got to work with Malone or even meet him (that's very rare as he usually knows in person most prominent business leaders in the US). Second, he said that John Malone is an incredibly smart and capable manager who chose to operate in regulated industries. According to Joel, regulated industries, to put it in mild terms, usually do not attract the most brilliant managers so the fact that John Malone, smart as he is, mainly operates in such industry, gives him a huge advantage. I didn't think of it that way so I found this observation very interesting.
Anyway, it is always fun to meet top-notch business leaders like Joel Stern and I'm lucky to have met him twice this year, once in Israel (where we had a full day of meetings with Israeli consulting companies) and then again in Singapore this week. I hope to write a similar post next year when he returns to Singapore.


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Wedding traditions in Scotland that people still follow through today
The Scottish culture is extraordinary. It differs from most other folk cultures around the world. The kilt and tartan fabric is just a tiny part of unique local traditions. But what about the traditional wedding in Scotland? Is it also unique and worth attending? Actually, there are many curious Scottish wedding traditions that people still follow through even these days. Let's find out which ones.
Right foot forward
This is a tradition that extends way back. The phrase "right foot forward" is actually a reference to the bride's feet. Basically, when the bride leaves – wherever she has to go to – she is told to go the right foot first. And she's supposed to do that throughout the whole day. Anytime she's moving off: to walk over to see someone or walk out of a building or walk into a room, she's to go right foot first. And it's, basically, just something to do with luck.
A little sprig of white heather in a wedding bouquet
It is a tradition for a bride to put a little sprig of white heather in her wedding bouquet. It can be visible or it can be hid amongst other flowers. Again, it's just a token of good luck. People think that it's a symbol for luck, and it's just something that people can quite easily slot in there – just to check your boxes!
The wedding scramble
When the bride has gotten out of her house, or wherever she's getting ready, followed by her dad who's going to escort her down the aisle, and gotten into their waiting car, the dad will throw a handful of coins to the street by the car for the kids who watch the bride leave to scramble for and gather up. And the reason they did that is because it was believed that throwing coins into the air and having other people collect them, would bring about financial good fortune for the new happy couple.
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
It is believed that a bride should have something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue on her during her wedding ceremony. This tradition is well-known and used throughout Europe and America. And actually, these are lines from an old poem. But there is one more line in this poem: "and a lucky sixpence in her shoe". A sixpence was an old coin that was around in 1551-1970. And the idea was that the bride would put a lucky sixpence into her shoe and she would keep it there during the day. It is another symbol of luck. This tradition originates from Britain but has been adapted by people in America, where they put a 1 cent or a little penny into a bride's shoe as well.
The thistle has been a symbol for Scotland since about the 1500. And there's two different stories as to how that came about. The first is that during the Viking Age, as Vikings were attempting to attack Scotland, they stepped on thistles with bare feet (because they'd taken off their shoes to walk quietly) and cried out, which alerted the Scots. The second story is similar. It tells that in the 11th century, the Danes tried to attack a Scottish castle. They jumped into a moat around the castle, anticipating it to be full of water, but it was full of thistles instead. That's when their attack has ended.
So, the thistle has been a symbol for Scotland and for Scottish people for a long time. That's why people tend to incorporate it somewhere into their wedding. For instance, a bride can have thistles in her wedding bouquet, and they look beautiful. Or people incorporate thistles into their tartan, napkins or table linen, it can be embroidered anywhere – just little things. And these thistle images have nothing to do with luck or anything like that. It has everything to do with national symbols and traditions.
Tartan is the name given to a woolen cloth that is woven into different patterns that usually involves some form of check and/or linking lines. They come in lots of different colors. And there's, actually, tartans that are specific to each clan in Scotland. And clan is a surname of families in Scotland. It used to be tradition that people would use and incorporate the tartans of their clans into their wedding. Though today, people tend to just pick a tartan that matches their wedding colors and that is nice for them. But still, incorporation of tartan into a wedding ceremony and party is very common in Scotland.
Commonly, the last song at a Scottish wedding is the "Loch Lomond". For the Loch Lomond, the bride and groom and their immediate family go to the center of the room or dance floor, form a circle, and interlink hands. And then everyone else at the wedding, all the guests form another circle right around them – usually, it's considerably bigger. And everyone just sings along, swings hands, and stamps their feet or claps their hands. That continues on for most of the song, but then, when it picks up toward the end, both circles go in and then go out, everyone jumps in and then jumps out. It's a fun really. Everyone just has a good laugh.
So, these were some of the most popular and interesting wedding traditions from Scotland.
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U.S. Men's Soccer, But Not Women's, Gets To Play All Its Games On Grass
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U.S. women's national team player Megan Rapinoe challenges Saori Ariyoshi of Japan on the turf during the Women's World Cup final July 5 in Vancouver.
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The U.S. men's national soccer team (USMNT) has played on perennial ryegrass and Kentucky bluegrass and Latitude 36 Bermuda grass, but it hasn't played a game on artificial turf in the U.S. in the past two years.1 Compare that with the U.S. women's national team (USWNT), which was forced this weekend to either refuse to play in a friendly match against Trinidad and Tobago because of unsuitable field conditions at Aloha Stadium in Hawaii, or to play in front of Hawaiian fans for the first time but risk injury.
The argument surrounding turf versus natural playing surfaces is ongoing, but there wasn't much nuance to the situation at Aloha Stadium: "The artificial turf was actually pulling up out of the ground," the team wrote in a collective post on The Players' Tribune. "There were sharp rocks ingrained all over the field." The women chose not to play.
Our loyal fans: Thanks for standing with us against unsafe field conditions & standing tall for #equal treatment pic.twitter.com/abn560Kitw
— Hope Solo (@hopesolo) December 6, 2015
The playing conditions for the USWNT are baffling when compared with those for the men's team — both are overseen by governing body U.S. Soccer (USSF), and yet the men's team has played 100 percent of its U.S. games on grass (or turf overlaid with grass) since 2014. During the same time period, the women have played less than 70 percent of their U.S. games on grass.
Both teams have played fewer than 30 games in the U.S. in the past two years, so a difference in surface for a few games can dramatically change these percentages. And that's what happened with the USWNT: In the run-up to the Women's World Cup this summer, the USWNT had played only two games on turf since 2014, the last of which was in September 2014 at Sahlen's Stadium in Rochester, New York. But after losing its legal battle against FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association over artificial turf fields at the Women's World Cup, the women returned home world champions and were awarded a 10-game victory tour — with eight matches scheduled to be played on artificial turf.
Claims of sexism and discrimination have dogged the federation as the issue of playing surfaces has gained attention, and it's not hard to see why. For instance, the USSF does not vet venues before matches for the USWNT, as it does for the USMNT. But whatever is motivating the decisions, they send a message: indifference to the preference of USWNT players, in particular when compared with the men.
That preference is at root here. FIFA and other governing bodies say there is no greater risk of injury playing soccer on artificial turf than on natural grass (a recent ESPN report suggests that there might be other risks, though). The study FIFA cites is lacking, as it's based on a small sample of mostly male teams playing on FIFA-certified turf, but it's also irrelevant to the broader concern. Players vigorously prefer natural grass to artificial (if you've ever tried a slide-tackle on turf, you know the feeling), but only one set of preferences has been taken to heart. If USSF has deemed turf unsuitable for the men's team, the women shouldn't be playing on it either.
The next game on the USWNT victory tour is a friendly Thursday at the Alamodome in San Antonio. When the USWNT last played there against Australia in 2013, Australian forward Kyah Simon tore her ACL in a noncontact play within 30 seconds of entering the match. It's the same field that was overlaid with grass for a USMNT friendly against Mexico in April (which has its own shortcomings), but as of Monday, the USSF had no plans to remedy the Alamodome turf for the women.
Possibly longer; the U.S. Soccer website has matches only since 2014.
Allison McCann is a former visual journalist for FiveThirtyEight. @atmccann
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