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Rising Trends in Digital Health: 5 Technologies That Will Define the Future of Healthcare
Author: masschallenge
Healthcare and technology go hand-in-hand. But the question on many people's minds is where are they going? Digital health trends like telemedicine, IoT devices, and virtual reality surgical training continue to attract massive investment, helping the industry improve health equity worldwide.
The World Health Organization defines health equity as "… the absence of unfair and avoidable or remediable differences in health among population groups defined socially, economically, demographically or geographically."
Put simply, health equity is all about making healthcare more accessible and affordable for everyone — and digital health trends are the driving forces behind health equity.
Of course, there are many challenges on the road to achieving this goal, with stakeholders at all levels of government involved and a myriad of social determinants of how we collect, analyze, and share health data.
Read on as we explore the five crucial digital health trends with real momentum and explain why they matter to health equity and the future of healthcare.
5 Biggest Digital Health Trends to Watch
The pandemic triggered massive disruption in the healthcare industry and pushed the sector to invest more in innovative new technology. Some of the following digital health trends gained momentum during the pandemic and are predicted to change the future of medicine:
1. Telehealth
Telehealth is the use of digital communication technologies such as computers, mobile phones, and tablets, to facilitate the delivery of healthcare services.
As the pandemic reduced in-person visits, healthcare providers had to pivot quickly. In April 2020, over 43% of Medicare primary care visits were conducted via telehealth services.
Even as the COVID-19 vaccines roll out globally, telehealth looks set to stay. Studies from Fortune Business Insights predict the telehealth market will grow beyond $185 billion by 2026.
Telehealth offers multiple benefits, including:
Expanded healthcare access: More people can access health-related services, including medically vulnerable people and people without transportation or a provider in their local area.
Reduced contact: There is less contact between healthcare workers and patients, and also less chance of illness spreading, with fewer patients in medical buildings.
Care for urgent non-COVID-19 conditions: Patients with chronic conditions who need frequent checkups may be able to schedule remote appointments, if no in-person tests are required.
Continuity of care: With consistent communication, providers can nurture their relationships with patients and potentially avoid any negative consequences caused by delayed or missed in-person appointments.
People want a seamless digital experience to schedule appointments, get medication, and receive essential communication and advice on their health. Telehealth — instead of being a passing trend — is expected to become an important component of a comprehensive health care plan that improves the patient experience.
An estimated 40% of primary care appointments could be conducted remotely, and providers that offer telehealth options are likely to benefit from greater patient volume. The American Hospital Association reported that hospitals lost $161.4 billion from March to June 2020. Telehealth could help hospitals recoup some of those losses.
McKinsey estimates that $250 billion of the total U.S. healthcare spend may go virtual in the years after the pandemic. Rather than looking to digital health trends as an experimental option, the sector must fully embrace innovation to improve the agility and efficiency of providers in the future.
2. IoT and Medicine
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the growing network of physical objects that contain software, sensors, and other technologies that enable connections and data exchanges with disparate devices and systems across the internet.
Medical IoT is a rapidly growing field that uses wearable devices, monitors, and integrated applications for healthcare needs. With AI and machine learning technology, medical IoT can offer enhanced versions of traditional medical devices, like the  smart inhaler — a device that syncs patient usage with a mobile app.
Medical IoT offers multiple benefits, including:
Remote monitoring: Patients can use wearable devices and go about their lives. Meanwhile, healthcare professionals can remotely monitor patients' conditions with real-time data insights, reducing the frequency of in-person appointments
Improved convenience: With the rise of 5G and smart technology in healthcare, patients have more ability to manage their conditions and health needs. For example, smart insulin pens, and glucose monitoring devices help people keep tabs on their health needs with minimal disruption to their lives.
Lower costs for patients: As the technology improves, many IoT devices will become more affordable, edging us closer to health equity. That's good news for patients.
Lower costs for hospitals: Hospitals rely on their complex medical equipment, such as X-ray machines, CAT scanners, and magnetic resonance imagers (MRI). The cost of replacing one of those machines is exorbitant, and any amount of machine downtime is costly. With IoT devices that monitor these machines and alert technicians about problems, hospitals can perform better predictive maintenance and avoid costly downtime.
Furthermore, hospitals can use sensors to track supply inventory, optimizing their usage and spending on gases, chemicals, and disposable items like masks, gloves, and syringes.
IoT is one of the fastest-growing digital health trends — DataProt reports a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28.6% this year. This growth is supported by the global adoption of cloud computing and mobile apps.
When it comes to healthcare, data storage and security are paramount. Patients must be able to trust healthcare providers with sensitive personal information. In addition to protecting personal information, IoT devices must be reliable in terms of their connections, performance, and real-time data delivery. If there are any lags or downtime, healthcare professionals could miss critical information about a patient's health.
The cloud age is ripe with opportunities for healthcare, but trust in data security and IoT functionality is still evolving. With that in mind, we can expect greater investment and funding to improve upon IoT technology in the years ahead.
3. Apps for Employee Wellness
As life amid a pandemic extended, it deeply affected mental health as well. Mindfulness apps like Headspace, Liberate, and Calm weren't just for the niche meditation audience, as mainstream adoption drove download numbers in the wellness app market. According to a report from The New York Times, Calm acquired 10 million new users, and venture capitalists pooled
$75 million to take the company's valuation north of $2 billion.
Employers are increasingly recognizing that wellness apps could be helpful for their employees. Company initiatives like corporate wellness retreats, workplace yoga, and team-building events have been around for decades, but the employer-provided wellness app is a relatively new concept.
Employee wellness apps offer multiple benefits, including:
Increased job satisfaction: A report from SHRM found that 48% of U.S. employees claim that they would have more confidence in digital health tools if their employer offered them. Moreover, 26% said that if such apps were on offer, they would be more inclined to stay with their current employer.
Reduced costs: The increasing usage of health apps will help reduce overall health costs for providers and patients. In 2018, reports estimated health apps might save the U.S. healthcare system $7 billion each year. As the mobile age continues to attract more people to wellness apps, employers should see a decrease in employee "sick days," which would in turn boost productivity.
Personalized healthcare: Many health and wellness apps enable users to set up a personal profile, which will then track key measures like weight, calorie count, and blood sugar levels. With personalized healthcare at our fingertips, people can have more control over their health. Also, users can share health data with their providers.
Some of the apps targeting the corporate workplace include Limeade, which enables companies to nurture a culture of well-being and inclusion, and Vantage Fit, which helps employers create simple wellness programs and challenges to help their employees stay fit and healthy.
The Future of Health report from Deloitte projects wellness to continue as one of the most important digital health trends in the next 20 years. By 2040, we can expect a fundamental shift away from treatment-focused medicine, with 60% of spending going toward improving health and well-being.
In line with this trend, employers will focus more on marketing to audiences that are interested in wellness apps and practices. Companies will implement digital wellness strategies as they attempt to build their teams and improve workplace morale and job satisfaction.
4. Continued Innovations in Infectious Disease Management
Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic began, it was apparent just how unprepared the healthcare sector was to handle the situation. Within a few weeks, the only digital health trends worth talking about were those that sought to combat the spread of the virus.
Many countries raced to launch apps that would help governments and healthcare providers with virus testing, tracking, and monitoring. No sooner than one app was launched, another would arrive with enhanced capabilities for shorter testing times and better tracking features.
Unfortunately, it took the tragedy of the pandemic to spark innovation in the healthcare industry. While there have been massive losses since the end of 2019, there has also been tremendous progress.
There have been remarkable breakthroughs in genomics and sequencing technologies In the last two decades. This progress laid the foundation for the COVID-19 vaccines and made their accelerated development possible.
Messenger RNA (mRNA) is the basis of the first vaccines. But it's not limited to tackling COVID-19, as it enables researchers to create many other vaccines and treatments at much lower costs and in less time than traditional methods. Described as "biological software," mRNA vaccines can be customized with a protein code that stimulates an immune response to a specific pathogen.
We may soon see new solutions for other diseases, including malaria, hepatitis B, tuberculosis, and cystic fibrosis. Furthermore, researchers are looking at how mRNA medicines could be used to treat cancer, with clinical trials in progress.
The rapid innovation in healthcare throughout the past years made it possible to bring testing for COVID-19 mobile. Soon, we should be able to test for other infectious diseases outside of traditional healthcare settings, enabling providers to test people in workplaces, schools, and homes.
In February 2021, Moderna, Inc. announced intentions to ramp up manufacturing investment, as it targets the production of 1.4 billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine in 2022. We can also assume that virtual healthcare will enhance efforts to control the spread of disease.
Historically, the vaccine development process has been slow — 10 years, in some cases — but production timelines for mRNA vaccines could be as short as three to four months.
In the future, AI and predictive analytics will be crucial to helping medical professionals develop a better scientific understanding of the incubation and spread of infectious diseases. However, at a more fundamental level, the entire global health system is set for an overhaul of supply chains and logistics so that it's possible to deliver effective, affordable vaccines and healthcare to whoever needs it when they need it. '
5. Virtual and Augmented Reality
Not long ago, virtual reality seemed like a novelty best suited to video games. Now, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology offer a wide range of practical uses beyond gaming and entertainment.
In healthcare, VR helps with surgical training and planning, enabling both surgeons and patients to get more comfortable with procedures. There are also many reports about the efficacy of VR for helping with chronic pain management and mental health.
MarketsandMarkets conducted a study on the expected growth of AR and VR in healthcare, projecting a 30.7% annual growth rate between 2017 and 2025.
Health professionals already use virtual reality to treat a variety of conditions, including mental illnesses, such as anxiety, phobias, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Providers can use VR and AR technology to create simulations of real-life scenarios where people feel psychologically challenged — for example, dealing with eating disorders, a fear of heights, or social anxiety.
Although people understand when they put on a VR headset or use an augmented reality application that the environment is artificial, the simulation gives them an opportunity to face challenges and overcome their fear with practice. Oxford VR reports that this style of immersive therapy can reduce fears and phobias by 68% after an average treatment time of only two hours.
On the providers' side, VR helps medical professionals build their skillset. A study on the impact of VR training in healthcare revealed that students who received VR training were able to complete medical procedures 20% faster than a group who only received traditional training. Also, the VR-trained group completed 38% more steps correctly.
The healthcare VR market was just $2 billion in 2019, but a recent report from Verified Market Research predicts massive growth, to the tune of $34 billion by 2027.
In the next year (and beyond), we'll witness many new VR and AR applications in healthcare. These technologies transcend the short shelf life of many digital health trends, as they present tangible long-term benefits for medical professionals and patients, which can save time and money, and improve overall patient care.
Companies like Oxford VR and Karuna Labs are leading a mission to help people who have chronic pain and mental illness — both of which were health problems long before the pandemic lockdown.
VR is still a developing technology. As it continues to advance, its capabilities herald exciting developments for areas like preventive healthcare, rehabilitation, and cancer therapy.
The technology behind telemedicine, IoT devices, and healthcare apps didn't just start appearing in response to the pandemic — we've had it for years. But it took the pandemic to push healthcare forward, and for health institutions, providers, and patients to embrace digital health trends and new technology.
With remote services, IoT devices, and accelerated research and development practices now in full swing, providers and patients now understand the value of digital health services. Funding and investment activity shows that others see the value in digital health trends, too.
Total funding for digital health initiatives hit an all-time high of $26.5 billion in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzing investment growth. Funding for telemedicine alone hit $4.3 billion. And In 2020, six digital health companies raised over $6 billion on their IPOs. (In 2021, we can expect more companies to go public as digital health trends present new technologies for investors).
There is still massive scope for improvement. But the healthcare industry is taking innovation seriously, focusing on creating a better future and greater health equity for everyone.
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Firecracker explosion in the mouth of a 3-year-old child
D Sardana, A Goyal, K Gauba
Unit of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Oral Health Science Center, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Date of Web Publication 19-Mar-2013
D Sardana
Unit of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, OHSC, PGIMER, Chandigarh - 160 012
Facial soft tissue injuries are commonly associated with majority of pediatric trauma cases. A rare case of soft tissue trauma caused due to explosion of a firecracker intraorally in a 3-year-old child is being presented.
Keywords: Explosion, firecracker, intraoral, trauma
Sardana D, Goyal A, Gauba K. Firecracker explosion in the mouth of a 3-year-old child. J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent 2012;30:337-9
Sardana D, Goyal A, Gauba K. Firecracker explosion in the mouth of a 3-year-old child. J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent [serial online] 2012 [cited 2023 Feb 1];30:337-9. Available from: http://www.jisppd.com/text.asp?2012/30/4/337/108935
Diwali (or Deepawali) is a famous festival celebrated in India during the month of October/November. Lots of patients report to the hospitals around Diwali with injuries or burns caused due to fireworks because of negligence. [1],[2],[3] Most of these injuries occur in children due to the lack of safety measures while handling these firecrackers. Various types of firecrackers implicated in injuries are: Groundspinners, flare/fountains, sparklers, string bombs, rockets, etc. [3] However, no case of intraoral injury has been reported due to popper in a child as young as 3 years. The purpose of this case report is to present a rare case of injury caused due to biting on a firecracker in a 3-year-old female child on the eve of Diwali and highlight the importance of precautions which need to be taken while handling the firecrackers.
A 3-year-old female child was referred by the Unit of Plastic Surgery of the emergency surgical out-patient department to the Unit of Pediatric Dentistry, Oral Health Sciences Center, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for evaluation of dental and oral injuries after intraoral firecracker explosion. The injury had occurred 18 h prior to oral examination, when the patient had chewed upon a firecracker commonly known as popper (also called snapper and snap dragon) thinking of it as toffee or chocolate on the eve of Diwali, which exploded in the oral cavity causing an injury. The patient reported to the Advanced Trauma Center, PGIMER, where full-thickness triangular laceration of the right cheek and lip was sutured layer by layer by a plastic surgeon [Figure 1]. The history revealed that there was loss of consciousness at the time of injury without any bleeding from ear or nose.
Figure 1: Sutured right cheek and lip laceration at the time of presentation
On examination, the patient was alert but irritable. Glasgow coma rating of the child was E 4 V 5 M 6 . General body examination did not reveal any sign of injury elsewhere. Extraorally, the right cheek and lip had interrupted sutures and there was swelling below the right eye. Radiograph of the chest was taken to rule out aspiration of any firecracker piece [Figure 2]. Computed tomography (CT) scan of the head and neck did not reveal any abnormality [Figure 3], and neurological opinion was taken to rule out any injury or trauma to brain. Intraoral examination was carried out with difficulty; there was no sign of any malocclusion or step deformity, thereby ruling out any bony injury. Examination of individual teeth revealed subluxated 51, for which the child was kept under observation and later treated endodontically under conscious sedation after the mobility improved. The patient was recalled after 1 week for further follow-up examination.
Figure 2: Chest X-ray of the patient showing no aspiration
Figure 3: CT scan of the face: Buccal luxation of 51 evident, no other abnormality detected
A similar firecracker was procured from the patient and sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), Chandigarh, for a detailed physical and chemical analysis. The analysis report revealed it to be locally made cardboard cylinder of length 5 cm and width 1 cm, and consisted of small pieces of stones along with an orange powder. Analysis of this powder was done at CFSL through chemical tests, chromatographic tests, and spectrometric methods, which showed the presence of potassium, antimony, chlorate, and sulfide ions, which are the ingredients of low-grade explosives.
Firework injuries are very common in India around Diwali festival. [3] Most of the injuries occur either during igniting or mishandling them in an unsafe way, which usually happens when children play with them unsupervised. Flare/fountain firecrackers have been reported to cause most of the injuries and the least injuries have been reported with sparklers, [3] although in the present case, the injury occurred due to chewing on the popper. There is no previous report of injuries caused to any part of the body due to poppers. Poppers are considered to be one of the safest firecrackers by the parents and others, as these do not need ignition and are relatively of mild intensity. These, when thrown hard on the ground, burst with a sound. Unfortunately, poppers available commercially in India are mostly unstandardized and also sometimes sold in attractive packets for small children without any manufacturer warning and instructions. In the present case, there was soft tissue trauma without any injury to any other important anatomical structures (e.g., bone, eye, or neurovascular bundle) or any damage which could have occurred due to swallowing of firecracker since its contents, viz. sulfides, chlorates, and antimony, are considered to be toxic.
Two such case reports of intraoral firecracker injuries have been reported in the literature. In the first case report, the injury occurred in a 19-year-old male patient, who sustained injuries to the oral cavity, though the relevant history and mechanism of injury were not elaborated. [4] In the second case report, a 25-year-old male suffered injuries while playing a Russian roulette game. [5] To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of injury to oral cavity which occurred due to accidental chewing of a firecracker (popper) by a child as young as 3 years.
Although rare, similar type of injuries may occur and may be a potential threat to the life of patients or children. Hence, it is important to make the parents aware of the hazards caused by children playing with firecrackers, howsoever safe they might be considered. Also, parents must supervise and ensure adequate safety measures on occasions when children are free to play with firecrackers. Fireworks should be subject to strict standardization and these should be marketed with manufacturer instructions and safety warnings. Although in the present case the patient was referred by a plastic surgeon, as a pediatric dentist, one should be aware of the existence and management of such injuries in their routine practice and must counsel parents for taking adequate safety measures during the use of firecrackers.
1. Kumar R, Puttanna M, Sriprakash KS, Sujatha Rathod BL, Prabhakaran VC. Firecracker eye injuries during Deepavali festival: A case series. Indian J Ophthalmol 2010;58:157-9.
2. Arya SK, Malhotra S, Dhir SP, Sood S. Ocular fireworks injuries. Clinical features and visual outcome. Indian J Ophthalmol 2001;49:189-90.
3. Puri V, Mahendru S, Rana R, Deshpande M. Firework injuries: A ten-year study. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2009;62:1103-11.
4. Cobley S. A firework in the mouth. Br Dent J 1990;169:22.
5. Di Benedetto G, Grassetti L, Forlini W, Bertani A. An explosion in the mouth caused by a firework. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2009;62:e145-6.
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Andrew W. Talbert, Alizabeth K. Weber, Cindy C. Bitter
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open. 2021; 2(1)
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Q: Knockout: How to put $.get into a function? I am using getJSON in my knockout view:
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I want to make it a function for reuse so next time I can reload items on page action. How to do it?
When I tried:
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I got self.getBasketItems() is undefined.

A: The quickest fix:
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This returns the promise, so you can use it in a chain like so:
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You can also make a more general utility function like:
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I don't really think this is an improvement, but it might suit your style.
Make sure you don't forget to handle exceptions/errors!

A: what @haim770 suggested was this:
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But, from your comments, it seems you're trying to actually return the value into self.getBasketItems? In that case, you will need to do a synchronous call (getJSON is asynchronous) using the $.ajax method instead.
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Please note that this second solution is very quirky. And the browser will actually hang waiting for the response from the server. You would be better of using either callbacks or promises.
Let me know if this helps!
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Gunpowder Capital Corp., Completes the Sale of its Fourth USA Home Rehabilitation Property
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - December 21, 2018) - Gunpowder Capital Corp. (CSE: GPC) (CSE: GPC.PR.A) (OTCQB: GNPWF) (FSE: YS6N) ("Gunpowder" or the "Corporation") announced today that it its partner in its USA Home Rehabilitation Market Pilot Programme (the "Programme") has successfully closed the sale of the fourth rehabilitated property the partnership has worked on together.
Gunpowder fully financed the purchase of this property which amounted to Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ("$400,000.00") USD and the Corporation earned Seven Thousand & Ninety Dollars ("$7,090.00") USD in interest on the purchase. Since December of 2017, Gunpowder has now earned approximately Fifty-Two Thousand Dollars ("$52,000.00") USD in total profit which was generated via both interest earned, and via net profit earned, from the combined sale of the four previous properties. The Corporation currently now has one remaining rehabilitation project.
The Corporation may elect to exit this business in early 2019 unless the inventory of available projected profitable projects increases significantly, as the changing economic conditions, and lack of inventory of potential profitable projects, will prevent the Corporation in achieving the critical mass it had hoped to achieve.
About Gunpowder Capital Corp.
Gunpowder Capital Corp., is a merchant bank and advisory services firm based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Gunpowder invests in both publicly traded and private businesses that have successful management teams and attractive economic models. Gunpowder partners with these businesses to support their growth initiatives with its proven methodology of appropriate financing and structured exits. Gunpowder offers debt financing, including mezzanine and bridge loans, equity financing and advisory services. Gunpowder is also building a portfolio of companies in which it takes a long term position and view. For more information please visit www.gunpowdercapitalcorp.com.
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Japan's Doan savours answering Germans' jibes
Japan's Ritsu Doan celebrates after scoring their opening goal in the World Cup Group E football match against Germany at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar on Wednesday. Japan won 2-1.
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Just wait, thought Ritsu Doan. Just wait.
The Japan midfielder, who plays for German club Freiburg, had to grit his teeth when he heard people saying his team would be an easy opponent for Germany at the World Cup.
"I listened to their talks with a fake smile on my face and in my heart," the 24-year-old Doan said Thursday after sparking a remarkable comeback and arguably the biggest result in Japan's World Cup history the night before.
After entering in the 71st minute, Doan only needed four minutes to cancel Ilkay Gundogan's first-half penalty with the equaliser, then he watched as fellow substitute Takuma Asano bagged the winner in the 83rd for Japan's 2-1 win.
"I thought it was the coolest thing I could do as a man to shut them up by winning, so I'm glad I won and so could do that," Doan said.
The surprise win over the four-time champions set off wild celebrations from the sizeable contingent of Japanese fans at the Khalifa International Stadium and prompted outpourings of joy from fans watching the goals on large screens at home.
"I think that the whole of Japan was very excited," Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said. "I was able to watch the game on TV and it was a great victory."
Kishida paid tribute to the "team power, individual power and the direction of the coach".
Japan forward Daizen Maeda said it was "the happiest moment I have ever had in my football career".
While Japan celebrated what coach Hajime Moriyasu called "a historic moment, a historic victory" immediately after the game, the former midfielder struck a more cautious note the next day as he attempted to refocus them for the next match against Costa Rica on Sunday.
"I keep saying that we should not be too happy or sad about the results," the coach said Thursday. "The result against Germany is already in the past, so we will do our best to prepare ourselves to win the next match. We will do what we have always been doing and be ready for the next game."
Costa Rica's campaign at the World Cup started with a 7-0 thrashing from Spain.
Japan can theoretically even book their place in the second round with a win on Sunday, depending on a favour from Spain against Germany.
Japan are playing in their seventh straight World Cup and Moriyasu previously said they aim to reach the quarterfinals for the first time.
Even Doan has toned down his excitement as he looks forward to the challenges ahead.
"We haven't changed history yet, but I think it was a historic match, so I celebrated with all my teammates yesterday," Doan said. "But from today, I really changed my mind and am preparing for the Costa Rica game, so I will be careful not to be big-headed."
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My grandmother came to Providence to go to college at the tail end of the 1940s. My grandfather, meanwhile, was born to immigrant parents in South Providence. As soon as they met, my great-grandparents plotted to break them up. He was Jewish, she was Protestant, and that just wasn't done in those days. They married anyway. Then, she dropped out of school and became pregnant. She was 19.
It wasn't easy for them. While my grandfather drifted from job to job, my grandmother stayed home to raise a growing nest of boys. But after my father was born, she went back to school and finished her degree. She got a job teaching English as a second language in the Providence Public Schools. Sadly, she died last year. But she still taught English to new immigrants in our city to the very end.
My grandparents were proud to be Americans. They saw a country that created Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. It was a country that fought for the middle class and the poor, not for the wealthiest and most well-connected. From them, I learned that being an American is about caring for our neighbors and fighting for what's right.
My name is Sam Bell, and I am the State Senator representing you in District 5. My wife, Samantha, and I live in Mount Pleasant on Gray St., just south of Chalkstone. When I'm not in the senate, I'm a geologist, and Samantha works at Hasbro. We're new homeowners, and new parents to a wonderful son. We want him to be able to bike down decent roads on his way to a good public school. We want him to be able to depend on Medicaid if he needs it. We want him to be safe from gun violence. We want him to live in a city and state that aren't in a constant state of budget crisis. That's what I'm fighting for in the State Senate. I want our family and families like yours to live in a state we can be proud of.
My father, Mike, grew up in the Providence Public Schools. My mother's father came to America as a Holocaust refugee, and he served our country as a diplomat. As a child, my mother, Diane, moved from country to country as my grandfather's postings changed. My parents are still happily married today.
They raised me to believe everyone deserves an equal shot, no matter who they are or where they came from. They raised me to care, and they taught me to believe this is what our elected officials are supposed to do, long before I had the honor of becoming one myself. But when I saw what our state politicians in Rhode Island were actually doing, I was horrified.
The breaking point for me was the shooting at Newtown. I remember sitting at home and watching for hours as they read names of children, first graders, who were gunned down in their classroom. I knew we had to do something, anything to make sure this couldn't happen in our state. I got to work and joined a group of volunteer activists who came together to fight for common-sense gun reforms. Of course, I expected that our elected officials would support bills like this. What I found instead were senators in suits with "gun control doesn't work" buttons on their lapels. They ignored us. Unsurprisingly, our bills lost.
I realized that at the root of all of our problems was the same thing: money. I got to work. I did an investigation, and I discovered that all the money was coming in illegally from the national level. As a result, we forced the NRA to pay a $63,000 fine, shut down for 6 months, and stop the flow of illegal, out-of-state money. But what shocked me most was how many politicians in our state government had taken illegal money from the NRA.
In 2018 I was elected to the State Senate, making the transition from activist to legislator. I am incredibly thankful to the people of Senate District 5 who have placed their trust in me to make their voices heard on the senate floor.
In my first term in the senate, I've worked to bring the values I was raised with and the promises you asked of me to the State House. What I didn't realize was how much of a fight it would be to change the culture. So many people are afraid to vote no or to stand against leadership. But I stand for you, District 5, and that means I'm not afraid to vote no.
During the campaign, so many of you asked me to commit not to vote for Dominick Ruggerio for Senate President, and I held my word. I thought I would be the only one, but veteran Senator Donna Nesselbush joined me to vote no. We were tired of the broken process and corruption that has been hurting our state for far too long.
Just two people voting no in a room full of yes may seem daunting, but that was just the start. Usually, when a bill makes it to the floor, it's a done deal. Leadership has already guaranteed it will pass, and no one wants to get in the way. But by the end of the session, we voted down a bad bill on the senate floor, something not seen for years. We can make a difference. We can say no to policies that hurt our communities.
Still, it's not easy. I was one of only eight senators to vote no on overriding Providence's control over our local land use on the I-195 land, clearing the way for the heavily subsidized luxury apartments in the Fane Tower. Handouts for politically connected developers are not what our elected officials should be fighting for. And as your senator, I will always be there to listen to you.
I was also one of only eight senators to vote no on the budget. Some of the biggest issues we need to tackle are part of the budget, and year after year, we've been cutting assets from our communities instead of investing. This needs to stop.
Where our state legislature has cut the deepest has been Medicaid—year after year, budget after budget, and I could not vote for another one. Healthcare is personal for us. I used to have to wear leg braces to walk. My wife is a type 1 diabetic, and even with insurance, we spend more than a thousand dollars a year on the medicine she needs just to stay alive. Without insurance, we could never afford it. Medicaid is one of our country's greatest achievements. Cutting Medicaid is the last thing our state should be doing. Instead, we should be making greater investments in education, affordable housing, and the health of our communities.
Here in Rhode Island, our legislature has cut taxes for the rich by more than any state in American history, except for North Dakota. Now, our roads are a disgrace. Our schools are in even worse condition than the roads. Property taxes have shot way up on houses, apartments, and cars. These policies are wrong. We should have never cut taxes for the rich, and we cannot continue to watch our neighborhoods suffer. I will continue to fight to fund our communities and reduce the burden on our neighborhoods.
Of course, you can't just say no to things—you have to come up with solutions. To read about my legislation, you can visit this page.
Samantha and I want our children to be proud to call themselves Rhode Islanders. We want our children to know that their streets are safe, their schools are successful, their health is insured, and more than anything that their lives are valued. And we want you to feel the same way. That's what I'm fighting for as your State Senator.
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Q: Change the thickness of an SVG shape I'm not familiar enough with svg drawing.
I have this arrow in SVG format. How can I increase the thickness of the arrow?

  <svg viewBox="0 0 100 100">
    <path d="M 50,0 L 60,10 L 20,50 L 60,90 L 50,100 L 0,50 Z" class="arrow" transform="translate(85,100) rotate(180)"></path>
  </svg>

A: You can add a stroke with stroke="black" stroke-width="10" and then adjust your viewBox accordingly.

OLD:

  <svg viewBox="0 0 100 100">
    <path d="M 50,0 L 60,10 L 20,50 L 60,90 L 50,100 L 0,50 Z" class="arrow" transform="translate(85,100) rotate(180)"></path>
  </svg>

NEW:

  <svg viewBox="-10 -10 120 120">
    <path d="M 50,0 L 60,10 L 20,50 L 60,90 L 50,100 L 0,50 Z" class="arrow" transform="translate(85,100) rotate(180)" stroke="black" stroke-width="10"></path>
  </svg>

A: The stroke should be the background color and the stroke-width between 1 and 2
 svg path {
      stroke: #ffffff; /* Background color against your svg */
      stroke-width: 1px; /*Between 1px and 2px*/
    }

A: You can adjust stroke and stroke-width with CSS:
div svg path {
  stroke: #000000;
  stroke-width: 3px;
}


This client is searching for a senior Actuary for nine months to cover their Head of Reserving. This candidate should have a strong reserving background and be comfortable defending the reserves to Non Actuaries both internally and externally. Strong communication skills are vital.


The stunning Dottie Champagne is serving glamourous eleganza in this week's Dolly Shots Photoset!
Dottie will be performing alongside myself and a bevy of incredible queer artists at Fierce! The International Queer Burlesque Festival, running from May 24th till the 27th in Toronto! Dottie also produces a burlesque and improv night called Scenes & Sequins at The Social Capital on the first Friday of every month!
Very Nice…pretty gal all around! Starz are dazzling. Do more shots of her.


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Home /A representative of the Kobe Bryant pilot has accused passengers of a fatal helicopter crash
Latest NewsMay 12, 2020
A representative of the Kobe Bryant pilot has accused passengers of a fatal helicopter crash
A representative of the pilot who blew up the helicopter with NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and six others said he blamed passengers for the fatalities this week. Both Pilot and Island Express blamed the victims for their defensive tactics against Vanessa Bryant's lawsuit.
The pilot's family blamed Kobe Bryant and other passengers for the crash
TMZ reported that the pilot was firing back after a lawsuit was filed against the helicopter company Jobayan and Island Express, owned by Vanessa Biman, the wife of Bryant, a relative of Ara George Jobayan.
The relative said:
"The plaintiff and / or any injury or loss of their decency directly or in part or to the extent of the plaintiff's and / or their volunteer's knowledge of the risks involved by the negligence or guilt of their decency, and this negligence was a significant reason for their alleged loss for which this respondent is a defendant Bears no liability. "
The statement is deadly harsh that three children died in the accident.
It was also avoided that the experienced pilot Jobayan agreed to fly the helicopter that day. The pilot knew that LAPD and others had grounded their helicopter fleet due to fog and poor visibility.
Investigators also found that Joban was flying at 184 miles per hour when he crashed into a mountain in Calabasas, California.
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The Island Express also blames the victims
Still, blaming for passengers is a strategy that is clearly shared by both Jobayan's family and the Island Express. Both the pilot and the helicopter company chose this argument in response to Vanessa Bryant's lawsuit.
NBC News quoted Island Express as saying in court documents filed Monday in Los Angeles that Bryant was "actually aware of all the circumstances, had a perception of particular dangers and risks" and the way he chose to go to the table.
The agency added that they were not responsible and that the crash was "an act of God."
Vanessa Bryant filed her lawsuit
Vanessa filed her lawsuit back in February, arguing that Island Express and Jobain had "the responsibility to use the degree of care that a normal caring and intelligent pilot would use in the same or similar situation."
The lawsuit alleges Joban failed to properly assess weather information until the morning of the accident on January 26, 2006.
Backstory: Kobe Bryant's wife Vanessa claims pilot error and 'pre-impact terrorism' in new helicopter case
Understandably, this legal case has become a bit messy. But in this tragic statement, it is far from blaming the victims of this tragedy for their own deaths.
Each of these families is still mourning their loved ones. So this disobedient statement of the pilot's family is the thing they need to hear
Kobe Bryant and the rest of these passengers deserve more respect than that. Rest in peace.


Not being able to justify the cost of purchasing a furling system for several thousand dollars we decided to make a furling system that would not only roll the sail but would allow us to have it partially deployed (reefed) as well.
From a humble beginning in 1985 we manufactured one reefing, furling system for our own 45 foot Catamaran.
We were immediately asked to make similar systems for the sailing boats moored close by and so began our business of manufacturing furling systems for the sail boat industry.
By manufacturing and using the system myself and with feedback from customers we have, over the years improved, modified, strengthened and changed the system to achieve our commitment to make the strongest and most reliable furling system available with a warranty to match.
We now produce a range of furling systems to suit the largest commercial or world cruising or racing sail boats, down to the small trailer sailers.
We look forward to supplying a system for your sailing boat that will make sailing far more enjoyable, very efficient and much safer.


Methadone-maintained smokers represent an important and large population of long- term, highly dependent smokers; this study aimed to find an effective medication-based quit smoking strategy for this population.
The goal of this study was to develop and evaluate a clinic-based culturally tailored smoking cessation treatment for HIV+ Latino population.
This study evaluated the effectiveness of Internet cessation treatment alone and in combination with proactive telephone counseling.
The goals of this project are to develop a partnership between two existing successful initiatives: the Million Hearts Initiative at the MedStar Health system in the metro Washington, DC area, and the BecomeAnEX.org suite of digital smoking cessation programs at the American Legacy Foundation. This project also aims to advance physician training across MedStar Health clinics in assessment, brief advice, and referral to evidence-based smoking cessation.


This overflow tray is designed for use with IBC spill pallets BB1 and BB1C. It helps to prevent leaks and drips when dispensing from reaching the floor or entering drains. Once full liquid from the overflow tray runs into the main sump for additional safety.


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2021 PEP Science and Technology Scholarship Recipient Announced
Home » News and Issues » 2021 PEP Science and Technology Scholarship Recipient Announced
Oct 27, 2021 | PEP News
Partners for Environment Protection (PEP) Board of Directors are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2021 PEP Science and Technology Scholarship. This scholarship was established to support employees of PEP member companies and their dependents. It allows PEP to invest in and support educational opportunities in the fields of engineering and environmental sciences to expose students to critical environmental issues involving the Gulf Coast.
Riley McGlasson, Southern Methodist University
Majors: Engineering Management Science and Chemistry
Riley is currently a junior at Southern Methodist University. She is double majoring in Engineering Management Sciences and Chemistry. Based on her studies, Riley has found that as the field of biotechnology grows, science has moved from a qualitative field to a quantitative field. Riley hopes to take what she has learned to solve many of our modern-day environmental issues such as pollution after she graduates.
Join us in congratulating Riley on her award, and learn more about her in the video below!
Are you interested in applying for the PEP Scholarship?
Each year, PEP will award up to three $1,000 individual scholarships to students who meet the scholarship criteria and are enrolled in a two or four year college or university pursuing a degree or advanced degree in:
or other related science fields of study, including, but not limited to:
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PEP believes that successful business and community quality of life are dependent on innovation and an understanding and respect for our coastal environments and natural resources. To that end, PEP seeks to invest in and support educational opportunities in the engineering and environmental sciences to expose students to critical issues involving the Gulf Coast, encourage innovation in the work place, and promote further improvements of best practices that have a positive impact on our environment and resources. Local internships with our members and partners may be available to scholarship recipients. Scholarship recipients are welcome and encouraged to attend PEP events and meet experienced leaders in their fields, further encouraging the best and the brightest in these fields to remain as vital members of our Gulf Coast economy.
The Community Foundation will administer and select the recipients of the scholarships based on criteria established by the PEP Board of Directors.
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On 1 January 1999, the euro formally replaced the national currencies of 11 European countries. For a time it seemed that Europe's governments might use monetary union to co-ordinate a programme for growth and job creation. Instead they handed control of the economy to the new central bank, depriving voters of a say in how Europe's economy is run.
The launch of the euro (1) was preceded by a huge campaign to promote it. This initially concentrated mainly on the technical aspects of the currency change, though in the past two months there has been a heated debate over interest rates. This has served to distract people from the political and social issues that are crucial for Europe's future.
The election of social-democratic governments in Italy, Britain, France and Germany has significantly altered the balance of political forces within the European Union: 11 of the European Union's 15 governments are broadly speaking of the left. At first sight, things have never been more favourable for redirecting the EU building process towards more social objectives. We have seen a rejection of the liberal politics of the past decade, and their corollaries: austerity, social exclusion, precarious employment and mass unemployment. The extraordinary meeting of the Council of Europe in Luxembourg in November 1997, when the world financial crisis was in full spate (2), already signalled a sea-change in being exclusively devoted to employment.
The weeks following the victory of the red-green coalition in Germany last October seemed to consolidate this change of direction. That month a number of front-line leaders made some ground-breaking proposals that broke with ultra-liberal orthodoxy. Germany's finance minister, Oskar Lafontaine, proposed reforms to the international markets: to make them more transparent and less volatile, and limit the power of the speculators, he called for limits to be placed on permissible swings for the three major world currencies, the dollar, the yen and the euro. Italy's treasury minister, Carlo Ciampi, called for a relaxation of the growth and stability pact agreed in Amsterdam in June 1997, and Lionel Jospin pressed for a reform of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and holding a new Bretton Woods conference (3).
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* Professor at the University of Paris-VIII; author of L'Union européenne, Coll. Prépas, Armand Colin, Paris, 1998. (1) The 15 EU states, with the exception of Denmark, Greece, the UK and Sweden, have joined.
(2) See Manière de voir, "Anatomie de la crise financière", no 42, November-December 1998.
(3) Concluded on 22 July 1944 between 44 countries, Bretton Woods accords established the basis of the post-war international economic order and created the World Bank and IMF.
(4) See Rossana Rossanda, "Italy proves the exception", Le Monde diplomatique English edition, January 1999, in the Guardian Weekly and on the Internet.
(5) For 1998 inflation in the euro zone is less than 2%.


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Q: Why is my WCF proxy sending JSON with Content-Type: application/xml? Summary
I have a WCF backend service running in an Azure app service, and I'm developing a proxy which will use the same interface but manipulate some messages for compatibility with a client's system. I know this is a bit vague, but the details aren't important.
The problem is that when the proxy, running in IIS Express from Visual Studio 17, calls the backend it is doing so incorrectly, and the backend rejects the request. (Curiously the precise nature of the rejection differs between the real service and the minimal reproducible test case I've created for this post, but the difference is late enough that I don't believe it to be relevant).
By adding trace listeners to System.Net I can observe that the call made by the proxy to the backend has a body in JSON but headers which claim that it's XML:
System.Net Verbose: 0 : [4140] Data from ConnectStream#29742526::Write
System.Net Verbose: 0 : [4140] 00000000 : 7B 22 42 61 72 22 3A 22-42 2D 50 72 6F 78 69 65 : {"Bar":"B-Proxie
System.Net Verbose: 0 : [4140] 00000010 : 64 22 2C 22 46 6F 6F 22-3A 22 41 22 7D          : d","Foo":"A"}
System.Net Verbose: 0 : [4140] Exiting ConnectStream#29742526::Write()
System.Net Verbose: 0 : [4140] Entering ConnectStream#29742526::Close()
System.Net Verbose: 0 : [4140] Exiting ConnectStream#29742526::Close()
System.Net Verbose: 0 : [4140] Entering HttpWebRequest#45658036::GetResponse()
System.Net Information: 0 : [4140] HttpWebRequest#45658036 - Request: POST /DemoService.svc/DoTheThing HTTP/1.1

System.Net Information: 0 : [4140] ConnectStream#29742526 - Sending headers
{
Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
Host: wcfproxydemo.azurewebsites.net
Content-Length: 29
Expect: 100-continue
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: Close
}.

Can I change some configuration to get it to send JSON with the correct Content-Type header? I'd prefer not to have to switch everything over to XML.
Details
My minimal reproducible test case is available on Github. The only thing I've elided there is the publish profile to push the backend to Azure.
The various projects share an interface project, and there's no auto-generated service reference. (That might be a possible way forward, but it seems rather heavy-weight, so I'd prefer a config-based solution). The WCF config for the three components is
Backend
  <system.serviceModel>
    <bindings>
      <customBinding>
        <binding name="rest-https-nokeepalive">
          <webMessageEncoding />
          <httpsTransport manualAddressing="true" allowCookies="false" keepAliveEnabled="false" maxBufferSize="10000000" maxReceivedMessageSize="10000000" maxBufferPoolSize="10000000" />
        </binding>
      </customBinding>
    </bindings>
    <services>
      <service name="Backend.DemoService" behaviorConfiguration="ServiceBehaviour">
        <endpoint binding="customBinding" bindingConfiguration="rest-https-nokeepalive" contract="Interface.IDemoService" behaviorConfiguration="web" />
      </service>
    </services>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="ServiceBehaviour">
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" httpsGetEnabled="true" />
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
      <endpointBehaviors>
        <behavior name="web">
          <webHttp />
        </behavior>
      </endpointBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="false" multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
  </system.serviceModel>

Proxy
  <system.serviceModel>
    <bindings>
      <customBinding>
        <binding name="rest-https-nokeepalive">
          <webMessageEncoding />
          <httpsTransport manualAddressing="true" allowCookies="false" keepAliveEnabled="false" maxBufferSize="10000000" maxReceivedMessageSize="10000000" maxBufferPoolSize="10000000" />
        </binding>
      </customBinding>
    </bindings>
    <services>
      <service name="Proxy.DemoService" behaviorConfiguration="ServiceBehaviour">
        <endpoint binding="customBinding" bindingConfiguration="rest-https-nokeepalive" contract="Interface.IDemoService" behaviorConfiguration="web" />
      </service>
    </services>
    <client>
      <endpoint name="Backend" address="https://wcfproxydemo.azurewebsites.net/DemoService.svc" binding="customBinding" bindingConfiguration="rest-https-nokeepalive" contract="Interface.IDemoService" behaviorConfiguration="web" />
    </client>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="ServiceBehaviour">
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" httpsGetEnabled="true" />
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
      <endpointBehaviors>
        <behavior name="web">
          <webHttp />
        </behavior>
      </endpointBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="false" multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
    <diagnostics>
      <messageLogging logEntireMessage="true" logMalformedMessages="true" logMessagesAtServiceLevel="true" logMessagesAtTransportLevel="true" maxMessagesToLog="3000" maxSizeOfMessageToLog="2000" />
    </diagnostics>
  </system.serviceModel>

Test frontend
  <system.serviceModel>
    <bindings>
      <customBinding>
        <binding name="rest-https-nokeepalive">
          <webMessageEncoding />
          <httpsTransport manualAddressing="true" allowCookies="false" keepAliveEnabled="false" maxBufferSize="10000000" maxReceivedMessageSize="10000000" maxBufferPoolSize="10000000" />
        </binding>
      </customBinding>
    </bindings>
    <client>
      <endpoint name="Direct" address="https://wcfproxydemo.azurewebsites.net/DemoService.svc" binding="customBinding" bindingConfiguration="rest-https-nokeepalive" contract="Interface.IDemoService" behaviorConfiguration="web" />
      <endpoint name="Proxied" address="https://localhost:44388/DemoService.svc" binding="customBinding" bindingConfiguration="rest-https-nokeepalive" contract="Interface.IDemoService" behaviorConfiguration="web" />
    </client>
    <behaviors>
      <endpointBehaviors>
        <behavior name="web">
          <webHttp />
        </behavior>
      </endpointBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <diagnostics>
      <messageLogging logEntireMessage="true" logMalformedMessages="true" logMessagesAtServiceLevel="true" logMessagesAtTransportLevel="true" maxMessagesToLog="3000" maxSizeOfMessageToLog="2000"/>
    </diagnostics>
  </system.serviceModel>

A direct connection from the frontend to the backend works fine. A proxied connection fails because the backend isn't happy with the request it receives from the proxy, for obvious reasons.

A: I downloaded your code and reproduced your problem, the second request reports a 400 bad request error.
I re-construct your project and use the client proxy class to invoke the service in the proxy project and the Tester project, and when I remove the interface attribute in the proxy project(I use the three interfaces, although there are identical), it works.
[WebInvoke(Method = "POST")]
ConsoleApp1.ServiceReference1.DemoResponse DoTheThing(ConsoleApp1.ServiceReference1.DemoRequest request);

Besides, we could change the second outgoing request content type by using WebOperationContext class in the Proxy project, please refer to the below code snippets.
public DemoResponse DoTheThing(DemoRequest request)
    {
        request.Bar += "-Proxied";
        IDemoService service = factory.CreateChannel();
        using (OperationContextScope scope = new OperationContextScope((IContextChannel)service))
        {
            WebOperationContext woc = WebOperationContext.Current;
            woc.OutgoingRequest.ContentType = "application/json; charset=utf-8";
            var result = service.DoTheThing(request);
            try
            {
                return result;
            }
            finally
            {
                if (result is System.ServiceModel.ICommunicationObject client)
                {
                    if (client.State == System.ServiceModel.CommunicationState.Faulted) client.Abort();
                    else client.Close();
                }
            }
        }
    }

Feel free to let me know if there is anything I can help with.


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♻ How not to make a remake
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Sorry I left! Sorry I'm back!
Hey all — sorry for skipping the newsletter last week. As I mentioned when I moved from Revue to Substack, this is a side project and I don't always have time to get it done, especially at the end of the week when I'm readying Follow Friday.
Speaking of which, there are two episodes of that show that have come out since my last email. The first is with Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher, the hosts of Slate's delightful internet culture podcast ICYMI; the second, which came out yesterday, features Helen Zaltzman, the host of a podcast about language that I love, The Allusionst. Both of them are well worth your time, so please check them out!
Over the past couple weeks, I unintentionally watched two different remakes and a reboot, so let's start with those:
🦖 "You didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth."
I wasn't expecting much from the 2003 remake of The Italian Job, and I certainly wasn't expecting to like it more than the original.
To be clear: Mark Wahlberg is a lousy substitute for the original's star, Michael Caine. But unlike Caine's version of Charlie Croker, he is surrounded by a crew of fun and likable fellow crooks, including Charlize Theron (who should have just been the protagonist, but whatever). This is more of a spiritual sequel than a remake: The main heist takes place in LA, not Italy, for starters!
Is it a great movie? No. It reminded me of Pierce Brosnan-era James Bond: Competently shot, fun and stylish, but laden with product placement and problematic jokes. Still, this is the style of remake/reboot that works best for me. It borrows what it needs to from the source material, and leaves the rest behind.
That formula isn't foolproof, though. Case in point, High Society, a 1956 musical remake of The Philadelphia Story. On paper, it seems like a can't-miss combo: Take a classic comedy, add Cole Porter music, and cast Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, and Louis Armstrong.
But watching it, I was reminded of Disney's live-action remakes of its animated classics: Most of the material is unchanged and a pale imitation of the first film, and the new material doesn't add much.
I think Porter phoned in most of these songs, which start and stop sporadically and without purpose, and the talented actors just aren't as believable or charming as the original trio of Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart. The raison d'être for this movie seems to be: Musicals! It's the 1950s and people currently like those, right?
And then we come to the reboot, Jurassic World. It's technically a sequel to the original trilogy of Jurassic Park movies, but it's written to appeal to the largest possible modern audience, with frequent but irrelevant nods to the mythology.
And … oh boy. This one was much worse than I remembered it being. None of the Jurassic sequels have been very good; this one is overloaded with half-baked themes and subplots and zero actual wonder or believable character stakes. The winks at crass theme park commercialism and fickle consumers are cute, and the "raptor hunt" scene in the third act is genuinely thrilling, but very little of the rest works.
What all three of these movies have in common is a transparent desperation to appeal to changing sensibilities: Make it sexier! Make it a musical! Add more CGI! As I grow more curmudgeonly, with every passing year, I return over and over again to the fundamentals of cinema: A clear directorial vision, smart & sympathetic characters, and a script that has something to say. The rest is gravy.
The Italian Job ★★★½ - available to rent/buy on digital.
High Society ★★★ - on TCM, DirecTV, and elsewhere.
Jurassic World ★★½ - available to rent/buy on digital.
Other stuff I've watched recently
Fences ★★★★½ - A magnificently acted adaptation of the August Wilson play, directed by its star Denzel Washington, who largely chooses to let the powerful material speak for itself. The cast is absolutely perfect, with Washington as the embittered middle-aged garbage hauler Troy Maxson and Viola Davis as his wife, Rose. The coda is a little unsatisfying for reasons I won't spoil, but I'm only familiar with the movie version, so I wonder if the play leaves you feeling the same way, on purpose. On Peacock, Sling TV, and elsewhere.
Wolfwalkers ★★★★ - The jaw-dropping hand-drawn animation alone makes this a must-watch. Luckily, the story and characters are charming and effective, too. Inspired by Irish folklore, this is a kid-friendly movie that adults can enjoy. Adorable moments are tempered with genuinely tense peril and several scenes of awe. On Apple TV+.
His Girl Friday ★★★★ - A wild and witty screwball comedy (check), starring Cary Grant and a quick-talking partner, played by Rosalind Russell (check), AND it's a journalism movie with an amusingly cynical take on reporters (check). The ending is a total cop-out and denies us the catharsis of some seemingly obvious character beats, but 90% of the preceding movie is just short of perfect. On Amazon Prime, Hoopla, Kanopy, and many many other places.
I Confess ★★★½ - One of Alfred Hitchcock's less suspenseful films, but no less morbid. This one concerns a soldier-turned-priest suspected of murder in Quebec, but it's not a whodunnit — we're told definitively at the beginning of the movie who the murderer is, which … I don't know. There's a solidly tense courtroom scene and a fine melodramatic love story, but I think the story would have been stronger had the audience had been left a bit more in the dark.
Donnie Brasco ★★★½ - A solidly made, but largely unremarkable crime drama about an undercover FBI agent and a mobster who becomes something more than a friend and less than a father to him. Johnny Depp plays the title role with a quiet and not-particularly-effective intensity, but the movie really belongs to Al Pacino as an aging mid-level gangster who's always looking over his shoulder for threats. The story wasn't especially surprising, but it's always nice to see Pacino actually using his acting talents, rather than coasting on earned goodwill.
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Popular TV Show is Providing Tips on Male Fertility
posted by Jim Forsyth - Oct 1, 2018
Americans are getting a crash course on the dangers of antidepressants on men who are trying to become fathers from an unlikely source, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
A plot line on the super successful NBC show "This is Us' to open the new season shows a character being told that his antidepressant use is blocking he and his wife's ability to have a child.
Dr. Matthew Reztloff, a fertility expert at the Fertility Center of San Antonio says that isn't just a plot device. There is a lot of truth to it.
"We have seen an increase in the population taking antidepressants and that is translating into some impacts on male fertility," he said.
In fact, new research has shown a direct connection between the rise in antidepressant prescriptions and what has been called the 'male fertility crisis' in America.
Dr. Retzloff says there are several things about antidepressants, which mainly work on parts of the brain, that suppress male potency.
"They can have an impact on fertilization and subsequent birth outcome," he said. "It has also been show to affect sperm count, that is the concentration, and the motility as well."
Dr. Retzloff says he would never suggest that a patient withdraw from any prescription drug without the express approval of the prescribing doctor, but he suggests that men who want to start or expand a family should also check with a fertility expert before beginning a course of treatment.
"I think every medication needs to be critically assessed with a couple is trying ot conceive," he says. "I always say the safest medicine is no medicine."
Issues of fertility have taken center stage in recent years as the age of women becoming pregnant with their first child has reached the oldest in history..occasionally requiring fertility treatment.


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Deathloop Review
A fascinating concept with diverse gameplay awaits you!
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The Arkane Studios company is famous for creative and supernatural action spectacles. This concept is taken to the extreme in Deathloop with its mysterious time loop. This first-person action game tells the story of two assassins who are trapped in an eternal fight to the death! Find out whether the game can match the fascination of the Dishonored game in our Deathloop review in the following.
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Deathloop puts you in control of Colt, who is stuck in a time loop. Each day is repeated on the island of Blackreef, split into four areas and four times of the day. When you finish a game day or die, that loop will repeat itself all over again.
In other words, all enemies will be in the same place again, demolished buildings can be re-entered and you may return with new knowledge, greater preparation and more experience in situations where you previously failed.
The only way to escape the loop is to destroy the eight visionaries who control the island. But that's easier said than done since the eccentric personalities don't run into Colt's shotgun of their own free will. Rather, it's your job to carefully investigate the visionaries' daily routines, figure out their vulnerabilities, and finally figure out a way to take out all eight targets in just one loop.
To ensure that you don't literally start from scratch every morning, after a short time you'll learn to take weapons and skills with you to the next loop. The defeated visionaries and some items in Death Loop will leave behind so-called residue, allowing you to enrich the weapons and upgrades you find. As a result, Colt gets a bit stronger with each loop.
When Colt has learned a few of the supernatural abilities, Deathloop starts to have the arcane touch familiar from Dishonored. From this point on, you can adapt your style of play to your own preferences, be it through teleportation, invisibility or flinging helpless opponents around via Karnesia.
In order for the game to never be too easy, you'll always need to watch your own back so that you don't get caught by Julianna. She is your opponent who wants to stop you from killing the visionaries or hunts you down. This creates an exciting game of cat and mouse as soon as Julianna breaks into your timeline, making even repeated passages through familiar areas not boring so quickly.
As soon as you have gained enough experience and the island is as familiar as the back of your hand, you can also turn the tables: In Deathloop's online mode, you can put yourself in Julianna's shoes and hunt Colt down. For this purpose, a random matchmaking system is at your disposal, but you can also enter games from your friends list.
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Finding your way around Deathloop will take a bit of time. However, as soon as it clicks, a fascinating and motivating game flow emerges. Getting your bearings is almost too easy, as the game automatically evaluates every document found, every clue, every discovery and every connection, sending you directly to the next story snippet via quest marker.
Unfortunately, the independent unlocking of the time loop and the related "aha" moments, such as those that worked so excellently in Outer Wilds, are the exceptions. As soon as you've found sufficient clues and pursued the right quest lines, the game will even literally tell you how and where exactly you can find all the Visionaries in a single loop.
On the flip side, there is virtually no idle time, because you always know exactly what to do next, and you can always decide which lane or upgrade you want to chase next.
This freedom and versatility is also noticeable in your play style, because thanks to the special abilities, called panels in Deathloop, you can customize Colt to your liking. Do you want to be stealthy with teleport and invisibility, or aggressive with a combat shotgun and a devastation tablet?
Both of these and even more styles are possible, valid and can be combined at will. Moreover, since you can change your loadout between times of the day, your play style can always be adjusted to the next quest objective.
The characters are unfortunately less varied. While the cool retro scenery of the island Blackreef is completely impressive, you don't really need to expect sympathetic characters. It is without question intentional that the visionaries are unsympathetic stinkbots.
The fact that Colt and Julianna have nothing more to offer than some vulgar language and annoying arguments for the longest time, however, is more of an eye roll than a curiosity.
Once you discover more about Blackreef, the Visionaries, and Colt and Julianna's background story as the game progresses, the situation improves, of course, though overall the story and its characters fall short of expectations. This is too bad, after all, the time loop concept has so much potential for an exciting and original science fiction story.
With that said, Deathloop is far from a disappointment, although the game's major strengths clearly lie in the gameplay flow Arkane Studios has become accustomed to and less in unlocking the time loop. Therefore, anyone who expected a new Dishonored instead of a new Outer Wilds can pick it up without hesitation.
What do you think about this Deathloop review? Let us know your comments if you have already played the game on PS5.
Varied time loop scenario
Special abilities allow versatile playing styles
Cool retro setting
Original integrated multiplayer mode
Countless details and hidden secrets in the game world
Quests are too much for you to handle
Hardly any own conclusions or aha-moments possible
Unsympathetic characters
"Even if Deathloop fails to exploit the full potential of the fantastic concept, Dishonored fans will definitely get their money's worth thanks to the well-rounded gameplay."
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Make Up For Ever is another great brand almost impossible to find where I live, so I used this occasion to buy two Aqua Cream: n°19, a purple with multicolor shimmer and n°6, a pink with golden shimmer...they're so creamy and pigmented and once applied... they never smudge!! I also bought Aqua Eyes 1L which is a deep black...I haven't tested it on my eyes yet, but swatching it seems so soft!
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A growing number of indie authors are recognizing the importance of cultivating connections at bricks-and-mortar bookstores; at the same time, Christian retailers are warming to a category they have historically been cool toward.
She is not alone. A growing number of self-published/indie authors are recognizing the importance of cultivating connections at bricks-and-mortar bookstores; at the same time, Christian retailers are warming to a category they have historically been cool toward.
CBA, the Christian retail trade association, sees the self-publishing explosion as a way for member stores to connect with their local communities and establish themselves as places where readers can discover good new authors. The organization has focused on the trend at its recent trade shows, with special workshop sessions on how writers can get their books into stores.
"Get to know the manager and staff months before your book will be published. Buy your books there, and bring in friends and family members to shop. Get on their e-mail list."
That long-term view is important for retailers who might dismiss as a bust a signing where only a few people show up and sales are minimal. "It's not just about the [immediate] sales," says Darren Henry, president of Advocate Distribution Solutions, part of Send the Light Distribution LLC, which serves Christian stores. Seeing promotion of self-published authors as an opportunity for retailers to tap into the "buy local" groundswell, Henry notes that if Christian retailers don't want to go that route, others will. He points to Barnes & Noble frequently hosting local author signings.
Bookstores still leery about carrying self-published books might be encouraged to consider the category more seriously by the way some established authors with traditional publishing histories now are also taking the indie route. Among them is award-winning thriller writer Brandilyn Collins, who decided to go independent—turning down offers from other traditional houses—after the recent folding of B&H Publishing Group's fiction line left her without a contract.
Says Collins, "Stores' historical resistance to self-published books is and will continue to change as more and more well-known, bestselling, and award-winning authors choose to take this route. I know numerous names in this arena doing self-pub now, either turning to it full-time or going hybrid." Hers will be one of the banner names on a new initiative adding further credibility, if it's needed, to self-published books' in-store potential. Collins's new work of suspense, Sidetracked, will be one of the first titles featured in the new Jerry B. Jenkins Select Line of self-published books to be promoted to Christian retail in the spring.
Because of new technology and a growing number of providers—from traditional publishers launching their own self- and co-publishing divisions to former big-name publishing professionals offering independent services—indie authors are producing more quality work. But they still need to sharpen their business skills to connect with retailers.
Many stores that do work with self-published authors want to take the books on consignment, like Baker Book House in Grand Rapids, Mich. Store manager Sue Smith, recently elected chairman of CBA, notes that on such terms, carrying some self-published books can be "low risk." Smith is very selective in the self-published titles she accepts, and her experience is that self-published authors can be "very unrealistic about their sales" and quite demanding. But when there is a good connection they end up "being champions for your store," she says. And as part of a tight-knit writing community, they might send more self-published authors the store's way, she adds.
That's the kind of approach Jeff Dixon, a pastor in Sanford, Fla., has taken with his Disney-themed books, The Key to the Kingdom and Unlocking the Kingdom, both published by Deep River Books. "I have created events where we have done a night of Disney history, stories, and how we learn spiritual lessons from it, then spent some time talking about the books themselves," he says.
One challenge for smaller stores is that self-published books make a demand on already limited shelf space and can mean time-consuming paperwork, says longtime independent retailer Rick Lewis, who, with his wife, Sue, owns Logos Bookstore of Dallas. While "generally not a fan," he carries some self-published titles, seeing the most success with books by local pastors, counselors, and spiritual directors. "I think their books did well because their occupations have trained them well, they tend to be older with more life experience, and they are all readers themselves," he says.
Some Family Christian Stores locations might accept a local author's book on consignment, but currently "it's pretty rare," says Clark Miller, chief marketing officer for the Christian retail chain, with 280 stores in 36 states. "Self- and indie publishers often don't have the press run sizes and ability to accept returns and honor other terms that we require," he says. "In addition, there's no way for us to know whether these books have been professionally edited and vetted, and that they would be appropriate for our stores and our customers." However, as the publishing landscape continues to change, "we want to offer great content no matter where it is produced," Miller adds.


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Posted By: Adam Riceon: February 25, 2020 4:09 pm In: Cause BlogNo Comments
Maine Youth Justice rally at the state judicial center, part 1
Today in Augusta two demonstrations were held by the organization Maine Youth Justice. The first of these demonstrations was at the capital in Augusta where the halls could be seen packed with young people speaking to legislators and distributing information packets. At 11:00 am the group then assembled at the state judicial center down the street where a task force was having a meeting to decide which reforms would be made to the Long Creek youth detention center in southern Maine. The group is calling for a full closure of the facility and an end to youth incarceration in the state. They advocate for divestment from the prison system and demand that those monies be instead used for evidence-based community programs which are understood to be more effective than incarceration. Within the literature provided to legislators today contained not just their demands, but also the reasoning behind them. In this article, I will do my best, to describe what was distributed today and summarize the day's events. Additionally, the videos above contain unedited footage of the entire rally as well as several interviews that were conducted at the judicial center. For anyone who is interested, the above videos contain the entirety of the demonstration so readers can watch what took place themselves.
The group provided two pieces of literature today and the first is titled "It's Time For A New Vision Of Youth Justice". Within the booklet, they call for complete closure of the facility by 2021 and reinvestment of the $18.2 million dollars that is spent on youth incarceration annually into a "community-based continuum of care that puts young people and their communities at the center of the process." They describe how each year approximately $300,000 is spent to incarcerate each young person at this facility, often for minor nonviolent crimes, and evidence has shown the length of incarceration often experienced does not at all reduce recidivism in these communities. In January, the group held nine community visioning sessions across the state with youth directly affected by this system. These sessions were paramount to facilitating the creation of a blueprint to demand measurable change and ensure that those affected are at the forefront of the discussion. Many findings from these sessions indicated a dire need for housing, mental health services, community centers, and recreation. They will release the full report this spring.
In the second booklet entitled "A New Vision For Youth Justice In Maine", the group presents their demands which ultimately equate to solutions to systemic problems that have existed for years. The first listed solution is to invest in communities. Maine Youth Justice states that this begins with acknowledging that poverty and lack of opportunity are a driving force behind youth incarceration. By transforming communities we give youth a chance to thrive. By increasing access to supports and services individuals can receive the help they need to recover from childhood trauma that often is a factor in why many people struggle at a young age. Within this solution, housing is highlighted as a very important aspect, and where many young people are homeless or have unstable housing this affects communities' ability to thrive. The group insists that the state create a policy to push landlords to accept housing assistance programs as well as create programs that would promote homeownership.
The second solution listed is reimagining the role of the police. The group " wants to live in communities free of police surveillance and over-surveillance." They explain that by training community members to be first responders police do not need to be the first phone call made when a family experiences a crisis situation. They state that students would feel safer with police officers removed from schools and likewise in their neighborhoods. As they put it, "when people respond in a way that recognizes a person's humanity and worth, we can help de-escalate situations and prevent further harm."
The third solution listed is investing in 'credible messengers', which are people who have shared experiences and can act as effective mentors for youth throughout the state. A program like this allows both the mentor and mentees to further useful skills and allows for community growth that spans generations. These types of mentors use comfort, clarification, care, and caution to teach youth how to heal and function without being impacted by the system. Likewise, programs like these create opportunities for community members impacted by the system to earn a living doing work that directly improves the community they live in. Credible messengers also help people who feel alienated from society find their place, feel included, and be a part of something positive.
Shutting down the school-to-prison-pipeline is the fourth solution presented and essentially boils down to equal opportunities. Where many indigenous and LGBTQ youth, and youth of color in the school system report their experience as demoralizing, this negatively impacts their lives needlessly. By teaching useful life skills and connecting students to internships our education system can ensure everyone's future economic success while also building strong communities. By striving for smaller class sizes, educators can build stronger relationships with students and likewise by transforming curriculums we can ensure that students are taught things that are both true and relevant to their lives. They advocate mandating cultural competency training for teachers so they are best equipped to acknowledge culturally different learning methods while creating a truly inclusive environment for LGBTQ youth and youth of color. They add that by ending suspensions and expulsions this would save money that is currently spent on costly public services and instead use it for resources that will help young people with the root causes of what they are experiencing.
The group's fifth solution is to fund programs to divert youth from arrest, prosecution, and incarceration. They explain that where different communities have different needs, a "one-size-fits-all" approach is ineffective. Creating community-based alternatives protect youth from deep, long-term involvement in the judicial system while allowing communities to decide what will work best for them. These diversion programs should not "widen the net" as they explain. Instead of sending youth further downstream for struggling with the mandates these programs should address the needs of individuals and families and train communities to address the root causes of what people struggle with. By equipping these programs with the ability to identify trauma they allow for this support system to dismantle the trauma, facilitating recovery.
In their sixth solution, they explain that when a child truly is unsafe in the community it may be necessary to utilize a secure facility. It has been found that it's actually a rarity that this is truly necessary and that confinement of any young person in excess of six months does more harm than good. By utilizing small community-based residential programs youth can remain in a home-like environment with four or fewer other individuals. Facilities like these allow for a more individualized process focused on treatment instead of punishment. In community-based programs the residents know each other and this allows for a less traumatic experience where healing can occur. The goal of programs like these is to evaluate the needs of a child, assess trauma, and create a plan for success that results in their returning to the community at large capable of success. Within this too is the push to bring all youth home from out of state placements so they can receive the assistance they need in their own communities.
The group also advocates creating a new cabinet-level agency to take responsibility for youth justice and community reinvestment. Instead of having the Department of Corrections oversee this process they would like to see the funding that is currently spent on Long Creek put into a savings account and allocated for reinvestment. The new agency would be required to prioritize transparency and community accountability. Additionally, they would be obligated to work with youth and community partners to create a process that ensures the community is involved in deciding how reinvestment dollars are spent. Organizers state that they feel the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the Department of Corrections, have failed our youth, their families, and communities across Maine. For this reason, they are adamant that these agencies should not be in charge of deciding where funds are spent, nor should they be in charge of overseeing the funds themselves.
The last solution suggested is the repurposing of the building itself. Where some members wished to see it demolished, others feel that by utilizing the building for a positive purpose it can become a symbol of healing for the state. The group strongly believes that it should not be converted into a new women's prison. What they are suggesting is removing part of the building, modifying the layout, and converting it to become either a community center or affordable housing. To symbolize a transition from the brutality and trauma that has historically occurred in the facility, creating something that improves the community would be reminiscent of the types of reforms being advocated. Both affordable housing and community centers would resolve the root causes of what affects our youth and in this way repurposing the building would likely do more good for the community than its current use.
The demonstrations held today were nothing short of inspirational. Youth from all across the state came together, organized, and have shown that they are intent on keeping up the momentum until things change. Clearly motivated by love and compassion these young people clearly understand how the world works and what changes could improve it. They showed today that they too have power and are not afraid to exercise it if that's what it takes to better their communities and look after their friends. Attending this today I often found myself both speechless and teary-eyed as it truly is encouraging to see young people stand up for justice with such conviction. To see young people take charge and become community leaders dedicated to helping each other truly gives me hope. So much that it is quite difficult to put words to the amount of gratitude and respect I have for these brave individuals. Knowing personally many people who were traumatized at Long Creek, its time we take the steps suggested by our youth and accept that what we are doing currently is only holding people back from fulfilling their dreams in life. Likewise, it's time we recognize the wisdom and capability that our youth possess and recognize that they too hold answers to many of the structural failings of many institutions in modern society.
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