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ADAM JOYCE
DIRECTOR / INSTRUCTOR
Adam Joyce, one of our 2 Directors has been involved in the provision of emergency patient care since 1998 as a Firefighter and has been teaching emergency aid since 2002. He is now an Advanced Practitioner of First Aid and Trauma Management with the Fire Service alongside his full-time role as an operational Watch Commander. Adam has a vast range of experience teaching in the public and private sector and has been teaching for Worksafe Training since 2007 before acquiring the company with Geraint Tillott in 2011.
GERAINT TILLOTT
Geraint has served in the emergency services for 30 years. He started teaching First Aid as an Emergency services instructor after passing the instructor course in 2003. Since then he has passed his PTTLS (teaching qualification), the A1 Assessor Qualification, and PHTLS (Pre Hospital Trauma course), as well as many other CPD qualifications to endorse his experience. He has taught in many colleges and schools and constantly strives to improve his knowledge to enhance the student's enjoyment of their course.
SIMON GILLETT
Simon became a first aid practitioner back in 1984 with the British Red Cross, providing first aid cover in the motor vehicle industry. In 1990, he joined the fire and rescue service and soon began to provide emergency patient care to the public of the two counties. Simon qualified in 1993 as a first aid instructor with the fire service and took on a role which included delivering training not only to fire service staff but also many civilians on courses run by the service. Simon qualified as a trauma instructor in 2002, and in 2007 joined the service's urban search And rescue team. Since then, he has further advanced his medical skills by passing PHTLS exams , and advanced trauma management in rope rescue and water rescue incidents. As well as all his fire service work, Simon is also a community first responder for his local area with the ambulance service.
EVE GREENHOUSE
Eve Greenhouse has been a fire-fighter since 2005 and trauma instructor for the Fire Service for over 3 years. She has been a Worksafe instructor since 2012. Her previous career was as a Leisure Centre Manager for eight years, which included being a First-aid trainer and lifeguard. Eve also has experience as a risk assessor for leisure sites, and is a health and safety advisor.
Andrew has seen active service as a Royal Marines Commando delivering patient care to fellow soldiers in the arduous and dangerous environments of Northern Ireland , Arctic Norway and the primary jungle of Brunei . He is now employed with the Fire and Rescue service becoming an advanced practitioner of first aid and trauma management also passing a pre hospital trauma course delivered by Edinburgh royal college of surgeons. He has completed City and Guilds 7302 award in teaching and is an NVQ A1 assessor. Andrew enjoys keeping fit and has represented the Fire Service in National triathlon championships.
ROB BENTON
Rob has been working as a First-aid Instructor since 2010, delivering a wide range of First- aid and Trauma Management courses. He very much enjoys teaching and working with different people. Rob has also been a fire-fighter with West Midlands Fire Service for since 2005, dealing with a wide range of incidents like car accidents, house fires, floodings, chemical spillages etc. Rob has also worked as a medic at football, motocross, car racing and various other events over the years. He enjoys keeping fit and spending time with his family and friends. First-aid is something Rob is very passionate about teaching, and his courses are always taught in practical, friendly, relaxed and an enjoyable manner, with plenty of group discussion.
NATALKA GREENWOOD
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Natalka's interest in patient care started as a Lifeguard at the age of 16 before she moved to work saving lives on the beaches of England's South Coast. Natalka joined the ambulance service in 2011qualifying as a Paramedic in 2013. She is now a Clinical Team Mentor where she supports and facilitates the development of clinical staff whilst still working as a full-time responder.
KERRY PENN-ASHMAN
Kerry joined the ambulance service in 1994 and qualified as a Paramedic in 1998. She qualified as an IHCD tutor in 2000 and was a training officer for 4 years, teaching students on a variety of courses including technician, paramedic and update courses. Kerry currently works as a Specialist Trauma Paramedic with West Midlands Ambulance Service. Part of her role is to co-ordinate trauma care around the West Midlands region, which includes working alongside doctors on Midlands Air Ambulance during daytime hours, and with the Medical Emergency Response Intervention Team (MERIT) during night time hours. In addition to her IHCD tutor qualification, Kerry also holds a Certificate in Further Education, Diploma in Immediate Medical Care (Dip IMC RCSEd) and a PGCE in Pre-Hospital Care.
Paul worked for the Fire Service for 30 years and qualified as a First Aid at Work Instructor in 1995. He decided to improve his knowledge and skills, qualifying as an Emergency Medical Technician, Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support practitioner and instructor and a Trauma Management instructor for the Fire Service. Working for a private ambulance company covering a multitude of sporting events and responding to Emergency incidents with the Fire Service, Paul has dealt with many varying incidents. Paul has taught trauma life support and First aid to a wide variety of age groups and occupations and believes strongly that the content of any training should be relevant to the situation the trainee is expected to deal with.
Beth joined West Mercia Police as a Special Constable in 2015 and volunteered for 3 years, attending RTCs, stabbings, and a variety of similar incidents. This is where she first started her first aid training and practised patient treatment. Beth then joined the Ambulance Service in 2017 on the Student Paramedic programme and qualified in 2020. Since then, she describes herself as a 'magnet for trouble' and has attended a wide range of incidents, including traumatic arrests, paediatric arrests and major trauma. Beth aims to provide education and awareness about first aid and basic life support to help communities and families look after their loved ones in the best that they can until more help arrives.
Lauren has had an interest in first aid since her teenage years when she began as a volunteer first aider, offering support at events in her local area. She is now a registered Paramedic after joining the ambulance service in 2014. Her current role is Clinical Team Mentor, which involves facilitating training needs and supporting the development of staff whilst still attending 999 calls. Within the ambulance service, she assists the Education and Training department with teaching members of staff clinical updates and has completed her Certificate in Assessing vocational Skills and Achievement level 3. Most recently, Lauren has started her training to become an Operations Manager. Outside of work, Lauren enjoys fitness, yoga and walking her dog!
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Four Tips to Protecting Your Company from Data Breaches - Duffy Group, Inc.
December wasn't a great month to be a Yahoo! account holder. The company announced it was the victim of the single largest data breach in history, as hackers stole information from more than one billion accounts.
Yahoo! is hardly alone in this regard. Over the last few years, many of the world's most prominent firms have been the victim of major data breaches. Verizon, Target, Home Depot , are just a few among a long list. The end result is often millions in fines and settlement payouts, damaged credibility and the possibility of the loss of sensitive corporate information, proprietary and otherwise.
So how can you best protect your firm from similar intrusions? Here are four steps you can take to strengthen your protection.
Building a phenomenal security system won't help very much if users aren't well-trained in basic security hygiene. A recent study showed that nearly half of all security breaches occur as a result of employees bypassing existing security protocols while surfing the Internet or emailing, for example. It is important that your company dedicates resources to ensuring these rules are adhered to in order to avoid catastrophic violations.
Today, more work than ever is done remotely. Make sure employees know the importance of remote device log outs, the danger of public WiFi and other offsite security threats. Hackers are known for exploiting these access points.
The world of cybersecurity changes quickly, so companies that rely on policies and protocols that have been unchanged for years are more vulnerable. A more dynamic approach where policies are reviewed on a more frequent basis will lower the risk of an intrusion.
Too many companies collect enormous troves of data with no defined process for determining signal-to-noise ratio and disposing of data of no value. Companies should work to only collect data of true value, then have a plan to discard information once it is no longer useful.
Security breaches have reached epidemic levels and things are likely to get worse. This means it is critical that you take steps to protect your data to ensure the privacy of your organization and employees is preserved. You will have greater peace of mind by following these important steps.


What do the final hours of death look like? How do I know it is near? I have been asked these questions over and over during my years as a Hospice nurse. Although each one of us is different, there are signs that the end is near.
In this month's posts, you will learn the signs that the body is transitioning and approaching death. In addition, you will receive suggestions to ease these transitions for both the one departing and those left behind.
I am also including "The Beauty Queen" which is an especially touching story of one of my patients whose final days brought out in her and her family great insight and peace into what is really important in life.
I wish all of the mothers a beautiful Mother's Day.
I have seen a good number of people in their final stages, and I always found myself feeling a little twinge of envy. To see people finally & truly relax is so refreshing, and proof that they finally seem to have accepted both life & so-called death….


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Der Nebel ist rund 2.200 Parsec entfernt, dehnt sich mit 11,5 km/s aus und sein Zentralstern hat eine Temperatur von 34.000 Kelvin. Der Zentralstern variiert in der Helligkeit im Zyklus von mehreren Stunden um 0,1 bis 0,15 mag aufgrund eines schwankenden Sternwindes; er ähnelt darin den Planetarischen Nebel IC 418, IC 4593 und Hen 2-138.

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Zimbabwe elections and the aftermath
Source: Deutsche Welle
The author argues that the 2018 general elections in Zimbabwe were largely non beneficial to the poor and the working class in general. They were rather a titanic battle of capitalists' interests in form of neo-imperialism.
Zimbabwe's 2018 elections: The end of a neo-liberal beauty contest and the way forward
Lenin Tinashe Chisaira
The historic Zimbabwe presidential and parliamentary "harmonised' elections of 30 July 2018 have just been concluded. The final results tally saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa getting 2,460,463 votes (50.8 percent), ahead of his nearest rival Nelson Chamisa who got 2,147,436 votes (44.3 percent). The 50.8 percent by the President meant he scrapped above the legal 50 percent plus one vote necessary to avoid a run-off election.
Zimbabwe incumbent President, ZANU-PF re-elected in historic poll
The East African
National harmonised parliamentary and presidential elections in the Southern African state of Zimbabwe were held on 30 July, but opposition forces rejected their outcome seeking to continue Western sanctions and attempted isolation.
Western countries have supported Mugabe's tyranny – not surprising to be behind Mnangagwa!
Over the past two decades, the world could have been hoodwinked by Western governments' imposition of targeted sanctions on then Zimbabwean president Robert Gabriel Mugabe's tyrannical regime, on the pretext of human rights abuses and electoral fraud. However, was that the real reasons for these targeted sanctions on Mugabe and members of his ruthless regime?

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How Do I Become an Emergency Room Technician?
An emergency room technician, also known as an ER tech or ERT, is a vital part of emergency room procedures. In some regions, there is a constant demand for ER techs due to growing populations and a constant need for medical services. In order to become an emergency room technician, a person will need to complete medical training and educational requirements. In addition to technical prerequisites, certain personal and lifestyle skills are needed to work as an emergency room technician, such as the ability to multi-task, stamina, a flexible schedule, and a desire to work in the high-pressure medical field of emergency care.
Educational and training requirements needed to become an emergency room technician may vary by region, but many areas share basic guidelines for this profession. In general, a person must possess a high school diploma or equivalent certificate in order to get a job as an emergency room technician. Advanced training for ERT jobs is done through trade schools, community colleges, or even four year universities. Many different degree and training programs can feed into the ERT job market, including medical or nursing assistant programs, emergency medical technician or EMT training, and paramedic training programs.
An emergency technician might work any day and time.
The technical skills needed to become an emergency room technician include both patient care and hospital management techniques. An ERT may help do preparatory work on ER patients, such as starting IV lines, administering shots and medication injections, drawing blood, and checking vital signs. Emergency room technicians may escort patients to testing facilities and answer any questions they may have about diagnostic procedures. They may also help administrators manage the ER floor, by determining which patient goes into which room, and making sure that each room is cleaned and sterilized following a patient's departure.
EMT training is useful for people becoming emergency room technicians.
In addition to completing educational requirements that feed into the ERT field, some regions may require certification in order to become an emergency room technician. Certification may be awarded at the end of a qualifying education program, or may be granted through testing in basic medical knowledge and emergency procedures. Certification helps show potential employers that the candidate has been judged competent in the basic skills required to become an emergency room technician. Some medical facilities may consider completion of a degree program as an adequate substitute to a formal certification program.
An emergency room technician is usually trained in a number of medical procedures.
When considering trying to become an emergency room technician, it is important for candidates to consider the stress and lifestyle changes common in this field of medical care. ER techs often work long shifts, including late night and early morning hours. Schedules may change from week to week depending on the facility's needs, so it may be difficult to arrange any kind of permanent availability outside of work. The emergency room can be an extremely stressful place, with common illnesses running alongside critical injuries and even fatalities. In order to be a successful emergency room technician, it may help to be the type of person that thrives in fast-paced, high-stress environments.
With a B.A. in theater from UCLA and a graduate degree in screenwriting from the American Film Institute, Jessica is passionate about drama and film. She has many other interests, and enjoys learning and writing about a wide range of topics in her role as a PracticalAdultInsights writer.
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La Colombie participe à tous les Jeux bolivariens depuis leur création en 1938. Elle n'a remporté qu'une seule fois cette compétition.

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"If you have made it this far, you are a brave reader" writes David Wallace Wells about halfway through this weighty overview of climate change effects. It's a fair comment. The Uninhabitable Earth is a harrowing book, but an important one.
Climate change campaigners face something of a conundrum. We want people to be inspired to act. We also need them to know what's at risk. We don't want people to slump into despondent inaction at the scale of the challenge, but to tell it like it is leaves us open to the accusation of being 'scare-mongering'. It's a no win situation, into which David Wallace-Wells has fearlessly strode with a deeply uncompromising book.
"It is worse, much worse, than you think", he begins. And from that first sentence the book patiently outlines the full effects of climate change. A series of chapters explains the unfolding risk from heat, hunger, floods, fire and a host of other disasters. Then we consider the climate impact on the economy, how it will affect human health, or its potential as a threat multiplier in conflict.
The second half of the book then looks at how climate change will affect us culturally. What kind of stories will we tell? What will it mean for politics, or consumerism? How will we come to understand history, as climate change overturns our assumptions of progress? By the end of the book, there's no aspect of life left untouched by the changes we are making to the atmosphere.
"Alarmism!" some of you will be thinking, but Wallace-Wells knows that and doesn't care. He has good reasons for writing about worst case scenarios. "When we dismiss the worst-case possibilities" he writes, "it distorts our sense of likelier outcomes, which we then regard as extreme scenarios we needn't plan so conscientiously for." He's entirely correct about this – almost all political discussion revolves around 2 degrees of warming and how it can be avoided. That suggests that it's 2 degrees that we have to fear and work hard to avoid. In reality our current trajectory takes us to 4 degrees of warming, and 2 degrees is the low end of what we can expect.
Ignoring the catastrophic end of climate impacts for the sake of policital expediency is a recipe for complacency. While I try to focus on solutions myself, we shouldn't shy away from telling the truth about how serious things are.
David Wallace-Wells is not the first person to have written a brutally honest book about climate change. (Hell and High Water comes to mind, or the Dark Mountain Project) There are several reasons why this one is worth reading. First, it may be bleak but it's not sensationalised. The author is very clear where things are speculative, and there's more than enough horror in observable trends. Second, Wallace-Wells is a journalist and editor, not an environmentalist. When editing his magazine, he looks for stories that aren't being covered, and that's exactly what this is. It goes places that the green movement doesn't go to, and it's not a piece of fearmongering environmentalism. It's also exhaustively researched and if anything looks contentious, there are detailed notes at the back that put things in context.
Perhaps most importantly for any book if you're going to actually read it, Wallace-Wells writes with real power and flair. He writes in long sentences that unfold and extend and build momentum. It's a thunderclap of a book, and exactly what we need right now.
Since there's nothing on solutions in the book, don't make this the one book you read on climate change this year. Read it alongside Drawdown.
The Uninhabitable Earth is available from Hive, Amazon UK and Amazon US.
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Arts & Sciences Physics
Graduate Program Admissions
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Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
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Katelin Schutz, McGill University: Revealing hidden particles and forces with gravitational clues
Starts: 3:30 pm on Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Ends: 4:30 pm on Tuesday, January 31, 2023
How different would our Universe look with the addition of extra particles and forces beyond what we know? We already have ample gravitational evidence for at least one invisible component of matter that has properties unlike anything we have previously discovered. This "dark matter" is often assumed to be made of a single species of relatively inert particles but there is a much richer range of possibilities, including scenarios where dark matter is part of a "dark sector" including other auxiliary particles and forces. If there are dark forces affecting the distribution of dark matter in our Universe, then that distribution will gravitationally affect the visible matter that we can see. In this colloquium I will show how this gravitational footprint can reveal the behavior and properties of dark sectors. I will emphasize the constraining power of diverse astrophysical systems for these purposes, including the Sun, the local Milky Way, nearby dwarf galaxies, distant galaxies and galaxy clusters, large-scale cosmological structure, and the cosmic microwave background.
RKC 101
Liam Fitzpatrick
Katelin Schutz
McGill, CA
Boston University Arts & Sciences
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Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is a condition that occurs as a result of increased intracompartmental pressure (ICP) within an enclosed fascial space, reducing capillary perfusion to levels that can cause significant soft tissue ischemia . ACS follows an initial insult, either traumatic or hemorrhagic, and can be classified based on its etiology as orthopedic (fracture or crush injury), vascular, iatrogenic, or soft tissue injury . The forearm and leg are the most commonly affected sites, while the arm, hand, and foot are less commonly involved. Although ACS may develop more frequently in young adult males, its traumatic etiology spares no epidemiological group from being at risk . Clinical diagnosis of ACS remains challenging, but is centered on physical exam findings supplemented with ICP measurements if necessary [5,6]. Timely diagnosis and intervention is essential in order to avoid complications including muscle contracture, neurological deficits, infection, and limb amputation [7,8]. Reduction of ICP via incision fasciotomy is the gold standard of treatment, and technique varies based on which compartment is involved as well as the surgeon's preference/experience [9,10]. Fasciotomy may be supplemented by temporary elevation of the affected limb or hyperbaric oxygen therapy [2,11-13]. Appropriate treatment of ACS provides favorable outcomes for most patients.
Long-term prophylactic anticoagulation therapy is utilized in patients with any one of several medical conditions including cardiac arrhythmia, venous thromboembolism (VTE), heart valve replacement, and hypercoagulable disorders for effective prevention of adverse outcomes such as arterial and venous thromboembolism [14-16]. Long-term anticoagulation is not uncommon in the United States, with treatment prevalence estimated at 5% of persons aged 65-74 and greater than 10% of persons of age ≥ 75 . This therapy most frequently involves the use of vitamin K antagonists like warfarin (Coumadin), but treatment guidelines have recently expanded to include the option for use of newer direct coagulation factor inhibitors like Dabigatran, Lovenox, Apixaban, and Rivaroxiban [18-21]. Several large-scale studies have determined that although longterm anticoagulation therapy provides effective prophylaxis, it carries significant risk for hemorrhagic complications [22-24]. Interestingly, few studies have thoroughly investigated how an increased risk for hemorrhage in patients on long-term anticoagulation may relate to development of ACS.
In this study we aimed to identify the proportion of patients treated for ACS at our institution that were on long-term anticoagulation therapy. We also examined these patients' epidemiological characteristics, treatment course, and clinical outcome.
A total of 392 patients were evaluated and treated for ACS between the years 2008-2018 at our academic institution with a level 1 trauma center. Patient information was obtained through electronic medical record access following institutional IRB approval. Of these patients, eight were on long-term anticoagulation prior to developing ACS. Patients were diagnosed with ACS clinically, without need for supplemental compartment pressure reading. All patients were treated surgically with single- or double- incision fasciotomy. Anticoagulation was stopped approximately 10 hours before surgery and patients were bridged to heparin. Heparin was continued during surgery and patients were restarted on prior anticoagulant dosing approximately 8-12 hours following surgery. Patients were followed up for at least 6 months following diagnosis and intervention.
Analysis of outcome after fasciotomy was performed using determinants suggested by the literature and internal standards. A "favorable" outcome was defined as limb salvage with or without dysfunction. An "unfavorable" outcome was defined as amputation or death of the patient. Statistical analysis was performed Fisher's Exact test and univariate logistic regression. The SAS system (SAS Institute Inc ©, North Carolina, United States) was used for all data analyses.
Out of 392 patients evaluated and treated for ACS between year 2008 and year 2018, eight were on an anticoagulation regimen at the time of treatment for ACS and met inclusion criteria for this study. The demographics for this population were six males and two females, with an average age of 69 years (range 41- 90). Causes of ACS included idiopathic (3 patients), fracture (3 patients), and blunt trauma without fracture (2 patients). Involved compartments were forearm (2), thigh (1), and lower leg (5) (Table 1).
Table 1. Summary of patient injury location, cause, and treatment course.
Reasons for long-term anticoagulation were history of myocardial infarction (MI), atrial fibrillation (Afib), deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE), coronary artery stent, congestive heart failure (CHF), to coronary artery disease (CAD). Only one patient did not have documentation of indication for long-term anticoagulation due to medical records outside of our system. Methods of anticoagulation were Warfarin (Coumadin), Enoxaparin (Lovenox), and Rivaroxaban (Xarelto) (Table 1).
Fasciotomy was performed an average of 10.65 hours (range 0-24) after identification of ACS. Surgical decompression methods were split evenly between single-incision (4 patients) and double incision (4 patients) fasciotomy. PT / INR levels at the time of operation was on average 19.6 (range: 13.6-35.7) / 1.66 (range: 0.99-3.47). Average follow-up time for these patients was 3.6 months. All patients had favorable outcomes of treatment. Three cases required no additional intervention, three required one irrigation and debridement, one required two debridements, and one required hematoma evacuation. All patients completed successful recoveries without complication or recurrence of ACS. There were no cases with associated limb loss or mortality. Statistical analysis was unable to reveal significance of outcome vs. age, gender, anticoagulation method, ACS location, or fasciotomy technique (Table 1).
Compartment syndrome may occur in any muscle compartment within the body, and is most often seen in the forearm and lower leg. Common causes at these sites include fractures, blunt trauma, and external compression [25,26]. It is important to identify neurovascular structures in these areas as their compromise may provide important clinical clues for diagnosis.
The forearm is comprised of volar (flexor) and dorsal (extensor) compartments, as well as the flexor wad (Table 2). The anterior compartment contains the median nerve, deep branch of the radial nerve, as well as the ulnar nerve and artery. The posterior compartment contains the radial nerve and artery, posterior interosseous nerve and artery, radial recurrent artery, and profunda brachii artery. The lower leg is divided into four compartments (Table 3). The anterior compartment contains the deep fibular nerve, as well as the anterior tibial nerve, artery, and vein. The lateral compartment contains the superficial fibular nerve and the fibular artery. The superficial posterior compartment contains the tibial nerve, while the deep posterior compartment contains the tibial nerve and posterior tibial artery (and its branches).
Table 2. Important structures within the forearm compartments.
Muscles Flexor carpi ulnaris m. Extensor digitorum m. Extensor carpi radialis longus m.
Palmaris longus m. Extensor digiti minimi m. Extensor carpi radialis brevis m.
Flexor carpi radialis m. Extensor carpi radialis m. Brachioradialis m.
Pronator teres m. Anconeus m.
Flexor digitorum superficialis m. Supinator m.
Flexor digitorum profundus m. Abductor pollicis longus m.
Flexor pollicis longus m. Extensor pollicis longus m.
Pronator quadratus m. Extensor pollicis brevis m.
Nerves Median n. (and anterior interosseous branch) Radial n.
Ulnar n. Posterior interosseous n.
Deep branch of radial n.
Vessels Ulnar a. Radial a.
Table 3. Important structures within the lower leg compartments.
Muscles Tibialis anterior m. Peroneus longus m. Gastrocnemius m. Tibialis posterior m.
Extensor hallucis longus m. Peroneus brevis m. Soleus m. Flexor hallucis longus m.
Extensor digitorum longus m. Plantaris m. Flexor digitorum longus m.
Nerves Deep peroneal n. Common peroneal n. Tibial n.
Development of ACS in the thigh is less common than the forearm or lower leg but is associated with higher morbidity and mortality, likely due to the fact that many cases are caused by high-energy blunt trauma [27,28]. It is often seen secondary to femoral fractures, intramedullary femoral nailing, application of anti-shock trousers, compression or contusion, and extensive deep-venous thrombosis . The thigh contains anterior, medial, and posterior compartments (Table 4). The anterior compartment contains the femoral nerve, artery, and veins. The saphenous nerve, a branch of the femoral nerve, provides sensation over the knee, medial leg, and foot. The posterior compartment contains the profunda femoris artery branches, and the sciatic nerve. The medial compartment contains the profunda femoris artery, obturator artery and vein, and the obturator nerve.
Table 4. Important structures within the thigh compartments.
Muscles Sartorius m. Gracilis m. Biceps femoris m.
Rectus femoris m. Adductor longus m. Semitendinosus m.
Vastus lateralis m. Adductor brevis m. Semimembranosus m.
Vastus intermedius m. Adductor magnus m.
Vastus medialis m. Pectineus m.
Nerves Femoral n. Obturator n. Sciatic n.
Diagnosis of acute compartment syndrome is typically made based on a thorough clinical examination. Assessment of the "6 P's" (pain, poikilothermia, pallor, paresthesia, pulselessness and paralysis) provides crucial information to identify a diagnosis of compartment syndrome . Patients most often present with symptoms of aching or burning pain that may be disproportionate to the injury, which can occasionally have associated paresthesia. Cardinal physical exam signs are an associated tense compartment and motor deficits in the affected limb [31,32]. Measurement of ICP in the suspected compartment is used as a supplemental diagnostic tool for cases that are not diagnosed clinically. There are several diagnostic ICP measurement protocols used, but in the prevailing technique an ICP within 30 mmHg of diastolic blood pressure is an indication of ACS and signals a need for surgical intervention . Incidentally, all patients in this study were diagnosed with compartment syndrome based on clinical findings alone without the need for ICP measurement.
Timely treatment of ACS via fasciotomy can allow for good functional outcomes, but surgical outcomes are not always favorable. Fasciotomy carries up to a 15% mortality rate and 21% amputation rate, with risk for other morbidities as well [34,35]. There is limited consensus on whether to use one- vs. two-incision fasciotomy technique for optimization of surgical outcomes. Forearm compartment syndrome is typically treated with a single volar incision, starting 1 cm proximal and 2 cm lateral to the medial epicondyle and crossing obliquely across the antecubital fossa and over the volar aspect of the mobile wad. Other surgical options include an ulnar incision beginning radial to the flexor carpi ulnaris and extending to the medial epicondyle of the humerus, as well as a zigzag incision . Both cases of forearm ACS in this study were treated successfully with a single volar incision. In ACS of the lower leg, all four compartments should be decompressed either via two separate incisions (one anterolateral and one posteromedial) or one lateral incision, however, neither technique has been shown to be superior to the other . Cases of lower leg ACS in this study were successfully treated with both single- and double-incision techniques. ACS of the thigh has typically been addressed with decompression of the anterior and posterior compartments with a single lateral incision. With lateral and posterior compartment syndromes, the skin and subcutaneous tissues are incised beginning and around the intertrochanteric line and extending to the lateral epicondyle. Afterwards, the iliotibial band and fascia over the vastus lateralis are divided lengthwise. The adductor muscle group can be released through a separate longitudinal incision if necessary . The one case of thigh ACS in this study was surgically treated with twoincision, four-compartment fasciotomy.
There have been relatively few studies investigating the development of ACS in patients on long-term anticoagulation therapy and subsequent management. It is a particularly unique patient population because while younger patients experience ACS at a higher rate, long-term anticoagulation is much more common in the elderly. Accordingly, this study's population was on average older, with no patient younger than 40 years of age. Clinical suspicion for ACS should be higher in patients on long-term anticoagulation, as they are at a higher risk for bleeding and should be monitored for development of any symptoms concerning for compartment syndrome. For example, development of compartment syndrome in a patient on anticoagulation has been documented following something as simple as venipuncture . Based on this heightened suspicion, all cases in this study were appropriately diagnosed based on clinical exam, without the need for ICP measurement. Causes of ACS were almost equally divided between idiopathic, fracture, and blunt trauma without fracture. The most common compartments affected in the patients within this study were the lower leg and forearm respectively. Both the causes of ACS as well as the affected compartments were consistent with trends from the general population [2,3].
All patients in this study experienced favorable outcomes following decompression with well-known fasciotomy techniques, dismissing the need for specialized techniques in these cases. Patients were able to tolerate emergent fasciotomy with average INR slightly above the level of 1.5 recommended for elective procedures [40-44]. The risk of hemorrhagic complications was notably low, even as the patients were promptly bridged back onto prior anticoagulation regimen following surgery.
This study had some limitations, most notably small sample size. This population of patients is particularly unique, which limits the amount of case data available to include. In turn, the small sample size made determination of any statistical significance difficult. Additionally, it is impossible to know if these patients presented for further treatment at outside hospitals which could limited our understanding of lifetime risk in these patients. Finally, some patient data was not able to be reported (and was noted as such) due to incomplete charting.
Patients on long-term anticoagulation therapy benefit most from surgical intervention in the case of acute compartment syndrome (ACS). Causes of ACS as well as frequency of involved compartments were consistent with the general population. With a higher index of suspicion for hemorrhagic complications in these patients, clinical assessment is sufficient to diagnose ACS. All the patients included in this study underwent fasciotomy decompression in locations of the thigh, lower leg, or forearm. In all cases emergent fasciotomy was performed due to the life-threatening characteristics of these cases. The mortality rate for patients who had fasciotomy was noticeably low, and the surgical outcome was favorable in all of the cases. With appropriate follow-up, infectious and hemorrhagic complications were notably minimized. All patients regained full strength and movement in their affected limbs after physical therapy and continuous follow up at the orthopedic department.
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Charlie Lee, chairman and managing director of the Litecoin Foundation, recently took to Twitter to defend Litecoin, his brainchild, and turn the apparent FUD into a case for widespread FOMO.
Litecoin, ranked the 7th largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, is currently trading at about $60 a piece for a bit of context.
Has Litecoin Lost Its Edge?
In a tweetstorm, Charlie Lee, the aforementioned founder of the Litecoin project, pointed out that contrary to popular belief, his "child" still hasn't lost itself in the ocean of mundane, impractical altcoins. He defends Litecoin by pointing out that "[the Litecoin Network] has over $150MM of ASIC hardware protecting it," while the network also dominates Scrypt mining in general. According to a cryptocurrency analytics website, it would cost about $32,915/hr to perform an attack on the Litecoin network, which is quite the hefty sum, to say the least.
"Litecoin has a ton of liquidity" states Lee, which is essential for crypto-to-fiat and fiat-to-crypto exchanges. This isn't any fruitless claim, as LTC is listed on almost every fiat and crypto exchange, which makes it more popular than Ethereum, which has become a popular topic in the cryptosphere. Being able to move in and out of the crypto scene via fiat should always be quick and easy, as Lee flaunts Litecoin's ability to access exchanges so accessible.
Lee highlights that LTC is actively supported and processed by over nine payment processors, which include Aliant Payment, BTCPay, Coinbase, CoinGate, CoinPayments, Globee, GoCoin LTCPay, and TravelbyBit, again proving how easy it is for merchants to accept LTC as a viable method of payment.
Lee states that for the past 7 years, the Litecoin network has worked flawlessly and still processes over $200 million worth of transactions each and every day. As such, it is hard to break down such a well-built network, so counterfeiting or devaluing the popular cryptocurrency would be quite a difficult feat.
Several critics have stated that as the BTC chain scales via the up and coming Lightning Network, Litecoin could simply become obsolete. However, Lee points out that LTC is also supported by the Lighting Network as a result of the similarities in the architecture of both of the chains. Moreover, BTC and LTC also go hand-in-hand through the use of atomic swaps, which allow users to instantly swap between the two currencies in a big step towards decentralized exchanges.
Charlie Lee also confirmed that he is currently working full-time on Litecoin, which is what true believers of the project evidently want to hear.


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A Different Cup of Tea: BOXER SHORTS
Posted on May 6, 2015 by Kitty Drexel
Photo credit: Brown Box Theatre Project, "Play"
Presented by Brown Box Theatre Project
Works by Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Tenessee Williams, Diana Raznovich
Works directed by Darren Evans, Kyler Tausin, Anna Trachtman
Performed by Cameron Gosselin, Meredith Stypinski, Lizzie Milanovich, Johnny Quinones, Janelle Mills
Boston: April 24 – May 3, 2015
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Delmarva: May 8 – 11, 2015
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(Boston, MA) Brown Box Theatre's mission involves bringing accessible theatre to uncommonly accessible spaces. They've made a home on Atlantic Wharf and Delmarva (MD). Their current production Boxer Shorts: an evening of short plays brings many genres to the same stage. In one sitting, the audience experiences a range of theatre from the mundane to the absurd. The result is an interesting evening of entertainment with varying levels of success.
Boxer Shorts opens with "Play" by Samuel Beckett. Our players (in order, house left to right: Lizzie Milanovich, Cameron Gosselin, Meredith Stypinski) are bodiless heads precariously perched on what appear to be Grecian urns stringing simultaneous monologues into dialogue into soliloquies. Like most Beckett viewed in hindsight, it was endearingly strange. The players' diction was crisp, their rapid rhythms even, and their expressions purposefully blank. It was a very funny performance when it could easily have been blasé.
Photo credit: Brown Box Theatre Project, "The New World Order"
The second play, "The New World Order" (Harold Pinter) was the shortest of the evening. Two posh thugs (Johnny Quinones, David Berger-Jones) contemplate the existential plight of the man (Cameron Gosselin) they have kidnapped, gagged and bound. They theorize that their ugly job serves as a purification process to aid democracy. This one was cute. It was short and well acted. It was a lot less Pinter-y than it could have been.
"Talk to Me Like The Rain And Let Me Listen" is by Tennessee Williams. It's stranger than most of William's stuff. There were a lot of intentional long pauses between the dialogue/monologues. The Man (Johnny Quinones) is an extroverted, hard partier. The Woman (Lizzie Milanovich) is an extra-sensitive introvert. "Talk To Me" is about their inability to connect to each other on any level except the physical. Quinones and Milanovich did good jobs with their monologues and the empty space between. Their dialogue dragged painfully. It made the audience uncomfortable for the actors rather than sympathetic for the characters.
Photo credit: Brown Box Theatre Project, "Personal Belongings"
Last, but not least, is "Personal Belongings" by living playwright Diana Raznovich. If the writing of the other plays weren't your cup of tea, this one was worth the wait. Casalia Belprop (Janelle Mills), or Diva as she is known by her fans, is trapped without supervision in luggage claim Hell. Mills shines as the neurotic, paranoid yet colorful Belprop. It's a funny albeit depressing look at a woman's struggle with existential displacement in a country of unknown location. She loses her figurative marbles only to find literal skeletons in her luggage.
Boxer Shorts is an evening of theatre intended for all audiences but may be more suited to those looking for a deep think rather than a sincere feel. It's a short, strange production with many great moments of artistry (including the brilliant set design by Mac Young). It is not everyone's cup of tea and that's OK. Not everything is.
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Il Derby del Secchia è la sfida tra le squadre di pallamano di Rubiera e di Modena, due club storici del movimento pallamanistico italiano.

Storia
La prima sfida risale alla seconda metà degli anni '70. Il Derby del Secchia si è riproposto con continuità in Serie A1 fino alla primavera del 2002, anno in cui le due società si sono fuse dando vita alla Pallamano Secchia (che giocava a Rubiera). A Modena qualche anno dopo è nata la Scuola Pallamano Modena che è ripartita dalla B. Nel giugno del 2011 ha concluso l'attività la Pallamano Secchia ed è nata la Pallamano Secchia Rubiera che è ripartita dalla B. Dal 2012 è così ritornato il Derby del Secchia, stavolta nel campionato di A2.

Precedenti
I precedenti tra le prime squadre sono i seguenti (fino al 2002 in serie A1, dal 2012 al 2017 in A2): 39 partite giocate, 17 Successi Rubiera - 18 Successi Modena - 4 pareggi

Collegamenti esterni
 Sito Internet Pallamano Secchia Rubiera
 Sito Internet Scuola Pallamano Modena

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The Obama Effect on American Discourse about Racial Identity: Dreams from My Father (and Mother), Barack Obama's Search for Self
Suzanne W. Jones, University of RichmondFollow
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Joseph Curl reported that the Obama organization "would not answer when asked why the biracial candidate calls himself black," replying only that the question didn't "seem especially topical." Biracial ancestry and racial identity are still sensitive subjects in the United States, not suitable for sound bites. But they are perfect topics for the introspective musings of an autobiography, and Barack Obama must have thought he had answered this question in depth in Dreams from My Father (1995). In his introduction, Obama hesitates to use the term "autobiography" because it connotes, he says, "a certain closure"; however, Dreams from My Father does provide closure on his quest for identity, if not on his life story. In American literature, the racially mixed black-white figure, more than any other literary character, has embodied the promises and challenges of integration in a racially troubled society. The same might be said about Barack Obama during the presidential campaign. While many supporters embraced his biracial ancestry as emblematic of America, his cosmopolitan multicultural background as essential for the new century, and his self-described African-American identity as a step toward fulfilling Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, dream, many of his critics questioned his identification as an African American, his unconventional translational upbringing, and even his Americanness.
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Jones, Suzanne W. "The Obama Effect on American Discourse about Racial Identity: Dreams From My Father (and Mother), Barack Obama's Search for Self." In The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign, edited by Heather E. Harris, Kimberly R. Moffitt, and Catherine E. Squires, 131-52. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2010.
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COVID-related policy changes urgently needed in schools
Different strategies needed in schools
The Washington County Public Schools superintendent and Board of Education made it clear during their Jan. 4 meeting that they plan to continue with the same COVID protocols in the face of the surging COVID pandemic in Washington County, despite reports of cleanliness protocols unable to be followed due to a shortage of maintenance employees, teachers resigning and growing teacher/student/staff absences due to COVID. To make matters worse, they may combine classes (in order to "address" teacher shortages?) — which will only further reduce the ability to provide adequate social distancing, which has already been a problem due to many classrooms and lunchrooms that are overcrowded.
Here are just some recommendations (suggested by teachers and members of the community) that seem to have fallen on deaf ears:
1) Actually follow the metrics and take appropriate action as was done earlier in the pandemic.
2) Shorten lunch periods so students can be appropriately distanced in an increased number of lunch periods with fewer students in each.
3) Implement weekly rapid testing of all students at the schools.
4) Provide reward incentives to students, teachers and staff who get fully vaccinated and boosted.
5) Temporarily shut down all county schools until the pandemic situation improves and extend the school year to make up lost time (provide safe child care for students of parents who cannot accommodate this).
6) Temporarily return to remote learning for all county schools until the pandemic situation improves.
7) Return to the A/B day approach for all county schools until the pandemic situation improves.
8) Provide a viable remote learning option with an adequate number of qualified instructors to meet the demand for all county schools.
9) Improve transparency: routinely publish meaningful COVID statistics for each county school and take one or more of the above actions on a selective basis for the schools with the worst metrics.
WCPS needs to do something different (to protect our schools and community) as soon as possible.
Tom Borum
Domestic terrorism is appropriate description of Jan. 6 events
In our divided country, each of us has reflected back one year to the Jan. 6 insurrection. I know many readers and Tucker Carlson will take exception to me defining the events on Jan 6, 2021, as an insurrection so here is the dictionary definition: insurrection — a violent uprising against an authority or government. Jan 6 was definitely violent and the chants of "Hang Mike Pence" were definitely directed at authority.
A Harvard law school graduate, Ted Cruz, defined those participating in the insurrection as "domestic terrorist," at which Mr. Carlson humiliated him for speaking such blaspheme. But how does the law define it? The term "domestic terrorism" means activities that:
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
This accurately describes the events of Jan 6.
"We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," Donald Trump stated on Jan 6. It sounds very intimidating. After hearing those words, the mob moved to the Capitol. By U.S. code, anyone who participated in the rally on Jan 6 is a "domestic terrorist." You did not have to storm the Capitol to legally be defined as a "domestic terrorist." You just had to participate in an activity that's dangerous and is to intimidate. Think about your elected officials that participated and or backed the insurrection. They and Trump are by legal definition a domestic terrorist.
Marty Hann
Chambersburg, Pa.
This article originally appeared on The Herald-Mail: Letters to the editor: Action needed by public schools in COVID surge
Debating voting rights for 16-year-olds: What is an adult?
New Mexico lawmakers may act on a proposal letting 16-year-olds vote. While debating it, let's question some myths about age and adulthood.
Jen Psaki backed her kid's school in a fight with Virginia's GOP governor over mandating masks for students
The White House press secretary's child studies in the county at the centre of a fight between Gov. Youngkin and Arlington Public Schools.
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College dorm roof collapses under the weight of snow in Western NC, photos show
"I heard a rumbling noise," one student told the local newspaper. "It was loud, and I was out of there."
On his first day in office, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin banned teaching Critical Race Theory and mask mandates in schools
Critical Race Theory was not part of Virginia's K-12 schools standards of learning, the commonwealth's department of education said last year.
KYIV (Reuters) -Germany's foreign minister said on Monday she hoped tensions with Russia over Ukraine could be solved by diplomacy, but she warned that Moscow would suffer if it does attack its neighbour. Minister Annalena Baerbock was speaking in Kyiv on a tour that next takes her to Moscow after talks between Russia and Western states on the Kremlin's deployment of tens of thousands of troops along Ukraine's border ended with no breakthrough last week. The United States https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-concerned-russia-prepping-ukraine-invasion-if-diplomacy-fails-official-2022-01-14 said last week it feared Russia was preparing a pretext to invade Ukraine, which Moscow denies.
Trump claims white people are discriminated against for COVID-19 treatment: 'If you're white you go right to the back of the line'
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In a profanity-laced introduction video for a history class, professor Barry Mehler wears an astronaut-style helmet with air filters, tells his Ferris State University students that they are "vectors of disease" and says that their grades are predetermined, regardless of their efforts. "I will not take questions in class because I'm wearing this" helmet "in order to stay alive," Mehler, 74, says toward the end of the video, using an expletive. "So please, come to class. Enjoy the show. I'll be t
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Rich Corsi, CAPA's VP of Programming, takes us behind-the-scenes of the CAPA Summer Movie Series. Now in its 46th year, the CAPA Summer Movie Series is the longest-running classic film series in the United States.
The Ohio Theatre opened in 1928 as a silent-movie palace, and we pride ourselves in keeping that history alive. One way we preserve that authenticity, is by showing as many films as possible in the 35mm format.
This year, 18 of the 27 films shown will be in 35mm format. Many film purists flock to the Ohio Theatre for that experience. "People want the grain and the crackle," says Corsi.
The CAPA Summer Movie Series runs through August 7 at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets are $4 at the door, or a strip of 10 tickets is $25 through July 24.


The Summer City Rumble is a great day out with many cars on display from Hot Rods, Rat Rods, 1950's & 1960's cars & vintage motor cycles. The Memorial Park will be full of atmosphere with a Rock n Roll band on stage and a dance floor in place to twist and shout. Stalls will line the park for a special gift to take home or if you're hungry grab a bite to eat at one of the delicious food stalls.
You will only need to send the paperwork once as this will be kept on file until the expiry date.
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Playing Any Character Isn't A Cake Walk Says Mugdha Godse
Mumbai, 8th January 2022 (NewsHelpline) – Actress Mughda Godse says playing any character in the movie isn't a cakewalk contrary to popular belief.
Actress Mughda Godse was interacting with NewsHelpline on the sets of her movie, Devils Night, a thriller where Godse will be seen playing the role of an actress in a movie.
When asked about playing an actress in a movie would be a cakewalk for her, Mugdha said, "I am playing the role of an actress in the movie, and trust me, no role or character is easy. I am not Mughda Godse on the sets, I am playing a part in the movie and my part needs to be cohesive with other characters in the film. I cannot be my real self; this is a movie, and one needs to be within the bound of script. So, nothing is a cake walk"
Devil's Night, a thriller helmed by Ashok Jamuar, also starring Akash and Adi Irani. The film is bankrolled by S Patnavi.
When asked about working with relatively new ensemble in Devils Night, Mugdha said, "After being in industry for this long and working with all sorts of filmmakers, I look at my character and the story. See, the point is, whoever wants to make a film, wants to make something with good intentions, so whether he is new, or old, or award-winning filmmaker, they want to make a good movie. If I like a script, and I like my character, I go for it"
Talking about her plans for 2022, Mugdha added, "Idea is to keep on working, keep on improving on my craft and keep the audience entertained, that is my objective and ambition"
Devils Night is slated for late 2022 release.
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If you need to evaluate or analyze your app with the creation of reports that allow you to know the details of the errors to optimize your developments Apteligent is the best choice to take away a headache.
I am using Apteligent in order to evaluate and detect failures in one of my recent applications, this with the idea that mistakes in my applications are scarce and are detected by me before they are detected by my users.
"Excellent Crash reporting tool to analyze your apps"
It is the best real time crash monitoring app which offers a very intuitive graphical interface and lets me quickly fix the issues before the crash affect any other user. I can also add flags in my code so that I can easily find them and review them at a later stage.
For first time users, it has provided a very simple and elegant user documentation which is pretty easy to understand. It covers everything from real time crash reports to examining and testing the app through various development stages.
Its dashboard allows to view all the data related to the mobile app within a single screen and sharing that information to other team members requires just a couple of clicks.
Since the crashes reports and their related events needs to be seen even after a long duration, Apteligent doesn't provide that capability as it has got limited history details when it comes to viewing previous events and their related trends.
The dashboard can be segregated further in order to have similar functionalities in a separate region on the dashboard for easy monitoring and usage.
It will definitely prove out to be beneficial in generating reports for your app crashing and to fix those bugs which led to that crash. So, a must try for iOS and Android developers.
I am using it on a daily basis to figure out whether my latest version of the app is performing better or getting worse than its current or previous versions. This makes my app stable in the production instance with very few occasions of crashes.
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What Mobile App Analytics solution do you use?
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Apteligent(Crittercism) has an integration module for appcelerator titanium mobile cross platform.
Used this to improvise my app performance by resolving crash rate and workflows.
Provides both app and user management with light weight crash reporting.
Http error rate provides a best mean to identify error cause and latency.
Troubleshoot must be further improvised.
Initially i dont know whether my app is connected or not as no crash rate and count was noted, no exception in my app console as well.
Dashboard is with multiple options is confusing, can be further segregated.
Good reporting tool helps you generate reports on crashes. I helps app to fix with issues.
You can monitor you app performance in timely.
In my android app implementation I was getting httpclient exceptions and heap memory exceptions some time these were handled, identified the cause and fixed them.
I have done quality analysis for app flow and functional flow.
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I don't like so much the homepage graphic with the "Free Sign Up" button, too much large and without estectic, Apteligent need to improve that.
If you need to check the bugs this is a nice site, with this site you can do so much thing with the webmaster team.
I can check the bugs and work with the team of Apteligent, the staff is so friendly and helpfull, if you are a webmaster or a program developer this is a nice site that can help.
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- Easy way to link a crash to a specific user. This is really nice to provide great customer support.
- The UI can sometime be slow .
- App management is really confusing .
- If your user base is global, the "Geolocation" feature is really interesting to improve your user' experience.
We first used Apteligent as a crash reporting system to monitor the quality of the mobile apps TextMe was releasing.
Being able to identify rapidly the most common crashes has been a really valuable benefit to the company.
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I like the team of this site, this team does not only fix apps crash, the team focus on feature development, and deliver the best possible user experience, this is a perfect site that allow the user to report and fix the bugs with mobile apps, I like the simple template graphics and functions too.
I don't like so much the benchmark graphic data, the iOS Crash Rate by Version is not updated daily, this is the only think that I don't like, this team need to improve that.
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It can sometimes be really slow or even buggy. Also the UI can be really confusing sometimes.. which is of course fighting with my previous statement but even thou you will find it easy to navigate through.
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The UI takes a little bit of getting used to in order to know what you're looking at. While I do think there is room for improvement, I don't feel like it was bad enough to turn me off from Apteligent.
If you're already using Splunk and need comprehensive crash reporting for your app I definitely reccommend giving Apteligent a shot. Many features are free, and set up is not hard at all.
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From crittercism or Apteligent I love every characteristics that it brings for me with a very easy way to implement it. The ability to know what was doing the user just before the crash is one of the best thing of apteligent. Also I like the posibility of add flags in the code for a later use.
The worst thing of apteligent is the documentation that they have for their Android version is not as well as you should expect.
we are going way more beyond play store information and the user report that used to be less informative than we need.
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For a mobile app team, it gives us crash reports without any hassles in setting up (barely an hour of work). It also provides stack trace and ability to share with multiple people across teams. Has multiple roles for users, which helps us manage things better. Offers a great dashboard with all kinds of metrics we want. Also includes device/OS/network info for debugging.
The grouping of crash logs is confusing. Breadcrumb are also not very helpful. At times we want to search for certain messages in all the logs, but the portal doesn't offer any such feature. It messes up crash categorization per version - for instance if a crash was happening in version 1.0, it might even show up in version 2.0 for absolutely no reason. This has caused a lot of confusion in my team.
Although I am not a big fan of this tool, I have to admit they are the best one. Their support team is great. There are many free alternatives to crash reporting tools in the market, but most of them will not offer proper diagnostics. We have prototyped with some other leading tools before we went for Apteligent (formerly Crittercism).
We wanted a crash reporting system for our mobile apps with some diagnostic information like device and environment - so that we can reproduce the crash and fix. While it offers most of the data we want, we never get enough data for crash reproduction, as logs are trimmed down.
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Although UI is nice, the navigation is kind of slow.
Too much options in dashboard, and the explanation for those options is not through, a better FAQ is expected.
A better and through FAQ for android development is needed. Current documentation doesn't provide too much valuable information.
If you want to figure out the performance degradation issue while doing application migration across varies mobile platform, Apteligent is the must try option.
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Bond Indexes Get a Face-Lift
Jacqueline Doherty
Updated Feb. 1, 1999 12:01 am ET / Original July 19, 2019 3:46 am ET
W ith corporate fortunes and identities as changeable as they are today, given megamergers, restructurings and the like, it's time to update Barron's bond indexes. For the task, we enlisted the aid of J. Curtis Shambaugh, corporate bond strategist at Credit Suisse First Boston, who came through admirably.
As is our longtime practice, we've divided our indexes into two major categories. One includes 10 best-grade bonds, or those with an average credit rating of double-A1 from Moody's Investors Service and a double-A-plus rating from Standard & Poor's. The second index covers intermediate-grade paper, with average ratings of single-A3 from Moody's and triple-B-plus from S&P.
What's In Our Bond Indexes
Shambaugh was asked to find long-term, liquid bonds appropriate for each category. He picked bonds issued by large companies, many of them in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. He also tried to find names scattered across economic sectors, ranging from chemical producers to utilities, drug manufacturers to retailers. And his selections don't have call options.
Shambaugh didn't trash our entire existing lists. However, for some issuers that remained, different securities were chosen because they were deemed more liquid or better suited for the current interest-rate environment.
For example, IBM has a spot on both the old and new lists. However, Big Blue's 6 1/2 % bonds due in 2028 replace the 8 3/8 s due in 2019.
Still, some issuers have been booted, primarily because they've been acquired.
For example, Amoco is out because it merged with British Petroleum last year. Similarly, General Re no longer shows up because it recently was merged into Berkshire Hathaway . Eastman Kodak 's bonds were removed because the company has bought them back.
What's clearly evident is that the average coupon on the bonds on our updated list is much lower than that of those on the old list, which originally dated from the mid-1980s. The best-grade bonds have coupons ranging from 6 1/2 % to 7 1/2 %. Formerly, their coupons ranged from 7 7/8 % to 9 3/8 %.
In fact, many of the bonds in our new list were issued in the past year or so, as corporate treasurers pounced on the opportunity to trim their companies' interest costs. As a result, the new lists should better reflect today's lower rates.
Although the drop in yields seems dramatic, this might not be a bottom; corporate bond yields have gone much lower in years past. Shambaugh points out that Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing issued a 20-year security with a 2 5/8 % coupon that matured in 1967. Likewise, IBM had a 2 7/8 % 20-year bond due in 1967 as well. Those bonds were sold during the immediate post-World War II era, when the Treasury was offering 30-year debt with a 2 1/2 % coupon.
What you may also notice, thanks to the accompanying charts, is that the yields on our best-grade bonds have moved closer to those on Treasuries than have the yields on our intermediate-grade bonds. This reflects investors' confidence (or lack thereof) about companies' fortunes, which we've dubbed (ta-da!) the Barron's Confidence Index. When Russia defaulted on its debt and hedge funds got beaten last year, investor confidence went into a tailspin and yields on corporate debt, especially for less than gilt-edged credits, shot higher.
The fear subsided somewhat in December, but the memory lingers. The highest rated, most liquid corporates have recovered much more in price than their lower rated, less liquid peers. "Investors' confidence has not come back all the way yet," observes Shambaugh.
That indicates a split in opinion between the debt and equity crowds. While bond-market measures show that investors remain wary, stock-market indexes hit new highs last month. That implies that bonds are undervalued or stocks are overvalued. Or both.
W ith corporate fortunes and identities as changeable as they are today, given megamergers, restructurings and the like, it's time to update Barron's bond indexes.


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Volume 49, Issue 5 - May 2014
NewsAnalysis:School Safety
Why Has Talk About Security Glazing in Schools Fizzled Out?
In 2013, talk was rampant about the need for hardening schools to protect students from external threats (see May 2013 USGlass), and much of that discussion included the need for security glass systems.
Some states followed through on the talk. In Connecticut, an Act Concerning Gun Violence Prevention and Children's Safety was signed into law in April 2013. Among other things, it tasked the newly created School Safety Infrastructure Council with developing school safety infrastructure standards for school building projects. Included in the list of such infrastructure improvements were the reinforcement of entryways with bullet-resistant glass, "penetration-resistant vestibules" and other security improvements "as they become industry standards." New York also enacted a safe school act in 2013, the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, which offers provisions for increasing school safety. The law includes funding for door hardening among other measures. According to information issued by the New York State Education Department, acceptable door hardening items include removal of sidelites or changing vision panels to limit their size, as well as replacing doors and their hardware, adding bars or grills over existing glass or adding security films. The department does note, however, that schools are eligible for aid for installing bullet-resistant glass in entrances, but not around the school perimeter.
And in June 2013, the West Virginia School Building Authority approved a safety measure requiring new schools built in the state to have shatter-resistant glass.
But there's more that can be done.
According to Liz Grimes, business development manager, security glazing and safety eyewear, for Curbell Plastics, the challenge is that many schools still don't know what to do. "They take a look at different things like security guards, etc., but actually the point of entry for the building is your first defense," Grimes says.
Many school districts might cite funding as a reason not to go forward with glass retrofits, but Grimes says more often it's a matter of education. "I think we have to educate them about what secure glass is. I've read awful articles where architects say you've got to close up all the doors—but then what happens in a fire? These are people who just don't know because they don't deal with [glass]."
Grimes continues, "I think funding also plays a part, but there are a lot of different options. When a lot of people think about security glazing, they think about the $60 to $100 per square foot Level 3, Level 6 [bullet-resistant glazing]—they don't need that. They need something to slow the attacker down."
As Grimes explains, "ANSI Z97 is based upon a 10-year-old child running at a certain speed at a piece of glass and if that glass breaks, it breaks safely, so it doesn't severely cut the child. So all of the schools have tempered glass and there's nothing wrong with tempered glass. But if you shoot a bullet at it, it immediately falls in a million little pieces. It doesn't slow anyone down. You just walk right through. If you look at laminated glass … it's not going to be bullet-resistant, but [an attacker] is going to be standing there all day trying to get through it. It's all about time." Grimes chairs the Protective Glazing Committee under the Glass Association of North America's (GANA) Laminating Division. The group recently completed a Glass Information Bulletin (GIB) about security glazing for schools to address what they felt to be a lot of misinformation about the different types of security glazing. The GIB, "Security Glazing for Schools," cites the recent update of FEMA 428, BIPS 07: Primer to Design Safe School Projects in Case of Terrorist attacks and School Shootings, and goes through the various types of protective glazing and their different constructions.
While the GANA information fills a void, it's now a matter of getting it in the hands of the individuals who can use it to make a difference, and that is proving challenging. The committee has approached the U.S. Department of Education about a nationwide educational campaign on security glazing, only to be told such an effort would have to go state by state. That's one avenue the group is now examining: a grassroots campaign through which GANA members visit their local school boards to talk about security.
That education can take a number of formats, such as the importance of daylighting in schools as well as the need for security.
Another reason to continue work on educating school systems is that this security issue is one of a multitude of challenges facing each and every school. "Unfortunately, and this is just a personal opinion, if it's not in front of everybody's face we forget," Grimes says. "Are we going to wait until it happens again?"
For more information on the GANA GIB, visit www.glasswebsite.com/techcenter/. —Megan Headley