The processing of fine-grain material has become a popular recycling business in recent years. With separate magnetic drums and magnetic head pulleys, and the NES non-ferrous separator, STEINERT has been offering successful solutions in this field for several years.
The FineMaster now offers a complete system concept without the need to add any interfaces, installations or control equipment. It is STEINERT's complete solution for increased efficiency, control and adjustment needed in the sorting of fine metals.
What makes the FineMaster special is the fact that it unites proven modular solutions into a single, compact unit. Module 1 is a twostage magnetic separator (MRB) which recovers small iron and also separates out ferrous dirt as semi-magnetic waste. Module 2 containsthe NES 6119 high-frequency eddy current separator with its unique eccentric, adjustable pole system for the recovery of fine non-ferrous metal. The FineMaster works best in the range of 1 to 25 mm (1/25 to 1 inch) – a range where most eddy current systems have trouble recovering non-ferrous.
The way the FineMaster works is very simple: an upstream lowintensity magnetic drum begins by lifting small, clean iron out of the stream of materials. The downstream, fast-running neodymium belt separator loosens the material up and removes any slightly magnetic waste. This reduces the volume in the eddy current separator by about 30%.
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DESTECH 2015 will be started on 29 Jun and it will be end on 01 Jul 2015.
The scene of the Conference will be Deakin University which is one of the marvellous location for such an important event.
The International Design Technology Conference (DESTECH 2015) will be where Technology professionals meet to exchange ideas and oppinions to advance knowledge for Technology, Design, Design Engineering and Design Technology matters.
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You can now Record Calls on Truecaller
by: Shubham Agarwal - Last updated on: July 17th, 2018
Truecaller continues to add new utilities to its app's arsenal of features with call recording. In the latest beta build, users can now record calls through the Truecaller's Android app. The function works similar to what we've seen on other related applications. Whenever you dial someone, you have a floating button clicking on which initiates as well as pause the recording.
The option for recording calls on Truecaller needs to be enabled inside the settings. There's a new "Call Recording" menu which lets you turn the feature on and even specify whether you'd like to manually begin the tapping for each call. The recordings can be found through a new option in the navigation bar located on the left edge. Sadly, though, call recording is part of the company's Premium subscription. However, you can try it out for fourteen days before spending.
The majority of recent features Truecaller has rolled out have been for its premium customers. A few days ago, the caller ID service added the ability for users to check profiles of whoever viewed their Truecaller information. In addition, you can also pay utility bills and do recharges through the Truecaller app by linking your UPI account.
To try the new call recording feature on Truecaller now, you've two options. You could either enroll in the beta program and update the application from the Play Store. Otherwise, you can also simply sideload the APK file which can found here.
If you're concerned about privacy, you should know that Truecaller has specifically mentioned the recordings are stored locally and are not being synced with their online database. Being the third most grossing communications app, this could also lead to the end of third-party call recording apps especially in Truecaller's most active markets such as India. Of course, how Truecaller will make their users aware of these features remains to be seen since a lot of them never go past the setup process.
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Marcelo won a Cyber Gold Lion in the 50th International Advertising Festival of Cannes as Executive Producer for Renault Clio and actively participated in launching the Internet in Brazil and the area of mobile telephony. Creator and presenter of the weekly programme of WebTV newTV on IG, the first programme on the new opportunities of the mobile world. Marcelo speaks Italian, Spanish, English and Portuguese. Marcelo is one of the organisers and the Executive Producer of Mobilefest – International Festival of Arts and Creativity.
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Q: Uninstall all spying updates in Windows 8.1 This page recommends to stay away from the following updates:
KB2876229 # SKYPE, If you want Skype then install it.
KB2923545 # RDP
KB2970228
KB3035583
KB2990214
KB3021917
KB3068708 # Telemetry
KB2592687
KB2660075
KB2506928
KB2952664 # x2
KB3050265
KB2726535
KB2994023
KB3022345 # Replaced by KB3068708 Telemetry
KB3022345 # Caused false sfc result
KB2545698 # (IE9)
KB3065987

How do I uninstall all those updates, and prevent WindowsUpdate from reinstalling them?
Or is there a Software, that does all this for me?

A: There is a tool on https://github.com/WindowsLies/BlockWindows that you can use to deaktivate all spying updates.
Just download it into your standard Windows Download Folder and run it with right-click as administrator.
It is important to store it in the standard Download Folder because the script relies on that

A: I believe the best current way to do this is using an advanced batch script known as Aegis Voat (Github link)(Direct Download Link for V 1.13) which does this for Windows 7 and Windows 8, and does it very well. That page also provides a list of updates you should stay away from, the script also removes a few annoyances such as the new forced Windows 10 upgrade download as well as a few windows services that you probably don't want.
You can alternatively do this by hand in the windows update program, uninstalling and hiding each update you don't want one by one.
This is the current list of updates (february 21, 2016):
kb update   description
kb971033    update for windows activation technologies
kb2882822   update for adding itracerelogger interface support
kb2902907   description not available, update was pulled by microsoft
kb2922324   description not available, update was pulled by microsoft
kb2952664   update for upgrading windows 7
kb2976978   update for windows 8.1 and windows 8
kb2977759   update for windows 7 rtm
kb2990214   update that enables you to upgrade from windows 7 to a later version of windows
kb3012973   upgrade to windows 10
kb3014460   update for windows insider preview / upgrade to windows 10
kb3015249   update that adds telemetry points to consent.exe in Windows 8.1 and Windows 7
kb3021917   update for windows 7 sp1 for performance improvements
kb3022345   update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry
kb3035583   update installs get windows 10 app in windows 8.1 and windows 7 sp1
kb3042058   update for cipher suite priority order (contains winlogon spying elements)
kb3044374   update that enables you to upgrade from windows 8.1 to windows 10
kb3046480   update for migrating .net when upgrading to later version of windows
kb3050265   update for windows update client for windows 7 june 2015
kb3050267   update for windows update client for windows 8.1 june 2015
kb3064683   update for windows 8.1 oobe modifications to reserve windows 10
kb3065987   update for windows update client for windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2 july 2015
kb3065988   update for windows update client for windows 8.1 and windows server 2012 r2 july 2015
kb3068708   update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry
kb3072318   update for windows 8.1 oobe modifications to reserve windows 10
kb3074677   compatibility update for upgrading to windows 10
kb3075249   update that adds telemetry points to consent.exe in windows 8.1 and windows 7
kb3075851   update for windows update client for windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2 august 2015
kb3075853   update for windows update client for windows 8.1 and windows server 2012 r2 august 2015
kb3080149   update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry
kb3081437   august 18, 2015, compatibility update for upgrading to windows 10
kb3081454   september 8, 2015, compatibility update for upgrading to windows 10
kb3081954   update for work folders improvements in windows 7 sp1 (contains telemetry elements)
kb3083324   update for windows update client for windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2 september 2015
kb3083325   update for windows update client for windows 8.1 and windows server 2012 r2 september 2015
kb3083710   update for windows update client for windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2 october 2015
kb3083711   update for windows update client for windows 8.1 and windows server 2012 r2 october 2015
kb3086255   september 8, 2015, security update for the graphics component in windows (breaks safedisc)
kb3088195   october 13, 2015, security update for windows kernel (reported to contain a keylogger)
kb3090045   windows update for reserved devices in windows 8.1 or windows 7 sp1 (windows 10 upgrade elements)
kb3093983   security update for internet explorer: october 13, 2015 (ie spying elements)
kb3102810   windows 10 upgrade elements
kb3102812   windows 10 upgrade elements
kb3112343   update for windows update client for windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2 december 2015
kb3112336   update for windows update client for windows 8.1 and windows server 2012 r2 december 2015
kb3123862   updated capabilities to upgrade windows 8.1 and windows 7
kb3135445   windows update client for windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2: february 2016
kb3135449   windows update client for windows 8.1 and windows server 2012 r2: february 2016

Installation guide is well.. download the zip file, extract it into a folder of your choosing, and then run aegis.cmd as administrator.

A: create a file win8SpyUdateUninstall.bat
wusa /uninstall /kb:2923545
wusa /uninstall /kb:2970228
wusa /uninstall /kb:3035583
wusa /uninstall /kb:2990214
wusa /uninstall /kb:3021917
wusa /uninstall /kb:3068708
wusa /uninstall /kb:2592687
wusa /uninstall /kb:2660075
wusa /uninstall /kb:2506928
wusa /uninstall /kb:2952664
wusa /uninstall /kb:3050265
wusa /uninstall /kb:2726535
wusa /uninstall /kb:2994023
wusa /uninstall /kb:3022345
wusa /uninstall /kb:3022345
wusa /uninstall /kb:2545698
wusa /uninstall /kb:3065987

open a cmd and call the script.
You will get a popup fo reach update, either saying that it is not installed anyway or asking you to uninstall. after each uninstall you can press "restart later" to finish the whole script before restartint windows.
TODO:

*

*prevent windows from suggesting those updates on the next update-check

*install a daemon, that checks for new spyware updates to arrive in the future

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Q: how to filter name/value pairs under a registry key by name and value in PowerShell? I'm trying to get a feel for the idioms to use in PowerShell.
Given this script:
$path = 'hkcu:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Extensions'
$key = Get-Item $path
$key

I get the output at the bottom of this question.
I'd like to get output of the properties (the name/value pairs under the $key) where I can filter on both name and value.
For instance, filter to list all the Extensions that have:

*

*name like xls*

*or value like *\MSACCESS.EXE
Or an exclude filter: exclude all names like doc*
Fir the first filter, I'd want a result like this:
Name                           Value
----                           --------
xlsx                           C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\EXCEL.EXE
xls                            C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\EXCEL.EXE
mdb                            C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\MSACCESS.EXE
mda                            C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\MSACCESS.EXE

This is the original output of the script:
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
Name                           Property
----                           --------
Extensions                     rtf  : C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\WINWORD.EXE ^.rtf
                               dot  : C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\WINWORD.EXE ^.dot
                               dotm : C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\WINWORD.EXE ^.dotm
                               dotx : C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\WINWORD.EXE ^.dotx
                               docm : C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\WINWORD.EXE ^.docm
                               docx : C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\WINWORD.EXE ^.docx
                               doc  : C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\WINWORD.EXE ^.doc
                               xlsx : C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\EXCEL.EXE
                               xls  : C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\EXCEL.EXE
                               mdb  : C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\MSACCESS.EXE
                               mda  : C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\MSACCESS.EXE

Edit
I solved part of the problem: getting a list of Name/Value pairs. It uses PSCustomObject:
$namevalues = $key.GetValueNames() | ForEach-Object { [pscustomobject]@{ Name=$_; Value=$key.GetValue($_) } }
$namevalues

(How should I wrap that code?)
Any help with the filtering would be much appreciated

A: A two part answer.
We start with the $key from the registry:
$path = 'hkcu:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Extensions'
$key = Get-Item $path
$key
$key | Get-Member

Since $key is a Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey, you cannot get the name value pairs out directly.
The first step is to create a list of PSCustomObjects with Name/Value pairs. The Name comes from the GetValueNames piped through a ForEach-Object. For each of those Names, we get the Value through GetValue:
$namevalues = $key.GetValueNames() |
  ForEach-Object {
    [PSCustomObject] @{
      Name = $_;
      Value = $key.GetValue($_)
    }
  }
$namevalues | Format-Table

An alternative for the first step is to use the Select-Object using -ExpandProperty as explained by Scott Saad:
$namevalues = $key | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Property |
  ForEach-Object {
    [PSCustomObject] @{
      Name = $_;
      Value = $key.GetValue($_)
    }
  }
$namevalues | Format-Table

The second step is to filter the $namevalues either by Name or by Value.
The Where-Object has some pretty cool Comparison operators that accept regular expressions like match, notMatch, etc.
To make the code more readable, you can wrap lines (thanks Joey!) either use the backtick (`) or take advantage of the places in the PowerShell syntax where it does accept line breaks, like after a pipe (|) or opening brace ({):
$matches = $namevalues |
  Where-Object {
    $_.Name -match '^xls' `
    -or $_.Value -match 'msaccess.exe$'
  }
$matches | Format-Table

The result is as wanted:
Name    Value
----    -----
xlsx    C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\EXCEL.EXE
xls     C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\EXCEL.EXE
mdb     C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\MSACCESS.EXE
mda     C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office15\MSACCESS.EXE

A: There's a much more clever way to enumerate registry values (found it here). And it's more powershell-way IMO.
I've turned it into a one-liner:
(Get-ItemProperty $path).psobject.properties |
   where {$_.name -like "xls*" -or $_.value -like "*\MSACCESS.EXE"} |
      select name,value

Update: As noted in comments by @mklement0, you should be careful about properties PSPath, PSParentPath, PSChildName, PSDrive, and PSProvider within the psobject.properties.

A: A more robust PSv4+ alternative to montonero's helpful answer:[1]
Get-Item $path -PipelineVariable key | ForEach-Object Property | ForEach-Object {
  $name = ($_, '')[$_ -eq '(default)'] # translate '(default)' to '' for API calls
  if ($name -like 'xls*' -or ($value = $key.GetValue($name)) -like "*\MSACCESS.EXE")
    { [pscustomobject] @{ Name = $name; Value = $value } }
 }

*

*-PipelineVariable key stores the [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey] instance returned by Get-Item in variable $key for later use in the pipeline.

*ForEach-Object Property enumerates the target key's value names (via the .Property note property that PowerShell adds to the output [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey] instance).

*Inside the Where-Object script block, $_ then refers to the value name at hand, and $key.GetValue(<valueName>) is used to retrieve the associated data.

*

*Important: In the .Property array, PowerShell translates the default value name, which is the empty string ('') at the API level, into name '(default)'; thus, if $_ is '(default)', you must translate it to '' before calling $_.GetValue(<valueName>), which is what ($_, '')[$_ -eq '(default)'] does.

*[pscustomobject] @{ ... } then constructs and outputs a [pscustomobject] instance with .Name and .Value properties reflecting the matching value's name and data.

[1] montonero's answer is concise and works well in the case at hand, but it comes with caveats:
PowerShell's registry provider automatically adds the following additional note properties (members of type NoteProperty, as reflected in the output from Get-Member) containing metadata about the targeted registry keys to the [pscustomobject] instance that Get-ItemProperty outputs:

*

*PSPath, PSParentPath, PSChildName, PSDrive, PSProvider
These can interfere with filtering based on .psobject.properties in two ways:

*

*Using wildcard matching against $_.Name can accidentally include these properties.

*

*E.g., $_.Name -like '*drive*' would match the PSDrive property, even though it isn't actually part of the registry key.

*Perhaps more hypothetically, if the registry key happens to have values of the same name as these provider properties, the provider properties shadow (override) these values.

*

*E.g., if the key has a PSPath value, $_.Value will report the provider property value instead.


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Emergency psychiatry
V Villari, P Rocca, F Bogetto
Minerva Medica 2007, 98 (5): 525-41
Up to 15% of people that are visited in the Emergency Department of a Hospital have a mental disorder and/or a psychiatric symptom: often this is not recognized or not properly treated. The reasons for this are more than one and involve: the emergency physicians that are not always prepared and sensible to face this kind of disorders; the psychiatrists that are not always well tuned with the language and the clinic of the emergency; and the patients, that can ignore or deny the psychiatric nature of their problems. After an initial definitions of the most important terms and concepts (Psychiatric Emergency and Urgency, Behavioral Emergency, Acute Presentations of Mental Disorders, and Crisis) the Medical and Psychiatric Assessment are discussed with different Clinical Presentations and Classifications, Psychosocial Evaluation and Risk Assessment. Finally the Clinical Management and the Pharmacological Treatment are presented with special attention to the underlying medical causes and to the use of new drugs, especially second generation antipsychotics, alone or combined with benzodiazepines.
[Psychopharmacological treatment in the pre-clinical emergency medicine]. F-G Pajonk, B Fleiter Der Anaesthesist 2003, 52 (7): 577-85
Psychiatric emergencies in adolescents. Gail A Edelsohn, John-Paul Gomez Adolescent Medicine Clinics 2006, 17 (1): 183-204
Use of restraints and pharmacotherapy in academic psychiatric emergency services. Michael H Allen, Glenn W Currier General Hospital Psychiatry 2004, 26 (1): 42-9
Psychiatric emergencies in the elderly. R A Greenstein, D E Ness Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America 1990, 8 (2): 429-41
Treating aggression in the psychiatric emergency service. Douglas H Hughes, Phillip M Kleespies Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2003, 64: 10-5
[Prescribing patterns of antipsychotics in 13 French psychiatric hospitals]. P Bret, M-C Bret, E Queuille L'Encéphale 2009, 35 (2): 129-38
Evaluation and management of the violent patient in emergency settings. D Jacobs Psychiatric Clinics of North America 1983, 6 (2): 259-69
Prevention of suicide and attempted suicide in Denmark. Epidemiological studies of suicide and intervention studies in selected risk groups. Merete Nordentoft Danish Medical Bulletin 2007, 54 (4): 306-69
Psychiatric emergencies in the elderly population. Joanna Piechniczek-Buczek Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America 2006, 24 (2): 467-90, viii
Atypical antipsychotic medication poisoning: an evidence-based consensus guideline for out-of-hospital management. Daniel J Cobaugh, Andrew R Erdman, Lisa L Booze, Elizabeth J Scharman, Gwenn Christianson, Anthony S Manoguerra, E Martin Caravati, Peter A Chyka, Alan D Woolf, Lewis S Nelson, William G Troutman Clinical Toxicology 2007, 45 (8): 918-42


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Alderson Drive
Science » Alternative Science » FTL » FTL Travel » Stardrive » Alderson Drive
rating: 0+–x
The Alderson Drive is a type of Shortcut Drive used in some novels by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. It's named for scientist Dan Alderson, who helped Pournelle work out the ramifications and plausibility of such a Star Drive.
The Alderson Drive is not technically an "FTL drive", but it achieves the same affects. As with any Shortcut Drive, movement in the local frame of reference does not exceed that of light. Instead, the Alderson Drive locates and utilizes a particular form of wormhole known as an Alderson Point. Two such points define an Alderson Tramline. These points (and the resulting "tramlines") occur naturally, connecting stars. So basically, to get to another star system, you "just" have to travel very close to our sun and find the wormhole connecting it to another star. Travel across the galaxy can thus be achieved by little hops from one system to another, followed by a few weeks of repositioning within a given stars system. Still, you've trimmed the transit time by a very large factor, making some sort of interstellar civilization a lot more feasible.
But getting to other worlds and stars still ain't easy. The Alderson Point wormholes are difficult to find, spaced far apart, utilize the Fifth Force, and only exist between points in space with the same thermodynamic potential. Within the novels, the Alderson Drive had an unfortunate side-effect of being very disorienting to human passengers and to automated systems. That delay and distraction, combined with the fact that each star system had only a handful of Alderson Points, meant it was entirely possible to ambush space craft as they came out of the Alderson Tramline.
1. Alderson Drive
The Alderson Drive is used in The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, and the CoDominium series by Jerry Pournelle.
Game and Story Use
Likely to show up in a game based on the works of Pournelle or Niven.
Or could inspire something similar in other settings.
Has the nice benefit of keeping space travel lengthy and difficult, but not so long or so hard that the PCs won't want to travel anywhere.
Also, the "jump shock" disorientation, and the potential for ambush allows for some tactical challenges and plot devices.
Dan Alderson also came up with the Alderson Disk, a form of Stellar Megastructure. You could do an all-Alderson setting.
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Learn more about Chimp Haven, the National Chimpanzee Sanctuary.
In the hot and sultry northwest corner of Louisiana, near the small town of Keithville, is Chimp Haven, 200 acres of salvation and a little bit of heaven for more than 250 chimpanzees.
Photos of some of those chimps line a portion of one wall in the office of Steve Ross at Lincoln Park Zoo, forming a compelling primate panorama. Ross is a primatologist who has been at the zoo since 2000, when he was hired as a behavioral specialist. That is the same year his wife, Megan, came to the zoo to be its curator of birds. She is now the zoo's executive vice president and he the director of its Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes.
One morning a couple of weeks ago, he was explaining the difference between apes and monkeys.
He knows a very great deal about all primates but the conversation was focusing on chimps and he was saying how, since the age of 9, growing up in Ottawa, Canada, all he has wanted to do "is make the lives of chimps better." He has done his best — through a distinguished academic and professional career — and remains passionate and tireless in that cause.
Chimps, due to their being the closest genetic relative to human beings, were for decades widely used in medical research studies in an effort to develop vaccines for a number of infectious diseases such as polio, hepatitis, HIV … the list is long.
In the early 1980s, in an attempt to combat the AIDS epidemic, chimpanzees were energetically bred, swelling their population at labs, most of these overseen by the National Institutes of Health. However, it turned out that chimps did not get sick from the virus.
And so, here were an estimated 1,500 federally owned or supported chimpanzees in biomedical labs, including 600 or so who were eligible for retirement because they were no longer used for research. What to do with these the animals, an endangered species with a lifespan of up to 60 years, but to let them live out their days in cages?
Steve Ross Director of Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes stands for a portrait at the Lincoln Park Zoo Regenstein Center For African Apes in Chicago on June 1, 2018.
That was unacceptable to everyone involved, especially to those who believed, rightly, that these chimpanzees, who had endured years in labs for the betterment of humankind, were owed a tremendous debt.
Chimp Haven Inc. (chimphaven.org) was founded as a nonprofit organization in 1995 by two women, Linda Brent and Amy Fultz, both of whom had worked at a Texas laboratory and were eager to figure out a means for long-term care for chimps no longer needed for research.
Things started happening. In 2000, the CHIMP Act (Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance and Protection) was signed into law, establishing the Federal Sanctuary System. Two years later, Chimp Haven was awarded a $19 million contract by the NIH. It was not being merely altruistic but fiscally sensible, since the cost of keeping chimpanzees in research labs is vastly more expensive per animal than in a sanctuary.
Caddo Parish (i.e., "county") donated the heavily forested property to Chimp Haven, construction began and the first residents arrived in 2005.
Their names were Rita and Teresa. A steady stream followed. In 2013, the NIH made a landmark decision to no longer support invasive research on chimpanzees and Chimp Haven was designated as the national sanctuary for all government-owned chimpanzees. There are smaller sanctuaries (for chimps and other animals) in the country but with the addition of five new retirees in May, Chimp Haven became the largest chimpanzee sanctuary in the world.
It is not regularly open for visitors, except for six Chimpanzee Discovery Days during each year. Anyone who has visited has vivid memories.
Chimpanzees in Chimp Haven, southwest of Shreveport, La., in the Eddie D. Jones Nature Park.
Bell also has become co-chair, with local philanthropist Kimbra Walter, of the Chimp Haven Expansion campaign, an ongoing effort to raise $20 million to expand the facility and its staff to accommodate the 300-some chimps still housed in various labs.
The film aired earlier this year in Britain and was screened in March at a private gathering at the Soho House here. The film brought tears to the eyes of many in the audience, which included the mayor's wife, Amy Rule. Perhaps it also opened some checkbooks.
This fine film was shown recently in Los Angeles, where the audience included Magic Johnson, and there is hope that it will soon find a U.S. broadcast outlet.
Ross appears in the film, talking about one particular chimp named Henry, one of only a few CH residents that did not come from a research facility.
Ross knew Henry from his previous life. In 2010 he founded Project ChimpCare to locate every chimpanzee in North America and assess its level of care."Until then, no one really knew how many chimps lived in the U.S," he says.
He and some colleagues started traveling. Of the 2,000 some chimps they discovered, only about 300 lived in accredited zoos. The others were in research facilities, roadside zoos, employed as "actors" in the entertainment industry or kept as pets by private owners or breeders. Ross was able to facilitate the transfer of nearly 50 chimps to accredited zoos or sanctuaries. Henry came to Chimp Haven.
It would be a mistake, if an understandable one, to demonize the laboratories where the chimps lived. Ross knows many of the Chimp Haven residents because his past includes a one-year stint at a biomedical research lab in Texas and three years at a similar facility in Atlanta.
Times and attitudes change and with that the realization that chimps are no longer appropriate for medical testing. And so, those who have inhabited that world are now ready for retirement and there is Chimp Haven, awaiting those who may have never seen a tree, never had their feet touch grass, or never laid eyes on other chimps except those who shared their laboratory lives and cramped living quarters.
It really is a kind of heaven.


Around 5.6 lakh housing units worth Rs 4.5 trillion in seven major cities are running behind the delivery timelines mainly due to demand slowdown and fund diversion by developers, according to property consultant Anarock.
These 5.6 lakh flats were launched before 2013 in these seven cities -- National Capital Region (NCR), Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune.
"The top 7 cities currently have a total stock of 5.6 lakh delayed housing units worth a whopping Rs 4,51,750 crore," Anarock founder and chairman Anuj Puri said.
"Lakhs of buyers across top cities particularly MMR and NCR - have been left in limbo, leading to inconceivable mental stress and financial pain," he added.
As per the Anarock data, the NCR and MMR account for 72 per cent of the total stuck housing units.
In MMR, as many as 1,92,100 apartments worth Rs 2,17,550 crore are delayed, while the NCR has 2,10,200 units worth Rs 1,31,460 crore running behind the schedule.
The main southern cities of Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad together account for a mere 10 per cent of the overall stuck housing units of a total worth of Rs 41,770 crore. The Southern cities have predominantly been driven by service-class end-users, leaving limited scope for developers to be unprofessional.
"It has become a 'chicken and egg' situation - buyers have understandably stopped releasing funds to builders, and builders claim they have no funds to complete construction," he added.
Every delayed project results in cost overruns which compound the funding crunch even further.
Anarock chairman said the lack of project clearances for whatever reason also contributes to the piling up of housing stock. In the pre-RERA era, many builders launched greenfield projects without the requisite approvals in place, resulting in their projects getting stuck.
The consultant said that by amending the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code and treating buyers at par with banks and other creditors, the government has safeguarded the interests of affected buyers.
"Whichever government is in power after the upcoming general elections, it has a mammoth task to complete. Delayed projects have severely weakened faith in under-construction properties and reviving buyers' trust is a herculean task," Puri said.
If buyers stop purchasing under-construction properties, builders would have a far more challenging time to get funds from external sources for project construction, he added.


You are looking at a beautiful and scarce Victorian Catholic Bible in the very rare and highly prized Douay and Rheims Version, with notes by Rev George Haydock, featuring many striking illustrations, color Stations of the Cross, Gustave Dore plates. Printed around the late 1880s to early 1900s Fully adorned and gilt embossed cross patterned full-leather covers and spine, with 22k gold pages in great shape, Includes two working silver swing clasps, as shown. Presentation and photo holders unused (some wear), Illustrated with artistic B&W plates, many by Gustave Dore. Numerous other plates throughout, including gilt adorned plates, color Stations of the Cross, and more.
Binding of leaves and pages are very clean. Overall a very nice Bible. Measures r oughly 12.5" x 1 0" x 4.5. The item "1900s Douay & Rheims family bible leather and gold (vintage, antique, rare!)" is in sale since Saturday, December 8, 2018. This item is in the category "Books\Antiquarian & Collectible". The seller is "robi2834-uibdhtli" and is located in Berlin, Connecticut.


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BRISTOL - Ralph Gilbert, age 77, of Bristol, TN passed away on August 7, 2018 at Johnson City Medical Center.
He was born in Lee County, VA a son to the late Clarence and Mary Gulley Gilbert. He was a former employee of Sprint where he worked as a lineman. Mr. Gilbert was a member of Dryden Methodist Church and attended Woodlawn Baptist in Bristol. He was a United States Army veteran and was preceded in death by his wife Lois Gilbert and a sister Carol Elkins.
Survivors include: Step Son – David Bishop; Granddaughters – Tessa Salyer and husband Eric and Chelsea Greer and husband Michael; Great Granddaughter – Kayley Salyer; Cousin – Pam Minton; Several Nieces and Nephews.
A Graveside service will be held on Friday, August 10, 2018 at 11am at Glenwood Cemetery with Rev. Joe Blankenship officiating. Military honors will be presented by the Bristol VFW Honor Guard.


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"Elon Musk, the Thomas Edison of our Generation" says Chamath Palihapitiya
The founder of hedge fund Social Capital and one of Facebook's first executives, Chamath Palihapitiya, gushed to CNBC this week about how Tesla is the "clear winner in electrification." Palihapitiya cited Tesla's first-mover advantage, as the company that truly defined the modern electric vehicle and is the current sales leader in the market segment.
"There is a clear winner in electrification," says Chamath Palihapitiya, one of Facebook's first executives and the founder of hedge fund Social Capital.
People are focusing too closely on the "window dressing" of Musk's behavior and not enough on the "main course," which is Tesla itself and its competitiveness in the marketplace, he says.
He compares Tesla competitors, such as Audi's new electric offering, to the Zune media player, a failed Microsoft competitor to Apple's iPod.
While Tesla faces a lot of challenges, investor and early Facebook employee Chamath Palihapitiya said the company's first-mover advantage in electric cars will give it a long-term advantage.
"There is a clear winner in electrification," Palihapitiya said in an interview Tuesday on CNBC. "It is done. That die has been cast. Now the question is: Can [CEO Elon Musk] build the infrastructure? If given time and given patience I believe that he will."
People are focusing too closely on the "window dressing" of Musk's behavior and not enough on the "main course," which is Tesla itself and its competitiveness in the marketplace, he said. He compared Tesla competitors, such as Audi's new electric offering, to the Zune media player, a failed Microsoft competitor to Apple's iPod.
"If you get caught up in all this stuff around the edges — he may mistweet from time to time," Palihapitiya said, alluding to Musk's tweets about Tesla production numbers and funding, which have gotten him in hot water with the Securities and Exchange Commission. "My point is, who cares? Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise."
Palihapitiya said he continues to hold Tesla stock because Musk has been able to deliver on promises on a larger scale years down the line. Musk's misbehavior on Twitter and podcasts isn't important, he said, because demand for Tesla cars is strong and exceeds other players in the electric-car market.
"All of that stuff doesn't matter. It doesn't change the fact that tens of thousands of consumers are buying that car faster than they can get their hands on it. It doesn't change that as soon as you sit inside that car, your definition of what is expected is altered forever," he said.
"At the end of the day, whether you like his style or not, his substance is irrefutable," Palihapitiya said of Musk. "People are betting against his style. Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor."
While Palihapitiya is taking a long view, Tesla investors have reacted poorly to the company's Q1 deliveries and earnings results. The company's shares are down more than 28% year to date.


With the latest waves of innovation in different industries, 3D printing technology has been a great help in cultivating them. Because of several people's interests in surfing, 3D printing continues to be popular and because of its efficiency, a lot of manufacturers of customized surfboards and fins are looking for ways to make use of 3D printing by experimenting. The story of a 48-piece surfboard named Jigsurf in New Zealand has been covered last year because its components were entirely produced through 3D printing. And even before that, a New Zealand surfer Roy Stuart gained popularity with the surfing community because of the Warp Drive fins produced through 3D printing.
The fins of the surfboard are very important, especially to experienced surfers because different designs of the fins can actually change the control, stability and the overall performance of the surfer using his surfboard. The University of Wollongong researchers from New South Wales, Australia have already started 3D printing surfboard fins that are very necessary to the local surf forecast or an individual surfer.
The research team is led by the university's Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health Associate Dean Professor Marc in het Panhuis. With the 3D printed surfboard fins produced by the team, they are trying their functionality. Equipped with GPS tracking devices, the surfboard fins can then gather data on the air, turns, top speeds and wave counts. Afterwards, the data gathered will be compared to that of a professional surfer who is riding with the same tracking device. By doing this, researchers will be able to determine the parts that need improvement, and revamp the design. The 3D printers used in 3D printing these customized fins are placed within the Australian National Fabrication Facility.
The University's researchers were able to determine the parts of the fin that need improvement because they have already tracked 1,100 turns and 1,400 waves. Along with the rest of the team, Professor in het Panhuis is already talking to the surfboard manufacturers in Australia and is starting to introduce their customized 3D printed fins to the coastal city, and eventually across the globe. In terms of surfboard manufacturers, Australia is one of famous countries, and they are hoping to improve the performance of the local surfing community with the 3D printing technique.
When it comes to 3D printing technology, the University of Wollongong has been very eager to research more and discover possible developments. As a matter of fact, the University provided a one-month online course in 3D bioprinting, which was open to all whatever the experience level is. In addition, in 2014, Dr. in het Panhuis made 'Jello' waves in connection with his research on developing edible hydro gels. One of the main goals of the University's research team is to improve the art of surfing for all experience levels. As much as possible, they tailor each fin needed by a surfer because they want to help wave-riders to conquer the waters with grace and style in accordance to their preference.


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bound volume with 17 drawings and 19 prints by various artists for the 1767-1771 ed. of "Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide"
Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures de XVIIIe siecle. 6th edition revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col.769.


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3 Reasons to Study Church History
For many Christians, especially, I think, within Protestantism, Church history is a foggy and mysterious realm somewhere beyond the borders of normal thought, beyond the more familiar lands of biblical interpretation and spiritual discipline. Occasionally, one of its more conspicuous citizens (St. Francis of Assisi, Martin Luther, and a few others) makes an appearance in familiar territory, but in general the land and its inhabitants seem far away and shrouded in darkness. Many evidently prefer
An Introduction to Saints
A point of confusion and, sometimes, contention within the Christian religion is the role of saints in the life of the Church. In some branches of Christianity, such as Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism, saints occupy an important place, as is evidenced, among other things, by the names of their churches—St. Luke, St. George, St. Cuthbert, and so on. In some other traditions, particularly within evangelicalism and fundamentalism, the word "saint" is used rarely and with
Einhard and the Sacred Relics: A Forgotten Story of the 'Dark Ages'
A New Birth and a New Death On Christmas Day in the year 800 CE, the Roman Empire was proclaimed to be reborn. The Frankish king Charlemagne, a fierce conqueror and the ruler of most of western Europe, had travelled to Rome, and there Pope Leo III declared him Roman emperor, his collection of loosely controlled lands being dubbed the Holy Roman Empire. The coronation was questionable for a number of reasons, not the least
Theology, Sanctity, and the Academy
It could be said that, throughout history and even now in the "less enlightened" parts of the world, the cults of the Saints drive not only the practice of Christianity but also speculation (in the older, more revered sense of the term) about Christianity itself. That is, hagiography as such – the vitae Sanctorum – is not a strange collection of bygone myths (in the newer, less revered sense of the term), but the pulse
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a Match…: St. Phanourios and the long wished for Husband
This is the continuation of my essay series on St. Phanourios. You can read part 1 here 1 and part 2 here 2. Last time, I wrote about how St. Phanourios helped me through a series of personal crises that, as they often do, all spilled out at once. I was jobless, looking for work, had run out of money, and my health was crumbling, with a 50/50 chance of having cancer. St. Phanourios' prayers
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Contemplative Missiology, Part 2: The Power of Contemplative Transformation
Please remember to check out Part One of the series. "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."1 "Acquire a peaceful spirit and thousands of others around you will be saved."2 The Great Commission is not about making converts. It is about making saints. It is not about regeneration. It is about maturation. Granted, one needs to be converted in order to become a saint (and I understand
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Exploits of the Apostle Thomas in India
Though we would not meet until many years later, my wife and I both enjoyed the good fortune of having college roommates from India who became our closest friends. My roommate came from a Hindu family, and my wife's roommate from a Christian family. It was through her that I first heard of "Saint Thomas Christians"—the Christians of Southern India, who trace their faith all the way back to the Apostle Thomas himself. It's my
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Saint Phanourios: a Friend in Suffering and One Who Finds What is Lost
This is the continuation of my essay series on St. Phanourios. You can read part 1 here.2 As it is for many, we often spiritually grow through suffering. Elder Sophrony3, when writing to his sister Maria, writes about what suffering can give us: Do you really think that my in my years of monastic life I have escaped periods when the vision of my ruin was so petrifying that it is not permitted to speak
Revealer of light: St. Phanourios
Years ago, in late September, I was at my sister-friend's parish in Ottawa for a weekday liturgy. Afterwards, an older Greek lady gave out small pieces of bread called "Phanouropita" for St. Phanourios. I have never had such good tasting bread. It was the perfect balance of sweetness and spices; surely it was made with prayer! Nothing tastes so good as when it is made with love and prayer. I remember the priest, after the
St Xenia and What Prayer Can Look Like
I went on a walk with a friend recently, we saw trees fully green and trees with delicate yellow leaves, falling in the wind, on green grass. Autumn in Northern New Jersey! While sitting on a bench, we talked about books, ideas and our dreams for life. I reminisced a bit. I told her how when I was in school, years back, outside Vancouver and new to the Orthodox Church. I saw 2 icons for
Learning How to Be "Missional" From Saint Antony
The title of this article may sound quite oxymoronic to some. If you are someone like I used to be, you may find yourself wondering what an ancient Saint, a monastic one at that, would have to teach us about being missional today. Those who pursue the study of missional theology often do not place reading books about the reclusive lives of the monastic saints too highly on the priority list. Missiologists, from my experience,
(A Brief Synopsis) What I have been given in the Church ~ The Protection and Shelter of the Saints ~ Part II
Icon of St. Herman of Alaska from Holy Dormition Monastery. Icon of St. Herman of Alaska, made by my Ottawa Parish, from a print from Greece; Picture taken by author. Note: This is a continuation of my series on what I have been given in the (Eastern Orthodox) Church. Part One is found here. The Protection and Shelter of the Saints ~ Part II: Saints Herman and Nicholas Saint Herman of Alaska While at St.
(A Brief Synopsis) What I have been given in the Church: The Protection and Shelter of the Saints ~ Part I: The Mother of God
This icon is called the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God Note: While I am new to Conciliar Post, I am here because of their commitment to dialogue between Christian traditions (Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant) with respect and Christian love. While I could write (and perhaps will later) on why I think this is the best way, suffice for now to say what I see my writing, including this series, to be about: to
"Do not be afraid" ~ {While Experiencing the Abandonment of God}
I1 am nearing the end of a really beautiful book, called Dimitri's Cross.2 Right now I am reading the letters he wrote his wife, Tamara, from his first place of imprisonment. I already know, from reading this book, that he is later sent to Dora, a camp called the "Man-Eater" where Fr. Dimitri is forced to work in horrid, extreme conditions, ages quickly, becomes very ill and at the end, speaks of feeling the abandonment of
The Hell of Being Unseen
"Walking in the desert one day I found the skull of a dead man lying on the ground. As I was moving it with my stick, the skull spoke to me. I said to it, 'Who are you? ' The skull replied, 'I was a high priest of the idols and of the pagans who dwelt in this place; but you are Macarius, the Spirit-hearer. Whenever you take pity on those who are in torment,
Two monks left their cell and appeared before Abba Anthony, who was praying. "Abba," said one of the monks, "My brother is in error, saying that Squirtle is the best starter when Charmander is clearly superior." The other replied, "Nay, it is my brother who errs, for Squirtle has the best evolution." Abba Anthony ceased praying and stood before the brethren. He pulled his own iPhone from within his robe and snapped it in half.
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Seminal Christian Thinkers: Augustine on the Lord's Prayer
All Augustine sermon citations are taken from Sermon 80, Edmund Hill Translation1 Prayer has always been central to Christian communities. In America today, most are familiar with the text of the Lord's Prayer, which Christ teaches his disciples in Matthew 6 (cf. Luke 11). The fact that such an ancient text continues to find relevance in the lives of each new generation says something significant about its worth. Yet popularity includes inherent drawbacks. Although millions can recite the
Men, Women, and Spiritual Friendship
In a catechesis address on April 15 at the Vatican, Pope Francis spoke about the difference between men and women. Some who wish to develop a discontinuous narrative of John Paul II and Benedict XVI as traditionalists and Francis as a progressive pope expressed their disappointment at Francis's statements, as the pontiff warned against the prevalence of gender theory in modern society. "We risk taking a step backward," Francis stated, and he claimed that "so-called
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Heroes, Legends, and Bones: Part 3
What is up with these Orthodox and their bones? Essentially bones matter, stuff matters, matter matters because of the Incarnation. When the Pre-Incarnate, Pre-Eternal, Second person of the Holy Trinity was en-fleshed, when the Fully Divine became Fully Man, matter was redeemed and took on the (or begins to take on) the true nature of what it was created to be.
When Christ commanded that the apostles preach the Gospel to "the ends of the earth," this mandate was taken literally. "Ends of the Earth" in the Greco-Roman world was quite specific, not allegorical. Maps of the known world at the time literally had their ends.


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Everyone has to eat – but where? In the cutthroat restaurant business, companies are creating mobile apps to attract customers that let them browse a menu, place an order, and pay for it all with a few taps.
Mobile application development is a step-by-step approach that follows specific guidelines to complete a project within the stipulated time frame, budget, and scope.
Mobile Games vs. Handheld Games: Who Will Dominate the Market?
By the end of 2013, the gaming market experienced a shift. Currently, mobile games are increasing market share while handheld games are decreasing in market share.


Since January 1938 passed approximately Nine Hundred and Seventy-Six months (975.5). This January started with Saturday (52. week) and ended with Monday (05. week). This January had 31 days and 5 Sundays. On bottom of the page you can find calendar for January 1938.
We found 70 events occured in January month in 1938.
• 1938. January 3 (Category: Events), The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1938. January 14 (Category: Events), Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
• 1938. January 28 (Category: Events), The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).


The Florida facility will implant RFID chips in 200 volunteers this summer to test the VeriMed system's ability to identity patients and their medical histories.
May 25, 2007—This summer, Alzheimer's Community Care (ACC), a West Palm Beach, Fla., provider of support to Alzheimer's patients and their caretakers, will implant RFID chips in about 200 volunteers who are clients of the organization. The two-year project, says Mary M. Barnes, president and CEO of ACC, will employ VeriChip Corp.'s VeriMed system to help identify patients who arrive at an emergency room in an unresponsive state.
ACC provides support to about 2,000 patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease. That includes a daycare center for some patients, as well as visiting registered nurses, caregiver education programs and support groups. One safety concern, Barnes says, involves the lack of information available to medical personnel when patients unable to speak for themselves are admitted to a hospital during an emergency, unaccompanied by caregivers. In such circumstances, the patients may receive inappropriate treatment because doctors are unaware of any existing medical conditions.
"I really am concerned about the situation with Alzheimer's patients dealing with losing the ability to remember," Barnes says. "This [loss of memory] is so isolating that the effect on the patient and the caregiver is very dramatic. In an acute situation, such as emergency medical services, it can be even worse. There comes a point in a person's illness when you have to look at every safety measure available."
Alzheimer's Community Care considered a multitude of resources to reduce this risk, says Barnes, including MedicAlert wristbands. Such wristbands, however, can be removed or damaged, rendering them useless. Therefore, 10 months ago, Barnes began speaking with Scott Silverman, now chairman and CEO of VeriChip, about an RFID solution. Alzheimer's Community Care has formed a review board to generate the proper paperwork for the participants, as well as other basic protocols, before beginning the project. Once the board finishes its work and the project is launched, hospitals that have VeriChip-trained staff and have implemented the procedures will be able to access the medical histories of the 200 participating patients.
When an unresponsive patient enters the hospital, the staff can use an RFID interrogator to scan that person's arm. If the patient has had a VeriMed chip embedded, the reader will indicate its ID number. That number can then be inputted manually, or directed wirelessly to the VeriMed Web-based database. If the hospital is an approved care provider, it can immediately access the patient's identification and health records.
For the pilot, ACC nurses will be trained by VeriChip physicians to use a syringe to insert passive 134 kHz RFID tags, compliant with the ISO 11784 and 11785 standards, in a patient's right upper arm. Encased in glass, and about the size of a rice grain, the tags have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Each tag is encoded with a unique 16-digit ID number, associated with the patient's medical records stored in the VeriChip-hosted database. The project is designed to test the functionality of the RFID implant in real-life scenarios.


A quick recap. Mom ended up back in the hospital unexpectedly due to a giant blood clot in her "bad" leg (the one recently broken). We are SO lucky it was found (purely by chance) — clots often cause fatal pulmonary embolisms (a piece of the clot breaks off, travels to the lungs, and kills you). She was never in any pain, has been resting comfortably in the hospital with her blood-thinning cocktail, and should come home soon.
This post is really about what it took to get her to this point. When her clot was discovered during an exam at the hospital for another issue, the technicians and docs knew she had to be admitted immediately. We were already at the hospital, so this should have been easy, right? Right.
Anyhoo…45 minutes later…they finally managed to get someone there with a wheelchair to take her up one floor to the ED (we were just about to get one ourselves and take her).
The ED was a zoo — a Friday morning and it looked like the set of ER during one of their many disaster-du-jour episodes. Long story short — my mom laid on a gurney in the hall for 5-1/2 hours. It was 2 hours before she got the oh-so-essential blood thinner shot. Two hours! We could have been to our local hospital in 15 minutes and she could have been in a ROOM within 2 hours. She ate her box lunch on the gurney in the hall, with chaos all around.
Once she got into a room, it took 2 more hours for her "orders" to make it up the 9 floors from the ED to her floor, via computer. We could have carried the orders up in the elevator in 5 minutes. So, this meant she was not allowed any food or drink until the floor nurse knew what was what. By then, the cafeteria was closed, so she had another box lunch for dinner.
I write this knowing that I live in Pittsburgh — one of the top cities for medical care in the country. As a friend pointed out, imagine if we lived in one of those other cities?! Imagine indeed.
Unfortunately, I don't have any answers, only many questions. We pay exorbitant costs for health care. We have technology and resources that are the envy of the world. We have dedicated professionals. We just can't seem to bring them all together to work efficiently.
Still, the system does its job for the most part — it saves lives. Maybe the rest just doesn't matter? Hard to accept that thinking, but at this point, it's all I have.
You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
A large part of the problem is the hospital doesn't consider the patient (your Mother) as its customer. Because most patients don't directly pay for medical services, the medical providers don't really give a damn about how they treat you. The patient is just another number. Imagine the great service you would receive if the patient had to write a check after services were provided. I bet there would be more concern, efficiency, and care given the patient!
Don't forget she was just there for follow up surgery on the 28th of May for goodness sake!


my old TT can handle Ansible, Just Friends and a Slashes without a backpack, you should be golden!
At what length does unreliability begin to creep in with cables? Is 15cm, for example, be too long? I've seen comments on here saying that 30cm would be super long. I've got my TT placed next to W/ and Just Friends to keep things short, but I would like to break my chain and place my W/ somewhere else in the case, which would require a new cable.
encouraging to hear both of your reports!
I'd just like to confirm: Will Teletype+ER301+TXi need some kind of additional busboard/module?
Depends: Teletype from the latest run or older TT? With older, I usually recommend a busboard at 3+ devices for maximum stability.
It's an older Teletype. Damn. I guess I'll have to look into busboards… Thank you for the advice!
I don't think you can damage your modules by daisy-chaining TT to TXi to 301. Personally, I would try it and see if there are any drop-outs before getting a busboard.
I was daisy-chaining TT to Ansible to Just Friends to 301 with no problems for many months. I later added 2 x TXo and a TXi, at which point a busboard became a necessity.
I'm having trouble getting my white whale to communicate with my TT. My current set up is TT with 301, Ansible, JF, and WW. I use a backpack on the back of the TT in this set up. Everything is connected with individual i2c cables running from the modules to the backpack and I've confirmed that all the pins are connected appropriately. The headers on the WW appear to be soldered well to the board and I see no bridges between any of the pins. I've never tried i2c on WW until this week, having just recently picked up a TT and Ansible. Other than not picking up any TT commands, the WW works as expected. What should I check next? I've gone as far as removing all other i2c connections and just going straight from TT to WW, and still no luck. Thoughts?
is it possible that the white whale needs a firmware update to allow it to talk to Teletype?
I'll plan on doing that tonight and report back. Thanks!
But nowhere can I find a script called "update_firmware.command.
Checking memory from 0x2000 to 0x3FFFF… Empty.
Chip already blank, to force erase use --force.
See --debug=51 or greater for more information.
Okay, I found the correct file after a quick search for that specific script. Sorry about that. But now the I show this while trying to update the firmware.
I had to bring the whitewhale.hex file over to the same folder. AND all TT commands are working as expected!
I think you only needed whitewhale-1.5.zip, which has the flash.command and whitewhale.hex file.
Just wanted to say thanks again to the trio above for putting this guide together (and all those that contributed and clarified). It has been great to be able to refer people here who have questions.