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Amazing Hearing Group- Singapore > Blog > Ear issues > What Causes Fluid In Your Ear?
February 7, 2022 Amazing Hearing Group
By Amazing Hearing Group
Ear infections are the most common reason of fluid in the ear.
Ear infections can be viral, bacterial, or a mix of both.
Infections are very common in children. Ear infections cause the lining of the inner ear (or eardrum) to swell, which can trap fluid inside the ear, producing a bulging eardrum on an X-ray. Sometimes the fluids cannot escape laterally, and begin running down into the middle ear where it causes more problems.
Because of the structure of their auditory tubes, children are more likely to have fluid in their ears – they are shorter and more horizontal. This form encourages fluid to accumulate behind the eardrum by creating a space for it to build up.
How Common Does Fluid Get Into Our Ears?
Take this example: when one gets a common cold or sinus infection, our body will start to produce fluid to combat the cold (that is also why you will experience congested noses).
The mucous-like liquid, which drains from the nose, will also be produced by our body to wash away the germs.
Similarly, when there is a pathogen causing an infection in the ear canal, the lining of our middle ear will produce a ear discharge to wash away pathogen.
When the infection gets cleared up, the fluid will then be drained out by the eustachian tube into the back of the nose.
However, if the eustachian tube does not function efficiently or is inflamed, fluid will accumulate in the middle ear cavity.
Why Shouldn't Middle Ear Fluid Be Left Alone In Our Ears?
The reason is that the middle ear's three inner hearing bones (ossicles) were designed to function in an airy atmosphere.
When the eardrum is vibrated by sound vibrations, so are the hearing bones.
The hearing bones are unable to vibrate effectively in fluids, resulting in deafness.
When fluid stagnates in the middle ear for a long time, it becomes more difficult for the fluid to drain on its own, resulting in continued hearing loss.
In addition, middle ear fluid that has gathered in the ear canal may damage hearing bones over time.
Fluid In The Middle Ear – Middle Ear Infection (Otitis Media)
Middle ear infection is also known as serous otitis media.
If you have ever had a middle ear infection before, you probably experienced intense pain and possibly pus-filled ear fluid.
In most situations, middle ear infection (otitis media) symptoms appear swiftly and go away in a few days. Acute otitis media refers to an infection that lasts for a short time. Fever, earache, feeling of fatigue, and mild hearing loss are the primary symptoms of this disease.
In more severe circumstances, you may have a ruptured eardrum (tympanic membrane perforation). A perforated eardrum is an opening or a tear in the delicate tissue that separates the ear canal from the middle ear.
What Should I Do – If Fluid Gets Trapped In My Ears?
Simply go to your GP doctor.
To treat the fluid in your ear, your doctor may prescribe over-the-counter or prescription anti-inflammatory medications to help flush it out. The good news is that the fluid generally drains out once the antibiotic begins to operate, and the germs die off.
If your doctor orders an antibiotic, finish the entire course of treatment.
Note that antibiotics should not be consumed routinely. The excessive use of antibiotics can lead to antibiotic resistance. However, healthcare providers may prescribe them if symptoms persist for more than a few days or are particularly acute on rare occasions.
If these drugs don't work, however, surgical fluid drainage may be required.
How Do Doctors Diagnose Fluid In Your Ear?
The easiest approach to detect ear fluid in the ear canal to examine the ear with an otoscope. This is a quick and straightforward procedure that entails pulling back the ear and inserting the otoscope's tip into the ear. The healthcare provider can see the eardrum (tympanic membrane) using an otoscope (otoscopic instrument for examining ears).
Unfortunately, determining if there is fluid behind the eardrum is not simple, and sometimes the only telltale sign of fluid in the ear might be a little retracting or discoloring of the eardrum.
Tympanometry is another procedure that doctors can employ to look for ear fluid.
The eardrum's functioning is visualized through a tympanogram, which is a picture of the ear's inner workings in response to changes in air pressure within the ear canal.When sound waves strike the eardrum, part of the sound is absorbed, which is then transported to the middle ear. The remainder of the sound is reflected. The doctor can then evaluate middle ear activities based on this information from the tympanogram results.
Other Causes – Behind Clogged Ears?
(1) Impacted Ears / Earwax
Earwax buildup can cause your ears to feel clogged. If you believe you have impacted ears, you may consider using over-the-counter ear drops. However, if the earwax is trapped deep in your ear canal and does not emerge after a few days, see a doctor immediately.
(2) Hearing Loss
Some individuals who have suffered from hearing loss report having a blocked ear. If you are suffering from hearing loss without an apparent cause, it is advised that you obtain a hearing test from an expert audiologist.
(3) COVID-19
COVID-19 is a viral infection that affects the upper respiratory system, including the ears. Upper respiratory infections, such as COVID-19, frequently result in fluid accumulation in the ears. If you suspect you've been infected with COVID-19, get tested to confirm it.
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After viewing the video, it's hard to just categorize the Beyonce video for "Why Don't You Love Me" as another negative image meant to exploit this "no good marriageable Black men" phenomenon that seems to be going on in America.
Beyonce's portrayal in the video is akin to the stereotypical late 1950's/early 1960's white American housewife, who is so bored with their existence, that they drink to ease the pain, while the husband goes to the office. So the video is set to appeal to mainstream America in a Lady Gaga style, rather than solely to Black women. Just as Steve Harvey's book became a best seller because it connected with MANY women across America; the Beyonce video is meant to do the same thing.
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Police release man mistakenly named as terrorist
Directorate of Criminal Investigations(DCI) headquarters, Nairobi. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]
A 27-year-old man who surrendered himself to the police after reports he was among seven wanted terrorists has been freed.
Robert Gathongo Ngunjiri presented himself to the police on Thursday after his photo was circulated, indicating he was among those the police were looking for.
However, Nyeri Sub County Police Commander Paul Kuria sought to distance himself from the matter saying the information linking Ngunjiri to terrorism did not originate from his office but the DCI's.
"He got the information that he was being sought from the DCI before surrendering to a local police station. We have allowed him to go home. He was not detained. He was only asked to report to the station on Friday before he was released," said Kuria.
He however said the man was convicted for robbery with violence in 2014 but was released after an appeal.
"Detectives are searching for Abdurahman Hija, nicknamed Mnubi, who hails from Nyeri County. He is part of a criminal gang terrorizing residents of Nyeri," said Kuria.
Hija is believed to have then escaped to Somalia, joined al-Shabaab, before returning to Kenya in 2016.
Detectives had claimed Ngunjiri was among eight suspects recently dispatched by al-Shabaab to Kenya to commit acts of terror.
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We seek to create a god.
The Kamui believe there are many minor entities which are truly supernatural, such as sea, land or river gods, revered by a few, from whose faith they feed on to keep existing. These entities did not create anything, as they are human-made, but may actually have intervened on human history, granting better harvests or punishing those who stopped offering prayers and, eventually, even sacrifices. Everytime someone prays, a small bit of inner energy - nowadays called chakra - is offered, and this accumulation ultimately forms the celestial body of that entity, though the process usually takes a few centuries, depending on the level of faith - that is, how much energy is conveyed to the god.
The Kamui's deepest wish is to actually manage to create a god for themselves, as a pure embodiment of human wisdom, and they expect this entity to guide the clan - and the world - into an era of absolute prosperity. Knowledge has a sacred status in the clan, and they are truly devoted to obtaining more and more books and scrolls. For them a library and a temple are one and the same. They do not have a clear understanding of how the universe was actually created, or even if there is a major god who rules all, but the answer to this question may lie within their ultimate creation, that is assumed to be able to transcend human perception and see beyond.
As to the actual method for creating this god, the Kamui developed a way to harvest human souls. Their belief implies that even if the moment of death is somewhat traumatic and stresses the soul to the point that some memories are forever lost, some others will be carried on - and these shall be offered to their forecoming deity. They are able to inscribe the soul's memories into ofudas, which are to be used in religious rituals. This uses up much of the residual energy the vagrants souls have, reducing their sizes significantly. The Kamui then uses some earthly material, such as tree leaves, broken tiles, dead branches or small rocks, to abide that soul to this plane under their command, almost mindlessly. It is not uncommon for a young Kamui to have a few hundred souls under their command, feeding them with her chakra. Some elder Kamui are reported to have subjugated even some minor gods, such as some Tanuki from the plainlands near Konoha, or Kappa from Amegakure.
The Kamui have been fulfilling many duties in the cities they choose to live. Some are librarians, dedicated to accumulating new knowledges; some are teachers, transmitting knowledge that will make better future souls, or scholars, dedicated to actual scientific research; others are gravediggers or monks, caring for the bodies and the souls of the departed; others are shinobi, ever perfecting their skills and partaking in wars. They are not quite interested in spreading the word of their cult - even if most of their activities are not actually secret, it is enough for outsiders to live their lives to the fullest, as long as they produce the best souls they can.
A soul usually produces no sound, but it may do so if it is actually possible. However, the sounds will always be non discernible - that is, this cannot be used to convey messages. A few Kamui have been reported to be able to congregate the lamurious sound into a sad, weird, yet touching requiem, which is a mostly impressive otherworldy chorus for funerals.
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Kekkei Genkai Description: The Kamui enslaves souls and "free" them from their energy and mind, now stored in ofudas which are to be delivered to temples. These souls will live on with the Shinobi, feeding on his chakra and on other sources he provides - in this sense, this relationship is much like that of the Aburame and his kikkais. The mindless souls lose the perception of their previous form, and thus adopt somewhat deformed shapes, similar to those of the Chimimoryo folk tales. They are usually quite small, mostly as a result of being deprived of their energy, but some noble souls, such as those coming from land gods, may retain their shape. The Kamui are able to reshape souls through the use of jutsus. The Souls cannot be definitely destroyed - any chakra attacks may damage or disperse them, but the Kamui is eventually able to recompose them.
The souls live within the shinobi and evoking them is a free, costless action, though most members would rather do it while joining hands in prayer. They can emerge from any part of the host's body, and they will never appear far from him, though they do not need to remain in contact with him after emerging. The souls do not have any actual matter and thus are not effectively solid beings, but they manifest a form of psychokinesis, which holds together their ectoplasm and allows them to interact with other solid things, not being unusual for the Kamui to have these entities helping in daily activities, like food preparation or washing clothes in the river. Souls are not proficient in remote chakra detection, though they are very capable of doing so at close range, which enables them to operate defense mechanisms against genjutsus. All that considered, the defense mechanisms they provide are almost useless against Taijutsus and Bukijutsus, and strongly useful against genjutsu. That is to say: -1 effectiveness of genjutsus used against the Kamui.
It is not strictly necessary to employ verbal commands; orders are given through the very chakra they share. Even if only the Kamui are able to interact with the souls of the deceased, once they are reinvoked into existence and made into slaves, any shinobi will be able to effortlessly and automatically see them, even if common people, who are not used to controlling chakra, will not. It is said that some jutsus may hide the souls from the perception of any non-Kamui mortals, but this is yet to be proven.
@ S rank, five thousand souls.
The rate of enemies' chakra consumption is decided by the rank of jutsu used. Noble souls will be considered the Summon-like technique of the clan, and thus will not be considered in the soul-count above. There are some renowned shinobis who are credited for their talent in Fuuinjutsu, and there is a number of jutsus of the clan who finds their roots in this art; however, the clan has no effective Ninjutsu or Fuuinjutsu bonus.
A Kamui Shinobi may have a customized pet that abides by the usual pet rules. This customization is limited to the appearance of the beast, which may take the form of a chimimoryo or a minor deity, and to the fact that its damage is applied to chakra, not to hit points. This feat consumes one jutsu slot (to a minimum of zero). Cost & training remain the same, and the ninja may normally adopt seijutsu as one of his specializations. The ninja cannot have a "normal", "flesh and bones" pet.
- Cannot use Kugutsus. Even if there are some ways to make a soul possess an inanimate thing, souls are not able to operate the complex mechanisms these dolls have.
- Cannot take Medical Ninjutsu as a specialization. Even if some Kamui do have knowledge enough for being medics, their chakra is so well adapted for dealing with the otherworldy that it just seems to be unable to treat the living anymore. As a clan, the Kamui try to compensate this with the development of advanced surgery methods, pharmacology and alchemy. Unfortunately, the top medics are always those who can employ chakra healing mechanisms.
- Permanent reduction of 20 chakra (D-rank), scaling -5 with each rank (-25 for C, -30 for B and so on), due to the chakra used to feed the souls.
- The Kamui cannot summon living things. Instead, they shall find a minor god and interact with it (a battle, a test, an offering, or any other thing the deity requires) and establish a bond of cooperation or forcing them into submission with a clan sealing technique.


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Elizabeth Warren spams Neil Gorsuch
By AB Wire April 1, 2017 12:40 pm
The Massachusetts senator hardly seems qualified to disparage Judge Gorsuch in any way whatsoever.
By Shiva Ayyadurai
As I read Senator Elizabeth Warren's attack on Judge Neil Gorsuch a few days ago, I was reminded of the auto-responder technology employed by EchoMail, an AI software that I created for major corporations in the early 1990s. EchoMail could read inbound email and — by identifying certain keywords and phrases — it could place that email into specific topic categories such as complaints, positive feedback, or requests for information.
EchoMail would then go to its library to select prefabricated paragraphs on each topic, and cobble together a seemingly personalized response. It worked quite well, and saved money for organizations that wanted to provide timely replies to basic questions.
Although Ms. Warren's article reads like an auto-responder's cut-and-paste text content, it was most likely done by a staff person and then sent to the senator for a quick review. The key words had to be there: "corporations," "rich versus poor," "pro-big business views." EchoMail could have done this in a few seconds and freed up the poor intern for something more challenging.
Let's get the facts clear. Neil Gorsuch is recognized as a fair-minded jurist and an eminent legal scholar who carefully applies the Constitution. I provide some excerpts below from eminent legal scholars, recently published in Harvard Law Today, from the senator's own home institution Harvard Law School (HLS).
For example, Jane Nitze, J.D.'08, a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at HLS, clerked for Gorsuch from 2008 to 2009, shared: "What struck me was his real, genuine reverence for the Constitution and the rule of law that came through on a daily basis. As a judge, he believes that cases should be decided on the basis of the law and not on the basis of policy or personal preferences. His judicial record shows he applies the law impartially."
Prof. Richard Lazarus said Gorsuch was "the single most qualified person" on Donald Trump's list of 21 potential nominees, a judge "who is smart and has integrity."
This is a man of enormous achievements." Prof. Laurence Tribe wrote, "Gorsuch is as smart as he is conservative, and he writes elegantly. He's a brilliant, terrific guy who would do the court's work with distinction."
The recent article concluded by sharing Professor Charles Fried's suggestion that the appointment of Gorsuch would likely return the court to the same ideological balance that existed before Justice Antonin Scalia's death, and that there was no reason to be upset over the addition of a new Justice with Neil Gorsuch's credentials and views.
However, we might feel justifiably upset about the hypocrisy of Senator Warren's whole article. We might note that amid her references to "big corporations," and "rich and poor," Elizabeth Warren has reportedly been paid more than $300,000 for teaching just one class at Harvard, an institution — and a "big corporation" — with its nearly thirty-five billion dollar endowment that's on par with cash assets of Fortune 1000 companies.
With this in mind, and speaking of qualifications, Sen. Warren hardly seems qualified to disparage Judge Gorsuch in any way whatsoever. Next time you read another of her attack articles, remember she's being paid by our tax dollars. In the interest of fiscal restraint and more substantial content, I'll be happy to let her use EchoMail for free.
(Shiva Ayyadurai, Ph.D., an inventor, scientist, and entrepreneur, is a candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts for 2018.)
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April 8, 2017 at 2:36 pm · Reply
Wake up and smell the tea. Republicans do exactly the same thing.
Scalia's dedication to "original intent" tended to waiver when he ran into a doctrine that did not conform with his world view, and his avowal of judicial restraint vanished when a law he did not like. Many people, including Senator Warren, believe that Gorsuch is cut from the same cloth.
As for warren's credentials, it is one thing for a Harvard and Oxford educated lawyer to reach great legal heights. But it is an achievement of a different order of magnitude for a locally educated woman, a graduate of an undistinguished university from an undistinguished state to become first, a professor at the country's foremost law school, and then a US senator. And her expertise is also significant, she distinguished herself as an expert in the reasons that Americans go bankrupt, which is often caused by medical expenses that are paid by government insurance in every advanced country in the world except for the richest. She is also a dedicated advocate for Amercan consumers, who are routinely ripped off by the large financial institutions they are forced to deal with on a daily basis. Could that be a reason you are so opposed to her positions? Or is it just that she happens to be a woman?


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Q: Design-time rendering of Silverlight controls in Expression Blend 2 I'm working on some Silverlight controls and I would like to explicitly handle the way they appear in Blend.
Specifically, these controls have dependencies that are initialized at runtime, and thus throw exceptions in the designer. But even in the absence of the exception, I would like to make them appear a certain way in Blend.
I know that this is possible with WPF (using myassembly.VisualStudio.Design.dll), but I haven't been able to find info on doing this with Silverlight.
I have seen the hack described here that checks does this:
bool designTime = (System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.IsEnabled == false);

I would prefer a more explicit solution though.

A: There is an extremely detailed post on how to deal with design time extensibility here. There you will find out how to do the Visual Studio and Blend design time stuff for Silverlight.

Control vendors and people who author custom controls often find themselves wishing they could give a better experience for their custom controls.
  However, there's a huge lack of public information on this topic. And I've decided to correct this situation with this short 50+ pages article.

Like I said, it's long. :)

A: The specific attribute to check is DesignerProperties:
using System.ComponentModel.DesignerProperties

if (DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode(this))
{
}

where this is a DependencyObject (any visual element).

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FBI Checks Wrong Box, Places Student on No-Fly List
By Nuzha Nuseibeh
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It sounds like something out of Scandal, but it's more like a horror story, actually: For the last seven years, a Malaysian student at Stanford University who was placed on a no-fly list for no apparent reason has been fighting to clear her name in a mostly-secret federal court trial. Government officials have fought her the whole way, repeatedly trying to have the case dismissed — on Thursday, it became clear why: the judge found that it all happened because an FBI official "checked the wrong boxes" on a form, putting her on the list accidentally.
Let's rewind a little, to January 2005: a PhD student at Stanford university goes to San Fransisco airport with her fourteen-year-old daughter. They're on their way to Hawaii, a conference trip sponsored by Stanford. The student has had hysterectomy surgery a couple of months before, she's still recovering, so she's in a wheelchair. She goes up to the United Airlines ticket counter to check in, when suddenly she's handcuffed, thrown in the back of a police car, taken to a holding cell — by male police officers — and interrogated. One female police officer tries to take off her hijab; at one point, paramedics are called in because she hasn't taken her surgery medication.
Later, she's told that she's been released, her name's been removed from the no-fly list. She can go on her conference trip to Hawaii, if she wants. Which she does. Apart from being given additional security screening, all seems to be alright. She goes on from Hawaii to Los Angeles, and then Kuala Lumpur.
Fast-forward two months, to March 2005: the student buys a ticket back to the U.S. She's spent a month's salary on the ticket, but she needs to meet with her thesis adviser, who's taken very ill. At the airport, though, she isn't allowed on the flight. She is told that her student visa had been revoked, and that she would longer be let into the U.S. She's not been able to go back since.
Why? Because an FBI Special Agent "misunderstood" the form he had to fill out. He literally checked the wrong boxes. And he didn't even realize the mistake he'd made until nearly a decade later, during his deposition in 2013. As the court reports:
"In November 2004, FBI Special Agent Kevin Michael Kelly, located in San Jose, nominated Dr. Ibrahim, who was then at Stanford, to various federal watchlists... Agent Kelley misunderstood the directions on the form and erroneously nominated Dr.Ibrahim to the TSA's no-fly list. He did not intend to do so. This was a mistake, he admitted at trial. He checked the wrong boxes, filling out the form exactly the opposite way from the instructions on the form. He made this mistake even though the form stated, "It is recommended that the subject NOT be entered into the following selected terrorist screening databases." Based on the way Agent Kelley checked the boxes on the form, plaintiff was placed on the no-fly list. So, the way in which plaintiff got on the no-fly list in the first place was human error by the FBI. The agent did not learn of this error until his deposition in 2013."
"She got there by human error within the FBI ...This was no minor human error but an error with palpable impact, leading to the humiliation, cuffing, and incarceration of an innocent and incapacitated air traveler," the court concluded Thursday. The decision makes Ibrahim the first person to successfully challenge being put on a government watch list — and calls into question all other placements on government lists. It's almost laughable, if it weren't so incredibly tragic: while the debate over the National Security Agency's sweeping snooping powers continues to rage on, an FBI agent can just press the wrong button and essentially designate someone a terrorist. Ibrahim fought for her innocence for seven years (mostly in secret, because the government ordered it to be so), she was alone, and, let's face it, she had racism against her.Everyone makes mistakes every once in a while, even federal agents. But frankly, there's no place for whoops, soz in the FBI. Not in our current counter-terrorism world, anyway. RELATED ON BUSTLE: How the NSA and Four Other Agencies Are Watching You


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Any creative person knows of the struggle between Art and Commerce. One fulfills the soul, while the other pays the bills. If you're lucky, you manage to merge the two into a seamless unity. Most of us, however, have to prioritize one above the other.
The Commerce side of things has overtaken my life for the past three months, leaving me little time for my Art projects. However, I have a break in the clouds for a few weeks and I'm relishing the chance to work on more personal things. "What does this mean?" you may rightfully ask.
Firstly, my snail mail thing (whose real title is only known to the chosen few who've sent me a SASE), which is running a month behind schedule, is getting the attention it deserves this week. No promises, but I hope to finish both parts of it by end of the month and start sending the SASE I have banked out by then. Also, if you've sent me personal correspondence and are waiting on a reply, I'll be getting to that in the coming weeks and mailing out responses. I thank you for your patience.
If you've been putting off mailing me a SASE and want a copy of the first mailing I created, I'd send it to me much sooner rather than later. I can't guarantee the inaugural mailing will be available once the next one is completed and my back stock of the first version is exhausted. The postal address to send your SASE is over there in the sidebar to the right.
Secondly, I've settled on a topic for Secret Antiquities #2 and will be starting preliminary writing and research on that in the near future. My goal is to have the second issue out for Gen Con at the latest, but I have to remember all the steps necessary to produce the damned thing. Yes, it's been that long. Issue #2 will focus on occult locations and landmark in America and their role in the ongoing occult skirmish for the soul of the county. Ideas for converting those sites or their powers into more typical DCC RPG campaigns will be provided as well. I'm shooting for 10 to 12 sites described and it will likely be just the first installment in cataloguing and describing mystical, historical, and/or strategic locations of numinous importance.
More updates as things develop, and thanks for understanding that I enjoy things like electricity and food and have to make sacrifices that result in my personal Art being deferred.
This is 2019, the year of Blade Runner and Akira. We're living in the future and it's only sensible that I find myself looking back at the past and wondering where it all went wrong.
For me, and perhaps for others in the same age bracket as myself, the future began in the 1990s with the shriek of a 56.6k modem and the greeting of "Welcome! You've got mail!" The adoption of the Internet into wide-scale use changed the world in a way few other events in the history of mankind have. It gave us untapped opportunities and a lot of us glimpsed the dawning of a bright future.
Twenty years later, I'm wondering where that went.
Oh, I know where it went: we're humans and we squander everything we're given. We find a way to turn opportunity for greatness into a means to subjugate the many and enrich the few. Instead of communicating, we instead form gangs and sharpen knives to wield against "the other side." Our bright future is corroded by our worst inclinations and we end up with baubles instead of riches.
Ruminating on all this leads me to look up the 1990s with rose-colored glasses. I have no illusions that I'm indulging in strong nostalgia here, but a little self-delusion can be helpful from time to time. However, what I'm about to discuss is only slightly tinged with wistfulness, so I'll continue on with my train of thought.
Of all the things that have gone wrong with our time, the one of the most disappointing to me is that fact that conspiracy theory isn't fun anymore. (I also fully admit it just took three turns around the barn to get to what I set out to talk about).
Conspiracy theory and humanity's ability to draw divergent events and phenomena into a unified whole has fascinated me from the first time I learned what an urban legend was. As the years passed, I found myself exposed to all manner of Kennedy assassination theories, Illuminati lore, UFO sensationalism, and far stranger ideas. I've always enjoyed a good conspiracy yarn while remaining skeptical about everything I read. It's no surprise that I have an ongoing fondness for Steve Jackson Games, whose mentality and celebration of the weird so closely mimics my own.
Before the dawn of the Internet, conspiracy theory was something you had to seek out. While everyone had an uncle or an older brother who was convinced that the government was UP TO SOMETHING, it took some doing to delve deeper into the conspiratorial mindset. One had to track down a copy of the Illuminatus! Trilogy or visit secondhand bookstores with a shelf in the back crammed with small press runs of crackpot books or send a check off to a tiny publisher who advertised in obscure interest magazines to get the real riches. You really had to work for it if you wanted to delve into the topic and it took an immense amount of money and not a few dollars to subject yourself to intense daily bombardment of the secret and the strange.
Because of this, I suspect that there was a good percentage of conspiracy theory enthusiasts who were like myself—interested but not influenced. It's hard to take the subject matter seriously when you had a prolonged decompression period between finishing one crackpot work and tracking down the next one. Perhaps, although this is clearly influenced by nostalgia, we were more adept at evaluating the information presented to us before the firehose of the Internet drowned our culture in data and overwhelmed our ability to separate fact from fiction.
Whatever the reason, I feel that twenty years ago we could entertain a well-constructed—or even a poorly concocted one if it entertained—conspiracy idea without it harming anyone. I could sit in a movie theater and notice when groups of five people came into it (2+3=5 and if you don't know the significance of that, you're missing out). I could drink beers with you and talk about Freemasonry and black helicopters and why no one would help this poor widow's son and it would be a time for laughter and a little smugness in knowing we were aware of something not everyone else knew about. And that, at its heart, is the appeal of the conspiracy theory.
The dawn of the Internet didn't change all that at first. If anything, it was a golden age for those of us who loved to swim in the shallow waters of conspiracy theory. I fondly recall Steve Jackson Games' Daily Illuminator's "Illuminated Site of the Week" which regularly drew my attention to some poorly-designed web site written by a true believer or, better yet, the work of a fellow conspiracy aficionado clearly spreading some bit of secret wisdom with tongue firmly in cheek.
Although the World Wide Web gave us as-yet unimagined access to the weird and conspiratorial, it still took some doing on the part of both the seeker and the disseminator, who had to possess at least rudimentary knowledge of HTML and the building and hosting a web site—which wasn't widespread yet in the early to mid-1990s. Conspiracy aficionados remained a small majority of the masses and we could still relish in our elite status as either knowing more than the guy next door or at least being in on the joke.
Fast-forward two decades and look what's happened.
There have been THIRTEEN seasons so far of "Ancient Aliens." Alex Jones, once a somewhat enjoyable crackpot from the fringe, built a media empire to spread vileness and many people took it to be a real news source. There are honest-to-Bob folks who bought into PizzaGate whole-heartedly and we have the occupant of the highest office labeling anything he doesn't like as "fake news." Otherwise sensible ignore evidence of everything from falsified vaccination papers to global warming. My nine year old nephew knows what the Illuminati is.
The once refreshing waters of the conspiracy theory pond have swelled to a troubled sea filled with sharks.
At the real risk of sounding like a hipster holding court at the back of the new vinyl record shop, I liked it better before everyone was into this thing. I feel like the pranksters and the fans have been muscled out by the true believers, the paranoiacs, and those looking for evidence to further strengthen their hate and their fear. It's hard to polish up your golden apple and demand your Slack when the guy next to you honestly believes in the Deep State and that QAnon is speaking the suppressed truth.
Apologies if you came here expecting elf game stuff, but this has been weighing on me as I consider what's next for me in the field of fictional worlds and gaming material.
I don't see any easy way out of this, no way to reset the tone of the room. I'd like to let my freak flag fly a little higher, but I fear who might come along to salute it.
This is a subject I'll likely return to in the future. My thoughts are still in flux and will continue to evolve, but I needed to work out a starting point from which to build. So in true conspiratorial fashion, I'll slip back into the shadows, giving you time to consider what you've learned.
Leave a coded message for me in the back of Village Voice if you need to contact me. Until then, fight the future.
There's still some weeks and a whole major holiday between me and 2019, but I've already begun thinking about what to do in the coming year and what needs to change. I'm not making any major resolutions aside from getting caught up on some projects that have been proposed and/or announced and got sidetracked by DCC Lankhmar (Hello, The Four Phantasmagorias, announced maybe four years ago. One of the original playtesters was in pigtails then and is now driving).
"imagination malnutrition" and need some vitamins that fantasy fiction isn't providing.
My plan is to replace the genre literature I normally consume with more non-fiction, figuring that anything I read can serve as inspiration and that I once devoured non-fiction voraciously. I'm missing the pleasure of armchair scholarship that comes with a well-written non-fiction work about a subject I'm interested in and would like to exercise the old noggin a bit more.
The second change I've been anticipating is running a short campaign as a temporary breather from our regular The One Ring game. It will be one year of TOR at the end of January so a brief vacation from Middle-earth is in order. I believe I've settled on doing a six session GUMSHOE arc, since the last few sessions of TOR have been investigative-focused and both my players and I have enjoyed the social interaction, planning, and problem-solving that's come out of it. GUMSHOE is something we've played briefly and it's a system I want to get more of a handle on, if only because there's some great material out there for it.
At the moment, I'm torn between three potential ideas and will likely present them to the players in January when we come back from our holiday break. One involves a Fall of Delta Green campaign that's mashed up with Cthulhu City and a bit of The Prisoner thrown in for good measure. The second in a 1970s UFO-themed game with the PCs as Men in Black type investigators and trouble-shooters (perhaps even literally). The last is a more traditional Trail of Cthulhu game that skews into Hastur country.
There's a third thing that's been brewing over the last couple of days and it might be the off-the-books game I run on the road this year. I'm still doing some prep work, but if I remain excited about it through New Year's, I think it has legs and could be a lot of fun. It's definitely a change of pace for me in some ways, but pure Curtis in others. Stay tuned for more on that as it develops.
The latest episode of the Spellburn podcast begins a deep delve into the rules and setting of the forthcoming DCC Lankhmar boxed set. If you're curious about what awaits you within and what tweaks we came up with to create a setting that reflects the tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser using the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, this episode is for you. Future episodes will continue to explore this version of DCC RPG and what makes it different, yet entirely compatible, with the core game. Hie thee over the the Spellburn website for more information and downloadable audio.


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Dark Green/Red Cessna 150 Aerobat.
2.Copy the "C-150 Green & Red Aerobat " folder and paste it in the main aircraft folder.
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What's Next for Cybersecurity in Maryland?
Amanda Fortner
Managing Editor | United States Cybersecurity Magazine
The Changing Tide of Enterprise IT
Technology and the Tension between Security and Privacy
When asked about his recent transition from Garrison Commander at Fort George G. Meade to Director of Cyber Development in the Maryland Department of Commerce (previously the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development), Ken McCreedy laughed and said, "It's been a whirlwind." The retired U.S. Army colonel has taken on this prestigious role in the state's cybersecurity efforts at an exciting time. Maryland is the eye of a hurricane of cybersecurity development and expansion in the government, private enterprise, and educational arenas. "The energy and vitality that one sees in new startup companies and the excitement . . .
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Water releasing ceremony of the Upper Kothmale electrification project today.
150 MW of power to be added to the National Grid by next March.
The ceremonial water releasing ceremony of the longest tunnel in the country, the Upper Kothmale Hydro power project took place at the auspicious time of 11.20 Am today (17.01.2012), with the patronage of the minister of power and energy Patali Champika Ranawaka.
The Kothmale Hydro Power Project is considered the largest hydro power project in the country, while the tunnel which carries the water from Kothmala Oya, from Thalawakale to Niyamgam dora is 13 meters in length and 5.9 meters wide. By opening the main gate of the tunnel by 10 cm three cubic meters of water was released into the tunnel per second.
The project engineers have made all necessary arrangements to commence the experimental stage of the project, while it is expected to generate around 75 MW of power. According to the ministry of power and energy, this project which engineering expertise from Japan and Sri Lanka, will generate the full capacity of 150 MW by March next year. It will be ceremonially commissioned by President Mahinda Rajapakse on 27 March, further enhancing the total power capacity of the country from 1207.45 MW to 1357.45 MW.
The drive to increase the power capacity in the country commenced on 03 March 2006, under the Mahinda Chinthanaya initiative. Approval for the Upper Kothmale Hydro Power project was granted in 1998, in accordance with the National Environmental act. However there were various objections raised, and subsequent to court deliberations and various negotiations, the project received its full approval in March 2000. The annual capacity anticipated from this project is 409 GW hours of power.
The underground power station currently under construction in the Niyam Gam Dora area consists of switch board panel which is 37 meters in width and 130 meters long. This facility is 66M long, 19 M wide and 36 M in height, while the transmission network has a capacity of 220kilo volts.
The financial assistance of for this project of Rs. 37,817 million was granted by the Japanese Government under a concessionary foreign development loan scheme, while the investment by the Ceylon Electricity Board was Rs. 8548 million.
Meanwhile 495 houses have been constructed for the families displaced by the project. In keeping with the policy of the Upper Kothmale Project, all families displaced by this project were awarded houses greater in value to the ones they had lost, while all infrastructure facilities such as water, electricity, transport facilities ect. were also provided, and they were given full ownership to the houses as well.
Furthermore a bridge was also constructed across the Thalawakale Kothmala oya of 80 M at a cost of Rs. 77 million further enhancing the transportation facilities, under the guidance of the minister.
Among the distinguished gathering present at today's ceremony were the deputy minister of power and energy Premalal Jayasekera, the chairman of CEB Prof. Wimaladharma Abeywickrema, General Manager CEB Nihal Wickremasooriya, additional GM and the Upper Kothmale project director Shavindranath Fernando
Water releasing ceremony of the Upper Kothmale electrification project today150 MW of power to be added to the National Grid by next March. The ceremonial water releasing ceremony of the longest tunnel in the country, the Upper Kothmale Hydro power project took place at the auspicious time of 11.20 Am today (17.01.2012), with the patronage of the minister of power and energy Patali Champika Ranawaka. The Kothmale Hydro Power Project is considered the largest hydro power project in the country, while the tunnel which carries the water from Kothmala Oya, from Thalawakale to Niyamgam dora is 13 meters in length and 5.9 meters wide. By opening the main gate of the tunnel by 10 cm three cubic meters of water was released into the tunnel per second. The project engineers have made all necessary arrangements to commence the experimental stage of the project, while it is expected to generate around 75 MW of power. According to the ministry of power and energy, this project which engineering expertise from Japan and Sri Lanka, will generate the full capacity of 150 MW by March next year. It will be ceremonially commissioned by President Mahinda Rajapakse on 27 March, further enhancing the total power capacity of the country from 1207.45 MW to 1357.45 MW. The drive to increase the power capacity in the country commenced on 03 March 2006, under the Mahinda Chinthanaya initiative. Approval for the Upper Kothmale Hydro Power project was granted in 1998, in accordance with the National Environmental act. However there were various objections raised, and subsequent to court deliberations and various negotiations, the project received its full approval in March 2000. The annual capacity anticipated from this project is 409 GW hours of power. The underground power station currently under construction in the Niyam Gam Dora area consists of switch board panel which is 37 meters in width and 130 meters long. This facility is 66M long, 19 M wide and 36 M in height, while the transmission network has a capacity of 220kilo volts. The financial assistance of for this project of Rs. 37,817 million was granted by the Japanese Government under a concessionary foreign development loan scheme, while the investment by the Ceylon Electricity Board was Rs. 8548 million. Meanwhile 495 houses have been constructed for the families displaced by the project. In keeping with the policy of the Upper Kothmale Project, all families displaced by this project were awarded houses greater in value to the ones they had lost, while all infrastructure facilities such as water, electricity, transport facilities ect. were also provided, and they were given full ownership to the houses as well. Furthermore a bridge was also constructed across the Thalawakale Kothmala oya of 80 M at a cost of Rs. 77 million further enhancing the transportation facilities, under the guidance of the minister. Among the distinguished gathering present at today's ceremony were the deputy minister of power and energy Premalal Jayasekera, the chairman of CEB Prof. Wimaladharma Abeywickrema, General Manager CEB Nihal Wickremasooriya, additional GM and the Upper Kothmale project director Shavindranath Fernando
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Q: Windows task scheduler terminate program doesn't work on forms application I developed a windows forms programm which also provides a batch-mode. It does some work depending on SQL-table entries (one operation for each entry).
This program is registered in the task scheduler.
If there is a lot of data, the program may run many hours.
The task has the following configuration:

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*run every 10 minutes

*only if there is no instance running

*kill current instance if it runs longer than 4 hours (in case there is a permanent hang, this shouldn't happen but I want to be on the safe site)

Problem: The kill doesn't work, but the task scheduler server thinks that it did. So it starts a next task after 0-10 minutes. Causing multiple tasks running.
Reproduce a similar problem is luckily easy:

*

*Just start the task

*Then click "terminate" (not sure if this is the correct translation, in german it is "Beenden").

Result: Task scheduler says nothing is running - I can start the task again.
This is how my program is build up (this is an abstraced but working example for reproduction):
Program.cs
static void Main()
{
    new frmTest().Auto(args);
}

frmTest.cs
public partial class frmTest : Form
{
    public frmTest()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    public void Auto(string[] args)
    {
        CancellationTokenSource tokenSource = new CancellationTokenSource();

        // Run a task which is cancellable every second.
        Task task = Task.Run(() =>
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < 60; i++)
            {
                Thread.Sleep(1000);
                tokenSource.Token.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
            }

        }, tokenSource.Token);

        // Cancel the task when Application is trying to exit.
        Application.ApplicationExit += (o,e)=>
        {
            tokenSource.Cancel();
        };

        // We have to wait here. If we wouldn't, the main process would immedially including the current running task - for which we want to wait
        Task.WaitAll(task);
    }
}

Note: This problem does NOT appear, if I don't use a Form (this was my first attempt for the abstract version). It must have something to do with the form, but I have no idea what it could be.
Is it possible to reproduce this while in debug mode? I mean sending a signal or something which tells the application to exit (no forced-exit).

A: You should be using Application.Run() to start the application running. Then, you will not need to use Task.WaitAll() to "prevent" the application from exiting:
static void Main()
{
    var f = new frmTest().Auto(args);
    Application.Run(f);
}

But you may want to have, instead,
    // Cancel the task when Application is trying to exit.
    Application.ApplicationExit += (o,e)=>
    {
        tokenSource.Cancel();
    };

    Task.WhenAll(task).ContinueWith(_=>{
      Application.Exit();
    });
}


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Remember Instagram's "Ten Year Challenge"? When 'grammars were posting pictures of themselves from a decade before, next to one from the present day? Now we're seeing the "2020 Challenge" — and this time, it's a picture from March next to a present day picture.
The healthcare industry is the perfect microcosm of this decades-long year. With consumer adoption of telehealth skyrocketing by 400% in the period between the close of 2019 and April 2020, virtual health has gone from a novelty to necessity. You could argue that ten years froth of change has taken place in less than a year, and certainly healthcare is all but unrecognizable from what it was in March 2020.
That said, it may seem like a gutsy move to make predictions for the healthcare industry after the year we've just had, but I'm a gutsy guy, so here goes:
Big tech, Big everything getting into healthcare. Or will they?
Amazon, Alphabet and Apple all made deals in 2019 to purchase digital health startups, and those healthcare arms saw rapid growth this year, along with those from other Big Tech companies like Zoom and Microsoft jumping in with new healthcare products and features. Partnerships between Big Tech and healthcare organizations dominated the newswire, and subtrend Mergers and Acquisitions activity has picked up and will continue to. But Big Tech has been in the news for other reasons recently, as leading execs have come under scrutiny for data, privacy and security issues — most recently testifying before the House Antitrust Subcommittee for an investigation into misuse of data, among other concerns — significant concerns for the healthcare field.
Beyond telemedicine
Telemedicine was the finger in the dyke at the beginning of pandemic panic, with healthcare providers grabbing whatever came to hand — encouraged by relaxed HIPAA regulations — to keep the dam from breaking. But as the dust settles, telemedicine is emerging as the commodity that it is, and value-add services are going to be the differentiating factors in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Offerings like remote patient monitoring and asynchronous communication, initially considered as "nice-to-haves," are becoming standard offerings as healthcare providers see their value for continuous care beyond COVID.
Workflow is King … and Queen, and the whole Royal Family?
Yes, I'm a broken record, but I can't emphasize it enough — Covid sent digital health adoption into overdrive. Late majority adopters essentially free-fell into digital health, without the typical months-long implementation timeline. Providers are looking for solutions that will seamlessly and quickly incorporate into their human workflows. An inferior product with a better workflow will always win out over its superiors, and that is a guarantee you can take to the bank. We're going to see product offerings with more and easier integrations, and talk of API, HL7, FHIR, app stores, and marketplaces will continue.
More money, more problems
If this year is any indication, 2021 will be the biggest in healthcare funding to date. Pre-COVID-19, the total annual revenues of U.S. telehealth players were an estimated $3 billion, with the largest vendors focused on virtual urgent care, according to the most recent McKinsey report. The report estimates that telehealth will represent a share up to $250 billion this year. That's 20% of all Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial outpatient, office, and home health. We're going to see more IPO, roll-ups and VC activity.
It's a double-edged sword. This could put the digital healthcare industry at risk of overheating and creating a bubble (if there isn't one already) that is set to burst.
Payers pay and providers provide
As policy-makers roll back previous expansions for digital health reimbursement, payers are going to start looking for other mechanisms by which to reimburse and adopt digital healthcare that are outside of the normal CPT and billing models. Relieved from financial pressures, providers will be able to refocus their energy on delivering high quality care in a real-time manner with the aid of IoT and remote monitoring solutions.
One thing we can say for sure going into 2021, healthcare will never be the same after Covid-19. The only thing we can predict with certainty is that life in the new decade is going to be defined by the ways in which we respond to the unpredictable.
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Le trente-neuvième championnat du monde  de hockey sur glace et par la même occasion le cinquantième championnat d'Europe a eu lieu en 1972 en Tchécoslovaquie et en Roumanie.

Contexte
Pour la première fois, cette édition a lieu la même année que la compétition de hockey sur glace pour les Jeux olympiques d'hiver. Alors que les jeux ont lieu au mois de février les tournois internationaux pour les différentes poules du championnat ont lieu en mars et en avril.

Vingt nations se sont disputé les devants de la scène avec la première participation de la Chine.

Groupe A
Le groupe A s'est déroulé dans la capitale tchécoslovaque de Prague entre le 7 et le 22 avril. Encore une fois, le système de classement à l'issue d'un tournoi en formule aller-retour a été utilisé. Les matchs se sont joués dans la Malá Sportovní patinoire du HC Sparta Prague du championnat de Tchécoslovaquie.

Résultats

Classement du championnat du monde et d'Europe
Les équipes du groupe A n'étant que d'origine européenne, un seul classement fut établi. Étonnamment après neuf titres consécutifs, l'URSS se fait voler la vedette par la Tchécoslovaquie (même si l'URSS a remporté le tournoi olympique quelques mois plus tôt).

Composition de la Tchécoslovaquie
L'équipe tchécoslovaque est alors composée des joueurs suivants :
 Jiří Holeček et Vladimír Dzurilla (gardiens de but),
 Oldřich Macháč, František Pospíšil, Jiří Bubla, Josef Horešovský, Milan Kužela, Rudolf Tajcnár, Vladimír Bednář (défenseurs),
Jan Klapáč, Jaroslav Holík, Jiří Holík, Jiří Kochta, Václav Nedomanský, Julius Haas, Vladimír Martinec, Ivan Hlinka, Bohuslav Šťastný, Josef Paleček et Richard Farda (attaquants).

L'équipe est dirigée par Vladimír Kostka et Jaroslav Pitner.

Groupe B
Le groupe B a joué ses matchs à Bucarest entre le 23 mars et le 2 avril. Au départ inscrite, l'équipe de France n'a finalement pas participé au tournoi.

Résultats

États-Unis 5–3 Yougoslavie
Pologne 9–1 Norvège
Allemagne de l'Est 7–1 Japon

Roumanie 3–2 Yougoslavie

Allemagne de l'Est 5–2 Norvège
États-Unis 14–5 Japon

Allemagne de l'Est 4–3 Yougoslavie
Pologne 11–1 Japon
Roumanie 7–2 Norvège

États-Unis 6–5 Allemagne de l'Est
Japon 4–4 Norvège
Roumanie 0–7 Pologne

Roumanie 3–8 Allemagne de l'Est
États-Unis 5–1 Norvège
Pologne 5–3 Yougoslavie
1 avril
Roumanie 10–3 Japon
Yougoslavie 11–5 Norvège
États-Unis 5–6 Pologne

Roumanie 2–4 États-Unis
Japon 6–3 Yougoslavie
Pologne 3–2 Allemagne de l'Est

Classement

Groupe C
Le groupe C s'est déroulé à Miercurea-Ciuc entre le 7 et le 22 avril.

Résultats

Bulgarie 3–4 Chine
Hongrie 11–4 Danemark

Italie 3–1 Pays-Bas
Autriche 4–2 Danemark

Italie 6–2 Bulgarie
Pays-Bas 4–3 Chine

Hongrie 2–6 Bulgarie
Danemark 1–6 Chine
Autriche 4–2 Pays-Bas

Italie 7–1 Chine
Autriche 4–3 Hongrie
Bulgarie 5–3 Pays-Bas

Italie 8–0 Danemark
Autriche 4–2 Bulgarie
Hongrie 6–1 Pays-Bas

Autriche 2–2 Chine
Pays-Bas 2–4 Danemark
Italie 6–6 Hongrie
Bulgarie 2–0 Danemark

Hongrie 3–3 Chine
Autriche 3–1 Italie

Classement

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Ben Bowlin is a writer, actor, and producer born to Melungeons from the hinterlands of TN. He has lived in Nashville, Quetzaltenango and, currently, Atlanta. He spent much of his youth traveling, conducting bizarre experiments, watching the Twilight Zone and hunting reports of paranormal activity. He is the recipient of numerous awards for writing and onstage performance. The legends surrounding his family's past instilled within him a fascination with the fringes of what's known to be true -- an obsession, of sorts, with the blank spaces on the edges of the map -- and, most importantly, a certainty the world is both understandable and worth understanding.
Ben began an internship at HowStuffWorks in late 2007, and is currently an Executive Producer. In 2008, with his esteemed colleagues, Ben created Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, one of the world's most popular explorations of those same, strange topics that fascinated him since childhood. He has attended Georgia State University, El Universidad Rural de Guatemala and The Georgia Institute of Technology, where he studied at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs.
He coined the term "conspiracy realism" and believes a good idea can change the world.
Matt Frederick spent his earliest years almost exclusively outside, but this time was cut short by Nintendo's dark designs. Thankfully Matt retained his desire to 'hit things with sticks' - a skill that would lead him to play drums in the Super Bowl XXXIV Halftime Show. In 2002 Matt portrayed an aging, one-armed man named Candy in "Of Mice and Men" at the International Thespian Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska (where he hugged his future wife for the first time).
In his college years, while working as a servant of sorts at a prestigious private club in Atlanta, Matt became highly aware of the sharp divisions in our society. Around that same time, Matt received a bachelor's degree in Video Production and Journalism from Georgia State University.
Since 2006 Matt has been employed by the educational website and podcast network HowStuffWorks. He began there as an intern and is now an Executive Producer. In 2008 Matt and Ben Bowlin created the web series Stuff They Don't Want You to Know which currently has 579,000 subscribers on its YouTube page. In 2012, the guys joined forces with Noel Brown to create Stuff They Don't Want You to Know the audio podcast which currently averages 2 million downloads a month.
Noel Brown is a podcaster, musician, and filmmaker living in Atlanta, Georgia. Born to two opera singers in Wurzburg Germany, Brown spent his early childhood traveling abroad with his parents, making his home in the dressing rooms of great opera houses the world over. As he wandered through these clandestine corners of high society, Brown developed an unshakable sense that something hidden was operating beneath the surface of it all. Something sinister and unseen pulling the strings.
While earning his bachelor's degree in film production from Augusta University, Brown became the youngest reporter for Georgia's NPR affiliate, Georgia Public Broadcasting, where he wrote and produced radio features on everything from local and state politics to environmental issues and the nuclear industry. Using the skills he honed as a radio reporter, Brown took his first dive into the world of conspiracy realism with a documentary on the Georgia Guidestones, a mysterious granite monument bearing a list of commandments for establishing a new world order. The film went on to win the award for best documentary short at the Atlanta Film Festival.
Now, as a member of the Stuff They Don't Want You to Know hive-mind, Brown has made a full-time job of chasing the truth around unseen forces that shape our world. He is also the Senior Supervising Producer for the HowStuffWorks audio podcast network. In his spare time, he also enjoys cooking delicious meals and playing Mario Kart with friends.


As their graduation date approaches, many high school students are busy preparing for college. From visiting campuses to filling out applications, students are deciding what major to pursue and where to spend the next two-to-four years of their lives. There are tons of things to consider when looking at colleges: academics, campus life, financial aid, to name a few. In addition to those typical questions every student must ask, students who use power wheelchairs have their own criteria to consider. A high school senior, Quantum consumer advocate Bryson Foster hopes to pursue a college degree in communications and marketing, although he is still deciding which school he wants to attend. As a motorized wheelchair user, Bryson knows what his needs are and has developed a list of things to look for when choosing a college. Check out his checklist for items to consider when choosing a college or university that meets the needs of electric wheelchair users.
Bryson says: Not only do you need to make sure you can get into your dorm building easily, you also need to make sure the room is big enough for you to maneuver your power wheelchair.
Bryson says: If you attend a school with a larger campus, you may not be able to travel from one side of campus to the other without help. Ask if there is accessible transportation available to students who use electric wheelchairs.
Bryson says: While it's important for you to be your own advocate, it's good to have someone in your corner. Meet with the disability services team on campus and find out what they can do to provide support.
Bryson says: Don't let your disability limit you; Go after the degree you want! Yet, keep accessibility in mind so you can have the best college experience.