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Lounge tracks six people from different professions for two working days using fitness bands to see how physically active they were through the day
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Moshumi Roy Kharb. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint.
By Rudraneil Sengupta
In 1953, the late London-based epidemiologist Jerry Morris published the results of a study that proved, for the first time, the link between leading a physically active life and good health. Morris' groundbreaking research was based on examining the heart-attack rates in people from various walks of life, and the first results he got were of London's busmen: The incidence of cardiac arrest for drivers was double that of conductors. Morris analysed the data and realized that there was only one major difference in the lifestyles of the two groups. The drivers, by the very nature of their work, spent most of their day sitting; the conductors spent most of their time on their feet and, these being double-decker buses, climbed 500-750 stairs a day.
Sixty-four years and many hundreds of studies later, the link between physical activity and the prevention of a wide range of diseases (and its obverse—a sedentary lifestyle and its many pitfalls) is understood more widely and with greater clarity than ever before.
The truth is simple: Exercise—in fact, just about any physical activity—is the greatest preventive medicine there is. Yet, how many of us spend a significant part of our day on our feet? And how much of our day is spent sitting? How many of us have a job that entails being physically active? How many of us feel that our workday leaves us with no energy to fit exercise into our daily routine?
Since counting calories and steps have become easier with the emergence of fitness bands, we decided to track six people from different professions for two working days using them. The idea was to see how physically active they were through the day, how that corresponded with their heart rates, and whether they managed to fit some exercise into their busy schedules. We picked a doctor, a construction worker, a chef, a veterinarian, a banker and a photojournalist. To maintain consistency, they all wore bands of the same make—a Fitbit Charge 2. The devices were provided to Lounge for this article by Fitbit.
This is not meant to be a scientific study, of course—for one, the efficacy of fitness bands in monitoring calories, steps and heart rates is not accurate enough for such an undertaking—but a peek into the working lives of others through the eyes of a fitness device. And, perhaps, to inspire the reader to get up and move (almost all the subjects managed to hit the arbitrary but helpful marker of 10,000 steps a day that fitness bands promote).
Gita Prakash, 62
Senior consultant, internal medicine, Max Hospitals
Gita Prakash. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint.
The indefatigable 62-year-old, in her crisp saris, has a daily schedule that she describes as perfectly crazy. It's an understatement. Dr Prakash works from 8 in the morning till 1.30 in the afternoon at Max Hospital every day of the week except Sundays. On Mondays and Wednesdays, she visits a couple of institutes where she holds clinics from 2.30-5pm. On other days of the week, she visits various branches of Standard Chartered and RBS banks as their in-house physician. She is usually home by 5.30pm for a cup of tea. At 6.15pm, she begins her home clinic, which she has been running for 35 years, and where she treats patients who cannot afford private medical care for a token fee. At 8pm, she ends her working day—she sees around 40 patients in her 12-hour working day.
"When it's dengue season, it's anybody's guess what that number can go to," she says.
Despite what may seem like an overwhelming workload, Dr Prakash finds time for long walks every day and swims on most days. She sleeps by 9.30pm and is up and out of the house by 5.30am for a 40-minute walk in the neighbouring park, no matter what the season. A friendly owl who resides in the park is her key to a great day.
"I will walk on till I see the owl and take a photograph of her with my phone," she says. "And then my day is made." Dr Prakash has an enviable collection of images of the spotted owl on her phone.
It may seem regimented, but perhaps this discipline plays a crucial part in the irrepressible joy with which she lives her life.
"I never get stressed out at work," says Dr Prakash, who began her career as a doctor in the Indian Army. "I'm always happy. I enjoy my days, and I also look forward to the end of the day."
Height: 5ft, 6inches
The count:
Day 1: 9,748 steps, 2,469 calories, 6.79km, 10 floors climbed*
Day 2: 9,031 steps, 2,406 calories, 6.29km, 7 floors climbed
Bipin Kaul, 40
National head, acquisition and trade relationship-business banking and SME, IDFC Bank
Bipin Kaul. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint
Bipin Kaul has run more than 10 marathons, one ultra (50K), two Ironman triathlons, and holds three Super Randonneur medals (given to bikers who complete a cycle of 200km+300km+400km+600km events in a single season). For most people, that would be enough said. But not Kaul, a former national-level junior hockey player who gave up on all physical activity when he began his professional life, and tipped the scales at 105kg just six years ago.
That's when he decided things had gone too far. He took to running with a vengeance.
"I would run in the morning, I would run late at night…whenever, wherever…," Kaul says. "It was also the toughest year I had professionally, and the running really helped me de-stress. When you are running, all the negative stuff goes out of your head."
Kaul says he kept running because he grew to love it, not just because he wanted to lose weight, and that became the foundation for what would soon become a hard-core amateur athletic career.
"Now if I don't run or cycle on a particular day, I feel really unhygienic, like I haven't brushed my teeth," Kaul says.
Kaul checks into office at 9.30 every morning, and works for 8-10 hours.
"I head a sales team, so it's very stressful," he says. "We have daily targets, deadlines, commitments, so it's a big challenge. I hardly ever get home before 9 at night."
Juggling his work and his athletic pursuit requires meticulous planning ("I have a full year's calendar worked out, geared from event to event," Kaul says) and discipline, and neither can be successful without the support and encouragement of his family.
Kaul's wife Preeti, who is associate vice-president, finance, at Mercer India, began running three years ago; she is now is an avid biker and competes in half marathons. Their elder daughter, who is 11, loves running, biking and swimming as well.
"Physically, our Sundays are more hectic than our working days," Kaul says. "The entire family is out doing endurance training!" He spends an hour and a half every day at the gym, or in training outdoors.
All their family vacations are planned around the events Kaul participates in.
"People lead such stressful lives," Kaul says, "but I want to prove to them that no matter what your work is, you can still follow serious fitness goals."
Height: 5ft, 6 inches
Day 1: 15,969 steps; 3,157 calories, 14km, 11 floors climbed*
Day 2: 22,940 steps; 3,541 calories, 21.88km, 116 floors climbed
Umesh Kumar, 32
Umesh Kumar. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint
The 32-year-old from Aurangabad, Bihar, came to Delhi for a holiday 13 years ago, and never left. He had friends and family from his village working in the construction industry here, and he joined them in the profession.
Kumar specializes in carpentry, but chips in with just about every kind of work at the construction site, including electrical, labour and welding. He lives in Gurugram, adjacent to Delhi, with his younger brother, who is also in the construction industry, and makes a 1-hour, 20-minute commute, including a 3km walk, every day to his current site at Connaught Place in central Delhi. His wife, two sons and a daughter live in the village, which he visits twice a year for a month each time.
Kumar's typical shift, from 10.30am till 10.30pm, involves him staying on his feet most of the day, climbing stairs, lifting heavy loads, with plenty of athletic manoeuvring up scaffoldings. By the time he returns home and makes dinner, it's past midnight.
"I start cooking one day and finish on the next," Kumar jokes. He also does all his household chores himself, so staying active is not the challenge for him—getting enough rest is.
Day1: 14,459 steps; 2,305 calories; 9.6km, 21 floors climbed
Day2: 15,178 steps; 2,436 calories; 10.18km, 9 floors climbed
Saumya Khandelwal, 26
Saumya Khandelwal: Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint
Like most journalists, Khandelwal has erratic work hours and is on call all the time.
"On busy days, I might be out for 10 hours," Khandelwal says, "but then there are days when I'm sitting in office the whole day. But on an average, I spend 4-5 hours shooting at locations."
In the field, the work can get pretty physical: Walking around a location to find the right shots, chasing subjects, and carrying 8-10kg of equipment in a backpack is all part of the job. But the hardest part of the profession is being out in the sun in summers.
Because photographers carry heavy equipment all day long, they often have trouble with their back. Khandelwal, who doesn't otherwise have a fitness routine, does targeted exercises, recommended by a physiotherapist. She also sits on a medicine ball in office instead of a chair.
Khandelwal graduated in business administration, but switched to photojournalism because she got "really bored with management work". "It was just not meant for me," she says.
Though she has been on plenty of difficult shoots, it is a personal project that has proved to be her most harrowing assignment.
"For the paper, you mostly parachute in and out of a shoot, so you can disengage easily," she says. "But this project I'm working on, which involves shooting girls in rural Uttar Pradesh who were married off at puberty, I have really struggled to keep my distance."
Height: 5ft, 1 inch
Day1: 13,692 steps; 2,077 calories; 8.89km; 30 floors climbed
Saumya Khandelwal works with HT Digital Streams, a subsidiary of HT Media, which publishes Hindustan Times and Mint.
Moshumi Rao Kharb, 42
Moshumi Roy Kharb. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint
Dr Kharb makes a running start at 6am, when her two sons—aged 13 and 11—have to be packed off to school. Once she has dropped her younger son to his school (they go to different ones), Dr Kharb heads to the gym. She is serious about her exercise regimen, and puts in 2 hours at the gym five days a week. This includes an hour divided between the treadmill and the cross-trainer, and the rest lifting weights and stretching.
By 10.30am, she is at her clinic.
"On an average, I see 15-20 cases a day," she says. The clinic runs till 2.30 in the afternoon, at which point it's time to head back home to check on her boys.
"Oh, and wait, now our dog has also given birth to a litter of five, so I'm co-mothering them too," she says with a laugh.
About four years ago, she and her boys started riding horses, but then Dr Kharb had a nasty fall and the entire family stopped.
"But recently my boys have started riding again—they were really missing it," she says. So, in the evening she chauffeurs them to their hour-long session, which begins at 5.
When they get back home, it's time to take the dogs out for long walks, make dinner, supervise homework….
"The days are fast-moving and not boring at all," she says. "There's no time to think of anything else, and I would not want it any other way."
Dr Kharb's husband Ranjit, a veterinary surgeon, spends 8-9 hours a day at the two clinics they own.
"We enjoy our routine," Dr Kharb says. "It's only when we have to do something different—say, go out for dinner with friends—that I get very tired."
Day 1: 13,278 steps; 2,440 calories; 10.21km; 31 floors climbed
Santosh Pandey, 34
Head chef, Fuji, New Delhi
Santosh Pandey. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint
Like most of the people interviewed for this story, chef Santosh Pandey works a 12-hour shift—"that's normal for kitchen staff in the restaurant business," he says.
He helms a busy kitchen, where a skilled team of eight produces Japanese food.
"Being inside a kitchen on a hectic day is always challenging," Pandey says. "I've been working for 12 years now and I still get nervous, my heart rate goes up, during peak service times." Fuji serves around 60 diners on a good night.
Working in a kitchen is physically exacting. For one, almost the entire shift is spent standing.
"When I first started in the kitchen, it was brutal," Pandey says. "Every part of my body used to hurt. It was difficult even falling asleep. But now it's just routine. In fact, on my days off I feel restless, my body hurts more."
Pandey only began an exercise regimen about a year ago, after he was diagnosed with cervical spondylosis ("because I was always bent over a chopping board").
He has a pull-up bar and parallel bars installed on his terrace at home, and exercises for 30 minutes to an hour every morning.
"It is hard to find time for anything else when you are a chef," he says. "I get to spend almost no time with my wife and my seven-year-old son. This is my 28th day without a break on the job because two of my chefs are on leave."
Day2: 13,478 steps; 3,232 calories; 9.8km; 52 floors climbed
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Thousands of roles with some of the region's major employers will be on offer at a huge jobs fair set to take place in Derby this month.
JobCentre Plus has teamed up with Derby City Council to stage the event at Derby County's Pride Park Stadium on Friday, September 21.
More than 40 employers have been lined up to attend, representing a number of different sectors including retail, hospitality, manufacturing, logistics and health and social care.
Firms including Derby-based Morrisons Flowerworld, Castle Donington logistics firm UPS as well as local hotels Jurys Inn and Marriott Breadsall Priory will also be there.
Jackie Thompson, employer and partnership manager for Derby at JobCentre Plus, said: "This is the first major external jobs fair we will have run in a while and this has happened with the support of Derby City Council funding.
"We are really excited to hold this event in such a prestigious location and are pleased to welcome employers such as Derby City Council, Morrisons Supermarket, Morrisons Flowerworld, UPS, Staffline for Marks & Spencers Distribution Centre, East Midland Airport, Tophat, The Restaurant Group, Jurys Inn Hotel, Breadsall Marriott Hotel, Centre, Gi Group for Boots, plus many more.
Job seekers wanting to work at Motorpoint in Derby will have to ESCAPE from a locked room!
"The employers represent a wide range of employment sectors, which our customers said they wanted following feedback from our internal jobs fair back in May.
Recruitment agency Staffline, which finds staff for Marks & Spencer's huge distribution centre at Castle Donington, will be present as will Gi Group, which recruits staff on behalf of Boots.
Representatives from East Midlands Airport will also be at the event, as will officials from Derby City Council, who will be able to tell job-seekers about the range of roles available in the public sector.
Visitors to the event will also be able to find out more about new jobs being created at the forthcoming Annie's Burger Shack - a new burger restaurant which is due to open this autumn in the converted the First Church of Christ Scientist building, in Friary Street.
Other organisations in attendance will be able to offer advice on self employment, job hunting and careers, apprenticeship and volunteering opportunities.
The vacancies on offer will range from customers service roles, including retail and hospitality to care, security, warehouse and production.
The event, which will run from 10am to 3pm, will be opened in partnership by Phil Higginson, service leader at the Department for Work and Pensions (Midland Shires District) and Councillor Evonne Williams, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People.
The event is free to attend and those thinking of going along are advised to bring an up-to-date CV with them.


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Top 10 Richest Female Singers from Bollywood
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The Bollywood showbiz industry has produced famous flittering celebrities in the field of acting, dancing, and singing as well over the years.
Top singers from the industry have mesmerized their audience with their soulful and enchanting voices by fulfilling the expectations of their fans. The versatile tonal universality of Indian singers has made them the best-selling music artists in the world.
Many singing stars have emerged from the galaxy of Bollywood who perceived colossal fame and success by the magic of their soulful voice. Music plays a crucial role in the success of the Bollywood film industry even before the release of the film. Nowadays, the soundtracks of films decide whether a movie will be a hit or a flop.
List of Richest Bollywood Female Singers
1 – Shreya Goshal
2 – Sunidhi Chauhan
3 – Lata Mangeshkar
4 – Alka Yagnik
5 – K. S. Chitra
6 – Asha Bhosle
7 – Kavita Krishnamurthy
8 – Sadhna Sargam
9 – Anuradha Paudwal
10 – Neha Kakkar
The most famous female singers in India have become the Richest Bollywood singers by their charming voices. Following are the top richest Bollywood singers:
(Net Worth: INR 185 crores)
Shreya is the most famous and highly paid female singer Bollywood industry born in 1984. She has made a massive profile by TV reality shows by judging. She is often considered among the most applauded and versatile singers of her era because of his sweet voice. She has the honour of being called five times in the Forbes list of top 100 Indian celebrities. She is amongst the highest-paid female singers in Bollywood as she has a net worth of INR 185 cr. Shreya is not only a playback singer but a producer, lyricist, music composer, record producer, and philanthropist as well. She is acknowledged as a complete package in the music industry and is considered the wealthiest female singer.
(Net Worth: INR 65 crores)
Sunidhi is another richest female singer of Bollywood and is considered the star of item songs. She was born in 1983 in New Delhi. She dominated the singing industry in early 2000 and established a considerable success with her charming voice. She has been called the Numero Uno singer of her time, and she is capable of setting the stage on fire with her outstanding live performance. She had won the title of the best singer at the reality show "Meri Awaz Suno" in 1996 as she started her singing career from the "Shastra" movie. The quality of her endearing voice made her a top singer in Bollywood and has a net worth of INR 65 cr.
Lata Mangeshkar is one of the living legend and the best Bollywood singers of all time. She is the best playback singer in Bollywood, and her melodious voice enabled her to win the National Film award three times. She is the only singer from Bollywood who has the honour of performing in the Royal Albert Hall. She served the film industry by performing in more than 1000 films in almost thirty-six regional and foreign languages. She is considered the youngest female singer as she started her career at the young age of five. This legendary singer of Bollywood has a net worth of INR 60 cr.
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Alka is an Indian playback singer and had started singing at the young age of ten years. She has won various film fare awards, and one of her awards belongs to a famous song "Aik do teen". She is a classically trained singer, and she has sung maximum solo songs in Bollywood. Her famous songs were also nominated by BBC among the list of "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all times". She is the queen of Bollywood singing, and she has also performed as a singing judge in TV reality shows. She is also a wealthy female singer by having a net worth of 52cr as a singer in Bollywood.
She is another classical payback singer in the Bollywood industry. She is the only female singer in Bollywood who was awarded by the Indian president. Her singing career is tremendous as she has recorded more than 25,000 songs in various languages, including Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Latin, and English. She has been awarded six National Awards and six Film fare awards in her singing career. She also judged singing TV reality shows in Kerala and awarded the title of best singing Judge. She has recorded her first studio album as Raaga Raaga in 1993 and perceived immense fame accompanied by success in her singing career as this Bollywood singer's net worth is INR 50 cr.
Asha is the most famous female Bollywood singer born in 1933. She is one of the best playback singers and the youngest sister of Lata Mangeshkar. She is acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records for her maximum number of songs recorded in her singing career. She is very versatile in her singing as she has sung songs of all areas including pop music, ghazals, bhajans, qawwali, classical music, and folk songs. She was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2000 and the Padma Vibhushan by the government of India. "Brimful of Asha" was released by a British Rock band "Cornershop" in 1997. She has also become the richest Bollywood singer as she has a net worth of INR 40 cr.
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Kavita is another famous classical playback singer of Bollywood born in 1958. She has recorded 25,000 songs in sixteen languages including Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Nepali, Tamil, etc. She has recorded her first song with Lata Mangeshkar as a co-star for a Bengali film. She has a firm grip on Hindustani classical music that enabled her to take her place in the competitive industry. The two most famous songs of her singing career for the film Mr. India proved a turning point for her. She was awarded Maharashtra State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2000, and she has a net worth of INR 30 cr.
Sadhna is a famous female Bollywood singer, especially in the Hindi and Tamil film industry. Her popularity as a playback singer enabled her to get the Lata Mangeshkar award from the government of Madhya Pradesh. She gets her debut from a Gujrati film "Kanku Pagli", and she sang her first song for the film Rustom named by "Door Nai Rehna". She was awarded the Best Female Playback Singer awards in Tamil and Telugu in 2007, and she has also won the Zee Cine award for best female playback singer for "Kuch Na Kaho" in 2004. She has gained popularity and a net worth of INR 25 cr by her versatile singing.
Anuradha, a famous and one of the richest Bollywood singers in playback singing, was born in 1954 as Alka Nadkarni. She made her playback singing debut in the film Abhimaan. She was awarded the fourth-highest civilian award by the Indian government. Anuradha was also awarded by "Mother Teresa Award" for lifetime achievement. Her playback singing skills made her capable of earning success and wealth as she has a net worth of INR 18 cr.
Neha is the most famous female Bollywood singer nowadays. She started her singing by a reality show Indian Idol 2 in 2006. Her first album named "Neha-The Rockstar" was released in 2008 that made a tremendous success in the Bollywood industry. Her song "London Thumakda" from the movie "Queen" marked her songs as a key ingredient for Bollywood films. The main elements of her singing are pop, hip hop, R&B, and dance numbers. She has won many awards and also performed as a singing judge in "Sa Ray Ga Ma Pa". Neha Kakar has a net worth of INR 10 cr.
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First spaghetti dinner tickets purchased
By Martin Graham - mgraham@aimmediamidwest.com
Fayette County Special Olympics athletes visited the Fayette County Commissioners Office on Monday morning to sell them the first tickets to the annual Dwight Turner Memorial Spaghetti dinner at the Commission on Aging on March 24. Residents can now visit the Fayette County Board of DD, 1330 Robinson Road in Washington Court House, to purchase advance tickets for $5. Pictured (L to R): Fayette County Commissioner Jack DeWeese, Fayette County multi-sport Special Olympics athletes Kyler and Matthew, and Fayette County Commissioner Dan Dean.
Fayette County Special Olympic athletes continued an annual tradition Monday of selling the first tickets for the annual Dwight Turner Memorial Spaghetti dinner to the Fayette County Commissioners.
The Fayette County Board of Developmental Disabilities will host the dinner at the Commission on Aging on March 24. Each year, since the event's inception, Tim Stewart, Community First Coordinator/Special Olympics Coordinator for the Fayette County Board of DD, said they have made a point to sell the first tickets to the commissioners.
"We always sell the first tickets for the spaghetti dinner to the commissioners," Stewart said. "They have always been a big supporter of the dinner and they have always attended the event. We always sell them the first ticket to continue our great relationship with the commissioners and give them the opportunity to support us as they have always done. It is also kind of our kick-off party, more or less, to open the ticket sales up for the community."
Dwight Turner was well-known within the community and was a great supporter of Fayette County Special Olympics up until the time of his passing. This year's dinner will include spaghetti and meatballs, salad, bread stick, dessert and a drink. There will also be a silent auction/raffle at the dinner (you do not need to be present to win) and a 50/50 drawing. Tickets are now available with advance tickets available for $5. Tickets will be available at the door and are $6. Children 12 and under can eat for $3.
"All proceeds from this event will benefit Fayette County Special Olympics," Stewart said. "The spaghetti dinner and fundraiser basketball game are our two biggest fundraisers of the year. It allows us to have such a great Special Olympics program in Fayette County and allows us to purchase uniforms, equipment for bowling, softball, flag football, track, cheerleading and basketball. The funds cover any travel or tournament expenses we may have. With roughly 80 people participating in Special Olympics in Fayette County, we depend on these fundraisers to continue allowing us to offer these sports to athletes that have an intellectual or developmental disability."
Tickets can be purchased in advance by visiting the Fayette County Board of DD at 1330 Robinson Road.
Additionally, the Fayette County Special Olympics fundraising games will return on March 21. This year's fundraiser night will again feature two games. The first is the Fayette County Dragons JV team taking on "Team HAZMAT,"consisting of some local Hazmat first responders from Fayette County, starting at 5:30 p.m. The second game will be the varsity Dragons taking on the Guns and Hoses (local first responders) at roughly 7:30 p.m.
"In between the games, there will be a special performance from Zayne Harshaw," Stewart said. "Zayne was diagnosed with autism at the age of 4. He is a self-taught artist and will put on a show you do not want to miss. The game takes place at the Washington High School and is only $3 per person to get in. All proceeds from the game will benefit Special Olympics."
On the night of the fundraiser game, organizers will also be honoring Cheryl Binegar, a co-worker with the Fayette County Board of DD who was diagnosed with lung cancer recently.
"We are honoring her with a t-shirt sale that we have going on until March 2nd," Stewart said. "Our goal is to fill the stands with not only fans of our Special Olympics program, but to also show our support to Cheryl during this battle. We encourage everyone to purchase a shirt before the March 2nd deadline and wear it the night of the fundraiser game."
If interested in purchasing a shirt, contact Stewart at 740-335-7453 ext. 218 or stop in at the Fayette County Board of DD, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds of the t-shirt sale will benefit the Binegar family.
Tim Stewart, Community First Coordinator/Special Olympics Coordinator for the Fayette County Board of DD, provided the information for the article.
http://www.recordherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2018/02/web1_IMG951116.jpgFayette County Special Olympics athletes visited the Fayette County Commissioners Office on Monday morning to sell them the first tickets to the annual Dwight Turner Memorial Spaghetti dinner at the Commission on Aging on March 24. Residents can now visit the Fayette County Board of DD, 1330 Robinson Road in Washington Court House, to purchase advance tickets for $5. Pictured (L to R): Fayette County Commissioner Jack DeWeese, Fayette County multi-sport Special Olympics athletes Kyler and Matthew, and Fayette County Commissioner Dan Dean.
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Anniversary Reminder of Holocaust's Horrors
Posted Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:45 pm
If the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz teaches us one lesson, it's that we must never forget the millions of men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust and never let such atrocities happen again.
That was Pope Francis's message to the world last Sunday on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was observed Jan. 27 on the anniversary of the 1945 Auschwitz liberation in the closing days of World War II.
During its six years of existence, Auschwitz was the site where some 1.1 million Jews were exterminated along with thousands of others, in a systematic and pervasive campaign of genocide by the Nazis that ultimately took the lives of more than 6 million European Jews in death camps and elsewhere.
It was a modern-day horror story that was practically incomprehensible to people who were not there to witness it, including many in this country.
The development of Holocaust museums in cities around the world, including the Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan, and the stories of survivors over the years, has fortunately preserved the record for history.
Unfortunately, the evil of anti-Semitism and attacks on religion in general is still with us, with incidents against people and institutions of faith on the rise.
In just the first four weeks of 2020, there were 15 ugly incidents of anti-Semitism in New York City, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Most of the incidents took place in Brooklyn, which has a large and easily identifiable population of Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews. Other incidents took place in Times Square, on subways and on the Staten Island Ferry.
Churches, too, were attacked as the New Year began, with St. Patrick's Stone Church in Yorktown Heights among the targets of vandals who also damaged a public library, a Presbyterian church and two outdoor menorahs in an early-morning rampage Jan. 4.
Cardinal Dolan, who celebrated Mass at St. Patrick's Church in Yorktown Heights during a visit a week later, told grateful parishioners that it's hard to escape the conclusion that "religion, the faith is under attack."
For that obvious reason, and in the wake of the terrifying Dec. 27 stabbing attack at a Hanukkah celebration in a rabbi's home in Monsey that left five people hurt, we support efforts to raise public consciousness about the intensifying situation.
This editorial is one such effort.
Another effort was the Jan. 26 talk titled "Auschwitz: Remembering Our Way Forward" offered at the archdiocese-sponsored Sheen Center in partnership with the Museum of Jewish Heritage. The museum also led a private tour this week for the city's religious leaders, including Cardinal Dolan, of its exhibition "Auschwitz: Not long ago, not far away."
That's a sad and chilling reality, and it's why we join the pope's call for ongoing reflection and prayer in his words to pilgrims in St. Peter's Square, "Indifference is inadmissible, remembering is a duty."
We urge everyone, Catholic or not, to embrace the theme of Holocaust survivors and their descendents: "Never again. Never again."


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"No matter how 'mild' the experience, each instance is a brush stroke in the bigger picture of a woman's life."
Photographer Eliza Hatch's ongoing project Cheer Up Luv asks women to revisit the site at which they experienced sexual harassment in a public setting, allowing an opportunity for each woman to reclaim that space as place of empowerment. Each picture is a unique and important story, but together these photos reveal a horrendous epidemic of sexual harassment.
Cheer Up Luv is an ongoing project documenting women's accounts of sexual harassment. It's a platform for women's voices to be heard and for women to take ownership of experiences that were once out of their control. These experiences range from being flashed to being verbally assaulted and even physically abused, all taking place in a public setting. By photographing these women and publishing their stories, my aims have been to help women reclaim that space for themselves and to shed some light on an issue that is rarely spoken about.
The vast majority of the women I have photographed were complete strangers to me before I met them and all came forward with stories that they wanted to share with the public. Every women is completely different, some are terrified of being photographed, and others are models who are extremely comfortable. It's always a learning curve and something which I hold with the highest importance: making the woman feel comfortable when she is telling her story. On a side note, on almost EVERY shoot, the woman and I get sexually harassed by a passing man or two.
The themes behind Cheer Up Luv have been a constant factor in my life, but it was only when a strange man on the street walked past me earlier this year and told me to "cheer up," that it really bothered me. That single phrase, which I am used to hearing, finally irritated me so much to the point where I needed to do something about it. It prompted me to have a conversation with my girlfriends about harassment and we ended up story-swapping for over an hour, talking about sexual harassment like it was the most normal thing in the world.
This really shocked me, that we were speaking about this topic in such a brazen way. But it was only when my male friends interjected their disbelief and horror that I was prompted to start the project. I realized that it wasn't just the harassment itself that was the problem, it was the awareness surrounding it.
I believe that this project is extremely important for its time, because historically, women have never had the platform or audience to speak out about everyday harassment and for it to be taken seriously. No matter how "mild" the experience, each instance is a brush stroke in the bigger picture of a woman's life.
A few of my friends keep saying that sexual harassment has gone "viral" in the media, which is a strange concept to wrap your head around, but it's sort of true. The allegations and stories that have been surfacing have been relentless, and I think it's been a long time coming and it's encouraging that the silence surrounding this topic is finally being lifted. I think the #metoo initiative is a very powerful movement. It's been a way of giving women and men a chance to notify people if they had been harassed, without having to be exposed as an individual and explain their story in detail. It gave just the right amount of anonymity and solidarity.
When starting the project, I asked every woman I knew if they had experienced sexual harassment. Every woman responded, and I received two different kinds of answers. The first was "yes, which of my five stories would you like to hear?" and the second was, "Oh...I'm not sure if anything that bad has ever happened to me." From the second response, I realized that some women weren't even aware themselves what counted as harassment. After asking them again if they had experienced anything, ranging from a man shouting from a moving vehicle to receiving an unwanted compliment from a stranger, I then received tons of stories of sexual harassment.
The response to Cheer Up Luv has definitely been quite overwhelming — I never expected in a million years the number of women who have approached me with their stories to be so high. As well as women of all ages getting in touch, I have also had fathers emailing me, concerned for their daughters, and even an elderly man, apologizing for his past behavior! It has been really encouraging, to feel as though I have been getting through to people, and spreading the message that I intended.
This has been both therapeutic for the women involved and myself. I really feel as though a difference can be made, and I really hope that I can achieve the change I am striving for. I want people to take away positivity from my images and from my project; that is all I have ever wanted from it. My aims have always been to turn what once was a negative situation into one where the woman can speak boldly and be empowered by her situation.
To see more from Eliza Hatch visit her websites at elizahatch.com and cheerupluv.com.


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So, what actually happened back in 2008 (aside from Lehman Brothers collapsing, VW briefly becoming the most expensive company in the world...) that got me started on actively and consciously changing my life?
I guess I'll have to go back a bit further, say to the summer of 2007. I was in London for work that summer - just in time, as it turns out, for the bank run on Northern Rock. Of course that shook me; how could it not, given that I have a financial markets job and was right there? And let me tell you: I was worried - about how this would unfold, and what that would do to my finance job, my partner's job and our lives. Would either one of us be out of employment or have to move from Frankfurt to London again, now that we were just starting to build our relationship? The US subprime crisis was only just beginning to unravel, and I had only entered the financial services industry in September 2006, MBA in my pocket.
But financial and lifestyle sustainability wasn't the only thing on my mind. Being genuine was turning into a topic that just wouldn't let me rest.
That particular search had begun even sooner for me, as I had been forced to become more genuine in terms of the food I was eating. While I was finishing up my MBA in 2006, incidents of heartburn and an insatiable hunger that had been plaguing me since 2003 somehow multiplied and made me miserable more often than not. Imagine yourself window-shopping and repeatedly having to hunch over because of the intense pain of heartburn, while at the same time never being satisfied with the meal you have just eaten, and always wanting more.
Just for what - if more of the same old (food, money, fame, behavior, self-defeating thought patterns etc.) - sigh - won't satisfy us?!
Back to my food issues: I had spent a few years in the US, diving head-first into SAD, as the Standard American Diet is known so fittingly. It was a teenager's dream come true: ice cream and french fries and burgers without limits! Aside from that, I felt I had no choice (nor did I really want a choice at that point!) given my student budget, and without a kitchen of my own. I mean, I didn't even like to cook, let alone know how to. So I ended up feeding on fast food mostly. Aside from USC's Cafe'84 right downstairs from my room, I was a regular at ToGo's. Oh how I loved walking over there from USC's Fluor Tower with my best friend! We made the short hike almost daily. Sometimes twice a day. Then I went to live in the UK for a year - and I won't comment on the food, except that it didn't get any better. ;-) - Oh, and I did try to reverse my unhealthy feeling and looking weight gain brought on by too much unhealthy home-cooking (as in: lots of meat, pasta & Maggi & Co), wine, a lack of exercise and the super-depressing effects of having transplanted myself from my favorite city in the world (LA) to the sheep- and rain-riddled (though beautifully rugged) Welsh countryside by guzzling SlimFast. YUCK!!!
Suffice it to say that I had turned into a full-blown sugar addict by that time - living without my can or two or three of regular Coke per day was unthinkable then. Add desperate attempts to control my waistline (and kick the Coca Cola habit) by guzzling SlimFast (yuck!) while in the UK, and countless frozen pizzas and more regular Coke during my MBA-studies in Germany 2005/2006. Now you've got an idea of the shape my digestive system was in. It wasn't pretty at all. Thinking back, it wasn't just my capacity to digest food that had suffered - it was also my capacity to digest information, anything really. I remember being unable to read a book for pleasure (which had been a favorite pastime of mine as child and teenager). How incredibly different and hard was my life back then compared to now!!!
Of course, my physician really meant the canned variety of OJ that was hurting me (one of the many things that I allowed to hurt myself then). After all, fresh orange juice is one of the most potent alkalinizers nature has given us. For lack of a dish washer and what I perceived as a lack of time to clean my juicer by hand, I ended up buying ready-made juice with the least amount of preservatives that I could find. That wasn't perfect, but close enough for the time being. So, now I wasn't getting heartburn from my beloved OJ anymore, but still from so many other things I ingested.
As soon as I had settled into my job and into the new apartment with my boyfriend, I was making fresh orange juice daily for both of us - and still am. The rest was a bit more tricky, and deserves more space, so I will blog seperately about my journey to healthful eating and a increasingly healthy, lean, strong and energetic body. Just to give you an idea, this journey included vitamin supplementation, TCM, five elements cooking, acupuncture, yoga, vegetarian foods, vegan foods, raw foods, living foods, green smoothies and green juices.
How does this all relate back to being genuine?
Well, genuine food for one thing.
While in London for a few months in 2007, I discovered the difference between conventional and organic foods in terms of nourishment. Groceries are insanely expensive in central London, so at first I would buy conventional and large sized packs (of potatoes, mostly) to keep costs down. Only, I could never have stopped eating! I was never satisfied, and needed ever larger portions. So, eventually, I picked up a pack of organic potatoes. They looked so much smaller than their conventional brothers, and were so much more expensive. Still, I bought that pack to boil and eat with my smoked salmon. Boy was I in for a surprise that night! I was full and satisfied after having all of three of those tiny organic earth apples. That experience left me completely stunned and happy. And vowing to always buy organic if available, regardless of the price. It's paid so much dividends in the past five years!!!
Genuine hair color, for another.
I didn't get my hair bleached again once 2008 rolled around. Of course I didn't look so pretty for more than a year after that decision, but ok. It was definitely worth it! I haven't seen my hairdresser in 15 months now. Don't get me wrong, he's a nice and funny guy and did a wonderful job to ease the transition from bleached to natural for me... I just have more fascinating things to do. And given the choice of spending an hour leaning against a tall tree in the forest breathing clear air and listening to the birds chirp and an hour at his shop where the air is heavy with chemicals (we're not that big on airconditioning here in Germany, ya know), I know which one I prefer!
Ever since realizing the insanity in my hair bleaching while eating organically, I've kept asking: "Where am I not being genuine? Can I change it now, and am I ready to change this?"
Can't wait to share those with you one by one!
Solveig Caroline originally studied and practiced energetic healing modalities to "job-proof" her body and mind, when she found herself in a full-blown burnout while working on Wall Street. Her passionate curiosity about natural/spiritual healing and intense desire to share the treasure trove of insights & lessen the burden on other highly ambitious and madly busy souls had her establish eMateria in 2012.


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Josip Stipanov (Soline, 18. studenoga 1939. – Zagreb, 14. veljače 2021.) bio je hrvatski filozof, knjižničar i ravnatelj Nacionalne i sveučilišne knjižnice u Zagrebu.

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Rođen je u mjestu Solinama na Dugom otoku 18. studenoga 1939. Osnovnu školu pohađao je u rodnom mjestu, a klasičnu nadbiskupsku gimnaziju i studij teologije u Zadru. Na Gregoriani u Rimu studirao je filozofiju koju je završio doktoratom (1971.).

Nekoliko godina djelovao je kao profesor klasične nadbiskupske gimnazije i Višeg bogoslovnog učilišta u Zadru. Od 1972. zaposlen je u Nacionalnoj i sveučilišnoj knjižnici u Zagrebu gdje se ponajviše bavio hrvatskom retrospektivnom bibliografijom. Od 1975. do kraja 80-ih godina prošlog stoljeća bio je voditelj službe za razvoj i unaprjeđenje knjižničarstva, potom do 1997. zamjenik ravnatelja, te od 1998. v.d. upravitelja.

Za glavnog ravnatelja imenovan je 2002. godine i na tom mjestu ostaje do umirovljenja krajem veljače 2007. godine. Punih dvadeset godina radio je na ostvarenju nove zgrade. Među inim dao je velik doprinos za učlanjenje knjižnice u mrežu Europskih knjižnica što je ostvareno 2005. godine. Objavio je preko pedeset znanstvenih i stručnih radova, studija i članaka u domaćoj i inozemnoj strukovnoj periodici.

Djela
 Knjižnice i društvo : od potrebe do mogućnosti (2010.)
 Povijest knjižnica i knjižničarstva u Hrvatskoj : od početaka do današnjih dana (2015.)
 Komunikacija i društvo : od početaka do danas (2021.)

Odličja, nagrade i priznanja
Za svoj rad dobio je niz priznanja i nagrada od kojih vrijedi izdvojiti Kukuljevićevu povelju Hrvatskoga knjižničarskog društva (1998.) i odlikovanje Reda Danice hrvatske s likom Marka Marulića.

Izvori

 Nela Marasović, Dr. sc. Josip Stipanov (1939.-2021.), Novi uvez 35/2021.
 Dobitnici Kukuljevićeve povelje, www.hkdrustvo.hr, arhivirano 25. prosinca 2019., pristupljeno 23. prosinca 2021.

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Mrežna mjesta
 Josip Stipanov, Knjižničari sutra, Knjižničar/Knjižničarka 7/2016.

Hrvatski filozofi
Hrvatski knjižničari
Nositelji Reda Danice Hrvatske

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Welding Project: How To Create a Bomber Seat Out of Steel
Metalworker Ron Covell gives a step-by-step tutorial on how to build a bomber seat from start to finish.
Bomber seats have been used in racing cars for many years. The term comes from the days when military surplus aircraft seats were fitted into competition cars to save weight. Now there is a trend for many traditional-style cars to use "bomber" seats, and these days most of them are custom-built since the supply of military surplus seats has largely dried up. True bomber seats were made from thin, high-strength aluminum, and they were usually riveted together. While everyone likes the look of rivets, making a complex riveted structure takes an inordinate amount of precision and time.
I wanted to make a bomber seat using an easier process, so I designed a seat with the sides, bottom and back made from a single piece of metal. I added a simple reinforcement to the edge — which also gives the seat a more finished appearance. I made my seat from steel, so the joints could be easily spot or plug welded with a machine like the Multimatic® 215.
The first step was making some models from paper, working out the shape and proportions I desired. Once I finalized the design, it was simple to scale up the dimensions and do a full-sized layout.
I made a bending fixture from some scrap tubing and plate. Laying out bends can be challenging, but I devised a simple system. Rather than trying to position and clamp a piece of tubing onto sheet metal for making the bends, I placed a stop on the tube that registers the edge of the sheet metal. This makes it easy to make consistent bends, even when some are angled, like the seat back. I positioned the stop to create a 3-inch flat flange, and the tube gives a 2-inch- radius curve. If you bend the metal to 90 degrees, each side draws in 2-¼ inches, so to get a 16-inch-wide seat, I start with a blank 20-½ inches-wide.
Aircraft seats are often riddled with holes to reduce weight, and I really like this look. I decided to use oval punches for this seat, with a staggered pattern, and I spaced the holes as close as the tooling would allow. I used a J-shaped strip of metal to reinforce the edges and to cover the raw metal edge. I spot welded everything together, but the joints could be plug welded, too.
Plug welding is easily accomplished with a MIG welder or multiprocess welder, like the Multimatic 215. Once you decide where to place the welds, a hole is drilled or punched through one thickness of metal — I normally use a 5/16-inch-diameter hole for this. Next, the overlapped panels are clamped tightly together, and a weld bead is run around the edge of the hole, adding filler wire until the hole is plugged completely. Done correctly, this makes a low-profile weld, with excellent strength and very little distortion. If desired, you can sand the weld flat, making it completely invisible.
Scroll through the photos, and I'll describe each step in the process.
I made several miniature paper mock-ups to work out the seat's proportions.
With the design finalized, the dimensions were scaled up and transferred to a sheet of steel, including the layout for the lightening holes.
I used aircraft shears to trim the blank to size. You'll see how important the round holes are when we make the bend between the seat bottom and back.
I'm using a beading machine to roll a step in the metal, which will make the joint flush on the inside.
I'm making a test bend in the fixture. A key feature is the stop which registers the edge of the metal (at the tip of the arrow). This ensures that all bends are the same, and it eliminates the need to move and re-clamp the fixture. With this system, the bends are positioned by the edges of the blank.
The sides of the seat bottom are parallel, but the back tapers. This is easily accomplished by bending the flanges on each segment individually.
The bend between the bottom and the back is done freehand, but it's constrained to the area between the round relief holes in the blank.
Pins are used to align the male and female parts for the oval hole punches. Here I'm using a annular cutter to make the holes for these guide pins.
I'm using an H-frame hydraulic press with the Jamey Jordan 'Oval Punch and Flare' dies. These punch the hole and flare the edges in one operation.
The flush-fitted lap joints are now spot welded together.
Plug welding is another good option for making joints like this. I'm using the Auto-Set™ feature of the Multimatic 215 mutliprocess welder to get the parameters dialed in, based on the wire size and metal thickness.
To make plug welds, I punch 5/16-inch diameter holes, clamp the panels together, and then run a bead around the perimeter of the hole, adding filler metal until the hole is filled. Plug welds are fast and strong, and they offer just as much strength as a spot weld.
Now the cut line is marked for the seat sides, and they are rough-trimmed with a cordless shear. This rough trimming could also be done with a plasma cutter.
The final trimming is done with aircraft shears.
I used a sheet metal brake to bend a sharp angle in a piece of sheet metal, and then used flattening dies in the beading machine to roll the flange over to 180-degrees. This will be the cap strip for the seat edges.
The edge cap needs to be curved, and I've made a paper pattern to follow as I do the shaping.
The edge cap is curved by working the long flange with a shrinker and stretcher.
After the cap has been properly contoured, it needs a twist in the top corners. I've clamped the cap to my versatile bending fixture, and I'm hammering it around the tube to get the twist.
With the cap fitted, the ends are spot welded into place.
Here I'm using flattening dies on the beading machine to tightly crimp the edge cap to the seat.
Here's the finished seat, and I'm delighted with the way it came out! Making the seat from a single piece of metal, and spot welding the joints really eased the construction. A seat like this can be made in a fraction of the time it would take to make a riveted aluminum bomber seat.
About Ron Covell
Ron Covell is a talented welder and metalworker in the automotive industry. Covell is a contributor for Hot Rod Network, where he has a popular column titled, "Professor Hammer's Metalworking Tips." He also owns Covell Creative Metalworking, offers instructional metalworking DVDs and hosts workshops around the country.
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Here you will find a very high level roadmap for the Apicurio Studio project. The details are subject to change, but this page can provide a basic sense of the project's priorities and releases. Additional information can typically be found on GitHub.
The intention is to release new versions of the Apicurio Studio very frequently. This roadmap represents a high level set of features that make up a given release series (for example, Beta. The list of tasks for each release series is an indication of the work to be done in that series, but not an implication of the order in which that work will be done. Finally, we will not wait until all of the tasks are complete, but will instead release iteratively as soon as useful functionality is completed.


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Lindes Callejas-Diaz is a specialist clinical pharmacist and she talks about some of the specific challenges she faces while treating overweight and obese patients.
Psychosocial assessment: is it always necessary?
An article in issue 11 of Bariatric News raised a debate among our readers - is psychosocial assessment always necessary?
In September 2012, the XVIII World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery for Obesity and Metabolic Disorders will be held in New Delhi, India. We spoke to the congress president, Dr Pradeep Chowbey.
Bariatric News talks to Antonio Torres, President of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders.
A paper from a paper published in the Journal of Obesity entitled 'Rising Burden of Obesity in Asia', reports that overweight and obesity have reached epidemic proportions in many Asian countries.
Bariatric News reports on the state of bariatric care in Europe, finding doctors battling a troubling epidemic with sophisticated use of public data.
In this issue, our 'Snapshot' features Mumbai in India, and a recent report examined the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the city. In India, epidemiologists and international agencies have been sounding an alarm on the rapidly rising burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) for the past 15 years. It is estimated that by 2020, CVD will be the largest cause of disability and death in India, with 2.6 million Indians predicted to die due to CVD.
A joint report released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Public Health Agency of Canada, entitled 'Obesity in Canada 2011', examines how obesity rates vary across Canada, who is most at risk and possible actions to address it. Based on body mass index (BMI) calculations, the study reports that more than one in four adults (estimates range from 24.3%-25.4%) in Canada and just less than one in 11 children are considered obese.


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Q: Implementing an UVC driver using the Android NDK and a raw usb connection for cameras that are not supported by the kernel I'm looking for a way to get UVC compartible usb cameras working on other android devices that don't have a kernel driver for those UVC cameras by default.
I don't want to root those devices nor change their image/kernel, because usual customers should be able to use the camera later on with every tablet and without special requirements (except an app).
Do you think it might be possible to establish a raw connection to an unknown device using Android's USB class in Android 3.1 and higher (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/host.html) or can I only use it with devices that are supported and recognized by the kernel already?
If it would be possible, I would be interested in integrating the UVC driver using Java/NDK to get the video stream out of it. At least that's my rough idea.
Do you think that's possible?

A: It is definitely possible if you are compromising on that rooted part.. I did the same project and was finally successful. Inside uvc code, you shall be opening /dev/video1 or video0 node for which by default on most of the devices there are no user permissions.
To state it simply,
It depends on 2 things :
1) When you connect the USB Camera, if the camera node is getting created or not. It should be inside /dev directory with major number 81(signifies V4l2 device)
2) For that device node you are having user permissions or not.
These are the two hurdles you will be facing.
Solution to first is not there in our hands coz it depends from vendor to vendor. Ex, Acer tab it gets created but in Samsung Galaxy it doesnt.. The reason is missing support of V4L2 or UVC modules inside the kernel.
Solution to the second one is if you are a root user you can change the permissions of the node.
It is quite a big project and should take some time if you are starting from scratch.. All the best

A: Yes, the purpose of the usb host support in more recent versions of Android userspace is to allow you to talk to USB devices which don't have kernel drivers.  Conceptually it sounds a bit similar to the libusb idea, though it is not libusb.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/host.html
It occurs to me (as pure, unverified speculation) that there might perhaps be situations where partial driver-in-kernel support for a device could interfere with attempting to talk to it directly from userspace in this manner.

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I'm looking for a way to get UVC compartible usb cameras working on other android devices that don't have a kernel driver for those UVC cameras by default.

That is dependent on the kernel, and the drivers compiled in, also take into consideration in respect of the hardware if it can support it.
By the very sound of it - its resembling USB On-The-Go mechanism... now if you're saying you don't want the devices to be rooted, unfortunately for the USB OTG mechanism you do need root to avail of it and the scripts mechanism in the /etc directory within the ramdisk to handle the plugin event.

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'Victorian Death & Mourning Traditions' at Westfield Historical Society Luncheon
As part of The Westfield Historical Society's First Wednesday Luncheon series, Joan Schaible will talk on the subject "Victorian Death & Mourning Traditions" for Jan. 8, 2020. Much of the 19th century was known as the Victorian period as was so named during the 60-year reign of England's Queen Victoria. Indeed, her influence was evidenced in American death and mourning practices which may appear morbid or strange today. During this presentation, explore preparation of the home and deceased, taphophobia, post-mortem photography, the wake, funeral service, internment, park cemeteries, and grave stone symbolism. Even after the loved one had passed away, mourning could continue for years. The event will begin with check-in at 11:45 am at Ferraro's Restaurant (2nd Floor), 14 Elm Street, Westfield.
Joan Schaible was born and raised in NJ and attended Taylor University, Upland, IN. She taught middle school social studies and language arts in the town of Boonton, NJ. Ms. Schaible worked for the Morris County Park Commission as a Historical Program Specialist at Fosterfields Living Historical Farm in Morris Twp., NJ. She also serves as a docent at The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, Parsippany, NJ. Joan spends time giving a variety of presentations for school children and adult groups, as well as at libraries and senior centers.
Those wishing to attend the luncheon may make a reservation by email to westfieldhistoricalsociety@gmail.com; or, by calling 908-654-1794, before Friday, Jan. 3. Please advise if there are special dietary needs. The luncheon fee of $35 (WHS members) or $40 (non-members) includes a three-course meal, coffee/tea, and gratuity. The luncheon fee should be paid in advance (check payable to Westfield Historical Society) by mailing to Westfield Historical Society, P.O. Box 613, Westfield, NJ 07091; or, online at www.westfieldhistoricalsociety.org/registration. Payments should be received by Friday prior to the luncheon. Westfield Historical Society memberships will also be available at the luncheon.
Since 1968, the 501(c)(3) non-profit Westfield Historical Society has worked to preserve, interpret and encourage interest in history, Westfield, and its residents through educational efforts and community outreach programs.
Ferraro's Restaurant is at 14 Elm Street, Westfield, NJ. Elevator access is available.
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As part of The Westfield Historical Society's First Wednesday Luncheon series, Joan Schaible will talk on the subject "Victorian Death & Mourning Traditions" for Jan. 8, 2020. Much of the 19th century was known as the Victorian period as was so named during the 60-year reign of England's Queen Victoria. Indeed, her influence was evidenced in American death and mourning ...
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FANWOOD, NJ — We've seen heartwarming videos on social media of service men and women returning from abroad and surprising their children when they return home. On Wednesday, Jan. 15, it was one of our very own neighbors, Capt. Patrick Moore, a U.S. Army reservist, who received hugs from the children he had not seen in a year.
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Letter: Responding to the State of the Town Address in Westfield
By WESTFIELD TOWN REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE, CHAIRWOMAN, JOANN NEYLAN
In her State of the Town message last week, the mayor touted Westfield's many qualities and shared her roadmap for how our town can continue to thrive in the future while overcoming challenges endemic to many New Jersey communities: downtown development; budget management; and infrastructure maintenance and improvement.
These challenges are not new and were, in fact, the focus of her ...
Westfield Police Blotter: More Unlocked Vehicles Stolen, Burglarized
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A resident of the 400 block of Alden Avenue reported that their vehicle was stolen, police said. The vehicle was parked in the driveway of their residence unlocked with a key fob inside it, police said. The vehicle is valued at about $50,000, according to police.
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Spring into Kids Acting Classes at Acting Out in Westfield
By ROBERTA LOEW
SPRING INTO CLASSES at ACTING OUT! Professional theater training for ages 5-18.
Thank you, Westfield, for your love and support and overwhelming demand for more classes. You have been heard! We just added some fun new spring classes. Get in while you can! Staring next week — 1/25 to 4/4.
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Should Stepparents Discipline Their Stepchildren?
Parenting is never easy, having a blended family with biological children and stepchildren makes parenting even more challenging. As families are blended new challenges arise and the family has to define new roles and responsibilities. Finding the right balance can be extremely difficult.
When you first bring everyone together, kids are trying to figure out their place… where they ...
Opening New Doors & Expanding Access to Care
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Among the stories you'll see on the latest AtlantiCast...
Atlantic Health System is making it easier than ever for pediatric patients to access care and a new partnership will help expand health care options in Somerset County!
For more, visit www.AtlantiCast.org!
Not Your Dad's Financial Advice
Boneparth: Free Trading Isn't Really Free
By DOUGLAS A. BONEPARTH, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF BONE FIDE WEALTH, LLC
Douglas A. Boneparth is a Westfield resident and Founder of Bone Fide Wealth, LLC, a boutique wealth management firm in New York City, and co-author of The Millennial Money Fix. Contact Douglas to learn how he's not your parent's financial advisor.
Last October, Charles Schwab announced it would offer commission free trading across its brokerage ...
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It's Tax Time! What You Need to Know
By LOURI RIVERO BORR, CPA
On your marks, get ready, get set… The IRS announced the opening of Tax Season on Monday, January 27, 2020. This means they will begin accepting paper and electronic tax returns on that day.
For most taxpayers, the traditional due date of April 15 holds this year for your 2019 federal income tax returns. The IRS has expressed their determination to provide help and support, ...
Real Estate News From Your Neighborhood
17 Homes Sold Jan. 5 - Jan. 12 in Westfield, Garwood, Mountainside, Cranford, Scotch Plains & Fanwood
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Seventeen homes sold Jan. 5 through Jan. 12, 2020, in Westfield, Scotch Plains, Garwood, Fanwood, Cranford and Mountainside.*
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Take a Trip Beyond Your Comfort Zone
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Every now and then you stumble across a quote or post on social media that sums up your current status succinctly. I found one of those recently: "I have a new address. I'm living outside my comfort zone." Stretching like this can be scary. At times, it can even be overwhelming. It's also, however, exhilarating and inspiring. Out here is where growth happens. It's ...
Getting "2020 Vision" on Your Finances in The New Year
By ARIAS & PARTNERS WEALTH ADVISORS
The start of the new year is a great time to focus on your finances and put them into perspective.
Competing demands on our time can often cloud our line of sight on what really matters. So, if you want a better handle on your finances, take these six foundational steps from Arias & Partners Wealth Advisors to get a better vision in 2020.
1. Review where you stand
Begin by ...
4th Graders in Westfield Enjoy Seasonal STEM Project with Classrooms Across the Globe
By MARY ANN MCGANN, WESTFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Washington 4th graders in Elizabeth Reilly's class participated in a seasonal STEM project in December that combined technology, teamwork, and… gingerbread.
Created seven years ago by two educators in Kansas, the 2019 Gingerbread STEM Community and Makerspace Global Project had school children in Canada, Vietnam, and Lithuania joining dozens of their American counterparts in this ...
Advice: Using Behavioral Activation to Motivate Yourself
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Chris Varano is 2016 graduate of Westfield High School and senior at the University of Maryland where he is studying neurobiology.
It's easy to wake up one day and want to be great. It's easy to wake up one day and want to achieve your goals. It's easy to wake up one day and get things done. What's difficult is doing all of this day after day, week in and week ...
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Angela Renzetti is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist and teaches classes on Western & Chinese herbalism. While not having enough time in the treatment room to talk about herbal medicine, her love to teach about plants' wisdom and medicine evolved into Moonlight Medicine and teaching classes. She believes healing through relationship with nature is something everyone can benefit from and likes to teach foundations in herbalism so that people can access nature's wisdom at home. She practices at Ageless Acupuncture in Pike Place Market and you can learn more at www.moonlightmedicineclinic.com
Angi moved from Germany to Seattle in 2016, where she fell in love with the city and chocolate. After a failed baking attempt, Theo's Chocolate Tour, and the Seattle Indulgent Tour, she realized that she wants to work with chocolate. Early 2017 she completed her certification as a professional chocolatier at Ecole Chocolat and started to work as a chocolate maker at indi chocolate. Angi decided to start her own bean-to-bar chocolate company ChocolateSpiel a couple of month later.
When she's not playing with chocolate, she's hiking with her husband and friends, doing yoga, or is knitting new projects with a high risk of failure.
Amanda is a fiber artist, designer and instructor. She had a decade long career in hospitality as an event planner, but left it all behind in 2015 to move to Indonesia with her husband. Since returning to Washington in 2017, Amanda has focused on building a freelance art and teaching career. She lives on Camano Island with her husband and their pug mix, Blanche. You can view her work at amandamclaurin.com and @amanda_mclaurin_ on Instagram.
Audrey is a twenty-five year old entrepreneur from Seattle who has always loved deep conversations. 365 Meaningful Conversations started as an art project that turned into conversation cards and since has grown into a business all about using conversation cards for people to connect with one another! She is passionate about learning, running long-distances, and doodling.
Becca grew up on the Oregon Coast in a rural and artistic community, she now currently resides in Seattle. She has traveled and lived all over the world including Argentina, South Korea, and Ecuador. For the last three years, she was the Marketing Director and COO at indi chocolate, a bean to bar, a direct-trade chocolate company located in Pike Place Market. In 2018, Becca started Rebel Rose Consulting, offering advice and expertise to improve, develop and enhance business strategies and community impact. She is currently getting her MBA at Presidio Graduate School in sustainable business. She enjoys black coffee, loves to cook with people, gather, create music, dance and laugh.
Brianne is a transplant from Philadelphia where she studied Marketing and Spanish. Since moving to Seattle two years ago, she has embraced her entrepreneurial spirit and started her own marketing consulting business in March of 2018. Her inspiration has been driven by the small business community in Seattle and wants to help them grow through her marketing services. In her free time, Brianne enjoys spending time outdoors and is attempting a Mount Rainier summit for the second time this summer. She is a passionate philanthropist for organizations like Climb for Clean Air, loves to cook vegan dishes, spend time with dogs through her Rover business, and tutor Spanish for high school students.
Carrie, a Certified Fermentationist and Functional Medicine Health Coach, is a knowledgeable and creative practitioner of fermentation arts and the pursuit of wellness through intuitive nutrition and lifestyle habits. Her creative and solution-oriented approach to the micro biome, gut health and wellness brings a fresh perspective to adding home fermented foods into our daily diet. She finds joy teaching people how to make their own fermented foods, their amazing health benefits and using them in innovative ways. She also loves to hike, garden, sail, and travel.
Chloe grew up in California and moved to Seattle at the age of 15 where she immediately fell in love with the Pacific Northwest. She grew up painting, drawing and went to school for photography. After working for a real estate company for several years, her passion for real estate, renovation projects and interior design grew and she decided to get her brokers license. 2 years ago she bought her first home (a fixer-upper) and began her most beloved reno project to date. She currently lives in West Seattle with her beau and pup, Rainy. She's happiest visiting a new city, camping, or exploring the San Juan Islands, and more recently, learning to cook. You will often find her scouring local breweries and being called to the mountains when needing a sweet escape from the city life.
Christy is a Seattle native with a passion for creativity in the kitchen. What began as a love for baking and locally sourced food, quickly evolved as she worked alongside two partners to create a Northwest inspired baked goods company, Salmonberry Goods. She stepped away to research and practice new crafts, like fermentation and herbalism, while working at Juicebox cafe. If not tinkering in the kitchen, you can find her experimenting with her own skincare products, hiking in the cascades, or studying native plants.
Claire has a year and a half of calligraphy and hand-lettering experience; and nearly 35 years of arts & crafts experience! She had worked in the corporate world for most of her adult life but 2 years ago took a leap-of-faith to follow her passions of teaching and being creative! From the moment she took her first calligraphy class, Claire knew this was exactly what she needed to be doing in life. Now, a full-time calligrapher, she resides in West Seattle with her husband and furry children, Wisco and Gordo. When she doesn't have a pen in her hand, she has a violin instead, and teaches private violin lessons in-between client projects. Born in California and raised in Wisconsin, she's a lover of warmth and the West Coast but also cheese, beer, and bubblers!
Elise is the woman behind The Preserve Works - a company that works to help people live more slowly and sustainably. The Preserve Works offers a small collection of handmade goods, sustainable items and curated wellness products. Elise also teaches a variety of different programs inspired by the mind/body/planet connection including slow/gentle yoga, meditation, and sustainable workshops. She believes in slowing down, making mindful choices, and cultivating a deep relationship with the natural environment.
Emily is a self-taught watercolor artist who tells jokes by day, and wrangles children by night. Although she is isn't a Seattle native, her fair complexion and light-sensitive eyes can't imagine living anywhere else. Along with passing along her love of painting, she wishes to give others the confidence to pick up the brush and dive-in, no matter what stage of the painting game they are in.
Erin grew up in Los Angeles and now lives with her best friends and plants in Seattle. Propelled by her studies in environmental food policy, Erin brought her knowledge into the field working in urban farming. After college, Erin shifted her focus to interiorscaping, creating indoor green arrangements and jungles. Working currently as a horticulture technician, Erin continues to grow her knowledge of plants and expand her creative design capabilities.
After her friends continuously came to her with houseplant questions, Erin wanted to create an accessible class to share her knowledge and help others care for their plants. Along with her coworker and close friend Monica, she will be teaching the first ever "Houseplants 101" course at The Works.
In her free time she enjoys reading, spending time with her best friends, taking as many road trips as possible, and baking cakes.
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Fawn is a physical therapist with a passion for teaching, wellness, and body education. She has been a fervent kombucha drinker and fermentista for many years and loves to share the joy of homebrewing and fermentation with anyone who wants to join her.
Greta specializes in the technology and media industry and formerly managed the photography and social media for indi chocolate. She concentrates on working with small businesses and startups to capture products, people, and places. In her spare time, she runs a lifestyle blog, Some Saltwater, and food blog, The Little White Table.
Jen is an Appalachian raised, Seattle based watercolor and ink artist. Jen taught art and photography as a camp counselor for 4 years, and recently finished training as a yoga teacher and Ayurveda practitioner. Her inspiration comes from a combination of these studies, looking at the connections between science, geometry, and nature. She enjoys bringing together elements of the earth and meditation into original art works and Ayurveda workshops. You can find a bit of all of this on her Instagram @jenliveslife.
Jessie Poole (aka The Lady Bartender) is an artist, food & beverage connoisseur and educator. Born somewhere between a rolling tumble weed and the pungent scent of a sage brush in Southern Idaho, and raised in the lush, fir protected damp of the Northwest, her artistic focus is always in telling the story. To find motivation in a person from history, in recalling a place - it's smell and texture, in a piece of art or simply an emotion is a never ending source of inspiration. Follow her cocktail journey at theladybartender.com.
Katrina is a Seattle-based creative with a passion for learning and building community. Never one to fear a good challenge, she's dabbled in many trial and error projects like restoring the vintage leather purses in her collection, making new-to-her jewelry from deconstructed/deadstock trinkets, and trying to propagate any and all of her house plants, and excited to share her learnings on these topics with others! When she's not working on creative side projects, she enjoys spending time with her adopted Flamepoint Siamese cat, Sushi Magoo, riding her bike around the city, and standing in line for local donut pop-ups.
Kiki Robinson aka Opulent Witch is a witch, artist, tarot reader, freaky star being, and psychic medium. Her work is centered in sovereignty, heart-truth, courage, and connecting with ancestral healing and magic. She is deeply committed to dismantling the systems that bind us through magical activism and her intention is to support others in connecting to their own divinity and assist in deep transformation. To find out more about Kiki, visit her website Opulent Witch or follow her on Instagram.
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Kiya is a recent Seattle transplant, and contrary to her South Floridian roots, she loves grey skies and rainy days.
After pursuing a career in concert dance in New York City for the past 5 years, Kiya turned to her first love, food, for a career swap. Self-taught and wild about cooking, you can find Kiya in the kitchen most days, developing creations for her cooking blog, kiyafries.
Kiya also works as a freelance photographer, crafting images and stop-motion videos for brands.
A teacher at heart, Kiya aims to communicate useful cooking techniques, and overall, to spread joy.
When she isn't creating or teaching, you can find her tending to her container gardens, snuggling her cat, scrolling Pinterest, and listening to true crime podcasts.
Kristina is a professional cook turned whole animal butcher. She owns and operates a Seattle-based butchery service called Butchery 101 that custom processes meat shares and teaches butchery classes. Services always feature well-raised animals from great farmers in the Pacific Northwest.
She is joining The Works to teach Knife Skills 101, featuring skills and lessons gathered from Seattle Culinary Academy and seven years working in excellent Seattle restaurants like Matt's in the Market, Spinasse and Volunteer Park Cafe.
Mara is a self-taught fiber artist and crafter living in Shoreline. As a self-proclaimed "jane of all trades, master of none," she loves to dabble in all types of crafts from knitting to felting, drawing to weaving, and her new favorite, punch needle art. When she is not creating products for her Etsy shops or crafting for fun, you will find her in her garden or spending time with her boyfriend and their two cats and dog. You can find more about her current projects and links to her Etsy shops on Instagram.
Megan Young is thrilled to join The Works Seattle team as Operations Manager. Megan brings over ten years of management experience with off-site catering and events of all types, plus a ton of enthusiasm for baking, cooking and crafts of all sorts. Along with her years of management experience Megan has offered mentoring, training and coaching to students and employees for over nineteen years. In her other life Megan is a Certified Myers Briggs and Gallup StrengthsFinder Coach, Graphic Design Assistant and Singer. Megan is passionate about people, food, music, house-plants and nature.
Melissa owns The Kitchen Imp, where she makes and sells beautiful, organic spice blends, as well as single spices. She also creates proprietary blends for restaurants. Although she loves spices of all sorts, she has a particular passion for blends from South Asia and North Africa, as well as the cuisines of those regions. She believes that cooking is a cultural bridge-builder that can open us up to the world through delicious food. And she's thrilled to teach people how to make foods that excite and nourish them.
Monica is a born and raised Seattle native with a passion for baking, doggos, and nature! She spent most of her college years pursuing baking and pastry arts, only to realize that the plant world holds a special place in her heart. What began as a healthy "hoarding" of house plants quickly blossomed into a career that she wholeheartily loves. She is now currently working as a horticulture technician, where she's always learning and absorbing new knowledge.
In her free time, Monica enjoys long walks with her two pitties, Mila and Milton, constantly drinking a latte, eating family style and listening to true crime podcasts!
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Seattle native, Nyema Clark is Founder and Director of Nurturing Roots Farm located on Beacon Hill, a program committed to addressing food justice issues in the community. As a black small business owner and Founder of Avenue South, she produces handmade natural culinary and body products. Nyema is committed to enriching underserved communities, her strength and overall goal is founded in youth empowerment and community economic sustainability.
Paul Wang is a chef that has been traveling and living a different city every year since he was 20 years old (including Seoul, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, New Delhi, Tulum, Oklahoma City). Paul believes that life's most valuable lesson is experiencing different cultures through food and people. He is currently living in Seattle while working at an oyster bar in Ballard. Since he was a young teenager, Paul has obsessed over skin care, especially using natural ingredients (mostly food). His first experiment was making a face mask with egg whites, green tea, and oatmeal. Besides travel, food, and skin care, Paul enjoys taking care of his house plants, slurping down dumplings and noodles in the International District, and thrift store shopping with his partner, Brandon.
Peggy is the owner of Cookiecarts, a bakery shipping cookies to college students nationwide. As one of nine kids, she was always baking. Peggy was mentored by many women, including her mom who baked cookies for their lunches every single day! Baking brings Peggy such joy and sweetens life. She can't wait to share her passion with you!
Shannon Douglas is the cook and photographer behind Honest Magazine, a quarterly publication of cooking, foraging and gardening, and the way these practices weave together to create an honest and connected life. She teaches classes focused on intuitive cooking and rustic crafts that bring us back into the wild and the wild back into us. She's a big believer in hammocks and is always on the lookout for new "weeds" to bring into the kitchen. Her website is HonestQuarterly.com
Shavon
Shavon grew up in the South and in the Bay Area in California, where she relocated from to Seattle 12 years ago. Currently living in White Center with her husband, dogs, chickens, bees and orchid hoard, oh my!. Shavon has a deep passion for native pollinators, building pollinator habitats, seed saving and spreading the wonderment of native bees to the masses. Along with her day job, she is a field trip volunteer at the West Seattle Bee Garden and a beekeeper for Urban Bee Co. Using permaculture principles, over the last 4 years, Shavon has slowly been turning her nearly quarter acres of grass and 3 pine trees into gardens of food, flowers and habitats for the birds and pollinators. When not farming you can find her knitting, all Star Trek all the time, obsessing over the hummingbirds in her yard and cruising the mean streets on her motorcycle.
Siera, a former bioinformatician, left the lab to follow her original passion for baking and bento-making. Growing up in Hawaii, she was constantly surrounded by fresh tropical fruit and exotic flavors, all of which continue to inspire her cooking endeavors today (Instagram: @komorebi_kitchen). When not in the kitchen Siera enjoys bouldering, wheel-throwing, and tending to her garden with her puppy Kuppi.
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