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A Self-directed Support (SDS) package allows people to choose how their support is provided, and gives them as much control as they want of their individual budget.
Watch our short video about Joan who explains how Self-directed Support changed her life.
At Loretto Care we're experts in personalising a flexible support service which responds to a person's needs.
We encourage individuals to lead on the delivery of their care and see partnership working as an integral part of reaching positive outcomes. We work closely with family members and agencies to help people live as independent life as they can.
Our Self-directed Support services are registered with The Care Inspectorate to provide housing support and care at home services, and consistently achieve a grade five rating of very good.
We provide individualised services in a range of areas including:
attending appointments
community activities and networks.
As part of our personalised service we promote the impacts that diet, exercise and involvement in social activities can have on a person's well-being.
Life should be about more than day-to-day practicalities, so we create opportunities for people to participate in a wide range of life enhancing activities such as volunteering, sport, gardening, art, music, education and lifelong learning.
Ultimately, we support people to manage their own health and wellbeing – it's about people being in control of their lives.
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Personalising services
We want individuals to have as much involvement as possible in shaping Loretto Care and personalising their service.
Ways to get involved include:
developing and co-creating outcomes they want to achieve
deciding who is involved in their support circle and an outcome plan
arranging support around their personal life and commitments
choosing the support and connections they access within Loretto Care and their community
getting involved in the recruitment of Loretto Care staff
taking part in Loretto Care's Advisory Board to give feedback and inform our future plans.
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choose a direct payment. They arrange and pay for their support
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they ask the local authority to find and arrange the support they feel is most suitable. You still have the final say on who provides your support
arranging support using a mixture of the options above.
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The Greek language deserves to be learned and loved; for its virtues, but mainly because it has been the means of expression of a great civilization. A civilization, which, at the beginning of its long duration, shaped and codified the first and statutory layer of the higher vocabulary and concepts of Western civilization, and which ever since, in all its historical continuity, has not stopped evolving alongside the important historical moments of East and West. The Greek language deserves to be honored both because it is a valuable legacy for the Western world and because it is irreplaceable as the foundation of the Hellenic national identity.
To love something, however, means to come to know it. To come to know, first of all, acknowledged writers who have written in this language. The best tried and true way to do this is through Reading Circles: friends, classmates, fellow students meet at a friend's house, in small groups, every one or two weeks, for a few hours, and read texts written by writers of their choice. One person reads out loud, and the others follow the text they also hold in their hands. For works of a foreign language literature (or Ancient Greek literature), some circles of fanatical readers will even pursue the practice where the reader reads from a translation and the others follow from the original text! It is not at all necessary that the reading be followed by a discussion or analysis of the texts. What is more important is getting to know the texts. This is the crucial part. By the act of reading, the static visual signal becomes a vibrating oral signal, and through the ear enters the hearts and minds. Thus, when someone learns a text verbatim, it is called by heart, or in French par cœur. If there has never been a better helper than the ear to learn a foreign language, the ear once again proves to be the catalyst that helps transform a text into the flesh and blood of a culture. This is how Greek literature enters the circulatory system of the modern era.


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The Real Fiction of Science Fiction
Posted: March 27, 2015 by teresaheffernan1 in Capitalism, Film, Labour, Sci Fi, Science
Tags: Duncan Jones, Real Science of Science Fiction, Sci Fi, Science and technology, Susan Stepney
In "The Real Science of Science Fiction," Susan Stepney, Professor of Computer Science at the University of York, inspired by her contribution to a collection of stories called Beta-Life that puts science fiction writers and scientists in dialogue each with the other, discusses her experience of this fruitful relationship:
"It is important to get science ideas out to the public for many reasons. But one important reason, for me at least, is so that SF authors have a range of new material to use to write great SF stories. I've found that working directly with an author kills two birds with one stone: it produces a new story for me to read, and provides some science background that might help inspire other authors, too."
While there is no question that fiction writers are inspired by science and technology and that scientists are inspired by fiction, this article is one of many that popularizes the notion that it is the scientific idea that educates people while the fictional apparatus serves as the entertaining vehicle that disseminates and markets the science. It is not surprising then that discussions of the genre are so often reduced to questions about whether or not the fiction gets the science "right" or whether it is probable. For instance, when Duncan Jones was invited by NASA to discuss his film Moon (2009), the questions from the audience were largely technical. They asked about the possibilities and mechanics of lunar helium-3 mining (the energy source being harvested in the film) and about the possibility of using local materials to build a lunar base; they also asked questions about the construction of the set and the use of special effects. Jones's film, however, is interested in the potential of the genre more than it is in the viability of mining energy on the moon. Looking back to 70s and 80s films, the retro-aesthetic of the film rejects the expensive technological flash and special effects that have become so prevalent in the industry in order put in stark relief not "entertainment," but the question of how humans are shaping and being shaped by a faith in technological progress and corporate capital. The beauty of the sci-fi genre, Jones (who studied philosophy and the ethics of sentient machines at grad school) argues, is that it offers a place where values can be investigated as it "takes the audience's guard down."
In Moon we first meet Sam, an employee of Lunar Industries, running on a treadmill and wearing a t-shirt that says: "wake me when it's quitting time." The slogan is of course an ironic reference to his expiry date as a clone, a fact he only "wakes" to near the end of his mission–for most of the film he believes he is the "one and only." The slogan also suggests workers on a conveyor belt unwittingly serving corporate interests to their own detriment; and it raises larger questions (as does the film) about whether the species is running on autopilot, oblivious to its own expiry, lulled to sleep by technology and its promise of a better future.
While the NASA audience asked interesting questions, the ethical concerns the film raises about science in the service of industry were never broached: in other words "science" was separated from the "fiction" in order to sidestep the uncomfortable questions about how science is already implicated in twenty-first century narratives about progress, individualism, capitalism, freedom, and industry. A training in literary analysis does not treat science as an autonomous field: if Stepney argues that "we need scientific input to sustain a rich science fictional imagination," I would suggest we need fiction to situate science in politics, history, culture. At the end of Moon, after Sam has woken up to the fact of his exploitation and is ready to make his escape back to earth, Gerty (the Hal-inspired computer) says to Sam: "the new Sam and I will be back to our programming as soon as I finish rebooting." Sam reponds to: Gerty: "we are not programmed, we are people, you understand." Sam, in the end, wants to jump off the treadmill of corporate technological determinism.
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La gare du Campinaire est une gare ferroviaire belge de la ligne 130, de Namur à Charleroi, située sur le territoire de la commune de Farciennes dans la province de Hainaut en région wallonne.

En 1862, l'administration des chemins de fer de l'État belge fait de la halte du Campinaire une gare à part entière.

C'est une halte voyageurs de la Société nationale des chemins de fer belges (SNCB) desservie par des trains du réseau suburbain de Charleroi (trains S).

Situation ferroviaire
Établie à  d'altitude, la gare du Campinaire est située au point kilométrique (PK) 27,700 de la ligne 130, de Namur à Charleroi, entre les gares ouvertes de Farciennes et de Châtelet.

Histoire

La halte du Campinaire, déjà exploitée par l'administration des chemins de fer de l'État belge, accède au statut de gare le .

Elle est dotée d'un bâtiment standard dit "à pignons à redents" de sept travées, identique à de nombreuses gares de la ligne (re)construites à cette époque (Floreffe, Auvelais, Couillet-Montignies).

La gare de formation de Châtelineau ne cessant de grandir au cours du , la tête sud de ses faisceaux finira par arriver à la hauteur de la gare du Campinaire. Son grand bâtiment aurait disparu au milieu des  au profit d'un petit édicule sur le quai menant au pont routier.

La cour à marchandises ferme en 1983 ; le petit bâtiment servant de guichet a également disparu.

Service des voyageurs

Accueil
Halte SNCB, c'est un point d'arrêt non géré (PANG) à accès libre.

L'accès à l'unique quai central se fait par un escalier le reliant au pont routier qui surplombe les voies.

Desserte
Le Campinaire est desservie par des trains suburbains (S) de la SNCB de la ligne S61 du RER de Charleroi, qui effectuent des missions sur la ligne commerciale 130 Charleroi - Namur..

En semaine, la gare possède deux dessertes par heure : des trains S61 entre Jambes, Namur, Ottignies et Wavre, via Charleroi et des trains S61 limités au trajet Jambes - Charleroi-Central.

Aucun train ne s'arrête au Campinaire les week-ends et jours fériés.

Intermodalité
Le stationnement des véhicules n'est pas possible à proximité immédiate de l'accès.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste de gares en Belgique
 Ligne 130, de Namur à Charleroi
 Relations ferroviaires en Belgique

Lien externe

Gare dans la province de Hainaut
Ligne 130 (Infrabel)
Gare du Campinaire

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Okrug Lučenec (slovački: Okres Lučenec) nalazi se u središnjoj Slovačkoj u Banskobistričkom kraju  na granici s Mađarskom.  U okrugu živi 73.047 stanovnika (67,6% Slovaka i 27,6% Mađara (2001.)), dok je gustoća naseljenosti 88 stan/km². Ukupna površina okruga je 826 km². Glavni grad okruga Lučenec je istoimeni grad Lučenec s 29.000 stanovnika.

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Q: How can I make a dynamic collapsible menu accessible? I have an app that is using the footable plugin to allow for responsive tables. Essentially it takes columns from a table and turns them into a collapsible menu that is dynamically injected into the table as a new row when a user clicks a button to expand and then it is removed once the user collapses it again.
If you look at this example, it sets display: none on the columns but it also appends a new tr element that has a class of .footable-detail-row and that tr houses the menu that displays the data (you'll have to shrink your browser window to see this functionality).
This plugin does not have any accessibility built in unfortunately. I have forked their repo and am trying to make it accessible. I currently have it toggling the aria-expanded attributes and the span "buttons" are now buttons in my fork.
I am stuck on how I can make this accessible because the expanded menu content is dynamically injected into the DOM and then it is removed from the DOM once the toggle button is clicked again.
Perhaps I could add an aria-label for the buttons that says something like:

When this button is clicked it will toggle a menu that is inserted into this table as a new row immediately below this one. The new row contains additional column information. To avoid this button use a screen with a width of at least 992 pixels.

Obviously that's a gigantic label but it's descriptive as to what is happening and why. Thoughts?
If I only have a button like this: <button id="myButton" aria-expanded="false">Expand Content</button> I normally would add a aria-controls="myCollapsibleMenu", however, in this instance myCollapsibleMenu doesn't exist in the DOM.
Is there any way to make a menu like this accessible short of building out my own plugin like this that adds the menu when the script loads and doesn't remove the menu from the DOM?
I have looked into the other aria attributes like aria-live but is there a way to make this work with aria-live since these menus should be associated to a specific icon? Are there any other aria attributes I can use to make this accessible? Perhaps if I use an aria-describedby on the inserted row it would let the user know how this row relates to it the row above it.
I can add any attribute to the menu I want after it is created. Would it be acceptable to aadd a descriptive aria-label of what happens when a user clicks on the button?

A: The advice in the comments is the best advice, replace the library.
However, as with anything, there are compromises to be made and as you cannot replace the library at the moment, we can at least improve the accessibility to a level where it is "usable" with only a couple of minor tweaks.
Please note it probably will not pass WCAG AA if that is a requirement.
Stuff you have already done, just for clarity / to check
The first thing is to make the part that opens and closes the additional information accessible via keyboard and improve the semantics.
If you are able I would replace the contents of that column with <button> elements instead of just text with a click handler.
That gives you all of the relevant keyboard functionality you need.
Obviously that would mean finding and adjusting the click handler responsible for expanding the row and replacing it, but hopefully it would be as simple as changing the CSS selector.
button action
The second thing you need to do is indicate to screen reader users the action of the button.
This can easily be achieved with either an aria-label or use some visually hidden text (my preference due to compatibility)
This simply needs to explain that it reveals more information.
Something like "{name} (reveal all information in row below)".
a bit of tidy up with the icon and the button ARIA
Finally, let's hide that plus symbol from screen readers just to ensure it doesn't get announced using aria-hidden="true"
Oh and add aria-expanded="false" to the buttons and toggle that when the row below is added.
Quick example of desired output
An example of the desired HTML output (based on your fiddle) is below:

<button aria-expanded="false">

   Annemarie
   (reveal all information in row below)

</button>

Things you have not done yet that are still worth doing
You mentioned aria-controls, I would say use aria-owns instead (just a judgement call based on the slight differences, in reality it will not make much difference to user-experience).
Now as you have indicated you have an issue where the item that you want to point to with aria-owns is not in the DOM.
As such you can add this dynamically as a "best we can do" scenario.
So the second the new row is added to the table, add an ID to that row and then add aria-owns="your-id" to the controlling <button>.
The beauty is that if the row is expanded and the button gets refocused (or a screen reader user asks for the current element to be read out again) it will announce the relationship.
When the row is collapsed again, remove the aria-owns attribute.
example with aria-owns and aria-expanded="true"
Notice how I also changed the visually-hidden text to "close all information..." as the button purpose has changed.

<button aria-expanded="true" aria-owns="your-new-id">

   Annemarie
   (close all information in row below)

</button>

One last thing that would improve accessibility
Now that you have made it usable via keyboard and provided hints as to relationships there is one more thing you can do to improve the accessibility for screen reader users.
Add instructions!
I often encounter scenarios where a fix would take a long time but the only big issue with accessibility is actually discoverability (i.e. once you know how a widget is constructed and how to navigate it, it doesn't matter as much that it isn't perfectly formed.)
So have a button before the table called "help".
This can then explain the behaviour of the table ("click on a person's name in the first column to expand additional information in a new row below. Within that row a small table with additional fields will be added").
This simple step can really help screen reader users as they can go "ok so there is a button, if I press it there is a new row added, within that row there is a nested table" and know where to look for information.
Conclusion
Couple the instructions with the steps earlier and I am confident that although the table is not "accessible" it would be entirely usable and a reasonable experience for screen reader users and keyboard only users alike.
Obviously (for anyone else landing on this question) this is not the ideal solution, the point here is to do the best we can for now and plan to replace the current solution at the next iteration.

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Biggest Ore Carrier delivers to Biggest Steel Mill
The worlds largest iron ore carrier, Vale Brasil is scheduled to arrive at Taranto Italy on Wednesday Jul 13th. Her maiden revenue voyage, following load out at Ponta da Madeira Brazil, was originally routed to Dalian China.
Vale (pronounced "valley") diverted the Vale Brasil, at 400,000 dead weight tons, the worlds biggest bulk carrier, to Taranto Italy for "commercial, not political, reasons." There had been speculation among traders that the Vale Brasil was unable to berth at Dalian, China, due to pressure from China's domestic steel industry who had urged authorities to protect their commercial interests.
Regardless of the politics, there is a certain "irony" in that the biggest iron ore carrier in the world, Vale Brasil, will soon be off-loading at Ilva Steel at Taranto, Italy. Ilva is the biggest integrated steel-making plant in Italy and in Europe.
So, just how big is Ilva Steel? Consider these impressive numbers:
Structures: 15 million sq meters, or 161.5 m sq feet.
Blast Furnaces: 5
Rail line: 200 km, or 124 miles
Roadway: 50 km, or 31 miles
Conveyors: 190 km, or 118 miles
Employees: 12,859 (2008)
Land area: 10 square km, or 3.8 square miles.
Ilva has an annual production capacity of 9,150,000 metric tons, including coil, plate, pipe.
Within the complex, railways with more than 50 trains and over 1,700 freight cars connect the different production lines; blast furnaces, hot strip mills and so forth.
I traced (red tracks) the two conveyor systems, each about 1½ miles in length leading from the ship unloaders to a massive longitudinal stockyard, patrolled by a squadron of stacker/reclaimers.
To keep track of vehicles in a huge area like the Taranto plant, it was not feasible to use such technologies as sensors or Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), deemed too costly and difficult to maintain.
Instead, a Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) and a Global Positioning System (GPS) was integrated with a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), to track virtually all rolling stock on the site, right down to dump trucks!
In 2005, a computer based integrated management solution, developed in conjunction with Microsoft Italy, was activated with the following features:
Train tracking with DGPS/GPS/GPRS using Windows-based remote units.
Telemetry application to get train data and alarms in real time to prevent damage.
Maintenance application to report the trains' usage for planning purposes.
Management application integrated with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to manage the daily operations of railway infrastructure.
Follow this link to the Ilva Steel corporate site, and be sure to click on the video provided. It is a driving music video collage of the plant. If the site comes up in Italian, click on the Union Jack for the English version.
In 1990, the Ministry of Environment declared Taranto a high environmental risk area. The poisons discharged into the air by the factories in its territory, make Taranto the most polluted city in Italy and western Europe. Only 7% of Taranto's pollution is inhabitants-related: 93% is factories-related.
Vale expects the Vale China, launched July 10th,to have a Chinese port as her first destination. The first ship "Brasil" was built in South Korea; the "China" built in Nantong China, the first vessel of the Valemax class totally produced in China and financed by Chinese financial institutions.
Story begins at: Vale Brasil Largest Ship in the World.
Index: Ilva Steel, Taranto, Vale, Vale Brasil, Vale China
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"Where are the lights?"
Tribal Canoe Journey
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Aftermath!
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Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793: By the author of Wieland; and Ormond, or The secret witness. Copy-right secured.
ebook version of Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793: By the author of Wieland; and Ormond, or The secret witness. Copy-right secured.
Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793: By the author of Wieland; and Ormond, or The secret witness. Copy-right secured. (Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810.) vi [i.e., iv], 224 p. ; 12⁰. (Philadelphia :) Printed and published by H. Maxwell, no. 3, Letitia Court--and sold by Messrs. T. Dobson, R. Campbell, H. and P. Rice, A. Dickins, and the principal booksellers in the neighbouring states,1799.
Preface signed: C.B.B. [i.e., Charles Brockden Brown].
The second part was published at New York in 1800.
Error in paging: p. iv misnumbered vi.
Evans, 35243
BAL, 1498
English Short Title Catalog, ESTCW4441.
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810.
Cite: Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793: By the author of Wieland; and Ormond, or The secret witness. Copy-right secured. by Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810. at http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/5501 via http://writersinspire.org/content/arthur-mervyn-or-memoirs-year-1793-author-wieland-ormond-or-secret-witness-copy-right. Published on 27 March 2017. Accessed on 22 January 2022.
If reusing this resource please attribute as follows: Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793: By the author of Wieland; and Ormond, or The secret witness. Copy-right secured. (http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/5501) by Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810., licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (2.0 UK).


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The Sustainable Urban Governance through Augmented Reality (SUGAR) project aims to develop innovative best-practice protocols and guidelines on Sustainable Urban Governance and specifically Public Participation through Augmented Reality.
Urban Design and Planning worldwide have long been criticised for their lack of meaningful public consultation and participation in the process of the making of our cities.
Currently, the existing practices of consultation and participation are within the confines or council meetings, complex form filling and survey reports that most often than not carry little weight towards the decisions made by the planning authorities.
For the last decades, the concept of Participatory Planning as an approach of designing has been heavily incorporated in many disciplinary fields.
This project investigates the role of participation as the process that users, and other stakeholders, are actively involved in the decision-making process through the approach of achieving Sustainable Urban Governance and utilising innovative immersive technologies (specifically AR).
The application of participatory design in the design process is seen as essential to providing economically and socially sustainable outcomes.
SUGAR aims to empower both citizens that seek ways to participate in the decision-making process for the design of their cities and neighbourhoods and stakeholders that would like to involve the public actively in the process of shaping their environment creating a lasting and meaningful impact.
SUGAR builds a partnership between the Cyprus University of Technology (Social Computing Research Centre), University of Cyprus (Department of Architecture) and Harvard University (Graduate School of Design and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences).
If you would like more information about the project please contact the Project Coordinator Prof. Panayiotis Zaphiris at [email protected] or the Project Manager Andreas Papallas at [email protected].


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Banelino is a fair trade banana cooperative that partners with TGH to support local healthcare in the DR.
Dr. Yari Rodriguez in Mao, a coastal community on the Haitian border, and Dr. Miguel Garcia in Monti Christi, a northwestern urban city, in the Dominica Republic (DR) are the newest users of CMES-Pi. The doctors are local partners in healthcare with Timmy Global Health (TGH), an Indianapolis based nonprofit that provides access to healthcare through volunteers and empowering local health providers worldwide.
Dr. Manoj Thomas, from TWB, joined the TGH medical brigade in March. He assisted Anny, the local TGH Program Manager, on installation and how to use the Pi device including the smartphone apps for her DR staff.
Anny, TGH project director in the DR, is ready install the CMES-Pi unit.
CMES-Pi…so little providing so much cme.
The doctors in these clinics are providing care in austere rural settings. Accessing the EMRAP cme gives them a source of updated medical information to provide the best care possible for their patients.
Dr. Yari (on the right) in Mao meets CMES-Pi.
Dr. Miguel gets a lesson from Anny on the smartphone app.
Who Knew? The DR is the largest producer of organic bananas worldwide, representing more than 55% of the world's organic banana production. The DR also makes one of the best rums in the world…banana daiquiri anyone?
Sarbu is the System Architect for Techies Without Borders and CMES. He is simply put…a genius.
"It is my pleasure to be a part of a team that works and communicates well together. I have had the pleasure of working with many teams on many projects over the years but, I can firmly and wholeheartedly say that I have never been so happy and proud to be a team member of a project like I am of the CMES team.
I love that the entire team shares the same work ethics, and no one is afraid of being challenged and everyone's voice or opinion is listened and discussed to a great extent.
So, what do I do for the project? Well, the short answer to this question is, I am the developer. Needless to say, I don't do it alone, the entire team is there right beside me on each and every step of the development (mostly virtually as we live in different cities or countries).
Since I joined the project in January of 2016, I have never had a dull moment and with every growing member of the team and the changes in project scope and the products being developed have been getting better and better.
Kunde Hospital. Photo from WikiCommons.
Kunde Hospital staff. Photo courtesy of Dr. Kami.
Kunde is a good example of a remote location benefiting from up-to-date cme. Situated 3800 meters above sea level, it was founded by Sir Edmund Hillary in 1966. Now funded by the Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation of Canada (SEHF) it serves 8000 local people and trekkers.
Historically cme is not a new concept. From the start of institutionalized medical education practitioners used grand rounds, case discussions and meetings to discuss published papers and share knowledge. However bias was a leading concern when the pharmaceutical companies began funding cme in the 1950s.
If you look at the statistics in the USA most myocardial infarction patients survive with a 3-6% mortality rate, but the ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) and cardiogenic shock patients have an uphill battle no matter where they present. Dr. Greg Adaka offers 5 bullet points, less than a minute to read, on the February EMRAP pdf called: Cardiogenic Shock in Acute MI. Thumb drives up…take less than a minute to refresh your hearty knowledge base.
Who Knew: Myocardial Infarction, according to the WHO, is second only to lower respiratory infections as the leading cause of death in lower income countries. Worldwide, more than 3 million people have STEMIs and 4 million have NSTEMIs a year. Courtesy: Wikipedia.
"Stayin' Alive" is a disco song written and performed by the Bee Gees in 1977…anyone still have their mirror ball?
Meet Jack, a Web Application Developer for Techies Without Borders.
"At first, it's my graduate classmate joined this team and asked me to join and work with her in May of 2016, even though she left the team because of private reason, I am happy that I am one of the members of the project.
meetings many times even some of us is in different time zone.
I also want to say thank to Dr. Li and Dr. Thomas. You really did very well in leading us and gave us many suggestions on the problems I faced and continued to let me work with you even I've come back to Taiwan.
"I am mainly responsible for building Continuing Medical Education on Stick (CMES) admin panel for the team to create and edit topics. In the beginning, the features were simple and had many things to be improved; by our hard work and cooperations little by little, the panel was upgraded to V2 version and the Spanish version is also now supported.
Over the next few months, I will post about the creative and dedicated Techies Without Borders (TWB) IT team that makes CMES and CMES-Pi possible. They donate their talent and time because they believe in you and the CMES mission: providing current cme for doctors and nurses in resource-challenged countries with our partner Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives (EMRAP).
Microsoft Azure Sponsorship has been granted to continue cloud-based support for Techies Without Borders and the Continuing Medical Education on Stick (CMES) and CMES-Pi project. All of us appreciate the support from Microsoft and special thanks to Dr. Yan Li for her diligent application.
Microsoft Azure is a broad set of cloud services. IT professionals and developers use Azure to build, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft's global network of data centers. Azure provides integrated tools, DevOps, and a marketplace to support developers in building a variety of needed platforms from simple mobile apps to internet-scale solutions.
Welcome and meet Dr. Lisa Charles, Director of Victoria Hospital Emergency Department. Dr. Charles and her team of eight ED physicians joined the Continuing Medical Education on Stick (CMES) project this month. CMES is a collaborative initiative to improve access to cme for medical practitioners in resource-challenged areas.
Victoria Hospital is located in Castries, St. Lucia, an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It is the main public healthcare facility for the northern part of the island. Mr. C. Felix St. Hill, Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health and Wellness granted permission for Dr. Debra Stoner, from Techies Without Borders (TWB), to present the project to the ED staff and train them how to use the CMES thumb drives. CMES is an education project of TWB.
Dr. Charles plans to use the lectures to meet some of the St. Lucia Medical Council's cme requirements as traveling off the island to attend cme conferences can be challenging for her staff.


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The 2023 Central Michigan Chippewas football team will represent Central Michigan University in the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They are led by fifth-year head coach Jim McElwain and play their home games at Kelly/Shorts Stadium as members of the West Division of the Mid-American Conference.

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Soundtrack Trailer: Sometimes People in Los Angeles Just Have to Sing Sia
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Josh Safran's new show Soundtrack is here to fill the Smash- (or, more accurately, Glee-) shaped hole in your TV watching. You want music? Got it — as long as you're okay with the characters lip-syncing to pop songs. Romance? Of course, because like Paul James tells us as Samson Hughes at the outset of the trailer, "Every song is a love song." Drama? We'd guess there'll be some of it, judging by the hard shift to a partially choreographed hospital-room scene in the middle of the trailer. From Smash season-two showrunner and Gossip Girl writer Joshua Safran, Soundtrack (formerly called Mixtape, but what is that anyway?) features "a disparate group of interconnected people in contemporary Los Angeles through the lens of the music that defines who they are." So is it a music video? A music-al? Some good old-fashioned television to binge-watch? Figure it out when it premieres on Netflix December 18.
This post previously misstated the actor and character who delivers the line, "Every song is a love song." It was corrected on December 4 at 10:40 a.m.
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Heat a large pan of lightly salted water to boiling over high heat. Peel the asparagus stalks and trim the ends. Cut the stalks diagonally into 1-inch pieces. Blanch in boiling water 3 minutes or until bright green. Drain in a colander and rinse under cold water to stop the cooking.
In a large bowl, combine the vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, cilantro, and salt. Add the asparagus and toss until well combined.
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There is no hard and fast rule. One set once a day is a fine way to grow spiritually.
I know people who rarely say it. Nor are they any less devout for it.
That would depend on the person and what their other prayer activities are. Let the Holy Spirit lead you.
I want to share this different meditative method in praying the rosary that I learned.
One of the most common (and productive) ways to pray the rosary is to meditate on the virtues displayed by our Lord or our Blessed Mother in each of the mysteries (Humility for the Annunciation, Charity towards neighbor for the Visitation, etc.). I am sure that most people are aware of this and hopefully utilize it. However, a similar method but essentially different is to meditate on your sins of the opposing vice or failure of the specific virtue in each mystery. Meditating on one's sinfullness and being sorrowful is definately recommended by every saint that I have ever read. I think it is even more effacacious when doing in the midst of the Holy Rosary when you are praying the Our Father and Angelic Salutation. I will give a few examples for each mystery but let the Holy Spirit guide you.
2. Wedding at Cana - Our lack of trust in the Mother of God, Our unwillingness to do "whatever he [Jesus] teels us to do."
The Fatima Prayer is presumably originally in Portuguese, not Latin (indeed, when I looked, I found multiple Latin versions), so I think lbt is onto something.
I don't normally see people making the sign of the cross at the Glory Be. I, too, did this at first, then noticed nobody else was. In the Divine Office, one bows (at the waist) at the Glory Be. At my parish, during the rosary in honor of OL of Fatima, people stand up and bow for the Glory Be.
My husband and I pray the rosary together after dinner. We keep a prayer journal and write down all the intentions we have for the day and also record answered prayers. We offer each decade specifically for one of our five children and their families and the entire rosary in general for all the intentions in our journal.
A priest once told us, "If you pray one rosary you get the graces of that one rosary, but if you belong to the Legion of Mary you get the graces of all the rosaries prayed by Legionaries all over the world." That was enough to encourage my husband and me to join the Legion as auxiliaries. We pray the prayers of the Tessera (the legion pamphlet with special prayers) as we say our rosary. It might add three minutes to the rosary and includes the Magnificat and other specific Legion prayers. It's a great way to end the day.
Mostly the Rosary is used as a petitionary prayer, offered up for certain intentions.
Would it be a good idea to pray a Thanksgiving Rosary occasionally?
Certainly a thanksgiving Rosary is appropriate.
The Rosary is a very versatile prayer. When one becomes more advanced in the meditation on the mysteries it enhances one's prayer life and opens the spirit to many graces.
The Rosary has the potential of bringing one from the beginnings of prayer to the heights of contemplation.
Depending on what you mean by "petitionary," I don't think that is correct. Praise and thanksgiving are also apart of the devotion for certain. Everytime you pray the Angelic Salutation you are in essence praising the Virgin Mary for the grace that God bestowed upon her. Also, thanksgiving for the grace to pray should always be apart of our prayers.
'Petitionary' in the sense of 'offered up for certain intentions'.
is there anything wrong with cutting down the 10 Hail Mary's in each decade to, say, 3 or 4?
No, but it wouldn't be praying the Dominican Rosary, so you can't get the indulgences connected with it.
That's a really great idea, CCB, and very helpful. Since I'm new to the rosary and don't pray it too often (which I think I'm going to change), I sometimes have trouble keeping track of the rosary prayers while trying to remember and then think about the various mysteries. This way of doing it is especially useful for getting the hang of it while I'm still learning. Thanks a lot.
I have trouble keeping track sometimes, too. If I'm losing count of how many prayers/decades I've prayed, it's often because I'm anxious, stressed out, or otherwise distracted. An audio CD of the rosary, or praying it out loud with someone else, helps immensely. As does a quick prayer to my guardian angel (who, if I unintentionally miss a few prayers or fall asleep while praying, will finish the rosary for me... or so I've been told).
If it's the mysteries I'm having trouble remembering, I use a pamphlet with pictures to remind me what I should be focused on each step of the way.
I still need the little booklet because I can't seem to remember the prayers either.
Sometimes I don't have the booklet handy so I'll just say the three prayers I know... Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be and I just skip the others because I can't remember them. Is doing that still considered praying the rosary or do the other prayers need to be said as well?
When I say I don't have the booklet handy, I mean when I'm in a position where I'm unable to read the booklet like if I'm in the dentist chair or while driving in the car.
All of you who are dedicated to the rosary, I'd love to enlist you all into the Rosary Patrol, we have seen conversion, healing, growth, it's a prayer from heaven for our benfit. I also believe that all forms of devotion are good.
What's the Rosary Patrol? I pray the rosary every day.
Thank you for that link. I just downloaded it.
I also enjoyed reading about your experience with the Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine.
Thanks for the links- I bookmarked them.
I was going to ask about the rosary and then saw this thread. It answered some of my questions. I have trouble thinking of the mysteries. I love to repeat the Hail Mary's the most. But I want to start praying it meditating on the proper mystery of that day of the week. I downloaded the one in the link above and that seems like it will be a very good teaching tool until I am able to do it on my own. Seems kind of weird to sit in front of the computer to do the rosary, but it really seems helpful. Do you think Mary will understand the added technology of the computer being incorporated into the rosary while we are learning? What are some good books for learning the rosary?
The rosary is on tv right now. I sometimes leave EWTN on in the background when I am doing things like the computer, reading a magazine, or whatever. I am not saying it myself right now, but I like hearing it in the background.
You might try taking a particular piece of the mystery and dwelling upon that as you say the prayers. For instance in the Visitation, I always see Elizabeth come flying out of the house, arms outstretched ready to envelop Mary, a look of such joy on her face at the sight of her cousin.
Some day I want to put together my own rosary book, with particular verses and pictures and insights.


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The Linear Lens produces a 60° spread , so there is more visible light fanning out from the center of the light and projecting to either side of a central point. This was a great improvement in lens construction especially when applied to bar lights and surface mount lights. A wider area is illuminated particularly when high watt LEDs are projected through linear optics making it a perfect choice for highway patrol cars. Any first-responder whether professional or volunteer knows that it's crucial to be safe and seen when on the job, for so often there is not only the traffic incident to deal with but also approaching motorists.
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Even though Linear lenses created a wider light spread, they were not perfect. In 2013, an even wider lens was introduced; in fact, it provided the LED with the widest light span yet seen...with 180° . Now there was a light on the market that produced a full semicircle of lighted area from side to side. It provided maximum visibility especially through intersections and along city streets and alley ways. There are, however, still many light bars on the market which are outfitted with alley lights for lateral illumination.
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Graduates will be well-suited to enter the welding and fabrication industry as qualified welders and fitters and also seek opportunities to become an apprentice in several related Red-Seal trades such as Welder (456A), Metal Fabricator - Fitter (437A), Construction Boilermaker (428A), or Ironworker (420A). With work experience and additional testing, graduates may earn certification with the Canadian Welding Bureau as a welding inspector or welding supervisor.
On average, 88% of graduates from the last three years (2018 to 2020) found employment within six months of graduation.
For more details on related occupations, job market information and career opportunities, see the Government of Canada website: https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/home


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We can't really claim credits of this concept (beyond our exact design and implementation). The idea is not a new one and is very similar to 9P from Plan 9 by Bell Labs; a similar approach has been taken in Unix and its successors.
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Home > Features > News > Touch Art Fair pioneers a new approach to presenting visual arts
A tactile portrait of Emily Davison and her guide dog, Unity, by Nendie Pinto-Duschinsky. Photograph: Claire Follea
The Touch Art Fair is the first ever tactile art fair in the UK. On exhibition at 35 Marylebone High Street, London W1 from 17 - 20 October the fair is organised by pioneering french artist Scratch Adelia.
In a society where everything is at your fingertips but you are still not allowed to touch. At the Touch Art Fair spectactors are invited to participate in a sensory fête. They will be encouraged to reactivate their forgotten senses and to experience art in a more intimate way.
The Touch Art Fair challenges conventions and makes art accessible to people with sight loss through touch.
Taking over a former BBC building the Fair features a gigantic new piece of work by Jake and Dinos Chapman created especially for the event amongst fifteen other international artists working in the haptic arts, inlcuding Abigail Burt, Axelle Russo, Colin Hambrook, Gillian A Mcfarland, Nendie Pinto-Duschinsky, Nicole Wassall, Phoebe Stannard, Rhiannon Palmer, Scratchadelia, Steve Chang Hee Lee, Sungshin Olivia Yim, Victoria Karlsson and Younghee Lee.
Writing in the Guardian comment is free Emily Davison says: "The concept of art as a visual medium that only those with sight can appreciate has been challenged within the past two decades by individuals with the revolutionary idea of conveying visual images in accessible formats to visually impaired people. The Touch fair is part of this movement."
A tactile portrait of Emily and her guide dog Unity will appear alongside artwork that takes a wide range of stances, stylistically and thematically. Artworks that play music and interactive playful soft sculptures will be on exhibition with a tactile garden based on the myth of Sisyphus, and an audio-descriptive installation which takes a narrative journey through the creative process describing the impact of psychosis.
The link between all the artwork is that allows for interaction by senses other than sight. The aim is to give visually impaired and fully sighted people an opportunity to engage with art in different ways. Running parallel with the nearby Frieze Art Fair it promises to be an interesting and entertaining exercise in breaking down barriers to perception.
The Touch Art Fair 2013 will take place at 35 Marylebone High Street, London W1U 4QA. It is open to the public from 17 to 20 October 2013, and features work from international artists including Jake and Dinos Chapman.
Free tickets are available from touchartfair2013-freeticket.eventbrite.co.uk
Friendly URL: http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/touch-art-fair-2013


The US Federal Trade Commission has fined two app makers for offering apps that promise to reduce people's acne.
Developers DermApps and Acne Pwner have signed settlement agreements with the US trade regulator, the FTC announced.
The apps, AcnePwner and AcneApp, which were available for download from the iTunes App Store, were priced at 99 cents and $1.99, respectively. The apps claimed to cure Acne by flashing blue and red lights on the smartphone.
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Horizons is suitable for serious, open-minded teens, aged 15 to 17, seeking to experience the rich diversity of life in Israel.
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Mediterranean and Dead Sea
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Carmel and Gilboa Mountains, Galilee and Golan Heights and more!
Meeting local leaders active in politics, religion, shared society and more
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The program will incorporate volunteering days in different arenas, such as fruit-picking, soup kitchens and summer camps for underprivileged children.
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Horizons creates a strong community bond as diverse international and Israeli participants absorb the essence of building a shared community.
COST to be announced in 2023
*not including flights and medical insurance for international participants
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All GHIS programs follow Covid procedures recommended by the Ministry of Health.
"The Ofosu family say thank you all for such a wonderful experience. We are very grateful to the organization and the organizers. God bless you all."
"A grateful thanks to the organizers for such an eventful and memorable time in Israel. A special prayer while you travel back. I will forever be grateful for the experience that was given to Willow. Thank you, thank you!"
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Parent from Nazareth
"Itamar has enjoyed Horizons very much, and would have been happy if the program had continued much longer. Itamar can be shy and introverted so I was pleased that he agreed to participate. It's amazing how he opened up and how much confidence he gained. Thank you so much. We have one very happy child!"
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The research cores in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics complement the Baylor College of Medicine Advanced Technology Cores by providing services not available via the ATC. They currently include the Baylor Genetics Research Core and the Kenneth Scott cDNA Clone Collection.
Originally curated at Baylor College of Medicine by our late colleague Dr. Ken Scott, the cDNA collection contains over 32,000 clones. These fully sequenced clones are sourced from the Thermo-Scientific Ultimate™ ORF collection (IOH clones) and from the hORFeome V8.1 libraries (Broad clones). Each clone contains an open reading frame (ORF) sub-cloned into Gateway™ recombinational entry vector for ease of cloning into a Gateway™ destination vector that suits your experimental purposes. For information regarding the details of the contents of the collection and to obtain these clones, please email Hema Bhavana and Hillary Graves. If you have concerns or questions, please contact Dr. Hugo Bellen.
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Scientists have developed a blood test for depression…it will certainly be a whole lot easier than filling out forms to determine the issue.
However the reality is diagnosis of depression is the easiest part…dealing with it and living it is a far great challenge.
A blood test for a major psychiatric disorder is something that many psychiatric researchers have described as a "Holy Grail." Especially for a disorder that effects large numbers of people. And that's exactly what one startup, Ridge Diagnostics, believes that they have achieved.
Their test takes measurements of 9 different biomarkers. The measurements are then calculated through a set of proprietary algorithms to produce what the company calls an "MDD Score" – a number from 1 to 9 that rates how likely it is that a person is clinically depressed, and the level of that depression. The cost of the test right now is about $745.
The biomarkers themselves focus on four different biochemical pathways that are associated with depression. And one key thing that Bilello emphasized to me is that when they did their first experiments involving these biomarkers, they didn't limit themselves only to those severely depressed, but also those suffering from milder cases of depression.
I can see that raising issues, particularly with dodgy insurance companies, who may demand these tests in order to cease or erase their obligations under contract. As I said, knowing you have depression is just the first step…dealing with it and all the manifestations is quite another matter.
On the flip side it may help those in a fight with an insurance company. Take the test, still have depression…it will eliminate the willingness of insurance companies to orchestrate medical results to suit a pre-determined outcome in order to get a claimant off claim.
Perhaps with such a test medical professionals, insurance companies and therapists will finally focus on strategies for assisting sufferers of depression rather than seeking to label and limit them.


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Dragomirești est une ville roumaine du județ de Maramureș, dans la région historique de Transylvanie et dans la région de développement du Nord-Ouest.

Elle a obtenu son statut de ville le .

Géographie
Dragomirești se situe dans la vallée de l'Iza, affluent de la Tisa, au nord-est du județ, à  de Baia Mare, la préfecture du județ et à  de Sighetu Marmației, la capitale historique de la Marmatie.

Historique
La première mention écrite du village date de 1405.

La commune a fait partie du comitat de Maramures dans le Royaume de Hongrie jusqu'en 1920, au Traité de Trianon où elle est attribuée à la Roumanie avec toute la Transylvanie.

Dragomirești a abrité une importante communauté juive (plus de 20 % de la population totale en 1930) qui a entièrement été exterminée par le régime fasciste hongrois pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale (la ville s'appelait alors Dragomérfalva).

L'église en bois de Dragomirești ayant été démontée et remontée au Musée du Village de Bucarest, une autre, bien plus haute, a été reconstruite à sa place après 1989.

Démographie

Lors du recensement de 1910, la ville compte  (69 %),  (4 %) et  (26,4 %). Vingt ans plus tard, le recensement rapporte 73 % de Roumain, 1,8 % de Hongrois et 23,2 % de Juifs. En 2002, 99,5 % de la population s'identifient comme Roumains.

En 2011, 92,71 % de la population déclarent appartenir à l'Église orthodoxe roumaine, 4,79 % à l'Église grecque-catholique roumaine, alors 2,17 % de la population refusent à la question et que 0,31 % appartient à une autre confession.

Économie

La commune dispose de  de terres agricoles et de  de forêts.

Notes et références

Liens externes

 Site institutionnel de la commune (en roumain).
 Album de photos sur le musée ethnographique "Tarancii" (en roumain).
 Carte administrative du județ de Maramureș.

Commune dans le județ de Maramureș


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