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My name is Mary Ann Kennedy and I am a singer, writer and musician born and brought up a Gaelic speaker in multicultural southside 70s Glasgow. I have lived in Ardgour, Lochaber for the past sixteen years, where I am co-director with my husband Nick Turner, of Watercolour Music, a residential recording studio and artistic retreat, which is a commercial recording facility as well as the base for our own creative projects. The various recordings that have taken place at Watercolour range from Grime and Thrash Metal to Opera and String Orchestra, Outlander score to advertising voiceover.
Nick has been at the engineering and production helm of many Gaelic song albums, and it was his particular approach to vocal and acoustic traditional music that led to a young Manx singer, Ruth Keggin, to contact us back in 2013, with a view to coming to Scotland to record her debut album. She brought with her Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, a Dublin-Connemara singer and musician with roots in a highly respected sean-nós family, the two having met at the Lorient festival interceltique.
The Isle of Man has seen a massive resurgence in traditional and Gaelg music over the past decade, with bands such as King Chiaullee and Barrule putting Manx music front and centre in a way not previously seen in Celtic traditional music. And while this new young tradition was forging a renaissance building on the dedication and passion of previous generations, it was only when Ruth came along that there was truly a young Gaelg voice representing the language in this revival at a commercial, as well as community, level.
It was during a classic 'late night round the kitchen table' conversation between the three of us during the recording of 'Sheear' that we realised that all three of us had very compatible approaches to song and language, each of us with a fair amount of experience of one of the other Gaelic languages, but none of us fluent in more than our own. We revelled in the rhythmic interplay between language and music; we appreciated the legacy of tradition while keen to create a contemporary Gaelic language song repertoire; we had all previously participated in inter-Gaelic cultural projects and exchanges. And we realised that there had never been a project bringing together the three Gaelic nations through song. We all fancied that, very much! And so, Aon Teanga – the three Gaelic song languages reunited as One Tongue, came to be.
Maybe Freastal should have been the name we gave the project, as Providence certainly played its part in making things happen! That and a lot of paperwork and headaches, but we all knew that we wanted to do this right first time, and that required above all an investment of time, and in each other's direct company. For a lot of time. Each of us had participated in collaborations which were at best frustrating, as lack of time or resources often led to the simplest of 'common ground' crossovers – essentially the lowest common musical and linguistic denominator.
Ultimately, as professional creators, what gives you time is money. And as the academic world is nearly as familiar with applicationese as musicians have had to become, I'll cut that story very short. A pump primer from Culture Vannin enabled us to get started and the Colm Cille fund, originally established to foster links between Gaelic Scotland and Ireland, north and south, as part of the Peace Dividend, got their heads round the concept of bringing in a third, Manx, element.
The breakthrough came however with a Hail Mary application to one of the Flagship commissioning programmes of the PRSforMusic Foundation – the Performing Rights Society being the principal rights collection agency for composers in the UK. The Beyond Borders programme at the time encouraged collaboration between UK writers and those in Ireland and other parts of the EU. Mann is not a part of the UK – it is a Crown Dependency. A phone call established that PRSF had never thought of the rules in that way, but encouraged us to apply – we had less than 48 hrs to do so
We approached Gordon Maclean from An Tobar Arts Centre in Mull as a partner organisation – a collaboration that had been long overdue for Watercolour anyway. Cha b' e ruith ach leum – Gordon leapt at the chance. The result was a significant award that gave us time, money – and options.
What followed was a year and a half's journey from that kitchen table to touring in the three nations, and to London and Lorient, and an album of new and traditional material backed up by trilingual texts and translations.
Eoghan, Ruth and I got together for a first weekend's brainstorming at Watercolour. We were not looking to reinvent the wheel – rather launch the latest model of a classic marque – and so we identified a classic overarching theme of the sea - as the musical highway that would connect us in this first collaboration, in the same way that the Colm Cille map published by Iomairt Cholm Cille in 2003 showed the sea to be the main highway between Scotland, Ireland and Mann. (It also shows Manainn to be at the centre of our Gaelic universe, as Ruth was quick to point out! And this was to prove time and again to be true musically speaking also).
We also gravitated towards the natural connection that existed in secular legend and in the history of the Christian church, and the figure of Columba was an obvious link for the three nations, especially when we eventually reached the island of Iona, and sang in the Abbey in 2015. Here's Ruth singing the Manx prayer of St Columba in the abbey itself
At the heart of our journey was a series of meetings, in Ardgour and in Dublin, where Eoghan was based at the time, and it was during the first trip to Ireland, that we were introduced to the fourth member of the team – Ultan O' Brien, a fiddler from Clare, who was a regular collaborator of Eoghan's, principally in the band Skippers Alley. Ultan had a good understanding of working with song, is also a fluent Irish speaker, and played both fiddle and viola, and so his contribution essentially became a fourth voice in the mix.
We also invited my regular guitarist, Finlay Wells from Oban, and Gordon Maclean from An Tobar arts centre played bass in the recording and initial performance line-up, but the creative decision-making rested entirely with the unit that was forged in the Beyond Borders sessions. I should point out here as well that the three singers brought an array of instrumental weaponry to the party – flute, keyboard instruments, harp, concertina etc.. – and an entirely new instrument called the súiteóir… or sucky thing, otherwise known to clan Cheannabháin as the vacuum cleaner!
The rehearsals followed an relaxed but intensive pattern after the initial ice-breaker, where we sat round the Watercolour kitchen table and made plasticine models of ourselves (very revealing!):
The rehearsals included:
Now is probably a good time to give you a couple of examples. I suppose the thing to remember is that most of the writing and arrangement was taking a less is more approach. But crucially, rather than grabbing on to the first available foothold for all of us, we were able to range far and wide in terms of history, repertoire, language, style, harmony, and instrumentation before distilling it all down to the final result. This experience allowed likewise for a distillation of the usual path down which creative collaborators walk, making for a gathering that was more like a family reunion than a blind date. And it allowed us to take more leftfield approaches in accompaniment and vocal arrangement.
Creggyn Scarleoid was an arrangement of a Manx song and one of the first songs that we embarked on. We spent time creating parallel texts for portions of the song so that the idea of voicing gave us both the language aspect but also made the most of the eventual contrapuntal blend of contemporary and medieval church influences that evolved in musical arrangement through extensive improvisation – and here's a little of that end result.
Creggyn Scarleoid Sample
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The other thing this time allowed us to do was to go deeper into the language learning side of the songs.
Unless you have made the effort already to learn one of the other Gaelic languages, the orthography especially can throw a veil over immediate mutual comprehension, and time and discussion allowed us to peel back the layers to reach that vital point of understanding and therefore onward communication to an audience.
An Cheallachin Medley Sample
In e.g. the tri-partite puirt medley, I can quite clearly remember the epiphany in performance of realising I was telling the story of Willie Taylor and the soldier maid in Manx Gaelg rather than merely recounting a bunch of words and sounds. The orthography in Manx especially continues to confound me but this process allowed us to transcend the written word to a real feeling of reunification.
From a purely musical point of view, the opportunity to create new music was a major attraction for the four of us, and we were able to work not just with traditional texts, but with contemporary words as well – this is an extract from a poem by Aonghas Dubh MacNeacail – originally written as one of a cycle of a dozen written for another collaboration with myself, called Aiseag (or the Ferryboat) – I had asked him for just one, so this was an opportunity to give one of the orphan poems a home!Curach an t-Siridh Sample
And we were also able to throw the kitchen sink into the mix occasionally – Eoghan's remarkable sean-nòs voice and Liam O Raghallaigh's song of the bride made widow in the same day needed a storm of a backing for the tempest that sank poor Liam's curach, and the Watercolour harmonium, salvaged from Patrick Burgh Hall, has never seen such a good workout!
Liam O Raghallaigh Sample
I have only once previously had an opportunity to invest in time and thinking space in an artistic residency where the process and the journey were at least as important as the end result, and that was my year in 2013 as musician-in-residence at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, across the water in Sleat. That year had no fixed product required at the end, and the result was a year of personal exploration and development that continues to bear fruit, having yielded two albums, and the Aiseag New Music Biennial commission amongst many other things.
So, I suppose if I'm going to sign off with any particular thought, it would be that in a linguistic and cultural world that is so fragile, the investment of time and space to put down deep roots rather than skimming the surface and sketching an image of productivity and perceived success to satisfy funders or making for good PR is a path that we are rarely allowed to follow, but one that we do not tread at Gaelic's peril.
We are so very definitely the stronger for being three siblings in song, and letting the language be at the heart of the process of communication, musical expression and friendship is a holistic and satisfying state of affairs that will ultimately yield the kind of resilience that we sorely need for our languages and our dualchas. As Aonghas MacNeacail wrote: Bitheamaid gu moiteil cinnteach gu bheil duais am miannach stàth; ged nach ruig sinn cinn nam fireach, faic an dùrachd fhèin mar bhàrr: the journey, as ever, is as important as the ultimate destination.
Mary Ann Kennedy, Watercolour Music, Ardgour PH33 7AH


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Volume 113, 2016
21st International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics
Article Number | 04023 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Few-Nucleon Systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611304023 | |
Published online | 25 March 2016 |
Nucleon-nucleon scattering at small angles, measured at ANKE-COSY
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The most accepted approach to describe nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction is the partial wave analysis (PWA), which translates various experimental observables to the common language of the partial waves. The reliable analysis relies not only on the quality experimental data, but also on the measurements of scattering observables over preferably the full angular range. Small angle scattering has been measured for six beam energies between 0.8 and 2.4 GeV using polarized proton beam incident on both proton and deuteron unpolarized targets at COSY-ANKE. This proceeding will report on the published and preliminary results for both pp and pn scattering from this and other recent experiments at ANKE. This study aims to provide the valuable observables to the SAID group in order to improve the phenomenological understanding of the nucleon-nucleon interaction.
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WASHINGTON — In 2021, CBP carried out over 1.6 million apprehensions at the border –– a level not seen for 20 years, according to a March report by the American Immigration Council.
As the crisis at the southern border worsens, immigration advocates and activists are increasingly emphasizing the racist, colonialist history of the border itself –– and the philosophical, theological and economic underpinnings of this history. In contemporary movements, advocates are drawing language and action from historical resistance to settler colonial expansion –– for example, manifest destiny, the Mexican-American War, and how these led to the creation of the southern border.
The current U.S. southern border was largely established by land exchanges during the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848. The war began following the U.S. annexation of Texas and disputes over its southern border. President James Polk strongly supported the idea of manifest destiny –– the idea that the U.S. was destined by God to expand across North America and spread democracy and capitalism –– and wanted to claim California and New Mexico as well.
Philosophically, manifest destiny came from white supremacy, colonialism and the expropriation of Native lands, said Josue David Cisneros, communications professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Theologically, manifest destiny was rooted in the "Doctrine of Discovery" –– a 15th century proclamation by Pope Alexander VI that gave Christians the divine right to establish and claim land, power and culture, according to Reverend Kelly Gallagher, who has spoken on the church's role in settler colonial thinking and manifest destiny.
Borders were an expansion of that –– the naming and claiming of whatever land that would establish that power, Gallagher said. "It was part of how people understood the world worked. What I am concerned about is how many people have never addressed how much they still believe that's how the world works."
During the Trump administration especially, rhetoric about the border emphasized who had the "right" to be here –– similar to the 1800s, according to Justin Akers Chacón, activist, author, and professor of U.S. history and Chicano studies at San Diego City College.
The economic benefits of expanding slavery and the plantation economy were also motivating forces of settler colonialism and manifest destiny. "These were ideological manipulations of religious thought used to justify economic colonization," Chacón said.
On March 3, the national coalition Detention Watch Network hosted a day of action to advocate for the closure of immigration detention centers, cessation of deportations, and freedom for all current detainees. The action came in response to the recent increase in border apprehensions and deportations.
In 2021, Border Patrol agents carried out over 1.1 million expulsions under Title 42 –– a century-old public health authority instituted by Trump in March 2020 to expel individuals at the border without allowing them to seek asylum, the American Immigration Council report said.
Experts and activists state that such policies stem from and perpetuate the settler colonial nature of the border itself, with deadly impacts.
It's a catastrophe at the border, Chacón said. People being deported back to Mexico with little infrastructure to support them. Some are living under bridges, on the beach, wherever they can. Many are being sent back to their deaths.
This is a mass refugee crisis like in Ukraine, but the response of the U.S. government under both political parties is to treat refugees at the southern border as criminals, Chacón said.
Immigration policies such as Title 42 are not explicitly using the term "manifest destiny," Cisneros said. "But the ideology of manifest destiny exists and supports a lot of these policies even if it doesn't express itself in the same way –– in the same way that racism and anti-Blackness do not express themselves in the same way they did in the 1830s."
Just as current immigration policy can be traced historically, so can resistance, Cisneros said.
Near San Diego, the DWN action focused on closing the local for profit detention center run by CoreCivic, said Chacón.
The idea of abolishing detention centers comes from a long history of abolition movements, such as the abolition of slavery and 1800s resistance movements against the expansion of the plantation economy in the context of manifest destiny, Chacón said.
"In a lot of ways, contemporary activism –– in the way that its challenging borders, citizenship, and nationality –– is connected to this history of resistance to manifest destiny and expansion," Cisneros said. "As long as there has been this push for manifest destiny and expansion, there has always been resistance to that by communities along the [southern] border."
Acknowledging the colonialist history of the border –– its philosophical, religious, and economic roots –– also underpins the language of resistance that exists today.
When the Trump administration passed its 2017 "Muslim ban," some activists proclaimed, "no ban on stolen land," Cisneros said. This phase highlighted solidarity among immigrant and Native communities through a reference to settler colonial history and manifest destiny.
The phrase led to another saying that highlighted solidarity with Muslim communities, Native communities, and immigrants –– "no borders on stolen land," Cisneros said.
Today, many activists implicitly reference the history of the Mexican-American War by proclaiming, "We didn't cross the border; the border crossed us."
Such language is what helps organize people, Cisneros said. "It's what raises consciousness."
Advocates like Rev. Gallagher are calling on churches to acknowledge the role of Christianity in colonialism. She told The Grio that theology needs serious deconstruction particularly in areas that uphold manifest destiny.
In a 2020 speech, she said, "Native American theologian Vine Deloria, in his foundational text, God is Red, writes, 'Christianity itself may find the strength to survive if it honestly faces the necessity to surrender its narrow interpretation of history and embark on a determined search for the true meaning of human life on this planet.' It is time for those who would call themselves followers of Jesus to claim the faith that will acknowledge the past, consider its impact on who we are now, and seek to take steps toward Truth and Conciliation."
In a tribute to Black liberation theologist James Cone published by Union Theological Seminary, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis writes, "If we are not disrupting the myth of white supremacy and manifest destiny, we are not the Church. This is our vocation. Disruption is a holy act, passivity a sin. Christianity herself must be liberated from white supremacy, greed, ego and the lie of manifest destiny."


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Does your dog lunge at people whilst walking on the lead?
It's a common problem. Many dogs walk nicely when no-one's around, but when a distraction heads towards them he darts toward them almost pulling you over.
One way to correct this behaviour is to teach the dog to focus on you, rather than on the distraction. For this you need to be vigilant, anticipate the distraction, and get your dog's attention in advance of the problem. Then hold the dog's eyes on you, because he knows there's a guaranteed reward for doing so.
How do you achieve this miracle?
Through teaching the "Look" command.
This is simple to learn and most dogs pick it up quickly. Start in a place with few distractions, such as your home. Take a tasty treat; hold it near the tip of the dog's nose so he gets a sniff, then travel the treat in a straight line between his nose and an invisible point between your eyes. Hold the treat there, whilst saying "Look".
The dog should now be staring straight into your eyes (OK, he's really staring at that delicious treat, but it achieves the same thing) whilst you keep repeating the cue word: "Look". Count slowly to 10. See how long he can concentrate before breaking his gaze. If he looks away, repeat "Look" more firmly, to get his attention back.
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Impression Builds 236+ Links to Boost Travel Brand's Visibility in UK Market
PaulCamper is the AirBnB of campervans, they allow private owners of campervans and motorhomes to rent their vehicles through their website, giving security to the renter and the owner.
The Challenge
PaulCamper was well established in Germany and the Netherlands and wanted to break into the UK market during the staycation boom.
Their challenge was that they had no presence in the UK and a number of established competitors that were ranking well and had a deep-rooted presence. Their website was new and therefore had no links and limited visibility in the SERPs.
PaulCamper enlisted Impression to help them:
- Build their visibility online
- Position them as a leader in the staycation market
- Improve the strength of their website to attract their target audience
The Strategy
Their strategy adopted a layered approach, using campaigns with a travel and regional focus, supported by relevant reactive content that positioned PaulCamper as experts in the UK travel industry.
Building a Strong UK Presence
Impression set out to establish PaulCamper as a competitor to other similar businesses in the UK. To achieve this, they delivered several campaigns to position their client as an expert in their field and they built high-quality links from the national UK and regional publications. Impression optimized all campaign copy to link to key, target pages, as agreed with PaulCamper.
In one reactive PR example, Impression focused on educating campers that were planning to go on a staycation that summer on the different rules and laws related to camping across the UK. The advice and insights ensured that campers were set up to have the best (and safest) experience.
Outreached during the summer months, its topical nature made the campaign incredibly newsworthy and this activity alone achieved 40 pieces of coverage including placements in the Sun, The Express, and the Reach PLC network.
In one data campaign example called The UK's Spookiest Places Impression analyzed over 13,000 entries on the paranormal database to find the most haunted locations in the UK, by doing this Impression was able to target national and regional locations, including providing journalists at regional publications specific examples of hauntings in their location.
Enhancing Local Visibility
Although there are no bases throughout the UK, Impression improved visibility by running campaigns with local angles to allow them to target regional media. The locations that they selected tied in with which areas were impacted the least by COVID-19 at the time.
Improve Rankings and Site Metrics
With their UK website being brand new, one of their top priorities has been to strengthen the domain rating and improve rankings of target keywords. This will ensure that as more people start to become aware of PaulCamper's brand, their website will be positioned well in the SERPs.
Their digital PR integrated with PaulCampers internal marketing and SEO teams as well as their traditional PR agency.
The Results
Improved Focus Keywords
In only 6 months (June 2021-Dec 2021), Impression improved the rankings of 10 focus keywords by 193 places. One example, 'camper van rental UK' jumped from position 96 to 18.
Expanded and Grew Organic Keywords
Their total number of UK organic keywords also increased. Starting with just 175, this grew to 1,099 with 34 keywords within the top 3 positions.
236 New Links
So far, Impression have built 236 high-quality, relevant links and generated 38 pieces of coverage. See some of the publications that they were featured in below:
- The Telegraph
- The Sun
- Daily Express
- Metro
- Daily Star
During this time period, search visibility, impressions, and clicks have all increased substantially. Metrics are currently at their highest, despite being out of peak season!
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This review will focus on the randomized managed tests (RCT) of exercise interventions in the older demographic. Published RCTs have analyzed weight reduction and functional effects after aerobic fitness exercise and resistance exercise programs, multimodal exercise programs, and multimodal training with or without caloric limitation. Several RCTs were recognized that included level of resistance exercise (RX) and/or aerobic fitness exercise (AX) (Table 1). RX features the utilization level of resistance exercise machines, strengthening exercise using bodyweight and home-based strengthening exercise.
AX typically entails suffered large muscle activity such as walking, climbing stairs, fixed cycling, or aquatic aerobic fitness exercise,61, 62,63-65,66 Multimodal training contains a number of aerobic, resistive, and versatility components during a single session. Year Multimodal activity programs have been applied for durations lasting three months to one.67-69 Often, the multimodal activity programs are coupled with dietary changes within a comprehensive lifestyle overhaul.
- It prevents storage loss and therefore can be utilized in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer
- There are daily running problems, eating, walking and who understands what else
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Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of exercise interventions to take care of osteoarthritis (OA) symptoms in obese adults. Great things about exercise for OA symptoms range from reduction of body weight. When exercise is in conjunction with diet, greater weight loss may appear. The value of exercise for OA in the obese patient is that it can be used to treat the disease and assist in preventing or hold off the onset of the condition.
Ideally, the incorporation of AX to activate caloric costs and RX to strengthen the musculature supporting the joints offers a well-rounded program to take care of OA symptoms. Exercise can be applied to this human population at any disease stage to help provide treatment, strengthen muscles that encircle the arthritic joint, and help control or reduce body weight, the last mentioned being the primary modifiable factor root OA. To help conquer kinesiophobia, exercise may need to be supervised initially and regularly thereafter to help ensure that activity is performed at the correct training stimulus rather than compromised because of dread. Importantly, exercise interventions can be cost effective to treat leg OA in obese adults.
Now, let's do some diet mathematics! Step One: Find your own body's "maintence" calories. Day to day This is the basic amount of calories that are needed so that you can survive. To find your BMR or "basal metabolic process," you shall need your gender, weight, height, and age to complete the equation. 1324.7 calories from fat needed to survive daily.
Using the Harris Benedict Formula, determine your total daily caloric needs. Remember, this is merely an average because let's face it-one person's considered "sedentary" might be another person's "lightly active" or vice versa. This task is important highly. Your goals shall determine your macros. Do you want to lose fat? In that case your carbs should be less than your protein and unwanted fat consumption.
Do you want to maintain your weight and figure? In that case your carbs should be eaten at a moderate amount. Would you like to bulk up? Carbs will cover most of your plate Then. Step 4: Now, Ready, Set, Calculate! We are now ready to plug in those numbers to get the right macros for you! As being a good guideline, try to shoot for 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight.
For example, Each day I weight 115lbs so I need at least 115 grams of protein. Now, per day taking that number of grams of protein that I want, I'll multiply that times 4 to give me my protein macros! 460 calories from protein per day. Sounds easy enough, right?


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Recruiting users with admin permissions can add, change, and remove custom assessment vendors in the Admin Center. This helps the vendor to build out an assessment integration, and you can then select the vendor for the assessment package when creating a job requisition. Previously, they had to raise a customer support ticket.
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management
In provisioning under Company Settings we need to enable the below switch-
Enable Assessment Integration (requires Candidate Workbench)
Permission needed to be able to add in RBP permissions -
Manage Permission Role -> Permission -> Manage Recruiting -> Manage Assessment Vendor.
After the permission please try to do the following steps -
- Launch Admin Center.
- Enter Manage Assessment Vendors in the Search toolbar.
- Select Import in the Import/Export Assessment Vendors page to add a new vendor.
- Choose Submit.
Assessment Vendor, Custom, add, self-service , KBA , LOD-SF-RCM-INT , Integration Center & Intelligent Services , Problem


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Bath Fitter
Phone: (800) 594-8776
Kitchen and bathroom cabinetry, interior design and complete construction services.
We have everything you need for your bathroom project. Including, flooring, tile, electrical, plumbing etc.
Here at Bath Fitter, our mission is to always provide quality service at an affordable price. Our specialists are highly trained professionals with years of experience in renovating and remodeling bathrooms and kitchens.
Custom tile installations. One of the few mud setters left who installs old school :).
We believe that after-construction service and support is just as important as before construction.


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DJ Cosher behind the decks. Image via Facebook @djcosher
Colin Sher, aka Cosher, is a top DJ and producer from Cape Town, and the owner of Cosher Recording Studios.
DJ Cosher behind the decks. Image via Facebook @djcosher
With recent hit singles including Think I Might, featuring Jimmy Nevis, Just Come Home, featuring Chelsea Nicole, and his versions of the Mango Groove classics Special Star and Dancing in the Moonlight, Cosher is at the top of his game.
As a DJ going into his 13th year, he plays accessible house music, mashups and old-school hip-hop in Cape Town and surrounds. He is also one third of local act Alt Ego.
As a pop and dance producer at Cosher Recording Studios, he works with Jimmy Nevis, Mathew Gold, Janice, Kerwin, Chad Saaiman, Liam Burger, Tayla Hunter and Acoustic Element.
His recent single, I Love This Feeling, is a collaboration with Cape Town-based band Sunset Sweatshop.
The opportunity to collaborate came about during lockdown level five. Ideas were exchanged between frontman Ian Heyns and Cosher, who was living in his studio during level five. After a few back-and-forths, and contributions from other bandmates, a rough idea was created.
Once restrictions were lifted the completion of the track in studio was a smooth process.
Feel-good, uplifting summer vibes are blended with modern dance style production, which provide a platform for the unique and identifiable lead vocals.
The new decade means 10 more years to keep growing and sharing my music.
Fame is about being recognised by an actual stranger; the barman, taxi driver, waiter and petrol attendant. If you have to tell someone you are famous then you aren't famous.
Retirement will happen when the songs in my head stop appearing or when I lose my sense of hearing.
I don't do psy-trance.
Music means the ability to express myself in chords and melodies; to help portray a story that is being setup by lyrics. Lyrics tell you what you are supposed to be thinking, while the chords and melodies help tell you what you are supposed to be feeling.
Hearing an original song on the radio by chance; even better if I'm on a date.
Many funny moments have been shared on stage, the most embarrassing being when the entire front-of-house sound system stopped playing the music, but I had no idea because my booth monitor and headphones were blaring. I was definitely the only one dancing for a few moments.
My hero is David Guetta, the perfect example of crossing over from his roots as an electronic producer to mainstream pop.
The living person I admire the most is Elon Musk. No dream is too big for him, and he is the definition of forward thinker and pioneer.
My gold golf clubs for sure, specifically my driver and my putter.
If it's been a good week, I will be drinking a fruity and colourful strawberry daiquiri.
Ultra Main Stage.
I believe I have a way of making music that previously would have been considered underground music more accessible.
Col, Colly, Huss and Cosh.
I would have been a cricketer.
Energetic, optimistic, playful, pragmatic, intuitive.
Captain Phillips.
The song Like I'm Falling in Love, by Tom Novy, changed my life.
My family and my dog Duey.
A brown leather jacket that Callen Peterson from Alt Ego picked out for me.
"Send it." That's to just make sure we vibe something 100%.
To fly a plane.
Outside of music and charts it would be to be a debt-free homeowner.
Other people's lack of punctuality.
I won't reach my full potential.
A Sunday evening after a week full of work and a weekend full of gigs, on my couch with a takeaway and my dog.
On stage I tend to not smile enough. I think it looks like I hate life, but I have a serious concentration face and am smiling inside.
Get paid upfront.
I get very worked up watching cricket, but otherwise I am quite relaxed watching Formula One, golf, tennis or football.
Right now I am pretty happy where I am!
I donate clothes regularly and have been part of some great initiatives including feeding the homeless. There is always much more to do though and this is a big goal of mine for 2021.
To continue on the path I am on, and to help uplift the music industry and create a wider platform for up-and-coming talents.
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Is the house price boom back?
Prices are rising fast again in Sydney and Melbourne at an annualised pace north of 6 per cent, but the RBA has much more heavy lifting to do to get inflation up and the jobless rate down.
Christopher JoyeColumnistPity the perma-bears, because the great Aussie housing boom is back. As we predicted in April 2019 when prices were still in free fall, the value of bricks and mortar has started rising quickly following the first two Reserve Bank of Australia rate cuts.
In Sydney, home values have surged an incredible 1.3 per cent in August (the biggest jump since March 2017), according to CoreLogic. And Melbourne prices are appreciating almost as rapidly, climbing 1.2 per cent in August, the best result since May 2017.
Even the subdued Brisbane market has recorded two consecutive months of capital gains. Across Australia's five largest capital cities, home values inflated more than 0.8 per cent in August after a 0.1 per cent gain in July. That makes August the strongest month nationally since April 2017.
Readers will recall our contrarian base case in April 2019 was that the largest housing correction in 40 years was over and prices would rebound by between 5 and 10 per cent over the 12 months following the RBA's second rate cut.
Since the market's trough one month later, Sydney and Melbourne prices have bounced an impressive 1.6 per cent. Over the last quarter, dwelling values in Australia's two largest cities have expanded at an annualised pace north of 6 per cent.
I have repeatedly warned that with further RBA rate cuts likely to come (the futures market is pricing in a 0.4 per cent cash rate by end-2020), it is probable that the realised capital gains will be closer to the top end of our heterodox forecast range.
And there is little doubt that sluggish mainstream analysts will start falling into line with these projections.
Before I get reflexively stereotyped as a housing bull, remember this column correctly predicted the 10 per cent decline in national prices in April 2017 while values were still ascending (most analysts followed us 12 months later, although many got overexcited, calling for a 20 per cent crash).
There is probably only one CEO I really trust to pull this off: ANZ's Shayne Elliott.
This is wonderful news for the economy at a time when global uncertainty is elevated. Australia is truly the "wonder Down Under": we've had 28 years of growth, the return of a balanced federal budget, the prospect of a rare current account surplus, an orderly deflation in our dangerous housing bubble, low borrowing rates and an increasingly competitive Aussie dollar.
From an investment perspective, the biggest beneficiary of this development is the residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) market and our banks and non-banks more generally. (RMBS is a bond comprising a pool of home loans.) The creditworthiness of RMBS is determined by borrowers' ability to repay the loans coupled with the value of the underlying properties that serve as collateral.
Recent declines in mortgage rates should reduce default rates while rising house prices boost the equity protecting these bonds. So after we controversially exited the RMBS sector when house prices started falling, we have been buying these securities again in anticipation of their improved prospects.
A final positive for the sector is Westpac's comfortable victory in the Federal Court in relation to the nebulous responsible lending laws, which mitigate regulatory and class action litigation risk.
While the economic portents are promising, the RBA still has heavy lifting to do if it is to fulfil its legislated objectives of delivering inflation between 2 and 3 per cent and full employment.
Even assuming another two rate cuts, the RBA's forecasts have the jobless rate sitting at 5 per cent in 2021, which is materially above its estimate of the "fully employed" jobless rate between 4.0 and 4.5 per cent. It also has core inflation right at the bottom of its 2 to 3 per cent target band.
Dollar complication
Put more bluntly, pushing the RBA's official cash rate down from 1 per cent to 0.5 per cent will not – according to its own analysis – allow it to satisfy its mandated employment and inflation objectives. And if global central banks continue to slash their interest rates, as the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank are expected to do in September, the RBA's task could be complicated by upward pressure on the Aussie dollar.
During the week, the RBA's impressive deputy governor Guy Debelle explained that Martin Place has invested a great deal of thought into the additional tools it could deploy to help manage the economy once it hits the effective lower bound on its official cash rate, which he acknowledged was around 0.5 per cent (below this the RBA does not expect much, if any, pass-through from banks).
He was, in fact, echoing the thoughtful remarks of his governor, Phil Lowe: both have now confirmed this column's May 2019 prediction that they will embrace so-called quantitative easing (QE) if they have to cut rates another couple of times.
Financial market participants love using jargon to make themselves sound smart. Yet QE is really just an extension of the RBA's existing monetary policy framework that will enable it to influence a broader and longer-dated range of interest rates.
Historically, the RBA has focused on its overnight cash rate, but this is not the sole determinant of borrowing costs. Two other key variables are longer-term risk-free rates, as proxied by yields on government bonds, and the premium above the risk-free rate banks borrow at to serve as intermediaries funnelling savings into loans.
When during the global financial crisis (GFC) the RBA slashed its cash rate, the monetary policy transmission mechanism was complicated by the fact that bank funding costs (aka credit spreads) spiked.
Banks should embrace automation
While today liquidity is plentiful and corporate credit spreads have reverted back to pre-crisis levels, the spreads on bank bonds remain up to eight times wider than they were in 2007, despite banks having more than halved their risk-weighted leverage.
A five-year senior bond that cost a major bank 10 basis points above the bank bill swap rate in 2007 now trades on a spread closer to 80 basis points. This is important because our banks rely much more heavily on bonds to fund themselves than competitors overseas.
By buying government bonds, the RBA can compress long-term risk-free rates, which could help keep Australia's exchange rate competitive given the latter is meant to theoretically price off global interest rate differentials.
But this will have little impact on local savings and loan rates. To influence these, the RBA will have to ameliorate bank funding costs and then insist these savings are passed on to borrowers.
Since 2015 this column has argued that the banks' 18 per cent-plus returns on equity would converge towards their cost of equity as they deleveraged their balance sheets and reduced business model risks. This story has played out and transferred wealth from shareholders to bank creditors. Headwinds for equity remain in the form of huge regulatory imposts, modest revenue growth and intense competition from non-banks and foreign banks.
The one lever banks have to boost returns is slashing their massively inflated human cost structures, which account for about 60 per cent of operating expenses. And there is probably only one chief executive I really trust to pull this off: ANZ's Shayne Elliott. The banks need to disappear their workforces and branches, and transform themselves into automated technology companies. As Elliott cuts costs to the bone, he needs to slice straight through it – the banks are so complacent and flabby they frankly have no idea where the real minimum cost structure lies. There is only one way to find out …
The author is a portfolio manager with Coolabah Capital Investments, which invests in fixed-income securities including those discussed by this column. This column provides general information only and is not intended to provide financial advice.
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James Hay explains why rupture discs are your most important safety devices
A rupture or bursting disc is a non-reclosing, fail-safe device. It is among the most misunderstood and least appreciated safety device used in systems where pressure or vacuum are present and where excess pressures or vacuum may need to be controlled and relieved when conditions exceed the safe design parameters.
The first rupture discs were very simple flat pieces of metal, weakened to open, sometimes with very little accuracy or predictability, at a supposedly fixed pressure. Over the years the technology employed in controlling pressures in the various types of oil, gas, petrochemical and other downstream industries has improved and developed to high levels of safety, mostly through the use of electronics and pneumatics to maintain a safe working pressure regime in the various plants.
In addition, the development of safety valves has also moved forward, again raising the safety level to one where many design and plant personnel lost sight of the most important safety device in the plant, the rupture disc.
Today operators and end users have been lulled into a false sense of security that the design engineers and system process/instrumentation designers have covered all the possibilities with sophisticated control and monitoring systems - nothing can go wrong so why do we need a rupture disc? In fact there are many reasons why we need rupture discs. These include:
* Fast opening times, typically <2ms, reacts to sudden pressure rises far faster than any valve
* Full-bore opening, unlike safety valves where the orifice restricts the flow
* 100% isolation of process fluids; no leaks until the disc opens
* Isolate safety valves from corrosive process media when installed upstream of the safety valve, can also be used downstream to protect the outlet
* Prevents rogue emissions, blockage of the safety valve and can be used to pop test the safety valve in situ.
Unfortunately some designs of rupture discs have not changed much over the past 80 years and we still find the old and unreliable scored or indented discs being specified today. The lack of understanding in the advancement of laser technology in the manufacture of rupture discs leads to the mistaken belief that the older and less reliable designs are the only ones available.
Rembe is setting out lead the way in advanced laser technology. It produces rupture discs with advanced design features that increase their reliability and operational life far beyond those of scored discs.
Busting the rupture disc myths
So why do so many design engineers get it wrong when they set out to do the FEED work? It is mainly because they were never taught (or had an explanation of) what a rupture disc does and does not do.
Rupture disc selection is based on the information given in the datasheet of the RFQ or tender. Sometimes this is minimal, whereas in reality the volume of information needed is much higher to ensure that the rupture disc is engineered and manufactured to meet the needs for that application. As many as 53 different points are needed to ensure that the disc is engineered to the full specification so it will operate correctly; on average only eight points are given to make the design. There is more emphasis given to painting specs, packaging, how many copies of paperwork, the inspection, etc. than to the specification of the disc itself.
With regard to 'disc failure', the term normally applied in the industry to the disc opening, operators try to avoid them, when in fact the disc opening means it is doing its job, protecting the plant. If you run the plant above its rated capacity, something that is done regularly, but you still use the same disc design characteristics for normal operations, why blame the disc for opening? If you have new pressures and temperatures then the disc needs to be designed for those parameters, not the old ones.
To recap, a rupture disc (and its holder) is your most important safety device, as long as it has been specified correctly in the design stage. It is fail-safe: whatever else goes wrong a properly designed and engineered disc opens at its set pressure. Electronics, pneumatic and mechanical devices can fail, human error can cause operational errors in the pressure system, yet the rupture disc still opens, making it your best device to protect your plant.
James Hay is with Rembe.
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As the stay-at-home orders lift and we collectively begin to ease into our new normal, there's bound to be some residual anxiety. After all, we're still in the grips of a pandemic, and some seem to be taking that notion more seriously than others.
Rest assured that, if you were planning to consult a board-certified plastic surgeon before all this, or if you had been doing so on an ongoing basis, we've implemented a number of measures intended to facilitate social distancing and ensure a clean, sterile environment. And we'll be updating these protocols as new developments surrounding COVID-19 emerge.
For now, here's an idea of what you can expect at your next visit.
In-person appointments may take a little longer to schedule
In addition to rescheduling backlogs of appointments that accumulated while plastic surgeons' offices were closed across the region, many are seeing fewer patients a day in order to prevent them from crossing paths, as much as possible. In fact, most practices are eliminating their waiting areas altogether. Extra time between appointments is also needed to allow for new decontamination protocols to be carried out.
Basically, it may take longer to schedule an appointment with your plastic surgeon than it did before March.
To varying extents, that will be offset by virtual consultations. In recent months, online consults have become de rigueur across almost every branch of healthcare. Until a vaccine is available, that'll likely remain the case in certain scenarios, like discussing a future surgery or following up on a past procedure.
Everybody will be screened and probably tested
Also to varying extents, plastic surgeons will be screening every patient, both prior to their appointment and upon their arrival. Ahead of your appointment, you can expect to be asked about your current health, recent symptoms, COVID-19 exposure or diagnoses, sick family members, travel history, and so forth. Upon your arrival, you'll likely be asked the same questions again. You'll also have your temperature taken, which is meant to detect asymptomatic carriers with low-grade fevers.
If there's any question as to whether someone presents a risk, they'll be asked to reschedule.
All hospital-based outpatient surgeries will require a pre-operative COVID-19 diagnostic lab test. (It's the one with the deep nasal swab that detects active virus particles.)
Most plastic surgery societies, looking to emulate hospital policy, are advising their members not to perform office-based treatments or operate in private ORs without a negative COVID-19 diagnostic lab test. But, because the swab tests are still difficult to come by, many will be relying on antibody blood tests (the rapid finger-prick kind, most commonly) to flag patients who've been exposed to the virus.
Doctors will be performing the tests on a regular basis on themselves and their staffs as well, in addition to daily temperature and symptom checks.
While some of this may feel like an inconvenience, please know that these are safety measures. Every reputable plastic surgeon in this pandemic is approaching reopening in a methodical manner and with the intent to take every precaution possible to protect our patients.


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Concrete Blow Back and Pump Back Policy
In accordance with the Concrete NZ recommendation, Allied Concrete will not accept concrete 'pumped back' or 'blown back' into trucks by any concrete pump. This is due to the high risk of injury and explosive force due to air pressure.
Pumping back may only occur following a full risk mitigation proposal submitted to & authorised by Alllied Concrete. This includes controls that extend far beyond the standard pump back practice.
Hazard Identified
This Concrete NZ Readymix Sector Group Safety Alert addresses the issue of concrete blow-back and pump-back into the concrete truck mixing bowl, which can be an inherently dangerous procedure
unless carefully controlled.
Blow-back uses high air pressure to move residual concrete from the line or boom pump back into the truck mixer or bowl. Air pressure will cause anything inside the pipe to act as a high velocity projectile.
Pump-back is the return of residual concrete back into the truck mixer or bowl by either line or boom pumps. Excessive pumping pressure creates similar problems to blow-back.
RISK 1 High air pressure or pump line pressure, along with pipe
movement during blow-back or pump-back, can cause pipe joints to fail and break apart.
RISK 2 Concrete in the pipe is subjected to high pressure during
blow-back or pump-back and can cause the hose to eject from the concrete bowl or material to rebound and exit the concrete bowl. In both situations there is the potential to cause injury to bystanders, or equipment and/or property damage.
RISK 3 Climbing a concrete truck ladder carrying a line pump pipe or trying to manoeuvre a line pump pipe while not having three points of contact creates a high risk of fall from height.
RISK 4 Control measures previously deemed as acceptable in both blow-back or pump-back have not been adhered to resulting in injury or damage.


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Town Square: What If We Flipped Our Perspective?
October 11, 2019 @ 2:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Town Square: What If We Flipped Our Perspective?
Website: https://townsquare19.splashthat.com/
Welcome to Town Square
You'll hear from our latest cohort of Earthshot companies, selected from over 800 who applied from 67 countries. They are growing ground-breaking companies tackling affordability, inclusivity, self-reliance, climate resilience, and environmental intelligence. They will invite us to flip our traditional way of thinking and imagine a world where food actually goes from the farm to your table, new tech reaches ALICE communities first, and we can be hopeful about the future of our planet.
Cohort 8: Affordability & Inclusivity
Meet the companies who are democratizing access to renewable energy and clean transportation.
Cohort 8: Infrastructure
Meet our newest cohort of companies improving the health and economies of communities that are largely being overlooked by the new mobility revolution.
Youth of Kalihi
Featuring student poets from Farrington High School
Cohort 8: Environmental Intelligence
Meet the companies tackling everything from climate change risk prediction to pinpointing sources of water pollution.
21 Questions with Olin Lagon
The idea that no one would be left behind in this transition to clean energy birthed Shifted Energy, which is just one of the companies started by Olin Lagon. In 10 minutes and 21 questions, we'll journey through Olin's life as an entrepreneur with a relentless pursuit for community solutions.
What if CO2 was an Asset?
What if a single technology could capture CO2 before it becomes a pollutant and use it to green the most abundant manmade material on Earth, concrete? CarbonCure is one company doing just that, starting in Hawaii working with the Department of Transportation, local concrete producers, developers, and the City & County of Honolulu.
Bettina Mehnert, President & CEO of Architects Hawaii
Councilmember Joey Manahan
Rob Niven, CEO of CarbonCure
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Credit: CGG
France-based seismic data company CGG has said that its Satellite Mapping group recently completed a high-resolution hydrocarbon seeps study commissioned by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD).
The aim of the study was to increase petroleum system knowledge across a relatively data-poor area of the northern Barents Sea.
CGG Satellite Mapping's SAR satellites acquired a large collection of high-spatial-resolution SAR imagery at a high revisit frequency.
Subsequent processing and analysis by its CGG experts identified the presence of small-scale naturally occurring seepage slick features, unlocking, what CGG says is valuable subsurface intelligence.
Richard Burren, Director of Satellite Mapping, CGG, said: "By applying our world-leading remote sensing knowledge to imagery delivered by the latest satellite missions our Satellite Mapping group provides clients with previously unobtainable insights into the presence and behavior of natural seepage in offshore environments.
"These studies hold great value for increasing geologic system knowledge and decreasing risk, which is of particular interest across marginal areas of mature basins at present. They also complement our Seep Explorer product, the industry's only integrated global onshore and offshore seeps database for regional-to-target subsurface source de-risking."


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Brexit: The day politicians left our human rights protections behind
Written by Lui Asquith, Vice Chair & Campaigns Lead on the Amnesty LGBTI Network Committee, and Tim Gee, Human Rights in the UK Campaign Manager.
After centuries of extreme discrimination, recent years have seen an increase in recognition of the human rights of people in the LGBTQI community. We are still a long way from enjoying full equality. But at least there are human rights laws in place to fall back on when people need them most.
However, those laws look likely to be weakened, following the recent votes in the House of Commons on the EU Withdrawal Bill.
In a series of steps backwards for equalities protection, it now seems almost certain that:
- The EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights - which amongst other protections prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation - will not be transferred into domestic law following Brexit;
- There will be no guaranteed right of challenge to a domestic law if it fails to comply with the general principles of EU law, beginning 3 years after 'Exit Day'
- Ministers will have sweeping powers to alter legislation transferred in to UK law without appropriate parliamentary scrutiny, with so called 'Henry VIII' powers.
There are still protections of course – including the treasured Equality Act and the European Convention on Human Rights (which is quite separate from the EU). But the only explicit and overriding prohibition on discriminating against someone because of their sexuality in our human rights protections was the EU Charter, and the most prominent UK case of winning equality for same-sex couples was achieved using the right to bring court action based on the EU General Principles.
On Tuesday night, MPs voted to leave behind both.
These events should be a wake-up call to everyone in the UK. Our human rights laws have played a role in protecting us for years. Now the laws themselves are in need of protecting.
So, what now?
The recent vote was the culmination of months of us and other organisations talking to politicians from across the political spectrum, which led to all opposition parties, a majority of the House of Lords and some Conservative MPs supporting the amendments backed by human rights campaigners.
On the day before the vote, we organised an LGBT+ Superchoir amassed outside parliament to tunefully call upon waverers to do the right thing – broadcast on the evening news. But in the end a narrow majority of MPs still voted the wrong way.
The result is a body blow for rights. But it isn't too late to protect our protections. MPs could, if they wanted to, reintroduce those rights in the months and years ahead. The House of Lords can propose that equality legislation is at least is ringfenced from Ministerial law-making powers in this Bill, and the Commons still has the option to accept that.
But they won't do any of that without you – us – demanding that they do so as we move forwards.
Our human rights protect all of us, and all of us need to protect them.
Our blogs are written by Amnesty International staff, volunteers and other interested individuals, to encourage debate around human rights issues. They do not necessarily represent the views of Amnesty International.


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A well known TV personality who apparently is also active in the stand up comedy circuit, was invited to come and perform recently by a New Jersey Catholic University. It appears he signed a contract agreeing not to include vulgarity and sexual content in his routine. When he didn't hold up to his end of the agreement, the school demanded a public apology. Up to now, they have not gotten the apology. What they did get from him was a statement in his Twitter account saying: "I'm sorry your university doesn't believe in freedom of speech." I suppose you all have your own thoughts and opinions about this matter, as do I. I realize this type of product sells very well in todays society, yet I personally cannot understand why today's comedians feel compelled to flood their routines with profanity and vulgar content. In my life, I have known, and I still know some, people who can keep you laughing for hours without having to resort to these things. Even I can do the same, especially around those who love corny jokes or will laugh at almost anything. My own sons have referred to me as "pop Corn" or "Captain Corn." The university deeply regrets this fiasco but the problem began with them. Let me put it this way: You can't invite snakes to your house and ask them not to slither. Nevertheless, before we stray too far, lets put our opinions regarding this matter aside, and lets consider what God has to say about it. This is what matters most anyway. To begin with, anyone who has ever had a genuine encounter with Christ, is a dramatically different person than before. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says: "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." People whose lives have been divinely transformed, think, act, and speak differently than before. Perhaps my theology is amiss once more but I take Mark 16:17 as a reminder that new creations in Christ don't speak like they used to. In other words, profanity and vulgar speech are no longer a part of their conversations. Oh, yes, the verse reads: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues." Some may be quick to point out that this verse is referring to known languages. That may be true; but this is also true. Before Christ, the speech of many of us was regularly laced with profanity. Do we speak like that today? No, we speak differently now because of the One who lives inside of us.
God's word for today Colossians 4:6) "Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one."


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Imagine if a doctor could diagnose and treat an illness immediately after a quick non-invasive scan of your whole body. Does this sound like something out of the science fiction TV show Star Trek? Or imagine the prevention of a serious illness because you or your health care provider notice subtle changes in one or more of your biomarkers, the biological molecules found in your body that indicate a normal or abnormal process, or a disease condition. Could a whole body scan completed within a matter of minutes help make the prevention, earlier diagnosis, and precise treatment of illness a reality? QBio, a US start-up, is reportedly on a mission to develop technology that will do just that. Their platform is focused on capturing and monitoring baseline patient health from information on current health and personal risks collected through its 15-minute whole body scan, in a virtual model called a digital twin.
"'A digital twin is a virtual representation of an object or system that spans its lifecycle, is updated from real-time data, and uses simulation, machine learning and reasoning to help decision-making.' . . . In plain English, this just means creating a highly complex virtual model that is the exact counterpart (or twin) of a physical thing." (Armstrong, 2020) Digital twins are already used in a wide range of applications including power generation, product design, manufacturing processes, vehicle performance, urban planning, and the tracking of health indicators and generation of key insights in health care services. QBio's Gemini Digital Twin platform is one of several projects underway to encourage the health care industry to adopt digital twins "to customize medical treatments to individuals based on their unique genetic makeup, anatomy, behavior and other factors". The scanner developed by QBio will look at structural change, and correlate that with genetic risks and chemical risks that have been collected from more traditional tests.
The use of digital twins in health care involves the collection of highly confidential material including medical records, genetic data, and other biomarker information. When asked about ownership of patient data, Jeff Kaditz, QBio's CEO, has stated: "I don't think anybody should own information about your body besides you, especially when you're paying for it." No matter how they are used, digital twins are virtual replicas stored in cyberspace. Therefore, they require security technology to ensure privacy, reliability, and integrity. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule "standards address the use and disclosure of individuals' health information (known as 'protected health information') by entities subject to the Privacy Rule." Entities covered by the Privacy Rule include health care providers, health plans (except a "group health plan with fewer than 50 participants that is administered solely by the employer that established and maintains the plan"), health care clearinghouses, and business associates. The HIPAA Security Rule protects a subset of the information covered by the Privacy Rule. This information, called electronic protected health information (e-PHI), includes "all individually identifiable health information a covered entity creates, receives, maintains, or transmits in electronic form." The Security Rule requires that all covered entities "ensure the confidentiality" of all electronic protected health information and "detect and safeguard against anticipated threats to the security of the information." It seems that many potential advances in technology and health care are on the horizon. Information security advances need to be developed in tandem; no one wants to see health information disclosed.


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205lbs PRO MMA: DANIEL GADLEY WINS by KO over Jared Torgeson (1st Round at 28secs)
170lbs PRO MMA:CRAIG FEISTNER WINS by Unanimous Decision over Charon Spain (27-30 | 27-30 | 27-30)
170lbs PRO MMA: Jacob Jokela Vs Jessee Gengler. NO CONTEST.
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HVY Ammy MMA: TYLOR SIJOHN WINS by TKO over Adam Cool (1st Round at 47secs)
145lbs Ammy MMA: JOHN NACCARATO WINS by Tap RNC Submission over Kyler Wilkins (3rd Round at 1:16secs)
HVY Ammy Kickboxing: SALVADOR APODACA WINS by TKO over Tito Gonzalez (1st Round at 1:34secs)
125lbs Ammy MMA: CORY DEA WINS by TKO over Keenan Avey (1st Round at 13secs)
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Happy Birthday, Alice Hoffman, born 16 March 1952.
Alice Hoffman Quotes
- I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.
- All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them – much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
- Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
- My theory is that everyone, at one time or another, has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
- You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
- The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her – she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
- After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.
- I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
- Books may well be the only true magic.
- That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
- No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.
- Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
- Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
- The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
- Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
Alice Hoffman is an American novelist. She is perhaps best known for her novel, Practical Magic, which was adapted for a film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism. Follow her on Twitter: @ahoffmanwriter
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Decree affirmed. This is a petition under G. L. c. 31, Section 47E, by employees of the Cambridge Welfare Department seeking to be paid in accordance with successive welfare compensation plans promulgated by the Welfare Compensation Board of the Commonwealth. They appeal from a final decree entered upon a case stated adjudging G. L. c. 31, Sections 47C, 47D and 47E, and the welfare compensation plans not applicable to the respondent city. Prior to the enactment of G. L. c. 31, Sections 47C and 47D (St. 1941, c. 402), and thereafter until 1961, the employees of the Cambridge Welfare Department were subject to the Civil Service law and were compensated in accordance with salary classification plans approved by the Civil Service Commission. General Laws c. 31, Section 47C, was designed to afford a merit system to welfare employees in municipalities not otherwise subject to G. L. c. 31. This did not include Cambridge. The addition to c. 31 of the General Laws of Section 47E, by St. 1951, c. 537, provided for step rate increases for persons "holding positions referred to in section forty-seven C." Neither this addition, nor a 1961 amendment to it which abolished the necessity for local acceptance, concerned the Cambridge welfare employees. In the absence of clear and precise legislation requiring a contrary result, we conclude that Sections 47C, 47D and 47E of c. 31 of the General Laws were not applicable to Cambridge and there was no error. Albernaz v. Fall River, 346 Mass. 336, 341.
Decree affirmed. On undisputed evidence the judge found that notice of an accident on the insured's premises was given to the insurer by the insured forty days after the latter had knowledge of the occurrence. The notice provisions of the liability policy issued by the insurer to the insured were the same as those in Depot Cafe Inc. v. Century Indem. Co. 321 Mass. 220, 221. The judge ruled that the insured failed to comply with the requirement that notice be given "as soon as practicable." He dismissed the bill brought by the plaintiffs under G. L. c. 175, Sections 112, 113, and c. 214, Section 3 (10), to reach and apply the policy in payment of their judgments against the insured. There was
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[Note 1] Andrew M. Brackman, husband of Beatrice, the injured plaintiff.


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Ansah 'taking Malawians for fools', says won't resign until appeal ruling
Embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah has said she is not going to resign from her position unless the Supreme Court of Appeal upholds the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judgement on February 3 2020 which found that evidence of fraud and malpractice meant the results of the presidential poll could not be allowed to stand.
Initially, Ansah, a judge of the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal, said when calls for her to resign started, that she would abdicate from her officer at the commission if the ConCourt finds her in the wrong.
But despite the court faulted MEC, defiant Ansah told Parliament's Public Appointments Committee (PAC) that the commission appealed the ruling of ConCourt because it was not the final arbiter and they were rejecting its findings.
"There are issues the commission does not agree with. There is need for second eye-which is the Appeal Court," Ansah said.
She said MEC declared the winner based on the current electoral law, saying since 1994, when Malawi returned to multiparty democracy, the vote has been determined by first-past-past-the-post (FPTP) in which the candidate with most votes wins regardless of whether they receive a majority of support.
FPTP, or winner takes it all, means one with more votes is a winner but the judges' suggestion in the ruling was that none of the presidential candidates could have won because none of them received over 50%.
The law requires the victor to receive a majority. This was a radical alternative legal interpretation of Malawi's constitution and could require the country to amend its Elections Act.
Ansah said if the "Supreme Court finds us wrong, I will resign".
Former Attorney General and one of Malawi's finest lawyers Ralph Kasambara has described Ansah's stand as "taking Malawians for fools."
The MEC chairperson said she saw nothing wrong in her commission accepting sheets that were altered with a correction fluid, widely known for the famous brand Tipp-Ex.
She defended her commission for accepting alteration of results sheets and the general results management system, claiming the results on the tally sheets were not altered but corrected.
"Tippex was used [for positive purposes] to correct errors," she said.
But one of the legislators Mark Katsonga Phiri grilled Ansah whether Tippex deletes or corrects in which the MEC chairwoman said the white-out fluid "deletes" and that one cannot see what's been deleted.
The Constitutional Court also found that less than a third of the results from the more than 5,000 polling stations had been certified by the auditors by the time Ansah declared Mutharika winner of the presidential race.
Another MEC member Mary Nkosi, who appeared before the committee on Monday, admitted that the commission mishandled the contentious elections.
Nkosi claimed Ansah went behind the commissioners' back and authorised altered result sheets.
"I did not see the justification to this. But there was an apparent rush to have the results put together and announced," she said. "It was a big let-down".
The inquiry follows a February 3 2020 order of a five-judge panel of the High Court of Malawi sitting as the Constitutional Court that nullified the May 21 2019 presidential election over irregularities and mandated Parliament to assess the commissioners' competences.
On Tuesday, commissioners Yahaya M'madi, Moffat Banda, Linda Kunje and Jean Mathanga appeared before the committee at Parliament Building in Lilongwe. They followed in the footsteps of Nkosi and Elvey Mtafu on Monday.
Another commissioner Rev. Killion Mgawi was expected to appear before PAC of Parliament while commissioner Reverend Clifford Baloyi was reportedly out of the country seeking medical attention.
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The Company has changed their policy on the process of buying boots. From now on members and probationary members will have to pay the 25% of boots up front or at the time of purchase.
It has also been brought to the attention of the Union that some people purchasing boots who paid 25% up front were also charged 25% on their paycheck. Please double check your pay stub if you recently purchased boots.


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SECURITY guards have begun patrolling the Adria site in Strabane in a bid to quell ongoing anti-social behaviour.
The derelict former factory site, which is soon to be transformed into a major social housing development, has become a magnet for anti-social behaviour since it closed in 2006.
The Beechmount Avenue site is a known hotspot for young people to gather in and has been ravaged with repeated fires with calls to have it properly secured.
In the aftermath of the most recent incident last Wednesday, an emergency virtual meeting was held with councillors and statutory agencies to discuss the ongoing issues, particularly in the lead up to the forthcoming Halloween celebrations.
A representative from Habinteg Housing Association, the company behind the long-awaited redevelopment plans, was also present at the meeting.
An outworking from that meeting has been a commitment from Habinteg to provide a security team to carryout hourly patrols of the site.
It's understood those patrols started at the weekend.
"It was a productive meeting," SDLP councillor Jason Barr said.
"Unfortunately the PSNI were invited but didn't attend this meeting, which doesn't give much hope and faith. Failed promises can't keep happening….actions speak louder than words."
He continued: "Habinteg have now put in place security to patrol the site seven days a week. I have requested that this happens more frequently during the day.
"Other proposals from other elected representatives were the likes of clearing the site to get rid of all the hiding places within which Habinteg will also take forward.
"The main issue here is the safety of our young people and the people directly affected by this type of behaviour."
The meeting, facilitated under the council's Bonfire Working Group, also heard concerns expressed over bonfires in the Springhill Park/Mount Carmel areas on the grounds of former schools.
Sinn Féin's Michaela Boyle, who was also involved in the discussions, said it's important that young people realise the current pandemic means this year's Halloween must be different.
Speaking afterwards, she said: "Reinforcement was made that due to the current pandemic these bonfires should not go ahead.
"I also raised the anti-social element of the gathering of bonfire material and the effects it has on our communities.
"People feeling frightened and concerned for the wellbeing of them and their families. Disappointed the PSNI where not in attendance to hear of the concerns – although invited – as residents in these areas conveyed to me their genuine concerns in regards to the anti-social behaviour happening on a nightly basis."
A separate meeting involving the local community group, council officers, the PSNI and Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, with young people at the site of the former Convent Grammar School to discuss similar issues, also took place.
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Course Description
Course Name
Medieval London: Pubs, Plague-pits and Cathedrals
Host University
Queen Mary, University of London
London, England
Area of Study
European Studies, History
Language Level
Taught In English
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Credits: 15.0
Overlap: None
Prerequisite: NoneTaught by seminars, site visits and museum sessions, this course introduces students to life in medieval and renaissance London. The central themes of royal power, gender, marginality, the Black Death and popular revolt, will be studied in class and in the streets of London. Students will visit key monuments of medieval London (such as Westminster Abbey), trace the path of rebels in 1381, or handle medieval and early modern artifacts in the Museum of London. Sites, monuments, topography and artifacts will lead to a new understanding of politics, devotional practices, trade and family life. Please note that this module involves class visits to various locations in London. When timetabling please allow yourself an hour¿s travel time either side of the class.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
Level: 5
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Popular microblogging platform, Twitter, has announced that it is removing Fleets, its vanishing tweet feature similar to Facebook and Instagram stories.
According to the company, the feature which was launched to the general public about nine months ago will be removed completely on August 3.
Twitter explained that it's doing away with the feature due to lack of activity specifically, among the more hesitant Twitter users.
Twitter's head of consumer product, Kayvon Beykpour, added that the company would be building other products, but didn't reveal any details as to what it will be.
Cold reception
Back in March 2020 when Twitter first started testing Fleets in limited markets, some users did not appreciate the new feature. This prompted the trending of the #RIPTwitter hashtag.
Some users complained that the new feature would make the platform too similar to Facebook and other social media platforms.
Some others expressed that adding stories removed Twitter's originality, which could signal their ultimate demise of the microblogging platform.
Despite the outcry, the initial rollout of the feature looked promising. The surge of usage caused fleets to crash several times when it became available globally.
However, with the company planning to shut it down, it very probable that in the long run, most users weren't very interested in Fleets, and those that were are already pretty active on the platform.
Capturing the silent users
Analyzing the reason for Twitter's U-turn goes back to the initial launch. When the company launched Fleets, it said it was because some people weren't tweeting as much as others because the permanent format of Twitter put them off.
At the time, the feature was proving popular on other social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
However, it appears that its initial bet didn't work out and it isn't so surprising viewing the reception it got and the technical glitches that followed.
Despite the drawbacks, Twitter is not closing the door to trying more experiments. Beykpour says the company will be taking more swings with new features in the future.
"Big bets are risky and speculative, so by definition a number of them won't work. If we're not having to wind down features every once in a while, then it would be a sign that we're not taking big enough swings."
Going forward, Spaces, Twitter's answer to Clubhouse which currently sits in the same strip at the top of the app as Fleets, will become the sole occupant at the top of the platform when Fleets disappears.