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Podcast guests: Tom Sulston & Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker
December 9 2022 | 29 min 17 sec
The concept of digital rights is not new, yet we are just beginning to scratch the surface of how they manifest in today’s rapidly-evolving digital world. But when we shift our thinking to see digital rights as human rights in a digital context, what is perhaps a nebulous concept starts to crystallize.
In this episode, Tom Sulston & Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker talk with host Eduardo Meneses about what we mean by digital rights and how technology’s borderless influence often conflicts with regional legislation. They also share resources to learn about digital rights and discuss how technologists can use their influence responsibly to advocate for a fairer internet and digital society.
Eduardo Meneses: Welcome. Welcome, everyone, to this new episode of our podcast, Tech and Social Change: Discussion from a Common Good Perspective of Technology. Today, we are making a special episode. We have two guests that are coming from Australia. We have Tom Sulston and Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker who are with us today. I am Eduardo Meneses. I am the global head of social change in Thoughtworks. And I am going to be your host today on this journey on this discussion about a very specific topic that we are really passionate about, which is Digital Rights. Before going into this topic in the detail of the concept and the challenges we have as a society concerning these rights, I wanted just to ask you a little bit from you, Tom and Kat, around your backgrounds, where are you coming from, how you landed into this topic. So please, Tom, I don't know if you could tell us a little bit from you.
Tom Sulston: Sure. Thanks, Edu. Yes, as you say, my name is Tom. I'm coming to you from Australia, part of the world where sovereignty has never been ceded. And I very much got into digital rights in 2013, which was the year that the Edward Snowden revelations happened. We learnt that lots of companies were spying on us for our government's sake. And that was the turning point that radicalized me from being a very gentle system administrator, DevOps type who was doing a lot of consulting work at Thoughtworks. And that was what kicked me off on the digital rights journey. And now, I spend quite a bit of my time working with Digital Rights Watch, where I'm the deputy chair. It’s a charity that looks after Australian Human Rights online.
Eduardo Meneses: Thanks, Tom. Kat, from your side. Where do you come from? From what's your background?
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker: Great. Thanks, Edu. I'm Kat. I am the lead of the First Nations delivery center here in Thoughtworks, Australia, but I grew up on the South Coast of WA, so I'm also a visitor on these lands today. I came to digital rights via marketing analytics essentially. I worked as a data analyst for a few years after I finished my master's degree.
And I think it was being embedded inside that machine and seeing the enormous imbalance of power between users and technologies and organizations that really radicalized me. I was able to see firsthand just how much information can be measured and gathered and mined from people without explicit consent. So I very quickly turned from an analyst into an activist. And now, today, I serve as the vice chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia, which is a not for profit organization here in Australia also championing privacy and digital rights in Australia.
Eduardo Meneses: Great. Thanks, Kat. So as I was saying at the beginning, this episode, which is part of our first series of episodes, we are making kind of an introduction to this intersection between technology and social change is going to be centered around this idea of digital rights. But before going to the details of this, I wanted to ask you, Tom and Kat, maybe a quick definition around that. What do we understand about digital rights? Is this something which is different from traditional rights? Where did this concept come from? Could you tell us a little bit about that?
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker: I can jump in first if you like. So we typically consider digital rights to be human rights in a digital context, not necessarily a different or discrete group of rights. But when we are talking about digital rights, certain themes and discussions do come up. So closely coupled with digital rights are things like our right to privacy, freedom of expression and assembly, our right to access, create and publish content on the internet, and equal access to hardware, software, and networks across the world. So really harkening back to that Berners-Lee vision of the world wide web, of equal access and net neutrality. So certain conversations do come up around digital rights, but we effectively do consider digital rights to be human rights.
Eduardo Meneses: Is there a history about this concept? Is this a new concept? Have we been speaking for years, for decades about that? Where did that come from?
Tom Sulston: So, digital rights is a term that's been thrown around really only in the last few years as a practice. But discussion around human rights, you can go back to the Magna Carta as a very foundational document of defining the rights of a person. Really, the document that we work to is the 1948 UN Declaration on Human Rights, which was the big international piece of work that came out of the ashes of the Second World War with an aim to not have that happen again. And so it's a spectacularly good piece of documentation. It's a really good declaration. It's very pithy and descriptive of, as it says, fundamental human rights that are inalienable.
And so a lot of the work that we do is looking at rights that are granted under the UNHDR and thinking about, as Kat said, how do those human rights manifest in the digital space? So some of them are obvious candidates that pop up a lot, like the right to privacy, the right to free speech, those sorts of things. Some of them are a little less obvious but they still happen, like the right to association. So that's a kind of base document of where we start and where a lot of certainly the modern thinking around human rights originates.
Eduardo Meneses: And then, for example, this last one, as you were saying, the first ones were it's kind of obvious and mainly for people who are in the tech industry. But when you speak about, for example, this one you were mentioning, the right to association, when it comes to this digital perspective, how does that translate into this perspective?
Tom Sulston: So one of the things that we see on the internet in the dig sphere is that actually it's a very privatized world. A lot of the services and platforms that exist in the digital world are run by companies. They're not run by civil institutions. And so those companies have the ability to decide who their users are, who their clients are, and can choose to kick people off their platform for whatever reason they happen to choose. So we see it quite commonly applied with sex workers that are no longer allowed to use certain platforms because the platforms do not want to be associated with adult content, even if those sex workers are not using the platform in a professional sense. They're using it in a personal capacity. They can still be removed from social media sites. And they lose that right to associate with their family through that.
Eduardo Meneses: And you were mentioning something, Tom, right there that I think could be really interesting to go a little bit deeper on, that is, you were mentioning this idea of the privatization of this digital space, the fact that a lot of these digital territories privatized is owned by private companies. And I was wondering, when both of you were speaking about digital rights, there's often a debate around human rights in general when we speak about what that is about, do we explicitly make a link to economic injustices, for example, when it comes to that? Or do we maintain that in an abstract way of rights? So this idea you were mentioning about the privatization of this territory is very interesting.
And that leads me to this next question about, where are we on these rights? In these territories who are very often private, who are not controlled by direct democratic tools, but needs to be very often there's intermediation of the state or other kind of collective control of these spaces. Where are we, if we needed to make a categorization of the moment in which we are concerning digital rights? Where do you see our societies right now in terms of recognitions of these rights? Where are we? What are the challenges?
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker: That's a really good question. I think, in a very brief sentence, I call this date of technology or digital rights is highly captured and highly privatized, as we've kind of touched on a little bit. And a lot of digital rights issues aren't necessarily new or unique to the digital world, too, although the advancement of technology means that power can be wielded in a way that exacerbates existing inequalities. So in terms of recognizing digital rights and how we as a society are interpreting, or that level of literacy in terms of existing digital rights. I think it's much easier to communicate with people on that kind of base level of human rights rather than expecting a higher level of literacy around digital rights. But I think it's also interesting that you mention privatization and freedom of assembly.
I think another way that we see that manifest is around a very specific example is people who use social media platforms or digital platforms as places to assemble and for activists to assemble. I think it's something-- I think it's a real, real challenge and a real point of education for a lot of people. A lot of these platforms were not built to support or facilitate democracy, and certainly not built to facilitate activists safely and freely assembling. They're built to mine and surveil and make profit. So I think that's definitely one of the biggest issues that comes up when we are discussing digital rights or human rights with people.
Tom Sulston: Yeah, big agreement with that. And I think it's exacerbated or the state of digital rights is exacerbated by the broader free nature of the internet where platforms and providers can effectively jurisdiction shop and put their locations in kind of physical locations where there is not great enforcement of human rights. And that may or may not line up with an individual country's view on human rights themselves. So the United States is-- it's got a bill of rights.
There are all sorts of rights that you have in America. They're written down. It's very plain to see. And there are many legal cases that go through their system that allow citizens of the United States to express those rights and to have them respected. But in terms of digital rights and respecting privacy, it's a lot more Wild West-ish in its approach. And a lot of organizations are getting away with some pretty terrible use of their users data, especially those users from outwith the borders of whichever region they happen to be operating.
Eduardo Meneses: And then this question you were mentioning, Tom, this makes me think about something, a point that very often is complicated right for people to really understand, which is the fact that very often we speak about digital rights and the digital territories as something which could be almost abstract or ethereal. But in fact, there's a real materiality on that. As you were mentioning, for example, where servers are located could define a lot of the things we can do on terms of rights. And that makes me think about this perspective on what are the challenges in terms of how do we make legislation about that. You were mentioning the fact that, for example, someone could find countries where traditional rights are not the same that some of the users would expect to be.
So in this sense, how could we expect that legislation apply? Is there something that we can think in terms of international regulation that could apply in order that this doesn't happen, this kind of search in these places where the rights are less recognized and this kind of things? Is there something-- is there a reflections around this thing about the territory where this should apply, the international perspective or how we should legislate or we should create norms around digital rights?
Tom Sulston: Yeah, international legislation is really hard. It's the short version. And so although there are many, many countries that signed up to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, similarly there are many, many countries who have signed up to the various Geneva Conventions over the years.
Those international agreements then need to be turned into local, national laws within the countries that have signed up to them. And so the realization of that is very dependent on the country itself and how it operates. So as kind of a direct example of that, in Australia, Australia is a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Australia is a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but it does not have primary legislation respecting Australian civil rights. We do not have a bill of rights like the Americans do.
And while there are little bits of legislation around the place-- there are some not bad privacy principles that are enshrined in law in how our information is meant to be handled-- it means that we lack that backbone and that strong kind of legal framework that primary legislation gives you that lets you use the legal system to protect your rights. So when we have things go wrong in digital rights land in Australia, our legal avenues to seek redress are really limited. They're not zero. It's not a complete disaster. But it's very hard to do that without clear primary legislation that says, here are the rights that you have if you are a resident in Australia.
Eduardo Meneses: And in that sense, I was wondering, what are the debates right now? I mean, what are the challenges? You were mentioning some of your experience, both of you, on some of the organizations you have been involved in, these kind of things. What are the main topics we are treating right now. I know that you mentioned some things like privacy. I don't know if that is, for the moment, the main one, the central one, the mismanagement of personal data. Are there other main topics you think are in the center of this debate right now?
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker: Yeah, if I can touch on something Tom just mentioned around-- Australia does not have a bill of rights, which means we don't have a federally enforceable right to privacy. I think with the kind of globalization of American culture, a lot of people tend to assume that we do have certain inalienable rights in Australia. And we don't. So that's something that we are broadly trying to advocate for is principles-based, federally enforceable rights framework in Australia. And that's something that we've been fighting for and challenging for a very long time. I think one of the other big debates in this country at the moment in our space.
So our Privacy Act is currently under review. And it's under review for the first time, I think, in about at least a decade. So there are lots of opportunities to consolidate various types of tech policy legislation in a way that is principles-based. And we also have a review of surveillance legislation at the same time. There are other nuances in Australian legislation that are quite unique to Australia. We might not have a lot of time to get into. So those are, I think, two of the biggest things that are coming up at the moment that are entering our political zeitgeist.
One thing that has come up is this idea that tech advancement outpaces legislation, which is just necessarily true. We can build technology and we can create new technology a lot faster than we can write and pass legislation. And that's why we do advocate for principles-based legislation rather than rules-based or very specifically technology-based. The other thing that I was just thinking about, while we were talking, is while a lot of this legislation does need to be state-based, even when we do anchor on international, UN Declaration of Human Rights, a lot of these platforms and a lot of tech companies have global uses and are globally operating.
So what we've noticed over time is that platforms will tend to adhere to the lowest common denominator of legislation. So whichever state-based piece of legislation, whether it might be GDPR or the California Privacy Act, whichever rules and regulations are the most difficult or the most punitive, it's easier for platforms to adhere to those rules regardless of the location of the user. So that tends to lead to a lot of overall moderation and overpolicing of content on platforms. Sorry, that was a lot, but those are the sort of things that come up.
Eduardo Meneses: But this is really interesting. There is something you were mentioning about this difference between-- this idea of principle-based regulation. Could you go a little bit on what does that mean? I don't know if there are some examples. What is the difference with traditional regulation, let's say that this rules regulation that you mentioned or between this-- what is the difference with this principle-based regulation you were mentioning?
Tom Sulston: I am not a lawyer, so my understanding doesn't come from a legal perspective. But the driver for me behind principles is to recognize that human rights are-- they're not always absolute. You do have a right to freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean you have the right to incite violence and use your speech to cause crimes and incite hate against other people. And I think that's where the principles-based approach has a strength because you can say, well, this is the default standard.
And this is what you can expect most of the time. But we also know that there will be some edge cases where this doesn't work out. So talking-- to bring it back to what are some international issues that have been going on, there's been a lot of fuss recently around Cloudflare, providing denial of service protection to kiwi farms. And kiwi farms is a message board that was used by a lot of far right figures to incite hate and violence towards transgender people and gay people and all sorts of other different groups of people that they didn't like. They do not have a freedom of speech to do that.
And Cloudflare was under no obligation to provide them a platform under which to exercise that mythical right. And so they have finally removed kiwi farms from their platform. But the fact that that took so long and so many people are on the receiving end of so much abuse during that period of time shows that there are shortcomings to having private companies act as effective utilities in the internet space. And so that's a really problem-- that was a very tangible example of a problematic area where we have entrusted the protection of the commons to a private entity and its understanding of what a right to a freedom of speech means is not quite right.
Eduardo Meneses: And just-- I know that we are reaching the end of our episode today. But I wanted to end this with some practical things that the people who are hearing this could go to-- could connect to that if they want to go deeper into this understanding. I wanted to ask both of you if you could maybe suggest some readings. Is there some books, some documentaries that have been very important when it comes to this perspective of digital rights that you would recommend to people to watch, to read? There are some references that are very important for you in this topic?
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker: Oh, well, I'd say both of our organizations are quite active in responding to the Australian tech landscape in the media and on our own websites. So that would be my first recommendation is looking up Electronic Frontiers Australia and Digital Rights Watch to see what we're doing and what we're saying. In terms of books, my favorites are Silicon Values by Gillian C. York. And then there's always the kind of timeless Shoshana Zuboff surveillance capitalism, which is a bit of a tome, but lays the landscape for a lot of theory around our current age of surveillance capitalism.
Eduardo Meneses: I know, Tom, from your side, which are your favorites, the ones you would recommend for the people who are hearing this?
Tom Sulston: I give a big plus one to both of those recommendations from Kat, both excellent. I would add to it Zeynep Tufekci writes an excellent substack as to Ed Snowden. You can find those on the internet and subscribe to them. And her book about network protest is really, really insightful as well. So those are my go to things to get activated and get angry about.
Eduardo Meneses: Thanks. Thanks, Tom. Thanks, Kat. Just a last word before we close. What would you recommend to technologists who are hearing to that? What is the things that they can do tomorrow, if they want to start acting on that? Is there something that you feel that technologists have a role to play, something that they could do just after stop listening to this podcast? What is the next steps?
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker: Oh, I think technologists are in a really unique position, kind of on the ground floor and inside the machine of a lot of these technologies that we're talking about. So while I definitely recommend and advocate that people learn about the kind of legislation that's going to affect our day to day lives and our day to day jobs, I also recommend learning to identify systemic injustices and imbalances of power when we're building technologies.
And this might be a little bit of a Thoughtworks plug, but things like looking at the responsible technology playbook that we've developed and learning to turn that lens onto the work that we do every day while recognizing that we as individual technologists and individual developers might not be able to change the world or change those systemic injustices, but being able to recognize the power that we do have in the work that we do.
Eduardo Meneses: Thanks, Kat. Tom, I don't know if there's something that you wanted to mention in that sense too?
Tom Sulston: Yeah, I'm going to take a slightly contrary position to Kat because I think that individual technologists absolutely can change the world and a lot of individual technologists have done. And what I would like to impress upon people who work in the tech industry is you have these superpowers. They can drive the machine, they can build the internet, they can build software in a way that other people cannot. And so the amount of influence that the technologists have within companies, within governments, within big organizations, and even as individuals out in society is really quite a lot.
And so I think recognizing that the power that each individual technologist has and our ability to stand up and say, no, I am not going to make that system that hoovers up someone's private data, I am not going to write this feature that disadvantages people of color because of our clumsy artificial intelligence, I am just not going to do that, and I refuse to take part in this kind of shady surveillance capitalism or these kind of rights-abusing things that are being built is a thing that technologists can do and do do and have been doing that successfully in some very large companies.
And we've seen a lot of technologies-- a lot of technologists have been building unions and building other groups of power to exercise that kind of individual power and to amplify it. And we have a lot of influence in the world. And as Kat says, we need to exercise it responsibly. And so A, thinking about that is really important, but recognizing that power exists and knowing when to apply it and to apply some pressure to push for more rights and for a better internet and for a better digital society for everyone is really important.
Eduardo Meneses: Thank you. Thank you very much. Tom, thank you, Kat, for all these very interesting insights. For sure this is not the last time we're going to speak with both of you around these topics. I really enjoyed a lot this discussion. I hope that other people are hearing this, too. So thank you very much, Kat. Thank you, Tom. And I will see you very soon for another episode with both of you. Thank you.
Tom Sulston: Thanks, Edu.
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker: Thanks, Eduardo.


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zondag 28 mei 2017
A bit late but there is a new podcast online packed with knitting spinning and weaving project.
See you there !
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dinsdag 18 april 2017
dinsdag 28 februari 2017
Hi my crafty friends,
If you like spinning like i do you might own a blending board.
But do you know how to use it? Or maybe you consider buying on?
I put down a tutorial on one way how i use my blending board.
Please take a look and enjoy even if you are not a spinner looking at the lovely colors of fiber is always a joy !
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I haven’t really taken any vacation time this year so I decided to take a 4 day woodworking staycation. Hopefully the late will be complete at the end of it! With nothing else to do today, I made some great progress.
I started the day by finishing up the cross brace on the end. It probably seems like nothing, but cutting mortises in 4”x4” posts takes up a lot of time. Saint Roy’s plans call for this brace to be a simple 2×4, but since I am increasing the mass of the flywheel some (and because I had leftovers) I decided to beef up the brace to a 4×4 post. Getting the mortises and tenons for the triangular beams has been the biggest pain in my butt so far on this project. I probably spent a good hour and a half today just trimming and fitting to make this piece. I also went back and but a nice little beveled edge on the top surface of the bottom beams.
With that brace complete, the basic frame was done! So I started working on the tail stock. Again, Roy’s plans call for a 2×4 but since I had 4×4 scrap I wasn’t doing anything with, I decided to use that instead. The stock has a through mortise that when combined with a tapered peg solidly grips the lathe.
Now that these pieces are complete, the lathe is starting to finally take shape!
Up next, hardware and the flywheel!
-- Brian - Belmont, Massachusetts

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As always I will start with a background story.
Way back in 1991 the UK was experiencing a drought, hosepipes were banned and my garden needed watering. I decided that I would collect all the grey water from my house to use in the garden, I will not go into the whole system but the important bit was that there were a number of water butts full of water that needed to be sprayed around the garden. This is a job for the bucket pump!
The picture is an article in the local paper of the time and yes that is me 25 years ago. The picture also shows one of the water butts, the car battery, the hose and most importantly the floating bucket!
Step 1: The Bits
The items required are all easily available:
A car windscreen washer pump, preferably with a bottom inlet (I obtained a number of these from the local car wreckers for next to nothing)
Rubber grommet (frequently already fitted to the pump)
Adapters of various sizes to suit
12 volt battery
A water detector circuit
Step 2: Control Cicuit
I wanted the system to be as automated as possible so rather than just a switch to turn the pump off and on I built a circuit to detect water or lack there of.
It is very simple and was built on a small piece of veroboard prototype circuit board (it could equally be just a birds nest of soldered connections) contained in a small enclosure to keep it dry.
The probes are just a short piece of heavy twin household wiring (the flat type uesd for wiring plug sockets with the earth wire cut off short) with the ends bared.
Note! You can do without this circuit, just run a couple of wires from the pump with crocodile clips at the other end to attach to the battery. The only thing you lose is the automatic switch off when the water butt is empty.
Step 3: The Build
The bucket needs a hole in the bottom for the grommet that will seal around the pick up tube of the pump plus two holes for the probe wires, sealed with silicon sealant.
I attached an old steel pulley under the bucket (with a small gap between it and the bucket) as ballast to keep it upright in the water and to protect the pump inlet and probes.The probes need to be set a little higher than the pump inlet as shown.
The outlet of the pump needed to be adapted to attach a standard hosepipe, any one with a bit of nouce should be able to work that out :)
I tie-wrapped the battery wires to the hosepipe to keep them tidy for connecting to the 12 volt battery away from the water. (I later found a couple of burglar alarm batteries that fitted inside the bucket making it much more self contained).
Step 4: How It Works
The grey water is collected in various places around the house, the bucket and battery get taken to one of the butts, the pump hosepipe gets connected to either a hand spray (as above) or a lawn sprinkle, the battery is connected and the bucket floated in the water, this switches the pump on. It will continue to pump until either the bucket is lifted out of the water or the bucket settles to bottom and the probes come out of the water, as the pump inlet is set slightly lower than the probes it will never end up pumping air.
No build photo's as I did this 25 years ago and no longer have it, my current system is far more modern but this setup worked very well for many years.


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The world has seen the pandemic and what a virus did to the whole world. Today we are more aware of our health and fitness. Mild cough or shortness of breathing can be a symptom of a covid-19. But, we can prevent it and know more about our health.
Due to the rise in technology and innovation, we have remote patient monitoring system nowadays. In real-time, the doctors or nurses can see the patient health records and monitor them remotely. And, all the medical records transfer through a secure server to the health care providers.
Features of Remote Patient Monitoring System
When it comes to monitoring our health, we know how expensive these health devices are installed in a hospital that continuously monitors our heart and oxygen. Still, with the advancement and development in health sectors today, we have these devices.
The health care providers or doctors can monitor the patient remotely without admitting the patient to a hospital. You can cure it at home with this system at a low cost.
Real-time health monitoring
These devices help to monitor our health in real-time 24*7. We do not have to worry about our health because we can see in real-time our pulse beat and oxygen level; which is the most critical sign of covid-19.
We can prevent the person from deteriorating further if we see any change in oxygen level with the help of these remote patient monitoring systems. Doctors, nurses or health care providers can see the patient’s health records through these monitoring systems changing analog signals into digital. And, anytime the doctors can bring out these medical data to assist the person.
These days we can also monitor our health to stay fit. We have rpm remote patient monitoring. It is a device used as a fitness tracker, or we can wear it like a watch. We can monitor our pulse beat, oxygen, blood pressure in real-time.
We do not have to worry about our health anymore; and for today it is essential for everyone to wear because of covid-19. These devices come portable and easy to carry anywhere. Some of them are sugar monitoring devices helpful for people who have diabetes, blood pressure monitor, etc., without visiting a clinic or a hospital.
Monitor health 24*7
Using these long-lasting monitoring health devices, we can monitor our health 24*7 without any worry. They are made with the latest artificial intelligence technology. A small chip is inside these devices with an infrared light that monitors every pulse beat and oxygen saturation. It will alert us if anything is below the lower or above.
These devices come under different categories. It can be a smart band, blood pressure monitor, Electronic thermometer, breathing frequency monitor, and so on. And, all need to keep at home preventing covid-19 at this time.
No need to visit hospitals or clinic
When we have these remote monitoring devices for our health, checking or monitoring blood pressure, heartbeats, oxygen level, body temperature, glucose monitoring, etc.
We do not have to visit a clinic for every individual to check our health, saving time and money. We can wear these devices silently. These devices will monitor our health and let us know if anything is wrong, then we can contact the doctors.
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People who were recently discharge from the hospital can use these devices, and doctors or nurses can monitor real-time health. We can better understand patient health and how it is functioning to recover faster with the best home care services without the need to visit a clinic or the hospital frequently and prevent and stay away from covid-19 symptoms and protect the health live happily.
Nowadays, to prevent anyone or to protect, we can use these rpm remote patient monitoring devices for any health issue. The most critical Covid-19, even scientists worldwide, is fighting for this disease to bring medication to save humanity.
However, today, we have these devices through which we can know how our health is functioning. These devices are made with the latest technology to alert us if anything is wrong when it comes to health.


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Boston – Video game developer Seven45 Studios said on
Tuesday it has signed Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews Band and Kid Rock to provide
songs for "Power Gig: Rise of the SixString," its music video that
uses a real guitar as the controller. The game is slated for release in October
for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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In this activity, students compare two photographs (with time spans of 30-100 years between photos) of specific Alaskan glaciers to observe how glaciers have changed over the time interval. Activity is a good kickoff for learning about glaciology - how and why glaciers form, grow and shrink, and their relation to climate change.
This video from the U.S. National Academies summarizes the energy challenges the United States faces, the technological challenges, and the need for behavior and policy changes required to meet the challenge.
For this lesson, the guiding Concept Question is: What is climate change and how does climate relate to greenhouse gas concentrations over time? This activity is the second lesson in a nine-lesson module 'Visualizing and Understanding the Science of Climate Change' produced by the International Year of Chemistry project (2011).
This short video, is the fifth in the National Academies Climate Change, Lines of Evidence series. It focuses on greenhouse gases, climate forcing (natural and human-caused), and global energy balance.
In this activity students use NASA satellite data to study changes in temperature and snow-ice coverage in the South Beaufort Sea, Alaska. They will then correlate the data with USGS ground tracking of polar bears and relate their findings to global change, sea ice changes, and polar bear migration and survival.

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NEON's key issue
To the Editor:
During Mr. Mann's watch some $400,000 came up missing according to a state audit. This is a plain fact. I'm not a lawyer but isn't this a case for the courts to decide?
Secondly, why didn't the new CEO of NEON tackle this first, and clear the decks for NEON to continue?
I'll repeat 'what happened to the more than $400,000?'
Sloppy bookkeeping, or something else?

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A murder investigation has been launched after a man was shot near a Travelodge hotel in Enfield.
Boluwatife Oyewunmi, 22, was shot back on Wednesday, April 5, 2017.
At around 9.45pm the Metropolitan Police were called to reports that a man had been shot on Lincoln Road, near to the Travelodge hotel.
Officers and the London Ambulance Services attended the scene and Mr Oyewunmi was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
Unfortunately, he died earlier this year on Thursday, July 11. Following a post-mortem examination, the cause of death was recorded as cardiac arrest, pneumonia and brain injury caused by a gunshot wound.
Mr Oyewunmi's next of kin are being supported by specialist officers.
Detective Chief Inspector Paul Considine from Specialist Crime, said: "Two years is a long time and this has clearly been a very difficult period for Boluwatife's family.
"Loyalties between those behind this shooting may have changed. Do you have information about those responsible?
"The investigation has been open since the incident happened and we continue to appeal to anyone with information to come forward and speak to us.
"The shooting took place near a Travelodge hotel in Enfield. Were you staying there? Did you hear or see anything that could be of use to the investigation?"
Five men that were arrested in 2017 in connection with the incident remain under investigation.
Three other men who were arrested have been released and will face no further action.
Anyone who witnessed the incident or has any information, is asked to contact the Incident Room on 020 8345 3865 or via Twitter @MetCC CAD quoting 9426 of 5 April 2017.
You can also give information anonymous to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or visit their website here.

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In Colorado, the Seller usually pays for Title Insurance for the Buyer (unless the contract has been checked by the Buyer that they will choose and pay). Within the contract, you can decide what type of Deed you want to give the Buyer. There usually isn’t much difference in cost, but we would always recommend calling the company of your choice to get rates.
General Warranty Deed
A general warranty deed provides the highest level of protection for the buyer because it includes significant covenants or warranties conveyed by the grantor to the grantee. Specifically, this type of deed promises that the grantor/seller owns and/or has a legal right to sell the property, and that it is free and clear of any liens, debts, or encumbrances.
Special Warranty Deed
A special warranty deed doesn’t provide as much protection for the buyer. The grantor of this type of deed conveys the property along with just two warranties—that the grantor does indeed hold title to the property, and that the property wasn’t encumbered during the grantor’s period of ownership. It doesn’t guarantee that it was unencumbered before the grantor took ownership, however.
You’ll most likely encounter this type of deed when a trust or estate is transferring property, or when commercial property is sold. The seller might not have any knowledge of what transpired with the property before taking ownership, so it won’t guarantee that the title was free before that point in time.
Personal Representive Deed
When someone dies owning an interest in real estate, the legal instrument used to convey the property is a Personal Representative’s Deed. In the deed, the Personal Representative (“PR”) of the estate transfers the deceased owner’s interest to either a third-party buyer or an estate beneficiary.
There could be other types of deed depending on the type of sale. Contact your Estate planner or Attorney for more information


- Almost eight in 10 teachers (79%) said their pupils are less ready for the world of work when compared to previous years
- Over half of businesses (56%) are concerned that ‘lost learning’ from the pandemic will exacerbate the skills shortage amongst pupils and students.
- Teach First calls for the government, businesses, charities and schools to work together to ensure that every child leaves school ready to succeed in the world of work
New research has today highlighted significant concern amongst both businesses and teachers about how prepared young people are for the world of work – particularly following the Covid-19 pandemic.
The polling is released by education charity Teach First as it launches a new report, Rethinking Careers Education: Investing in Our Country’s Future. The report makes a series of recommendations on how improving careers education – and increasing business engagement with schools – can help level up opportunities for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The new research reveals that eight in 10 teachers (79%) believe their pupils are less ready for the world of work when compared to previous years, while more than half of teachers in schools with the most disadvantaged pupils (55%) believe the pandemic has negatively affected pupils’ perceptions of their career prospects.
Teach First also conducted a survey of over 500 HR decision makers from British businesses and found they share this concern, with over half (56%) saying they are concerned that ‘lost learning’ from the pandemic will exacerbate the skills shortage amongst pupils and students.
While grades are hugely important, the research suggests that other skills are also highly valued by employers. When asked to select the top three skills that they would consider most if recruiting young people, they were most likely to choose broader soft skills (69%), literacy and numeracy (54%), and digital and IT skills (48%). However, when asked to give their assessment of the preparedness of current school, college and university leavers, 72% of businesses said that they were concerned about their level of soft skills. They also reported concerns about the level of literacy and numeracy (68%) and digital and IT skills (52%).
In their new report Teach First argues in favour of a series of recommendations which they believe could make a tangible impact on young people’s employability. Nearly seven in 10 (69%) of teachers agreed that improved careers education would decrease the number of young people that end up classified as Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET).
Children on free school meals are currently twice as likely to be NEET at age 18-24 compared to those not (26% compared to 13%)[i].
To help tackle this, Teach First believe careers education needs to start at primary school level. Teachers agree, with seven in 10 (71%) primary schools teachers believing career-related learning for their pupils will raise their pupils’ awareness of different career pathways, and two-thirds (66%) said it will raise their aspiration.
The DfE recently made a welcome commitment for a new careers programme for primary schools in disadvantaged areas in the recent Schools White Paper. In order to be as effective as possible, Teach First wants the DfE to work with sector leaders and publish a framework for effective careers learning in primary schools based on the Gatsby benchmarks and pair this with a new fund that trains and supports primary teachers working in disadvantaged areas.
Based on their own experience of successfully training Career Leaders in secondary schools, Teach First estimate this would cost £8.5m to support the top 10% most disadvantaged primary schools by pupils’ free school meal eligibility – which is approximately 2,000 primary schools.
The report also calls for a series of other key recommendations, including:
- Large employers to offer blended work experience programmes for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Whilst in-person work experience will continue to be crucial, online options offer employers a chance to diversify their recruitment and widen participation – particularly to regions outside of London.
- Large employers should collect and publish socioeconomic background data to inform their outreach work with schools and recruitment policies. This will ensure disadvantaged pupils, who are far less likely to access work placements through their family networks, are helped to secure the same opportunities to vital careers knowledge and experience.
- The Department for Education should use destinations data to target additional transitional support at schools and colleges that serve disadvantaged communities.
Russell Hobby, CEO of Teach First, said:
“Our country’s long-term prosperity depends on the next generation of young people. Careers education is an essential part of that – making a significant impact on a young person’s development at school, as well as their future employment opportunities. Schools do their best to prepare pupils for the world of work, but that is not their core purpose. That is why we believe it is essential that employers are involved in shaping the future of careers education.
“For too long, securing high quality careers advice and work experience has been a postcode lottery – that must change. With concerns over the cost-of-living crisis, and a potential recession later in the year, it’s vital that we do everything we can to give our young people the best possible chance to succeed and thrive in the world of work”.
Simon Wareham, Teach First Careers Leader & Assistant Principal at Southmoor Academy, said:
“To accommodate all our work, our careers education team has doubled in size. As school budgets are always limited, I work with our headteacher to adapt existing roles and school funding. We also rely on business partners to support with free resources, travel support and activities. Thankfully, many employers are invested in supporting our pupils and helping them to consider career options.
“Ultimately, all schools need to be equipped to provide their pupils with a complete education. We are passionate about making sure all of our pupils have the skills they need to be well prepared to go out and excel in the wider world.”


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Just because you’re through with your past, doesn’t mean it’s through with you.
Margaret Beringer didn’t have an easy adolescence. She hated her name, was less than popular in school, and was always cast aside as a “farm kid.” However, with the arrival of Courtney Carrington, Margaret’s youth sparked into color. Courtney was smart, beautiful, and put together—everything Margaret wasn’t. Who would have imagined that they’d fit together so perfectly?
But first loves can scar.

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The Seventh Month (Fumizuki), from the series The Five Festivals (Gosekku no uchi)
Edo-Tokyo Museum, Dai Ukiyo-e ten (2014), #318 (complete); Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 4, Victoria and Albert Museum I (1989), fig. 156 (complete triptych, but with left and right sheets switched)
Vertical ôban; 37.9 x 26.2 cm (14 15/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
Medium or Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Not On View
Left sheet of incomplete triptych.
MFA impressions: 11.29800 (left sheet only), 11.40085a-b (center and left sheets)
Kôchôrô Kunisada ga
Censor's seal: kiwame
By 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
 Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

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