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The Pentagon recently announced plans of shifting American troops from Somalia to elsewhere in east Africa.
In a statement, Army General Stephen Townsend, the commander of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) confirmed the shift of troops. Yet, his statement also contained a warning to the terrorist group al-Shabaab.
“To be clear, the U.S. is not withdrawing or disengaging from east Africa,” Townsend’s statement read. “We remain committed to helping our African partners build a more secure future. We also remain capable of striking al-Shabaab at the time and place of our choosing — they should not test us.”
There are currently about 700 American troops in Somalia. However, not all of those troops will be moved. USAF Colonel Stephen Karns, the spokesman for AFRICOM, confirmed to the media that a limited number of troops will remain in the country. He wouldn’t give specifics due to security concerns.
Special Operations troops have been training Somalian SOF troops of the Danab Battalion at Baledogle Airfield. At least some of the American special operators are expected to be retained there as they continue to work by, with, and through the Danab troops that are fighting al-Shabaab. American Special Operations troops are also directly involved in the fight against al-Shabaab. American drone operations provide surveillance and strike capabilities against the terror group.
General Townsend also announced the activation of a joint task force, called JTF-Quartz, which will be in charge of the U.S. troops’ repositioning. As reported by Army Times, General Townsend stated that JTF Quartz will be overseen by Major General Dag Anderson, the commander of Special Operations Command Africa.
“I have just returned from visiting him at his forward headquarters in east Africa, where I met with Dag and his commanders to review their posture and plans. JTF-Quartz is ready to go,” Townsend said.
In early December, the Defense Department announced that it had been tasked by President Trump to have AFRICOM draw down the number of troops in Somalia. This aligns with drawdowns from other hot zones like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Meanwhile, the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) along with its escorts and the three-ship Makin Island Amphibious Readiness Group (ARG) with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), have been operating just to the east of the Horn of Africa to handle any contingencies while the AFRICOM troops are repositioning, USNI News reported.
The USS Makin Island (LHD-8) and amphibious transport docks USS Somerset (LPD-25) and USS San Diego (LPD-22) make up the ARG that also includes the 15th MEU’s approximately 2,500 Marines. The Makin Island has a squadron of F-35 fighters onboard.
The American troops in Somalia are expected to be shifted to either the American base at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti or Manda Bay in Kenya.


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- 10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Part I
- 10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Part II
- Again, Amazon?
- 10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Zone 1 switch
- 10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Zone 2 switch – Part 1
- 10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Zone 2 switch – Part 2
- 10Gb home network – Retrospective
- Quanta LB6M
- 10 gigabit home network – Summary
- Revisiting the Quanta LB6M
- MikroTik CRS317 10GbE switch
- MikroTik CSS610
- Quieting the MikroTik CRS317
- Goodbye, MikroTik
- Troubleshooting 2.5Gb power over Ethernet
Last I left I mentioned that I was waiting for some hardware to arrive. The SFP+ transceivers and optical fiber cables along with a power supply from EVGA’s RMA department. I mentioned that I also considered not waiting for the power supply to ship so I could finish the switch sooner. And I went for that option.
Courtesy of some nice incentives on NewEgg’s website, I opted to the Seasonic SSR-550RM. It’s initial list price was 60 USD, but there was an active special allowing for a 5 USD coupon code plus 15 USD mail-in rebate. It’s a 550W gold-rated power supply, which should be more than enough for this project while hopefully allowing it to always run nearly silent. And it has a 9.6 rating from Jonny Guru.
It’s not fully-modular, unlike the EVGA 650 G2 I’m waiting on RMA return, but is semi-modular. The 24-pin ATX and 8-pin CPU cables are attached. I may be able to get away with not needing anything else, but that may be unlikely.
No more wireless. For now.
I purchased the TP-Link AC1900 wireless card with the aim of creating a Wi-Fi hotspot with it. I was able to get the card working with NDISWrapper, after some finagling including blacklisting the built-in Broadcom driver. But I wasn’t able to turn it into a hotspot. Likely the driver is the concern here.
But there was something else I didn’t realize till after I tried to set it up as a hotspot: I wouldn’t be able to run it in 2.4GHz and 5GHz concurrently that I could find, basically negating the reasons to set it up as a hotspot.
So I’m going to figure out something else to do with the TP-Link card and just buy an access point to replace the WiFi built into the router.
In doing this whole project, I realized that there was a significantly better way of handling all of this, and it’s something I should’ve considered before starting the Zone 2 switch. You live, you learn, I guess.
Basically if you’ve followed this series, you’ve probably predicted this move. The Zone 1 switch has only three 10GbE ports. The Zone 2 switch has four 10GbE ports. But I have only four systems that could be upgraded to 10GbE. So the thought was simply: why not consolidate?
So I took what was the Zone 2 switch and basically made it the only 10GbE switch on the network, removing the quad-port Gigabit card. I could have just moved one of the dual-port cards into Zone 1, but I wanted to keep the PCI graphics card in the switch. And the ASRock 990FX Extreme6 board that was in Zone 1 does not have a PCI slot.
This creates for a much less complicated setup overall. The original Gigabit switch will be retained and used for the entertainment center. And two 30m optical fiber cables will run from Mira and Absinthe to the switch, while the long Cat5E cable will run to the router.
This move won’t improve throughput. It shouldn’t degrade it either given the 8-core processor. Again, it’s about consolidation. So with that, on to specifications.
Final specifications on the switch:
- CPU: AMD FX-8350 (stock speed) with Noctua NH-D9L
- Mainboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Rev 4.1
- RAM: 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3-1866
- GPU: GeForce 2 MX400 PCI
- Storage: Samsung Fit 32GB USB 3.0
- Gigabit: TP-Link TG-3468
- 10GbE: 2xMellanox ConnectX-2 (MNPH29-XTR)
- Transceivers: Fiber Store Generic 10GBase-SR
- Cable: OM4 LC to LC
The two blank slots at the back, to the right of the Gigabit card and to the right of the VGA card, are x4 slots, which would allow for two additional single-port cards if I so desired. All of the cards are directly cooled by a 120mm Nanoxia Deep Silence fan.
Installing Mellanox EN driver for Fedora 24 Server
Note: to make a bridge with the Mellanox chipset 10GbE cards, you MUST use the Mellanox driver. The mlnx4_core driver distributed with most Linux distros won’t work for this, at least not out of the box.
After downloading and extracting the files from their repository, run these commands:
dnf install lm_sensors 'perl(Term::ANSIColor)' redhat-rpm-config python-libxml2 rpm-build kernel-devel createrepo ./install --add-kernel-support /etc/init.d/mlnx-en.d restart
The first makes sure you have the right packages installed — lm_sensors is a good one to have for hardware monitoring, and it will install perl and a few other required packages as part of its dependencies. Another utility to consider is nmon.
The second command builds and installs the drivers for your kernel. If you get an error about the package command not being found, just re-run the command. I’ve sometimes had to run it multiple times for some reason.
While not required, you should also reboot after installing the driver.
Fedora 25 and later: You might be able to force support of the driver for Fedora 25 by changing the scripts to look for “fc25” instead of “fc24”. I have not tried this, so I cannot speak to whether it will work.
Throughput and jumbo frames
In many discussions about 10GbE, jumbo frames comes up. Many have wondered if they need to use jumbo frames to maximize throughput or performance. And the answer largely is “that depends”.
If you are using optical fiber with 10GBase-SR transceivers, jumbo frames is completely unnecessary since optical fiber has a super low latency and is virtually immune to interference.
It largely depends on what you use to measure throughput. iPerf, I’ve found, is far from accurate. It’s great for measuring throughput between two points in a network, but not for hopping junctions.
For example, iPerf reports throughput between my NAS (Nasira) and the switch of about 9.4Gbit, probably as good as I’m going to get. And it reports about 9.3Gbit to 9.4Gbit between Mira and the switch. But between Mira and Nasira, hopping across the switch and jumping between NICs, it reported 4.4Gbit. So what gives?
Have a look at these two file transfers:
This is transferring a file from the Nasira to Mira. Jumbo frames off. The same connection for which iPerf reported 4.4Gbit throughput. The difference is the first transfer was a non-cached transfer: FreeNAS was reading the file from the ZFS array directly and serving it back to me. Pretty impressive transfer speed unto itself.
But the faster transfer speed, the one sticking to about 850MB per second, is a cached transfer, meaning FreeNAS had the file cached in RAM. Still not a full 10Gbit transfer, but I doubt jumbo frames would max it out since FreeNAS is likely the limitation here since my SSD is a Samsung 950 Pro.
So you should not need to enable jumbo frames to see maximum performance.
Next article for this project will be a retrospective in which I summarize what I’ve discovered during this and provide some tips to determine if this project is right for you.


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Asking questions is the best way to learn, of course, and chiropractic patients often ask questions about some of the health issues they face. Some chiropractic patients are curious about back problems, for example, because chiropractors are well known for being extremely knowledgeable when it comes to spine health and the musculoskeletal system. A few chiropractic patients want to know about TMJ disorders.
Here are a few of the most common things chiropractic patients want to know about TMJ disorders.
Chiropractic Patients Most Frequently Asked Questions about TMJ Disorders
What is a TMJ disorder?
A TMJ disorder affects the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), which is the joint where the jawbone connects to the head, just in front of the ear. The bones and muscles of the TMJ allow the jaw to move up and down, and side to side, enabling a person to talk, chew and yawn.
TMJ disorders (TMDs) can cause pain in the jaw joint and in the muscles that control the movement of the jaw.
How common are TMJ problems?
About 12 percent of the population experiences symptoms of TMJ at any given time, according to the TMJ Association.
What causes TMJ disorders?
There are several known causes of TMJ disorders, including:
- Trauma to the jaw or temporomandibular joint
- Dental procedures, especially those that require the mouth be open for a long time
- Insertion of a breathing tube prior to surgery
- Misalignments of the jaw
Grinding teeth, known as bruxism, may cause TMJ disorders but not everyone who grinds their teeth develops a TMD.
Medical professionals may not be able to determine the underlying cause of TMJ disorders in many cases but chiropractors can treat TMJ disorders even if the cause cannot be determined.
What are the symptoms of TMJ disorder?
Many people with TMD describe their symptoms as a dull, aching pain that comes and goes in their jaw joint and in nearby areas. Some people with TMJ disorders do not experience pain but have trouble moving their jaws.
Other common symptoms of TMJ disorders include:
- Pain or stiffness in the jaw muscles
- Chronic headaches
- Neck, shoulder pain
- Clicking, popping or grating of the jaw joint when the individual opens or closes his or her mouth
- Limited movement of the jaw
- “Locking” of the jaw
- Tinnitus, which includes ear pain, fullness, pressure and ringing in the ears
- Dizziness, vision problems
- A bite that feels “off” when the person closes his or her mouth
What is the treatment for TMJ disorders?
The best way to treat TMJ disorders is to eat soft foods, ice the affected area with ice packs to ease pain and try to avoid extreme jaw movements, such as chewing gum or yawning.
Can a chiropractor treat TMJ disorders?
Yes, chiropractic safely and effectively treats TMJ disorders. A chiropractor will perform a full evaluation of the patient’s temporomandibular joint and surrounding bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments to assess the full scope of the TMJ problem and determine its underlying causes. The chiropractor can then suggest a range of treatments that can include stretches and exercises that alleviate pain and melt stiffness in the jaw joint. The chiropractor can also detect and address any misalignments that may be contributing to TMJ pain.
For more information about the temporomandibular joint, TMJ disorders and chiropractic for TMJ problems, contact a chiropractor with experience in diagnosing and treating TMJ problems.
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Purdue Libraries, as a federal depository library, provides access to many U.S. Government information resources including those produced by the U.S. Congress. Numerous paper, microform, and electronic information resources are produced by the U.S. House and Senate, congressional committees, and congressional support agencies. Most of these are in the government documents collection on the 1st floor of HSSE Library's periodical stacks and have call numbers beginning with the letters X or Y with the following being examples Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG. 108-301, Y 10.2:B 85/3, and Y 1.1/8:109-88.
The Libraries online catalog is a good place to begin looking for congressional information. Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) terms you can use to search include:
For a general overview of the Legislative process, see below.
Useful commercial journals and databases for accessing information about Congress and its activities include:
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Websites for the House of Representatives and Senate contain information about the overall workings of each house, links to the websites of individual Representatives and Senators, and links to congressional committee websites. The House of Representatives History Office provides information about this institution's historical development and evolution. Similar information on Senate History and Art is also available. The Clerk of the House features administrative information about Representatives and House activities including members foreign travel reports and biographical information on historic and current members.
Congressional committees are very valuable information resources. These committees are responsible for reviewing proposed or existing legislation, conducting oversight of current federal programs, and determining funding for these programs. Congressional committees have subpoena authority and generally swear witnesses in before their testimony. Witnesses testifying before congressional committees include experts from government agencies, the military, academe, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and average citizens. Hearing transcripts will contain questioning of witnesses by committee members which can become heated and a wide variety of substantive reports submitted by committee members from a variety of sources. Committees also publish reports on proposed legislation and reports documenting their activities during individual two-year congressional sessions.
Paper copies of congressional committee hearings from 1975-present are located in the Y 4 area of the HSSE Library Government Documents collection on the 1st floor of the HSSE periodical stacks. Some pre-1975 congressional committee publications are available through the Hathitrust Catalog. Many recent versions of these publications are also Internet accessible. Congressional committee hearings are valuable sources for understanding the congressional funding, oversight, and policymaking progress.


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The COVID-19 outbreak and ongoing global pandemic has made everyone increasingly aware of air quality and safety. As people resume normal activities and given this particular virus’s proclivity to linger in poorly ventilated indoor spaces, making indoor air safe is more important than ever before. Improving air quality by cleaning the air is just as important as cleaning and disinfecting surfaces, though the process is quite different.
The coronavirus with its airborne qualities is not alone, as other contaminants also decrease air quality and bring both short-term and long-term health problems. In fact, some work environments virtually guarantee high levels of pollution and poor air quality. One way to make indoor air safe is the use of Air Scrubbers, also called Negative Air Machines. Air Scrubbers can improve air quality and enhance overall health. The experts at Cooling Power Corp share these tips on making indoor air safer and cleaner for a healthier environment.
What is an Air Scrubber?
An Air Scrubber (Negative Air Machine) is a piece of equipment used to improve the quality of indoor air. They are common in manufacturing facilities, hospitals, industrial facilities, and commercial buildings. At Cooling Power Corp, the negative air machines are premium quality working at a higher capacity and designed with HEPA filters for maximum efficiency (capturing 99.97 percent for 0.3-micron particles). With a premium Air Scrubber in place, indoor air is cleaner, protecting employees, customers, and all who enter the business or facility.
Negative Air Machines create negative pressure to isolate and trap airborne particles, thus keeping them from moving throughout the building. Cooling Power’s Air Scrubbers feature pre-filtration to remove large airborne contaminants, followed by HEPA filtration of microscopic microbes like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and allergens. Plus, the Negative Air Machines also feature a third level of filtration, a high capacity carbon filter, to eliminate odors. Air Scrubbers are available in a variety of sizes, effectively trapping pollutants and contaminants from the indoor air.
Signs and Symptoms of Poor Indoor Air Quality
While you might think that unusual odors are indicative of air quality, often the reverse is true and there is no strange smell accompanying poor indoor air quality. Instead, when determining air quality, these signs and symptoms are attributed to contaminated indoor air:
- Watery eyes
Poor indoor air quality also can have more serious health effects such as:
- Rhinitis – sinus inflammation and nasal congestion or a running nose
- Conjunctivitis – eye irritation
- Skin Rashes
- Nose Bleeds
- Nausea and vomiting
- Pharyngitis – cough and sore throat
- Difficulty Breathing
- Loss of Appetite
- Chills and Fever
Using Negative Air Machines Effectively
Air Scrubbers are a great way to make indoor air safer in businesses and organizations including educational facilities, hotels, offices, warehouses, industrial facilities, arenas, manufacturing facilities, as well as corporate events, film production locations, and trade shows. In addition to Negative Air Machines, business and organizations can further improve air quality by banning smoking, ensuring proper ventilation, adding plants, and controlling animal infestations, just to name a few.
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Keeping the indoor air quality safe for employees, customers, and others who visit your business can be accomplished with the high-quality Negative Air Machines from Cooling Power Corp. Air scrubber are highly efficient, utilizing HEPA filters in a three-stage process to remove germs, allergens, and contaminants from the air.
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Your bathtub drain is an important part of the bathroom hardware. This item is very useful to make sure the drainage system can work properly. This bathtub drain should be installed properly, so it can function normally. It is very useful to keep the water flowing out of the bathtub via pipes and also plumbing system of the house.
Many homeowners want to learn about how they can install this item properly. There are some important factors involved in the installation of new bathtub drain. It is necessary to take a look at these factors, in order to avoid getting any problems in the future. Here are some important tips on how to install this bathtub drain correctly.
1. Install the overflow pipe.
This overflow pipe should be positioned correctly during the new bathtub drain installation process. Don’t forget to put a rubber gasket on top of this overflow pipe. This overflow pipe should be connected with the tub drain hole, in order to keep the water flowing out from the bathtub.
2. Use plumber’s putty on the bottom side of the drain flange.
This is another important step that is recommended for most homeowners. It is important to apply a thick layer of plumber’s putty for covering the bottom part of the flange. This item is very useful to strengthen the structure of the drain flange, so it can last for a long time without getting any problems.
3. Install this drain flange on the bottom part of the bathtub.
It is important to make a hole on the bottom part of the tub, in order to keep the water flowing out from the tub. This hole should be connected with the drain flange installed under the bathtub. Don’t forget to use screws for strengthening the structure of this item effectively. The drain flange should be screwed to the drain tailpiece opening system.
4. Buy trip lever and also drain hardware.
When people want to install a new bathtub drain, they should choose the best accessories for themselves. These trip lever and also drain hardware are very important to manage the water flow on the drain. These components are widely available in many home improvement or hardware stores.
5. Install the overflow hole.
This overflow hole is very useful to prevent the water from overflowing the bathtub. This hole should be installed at the backside of the bathtub. This hole should be connected with the trip lever, so it can be managed easily. Don’t forget to install the overflow hole cover plate, in order to improve the durability of this system.
After reading this article, all homeowners should be able to install a bathtub drain easily. They also need to know about some maintenance tips, so they can use all items or necessary tools for long period of time. Don’t forget to tighten all screws and all necessary pieces properly.
When you are busy with your regular activities, you can consider hiring some professionals. There are some experts who are ready to install the best bathtub drain system for your bathroom. Contact the best professionals who have a lot of experience, knowledge, and skills in this industry.


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Our look at the light novels of Sword Art Online continue! With Aincrad in the rear view mirror, it is now time to talk about the next arc in the series. It is one of the most controversial and debated arcs, one that I’ve said in the past I’ve quite enjoyed. But what about it in light novel form? Does it hold up? Or like Aincrad does it feel like a rough draft of a better story? After the cut let’s take a dive into volume 3 of Sword Art Online and the first half of the Fairy Dance arc!Read More »
This is a topic that I’ve dabbled in a few times throughout my look at Sword Art Online. It’s also something that is near and dear to my heart. One of the things I love most about anime is that amount freedom it tends to offer their female characters. There are archetypes sure, there are overdone tropes and clichés yes, but most of the time female characters in anime have a pretty good deal. They can be bossy, slutty, powerful, weak, warriors, healers, leaders, followers, sluts, pure. You name it, anime has pretty much got it. As always, such things are never perfect, but I’ve always felt that anime gives a far, far better range of choice than anything the west does.
One such character however has really pulled my interest over the last year, and today I want to talk about her a bit more. After the cut let’s take a character dive into the female lead of Sword Art Online: Asuna Yuuki.Read More »
This year’s The Summer of Love discussed the ecchi/harem series Date A Live. A show that needs no introduction around these parts. It is the best example of a B+ show, one that is committed to its premise, and is able to be exactly what it says. Not perfect, not masterful, but never a show whose mistakes cripple it. I spent the summer discussing all three season, the movie, and some of the character. Links to all of those posts can be found right after the cut! Please enjoy!

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Obstructive sleep apnoea produces major acute haemodynamic changes and causal relationships with arterial hypertension and cardiovascular morbidity have been proposed.(1) Autonomic dysfunction has been independently associated with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), and while autonomic abnormalities are generally considered to be secondary to OSA, it is also felt that autonomic dysfunction may also contribute to OSA.Continue reading “Dysautonomia and sleep apnoea”
One of the safest aspects about modern medicine is its conservatism, and the need to work within accepted and proven guidelines. It is a safeguard against enthusiastic or entrepreneurial management, and usually protects against unsafe and dangerous practices. This discussion document does not follow mainstream evidence-based medicine and as such, it must be read andContinue reading “Joining the dots in POTS, Migraine and Fibromyalgia”
My Journey Around 20 years ago, I was fortunate to meet, and later work with, one of the great pioneers in food related disease, the allergist Dr Mervyn Garrett. For decades, he has been able to prove the relationship between types of food to diseases such as eczema, irritable bowel, colic, reflux, and many more.Continue reading “My Journey”
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Migraine remains a poorly understood disease, and with this the management traditionally is frequently unsatisfactory. Migraine headaches are characterized by a throbbing or pounding pain, and are classically located on one side of the head, although they can occur all over.

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The Community Giving at MIT campaign, which runs through the end of the month, has reached 98 percent of its $350,000 goal. Two more raffle prizes for participants have also been donated.
As of January 22, the campaign had received pledges of $342,047 from 1,134 community members, including 89 Leadership Givers contributing at least $1,000 apiece. Of the pledge total, $268,727 has been designated for the United Way of Massachusetts Bay (UWMB), $68,912 for the MIT Community Service Fund and $4,408 for other charity options.
In addition to raffle prizes announced earlier, all campaign donors are eligible to win a one-night weekend stay at the Holiday Inn Express in Cambridge, two sets of four tickets to the 2001 Topsfield Fair, and a $50 gift certificate for Legal Seafoods. Anyone who makes a pledge to the campaign is automatically entered. For a list of the other prizes, see the January 10 issue of MIT Tech Talk. To learn more about the campaign and making a pledge, call x3-7914 or go to http://web.mit.edu/community-giving/index2.html.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on January 24, 2001.


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The scientific father of the first "test-tube" baby won a Nobel Prize in Medicine this week for revolutionary work that toppled the natural order of things by making it possible to produce babies in the laboratory rather than under the bed sheets. There is a certain irony in the fact that it took 32 years for the Nobel Committee to recognize a signal scientific achievement with such profound consequences. The birth of British baby Louise Joy Brown shortly before midnight on July 25, 1978, spawned sensational headlines around the globe. But the 5-pound, 12-ounce baby grew up, married and is already a mother herself (the old-fashioned way). Over time, as the procedure's popularity rose around the world, the once-obscure scientific name gained household recognition. Today, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has largely replaced the Brave New World-sounding term "test-tube" baby that we journalists trumpeted when Baby Louise was born.
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Today, the procedure has become a common, almost ordinary, means of helping couples with infertility problems. Most of us have family members, friends or acquaintances who casually drop the fact that their children were born with the help of IVF. About four million in vitro children have now joined Baby Louise worldwide, with the first such birth in the United States in late 1981 at a Norfolk, Virginia, hospital. Now some 58,000 American IVF babies are born each year -- more than one percent of all births in the U.S.
While I generally avoid the widely used, but often exaggerated, word "breakthrough," this was indeed a breakthrough of the first order. The pioneering science of British embryologist Robert G. Edwards, now 85, has held up, and the safety and effectiveness of the procedure he pioneered in partnership with the late gynecologist Patrick C. Steptoe, who died in 1988, has born out (sorry) over time. The Nobel announcement concluded that "long-term follow-up studies have shown that IVF children are as healthy as other children."
But the novel scientific development also produced a host of bioethical, legal and political issues, from debates over parentage to controversies about the fate of unused embryos, that were not anticipated by those of us who covered the original English announcement.
Who expected, in 1978, that in vitro fertilization would be used in such inventive ways? At the time, the focus was on helping the more traditional infertile married couple, whose sperm and eggs could be fertilized in a Petri dish (a shallow lab tray, not the more picturesque test tube), and the resulting embryos transferred into the woman's uterus. But since then, the circle has widened considerably, with IVF helping gay couples and unmarried women, not to mention older women, some past menopause, who have pushed conventional biological boundaries.
Surrogate mothers and egg donors are increasingly part of the conversation. I recently met a married woman, looking trim and fit, who mentioned she was on her way out of town "to have a baby." Huh? She explained that she was flying to the planned Caesarian birth of her third child, a product of in vitro fertilization of her egg with her husband's sperm who was being carried by an unrelated surrogate mother. While the biological mother was unable to carry her own baby to term, Edwards' work made it possible for this couple to have a baby with genes from both of them. That child is doing quite fine.
Who expected, in 1978, that pressures on doctors and clinics to transfer multiple embryos at a time into a woman's uterus to increase the likelihood of success would spawn dramatic increases in the number of in vitro twins, triplets or more? Between 1980 and 2004, the rate of twins born in the United States jumped by about 70 percent, in part because of IVF (about 40 percent of IVF procedures lead to twins, according to the March of Dimes). Friends of mine have lovely twin daughters, now in their 20s, who are the happy result of in vitro fertilization.
Individual IVF procedures are largely unregulated in this country, leaving the details up to the discretion of individual clinics, doctors, and their patients. The time, emotional toll and expense -- generally over $12,000 per cycle in the U.S. -- has led many patients to push for multiple embryo transfers at a time, and doctors and clinics also want higher success rates (about 20 to 30 percent of fertilized eggs lead to to the birth of a child). But how many is too many? Recognition of the added risks and consequences of multiple-birth pregnancies, including preterm delivery and low-birth weight, have led to medical group guidelines that urge more caution by reducing the number of embryos transferred at a time to minimize the prospect of multiple births.


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POP continues to evolve and ramp up the number of patients that come through the prehabilitation program. More and more surgeons and physicians see the need for certain risk prone patients to come and follow the POP prescription for optimizing health and getting prepared for surgery. Those patients that adhere to the program see the benefits of being ready before surgery and work well with our devoted team of kinesiologists, nutritionists and relaxation therapists. The outcomes are impressive and for most patients it is a journey worth following.
As always, we have our core group that manages the POP program (as pictured above) and our students, following either a Master or PhD. We also welcome and say goodbye to those that move on in their profession.
In September 2017, we happily welcomed back Enrico Minnella, an MD in Anesthesia from Italy, who was studying to achieve a PhD in Experimental Surgery. Dr. Minnella successfully completed his PhD this past July and was immediately granted a Clinical Fellowship for a year in the Anesthesia Department. He continues to work part time with POP as a Clinical Supervisor of the POP program.
We say goodbye to Lauren Richer, our part-time nutritionist, who is going to be married and live in Israel for a year or two. Lauren has been responsible for refining and delivering a very effective nutrition counseling program with patients. We are sorry to see her go but know that she will succeed wherever she goes. Replacing her, we welcome Teodora Cioteanu, a dietitian who works for the MUHC. Teodora will carry on Lauren’s work delivering nutrition counseling for the POP program.
Anh Thy Le Quang is now pursuing her Master in Kinesiology with François Prince, PhD at the Université de Montréal. She will be studying balance within the elderly population and how it is affected by the introduction of a multimodal prehabilitation program. She will continue to work with us on a part-time basis, supervising our new kinesiologist, Hamza Qureshi, and has taken over the position of Research Coordinator while Rashami Awasthi is on maternity leave.
Hamza Queshi joins the POP Team as a full time Kinesiologist, having graduated with a Bachelor of Exercise Science from Concordia University. Hamza has worked in various positions with the CLSC, the Cummings Centre and various gyms since graduating in 2018. He will work with Anh Thy, providing individualized exercise programs for clinical and research patients.
POP has been very lucky, thanks to Jane Edwards, to continue to receive $20,000 for the past 6 years from the Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation. Much of our research work deals not only with optimizing patient’ health but helping patients deal with pain management. We are eternally grateful to Jane for supporting our work.
The number of visitors we get from around the world, who come to learn about the POP prehabilitation program, has been ever increasing. We have had visitors from Canada, the US, France, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Italy, the UK, Australia, The Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore among others. We continue to strive to be a world recognized training center for peri-operative care and, more specifically, prehabilitation preparation before surgery.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
During the year, the POP Team again has attended many conferences dealing with prehabilitation. Several members of the team attended the Third World Conference on Prehabilitation (originally started by Dr. Carli) in London, England. Two members of the POP Team received honours for their abstracts, Tram Bui, kinesiologist, taking first place and Lauren Richer, dietitian, third place. Congratulations to both women for their excellent presentations. Also, Dr. Minnella is pursuing his Certification in the use of a CPET machine, after attending several CPET workshops in London, England. He is responsible for training the other members of the POP Team on the use of the CPET machine, recently purchased by POP at the beginning of 2019.
In March 2019, POP conducted its first of many one-day workshops to teach attendees ( maximum of 20 people fully subscribed) how to conduct a prehabilitation program. Physicians, surgeons, nurses, physiotherapists, kinesiologist, dietitians attended the workshop. An intensive day of workshops in all the areas – exercise, nutrition, relaxation therapies, smoking cessation, patient education – was held, where measurements techniques were demonstrated for each part of the multi-modal approach. The reviews by the participants were excellent. Another such workshop will be held in the same manner on Saturday, November 16 2019. It was such a success that POP will be running this type of workshop twice a year in the Spring and Fall.
Miquel Coca, MD, an anesthesiologist from Barcelona, is doing research in Experimental Surgery studying the effects of a prehabilitation program on the Peripheral Artery Disease patients. The purpose of the research is to learn if a structured prehabilitation exercise program specifically tailored to the patient and performed before revascularization (angioplasty) could improve their functional capacity and quality of life both before and after surgery. The other purpose of the study is to learn if this program can decrease the number of patients needing revascularization procedures.
Vanessa Ferreira, who has been working with us for several years before embarking on her Master and now her PhD in Kinesiology, is studying a novel multimodal intervention for surgical prehabilitation of patients with lung cancer. Vanessa is testing the effect of a multimodal prehabilitation intervention combining a mixed-nutrient supplement with structured exercise training against standard of care, on functional pre- and postoperative outcomes in surgical patients with lung cancer. She will also be studying putative mechanisms of action of the intervention in muscle samples collected at surgery.
Guillaume Bousquet-Dion, is studying the effects of prehabilitation on Frail patients. The purpose of this research is to find the most efficient way to recuperate strength and energy after surgery. To do so, we will observe if, in elderly frail patients, a program of physical exercise, nutrition supplements and relaxation techniques has better results whether it is started before or after surgery.
Karen Tam, MD has been doing research on the effect of prehabilitation on Hernia patients, a difficult population to work with. Karen was accepted into residency program at Waterloo, ON in July of this year.
Kenny Drummond, a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from McGill University, is doing a Masters in Surgical Innovation, studying the effects of prehabilitation with esophageal patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment. The hypothesis is that optimizing health, by introducing an exercise and nutritional regime prior to and during chemotherapy, will help patients with the stress of chemotherapy and impending surgery or post-surgery.
Genevieve Lambert is doing a Master of Science in Telehealth, trying to set up an internet protocol for dealing with patients who live far away and can’t come in for all the exercise training, nutritional counseling face-to-face and psycho-social intervention. The program will work on a FaceTime concept where a Kinesiologist can video conference with the patient in delivering an exercise program and watch the patient perform.
Many of the above researchers have received funding with the support of POP. Miquel Coca received funding to pursue his research from Fundacion Alfonso Martin Escudero, Spain, Enrico Minnella from MITACS and ESPEN, Cedars Cancer Centre, the MGH Foundation and MGH Auxiliary. Vanessa won an award from the MGH Foundation and CIHR.
We would like to thank Immunotec who graciously supplies Immunocal, whey protein nutritional supplement used in many of our trials.
We have been working for the past two years on a Patient Care Navigation software in conjunction with a software firm in Madison, WI. We are nearing completion and ready to put into practice, having conducted a pilot study this Spring on the possible architecture of the software. It consists of a daily questionnaire sent to the patient’s phone by text messaging or by email at 6:00PM every day for the 28 days prior to surgery. From this information, a dashboard is available to the POP Team every morning to review the status of a patient. The software helps POP to maintain interactive communication with patients, determine their compliance and solve any problems that occur and deal with them right away.
POP continues to write manuscripts for publication and has been successful in publishing for the most prestigious magazines in the medical field.
FRIENDS FOR THE CURE GALA FEBRUARY 2019
The Friends For The Cure 7th Annual Gala, to benefit POP, was again held in February. The theme this year was PARIS. Another smash success with about 920 people attending. The food was great, the band terrific and the raffle and silent auction bringing in record amounts yet again. POP received $125,000 from the Gala. Friends For The Cure have to be commended on their tireless efforts to support POP by putting on a Gala every year for POP. They are the spine of our operation.
Next year Gala will be held on Saturday, February 15, 2020 and is moving to Laval where parking will be much easier and not face the challenges that occurred this year albeit there was a horrendous snowstorm and so streets were full of snowbanks!
TEXAS HOLD’EM FUNDRAISING EVENT 2019
This year’s Texas Hold’Em was held on April 5, 2019. Tony Panarello and his committee put on great evening. They donated $5,000 to POP which helps with our ever-expanding program of prehabilitation. It was a fun evening of poker and great food. Next year’s event will be held on April 3, 2020. Everyone is invited to attend. Tickets may be purchased from the POP team.
This testimonial was written by one of POP’S recent hernia patients. It sums up what we believe are the advantages of the prehabilitation program wherein patients are motivated to help themselves, with the support of the dedicated POP team, to optimize their health before facing the stress of surgery.
Again, I wish to thank you and your great team for helping me and motivating me during the time building up to my surgery. It assisted me immensely in so many ways. I would recommend this program to everyone who is going to undergo any surgery by their Doctors. I found my recovery time was speedy and helped me considerably. I felt strong faster than I figured it would and it helped me and made me get back on my feet again sooner than expected. I can not find the words for the gratitude I feel.
We cannot run this program without your help. To provide the best of patient care during a very stressful time prior to surgery, we need to have the right kind of professionals and equipment to take care of all patients that require our program. Please consider donating to POP and giving patients the best care possible.


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Get ready for the unleashed melodious entertainment!
The American Idol App is now available on Android to help you keep track of every episode. The hottest season 12 is lastly here to mesmerize your senses.
Everyone likes to vote for his/her favorite contestant after watching the live show. This useful android app helps you to vote for the desired participant without any hassle. Moreover, you can enjoy the real-time social conversation and watch your preferred videos.
With American Idol app, you get all the latest news regarding the show without facing any problem. No matter what sort of device you possess, because the app can be installed on almost every kind of android device. It is also available for the iOS users on iTunes.
It has become easier to check out the current yeara??s contestants, access judges and view their fresh photos. There is a lot more waiting and you can get this simply by downloading the American Idol app.
Who will join the household names Ruben Studdard, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia, David Cook, Taylor Hicks, Scotty McCreery, Jordin Sparks, Lee DeWyze, Phillip Phillips and Kris Allen? You need to decide, so vote for the next American IDOL.
You can watch the American IDOL on Wednesdays & Thursdays at 8/7c on FOX.
This seasona??s superstar judges include Mariah Carey, Randy Jackson, Keith Urban and Nicki Minaj. All of these are the prominent personalities in the United States. Now they will be on your television screen judging your favorite contestants. The American Idol App is a very useful tool to assist you in voting the contestants based on their performance.
Mariah Carey is the best-selling female playback singer of all times. Another protuberant name Randy Jackson is an award-winning producer who is going to utilize his expertise in the mega TV show. Similarly, Nicki Minaj & Keith Urban both are four-time winners of the Grammy Award.

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SAM HAY is a 25.48 m Motor Yacht, built in Turkey by Ge-Ta and delivered in 1991. She is one of 4 Atlantic 25 models.
Her top speed is 12.0 kn, her cruising speed is 10.0 kn, and she boasts a maximum cruising range of 3500.0 nm at 8.5 kn, with power coming from two Caterpillar diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 6 guests in 3 staterooms, with 5 crew members waiting on their every need. She has a gross tonnage of 140.58 GT and a 6.0 m beam.
She was designed by Nick Myers, who has designed 7 other superyachts in the BOAT Pro database.
SAM HAY is one of 5116 motor yachts in the 24-30m size range, and, compared to similarly sized motor yachts, her volume is 28.69 GT above the average.
SAM HAY is registered under the United Kingdom flag, the 4th most popular flag state for superyachts with a total of 816 yachts registered


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Efforts to save West Africa’s disappearing seabirds are to be given a boost thanks to an ambitious monitoring initiative which will help identify and protect the areas in which they forage and overwinter.
Two local conservation groups in Uganda; one in Lutembe bay (Lutembe bay Wetland Users Association) and one in Mabamba bay (Mabamba bay Wetland Eco-tourism Association) have been undertaking a resource planning activity to inform the development o
This second article in the series about 'women in conservation' shows how Maasai women in the Loita Hills (South Nguruman Important Bird Area/Key Biodiversity Area, Kenya) are eager to protect their forest - if only the men would allow it.
The Bechi Kebele is home to 10,171 people, most of which are dependent on the slowly dwindling Sheka forest. God for People Relief and Development Organisation (GPRDO) has been working in this region since 2005 to promote community based forest management systems. In 2013 GPRDO was able to expand their work in this region after receiving a grant from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) to implement GPRDO’s project.

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It’s a struggle for Sean to return to the pain and confusion of life — and it’s his duty to his family, rather than his love for them that makes him do so. This leaves him with a debilitating guilt.
A woman in Coventry hears a crash and wakes up with a start. She’s convinced the son she gave up for adoption has died, and will now never find her.
Thus begins A Second Life. And what follows is a heart-rending account of Sean’s struggle to come to terms with his past and find a route for a happy future.
His was a good story — he was endowed with loving parents, but when they told him, at 11, that he was adopted, he ripped up all the photos of himself, because
He had lost all sense of identity and belonging. His shameful past led to him never telling Geraldine his true identity.
Even now, as he starts a desperate search for his birth mother, he keeps Geraldine in the dark — and his long absences from home leave her flummoxed and hurt. Will he discover the truth about his birth and, most importantly, will it give him the peace he needs to allow his life to turn around?
This novel is a broad read that takes you back to the days when Magdalene laundry services and mother and child homes flourished. It also reveals the brutality and secrecy of the nuns, which makes it harrowing. The title refers to Sean’s second life — and could equally apply to his new life with his adoptive parents, or this new change after his near-death experience.
It could also have been directed at the author. In 1993, he wrote the original version. At the time, his sons were small — the same age as Sean’s children are in the novel.
While he was satisfied with his work at that time, he became less happy as the secrets of the Past became more apparent. He fretted and felt that he hadn’t got the story quite right. He rewrote the novel and added the truth from his extensive research to it.
There have, of course, been numerous books written, and many documentaries shown on the scandals of the church and their attitude towards women since the book was originally published (I co-wrote one myself — Whispering Hope, telling the true stories of five of the Magdalene survivors,) but this one is brilliant in showing, not only, the way unmarried mothers were treated back then, but in concentrating, more, on the pain and lasting trauma felt by her son, who, in truth, was one of the lucky ones.
Sean had a happy upbringing, a loving marriage and two beautiful children he adored, yet after his accident he could not find peace — and knew he never would until he could find out what his origins were. It was not an easy task, and there were many obstacles in his path.
Bolger’s best work is displayed in this beautiful novel. The plot twists and turns are driven by Bolger’s characters. Because they are all sympathetic and hold true to their beliefs, the reader will always root for them.
There’s also a mystery element to the novel that adds drama as well as colour. This is an impressive achievement that adds value to the canon.
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Atlas Showroom sells antique, vintage & handmade furniture and fine art, spanning Art Deco, Mid-century modern, Moroccan design, and Hollywood Regency. Fine Art Shippers had a conversation with its founder, Wafah Jehou, about her entrepreneurial journey, the challenges and opportunities of doing business in both physical and digital realms, and the growing trend of purchasing vintage furniture over new pieces.
Atlas Showroom: Guided Labyrinth of Antiques and Contemporary Art
What inspired you to transition from an accomplished career in financial services to the world of high-end art, furnishing, and décor with Atlas Showroom?
Wafah Jehou: I’ve always wanted to work for myself, inspired by my father who built his own business from scratch. Although I received training in finance and worked in the sector for a decade, I eventually felt that the corporate world wasn’t for me. Arts have been a passion of mine since I was young, but my knowledge wasn’t deep enough. I began researching, trying to find a niche for myself. Eventually, I left the finance world in 2013 and fully committed to starting my own business, unsure of how it would turn out. But I was young and open to risks, which was good at that point.
How did your business evolve?
I launched Atlas Showroom with a focus on handmade designs from Morocco, which is where I’m originally from. I frequently traveled there, visiting local artisans and purchasing pieces directly from them. My prior career in finance afforded me little time for vacations, which distanced me from my own culture. Starting this business allowed me to reconnect with my roots and create a link between my homeland and New York, where I now live. This journey has been both personally and professionally rewarding. Over time, we set up our own workshop in Morocco designing and handmaking lighting and furniture.
As our business expanded, our offering grew to include Art Deco, Mid-century, and contemporary designs, as well as antiques from the 19th and 20th centuries. Today, we also source vintage and antique items from auctions, estate sales, and collectors. As clientele approached us with consignment requests, we began organizing our own auctions. Recently, we also started collaborating with four contemporary artists.
Contemporary art requires a different approach compared to antique and vintage pieces. What does your process involve?
Indeed, contemporary art is a completely different animal. Trust is essential when working with artists, as their work is deeply personal. Selling contemporary art requires understanding and valuing the creator’s emotional bond with their piece. We promote not only the artwork but also the artist and their vision. That’s why dialogue is crucial; we are always learning from them.
You have both a physical store in New York and a digital marketplace. What is the difference between the online and offline parts of your business?
Visiting our showroom feels like navigating a labyrinth of diverse and eclectic collections from various eras. I love seeing customers’ reactions to our pieces. Before, we mostly relied on walk-ins. We did have an online presence, but it wasn’t our main focus.
Since the pandemic, many galleries and showrooms, including ours, have faced challenges and have had to adapt. The dynamic shifted significantly after 2020. Currently, our online sales surpass those made in-store. However, many customers discover us online and then choose to visit the showroom to experience the pieces firsthand.
Atlas Showroom ships internationally. What is your approach to art logistics?
Art logistics is crucial in our business. I’ve personally witnessed damage that’s both heart-wrenching and costly. It’s distressing when unique and often irreplaceable antiques are damaged. Before, I even traveled overseas to oversee packing as I felt the need to be hands-on to ensure quality. Over time, I’ve grown confident in my overseas team’s ability to handle it. Yet, I feel responsible for offering guidance to our clients on handling fragile items when they use their own shippers.
How would you describe your clientele today?
I’ve observed a shift in our clientele’s demographics. While previously our vintage items appealed mainly to those aged 45-50 and older, we now see a younger audience showing interest. I believe it’s driven by a few factors. First, the younger generation recognizes the unmatched quality of vintage items. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, there’s a growing emphasis on sustainability. With rising environmental concerns, people see value in reusing vintage items over buying new ones. Additionally, vintage pieces, especially from renowned designers, are now seen as investments. They retain or even increase in value over time due to their scarcity. This trend is encouraging and, hopefully, will continue.
Interview by Inna Logunova
Photo courtesy of Atlas Showroom

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Current Research Interests
Research in the Locomotion and Energetics Group focuses on a mechanistic understanding of human movement, and the application of this understanding to clinical populations.
Passive Gait Assistance
Many characteristics of human walking can be predicted from the body’s passive mechanical properties, as demonstrated by unpowered and powered dynamic walking devices. However, these devices walk substantially slower than humans. Recent simulations (see Dean and Kuo 2009 Supplementary Material) have shown that passive elastic joint actuation is able to produce more typical human gait patterns. We are currently investigating whether a passive elastic exoskeleton based on these simulations is able to make human walking easier, as quantified by reduced muscle activity and energy consumption. In the long term, such a device could be used as a low-cost method of providing gait assistance during rehabilitation for populations with limited locomotor function.
Post-Stroke Control Accuracy and Gait Function
Following a neurological injury such as a stroke, functional mobility is often limited. One potential contributor to this reduced function is altered sensorimotor integration, which can decrease an individual’s capacity to accurately control voluntary movement. We are currently investigating whether decreases in neural control accuracy predictably influence gait stability and economy. In the longer term, we plan to apply our findings to the development of rehabilitation devices or therapies to improve function.
Active Control of Gait Stability
Remaining upright while walking is a challenge of engineering and control, but is accomplished relatively easily by many humans. A potentially efficient strategy of maintaining stability is appropriate foot placement. We have recently found that human foot placement is predictably influenced by swing phase muscle activity, which appears to be based on the mechanical state of the stance leg (Dean 2012). We are currently investigating the possible sources of sensory feedback which humans may use to determine their choice of foot placement location.
Despite the redundancy found in the musculoskeletal and nervous systems, humans often prefer stereotyped movement patterns when performing a task. Changing the mechanical demands of a task, such as by altering the environment, can influence the preferred movement pattern. We have recently found that for a simple bouncing task, the preferred movement pattern is influenced by system mechanics (Raburn et al 2011) and gradually adapts toward the mechanical and metabolic optimum over time (Merritt et al 2012). We are currently investigating the proposal that proprioceptive feedback is integral to this adaptation process (Dean 2013) during human walking.
Relationship between Gait Stability and Economy
During walking, two apparent goals are to maintain stability and keep energetic cost low. Bipedal walking robots have been developed that are quite stable (ASIMO; Honda) and that do not expend much energy (Cornell Ranger), but not that meet both criteria. Recent model simulations have suggested a trade-off between gait stability and energetic demand. Subsequent experiments demonstrated that humans do not always prefer the gait with minimal energetic cost, but sometimes choose gaits that are more costly, but potentially more stable (Hunter et al 2010; Monsch et al 2012). We are currently investigating whether this potential trade-off can be formally quantified.


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Between her play A Mother's Love and her stint acting in the Off-Broadway production Newsical, Kandi Burruss' career is red-hot at the moment. And now the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter is adding another log to the flame: her new single "Let Them Love" got its official release on iTunes today. Stream a snippet below.
The track—a glossy, mid-tempo ballad—seems to mine personal terrain: Kandi belts emotional lyrics about misunderstood romance. "Let a person love who they love," she croons. "'Cus you don't have to be by their side when they wake up...Why would you want to be the cause of someone's break-up?"
Might Kandi be singing about her mother Mama Joyce, who has voiced her disapproval over her engagement to finacé Todd Tucker? "I think my new single is perfect timing for right now!" she Tweeted.
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The Kremlin , Tuesday, September 5 2023, said it had “nothing to say” about claims by US officials that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin and discuss arms supplies to Moscow for an attack on Ukraine.
US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said Monday that arms talks between Russia and North Korea were making active progress.
“We have information that Kim Jong Un expects these discussions to continue, including a leader-level diplomatic engagement in Russia,” it said in a statement.
His comments came after the New York Times quoted unnamed US officials and allies as saying Kim plans to travel to Russia as soon as next week to meet Putin.
Asked if he could confirm the talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “No, I can’t. There’s nothing to say.”
As Russia’s isolation from the war in Ukraine has intensified, analysts say this shows increasing value in North Korea. For North Korea, relations with Russia have not always been as warm as they were in the heyday of the Soviet Union, but now the country is benefiting markedly from Moscow’s need for friendship.
Moscow and Pyongyang have denied previous US accusations that North Korea has provided weapons to Russia, but both countries vowed to enhance defense cooperation.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu , who visited Pyongyang in July to attend an exhibition of weapons including North Korea’s banned ballistic missiles, said Monday that the two countries were discussing the possibility of joint military drills .
“Just as you can tell a person by their friends, you can tell a country by the friends it has,” said Keir Giles, Senior Consulting Fellow in the Russia & Eurasia Program at Chatham House. “In Russia’s case, the friendship now consists mostly of rogue states.”
Kim Jong Un’s Journey
The trip will be Kim’s first visit abroad in more than four years and his first since the coronavirus pandemic.
Although he traveled more overseas than his father as leader, Kim’s travels were often shrouded in secrecy and tight security. In contrast to his father who is said to be averse to flying, Kim has flown his private Russian-built jet for some of his trips, but US officials have told the Times that he may take an armored train across the land border between North Korea and Russia.
Kim may want to stress Russia’s sense of support, and may seek a deal on arms sales, aid and sending workers to Russia, said Andrei Lankov, a North Korea expert at Seoul’s Kookmin University.
The United States recently imposed sanctions on three entities accused of being linked to arms deals between North Korea and Russia.
North Korea has conducted six nuclear tests since 2006 and has tested various missiles over the past few years.
Russia has joined China in opposing new sanctions on North Korea, thwarting a US-led push and openly breaking up the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the first time since it began punishing Pyongyang in 2006.
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Wireless sensor network will allow businesses and public-sector organisations to monitor the productivity and efficiency of assets and equipment
Kerlink, a specialist in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), has been selected as hardware and software provider for a new nationwide, low-power, wide-area (LPWA) network in Scotland for IoT devices.
The pioneering three-year project to build and operate the network, called IoT Scotland, is being led by Boston Networks, a networking services and connectivity provider.
In announcing the €6.75m (£6m) IoT Scotland project in August 2018, Boston Networks noted that the wireless sensor network will allow businesses and public-sector organisations to monitor the productivity and efficiency of assets and equipment without the need for wi-fi or cellular connectivity.
Kerlink will deliver up to 500 of its scalable Wirnet iBTS gateways to project leader Boston Networks over three years, along with its Wanesy management centre solution for remote real-time management of the gateways and overall network. The project will also incorporate Kerlink’s Wanesy geolocation technology, which allows precise location of end-devices without GPS.
The network will utilise low-power, wide-area LoRaWAN technology, in which arrays of gateways convert radio signals from IoT devices into data packets and relay them to a central network server.
“Kerlink’s combination of reliable technical capabilities and experience in building out carrier-grade IoT networks in diverse locales makes them a very attractive partner,” said Falk Bleyl, chief technology officer, Boston Networks.
“Key factors included Kerlink’s proposed gateway management solution and its location-based services, which will help IoT Scotland open up commercialisation opportunities for users ranging from start-ups to multinationals. Availability of a robust and secure network will allow them to focus on deployment of sensors and applications with advanced functions.”
"IoT Scotland is an excellent example of how public and private groups can unite to create new opportunities and services with wide benefits"
The IoT Scotland project will enable diverse uses of the IoT, from tracking of municipal infrastructure like waste bins and street lights to smart building technology that can reduce energy consumption and carbon footprints.
It will be available in cities, towns and rural areas, providing large available markets for newly conceived and executed IoT concepts that support consumers, agriculture, transportation, government and other sectors.
“IoT Scotland will represent the most advanced IoT network in the UK and is an excellent example of how public and private groups can unite to create new opportunities and services with wide benefits,” added Yann Bauduin, EMEA director of sales, Kerlink Infrastructure Services.
“Working with Boston Networks on this nationwide deployment expands Kerlink’s international footprint and underscores the reliability and flexibility of our comprehensive LoRAWAN solutions.”
Boston Networks is collaborating on and investing in the IoT Scotland project with the Scottish Government, which is directly investing £2.7m, Scottish Enterprise, and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the government’s economic and community development agency.
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IoT to boost Scotland’s digital infrastructure
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Yes, there are tons of Christmas tree ornaments you can make with your kids, but your tree is probably already decorated by this point and there’s hundreds of places to find cool ornament ideas online. So instead, take advantage of the freezing weather outside (assuming you live somewhere sufficiently chilly) and make some stunning frozen ornaments for the trees outside. As an extra bonus, this can also teach youngsters a little science in the form of water freezing and temperatures.
Here’s another great decoration you can put in place if you happen to live somewhere cold –frozen ice spheres in a variety of colors. With some water balloons, food coloring and water, you can easily make these lovely sculptures that are a fantastic way to put some color on the snow next to your walkways.
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"If most doctors are like me, [they are] isolated physically and professionally. I do not make the time to connect with other doctors and also a lot of doctors do not want to be connected for a lot of reasons. Dynamic Chiropractic keeps me grounded and connected.
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You may never see a particular set of patients in your office – the ones who are either afraid of neck adjustments or have had a bad experience. A vast majority of those who had a bad experience did not have a life-threatening vascular event.
It's Time to Create a Strong Acupuncture Footprint
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The ABC's of Meeting with Physicians, Part 3
By David Kent, LMT, NCTMB
Congratulations, you survived the initial round of physician meetings! Now, you must build upon the momentum you have generated. Let me share with you some strategies to implement after your initial meeting so you can build strong physician referral sources by maintaining contact and providing continual education.
Rarely will a single meeting produce instant and consistent patient referrals. You will need to return and repeat your message frequently. Be sure to ask, "What are the best days and times to revisit?" Immediately following each meeting, take time to debrief. Log the date, time and myofascial pain patterns you reviewed with the physician. Write down the name of each person you encountered, their position and specific notes to help you remember and build rapport with each individual on return visits. Notes often include hairstyle, hobby, children, travel, favorite color or food, birthday, etc. Review your notes before each visit and update them frequently. This process helps you evaluate, adapt and modify your approach to achieve your goals of building referral sources.
Following the initial meeting, send a "Thank You" note and include your business card. Simply acknowledging someone's time can go a very long way. How often do you think doctors get thank you cards from their patients? I have learned from experience that physicians remember patients that send thank you notes. When patients tell me they are feeling better from treatment, I ask them to please send a thank you card to their referring physician. Patients simply write: Dear Doctor, Thank you for referring me to David Kent at Kent Health Systems for therapy. Today, I received my initial treatment and feel much better!
Also, keep your practice in the doctor's mind by sending reports and treatment notes. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words and visuals help to quickly tell a lot about the patient, so include postural analysis photos, pain scales and trigger point pain patterns. These visuals help your practice stand out from the competition.
During each repeat visit, get in and out quickly. Do not wear perfume or cologne. When in the back office waiting to meet with the doctor, stay out of the way and no wandering eyes trying to read patient charts or other materials on the counters. Just check and restock your prescription pad. Be prepared to show a few common myofascial pain patterns affecting a specific region of the body (head, chest, back, arm, wrist, etc.) with your trigger point chart.
While showing the images, mention the common subjective complaints reported by patients suffering from myofascial trigger point pain referral patterns being shown. For temporal headaches, examples of muscles to show referred pain patterns would include: Trapezius (TrP 1), Sternocleidomastoid (sternal head), sub-occipitals and Temporalis (TrPs 1-4). Pain in the front of the chest and upper extremity of myofascial origin would include images of the pectoralis major, pectoralis minor and scaleni. For lumbar pain, show gluteus medius, psoas and rectus abdominus. For buttock pain, show the quadratus lumborum, gluteus maximus, iliocostalis lumborum and longissimus thoracis. Lower extremity pain may include gluteus minimus, piriformis, quadriceps femoris. The final visual aid to review with the doctor is your prescription pad, showing them where to sign before giving it to patients.
Depending on the doctor's specialty, a high percentage of their patient's pain could be myofascial in origin and benefit from your treatments. You must meet the doctors so they know who you are, the patients you can help and, most importantly, remember to refer those patients for treatment. Just one or two physicians referring patients on a regular basis will quickly build your practice. Every week, you must dedicate some time to marketing your practice. Go into your community, introduce yourself and broadcast your message using visual aids. Like any skill, practice makes perfect. Doctors are aware of myofascial trigger points, receptive to massage therapy and are looking for pain relieving options for their patients.
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