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Lynda Weinman bought the domain lynda.com in the mid 90s, when she was teaching herself web design. Fast forward through writing how-to books, and a classroom education program in Ojai, California. Today Lynda.com is an online resource with video-based courses, millions of registered users, and over $100m in late stage investment. The videos aren’t free, but Lynda has never raised prices above $25 per month. And the company has been profitable every year. From her garage to a 12 acre campus with a 100 person sales team, Weinman shared her journey at LAUNCH Education & Kids.
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1:25 Every conversation I have with people about education, it seems like your name gets brought up. You’re one of the first founders in technology that made it work.
2:08 Is this (photo from the mid 90s) where Lynda.com started?
6:01 Was putting them online because travel was expensive and difficult to get to your classes?
7:45 A thousand people signing up the first year, you probably thought about shutting it down.
8:46 Millions of people have signed up for the service, and it’s $25 per month still?
9:15 How many courses now, courses and videos? The innovation really was video-based training.
10:18 People thought wow with YouTube, this would be a threat to the business. But it’s gotten stronger. You have over $100m invested from Excel, Spectrum, Meritech. $100m in revenue last year. The business has grown while many free options have emerged. To what do you attribute that?
14:30 You were one of the first people to charge for subscriptions online. But you certainly innovated in that this radically low price for something video professors were charging $299 a course in infomercials.
17:50 When you see the aggregate numbers heading in the right direction, it can give you confidence in not increasing the price.
18:05 Let’s talk about the teachers and recruiting them. Do these teachers lose money compared to their day jobs?
23:20 You’ve raised money, the revenue is extraordinary, overnight in 18 years as you said. But what an amazing position you’re in, to do a documentary which has quite a different production cost.
24:30 I hear from people, they want to support Lynda. It’s a PBS or NPR feel about the brand. Is that something you curated, or something that happened?
25:27 How wide will it get? Do you see this brand teaching language or math? Could it become a global education brand?
27:15 You started with in person classes. It seems to me that a Lynda store in every mall seems like a great way to use all that space.
30:31 Is K-12 something you anticipated?


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Uruguay: Inflation falls in January
Consumer prices rose 2.2% from a month earlier in January, compared to December’s 0.4% month-on-month drop and marking the highest reading in 12 months. According to data released by the Statistical Institute, January’s reading reflected higher housing costs as well as higher prices food and beverages.
Meanwhile, inflation moderated to an eight-month low of 7.4% in January, from 8.0% in December. As a result, it edged closer to the upper bound of the Central Bank’s 3.0%–7.0% target. Nevertheless, annual average inflation ticked up to 7.7% in the same month, from 7.6% in December, marking a 19-month high.

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The Gibbes has an established history of presenting programs that foster an examination of art and culture of the Southeastern United States and nationwide, from the sixteenth century to the present. Adult programs are designed to engage the public in conversations, performances, lectures, and other experiences that provide a multi-dimensional perspective of the exhibitions on view. Through these programs, audiences are able to engage a diverse cross section of artists, writers, scholars, and critics, and participate in events that encourage life-long learning.
The Gibbes Museum of Art offers a variety of classes to artists of all ages. Classes are led by professionals in the field who use the museum’s exhibitions and collection as a catalyst for exploring and creating works of art. Click on the Gibbes Calendar to learn about when specific classes are offered.
Private Adult Tours
The Gibbes offers interactive private tours for adult groups who are interested in having a personal experience at the Museum. Led by a docent or museum educator, this one-hour tour explores the Museum’s permanent collection and highlights from our traveling exhibitions. Groups can make arrangements for a tour that focus on a specific theme, exhibition, or artist in advance. A ten person minimum is required to reserve a tour.
Public Adult Tours
A tour designed for the walk-in visitor, this one-hour program highlights important artists and works from the Gibbes’ permanent collection. Public tours take place every Friday at 2:30, and are free with museum admission. Advance registration is not required.
Museum of Art Discovery Tour
A collaborative effort between the Gibbes Museum of art and The Original Charleston Walks company, this walking tour speaks to the rich artistic and architectural history of Charleston. Each 90 minute tour begins in the Gibbes permanent collection galleries, and then heads out into the streets of historic Downtown Charleston. Participants have the rare opportunity to explore Charleston from the perspective of its artists – and uncover the area’s unique commercial, artistic, and cultural history.
Lectures and symposia
Lectures and symposia are an integral part of the Museum’s effort to increase scholarship and a broader appreciation of the visual arts and culture of Charleston. Weekend seminars, evening courses and lectures that focus on particular themes, artists, or key artistic movements are offered as a part of the Museum’s public programs.
The Docent program is a way for invested members and others from the community to take an active role in supporting the Museum. Integral to the continued success of the Gibbes’ ability to serve our adult audiences, these important volunteers lead the Gibbes’ free public tours. Docents must apply to be a part of the program. All accepted volunteers will participate in a rigorous training program that includes private walkthroughs of Gibbes exhibitions with curators, artists, and other museum staff and field trips that will enhance their understanding of the Gibbes collection.
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Experience a summer of fun with the Gibbes! Camp sessions are offered for children ages 4-7 and 8-12. Click Here for more information and a registration form.
Free Admission Sundays
Offered three times a year in conjunction with King Street Second Sundays, this free day reinforces the Gibbes commitment to making art accessible in Charleston. Each event is coordinated with the basic tenets of the Gibbes education philosophy in mind – providing diverse, exhibition relevant programming that will demystify the Museum experience, and encourage audiences to develop an individual relationship with the work on view. Special events in the museum store may include book signings with local authors and artists. View the museum calendar for upcoming Free Second Sunday dates and themes.

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In what’s been dubbed “the most complicated project” in rehab history, The Dayton Arcade is closing in on a significant milestone. Anchor tenants The University of Dayton and The Entrepreneurs Center have signed 10-year leases at the Arcade, positioning the project to close on its financing. “We are proud to partner with The Entrepreneurs Center to deepen our commitment to the Dayton community as an anchor tenant of this historic and important downtown space,” said UD President Eric F. Spina. “Our innovation hub will fuel economic growth and spark creativity by enabling students, faculty and staff from across campus, including engineers, artists and business majors, to work alongside local entrepreneurs.” The project will create affordable artist housing, retail and restaurants, a public event space, new arts programming spaces and a 95,000-square-foot innovation hub.
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Low-cost airline Jambojet goes regional as it launches Uganda flightsThursday February 15 2018
Low cost carrier Jambojet has launched international flights, touching down at Uganda's Entebbe International Airport on Thursday.
The carrier, a subsidiary of Kenya Airways, #ticker:KQ will operate two daily return flights to the neighbouring country.
One-way tickets are priced at Sh11,330, a price tag the carrier says is introductory and subject to revision in the future.
Flights will depart the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) at 09:10am and 5:30pm every day while those flying out of Entebbe International Airport will leave at 11:00am and 7:20pm daily.
Uganda's Minister for Transport, Aggrey Baiire, welcomed Jambojet's entry into the market, noting that the move would help grow the economy and foster international ties.
"We need to build capacity to allow our local businesses have greater access to foreign markets.
"Air transport and connectivity supports exports and simultaneously increases competition and choice in the home market for foreign based producers," he said.
Dr David Kakuba, the managing director of Uganda's Civil Aviation Authority, echoed these sentiments, adding that Jambojet's entry will boost air travel.
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Dr Kakuba noted that Jambojet's low-cost model approach would bring down the cost of travel between Kenya and Uganda, which is currently quite high, spurring business and leisure travel.
"Jambojet has identified a niche market and I wish to inform them that we shall support their business in Uganda, including requests for increased frequencies," he said.
"Jambojet joins the likes of Flydubai who also operate locally on a low-cost model. I believe Jambojet's entry in Uganda will help grow our air traffic numbers and will go a long way in supporting our efforts to grow the economy."
Jambojet was in May 2016 granted regulatory approval to fly to 16 routes including Entebbe, Addis Ababa, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Kilimanjaro, Mwanza, Kigali, Juba, Bujumbura, Hargeisa, Mogadishu, Goma, Kisangani and Moroni.
Kenya late last year wrote to the governments of Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and Democratic Republic of Congo to allow Jambojet fly to these routes.
Jambojet, which launched locally in April 2014, had earmarked Tanzania and Uganda as its first destinations after granting of approvals.
The low-cost carrier, which flies between 45,000 and 50,000 passengers per month in Kenya, reported a pre-tax loss of Sh25 million for the year to March, reversing a pre-tax profit of Sh126 million recorded the previous year.
"In East Africa alone, we have a market of over 100 million people and we have barely scratched the surface in air travel," Willem Hondius, Jambojet's CEO, said in Uganda on Thursday.
"We believe that Jambojet's entry into Uganda will make air travel more affordable to a majority of people who travel for business or leisure in the region and beyond. It will also foster regional Integration and economic growth."

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Center for AIDS' Holiday Schmooze raises cheer, cash
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It’s a little cocktail gathering at a swell home each season, and it always raises significant money and awareness for the Center for AIDS. This year’s Holiday Schmooze was no exception, whenJohnandBecca Cason Thrash opened their Memorial-area home for the annual do.
The evening for which Jackson Hicks served as honorary chair brought in $130,000 — not bad for a mere two hours of hobnobbing.
Among those supporting the good works of the center were Julie Eberly,Milton Townsend,Phoebe Tudor,Jay JonesandTerry Wayne Jones,Debra and Mark Grierson,Dan TidwellandJamie Mize,and 2009 Schmooze hosts Nancy McGregor ManneandNeal Manne, a founding CFA board member.

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Spanish Town Throws Turnips at Man as Part of Festival
Hundreds of people ran the street of the small Spanish town of Piornal pelting a man with turnips. The crazy part? The man volunteered and this is all part of the annual Jarramplas festival.
Each year, a local resident volunteers to wear a color costume made of ribbons and a devilish mask with horns. They run through the town beating a drum and getting hit with turnips. Local farmers donated about 18 tons of turnips for the festival and the throwing only stops when the volunteer can’t take it anymore.
No one knows for sure where the custom originated from, but there are multiple theories. The official tourism office says the Jarramplas figure represents a cattle thief while others say it has religious roots. Either way, the two day festival ends with food and music, and presumably a lot of clean up.
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Police are appealing for witnesses following a burglary last week.
Two men entered a property on Northborough Road between 11am and 11.30am on Tuesday 14th July by damaging the front door.
One of the suspects sat with the victim, while the other searched the upstairs of the property.
Claiming he would secure the front door, the first male asked the victim for her house keys, who then directed him to her purse.
He stole £40 from her purse and both men left through the front door.
The first suspect is described as black, around 30-years-old, around five foot 10.
He was of a slim build, clean shaven, with short black hair.
The second is also described as black, of a slim build, with black hair and around the same height.
Designated investigator, Daniel Fallis, said: "This was a frightening experience for the victim who lives alone in the property.
"I am appealing to anyone has any information about this incident to please come forward.
"This incident occurred on a busy residential street and I am appealing to anyone who recognises the descriptions of the offenders, or saw anything suspicious around this time, to get in touch."
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When LG’s CLOi robot first appeared in 2018, it didn’t get off to the best start.
On stage at CES with former LG marketing chief David VanderWaal, CLOi fell silent at the worst possible moment, leaving VanderdWaal to conclude that “CLOi doesn’t like me.”
Four years later, and several iterations later, CLOi is now ready for prime time, with the Korean company announcing the CLOi ServeBot for the US market this week.
LG said the semi-autonomous craft is ideal for “complex commercial environments” such as restaurants, retail stores and hotels.
Capable of supporting loads of up to 66 pounds, the 53-inch-tall CLOi can run for up to 11 hours on a single charge. But don’t expect anything to happen quickly, as CLOi only has a top speed of 2.2 mph.
The robot can be programmed for a range of floor plans, “allowing precise multi-point deliveries ranging from densely packed restaurants to sprawling office complexes,” LG said, with a host of sensors and cameras helping it avoid collisions with staff and customers. .
A video (below) released by LG last year shows CLOi moving between restaurant tables and serving trays of food to customers. Well, almost serve, because CLOi’s deficiency in the arm department means a human has to actually lift the meal from the tray to the table.
LG said it is currently training operators on how to integrate CLOi in different business settings and will soon contact US companies to gauge interest in the robot.
“The LG CLOi ServeBot is truly a breakthrough for all kinds of consumer-focused businesses, from restaurants to retail stores to hotels,” LG’s Jeffrey Weiland noted in one release.
“The semi-autonomous operation of the CLOi ServeBot offers businesses an efficient way to provide improved service, while freeing up staff to focus on customer relations and building relationships that encourage repeat visits. Whether delivering food from the kitchen to a table or packages from the storage room to the counter, LG’s CLOi ServeBot can navigate virtually any environment and free up staff to manage service. direct customer.
CLOi ServeBot is a more advanced version of the disembodied CLOi robot that appeared at CES in 2018. A stage demonstration at the tech event disintegrated into a farce when CLOi decided to ignore the company’s chief marketing officer , who, to be fair, handled the situation. pretty good. You can watch the calamity below.
Four years later, we assume LG engineers have created a vastly improved CLOi, but it remains to be seen how many companies will use its services.


We all know to separate your lights and darks and to NEVER put wool sweaters in the dryer. But why do we follow these rules? Some of them are quite interesting and we thought we’d share! One great takeaway is that you will hopefully remember these rules the next time you do a load!
1. Why wash clothes inside out?
This is not a very common rule, but it is still a good one. There are many reasons we do this. One of the best reasons is so that the inside takes all the agitation and not the outside, keeping it looking newer for longer. This practice also focuses on the most soiled part of your garments. Those exterior spots will still get clean, but the sweat and skin flakes will get the most attention as they should.
2. Why separate jeans?
Jeans are like a battering ram to the rest of the clothes in a washer. Think about how chafed your legs would get in wet jeans? Now think about a blouse rubbing up next to them repeatedly. Besides, the first few times you wash them, the dyes will bleed out.
3. Why wash clothes in cold water?
Not all clothes, but some fabrics just do better in cold water. Hot water used to be the go-to due to the way detergents were made, but this is no longer the case. They are much more effective now at lower temperatures. Hot water can make stains settle into certain fabrics. Cold water also saves energy. According to several longtime studies, 75% of your laundry’s energy emissions come from just warming the water. That’s crazy! Your clothes will last longer too, as fabrics should not shrink. Unless you have clothes that need sanitizing, opt out for cold water washes!
4. Why wash clothes before wearing them?
Besides you not knowing who’s been trying the clothes on and handling them, there is another very important reason to wash before you wear. Most fabrics that are made from synthetic fibers have very heavy dyes in them. Many people have proven allergic to them, causing severe skin rashes. Friction and sweat can cause the dyes to leach out and disperse. There are even rare cases where people have developed lasting sensitivities due to dyes getting into open wounds. Sounds like an episode of House, but it’s true!
5. Why wash clothes separately?
Besides the reasons covered above with temperature and texture, we also want to separate clothes according to color. I know, that is a lot of separate loads and it may seem excessive. Unless you have suffered your favorite white tee turning pink, you might not realize that even old red fabrics can bleed. You will definitely want to separate out brand new vibrant colored garments. If you want to keep whites dazzling, you might want to use detergent containing bleach. Make sure no colored clothes sneak in there. You know what happens to colored clothing that gets bleach on it.
6. Why do laundry at night or early in the morning?
This one sounds like a weird one, but bare with us! Did you know that certain energy companies have “peak hours” where they charge for extra electricity usage? Crazy right?! Ask for your energy provider’s rates and if they do this, try washing your clothes before 2pm and after 7pm.
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Researchers at a nature reserve in Pennsylvania discovered a truly odd bird with both male and female feather colouring.
Rose-breasted grosbeaks are sexually dimorphic, meaning males and females have different colour plumage.
Males have black wing feathers, pink wing pits and breast spots that give it its name, while females have brown wings, yellow wing pits and no patches on their chest.
But a grosbeak observed at Powdermill Nature Reserve was split right down the middle – pink on the right side, yellow on the left.
The condition, called bilateral gynandromorphism, means the bird is both male and female, with one ovary and one testis.
This occurs when two sperm fertilise an egg that has two nuclei instead of one, which results in the egg developing a chromosome from each sex.
The phenomenon has been observed in less than ten birds since Powdermill’s Avian Research Center began bird banding 64 years ago.
‘The entire banding team was very excited to see such a rarity up close and are riding the high of this once-in-a-lifetime experience,’ said Annie Lindsay, bird banding program manager. ‘One of them described it as “seeing a unicorn.”‘
A large, seed-eating member of the cardinal family, the rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus) is commonly found across eastern North America until about this time of year when it migrates to Mexico or South America.
Since only the left ovary is usually functional in birds, and the left side of this bird is the female side, the bird could still theoretically lay eggs and reproduce.
It would depend on whether it sang like a male grosbeak, Lindsay said, which would attract females and possibly trigger an unfriendly territorial response from other males.
‘Bilateral gynandromorphism, while very uncommon, is normal and provides an excellent example of a fascinating genetic process that few people ever encounter,’ she said.
The extremely rare phenomenon occurs when two sperm fertilise an egg with two nuclei instead of one.
The egg can develop male sex chromosomes on one side and female on the other, leading to a bird with testis and other male characteristics on one half of its body and an ovary and other female characteristics.
Female red-breasted grosbeaks are brown, with a thick white line above their eyes and wing pits that are yellow.
Males have larger black feathers, with pink wing pits and pink dots on their chests.
This asymmetrical flyer was found on September 24 toward the end of the day, ‘so we almost missed it,’ Lindsay said.
The bird had not yet developed its breeding plumage, she added, when ‘it’s going to be even more starkly male, female.’
The colours will become even more vibrant, and ‘the line between the male and female side will be even more obvious.’
While rare, bilateral gynandromorphism has been observed in lobsters, crabs, snakes, butterflies, bees, chickens and other birds.
Lindsay only saw one other grosbeak exhibit the usual trait 15 years ago, but its colouration was much less striking.
She brought this grosbeak back to her lab, where she took its measurements, plucked a few feathers for DNA testing and shot some TikTok videos before letting it go.
‘The black wing on this grosbeak also measured longer than the brown side,’ she told the Allegheny Front, ‘which is consistent with the male of the species.’
Located about an hour outside Pittsburgh, the Powdermill Nature Reserve is part of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.


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Kanye West—now Ye—gave a fully Kanye-esque performance during the Saturday Night Live premiere.
In the show, West appeared onstage dressed in a blow-up Perrier bottle outfit alongside rapper Lil Pump, who wore an outfit resembling a Fiji water bottle. The two of them sang "I Love It" although many of the lyrics had to be bleeped out by the show.
Just like the original song, Adele Givens gave the spoken word beginning of the song. Their outfits onstage were a more reigned-in version of their clothes in the music video for the song, which is on Lil Pump's album Harverd Dropout.
Kanye also performed "We Got Love" with Teyana Taylor.
At the end of the episode, Kanye sang "Ghost Town from Ye" with 070 Shake, Kid Cudi and Ty Dolla $ign. Kanye then gave a politically-charged speech.
In the week leading up to the SNL premiere with Adam Driver as the host, the "Stronger" rapper was seen around New York City donning a pro-Trump "Make America Great Again" hats, which he has been known to wear other times as well.
Kanye was supposed to drop his new album Yahndi on Saturday night.
In his broadcast, the rapper gave a shoutout to his friend Lil Wayne, who just released his own long-awaited album Tha Carter V. Ye tweeted, "We're releasing Yandhi Saturday night We know it will come in number 2 to my brother Lil Wayne and that's lovely The universe needs Ye and Wayne music at the same time."
On Saturday morning, The Life of Pablo rapper announced that he was undergoing a bit of a name change. He told the world on Twitter, "The being formally known as Kanye West...I am YE."
Ariana Grande was originally scheduled to perform, but canceled at the last minute due to "emotional reasons."


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MADISON, Wis.—Gov. Scott Walker has appointed a longtime corrections official to chair the state Parole Commission.
Walker’s office released a statement Friday naming Kathleen Nagle of Fond du Lac to a two-year term. Her appointment is subject to confirmation by the state Senate.
The eight-member Wisconsin Parole Commission has the final authority for granting discretionary paroles or early releases.
The statement says Nagle has over 30 years of experience in corrections and administration.
She spent 15 years in the Department of Criminal Investigation, working as an associate warden for security at the state’s largest maximum-security prison. She also spent 10 years as a director within the state Department of Corrections.

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Police and the FBI are looking for a suspect who claimed to have a bomb during two bank robberies this afternoon, one in the city and the other in Penn Hills.
The first robbery happened around 1 p.m. at the First Commonwealth Bank in the 5200-block of Butler Street in Lawrenceville.READ MORE: Driver Of Vehicle Hits Pedestrian In Squirrel Hill
The suspect demanded money from the tellers and claimed to have a bomb.
Police questioned one person at the scene there and let them go.
Then, about an hour later at 2 p.m. in Penn Hills, officials say the PNC Bank on Rodi Road was robbed.
The suspect fled on foot to the area of Jefferson Road.
A resident in the area reported seeing a dye pack detonate.READ MORE: Foo Fighters Bringing 2022 Tour To Pittsburgh
According to the FBI, the suspect also claimed to have a bomb at the second incident.
The suspect is described as an African-American male in his mid-20s with a thin build and a light beard. He’s about six-foot-two.
He was last seen wearing a red knit cap with a Steelers logo on the front, as well as thick, dark-rimmed glasses, black Air Jordan sneakers and a black jacket with a red stripe on each sleeve.
The FBI says this suspect should be considered armed and dangerous.
Anyone with information on the robberies or suspect’s identity is urged to call the FBI at 412-432-4000.
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By now everyone should be aware of the Dominic Cummings saga and how it is seriously interfering with the governments public health message during the coronavirus with beaches across the country rammed. The lockdown is compromised which bluntly, means people will die but Dominic Cummings has been unaccountabnle so far.
In any other situation he’d have been sacked before the start of the bank holiday weekend but we live in odd times and now he’s doing a press conference from Downing Street where he’s spun a load of nonsense which makes the situation worse. The lie about driving to Barnard Castle to check his eyesight is his ‘Prince Andrew can’t sweat’ moment.
Fact is there’s tens of thousands dead. People have made sacrifices. But Dominic Cummings can’t even say sorry because he’s so arrogant he doesn’t feel that people’s deserved anger at him breaking the clear lockdown rules is something to apologise for. So his job is saved for now, but people know a cunt when they see one and today they’ve seen a massive one lie to save his job.

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EMnify, a German deep tech company offering a cloud-based global cellular IoT connectivity management platform, has announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT Competency status, the company said.
This designation recognizes EMnify for enabling IoT connectivity for customers in a wide range of verticals around the globe.
Achieving the AWS IoT Competency differentiates EMnify as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member that has demonstrated relevant technical proficiency and proven customer success delivering solutions seamlessly in the AWS Cloud environment. To receive the designation, APN Partners must possess deep AWS expertise and undergo an assessment of the security, performance, and reliability of their solutions.
Based in Germany, EMnify was born out of a belief that the impact of IoT will revolutionize technology worldwide and that a technology shift is required to enable efficient and economical connectivity for intelligent devices.


There is no shortage of shots in the cricket world, but some shots are such that every batsman is not able to play with ease. The reverse sweep is also a shot from them.
Ian Morgan is the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL-2021 (Pic Credit IPL)
In the current round of cricket, the most important thing for batsmen (Batsmen) is to get runs off their bats. However you like. For this, they have to play shots as they like. Similarly, some batsmen become adept at playing some shots in the run-up. He often plays those shots. In a way, that shot then becomes known as that player. Reverse sweep is also a shot that is played much in today’s cricket. In the current IPL, many batsmen have been seen playing this shot. Many people play this shot, but not everyone is able to show as much ease on this shot as some selected batsmen show.
Some people are adept at this shot. We are telling you about some such batsmen who have scored the most runs in T20 playing reverse sweep. Out of the top 4 included in this list, three players are currently playing in IPL-2021. Australia’s Glenn Maxwell holds the record for the most runs in a reverse sweep in T20, currently playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL. Maxwell has scored the most 364 runs in T20 with this shot so far.
Morgan, Monroe also on the list
Left-handed batsman Aoyen Morgan, the captain of England’s limited overs team, is second in this list after Maxwell. Morgan has scored over 250 runs in T20 playing reverse sweep. At the third place is New Zealand left-handed batsman Colin Munro. Munro has scored 235 runs in T20 through reverse sweep so far. Number four is former South Africa captain and AB de Villiers currently playing for Bangalore in the IPL. The reverse sweep of this stormy batsman is quite famous. The right-handed batsman has added 193 runs in T20 with this shot so far.
Maxwell has shown strength in this IPL
Maxwell, who specializes in playing reverse sweep, has not been very successful in this expensive league, if seen in his IPL career. Franchisees have rained heavily on him, but this batsman has failed on most occasions. Miracles have happened this season though. Before this season’s auction, Bangalore was linked with Maxwell and so far, Maxwell has played match-winning innings for the team. In the five matches played so far, Maxwell has scored 198 runs at an average of 49.50, including two half-centuries. He has so far hit 20 fours and eight sixes this season.
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We are thinking about starting a new line of drinks! NutriBlasts… What does everyone think before we change our coffee shop around drastically, are they wanted?
Our NutriBlasts would be made using extractors that break down the cell walls of fibrous plant foods, releasing important vitamins and minerals contained within. At the same time, they reduce beneficial fibre, pulp, seeds, and skins into a smooth-as-silk texture, delivering food to your body in an easily digestible, easily absorbable form. More than juicing, more than blending, and more than chewing, nutrient extraction allows you to receive the highest degree of nutrition your food has to offer. A great alternative to our current range of Milkshakes and Smoothies.
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Last week, the New York State Senate approved its one-house budget. I voted in favor of the plan because it will help individuals, families, small businesses, manufacturers and seniors stay and thrive in Western New York.
The Senate budget is a fiscally responsible plan. It controls state spending. It excludes the $1 billion in new taxes and fees, including new taxes on internet purchases, health insurance and new DMV fees, proposed in the Executive Budget. It also rejects the Governor’s proposed cap on property tax relief for homeowners.
Alternatively, the fiscal plan addresses New York’s burdensome level of taxes and high cost of living. It makes the state more affordable by providing real savings for all residents.
The budget plan helps more seniors save money and choose to stay in the state after retirement. It decreases taxes on retirement by increasing the exclusion– for private pension and retirement income– from $20,000 to $40,000 for single taxpayers and to $80,000 for married taxpayers phased in over three years. Increasing this exclusion, for the first time in over 30 years, will provide $275 million in savings to retirees.
The budget proposal lowers energy taxes by eliminating the two-percent Gross Receipts Tax on utility bills, providing $280 million in savings for residents and small businesses.
The Senate budget also advances reforms to stop unnecessary red tape and regulations, as well as provides a total of $860 million in new relief for small businesses, farms and manufacturers by:
• Reducing the amount of taxes paid by lowering the rate;
• Extending the zero percent Corporate Franchise Tax parity to all manufacturers; and
• Allowing small businesses to be eligible for STAR property tax savings.
Together, eliminating regulations and easing the tax burden will help small businesses and manufacturers succeed, grow and create jobs. In doing so, this will make it easier for hard-working residents to find the good opportunities they need to stay and raise a family in Western New York.
Other proposals in the Senate budget include shutting down the START-UP NY program and eliminating tens of millions of dollars in wasteful spending by the Executive for television advertising. The Governor’s START-UP program– that I voted against when the bill passed the Senate– has failed to produce the job-creating results that were promised. Simply put, these supposed economic development programs are not producing the results that taxpayers expect.
Under the Senate’s plan, New York will be less costly and more attractive for residents. If many of these major initiatives get adopted in the final budget, it will be easier to live, raise a family, own a home and retire in New York.
I will be advocating for these important issues in the final budget. As the budget process moves forward, I’ll be sure to keep you posted.


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Kashmir is observing shutdown against the killing of three youths whose bullet ridden bodies were recovered from an orchard in North Kashmir’s Pattan area on Monday.
Shops in the city and rural townships remained closed on Wednesday and hardly any vehicles were plying on the roads. Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed at all sensitive locations across the Valley.
- Hizbul commander Naikoo threatens to blind panchayat poll candidates in Jammu and Kashmir with acid
- J&K: ‘Woman killed by stray bullet was watching encounter from home’
- Situation in Kashmir fast returning to normal: Special DG CRPF
- Restrictions in parts of Srinagar continue
- Kiling of SSB jawan in Banihal a terror attack, confirm J-K Police; hunt on for three local youths
- Three killed youths whose bodies were found in J&K orchard were ours: Hizbul Mujahideen
On Srinagar – Baramulla national highway at Kanispora and Hygam some youth pelted stones at vehicles, following which police swung into action and dispersed those who were trying to block the traffic on the highway.
Hizbul Mujahideen on Tuesday said three youth – Amir Rishi, Ashiq Wani and Naved Khan – were members of the outfit who were killed by the Special Operation Group of Police, and their agents, while in custody.
Both the factions of Hurriyat Conference and the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front had called for a Kashmir bandh against these killings.
Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Geelani termed these killings as a “cold blooded murder’’ and asked people to observe complete shut in the Valley.
Jammu and Kashmir Police have said that the three had joined militant ranks after they went missing from their homes. However, police said that they were part of Lashkar-e-Islam, a breakaway group of Hizbul Mujahideen, led by Qayoom Najar.
Hizbul Mujahideen has denied the existence of Lashkar-e-Islam and said that the government and its agencies were “trying to fool the people by portraying the killings as the fallout of a rivalry between the Hizbul and Lashkar-e-Islam”.


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The death toll in New Delhi reached 43, according to the health officials of GTB Hospital. India’s capital is facing the worst religious violence of times.
This survival war of Muslims starts when the Indian government implements the new discriminatory Citizenship Law (CAA). In that Law, the Indian government clearly hits minorities and force them to leave their residents.
Sources have affirmed that more than 200 people are injured and there have been many injured out there that have not been taken to the hospital yet.
New Delhi is under serious Hindu-Muslim clash. Mobs armed with stones, sticks, and rods running on roads for their basic rights. Delhi police are unable to control the situation yet. Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, called for the army to be deployed and for a curfew to be imposed over flashpoint northeastern districts.
The public and the opposition are blaming the Modi government for all the riots. The main opposition leader Sonia Gandhi sought the resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah for failing to control the deadly violence.
Furthermore, Modi has been criticized for not taking action on time. People accused him of hosting US President Donald Trump as the violence continued. Later on, Modi ask people to stay calm.
“I appeal to my sisters and brothers of Delhi to maintain peace and brotherhood at all times. It is important that there is calm and normalcy is restored at the earliest,” he tweeted.
All the offices and schools are closed from the day of protest. Residents of Delhi’s Northeast district are afraid to send their kids outside of the house. One of the citizens said” we are not even safe in our homes how can we send our kids to school. It’s risky and dangerous”.
The Court has rebuked Delhi Police for failing to act “professionally” to check the violence in north-east Delhi. Justice S Murlidhar said
“We cannot have another 1984 under the watch of this court and under the watch of all of you”.
Muslim settlements in a slum in Ganga Vihar, Gokulpuri has been scorched. The Hindus — whose settlements were spared — told us that men chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' came around 9:30 pm and set fire to the Muslim households.
— Ayush Tiwari (@sighyush) February 25, 2020
— Suvrita (@suvrita24) February 29, 2020
Prime Minister Imran Khan says the global community should take steps to stop Modi’s atrocities and racism. The systematic massacre of Muslims in New Delhi continues with the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany.
Images coming out of Muslim homes & businesses being burnt, Muslims being beaten & killed, mosques & graveyards being burnt & desecrated are similar to Jews fleeing the pogrom in Nazi Germany. The world must accept this brutal reality of the Modi fascist racist regime & stop it.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) February 28, 2020
PM assures the security of minorities of Pakistan by saying
“I want to warn our people that anyone in Pakistan targeting our non-Muslim citizens or their places of worship will be dealt with strictly. Our minorities are equal citizens of this country.”
Newspapers are full of the stories of victims, many of them were innocents. Doctors from the hospital say “Many of them died due to gunshot others died due to injuries caused by stabbing, stone hitting, and other physical assaults”.
A 22-year-old rickshaw driver Shahid died due to gunshot in his stomach. He has married four months ago. He was not the protestor but coming back to his 2 months pregnant wife Shazia.
Labor from Bihar, who considers Delhi his home died at the age of 28 while the communal riots. The eye witness was kept calling the police for a hundred times but no one comes for their help. He was poor labor who earns to send back money to his home in Bihar.
Nazeem, a 35-year-old, has left behind six children and a wife. His dead body is still in hospital for autopsy. Doctors and police at the GTB hospital have been non-committal about when the autopsy will be conducted. They are not even returning the body for burial.
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This is the dream project what CAA, NRC and NPR mean to.
— Nag A (@nageswarannangi) February 29, 2020
X-Ray report of a 19yr old who was attacked in his own shop when rioters pushed a portion of drill machine in his head!!! Admitted to #GTB
Hiding his face for obvious reasons..But see the brutality for yourself!#DelhiViolence pic.twitter.com/HiiMHcfA4X
— Payal Mehta/પાયલ મેહતા/ पायल मेहता/ পাযেল মেহতা (@payalmehta100) February 25, 2020
At least 43 people have now been killed in the violence, according to a health official cited by local media. The death toll was given by Sunil Kumar, the medical superintendent of Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, where many of the victims have been brought for treatment.


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They have a good cracker and frozen foods selection especially for high-quality pasta and breaded items. I’m not impressed with its hot bar items. They have palatable frozen pastries and breads but they are a bit expensive and sometimes lack visual appeal because they are broken or have icicles. Once I bought a box of cookies and went to the car for a carb fest. I opened the box and every cookie was broken. I literally had nothing but crumbs and chocolate chips. I declined repurchase. This wasn’t an isolated incident. Whole Foods should be more careful with the shipping and handling of its gluten-free foods due to their composition and fragility.
Unfortunately, Whole foods could do a little better with eliminating unnecessary wheat/gluten products from some ready-made meals; for example, wheat berries or croutons in salads; use tamari instead of soy sauce in marinades.


HOOK, LINE and SING-ALONG on MAY 31
This Friday May 31st, on top of a normal music day of rockband, marimba, Irish band and theory, we are celebrating the end of NZ music month with two stunning events.
11am the choir will pop over to Aranui Libray and perform 4 songs. One of them will be the NZ Music month Song "Paradise" written for the 2013 Hook, Line and Sing-along celebrations.
12noon our whole school will be joined by Avondale Primary for a huge rendition of "Paradise"... imagine 1000 voices... it's going to be magnificent! Following that, the school houses and Avondale will have a sing-off to see who can win the most house points and NZ Music month spot prizes for the most fabulous performance of "Paradise". All this will be filmed and edited that afternoon into a special collage of Chisnallwood and other schools' performances from around Canterbury and NZ performing the same song.
You can check the song out at the link below - there's still time to learn it and join in!
Congratulations to the classes 26, 7, 21, 8, 9, 10 and 17 who won NZ Music month posters for their class by answering NZ Music Questions correctly!
Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. You can still sign up to view the CSO rehearsing their Hollywood show on Sat 8th June at 10.30am at the Airforce Museum, Wigram (although it's too late to get free evening tickets now for that one, but you can still get tickets for the Pirates of the Caribbean Concert coming up later!).
ChCh Youth Orchestra. On Saturday June 1st. 7.30pm at Middleton Grange School Auditorium.
Congratulations to all the 8 bands who performed last Saturday as part of NZ Music Month.
The 5 rock bands are working toward performing at Rockquest on the weekend of June 15/16 - we'll update you with exact times and details very soon!


iPhone 7 No Headphone Jack: How To Charge And Listen To Music Without Airpods?
Apple has just dropped its much-awaited iPhone 7. What makes the new product different from its previous version is that is now getting rid of headphone jack.Advertisement
The giant company has simultaneously released the iPhone Airpods which lets you listen to music without the wire.
But many questions are now arising on how this iPhone 7 can let users listen to music while charging the phone.
Heavy said that this might be a problem to users who do not own AirPods. One cannot listen to music on headphones while charging the phone.
Aside from non-AirPod users, people who are driving may not connect their phones to their speakers through Bluetooth.
Old model of cars needs an auxiliary cable to connect the phone to speakers. This requires a Lightning port with an adapter. This hack can let you listen to music while driving.
The report added that older cars have limited options of charging while listening to music. Unless they have Bluetooth capability, one can get a hands-free car kit that can connect the phone through an auxiliary jack to the phone through Bluetooth.
Airpods, which were released yesterday, costs about $159 and can last up to five hours. But those who wants to buy the items may wait until early part of October.
Even AirPods has some issues regarding its use. Los Angeles Times has noted that AirPods cannot be used in the airplane before the takeoff because of its connectivity via Bluetooth.
Meanwhile for those who does not need AirPods, they can get wireless headphones that can connect to the phone through Bluetooth or a Bluetooth speaker.


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In a music community that sports posters littered with pixelated jpegs, awful kerning and little regard for design, it's easy to spot those made by folks who care for the craft of the concert poster. Collage enthusiast Jeremy Kannapell is one of few in our great city determined to bring life to the art of promotion. Working outside of the traditional realms of screenprinting and computer design, Kannapell's psychedelic collages remain rooted in the world of Xerox. It was with little surprise that his hand-cut poster for Form A Log's visit in May stood out so prominently. Blossoming in full color, a cascade of floating heads rise as if projecting an out-of-body experience against the transparent grit of Xerox grain. Mirrored dragons are trapped in a sea of geometry, imprisoned by the spheres and quadrants that define the space. Simple text lists the bands, venue, and date with a humorous hint for donations: "$ YES." You might not be familiar with who's playing, but Kannapell's posters tell you in no uncertain terms that it stands to be an event you don't want to miss.
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Love in Poetry
No scheduled meetings days
This online course features the following types of interaction:
- Pre-recorded content
This course studies the feeling of love in poems from different linguistic and historical traditions. It begins with intense, jealous, unrequited love in Sappho’s poetry from archaic Lesbos. These distant fragments poetize homoerotic desire, heartbreak, and infinite tenderness. It ends with a selection of love poems from Harlem Shadows (1922) by Claude McKay. Some of these poems deal with the impossibility of love, some with pure possibility. Some tell of pleasure, some of pain. Some seem concerned with the ephemeral, some with the eternal. Other poets include Petrarch, Charlotte Smith, and Baudelaire. This course introduces students to an array of poems dedicated to love. It facilitates reading, reflection, and writing in a multi-modal learning environment.
This online course uses the Moodle platform.
There are no specific meetings times. The course follows a posted syllabus with assignments, lectures and due dates.
Divya Menon is a scholar of global literature, literary theory, and aesthetic philosophy. She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Stony Brook University in December of 2019. Her current book project studies nineteenth-century aesthetic melancholy. She is a Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.


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On October 30, 2018, JALBCA presented a program co-sponsored by the New York Women’s Bar Association on “Treatment Beyond the Tumor”, directed to the emotional effects on the patient during and after treatment. The program addressed treatments – including counseling, exercise and music therapy – to help patients with the emotional side effects of cancer. It was preceded and followed by a networking reception hosted by Alston & Bird LLP. The program was moderated by Linda Capitti, Esq., Principal Court Attorney, Integrated Domestic Violence Court and member of the JALBCA Board of Directors. The four presenters included Susan Glaser from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), Donna Wilson (MSKCC), Joanne V. Loewy (the Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine Mount Sinai Beth Israel) and Christopher Pizzute (the Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine Mount Sinai Beth Israel).
Susan Glaser explored a range of emotional reactions by people diagnosed with cancer. She explained that after diagnosis, anxiety persists through treatment and thereafter. Many people also are angry and search for a cause outside themselves – for example, the supplement industry, or they express regrets that take the form of “if only….”, for example, “if only I had been vegan”. She sees a lot of de-personalization as well with cancer patients who describe themselves as seeing their lives from above or from afar, as in watching a movie. She explained that the diagnosis is a threat to mortality and increases a sense of vulnerability and betrayal, especially when someone watched their diet, exercised, went regularly to their religious institutions, etc.
Ms. Glaser also explained the experience of losing control. This includes a concern for patients’ relationships (e.g., what do I tell my kids? my partner? my employer?) and a fear of loss of clients for those who might not want to invest in the professional relationship if the service provider will be out sick. In her experience, patients are surprised both positively and negatively by the people in their lives.
Ms. Glaser also called attention to the great impact of celebrity personalities who disclosed their cancer diagnoses – for example Betty Ford, Happy Rockefeller, Christine Applegate, Richard Roundtree, Ann Romney, Angelina Jolie, and Olivia Newton-John. This makes it easier for the patient, in turn, to disclose her own condition.
There is an alteration in body image that often accompanies cancer treatment. Both men and women can feel deformed, experience an interruption in sensation, suffer an adverse impact on fertility, and have a general feeling of loss. She, therefore, recommended that it is important for patients to shore up their support systems.
Donna Wilson, who looked like the paradigm of physical fitness, focused on techniques to help the patient – acupuncture, massage, reiki, mind-body meditation and exercise. Exercise, she explained, is anti-inflammatory and fat increases cancer risks so fat reduction is a goal. Ms. Wilson emphasized hydration and the need to drink three liters per day. She then walked the audience through an exercise and breathing regimen which should begin daily upon wake-up. This took everyone out of their seats for a welcome dose of audience participation.
Joanne Loewy described the use of music therapy in cancer care. Music therapy, defined by the American Music Therapy Association, is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individual goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved musical therapy program. She explained that the body is an orchestra and we control the orchestra. The first thing doctors do is listen to our drummer (i.e., our heartbeat). The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine, named after the performer who was one of the first great stars to donate his music proceeds to this cause, uses music to build resilience. The staff assesses what music will be of assistance to the person in question. Ms. Loewy herself was able to avoid taking heparin, when she was sick, by using music. They also offer a wellness clinic for people who are cancer-free. She identified the use of music in cancer care for these purposes: music-assisted relaxation, de-stress prescribed music playlists, strategies for coping with illness burden, emotional support, symptom management, anxiety reduction, pain management, and procedural support therapy. The music therapists at the Center at Mount Sinai are licensed by the NYS Department of Education and are trained at the Masters and Doctoral level in current techniques in music psychotherapy.
Ms. Loewy pointed to a September 2017 article in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics on the use of music therapy to relieve distress and anxiety in patients undergoing simulation for radiation therapy. In summary, the study found that when they changed the meter of the music, which was coordinated with patients, the result was less anxiety and distress. The 78 patients involved in the study were breast cancer and head and neck cancer patients. The audience was also directed to the link http://www.musicandmedicine.org for further information about the Center at Mount Sinai. Ms. Loewy reminded the audience that music therapy at Mount Sinai is free of charge since it is part of the treatment; the wellness clinic is a low-fee program. She announced that they have not turned people away from music therapy because the program is grant-funded. It was her
recommendation to have at least a one-time consultation with a music therapist to learn what it can offer.
Finally, Christopher Pizzute closed the program by demonstrating the power of music therapy with his guitar.
On October 18, 2018, the Jewish Theological Seminary hosted a program on genetic cancer mutations in Ashkenazi Jews. At the start of the program, it was noted that those of Jewish ancestry have a 10 times greater risk of inheriting the BRCA gene mutations; 1 out of 40 carries the mutation, thereby increasing her/his risk for breast, prostate and ovarian cancers. Reference was made to the BRCA Founder Outreach Study. Its purpose is to expand knowledge of the BRCA mutations, motivate people, and give access to testing in the Ashkenazi community. The program was introduced by a rabbi who was a breast cancer survivor, who learned she had breast cancer while preparing for a prophylactic mastectomy, though she had completed a mammogram two months earlier.
The first speaker was Dr. Ken Offit from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). He discussed the general risk of cancer in Jewish individuals. He mentioned that he did not see stage one ovarian cancer until he did BRCA testing and noted such tumors can be cured if they are removed early. In speaking about breast cancer, Dr. Offit explained that, while this is not a Jewish disease, the hereditary basis for this cancer is more common in Jews. He discovered a number of mutations other than BRCA that cause different cancers because of the hereditary burden Jews have.
The term “genetic burden” has been defined as (1) the number of diseases and deaths that occur as a result of inherited traits or (2) the cost to the genome of mutations or selection pressure that eliminate alleles from it. In Jewish history, there was a series of population-threatening events that extended from the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD to the 1700s, as well as occasions when Jews were prohibited from reproducing except with other Jews. This increased the passage of genetic mutations to future generations.
What can men and women do with respect to BRCA mutations? Dr. Offit offered both MRIs and preventative surgery (as was pursued by the actress Angelina Jolie) or breast conservation surgery as options. In addition, for young people of reproductive age, one can avoid the BRCA mutation by doing assisted reproduction, e.g., in vitro fertilization. Dr. Offit said he learned this from the Israelis, who he said do a lot of IVF.
The next panelist was a New York radiologist, Dr. Miriam Levy, the founder of a women’s medical imaging clinic. She focused on radiologic screening of people who are genetically at risk. She started by discussing the types of breast cancer (ductal carcinoma in situ (DSIS) and invasive types). Invasive types are those where abnormal cells multiply in an uncontrolled fashion while infiltrating the breast. These become life-threatening when the cells trail through the bloodstream and lymphatic channels. As to DCIS, Dr. Levy explained that this does not cause harm and sometimes fizzles out. However, DCIS sometimes develops into an invasive cancer, though the medical community is not sure how many and which kinds follow this path. Dr. Levy believes DCIS should be classified as a high risk lesion, but described her position as a minority one.
Unless people undergo prophylactic bilateral mastectomies, Dr. Levy said the best option is screening. Radiologists offer mammograms – the 2D mammogram uses low dose radiation and is the gold standard for screening. It has produced a 30-40% reduction in death from breast cancer compared to women who are not screened. The greatest challenge is breast density – the more dense the breast, the more glands exist compared to fat – and breast cancer is harder to detect in this white background. To overcome the breast density issue, radiologists use 3D mammography where the images separate the breast into slices similar to CT scans and MRIs. 3D mammography, Dr. Levy said, can be credited with finding twice as many invasive breast cancers and resulting in significantly fewer false positive results. Needle biopsies of the breast are also done using this new technology to get accurate tissue diagnosis. These are needle-guided; the usual biopsy with 2D technology will not suffice.
Dr. Levy also described the use of breast sonograms, which involves the use of high frequency sound waves to produce images. With this, she is able to distinguish fluid from solid tissue and avoid exposure of the patient to x-rays. The downside of sonograms is that many centers have a high false positive rate. In her practice, she uses sonograms especially for those patients who have dense breasts and chest deformities.
MRIs are another tool. This involves the use of a very powerful magnet, radio waves and computer technologies to produce thinly sliced images of the breast. Dr. Levy explained that gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) light up cancer in the breast. It has a very high level of sensitivity to find breast cancer, the ability to distinguish liquid from solid tissue, does not expose the patient to x-rays, and provides excellent anatomical detail. GBCAs are intravenous drugs used in diagnostic imaging procedures to enhance the quality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). GBCAs are rare earth metals. Dr. Levy identified the disadvantages of MRIs as these: they are expensive, some people are claustrophobic and cannot tolerate them, the gadolinium injection imposes some small risks (e.g., with multiple repeated injections it stays in the brain; also there are some sensitivities) and it is less accurate in younger women and women with hormone replacement therapy. (See the article in this JALBCA newsletter for further information about gadolinium.) The result can be a camouflage effect and false positive findings that lead to more studies.
Dr. Levy briefly mentioned other available techniques for radiologists: MBI (molecular breast imaging) and PEM (positron emission mammography). Both require injection of a radioactive substance, making them not reasonable choices for screening.
She provided some recommendations. For women with BRCA mutations and untested first degree female relatives, she recommended timing the tests six months apart, having annual mammograms and breast sonograms in combination. She acknowledged that the quality of care a patient gets in radiology depends on the excellence of the equipment, skill of the radiologist, diagnostic skill of the radiologist interpreting the exam and judgment of the radiologist deciding what to do about the radiologic finding (e.g., whether or not to recommend an image-guided needle biopsy). Also, in her practice, Dr. Levy has two radiologists look at a patient’s results. For men who are BRCA carriers, Dr. Levy noted that they have a lifetime risk to develop breast cancer which is lower than the average woman but higher than the average man.
Dr. Levy also touched on approaches to gynecological cancers for women with the BRCA mutation. The ovaries and fallopian tubes of women are most at risk. The cancers develop mostly in the fallopian tubes and the uterus is usually spared, except secondarily when a woman is being treated for breast cancer with tamoxifen. Ovarian cancer, she explained, tends to grow rapidly and manifests symptoms much later in its progression and cannot be found early enough with screening. Laproscopic surgery can be done by age 35-40 for BRCA1 carriers and age 45-50 for BRCA2 carriers, hopefully after they have borne children if they choose to do so. Ovarian cancer poses challenges for younger women. Clinical trials are underway where only the tubes are removed. Dr. Levy also explained that the risk of ovarian cancer is reduced by 40% if these women are put on birth control pills. She also recommended a trans-vaginal sonogram plus CA125 blood test every six months.
In concluding, Dr. Levy shared that, even with all her years in the field of medicine, she is always learning and changes her way of practice to do better for her patients. But the more she learns, the more humbled she feels by what she does not know.
The third speaker was Dr. Michael Bertstein, whose topic was “BRCA Screening in Men: Is it Worth the Effort?” Dr. Bertstein is a head and neck cancer surgeon, ENT doctor and prostate cancer survivor. Speaking about his own experience, he knew that if he did not have successful radiation therapy he faced no alternative treatment. He referenced the silliness of the recommendation of the American College of Surgeons to not get screened because once you get the results they don’t know what they’re going to do about it. So men get a PSA test and the decision is the patient’s, not that of the internist or urologist, as to how to proceed. For men who are BRCA positive, he said the cancer is significantly more aggressive. That cancer’s behavior is not the same as it is for the general population. There is a Gleeson Score, and if a man is BRCA positive he is starting at the minimum of “7”. So, he said, if you then do not get treated your “prostate cancer will definitively kill you.” A BRCA test is extremely important for a man’s survival, and the testing may change the prospects for his offspring and theirs as well.
Dr. Bertstein believes he must give the patient hope. Routinely he tells his patients that he is a cancer survivor and they feel relief when they see their caregiver is a survivor and has done well health-wise. Further, he offers his patients a concrete plan as to what is going to be done to make them better.
The final speaker was Lenny Pogrebin, the founder of Ms. Magazine. She explained that she is nine years away from the day when she was told “the radiologist would like to see you,” which she said put her into the “world of the sick”, where suddenly “it is all about you.” As a journalist, she was fanatical about research and so she did her research, spoke to friends (and, being an Ashkenazi Jew, she had many friends who had experienced the same situation), and went to MSKCC for treatment by Dr. Larry Norton. She emphasized the importance of interviewing your doctors in order to determine if they relate to you as a human being.
Ms. Pogrebin had a “good cancer” because it was a tubular carcinoma and could be treated with a lumpectomy and six weeks of radiation without chemotherapy. During those six weeks, she read about how to deal with her friends because they were disappointing her – they were not bringing her presents that had any purpose (e.g., they brought bouquets of flowers that would die on the window sill and cellophaned food baskets). Instead, she would have liked a massage or someone to ask her what she had a yen for (e.g., lamb chops and brownies). On the internet, she looked up friendship and illness in order to get her friends to be more responsive or “useful” because, while they wanted to be helpful, they missed a step. She found that online books were geared to young adults and children and concluded that she needed to write the book that she would like to read. She found her sample of people in the waiting room – people with all different diagnoses. Her selected topic was “how to be a friend to a friend who is sick.” She collected anecdotes – “anecdotes are evidence” – they tell you about the person and friend, what was useful and what was not, and she developed categories of usefulness.
One category was “visiting” a patient. Ms. Pogrebin recommends that visitors be sensitive to the patient’s condition at the time of the visit. For example, be careful sitting on the edge of the bed if this might hurt someone with a scar; don’t walk in with coffee breath or garlic breath; don’t say “you look great” – she doesn’t ever want to hear this statement again; and never say “oh my god” (she took it as “oh my god, are you going to die?”).
Her advice, based on 80 interviews, is distilled into a three-prong “honesty etiquette” applicable to all patients. The visitor/friend should say: (1) tell me what’s helpful and what is not; you know I’m going to bring something, what would you like; (2) tell me what to bring; and (3) tell me when to leave. As for BRCA testing, Ms. Pogrebin said that she was tested for the BRCA gene as soon as she received her diagnosis. She felt: “If you don’t do that, you might as well be an ostrich and put your head in the sand.”
The program was followed by a short question-and-answer period.
The use of GBCAs has been the subject of recent debate among radiologists, arising from a study in late 2014 that showed the agent is deposited and retained in the brain. At the November 2017 Radiological Society of North America meeting, the topic of gadolinium deposition and possible effects of gadolinium toxicity were discussed. There is apparently no dispute that patients with renal insufficiency cannot filter the gadolinium from their body. It seems there has been little evidence showing patient safety issues in those with normal renal function. Boxed warnings are also included for known hypersensitivity reactions that can occur, especially in patients with allergic disorders.
Public attention to side effects was raised in November 2017 when action movie actor Chuck Norris filed a lawsuit against a contrast vendor and the contrast distributor for allegedly poisoning his wife Gena. She had several contrast MRI exams and the suit alleges numerous adverse health effects began after these exams. Norris alleged that his wife contracted what he called “gadolinium deposition disease”. The term is often used by patients who claim they now have chronic health problems from their contrast MRI exams, but it is not a term accepted by many in the medical community. While GBCAs have been used for decades, the fact that it accumulated and was retained in tissues, apparently, was not widely known until recently. Clinical research continues concerning the safety issue.
The FDA has taken certain action concerning gadolinium safety. In September 2017, the FDA’s Medical Imaging Drugs Advisory Committee (MIDAC) voted overwhelmingly to recommend new labels on GBCAs warning of the possibility of gadolinium retention in the body. In December 2017, the FDA announced in a drug safety communication it is requiring these new warnings to be included on all GBCAs. The FDA concluded that, “(t)o date, the only known adverse health effect related to gadolinium retention is a rare condition called nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) that occurs in a small subgroup of patients with pre-existing kidney failure. We have also received reports of adverse events involving multiple organ systems in patients with normal kidney function. A causal association between these adverse events and gadolinium retention could not be established.” By contrast, in July 2017, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued a final opinion that recommended restricting the use of some linear GBCAs and suspending the marketing authorizations of others, citing concerns about gadolinium deposition.
Patients who allege they were harmed by gadolinium agents often argue they were not provided with informed consent documents to sign, warning them of gadolinium’s potential hazards. Radiologists argue, however, that the main reason the documents may not be used is because the majority of clinical data on GBCAs show they are safe. One radiologist argues that medical malpractice attorneys have advised him that they cannot acquire informed consent if all the doctor is telling a patient is that there are no known risks, but no one knows what will occur in the future. While some practices are looking into informed consent documentation, others want to avoid this out of concern it may invite litigation.
(Sources: The Debate Over Gadolinium MRI Contrast Toxicity: A discussion on the safety of gadolinium-based contrast agents, IMAGING TECHNOLOGY NEWS, Feb. 16, 2018, at https://www.itnonline.com/article/debate-over-gadolinium-mri-contrast-toxicity); FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA warns that gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) are retained in the body; requires new class warnings, FDA, at https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm589213.htm)
Fran Visco, President of JALBCA grantee the National Breast Cancer Coalition, presented a captivating program on “Understanding the Basics of Breast Cancer” to a packed room on October 16, 2018. The event was hosted by JALBCA Board member Hon. Marguerite Grays and co-sponsored by the Queens County Supreme Court, Civil and Criminal Term Gender Fairness Committee and the Queens County Women’s Bar Association. Many women judges from Queens turned out to welcome Fran to the Queens County Supreme Court.
On October 18, 2018, JALBCA was proud to partner with the Westchester Women’s Bar Association in presenting “Breast Cancer Awareness” in White Plains, NY. JALBCA co-founder, past Co-President and Board member Hon. Sondra Miller spoke about JALBCA and welcomed attendees to an interesting and informative presentation about breast health, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment options by Dr. Alisan Goldfarb, a renowned breast cancer surgeon, and Dr. Randy Stevens, Director, Department of Radiation Oncology, White Plains Hospital Cancer Center. They were joined by WWBA President Kim Berg and WWBA Board member Sandra Forster.
JALBCA Board member Hon. Leslie Stroth and Executive Director Claire Gutekunst joined Lisa Licata, President of the Bronx Women’s Bar Association, and event organizer Lisa Waller for the BWBA’s annual JALBCA Luncheon on October 25, 2018. The program featured breast cancer survivor Detective Stanley Schiffman and Allison Estabrook, MD, Chief of Breast Surgery, Mount Sinai West.

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Over the past few months, GE Intelligent Platforms has made several announcements in the manufacturing and processing space, ranging from MES/PLM connections to mobile HMIs. Now the company is announcing what it says is the first industrial application of big data management and analytics.
The Proficy Monitoring & Analysis suite contains six integrated products (four existing and two new products) that can also be purchased separately. The four existing products in the suite are: Proficy Historian data collection software; Proficy Historian Analysis for data mining and visualization; Proficy SmartSignal for predictive analytics for condition-based monitoring; and Proficy CSense to troubleshoot process problems, monitor process health and create closed loop process optimization. The two new products are: Proficy Historian HD, which allows storage of massively large data sets in a Hadoop cluster (see video at bottom of this article for a basic Hadoop tutorial); and Proficy Knowledge Center, a console that connects the suite with process visibility, asset health assessment and process optimization.
Brian Courtney, general manager for GE Intelligent Platforms Industrial Data Intelligence Software group, says the target user for this software suite is “anyone monitoring fleets of assets to get efficiencies” across those assets. He adds that companies in the oil and gas, power generation and mining industries are among the first to begin adopting this type of software.
Explaining the use of Hadoop in an industrial application, Courtney provides an example from GE Aviation’s experience with the software. “Consider seeing an unusual start up sequence in a turbine and wanting to know if you’ve ever seen that sequence before. Historians aren't good at this type of signal comparison. For a turbine you'd have to look for all single starts and pull up a five-minute window for every start and compare them all. In the end, you’ll get back so much data you’ll run out of virtual memory. But we’ve been able to do this in a Hadoop cluster and get back results in less than two minutes on a 40 terabyte data set. The results showed that we had seen this kind of unusual start up 12 times over the last 10 years across 1,700 assets. We were able to use that information to determine the time to failure for that turbine. The ability to analyze data this way enables a new type of analytic.”
Hadoop is based on technology developed for Google, Yahoo and Facebook for tracking the world’s clickstream data, says Courtney. Hadoop is a “massively parallel processing system that’s mostly been used with time-stamped data to optimize targeted advertising,” he says. “This technology has not been applied in the industrial sector until now. The issue in adapting it to industrial use has been in adjusting it to deal not only with time-stamped data (something which actually occurred), but also to handle time series data (estimation based on measurements taken over a series of time). The underpinnings of Hadoop had to be adapted to understand time series data.”
GE claims that Historian HD, using Hadoop, enables users to bring together an entire set of historical time-series data while reducing data storage costs by as much as 85 percent.
“We use the software ourselves in our own monitoring and diagnostics centers to manage trillions of dollars in asset value,” Courtney says. “Today, in the GE Industrial Performance and Reliabilty Center, GE engineers monitor thousands of mission critical assets for our customers to ensure uptime, asset reliability overall production throughput."
Proficy Monitoring & Analysis suite is available via license or as a service.
The video below is a general tutorial on Hadoop.