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Out in Europe tomorrow and reaching North America on Monday, your 200 Points earns you fifteen songs and knowledge of the necessary notes to play them yourself. The press release plays on the game's hand-eye-ear co-ordination aspects, so we'll soon see if this is a more enjoyable and advanced take on the old ebony and ivory than its predecessor.
Abylight is proud to announce the worldwide release of “Music on: Playing Piano”, second game of its successful musical series for Nintendo DSiWareTM.
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Music On: Playing Piano
Playing the piano has never been so easy and so much fun!
This new collection of 15 popular songs allows you to enjoy a complete musical experience even if you have no prior knowledge of the piano.
Notes transformed into rectangles appear over the piano keys to show you where, when and how to play them. The song speed increases depending on the game's level.
"Music on: Playing Piano" is an easy, intuitive and addictive game that will challenge your auditory and visual coordination.
For old times (Traditional)
Red River Valley (Traditional)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (George M. Cohan)
El Condor Pasa (A. Robles)
Old black Joe (Stephen Foster)
The Saints (Traditional)
Camptown Races (Stephen Foster)
The Easy Winners (Scott Joplin)
The Banana Boat Song (Traditional)
Oh! Susanna (Stephen Foster)
La Cucaracha (Traditional)


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is an instrumental symphonic metal prog neo-Romantic jazz fusion eclectic virtual behemoth of an ensemble. All the instruments are performed or programmed / synthestrated by Leonard “L-Train” Hume.
Royal Canterlot Symphonic Metal Orchestra (Ro.C.S.M.Or)
is a musical troupe dedicated to telling expansive, epic tales set in other people’s universes through modern metal opera. Led by composer and producer Leonard “L-Train” Hume, it features contributions from talented artists, singers and musicians from all over the world.

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President Jokowi: Indonesia Affirms Its Commitment to Tackling Climate Change
Indonesia has a strong commitment as part of the solution to climate change, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has stated.
The President made the statement when receiving Executive Vice President of European Union’s Green Deal Frans Timmermans, at the Merdeka Palace, Monday (18/10).
“As one of the owners of the largest forests and mangrove ecosystems, Indonesia is aware of its strategic position,” the President said as quoted by Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi.
According to the Minister, President Jokowi affirmed that the issues of climate change and the environment cannot be separated from the issue of sustainable development goals.Thus, there should be a balance between protecting nature and carrying out the development.
“The balance is needed and it will only be achieved if we join hands,” Retno said.
On that occasion, the President also pointed out the concrete measures that have been achieved by Indonesia as a form of commitment to dealing with climate change.
“Efforts to control climate change through emission reduction by 29 percent and 41 percent with international assistance by 2030 so far are running well. Fulfillment of this commitment is contributed by the reduction in forest fires, reduction in forest emissions and land use, deforestation rate that reached the lowest level, and mangrove rehabilitation that reached 600 thousand hectares,” she said, adding that Indonesia does not want to be trapped in its own rhetoric and prefers to strive for emission reductions as committed in the Paris Agreement.
The Minister also reaffirmed the President’s viewpoint that affordable technology and investment are very important for all countries to make an energy transition so that cooperation is the key to a successful energy transition. (BPMI of Presidential Secretariat/UN) (RIF/LW)


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Welcome to Paekākāriki — we hope this site helps you find your way around. There’s a Paekākāriki map on the notice board by the shops too. Here’s an introduction.
Paekākāriki… to Ngāti Haumia who settled here it was the perch of the kākāriki (green parakeet), some say it’s another name for paradise, it’s even been called The Centre of the Universe. But whatever it’s been called, while you’re here you can call it home.
We’re a small place, nestled between the sea and the hills, bounded to the north by Queen Elizabeth Park, but you’ll find lots to do here. Famous as a beach-holiday destination, we also have many walking and biking tracks, parks, friendly cafes and a pub, shops with free wifi from Groundtruth, organic fruit and veges, a dairy with everything else, local arts, a hairdresser, the railway station museum, and the occasional pop-up surprise as well.
Further north along Wellington Road there’s Paekakariki School, and running down to the sea on the other side is Campbell Park with sports fields, a children’s playground, skate park and Memorial Hall.
The local Surf Lifesaving Club is at the North end of the beach. And to make sure you’re not caught short out and about, we can tell you there are toilets on the corner of Beach and Wellington Roads, at Campbell Park, and our end of Queen Elizabeth Park, see the map.
At the north end of Wellington Road is the Holiday Park for campers, and Queen Elizabeth Park with trails that will take you past Mackays Crossing – where the WWII US Marines encampment is commemorated, alongside the Tramways Museum – and right through to Raumati. If you want a more challenging hike, try our dramatic and very popular local escarpment section of the New Zealand-long Te Araroa Trail that climbs the hills between here and Pukerua Bay to the south.
Don’t like walking or riding? Grab a ticket at the dairy and jump on a train, heading north to Paraparaumu or Waikanae, or south for the 45-minute trip to Wellington; kick back and relax at the beach listening to Paekakariki.fm – online or at 88.2FM; or grab a beer at the local pub, Finns. If you prefer to make your own fun you can hire St Peter’s, or Memorial Hall on the waterfront.
Here are a few quick links that you might find useful, especially if you’re living here:
- Paekakariki Times
- Paekākāriki Community Board
- Paekakariki Tauhokohoko – our local trading Facebook page (for permanent residents only).
There’s heaps more information, stories and links — so look around.
Please let us know if you think anything’s missing, or not working like it should. We are always interested to know how we can make our site more useful.

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The Carlisle City Council discussed the purchase of a new fire truck during the July 18 council meeting.
Fire Chief Derryk Burks and Assistant Fire of Chief for training Brent Doney presented the council with records of the pump tests conducted on the city’s three fire engines. During the April 27, 2017. test, the 1970 engine one failed.
“This time it failed,” Doney said. “It actually blew oil all over the ground.”
Engine 2, the 2001 model passed as well as engine 3, the 1976 model, according to Doney, but the 1976 model just barely passed.
“As of right now, we have two certified trucks, pumper trucks,” Doney said. “The one [the 1970 model] is no longer going to be counted as a pumper, because it can’t pass the test.”
Alderman James Givens asked Doney what the cost would be to repair the truck. According to Doney, due to the age of the truck, parts are not long available for repairs. He said over the years the department has done well salvaging parts from junk yards to make necessary repairs, up until about three or four years ago.
“Luckily we have two or three mechanics and several that are mechanically inclined,” Doney said. “These guys are the ones that have been trying to keep these things limping along. It not uncommon for one of these to not make it out of the door.”
Doney said the 1976 model recently broke down at the intersection of highway 13.
“I want to tell all you firemen, now listen up now,” Mayor Ray Glover said. “I think we need some kind of newer truck. I’m on board with that and I think the city council is too. We need some kind of newer truck.”
“I know we can’t afford a brand new truck,” Burks said. “A perfectly good used one would be fine. Anything is better than what we’ve got.”
“We aren’t asking for a new truck,” Doney said.
According to Doney, the fire department had an officers meeting and decided due to having two trucks in poor shape, they would rather purchase two used trucks for $50,000 each than a new truck for $100,000. Doney said they have looked at multiple trucks that would cost around $50,000 and ranged from in year models 1998-2003.
“The only thing we want you guys to understand is we are buying trucks around the same age as the 2001,” Doney said. “Basically what we would have , would be three trucks all about the same age. But they would be dependable for a while. “
Doney said parts are available for the 2000 model trucks, which will help in repairs. He said one company is also willing to pay $2,500 each for the 1970 and 1976 model trucks. According to Doney, the city clerk treasurer has also given the department information on applying for a $15,000 matching grant, to aide in the purchase.
The council reviewed photographs or trucks available to purchase and gave the fire department their blessing to move forward with selecting a truck.
“We’ve also been testing our hoses, to get record on them for our points,” Burks said.
In addition to testing hoses, Doney said the department has discussed and are planning to begin working with the water department on flushing and inspecting hydrants to increase the city’s fire rating score. He said the fire department would notify the city on which areas will be tested ahead of time to notify the citizens through Nixle notification or the water bill. Burks did express some concern with not being able to shut the hydrants off, once turned on.
“That’s why we want someone from the city to do it with us,” Burks said. “That way if something happens they will already be there with us and they will know where we are at. Because you never know if something blows, what happens. And it might not. It might go well. “
“I’m not,” Public Works Superintendent David Walters II.
Walters said the department has equipment that the department can use to test the flow and it could be put on a timer to test any time of day.
Before moving forward in the meeting, Glover made a point to respond to statements made by firemen Eric Adams and Vic Seidenschwarz during the July 10 Carlisle Chamber of Commerce meeting, and reported in the Lonoke County Democrat.
“I would like to say this to the firemen,” Glover said. “You have no bigger supporter than I am. I was a little bit disappointed with what one of your comrades said in the paper the other day, about I was endangering y’alls lives.”
“I took care of that,” Burks said.
” You can ask Marvin and Alvin, I’ve never turned down anything that they have ever asked me, for y’all to have, Glover said.”
“Every time we’ve asked you, as far as I know, I don’t think we’ve been turned down if we say we need it,” Doney said. “It’s just the trucks have been the sticking point.”
“Well that really disappointed me, what was said in the paper the other day,” Glover said. “Indicating I was putting y’alls lives in danger.
“I wasn’t there,” Doney said.
“I wasn’t at the meeting,” Burks said.
“Last time the fire department came to talk us about a truck, if I remember correctly, it was over $200,000,” alderman Chad Bennett said.
“$200,000 is a lower end, newer truck,” Doney said.
“That’s a lick, ” Bennett said. “If they came to us with a $50,000 it would have been a different story.”
“Yeah,” Alderman Jon Plafcan said. “If they had came to us [with a $50,000 truck] two or three years ago, we would have been talking about replacing those by now.”
“Y’all have got to have equipment to work with, we know that,” Glover said. “So y’all start working on that and get back with us, ok.”
The council approved the fire department to begin the search for purchasing two trucks for around $100,000. In addition, the council agreed to begin selecting hydrants for testing
In other business, the council approved ordinance 316, authorizing the issuance of water and sewer revenue bonds for the construction and improvements to the water facilities, . The principal amount of the bonds is $955,000. The interest rate for the forty year rural development loan at the time of approval is 2.75 percent. The bond will be used for the water tank rehab and the drilling of a new water well. City attorney Mike Stuart, with suspension of the rules, read the ordinance by title only with an overview.
“We are needing to drill a new well for city water,” Glover said. “I think now we are at 62 foot and will be going down 600 foot to make sure that we have water years to come. We are in a situation we are not running out of water but can see it’s getting lower and lower. So this ordinance pertains to that. As Mike said, we’re in the process of getting some land appraised, to buy some land, to drill this well on. Several different steps we’ve got to go through. This is just the first one.”
By unanimous vote, the council approved by ordinance, the construction and improvements to the water facilities, authorizing the issuance of water and sewer revenue bonds in the principal amount of $955,000.
In the water sewer and street department, Public Works Superintendent David Walters II said the Durkee and Pauchert Road sewer projects are both complete, minus dirt work and clean up.
Bids were opened on July 17, for the rehabilitation of the city’s rock filter plant. Two bids were received, the lowest of $289,000 from Big Creek Contractors of Heber Springs and the highest of $340,320 of Environmental Process Systems, Inc. of Conway.
“Jeremy [the city engineer] was well pleased with that $280,000,” Glover said. “That’s for our rock filter plant that is south of town, where everything ends up and we have a filtering system before everything goes into the bayou that needed some attention. Jeremy recommends the council accept the big of $289,000.”
By unanimous vote, the council moved forward with the recommendation of city engineer Jason Stone, accepting the lowest bid of $289,000 from Big Creek Contractors of Heber Springs
According to Walters, he collected three bids for a new dump trailer purchase, which was budgeted for the year. Of the three, the lowest bid of $5,800 of Eddie’s Trailer sales in Carlisle does not include ramps. The second lowest bid was $6,260 of Big Tex Trailers in Benton and the highest bid was $6,850 from Trailer Country of Cabot. Walters said because the lowest bid does not include ramps, he asked the council to consider the second to lowest bid. By unanimous vote, the council accepted the bid of $6,260.
Also during the meeting, Police Chief Eric Frank said the school contacted him about a school resource officer (SRO) for the upcoming school year. He said the school board approved the pay and hire of an SRO during their recent board meeting. According to Frank, in surrounding city’s, SRO’s are paid nine months out of the year by the school district and three months out of the year by the city. He said the officer would be a full time employee of the Carlisle Police Department and would work on the streets when school is not in session. Frank estimates the position to cost the city around $10,000-11,500 and the school around $30,000-34,000 depending on pay rate. He said the rate also includes benefits.
With a unanimous vote from the council, the council voted to partner with the Carlisle School district and hire a school resource officer.
Before close of the meeting, alderman Bennett was presented with a plaque by Glover, in appreciation of his four years of service to the Carlisle City Council. Bennett, who is relocating to Benton has resigned from his position on the council effected in July.
“I’ve enjoyed every minute of it,” Bennett said.
Glover said he has selected Larry Flynn to be appointed to finish Bennett’s term.
“Larry is a lifelong resident of Carlisle,” Glover said. “He loves Carlisle and I think he will make a wonderful alderman.”
“I appreciate you for asking me,” Flynn said. “And I look forward to the next year and half.”
By unanimous vote, the council approved to appointment of Flynn to the position of alderman for ward 1, position 2. Flynn was sworn into office later that week.
The next regular scheduled council meeting will be at 6 p.m. Aug. 15 at the Civic Center.

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Manchester City face long wait to find out if they are to receive Champions League ban as Financial Fair Play case is referred until the end of January
- Manchester City’s alleged flouting of FFP rules was revealed by Der Spiegel
- Their case is set to be discussed by the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB)
- The CFCB are expected to sit at the end of January, so City face a longer wait
- Initial meeting scheduled for December was postponed, delaying a conclusion
Man City’s wait to find if they face a Champions League ban will be prolonged further, with their Financial Fair Play case now set to be discussed next month.
UEFA’s investigation into potential breaches of FFP has been referred to the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB), who are expected to sit at the end of January.
Sportsmail understands a meeting of the CFCB’s adjudicatory chamber scheduled for December was postponed, delaying a conclusion.
Manchester City’s FFP case has been referred to the CFCB, who are set to sit at end of January
There is not yet any concrete indication as to whether City will be sanctioned with a European ban following damaging allegations published by Der Spiegel via leaked documents last year.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport recently rejected an appeal by City to half the UEFA investigation.
City’s attempt to have it thrown out was deemed ‘inadmissible,’ given the legal process was ongoing and that CFCB had not determined any punishment, if any, would be applied if they were found guilty.
Allegations against Manchester City were made by Der Spiegel via leaked documents in 2018
The Premier League champions registered their displeasure when their case was referred to the CFCB.
‘Manchester City is entirely confident of a positive outcome when the matter is considered by an independent judicial body,’ a statement read. ‘The accusation of financial irregularities remains entirely false.
‘The decision contains mistakes, misinterpretations and confusions fundamentally borne out of a basic lack of due process and there remain significant unresolved matters raised by Manchester City as part of what the club has found to be a wholly unsatisfactory, curtailed, and hostile process.’


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Land Banks and Land Banking, 2nd Edition
The Authoritative Resource on Modern Land Banking
Published: June 2015
Author(s): Frank S. Alexander (Co-Founder and Senior Legal and Policy Advisor)
Land banks have existed in the U.S. for more than four decades, but as recently as 2010, they were still a relatively unexplored community development tool. That was the year the Center for Community Progress opened its doors with the purpose of advising communities on land banks and other critical tools to address vacancy, abandonment, and tax delinquency. At that time, a handful of states, most notably Michigan and Ohio, already had land bank enabling legislation on the books, and a small number of well-established land banks had emerged as examples from which to learn. A national community of practice related to land banking, however, had not yet formed, leaving many questions about best practices unanswered. This landscape began to change in the wake of the 2008 housing market collapse and subsequent foreclosure crisis, as an increasing number of community development practitioners around the country came to view land banks as a potential game changer in their efforts to combat problem properties.
In this context, Frank Alexander released the first edition of “Land Banks and Land Banking” in 2011. It was the most comprehensive publication on land banking developed to date, helped to usher in a new era of sophistication in land banking, and was unsurpassed as the authoritative resource on land banking, until now, with the 2015 publication of this second edition.
Land Banks and Land Banking, 2nd Ed., provides clear historic context about the development of land banking and elucidates its rapid evolution. Readers will also find an expanded trove of practical resources, including extensive guidance on creating and operating a land bank, template state enabling legislation, and sample administrative policies. It is an essential read for anyone interested in discerning whether a land bank is the right tool for their community, and the fundamentals of how land banks work.
You may download this publication for personal use, but not for further distribution.
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NEW YORK, USA // Eri began her career agency-side in comms, planning and strategy at various West Coast shops, including McCann. A move to New York and eventually London, saw her fall in love with the production company side of the industry. Joining Jelly in London, Eri gravitated towards the motion side of the business, and in 2019, headed back to her Motherland to lead Jelly’s New York studio.
A confident problem solver, Eri has a mind for connecting people and ideas, and an ambitious drive to bring others along on the journey. She loves the challenge of helping Artists and Directors do what they do best, supporting them to uncover the narrative and authenticity in their work. Eri uses her creativity, strategic thinking, and production prowess to forge symbiotic relationships with appropriate brand and creative partners.
On the side, Eri has her head in the... plants. Since moving back to NY, she’s opened a plant shop in Cold Spring called WYLD, where a co-working space serves as a creative hub for the local community to come together. She also faithfully recreated a traditional London pub in the basement of her house with her British husband - with an open invite extended to all swinging through town on a day trip.


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Elf / story adapted by Rebecca Gyllenhaal, based on the film written by David Berenbaum ; illustrated by Kim Smith.
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REGIONAL—When 19-year-old Linsy Gonzalez was growing up in Boyden, she often was thrust into the role of interpreter by circumstance.
Her mother, a native Spanish speaker from Mexico, was navigating a world in which almost no one spoke her language.
“I would interpret for my mom at school, at grocery stores, sometimes even at appointments,” Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez was an only child to a single mother. Between languages and cultures, Gonzalez often found herself in the role of broker or bridge — her voice was both her own and a voice that belonged to others.
“I was kind of the bridge for my whole family in general,” she said.
Gonzalez grew up speaking Spanish at home and English in school, and she often interpreted for her uncle and other extended family members, too.
“It was a lot of pressure,” she said.
Gonzalez was glad to be helpful, and she continues to seek opportunities to interpret for others whenever she can, but it was a big responsibility for a kid.
“People comment, ‘Oh, you’re so mature for your age,’” she said. “Well, I had to grow up quite fast.”
Gonzalez said her experience is relatively common among her friends with Spanish-speaking parents.
“With my friends, if they’re the oldest, they’re typically the ones interpreting and translating,” she said.
From the time Gonzalez was in kindergarten until she graduated from Boyden-Hull High School in Hull in 2020, her classmates from Spanish-speaking homes doubled in number from five to 10, reflecting a broad demographic shift that has been reshaping communities across N’West Iowa.
That shift has brought growing linguistic diversity to the region and, with it, a growing need for interpreting and translating services — in schools and daycares, in clinics and hospitals and in courtrooms and attorney’s offices.
To help meet that need, Gonzalez is pursuing interpreting as a career. She recently completed her second year in the Spanish-English translation and interpretation program at Northwestern College in Orange City, and she plans to become a certified medical interpreter.
“The health-care system is the last place an individual should feel fear,” she said. “In Sioux County, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the Latinx population, and I want to be a part of creating a sense of safety and care. I want to be a bridge.”
Northwestern’s four-year degree program in Spanish-English translation and interpretation was founded in 2008 by Piet Koene, professor of Spanish, interpretation and translation. The program joins Northwestern’s long-standing Spanish major to expand offerings in the modern foreign languages department. Koene developed the program to meet a need for qualified interpreters and translators in Iowa and beyond.
“There are only a handful of certified interpreters in courts in Iowa,” Koene said. “Medical interpreting, also — it’s just a handful.”
The program at Northwestern was retooled last year to provide more focused and rigorous training in two different tracks — medical and legal — to better prepare students for their certification exams. Students in the four-year program spend their first year learning medical interpreting and their second focusing on legal. Nontraditional students can complete their one-year certificate in either track online.
Along with his role as professor at Northwestern, Koene is a federal certified court interpreter.
“In Iowa, there are only three of us,” he said.
He also is a state-certified court interpreter for Iowa and Minnesota and a nationally certified medical interpreter.
Koene said interpretation, which deals with the spoken word, and translation, which deals with written texts, both require specialized training. They are two different but related skill sets, and it is not sufficient simply to be bilingual.
“That’s a very common misimpression — that anyone who is bilingual can interpret,” Koene said. “Being fully bilingual is the necessary prerequisite. It’s the groundwork.”
Certification exams include a written and verbal component, and according to Koene, they are rigorous. The pass rate for the state legal interpreting exam is only 20 percent. The pass rate for the federal exam is 4 percent.
Twenty-seven-year-old Caroline Gladstone moved to Sioux Center from California in 2017 after her father accepted a position at Dordt University. A recent college graduate at the time, Gladstone was fluent in Spanish and eager to put that fluency to use.
Early on, she worked as a bilingual librarian at the circulation desk of Sioux Center Public Library, volunteering as an interpreter at the Hope Food Pantry on the side. She now is a certified medical interpreter at Sioux Center Health, but she said she initially was naive about what it took to fill the role.
“There’s this mindset that, if you’re bilingual, you can figure out how to be an interpreter. That’s not the case,” Gladstone said. “You actually need training. That’s something I didn’t realize.”
That changed when she found herself sitting in church, watching Koene interpret during a joint bilingual service of Amistad Cristiana Christian Reformed Church and Bethel Christian Reformed Church in Sioux Center.
She turned to a friend and said, “Who is that? That is the best interpreter I’ve ever seen.”
Eventually, Gladstone started taking adjunct courses in the translation and interpretation program at Northwestern. She went on to take a 40-hour medical interpretation course offered through Sioux Center Health, which was designed to equip students for the certification exam. During the two years it was offered in Sioux Center, the course, developed by the Cross Cultural Healthcare Program in Seattle, trained close to 40 interpreters in the region.
Jessica Diaz played a central role in bringing that course to N’West Iowa. After graduating from Northwestern with an English degree in 2006, Diaz, who began speaking Spanish in high school, took a role as cultural services coordinator and interpreter at Sioux Center Health.
“There is a huge need for Spanish-specific interpreters in our region,” Diaz said.
The 38-year-old recently became a patient care coordinator for the health-care organization, a role that continues to bring her into contact with Spanish-speaking patients.
Some of those patients speak Spanish as a second language, she said, further complicating the picture of language diversity in the region. In recent years, many newcomers to N’West Iowa are arriving from Guatemala, and many of them speak Mam, an indigenous language, as a first language. Spanish-English interpreting services can be helpful in these cases, but the risk of miscommunication grows.
Not all immigrants are coming to N’West Iowa from Latin America, either. Osceola County is home to a growing number of Pacific Islanders who speak a variety of dialects. As language diversity grows in the region, the challenge of providing adequate interpreting and translating services grows with it.
Still, Diaz said, Spanish-speaking interpreters and translators are in highest demand in N’West Iowa.
Diaz said fewer than 10 years ago, Sioux Center Health needed one part-time interpreter. Now, the hospital has positions for two full-time interpreters, one part-time interpreter and three as-needed interpreters. There also are around 20 members of the support staff who are bilingual, including doctors, nurses, receptionists and admissions representatives.
In 2018, Diaz helped form a regional coalition of interpreters called the Northwest Iowa Coalition of Community Healthcare Interpreters. That same year, the coalition partnered with Community Health Partners, Sioux County’s public health agency based in Orange City, to create a countywide initiative to bring more certified interpreters into the county’s critical access hospitals, Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center and Community Health Partners.
“We formed the initiative to really spur each other on to get that certification,” Diaz said.
Any entity that receives federal funds has a legal obligation to provide interpreting services, but unlike some other states, Diaz said, Iowa does not require those services be provided by a certified interpreter in health-care settings.
The coalition pursued that goal, anyway, she said, because there is a direct link between providing certified interpreters and good patient outcomes.
“Having interpreters who are certified makes the difference when it comes to ‘Do no harm,’” she said, referring to a central tenet of medical ethics. Diaz said all health providers in the county have certified interpreters on staff or are moving in that direction.
Michelle van Beek, interpreting services coordinator for Promise Community Health Center, agrees that having certified interpreters on staff is critical for patient care.
“We see higher percentages of patient satisfaction, less discontinued medications, less lack of understanding,” she said.
The 25-year-old graduate of Northwestern’s translation and interpretation program has been in her current role for four years, and during that time, she has seen Promise invest in its commitment to providing qualified interpreters.
“It is something that has definitely grown at Promise — we see the importance of having qualified interpreters,” van Beek said.
There are two certified interpreters on staff at Promise, and a couple more are working toward certification. All three dental assistants at Promise are bilingual.
“Having certified interpreters results in happier patients, less mistakes and less confusion when it comes to follow-up care,” she said.
Aside from acquiring a vast vocabulary of specialized terms — hard enough in one language, much less two — legal and medical interpreters must learn a professional code of ethics. Like attorneys and providers, interpreters are bound to protect patient privacy and maintain attorney-client privilege.
Interpreters and translators also must become proficient in certain skills. According to Koene, translating written documents requires a different skill set than interpreting does, and different in-person interpreting scenarios bring their own challenges. It takes quick recall and a rapid mind to interpret well, on the fly, and it requires other, softer qualities, like empathy and social awareness, to determine how best to navigate an interpreting situation.
Gladstone said she has provided interpreting services during labor and delivery — an intense experience, but also a common one. Around 40 percent of all maternity patients at Sioux Center Health are Spanish speaking.
“To be present there, when a woman is having a hard time in labor — when she’s on the floor, in so much pain — and to be a mouthpiece for that patient, and express her concerns, is gratifying,” Gladstone said.
She said it works both ways, and she also is “the mouthpiece for the nurses, who are the cheerleaders” when a patient is struggling with a difficult labor.
“My main role is to encourage as much of a direct relationship as possible between provider and patient, but I also know I am a physical presence there. They’re going to feel where I place myself, what tone of voice I use,” she said, explaining that she adopts the tone of the provider.
“We’re sort of like actors,” she said.
Weston Van De Berg, a 2016 graduate of the interpretation and translation program at Northwestern, also is an interpreter at Sioux Center Health.
The 27-year-old said an interpreter’s first imperative is accuracy. However, accuracy can’t be unlinked from other considerations like gesture and tone — the nonverbal qualities of speech — or from the cultural meanings that inhere in language and can get muddled in translation.
He said the pain scale was one example of a concept that doesn’t easily translate for many Spanish-speaking patients.
“Once I started rephrasing the question as, ‘What is the intensity of your pain?’ I finally started getting a number in response,” Van De Berg said, explaining that for many patients, he must bridge not only the language gap but the “medical literacy gap.” Patients unfamiliar with the protocols of the U.S. health-care system find themselves in confusing territory.
Welcome the stranger
Cultural accommodations like the one described by Van De Berg are built into the interpreter’s role, and they are one of the reasons interpreters are needed across social sectors.
Kelsey Van De Berg, who is 28 and married to Weston Van De Berg, worked as a bilingual advocate at Family Crisis Centers for five years before recently moving into a grant-writing position with the organization.
“It’s scary enough to be dealing with things like domestic violence or human trafficking,” she said. “But it’s even worse when you’re totally alone and there’s a language barrier.”
That’s true in encounters with law enforcement as well, and Sioux County dispatcher Courtney McKee said the Sioux County Sheriff’s Office recently started outsourcing its interpreting needs to LanguageLine Solutions, a paid for service that allows officers and dispatchers to connect with a remote interpreter who provides services in real time.
“It can be anything from vehicle lockouts to animal calls to domestics or ambulance calls,” said McKee, explaining that before LanguageLine, the sheriff’s office often relied on help from the county’s Spanish-speaking jailers, who weren’t always on shift when there was need for an interpreter.
“It was hard before, and it’s comforting to know we can communicate with someone who doesn’t speak English,” she said.
Kelsey Van De Berg said providing interpreting services is one important way of creating a welcoming community.
“I just think it’s the right thing to do. Helping the stranger among us — why would we not do that if we could?” she said, emphasizing that a community is only as strong as its weakest link.
Gonzalez said N’West Iowa still has a ways to go when it comes to embracing linguistic and cultural diversity. She remembers a time during the 2016 elections when she felt reluctant to speak Spanish at all. During that especially divisive period, the denigration of Spanish-speaking immigrants became commonplace, and she began to more fully understand that language — inseparable as it is from cultural identity — is contested political territory.
Despite that, Gonzalez said today she speaks Spanish proudly, and she is training to do so as a professional interpreter.
When she looks at her community, she sees signs of hope. The little girl who walked into appointments with her mother, ready to speak on her behalf, can now mostly rest in the knowledge that an interpreter will be there, waiting.
“Seeing my mom being able to go to appointments without me — it’s just amazing,” Gonzalez said. “For the most part, I know someone will be there.”


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Kathy's Birdie BreadPosted by: Kathy Pearson - email@example.com February 2, 1997
- 1 cup cornmeal
- 1/2 cup each whole wheat flour and rye flour
- 1/4 cup each Cream of Rice cereal, Malt-O-Meal, grits, and rolled oats
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 3 jars baby food - squash, sweet potatoes & applesauce
- 1/4 cup grated cheddar cheese
- 1 large carrot chopped
- 1 cup chopped broccoli stems & crowns
- 2 eggs with shells
- 1 cup puffed brown rice cereal
- water as necessary
Put carrot & broccoli in food processor for 30 seconds. Eggs & shells should also be processed in the food processor until shells are ground. Mix all ingredients and add water to make mixture spreading consistency. Spread in greased 10x13 pan, and bake at 400 for 30 minutes.
I created this recipe by combining ingredients from some of the other birdie bread recipes out there and adding some of my own. My birds love it! Ingredients can easily be substituted with similar ingredients that you have on hand.
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Rust forms when iron or its alloys are exposed to moist air. The oxygen and water in air react with the metal to form the hydrated oxide.
Cathodic reduction of oxygen that is dissolved into water also occurs : The iron oxide reacts with oxygen to yield red rust, Fe 2 O 3. H 2 O.
Rust occurs more quickly in saltwater than in pure water, for example. Carbonic acid is a better electrolyte than pure water.
As the acid attacks the iron, water breaks into hydrogen and oxygen. Once rusting starts, it continues to corrode the metal.
Rust is brittle, fragile, progressive, and weakens iron and steel. To protect iron and its alloys from rust, the surface needs to be separated from air and water.
The difference is the chromium oxide does not flake away, so it forms a protective layer on the steel. Rust is a naturally occurring phenomenon when certain metals are exposed to oxygen and water for a length of time.
It is an actual chemical change which takes place when metal starts to rust. Left in a totally dry environment, iron or steel will not rust.
It is when moisture is added that the oxidation process starts to occur. Because the air we breathe has moisture in it, oxidation will occur even if there is no water added to the metal.
There are things you can do to prevent rust from forming on your metal surfaces. This machine also decreases the moisture in the air, reducing your chances of rust forming.
Things which are normally stored outside, like bicycles and lawn mowers, can be covered or moved indoors. There are products which will allow you to keep moisture from ruining your tools and other things.
Silica gel packs help to dry out the air in small places like drawers or tool boxes. When a piece of metal corrodes, the electrolyte helps provide oxygen to the anode.
When a drop of water hits an iron object, two things begin to happen almost immediately. As the acid is formed and the iron dissolved, some water will begin to break down into its component pieces -- hydrogen and oxygen.
The chemical compounds found in liquids like acid rain, seawater and the salt-loaded spray from snow-belt roads make them better electrolytes than pure water, allowing their presence to speed the process of rusting on iron and other forms of corrosion on other metals. It’s a naturally occurring phenomenon that happens every time iron is exposed to oxygen and water.
While oxygen and water are really all it takes for your favorite tool, bike, or car to rust, there are some things that can make the situation worse. If the iron or steel comes into contact with salt water, they’ll rust much faster than usual.
Also, constant temperature changes, different chemicals and minerals, as well as acids can speed up corrosion. In some cases, your iron or steel components could’ve started corroding even before they left the manufacturing plant.
First up, water tries to bond with oxygen dioxide to create a weak carbonic acid in the air. Also, some water particles will start breaking down again into their component pieces, i.e., hydrogen and oxygen.
Those newly freed electrons go from the anode to the cathode and attach themselves to the iron or steel. After a while, if left untreated, rust will completely eat away at the metal and make it fragile.
With that said, the ultimate way to stop rust from destroying your tools, cookware, bikes, or cars is to keep them out of humid weather and rain. But if coating the metal isn’t an option, you should try to look for tools that are made from stainless steel.
The longer the metal stays exposed, the faster the water and air will get to it and turn it to rust. If you act fast, clean the wound, and protect it, you won’t have to worry about bacteria.
Let’s say the worst has happened and now you have rust ; well, don’t worry, there are a couple of quick and easy DIY recipes you can try to get it off. If you don’t have lemons or limes lying around, you can use baking soda to get rid of the brownish spots.
Again, you’ll want to leave it to rest for a couple of hours and then, using a brush or cloth, scrub the solution away. But if you’re removing rust from a smaller tool, like a knife, you can use vinegar instead of lemons or baking soda.
Just fill a container with white vinegar, put your tool inside, and let it soak overnight. In the morning, using steel wool or a wire brush, scrub everything, and wash it with clean water.
On the other hand, you also have the Iron Out Rust Stain Remover, which works great on tools, appliances, and even laundry. As you can see, all it takes for rust to occur and start destroying your prized possessions is iron or steel, water, and air.
Once those things come together to make the perfect storm, iron oxide will completely weaken and ruin the metal. Fortunately, there’s a way for you to easily prevent oxidation, and it all starts with keeping an eye out and doing maintenance.
By treating every bump and scratch immediately, your things can live a long, rust -free life. Question Date: 2009-01-19 Answer 1:Rust is what happens when you oxidize a metal.
In the simplest case, lets imagine hydrochloric acid and iron (HCl and Fe). Nitric acid (No 3) will also dissolve the rust and the metal, but in a much more violent, caustic reaction.
The oxidation reaction that occurs between the nitric acid and the metal forms NO 2 and NO which are both gases, which both happen to be highly toxic. Answer 2: Acid corrodes metal and releases gaseous hydrogen, leaving a salt behind.
As far as I know, only hydrofluoric acid would be able to eat rust ; its byproducts would be iron fluoride and water. Please note that some rust removers contain hydrofluoric acid (HF), which is extremely dangerous, since it penetrates your skin, destroys bone, and can cause heart attack, without you even feeling its presence.
If you're using any kind of rust remover, read the label carefully and always wear goggles, chemical-resistant gloves, and protective clothing. Freeze is posting this on the Flash Rust website in March 2014.
Look at this article and use the three flow diagrams that Ray Weaver developed. Freeze will post a later commentary on the current SSP and NACE definitions.
By Ray Weaver, SSP: The Society for Protective Coatings, and Lydia Freeze, Advisory Council The only way to differentiate light, medium, and heavy flash rust is by interpreting the written descriptions given in the water jetting standard SSPC-SP 12, Surface Preparation and Cleaning of Metals by Water jetting Prior to Coating, or the words and pictures in SSPC-VIS 4, Guide and Reference Photographs for Steel Surfaces Prepared by Water jetting.
While searching for a test method to actually measure the amount of flash rust, it became evident that we first needed the definition. These three terms associated with the rusting of prepared steel have occasionally been used interchangeably.
Unfortunately, the terms are not interchangeable, but their use in this manner is understandable because precise definitions that clearly differentiate among them do not exist. The SSP Protective Coatings Glossary (PCG) defines flash rusting as “rusting that occurs on metal within minutes to a few hours after cleaning is complete.
With the increased popularity of wet cleaning methods, these terms have evolved within the surface preparation industry to take on distinctive meanings. Many in the surface preparation business know, or think they know, the differences; but it is very difficult to state them in a few words.
However, they have been thoroughly reviewed by the SSPC-NACE Joint Task Group TG 323 on Wet Abrasive Blast Cleaning and other experts in the water jetting business. Rust back is rust that occurs when freshly exposed bare steel is subjected to conditions of high humidity, moisture, or a corrosive atmosphere.
It is the term used when steel cleaned by dry abrasive blasting or power tools begins to corrode. The time interval between cleaning and the development of rust back will vary greatly (from minutes to weeks) from one environment to another.
The rate of re-rusting will depend on the purity of the water, the amount of oxygen dissolved in the water, the amount of ionic species left on the surface, the temperature, and the drying time. If the surface is cleaned by wet methods, uniform flash rust may not be a problem, provided the desired non-visible cleanliness (level of soluble salts) is achieved and verified by testing.
Flash rust can form quickly to change the initial appearance. Very dark, splotchy rust spots that appear to be isolated in localized areas usually indicate that ionic contaminants were left on the surface, usually in pits, under metal lips, or in crevices.
Uniform flash rust is considered inert and a sign of general steel oxidation. If the flash rust evolves into a loose powdery layer, coating adhesion and performance may be compromised.
Conventional wisdom is that coating application over light, tight flash rust is acceptable. The use of low conductivity water with the removal of all salts (as measured by field tests) will significantly reduce the amount of flash rust.
• The rust is mostly the result of normal oxidation and not accelerated by chemical contamination NOTE: Pinpoint rusting that occurs during the drying phase of a thin coat of water-borne paint applied over blast cleaned steel is sometimes referred to as flash rust.
Unlike flash rust, which only occurs after wet cleaning methods, rust bloom can occur on both wet or dry blast cleaned steel. If the steel is contaminated with chlorides or other soluble salts, painting immediately after blast cleaning before the rust back occurs will trap the contamination between the paint and the substrate.
Loose rust can be removed or brought to an acceptable level before applying paint by methods such as brushing, solvent (organic or water) wiping, or pressure washing. Similar instincts kick in when categorizing the rust on a cleaned steel surface and then deciding what, if any, remedial action must be taken before applying the coating.
In lieu of actual field experience, some surface characteristics will be illustrated that will help you accurately define a rusted surface and make sound decisions on coating it. In practice, a light cloth should be used for the wiping instead of a bare hand to avoid transfer of contaminants, especially salts, to the surface.
Light flash rust is uniform and tightly adherent. 2, loose rust should be removed by brushing, water cleaning, or another suitable method.
The coating manufacturer must be consulted to determine the degree to which the loose rust must be removed. There is marine salt at top of the Rail car that contaminated the ricochet abrasive.
Figure 3 shows a rail car that was prepared by dry abrasive blast cleaning in a room where humidity and temperature were controlled. Normally, this facility could hold the blast on five cars before painting them.
The rust bloom along the top half of the car occurred within an hour of blasting. These factors indicate that the rust back was probably accelerated by salt contamination.
The other side of the same rail car exhibiting rust back after dry abrasive blast cleaning is shown in Fig. 3, this localized rust back was most likely accelerated by salt contamination remaining on the surface in the bottom of pits.
Figures 3 and 4 show rust back caused by salt contamination after dry abrasive blast cleaning. 3 was caused by contaminated abrasive, and the localized rust back in Fig.
4 was caused by surface contamination with localized salt corrosion cells. Understanding the root causes of the forms of rust described above will lead to informed decisions about which rusted surfaces can be painted and which ones should be re-cleaned, thereby avoiding unnecessary cleaning operations as well as costly coating failures.


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The name of the Turris project is based on a Latin word for tower - building often used to warn of approaching danger.
The Turris router can, besides serving as a normal home router, also analyze the traffic between the internet and the home network, and identify suspicious data flows. Similarly to a watchtower, it then alerts the Turris central of a possible attack. At the system headquarters, it is then possible to compare data from many connected Turris routers and asses the security status of detected traffic.
In case an attack is detected, corresponding updates are prepared and distributed to the whole Turris network, thus helping to protect all its users.
Due to the research nature of the project, we rented the device to selected users for a symbolic price of one Czech crown. In order to participate in the project, the user is required to commit to using the Turris router as the main internet gateway for his network for a specified period of time, and not to intervene in data collection. This part of the project ran between the years 2013 and 2015 and we don’t distribute any additional devices at this point.
Another possibility how to join the research is to buy Turris Omnia. Turris Omnia is our new router which is built on experience we collected with the Turris routers and the Turris Project as a whole. It has state of the art hardware but uses the same operating system as the Turris routers with automatic updates and other features. For more information check omnia.turris.cz.
HardwareBecause we do not want to slow down your internet access by security analysis, we are developing our own high-performance hardware for the Turris router. It allows for protecting a home network without sacrificing transfer speed.
SoftwareThe Turris router contains a modern operating system with remote updates and an innovative system for security analysis of network traffic.
SecurityEnhancing security of your network is the main goal of our project. Besides the passive protection offered by a secure operating system, there is the additional benefit of distributed adaptive firewall.
PrivacyMuch attention was paid to protection of privacy and sensitive data. More information about specific measures is available on the linked page.
Openness is important for us. Therefore all the software running on the Turris router is released under a free license. In fact, even the hardware design is open.


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The latest tale from the Tolkienverse, “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” takes us all back to a world unspoiled by the ravages of man. You know, New Zealand. Set thousands of years before “The Hobbit” or “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “The Rings of Power” shows just where the Middle Earth legend of magical rings began. In a time of relative peace, the Second Age, the many races of Middle Earth are forging the Rings of Power. Dark Lord Sauron is gaining more and more power, and an alliance between elves and man may be the only thing that can stop him.
It’s been years since Tolkien fans delighted at the sight of Middle Earth, and now, while it’s not an original Tolkien joint, it’s inspired by many of the events that eventually led up to one of the best fantasy stories of all time. Here’s everything you need to know to watch “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”
What is “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”?
— Premiere Date: Friday, September 2, 2022
— Episodes: Season 1 will comprise of eight episodes
— Streaming Service: Amazon Prime Video
— Genre: Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Drama
— Cast: Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Míriel, Robert Aramayo as Elrond, Owain Arthur as Durin IV, Maxim Baldry as Isildur, Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, Ismael Cruz Córdova as Arondir, Trystan Gravelle as Pharazôn, Lenny Henry as Sadoc Burrows, Ema Horvath as Eärien, Markella Kavenagh as Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot, Tyroe Muhafidin as Theo, Peter Mullan as Durin III, Sophia Nomvete as Disa, Lloyd Owen as Elendil, Megan Richards as Poppy Proudfellow, Dylan Smith as Largo Brandyfoot, Charlie Vickers as Halbrand, Leon Wadham as Kemen: Pharazôn's son, Benjamin Walker as Gil-galad, Daniel Weyman as Unnamed Stranger, Sara Zwangobani as Marigold Brandyfoot.
How to Stream “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”
The show is exclusive to Amazon Prime Video. Amazon’s on-demand video streaming service comes with every Prime membership, but luckily, subscriptions come with a 30-day trial, in case you want to watch “Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power” for free.
Amazon Prime Video is one of the best streaming services available, and not just because it’s part of a bigger suite of services including two-day shipping. Not only can you watch Prime exclusive hits like “The Tick” or “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” but you can stream from a massive library of hit TV shows and movies, including both Peter Jackson Middle Earth trilogies, “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit.” That’s six films to satisfy your fantasy hankering until “The Rings of Power” premieres.
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Health cards for everyone by August: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal – ET HealthWorldDecember 24, 2020
The well being cards, that are part of the bold Health Information Management System (HIMS) to be applied in Delhi authorities hospitals, could be QR code-primarily based to establish and monitor fundamental medical particulars of sufferers in order that companies like immunisation of youngsters, observe-up examine-ups, and so on could possibly be performed successfully. All relations could be mapped so that there’s lively knowledge about their well being.
Kejriwal gave the course whereas reviewing the HIMS undertaking, e-well being cards and helpline. The authorities involved have been requested to make sure that the helpline was finalised by mid-2021. Health minister Satyendar Jain, whereas expressing satisfaction over the work performed on HIMS, e-well being cards and helpline, instructed the division to finish them inside the mounted timeframe.
Under HIMS, an online portal and cellular app could be launched. A cloud-primarily based database of the well being info of all residents could be maintained to allow folks to avail info on one platform, which might assist throughout an emergency. All affected person care companies, hospital administration, budgeting and planning, provide chain administration and again-finish companies and processes could be introduced below the system.
“Once implemented, Delhi will become the only state to have a cloud-based health management system. This facility will be extended to private hospitals in the future,” Delhi authorities stated.
The e-well being cards would assist map residents for all eligible schemes and programmes. Integration with HIMS could be performed for seamless info change. Physical cards with QR codes could be issued to every particular person after bodily verification. A provision would even be made for issuing modified or duplicate cards.
A centralised centre with two escalation ranges could be set as much as implement the scheme. In the primary degree, the operator would obtain calls and messages, give related info to the caller and make a report. In the second degree, Delhi authorities docs and consultants would give sufferers an appointment to fulfill them. In case of an emergency, they’d instantly settle for the calls of sufferers and resolve their points. If required, they’d contact specialised docs for the illness.
The centre is predicted to have a complete of 45 seats, 5 of them for peak hours. The variety of seats at night time and through holidays could also be diminished by 10. Each shift of the 24-hour name centre could be of eight hours.
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There are two fundamental kinds of stair lifts that are sold today: straight and curved. The kind you need will certainly rely on the layout of your staircase.
A straight stair lift is one that travels in a straight line up a flight of staircases undisturbed by touchdowns, flexes or contours, as well as prices in between $3,000 as well as $5,000 mounted. Bent lifts, nevertheless, are a lot a lot more elaborate and also will go around corners, bends as well as reversals. Rounded lifts are likewise much a lot more costly usually running between $10,000 as well as $15,000 or even more depending upon the intricacy of the installment.
Likewise offered through specific companies are weatherproof lifts for outdoor steps, and also standing stair lifts (additionally called perch lifts) for those who have problem flexing their knees.
You likewise have to recognize that all stair lifts install to the stair footsteps, not to the wall surface, so they are really strong and also could be set up in virtually any residence.
Call/Send switches are used to relocate the stair lift chair without anybody being on it. A DC lift is connected in as well, however it operates utilizing the power stored in the batteries that are part of the lift. The majority of straight stair lifts can be mounted in three to 4 hrs. A straight stair lift is one that travels in a straight line up a flight of stairways continuous by landings, flexes or curves, as well as costs in between $3,000 and $5,000 mounted. Most stair raises offered today also have seats, armrests and also footplates that fold up out of the means, as well as swivel seats that make getting into and out of the chair simpler.
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There are numerous residential elevator companies based in North America. With the exemption of Savaria, which is a public company, the firms are independently held. Commercial elevator firms such as Otis and also Kone do not market residence lifts.
A family-run service for 90 years, Inclinator s Elevette home elevator was in fact introduced in 1928. Today, the firm provides wire drum as well as hydraulic drive elevators as well as machine-roomless options.
A general access business, Savaria acquired luxury producer Concord Elevator in 2005 and supplies hydraulic, machine-roomless geared grip as well as gearless residence elevators. They are recognized for doing customized job to meet basically any type of need.
Waupaca Elevator Business In service considering that the 1950s, this popular firm makes winding drum and hydraulic systems with machine-roomless options.
With its roots in mountain airborne tramways, Garaventa changed its focus to ease of access items in the late 1970s. The company much more just recently introduced home lifts to its portfolio with a hydraulic and machine-roomless model.
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A stair lift is basically a chair that takes a trip along as well as rail or track that is placed to a stairway.
There is a motor within the base of the chair that is typically powered by a battery also within the base of the chair. The stair lift motor transforms an equipment that is meshed right into a tailored strip on the track or rail. When the gear turns the chair is relocated along the geared strip. When the motor transforms the gear the chair moves one instructions, when the electric motor’s direction is turned around the chair relocates vice versa.
Call/Send buttons are used to move the stair lift chair without anyone getting on it. This is especially valuable if 2 individuals utilize the lift as well as the lift is at the contrary end of the track when an individual wants to utilize it. the individual just calls the lift ahead to them making use of a call/send button. One more usage of call/send button is to send the lift away after usage. Some people don’t like the look of the lift parked generally living location of the home and will certainly send it to the contrary end when not in use. They simply call it when required.
The real product used for the ramp surface could be chosen based on personal choice but must be secure, strong and slip-resistant in all weather circumstances. Compound materials, such as ADA-compliant Trex Accents are an outstanding selection. These items satisfy the ADA s standards for slip resistance also in wet climate and also are low-maintenance. Those that depend on a wheelchair ramp to maintain an independent way of life often don’t have the wheelchair or stamina to strip and also refinish the ramp regularly. For this reason, easy-maintenance hand rails materials, such as Trex Transcend, should additionally be taken into consideration to supply years of comfy use.
A home elevator could not be installed in any kind of sort of public structure, including instead of praise. For any buildings that are public homes, you will certainly need a commercial elevator or lift. The exception is a private condominium with private access.
Hoist-way construction is necessary. Do not construct a hoist-way without recognizing the requirements needed for your elevator. An elevator likewise requires overhead space (room above the top of the elevator on top touchdown), and also generally a pit near the bottom. A general idea of area needed for the hoist-way is five square feet. Leading producers publish several requirements on their websites to assist you plan in advance.
A hoist-way has a variety of requirements for construction consisting of specifics for the wall where the elevator rails will certainly be secured (the support wall surface). Each manufacturer gives these specifics for each and every version of elevator.
Might be taken into consideration to suit a mobility device or electric flexibility scooter. Hallways should be a minimum of 36? The additional size may make an or else difficult or difficult area to browse right into well appreciated plain sailing.
Mobility device ramps are generally integrated in order to boost home availability for people who cannot make use of stairways or need a gentler, less difficult way to enter or leave their home. A successful residence accessibility project needs mindful preparation in order to be particular that the ramp fulfills the home occupant’s requirements, abide by regional building needs, is safe and also sturdy, as well as is safe for use in all sorts of weather condition.
Your elevator will be custom constructed and also programmed to take a trip from floor to floor with two quits or more. Each touchdown will certainly have a telephone call station button (hall call) mounted and also each touchdown will certainly also require an unique door that secures and can not be opened unless the elevator is at the landing. The elevator itself ought to likewise have a cab door or gateway to maintain residents from befalling of the taxicab while the elevator remains in motion. Inside, the elevator will certainly include a cab operating panel (POLICE OFFICER) to permit the individual to stop the elevator as well as to run doors.
Track or Rail – The stair lift track sustains the chair, gives a device (usually a tailored strip) to move the chair and also guides it backwards and forwards the stairway just as a train track overviews a train.
Track Overruns – Some stair raises supply the alternative of an overrun at either the top of the track, base of the track or both. The function of a stair lift track overrun is to move the customer far from the stairs to safely access or dismount the stair lift in a location where, if they drop, they won’t landed on the staircases.
Power supply – While most stair lifts are battery ran today all version will need a power supply to either bill the battery or power the system directly in the case of non-battery powered systems. Non-battery powered stair lifts draw a great deal of power and also generally require a committed circuit.
Call/Send Controls – Call/Send controls are generally placed on the wall surface near each end of the stair lift track to supply a way for a customer to call the chair to them or send it away when not required. They can be either cordless or wired to the lift depending on the version.
Seat – The stair lift seat is simply a seat for the individual to rest on while using the lift. Depending on the model it could pivot at the top and/or base of the track and will usually fold out of the way when not being used.
Seat Belt – As in a car the stair lift seat belt is planned to hold the user securely seatsed on the seat while the lift is in use.
Foot Relax – The foot remainder of the stair lift is a security feature to avoid the the customers feet from striking the actions while utilizing the lift and also a convenience attribute to support the user’s feet when sitting on the seat. The foot remainder will certainly have buttons built into them to stop the lift needs to it strike anything on the stairs and also will turn up out of the means when the lift is not being used.
Electric motor – The motor that owns a stairlift chair along the track is found in the base of the seat.
Transmission – Since the motor revolves at too expensive a speed to safely thrust the stair lift up the track at kind of transmission is employed to lower the speed while raising the power readily available.
Battery Charger – Battery powered stair lifts should have a charger of some sort to keep the battery billed. The chargers are generally discovered under the track or near one end of the track. The battery charger functions instantly without any activity needed by the user.
Battery – The batteries utilized in stair lifts are rather costly and also discovered within the base of the seat near the electric motor. They will have to be replaced at some time yet their life span is determined in years as well as their substitute need to not be a large worry.
The ramp configuration and also the products you make use of will influence how you construct the ramp. Speak to your regional municipality to figure out if a building authorization, examinations and other pertinent information are had to build a safe wheelchair ramp. The actions outlined below will guide you with the general process for developing a wooden ramp for a personal residence. This information is of a basic nature and also should not be presumed to be accurate for your details job demands. Contact a designer or qualified contractor prior to beginning this.
We could additionally set up the brand-new Walk-In bathtubs and add Bathtub or shower grab bars to supply assistance. Numerous individuals with current bathtubs locate them challenging to make use of and have problems getting into as well as out of tub.
Hydrotherapy entails using re-circulating the water in the tub to press out water for pain-relief as well as treating many diseases. The hydrotherapy jetted tubs could be utilized to ease discomfort linked with arthritic problems, blood flow, and fibromyalgia, rehab of busted bones or replacements along with general pain alleviation. You must seek advice from your physician prior to installment of this sort of tub to earn sure that it will certainly not make your problem even worse.
To permit wheel chair gain access to could be set up. Pedestal style sinks have a little bit more space for the person to maneuver, but could be hard to use from a mobility device and are typically a pair of inches greater than the common vanity top.
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Sometimes, civilization is only a mask for the beast behind it. (sometimes? what is it the other times?)
Years ago, Daene reluctantly left her husband and son behind and returned to Eluhu society. It was the only thing she could do to avoid a war between her people and her Orc husband’s tribe. Now, war has come regardless, and she has to make a choice about which side she's on.
Nemerenth is sure that he believes his brother Iyan is doing what is right by stealing the king's throne; after all, their people were oppressed by the Humans once, weren't they? Taking back the Northern continent in the name of the Eluhu is simply the natural progression of things. Isn't it?
Orc chieftain Yu Ruo once watched his wife leave in order to save him and their son. He has always wished he could change the past. Now he has a chance not only to get her back, but to aid her in her stand against the advancing Eluhu army. But will her return be worth the necessary sacrifice?
Iyan wants nothing more than to see the Eluhu race triumph again. With Humans on the run and Orcs scattered throughout inhospitable lands, he very well may succeed. Though...what does a man do after he achieves his goals? And how should he deal with those of his own race who oppose him?
A story of revenge, racial tension and hope unfolds against the backdrop of a rich, vivid world where savages can be noble…and nobles can be savage.
Busy and bland.
Too many names, too much of what we've seen a zillion times before.
Time to think of something where noble savage doesn't even occur to you.

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For 10 episodes, Burns homes in on jazz history from its bawdy roots to what became an American art form.
In New Orleans, Burns spent weeks researching and filming. And while jazz might seem an unlikely topic for a hit TV series, Burns has never looked to the obvious for inspiration, as CBS News Correspondent Bob McNamara reports.
Beginning with The Civil War, the Emmy-winning series that gave public television its highest ratings ever, Burns began a 16-year personal odyssey exploring some of America's deepest beliefs.
Four years later Burns followed up with Baseball.
"I'm a filmmaker. I've chosen to work in history the way a painter might choose still-lifes rather than landscapes," Burns said.
Jazz is almost 18 hours in length, a broad sketch that Burns came to by accident.
"I see this film as a completion of a trilogy that began with The Civil War, continued with Baseball and now comes to fruition with Jazz," Burns said.
"I wish I could tell you I planned this in advance," he admitted, noting that Washington University professor of Afro-American Studies Gerald Early provided an interesting comment in an interview for Baseball.
"I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now. When they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball," Early said, suggesting they're the three most beautiful things Americans have designed.
"And I realized I grappled with the Constitution and the Civil War in many other films. I was in the midst of Baseball, and I didn't know anything about Jazz," Burns said. "I had to know about it. I had to know about it."
Jazz is a swing through the history of America's race relations, through the Depression, through two world wars, and through ragtime, bebop and swing. Burns tells his tale with historians and musicians like Matt Glaser who brings the genius of Louis Armstrong to life.
"You can learn as much from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and Miles Davis and Charlie Parker as you can learn from the men on Mt. Rushmore," Burns said.
The historian Steven Ambrose has said that more people get their history from Burns than from any other source.
"I feel honored that people place an amount of trust in me," he said. "My responsibility, though, ultimately is to myself, because that question that I ask, 'Who are we?' is really a thinly disguised, 'Who am I?'"
It is a question many have asked about a boy who was given an 8 millimeter movie camera by his father and who by age 29 produced a Brooklyn Bridge.
The 1982 film was Burns' major breakthrough, written and edited by Amy Stechler, his wife then and mother of their two daughters. It wa a humbling start.
"I looked about 12 years old when I was trying to make a film on the Brooklyn Bridge," Burns said, "and people would laugh at me.
"I was raising money. 'This child is trying to sell me the Brooklyn Bridge.' Well I finally scraped together a little bit of money and I shot the film," he said.
This Oscar-nominated film would put in place all the techniques that came to be the Burns style: the old films, the sound effects, the still photographs, the music.
These days in documentary films, Ken Burns has become almost a brand name.
He once said when you become a documentary filmmaker, you take a vow of poverty and anonymity, but he's famous.
"I don't know what happened," he said. "I moved to New Hampshire. I thought this is it, I've sealed my fate, you know."
"I've made money from making these films," he said. "And I'm the first person who wakes up in the morning and pinches himself and says 'How did this happen?' I think it struck a chord."
Remote Walpole, N.H., is the heart of this documentary empire, where distractions are fewer, costs are lower and where Burns and his corps of true believers work years on each film.
"In the very beginning no one cared, so I had total control. No one was interested in history films," he said.
"And now they're all over the cable channels and things like that. So I sort of worked and developed this sense of needing complete creative control, and I got it by default because no one was paying attention," he said.
But not anymore. Now the debut of another Burns miniseries is a television event accompanied by a merchandising blitz of coffee table books, soundtrack CD sets and more to come.
When someone takes on a project like baseball, the Civil War, jazz, it's a big subject, and almost invites criticism.
"I welcome the criticism," he said. "I sort of wear the criticism as a badge of honor."
Even before Jazz was scheduled to air some music critics ripped it for leaving out numerous jazz figures. A Los Angeles Daily News review called the miniseries the Time-Life version of jazz, safe, predictable and respectable.
In the end, the American public will decide if Jazz is a television hit, whether audiences embrace it by the millions as they did The Civil War and Baseball.
"Louis Armstrong said there ain't but two kinds of music in this world: good music and bad music. And good music you tap your toe to. And I did not let a single episode out of my editing room until the visitors to that editing room were not just paying rapt attention but were tapping their toes," he said.
For Burns himself the time has come to take time off. His plans are to travel the country for a year searching for the ghosts of American history that still wait to come alive.
"Too much of history is the excavation of dry dates and facts and events and that we dont look for the glue that really makes the past stick with us," he said.
"When you hear the notes of the Louis Armstrong solo, it raises the hair on the back of my head the way nothing else does," he said. "It's...something that really you get from church, you get from the 'Aha, eureka' of scientific discovery. And you get it when you stand in front of a piece of art and go 'this is great.' I think you can find that from history, too."
"I made it because jazz is a window to see the soul of the country. Jazz is a mirror that reflects back at us where we've been in the 20th century,...good and bad," he concluded.

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A great resource for you music history, US history, or African American history class! Discover the origins, influences, and characteristics of ragtime music! This is a one-time lesson that includes 17 page powerpoint and notes with answer key, embedded audio and links to external videos and other resources.
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“When was the last time you stood up for yourself?”
Think about it. When was the last time you set your foot down in an “I’m important and I value myself” kind of way?
We all have a lot going on. Issues at work can seem hopeless; family and household demands zap your energy; hopes and dreams are on your to do list…
But, the truth is, if YOU don’t speak up for yourself, who will?
You have as much a right to things like health, happiness and respect as anyone else. Stand up for what you need; exercise your boundaries.
You owe it to yourself to speak up. It’s all part of becoming your best, and working your way toward a fulfilled, happier you.
©Jane Powell – Meditations for Women
Today’s Affirmation: I speak up for my needs.

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New slackness on Troyton Rami's Happy Days Riddim.
He brought the brass to records by Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, Lauryn Hill and Sly and Robbie.
The engineer + the queen of reggae soul link up in Kingston.
An event showcasing the evolution of reggae + dancehall in NYC featuring Sister Nancy, Kranium, Screechy Dan and Red Fox.
New music produced by Stephen "Ragga" Marley.
Prep for Trinidad Carnival with these colorful visuals from the Soca Viking.
A rundown of the year's tuffest dancehall riddims, from Cure Pain to Moskato.
Our annual roundup of the year's best reggae, dancehall, soca + reggaeton DJ mixes.
From calypso to doubles, here's everything we love about Trinidad, all in one video.
Trinidad Carnival gets a visit from its past on this 2017 Soca single.
Listen to the debut single from one of Jamaica's most promising young artists and producers.
Get ready fi war with these soundbwoy killers selected by Japan's Far East Rulaz.


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Evidence on the impact of school closures on children and the effectiveness of infection prevention and control measures being implemented in schools is now emerging. The WHO Regional Office for Europe and the Government of Italy jointly convened a high-level meeting on 31 August 2020 to discuss the situation and share experiences. Member States agreed to establish a network of experts to collate and review the emerging evidence on best practices and the potential negative effects of school reopening. A technical advisory group (TAG) was convened to review the evidence and make recommendations for a second high-level meeting, to be held in late November 2020. SHE is represented in TAG by manager Anette Schulz together with national coordinator and board member Ivana Pavic Simetin.
The first TAG meeting was held 26 October and the second meeting will take place 12 November. The overall objective of the two TAG meetings and the high-level meeting of ministers of health and education is to ensure that children’s lives and educational processes in the European Region are as unaffected and uninterrupted as possible, while simultaneously ensuring the safety of children, educators, other school staff and communities by keeping COVID-19 transmission under control.
The following summary points were made at the first meeting:
- children and adolescents are not considered primary drivers of transmission of SARS-CoV-2;
- school closures are not considered to be an effective single measure for the control of COVID-19;
- evidence suggests that community transmission drives school transmission, and cases in school reflect transmission in the community;
- testing strategies in schools need to focus on vulnerable groups and follow up of identified clusters of infection;
- widespread testing of school-aged children with respiratory symptoms is not feasible;
- severe cases in children are very rare;
- it will be particularly important to look at and consider the adverse effects of school closures and other control measures on children’s education outcomes and mental and social well-being, and to minimize these effects where possible in the future;
- children in vulnerable situations are affected disproportionately by control measures; and
- children and adolescents need to be involved in decisions on any measures concerning them and school.


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This link was suggested by Elizabeth and Patricia, 2 kids from a children’s center in the US with a safety program for kids.
It is great to see the interest and involvement of children in the prevention of TBI….so important!
The Lancet Neurology Commission on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) was launched at the
European Parliament on the 7th of November 2017. The Commission targets policymakers, funders,
patient organizations as well as health care professionals.

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After SONDORS launched the Metacycle a few years ago, it got us hyped for whatever sequel they had in mind. Thankfully, the company finally brings us the MetaBeast X for their 2024 model year. This dual-sport electric moto promises top-notch capabilities geared for the streets, track, and trails. Enjoy each ride minus the noise and emissions of traditional motorcycles.
You might be asking what makes this eco-friendly two-wheeler so special. Similar to the STILRIDE 1, which we featured recently, the manufacturer points out that their aircraft-grade aluminum exo-frame is special. Instead of your typical fabrication process, the metal undergoes a proprietary single-piece casting method to build.
The results show a seamless design minus any blemishes from weld spots. Moreover, it makes the MetaBeast X chassis robust and ergonomic. An upside-down fork and monoshock rear suspension ensure adequate cushioning on various types of terrain.
SONDORS equips their machine with an electric motor rated at 18 kW that generates up to 44.25 lb-ft of torque. Powering the green powertrain is a 96V 55 Ah battery lasting up to 78 miles on a single charge at a speed of 31 mph. If you’re wondering, the MetaBeast X can hit a top speed of 75 mph.
Both ends of the e-bike are outfitted with wire wheels shod in chunky off-road rubber. Instead of mounting the digital display on the handlebars, SONDORS is positioning it on the main pipe. Status and performance telemetry are viewable here. The outline of this section transitions smoothly into the saddle to give the MetaBeast X a sleek profile.Learn More
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Gallery Grill's Suzanne Baby joins other top Toronto chefs to help the homeless
On October 13, several of Toronto’s most celebrated chefs will be at the Gardiner Museum for the annual Empty Bowls fundraising event.
Among them will be Suzanne Baby, chef at the Gallery Grill, located at Hart House at the University of Toronto.
Baby, helped by Gallery Grill manager Jerry Horton, will load up her car with enough soup for 400, maybe 500 people. She and the other celebrity chefs will spend several hours pouring soup into beautiful ceramic bowls made by Ontario-based potters. The potters donate more than 400 bowls to the event, the chefs donate their time and recipes, and guests contribute $55 a ticket to sample the soups and take home their chosen bowl at the end of the evening. All proceeds go to Anishnawbe Health Toronto, a culture-based Indigenous centre that works with those who seek to escape homelessness.
“It takes place in a beautiful space, right where Jamie [Kennedy] used to have his restaurant. It’s a great vibe and the bowls are gorgeous. I love Empty Bowls and what it does for the city’s homeless,” says Baby.
Jamie Kennedy invited Baby to participate over 20 years ago.
“He sent me an email and said, ‘would you like to be involved?’ And I said, ‘absolutely.’ He was instrumental in starting the whole thing. It’s a great opportunity to give back and it’s really rewarding to be able to support and use your position as a chef to help out.”
Siobhan Boyd, senior manager, education & adjunct curator, Gardiner Museum, praised Baby’s involvement.
“Empty Bowls is now in its 24th year and Chef Baby has been involved almost from the very beginning. Every year when I place the call to chefs to participate, Chef Baby is one of the first to respond. She has served some wonderful soups over the years!”
Baby appreciates being given carte blanche. “As long as it’s soup,” she says, “I can cook whatever I please. We also have great local produce this time of the year that I can use.”
“It’s fun for us, too, to be honest. Once you get the logistics out of the way and you’re set up, it’s nice to be able to socialize with other chefs. Some of them I only see at this event once a year. We try each other’s soups, and the spirit is great,” she says.


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Asking the right questions about how you can save money for retirement without sacrificing your quality of life.
When selecting a fixed-rate mortgage, a borrower has to determine how many years to finance the loan.

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