5 Stars By Jing on 2016-09-20
Great BT Receiver & Transmitter
I've had a chance to use a couple of different VicTsing bluetooth products. The latest one to arrive in their family is this VicTsing bluetooth receiver & transmitter. I've seen other types of bt receiver / transmitters previously but rarely of this form factor.
* Small form factor
* Can act as a bluetooth receiver or transmitter
* Easy to install
* No wall adapter
So having done a little research on amazon, I thought I was prepared for what to receive. But when I opened up the package I was really surprised. It's a cube shaped receiver that is tiny! In addition, it's very lightweight. I would be concerned that this can be broken easily.
* VicTsing Bluetooth Transmitter / Receiver
* MicroUSB Cable
* 3.5mm Audio Cable
* 2 Stickers
* Instruction Manual
The receiver has an internal battery but can also be used with the usb cable plugged into a wall adapter. I am using this with my old surround sound system so I don't really need to charge the battery. But I did so anyway to see if it really works as a portable unit. The charging took about 45 min. using a 850mA adapter.
I tested the BT transmitter first, which meant I flipped the switch from left to right so it's on the TX position. First, you must pair the bluetooth transmitter to your BT speaker or headset. I paired it with a headset. Then I used the audio cable and plugged one end into the transmitter and the other to my non-bluetooth Apple Nano 6 Gen. As I played song on the nano, I can hear it clearly in my headset. So transmitting have no issues. BUT, I never plan to use it as a transmitter. Even though this is extremely small and lightweight, its still not that portable.
I then switched the BT receiver to the RX position and started up my Galaxy S4 and paired it. Then I connected the receiver to my surround sound system with the audio cable. I now can play songs on my phone and have it blasting via my home speaker system. After completing my test, I left this plugged in and also plugged the wall adapter in. This really upgraded my old surround home system that still works great but doesn't have bluetooth capability.
Overall, this is a great product. I like the fact that you have an option to use it either as a transmitter or a receiver. Even though I planned to use it only as a receiver, it doesn't hurt to have an additional option.
5 Stars By Rick W. on 2016-11-27
Reliable. Good deal.
Tried a different brand first but got a lemon. This one installed easily and linked to my blue-tooth speaker right away. We are using it at the extreme ofthe recommended range and have never dropped the connection.
5 Stars By Sanada on 2016-09-26
Great for my TV that doesn't have bluetooth
This is one of those products that I knew should exist, but I just couldn't find it. I've been wanting some kind of device that would allow me to have wireless speakers or headphones to connect to a TV. My TV doesn't have bluetooth. It is located in a cabin that has a window air conditioning unit. When this unit is on, the TV volume has to be cranked up very loud to be able to hear it because the seating is close to the air conditioner. So, I couldn't wait to use the bluetooth receiver and transmitter from VicTsing.
The first thing I did was to plug it in to charge it. Then I paired and connected it to my headphones. This was very easy to do, following the instructions. When I went to plug it into the TV using the enclosed 3.5mm audio cable, I nearly panicked because all I saw for audio were the red and white RCA type ports. After searching the back of the TV with a flashlight, I finally found a nearly hidden 3.5mm port. When I plugged it in, the sound immediately came through my headphones.
The sound was great. I have noticed that occasionally there can be a slight delay where the words I hear are a little behind the lips I see moving on the screen. Most of the time, it seems to be perfectly in sync. The weird thing is that I notice it not being in sync more on commercials than on regular programming. In the room I'm in, the seating is not that far from the TV. I don't know if the lag would be worse if I were farther away from the TV. The next thing I'm connecting to the transmitter will be a speaker. Since this fits a need that I had, I don't see me using this as a receiver. There is a little switch on the cube to set for transmit or receive. The mode you select will determine the type of device you can connect via bluetooth.
5 Stars By K. LeCrone on 2016-08-25
Compact 2-in-1 Bluetooth Receiver and Transmitter Has 10 Hour Battery Life, 33 Foot Range, and Works Nicely
This is handy little device that can be used as a Bluetooth receiver or transmitter. The signal only goes one way at a time, though, so it's important to know that you will need to select receiving or transmitting via a switch on the back in order to make a selection, since it's not capable of both sending and receiving at the same time. A device like this works really well if a device you want to play audio on (such as a set of speakers, your car stereo, headphones, etc.) isn't Bluetooth-capable, and you want to be able to use a separate device to control the music, such as a phone or tablet. Likewise, you can use it to transmit audio from something like your TV's auxiliary port to your favorite set of Bluetooth headphones.
So for example, if your car doesn't have Bluetooth but it has a 3.5mm auxiliary port, you can plug this device in and then play your favorite playlist from your smartphone, send the Bluetooth signal out through the cell phone, and then receive it with this dongle and you can then hear the audio through your car stereo. It's really handy for the right niche, and has a number of handy uses depending on your current or desired audio set-up.
This device arrived partially charged, but it includes a small micro-USB cable which I was able to use to get it up-and-running in around thirty minutes. It is said to have a charge that will last for about ten hours, so if you're looking to use it extensively, you will want to come prepared to charge it regularly whether via your computer or a portable power pack.
It has four red LED lighst which lit when it was charging, and once it was ready to go, it was replaced by four blue LED lights. The port for the charging cable is on the same side as the 3.5mm plug as well as the RX/TX (receiver/transmitter) switch.
The pairing process was extremely simple and went very quickly. I was able to locate the device on my phone without any issues and complete the pairing and then get started listening to music right away. There is a small button on the top that powers the unit on and off as well as initiates the pairing process and can pause and resume music.
I tested this dongle with a variety of music, and what I found that it worked quite well. You won't have as good audio as if you used cables to directly access your devices, but it still sounds good for a wireless Bluetooth signal.
The package includes:
1x Bluetooth Receiver and Transmitter Adapter
1x User Manual
1x micro-USB Charging Cable
1x AUX 3.5mm coupler
2x Rubber pads
Bluetooth Version: 3.0+EDR
Frequency Range: 2.4GHz
Bluetooth Profile: A2DP/AVRCP
Bluetooth Range: up to 33 feet
Working Time: about 10 hours
Size: 1.57 x 1.57 x 1.57 inches
It had a very stable Bluetooth signal and I was quite pleased with the audio signal it transmitted. I didn't notice any drops or interference while using it as long as I was nearby and within range.
On the whole, if you're looking for a compact and versatile 2-in-1 Bluetooth receiver and transmitter, this is a great option which I would certainly recommend you consider. Just keep in mind it only has a battery life of around ten hours, so make sure to plan your charging sessions accordingly.
I am a longtime BTA-MALL Prime customer who enjoys writing reviews in my free time. I was appreciative to be given an opportunity to test and review this Bluetooth receiver and transmitter complimentary for my honest and unbiased review. If you have any questions or comments about this product or my review, feel free to message me and I'll be glad to help!
5 Stars By Girlieeee on 2016-09-13
Cute and easy to use!
I bought it to work to use on my old iHome speaker that has an AUX input on the back. My new phone has a lightning cable but my iHome speaker has the 30-pin connector...so they are no longer compatible and I can't play my music on my iHome speaker. By plugging this little transmitter into the back of the iHome (using the included cord) I was able to easily play my music on my speaker! No static or interference at all! It was easy to synch the receiver to my phone and directions are included to help walk you through it.
You can also take a call on the transmitter but I'm not sure if I would use that feature or not since I'm sitting at work and wouldn't want the other people in the office listening. Overall, I'm thrilled with it!
I have included a few of my own product photos for you to see rather than relying on “stock” photos in the listing. *I received a sample of this item at a discount in return for an honest and unbiased review*
5 Stars By Hector Robledo on 2016-09-23
This is a great item to have and the way technolgy is including ...
This is a great item to have and the way technolgy is including Bluetooth in everything, it will be almost a necessity soon. This works flawlessly and is simple to use. This is a very small device also so you wont have to make room for it. You get the transmitter/receiver, a high quality AUX cable and a power adapter.
I have an older home theater receiver that doesn’t support Bluetooth and I’ve just been using a regular 3.5mm AUX cable to be able to play songs from my phone to my surround sound speakers. With this wireless music receiver from VicTsing, I am now able to play songs wirelessly to my home stereo system without having to worry about wires.
To get it working, all you do is plug one end of the included 3.5mm cable into your 3.5mm input of your receiver (or speakers if you are doing it that way) and plug in the power adapter. Then you sync your phone, tablet, or tablet to the unit and start playing music and it will play through your speakers. It also works in reverse as a transmitter and can stream music from your speakers or your TV to a pair of Bluetooth headphones.
The device also has an internal battery rated at up to 12 hours. If using it at home however, you can just keep the device plugged all the time with the included micro USB charger. The product works great, no static that I can tell, and the sound quality is just as good as the 3.5mm auxiliary cable method.
Pros and Features:
1) Easy to set up and use
2) Bluetooth 4.1
3) Transmitter and Receiver all in one
4) LED indicate lights
5) Small and lightweight
7) No hissing or cracking noises
8) transmits stereo sound
9) Long battery life rated at 12 to 13 hours (I have gotten 10 hours many times)
10) Recharges in just a couple hours
11) 2 devices can be connected at the same time
12) Can be used with many different devices like TV, stereos, phones, computers, tablets, etc
13) Recharges with standard Micro to USB cable (Included)
14) Works with in a distance of 10 meters / 33 feet
This is the perfect solution for me so I can use my wireless headphones with my TV. My TV does not have Bluetooth so I hooked up this little gadget to my TV and now I can listen to the TV through my Bluetooth headphones and not longer wake up my wife as she goes to bed before me. Works great for me.
Highly recommended, 5/5 stars.
5 Stars By stephanie preston on 2016-09-06
Works great on so many devices
This Bluetooth Receiver and Transmitter by Vic Tsing is a very nice device and so useful. This can be hooked up to so many different items. It can help you hook up your headphones to the tv. This can also help me listen to my music from different devices. This has worked really well. The instructions that come with this are very easy to read making this very simple to use. It hooks up to your blue tooth quickly and immediately starts working perfectly. I am very pleased with this device. I did receive this for free or at a discounted rate for my honest review which is what I have given.
5 Stars By Vista Bill Raley on 2016-09-29
Bluetooth technology remains a mystery for me but this outstanding VicTsing product eases the way. Since I have few Bluetooth capable devices in my home, this was a challenge for my electronics capabilities. But success was near soon after I opened the box. I was able to connect my tv via bluetooth to a nearly speaker. Why? I am hard of hearing and my tv's volume is not enough for me to hear it comfortably. This proved to be a solution. Wonderful! This tiny well-made device certainly offers a lot. I'll look deeper into what I can do with it. Very nice!
1 Stars By Tony Byrne on 2016-10-23
Very poor performance with iPhone
Very poor performance with iPhone. The buttons are really difficult to press, and are counter-intuitive. There is one button for on/off, play and pause. I bought two, for two different speaker sets in my house, and they are a complete headache. I spend more time frustrated trying to set them up than I would getting up to switch songs every time. The units have been charged, but flash red and blue instead of only blue. A previously paired phone can now no longer find any of the units. Cheap, unreliable and a nuisance.
Little surprise that I had to pay for my units, rather than having received them free to make this review.
5 Stars By Mark Azevedo on 2017-07-29
It works just like it saidit would.


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Outside of Jeju:Coffee Smith
When my friend told me he was taking me too a big and crowded coffee shop I was not at all excited. I thought perhaps it would be covered with foreigners, and have little aesthetically pleasing quirks; which I love finding in new places, especially coffee shops!
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Just an idea that came to me while playing with the kids tonight (we were making mustaches out of Legos). I thought it would make for a funny illustration. I'm sure it's been done before but oh well. Full view attached.
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CRESCENT CANAL CO. v. KINGS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CO. et al.
KINGS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CO. v. CRESCENT CANAL CO.
The plaintiff has appealed from a judgment awarding the corporate defendant and cross-complainant, which will be referred to as the respondent, the right to its proportionate share of the water distributed by the plaintiff.
The appellant was organized under the laws of this state in 1885. Its purposes, as set forth in its articles, are to construct and operate canals; to acquire water rights; and to appropriate and divert water and distribute the same through its canals for agricultural and other purposes. Neither its articles nor its by-laws contain any provision restricting the use of such water to any specified land, nor does the form of stock certificate used contain any such restriction. The company has but one canal, known as the Crescent canal, which takes out of the lower north fork of the Kings river and runs in a northwesterly direction for some twenty miles. While the company had an authorized capital stock of 150 shares its supply of water has always been limited and no more than 40 shares were ever issued. Immediately upon its organization the appellant adopted the policy of distributing its available water to its stockholders in proportion to their holdings of stock. By common consent it was also understood that water should be delivered to stockholders on the basis of one share of stock to each 320 acres desired to be irrigated and owned by the respective stockholders. The water thus furnished has heretofore always been used in a certain general area, the maximum acreage which has been so irrigated being some 13,000 acres, the boundaries of which are not clearly described in the evidence. Of this land, about 1200 acres are on the southerly side of the Crescent canal and the remainder on the northerly side.
Because the available water has been insufficient to meet the needs of its stockholders the appellant has refused to sell additional stock and, by common consent, the company and its stockholders have carried on the practice, where any stockholder did not use his water in a particular year, of redistributing that part of the water among the remaining stockholders. Also, where stock has been sold for delinquent assessments no effort has been made to sell or reissue the stock so retired. By reason of this fact the total issue of stock of the company has been reduced to 33 15/16ths shares. It appears from the evidence that the right of the stockholders to water depends upon their ownership of stock, and that if assessments thereon are not paid the stock is sold to the company and thereafter the appellant is not required to deliver any water represented by that stock until and unless it is redeemed. It further appears that no land outside of the 13,000 acres above mentioned has heretofore been served with water from the Crescent canal.
The respondent is the owner of a section of land on the southerly side of, and approximately one-half mile distant from, the Crescent canal as it cuts through the adjoining section. This land has never been irrigated from the Crescent canal. In the latter part of 1937 the respondent purchased 2 1/414 shares of the issued and outstanding stock of the appellant and shortly thereafter commenced the construction of a ditch for the purpose of obtaining and receiving its proportionate share of the water distributed by the appellant. This led to the filing of this action.
Among other things, the court found that for more than 50 years the appellant has diverted certain water from the lower north fork of the Kings river whenever said amount was available; that during all of that time the water so appropriated has been supplied by the appellant to a large number of landowners who were and are its stockholders, and who have put said water to beneficial uses; that subject to this beneficial use the appellant is the owner in fee of the right to divert and distribute said water; that the appellant has never engaged in business for profit but has continuously delivered its water at cost through the Crescent canal to its stockholders ratably and in the proportion that their stock bears to the total shares issued and outstanding; that neither the articles of incorporation of the appellant nor the stock certificates issued by it contain any restrictions upon the use of water by its stockholders; that its by-laws contain no requirement that the water delivered to its stockholders shall be used upon any specified or appurtenant land; that said by-laws have never been recorded in the office of the county recorder of Fresno county; that all of the waters so appropriated and distributed are needed for the irrigation of the lands heretofore receiving and applying them; that said lands heretofore receiving and using said water are not entitled to the use thereof unless the owners thereof own and hold shares of stock in the appellant and then only ratably and in proportion to the stock so held; and that for this reason it is not true that the appellant or the landowners heretofore receiving such water will suffer great and irreparable damage if its proportion of said water is taken by the respondent. It was further found that the respondent is the owner of 2 1/414 shares of the capital stock of the appellant, that by reason thereof it is entitled to 2 1/414–33 15/16ths of the water flowing and to flow in the Crescent canal, that the described lands owned by the respondent have no other means by which they may be irrigated, and that unless the respondent receives the water to which it is entitled by reason of the ownership of this stock its lands will be and remain unproductive and the respondent will suffer great and irreparable damage. It was further found that these lands had never heretofore received water from the Crescent canal but that the respondent is now entitled to receive its proportion of water, that the respondent does not propose or intend to take more than its proper share of said water, with other findings as to the manner in which the respondent proposes to connect its ditch and obtain its share of the water through a control gate installed at its expense and operated under the supervision and direction of the appellant. Judgment was accordingly entered decreeing that the respondent is entitled to its proportionate share of this water and giving it the right to connect its ditch with the Crescent canal and receive such share through a control gate installed at its expense and to be operated under the supervision and direction of the appellant or of the court. This appeal followed.
The sole issue here presented is whether the appellant may refuse to furnish the respondent with its proportionate share of this water because the land on which it is proposed to use such water is not within the area within which all deliveries of water by the appellant have heretofore been confined. It is conceded “that there are no restrictions whatever contained in the articles of incorporation or the by-laws or the form of stock certificate in use by the Crescent Canal Company as to any particular land upon which the water of the Crescent Canal Company may be used or applied”; that the stock is not appurtenant to any particular piece of land; and that title to such stock passes by mere assignment and transfer. The appellant contends “that since the evidence shows without conflict that ever since the organization of the Crescent Canal Company all of the company's water supply has been continuously used upon a certain well-defined body of land, and since the available water supply of the company is insufficient to adequately serve this body of land heretofore using and applying the same, that the water supply and all thereof has been firmly dedicated to the lands heretofore using the same and cannot now be diverted to other lands even though the owner of such other lands be a stockholder in the Crescent Canal Company”.
In support of its contention that its waters have thus been dedicated to the area in which they have been continuously used the appellant cites Riverside Land Co. v. Jarvis, 174 Cal. 316, 163 P. 54; Spurgeon v. Santa Ana, etc., Co., 120 Cal. 71, 52 P. 140, 39 L.R.A. 701, and Palo Verde L. & W. Co. v. Edwards, 82 Cal.App. 52, 254 P. 922. In the first of these cases stock in the water company in question was appurtenant to certain parcels of land and passed with a transfer of the land by virtue of a contractual relationship created by the articles of incorporation, the by-laws and the stock certificates. In the Spurgeon case the water company was organized for the purpose of delivering water to the owners of certain lands with provisions that the company would act as agent in supplying such water to said owners, that it would deliver water to no one else, and restricting transfers of shares of stock except with the lands to which they were attached. In the Palo Verde case the articles of incorporation provided that the purpose was to acquire water and deliver it to stockholders only for use upon lands within a described district and that each share of stock issued should be described in the certificate.
It is apparent that the rules applied in these cases have no application under the admitted facts in the instant case. Aside from the formation of irrigation districts, water rights may become appurtenant to certain lands in at least two ways. Section 330.24, formerly section 324, of the Civil Code provides that this may be done by a mutual water company by providing therefor in its articles or by-laws, recording the same in the county where the lands are situated, and describing the particular land in the stock certificate. Section 552 of the Civil Code contains provisions under which a similar end is accomplished, but that section relates only to corporations which not only furnish water but have sold land. The appellant, in arguing that it is not a mutual water company and that section 330.24 has no application to it, points out the fact that it has not complied with that section and insists that it “is still authorized by its articles to sell or dispose of its water in any other manner consistent with the purposes for which it was expressly authorized as disclosed by its articles of incorporation”. While arguing that it is thus free from having its water affixed to any particular land it then inconsistently argues, in contending that its water has been dedicated to a defined area, that while it has not sold land to any of the persons served by it it has delivered water to them “and is thereby obligated to continue such service” under section 552 of the Civil Code, and that it would defeat the purpose of that section to permit or oblige it to furnish water outside of that area. The appellant not being a corporation which has furnished water to land it has sold it is not a “such corporation” referred to in section 552 and that section has no application here. It also fully appears that the appellant has not complied with section 330.24, formerly 324, and that section is not applicable. In commenting on the application of that section the court, in Palo Verde L. & W. Co. v. Edwards, supra [82 Cal.App. 52, 254 P. 924], said: “There is no provision in the by-laws to the effect that the water stock shall be appurtenant to the land, and, of course, there being no by-law to that effect, none was or can be recorded.” The court then stated that there was no evidence in the record showing that the water company, by its acts or practices, had held the water stock to be appurtenant to any land but, on the contrary, it had transferred stock regardless of the title to land and had allowed the stock to be moved from one location to another when the old certificate had been endorsed and surrendered. A similar situation appears here and it further appears that the appellant is willing, and claims the right, to discontinue serving water to a parcel of land which has always received it and permit the water to be used on other land by the same or a new stockholder, provided the new location is within the same general area. Doubtless the right to use certain water may be confined to a particular area by a contract mutually entered into by a water company and its stockholders when properly expressed through its articles, by-laws and certificates. It has been held that water rights which have become vested before section 324 of the Civil Code was adopted were not affected by that section. Estate of Thomas, 147 Cal. 236, 81 P. 539. It is difficult to see how water may be dedicated, not to particular land but to land within a certain area, in the absence of any contract to that effect and without complying with any statutory provision. In the instant case, apparently, there was not even a resolution of the board of directors purporting to dedicate this water to a particular area. The fact that stockholders entitled to water have heretofore happened to use it within a certain area, does not, in itself, establish a dedication. While a water company might by appropriate steps dedicate its water for use in a certain area it could hardly, in the absence of a contract, dedicate one stockholder's beneficial interest, without his agreement or consent, to the use and benefit of the other stockholders.
In Richey v. East Redlands Water Co., 141 Cal. 221, 74 P. 754, where the water right was appurtenant to the land it was held that the water company could not, either by resolution or by custom, limit a part of the stockholders to water derived from one of two sources since their contract as stockholders gave them equal rights in all of the water; that the water company could not, by usage and custom, allocate the water derived from a particular source to one part of the land only; and that the contractual rights of a stockholder could not be defeated by custom and usage, where the water rights are appurtenant to the lands. This would seem to be equally true where the right to share in the water is not appurtenant to the land or to any land.
In Consolidated Peoples D. Co. v. Foothill D. Co., 205 Cal. 54, 269 P. 915, 920, the appellants owned shares of stock in the respondent water companies, the stock of which was not appurtenant to any lands and was transferable in the ordinary manner with the owners of such stock entitled to their proportionate share of the water acquired and distributed. While it was held in that case that the appellants were required to take their shares of water through the means of distribution supplied by the water companies and that they were not entitled to go to a point higher up the river to help themselves to their proportionate share the court there said: “The stockholders in corporations organized chiefly for the purpose of acquiring and distributing water have, it is true, a definite right to their proportion of the distribution of such water when so acquired, and the cases are uniform to the effect that they may individually enforce that right by appropriate proceedings in the event of its evasion or denial on the part of the officers of the corporation.”
In Irrigation District v. Wutchumna W. Co., 111 Cal.App. 688, 296 P. 933, this court held that an irrigation district having purchased stock of the water company and being thereby entitled to receive a proportionate part of the water distributed by the company was entitled to take that water outside of the area previously served by the water company in spite of the fact that the water company, after the irrigation district had purchased some of its stock, passed a resolution reciting that it had been the long established policy of the company that its water should be used only on lands in a certain area and providing that from and after that date none of such water should be used outside of that area, and further providing that it should be applied only to lands which had never theretofore been supplied with such water.
We think the principles of the cases last cited support the judgment and the right of the respondent to receive its share of the water distributed by the appellant and that, under the facts and circumstances here appearing, no such dedication of this water to a particular area has been shown as is sufficient to defeat the rights of the respondent as a stockholder in the appellant corporation.
The judgment is affirmed.
BARNARD, Presiding Justice.
We concur: MARKS, J.; GRIFFIN, J.

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The scene was long: lines reaching around corners and long blocks. People waited hours and felt it was worthwhile not only to wait to hear Bernie Sanders speak but to show the numbers, irregardless of whether or not they got into Frank Ogawa Plaza.
Salvador is a seaside city north of Rio de Janeiro by 1000 miles in the state of Bahia. It is known for its large Afro-Brazilian population and culture, historical center called the Pelourinho and a Carnaval that is more street then feathers and high heels like in Rio. I visited Salvador to go to Carnaval and it was an amazing. Throughout the week I tried … Continue reading Street Art: Salvador, Brazil
Going to Wynwood Arts District was a street art lovers dream! Art is everywhere! It was really magical. I took the bus from my hostel in South Beach where I was across the water and through some funky neighborhoods which brought up some issues of gentrification for me but still going to Wynwood was pretty awesome. I also visited Wynwood Walls which known of these … Continue reading Wynwood Arts District #streetart Extravaganza
If you ever get a chance to go to Cartagena, Colombia I hope that the street art tour is still happening. It’s done by an artist from Belgium living in Cartagena and it was incredible. I learned a lot about the history of Colombia, current politics in Cartagena and I got insight into the lives of street artists. And I saw incredible art. The tour … Continue reading Street Art Tour: Cartagena, Colombia
Located near Puente de los Suspiros (Bridge of Sighs) in Barranco a neighborhood in Lima apparently a popular spot for Peruvians to go on first dates. Then the path leads to the beach!


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Shared Libraries and Utility Code
You can generate libraries and utility code that can be shared between model
components. A shared library can be a Windows®
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computer. Uses of shared libraries include:
Adding a software component to an application for system simulation
Reusing software modules among applications on a development computer
Hiding intellectual property associated with software that you share with vendors
You also have the option of setting up shared utility code, which are files that the code generator produces for blocks in a model that share functionality. Models with an identical shared utility checksum can reuse the code in the shared utility files.
- Package Generated Code as Shared Libraries
Generate a shared library version of model code for your development platform.
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Use a shared library generated from a model or subsystem that you can load dynamically into another application.
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Generate a shared library that you can load dynamically into another application.
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Build a shared library from a model component and export the library to an application for system simulation, software reuse, or intellectual property protection. Requires an Embedded Coder license.
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Generate reusable code for fixed-point support functions.
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text: Port Matilda, Pennsylvania is close to the interstate highway I-99. It is neighboring other cities: Warriors Mark, PA (9.50 mi ); Pennsylvania Furnace, PA (10.81 mi ); State College, PA (12.27 mi ). You can get to the city from exit of i99 (15.04 mi ); exit 52 of i99 (15.04 mi ); exit 48 of i99 (21.64 mi ). Port Matilda, Pennsylvania can reach interstate highways: i99 (15.04 mi ); i80 (23.31 mi ); i76 (80.30 mi ). It is also close to local highways: US 322 PA (2.98 mi ); PA 504 (12.34 mi ); PA 45 TRUCK (13.01 mi ).


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COLUMBUS — Legislation that would allow prisoners to be transferred to private facilities, like one in Youngstown, passed the Ohio Senate Thursday.
The vote on SB 185 was 26-1, and the legislation heads back to the Ohio House for consideration of Senate amendments.
The original legislation focused on arson offenses, expanding the crime to include unoccupied structures. Language added by senators during committee deliberations would enable the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to contract with private facilities to house state prisoners.
Sen. John Eklund (R-Chardon), who serves as chairman of the committee that considered the legislation, said the language would allow the state to take advantage of inmate beds left vacant when the federal government ended contracts to house federal prisoners at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown.
“It would be very, very helpful to reduce or work toward reducing the density of the population in our prisons, if DRC could move some prisoners… into those vacant beds,” Eklund said.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons opted last year to not renew a contract with NOCC on Youngstown’s East Side that resulted in the exodus of about 1,400 of its 2,000 prisoners. Those prisoners were illegal immigrants charged with committing felonies.
Then, four months ago, officials announced they would no longer routinely house federal inmates in privately operated prisons because of a rapid decline in the U.S. inmate population nationwide.
The prison, run by CoreCivic of Nashville, currently houses about 580 inmates through a contract with the U.S. Marshals Service that expires at the end of 2018.
Senate Minority Leader Joe Schiavoni (D-Boardman) supported the bill after it was amended on the floor. He said the prisoner language could be a benefit to Youngstown.
“We have an empty facility in the Valley,” he said. “We lost a federal contract. If we can put inmates in that facility, we could put more prisoner guards to work. Hopefully they can work with the (Ohio Civil Service Employees Association) and try to get some union prison guards in there. And that will be the next step, working with the mayor, working with Congressman [Tim] Ryan, working with the local officials and OCSEA.”
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio was among opponents of the prisoner provisions.
“Ohio prisons are bursting at the seams,” Assistant Policy Director Jocelyn Rosnick said in a released statement. “They’re at 130 percent capacity, housing over 50,000 prisoners in a system built for 38,000. Sending these prisoners to a private prison, whose sole mission is to reap profits from incarceration, does not address the underlying problem in our overcrowded prisons, and may actually make it worse. Ohio prisoners could now be sent to a prison with a troubling history which was deemed unfit for federal prisoners even though the structure and the operation of the prison remain unchanged.”
> Sending these prisoners to a private prison, whose sole mission is to reap profits from incarceration
This is 100% accurate. Private prisons - aside from being false imprisonment in my view - have one mission: Fill empty beds with prisoners. Do you think they want marijuana legal ? Rhetorical question.
Also, note that they are hiding from themselves, or have a corporate name where you can't determine their line of business:
-->NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 28, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Corrections Corporation of America(CXW) (the “Company”) today announced that it is rebranding its corporate enterprise as CoreCivic.
-->Geo Group, another private prison company


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Amazon is not usually one to ask for forgiveness for its conduct, nevertheless it simply made a notable exception — kind of. GeekWire reports that company has apologized to Rep. Mark Pocan for Twitter posts blasting the Wisconsin politician when he criticized working conditions that included drivers peeing in bottles as they confronted strain to satisfy quotas. The tweets had been “incorrect” by specializing in warehouse staff somewhat than drivers dealing with these issues, in line with Amazon. A flawed course of additionally meant the tweets did not obtain “proper scrutiny.”
The company partly downplayed the drivers’ expertise, arguing that peeing in bottles was a “long-standing, industry-wide” downside made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it additionally acknowledged this wasn’t acceptable and that it could “look for solutions.”
There was no clarification for why Amazon issued a uncommon social media assault. Recode sources just lately claimed that outgoing CEO Jeff Bezos was pissed off along with his company’s lack of resistance to accusations he felt had been inaccurate or deceptive. On prime of its response to Pocan, Amazon just lately defended its practices in opposition to criticism from Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
It’s not sure why Amazon took over per week to apologize to Pocan, though it comes as warehouse employees in Alabama vote to unionize. The web procuring big has additionally confronted rising scrutiny of its union-busting ways and general labor conditions. Amazon is not essentially attempting to attract consideration away with the apology (the transfer arguably highlights these considerations), however it’s recognition that the tech agency’s work setting is a hot-button challenge.


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The blistering confrontation scene between Hopper and Walken -- both in peak form -- will be talked about for years. It's pure Tarantino: a full-throttle blast of bloody action and verbal fireworks. show more
Anybody who talks about True Romance has to start with the writing. It's dazzling. In scene after scene, Tarantino surprises the audience even while coming up with dialogue that rings much more true than anything you could have anticipated. [10 Sept 1993] show more
These gun-crazy, lust-loopy kids on the run are irresistible in the best crime rush since “GoodFellas.” [10 Sept 1993] show more
I'm somewhat of a movie "buff", and very critical of most flicks. True Romance, however, is a true classic and ranks right up there with Heat and Scarface. A terribly under-rated movie when it was released in theatres. Just buy the movie, rather than renting it.

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Looking to support the inevitable growth in demand for data transmission over fiber, NTT and six partners recently set a new transmission capacity record, reaching 118.5 Tbit/s over regular thickness optical fiber.
"A conventional glass diameter (125 micrometer) in accordance with the international standard enables us to use existing optical fiber fabrication and optical connector technologies effectively," the release said. "This achievement proves the concept of multi-core fiber-based long-haul and large capacity transmission system consisting of multiple vendor technologies, and it makes significant progress on practical use of the multi-core fiber technology."
The partnership resulted in three major achievements, according to NEC:
Between four and five cores will fit within a 125 µm glass diameter and retain the transmission quality of current optical fiber.
It realizes a 316-kilometer multi-core transmission line with 0.21 dB/km average loss concatenating the standard diameter multi-core fibers (4 cores) fabricated by multiple vendors randomly.
It achieves transmission capacity of 118.5 Tbit/s via standard-diameter optical fiber and a multi-core transmission system composed of multi-core transmission line, multi-core optical amplifiers and existing optical connectors.
The companies expect the new standard multi-core fiber to become available in the early 2020s.
Prior research into multi-core fiber with ten or more cores has typically required thicker glass; this translates into requiring advances into fabrication processes and sub-component development, as well as logistical hurdles related to the different size, according to background material from NEC. As a result, it would take at least a decade for operators to use multi-core fiber and meet the data demands of data center and central office customers.
Marches, petitions and protests did nothing to dissuade the three Republican members of the Federal Communications Commission who, on Dec. 14, reclassified broadband and overturned the law blocking preferential treatment of content, throttling and blocking.
Regional Florida provider ITS Telecom is deploying Calix EXOS and mesh network to manage residential customers' WiFi and high-speed fiber broadband, an investment it expects to generate new revenue sources, reduced support costs and even greater customer satisfaction.
With $7 million in Series A financing from investors such as Intel Capital, startup GenXComm adds its name to the list of vendors offering alternatives to DOCSIS 3.1 in the full-duplex links for cable arena.
With the latest version of Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter, the Open Networking Foundation looks to bring operators' vision of one network for enterprise, residential and mobile customers closer to reality.
Growing bandwidth demand, competitive pressures, and ambitious political and regulatory goals promoting the Gigabit Society are forcing service providers to expedite their technology investments and place bets on the right technology choice. With a growing number of trials and start of commercial deployments, Gfast has emerged as the smart, pragmatic and future-proof solution to delivering on Gigabit Society goals.
During this Webinar, Werner Heinrich, Director Portfolio Management Broadband Solutions at ADTRAN, will discuss:
The Ultra Broadband toolkit and Gfast evolution status
The economics driving FTTx adoption
Unleashing the power of symmetric broadband services
Latest in Gfast solution packaging accelerating Gigabit service coverage
Improving network economics and services agility using SD-Access
Listen to this archived radio show for a fascinating look into the world of SD-Access and the complementary technologies creating the digital revolution. Bring your questions and your curiosity to be part of the conversation.


United States, Nov 22 (TNS): The Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, has told President Donald Trump that there are no Obama judges or Trump judges and instead what he calls “an extraordinary group of dedicated judges”.
That’s a view countered by the president himself, who says there are indeed “Obama judges” as he originally asserted in remarks critical of a federal judge who rejected his migrant asylum policy.
Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have “Obama judges,” and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country. It would be great if the 9th Circuit was indeed an “independent judiciary,” but if it is why……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 21, 2018
The back-and-forth represents an extraordinary public dispute over judicial independence.
It’s highly unusual for a president to single out judges for personal criticism.
But it’s unprecedented in modern history for a chief justice to challenge a president’s comments.
Roberts and several of his Supreme Court colleagues have rebutted perceptions of the court as a political institution divided between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats.


The Rise and Shine manager expresses interest in keeping the former’ Amakhosi playmaker but admits it’s up to the club’s chairman to make a decision
The speedy winger will be a free agent when the current campaign ends following Amakhosi’s decision to release him this week, and Larsen says his chairman Johnny Mogaladi is dealing with the matter as they look to retain the nippy attacker.
Having joined Rise and Shine on loan from Amakhosi in January, the 29-year-old has impressed the Polokwane-based club but his future is yet to be decided.
“Look, we would like to have him but that’s something between him and the chairman. As a club, I think we should try and keep him, but that’s something the chairman is dealing with,” Larsen told Goal.
“I don’t deal with contracts here. I think when he arrived here, he had to adjust and find his feet.”
“When you come to a new environment you need a few games to find your feet. There’s no doubt he has found his feet and I think if he stays, he will have a big impact at the club,” concluded Larsen.
After struggling to find a regular spot at Naturena because of injuries, the pacey player was eventually loaned out to City in January but the coronavirus outbreak hampered his progress under the former Siwelele boss.
However, he managed to produce a few stellar displays in the six league appearances he made before the games were forcefully halted in March.
Apart from Mahlasela, coach Ernst Middendorp’s troops also parted ways with midfielder Joseph Molangoane whilst George Maluleka was released to join Mamelodi Sundowns.
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On the other hand, the departure of Wiseman Maluleke, who is reported to be on his way to Black Leopards, could open a space for Mahlasela in the middle of the park.
Mahlasela joined the Glamour Boys with huge expectations two seasons ago but failed to live up to his billing due to a number of injuries he suffered.
Meanwhile, the skillful midfielder recently expressed his desire to return to Chiefs but also stated his readiness to move on with his career should the club decide otherwise which they did when they announced his departure this week.


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Clan History: Takeda
By Terikel Grayhair | Forum thread
Hear, oh traveler, the tale of the Takeda, once a mighty daimyo clan from Kai Province in eastern Honshu. It is a mountainous, land-locked place, but has a castle at Kofu. Thus it is strange that the Takeda developed the finest cavalry in all of Japan, but it is true. And mostly due to Takeda Shingen, the greatest of the Takeda.
The Takeda were an old clan, descendants of the Emperor Seiwa from the Heian Period. Thus we too are Sons of Heaven. Our branch of the Divine Family was given the name Minamoto, signifying our descent from the Heavens but formally excluding us from the Throne. This we bless, for it relieves us of the burden of remotenessa nd allows us to freely engage in mortal politics and warfare, in which we excel. Over time, three centuries or so to be exact, Yoshikiyo, son of Yoshimitsu, became the first of our line to adopt the name of Takeda. It is interesting to note that the Minamoto clan, to which we belong, was also the clan from which the Ashikaga shoguns descend.
We came to the province of Kai, as mentioned, and from there we grew strong, slowly but surely. We aided the Hojo against their upstarts- and were rewarded with Aki Province. Later, we earned Wakasa province as well. Then we feuded with the Uesugi, when they rebelled against the shogun. This feud ended around the time our greatest leader was born.
His official name was Minamoto-no Harunobu. Nobu was from his father, Nobutora, and Haru came from the name of the shogun Yoshiharu. This name would follow him throughout his life, but he chose another by which to be known. This was Shingen, and Takeda Shingen would be a name the histories would remember.
It was summer in 1541, and twenty-one-year-old Harunobu defied the virtue of familial duty to seize his father’s throne in a bloodless revolution and become the ruler of Kai Province himself. His father, who had intended to relegate the prodigal son to a life of nothingness by naming another son as heir, was himself exiled to Suruga Province under the eyes of the Imagawa clan. This cemented an alliance with the Imagawa that would serve young Shingen well as he turned his eyes to the much larger province of Shinano to the north.
Other daimyo opposed this upstart who would exile his own father. They gathered to do battle, but Shingen defeated them- handily. He pressed north and defeated these others again and again, sometimes suffering a reversal, but most often victorious. These victories came as a shock to most daimyo- not because of Shingen’s youth, but because of his innovations and tactics. The way of the day was heavy infantry, and large quantities of those backed by archers- lots and lots of archers. Shingen removed the bows from his horsemen, and replaced them with lances. This heavy cavalry charge brushed aside all in its path to its target- those lots and lots of archers. With no missiles and hounded by cavalry, most armies broke beneath his churning hooves. Thus Shingen fought, and conquered, and by the time he was thirty nine, Shinano Province was his.
During his battles, he made a rival out of another famous general: Uesugi Kenshin- the Tiger of Echigo. He and Shingen fought no less than five battles at Kawanakajima, and their feud became legendary.
Shingen even defeated the legendary Tokugawa Ieyasu, his one-time ally, at the Battle of Mikatagahara. This was one of the first battles using firearms recorded in Japanese history. Oda Nobunaga was overrunning Japan on his way to the shogunate, and Ieyasu was his ally now. Takeda Shingen was seen as one of the few daimyos who could stop the steamroller. He did so decisively at Mikatagahara.
It is unknown whether Tokugawa Ieyasu thought too much of his new thunderous weaponry, or if he underestimated the fury of a Takeda charge. Regardless, his forces met those of Shingen at Mikatagahara in 1572. The Takeda cavalry charge overran the Tokugawa gunners and slaughtered almost the entire army. What few escaped did so by ruse, not battle. Ieyasu got away, and went on to become Shogun himself. Shingen died the next year, to infection, illness, or as some say, a sniper’s bullet.
Shingen had gutted the Takeda during his rise in power. Some of his clan had died in battle- including two of his famous Twenty Four Generals in a single battle, while he ordered others-including family members- to commit seppuku for plotting against him. But for all his faults, he was an excellent adminstrator and a very capable general. Had Death not claimed him at the age of fifty-three, he might have become shogun himself.
The Takeda were left to the son of Shingen, Katsuyori. This man aspired to the heights his father had reached, but lacked the talent and drive of his sire. He fought several battles, using his father’s tactics, but lost them all due to either his poor battlefield timing, the opponent’s responses to Shingen’s tactics, his own ambivalent decisions, or a combination of all. He fought the Tokugawa, the Uesugi, the Hojo, the Oda… There was hardly a clan with whom he did not go to war.
The casualties were also horrendous- especially among the clan. The invasion of Kai province by the Oda and the Tokugawa ended his unsuccessful rule. Mot members of Clan Takeda and their retainers were either killed in battle (like the many generals at Nagashino), committed seppuku like Katsuyori when he was trapped by the Tokugawa-Oda army after the invasion of Kai, or were ordered to commit seppuku after the fall of Katsuyori. Thanks to the bad luck and poor generalship of Katsuyori, there were not many left to accept the order. A few Takeda survived, but not many.
Our clan was crushed utterly.

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On Monday, June 24, in a historic 8-3 vote, Charlotte City Council passed changes to the city’s noise ordinance that create 150 foot buffer zones around medical facilities, schools, and places of worship. The buffer zones eliminate amplified noise and unreasonably loud other sounds within 150 feet of these vulnerable spaces. The changes will significantly decrease harassment and intimidation for patients seeking abortion care in our city. Thank you to Charlotte City Council for voting for these changes!
Over 120 speakers addressed city council during a lengthy public forum. Many speakers opposing the changes to the ordinance talked about abortion, religion, and infringement on constitutional rights. But the vote wasn’t about religion or whether or not someone believes abortion is right or wrong. It was about making sure all residents in Charlotte feel safe when accessing healthcare, education, and places of worship. There are limits to our constitutional freedoms. Freedom of religion does not mean you get to force others to live by your beliefs. Freedom of speech does not mean you get to force others to be exposed to harmful levels of noise. There are limits to our constitutional rights and those limits begin when the expression of one’s freedoms infringes upon another’s right to express their freedoms – their rightful, lawful choices. The buffer zone will not prevent protesters from being present, holding signs, handing out literature, or expressing their beliefs in a peaceful, non-disruptive manner. The buffer zone does not infringe on First Amendment rights.
The changes come after many years of hard work, dedication, and persistence by volunteers, advocates, elected officials, clinic staff, local business owners, and community members. Our work is not done; we have much more to fight for. However, the noise buffer zone will greatly improve the patient experience and help all residents feel more safe when accessing healthcare, education, and places of worship.
On Friday, June 28, we celebrated! The community came together for a night of unity, food, drink, and celebration! It was a great night!


Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose has declared his intentions of running for presidency come 2019 general elections.
The campaign which he launched on social media by opening Facebook and Twitter pages for awareness with the slogan ‘Strong, Reliable and Rugged’ urges Nigerians to “behold their next president”.
The welcome address on his Facebook page reads;
“I have penchant for taking powers; that one in Buhari’s hand, I will take it. I’m going straight to that villa. I’m the next president,” Fayose had said.
“I want to be the next president of Nigeria. My own won’t be this change that has brought nothing, we are going to represent the people well and tell them the truth.
“Just because Ayo Fayose has won a second term to become governor of Ekiti, some people also think they can come back now, but I want to tell them that it is not possible.”
His Facebook page Ayodele Fayose For President 2019 currently has 32,723 followers. His Twitter handle, @Oshoko2019, was however dormant as of press time.


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More than half the U.S. households — 56% — now have at least one HDTV installed, according to a new study by Nielson. That’s not particularly surprising, since it’s getting increasingly difficult to buy a display that isn’t high definition (except for the iPad perhaps).
But here’s a statistic that might surprise you. More than 80% of the television viewing in U.S. households is in standard resolution. Part of that is because there are the 44% of the homes without an HDTV, but another part is that many homes have at least one standard definition set even if they have an HDTV. Even so, about 20% of the content viewed on the HDTVs is still in standard definition.
The bulk of the channels on most television subscription services are in standard definition. (And don’t forget that all DVDs are also in standard definition.) It will be a long time from now before all content is delivered in high definition.
So just because you have an HDTV doesn’t mean that you’re watching HD. It appears that either a lot of Americans don’t know the difference, or they don’t care, or — most likely — they don’t have an alternative for the content that they want to watch.


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Texas is one of the more dangerous places in the developed world to give birth.
A 2016 article published by the medical journal “Obstetrics and Gynecology” noted a sharp increase to 33 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2011. The findings sparked discussion among lawmakers and public health professionals across the state, resulting in local and national efforts to combat the statistic.
The Department of State Health and Human Services developed the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force in 2013. In its 2016 joint biennial report, the task force found that the rate of pregnancy-related deaths in Texas has nearly doubled since 2010. Between 2011 and 2012, 189 Texas mothers died within one year of giving birth.
Since then the task force has been working to address the rise of maternal morbidity, focusing on reviewing trends and making recommendations to help reduce the incidence of pregnancy-related deaths.
The task force reported that the leading cause of maternal deaths in Texas was cardiac problems. The second leading cause was drug overdoses. Researchers and legislators agree there is no simple fix to curbing maternal deaths.
The task force recommendations include increasing screening for and referral to behavioral health services, increasing access to health services during the year after delivery, and increasing provider and community education for women at higher risk of death from childbirth.
Sixty percent of the maternal deaths occurred six weeks or more after delivery. That figure is important because more than half of the nearly 400,000 births in Texas every year are covered by Medicaid, but coverage for many mothers expire 60 days after they give birth.
The Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force reports became the foundation on which lawmakers proposed House Bill 2466, aimed at enabling Texas mothers taking their babies for checkups through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Improvement Program to be able to get postpartum depression screenings and counseling.
The bill was proposed during the 85th legislative session, and on June 14, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 2466 into law.
About 17% of Texas mothers experience postpartum depression before or after giving birth, according to a 2016 report from the Texas Department of State Health Services. Symptoms may include anxiety, panic attacks, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, and feelings of guilt, shame, or helplessness.
Depression is a risk factor in the well-being of the mother and the well-being, safety, and development of the child.
Kori Eberle, health program manager with the Healthy Start program with Metro Health, told the Rivard Report that “it has always been part of our program [to screen patients] before and after pregnancy to receive mental health services for depression.”
The Healthy Start program provides educational and referral services for mothers who need health services past the point of what their insurance covers. Home visitors link patients to local community providers and help facilitate the process by assisting with paperwork and preventing a gap in services.
“We are not able to serve every woman in San Antonio, so any expansion of services is something that we know will improve outcomes for both mothers and children in the pregnancy process,” Eberle said.
Erica Underferth is a mother of three who gave birth to her first child with Medicaid coverage. Her daughter was born with heart defects and underwent open-heart surgery just five weeks after being born.
“In my mind I knew I should have been thankful about the pregnancy, about the new baby, [but] as soon as we got home I knew that something wasn’t right,” Underferth said.
Having a child with special medical needs was emotionally daunting for Underferth, and it added a layer of personal blame and judgment to her already complicated childbirth experience. When home health workers visited Underferth to check on her and her daughter, fear of repercussions prevented her from admitting that she was struggling with postpartum depression. Instead she consistently reported that she was “fine.”
“I was so afraid that if I admitted that I wasn’t feeling totally fine that it would either make me look bad or it would somehow make me incompetent to be a mother,” Underferth said. “I was afraid of judgment – that they would think that I can’t do it by myself.”
Underferth now has three children, with two being born under private health insurance. She experienced postpartum depression with all three children, and it increased in intensity with each birth.
Regarding services she received after giving birth, Underferth told the Rivard Report that private health insurance felt more personal than her experience with Medicaid. She didn’t feel better educated about depression in either of her three childbirth experiences, comparatively.
Underferth sees lack of education as the biggest barrier for individuals suffering from postpartum depression. She believes that new mothers need to know that “there are no [negative repercussions] for getting help,” and that “mothers don’t have to be scared, that there are no consequences, and [postpartum depression] is totally normal.”
Through the Healthy Start Program, Metro Health intends to reduce maternal mortality in Bexar County. In 2016 officials initiated a fetal infant mortality review process, creating a formal system to track infant mortality.
“No matter what is going on at the legislative level we want to make sure we are doing all we can at the city level [to dig] into the causes that may be why mothers experience problems during and after pregnancy,” Eberle said.
Program officials will hold meetings beginning in August to look into reasons behind poor outcomes for mothers, including mortality and the effects of health equity throughout the county.
Another Metro Health initiative, Healthy Families Network (HFN), is a coalition of more than 40 organizations “pulling together to make sure that women’s health stays a priority.” These organizations meet monthly and discuss how to strengthen community partnerships to reduce infant mortality and support successful birth outcomes for both women and children.
“We really see by looking at the mom and at birth outcomes that the health of a woman is the biggest predictor of good health throughout the reproductive lifetime,” Eberle said. “Anything the community can do at the local level to support women accessing and utilizing healthcare – and what we can do to support lawmakers at the state and local level – is a priority.”
A number of bills aimed at protecting mothers and children died during the most recent legislative session. House Bill 2135 would have provided postpartum depression mental health services as a covered benefit of the CHIP Perinatal program. The bill was passed out of the originating committee, but did not receive a House floor reading.
House Bill 2604 would have implemented a five-year strategic plan regarding postpartum depression screening, referral, treatment, and supportive services for women in Texas, but also did not receive a House floor reading.
One item on the agenda for the Legislature’s July special session is Senate Bill 1929, which would extend the State’s Task Force on Maternal Mortality and Morbidity until 2023.

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In case our last post on polar bears got your heart beating a little faster, these delightful photographs of polar bears performing water ballet can’t be anything but entirely adorable. Russian photographer Olga Gladysheva captured the images of a polar bear cub as well as an adult merrily tumbling and diving into gorgeous blue waters at a Moscow Zoo in Russia. These photos are guaranteed to put a big smile on your face, as these two gentle creatures ham it up for the camera.
The polar bear cubs have been putting on a show for visitors at the Moscow Zoo since they arrived there in November 2011. Lucky for us, Olga Gladysheva captured several delightful images of these very camera-friendly mammals from the Arctic.
“I took these pictures when the cubs were already grown up. Together with their mother they were transferred to a more spacious open-air cage and bigger pool,” said Gladysheva to Weather.com. The Russian photographer has been observing these animals since March. The 37-year-old Gladysheva also recently photographed one of the polar bears skillfully juggling a red ball in another series.
Female polar bears normally have two cubs, although triplets can also be an occasional occurrence. Cubs have been known to stay with their mother as long as two-and-a-half years. Male adults can grow to weigh as much as 1,200 pounds and females can get as large as a hefty 650 pounds.
The polar bears at the zoo have a constant, captive audience. When they decide to take a dip, all the zoo visitors scamper to watch them frolic in the water, says Gladysheva.
“There are several windows where it is possible to watch for swimming and diving bear cubs. The bear cubs like to watch us from the other side of the window. The closer I stayed to a window, the closer they swam up.”
When these adorable bears are not absorbed with their visitors, they are constantly moving around, which makes it difficult for Gladysheva’s to get a hold of them with her lens.
“To take a photo of polar bear cubs, you need to shoot very quickly and run very quickly,” she shares.
See more of Gladysheva’s other works by visiting her 500px profile.

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The Dallas Independent School District could lose $79 million in federal funding if it fails to comply soon with requirements to provide tutoring to students at struggling schools.
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In 2016, I was a fresh face at GrapevineLIVE – excited to get more involved with the local live entertainment scene and if my memory serves correctly, within the first month on the job I got offered to do my first regional review for Grapevine, and it was a small show called The Last Five Years at the New Wolsey theatre, Ipswich.
It was a show I knew little about prior to that first trip in 2016, but soon grew to love. I saw its New Wolsey run twice, and I’ve since seen the film a good handful of times, played the cast recordings and soundtracks repeatedly, watched a ‘lockdown livestream’ earlier this year, and a couple of weeks ago I caught the latest production over at Southwark Playhouse in London. Whilst I’m aware it’s a little bit out of the region, I wanted to cover it because I think it’s such a great show, that can work perfectly in these times, and I believe it’s important to share the positives of successful shows in amidst these strange times.
The show is comprised of two characters, Jamie and Cathy, both of whom tell their perspective of their five year relationship through song. The uniqueness is that Cathy starts by telling it from the end of the relationship, while Jamie runs from the start to end – and you pick up a couple of clever intertwined cross-overs. It may not be a show that everyone ‘gets’, but regardless it’s an interesting look at human interactions, relationships and feelings. I think most people can apply at least bits of the story to their own lives. I personally think the music is beautiful and very clever storytelling, full of wit, heart and emotion.
This particular production was excellent. Molly Blynch as Cathy and Oli Higginson as Jamie just made a wonderful pairing. I really loved the way they moved through the intimate space. It’s such a minimalist show, yet includes so many wonderful little details.
I also want to applaud the Southwark Playhouse – not least for being one of a small percentage of venues opening, but also for the commitment to making the venue Covid-secure. One way systems, masks, audience flow monitored, distanced queues, perspex screens between seating bubbles, digital tickets and programmes and more were all part of the safety measures in place. While getting used to this new ‘normal’ is still a bit surreal, it felt safe and allows for a night of escapism and entertainment. It’s a little bit of light in the dark, so if you can, are able and feel comfortable, please do get out to your local (or nearby) venues and support them. For we must keep proving the arts is viable and essential. Just keep safe and sensible in the process!


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An exceptionally rare Anasazi weaving, from ancient Arizona. The closely woven yucca, a portion of a matt or blanket, this material could only survive protected in the dry climate of the Southwest. Intact pieces of this size are very rare. Circa 1000 AD or before. Collected on private ranch 1890, and held in the same family for three generations. As a perishable, far rarer than lithic material. A unique window onto material culture of our North American ancestors. Presently in a Rikers mount. Museum worthy.
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Celebrated sculptor Bridget McCrum’s 5th solo exhibition with Messum’s continues at Messum’s 8 Cork Street until 2nd August and includes 50 of her most recent sculptures, paintings and works on paper.
This year marks McCrum's 80th birthday, and she will also be exhibiting her work later this autumn in a curated show at Canary Wharf. Exhibition curator Ann Elliot writes: ‘Bridget’s figures, animal and bird sculptures were economically carved, capturing the essential characteristics of their nature or habit. A subject may appear to be soft, although the profile would be sharp as her sense of curve and rhythm – still her hallmarks – tell of form as well as the incongruity to be found in birds or beasts.’
""I am primarily a stone- carver but work in plaster for many bronze pieces. Since childhood I have been excited by ancient remains, fragments of carving and standing stones in lonely landscapes. My travels have taken me to many sites from different cultures around the Mediterranean, and the chance to work on archaeological surveys in Somalia during the early eighties increased my interest in small objects from the past. The landscape around my two homes has inevitably worked itself into my head. The gentle curves of the hills of South Devon and the stark limestone cliffs carved by wind and sea on Gozo, have all subconsciously influenced my carving. I look down on birds circling and gliding above their prey from my home high above the Dart estuary. They make marvellously abstracted subjects and I have carved them ever since I have been here. Some have been cast into bronze which I patinate myself". - Bridget McCrum
Messum’s exhibition is supported by a fully illustrated catalogue (£15, plus postage) and available works are priced between £2,450 and £68,500.


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The 15th issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies (http://sonicstudies.org) is online, which again is an issue consisting of papers by authors who responded to our last open call for papers. While no underlying or overarching theme was set for this issue, the papers we selected all seem to explicitly address the relation between sound and culture. More specifically, they discuss the ways in which sound is used and experienced in culture, both present and past.
Journal of Sonic Studies Issue 15 Online Journal of Sonic Studies Issue 15 Online weiterlesen
Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa Volume 14 Issue 1-2, June – December 2017
The Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa ( JMAA) is published by NISC (Pty) Ltd in association with the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town. It is an accredited, internationally refereed journal that aims to combine ethnomusicological, musicological, music educational and performance-based research in a unique way to promote the musical arts on the African continent. This journal also incorporates book, audio and audiovisual media and software reviews. Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa Volume 14 weiterlesen
19th Century Music Vol. 41 No. 2, Fall 2017
19th-Century Music covers all aspects of Western art music between the mid-eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. We welcome—in no particular order—considerations of composers and compositions, styles, performance, historical watersheds, cultural formations, critical methods, musical institutions, ideas, and topics not named on this list. Our aim is to publish contributions to ongoing conversations at the leading edge of musical and multidisciplinary scholarship. 19th Century Music Vol. 41 No. 2 weiterlesen
Computer Music Journal Volume 41 Number 3 Fall 2017
We begin this issue’s articles with an interview by a former interviewee. Edmund Campion, who was featured in our Winter 2004 issue, converses here with noted composer Kaija Saariaho and with her spouse, the multimedia artist and composer Jean-Baptiste Barrière. The interviewees start by discussing recent work, such as Saariaho’s 2015 opera Only the Sound Remains. She states that in earlier works the electronics were mostly an extension of the orchestration, but now the electronic part has assumed a more important role. When writing for electronics, Saariaho starts with her aural imagination, then with her technical collaborator she finds a means to realize that vision; she doesn’t write with a tool’s constraints in mind. Computer Music Journal Volume 41 Number 3 Fall 2017 weiterlesen


Since the firmware on the Framework 16 is probably different from the firmware on the older laptop models, I am wondering if anyone with a Framework 16 has tried running Guix on it. In particular, I would like to know two things:
does the OS play nice with the firmware?
did you need to compile a custom linux kernel for your laptop?
I haven’t tried Guix with the 7040 series yet (was running 11th gen Intel before), as that would probably be closest to any confirmation whether it will work with the FW16 before it starts shipping. I’ll save this thread and update if I try it on my FW13 AMD.
Using the nonguix channel and non-libre kernel will definitely be required since the amdgpu driver has firmware blobs. I assume likewise for the RZ616/mt7922 wireless card.