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After basking in the bountiful sun in Sydney, consider checking out the museums displaying the cultural icons of Australia. The permanent and visiting collections at Australia’s premier museums and galleries offer travelers the opportunity to explore the sights, learn about the history of the region and soak up the bounty of local and foreign art.
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1. Art Gallery of New South Wales (NSW). Established in 1874, this gallery is one of Australia’s leading art museums and attracts over 1 million unique visitors a year. The collections on display cover artistic styles from numerous cultures, including Australian, Aboriginal, European and Asian works. Modern and contemporary art is on display all year round in expansive, light-filled halls.
The gallery not only offers a spectacular opportunity to take in art, but is itself a piece of architectural beauty. The reputable museum has a classical Greek front and an expansive, beautiful front lawn. Located on Art Gallery Road within the beautiful Parklands, the gallery overlooks the Sydney Harbor and is only a 15 minute walk from the city center.
2. The Rocks Discovery Museum. A historic museum housed in a restored 1850s sandstone warehouse, this icon offers visitors access to an expansive collective of artifacts, images and other archeological items found in The Rocks. Travelers can learn about the region’s aboriginal inhabitants, the establishment of an English colony and the economy that grew and flourished as natives and immigrants turned toward the sailing and whaling industries. Talks on The Rocks are an ongoing event for those interested in listening to in-depth lectures about what life was like in the region during turbulent times of the past.
3. Australian National Maritime Museum. This museum tells the tale of Australia’s development through commerce, defense, adventure, sport and play involving the ocean. Both permanent and traveling exhibitions were put together to advance travelers’ understanding of the ocean’s relevance to the growing country. There are a number of events for children, and lectures, workshops and tours are also available for those interested.
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If you need an adrenaline rush, New Zealand’s natural theme park is for you. See New Zealand from the tops of volcanoes, through the caves of Dart River, while free falling from 12,000ft, or from the top of the original bungee bridge before you make the plunge. Spend the bulk of your time in The 'Adventure Capital of the World' and it is a reputation well earned. Queenstown is the home of adventure in New Zealand, and this tour includes it all. From black water rafting to challenging hikes, bike rides and bungee jumps it has something for anyone seeking adventure.
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Value tour combining the highlights on both of New Zealand's Islands. Visit cosmopolitan Auckland and the cultural heartland of the country, Rotorua - then fly South and take in Queenstown, an alpine resort town set amidst towering mountains and serene lakes. Take in the breathtaking scenery of Franz Josef Glacier and continue by train to finish in Christchurch.
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Siberian Ginseng's benefits include enhancing the immune function, promoting lung functioning and stimulating the appetite. Siberian Ginseng supplements are useful for bronchitis, circulatory problems, diabetes, infertility, lack of energy and stress. Used by athletes for overall body strengthening. Siberian Ginseng Root Extract is just one of several species which contains ginseng, made from the root and the offshoots called root hairs.
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Thursday, November 15
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“Afro-Brazilian civil rights group Criola is taking racist comments posted on Twitter or Facebook, identifying the location of the commenter, and then buying billboard space near that person’s home in order to display the comment in huge letters.”
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In 1848 South Australia was still a very young colony, having only been officially settled in November 1836 when the first immigrants arrived. This almanac and directory shows Adelaide and South Australia as it was growing.
Listing all the regular features of an almanac such as a calendar, holidays, statistics, meteorological information, tariffs and postal information, as well as details on exports, legal and medical profession, military, religious, public institutions, pastoral and agricultural information.
The 30 page directory section covers Adelaide, Port Adelaide and Albert Town, Suburbs, and Country. It gives names, addresses and occupations of the early residents in South Australia at the time.
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The Statesville City Council is poised Monday evening to adopt more stringent rules governing water and sewer connections.The rules would require that all habitable buildings connect to the city’s public water system and that all new nonresidential buildings and subdivisions with more than 10 lots must connect to the city sewer system. Previously, only buildings located within 400 feet of an existing sewer main were required to connect. If the regulations are adopted Monday, as expected, any exceptions will have to be approved by the council itself before development plans are approved. The changes were requested by the council in the wake of a recent hearing on a new Dollar General Store, which sought approval to install septic tanks instead of connecting to the city sanitary sewer system. “This law reflects the stated sentiment of the council’s majority,” said Planning Director David Currier. “That is, if you are going to build in our city, then you should be using the city’s water and sewer systems.”Not everyone agrees with the city’s approach. At the first reading on the new measure held Jan. 14, builder Howard Bryan urged the council not to adopt the new law. “This will only complicate the current system, which is working well. It will be confusing to businesses and cost them more time ... just another impediment to bringing new business into Statesville.”However, the council voted unanimously to approve the new law and scheduled the final reading for Feb. 4. If approved, it will go into effect immediately. Also at the January meeting, the council:• Approved spending $5,376 from insurance proceeds to repair a damaged Statesville police car. The vehicle was involved in a chase on Broom Street in November, and as it approached the dead end, it slid on leaves in the roadway, rolling over. The officer was not injured. • Adopted the State’s Department of Cultural Resources Records Retention and Disposition Schedule. According to Assistant City Manager Lynne Smith, without approving this schedule, the city would be obligated to obtain the state’s permission to destroy any record, no matter how insignificant.


Obviously, I’m a reader. Everywhere I go you will find me with a book secreted about my person – I once got stopped going to a theatre show and asked why I had bought book along – was I expecting the show to be that boring!?
Lately, I have been reading into themes and theories on dystopian fiction and the current state of the world (Friday nights in our house are a blast!) and specifically the language used. In his essay, ‘Politics and the English Language’, George Orwell wrote about the use of tired metaphors and how political language “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit
Basically, a series of ‘soundbites’ which detracted from the seriousness of issues and fooled us into apathy. Interesting video here (which explains it much better than me!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe64p-QzhNE&feature=emb_title
Recently at work my team shared our thoughts on an article discussing the application of the word “vulnerable” to whole sections of society during the first lockdown. How this detracts from individual need, pigeon holes people, places blame, creates barriers and resentment and reduces the seriousness of Covid-19. You can read the article here and form your own opinion: https://rewritingsocialcare.blog/2020/07/24/vulnerable/
Another interesting post I found on use of language (and as part of safeguarding week) was about the inappropriate use of language relating Down’s Syndrome. An example given in the article is the preferred of “has down’s syndrome” rather than “suffers down’s syndrome”: https://www.anncrafttrust.org/language-creates-reality-how-beccas-project-is-revolutionising-language-use/
I can also relate this to mental health and how stigmatising the use of language often is. Suicide is still referred to as committing suicide – this relates back to when it was against the law (you commit a crime) and considered a sin but now would it be kinder and more appropriate to say “completed suicide” or “took his/her own life? https://yourlifecounts.org/learning-center/suicide/language-of-suicide/#:~:text=The%20power%20of%20words%20%E2%80%93%20the%20language%20of,language%20is%20not%20accurate%20nor%20is%20it%20helpful.
Finally, I wanted to raise awareness of how we speak to ourselves. There is always a lot on my Insta feed about the way we speak to ourselves: we say things to ourselves that we would never say to anyone else! We often judge ourselves more harshly than we do others. We can be our own worst enemy, we sabotage ourselves and say things to ourselves that are not appropriate. We put ourselves down and believe the bad things we say about ourselves! But this works both ways – positive self-talk can lift us up; be your own hype squad: https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/self-talk#how-does-it-work
As with everything, there are Buddhist quotes that’s puts it nice and succinctly: “The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
What has all of this got to do with safeguarding?
Well, the use of language can be either empowering or problematic, depending on how it is used.
So, to end Safeguarding week, I wanted to invite everyone to think about the language we use – and a challenge, instead of relying on easy stock phrases, be more creative, compassionate and considered in how we speak to, and about, others and ourselves.


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Tree Preservation Orders can be placed on individual trees, trees within a certain area, groups of trees or whole woodlands, and any tree species or size of tree can be affected. Anybody who carries out trees protected by a TPO without permission from the local authority has committed an offence, and could be fined. Trees protected in conservation areas are given a similar status.
When the removal of a tree subject to a Tree Preservation Order or in a Conservation Area is required due to development, we recommend a tree survey in accordance with BS5837: 2012 – Trees in Relation to Design, Demolition and Construction. The BS5837 tree survey will take into account the protection placed upon the trees as part of the process.
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Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac promised on Wednesday that the government will stand with the city’s
Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac promised on Wednesday that the government will stand with the city’s business sector, as well as other sectors, to ensure a stable market and employment rate, quality services and creativity while the local economy is going through a profound adjustment phase.
Leong also praised the local business sector for being like plum blossoms, which are able to endure snow, and for being “better than others”.
Leong, who was a businessman before becoming a policy secretary, made the remarks in a speech during an annual conference hosted by the Macau Chamber of Commerce (ACM) in Zape.
The chamber’s one-day conference was attended by several dozen representatives from various business sectors. The representatives raised various issues affecting their sectors.
Addressing the conference, Leong said he expected the local economy to continue its current decline and face negative growth.
“The scope of the decline will be narrowed… although the local economy will continue to face a deep adjustment…generally speaking, Macau’s economy is still relatively stable and dynamic,” Leong said, adding that “when facing new situations in the local economy the government hopes to stand with all of you and other sectors in civil society to ensure that we are well prepared for what will follow.
“During the adjustment phase… firstly, we should ensure that our market is stable and dynamic. Secondly, we should ensure stable employment for local residents…which will benefit small and medium-sized enterprises. Thirdly, we should keep quality products and services …as well as follow honest business practices. Fourthly, we should keep our creativity …to find new ways and make the market dynamic,” Leong said.


Most bands embark on a tour to promote their first album, but the jazz/classical trio Myriad has decided to do something a little different.
Instead, Chris Donnelly, Dan Fortin and Ernesto Cervini opted to generate buzz about their music before heading into a studio and cutting their first CD.
“The idea is to play a whole bunch and then, when we get back to Toronto, record our first album,” said Donnelly. “It’s rare for a band to go on tour and then record an album. It’s usually the other way around.”
But Myriad wants to do things differently. Donnelly and his collaborators hope to make a big enough impression on their first B.C. and Alberta tour that, once they return to the west with CD in hand in the fall, the fan base will grow even more.
“You have to spread the word and meet some people, and that spreads the word about the music,” he said.
Myriad begins recording later this month; a next big step in what is a relatively young musical collaboration.
Donnelly, Fortin and Cervini were enrolled in a jazz program at the University of Toronto when they met in 2010. It didn’t take long for them to find a found a common musical ground that translated well on stage.
Although students of traditional jazz like Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, the trio grew up in an era of CDs, Napster and YouTube. As a result, each brings a decidedly varied musical background to the table. Donnelly said Myriad is also inspired by the techno beats of Daft Punk, the heavy guitar licks of AC/DC and the classical sound of The Beatles.
“Your other influences don’t necessarily get to come out in an academic setting,” he said. “But, when you sit down to play, you can go ‘By the way, I also listen to Daft Punk’.”
And, with each musician writing his own material, personal influences are also brought to the table, he said. The end result is a myriad of ideas, tastes and instrumental styling, hence the band’s name.
Myriad’s music is instrumental. Some of the songs tell a story, others are more static and groovy. Donnelly said the goal is to be unique, but harken back to each other’s background and interests.
Donnelly describes the music as jazz meets classical meets pop meets Oscar Peterson.
“It’s hard to pinpoint what our style is,” he said. “We play something recognizable but mix it up.”
Myriad performs at the Flour Medal Bakery and Café in Clearwater Saturday at 2 p.m.
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I utilize video, force, and EMG measurements to analyze human motion, along with musculoskeletal modeling to estimate internal loading on the structures of the human body. I study athletic movements, industrial job tasks, and activities of daily living. I am interested in acute injury mechanisms such as ACL ruptures and how these acute injuries lead to chronic conditions such as osteoarthritis. We work with Levitate Technologies to assess the Airframe exoskeleton in manufacturing and construction settings such as John Deere, Toyota, Emcor / SA Comunale, and Granite Construction.
At the undergraduate level, I teach Biomechanics (KIN 355). At the graduate level, I teach Injury Biomechanics (KIN 515) and Musculoskeletal Modeling (KIN 517). I also provide research experiences for undergraduate students through the honors program and independent study. My MS and PhD students have a variety of multidisciplinary backgrounds, from kinesiology to physical therapy to engineering.
I am the Director of Graduate Education for the Department of Kinesiology and a member of the American Society of Biomechanics and ASTM International. I have been a reviewer for scientific journals such as Applied Ergonomics, Ergonomics, Journal of Applied Biomechanics, and Journal of Biomechanics.


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The mortgage company “Mr. Cooper” says one of its vendors inadvertently withdrew large sums of money from as many as 480,000 homeowners’ bank accounts without permission – causing some to overdraft.
Several people wrote to NBC Responds for help.
“[I] woke up to negative $60,000 in the bank,” wrote Deanna Shouldice from outside Chicago. “Our mortgage company deducted that much out of our account this morning.” Shouldice shared a screenshot of her bank account activity. It showed at least six back-to-back withdrawals for $10,277 each.
Shouldice is not alone. Edwin Dejesus of New York wrote to NBC responds with a nearly identical story.
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“They took $7,742 from my checking account leaving me with no funds,” he said. “I’ve never been late or delinquent with my payments,” Dejesus explained.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said on Tuesday afternoon that it was aware of the unauthorized withdrawals. “The CFPB is taking immediate action to understand and resolve the situation that has affected hundreds of thousands of consumers,” said CFPB Acting Director Dave Uejio in a statement. NBC Bay Area asked what the “immediate action” entailed, but did not receive an immediate response.
In a statement issued Tuesday evening, Mr. Cooper said is acted quickly. "We immediately reported this error to our customers’ banks and worked with them to prevent any financial impact to our customer accounts." The company said it also added extra staff to its call centers to answer customer questions. It urged customers to call: 1-888-480-2432.
On a special webpage for customers whose accounts were impacted, the company said, “all inaccurate charges are being corrected, and any impacted customers will not be responsible for any fees or other negative financial impact this may have caused.” The company also placed an alert on its blog noting that some customers are experiencing payment processing issue.
Mr. Cooper said it has taken action and “all duplicate transaction requests have been stopped.”
So, what happened?
Mr. Cooper said a payments vendor inadvertently "issued incorrect mortgage payment drafts" while testing its system. "That triggered multiple requests for funds from a number of Mr. Cooper customers’ accounts," the statement said.
The Mr. Cooper webpage stated that its computers had not been hacked. “This was a payment processing transaction error and neither your bank account, nor Mr. Cooper’s systems or accounts were compromised,” the webpage explained to customers.
What should customers do?
Mr. Cooper said impacted customers do not need to do anything right now. The company said it expected to correct the unauthorized withdrawals by the end of the day Tuesday. If you wish to call, the number is 1-888-480-2432.
What should you do if you see an overdraft or insufficient funds fee?
Mr. Cooper said you won’t have to pay. “In the event a customer is assessed a fee related to these transactions, they will be reimbursed,” the company said. That’s good news for consumers, because the average bank overdraft fee was more than $33 in 2020 -- an all-time high, according to Bankrate. Mr. Cooper said it was "not aware" of any customers whose incorrect drafts were not reversed.
The CFPB suggested that customers like Shouldice and Dejesus monitor their accounts and contact Mr. Cooper directly. The agency said customers may also submit complaints to the CFPB at www.consumerfinance.gov or toll-free at 855-411-2372.
Long term, customers should check their credit report — to make sure no overdraft fees were added to their file. An overdraft fee can negatively impact your credit history or score. You can review your credit report for free at www.annualcreditreport.com.

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When I ask at Mass: “How many of you want to be a saint” very few hands go up. When I ask: “How many of you want to go to heaven” all hands go up. Either we don’t think we are worthy to be saints or we think it is ambitious to aspire to be a saint. Actually we all want to be saints because saints are the citizens of heaven and, therefore, if you want to go to heaven, you want to be a saint.
When we think of saints we think of people who are proclaimed saints by the Church and canonized in a big ceremony in St. Peter’s. But we also know people in our own lives who are saints. Perhaps a grandparent or parent, an aunt or uncle, a neighbor, a co-worker. We all know people who have lived a virtuous life. They weren’t perfect but they were filled with love. We admired them and remain grateful to them after they have died. So you don’t have to be perfect to be a saint. You have to be faithful to be a saint: faithful to using the gifts God gave you, faithful to living the Gospel way of Jesus Christ, faithful to the truth, honest and humble.
Admittedly this is a tall order but it is lived out over the course of a lifetime. The key to being a saint is to recognize that we need a Savior and we do not save ourselves. Indeed there is a God and I am not God. I am His creature, created out of love and sustained in existence each day by God’s love. The key to being a saint is to recognize one’s dependence upon God. Our self-sufficiency and tendency to individualism are obstacles to becoming a saint because it becomes all about me. It is not all about me; it is about us and our journeying together through this life to life on high with Jesus Christ in the Kingdom of love.
The other obstacle to becoming a saint that is prevalent today is the tendency to think that this life is all there is. It is not. This life is but a preparation for eternal life with God. If we expect this life to meet all our needs, we will be disappointed. If we expect other people to take our loneliness away, we will smother the relationship. Saint Augustine said it well long ago: “You have made us for yourself, Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”
Do you want to be a saint? Then love passionately, compassionately and yet, with a gentle grasp on life. Do you want to get to heaven? Then embrace life and let go of life. Love deeply but freely. And trust in the promise of Jesus to live with Him forever.
Rev. James M. McNamara
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Welcome to Aldie Family Medicine / StoneSprings Pediatrics, where your child’s health and well-being are our top priorities.
Dr Mangala Pawar MD is a leading pediatrician with a special interest in newborn care, childhood development, and adolescents. She provides both acute and chronic medical care in addition to comprehensive wellness visits from birth through young adulthood. She is experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of all the common pediatric acute and chronic conditions and is knowledgeable in the management of a wide variety of childhood behavioral/mental health conditions.
Dr Mangala Pawar MD is a certified Pediatrician by the American Board of Pediatrics and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is an experienced pediatrician who has been practicing medicine for over 20 years in the US and India. She is a medical graduate from Government Medical College, Nagpur, India. She did her MD in Pediatrics at Howard University Hospital, USA. She has the honor to be associated with Children’s Hospital, Washington D.C., USA, and Southern Maryland Hospital, Maryland, USA. In addition to MD Pediatrics, Dr. Pawar has a postgraduate degree (MS) in General Surgery. While in India, she was associated with some of the well-known pediatric hospitals including Apollo Children’s Hospital, Chennai, and Fortis Hospital, Gurgaon.
Why Choose our Pediatricians for your child?
- Our Pediatricians Dr Mangala Pawar MD and Dr Obianuju Geraldine Nwoga MD are Board Certified Pediatricians with over 15+ years of experience taking care of New Borns to Adolescents.
- Easy and convenient communication with your pediatrician and your child’s health care team should be very important for you. We offer same day as well as weekend appointments for ease.
- Our Pediatricians provide New Baby Well Check, Annual Physicians Exams, Baby Immunizations, Behavioral Issues.
- Our office is conveniently located next to the StoneSprings hospital which provides easy emergency access to the child if it is determined so during an office visit.
Some of the pediatric services provided by Dr Mangala Pawar, include:
- Well-child check-ups
- Vaccinations and immunizations
- Sick visits
- Developmental assessments
- Chronic illness management
- Preventive care
- Adolescent medicine
- Newborn care
Dr Mangala Pawar MD is happily married with two grown-up boys. She likes to cook, travel, engage in watching movies and spending her leisure time with her family. She firmly believes in the adage ‘Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded’.


Above, the original BP name change. A few years back, they switched once again, renaming “British Petroleum” “Beyond Petroleum,” and emphasizing how eco-responsible the company was aiming to become.
Will we learn from BP’s Gulf Oil Spill? It’s History-in-the-Making.
If so, we have a chance to turn this tragedy into a positive step for the human race.
Word is, looks like “Beyond Petroleum” Oil Spill will continue through August.
Kill Baby, Kill!
Exactly one-half of all tuna breed in the gulf. That’s gonna hurt a lot of fish—and fishermen.
But perhaps some good will come out of what is now officially “the worst environemental disaster in US history”—perhaps we’ll finally learn, once and for all, that “the” environment and human society’s welfare are inextricably linked.
And perhaps we’ll put our money into expanding wind and solar, so we don’t have to drill 5,000 feet down beneath the surface of the ocean, or give our hard-earned dollars to friends of friends of terrorists.
…well, don’t have any more time to write any lucid commentary—gotta go gas up so I can drive to Tarzhay and buy stuff Made in China that I didn’t know I needed.
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As Battle Princess Madelyn enters its final days on Kickstarter, and at an incredible 308% funded, Causal Bit Games looks to achieve the final stretch goals.
“Battle Princess Madelyn’s Kickstarter has been absolutely overwhelming, and the demand for our physical PS4 tier (with Kickstarter exclusive cover), that we’re able to offer thanks to our friends at Limited Run Games, has been unprecedented. We’ve also already established a fabulous community for our game and we can’t wait to share more about the game with everyone as the development pace picks up,” said Christopher Obritsch, Creative Director at Causal Bit Games. “We’re hoping to achieve some final stretch goals, and now pleased to reveal that we’ve added a final tier. This is for an arcade bespoke cabinet, built and designed for the true collector by the incredible Arcade Europe.”
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Fed officials worry the economy is too good. Workers still feel left behind
WASHINGTON — Ann Jacks quit her job as a chef in North Carolina, started her own business and worked 80 hours a week for two years before exhausting herself and her patience. She shut down the company and, in November, returned to her old job. The restaurant paid her a dollar an hour more than it did when she left it.
Jacks, who now earns $22,000 a year and said she couldn’t afford her health insurance deductible, is one of many Americans still waiting to feel the effects of an improving economy nearly a decade after the recession.
“I don’t see evidence of the wages getting higher, except for specific types of jobs, like management, banking,” she said. “My attorney friends aren’t hurting.”
Yet Federal Reserve officials are beginning to worry about a possibility that seems remote to workers who still feel left behind: the danger of the economy running too hot, destabilizing financial markets and setting off a rapid escalation in wages and prices that could force the central bank to slam the brakes on growth.
Officials at the Fed have in the past few weeks escalated a public and private debate over how close the economy is to “overheating,” a condition when abnormally low unemployment can trigger spikes in inflation and destabilize financial markets.
The Commerce Department will report its first estimate of first-quarter growth on Friday, and economists expect it will register around 2 percent, short of the 3 percent that President Trump has promised will deliver large wage increases to workers across the board.
Forecasters expect growth to accelerate this year, though. Those predictions, along with a recent uptick in the inflation rate, are prompting some Fed officials to push the bank to raise interest rates at a faster pace than it has been, to reduce the risk of overheating.
Fed officials have raised their benchmark rate to a range of 1.5 to 1.75 percent in a series of carefully orchestrated increases. Their most recent economic projections suggest they expect to raise rates two more times this year and three times next year.
While officials worried about overheating are pushing a faster pace of increases, other officials say it’s way too early to turn down the heat on the economy — and on workers who are still waiting for big wage increases.
Both camps say they are concerned for workers like Jacks.
“When we think about the economy from the aspect of monetary policy, we can’t get it right for everybody,” Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said in an interview last week. “We can get it right for the overall economy.”
Rosengren is among those pushing for the Fed to raise interest rates more quickly than some of his colleagues would prefer, in part because he fears a situation in which rapid inflation forces the bank to raise rates drastically, tipping the economy back into recession.
In that case, he said, “the people who feel already like they’re not keeping up with the rest of the economy would probably be the first ones laid off.”
Other Fed officials want to let the economy run hotter and longer, contending that economic data suggest today’s low unemployment rates are not necessarily harbingers of high inflation.
Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, warned in a speech this month that Fed officials should not assume that just because low unemployment spurred double-digit inflation in the 1970s and ’80s, the same situation would occur today. He suggested that structural changes in the economy, such as a disconnect between the areas where job openings are and where prospective employees live, and the reluctance of workers to move to chase those openings, could be distorting the labor market.
“While it is incumbent upon policymakers not to forget the painful lessons of the 1970s and 1980s, we are living under different circumstances today,” Evans said. “I think we have the opportunity to more patiently read — and react to — the incoming data. That is, I think we can undertake more moderate monetary policy adjustments today than often was the case in the past.”
White House officials side firmly with the “not overheating” camp, arguing that Trump’s mix of deregulation and tax cuts will increase investment and productivity, yielding faster growth while suppressing inflation.
“Our view is that most of our policies are going to create growth for the economy on the supply side, and that when the supply-side growth comes, then that’s actually good for inflation, because if you increase supply, it puts downward pressure on prices,” Kevin Hassett, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told reporters in February. “And so we think that we can get the 3 percent economic growth that we forecast without a big pickup in inflation.”
The group of Fed officials worried about overheating point to several economic data points. The unemployment rate is 4.1 percent, near the lowest level in a half century, and is below what Fed officials judge to be sustainable. Forecasters expect the recent injection of fiscal stimulus, from tax cuts and increased federal spending, to drive that rate down even further.
Inflation expectations are rising in financial markets, as measured, in part, by how much the government must pay investors to borrow money. Stock values remain high by historical standards, even with the recent dips in the market.
In similar periods in U.S. economic history, “there have been heightened risks either of inflation, in earlier decades, or of financial imbalances more recently,” Lael Brainard, a Fed governor, said in a speech last week.
Jim Tankersley is a New York Times writer.


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The largest Operator in India, Bharti Airtel, Monday said that the company is currently in talks with French Operator, Orange to explore the possibility of selling its subsidiaries in Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo Brazzaville and Sierra Leone.
Bharti Airtel made its entry into the African mobile market with the acquisition of these companies from Zain Telecoms in 2010 for about $10 billion.
The deal with Orange via its subsidiary, Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands), if it comes through will help Bharti to cut losses and to focus in the higly competitive home market, expecially with Reliance Jio’s large scale entrance into the mobile space. The Operator has earlier this month raised an estimated $1.3 billion when it completed the sale of mobile towers in five African countries. As for Orange which is already operating in 19 countries in Africa, the acquisition will see it expanding further into the fast growing mobile market in Africa.


OPEN Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) | 9 Nov 2018
R Wu, M Wang, J Xu, J Qi, W Chu, Z Fang, J Zhang, J Zhou, L Qiao, Z Chai, J Lin and Y Cheng
In this paper, we develop a technique for realizing multi-centimeter-long lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) waveguides with a propagation loss as low as 0.027 dB/cm. Our technique relies on patterning a chromium thin film coated on the top surface of LNOI into a hard mask with a femtosecond laser followed by chemo-mechanical polishing for structuring the LNOI into the waveguides. The surface roughness on the waveguides was determined with an atomic force microscope to be 0.452 nm. The approach is compatible with other surface patterning technologies, such as optical and electron beam lithographies or laser direct writing, enabling high-throughput manufacturing of large-scale LNOI-based photonic integrated circuits.
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Club Social Parque of Argentina has been touted as the most successful football club in the world much more than the famous Barcelona academy La Masia.
La Masia has produced the likes of Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta, Xavi, Pique, Jordi Alba and Pep Guardiola but that does not compare to Club Social Parque.
The Argentina based Club Social Parque has its coaching centre based in downtown Buenos Aires and it is claiming to have an even better record than any academy in the world.
Head scout Ramon Maddoni boasts he has produced more than 200 top stars who have played for the top European teams, and the Argentina national team.
To mention a few, Argentina legends Diego Maradona, Pablo Sorin, Juan Roman Riquelme and Carlos Tevez are alumni's of the academy.
“At Club Parque, we work a lot on the fundamentals, the technique. We recognize talent from a young age and our eye has been sharpening with time,” said Maddoni, head scout at Parque and at the Boca Juniors club children’s division.
“We’ve discovered more players than La Masia.”
The 75-year-old coach says his players went on to play with Argentina’s national team, local and Europe’s top clubs.
The coach says he current crown jewel is Benjamin Palandella, a 7-year-old who has already caught the eye.
“Benjamin is different from the group,” Maddoni told Associated Press.
“He can pass with his back turned, he uses both legs. I see some of Riquelme in the way he moves the ball. I see some of ‘Carlitos’ Tevez, in how he uses his hands and leans backward… He’s different.”
Former players who spoke with the Sun say that the secret to Parque is Maddoni’s eye for spotting young talent which is unrivalled any where in the world.
Maddoni forces his players to practice skill sets in reduced spaces and imperfect surfaces where kids learn how to react faster, giving them a competitive advantage when they eventually reach large professional fields.
READ ALSO: Jose Mourinho reveals plans for Man United
Club Social Parque was founded in 1949 when two smaller clubs made up of newspaper delivery men and factory workers merged in the neighborhood of Villa del Parque.


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Digital & Spirit are back!! Three tracks of quintessential bass weight that only they could make
Half time psychedelic roll out business from the pair, it is the perfect intro to the release. Dark and foreboding and strictly made for big systems, a very welcome return.
Spiral has touched of Detroit techno soul to it with its synth sweeps and stabs. A great mixing tool with its shuffling breaks, head nod central. The track remains massively interesting through its course as the subtle carriers come to life.
Closing the release we have Mosquito, a reese laden dubbed out killer. Dubzilla era style takes the lead on this one, dark and yet retaining the famous funk they are known for.


The Ultimate Guide To Becoming An Intelligence Officer
Whether or not it’s recruiting human sources or managing investigations into national safety, Intelligence Officers acquire info and produce intelligence to assist inform decision makers. Simple proper?
You might think of Intelligence Officers as the spies you see in common films and books. Nevertheless, right this moment, Intelligence Officers carry out a whole bunch different of features for Intelligence Agencies.
What’s the Distinction Between Intelligence Officers and Intelligence Analyst?
Intelligence Officers typically ‘accumulate’ raw data while Analysts process it (the raw data) to find out its Intelligence value.
Some Intelligence Companies will confer with their Intelligence Officers interchangeably as Intelligence Analysts. Nonetheless, in recent times Intelligence Agencies have begun to make the excellence between Intelligence Officers and Analysts.
All Intelligence Officers are in a sense Intelligence Analysts. Nevertheless, their ‘position’ could also be within the assortment of data, relatively than the processing of it.
Intelligence Officers predominantly work for Intelligence Agencies, Law Enforcement, Military, and Government Organisations. Private Corporations additionally recruit Intelligence Officers to perform Intelligence Functions.
Depending on the position of the organisation Intelligence officer’s may have totally different operational priorities and assortment requirements. For example – Intelligence Officers working for the Department of Homeland Safety may have different priorities as these working in the Office of Naval Intelligence (for example).
Each country has their own Intelligence Agencies. Every organised differently, with completely different roles, tasks and their distinctive assortment methods. Intelligence Officers will probably be recruited to work within these organisations to answer their unique Data Requirements.
Lately more and more Government Departments and Organisations are starting to realise the value of an effective intelligence capability. As such, there’s been a significant improve in the demand for Intelligence Officers in non-traditional companies akin to Corrections, Tax Enforcement, Medical Intelligence and the Private Sector.
Nearly all Intelligence Officers can anticipate to journey sooner or later of their career. Intelligence Case Officers can also count on to work overseas in a variety of totally different locations.
Intelligence Officers might be recruited directly into a job/position or assigned to the place they’re needed. Obviously, the best way to specialise is to applying directly for a HUMINT role.
Nevertheless, lots of Intelligence Companies will hire a pool of Intelligence Officers and assign personnel to a role depending on the agencies needs or the ability of their applicants.
You'll be able to typically specialize in either HUMINT, SIGINT, Surveillance (or no matter) by nominating this as a preference. Normally, you're going to get an opportunity to choose your preferences during your recruitment training, or all through your career throughout your professional efficiency appraisal.
Be acutely aware that Intelligence Businesses assign staff where they need them most. If you wish to do a selected role, my advice is to get a foot in the door (doing anything), it’s rather a lot simpler to move once you’re already inside an Intelligence Agency. Trust me.
Does Army Experience Assist My Application To Change into An Intelligence Officer?
Yes. Yes, it does.
I don’t care what individuals say. Having Navy expertise will assist your application to change into an Intelligence Officer.
I’ve met individuals who’ve said having navy experience doesn’t matter, and others who even consider it could adversely have an effect on your application. But, c’mon seriously? Navy expertise shows self-discipline, training, sense of mission, adherence to command, rank construction and dedication to duty. These are nice attributes of any potential Intelligence Officer.
Yep, sure do. Army Intelligence additionally recruits Intelligence Officers.
Military Intelligence Officers do the same function to Intelligence Officers in other Intelligence Agencies – however for the Army (obviously).
Allow me to elucidate a little clearer. Army Intelligence Officers are trained and employed to provide Intelligence to their commanders on distinct factors, Terrain and Enemy.
Army Intelligence Officers are subject material specialists in the ‘red pressure’, and expected to have an intimate understanding of the enemy including their techniques, weapons and activities.
Overall the training and the job of a Navy Intelligence Officer is much like Intelligence Officers in other Intelligence Businesses (actually there’s generally significant overlap). The difference is that Army Intelligence Officers are also trained officers of their chosen service (Military, Navy, Airforce, and many others), and employed to provide intelligence advice for Army operations.
If you have any kind of questions concerning where and how you can make use of intelligence training, you can call us at our page.


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SAN TAN VALLEY, AZ (WTXF) - Some Phoenix-area high school students came together to raise funds for their recently-widowed bus driver.
FOX's Marc Martinez has cellphone video of the driver's reaction.
"I tell my kids on the bus all the time to go out and make a difference and to be kind to each other but you don't expect them to give it back to you and when they do, it's just great," Ruiz said.
Things have been tough for school bus driver Janet Ruiz, a mother of six, after her husband of 32 years, Frank, died of a massive heart attack in January. That's where the students at Combs High School come in.
They raised $640 over the past month and a half as part of their Prank it Forward campaign and surprised Janet with the gift, as she stepped onto her bus Monday, the emotional moment caught on camera.
"It's one of those feelings where you just feel good inside like - for some reason it just brightens your spirit and it makes you feel like you've done something that's really worth it, cause a lot of times you don't get that in life." Cydnee Colpaert, a student said.
"It's cool to know that other schools are looking up to us because of these small acts of kindness," Cydnee Colpaert said.
Janet says she'll use the money to help pay her SRP bill this summer, a huge burden off her shoulders.
"It was such a big blessing. I cannot express the debt of gratitude we feel, and just the generosity of the students, the maturity they had to look outside themselves and see the need of someone else," Ruiz said.


Best & Worst Rated Health & Fitness Apps for 2017
The industry of health and fitness apps is thriving. Just when you think programmers can’t come up with wearables and smartphones that can make your fitness routine any more measurable, you find that “there is an app for that” as well.
Applications continue to offer more convenient and effective solutions to help people with their goals and to stay in shape.
Just in time for healthy New Year’s Resolutions, ARC, the research arm of digital testing company Applause, analyzed the user sentiment of Android and iOS apps to produce its latest report. For Health & Fitness, experts examined the 53 most-reviewed apps available within the app stores over the past 13 months, as determined by users.
The reviewed apps are placed into four categories - Stress Relief, Personal Health, Nutrition, and Fitness.
Analysts say that one of the key findings is that the top two—and four of the top seven apps— are women’s health apps such as menstrual/pregnancy trackers.
Period Tracker, My Calendar by Leap Fitness Group comes out on top with a near perfect score (94.8). Women’s health apps are favorited as they offer a simple and practical digital solution to a common health concern ladies have.
Major brand name apps have room to improve with 13 scoring below the category average – Under Armour, Nike and Fitbit included. Under Armour Record sits right below the average, due to the uneven Android (51) vs. iOS sentiment scores (75). Nike Run Club has the opposite problem, with its iOS score (22) greatly lagging behind Android (51).
Just because a brand may have performed strongly in the past, doesn’t mean that users will still love newer versions that are subsequently released. For example, Strava has been doing well in past ARC reports. However, its popularity has taken a bit of a hit (62.7 app quality score, dipping below the average) as users have voiced displeasure with changes to existing features – e.g., change of dark theme to light/white – and with poor integration with Apple Health and Apple Watch.


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Due to the impact of the war in Ukraine on the automotive industry and vehicle production as well as of rising inflation, Autoneum is adjusting its corporate outlook for the 2022 financial year. The market recovery will be delayed by current developments.
On the basis of the ongoing collaborative discussions with customers to participate in the sharing of the sharply increased energy and material costs, Autoneum Management Ltd. Winterthur/Switzerland, anticipates an improvement in the EBIT margin to 2.0 to 3.0% (previously: 4.0 to 5.0%) for the full year 2022. Free cash flow for 2022 is expected to be in the mid to high double-digit million range.
The company is very well positioned for the transformation of the automotive industry towards e-mobility and sustainability. Its product portfolio is suitable for all drive types, whether internal combustion, hybrid or pure electric vehicles. The medium-term forecasts that Autoneum published in November 2021 remain unchanged positive. The timing of the market recovery will be delayed by current events and will also depend on further geopolitical developments.
Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, new bottlenecks in global supply and logistics chains have been impacting vehicle manufacturer production volumes and thus slowing the revenue and earnings development of the automotive supply industry, especially in Europe. In addition, renewed corona virus-related lockdowns in China are delaying growth in Asia. According to the revised market forecasts, global automobile production is expected to reach 80.4 million units in 2022, which represents an increase of 4.1% compared to 2021. Growth will thus be significantly lower than was still expected in mid-February.
For the first half of the year, Automeum expects an EBIT margin at break-even level.


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The reality is that like almost every component under the hood, a car battery has a finite lifespan and will conk out on you eventually. Weather conditions, corrosion, electrical shorts, charging issues, and other factors can speed up the process. Just as there are a number of ways a bad battery can manifest itself in your car—weird electrical problems, trouble starting, dim headlights, a bulging case, and more—there are a number of ways to test a car battery to make sure it's functioning correctly.
The easiest is to use a multimeter or a load tester, but you can do it without tools as well. But honestly, every garage should have a multimeter. Anybody can pick up a decent one for less than $40, and it can be used to test all types of electrical connections on your car. Battery? Test it. Relay? Test it. Alternator? Test it!
Whichever route you choose, the process of testing a battery is very simple, even if you've never even heard of a multimeter before. Besides, it's better to learn a new skill than wait for your battery to die and leave you stranded at the most inconvenient time.
Everything You'll Need to Test a Car Battery
Testing a car battery is an easy project that should take 10 minutes to complete, and you can do it anywhere you have a safe parking spot. However, for your first time you'll want to move slowly and carefully—though this is a very safe process, batteries are heavy, there's always a risk of electrical shock if you're not careful, and dying or dead batteries can be dangerous if they're leaking fluid.
Tools and Parts
As we mentioned, a battery can also be tested without tools, but we'll start with the most exact method.
How To Test a Car Battery
Multimeters and battery load testers are two different tools with the same goal: measuring the voltage coming out of your battery. The difference is that a multimeter is designed to measure the battery's resistance, voltage, and current while putting as little load as possible on it, versus a battery load tester being designed to measure the current under a specific load.
Using a Multimeter
- Pop the hood, locate the battery, and move any terminal caps out of the way.
- Clean the terminals, if necessary.
- Turn on your multimeter and turn it to DC voltage, then 20 volts.
- Touch the black probe (negative) onto the negative (black) terminal.
- Touch the red probe (positive) onto the positive (red) terminal.
- View the reading on your multimeter display. A healthy battery should read out between 12.5 and 12.8 volts.
Using a Battery Load Tester
- Make sure the battery is as charged as possible, then pop the hood, locate the battery, and move any terminal caps out of the way.
- Remove the battery cables using your ratchet.
- Clean the terminals, if necessary.
- Mate the positive load tester clamp to the positive terminal, they will be red.
- Mate the negative load tester clamp to the negative terminal, they will be black.
- Press the load test switch and leave it on for about 10 seconds.
- If the tester reads 9.5 volts or lower, your battery is bad and needs to be replaced.
Multimeters are pretty cheap tools that are definitely worth owning, but if you haven’t gotten around to it yet, there are other ways to check your battery’s health.
Auto Parts Stores
Most nationwide auto parts stores, such as AutoZone or Advanced Auto Parts, offer free services for battery testing and charging. If you’re able to drive your vehicle there, it’s a great resource.
The Headlight Test
This is an unscientifically imperfect way to test your battery, but it can be an easy method for checking its health.
- Turn the headlights on for five to 10 minutes without turning the car on.
- Turn the car on.
- If you notice your lights significantly dim down when the car is turned on, your battery doesn’t have the right charge and might be on the way out.
Testing a Car Battery FAQs
Q: Can you jump start a dead battery?
A: Assuming there is nothing wrong with the battery, it should start. However, during a time when a battery is not used, there are all sorts of issues that could arise, including corrosion that could damage the battery and cause it to short. If you have a bad battery, you wont be able to jump it, but if it’s just low on charge, it should work.
Q: Can a bad alternator ruin a new battery?
A: If an alternator is bad, it’s possible that it could either undercharge the battery and allow it to die, or overcharge the battery and ruin it.
Q: How do you clean battery terminals?
A: You’ll need a wire brush and some baking soda. We've got you covered with our guide to cleaning battery terminals.


Clay Shooting, a Beginner’s Thoughts
I wanted to chronicle some of the things that I have been learning as I start my journey into the world of clay shooting and bird hunting.
Even though Ive been shooting for over 20 years Ive only shot at flying targets a couple of times before. I had some friends that enjoyed clay shooting that took me along a few times and gave me some basic instructions, but it didnt really help me understand what I was doing, wrong and right. I wasnt very successful at breaking the clays those times. Recently Ive been able to go with someone who has been shooting at clays for a while and was able to explain things to me that made a light bulb go off in my head.
Here are some of the things Ive learned while shooting trap and skeet; when shooting a field gun in trap you need to cover the clay with the barrel to get a hit, also in trap you want to hit the target while it is still rising, in skeet the leads are for station 1 = 1 foot, 2 = 2 feet, 3 = 3feet, 4 = 4 feet, 5 = 3 feet, 6 = 2 feet, 7 = 1 foot, and of course with both keep the barrel going. Now these may not be huge revelations to most of you but Ive never had anyone explain these things to me in such clear terms.
The next lessons have to do with the shotgun itself. Since Im used to shooting rifles I got into the habit of bringing the weapon to my shoulder and then bringing my head down to the sights. That works fine for a rifle, but not a shotgun. What you want to do is bring the shotgun up to the eye, then mount it to the shoulder. Ive found this works lots better getting the sighting rib aligned correctly. Also you need to make sure the shotgun fits you. I purchased a nice used side by side shotgun and took it to a local guy who was recommended to me to have the butt stock shortened to fit my arms. Now that Ive had it cut to a length of pull of 14 1/8 (including the new recoil pad) it now mounts quicker and feels more natural.
Now Im not ready to be taking on a competition but I have noticed my scores improving each time I go. I hope to be able to get more proficient and consistent and also try sporting clays and other more difficult clay sports.
One last piece of advice, dont worry too much about not breaking all of the targets at first, even if youre shooting with guys that complain about shooting a 24. Everyone started at the beginning. I know that is something that was difficult for me to do at first. I know I need to concentrate of making sure Im doing things right in order to hit the target.
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Physicists at two Australian universities have created near-perfect clones of quantum information. They argue that this could pave the way to ultra-secure, long-distance communication.
What is quantum information?
To get an idea of what quantum information is all about, let’s look at the basic unit of such information – the qubit.
In classical computers – the existence of which is made possible by information theory – the basic unit of information is the bit. You can measure a bit by asking a question: Is this bit a zero or a one? You can only ask this single question, and you will get one of two answers.
But with a qubit, many different questions can be asked, and still one of these two answers is given in return. This is an example of the wacky nature of quantum physics.
In a classical system, a bit has to be in one state or another (zero or one, true or false, yes or no). Yet a qubit can be in both states at the same time, before you get an answer to the question. It is this quality of qubits – known in physics as superposition – that allows them to hold much more information than bits.
Cloning quantum information
The no-cloning theorem in quantum physics says it is impossible to create clones of quantum information; that is, perfect copies.
But it is possible to make imperfect copies. And there is a global race to make near-perfect copies in order to achieve ultra-secure encryption over long distances.
Study author Jing Yan Haw commented on these recent findings:
Our probabilistic cloning method generates higher quality quantum clones than have ever been made before.
Another researcher, Ping Koy Lam, highlighted why this discovery is significant:
One of the problems with quantum encryption is its limited communication range. We hope this technology could be used to extend the range of communication, and one day lead to impenetrable privacy between two communicating parties.
Some researchers in the field argue that quantum encryption is unhackable in principle, but not in practice. But the improvements in security that can be achieved are promising, especially if you’re concerned about mass surveillance.
The fight against mass surveillance
One important finding from the study is that it is possible to use this new cloning method with the Internet’s existing fibre-optic infrastructure.
The Snowden leaks revealed that British spying agency GCHQ tapped fibre-optic cables for access to personal communications. With quantum cloning, the hope is that government agencies won’t be able to access such data.
As The Canary previously reported, GCHQ and other spy agencies have illegally been invading our private lives for 17 years. And what’s worse is that they could still be doing so.
Privacy is still not taken seriously as a basic human right in the UK. And it’s the same in the US, where the National Security Agency (NSA) is still allowed to spy on its citizens, despite what we now know about the nature and scale of its operations.
So long as mass surveillance is a reality, it is up to the public to make use of the latest advances in technology, to stay hidden – to stay free.
– Check out this article from The Canary on how to blog securely.
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This tiny Hull-made gadget will tell parents how their child is feeling
Jonathan Elvidge and Christina McHugh with the Moodbeam tech
By Hull Daily Mail | Posted: 24 Sep 2018
It is a worry almost all parents will experience.
How is their child doing? Where are they and how are they feeling? If they were unhappy, would they be brave enough to tell you?
Now a team of Hull entrepreneurs have come together to launch a new gadget which lets children log how they are feeling - and for their parents to find out at any time and in any place.
Moodbeam is a piece of wearable tech that has the potential to change lives. With an expected launch of early 2019, the invention is one of the most exciting upcoming projects in Hull.
Jonathan Elvidge, who launched both The Gadget Shop and Red5, is one of the founders and directors of Moodbeam.
He said: “I have been involved in some big projects over the years. Most recently I sold Red5 in 2015, when I felt it was the right time for my exit from retail.
“The next challenge is Moodbeam. We have tested prototypes so far, and the full launch is expected in spring 2019.
“This has the potential to truly change lives for the better. It is a really exciting thing to be involved in, and although I am biased, I really think it is going to be a winner.”
Children will be able to wear a Moodbeam device on their arm, and will be able to share how they are feeling, at any time, at the touch of a button.
An app will then let parents know how their child is doing. They can also track what their child has told Moodbeam over a period days or weeks.
Moodbeam said it had “provided a simple-to-use solution for a very real problem.”
“Founded in 2016, Moodbeam was inspired by a seven-year-old girl struggling to deal with a tough situation at school,” the company says on its website.
“Her mum, our co-founder Christina, was left wondering what it would be like to know how her daughter was feeling when she wasn't with her.
Christina Colmer McHugh, pictured here with Jonathan Elvidge
“She knew that this was a situation not unique to her, but shared by thousands of other parents.”
Moodbeam has a top team of some of Hull’s most prominent tech minds behind it.
Co-founded by Christina McHuge and Jonathan Elvidge, the line-up also includes Hull’s Digital Ambassador David Keel, RB’s site lead Dr Bruce Charlesworth, and C4DI’s John Connolly.
The tech has the potential to change lives for the better, and it is being created right here in Hull.


text: Neurons in the primate striatum and the substantia nigra pars compacta change their firing patterns during sensory-motor learning. To study the consequences of nigrostriatal dopamine depletion for learning and memory of motor sequences, we used a neurotoxin, 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP), to deplete dopamine unilaterally in the striatum of macaque monkeys either before or after training them on sequential push-button motor tasks. We compared the monkeys' performance with the arms ipsilateral and contralateral to dopamine depletion. During training and retraining on the tasks, we measured initial and serial movement times and reaction times for the push button movements, electromyographic patterns of arm and orofacial muscle activity during button pushing and reward licking, and saccadic eye movements during the button push sequences. With the arm ipsilateral to the side of dopamine depletion, each monkey showed progressive shortening of movement times and initial and serial reaction times, and each developed consistent strategies of hand-orofacial and hand-eye coordination in which single button push movements were linked efficiently to succeeding movements so that performance of the whole sequence became predictive. These patterns did not develop for contralateral arm performance in this monkey treated with MPTP before training. With the arm contralateral to dopamine depletion, the monkey showed significant quantitative deficits in all parameters measured except initial reaction times. Movement times and serial reaction times were longer than those for the ipsilateral arm; anticipatory saccadic eye movements were not well time-locked to individual button pushes made with the contralateral hand; and push and licking movements were not smoothly coordinated. This monkey further showed striking differences in performance when using the ipsilateral and contralateral arms in switch trial tests in which reward was delivered unexpectedly one button early. He continued to make movements to the previously rewarded button with the ipsilateral arm but showed no such automatic movements when he used his contralateral arm. For the monkey treated with MPTP after training, performance on the push-button task was skilled for both arms before dopamine depletion, but the unilateral dopamine depletion produced deficits in contralateral arm performance for all parameters measured, again excepting initial reaction times. With retraining, however, his performance with the contralateral arm improved. We conclude that the striatum and its nigrostriatal afferents function in the initial learning underlying performance of sequences of movements as single motor programs. The nigrostriatal system also operates during the retrieval of these programs once learning is accomplished, but lesions of the nigrostriatal system spare the ability to relearn the previously acquired programs.

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