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The total driving distance from Madera, CA to Fresno, CA is 25 miles or 40 kilometers. The total straight line flight distance from Madera, CA to Fresno, CA is 22 miles.

When did McCormick stop using tins?

McCormick, the big spice company, is replacing the last of the metal tins with plastic ones this summer. Most of the tins—which were first made in 1911—were replaced in 1985. But McCormick kept the tins for pepper and Old Bay seasoning, a brand it bought in 1990. Now those last two are also about to disappear.

Who makes Louisiana Fish Fry?

Baton Rouge-based Louisiana Fish Fry Products Ltd. has been acquired by an Austin, Texas, private equity firm, ending 36 years of ownership by the Pizzolato family. An affiliate of Peak Rock Capital acquired the Louisiana-inspired food products manufacturer for an undisclosed amount in a deal announced Tuesday.

Which county is Gilroy in?

Santa Clara County

Is McCormick owned by China?

McCormick, which started the plant in a joint venture with PepsiCo and a Chinese firm, will buy out PepsiCo and a share of the Chinese company’s stake. The Chinese partner, the Shanghai Foodstuffs and Grocery Co., will continue to own 10 percent of the plant, the company said.

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157.89 miles

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Where is Madera CA located?

San Joaquin Valley

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Our Ruling: False. There is no evidence to support the claim that Louisiana Fish Fry was purchased by a Chinese corporation.

Is Gilroy rural?

Ojai and the rest of Ventura County are in a cultural liminal zone, between central and south; and Gilroy and neighboring Santa Cruz county are in a cultural liminal zone, between central (with small cities, picturesque open spaces, and extensive rural or semi-rural areas) and Bay Area (mostly dense urban and surburban …

Who founded Gilroy CA?

Francisco Cantua

Do McCormick Spices come from China?

Nearly 30 years ago, McCormick opened its first China plant in Shanghai through a joint venture with a local food company. The company manufactures spices and herbs at its new Shanghai facility which opened in October 2017, and condiments, salad dressings, and jams at its Guangzhou plant.

Is Badia garlic from China?

It is often used in combination with onion and blends well with others spices….Garlic Powder – 10.5 oz.

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21.90 miles

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What is wrong with Chinese garlic?

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Fabian Saldana Injured in Single-Vehicle Accident on FM 1854 in Caldwell County, TX

UPDATE (April 26, 2022): Reports have identified the victim of this accident as Fabian Saldana.

Caldwell County, TX -- March 6, 2022, a 41-year-old man was seriously injured in a single-vehicle accident on Farm to Market Road 1854 in Caldwell County.

Authorities say the incident happened around 5:40 p.m. on FM 1854 near Coyote Run Road. Preliminary investigation suggests the victim was driving a Ford F-150 pickup truck north on the roadway when he reportedly failed to negotiate a left-hand curve. The pickup continued straight as the road curved and hit a tree on the east side.

The driver suffered serious injuries in the crash. He initially refused medical transport but investigators suspected he couldn't make sound decisions about whether he needed treatment due to being under the influence of alcohol.

No further information is currently available.

Commentary on Fabian Saldana Accident on FM 1854 in Caldwell County

Police seem pretty confident that the injured driver was intoxicated by alcohol at the time of the crash. That would still need clear proof to go from "suspicion" to "fact," but if impairment is confirmed some may think his injuries and any relevant charges will handle the "consequences" portion of the accident. However, the laws about alcohol-related crashes say there may be another party that should face some accountability for the damage done.

Texas takes DWI wrecks very seriously, looking beyond the alleged drunk drivers and also finding out where their alcohol came from. Depending on who sold or served it and under what circumstances, a local business may have violated Texas dram shop law and could face some consequences of its own.

In a nutshell, dram shop law prohibits licensed alcohol vendors (bars, clubs, restaurants, liquor and convenience stores, etc) from selling or serving alcohol to obviously intoxicated customers. When they do so and break the law, those businesses may have an obligation to help anyone hurt as a result--including the customers themselves if they're injured in a crash.

It seems reasonable enough for an alcohol vendor to be held accountable for their role in creating the "drunk" part of drunk driving. Despite that, a lot of establishments pay little mind to the laws forbidding them from over-service, refilling glasses as long as the money holds out. Dram shop law punishes negligent businesses who endanger the public that way while also letting people hurt by that negligence confront the businesses in court.

I'm not saying I know of a particular business that played a part in the Caldwell County accident, and not every DWI crash involves a dram violation. Since intoxication by alcohol seems to be strongly suspected, however, the possibility of such a violation bears looking into. Bars and other alcohol vendors get away with negligent over-service far too often because police don't prioritize that issue, content instead to focus only on the drivers. For everyone's safety dram shop violations must be identified and stopped; if victims and families can get much-needed help in the process, so much the better.


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Union County WIC Offices are local branches of the federal Women, Infants, and Children nutritional program. Union County WIC Offices process applications for nutritional assistance, provide nutritional education, and administer food services to eligible individuals and families. Pregnant and recently pregnant women, infants, and young children can receive benefits if they meet income eligibility requirements and are at nutrition risk. Eligible participants receive nutrition education resources, and WIC Offices can accept and process applications. A WIC Office also administers monthly food benefits, determines eligibility for nutrition assistance, and conducts assessments for nutrition risk. WIC Offices in Union County, Illinois provide resources and services through their websites.


Italian Cream Stuffed Cannoncini

Canonchini stuffed with Italian cream (pie pods)

* Ingredients :

°4 to 6 eggs, separated (yolks)
°1 tablespoon corn starch
°100 grams of sugar
°3 dl milk
°1 teaspoon essence/vanilla flavor
°400g puff pastry (can be purchased)

* Preparation :

Begin by whisking the egg whites until stiff and set them aside.
In a saucepan, combine the cornstarch, egg yolk, sugar and a little cold milk. When the mixture becomes homogeneous, gradually add the rest of the milk and bring to a boil very gently, stirring constantly with a spoon of wire sticks, and bring to a boil a little.
Add the spoonfuls of the stiff whites that they set aside and continue cooking until light and creamy. Remove from heat, add vanilla extract and let cool.
Meanwhile, roll out the puff pastry dough and cut it into long strips 3 cm wide. Using slices of puff pastry, roll around small cones (or make cones with aluminum foil, an alternative to cones), overlapping slices and making them stick together. Brush with the egg yolk so the puff pastry is electrically conductive and does not fall off.
Take the wafer in the oven (just puff pastry rolled in conical moulds), very hot (200°C), for about 15 minutes. Ahead, run an oven tray through cold water or place parchment paper.
When the puff pastry becomes a little golden, remove the wafer from the oven. Let cool slightly and remove molds or aluminum foil. Finally, fill the cornucopia with the cream that you prepared earlier.
If desired, sprinkle with powdered sugar or ground cinnamon.

Enjoy !


To develop your analysis, I would like you to use

To develop your analysis, I would like you to use your own words and paraphrase the ideas of the authors we have been reading. The use of some direct quotes to develop your analysis is also welcome. Please cite specific pages from the readings to support your work, and you should do this even when you are not directly quoting.

Part A.  Identify and discuss the significance (2 paragraphs for each answer) of two of the following terms (35 points each, 70 points total). Your answers should draw on the readings and focus on how these terms relate to our understanding of the presidency (including reference to the particular presidents we have focused on in the last modules). Note here that you should also reference the frameworks we have explored rather than just describing the policy. For instance, is it helpful to think about Neustadt’s ideas when discussing Lyndon Johnson and how how he helped pass the Civil Rights Act? Does Skowronek’s theory help us understand Reagan’s policies? How does Grover see OSHA fitting into his ‘structural’ or political economy approach to the presidency?

Pick Two:

  1. OSHA
  2. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Reagan)
  3. Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Johnson)
  4. Disjunctive (regime decline) presidents (this could potentially include Carter and Trump)
  5. Carter’s energy bill of 1977

Part B. Among the presidents we focused on in the second half of class, which one is most interesting to you and why? Write a short (at least 1 full paragraph) discussion of this question that references at least one example from the readings of a particular policy, political issue, or skill associated with that president. (10 points – there is no wrong answer here, so don’t worry too much about points.)

 Answer 1 question (170 points). Please write a 3-4 page (suggested length) work You should write this as clearly as possible and use page citations to support your analysis, but the writing style can be a little more informal than the paper assignments. I might suggest typing it out as if you were in class taking the work, and then going back and adding extra details and page citations (and possibly direct quotes) to strengthen your work:

1. “Political and economic context creates more opportunity for some presidents than for others. But skill determines how well or poorly presidents respond to those opportunities.”

Write work that explores the two sides of this argument while discussing the domestic policy efforts of at least two of the presidents focused on in recent class readings (Johnson, Carter, Reagan, Trump). In other words, please explore how context shapes the possibilities for different presidents, and also consider how their political skills then influence what they accomplish. Make sure you use class frameworks (theories) in your argument. Your work should also provide specific policy examples in relation to each president you are discussing (these can be “successes” and/or “failures” in terms of a given president’s ability to achieve their own policy agenda and related goals).

2. “No one model fully explains the presidency. Instead, we need to combine and contrast insights from multiple models to understand the actions and results of any particular president.”

Is this statement convincing? Write work exploring this argument, assessing the value of applying the different frameworks we have studied to understanding presidential behavior and results.  You should focus on the domestic policy of modern presidents, giving concrete examples that support your argument and drawing on a range of perspectives (bargaining /persuasion, going public, political time, structuralism, administrative strategies, etc.).  You should discuss in detail at least two modern presidents from among those covered in the last two modules (Johnson, Carter, Reagan, Trump — and also feel free to reference any other examples you find helpful, such as those relating to FDR).


Spike in violence across Afghanistan dampens peace talks: PTM chief

KABUL: The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) chief Manzoor Pashteen says intense violence and deadly conflicts in Afghanistan have hampered ongoing peace negotiations.

 “Please, go back to your own countries and stop fighting on Pashtun’s soil,” Pashteen said while referring to foreign insurgents fighting in Afghanistan.

Manzoor Pashteen made the remarks in a huge gathering held on Sunday in North Waziristan in Pakistan. He asked global powers, including the US, not to use Afghanistan’s territory for chasing their own interests.

Pashteen underlined the necessity for promoting harmony and unity, urging the negotiating teams to agree on a peace agreement and end violence in the country.

Pashtun people have suffered immensely from decades of militancy and violence, he said, adding Pashtun women should be endowed with the rights that they deserve.

“The high level of violence in the country brings under question the integrity of ongoing peace negotiations,” he maintained.

Pashteen called on the Afghan government and Taliban to promote unity and resolve mutual disputes through dialogue.

This comes as the Afghan peace talks between the Taliban and Afghan officials in Doha ongoing for more than two months have yielded no significant progress while the war has intensified, leaving many people killed and wounded daily.


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Any desktop or smartphone user gets the opportunity to describe his complaints and get information about which medical specialty they belong. In addition, the system immediately offers the nearest clinic, where there is a suitable specialist. The location of the user is determined automatically (with his consent), and then, using ML Education is determined by the nearest medical institution.

The user receives details of their last request. Becomes accessible link to an interactive map, where the nearest one is visualizeda clinic, based on the user's location and several nearby pharmacies,where you can buy the necessary medicines. Also, indicated indicativedistance between user and clinic.

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To create a request, you need to list your complaints and symptoms. Choose from the menu - Ask me. The key "Find out the answer" allows view the results of processing the last request, as well as when needs displays an interactive map indicating your location and locations of the clinic where the specialist you need is available. When forming a request(Ask me), after indicating the complaints, you choose a question from two options: "Find out the doctor's specialty" or "Find out specialty and find the nearest clinic". In the latter case, it is necessary allow the browser to determine geolocation (the system will ask you for this) Otherwise, only the service of determining the doctor's specialty will remain available.

In the current version of the program (V.3), the clinic selection algorithm provides removal of no more than three available medical facilities where medical services are provided services in accordance with the proposed medical specialty. In addition you can see the location and phone numbers of several pharmacies, the closest located to the user. Currently according to the results of the analysis complaints program identifies one most relevant specialty, but sometimes, symptoms can be interpreted ambiguously. Then for differential diagnosis can be offered by two medical specialties.

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Neural networks were trained on fairly long texts (minimum 2-3 sentences), therefore, for a high-quality result, it is necessary to avoid very short questions. In such cases, you may be asked to contact the family the doctor.

The system understands both Ukrainian, Russian and English languages. You are to receive answers you can ask any of these questions languages. The beginning was carried out on a bilingual dataset with a proportion of 70 and 30 percent. Unfortunately, there are currently no other data, it is used that what can be found on the Internet. The system learns and will use laterfully more than three languages, including other languages.

WARNING! If an error occurs in the site after creating a request, try to repeat your question in another language or paraphrase it.

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The program offers to find the nearest clinic that meets the conditions. This means that the required reference point is your location. People with elevated anxiety may prohibit the browser from determining geolocation. In such a for now, you will only receive recommendations according to the doctor's specialty.

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Descriptive writing is characterised by sensory particulars, which attraction to the physical senses, and details that attraction to a reader’s emotional, physical, or mental sensibilities. Determining the purpose, considering the audience, making a dominant impression, using descriptive language, and organizing the outline are the rhetorical decisions to think about when using a description. An outline is normally arranged spatially however may also Synthesis Essay Topics be chronological or emphatic. The main focus of an outline is the scene. Description uses instruments resembling denotative language, connotative language, figurative language , metaphor , and simile to reach at a dominant impression. 14 One university essay guide states that “descriptive writing says what occurred or what one other creator has discussed; it offers an account of the subject”. 15 Lyric essays are an necessary type of descriptive essays.

Did you hear the time period ‘synthesis essay’? Principally, a synthesis essay is a written document that mixes concepts from completely different sources about any topic, theme, or concept. Moreover, synthesize means making a single entire by conserving separate factors collectively. Also, college students ought to acquire the chunks of material and information from numerous sources to arrange a selected assertion that affirms their stand on the difficulty. So, this essay writing involves various challenges as it not solely required summarizing the ideas but in addition the links between info.

Although reviews are notably widespread in medication and social sciences, college students who pursue degrees in other realms may be required to conduct literature critiques as a part of larger tasks. Just like the previous two methods, the sort of synthesis writing also calls for that you examine and analyze earlier research on the topic. You must outline common themes in literature and distinguish between areas which are properly Synthesis Essay Outline researched and those that remain beneath-researched. Although one of these writing does not require a clear thesis assertion, the unspoken assumption is that research needs to be completed to reveal sure features of the examined downside so as to deal with it adequately. One of these synthesis essay goals at justifying the intended research.

Body paragraphs all the time start with a subject sentence, which is followed by evidence that helps the declare. Remember, one argument = one paragraph. And do not forget so as to add transition words and phrases to make the paper look smooth synthesis essays. Finish the essay with a conclusion. Right here you should restate the main ideas and explain why the subject is vital.

After doing all the analysis and studying the supply fastidiously, you must make an opinion of your own. The concepts and ideas ought to present in your thesis. The thesis assertion should have written at the beginning of the essay or on the finish of it.

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Evaluating the worth of the selected sources is the thing you must do earlier than writing a synthesis essay. try to give you progressive concepts for the immediate. Restate the thesis assertion. Remind the readers what the primary point of your synthesis essay was. It’s always a good idea to help them remember it.

When you have been assigned sources for your synthesis essay, begin with studying them in-depth, drawing out how they join and searching Synthesis Essay Example for common themes. Thus, if you are making a comparability on how money is introduced in literature, look for what the texts are saying about society’s perceptions of wealth.

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What we need to advice is to ask your self a question if your thesis assertion is actually about your feelings and view. If you are writing your essay with some too brief deadline on an exam, you’ll want Synthesis Essay to stress in your argument in every single paragraph. Then join each of your concepts to the thesis statement. Write down your thesis statement and put it before coping with your essay – it’s going to make it easier to to give attention to it and add it every time you write a new paragraph.

An argumentative essay is a critical piece of writing, aimed toward presenting goal analysis of the subject material, narrowed down to a single topic. The principle concept of all the criticism is to offer an opinion both of optimistic or unfavorable implication. As such, a vital essay requires analysis and analysis, robust internal logic and sharp structure. Its construction usually builds round introduction with a topic’s relevance and a thesis statement , body paragraphs with arguments linking again to the primary thesis, and conclusion. As well as, an argumentative essay may include a refutation part the place conflicting ideas are acknowledged, described, and criticized. Each argument of an argumentative essay needs to be supported with sufficient evidence, related to the purpose.

In the event you have been lucky sufficient to select the topic on your own, start with looking concepts related to the subject and disciplines. Write down the issues you want or find fascinating for the viewers. Then conduct a background examine Synthesis Essay Introduction to ensure that there may be enough proof to again the subject and create an informative synthesis essay. Exclude too broad subjects because they’ll prevent you from writing an in depth and interesting paper.


Malala makes it to Britain’s most influential list

Pakistan’s teenage rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has made it to a list of 500 most influential people in Britain.

The annual Debrett list covers 24 categories across society including sport, journalism, politics, advertising, architecture, food and education, the British media reported on Monday.

The list extends recognition of the most influential inspiring and achieving individuals across Britain.

Malala, 17, the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize is also the youngest in the Debrett’s rankings.

Rehabilitated in the United Kingdom after getting shot in the head by Pakistan Taliban militants, the student and activist has become a global icon in the fight for education.


What you need to know about Muscle Soreness and Recovery

Have you felt like you were a Tin Man that has been hit by a car? Yeah, you already know that muscle soreness sensation that comes after exercising, right?! Some people like it so much that you think that you haven’t even trained if you don’t feel it, while others just prefer to avoid soreness and might even be tempted to never exercise after feeling it the first time. Regardless of how much you like it or not, there is always a question that follows: How do I make it go away? Following you will find some insights about muscle soreness and recovery, so you can go back to training as soon as possible.

What is this Muscle Soreness I am feeling?

Let’s start by giving it its full name: Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS). That pain in your muscles that happens after working out usually starts between 12 and 24 hours after you stop training and can last for several days, with a “peak” sensation occurring somewhere between 24 and 72 hours after exercising.

Please, do not confuse it with pain that may happen during training. If you feel acute and localized muscle (or joint) pain during training or immediately after, that could be a symptom of injury, especially if it does not fade away or even starts to increase. In that case, it is best to consult with a healthcare provider for treatment.

On the other hand, a “burning muscle” sensation during some intense training that wanes when you stop exercising is also not DOMS and should not pose any threat to you. Just listen to your body and do not push yourself too much.

DOMS is usually characterized by any or all of these symptoms:

  • Limited capacity to properly move due to “rigidness”
  • Compromised range of motion
  • Strong soreness when the muscle is touched
  • Swelling of the muscles
  • Fatigue and temporary loss of strength

How did this happen?

First of all, there have been many hypotheses for DOMS and it is still being researched. However, it is currently considered that the main reason for it is the micro-tears in our muscle fibers occurring after an intense-enough training session. To explain it simply, these “damaged fibers” cause the body to react and repair them. This happens by a very natural process called: inflammation. It is all meant for us to adapt to withstand similar or stronger demands.

Additionally, anyone can experience DOMS. Whether you are a beginner athlete or an elite athlete, or even a sedentary person who just happened to do some physical activity for which you’re unaccustomed to. All that is needed is a level of muscle exertion that exceeds up to a certain degree our capabilities.

How do I make it stop?

The quick answer for muscle soreness and recovery: eat healthy foods and get some quality sleep. However, there are some subtleties that need to be addressed.

There are different ways to ease up the pain and a few habits that speed up the process of recovery. You can choose and combine any or all of them. Here is a quick list for you:

  • Eat enough protein
  • Drink enough water
  • Sleep as needed
  • Get some physical therapy
  • Keep moving

Eat enough protein

The protein that we eat is used to repair the muscles damaged when we train so that they can be made stronger. We can find great quality of protein (with a good amino-acid profile) in animal sources such as meat (poultry, beef, pork, fish, etc.), dairy (cheese, milk, yogurt, etc.), and eggs. These foods provide us with essential amino acids (which we do not produce but rather obtain from foods) that we need to properly recover.

Foods for muscle soreness include sources of lean protein

There are also plant-based foods that contain proteins, which you could mix in order to get a good amino acid profile (with a good amount/distribution of essential amino acids). This could be a hard task if done on your own, so I encourage you to ask for help from a certified expert.

While all of the mentioned sources can be easily bought from any local market, you can also supplement with protein powder shakes if you need to. By the way, you do not need to drink your protein shake immediately after training; you can take your time if needed.

Most recommendations for protein intake, if you exercise regularly, range from 20 to 40 grams per serving and between 1.5 and 2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight, per day. However, not all bodies are made equal so the best thing to do is to refer to an accredited dietitian in order to get a personalized recommendation while avoiding any possible health problem and obtaining the best results.

Drink enough water

Muscle soreness and recovery - staying hydrated is one good way to speed muscle recovery

Water is essential for life. It helps our body to purge toxins, take nutrients into our cells and it helps with pH balance and body temperature regulation. Some positive effects of being well hydrated are: improved alertness, less feeling of hunger and quicker healing.

If you want to improve your recovery, drink enough water. This does not mean consuming lots and lots of water a day; just adequately for proper body functioning. Your size and the intensity of your activities dictate how much water you should drink to stay hydrated. For more information about how much water to drink, check this article from Precision Nutrition:

Perhaps the lack of flavor of water makes it not very appealing to you? Try these tips to give it some taste:

  • Add some drops of lime, lemon, or other citrus fruit
  • Use herbal flavors such as peppermint, lemon verbena, green tea, etc.
  • Pour over some frozen fruit “ice cubes”

Sleep as needed

muscle recovery and sleep

I once heard one of my mentors say: “the magic of training happens while you sleep”. In simple terms, you recover and get stronger while you sleep. A beautiful cocktail of hormones is released while you sleep to repair your body and grow stronger. Toxins are also washed out during sleep and lots of other good things happen while you travel deep into dreamland.

One of the first things people tend to neglect is sleep quantity and quality. A movie before sleep, a
“just in case” study time before an exam, a “quick look” into social media, among other things, are prone to shorten our sleep time. We do not notice that we are doing more damage than good with some of our actions. Leaving the television on to “help us” fall asleep, leaving the light on, eating a spicy burrito before going to sleep, getting drunk to relax, dwelling in our stressful thoughts, or some medications can affect our quality of sleep as well.

Make sure you sleep in a quiet, dark, and comfortable place. Disconnect from social media, television, and stressful situations. You could even try and create a simple routine before going to bed to ensure you have a good “shutdown sequence” before going to sleep. Make sure you hit the sack early enough so you can have a good eight-hour sleep (some people who train hard may need even more hours of sleep).

Get some physical therapy

A good massage helps combat the pain in sore muscles. You may try to provide yourself one for some temporary relief, ask a friend/significant other for it, or even better, you could go to a physical therapist to perform one that will help you greatly.

Other treatments may include using a hot compress to increase blood flow to provide nutrients necessary for healing and removing any waste products. It is also soothing for the muscle.

Sports massage can help with DOMS

There are many treatments that could also be applied by a specialist or that you could get yourself as well. Just make sure that you are well informed of the details and effectiveness of any treatment you may wish to try.

Keep moving

Keep moving over the next few days to speed muscle recovery after workout

Sometimes the body may tell you to just stop moving because of the soreness. If it is necessary, take a break and relax. However, moving may diminish the symptoms and let you carry on with your day.

You could try doing a few recovery activities such as:

  • Stretching
  • Yoga
  • Walking
  • Slow-paced jogging or cycling
  • Easy swim

A few more things to consider:

Healthy habits improve your recovery

A balanced diet, including carbohydrates, fats and proteins, coming preferably from less processed foods or whole foods such as fruits and vegetables, provides you with lots of vitamins and minerals that help you stay in good health.

Products such as alcohol, tobacco, among others, can hamper recovery and it is best to avoid them. Ok, I am not saying you cannot have a glass of wine while having a nice diner with your spouse… just avoid drinking the whole bottle yourself.

Getting DOMS is not a sign of a “good workout”

While DOMS is not harmful, you do not need to feel sore after every workout to make gains. When you perform a new exercise routine or ramp up the intensity/load of training you are likely to get sore, yes. However, as you keep exercising, your body adapts and you will feel less sore after each session. You can still get fitter/stronger/faster even if you do not feel pain after training. However, make sure to keep challenging yourself to promote adaptation.

Avoid too much stress

So, exercising is a form of stress, indeed. In a good dose, it can help you improve your health. Adaptation to stress makes us fitter. However, too much stress, whether from exercising (overtraining) or from different sources, can be harmful. Balance your sources of stress with activities that make you enjoy a good time. Relax, laugh, play… good emotions can help you with recovery as well.

What about analgesics?

Well, if it is in good standing with your doctor’s recommendations, sure, you can have some analgesics to relieve the pain. Just remember that this is a temporary solution for the symptoms and not a permanent solution for the situation, nor a promoter of recovery.

Warm-up and take it easy

Warming up is always good to get the muscles ready to work out and avoid possible injuries. Some dynamic stretching is useful before starting a session. Intensity should be managed in a step-by-step basis. Avoid jumping up in load, speed and/or frequency. Let your body adapt.

One potentially life-threatening consequence of an excessive level of intensity is Rhabdomyolysis (“Rhabdo”), which is the result of severe destruction of skeletal muscle fibers with leakage of muscle contents into the bloodstream. This can lead to serious complications such as kidney failure. This syndrome will not be covered here but we encourage you to read about it, especially if you are an athlete returning to training after a long halt or if you are planning to run an ultra-marathon in a location with hot weather and harsh conditions.

Muscle soreness and recovery: Put what you have learned into practice

Now you know that you need to take care on your first day at the gym, when you are returning to training after a long halt, or when you are exposing yourself to a new workout or harder intensity of training. You will probably get DOMS, so don’t try to rush in, and progress accordingly.

Eat a good balance of proteins, carbohydrates, fats and water. Your veggies can become your best friends and if you find a source of protein adequate for you, you are golden! And don’t feel shy to ask for recommendations from a specialist, such as a certified personal trainer or licensed massage therapist.

Pay more attention to your sleeping conditions and try to improve them little by little. Maybe an alarm at 9:30 pm to let you know you should turn off the computer, disconnect from social media and perhaps read a book, talk to your partner about what has happened during the day, or tell your kids a bedtime story, before putting yourself to bed.

Put in practice some active recovery and, if needed, get some physical therapy from an accredited provider. You could learn some recovery and pain-relief techniques yourself as well, just be sure to find a good source for that information.

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Fernando Cuellar is an independent personal trainer who helps people to feel empowered to change and, through fitness training, learn how to confront their own difficult situations. Find other articles written by Fernando on his coach profile. He will help you shift to a healthier life with different approaches to discover more about yourself, and how you can get your list of health-related goals fully ticked.


Immigration and Border Management Controls Enhanced in Ethiopia by German Government Funding

Immigration and border management controls in Ethiopia are being improved to help secure the country’s borders and make migration safer for hundreds of thousands of migrants who pass through the country each year. The improvements come against the backdrop of COVID-19 which has put the spotlight on the need to improve border management. Tens of thousands of Ethiopian migrants have returned to the country from Djibouti, Somalia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other nations since the outbreak of COVID-19 through the country’s porous borders, many travelling on foot. The interventions are being funded by the German government to the tune of EUR 1.98 million. As part of the agreement, IOM Ethiopia has developed a border management programme with the Government of Ethiopia’s Immigration, Nationality and Vital Events Agency. The programme will build the capacity of existing border crossings, support the establishment of new border crossings, and prioritize the protection of migrants.

Ordinarily, migrants have crossed through unofficial border crossing points (BCPs), in most cases without valid travel documents. Such movements make it difficult for service providers and protection actors to assist migrants in situations of vulnerability. Furthermore, migration through unofficial crossing points limits the Government of Ethiopia’s capacity to collect reliable data and develop evidence-based migration management policies.

Through this programme, IOM will work closely with the Government of Ethiopia on improving migration management and governance, including countering human trafficking and smuggling of migrants. The project will also pave the way towards eventually equipping the newly established border control posts with IOM’s Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS), a system to capture data appropriately as well as support the verification of fraudulent documents.

Ethiopia has a 5,300km long border, one of the longest in the continent, which it shares with Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, and other states. However, few land BCPs in the country are equipped for the necessary screenings or to facilitate travel. Where they do exist, electricity and communication systems are largely absent or undependable. Border management and communication technologies are needed to realize the development potential of efficient movement of people, goods, and services across borders.

Migrants using unofficial BCPs are at risk of falling into the hands of traffickers and smugglers because they have limited access to legal means of travel and, as a result, may lack access to protection services.

The funding will enable IOM to protect migrants by helping organize their movement and providing them with basic essentials such as food and water, medical referrals, and transportation, and improve migration data collection which will help deliver assistance to migrants and inform migration policies more effectively.

Photo: IOM/Hugo Genest


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Some investors attempt to determine whether the market's mood is bullish or bearish by monitoring changes in market sentiment. Unlike more traditional methods such as technical analysis, investor sentiment usually refers to the aggregate attitude towards Merck in the overall investment community. So, suppose investors can accurately measure the market's sentiment. In that case, they can use it for their benefit. For example, some tools to gauge market sentiment could be utilized using contrarian indexes, Merck's short interest history, or implied volatility extrapolated from Merck options trading.

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Insert fields into the xml of an existing model using a snippet?

I have a model called KeyIndicators with a bunch of UI-only fields that reference other models. The other models in this case are created dynamically, there could be between 0 and 38 of these other models based on the user’s choice (M0-M24 and Q0-Q12). The UI-only fields were using MODEL_LOOKUP formulas to get the values of these other models, and there was no error when that model didn’t exist, for example if there was not a model called M12, the formula MODEL_LOOKUP(“M12”,“avgValuec”, “Indicator__c”, {{Id}}) didn’t break the page, that field was just blank.

However, I’m switching these dynamic models from aggregate to non-aggregate, so I can get at a median value if needed. So now I’m using the custom formulas posted to github, such as

AGG__MEDIF(“M12”,“Value__c”,“Indicator__c”, {{Id}}, false)

This works great unless there is not a model called M12, then I get an error, invalid model in function.

Ok so fine, I’ll create my base model KeyIndicators dynamically as well, and only create those UI-only fields that I need based on knowing which models exist. Probably better anyway because it’s likely to load faster (there are 8 ui-only fields for each model).

However, for other reasons it’s really nice to have a non-dynamically created model because there’s a lot of functionality on the page tied to KeyIndicators, including a table and filters and such.

So my question is, is there a way to insert fields into the xml of a model that already exists using a javascript snippet?

What I may do is dynamically create a new model, KeyIndicatorFields, and then continue using MODEL_LOOKUP on the main KeyIndicators model…

As a side note - has anyone else noticed that when you dynamically create models you cannot reference page parameters?


Integrating user-specified Knowledge for semi-automatic Coreference Resolution

  1. 1. David Schmidt

    Chair of Applied Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence - Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg (Julius Maximilian University of Wurzburg)

  2. 2. Markus Krug

  3. 3. Frank Puppe

Work text

Coreference Resolution is a challenge which has seen the interest of researchers for half a century, but at the current point in time, even state-of-the-art algorithms (Joshi et al., 2019)cannot produce reliable results when applied in a fully automatic manner. The main problem of an automatic coreference resolution system is that decisions that occur late in the text can heavily influence prior decisions and so the resulting clustering and its composition is hard to understand. We found that, when applying the end-to-end coreference resolution algorithm (Lee et al., 2017), the algorithm tends to reset its understanding of the text every couple of paragraphs, which results in a mixture of grave errors when aggregated over the document. Coreference resolution is a necessary and very important step however, when analysing the content of a literary text. Different engines detect knowledge on a local level and coreference resolution aggregates this knowledge to the document scope of the text. This means that, without a reliable coreference resolution module, most applications that require an aggregated view of the texts (which is very important for most distant reading experiments) cannot be researched efficiently. In this work, we try to overcome the challenge of coreference resolution by presenting a semi-automatic mechanism instead of a fully automatic system. This mechanism allows the users to integrate their prior knowledge about characters of a literary text and their relations. We do this by parsing this knowledge into a machine-readable data structure and integrate this knowledge into our rule-based coreference resolution system, which was extended from (Krug et al., 2015).

Related Work
There have been various works trying to integrate world knowledge into coreference resolution. Ng (2007) added several new features to a coreference resolution system based on machine-learning, e.g. a feature for the semantic similarity of mentions and a feature based on patterns extracted from the training data. Others used knowledge that was extracted from knowledge bases like YAGO (Suchanek et al., 2007), among them Bryl et al. (2010), who model synonyms and mention types using logical constraints in a Markov Logic Network (Richardson and Domingos, 2006), and Rahman and Ng (2011), who extract relation triples between two mentions and convert them into features for their algorithm.
Aralikatte et al. (2019) use knowledge bases in a slightly different way. They apply the neural coreference resolution system of Lee et al. (2018) in a reinforcement learning setting and reward it, the more valid relations can be extracted from it. A valid relation is evaluated against knowledge bases like Wikidata and Wikipedia.
Unfortunately, these approaches are impractical for historic novels since the knowledge bases used there mostly contain knowledge about real-world entities while the novels deal with fictional characters.

Our approach basically allows the user to model the knowledge which Wikipedia or Wikidata contain about real-world entities for fictional characters. The knowledge is represented as character sheets. For each character, the user needs to determine a unique name (e.g. Richard Landsfeld) and can optionally provide a first name (Richard), last name (Landsfeld), the character’s gender (male), a list of strings which are used as synonyms for the character (e.g. Baron von Landsfeld) and a list of strings which do not refer to this character. In addition to that, the user can specify the character’s relations to other characters by providing the name of the other character and a list of possible labels for this character (e.g. Lydia - Ehefrau/Gattin).
The knowledge provided by the user is used in several different sieves of the algorithm. First name, last name and gender are used in a sieve which already existed prior to this work. It uses first and last names to merge clusters if they are compatible with respect to several other meta data fields (like gender). For this work, it was expanded to also merge clusters which contain mentions that have been identified to belong to the same character from user-specified knowledge. This identification is done in one of the first sieves by comparing the mentions’ texts to a character’s unique name, first name, synonyms and, if no other character has the same last name, last name. Mentions that have been identified to belong to a character this way are from then on prevented from being merged into a cluster together with mentions belonging to other characters as well as mentions which have one of the character’s non-coreferent strings as their text.
The relations contained in the user-specified knowledge are used in one of the last sieves of the algorithm. It looks for constructions where one mention is (a) a possessive, demonstrative or relative pronoun used as an attribute, (b) a genitive or (c) preceded by a token ’von’ which means that one mention is a prepositional modifier of another, like ‘seine Ehefrau’, ‘Richards Ehefrau’ or ‘Ehefrau von Richard’. These constructions can be used if the first mention belongs to a character and this character has a relation that has the text of the second mention as a possible label (in our example, the character ‘Richard’ needs a relation that contains the label ‘Ehefrau’). If this is the case, it can be determined that the second mention (‘Ehefrau’ in the example) belongs to the character which is the target of the relation. The cluster of the second mention is therefore merged into another cluster which has previously been identified to belong to the target character (ideally, there should only be one such cluster left by the time this sieve is applied).
Finally, we use the knowledge about relations for speculative merges of mentions that have a relation word as their text and are not in a cluster with any mention which is recognised as a name. If we find one of these mentions we go backwards in the text until we encounter a mention which belongs to a character that is the target of a relation with the relation word as a possible label (e.g. if we find a mention ‘Ehefrau’, encounter a mention which belongs to the character ‘Lydia’ and know that another character ‘Richard’ has a relation labelled ‘Ehefrau’ with ‘Lydia’ as the target, we merge both mentions’ clusters).

Results and Discussion
We evaluated our approach on six documents that were randomly picked from the documents of DROC
(Krug et al., 2018) for which we have summaries:
Die Hosen des Herrn von Bredow by Willibald Alexis,
Stilpe by Otto-Julius Bierbaum,
Der Stechlin by Theodor Fontane,
Amerika by Franz Kafka,
Anna Karenina by Lev-Nikolaevic Tolstoj and
Uli der Pächter by Jeremias Gotthelf. For each of these documents, two annotators, who were unfamiliar with the texts, separately created a document for userspecified knowledge by first reading the corresponding summary and then skimming the actual document. The time required for the creation of the meta data was between 5 to 15 minutes per file. Table 1 shows some characteristics of this user-specified knowledge: the number of characters, the total number of synonyms, the total number of relations and the total number of relation labels.

Tabelle 1: Characteristics of the user-specified knowledge created by the annotators: Number of characters, synonyms, relations and relation labels.
The results of the algorithm with this userspecified knowledge are depicted in table 2 alongside the baseline results (the algorithm without any additional knowledge). We report the scores of the MUC metric (Vilain et al., 1995) which evaluates based on links between mentions and we report the results of the B-Cubed metric (Bagga and Baldwin, 1998) which evaluates based on cluster overlap between system entities and gold entities.

Tabelle 2: Results of the rule-based algorithm without user-specified knowledge and with user-specified knowledge provided by two different annotators (D and M) on six randomly picked documents of DROC. The last three lines show the average improvement of the annotators.
Depending on the text snippet, the improvements range from 0% up to almost 11% B-Cubed and up to 2% MUC score with an average improvement of about 4% B-Cubed. The small improvement of the MUC metric means, that with the help of the meta data, only relatively few links are improving, but these links reveal to be among the important ones, when the results of the B-Cubed metric is consulted. The improvements are mainly due to the improvements of the Recall, our algorithm is tuned to produce a conservative output and therefore does not attempt to merge references or entities that pose a high risk of failure. The usage of meta data adds to the confidence for these merges and subsequently increases the Recall.

With user-specified knowledge at hand, we examined whether it just serves as an addition to our rule-based algorithm, or if it is able to replace the parts of our algorithm, which handle names and non-pronominal noun phrases (the algorithm cannot be replaced completely since user-specified knowledge does not help with pronouns). To assess this theory, we created the following algorithm: In the first step, all mentions which are identified to belong to the same character from user-specified knowledge (how this is done is described in the previous section) are merged into the same cluster. After that, only the parts of our algorithm which handle pronouns are applied. Table 3 shows the results of this string-matching baseline algorithm and the difference to the rule-based algorithm using the same user-specified knowledge. While the precision of the baseline is higher in all cases, its recall is lower, often by a rather large margin. This leads to the MUC score being slightly better in three cases but being worse in all other cases. The difference is even more noticable when looking at the B-Cubed scores: With two exceptions, they are always more than 5% worse than the results of the rule-based algorithm with user-specified knowledge. To summarize, one can say that the algorithm cannot be replaced by string-matching without a significant loss of quality.

Tabelle 3: Results of the String-Matching baseline using the user-specified knowledge created by the two annotators (D and M) and the difference to the results of the rule-based algorithm using the same knowledge.
During the annotation of DROC, our experiments towards inter-annotator agreement revealed, that even human annotators only had an agreement of about 76% B-Cubed (Krug et al., 2018). Achieving a B-Cubed score of about 75% is therefore a milestone where the data seems reliable and we would expect the results to be usable for downstream tasks. An interesting aspect is that there is a large variance of improvement on different texts. Whenever relatively few named-entities that are communicating in a dialog are available in the text, the improvement is high (see
Amerika or
Stechlin) but the inverse effect occurs, when the author either is very vague with using names and aliases for characters or if there are many characters in the text in general. The quality of the results also depends on the summaries used. Using longer summaries (the ones we used were mostly rather short) or several different summaries per novel will likely lead to better results.

Note that in DROC, only persons are annotated. Coreference resolution usually also deals with other entities.

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Conference Info

DHd - 2020
"Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation"

Hosted at Universität Paderborn

Paderborn, Germany

March 2, 2020 - March 6, 2020

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Contributors: Patrick Helling, Harald Lordick, R. Borges, & Scott Weingart.

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Multiple short-lived global warming events, known as hyperthermals, occurred during the early Eocene (56–52 Ma). Five of these events – the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM or ETM1), H1 (or ETM2), H2, I1, and I2 – are marked by a carbon isotope excursion (CIE) within both marine and terrestrial sediments. The magnitude of CIE, which is a function of the amount and isotopic composition of carbon added to the ocean–atmosphere system, varies significantly between marine versus terrestrial substrates. Here we use the increase in carbon isotope fractionation by C3 land plants in response to increased pCO2 to reconcile this difference and reconstruct a range of background pCO2 and peak pCO2 for each CIE, provided two potential carbon sources: methane hydrate destabilization and permafrost-thawing/organic matter oxidation. Although the uncertainty on each pCO2 estimate using this approach is low (e.g., median uncertainty = +23%/−18%), this work highlights the potential for significant systematic bias in the pCO2 estimate resulting from sampling resolution, substrate type, diagenesis, and environmental change. Careful consideration of each of these factors is required especially when applying this approach to a single marine–terrestrial CIE pair. Given these limitations, we provide an upper estimate for background early Eocene pCO2 of 463 +248/−131 ppmv (methane hydrate scenario) to 806 +127/−104 ppmv (permafrost-thawing/organic matter oxidation scenario). These results, which represent the first pCO2 proxy estimates directly tied to the Eocene hyperthermals, demonstrate that early Eocene warmth was supported by background pCO2 less than ∼3.5× preindustrial levels and that pCO2>1000 ppmv may have occurred only briefly, during hyperthermal events.

Published Citation

Cui, Y., & Schubert, B. A. (2017). Atmospheric pCO2 reconstructed across five early Eocene global warming events. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 478, 225-233.


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Drawk Kwast explains the unexpected strange and lonely place of the successful entrepreneur.

0:00:01.6 Drawk Kwast: If you find yourself standing on the accomplishments of your goals, only to discover that the view is not as fantastic as you imagined, I welcome you to the next level. You and I realized a long time ago that we were different from the other children. We jumped off cliffs and built parachutes on the way down, while everyone else sat in amazement that we didn't kill ourselves. We learned that the people telling us that something couldn't or shouldn't be done were usually far less intelligent than we were. We also learned that the people doing amazing things were usually no smarter than we were. And while we'll tell you that luck doesn't exist, we have learned that luck tends to favor bold moves made by smart people who were paying attention to what no one else could see. These are the things we learned early on. Somewhere, though, during our progression, we started to feel this emptiness. I know, because I felt it myself. It's as if the juice isn't worth the squeeze anymore. It's not that we aren't achieving our goals, it's just that the payoff seems to always be some kind of bastardized version of what we were expecting. And that realization can infect us, like poison, as we start to sputter like a car about to run out of gas.

0:01:41.8 DK: Well, sad clown, it's time to dry those crying eyes and pull your shit together because you just made it to the next level. Realize that normal people have normal problems, amazing people have amazing problems. You are an amazing person who doesn't have normal problems that normal people can understand. Let me give you an example. Walk into any 7-Eleven in Tennessee and tell the guy behind the counter that you just got your cousin pregnant and you're not sure what to do. You'll get an earful of advice. Tell that same 7-Eleven employee that you're considering outsourcing your inventory storage and shipment to fulfillment by Amazon. Integrating your website with their API wouldn't take much programming, allowing you to save money and speed up delivery times, but you're uneasy about the idea of partnering with a company that holds all of your inventory. He will look at you the same way that a cow looks at a trumpet. Or tell him that you're dating three different women. Valentine's Day is approaching and you don't know what to do. His words will indicate a strange combination of jealousy, disbelief, and cluelessness. As you climb higher, you climb away from the masses. Your peer group will get smaller and smaller until it feels like you're all alone. Understand that you will never see a flock of eagles, but that's no reason to want to be a pigeon.

0:03:35.2 DK: Eagles have to seek each other out. You are an eagle. Realize that getting it and managing it are two totally different skills. You have to get it before you can even start learning how to manage it. What does this mean? Think about the business you built out of nothing. You literally built something out of nothing, a feat that 99% of the world's population could never achieve. You learned how to get it, but once you got it, things weren't as you expected them to be. How could they be any different? You had to get it before you could learn how to run it. And without ever having had it before, how could you possibly know what running it was going to involve? If you're doing something completely revolutionary, as people like you and I tend to do, don't expect the advice of a thousand men when you are the first person to walk the path. You are an explorer. Realize that if nothing is going wrong, you're not doing enough. If you're not failing, you're not learning. If you wanna be immortalized in the history books, you're gonna have to ride your dreams even as they fly off the rails.

0:05:11.7 DK: That's right. Failure equals good, because more failure equals more learning. And only those with the balls to learn more than everyone else will ever accomplish the incredible. Do you know what part of Edison's invention of the lightbulb got left out of the history books? The part where his next-door neighbor told him, after failure 999, that Edison should try shoving the lightbulb up his ass. Life is an experiment. Failure and mockery are part of the path to success. You are an innovator. Normal people won't understand you. There is no map for where you're going. People will laugh at you, right up until the day they don't. This is life for people like you and I. And I say that with a smile on my face because I would have it no other way. Know that what you're going through right now is like puberty for entrepreneurs. It will be a little awkward for a few years, but it will work itself out because this is who you are. Welcome to the next level.

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How Remedo Healthcare Connected Doctors and Their Patients?

Remedo is a telemedicine startup that has transformed communication between doctors and patients.

Remedo is a telemedicine startup that has a physical + digital model for addressing the needs of doctors by using Practice Management, Patient Communication and Patient Engagement. The digital part of their model helps patients to connect with their doctors easily and take consultations. It also helps doctors to manage a patient’s chronic condition by creating a care journey towards managing it. The physical part of the model is created to provide access to lab tests and medication at the doctor’s clinic. Smile Group, Inflection Point Ventures, AngelList India, and RiverRock Ventures have invested in this startup.

With the help of Remedo, the doctors can communicate with their patients easily and earn more revenue too. The patients receive a digital consultation, e-prescription and personalized healthcare plan from their trusted doctor, without having to go anywhere. Being a B2B startup, Remedo does not aim at acquiring both doctors and patients by being a matchmaker between them. They instead simply want to act as an intermediary between doctors and their existing patients.

How did Remedo start?

Remedo was founded back in 2017 by Dr Ruchir Mehra, Harsh Bansal and Richeek Arya to enhance patient care. This led to the creation of an engagement platform for doctors to connect better with their patients. They understood that doctors find it difficult to keep a track of their patients and communicate with them through different channels. The company now has more than 2000 doctors accessing its platform.

Telemedicine Industry grew during the coronavirus outbreak

The telemedicine industry has always been a significant part of the healthcare system. Its significance grew further during the coronavirus outbreak. A significant surge in teleconsultations and e-prescriptions was observed. As social distancing was non-negotiable, the need for the telemedicine industry grew so much so that the ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW), along with NITI Aayog and Board of Governors (BoG) Medical Council of India (MCI) issued guidelines for them.

As for Remedo, the startup was at the forefront being the intermediary between doctors and patients. The number of patients grew on the platform and as a result, more doctors joined. The doctors who were hesitant before about joining a digital platform found faith in the industry after the guidelines were issued and met. For patients, it felt safe to interact digitally about their health concerns with their doctors as going out was dreadful during the pandemic.

What can others learn from Remedo?

Remedo is not only digital or only physical. It is a unique blend of both which fits perfectly in the world we live in today. The B2B startup is quite clear that it is for doctors, by doctors. The integrated platform caters perfectly to the needs of their target audience, the doctors. For startups, Remedo exemplifies how a debate on offline and online approaches is a waste. In the new normal, the solution lies only in making the best of both worlds.

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Book Review: Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America, by Vegas Tenold

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Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America. By Vegas Tenold. Bold Type Books. February 2018. ISBN: 978-1568589947. 336 pages. Hardcover, $27.00.

“Sometimes what we do is embarrassing.” This quote, from a KKK member who appears in Everything You Love Will Burn by Norwegian journalist Vegas Tenold, is an understatement that stands in juxtaposition to the murderous hatred of the far-right groups Tenold frequented during the years leading up to America’s most infamous far-right Administration, that of former President Donald Trump.

The title of Tenold’s book comes from a text message, ending with a smiley face, that was sent to the author by a jubilant neo-Nazi on the night of Trump’s election. The book’s introduction was written one day after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of Heather Heyer, who was counter-protesting the Nazis that day.

The book is an amalgamation of several storylines that follow various white nationalist figures and groups. It begins with Matthew Heimbach, from Paoli, Indiana, whom the reader sees going to KFC with his kids then ranting with colleagues about Jewish communism. Before Tenold first met Matthew, the author received an email from Duke Schneider of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) of America. Schneider wanted to show Tenold day-to-day activities of the party and discuss his views and ideology. As a result, Tenold ended up in Trenton, New Jersey, where he witnessed a street fight between Schneider’s group and antifascist and leftist activists—the first private attack on a private meeting of the NSM. The police arrived, but no arrests were made, and in the eyes of the NSM, the “commie scum” had been defeated. Yet, this would mark the beginning of a decade-long street war between white nationalist and far-right groups, and antifascist activists, colloquially known as “antifa.”

The language in Everything You Love Will Burn is crude, and violence and danger are palpable everywhere. To be sure, reading the book is a tense and uncomfortable experience, like watching a horror film. However, it also provides a tremendous amount of important material about the history of the American far-right and neo-Nazi movements. Tenold goes as far back as the Dixiecrat movement of the 1940s in elaborating on the history of the political activities of these groups.

The book ends with a detailed account of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017. Reading the excerpt, one experiences the sheer horror of the hatred expressed that day. What also becomes apparent is that the hatred and vitriol has accelerated decade by decade since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, with Charlottesville symbolizing the apex of the far-right movement since the 1920s KKK, which boasted 6 million members.

Living through the previous Administration encouraged me to search deeper into my own family history to understand what had happened—and was happening—in America. I am of half-Italian and half-Jewish ancestry, from my father’s and mother’s side, respectively. The anti-Semitic dog whistles of “globalists” and “America First” were easily identifiable to me and those around me as virulently anti-Semitic, but Trump and his movement stirred racist passions that had already existed within America’s deep far-right movement.

The diatribes against Jews and African Americans espoused by the Klansmen and neo-Nazis whom Tenold encountered were neither new nor shocking to me. Yet, the moments of clarity, insight, and humor in the book made me read deeper than the ideologies of the individuals in the volume. The nation that “beat” Nazism had now descended into it. But how?

Matthew’s story serves as a stark contrast to the gross racism of his compatriots. Originally, while attending Towson University, Matthew was a socialist:

He had also been reading about how immigration was really no more than a tool developed by capitalists to further their own agenda, so it frustrated him when his socialist friends took up issues such as immigration reform when it seemed so clear that immigration and socialism were mutually exclusive. As he saw it, immigrants from developing countries provided cheap labor for the fat-cat capitalists, and he was flabbergasted that his fellow socialists couldn’t see that.

Matthew’s anti-capitalism echoed the doctrine of “proletarian nationalism” (Corner, 2012, p. 16.), Mussolini’s version of socialism in Italy. Indeed, the intersection of Mussolini’s fascism and Trump’s is quite direct. Both men used anti-globalist, capitalist sentiment mixed with xenophobia and ultranationalism to lead far-right groups to the polls in large numbers while drawing masses of relatively indifferent moderates toward a national cause to beat “cosmopolitans.” Arguably, the intellectual development of conservatives like Mathew drove Trump to the top. The alt-right, a contemporary movement of young national socialists who rely on internet memes to spread their ideology, used clever dog whistles the KKK is too violent and disorganized to ever execute. Now some Nazis have graduated from para-military garb to suits and ties. However, this is primarily in formal, quasi-academic settings where far-right lecturers add a veneer of intellectualism to their racism. The men on the street are very much still in military garb.

At one point in Everything You Love Will Burn, Tenold describes being held at gunpoint before a KKK cross burning. It is one of the most intense moments of danger that Tenold put himself in to interact with the subjects of the book. Tenold foresaw the reemergence of the far-right half a decade earlier and knew he had to observe these movements up close and in person to understand the severity of the threat posed by these groups and where it was ultimately headed.

And we know where it was headed. On January 6, 2021, a mob of Trump supporters, many of them avowed white supremacists and neo-Nazis, stormed the Capitol, seeking to hang the vice president, kill the speaker of the House, and violently protect their president, indefinitely. They almost pulled off their stunt, which included bringing the Confederate flag into the Capitol—which had not come close to happening during the Civil War. Tenold notes how absurd such a notion would have been even 5 or 6 years ago:

This was almost certainly nonsense. The idea of a vast cabal of secret Klansmen biding their time in the wings until such a time when the white race was in its darkest hour belonged with theories of the Illuminati, secretive Zionist occupation governments, and other cast members of Dan Brown books. Still, Karl [one of the more vocal NSM members with whom Tenold interacted] seemed convinced.

Who would have thought that Karl would eventually be proven correct?

In the United States, Neo-fascism-as-Trumpism is here and must be reckoned with; their leader remains at large and could easily pull a Grover Cleveland and reassume office in January 2025. As someone whose family history saw both sides of fascism, all I can say is, it ended in disaster for both: starvation until being saved by the Allies for my Italian family, horrific extermination among my Jewish family. Far-right ideology, fascism, and ethnic-based ultranationalism led to ruin for nations and the world.

Amid all the darkness, though, there remains light. My great uncle, when talking to him for this review, told me about his brother Peter throwing an egg at a fascist marcher during a Mussolini rally in Porto Empedocle, Sicily. His mother had to beg the local authorities to not punish him.  Breaking through the alienation of the modern condition and reestablishing social bonds is the key to countering political extremism, and Tenold saw those years before America’s descent. Moreover, his journalistic experience covering Russia, which under Putin has seen a resurgence in neo-fascism, and other authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and Central Africa uniquely qualified him to examine America’s far-right extremist movement. He tried and failed in the moment, but in writing this account, he has given readers a guide for how the far-right operates and how to counteract and neutralize them.

Everything You Love Will Burn is essential reading for anyone trying to understand America’s far-right on a more visceral level, beyond academic analysis alone. In interacting with this now burgeoning movement, Tenold offers a kind of template for how to approach people and ideologies as we encounter them, and how to do so with grace and bravery. In doing so, perhaps one might convince at least one neo-Nazi that what they do is embarrassing, just like the one KKK member realized in a moment of clarity. Hopefully, many more of those moments will come around before there is more violence—and more damage to democracy.

Dedicated to my beloved mother. Rest in peace.

Corner, P. (2012). The Fascist Party and popular opinion in Mussolini’s Italy. Oxford University Press.

Benjamin Henry Rao is a graduate student at Fort Hays State University in political science. He studied as philosophy an undergraduate at Oklahoma State University, and currently resides in Garden City, New York. His main academic interests are political philosophy, political economy, and studies of totalitarianism, fascism, and communism. Benjamin has two sisters, Elli and Gabbi, and a cat, Nina. Mr. After he graduates, Mr. Rao looks forward to pursuing a doctorate.


And I cannot call this approach to the festival/concert organisation anything other than negligence.

The Astroworld Festival organisers (Scoremore Holdings, LLC) have sold 50 thousand tickets. However, they did not provide health and safety services appropriate for the even of this size.

Videos from the festival show a crowd storming the checkpoint, basically stomping over metal fences, metal detector frames and outnumbered security personnel who could not do anything.

A similar situation was in 2019 at the Eminem show in Abu Dhabi. Back then, FLASH Entertainment, a company that organised the show, reached a record new low showing the worst organisation in my memory. And I happened to see more than a hundred concerts and festivals. And now we are seeing the same thing in the US, the country that is supposed to demonstrate a proper and high-standard approach to organising events.

So, a huge crowd broke through the fences and breached security — it’s not clear if they had tickets or if they were just trying to break through to their idol’s concert. A wild herd, recordings show, broke through to the stage, knocking down and stomping over people who had already been standing there. For those who have never been to the front row at a concert, it is worth noting that it is so crowded there that any movement from the back of the crowd reaches the front rows in such strong swinging “waves” that sometimes people at the front cannot even breath in properly, being tightly squeezed by the crowd.

The strongest stampede at a live show I have ever survived was at the 2013 Reading Festival Major Lazer segment, right before Eminem’s performance. We were standing in the front row. The electronic trio from Jamaica got the densely packed crowd excited so much that just to be near the stage became unbearable. Security kept pulling people out and taking them away restlessly. Hundreds of people. The waves of the swaying crowd were knocking us off our feet. We clung to the fence and tried to make a little space for us there just enough to breath. There was only one thought, I could not wait for their performance to be over. For a moment, I was even considering leaving the field. I was shocked that the artists on stage did not try to diffuse the situation even if they saw everything that was happening. They could have cooled down to send a signal to the audience, but they just kept going and winding the crowd up. Fortunately, the organisers were on top of the situation, and no one was injured.

Now the story repeated itself at the Astroworld Festival. Only judging by the video from the scene, there was even less stuff on-site, and there was simply no one to help the guests.

The footage of attempts to resuscitate someone while the show goes on stage looks horrifying. It shows that the organisers did not monitor the ground at all. And they simply did not place trained personnel in the venue in the way that would allow them to react to emergencies promptly, to communicate with the HQ, call for help. Or even stop the concert, which should be done when serious, life-threatening incidents occur.

The Negligence And Incompetence Of The Organisers Of The Astroworld Festival Ended In Tragic Loss Of Lives

In addition, I am outraged by the lack of competent zoning and fencing of the festival site, especially the space near the stage. If the organizers had thought through the placement of fences, if the entire space had been divided into smaller zones as is the current practice at large events, then the number of people in the most dangerous zones would have been limited. It would have helped prevent the stampede that led to the tragic loss of lives.

This time the negligence of the concert organisers ended in tragedy. Today’s news about the casualties and dozens of injured visitors to the Astroworld Festival proves once again that it is necessary to increase the accountability of the event organisers. They should be held responsible for their negligence and disregard for safety.

Our prayers are with the families of the victims and the injured.


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After an early display, DEADROP isn't quite up to the polish of Modern Warfare 2

After an early display, DEADROP isn't quite up to the polish of Modern Warfare 2 ...

JGOD, a Call of Duty YouTuber, has moved to dispel the growing hype over Dr Disrespect and Midnight Society's first game, DEADROP, by claiming it's nowhere near as polished as Modern Warfare 2. Most people were impressed by how it appeared, felt, and played, hence the comparisons to MW2.

However, JGOD believes it's absurd to expect it to reach that level anytime soon.

On July 31, a Call of Duty YouTuber mentioned the DEADROP game from Dr Disrespect and his company. [The] game is nowhere near the level of polish weve seen in MW2.

JGOD wasn't chastising it. He said the game was a step ahead of its time, which is a major achievement for Dr Disrespect and his lab as well as everyone else.

The YouTube sensation just thinks it's ridiculous that people are comparing the polish levels between them and making fanciful statements when the MW2s release is just around the corner, while DEADROP is clearly far, far from ready.

It's also a stretch to compare a game that will be released in months to one that will last years.

On July 29, Dr Disrespect unveiled the game for the first time, confirming that it is not a vertical extraction game that was previously marketed as Escape from Barkov, but with a different setting.

It is set in a different future where structures have been constructed to convert airborne pollution into a medicine called Space Dust. Two factions fought to control them.

The Docs game is progressing smoothly, and given that he has a team of experienced veterans in the industry, it's not all that surprising. However, JGOD's remarks serve as a timely reminder that DEADROP is still in the early stages of development, no matter how impressive the vertical shooter is.