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Dolasetron is used to prevent nausea and vomiting that is caused by cancer medicines (chemotherapy) or radiation. Dolasetron works to block the signals to the brain that cause nausea and vomiting.
This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.
This product is available in the following dosage forms:
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated pediatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of dolasetron in children 2 years of age and older. However, safety and efficacy have not been established in children younger than 2 years of age.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of dolasetron in the elderly. However, elderly patients are more likely to have heart rhythm problems, which may require caution in patients receiving dolasetron.
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may decide not to treat you with this medication or change some of the other medicines you take.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
Take this medicine only as directed by your doctor. Do not take more of it, do not take it more often, and do not take it for a longer time than your doctor ordered.
If your child cannot swallow the tablets, the injection solution can be mixed with apple or apple-grape juice and taken by mouth. The mixture may be stored for up to 2 hours at room temperature before use.
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not double doses.
If you miss a dose of this medicine, and you feel nauseated or you vomit, take the missed dose as soon as possible.
Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light. Keep from freezing.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
Ask your healthcare professional how you should dispose of any medicine you do not use.
Check with your doctor if severe nausea and vomiting continue after leaving the hospital or cancer treatment center.
This medicine can cause changes heart rhythms, such as conditions called QT, PR, and QRS prolongation. It may change the way your heart beats and cause fainting or serious side effects in some patients. Contact your doctor right away if you have a fast, pounding, or irregular heartbeats.
Dolasetron may cause a serious condition called serotonin syndrome if taken together with some medicines such as fentanyl (Abstral®, Duragesic®), lithium (Eskalith®, Lithobid®), a MAO inhibitor (such as methylene blue injection, Eldepryl®, Marplan®, Nardil®, Parnate®), medicine to treat migraine headaches, or medicine to treat depression (eg, fluoxetine, mirtazapine, paroxetine, Celexa®, Effexor®, Lexapro®, Paxil®, Zoloft®). Check with your doctor first before taking any other medicines with dolasetron.
Do not stop taking this medicine without checking first with your doctor. Your doctor may gradually reduce the amount you are using before stopping completely.
Do not take other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This includes prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicines and herbal or vitamin supplements.
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Portions of this document last updated: Jan. 01, 2020
Original article: https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/dolasetron-oral-route/precautions/drg-20075222
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Water. It's often taken for granted when you turn on the faucet anticipating a clear stream of liquid to refresh, to cleanse, to invigorate. Nothing satisfies thirst like water, and when a problem in the supply system interrupts the flow of water to our ICC children it becomes an urgent problem that requires immediate attention. This is what happened at ICC's Los Pinos Children's Village in Guatemala. The children's homes and facilities draw water from two wells, and recently the children and staff were totally without the use of either of them.
The well behind the bakery has a broken pipe inside, and the workers can't get the pump out. The problem was immediate, and our administrator had to solve it quickly. The pump motor on the other well burned out, and the shaft is broken.
For a very short time, water was shared from an emergency well at ICAP, the secondary school whose property is next to Los Pinos. However, this was only a temporary solution.
The cost of purchasing a new pump for the second well is $1,543. Our administrator, Joel Carpio, had no choice but to purchase the pump and quickly put it into service. Once again, water flowed through the system and our children and staff had the supply they needed.
Problem solved? In one sense, yes, and in some years, it may not have mattered too much if Joel had to use operating funds for this out-of-budget purchase. But this year it matters very much because the summer months have seen donation income decrease significantly at ICC. This has put a huge strain on all our projects as we're not always able to send operating funds at the time they are needed. ICC project administrators like Joel are trying their best to keep the essential operations moving along, despite the hardships. When something like the broken wells occurs, it causes added strain to the budget. In this situation, Joel had to use money from his already depleted operational funds which are desperately needed to provide for the care of our children.
I'm writing today to make you aware of this situation. We need your prayers. We need our Heavenly Father's blessing from the "windows of heaven" so that Joel is able to have sufficient operating funds to provide for the daily care of the children. If you feel the nudge to assist Joel please let us know. You can also send your donation marked "Guatemala Need."
Thank-you for your continued interest and support of ICC's children and projects around the world. It's the ongoing, consistent support of our faithful supporters that makes this ministry for orphaned and abandoned children possible. Without you, we'd not be able to care for them. So, in a sense, it's our supporters who put the "care" into International Children's Care. May God richly bless you for your care and support of the children.
In His service,
Kent Greve
International Development Director
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Moscow Looks to Blockchain for Fair Elections
The city of Moscow is looking to evolve their Active Citizen polling network to log votes in upcoming elections. Thus making the election process transparent to all and tamper-free.
Active Citizens Decide for Themselves
As the white house continues to deny any allegations of collusion with Russian hackers and the FBI doggedly turns over more and more evidence of Russia's influence on the 2016 elections the city of Moscow is making moves to make sure it can't happen there.
Since 2014 the Russian city has had a program in place called Active Citizen. This program allows citizens to vote on big projects in order to eliminate corruption. So far citizens have cast their votes on the seat colors at the new Luzhinki stadium, whether or not to participate in a major housing renovation program and the official badges that doctors will wear in all the cities hospitals.
Blockchain Tech Can Help to Ensure Fair Election Polling
In 2017 the Active Citizen program was moved on to a Blockchain network where ideally the data can never be deleted or changed and the system cannot be hacked. Today it has added a private version of the Ethereum network to the existing architecture with a view towards implementing this into the city's voting process.
In this way, city officials hope to soothe citizen's fears of vote manipulation while showing the world's governments that free and fair elections can be had in Russia.
"Of course, sometimes we hear that not all the votes are trusted," said Andrey Belozerov, the strategy and innovations advisor to the city's CIO;
"So, we decided to use a blockchain for the Active Citizen project, as a platform of electronic trust. The idea is to put all the votes to the blockchain to make it open so everybody can connect to our blockchain network, and to check the voting process, and so on and so-forth."
Using blockchain technology to ensure that every vote is uniquely logged and that the process is absolutely transparent is a long way from the antiquated voting process still used in the United States.
Citizens of the US still vote using a system developed in the 19th century to make collecting and counting votes over the massive country feasible. Rules and regulations vary from state to state and in some case still rely on hundred-year-old machines.
As future elections will undoubtedly be influenced and tampered with by hackers both inside and out of the country a decentralized blockchain voting system not only makes sense but seems essential to maintaining a democracy in the digital era.
At the moment the Active Citizen system in Moscow has recorded 88 million votes on over 2,700 projects. With the implementation of blockchain for their next elections, there can be no dispute over results. The only hurdle left for fair and transparent election process will be resistance from government officials, not only in Moscow and the US but all over the world.
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Outcompeting Destructive Systems: Odyssey Drives Conversation at Blockchain Central Davos
Odyssey, the Netherlands-based open innovation program committed to solving complex 21st-century challenges through mass collaboration, will lead the conversation on outcompeting the destructive economic systems at Blockchain Central Davos. The conversation will be hosted by the Global Blockchain Business Council, in Blockchain Central, the premier venue for all things blockchain in Davos.
We live in a world where it still pays financially to be part of a destructive system, so we need to outcompete this model. How do we do it? In Davos, we will be exploring the creation of a new system which would be better for people and nature, and at the same time actually generate more economic value for everyone," commented Rutger van Zuidam, Founder and CEO of Odyssey.
The conversation will focus on new alternatives to current economic paradigms which prevent society from solving the challenges it currently faces, such as climate change and lack of economic inclusion. Attention will be paid to how technology such as blockchain and Artificial Intelligence can facilitate moving towards better economic conditions for future generations and environmental sustainability.
The panelists:
- Sanjay Poonen, Chief Operating Officer, Customer Operations, VMware
- Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder & CEO, Digital Asset
- Kavita Gupta, Lecturer, Stanford University; Managing Partner, Katapult. AI
- Rod Beckstrom, Former President & CEO, ICANN; Founder & CEO, BECKSTROM
- Rutger van Zuidam, Founder & CEO, Odyssey.org
Sanjay Poonen, COO VMware: "We aim to leave ahead a better future – to put back more than we take into the environment, society, and our global economy. It is important that we engineer new systems that provide better economic outcomes and are better for people and the planet. The Odyssey 2020 Track 'Outcompeting Destructive Systems,' that VMware is participating in with Digital Asset and DAML, will explore this challenge."
"The conversation at Davos this week has centered around the need for open, collaborative ecosystems to truly affect change. Odyssey recognizes this, that to outcompete destructive systems we need the right incentives applied to the right technology. Smart contracts enable these collaborative processes to connect stakeholders across industries in ways which weren't possible before. DAML and VMware Blockchain allow for the type of open collaboration needed to allow anyone to innovate for all of our benefit," said Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder & CEO, Digital Asset.
Monerium and Algorand enter partnership to issue e-money on the Algorand protocol
Monerium, the world's first authorized provider of licensed e-money for blockchains, and Algorand Inc. (https://www.algorand.com/), the world's first open source, permissionless, pure proof-of-stake blockchain protocol, announce a non-exclusive partnership to support the Algorand protocol in 2020 with Monerium's fully programmable and redeemable e-money.
Mainstream adoption of blockchains requires a reliable form of digital cash on-chain. Since receiving its e-money license in June 2019, Monerium has announced several B2B use cases for e-money, including a cross-border transaction in euros. Monerium now supports e-money across the EU, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein in US Dollars, Euros, British Pounds, and Icelandic krona.
Algorand recently benefited from a significant upgrade, Algorand 2.0, which includes a number of features that enable sophisticated exchanges such as account quarantine, whitelist models, flexible asset reserve models and more.
"We look forward to supporting the Algorand protocol. Algorand incorporates key features for many mainstream use-cases, including stateless smart contracts and scaleable proof-of-stake consensus. The Algorand leadership has taken a pragmatic and deliberate approach in designing a blockchain for mainstream applications while staying close to the ethos of the open source community" states Sveinn Valfells, co-founder and CEO of Monerium. "Supporting new blockchains with mainstream relevance is a priority for Monerium."
"Monerium and Algorand have a shared vision for real-world use cases that are enabled by advanced blockchain technology," said W. Sean Ford, COO of Algorand, Inc. "We are thrilled that Monerium will be bringing their solution for e-money to Algorand and we look forward to our community's ability to leverage the technology for straightforward regulatory compliance."
About Algorand
Algorand Inc. built the world's first open source, permissionless, pure proof-of-stake blockchain protocol for the next generation of financial products. This blockchain, the Algorand protocol, is the brainchild of Turing Award-winning cryptographer Silvio Micali. A technology company dedicated to removing friction from financial exchange, Algorand Inc. is powering the DeFi evolution by enabling the creation and exchange of value, building new financial tools and services, bringing assets on-chain and providing responsible privacy models. For more information, visit www.algorand.com.
About Monerium
Monerium is a financial technology company with the mission of making digital currency accessible, secure, and simple to transact online. Monerium is the first and only company authorized to issue regulated e-money on blockchains. Using e-money issued by Monerium, individuals and businesses can store and send programmable digital currency online without going through traditional financial institutions and payment providers. More information can be found at monerium.com.
Consumers Should Control Their Data, and TimiHealth Blockchain Ecosystem Makes It Happen
In the very near future TimiHealth will begin advancing consumer monetization of genomics data with a 70/30 split with the owners of the data. In simple terms, consumers will receive 70% of the compensation received when they opt in to share their data in the TimiHealth blockchain powered ecosystem. To learn more and take care of your genomics data visit: http://app.timidna.com
Data privacy is becoming more and more important; TimiHealth.com enables a new opportunity by giving consumers full data privacy and an ability to share in the value generated from their data.
The US healthcare industry has a multi-billion dollar marketplace for information sold to data brokers, pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers. Yet consumers/patients receive none of the financial benefits. TimiHealth found some great examples of the deals that revolved around the sale of genomics data to pharmaceutical companies. This is a glaring example of big corporations profiting off consumers.
Millions of people pay direct to consumer genomic companies substantial fees to obtain information regarding their heritage, genetic disposition for certain disease states, or pharmacologic compatibility with drug regimens. Unfortunately, most consumers are unaware that the personal data gleaned from such tests can then be sold to any number of research organizations for huge profits—none of which are realized by the consumers themselves.
TimiHealth's solution ensures that patients are in control of their own data where they can give permission for it to be used by their chosen healthcare providers and/or participating in the Timi Marketplace for data monetization.
"TimiHealth is driven by a mission to remedy these inequities by enabling consumers to own, control, and monetize the value of their health data, including that about their genomic data. TimiHealth is built on the principles of trust, transparency and empowerment, with a goal of putting control back into the hands of the true owners of this valuable data—consumers themselves," said Will Lowe, Co-Founder of TimiHealth.
About TimiHealth:
The blockchain powered ecosystem providing portability, security, and control of consumer genomics and health data.
Over 10,000 Participants Expected to Attend Chain2020 Blockchain Initiatives Event in Hong Kong
Over 10,000 participants are expected to attend the Chain2020 event, which is set to take place in Hong Kong on Jan. 15, 2020. The event is organized as a series of educational conferences focusing on Blockchain and FinTech technologies and related subjects for entrepreneurs, government officials and individuals seeking to integrate and promote the use of alternative financial technologies in the global economy.
The Chain2020 event will be featuring a broad range of conferences hosted and presented by more than 35 internationally recognized experts and speakers. Some of the prominent attendees scheduled to speak at the conference include:
- Zoran Djikanovic, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at UDG, author of several papers on regulation and market infrastructure development
- Susan Oh, recipient of The Quantum Impact Award in partnership with the UN General Assembly as one of the Top Ten Frontier Women in Digital
- Richard Chen, technologist with vast experiences in successfully building internet applications, big data and AI and blockchain technologies
- Dinis Guarda, author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain
- Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof, award-winning entrepreneur, a crypto activist and writer, working in frontier environments
The Chain2020 event is specifically being organized in the Asian region to attract the attention of the region's population to the use of blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies and increase the level of education and awareness about their application. The organizers of the event are confident that the series of conferences will help bolster awareness about the technologies and promote their penetration into various areas of social and business activities.
Chain 2020 offers a series of educational conferences promoting blockchain in the Asian region, aiming to become one of the key players locally and on a global scale. The mission of the event is to become a comprehensive source of blockchain knowledge, enhancing mass adoption of the new technology in the region, and become the most influential and mind-captivating platform aiming to create connections and partnerships that will have a long-lasting impact on the industry. The organizers of the event seek to advocate blockchain initiatives in ASIA and support mass adoption of the technology to advance business, science, and society.
To learn more about Chain 2020 please visit: https://www.chain2020.com
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Blockchain Technologies in Healthcare Study, 2019 – Benefits & Challenges for the Pharmaceutical Industry and the FDAs Role
The "Blockchain Technologies in Healthcare" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report examines blockchain technology in healthcare by noting selected activities, partnerships, etc. of companies and organizations either in the healthcare industry directly or in enterprises outside of healthcare such as software or platform development.
Blockchain is essentially a tool that has the potential to keep secure data in a distributed ledger with the capability to be shared across networks.
The concept behind blockchain is that it has three components:
- A widely distributed network
- A shared ledger with validated access identities
- Digital transactions
Blockchain technology is emerging in many other industries but it has some unique challenges in healthcare.
This report discusses some of the major application areas for blockchain technology in healthcare:
- Genomics
- Storage of Electronic Health Records
- Enabling Personal Health Records (PHRs)
- Drug Supply Chain Security
- Provider Data Management
- Clinical Trial Management
- Medical Device Tracking and Tracing
- Food Safety Diagnostics
Key Topics Covered
1. Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Some Applications for Blockchain in Healthcare
- Genomics
- Storing and Enabling of Health Records
- Drug Supply Chain Security
- Provider Data Management
- Clinical Trial Management
- Medical Device Tracking and Tracing
- Food Safety Diagnostics
- Blockchain in Healthcare: Some of the Major Players
- Methodology
2. Blockchain Technologies in Healthcare
- Introduction
- Genomics
- Storage of Electronic Health Records
- Enabling Personal Health Records (PHRs)
- Drug Supply Chain Security
- Challenges for the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Benefits for the Pharmaceutical Industry
- The FDAs Role
- Provider Data Management
- Clinical Trial Management
- Medical Device Tracking and Tracing
- Food Safety Diagnostics
- Players in the Blockchain in Healthcare Market
- Amazon Web Services, Inc.
- Apple
- Austin Blockchain Collective Healthcare Working Group
- Blockchain in Healthcare Global
- The Blockchain Research Institute
- Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd.
- BurstIQ
- CareChain
- Change Healthcare
- Cisco
- Digital DNAtix Ltd.
- doc.ai
- EMIS Group
- EncrypGen
- Evernym
- Genecoin
- Genetic Technologies Limited
- Genomes.io
- Google (Alphabet, Inc.)
- Guardtime
- Intel
- Kadena
- LunaPBC / LunaDNA
- Medicalchain
- MedRec
- Microsoft
- MyGenomeBank
- MyHealthMyData (MHMD)
- NantOmics
- Nebula Genomics
- Oracle
- Professional Credentials Exchange (ProCredEx)
- Quest Diagnostics
- Rymedi
- RF Ideas
- Shivom
- SimplyVital Health
- ShoCard
- Solve.Care
- Spiritus Partners
- Synaptic Health Alliance
- TimiCoin / TimiHealth
- Walmart
- WHISE-Embleema Consortium
- WuXi NextCODE / LifeCODE.ai
- Zenome
For more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/db47fe
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Crypto Commonwealth: A Blockchain project en route to a world-leading publisher and asset manager
When there is a conversation about the biggest publishers in the field of science the names nature and science are always included. Let's imagine that the ongoing blockchain revolution is incubating a publishing house of such caliber. What type of ecosystem would it bring forth and which groundbreaking technologies would it integrate?
Crypto Commonwealth is considered to be one of the most ambitious projects. Their vision is to create a community that incentivizes effort and quality of publications, with the ultimate goal to create a journal as successful as Nature and Science. The project claims to have a strong network of researchers in top universities and plans to invite more of them to join, as well as funding their research in academia. They intend to distribute 100% net profit back to the authors, editors, and reviewers, paying for their contributions in their native token COMM. Excellent contributions will make the ecosystem stronger, encouraging and inviting more people to play a part within as everybody looks for incentives.
Crypto Commonwealth focuses not only on becoming a top tier publisher of all things, crypto or not. It also envisions becoming a digital and traditional asset manager that can potentially outperform BTC and the stock market growth in the long term. Its strategy construction follows the "trilemma in portfolio management". Under this model, three variables are considered: high return, low risk, and high capacity. Those who have some experience investing in traditional or crypto assets, either in IPOs, ICOs, IEOs or directly in the secondary markets have learned, maybe the hard way, that it is not possible to embrace these three vertices simultaneously. For COMM the presence of two of these factors excludes the third as well. It is on this understanding that high return and low risk exclude high capacities, such as in alphas and high-frequency trading. Crypto Commonwealth itself encompasses hedge funds including the alpha fund "Sphinx" and the smart beta fund "Stonybrook" under the high return and low-risk classification. Conversely, you could have any of the two other configurations. At this point, the triangle metaphor explains itself.
The merit of a project like COMM is that it merges into an innovative ecosystem the wisdom of an elite publisher house with the profit-making power of a hedge fund. Take for example "Stonybrook", which is the very first (if not the one and only) crypto smart beta and alpha fund to endorse and publish high-quality crypto strategies and analyses on-site, and make them transparent to investors and readers largely for free. This allows investors to understand what they are trading with and take good control of their asset allocation. Crypto Commonwealth will offer detailed, professional suggestions to help them make the most informed decisions in style selections upon investment. This profit will be redistributed into the ecosystem in a decent cut – up to 50% of management or incentive fee would be shared among excellent authors, portfolio managers, researchers, and collaborators.
Contributors can opt to be external or internal researchers. Internal or 'book' researchers are expected to run backtests on the platform and submit alphas for centralized post-processing, including portfolio combination and optimization, however, this is by no means limited thereto. Upon proper evaluation, a certain amount of COMMs will be paid out as a reward, with a significant amount to be followed pending the alpha performance out-of-sample and in live trading. These, of course, are what could be considered the right steps to build a strong and wise community.
COMM's professional column, 'Beta for Pros' is expected to cover smart beta/alpha investigation, factor/risk premium analysis, ETF construction, pair arbitrage, statistical arbitrage, exchange arbitrage, high-frequency trading, risk management, automatic investment, market making, and the applications of portfolio management techniques that improve simple trading methods. They also have two more columns intended for generic readers that serve as educational resources and crypto knowledge base – 'Beta for fun' and 'Crypto Insights'. They cover quantitative and fun crypto analysis, tokenomics and philosophies, as well as non-quantitative articles in the blockchain domain including crypto overviews, insights, token mechanism/algorithm, macro visions, blockchain techniques, etc.
The long term vision of this journal/fund is to acquire high-quality, stable submissions and a good impact factor, then start charging subscription and publishing fees as any other commercial journals. More importantly, it plans to redistribute all profits after operational costs back to the authors, editors, and reviewers. This is a closed cycle that is expected to nourish and sustain the ecosystem as it starts to gain momentum.
What is interesting is that Crypto Commonwealth has a strong background in global stock markets, having amassed a good number of lowly correlated equity strategies at their disposal. The project is seeking to tokenize them as soon as circumstances permit. Those who have been following the cryptocurrency market recognize that tokenization of other financial markets, like commodities, futures, stocks, currencies, bonds and real estate is promised to be even bigger in capitalization than all the current cryptocurrencies. A real pioneer in strategy tokenization, COMM will certainly build a supportive and productive atmosphere for portfolio managers across multiple markets to participate in its ecosystem.
In conclusion, Crypto Commonwealth is a promising project that harbors the first publishing house and investment funds backed by a community of contributors, investors, scholars, and researchers, redistributing profits among its members. In this way, it represents a breakthrough for the technological paradigm that our society is about to experience.
Website: cryptocommonwealth.io
Email: [email protected]monwealth.io
Telegram: https://t.me/Crypto_Commonwealth_Europe
Telegram channel: https://t.me/CryptoCommonwealth_ANN
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CryptoSmartBeta
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crypto-Commonwealth-102262581218579/
Medium: https://medium.com/@CryptoCommonwealth
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cryptocommonwealth
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpsI9ikWg7HKobrj_1Zq38A
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/CryptoSmartBeta
GitHub: https://github.com/CryptoCommonWealth
Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5201899.new#new
SoFi Introduces Crypto Trading With SoFi Invest
SoFi announced today that it has added crypto trading to its fast-growing SoFi Invest platform, as a response to demand from its over 800,000 members. SoFi Invest is now the first platform to offer automated and active investing with stocks, ETFs, and crypto through a single app.
Individuals can easily buy and sell several cryptocurrencies with straightforward, competitive commissions and no account minimums, as well as track the price movements of the world's most widely-traded digital assets, with more cryptocurrencies to be added in the coming months. SoFi secures all crypto holdings from fraud and theft.
"Feedback from our members has made it clear that a significant percentage are not only interested in learning more about cryptocurrencies but are also already buying and selling crypto," said SoFi CEO Anthony Noto. "We're very pleased to be adding this new product to SoFi Invest, as access, education, and keeping costs low for our members is at the heart of what we do."
SoFi Invest, released to the public earlier this year, offers both automated (robo-advising) and active investing (trading) with no fees on stock trading or account minimums. The launch of crypto trading comes on the heels of SoFi's introduction of its own SoFi-branded ETFs this Spring, which included the first two zero-fee ETFs on the market, as well as Stock Bits: the ability to buy and sell fractional shares in over 100 popular stocks and ETFs ranging from Apple and Amazon, to Alphabet and Tesla*.
Simcord – Ukrainian IT company, integrating digital assets into the international legal field
IT is confidently turning from a young area of the industry into a mature segment of economy, while the profit from progressive developments is increasing annually.
In particular, two years ago, IT services occupied the third place in Ukraine's export, but last year they already moved to the second and represent a fifth of Ukraine's export production volume. Local abilities of the country are pretty significant: Kharkiv and Lviv are leading among regional IT clusters, while Kyiv, Dnipro and Odesa are slowly strengthening their positions. We can state that Simcord, which is located in Kharkiv, is one of the activists in the field.
Simcord is mainly engaged in implementing hi-tech solutions for businesses and integrating blockchain technologies. However, these areas not only don't restrict the scope of the company's activity, but also give the opportunity to simultaneously work in other areas. In particular, the company develops software and progressive products: blockchain protocols and consensus algorithms; analytical platforms for processing high data volumes; hardware and software complexes for trading on the global financial market; websites, mobile apps on iOS and Android platforms.
Innovative models of servicing progressive business strategies stand out among the services provided by Simcord. First and foremost, they include: advice in the field of digital technologies on international financial markets; development of application programming interfaces; legal advice and supervision; organization of information security, etc.
Since the beginning of 2019, Simcord announced the start of works on integrating the term "digital asset" into the international legal field. In the article "Substantiation of the Term "Digital Asset": Economic and Legal Aspects", Simcord CEO Alexander Kud explains that digital asset is a certain value represented in digital form. It covers economic, legal, value and information components of a digital asset. The author notes that the emergence of blockchain and cryptocurrencies, which became phenomena in the economic field themselves, gives practical significance to the term "digital asset".
Aside from forming a clear definition of the term, Simcord, in association with the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, initiated the introduction of this term into the legal framework. Thus, they developed the document (de facto a test) for determining whether a blockchain token corresponds to a digital asset. Using this test, one can determine if any token is a digital asset based on its properties and correspondence to the criteria.
In September 2019, representatives of Simcord took part in the III International Legal Forum held at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, where they became the first IT company to participate in such event. For Simcord, the forum was yet another opportunity to demonstrate the entire potential of the Bitbon system in developing an information economy supported by the blockchain technology.
Representatives of Simcord gave several presentations, participated in the roundtable and panel discussion, where they comprehensively explained the essence and opportunities of Bitbon for the formation of the market of information resources and services. They discussed the nature of digital assets and defined the prospects of integrating them under new conditions. For representatives of economy, business and law, Simcord CEO Alexander Kud held a briefing on the relevant issues and presented the monograph "Digital Assets and Their Legal Regulation in the Light of the Blockchain Technology Development".
Simcord is the company that lives in the future and creates it today. This slogan allows constantly moving forward and actively building future plans. Now, representatives of Simcord are preparing to take part in the roundtable of the Research Center of Legal Solutions in the Area of Application of Distributed Ledger Technologies on "Standards of Blockchain Tools". Occasionally Simcord conducts briefings on the matters of digital and information economies, legislative process of regulating blockchain and development of the Bitbon system in the legal field.
Having analyzed the activity of Simcord, you can come to the conclusion that the company is consistently moving towards realizing its main idea, while at the same time striving towards the digitalization of economy along with Ukraine. The company successfully implements its ideas and is moving forward together with the global progress.
Nucleus Vision Launches Global Identity and Consent Blockchain Network
Nucleus Vision, an IoT & Blockchain technology company serving the retail industry, launches GIDC (Global Identity and Consent) blockchain network for consent-based data access management. The private multi-node blockchain network gives power to users to control who can access their data. Nucleus Vision announces the launch of this network at Genesis DevCon, a blockchain conference held in Bangalore, India, on 24 & 25 November.
Nucleus Vision addresses the challenges faced by brick-and-mortar businesses through a technological solution that is built using the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence technologies to provide knowledge of consumer shopping behavior and preferences in real-time for retailers. With data at the core of this solution, Nucleus Vision brings in Blockchain technology to ensure privacy and security.
Users can visit Nucleus Vision's block explorer to explore the private blockchain network that currently has five active nodes. Through a user interface developed by the company, users can manage access control to their shopping and behavioral data. Based on the consent of the users, the network executes smart contracts to allow information exchange among the businesses and data partners in the Nucleus Vision ecosystem. Users can also disable permissions to any particular party to access their data.
While unveiling the network at Genesis DevCon, Abhishek Pitti, CEO of Nucleus Vision, says, "The challenges with existing systems in the retail industry are creating opportunities for innovation. Especially, crucial aspects like Data privacy and Consent Management have prominent use cases for Blockchain. Though the availability of information has a lot to offer, lack of stringent security solutions gets in the way to leveraging the data and that's where Blockchain steps in. The launch of the GIDC blockchain network is a way-forward for Nucleus Vision to redefine consumer experience in brick-and-mortar stores."
About Nucleus Vision:
Founded in 2014 at Harvard University, Nucleus Vision (http://www.nucleus.vision) is an end-to-end technology solution that captures & provides previously inaccessible data to retailers and brick-and-mortar businesses through blockchain and real-time sensor technology.
BitMEX platform now in Trade-mate.io
Nowadays, the monitoring of all the statistics regarding exchange accounts and the management of all the potential forces that can lead to alterations, crucial data for all the traders, has become more accessible thanks to a well-known platform, called Trade-mate.io.
This platform constitutes the project of a very experienced team with significant contributions in the field of automated systems. In this platform, the traders can carry out exchanges either automatically or manually, and they can use Binance and Poloniex crypto exchanges as well. Other than that, the users can also benefit from the BitMEX trading platform via Trade-made.io, making their life easier.
Trading on BitMEX
BitMEX is a trading platform that provides to his users the ability to participate in the financial market worldwide by using the so-called bitcoins. This platform is the first one where investors are provided with crypto derivatives that give the possibility to execute transactions with a higher profit margin, with leverage up to X100.
Although, because of the emerging technical issues during the implementation of BitMEX via API have prevented many large exchange platforms of adopting it, that didn't dissuade the Trade-mate.io of integrated it, widening its users' potentials even more.
Minimizing the risk of loss
Even though the X100 leverage scenario is very attractive to all the traders, the risk of loss must not be overlooked. Even the most experienced traders are not fully protected from such a great risk ratio, as the price of the triggered order is too close to the elimination zone, which can lead to an X100 loss. On the grounds of that, Trade-mate.io has set an X20 limit at the trading leverage to protect its investors from a great loss of their deposits.
Cross-leverage hides big risks, as it uses all the available funds in an account's balance to cover an open position. If the price is moving in the right direction, the leverage will be reduced as well as the collateral due to the accumulated profit. Albeit, in the case, that the leverage will escalate, as a consequence, there will be a total loss of the initial funds. In other words, when the position is opened and the order is liquidated, the entire balance will be reset.
Because of its highly risky nature, the cross-leverage is not recommended for risk-averse investors. It may be advisable for risk-neutral users, as it offers the ability to calculate again the size of the leverage, which will vary within acceptable values.
Because of its high-risk nature, the Trade-mate.io does not support cross-leverage.
Why use Trade-mate.io platform
One of the most important features of the Trade-mate.io platform is the fact that an order is placed with a take profit and stop loss simultaneously and, they can be altered either automatically or manually, providing to the investor with the opportunity to make Smart Trade functions.
A Smart Trading process consists of two types of orders, the limit order, and the market order. In the first case, an order is placed at the price of interest and when it riches the specified level, the order is activated. In this case, the order is pending. In the case of the market order, the purchase or the sale of an instant market asset is made at that moment.
Trailing mode
The trailing mode is a Smart Trade's function that rearranges the orders based on the specified parameters, allowing the trader to minimize the risk and to increase his profits. Trailing mode consists of three orders:
1. Trailing take profit
In this case, the order parameters change the value of floating take profit and the default setting is 1%. As the price attains the level of the determined take profit, the take profit is being automatically moved to the set value until the price is no longer changing.
2. Trailing stop loss
The difference with taking profit is that, in this case, instead of taking profit, the taking loss is the one that is moved as the price increases and it remains stable when the price is decreased.
3. Trailing ladder
Here, as soon as an order is opened, the take profit and stop loss are triggered concurrently. In more detail, when the price approaches the first level of taking profit, the stop loss is moved to the break-even point. This will continue until the price crosses the stop loss line and the sell is activated.
It should be emphasized that this mode is not included in the BitMEX platform or any other crypto exchange.
Edit a task
In the trade-mate.io platform, the traders are also able to edit the current task without canceling it, unlike with other crypto exchange users where the users are obliged to cancel the old task in order to create a new one.
In the Trade-mate platform, the task can be edited before the order is been activated. The traders are able to cancel the task, to change it in case they want to sell cryptocurrency when the price has reached desirable levels or to average it. By this can be benefit traders dealing with leverage, as once they have created an order, they are able to edit it in the meantime, making the whole process more simple.
Last but not least, in this platform, the traders possess the ability to change even the control panel and to make it comfortable for them to use it. They can move the elements in the control panel and adjust them at the most convenient for them positions by just dragging them around the screen.
Copy on BitMEX
BitMEX gives the opportunity to its traders to copy trades from other trades, the so-called auto trading. In addition, traders who execute successful trading on the crypto market, they receive incomes from the subscribers. That's why Trate-mate.io selects only the traders with the highest ratings in order to guide others. Again, for the safety of its users, the leverage for auto trading will be no more than X5. In this way, liquidating balances are prevented.
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Solutions for the iron, steel & metal industry
Even though today KROHNE is a family business active all over the world, the company still has its roots in Duisburg, a city known for its steel industry. Companies such as ThyssenKrupp or the Krupp-Mannesmann smeltery now have some of the most state-of-the-art plants in the world. For years, KROHNE has been the trusted partner for anything regarding measuring technology in the iron, steel and metal industry and it has supplied the equipment for several plants in Europe, China, Korea and western Asia.
It is especially in the areas relevant to safety that plant operators put high demands on the reliability of the measuring technology. One example is the differential volume measurement in the cooling water circuits of furnaces using electromagnetic flowmeters. Traditional and yet still high-tech are the variable area flowmeters used for gas analysis on the furnaces. In addition to temperature measuring points in the high and low temperature range, several sophisticated level measuring points such as the filling of torpedo cars, iron pans and coke ovens or the monitoring of carbon, coke and ore bunkers are equipped with KROHNE devices. We offer our customers measuring technology solutions from one source, right down to analytical applications in industrial wastewater.


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There is more news coming out of Ecuador today. Overnight the protests in Ecuador subsided, but USA Today is reporting that the political situation still remains unstable and the country will remain under a week long state of emergency.
We cancelled our Thursday, Sept. 30 departure to Ecuador from Miami. The travelers effected will have their payments fully refunded. Of course they were disappointed at this news, but understood we would never send travelers into harm's way.
As for our nine Friendly Planet travelers were in Guayaquil, Ecuador last night, they were not able to depart for Quito to come back to the United States yesterday. We were in contact with the U.S. Department of State who told us that our travelers should remain at the airport and not go to a hotel.
Friendly Planet's Galapagos representative was with them at the airport the entire night, and I'm happy to report that the flight finally returned to the U.S. today. Everyone is safe, happy to be home, and glad they had the chance to see the Galapagos before the police strike.
As of this writing, we have reinstated our Oct. 3 departure to the Galapagos, as the situation in Ecuador has returned to its peaceful norm. While a state of emergency officially exists, the situation is calm, and the government is fully in control. The strike is over, and Ecuador is once again open for business as usual.
I will continue to update you with more news on the blog as I receive it. And as always, write to me or call 1-800-555-5765 if you have any other concerns.


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Efforts are underway to bring the African teen star of Rebelle to this year's Oscar bash.
Former street kid Rachel Mwanza is the celebrated actress at the heart of Canada's contender for the best foreign-language film prize.
Rebelle producers Marie-Claude Poulin and Pierre Even say they've applied for a visa to bring Mwanza to Los Angeles from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
They say the 16-year-old is eager to visit the glitzy celebrity capital, where she hopes to meet music superstars Beyoncé and Rihanna.
In Rebelle, also known as War Witch, Mwanza plays a 12-year-old girl who is abducted and forced to become a child soldier. The French-language drama, directed by Montreal's Kim Nguyen, is the third Canadian feature in as many years to compete in the best foreign-language film category.
The Academy Awards will be handed out Feb. 24 in Los Angeles.
"She's very thrilled with just the idea of maybe seeing Beyoncé or Rihanna on the red carpet," Even says from Montreal.
"That's her main goal in life. Hopefully one of these two singers will be at the Oscars so that she can get an autograph."
All that depends on whether Mwanza can secure a U.S. visa.
Even says an application was filed late last week at the embassy in Kinshasa but that Mwanza also needs to undergo an interview with U.S. authorities to prove she won't try to remain in the United States.
He hopes she can visit for about five days, noting that they plan on two days of post-Oscar interviews to promote Rebelle's staggered release in the United States, which begins March 1.
After that, Even says they hope to bring Mwanza north of the border for more awards ceremonies including the Canadian Screen Awards in Toronto on March 3 and the Jutras in Montreal on March 17.
"We believe (that) is a good thing to reassure the U.S. authorities that she won't stay in the U.S. because she's coming with us to go to the Canadian Screen Awards," he notes.
"She's going to be at many award ceremonies in a few weeks."
Mwanza also needs a visa to enter Canada but Poulin says she doesn't expect that to be a problem since the teen spent two months here last year when the film made its Canuck premiere.
Mwanza has also travelled to Berlin and Paris for other Rebelle screenings, which should help her application, the producers add.
The teen currently lives with fellow Rebelle actress Marie Dilou in Kinshasa, says Even. He, Poulin and Nguyen have promised to pay for her education and room and board until she turns 18.
"It was Kim's idea at first," says Even. "We still feel responsibility towards Rachel because she gave us so much with the film."
"I don't think we anticipated it," Poulin adds.
"We never had much discussion about it because it was natural for us to do that. And I guess in life you pick and choose your charities or who you help and what you do and this is one of the ones we're picking. (At the Berlin International Film Festival, Rachel) talked about how she was abandoned and then she looked at Kim and Pierre and I at the table and she said: And now this is my family. And I think it was felt by us as well."
Mwanza and her siblings were abandoned by their parents when she was young, notes Even. At age six, she ended up with her grandmother, who later lost her job.
"And she just told them: I can't feed you. You have more chances in the street than staying with me," says Even.
From there, Mwanza spent about three years on her own.
"The street children in Kinshasa are very common and problematic," says Poulin.
"There's hundreds of thousands of street children ... and unfortunately the older ones often become thieves and not such good people so we're very happy that Rachel, given her will and intelligence, that we were able to help her get out of that life."
Mwanza's life began to change when she appeared in a documentary that caught the attention of Nguyen, Even and Poulin.
From the moment he saw her, Even says he knew Mwanza was special, calling her "one in a million."
When he and Nguyen travelled to Kinshasa to meet her in person they were blown away again.
"She had an intensity that no other girls had and we decided to cast her at the time and she was living mostly on the streets," he says of Mwanza, who went on to win best actress awards at last year's Berlin International Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival.
Back then, Mwanza had never been to school and didn't know how to read or write. Things are different today.
"She sent me an email through Facebook at Christmas and I was amazed because she could write an email which is really something great," says Even.
"She's intelligent and she knows that she has to work hard because she's way behind other kids of her age. But she knows that and she really wants to learn because she wants to change her life and do something with her life."


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The Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development
SKF Sweden is one of the eleven regional companies in Göteborg, together with the City of Göteborg founded the City of Göteborg International Environmental Prize in 2000, which is now called the Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development.
The prize of one million Swedish Krona is awarded every year to individuals or organisations that have demonstrated positive progress towards sustainable development or created strategically interesting environmental projects, nationally or globally.
The sponsorship gives SKF the opportunity to communicate SKF's value to a larger audience about being a responsible corporate citizen and to foster great initiatives of environmental or social projects
The Göteborg Award for Sustainable Development is awarded to individuals or organisations in recognition of their work in:
- making more efficient use of resources
- promoting renewable raw material and eco-cycle solutions
- finding technical breakthrough or "system changes" of vital importance
- process promotional and contribution to an increase in environmental awareness and greater global justice through knowledge transfer and by influencing people's opinions
Winners of 2015 award
The 2015 theme for the Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development is The Energy Transition – Solar Energy and Energy Efficiency.
This year's prize in the area of solar energy is awarded to Jeremy Leggett and this year's prize in the field of energy efficiency is awarded to Peter Hennicke and Beate Weber-Schuerholz.
For more information on the 2015 winner, and on previous years' winners, please visit the Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development homepage.


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We're looking for images you've taken of your sky—whether those images are of galaxies captured through a telescope or perhaps pictures of an incredible night sky, an eclipse, a star party, or a rocket launch. We can't guarantee that we'll publish every image and story—but we will look at each and every one and will showcase as many as possible here on our website and a few might make it to our magazine, The Planetary Report. We look forward to seeing your Sky.
Recent activity on the Sun - 9 July 2018.
A capture of Messier 8: The Lagoon Nebula
Perseids Meteor Shower 2018 From Sharjah, UAE
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September 20, 2017
Dear Planetary Society members: It's very nice to meet you! There are three of us in this story: Zack, Giovanna, and John. The universe blows our mind! So does all the ways humans are exploring it. We never want people to lose the spirit of exploration and doing the impossible, like landing a person on the moon, and soon--hopefully--elsewhere. Currently we are trying to capture that spirit in a new documentary feature called WHEN WE WERE APOLLO. It features new stories from a few of Apollo's 400,000-strong workforce that have never been heard before. In the film, the Apollo generation ... more »
August 25, 2017
My name is Norman Ritter. I am a member of the Archenold observatory in Berlin Germany. Every time I look deep into the night sky with my 2 little sons and my wife, we are able to understand how precious life is on our earth. We are happy to also be members of The Planetary Society. Without Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dr. Josef Martin Graßner, and Bill Nye, our passion wouldn't have found its way up into the sky. With the help of the astronomy, I wish for everyone's daily view to change into the view of a star explorer.... more »
August 1, 2017
In 1950 or so, an article about the Haydn Planetarium appeared (in the NY Times as best I recall), featuring a presentation currently at the Planetarium about the future of space exploration. As part of its promotion of that event, the article contained a reservation form, to be cut out and returned to the Planetarium. It offered a choice of reserving a place on the first expedition to the moon or on the first expedition to Mars. I signed up for Mars, and mailed my reservation in to the Haydn Planetarium; I'm waiting patiently.
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OCT 2018: New resources for poi in aged care are launched. This quick start guide provides a framework for implementing poi programs in rest home and hospital level care.
JULY 2018: Kate was featured in the Unleash Your Potential Heroes Campaign, which showcases University of Auckland alumni who are innovators in their careers.
JUNE 2018: The first PhD on poi, health, and older adults was awarded from the University of Auckland to the now Dr. Kate Riegle van West. Click to read the full dissertation.
MAY 2018: Kate wins the Velocity Innovation Challenge Social Entrepreneurship prize for her innovative work in the field of poi and health.
APRIL 2018: A collaboration between Kate and the Selwyn Village Diversional Therapy Team has begun, to create a poi/health program and resources for Selwyn staff and residents.
NOV 2017: An interview with Kate is featured in the University of Auckland 2018 International Prospectus, representing "Research and Innovation at the University."
OCT 2017: "The exercise every over-60 should be doing." Tracy Adshead interviews Kate Riegle van West about the health benefits of poi for older adults in this article on www.oversixty.com
OCT 2017: Kate speaks about how learning new things (like poi!) can be fun and good for your health on 95bFM's Ready Steady Learn.
SEPT 2017: Poi research wins the prestigious Future Leader Award from The Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Researcher (ECR) Forum. The competition celebrates postgraduate students innovations and discoveries.
JULY 2017: TVNZ One News interviews poi study participant Marlene Stratton along with Kate Riegle van West to discuss the health benefits of poi for older adults.
JULY 2017: Radio New Zealand article weaves together scientific data and interviews with kapa haka performer Puti Mackey, poi research participant Jocelyn Fausett, and researcher Kate Riegle van West
JULY 2017: Hania Douglas from Te Karere, a New Zealand news and current affairs programme broadcast in the Māori language, interviews Kate and study participant Marlene.
JULY 2017: Te Kāea, Māori Television nightly news interviews Kate and her participants about the first research study on poi, and opportunities to continue poi / health research in the future.
JULY 2017: Dale Husband from Parakuihi Breakfast with Dale interviews Kate about her poi research study and the benefits of poi on physical and cognitive function in healthy older adults.
JULY 2017: Poi the 'gold standard of exercise for older adults' - Practising poi has benefits on physical and cognitive function in healthy older adults, an Auckland University study has concluded.
JULY 2017: Presentation at the Auckland University Professional Staff Conference on the trials and tribulations of following your passion, and how sometimes innovation and inspiration can be found where you'd least expect.
JUNE 2017: After a year and a half long clinical trial with 79 healthy older adults, the results are in! Both the Tai Chi group and the Poi group improved balance, grip strength, memory, and attention after one month of practice.
MARCH 2017: Making a living off of a ball on a cord isn't easy! Patreon is an ongoing crowdfunding site where you can donate as little as $1 a month and help support poi research, plus get exclusive updates and rewards!
JANUARY 2017: "How I overcame rejection to turn my love of poi into research: Kate Riegle van West had to battle to bring her circus life and her academic life together..."
NOVEMBER 2016: SpinPoi was a recipient of the 2016-17 Seed Grant Cycle from Fund the Flow Arts, a US-based nonprofit organization established to present and promote the Flow Arts globally.
NOVEMBER 2016: "A researcher who is looking into the health benefits of twirling a poi is in a spin after winning a hard-fought global thesis competition. Kate Riegle van West came all the way from the US to study at Auckland University..."
NOVEMBER 2016: Poi research and the 3 Minute Thesis competition win are featured in El Mercurio, a national circulation newspaper from Chile.
NOVEMBER 2016: Kate was awarded 1st place in the International U21 3MT competition! "From circus performer to award winning doctoral candidate...Kate's win reminds us that excellent students come from all walks of life."
SEPTEMBER 2016: Preliminary results of the poi and health trial were presented at the New Zealand Association of Gerontology 2016 "Making active ageing a reality" conference in Wellington, NZ.
SEPTEMBER 2016: Kate was announced the Doctoral Winner and the People's Choice of the University of Auckland 2016 Three Minute Thesis competition. She will go on to compete at the Asia / Pacific competition in Brisbane.
AUGUST 2016: "For many of us in the Flow Arts, we are aware there is a connection between spinning and our personal wellness. One of the people leading the way in this area is Kate Riegle van West..."
JULY 2016: Tim Wilson from TV ONE's Seven Sharp gives poi a go and speaks with Kate about International Poi's potential to keep older adults physically and cognitively fit.
JULY 2016: Kathryn Ryan from Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon program interviews Kate about the poi clinical trial, what she's found out so far, and implications for the future.
JUNE 2016: A pākehā from America studying poi? I am often met with confusion, curiosity, and sometimes skepticism when explaining my research on poi and health...
JUNE 2016: Seniors Newspaper speaks with Kate at the International Federation on Ageing 13th Global Conference in Australia, where she presented the preliminary results of the poi clinical trial.
JUNE 2016: Preliminary results of the poi and health trial were presented at two international conferences, the International Federation on Ageing 13th Global Conference in Brisbane, and the World Congress on Active Ageing in Melbourne.
JUNE 2016: A short documentary on the first clinical trial to measure the effects of poi on physical and cognitive function in healthy older adults. Click to view!
MARCH 2016: Forty healthy older adults began a clinical trial at the University of Auckland, to see if there is an effect of poi on physical and cognitive function.
JANUARY 2016: An article about the upcoming poi research study was released in local Auckland newspapers: "There are hidden health benefits behind one of the oldest Maori traditions. This is what student Kate Riegle-Van West is trying to prove..."
JULY 2015: Thanks to many generous donors, SpinPoi raised enough money to conduct the first clinical trial to measure the effects of poi on physical and cognitive function in healthy older adults.
MAY 2014: Kate and the Orbitar were featured in the Columbia College Chicago DEMO Magazine article "Top 20s: Alumni Making Their Mark in Careers They Love"
DECEMBER 2013: Kate performs with The Orbitar at TEDx Beacon Street, and talks about the power of poi as a tool for play, and its future potential everywhere from schools to nursing homes.
AUGUST 2011: The Orbitar is featured in the Electronic Art Gallery at Salisbury University during their "Summer Shorts" Exhibition.
MAY 2011: The Orbitar, a new digital instrument rooted in poi which creates live audio soundscapes, had its debut performance at the Stage Two Theatre in Chicago. Click to view a video of the show.
FEB 2011: As part of the New Media Caucus at the 2011 College Arts Association Conference, Kate spoke about The Orbitar on the Instrument as Artwork as Interface panel. Her research was also published in the Media-N Journal following the conference.
JUNE 2010: The Geometry of Poi, originally a 4 channel video installation, was a finalist at the International Digital Graffiti Festival in Florida, where it was projected life size on the side of a building during the festival.


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Tails will be added to Sonic CD, letting you take the role of the mutant fox for your second playthrough.
The Sonic CD port coming to various devices this year will include a little two-tailed extra. Tails, the sidekick fox who arguably started the trend of Sonic's overlarge cast of animal characters, will be available to play once you've cleared the game once. Though the game is highly regarded as one of the best classic Sonic games, Tails was conspicuously missing from the original.
Sega has still been quiet on a release date for the game, but recently announced that you can snag the game early with certain GameStop tablets. If you were already in the market for a Samsung Galaxy, Acer 100, or ASUS Transformer, and you're a Sonic fan, you can go grab one already and play the game early.
The game revolves around stopping Dr. Eggman as Sonic tends to do, but Sonic CD added the twist of a time travel element, letting your actions make stages easier or harder. It's due on PC, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows Phone. Of course, by its nature the game is named after an old and unimpressive storage format, but just accept that as a quaint part of its charm.
Steve Watts posted a new article, Tails being added to Sonic CD.
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The reality is, I don't know much about Ralph Holcomb. I am including this with the short biographies but the article is really about his funeral. He died in 1919 as a casualty of the First World War. Ralph Elliot Holcomb was born on October 9th, 1898 to Reuben T. Holcomb and Amber Fessenden. His parents were in Monticello, Wisconsin for a couple of years and then moved to Monroe. Reuben served as the elected Clerk of Court for Green County beginning in 1896 so it might be assumed that Ralph was born in Monroe. The Holcombs built a house on the 800 block of West Russell Street in the 1890's (now the 900 block of 10th Street). At that time, they were living at the edge of town on Monroe's northwest side. The house still stands today, though it has been substantially altered.
It might be assumed that Ralph lived a fairly normal late 19th/early 20th century childhood in the small, but bustling county seat of Monroe. There was plenty of open countryside for exploring, right near his home. It is also likely that the family paid an occasional visit to his uncle's farm in the Town of Adams where Ralph's father had grown-up. It would be easy to construct a Norman Rockwell image of his life but there were some hardships to endure as well. On the day after Christmas, December 26th 1902, when Ralph was just a few months past his fourth birthday, him mother Amber died at the age of 36.
Mrs. Amber Holcomb, wife of R.T. Holcomb, former clerk of court, died at her home in Monroe Friday, aged 36 years. A little son and little daughter are left with the husband to mourn their loss - from the Albany Vindicator (01/01/1903).The Holcomb home was a bustling place in those days. Amber's mother and sister and Reuben's mother would live with them at various times in the first decade of the 20th century. The larger extended family meant more helping hands before and after Amber's death. Also, after she died, Reuben would venture to western Iowa for three years, though it is unclear if the children went with him. In 1906, he returned to Monroe with a new wife and a baby. We can only speculate what the effects of these trials and tribulations might have had on young Ralph but he seems to have overcome them all and grown into a well respected young man.
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|The coat of arms of the 13th Field Artillery Regiment. Created in 1916, the
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" . . . It is fitting that citizens of Monroe should give public recognition to this world war hero . . . he deserves every honor we can bestow upon him, for he died for us. He made the supreme sacrifice and what does that mean? He gave up everything dear in this world, the only things that he kept being an honorable name and hope of immortality . . . He was one of 100,000 Americans who paid with their lives that we might live in safety. He died in the cause more heroic than Tennyson's ten thousand, more worthy than the 600 who died at Balaclava, greater than the one for which 300 died at Thermopylae. He died in the most heroic and sacred of all causes, that of the angel in man against the beast in man, henceforth he lives not in body but as one of the immortals. He lives in the memory and hearts of his countrymen. Whether we live or die, the only life really worth while is the life given in some great cause. He was a volunteer in a great and sublime cause and is now one of the 'Choir Invisible' whose music is the gladness of the world . . . "
The Reverend went on to read from Paul, ". . . for I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day . . . "
And then he continued his oration: " . . . It is hard to give up those whom we have loved, it is hard for us all. We would have it otherwise if we could. There is some comfort, however, in the thought that he died in the great cause and that his name is inscribed with the imperishable ones of this republic who died for freedom and liberty . . ."
|Ralph Holcomb is buried near other family members at
Greenwood Cemetery in Monroe, Wisconsin
Research Notes: Much of the information for this post was found in a newspaper article from the Monroe Evening Times (January 14, 1919). Additional information was obtained from the United States Census and other web-based and local sources.
This is one of a series of short biographies of individual ancestors. These are undertaken, from time-to-time, when enough information becomes available about an individual.


text: In the first game of the finals, it seemed that Karma was on the side of Humpherys. Fuller only needed a bounce spell to walk away with the win, but cycled through ten cards without seeing one. Worse yet, he had nothing in hand afterwords. This let Humpherys Upheaval and gear up for Psychatog victory. But it was all a sham. Fuller's micro-library was jam-packed with action, and he ripped the cards he needed to undo Humpherys's team and win with a Psychatog. With that, it was clear that this was Ryan Fuller's weekend. He smashed in a similar fashion in the second game, despite stalling on four land early. Congratulations to Ryan Fuller, San Diego's Masters Champion!


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Number of people travelling to Switzerland for assisted suicide doubles over four-year period
* Switzerland has liberal euthanasia laws
* Germans, Britons make up two-thirds of cases
* Neurological diseases most common reason for ending life
Two Irish people were among more than 600 who died by assisted suicide between 2008 and 2012.
The number of foreigners travelling to Switzerland to commit assisted suicide doubled over a four-year period, a study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics has said.
In 2012, 172 foreigners took their lives in Switzerland, which has liberal euthanasia rules, up from 86 in 2009, with citizens from Germany and Britain making up almost two-thirds of the total, the study found.
Assisted suicide has been legal in Switzerland since the 1940s, if performed by someone with no direct interest in the death.
"Mercy killing" is also legal in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and some U.S. states but remains illegal in many countries, pushing some terminally ill people in those coutries to travel abroad where they can be helped to die without fear of their loved ones, or doctors, being prosecuted.
Courts in Britain, France and the European Court of Human Rights have been struggling with the delicate issue in recent months.
Neurological conditions, such as paralysis, motor neurone disease, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis were the decisive factor in almost half of the cases examined in the study.
A rise in the number of foreign assisted suicides has provoked heated debate in Switzerland. In 2011, voters in the canton of Zurich rejected proposed bans on assisted suicide and "suicide tourism". A year later, the national parliament voted against tightening controls on the practice.
An analysis of the 611 cases between 2008 and 2012 found people from 31 countries were helped to die in Switzerland during the period. The median age was 69.
Nearly half came from Germany, while 20 percent were British. Other countries in the top 10 included France and Italy, which both saw particularly steep rises.
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I sit here today like many others across the nation watching the weather event taking place in the Northeast. My thoughts go to the children. Although I grew up in "tornado alley," weather was rarely a distraction. With all of the talk about global warming and one dramatic weather event after another, it seems these topics are as oppressive for young children today as the Bay of the Pigs was for me as a child.
The adult talk in nervous, hushed voices frightened me as much as the black and white granular news coverage or the school safety drills at school. I wonder today how children are managing the glaring, relentless coverage (in HD) of the world's weather challenges.
"Googling" the phrase "kids and weather" results in a fascinating array of Web sites sharing the sad, threatening realities of our weather today. Reading through these pages, I realized many of the messages are the same as one finds on the news pages for adults. That said, I found reading the messages designed for kids had a much greater impact on me. Maybe that is because I was seeing the messages through the eyes of a child. If we viewed our global weather challenges through the eyes of children, would we not be doing more?
Regardless, I hope we are paying attention, preparing, and planning to keep our children safe — not only today but in the future. The small child in me says: "work harder."
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— Jordan Young, LA/OC Theatre Examiner
— Paul Brenner, AMC Film Critic
The Snark Ensemble is an instrumental group dedicated to the creation and live performance of new music to silent film. The ensemble joyfully celebrates the zany, clever, and brilliant world of vintage silent comedies in its specially-crafted film scores. Built around a core of three composer-performers (Andrew Earle Simpson, keyboards; Maurice Saylor, woodwinds; and Phil Carluzzo, percussion and frets), the Snark Ensemble creates and performs scores which respond to and amplify the events taking place on screen. To the composers of the Snark Ensemble, each film suggests a unique sound world. To this end, the multi-instrumental talents of the ensemble's composers and guest performers allow them to draw on an astonishing range of instruments and stylistic diversity. The ensemble also creates and performs concert versions of their film scores and has supplied music for dance and incidental music for theater.
Since its founding in 2005, the members of the Snark Ensemble have composed and premiered more than thirty silent film scores for DVD release and live performance. They recently recorded three of their scores for a forthcoming audio release on Naxos Records. Snark Ensemble scores are available on two DVD sets on the Allday Entertainment label: Lost and Found: the Harry Langdon Collection and the newly-released Becoming Charley Chase.
You can see clips from the films and hear the complete scores on our Sounds & Sites page.
The ensemble is named after Lewis Carroll's epic nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits.
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Some social media users are telling supermodel Gigi Hadid to stick to her day job.
Hadid, who along with former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Jay Pharoah hosted Sunday's American Music Awards, is taking fire for impersonating future first lady Melania Trump during the opening minutes of the broadcast.
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Puckering her lips and speaking with a thick foreign accent, Hadid took shots at Melania Trump for her alleged plagiarizing misstep during the Republican National Convention.
"I love my husband...President Barack Obama..and our children, Sasha and Malia."
Some condemned the impression as simply unfunny, while others went a step further, claiming it was racist.
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Spring 2011 New York Fashion Week: Rodarte
Rodarte Goes Wearable, Commercial for Spring 2011
>> Just weeks after rumors of a possible acquisition by LVMH came up, Rodarte shows their most wearable, commercial collection ever. As WWD notes: "One can't help wonder if [in light of those rumors], this was their merch-meets-Mulleavy audition."
Inspired by Northern California, its redwood forests, and its cultural links to Japan and China, Laura and Kate Mulleavy sent out parquet-printed dresses — "We've been sending wood panels to Italy for the prints," Kate explained — and blue and white floral china-patterned gowns that had a Eastern quality to them. "We wanted the dresses," Laura said, "to look like vases." Kate added: "There are a lot of different elements [and] this is our amalgamation." They created all the fabrics themselves.
Kim Gordon, Spike Jonze, Kanye West, and Elijah Wood were all present for the spectacle, and friend of Rodarte Autumn de Wilde was busy filming for the brand, as guests were warned. Afterward, Eric Wilson writes, the designers "could not even take their bow before they were overwhelmed by a rush of editors and retailers praising them to the heavens."


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In a statement, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Lynne Yelich, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, cite an ''unpredictable security environment.''
They say Canada's chargé d'affaires and Canadian diplomats in Tripoli will temporarily work out of the Canadian embassy in Tunisia.
Libya is witnessing one of the worst bouts of violence more than three years after the downfall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Libya's interim government, which relies on militias filled with rebels who battled Gadhafi's forces for security, now finds itself unable to rein them in.
On Saturday, the United States also evacuated its diplomats from Tripoli to neighbouring Tunisia and shut its embassy.
"The government of Canada takes the safety and security of our diplomats abroad very seriously," said the joint statement from Baird and Yelich.
They stressed this decision is based solely on security concerns and Canada ''remains committed to supporting Libya's democratic transition.''
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya and the International Committee of the Red Cross have already withdrawn their staff as well.
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Here's a reconstruction of what allegedly happened when Steve Jobs was caught with shurikens at Kansai Airport. OK, it's actually a reconstruction of how we all imagined it. And even while they denied it, Steve could still be a ninja.
Let's think about this again: Apple denied that Steve was caught with ninja stars at Kansai International Airport, Japan. Assuming that's the truth - because we all know Apple never ever lies - they didn't say he wasn't a ninja. They said he wasn't carrying ninja stars, which is actually a sign that he may be a real ninja, because a real ninja will never be caught alive with his stars.
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Karma Thegsum Chöling (San Diego) is a Karma Kagyu Buddhist meditation center under the direction of the Ven. Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche. The center offers an environment in which to study and practice meditation and other Vajryana Buddhist practices as well as providing support for the local Buddhist community.
KTC San Diego is an Affiliate Center of Karma Triyana Darmachakra, the North American Seat of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, head of the Karma Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist Lineage
Weekly group meditation is held Sundays and Thursday evenings, and is open to the general public. Buddhist meditation instruction is also available free of charge.
KTC (san Diego) hosts visiting Lamas for teachings and other special events, holds regular practice and study programs and works to expand our knowledge of the Dharma for the benefit of our members and all sentient beings throughout limitless space.
Karma Thegsum Chöling (San Diego) was founded by His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (1924 – 1981) during his visit to San Diego in 1977 on his second world tour. For a number of years Lama Ganga served as the resident lama.
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|"Karma Thegsum Chöling" is a Tibetan name meaning "Place of the Buddha's Teaching of the Three Vehicles of the Karma Kagyu Tradition."


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Chrissy Metz, a breakout star from NBC's "This Is Us," has made it her mission to inspire others through her role as Kate - and now through a provocative photo shoot with fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar.
"When I first heard Harper's Bazaar wanted me to be sexy, I was like, 'Who, me?'" she said to Harper's Bazaar.
In her photo shoot, Metz posed in retro pin-up girl garb. Despite the insecurities her character deals with on the show, Metz tells Harper's Bazaar she has found new self-confidence that has helped her learn to love herself.
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"If you can't love who you are now, you can't get to the place you want to be," Metz said. "It's a daily lesson for all of us. I'm paving the way for other women and men who know they're destined for greatness but they don't believe it yet."
The significance of Metz posing in a high fashion magazine is not lost on her. While the fashion industry has long championed slimness, she thinks the narrative can change now.
"There's more room for all of us now—no matter our sexuality, race, body size, gender or whatever else," she said.