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I've started putting together a list of #fediverse apps, focused on implementations of #ActivityPub, documenting their status and what tech stack they're (being) built with: https://ethercalc.org/fediverse-stacks
This is a publicly editable doc, so would appreciate corrections/additions, and feedback especially from fediverse devs, but also from instance admins and users:
- What app/implementation/stack did you try?
- Pros/cons you encountered
- What stack & libraries would you choose if starting today?
PS. We've been talking with @bhaugen and others about the need for a generic agent-centric #ActivityPub server, so that instead of signing up to a bunch of different servers, a user could have their indentity and data all in one place, and all the apps they use (clients, but if necessary server-side "plugins" as well) would interact with the activity/objects types that they support.
What do you think?
@Antanicus @cwebber @aaronpk @deadsuperhero @aral @mayel
> imagine your identity is stored on a server that goes down when you most need it.
1. That's a problem in any radically decentralized architecture. SSB handles it by gossip replication and resyncing, that is tolerating offline situations.
2. Can also happen in a federated architecture like Mastadon where your identity is stored on one server with a bunch of others. That server can also do down.
@bhaugen @mayel @aral @deadsuperhero @aaronpk @cwebber
> That server can also do down
- it sure can, but social.coop going down will not affect any other instance. But what happens if a hypothetical identity.social service holding the identities of thousands of users across the whole fediverse goes down? I'm not being negative, I'm just curious :)
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@Antanicus @cwebber @aaronpk @deadsuperhero @aral @mayel
Now (just talking and thinking stage) is the best time to be negative.
> a hypothetical identity.social service holding the identities of thousands of users
That's not what I am thinking about, anyway. I'm thinking about combos of people who host their own identity and community-oriented servers that might host identities for community members who do not want to host their own.
@mayel @aral @deadsuperhero @aaronpk @cwebber @Antanicus
So not that different from the fediverse that exists, and compatible with the fediverse that exists.
@Antanicus @cwebber @aaronpk @deadsuperhero @aral @mayel
When I looked at Pleroma instances, I saw a lot of single-person self-hosted sites.
@Antanicus @cwebber @aaronpk @deadsuperhero @mayel @bhaugen
See https://datproject.org for a non-VC-funded alternative
@bhaugen @Antanicus @cwebber @aaronpk @deadsuperhero @aral @mayel I'm not interested in identity (singular), controlling it or otherwise. But I do want to build tech that protects personhood and however many identities we decide to have :)
@aral @mayel @deadsuperhero @aaronpk @cwebber @Antanicus
We're also good with multiple identites, but if we want to have one identity and use it in lots of AP contexts, we want to be able to do that. And we are definitely looking for a P2P architecture.
@Antanicus @cwebber @aaronpk @deadsuperhero @aral @mayel @bhaugen No different than social.coop going down. A generic AP server would host the Actors and their posts snd followings. Unless you had client-side caching like an email client, you will lose access to your data, and you certainly can't send/receive.
@Antanicus @bhaugen Not necessarily. That would be a distributed system as opposed to a federated one. ActivityPub is not meant to be a database in itself, it's a traversable graph that can be converted to a local database.
You could have a DHT that resolves to a changing URL, but that doesn't really address availability of the content by itself. You'd need a replication strategy like primary/secondary, and then point to URLs so that they can be tried in-order. Out-of-scope with current AP spec
@bhaugen @Antanicus @cwebber @aaronpk @deadsuperhero @aral @mayel That's why you have an always-on node. I'm exploring the use of DAT for that. See https://ar.al for posts on Web+ and a step in that direction.
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In the next episode of Dobutsu Sentai Zyuohger, the new deadly newcomer finally announces himself as a champion of justice and he will be called Zyuoh The World!
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This cause Ginis send Azarudo & Cubaru to attack 4 Zyuman & capture traitor extra player, Zyuoh The World.
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...thanks for the spoilers. Just when we're expecting a longer story arc for The World as an enemy.
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Did you see this past episode? If so, I would watch again, because I'd say it was made painfully obvious the fighting was over.
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After a definitive downward trend through the first half of 2019, vehicle sales appear to have reached a bottom in Canada, turning modestly higher in the third quarter, according to a report released on Wednesday by TD Economics.
But the bank, in its Canadian Auto Outlook update, said year-to-date sales are still down 3.8 per cent through the first nine months, averaging 1.98 million units (seasonally adjusted annualized rate) and it expects sales to hover in the two million range through 2020.
"From a regional standpoint, sales are down across all provinces, except for Prince Edward Island (+4.4 per cent year to date). Through the first eight months of 2019, the largest decline has been in Manitoba (-17.9 per cent year to date)," said the report.
"Sales declines across Alberta (-5.5 per cent) and Saskatchewan (-2.2 per cent) have been more modest, not surprising given the sharp slowdown in sales across each of these provinces last year as both were still recovering from the 2015-16 oil price shock.
"Across Ontario (-4.1 per cent year to date) and British Columbia (-6.4 per cent), the weakness in auto sales can be partially tied to last year's slowdown in housing activity following the implementation of the B-20 (mortgage) stress test."
The report said Canadian production has also slowed through 2019, with year-to-date assemblies down approximately six per cent.
"While some of the pullback can be attributed to the permanent wind down in production at GM's Oshawa facility, a slower pace of assemblies across other automakers as a result of retooling is also to blame," it said.
"With the U.S. General Motors strike now in its fourth week, supply chain disruptions are already having an impact on Canadian operations. Production across Oshawa's Line 1 and 2 has already come to a halt. Ingersoll is still running, though at limited capacity. With inventories starting to dwindle, production will be forced to stop over the coming weeks. The impact to overall Canadian output has, so far, been small. However, should the strike persist for the next few months, we estimate that it could reduce Canadian GDP by as much as 0.3 to 0.4 percentage points. With GM having already announced that it will pull forward the timing of when 2,100 Oshawa workers will be laid off, it is assumed that any production lost at this facility – roughly one-third of quarter four GM production – would not be recouped."
TD said the Canadian economy finally managed to snap out of a two-quarter slump with a rebound of nearly four per cent (annualized) in the second quarter.
"However, much of the strength was due to one-time factors (i.e. an easing in oil curtailment, surge in aircraft exports), while final domestic demand has contracted in three of the past four quarters. We see little durability to the prior quarter's performance. Growth for 2019 is forecast at 1.5 per cent, before rising to 1.6 per cent in 2020."
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Posted on 7th August 2017
The second issue of this season's Non-league Magazine is published this week and the FSF feature once again.
Posted on 7th August 2017
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
With the new season underway, many non-league clubs will once more be relying upon volunteer fans to keep their match days running. FSF's National Game Development Officer Andy Walsh tells us more about our partnership with The Non-League Magazine which celebrates those volunteer-supporters…
With the Premier League's domination of the sports news bulletins and front and back page column inches, it is sometimes easy to forget how much quality football is played in the lower leagues.
It is a fact worthy of some contemplation that many thousands of football fans are at games every Saturday watching teams with little chance of winning even half their matches this season.
The Non-League Magazine celebrates and catalogues the fortunes of the players, supporters and club officials at clubs in those leagues that sit below the top four professional divisions.
This season the FSF has teamed up with the editorial team behind the magazine to bring the goings-on in the lower leagues to a wider audience of football fans.
We hope that supporters will enjoy the read and we would encourage all football fans to take a closer look at non-league football and maybe even seek out a match to attend close to home. We believe that football at the amateur and non-league level is a hugely important part of our football culture and we can all play a role in keeping this level of football alive.
The strength of our professional and semi-professional game is a testimony to the country's love affair with football.
Sporting endeavour is part of our culture and the opportunity to watch and play football outside of the top four divisions is kept going by the dedication and commitment of an army of football supporters who volunteer at clubs.
The dedication of these supporters and volunteers gives players and coaches teams to play for. Clubs are sustained by a rich and interesting hotchpotch of people from ordinary backgrounds who will throw themselves at the coming season's challenges for little more than the love of the game; selflessly expending an extraordinary amount of creativity and energy just to keep things ticking along.
Two long-standing League clubs will be thrown into the non-league mix this season as Hartlepool United and Leyton Orient look to improve on recent fortunes.
Supporters of both clubs have been used to watching their team lose more than their fair share of games of late and they will be hoping that the painful shock of relegation brings a change of fortunes. Both clubs will find themselves in some familiar company as they line up against a number of other former League clubs. Supporters and club officials from both clubs will be harbouring hopes of bouncing straight back up but as both teams found out on Saturday it won't be a cakewalk. An increasing number of clubs in the top two divisions of non-league are better resourced than some clubs higher up with many players now full-time professionals.
The newcomers will be welcomed but they will need to respect the competition if they are to achieve any level of success.
The Non-League Magazine is packed with information across its 118 full colour pages. Orient fans will find a smiling picture of their former owner on page 107!
There is an introduction to the anorak of football shirts who has almost 2,000 shirts in his collection. Features on last season's non-league success story at Lincoln City and interviews galore with players and managers across the game from Salford City and Macclesfield Town to the likes of Silsden and Phoenix Sports.
Fans at supporter-owned clubs; Hereford and City of Liverpool talk about their experience of being involved in running their clubs. There are book reviews, historical retrospectives, and the obligatory ground-hopper piece.
Give it a go; it won't cost you a penny and you may find some startling factoid to stun your mates with next time they prattle on about the cost of Neymar's new house.
Thanks to Matthew Wilkinson for the image used in this blog. Reproduced here under Creative Commons license.
The second issue of this season's Non-league Magazine is published this week and the FSF feature once again.
This season we've teamed up with The Non-League Magazine to promote the role and impact supporters can have at non-league level. The FSF's Andy Walsh tells us more about what's in this month's edition – a digital version is free to FSF members here…
This year we're backing The Non-League Paper's National Game Awards and our National Game Development Officer, Andy Walsh, is here to tell you all about it…
Alongside Supporters Direct we'll be holding the inaugural 'National Game Network' meeting on January 20th 2019 at the Mechanics Institute Conference Centre in Manchester.


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Some readers of this blog will be aware that I have sometimes been critical of so called "insiders" who provide us with details of their "knowledge" of what the government knows about UAP (see my comments about Ed Mitchell for an example.) It was therefore of special interest to me, when I came across another "insider", when re-reading Leslie Kean's book "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on The Record" (Published by Harmony Books. New York. 2010. ISBN 978-0-307-71684-2.) (Click here.)
Commander Will Miller: (click here)
Retired from the U.S. Navy, part of Miller's credentials, as cited by Kean, are:
"He later became a senior Department of Defense command center operations action officer, a senior intelligence analyst, and a program manager for DoD future operations programs such as WWIII planning, non lethal weapons systems and future space systems. He was an advisor to US space command and US Southern Command and its international counter drug operations; Joint Inter agency Task Force east. As an expert in special contingency operations, Miller held a Top Secret Clearance with Sensitive Compartmental Information (SCI) access..." (p.234.)
Kean mentions that Miller "...had his own sighting from a Naval vessel while serving near Vietnam." (p.234.)
Through the 1980's "I was simply a concerned officer who studied the subject, looked at the facts, and talked to people in the military...People with personal knowledge would seek me out because they knew I had an interest. I've done this for a long time." (p.234.)
In 1994 he retired from the Navy. He "...began taking steps to set up a series of information briefings that culminated in meetings in 1997 with Vice Admiral Thomas R Wilson, vice director for intelligence on the Joint Staff (click here) and in 1998 with Lieutenant General Patrick M Hughes (click here) , director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)..." (pp234-235.)
Kean writes "He explains that he raised two national security concerns at his briefings: the risk of uninformed human aggression towards UFOs, leading to a possible disaster, and the government's disregard for public concern about UFOs and its refusals to provide honest answers to legitimate questions." (p.235.)
According to Kean, "Throughout the years, as he continued to speak with his contacts, he became more and more concerned of the existence of a well-concealed, "need-to-know" UFO program, based on statements that he says confirm this fact, made by military personnel attending his Pentagon briefings and others." (p.236.)
Miller himself, in a 2009 email to Kean writes:
"The 'control group' cannot allow any information on their closely held UFO research to be accessed by anyone outside of those specifically cleared for that Unacknowledged Special Access Program (USAP). Neither Joint Chiefs of Staff Intelligence nor the director of the DIA himself could get ANY information on the subject; this is a fact." (p.236.)
After typing the above material, I asked myself if we had ever had any Australian "insiders" who claimed that there was an ongoing secret Australian UAP study?
I'll take a moment to think back over the years....No, I cannot think of anyone in the RAAF; CSIRO; DSTO or the intelligence agencies who has come forward making this claim.
On the other hand, an Australian insider named Ken Llewelyn, a RAAF Senior Public Relations Officer, wrote a 1992 book "Flight Into the Ages" about government knowledge (click here.)
Bill Chalker, writing about Llewelyn in the recent book "UFOs and Government" (Swords, Powell et al. Anomalist Books. San Antonio. ISBN 19 33 66 55 80. click here ) says:
" When asked about the perennial charges of cover-ups, he said he had such regular and sufficient contact at high levels in the RAAF to be certain that there was no evidence of hidden cells of high power in the UFO mystery...that as of 1992, the current intelligence head was emphatic that there had been no real interest since 1984..." (p.411.)
Final comment:
Anonymous and named "insiders" abound on the Internet. Their stories initially, may sound credible and amazing. However, deeper checks almost inevitably reveal problems.
An examination of aspects of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) from a scientific perspective.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
"Insiders" and their knowledge
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Corn, also known as maize, has been intertwined with humans since it was domesticated in ancient times. First cultivated by the Aztecs and Mayans, the crop spread from the Americas through Europe in the 15th century and onto the rest of the world. For almost as long, people have worked with corn to develop new ways to grow it under less-than-perfect situations. But as The Christian Science Monitor reports, scientists have accomplished something that could make the cultivation of corn infinitely easier: researchers have cataloged 95 percent of the corn genome.
The discovery, partially funded by the USDA, will help scientists determine what genes can be used to improve crop efficiency or allow the plant to survive during hard times. The corn genome was found to be around 32,000 genes within 10 chromosomes. (Humans have 20,000 genes within 23 chromosomes.) Dr. Richard K. Wilson is the director of Washington University's Genome Center and leader of the study. As he told Science Daily, "Now [seed companies] will know exactly where those genes are. Having the complete genome in hand will make it easier to breed new varieties of corn that produce higher yields or are more tolerant to extreme heat, drought, or other conditions."
Other experts like Dr. Molly Jan, U.S. deputy undersecretary of agriculture for research, education, and economics, agree that this discovery is "an enormous advance" for the planet, which is now largely dependent on corn. Essentially, understanding the genome will allow for stronger plants and larger crops. Today, 332 metric tons of corn are grown just in the United States. Much of it is eaten, but parts of corn can be found in beauty products and more. Ethanol fuels are also derived from corn.
Jan also points out to The Christian Science Monitor that an increased understanding of corn may lead to greater environmental protections. Corn may be developed to take up less nitrogen from the plants soil. This will lead to a lesser need for fertilizers, and therefore less dangerous runoff into our waterways.
Some experts believe this revelation will also have long-term effects in combating disease. Virginia Walbot is a molecular geneticist at Stanford University, and she spoke of the sequencing to the Washington Post. According to Walbot, "The fact that example after example of these unexpected phenomena are also at work in mammals suggests that scientists interested in things like human diseases would be well-served to pay attention to what's happening in plants, and in corn in particular." The human genome was mapped in 2003 by U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.
For further reading:
- Plant scientists build a Sears catalog for corn genome
- Amaising: Corn genome decoded
- Scientists have high hopes for corn genome


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Sometimes when I imagine something I'm able to capture it exactly.
Then after I work out all of the maths involved…
I cut it straight out of fabric and I see my dreamy thoughts in reality.
I really like that.
Sometimes when I imagine something I'm able to capture it exactly.
Then after I work out all of the maths involved…
I cut it straight out of fabric and I see my dreamy thoughts in reality.
I really like that.
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Every Sunday night I remember that I need to go to work on Monday morning. I always reflect on how much sewing I might be doing on a Monday if I didn't go to work. Then I try to do that much sewing before I go to bed.
Every Monday morning I drag myself awake and vow that I will go to bed earlier on a Sunday in order to start the week well.
By the following Sunday my vow is forgotten and I repeat the process described above.
I've returned to my triangles.
I've finally cut them all out and started laying them out on my design floor.
When I finished I was in love.
It's so lovely that I started stitching them together immediately.
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This week I've worked quickly to finish this quilt.
It's all bound and ready…
just in time to give to Harry as he begins his final undergraduate vet rotations.
I hope it keeps him warm and helps him study for his final exams.
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As always I'm in a hurry and a flurry.
The fabric that arrived last week has been cut and stitched into blocks.
Those blocks have been stitched into rows.
Those rows were stitched into a quilt top.
The whole thing has been quilted…
and approved by the quality controller.
Onto the binding.
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I have managed to break five sewing machine needles in one week. All I did was sew over a pin and… crack, another one gone. I have always pinned through my seams perpendicular to the direction that I'm sewing. Generally my machine needle would just push the pin aside, but my new machine is a little more sensitive about pins.
My very clever friend Julie told me that I needed to buy Clover super fine quilting pins.
These little beauties are much thinner than regular pins and very, very sharp. They ease right into the seams and best of all…
I manage to stitch right across them, machine needle intact.
Thanks Julie. You're a pin whisperer.
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Some lovely new fabric arrived via mail.
I've already drawn up a new design and have my rotary cutter at the ready.
It'll be a busy few days ahead.
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Flat to weaker trade at midday.
Corn trade is 1 to 2 cents lower at midday, with light two sided trade to start the week with harvest likely to expand more in the short term. Harvest will expand with local conditions slowing action in some spots, along with soybeans taking priority in others. Ethanol margins are stable coming into the week with futures slightly higher this morning.
Basis remains flat to weaker with anticipation of more inbound bushels soon with still pockets of localized strength. South American corn planting but is running behind normal with mixed weather views at this early juncture in the Southern Hemisphere growing season. The weekly export inspections remain soft at 531,744 metric tons. Weekly crop progress is likely to show steady conditions with maturity and harvest progress still well off the normal pace.
On the December contract support is at the 20-day moving average at $3.87 1/2; the market is trading just below at the 10-day at $3.92 at midday. Chart resistance is at the upper Bollinger Band at 4.04.
Soybeans are narrowly mixed with trade moving back to the upper end of the range again with harvest pressure likely to return into the beginning of the week. Meal flat to 1.00 higher and oil narrowly mixed. Crush margins remain solidly positive, along with trade remaining overbought. The real is slightly weaker vs. the dollar this morning.
Bean basis should see pressure as combines continue to roll. South America should make more progress this week and into the second half of the months with some weather issues remaining and planting pace solidly behind. The weekly export inspections were solid at 1.296 million metric tons. Weekly crop progress should show steady conditions with harvest moving past 1/3 complete when it should be past 1/2.
On the November chart support is the 10-day at $9.30 with the upper Bollinger band at $9.50 as resistance.
Wheat trade is 2 to 7 cents lower with Chicago the downside leader after early strength evaporated. The Chicago/Kansas City December spread is 96 cents with trade hitting new highs again to close last week before narrowing slightly overnight. Remaining spring wheat will likely not be cut at this point.
The corn/HRW spread has widened back to 40 cents from 13 cents at the recent low, working wheat back out of rations. Export action continues to be dominated by Black Sea origin, but their prices have firmed while Australia remains dry. The weekly export inspections improved at 565,099 metric tons.
Weekly crop progress should show planting nearing 85%, with the first condition report possible. The December Kansas City chart support is the 10-day at $4.21 with the 100-day at 4.39 the next level up with the upper Bollinger band right at $4.35.
General Comments
The U.S. stock market is flat to higher with the Dow up 60. The dollar index is 7 higher. Interest rate products are firmer. Energies are weaker with crude down $0.50. Livestock trade is mixed. Precious metals are mixed with gold down $5.50.


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In the fall of 2006, one day after the Justice Department granted permission to a U.S. attorney to place a wiretap on a Republican congressman suspected of corruption, existence of the investigation was leaked to the press — not only compromising the sensitive criminal probe but tipping the lawmaker off to the wiretap.
Career federal law enforcement officials who worked directly on a probe of former Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) said they believe that word of the investigation was leaked by senior Bush administration political appointees in the Justice Department in an improper and perhaps illegal effort to affect the outcome of an election.
At the time of the leak, Renzi was locked in a razor-thin bid for reelection and unconfirmed reports of a criminal probe could have become politically damaging. The leaked stories — appearing 10 days before the election — falsely suggested that the investigation of Renzi was in its initial stages and unlikely to lead to criminal charges.
In fact, the investigation had been ongoing for some time and had already amassed enough evidence of alleged criminal misconduct to obtain approval from the highest levels of the Justice Department, including then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, to seek an application from a federal judge to wiretap Renzi. In February 2008, a federal grand jury indicted Renzi on 36 felony counts of money laundering, extortion, insurance fraud and various other alleged crimes.
Renzi didn't run for re-election in 2008 when his blatant corruption finally lead to criminal charges. His trial has been delayed to September of this year. But he barely managed to retain his seat in 2006 by downplaying the investigation, even though his corruption was well known to anyone paying attention.
One of the reasons that I began this blog was to attempt to fight against Mr. Renzi, who represented my district. I dedicated pictures of tattoo'd pigs to him, and I'm only too happy to revive the tradition. There have been a lot of corrupt congress critters, but he was consistently among the worst. The entire Shrub administration acted as a crime syndicate, and Renzi was a typical rethug criminal who belongs in jail.
So have another pig, Mr. Renzi. I'm looking forward to the trial.


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Wearing Your Health on Your Sleeve
How big data from mobile apps and sensors may revolutionize healthcare
My phone buzzes. It's Mood Matters, a mood-tracking app developed by the startup Ginger.io. "We notice you haven't logged any recent physical activity," it alerts me, linking to an article about the connection between depression and exercise. I glance at the band on my wrist, a Fitbit fitness tracker that's unrelated to the app, and see that I've only walked a measly 800 steps today. I scroll over to see my heart rate—at least I'm relaxed, I think. I scan my to-do list and then stand up for a quick walk around the block. Each step I take, eventually, is relayed to the cloud and stored as a bit of information in a data center with all the other steps people are taking around the world, forming a massive data set describing when and how we move.
Right now, that data set—the vast amount of information already collected by mobile health devices—is mostly looked at through the lens of very basic statistics to answer questions of curiosity. How many steps do American Fitbit owners walk, on average? Which occupations are most active? Whose heart rates spiked during the Super Bowl?
There's a vision for the future, though, that is far more complex.
In this future, devices on our wrists, in our phones, or tucked in our pockets are more than step-count monitors. They track all aspects of people's health and act as part-counselor, part-physician, part-coach, alerting us to health concerns or spurring us to make lifestyle changes. Patients could be alerted if they have signs of impending heart failure, worsening Parkinson's disease, or a low blood sugar crash—among many other things. Moreover, as devices funnel increasingly large amounts of information to the cloud, they give scientists a rich and ever-changing platform to use for research—letting them make new connections between facets of people's behavior and health that have never been linked before.
Many of the arguments in favor of the increasing use of mobile devices to monitor patients center around preventive medicine—the idea that many chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease can be prevented by changing people's diets or exercise patterns, saving healthcare systems vast amounts of money.
"It's easy to give a pill, it's straightforward to do a procedure, but to change patients' behavior is the holy grail in medicine," says Alan Yeung, MD, La Ka Shing Professor of Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine. "Phones, together with wearable devices, can for the first time provide some objective evidence of behavior." And once researchers understand what influences behavior they can set to work changing it.
"The ultimate goal is to improve health outcomes for people," says Ray Browning, PhD, associate professor of health and exercise science at Colorado State University. "We have a lot of chronic disease in this country that's preventable with changes to behavior."
Today, mobile fitness devices are exploding in popularity, but we're only a small way toward that vision coming true. "We're at the very beginning of mobile devices starting to impact how medicine is being practiced," says Eric Topol, MD, a Scripps Research Institute cardiologist who has written extensively about the technological future of medicine. He thinks the slope toward full adoption likely has a hockey stick shape. "We're starting to get closer to that rapid rise."
Interviews with a handful of researchers and companies who are pushing the field forward suggest that, while many of them are making lofty promises for the future, challenges remain: showing the clinical utility of devices and apps through not just anecdotes but well-designed clinical trials; getting both doctors and patients alike to buy into the use of the devices; and developing new computational methods to parse the steady stream of data from the mobile device fire hose.
Get Moving
In the decades-off vision of wearable health trackers, devices on our wrists or in our pockets can collect all sorts of data about our breathing and our eating and markers in our blood. But for now, the majority of wearable medical devices are fitness trackers that rely most heavily on one piece of data: our movement.
"The lower-hanging fruit in the field right now is physical activity data because it's so ubiquitous," says Ida Sim, MD, a co-director of the Biomedical Informatics Institute at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as an investigator with Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K), an NIH-funded Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Center of Excellence. "The thing being measured is a physical quantity and it's pretty easy to represent and to calibrate between devices."
Devices like the Fitbit, or numerous phone apps, rely on accelerometers to tell users how much they've walked each day. Tiny crystal structures embedded in these devices sense movement—as your arm swings or your body moves up and down in a tell-tale walking pattern—by detecting changes to the direction they're pulled by gravity. Then, they transmit a voltage relaying this information. It's a relatively simple and cheap technology these days—the accelerometer in the latest iPhone has an estimated cost of 65 cents and the gyroscope (a similar technology that detects the tilt of the phone) costs less than two dollars.
But—at least until now—that step count has rarely been linked to real health advice beyond the idea that more activity can help you lose weight and lower your overall odds of a plethora of obesity-related chronic disease. Now, though, that's starting to change. Researchers are now seeking meaningful associations in the data deluge from early adopters, with the ultimate goal of showing that their app or device of choice can make people healthier or less likely to develop conditions like heart disease.
Yeung, with colleagues at Stanford, has developed MyHeart Counts, one of the apps that Apple is touting as the future of its smartphone and smartwatch-based technologies. When you download MyHeart Counts—as roughly 26,000 people did in the 24 hours after Apple's latest press conference on its new open-source ResearchKit—you're asked a series of questions on your lifestyle and family history of heart disease. Then, using the iPhone's movement sensors, the app records your every motion for seven days.
"Using the gyroscope and GPS on the phone, you can easily tell whether someone is just sitting around or whether they're being active," says Yeung. If someone has time, they can also take a six-minute walk test—their phone records how far they are able to walk in that time period. It's a classic test that's been used by cardiologists for years, but usually relies on a stopwatch and marks along the edge of a long hospital corridor. With the phone app, users can perform the test anywhere, and at the end, MyHeart Counts provides each user with a calculated "Heart Age." "A person signing up might be fifty years old, but we might calculate that their heart health is more like that of a sixty year old," Yeung says. Again, this computation is not new—it is based on existing data published by the American Heart Association—but the app makes it more accessible and understandable to the average person. Yeung hopes it will motivate people to set a goal of lowering their heart age.
Like many other devices and apps, though, the challenge with MyHeart Counts is proving any sort of clinical utility. Generally, to show that patients benefit from an intervention (whether it's a drug, a counseling session, or a device), researchers have to show that people who use it have less disease—or longer lives—than those who don't.
For now, Yeung and his colleague are tracking whether those who continuously use the app—and get reminders to exercise—see a decrease in their computed heart age. Eventually, they'd like to test out the app in patients who are at higher risk of heart attacks, for example those who have diabetes or have had heart bypass operations. Could an app tracking their behavior signal which of these patients need doctors' visits or new medication strategies?
"If we evolve the app to be more clinically relevant, we'd like to give it to every heart patient at Stanford," Yeung says.
The question remains whether reminders on an app or device are sufficient to motivate behavioral change, says Browning, who collaborates with Stanford's Mobilize Center on a project that will apply new analytical techniques to movement data from devices and apps.
"I've never heard of a person who says, 'The reason I don't have a more active lifestyle is because I don't have a wearable activity monitor to tell me how active I am,'" Browning points out.
He says that it will take massive public health campaigns—ones he likens to anti-smoking campaigns—to get activity on people's radar. Until then, the majority of the population that already doesn't spend much time exercising isn't about to pick up a fitness tracker and start working out, he says.
Inside Your Head
If tracking movement with the aim of preventing obesity, diabetes, and heart failure is the low-hanging fruit in mobile medicine, then tracking movement with the aim of detecting downward spirals in depression is the next branch up. People who are depressed are less likely than usual to call and text friends, more likely to stay home, and less likely to exercise. And these are all things that can be detected by a smartphone's call logs, text message records, and gyroscope using an app such as Mood Matters from Ginger.io.
"Of course everybody deals with depression slightly differently," says Joe Grimberg, head of marketing at Ginger.io. "But clinically we know that social isolation and physical lethargy are markers of depression."
By giving clinicians access to day-to-day trends in patients' activity levels, the app is designed to detect when caregivers should intervene to help patients who have depression, as well as guide psychiatrists' conversations with those patients, Grimberg says.
They've partnered with psychiatrists at the University of California, Duke, and other medical research centers to test out what happens when clinicians can see the daily behavior patterns of their patients. Each institution has launched slightly different trials using the app, targeting different patient populations. Those pilot studies are ongoing. At the University of California, San Francisco, teams of psychiatrists and nurses are interacting with hundreds of depressed people who were recruited online, treating them and following their moods with no face-to-face visits. Instead, doctors and nurses receive alerts if certain behaviors are flagged—if a patient reports that they're hearing voices, or feeling suicidal for instance.
For now, the flagged behaviors that Ginger.io uses to alert a medical team that it's time to call a patient are based on previous knowledge of psychiatric disorders. Eventually, though, Ginger.io could use their data to find new "flags" that inform clinicians of how their patients are doing. So far, most of the data collected by Ginger.io—showing that the app can, in fact, gauge depression severity—has been published in the form of patent filings or presented at meetings. The Ginger.io team and their collaborators, however, are aiming to publish more recent studies on the effectiveness of interventions in peer-reviewed journals. In pilot studies, Grimberg says, they've gotten overwhelmingly positive feedback from both patients and providers.
"The great thing about the smart phone as a medical device is that it's already a part of most people's daily life," Grimberg says. "Ninety percent of smart phone users have their phone within three feet of them all day."
And an app like Mood Matters is more accurate at capturing a patient's mood than a questionnaire in a psychologist's office, the company has found—not only because of its activity meter, but because of its built-in questions and journaling function, which give more frequent insight into a patient's feelings compared with reports gleaned at occasional in-person appointments.
Data from All Sources
Alex Markowetz, PhD, a computer scientist at the Universität Bonn in Germany, says that it's not just smartphones that hold the power to reveal someone's behavioral trends—it's all the computers we interact with every day.
"Theoretically, we can track any human-machine interactions," Markowetz says. "A smartphone works, but so does your email client, or World of Warcraft, or Skype, or your car or your fridge."
Markowetz's group has already developed an app called Menthal Addicted that tracks people's smartphone usage, hoping to pinpoint factors that make people more prone to becoming addicted to technology. Now, they're teaming up with clinicians to make Menthal Depressed, which, like Ginger.io, uses a person's phone to detect depression; Menthal Skilled, which requires users to complete a simple cognitive puzzle to unlock their phone and could pinpoint the earliest signs of dementia; and Menthal Dopa, which uses a phone's accelerometer and gyroscope to detect hand tremors and track the severity of Parkinson's disease over time.
All the Menthal projects, Markowetz says, are geared around the idea of getting more constant data about a patient's life to inform a clinician.
Right now, the typical clinican has two ways to get information about a patient: a questionnaire or an office visit. But these isolated data points present a tiny fragmented view of mental health, Markowetz says. "They are just poor ways to steer medication or therapy."
To develop each Menthal app, Markowetz closely analyzes how skilled doctors assess the symptoms of patients they see. He then tries to recreate that using sensors and the right computational analysis.
"A doctor might say, 'I noticed that a patient was slouching and looking downward and that made me think they were depressed'," Markowetz says. "So then I say, 'okay what sensors can we use to determine someone's posture and the direction of their gaze?'"
But finding such sensors isn't necessarily easy. For example, there's no device to measure slouching right now, although Markowetz suggests that a head-mounted device like Google Glass might work. In any event, it can take many iterations of programming and analysis to fine-tune the data signature that points toward a behavior—differentiating slouching from nodding, or eating from drinking, for instance.
And making technology applicable to healthcare requires more than the right sensors and computational methods, Markowetz adds. Sensors need to be unobtrusive and require little buy-in from the patients. If you ask someone to fill out a questionnaire on their smart phone every day 365 days a year, they're going to get tired of it quickly. Likewise, if you ask someone to wear a soap-bar-sized sensor on their forehead while they sleep, it likely won't last long. It will take small devices that require no input from users to truly make mobile medicine applicable to the whole population, Markowetz says.
Beyond Step-Counts
The technology to detect a person's steps may now be ubiquitous, but to make mobile medicine more broadly useful—beyond the prevention of obesity and depression—will take not only the most unobtrusive sensors, but sensors that can detect physiology and measures of health beyond movement.
About five years ago, Emre Ertin, PhD, an electrical engineer at Ohio State University who is also part of MD2K, developed AutoSense, a sensor suite that contains a one by two inch sensor that is worn on a person's chest. It is designed to track levels of stress by measuring the electrical activity of the heart as well as a person's breathing rate, temperature, and movement. As it records the data, AutoSense streams it to a cell phone.
In 2012, Ertin's research team turned to developing a stress sensor that works wirelessly without touching the skin. The device they came up with could fit in a pocket and used radio waves to sense a person's heart and lung motion. But there was a problem: The sensor was too sensitive to changes in water content. "Wireless waves don't move well through water," Ertin says. For measuring stress, this was an annoyance: The team had to figure out how to make the sensor give consistent readings even if the body's liquid levels changed. "But then we got an idea," Ertin says. "Maybe we could use the sensor to monitor lung fluid levels in congestive heart failure patients."
Almost a quarter of patients hospitalized for congestive heart failure are rehospitalized within a month, and more than half within six months; it's a number that doctors are always trying to lower. But it's tough to predict which patients will have recurring problems. A sensor monitoring fluid in the lungs (a telltale sign of heart failure) could help pinpoint these patients early.
As part of MD2K, Ertin's group is collaborating with clinicians to use the wireless monitors to track patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Like heart failure, COPD is characterized by fluid in the lungs.
Some at MD2K, using sensors similar to those Ertin has developed, are working on detecting when cigarette users smoke. "There's a very particular gesture and breathing pattern that goes with smoking," Ertin says. MD2K-affiliated researchers at the University of Massachusetts developed RisQ, which uses a wristband to detect smoking behavior with 95.7 percent accuracy. Such data might provide a patient (and his or her doctor) with hints as to when they're most likely to pick up a cigarette, he says, helping tailor interventions that work.
Many challenges remain. At the 2014 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, for example, Santosh Kumar, PhD, of the University of Memphis—a long-time collaborator of Ertin and the director of the MD2K center—presented data on attempting to use his sensors to detect when drug addicts took a dose of cocaine. But training a device to recognize cocaine use wasn't quite as easy as smoking. A person's heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing patterns change when they use cocaine. But they also change for any number of other reasons—exercise, fear, stress, and other drugs for instance. The data Kumar's team collected—922 total days (over 22,000 hours) of data from drug users—was incredibly noisy. And they had to figure out how to clean it up enough to find meaningful trends without losing the signal of the cocaine use. It took multiple iterations of modeling, statistical analysis, and data processing to get the data to this point—and in order to detect all cocaine events, the researchers still had a false positive rate of 1 per day. "In conclusion, detection of cocaine use from physiological measurements collected in the field setting is challenging," Kumar and Ertin, together with the student (lead) authors, wrote in the paper describing the work.
Sifting Through the Data Dump
For now, most mobile medical devices are designed to measure a piece of data that doctors already know they want—and has already been correlated to clinical outcome. Doctors already knew that lung fluid helps predict congestive heart failure, for instance; now they just have a new way to track that. And psychologists already knew that less active patients are more likely to be depressed.
But one promise of mobile medicine—at least for basic researchers—is that the vast amounts of data being collected can help reveal connections that clinicians don't yet know about. It's mobile medicine as a discovery tool.
"There's definitely this thought that because we have all this data, eventually we'll learn something from it," says Sim.
It's what online giants like Facebook and Google have already been able to do in other realms by tracking the online activity of people—discover what makes one person more likely to click an ad for a restaurant and someone else more likely to click an ad for a movie. Doctors want to do the same thing for healthcare: Ask what it is about a person's data footprint that can predict whether they'll get sick or whether they'll respond to a treatment.
"We can take all of these data points and find trends in them," says Joe Kvedar of Harvard Medical School and the Center for Connected Health. "It's what other industries have already done with complex, ever-changing data feeds."
For now, though, that data pool just needs to grow. Is there such a thing as "too much data?" Most of the researchers interviewed for this story answered that question with a resounding no.
"There's certainly no such thing as too much data right now," says Markowetz. "That's the paradigm shift that's happening. Right now, you collect data because you can and because data storage is cheap. And then at some point later, you can say 'I have all this data, I wonder if it can help me answer a new question?'"
As long as researchers can keep up with managing the data, Topol says, there will always be a place for it. "There is this concern about TMI, too much information," says Topol. "And that is something that can be preempted by really great algorithms and analytics that filter out the signal from the noise and get the critical elements out of the data."
But sufficient data for researchers, Sim points out, might be too much for consumers or their doctors. "For individual patients and clinicians, there most definitely is a problem of too much data," she says. "We're almost there already." One key to moving forward, she suggests, is targeting the right data pools to the right people—clinicians might not need to see everything that researchers see, for instance.
A Common Language
As the data pool grows, another challenge emerges: the need for data from different devices to be standardized and compared.
When Sim orders a potassium level on a patient, for example, she doesn't care whether GE or Siemens produced the machine that measures it. "The data has to be device-agnostic," she says. "I can't be dealing with what machine the number came from." Likewise, if she wants to get information on a patient's daily activity for the past month, Sim doesn't want the information from a Fitbit to be presented to her differently than the information from an iPhone.
The priority for tech companies, Sim points out, is to find their niche, market their product, and keep their data proprietary. But for researchers and clinicians, data that's in different forms depending on where it's from isn't useful.
"All these people who are trying to get data from multiple sources, and across heterogeneous platforms are starting to see the value of standardization," says Sim, who is a co-founder and a principal scientist of the non-profit Open mHealth, which aims to design an open, common language for health data.
Open mHealth has already outlined an initial set of suggestions for standardizing such mobile sensor data, and Sim says they've garnered some interest from tech companies who want to learn more.
"People see the need for an open standard," she says. "We're only three years in and we're already getting traction. We'll be rolling out more this year."
The Tech World Meets Healthcare
Many of the mobile medical devices discussed here promise to give individuals more power over their own health. But mobile medicine also promises to ease the burden on our healthcare system by giving doctors tools to be more efficient, helping clinicians make the move toward truly personalized medicine, and providing platforms for clinical trials. But for this to happen, doctors and nurses will have to buy in to the power of wearable sensors.
"Doctors are not particularly enamored by many of these tools because it's a challenge to their control which has been in existence since the beginning of the profession," says Topol.
Changing their minds will require technology that's easy to use. "If you go into a doctor's office with a huge stream of EKG data that's been collected 24 hours a day, there's not much they can do with it," says Ertin. Software is needed to summarize these huge streams of data into a form that clinicians will find useful.
Yeung, as he moves forward with MyHeart Counts, imagines an algorithm that summarizes how each patient's heart health is doing—a green light means they're doing well, a yellow light might warrant a call from a nurse, and a red light would indicate the need for a virtual doctor's visit to discuss changing medications or approaches.
"This kind of system needs to be created to take the workload away from the physician," Yeung explains. "I could easily be following ten thousand or more patients anywhere in the world and only seeing the ones that need to be seen, rather than following fewer patients and scheduling frequent visits with all of them."
For the Menthal apps, Markowetz always aims to get a single number that captures a patient's status. "What if I had a single number that's your Parkinson's severity number per day?" he asks. "Now, I can chart this over the past six months, and that's something that really tells a doctor how you've been."
One day, healthcare may move this way. Rather than wait for your annual exam to have a doctor test the status of your health, you get daily updates, reminders, and notifications about your own body and behavior. When it's needed, you'll be alerted to contact your doctor who will have a plethora of information at his or her fingertips to diagnose and treat you.
"This is going to be a whole rebooting of how medicine will be practiced to benefit the consumer," Topol says.
An App a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
This spring, consumer electronics giant Apple went from being an intermediary in the mobile health market—their iPhones could track steps or host third-party fitness apps—to being a major stakeholder. Apple's jump into the big time could mean good things for those who want to see mobile health go mainstream.
"Personally, I'm excited to see the Apples and Googles and Samsungs of the world take on preventive healthcare," says Ray Browning of Colorado State University. "You're talking about a lot of horsepower all of a sudden being thrown at these problems. And these companies are historically highly successful at changing behaviors."
In March, Apple unveiled ResearchKit, which aims to transform the way data for clinical trials is collected. ResearchKit launched with five apps—including MyHeart Counts which tracks cardiovascular disease (see main story). Other apps log patients' symptoms of diabetes, Parkinson's disease, asthma, and breast cancer. But the power behind ResearchKit is that the data isn't just for patients' own curiosity—it's linked to research programs that want to use the data to answer questions about diseases. The Wall Street Journal reported that in the first month of availability, more than 60,000 patients signed up for the apps—essentially volunteering themselves as clinical subjects.
Then, in April, Apple announced a second major collaboration: a partnership between Apple, IBM's new Watson Health Cloud, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic. Together, the companies are launching an effort to tailor data storage and data analytics to clinicians. The data they try to harness will be drawn not only from ResearchKit, but from Apple's earlier HealthKit, the basic suite of fitness apps that comes pre-installed on iPhones.
Already, a survey by Reuters news agency found that more than half of the top US hospitals have rolled out pilot programs using HealthKit. With patients' consent, doctors can view data collected by their smartphones and add it to electronic medical records. Google and Samsung have also launched collaborations with hospitals and medical record providers to pair their software more closely with clinicians. Like all mobile health efforts, however, it remains to be seen whether buy-in from these major tech companies can not only streamline the way data is collected, but change patient behaviors.


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It was a few days after the disastrous provincial election of 2008, when the entire Class of Edmonton Alberta Liberals 2004 went down to unexpected (and unwarranted) defeat at the hands of the inexplicable Ed Stelmach juggernaut. We were gathered for an ill-timed leader's dinner, the big fundraiser for the ALP. I opted to leave politics before the public made the choice for me (retiring undefeated, as I like to say), so I was in marginally better spirits than everyone else. But I could feel the pain in the room.
I went up to shake Rick Miller's hand to commiserate, but he would have none of it: he insisted on a hug.
"Brothers don't shake hands," he said as we embraced. And he was serious, too. The crew of Edmonton newbies elected in 2004 — Bharat Agnihotri, Bill Bonko, Mo Elsalhy, Bruce Miller, Weslyn Mather, Jack Flaherty, Rick and yours truly — were a brotherhood (no offense, Weslyn). We had less than four years together, but we really did form an unbreakable bond, the kind of lifelong friendships that you normally develop in high school.
Now we've lost one of our brotherhood … and not just any member, but the heart and soul of our little group. Rick Miller, the former honorable member of the Alberta Legislature for Edmonton-Rutherford, died on Saturday of prostate cancer, criminally young at only 53 years.
If you drew up a list of everything you want in a politician, Rick would have had every attribute. He was in it for all the right reasons. While I was at best ambivalent about being in politics, Rick Miller loved it, every minute of it. He loved the meetings, he loved the constituents, he even — God help me — loved being in the Legislature.
On the occasions when we opposition tried to stop the unstoppable government with marathon, all-night-and-into-the-morning sessions, Rick was always there. Personally, I thought the whole thing was foolish, and I did my best to avoid them. Rick, being our whip (the guy in charge of the caucus) insisted that everyone be involved in the marathons, even guys like me who preferred to be home in bed at 4 a.m. rather than 'debating' whatever the issue of the day was. He wasn't afraid to phone in reinforcements (that would be me) at 4 a.m. to get my sorry butt into work.
But I would never hold it against him, because you couldn't get mad at Rick Miller. He was really one of those one-in-a-million people that everybody liked, because he genuinely liked people in return.
And he was fun. He loved to bend the elbow with the brotherhood in Bonko's office/bar. He liked a good cigar (an oxymoron in my view), and he loved going to Cuba, which may be where he got his cigar habit. Even in the Legislature, which I saw as The Unhappiest Place on Earth, there were a few Rick inspired laughs. One day, another MLA (I believe it was Raj Pannu, the longtime NDPer who could go on at length about anything) had just finished a long and impassioned speech about something. When Raj was done, it was Rick's turn. Quickly assessing the situation, Rick rose to his feet, and said "What he said", and sat down. It brought the house down, and was the best speech I heard in the Legislature.
Another time, Rick was going on and on about something, and I was kind of listening. After a while, I noticed Rick was wandering, and not really making any sense (rare for him, common for others). In mid-speech, he turned around and said to me, "I have no idea what I'm talking about".
While I was miserable in politics and fairly miserable at it, Rick loved it, and was great at it. He was pretty damn good at life, too. He was the kind of guy who just enjoyed living, and made the most of his far-too limited time on earth. I'm richer for having known him, and the world is poorer for having lost him.
For a photographic look back at Rick's days as an MLA and friend, check out Earl Woods' blog.


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Rancho Cucamonga Divorce Settlement Agreement Lawyer
When two parties decide that they want to agree on everything, they need to sign some kind of document that lays out the terms of the divorce and what happens after it is completed. Typically, a family law lawyer will help you to draft one up or review it if your spouse already has a divorce settlement agreement drawn up, so all the terms are met and the law is satisfied. The divorce settlement agreement clearly lays out everything that has to do with the divorce, including child custody and visitation, alimony and child support, and division of all property and debts jointly held by the two people getting a divorce.
A Lawyer in Rancho Cucamonga Can Create a Divorce Settlement Agreement for You.
We always recommend that a lawyer be involved whenever you do anything that has long-term or short-term legal ramifications.
A family law attorney can draw up the paperwork, making sure your best interests are taken care of and that the letter of the law is followed.
This document will become the governing document for your interactions with your former spouse after the divorce has been finalized, including important things like when each of you sees the kids and who owes what in terms of child support or alimony.
It is never wise to draw up this document yourself.
When Can We Reach a Divorce Settlement Agreement?
There is really no time frame for reaching a divorce settlement agreement and a lawyer in Rancho Cucamonga can help you decide when to file and finalize.
Some people come in to the family law attorney's offices having already decided how they want to settle everything on the first day, and this makes drawing up the document really easy.
Other couples will go through the entire process of mediation and contested divorce proceedings, and they will get all the way to the doors of the courthouse before agreeing to certain things.
In most cases, there is less heartache and cost associated with signing a divorce settlement agreement before going through a trial.
It is, however, important to allow your family law lawyer to look at any document before you sign it to ensure that you are not getting a bad deal.
Is a Divorce Settlement Agreement Binding?
A divorce settlement agreement is, for all intents and purposes under the law, a legally binding contract. This means that everything you agree to, with the help of your family law attorney, you will be required to follow.
Deviations and changes to the contract may only happen with the approval of the other party – your former spouse – or if you are willing to go to court and have something changed. You should know that unless there are extreme mitigating circumstances, a judge will typically stand by the agreement you signed.
It cannot be stressed enough that you should never sign this kind of an agreement or draft one up without your family law lawyer involved. What you say and what you agree to are things you will have to live with for a very long time, so it is critical to have the expert legal advice you need beforehand.
Wouldn't It Be Cheaper to Hire Just One Lawyer in Rancho Cucamonga for Our Divorce Settlement Agreement?
This is where people often fall victim to naiveté. As a matter of law, one attorney cannot represent both sides in a contract negotiation. This would be intrinsically unfair to one party.
The same holds true for family law, and since the divorce settlement agreement is a legally binding contract, it is not advisable to hire a single attorney to draft the proposed settlement agreement.
This is because the attorney will be working for one of the parties, and so the other party stands at a distinct disadvantage.
If it is your spouse's attorney, their job is to give them the best deal, and you could be signing something completely unfair to you.
If it is your family law lawyer, you risk your spouse coming back one day and contesting the entire agreement based on unfair treatment or not having adequate legal representation.
The easiest way to avoid all this is to hire two separate lawyers.
Can a Lawyer in Rancho Cucamonga Change the Original Divorce Settlement Agreement?
As mentioned earlier, you can indeed, although there is a process involved. Couples who find a way to get along after the dissolution typically can work on whatever schedule they want, as long as they agree. It is when they stop agreeing that a family law attorney needs to be involved.
If you want substantial changes made to the original divorce settlement agreement, it is best to draw up documents to that effect and have both of you sign them.
If you do not agree on some of the changes or provisions, then you could find yourself in front of a judge, who will make a ruling on the changes.
A word to the wise: before signing a divorce settlement agreement, it is rare for a judge to change the original agreement unless one party can demonstrate a severe change in circumstances, typically of the financial nature.
Contact a Rancho Cucamonga Divorce Settlement Agreement Lawyer
If you are going through a divorce and have come to certain terms, you should call 909-466-7661 to speak with The Law Office of Laurence J. Brock for a consultation about a divorce settlement agreement. You can also contact us HERE.
A Rancho Cucamonga Divorce Settlement Agreement Lawyer can make this often stressful situation much easier to bare.


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This year's art curriculum is all about exploring different careers in the arts. I wanted to make sure students learned a variety of different options as well as make sure it was organized in a way I could manage all of my 10 grade levels. So that's where my Monthly art themes come in. Each month we have a different category to explore. All of my classes explore this theme in different ways and different levels.
October's theme was Architecture. Here is just a few of the projects that were created.
Students designed their own dream playgrounds after looking at some of the craziest from around the world! They also practiced cutting out their shapes with scissors.
First Grade:
Students made some 3D houses from boxes and paper towel rolls to create these colorful houses.
Second Grade:
Students took a look at contemporary illustrator and artist Marz Jr. They also looked at Buffalo Architecture icons to help make these drawings. Do you recognize any of the white buildings?
Fourth Grade:
We looked at Victorian Houses to help inspire these foam prints. Since it was close to Halloween, some of them decided to add some spooky twists.


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Interview with Tom Feltenstein and Gary Moore
Gary and Tom talk with Jim about the importance of reintegration of the spiritual aspects of life into the marketplace.
Category: Work-Life, Balance
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Jim talks with Tom about how to acquire and maintain balance in your life. Specifically, they discuss what Tom calls "The Art of Being You", getting the most out of yourself.
Jim interviews Tom about how to successfully merge our business life and spiritual life. Tom explains how to accept ourselves, and identify different ways to measure success apart from material things. He and Jim talk about "Four Walls Marketing", how to be more successful by paying attention to our "internal customers", our employees.


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JanIT necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 73 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
We would like a stand-alone logo for our product "økokjøring" Meaning fuel efficient driving in Norwegian.
The product is training to drive more fuel efficient - using mobile learning (m-learning).
After the m-learning period participants will have real driving training session with an instructor.
The target audience are environmentally focused employees' in Norwegian companies.
The logo should be environmental/green.
Elements to consider; car, part of a car, mobile, part of a mobile, road, leaf or other.
The logo must be elegant ("less is more"), clean, relatively compact, but also creative and memorable.
The logo will appear on web page, mobile-page and print. The logo should be legible in colour (preferably pos and neg). Black and white is not necessary.
The product name for the logo is "økokjøring" (use "ØKOKJØRING" or "Økokjøring" if you want to). We would like a horizontal logo with "økokjøring" on the same line – but you can divide the font layout into "øko" and "kjøring" (no space).
Looking forward to your designs!
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Since every even vaguely tech-oriented blog on the face of the earth has already pointed to Mark Zuckerberg's blog post on Beacon, I won't bother to suggest that you go read it, but take a look at what Lauren Weinstein has to say on Google, Facebook, users, and corporate ethics.
As I was reading the items above, I was reminded of a conversation that I had a couple of months ago: a friend was making the case that Google's unofficial motto of "don't be evil" was a surprisingly effective tool for keeping the company on course. The thinking went something like this:
Looking at evolutionary biology you have your "phyletic gradualism" people and your "punctuated equilibrium" people; phyletic gradualism proposes that evolutionary changes take place steadily and gradually, where punctuated equilibrium instead proposes that such changes take place mostly in quick bursts, with long, relatively static periods in between. Basically, most evolutionary biologists are either "creeps" or "jerks" on this issue.
One can look at corporations in a similar way. Relatively few companies set out to be evil; while there are certainly examples of "fuck all of you, we're looking out for number one and everybody else can go screw" organizations out there, in the overwhelming majority of cases companies—like the people who make them up—basically want to do good. So how do we end up with so many companies doing so many ethically questionable things? That's where the creeping and jerking comes in…and it's the creeping that we need to pay the most attention to.
There isn't much you can do about the jerks. When the minutes from a board meeting read "John Doe presented to the Board a plan to secretly dump toxic waste in playgrounds around the city, for approval, whereupon motion duly made, seconded and unanimously adopted, the plan was approved as presented in Exhibit A," you've got a clear jerk into evil territory, and the people involved are well aware of what they're doing.
The creeping, however, is more insidious. Little decisions are made every day, and—precisely because they're little decisions—it's easy to cut a little slack when making them:
"I'm not sure this is a great idea, but it's just a small change."
"We'll just see how it works…we can always change back."
"It's not really that different from what we do now."
These little decisions pile up over time. A company can (metaphorically speaking) wake up one morning and find that it's doing evil, without ever having made a single really evil decision. And the really big gotcha in the creeping evil scenario is that while it's hard to stop doing evil in any situation (hence the existence of organized religion), it's even harder to stop when you don't know how you started doing evil in the first place.
What's powerful about Google's "don't be evil" motto, in contrast to many statements of corporate principle, is that it's simple (though not easy). While the debate over what is and isn't evil with respect to Google's actions will continue both inside the company and outside, the motto provides a touchstone that is easy to grasp. In the context of corporate ethics, "is it evil to do X?" while very subjective, is a much more productive initial question for an employee to be considering than "can anybody remember whether our corporate principles said anything about doing X?"
Zuckerberg's Beacon post suggests that Facebook experienced the creeping evil: none of the component decisions or elements are evil in and of themselves, but the little bits of slack added up. And when the blowup happened, Facebook lost time in responding because they were trying to figure out where the evil creeped in, so that they could do something about it.


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Phi Theta Kappa International Vice President Esteban Smith was among students welcoming His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, Prince Richard, to H. Lavity Stoutt Community College in the British Virgin Islands.
The Duke, a grandson of King George V, visited the college during his five-day stay in the British Virgin Islands to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of his first cousin, Queen Elizabeth.
Esteban and other members of the Beta Omicron Sigma Chapter met with the Duke and told him about the mission and goals of Phi Theta Kappa. The Duke viewed a display of Society materials, including the Golden Key membership pin, commencement regalia and the Honors Program Guide.
Esteban serves as Phi Theta Kappa International Vice President for Division II. He is the first Phi Theta Kappa member from the British Virgin Islands to hold international office. The Beta Omicron Sigma Chapter was chartered in 2006.
Boyd McCleary, Governor of the British Virgin Islands, and other dignitaries accompanied the Duke on his tour of H. Lavity Stoutt Community College.
At the request of the Queen, members of the Royal Family are traveling overseas to visit every realm as well as British Commonwealth countries, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories on her behalf. The Diamond Jubilee marks the 60th year of Queen Elizabeth's reign.


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There's a reason cabins and lodges are popular vacation destinations. They allow people to let go of the complexity of daily life by showcasing the pure and simple.
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Friday, April 3, 2015
The Good Friday at Angono, Rizal
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This was my first visit in Angono for this year. Today is Good Friday that I decided to go to Angono. Taking a 20-minute walk from the plaza to Wawa Park is that easy although at 5pm was still quite hot. But once you rich the park, is windy and that makes the place interesting in spite of the heat of the sun.
I did figure out that in Wawa Park becomes my hub not only for photography but for reflection as well. I think about the nasty things I have done, the good and the bad things and some of the dreams and aspirations that's still I had to do. In just a quite moment during my silence, sometimes I feel sad and seems like I have this empty thing in my heart. I feel empty that it's really hard to why it happened this way. I really feel that I am lost in hope that one day everything becomes okay.
I spent the night at the parade as part of my Good Friday reflection, walking some of the streets of Angono. The last time I joined the Good Friday parade was in Boac, Marinduque 3 years ago. This is something to remind me about the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, though I do this once in a while.
Today I had made a vow to our Lord Jesus to always join the parade during Good Friday.
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Omg, I love LMFAO. I had been anticipating this concert for months! I knew it would be on some other ish -- and it was. A lot of people are like, "Who is LMFAO?" You know!! The dudes who made "I'm In Miami, B*tch!" which was the song in the opening credits for "Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami." But, they're much more than that song. If you missed this concert, that sucks! New Orleans has never seen such a bomb show! Über fun. The house was packed, wall to wall, and sold out! I love live concerts like these.
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There was great news this week from Kia. It has received more than 20,000 independently verified reviews on their cars, with an uplift being seen in the overall score for the cars from an average of 8.7/10 in 2012 to 9.03/10 in 2015, a steady increase since it started. This is fantastic news!
The positive comments focused on fuel economy, looks, space and value for money. The feedback was very interesting and it's great to see the overall scores improving over the years. This proves Kia is listening to its customers and we're proud to be associated with the brand.
With a marketing strapline of 'you make us make better cars' the focus for Kia was putting customers at the heart of all communications and by enlisting Reevoo – an independent, unfiltered, unbiased 3rd party company, Kia ensured that visitors to kia.co.uk could gain genuine peer reviews on their models.
Kia was the first motoring manufacturer to utilise Reevoo on its site in 2012 and we were also one of the first dealers to also use Reevoo on our website. Great news for us is that currently via Reevoo 93% of our customers would buy from us again.
Kim Wiggins, Digital Marketing Manager at Kia Motors UK Ltd, said: "Research shows that 'peer-on-peer' reviews were lacking in the automotive sector and with the popularity of TripAdvisor and Amazon reviews this highlighted that online research was key for consumers before buying. The popularity of 'someone-like-me' reviews led us to utilise Reevoo on our site from 2012.
"Using Reevoo on the Kia UK website really showcases what our customers actually think. We have rolled this programme out not just to incorporate car reviews, but dealer and after-sales too. It's also active internationally, not just the UK.
"Ninety-seven per cent of Kia customers would return to their Kia dealer which highlights not just how well our cars are doing but highlights the overall service that consumers can expect from Kia."
With an average response publishing rate of 40%, Kia customers are commenting on the positives and the negatives of owning their vehicles, with Sportage being the most constantly rated model with a score of 9/10 from owners. The pro_cee'd, cee'd Sportswagon and Soul are also popular models with scores from 8.9/10 to 9.2/10.
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I've been feeling a little bit under the weather the last couple of days so I apologize for the lack of blogging. I've been hitting my pillow pretty early and it's been cutting into my blogging time as I usually post in the wee hours of the morning *grin*.
I'm super excited as my garden got a final rototilling today and now I can get out there and start shoveling the rows for planting! We got hit by frost the other morning and it damaged some of the young trees so I'm definitely going to wait until closer to the May long weekend before really setting any of the warmer crops into the ground as we should be safe from any cold weather by then :)
Remember my poor broccoli & cauliflower that was completely eaten by the sparrows? Well I had left it in the ground with the slight glimmer of hope that it may recover and low and behold there are actually some little green leaves starting to come out of the center of them!! They look absolutely horrendous still but they just might make it after all *grin*.
Well I better go :) I've got a new copy of the Old Schoolhouse Magazine that came in the mail today and I think I'm going to curl up in bed and read a bit before snoring LOL. I'm hoping to do some blog hopping tomorrow and catch up on my nature buddy blogs and maybe share some pictures of L's dress as it's getting closer to being finished :)
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Some of your appointments require time before or after you meet with your customer to set up, clean up, or reset your room and equipment. Or if you're on the road a lot between customer appointments you may need time to ensure you and your team can get from point A to point B without making the customer wait. Regardless of the reason, this time is critical for you and your staff to be able to run your business safely, efficiently and effectively.
"Buffer time" is a new feature in Microsoft Bookings that gives you this extra time. You can set buffer time before appointments start, after appointments end, or both to give you and your staff time to deliver great service to your customers.
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To avoid confusion about when customers expect to meet with you, Bookings shows buffer time and actual appointment time (the time your customers expect to meet with you) on your calendar, and in email confirmations and reminders to relevant staff. For example, below is what you'd see in Bookings for an appointment with a customer that includes 15-minutes of pre-appointment buffer time. Note that the event itself (on the left in the image below) shows lighter shading for the buffer time and darker shading for the actual customer appointment. While the appointment call-out (opened with a single click on the event) specifically states that the appointment is from 9:00a to 10:00a with Katie Jordan, and includes 15 minutes of buffer time before the appointment and 0 minutes after the appointment. Confirmations and reminders to staff similarly reference specific buffer and appointment timing while the customer would only get confirmations and reminders that reference a 9:00a – 10:00a appointment time.
Buffer time and availability
Your customers don't directly see the buffer times you set, nor can they change them, but because buffer time is used to calculate overall service duration, customers will see you and your relevant staff as booked during both buffer and regular appointment times. Similarly, customers only see availability for you and your staff that accommodates services including their associated buffer times. Put another way, a one-hour long service with a 15-minute pre-appointment buffer time (to prep a room, for example) would require an available time block of at least 1-hour and 15-minutes. An appointment for this service would therefore fill a 75-minute block of time on your calendar and therefore need 75-minutes of availability to book without conflict.
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Beijing will open a new subway line, the Line 14, and complete the extension of the existing Line 10, this May to improve transportation in the southern part of the city. Once the last two stations of Line 10 are open to the public in May, it will become the longest line in the city. These improvements to the subway lines have proven to ease transportation throughout the city and to make travel to and from the southern parts of the city as convenient as in the northern parts. Beijing will continue to work on improving its transportation infrastructure in order to make travel more convenient and smooth throughout the city.
For more details of this development, go to: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-03/11/content_16296453.htm